Li Guodong laughed: "Zhang Futai, and He Zhishi died at all. He was stubborn and unwilling to listen to advice, which led to a crushing defeat. He lost so thoroughly that he even lost his pants, refused to surrender, and wanted to be a loyal and martyr. I had to help him. But my Duke did not treat him badly. He left him a whole body and made him bury him with a grand funeral, and his family would not be implicated."

Zhang Kuang said: "Li Zhe, no matter how scattered you are, Zhang [Biquge www.biqugetv.co] will never surrender!"

Li Guodong smiled and said, "Zhang Futai, Li won't kill you. You will see your achievements after I manage Guangdong for a few months. If you think Li can let the people live a good life, you will choose to surrender again, and it will not be too late for you to surrender. If you still refuse to surrender, I can let you go."

After saying that, Li Guodong turned to the guard and shouted: "Take Zhang Futai down and detain him, arrange a better room for him, and serve him with delicious food and drinks. I want to let him see the development of Guangdong in a few months."

After Zhang Kuang was taken down, Mandazhuang, Qin Yuchun, Prince Wang and others were moved to see Li Guodong treat Zhang Kuang so well and expressed their willingness to surrender.

Mandazhuang knelt down and said, "I am willing to swear allegiance to the Duke of the State to the death!"

Qin Yuchun and the crown prince also knelt down at the same time: "I am willing to swear allegiance to the Duke of the State to the death!"

Li Guodong smiled and helped the three of them up: "With three generals helping me, Li, adds another strength! Come and hold a banquet to welcome the three generals."

After the He family army was wiped out, the crown prince who was familiar with the Beijiang channel led the way. The Huai army went north and conquered Yingde and Shaozhou continuously. Then they sent Zhongzhen Camp and Jinyiwei to continue the northern expedition, capturing Guiyang (now Chenzhou), with the sword head straight to Changsha.

At this time, in Hunan, the Yongli puppet dynasty had weak troops and was attacked by the Huai Army and Zhongzhen Camp in the north and south. Most of Guangdong in the south had been recovered by the orthodox court. To the north of Yuezhou in the north was the territory of the Huai Army's military fortress group and Zhongzhen Camp. As long as Changsha and Yuezhou were opened, the Huai Army could expedition westward to Guangxi, Guizhou and other places.

Just when Li Guodong was rectifying Guangdong and preparing to use Guangdong's iron smelting industry, Qiongzhou iron ore and Annan coal mine to prepare for large-scale bombings, the wheel of history entered the 20th year of Chongzhen, that is, 1647 AD.

Wu Sangui did not enter Sichuan like in real history. Instead, after occupying Shaanxi, he continued to fight westward along the Hexi Corridor and attacked westward.

During the Guanning Army's western expedition, they naturally encountered stubborn resistance from the Mongols and Lulu along the way, especially Lulu, who adopted the method of taking the cavalry with gunpowder bags to launch a suicide charge. When the Guanning Army entered the city, Lulu's elderly, women and children were wrapped in gunpowder bags to launch a suicide attack, causing heavy losses to the Guanning Army.

Fortunately, the gunpowder bags on the elderly, women and children were not well made, and the sealing was not done well. As a result, after ignition, there was no explosion. Most of them were ignited and fired, and fired from all sides were sprayed. At best, it was a human firework, which looked magnificent, but the actual lethality was almost zero. In the end, the human fireworks burned themselves into coke, but did not hurt Guanning Army.

However, some gunpowder packs still exploded, and the iron beads and gravel in the gunpowder pack flew everywhere, causing certain losses to the unprepared Guanning Army.

Explosions can be heard almost every day in the towns of the Western Regions. Seeing the veterans who had been following him for many years fall down one by one, Wu Sangui finally got completely angry: "Kill! Every time he conquers a place, he slaughteres the city! All men, women, young and old are killed! The ancients were right, and the hearts of those who are not my race will be different! These people are not as good as those who are full of people."

Although Wu Sangui's army was supervised by Ai Xing'a in the Eight Banners, there was nothing wrong with Wu Sangui's words. What's more, although the Guanning army surrendered to the Qing army and shaved its hair, this army is relatively independent of the Eight Banners army. The number of the Eight Banners in the army is extremely rare, and the Qing court did not have much control over the Guanning army. Dorgon just used the Guanning army to expand his territory. Although Wu Sangui's words showed that he still did not agree with the Manchus, Ai Xing'a had no choice but to do anything to him.

Indeed, those people in the northwest have less sense of identity with China than Manchus. Both Manchus and Mongols can still assimilate, but these people cannot assimilate. Their belief is so domineering that they are only allowed to assimilate the Han people, and it is impossible for the Han people to assimilate them.

But Wu Sangui is not easy to mess with. Judging from the series of things that have happened during this period, Wu Sangui knows that the entire northwest needs a major cleaning.

After the city massacre order was issued, the Qing army would massacre the city in the local area every time they conquered a place. According to the method of Genghis Khan, the city was massacred. Any man who was higher than the wheel would be massacred. Women and children were first detained and sheltered, and after they were confirmed to be safe, they would then distribute the women and children to the Manchus, Mongolians and Han people as slaves.

Wu Sangui fought all the way to the west of Jiayuguan, and he didn't dare to fight any further. Going further forward was the Yarkand Khanate. Wu Sangui knew very well how much resistance they would encounter when they hit the Yarkand Khanate territory.

The Guanning Army suffered losses all the way, and there were not many veterans left, and Dorgon was unwilling to replenish more food and grass for Wu Sangui. Wu Sangui himself needed to solve the food and grass problem.

Wu Sangui gathered all his confidants and secretly held a meeting in his mansion without telling the story of Ai Xinga and others: "Brothers, the Regent's words are nice, saying that the territory we have captured is ours. But we are not allowed to enter Sichuan, so we can chew the hard bones of the Western Regions, and we will not provide us with enough food and grass. In the past few years, the old brothers have suffered heavy losses and are no longer able to fight the West!"

"Master, we might as well rebel! The Ming Dynasty did not kill your family, and it is said that he treats the old coach well. Why don't you consider taking the banner of the Ming Dynasty and returning to the Ming Dynasty?" Gao Dejie said.

Wu Sangui shook his head: "No! The dog son Wu Yingxiong was detained by Dorgon in the capital as a proton. If our army fired the anti-flag, Xiong'er's life would be over!"

"Father, if a real man wants to achieve great things, he will not recognize his relatives. How can he be willing to live under someone else's roof for his elder brother? If we return to the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty will definitely not treat us unfairly! After the defeat of Yangzhou of the Tartars, even Dorgon's younger brother was captured. Dad, do you think they can beat Duke Chu?" Wu Yingqi quickly advised his father. Of course, he hoped that his elder brother would be killed, so he would be Wu Sangui's only heir, and he would inherit Wu Sangui's territory and troops by then.

Wu Sangui shook his head, "I know that the Tartars are rabbits' tails that cannot grow. If that's the case, why don't we wait? When the Ming Dynasty's King's Army recovers the capital and rescues Xiong'er, we will raise the flag of uprising to return to the Ming Dynasty? The Duke of Chu has great ambitions and strives to expand the territory. It will be too late for us to return to the Ming Dynasty at that time."

Liu Xuanchu said: "Master General, although our army does not have to be clear now, we can send people to contact the Duke of Chu in secret. Judging from the students, the future country will not belong to the Ming Dynasty nor the Tartars, but the Duke of Chu! We can secretly send people to contact the Duke of Chu and secretly announce to the Duke of Chu that we are willing to surrender, so that after the Duke of Chu takes over the capital, we can also protect Xiong'er's safety."

Wu Sangui nodded: "Mr. Liu is right, and Wu is also thinking about this. But at present, our army lacks food and supplies, so how can we solve this problem?"

Liu Xuanchu said: "The Tartars encircled land in the capital, and our Guanning Army families were forced to follow us. With these families, we can cultivate locally and open up wastelands to grow food."

"Growing grain?" Wu Sangui smiled bitterly and shook his head, "What can we plant in such a barren land? What can we plant and what we die."

"We can ask for sweet potatoes, potatoes, etc. These crops can be planted in barren areas. We dig canals to divert water into the farmland. The barren areas in the northwest are scarce all year round, but there is snow in the snow mountains, which can bring the melted snow into the farmland." Liu Xuanchu said.
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