Not to mention the deeds of the monks, but only to talk about the GX offensive and defensive battles, with the 12th and 14th towns led by Li Dingguo, the right envoy of the Privy Council, as the vanguard, Yang Xuandu led the army into GX.

In the first month of the 5th year of Yongli (1651 AD), after five days of siege and fierce battles, Li Dingguo defeated the 5,000 defenders left by Kong Youde in Quanzhou and captured Quanzhou, and then captured Yanguan (in today's XA County).

Hearing that Yanguan was lost, Kong Youde immediately led 30,000 soldiers and horses to fight for Yanguan.

The defenders of Shiyanguan were only more than 10,000 soldiers and horses in the 12th town of Li Dingguo's department, and when they saw Kong Youde leading elite soldiers to attack, everyone was frightened, Ma Jinzhong, Wang Guoxi and others asked to stick to Yanguan, so as to wait for Yang Xuan's reinforcements to attack after they arrived.

Now Hao Yongzhong's reinforcements are only 10 miles away, and Yang Xuan's army is only more than 20 miles away.

Li Dingguo said with a smile: "Our army occupies Changsha, Hengyang, and Quanzhou, and now Kong Youde's back road has been cut off.

Reinforcements, Hao Yongzhong and others are reinforcements, we will now send messengers to contact, and the two armies can be killed when they are fighting.

There is also the prince's army that is only twenty miles away, and even if the battle is unfavorable, it can rush to the battlefield. ”

Regardless of everyone's persuasion, Li Dingguo lined up outside the city to fight with Kong Youde.

Although Kong Youde's reputation in later generations is far less than that of Shang Kexi and Geng Zhongming, his military methods are far from being Shang Kexi and Geng Zhongming's comparison.

Seeing that Kong Youde was so breathless, Li Dingguo smiled and said to the left and right: "The world says that Kong Youde is good at using soldiers, but I can't see it, as the saying goes, a rooster has four or two forces, he wants to eat us in one bite, how is it possible?" ”

Without waiting for the other party to kill out, Li Dingguo asked the more than 20 elephants to be driven out.

I saw these elephants rushing out with heavy steps and shouting, and at the Tartar cavalry who were charging, the elephant soldiers sitting on the elephants picked up their bows and arrows and shot back and forth.

The main force of Kong Youde's department is the people of Liaodong, although they have lived on horseback for a long time, but he has never seen this kind of elephant that is twice as tall as a war horse.

On top of that, it is surprising that elephants, despite their unusually bulky bodies, walk on the rough mountain roads and are not afraid of bows and arrows at all.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Li Dingguo pulled out his sword and led the whole town to counterattack at full speed, and everyone followed closely behind the war elephants, just like soldiers following behind giant tanks.

Listening to the heavy footsteps and looking at the elephants that were walking like flying, the Tartars were frightened one by one, some saw the elephants killed, and even paralyzed where, and some were so frightened that they fled backwards in a panic, but maybe because they were too panicked, they tripped over the objects in front of them.

Kong Youde was shocked, beckoned everyone to be quiet, and pulled out his treasure knife to cut down five fleeing Tartars in a row, but he still couldn't stop the fleeing crowd.

Seeing that these traitors were so afraid of the war elephants they raised, and seeing that the situation on the battlefield was so dramatic, the loyal and righteous army fell into chaos before they could rush up.

Li Dingguo led his troops to take the opportunity to cover up and kill, although Kong Youde continued to fortify, but Hao Yongzhong, Feng Youqing and other reinforcements continued to arrive to cover up and kill.

In the end, he broke through the three lines of defense set by Kong Youde in a row, and defeated Kong Youde's 30,000 troops with a small victory.

Kong Youde fled all the way south, and there were rumors along the way, and everyone's nervous mood was not alleviated in the slightest, and in the end he only led more than 5,000 people to flee into the city of Guilin.

At the beginning of the first month, Li Dingguo led his troops to kill under the city of Guilin, and followed by Hao Yongzhong to attack the city, Li Dingguo led his troops to quickly seize the peaks in the north of the city, and then set up the cannon on the mountain to attack condescendingly, a group of flames ignited, and the entire Guilin city fell into a sea of fire.

Kong Youde knew that there was no hope of getting out of trouble, so he called his henchmen to bring a pair of children out when the city was broken, looked at his daughter Kong Sizhen, who was about ten years old, stroked his son's head and said: "If you are lucky to survive, you will ask him to become a monk." Don't follow his father's example, be a thief all his life, and end up today. ”

After saying this, Kong Youde conveniently killed his wife Bai Shi by self-immolation with all the treasures.

But what Kong Youde didn't expect was that none of his children had a good result.

The son's whereabouts were revealed just after leaving the city, and he was beaten to death by the angry villagers, and his daughter was handed over to Yang Xuan as a prisoner by the guards.

At this time, Yang Xuan had already led his troops into the city of Guilin, and after hearing that the loyal army had killed Kong Youde, Hu Yiqing, Zhao Yinxuan, and Ma Bao, who had fled elsewhere, led their soldiers and horses to defect.

Yang Xuan sat on the top with a straight face, and Wang Fuzhi and others counted the sins of Hu Yiqing, Zhao Yinxuan, Ma Bao and others one by one.

Looking at which Ma Bao has a bear on his back, a picture of a brave general, Yang Xuan didn't dare to determine whether this was Ma Bao, a general who had followed Wu Sangui in history.

Due to the fear in their hearts, Hu Yiqing, Zhao Yinxuan, Ma Bao and others were sweating profusely, prostrate on the ground, and pleaded guilty.

Yang Xuan saw that the heat was almost over, walked down from the steps, and glared at the three of them: "Hu Yiqing, just as you justified just now, what did you say that Qu Shiyun treated you badly, did not give your army enough supplies, and discriminated against you in peacetime, even so, can you leave the battlefield and put the commander to death?"

The three of you are all generals who command the army, do you think that the proud soldier in history was not in a different place because of this?

Guan Yu was arrogant, was copied by Lu Meng, and was defeated by Maicheng and was in a different place. Zhang Fei was killed by his subordinates because of his arrogance.

Li Chengliang is a character on a par with Qi Jiguang, how is it in the end?

Proud soldiers, can you see if you can get that bit of success? Still looking like a proud soldier?

If you don't understand this clearly, this king will not force you to keep you, and you will go wherever you like."

The three of them were anxious when they heard this, and the subordinates were often hungry and full, and the soldiers below were envious one by one after hearing that the treatment of the loyal and righteous army exceeded that of the border army, if Yang Xuan swept them away, there were only a few hundred people who were really willing to follow them.

Now hearing Yang Xuan say this, he put down his face even more, Hu Yiqing and Zhao Yinxuan repeatedly asked for mercy, while Ma Bao said angrily: "Lord, having said that, Qu Shiyun really discriminated against us guest soldiers in the past, and didn't treat us guest soldiers as human beings."

If the prince is willing to take us in, the prince will not dare to go west in the future, the sword mountain and the sea of fire, if my Ma Bao frowned, the prince can cut off my Ma Bao's head as a urinal at any time."

Since the establishment of the Loyal and Righteous Army, no general dared to be so presumptuous in front of Yang Xuan, and everyone was so shocked when they heard Ma Bao say this, and some even sighed.

But Yang Xuan was happy in his heart, no matter whether this Ma Bao had followed Wu Sangui in history, but it was commendable to see this kind of courage to give up who I am, since this was the case, Yang Xuan glared at Ma Bao fiercely and said: "Oh, dare to be so presumptuous, I still think I have a little bit of information, tell me, what are you capable of?" ”

Ma Bao straightened his waist and said: "Lord Wang, the last general is skilled in bows and horses, and his martial arts are outstanding, and the last general can take the head of the opponent's general among thousands of troops and horses, just like probing and taking things, or the prince can call two good hands to try."

Yang Xuan smiled, and after returning to the seat, he asked the guards around him with a smile: "This Ma Bao is so big, this king likes it very much, you, your two guards are willing to go to meet this Ma Bao, so that this king can see its true chapter." ”

Hearing Yang Xuan say this, the surrounding guards were eager to try one by one, first against the previous guard, and as soon as they fought this guard, they were forced to retreat again and again, and after less than ten moves, they were thrown to the ground by a sweeping leg and defeated.

Yang Xuan was slightly stunned, due to his limited martial arts, in order to ensure his absolute safety on the battlefield, he had tried his best to collect more than 100 good players, if it was about fist and foot kung fu, this could be ranked in the top ten, and he couldn't imagine that he would be defeated in less than ten moves.

In order to protect their reputation, they picked out two top masters, and the three of them fought back and forth in the tent, and after more than 100 moves, they gradually fell behind, and after 200 moves, one person was knocked to the ground.

Regardless of whether he is Ma Bao who followed Wu Sangui in history, but it is not easy to see this kung fu, Yang Xuan stood up from his seat, patted Ma Bao on the shoulder and said: "General Ma's kung fu is really extraordinary, Ma Bao, you just said that this king points to the east and you don't go west, I don't know if this sentence is true?" ”

When Ma Bao heard this, he knelt down on one knee and said: "Lord, the world says that the prince is a rare saint in five hundred years.

Yang Xuan smiled and said: "Oh, I heard that you have 5,000 soldiers and horses, the first thing this king wants you to do is to reduce these 5,000 soldiers and horses to 1,000 men and horses, I don't know if you Ma Bao can do this?"

Ma Bao was slightly stunned, and suddenly kowtowed: "Since the prince has orders, the last general must obey the order and reduce the five thousand soldiers and horses to one thousand soldiers and horses." ”

Yang Xuan smiled and said: "Ma Bao, since the Chongzhen period, many generals have regarded the army as private property, and this king asked you to reduce the five thousand soldiers and horses to one thousand, you, you don't complain about this king?"

Ma Bao shook his head and replied: "Don't complain, since I heard that the prince killed Luo Luohun and defeated the Sichuan Tartars, the last general decided that the prince was a hero in the world, and the prince asked the last general to reduce the army to one thousand, and he must have other intentions, and the last general is too late to be grateful, how can he resent the prince?" ”

When everyone heard this, they burst into laughter.

Wang Fuzhi smiled and said: "You Ma Bao is really a living treasure, the prince means to take you in, and your department has been organized into a loyal army, such a big happy event, why don't you know it?" ”

Yang Xuan said: "So this Ma Bao still has some knowledge, Liu Wenxiu, Hao Yongzhong, Ma Jinzhong, Wang Xiang and others have all been like this.

Many troops often tens of thousands, but there are not many soldiers who can really fight a war, and when the other departments are reorganized, the king often asks them to eliminate the old and weak, and retain the elite, so that the army's combat strength can be rapidly improved, so that the king can also pay high military salaries.

As for the old, weak, sick and disabled who have been eliminated, after giving a certain amount of pension, they participate in local farming, many of them are forced by life, and now they are discharged and returned to the field for a variety of reasons.

Ma Bao, since this is the case, then you should go to the guard town to serve as a guerrilla general, and then this king will see how you can take the head of the enemy general among the ten thousand troops? ”

When Ma Bao heard this, his eyes widened and he couldn't believe it at first, but he nodded again and again for a long time, and he was overjoyed.

After the incorporation of Ma Bao, it was quite easy for Hu Yiqing and Zhao Yinxuan to be reorganized into two regiments, and the two were divided into regiments.

After that, Xun Guoan and other cadres were escorted up, and through interrogation, it was learned that this Kong Youde was originally Mao Wenlong's subordinate, after Mao Wenlong was beheaded by Yuan Chonghuan, the department has been suspicious, excluded, and divided, and later because the hurricane could not cross the sea to Liaodong to quell the rebellion of Mao Wenlong's subordinates and was persecuted by Shangguan, and finally launched a rebellion in SD in anger, and fled to Liaodong with siege weapons such as red-clothed cannons after killing all the SD mansions.

After that, Kong Youde and others went farther and farther, and in the end they became famous traitors in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties.

Looking at the corpse of Kong Youde's son who was carried up, looking at Kong Sizhen who was crying while holding the corpse, and asking Kong Youde's last words, Wei Guoan cried: "Lord, you are captured today, if you want to kill you, you will scrape it, it is Da Ming who is sorry for us, and I am sorry for Da Ming."

Seeing the unbearable expressions on everyone's faces, Yang Xuan stood up abruptly, pressed his sword with both hands, and said, "Line Guoan, you are wrong, you are very wrong." If you are suspicious, you can tell the old man to return to the field, doesn't it say that the master helps the world, and the poor are alone?

It's good that you have suffered a little grievance, so you sowed the seeds of hatred on the people of the Ming Dynasty. You said that Da Ming is sorry for you, not that you are sorry for Da Ming, this king will not comment, this king wants to ask you.

When you were in Phi Dao, who provided you with military salaries, for you to eat, for you to wear, and for you to have fun, it was not the Ming court, but the ordinary people in our world, who saved money to provide you with military salaries, for you to eat, for you to wear, for you to have fun.

Then let's see how you deal with the people of the world?

You burned, killed and looted in more than a dozen state capitals in SD, how many civilians did you kill, how many civilians did you rob? You say you are innocent, are these ordinary people innocent?

You bring the red-clothed cannons over, and the Tartars can cast all kinds of siege equipment after they have the red-clothed cannons, and the Tartars use the red-clothed ones to defeat my 130,000-strong army in Songshan, and kill how many of my Ming people. Tell me, are you worthy of the common people?

Along the way, from BJ burning and looting to GX, how many people along the way were robbed and humiliated by you, you say, are you worthy of the people?

Do you think you have been wronged, or that the Ming Dynasty has something to be sorry for you, but the people of the Ming Dynasty have nothing to be sorry for you, you are a dog traitor in the eyes of the Ming people, a dead traitor."

Wei Guoan shook his head and said: "Lord Wang, the emperor is Chongzhen Lao'er, and the Ming Dynasty and the people of the Ming Dynasty are one, is there a difference?" ”

Yang Xuan gritted his teeth and sighed, "Of course, of course there is a difference. Since ancient times, there has been no immortal dynasty, but since ancient times, the common people will not be destroyed with the decaying, declining, and brutal dynasty.

Guys, let's not ask what the state has done for me? We're going to ask me what I've done for the country.

The relationship between the country and the people is the same as the relationship between the mother and the child, the mother raises us, and the country also has his mountains and rivers to raise us. ”

But the line Guoan still did not listen to Yang Xuan's admonition, a strong thought that the Ming was sorry for them, they had to surrender in order to survive, Yang Xuan saw that he had no intention, and ordered the knife and axe hand to behead more than ten high-level traitors such as line Guoan and show them to the public, and try all the prisoners, and behead all the traitors and women, burn and loot, and castrate the Manchurians and Mongolians to carry out military cantonments, and the Han people are selected into the army, and the old, weak, sick and disabled are ordered to be military cantonments.

Yang Xuan hesitated for a long time about Kong Sizhen, but decided to use him as a camp prostitute.

Yuan Pengnian, Meng Zhengfa, Jin Bao, Liu Xiangke and others, who had just escaped from hard labor, nodded their heads again and again, saying yes, after Li Chengdong died in battle, Emperor Yongli moved from Zhaoqing to Wuzhou, the four were not only dismissed, but also received the court staff and were expelled from the Yongli court.