"I naturally know that war is ruthless..."
Li Dingguo pursed his lips and did not intend to defend himself. He raised his head and said in a deep voice:
"I was just a beggar, and my adoptive father took me in and gave me food and clothes. From that time on, I understood that my life was given to me by my adoptive father."
"So, neither the Ming Dynasty nor the people are as important as the foster father."
Zhu Yixi laughed at these words, shook her head and said: "You are putting filial piety and justice above the people and the country."
"Take him down!"
Zhu Yixi waved her hands and said no more.
He understood that Li Dingguo's words were actually a true portrayal of most people today.
Loyalty to oneself is more important than to the world.
Therefore, the Guan Ning cavalry could follow Wu Sangui unscrupulously and strangle Yongli to death, or they could rebel against the current during the Kangxi period.
Cao Cao was able to massacre Xuzhou and use human flesh as his generals. The soldiers under his command felt compassion, but they never stopped fighting.
The army under his command could now kill the Western bandits, or follow him down the river to attack the Southern Ming court.
Family, country and world, this order explains everything.
"Your Highness, Zhang Dingguo is too stubborn."
Qin Liangyu couldn't help but say: "Although he values love and righteousness, he has no ambition as a king and has no idea that loyalty and filial piety are difficult to balance."
Zhu Yixi smiled and said nothing.
Li Dingguo would only fight against the Manchus until Zhang Xianzhong died. His filial piety was greater than his loyalty!
Compared with others, Li Dingguo was at least strict with himself, and his troops did not cause too many killings.
But then again, if you employ people based on morality, you will not be able to conquer the world if you exhaust them to death.
For example, Prime Minister Hui Deng, Bai Wang, etc. who surrendered were once subordinate to the bandit Luo Rucai, and they often did many tricks to massacre the city.
Moral mysophobia is now a thing of the past.
"We can no longer allow the Western thieves to harm Sichuan. We must start as soon as possible."
Zhu Yixi looked solemnly and said to Qin Liangyu, but also to herself.
Facing the massacre for the first time in many days, he couldn't bear it and was greatly shocked.
On June 20, Zhang Xianzhong defeated Chongqing and immediately led his army towards Chengdu Prefecture. By the end of June, he arrived at the boundaries of Chengdu Prefecture.
In the prefectures and counties along the road, "the winds collapsed, the beacon fires continued for hundreds of miles, and there was a big earthquake in Chengdu."
For a time, tens of thousands of people came to support each other, and troops were everywhere outside Chengdu.
The newly appointed governor of Sichuan, Long Wenguang (Chen Shiqi had been dismissed long ago and was just stagnant in Chongqing), was very happy and continued to appease and deploy defenses.
However, because they were rural soldiers with good military discipline, they did not dare to be too presumptuous. The King of Shu learned a lesson and hoped to be like the King of Zhou in Kaifeng. After opening the warehouse to release grain, the soldiers risked their lives and resisted to the death.
However, the sources of tens of thousands of soldiers and horses are too complicated.
Zhang Xianzhong prepared time again, and several troops under his command disguised themselves as reinforcements and sneaked into Chengdu Mansion.
Long Wenguang was unaware and was stolen into the city.
As a result, Zhang Xianzhong only besieged the city for three days, and then he cooperated internally and externally and captured Chengdu.
The Ming Dynasty Shu King Zhu Zhishu and the Taiping King Zhu Zhilu committed suicide. Sichuan Governor Long Wenguang, Inspector Liu Zhibo, Deputy Inspector Zhang Jimeng and other major officials in Sichuan were executed for refusing to surrender.
For a time, Zhang Xianzhong was so powerful in Sichuan that all the prefectures in northern Sichuan occupied the city to defend it, but they were successively defeated by him.
At this time, as soon as Zhu Yixi arrived in Luzhou, he suddenly heard the bad news.
This made him so happy that he couldn't help crying.
It is really difficult for me to inherit such a huge legacy of the Shu clan.
However, the even greater bad news is that Zhang Xianzhong's troops were collected along the way and once again exceeded 200,000.
Zhu Yixi's smile suddenly stopped.
He's getting serious.
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At the same time, Li Zicheng was defeated again by the Manchus in Dingzhou.
Gu Kecheng and Zuo Guangxian were in the rear. Among them, Gu Kecheng was killed, and Zuo Guangxian was injured in the foot and was carried away from the battlefield.
Afterwards, Li Zicheng walked westward to Zhending, was injured by a stray arrow again, and fled to Pingyang, Shanxi, where he stayed for a while.
However, fortunately, 80% of the gold, silver and jewelry looted from Beijing were brought back despite the rush to catch up.
The sacrifices of Gu Kecheng and Zuo Guangxian are still valuable.
"Mom, I was raised by a slave dog. His nose is like a dog's, and he won't let go."
Liu Zongmin hung his arms and said angrily.
Li Zicheng, who was sitting high, gritted his teeth and said, "It's okay to be a slave. Wu Sangui deserves to die for going back on his word and uniting with the slaves to beat us."
"I killed all of his family, but it's hard to understand the hatred in my heart."
Niu Jinxing, Song Xiance and others on the side responded in silence.
The generals were very pleased with King Chuang's performance in Beijing, but the civil servants were extremely unhappy with it.
In a sense, this was a trampling on the scholar-bureaucrat class, and they felt the same way.
"Your Majesty, since the Queen of Stone, all the governments in Henan have rebelled. This is not a good thing for Dashun."
Song Xiance said softly: "Henan is a barrier to Tongguan. Don't give up lightly."
The generals were silent.
After a lot of twists and turns, they were defeated again and again. Although their spirits were still there, but with gold and silver in their pockets, the generals lost their fighting spirit and just wanted to return to Xi'an as soon as possible and enjoy the wealth.
"Wei Chen is willing to go to Henan and regain the state capital."
At this time, Li Yan suddenly stood up and said in a deep voice.
Li Zicheng was a little surprised and said curiously: "Mr. Li, you are just a scholar. It is difficult to recover Henan."
"We only need 20,000 ministers to regain Zhongzhou."
"I'll think about it again."
Li Zicheng looked at him again and again, and said in a deep voice.
Li Yan had no choice but to agree.
After everyone left, Niu Jinxing stayed, raised his hands and exclaimed: "Your Majesty, Li Yan is going to Henan to rebel on his own initiative!"
Li Zicheng was shocked: "Although I have not listened to Li Zhijun's many suggestions in Beijing, he is not going to rebel!"
When Niu Jinxing heard this, she smiled in her heart.
Li Zicheng's first sentence was not a rebuttal. This shows that he has long hated Li Yan in his heart.
"Your Majesty, it is precisely because you have refused to accept advice many times that Li Yan is dissatisfied. He often said in the army, if you had listened to him more, why would you have been chased by others?"
"Rumors are spreading among the army, saying that if they had listened to Li Zhijun's words, the city of Beijing would have been stable a long time ago."
Niu Jinxing observed his words and said, "In Beijing, I saw him staring at Chongzhen's body in a daze, and now he wants to return to Henan. Your Majesty, that is his hometown!"
"Once he is allowed to leave, disaster is inevitable."
Since ancient times, literati have looked down on each other. Niu Jinxing has long been dissatisfied with Li Yan. In order to share the pressure, he even offered Song Xiance to compete with him.
Now that he is looking for opportunities, he naturally refuses to let them go. He continues to spread rumors and stir up trouble.
Li Zicheng fell into deep thought.
He remembered Li Yan's advice to be kind to all officials and Wu Sangui's family, but he didn't listen at all.
The more he thought about it now, the angrier he felt.
Doesn't this prove that he is a foolish and rebellious king?
How could I be a fool?
Since the rumors cannot be solved, we can only solve the problem of those who let the rumors go...
