Due to the early precautions, the volunteers sent multiple outposts to the direction of Langzhong and the south, and everyone disguised themselves as merchants and woodcutters on weekdays to closely monitor the movements of various departments.

After October of this year, surveillance was strengthened, and the intelligence department secretly infiltrated a monk's temple, hoping to spy on first-hand information, hoping to respond quickly.

Liu Jinzhong is really half-hearted, and now he has surrendered to the Manchu Dynasty, and everyone is angry.

Quickly, the news of the Manchu Tartars entering Sichuan was quickly sent to the city of Shunqing, and then transmitted to all prefectures and counties under its jurisdiction.

After receiving the news of Liu Jinzhong and Zhao Ronggui's surrender, Yang Lin reacted quickly.

Envoys were sent to Fan Yixing, the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi in southern Sichuan, Yang Zhan of Zhongjiang, Ma Gan, the fourth (Sichuan) governor of Guanghan, and Zeng Ying of Chongqing, to report on the latest military situation and hope that everyone would make preparations as soon as possible.

Fearing that the Great Western Army would be attacked by the Manchu Tartars as it had done in history, the main forces of each regiment were openly assembled to attract the attention of the other side and alert the intelligence officers of the Great Western Army, except for a small number of personnel who were monitoring the movements of the Great Western Army on the front line.

All regiments in the vicinity of Shunqing Province were strictly ordered to strengthen the construction of fortifications, including trenches, horse pits, tripping horse ropes, and forts.

Send Yang Bingyi's regiment, Jing Keqin's regiment, and Buning cavalry regiment to fortify thirty miles north of the city, and if the Great Western Army is routed, let it pass, if the Manchu Tartars chase the army, destroy one of them, so as to boost the morale of the army and the people.

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At this time, Zhang Xianzhong was complacent, just got rid of more than 30,000 old, weak, sick and disabled and part of the burden of the Sichuan army, looking at the 30,000 quintals of white rice in exchange, Zhang Xianzhong was complacent, and said with a smile: "Everyone, everyone says that Yang Lin is a young hero, but I think it's just a straw bag."

Now that there is such a shortage of food in various places, Yang Lin is so good that he used 30,000 loads of precious grain to exchange for the more than 30,000 old, weak, sick and disabled and the soldiers and horses of the four (Sichuan) guards. ”

In order to solve the food problem, Wang Zhaolin suggested that the Great Western Army slaughter these Sichuan people in exchange for rations.

The four-legged toad is difficult to find, the two-legged man is still easy to find, and the army can send soldiers and horses to the surrounding towns and villages to recruit the people.

After a good meal, everyone seemed to regain the momentum of the day, and they all seemed to be in high spirits.

Zhang Xianzhong was also quite happy in his heart, and looked at everyone: "Everyone, let's talk about what our army should do next, is it to take the opportunity to capture Shunqing City, or continue to go north to enter Langzhong City to fight against the Tartars?" ”

Everyone was shocked, and the right prime minister Yan Xi couldn't even shout: "Emperor, in CD City), His Majesty has not been able to wipe it out with more than 100,000 people, and now the volunteers have returned to Shunqing Mansion City, and all departments have expanded, and now send a large army to attack, I am afraid it will be difficult to work."

Now Yang Lin has sent a number of troops and horses to lurk in the people's cottages, launching a surprise attack when we pass by, and defeating our army many times.

Emperor, yesterday, after the headquarters of the general Zhengdong ran over the road for 2 miles, bells and drums sounded loudly all around, and the sound of trumpets shook the sky.

Emperor, Yang Lin has already prepared, let's not provoke him. ”

Zhang Xianzhong laughed and said: "Since Yang Lin is willing to spend 30,000 loads of grain in exchange for these useless old, weak, sick and disabled people and four (Sichuan) people, it seems that he has a lot of food, and my old Zhang is short of food, who will he fight if he doesn't beat him?" ”

Zuo Prime Minister Wang Zhaolin also persuaded bitterly: "Emperor, now we are surrounded by enemies on all sides, only this Yang Lin is still friendly to us, we don't want to have any more disputes, so the Ming army from all walks of life is pressed on all fronts, and it is so difficult to do it." ”

Seeing everyone's opposition, Zhang Xianzhong also dispelled the idea of attacking Shunqing City, decided to stay for two more days, and then led the army north back to Shaanxi.

Not long after he had just fallen asleep, he went to the Malay newspaper in the middle of the night, claiming that the Qing army had entered the customs and was now rushing to Phoenix Mountain.

Zhang Xianzhong shook his head again and again, the Qing army was thousands of miles away, the Ming army general Liu Jinzhong was stationed at Baizhang Pass, Zhao Ronggui and other generals were stationed in Langzhong and southern places, the Qing army was 108,000 miles away, and it was the despicable villain who was spreading rumors to disturb the army's heart.

Thinking of this, Zhang Xianzhong felt trembling all over, after exchanging food, the generals of various ministries had a good impression of the volunteers, and some even sighed that if half of the officials in the world were like Yang Lin, why would everyone come out to be thieves?

Now that more than 30,000 old, weak, sick and troublemakers have just been exchanged, traces of Tartars have been found in the north.

Thinking of this, Zhang Xianzhong gritted his teeth and declared through gritted teeth that these Tartars were just Yang Lin looking for someone to dress up, and he wanted to force himself to leave Gimpo Town as soon as possible in this way.

Zhang Xianzhong loudly reprimanded the scouts for spreading rumors, and in order to show his own shrewdness, he beheaded the scouts who reported the military situation indiscriminately.

On the morning of the 27th, Zhang Xianzhong was having dinner in his big tent of the Chinese army, and when he suddenly heard the conclusive news that the enemy army was approaching in the north, he was quite surprised.

Surprised to surprised, Zhang Xianzhong still ignored everyone's dissuasion and played the style of taking the lead in the past, and took a few generals to the front on war horses to check.

In due course, the fog gradually dissipated, under the leadership of Liu Jinzhong, Ao Bai led the Manqing Yellow Flag Brigade to arrive, across the river and Zhang Xianzhong just looked at each other, Liu Jinzhong saw Zhang Xianzhong from a distance, pointed and shouted: "This person is the Eight Kings, this is the Eight Kings Zhang Xianzhong, the thief." ”

Ao worshiped the great joy, and urgently ordered the good shooters in the army to raise their bows and shoot, and for a while, thousands of arrows were fired, and Zhang Xianzhong and his surrounding soldiers were shot into a hornet's nest.

Wang Shangli, the governor of the Chinese army, Dou Minwang, the commander of the Chinese army, Hu Shougui and others saw Zhang Xianzhong being shot off the horse, and regardless of the oncoming rain of arrows, they rescued Zhang Xianzhong and brought him back to the Chinese army camp.

When he returned to the big tent of the Chinese army, Zhang Xianzhong was already angry, in addition to intermittently issuing "born in Yelingpo and died in Phoenix Mountain", this peasant army leader with mixed reputation and endless disputes after his death left the world.

Just like any historical figure, there are a lot of praises and attacks on Zhang Xianzhong in later generations, which are not very important at this moment, the important thing is that Zhang Xianzhong is dead, and a generation of demons Zhang Xianzhong is dead.

Throughout Zhang Xianzhong's life, due to the great drought in Shaanxi, at the beginning of the army, there is no doubt that he led the villagers to live a way, and in this disaster for many years, he should not starve to death like this.

Later, after creating a famous hall, although he held high the idea of "only killing corrupt officials, not the people", there is no doubt that everywhere he passed, high-ranking officials and huge wealth all suffered from it, and other people were also poisoned by his army in order to protect themselves.

When Li Zicheng entered Beijing, Zhang Xianzhong entered Sichuan again, preparing to establish the so-called Great Western Kingdom based on the four (Sichuan), and then compete with Li Zicheng for the world, in this process, although quite brutal, but still quite moderation, at least in Zhang Xianzhong's own opinion, he is good enough for the people of Sichuan.

All the way to the march, Zhang Xianzhong slaughtered the Ming Dynasty clan, the Ming army generals who did not belong to the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming army officials, such as the Ming Dynasty's Xiang Wang, Chu Wang, Rui Wang, Shu Wang, Governor Long Wenguang, Chen Shiqi .........

For the ordinary people, the captured Ming army, not as in the previous words, such as in Chong (Qing) to cut off their arms, although increased the fear of the Sichuan people, but also undoubtedly provoked some Sichuan people to resist.

After entering the CD), Zhang Xianzhong still established a new regime based on the four (Sichuan) to compete with Li Zicheng, Nanming, and Manqing for the world.

For example, it was announced that 3,000 taxes would be exempted from taxes in Si (Sichuan) in a vain attempt to win the hearts of the people.

For example, Yan Ximing, a native of Mianyang, was appointed as the right prime minister, and Jiang Dingzhen, Gong Wanjing and other officials were appointed as Shangshu, and so on, undoubtedly wanting to use the four (Sichuan) as the basis, and then compete with the Manqing and Southern Ming to compete for the world.

In less than half a year, Zhang Xianzhong not only defeated Li Zicheng's Ma Ke Department in Shu, but also occupied most of the four (Sichuan) (except for Banzhou, which is today's Zunyi, Song Fanwei, which is today's Ganzi, Pengzhou, which is the territory retreated by the protagonist of this article) into the scope of his rule, and the momentum was unparalleled for a while.

However, Zhang Xianzhong, who was born as a small official, did not take into account the problems of people's livelihood, and when he attacked the city, the fourth (Sichuan) governor Long Wenguang ordered Zhao Jiawei to dig up Dujiangyan to destroy the ecology of the CD) plain and aggravate the crisis of his rule. (Li Bing before the construction of the Dujiangyan Water Conservancy Project) Thousands of miles of plains and Zeguo, disasters are repeated. ）

What Zhang Xianzhong did not expect was that Li Zicheng was quickly defeated, Nanming revived, Nanming appointed Wang Yingxiong, a native of Ba County, and Fan Yixing, a native of Shuzhou Prefecture, organized the Ming army in Yunnan-Guizhou to launch a counterattack.

Zhang Xianzhong relied on his bravery, following Liu Bei, Zhuge Liang and others to govern the four (Sichuan) very strictly, which caused the people everywhere to revolt again, just like in history, Yin Chengqi, Qian Yingrui, Feng Youqing led the Ming army and the righteous army to recover the important town of Shunqing Mansion in northern Sichuan, Zeng Ying led the remnants and the righteous army to recover the Chong (Qing) Mansion, and Yang Zhan led the remnants to occupy some prefectures and counties in Jiading Prefecture, which seriously weakened Zhang Xianzhong's rule.

Under the counterattack of the four (Sichuan) gentry, Zhang Xianzhong intensified his efforts and carried out more bloody rule over the Sichuan people, such as killing hundreds of scholars on the grounds of barbarism and spies, and sending men and horses to various places to forcibly collect grain.

Of course, Zhang Xianzhong's killing in Si (Sichuan) was also very heavy, such as in Chong (Qing), cutting off the arms of the surrendered Ming army;

If the people are slaughtered indiscriminately, such as sending troops to loot, as he said: "Only the corrupt officials are killed, not the obedient people, and the people who resist are killed indiscriminately."

In history, if there really existed such a tragic deed as Zhang Xianzhong's slaughter of Sichuan, it was probably in 1646, especially after the defeat of Pengjiangkou and the legitimacy and authority of his rule were challenged.

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At that time, Zhang Xianzhong controlled the territory, Zhang Xianzhong controlled all the territory, Jiading Mansion, Shuzhou Mansion, Long'an Mansion, and Baoning Mansion (there were also Shunqing Mansion and Tongchuan Prefecture in history), and the area under its jurisdiction was only half of Sichuan Province, and the population under its control was only 3/5 of the Sichuan people.

It is that many people who openly slander Zhang Xianzhong admit that the military discipline of the Great Western Army is very strict, and if it is a massacre, it will only be an organized massacre, even if it is really done, but since ancient times, the soldiers have been like bandits, and the people like to hide from the army.

For example, in Kuizhou Prefecture and Chong (Qing) Prefecture, the Ming army had recaptured these territories in one fell swoop before the massacre of the Great Western Army, causing limited casualties.

In other places of Si (Sichuan), such as Song Fan and Dazhou, the Great Western Army never occupied these places, and it is impossible to cause any slaughter.

Xuzhou Mansion and Jiading Mansion were already the frontline positions of the Ming Army and the Great Western Army during the so-called beginning of the massacre, and it was too late to fight, so how could they have the time and energy to slaughter the local people?

From this point of view, in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, the massacre of the Sichuan people by the Great Western Army 1 and 2 became basically credible.

And in this time and space, due to the birth of Yang Lin, the Great Western Army failed to break through the city of Shunqing, which was recaptured by the rebels, and had already captured Tongchuan Prefecture (today's Suining City) before it raised its butcher's knife, approaching CD Mansion and forcing it to stop the possible massacre.

In this era, the number of people who died due to the scourge of exiles in Sichuan was probably only one or two percent, and even so, the number of deaths reached one million, which was extremely tragic.