Maozhou in northern Sichuan, Daxi Guoxing is in.

Because Li Xiangjun's army had already reached Xinjin and was only a few feet away from Chengdu, Zhang Xianzhong did not dare to stay in the Chengdu Imperial Palace, that is, the Shu Palace.

Originally, Zhang Xianzhong wanted to go to Boryeong Mansion.

However, I heard that Qin Liangyu also led an army of 100,000 to Pengzhou in Shunqing Prefecture, so Baoning Mansion was no longer safe, so Zhang Xianzhong could only flee to Maozhou with his relatives.

Maozhou, now Maowen Qiang Autonomous County.

The conditions in Maozhou are naturally incomparable with those in Chengdu.

Therefore, since Zhang Xianzhong fled to Maozhou, he has been very depressed.

Because of his bitterness, Zhang Xianzhong's temperament gradually became tyrannical and murderous.

Before leaving Chengdu, Zhang Xianzhong slaughtered the concubines and eunuchs in the palace.

After arriving in Maozhou, Zhang Xianzhong began to aim his butcher's knife at the innocent people, and would lead hundreds or even thousands of pro-soldiers out hunting every day.

Moreover, Zhang Xianzhong's murder is often indiscriminate and killed.

On this day, Zhang Xianzhong took 800 recruits to Longmutou Si to slaughter more than a dozen villages, and his mood was finally a little better, and then he hung the head of the Tuqiang people in front of the saddle and returned to Maozhou all the way.

As a result, as soon as he returned to Maozhou, he saw Zhang Kewang stumbling up.

Behind Zhang Kewang, there was also Zhang Nengqi, the third son of the emperor, and Zhang Wenxiu, the fourth son of the emperor, who were covered in blood.

"Father, woe to you." Zhang Kewang took his two younger brothers to Zhang Xianzhong's horse and knelt on the ground to cry, Zhang Nengqi and Zhang Wenxiu grabbed the ground with their heads, crying very sadly.

"Don't cry, there's a boss, the sky can't fall in Onishi."

Zhang Xianzhong snorted and said, "Is it the third and fourth soldiers who are defeated?" ”

"Father, yes." Zhang Kewang said secretly, "When the third brother and the fourth brother were in the confrontation with Qin Liangyu's Ming army in Pengzhou and Phoenix Mountain, the dog emperor Chongzhen actually led an elite army to cross Daba Mountain, and suddenly appeared on the side of Phoenix Mountain. ”

"What do you say?" Zhang Xianzhong roared in disbelief, "Dog Emperor Chongzhen personally led an elite army over Daba Mountain? ”

"yes, it's unbelievable to say." Zhang Nengqi covered his face and cried, "Chongzhen, the dog emperor, can have such courage and dare to lead the Ming army to climb the snow-covered Daba Mountain. ”

"No, how is that possible?" Zhang Xianzhong roared angrily, "Last month, Li Zicheng also sent someone to report, saying that he had dispatched more than 200,000 troops, and the troops were divided into six routes out of Xiangyang, Tongguan, Huangyu Pass, etc., to attack the Ming Court. Doesn't he want Beijing? ”

"Father, the Dashun army has been defeated." Zhang Kewang said secretly, "The country has been destroyed." ”

"What do you say? The kingdom of Dashun has been destroyed? Zhang Xianzhong became more and more unbelievable.

"Yes, just last month." Zhang Kewang nodded and said, "Li died by self-immolation in Chengdu. ”

"Self-immolation? Are you saying that Li Zicheng has self-immolated? Zhang Xianzhong couldn't believe that this was true, and asked Zhang Kewang in despair, "What about the six-way army of the Great Shun Kingdom?" What about the more than 200,000 horse-foot troops? ”

"All of them were destroyed, and they were all destroyed by the Ming army." Zhang Kewang sighed and said, "Liu Zongmin, Chen Yongfu, Gao Yigong, Zhang Neng, Ma Chongxi and other five-way horse infantry armies were wiped out by the Ming army, and the 30,000 cavalry of Li Yan's department surrendered to the Ming court, and even the 50,000 cavalry of Xin Sizhong's department in Gansu also surrendered to the Ming court. ”

"How do you know? How do you know this? ”

Zhang Xianzhong was shocked and panicked, and the whole person was not good.

"Ming Ting's surrender letter says." Zhang Kewang handed over a letter of surrender as he spoke.

Zhang Xianzhong took the surrender book, opened it, and saw that the title read: The word to the pseudo-Western thief army Zhang Xianzhong and all the righteous sons, now the pseudo-Shun thief army has been destroyed, the thief leader Li Zicheng is afraid of crime and self-immolation, the thief will Song Xiance, Tian Jianxiu and the following all surrendered, the first, from the Bauhinia Pass, the Reverse Horse Pass and other separate ways to attack the six-way pseudo-Shun Mabu army......"

Wang Zhaolin, the prime minister of Daxi who was accompanying him, also came over to take a look.

After reading it, Wang Zhaolin said abruptly: "Holy Lord, this is the Ming Court's plan to attack the heart, deceitful ears!" ”

"You're saying that's not true?" Zhang Xianzhong said, "Li Zicheng did not die, and the six-way Dashun army that attacked separately was not exterminated by the Ming court?" Is this a fraud by the Ming Court? ”

"It must be so." Wang Zhaolin said with an oath.

"Although the Dashun Army is not as brave and good at fighting as our Great Western Army, it is also an elite division in a hundred battles."

"Dashun has more than 200,000 horse infantry troops, and it is a six-way attack, and the Ming Court can annihilate one or two of them, and it will be up to the sky, if you want to destroy the six-way army at the same time in a short period of time, there is absolutely no such possibility."

After a pause, he said: "So the minister expected that this was a plan to attack the heart." ”

Sun Kewang said angrily: "Even though the Ming court is cheating, it is always a fact that the third and fourth brothers defeated Shunqing Mansion, right?" Father, for the sake of today's plan, northern Sichuan is no longer defensible, and it is advisable to stay as soon as possible. ”

When Wang Zhaolin heard this, a ruthless color flashed in his eyes.

Zhang Kewang and the other four princes were dissatisfied with him, why wasn't he full of resentment towards the four princes?

If it weren't for Zhang Kewang and other four princes, Wang Zhaolin would have set up Zhang Xianzhong to seize military power, so that he could easily launch a mutiny and eradicate Zhang Xianzhong.

Zhang Xianzhong is as fond of Wang Zhaolin as ever.

"Boss, don't be so rude to the prime minister."

After reprimanding Zhang Kewang, Zhang Xianzhong asked again: "What is the situation of your second brother's army?" ”

Zhang Kewang said: "Before the sons came to Maozhou, the second brother's army was still confronting the Ming army on the line from Xinjin to Longquan Town, but the elite soldiers led by Emperor Chongzhen Dog and Qin Liangyu's army will soon arrive in Shuzhong, and the second brother will be attacked on his back, and it will be a matter of time before he is defeated, and I hope that my father will recall the second brother as soon as possible." ”

……

It's too late.

Just after Zhang Nengqi and Zhang Wenxiu were defeated, Chongzhen personally led the main force of the 1st Division to advance lightly, biting the tail of the defeated soldiers of the Great Western Army and entering Chengdu Mansion and taking Chengdu in one fell swoop.

At this time, Chongzhen was standing in front of the gate of the Shu Palace.

However, the former magnificent Shu Palaces have long been reduced to rubble.

Not only the Shu Palaces were reduced to rubble, but the entire Chengdu was also reduced to ruins.

Chongzhen was a little sad in his heart, Zhang Xianzhong was still blackened after all.

After realizing that the general trend had gone, Zhang Xianzhong gradually began to pervert and began to kill wildly, in addition to killing, he also set fire to Chengdu City, burning most of the city.

Therefore, Chengdu recaptured by the Ming army was almost an empty city.

"This Zhang Xianzhong is so perverse." Xu Yingwei said with a dark face, "It's really innocent." ”

Chongzhen's face was also extremely embarrassed: "I originally wanted to recruit him, but now I don't have to, Xiaoyu is the whole army, but if you catch this fang, you can't kill it without permission, you should be released back to the Beijing Division, inch by inch." ”

"What about Zhang Dingguo?" Jiang Tianyi, "Do you want to continue to surrender?" ”

"Zhang Dingguo and Zhang Xianzhong are still different, and they still need to be treated differently." Chongzhen nodded and said, "If you can recruit more than 100,000 thieves under Zhang Dingguo's command, it will also be a merit." ”

What is more important is that hundreds of thousands of extremely precious human resources can be retained.

Da Ming saw that he was about to reunify and soon began to open up foreign countries, and this was the time when manpower was urgently needed, so the hundreds of thousands of peasant troops under Li Dingguo could not be exterminated, or try not to exterminate.

Xu Yingwei felt Chongzhen's determination to appease Zhang Dingguo, and immediately said: "Shengshang, why don't you go to Xinjin to appease Li Dingguo?" ”

"You?" Chongzhen shook his head again and again, "You are the commander of the 1st Division, how can you be in danger." ”

Xu Yingwei insisted: "It is precisely because the minister is the commander of the 1st Division that what he says has weight, and Li Dingguo will believe in the sincerity of the saint and have the hope of appeasement." ”

Chongzhen thought about it and felt that it made sense, and even if Li Dingguo didn't surrender, there was a high probability that he wouldn't kill anyone.

At that moment, Chongzhen nodded and said, "It's okay, when I write a handwritten message, you take the handwritten letter to see Zhang Dingguo." ”

At that moment, Chongzhen ordered Lu Jiude to lay out the paper and prepare pen and ink, and Chongzhen picked up the brush and quickly wrote a handwritten message.

……

A few hours later, Chongzhen's edict reached Li Dingguo's hands.

Li Dingguo: I know that you are a young handsome man with lofty ambitions, and you have performed extremely well in the two battles of Qipanguan and the Puppet Shun Army, as well as in Xinjin and the Great Ming Army.

It's just that the puppet Shun army has been wiped out, and Li Zicheng, the leader of the puppet Shun thieves, has already burned himself to death.

The reunification of the Ming Dynasty is just around the corner, and it is pointless for you to continue to resist stubbornly.

I remember that you are a rare talent, and after the Ming Dynasty is reunified, it will open up its territory to the outside world, and now it is the time to employ people, so I can't bear to see you martyred for Zhang Xianzhong, a tyrannical man.

If you surrender, you can be transferred to the fifth phase of Nanjing Guozijian, the elite of the soldiers are selected as the Sichuan town soldiers, the old and weak are for the people on the spot, and they are all given to the fields, isn't it better than being martyred a hundred times for Zhang Xianzhong, a thug?

You don't joke, I always count when I speak, you must think clearly.

After reading the edict, Li Dingguo was silent for a long time, and his face was also cloudy.

On the one hand, he really didn't want to turn his back on Zhang Xianzhong, but on the other hand, he couldn't bear to let hundreds of thousands of Daxi soldiers under his command die in vain.

The current situation is already clear, there are more than 100,000 troops led by Li Xiangjun and Huaxia, and there are 20,000 elite Ming troops led by Chongzhen and Xu Yingwei in the back.

After a long time, Chief Li Dingguo sighed and said: "The son does not say anything about the father, and the father-in-law may act inappropriately, but as a son-in-law, I can't turn my back on my father-in-law." ”

Hearing this, Xu Yingwei knew that there was great hope for the surrender.

Because Zhang Dingguo's title for Zhang Xianzhong has been changed to his father-in-law, it can be seen that in his heart, he still agrees with the Ming Dynasty and thinks that Zhang Xianzhong is just a rebel.

More importantly, Zhang Dingguo has filial piety in his heart, so he can still be saved.

At that moment, Xu Yingwei said abruptly: "Loyalty to the father-in-law is only a small filial piety, loyalty to the country is a great filial piety. ”