Li Zicheng's Dashun Dynasty is now "prosperous" and its work efficiency is very fast!
As soon as the order to hang Zuo Menggeng's family was issued, General Ruhou Liu Zongmin, the general in charge of military discipline, immediately took action with his men.
First, they surrounded Zuo Mengeng's commander-in-chief's residence, then arrested everyone in the Zuo family, and then ransacked the house. Although Zuo Liangyu was not very greedy, sitting in this position, he always had savings of hundreds of thousands of taels. of! The next step is to verify the identity. Not all members of the family are named Zuo. Many of them are maids, servants, masters, accountants, etc., so there is no need to arrest and hang them.
In addition, Zuo Mengeng also has a lot of wives, concubines and singers! Can't you check them one by one? Looking at the enchanting ones, they were probably forced into the Zuofu Mansion and had to be rescued - Liu Zongmin has a kind heart now, and is known as Liu Dashanren!
There are also some plump and fat ones, which are still young and can be fertile at a glance, so they must be given to Li Zicheng. Li Zicheng doesn’t have a son and a half daughters yet! Shun Taizong has not raised him yet. There is no heir in the world, and he is dying of anxiety. Liu Zongmin was also anxious, but he couldn't imitate Gao Jie and went to help himself, so he had to help Li Zicheng find a woman.
After finishing all these miscellaneous things, three or two days had passed, and it was time for Zuo Mengeng to hit the road.
It was really an empty street with thousands of people walking along the street...everyone was there cheering! Some people picked up rocks and soil and threw them at the Zuo family in the prison van. Fortunately, there were Dashun soldiers maintaining order along the way. Otherwise, they wouldn't have had to wait for them to hang up, and they would have been smashed to death by countless rocks and soil.
Zuo Menggeng was locked in a cage-style prison car and completely collapsed. Li Zicheng was so cruel this time, hanging himself all over the house! The whole family was neatly organized, not one of them escaped, they were all put into the prison van and were being dragged to the execution ground!
What made him even more devastated was that the people escorted in front and back of the prison car were not Li Zicheng's old soldiers, but the general, deputy general, and staff general of Zuo's army, as well as Zuo Mengeng's own family's thousands of servants!
These guys usually behave like loyal dogs in front of Zuo Liangyu and Zuo Mengeng, except for wagging their tails. Now they are actually fully armed and escorting Zuo's family to hang themselves...
The people's hearts are so sinister, which is beyond the expectation of the young commander Zuo Mengeng. And Li Zicheng's ruthlessness was beyond the expectations of the Zuo army generals and Zuo family servants who were escorting the Zuo family to their death.
Li Zicheng is killing a chicken now, no, he is killing a monkey to show the chickens!
The "monkey" family is going to die, how can the "chickens" not be afraid? Their family members are all in Jiangling City, "protected" by Li Zicheng's people... There is no need for Li Zicheng's soldiers to kill them. As long as they are not protected, a group of people in Jiangling City who hate Zuo's army will be able to kill them. Eat those people alive.
So in the past two days, Li Zicheng issued a series of imperial edicts to reorganize the Zuo family army without any politeness.
The remnants of Zuo's army inside and outside Jiangling City were carefully counted and eliminated, leaving the old, weak, sick and disabled, leaving a total of more than 30,000 people. Regardless of servants or ordinary soldiers, they were all broken up and organized into various battalions of the Dashun Army. The generals from the left and the servants of the Zuo family have formed a separate battalion. Now they are escorting the Zuo family to death... This is their opportunity to show their loyalty!
The execution ground soon arrived, right outside the original gate of Prince Chu's Mansion. It is spacious and convenient for everyone to watch. Li Zicheng was sitting on the gate of the palace with a golden sword, surrounded by many civil and military ministers. Huang Shu was also standing next to him, wearing a blue robe. Not to mention how happy he was - Li Zicheng had just rewarded him with a punishment. The government minister was responsible for the legal procedures for hanging the Zuo family. He also led people to arrange the execution ground. The gallows and hanging ropes were carefully inspected to ensure that all the Zuo family members could be sent away.
Of course, the kindness of the Lord cannot be forgotten. Huang Shu spent his own money to build thin-skin coffins for Zuo's family, one for each person. The graveyard where they are buried was entrusted to the military advisor Song Xiance to find it. It is a geomantic treasure!
"Your Majesty, everyone from the Zuo family is here!"
"What a big family!"
"A worthy death..."
A group of civil and military officials on Li Zicheng's left and right had already seen the prison convoy team, and they all looked gloating at the misfortune. Only Huang Shu tried his best to pretend to be sad.
Li Zicheng also sighed and said to his left and right: "As per the decree, let the Zuo family go kowtow to Zuo Liangyu's coffin first, and then go down and accompany him!"
Zuo Liangyu's coffin was found and placed on the execution ground, opposite a row of gallows, which were used to hang his children and grandchildren.
I don’t know what he should think about knowing that he is aware of it.
Li Zicheng asked again: "Is the Zuo family all here?"
"The only thing missing is Zuo Mengmei!" Liu Zongmin said, "This little girl is not a good person. She colluded with He Tengjiao to kill his brother Zuo Menggen, and almost succeeded... Fortunately, the emperor was there in time. Time. Now this little girl and He Tengjiao have retreated to the south of the Yangtze River, leaving only one or two thousand people to guard a pontoon bridge on the Yangtze River.
Your Majesty, after you finish killing the entire Zuo family, you will lead your men across the Yangtze River and capture Zuo Mengmei and hang her! "
"She has someone to take care of her," Li Zicheng smiled, "Will Zhu Cixiang let her go? Huang Shangshu, what do you think?"
After hearing Li Zicheng's question, Huang Shu immediately replied: "Your Majesty is wise, Zhu Cizhong is cunning and vicious, and he will not let Zhu Cizhao's family go."
"Then will he come?" Li Zicheng asked again.
"Yes, I definitely will!" Huang Shu said with a smile, "There are a lot of troops on the other side of the Yangtze River! There are tens of thousands of soldiers belonging to the Prince of Chu's Mansion. Zuo Mengmei's concubine Zhang Yong has eight thousand Shaanxi soldiers, and Ma Jiaolin remains behind. There are 7,000 Shaanxi soldiers in Yuezhou, and He Tengjiao has brought at least 10,000 more...Oh, Jin Shenghuan also has 30,000 people. They were originally stationed in Yiling, but now they have also crossed the Yangtze River. These troops are increasing. There are 70,000 to 80,000 people together!
If Zhu Cihong didn't come over, wouldn't He Tengjiao and Zuo Mengmei join forces to swallow up these troops? How can he still seek to usurp the throne then? "
Li Zicheng sneered and said: "Well, just wait here in Jiangling... He has to walk more than 700 miles to get here. We are just waiting for work!"
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"All hanged?"
"They were all hanged, no matter old or young, no one was spared. This Li Zicheng was too cruel..."
"Alas, Zuo Mengeng is also doing his own evil! If he had taken refuge with me earlier, would he be afraid that he would not be as rich as Wu Sanfu?"
"you do not say......"
In the Wuchang Palace, Zhu Cixiang was receiving Chang Yanling who came from Gong'an County (Gong'an County across the river from Jiangling County) at starry night.
General Chang Da cannot fight, so now the military affairs on the public security frontline are controlled by Wu Guoyong, Zhang Yong, Jin Shenghuan, and Qiu Lei, assisting He Tengjiao and Zuo Mengmei... There are four people in the first army and two commanders. Make up your mind, there are a bunch of warlords, big and small, down there, it's really a mess.
He Tengjiao also knew that this would not work, so he sent Chang Yanling to Wuchang to ask Zhu Cihong to take charge of the overall situation.
But Zhu Cixiang was not sure that he could defeat Li Zicheng in Jiangling. Why was he the great military strategist who killed Hauge? How could he not know Li Zicheng's strengths and his own weaknesses?
Although Li Zicheng's troops are weak, he has the inside advantage and can clenched his fists to hit people!
In addition, his basic base has been condensed, and he must have brought many direct descendants to Jingzhou, otherwise it would not be so easy to hang up Zuo Menggeng's family.
This shows that Li Zicheng has completely controlled the Zuo family army who stayed in Jiangling, and probably broke it up and annexed it. Now around Jiangling, the number of Li Zicheng's troops is probably around 100,000. With the cannon fodder recruited from Zuo Jiajun, Li Zicheng can fight a tough battle!
Although Zhu Cixiang's troops are more powerful than Li Zicheng, they must be divided between Wuchang Prefecture and Jingzhou Prefecture, and they must be careful about the waist of Yuezhou Prefecture. So there is no way to form a joint force!
Moreover, the troops stationed in Jingzhou Prefecture are difficult to command. There are several mountains. Among them, Zhu Cixiang's direct lineage was a division of Wu Guoyong, which was not easy to integrate.
If the integration of the troops is unsuccessful, there will be no way to fight a tough battle...
