[230] Occupy Sichuan

Sun Kewang fled to Shunqing with the remnants of the defeated army, and there was no grain. After two or three days, the horses were eaten up, and even the leather armor went into their stomachs, and the soldiers were hungry and ate human flesh, and when one of them fell, he was slaughtered and eaten in pieces, and so on for seven or eight days. Finally walked to the Qu River, Ai Nengqi led a hundred soldiers to protect the old camp of the harem, and Mingping Kobo Zeng Ying led thousands of soldiers to come to detective the movements of the thief. The two armies met on a narrow road, and although the Great Western Army was hungry for many days, it was still fighting to the death, and the Ming army was defeated with one as ten. Sun Kewang, Li Dingguo, and Liu Wenxiu rushed to respond, and everyone traveled day and night, and two days later went to Jiangbeizui, Chongqing Prefecture, to camp.

Zeng Ying saw that the thieves were less than a thousand people, and they were about to starve to death, and the remaining horses, banners, and sundries were all embarrassed, so he didn't care. Move the warships in the river to the south bank of the city, out of Qimen, Nanzhengping and other places, Sun Kewang and others have nothing to do, lying on the ground to rest. Zeng Ying has 200,000 troops, 1,000 warships, and occupies the important town of Chongqing, where do you take these hungry thieves to heart? Zeng Ying knew very well in her heart; As long as you stick to the river bank and select thousands of elite soldiers to cross the river from downstream, the attack on the thief camp will be completed. Zeng Ying prefers to see how the invincible soldiers of the past slowly starved to death, this is a kind of retribution in the present world, Zeng Ying does not want to miss this good show.

Liu Wenxiu said to everyone: "The Zeng army does not care about our army, and the danger of the Yangtze River is relied upon. Today, our soldiers have gone deep and have been cooking for more than ten days. There is no way forward, there is no way back, rather than starving to death in Shu, there is no heard, it is better to risk death for a decisive battle. I want to swim across the river, and if I take a small boat, we will all have a way to live. ”

Li Dingguo and Ai Nengqi didn't speak, but just looked at Sun Kewang. Because Zhang Xianzhong said when he was reincarnated that he had no son, if he died, then Sun Kewang would be the son.

So Sun Kewang said: "Wenxiu, you have to be more careful, the lives of these tens of thousands of people in Daxi depend on you!" ”

Liu Wenxiao replied: "Even if you die, you have to fight!" ”

After that, Liu Wenxiu held a bow in his left hand, an arrow in his right hand, and jumped into the rolling waves with a sharp blade in his mouth. The five soldiers Xu Chao, Yang Shiguo, Fu Fa, Lu Bu, and Chen Sheng followed behind and swam bravely to the opposite bank. Swimming to the surface of the Chaotianmen River, Zeng Yingzhi's soldiers pointed to the river and laughed: "These thieves have come to die." "There were no less than 3,000 Zeng troops on the warship in the river, and they didn't care about these outlaws.

Liu Wenxiu and the others swam to the stern of the big ship, cut the iron anchor, and climbed into the cabin through the battlement. These six people are like tigers out of the mountains, dragons into the sea, a rush to kill the Zeng army down the river, captured the big boat, the weight of the boat, the women are thrown into the river, light back to the north bank, Sun Kewang and others wiped the sweat drops on their foreheads with their hands, and said: This time the whole army is saved.

Sun Kewang selected more than 100 elite people, fully dressed and draped, each holding spears, hooks, bows and arrows, and bird guns, and boarded the boat together and rushed to the opposite shore to kill. At this time, Zeng Ying had already received the report, personally led dozens of warships, 8,000 soldiers came to intercept, surrounded the thieves, Zeng Ying stood at the bow of the ship and shot at the thieves with a bow and arrows. Ai Nengqi was a sharpshooter in the Great Western Army, and when he saw a twenty-five or sixteen-year-old general standing next to the mast, his appearance was like Guan Gong, and he knew that this was Pingkou Hou Zeng Ying.

An arrow shot at Zeng Ying, hitting Zeng Ying in the chest, and fell into the river. When the soldiers of the Zeng army saw that the main general was dead, they collapsed at the moment, and the Great Western Army was like entering a no-man's land. The Great Western Army, which was less than 1,000 people, defeated more than 200,000 Zeng troops and occupied Chongqing.

At this time, Wang Zhaoling rode alone, and put on the stinky stand of the prime minister to reproach the four generals: "You four four generals are happy today, but where are the corpses?"

Holding a bow and arrow, Ainengqi scolded in a loud voice: "You brute slave, but you are only a prisoner on death row. Long live mercy to spare your life. It's also a debt to all of us to break the water city and save you. Because you are the son of a family, I specially protect you to be an elder. You are not a good person, you do good deeds, and you blindly kill people to gain favor. We have suffered all our lives on the battlefield and earned thousands of troops. was killed by your words today and tomorrow. The people of Sichuan Province, with us to transport grain, grass, errands, grain, how effective is it? Long live the silver release, and be killed by your sharp teeth. The day before yesterday, you were defeated, and you almost starved us to death, all of which were evil obstacles created by you. You will be proud and arrogant, and you will be powerful. We will kill you now, and there are millions of unjust souls waiting for you to ask for your life when the ghost door is closed. ”

Wang Zhaoling was still about to argue, but was shot in the eye socket by an arrow from Ai Nengqi and fell under the horse. All the soldiers rushed forward and chopped it into pulp to vent their anger in the past. Sun Kewang ordered the burning of Chongqing and led a large army south.

Li Dingguo strongly objected, he said: "Long live my father heard Wang Zhaoling's nonsense before, killing people and destroying the city, which has already caused great confusion in people's hearts. The fourth brother is right, the people of Sichuan Province, with us to transport grain, grass, errands, and grain, how is it equivalent to smooth? Long live the wrong things that my father did, we can't repeat the mistakes of the past~"

Sun Kewang is the eldest brother of the four righteous sons, but his prestige is slightly inferior to Li Dingguo. Now he is very dissatisfied with Li Dingguo's open opposition to his first order. But he still forcibly suppressed his dissatisfaction, and said with a pleasant face: "Fourth brother, then what do you say?" Defending Chongqing? Isn't that waiting for Song Youliang's soldiers and horses to attack us from both sides? ”

Li Dingguo shook his head and said: "Big brother, in my opinion, I still have a good reputation, and I will enter Sichuan again in the future, and I really want to meet my Sichuan father!" ”

Sun Kewang ordered: "If it is not a fight with the enemy soldiers, no one is allowed to kill." Then, Sun Kewang and others led the reorganized troops into Zunyi, and the Great Western Army did not commit any crimes along the way. Due to the troops sent by Zhou Guoqing and Liu Jinzhong, the Great Western Army continued to retreat south and entered Guizhou, and the people who passed through were all blocked, and the provincial capital Guiyang was successfully occupied. Zhang Yao, the envoy of Guizhou in the Ming Dynasty, Zeng Yi, the senator of the political secretary, and Chen Ruizheng, the commander of the capital, fled to Dingfanzhou (now Huishui County, Guizhou Province), and cobbled together a group of armed forces to resist stubbornly. Sun Kewang sent Dingbei general Ai Nengqi to lead the troops to attack, and soon conquered Dingfan, Zhang Yao and others were executed, and Zeng Yi committed suicide. After the Ming army vanguard occupied Zunyi and some areas in eastern Sichuan, it was forced to "triumphantly" return to the division because the place was dilapidated, everywhere was barren, and food could not be provided. The victory of the Great Western Army in Guizhou freed itself from the pursuit of the Ming army and allowed it to rectify its interior and recuperate its soldiers.

After Song Youliang did all of Sichuan, he also began a plan to rectify Sichuan. First of all, the medical team, the disaster relief team, and the propaganda team were still the pioneers, treating the people everywhere they went, giving doctors and medicines, and setting up porridge factories, while the propaganda team used various songs, dances, burlesques, and other forms to publicize how An Guogong and Emperor Hongde loved the people like sons, and even Chinese missionaries who had just graduated from a church school entered Sichuan to preach.

For the Ming army in Sichuan, which was on one side, the dual means of military offensive and political appeasement were adopted. Fan Yixuan, the governor of Nanmingchuan and Shaanxi, who occupied Baoning and Shunqing, received a holy decree from Song Youliang in the name of Emperor Hongde.

One is the Hongde Emperor of Beijing, and the other is the Hongguang Emperor of the Southern Ming Dynasty, both seem to be orthodox in the Ming Dynasty, Fan Yixuan was difficult to choose for a while, so he hurriedly found his subordinates to discuss the guerrilla horse test, the guerrilla horse test is a martial artist, where can he come up with an idea? So I could only find the previous and Shunqing heroes to advocate righteousness, build 'Zhongxing' red banner in Jianghu, a few days to more than 100,000, the military voice was greatly inspired. The thief rolled up and escaped, and restored Zou Jianchen, a man from more than ten cities in Shunqing.

Zou Jianchen read Song Youliang's letter and holy decree, and said: "With all due respect, if the situation today is like the Battle of Jingjing. But from what I have seen and heard, Song Youliang's skills are not under Chengzu, and Emperor Hongguang is far inferior to Jianwen, so the Southern Emperor is definitely not the opponent of the Northern Emperor. ”

Fan Yixin smiled and said, "Jian Chen, can't I see this?" But now that both sides are Mingshu Zhengshuo, which side should I listen to? Is it North or South? Otherwise, I will also follow the example of the people during the Battle of Jingjing, and reply with a letter, saying that I am the minister of the Ming Dynasty, such as the second emperor today, so I don't know what to do, and when there is only one emperor in the world, I only need an official document, and I will kneel down to apologize? ”

Zou Jianchen replied with a smile: "My lord, you have said it yourself, it is all orthodox, so it is not considered to be an enemy on either side, in my opinion, it is better to go from the north." Instead of going to apologize at that time, it is better to become a minister of the dragon early. ”

Zou Jianchen looked at the guerrilla horse and asked, "What does General Ma think?" ”

The guerrilla horse felt that what Zou Jianchen said was reasonable, so he nodded and said, "The last general also thinks that Zou Juren's words are reasonable. ”

Fan Yixuan nodded solemnly, "Okay, I'll prepare." Let's go to Chongqing~"

With the surrender of Fan Yixuan, Wang Xiang, a Ming general who occupied Qijiang, Yang Zhan, a staff general who was based on Li Ya, and Zhu Hualong, a deputy general of Songpan in western Sichuan, also surrendered to Song Youliang. At the same time, Song Youliang sent a large army to wipe out the thirteen families of the Yellow Shake and the thirteen families of Xishan of Li Zicheng's remaining department, and more than ten leaders of the thirteen families of the Yellow Dynasty were captured and then taken to Chongqing, where Song Youliang held a public trial meeting attended by hundreds of thousands of people in Chongqing, and after counting the evil deeds of these bandits, they were beheaded for public display.

However, Wang Yingxiong, who was the secretary of the Southern Ming Military Department and a scholar of Wenyuan Pavilion, the governor of Sichuan, Hu, Yun, and Gui military affairs, and was in charge of Sichuan Kou, was unwilling to surrender, so Song Youliang sent someone to send him out of the country.

Sichuan was subsumed into the pocket of the Northern Ming, which caused a great shock in the Southern Ming, and Ma Shiying instigated the four towns of Jiangbei to tentatively attack the Northern Ming army in Shandong and Henan, but they were all defeated. Ma Shiying sent Zuo Mengeng to attack Jiangxi, but Zuo Mengeng disobeyed, so angry that Ma Shiying had no choice.

Everyone in the world can see at this time that the world of the Ming Dynasty is about to be owned by Emperor Hongde in Beijing.

At this time, Hong Chengchou, who had been dormant in his hometown in Fujian, also came to the Fujian General Military Mansion to meet Zheng Zhilong. "General Feihong is okay?" Hong Chengchou greeted Zheng Zhilong in Hokkien dialect

Zheng Zhilong replied with a smile: "I can eat and sleep well, no, I have gained a lot of weight." Brother Heng Jiu has reduced it very much! ”

Hong Chengchou smiled: "It's time for us to get on the boat, right?" ”

Zheng Zhilong said with a smile: "An Guogong has urged many times, but you just refuse to go, and if you don't go, you won't be able to lie down!" ”