Almost at the same time that Zhang Xianzhong entered Sichuan, Liu Jun, Mei Zhihuan, and Li Changgeng led nearly 20,000 horses and horses to take river boats out of Huguang and into eastern Sichuan. When Zhang Xianzhong successfully captured Dachang City, the fleet carrying Huguang soldiers and horses was slowly sailing into Kuimen.

"It's time to get there!" On the bow of the ship, the captain shouted.

Liu Jun walked out of the cabin and stood at the bow of the boat to look ahead.

"The water will be ten thousand, and Qutang will fight for one door. The word contest used by Du Zimei really draws the great water potential of Kuimen. Mei Zhihuan also walked out of the cabin and looked at the door in the distance.

Kuimen, also known as Qutang Pass, is sandwiched between the high mountains and the Lingjiang River on both sides of the river, and is the gate for the Yangtze River to enter Sichuan. The width of the river here is only more than 100 meters, the surging river is tightly bound like a ravine, the boiling Yangtze River water rushes out from the Three Gorges, and the water potential is turbulent like a galloping horse.

Liu Jun, whether in his previous life or in this life, came to Kuimen for the first time, but he was very familiar with the scene in front of him. After thinking about it for a while, he remembered that the background picture of the ten yuan of the fifth set of RMB was not exactly the scene of Kuimen in front of him?

The high mountains on both sides of Kuimen, the south is called Baiyan Mountain, and the north is called Chijia Mountain, rising from the ground and towering into the clouds; On both sides of the river, the walls are like cutting, just like the gates made in heaven.

Kuimen is like a natural pass, out of Kuimen, the Yangtze River enters the territory of Huguang, known as Jingjiang. And through this Kuimen, is the scenery of the infinite and precipitous Three Gorges, in Sichuan this section of the Yangtze River is also called the Sichuan River. Kuimen is a natural dividing line.

The river boat carrying Liu Jun and them ran exclusively on the Jingjiang River, and when they arrived at Kuimen, they reached the end of the voyage.

Liu Jun and the others will also disembark in Fengjie and set foot on the battlefield of suppressing bandits.

As soon as the fleet approached the dock on the shore of Fengjie, Liu Jun received bad news. When Liu Jun set off with a large army, he had already arranged for Feng Sheng to take the night team to take the fast boat first.

"Zhang Xianzhong has already entered Sichuan." Feng Sheng set off earlier than Liu Jun, so he had entered Sichuan three days earlier.

Liu Jun smiled and said, "This is good news, the Prime Minister expects the enemy to be like a god." I have long figured out the movements of the bandits. But he saw that Feng Sheng didn't look happy at all, but his face was full of worry.

"What's wrong?"

Feng Sheng sighed and said, "It's bad news, the thief has not only entered Sichuan, but also taken Dachang City. Dachang's general Zhang Zuokai, the deputy commander-in-chief of Sichuan, was wiped out, and only more than ten families escaped by chance. ”

"When was that?" Liu Jun's face also became solemn, this is by no means good news. Zhang Zuokai's 5,000 men guarded Dachang City, and he didn't expect him to defeat Zhang Xianzhong, but he was also defeated too quickly.

"The thief took Dachang City in one fell swoop the night before yesterday by using the fine work that infiltrated the city. Now the thief is still in Dachang, interrogating and plundering money everywhere, and also erecting a recruitment flag, recruiting troops and buying horses, as long as the person who serves, he will be given five taels of silver per person, and there are countless people who want to join the thief. Feng Shengyu reported.

Liu Jun reported the bad news to Mei Zhihuan and Li Changgeng with a heavy heart.

When Mei Zhihuan heard the news, his beard shook angrily. Zhang Zuokai's defeat and loss of the city made Liu Jun and them very passive.

"What do we do now?" Liu Jun asked. It turned out that their plan was to rush to Kuizhou by boat. Zhang Xianzhong was one step ahead of Zhang Xianzhong to enter Dachang City and block the thieves' way into Sichuan. But now, Zhang Xianzhong is one step ahead of them. The thief army not only entered Sichuan, but also defeated Zhang Zuokai and captured Dachang City. They took a lot of money and food, and they also had a city.

After all, the Nine-headed Bird is just a new army, and Liu Jun doesn't want to fight a siege battle.

"Why don't we settle in Fengjie and rely on the city to stop the enemy?"

Mei Zhihuan clenched his fists and said. "It's useless for us to keep the festival, at most we can block a road, but the thieves can not go to our side at all. He could have gone west to Taiping County, and then he could continue west into Baoning Mansion, and then enter western Sichuan from Jianmen, or he could go directly south from Taiping to Xiazhou, bypassing us and entering Shunqing and Chongqing. ”

In a word, just by observing the festival, you can't stop the bandits. Although Fengjie guards Kuimen, it is for entering Shu through the Yangtze River. Zhang Xianzhong They came from the mountainous area in the north, and if they stayed in Fengjie, it would have little effect on the thief army.

"We should immediately march to Dachang and exterminate the bandits." Mei Zhihuan said.

Liu Jun was a little hesitant and even a little disapproving. Although they have six battalions, most of them are recruits and civilians, and compared with the thieves, they do not have much advantage in terms of number or combat effectiveness. Moreover, Dachang City is more than a hundred miles away from Fengjie, and when they rush over, maybe the thieves have already left.

The most important thing is that Liu Jun doesn't want to fight that kind of battle that is too risky, has the idea of preserving his strength, and is unwilling to take risks with the nine-headed bird that he has built up with great difficulty.

Mei Zhihuan set up a temporary line in the White Emperor City next to Kuimen, and the news that the thieves captured Dachang was kept strictly secret and did not tell the soldiers.

Nearly 20,000 men and thousands of mules and horses, as well as a large number of wagons of grain, grass, milk and artillery, etc., took at least a day to complete the landing.

After a few days on the boat, they finally came ashore, and the soldiers were very excited.

The dock was bustling, and people were neighing on their backs.

The local traders on the wharf first saw many river boats coming, and they thought it was a big caravan, so they rushed to watch, and even many small traders came to prepare for business. As a result, as soon as the ship docked, he saw that a large army was arriving by boat, and ran back in fright.

But when the soldiers on the first boat came ashore, they were amazed again. The first to go ashore was Liu Jun's Nine-Headed Bird Battalion Battalion Battalion, which was also Mei Zhihuan's standard middle battalion.

The first to get off the boat was a tall nine-headed bird flag holding Liu Jun's battalion flag, a nine-headed bird flag flying on the high flagpole, then Liu Jun's battalion general recognized the flag, and then the front thousand general flags, followed by thousands of general flags, division flags, general recognition flags and other flags.

When each flag was disembarked, there were drums and trumpets on board.

The people and traders who were in Fengjie were a little shocked when they saw this scene, and there was also a Qutang guard in Kuimen, but the guards of the Qutang Guard, who numbered more than 5,000 people, were the same as the other guards of the Ming Dynasty, and they were all like a group of people, how could they have the slightest bit of majestic momentum.

And now the army that has disembarked from the ship, not to mention that the flag is like the sea, but only the clothes of those soldiers, and the copper bubble nails on the fitting cotton armor are yellow and shining. The bright helmets on their heads were shining. Not to mention that these people were all wearing boots, and the knives, guns, bows and arrows in their hands were also quite neat, especially as soon as they got off the boat, they immediately began to form a whole team, and quickly lined up in that neat square array, and the hearts of the people watching were beating violently.

Not far from the wharf is the station of Qu Tangwei, which originally belonged to the Qutang Shouyu Thousand Households of the Sichuan Command Division, and was later promoted to Qu Tangwei, which was reclassified as the Huguang Command Division, and then assigned to the Huguang Xingdu Division. Responsible for guarding Qutang Pass, Kuimen, with a military quota of 5,500 people.

Early in the morning, Qu Tangwei's palm print commanded Yang Ling to have breakfast, but he saw a family member running over in a panic.

"My lord, there is a large fleet of ships coming from the river downstream, all of which are large river boats, and there are two or three hundred of them."

"What's the panic, isn't it a good thing that a big fleet is coming, go and call all the family teams. By the way, I will call some military households to gather. When Yang Ling heard that the big fleet was coming, his first reaction was that there was extra money to enter. When the caravan arrives at his territory, he must not pay him any filial piety. Although it is true that a large fleet of hundreds of large ships is rare, it must also have a great background. But no matter how good he is, he has to give him some benefits.

With such a large fleet, it is also pleasing to miss a little casually.

"Your Excellency. The fleet was full of soldiers, all soldiers, with guns and cannons on their backs. ”

"Bing?" Yang Ling was stunned for a moment. The smile on his face was gone, replaced by a look of horror. He thought about it carefully, he didn't hear that there was a large army coming recently, could it be that he was a bandit. I heard that the eight kings have rebelled in Huguang recently, could it be that Zhang Xianzhong came by boat to kill?

As soon as he thought of this, his face became more and more ugly.

"Ring the bell and gather all the households, and gather the families together. Also, close the gates. ”

Qu Tangwei immediately jumped with chickens and dogs.

The landing of the army also quickly alarmed the officials of Kuizhou Prefecture and county in Fengjie City, and many big families in the city also sent their families to investigate. Soon, they finally saw the flag of Mei Zhihuan and others, and hurriedly ran back to report.

"Here is the new Prime Minister of the Six Provinces to suppress bandits, Lord Mei Zhihuan, in addition to the new Yunyang Governor Li Changgeng, the two adults brought at least one or two thousand soldiers and horses, strong soldiers and horses, extremely neat and strong."

The prefect of Kuizhou and a group of colleagues and squires knew that the imperial court had changed the blood of the officials who suppressed the bandits, and through the imperial court's Ming issued a newspaper, they also knew that the new prime minister Mei Zhihuan had served as the governor of Gansu, and the new governor of Yunyang had served as the secretary of the ministry, and these two adults were from Huguang.

"I didn't expect the two officials to come in person, and all my colleagues and fellow villagers will go with the officials to greet them." The prefect didn't expect the two big Buddhas to descend suddenly, and he was surprised and hurriedly beckoned people to greet him.

Don't say that Mei Zhihuan is the prime minister of the six provinces, let's just say Li Changgeng, who is also their top boss. Although Fengjie belongs to Sichuan, it is usually under the jurisdiction of the governor of Sichuan, but Fengjie is also under the jurisdiction of the governor of Yunyang.

In a hurry, a lot of wine and pigs and sheep were gathered, and the prefect rushed to the dock with people. As soon as I approached the wharf, I saw that dozens of phalanxes had been set up in the open space of the wharf by the river, and it was estimated that there were thousands of people. What shocked them the most was that those soldiers were neatly armored, lined up, banners like the sea, swords and guns like a forest, these soldiers stood there in a neat row, not moving, not talking nonsense, full of solemn atmosphere, and it made people's legs weak when they saw it.

"Ouch, is this a heavenly soldier descending from the sky? How can it be like this" A fat Fengjie rich merchant looked at the army, sat on the ground with a frightened buttocks, his face was pale, and he couldn't get up for a long time, and his mouth called the heavenly soldiers and generals.

Although the Nine-Headed Bird is indeed only a new army, the Nine-headed Bird is complete, wearing brand new armor and trumpet, holding the sophisticated weapons, and those ordinary officials and ordinary people who don't know about military affairs are indeed shocked.

In the White Emperor City on the north bank, Liu Junzheng and Mei Zhihuan and others discussed whether to fight or defend. (To be continued......)

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