Xiao Xiang retired the hundreds of thousands of clan troops under the twelve princes and put them into uniform, and they all worked as laborers for digging canals. It can be said that he killed two birds with one stone. He eliminated the hidden dangers of the Sichuan Kingdom and solved his own worries. At the same time, it also benefited the southern part of the Sichuan Kingdom.
of people.
On the third day after Xiao Xiang completely disbanded the family army, the ministers of Sichuan State launched a grand campaign to persuade Xiao Xiang to advance.
Xiao Xiang now firmly controls the military and political power of the Sichuan Kingdom, and she also has the intention to inherit the throne. The persuasion of the ministers is actually just a formality.
Of course, Xiao Xiang was not immune to clichés. The ministers tried to persuade her three times, but she declined three times. It was not until the fourth time that Xiao Xiang reluctantly accepted.
At this point, the new monarch of Sichuan Kingdom was officially born. What is rare is that Xiao Xiang also became the first female monarch in the history of Sichuan Kingdom.
After Xiao Xiang ascended the throne, the first thing she did was to eliminate potential threats to her from her fellow royals.
She made all her brothers and sisters, including Xiao Yuan, Xiao Yu, and Xiao Peng, marquises. It seemed that she was very benevolent and did not kill the clan members indiscriminately. She also made them all marquises, but in fact, she did not give them the title of marquis.
The half-inch fiefdom did not allow them to have any substantive rights, and they were strictly prohibited from leaving the capital. The marquis titles of these princes and princesses were completely empty titles. In turn, Xiao Xiang himself was under house arrest.
Once inside the capital, he lived completely under his control.
After Xiao Xuan died of illness, the vigorous battle for the throne of Sichuan came to an end. Xiao Xiang stood out among many brothers and sisters. This was certainly related to her own extraordinary ability, but also to luck and chance.
After Xiao Xiang dealt with various hidden dangers inside and outside the imperial court, he turned to deal with the rebellion in Zhendi.
After such a long delay, the situation of the Zhendi rebellion is now very different from before.
Since Li Shu received the secret support from Feng State, he has had sufficient armaments, money and food, and his strength has expanded rapidly. In a short period of time, his troops have surged to more than 200,000.
At this time, Li Shu's self-confidence was also unprecedentedly high. He was no longer satisfied with the competition for one city and one county, and began to target the three counties of Jinggu, Fantiao and Bainan in Zhenxi.
Li Shu had long planned to use Zhenxi as the foundation, and then gradually expand eastward, and finally complete the strategic concept of regaining the entire Zhendi. However, a large number of Sichuan Central Army troops were stationed in these three counties, including Sichuan's Ninth Army.
, the eleventh, sixteenth, and seventeenth legions, with a total strength of more than 400,000.
If you want to defeat the Sichuan Central Army with more than 400,000 troops with more than 200,000 troops, it is difficult for even Zhenren to do it. However, Li Shu has such determination and courage. He led his rebels and first dialogue
Nanjun launched an offensive.
The Seventeenth Army Corps stationed in Bainan County in Sichuan Province. Among the four legions in Zhenxi, the Seventeenth Army Corps has the smallest number of troops, exactly one hundred thousand, and the weakest combat power. Its commander is not a very famous general. A famous general
The lieutenant general named Dong Bo was unknown.
In addition, what Li Shu despises the most about the Seventeenth Army Corps is that it has no defense center in Bainan County. All its troops are scattered in various counties and towns, with one wave to the east and one to the west. It is easy for the rebels to defeat them one by one.
For these reasons, Li Shu took the lead in attacking Bainan County and started a head-on confrontation with the 17th Army of the Sichuan Kingdom.
The rebels in the central part of Zhendi actually fled to the west of Zhendi and took the initiative to attack Bainan County. This was indeed something the Sichuan army never expected. At the beginning of the war, the rebels headed by Li Shu were unstoppable and marched straight into Bainan County.
hinterland.
Although the defenders of the 17th Army Corps in various places in Baeknam County resisted desperately, they were eventually forced to evacuate their garrisoned areas due to their small number of troops and outnumbered enemies.
In just half a month, the rebels fought from the easternmost part of Bainan County to the westernmost part of Bainan County. Going west, they had already left Zhendi and entered Fanbang bordering Zhendi——
Teeth.
After opening up the border, Li Shu immediately sent envoys to Chiyue to meet with King Xu Yiman of Chiyue and ask him to send troops for reinforcements.
At that time, the Zhen Kingdom was constantly fighting with the fan states in the west. Jiyue was one of the many enemy countries of the Zhen Kingdom. However, in the subsequent battles, the Chiyue army that invaded the Zhen Kingdom was severely defeated by the Zhen army. The Zhen army took advantage of the victory to pursue them.
In one fell swoop, they invaded the territory of the Chiyue Kingdom and burned, killed, and looted all the way from the border to the capital of Chiyue. Finally, they got the King of Chiyue to hand over a letter of surrender, submit a form of obedience, and surrender to the Zhen Kingdom. After Chiyue surrendered, Zhenyue
Then all the troops withdrew to their own country and did not occupy any city or town in Jiyue. Firstly, the place was too small and the ambitious Zhenguo did not take it into account at that time. Secondly, Zhenguo was just a small town in the eyes of other principalities.
The barbaric country is similar to the Fanbang barbarians, but the Zhenguo itself thinks very highly of itself and does not bother to occupy uncivilized Fanbang lands like Chiyue.
Chiyue was very grateful for Zhenguo's "magnanimity" and made good friends with Zhenguo. Moreover, Chiyue was really frightened by Zhenguo. He feared and respected Zhenguo from the bottom of his heart.
Later, the Zhen Kingdom was destroyed, and Chiyue, which had always been peaceful, began to make moves again and sent troops to invade the border from time to time. Sichuan had no choice but to station a legion in Bainan County, which borders Chiyue, to guard the border.
Although the Zhen Kingdom was annexed by the Sichuan Kingdom, the Chiyue people were not afraid of the Sichuan people and had no respect for them. However, as a rebel, Li Shu sent an envoy to Chiyue and was treated as an honored guest by the Chiyue people.
, treated him with the courtesy of a state guest, and the king of Chiyue also personally received the rebel envoys. Hearing that Li Shu, a descendant of the royal family of the original Zhen Kingdom, wanted to regain Zhenland and rescued Chiyue, Xu Yiman made a promise on the spot.
Thirty thousand elite men were sent to assist Li Shu. As long as Bainan County was under Li Shu's jurisdiction, Chiyue would never offend him in the future.
Successfully borrowing 30,000 elite troops from Chiyue, Li Shu's strength was greatly improved. Then, the rebels swept through the Sichuan Army throughout Bainan County, directly driving the 17th Army of the Sichuan Kingdom out of Bainan County, and * fled to
Within Fanjo County.
Conquering the entire Bainan County in one fell swoop encouraged the rebels, and the local Zhenren people came to vote one after another. For a time, the rebels were gaining momentum. Li Shu, who had been fighting smoothly, became more confident and immediately began to prepare for the war.
Tiaojun's attack.
Not all of the rebels were Zhen people, there were also Feng people among them. According to the agreement between Tang Yin and Li Shu, Feng State had a supervisor in the rebel army. One of the most important supervisors was Tao Yuanfeng.
He started his career by relying on the Feng Kingdom's military conquest order. Despite his young age, he is only in his early thirties, but he has participated in too many conquests. He has been with Tang Yin since the war against Ning, so he has experienced hundreds of battles.
As a "veteran", after so many years, Tao Yuanfeng has grown from an unknown soldier to a dignified lieutenant general.
When Li Shu attacked Bainan County, Tao Yuanfeng supported him, but now that Li Shu wanted to attack Fantiao County, Tao Yuanfeng expressed opposition.
Fantiao County has the largest number of garrison troops among the three counties in Zhenxi. It was originally stationed with two legions. Now the remnants of the Seventeenth Army have fled to Fantiao County, where the strength of the army is equivalent to three legions.
The rebels defeated the Seventeenth Army in Baeknam County. However, in battles large and small, the casualties of the Seventeenth Army rarely exceeded a thousand people. After seeing that they were defeated, their soldiers immediately chose to retreat.
, so among so many defeats, the main force of the Seventeenth Army was not injured, and its strength was still as many as 80,000 or 90,000. Now, the Ninth, Eleventh, and Seventeenth Army of Sichuan Kingdom gathered together in Fantiao County.
At this time, the rebels attacked Fantiao County again, and it was already extremely difficult to win.
Tao Yuanfeng's opinion is that we should bypass Fantiao County and first capture Jinggu County where the 16th Army Corps is stationed. After capturing Jinggu County, we can send troops from Bainan and Jinggu County at the same time to attack Fantiao from the south and the north.
County, and disperse the Sichuan army forces within Fantiao County to the greatest extent possible.
Li Shu still attached great importance to Tao Yuanfeng's suggestion and listened carefully, but in the end he still thought that he was worrying too much. Our own side is now in a winning position and has great momentum, while the Sichuan army is now in defeat and has low morale. Even though Fantiao County
The Sichuan army in the territory has a large number of troops, but it is not something to be afraid of.
Li Shu did not adopt Tao Yuanfeng's tactics, insisted on his own opinion, and resolutely launched an all-out attack on Fantiao County.
However, in this battle, the rebels' attack encountered huge resistance from the beginning. The Sichuan army in Fanjo County resisted desperately and launched a bloody battle with the rebels.
In the Battle of Fantiao County, the two sides fought extremely fiercely. Every inch of mountains and rivers were fought with every inch of blood. The rebels pressed forward step by step, while the Sichuan army refused to give up an inch of ground. The two sides fought for every city and even every village.
Heavy troops were invested.
After a month of this battle, the rebels had only advanced more than a hundred miles within Fantiao County.
At this time, the rebels were showing signs of weakness, and the continuous offensives also gave the rebels a headache. It just so happened that at this critical moment when they were riding a tiger, the Sichuan Army had the intention of fighting a decisive battle. The Sichuan Army's Ninth Army
All, half of the Eleventh Army and half of the Seventeenth Army, a total of 200,000 troops, gathered in the Wangxi Plain of Fantiao County. After hearing the news, Li Shu thought that a fighter plane was coming, and immediately ordered to recall all the troops who were attacking.
The soldiers and horses gathered together and rushed to Wangxi Plain to fight to the death with the main force of the Sichuan army.
The Sichuan army arrived early and was there to wait for work, while the rebels had traveled a long distance and had gone through successive battles. The whole army was exhausted physically and mentally. It can be said that the rebels had already lost three points before the battle started.
Li Shu didn't care about this. In his opinion, the strength of both sides was equal, and this alone was enough. When the strength of the two sides was equal, he was confident that no army in the world could defeat the Zhen army in a head-on battle.
In this battle, both sides invested all their main forces. The number of troops on both sides was around 200,000. This was also the largest battle since the Zhenji rebels started the rebellion. Even the unknown Wangxi Plain in Fanjo County was involved.
He became famous all over the world because of this battle.
When the battle between the two sides officially started, the Wangxi Plain became a veritable meat grinding ground. The head-to-head legion battle between the two sides turned the entire plain into a hell on earth.
During the battle, the soldiers of a regiment seemed so insignificant. When they were thrown into the battlefield, it was like a stone sinking into the sea. After an hour or a few hours, what was carried out were either corpses or seriously injured soldiers with missing limbs and arms.