Zuo Mengeng also knew that he could not escape at this time, so he knelt down in front of Yang Tinglin and Yan Yingyuan, and did the matter of filial piety: "My father's limit is approaching, can you implore the generals to allow your father to die of illness and avoid the pain of the sword during his lifetime!" “

Yan Yingyuan looked up, and sure enough, he saw an old man in a withered python robe lying on the bed, and he didn't have to guess, he also knew that this person was Ning Nanbo Zuo Liangyu.

"It turns out that this is the traitor Zuo Liangyu!"

Yang Tinglin said a word at this time, and then walked in front of Zuo Mengeng: "Although my father's life is in danger, it stands to reason that it is benevolent and righteous to let him die of illness and death, but Ling Zun is a traitor of the Ming Dynasty, and he is heinous. He should have captured his father alive and detained him in the capital, cutting off his flesh so that the people could eat it, otherwise it was not enough to make the traitors frightened! But since the limit is approaching, the father can only cut off his head to boost the king's prestige! ”

Although Yang Tinglin was born in Hanlin, he is not a soft-hearted person, and Zuo Mengeng didn't know how to answer.

At this time, Yang Tinglin had already shouted to Yan Yingyuan, Gu Yanwu, Wang Fuzhi and others behind him: "Colleagues, the traitor Zuo Liangyu is right in front of him, this person is in vain Gu Jun'en, intending to cause trouble in the world, if you don't punish the people, it is not enough for the people to be angry, follow me to punish the left thief!" “

"Punish the left thief!"

As soon as Yang Tinglin shouted like this, Gu Yanwu, Yan Yingyuan and others also shouted, directly surrounding the generals of the Left Army in the entire room.

Yang Tinglin and others directly pushed away these generals of the Left Army, surrounded Zuo Liangyu in the middle, and more than ten flintlock pistols and more than ten scimitars were aimed at Zuo Liangyu.

Yang Tinglin has the highest official position here, so he still took the lead and asked: "Zuo Liangyu, what else do you have to say to Your Majesty and the people of the world now, for the sake of you who was also a minister of the Ming Dynasty, I can tell you on your behalf." ”

Zuo Liangyu was still conscious at this time, raised his hand, and only said three words: "I am guilty!" ”

Yang Tinglin smiled slightly, and shouted: "Get on the bayonet!" ”

Gu Yanwu, Wang Fuzhi and others all pulled out their bayonets together.

"Kill!" Yang Tinglin shouted, and stabbed Zuo Liangyu first, and the others also stabbed the bayonet, and Yan Yingyuan and the others also stabbed the scimitar in their hands.

Suddenly, Zuo Liangyu was stabbed with thousands of holes, his mouth was spitting blood, and his eyes were closed.

"Kill!"

Yang Tinglin, Gu Yanwu and the others kept stabbing down, and it was not until Zuo Liangyu was dead that he couldn't die anymore that the young officer of the Guards stopped, looking at Zuo Liangyu's corpse, which was already bleeding and rotten.

Zuo Mengeng and the other generals of the Left Army all looked at everything in front of them tremblingly.

Yan Yingyuan walked beside Zuo Liangyu's face with a scimitar in his hand, chopped it down, took off Zuo Liangyu's head, and said to Yang Tinglin: "Commander Yang, Zuo Liangyu's head!" ”

That's where it begins.

The rebel Zuo Liangyu Department was officially declared destroyed.

Hundreds of thousands of leftist troops have been completely annihilated, except for those who followed Jin Shenghuan to surrender to Chengcheng and some left-wing upper-level civil and military officials such as Zuo Menggeng were captured.

Huang Degong, Yuan Jixian, and Liu Zhaoji also came to Huaining County at this time, and saw the corpses of the Zuo Army all over the ground, Yuan Jixian and Huang Degong were in high spirits, but Liu Zhaoji said inappropriately: "If these people don't follow Zuo Liangyu's perverse actions, they can become an important force in the fight against the Qing army, but unfortunately, now they can only be dry bones in the wilderness and feed wild dogs in vain." ”

"What Liu Zongbing said is extremely true, but as soon as Zuo Liangyu died, the left army was destroyed, and it can be regarded as a deterrent to those who do not take the court as the law in the world, such as the Zheng family in Fujian, who is about to be newly attached to the army, and the court will be able to control it in the future, and the left rebellion will be destroyed, and the great enemy of the world is the Qing army.

Yuan Jixian finished speaking, and looked to the north.

"General Liu has fought with the Tartars in Liaodong, you might as well tell me what is the difference between this Qing army, Li Zicheng's hundreds of thousands of troops have been defeated and retreated, and my Ming Dynasty has been defeated and won less since Wanli, so that the land outside the pass is almost lost! Is this Qing army really so invincible? ”

Huang Degong couldn't help but ask Liu Zhaoji, Huang Degong, who started by encircling and suppressing the peasant army all the year round, had little experience in fighting against the Tartars, but he also knew that the great enemy he would face in the future would be the Tartars, so he was particularly concerned.

Liu Zhaoji sighed slightly: "Although the Qing army is strong, Your Majesty said that as long as you are not a heavenly soldier and a general, you will carry a head on both shoulders, as long as my Han family sons and daughters work together to save the country, I will not worry about the Hu people!" ”

As soon as Liu Zhaoji said this, Yuan Jixian and Huang Degong nodded, and they were silent.

The next day dawned.

More than 300,000 officers and soldiers quickly evacuated from the area around Huaining City and returned to their original garrisons, waiting for the imperial court's decree.

Among them, Liu Zhaoji also led the First Corps to follow Yuan Jixian into Anqing City to rest.

Jin Shenghuan's department was temporarily stationed in Susong, Huangmei and other places.

Weng Zhiqi followed Huang Degong back to defend Jiujiang.

The Jiangyou area and the northern part of Huguang are calm again.

The only thing left in this area is the corpses everywhere and the sound of Xiao Xiao's vultures, and then there are wild dogs and wolves, and the people hiding in the mountains began to come out of the caves, and compete with wild dogs and wolves for the hundreds of thousands of corpses left by the officials and soldiers.

Even the clothes on the corpses were stripped away, and eventually the corpses were also in the stomachs of people or wild wolves and dogs.

This is the status quo of Jiangyou and the northern part of Huguang before the Qing army moved south!

Although the land is desolate and desolate, it is also full of the vitality of the earth's rejuvenation.

The hard-working Han people will not waste any land and will not miss any agricultural time.

Even in troubled times, once the war disaster has passed, there are still farmers who scatter the grain they refuse to eat on the freshly bloodied land, just waiting for a harvest this autumn.

According to the policy of Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen, the people of the north are exempt from tax for three years, and the people of the south are exempt from tax for one year.

However, Zhu Youzhen made agricultural production in the drum to avoid the aggravation of the contradictions between the government and the people, and later added another article, which is not to be levied in areas of military disasters within two years.

Therefore, although this year is the eighteenth year of Chongzhen, the people in this area who have suffered from the poison of the left army still do not have to worry about being exploited by the government.

As for the specific protection of the interests of the common people from being occupied by the local gentry and the restoration of agricultural infrastructure, it was necessary for the imperial court to send officials to restore the ruling system before it could be implemented.

And now the governor of Huguang, Gu Yinxi, is busy recruiting the army, and the governor of Fengyang, Li Banghua, is also busy guarding the Qing army entering Henan, so that there is no major officer to take charge of the restoration of civil affairs in this area.

Of course, at present, this area is still in a state of ten rooms and nine empty rooms, and even if it is now a three-way area, there will not be bandits.

Zhu Youzhen's will also reached Jiujiang and Anqing, and the content was that after the annihilation of the left army, Liu Zhaoji called back to Zaozhuang, Shandong, and Yuan Jixian and Huang Degong deposited the left army to enter Beijing from the remnants.