With Li Dingguo being relieved of his authority to be in charge of his own affairs, in the next few days, he learned from the pain, and finally gradually thought clearly about some details that he didn't want to think about and pretended not to see.

For example, before the military meeting of the Ji Palace, he found that Wang Shangli, who was at the same level as Feng Shuangli and Bai Wenxuan, under Zhang Xianzhong, did not attend.

At that time, he didn't think it was a big deal, and he learned two days later that Zhang Xianzhong had already decided that "no matter what the follow-up is, at least continue to fight south to Hengzhou, cross Hengshan, and then consider whether to go east or west or south."

In other words, regarding the first part of the decision, Zhang Xianzhong did not intend to ask his opinion at all. It can be seen that before the start of the military discussion, Zhang Xianzhong's suspicion of him had piled up to at least five or six points.

And why Zhang Xianzhong was so eager to go south to Hengzhou, Li Dingguo didn't understand it at first, but later listened to Bai Wenxuan talk to him in private, and then he understood:

What Zhang Xianzhong is most worried about now is whether he will be pursued across the provincial border if he escapes from Huguang. And on this issue, Shen Shuren is too young, and his qualifications in the Ming court are too shallow, even if he is capable, he is not qualified to give full play to it, so what Zhang Xianzhong wants to ensure most now is to kill Yang Sichang.

Therefore, Zhang Xianzhong's current thoughts, the same as before he killed King Xiang and King Guiwang last year, are still thinking about how to kill a few more vassal kings, and it is best to occupy the city for a period of time after killing the vassal king, and don't let the Shenshu people take it back immediately.

In this way, it can be fully proved that Yang Sichang's strategy is fundamentally wrong! It is not good to protect the place at all! Containment can't be stopped! At that time, even if Chongzhen doesn't cut Yang Sichang, he can scare Yang Sichang to death!

It can be said that Zhang Xianzhong has been a little stunned on the issue of frantically chasing and killing local vassal kings, and he has formed a path dependence, and the more he kills, the more cool it is.

can rob the most money, frame the officials who fight against him, and can also attack the prestige of the court and establish his own murderous name.

And he was in a hurry to attack Hengzhou this time, also because there was a more heavyweight vassal king in Hengzhou than King Rong and King Ji who had been killed before - Zhu Changying, King of Gui!

Don't look at Hengyang, the future generations in Hunan are also poor, after all, it is south of Hengshan, located in the mountainous area, the waterway transportation is inconvenient, and the economy is not developed. In terms of wealth, not only is it far inferior to Changsha, but even Changde and Yueyang are not comparable.

But in the Chongzhen Dynasty, King Gui of Hengzhou was very gold-contented, because King Gui was the son of the first emperor Wanli, that is, Chongzhen's own uncle, although the fief was poor and the money he had accumulated was not much, he was close to the blood relationship of the current emperor! Killing him is a blow to the prestige of the imperial court and the future of officials, and it is not worth killing several other distant vassal kings!

Chongzhen's father, Guangzong Zhu Changluo, has two sons who live to adulthood, namely Tianqi and Chongzhen, so there is no Chongzhen's own brother vassal king in the world, and the closest to him are a few uncles who are also from his grandfather Wanli.

And Wanli has a total of eight sons, three of whom died young, and there are only five people who live to adulthood. Among them, the eldest son is Chongzhen's father, and the remaining four vassal kings are King Fu, King Rui, King Hui, and King Gui.

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King Fu was killed by Li Zicheng last year, King Hui is an outlier, in Jingzhou Mansion, but converted to Buddhism, like to worship Buddha and do not ask about the world.

Jingzhou Mansion is now the residence of Fang Kongzhi, the governor of Huguang, so Zhang Xianzhong has never had the idea of killing King Hui, unless he can kill Fang Kongzhi first, and then killing a person who already wants to convert to Buddhism will not have a deterrent effect, and everyone has become a monk and practiced, so he has stripped off his relationship with his family.

Therefore, there are only Chongzhen's uncles who can be killed all over the world, and there are only King Gui of Hengzhou and Zhu Changhao, King of Rui of Chongqing.

Chongqing is still in the hands of Shao Jiechun, the governor of Sichuan, and Zhang Xianzhong is still racking his brains thinking about how to make a detour into Sichuan, so he has to let it go first, and finally the best solution that can be achieved in front of him is only King Gui.

So as early as a few days ago, not long after he broke through Changsha, when he learned that Shen Shuren's reinforcements had arrived and copied his back road, Zhang Xianzhong had already made up his mind in his heart to go south to Hengzhou and kill King Gui first.

He was afraid that the night would be long and the dream would be too much, and he was also afraid that after a long delay, King Gui heard that Changsha had fallen and the thieves had the idea of continuing to go south, so he was afraid of running away in advance, so he didn't wait much, and directly asked Wang Shangli to lead an old battalion elite and a small number of men and horses to go straight to Hengzhou.

In addition, he also took advantage of the fact that Changsha City fell too quickly, the official army did not resist much, and the surrounding areas did not react, and directly collected the seal letter and all official documents and tokens of Yin Xianmin, the general soldier of Changsha, who surrendered, and even used a team of surrendered Ming soldiers under Yin Xianmin as the leader to help Wang Shangli deceive the defenders of Hengyang Pass-

Hengzhou is south of Hengshan, and Changsha is north of Hengshan, so there are some traffic arteries in the middle, which are to cross some valleys in Hengshan.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the imperial court did not directly build a strong checkpoint in the Hengshan Valley, but at least there was a camp of the guard army, and a garrison camp was stationed. Theoretically, it is under the general army of Hengzhou and other states, but not under the general army of Changsha.

However, when it was originally the surrender force of the Ming army, under the banner of the flawless Changsha General Army, it was declared that "Changsha has been surrounded, and before the siege, General Yin was afraid that thieves would go around the city and threaten Hengzhou and other places, so he sent us to help defend Hengshan Pass."

The defenders of the Hengshan battalion were not on guard at all, so they put Yin Xianmin's soldiers into the camp, and then the old battalion soldiers under Wang Shangli, who were mixed in Yin Xianmin's department, suddenly attacked and controlled the Hengshan guard.

Everything is exactly the same as when it was in Xiangyang. It can only be said that when the generals of the Ming army surrendered directly, handed over the tokens, and stole them with the troops, the impact on the local area was too bad.

Hengshanwei said that there was a battalion, and the full number should be 4,000 people, and Wang Shangli actually counted it after taking it in, but there were only more than 600 people stationed at that time, and the empty salary rate of the Ming Dynasty was also terrible to an outrageous degree.

It can only be said that there has been no war in the southern region for hundreds of years, and even since the Tartars and thieves, the border between Huguang and Liangguang has never encountered war. The slack armament here, and the courage of the generals to eat empty salaries, have become boundless.

When he easily won Hengshanwei, Wang Shangli couldn't help but sigh in his heart: How good would it be if the Ming Dynasty's governors and general soldiers were as good as these people? Why is there such an anomaly as the Sinking Tree Man!

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While the thief army had taken Hengshanwei unconsciously, there was no reaction in Hengzhou City.

However, some rich gentry are discussing "I heard that Changsha is under siege, do you want to pack up and run south", but most people think that Hengshan is steep, even if Zhang Xianzhong takes Changsha, with the wealth of Changsha, he must stay for a long time, eat dry and wipe clean, how can he suddenly fall in love with Hengzhou, which is much poorer than Changsha?

To say a word of conscience, this view is not wrong, if there is no Shen Shuren chasing Zhang Xianzhong, Zhang Xianzhong should definitely stay in Changsha for a long time. And whether Shen Shuren pursued Zhang Xianzhong, this kind of military aircraft event, how could ordinary people in the state capital hundreds of miles away know about it?

On this day, it was already June 20, and in King Gui's mansion, Zhu Changying, who was forty-five years old, was having dinner with his three sons, so they talked about it.

Zhu Changying gave birth to a total of five sons, but the first two died early, so the third son, Zhu Youying, was the son of the king, who is twenty-two years old this year. In addition to Zhu Youzhen, the other two sons are Zhu Youlang, who is only 19 years old, and Zhu Youzhen, who is 15 years old.

Zhu Changying has been ill for a long time in the past few years, so he can't lift his energy when he does anything, and when he heard his fourth son Zhu Youlang talk about the topic of "whether to prepare to flee south", he was a little unhappy.

And the prince Zhu Youyan is not in good health, he also feels that it is better to be still, and he is reluctant to have thousands of family wealth in the palace, so he always feels that things have not come to this point.

"Why don't you wait and see? Changsha is only besieged, but General Yin is also a mighty general, and he will be able to defend it for a long time. As long as Changsha holds on, Governor Fang will definitely ask for reinforcements immediately. Zhang Xianzhong's sudden attack was just to take advantage of the surprise of the officers and soldiers.

If it is confirmed, Changsha will soon be dead, or if it is heard that the thieves are going south around Changsha, Hengshanwei will be broken through, and it will be too late to leave. Hengshan is dangerous, how can you get by saying it all at once? ”

Both father and brother objected, feeling that it was better to be still than to be still, and Zhu Youlang had nothing to say.

As everyone knows, in history, they were able to flee from Hengzhou to Guangdong because Liu Xizuo, the governor of Huguang at that time, was ordered by him to transfer the main forces of Hunan to Hengzhou as much as possible and defend Hengzhou.

But Liu Xizuo took office in the winter of Chongzhen's fifteenth year in history, and he was killed after a year, and now the governor of Huguang is still Fang Kongzhi, because of the butterfly effect, Huguang's troops have been gathered in the north before, and at the junction with Sichuan and Henan, the south is extremely empty.

All this has changed, but the chronic son of everyone in King Gui's Mansion has not changed, and the tragedy is doomed.

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Three days later, Wang Shangli suddenly appeared in Hengzhou with the vanguard of Zhang Xianzhong's army, this time they did not choose to cheat the door, but directly surrounded the four gates - Zhang Xianzhong's goal is very clear, whether he takes Hengzhou or not has no impact, anyway, he will continue to run away immediately.

For him, the only value of winning Hengzhou is to kill King Gui's entire family, so as to force Yang Sichang to death, and it is best to let Fang Kongzhi and Shen Shuren get a little more charged. The second is to rob the huge wealth of King Gui's mansion, take the fine soft and transport it to Sichuan and recruit troops.

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Therefore, if the city is deceived and not besieged, it will not be good to let King Gui's family have time to run.

After Wang Shangli besieged the city, the people in the city were immediately bright, and the general soldier He Yide tried to defend the city and wait for help.

Wang Shangli let people shout and curse outside the city, and continued to preach Zhang Xianzhong's theory that "if you surrender after one day of fighting to defend the city, you will slaughter the city in three, and after three days of fighting, you will surrender and slaughter the whole city". As a result, He Yide's army was unstable and the people's hearts were brilliant.

At this time, Zhu Changying, the king of Gui, knew that the city was besieged, and was extremely panicked, so he found the chief soldier He Yide, and forced him to go out of the city from the south of the city to fight in the field, and break through the encirclement that the thieves had just formed in the south of the city, so as to cover the whole family of the palace to break through.

He Yide defended that there were not enough soldiers and horses in the city, the thieves were strong, and there was still hope for defending the city, and if the field battle was unfortunate.

But Zhu Changying doesn't care about these at all, all he wants is to tear open a hole for him to escape, as for the process of tearing the opening, whether the defenders will be too dead or injured to defend the city, he doesn't care, Anyway, he has already fled by then, and it has nothing to do with him if the people in the city die.

Therefore, Zhu Changying forced He Yide to "ignore the defense of the city, and tear the opening to break through in the field at all costs".

He Yide originally had no backbone, and in history, he surrendered to Zhang Xianzhong like Yin Xianmin.

At this moment, he was urged, but he also dared to be angry and did not dare to speak, in line with the last trace of loyalty to the Ming Dynasty, he went out of the city to fight.

However, he was very unlucky, he had just fought with Wang Shangli's thieves' vanguard troops, and soon Zhang Xianzhong's Chinese army and rear army reinforcements also arrived one after another, and the main force of the thieves had actually given up Changsha and went south. The defenders on the Hengzhou side didn't expect the thieves to be so desperate, and even Changsha didn't plan to hold it for a long time, so they pulled the main force over.

He Yide and Wang Shangli, who only had a fraction of his own troops, could barely fight back and forth.

As soon as Zhang Xianzhong's reinforcements arrived, He Yide immediately collapsed, and then chose to surrender before the battle.

As soon as the general army of Hengzhou surrendered, Hengzhou City was of course easily taken.

Zhu Changying and all his three sons, none of them escaped Zhang Xianzhong's pursuit this time, and all of them were wiped out like other vassal kings in the Huguang region.

In the entire Huguang, except for the Wuchang Mansion where the Shen Shuren were stationed, and the Jingzhou Mansion where Fang Kongzhi was stationed, the other local vassal kings were completely washed away.

And Chongzhen's own uncles, except for those who converted to Buddhism, only Zhu Changhao from Chongqing was still alive, and the others were all killed.

And Zhang Xianzhong just killed Chongzhen's seventh uncle, and he will soon try to enter Sichuan, Chongzhen's last uncle who has not converted to Buddhism, whether he can keep it, I am afraid it is also between the two theories.

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