At the end of April, the second year of the reign of the Communist Party, Haoge, who claimed to drive the western army out of southern Sichuan within a month, did not succeed, and his army had been trapped in southern Sichuan for more than four months.

After Sun Kewang entered southern Sichuan, he was still the same, he knew that the gentry didn't like him, so he didn't plan to let them change their opinion of him, his attitude was that every time he occupied a land, the gentry of the big clan, whether good or bad, all killed, grain and silver money as military funds, and the land was directly distributed to the local poor.

In this way, he received enough military resources to carry on the war, and at the same time gained a certain base of public opinion that allowed him to gain a foothold.

Although the people's reputation for Sun Kewang is very bad, and the gentry who have the right to speak describe him as a murderer and a leader of the Western Bandits, ordinary poor people are not particularly disgusted with him, after all, he can divide the land, and Sun Kewang also has his set of ideas, "Resist the Tartars, kill all the injustices, I am sick and rich and poor, and now you are equal, establish a peaceful country, so that the cultivators have their land."

"I'd rather be a peaceful dog than a troubled world." In one sentence, how many blood and tears were spoken.

Throughout the ages, the peasants and all the people who are self-reliant have undoubtedly longed for peace in the world, for normal social order, for political clarity, and for fairness.

In the era of strife, the Qing army, the Ming army, the Jin army, and the bandits fought in Sichuan for more than ten years, and the people longed for peace, so Sun Kewang proposed to give the land, kill all the injustices, and return the world to a peace, such a clear political proposition is still very inflammatory.

This made the Western Army gain a firm foothold in southern Sichuan, and won the support of many low-level people, so that when they faced the strong Jin Army, although they were defeated, the Jin Army captured the city, but it could not clear the Western Army, forming a situation where the Jin Army occupied the city and the Western Army occupied the four fields, so that Haoge did not dare to attack deeply everywhere.

Haoge withdrew his troops from eastern Sichuan and turned to compete with Sun Kewang for western Sichuan and southern Sichuan, and Sun Kewang took the initiative to give up the occupation of western Sichuan due to the difference in strength, and instead focused on defending southern Sichuan, which had a large population and was relatively wealthy.

At the beginning of the war, the Jin army was overwhelmed and took Jiading Prefecture, but when it advanced to Luzhou and other places, the situation began to change, and the Jin army besieged Fushun for a month.

At this time, the Ming Dynasty further increased its forces to the southwest, and the two elite troops that originally belonged to the Huguang battlefield marched into Guizhou, and even Wang Yan's personal guard Kesheng battalion had arrived in Guilin, Guangxi.

Haoge attacked southern Sichuan in order to drive Sun Kewang out of Sichuan and regain the fruits of his victory, but now he is in a stalemate stage, and the goal of capturing southern Sichuan may not be achieved, and the secret agent reported that the Ming Dynasty continued to increase troops, which made him impatient.

At the end of April, Haoge made a desperate bet, leaving the partial division to continue the siege of Fushun, and ordered Sonny to lead 20,000 men and horses to make a detour to attack Luzhou, preparing to end the war as soon as possible.

Who knew that Sun Kewang saw that the Ming army continued to increase its troops, and was also eager to defeat Haoge, he saw that the Jin army could not attack Fushun for a long time, and the morale must be low, and the Western army had just changed a batch of ordnance from He Tengjiao's hands, and the combat power had increased, and he also started the idea of attacking the Jin army's rear road.

Two roundabout armies met unexpectedly on the trail, and there was a big battle, and the goals of both sides were not achieved.

After this battle, Haoge had no choice but to temporarily retreat to Jiading Prefecture, both sides realized that they could not drive the other out of southern Sichuan, coupled with the pressure brought by the Ming Dynasty's military increase, the war between the two sides gradually extinguished, and entered the confrontation stage.

In May, in the hills and forests of Guizhou, many people are cutting down trees and using hoes to remove weeds in relatively flat areas, creating patches of dry land.

This kind of land was originally not suitable for farming, but this year the government brought a large number of sweet potatoes from Fujian, saying that they could be grown on dry land, and the people would be suspicious, but the government distributed them first and collected the sweet potatoes after harvesting, so many people decided to give it a try.

At this time, there were many people scattered in the mountains, working on the dry land, and on the mountain road below them, a group of men and horses were winding towards a large snake.

The people who worked straightened up, only to see countless heads of people with saucer helmets and red feathers rising and falling on the official road, there were more than 10,000 people, they were lined up in three columns, their clothes were bright, they carried spears and flags, and hurried forward with their heads bowed, and there was no sound, only the sound of the crunch of carts and the sound of leather whips whipping cattle came to the ears of the people.

This look is the elite officers and soldiers, but the people working on both sides of the mountain road are not surprised, many people look at it for a while, and then bend down to continue to tidy up the dry land.

"This day and night, the soldiers are the sixth batch this month!" A young man held a hoe in both hands, looked at the officers and soldiers below, and said to no specific person: "There are so many people, who are you going to fight?"

An old man who was hoeing straightened up, "I went to Baozheng's house to get sweet potatoes a few days ago, and I heard that the imperial court suffered a loss in Sichuan last year, and it is estimated that this is to find face." ”

Another person stood up, "When the group of officers and soldiers who passed by a few days ago came to my house to ask for water to drink, I heard that the military master said that he was going to fight the Sun Demon King, not to Sichuan. ”

The young man who spoke first was a little unhappy when he heard this, "Wu Laosan, don't listen to Baozheng's nonsense, I have inquired clearly, this time the government stipulates that each household will give forty catties of sweet potatoes, and Lao Tzu will be given thirty catties on dog days, and Lao Tzu will be swallowed ten catties at once, you calculate how many households there are in our village, and how many are swallowed by the straight lady thief." That King Sun is a beast like the straight thief, and he will give us the land, and he is not the murderous demon king that he said at all. ”

"Niu Er, you don't want to die, that Sun Demon King is the opponent of the government, in fact, the government is still very good to us, otherwise we don't have sweet potato seeds, but Baozheng is not a thing."

Originally, it was to talk about the soldiers under the mountain, but the topic was quickly diverted.

In mid-May, the mobilization of various units of the Ming army was basically completed, and all kinds of materials were piled up.

From the outbreak of war in September last year to the present eight months, the Ming Dynasty has spent nearly seven months preparing for war. Now it can be said that the Ming army in the southwest does not have to worry about food, clothing, and use, and there are only two problems in front of the Ming army, one is morale, and the other is the order of the imperial court.

The defeat of eastern Sichuan was a rare defeat of the Ming army in recent years, with a loss of nearly 40,000 people, 25,000 people in Hezhou, only more than 1,000 people were returned, and it was almost a tragic scene of the annihilation of the whole army, and the heavy blow to the morale of the Ming army, and the low morale of the army can be seen.

However, even if the Ming army killed the first warrior of Dajin, it was not easy for the soldiers to restore their morale, and the army was still panicked, and it was privately rumored that the Jin army was powerful, and Chongqing was afraid that it would not be guaranteed, and pessimism spread in the barracks, and this situation was slowly recovered after the reinforcements of the Ming army continued to come in.