"How dare the rats deceive me like this!"

The fleet has just arrived at Fengjie, the gateway to eastern Sichuan, and has not yet gone ashore to visit the White Emperor City, which has been read well in the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and longed for a long time. However, as soon as the ship arrived at the Fengjie pier, bad news came from an envoy sent by Aobai.

"The minions didn't have time to greet their masters in Fengjie, mainly a few rebels and accomplices of the western thief Zhang Xianzhong, who went north to raid Fushun and other places with tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, and successively occupied important places such as artesian wells and gongjings. The master of Ao Bai was worried that these two places of money, food and wealth would be lost, so he led his troops overnight. ”

However, the forward war was unfavorable, and the two thousand forward soldiers and horses, all of whom were the elite of the Eight Banners, were ambushed by Li Dingguo and Bai Wenxuan, and none of them survived. The artesian wells and tribute wells, which provided salt for the entire Sichuan, Hanzhong in Shaanxi and even many places in Yunnan, and the annual salt tax could be calculated by millions of yuan, fell into the hands of the Great Western Army. If it was just a matter of money, Yue Le wouldn't care too much. If there is no military salary, it is a big deal to plunder, didn't the Qing soldiers start by robbery? When the emperor was alive, didn't he enter the customs several times for the sake of his children? The art of nurturing war with war is a means that the high-level of the Eight Banners Manchuria is familiar with.

However, there is no money and food to grab, and there is no salt, and the army and officials will have to eat light food! Do you want to let the soldiers and officials boil nitrate to eat like the bitter common people? Without salt to eat, not only people can't stand it, but even mules and horses have no strength. So how can there be a war?

So, Prince An Yue Le was furious!

"You're going back right now! Tell Aobai that the king's army has arrived in Sichuan, and ask him to take back these salt wells in Fushun for the king immediately! Keep Sichuan's salt and food resources! It doesn't matter if he can't beat it, just monitor Li Dingguo's department for this king in southern Sichuan! When the king arrives, do it yourself! ”

Yue Le didn't care about going ashore to visit the White Emperor City, so he hurriedly abandoned the boat and landed on the shore and came to Chongqing Mansion. Then through Chongqing to Chengdu, southern Sichuan.

Hundreds of miles in a straight line to the south of his rapid marching route, a larger marching force came from Shunqing Mansion to Zunyi Mansion via Naxi and to Guizhou in Yunnan.

"All of us are united, and the mountains can be shaken. Only loyal and righteous, angry bullfighting. The Lord will kiss me better than my parents. Committing military law is not free. The order is clear, and the reward and punishment letter is written. Go to the water and fire, dare to stay late. ”

The bursts of military songs that came from Li Zongfang's team made Sun Kewang feel a little surprised to listen to them, which was one of the military songs inherited by the Nanyue Army from the Qi family's army. Singing during the march can not only boost morale, but also the sound echoes in the valley, which is very imposing.

"Old horse! Let our sons and daughters sing too! Can't let the noisy family take the lead, and the customer deceives the store! There was a look of anger on his face, and it was no wonder that any general with a troop was willing to overwhelm his own team with the momentum of other people's troops?

However, when did the Great Western Army have its own military song? You can't sing some slang tunes to mix it up, right? However, Ma Yuanli is also good at change, even if he found a few officers to come over, he gave a few orders like this. Soon, a military song was sung in the ranks of the Great Western Army.

"There was Governor Shao in the past, and he often came to the troupe to dance; Later, Liao joined the army, and he followed me without a fight; It's a good Yang Pavilion Department, three days away from me. This is a song that was circulated in the army when Zhang Xianzhong was in Sichuan when he was in Sichuan, and today he is fighting in Sichuan, which is also in time for the occasion.

In Shunqing Province, Li Zongxiang proposed to the four generals and Ma Yuanli and other key generals of the Great Western Army to defend in the north and develop in the south.

"Now the Tartars are pressing the border in Sichuan, they are backed by Shaanxi, and there are Huguang and other places, if the generals are confined to a corner of Sichuan to compete with them, with all due respect, I am afraid that it is the Tartars who have fallen into the arms. They used those traitors who shaved their hair and returned to obedience, and they also piled up the soldiers and horses of Onishi. ”

"Therefore, I would like to suggest to you that at present, your army is stationed in the south of Sichuan, and it is convenient to go to Yunnan and Guizhou, so it is better to go south and take Yunnan and Guizhou. In that case,"

"In that case, we'll be directly on your army! By that time, we will have the Tartars behind us and your army in front of us. It must be known that your army is the soldiers and horses of Liang Guogong of the Ming Dynasty, and our Western Army is a thief in the eyes of your army. At that time, if your army wants to kill us, where will our Great Western Army go? Bai Wenxuan interrupted Li Zongfang's words and asked coldly. His words also happened to be one of the worries of everyone here.

"Haha! The big young marshal, the young marshals, the generals. Now that the Eight Great Kings are gone, the banner of the Great Western Army is still there, and the old people are still there. You can think about it, since you had contact with my lord in Henan and with our Nanyue Army, have you ever encountered our Nanyue Army firing a shot at you and letting go of a cannon? To put it bluntly, with the combat strength of our Nanyue Army, if there is a conflict between the Great Western Army, I am afraid that the Great Western Army will at least fall and suffer a small loss. In Wuqiao that year, in less than an hour, the old battalion under the collapse of the sky was completely lost. ”

Li Zongfang's words are soft and hard, but they are also full of facts.

"Mr. Li, speaking of the time in Kaifeng, through the light of the brothers who broke into the camp, he did have some dealings with your army. Something about your army. However, this time and that time. Today, Grandpa Li is the pillar of the Ming court, and all of us are thieves. How do you get along with each other in different furnaces? Sun Kewang also threw out his worries.

"Young Marshal, let me ask you, which of your army and the Dashun army has a deeper hatred for the Ming court?"

"This," speaking of this, is undoubtedly to choose who is the boss of the peasant army, although Sun Kewang and others are reluctant, but the Dashun army conquered Beijing and forced Emperor Chongzhen to go to the coal mountain to find the true meaning of life, but they have to admit it. "Naturally, it is a camp and a deep enmity with the Ming court. They ransacked Beijing and forced Emperor Chongzhen to death. ”

"But you don't know anything." Li Zongfang deliberately sold a pass.

Mountains and rivers are blocked, and they are constantly fighting, Sun Kewang and others really know very little about the situation of the Dashun Army, but looking at Li Zongfang's expression, everyone knows that the old friends of the Dashun Army must be not having a bad time at the moment.

"What, what's the situation with the camp?"

"So that the generals know that there are still all parts of the Dashun army, and they have been subordinated to my lord on the border of Hunan and Jiangxi. At present, it is temporarily controlled by the big horse Shi Lang. A total of more than a dozen towns were formed. The supply of food and salary is carried out with reference to the standards of the headquarters of the Southern Guangdong Army, and there is no difference. The wounded soldiers of each department, the sick number, and the small family members, led by Mrs. Gao, went to Guangdong for resettlement. It is also good to let the generals of the various departments face the enemy with peace of mind. ”

"What? How dare you take in Li Zicheng's old department? Bai Wenxuan almost didn't fall off his chair. The rest of the generals of the Great Western Army also looked at each other. In their opinion, they and Li Zicheng's old department are both heinous people in the eyes of the officials of the Ming Dynasty, and they must not live under a sky. However, the rest of Li Zicheng's troops, who were three points more than what he had done, actually became a member of the Nanyue Army, isn't it a big surprise?

Since the rest of Li Zicheng's troops, who have more "great achievements" than us, can be accepted by the Nanyue Army, then what are we still worried about when we are suffering from the enemy?

"Everyone, if you go south, don't dare to say anything else, if you capture Yunnan, you will be united with our Nanyue army. At that time, all kinds of grain, grass, gunpowder, weapons, and medicines will be out of the question. ”

Li Zongfang threw out a tempting condition at the right time.

In the Great Western Army, there was no shortage of gold and silver, and there were many elite soldiers and fierce generals, but what was lacking was sophisticated equipment and all kinds of gunpowder, cannons, knife wounds, and other materials that consumed huge amounts of money in the army. If the land connection with the Nanyue Army was really opened, not to mention other benefits, even if it was just the resumption of the original trade activities between the two sides, with the family background of the Great Western Army, they could live well with the Qing Army in the southwest region for a few years! What's more, if you take the road of breaking into the camp, then not only do you not have to be afraid of the pursuit of the Qing army, but you are only afraid of counterattacking Chengdu, and recovering the whole of Sichuan is just around the corner!

What's more, since the Great Western Army entered Sichuan, it has also had some understanding of the situation in the adjacent Yunnan and Guizhou places. In the eyes of Sun Kewang and others, the armies and Tusi soldiers in Yunnan and Guizhou are just like local chickens and tile dogs. If there is no geographical and climatic advantage, their soldiers and horses may not be able to walk down in one round in front of the Great Western Army!

"That's good! Ben Shuai used the head of the Mu family of the Duke of Qianguo, as well as the two provinces of Yunnan and Guizhou, to make a statement of nomination and show his heart to Grandpa Li! "Sun Kewang is also a person who is used to killing and deciding, and even if he opened his mouth, he sentenced Mu Tianbo's family to death. He had also heard that the Li family and the Mu family had had friction on the border of Yunnan many times, and they had also seen each other.

"Hey! Handsome, yes and no! When we entered Yunnan, we didn't go to ask for the life of the Duke of Qianguo, but to help the Qianguo Kingdom to be fair and chaotic! Li Zongfang blinked narrowly.

"Quelling the chaos?"

"That's right! Quell the chaos! Shhave Rebellion! Li Zongfang firmly and decisively solved the mystery for Sun Kewang and others.

However, it turned out that since Yunnan belonged to the territory of the Ming Dynasty, the management system was very different from that of the inland provinces. In addition to the establishment of the Metropolitan Command Envoy Division, the Political Envoy Division, and the Judge Division, and later the establishment of the governor, due to the large number of Tusi in this area, since the Hongwu period, Mu Ying (the Marquis of Xiping, the second son of Jin Jue for the Duke of Qianguo) has guarded the place for generations. The Mu family not only has a lot of military power, but also has a pivotal position in politics and economy. (Students who have seen Lu Ding Ji know that Yunnan Muwangfu.) During the Ming Dynasty, Yunnan was under the dual jurisdiction of hereditary lords and local officials, and the two were both coordinated and often entangled. In addition to hereditary nobles and local officials, there are also a large number of toasts entrenched in various places. Among them, the reputation of Tusipu in southern Yunnan Amisi Prefecture increased greatly after the "Extravagant Rebellion", and launched a rebellion in the fourth year of Chongzhen (1631), after the death of Chongzhen's fifth year (1632) of the general reputation, his wife Wan still led the people, and continued to be chaotic in southern Yunnan, "this late Ming Dynasty is also a major event"; Later, the Wan clan recruited Annan Tusi Shadingzhou as his son-in-law, and Shapu merged, and his power grew stronger and stronger. There are more people and horses, more money and food, and the thing called ambition has quietly become bigger in the chest.

It just so happens that in the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, the world has changed greatly. There were three emperors in Beijing. And Sichuan, which borders Yunnan, was also broken by the Great Western Army led by Zhang Xianzhong, the eighth king. Mu Tianbo, the Duke of Qianguo, together with the governor Wu Zhaoyuan and the governor Wu Wenying, discussed the requisition and transfer of the Han and Tusi troops to prevent the Great Western Army from entering Yunnan, and prepared to accept the dispatch of the Southern Ming court. As a result, the grass kings, who are careerists of all sizes, feel that the opportunity has come again.

In September of the first year of Hongguang, Wuding Tusi Wu Bikui took the opportunity to launch a rebellion, declaring: Emperor Zhu is gone, how can there be any Mu Guogong. ("There is no Emperor Zhu anymore, how can there be a Duke of Qian?!") The rebels successively captured Dayao, Dingyuan, and Yao'an, and the whole of Yunnan was shaken. Mu Tianbo and others hurriedly ordered the mobilization of Shiping Tusi Long Zaitian, Wei'e Tusi Wang Yangzu, Mengzi Tusi Sha Dingzhou, Ningzhou Tusi Lu Yongming, Jingdong Tusi Diao Xun and other troops to defeat the rebels in one fell swoop in September, and Wu Bikui and his henchmen were captured alive. However, the front door hit the wolf Wu Bikui, and the hungry tiger Sha Dingzhou came in the back. Sha Dingzhou was originally the son of Wang Lane Tusi Sha Yuan, after the death of the reputation of Tusi Pu in Amizhou, his wife Wan remarried Sha Dingzhou, the two Tusi merged into one, and the power increased greatly, with the Lin'an Mansion Shengren Tang Guest (Wan's brother-in-law) as the mastermind, secretly planning to take advantage of the contradictions between Mu Fu and the governor of Yunnan and the three officials, and the different backs of the Tusi, to launch a coup d'état to seize power in Yunnan. As a result, the Tusi army under the command of Sha Dingzhou and his wife remained in Kunming, the provincial capital, after the Wubikui rebellion had been quelled. Mu Tianbo's father Sha Yuan has always shown loyalty in Dingzhou, and he does not doubt him, and he has held banquets and entertained many times in the Qianguo Mansion. The wealth accumulated by Mu Mansion for more than 200 years made Dingzhou salivate, and the weak garrison of Kunming, he saw the friction and struggle between the noble forces led by Mu Tianbo and the forces of the governor Wu Zhaoyuan and other officials, which made him feel that there was an opportunity. On the first day of December in the first year of Hongguang, Sha Dingzhou's deployment had been decided, and in the name of resignation, he personally led his soldiers to attack the Qianguo Mansion, and at the same time assigned his troops to occupy the gates of the provincial capital. Due to the accident, Mu Tianbo did not have time to organize effective resistance, and fled to Xining with official seals, hereditary iron coupons and other items under the protection of several henchmen. Mu Tianbo's mother, Chen, and wife, Jiao, failed to accompany them, and fled into a nunnery to commit suicide.

After Sha Dingzhou occupied Kunming, he called himself "General Mansion", and "General Mansion" was the general title of the Duke of Ming and Qianguo, which showed that he had tried to replace Mu Tianbo's position. His wife, Wan, is called the main mother. "And the public in and out, all over the gentleman. There are many people who are plotting for the right of Yunnan's Hao." Sha Dingzhou sent troops to chase Mu Tianbo, but was defeated by the army assembled by Yang Weizhi in Chuxiong. After the defeat of his westward advance, he sent troops to collect all parts of Yunnan, and in a short period of time, except for the area west of Chuxiong under the control of Yang Weizhi and Mu Tianbo, they all belonged to the Sha clan. Sha Dingzhou easily grabbed the wealth accumulated by Mu Mansion over the years. "Mu's town in Yunnan, the house is surplus. Buddha top stone, blue arrowhead, dansha, falling red, amber, horseshoe, red gold are all loaded with Zheng, Zheng are all 100 catties, hidden with high plates, 50 plates, a total of more than 250 libraries, his treasures are incalculable. Dingzhou was transported into Bentong for many months."

Although Sha Dingzhou made a large windfall, he was not satisfied with this, and his main purpose was to replace the legal status of Yunnan, the town of the Gongshi of Qianguo. Therefore, Sha Dingzhou tried his best to win over the Yunnan officials appointed by the Ming court and the registered Han gentry, and he not only ordered all Han officials in various prefectures and counties who were willing to accept his command to remain in office, but also coerced or forged Wu Zhaoyuan, the governor of Yunnan, and Wang Xigon, a scholar of Lufeng, who was registered in the university, to give a message to the Longwu court, saying: "The sky is against the tide, and Dingzhou is seeking peace, and it is appropriate to replace Yunnan." ”

At the same time, he sent people to Hue and Guangzhou to see Li Shouhan with heavy money and letters, in an attempt to obtain support from Li Shouhan, at least, to be able to buy military equipment from Ha Tinh for military expansion.

However, he meets his nemesis, Huang Xigon.

After receiving the urgent military information from Hue, Li Shouhan, who was in the area of Nanjing and Shanghai, did not care about the affairs of the south of Caiyun, which was thousands of miles away, so he gave the matter to Huang Xigon to deal with it with full authority.

Huang Xigon helped Li Huabao pacify Guangxi, and he didn't know how many Tusi Tuguan's stockades had been leveled. Even if you offer advice to Li Shouhan, kill three birds with one stone.

This is why Li Zongfang went to Shunqing Mansion to meet Sun Kewang, first presented a large number of weapons and equipment, and then persuaded the Great Western Army to go south.

However, this move to lure the Great Western Army into Yunnan to quell the chaos was beneficial and harmless to both the Southern Guangdong Army and the Great Western Army. Even for the people of Yunnan and Guizhou provinces, it is a good thing that they can be freed from the disaster of swords and soldiers as soon as possible. The unlucky ones are just the Mu family of Yunnan Muwangfu and the big and small toasts.

"The Eight Kings Zhang Xianzhong, that is a famous person!" When telling Li Shouhan about his strategy, Huang Xigon was not without pride.

But Sun Kewang didn't know about these things. He only ordered troops and sent generals in Shunqing Mansion, and ordered Li Dingguo to rush back to Rong County and Fushun County, and destroyed all the salt wells such as artesian wells and Gongjing. At the very least, the crane on the salt well and the brine room should be set on fire.

"Let the Tartars chase after us! Lao Tzu let them eat without salt, and their legs and feet are weak! Let's see if they still have the strength to climb the mountain and walk! ”

When assigning tasks, Sun Kewang's eyes were full of fierce light.

"But, big brother, in this way, this Sichuan province will not be able to eat salt!" Liu Wenxiu was a little worried.

"Afraid of what?! In order to fight the Tartars, the Lao Tzu don't want their lives, they just eat light food for a few days, and they will endure it for a while! When the Tartars are gone, Lao Tzu will give them a few catties of salt, which can be regarded as compensation for them! ”

One family wants to burn the salt well, and the other family wants to keep the salt well, which is a place of wealth for the army and the people. A fierce battle broke out between Li Dingguo and Aobai.