Chapter 145 Northwest Final Decision

After the New Year, Xiao Tianjian was not idle. Under his supervision, all kinds of affairs in the DPRK are advancing rapidly, and all ministries are in their respective vocations, so that all kinds of affairs in the jurisdiction are advancing in parallel. All the various allocations previously promoted by the Ming Dynasty have been abolished by the DPRK.

In this way, the burden on the people everywhere has been greatly reduced, and as the land gradually returns to the hands of farmers, farmers also have expectations for the future. Who is willing to continue to carry their heads to work? As a result, the situation in various places began to stabilize.

Of course, it can't be said that the situation can be restored to a state of national harmony and people's security at once. After all, every time the dynasty changes, there are always some people who are loyal to the old dynasty and are unwilling to bow down to the new dynasty like this. Therefore, there are also some foolish loyalty of the Ming Dynasty in many places. They are trying their best to gather people to fight against the Greater China Dynasty and want to The rule of the Ming Dynasty was restored.

However, for the Great China Dynasty, the resistance forces in these places are no longer a problem, and it is basically impossible to shake the rule of the Great China Dynasty. After the implementation of the policy of comforting the people, there are fewer and fewer people who are willing to follow the Ming Dynasty, mainly because of the establishment of the Great China Dynasty. Some landlords, old officials and soldiers who have damaged their personal interests are tossing around.

For these people, Xiao Tianjian made a ruthless effort to force the garrison in various places to suppress and use the code in chaos. For the future peace of the Great China and North Korea, some people who refuse to be honest must be eliminated. Therefore, the garrisons in various places have adopted high-pressure measures against this resistance, stroking one hand and suppressing the other, and accepting Zhao'an. That's all, but as long as someone doesn't accept Zhao'an, there is only a bleak blow waiting for them. Many people have lost their heads for this, and even wiped out all the door. But for Xiao Tianjian, this is the beginning of a new era and the blood that must be paid. Since they don't want to return to the rule of the Dazhong Dynasty, then The only way is to erase them.

Some of the ministers in the court don't agree with Xiao Tianjian's fierce method, but Xiao Tianjian doesn't say much to them. Now the Dazhong Dynasty is his words. Some people object, so don't be an official in the Dazhong Dynasty. For this reason, a group of officials also lost their official positions and were driven home to farm. Come on, the voice of opposition from the court was also suppressed by Xiao Tianjian.

The first month of the second year of Tianyuan passed in Xiao Tianjian's busyness. With the progress of the war in the northwest, a major good news came from the northwest at the end of the first month.

Under the strong blow of the Northwest Army a few years ago, Li Zicheng was defeated repeatedly, losing more than half of the soldiers. Coupled with the serious shortage of materials, he had to abandon Xi'an Mansion and fled to the Hanzhong area with the remnants.

Yan Chongxi and Liu Bao's army quickly recovered Xi'an Mansion. Originally, according to the idea of Yan Chongxi and Liu Bao, they directly marched into the Hanzhong Mansion and completely solved Li Zicheng, but this time Xiao Tianjian rarely interfered in their battle plan in the name of the emperor.

During the Spring Festival, Xiao Tianjian issued an order to Yan Chongxi and Liu Bao to suspend the attack plan on Hanzhong Mansion. Instead, he first stabilized the situation in Xi'an Mansion, sent troops to guard several key roads from Hanzhong to Xi'an Mansion, and attacked western Shaanxi and other places first.

The key reason why Xiao Tianjian asked Yan Chongxi and Liu Bao to do this is to listen to the opinions of Li Xin and other staff officers.

Although Li Zicheng is now losing streak in a row, he still has some strength at hand. Once the Western army enters Hanzhong Mansion, there must be a big war. In that case, for the logistics of the Great China and North Korea, the pressure is too great, and it is easy to cause major casualties of the Dazhong army.

Although Hanzhong is not small, Li Zicheng wants to feed more than 100,000 men in the land of Hanzhong. After the surprise attack of Li Shuanzhu at the beginning of last year, the grain stored in Hanzhong government is not enough for Li Zicheng's soldiers and horses. Now it is winter, and it is impossible for Li Zicheng to solve the ration problem by cultivating seeds, so with To attack Hanzhong Mansion, it is better to adopt a siege strategy and trap Li Zicheng in the area of Hanzhong Mansion. Even if the Northwest Army defeats Li Zicheng, Li Zicheng escapes from Hanzhong Mansion and runs to the western part of Shaanxi. In that case, it is an endless disaster for the Greater China Dynasty.

It's better to take advantage of the opportunity that Li Zicheng's main soldiers and horses are concentrated in Hanzhongfu, and the troops on the territory controlled by Li Zicheng in Shaanxi is empty. First, the rest of the Shaanxi provinces will be defeated, and the way to escape again after Li Zicheng is defeated, so as to finally eliminate Li Zicheng in one fell swoop. In the future, he will still be in the future. Kou, rushing east and west to look for trouble for Dazhong Dynasty.

Nowadays, the most important thing for the Dazhong Dynasty is to restore stability as soon as possible. Xiao Tianjian, a giant bandit like Li Zicheng, will no longer let him run around like Daming. At the beginning, he raised Li Zicheng, but he wanted Li Zicheng to cooperate with the Dazhong army in the northwest to deal with the Ming Dynasty. Now that the Ming Dynasty is over, then Li Zicheng There is no need to stay, so Xiao Tianjian sent Yan Chongxi and Liu Bao to lead the Western army to fight against Li Zicheng, in order to completely solve Li Zicheng.

After having Xiao Tianjian's order, Yan Chongxi and Liu Bao immediately revised the battle plan and controlled all the key entrances leading to Hanzhong with a small number of troops. Then they sent General Wang Chengping to attack all parts of western Shaanxi after the Spring Festival, and then divided the troops to defeat Fengxiang Mansion, Qingyang, Pingliang and Gongchang Mansion. In some areas, Li Zicheng's Dashun forces were completely suppressed in the Hanzhongfu area.

Since then, Li Zicheng has been completely surrounded by the Dazhong army. The southeast and northwest have become the control areas of the Dazhong Dynasty, which makes Li Zicheng's Dashun regime difficult. Almost every day, the Dashun army under his command will escape and defect to the Dazhong army to ask for surrender to the Dazhong Dynasty.

And Li Zicheng still refused to care for this. A few years ago, he sent Liu Zongmin with Liu Tichun to lead 10,000 elite soldiers and began to enter Shu from Hanzhong and rushed straight to Lizhou. When the mountains and rivers were exhausted, he tried to attack the rich Sichuan. Relying on the unique terrain advantages of Sichuan, he continued to fight against the Great China and North Korea.

However, how could Li Zicheng's dog jump off the wall in Dazhong and North Korea? Although Xiao Tianjian ordered Li Shuanzhu to send troops to Yunnan, they did not ignore the defense of Sichuan at all. Li Shuanzhu had already been ready to welcome the Dashun army in Sichuan.

Just as Liu Zongmin was aggressively leading his troops to Lizhou, Li Shuanzhu visited Baoning Prefecture in advance and mobilized nearly 10,000 large and medium-sized troops to set up defenses in the area of Baoning Prefecture.

Liu Zongmin and Liu Tichun divided their troops. They wanted to attack Lizhou and open the channel into Sichuan in one fell swoop. However, at the beginning, they still moved smoothly. Along the way, they were only slightly resisted by the large and medium-sized army, so they let them enter the area of Lizhou, but they were surrounded by soldiers. When he was in the state, Li Shuanzhu suddenly led the army to cut off Liu Zongmin's back road. Ma Qiang, the general of Lizhou, could not defend the city. When Liu Zongmin and Liu Tichun led the troops into Sichuan, because the mountain road was difficult, they could not carry many heavy guns or attack the city. As a result, after the siege battle began, the Dashun army was in Lizhou. The city hit its head and bloodshed.

Liu Zongmin attacked Lizhou and realized that there was a big trouble. In addition, he got the news that a large number of Dazhong troops were surrounding them, so he hurried to withdraw to Hanzhong. However, it was too late. A Dazhong soldier was stuck on their way back to Hanzhongfu, and then Li Shuanzhu led three thousand good at it. The Sichuan army fighting in the mountains suddenly appeared in front of Liu Zongmin's troops. Under the two attacks, Liu Zongmin was immediately defeated in Lizhou.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Liu Tishun immediately abandoned the soldiers and fled into the mountains, but Liu Zongmin could not escape. On the spot, he was killed by the random gun of the Dazhong army surrounded by the two armies.

As a result, Li Zicheng's idea of entering Sichuan turned into nothing in front of Li Shuanzhu's Sichuan army. Even Li Zicheng's hard-earned 10,000 horses, only less than 300 people escaped into the mountains and forests. It took all the effort to escape back to Hanzhong Mansion.

Li Zicheng was shocked when he heard this, but at this time, because of the delay of time, Li Zicheng had lost the Fengxiang Mansion, and the Hanzhong Mansion was surrounded by the Dazhong Army in all directions.

So far, Li Zicheng had no way to go, and Xiao Tianjian finally ordered Li Shuanzhu to lead a small number of Sichuan troops out of Sichuan and cooperate with Yan Chongxi's Western Expedition to launch the last blow to Hanzhong Mansion.

In mid-February, the weather in Shaanxi began to gradually warm up. At this time, all kinds of people of the Western Expeditionary Army began to move towards the Hanzhong Mansion. Li Shuanzhu personally led 6,000 Chinese troops out of Lizhou and forced them towards Hanzhong Mansion.

At this time, Li Zicheng knew that all his dreams had been shattered. The Dazhong Army was not the Ming Army. With Xiao Tianjian's efforts, the Dazhong Army was already an invincible army. He wanted to continue to fight against the Dazhong Army, but he had no capital.

So at this time, Li Zicheng had to admit defeat and sent people to Xi'an Mansion to seek peace with the Dazhong Dynasty, provided that he could abdicate, but Xiao Tianjian sealed him in Hanzhong Mansion. In fact, he took charge of the military and political power of Hanzhong Mansion. He wanted to continue to be independent of the rule of the Dazhong Dynasty and seek a breathing opportunity in Hanzhong Mansion. I will find another way out in the future.

However, Yan Chongxi saw what Li Zicheng was thinking at a glance. He did not give Li Zicheng a chance at all. He immediately refused Li Zicheng's request for peace, which made Li Zicheng immediately give up all resistance and accept the demobilization of the Dazhong army on the spot, and made Li Zicheng immediately tie himself up.

After Li Zicheng was rejected, he knew that the possibility of final peace was gone, so he was furious and ordered to summon all the generals to gather troops around Hanzhong City to fight to the death with the Dazhong army.

The final battle in the northwest kicked off...

(Today is our National Shame Day. Maybe we can't do more for us civilians, but we can show our patriotism by not buying Japanese goods! I hope my friends can remember this day and never buy Japanese goods! Let the little devils know that we Chinese also have backbone!)