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When Mei Zhihuan, Li Changgeng, and Yuan Jixian led most of them to Wushan County, they saw piles of headless corpses on the riverside wharf, and the people of Wushan were carrying away the corpses on stretchers with cloth toves around their mouths and noses.

"It's all some old thieves with blood on their hands, and I'll just correct them on the spot." Liu Jun, who was dressed in cotton armor, rushed to greet him, and when he saw Mei Zhihuan and the others looking at the corpses, he explained.

"If you've been captured, why kill them." Yuan Jixian couldn't help but be surprised when he heard that these people were killed captives.

"The captives are also divided into several grades, and those ordinary thieves can naturally give them a chance to repent and mend themselves. But such as the capricious old thieves and giants such as the sweeping king and the ten anti-kings, it is just a disaster to stay. ”

"You also killed the thief and the ten anti-kings?" Yuan Jixian was speechless. I received a report earlier, saying that it was a battle to kill ten anti-kings, and to capture the king of the earth. Unexpectedly, Liu Jun actually killed the captured thief head sweeping king without a sound.

"The students thought it would be better to die the Ten Anti-Kings."

"Shouldn't it be better to escort him to the Jingshi to be beheaded?"

"There are too many captives, and there are many dreams at night, and the dead don't need food." Liu Jun explained a little irresponsibly, in fact, he felt that the Ten Anti Kings were not Zhang Xianzhong, and he directly cut them and saved them repeatedly, in case the Ten Anti Kings showed their loyalty, and the court recruited him again, then wouldn't it be in vain for him.

Yuan Jixian was blocked and speechless, Mei Zhihuan laughed, "Kill it, kill it, they are all bandits who are not sorry to die." But next time, if you can capture Zhang Xianzhong alive, it's best to stay alive. ”

The group stepped on the steps into Wushan County, and on the long steps, there were dark black blood stains that had solidified. Mei Zhihuan looked at it, "Tell me about the specific battle, I heard that you fought very easily?" ”

"Actually, there is nothing to boast about, although we nine-headed birds are a new army. The people of the sweeping king and the ten anti-kings are even more rabble. There are very few old thieves, most of them are ordinary homeless people who have come all the way, lack of armor, lack of weapons, no organization, lack of officers, and these people are still very light on the enemy, they can obviously sneak attack, but they swarm in, and as a result, three rounds of artillery were placed on the head of the city. They just broke down and ran to the river. ”

"And then you expected this situation, laid an ambush by the river in advance, first destroyed their bamboo rows, cut off the retreat of the team, and then surrendered with artillery fire?" Mei Zhihuan nodded as he walked, "I have to say, the bandits are really stupid, but you Liu Jun are also very smart, and this battle is very good." Very level. ”

Li Changgeng also smiled and said, "But to be honest, you guys are indeed a bit of a bully, but a battalion of men and horses carries hundreds of large and small artillery." The bandits must have been unconvinced. ”

The county seat of Wushan is not large, although it lacks strong fortifications, no moats, no urns, and no enemy towers, but on the whole it is still good.

Since the accession of Emperor Chongzhen. Sichuan is not a peaceful corner. Originated from the Lu'an Rebellion more than ten years ago, it originally started in Chongqing in eastern Sichuan, and the war lasted from the first year of the Apocalypse to the tenth year of Chongzhen. It lasted for 17 years, affecting the four provinces of Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan and Guizhou, with more than one million casualties, of which the large-scale fighting also lasted for nine years.

It wasn't until Chongzhen's ten-year rebellion that it was finally pacified.

But in this year, Li Zicheng and other Shaanxi bandits attacked Sichuanzhong from Hanzhong in a big way, capturing 38 cities in Fuxian all the way and besieging Chengdu. The imperial court sent a large number of generals such as Fu Zonglong, Hong Chengchou, Zu Dabi, and Cao Bianjiao to lead 60,000 or 70,000 officers and soldiers into Sichuan, and finally drove Li Zicheng and other bandits out of Sichuan.

However, Li Zicheng and other thieves entered Sichuan from the northwest of Sichuan and have been active in the west of the Jialing River. Wushan, which is located in the northeast of Sichuan, although it was not affected in this time, but in the seventh year of Chongzhen, Zhang Xianzhong once invaded eastern Sichuan, and once occupied Fengjie and other cities, not to mention that during the Lu'an Rebellion, Chongqing Mansion and Kuizhou Mansion were once occupied by rebels.

After all, the Lu'an Rebellion broke out in eastern Sichuan, and countless officers and soldiers fought fiercely, so Wushan City was indeed not as prosperous as in the early years.

As soon as they entered the county, Wang Qiren and others hurriedly came to visit. Mei Zhihuan was relatively polite to this magistrate who was born in the two lists of jinshi at first, but then he heard about the magistrate's display of Liu Jun and others last night, so he immediately lost his good face. It's all about the situation, but there is still a civil official shelf, and the little magistrate dares to shout guerrilla generals.

"Come on, take down the heads of the bandit leaders such as the sweeping king and ask the prime minister to inspect them!" Liu Jun shouted loudly.

Soon, the Nine-Headed Birdman lifted up a number of sacks, as well as a few small wooden boxes. The two most exquisite of them are the heads of the sweeping king and the ten anti-kings.

All the heads were salted with lime and salt, and the sweeping kings and the ten anti-kings were also directly soaked in mercury to maintain the original appearance of the heads.

"Among the two bandit leaders and below, there are a total of 137 leaders and bandits who are in charge of more than 100 people, and there are also 1,258 old thieves who have been killed in battle formations and who have been screened out afterwards, a total of 1,395 level thieves are here, and more than 4,200 prisoners have been captured."

Mei Zhihuan carefully looked at these heads, especially the heads of the two anti-kings.

"Are they identified?"

"Double-check to make sure it's correct!"

Mei Zhihuan nodded with satisfaction, these two bandit leaders are still not famous among the bandits, and they all belong to the bandits who have been repeated several times. Among them, this ten anti-king Yang Youliang, who was previously fumed and placed in Junzhou. When Zhang Xianzhong rebelled again, he followed Wang Guangen, Hui Dengxiang and other five thieves, and swore to the court that he would never rebel again. As a result, it didn't take long for only one of the five thieves Wang Guangen to really insist on not rebelling, and the remaining four thieves, Hui Dengxiang, Yang Youliang, etc., all rebelled again.

"If you have surrendered, why do you want to rebel again? After Liu Guoneng, Ma Jinzhong, Wang Guangen, Li Wanqing and others surrendered, the imperial court treated them well, and now they are all awarded the titles of deputy commander-in-chief, general, guerrilla and so on. There is a safe birthday, but after all, he still missed Qingqing's life. ”

"Some people rebelled in the first place and really had a last resort, but because they couldn't survive anymore, they had no choice. But now, they have a choice, but they still have to take this road of no return, that is, to find their own death. Liu Jun did not have the slightest sympathy for these bandits or anything, and after arriving in this era, he deeply felt that these people were not peasant rebels, nor were they revolutionary troops, maybe some of them were peasants at the bottom of society, but they were not rebels.

The vast majority of the rebels ended up as murderous looters, and in the end, these people were nothing more than a bunch of bandits, destroying everywhere without advice.

How can you expect that a group of people who don't even have a base area, don't do production, and just blindly wander, rob, and kill will be a rebel army.

They can't survive, and there is nothing wrong with the rebellion itself, but what is wrong is that they have no real goal, and after the rebellion, they only know how to plunder, and they have no ambitions. The reason why most of the peasant armies in history ended in failure was because they were short-sighted and had no order.

"Immediately send these two heads to the capital division and dedicate them to the emperor, which should make the emperor happy and excited." Li Changgeng said.

Beijing.

Chongzhen sat in front of the imperial case in the morning and opened the first report, which was bad news.

"The bandits Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai joined forces to break through into Sichuan out of Huguang and Yunyang, and then captured Dachang City in eastern Sichuan. Sichuan deputy general Zhang Zuokai led 5,000 troops to garrison Dachang, but he couldn't fight, and the city fell in half a day and then the whole army was destroyed. ”

Chongzhen felt a burst of breathlessness, anger surged, his hands clenched his fists tightly, and he was so angry that he wanted to beat Zhang Zuokai to death with both fists in front of him. Incompetence, incompetence, or incompetence. 5,000 men and horses guarded a city, but the city was lost without even holding it for half a day, how did this Zhang Zuokai rise to the deputy commander-in-chief.

Then an even greater worry arose in Chongzhen's heart.

He remembered that Yang Sichang had reported before, and he had always said that the thieves would break into Shaanxi, so the heavy troops were all on the border of Hubei and Shaanxi, but now the bandits broke into Sichuan, doesn't this mean that Yang Sichang miscalculated, and now there is no obstacle in front of the bandits. Could it be that in the tenth year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng and other thieves broke into Sichuan, attacked the city and broke the county all the way, and the disaster of besieging Chengdu was about to be repeated?

Two years ago, Li Zicheng and others broke into Sichuan from Hanzhong, and after a year of rampant travel in Sichuan, the imperial court transferred 70,000 or 80,000 horses from all walks of life to finally drive the bandits back to Shaanxi, and then Hong Chengchou, Sun Chuanting, Lu Xiangsheng and others were able to annihilate Li Zicheng and others. But it was precisely because the imperial court transferred too many soldiers and horses to Sichuan and Shaanxi to suppress thieves, which caused the border pass to be empty, so that the Qing army broke into the pass in a big way last year.

We must not allow Zhang Xianzhong, Luo Rucai, and others to wander around again and cause trouble to Sichuan, and as soon as they enter Sichuan, the officers and men will have to re-lay their nets. First, the imperial court did not have so many soldiers to adjust, and secondly, there was not enough money and food for the officials and troops to enter Sichuan to encircle and suppress.

In addition to being angry, Chongzhen also began to be a little disappointed in Yang Sichang.

Closing his eyes, Chongzhen leaned back in his chair tiredly.

Suddenly, he opened his eyes. He suddenly remembered that the prime minister of the six provinces was in Sichuan at the moment, and it should be not far from Dachang City. Mei Zhihuan is in eastern Sichuan, and Li Changgeng, the governor of Yunyang, is also in eastern Sichuan, and they still have the guerrilla generals he has under his command, no, he has promoted Liu Jun to a general a few days ago, and the appointment should be in Liu Jun's hands.

However, Mei Zhihuan and Li Changgeng and Liu Jun and their Huguang soldiers can stop Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai?

Chongzhen now did not dare to hope that Mei Zhihuan would be able to defeat the Zhang thief, his only hope was that his new prime minister would be more reliable than his supervisor, and would be able to stop the bandits and curb their footsteps into Sichuan, so as to give Zuo Liangyu, Chen Hongfan, Zheng Chongjian and other troops who were wrongly placed on the Hubei and Shaanxi lines by Yang Sichang to pursue them.

At this time, he could only count on the Chu army.

That Liu Jun once broke 3,000 thieves with 600, this time, can he turn the tide and save the current crisis?

PS: Today I suddenly saw a lot of familiar names on the fan list, only to find out that there are many readers who are readers of the previous book, even on the previous book, and some are even readers who began to support Muzi when he first started the first book, I didn't expect that there are so many friends who have supported it from the first book to now, a few years, this is Muzi's sixth book, everyone is still there, Muzi is really surprised, and I am also very moved, thank you for your support, thank you! (To be continued......)