At the same time, Liu Yaoben also led his troops to take charge of the city, first took Jingling County without much effort, and then went down the river to attack the city, the governor of the city knew that he could not be the enemy, and he was greedy for life and fear of death and fled with his family members out of the city, but he was intercepted by the official army, one of the officers and soldiers decided to take refuge in the Xingtian army, and immediately took this Wang Zhizhou, the rebels took his wife and concubine in front of him, robbed him of the property he carried, and tied him up to surrender to the Xingtian army, and the city soon rebelled because of the official army in the city, As for these rebels, Liu Yaoben after surrendering them, found that these guys were simply a bunch of ruffians, and they couldn't be used at all, and these people had a bad reputation in Chuyang, and the people were very angry, although they defected to the Xingtian Army, but it was not enough to clear their guilt, so Liu Yaoben beheaded some of them in public, and the rest were all taken as prisoners as coolies, and sent to Henan to dig coal and mine to atone for their crimes.

As for Li Xuanzhu is not so idle, during this time in Xiangyang to supplement the formation of a large number of recruits, because Zhao Erdonkey was defeated in Wudang County, he was angry and led his troops to capture Wudang County, defeated the sneak attack on Zhao Erdonkey's Wang Guangxing Department, after a period of rest, although Zhao Erdonkey was at fault, but after all, he has been removed from the post of deputy commander, Xiao Tianjian thought that he was the first to follow his old subordinates, and finally did not increase the punishment, so that he temporarily led a battalion, made meritorious service, and continued to follow Li Xuanzhu to do things.

The relationship between Li Bolt Zhu and Zhao Er Donkey was very stiff because of this incident, Li Bolt Zhu scolded Zhao Er Donkey for being a stupid donkey, which made Zhao Er Donkey quite unhappy, although Zhao Er Donkey continued to stay under Li Bolt Zhu to do things, but the two of them were already inseparable, and they didn't even say anything to each other.

After Li Xuanzhu took Wudang County, he made up his mind about Yunyang Mansion, and when Xiao Tianjian led his troops to attack Jingzhou City in July, he also mobilized the elite of his department, led Gao Tianqian and Zhao Erdonkey and other troops to Yunyang, and then launched the Battle of Yunyang.

When he was lost in Wudang County, he realized that the Xingtian Army would divide his troops to attack Yunyang Mansion, so he also made quite sufficient preparations in advance, while dispatching guerrilla Liu Tiaoyuan to bring all the people in the Yunyang area into the city, nominally to protect the people from the scourge of the thieves, but in essence, it was to clear the wilderness, so that the Xingtian Army could not find food and help the people in the local area, and at the same time increase the number of people in the city, so that they could be coerced to help the official army defend the city.

Yunyang because of its geographical particularity, just at the junction of Huguang and Sichuan and Shaanxi, these more than ten years, all kinds of Shaanxi rebels, often go this area into Henan, Huguang, or through this place to return to Shaanxi and other places, so Yunyang suffered the most, a large number of rebels have been active in this area, so the local people in Yunyang have a lot of early military disasters, to this time, Yunyang left behind only a few thousand households, basically can be said to be a hundred miles of red land, a large number of land have been abandoned, dozens of miles can not see people.

And if according to the original historical development, Yunyang is another amazing place, after Li Zicheng reinvigorated in Henan, Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai after the recovery of Huguang, they have attacked Yunyang Mansion many times, and even the entire Huguang was captured by Li Zicheng, but Dudu Yunyang has never been conquered by the righteous army, and later because the surrounding areas have all fallen, so that the imperial court did not know that Yunyang still has officials and troops for two years.

In addition to the governor Wang Yongzuo, there is also a very important person here who adheres to Yunyang in history, that is, Yunyang envoy Gao Doushu is in Yunyang Mansion, and Wang Guangen is strong to guard Yunyang, so Yunyang has never been captured by Li Zicheng.

But now history has been turned upside down by Xiao Tianjian, not to mention that Gao Doushu is still serving as a deputy military envoy in Changsha at the moment, and Wang Guangen, who is the chief general of Yunyang, has already been killed by Xiao Tianjian in Nanyang, so Yunyang Mansion is now without this second civil and military general, only Wang Yongzuo and Wang Guangxing of Fuyuan are left, such a partner is obviously too weak to deal with the Xingtian Army that is far more fierce than Li Zicheng.

When Li Xuanzhu gathered troops and arrived outside the city of Yunyang Mansion, there were only three or four thousand officers and soldiers left in Yunyang in the city, under the leadership of Wang Guangxing and Liu Tiaoyuan, stationed in the city, responsible for the defense of the city, although Wang Guangxing sneaked up on Zhao Erdonkey and succeeded in a battle, but after all, he was not as good as his ability to each Wang Guangen, and the soldiers he led were broken by Li Xuanzhu in Wudang County, which made Wang Guangxing's strength greatly damaged, so at this time Yunyang Mansion, there was no strength to block Li Xuanzhu.

As soon as Li Xuanzhu arrived at Yunyang Mansion, he immediately ordered the officials, soldiers and officials in the city to surrender immediately, but Wang Yongzuo resolutely refused to surrender, and Wang Guangxing killed a lot of subordinates of the Xingtian Army, knowing that once he surrendered, the Xingtian Army estimated that he would not be able to let him go, so he was also determined to resist to the end.

They forcibly recruited all the men over the age of fifteen and under the age of sixty in the city to climb the wall to assist in the defense, and at the same time, even the healthy women in the city were recruited by them to transport all kinds of rolling wood and stones, boiling soup and boiling water for the city to help defend it, in order to prevent the Xingtian army from breaking through the city with all the soldiers in the city.

Seeing that the officials and generals in the city refused to surrender, Li Xuanzhu didn't talk to them much, and immediately divided his troops on the southeast side of Yunyang Mansion and began to launch a fierce attack on Yunyang.

At the beginning of the battle, the battle was quite fierce, and the defenders in the city, led by Wang Guangxing, Wang Yongzuo and Liu Tiaoyuan, faced the outside of the city with arrows and stones, and repelled the attacks of the Xingtian army.

This battle was fought for more than ten days, and the losses of the battalions under the command of Li Xuanzhu were not small, but because the Xingtian Army occupied the advantage in firepower, the defenders of the city also suffered heavy casualties, and the city wall was also dilapidated, and the guard Liu Tiaoyuan was also killed on the city wall on the spot, and the corpse was broken into several pieces, which shocked everyone in the city.

In the end, there was a fine work of the Xingtian army in the city, taking the opportunity to agitate a group of people and defenders, and suddenly made a difficulty, and arrested Wang Yongzuo, the governor of Yunyang, which opened the east gate of the city, and put the Xingtian army into the city of Yunyang.

But it was caught up by Zhao Erdonkey at the west gate of the city, and finally killed Wang Guangxing and captured him, Zhao Erdonkey hated Wang Guangxing and made him lose face in front of his colleagues, and on the spot Wang Guangxing was unloaded into eight pieces, and threw it outside the city to feed the wild dogs, which was a bad breath in the chest, and at the same time ordered to slaughter Wang Guangxing's hundreds of subordinate officers and soldiers, for which he was reprimanded by Li Xuanzhu, and the two people made a fuss, Li Xuanzhu immediately whipped Zhao Erdonkey, and locked Zhao Erdonkey in confinement.

As for the captured Yunyang governor Wang Yongzuo, Li Xuanzhu did not kill him, and sent someone to ask Xiao Tianjian how to deal with him, Xiao Tianjian also just conquered Jingzhou at this time, after hearing the news, he inquired about Wang Yongzuo's personality, and learned that this person was a relatively upright official, so he ordered Li Xuanzhu not to treat him badly, and ordered him to send him to Ruzhou to settle and manage, and then make other arrangements.

In essence, Wang Yongzuo is also a national hero, in history, after the Qing army entered the customs, he was an official in the Southern Ming Dynasty, insisted on recruiting rebels in the south to protest, and then insisted until death, the Qing army later grabbed his mother and cut off his mother's arm, he refused to surrender to the Qing, so he is also an iron-clad civil official, so this kind of person Xiao Tianjian encountered, even if he opposed him Xiao Tianjian, he couldn't bear to kill them, so he is now sent to Ruzhou to be managed, where there is now a person who may be able to persuade Wang Yongzuo, Sooner or later, such an official will still be used by him.

Of course, Xiao Tianjian also learned about Zhao Erdonkey, so he felt that Li Xuanzhu did a bit excessive, although the killing of prisoners was forbidden by him, but it was also a matter of separation, Wang Guangxing became the mortal enemy of the Xingtian Army because of his brother's affairs, leaving him useless, Zhao Erdonkey slaughtered him and his subordinates, in fact, it was not wrong, so Li Xuanzhu whipped him, and it was a bit of a line.

So Xiao Tianjian secretly warned Li Xuanzhu and asked him not to continue to get along with Zhao Erdonkey because of this, after all, the two of them have been partnering for a long time, and it is not appropriate to make such a big fuss, and he also instructed Li Xuanzhu to temporarily let Zhao Erzhu guard Yunyang Mansion, and the two of them will be separated for a period of time, so as not to make trouble again.

After Li Xuanzhu received Xiao Tianjian's dictation, he thought about it, and quickly released Zhao Erdonkey, and Xiao Tianjian also personally rewarded Zhao Erdonkey for his achievements in this battle, slightly reprimanded him for killing prisoners, and lightly exposed the matter, and said that Zhao Erdonkey's name is not suitable for him at the moment, after all, he is also the general of the Xingtian Army, and the second donkey comes and the second donkey goes, it is not good, and the name Zhao Erdonkey was renamed Zhao Weihua, which secretly has a similar meaning to Feng Gouzi's name to Wei Han, after Zhao Erdonkey learned about it, he cried a lot, Let people send a letter to Xiao Tianjian to thank him.

And after Li Xuanzhu stabilized the situation in Yunyang, he gave a banquet to Zhao Erdonkey, personally served wine to Zhao Erdonkey and apologized, and reinstated Zhao Erdonkey's official and re-promoted him to the deputy capital, so that he could sit in Yunyang Mansion to guard against the officials and troops in Sichuan and Shaanxi.

Although Zhao Weihua (Zhao Erdonkey) still has a pimple in his heart, after all, he has been cooperating with Li Xuanzhu for so long, and this matter is no longer concerned on the surface, and he has taken over the defense of Yunyang Mansion.

Poor Yunyang Mansion to this time, only two or three thousand households remained, Li Xuanzhu after returning to Xiangyang, gathered a group of people, moved them to Yunyang to settle down, this is more or less restored the number of households in Yunyang, otherwise a huge Yunyang Mansion surrounding the land, I am afraid it will be completely abandoned.

Just after Li Xuanzhu led his troops to capture Yunyang, the troops of Guotianxing Hui Dengxiang and Chang Guoan, who were active in the area west of Yunyang, also saw the general trend, and each led their troops to Yunyang and threw themselves into the Xingtian army.

(These two chapters are transitional chapters, explain some of the situation, otherwise, it will be written very abruptly later, everyone be patient!) ）