Chapter 53: The Meeting of the Two Kings (I)

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Sun Kewang was chased and killed by Shen Jiabao's cavalry, and starved for several days, and the captain of his own soldiers and some loyal soldiers also died in the interception process. Next, some of the pro-soldiers wanted to get rid of Sun Kewang and flee on their own, but in the process of stealing horses at night, they were discovered by the group of pro-soldiers loyal to Sun Kewang, and an infighting broke out between the two sides.

After a few days of travel, their group of cavalry escorted Sun Kewang and finally caught up with Chen Wen's main force. The capture of a prince immediately ushered in the applause of the robes in the army, and Chen Wen, who was chatting with Ma Jinzhong, who saw Sun Kewang and was full of ashes, also praised him.

"His Royal Highness King Yue, Lone, no, is in the Lower, and the Lower is willing to repair books for His Royal Highness the King of Yue and the civil officials and military generals from all over Yunnan and Guizhou, and persuade them to submit to His Royal Highness the King of Yue. I only hope that His Royal Highness the King of Yue can give him a way to live in the next place, and his wish is enough. ”

Historically, Sun Kewang chose to surrender to the Manchus when he failed in the internal crime and rebelled against his relatives, and was canonized as the righteous king by the Manchus, the fifth and last Han prince of the Qing Dynasty. In order to retaliate for the "betrayal" of Li Dingguo, Liu Wenxiu and others, Sun Kewang did his best to write letters to the civil and military generals of Yungui from the Manchu Qing Dynasty to lure those officials promoted by him to surrender to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which can be said to spare no effort. When Yungui arrived, Sun Kewang's role was greatly reduced, and the Manchu Qing did not hesitate to assassinate him, and future generations were also constantly attacking, and the right should be the end of the betrayer.

The Manchu Qing Dynasty's treatment of Sun Kewang did have merit in its ruling methods. For Chen Wen, it is indeed the most cost-effective way to only learn from the Manchus to put him under house arrest, and then find a reason to assassinate him after all the civil and military generals promoted by Sun Kewang take Yungui. But he didn't want to do that.

"Sun Kewang, do you know where you lost?"

Waving everyone away, Chen Wen said to Sun Kewang, who fell to the ground, in the big tent, but the latter collapsed to the ground in fright. Chen Wen asked this, in fact, he didn't plan to give him any more chances, and the word death might happen in the next moment, so how could he not be afraid.

Sun Kewang softened on the ground, and Chen Wen did not continue to force him to answer, but told this big man who had absolute influence on history in the Southern Ming Dynasty straightforwardly.

"Because you are short-sighted and impatient, and with the Tartars on your side, you are still so impatient to seek the dynasty and usurp the throne, even if you get Chan Rang, you don't have the support of the people who have restored the sight in the world, and you can't settle other feudal towns, and you can't even handle it inside Xiying, you are just driving away before the Manchu Dynasty."

The voice fell, and contempt filled the room. In the Southern Ming Dynasty, national contradictions and class contradictions were intertwined, but national contradictions were still greater than class contradictions, or even far greater than class contradictions.

To solve the national contradictions, it is necessary to destroy the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the oppression of the people at the bottom by the gentry and the royal palace must first overthrow the Ming court, the general backstage. Not to mention anything else, it is impossible to solve the mistakes in the system of dividing the royal palace and the preferential exemption system without first completely overthrowing the ancestral system.

However, born in later generations, I have read about the failure of the Southern Ming Dynasty's struggle against the Qing Dynasty, and I have seen the successful experience of the War of Resistance Against Japan. Moreover, over the years, Chen Wen's biggest advantage is that he is rational enough, he knows very well what he wants, for the highest goal, even if some short-term benefits are tempting, if they are contrary to the highest goal, then there is no need to even look at it.

Sun Kewang was imprisoned in a prison car, and Chen Wen's major goal of King Qin this time can be regarded as having a minimum eyebrow. The rest is nothing more than how to maximize the benefits that can be grabbed, especially to further complete the expansion of the basic market.

The army of the Ming army of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Zhejiang continued to march towards Guiyang, and while the Yuyao Division, which was the vanguard force, rushed to Guiyang, the other departments began to collect the prefectures and counties in eastern Guizhou.

At the same time, Bai Wenxuan, Feng Shuangli and other generals who went to Yuanzhou with Sun Kewang were all rushing to the direction of Yunnan while reining in the rout, and Guiyang was the base camp of the Qin Domain, so as not to go anymore, lest they be blocked by the Ming army of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Zhejiang, and now only the Jin and Shu kings of Yunnan, especially the Yongli Imperial Court are their only protective umbrella.

The messenger who was in a hurry was sent one step earlier, but in fact, Yongli, Li Dingguo, and Liu Wenxiu were all anxiously waiting for the result. In their opinion, it is best for Sun Kewang and Chen Wen to lose both, this is the best solution, in addition, no matter which side wins a big victory, it will be something they cannot afford.

However, with the arrival of the messenger in Kunming, Sun Kewang was defeated in Yuanzhou, and Chen Wen relied on tens of thousands of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Ming troops to eliminate several times his opponent with almost no effort, which really caused a huge shock in the Yongli court.

The army of the Qin Dynasty is the core of the Ming army in the southwest, the core is so, Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu still have tens of thousands of troops, Bai Wenxuan's letter also said that he and Feng Shuangli before and after the convergence of tens of thousands of routs, but the system has been chaotic, weapons, armor, war horses are almost nothing, and there is no way to talk about baggage, even if such an army is ten times larger, it will not be the opponent of the Ming army in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Zhejiang, even if Li Dingguo, a world-famous general, is still alive, there will be no essential difference.

"Your Majesty, the ministers are willing to lead the army north and try to persuade the King of Yue to withdraw the army."

"Persuasion? Two Aiqing, how easy it is to talk about! ”

As soon as Yongli spoke, Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu also lamented. Last year, the edict envoy went to mediate in Guangdong, hoping to exchange Fujian and Guangdong's Chaozhou and Shaozhou prefectures for the right to rule other regions, but they were directly bombarded back by Chen Wen, and even Guo Zhiqi and Lian Chengbi were all the same.

The old routine is still there, and now Chen Wen defeated the 140,000 Qin clan army in one battle, even if most of them have not really fought with the Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Ming armies at all, but they are still routed soldiers, and the fear in their hearts will only be worse, what confidence do they have to say this to Chen Wen.

"Two Aiqing, if Sun Kewang surrenders Chen Wen, I'm afraid that even the border of Yunnan will not be able to be protected by the imperial court."

Sun Kewang promoted civil officials and military generals all over Yunnan and Guizhou, Sun Kewang knew about this matter, Chen Wen knew, Yongli naturally did not know the reason, that is, Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu, after Yongli reminded them, they immediately turned around from the issue of the military strength of the Ming army in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Zhejiang. Others don't mention it, Wang Shangli and Wang Ziqi in Kunming City are all Sun Kewang's cronies, and the same is true of He Jiuyi, who was sent to Nanning Mansion in Guangxi.

"Then it's better for the ministers to lead the troops north, and the Shu clan will personally sit in Yunnan to protect Your Majesty's safety and deter the two kings."

Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu glanced at each other, and came up with such a division of labor, which is also the best solution at the moment. After all, if even Li Dingguo can't succeed, pointing at Liu Wenxiu will be even more foolish's dream.

The urgency of the situation did not weaken in the slightest because of Sun Kewang's fiasco, but became more and more serious. Seeing this, Li Dingguo had no choice but to go north after stabilizing Kunming, and first had to deal with Bai Wenxuan and Feng Shuangli, the two leaders of the Qin domain's army, and with more troops, even if they were all fish belly, they could have more say.

Kunming, Yunnan, now the temporary capital of the Yongli Dynasty, is only separated from the southwest of Guizhou by a small Qujing Mansion, where Li Dingguo was preparing for a decisive battle with Sun Kewang, because it is the gateway of Kunming to Guizhou. Now Chen Wen is coming with such great momentum, but Guizhou is not the old occupation area of the Ming army in Jiangsu, Zhejiang. Seeing this, Li Dingguo led the army into Guizhou in order to better complete the response to Bai Wenxuan and Feng Shuangli.

The army was dispatched, and the forward cavalry stepped into the border of Guizhou one step earlier. The capital of Guiyang Prefecture was located in the central part of Guizhou, and when Li Dingguo successively crossed Pu'an Prefecture, Annanwei Prefecture and Yongning Prefecture and entered the boundary of Zhenning Prefecture and completed the convergence with Bai Wenxuan and Feng Shuangli, he also got another news.

"His Royal Highness the King of Jin, King Yue has captured Guiyang Mansion City, I'm afraid it won't be long before the army will overwhelm the border."

Bai Wenxuan and Feng Shuangli fled all the way to the southwest, and the tens of thousands of defeated soldiers who had just converged after the defeat also ran six or seven percent on the road, and now the two of them together only have more than 10,000 soldiers left, if it weren't for the fact that there were a lot of military auxiliaries along the way, I am afraid that they might not be able to bring so many troops to join Li Dingguo.

At this moment, Bai Wenxuan and Feng Shuangli are here, and they are willing to belong to the banner of the Yongli Imperial Court, but the impact of the battle in Yuanzhou on them is still not small, so that once Chen Wen is mentioned here, Feng Shuangli's volume is deliberately lowered, as if he is afraid that if he is a little louder, Chen Wen will be recruited.

The second general is like this, Li Dingguo couldn't help frowning, and when he asked the two about the battle of Yuanzhou: "This clan heard the rout on the road that it was the king of Yue who would learn the demon law, what is going on?" ”

The matter of the demon law is spread in Guizhou, what the king of Yue sprinkled beans under the banner into a soldier, and suddenly hundreds of thousands of troops surrounded them, what war elephants rushed into the formation and were swallowed by a wave of air, not even the bones were left, what Luo Luo killed into the crowd, the knife was cut on the body of the Ming army in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Zhejiang, and what was the personal soldiers of the Yue Wangfu split into thunder, and the shot was electricity. All in all, if it weren't for our army not working hard, King Yue would know how to demons.

Hearing this question, Bai Wenxuan and Feng Shuangli glanced at each other, and then Bai Wenxuan replied: "Most of those are rumors, the King of Yue really only has those tens of thousands of troops, but he used the formation to break the war elephants and Luo Luo, and the combat effectiveness of our army and its troops is also far behind, and the defeat is not unjust at all." It's the explosion when the army collapsed, maybe it was a thunderstorm, neither of us was near, I couldn't see clearly, and I didn't dare to make a judgment. ”

"I see."

With this answer, it can be regarded as solving some of the confusion in Li Dingguo's heart. However, at this moment, he was not relieved by this, but his brows became more and more furrowed.

In fact, Li Dingguo also does not believe in the so-called demon law. Even if this is really the case, the Yang Gate Array and the Yin Gate Array are not without a way to crack it, the same thing is true of the demon law, what kind of dung, black dog blood, women's menstrual blood or something, there is always one right. But this time, when I heard Bai Wenxuan's explanation, I determined that he was losing in hard power, and the army under his command also had the same tactics, if it really started a war, I am afraid that there would not be many chances of victory.

"The ugly daughter-in-law will inevitably want to see her in-laws, and if she doesn't meet His Royal Highness the King of Yue in person, the clan doesn't know how to deal with it."

After repairing for a few days and redistributing the weapons and equipment brought from the inventory in Kunming, Li Dingguo sent a letter to Guiyang, inviting Chen Wen to meet in the Pingbawei area.

The letter was written with great humility, just as he had written to Zheng Chenggong when he invited him to join forces in Guangdong, but he was not very clear what the final situation would be, and even his predictions were basically pessimistic.

A few days later, the messenger returned with a reply from Chen Wen. The words of the reply did not have the arrogance after the great victory, and he was also called the king of Jin, and expressed the appropriate relationship with Yongli's physical condition, and mentioned that he also brought the items offered to the royal family by several provinces of Jiangsu and Zhejiang this year, hoping that Li Dingguo would transfer them on his behalf after the talks.

After reading this letter, Li Dingguo couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, but there was still a hidden worry - after all, people's hearts were separated from their stomachs, and he didn't know where Chen Wen's intentions were. However, with this letter as a foundation, his heart can also be calmed down, so he sent a messenger to rush back to Kunming to report to Yongli, and at the same time let the army stay in the local area, only bringing elite cavalry to Pingbawei.

Pingbawei is not only the Pingba District of Anshun City in the later generations, but it is only less than 100 miles away from Guiyang. However, at this time, Jinfeng Lake has not yet been formed, the Pingba Wei and Weiqing Wei near the left of Jinfeng Lake are the guards under the Guizhou Metropolitan Division, and the former is to take the meaning of "more flat land", and there are as many as 5,000 households.

Chen Wen and Li Dingguo agreed to meet here with no more than 1,000 cavalry, in order to prevent the army from approaching, and if there was any misunderstanding, it would cause an even greater tragedy. Li Dingguo arrived as promised, the Acropolis had been occupied by Chen Wen, and when the gate of the Acropolis was opened, Chen Wen also took a large group of cavalry out of the Acropolis.

"King Yue."

In a small pavilion for people to rest outside the Acropolis, Chen Wen and Li Dingguo stood opposite each other. According to the ancient habit of titles, Jin is a big country, and it can't reach a small country like Chen, Cai, Jing, and Shu, but it is only medium, far from being comparable to Jin. But now in these years, the situation is stronger than people, who can take care of this, especially Chen Wen has even arrested the first Qin king, and after a captured Qin Domain officer introduced on his behalf, Li Dingguo was also the first to signal to Chen Wen.

"Look, what I said, King Jin is just too polite."

Shaking his head with a smile, Chen Wen then said to Li Dingguo: "If Brother Li can look down on me Chen Wen, one sentence of Furen is enough, and this is what I call Da Mu, Brother Li and Da Mu are sons and daughters, don't you look down on me?" ”

"Don't dare."

Chen Wen's attitude was too enthusiastic, so enthusiastic that Li Dingguo couldn't adapt to it. However, since Chen Wen is like this, Li Dingguo also happened to get off the donkey, which brought the relationship between them closer, so as to lay a better foundation for the next meeting.

Sitting down on both sides, Chen Wen waved away the Qin Domain officer and the guards around him, and Li Dingguo did the same, and after greeting each other, Li Dingguo took out the words that he had prepared in Kunming.

His Majesty is grateful for the loyalty of King Qianliqin of Furen, and believes that Yue Yizi is a small country after all, and is not worthy of Furen's great military exploits, and is ready to change the title of Furen to the King of Qi to show the court's praise for Furen."