This time, Emperor Chongzhen's will, five days after Lu Xiangsheng won the victory of Shennanyu, was finally personally led by Wu Guoan, the Fusi Qianhu of Jinyi Weibei Town, and sent to the hands of Li Banghua in Shikou.

In it, Emperor Chongzhen adopted a posthumous attitude towards Li Banghua's acceptance of Liu Guoneng's surrender, but also stipulated one for him, that is, not to make an example.

The meaning of the next example is very simple, that is, only this once, except for Liu Guoneng, the thief head, the other thieves can no longer surrender or let them live.

After Li Banghua received the emperor's will, he quickly recalled Lu Xiangsheng and others, and while conveying to them the emperor's reward for the meritorious soldiers in the battle of Shimenguan, he also conveyed the emperor's will not to make an example to several people.

Now in the army on Li Banghua's side, in addition to Liu Guoneng's department, there is only one leader of the thieves who has a name and a battalion head, and there is only one "Eight King Kongs" Zhang Cunmeng.

Since the emperor's decree does not allow the surrender and pardon, what awaits this "Eight King Kongs" Zhang Cunmeng can only be a dead end.

Li Banghua also handed over the task of executing Zhang Cunmeng, the "Eight King Kongs," in public, to Liu Guineng, a guerrilla in Jinzhou who was ordered by Emperor Chongzhen's holy decree, to carry it out.

Since the fall of Shennanyu, the news from the direction of Ningxiang County and Guangwuzhuang reached Li Banghua and Lu Xiangsheng within a few days.

Liu Guoneng naturally knew more or less about the fate of the "King of Great Liang" Wang Zuohang, the "Zijin Liang" Wang Ziyong, and the "King of the Whole World" Wu Yangui.

After experiencing the tragic deaths of Wang Jiayin and Wang Er, Liu Guoneng was no longer surprised or surprised by the death of Wang Zuohang, Wang Ziyong, Wu Yangui and other big thieves.

At this moment, there was happiness in his heart.

In particular, when he learned that His Majesty the Emperor only allowed Li Banghua, Minister of Military Aircraft, to accept the surrender of Liu Guoneng in his holy decree, and only this once, not as an example, the other thieves did not even have a chance to surrender, and he was even more glad that his eyes and hands were quick to understand the current affairs.

As for Zhang Liwei and Wang Guozhong, Li Banghua is not worried that the emperor will not pardon them, after all, their contributions are absolutely weighty.

If it weren't for the two of them conspiring to murder Wang Jiayin and Wang Er, and causing a big mess in Shennanyu, it would probably not be so easy for the official army to attack Shennanyu, even if there are a large number of Chongzhen rear-loading smoothbore mother cannons that can be used, if you want to capture Shennanyu, I am afraid that it will not be able to take it in ten days and half a month, and I am afraid that you will have to kill and injure thousands of people.

At the same time, Li Banghua was very dissatisfied with the rumors of Hong Chengchou's large-scale killing and surrender of prisoners in Ningxiang, Lishi, Liulinbao and other places, after hearing about all kinds of terrible situations.

Fortunately, Emperor Chongzhen's will came in time, otherwise Li Banghua's impeachment of him would have been on the road.

Of course, although Hong Chengchou's actions were not reported to Li Banghua in advance, they were reported afterwards, but the details of the killing, surrendering and killing of prisoners were all brushed aside, whether it was the pit killing in Ningxiang, the execution of Liulinbao, and the live burial outside the city of Yongning Prefecture, there was only one similar sentence in the report document he sent to Li Banghua:

"The king of thieves in Ningxiang hangs on the left to descend, and when he hears that the stone building is in danger, he is in a hurry, and he will kill him."

"The king of thieves led the people to surrender for his own use, and the leaders under his command were difficult to control, so they rebelled and killed them all."

Hong Chengchou said very simply in the military newspaper, but he couldn't stop all kinds of rumors about how he killed and buried the prisoners of the thief army alive spread rapidly.

Therefore, when Zhang Zongheng, the Shanxi envoy in front of the army, was very dissatisfied with Hong Chengchou's actions, even Li Banghua and Lu Xiangsheng were very dissatisfied with Hong Chengchou's actions.

Although these civil officials from Jinshi are on the front line of suppressing thieves, they still have a feeling of "thieves are also your majesty's children", thinking that thieves are just people who have gone astray.

At this time, it was of course very unpleasant and unbearable to hear that Hong Chengchou, the governor of Shaanxi, a civil official who was born as a scholar, actually regarded these people who had gone astray as enemies and treated the lives of these people as mustard.

However, as soon as Emperor Chongzhen's will arrived, neither of them could say anything more.

Because Hong Chengchou's practice coincides with the meaning behind the emperor's holy decree, and Hong Chengchou himself also has the right to secretly fold things, who can guarantee that Hong Chengchou's cruel method is not the emperor's intention?

Of course, after Li Banghua received Hong Chengchou's military report, he not only forwarded the original text to the military aircraft department of the Beijing Division, but also forwarded the impeachment of Hong Chengchou's impeachment and killing of as many as 30,000 prisoners by Zhang Zongheng, the Shanxi Inspector, to the General Administration Department of the Beijing Division.

But in any case, Hong Chengchou led the army to destroy the thief leader "King of Great Liang" Wang Zuojiao with 20,000 men and horses, and then destroyed the thief leader "Zijin Liang" Wang used 20,000 men and horses under his command, and at the same time captured and killed more than a dozen leaders of the thief army who were famous and well-known and had battalion heads, and no one could cover up this credit.

What's more, Hong Chengchou also asked people to put the heads of Wang Zuohang, Wang Ziyong, Wu Yangui and others, a total of eleven, in a large wine urn, through Ningxiang, all the way to Shennanyu, and after Liu Guoneng, Zhang Liwei and Wang Guozhong's identification, it is undoubtedly confirmed.

This credit, speaking of which, is even greater than that of Sun Chuanting, Lu Xiangsheng, and Wang Guoliang!

Although Li Banghua had some prejudices against Hong Chengchou because of the killing of prisoners, he also recognized Hong Chengchou's contributions, so not long after receiving the news of the great victory in Ningxiang and the victory in Liulinbao, Li Banghua wrote a detailed report on the overall situation on the front line of Shanxi's suppression of thieves to the emperor who was far away in Beijing.

Now Li Banghua has been away from Beijing for half a year, and with the destruction of the main force of thieves in the Shennanyu area, the situation of cracking down on thieves in Shanxi can be regarded as presenting a good situation, and it can be regarded as a temporary end.

Therefore, Li Banghua asked the emperor in the report whether he could entrust the affairs of Shanxi's suppression of thieves to Zhang Xiao, the governor of Shanxi, and Sun Chuanting, the governor of Yansui, to be responsible, and then let his class return to Beijing, and at the same time let Hong Chengchou, the governor of Shaanxi, return to Shaanxi.

In fact, as early as the end of May, Emperor Chongzhen received the good news of the victory of Shennanyu, and at that time, whether it was the cabinet or the military aircraft department, as well as the Jingshi court Shilin, they were all jubilant.

After all, this great victory is equivalent to ending the lair of the main force of the thief army, and Wang Jiayin, the leading brother of all the thieves in northern Shaanxi, also lost his life.

Speaking of which, it is more weighty and has a higher gold content than Sun Chuanting's Jingle victory and Wang Guoliang's Huangluling victory!

As for Zhang Liwei and Wang Guozhong, who conspired to kill Wang Jiayin and Wang Er, Li Banghua of course also mentioned them one by one.

These two people, of course Emperor Chongzhen now knows, especially after being linked to Wang Jiayin's death, Emperor Chongzhen immediately found a memory of this incident in the depths of his mind.

Originally, in history, Wang Jiayin did not die in Shennanyu in the depths of Luliang Mountain, nor did he die in the second year of Chongzhen.

However, he really died at the hands of his brother-in-law Zhang Liwei and his brother Wang Guozhong.

Afterwards, Zhang Liwei, who had made great contributions, was promoted to the deputy general of the Shanxi Town Left Association by the historical Chongzhen Emperor, and Wang Guozhong was also promoted to the deputy general of the Shanxi Town Puzhou Association.

Among them, Zhang Liwei fought against the Later Jin army when the Jin army entered Kou Datong seven years after Chongzhen and attacked Hukou, was seriously wounded and died.

And Wang Guozhong has been fighting on the front line of the battle with thieves from all walks of life, because of a failure in the battle, was dismissed, secluded in Suide, Chongzhen 16 years, Li Zicheng's general Li Guo broke through Suide, Wang Guozhong was arrested.

Li Guo was ordered by Li Zicheng, in order to avenge Wang Jiayin, so Wang Guozhong was killed by a thousand knives.

Therefore, after knowing the ins and outs of Shennanyu's victory, although Emperor Chongzhen was worried that they would surrender and rebel and was unwilling to accept the surrender of the thieves, he was still very relieved that Zhang Liwei and Wang Guozhong, who had killed Wang Jiayin with his own hands in history, and this time he also killed Wang Er, and he was not worried at all that these two people would have any hidden dangers of surrendering and rebelling.

However, after knowing the death of Wang Jiayin and Wang Er, and knowing the next plans of Li Banghua and Lu Xiangsheng, Emperor Chongzhen did not rush to reward this great victory.

Because he knows that after Shennanyu is captured, especially after the death of Wang Jiayin, the first generation of thieves, the thieves around Shennanyu will immediately fall apart.

Sure enough, just when Emperor Chongzhen was figuring out the battle situation of the bandits in Shanxi, Shaanxi, Ningxia, Gansu and other places that had been made in the Wuying Hall for a few days in a row, the new good news report from the Shanxi front was sent to the Beijing Division.