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Chapter 358 Li Zicheng Killed himself in Wollongong
Cao Bianjiao changed his face when he heard the words: "So fast? But, Li Zicheng is in the wild Jingshan, and the search and arrest must be done. How many times have you run away! How about you bring some troops back to help, Governor? Take it away? It won’t take much force to hunt down the remnants, and now there are only a few thousand elite confidant cavalry around him, and the main force of tens of thousands of infantry is gone.”

Zhu Shuren gave him a blank look. Even if he sent a partial teacher to come back first, he couldn't come back in person, otherwise he wasn't there when Li Zicheng gave the leadership, which is good for the stability of power.

The navy can't all be transferred away, but some people still need to stay to block the Han River and keep searching, so as to prevent Li Zicheng from crossing the Han River again in case of a gap.

"I will arrange it myself. Everyone knows what I mean, just hurry up. In addition, I heard that Li Zicheng had tens of thousands of old and weak troops in his rear. At that time, they were cut off on the north bank before they could cross the Han River in the south.

If this group of people escapes back, they can cause chaos for a long time, maybe they will go north to vote for Zuo Liangyu and Azig.We get rid of the evil now, so we won’t have to fight against the Tartars in the future, and fight against the troops that have become traitors by then.

Although Zuo Liangyu doesn't agree with me, he hasn't played the banner of anti-Ming after all, and his generals also have different ideas. We must strive to oppress and run with power, supplemented by coercion and temptation. If we can get Li Zicheng's head , Let Zuo Liangyu's subordinates see our strength, and see that the allies who joined forces with Zuo Liangyu are also destroyed in an instant, Zuo Liangyu's subordinates will definitely be able to induce internal changes!

This time, we not only want to kill Li Zicheng, but also completely recover and control the Nanyang Mansion, and strive to separate from the Tartars with the Funiu Mountain and Tongbai Mountain as the boundary. "

According to Zhu Shuren's geography textbooks for later generations, the dividing line between the north and the south of China is the Qinling Mountains and the Huaihe River, but it does not say that the middle section is divided into the Hanshui River.The Han River is just a valley between the north and south ridges of the Qinling Mountains.In the Southern Song Dynasty, Yue Fei's base in Huguang was first recovered from Xiangyang, but later it was consolidated along the way to the north along Nanyang.

So Zhu Shuren decided to push to the northern foot of the Qinling Mountains and the Funiu Mountains and Tongbai Mountains in the remaining veins. This idea is also correct. The local geographical unit and dangerous shape can support Nanming's low-cost defense with the branches of the Qinling Mountains, and Xiangyang only needs to be used as a logistics support point. That's it.

Zhu Shuren not only wants to destroy the thieves and win the battle, but also takes advantage of this victory to at least push back the territory of one mansion, which can be regarded as a point of recovery.

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After everyone unified their thinking, everything was carried out according to the plan, and in the next few days, it went smoothly, and there was no further fuss.

Two days after the first battle, Li Zicheng hid in the army in the Jingshan mountain area, but because the target was too big, he was bitten and beaten by Cao Bianjiao again.

The last thousands of confidant guard cavalry were beaten to pieces and withered, more than a thousand were killed, and many more were wounded and captured.Li Zicheng was also really tenacious, he had already put on the robes and armor of ordinary soldiers, and he escaped once in the chaos.

But every time he fled, the soldiers around him shrank by at least [-]%, five out of four.When fleeing this time, there were only seven or eight hundred cavalry around, and it was almost as miserable as Yuan Shao who was fleeing during the Battle of Guandu.

Li Zicheng wanted to flee all the way to the west, but soon found that there were soldiers from Zhang Huangyan and Fang Guoan in the west, and he was run over again. Fortunately, the number of people was getting smaller and smaller, and the target was getting smaller and smaller. He was also going around and lost himself. I lost my direction and didn't know where I went. I only knew that I was wandering repeatedly in the Jingshan mountainous area, from east to west, surviving in the cracks of the official army's search and drag net.

Rao Li Zicheng's will to survive was extremely fierce. At this point, after being chased for nearly ten days, his nerves were about to break down, and he was a little too lazy to escape.

This day, probably at the end of September or the beginning of October, Li Zicheng couldn't remember the date.With the last one or two hundred riders, he escaped from a dangerous valley in Jingshan Mountain, and temporarily came to a village in a mountain basin.

Most of the local people have fled because of repeated searches by officers and soldiers. Only a few old and weak people stayed. The food, rice and supplies in the village were not all transported away. Li Zicheng's guards were hungry for two days, so they rushed into the village to grab a meal. .

After eating his stomach full, Li Zicheng looked at the beautiful mountains and clear waters on both sides. Although he was uneducated, he could also see that this place was good, so he had the idea of ​​being too lazy to leave.

After Song Xiance finished eating, he still wanted to persuade him to continue running for his life. Seeing that he was so lazy that he seemed to have no desire to survive, he was in a hurry: "Your Majesty! How many times have you escaped the officers and soldiers in the past ten years? There is still hope this time." ah!"

Li Zicheng shook his head and sighed: "That's different. I have already been the emperor, and I fell down again. How can I suffer that kind of humiliation again? Besides, Zhu Shuren is not an ordinary person. I couldn't beat him back then, if it wasn't for him I will not be desperate to go north and kill Chongzhen to seize the throne. Now it seems that I am just a king-killing knife in Zhu Shuren's hands!"

Li Zicheng's ability to say these words can be regarded as a sudden spiritual enlightenment on the verge of death, and his IQ has temporarily increased.

Song Xiance wanted to persuade him again, but suddenly the sound of soldiers and horses sounded in the distance, obviously another officer army was about to search the village.

Li Zicheng pointed to Xingsheng on the left and right, the mountain spring and the bamboo forest, and asked: "This place has good geomantic omen, but where is it?"

The left and right didn't know, so they arrested an old man in the village who couldn't escape and came to question him.

It is also rare for Li Zicheng not to be bloodthirsty. Perhaps it is because people who are about to die have good words, and they can gently ask the old man: "Old man, where is this place? We have been wandering around Jingshan for many days, and we have lost our way." .”

The old man was afraid, and replied tremblingly: "This place is west of Xiangyang, only seventy or eighty miles away, and its name is Longzhong. A place to live in seclusion. But after thousands of years, no one knows which post is the real one."

It is also a coincidence of fate, who made Li Zicheng in this life besieged by Zhu Shuren in Jingshan Mountain in Xiangxi just after crossing the Han River.

Longzhong, where Zhuge Liang lived in seclusion, happened to be in Jingshan Mountain in Xiangxi.

Li Zicheng couldn't go to Jiugong Mountain anymore, and was driven to Wollongong by chance.

"Good feng shui, Zhu Shuren's extraordinary strategy, it seems that he is no longer under Zhuge Kongming, he was able to rise from a young supervisor to governor of several provinces in just five or six years, with great military power! His calculations are also logical.

Forget it, look at the beautiful mountains and clear waters here, if you flee again, with so many pursuers, there may not be such a good place to go.Come on, gather up the remaining kerosene, gunpowder and arrow cotton in the army, and find more firewood.I can't let the dog official humiliate my corpse! "

The bandits carry kerosene, which is also a relatively viscous heavy oil, which is close to asphalt. It is made of rockets by sticking cotton wool and wrapping them on the outside of the arrowhead.Gunpowder, of course, is usually used for musket weapons.

Anyway, I don't plan to resist any more. Adding one piece of kerosene and gunpowder that the entire army can make up with one or two hundred guards is enough for a bucket. I pour these on the dry wood I just found in the village, and Li Zicheng ordered the fire to be lit. , Others dare not disobey.

Seeing that the fire was rising, Li Zicheng jumped into it courageously, but the pain of being burned by the detonation of gunpowder and the sticky skin of kerosene was not something a living person could bear after all. Take out the sword and kill yourself to end the pain,
Just like Goebbels, Song Xiance quietly watched his old leader burnt to black.

During this process, the search troops of the government army had already entered the village. After seeing the fire, they immediately tortured the captured guards. When they learned that it was Li Zicheng, they hurriedly fetched water to put out the fire. Unfortunately, when the fire was extinguished, the charcoal and flesh could no longer be distinguished. , only some bones can be discerned.

The leading officer lost interest, so he took Song Xiance, a group of captives, and the black bones picked up from the ashes back to report.

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"What? After working hard for more than ten days, I still failed to capture Li Zicheng alive? Only a few bones were picked up?"

"That's all... After all, Song Xiance was caught, and it can be proved that Li Zicheng committed suicide. Let's take Song Xiance back to Nanjing for trial, and let him state Li Zicheng's death in front of the court ministers. Those who witnessed Li Zicheng The cavalry guards who burned their corpses were also detained as circumstantial evidence and sent back to Nanjing."

When Zhu Shuren finally learned of Li Zicheng's death, he was also a little melancholy.

But it's normal to think about it, Zhang Xianzhong was sold by Liu Wenxiu at the last moment, knocked out and tied up to offer, otherwise, if Zhang Xianzhong can wake up at the last moment, he will definitely commit suicide and won't fall into the hands of the government to suffer such trivialities.

But now, Li Zicheng already knew what happened to Zhang Xianzhong, and knew that being captured alive would definitely cost him thousands of knives. How could he suffer such humiliation again?He is still called the emperor.Since he decides his own end in a waking state, of course he directly kills himself.

Forget it, if the gold content of credit is slightly lost, that's fine.

After Li Zicheng was dealt with, Zhu Shuren didn't stay idle, and asked Shi Kefa to persist. He was only a few days away from here, and finally strived to expand the results of the battle and overcome all the achievements.

He immediately asked people to take some of Li Zicheng's tokens and a few bones, and the pursuit troops who crossed the Hanshui River in the north took them to chase the remnants of the Chuang army who had not fled far after being persuaded to surrender, or those who had returned to Nanyang County and defected to Zuo Liangyu.

At the same time, relying on the advantage that Zuo Liangyu's department is still nominally the Ming army, Zhu Shuren sent several upright envoys who were not afraid of death to secretly persuade them to surrender, coerce them, and promise benefits.

After using both civil and military forces, while attacking Li Chuang's remnants by force, while wooing Zuo Liangyu's trilogy, finally within half a month, Nanyang Mansion was completely settled.

At least half of the remnants of Li Zicheng who escaped from the northern Han Dynasty were recovered. The captives were reformed, and there must be a small number of die-hards or those who wanted to be traitors and surrender to the Tartars.

Zuo Liangyu himself died of illness in the first year of Hongguang in history, but now because of the bad situation, he was anxious and helpless, and was sick in advance.Because of the chaos in the army, many people were instigated by Zhu Shuren, and finally assassinated Zuo Liangyu who was lying on the hospital bed, and led the team to submit to the court, saying that they had always been the generals of the Ming Dynasty, but the main general had a different heart, and they were implicated.

There are more than one hundred people, and there are all kinds of people. There must be some in Zuo Liangyu's army who refuse to return to the Ming Dynasty. For example, Hao Xiaozhong, who had a personal enmity with Zhu Shuren, desperately protected Zuo Liangyu's youngest son, Zuo Menggeng. , also relying on the banner of Zuo Menggeng, pulled over a few battalions of shakers, and went directly north to surrender Azig.

But in any case, this is definitely much better than in the original history, when all the main forces of the Zuo Liangyu tribe directly surrendered to the Tartars and became traitors. This is already trying to minimize the losses of the Han people.

During the destruction of Li Zicheng and Zuo Liangyu, apart from the battle damage, at least [-]% to [-]% of those who survived were annexed by Zhu Shuren, and [-]% to [-]% fled or were annexed by Azig.

(End of this chapter)