Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 179 Killing the Traitor Zuo Liangyu

At this time, Zuo Menggeng also knew that he could not escape, so he knelt down in front of Yang Tinglin and Yan Yingyuan, and acted like a filial son: "My father's death is approaching, can I implore all the generals to allow my father to pass away safely, and not to be hurt by the sword during his lifetime?" pain!"

Yan Yingyuan looked up, and sure enough, he saw a haggard old man in a python robe lying on the bed. Without guessing, he knew that this person was Ning Nanbo Zuo Liangyu.

"So this is the traitor Zuo Liangyu!"

Yang Tinglin said something first at this time, and then walked in front of Zuo Menggeng: "Although Naifu's life is dying, it is reasonable for him to die safely from illness, but your father is a traitor of the Ming Dynasty. At this time, disregarding the overall situation of the imperial court, they rebelled and rebelled. If they don't kill him, how can the country be safe! Naifu should have been captured alive, and he would be imprisoned in the capital, and his flesh would be cut to make the people eat it. Otherwise, it would not be enough to make the traitors terrified! But Naifu's time is approaching , can only cut off its head to boost the king's prestige!"

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

At this time, Yang Tinglin had already shouted to Yan Yingyuan, Gu Yanwu, Wang Fuzhi and others who were behind him: "My colleagues, the traitor Zuo Liangyu is now in front of us. I will kill the left thief together!"

"Together kill the left thief!"

When Yang Tinglin shouted, Gu Yanwu, Yan Yingyuan and others also shouted, and immediately surrounded the generals of the left army in the entire room.

Yang Tinglin and others directly pushed away the generals of the left army and surrounded Zuo Liangyu in the middle. More than ten flintlock guns and more than ten machetes were aimed at Zuo Liangyu.

Yang Tinglin has the highest official position here, so he still took the lead in asking: "Zuo Liangyu, what else do you have to say to His Majesty and the people of the world now, because you were once an official of the Ming Dynasty, I can wait for you On behalf of conveying."

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

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

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

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

Immediately, Zuo Liangyu was stabbed full of holes, vomited blood, and immediately closed his eyes.

"kill!"

Yang Tinglin, Gu Yanwu and others kept stabbing down until Zuo Liangyu was too dead, the young officer of the Guards Army stopped, looked at Zuo Liangyu's body, blood was already flowing, and his intestines were piercing his stomach rotten.

Zuo Menggeng and other generals of the Zuo Army looked at everything in front of them tremblingly.

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

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The rebel Zuo Liangyu's department was officially declared annihilated.

Except for the hundreds of thousands of Zuo Jun who followed Jin Shenghuan and surrendered, and some civil and military officials of Zuo Ni upper class such as Zuo Menggeng were captured, most of them have been wiped out.

Huang Degong, Yuan Jixian, and Liu Zhaoji had also arrived in Huaining County at this time. Seeing the corpses of Zuo Jun all over the ground, Yuan Jixian and Huang Degong were in high spirits, but Liu Zhaoji said out of time: "If these people don't follow Zuo Liangyu Acting in reverse, it can become an important force against the Qing army, but unfortunately, now it can only be a bone in the wilderness, feeding wild dogs. "

"Liu Zongbing's words are very true, but Zuo Liangyu's death and the collapse of the Zuo Army can be regarded as a deterrent to those who do not regard the imperial court as their law. For example, the Zheng family in Fujian will soon be attached to the Chuangjun, and the imperial court will control it in the future. Once Zuo Ni is wiped out, the greatest enemy in the world is the Qing army, and we have fought against the bandits and rebels for many years, and now we are no longer fighting with each other, but fighting against China together!"

After Yuan Jixian finished speaking, he looked to the north.

"Liu Zongbing fought the Tartars the longest in Liaodong, so why not tell me what is different about the Qing army? Li Zicheng's hundreds of thousands of troops were beaten back steadily. Since Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, I have also lost more. There are so few victories that the land outside the pass is almost lost! Is this Qing army really so invincible?"

Huang Degong couldn't help asking Liu Zhaoji.

Liu Zhaoji sighed slightly: "Although the Qing army is strong, His Majesty has said that as long as they are not heavenly soldiers and generals, they will carry a head on their shoulders. As long as my sons of the Han family work together to save the country, the barbarians will not be destroyed!"

When Liu Zhaoji said this, Yuan Jixian and Huang Degong nodded, but remained silent.

It was dawn the next day.

More than [-] officers and troops quickly withdrew from Huaining City and returned to their original station, waiting for the imperial court's order.

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

Jin Shenghuan's troops were 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 were once again calm.

The only thing left in this area is the corpses everywhere and the sound of rustling vultures, and then the wild dogs and wolves come and go, and the people hiding in the mountains start to come out of the caves, and compete with the wild dogs and wolves for the hundreds of thousands left by the officers and soldiers. Army corpses.

Even the clothes on these corpses were stripped off, and the corpses eventually entered the stomachs of people or wild wolves and dogs.

This is the current situation in Jiangyou and northern Huguang before the Qing army went south!
Although it is desolate and desolate everywhere, it is also full of vitality of rejuvenation.

The industrious Han people will not waste any land and will not miss any farming season.

Even in troubled times, once the military disaster is over, there are still farmers who scatter the uneaten grain seeds on the bloody land, just waiting for a harvest this autumn.

According to Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youjian's policy of appeasing the people, the people in the north were exempted from tax for three years, and the people in the south were exempted from tax for one year.

However, Zhu Youjian was responsible for agricultural production in Guli to avoid the aggravation of conflicts between the government and the people. Later, he added a rule that the areas that suffered from military disasters would not be expropriated within two years.

Therefore, although this year is the 18th year of Chongzhen, the people in this area who have suffered from the torment of the left army still don't 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 local gentry tyrants and the restoration of agricultural infrastructure, it is necessary for the imperial court to re-send officials to restore the ruling system before it can be implemented.

But now Du Yinxi, the governor of Huguang, is busy recruiting the Chuangjun, and Li Banghua, the governor of Fengyang, is also busy guarding against the Qing army entering Henan, so that there is no senior official 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 spaces. Even if it is now a three-way area, there will not be any bandits.

Zhu Youjian's decree also reached Jiujiang and Anqing. The content was that after the Zuo Army was wiped out, Liu Zhaoji returned to Zaozhuang, Shandong, and Yuan Jixian and Huang Degong sent Yuan Jixian and Huang Degong to deposit the Zuo Army into Beijing from the remnants of the rebellion.

　Thank you book friend Yu Tingyu for the reward of 100 book coins, and thank you book friend Qi Guo for the reward of 1888 book coins. Next, I will enter the plot of Chuangjun's specific recruiting to prepare for the upcoming decisive battle of Ming and Qing Dynasties, but I have thought about it for a long time , it was decided that the Chuang army would not be incorporated into the Guards for the time being. In order to avoid conflicts when the internal official army and the peasant army merged, and to maximize the use of the Chuang army, it was decided to give the Chuang army a great deal of independence when the Qing army was overwhelming the border. Therefore, the Chuang army We will form a separate army, and we need to give an army name. If you have any good suggestions, you can leave a message. The Dashun Army will definitely not work. Break the barbarian army, smash the bandit army, etc., try to hurry up, hurry up I wrote it there.

　　
　
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