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Chapter 659
After reading the letter, Zhu Yousong handed it to Song Xiance and Liu Zhaoji for circulation. He already had a plan in mind to break Phoenix Mountain.

"It seems that there has been a split in the Western Army. I wonder what your Majesty's next plan will be?" After reading the letter, Song Xiance and Liu Zhaoji handed the letter to Zhu Yousong.

"It's a good thing that Zhang Xianzhong wants to surrender to me. If someone obstructs him, just try to kill him. After I write a letter to Mu Tianbo, then write a letter to Sun Kewang."

"Your Majesty wants to use countermeasures?" Song Xiance guessed Zhu Yousong's thoughts. His Majesty can recruit a criminal like Zhang Xianzhong. It's really the emperor's kindness, but will he learn from Li Zicheng?
"I know you too, sir." Zhu Yousong smiled and nodded.

"It's a good plan, but your majesty, this piece of Xianzhong is a repeated thief. When the first emperor Chongzhen was in power, he used tricks to surrender. I'm afraid it may not be true this time. It's also unknown whether Zhang Xianzhong really came. Come on, Your Majesty should also pay attention to this person, donating thieves, trespassing thieves, and raccoon dogs." Liu Zhaoji expressed what Song Xiance thought.

Of course Zhu Yousong thought of this. The reason why Zhang Xianzhong and Li Zicheng turned against each other was because Chongzhen was not ruthless enough.

Therefore, he said disapprovingly: "I have my own opinion, no matter whether Zhang Xianzhong surrendered for real or not, this Sun Kewang must never stay. Serve me with pen and ink..."

In history, Sun Kewang was a cunning person. Later, he became a traitor when he surrendered the Tartars, and now he has become a stumbling block to stop the plan to destroy the West, so Zhu Yousong has prejudice against him.

The great eunuch Li Guofu waited on him. Zhu Yousong spread out the rice paper, held the pen in his hand, thought for a while, and then wrote dragon and snake, brushed and brushed, and quickly wrote two letters. After Li Guofu dried it, Zhu Yousong After reviewing it again, I found that there was nothing wrong with it, so I used the jade seal and asked someone to shoot the two letters to Nanshan with arrows...

The southern mountain of Phoenix Mountain is Mu Tianbo's defense zone.Now he has 1 Yunnan troops. Knowing that his troops are weak, Zhang Xianzhong sent him a deputy general with [-] troops, a total of [-] people defending here. The main general here is of course Mu Tianbo, the Duke of Qian. , Mu Tianbo has surrendered to Daming, and secretly exchanged songs with Zhu Yousong.

Now the Great Western Army in Phoenix Mountain is no longer monolithic, at least it is composed of three factions.Mu Tianbo's Dian army was clearly loyal to Daxi, but secretly surrendered to Daming, which is regarded as a faction.

Those who were truly loyal to Zhang Xianzhong were Daxi's loyal ministers, and there was another faction, represented by the Queen of the Palace Li Na, the King of Funan Liu Wenxiu, and the Prime Minister of Zuoban Yan Ximing.

After the battle at Shimen Bridge, the strength of the Daxi Army was wounded. After Sun Kewang and Liu Wenxiu returned to the mountain with the remnants of the defeated army, they dealt a great blow to the Daxi King Zhang Xianzhong, especially now that the capital was lost. The entire army in the county was wiped out, the soldiers were defeated and captured, life and death are unknown, he relied on the four kings, that is, his four godsons, now these four are dead, those captured are captured, those who lose the battle are defeated, Zhang Xianzhong My heart was completely cold, and I already had a surrender in my heart.

However, Wang Sun Kewang of Pingdong strongly opposed the surrender, and he was the representative of the third faction.

Of these three factions, Sun Kewang is the most powerful. Sun Kewang has a high position and power, second only to Zhang Xianzhong. Now he has the most soldiers under his command, more than [-]. Prime Minister Wang Zhaolin on the right and Wang Shangli, the chief general of the Chinese army, are all his confidantes.

On the surface, Sun Kewang opposed the surrender because he was loyal to Zhang Xianzhong and vowed to defend the Daxi regime to the death, but in fact Sun Kewang had selfish intentions. If Zhang Xianzhong surrendered, even if Zhu Yousong did not punish him, he would not be able to be the prince of Daxi. If he didn't succeed, he was unwilling to follow his godfather and surrender. Fundamentally speaking, he couldn't let go of his position and power.

It has to be said that Sun Kewang is a cunning person. This time he was defeated and returned to Phoenix Mountain. He was afraid that Zhang Xianzhong would punish him, so he tried his best to shirk his responsibility and cover up his fault.He attributed the loss of the capital to the fact that Li Dingguo was defeated and captured. In the battle of Shimen Bridge, it was obvious that he fell into Zhu Yousong's strategy and was dragged to exhaustion. The responsibility for this battle was first shifted to Li Dingguo, saying that Li Dingguo's defeat caused him to fall into the trap, and later he shifted the responsibility to Mu Tianbo's Yunnan Army for the blocking and breakout battles. Anyway, he was not responsible.

Zhang Xianzhong had the intention of descending to the Ming Dynasty, but he was the emperor of a country, so he couldn't say it in person, so he found a spokesperson, Yan Ximing, as the Prime Minister of Zuo, to persuade Zhang Xianzhong to submit to Ming Dynasty, and Zhang Xianzhong asked other ministers, Liu Wenxiu, King of Funan Both Sun Kewang and Qian Guogong Mu Tianbo agreed to surrender. Sun Kewang was furious and opposed it vigorously, and slandered Liu Wenxiu and Mu Tianbo for having two hearts against Zhang Xianzhong. In a series of chains, Mu Tianbo and Liu Wenxiu were ordered to beheaded immediately. Mu Tianbo and Liu Wenxiu shouted that they were wronged. When employing people.Zhang Xianzhong sent an order to Sun Kewang to let them go.

From then on, the mountain was divided into three factions.Mu Tianbo could see that Zhang Xianzhong's reliance on Sun Kewang had reached the point of obeying his words, and he was afraid that he would be harmed by him if he stayed, so he planned to leave with the team in the name of returning to Yunnan to move troops to King Qin, and then defected to Zhu Yousong, so he wrote a letter Please explain why.

Mu Tianbo was the chief general guarding Nanshan, which made it very convenient for him to communicate secretly with Zhu Yousong. Soon two letters from the Ming army were sent to Mu Tianbo's tent by a confidant general. Mu Tianbo was thinking As for this matter, seeing Zhu Yousong's handwriting quickly and respectfully received it, it turned out that there were two letters, one was for him, and the other was for Sun Kewang, Mu Tianbo couldn't wait to open it That letter was written to him.

After reading it, he was overjoyed, "Your Majesty is really smart, little Sun, this time it's your luck!"

After Mu Tianbo understood the letter Zhu Yousong wrote to him, he changed into new clothes, hid the letter Zhu Yousong wrote to Sun Kewang on his body, and then brought his trusted generals Long Zaitian, Wang Yangzu and his personal guards to set up Qiling See Zhang Xianzhong in the imperial camp.

Over the past month or so, Zhang Xianzhong has lost two and a half circles of weight.He was a little bit overwhelmed, he never dreamed that the defeat would be irreversible, Sun Kewang, Li Dingguo, Liu Wenxiu, the godsons he relied on, were useless at the critical moment of this king and that king, and Zhu Yousongming came to defeat one and two. One loses a pair, and three loses a pair and a half.

The 40 million horses are gone as long as they say they are gone. The large land from Yichang to Jiujiang is lost if they are lost. , although there are dangerous mountains and impenetrable fortifications, the Ming army will not be able to attack half of the time, but how long can it last?Have you been staying on the mountain?Aifei Li Na's body is getting heavier and heavier every day, and she will give birth in three months. God bless me!

After thinking about it, he still thinks that it is feasible to return to Daming with pain and love, but Sun Kewang has a heavy army in his hand, but he insists on fighting Zhu Yousong to the end. As a godfather and Emperor Daxi, how could he order him to die? Make him surrender?He found it difficult to make up his mind...

At this moment, Mu Tianbo begged to see...

(End of this chapter)