readx; In the winter of the sixth year of the Apocalypse, Gao Yingxiang, the "King of Chuang", led a large army to attack Tongguan, and was ambushed by Sun Chuanting, the governor of Shaanxi, in the south of the country, more than 30,000 elite cavalry were defeated in one fell swoop, and he himself was seriously injured after being killed by his subordinates Zhang Er and Huanglong, and the head was dedicated to Sun Chuanting. Although the history of pen & fun & pavilion www.biquge.info is not the same as the history of the previous life, the ending of this troubled hero is the same way.

After Zhu Youzhen heard the news, it was a mixed blessing. Happily, I didn't expect the rebels on the Western Route to be dealt a devastating blow so quickly. As soon as Gao Yingxiang died, the remaining thieves were leaderless, and there would inevitably be chaos, and the threat in the Guanzhong region would naturally be lifted, and it was only a matter of time before the Hanzhong region was recovered. After the elimination of the rebels on the Western Road, the officers and troops of Shaanxi could enter the Central Plains to fight, which was also extremely beneficial to the overall situation of counterinsurgency.

What made him even more excited was that this great victory of the officers and troops was completely based on the use of advanced firearms. Coupled with the favorable terrain, Gao Yingxiang's more than 30,000 cavalry were beaten to the point that they were powerless, and the casualties of the officers and soldiers were negligible. This example shows that his thinking on army reform is completely correct; Dealing with thieves and rebels is just an appetizer, and the next step is the turn of the Tartars to feast on cannons!

The worry is that Gao Yingxiang was killed, not captured. If it is another leader of the thieves, he will die; But Gao Yingxiang is different, he is the nominal "big leader" of thieves from all walks of life, and he has a strong appeal. If you can capture Gao Yingxiang alive, you can use him as an example to persuade other thieves. Although Zhu Youzhen didn't expect the other thieves to really surrender, as long as they could be stabilized temporarily, the imperial court would be able to concentrate its forces against Zhu Changxun and his son, and the people everywhere would be less harmed.

Now Gao Yingxiang is dead, and he was killed by a "traitor" and sold a reward to the court. After Li Zicheng and other thieves learned the news, they would definitely settle the accounts on the imperial court and intensify their chaos to avenge Gao Yingxiang. As a result, Zhu Youzhen also had to make some emergency arrangements.

First of all, it is necessary to completely recover Hanzhong as quickly as possible and solve the remnants of Gao Yingxiang. Now that Li Dingguo has recovered Shangzhou, Zhu Youzhen ordered him to make persistent efforts to recover Fuxing Anzhou as soon as possible.

Xing'an Prefecture is the Ankang region in the previous life, where mountains and barriers cut off the connection between Hanzhong and Hubei. According to Zhang Er and Huang Long, Gao Yingxiang's subordinate Gu Junen wanted to drag these people to Xiangyang to join the White Lotus Sect. So as long as Xing'an Prefecture is stuck, it is obviously very difficult for so many people to go over the mountains and mountains to Hubei, and even if they can pass part of it, it will inevitably take time, and the war situation in the Central Plains has already changed greatly at that time.

In addition, in order to prevent thieves from entering Sichuan, Zhu Youzhen had already made arrangements. As soon as the rebellion broke out, he used a flying pigeon to urgently summon Qin Liangyu to return to Sichuan, and united with local Tusi to guard the choke point between Sichuan and Shaanxi. Especially in the Sword Pavilion, Zhu Youzhen asked Qin Liangyu to lead the white pole soldiers to garrison it in person. The terrain of the Sword Pavilion is very dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, as long as the Sword Pavilion is blocked, the thieves in Hanzhong will not be able to enter the Sichuan.

You can't go east and south, and in the north is Sun Chuanting's official army, and the thieves don't dare to go, so you can only go west. To the west of Hanzhong is Gansu, and to the west is Qinghai, both of which are sparsely populated barren land. If the thieves go there, it will be tantamount to embarking on a dead end, and Zhu Youzhen will not have to care about them in the short term.

But even so, Zhu Youzhen is still not at ease with Sichuan. As a traverser, he naturally knows that Sichuan is too important. On the one hand, it is the real hinterland of China, with a unique geographical location. For example, the Japanese invaded China and occupied most of the eastern part of the motherland, and China was on the verge of extinction; However, Sichuan remained unmoved, kept the vitality of the country, donated a large number of troops and materials, and made great contributions to winning the final victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan.

On the other hand, Sichuan is also the center of the southwest region. In this era, the imperial court's control over the southwestern border region was very weak, and there were a large number of Tusi in the Yunnan-Guizhou area, and they rebelled from time to time, seriously threatening the security of the country, such as the Yongning and Shuixi Tusi Rebellions that had just been quelled. In addition, there is the Tibet issue, and as long as he can spare a little energy, Zhu Youzhen naturally wants to bring the situation in Tibet under control as soon as possible. Therefore, Sichuan is the forefront of the imperial court's efforts in the southwest, and there is absolutely no room for failure.

Moreover, Zhu Youzhen also knew that in history, Zhang Xianzhong's "Great Western Army" and the Qing army entered Shu one after another, burning, killing and looting everywhere, killing and looting a good Sichuan, and the population plummeted, so that later it had to "fill Sichuan in Huguang". This also confirms from the negative side that Sichuan must not have the slightest mistake.

Therefore, after careful consideration, Zhu Youzhen used the flying pigeon to pass the book to Chengji, who was in Zigui, and made a will. Since Xiangyang escaped, Cheng Jiming and Dou Mingwang led five hundred cavalry to retreat all the way to Yiling, and the rebels also followed all the way. Due to the small number of troops, Dou Mingwang could not fight the rebels at all, and he was afraid that the rebels would seize the Xiajiang Road, so he had to retreat to Sichuan and burn the plank road. In this way, it is naturally difficult for the rebels to enter Shu, but it will be more difficult for the people to enter and exit Sichuan in the future.

This holy decree made Cheng Ji temporarily serve as the governor of Sichuan and Yunnan and Guizhou, and ruled the military and political power in the southwest. The reason why Zhu Youzhen did this was because Cheng Ji was highly respected and was the leader of the Donglin Party, and he was responsible for coordinating the affairs of various places in the southwest, especially the mobilization of the officers and troops of the guard station and the supervision of food and salary, and he might encounter less resistance.

After all, Sichuan is "far away from the emperor", and now it is not like a few months ago, Li Dingguo and Li Laiheng led troops to quell the rebellion, which is equivalent to saving the lives of local officials and gentry, so these people are generally quite supportive. Now if these people are to be "bloodletted", they will definitely be like the former Shu King Zhu Zhishu, doing everything possible to prevaricate and blame. And let Cheng Jiming come forward, the Donglin Party originally represented the interests of the gentry, and these people had to sell him some face.

Of course, this is only an expedient measure, and after the rebellion is quelled, Zhu Youzhen will definitely carry out reforms in the local military and political administration, including Sichuan, and now it can only be regarded as an advance layout. Although Cheng Jiming is a good person, the contradiction between the Donglin Party and the emperor cannot be resolved, Zhu Youzhen will definitely not let him enter the cabinet, even this "Governor of Sichuan Yungui" is temporary, and the official appointment still needs to be pushed by the court. When it came time for Tingtui, if Zhu Youzhen didn't want Cheng Ji to do it, there was a way.

Shaanxi, Hanzhong, and Sichuan are deployed in much the same way. Zhu Youzhen had already given Sun Chuanting a strict order, asking him to immediately lead his troops out of Tongguan to join him after recovering Hanzhong. The main force of the rebels is Hong Chengchou's "Hong Bing", as long as Hong Chengchou is completely defeated, the "Thirteen Families" such as Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong on the East Road will also become thieves again, and the end of Zhu Changxun's father and son will not be far away.

Coincidentally, at the same time that Zhu Youzhen issued this series of deployments, Hong Chengchou, who had been defending Zhengzhou for many days, was finally broken by the official army!