Chapter 176: Honored Guest
After dealing with the missionary affairs, Xiao Tianjian ordered a moratorium on the military offensive in Fujian in May, but Luo Rucai began to move troops against Guangxi in the southern part of Huguang.
In the past few months, Luo Rucai was ordered to transfer a group of men and horses from Sichuan and Huguang, on the one hand, to take over Guizhou, which had already announced his surrender to the Great China and Korea, and to cooperate with the administrative officials who had gone to take up his post to exercise overall control over Guizhou, and on the other hand, he transferred troops to Chenzhou and Yongzhou in the south of Huguang, and recruited and trained new troops in the south of Huguang, and gathered more than 40,000 soldiers and horses.
So Xiao Tianjian issued an order, ordered Luo Rucai to lead the army, began to use troops against Liangguang, Chenzhou all the way out of Chenzhou into Guangdong Province, Shaozhou and Nanxiong and other places launched an attack, and Yongzhou all the way to Guilin, the troops pointed to Guilin, so that the Yongli Dynasty became nervous, had to mobilize troops to Guilin and Shaozhou Mansion, to block the attack of the Great Chinese Army on Liangguang.
Soon after Luo Rucai's move, the Ming army defeated the Ming army in Shaozhou, crushed and annihilated the Ming army of nearly 20,000 horses in one fell swoop, and captured the capital city of Shaozhou at the end of May, opening up the passage to Guangzhou.
And the other way from Yongzhou people, also quickly in Guilin around the Ming army to break the Ming army's resistance, the front of the army reached Guilin City, Guilin guard Ma Fang saw that the enemy, immediately led the troops to surrender to the Dazhong Army, so Guilin was also captured by the Dazhong Army, Yongli Dynasty was beaten at once, Yongli Emperor was afraid that the Dazhong Army would kill to Guangzhou, so he abandoned Guangzhou Mansion at the instigation of the minister, fled to Nanning.
In this way, the morale of the Ming army of the Yongli Dynasty was greatly weakened, and they had no intention of continuing to fight to the death with the Dazhong Dynasty, and in just two months, the Dazhong Army controlled Nanxiong and other places, and the soldiers pointed directly at Guangzhou Mansion.
At the same time, after clearing the resistance of the surrounding Ming troops, the large Chinese army on the Guilin side once again waved its army south and began to use troops against Pingle Mansion and Liuzhou Mansion.
However, due to the hot weather, some veterans from the north of the Dazhong Army, after entering the hot south, began to appear in a large area of water and soil adaptation, and the number of sick soldiers and generals was very large, which also had a great impact on the offensive of the Dazhong Army, and a large number of sick soldiers would have to be evacuated to recuperate, so that the next military operations began to slow down.
However, fortunately, Luo Rucai recruited a lot of recruits from the south of Huguang before he moved his troops, these people are more adapted to the climate and water and soil in the south, but they have preserved their combat effectiveness, otherwise it will be difficult to make a breakthrough in this operation, but because of the arrival of the rainy season, the operation of the Dazhong Army in Liangguang has to be temporarily stopped after entering mid-June.
After Xiao Tianjian read the battle report, he agreed to Luo Rucai's request to temporarily stop the offensive, after all, the south suffered relatively few military disasters, and it was not too likely that the Dazhong Dynasty wanted to destroy the Yongli Dynasty overnight, and it was not too likely for the Dazhong Army, which relied heavily on firearms, to continue large-scale operations in the rainy season in the south, which would cause a large number of casualties to the Dazhong Army, so it was also helpless to temporarily stop the operation.
As a result, at the end of June, the military operations in the south, which had lasted for three months, were temporarily suspended, and the situation once again entered a stalemate.
During this period, Xiao Tianjian also welcomed a very important "guest" in Nanjing, and in May, the Northwest Army escorted Li Zicheng, whom they had captured, from Shaanxi to Nanjing.
Accompanying the entourage also came Tian Jianxiu, who surrendered to Xiao Tianjian, Tian Jianxiu after capturing Li Zicheng, then handed Li Zicheng to the Dazhong Army, Yan Chongxi originally meant to simply be in Hanzhong Mansion, kill Li Zicheng and pull him down, and the rest of Li Zicheng's party in the province will find a way to rescue him.
But Yan Chongxi did not dare to make a decision privately in this matter, but sent someone to ask Xiao Tianjian, Xiao Tianjian replied to the holy decree that Li Zicheng was escorted to Nanjing for trial, so this time and again delayed a lot of time, Yan Chongxi after getting the holy decree, this Li Zicheng was shipped from Xi'an Mansion and escorted to Nanjing, and when he arrived in Nanjing, it was already a matter of May.
Li Zicheng's capture made the grass platform he built completely collapsed the Dashun regime, as a hero of this era, Xiao Tianjian didn't know what to think, wanted to finally see this hero, so under his will, he contributed to Li Zicheng to be escorted to Nanjing City for trial.
Tian Jianxiu also arrived in Nanjing City with the escorts, for which Xiao Tianjian personally summoned Tian Jianxiu in the palace, and named Tian Jianxiu as the Marquis of Hanzhong, and according to the original reward for Li Zicheng, he was rewarded with 10,000 taels of silver as promised, so that he walked in the military department, so that Tian Jianxiu was very grateful, and thanked him again and again, such a reward, for Tian Jianxiu, it was already something he didn't dare to think about at first, it can be seen that Xiao Tianjian was quite courteous to Tian Jianxiu, as for walking in the military department, although it is not a real power errand, But Tian Jianxiu also knew that he, as a person who defected, could not be compared with those generals who followed Xiao Tianjian to fight the world, and it was enough for him to get such benefits, and as long as he did a good job in the future, he might not have a bright future, so Tian Jianxiu withdrew from the palace after thanking him a thousand times.
After Li Zicheng entered Nanjing, he was sent to the prison of the Criminal Department of the Dazhong Dynasty and was closely guarded, and according to the current system of the Dazhong Dynasty, Li Zicheng will be transferred to the Dali Temple for trial.
Li Zicheng sat in the cell with heavy shackles, and the conditions in the cell where he was held were not as eerie and terrible as he imagined at first, and along the way, in addition to not having freedom, the generals who escorted him along the way did not deliberately abuse him, and the normal eating and drinking basically ensured his needs, even when he arrived in Nanjing, he was not allowed to parade in a prison car with a flail in the streets, but was low-key taken over by the prison of the Dazhong Dynasty, loaded into a cart and transported to the prison of the Criminal Department.
Li Zicheng was already discouraged at this time, knowing that he could not be spared, when he was caught by Tian Jianxiu and others, he also thought about avoiding humiliation and simply committed suicide to pull him down, but the Dazhong Army took very strict care of him, and several suicide attempts were discovered and stopped by the personnel who guarded him, making Li Zicheng attempt suicide several times.
After Li Zicheng was transferred to Xi'an Mansion, he found that Dazhong Army was not too difficult for him, although the diet was relatively rough, but he did not deliberately starve him, so after several suicide attempts, Li Zicheng no longer tried to commit suicide, but waited for his final treatment.
He knows very well that a person like him will never leave his life in the Dazhong Dynasty, and it is only a matter of time before he is killed, and it is likely that he will be cut by a thousand knives by the Ming Dynasty like his uncle Gao Yingxiang back then, but for Li Zicheng, there is no room for maneuver.
If he announced his defection to the Dazhong Dynasty after the establishment of the country, it is estimated that Xiao Tianjian can still leave him with his life, but now he no longer expects Xiao Tianjian to let him live.
These days, Li Zicheng has been looking back on his life, he went from the initial post soldier, to the leader of the rebel army who later surprised the frontier, and then to the Dashun Emperor, of course, he is the emperor with a lot of water, but he once had hundreds of thousands of troops, but in just over half a year, everything he has been wiped out under the front of the Dazhong Army, and everything has become a thing of the past.
For so many years, he has been thinking about what he is worse than Xiao Tianjian, but this problem has also bothered him for many years, he has not figured it out, when he rebelled, Xiao Tianjian didn't know where he was, and when he led the troops to fight Longzhou, Xiao Tianjian was just a small leader with less than a thousand troops.
But when he was far more famous than Xiao Tianjian, Xiao Tianjian suddenly rose among the rebels from all walks of life, single-handedly created a fierce and incomparable soldiers and horses, and in just a few years, he overturned the huge and incomparable Ming Dynasty and controlled most of China.
Li Zicheng sat in the cell, and finally didn't figure out this question, where is he inferior to Xiao Tianjian, Xiao Tianjian can win the world, but he is just a rogue from beginning to end.
While Li Zicheng was sitting in prison thinking about these questions, he heard someone outside the cell shouting: "Welcome to the Holy Majesty!" ……”
After Li Zicheng heard this, his heart suddenly jumped a few times, raised his head, and looked towards the outside of the cell, outside the dim cell, at this time, several lanterns suddenly lit up, illuminating the inside and outside of the cell, so that Li Zicheng's eyes, who were used to this dim environment, were a little uncomfortable, so he closed his eyes and opened them again, trying to look outside the cell.
At this time, he saw a tall man wearing a yellow dragon robe appear outside the cell, and at this time, Li Zicheng naturally knew his identity as a person who could wear such a dragon robe.
"Excuse me! The guards stay, the others exit first, don't disturb me talking! The yellow-robed man outside the door said loudly.
After hearing the jailers hurriedly agree, they immediately exited the cell, and someone opened the iron cable on the cell with a bang, and pushed the cell door open with a bang.
Li Zi wanted to stand up, but after thinking for a moment, he sat back on the stool again, raised his head and looked at the people who had entered the cell.
Several sturdy guards immediately walked into the cell first, pressing the handle of the waist knife at their waists one by one, staring at Li Zicheng with fierce eyes, and then the man in the yellow robe followed into the not too narrow cell.
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