After Sun Chuanting's defeat, the whole province of Shaanxi was defeated and retreated, and Ding Nuchang, who was ordered again in danger, also fled to Henan in embarrassment.

On the one hand, he appeased the poor peasants in exile, "gave cattle seeds, provided relief to the poor, gave birth to livestock, and engaged in farming", and "recruited people to cultivate the fields and collect their grains to feed the army". In the same month, he killed Luo Rucai, the peasant leader who joined the army, and He Yilong, who was in the 5th Battalion of the Revolution, and killed the rebel general Yuan Shizhong to further consolidate his power.

The military side ordered Liu Zongmin to invade Henan, and later led a large army to capture Luoyang. Kill Zhu Changxun, the son of Emperor Wanli, get a few deer from the back garden, cook them together with the meat of King Fu, called "Fulu Banquet", and share them with the soldiers. At the same time, Li Zicheng confiscated the gold and silver goods and a large amount of grain and materials in the Fuwang Mansion, and issued a notice to help the hungry. "Hungry people from near and far are hoeing, and those who respond are like flowing water, day and night, calling millions, and its momentum is unstoppable."

Put forward the slogan of "Juntian is exempt from taxation", that is, the folk song "Greet the king, do not pay for food", the army surrounded Kaifeng like an iron bucket and no one could escape, and the heavy rain continued to cause the Yellow River to burst the embankment, washed away Kaifeng, and killed and injured countless people, so that Li Zicheng captured most of the territory of Henan in a few months, and the momentum was unprecedentedly huge.

In the following month, he was proclaimed emperor in Xi'an, the capital of Xi'an, the founding name of Dashun, changed to Yongchang, and made meritorious officials to the fifth class. At the same time, the political power structure was changed, the cabinet was changed to the Tianyou Palace, and the university Shipingzhang military was set up; The six governments added one Shangshu and one Shilang; Provincial-level institutions were added, and festivals were set up.

At the same time, the Ming Jing Division was conquered in the east, and 3,000 ships were built at Shawukou, crossed the Yellow River, captured Fenzhou (now Fenyang), Yangcheng (now Yangcheng County, Jincheng City), Puzhou (now Yongji), and captured Huaiqing (now Jiaozuo, Henan) the next day, killed King Zaiyan of Lujiang, and the troops turned sharply to Shanxi. When the news came out, the world was shaken, and Chongzhen was even more angry in the early dynasty, causing him to faint.

But to Li Zicheng's surprise, Shanxi, which had been fighting with the Manchu Qing Dynasty for many years, was not as easy to break through as he imagined, and when he turned his target to Hebei, he didn't want to have broken out in Hebei, Shandong and other places that had already been mourning, and the ten rooms and nine emptiness were prohibitive, and it was precisely because of this that Chongzhen had a rare moment of respite.

Sun Chuanting fell seriously ill after being rescued by the marines and returned to Hubei, but Shen Xing still handed over the 200,000 newly formed peasant army to him and ordered him to garrison Wuchang and the town of Lianghu. And he himself took 30,000 new troops plus 20,000 newly trained soldiers sent by the Red Lady to transport weapons and ammunition, totaling 50,000 people, and chased Zhang Xianzhong all the way into Sichuan.

Zhang Xianzhong led the remnants of tens of thousands of troops to advance into Sichuan, and along the way they also overcame thorns and thorns, and it was difficult to have opponents, all the way to conquer Kuizhou, "to Wanxian, the water rose, and stayed in Tun for a month to recuperate."

Then, Lianke Liangshan, Zhongzhou and Fuzhou defeated the general soldier Cao Ying, broke the Buddha Pass, and Qin Liangyu, the general soldier of Sichuan in the Ming Dynasty, led his troops to fight, and was also defeated by him.

After conquering Luzhou, he immediately occupied Chongqing, an important town in northern Sichuan. A number of Ming Dynasty clans and bureaucrats, such as Zhu Changhao, the governor of Rui, Chen Shiqi, the deputy envoy of the military garrison, and Wang Xingjian, the prefect, who fled from Hanzhong, were captured and executed by the Great Western Army. [53]

Zhang Xianzhong ordered Liu Ting to defend Chongqing. He personally led a large army and marched to Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan, in three ways. Along the road, the counties "looked at the wind and collapsed, the beacon fire was endless for hundreds of miles, and Chengdu was shaken".

Long Wenguang, the governor of Sichuan, rushed to the aid of Chengdu from Shunqing, and transferred the general soldier Liu Zhenfan and nearby native soldiers to defend the city. For a while, "Chengdu reinforcements four episodes, loyalty to make all the people fake as reinforcements, mixed into the city, Long Wenguang can not distinguish" [. On the 7th day of the first month of August, the peasant army attacked the city from all sides at the same time, and the city was broken on three days.

All this came so quickly, Shen Xing did not expect, he personally released Zhang Xianzhong, a tiger, into Sichuan, and the scale of the tragedy caused was completely out of his control.

The Great Western Army conquered Chengdu, Zhu Zhishu, the king of Chengdu of the Ming Dynasty, and Zhu Zhilu, the king of Taiping, committed suicide, and the main officials of the Ming Dynasty stationed in Sichuan, such as Long Wenguang, the governor of Sichuan, Liu Zhibo, and Zhang Jimeng, the deputy envoy of the Ming Dynasty, were all executed by the Great Western Army because they refused to surrender. [

After Li Zicheng captured Shaanxi, he sent the general Ma Ke into Sichuan, captured Shunqing, and ordered Ma Ke to defend Mianzhou, Zhang Xianzhong learned the news immediately and his subordinate Ai Nengqi went to the battle, but he was defeated, so he personally went to command, and Ma Ke was defeated and left Hanzhong.

He successively conquered Baoning with the general Li Dingguo, Sun Kewang went down to Long'an, let Wang Run garrison, and led his troops to attack Maozhou, Kezhi. Next, Eneng conquered Jachow. At this point, most of Sichuan was controlled by Zhang Xianzhong's Great Western Army.

Along the way, Shen Xing finally arrived in Shizhu County, Sichuan, after March, and the army coerced Chongqing, and the reason why Shen Xing garrisoned Shizhu was entirely because Shizhu County was one of the few places that had not fallen into the clutches of Zhang Xianzhong.

Shen Xing personally came to Qin Liangyu's Xidong clan to visit, and bowed his head when he saw the ancient and elderly Qin Liangyu, and saluted the old female general with a three-line salute Thousands of white soldiers in the village stood by the mountain, murderous, without sophisticated equipment, perfect armor, all in tatters, but it was such a few thousand men and horses who resisted Zhang Xianzhong's hundreds of thousands of troops several times.

Shen Xing looked up and was instantly moved, thinking in his heart that this should be the backbone that the Sichuan people can't overcome, just for his so-called general trend, how many loyal and righteous people died tragically under Zhang Xianzhong's butcher's knife.

Shen Xing thought of this and wept bitterly, and shouted loudly, "Soldiers, Shen Xing is late, I can't stand the people with lofty ideals who died in Sichuan, if they have a spirit in the sky, they will bless Shen Mousheng to capture the thief to avenge the country!" After Shen Xing finished speaking, he knelt on the ground again and didn't get up for a long time.

Qin Liangyu came to Shen Xing with the support of a young girl, and when he lifted the crutches, he hit him violently, and Shen Xing remained motionless and let the old lady vent.

"Marquis Shen, my little Marquis Shen, you are really late, tens of thousands of heroic spirits in Sichuan who resisted the Zhang thief are difficult to look at under Jiuquan! If it weren't for the fact that you left Zhang Thief into Sichuan with a thought, how could there be today's disaster, you died a hundred men to atone for their sins, and the old body would beat you to death today! Qin Liangyuqi's whole body trembled, and the raised crutches no longer fell for a long time.

"Grandma, it is already commendable that Zhang Thief is powerful and Marquis Shen can completely annihilate his main army, not to mention the rapid changes on the battlefield, how can you blame him for everything!" Qin Liangyu's expression softened when he heard this, and he needed to look at Shen Xing more, and turned around and returned to the hall. The little girl looked at Shen Xing, took out a handkerchief and handed it over.

"The manly husband bleeds without tears, and he is not afraid of jokes when he cries like this, get up quickly, grandma is not angry with you!" The little girl was wearing a short skirt of an alien race, and the two little white legs were shaking like this when she ran, Shen Xing looked at her thoughts and drifted far away, the miniskirt was really not seen for a long time.

The hall was full of Qin Liangyu's subordinate generals, and they all knew that they had experienced a hundred battles, and Shen Xing did not put on his own marquis's shelf, and treated everyone as a junior.

"Shen family boy, you don't have to be polite, let's be honest, how many troops have you brought here!" "Back to the old general of Qin, the boy led 50,000 new troops to recover Sichuan, and I hope that the general will lend a helping hand to help the boy." "It's only 50,000! The army of Zhang thieves is now no less than 500,000, ten times with me! How to fight this battle! Hearing Shen Xing's words, a white army general shouted angrily.

The people in the hall also immediately turned their heads and ears, the atmosphere was instantly sluggish, and the hope that had just been ignited was dashed a lot, but Qin Liangyu looked at Shen Xing without changing his face and said nothing.

"Generals, don't you know, the new army led by Xing is one by one, and it was only tens of thousands of people who took Wuchang New City occupied by Zhang Thief's heavy troops, and now Zhang Thief entered Sichuan in a hurry, and the foundation is not stable, although it is a large number of people, most of the displaced people have gathered and have not been trained, and they should not be the opponent of the new army!"

"Lord Shen, you can know that most of the cities in the hinterland of Sichuan are built on the mountains, easy to defend and difficult to attack, if such an attack on one city and one place continues, you will work hard for a long time, and the food and grass will be insufficient, and it will be difficult to ensure that there will be no great changes!"

Shen Xing nodded after listening, "The general is right, this is also the reason why Xing came to visit the old general this time, the old general's former residence in Sichuan has a very high prestige, as long as his old man ascends to the heights, it is conceivable that the rural fathers and elders in Sichuan who succumb to the thieves will inevitably rise up, on the contrary, the rebel rebels who have escaped into the wilderness and mountains will definitely come to hear the wind." ”

Qin Liangyu laughed after hearing this, and immediately stood up and ordered the whole army to follow Shen Xing to attack Chongqing.