Baili Wuji was asking the mother of the prime minister of Shu, Zhao: "This king wants to know that Gyeongju once sold millions of taels of silver firearms to Shu, but he has never heard that Shu is used on the battlefield, where are these firearms now?" ”

Mu Zhaoyi replied: "The minister does not know about this matter. ”

Baili Wuji was stunned, the prime minister of Shu didn't even know about this?

Han Baozheng replied: "King Rong of Chu, the minister knows about this matter, and His Majesty ordered the minister to secretly place this batch of firearms in a warehouse outside Chengdu City, and send a special person to guard it. ”

Baili Wuji asked: "This time the Zhou army came to attack, His Majesty never thought that he would use it?" ”

Han Baozheng said: "The minister suggested that His Majesty use it, and His Majesty agreed at that time, but when the minister went to the warehouse to pick it up, he tried more than a dozen of them, but none of them could be used. ”

Baili Wuji sighed secretly, it has been more than ten years, and it is strange that it can be used. This firearm, which was bought at a huge cost, would rather be ineffective than used, and it seems that this is the reason why the ancestor of Lu invented gunpowder so early, but it has never been able to be used on the battlefield.

Baili Wuji continued to ask: "In addition to the 30,000 Shu troops under the command of the Wutai Jiedu envoy, are there any other armies in Shu that have not been captured by the Zhou army?" ”

Han Baozheng replied: "There are also 25,000 Shu troops under the command of Cao Guangshi, and the other hundreds of thousands of Shu troops have descended with His Majesty. ”

The officials of Shu were embarrassed to bow their heads.

Baili Wuji shook his head helplessly, it seems that he can only let the Black Flag Army enter Shu.

The first day of the fifth month.

Baili Wuji ordered all the officials of Shu to return to Shu to contact the former Shu Wenchen generals.

He ordered Yunyang's troops to advance west along the Yangtze River to Wanxian in Gyeongju, and then attack the east of Chengdu through the four states of Qu, Guo, Sui and Jian.

In the name of the prison state, he sent someone to order Wutai Jiedu to envoy Han Jixun to attack the south of Chengdu from Qianzhou through the six prefectures of Fu, Chongqing, Lu, Rong, Jia, and Mei.

In the name of the prison state, he sent someone to order Yongping Jiedu to make Cao Guangshi attack the west of Chengdu from Yazhou through Qiongzhou.

The attack was scheduled for 20 May. The three armies attacked in unison.

At the same time, Baili Wuji ordered Liu Rengan's troops of the Eighth Army of the Black Flag Army to go north from Ezhou and attack Zhou Guoanzhou.

Ordered the Baili Yi Division of the Fourth Army of the Black Flag Army to go north from Haizhou. Attack on Yizhou.

After the end, Xu Shiming and Sun Guangxian were ordered to stay in Jinling, and Baili Wuji himself led Bailikang's special combat army north to attack Suzhou.

According to the plan of Baili Wuji, the purpose of the three-way army of Shu to go north this time was to recover the lost territory of Shu, and the three-way army that went north from the periphery of Jinling was to attract Guo Wei's attention, so as not to send a large army to aid the Zhou army in Shu.

And the special operations army led by Baili Wuji himself has a purpose, and it is also the key to Baili Wuji's decision to turn this war into a local war. That is to attack Suzhou and lead Guo Wei to a decisive battle between Xuzhou or Songzhou.

Only let Guo Wei know the gap between him and the state of Chu and deter him. In order for Zhou Chao to sit down obediently at the negotiating table.

And what Baili Wuji needs is to take the initiative at the negotiating table.

The attack from the vicinity of Jinling was launched two days earlier than the attack on Shu and Gyeongju, on 18 May.

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Guo Wei is very happy now, and he is quite satisfied with the results of the attack on Shu.

Looking at Meng Chang kneeling in front of him, he felt a kind of quick conquest.

Thereupon. Guo Wei awarded Meng Chang as the inspector and the secretary of the school. Feng Qin Guogong.

But Guo Wei didn't know what to do, just when he rewarded Meng Chang, Liu Chongbu of the Northern Han Dynasty should be called Liu Min now, and he had already sent an envoy to Yelu Ruan of the Liao State.

Liu Min is also really helpless, although he is called the emperor, but the Northern Han Dynasty is indeed very small, only twelve states. It was so small that it couldn't even pay the officials' food money, and it was hostile to Guo Wei's Zhou Dynasty. To put it mildly, when Guo Wei is in a bad mood, he can stomp him flat with one foot.

So, Liu Min thought of Liao, Shi Jingtang had set a good example, and he Liu Min was just imitating his predecessors.

Liu Min sent envoys to the Liao State to proclaim himself a vassal and enshrined the Liao Emperor Yelu Ruan as his uncle.

As a result, in addition to Emperor Er and Emperor Sun in history, there was another nephew emperor.

Of course, Liu Min cannot be compared with Shi Jingtang.

Because Liu Min didn't have the sixteen states of Yanyun to sell, and the Northern Han Dynasty only had twelve states in total, he just recognized an uncle who was less than himself. He hoped that with the strength of his Khitan uncle, he could "destroy Zhou Xinghan". Yelu Ruan also wanted to reproduce the grand occasion of Yelu Deguang, wishing that there was such an old nephew, the two hit it off, and naturally they were overjoyed, so they recognized Liu Min, the nephew.

Liu Min recognized that his uncle had something to ask for, that is, he wanted to borrow his uncle's soldiers to jointly attack the Zhou Dynasty with him.

And Yelu Ruan also wanted to go back to the Central Plains to "fight the grass valley", so he agreed to Liu Min and discussed a day to herd horses in the Central Plains together.

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May 18.

Jinling Mansion, the king of Chu swore an oath of personal conquest.

It has jurisdiction over all 12,000 cavalry, 9,000 musketeers, and 3,000 logistics troops, a total of 24,000 troops, and sent troops to Suzhou.

At the same time, Baili Yi led his troops to attack Yizhou, and Liu Renzhen led his troops to attack Anzhou.

On May 19, the three-way army crossed the border of Zhou, and in an instant, the messenger was busy.

The Zhou army was defenseless, and the three-way army quickly advanced towards the destination as if it had entered a no-man's land.

On May 20, Baili Wuji came to the city of Suzhou.

Suzhou belongs to the Wuning Jiedu envoy, and the seat of governance is in Xuzhou, and there are only 3,000 defenders in the city of Suzhou.

Caught off guard, the defenders wisely chose to flee.

Baili Wuji occupied Suzhou City without firing a shot.

At this time, the three-way army of Shu began to march towards Chengdu according to the plan.

May 22nd.

Baili Wuji led his troops to the city of Xuzhou.

Wu Ning Jiedu of Zhou, who guarded Xuzhou City, made Wu Xingde close the city gate, and had 20,000 soldiers under his jurisdiction to wait for reinforcements.

This martial arts is five big and three coarse, but he is a person who is thick and fine.

Originally born as a woodcutter, he was inadvertently found by Shi Jingtang and taken in by the pro-guards.

Later, because of his military exploits, he was awarded the head of Fengguo by Shi Jingtang, and later moved to the commander, and changed to control the crane commander and the Ning Guojun.

Later, Shi Jingtang died, and Shi Chonggui was not optimistic about him, so he was never promoted.

When the Khitan destroyed the Jin Dynasty and entered Bianliang, Wu Xingde's troops became prisoners of the Khitans.

At this time, Wu Xingde led his troops to show his loyalty and asked for allegiance to Yelu Deguang.

Yerod was overjoyed, saw Wu Xingde's magnificent example, and was convinced of his loyalty. After that, the Khitan collected dozens of ships of armor and ordnance in the Central Plains and prepared to escort them back to the north, and Yelu Deguang ordered Wu Xingde to lead his troops to escort them.

Who thought, the boat to Heyang.

Wu Xingde said to the generals, we have eaten the imperial grain for several lifetimes, and now we have to surrender to the Liao, but now we have to leave our hometown to go to the border plug, that place is not suitable for us, it is better to do the opposite, Heyang is in front, there are not many Khitan defenders, we will directly kill it, occupy Heyang City, and wait for the Central Plains to have a Ming Lord, and then go to take refuge, so that both make meritorious contributions, and do not sell themselves for glory, you say, do not do it? (To be continued......)