Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 497 Restoration of Sichuan Province (Part 16)
Liu Zhaoji and other guard officers naturally did not value Li Dingguo as much as Zhu Youjian and Li Yan did to Li Dingguo, and they even didn't think much of him.

Especially for a general like Liu Zhaoji who once fought against the most powerful Manchurian cavalry, in his eyes, Li Dingguo is just a relatively capable thief.

The reason why he is valued by His Majesty is because he did not appear in advance, which made Li Dingguo shine in the southwest, and made His Majesty, Ma Shiying and Li Yan all regard Li Dingguo as a general, and they had to be recruited.

In Liu Zhaoji's eyes, let alone a guard general like Yan Yingyuan, even a young general at the commander level can be better than Li Dingguo.

Not to mention anything else, he just wanted to ask Li Dingguo if he knew what the angle of depression and elevation was. .

Liu Zhaoji looked at Li Dingguo with an arrogance beyond this era:
"In the Guards, officers at the rank of deputy commander-in-chief also have to take the lead. If you don't capture the enemy's commander, you don't dare to sit down and drink tea in the city to have fun. Yan Yingyuan you said has already taken the officers and soldiers under his command to search for Hauge. !"

After finishing speaking, Liu Zhaoji snorted coldly and stepped forward into Chengdu Fucheng, but when he saw the defense of Fucheng, he couldn't help criticizing:

"Who arranged this for the city defense? If you don't add three fences and a ten-foot-high cloth curtain in advance, you guys can be knocked down from the city wall with the range of the Chongzhen 22-style rifle. Half a base of Chongzhen Ten The nine-type infantry heavy artillery can blow down your city wall, without setting up a few fences in advance, after the city collapses, what do you use to resist the cavalry!"

Many officers and soldiers under Li Dingguo expressed that they did not understand the reprimand of the general of the Ming army.

"Don't blame Mr. Li. Marshal Liu has such a temper. He even dared to yell at Eunuch He of the Imperial Horse Supervisor. If it wasn't because of his hot temper, he would not have been transferred to the Seventh Army of the Guards as the commander-in-chief. The military record of more than ten thousand is more than enough to be the commander-in-chief of the second army, if you want to know Deputy Commander Yan, I can introduce you for you, and we will advance to the city."

Here, Sichuan Governor Li Yan had no choice but to explain to Li Dingguo.

Li Dingguo clasped his hands to Li Yan and said, "Thank you for your relief. How dare the officials be angry with Marshal Liu. He was originally a minister of the country, but a hero who beat the Tartars. Li also admired him very much, and what he said just now was not true." It doesn't make sense, the firearms of the imperial court are indeed very powerful. If you meet an opponent with the same firearms, the city defense in front of you is indeed not enough. It's because Li Mou didn't think carefully, and it happened that Deputy Marshal Yan was not there, so Li Mou dared to ask Taiwan to mediate from it. The officer seems to be asking for advice from Marshal Liu."

Seeing this, Liu Wenxiu just smiled slightly, he was different from Li Dingguo, he was not interested in military affairs, nor was he interested in putting down his dignity to make friends with senior generals of the direct line of the Ming Dynasty like Liu Zhaoji.

He was very grateful to His Majesty Zhu Youjian, the Emperor of Ming Dynasty, because he felt that Zhu Youjian knew himself better than Zhang Xianzhong, and he appointed himself the governor of Sichuan instead of being in charge of the army like Li Dingguo, so that he could concentrate on governing Sichuan.

Liu Wenxiu likes to farm for development, and doesn't like to fight and kill. He is most gratified now because the Ming army appeared in time, which saved Chengdu Fucheng from a series of military disasters.

Regarding Li Yan's request that he immediately restore the civil affairs of the various prefectures in Chengdu, he also readily agreed to organize manpower overnight to comfort some of the people who were looted by the Qing army and Sun Bing, and released the civilian daughters who were detained in the Shu palace one after another. go back.

This is also the reason why Zhu Youjian was willing to appease Liu Wenxiu.

Although he did not have Li Dingguo's military talent, he still appointed the important position of governor because Liu Wenxiu was the most familiar with the money, food and taxes of Sichuan prefectures and counties. It was arranged that as soon as he served as the governor of Sichuan, he could quickly coordinate his Sichuan money, food and materials to support the Ming army's Northern Expedition.

Although Li Yan is the governor of Sichuan, he is not in charge of civil affairs. He still plays the role of a military adviser and participates in the entire military and political scheduling. He also had to meet Zhou Ze in person to unify all of Ming's military forces in the southwestern region.

Because of Li Dingguo's allegiance and Zhou Ze's defection, plus Chengdu's return to Daming, it means that Sichuan has been recovered by Daming from now on!

Hauge, who is still fleeing in Sichuan, has almost become a fallen bandit at this time, and what he has to do every day is to hide in Tibet.

Because of the blocking of the Qinling Mountains, the cold wind from the northwest cannot blow to Shu, so the winter here is not too cold, and Hauge was not frozen to death.

At this time, he had already cut off his braids and even shaved his head, and changed into the coarse cloth jacket of ordinary people. His face was covered with stubble and mud, so as to cover up the scars on his face and avoid being caught. The guards who searched found it.

Hauge has a hundred or so riders beside him, and these are all the most skilled Ba Yala in the Zhenglan Banner of Manchuria, but at this moment, all of them are in a state of distress, hiding in a citrus forest full of wormwood, picking Some uncorrupted wild citrus fell on the ground to satisfy the hunger, so sour that Hauge vomited bitter water.

"Master, the slave found this!"

At this time, a Manchurian Baya la suddenly found a handful of peppers from nowhere.

"One is sour and the other is spicy, can't you find some meaty ones?" Hauge said helplessly.

Pepper was introduced to China at the end of the fifteenth century, and it is not a very popular crop today, and only some wealthy families know about it.

And Hauge, as the prince of the Qing Dynasty, naturally knew chili peppers, so after he said this, he suddenly realized that the presence of chili peppers proved that there must be richer people nearby.

"Where did you find it?" Hauge asked hastily.

"Back to the master, the slave was found in a field on the opposite hillside," said Ba Yala, and Hauge stood up excitedly: "There must be someone living nearby, you guys should look for it. Order meat to eat, if you can’t find it, kill someone to eat it, if a woman brings it first, let me have a good time before eating it!”

Picking of chili peppers usually ends at the end of October in the south. Now that there is a lot of chaos, it is possible that some villages may not be able to harvest in time to avoid the chaos. It is also because of the discovery of chili peppers that gave Hauge hope, but what Hauge didn’t know was that this time He was still disappointed.

Hauge was lying on the ground, holding a handful of frozen peppers in his hand, helplessly looking at the snow in the sky, he couldn't help but smiled wryly: "It's boring, the snow can't even fall to the ground, I want to drink some snow water Will not work."

And the Ba Yala he sent out also complained while looking for them: "It's boring, I should have known that I shouldn't have entered the customs."

At this moment, a gunshot sounded, and a Ba Yala suddenly fell to the ground.

(End of this chapter)