Chapter 508: Kill the Monkey and Show the Chicken!
Li Zicheng's Dashun Dynasty is now a time when "its prosperity is also vigorous", and the efficiency of work is very fast!
The will to hang Zuo Menggeng's family was only reached, and Liu Zongmin, the general of Ruhou who was also in charge of military discipline, immediately took action with his subordinates.
First, the soldiers surrounded Zuo Mengeng's marshal mansion, then arrested the people of the Zuo family, etc., and then raided the house - although Zuo Liangyu was not very greedy, but sitting in this position, there was always a savings of hundreds of thousands of taels of silver! The next thing is to verify the body, a large family, not all surnamed Zuo, there are many maids and servants who take care of the accounts and the like, so they don't need to be caught and hanged.
In addition, Zuo Mengeng also has a lot of wives and concubines! Can't you check them one by one? Looking at the enchanting posture, most of them were forced into Zuofu, and they had to be rescued - Liu Zongmin is also kind-hearted now, known as Liu Dashan!
There are also some abundant and fat things, and they are in the right year, they can be born and raised at a glance, and they have to be sent to Li Zicheng. Li Zicheng doesn't have a son and a half daughter now! Shun Taizong has not been raised until now, and there is no heir in the world, and he is in a hurry to die. Liu Zongmin was also in a hurry, and it was not easy to learn from Gao Jie, so he went up to help, so he had to help Li Zicheng find a woman.
These miscellaneous things are over, three or two days have passed, and the time for Zuo Mengeng to go on the road has arrived.
That's really an empty alley, and it's going to be sent off in the middle of the road...... It's all there to cheer! Someone else picked up rocks and dirt and threw them at the Zuo family in the prisoner car. Fortunately, there were Dashun soldiers who were maintaining order along the way, or they would not have waited for them to hang up, and they would have been stoned to death by countless stones and clods.
was locked in a cage-style prisoner car, Zuo Mengeng has completely collapsed, Li Zicheng is really vicious this time, hanging all over the door! The whole family is neat and tidy, and none of them have run away, all of them are put in a prisoner car and are being pulled to the execution ground!
What made him even more devastated was that the people who were escorted in front of the prisoner car were not Li Zicheng's old battalion soldiers, but the general soldiers, deputy generals, and staff generals of the Zuo family army, as well as more than 1,000 members of Zuo Mengeng's own family!
These guys usually look like loyal dogs in front of Zuo Liangyu and Zuo Mengeng, and they almost wag their tails, but now they are actually fully armed and escorted to hang themselves by the Zuo family......
People's hearts are so sinister, which is really beyond the expectations of Zuo Mengeng, the young marshal. And Li Zicheng's ruthlessness also exceeded the expectations of this group of generals of the Left Army and the Zuo family who were escorting the Zuo family to their deaths.
Li Zicheng is now killing chickens, no, he is killing monkeys to show chickens!
The "monkey" family is going to die, can the "chickens" not be afraid? Their families are all in Jiangling City, and they are "protected" by Li Zicheng's people...... There is no need for Li Zicheng's soldiers to kill, as long as they are not protected, a group of ordinary people in Jiangling City who hate the Zuo family army to death can eat those people alive.
Therefore, in the past two days, Li Zicheng issued a series of holy decrees to reorganize the Zuojia army without any politeness.
The remnants of the Zuojia Army inside and outside Jiangling City, after strict inventory, eliminated the old, weak, sick and disabled, and there were still more than 30,000 people left in total, regardless of family members or ordinary soldiers, all of them were scattered and incorporated into the battalions of the Dashun Army. The generals of the left department and the family members of the Zuo family have become a separate battalion, and now they are going to die with the Zuo family...... This is their chance to show faithfulness!
The execution ground soon arrived, and it was placed outside the gate of the original Chu Palace. It's spacious and easy for everyone to look around. Li Zicheng was sitting on the tower of the gate of the palace, with a large number of civil and military ministers around him, and Huang Shu was also standing next to him, dressed in a blue robe, not to mention how happy he was - Li Zicheng had just rewarded him with a criminal government book, and he was responsible for the legal procedures for hanging the Zuo family, and the execution ground was also arranged by him, and the gallows and hanging ropes were carefully inspected, ensuring that the Zuo family could be sent.
Of course, the grace of the Lord cannot be forgotten. Huang Shu paid out of his own pocket to create a thin-skin coffin for the Zuo family, one for each person. The cemetery where they were buried was found by Song Xiance, a great military teacher, a treasure of feng shui!
"Emperor, the Zuo family is here!"
"What a big family!"
"More than innocent ...... dead"
A group of civil and military officers around Li Zicheng had already seen the prisoner car brigade, all of them looking gloating, only Huang Shu tried to pretend to be a little sad.
Li Zicheng also sighed, and said to the left and right: "The decree of the forehead, let the Zuo family go and kowtow to Zuo Liangyu's coffin first, and then go down to accompany him!" ”
Zuo Liangyu's coffin was also found and placed on the execution ground, and a row of gallows opposite was used to hang his children and grandchildren.
I don't know if he knows what to do?
Li Zicheng asked again: "Are the Zuo family all together?" ”
"It's just one Zuo Mengmei!" Liu Zongmin said, "This little lady is not a good person, she colluded with He Tengjiao to seek the life of his brother Zuo Mengeng, and almost succeeded...... Fortunately, the emperor came in time. Now this little Niangpi and He Tengjiao have retreated to the south of the Yangtze River, leaving only one or two thousand people to guard a pontoon bridge on the Yangtze River.
Emperor, when you finish killing the Zuo family, you will lead people to kill the Yangtze River, and you will also catch Zuo Mengmei and hang her! ”
"She has someone to clean up," Li Zicheng smiled, "Zhu Cihong, that kid will let her go?" Huang Shangshu, what do you say? ”
Huang Shu listened to Li Zicheng's question and immediately replied: "Emperor Shengming, Zhu Cihong is cunning and vicious, and he will not let go of Zhu Cizhao's family." ”
"Will he come over then?" Li Zicheng asked again.
"Yes, definitely!" Huang Shu said with a smile, "There are a lot of people on the other side of the Yangtze River!" There are 10,000 soldiers belonging to the Chu Wangfu, Zuo Mengmei's concubine Daniel Zhang has 8,000 Shaanxi soldiers, Ma Jiaolin has 7,000 Shaanxi soldiers left in Yuezhou, and He Tengjiao has at least 10,000 people...... Oh, Jin Shenghuan still has 30,000 people, who were originally stationed in Yiling, and now they have also crossed the Yangtze River. There are 70,000 or 80,000 of these soldiers and horses together!
If Zhu Cihong didn't come over, wouldn't these soldiers and horses be swallowed by He Tengjiao and Zuo Mengmei? How will he plan to usurp the throne at that time? ”
Li Zicheng sneered: "I'm waiting here in Jiangling...... He had to walk more than 700 miles to come, and he was just waiting for work! ”
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"Hanged?"
"They are all hanged, no matter how old or young, no one is left, this Li Zicheng is too ruthless......"
"Alas, Zuo Mengeng is also self-inflicted! If you take refuge in this palace earlier, are you afraid that you will not have Wu Sanfu's wealth? ”
"Isn't it......"
In the Wuchang Palace, Zhu Cihong was receiving Chang Yanling who came from the starry night of the public security (across the river from Jiangling County is Gong'an County).
Chang Da General Soldier does not know how to fight, so now the military affairs of the public security front line are controlled by Wu Guoyong, Daniel Zhang, Jin Shenghuan, and Qiu Lei, who assisted He Tengjiao and Zuo Mengmei...... The four people of the first army and two masters took the idea, and there were a bunch of warlords of all sizes below, and it was really a mess.
He Tengjiao also knew that this would not work, so he sent Chang Yanling to Wuchang to ask Zhu Cihong to preside over the overall situation.
But Zhu Cihong is not sure that he can defeat Li Zicheng in Jiangling, how can he be a great military strategist who killed Haoge, and he will not know Li Zicheng's advantages and his weaknesses?
Although Li Zicheng's strength is weak, he has an advantage on the inside line, and he can clench his fists and beat people!
In addition, his basic plate has already been condensed, and there must be a lot of descendants to bring to Jingzhou, otherwise it would not be possible to hang up Zuo Menggeng's family so easily.
This shows that Li Zicheng has completely controlled the Zuojia army that remained in Jiangling, and most of them have been scattered and annexed. Now around Jiangling, the number of Li Zicheng's army is only around 100,000. With the cannon fodder incorporated from the Zuo Family Army, Li Zicheng can fight a tough battle!
Although Zhu Cihong's troops are stronger than Li Zicheng, they must be divided into Wuchang Mansion and Jingzhou Mansion, and they must be careful of the waist of Yuezhou Mansion. So it is impossible to form a resultant force!
Moreover, those troops placed in Jingzhou Mansion are difficult to command, and there are several hills. Among them, Zhu Cihong's lineage is also a division of Wu Guoyong, which is not easy to integrate.
If the integration of troops is not successful, there will be no way to fight a tough battle......