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Liu Fang, the chief soldier on the right side of Huguang, surrendered, and opened the city gate to bear the guilt!

On August 23, the gate of Wuchang, which had been closed for many days, was opened, and the pennant with the word "Qing" fluttering on the head of the city was lowered at some point and replaced with the long-lost "Ming" word flag. At the Wusheng Gate in the north of the city, a group of Ming soldiers rode horses, and another team of Ming officers and soldiers stood in line, they all wore "Zhu Qi Yong word helmet" without exception, if you have an understanding of the Ming army, you will find that the style of the "Zhu Qi Yong word helmet" worn by these Ming soldiers is different from the old style, this is because Li Ziyuan was born in the relationship between the loyal and righteous army, so this "Zhu Qi Yongzi helmet" is naturally the style of the loyal and righteous army, and it is somewhat similar to the Tony-style steel helmet of later generations, but the brim is relatively wide, The material has also changed from steel to bamboo, but only with a layer of lacquer. However, they didn't know that the material of this helmet was replaced with iron to enhance its defense capability by the Loyal and Righteous Army in Jiangbei. But here, because of the simplicity, they still use bamboo helmets that can only shade the sun and resist arrows and other things.

However, even so, at this moment, these soldiers wearing "vermilion lacquer brave helmets" look extremely powerful, and they all have smug smiles on their faces.

Conquer without attacking!

Wuchang Town, it was so easy to take it without a single soldier, how could they be unhappy? Of course, more importantly, they no longer need to worry about their lives, after all, now that the Qing army in Wuchang has surrendered, they no longer need to use their own flesh and blood to capture Chengchang Jiancheng.

The soldiers are very proud, and the generals are also triumphant For them, Wuchang's victory without a fight also symbolizes their merits, and adds a strong stroke to their merit book. Especially for Li Ziyuan, the commander of the Western Army, he believes that at this moment, he has squeezed into the ranks of the world's famous generals.

In the middle of the procession, a red flag Daming flag is waving in the wind, below the red flag. Li Ziyuan, who was riding on a horse, was smiling, holding a bridle in his left hand and a whip in his right hand. Behind him, there is a "Jiujiang General Military Officer" five big characters, this is his official rank, he is the Jiujiang General Military Officer, is the so-called "one of the five tiger generals" under Zhang Huang, and these five tiger generals are the five general soldiers under his command, but in terms of the strength under his command, it is not as good as Li Ziyuan, after all, his subordinates are all elite.

On the other side behind Li Ziyuan, there was a flag with the word "Li" written on it, and more than three rows of guards stood on horseback, all of them wearing Jiangbei-style armor. In front of Li Ziyuan, a guard crossed the knife, and the four of them stood with two swords. And in front of him, dozens of people untied the tail of the money rat, let the hair of the finger essence be scattered behind the head, and then knelt on the ground like this, led by Liu Fangming, the general soldier of the right side of Huguang in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, who carried some thorns behind his back, and held the table with both hands as a submission, and the other Wuchang civil and military officials all bowed their heads and knelt on the ground with their hands.

Surrendered!

It doesn't cost a single soldier.

This Liu Fangming surrendered the city!

Although they looked at Liu Fangming kneeling there, everyone still couldn't believe it, after all, all this came too suddenly, too easily, originally they were even ready to pay the price of tens of thousands of people to take Wuchang, but now, without a single shot, Wuchang City was taken.

“…… It's really a deep sin, and I don't dare to ask for forgiveness from the marshal, but the generals of Ningxia Town and Huguang Right Road, everything he does every day is ordered by sinners, and all the guilt, sinners are willing to bear it, and please ask the marshal to be gracious......"

When Liu Fangming knelt on the ground, panting and expressing his sins, and was willing to bow down to the law, Li Ziyuan didn't even look at him, but just looked up at the Wushengmen in front of him,

The gatehouse of Wusheng Gate is clearly visible, the gatehouse flutters the "Ming" word flag, and behind the city gate hole, you can see the people kneeling on the ground, and thousands of people in the city are kneeling on both sides of the road behind the city gate.

Wuchang is restored!

From now on, this Wuchang will be surnamed Li!

Li Ziyuan, who was very proud, looked at Liu Fangming, who was kneeling on the ground, what did he say before? Li Ziyuan didn't pay attention, he couldn't even remember what this person said, he didn't listen at all, he just cared about being proud.

All right!

He is here to surrender, and since he is here to surrender, he must be lenient. Thinking of this, Li Ziyuan jumped off the horse, smiled, and personally helped Liu Fangming to say.

"Why does Liu Junmen need to be like this, today Liu Junmen can recognize the general trend and return to my Ming Dynasty, which is really a hero of my Ming Dynasty!"

Whether it is the hero of the Ming Dynasty, Li Ziyuan doesn't know, but the person in front of him is definitely his Li Ziyuan's hero.

Now that Liu Fang's name has fallen like this, not only has Wuchang fallen into his hands, but also the nearly 30,000 soldiers under his command have also become his subordinates Li Ziyuan, which means that he has nearly 100,000 troops under Li Ziyuan!

With this 100,000 army, how can he take care of Nanchang?

Thinking of this, Li Ziyuan naturally had a very good attitude towards Liu Fangming, not only personally helped Liu Fangming, took off the thorns on his body, but also personally helped up other generals who were kneeling on the ground, and his attitude was extremely cordial, and his tone was also close. Seeing that Li Ziyuan was so kind, everyone who was originally panicked couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

But just when everyone breathed a sigh of relief, Li Ziyuan looked at the descending table again, looking at the name on the descending table, the corners of his lips raised slightly.

"Nasongli, Oreshan ......"

When the names burst out of Li Ziyuan's mouth, Liu Fangming, who had just breathed a sigh of relief, was stunned, and when he heard these names, he instantly thought of Kong Chaoqin's words yesterday, and his eyes drooped and he didn't speak.

"Whoever names you named, stand up for yourself!"

Putting away the landing table, Li Ziyuan still had a smile on his face, looking at the eleven flag men who looked panicked, Li Ziyuan's face turned pale, and he said in a deep voice.

"Come on, pull these Jiannu out and cut them down!"

Without any hesitation, Li Ziyuan made a very simple decision - to kill the banner man in Liu Fang's famous army. In a burst of begging for mercy, eleven heads were cut off, and for a while there was a bloody scene in front of the Wusheng Gate, and when the eleven heads were thrown in front of him for inspection, Li Ziyuan once again showed a smile, and after appeasing Liu Fangming and other generals, he rode into the city under the escort of the guards, and his expression was full of triumphant looks at this time.

"Junmen, this person was killed, what is Junmen going to do next?"

In the government office in the city, Yao Qisheng looked at Li Ziyuan and asked. This murder is his idea, he must kill people when he surrenders, and he can't establish his authority if he doesn't kill people, but who will he kill? This is a problem, Liu Fangming and his cronies naturally can't kill, killing them will easily provoke their backlash, and now he has to slowly digest Ningxia Town, so that this elite of the Qing army can be used by him.

The only way to choose is to let those authentic bannermen in his army be the "chickens".

Of course, Yao Qisheng didn't know that before Liu Fangming surrendered, someone told him that Li Ziyuan would definitely "kill chickens to show monkeys", so he persuaded him to leave those flag men in order to treat Li Ziyuan as a "chicken". In fact, everyone knows that to kill, it is just a question of who to kill and how much.

Therefore, these talents will be retained, that is, they will be left to Li Ziyuan to establish their authority, but whether it is Li Ziyuan or Yao Qisheng, they don't know at all, this head is left for them at all. And just here they continue their schemes.

Faced with Yao Qisheng's inquiry, Li Ziyuan said directly:

"Since Li is the chief military officer of Huguang, he naturally wants to use the army to conquer the counties around Wuchang one by one, only in this way can he gain a foothold in Wuchang, and then take this as the foundation, follow Jiangbei to implement the "A soldier system" here, train 200,000 elite soldiers, and wait for him to go on a good Northern Expedition to the Central Plains and restore my Ming Dynasty. ”

At this time, Li Ziyuan didn't even notice that when he spoke, the momentum was completely different from the past, in the past he was under the fence, but now, he has a piece of his own territory, although he is still Zhang Huangyan's subordinate, but he has made up his mind to stand on his own, at least like Zhu Mingzhong in Jiangbei, turn this lake into one acre and three points of land for him Li Ziyuan.

It can be said that Li Ziyuan has always regarded Zhu Mingzhong as an example to follow, and he hopes to control Huguang just as Zhu Mingzhong controlled Jiangbei, and even he has made up his mind to implement the "armor system" here, and then train 200,000 elite soldiers.

Of course, the Northern Expedition is just a statement, and the real purpose is to "support the army and respect itself", why can Zhu Mingzhong gain a foothold in Jiangbei, isn't it he who "supports the army and respects itself" in Jiangbei?

If you want to "support the army and respect yourself", you must first have soldiers, this surrender is a soldier, and the future "A soldier" is also a soldier! As long as he Li Ziyuan has 200,000 troops in hand, and Zhang Cangshui is the other one, even Zheng Yanping will be polite to him. At that time, this world will not be a three-legged tripod, but the four great King Kong arches to defend the Ming Dynasty.

When the time comes, he has an army of 200,000 in He, what do you want to do? Even Zhu Mingzhong has to be polite to him.

Junmen's answer made Yao Qisheng nod and say:

"The military gate is right, on the occasion of this chaos, the big husband wants to stand in the world, he has to be in charge of the military power, the military gate wants to be based in Wuchang, he has to pacify Wuchang, after the current surrender of the Qing captives, the military gate under the command of nearly 100,000 people, if you control Huguang by then, the military gate will definitely be able to achieve a career, and there is no harm in my Ming Baili, but I am worried that the young Sima will interfere in Huguang at that time, and at that time, I don't know how the military gate is going to deal with it?"

Staring at Li Ziyuan, Yao Qisheng bluntly expressed his worries, he had already guessed Li Ziyuan's thoughts, and naturally knew that Li Ziyuan was unwilling to be subordinate, since he had an opportunity now, he would naturally not miss it, and he would never give Huguang to others.

And now, what he needs is to take advantage of this opportunity to achieve his goal, everyone has their own ambitions, and for Yao Qisheng, he took refuge in the Manchu Qing Dynasty in order to advance, in order to fly Huang Tengda, and now it is the same, he will seize any opportunity, as long as he can fly Huang Tengda, and Li Ziyuan is his opportunity on the side of Daming, of course, if he wants to achieve this goal, he needs to push Li Ziyuan to a certain height, only in this way, can he realize his personal ambitions with his help.

"Young Sima ......"

After pondering for a moment, Li Ziyuan looked at Yao Qisheng and said.

"Please teach me more!"

In the face of matters of interest, Li Ziyuan naturally looked ashamed to ask, and the reason why he asked Yao Qisheng for advice was because he knew that since Yao Qisheng said so, he must have a way to solve the problem. This Yao Qisheng is indeed quite talented, and more importantly, there are not many staff members like him who are dedicated to him, after all, most of the other staff members have "Da Ming" in their hearts, but Yao Qisheng is different, he has only one in his heart, that is, Li Ziyuan! is to help him Li Ziyuan squeeze into the ranks of Zheng, Zhang, and Zhu. For such talents, Li Ziyuan will naturally be of great use, and even he has already made up his mind to pay attention, and after he set up the shogunate in Wuchang to imitate Zhang and Zhu, Yao Qisheng will be his number one staff.

However, in the face of Li Ziyuan's inquiry, Yao Qisheng did not answer directly, but said softly.

"Junmen, in a big sense, Shao Sima is the commander of the military gate, and the military gate is on the order of Shao Sima this expedition to the west, if Shao Sima wants to meddle in Wuchang, I am afraid that the military gate will have no reason to refuse......

"Why can he Zhu Mingzhong do it?"

Yao Qisheng's truth-telling made Li Ziyuan's heart suddenly swell with dissatisfaction, and he almost immediately mentioned Jiangbei.

Jiangbei can be separated from Zheng Chenggong, why can't Huguang? That Zheng Chenggong is even more stingy than Zhang Huangyan, he can tolerate Zhu Ming's loyalty to Jiangbei and be independent, why can't he Li Ziyuan follow his example with Huguang?

"Why can he sit firmly in Jiangbei, but Li can't control Huguang?"

Hearing Zhu Mingzhong's name, Yao Qisheng's brows jumped suddenly, thinking of the scene of escaping death, thinking of the heads that were cut off on the bank of the Yellow River, thinking of those soldiers who didn't know life and death, tired and tired, his back still couldn't help but chill, fortunately he escaped, otherwise, maybe he would have been thrown into some barbarian land thousands of miles overseas.

Fortunately, fortunately, now that he is Li Ziyuan's staff, no matter what happens, he doesn't need to worry about being beheaded or being exiled.

After taking a deep breath to calm himself down, Yao Qisheng explained softly.

"Junmen remembers that when Zhu Jing crossed the river, Yanping and the others just wanted to borrow a knife to kill people, so naturally they had no intention of interfering in Jiangbei......"

When mentioning Zhu Mingzhong's crossing of the river, Li Ziyuan's brows raised slightly, and even his fists clenched violently, he thought of how Zhu Mingzhong went out of the city alone in Tongjimen, and how to let the brothers of the loyal and righteous army go to the river with him.

How could those people willingly follow him to his death?

Until now, Li Ziyuan couldn't figure it out, but although he couldn't figure it out, he still followed Zhu Mingzhong's practice and trained his army. But one day, will they willingly die with him?

Later, Zhu Jingluo defeated Dasu's 100,000 army, and it has become a fact that he controls Jiangbei, and Yanping people can only face this fact at this time, even if they are unwilling, they can only face this fact, and they intend to use it as a screen to protect Jiangnan, so they naturally do not want to fight with it, so that Zhu Jinglue's self-reliance in Jiangbei has become a fait accompli, but how can today's military gate have the opportunity of Zhu Jinglue? There is no opportunity for Zhu Jinglu at the beginning, so why compare with it? After all, for Shao Sima, this Huguang is the foundation of his Northern Expedition, so how can Shao Sima allow you to control Huguang. ”

When Yao Qisheng spoke, his tone was not the slightest polite, hearing him say this, Li Ziyuan's heart was only annoyed, but he knew that what Yao Qisheng said was the truth, Shao Sima was different from others, the reason why he wanted to conquer Huguang was for the Northern Expedition, to enhance his own strength, to accumulate strength for the Northern Expedition, and at the same time, Huguang was the place where his Northern Expedition must pass, so it was naturally impossible for Shao Sima to accept his control of Jiangbei.

Zhu Mingzhong!

What a stroke of luck!

At that time, everyone thought that Jiangbei was a dead end, but now, everyone knows that Huguang is a wealthy land, and it is the foundation of Shao Sima's Northern Expedition, and Shao Sima will naturally not tolerate him controlling Huguang, if he wants to control Huguang, Shao Sima's pass must be passed!

Li Ziyuan stared at Yao Qisheng, looked at his thin cheeks, sighed for a long time, and then asked rhetorically.

"Then from the point of view of Xizhi, if I want to control Huguang, what should I do?"

Li Ziyuan didn't notice that when he said this, he turned into "me" to his self-proclaimed, obviously no longer calling himself a "military gate", but turning to Yao Qisheng for help, for this change in his mentality, Yao Qisheng naturally saw it in his eyes, and naturally understood that from now on, the two have changed from a master-slave relationship to a friend, which is exactly what Yao Qizheng has always thought he was seeking, which is a basic premise that he must achieve before realizing his ambitions.

Realizing that he was getting closer and closer to that goal, he was quite proud in his heart, so he deliberately held it for a moment, and only spoke when Li Ziyuan showed an impatient look.

"Junmen, compared to Zhu Jingluo's plan to determine Jiangbei, our strength is not only weak, but also unlike Zhu Jingluo, who has the prestige of defeating the 100,000 army, and there is no need to be a barrier in the south of the Yangtze River, so naturally we can't follow Zhu Jingluo's original approach in Jiangbei......"

Yao Qisheng first compared Li Ziyuan's current situation with the situation when Zhu Mingzhong pacified Jiangbei before continuing.

"However, if the military gate wants to control Huguang, it is not impossible to avoid Shao Sima interfering, the key is to see what to do next!"

After saying this, Yao Qisheng did not continue, but paused slightly, and casually picked up the teacup in front of him, but did not drink it.

Seeing that he stopped talking, Li Ziyuan suddenly became anxious, and when he showed an impatient look, Yao Qisheng picked up the teacup and sipped gently, but he looked at him and was slightly proud in his heart. However, he did not speak, but continued to drink tea until he had taken a few sips of tea and moistened his throat, and then he continued.

"Junmen, now that this Wuchang has been taken, it is natural to report to Shao Sima, do you say?"

Surprisingly, as soon as Yao Qisheng opened his mouth, he mentioned the simplest common sense. After all, Li Ziyuan is always Zhang Huangyan's subordinate and one of the five tiger generals under his command.

"Of course!"

Li Ziyuan nodded, that is, after Zhu Mingzhong also captured Huai'an Mansion, he ordered someone to report to Zheng Yanping, and Zhu Mingzhong, who was forced to leave Jiangbei, was still like this, let alone him. After agreeing, Li Ziyuan looked like he was listening to Yao Qisheng's advice.

But after waiting for a while, he didn't hear him speak, Yao Qisheng didn't say anything, the whole study was quiet, only the sound of bamboo being blown by the wind came from the garden outside.

Compared with Li Ziyuan's eagerness, Yao Qisheng was not in a hurry, he poured another cup of tea, then took the cup, put it in his nose and smelled it, and a strong but not greasy honey fragrance immediately came to his nose. First smell the fragrance, then taste it. Well, this tea is really good, I'm afraid ordinary people, take the magnetic card silver may not be able to buy, think maybe this tea flavor is a tribute is not necessarily, if not now the war is chaotic, how can such a tribute tea fall here?

Just like the prince and grandson of the Zhu family, once upon a time how comfortable he was, but now? The landing phoenix is not as good as a chicken!

Sighing at the encounter between this tea and the princes and grandchildren, he also sighed at the impermanence of his personal fate, if it weren't for this troubled world, how could he end up in today's field?

Yao Qisheng laughed at himself again in his heart, which was too sentimental.

"Military Gate."

Finally, after a long silence, Yao Qisheng spoke.

"Hee-Zhi."

Putting down the teacup, Li Ziyuan looked at him with some anxiety.

"Since it is necessary to report the news of Wuchang Kefu to Shao Sima, why not report it to Zheng Yanping? At present, Prince Zheng is ordered by the imperial court to preside over Jiangnan, and you, as the chief soldier of Jiujiang, will recover Wuchang, so you naturally need to report to Prince Zheng. ”

Yao Qisheng's suggestion came into his ears, Li Ziyuan's eyes suddenly lit up, and his heart moved, and he immediately understood the intention of Yao Qisheng's suggestion.

"Xizhi, you mean to seek self-reliance through the hands of Prince Zheng?"

But isn't it, now Jiangnan is divided into three parts, Zheng Chenggong, Zhang Huangyan, and Zhu Mingzhong seem to be all Ming courtiers, or they are all their own masters, if at this time, he falls to Zheng Chenggong, it will naturally increase his power, so as to ...... Wouldn't this Huguang become Zheng Chenggong's territory?

"But, Xizhi, if it is reported to Prince Zheng",

Thinking of the hidden worries, Li Ziyuan said worriedly.

"In case Prince Zheng also wants to interfere in Huguang, what should I do then?"

Yao Qisheng smiled disappreciatively.

"The military gate thinks that Prince Zheng will not know what you reported to him?"

"Naturally, you can't hide it from Prince Zheng."

Li Ziyuan nodded and said. Zheng Chenggong is not a stupid person, he is not so stupid as to think that he is selling his body, he knows very well what he wants. If it is Huguang, Zhang Huangyan is not allowed to interfere, how can he be allowed Zheng Chenggong to interfere?

"Since Prince Zheng knows your thoughts, he is naturally willing to help you become self-reliant in Huguang, you must know ......"

Yao Qisheng smiled slightly, looked at Li Ziyuan, and said slowly:

"This Huguang is in your hands, it's better than in the hands of Shao Sima, isn't it?"