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Chapter 270
Huang Degong heard Shen Shuren remind him to be careful when chasing Li Zicheng, he was a little puzzled for a while, and felt that Shen Futai was too cautious.

In his opinion, Li Zicheng has been defeated like this, does he dare to jump over the wall and fight back?

However, considering Shen Futai's consistent foresight, regardless of whether he understands it or not, Huang Degong still verbally agreed for the time being, expressing that he will be careful.

Shen Shuren also turned to Zhang Mingzhen, and ordered together: "The follow-up trip to Kaifeng has well-developed waterways. It is also safest to have Laozhang Township and General Huang to cooperate with each other by land and water.

Our army has the advantage of a navy, and the Yingchuan River is wide and easy to navigate. In the past two days, we have removed all the hidden reefs and hidden piles left by the invading army, and then advanced along the river to ensure an invincible position. "

Zhang Mingzhen is not as fierce and fierce as Huang Degong. He was not even a general at the time, so he followed the Shen family and was picked out by Shen Shuren to take part in some battles. Later, he was promoted to general, deputy general, and general .

Therefore, his gratitude and absolute obedience to the Shen family is even higher than that of Huang Degong.Whether he understands Shen Shuren's words or not, he will strictly implement them, even if it seems to delay the opportunity of the battle, it doesn't matter.

Huang Degong pouted at the side. He wasn't dissatisfied, but he just felt that he would miss some opportunities to chase and annihilate the enemy to expand the results of the battle.

If you want to destroy these hidden reef fortifications left by Li Zicheng, you will have to delay for two more days before leaving after opening the waterway!How cool it was to keep biting each other's tails and chasing after them!

And only Shen Shuren knew what he was worried about—in history, during Li Zicheng's three attacks on Kaifeng, there was an incident of the Yellow River bursting and flooding.Although the situation has changed so much now, who knows if there will be another chance to break the dike again?
He only needs to know that Li Zicheng's human standard is to dare to dig the Yellow River when necessary, that's enough, and he can't gamble on the rest.

Because even if Li Zicheng no longer urgently needs to dig the Yellow River to flood the city, he can still rely on digging the Yellow River to stop the enemy from pursuing him. This kind of use of the Yellow River has also been done in later history, and Li Zicheng will do it. It was nothing more than a slight embellishment of Chang Kaishen's deeds.

Let Huang Degong always follow the warship and advance together, so as to prevent the officers and soldiers from being drowned to the greatest extent.

As for the delay in the pursuit, Shen Shuren was not too worried.

Because Shen Shuren's primary purpose in beating Li Zicheng was to ensure that Li Zicheng would be hurt and frightened, and to dig out the seed in his heart that "Southerners are not good at fighting, but they are rich and worthy of killing and robbing", forcing Li Zicheng to only dare to go. North development.

Secondly, it is to give Chongzhen an explanation.

Therefore, as long as Li Zicheng was beaten away, Shen Shuren didn't mind killing fewer people.Anyway, this is something Chongzhen and Sun Chuanting should worry about. From now on, until Chongzhen's death, Li Zicheng will no longer be a trouble to Shen Shuren.

And what Shen Shuren expects most is obviously that Li Zicheng, Sun Chuanting, and Chongzhen can quickly decide the outcome, try to end the matter with as few deaths as possible, and then he'd better be able to fight for a little longer than the same period in history.

No matter how many people died in the civil war of the Han nationality, it is meaningless. The purpose of the civil war is to hurt the other party only to stop the war.The most perfect state, of course, is to let the northern Han people who originally needed to die in battle die as much as possible in the battle with the Tartars.

So on this point, Shen Shuren's position is actually slightly different from that of Huang Degong and Zhang Mingzhen, and he doesn't need to explain, as long as he uses the excuse of "safety and prudence is the most important thing" to prevaricate it first, so that they have to guarantee implementation if they don't understand. .

When the dust settles, they'll thank themselves.

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On the night after the battle, everyone was tired, so they didn't talk about more military plans.

Shen Shuren drank a few bowls of spirits with Huang Degong very face-savingly, and then the people from all walks of life arranged their own rest.As for the rewards after the victory, the badge of celebration, of course, will not be pulled down, but there is no rush.

In the early morning of the next day, the officers and soldiers began to dismantle all kinds of obstacles built by the Chuangjun on the Yingchuan River section south of Chenxian County.

Moreover, taking advantage of the time when the troops were actually carrying out water conservancy renovations, Shen Shuren pretended to be "temporary" when he was inspecting his subordinates to dismantle the cofferdam of the Chuangjun. He just thought of a possibility, so he casually reminded him in good faith:

"From the actions of the Chuangjun on both sides of the Yingchuan River, it is not difficult to see that Li Zicheng did not hesitate to build dams on the river in order to win the battle, and even obstructed and forced the river to divert to achieve his military goals.

Going to Kaifeng here, Kaifeng City is not far from the Yellow River, and the Yellow River has been in disrepair for a long time, and the dams often need to be reinforced. If Li Zicheng wants to stop the enemy and prevent us from chasing him, it is entirely possible that the levee will burst and harm our army, so it is even more important to advance by land and water Be careful, there must be no disconnect between the two armies. "

After hearing the words, Huang Degong and Zhang Mingzhen were quite surprised, and said in unison: "Li Zicheng is not so mad, is he?"

Shen Shuren spread his hands helplessly: "I hope it won't happen, be careful and make no big mistakes."

Zhang Mingzhen couldn't bear it, and discussed in a probing tone: "Is it possible to march in a hurry to prevent him from doing this? If we delay here for a day or two, won't we give Li Zicheng more opportunities to do it?"

Shen Shuren shook his head: "How much time will it take to dig the Yellow River embankment? No matter how fast we go, as long as Li Zicheng makes up his mind, it will be impossible to stop it in time.

Rather than being in a hurry, it is better to be fully prepared and make a decision before making a move. For example, prepare more boats before going, so that even if the Yellow River floods, more boats can save more people. "

Zhang Mingzhen was silent for a long time, and sighed: "That's the only way to go. It's best that Li Zicheng isn't so crazy."

Shen Shuren: "Then you should prepare well here. I'm leaving today. I'll bring some guards back to Xinyang to pay respects to King Lu and King Fu, and then we'll make a long-term plan. You should be able to handle the war here."

Huang Degong and Zhang Mingzhen both bowed their hands and saluted respectfully. When it was time, Zhang Mingzhen suddenly remembered a military situation that he forgot to report last night, and added to Shen Shuren:
"Shen Futai, I will remember the news I received a few days ago. It was received by your cousin Zhang Huangyan, the prefect of Jingzhou, and conveyed through General Liu Guoneng.

In fact, the news was sent to Xinyang and other places four days ago, and I asked you to pass it on to you. It's just because Chen County was besieged, the water and grain roads were cut off, and there was no internal and external news, so I kept forgetting to tell you. "

During the decisive battle yesterday, Shen Shuren was able to make an appointment with Zhang Mingzhen and Huang Degong, and there was only one or two hours before and after they arrived at the battlefield. days.

After Shen Lian entered the city for the last time, and before the decisive battle yesterday, there were indeed five or six days of "offline time".Therefore, it is not surprising that Zhang Mingzhen said that Shen Shuren did not know the latest information sent to Xinyang Mansion four days ago.

Shen Shuren didn't take it seriously either. Since the other party didn't say anything last night, it must not be very important news. He just asked Zhang Mingzhen to speak slowly.

Zhang Mingzhen clasped his hands and played the newspaper carefully: "The magistrate Zhang came to report four days ago, saying that seven or eight days ago, the scouts he sent had observed Zhang Xianzhong's last remnant defenders in Zigui and Wuxian. There is a change.

Originally, in August, Sun Kewang had already withdrawn most of Zhang Xianzhong's troops from Zigui and Wu counties, and went south to join forces with Zhang Xianzhong in western Hunan. The number of bandit troops in these two counties was greatly reduced. Gradually reduced to only a few thousand.

But the last few thousand people did not leave for a long time, as if they felt that the food, materials, and mountain and wild products in Zigui, Wu County, and other places could support thousands of soldiers.

So a captain under Sun Kewang's command came up with the idea of ​​standing on his own mountain. He was ordered to be cut off by Sun Kewang, and then followed up after the withdrawal of the friendly troops, but in the end he did not withdraw.

However, this situation only lasted for about one and a half months. More than ten days ago, the scouts of the prefect Zhang discovered that the Zigui bandit army was moving again, and more than half of them withdrew again. The scene was chaotic.

Zhang Zhifu suspected that Zhang Xianzhong's army must have made a breakthrough in another direction and obtained a more fertile base, so he made up his mind to transfer the whole army.Zhang Zhifu was quite courageous, so he personally led the Yiling soldiers left behind by the former governor Fang, and went upstream to make a surprise attack in an attempt to recover Wu County and Zigui.

In the end, he succeeded in a sneak attack. Nine days ago, he wiped out the slowest-running Zhang Xianzhong's rear troops, captured 2000 people, and recovered these two counties. It should have been the fifth day of November at that time.

After recovering the second county, Zhang Zhifu also opened up the waterway through the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River to get in touch with central Shu, so he immediately sent dozens of light sentinel boats, personally led the team, and explored the way against the current lightly.After two days of sailing, on the seventh day of the lunar new year, they approached Fengjie Baidi City where the Sichuan Army was stationed.

The Sichuan army stationed in Fengjie was [-] white soldiers under the command of Mrs. Qin Liangyu, the commander-in-chief of Shizhu arranged by Governor Shao Jiechun.When Zhang Zhifu's sentry fleet approached Qutang Gorge, Qin Zongbing also sent people to investigate carefully, and only after confirming that it was a friendly army did he let him into the city for a meeting.

As a result, Zhang Zhifu only found out why the remnants of Zhang Xianzhong who stayed in Wu County and Zigui were eager to detour south and go to other places after meeting Qin Zongbing. ,

In the end, on October 26th, they entered Bozhou (Zunyi) in southern Sichuan from Tongren Mansion in central Guizhou, and then went down the Chishui River from Bozhou to the Yangtze River, arrived in the hinterland of southern Sichuan, and besieged Chongqing!
It took Zhang Xianzhong only five days to travel from Bozhou to Chongqing. The siege began on the second day of November. Chongqing was empty, and the defenders were caught off guard.Qin Zongbing in Fengjie got the news that when he knew that something happened in the hinterland behind him, Chongqing had already been broken.

When Zhang Zhifu arrived, Qin Zongbing was planning to rectify his troops, go upstream along the Yangtze River, and go back to fight against Zhang Xianzhong.But after Zhang Zhifu learned of the situation, he persuaded her not to act rashly for the time being.

Anyway, Chongqing has been lost, and Qin Zongbing only has [-] white soldiers, many of them are newly recruited, not the elites of the direct line who have fought for many years. With this number of people alone, they may not be able to defeat Zhang Xianzhong.

Zhang Zhifu made his own claim, saying that he will report to you immediately, saying that you are anxious for justice, jealous of evil, and hate Zhang Xianzhong as a thief, so maybe you will be willing to give Qin Zongbing reinforcements.

Zhang Zhifu also explained to Qin Zongbing that he had heard that Qin Zongbing had urged Governor Shao several times to divide his troops to strictly guard the dangerous places in Sichuan, and not just guard Qutang Gorge in Baidi City. Governor Shao refused to listen and felt that Insufficient troops can only focus on defense, which has led to today's disaster.Let Qin Zongbing don't worry about the court's crimes, and don't make rash advances out of fear of crimes.

Qin Zongbing calmed down after listening to Zhang Zhifu's repeated urging, so he wrote a letter and asked Zhang Zhifu to send it to Futai Master to ask for help on behalf of the generals and people in Central Sichuan. "

As Zhang Mingzhen said, he asked someone to find the request letter sent by Qin Liangyu through Zhang Huangyan.It was impossible for this letter to be delivered sooner. There was no difference in the time difference between taking it out last night and this morning. Anyway, it was impossible for Shen Shuren to deal with this matter last night.

After Shen Shuren heard the words, he was really surprised for a while, then carefully read Qin Liangyu's request letter, and said after deliberation:
"I couldn't get rid of Zhang Xianzhong's crimes because I was too slow to attack at the beginning. I also have a certain responsibility. But now that the emperor's order is in my body, I can't personally send troops to reinforce Qin Zongbing immediately.

What's more, the battle against Li Zicheng here still needs the last five or six days of mopping up and enclosing the surrounding areas of Kaifeng.It can only be prepared first, and the troops on the second line that can be rested and reorganized are transferred back to Jingzhou and Yiling Prefecture, or go to Zigui, Wu County, and prepare to enter Sichuan.

The final order still has to wait for the imperial court's decree. We can't use the imperial court's soldiers and horses to do whatever we want in private.But I will write back first to reassure Mr. Qin. When she wrote to me asking for help, she should have sent someone to the capital to report urgent requests at the same time, right?When my men and horses are mobilized in place, the decree should come down.

I will write another book here, and send someone to send it to the capital urgently, to Fang Kongxuan, Fang Shishu, who is still in the capital to help inquire about the operation.Let him also urge from the side trustees, and persuade the close ministers around His Majesty to send troops to rescue Sichuan as soon as possible.Qin Zongbing lacked contacts in the capital, and her letter of appeal for help followed the normal process of the Ministry of War, so it might not be approved so quickly.Let's help push it so that it doesn't go wrong. "

Zhang Mingzhen and others saw that Master Futai handled it properly, so they didn't say any more, and they went to fulfill their duties without mentioning it.

Shen Shuren didn't think much about it. After thinking for a while, he wrote a confidential letter to Fang Kongzhang in one go, explaining everything that should be explained, and then found a confidant, brought a group of guard cavalry, and immediately rode away. Take an urgent detour to the capital.

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PS: Regarding yesterday's content, let me explain and analyze a few words.Some people feel sorry for Li Guo's death, because Li Guo has resisted the Qing Dynasty in history.But what I want to say is that under Li Zicheng's command, there was not only one general who later resisted the Qing Dynasty in history.

In history, Li Guo was able to succumb to softness. An important factor was that Li Zicheng died at the hands of the local Xiangyong armed forces for no apparent reason, not at the hands of the genuine officials of the Southern Ming court. Therefore, a solution was found for both parties. Down the stairs of hatred.

But in my book, it is definitely impossible for Li Zicheng to die at the hands of such a young man—in history, Li Zicheng went south to beat Zuo Liangyu, and Zuo Liangyu ran away, so he died at the hands of Xiao Xiao.But in this time and space, could Shen Shuren be as cowardly as Zuo Liangyu and run away?

I don't want to spoil, so here I just talk about the character design, talk about the position, and don't say much else, I just say that the protagonist will not run away.

In addition, many people have always justified Li Zicheng's traitorous attributes, in order to attract fans and make money, all kinds of whitewashing.I have poor grades anyway, and it's impossible for me to lie for money.

Therefore, it is impossible for me to allow any blood relatives of Li Zicheng to lead the remnants of the Chuang army in the future.The relationship between Li Guo and Li Zicheng is different from the relationship between Li Dingguo and Zhang Xianzhong. Li Dingguo has done much more credit than Li Guo in history, and Li Dingguo has no blood relationship with Zhang Xianzhong.

Let me just say one thing - under what circumstances did Li Zicheng go south in the first year of Hongguang?It was because he couldn't fight the Qing army again, so he wanted to fight Nanming and Zuo Liangyu to grab the territory, money and food, and the blood of the population.This is a typical case of "unable to win a foreign war, and actively provoke a larger national civil war." In contrast, although the Nanming had the slogan of uniting with the captives and suppressing the bandits at that time, they were actually unable to make the Northern Expedition, and they just held their own territory.

Therefore, to say that Li Zicheng has the historical sin of "further instigating and expanding the Han civil war when the Tartars have already entered the customs" is absolutely unacceptable.Before Chongzhen died, he fought against the Ming Dynasty. This is no problem. This is a peasant war. But Chongzhen is dead. The Tartars have been fighting with him for so long. Traitor What is this?
Some people may say, "There's nothing wrong with running away when he can't fight. He just happens to be in the north, so why should he carry the Tartars?" Then I will say: before Chongzhen died, Chongzhen had always been fighting on both sides. If Chongzhen didn't bear the damage from both sides, he might not even be able to die.

Since he wants to rob Beijing and kill Chongzhen, he should be responsible for taking that position. If he does not resist the Qing Dynasty but continues to expand the civil war after taking that position, he is a traitor.

What's more, his situation is much better than that of Chongzhen. Chongzhen was really attacked by two sides, and Nanming, who was south of Li Zicheng, was at most just sitting on the mountain and watching the tigers fight, and had no strength to attack him.

On the issue of national integrity, Chongzhen was at least a hundred times stronger than Li Zicheng.Chongzhen rubbish is rubbish that is self-willed, wanting face, and killing ministers indiscriminately to shirk responsibility, but Chongzhen's national integrity is absolutely fine. hard.

For the sake of political correctness and to attract peasant army fans, many people beautify as long as it is peasant army.
I can only say that Li Zicheng is fine in terms of class resistance, but he has problems in terms of national righteousness. Nationality and class nature are two issues. relevant.

This is a complicated world, why must it be made into "good people are completely good people, and bad people are completely bad people"?A bad person in terms of nationality, and a good person in terms of class, can't the two dimensions of investigation be different?
(End of this chapter)