Capital.

Chongzhen has been in a good mood these days, and he specially asked the Ministry of Industry to make a large sand table and place it in the palace. The sand table is very finely made, and the mountains, rivers, cities, passes, etc. are all drawn in detail. This is a sand table at the intersection of Sichuan, Shaanxi and Hubei provinces, and it is also the place where the official army and the bandits are fighting at the moment.

"Mei Zhihuan and the defense on the front line of Wushan and Fengjie have defeated thieves three times in a row, annihilated more than 10,000 enemies, and set up a solid defense line on the north bank of the great river in eastern Sichuan." Chongzhen held a golden scepter in his hand and pointed excitedly on the sand table, "And Yang Sichang has led all the armies to enter Sichuan, and the latest news is reported, Yang Sichang will be able to recover Dachang and Daning immediately." ”

Wang Chengen stood beside Chongzhen, holding several small flags of various colors in his hand, and every time Chongzhen pointed to a place, he planted a flag.

At this time, on the sand table, in the narrow area of eastern Sichuan, many flags have been planted. On behalf of Mei Zhihuan's department is a small red flag, which is inserted in the north bank of the Sichuan East River Wushan, Fengjie, Baidi City and other lines, while on behalf of Yang Sichang's department is a small blue flag, which is inserted on the border of Sichuan, Hubei and Shaanxi, and the small black flag representing the bandits is trapped in the red and blue flags and is completely surrounded.

In addition to all kinds of flags, there are many generals embroidered with the surnames of generals, Liu Jun's Liu Zi Flag, Qin Liangyu's Qin Zi Flag, Zuo Liangyu's Zuo Zi Flag, He Renlong's He Zi Flag, Chen Hongfan's Chen Zi Flag, etc., under each general flag, not one by one made of Wei Miao to Xiao clay puppet officers and soldiers, representing the officers and soldiers led by various generals.

Judging from this sand table, no matter how you look at it, this time the bandits are unable to fly.

"Three days at most, after the third day, the fourteen battalions of bandits such as the sacrifice thief and the Cao thief will be wiped out, and the Central Plains will be pacified!" Chongzhen laughed. If the three major bandits are pacified, if these two groups are pacified this time, then there will be only the fifth battalion of the left of Nage in the Yinghuo Mountains of Huaixi. At that time, the officials and troops will be able to take advantage of the situation to destroy them in one fell swoop, and the Central Plains will be stable from then on. The imperial court can go all out to deal with the Jianyu outside the Guan, and he can rejuvenate the Ming Dynasty again.

"Send someone to Sichuan again to announce the decree, capture and behead Zhang Xianzhong, the official will be promoted to the third level and the marquis will be rewarded with 10,000 taels of silver, and the person who captures Luo Rucai will be rewarded with 5,000 taels of silver and awarded to hereditary 1000 households, and the first reward of thieves in each camp will be 3,000 taels of silver and 100 hereditary households!"

Sichuan, Dachang.

Yang Sichang was waiting for Chen Hongfan to take Shang Fang's sword to chase He Renlong, Li Guoqi and other Qin troops back, the night was already deep, but there was still no news to come back.

"When He Renlong comes back, he will ask Shang Fangjian to cut off the head of this fang!" Yang Sichang thought hatefully, originally the various ministries had almost arrived in Fengjie now. But now that he was being made by He Renlong like this, he had to stop at the foot of Dachang City. In case Luo Rucai broke through Mei Zhihuan's interception, then this matter would be in big trouble.

He Renlong and Li Guoqi both served as the chief military officers of Zhengyin, and they were later demoted due to the inability to command their subordinates. Under these two people, there are many bandits who surrendered to surrender to generals, and it is not unusual for them to mutiny at this time, Yang Sichang only blames himself for not taking precautions.

Outside Dachang City, Luo Rucai rushed to the city with more than 3,000 elite brothers from his six battalions.

"Who?"

"We are under the command of General He."

A bandit shouted loudly, and the sentry outside the city heard a Shaanxi accent. didn't doubt it, just shouted, "Brother, why did you go back again." Didn't you go back to Shaanxi? ”

"The hungry are here to send you back to your hometown!" The bandit rushed forward, drew his sword, and slashed down the sentry.

"Rush over!" Luo Rucai shouted.

More than 3,000 thief cavalry galloped forward and rushed towards Dachang City. Luo Rucai and others had been stationed in Dachang City for many days. So they were quite familiar with the place, and when they left a few days ago, they burned the city. Therefore, Yang Sichang was stationed in the city at this time. But the city collapsed, the city gate had already burned down, and several sections of the city wall were cut out by Cao Cao when they left.

In charge of guarding tonight was the deputy general of the Beijing camp, Diao Mingzhong, who had just been beaten with 40 lashes by Yang Sichang before, and his supervisor was also beheaded, and his subordinates were also punished. Although this army is a Beijing battalion, the military discipline is very indiscriminate, and there is no less plundering of the people along the way.

When Luo Rucai led his troops to kill suddenly, most of the Diao troops were unprepared, and when many people reacted, they did not resist at the first time, but fled.

The bandits quickly broke through the defense and easily rushed into Dachang City.

At this time, there were about 20,000 soldiers and horses in the city, the Yu army and the Qin army were not there, and the rest were the Beijing camp and the Chu army, which were led by Diao Mingzhong, the deputy general of the Beijing camp, and Yang Shien, the deputy general of Huguang, and Luo Wanshou.

Diao Mingzhong, who was still injured on the buttocks, heard that a large number of thieves rode into the city, and immediately took his subordinates to ride horses and flee.

The remaining two Huguang deputy generals, Yang Shien and Luo Wanshou, saw that the Beijing camp was fleeing, and they also fled with their own families, and their escape triggered the rout of the Huguang soldiers.

More than 20,000 soldiers and horses, without resisting, instantly fled as birds and beasts.

Yang Sichang, Zheng Chongjian, Li Shuchu and other governors could only flee with the escort of their own soldiers.

Cao Cao and others, who originally thought that if they wanted to break through Yang Sichang's defense, they would have to fight hard, and they couldn't believe it when they saw this.

"Damn, bullshit Yang Pavilion Department, I don't even have Mei Zhihuan's ability, hahaha, let's go!" Cao Cao and Luo Rucai smiled happily, Yang Sichang's troops were defeated, and the encirclement net of the imperial court was broken again.

"Suddenly open the golden lock and walk away from the dragon, break through the iron cage and escape the tiger and leopard! Now the sky is high and the birds are flying, and the sea is wide and the fish is jumping, brothers, we have escaped again. ”

"Go back to Shaanxi and go back to Guanzhong!"

A group of thieves shouted loudly, did not stop in Dachang for long, roared and rode away, straight to Hanzhong, Shaanxi.

The news of Yang Sichang's defeat in Dachang, Cao Cao, Luo Rucai, and others escaping was transmitted to Liu Jun and others in the morning, and the news was personally sent by Li Shuchu, the governor of Henan, who was separated from Dachang City and Yang Sichang and others under the escort of a small team of soldiers and horses, and then he fled directly to the south, and finally found the Tangjiawan camp of the Huguang army.

"Yang Sichang's department collapsed? Luo Rucai and others stand out from the encirclement? Mei Zhihuan asked in shock.

Li Shuchu was very embarrassed, and when he fled, he even lost his official hat, his hair was scattered, his body was covered with mud, and his red official robe was also hung a few times. Hearing Mei Zhihuan's question, he felt very ashamed. Only then did he know that the bandits were only more than 3,000 horsemen.

Previously, Mei Zhihuan and others had already intercepted Cao Thief and the others here. And repelled the breakthrough attack of the bandits. Cao Thief and others had no hope of breaking through, so they abandoned their large troops in the middle of the night and only broke through to Dachang with only a few thousand elite cavalry.

is also 20,000 horses, and the thieves under Mei Zhihuan's command could not advance an inch, but they collapsed after a surprise attack by the thieves.

"Let's clean up the mess here." Liu Jun was not too surprised by Cao Cao and the others to escape, and he didn't care. He is even less interested in pursuing, the thieves have thousands of cavalry, and those who have run away have disappeared early, so he will chase at this time, and he will not be defeated by an ambush. Isn't that a waste of all your efforts?

Li Shuchu originally wanted to say that he would invite soldiers to pursue, but when he saw Liu Jun's attitude, he couldn't speak.

Compared with the collapsed Yang Sichang's department, Tangjiawan's side was filled with a sense of joy of victory. It is indeed worth being happy, although Cao Cao and other thousands of old thieves ran away, Liu Jun and they captured tens of thousands of thieves and bandits.

There are more than 40,000 bandits, more than 10,000 bandits and their families, and more than 10,000 people. The total number of people is more than 60,000, if you add the two battles under Wushan City and the mud ditch. There were also more than 10,000 beheadings and nearly 10,000 captures.

This is a splash of wealth, and everyone can predict that the next step will be to be promoted to become rich and rich, and rich rewards.

Yesterday's battlefield has now become a huge prisoner camp.

Everywhere there were captives who had been held temporarily. Under the August sun, they were dressed only in thin middle coats, and there was nothing left. All weapons, armor, milk, and food, gold, silver, and so on were confiscated.

"After this battle, the Central Plains bandits will surely be sluggish. Destruction is just around the corner. In the past few years, he has been the first to fight bandits. Li Shuchu stood in the camp, looking at the mountain of seizures. There were also battalions of prisoners held in a battalion, full of excitement.

This is indeed an unprecedented victory, Liu Jun since Mei Zhihuan led the army westward, large and small battles, beheaded more than 10,000 thieves, and captured 56,000 people, and when they came, there were only more than 10,000 soldiers and horses.

"What a feat!"

Although Cao Cao broke through with the six battalions of old thieves among the bandits, and Zhang Xianzhong's military advisor Pan Duao also took Zhang's four righteous sons to lead hundreds of elite horsemen to run away, but in any case, Xianzhong was captured, and the elite backbone of his department was almost wiped out, although Cao Thief and other six battalion thieves broke through, but only escaped with more than 3,000 people, anyway, the bandits have been devastating this time, since the bandits entered Sichuan, the fourteenth battalion of old thieves, now only escaped the remnants of the six battalions, plus a remnant of a new battalion led by Zhang Xianzhong and several young righteous sons.

Killed seven thieves, surrendered two, and captured one alive, the strength of the bandits cannot be said to be a loss, but almost annihilated, especially Zhang Xianzhong's eight-battalion bandits, suffered a devastating blow.

"Even if Cao Cao escapes back to Shaanxi, it will be difficult to do anything." Liu Jun said with a smile, but he felt that an old thief like Cao Cao had many ups and downs, if the official army could not quickly seize this opportunity and encircle and suppress him, I was afraid that he would be like Li Zicheng in history, and soon make a comeback. After all, in the world at the end of the Ming Dynasty, there was no shortage of people who could not survive anywhere, as long as they raised their arms, they could gather many people and horses at any time, and they would be able to recover their strength immediately.

Mei Zhihuan was also quite happy, and at this time, Li Changgeng and Yuan Jixian, the two governors, also came from Wushan and Baidi City to celebrate this great victory together.

"This time the bandit is a great victory, the first credit should be Liu Jiye, this time the bandit will be truthfully presented to the Son of Heaven after this official meeting, and ask for credit from you." Mei Zhihuan said loudly. "Jiye, I have signed with the three governors of Li Yuan to jointly recommend you to His Majesty as the chief soldier, I hope you can make persistent efforts in the future."

"It's all the governors who command well, and the last general just obeys orders." Liu Jun said modestly. Now there are rumors in the army that Liu Jun can be crowned a marquis after this battle, but Liu Jun himself is a little unconvinced. It is too difficult for the Ming Dynasty to be knighted, and there is only one Wang Shouren and one Li Chengliang in the past hundred years, although the situation is erosive today, not as good as before, but until the last moment, maybe the emperor will not be willing to take the title to be sealed. Liu Jun remembered that in history, it seemed that in the year of the death of the Ming Dynasty, Chongzhen in order to transfer the general soldiers with soldiers in the world into the king of Jingqin, he suddenly named several general soldiers with heavy troops as earls.

I don't dare to hope for the title, but if there is Mei Zhihuan and several other governors, maybe it is not a problem for him to be promoted to deputy chief soldier or something. (To be continued......)