Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 472

"Sir, please calm down. It is not from today that Lord Qian has no elder brother. Don't be angry, but in my humble opinion, the Ming army is indeed powerful at the moment. It is indeed of no benefit for us to stay in Zhenxiong. We should withdraw. Jiazhou is better, and the Duke of Qian has withdrawn to Syria. If we stay in Zhenxiong again, wouldn’t we let Duke Qian be closer to His Majesty? Once the situation changes, if he occupies the Chengdu mansion first , we will suffer a loss!"

When Sun Kewang's confidant said this, Sun Kewang also regained his senses:
"You're right, but this general is still angry. This second child has never paid attention to me as a big brother. If I inherit the big position in the future, how can he obey me!"

"What the master said is not unreasonable. Now there is an opportunity to punish the Duke of Qian. Why don't the master seize it?"

What Sun Kewang's subordinates said, Sun Kewang also understood:
"You don't want this general to impeach his second child, and let the emperor punish him for the crime of losing Guizhou and Zunyi?"

"Exactly. Firstly, it is to suppress Duke Qian's arrogance. Second, master, you need to have an excuse to retreat back to Jiading. Master might as well say that you should suggest Duke Qian to help you occupy the whole of Yunnan together, but However, Duke Qian insisted on taking his own way to occupy the impoverished Guizhou, but he was defeated and returned to Syria, so you had to return to Jiading even when you were alone.”

When Sun Kewang's subordinates said this, Sun Kewang took it for granted and immediately ordered someone to write a memorial to Zhang Xian to advise Li Dingguo.

Zhang Xianzhong also loves and hates Li Dingguo. What makes him happy is that his adopted son is indeed invincible in leading troops to fight, and his resourcefulness is far superior to that of the other adopted sons. It is not unrelated to Li Dingguo that he can be today, and he hates himself. This adoptive son Li Dingguo never put himself in the right place. Although it was a good intention to remind himself to pay attention to the Qing Dynasty, Zhang Xianzhong also felt that Li Dingguo did not mean to put himself in the eyes of his father.

In addition, Jin Yiwei's secret line in Chengdu also deliberately publicized some ambiguous matters between Li Dingguo and the Ming army, which made Zhang Xianzhong believe in Sun Kewang this time, and declared that Li Dingguo was expelled from the title for the crime of losing Guizhou and Zunyi, and ordered him to temporarily station in Xuzhou to perform his crimes.

"My son leads the order!"

Li Dingguo endured the grievances and accepted the order. He didn't expect that his father would reprimand him and remove his title.

Tang Ming, who is Li Dingguo's confidant, cursed even more: "Straight mother thief, this must be the state of Dian's announcement, this guy is a snob! General, you remind him kindly, but he doesn't appreciate it, just like you did when you were born Yang Zhan rescued him from the siege, and he didn't appreciate it and bit him back, this Sun Kewang, I wish I could kill him!"

"Shut up Laozi!"

Li Dingguo roared, forcing Tang Ming to shut up.

"General, how long are you going to endure that villain? You killed Dongmeng, Wumeng, and Zhenxiong. Even if you lose all of Guizhou and Zunyi, you have no choice but at least the entire The credit for regaining Xuzhou and Jiazhou is all yours, what is his grandson Kewang's ability, and now he retreats back without any guilt, why not only did you not get rewarded, but you have done it!"

Tang Ming couldn't help but opened his mouth, Li Dingguo kicked him directly: "Have you finished talking! Get out of here!"

Li Dingguo was extremely furious, and after Tang Ming left, he smashed all the furnishings in his house.

"The general seems to have lost his temper again. It seems that the imperial decree passed is not a good thing."

At this time, a low-level officer under Li Dingguo couldn't help but said to another person.

"Can you not get mad? His Majesty now believes in that Sun. Our general is not like that Sun. He won many battles, but he is the master of merit. Do you understand?"

The man said, looking at the food brought by the cook, he couldn't help but startled: "Oh, the outside is bitter, and the inside is also bitter. This life is really hard to live. We are better than eating this when we are prisoners in the Ming army, but now we come back I can’t even see a piece of meat in the rice I ate.”

"It's good to be able to control your hunger, what else do you choose, but you just said that being a prisoner in the Ming army is better than this, brother, you can tell me, what do those Ming soldiers eat, and what kind of people are they? "

"Captives like us can eat braised pork. A big bowl of fat braised pork is better than our generals here. What do you think, those non-commissioned officers and officers have their own small stoves, which are nutritious If they didn't want to take us in and let us go back, I wouldn't even want to come back;
And this is just one benefit, there are even better ones, the officers and soldiers there are equal, and the soldiers are not Qiu Ba, they are national soldiers, they have to go to class and study at night, they can also participate in the career, and they have to talk about being a soldier Ideal, for the sake of the common people, for the sake of Ming Dynasty, if you say something good, you can get into some kind of activist class. Some soldiers are more educated than scholars, so I asked curiously, and guess what, they were really talented. Talented soldiers! "

"Really, this is really strange!"

"No, being a soldier like this is considered a face. The soldiers there are like scholars, they don't kneel when they see officials, they just salute and that's it!"

"Oh, if I had known earlier, I would have been a soldier of Ming Dynasty."

Li Dingguo didn't know that the officers and soldiers he sent out to attack Tongren had begun to disturb his morale after being released by the Ming army.

At this time, he was feeling irritable, and he even thought about whether he should simply send a memorial to his father, Emperor Zhang Xianzhong, and ask him to go north to defend against the Manchus who might go south, so that even if he died in battle, he would be better than suffering here. Wronged strong.

……

Zhu Youjian got the latest news from Li Dingguo's department here: "You mean, Li Dingguo was just dismissed from his title by Zhang Xianzhong? Li Dingguo lost his temper, and the hearts of his officers and soldiers were scattered. Dissatisfied with the situation?"

"Exactly, Your Majesty, if it were another general, if it wasn't for him, Li Dingguo, who would be okay with his subordinates, I'm afraid they could turn against him directly!"

Wu Mengming, the commander of Jinyiwei, replied.

"That's great. This Sun Kewang really helped me a lot. He ordered Zhou Ze to act quickly. At the same time, Weng Zhengchun led the Second Corps of the Seventh Army of the Guards to attack Zhenxiong, forcing Sun Kewang to return to Jiazhou as soon as possible. Returning to Chengdu cut off Li Dingguo's desire to inherit the great unification, how can I appease him!"

Zhu Youjian couldn't help sighing: "It's already August, and the Northern Expedition is imminent. This war in the southwest must be resolved as soon as possible, otherwise I won't be able to devote myself to the Northern Expedition!"

After finishing speaking, Zhu Youjian entered the city of Zunyi Military and Civilian Mansion and announced that Zunyi Military and Civilian Mansion was officially changed to Zunyi.

In addition, Zhu Youjian is also preparing to summon chieftains from all over the country in Zunyi to discuss the joint recovery of Sichuan.

These chieftains are all local indigenous chiefs, and they are a force that Zhu Youjian cannot ignore.

Fortunately, these chieftains are still serving Daming in name, so Zhu Youjian can naturally coordinate their strength.

(End of this chapter)