In fact, before besieging Chengdu, Zhao Weiji had already thought that he could take Chengdu bloodlessly by persuading him to surrender, because through the information provided by the Guo family, it can be seen that before the expedition, Zhao Weiji's prophecy had begun to come true gradually.

That was when the corruption of the Dashu regime began.

From the beginning of its establishment, the Dashu regime has been hiding the seeds of corruption, because this is the nature of human beings, suddenly from poverty to rich, from low to noble, this transformation is the same as from thrift to luxury, if you go in, you can't get out.

When the day the Great Shu regime was established, Shu families or landlords like the Guo family began to do everything possible to corrupt these mud legs. Because they have won the banner of equal wealth and poverty, and from wherever they are, it is naturally from the hands of these people who have wealth.

Of course, fighting the landlord is what everyone loves to do, but the premise is that you are not a landlord, if you become a landlord, do you still want to fight the landlord? Naturally, I don't want to share the wealth I have with others.

Therefore, these original landlords came up with the idea that the people in power of the rebel army would also become landlords, and everyone would be in the same boat, and you would not sink the boat again.

In this way, the corruption work began step by step, and in a place that Li Shun, the king of Shu, did not notice, the officials under his command suddenly owned a large amount of land, and the mansions of the officials in Shu that they occupied suddenly added a lot of facilities.

Suddenly they themselves began to distinguish themselves from ordinary soldiers, and suddenly there was inequality in a regime that was supposed to have equal access to the same wealth.

And all this, Li Shun didn't know, or he didn't dare to know, because he had no way, all the officials of the Dashu regime, including him Li Shun, were grasshoppers on a rope, and no one could do without anyone until they achieved complete success.

This sentence is applicable anywhere in China and in any era. When unevenness starts to arise, then trouble ensues.

In this way, the dissatisfaction of the rebel army grew day by day, although Li Shun had rewarded all the soldiers many times, but everyone knew who took more and who took less.

It's just that these things that are taken too much are not excessive, so the resentment has not broken out until the appearance of the official army led by Zhao Weiji. When the official army appeared, they took many cities like a bamboo, so that the confidence of the entire rebel army began to waver.

At this time, the high-level of the Dashu regime did not come out with the same weal and woe as they did during the uprising, but began to continuously transfer their property to Yuzhou.

Because these high-level officials all know that Yuzhou has a number of warships built by Dashu with the financial resources of the "whole country", these warships can help them go east out of Shu and go to some places where the garrison of the Great Song Dynasty is weak.

But in this way, those ordinary soldiers are abandoned, so since you are unkind, then don't blame me for being unjust.

Every time Zhao Weiji conquered a state and county, he only took the bandit leader, and didn't ask the rest. The army was stationed outside the city, and there was no harassment of any of the people.

In addition, Zhao Weiji personally invited these people to ask how the original officials oppressed the people. The whole posture of the return of the king's master. This reputation also spread to the rebel states and counties that had not yet been conquered.

Comparing the two, you can make a choice, anyway, it's not good, now it seems that there has been a good improvement on the side of the official army, since this is the case, it is better to surrender the official army, and you can leave nothing to ask.

So when Zhao Weiji began to surrender in Chengdu, some people on the side were ready to move, and when they learned all of Zhao Weiji's conditions, the group of people who were about to move attacked the main general Qian Bin, tied him up and surrendered.

"No problem, everything I just said is counted, as long as you surrender, everything is negotiable." Seeing that the soldiers in the city had tied up the main general, Zhao Weiji would definitely fulfill his previous promise.

"We don't have high requirements, as long as we let go of ordinary soldiers, as for the high-ranking officials, there is only this one, you can take it." I have to say that the words of the rebel soldiers completely reflect the simplicity of the peasant background, which is indeed not a high requirement.

"Yes, as long as you lay down your weapons and register at the designated place, and then hand this person over to us, then you can go home."

In this way, the officers and troops successfully took over the defense of Chengdu, and Chengdu was recovered in this way.

After recovering Chengdu, Zhao Weiji learned from Qian Bin that Li Shun had run to Yuzhou and was ready to use his remaining troops to attack Jingzhou with warships.

"This Li Shun is too naïve, he really thinks that he can run rampant on the Yangtze River with the warships he has surged out in so many months?" When Zhao Weiji heard Li Shun's movements, he couldn't help laughing.

He was not worried about Li Shun's warship at all, because when Zhao Weiji led his troops to leave Bianjing for Hanzhong, he had already advised Zhao Guangyi that in order to prevent Li Shundong from leaving Wuxia, Jingzhou should also be guarded by naval forces.

Therefore, Jingzhou was fully prepared to deal with the rebels' eastward outing.

And Li Shun didn't understand one thing, that is, it is easy to build ships, but it is difficult to train sailors. The lack of a reliable navy was a fatal weakness of the rebels.

What's more, today's Great Song Navy also has a new type of weapon, a new type of clap stick. Don't think that Zhao Weiji has been unscrupulously building large sea ships for so long, and Zhao Guangyi doesn't know. The reason why Zhao Guangyi dared to let Zhao Weiji build large sea ships, in addition to his lack of attention to the sea frontier, was the transformation of the weapons of inland river warships provided by Zhao Weiji.

This new, more powerful lever is one of them. In the past two years, the engineering department of Tsinghua Academy has developed many new types of gadgets, many of which have been put into practical application, and this clapper is one of them.

This new type of lever is twice as powerful as the traditional one, and can be sunk in two hits if the enemy ship is a little weaker.

But Li Shun, who had been locked up in Shu, didn't know that such a terrifying thing was waiting for them in Jingzhou. After arriving in Yuzhou, the matter of sailing was immediately put first by Li Shun and his subordinates.

Coupled with the "preparations" made in advance by many of Li Shun's subordinates, the sailing of the warship was completed without taking too much time.

"Do you think this trip to Jingzhou will go smoothly?" For Li Shun, who has never fought a naval battle, he is still a little apprehensive about sailing at this moment.

"King, this trip to Jingzhou must be smooth, we are down the river, we have the advantage of geographical advantages, besides, the minister has inquired, Jingzhou has not had many naval armies to defend for a long time, so we may be able to successfully take Jingzhou."

I don't know where this official of Dashu heard this outdated news, before the outbreak of the war, Jingzhou did not have too many naval armies, but that was almost a year ago, at this time there were no less than ten giant ships in Jingzhou. It couldn't have been too easy to deal with five "small boats" in the rebel military district.

Li Bai had a poem about thousands of miles of Jiangling in one day, and the speed of going down the Yangtze River was very fast, and within three days, the rebel warships had already entered the boundary of Jingzhou.

"Oh no, Oh no, there is a trace of a large ship ahead, it may be a ship of the official army." Just when Li Shun thought everything was going well, a soldier suddenly came to report that an enemy ship appeared in front of him.

Since the rebel followers did not have such a telescope, when the enemy ships were discovered, the ships of the officers and soldiers were already very close, and Li Shun, who lacked experience in water warfare, was not given time to reflect at all.

The first warship of the rebels had already collided with the warships of the official army, because the rebel warships were much smaller than the warships of the official army, and the slapsticks on the warships of the officers and soldiers were fired together, the warships of the rebels did not make any resistance at all, and they were directly sunk.

The scene in front of him directly scared Li Shun out of his mind, he never thought that the water battle would be fought like this.

"U-turn, U-turn, we can't defeat the officers and soldiers, retreat quickly."

There was another loud bang, and just as Li Shun turned his boat around and fled, a rebel ship was sunk.

"Quick, quick, go." Li Shun didn't want to stay here for a moment at this moment, how to quickly escape from the Ascension Genius was his urgent need. But when they came, they were going down the river, of course, and when they wanted to turn around, they were going upstream, how could they get up fast.

"King, it's against the current now, and the wind is not in the right direction, so you can't go fast." The soldier in charge of the helm could only tell Li Shun with a sad face.

"Illegal fast, then we will abandon the ship, find a shore where we can dock, we will all get off the boat and evacuate on foot."

Li Shun thought that he could escape from the pursuit of the official and military giant ships by abandoning the ship, but he did not expect that once he abandoned the ship, he would have nothing, and if he evacuated from the land, he might be arrested by the officials and soldiers at any time.

But at this time, Li Shun couldn't think about it so much, because the fear brought to him by the official warship outweighed everything, as long as he could escape from the hands of this monster, he could do anything.

So all the men who accompanied the ship abandoned the ship, found a shoal, and abandoned the ship.

After going ashore, Li Shun, who thought he had escaped, did not expect that there were already a large number of officers and soldiers waiting for him here.

"Sure enough, as Zhongtang expected, Li Shun will definitely abandon the ship and go ashore."

"General Xue praised it falsely, Zheng is just considering human nature, in the face of a behemoth like the Great Song Dynasty, people will make the same choice as Li Shun."

"But I still have to say that King Wu Yue's subordinates are capable of many people, if it weren't for your arrival, this general might not be able to capture the leader of the bandits. General Ben is grateful for your lord's kindness. ”

It turned out that Zhao Weiji, just in case, specially sent Tie Zheng to Jingzhou to assist Xue Yuyang, the general of the Jingzhou Navy Army, in order to ensure that he would be able to catch Li Shun quickly.

"Let's go, let's go meet this bandit."