Di Ming

Chapter 250 Return to the capital immediately and present the captives at the Meridian Gate!
While Zhu Yin led his army to Liangzhou, he also sent Li Rusong with cavalry to pursue Zhenzhen, planning to eliminate Zhenzhen's main force before joining forces in Liangzhou.

He wouldn't feel at ease until the truth was eliminated. Without Li Rusong's cavalry, he couldn't head north to pursue the rebels.

After Li Rusong's cavalry left, Zhu Yin's forces dwindled, but after joining Qin Liangyu at Ruian Fort, his forces exceeded 30,000.

...

The truth about leading over ten thousand cavalrymen westward was revealed the next day when he arrived at Riyue Pass. However, to his shock and anger, several stone walls had been erected at Riyue Pass, behind which Ming troops were positioned on high ground, holding a strategic position.

With only two days left to gather the truth about the horse, what can he do?
We have no choice but to attack head-on!

However, Xiong Tingbi was well prepared. Although he had fewer than two thousand men, he used the terrain and rocks to set up layers of defenses, turning the valley into a natural "barbican," and then used cannons to bombard it from above.

He was confident he could hold out for a few days. But the truth could never last more than that.

Although the Truth Cavalry numbered over ten thousand, they were not adept at attacking fortified positions. After a full day of fighting, suffering nearly a thousand casualties, they still failed to open up the Sun and Moon Pass.

At this point, the truth finally became clear: this road was blocked!
He could only lead his demoralized cavalry to the Dadoubagu Pass, more than a hundred miles away.

But when he arrived at the Dadoubagu Pass, exhausted, he found that the pass was also heavily fortified.

The Ming general guarding the Dadoubagu Pass was Luo Shangzhi. Luo Shangzhi prepared a lot of firewood and piled it up at the pass. As soon as the enemy arrived, they lit the firewood, and a raging fire immediately shot into the sky.

Behind the fire net is a low wall built of stones, which serves as both a firebreak and a second line of defense.

Luo Shangzhi's two thousand soldiers, positioned on higher ground, threw firewood into the raging fire.

The raging fire blocked the road, and the Mongol cavalrymen were stunned. Their warhorses, seeing the flames, reared up uneasily in fear.

Many Mongol cavalrymen could not withstand the scorching heat and could only retreat one by one, their heads covered in sweat.

Truth stared blankly at this scene, thinking that the army's fodder was running out, when suddenly a sweet taste came to his throat, and he couldn't help but feel dizzy and fall off his horse with a cry.

"Taji!"

"Your Highness!"

After a while, the truth finally came to light. What came into view were the terrified expressions of his subordinates and the raging flames that had sealed off the valley.

"Cough, cough!" Zhenxiang coughed violently, tears streaming down his face. In just a few days, his braid had turned somewhat gray.

"Taiji!" His chieftain knelt before him. "There's no more fodder! The warriors' horses will go hungry today!"

"There are no pastures for hundreds of miles around. What are we going to feed all these warhorses, Taiji!"

Truth stared blankly at the sky, as if she had aged ten years in an instant.

It seems I have no chance of returning to the Western Sea. The remaining Lenglongling Pass will surely be guarded by Ming troops as well.

Zhu Yin wanted to die!
The truth is now clear: this battle was under Zhu Yin's control from beginning to end, and he had been led by the nose the whole time, making it impossible for him to win.

Zhu Yin!

Suddenly, a scout hurriedly rode up, dismounted, and reported:

"Your Highness! A large enemy cavalry force is approaching, numbering over ten thousand! They could catch up with us as early as dusk!"

The Mongol generals all looked horrified.

Normally, they would be overjoyed. Hearing that Ming cavalry were coming, they would only think that the enemy was courting death.

But now, their warhorses have run out of fodder and are starving. Can they still run? What will happen if they encounter more than 10,000 Ming cavalry again?
Zhenxiang gritted his teeth and said, "Let's go! We can't go back to the West Sea for now, let's try our luck to the north! Maybe we can still find some food and supplies!"

The truth was not to be lingered any longer; they had to leave while the warhorse still had some strength left.

More than 10,000 Mongol cavalrymen marched north again, but they lowered their flags and stopped beating their drums, looking as panicked as stray dogs.

They tried their best to feed their warhorses wild vegetables, leaves, and crops along the way, but it was to no avail. It was July, and the wheat in the military fields west of the river had already been harvested.

The next morning, the more than 10,000 exhausted Mongol cavalrymen were overtaken by more than 10,000 Ming cavalrymen led by Li Rusong at Zaojiaogou, north of Zamu River!

The Mongol cavalry were unparalleled in horsemanship, but their warhorses had run out of feed and could no longer run.

They possess superb horsemanship skills, yet they are already in dire straits!
However, the Ming cavalry led by Li Rusong were full of energy and vigor.

The Battle of Zaojiaogou, a tragic event for the Mongols, finally broke out.

For the first time, Mongol cavalry abandoned their horses and fought against Ming cavalry as infantry.

It seems like the two sides have swapped scripts.

History played a strange joke on them.

Li Rusong also felt a bit absurd at this moment. He had fought against the Mongols for so many years and had never encountered such a situation.

My lord is truly a prophet; he even managed to get himself into this kind of battle.

Li Rusong, of course, wouldn't hold back; he would strike while the iron was hot and finish him off!
Li Rusong immediately led his cavalry to charge and surround the enemy, separating more than 10,000 Tartars. Utilizing the advantage of his cavalry, he swiftly crushed the enemy's resistance.

After a morning of fierce fighting, more than 10,000 Tartars were either killed or surrendered, resulting in the complete annihilation of the army. Only a little over 1,000 escaped and headed towards Liangzhou.

The powerful Taiji of Xihai, the Prince of Xihai of the Liangzhou court, was also killed by Li Rusong while fleeing. He died in a foreign land, carrying with him his dream of restoring the Mongol Empire!

With the successive deaths of Huo Luochi and Zhenxiang, two powerful figures in the Western Sea, the elite main force of the Western Sea Mongols has been completely wiped out by the Ming army.

The vast grasslands of the Western Sea could no longer stop the advance of the Ming army.

After Li Rusong annihilated the army of the truth-teller and rested for a day, he went to meet up with Zhu Yin.

……

Liangzhou is now deserted.

The sun blazed fiercely. Yet, in Ximing Capital, which had been under lockdown for less than two months, it felt as if winter had arrived.

A messenger arrives with news that Zhu Yin has personally led his army northward, and is less than a hundred li from Liangzhou. He will be at the city gates by tonight at the latest!
Although Liangzhou City had gathered many defeated soldiers, it was impossible for them to hold the city when their morale was completely shattered.

The tide has turned in Hexi.

At this time, the entire Liangzhou city was in chaos. After Crown Prince Zhu Shuaixin led his troops back to Liangzhou, with the support of A Yun, Ma Huaizhong, Wang Gan and others, he immediately took over the city.

The power of the Liangzhou court suddenly and dramatically shifted into the hands of Zhu Shuaixin.

Zhu Shuaixin used the remnants of his army to desperately plunder grain, livestock, and cloth from both inside and outside Liangzhou.

He also took control of tens of thousands of people inside and outside the city, preparing to take them all away. At this moment, Zhu Shuaixin was the most powerful person.

But Grand Tutor Bo Bai had no time to worry about these things. He was over seventy years old, had broken his leg, and was desperate in his desperate situation. Where would he have any desire to fight for power?
Bo Chengen knelt before his father's bed, tightly grasped his father's hand, and said in a hoarse voice, "Father! Come with us! I can't leave you in Liangzhou!"

Bo Bai shook his head and said, "I can't leave. My time has come, and I'm not going anywhere. Even if I were to set off, I would only be a burden. I've lived in the Guanzhong Plain for fifty years and have long been considered a Han Chinese. I don't want to leave Han lands."

"My son, you should go with the Crown Prince. The remaining two thousand servants are all entrusted to you. Going to the Western Regions with the Crown Prince might offer you a way out, cough cough!"

"Father!" Bo Chengen kowtowed, weeping, "How could I be unfilial, leaving you with Zhu Yin! Now that you've fallen into Wanli's hands, Father..."

Bo Bai shouted sternly, "Why should a man cry and whine! Death is all that matters! I rebelled against Wanli's court; they have wronged me! Rebellion will inevitably lead to death sooner or later, and I have been waiting for this day!"

"If I don't die, Wanli will not let me go! He will send Zhu Yin to chase me out of Jiayuguan and all the way to the Western Regions, do you understand!"

"Only when both the Emperor and I are dead will you and the Crown Prince have a chance to go to the Western Regions!"

Bo Chengen understood, "Father, the Emperor..."

Bo Bai nodded with a bitter smile, "The Emperor has decided to die for his country. Only if the Emperor dies will Zhu Yincai stop chasing you to the Western Regions, and Wanli will stop relentlessly pursuing the Crown Prince and you."

"Only when the old man and the emperor are dead will you have a chance to gain a foothold in the Western Regions."

Just then, a guard reported, "Grand Tutor, the Crown Prince has arrived."

Bo Bai struggled to sit up. "Please come in quickly!"

Zhu Shuaixin stepped into the bedroom and immediately bowed, saying, "Grand Tutor..."

After saying those two words, he fell silent.

Bo Bai sighed and said, "Your Highness, you and the Emperor have come to this point because I forced you at first, it wasn't of your own free will. Now that things have come to this, do you resent me?"

Zhu Shuaixin's face was full of determination. "To be honest, I do not resent the Grand Tutor. Without the Grand Tutor, my father and I would still be caged birds, living as if we were dead. What fun would that be?"

His tragic expression seemed somewhat out of place for his age.

"It was the Grand Tutor who helped my father ascend the throne that made me realize that many things in this world are nothing more than that. The Grand Tutor broke through this barrier and is a great hero. My father and I have lived a glorious life, and we are willing to die for it. A true man can die without regrets even if he is emperor for a day. My father has been emperor for three months now, what more could he ask for!"

"Good!" Bo Bai slapped the edge of the bed. "This old minister was right about Your Highness! Your Highness is a man capable of great things! With Your Highness here, the Western Ming dynasty still exists! There is still a chance to fight back!"

"It is a pity that I am doomed to die and cannot accompany Your Highness on the western expedition! I can only let Cheng'en accompany Your Highness."

Zhu Shuaixin is a smart man, so Bo Bai doesn't need to spell things out.

Zhu Shuaixin knew that Bo Bai intended to commit suicide, which saved him a lot of talking. With tears in his eyes, he said:

"Grand Tutor, your noble character and integrity, your loyalty and devotion to the country, I will forever be grateful to you. When you arrive in the Western Regions, I will personally draft your posthumous title: Zhongwu!"

"Zhongwu" is the highest posthumous title for a military official. This is the best affirmation of Bo Bai's merits.

Upon hearing this, Bo Bai burst into laughter.

"Hahaha! Wanli! Wanli! Did you hear that! My posthumous title is Zhongwu! Zhongwu! So what if I betrayed you?! In the end, I am Zhongwu!"

He laughed until tears streamed down his face.

I joined the Ming Dynasty when I was young, and fifty years have passed since then. I never expected things to turn out this way.

Zhu Shuaixin and Bo Chengen exchanged a glance and then bowed to Bo Bai.

Bo Bai waved his hand and said, "You guys should hurry up and leave! Zhu Yin and Qi Jiguang will be here soon, there's still time to leave!"

The two stood up and walked out of the bedroom together.

...

Inside the main hall of the imperial palace, a length of white silk ribbon was already hanging from the beam.

Emperor Zhu Shenyu, who had only been emperor for three months, was wearing a dragon robe and looked at Bai Ling with a miserable expression, trembling all over.

The empress, princes, and princesses knelt on the ground, their cries shaking the heavens.

"Your Majesty!"

"Father!"

Prince Su also knelt on the ground, his face pale, but he remained relatively calm.

Zhu Shuaixin, accompanied by Bo Chengen, the Imperial Son-in-Law Ayun, Wang Gan, Ma Huaizhong, and others, entered the main hall, weeping as he said:
"Does Father insist on this? Can't we go to the Western Regions together?"

Zhu Shenyu shook his head and said, "The Grand Tutor and I have discussed it and decided to die for our country. If the Grand Tutor and I don't die, you won't escape either! Zhu Yin and Qi Jiguang will pursue us to the very end!"

"What joy is there in living, what sorrow in dying! Though I die today, I have been able to ascend the throne once, and I have the face to meet the founding emperor in the afterlife. I have done right by the ancestors of the Qing family! I have done right by all the relatives of the Ming dynasty!"

"You must leave now! Crown Prince, take your mother and brothers and sisters and leave immediately! This is an imperial edict from me!"

"Father!" Zhu Shuaixin embraced his father, tears streaming down his face. "Foolish child, why must you do this!" Zhu Shenyu stamped his foot. "I am gravely ill and exhausted; my time is already near. Go quickly, or it will be too late!"

Zhu Shuaixin and the others knelt down together, kowtowed to the Heavenly Emperor, and then left together, tears streaming down their faces.

Only an old eunuch remained by the Emperor's side.

When Zhu Shuaixin turned back for the last time, he saw his father looking at him with a heartbreaking expression, shouting, "Crown Prince! You've gone to the Western Regions, what temple name are you going to give me!"

Zhu Shuaixin knelt down again, weeping, and said, "Your Majesty, I will grant you the temple name... Zhaozong!"

"Emperor Zhaozong?" Zhu Shenyu nodded. "Good! Good! Emperor Zhaozong it is, very good! Son, you are better than me, do a good job! Do a good job!"

"Yes!" Zhu Shuaixin replied, "Your subject obeys the decree!"

After saying that, he turned and strode away, never looking back.

Zhu Shenyu watched the crowd's retreating figures and said to the old eunuch, "Send me...to my death!"

……

Liangzhou was originally a major city in Hexi. As the capital of the Western Ming Dynasty, it has gathered a considerable number of horses, livestock, vehicles, and a certain amount of grain and supplies during this period.

It was enough for tens of thousands of troops to go to Ganzhou and Suzhou.

At this moment, Zhu Shuaixin had the support of the Imperial Son-in-Law Ayun, Duke of Zhangye Wang Gan, Marquis of Zhuanglang Ma Huaizhong, Duke of Ningxia Bo Chengen, Marquis of Suzhou Dong Dali, and others, and had completely taken control of the remnants of the Western Ming army.

Ayun's 8,000 Mongol cavalry, Wang Gan's 7,000 Han soldiers, Ma Huaizhong's 5,000 Han soldiers, Bo Chengen's 2,000 elite Mongol cavalrymen, Dong Dali's 7,000 Han soldiers, and Zhu Shuaixin's own 3,000 Han soldiers, totaling 32,000 men, all obeyed Zhu Shuaixin's command.

Thirty-two thousand men sounds like a lot, but only a little over twelve thousand were actually armored soldiers. Newly recruited Han soldiers made up thirty percent of that.

Right now, we're all in the same boat; we must work together and have someone to lead us.

The only pillar of support can be Crown Prince Zhu Shuaixin. Only by uniting can they find a way to survive.

At Zhu Shuaixin's command, more than 30,000 Ximing soldiers abandoned the old, weak, sick and disabled in the city, and escorted tens of thousands of young men and women from inside and outside Liangzhou, as well as tens of thousands of horses, camels and other livestock, away from Liangzhou in a grand procession.

After leaving the city gate, Zhu Shuaixin led tens of thousands of people to kneel down and pay homage to Liangzhou City.

Zhu Shuaixin was not yet sixteen years old, still a young man in his prime, but his eyes were filled with a sense of desolation.

"Father! Grand Tutor! I'm going!"

Zhu Shuaixin kowtowed heavily, mounted his horse, and cracked his whip.

"drive!"

A total of 60,000 to 70,000 soldiers and civilians, along with tens of thousands of livestock, rolled northward under the blazing sun that had just risen.

Tens of thousands of people who were caught up in the chaos cried out in deafening cries.

A cavalryman relayed the order: "Stop crying! His Highness the Crown Prince has decreed that everyone will be rewarded with land and houses upon reaching the Western Regions! Those who perform meritorious service will also receive estates and slaves!"

Zhu Shuaixin was very farsighted. He left with tens of thousands of young men, of course, for the sake of his own base of support.

After arriving in the Western Regions, I found myself surrounded by numerous ethnic groups, all of whom were foreign. A small number of Han Chinese would be insufficient to control them!
What enabled Yelü Dashi to establish himself in the Western Regions? It was the Khitan people of the northwestern city of Qatun.

"By order of the Emperor, speed up! We must reach Rouyuan Fort tonight! We must be in Yongchang City by tomorrow dusk!"

Yongchang City is 300 li away from Liangzhou, and we have to get there in two days. We are really rushing as fast as we can.

But because they were fleeing for their lives, and because they had horses and vehicles, they were moving very fast.

...

Zhu Shuaixin led his troops to flee in the morning, while Zhu Yin's army approached Liangzhou at dusk.

More than 30,000 troops were at the city gates, a vast, dark mass. But within Liangzhou City, all was silent.

After the army entered the city, the entire city was deserted. Soon someone came to report that the false emperor Zhu Shenyu had hanged himself out of fear of punishment, and the rebel leader Bo Bai had also committed suicide out of fear of punishment.

When Zhu Yin and Qi Jiguang arrived, they had someone point them out, and sure enough, they were the corpses of the traitor Bo Bai and the false emperor Zhu Shenyu.

These are the two most important figures, and also the ones the emperor and the court absolutely needed to turn against.

Upon seeing the two bodies, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

That's it.

With these two corpses, it would be enough to satisfy the imperial court.

Zhu Yin had, of course, received intelligence that Zhu Shuaixin had abandoned Liangzhou and fled north.

But even Zhu Yin knew this, there was nothing he could do.

Because he had very few cavalrymen with him, while Zhu Shuaixin had taken away all the horses and vehicles of Liangzhou City, his speed was definitely not slow, and he could not catch up.

Li Rusong led the main force of his cavalry to pursue Zhenzhen. The news said that they had caught up with Zhenzhen and should have annihilated Zhenzhen's more than 10,000 Mongol cavalry by now.

The problem is that Li Rusong is located in Zaojiaogou, more than 200 miles away. After the battle, it will take at least one or two days to rest, and for him to come and meet up with me, it will be at the earliest four days.

In such a long time, Zhu Shuaixin is already hundreds of miles away, what's the point of chasing him?

Moreover, Zhu Shuaixin had 30,000 troops under his command, including 10,000 Mongol cavalry, making them formidable opponents. Even if Li Rusong led his cavalry to catch up with them, he had little chance of victory.

Zhu Yin had not expected that Zhu Shuaixin was so well-prepared and could escape so quickly.

His intelligence focus was on powerful figures like Bo Bai and Zhenxiang, but he overlooked Zhu Shuaixin, the young puppet prince.

Although the intelligence mentioned Zhu Shuaixin's extraordinary abilities, Zhu Yin did not underestimate him. However, he did not expect that Zhu Shuaixin had secretly prepared to go to the Western Regions before the great battle.

Hehe, finally a decent person has appeared in the royal family, and he's about the same age as me.

interesting.

Shangyang reminded him, "Commander-in-Chief, General, quickly send out reports and write memorials to report the great victory in Hexi."

Zhu Yin, Qi Jiguang, and others immediately sent a report and wrote a memorial to the throne, preparing to send it to Beijing by express courier.

After a series of great victories on the battlefield and the capture of Liangzhou, Bo Bai and the false emperor committed suicide out of fear of punishment. The recovery of Hexi was already a great achievement, so of course they had to report the victory immediately and request to return to the capital.

In addition to reporting the victory, Zhu Yin also requested the restoration of the prefecture-county system in Gansu Town, and at the same time requested to take advantage of the victory to subdue the Xihai Grassland and establish a military town there.

After resting in Liangzhou for four days, Li Rusong led more than 10,000 cavalry to Liangzhou to join the Ming army, which numbered as many as 50,000 in Liangzhou.

Zhu Shuaixin has been on the run for five days, and is at least five or six hundred miles away from Liangzhou, in the grasslands.

At this distance, it would take Li Rusong's cavalry at least ten days to catch up with him. By then, Zhu Shuaixin would have already left Jiayuguan and entered the Western Regions.

The Western Regions were not the territory of the imperial court.

How can I pursue her?
However, even though he knew that Li Rusong would definitely not be able to catch up, Zhu Yin still sent Li Rusong to pursue him. This was obviously to show the court that he had done his best.

At the same time, it was also a time to march north and recover Ganzhou and Suzhou. Only after recovering these two prefectures could the Hexi Corridor be considered completely recovered.

Early the next morning, Li Rusong led his cavalry in pursuit as ordered. Zhu Yin, Qi Jiguang, and others remained in Liangzhou to handle the aftermath and await further instructions from the imperial court.

...

In late July, the summer heat in Suzhou had begun to dissipate.

East of Jiayuguan, at Beihepi, all kinds of tents stretch for miles.

The more than 100,000 able-bodied soldiers and horsemen conscripted from Suzhou and Ganzhou have been gathered here for several days under the pretext of building the Great Wall.

More than 80% of these people are Han Chinese, with the remainder including Qiang, Tibetan, and Tuda people.

The new court in Liangzhou said that as long as people came to build the Great Wall, they would have their own land and be allocated food rations, and would no longer have to farm and cultivate land for the magistrates of a hundred or a thousand households.

So they came without resistance.

What if it's true?

However, after several days, although they were indeed distributing rations, they showed no intention of repairing the Great Wall. Instead, the number of horses and carts gathering there increased significantly.

Every day, the garrison commanders of Ganzhou and Suzhou would plunder large numbers of horses and carts, which would continuously gather at this place.

There are many horse owners and horses in Gansu Town, but after this search, there probably aren't many left.

While the 100,000 young men were filled with doubt, a startling message suddenly arrived: His Highness the Crown Prince of Liangzhou has arrived!

...

Thank goodness, it took Zhu Shuaixin nearly half a month to travel from Liangzhou to Suzhou.

Along the way, whenever they saw able-bodied soldiers or civilians, they would take them all into the army and loot them like plunderers, showing no regard for martial ethics.

Upon arriving at Beihepi in Suzhou, he immediately mobilized over 30,000 troops to forcibly take a large number of able-bodied soldiers and horsemen out of the pass!
There was absolutely no room for negotiation. The knife was in his hand; he had no choice but to leave!

Zhu Shuaixin had over 100,000 able-bodied men elect centurions, then summoned over a thousand centurions and addressed these newly appointed centurions:
“You are already traitors to the Beijing court. If you do not leave the pass and go to the Western Regions, you will become government slaves of the court, never to rise again, and may even be executed, bringing disaster to your families.”

"Why not join me on this western expedition? The Western Regions have vast lands, and everyone will have fertile fields and beautiful houses. As long as we unite as one, we can annihilate many of the barbarians in the Western Regions, seize their lands, and enslave them..."

Zhu Shuaixin's combination of gentle persuasion and firm pressure finally worked.

Then, Zhu Shuaixin organized all the able-bodied men, set up squad leaders, centurions, thousand-man leaders, and ten-thousand-man leaders, and allocated livestock and vehicles in an orderly manner, which impressed all the generals.

On the morning of July 28, Zhu Shuaixin led more than 30,000 soldiers, 140,000 able-bodied men, 40,000 horses, 30,000 mules, and more than 10,000 camels... leaving Beihepi in a grand procession, and arriving at Jiayuguan half a day later.

The westward-bound procession stretched as far as the eye could see, covering the mountains and plains.

Upon arriving at Jiayuguan, Zhu Shuaixin held a flag-raising ceremony and rallied his troops, proclaiming himself the Grand General of the Western Expedition of the Ming Dynasty and ordering the westward expedition.

The 28th day of the seventh month of the first year of the Tianming era.

Zhu Shuaixin, in the name of the Ming Dynasty's Western Expeditionary General, led 170,000 soldiers and civilians of Han, Mongol, Qiang, Tubo, Tuda and other ethnic groups on a grand western expedition!

By the time Li Rusong led his exhausted Ming cavalry to the border city of Jiayuguan, Zhu Shuaixin had already been outside the pass for two days.

Li Rusong climbed the Jiayuguan city wall, gazed at the Western Regions, and was filled with emotion.

His dream was to conquer the Western Regions, but the imperial court dared not venture beyond the borders to expand the territory and restore the borders of the Han and Tang dynasties.

West of Jiayuguan, the land no longer belongs to the Celestial Empire.

Now, it is Zhu Shuaixin, this traitor, who is conquering the Western Regions!

Li Rusong had only a little over ten thousand cavalrymen, and with supplies running low and no imperial orders, he certainly couldn't pursue them into the Western Regions without authorization.

He could only garrison in Suzhou, while simultaneously submitting a memorial to the court as Zhu Yin had instructed, stating that the remnants of the rebel army were at their wits' end and had no choice but to flee hastily into the Western Regions.

...

On July 28th, the very day Zhu Shuaixin left the pass, an imperial edict delivered by the court with utmost urgency arrived in Liangzhou.

The imperial edict appointed Li Rusong as the General of Gansu, temporarily stationed in Hexi.

Zhu Yin, Qi Jiguang, and others immediately returned to the capital, bringing the coffins of the false emperor and Bo Bai to present the captives at the Meridian Gate!
P.S.: This book has been renamed "The Heir to the Ming Dynasty," thank you for your understanding. The long and arduous Northwest campaign is finally over, and Little Tiger is heading back to Beijing. See you in Beijing tomorrow! The Northwest campaign took so long to write because it wasn't just about suppressing the rebellion; it also involved establishing the Western Ming Dynasty. Goodnight! Requests galore!
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