Chapter 98 Destiny

Yang Sichang lay in a house in Suizhou. When he heard that Xiangyang Mansion had been defeated by Xing Tianjun, He Renlong was completely destroyed, and the generals of Xiangyang City were as fierce as a tiger and Liu Shijie were killed. After the news that King Xiang was killed, he lay on the couch and lamented, struggled to get up and wrote a memorial, and sent someone to the capital to be guilty. Then he lay down and refused to take any more soup, and stopped eating.

On May 22, Yang Sichang died in Suizhou City due to illness and hunger strike, and his memorial was also sent to the capital at this time and placed on Chongzhen's desk.

On the one hand, Chongzhen hated Yang Sichang's indisputability, and on the other hand, he felt that Yang Sichang had done his best for his best in the world. He decreed to change the position of scholar in Yang Sichang's cabinet and demoted him to a commoner, but he would no longer arrest him to the capital to be guilty, which was also tolerant of his guilt.

But then he had a more headache. Xiangyang lost it. What should he do now? Yang Sichang was dismissed. Who will take over the matter of suppressing? After consideration, with the recommendation of the courtiers, Chongzhen issued a decree to transfer Chen Xinjia to Beijing to serve as the new minister of the Ministry of War. Ding Qirui, the governor of Zheng Chongcang, who had just taken over the military affairs of Henan, Huguang and other provinces, the governor of Zheng Chongcang, and continued to fight against thieves. As for Shaanxi, he handed over Fu Zonglong to be responsible for suppressing Li Zicheng.

Fortunately, although Li Zicheng has returned, because he failed to enter Henan, he has won a lot of popular support. He is not strong in Shaanxi. With Fu Zonglong, he can restrain Li Zicheng for the time being.

But next Chongzhen received the news that Yang Sichang was on hunger strike in Suizhou, which made Chongzhen sigh again. At this time, Chongzhen had found that he was basically a little powerless about this Xing Tianjun. Although there were still more than 700,000 of his Ming officers and soldiers on the book, these Most of the officers and soldiers are distributed all over the country, and the most able to fight is outside the customs. The rest of the officers and soldiers are not the opponents of the Xingtian Army. At this time, who else can restrain the Xing Tianjun?

Chongzhen can't think of a good way. In addition to a headache, he still has a headache. Sometimes he even secretly cries at night and feels that God treats him as an emperor unfairly. Since he came to power, he has been very diligent. Looking back at the emperors of the Ming Dynasty, there has never been such an emperor as hard as him. I never rest every day. I sleep later than a dog at night. I get up earlier than a chicken in the morning. I want to revitalize the mountains and rivers all day. However, after more than ten years of tossing around, the world is not only not a little peaceful. On the contrary, the river goes down, and the gourd floats up. Now in the huge Central Plains, there is a Xing Tianjun, let He can't deal with it anymore, so now he can only be a monk and hit the clock for one day.

However, Chongzhen was still not very committed. At the same time, he ordered Ding Qirui to quickly go to Huguang to resist the continued havoc of the Xingtian Army. At the same time, he ordered the Nanjing eunuch Liao Daheng to transfer 20,000 people from Nan Zhili and Jiangsu and Zhejiang officers into Huguang to assist Huguang to fight against the Xingtian Army. In short, he should try his best to see if he can. Such a situation can be saved.

Besides, Zuo Liangyu, who was in the period of confrontation with Zhang Xianzhong in Baokang, but he did not forget the war in Xiangyang. He kept sending Xizuo and Yebuhu to Xiangyang to inquire about the news. When he learned that Xing Tianjun had conquered Xiangyang, he did not fart. Even if he ordered to leave, he evacuate Baokang. Guarding Chengtianfu and Jingmen Prefecture, they tried to prevent Xing Tianjun from going south into Jingzhou.

The reason why Zuo Liangyu has been standing in the area of Huguang for so many years, and has repeatedly did not respect orders and has not been dealt with by the court. The reason is that he has always had soldiers in his hand, and the court is more dependent on him to control the rebels who often enter the Huguang area, so he has not been mixed up until now. With the fall, his nest is now in the area of Chengtianfu and Jingzhou. Xing Tianjun fights Xiangyang. The goal is obvious. The next step is to fight Jingzhou, which is equivalent to copying Zuo Liangyu's old nest. Although Zuo Liangyu does not dare to fight with Xing Tianjun, he will really jump over the wall when he really wants to copy his old nest.

In fact, Zuo Liangyu can't say that he has no strengths. He is also a department manager who works for the court, but the problem is that the boss of the court often does not pay wages, and even if he pays wages, he is often deducted. You have 30,000 soldiers and only give 10,000 wages, so Zuo Liangyu plunders, and he Personally, I am also good to my subordinates. When I often have rewards, I don't leave them, but give them to my subordinates. Therefore, the ruffians who gathered together are very energetic and obedient to follow him. After all, it is not easy to find such a boss in this chaotic world. This is also because every time Zuo Liangyu is defeated, he can quickly gather again. Because of the young soldiers and horses, but on the other hand, when Zuo Liangyu's soldiers and horses go to a place, the people of a place will be unlucky, so when it comes to Zuo Liangyu, people all over Huguang hate him more than everyone else.

Xiao Tianjian also had a rough expectation of Zuo Liangyu's actions, but this time after he conquered Xiangyang, because Luo Li's soldiers and horses had not returned to Xiangyang, and Liu Yao had to divide his troops to guard against Yunyang, so he did not spare his hands to deal with him for a while. As a result, Zuo Liangyu ran back to Chengtianfu.

After the war, Xiao Tianjian also had to let the soldiers rest and replenish some supplies on the spot. In addition, a batch of ammunition and recruits were transferred from Henan to transfer the injured soldiers back to Nanyang for resettlement. Therefore, after conquering Xiangyang, the Xing Tianjun army rested in Xiangyang for five days.

At this time, Zhang Xianzhong's good days are coming to an end. As soon as Xiao Tianjian defeated Xiangyang, he sent someone to find Zhang Xianzhong and asked Zhang Xianzhong to immediately hand over the people who attacked and killed the Xingtian army in the area of Nanzhang County and robbed the supplies of the Xingtian Army.

As a result, Zhang Xianzhong actually twisted his neck and refused to agree. He resolutely refused to admit that his men had done this. Li Shuanzhu and Zhao Er donkey were so angry that they scolded Zhang Xianzhong that he was not a thing.

After Xiao Tianjian listened to Zhang Xianzhong's subordinates in the big account outside the city, he sneered and said, "This eighth king actually bullied my Xiao Tianjian, and he didn't look at how much capital he had. In your opinion, what should I do about this matter?"

After thinking about it for a moment, Li Xin carefully said to Xiao Tianjian, "General, now we are going south to attack Jingzhou. Although the Eighth King is too rude, it is not easy to make trouble at the moment. You might as well write it down this matter first, and it's not too late to talk about it later!"

Xiao Tianjian looked at Li Xin and frowned and asked, "In your opinion, is this matter for now?"

Li Xin saw that Xiao Tianjian was quite unhappy, but he still insisted on nodding. Luo Rucai also expressed his support for Li Xin's suggestion. After all, Luo Rucai has been dealing with Zhang Xianzhong a lot over the years. The relationship between the two is quite good, not to mention that in Luo Rucai's view, the rebels have some moles with each other. It is inevitable that for the sake of more than 20 lives, he turned against Zhang Xianzhong, which seemed to be a little unworthless.

But different from Li Xin's opinion, the generals such as Li Shuanzhu and Zhao Erlu, all insist on cleaning up Zhang Xianzhong and get justice for their subordinates. This can't be like this!

Xiao Tianjian raised his hand to make everyone shut up. He sat behind the big case and gently tapped the armrest of the big chair with his fingers. The tent suddenly became quiet, and only the sound of Xiao Tianjian's fingers gently tapping on the armrest could be heard.

After a long time, Xiao Tianjian opened his mouth and said, "Mr. Li was wrong! Deputy Marshal Luo is also wrong! You are all wrong! Zhang Xianzhong can't fight, and he can't impose a small punishment. He has to fight, and I'm going to fight this time!

Maybe you have forgotten that in the past few years, Zhang Xianzhong has been in trouble several times. We have not hesitated to provide him with a large number of supplies, horses and even armor, but what have we exchanged for now? His surname is Zhang, he surrendered to the court in Gucheng and has been dormant for more than a year. Now that his soldiers are strong, he thinks he has the strength to challenge us!

And Zhang Xianzhong, the eighth king, is a thief at best. Don't say that we are also thieves. We are not. He is different from us. After our uprising, what we do is to cherish the people, walk in one place, run a place, and save the people in one place. It is essentially different from them. They only know how to break. Bad, but you don't know the construction. You can grab all the places you pass by, and kill all the places you can kill. Even if you occasionally open a warehouse for help, it's just a pretence to recruit people and horses for themselves as a cover!

This Zhang Xianzhong is a white-eyed wolf. I contacted him before he came this time, hoping that he would work together with us, but he wanted to rely on his little capital to make it easier for us to rule the river. This man is extremely ambitious and cruel and unkind by nature. It will be a big trouble in the future!

If we give up this time, then if we go south, this person will definitely coveted our territory. If one doesn't do it well, he will copy our back road. It's not good to say. How can we let others sleep soundly on the side of our couch? What's more, this person is still a white-eyed wolf, a fierce tiger?

So I think that since Zhang Xianzhong refuses to work with us, he is our enemy! And he doesn't think that we once gave him help, and now he gives us such a result. How can I, Xiao, tolerate him?

Jing Xiang can postpone fighting for the time being, but this Xianzhong can't help fighting, and he will be killed if he fights a tiger, otherwise it will be a big trouble in the future! ......”

The reason why Xiao Tianjian is so angry with Zhang Xianzhong is not that Zhang Xianzhong is just so simple to gain his face, but that he knows more about Zhang Xianzhong's character than anyone else. This person has great ambitions, but he is not a person who can achieve great achievements. In the original history, he once occupied Sichuan. However, he did not know the operation. On the contrary, he was fierce. He waved troops to Tu Chuan and almost killed all the people in Sichuan, so that the population of Sichuan was greatly reduced. Although there was a suspicion that Man Qing planted him, many historical materials also proved that at least Zhang Xianzhong was also a murderer, and at least Tu Sichuan should have a share. It was also because Sichuan was unpopular. After the Qing soldiers entered the customs, he did not have the ability to gather more soldiers to prevent the Qing army from entering Sichuan. Instead, his adopted son, Li Dingguo, was a genius and a national hero among the Han people. He led his troops to resist the tars for many years.

So even in order to reduce more suffering for the Chinese people, Zhang Xianzhong can't stay any longer! Once he is allowed to join Sichuan, it will probably be a disaster for the people of Sichuan. In the future, once he wins the world, he will get rid of this guy sooner or later.

So in his opinion, Zhang Xianzhong has just recovered and his wings are not yet full. It is much better to get rid of him as soon as possible than to keep him!