Guiyang City, the capital of Guizhou Province. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Since the end of June in the first year of Yongli (1647 in the Western calendar), the remnants of the Western Army conquered Guiyang, Dingfan Prefecture, Yongning Prefecture and other western counties of Guizhou have surrendered to the wind.

Sun Kewang, Li Dingguo, Ai Nengqi, and Liu Wenxiu are all the sons of Zhang Xianzhong, known as the 'Four Great Generals', and are the backbone of the Great Western Army. Sun Kewang is old, and he has made many military exploits, and he is brave and invincible, and the army calls him 'a wall', which means that he alone is worth Li Zicheng's 10,000 elite horsemen. After Zhang Xianzhong's death, Sun Kewang was the strongest in the army, and his prestige was also the highest, and he rushed out of Shuzhong with the rest of the Western Army, hacked the Ming general Zeng Ying to death, and entered Guizhou to occupy Guiyang.

The second eldest Li Dingguo, originally from Yunnan, was an orphan, and went to Shaanxi, followed Zhang Xianzhong, and became a fierce general in the Great Western Army. Li Dingguo likes to read [Zuo Biography], emulates Guan Yunchang, and knows the righteousness.

The third Ai Nengqi is more strategic, and he is a character like Jiang Wei. He died of illness shortly after entering Guizhou Province.

The fourth Liu Wenxiu is known as Zhao Zilong, courageous and knowledgeable, loyal and benevolent, never kills casually, Zhang Xianzhong knows his character, and has never forced him.

In Guiyang, the four generals discussed the future way out of the Great Western Army.

At this time, Yunnan was in the midst of the rebellion of Tusi Shadingzhou in Amisizhou, and Mu Tianbo, the prince of Ming Qianguo, fled from Kunming. Because the deputy general Long Zaitian had already known Sun Kewang when Zhang Xianzhong surrendered to Gucheng, he sent someone to ask Sun Kewang for help, saying: "If the general Xingyi Division comes to crusade, the whole province of Yunnan will go down in one go." ”

In view of this, Sun Kewang advocated taking the opportunity to occupy Yunnan, while Li Dingguo advocated surrendering to the Ming Dynasty.

He said to Sun Kewang: "When is it a head to be a thief? Or return to the imperial court, change your mind, and win a loyal and martyred martyr in the future, and wash away the name of the thief. I heard that the ministers supported the new emperor, but I don't know if they would accept us and others? The forty or fifty thousand people under the righteous father, and the recovery of the Central Plains is also not a small force. ”

Due to the entry of the Qing army, Zhang Xianzhong's attitude towards the Ming Dynasty has changed. On the eve of his northern resistance to the Qing Dynasty, he said to his generals: "Three hundred years of the Ming Dynasty is the orthodoxy of China, and it is the will of heaven that the Jiashen Revolution did not destroy the country. ”

The series of defeats of the Western Army also made Li Dingguo feel his mistake against the Ming Dynasty and had the idea of wanting to join the Ming Dynasty.

Just when Sun and Li were arguing, their subordinates reported that the Ming Dynasty was still in the army, and the governor of Huguang came to visit.

The sudden arrival of the envoy surprised Sun and Li, but Sun Kewang was not interested, but Li Dingguo was quite excited, and he ordered his subordinates to open the city gate to greet them.

When Yinxi came to the city gate, Li Dingguo personally took the lead and welcomed him out of the city gate, with a very respectful attitude.

"I don't know that the great tomorrow is coming, and the country will be disappointed!"

Plug Yinxi bowed his hand and saluted back: "I have heard that General Li knows righteousness, and Yinxi admires him very much. I came here to get acquainted with the general, and today I have the honor to meet him, and he is immortal in death. ”

Plug Yinxi knows it in his heart; These are all coarse people, and they must be responsible for righteousness, understand with reason, move with affection, and be loyal to their hearts.

The generals saw that Plug Yinxi was not pretending to be big, and they immediately had a good impression of him, and Li Dingguo immediately took Plug Yinxi into the government and introduced him to Sun Kewang and Liu Wenxiu.

Let the generals see Du Yinxi again, and after the two sides exchanged pleasantries, they prepared a banquet. After a short time, the main generals were all seated, and the three generals were sitting in the guest seats, and the three generals were sitting in the right seats. After the third round of drinking, Du Yinxi went straight to the point and expressed his intention.

He bowed to everyone and said, "I have heard the names of the generals for a long time, but I have not had the opportunity to meet them. Blocking a certain person to come here, not for anything else, but to invite the generals to help the Ming Dynasty and drive away Hu Lu together. ”

Sun Kewang drank wine with his head down, silent, and Liu Wenxiu was silent, making a choice in his heart.

Only Li Dingguo's face showed a look of emotion, and he asked: "We have been guilty of a lot of sins before, although the Lie Emperor did not die because of us, but he can't get rid of it, if he is obedient, how should the Ming Dynasty deal with us and other soldiers who are attached to us?" ”

Plug Yinxi replied; The sin of rebellion is unforgivable, and the general must have known it. The gods of Phoenix Mountain cut down on behalf of the heavens, and the crime of coercion was reduced by one degree. Ancient clouds; The community is heavy, and the monarch is light. Emperor Lie's improper use of people and social subversion are also to blame. Taxes are heavy, the people are struggling to make a living, and natural and man-made disasters alternate. It is also reasonable for the people to be forced to rebel. Instead of looking at the past, we should strive for the future. Make up for the dead, refine the stone to make up for the sky. Sealed by my emperor, they are all bare. Rebuilding rivers and mountains is a good general. As long as all the soldiers change their minds and become Zhu Ming's courtiers, the court should treat them equally, regardless of each other. ”

Li Dingguo was overjoyed when he heard this, but he still had some worries: "100,000 Hu rode down to the Central Plains, and the civil and military forces of the imperial court surrendered one after another. Three hundred years of Ming monks, why is this? ”

Plug Yinxi replied; "It's not surprising that this is a gentleman and a villain. The gentleman is self-purifying, the villain is self-turbid, when is this not the case? The gentleman is for the public, and the villain is for selfishness. A gentleman seeks loyalty to the country, does not consider his own gains and losses, sacrifices his life for righteousness, and kills himself to become benevolent. The villain always thinks about his own life and his life, and the country and the society are second. Regardless of success or failure, loyal ministers and martyrs fought bloody battles with Hulu in order to recover the rivers and mountains of the Central Plains. The thief villain sells himself for glory, is willing to be a chieftain slave, acts as a tiger, and mutilates his own kind, which cannot be compared. ”

Li Dingguo nodded, stood up and saluted; "Dingguo asks for advice and blockade the public, what is Huayi's distinction? What is Hulu and what is China? ”

Plug Yinxi replied; 'Within Kyushu, all are Chinese. Outside of Kyushu, there is the barbarian Hudi. Huaxia is a state of etiquette, and Hu Di has no relatives, which is equivalent to a beast. If he accepts the king, he can be transformed into summer. Now the alien race wants to change the summer into a razor, destroy my race, destroy my culture, change the pheasant hair, and destroy my Chinese clothes, which is tolerable, which is unbearable. The Japanese are ferocious, murderous and unscrupulous, and the blood of the East is thousands of miles. Isn't it tragic that the Han family is about to fall? The words wept and wept silently.

Li Dingguo was shocked when he heard this, and he was also a little sad: "We have been doing evil for more than 20 years, and we can't escape the blame. Blocking the public and the people, the country is willing to return to the Ming Dynasty. (To be continued.) )