A soldier from Daxi Xiaoqi Camp hurried in and reported to Liu Jinzhong, the commander of Xiaoqi Camp.
"Report to the Commander-in-Chief that the Lao Long Live Messenger has arrived and ask the Commander-in-Chief to rush to meet the decree."
When Liu Jinzhong, the commander of the Xiaoqi Camp, heard the report, he couldn't help but sigh, "Hey!"
Several officers of the Xiaoqi Battalion couldn't help but worry, "Is Lao Long live here to punish the governor? What should I do?"
"It's a blessing, not a curse, but you can't avoid it." Liu Jinzhong is tall and burly. He is not a fellow from northern Shaanxi to the Western Emperor Zhang Xianzhong, but a native of northern Sichuan. However, he used to be a frontier army in Zhang Xianzhong's hometown in northern Shaanxi, and was later transferred back to his hometown in northern Sichuan.
Then he joined Zhang Xianzhong. This man fought bravely and fiercely, but because he was not a rebel, he was never a direct descendant of the Western Army.
In particular, this person came from an official and military background, so he emphasized military discipline and was not allowed to rob people randomly. However, this was incompatible with the behavior of Xiying and would inevitably lead to further exclusion.
Moreover, the Xiaoqi battalion under his command were basically all from northern Sichuan, and most of the officers were even Ming officers or local gentry.
At this juncture, Liu Jinzhong was even more suspicious of Xiying.
Previously, Liu Jinzhong was ordered to lead his headquarters in Baoning, but yellow thieves were plundering the territory. He sent troops to suppress it, and Lao Longzai issued an edict to reprimand him, asking him to move to Jiange.
The Guangyuan area was burned repeatedly and became very desolate. Liu Jinzhong's Xiaoqi camp could not get supplies from the Xiying camp, so they had to go north to collect food and grass in the Hanzhong area. As a result, Liu Jinzhong fell into Ma Ke's trick of luring the enemy and mistakenly believed that Ma Ke's lord force would enter the pass.
He Zhen was assisted by Zhong, but the Hanzhong mansion was empty, so he immediately led his troops to attack Hanzhong, preparing to rob Hanzhong to support the Xiaoqi camp.
The result was a complete defeat.
If Liu Jinzhong hadn't been a strong soldier, I'm afraid that this wave would have been pushed into northern Sichuan by Ma Ke and captured Baoning.
"Let's go and meet the imperial edict."
A group of Western troops entered the pass. The leader claimed to be from Zhongshushe and came to convey the order.
"Captain Liu, take the order."
Liu Jinzhong led the generals to kneel down to receive the imperial edict.
"By God's blessing, the emperor issued an edict: I told you not to go to Hanzhong, but you insisted on going to Hanzhong, and now you have lost many soldiers, horses, and donkey balls, and you have been killed by your mother. I admire this!"
The person from Daxizhong Shushe was a scholar from northern Shaanxi, and his northern Shaanxi accent conveyed Zhang Xianzhong's decree clearly.
The dignified Commander-in-Chief of the Daxi Xiaoqi Camp was so vulgarly scolded by the emperor that Liu Jinzhong knelt on the ground with his face flushed.
"Liu Jinzhong accepts the order!"
"Your Majesty, Liu Jinzhong, has accepted the order. Long live my thanks!"
Liu Jinzhong stood up and took the decree with stiff hands. This decree was as amazing as the Seven Kills poem inscribed by Lao Wansui Yu.
When Liu Jinzhong saw the Seven Kills Monument written by Zhang Xianzhong, he couldn't believe that it was written by the old man Long Live who had already proclaimed himself emperor. The inscription was full of murderous murder: All things are born with humans, and humans are not the same as heaven. Kill, kill, kill.
Kill kill kill.
Liu Jinzhong later served as the commander-in-chief of the Xiaoqi Battalion and became the governor of North Sichuan Province, becoming one of the four governors of central Sichuan. He once presided over Baoning, Shunqing and other prefectures. He was opposed to Zhang Xianzhong's seven-kill imperial edict and made six prohibitions.
We say that our government upholds the law impartially and orders strictly. During the service period, the soldiers and civilians will be in harmony with each other and will never be false. If there is any violation, the contract will be rectified according to the law and the six clauses of the prohibition will be enforced.
1. Those who are not allowed to recruit troops without authorization and disturb the local area in accordance with the government's official instructions are not allowed to do so. The soldiers and people of the area are allowed to lock up the troops and conduct justice in front of them. If you refuse to do so, you will all be seated together.
2. It is not allowed to go to and from the errands, idle personnel, or move horses or soldiers without permission. If found, they will be tied up and beaten.
Third, you are not allowed to sit on guard and watch Fang Wu talk, and you are not allowed to accept people's words without permission. Violators will be punished.
Fourth, you are not allowed to use the reputation of a heavenly soldier to disturb the local area. The local officials should check and report the matter as a warning.
5. Rogue gangsters are not allowed to enter the camp. They are good at making false accusations and harming good people. Those who violate the rules will be beaten.
Sixth, civil and military officials guarding the city are not allowed to marry local women and concubines without permission, and will be punished for violating the rules.
His six prohibitions were incompatible with Lao Wansui's imperial edict, and therefore he was even more marginalized. In particular, the yellow thieves who were poisoning northern and eastern Sichuan had already surrendered to the Daxi Emperor and became vassals. However, Liu Jinzhong sent troops to encircle and suppress those in his own territory.
This incident made Zhang Xianzhong extremely dissatisfied.
This made it almost impossible for Liu Jinzhong to gain a foothold in the Western Dynasty.
Now that Hanzhong was defeated again, Zhang Xianzhong was even more angry. He believed that Liu Jinzhong ignored the court, disrespected the emperor, and sent troops without permission. As a result, he was able to scare the enemy and miss the opportunity to fight.
"Long live Governor Liu to be stationed at Chaotian Pass. Guangyuan, Lizhou, Jiange, Baoning and other places will be defended by other generals."
"Also, Long Live also reiterates that the Thirteen Yaohuang Families have already surrendered to our Great Western Dynasty. Now the thirteen heads have been appointed as Chief Military Officers and given the title of Count. From now on, Governor Liu must cooperate with them and never rise again.
Friction, if you stir up trouble again, you will be severely punished."
"Also, the post of Governor of North Sichuan Province has been transferred to Yuan Tao, the Ding Xibo."
The soldiers of the Imperial City Department quickly escorted the man away.
In the house.
Liu Jinzhong felt so uncomfortable that his lungs were about to explode.
"Yuan Tao, the food king who stole and raped his aunt, actually became Ding Xibo and took away my position as the governor of northern Sichuan?"
A group of officers of the Xiaoqi Battalion were also indignant and dissatisfied. Most of them were Liu Jinzhong's former subordinates in the border army, but now they are the backbone of the Xiaoqi Battalion. Their Xiaoqi Battalion has always been regarded as an alien by the Western Army.
But now it's too much to deceive people.
"That is, although our Xiaoqi Battalion joined the Western Army not long ago, we also fought from Huguang to Chengdu and made great contributions to the establishment of the Western Dynasty. Our Xiaoqi Battalion has always been the first to charge, and when in danger, we are responsible for covering the rear. We share the least spoils. Now
You still don’t accept the general’s treatment like this!”
"Not convinced!"
Liu Jinzhong felt a little better when he saw the attitude of his brothers. In this troubled world, at least there were still a group of brothers who showed sincerity and sincerity.
Someone shouted, "If I had known better, I shouldn't have defected to Xiying in the first place."
Everyone was indignant.
Liu Jinzhong sighed, "Now that things have come to this, what's the use of saying this."
"Brother, why don't we rebel? I think this Daxi Dynasty will be doomed as well."
"That's right, now that the imperial court has a son named Shengming, it is revitalized and half of the country is stable. How about we return to the imperial court anyway?"
Some people say that Zhang Xianzhong pretended to ask for peace before, and Wen Anzhi, the governor of the five provinces of the Ming Dynasty, also wanted to recruit peace. On behalf of the imperial court, he not only awarded Zhang Xianzhong the title of King of Yunnan, but also granted Zhang Xianzhong the title of King of Yunnan, his four adopted sons and the five governors, as well as the title of Lieutenant General Hou Bo, etc., and Liu Jinzhong as the Western Army
He was a fierce general and one of the four governors in central Sichuan. In addition, he was also a Ming general, so he was awarded the title of admiral by Wen Anzhi.
This was a step above other commander-in-chiefs of the Western Army, and even more aroused Zhang Xianzhong's suspicion.
"Yes, isn't Wen Jinglue the eldest brother of Xu Shu, admiral? Why don't we just surrender and follow this old man, I don't think there will be any good results."
Liu Jinzhong hesitated.
Some brothers also expressed opposition, "It's hard to say who will win in the current situation. Emperor Shaotian was really amazing last year and stabilized Jiangnan, but the Tatars are still very fierce. They repelled Emperor Shaotian's Guanzhong coalition in Xi'an and are about to attack Hanzhong."
Well, Lao Longzai is going to raise his troops and go north to compete with the Qing army for Hanzhong. It’s hard to say whether there are three parties competing for supremacy.”
"Why don't we just wait and see? If the Western Army can defeat the Qing Army and enter Guanzhong, how can we endure it then? If the Qing Army defeats the Western Army and takes Hanzhong and enters Sichuan, we don't necessarily have to return to the Ming Dynasty. We can also surrender.
It’s so clear.”
Liu Jinzhong sighed, "I don't want to shave my head!"
"Brother, I think we should submit to the imperial court. Daxi will definitely not last long. Although the Tatars are fierce, they are foreigners. Now that the imperial court has a wise king, ZTE is just around the corner. Why should we become thieves and captives and become traitors?
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"That is, the worst case scenario is that we take our brothers directly to Yunyang, Hanzhong, or even to Eastern Sichuan, and we are told to listen to the yellow thief Yuan Tao. Our brothers cannot swallow this breath. How can we do that with those cannibal thieves?
Follow their orders?"
"Even this old man is in a daze. Now that they have taken away our territory, they ask us to guard Chaotian Pass for them. We have no food, so why should we sacrifice our lives for them?"
Liu Jinzhong sighed repeatedly.
After joining the Western Camp, he was really depressed. The Western Emperor Zhang Xianzhong was not a savior at all. Although his son-in-law, the Prime Minister Wang Zhaoling, was a scholar, he was a murderous person.
He presided over the government and had no ability to appease the Sichuan gentry and people. Facing the resisting gentry and Ming army, he had only one way to kill. Not only did he kill those who resisted, he even advocated massacre of the people and scorched earth in war zones that could not be controlled.
strategy.
If everyone is killed, those who resist will lose their footing.
Hearing that Zhang Xianzhong was preparing to enter Guanzhong, Wang even suggested that he would fight against all odds. To show his determination and to collect money, food and materials, he would massacre all the way from Chengdu to Baoning, snatch away all the property, destroy all the cities, and destroy all the people who could.
The young ones who could be carried were taken away, and those who could not be carried were slaughtered.
It is necessary to prevent the Ming army in central Sichuan from gaining population, let alone taking over territory behind them, and threatening them.
Create no man's land in the rear to block the Ming army.
After they left Sichuan, Sichuan was unable to recover.
However, Zhang Xianzhong actually agreed and approved this cruel policy. This was completely a sign that he had completely given up on Sichuan. These were very difficult things for the people in the Xiaoqi camp who were from northern Sichuan to accept.
This was also the reason why they had ignored the Yellow Raiders and returned to the Western Dynasty, but still sent troops to encircle and suppress them. The Yellow Raiders were harming their hometown. As soldiers, how could they ignore it?
Xiying can loot and kill as much as they want, but how can they?
Although Xiaoqiying is not a king master after all, it can be seen from Liu Jinzhong's six prohibitions that he is still a soldier with a bottom line.
In Liu Jinzhong's view, Zhang Xianzhong is old and crazy, or Zhang Xianzhong has always been a lunatic.
"Report"
"A troop of troops appears nearby!"
"What centaur?"
"The other party is flying a black flag and calls itself the Black Flag Camp."
"Black Flag Camp? I've never heard of this camp number."
There were one hundred and twenty battalions in the Western Dynasty. The emperor personally led the imperial camp, also known as the old battalion. Each of the four righteous sons led one or twenty battalions. There were also some troops led by the Imperial City Secretary and the Navy. The more famous one was the Xiaoqi Battalion.
Baoning Liu Jinzhong, Baguaying Ruzhou Wang Ming, Zhenwuying Macheng Hong Feilong, Longxingying Jingyang Guo Jiayuan, Sanqiying Fengyang Songguan, Yongdingying Hefei Guo Shangyi, Sancaiying Shandong Louwen, Ganchengying Liu'an Wang Wanxiang,
The aid and suppression battalion included Peng Xinjian in Baoji, Du Xingwen in Wanxian in Zhongchang, Zhang Qizai in Huanggang in Yingying, Wang Jianming in Kaifeng in Tianwei, Shangyuan in Macheng in Longtao, Zhou Shangxian in Fenzhou in decisive victory camp, Zhang Cheng in Liu'an in Dingyuan, etc.
There are other camps such as Zhiyi, Tianduo, Jinge, Shence, Huben and Hulue.
On top of each battalion were General Zhang Dingguo of Anxi, General Zhang Wenxiu of Funan, General Zhang Nengqi of Dingbei, and General Pingdong plus supervisor Zhang Kewang.
As well as the commanders-in-chief of the five front, left, center and right armies, Bai Wenxuan, etc., as well as the commander-in-chief of the imperial city, Wang Shangli, the commander-in-chief of the left and right navy, Ma Yuanli, Wang Fuchen, the admiral of Sichuan Province, etc.
Liu Jinzhong knew all the battalions of the Western Army well and had never heard of a black flag battalion flying black flags.
"The other party claims to be the newly-built camp of the Huguang disciples in the old camp, and has come to Chaotian Pass to strengthen the guard under orders!"