Chapter 331: Chengdu is breached
The news about Sichuan was sent to Liu Xia almost every two hours, constantly refreshing the battle situation.
On June 28, the army reached Mianyang and broke through the county seat of Mianyang. When the people in the city heard that the Pingbei army had arrived, they opened their doors to welcome them, and all the people celebrated that they had escaped from the hands of the evil and cruel Zhang Xianzhong. The army rested for a day in Mianyang County, and at the same time sent Shang Chuang to lead the Thunder Tiger Brigade as the vanguard and headed towards the Luojiang River. Shang Chuang arrived at the Luojiang River in the morning, when the sky was not yet bright. At that time, Luojiang was foggy, and it was difficult to see people left and right. In the fog, Shang Chuang's commander was keenly aware of the presence of enemies around, so he immediately ordered his soldiers to be vigilant, and at the same time dispersed to scout for information.
Because of the heavy fog, although he knew that there was an enemy around, he could not retreat, because once he retreated, it would be easy to cause the whole army to collapse. At this dangerous moment, Shang Chuang commanded the envoy to take the lead and take the lead. Lead his men and horses to charge towards the enemy. Although I don't know the number of enemies, I don't know the strength of the enemy, and I don't even know who the enemy is leading. He firmly believed in the call of the prince to say, 'When the narrow road meets, the brave wins, and the sword must be shown regardless of success or failure', and fought bravely against the enemy. After noon, the fog dissipated, and the enemy was less than 100 at this moment. And caught a local general. After some inquiry, Fang learned that this person turned out to be Zhang Xianzhong's son, Liu Wenxiu.
At this moment, Liu Wenxiu was on the way to Luoyang, if the prince wanted to see him, his subordinates would inform the prince, if he didn't want to see him, he would be put in prison directly. Li Wenjun's division has reached the Beast Legion. At noon on the 1st of July, our army and Zhang Xianzhong's soldiers and horses met unexpectedly in Mianzhu, and our army immediately became vigilant, and Li Gu's commander and Li Junshi immediately issued a battle order. Although Zhang Xianzhong claimed to have 100,000 soldiers, in fact, he only had more than 20,000 soldiers and horses, and most of them were old, weak, sick and disabled, and they did not have much combat effectiveness at all. Li Gu commanded the envoy to let Liu Jinzhong lead his five thousand soldiers and horses to rush away, Zhang Xianzhong saw that Liu Jinzhong was furious, so he led the soldiers and horses behind him to rush over, Liu Jinzhong's five thousand soldiers and horses were not very strong, and the two sides fought in a melee, and the losses were not small. However, in the end, Zhang Xianzhong still won the victory, and Liu Jinzhong was defeated. ”
When Liu Jinzhong retreated from defeat, there were less than 2,000 soldiers and horses behind him. Most of them were injured. Li Gu's commander immediately ordered Xia Di to lead his Flying Bear Brigade to charge, and Zhang Xianzhong's initial battle suffered huge losses, so he led his troops and horses to flee to the south.
Along the way, our army kept chasing the enemy, and at Phoenix Mountain, Commander Li shot Zhang Xianzhong in the arm and injured him, but failed to kill him. In the battle of Phoenix Mountain, Zhang Xianzhong left 8,000 soldiers and horses to resist the beast army, and then took the opportunity to flee to Chongqing Mansion.
The beast army couldn't chase him, so he took the opportunity to enter Chengdu City, Chengdu City, and detained all the officials in Chengdu City, and sealed all the gold and silver houses waiting for the prince's whereabouts.
At present, the northern part of Sichuan is basically under the control of our army, and officials can be sent to manage it at any time. The local people did not resist, and everyone in the world knew that the prince was a merciful lord, where was there anyone who objected? ”
Chen Liu reported to Liu Xia the battle report about Sichuan, and the battle in Sichuan was very smooth and did not get much resistance. There are also some local landlords and tyrants who don't want to lose their interests, so they unite and even sneak attack some of the soldiers and horses of the beast army, killing hundreds of them.
After Li Gu heard this, he immediately raised 5,000 troops and personally led them to behead all those landlords, local tyrants and squires for public display. And the granary of Chengdu Mansion was opened, and the grain was opened to the people, so that the people returned to their hearts. Because of the killing of a large number of landlords, a large area of land became borderless, so according to the land distribution regulations issued by Liu Xia before, these lands were distributed to the people. However, these lands only have the right to use, not the right to buy and sell.
"Chongqing Mansion seems to be occupied by Zeng Ying, if Zhang Xianzhong goes over-"
Liu Xia's meaning is obvious, whether Zeng Ying will beat the water dog and destroy it. After all, Zhang Xianzhong used a lot of troops against him in the past.
Chen Liu said: "Lord Wang, at present, this Zeng Ying should not dare to move Zhang Xianzhong. Although Zhang Xianzhong was defeated, he still had some troops under his command, not to mention Li Dingguo and Sun Kewang in Yunnan, who had a total of 50,000 elite soldiers. Therefore, Zeng Ying did not dare to put Zhang Xianzhong to death, at most he drove him out of Chongqing Mansion. ”
Liu Xia nodded and said, "That's what I said." So he turned his head to Meng Yu and said, "Meng Yu, you ask the Dragon Group to immediately track down Zhang Xianzhong's whereabouts, and report it immediately once it is found." ”
Meng Yu, who was standing motionless next to him, suddenly showed a serious expression on his face, and said, "My subordinates understand!" ”
As Chen Liu said, when Zhang Xianzhong fled to Chongqing Mansion, Zeng Ying's scouts immediately discovered Zhang Xianzhong and his party. When the Pingbei Army attacked Sichuan, Zeng Ying had already received the news, so he arranged a large number of scouts in the territory to prevent soldiers and horses from both sides from entering its territory.
Knowing that Zhang Xianzhong led the remnants of 3,000 troops into his territory, Zeng Ying immediately put on his armor and picked up a spear. took 5,000 elites to intercept Zhang Xianzhong and left.
Now that Zhang Xianzhong has been defeated, and he has been defeated so quickly, you can imagine how strong the strength of the Pingbei Army is, so Zeng Ying doesn't want Zhang Xianzhong to guide the Pingbei Army to his Chongqing Mansion. Although he knew that his Chongqing Mansion would be patronized by the Pingbei Army sooner or later, he didn't want to believe it in his heart.
Soon, Zeng Ying came to Zhang Xianzhong not far from Zhang Xianzhong with 5,000 soldiers and horses, and at this moment Zhang Xianzhong was sweating profusely, and he didn't know where to throw his helmet. There was blood all over his body.
At this time, he suddenly heard the sound of horses' hooves, and at this moment he was already in a state of all grass and trees, even the wind and grass would make him very sensitive.
"Assemble! Gather! Zhang Xianzhong roared, those soldiers were already lying on the ground or sitting on the ground at the moment, exhausted. However, due to Zhang Xianzhong's majesty, they also climbed up one after another.
Sure enough, after a while, I saw a black oppressive group of soldiers and horses half-surrounding them.
"Zeng Ying!" Zhang Xianzhong's pupils shrank, his eyes closed, and he looked at Zeng Ying vigilantly. He knew very well that if Zeng Ying wanted to kill all of them at this moment, he would not be able to resist it at all.
"Zeng Ying, what do you want to do?"
I saw that Zeng Ying sneered and said, "Emperor Zhang, what's wrong?" Why is it covered in blood, how did the Imperial Forest Army under his command become a remnant? Although Zhang Xianzhong was very angry in his heart, as a warlord, he knew how to forbear. So he easily filtered out the ridicule in Zeng Ying's words, and said: "I was only defeated by a small defeat, and I still have hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers and horses in Yunnan. With my son's determination and hope, who else in the world can resist it? Zhang Xianzhong's words mentioned the two of them, just to give Zeng Ying a fierce message, and told Zeng Ying that if he dared to hurt himself, then the 100,000 troops under his two righteous sons would break through his Chongqing Mansion.
Zeng Ying frowned, although it was uncomfortable to be threatened, but he had to bear it, he said gloomily: "This king has never embarrassed Emperor Zhang, but this is the king's territory, so please leave Chongqing, otherwise don't blame this king for turning his face and not recognizing people." Zhang Xianzhong gritted his teeth, furious. If it was before, how could this Zeng Ying dare to speak to him like this? When did Zeng Ying give him a generous gift? Now it is the tiger falling in Pingyang and being bullied by dogs!
Zhang Xianzhong had no choice but to lay down his noble head and ordered the soldiers and horses to leave the territory of Chongqing Mansion immediately. Along the way, many soldiers abandoned him, and the 3,000 soldiers and horses were now less than 2,000. There were more than 1,000 people left, and they were still exhausted, and after a few days of walking, they had exhausted their physical strength, and they had not been replenished, so that if these people met the enemy, they would surely be crushed with a single blow.
said that Zhang Xianzhong should be unlucky, he was not familiar with the road, this way down, over the mountains and mountains to go to Yunnan, but walked into the border of Guizhou. Now Guizhou has been regained by Wu Sangui.