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Chapter 471: Looking westward to Chang'an

Before Li Yuanyin could give orders, the green camp soldiers in the village opened the gate and sent someone to say that they would surrender anyway.

This is really a joy to everyone.

The incident was reported to Lu Si. Lu Si called Sun Youguang to ask the details of the Lantian Green Camp. When they knew that these people were the Ming army first, then the Shun army, and then the Qing army. Now that they were about to transform into the Shun army, Lu Si shook his head with a smile, ordered the Green Camp Qianzong Wang Antai, and then killed him on the spot.

When the big knife was placed on his neck, Wang Antai regretted his intestines became green. If he had known that these thieves would have surrendered, he would rather die than think about it anyway.

"Dog thief, you must die a good death!"

Wang Antai's curse before his death echoed at the foot of the Zhongling Mountain, and even the echo lasted for a long time.

"Kill them all, and leave no one."

Lu Si did not show mercy because these green camp soldiers took the initiative to surrender, but still ordered Li Yuanyin to lead people to kill hundreds of people.

Liu Tichun disagreed with continuing to kill prisoners, believing that it would be enough to kill the Qianzong of the Green Camp, and the rest could be taken in Lantian. The reason was that this place was close to Xi'an. If the killing of prisoners was reported, even if the coalition forces took Xi'an, the Qing army stationed in various places would fight to the death because of the Shun army killing prisoners, which would not help Dashun to restore the situation in Shaanxi.

Lu Si glanced at Liu Tichun and said, "I will talk about killing or not killing after going to Xi'an. If I haven't gone to Xi'an, I will stay in the city and not stay in the city."

Sun Youguang heard this and said to the side: "Governor, this mountain is also called Zhushan, and it is named after it seems to be a fat pig in the distance."

“Good place name.”

Lu Si rode his horse forward and saw an official who looked like a county magistrate and stood by the roadside with several officials. Not far away were road construction workers sitting on the ground.

Seeing that a general of the Shun Army came over, Duan Magistrate Duan's yamen was nervous, and he seemed to be slaughtered by the Shun Army, the Green Camp soldiers were frightened. Before, whether it was the Shun Army or the Qing Army, they did not kill the soldiers who took the initiative to surrender. Why is the Shun Army now starting to kill people randomly?

While nervous, Magistrate Duan felt uneasy. Because the act of following the bandits only killing the Green Camp soldiers showed that they would not treat him as Magistrate, and 80% would rely on him to appease the people of Lantian.

Unexpectedly, the general who was the thief immediately looked at him, then pointed at the horse whip and spit out two words: "Kill."

The word "light" is "light" and before Magistrate Duan and Jiang and others came to their senses, Lu Si had already left.

"I am a Jinshi, I am a Jinshi of the Third Grade!"

The cry of the magistrate from behind made Lu Si turn his head and look at him, and then chuckled to the left and right: "So what if he is the top scorer?"

After saying that, Zhao Zhongyi was ordered to lead a team of soldiers to Lantian County. As for the civilians who were summoned to build roads, they would not be disbanded, leaving 300 people to urge the roads like Green Camp soldiers.

After all, if he really took Xi'an and led Li Guo to Gao Yigong, Li Zicheng was not dead, and Lu Si still wanted to lead the Western Army eastward to rescue his nominal emperor and his real father-in-law.

Then it is crucial to make a passageway.

After Zhao Zhongyi led his troops to Lantian, the soldiers took down Lantian City without bloodshed. When Lu Si led his troops to arrive and climbed the Lantian City wall to look at the west for more than two hours, the east gate of Kyoto in Dashun opened.

It was almost evening, and considering that the soldiers were very tired when crossing the Zhongling Mountain, Lu Si ordered to spend the night in Lantian and set off for Xi'an after dawn.

"What are you looking at?"

Li Cuiwei put the sewn cloak on Lu Si.

"Chang'an, the thousand-year-old imperial capital, what a pity."

Lu Si shook his head and felt a little moved. Now the Guanzhong land is in decline, the population is greatly reduced, and the soil erosion is also severe. He can no longer be the imperial capital. Otherwise, from the perspective of Chinese terrain, Xi'an is more suitable as the capital of China than Beijing.

"If you can recover Xi'an, my father will definitely be happy after he is saved. He will never treat you badly in the future. The title of king is just around the corner."

The extremely smooth progress of the process of advancing west made Li Cuiwei feel inexplicable confidence in Lu Si. It seemed that as long as her man led his troops to the city, Xi'an City would open the city gate by itself and welcome Dashun's son-in-law in.

"It doesn't matter whether you are a king or not. I have never violated my original intention when doing things."

Lu Si smiled faintly, "Do you know which poem I like the most?"

Li Cuiwei asked, "Which song?"

"Huang Chao's "The Unleashed Joker""

Lu Si patted the city bricks with his right hand, "When autumn comes, September 8th, I will kill all the flowers after the flowers bloom. The fragrance array soars into Chang'an, and the whole city is covered with golden armor."

.........

Xi'an.

Meng Qiaofang, the governor of Shaanxi appointed by the Qing court, was originally a deputy general of the Ming Dynasty. In the second year of Chongzhen, the Qing army surrendered to the Qing Dynasty and remained the deputy general. Later, he followed the Qing army to return to Liaodong, and was granted the title of the Han army Meile Ezhen, and was under the Han army's inlaid red flag. Last year, Meng Qiaofang entered the pass with the main force of the Qing army and served as the left assistant minister of the Ministry of Justice.

After Ajige and Duoduo occupied the city of Xi'an, which was abandoned by Li Zicheng, the Qing court considered establishing a governor position in Shaanxi to be responsible for the land of Shaanxi and northwest Gansu.

The surrendered officials of the Ming Dynasty wrote a letter saying that there is much money and food in the south of the Yangtze River, and there are many elite soldiers in Shaanxi and Gansu. To conquer China, neither of them is indispensable.

At the beginning of the year, Meng Qiaofang served as the governor of Shaanxi as the right assistant minister of the Ministry of War and the right deputy censor of the Ministry of War. After taking office, he mainly did three things.

First, transfer the food stored in the Shun Army in Xi'an to chase Li Zicheng's main force of the Qing army.

Second, the Green Camp troops in northern Shaanxi, such as Tang Tong, Jiang Guan, Bai Guangen and other troops entered Gansu to wipe out the local Shun Army and appointed officials to establish local governments.

The third is to send He Zhen, a rebel general of the Shun Army, to lead his troops into Sichuan, hoping to use these Shun Army surrendered troops to attack Zhang Xianzhong, another major thief who was as famous as Li Zicheng.

He Zhen was a subordinate of Fan Yiheng, the former governor of Ningxia of the Ming Dynasty. He surrendered to Li Zicheng in the 14th year of Chongzhen. After Li Zicheng gave up Xi'an at the beginning of the year, He Zhen believed that Li Zicheng had no emperor's prime minister, and now there is no possibility of Dashun taking the tripod, so he joined Luo Dai, Meng'an, Guo Dengxian and other Shun army generals surrendered to the Qing Dynasty in Hanzhong and was appointed as the general of Hanzhong by Prince Ajigezha.

In March, when Li Guo, Gao Yigong, Li You, Tian Hu and other generals led 100,000 soldiers of the Western Route Army to enter Sichuan through Hanzhong, they were ambushed by He Zhen and lost thousands of people.

He Zhen and other surrendered generals of the Shun army had more than 20,000 soldiers, most of which were border troops in the former Ming Dynasty in Ningxia towns, so they had high combat effectiveness.

However, although He Zhen and others surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, they refused to shave their hair like those green camp soldiers. This made Meng Qiaofang deeply suspicious and believed that these thieves still had the intention of being disobedient in their bones. In addition, most of the soldiers and horses who rebeled in the past had surrendered to the Ming Dynasty and rebelled again. Last year, Ma Shiyao from Tongguan was a living example, so Meng Qiaofang wrote to Beijing to propose that the Shaanxi-Gansu Shun Army should be sent to attack Sichuan.

This is a strategy of killing two birds with one stone. It can not only point to the former Ming border troops, but also greatly consume these surrendered soldiers without using one Qing army.

Dorgon immediately agreed with Meng Qiaofang's opinion and made him fully responsible for the plunder of Sichuan.

When the Shunhuai coalition forces entered Lantian County, Meng Qiaofang, who was 100 miles away in Xi'an City, was busy sending troops to hunt down the rebellious demon Hu Shoulong.

This Hu Shoulong was originally a Taoist priest from a Taoist temple outside Xi'an City. After the Qing army captured Xi'an, Hu Shoulong decided to fight against the Qing Dynasty. Five days ago, he gathered people to fight against the Qing Dynasty under the name of Burning Zhu. He led tens of thousands of people to claim to be Xu Huigong and changed his reign to Qingguang, which made a great news.

The rebel army was active in Jingyang, Weinan, Gaoling and other places. The local Qing army green camp was unable to suppress it, so they had to ask for help from the governor of Xi'an.

There were not many garrison troops in Xi'an, with a total of more than 4,000 people.

Meng Qiaofang, who was afraid that Hu Shoulong's reign would become more and more intense, causing Shaanxi to be decayed again, had to send deputy general Chen De to lead 3,000 battalions of troops to Weinan to quell the rebellion.
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