Chapter 78 7. The Last Great Western Army

After the Qing army killed Zhang Xianzhong, they entered the ruins of Chengdu, which was no longer a city. However, this once beautiful city has lost its value strategically and economically. She died, and the Qing army immediately withdrew from Chengdu City and pursued the remnants of Zhang Xianzhong to the east. Zhang Xianzhong's four adopted sons, Sun Kewang, Li Dingguo, Liu Wenxiu, and Ai Nengqi, led their troops eastward along the river, and then turned into Guizhou. Under the strong pressure of the Qing army, they also felt panic. Both Li Dingguo and Ainengqi proposed to cooperate with the Nanming regime, and Nanming Tang Wang also expressed a gesture of cooperation, saying: "The victim of loyalty is a brother, not a father. If you surrender, you will be exonerated and made meritorious service."

One day Ai Nengqi asked Wang Zhaoling: "Now that Lao Wansui is dead, what should we do?" Wang Zhaoling didn't understand what he meant, and replied: "Is it not good for the generals to continue to act as usual?" Ai Nengqi was furious: "Old Wansui In Chengdu, when you are a prime minister, you cannot assist him in governing the country, and you blindly persuade him to kill people, so that people are frightened and refuse to submit. The whole world calls us "thieves"! Today has reached such a point, and you still want to persuade us to be "thieves" !” That is to say, he drew his sword and killed Wang Zhaoling. This conversation also objectively reflected what Zhang Xianzhong did in Sichuan.

Subsequently, the four adopted sons separated Zhang Xianzhong's army, entered Guizhou, and surrendered to the Nanming regime in name. Since then, these civil war heroes have embarked on the national battlefield. This is an era of big waves washing the sand. Among Zhang Xianzhong's four adopted sons, Sun Kewang surrendered to the Qing Dynasty and led the Qing army to attack his former righteous brothers; Ai Nengqi and Liu Wenxiu died of illness one after another, without doing much; , fought arduously with the Qing army, and once achieved brilliant victories such as killing the Qing army's Prince Jing Nikan and Dingnan King Kong Youde.

But since the curtain of the times has fallen, what can be changed only by the hard work of one or two heroes? In 1661, the Nanming Yongli regime that lasted fifteen years was overthrown. In the following year, on June 11th of the first year of Kangxi, Li Dingguo heard that Yongli had been killed by Wu Sangui in Kunming. The star of a famous general fell in the foreign land of the Southern Barbarians. His last words before he died were: "Let die in the wilderness, don't surrender!" This year, Li Dingguo was only forty-two years old.