Volume 5 The Seal of the Kirin Chapter 1 Entering the Kingdom of Sichuan (I)

Therefore, Zhang Bingzhong personally led a light cavalry, and in just one day, rushed for 300 miles, intercepted Yang Sichang's envoy, and seized the official army's seal letter talisman. Then he led the troops to rush to Ximen Zhenwu Mountain, and ordered the envoys of the big bird battalion and other pretending to be officials and soldiers to enter Xiangyang City, and then Zhang Bingzhong arrived, and the inside and outside should be combined, and in just one day, Xiangyang was captured in the fourth day of the first month of February. The only regret is that Yang Sichang left Sichuan early in order to open up his ambush on all sides.

When Zhang Bingzhong heard this news, he couldn't help but gasp. I thought to myself, this Yang Sichang really deserves to be the holy hand of the soldiers, if he can firmly grasp the Sichuan military affairs in his hands this time, as far as the current year is concerned, the loyal rebel troops will not know where to settle down. Thinking of this, I don't feel a cold sweat seeping all over my body, this is a desperate plan; fortunately, everything backfired, so that Bingzhong in the war and horse movement "to control the enemy" blocked the opportunity, see the needle of the Tao Dynasty Li Zhuang sneaked into the city, Xiangyang City was the base camp and front residence of Yang Sichang's march, the city defense was extremely strong, but also the domain of King Xiang.

At this moment, Zhang Bingzhong, who had invaded Xiangyang City, sat on top of the city tower, and while inviting Zhu Yiming, the king of Xiangyang, to drink, he said: "The king is not guilty, the king is dead, and Heichang can die to pay the king." Then he invited him to drink and said, "I want to borrow the king's head to make Yang Sichang be punished by trapping, and the king will try his best to drink this wine." At that time, Zhu Changfa, the king of Guiyang, was also killed. Zhang Xianzhong also ordered the burning of the Nancheng Tower and burned the bodies of Zhu Yiming and Zhu Changfa. This long-distance attack refers to a kind of military surprise attack, which involves carrying out a long-distance movement in a short period of time to carry out a surprise attack on the enemy, which is unexpected and can often achieve good results. Zhang Bingzhong was able to jump out of the encirclement of the ten-sided net, run for a long distance, capture the base camp of the official army, execute the vassal king, skillfully forced his mortal enemy Yang Sichang to commit suicide, and realized his tactical intentions.

When Zhang Bingzhong heard that Yang Sichang had left Sichuan, he was overjoyed. Without the presence of this soldier's holy hand, no matter how difficult the terrain of Sichuan is, it is as easy as it is for Bingzhong. So I made up my mind: Enter Sichuan! Enter Sichuan! Only this naturally rich land of Shu can let these poor brothers relieve their worries about food and clothing. Soon after, Yang Sichang, who was responsible for suppressing bandits, got the news and hurriedly left Sichuan, feeling that he was deeply responsible. was killed by three or four great feudal kings by the bandit leaders in a row, all of which were related to their own strategies. He began a hunger strike along the way, and in March, he starved to death on the way to Jingzhou.

Luo Youcai saw that Zhang Bingzhong had won a complete victory, and even sent Ai Nengqi to lead five hundred elite horsemen to help. This Ai Nengqi was originally Ai Changsheng's son and nephew, small but very strong, and his face was very loyal. Since the separation of Daying Cottage and Bingzhong, this Ai Nengqi wants to return to Zhang Bingzhong's side all the time. Now that he had such a good errand, he recommended himself to lead five hundred elite horsemen to Bingzhong's tent.

Then Bingzhong told the two brothers about the idea of intending to the land of Sichuan and Shu, but he thought that these two brothers would agree with it. When Bingzhong's soldiers arrived in Mizhou, Luo Youcai sent Ai Changsheng, the owner of Yingshanzhai Village, to lead five battalions of coalition troops to help. The history of these five battalions is called "the five battalions of the left of the revolution", there are both the old Hui Hui Ma Shouying, the king of the revolution He Yilong, the king of the left gold He Jin, the king of the world Liu Xiyao, and the king of the chaotic land Lin Cheng Chengcheng, since then the loyal peasant rebel army has once again resounded in Henan, Hubei, Sichuan and other places.

In February of that year, Zhang Bingzhong led the peasant rebels after the convergence to capture Shucheng, Lu'an and other places, and entered Kelu Prefecture, killing the prefect Zheng Luxiang and others. He also went down to Wuwei and Lujiang, and ordered Qian Gu to start training his own naval army in Chaohu. Then he defeated the general soldier Huang Degong and Liu Liangzuo's Ming official army, which made the loyal peasant rebels shake in the south of the Yangtze River for a while.

Emperor Chongzhen failed to effectively eliminate internal troubles because of Yang Sichang, so that bandits re-emerged and beacons broke out. So Gao Douguang, the governor of Fengyang, and Zheng Eryang, the governor of Anqing, were arrested and replaced. In October of the same year, Zhang Bingzhong led his troops west to Danshui, because Li Zicheng's troops turned to the sixth brother for help, and sent the original Fifth Battalion of the Left Revolution to the north to Li Zicheng. Zuo Liang saw that Li Zicheng's troops were gradually gaining momentum, and in order to avoid their edge, they all withdrew to the southeast under Huguang's troops, and at this time he allowed Zhang Bingzhong to take the opportunity to capture Huangmei.

Faithful to Buddhism, he became attached to the temple when he was a teenager. At this time, entering the land of Zen Buddhism, there is no reason not to worship. Wuzu Temple, formerly known as Dongshan Temple, or Dongchan Temple, later renamed Wuzu Temple, is located in Huangmei County, Hubei Province, about 30 miles away from the east of Wuzu Town, on the east mountain, located in the south of the east end of the main vein of Dabie Mountain, and Jiujiang across the river. Built in the fifth year of Tang Yonghui, it is the dojo of the fifth generation patriarch of Chinese Zen Buddhism, Master Hongren, and it is also the holy place where the sixth ancestor Huineng master received the mantle of the law, and was given the "ancestral court of the world". Wuzu Temple, built in the fifth year of Tang Yonghui, is the Dharma propagation dojo of Master Hongren, the fifth generation of Zen Buddhism in China. After Master Hongren opened a dojo in Dongshan, he opened the Dharma wide and received group products. It attracts scholars from all over the world, and there are more than 1,000 permanent disciples. After Wu Zetian Li Zhou ascended the throne, he advocated Buddhism. In the first year of Jiushi, he invited Hongren to teach his disciples Shenxiu, Xuanyue, Hui'an, etc. to go to the inner dojo to make offerings, and give them as national teachers. After that, the higher the reputation of Hongnin, the greater the prestige of Gozuji Temple. In the second year of Tang Dazhong, Xuanzong built the temple of the five patriarchs, and changed the temple to the Great East Mountain Temple, also known as the Five Ancestors Temple. Later, with the support of Emperor Li and Tang, the Five Ancestors Temple continued to flourish and never decayed. During the period from Zhenzong of the Northern Song Dynasty to Gaozong of the Southern Song Dynasty, famous teachers such as Shijie, Fa Yan, Biao Zi, and Zongba served as the abbot of the Five Ancestors Temple, and successively built the treasure temple and built the temple pagoda. Especially when the law is performed and lives in the mountain, the ancestral court is greatly revitalized and the sect is greatly revitalized. Among its French disciples, Buddha Guo Keqin, Buddha Jianhui Qin, Buddha Eye Qingyuan three people, called "three masters", also known as "three Buddhas", encourage self-reliance, spread Buddhism, Zen style is prosperous, so that the reputation of the Five Ancestors Temple is more shocking to the world. In the middle of the Song Jingde year, Zhenzong changed the temple to "Zhenhui Temple". Yingzong gave the imperial book "Tianxia Ancestral Garden" in the Zhiping period, and Huizong gave the imperial book "Tianxia Zen Forest" to the Five Ancestors Temple in the first year of Chongning. After the death of the Song Dynasty, Dongshan was destroyed in the war, and it was cold and depressed for a while. Until the nineteenth year of the Yuan Dynasty, the Zen master re-entered Dongshan, swept the old foundation of the temple, and rebuilt the civil engineering. In the second year of Huangqing, the Venerable Master Han Wanqi invited from the king of Shen, and returned to Dongshan in the flesh of Fenghong Ren. In the second year of his reign, the French-style Zen master encouraged self-control, made the main hall, dedicated to the patriarch, made the scripture pavilion, collected the scriptures, and the Buddha statue of the Buddhist temple was like a new one, and it was brilliant. Later, the Five Ancestors Temple was robbed several times and rebuilt many times. In the second year of Yuan Zhishun, Wenzong changed the temple to "Dongshan Five Ancestors Temple", referred to as the Five Ancestors Temple, and this name has been used to this day. Dongshan Wuzu Temple, the whole Buddhist temple complex, according to the mountain situation by the upper, middle, lower three parts, the whole like the ancient palace building, for the central axis of the equal layout, the hierarchy is distinct, the temple building area is extremely broad. The four main halls of the Heavenly King Palace, the Daxiong Treasure Palace, the Pilu Palace, and the True Body Hall are built on the central axis according to the height of the mountain. The palace building is staggered with bucket arches. According to records, there are more than 1,000 halls, nunnery halls and pavilions, buildings and pavilions in the heyday of the Five Ancestors Temple. Therefore, Hubei Huangmei at that time was also called the name of Zen Buddhism.

Natural selection, not by man. It's not that Zhang Bingzhong is thirsty for killing, but that in this troubled world, he can only kill Liwei, and those who can not hurt his life try not to move his murderous intentions, which is Bingzhong's consistent choice;

In the first month of the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, Zhang Bingzhong led his troops to capture Danzhou at night, and then connected Danshui, Huangzhou, Macheng, etc. When he was in Macheng, Zhang Bingzhong recruited tens of thousands of volunteers. Then go west to Hanyang, cross the Yangtze River from Tsai Tsai Chau, and quickly capture the city of Wuchangfu. Wuchang is the seat of the palace of Zhu Huakui, the king of Chu, and the officials who defend the city fled when they heard the wind, and the soldiers of the king of Chu admired Bingzhong and righteousness, and were willing to open the city gate as an internal response to welcome the peasant rebels. After the loyal rebels entered the city, they executed the king of Chu, and in order to relieve the king of Chu from being rich and unkind, he was killed and killed, and his subordinates ate his minced meat to relieve his hatred. At the same time, all the gold, silver and jewelry in the palace of the king of Chu were taken away and transported to Taimushan Island in Chaohu Lake, and hundreds of carts were not finished. In addition, more than 6 million taels of silver were issued, collecting displaced people and subordinates from all over the country, and nearly 500,000 people with the existing soldiers, Xu Tu Sichuan.

Sichuan is located in the hinterland of the southwest, in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, adjacent to Chongqing in the east, Yunnan and Guizhou in the south, Tibet in the west, Qinghai, Gansu and Shaanxi in the north. Sichuan Province is dominated by mountains, followed by hills, and few plains and plateaus. The river network is dense, the water system is developed, the population is dense, and the climate is pleasant. Sichuan is referred to as Sichuan or Shu, and because Sichuan (including Chongqing) was divided into two vassal states of Ba and Shu in the pre-Qin period, it is also called "Bashu". It is named after Yizhou, Zizhou, Lizhou and Kuizhou four roads (there are four big rivers in Minjiang, Tuojiang, Jialing and Wujiang in another territory, and the river is called Sichuan in ancient times, so it is called "Sichuan"). Sichuan has a long history, beautiful scenery and abundant products, and has been known as the "land of abundance" since ancient times. The Sichuan Basin is surrounded by connected mountain ranges, located in the middle of the eastern edge of China's great west, the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, including the central and eastern parts of Sichuan and most of Chongqing, is the main area of Sichuan and Chongqing, with dense population, dense towns, prosperous economy, prosperous culture, pleasant climate, beautiful landscapes, outstanding people, rich resources, and superior location. The Sichuan Basin is bordered by the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and the Hengduan Mountains in the west, the Qinling Mountains in the north, the Loess Plateau in the north, the western Hunan and Hubei Mountains in the east, the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau in the south, the Micang Mountain in the north, the Dalou Mountain in the south, the Wushan Mountain in the east, the Qionglai Mountain in the west, the Longmen Mountain in the northwest, the Daba Mountain in the northeast, the Daliang Mountain in the southwest, and the Wuling Mountain in the southeast. The Sichuan Basin is the place with the highest concentration of purple soil in the country, and it has always been known as the "purple basin". According to its geographical differences, the bottom area of the Sichuan Basin can be divided into three parts: the western Sichuan plain, the central Sichuan hills and the eastern Sichuan parallel ridge valley. The Sichuan Basin can be subdivided into five parts: eastern Sichuan, western Sichuan, southern Sichuan, northern Sichuan and central Sichuan.