Back to the end of Ming Dynasty to be a warlord

Chapter 510 Still Infighting
New book for collection: "The Rise of Great Powers 1900"

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Being humiliated by this, Wu Fengsheng naturally wouldn't have anything good to say, and he said a lot of bad things in front of Sun Kewang.

But Sun Kewang was very tempted, and after patiently listening to Wu Fengsheng's complaints, he immediately asked him to invite Xu Sinan.

Sun Kewang had a big banquet with Xu Sinan. At the banquet, he said that he was a gentleman and had no respect for a prince. Wu Fengsheng was very annoyed and hated himself for not knowing people. This Sun Kewang is not a big deal at all.

But Sun Kewang could see clearly that the bullshit prince and the land of three provinces are all fake.

Only the knife in the hand is real.

Yang Chao promised to help him recall the old department, and this really touched Sun Kewang's heart.

Although he was defeated by Li Dingguo and fled afterwards, no one opened the city gate to let him in along the way. It seemed that the hearts of the people were devastated, but Sun Kewang was still very confident, and there were still a group of his confidants in the Daxi Army.

Zhang Sheng and Wang Ziqi guarding Yunnan, these two are his subordinates who have been fighting bloody battles with him, they are completely trustworthy, otherwise they would not be allowed to guard Yunnan, and the rest of them are probably waiting and watching. As long as he has Yang Chao's help, he can also recruit a group of people. It should be no problem to recruit 10 people.

As for Yang Chao saying that he would only be given Guizhou, this is not a problem at all. Sun Kewang used to have only one Yunnan. With soldiers in hand, what belongs to him is still his.

So Sun Kewang entertained Xu Siman warmly, saying that he and Yang Chao had also been friends for a long time and admired Yunyun very much.

When Xu Sixan and Sun Kewang reached an agreement, in Yunnan, Yang Chao's envoy had already completed the negotiation with the imperial court.

Li Dingguo caught Zhang Sheng and was going to behead him. Yang Chao's envoy asked the court to pardon Zhang Sheng. This envoy still needs to be given some face, because this envoy is none other than Zhu Cihuan's brother Zhu Cijiong.

Xu Siman was chosen as the envoy beside Sun Kewang because Xu Siman was from the military, and the envoy who went to negotiate with the imperial court must have a certain status. Obviously, Yang Chao's brother-in-law is very suitable.

However, Zhu Cijiong was not very happy to go, and his younger sister Yang Yue didn't want her husband to go to that kind of place, so it didn't work to cry with Yang Chao, but Yang Chao promised to send elite soldiers to protect them, which made the couple feel a little more at ease.

Zhu Cijiong brought a letter from his elder brother Hongguang Emperor Zhu Cihuang, and humbly admitted in his heart that he lost the world because of his own failure of virtue, and praised his younger brother Zhu Cihuan for his great contributions to the country. Jiangshan.

This letter made Zhu Cihuan very happy, which means that the old emperor recognized the legitimacy of his throne, publicized it among the officials, and vowed to lament the brotherhood between him and his brother.

Because this letter was enough for Zhu Cijiong to get Zhu Cihuan's support. Afterwards, Zhu Cijiong proposed to pardon Sun Kewang. The foundation of the ancestors and the overall situation of the country should be the top priority. Sun Kewang's subordinates should not be killed. Zhu Cihuan fully agreed. , so what the emperor said was what he said.

Everything went well, Yang Chao successfully persuaded both parties, and it is very possible to keep the elite soldiers of the Daxi Army, especially the elite cavalry under Li Dingguo who can compete head-on with the elite cavalry of the Manchu Qing. Unfortunately, things will never go so smoothly.

Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu joined forces to defeat Sun Kewang, but there was a gap between them.

After defeating Sun Kewang, the situation in Yunnan and Guizhou was still dangerous. Zhang Sheng and Wang Ziqi were attacking Kunming. Li Dingguo immediately led his troops back to help, while Liu Wenxiu was in charge of chasing Sun Kewang in Guizhou.

Li Dingguo successfully defeated Zhang Sheng and saved the emperor's safety, but Liu Wenxiu let Sun Kewang run away.

Li Dingguo was a little dissatisfied with this.

Afterwards, Liu Wenxiu was in charge of Guizhou, and soon surrendered to Sun Kewang's former troops who stayed in Guizhou. At this time, Guizhou stabilized, and Liu Wenxiu wrote to Emperor Longwu to move to Guiyang.

The reason why Sun Kewang has been in Guiyang is because Guizhou communicates with Yunnan and Hunan, he can attack Jingxiang by going north, and attack Sichuan and Shu by going west. To put it bluntly, Guizhou is where the emperor should sit.

But Li Dingguo was narrow-minded, thinking that Liu Wenxiu seemed to be trying to hold the emperor back, so he immediately threatened to resign.

The emperor naturally had no choice but to appease him politely, and finally gave up his plan to go to Guiyang, and Li Dingguo was satisfied. Obviously, between Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu, the emperor trusted Li Dingguo, and he chose Li Dingguo.

This made Liu Wenxiu very dissatisfied. He didn't want to coerce the emperor, but he was sincerely considering the overall situation. He was awarded the title of King of Shu, and Li Dingguo was awarded the title of King of Jin. He planned to invite the emperor to sit in Guizhou. The Lubei Expedition ended up being misunderstood, so he also made a fuss, went back to Yunnan directly, handed over all the power to Li Dingguo, and didn't plan to meddle in world affairs.

These messages were sent back to Yang Chao continuously.

Yang Chao had returned to Nanjing at this time, and the offensive of the northern Qing army finally stopped.

Obviously, the Qing army gained nothing. More than 20 Eight Banners soldiers attacked Shandong and [-] attacked Henan, but they were all repelled by Yang's army. Unable to attack Kaifeng, and in the direction of Shandong, although Zhao Kang and Li Wuliu did not do much, they can already compete with the Eight Banners of the Qing army in the desert (Monan and Mobei). The habits of the Mongols, the soldiers are trained enough elite.

"The Qing court has run out of things. It is reported that the Qing court's distrust of Hong Chengchou has reached its limit, and even Dorgon is not too worried about Hong Chengchou."

Yang Chao received news from the north that the Qing court was very dissatisfied with Hong Chengchou, the most direct reason being Hong Chengchou's abandonment of Wuchang.

"Hehe, Hong Chengchou, an old man, did a business that lost money."

Huang Fengfu also laughed.

At that time, Sun Kewang was attacking Wuchang, and at the same time, he made a posture of fighting with Yang Chao. Hong Chengchou took the risk of giving up Wuchang in order to let Sun Kewang fight Yang Chao, hoping that Sun Kewang could attack Yang Chao with peace of mind.

As a result, he underestimated Sun Kewang and was played hard by Sun Kewang. After Sun Kewang occupied Wuchang, he immediately went south to fight Li Dingguo.

At this time, it was impossible for Hong Chengchou to take back Wuchang. He sent thousands of small boats down the Hanshui River, but they were beaten into planks by Yang Chao's fleet. With Yang Chao's powerful navy, he would never be able to get closer. It's Wuchang.

What the Qing court saw was that after losing Wuchang, when Sun Kewang and Li Dingguo were fighting, they had no way to take action at all, and lost a great opportunity to recover Hunan.

"Uncle, uncle, the princess is about to be born!"

At this moment, a servant rushed to the study to report.

Yang Chao has been staying at home for the past few days, presiding over all military and government affairs in the study, because the two wives are due to give birth.

Yang Chao hurriedly told Huang Fengfu: "Fengfu, you have to work hard. We must protect the Great Western Army and persuade Li Dingguo and Sun Kewang to join us in the Northern Expedition, so that next year we will be able to drive the Qing army out of the Great Wall in one fell swoop!"

After speaking, Yang Chao hurried to Auntie Zhu's place, but was blocked in the delivery room.

(End of this chapter)