The time when Li Zicheng led his troops from Wenxian County into Songpanwei was in early October of the tenth year of Chongzhen.

Less than a month and a half has passed, and Li Zicheng has already marched under the city of Chengdu and raised troops in the northern suburbs of the city.

Li Zicheng went all the way south, and Wang Weizhang, the governor of Sichuan, was in a hurry to the court and sent an official letter to the Quartet to ask for help.

The Tusi of the Ming army in western Sichuan, southern Sichuan, and eastern Sichuan were all recruited.

Although Wang Weizhang lost his square inch and cowered in Chengdu City and did not dare to move, the generals who were stationed in Sichuan Province were not mediocre talents.

The rebellion of luxury in Sichuan was completely eliminated in the second year of Chongzhen, and almost all the generals in Sichuan Province were killed in the sea of corpses and blood, and there were few mediocre talents.

In fact, Wang Weizhang's request for help was not delivered to Hong Chengchou's hands for the first time, but to Xiong Wencan's hands first.

Xiong Wencan, the word is too Meng, the heart is open, is a native of Luzhou, Sichuan, and a Jinshi of Wanli for 35 years.

First awarded Guizhou to promote the official, and then moved to the head of the Ministry of Rites, Li Langzhong, after returning from the Ryukyu Dynasty, he was promoted to Shandong Left to participate in politics, Shanxi according to the inspection envoy, Shandong Right to the political envoy.

In the first year of Chongzhen, he first served as the political envoy of Zuobu in Fujian, when the Haikou was rampant, harassing the coastal areas of Fujian and Guangdong.

During his tenure, Xiong Wencan appeased Zheng Zhilong, a giant on the southeast coast at that time, and at the same time organized sailors, trained the army, and used both suppression and pacification.

In February of the fifth year of Chongzhen, Xiong Wencan was appointed as the right attendant of the military department and the right servant of the imperial history, the governor of the military affairs of Liangguang, and the governor of Guangdong.

In October of the following year, the Ming army defeated the combined forces formed by the Dutch East India Company and the Haikou Liu Xiang in Liaoluo Bay on the southeast coast of Kinmen, Fujian Province.

Since then, Xiong Wencan's reputation has spread far and wide, reaching the heavens and being widely known for people.

Yang Sichang took over as the secretary of the military department, and adopted the strategy of four squares and six corners and ten sides of the net, hoping to quell the rebellion in Guannai.

In order to achieve this plan, two people must be indispensable.

The first person is Hong Chengchou, who is the governor of the three sides, and the second person is naturally Wang Jiazhen, who temporarily acts as the prime minister of the six provinces.

Lu Xiangsheng, the former prime minister of the six provinces, invaded the Gyeonggi region with Qing troops in the ninth year of Chongzhen, and led the soldiers and horses to be ordered to serve the king.

After arriving in Beijing, he was left in Xuanda, the governor of Xuanda, Da, Shanxi and other local military affairs, and also took care of food and salary, and wrote an edict to him.

Lu Xiangsheng's original position as prime minister of the six provinces was temporarily taken over by Wang Jiazhen, the left attendant of the Ministry of War.

However, Wang Jiazhen's ability is insufficient and is not valued by Yang Sichang, who thinks that Wang Jiazhen is not worthy of this position.

After all, as soon as Wang Jiazhen took over the post of prime minister of the six provinces, Zhang Xianzhong broke through several fronts one after another, and the originally good situation was in vain because of the change of commander, and the situation deteriorated even more.

Therefore, Yang Sichang did not think of using Wang Jiazhen to suppress at the beginning of the plan.

At this time, Xiong Wencan, who was quite famous, happened to enter Yang Sichang's sight.

Yang Sichang did not hesitate much under his operation.

In April of the tenth year, Xiong Wencan was promoted again, concurrently serving as the right deputy capital Yushi, and the prime minister of Nanzhi, Henan, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Huguang, and Sichuan military affairs, specializing in attacking.

By the end of October, Xiong Wencan had already arrived in Xingyuan in Anqing, and he had also received a request for help from Chengdu, Wang Weizhang, the governor of Sichuan.

Xiong Wencan has just taken office, but he still knows about the situation of the Liukou in the Guannai through various means.

When he heard that Li Zicheng had arrived at the city of Chengdu, Xiong Wencan did not panic, but first transferred the distribution and number of guards and battalions from all over Sichuan Province.

Then Xiong Wencan acted vigorously and resolutely, divided into three roads in western Sichuan, southern Sichuan, and eastern Sichuan, each set up a main general, led the troops and horses to gallop to Chengdu, and went to the encirclement.

All the way to the west of Sichuan, from the northwest of Chengdu Prefecture, all the way south through Wenchuan, through the irrigation river to Chengdu.

This part of the soldiers and horses is composed of the Tusi of Songpanwei, as well as the Tusi of the northwest of Chengdu Prefecture and the local battalions, with a total of 17,000 people.

All the way to the south of Sichuan, the battalion soldiers and guards and Tusi soldiers mobilized from the state capitals of Lizhou, Yazhou, Jiading, Meizhou and other prefectures, totaling 15,000 people.

All the way to the east of Sichuan, and the guards and battalions from all over the country, a total of 11,000 soldiers, from Nanchong in Shunqing Province all the way to the west, through Suining to Chengdu to help.

The three-way soldiers and horses are surrounded from the east, south and west, like a pocket towards Chengdu.

In northern Sichuan, Hong Chengchou finally led his troops through Wenxian in the southwest of Gongchang Prefecture, entered Songpanwei in the northwest of Sichuan Province, and rushed south along Li Zicheng's road south to Sichuan.

Chen Wang followed Cao Wenzhao to the east of Wei County, and met with the two camps of Hou Liangzhu and Cao Bianjiao.

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Chongzhen ten years, the third day of December.

The northern part of Sichuan Province, Long'an Province, and the northern part of Jiangyou.

As the sun set, it was as if a giant beast had opened its abyssal jaw and swallowed the whole world, plunging the world into darkness.

The Yinping Road, which was once narrow and difficult to travel during the Three Kingdoms, has been widened a lot by the Ming Dynasty, and many places can even accommodate several chariots and horses in parallel.

Heading north from Jiangyou, the mountains began to become steep.

Li Zicheng set up a temporary camp on a high slope near an official road in the northern part of Jiangyou.

Campfires were lit all over the camp, and most of the people, except for the sentry and patrolling soldiers, were already asleep.

In the Chinese military tent, Li Zicheng put his hands on his knees, he lowered his head, his eyes were slightly closed, and he sat on a wooden chair.

Galloping all the way from Chengdu, there was almost no stop along the road, and Li Zicheng's physical strength was somewhat difficult to support.

However, compared to physical exhaustion, Li Zicheng's spirit is actually even worse.

His heartstrings had been tense and could not be relaxed, and the weight of Wan Jun weighed on him.

What he was doing now was like dancing on the tip of a knife, and there could be no mistake.

If anything went wrong, the cold tip of the knife would pierce his legs and feet.

Then he fell into the knife mountain, and died by ten thousand knives, and his bones were gone.

Under the closed eyes, Li Zicheng's eyes rolled slightly from time to time, and his brows furrowed from time to time.

Li Zicheng didn't fall asleep, he still retained the meaning of being awake, just thinking about something.

He hadn't slept for two days.

From Shaanxi to Nanzhili, and then from Nanzhili to Shaanxi, across thousands of miles, and transferred to the land of seven provinces, Li Zicheng has long been accustomed to fighting horses and battles.

In the old days, he was able to sleep under any circumstances.

But this time, Li Zicheng lost sleep.

As when he first rose up, his heart was filled with fear, and his mind was full of what would happen after the defeat.

All the while, Gao Yingxiang stood in front of him, standing in front of all of them, leading them forward.

At that time, he didn't need to think about too many things, he just needed to do his part.

But now......

No one stood in front of him anymore.

Now it's him, standing in front of the others.

In the Chinese military tent, it was empty, and only Li Zicheng was included.

Li Zicheng slowly opened his eyes, his eyes full of exhaustion.

He now knows what a heavy responsibility Gao Yingxiang once shouldered on his shoulders.

He didn't know if he had made the right decision, and he didn't know if his arrangement would go wrong.

Li Zicheng raised his head, and on the low table in front of him was the seized map.

Several maps were spliced together to form a larger map.

The proportions of these maps are roughly the same, but there will not be much error.

The main components of this large map are the map of Chengdu Prefecture, the map of Long'an Mansion, and the last one is the map of Gongchang Mansion.

Li Zicheng's gaze stayed on the map on the table.

On the map, many circles and battle flags are drawn with red pen and ink.

Each of these circles and battle flags represents an officer and soldier.

Li Zicheng's gaze fell on Wei County, the gateway to the northeast of Chengdu Prefecture, where he left nearly 70,000 people.

Most of the infantry and hungry soldiers were left in the area of Mianzhou and Wei County, defended by the mountains, and camped to defend them, in order to ensure the smooth retreat.

The soldiers he left behind also did what they were supposed to do - to keep the retreat path open.

Cao Wenzhao and Hou Liangzhu have not yet broken through the defensive positions he arranged, and the two armies are still in a stalemate.

Li Zicheng's gaze moved south, and finally stopped at the city of Chengdu to the south.

The attack on Chengdu was just to attract troops and horses from all over Sichuan to converge towards Chengdu, and now that his goal has been achieved, there is naturally no need to stay in Chengdu anymore.

He left only more than 1,000 horse troops in Chengdu, and more than 40,000 hungry soldiers responsible for the siege.

But these hungry soldiers are just cannon fodder, and when Li Zicheng retreated, he ordered a quiet retreat, trying not to startle the snakes, and did not let these hungry soldiers know.

The hungry soldiers who remained in Chengdu were merely outcasts to attract the attention of officers and soldiers, and the horse army was the troops who supervised the war.

To be precise, all the hungry soldiers and stranded horse teams in Weixian, Mianzhou, and Chengdu are just outcasts.

At the beginning, the 6,000 elite cavalry and 20,000 horse troops who followed Li Zicheng from Wenxian into Sichuan had already followed Li Zicheng to the north of Jiangyou.

A hurried footstep suddenly sounded outside the tent, and Li Zicheng raised his head, his eyes suddenly sharpened, and he followed the prestige.

The curtain was knocked open, and Li Zicheng's pupils shrank slightly, and he saw the person clearly.

The one who broke into the account was a general who followed him all the way to the south and the north early, named Tian Jianxiu, a native of Suide County.

"There is already an enemy situation on the Pingwu side, and two days ago, a group of officers and soldiers came from the north."

"There are almost seven or eight thousand officers and soldiers, all of them are wearing armor, they are all Shaanxi soldiers, and He Luozi and Zuo Guangxian's generals are among them."

Tian Jianxiu walked all the way closer, his face was slightly embarrassed, and he whispered.

"Gao Jie's banner is also ...... It seems to be the Shaanxi soldiers led by Hong Chengchou. ”

Tian Jianxiu's last sentence made Li Zicheng's eyes suddenly sharpen.

The palpitating killing intent swirled in Li Zicheng's eyes.

Gao Jie......

In the first battle of Chunhua, it was Gao Jie's rebellion that caused him to lose that crucial battle and lose almost half of his family.

That battle was also the battle of Chen Wang's rise......

Li Zicheng clenched his fists and subconsciously looked in the direction of Zitong.

Among the officers and soldiers who came this time, Chen Wang was also among them, and he followed Cao Wenzhao all the way from Chuxian.

"Gao Jie is a camp officer, since he is here, Hong Chengchou must also be there."

Li Zicheng's eyes became calm again, and he had already suppressed the agitation in his heart.

Li Zicheng knows very well that he must keep a cool head at a critical moment and must not be carried away by anger.

Anger can confuse people's minds, and anger can also cause people to deviate in their judgment and choose the wrong path.

And now he's ...... No mistakes must be made......

Li Zicheng slowly stood up, and then leaned over to look at the situation on the map.

Officers and soldiers came from all sides, trying to trap him in Chengdu Mansion.

"The net of four positives, six corners and ten faces......"

Li Zicheng sneered, he also knew that Yang Sichang proposed the net of four positives, six corners and ten sides.

The adults who lived high in the temple never understood the suffering of the people.

The salary has increased by 2.8 million yuan, and I am afraid that the military salary that can really be implemented is not one million taels.

With an additional 120,000 soldiers, in the end, 50,000 or 60,000 people can be recruited.

It looks like the government is raising salaries, but in fact they are increasing salaries.

The more money is added to the land, the more people will be willing to follow them.

The more soldiers were recruited at the local level, the more people in those cities were willing to act as agents and help them open their gates.

Li Zicheng not only set up defenses in Wei County and Mianzhou, but also set up defenses in Pingwu in Long'an Province.

When he first laid down Pingwu, he did not tear down all the walls of Pingwu City as before, but kept them, and the checkpoints along the way were also roughly preserved.

He led his troops from Wenxian to infiltrate Sichuan, and most of the Ming army would send people to pursue them along the road to prevent him from returning to Wenxian and re-entering Gongchang Mansion.

All this was expected by Li Zicheng, although Li Zicheng had not read any military books, but after all, he had fought for so many years.

Therefore, Li Zicheng had already left more than 20,000 people in Pingwu to occupy the checkpoint and block the road.

"Over there in Pingwu, how long can Liu Fangliang hold out?"

Li Zicheng turned his head and looked at Tian Jianxiu.

"The offensive of the officers and soldiers is not strong, and there is no pressure on Lao Liu's side, but it may be that the officers and soldiers have rushed all the way over, and they haven't used all their strength yet."

"The soldiers under the command of He Madman and Zuo Guangxian are strong, and most of Lao Liu's side are hungry soldiers, only 1,000 elite cavalry and 3,000 horsemen."

Tian Jianxiu touched his nose, which was red from the cold, and said with a sigh.

"If the officers and soldiers are ruthless, Lao Liu's side should only be able to block for three days at most."

"Three days ......"

Li Zicheng's expression was solemn, and his eyes were gloomy.

"That's pretty much enough......"

Li Zicheng raised his head, looked out of the big tent with his eyes, and already had a plan in his heart.

"Spread the word to the whole army, tomorrow the third watch will make rice, and the fourth watch will pull out the camp......"

"All the way north, straight into Qingchuan!"

Li Zicheng lowered his head and looked at the map in front of him, his eyes were as bright as a torch.

"We ...... Re-entry! ”

(End of chapter)