Pang Zhiyong was escorted out of the city, and he couldn't wait to eat his flesh for Zhu Dashan, and his brilliant plan was disrupted by him, how could he have the face to go back to Luojiang to talk to Zhao Youyan? How to face Yan Ziming and Yan Xici who were recruited by themselves. Isn't it a joke that you have the face to go back to Chengdu? Pang Zhiyong walked all the way to Luojiang and kept thinking about this question.

When he was about to arrive at Luojiang, he really came up with a way. So Pang Zhiyong secretly returned to Luojiang and found Zhao Youyan to tell him about the matter in Mianzhou. Zhao Youyan said: "How is this good now? Pang Zhiyong said: "Now the only way to send Yan Ziming and Yan Xici to Chengdu together." Zhao Youyan said: "They still have a thousand soldiers, and it won't be easy to send them to Chengdu." ”

Pang Zhiyong said fiercely: "Their soldiers don't send it, just send the two of them." Without their army, they won't be able to make any waves in Chengdu, and we can get an extra thousand soldiers. Zhao Youyan was also a little moved: "They have dealt with it, but this Luo Jiang suddenly increased this thousand soldiers, and Luo Jiang can't afford to raise it." Pang Zhiyong said: "When we go to Mianzhou, he Zhu Dashan will not let Mianzhou, let him give Luojiang some grain and grass, and he can't refuse." ”

Zhao Youyan agreed when he thought about it, so the two directly sent troops to send Yan Ziming and Yan Xici to Chengdu. Yan Ziming and Yan Xici are now under the eaves and have to bow their heads. Now his army has been absorbed by Zhao Youyan again, and he has no choice but to go to Chengdu with his life.

On the second day, Pang Zhiyong came to Mianzhou again. After Zhu Dashan drove Pang Zhiyong away yesterday, he didn't have time to be angry with this imperial history, so he hurriedly asked people to deal with the people and the prisoners, kill all the officers in the captives, and then integrate the people Zhuang and the prisoners into the army, so that 2,000 people were captured, and about 2,500 people were recruited, as well as 1,000 people recruited in Mianzhou City, plus 1,500 people in Zhu Dashan's Fuming camp. Now the army has reached 7,000 people, and fortunately, a large amount of grain and grass has been hoarded in Mianzhou, otherwise Zhu Dashan doesn't know what to use to feed these troops.

Zhu Dashan used the previous Fuming battalion as the backbone, and the Minzhuang recruited as the grassroots to suppress the prisoners, and barely completed the change of the army. Then they were led by the previous general banner, Baihu. As soon as Zhu Dashan reorganized the army, he asked Sun Bin to lead 1,000 men to the north to seize the two cities of Jiangyou in Zhangming and Long'an Mansion, and then to the east to capture Qinglinkou, which made the Qing soldiers completely lose the way into Sichuan. Of course, it is in Kuidong that has seized the peace of Kuibei. He also asked Cheng Deyi to lead his troops to the south to seize Zhongjiang, Tongchuan Prefecture and Shehong, so that Li Guoying wanted to lose the land of food from the capture of Mianzhou and other places, so that he could only attack Zhu Dashan from Shunqing Mansion.

After Zhu Dashan arranged these, he turned to look at civil affairs, and found that he had no literati available in his hands, so he had to ask Yanting County to order Tao Yuanyou to temporarily be the governor of Mianzhou, and then let Yu Dai assist him. Zhu Dashan counted the grain and grass and prepared to transport all the excess grain and grass back to Baoning, preparing to give up part of the small city as a last resort and focus on Baoning and a few passes, just like when the Qing troops entered Sichuan.

Zhu Dashan was about to find Kong Lingying and ask him to take someone to transport the grain and grass back to Baoning, when the guards at the gate came to report that the civil official who had been driven away yesterday had come again. Zhu Dashan became angry when he heard it, and said, "No, let him get out of here." ”

As soon as Zhu Dashan finished speaking, Pang Zhiyong outside the door had already broken in without waiting for the guards to go out to inform him, and said: "Zhu Dashan, I am also the imperial history of the imperial court, and there is no place to go." Don't think that you have a good face in Mianzhou. ”

Zhu Dashan saw that the people had already come in, and it was not easy to rush to the people directly: "What is Pang Yushi doing again, if you still talk about the matter of Mianzhou, don't say a word." No way. Pang Zhiyong said: "I heard that the Hou Ye said that he refused to give up Mianzhou, and it was acceptable for us to discuss it, but General Zhao Youyan and I surrendered a thousand Qing troops in Luojiang. Zhu Dashan said: "This is very good, it can strengthen the city defense of Luojiang and Chengdu." ”

Pang Zhiyong said: "But the grain and grass in Luojiang and Chengdu are limited, and suddenly there are more than 1,000 soldiers, and Luojiang is quite difficult to support, so I hope that Hou Ye will allocate some grain and grass to solve the urgent need for the sake of the same Ming army." Only then did Zhu Dashan know that this Pang Zhiyong was here for grain and grass, and Zhu Dashan now just wanted to deal with this annoying imperial history, so he said: "Yes, I will transfer five hundred stones of grain and grass to Luo Jiang." After speaking, he asked the clerk next to him to give a warrant, asking the guards to go to Kong Lingying and let him allocate grain and grass.

Pang Zhiyong only gave 500 stones when he heard it, and he was a little angry, is this a call for Huazi? Then he said: "Master Hou, these five hundred stones are a little less, and it won't take a few days." See if you wither more. Zhu Dashan frowned and said: "I don't have enough grain and grass here, and I'm about to fight Li Guoying, I'm afraid I can't have more." ”

Pang Zhiyong said: "Hou Ye Xiu wants to deceive me, this Mianzhou is a big camp of the Qing army, I am afraid that the Qing army hoarded no less than 50,000 stone of grain and grass before, and Hou Ye will give Luojiang District 500 stones." Zhu Dashan said: "Mianzhou does have nearly 50,000 stones of grain and grass, but the current garrison in Mianzhou also needs grain and grass, and the army is about to fight with Li Guoying, which is also to measure grain and grass." ”

Pang Zhiyong saw that Zhu Dashan just didn't let go, so he said: "Hou Ye can't be counted like this, you and Li Guoying are at war, we are stationed in Chengdu, Li Guoying doesn't dare to transfer the troops of Luzhou and Chongqing too much, this is also a disguised support for Hou Ye's war, isn't it?" This effort has to be rewarded. ”

When Zhu Dashan saw Pang Zhiyong say this, he knew that if he didn't give more, this Pang Zhiyong would not leave without saying anything, and he might still make some mess for himself later. I had no choice but to say: "If the defenders of Chengdu Mansion can send troops to Lezhi of Tongchuan Mansion, and An Yue threatens Chongqing Mansion, I can also transfer 2,000 stones to Chengdu Mansion." ”

When Pang Zhiyong heard that there was so much grain and grass, he hurriedly agreed: "Okay, a word is a decision." As soon as the grain and grass arrive, I will immediately send troops from Chengdu Mansion to attack Lezhi and Anyue. Zhu Dashan didn't want to say anything, so he directly approved the warrant and asked Pang Zhiyong to go to Kong Lingying to get grain and grass.

After Zhu Dashan sent Pang Zhiyong away, he thought that it had been almost ten days since he attacked Mianzhou, and it was time to plan to return to Baoning.

Zhu Dashan thought about it and decided to leave a thousand soldiers for Sun Bin to guard Mianzhou, after all, it is far away from the Qing soldiers, and there are not many Qing soldiers in Long'an Mansion, so let Sun Bin wait for the opportunity to seize it, but he really can't seize it, and then send troops to attack it after he defeats Li Guoying, and there are 1,000 soldiers who were taken by Sun Bin to attack Qinglinkou, and there are 2,000 soldiers who go to Tongchuan Mansion, so that Mianzhou will be foolproof.

Zhu Dashan sent someone to inform Sun Bin of his decision, and then asked someone to inform Cheng Deyi that after defeating the three cities of Tongchuan Mansion, he would join him in Baoning. The army asked Deng Shigan to garrison Tongchuan Prefecture first. Zhu Dashan himself was ready to meet Baoning.

In the afternoon, Zhu Dashan took the army, as well as Cheng Dequn, Liu Yingnan, Nong Kaiguo and Li Tingming to Yanting Hui Baoning. Not long after Zhu Dashan and his army left the city, a messenger arrived. When Zhu Dashan asked, he learned that it was sent by Ma Yuanjie, and the messenger said that Ma Yuanjie and Luo Daniu had already led people to capture Yilong, and they were going to Bazhou with the army before the messenger came.

Ma Yuanjie gathered another 200 people in Yilong, and now their army suffered few casualties. And they have already sent someone to contact Song Gaoju in Baizhang Pass. After Ma Yuanjie attacked Yilong, Qi Hou He Zhen left Huikuidong.

Zhu Dashan was secretly happy to see these psychology, everything was developing according to his imagination, if he could defeat Li Guoying, the Ming Dynasty could recover Sichuan, and then join forces to capture Chongqing, Zunyi, and enter Guizhou from the back of the Qing soldiers, cutting off the back road of the Qing soldiers, so that it could be used to solve the crisis of the imperial court. If Guiyang can be captured before the Qing troops retreat, then the Qing army can only retreat from Guangxi, but the road in Guangnan is extremely difficult to walk, I am afraid that the Qing army's hundreds of thousands of troops can come out of Guangxi for 50,000 or 60,000 is the blessing of God.

Zhu Dashan couldn't help but feel a little high-spirited when he thought of this, just with his own strength, now he can save Daming and the peril, so will he also be crowned a prince by then. Zhu Dashan couldn't help laughing when he thought of this. The generals behind him were puzzled and asked, "What is Master Hou laughing at?" Zhu Dashan said: "If we save the Ming Dynasty from peril, what do you say the emperor wants to seal us?" Cheng Dequn and Nong Kaiguo both said: "Hou Ye must be the king, if we can also mix with Hou Ye to take on it, it would be the best." Zhu Dashan said: "Stingy, how can you also be crowned the prince of the country." All three of them laughed.

Liu Yingnan was not very optimistic, and said: "Hou Ye, don't be happy, I don't know what the court is like now, and even Li Guoying in front of me is not so easy to deal with." Li Tingming said more directly: "The Qing court invaded Guizhou with a three-way army last year, and now I am afraid that the imperial court has been destroyed. After all, that's hundreds of thousands of troops. There are also 30,000 Manchurian Eight Banners, and just thinking about it makes my scalp tingle. ”

But Zhu Dashan and Cheng Dequn were peasants together, and when they knew the movements of the imperial court, they felt that they had blocked all the roads for the Qing soldiers to enter Sichuan, how could the Qing soldiers enter Sichuan? As long as you work harder, you can save the court. Ignore what Li Tingming said is right or not.

Li Tingming saw that the two of them didn't listen, and he was always planning to escape like this. He was originally arrested and had to surrender, but now seeing Zhu Dashan's arrogance and ignorance, he didn't dare to stay longer, but Zhu Dashan watched him closely, and he couldn't escape for a while, so he had to be secretly anxious.

On this day, Zhu Dashan took his army to Yanting, and a spy came to report that Li Guoying had gathered 20,000 troops in Chongqing and went north, and had arrived in Hezhou four days earlier. Now I'm afraid it's almost to Nanchong County, the capital of Shunqing Prefecture. When Zhu Dashan heard this, he didn't expect Li Guoying to come quickly, so he hurriedly sent someone to inform Huang Boyuan to quickly organize the people of the southern county to retreat to Baoning. Immediately ordered all the troops to turn to Xichong to march in a hurry, and seize Xichong to resist Li Guoying's army.

Zhu Dashan rushed to Xichong with the army in three days, but fortunately, Li Guoying had not yet arrived. Zhu Dashan immediately ordered the siege of the city, but as a result, Li Shi, the commander of Xichong County, saw that Zhu Dashan's army was strong, and he surrendered without waiting for Zhu Dashan to attack the city. Zhu Dashan also entered Xichong County

As soon as Zhu Dashan entered the city, he quickly controlled the four gates and blocked them, and asked the people of the city to help defend the city. Under the intimidation of the Qing army's massacre, the people of the city were also very frightened, and now they had to defend the city together in front of the steel knife of the Fuming camp. Fortunately, Zhu Dashan has nearly 4,000 troops, but it is difficult to say how much combat strength the army has, after all, the prisoners and the people have just been incorporated into the army.

Fortunately, Cheng Deyi came to Xichong County with 300 veterans of the Fuming Battalion that night, and the two discussed it and felt that they could not defend all the troops in the city, so they asked Cheng Deyi to take 300 people out of the city again, ready to meet outside the city. Zhu Dashan not only let all the people go to the city, but also dropped the spies from the city wall to investigate the situation, and then Zhu Dashan asked the army to patrol the city in batches, and those who did not have a task rested under the city first.

Zhu Dashan hurriedly called the county commander Li Shi again and asked him how much grain and grass there was in the county, but Li Shi said: "There is not much grain and grass in Xichong County, mainly because the governor asked the counties to send all the grain and grass to Shunqing Mansion before, saying that he was going to prepare to attack the rebels in the south. At present, the grain and grass in Xichong County are only enough for the army for ten days. ”

Zhu Dashan was a little bitter when he heard this, thinking that the grain and grass brought by his army were only for three days now, and the grain and grass stored in Xichong County would only be used for ten days. Zhu Dashan asked Li Shi to go to the big households in the county to borrow grain, but if he couldn't do it, he would directly collect grain. He also let the quartermaster in the army control the grain, and try to make the grain and grass support for a month. Thinking that if it hadn't been captured for a month, then Li Guoying would have withdrawn from the army, could he have so much grain and grass? And maybe he will defeat Li Guoying directly in less than a month?

Zhu Dashan prepared in Xichong County for two days, and Li Guoying also came to Xichong City with the army.