The news of Zhang Mingwei's arrival in Hanzhong Province did not spread to Sichuan.

However, on the Sichuan side, news is regularly spread to the outside world and sent to Jingshi and Xingguo Gong.

Zhang Mingwei can be said to understand the situation in Sichuan as a whole.

In the war in Sichuan Province, after the rebels under Zuo Liangyu attacked and captured Kuizhou, they quickly took the entire Kuizhou Mansion, and then marched westward, capturing Wanxian, Zhongxian and other places, and the troops pointed directly at Chongqing.

Just when Zuo Liangyu's department attacked Chongqing, Li Zicheng's department attacked the rear of Zuo Liangyu's department, took Kuizhou, and learned Zuo Liangyu's strategy, and immediately captured the entire Kuizhou Mansion At the same time, it also captured Wanxian, Zhongxian and other places to seize Chongqing Mansion.

When Zuo Liangyu's troops entered Sichuan, the news spread, and Qin Liangyu began to arrange troops, reinforcing Chongqing while sending troops to firmly occupy Tieshan Pass in Kuizhou Prefecture. In addition, Zhao Guangyuan, the chief soldier of Hanzhong, that is, the son of Zhao Shujiao, led the troops to guard the Yangxian and Zhenba areas of Hanzhong Prefecture.

The reason why this is so is because there is a Shu road leading from Hanzhong to Shu, called Yangba Road, also called Lychee Road, if it is entered into the hands of rebels or thieves, Hanzhong Mansion is in danger.

After Li Zicheng's troops entered Sichuan, they naturally divided their troops to seize control of Yangba Dao. Just a partial division killed the imperial court when it was almost impossible to defend this place, and Sun Chuanting's reinforcements arrived, so they repelled this thief and partial division.

Originally, Sun Chuanting thought that although the Qin army he led was divided into some soldiers and horses to defend along the Great Wall, with the money and grain collected by his strategy of clearing the tun and replenishing the salary, it should not be difficult to defeat the thieves of Li Zicheng's department.

However, the so-called Shibei three days should be impressed, and this sentence is actually valid when used in Sun Chuanting and Li Zicheng.

I think that back then, Sun Chuanting led the troops, which ran after Li Zicheng and others, and even beat Li Zicheng to only 18 horsemen and fled into Shangluo Mountain.

However, he didn't expect that after four or five years in prison, the strength of the thief forced him to change his mind in front of Emperor Chongzhen, which was a loss of face.

Sun Chuanting did begin to re-understand the strength of the thieves, but after the defeat of millions of thieves in the Battle of Kaifeng, his strength has strengthened a lot. Originally, he thought that he could easily defeat the thieves and rebels who entered Sichuan.

As a result, he didn't expect that after fighting with the thieves of Li Zicheng's department, he found that it was difficult to even recover the Kuizhou Mansion.

Just when the stalemate stage, the Chongqing government was in an emergency.

In the end, Sun Chuanting had to shrink his forces in Kuizhou, mainly to defend Yangba Road, and then divided his troops to reinforce Chongqing Prefecture.

However, before he arrived, Chongqing Mansion was captured by Li Zicheng's main thief army. And the thief army is becoming more and more sharp, and immediately non-stop, directly attacking Chengdu Mansion.

Chengdu is the capital, and if it is captured by thieves, the responsibility will be great. Therefore, Sun Chuanting had to go to save Chengdu Mansion again. It was also thanks to his support army.

In the end, it was the imperial court that held the Chengdu Mansion, Long'an Mansion and Baoning Mansion, that is, the northern part of Sichuan, which controlled the Shu Road to Hanzhong. As for the rest of Sichuan, there is nothing that can be done.

Li Zicheng's subordinates did not go head-to-head with Sun Chuanting, but took Chongqing Mansion as the center and attacked everywhere to fight for territory from the imperial court and Zuo Liangyu's rebels.

In the end, Zuo Liangyu and Li Zicheng negotiated peace and formed an alliance to deal with the imperial court officials and troops together.

As far as the current situation is concerned, the northwest and south of Sichuan Province are mostly Tusi territories, and many of them are in collusion with Zuo Liangyu, which can be regarded as the rebels' sphere of influence; The central and eastern parts of Sichuan, as well as some southern regions, are Li Zicheng's territory.

Among the three forces, Li Zicheng's department controlled the most extensive area, and it was also a relatively rich place. And he did not form an alliance with Tusi, either surrender or annihilate, although this caused a lot of wars, but it ensured the unity of orders in his territory.

Relatively speaking, Li Zicheng's department is actually a bit of a psychological shadow for Sun Chuanting's department. Therefore, he is mainly defensive-oriented on Sun Chuanting's side.

However, by the end of the year, the war in several other directions was already about the same, and an alliance was formed with Zuo Liangyu. Therefore, their spearhead is now starting to deal with the officials and soldiers of the imperial court with all their might, even if it is Sun Chuanting, they will also fight.

According to the news that Sun Chuanting sent to Hanzhong for the last time a year ago, Ye Bushu had already detected that among the thieves of Li Zicheng's army, led by Gao Yigong, the troops were assembled in Kuizhou Mansion, preparing to seize Tieshan Pass and completely defeat the imperial court officers and troops in Kuizhou Mansion.

In addition, Li Zicheng's thieves Liu Zongmin, Yuan Zongdi and others gathered heavy troops in Shunqing Mansion in northern Chongqing, preparing to attack Baoning Mansion in order to seize control of the remaining Shu Road.

As for the Chengdu Prefecture, Li Zicheng's thieves Hao Shaoqi, Tian Jianxiu and others led the troops, and together with Zuo Liangyu's subordinates, they prepared to attack from the east and south of Chengdu Prefecture.

According to rumors, the reason why Li Zicheng attacked together in several directions was because the Fifth Battalion of Gezuo came to defect, which greatly increased his troops.

Looking at the combed news on the case, Zhang Mingwei sighed with emotion: "It seems that even if Sun Chuanting arrives in Sichuan, the situation is not optimistic!" ”

"What then? It's snowing in northern Sichuan now, right? Shu Dao is not suitable for marching! Zhu Yujiao listened and asked a little worriedly.

Zhang Mingwei listened to it and said with a smile: "As long as Shu Dao is in our hands, the problem of Sichuan is not a problem!" ”

Speaking of this, he paused and then said with a smile: "Sun Chuanting is worthy of being an old commander who leads the army to fight, and he knows the importance of it. His troops, in the early stage, did not fight with the thief army, but they preserved their strength and focused on defending Shu Dao. ”

Zhu Yujiao nodded when she heard this, although he didn't know very well whether the old handsome were like this, but since Mr. said so, it must be true.

"I estimate that since the Fifth Battalion of the Revolution has entered Sichuan and joined Li Zicheng's department, Li Zicheng will definitely be able to guess that Zhang Xianzhong will definitely not be able to support it for long." Zhang Mingwei himself analyzed the situation and said, "I guess he will launch a big offensive when the roads are difficult to walk in winter." Because he must know that if I lead the army to Sichuan, the situation will be very difficult for him. ”

Seeing Zhu Yujiao looking at him, Zhang Mingwei continued to analyze: "If I guessed correctly, Li Zicheng finally formed an alliance with his former enemy Zuo Liangyu, not because of Sun Chuanting, but because of the pressure we gave him!" ”

Zhu Yujiao listened, smiled, nodded, and did not speak.

Estimating this situation, Zhang Mingwei sent Liu Jin and said to him: "You have to work hard, go to Sichuan immediately, and send a military order to Governor Sun." ”

When Liu Jin heard this, he didn't say a word, and immediately responded with his fists clenched: "Master, please give an order!" ”

Zhang Mingwei nodded when he heard this, and then explained to him: "Shu Road is difficult, and now it is a snowy day in winter, so you must be careful on the road to ensure safety." ”

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The difficulty of Shu Road is difficult to go to the blue sky, which has been awe-inspiring since ancient times.

But even so, the road in and out of Sichuan is already the easiest road from Sichuan to Hanzhong.

This is also the case, in the original history, after Zhang Xianzhong captured Sichuan, he immediately competed with Li Zicheng, who captured Shaanxi, for the control of Hanzhong Mansion, just to control Shu Dao.

As Zhang Mingwei expected, Sun Chuanting personally sat in the Sword Pavilion and guarded the Sword Gate.

Between Shaanxi and Sichuan, the Bashan Mountains run from east to west, cutting off the connection between the two places. Among them, after thousands of years of development, there are three Shu roads, namely the Golden Bull Road, the Micang Road and the Yangba Road.

Among them, if you want to march, the most suitable Shu Road is the Golden Bull Road.

But here in the Golden Bull Road, there is a very famous checkpoint, called Jianmen Pass, which is located at the break of Jianmen Mountain, with cliffs on both sides, straight into the sky, and the peaks and peaks lean against the sky like swords; The cliff is broken, the two walls are opposite, its shape is like a door, so it is called "sword gate". It enjoys the reputation of "Sword Gate World Insurance".

Sun Chuanting knew that the Duke of Xingguo had already led troops to help. The road that can be walked is this Golden Bull Road. Therefore, this sword gate is the most important thing. He personally led the heavy troops to defend it, so he could be regarded as having confidence in his heart.

However, he was actually very worried.

The thieves in Shu are very strong, and now there is an urgent report in Chengdu Mansion a few days, and Chen Shiqi, the governor of Sichuan, urged Sun Chuanting to rush to the rescue.

Elsewhere was conquered by thieves and rebels, and he could withstand it. Even if Chongqing fell, he was not particularly worried. However, if Chengdu Mansion falls, he will be under great pressure.

Not only because Chengdu Mansion is the capital of Sichuan, but also because Chengdu City also has the King of Shu. Almost all the people in Sichuan who have heads and faces have fled to Chengdu because of the thieves. Once the city is broken, you can imagine how much pressure there is.

It stands to reason that he should go to Chengdu to sit down. In Chen Shiqi's letter asking for help, he also used both soft and hard measures, and even threatened Sun Chuanting, if you lose Chengdu Mansion, the court will definitely not let you Sun Chuanting go.

However, Sun Chuanting still persevered, and the others guarded the sword gate, and he was not at ease. Because he knew that what the thieves wanted to take the most must be the Sword Gate Pass.

As long as the thieves take the Jianmen Pass, Chengdu Mansion will be in the bag, and sooner or later it will be taken.

For this reason, no matter how anxious the Chengdu Mansion was, he did not move, but just replied that they insisted until the beginning of spring next year, and as soon as the imperial court reinforcements arrived, it would be the end of the thieves and rebels.

In order to achieve this goal, Sun Chuanting was not polite, especially pointed out that Chen Shiqi could collect money and grain from the King of Shu, and it was not difficult for Chengdu Mansion to persist until the beginning of spring.

However, Sun Chuanting didn't expect it, he had the courage to dare to attack those squires, but how could Chen Shiqi have the courage, and not everyone was Sun Chuanting.

Even if there are examples of King Zhou and King Chu, because of the war, communication is inconvenient, although the news has reached Shu, but Chen Shiqi and King Shu do not believe it.

Chen Shiqi had no choice, so together with the King of Shu and others, they all pinned their hopes on Sun Chuanting's department.