Sun Kewang and Li Dang were chasing after each other, and suddenly a team of officers and soldiers appeared in front of them, looking closely, it was not Qin Liangyu's people, and this team was energetic and well-equipped, it may be that reinforcements have arrived. [Full text reading. 】

After a hard battle, the peasant army and the Qin army were exhausted, relying on a momentum to chase Qin Liangyu, and now that the reinforcements have arrived, if they kill again, the outcome is unpredictable, and who knows if there is a large army to come to reinforce behind. Therefore, as soon as the two discussed, they should accept it when they see it and go back to restore their lives.

When the staff general saw the pursuers retreating, he didn't dare to chase them, and followed Qin Liangyu behind him and also withdrew.

Li Yan and Zhang Xianzhong have joined forces and are cleaning up the battlefield, the remaining men and horses of the official army have completely fled, and the peasant army and the Qin army are also so tired that they are almost paralyzed on the ground. Many of them did not even have the strength to hold their weapons, and they fell to the ground, and the corpses lay on their stomachs, panting for breath.

The Qin army is better than the peasant army, Li Yan immediately counted the men and horses, at this time Li Dang and Sun Kewang came back to resume their lives, Zhang Xianzhong frowned when he heard that there were official reinforcements coming, if there were a lot of reinforcements and horses, take the opportunity to kill them, his own men and horses were too tired to resist at all.

Fortunately, the scouts came to report that the men and horses who had come to reinforce the official army had withdrawn with Qin Liangyu and did not dare to come to the battle. Zhang Xianzhong was relieved.

Counting the men and horses, the Qin army lost more than 2,000 people in this battle, fortunately, the cavalry casualties were not too large, while Zhang Xianzhong's peasant army suffered more casualties, and his original 30,000 horses and horses are now only 20,000 left.

However, after defeating Qin Liangyu and breaking out of the encirclement, he still won a big victory after all. The peasant army rejoiced.

Li Yan took the map and looked at it, and said to Zhang Xianzhong: "At this time, our army is very close to Bazhong, and we should take the opportunity to capture Bazhong, occupy a foothold first, and recuperate." ”

Zhang Xianzhong nodded, and the men and horses on both sides rested on the spot for half a day, ate the war meal, and then each side sent 5,000 cavalry, led by Li Kang and Sun Kewang, to attack Bazhong. Then a large group of men and horses followed.

At this time, Bazhong already knew that Qin Liangyu was defeated, the city was in chaos, and the guards were very uneasy, for fear that the Qin army would come to attack the city. Because there are only more than 2,000 guards in Bazhong County.

When he was in a hurry, he suddenly heard the drums in the city, and the sound of shouting and killing shook the sky.

When the general of Bazhong and the county commander in the city heard this, they were immediately so frightened that they didn't even fight, and fled from the city. More than 2,000 officers and soldiers dispersed in a hurry.

It's no wonder that even Qin Liangyu is not an opponent, he lost the battle, how can he stop the team of anti-thieves in Bazhong, a small land.

Li Dang and Sun Kewang occupied Bazhong County without bloodshed.

By the time Li Yan and Zhang Xianzhong arrived with their men and horses, the city had already been settled. Zhang Xianzhong went against his previous style and ordered not to harass the people.

This is also Tang Sai'er's idea, because Zhang Xianzhong has already made up his mind that if he wants to occupy Sichuan for a long time, if he wants to occupy Sichuan, he must buy people's hearts. Therefore, since entering Sichuan this time, Zhang Xianzhong has paid great attention to restraining his own people, and once cut down more than a dozen subordinates who violated his orders and raped and plundered in public.

Not to mention Li Yan's Qin army, which has always had strict military discipline, so the entire Bazhong City is very stable.

After occupying Bazhong, Zhang Xianzhong, in order to thank the Qin army for relieving the siege, specially sent all the money and grain in the treasury to the Qin army. Li Yan didn't want to accept it, after all, he had said that it was a joint attempt to take Sichuan, and the Qin army only needed half of it. Li Kang had other ideas, and said to everyone: "For now, it is better for both of us to have one city. When they are all gathered together, it is inconvenient to move, and they lose their flexibility. ”

Zhang Xianzhong nodded: "That's it, not far from Bazhong, it is the county seat of Tongjiang, I will lead the army to capture Tongjiang, and then recruit troops and horses, all the way to the south, let's cooperate with the action, Sichuan must be ours." ”

Li Yan also agreed: "This is the best." Our two sides are divided into two forces, which makes it difficult for the officers and soldiers to take care of it. ”

Since the king of Qin had already given him an order, if the siege was successfully lifted, he could join Zhang Xianzhong to take Sichuan together. This was also done in accordance with the will of the King of Qin.

The two sides agreed, Zhang Xianzhong stopped in Bazhong City for three days, and then on the night of the fourth day, he sent Li Dingguo with 10,000 horses to attack Tongjiang.

Tongjiang County is also similar to Bazhong, with less than 3,000 officers, soldiers and horses, and Li Dingguo besieged the city and attacked it desperately.

The guards in the city and the county commander died one after another, and at dawn, Li Dingguo completely occupied the county seat of Tongjiang.

After that, Zhang Xianzhong took Tongjiang as his base camp and Li Yan took Bazhong as his base, and the two sides jointly echoed to recruit soldiers and build weapons.

Since Zeng Yu was killed in battle and Qin Liangyu was defeated, there was a great earthquake in Sichuan, and Chen Shiqi, the governor of Sichuan, was also greatly surprised, he hurriedly mobilized men and horses from all over the country to guard Chongqing and Chengdu, and sent people to appease Qin Liangyu and ask her to go on another expedition to deal with Zhang Xianzhong.

Since Li Yan captured Bazhong, he had rested in the city, but just a few days later, he received an urgent order from Bai Qi to hurry back to Hanzhong.

It turned out that something happened to the Qin army.

Since Bai Qi captured Hanzhong, because the Qin army was insufficient, there were not many troops in the counties, which gave the official army an opportunity.

Therefore, before Sun Chuanting fought against Li Zicheng, he secretly ordered Chen Shiqi, the governor of Sichuan, to send capable officers and soldiers to infiltrate Hanzhong, plot against the gangsters in the mountains and forests, secretly contact the squires from all over the country, and organize anti-Qin people.

Since Li Yan and Li Dang led their troops out of Hanzhong one after another, Bai Qi had not arrived for a while, and these anti-Qin people in Hanzhong joined forces and launched rebellions in various places.

When Bai Qi came up, the entire Hanzhong was already on fire everywhere, and there were more than 100,000 anti-Qin people at one time. The momentum was huge, but fortunately these people did not gather together, but scattered everywhere, so Bai Qi was not attacked in Nanzheng.

In order to quell the rebellions in various places, Bai Qi quickly sent people back to Li Yan.

When Li Yan received the general's order, he was so anxious that he didn't delay for time, and immediately led the army back to Hanzhong with Li Kang, Red Lady and others in the starry night.

Li Dang sent a confidant to talk to Zhang Xianzhong, telling him that the Qin army must return to Hanzhong, and that he could no longer help the peasant army, and that in the future, there would only be Zhang Xianzhong's lone army in Sichuan, and he was expected to take more care.

Li Yan and the three female generals personally led the cavalry in front, Li Dang led the infantry behind, and the large group of men and horses rushed back to Hanzhong.

When Zhang Xianzhong heard the news that Li Dang had returned to Hanzhong, he had to sigh. He knew that the Qin army had just occupied Hanzhong, the situation was unstable, and it was normal for a rebellion to occur, and if it was not suppressed at this time, Hanzhong would likely be recaptured by the official army, so Li Kang had to go back.

Just as Li Kang worried, in Sichuan, only Zhang Xianzhong was left with a peasant army, and it was really hard to say what the situation would be in the future.

At this time, it is the end of June of the ninth year of Chongzhen, it is also said that God helps Zhang Xianzhong, before many years are smooth in Sichuan, this year the rain is pitiful, in addition to Chengdu near Dujiangyan to ensure irrigation, most of the counties in Sichuan are dry and rainless, a rare sweep.

In addition, in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, corruption in officialdom was rampant, and no one took care of the lives of the people. In some places, the whole village fled, and there was not a single person left.

The sudden natural disaster made the land of Sichuan like Shaanxi and Henan a few years ago, become a huge powder keg, as long as a spark fell into it, it was immediately an earth-shattering loud noise.

And Zhang Xianzhong happened to be the Mars that fell into at this time.

Finally, the spark caused a series of explosions.

Tang Sai'er was very keenly aware of this abnormal change, and she immediately suggested that Zhang Xianzhong, just like Li Zicheng did in Henan, post leaflets everywhere to spread the name of the righteous army, in fact, this kind of leaflet is very simple, in order to make the people understand, the above gist is that the eight kings of the peasant army have arrived in Tongjiang, Sichuan, as long as they go to Tongjiang, they will have food.

Such easy-to-understand propaganda has played an immeasurable role.

First of all, the people around Tongjiang, as soon as they heard that the righteous army was coming, the people who went had food to eat, and immediately spread the word ten, ten to hundred, and in less than three days, all the people within a radius of 300 miles heard about it.

Within ten days, people from more than a thousand miles began to come in.

Zhang Xianzhong's men and horses are growing at an astonishing rate. Even Li Yan did not expect this situation, and Qin Jun missed an excellent development opportunity because of this.

Because there are too many people coming, Tongjiang has been too small, Zhang Xianzhong has people at this time, full of pride, he ordered Li Dingguo to lead the army to capture Langzhong, Sun Kewang led the army to attack Daxian, Liu Wenxiu to take Nanjiang, Ai Nengqi to attack Wanyuan.

These four county towns are in the four directions of Tongjiang County, not surprisingly, the four roads have won successes, almost all of them are bloodless, under the attack of superior forces, the four county towns supported for two days at most, and then they were lost.

After occupying the four counties, Zhang Xianzhong already had a territory of 500 miles.

Within a month, Zhang Xianzhong's men had soared to 180,000. And that's just the number of soldiers, and the number of people brought with them, women and children, was no less than 300,000.

For the first time since the uprising, Zhang Xianzhong had such a large territory and so many people. His waist immediately stiffened.

During this month, Zhang Xianzhong recruited a large number of strong men, trained strictly, and prepared to attack Chongqing.

Zhang Xianzhong's development in Sichuan was completely unexpected by the court.

It turned out that Zhang Xianzhong was the weakest among the several rebel armies, but now his strength has soared, and he has surpassed the Qin army, and his prestige is even above Fan Ju.

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