Chapter 331 Chengdu Breaks through

The news about Sichuan is sent to Liu Xia almost every two hours, constantly refreshing the situation.

On June 28, the army arrived in Mianyang and broke through Mianyang County. When the people in the city heard the arrival of the Pingbei army, they opened their doors and welcomed them. Wanmin congratulated that they had escaped from the evil and cruel Zhang Xianzhong. The army rested for a day in Mianyang County. At the same time, it sent merchants to lead the Leihu Brigade as a pioneer and went to Luojiang. Shangchuang arrived in Luojiang when the sky was not bright in the morning. At that time, the Luojiang River was foggy, and it was difficult to see people left and right. In the fog, the commander of the merchant was keenly aware of the enemy around him, so he immediately ordered the soldiers to be vigilant and scattered out to explore intelligence.

Because of the fog, although you know that there are enemies around, you can't retreat, because once you retreat, it is easy to cause the collapse of the whole army. At this dangerous moment, the business break-in commander took the lead and took the lead. Lead the soldiers and horses under his hands to rush to the enemy. Although I don't know the number of enemies, I don't know the strength of the enemy, and I don't even know who the enemy is. He firmly believed in the prince's call to fight against the enemy bravely, regardless of success or failure. After noon, the fog dissipated. At this moment, the enemy was less than a hundred people. The merchant commander led the soldiers and horses to surround them and capture them alive. And he caught a local general. After some inquiry, Fang learned that this person was Zhang Xianzhong's adopted son, Liu Wenxiu.

At this moment, Liu Wenxiu is on his way to Luoyang. If the prince wants to see him, he will tell the prince. If he doesn't want to see him, he will be directly in prison. Li Wen's military division has arrived at the Beast Legion. At noon on July 1, our army and Zhang Xianzhong's soldiers and horses met unexpectedly in Mianzhu. Our army immediately became alert, and Li Gu's commander and Li's division immediately issued a battle order. Although Zhang Xianzhong claims that he has 100,000 soldiers, in fact, there are only more than 20,000 soldiers in his hand, and most of them are old, weak, sick and disabled, and they don't have much combat effectiveness at all. Li Gu's commander first asked Liu Jinzhong to lead his 5,000 soldiers and horses to rush away. When Zhang Xianzhong saw Liu Jinzhong suddenly furious, he led the soldiers and horses behind him to rush over. Liu Jinzhong's 5,000 soldiers and horses were not very strong, and the two sides lost a lot of melee. However, in the end, Zhang Xianzhong won, and Liu Jinzhong was defeated.

"When Liu Jinzhong was defeated and returned, there were less than 2,000 soldiers and horses behind him. Most of them were injured. Li Gu's commander immediately ordered Xia Di to lead his flying bear brigade to charge forward. Zhang Xianzhong lost a huge amount of troops in the first battle, so he led his troops and horses to flee to the south.

Along the way, our army kept chasing the enemy. In Fenghuang Mountain, Li's commander shot Zhang Xianzhong's arm and injured him, but failed to kill him. In the battle of Phoenix Mountain, Zhang Xianzhong left 8,000 soldiers and horses to resist the army of beasts, and then took the opportunity to escape to Chongqing.

The army of fierce beasts couldn't chase him, so they took the opportunity to enter Chengdu City, took all the large and small officials in Chengdu City, and sealed all the gold and silver houses and waited for the prince's release.

Nowadays, the northern part of Sichuan is basically controlled by our army, and officials can be sent to manage it at any time. The local people did not resist. Everyone in the world knew that the prince was a benevolent. How could anyone oppose him?

Chen Liu reported the battle report about Sichuan to Liu Xia. The battle in Sichuan was very smooth and did not get much resistance. There were also some local landlords and local tycoons who did not want to lose their interests, so they united to sneak up on some soldiers and horses of the Beast Legion, killing hundreds of them.

After hearing this, Li Gu immediately raised 5,000 soldiers and personally led them to behead all the landlords and tyrants and squires to the public. And open the granaries in Chengdu, open warehouses and release grain to the people, so that the people can return home. Because a large number of landlords were killed, a large area of land became a masterless land, so the land was distributed to the people in accordance with the land distribution regulations issued by Liu Xia. However, these lands have only the right to use and no right to buy and sell.

"Chongqing Mansion seems to be occupied by Zeng Ying. If Zhang Xianzhong has passed away--"

Liu Xia's meaning is obvious whether she will be beaten by Zeng Ying and destroy it. After all, Zhang Xianzhong used to use a lot of troops in the past.

Chen Liu said, "Your Majesty, at present, Zeng Ying should not dare to touch Zhang Xianzhong. Although Zhang Xianzhong was defeated, he still had some troops under his men, not to mention Li Dingguo and Sun Kewang in Yunnan, with a total strength of 50,000 elite soldiers. Therefore, Zeng Ying did not dare to put Zhang Xianzhong to death, and at most drove him out of Chongqing.

Liu Xia nodded and said, "That's right." So he turned to Meng Yu and said, "Meng Yu, ask the dragon group to trace Zhang Xianzhong's whereabouts immediately, and report it as soon as you find it."

Standing next to him, Meng Yu, who was motionless, suddenly showed a serious expression and said, "I understand!"

As Chen Liu said, when Zhang Xianzhong fled to Chongqing, Zeng Ying's scout immediately found Zhang Xianzhong and his party. When the Pingbei Army attacked Sichuan, Zeng Ying had already got the news, so he arranged a large number of scouts in the territory to prevent the two soldiers from entering its territory.

Knowing that Zhang Xianzhong led 3,000 remnants of troops into his territory, Zeng Ying immediately put on armor and picked up a long gun. Take 5,000 elites to intercept Zhang Xianzhong and go.

Now that Zhang Xianzhong has been defeated, and he has been defeated so quickly, it can be imagined how powerful the Northern Army is, so Zeng Ying does not want Zhang Xianzhong to guide his Chongqing government with the Northern Army. Although he knew that his Chongqing government would be patronized by the Pingbei Army sooner or later, he did not want to believe it.

Soon, Zeng Ying came to a place not far from Zhang Xianzhong with 5,000 soldiers and horses. At this moment, Zhang Xianzhong was sweating heavily, and he didn't know where he had lost his helmet. There are blood stains all over the body.

At this time, he suddenly heard the sound of horses' hoofs. At this moment, he was already in a state of grass and trees. Even the wind and grass would make him very **.

"Collection! Gather together!" Zhang Xianzhong roared. The soldiers were already lying on the ground or sitting on the ground, exhausted. However, due to Zhang Xianzhong's strength, they also got up one after another.

Sure enough, after a while, a piece of black soldiers and horses surrounded them.

"Zeng Ying!" Zhang Xianzhong's pupils shrank, his eyes closed, and he looked at Zeng Ying warily. He knew very well that if Zeng Ying wanted to kill him at this moment, he could not resist it at all.

"Zeng Ying, what do you want to do?"

Zeng Ying sneered and said, "Emperor Zhang, what's wrong with this? Why is it full of blood, and why did his imperial army become a remnant soldier? Although Zhang Xianzhong was very angry, as a warlord, he knew forebearance. So he easily filtered out the sarcasm in Zeng Ying's words and said, "I'm just a small defeat. I still have hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers in Yunnan. With my son's country and hope, who else in the world can resist it? Zhang Xianzhong's words mentioned the two of them in order to tell Zeng Ying. He told Zeng Ying that if he dared to hurt himself, then his two adopted sons's 100,000 troops would break through his Chongqing mansion.

Zeng Ying frowned. Although it was uncomfortable to be threatened, he had to suffer. He said gloomily, "I have never embarrassed Emperor Zhang. It's just that this is my territory, so please leave Chongqing, or don't blame me for turning against anyone." Zhang Xianzhong gritted his teeth and was furious. If it had been before, how could Zeng Ying dare to talk to him like this? When he hit him, didn't Zeng Ying give a generous gift? Now it is a tiger falling in Pingyang and being bullied by dogs!

However, Zhang Xianzhong had to get his noble head down and ordered the soldiers and horses to immediately leave the boundary of Chongqing. Many soldiers abandoned him along the way, and 3,000 soldiers and horses are less than 2,000 at this moment. There are more than a thousand people left, and they are still exhausted. A few days of walking has exhausted their physical strength and no nutrition, so that if these people meet the enemy, they will definitely collapse with one blow.

He said that Zhang Xianzhong was also unlucky. Originally, he was not familiar with it on the road. Along the way, he crossed the mountains and wanted to go to Yunnan, but he walked into the boundary of Guizhou. Now Guizhou has been regained control by Wu Sangui.