In September, in order to coordinate Huguang, Lu Sidi divided Huguang into Hunan and Hubei provinces.

The provincial governments of the two provinces are Changsha and Wuchang respectively.

As the governor of Hubei, Lu Si ordered Zheng Biao, the governor of Huai'an, Jiangbei Province, to serve as the governor of Wuchang.

Zheng Biao was the first Ming Dynasty official to surrender to the Huai Army. His ability to govern and manage finances was highly valued by Lu Si. He was a rare pragmatic official. He was the best choice for stabilizing the situation in Hubei by him.

As the candidate for the governor of Hunan, Lu Si made a decision that surprised the Shun Army, that is, to appoint Li Guoying, who surrendered with the Ming Hubei Governor Zhang Kuang, as the governor of Hunan in Dashun.

This appointment is incredible even Li Guoying himself.

Lu Si tried his best to defeat other people and insisted on appointing Li Guoying as the governor of Hunan. What he valued was Li Guoying's government affairs ability.

This person was not good at leading troops, but he was outstanding in local governance and was an excellent logistics support officer. In the past life, the Qing Dynasty used Meng Qiaofang as the governor of Gansu and Shaanxi, and Li Guoying as the governor of Sichuan, which ensured that the Qing army had the ability to continue to march into the southwest.

At present, Sichuan is making a big move to Yunnan and Guizhou, and Hunan is bound to be involved in the war in the southwest. Therefore, Lu Si is interested in Li Guoying as the governor of Hunan and uses his ability to further ensure Dashun's strategy for the southwest region.

As for the surrender of Hubei Governor Zhang Kuang, Lu Si issued an edict to transfer him to Beijing to serve in the Censorate, which was considered a decent job for retirement.

Other Ming Dynasty officials who surrendered to the surrender period remained in their original positions, and the Ministry of Personnel organized personnel to inspect and select the grades to serve as officials.

Overall, Lu Si adopted a pacification policy for Hunan and Hubei provinces. However, Lu Si, the Xinshun Army formed by surrendering to the Ming army, issued a clear imperial edict to prohibit the plundering of the people and even slaughtering the city. However, if any violations are violated, the clan will be punished.

This intention effectively restricted the three armies of the Xinshun Army and several local troops, which were adapted from Zuo Menggeng's army and He Tengjiao's army.

In Lu Si's previous life, the main force of the Qing army that pacified the Southern Ming Dynasty was precisely these Ming army. Driven by the Eight Banners soldiers, they all worked hard, they would defeat every city and win every battle, and they could be called an ever-winning army.

Now that these people are under Lu Si's command, they spared no effort to drive them to attack south. However, in addition to restraining the military discipline of these surrendered troops, Lu Si also had to use the means of rewarding to inspire morale. He ordered the army to seize the enemy in front of the formation and only 70% of the income from entering the city should be paid to the central government, and the rest could be rewarded with meritorious soldiers.

This is the vague will of the Tao.

Because the seizure has many sources, even if you don’t kill people indiscriminately, you can get a lot of money.

Lu Si was helpless in this move, and nearly 200,000 more soldiers were added out of thin air. With the actual ability of the Dashun central government's finance, he could not bear the food, clothing and rewards of these surrendered troops. He could only use some gray means to ensure the money and food expenses of these soldiers.

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The first thing Li Guoying, who was delighted to be the governor of Hunan, did not immediately build the regime structure of Dashun in Hunan to exercise the duties of governor of Hunan, but instead sent people to Yuanzhou to persuade the governor of Panyuan, Fu Shangrui surrendered to Shunshun.

Fu Shangrui was greedy for life and fear of death. He had even thought of surrendering to the Qing Dynasty. Now that he saw that Dashun had occupied Huguang, and that people like Li Guoying could become governors, his mind was immediately active. He was reluctant to even make a superficial article and immediately sent someone to surrender to Zuo Pan'an, the governor of Dashun Huguang.

Since the Shun Army in Pianyuan area had not yet arrived, Fu Shangrui was the first Ming Dynasty governor to surrender with his territory and restraint of troops. Lu Si ordered him to remain the position of Pianyuan governor and be controlled by the Governor General of Huguang.

This is also a signal to the other governors and governors of the Ming Dynasty - to surrender early and feel at ease early.

In September, Xu Ensheng's troops of the 15th Army went east along the Yangtze River as Shun Army, captured Ruichang, Hukou, Huangmei, Guze and other places, controlled the east-west waterways of Jiujiang, and formed a clamp-shaped offensive against the Jiujiang Ming Army.

The Ming army was stationed in Jiujiang by the Jin Shenghuan army, and the guard was Song Kuiguang, the central officer of Jin Shenghuan. Under the pressure of Xu Ensheng's army, Song Kuiguang opened the city to surrender on the 17th.

The news of Jiujiang’s fall reached Nanchang, and Jin Shenghuan and Wang Deren in the city were both frightened.

In fact, Jin Shenghuan had received letters from Chen Hongfan to persuade him to surrender to Shun, and his past personal soldiers were now the governor of Dashun Ningxia. Zhao Zhongyi, Duke Yiguo, also secretly sent someone to bring his handwritten letters to persuade him to surrender to his former benefactor, but Jin Shenghuan was reluctant to make up his mind.

The main reason is that Wang Deren refused to surrender.

The reason why Wang Deren did not surrender was that he and Wang Tizhong rebelled in Nanyang, which led to Li Zicheng's defeat, and was eventually murdered by Niu Jinxing and his son in Xiangyang.

So if Wang Deren surrenders Shun, can Li Zicheng's son-in-law, Emperor Dashun Longwu, spare him?

Wang Deren's troops were more brave than Jin Shenghuan's. He refused to surrender, so he forced Jin Shenghuan to act rashly.

Time passed quickly with Jin Shenghuan's hesitation.

The 15th Army, led by the admiral Lu Guangzu, also advanced rapidly. From Tongcheng east to Jiangxi, it connected to Ningzhou, Ruichang, Xinchang, Shanggao and other places, and the vanguard arrived at Fengcheng in Linjiang Prefecture. At the same time, Lu Guangzu also divided his troops to attack Ganzhou, Ji'an and other places to ensure that Jin, who was trapped in Nanchang, became the lonely army.

In order to resolve the crisis, on the seventh day of the 10th, Wang Deren led elite troops out of the city to fight the Shun army from Fengcheng. As a result, he was defeated by the 30,000 Shun army commanded by Lu Guangzu on Qili Street and was forced to retreat to Nanchang.

After the Qili Street victory, Lu Guangzu took advantage of the victory to advance and surrounded Nanchang on the 10th day of the first lunar month. He divided his troops out of four to eliminate the periphery and cut off all connections between Nanchang and the southern prefectures and counties.

On the north, when he heard that Lu Guangzu succeeded, Xu Ensheng was afraid that his great achievements would be stolen by Lu Guangzu, so he quickly supervised his troops to capture Jianchang, the gateway to the north of Nanchang. On the 11th, the troops arrived at the city of Nanchang.

Because he was worried that Jin Shenghuan and Wang Derenhui would lead his army to break through, Xu Ensheng ordered his soldiers to force hundreds of thousands of villagers to dig trenches under the city of Nanchang, two meters deep and wide. He also built three floating bridges on the Ganjiang River to transport troops.

Xu Ensheng's 17th Army was originally Zuo Liangyu's old subordinate. The military records were corrupt. Although he did not dare to disobey the emperor's will, he was very harsh on the people and gave them only a meal of white porridge every day, which resulted in thousands of people dying of starvation.

After the incident was reported secretly to the Imperial Camp in Wuchang, Lu Sida was angry and sent an eunuch to Nanchang to scold Xu Ensheng and seized the position of admiral of his army. The town commander Xu Yuxian took over as admiral of the 17th Army, and Xu Ensheng served in front of the crime.

After Seo Yuxian replaced Xu Ensheng's command, she did not dare to abuse the people anymore. She ordered people to provide a meal of white porridge and a dry meal every day, and reduced the original workload by one third. She also promised that after conquering Nanchang, each of the people would receive 300 taels of silver.

Only in this way can the death be curbed and the civilians be greatly active.

By the end of October, with the joint efforts of the fifteenth and seventeenth armies, the fields, mountains, trees, houses, and tombs of Qiu near Nanchang were all demolished and were completely wiped out, and Nanchengchang was completely surrounded into a dead city.

During this period, Jin Shenghuan and Wang Deren did not sit still and wait for death. They chose different directions to open the city and fought several times. Among them, Wang Deren personally carried armor and charged three times, and Jin Shenghuan led the charge twice. However, in front of the Shun Army, which had an absolute advantage, even though Jin and Wang were extremely brave and killed a large number of Shun Army, they still could not change the reality of being trapped.

Because Nanchang was besieged for a long time, no grain outside the city was transported into the city, and no firewood could enter the city. As a result, all the firewood in the city was in short supply. The rice price reached 60 taels of silver for one stone in August, and by October it was as high as 600 taels.

By November, almost all the soldiers and civilians in the city had no food.

Seeing that the city was about to kill and eat, in order to prevent tragedy, the Shunjun urgently sent someone to inform the Ming army that the people in the city could be released from the east gate.

"I'll just wait for death, why bother to die together."

Wang Deren agreed to let the people out of the city. At this point, most of the Nanchang residents released from the city through the east gate every day were released from the city by tens of thousands, and the few were five or six thousand.

After leaving the city with anxiety, the residents of Nanchang were mentally prepared to be taken away by the Shunjun and arrested by the Shunjun for hard labor.

However, the Shun Army had already arranged a large amount of rice porridge for these people leaving the city to eat. Later, officials organized a group of thousands of people, or a group of hundreds of people, to settle in different areas near Nanchang. They also said that this was temporarily resettled, and the people could still return after the city was destroyed, and all the properties in the city would return to the original owner.

The people all cried and bowed north three times and shouted: "Long live Emperor Dashun!"

In addition to the residents of Nanchang who left the city to survive, there were also Ming troops in the city who were unwilling to starve to death and quietly left the city. At the beginning, there were more than a dozen people, and at most only a few dozen people.

Later, there were hundreds or even thousands of people.

In late November, Jin Shenghuan's general Liu Yipeng led his troops and his family and more than a thousand people to rush out of the east gate to surrender to the Shun army. After Liu Yipeng surrendered, he quickly led his people to the city of Nanchang, calling on the soldiers in the city to stop serving Jin Shenghuan and Wang Deren worked his life.

There is a famous saying here that spreads all over the country quickly, and this saying is - "The Chinese do not beat the Chinese."

It was December, and after five months of siege, Lu Si, who had decided to personally fight south, issued an imperial edict and ordered the Shun Army besieging Nanchang to launch a general attack on the stubborn enemy.

On December 11, the weather was cold and the earth was frozen. Tens of thousands of Shun army launched a fierce attack. With the help of artillery, soldiers wearing armored soldiers climbed the city wall up on a ladder, and Nanchang fell.

Jin Shenghuan realized that he would not be let go by Dashun, but he led his troops to fight to the death. Finally, he got several guns and threw them into the lotus pond of the general's mansion to commit suicide.

Wang Deren led his men to break through to Desheng Gate. The defeated soldiers blocked the city gate and could not move at all. Wang Deren, who was eager to escape, killed the defeated soldiers. Finally, he rushed out of the city gate but captured Lu Guangzu's troops on the way.

On the 19th, Wang Deren was escorted to the Dashun Imperial Camp.

Emperor Lu Si personally interrogated Wang Deren why he betrayed the Holy Martial King Li Zicheng. Wang Deren sighed and said, "A thought is different."

Lu Si asked Wang Deren whether he begged for mercy to get the emperor's pardon and not kill him.

"Just kill me, why do you do so much? You said you are the emperor, but I don't recognize you." Wang Deren was a little heroic and generous before he died.

Lu Sida laughed and ordered people to push Wang Deren out and behead him. After that, he was sent to Jin Shenghuan's head and headed to all directions to show the power of the Dashun army.
Chapter completed!