After Li Dingguo was defeated and retreated, Fang Yuan sent sergeants to count the corpses on the banks of the Chishui River. There were at least 20,000 corpses, most of them were sergeants of the Great Western Army, more than 15,000 people.

Most of these sergeants did not die on the battlefield at all, but from infighting and cannibalism.

A rogue is a rogue who is a rogue who has no organization, no discipline and no faith, once he is killed, he will inevitably be scattered, even if Li Dingguo is able to govern the army, he can only be helpless when he encounters such a source of soldiers.

Fang Yuan sighed secretly, and ordered the captured soldiers of the Great Western Army to dig more than twenty large pits and bury all the corpses.

After that, Fang Yuan also specially recruited several captured commanders of Sun Kewang's department.

These commanders also thought that Fang Yuan was going to destroy their corpses, so they were so frightened that they knelt down and begged for mercy and begged for forgiveness.

Fang Yuan not only did not order them to be executed, but instead asked the sergeant to send them some coils and told them to go back to Chengdu to report to Zhang Xianzhong.

The commanders looked at each other one by one and asked in a trembling voice, "Regent, how should we report the news when we go back?!" ”

Fang Yuan smiled and said, "What did you see and hear on the banks of the Chishui River, just go back and report the truth, do you still need me to teach you?!" ”

In the event of an amnesty, the commanders were busy kowtowing and thanking for it, taking the military rations and silver given by Fang Yuan, and fled to Sichuan for their lives.

Fang Yuan's plan of discord was not clever, and it could even be said that it was full of loopholes, and it could not withstand scrutiny at all. At least he believed that this discord could not hide from the captured generals.

is just like the so-called two eunuchs in the history books who can make a divisive plan and deceive Chongzhen to kill Yuan Chonghuan, but it is just a joke and a fairy tale made up in the history books. In reality, where can such an understatement of a few words succeed in the divisive scheme, and the ancients are really fools.

However, Fang Yuan was not worried at all that these captives would tell Zhang Xianzhong truthfully when they returned, Li Dingguo did not rebel, but Fang Yuan was sowing discord.

However, there is only one reason why the discord plan can succeed, that is, the so-called discord plan, which can meet the needs of the interests of all parties.

The most famous divisive plan was the Battle of Changping between Qin and Zhao.

The so-called Qin envoy's discordant plan and sent a fine work to Handan to spread rumors, so that the monarchs and ministers of Zhao State could be fooled, change commanders on the spot, replace Lian Po with Zhao Kuo, and finally lost in the Battle of Changping.

It's just making up a story.

There are only two reasons why the Qin State Discord Plan can succeed.

First, Shanxi is the barrier of Hebei, and it has the advantage of terrain suppression. The Shanxi region is the inevitable gain of the Zhao State, otherwise, in the face of the offensive launched by the Qin army from Shanxi, it will be more passively beaten. Therefore, Zhao accepted the surrender of the Shangdang, not because of the blindness of the people, but because Shanxi is a strategic place. It is acceptable to fall into the hands of South Korea, but it is absolutely unacceptable to fall into the hands of Qin.

Therefore, Zhao State cannot help but fight to the death with the Qin army in Shanxi, and fight to the death with the Qin army in Shanxi, which is better than the Qin army to advance the battlefield to Hebei, the base camp of Zhao State, and then die to carry.

Second, Qin and Zhao held each other on the Changping battlefield for two years, and Zhao's domestic food had long been exhausted, and he couldn't borrow grain from the other five countries.

Therefore, Zhao Guo could not choose not to attack, and could no longer hold on.

The divisive plan made by the Qin State was only successful because it was in the common interests of Qin and Zhao to immediately conduct a decisive battle in Changping. If you change to another battlefield environment, the ten discordant plans are a fart, who is more stupid than whom?! Zhao Guojun and his ministers can't even see through a discordant plan, can they still become the second military power in the Warring States?

Then return from history to the reality in front of us.

These generals of Sun Kewang's subordinates who were released had no second possibility for them to report to Zhang Xianzhong, so they could only follow Fang Yuan's statement and frame Li Dingguo for rebellion.

Because of this defeat in Guizhou, especially a cannibalistic battle on the banks of the Chishui River, the Great Western Army suffered heavy losses, and Zhang Xianzhong will inevitably investigate it to the end.

If these captives tell the truth, Li Dingguo did not rebel, but Fang Yuan was planning to discord. Then the responsibility for this infighting will inevitably fall on the sergeants who went to snatch the pontoon bridge first, Li Dingguo is not guilty, they are the crime of ethnic extermination.

If they want to save their lives, the only way is to report to Zhang Xianzhong, Li Dingguo has rebelled, and the responsibility for the internal strife can be completely pushed away, and they can also make a great contribution.

This is human nature, and there is no need for coercion and temptation, it is their natural choice. No one in this world is stupid, everyone will act from the perspective of their own interests, everything is driven by interests.

Fang Yuan could almost foresee that as soon as the news reached Zhang Xianzhong's ears, the scene of infighting in the Great Western Army.

Whether Zhang Xianzhong will fall into the divisive scheme, in Fang Yuan's opinion, is almost a certainty. It's not that Zhang Xianzhong can't see through this is Fang Yuan's plan, but he has to do it as a last resort.

Zhang Xianzhong entered Sichuan and lost Huguang, at best he had less than 200,000 soldiers and horses. In addition, after that, the army with Li Zicheng into Sichuan continued to consume each other, and the power was also compressed in a corner of the four provinces of Sichuan. With such a bit of territory, whether it is supported by military rations or paid silver, at most a soldier and horse of no more than 150,000 can be supported.

Zhang Xianzhong's army has about 80,000 soldiers and horses, most of which have to be transferred to defend Liu Zongmin, who is in the four prefectures of Bazhou, and the number of soldiers and horses left in Chengdu Mansion is definitely not more than 30,000.

And Sun Kewang and Li Dingguo, the two righteous sons, each have about 30,000 troops.

In the battle of Guizhou, Sun Kewang's troops were basically disabled, while Li Dingguo's troops were almost intact.

Even if Zhang Xianzhong really trusts Li Dingguo, I believe that he has not made eye contact with Fang Yuan, and he must also consider whether Li Dingguo will not be able to lose the situation in the future. With such an unbalanced army, under Zhang Xianzhong's nose, can he sleep?

Zhang Xianzhong actually had no choice but to pretend to be stupid and stunned, and follow the statement of fleeing back to the captives to suppress Li Dingguo's troops, and even reorganize Li Dingguo's troops and horses. At least a part of the soldiers and horses must be allocated to Sun Kewang, so that the two righteous sons can continue to check and balance, so that he can sleep peacefully.

It will inevitably be deployed in this way.

Zhang Xianzhong and Li Dingguo, the righteous father and son, will make trouble, Fang Yuan could not determine, but Zhang Xianzhong will never be sent to Li Dingguo's command again, and Li Dingguo is unlikely to enter Yunnan and Guizhou to fight again. In this way, the newly occupied provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou, and Guangxi can be regarded as completely taken into possession.

Fang Yuan's class returned to Kunming City, and in order to demonstrate in the three provinces, he ordered that two months later, a toast meeting be held in Kunming City. All the Tusi of Yunnan, Guizhou, and Guangxi provinces must come to participate, and if they do not come under the pretext, they will be regarded as rebels and immediately send troops to conscript.

The Ming army went out on this expedition and exterminated a total of thirteen toasts in the three provinces, and also fattened more than a dozen toasts. Fang Yuan fully implemented the policy of perishing those who follow the Ming Dynasty and those who rebel against the Ming Dynasty in the three provinces, which made the Tusi of the three provinces very frightened, where did they dare to disobey the decree of the imperial court?

Tusi, who was still at both ends of the first rat before, wanted to keep the right to secession, and after seeing Fang Yuan's determination to take over the military and political power of the three provinces, he also gave up his unrealistic illusions and turned closer to the imperial court.

If you can't divide it, you can't divide it! They are still the top real power figures in the local area, and the officials sent by the imperial court must also rely on their power in order to form an effective rule in the local area, which is better than the death of the whole family!

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