Yang Sichang was lying in a house in Suizhou, when he heard that Xiangyang Mansion had been conquered by the Xingtian Army, He Renlong's army was annihilated, Xiangyang City Defender was as fierce as a tiger, Liu Shijie was killed, and after the news that King Xiang was killed, he lay on the couch and lamented, struggled to get up and wrote a note, sent someone to the capital to confess his guilt, and then lay down and refused to take any more decoction, and no longer eat.

On May 22, Yang Sichang died in Suizhou City due to illness and hunger strike, and his recital was also sent to the Beijing Division at this time and placed on Chongzhen's desk.

On the one hand, Chongzhen hated Yang Sichang's indisputability, and on the other hand, he felt that Yang Sichang had done his best for his world, and ordered Yang Sichang to be removed from his position as a scholar in the cabinet and demoted to a commoner, but he was no longer arrested in Beijing to ask for guilt, which could be regarded as tolerating his guilt.

But then he had an even more headache, Xiangyang was lost, what should he do now? Yang Sichang is dismissed, who will take over the matter of suppression? After consideration, coupled with the recommendation of the courtiers, Chongzhen ordered Chen Xinjia to be transferred to Beijing to serve as the new secretary of the military department, and Ding Qirui, the governor of the trilateral who had just taken over Zheng Chongkh, continued to beg for thieves in Henan, Huguang and other provinces, and as for Shaanxi, he was handed over to Fu Zonglong to be responsible for suppressing Li Zicheng.

Fortunately, although Li Zicheng has recovered now, because he failed to enter Henan and gained a lot of public support, he is not very strong in Shaanxi, and with Fu Zonglong, he can still restrain Li Zicheng for the time being.

But then Chongzhen received the news, saying that Yang Sichang died of hunger strike in Suizhou, and couldn't help but let Chongzhen sigh again, at this time, Chongzhen has found that for this Xingtian Army, he is basically a little powerless, although there are still more than 700,000 Ming officers and troops on the books, but most of these officers and troops are distributed all over the country, and the most capable main force is outside the pass, and the rest of the officers and troops are not the opponents of the Xingtian Army, at this time, who else can restrain the Xingtian Army?

Chongzhen can't think of a good way, in addition to a headache, or a headache, sometimes he even secretly cries at night, feeling that God treats him as an emperor is really unfair, since he was in power, he is also very diligent, looking back at the emperors of the Ming Dynasty, there has never been any emperor, like him so hard, never rest every day, sleep later than the dog at night, get up earlier than the chicken in the morning, and try his best to revive the mountains and rivers all day long, but after tossing for more than ten years, the world is not only a little more peaceful, On the contrary, the rivers are going down, pressing the gourd to float the scoop, and now the huge Central Plains has risen up with a Xingtian army, so that he has no way to deal with it, so now he can only be a monk for a day and hit the clock for a day.

However, Chongzhen still didn't give up, on the one hand, he ordered Ding Qirui to quickly go to Huguang to oversee the army to resist the Xingtian Army continuing to wreak havoc in Huguang, and on the other hand, he ordered the Nanjing eunuch Liao Daheng to supervise the army, and transferred 20,000 people from Nanzhili and Jiangsu and Zhejiang officials into Huguang to assist Huguang in resisting the Xingtian Army, in short, he had to fight as hard as possible to see if he could save the situation.

Let's talk about Zuo Liangyu's guy, he was in the Baokang area and Zhang Xianzhong during the confrontation, but he did not forget the war in Xiangyang, and constantly sent Xizuo and Ye Bushu to Xiangyang to inquire about the news, when he learned that the Xingtian Army conquered Xiangyang, he didn't let go of a fart, even if he ordered the roll to cover the people and leave, evacuate Baokang and retreat to Chengtianfu and Jingmen Prefecture, trying to stop the Xingtian Army from going south along the Han River to force Jingzhou here.

And the reason why Zuo Liangyu has gained a foothold in the Huguang area for so many years, and has repeatedly disrespected orders, and has not been disposed of by the imperial court, is that he always has soldiers in his hands, and the imperial court relies on him, and he controls the righteous army that often enters the Huguang area, so he has not fallen until now, his nest is now in the area of Chengtianfu and Jingzhou, and the Xingtian army fights Xiangyang, the goal is obvious, the next step is to fight Jingzhou, which is equivalent to copying Zuo Liangyu's nest, don't look at Zuo Liangyu and dare not fight to the death with the Xingtian army, But when it's really time to raid his nest, he will jump over the wall in a hurry.

Zuo Liangyu can't actually say that he doesn't have any strengths, he is also a department manager who works for the imperial court, but the problem is that the boss of the imperial court often does not pay wages, and even if he pays wages, he often deducts, you have 30,000 soldiers, and only give 10,000 people wages, so Zuo Liangyu set the army and looted, and he is also good to his subordinates, and when he is often rewarded, he does not keep it, and rewards his subordinates, so the ruffians who gathered together are very energetic and obedient to him. After all, it is difficult to find such a boss in this troubled world, which is also the reason why Zuo Liangyu can quickly reassemble a lot of soldiers and horses every time he is defeated, but on the other hand, when Zuo Liangyu's soldiers and horses go to a place, the people of a place will be unlucky, so when it comes to Zuo Liangyu, the people in Huguang hate him more than everyone.

Xiao Tianjian also roughly expected Zuo Liangyu's actions, but this time after he conquered Xiangyang, because Luo Li's soldiers and horses had not yet returned to Xiangyang, and Liu Yaoben had to divide his troops to prevent Yunyang, he did not free up his hands to deal with him for a while, and as a result, Zuo Liangyu ran back to Chengtianfu in a hurry.

After the war, Xiao Tianjian also had to let the soldiers rest and recuperate, replenish some supplies on the spot, and transfer a batch of ammunition and recruits from Henan to transfer the wounded soldiers back to Nanyang for resettlement, so after conquering Xiangyang, the Xingtian Army rested in the area of Xiangyang for five days.

At this time, Zhang Xianzhong's good days were over, Xiao Tianjian had just conquered Xiangyang, so he sent someone to find Zhang Xianzhong, asking Zhang Xianzhong to immediately hand over the people who were in Nanzhang County, attacked and killed the people of the Xingtian Army, and robbed the materials of the Xingtian Army.

As a result, Zhang Xianzhong actually twisted his neck and refused to agree, resolutely refusing to admit that his subordinates had done this, and the angry Li Xuanzhu and Zhao Erdonkey scolded Zhang Xianzhong for not being a thing.

After Xiao Tianjian listened to the subordinates sent to find Zhang Xianzhong in the big tent outside the city, he sneered and said: "These eight kings actually bullied me Xiao Tianjian, and I don't see how much capital he has, in your opinion, what should I do about this matter this time?" ”

After Li Xin thought for a while, he cautiously said to Xiao Tianjian: "Dashuai, now we are going south to attack Jingzhou, although the eight kings are too rude, but in the opinion of humble duties, it is not good to make trouble at the moment, you might as well write down this matter first, and it will not be too late to talk about it later!" ”

Xiao Tianjian glanced at Li Xin, frowned and asked, "In your opinion, is this matter settled now?" ”

Li Xin saw that Xiao Tianjian was quite displeased, but he still insisted on nodding, and Luo Rucai also expressed support for Li Xin's suggestion, after all, Luo Rucai has dealt with Zhang Xianzhong over the years, and the relationship between the two is not bad, not to mention that in Luo Rucai's opinion, it is inevitable that the rebels will have some dirt with each other, and it seems a little unworthy to turn their faces with Zhang Xianzhong for the sake of more than 20 lives.

But unlike Li Xin's opinion, the generals Li Xuanzhu and Zhao Erdonkey, they all insisted on cleaning up Zhang Xianzhong and seeking justice for their subordinates, this matter can't be like this!

Xiao Tianjian raised his hand to let everyone shut up, sat behind the big case, and gently tapped the armrest of the big chair with his fingers, and the big tent suddenly became quiet, and only the sound of Xiao Tianjian's fingers gently tapping on the armrests could be heard.

After a long time, Xiao Tianjian spoke: "Senator Li is wrong! Vice Marshal Luo is also wrong! All of you are wrong! This Zhang Xianzhong can't be beaten if he doesn't fight, and he can't be punished with a small punishment, he has to be beaten, and I want to fight this time!

Maybe you have forgotten that in the past few years, Zhang Xianzhong has fallen into trouble several times, and we have provided him with a large number of supplies, horses and even armor, but now what is it for? His surname Zhang descended to the imperial court in Gucheng, and he has been dormant for more than a year, and now that the soldiers are strong and strong, he thinks he has the strength to fight with us!

And the eight kings Zhang Xianzhong is a thief at best, you don't want to say that we are also thieves, we are not, he is different from us, after we got into trouble, what we did was to cherish the people, go to a place, run a place, save the people in a place, and they are fundamentally different, they only know destruction, but they don't know how to build, where they can rob the light, and kill the light, even if they occasionally open a position to give relief, it is just a gesture, and they recruit people for themselves as a cover!

This Zhang Xianzhong is a white-eyed wolf, Ben Shuai contacted him before coming this time, hoping that he would work with us to conspire with the great cause, but he wanted to rely on his little capital to facilitate us to divide the river and rule, this person is extremely ambitious, and he is cruel and unkind by nature, and he will be in great trouble in the future!

If we stop this time, then this person will definitely covet our territory, and if we don't get it right, we will copy our back road, and it is not good to say, on the side of our couch, how can we allow others to sleep soundly, not to mention that this person is still a white-eyed wolf, is a tiger?

So I think that since Zhang Xianzhong refuses to work with us, then he is our enemy! And he didn't think that we had helped him, and now he gave us such a result, how could I, Xiao, tolerate him?

Jing Xiang can postpone the fight, but this Zhang Xianzhong can't help fighting, and if he fights the tiger, he will be killed, otherwise it will become a big disaster in the future! ……”

The reason why Xiao Tianjian is so angry with Zhang Xianzhong is not because Zhang Xianzhong is just so simple as saving his face, but he knows Zhang Xianzhong's personality better than anyone else, this person has great ambitions, but he is not a person who can achieve great things, in the original history he once occupied Sichuan, but he did not know how to operate, but he was ferocious, waved his troops to slaughter Sichuan, and almost killed the people of Sichuan, so that the population of Sichuan was greatly reduced, although there was a suspicion that the Manchu Qing Dynasty framed him, But many historical materials also prove that at least Zhang Xianzhong is also a murderer, and he should at least have his share in the slaughter of Sichuan, and it is precisely because he is unpopular in Sichuan, after the Qing soldiers entered the customs, so that he himself has no ability to gather more soldiers and horses to prevent the Qing army from entering Sichuan, but his righteous son Li Dingguo is a genius, a national hero among the Han people, leading troops to resist the Tartars for many years.

So even if it is to reduce the suffering of the Chinese people, this Zhang Xianzhong can't stay anymore! Once he is allowed to enter Sichuan, then for the people of Sichuan, I am afraid it will be a big disaster, and once he wins the world in the future, sooner or later he will have to solve this guy.

So in his opinion, now that Zhang Xianzhong has just recovered, his wings are not yet full, and getting rid of him as soon as possible is much stronger than keeping him!