Xu Kongtu was not like this, he felt that he was frightened every day, and at first he thought that the governor's yamen and the prefect's yamen could come forward to interfere, but as time went by, he felt more and more desperate.

Zhizhou Xu Kongtu sent his cronies to Fucheng to complain, but in early August, news came from the direction of Shunqing on the third day of August, and the prefect Jinchen, Tongzhi Zhao Sixuan, and the left and right garrisons Chen Yingrui and Feng Youqing surrendered to the Dashun army without a fight two days ago.

The Dashun army occupied the capital city and is now sending envoys to recruit local prefectures and counties.

Shunqing Prefecture has two scattered prefectures, Guang'an Prefecture and Pengzhou, and Pengzhou is sandwiched between Baoning Prefecture and Shunqing Prefecture, and Luo Dai, the deputy general of the Dashun Army, sent people to recruit An.

On the 10th day of the first month of August, someone suddenly came to report that someone outside the city claimed to be an envoy of the Dashun army, and for a moment the entire yamen seemed extremely nervous.

After a while, a man wearing a robe and a Confucian scarf swaggered in, and bowed his hand to Xu Kongtu, the head of Pengzhou, and said: "The old man She Yiyuan, this Liaodong Gongsheng, but the Ming Qi has been exhausted, corrupt officials and corrupt officials are rampant, and the people are not happy.

The four Chuan festival made Li Yutian, the general Ma Ke led the army of 100,000 tigers and wolves into the four Chuan, and all the states and counties passed through were all looking forward to the wind, and in less than half a month, all the states and counties of Boryeong Province were all in Baoning Province.

Recently, the people of Pengzhou such as Wener have resisted donations and taxes many times, and opposed the extortion of the former Ming officials, and the old man recited the virtue of good life in heaven, and specially asked the envoy of the festival to come to the noble treasure land to recruit An, and Wang'er and others raised the city to surrender, so as not to get the time when the army drove to the destruction of the living creatures and the burning of jade. ”

Everyone was annoyed when they heard this, Xu Kongtu, the governor of Pengzhou, looked at Yang Lin pitifully, saw that he stood with his head held high and did not react, thinking of the strategy, he said with a smile on his face: "Your envoy is here, Peng Shen is shining, quickly give me a seat, the old man wants to have a good chat with Mr. She." ”

Xu Kongtu didn't care about talking to himself, and chatted non-stop in the lobby, but when he said that he wanted to surrender, he directly pushed himself to be a person from other provinces, who had just taken office at the beginning of the year, and had no power in the local area, and the matter of surrender needed to be discussed with the local squire.

Stretching out his hand not to hit the smiling person, although She Yiyuan was quite disappointed, in order to force him to surrender and even threaten and induce, he finally made a deadline before leaving.

Xu Kongtu sent She Yiyuan out of the city gate, and the whole person was paralyzed in fright, looked at Yang Lin and asked, "Ruzhen, does this method work?"

Now that the local tyrants in the north are about to move, and the city of Shunqing in the south is occupied by the rogues, where to go, we need to think about it in the long run. ”

In the face of absolute strength, any conspiracy and trickery are useless, and Yang Lin gambled on the strength and determination of the Great Shun Army in Sichuan.

As time went on, the situation became worse and worse, and in less than a month, the Ming dynasty collapsed under the reign of Sichuan.

It is rumored in the society that the Great Western Army captured CD, the king of Shu committed suicide by throwing himself into the river, and the acting governor of Sichuan Long Wenguang and the general soldier Liu Jiayin died in battle, and Liu Zhibo was captured and died unyieldingly.

Although it is the autumn harvest season, everyone is not interested in farming, especially many scholars gather in the teahouse in twos and threes to argue.

Yang Lin asked Xu Kongtu, the governor of Pengzhou, Qin Mintang of Yilong Zhixian, Ma Hongyuan, the magistrate of Yingshan County, Li Shikai and Huang Hui of Wenju, and Fan Mingshan and Chen Huaixi of Wuju to discuss.

Everyone has been familiar with the books of sages since childhood, and they all know loyalty and righteousness, and they can't accept it psychologically if they want to submit to Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong.

Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong are not people who pacify the world, Li Zhang has been rampant in the world for more than ten years, not only killing countless people, but also only knowing that plundering is not about production.

But now that the army is pressing, the Dashun army has occupied the cities of Baoning Mansion and Shunqing Mansion, and the local tyrants in the north are even more ready to make a comeback at any time.

During the banquet, Yang Lin sat down and bowed his head silently, everyone was gossiping without opinion, Pengzhou Zhizhou Xu Kongtu scratched his ears and cheeks, thinking of the recent rumors, he suddenly arched his hand and said: "Ru Zhen Bengongsheng was born, civil and military all-rounder, since last year, he has won the heart of the local scholars for politics, and is more supported by the villagers, and is called Qingtian by the people.

Ru Zhen made outstanding achievements in battle, not only captured the leader of the local tyrants, Liang Bao, and destroyed his old Cao, but also personally led the troops to raid the ancient city of Yunshan, turning the battlefield situation in one fell swoop.

The old man was old and frail, and he was unable to take on the big responsibility, so he was willing to let Xian take the position of Zhizhou by Ru Zhen and lead everyone to tide over the difficulties. ”

Everyone's eyes lit up and they applauded loudly, of course, there were also two or three villains secretly pondering, if they didn't want to go out of the mountain, why should they convene all the squires to discuss the matter?

Under the repeated recommendation of everyone, Yang Lin reluctantly agreed to temporarily take the post of governor of the state to unify the important military and political affairs, but the specific affairs still needed the help of Xu Kongtu and others.

The gun shot the first bird, especially in troubled times, and now everyone breathed a sigh of relief when they saw Yang Lin forcibly come out.

Seeing that everyone's eyebrows were quite melancholy, and some had no confidence at all, Yang Lin analyzed current affairs to cheer everyone up.

First of all, Pengzhou is far away from post roads and other transportation arteries, which is not the current focus of the Dashun Army of the Great Western Army.

Whether it is Li Yutian, the envoy of the Dashun Army, the general soldier Ma Ke, or Zhang Xianzhong of the Dashun Army, although they entered Sichuan from the east and the north respectively, because the soldiers and horses were limited, and the four Chuan Dayi were more, now their main energy is only to control the traffic post road, control the famous cities of CD, Xunqing, Shunqing, and Baoning, and do not have much energy to attack small states and counties.

Although Pengzhou has an official road leading to Shunqing Mansion and Baoning Mansion, it is far away from the post road, and the other party has no time and energy to operate for a while.

(The post road of the Ming Dynasty is like a modern highway, and there are a total of six post roads in the territory of Sichuan, namely:

CD to Beijing Post Road, in the territory of Sichuan through Tongchuan Prefecture Zhi Zhi Yu County, Shunqing Prefecture Xichong County, Baoning Prefecture Southern County, Zhi Langzhong, from Guangyuan Prefecture out of Sichuan, through Shaanxi, Henan, Hebei to Beijing, not to Pengzhou.

CD overland to the Qianqing Post Road, from CD, through Neijiang to the Qianqing, and then through the Qingqing, through the Kuizhou Mansion out of Sichuan, to Nanjing.

CD waterway to the Qingyi Road, from Meizhou, Jiading Prefecture (now Leshan County, Sichuan), Xuzhou Mansion (now Yibin City, Sichuan), Mahu Mansion (now Pingshan County, Sichuan), Luzhou (now Luzhou City, Sichuan), to Chongqing Fu (now Chongqing, Sichuan), and then down to Beijing by land and water.

CD to Yunnan Huili County post road, after arriving in Luzhou, and then there is a branch road to Huili County.

CD to Long'an Mansion Post Road, along the Golden Bull Ancient Road, through Dezhou, Dazhou, Guangyuan to Pingwu County, Long'an Prefecture.

The post road from Tingqing to Tongchuan Prefecture, starting from Tingqing, passing through Hezhou, Suining, and arriving at the post road of Tongchuan Prefecture)

Although Pengzhou is a major city pass on the banks of the Jialing River, the Northern Shun Army of Northern Sichuan has no naval army into Sichuan, and there is no motivation to open up the Jialing River waterway.

From this point of view, Pengzhou is safe at present, as long as there is enough strength to defend itself, the Dashun Army and the Daxi Army will not have the energy to launch an all-out attack for a while.

Again, there are more than 10 prefectures and more than 100 counties, the land is vast and densely populated, there are many states and counties, although the Great Western Army and the Dashun Army are strong and strong, but to control so many states and counties is bound to take a lot of time and energy, and it is difficult to control the whole territory of Sichuan in a short period of time.

Just as in history, it took Liu Bei three years to occupy the entire territory of Sichuan, and it took six years to quell the contradictions in Sichuan and lead the troops to fight for Hanzhong.

Again, Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong have been grudges for a long time, one mountain and two tigers, the same water and fire, and now the biggest goal is to expel the other party and monopolize the four Chuan, and the two sides will definitely not concentrate on attacking the remnants of the Ming Dynasty around before they have divided the victory or defeat.

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Yang Lin told the story, although everyone was quite unconvinced, but they did not refute it excessively.

After acting as the governor of Pengzhou, Yang Lin invited Xu Kongtu and Li Shikai to be the judges of Pengzhou, Wang Guangxian to be the official of Pengzhou, Liu Xianfa to be the governor of Yilong County, Huang Hui to be the governor of Yingshan County, Fan Mingshan to be the general of the rear army, and Chen Huaixi to be the chief of the army, so as to tide over the difficulties together.

Everyone did not shirk and expressed their promises.

In ancient times, scholars were the leaders of one party, and with the addition of Li Shikai, Huang Hui and others, Yang Lin became more and more confident.