The news outside the city has been cut off, but the Chu army often sends people to the front of the city to shout, today to eliminate Bai Wenxuan, tomorrow to recover Changde, Sun Kewang wants not to believe it, but still believes seven or eight points, more than two months, the Chu army's encirclement has not been relaxed at all, the siege of the city seems to have become more, all kinds of signs fully show that the other departments of the Western Army must be more auspicious, it is difficult to have reinforcements to Shaoyang.

Sun Kewang sent people out of the city to ask Wang Sheng to surrender.

Liu Wenxiu once left his last words, persuading Sun Kewang to make peace with the Chu army, even if he bowed his head to the ministers, he could consider it, but Sun Kewang couldn't listen to it at all, in his opinion, the Western Army still has several southwestern provinces, a strong army, and the capital to compete for dominance in the world, how can he easily admit defeat.

It's a pity that only a few months later, Sun Kewang fell into a desperate situation, and he didn't even have the qualifications to sue for peace, so he could only ask the Chu army to surrender.

With Sun Kewang's status and fame, after surrendering, there should be no problem in saving his life for the time being, watching the envoy sit on the hanging basket and go down the city wall and walk towards the camp of the Chu army, his heart was full of expectations.

"I am the commander of the Western Army, Wang Kefan wants to pacify the southwest, there is always a place for me, I think Wang Sheng will definitely focus on the overall situation, open the middle door, and treat me with courtesy......

But the messenger went into the sea like a mud ox, and never returned, and Sun Kewang waited until it was dark, and finally he could only get off the city wall and go back to the camp to rest.

Early the next morning, the messenger appeared under the city of Shaoyang, shouted to the city, he had surrendered to the Chu army, and from now on he was inseparable from Sun Thief, and informed all the officers and soldiers of the Western Army in the city that Wang Kefan had already instructed that anyone in the Western Army could be pardoned, but Sun Kewang was not pardoned......

Sun Kewang hurried to the head of the city, listened to the messenger's shouting again, and suddenly his face turned pale, and when he saw his generals again, there was already a little more suspicion in his eyes, Wang Sheng was obviously imitating Lu Bu of Baimenlou in doing this, and it was difficult to guarantee who would rebel among the generals of the Western Army, and kill himself to surrender the city.

Between the suspicions and suspicions, Sun Kewang became more and more irritable, and no one was at ease with the generals under him, and successively deprived many generals of their military rights, or heavy responsibilities, or imprisoned, and there were two upright and loyal generals who spoke and persuaded him, but Sun Kewang saw it as a challenge to his prestige, and directly cut off their heads.

At this time, Wang Sheng made all the preparations, suddenly launched an attack on Shaoyang, and used a large amount of gunpowder to blow up the Shaoyang city wall in more than ten places, and then sent the Western army prisoners, holding steamed rice and braised pork, to the front of the city to shout and persuade to surrender, the western army in the city has long been dizzy with hunger, seeing the city broken walls, and there are people outside the city shouting hometown words to persuade them to surrender, rushing out along the gap in the city wall and surrendering to the Chu army.

Sun Kewang has lost the heart of the army at this time, this momentum together, many Western army generals simply took the troops, escaped from Shaoyang from the gap in the formation, and continued to surrender to the Chu army, the army in the city fled most of them within an hour, some of the troops who were not Sun Kewang's lineage, and finally launched a rebellion, and launched a siege against Sun Kewang's Chinese army, Sun Kewang also had a group of his own dead friends, struggling to resist the attack of the rebels, the two sides were fighting fiercely, the troops of the Chu army finally entered the city, and soon defeated Sun Kewang's dead party and captured Shaoyang.

But Wang Sheng soon received the news that Sun Kewang was gone!

"Find me, dig three feet into the ground and find him, he can't run!" Wang Sheng was full of confidence and was not in a hurry, the Chu army surrounded Shaoyang like an iron bucket, Sun Kewang could not escape, he must be hiding somewhere in Shaoyang City, sure enough, after careful searching, Sun Kewang was finally caught in a dry well.

Verify the identity.

Immediate decapitation.

Put someone’s head on a spike.

After Sun Kewang's head was salted with lime, it was hung on the Shaoyang City Gate for three days, and the Chu army used this time to rest, and then the whole army went north, and at the same time sent Sun Kewang's head to Nanjing.

The war in Hunan has come to an end completely.

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On the Hubei side, Li Dingguo's formation beheaded Kong Youde, defeated Tan Tai, and was about to take advantage of the victory to march to Wuchang, when he suddenly received the news that Liu Wenxiu's soldiers were defeated and died, and hurriedly gathered his troops and withdrew to the west bank of the Han River.

At the beginning, he also tried to support the western army in Hunan, although it was very dangerous to cross the Yangtze River, but the western army had reached the critical moment of life and death, Li Dingguo was determined to take a risk, but soon after, Li Guo and Jin Shenghuan defeated the western army on the south bank of the Yangtze River in Gong'an County, and the Chu army naval division sank and destroyed all the ships of the western army, Li Dingguo could only look at the river and sigh, and led his troops to retreat to Sichuan along the land route.

Jin Shenghuan won several battles in a row, and it was when he was in high spirits that he sent someone to ask Wang Sheng for his life, to borrow a boat from the Chu army's sailors, and continue to pursue Li Dingguo, as the generals under Zuo Liangyu, Jin Shenghuan and Li Dingguo were also old opponents back then, and they were not afraid of him, and when they saw him leading the troops to withdraw, they wanted to catch up and take advantage.

Wang Sheng quickly replied that there was a more important task entrusted to Jin Shenghuan, and ordered him to quickly cross the river by boat and outflank Tan Tai and Tun Bu'er.

After Tan Tai was defeated by Li Dingguo, he led his troops to retreat to Wuchang, and met Tun Buer who rushed to meet him on the way, after the two armies converged, Tan Tai knew that the Hunan Western Army had been defeated and dispersed, and Sun Kewang was surrounded in Shaoyang, and it was estimated that he would not be able to jump for a few days, he knew that the situation was very critical, and immediately rushed to Hanyang with Tun Buer.

Hurriedly entered the city, hurriedly reorganized the army, hurriedly transferred the precious fleet, and ordered them to cross the river immediately to meet the retreat of the Wuchang defenders on the south bank of the Yangtze River. (Please note that Wuchang is on the south bank of the Yangtze River, in fact, most of Wuchang Province is on the south bank of the Yangtze River, including but not limited to Chongyang, Tongshan, Tongcheng, Xianning, Daye, Xingguozhou, etc., how about these place names, are these place names familiar?) ）

Tan Tai and Tun Bu'er judged that after the Chu army defeated the Western Army, it would definitely turn its head to attack the Qing army, and Wuchang, which was alone on the south bank of the Yangtze River, would bear the brunt and would lose sooner or later. Although the Qing army has been wiped out by the Chu army, the Qing army has hidden some ships on the north bank of the Yangtze River, and there is only a river between Wuchang and Hanyang.

The troops were withdrawn to the north bank of the Yangtze River, temporarily restored security, how to act next, Tan Tai and Tun Buer had a disagreement, Tun Buer advocated immediately retreating troops, retreating to Anhui, and moving closer to Wu Sangui, but Tan Tai felt that he could not easily give up Hanyang and refused to withdraw his troops.

According to Dolgon's plan, the Qing army should strive to divide the river and rule, if it gives up Hanyang and withdraws from Hubei, it is equivalent to giving up the entire Yangtze River defense line, and the Chu army can attack Henan from Hubei, avoiding Wu Sangui's main force and attacking the Beijing division, this responsibility is too great, Tan Tai can't afford it anyway.

"Abandoning Hanyang, won't our army flee from the wind? After you and I return to Beijing, the dismissal of officials is light, and I am afraid that you will be imprisoned for questioning, and even beheaded, Tun Buer, have you thought about the consequences? ”

"Compared with the Jiangshan Sheji of the Qing Dynasty, what does it matter about the life and death of you and me?" Tun Bu'er was very excited, and shouted loudly: "These tens of thousands of Eight Banner disciples are the last combatable soldiers of my Great Qing Dynasty, if they are cut off here, they will no longer be able to resist the attack of the southerners, Tan Tai, have you thought about the consequences?" ”

"This matter is very important, I don't dare to make my own opinions, so I should report to the regent of the imperial father and ask him to be an old man." Tan Tai hesitated, but still did not agree to withdraw his troops, and sent 800 miles of expedited horses to Beijing to ask Dolgon for instructions.

Eight hundred miles of fast horses is a very flexible concept, refers to the use of post relay to transmit emergency military information, the specific speed can be how fast, and the integrity of the post station and road conditions, etc., because Li Laiheng, Yuyuan Army and other anti-Qing righteous divisions are too active, the post station system in Henan has been seriously damaged repeatedly, there are not enough horses to replace, the situation in Hubei is similar, it took several days for the messenger sent by Tan Tai to pass through these two provinces, and the speed of rushing to the territory of Zhili is faster, This back and forth was delayed for more than half a month.

In his reply, Dolgon instructed Tan Tai and Tun Bu'er to let them adapt to the situation, retreat, and give up Hanyang and Hubei, because the Western Army was completely defeated by the Chu army, and the Chu army was not weakened, but stronger, and the Yangtze River defense line would definitely not be able to hold, and the original plan to divide the river and rule it must be abandoned, but before that, the Qing court wanted to try to negotiate with the Chu army and sue for peace with the Southern Ming.

In this case, let's stay in Hanyang for a while, anyway, Dolgon has already decentralized, and Tan Tai and Tun Bu'er can withdraw at any time if they want to, so there is no need to rush for a while. At this time, the Chu army Jin Shenghuan and Li Guosuo's troops successively crossed the river, outflanking from the east and west directions, and in the area of Huangzhou Prefecture, Li Guo and Daniel Zhang and others of the "Four Generals of Hexi" broke out into fierce battles, and the progress was slow, but Jin Shenghuan on the western road was like entering a no-man's land, his troops crossed the river in the Jingzhou area, advanced north from the vacuum left by the western army, occupied several prefectures and counties one after another, launched an attack on Chengtianfu and De'an Fu controlled by the Qing army, and faintly threatened the rear road of Hanyang.

"Jin Shenghuan, this guy has bad intentions."

Tan Tai was a little vigilant, Jin Shenghuan did not come directly to attack Hanyang after crossing the river, but outflanked Hanyang's flank and rear, obviously trying to divide the connection between Hanyang and other places in Hubei, but Jin Shenghuan's troops were less combative, Tan Tai felt that there was no need to be too nervous for the time being.