In fact, since Zhang Xianzhong occupied Sichuan in the seventeenth year of Chongzhen and established the Daxi regime, the battle between the Ming Dynasty and the Daxi regime has not stopped.

Zhang Xianzhong captured Chengdu in August of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen.

At that time, Zhu Youzhen had just moved south to Jiangnan.

Because Emperor Chongzhen Zhu Youzhen was busy rectifying the south of the Yangtze River and preparing for military training, he had no troops to rescue Sichuan, so he could only watch Sichuan be occupied by Zhang Xianzhong.

Zhu Zhishu, the king of Shu, and Zhu Zhilu, the king of Taiping, committed suicide.

Long Wenguang, the governor of Sichuan, Liu Zhibo, the governor of the imperial history, and Zhang Jimeng, the deputy envoy of the inspectorate, were killed.

Of course, Zhu Youzhen did not do nothing.

At that time, Zhu Youzhen also issued an order to appoint Fan Yixuan as the left squire of the military department and the right deputy governor of the imperial history of Yunnan, Guizhou, and Sichuan, and organized the righteous army to resist the thieves to go south;

At the same time, Wang Yingxiong, a cabinet university scholar who has been appointed to the office, was appointed as the supervisor to supervise the soldiers and horses of Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, Xunyang, and Guangxi provinces to resist the eastward advance of the thieves.

Although it seems that there is a duplication of authority between a governor and a superintendent, it is actually Zhu Youzhen who organized armed resistance of local landlords in eastern and southern Sichuan respectively for the convenience of Zhu Youzhen.

Fan Yixin is a native of Yibin, Sichuan, a large landowner in southern Sichuan, and is naturally responsible for southern Sichuan.

Wang Yingxiong is a native of Ba County, Sichuan, a large landowner in eastern Sichuan, and is naturally in charge of eastern Sichuan.

Zhu Youzhen's purpose was actually to let these landlords who supported the imperial court organize the landlords to resist Zhang Xianzhong's offensive with arms.

Fan Yixuan and Wang Yingxiong, as local eunuchs, have a strong appeal and money and food resources in Sichuan, and are essentially opposed to peasant armies like Zhang Xianzhong, who may surrender when fighting against the Qing army, but in terms of resisting the peasant army, Zhu Youzhen believes that these landlord armies will be very dedicated.

As Zhu Youzhen expected, since August of the 17th year of Chongzhen, the two landlord armies represented by Fan Yixin and Wang Yingxiong have been actively organizing local armed forces to resist Zhang Xianzhong in southern and eastern Sichuan, and even two generals, Yang Zhan and Zeng Ying, have emerged.

In the eighteenth year of Chongzhen, Yang Zhan, a general from Wujinshi, collected the displaced people in Pengshan to reclaim and cultivate, and at the same time recruited troops and horses, becoming the strongest landlord armed force in southern Sichuan, and took the lead in recovering the entire territory of Jiading Mansion in this year, and then in the cooperation of Fan Yixing, Wang Yingxiong, Ma Yingxian, Yu Chaozong, etc., recovered the entire territory of Xuzhou Prefecture, and almost once recovered the entire territory of southern Sichuan.

However, before that, Zhang Xianzhong's main force that sought to seize the land of Hanzhong had returned to the division in the second half of the eighteenth year of Chongzhen to conquer southern Sichuan after the defeat of the thief He Zhen, among which Sun Kewang's troops reoccupied Xuzhou, and once again forced Yang Zhan to retreat to Zunyi Renhuai.

Later, Yang Zhan and Pi Xiong regained Yongning City in Xuzhou Capital, joined forces with 80,000 troops in Yubei Pass, smuggled Hejiang City, returned to Jiading again, and defeated Zhang Xianzhong's Liu Wenxiu Department in the 19th year of Chongzhen, and regained Jiazhou, Meizhou, Yazhou, Qiongzhou and other places, and then defeated Zhang Xianzhong's 100,000 main force in Pengshan, forced Zhang Xianzhong to flee back to Chengdu, and confronted Zhang Xianzhong's department in Hanzhou.

According to the original history, Zhang Xianzhong would have to mobilize the main force to go north because of the battle of the Manchu Haoge Department to go south into Sichuan, and then Yang Zhan took the opportunity to recover Chengdu and march into Baoning.

However, in this life, because the Manchu Qing Dynasty did not destroy the Ming Dynasty as scheduled, and lost more than 100,000 horses in the Huaiyang and Huguang battlefields, they did not go south to attack Zhang Xianzhong's department in Sichuan in the nineteenth year of Chongzhen.

Zhang Xianzhong was given the opportunity to mobilize Ai Nengqi and Li Dingguo's troops to return to the rescue in the nineteenth year of Chongzhen, and forced Yang Zhan to retreat to Jiading.

In the eighteenth year of Chongzhen, Zeng Ying also took the opportunity to recover Chongqing Mansion when Zhang Xianzhong's main force attacked northern Sichuan and Yang Zhan crisscrossed southern Sichuan, and even captured Suining and Kuizhou Fengjie for a time, defeating Liu Wenxiu's troops.

In other words, the eighteenth year of Chongzhen's Sichuan was not actually occupied by Zhang Xianzhong.

The Ming landlord armed forces still controlled Jiading Prefecture, Xuzhou, Chongqing and other places in southern and eastern Sichuan.

However, at the moment, after Sun Kewang, Li Dingguo, and Ai Nengqi, the three most warlike Zhang Xianzhong Yizi, returned from northern Sichuan, Yang Zhan and Zeng Ying were defeated in the hands of Li Dingguo and Sun Kewang.

And Zeng Ying also had to retreat to Chongqing.

Now even Chongqing Qijiang and even Zunyi Mansion have fallen into the hands of Zhang Xianzhong.

From the eighteenth year of Chongzhen to the first half of the nineteenth year of Chongzhen, Zhu Youzhen thought that relying on the landlords' armed forces in Sichuan would be enough to recover Sichuan, at least to resist Zhang Xianzhong's offensive in the south to Yungui.

But now it seems that these landlord armies cannot resist Zhang Xianzhong's real main force.

Qujing Mansion is close to Yunnan Mansion to govern Kunming, that is to say, once Qujing Mansion is also lost, then Yunnan will also lose the north gate, and the whole Yunnan will completely fall into the hands of Zhang Xianzhong.

Zhu Youzhen didn't know what the front line was, the only thing he could hope for now was to stop Zhang Xianzhong's northern expedition to the south as much as possible, and more importantly, to block Zhang Xianzhong's eastward advance, at least when Jiannu went south again, Zhang Xianzhong could not be allowed to deter the rear of the Ming Dynasty.

It can be said that Daming is now about to face the fate of being attacked from both sides.

On one side is the Great Western Army of Zhang Xianzhong's army, and on the other side is the Qing army of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

It can be said that since the succession of Emperor Chongzhen Zhu Youzhen, the deterioration of the situation in the Ming Dynasty and the fact that the Ming Dynasty faced the attack of the peasant army and the Jiannu on both sides, making the entire Ming court tired of dealing with the two enemies.

Now, Zhu Youzhen didn't expect that he would have to face such a situation.

Zhu Youzhen also knew that he still couldn't take it lightly and couldn't make a wrong move, otherwise, it would still be difficult for him to change the fate of Daming.

"Now there is only one adjustable man, that is, the Fifth Army of the Guards of the Gaojie Department, a total of more than 100,000 horses, this army is the old department of thieves in the past, and the combat effectiveness is still good, in addition, you can also mobilize troops and horses from Guangxi, Guangdong and other places to gallop to aid Yungui, and at the same time, the exterminating army also needs to guard Xunyang, Shizhou, Changzhou, Baoqing, Jingzhou and other places to prevent Zhang Xianzhong's western troops from advancing eastward to threaten the hinterland of my Daming Lake!"

At this time, Ma Shiying, the secretary of the Ministry of War, said a word.

Zhu Youzhen pondered, and after listening to the gossip opinions of the officials of the Generalissimo's Mansion, he also had a basic plan.

The first thing to do is to clarify the Supreme Commander-in-Chief.

Now, judging from the news provided by Jinyiwei and the report of the Ministry of War, the most combative are undoubtedly Yang Zhan and Zeng Ying, and now Zeng Ying has died in battle, and only Yang Zhan is available.

For the rest of the Ming army generals such as Li Zhanchun, Wang Xiang and others, the infighting was very powerful, but in the eighteenth year of Chongzhen, there was no record worth boasting about.

Zhu Youzhen decided to first transfer Wang Xiang, Li Zhanchun, Yuan Tao, and other generals of the Ming army in Sichuan to garrison Dali, Chuxiong, Yao'an, and other prefectures, and let them defend the western part of Yunnan, while at the same time, Yang Zhan was appointed as the commander-in-chief of Yunnan to oversee the military affairs of Qujing, Yunnan, Guangxi, Guangnan, and other Yunnan prefectures, as well as Guizhou.

At the same time, Zhu Youzhen decided to appoint Gao Jie as the chief military officer of Guizhou and lead the Fifth Army of the Guards Army to stop Zhang Xianzhong's eastward advance.

At the same time, Fan Yixuan was appointed as the governor of Liangguang and Guangzhou, and the grain and grass of Guangdong and Guangxi were transported to Yunnan and Guizhou.

Wang Yingxiong was transferred back to the capital to serve as the secretary of the Nanjing Military Department and the deputy privy counselor of the Generalissimo's Office.

(End of chapter)