Chapter 392: Recovering Chengdu
When it was time to count the battlefield, the Ming soldiers became busy.
The soldiers of the Western Army left behind a pile of corpses of the Qing army, and although these corpses were decapitated, their approximate identities could still be distinguished from their armor.
For example, Bolo......
After confirming it repeatedly, Wen Anzhi concluded that Bolo had been beheaded by the Western Army.
This is sensational news.
You must know that Bolonai was appointed by Dolgon to conquer the west, and was the supreme commander of the Qing army's attack on Sichuan.
Bolo's death meant that the Qing army had completely failed in the Battle of Sichuan.
As for the Western Army's beheading of a number of high-ranking generals of the Qing Army, it is not difficult to understand.
Suddenly, it was impossible for them to remove all the bodies, so they had to choose to take the head.
The only regret is that I didn't see Zhang Dingguo.
The saint still admires this person, and once ordered Wen Anzhi to act cheaply, and if he has the opportunity, he can recruit Zhang Dingguo.
Overall, though, it's a near-perfect result.
Wen Anzhi ordered the soldiers to clean up the battlefield and then led his troops into Chengdu.
Chengdu City has made a lot of noise in the past few days.
First the Qing army captured the city, and then the Ming army killed.
The two sides fought fiercely outside the city, and finally decided the winner.
The head of the city changed the banner of the king, and finally Chengdu City was also completely returned to Zhao.
The people of Chengdu seem to be a little numb, they are used to this kind of change.
Regardless of whether the Western Army, the Qing Army, or the Ming Army occupied Chengdu, isn't it still the same life?
As long as they can have a bite to eat, they are satisfied.
However, the next move of the Ming army surprised them.
After making some trade-offs, Wen Anzhi ordered the opening of the warehouse to release grain.
All the people in Chengdu were able to receive more or less food.
Of course, Wen Anzhi's move is not simply to pity the people, but to win the hearts of the people as much as possible.
After all, the Chengdu area has not been under the actual control of the Ming Dynasty for several years, and the people here are instinctively accustomed to the rule of the Western Army.
If you want them to re-adapt to the embrace of returning to the Ming Dynasty, they naturally have to pay.
And opening a warehouse to release grain is the simplest and most practical way.
What do the people value most?
Food.
In troubled times, landlords and merchants hoarded grain, and people often begged relatives and friends for a bucket of rice.
At this time, the imperial court took the initiative to disperse the grain in the treasury, how could the people not like it?
Anyway, Wen Anzhi will leave enough food for the army, and the rest should win the hearts and minds of the people.
And with high-yield crops such as potatoes and sweet potatoes, he will not worry about food problems at all.
Potatoes have already had a successful experience in Shandong, and what Wen Anzhi has to do now is to replicate the successful experience of potatoes in Shandong to Sichuan.
Sichuan is a mountainous region, which is the most suitable for potato growth, and many lands that are not suitable for growing crops can be effectively used.
Of course, it takes time to promote, and there is no need to count on the first year.
Wen Anzhi feels that the promotion will be completed in three years, and Sichuan will not only be able to be self-sufficient, but also able to deliver food to other places.
Through this long march, the Ming army regained Chengdu, and then as long as troops were sent to take over Baoning.
At this point, the actual control area of the Ming army in Sichuan was almost the same as that of the Chongzhen period, that is, Jianchang was still in the hands of the Western Army.
Wen Anzhi only felt a little trance.
It all happened so fast that he still feels a little unbelievable.
However, the recital for the Holy Lord still has to be written.
Wen Anzhi did not exaggerate too much, but wrote down the course of the Sichuan War in a matter-of-fact manner.
He did not intend to take credit for himself, but gave the credit to Yuan Zongdi, Liu Fangliang, Tian Jianxiu and others as much as possible.
These generals of the old army urgently needed such an opportunity to express their loyalty and prove to the court and the Holy Lord that they were truly obedient to the Ming Dynasty.
I only hope that the Holy One will be able to reward them without discrimination after seeing their merits.
Now that Sichuan has been taken, the rebellion in Yunnan has been quelled, and the Ming army has no worries in the southwest.
After a period of stable recuperation, you can move north to recover Shaanxi.
Wen Anzhi desperately hopes to see the restoration of the Ming Dynasty in his lifetime, and now it seems that this hope is getting bigger and bigger.
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Zhang Dingguo has already led his troops back to Jianchang.
He ordered people to pile up all the beheaded heads of the Qing army outside Jianchang City, and built a Beijing Temple for the people to see.
Among them is the head of Hong Chengchou.
Although it was a little late, the personal soldiers he sent still completed the task very well, and took Hong Chengchou's head and placed it in the most conspicuous position in Jingguan.
The cause and effect of the incident Zhang Dingguo also explained to the officers and soldiers of the Great Western Army.
The officers and men of the Western Army all breathed a sigh of relief.
As long as his own general didn't really let Hong Chengchou go, it would be fine.
Hong Chengchou, an old thief, is scheming, and letting him go back is tantamount to letting the tiger return to the mountain, and sooner or later he will lead his troops to retaliate.
Killing him is the end of the trouble.
In addition to the hundreds of heads brought back from outside Chengdu, the soldiers of the Western Army also tied back a prisoner.
This captive was none other than Sun Kewang, the former prince of Onishi.
Sun Kewang was once one of the most respected generals of the Great Western Army, but his subsequent subservient behavior to the Qing army had completely angered the Western Army soldiers and made their image plummet.
But what to do with him is a difficult problem.
After all, Sun Kewang was second only to Zhang Xianzhong in the Great Western Army before, and it seemed a bit hasty to kill him with such a knife.
But if you keep him, it has no value, and it is a waste of food.
Zhang Dingguo had already broken off with Sun Kewangen, but when he really wanted to execute him, he was a little soft-hearted.
In the end, he left the decision to the soldiers.
Each soldier has the right to say what he thinks, and the opinion of the larger side will be adopted.
In the end, all the soldiers of the Western Army participated in the decision, and almost all of them chose to put Sun Kewang to death.
Zhang Dingguo breathed a sigh of relief.
Since the soldiers all thought so, he had nothing to worry about.
The Great Western Army will not tolerate a traitor, even if this traitor used to be of a very high status, one person under ten thousand people.
In the Great Western Army, the prince committed the same crime as the common people.
Zhang Dingguo decided to execute Sun Kewang in public, so that the civilians could be angry and reassure the army.
The place of execution was in the middle of the most prosperous cross street in Jianchang City.
The torture platform was temporarily erected, and the inside and outside were filled with soldiers of the Great Western Army.
Zhang Dingguo sat on a chair in the middle of the torture platform to supervise the execution, and when he saw that the hour was almost up, he asked the soldiers to escort Sun Kewang, who was tied up with five flowers.
At this moment, Sun Kewang was not only tied up by five flowers, but his mouth was also blocked by rags. His hair is broken up, and his hair is very embarrassed.
After he was escorted to the execution ground, a Western soldier kicked him in the knee, but Sun Kewang fell to his knees when he heard a plop.
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