After Li Xingzhi returned to Suizhou, he immediately ordered troops to gather generals, and guarded De'an Mansion with Zhang Wubu of the fifth town, 5,000 soldiers of Zhang Shaoqian's department of the fourth town and 4,005 soldiers of the Manchu, Han and Mongolian green banners, and carried 3,000 people, and directly penetrated Wanzhou by water.

For Li Xingzhi's military order, Zhang Wu, the general of the fifth town, was quite dissatisfied, and since he defected to the Jingbei Army, he has not made an inch, but Li Dashuai has continued to reward him with favors and appoint himself as the general of the first town.

Although this town will not be an official position of the imperial court, it has a "share" of "" under his hands, which is much more majestic than some of the people in the interior of the imperial court.

This time, the Jingbei Army went out to suppress the thieves, and Zhang Wu was bent on making meritorious deeds in order to repay Li Dashuai's kindness, who knew that Li Dashuai actually let himself lead the troops to stay in the rear.

"Dashuai, you can bring the last general, Suizhou should have no problem handing it over to Shen Yongzhen and Ouyang Sheng."

The military marshal's palace is temporarily in the line.

Zhang Wu looked at Li Xingzhi with a blank face, and Shen Yongzhen and Ouyang Sheng behind him looked at Zhang Wu who was pleading in front of Li Xingzhi with a depressed expression.

Why should we stay in Suizhou, and you go to Wanzhou to make contributions?

"Suizhou is the fundamental place of my Jingbei Army, you guard here is a great achievement, for the training of the army, you must not slack off, the commander comes back to investigate, if the training results are not good, you all know my Jingbei Army military regulations! Don't worry, after killing the thieves, this commander will wave his army to Liaodong, are you still afraid that there will be no battle? ”

This time to enter Wanzhou, Li Xingzhi also considered, although Zhang Shaoqian's loyalty is not a problem, but he still has some loyalty to the imperial court.

Therefore, letting Zhang Shaoqian go out to deal with Zuo Liangyu is also to strengthen Zhang Shaoqian's heart.

"Penglaibo, you sent troops to suppress thieves, can you bring our family, you can rest assured, our family will never interfere with how you use your troops."

Zhang Cheng, the superintendent of the Jingbei Army, also asked to go to Sichuan with the main force.

"Director Zhang is the imperial court supervisor, and following the army to go on the expedition is the proper meaning of the question, but the soldiers are in danger, for the sake of your safety, once the war starts, you must stay in the camp."

For Zhang Cheng to follow him on the expedition, Li Xingzhi did not refuse, this guy used to be nothing more than soy sauce, and Li Xingzhi estimated that he would not dare to go out of the camp at all.

"Okay! We've thanked Penglaibo! ”

The Jingbei Army was set out on October 21 of the 12th year of Chongzhen, although the two places are separated by more than 1,000 miles of official roads, but the Jingbei Army traces the river, because it is winter again, the river is not turbulent.

Therefore, the march speed of the Jingbei Army was not slow, and on the ninth day of November, the main force of the Jingbei Army arrived at the Wanyuan Ferry in Wanzhou.

At the same time, Li Xingzhi also received a battle report from Yunyang.

On the fourth day of the first month of October, Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai drove directly to Jingmen along the remaining veins of Shimen Mountain.

After Zhang Xianzhong went to the suburbs of Jingmen, he immediately sent troops to Dangyang and launched an offensive against Dangyang.

In order to achieve the effect of striking the east and attacking the west, Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai were also ruthless, divided into six teams, and led the troops with Zhang Xianzhong's sons Zhang Dingguo, Zhang Kewang, Zhang Wenxiu, as well as the mountain tigers and the dragons, and attacked day and night with the method of encircling three ques.

Luo Anbang, the deputy commander-in-chief of Huguang guarding Dangyang, resisted the flood of peasant troops while complaining to Fang Kong, the governor of Huguang, who was stationed in Jingmen.

"The thief is huge, when the city of Yangcheng is low and shallow, the last general and major general are slight, and the enemy can not be stopped for a long time, in order to prevent Jiangdong from losing, please also ask Fang Butang, otherwise it can be down when the sun is shining."

Although Fang Kongzhao does not know the military affairs, but the simple geographical situation is still understood, now Penglaibo into Sichuan, Suizhou left behind only five or six thousand soldiers, if the thief crosses, I am afraid that he will not dare to fight with the thief, if Zhang Xianzhong kills into Jiangxi, the ten-sided net will become a broken net.

It's just that Yang Sichang's words were chiseled, and he strictly ordered all departments not to move lightly, and there was a lesson from Yin Dabai's previous car, so Fang Kongzhao had to send someone to Xiangyang Xingying for help.

However, Xiangyang also received the news that the main force of the Liukou was still active in the area of Shimen Mountain in Yunyang, and that Fierce Tiger and Zuo Liangyu were waving their troops to suppress them.

In the face of Yunyang and Dangyang, the main force of the thieves appeared at the same time, Yang Sichang had no choice but to divide his troops to attack, and attacked Yunyang with fierce as a tiger and Liu Shijie, and Zuo Liangyu led the army east to rescue Dangyang with Fang Kongzhao.

Fang Kongzhao, who received the order, then flew to Yicheng to guard Yang Shien and Chengtian to guard Qian Zhongzhong, and gathered more than 5,000 military horses and Zuo Liangyu to attack together to illustrate the crisis in Dangyang.

Fang Kongzhao didn't move, but he and Luo Rucai divided their troops and set up an ambush, defeated Fang Kongzhao in Xiangyouping, and defeated the garrison Qian Zhongzhong, and defeated the main force of Jingmen's official army in one fell swoop.

Almost at the same time, Zuo Liangyu defeated Hui Dengxiang, a fierce general under Luo Rucai, in Shaliping, beheaded 2,650 ranks, and captured more than 2,600 peasant troops under Hui Dengxiang and Liu Guoneng.

Zuo Liangyu's soldiers were mighty, so they attacked and advanced to the Jingmen area with all their might, and went straight to Kuimen, the gateway of Sichuan, Zhang Xianzhong had no choice but to break his tail to survive, and sent 5,000 troops to garrison Qili Village.

As a detailed work of the Military Intelligence Department of the Jingbei Army, how could Tao Wu really be willing to work for Zhang Xianzhong, and only hastily arranged the defense line.

As soon as Zuo Liangyu's army arrived at the village, Tao Wu took hundreds of cronies to flee west at night after a little resistance, chasing Zhang Xianzhong's brigade.

The main general took the lead in escaping, and the rest of the peasant army was panicked and chaotic, Zuo Liangyu saw the right time and immediately launched a fierce attack, and the officers and soldiers beheaded more than 3,700 people and captured more than 1,300 people.

Under Zuo Liangyu's powerful offensive, Zhang Xianzhong had to divide his troops with Luo Rucai, Zhang Xianzhong led the army to Xingshan into Sichuan, Luo Rucai was afraid of the prestige of the official army, and actually ran into Wushan.

However, due to the defeat of Fang Kongzhao, Yang Sichang's strategic deployment of the ten-sided network was declared bankrupt, in order to deter the army's heart, Yang Sichang used the sword of the Son of Heaven as a basis to impeach the Huguang governor Fang Kongzhao for the defeat of the thief, and removed him from office, and flew to Sichuan Governor Shao Jiechun, Sichuan General Zeng Rongrong, and Li Xingzhi, who was transferred to Sichuan, and Qin Liangyu, the general of Zhendong in Shipai, to intercept and block the main road in Sichuan.

In addition, Yang Sichang also passed on Zheng Chongjian, the governor of Shaanxi, He Renlong, the general soldier of the aid and suppression, and Li Guoan, the deputy general of Shaanxi, to enter Sichuan in Xixiang, and Zuo Liangyu to guard the line of Ankang and Pingli, and guard the Sichuan-Hubei border.

coincided with the great victories of Shaliping and Qilizhai, and feared that the people of He, Long would enter Sichuan and win the first merit of suppressing thieves, Zuo Liangyu resolutely asked to personally lead the army to hunt down and kill Zhang Xianzhong.

In his reply to Yang Sichang, he said that Sichuan is a country of abundance, and the land is fertile, once Zhang Cheng succeeds in crossing the danger and then blocks the official road, how can the official army be controlled? And there is food to enter Sichuan, there is no land to plunder in Huiyun, the soldiers are strong, and the division is weak, and now Zuo Mengeng, Li Wanqing and others have been left to defend Yunyang, Huguang's safety is not to worry, if the troops are divided into Sichuan, Ankang and Pingli are not enough to defend the army, if the thieves return to Yunyang, how can the soldiers be controlled? For today's plan, we should pursue with all our might, abandon the baggage materials, and fight slowly with speed, so that we can defeat the thieves in one fell swoop.

Moreover, if the thief returns to Yunyang, there are Zuo Mengeng's soldiers in front of him, the Shaanxi army of Ziyang and Xing'an is strangled on the right, and Xiangyang has the Beijing camp military horses, which is tantamount to self-destruction.

The soldiers of Liangyu are used for the requisition and suppression of the imperial court, not the local guards, if the soldiers are replaced by the soldiers, when will the thieves be destroyed?