Chapter 332: The Fall of the Hero
Since the last time Guizhou Beisun was expected to break through, Wu Sangui sent Ma Bao to recover Guizhou, Wu Sangui has attached great importance to Guizhou. After driving away Sun Kewang, he arranged a lot of soldiers and horses on the Guizhou border to prevent Li Dingguo and Sun Kewang from re-entering Guizhou.
Zhang Xianzhong led more than 1,000 remnants of the army to suddenly enter Guizhou Qingshuiwei one day, Qingshuiwei is a garrison placed by Wu Sangui on the border of Guizhou, with 2,000 soldiers and horses. It's all first-class elite. Qingshuiwei's duty was to defend against enemies from Sichuan.
Early in the morning of this day, Qingshuiwei's scouts found more than 1,000 soldiers and horses from Sichuan, and hurriedly informed his general, who thought it was Zhang Xianzhong from Sichuan who had called. Immediately shocked. At this moment, the news that Sichuan was occupied by the Pingbei Army had not yet spread. However, when he heard it again, there were only a thousand people here, and they were still embarrassed, and the general immediately realized that these thousand people might have retreated from Sichuan. As for whether Zhang Xianzhong defeated Zeng Ying, who was entrenched in Chongqing, or whether it was a bandit who had fled from Sichuan, he didn't know. He couldn't imagine that these more than 1,000 people were Zhang Xianzhong.
"Someone dares to offend my Da Chu! I'm really tired of it, gather for Lao Tzu! Slaughter them! It's good to ask the emperor for merit and reward! β
Guizhou was unstable, so Wu Sangui issued an order to kill the bandits and reward them according to the number of people killed. Therefore, the poles above Guizhou were subjected to the seedlings, and there were some unscrupulous generals under Wu Sangui, who actually killed good people and slaughtered many homeless people to serve as pole heads.
To put it quickly, these two thousand people quickly gathered and pursued Zhang Xianzhong. The general glanced at the outfits of Zhang Xianzhong and other generals, and his eyes were overjoyed, because this was the uniform of the soldiers of Onishi. He didn't expect it to be an Onishi soldier.
"If you kill these thousand Great West soldiers, you will definitely be rewarded much more than killing the pole. It's not that we went to Sichuan and Yunnan to kill it, but you didn't know how to go to our Guizhou to spread wild. Thinking of this, the general's heart blossomed.
Zhang Xianzhong glanced at the other party under the banner of Chu State, and suddenly felt cold.
Zhang Xianzhong was not allowed to distinguish it, and the generals of the Chu army had already commanded the soldiers to rush and kill like a flood.
Some of the soldiers under Zhang Xianzhong have not even eaten for a few days, and their bodies are as thin as firewood, where do they have the strength to fight? I'm afraid that I don't have the strength to swing the weapon a few times.
There is no suspense in this war, and Zhang Xianzhong's fall is imminent. He knew that he would never survive, because his goal was relatively large, and the long-term pampering over the years had made him obese, and he needed to be supported left and right when he walked, and the iron armor on his body was even more dazzling. Zhang Xianzhong took advantage of the fact that his army had not yet collapsed, and gathered four or five guards around.
I whispered to them, "I know I won't be able to survive today, but I'm not willing!" Tell me and my two children about today, and let them avenge me! You guys go! "After all, Zhang Xianzhong is a hero, and he naturally has blood, and he was able to rise quickly in the chaotic situation when he was bloody and courageous. It's not an accident, it's a necessity.
The five guards immediately burst into tears, as for whether it was a real cry or a fake, only they knew it in their own hearts, but they knew one thing better, that is, they could live. These Great Chu soldiers and horses don't want to be taken prisoner at all, whether you surrender or not, you will die. This made the soldiers who wanted to surrender in exchange for their lives.
If Zhang Xianzhong covered the escape of the five of them, it would be feasible. So they thanked Zhang Xianzhong's eight generations of ancestors. One by one, they were very reluctant, as if they were willing to die with Zhang Xianzhong. This made Zhang Xianzhong feel dead in his heart.
"Behold, I still have faithful men! These guards would rather die than follow me! β
In the end, the five guards successfully escaped, but Zhang Xianzhong was beheaded. The general of the Chu army didn't know who he was killing, if he knew that he had caused such a big trouble to Wu Sangui because of his momentary greed, it was estimated that he would rather give Zhang Xianzhong a few bags of rice and grain, so that they could leave quickly.
"The scorching summer is like a fire,
I slew the enemy a hundred and ten.
Exchanged gold and silver for a wife,
Buy another drunken getaway! β
The Chu soldiers sang songs, pulled the corpses of the killed Onishi soldiers, and walked towards the Qingshuiwei station. At the same time, a soldier was sent to Guiyang to inform Ma Bao, the general guarding Guizhou, of the good news.
A few days later, Ma Bao came to Qingshuiwei from Guiyang. At the same time, the five guards who escaped also entered Yunnan. and soon met with Li Dingguo and Sun Kewang. Previously, the two of them had already learned the news of Liu Xia's attack on Sichuan. But when I learned about it, it was only a few days. They were preparing food and grass to go to Sichuan. In Li Dingguo's opinion, even if the Jianmen Pass is lost, Zhang Xianzhong should be able to withstand Liu Xia for ten days and half a month, after all, the city of Chengdu has been strengthened by Zhang Xianzhong, and it is already very tall.
But what Li Dingguo didn't expect was that this Zhang Xianzhong went out of the city to face the battle in person, which led to his defeat.
"What did you say?" Li Dingguo couldn't believe it, and looked at the five wretched and thin men kneeling in front of him.
These five people were the five guards who were entrusted by Zhang Xianzhong that day.
I only heard one of them say: "General, the emperor, the emperor has been killed-" Suddenly the five people began to wipe their tears.
Li Dingguo and Sun Kewang glanced at each other, both of them couldn't believe it.
The two couldn't suppress the horror in their hearts, and only heard Li Dingguo ask eagerly: "What about the other people in Chengdu?" How did my father die? Let's talk about them one by one! β
As for the situation in Sichuan, the two of them do not know much at the moment, and in their opinion, the fall of Chengdu is inevitably a little fast.
"Sichuan, Sichuan has been occupied by the Pingbei Army of Dog Day. The civil and military ministers were all arrested by Liu Xia. The emperor finally left with 3,000 men and horses, but he didn't want to enter Chongqing Mansion, and was driven away by Zeng Ying, so that he entered the border of Guizhou. At the border of Guizhou, we were besieged by the Chu army, and we were outnumbered, and in the end, we were all killed by themβ"
"Chu Jun!"
Li Dingguo looked up to the sky and roared.
Although it was Liu Xia who broke through Sichuan, the person who killed Zhang Xianzhong was indeed the Chu army, which made Li Dingguo instantly transfer his hatred from Liu Xia to Wu Sangui. In any case, Zhang Xianzhong is his father-in-law, which cannot be easily erased.
"What do you think?" Sun Kewang looked at Li Dingguo and asked.
Li Dingguo's eyes were full of hatred, and he said: "If you don't swear this revenge, you won't be a person!" β
"Immediately raise troops and ask Wu Sangui for the bones of his father!"
Bones β
In a nation that pays attention to the burial of peace, the bones are undoubtedly the most important, no matter what, Li Dingguo, as a righteous son, he has the obligation to welcome back his father's bones and put them into the ground for peace.
"Pass the order, the three armies! Three days later, the army will be raised in Guizhou! β
Now that Zhang Xianzhong is gone, Li Dingguo is undoubtedly the leader. The expression in Sun Kewang's eyes changed, and he was a little unwilling in his heart, why did you Li Dingguo give the order, not me, Sun Kewang?
At this moment, Sun Kewang's feelings for Li Dingguo began to show a gap.
At the beginning, Sun Kewang was also a benevolent general, but as time went by, there was no suppression by Zhang Xianzhong, and his ambitions gradually increased, and finally even killed more than 30 high-ranking officials in the Southern Ming Dynasty and proclaimed himself the king of Qin. It brought an end to the era of the Ming Dynasty without a single surname king. However, in this time and space, Liu Xia was the first to proclaim himself the king with a different surname.
Sun Kewang took control of the government and wanted to force Emperor Yongli to abdicate, while plotting to get rid of Li Dingguo. Sun Kewang led an army of 160,000 troops to Qujing in the 14th year of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty (11th year of Yongli in the Southern Ming Dynasty, 1657 AD), and wanted to fight to the death with Dingguo. Who knew that in the battle, all the soldiers defected. Sun only had more than 3,000 horsemen left to flee back to Guiyang, and in anger, he fled to Changsha with dozens of horsemen and cronies, and surrendered to Hong Chengchou.
At this point, Sun Kewang surrendered to the Qing court, the enemy who killed his father.
Now that Zhang Xianzhong is dead, the mountain that pressed on Sun Kewang's head suddenly disappeared, and his ambition was no longer suppressed and could not be released.