Su Yan's edict undoubtedly caused a wave in the army of Liu Wenxiu, the king of Shu.

Liu Wenxiu's subordinates all exploded, and each of them was very unconvinced, undoubtedly full of anger for Su Yan's edict to demote Liu Wenxiu's title as soon as he came up, and to transfer him to Nanjing.

"Lord Wang, it's the other way around!" Liu Wenxiu's subordinate general Qi San raised his voice and shouted: "How can you accept Su Yan's bird anger!" What if he's a prisoner? It's a big deal, we will follow the example of King Qin and run to the west, as long as we leave the Han land, brothers, you will be the emperor and a free king! ”

"Yes, Lord Wang, you can't listen to Su Yan's edict to go to Nanjing, then Su Yan is probably ill-intentioned, if you have any three strengths and two weaknesses in Nanjing, where should the soldiers go?" Lu Mingchen, who led the left camp, echoed that he also did not approve of Liu Wenxiu's risk.

Zuodu Governor Wang Fuchen looked at the emotional crowd, frowning, he has always been rational, from the overall situation, if the Shu army and the court turn their faces, they will definitely be surrounded and suppressed by Su Dingyuan, the prince of Rongguo, with a large army, that Su Dingyuan has great achievements, and the soldiers and horses of the court are elite soldiers in a hundred battles, and it is very difficult to escape under his encirclement.

Therefore, Wang Fuchen only spoke after the others finished shouting: "Lord Wang, the last general thinks that you should accept Su Yan's edict and go to Nanjing in person to save these old brothers who survived our Great Western Army. ”

"What are you talking about?" Qi San raised his voice and shouted, "If the prince goes, he will definitely die for life, Wang Fuchen, do you want to betray the prince?" ”

"Shut up!" Liu Wenxiu slapped the table and shouted irritably, his voice fell, and Qi Sansheng didn't dare to continue shouting, so he closed his mouth stupidly and glared at Wang Fuchen fiercely.

Wang Fuchen didn't pay attention to him, Liu Wenxiu looked at the former and asked, "Ziming, why did you say this?" ”

Wang Fuchen organized the language for a while, and then talked eloquently, "Your Highness, since Su Yan did not directly order Rong Guogong to attack us, it is enough to prove that he actually does not want to attack us, and I am afraid that you only want to let you leave your wife and children in Nanjing as hostages, so that you can rest assured that you can continue to control the military power."

Moreover, judging from the treatment of your sworn brother King Xining, it can be seen that Su Yan is not a person who loves to kill, and after King Xining and his sons went to Nanjing together, they were named the general of Annan, and continued to lead troops to defend southern Xinjiang, isn't this a good reference object?

It is precisely because of this that the last general boldly advised you to go to Nanjing and talk to Su Yan. ”

After he finished speaking, Liu Wenxiu's frowning brows also relaxed, Wang Fuchen's statement is indeed very reasonable, if you refer to his sworn brother Li Dingguo, not only will he not be troubled when he goes to Nanjing, but it is also very likely to be reused by the imperial court and continue to lead the troops.

Just when Liu Wenxiu wanted to speak, Lu Mingchen raised his own question: "Ziming, if it is as you said, then Su Yan will indeed not make things difficult for the prince, but there is one thing I can't figure out, why did Su Yan want to seize the prince's prince and demote him to the Duke of Shu?" ”

This question was asked to the hearts of everyone present, but no matter how smart Wang Fuchen was, he couldn't figure out the intention of Su Yan's move. He looked helpless and said, "I'm not the roundworm in Su Yan's stomach, how do I know what he thinks in his heart?" In my opinion, this answer still has to wait for His Highness to go to Nanjing to personally ask Su Yan to get the result. ”

"Cut, but that's it." Qi Sansheng sneered, and then was glared at by Liu Wenxiu fiercely, and closed his mouth stupidly.

After some consideration, Liu Wenxiu finally decided to follow Wang Fuchen's advice and take his wife and children on the way to Nanjing.

Before leaving, he ordered the temporary command of the army to be handed over to Wang Fuchen, who was known for his intelligence, and gave him the right to act cheaply, in order to prevent his subordinates from clashing with the imperial army after his departure.

In late November, after receiving Su Yan's order for the Northern Expedition, Liu Tichun, the governor of Sichuan, responded to the capture of Kuizhou Mansion, an important town in eastern Sichuan, and continued to march west along the Yangtze River after counting the troops of the thirteen families in Kuidong, intending to recover the important town of Chongqing.

The Qing court building will fall, and the Qing army in Sichuan has no fighting spirit, so on the way to Chongqing, the thirteen families in Kuidong marched to Chongqing, and the cities along the way were all falling from the wind, and when the army regained Zhongzhou, Liu Tichun they saw an unexpected person.

Who?

Emperor Yongli personally appointed Wen Anzhi, the governor of Sichuan.

After the death of Emperor Yongli, Wen An's heart was disheartened, and he took his cronies and his wife and children to live in seclusion in the mountains of eastern Sichuan, but he did not expect their whereabouts to be leaked, and the Zhongzhou prefect ordered Wen Anzhi to be arrested and imprisoned, and has been imprisoned until now.

Wen Anzhi did not despise the Thirteen Kuidong families like other Wenchen, so Liu Tichun had a good impression of him, and after rescuing him, Liu Tichun entertained Wen Anzhi with good wine and food, and proposed to escort him to Nanjing, Wen Anzhi did not answer immediately, but asked Liu Tichun about their views on the current imperial court.

After thinking for a while, Liu Tichun replied truthfully: "Supervisor, I, Liu Tichun, have never read since I was a child, and there are not so many twists and turns, I only know that everything in the court is developing in a thriving direction today, and the prison country did not despise us because we were born as anti-thieves, but still gave us a heavy use, it can be seen that the prison country is bent on resisting the Qing Dynasty and restoring the country." ”

Although Liu Tichun did not mention the political situation of the Yongli Dynasty, but in Wen'anzhi's ears, every word was alluding to the Yongli Dynasty, he sighed, and said to Liu Tichun: "That's it, the escort is exempt, the old man wants to go to Nanjing by himself, just to see the beautiful scenery of my Daming Dynasty along the way." ”

Since Wen Anzhi had already decided, Liu Tichun did not continue to insist, and after he forcibly stuffed some silver taels into the other party as a coil on the road, he continued to lead the army to march by land and water.

At the same time that the thirteen families of Kuidong sent troops, Su Dingyuan also commanded the soldiers and horses to fight north, and the cities around the Dongchuan Military and Civil Mansion in southern Sichuan to Xuzhou and Yazhou have been defeated by Liu Wenxiu, so the Ming army does not need to be distracted to attack the city, and can directly pass through the control area of the Shu army.

Su Dingyuan only had two active directions, one was Chengdu Mansion, the capital of SC Province, and the other was Chongqing, an important town in eastern Sichuan, he personally led his troops all the way north to attack Chengdu Prefecture, and the other road was led by Liu Fangming, the general soldier of Ningxia, and cooperated with Liu Tichun, the governor of Sichuan, to recover Chongqing. ....From the Shu army controlled Jiading Prefecture to leave into the territory of Chengdu Prefecture, the further north, the more desolate the scene along the way, the former known as the country of abundance in Sichuan, after Zhang Xianzhong, the Qing army and the Ming army of the three sides of the slaughter, the people do not survive, as far as the eye can see, there are all deserted fertile fields and crazy weeds, as well as the roadside from time to time to appear white bones.

Su Dingyuan looked at all this with emotion, at present, only the Shu army-occupied areas in Sichuan and northern Sichuan were still densely populated, and the decline of Chengdu was so bad that the Qing court directly gave up it and chose to nail the provincial capital to Baoning Mansion.

At first, Su Dingyuan couldn't imagine what Chengdu could decay into before the Qing court gave up it, and chose to take a look, everything here shocked Su Dingyuan, after he came to the world, he fought south of the Yangtze River for many years, and it was the first time to see such a place that was so badly destroyed by the war.

Perhaps it was because the Qing court ignored Chengdu Prefecture, or perhaps it was Li Guoying, the governor of Sichuan in the Qing court, who transferred all the troops from Chengdu north in order to defend Baoning Mansion.

When the Ming army arrived at the city of Chengdu, the city was wide open, and there was almost no resistance from soldiers, and the Ming army recovered Chengdu Mansion very smoothly.

There are not many people in the huge city of Chengdu, and there are now less than 70,000 of the hundreds of thousands of residents in the Chongzhen period, and many parts of the city have also been opened up into farmland because of the tiger plague outside, so that the people can farm directly in the city without risking going out of the city.

Desolation, Xiao Suo, is synonymous with the city, after the Ming army entered the city, the people were numb to hide in their respective homes, secretly peeping at this strange army, they were naturally afraid, but the successive years of military disasters have made many of them numb, and they were psychologically prepared for the next plundering of the people.

However, this Ming army did not start a massacre after entering the city as they imagined, and after taking over the whole city, the Ming army immediately posted notices everywhere to calm the people, and sent soldiers to beat gongs and drums along the streets, announcing that the city was returned to the imperial court.

Although the decline of Chengdu was unexpected by Su Dingyuan, he still temporarily set up the governors of the three provinces here, and Chengdu was close to the front line, which was convenient for him to directly command the battle.

The Qing army in Chengdu Prefecture and the officials set up by the Qing court all fled north with Li Guoying, so after the Ming army recovered Chengdu Prefecture, the prefectures and counties under its jurisdiction were also annexed one after another.

The expansion of the Ming army in Sichuan caused Wu Sangui to be extremely uneasy, and he knew that if the Qing army caught in the middle was wiped out, his old lieutenant general Chao Han would be completely exposed to the Ming army.

Therefore, in order to keep the enemy out of the country, and also to grab some population and resources from northern Sichuan, Wu Sangui ordered his son-in-law Xia Guoxiang to lead the troops to guard Hanzhong, and take Wu Guogui, a confidant general, as the general, to conquer Baoning from Ningqiang Prefecture to the south, and seize the land of northern Sichuan to resist the Ming army.

Wu Guogui had been under his command as early as when Wu Sangui was guarding Liaoxi, he governed the army strictly, dared to fight, and had a lot of military achievements, so he was very much used by Wu Sangui.

He did not disappoint Wu Sangui, at the end of November, Wu Guogui led his troops south, broke the Qing army of the Qipan Pass, and directly took Guangyuan, and the Qing army's Guangyuan deputy general Cheng Tingjun did not resist and surrendered in Kaecheng.

After Wu Guogui captured Guangyuan, he absorbed Cheng Tingjun and his troops into the army, collected boats and boats, and marched along the waterway of the Jialing River to Baoning Mansion.

After the news reached Baoning Mansion, Li Guoying, the governor of Sichuan, who was drinking, suddenly changed his face after hearing this, his hands trembled, and he muttered: "It's really difficult to ride a tiger today." ”

Subsequently, Li Guoying thought about it again and again, and finally surrendered to Wu Sangui after Wu's boat appeared outside Baoning City.

At this point, the Qing army in Sichuan turned into the official army of the so-called Zhaowu Imperial Court, and confronted Su Dingyuan from north to south.

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