Wuchang Mansion City, the big and small city gates, starting from the north, clockwise are Wusheng Gate, Zhongxiao Gate, Binyang Gate, Zhonghe Gate, Wangshan Gate and Baoan Gate, the west is on the Yangtze River, there are also Hanyang, Pinghu, Wenchang three gates, a total of nine gates. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 As for the Tongxiang Gate, which is called the tenth gate of Wuchang Fucheng, it was opened at the end of the Qing Dynasty to build a railway, and it does not exist now.

At this moment, the small east gate in the mouth of the officer is the one named Zhongxiao Gate, which is located in the east and north of the city. This city gate is named after and sacrifice Yue Fei and the Eastern Han Dynasty filial piety Meng Zong's loyal and filial piety temple, the loyal and filial piety temple is just outside the small east gate, with the surrender of Xingguo Prefecture to persuade the city gate guards, just arrived close to the city under the Ming army vanguard along the main street outside the loyal and filial piety gate into the city gate just opened, after entering the city, then along the main street of the loyal and filial piety gate to kill all the important places in the city.

It was not too late for Fan Wencheng to get the news, because he did not trust the green battalion soldiers, and the number of the Eight Banners of the Han Army was too small, Fan Wencheng sent the officers of the Eight Banners of the Han Army to give early warning in the city, and it played a role here.

"Master Jingluo, let's go. It's not the western thieves and the eastern thieves, it's the Zhejiang bandits, and the real Manchuria is not an opponent, we only have this little bit of people, and it's rare to be able to defend it today. Besides, there is a lack of people in the court now, and the boss's experience and ability are all the best choices, and the court will not blame the boss. ”

Sun Sike was still trying his best to persuade him, but Fan Wencheng just shook his head, and after waving away the officer who came to report the news, only the two of them were left here before he whispered to Sun Sike: "The emperor let the old man, a slave, stay here, just to let the old man die here." Only when the old man dies here, and the purpose of the Zhejiang bandits is achieved, it is possible that they will not continue to encroach northward in the short term; Only when the old man dies here, the Liaodong officials in the court will really follow the court with all their hearts, and they will not be able to disagree! ”

Fan Wencheng's words sounded like thunder in Sun Sike's ears, he was a Han Army banner man who was born as a palace guard, in the eighth year of Shunzhi, he was just twenty-three years old, and he had already achieved the position of Niu Lu Zhangjing and the director of the Criminal Department. Born in the palace, many things of political struggle can be seen clearly, but in terms of experience, it is still much worse than a weathered figure like Fan Wencheng, what Fan Wencheng has seen here, he knows that Fan Wencheng can only react when he says it.

The officials of Liaodong nationality were full of the Eight Banners of the Han Army, and they were a force to be reckoned with in the Manchu and Qing dynasties. Fan Wencheng is a representative figure among them, with the traditional style of the Ming Army in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Zhejiang, such an old traitor will never let go, and Fan Wencheng's death can make other former Liaodong ministers and Han Junqi completely dead anyway.

Sun Sike swallowed his saliva, his eyes widened, and he stared at Fan Wencheng's face full of bitterness. A slave is a slave, the master can use it however he wants, even if he is a senior old minion, he can now abandon it like a shoe, and the Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Ming armies did not spare Hong Chengchou, Cai Shiying, Yi Yonggui, Liu Qingtai and Tong Guoqi, so it is even more impossible to spare Fan Wencheng.

"Is there no place for us Liaodong Han people in this world?"

Since Nurhachi's rebellion, the Han people in Liao have no way to live. The Later Jin slaughtered cities, plundered the territory, killed the rich and the poor, reduced the Han people who could pay five buckets of rice to the slaves of the Manchurians, sold the Han women to the Mongols in batches, and even pulled out their clothes during the transaction, judging them like animals, no different from the Europeans when they sold black slaves.

Those who were fortunate enough to escape to the areas occupied by the Dongjiang Army were freed from the status of slaves, and they also had the opportunity to kill the Tartars for revenge, but more people and more often were still starving, or even dying of starvation. Even if they fled into the Guannai, they were often discriminated against and excluded, because the Ming Court, which was immersed in party strife, had no way or the heart to solve their livelihood, and their cheap labor even robbed the jobs of the people under the natural economy of the Guannai.

Sun Sike said, how could Fan Wencheng not know, but a high-ranking official like him will never be spared in the anger of the Han family's revenge, rather than die and cut off his children and grandchildren, it is better to follow the intentions of the Manchu magnates, in case the Manchu dying struggle is successful, his descendants will still have a rich road.

Fan Wencheng knew that he was going to die, and he confessed his heart to Sun Sike, in fact, he also hoped to sell Sun Sike a favor in the end, so that he could take care of his sons.

Sun Sike was like this, Fan Wencheng knew that time was pressing, and hurriedly said to him: "Follow the imperial court to eliminate the Zhejiang bandits, only this way is the way to live." Xunchen, you are still young, and there is still a lot to be done in the future, take the Han army flag in the city and leave, don't lose your life here. ”

Seeing Fan Wencheng like this, Sun Sike had no choice but to kneel on the ground, kowtow a few times, and when he got up, he just bowed and turned around and left Jingluo Mansion, and hurried to the barracks.

Not long after Sun Sike left, in the midst of a burst of crying fathers and mothers, the cavalry of the Ming army rushed into Jinglufu, and more cavalry surrounded Jinglufu and a large area around it, lest they run away from any important people.

"Fan Wencheng, you old dog didn't run away?"

The Ming army entered, and Fan Wencheng was still sitting there. The officer at the head arrived, and his mouth was so insulting, and Fan Wencheng's cheekiness that even his daughter-in-law was bullied by Duoduo and could feel nothing was naturally unaffected, but it was the officer's accent that made him frown.

"Are you from Liaodong Han?"

"That's right, the general Li returned to his hometown, the fourth master of the king of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, the battalion officer of the Xinchang battalion, and the person of Tieling in eastern Liaodong. Not only the generals, but there are also many Liaodong Han people in our Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Wang Division, not all Liaodong Han people are traitors like you! ”

Tieling, Li Chengliang's family is also from Tieling. Fan Wencheng sighed, he had just persuaded Sun Sike with the argument that the Liaodong Han people would have no way to live if they didn't follow the Manchu Dynasty, and in a blink of an eye, he was taught a lesson by another Liaodong Han person, which can be regarded as a good way of heaven, and the retribution is not happy.

"Then please ask this Li Yingguan to take this official to meet your Royal Highness the King of Yue, whether it is Ling Chi, or the five horses are divided, the old man is ready, just waiting for a word from the king of your family."

"Phew, there is such a thing as you among the Han people in Liaodong, it really disgraces the faces of the ancestors and ancestors."

Li returned to his hometown is also strange, when he was in Nanchang, he was still in the special task force, and he arrested a governor, Cai Shiying, and it is said that he also persuaded Captain Luo Yongzhong to surrender. Last time, he caught Shang Kexi, and he also cried and shouted and begged him to let him live for the sake of the Han people in Liaodong. As a result, he arrested Shang Kexi back, and took advantage of his military merits to correct himself from the position of deputy battalion officer of the cavalry battalion. Now this is good, if you don't run or make trouble, you just wait to die, and it is also a new product among traitors.

The fresh goods were escorted away from here, but Chen Wen did not rush to deal with him, but threw him directly into the prison, because he had more things to do, and he was not in a hurry to deal with this old traitor.

The city of Wuchang Mansion fell without a fight, the green battalion soldiers in the city surrendered, most of the Han army's eight banners fled, and the Ming army only caught up with a tail at the dock. However, the city of Wuchang does not exist alone militarily, the three towns of Wuhan hold the confluence of the Yangtze River and the Han River, Hanyang and Hankou are still on the opposite bank, and there is a large area in the north of Huguang that is still in the hands of the Qing army.

"Brother Lou, the Han River valley north of the Yangtze River, except for those areas occupied by the Kuidong Army, must be taken over. But I can only give you one battalion, and the rest depends on how you use those generals. ”

"Commander, please rest assured, one battalion is enough, and the general will definitely take the Han River valley and defend this place for our Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Wang Division."

The area controlled by the Qing army in the north of Huguang extends to Dongting Lake in the south and the Yangtze River and Hanjiang River basins in the north. Chen Wen's attack on the northern part of Huguang is justified, but the purpose of his trip is King Qin, to put it bluntly, it is to completely pull out the hostile force of Sun Kewang, but as long as the southwest Ming army with 200,000 troops is still there, Chen Wen will not be able to go north with peace of mind, so he must go south as soon as possible is the right way.

"In addition, send people to Fengjie and various places in eastern Sichuan and western Hubei to invite Inspector Wen and Kuidong to come here to discuss the Northern Expedition."

Chen Wen's speed of attacking Wuhan was too fast, not to mention the generals of Kuidong, and it is estimated that the Qing troops in Yunyang and Xiangyang are far from reacting. At this time, it was a good opportunity to fight fast and slow, and then Chen Wen had to go south to continue to threaten Sun Kewang and force him to give up his internal aggression against Yunnan.

It is precisely because the speed is too fast and the news is exchanged, even if Wen Anzhi and Kui Dongzhong come, it will take several months. For so long, Chen Wen has no time to wait here, instead of sitting in Wuhan, it is better to go south to attack all parts of Huguang, anyway, Sun Kewang is anxious to fight, and Huguang's army has been transferred back to Guizhou in large numbers.

Not long after the capture of the three towns of Wuhan, Chen Wen took most of the Yuyao Division and the Danyang Division to the south, striding to attack the area south of Wuhan, and taking advantage of the fact that Sun Kewang had not yet returned to the division, he completed the convergence with the two divisions of Yuzhang and Siming as soon as possible.

Unlike Wuchang, which is close to Jiujiang, it always takes a lot of time to move south from the three towns of Wuhan to join another army that set off from Yuanzhou. However, at this moment, Sun Kewang has no time to break through at all, because his hundreds of thousands of "rebellious" troops have now entered the border of Yunnan and are about to make contact with the counterinsurgency army with Li Dingguo as the commander and Liu Wenxiu as the deputy commander.

How Wuchang is, it has nothing to do with Sun Kewang, and even if Chen Wen goes south, in fact, the war can't burn his land for a while. However, at the same time that Chen Wen sent troops to attack Wuchang, Wu Dengke also sent troops to capture Changsha Province, the ruling center in the south of Huguang, which was completely different for Sun Kewang.

Historically, Sun Kewang raised an army from Guiyang, and it took a full month and a half to make contact with Li Dingguo's counterinsurgency army in Qujing, Yunnan. This time it was also from Guiyang, but the urgency of Huguang was sent quickly, and the speed was dozens of times that of the army.

"Changsha lost?"

In the past two years, Sun Kewang has lived in Changsha for a period of time, and it is more convenient to exert pressure on Jiangxi there. The Qinwang Mansion in Changsha is magnificent, and the luxury is no less than the Qinwang Mansion in Guiyang, and it is even higher than the Qinwangfu in Kunming. Due to the internal criminals, most of the accumulated goods were transported back to Guiyang, and Sun Kewang also had a certain degree of psychological preparation for the possibility that Huguang might lose some territory during this period, but Chen Wen's speed was too fast. Once he and Li Dingguo fall into a bitter battle, when the time comes, it will become that the three kings of Qin, Jin, and Shu will be stewed by Chen Wen, which is the last thing he wants to see.

"There must be Chen Wen's meticulous work in Guiyang, investigate thoroughly, you must find out!"

Sun Kewang was also confused, both sides had been tense before, and it was normal for each other to send meticulous work, saying that Guiyang had Chen Wen's meticulous work, could it be that he didn't have meticulous work in Jiangxi and Zhejiang, but this ability is really hard to say, and Chen Wen's Supervision Department has always been closely reviewing all movements in the territory, and he is still a little too primitive in terms of intelligence, otherwise Li Dingguo would not have taken Yongli away so easily.

Now the investigation is detailed, in fact, it is also a bit outdated, Wu Dengke attacked Changsha when he played the banner of the king of Yue to come to the king of Qin to rebel, and he must have entered Guizhou to break with him. In the eighth year of Yongli, the fire that Yuzhang Shi was holding in Yuanzhou Mansion was now about to be released, but he had to make a choice in the shortest possible time to survive, otherwise he would fall to the point of being attacked from both sides, and the general trend would be completely gone.

"My lord, let's make peace with the court. No matter how you and the King of Jin and the King of Shu say that they are the righteous sons of the eldest king, even if there is some discord between the brothers, after all, the bones are broken and the tendons are connected. But what is that Chen Wen, his ancestors are hereditary 100 households, hereditary for more than 200 years, he is from the official army in eastern Zhejiang, and we are not all the way, and we must not let the relatives and enemies be happy. ”

Bai Wenxuan made a generous statement, but in Sun Kewang's eyes, Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu, who opposed him as emperor, were more hateful than Chen Wenlai.

However, now Chen Wen occupies the territory of nearly five provinces, and he is already the strongest among the feudal towns of the Southern Ming Dynasty. Whether it is in terms of class composition or the success rate of peace negotiations with both sides, Bai Wenxuan's method is indeed the solution this time.

"Then send someone to deliver a letter to Li Dingguo, our Qin Wangfu really doesn't have the strength to fight on both sides now."

Sun Kewang has this thought, and so is Li Dingguo's side, compared to the contradiction between Sun Kewang and Chen Wen or provoked by Sun Kewang, the contradiction between them and the Yongli Imperial Court and Chen Wen behind them is even greater, and the contradiction between the two sides over the ownership of the two Guangxi is not so easy to resolve at all. Besides, now that Chen Wen's strength is the strongest, God knows if his person will be another Sun Kewang.

Just as in history, when the Qing army took advantage of Sun Kewang's deployment of troops to prepare for the internal invasion of Yunnan, and there were signs of a brief reunion between Sun and Li, Chen Wen entered Huguang, and the threat to the three kings of Xiying instantly overwhelmed the contradictions between them. After Sun Kewang had an exchange with Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu about "brothers fighting outside the wall and resisting their regrets", Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu's counterinsurgency army retreated to Kunming, and there was no immediate threat, and Sun Kewang's army also returned to the direction of Huguang at the fastest speed.

Chen Wen's meticulous work in Guiyang brought all this back to Chen Wen's army as quickly as possible, but at this moment, it was the beginning of April, Chen Wen and Wu Dengke were on the head of Changde Fu City, and the two armies had already completed their division and were stationed here for necessary rest.

"The next stop is Chenzhou, which is the gateway to Guizhou, Sun Kewang is grinding, I don't know if I should take this city down."

Chen Wen's ridicule, but Wu Dengke did not take this stubble, he has been stationed in western Jiangxi for a long time, and he is naturally more familiar with the Ming army in the southwest. At present, the main force of the Ming army in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Zhejiang will be divided, but it is still at a disadvantage compared to Sun Kewang. However, he didn't pay much attention to it, but was more concerned about other things.

"Dashuai, Changde is down, Guizhou is just around the corner, and the next is Yunnan. At this time, today is under the wings of the king of Jin, once our king of Jiangsu and Zhejiang intersects with him, how should we deal with ourselves? ”

This is a crucial issue, especially for the Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Ming armies, which have been in a state of actual independence for a long time. Fortunately, what should be done, in fact, Chen Wen has already made a decision, and at this point, it is time to reveal a thing or two with a cronie like Wu Dengke.

"It has been nearly 30 years since the Chongzhen Dynasty Liukou beet. The people are disgusted with chaos, and so is the heart of heaven, so there is a situation where the Tartars are now declining and the Han family has recovered half of the country. However, those who cover the world are not rewarded, and those who bravely shake the Lord are in danger, and history dictates that the fate of the nobles in the early Ming Dynasty is even more vivid, and we have to think more about the well-being of future generations. ”

"Since ancient times, there have been virtuous and powerful people living in the world. The rise of the king division of Jiangsu and Zhejiang in eastern Zhejiang is now a situation where there are three parts of the world, and it has defeated the Eight Banners Army many times, which can not be described as powerless. It is not unvirtuous to appease the homeless, to serve lightly, to rule strictly by officials, so that the people under his rule can live and work in peace and contentment, and even more so to punish traitors who kill the people and betray the country. However, now that the slaves have not been destroyed, and they have been following the Ming family for many years, they will resolutely rebel, which will only make the relatives and enemies happy, which is really undesirable. ”

Speaking of this, Chen Wen's words changed, and with the afterglow of the sunset, he sonorously and forcefully revealed all the heartfelt words that had been brewing in his heart for a long time.

"Since the beginning of the Wanli period, the Jiannu has been brutalizing the Chinese people for decades, and after entering the customs, they are wantonly slaughtering the Chinese people, and those who died directly or indirectly at the hands of the Jiannu are only verifiable to be no less than tens of millions, and they are the great enemies of Chinese civilization. We have raised troops to resist the Qing Dynasty as Ming ministers, and we should follow the example of Emperor Taizu Gao, and take it as our own ambition to drive out the Tartars. To put it plainly, only those who destroy the Qing can be the lord of the world, just like Emperor Taizu Gao expelled the tyrant Yuan! ”