Li Dingguo woke up.

When he woke up, the sky had not yet fully lit up.

There were still bursts of pain coming from the back of his head, which made Li Dingguo somewhat laborious when he recalled it.

what happened?

Zhu Cilang's voice came: "You are awake, it's still timely."

Li Dingguo looked up when he heard the sound, his eyes looked at Zhu Cilang, and then moved slightly down to see the dripping water in Zhu Cilang's hands.

Li Dingguo wiped his face, and was wet, and he immediately looked at Zhu Cixuan with confusion.

Zhu Cilang threw Shuilao aside with a calm expression: "Say goodbye to your father."

Li Dingguo was shocked, turned his head and found Zhang Xianzhong's body.

Beside Zhang Xianzhong, the guard commander and the other two guards could not stand up.

Li Dingguo rolled and crawled to Zhang Xianzhong's side, hugged Zhang Xianzhong's already cold and stiff body, and felt sad for a moment and couldn't help but burst into tears.

The sun gradually rose, and the sun shone on Li Dingguo, but his heart was extremely cold.

Finally, Li Dingguo spoke: "Why am I not dead?"

Zhu Cilang said: "Because your father has pleaded for you."

Li Dingguodao: "He wants me to join the court?"

Zhu Cixuan was a little surprised: "You know this too?"

Li Dingguo laughed bitterly: "This is what my father had told us long ago. He said that if one day Li Zicheng or Jiannu seized the city of Beijing, we would unite with the remaining imperial power, just like the Shu Han and the Eastern Wu that year."

Zhu Ciyang nodded and said, "What are your plans?"

Li Ding Guodao: "Can I have a choice?"

Zhu Cixuan said: "Everyone can make his own choice."

Li Dingguo was silent for a long time and said, "I want to bring my father's coffin back to Yan'an and let him return to his hometown."

After hearing this, Fang Gongqian hurriedly gave Zhu Cilang a wink, obviously not agreeing with this matter.

Zhu Cixuan ignored Fang Gongqian and said, "Yan'an is now Li Zicheng's territory. If you walk in the Central Plains, you will naturally be fine, but your safety will not be guaranteed after entering Shaanxi."

Li Dingguo said slowly: "Li Zicheng and my father are all ally after all, so I guess they won't make things too difficult for us."

A token was thrown in front of Li Dingguo.

Zhu Cixuan said: "With this token, you can freely pass through the territory controlled by the court. Lao Fang, give him some money to pay for travel."

Although Fang Gongqian was unwilling to do so, he still took a silver note of 500 taels and placed it next to the token.

Li Dingguo's expression was slightly moved, and he looked up at Zhu Ciyang: "Aren't you afraid that I will organize another new rebel army after I go back?"

Zhu Cixuan smiled: "You have been defeated by me twice. Do you think I will worry about this?"

Li Dingguo nodded, stood up, bowed to Zhu Cilang: "I will come back when my mourning for my father is over."

Under Zhu Cixuan's gaze, Li Dingguo and the other three made a very simple coffin with door panels and bed panels, put Zhang Xianzhong's body into the coffin, and then borrowed a carriage from Zhu Cixuan and left with the coffin.

After Li Dingguo left, Fang Gongqian couldn't help but say, "Your Highness, this person is the second leader of the Great Western regime to eliminate Zhang Xianzhong. It's a pity that he just let him go."

Zhu Cixuan smiled and said, "It's okay, didn't he say he would come back?"

Fang Gonggan had the urge to roll his eyes: "Your Highness, these people are all traitors of the Ming Dynasty, and what they said to the court is simply unreliable at all."

Gao Dejie suddenly spoke: "No, Eunuch Fang may have misunderstood. I think he should be back."

Fang Gonggan looked at Gao Dejie suspiciously: "Why is General Gao so sure?"

Gao Dejie smiled: "Maybe because we are all soldiers?"

Fang Gong snorted: "What if he doesn't come back?"

Gao Dejie coughed and spread his hands: "Then pretend I didn't say it."

...

Zhu Cilang laughed: "Okay, stop talking about this, hurry back to Jiujiang, there are still many things."

This time, in order to capture Zhang Xianzhong, Zhu Cixuan sent almost all his troops out and conducted a net-style search within a radius of hundreds of miles.

Even Zhu Cixuan himself led his army to set off after hearing the news of Zhang Xianzhong's appearance. This is why the villagers appeared so quickly after reporting the news.

He really didn't want to watch Zhang Xianzhong run away like Li Zicheng!

Fortunately, Zhang Xianzhong died at Zhu Cixuan's hands in the end, which made Zhu Cixuan very satisfied.

Zhang Xianzhong is already dead, will Li Zicheng still be far away?

Oh, of course there are Dorgon and Jirgalang.

There are still a long list of names on Zhu Cixuan's liquidation list.

I had nothing to say all the way back to Jiujiang City.

After Zhu Cixuan's order was issued, other Ming troops who went out to search also returned one after another.

It is worth mentioning that due to the expansion of the search scope, although other Ming troops did not capture Zhang Xianzhong, they captured a large number of soldiers from the Daxi Army, which greatly increased the number of prisoners this time.

After a simple statistics, a number was reported to Zhu Cilang.

"The beheading about 24,000 levels, and captives about 81,000 people. The total number of enemy troops was annihilated was 105,000. The number of enemy troops successfully escaped was about 30,000 to 40,000."

Zhu Cilang nodded repeatedly, obviously quite satisfied: "It's very good, very good."

After this battle, the main force of Zhang Xianzhong's Daxi regime was completely defeated. Although Zhang Xianzhong still nominally controlled the vast territory of Hubei and Jiangxi, in fact, Zhu Cilang only needed to go straight in, so that these places could naturally fall.

Zhu Cixuan picked up his pen and drafted a good news to Chongzhen, and asked someone to send it away.

Afterwards, Zhu Cilang issued an order and the entire army continued to go west.

As expected, after learning about the situation of the Battle of Jiujiang, many territories controlled by Zhang Xianzhong announced that they would rectify the situation and return to the Ming Dynasty.

The battle was so smooth that everyone smiled.

In just half a month, the main force of the Ming army led by Zhu Cixuan successfully arrived at Wuchang City, the "capital" of the Daxi regime.

The gate of this city has been wide open, and the Ming Dynasty flag has risen from the city. Countless people cheered and warmly welcomed the arrival of the Ming army.

Zhu Cilang let out a long sigh and muttered to himself softly.

"Finally, I've completely settled one..."

On this day, the Ming army entered Wuchang City, and all the officials in the Daxi City surrendered, handed over the Daxi Seal, as well as Zhang Xianzhong's "Queen", "Prince" and "Princess".

The Great Western regime officially declared its destruction.
Chapter completed!