After six years, the Ming army entered Guangzhou again, and the method used was exactly as it did six years ago. However, the military discipline of the Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang who entered the city was solemn. Even if it was to investigate the defenders hidden in the houses, there were military judges. The military supervisor was responsible for leading the team and explaining to the people, so as not to cause unnecessary misunderstandings and conflicts.

In this way, the speed will inevitably slow down, but the army entering the city had already controlled the entire city wall. The Staff Department divided the streets and lanes and checked them one by one. It always wanted to capture the civil servants, officials, officers, soldiers, their families and related people from Shang Kexiong and other departments, and then conduct a trial and distinguish them clearly before making a deal.

However, this time the investigation is more severe than previous times. Whether to conduct the second or even the third round of investigations is still under discussion. However, in this first round of investigation, every military judge and military supervisor who lead the team carry portraits, and any similar ones to the portraits will have to go through a round of review.

"The last general is incompetent and failed to capture Shang Kexi. It is true that the commander is punished."

The Minzhong Division's march was not slow, but Shang Kexi still disappeared from the palace. As a result, he had worshipped all ninety-nine times, but this was a slight move that really made Zhang Zisheng feel very angry.

"Shang Ni dared to send troops to western Guangdong and eastern Guizhou. The retreat must be kept, and there is no need to worry about it."

After interrogation, Shang Kexi indeed fled back to the royal palace. Finally, someone saw him in the Shang family's ancestral hall. There were enshrined in the Shang family's ancestors, including Shang Kexi's father, who died in the Dongjiang Dusi Shang Xueli in Liaodong.

Shang Xueli died in the fourth year of Tianqi, and the Ming court posthumously awarded the position of guerrilla general. Shang Kexi became a general under Mao Wenlong. It was also the tenth year of Yongli that the Qing Dynasty recognized Shang Xueli as the Prince of Pingnan. When Chen Wen saw this history, a sense of absurdity arose. However, from this we can also see how important the Sanshun King had in the chessboard of the Qing Dynasty's war against the Ming Dynasty.

In the Shang family's ancestral hall, the Ming army found a secret passage leading to the hawk and dog room inside the royal palace. It was divided into four major places: insect and ant room, bird room, eagle and harrier room, and the dog room. There were birds and beasts, making it even more difficult for the Ming army to search.

"Slaughter all the beasts and search faster."

While persuading Zhang Zisheng, Chen Wen sent his anger to the troops responsible for the search. Shang Kexi was the biggest goal of this battle. Now that the battle has been won, the goal has disappeared. Zhang Zisheng was angry, and he was not the same.

However, a living person disappeared in the huge palace, and it is difficult to catch him again. It is unwise to search blindly. Only by following the traces can you have greater hope.

However, the eagle and dog house in the Shang family occupied a large area, and it was Houloufang Street in later generations. Among them, crickets, crickets, crapes, autumn cicadas, and bees were raised in the bird house; quacks, thrushes, white doves, and cocks were raised in the eagle and harrier house; the eagle and harrier house raised in the sea, the green harrier, and the hemp eagle; the dog house raised in the Kanto hunting dogs and pugs. There are full-time officials everywhere, such as "dog supervisors", and nearly 100 people were raised. This scale, especially in the destruction of the traces by birds and beasts, it is really not easy to find Shang Kexi.

After getting angry, Chen Wen continued to talk to the Confucian scholars around him. The person who talked to Chen Wen was nothing but Shang Kexi's confidant Jin Guang.

The Confucian scholar who walked out of Qing Village in Yiwu has now taken off his official uniform, put on a Taoist robe and net scarf, and looked like a Han scholar. The reason why this person can chat and laugh with Chen Wen is actually very simple. Chen Wen entered Fujian, and Shang Kexi was far from rushing back. Jin Guang took the initiative to find the person in charge of the Guangzhou Station of the Military Information Department and expressed his intention to surrender.

Otherwise, it would be easy to say about the height of the city. It would be impossible for the detailed data of the cannons on the city to be so clear with the small number of people and small investment in Guangzhou Station.

Next, as Shang Kexi returned to the army, Jin Guang began to conduct a large-scale investigation and detailed work. Guangzhou Station was transferred out of the city by Jin Guang, leaving only one contact person. However, the detailed work sent by Sun Kewang, Li Dingguo, Hao Shangjiu and even Zheng Chenggong were swept away by Jin Guang, and the Yu Shang family also had great achievements.

Jin Guang sent a letter from the old patriarch of the clan to persuade the side to surrender. Chen Wen still had an impression of the old patriarch. When he rushed to Jinhua Prefecture, the old patriarch was the only descendant of the Qi family army in Yiwu who had seen Qi Jiguang with his own eyes. It was also the old patriarch who shouted "It's really the Qi family army back" that completely helped him to stir up the Yiwu scene and recruited thousands of soldiers in one breath. Among them, many descendants of the Qi family army with a foundation in martial arts could be so easy.

There was an old man in the family, as if he had a treasure. Besides, Jin Guang had made great contributions, so Chen Wen did not intend to make things difficult for him. Many people were going to kill in this battle, and he did not intend to stay any of the heavy generals under Shang Kexi. Even many middle and lower-level officers would be executed. Those who could survive the strokes would be sent to the coolie camp - they were Han military flags, and I think those coolie in the green camp would treat them well.

However, when the surrender of Shun surrendered Shun, Chen Wen did not discuss with him where Shang Kexi would escape. After all, Jin Guang had been with Shang Kexi for many years and knew very well inside. However, seeing the help of the old patriarch when his career began, Chen Wen did not intend to make him too embarrassed. Here we just talked about some other inside stories about the Pingnan Palace and even the Qing court. As for Shang Kexi, Chen Wen believed that his subordinates still had this ability.

"It is also a pleasure for the people of Guangdong to order these birds and beasts to be slaughtered."

When Jin Guang mentioned this, Chen Wen also listened attentively. It turned out that in the Pingnan Prince's Mansion, "cats are known as ladies, niaoniu, dogs are called husbands, and little brothers." "Dogs often go out," and "people and dogs are blocked". All the butchers passing by must "respect" pork and dogs, and the passers-by are afraid to avoid it, for fear of not being able to do so.

After listening to this story, Chen Wen was really ashamed. He took the pets in his family called their sons out of their love for pets, and his daughter was the ones leftovers of the ancients. Thinking about the military industry department and the police dogs raised in the military camp, they are still eating leftovers, and occasionally they can wag their tails with a single shredded pork for a long time. The dogs raised in the Pingnan Prince's Mansion have reached the point where they want to "respect" pork in the butcher shops. This is clearly a dog relies on the power of the people. The extravagance and debauchery of the feudal landlord class has indeed refreshed Chen Wen's three views again.

After a long time, the latest progress came. The troops responsible for the search took a lot of effort to find a secret passage from the dog room, and the secret passage directly led to a house outside the palace. The traces of weapons, goods, and food storage in the house were gone, and these things were obviously Shang Kexi and his confidants left here.

But the problem is that there are no traces of horses stored here, and the search troops found two authentic tunnels from this small house, pointing to the west and south of the city, which really made Chen Wen very angry.

"I remember that Shang Kexi was a navy master in Dongjiang Town back then. Who can explain that the work of digging tunnels was handed over to him!"

Of course, the authenticity was not dug by Shang Kexi himself, and Chen Wen had nothing else to say about this delicate thought of the cunning rabbit's three holes. The generals have been with Chen Wen for many years and know what to do at this moment. The review work has been done again, and the Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang had to send more troops to participate in the investigation of the entire Guangzhou city.

Time is the biggest enemy to investigate a giant city like Guangzhou. Even if the Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang has a large number of troops, it is impossible to complete it within a period of time. After nightfall, the report from the new city in the south of the city was delivered first, which was smaller and although the transportation was convenient, it was also single.

"King, Nancheng has been investigated. During the war and even now, many ships from the port in Guangzhou have fled, but our army has controlled the gates of Nancheng, but no one has left the port again."

Escape from Guangzhou is nothing more than getting out of the city and boarding a boat from the south city, whether to go up or down the Pearl River; either enter Baiyun Mountain from the north of the city, you can get rid of the pursuers better by entering the mountain; and the west of the city will inevitably be the direction of the Ming army's pursuit, even if you can really escape from there, the road behind will be extremely dangerous.

The south of the city is a waterway, which is easier to walk on, but Xu Long returned in a crushing defeat, and the navy was unlikely to break through Chen Qice and Li Changrong to go to the navy. In particular, the time when Shang Kexi escaped into the royal palace was only two quarters of an hour away from the last time when the gates of the southern city were controlled. Shang Kexi could not escape to the south of the city through the tunnel in such a short time.

"No matter whether it is south, north or west of the city, send cavalry to chase me. I don't believe it anymore. Can Shang Kexi still fly to the sky and escape from the earth?"

It is one thing to chase Shang Kexi. After capturing Guangzhou, Chen Wen also needed to collect the areas of western Guangdong and eastern Guizhou as soon as possible. Especially Wuzhou in eastern Guizhou, which is the gateway to Guangxi. Ma Xiong has been killed in the north of the city. Now that it is a land of unborder, it should be taken down as soon as possible. Next, whether it is to march into Guangxi or guard Guangdong, there will be convenient conditions.

The army set out, leaving only Chen Wen, only the Yuhang Division in Guangzhou, and the other three divisions set out, pointing to the three counties of Lianshan in northern Guangzhou, the four prefectures of Gaolian Leiqiong in east and west, and the Wuzhou Prefecture on the east and west sides of Guangzhou.

In order to defend Guangzhou, Shang Kexi's elite troops were stationed here, even the foreign generals of Guangdong and Guangxi were the same. There were only sporadic defenders in various places, and they thought they could not be attacked by the Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, especially when Guangzhou was broken and Shang Kexi disappeared. However, the next afternoon, the news that Shunde had not fought was delivered, and Chen Wen received an urgent report from the envoy that the envoy was about to arrive in Sanshui County.

"Is it necessary so quickly?"

Chen Wen was speechless. The envoy of the Imperial was coming too fast. If he could not break the city within three days, he would really face the Yongli edict as Shang Kexi predicted. Chen Wen didn't know what the edict was written in, but when he thought that Shang Kexi was still running away, his inner anxiety arose.

What should come always has to face. When An Youfu took advantage of the excuse of the army going out to fight and requisitioning all the Yima and ships, the envoys of the Imperial Palace had to delay the day on the road, but they also arrived in Guangzhou on the fourth day of the city breaking.

"Please invite General Ling Hai and Li Shuai."

Before the envoy of Xuanzhe had entered the city, Chen Wen took the lead in finding two Guangdong Ming generals, Chen Qice and Li Changrong. Not long after the two arrived, the envoy of Xuanzhe arrived at Chen Wen's headquarters.

"Please ask the angel to report to the emperor that the so-called generals are outside, and there is no military order. The governor Guo Zhiqi and the governor Lian Chengbi are incompetent and cannot coordinate the generals. They blindly accept the so-called "Shangbian" that they are still chaotic in Guangdong. Moreover, today, it is still very happy to be able to attack and kill the generals of Guangdong. If the army withdraws from Guangdong, I am afraid that Sun Ke will also go south to attack Yunnan tomorrow."

When the envoy set out, he took two imperial edicts to the road. If Chen Wen did not capture Guangzhou, he would force Shang Kexi to release Guo Zhiqi, Lian Chengbi and other officials from Guangdong and Guangxi to use Chen Wen's power to restore western Guangdong. The territory of the military generals in eastern Gui was still controlled by the commander and the governor. Finally, as a reward, he distributed Chaozhou to Chen Wen, and the only ones suffered the losses were Geng Jimao and Hao Shangjiu.

But if Chen Wen had already captured Guangzhou, then he ordered Chen Wen to withdraw his troops and give more Shaozhou Prefecture as a reward. Guangzhou, together with Shang Kexi and Ma Xiong's territory, were distributed to the generals, and the others were appointed as civil servants and sent military generals from Yunnan to recruit soldiers to guard them.

As for the reason, Guangzhou is the provincial capital, and Guangdong is different from Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and Fujian. It is because there is a governor and the governor. Chen Wen's rash entry into Guangdong can easily lead to conflicts between civil officials and nobles.

In short, the Yongli court did not want Chen Wen to gain a foothold in Guangdong. The reason is very simple. Chen Wen's current power is too strong, and it has even been so powerful that the court has to be wary of. However, for Chen Wen, he no longer expects the help of others in the Northern Expedition. Because of this, a stable south is even more needed. Only when he is strong enough can the occupied area be more stable, so there is no reason for him to spit it out.

Chen Wen's tough attitude was the most backed by his own strength. However, shortly after the Yongli court entered Yunnan, the government was in disarray. The envoy sent by the Imperial Examination was an official of the Ministry of Rites, and before that he was just a scholar.

When he was young and energetic, he immediately asked: "The king said that Guangdong's civil and military officials were incompetent, and he came to help with the war. Why are Fujian and Chaozhou?!"

Hearing this, Chen Wen shook his head and then smiled and said, "I have submitted a memorial to the Emperor. Liu Qingtai, Fujian, was the governor of Zhejiang and Fujian for many years, and occupied Fujian. He should be wiped out. Geng Jimao was indecisive, but in fact, he used his identity as a royal army to resell military rations to Liu Qingtai, and his crimes are not to be punished. As for the Marquis of Jieyang in Chaozhou, he had previously requested to be a rich man to be a family. Thinking of the Marquis of Jieyang, the King of Jieyang, he used the five-year tax of the Mansion in Chaozhou as a reward, and is now enjoying the blessing of Qing on the edge of West Lake."

Chen Wen pushed the angel back with one sentence, which made the envoy realize the huge gap between the two sides, so he had to leave the headquarters in anger.

From beginning to end, Chen Qice and Li Changrong didn't get a single sentence, but Chen Wen called them to express the position of the Guangdong generals to the Yongli court. The two of them didn't know the news that the envoys were about to arrive, and they suffered the loss of being unprofitable. However, the navy was still at the dock, and they were even on the dock, so they had no choice but to stand there with a bit of bullet.

After the envoy passed away, Chen Wen chatted with the two for a while, and then stood up and said goodbye. On the way back to the military camp, Li Changrong sighed and then said to Chen Qice: "This time I was a disaster by the King of Yue. Our brothers will be in the court in the future."

Hearing this, Chen Qice sighed, and the person who sent someone to ask Chen Wen for help was not someone else, General Ling Hai. Now Chen Wen used this as an excuse to reply to the court, and he was the first to be affected, and he was even more difficult to explain than Li Changrong.

"Forget it, let's take one step at a time."

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"When you arrive in Kunming, take one step at a time. The emperor can't kill us father and son."

On the way to escape, Shang Kexi said to his seventh son Shang Zhilong. Shang Kexi's eldest son Shang Zhixin and second son Shang Zhixiao were both trapped in Guangzhou. He just escaped with this seventh son, with only a dozen confidants around him. The army was gone, and in the troubled times, it means nothing was left. Now Chen Wen wants his head, but on the side of the Yongli court, although he was behind the scenes not long ago, the court wants to be shamed and can't kill him and let other vassal states be disinterested.

He hadn't eaten this food for a long time while eating dry food, and his son was even more so. However, in his current situation, even if it's good to have food, what else can he hope for?

After a hurry, everyone got on the horse again and prepared to go to Kunming, Yunnan via Guangxi. However, they had just gotten on the horse, but they immediately heard the sound of war horses coming from a distance.

"Run!"
Chapter completed!