Li Dingguo's Daxi soldiers attacked Tongren and the battle was declared a failure.

His deputy general Feng Xianchu was personally killed by Emperor Zhu Youzhen of the Ming Dynasty, and he could be regarded as a face-saving death.

The rest of the surviving Onishi soldiers only knew that there was no way out, and there were still many wounded brothers wailing, so they had to surrender on their knees, but on the condition that the Ming army needed to help treat their wounded brothers.

Zhu Youzhen did not let the guards refuse, and the treatment of the enemy army of the same clan naturally could not be the same as that of the Qing army.

Moreover, Zhu Youzhen now intends to appease Li Dingguo, and naturally he also wants to convey goodwill to Li Dingguo by treating Li Dingguo's soldiers well.

The Ming Guards gave a different treatment from the Qing Army's Green Battalion in the army that captured Li Dingguo in the past, did not whip and beat, did not humiliate and criticize, and did not order him to serve and labor, but made him feel the same as the officers and soldiers of the Guards, and at the same time accepted the night classes that the officers and soldiers of the Ming Guards often do, that is, ideological and political classes, and listened to the views and changes of the political and work officers of the Guards on the people's livelihood.

At the same time, let the captive himself talk about the life of the people in Sichuan today.

Because they were not tortured about the situation of Li Dingguo's army, these Daxi soldiers also knew everything and said everything, and they told Zhang Xianzhong about the increase in the burden on the people caused by the expansion of troops and horses to the south to fight at the same time, and also told the people of southern Sichuan about the military disasters in the past few years.

Then, it was the officers and soldiers of the Guards who began to preach how to liberate Sichuan and how to make the people of Sichuan live as happy as the people in other parts of the Ming Dynasty.

Many of these Western soldiers began to be a little happy because of the good food and drink, and even took the initiative to apply to stay.

But Zhu Youzhen did not give them a chance now, but sent them all to Guiyang, returned them all to Li Dingguo, and also let these Daxi soldiers take the imperial pen letter from Zhu Youzhen to Li Dingguo.

The content of the letter was written by Ma Shiying.

The content is roughly nothing more than expressing helplessness and understanding of the current situation of Li Dingguo on the opposite side of the Ming Dynasty, expressing repentance for the tyranny of the people in the past of the Ming Dynasty, expressing emotion for the achievements of the Ming Dynasty today, expressing indignation at the Manchu Dynasty stealing half of China, and then boasting about Li Dingguo with the respect of the emperor, expressing the hope that Li Dingguo will change his heart of not attaching to the Ming Dynasty, and promising Li Dingguo, as long as he is willing to belong to the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Youzhen is willing to kill the horse as an alliance with him, and will never lose it, and he is the title under Zhang Xianzhong. If it is attached to the Ming Dynasty, it is also a title.

Zhu Youzhen was determined to appease Li Dingguo.

But he also knows that as long as Zhang Xianzhong does not die, this difficulty will always be very difficult.

But now that he failed to capture Li Dingguo alive under Tongren City, his mind was even more intense, and he had to ask Jinyiwei to pass the news to Zhou Ze, ordering him to speed up his actions against Zhang Xianzhong's troops.

At this time, Li Dingguo didn't know that he was still being stared at by the Ming Emperor Zhu Youzhen, and now he was waiting for the results of the retreat of the Ming army in Wujiang Pass, in his opinion, as long as the Ming army in Wujiang Pass retreated, it meant that Tongren's sneak attack was successful, and he might capture Zhu Youzhen, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty!

Li Dingguo was even thinking about whether he should be executed immediately or treated as a guest after capturing the Ming Emperor, after all, he was also the king who once led the Han family to defeat the Manchu Dynasty, and if he could use this to blackmail the Ming Dynasty, he Daxi could get a lot of benefits.

But Li Dingguo was also worried that if he captured the Ming Emperor Zhu Youzhen, the Ming court would not have the same old thing as after the Battle of Tumubao and set up a new emperor.

"Kill!"

Just when Li Dingguo was entangled, there was a sudden shout of killing outside Zunyi City.

"What's going on!"

Li Dingguo shouted and hurriedly opened the window, and then saw a group of Ming soldiers covered in mud and grass rings and barefoot rushing with muskets, and at a cursory glance, there were no less than 10,000 people.

"Quick, close the gates!"

Li Dingguo roared.

At this time, Yan Yingyuan, who had rushed to the city of Zunyi, fired a shot at the defenders of the city gate, and the defenders of the city gate did not expect the muskets of the Ming army to shoot so far, and fell to the ground in a moment, and at this time, the defenders of Daxi on Zunyi City also began to draw bows and shoot arrows or began to light the fire rope.

But the guards were now on the ground, holding Chongzhen's 19th and 21st flintlock pistols and firing them upward, and the flintlock bullets of the flintlock pistols with faster speed and longer range and higher accuracy quickly knocked the defenders to the ground or fell from the wall.

At this time, Yan Yingyuan had already rushed into the city of Zunyi Mansion with the infantry with strong feet.

"Withdraw, withdraw to the inner city, pass the order down, and immediately abandon Wujiang Pass!"

Li Dingguo hurriedly roared and rushed down the city tower, and immediately closed the inner city gate in person, and then returned to the palace with his five hundred cavalry out of Zunyi Mansion City first, and at the same time, other Li Dingguo's troops immediately began to withdraw from the north gate of Zunyi Mansion City.

Li Dingguo's army was still well-trained, and in this case it was able to withdraw quickly without complete panic, but it also suffered thousands of casualties and captured 3,000 Jin.

Yan Yingyuan finally occupied the military and civilian capital city of Zunyi here, and at the same time ordered an infantry battalion to rush to Wujiang Pass, and at this time, the defenders of Wujiang Pass had also been ordered by Li Dingguo to retreat and abandon Wujiang Pass.

The infantry battalion sent by Yan Yingyuan from Zunyi Fucheng and Xia Wanchun and other main forces of the Second Corps of the Guards Army met at Wujiang Pass, and after leaving a battalion directly under the corps to hold Wujiang Pass, he took the main force to Zunyi Fucheng and sent people to immediately transmit the news to Tongren.

"Your Majesty, Yan Yingyuan's ministry reported that they had recaptured Zunyi at noon on July 20!"

After Zhu Youzhen got Li Yan's report, he patted the railing quite excitedly: "Very good, Li Dingguo also suffers a loss, Li Yan, where do you say, where will he retreat?" ”

"When it's Xuzhou! It is his base camp, and the gateway to southern Sichuan is more important than Zunyi. ”

As soon as Li Yan said this, Ma Shiying hurriedly came over to flatter:

"My emperor is wise, as soon as Your Majesty comes, our army will be like a good luck, devastating, invincible, and now before Tongren captured Li Dingguo's elite 5,000 and skillfully captured Zunyi, it is really Your Majesty's work, we congratulate Your Majesty! Your Majesty, according to Weichen, should you immediately pursue the remnants of the enemy, immediately seize Xuzhou, or take advantage of Li Dingguo's defeat to appease him? ”

"Don't worry, although Li Dingguo is defeated now, his vitality is not injured, and the entire Zhang Xianzhong department is not chaotic, the Manchu Qing Dynasty has not yet participated, the time is not ripe, Ma Shiying, if your ability to lead troops is half as good as your kung fu of shooting horses, Zunyi will not be recaptured until now."

After Zhu Youzhen said a word, he asked people to bring news to Yan Yingyuan, telling him to stick to Zunyi and not have to enter Sichuan, and at the same time, Zhu Youzhen also began to prepare to go to Zunyi, and began to prepare to enter Sichuan.

(End of chapter)