Chapter 685
"Why are you catching me?" Kong Xigui struggled and shouted.
"Why arrest you? You know what you know! You retreated from Jingzhou to Changsha, and then from Changsha to Yuezhou. The army of 20,000 was destroyed to only more than a thousand. After gathering the defeated troops, only seven thousand were only seven thousand. I am afraid you would not be wronged by the crime of ineffective combat?" Li Guodong sneered.
Kong Xigui shouted, "What crime is the crime of ineffective combat? If I had this crime in the Ming Dynasty, if I really had this crime, which civil servant and general who led troops in the Ming Dynasty could escape? Since the Battle of Sarhu, my Ming Dynasty has won fewer victory and defeated Jiannu. If I follow Boye's words, wouldn't everyone be guilty of the Liaodong army? Besides, when it comes to suppressing the thieves, since two years ago, officers and soldiers have been defeated repeatedly in battle. As Boye said, isn't everyone be guilty of my Ming Dynasty from the commander to the general?"
Instead of following Kong Xigui's words, Li Guodong continued to list his crimes: "Is this a death sentence for killing Liang and robbing the people?"
"Which Ming official army is not a killer and arousing the people? If you don't say anything else, just talk about the general who suppressed the thief. Why didn't your uncle go to trouble him? But he came to bully me, Kong, a defeated general? I'm afraid that he didn't dare to touch him when he saw that General Zuo had many soldiers and generals were wide. He only knew how to bully Kong!"
Li Guodong laughed: "The thief general Zuo Liangyu, I will settle the score with him! It's just that the time has not come! The person comes! He pushed Kong Xigui and his more than 100 servants to behead him!"
Two swordsmans came up to drag Kong Xigui. Kong Xigui knew that he would die, so he struggled to curse: "Li Lao Er! Even if you want to convict Kong, it's not your turn! The court should convict you! Why do you kill me? Li Lao Er, are you so domineering, do you have the intention of being unjust?"
The knife and axe hand pulled Kong Xigui out, who was struggling and roaring. After a while, a scream came from outside.
Then, the tied knives Kong Xigui were also pushed out, and a row of swords and axes and swords flashed, and more than a hundred heads rolled to the ground.
"Brother, is it a bit too much for us to kill the general without the execution of the court?" Han Dashan asked worriedly.
"Don't worry, we report to the court. Kong Xigui was not effective in fighting against the thieves. He fled with more than a hundred servants, and the 20,000 troops were wiped out. After this person retreated, he did not seek to gather the defeated soldiers and fight the bandits again, but he plundered in nearby villages, killed innocent people and made good contributions. Our army stepped forward to stop him, but was arrested by him. In the event of failure, our army beheaded Kong Xigui." Li Guodong said.
Anyway, there is no evidence of death, and it is Li Guodong's report that is finalized. As for the evidence? How many people in Yuezhou and Changsha have seen Kong Xigui defeated? They plundered the people and killed good deeds. How many times have Kong Xigui done this guy? He can accuse his crimes if he just pulls some people.
As for the seven thousand soldiers under Kong Xigui's command, they had all been subdued and they openly killed more than seven thousand officers and soldiers near Yuezhou. The impact was too great, so things would be difficult to smooth out. So Li Guodong asked them to load them on naval ships and transport them to Annan as slaves. Those who waited for their fate would be to work in the dark coal mine until they died, and use labor to wash away their crimes.
The reason why Li Guodong did not need to directly arrest Kong Xigui was that on the one hand, he did not want to give others the excuse of his own initiative to initiate internal conflicts, and on the other hand, he was unwilling to sacrifice the precious lives of his brothers. If the Kong army was forcibly annihilated, conflicts occurred, his side would inevitably suffer losses. In this way, he wiped out Kong Xigui, and it can be said that he would take them all without bloodshed.
A navy fleet came to Yuezhou, and more than 7,000 prisoners of the Kong family army were all taken on the ship. After these prisoners were sent to the estuary of the Yangtze River, they would be sent to Annan by the Zheng family army naval fleet. The navy fleet also sent more than 3,000 engineers and more than 2,000 auxiliary soldiers. Li Guodong left these new soldiers in Yuezhou to maintain order in Yuezhou and also prevent the bandit army from turning back and taking back Yuezhou.
"All cavalrymen, get up at the fourth hour, add some dry food, and continue to march towards Changsha!" Li Guodong ordered.
Before dawn the next day, the lights in the yards in Yuezhou City were on. These yards were empty yards left by local people who fled. They were temporarily requisitioned by Li Guodong as a barracks and returned them to them when the master comes back. Now that Li Guodong's army is about to set off, the houses will be handed over to the engineers and auxiliary soldiers, temporarily sealed and waited for the master to come back.
The team prepared half a month of dry food, which were baked bread, baked rice cakes, etc., plus jerky meat. Each cavalry carried a bag of dry food, which could last for half a month.
After breakfast, the soldiers set off at 5 o'clock in the morning and rode their horses and drove straight to Changsha by land.
At this time, Changsha City had been captured by the bandits' army. In fact, Cai Daoxian's resistance was still very tenacious. After three days of besieging the city, Cai Daoxian personally led his troops to the city to resist, shooting countless bandits with bows, bird guns, and a large number of refugees who were forced to be cannon fodder by Zhang Xianzhong fell to the city. However, Yin Xianmin, the defender in the city, He Yide, took the initiative to open the city gate and surrender. Even Huang Mingzhi, the left chief of Prince Ji's mansion, opened the city to welcome the bandits, and Zhang Xianzhong's army easily attacked the city.
After Cai Daoxian was captured, he cursed endlessly. Zhang Xianzhong ordered the surrendered general Yin Xianmin to persuade him to surrender, but was scolded by Cai Daoxian, so Cai Daoxian was killed.
Zhang Xianzhong captured Changsha and issued a notice locally: Gu Titian's troops arrived in Changsha, and within one day, two prefectures and three prefectures surrendered. General Yin Xianmin and Deputy General He Yide led his troops to help Shun, and he was willing to advance to Jiangxi. Gu Shi praised him. He was granted the title of ancestors, and Yide inherited the Bo, and all his generals were generals.
The surrounding counties opened the city and surrendered, and the magistrate of Ningxiang County refused to surrender. As a result, the county magistrate Li Guangzhao led the county magistrate, chief clerk, Dianshi and other officials to take the magistrate, opened the city gate and surrendered to Zhang Xianzhong. Therefore, Zhang Xianzhong appointed Li Guangzhao as the county magistrate.
In order to make money, Zhang Xianzhong first robbed Prince Ji's Mansion, then burned Prince Ji's Mansion, and attacked some unkind gentry in the city, robbed a large number of gold, silver and treasures. In addition, Zhang Xianzhong also took measures such as exemption from the three-year levy of money and grain, dispersing wealth to provide poverty, and distributing millet to provide hunger to help the local people.
Just when Zhang Xianzhong was full of confidence and was ready to manage Changsha well, Zhang Kewang's spy came to report: "King, the big thing is wrong. The Wuweibo army has arrived in the Jiufeng Mountain area. The official army set up camp in the valley by the river, killed the officials we appointed around, and distributed land to the people."
Zhang Xianzhong was furious: "Good you, Li Lao Er. I have never been sad for you because we have friendship! You are so lucky to follow me and grab the territory! Come on, I will send my order to meet this guy!"
"Father, never!" Zhang Dingguo advised, "Wuweibo is resourceful and powerful, and he can win many battles against Jiannu. If our army is an enemy of this person, he may not get any benefits. It is better to give up Changsha and our army will directly take Xichuan."
"It's okay, because of this person's friendship with our army, Changsha will give it to him!" Zhang Xianzhong said hatefully.
"The father refused to give up Changsha easily!" Zhang Kewang came out to stop him, "This Li Laoer has a good relationship with our army and followed us to grab the territory. This shows that this man has the intention of being unjust and wants to use us to capture the territory for him, but he followed behind to get a bargain! If the father gave up Changsha like this, wouldn't he be used for nothing? This man is strong and strong, if our army attacks for force, it will naturally be thankless. However, he is not secretly making friends with our army? We can leak these news and let the court get rid of this person for us!"
"Brother!" Zhang Dingguo was anxious, "Wuweibo has the grace of survival for our army, how can we repay our grudges with grudges!"
Chapter completed!