Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 470 Recovering Zunyi
The battle of Li Dingguo's Daxi soldiers attacking Tongren was declared a failure.

His deputy, Feng Xianchu, was beaten to death by the Ming Emperor Zhu Youjian himself, which can be regarded as a death with honor.

The rest of the surviving Daxi soldiers knew that there was no way out and there were many wounded brothers crying, so they had to kneel and surrender, but the condition was that the Ming army needed to help treat these wounded brothers.

Zhu Youjian didn't let the guards refuse, so the way he treated the enemy troops of the same clan was naturally different from that of the Qing army.

Moreover, Zhu Youjian's intention to recruit Li Dingguo now is naturally to convey goodwill to Li Dingguo by treating Li Dingguo's soldiers kindly.

The guards of the Ming Dynasty gave the troops who captured Li Dingguo different treatment than the Green Camp captured by the Qing army in the past. They did not whip and beat them, nor did they humiliate and criticize them, let alone order them to perform labor. The treatment of officers and soldiers of the Guards, and at the same time, the night classes that officers and soldiers of the Guards of the Ming Dynasty often have to do, that is, ideological and political classes, listen to the views and changes of the political and industrial officers of the Guards on people's livelihood.

At the same time, let the prisoner talk about the lives of the people in Sichuan today.

Because they were not tortured about the situation of Li Dingguo's army, these Daxi soldiers knew everything about it. They talked about Zhang Xianzhong's reassurance of the people, and at the same time expanded his troops to fight in the south, which caused the people's burden to increase. The situation is over.

Then, the officers and soldiers of the Guards began to preach how to liberate Sichuan and how to let the people of Sichuan live the same happy life as the people in other areas of Ming Dynasty.

Many of the captives in these Daxi soldiers began to feel a little reluctant to leave after eating and drinking, and even voluntarily applied to stay.

But Zhu Youjian did not give them a chance now, but sent them all to Guiyang, returned them all to Li Dingguo, and asked these Daxi soldiers to bring Zhu Youjian's personal letter to Li Dingguo.

The content of the letter was drawn up by Ma Shiying.

The content is basically nothing more than expressing helplessness and understanding for Li Dingguo's current situation of stepping on the opposite side of Ming Dynasty, expressing remorse for the tyranny of Ming Dynasty over the people in the past, expressing emotion for the achievements of Ming Dynasty today, expressing indignation at the Manchu Qing's stealing of half of China, and then boasting as an emperor After talking to Li Dingguo, he expressed the hope that Li Dingguo would change his previous intention of not belonging to Ming Dynasty, and promised Li Dingguo that as long as Li Dingguo was willing to surrender to Ming Dynasty, Zhu Youjian was willing to make an alliance with him and never lose. What kind of title is it if it belongs to Daming.

Zhu Youjian was determined to appease Li Dingguo.

But he also knew that as long as Zhang Xianzhong survived, the difficulty would always be great.

But now that he failed to capture Li Dingguo alive under Tongren City, his thoughts became more intense. He had to ask Jin Yiwei to send a message 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 watched by the Ming emperor Zhu Youjian, and now he was waiting for the result of the retreat of the Ming army at Wujiang Pass. In his opinion, as long as the Ming army at Wujiang Pass retreated, it meant that Tongren If the sneak attack is successful, he may capture Daming Emperor Zhu Youjian!

Li Dingguo has even been thinking about whether he should execute the emperor immediately after capturing the emperor of Ming Dynasty or treat him as the honored guest. After all, he is also the king who once led the son of the Han family to defeat the Qing Dynasty, and if he can blackmail Daming with this, Daxi can gain a lot. the benefits of.

But Li Dingguo was also worried that if he captured Emperor Zhu Youjian of the Ming Dynasty, whether the Ming court would repeat the old thing after the Tumubao War and establish a new emperor.

"Kill!"

Just when Li Dingguo was struggling, there was a sudden cry of killing outside Zunyi City.

"what happened!"

Li Dingguo yelled and hurriedly opened the window, and suddenly he saw a group of barefoot Ming soldiers, covered in mud and wearing grass rings, charging with muskets. At first glance, there were no fewer than ten thousand people.

"Quick, close the city gate!"

Li Dingguo roared.

At this time, Yan Yingyuan, who had already rushed to the foot of Zunyi City, fired a shot at the defenders of the city gate. The defenders of the city gate did not expect that the Ming army's muskets could shoot so far, and fell to the ground in a moment. The Daxi garrison on Zunyi City also began to draw bows and shoot arrows or start lighting matchlocks.

But the Guards had already complied on the ground at this time, holding the Chongzhen 21-style and [-]-style flintlock guns and firing upwards. The flintlock bullets with faster shooting speed, longer range and higher precision quickly knocked down these defenders. fell on or off the walls.

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

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

With a loud roar, Li Dingguo went down the tower first, and immediately closed the gate of the inner city by himself, then returned to the government office and took his [-] cavalry out of the Zunyi city. Withdraw from the north gate of Fucheng.

After all, Li Dingguo's army was still well-trained, and they were able to withdraw quickly without being completely panicked under such circumstances, but they also suffered thousands of casualties and captured 3000 Jin.

Yan Yingyuan finally occupied Zunyi Military and Civilian City here, and at the same time ordered an infantry battalion to rush to Wujiang Pass. At this time, the defenders of Wujiang Pass had also received Li Dingguo's retreat order to abandon Wujiang Pass.

The infantry battalion sent by Yan Yingyuan from Zunyi Fucheng joined forces with Xia Wanchun and other main forces of the Second Corps of the Guards at Wujiang Pass. After leaving a battalion directly under the battalion to guard Wujiang Pass, he brought the main force to Zunyi Fucheng and sent people to immediately pass the news to Tongren.

"Your Majesty, Yan Yingyuan reported that they had taken back Zunyi at noon on July [-]!"

After receiving Li Yan's report, Zhu Youjian patted the railing excitedly: "Very well, when Li Dingguo suffers, Li Yan, where do you think he will retreat?"

"It should be Syria! It's his base camp, and it's an even more important gateway than Zunyi in southern Sichuan."

When Li Yan said this, Ma Shiying rushed over to flatter him:

"My emperor is wise. When Your Majesty comes, our army will be as lucky as a fortune. We will be invincible. Now we captured Li Dingguo five thousand elites before Tongren, and captured Zunyi. It is indeed His Majesty's merit. We congratulate Your Majesty! Your Majesty! Let me see, should I immediately pursue the remnants of the enemy, seize Syria, or take advantage of Li Dingguo's defeat to appease him?"

"Don't worry, although Li Dingguo has been defeated, his vitality is not damaged, and the entire Zhang Xianzhong's army is not in chaos, and the Manchu Qing has not yet participated. The time is not yet ripe. Ma Shiying, if your ability to lead troops is as good as yours Kungfu is half as good, and Zunyi will not take it back until now."

After Zhu Youjian said something, he asked someone to bring news to Yan Yingyuan, telling him that he would stick to Zunyi and not need to enter Sichuan. At the same time, Zhu Youjian also began to prepare to go to Zunyi, and began to prepare to enter Sichuan.

(End of this chapter)