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Escorted by Li Dingguo, Liu Xuanchu and Ma Bao, Yongli walked on the road for more than half a year and finally came to Hanzhong.

"The Son of Heaven has arrived!" Knowing the news of the imminent arrival of the Yongli Holy Drive, Wu Sangui greeted him at the gate with the civil and military generals in the city early.

Yongli's holy car arrived at the gate of Hanzhong City, and Yongli saw at a glance an old man wearing a six-petal bright light helmet and a red official robe, looking a little extraordinary, with a group of military generals, kneeling at the city gate. knew that this person was Wu Sangui.

The holy car entered the city, and Wu Sangui and the others stood up, followed the holy car, and entered the temporary palace in the city. After Yongli lived in the Hanzhong Palace, he didn't care about the fatigue of the journey, and immediately held a court meeting.

"Wu Sangui, you have finally surrendered to my Daming, which is really gratifying to me!" Yongli looked at Wu Sangui with a smile.

"The criminal minister was forced by the situation back then, and had to take refuge in the Tartars, and I hope that Your Majesty will punish the crime!" Wu Sangui bowed.

Yongli stroked his beard: "Wu Sangui, you are a loyal minister of my Ming Dynasty, you have endured humiliation and burdens in the Tartars for twenty-three years, but you have not forgotten my Ming Dynasty, what is the crime?" I want to reward you well! ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Wu Sangui bowed again.

"Wu Aiqing, let's be even! Everyone, love Qing Ping! Yongli greeted.

Now Li Dingguo and Wu Sangui's two soldiers and horses are combined into one, and many of Wu Sangui's subordinates are originally Li Dingguo's original old department, and now Li Dingguo is back, although they can't raise their heads when they see Li Dingguo, but Li Dingguo didn't say anything more, but recognized their behavior. Originally, the two armies were merged into one in order to have stronger strength and be able to protect themselves. Whether it is Li Dingguo or Wu Sangui, they all understand that if the two of them have infighting, let alone compete with Wang Xinyu, I am afraid that they will not be able to deal with the opportunity to break into the camp and fight them.

"I have already given the Holy Decree to the King of the South, asking him to send troops to attack the two cities of Jingzhou and Xiangyang! As long as these two cities are taken, our army's Northern Expedition can rest easy! I don't know when the king of the south will be able to send troops! Yongli sighed.

Wu Sangui said: "Your Majesty, I believe that the king of Nan will not dare to resist the decree!" Weichen estimated that it should be within this month, and the king of the south will send troops to Jingzhou. Weichen has one more thing, I hope Your Majesty will approve it. ”

"But it doesn't hurt to say it!" Yongli Road.

Wu Sangui bowed his hand: "Your Majesty, our army is going to the Northern Expedition and needs weapons and ammunition, and I hope that Your Majesty can give the Southern King a holy decree and ask him to send a batch of weapons and ammunition to facilitate our army's Northern Expedition!" ”

"How much weapons and ammunition do you need?" Yongli asked.

Wu Sangui took out a fold from his sleeve and asked people to present it.

"Your Majesty, the weapons that Weichen needs are all on the fold! As long as Your Majesty writes a holy decree according to this recital! Wu Sangui gave up his hands.

Yongli opened the fold, only to see that this was actually a list, and there were really a lot of things to ask for on it, just asking for 200 large-caliber guns! There were also 300 small cannons, 10,000 muskets, 200 rifled guns, 20,000 pairs of iron armor, 5,000 Miao knives, 10,000 spear heads, 50,000 catties of gunpowder, 5,000 stone of grain, 3,000 pieces of cloth, 1,000 taels of silver, and even begged for a swarm of 20 bee fire wagons!

"This, so many things, will King Nan give it?" Yongli's hand holding the list trembled slightly.

Wu Sangui said with a smile: "Your Majesty, it is his business whether he gives or not, if he doesn't give it, or if he gives less, it means that this person is disloyal and unjust!" Then his status in the eyes of the world's scholars has plummeted! If he is willing to give, then we can take the opportunity to expand the army, which will make our army's Northern Expedition more likely to win? ”

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The camp of the Ming army in Wuchang, the flag is waving, the mast on the river is like a forest, and the Ming army is about to go out to attack Jingzhou.

Under the stage, Shi Lang and Jie Shu were tied to the pillar, and what awaited them was the fate of the flag that was about to be sacrificed with their blood.

Wang Xinyu stood on the stage and recited aloud the oath of the army's upcoming expedition, and then three gun salutes sounded.

"The hour has come!" Wang Yuyou shouted loudly and threw the token down.

The executioner raised his knife and fell, and Shi Lang's head rolled to the ground. There was already an executioner holding a basin, taking Shi Lang's blood, and bringing it to the table. Wang Xinyu, Wang Yuyou, Yao Qisheng, Wang [Fu] Chen, Li Guangdi and others lit incense and candles, and used Shi Lang's blood to sacrifice the soldiers who had died over the years.

Then the other three executioners waited on Jieshu and began to cut his flesh piece by piece.

The simplified version of Ling Chi lasted about an hour, and a total of 1,200 knives were cut.

In the end, the executioner took a knife and dug out Jieshu's still moving heart and liver.

The executioner took the plate and presented the heart.

Wang Xinyu and others put the plate on the incense case, worshiped the sky, and blessed the victory of the Ming Banner.

When the time of departure came, one after another full of large and small warships and transport ships of the Ming army sailed upstream, heading towards Jingzhou City west of Wuchang.

In the command room of the battleship Nanjing, Wang Xinyu and Wang Yuyou looked at the large military map of Jingzhou on the table, and were studying how to deal with the Qing army's water attack.

"If you can open the river embankment, Jingzhou Tartars will become fish and turtles! Our warships can go straight to the city of Jingzhou! You can even go straight to Long Lake! Didn't the Tartars want to attack us with water? We have water masters, and we will use water to attack them against them! Wang Yuyou pointed to the map and said.

Wang Xinyu shook his head: "Jin Qing has also offered this plan, but this plan will harm the people, once the river embankment is opened, Jingzhou will become a thousand miles of Zeguo, the people will die countless times, the fertile land will be covered, the houses will collapse, how many people will be displaced!" ”

Wang Yuyou touched his beard and said with a smile: "I know that the handsome man is benevolent and kind-hearted, and he definitely can't bear to use this trick!" ”

"Do we have a waterway for the sailors to go straight to Long Lake?" Wang Xinyu asked, pointing to the map.

"There is a channel, but unfortunately one must be to take the Han River, several cities around the Han River are still in the hands of the Tartars, and the sailors are inconvenient to move when they enter the narrow Han River, but they are vulnerable to artillery fire from the shore. Another waterway was from Jingzhou City, but the waterway was narrow and vulnerable to Tartar artillery fire at the head of the city. Wang Yuyou said.

"Is it unless the embankment is dug up that the sailor can enter the long lake? If the land division is sent to land and go to Changhu by land, and you are worried that the Tartars will dig up the embankment of Changhu, then won't the officers and men of our land division be flooded? Wang Xinyu frowned.

"Anyway, the Tartars are planning to open the embankment of Changhu Lake to flood our army, and the people will suffer the same, it is better to let our army open the embankment of the Yangtze River, and then use the opportunity of Qianli Zeguo to drive the boat north, reach Changhu Lake, and seize the embankment! If we don't let go of this big water, the tartars will also let it go! Anyway, if the people are going to suffer, why should we be afraid? Yao Qisheng said.

"But this clan still can't bear it, can we find a good way not to harm the local people, and prevent the Tartars from flooding our army?" Wang Xinyu asked.

"There is a way, but our army needs to take risks! You can send a surprise army and go straight to the embankment of Long Lake by land. Li Guangdi offered advice.