Wuchang Prefecture City, large and small city gates, start from the north, clockwise are Wusheng Gate, Zhongxiao Gate, Binyang Gate, Zhonghe Gate, Wangshan Gate and Baoan Gate. It is bordered by the Yangtze River to the west, and there are also three gates of Hanyang, Pinghu and Wenchang, totaling nine gates. As for Tongxiang Gate, which is called the tenth gate of Wuchang Prefecture City, it was opened to build a railway in the late Qing Dynasty and does not exist now.

At this moment, the small east gate mentioned by the officer was the city gate called Zhongxiaomen, located northeast of the east and northeast of the city. This city gate was named after the Zhongxiao Temple, which was sacrificed to Yue Fei and the filial son of the Eastern Han Dynasty. The Zhongxiao Temple was outside the Xiaodong Gate. With the surrendered generals of Xingguozhou convinced the city gate guards. The Ming army pioneer who had just arrived at the city gate rushed into the newly opened city gate along the main street outside Zhongxiaomen. After entering the city, he followed Zhongxiaomen Street to the important places in the city.

It was not too late for Fan Wencheng to get the news. It was because he did not trust the Green Camp soldiers that the number of the Eight Banners of the Han Army was too small. Fan Wencheng sent officers of the Eight Banners of the Han Army to warn them on key points in the city, and it was playing a role here.

"Master Zhengli, please leave quickly. Those who came were not Western thieves and Kuidong thieves, but Zhejiang thieves. No one was the real Manchuria. We only had this little manpower, and it was rare to be able to defend until today. Besides, there are few people in the court now, and the experience and ability of the elders are the best choices. The court will not blame the elders."

Sun Sike was still trying his best to persuade him, but Fan Wencheng just shook his head and waved the officer who came to report the news. Only the two of them were left here before whispering to Sun Sike: "The emperor asked me to stay here, just to die here. Only when I die here, the Zhejiang bandits' purpose can it be possible that they will not continue to eat northward in the short term; only when I die here, the Liaodong officials in the court will truly follow the court wholeheartedly and will not have any unfaithful intentions!"

Fan Wencheng's words sounded like thunder in Sun Sick's ears. He was a Han army bannerman who was a guard of the royal palace. In the eighth year of Shunzhi, he had already reached the position of director of Niulu Zhangjing and the Ministry of Justice at the age of 23. He was born in the royal palace and saw many political struggles clearly, but his experience was still much worse than that of a weather-beaten figure like Fan Wencheng. But he knew that Fan Wencheng had seen what Fan Wencheng had said so that he could react.

Officials from Liaodong were filled with the Eight Banners of the Han Army, which was a force that could not be ignored in the Qing Dynasty. Fan Wencheng, Ning Wanwo, and the old Liaodong ministers had a very important weight in the political and military territory of the early Qing Dynasty. Fan Wencheng was a representative figure among them. With the historical style of the Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, such an old traitor would never be spared. Fan Wencheng's death could completely die other old Liaodong ministers and Han military banners.

Sun Sike swallowed, opened his eyes wide, and stared at Fan Wencheng's bitter face. A slave is a slave. The master can use it as much as he wants. Even the veteran old slave can now be abandoned like a piece of shoes. The Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang did not spare Hong Chengchou, Cai Shiying, and Yi Yonggui. Liu Qingtai and Tong Guoqi would be even more impossible to spare Fan Wencheng.

"Is there no place for us, the Han people in Liaodong in this world?"

Since Nurhaci turned against the Ming Dynasty, the Han people in Liao land had no way to survive. The Later Jin slaughtered cities, looted, killed wealthy families, and killed poor ghosts in the territory, demoted the Han people who could hand over five dou of rice to slaves of Manchus, sold Han women in batches to Mongolians, and even pulled out all their clothes during the transaction, evaluating them like evaluating livestock, which was no different from the Europeans when they were selling black slaves.

Those who were lucky enough to escape to the occupied area of ​​the Dongjiang Army were freed from their status as slaves and had the opportunity to kill the Tartars to avenge them, but more people and more often still starve, or even die of cold and starvation. Even if they escaped into the pass, they would often be discriminated against and excluded, because the Ming court, who was immersed in the party struggles, had no choice but to do anything and had no intention to solve their livelihoods, and their cheap labor even robbed the people's work under the natural economy in the pass.

How could Fan Wencheng not know what Sun Sike said? However, a high-ranking official like him could not be spared from the anger of revenge of the Han family. Instead of dying, he would have to die and die, it would be better to follow the intentions of the powerful people of the Qing Dynasty. If the Qing Dynasty's dying struggle succeeded, his descendants would still have a path to wealth.

Fan Wencheng knew that he would die and revealed his feelings to Sun Sike. In fact, he hoped to sell Sun Sike a favor in the end so that he could take care of his sons.

Sun Sike was like this. Fan Wencheng knew that time was tight and hurriedly said to him: "Follow the court to eliminate Zhejiang bandits, only this way is the way to survive. Xu Chen, you are still young and have great potential in the future. Take the Han army flag in the city and don't lose your life here."

Seeing Fan Wencheng like this, Sun Sike had to kneel down on the ground, kowtowed a few times, and when he got up, he just bowed and turned around and left the Jingli Mansion, and hurried to the military camp.

Not long after Sun Sike left, he cried and shouted to his mother, and the Ming army's cavalry rushed into Jingluo Mansion, while more cavalry surrounded Jingluo Mansion and its large areas around him, fearing that some important figures would be escaped.

"Fan Wencheng, you old dog didn't run away?"

When the Ming army entered, Fan Wencheng was still sitting there. The officer led by the leader arrived, and he opened his mouth so insulted. Fan Wencheng could even feel as if nothing had happened when his wife was bullied by Duoduo. Naturally, he was not affected at all. However, the officer's accent made him frown.

"Are you from the Han Dynasty in Liaodong?"

"That's right, this general Li Huanxiang, the Xinchang Camp of the Siming Division of the Jiangsu and Zhejiang Kings, and the people of Tieling in Liaodong. Not only this general, there are many Liaodong Han people in our Jiangsu and Zhejiang Kings. Not all Liaodong Han people are traitors like you!"

In Tieling, Li Chengliang's family is also from Tieling. Fan Wencheng sighed long. He just convinced Sun Sike with the saying that the Liaodong Han people would have no way to live without following the Qing Dynasty. In a blink of an eye, he was taught a lesson by another Liaodong Han people. It was considered that the way of heaven was good and he was unhappy to retribution.

"Then please ask this official Li to take me to see your King Yue, whether it is Lingchi or the five horses dismembered. I am already ready, just waiting for your king's words."

"Bah, there are people like you among the Han people in Liaodong. They really have lost all the faces of their ancestors."

Li Huanxiang was also strange. At the time in Nanchang, he was still in the special operations team and arrested a governor Cai Shiying. It is said that he had persuaded Captain Luo Yongzhong to surrender. Last time he arrested Shang Kexi, he cried and begged him to let him live for the sake of the Han people in Liaodong. As a result, he captured Shang Kexi and took advantage of his military merits to help him get the right to be the deputy battalion officer of the cavalry battalion. Now this is better, he doesn't run away or make trouble, and just waits to die. He is also a new product among traitors.

The fresh goods were escorted and left here, but Chen Wen did not rush to deal with the person, but threw them into prison because he had more things to do and was not rushing to deal with this old traitor.

Wuchang Prefecture City went down without fighting, and the green camp soldiers in the city surrendered, most of the Han army's Eight Banners fled, and the Ming army only caught up with the tail at the wharf. However, this Wuchang Prefecture City did not exist militarily. The three towns in Wuhan guarded the intersection of the Yangtze River and the Han River, Hanyang and Hankou were still on the other side, and there was a large area in northern Huguang still under the hands of the Qing army. Only by taking all three towns could this strategic location be controlled.

"Brother Lou, the Han River Basin north of the Yangtze River, except for the areas occupied by the Kuidong Army, will be collected. But I can only give you one battalion, and the rest depends on how you use those surrendered generals."

"Master, please rest assured. One battalion is enough. The last general will definitely take all the Han River Basin and guard this place for our Jiangsu and Zhejiang Kings."

The Qing army controlled area in the northern part of Huguang, from Dongting Lake to the south, and from the Yangtze River to the north, it was the Yangtze River and the Han River Basin. Chen Wen's attack on the northern part of Huguang was justified, but his purpose of this trip was to serve the king. To put it bluntly, it was to completely remove the hostile force of Sun Kewang. As long as the southwest Ming army with 200,000 troops was still there, Chen Wen could not be at ease to fight the north, so he had to go south as soon as possible to be the right way.

"In addition, people were sent to Fengjie, eastern Sichuan, western Hubei and other places to invite the General Manager Wen and Kuidong to come here to discuss the plan of the Northern Expedition."

Chen Wen's speed of attacking Wuhan was too fast. Not to mention the generals of Kuidong, it is estimated that the Qing army in Yunyang and Xiangyang have not yet reacted. At this time, it was a good opportunity to fight slowly. However, Chen Wen had to go south to continue to threaten Sun Kewang, forcing him to give up his internal offenses against Yunnan.

It is precisely because of the speed that it is too fast and news exchanges that it will take several months for Wen'anzhi and Kuidong generals to come. For so long, Chen Wen has no time to wait here. Instead of sitting in Wuhan, it is better to go south to guide various places in Huguang. Anyway, Sun Kewang is in a hurry to fight in internal conflicts and has transferred Huguang's army back to Guizhou in large numbers. The Ming army in the southwest here is just the self-defense of Yingcheng. Such emptiness is the time of great progress.

Not long after conquering the three towns in Wuhan, Chen Wen led the Yuyao Division and most of the Danyang Division to the south, stride to the south of Wuhan, and completed the reunion with the two divisions of Yuzhang and Siming as soon as possible while Sun Kewang had not returned to the army.

It is not like Wuchang is close to Jiujiang, and it always takes a lot of time to join another army from the three towns of Wuhan to the south and connect with Yuanzhou. However, at this moment, Sun Kewang did not have time to defeat each one, because his tens of thousands of "rebellion" troops have now entered the boundary of Yunnan and are about to contact the rebels with Li Dingguo as the head coach and Liu Wenxiu as the deputy commander.

What happened to Wuchang has nothing to do with Sun Kewang. Even Chen Wen went south, but the war could not burn his territory for a while. However, while Chen Wen sent troops to attack Wuchang, Wu Dengke also sent troops to capture Changsha Prefecture, the ruling center in southern Huguang, which was completely different for Sun Kewang.

Historically, Sun Kewang launched an internal offensive from Guiyang and took a full month and a half to contact the counter-rebels of Li Dingguo in Qujing, Yunnan. This time he also made a vow from Guiyang, but Huguang's emergency was sent at a rapid speed, which was dozens of times the speed of the army.

"Is Changsha lost?"

In the past two years, Sun Kewang has lived in Changsha for a while, and it is more convenient to put pressure on Jiangxi. The Qin Palace in Changsha is magnificent, and the luxury is no less than that of the Qin Palace in Guiyang, and even more than the Qin Palace in Kunming. Due to internal crimes, most of the accumulated wealth has been transported back to Guiyang. Sun Kewang is mentally prepared to lose some territory in Huguang during this period, but Chen Wen's speed is too fast. Once he falls into a hard battle with Li Dingguo, if he doesn't do it well, he will become the three kings of Qin, Jin and Shu who are stewed by Chen Wen, which is the one he most unwilling to see.

"There must be a detailed work by Chen Wen in Guiyang. If you investigate thoroughly, you must find out!"

Sun Kewang was also confused. Both sides had been at odds before, so it was normal for each other to send detailed works. It was said that there was Chen Wen's detailed works in Guiyang. Didn't he do it in Jiangxi and Zhejiang? It's just that this kind of abilities is really hard to say. Besides, Chen Wen's supervisory department has always been closely reviewing all the movements in the territory. He was still a bit too primitive in intelligence, otherwise Li Dingguo would not have taken Yongli away so easily.

Now the investigation is actually a bit outdated. The banner Wu Dengke used to attack Changsha to serve the king and seek rebellion under the order of the King of Yue. He must have entered Guizhou to break up with him. In the eighth year of Yongli, the fire that Yuzhang Master was in Yuanzhou Prefecture was to be released, but he had to make a choice in the shortest time to survive. Otherwise, he would be hit by both sides and the general trend would be completely gone.

"Master, let's negotiate peace with the court. You, King Jin and King Shu, are the adopted sons of the eldest brothers. Even if there is a little disagreement between them, they will eventually break the bones and tendons. But what is Chen Wen? His ancestors were hereditary households and had been hereditary for more than two hundred years. He was also an official army from eastern Zhejiang. He was not in the same way as us. We must not let the relatives suffer and the enemy be happy."

Bai Wenxuan made generous speeches, but in Sun Kewang's eyes, Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu, who opposed him as emperor, were more hateful than Chen Wenlai.

However, Chen Wen now occupies nearly five provinces and is already the strongest among the various vassal states of the Southern Ming Dynasty. Whether in terms of class composition or the success rate of peace talks with both sides, Bai Wenxuan's method is indeed the solution.

"Then send someone to send a letter to Li Dingguo. Our Qin Palace does not have the strength to fight on both sides now."

Sun Kewang has this thought, and the same is true for Li Dingguo. Compared with Sun Kewang and Chen Wen, the conflict between Sun Kewang and Chen Wen is even more huge. The conflict between them and the Yongli court behind them and Chen Wen is not so easy to resolve. Moreover, Chen Wen is the strongest now, and God knows whether he will be another Sun Kewang.

Just as the Qing army in history took advantage of Sun Kewang's deployment of troops to conquer Chenzhou and showed signs of a brief reunion between Sun and Li, Chen Wen rushed into Huguang, and the threat to the three kings of Xiying instantly overwhelmed their conflicts. After Sun Kewang had a communication with Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu about "brothers fighting against the wall and remorse outside", Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu's counter-rebellion retreated to Kunming, without the threat in front of him, and Sun Kewang's army also returned to Huguang as quickly as possible.

Chen Wen's detailed work in Guiyang sent all this back to Chen Wen's army as fast as possible. However, at this moment, it was already early April. Chen Wen and Wu Dengke were on the top of Changde City, and the two armies had already completed their meeting and were stationed here for necessary rest.

"The next stop is Chenzhou, which is the gateway to Guizhou. Sun Kewang is so slow that I don't know if I should take down this city."

Chen Wen's joke, but Wu Dengke did not take over this. He has been stationed in western Jiangxi for a long time and is naturally more familiar with the Ming army in the southwest. At present, the main force of the Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang meets, but he is still at a disadvantage compared to Sun Kewang. However, he does not care too much about this, but he is more concerned about other things.

"Master General, Changde is coming, Guizhou is just around the corner, and Yunnan is next. At this time, under the wings of the King of Jin, if our Jiangsu and Zhejiang Kings Division intersects with him, how should we deal with it?"

This is a key issue, especially for the Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, which has been in actual independence for a long time. Fortunately, what should be done? In fact, Chen Wen has already made a calculation, and at this point it is time to reveal it to a close friend like Wu Dengke.

"It has been nearly thirty years since the rise of the bandits in the Chongzhen Dynasty. The people are disgusted with chaos, and the same is true for the heart of heaven. Only then can the Tartars decline and the Han family recover half of the country. However, those who have made great contributions will not be rewarded, and those who are brave and striking the master will be in danger. Due to history, the fate of the nobles in the early Ming Dynasty is vivid in our minds. We have to think more about the welfare of our descendants."

"Since ancient times, those with virtue and strength in the world have lived in it. Our Jiangsu-Zhejiang Kings Division has risen to eastern Zhejiang, and now it is one of the three parts of the world. We have defeated the Eight Banners Army many times, which is not powerless. We recruit refugees, sluggish vassals and sanctions, and have strictly enforced officials, so that the people under our rule can live and work in peace and contentment, and even kill the people and traitors who treacherously robbed the country are not undesirable. However, now that Jiannu has not been destroyed, he has been obeyed for many years and has been decisively plotting rebellion, which will only make the relatives suffer and the enemy happy, which is really undesirable."

Speaking of this, Chen Wen changed his tone, accompanied by the afterglow of the sunset, and revealed all the heartfelt words that had been brewing in his heart for a long time.
Chapter completed!