Chapter 26 Zhang Xianzhong's Story of the Founding of the Kingdom of Heaven (4)
The King of Shu committed suicide by throwing himself into a well, which suddenly made the situation of Gao Doushu, Fan Yiheng, Wang Guangen and others extremely embarrassing. Moreover, King Rui had been killed by He Yilong's rebels in Chongqing, and now the Ming army in Sichuan had no one to use.
The mascots that called on the officials and gentry to raise troops to resist Zhang Xianzhong are gone.
Just because they were afraid of the more brutal style of the Great Western Army, these people had no choice but to gather together and make a final resistance in Chengdu.
A long time has passed since the Zuo Liangyu Group was eliminated by Li Laiheng and Chongzhen issued an edict to organize regiment training. A large number of armed regiments were trained in Sichuan. During this period, Fan Yiheng summoned a large number of regiments to defend the city.
Wang Guangen's troops served as the backbone, forming a defense force of about 30,000 people.
These people resisted stubbornly and actually made Zhang Xianzhong feel a little troublesome for a while.
After all, Chengdu is a land of splendid heaven. Since Zhang Xianzhong has decided to take Bashu as his foundation, he is not willing to cause too much damage to Chengdu. The important advisers around him are Xu Yixian and Pan Duao. These two people have been with Zhang Xianzhong for many years, and they are not as extreme as Wang Zhaoling.
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Xu Yixian persuaded Zhang Xianzhong: "Your Majesty, if our Western Camp wants to take Bashu as its root and Xu Tu to develop outward, we must strive for the development of all aspects of Sichuan's military and civilians, and we must not kill indiscriminately and plunder."
Zhang Xianzhong looked at the Chengdu city wall in the distance, snorted nonchalantly and said, "I know this, and I don't want Mr. Xu or Mr. Pan to say more. I made a treaty with An Guoshi before, and we have already sworn not to kill indiscriminately."
One person's rules. What is He Yilong's identity? He robbed and killed randomly, I will kill him like you!
Uncle Liu Huang relied on the city of Chengdu to conquer the world. I, Lao Zhang, and Grandpa Zhang Fei are relatives, so why can't I be the master of Chengdu? Don't worry, I will not kill people randomly. Mr. Xu, Heavenly Father and Emperor God have long said that the world is one family.
Brothers, since we are all brothers, how can I kill people? Let’s surround Chengdu first and persuade them to surrender, but you think we should decide on other states and counties first, right?”
Zhang Dingguo seized the opportunity and said quickly: "Commander Father! When the students in Mianzhou heard that our Western Army was besieging Chengdu, they automatically gathered the people of Mianzhou to beat drums and make noise, rushed into the Yamen and seized the official seal. Now they have sent people to ask for it.
Welcome us into the city. Do you want us to go to Mianzhou to settle down first?"
Zhang Dingguo's suggestion moved the eight kings. They thought that there were still many defenders in Chengdu, and they would not be able to attack it for a while. Li Zicheng had already proclaimed himself emperor in Taiyuan, and he was afraid that if he laid siege to Chengdu, the Dashun army would come from behind.
Hanzhong went south and seized many prefectures and counties in Sichuan, so he nodded and left Zhang Kewang and others to continue to surround Chengdu. He led his troops to Mianzhou to establish a foothold, and then sent generals to lead troops to capture various prefectures, prefectures, counties and chieftains in Sichuan.
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However, the development of the situation soon exceeded Zhang Xianzhong's expectations.
Although the Daxi Army vowed not to kill anyone indiscriminately in Sichuan, they still carried out relatively harsh methods of torture and plunder according to custom, which naturally caused the Sichuan officials and gentry to stand against Zhang Xianzhong.
At the same time, although the Beijing court was controlled by Huang Taiji, the Ming Dynasty did not fall into a leaderless situation. On the contrary, once Huang Taiji, who had more vicious political skills, took control of the Beijing court, he immediately used his methods to instigate chaos in the south.
First, King Lu and King Fu were asked to check each other, and then they accepted Hong Chengchou's suggestion, and in the name of Emperor Chongzhen and the Beijing court, Wang Yingxiong was appointed governor of Sichuan, Hu, Yun, and Guizhou.
Soon, while Zhang Xianzhong was resting in Mianzhou and the main force of the Great Western Army was gathering in Chengdu and northern Sichuan, the various departments of the Ming Army used southern Sichuan as their base, joined forces with the government and gentry groups to train their armed forces, and began to be active.
Zeng Ying, who had previously retreated into the mountains near Fuzhou, took the opportunity to come out. Because Zhang Xianzhong left only a few troops to defend Chongqing, Zeng Ying quickly defeated the Daxi Army defender Liu Tingju's troops and occupied Chongqing.
At this time, Zhang Xianzhong still did not pay much attention to the subtle changes taking place in Sichuan. He only sent Zhang Wenxiu to lead a small number of troops to try to retake Chongqing. As a result, Zhang Wenxiu was blocked by the armed forces of the officials and gentry along the way, and was repulsed by Zeng Ying after arriving in Chongqing.
The fall of this important mountain town was the first major political and military setback that Zhang Xianzhong suffered after entering Sichuan. In addition, the Ming general Wang Xiang occupied Qijiang, the general Yang Zhan occupied Liya, and the guerrilla Ma Yingshi seized Xuzhou.
In the Shunqing area, Juren Zou Jianchen also took the opportunity to organize an armed counterattack and counterattack, and Songpan's deputy general Zhu Hualong in western Sichuan also led an army to separate one side. The officials, gentry and landlords in the area controlled by the Daxi regime rebelled one after another. For a time, Zhang Xianzhong except Chengdu and Mianzhou
Outside the area, they were resisted everywhere by the Sichuan army and civilians. They suddenly turned from attack to defense and fell into a particularly passive situation. Wang Guangen, who was originally trapped in Chengdu and was wavering about surrendering, was determined to hold on.
If Zhang Xianzhong in the past, with his strong thoughts of destiny and his highly extreme and emotional temperament, faced such sudden blows and setbacks, especially compared with Li Zicheng's smooth situation in the north, it would definitely make
Zhang Xianzhong's mentality was completely unbalanced and even collapsed, so that he did all kinds of wrong things that hurt his relatives and made his enemies happy.
But at this time, Zhang Xianzhong's thoughts on destiny had undergone subtle changes due to the influence of An Wensi's preaching.
Moreover, the two counselors Xu Yixian and Pan Duao are not comparable to the extremely vicious Wang Zhaoling in later history.
At a critical moment, Pan Du'ao had a sudden idea. One night, when Zhang Xianzhong was worried about the chaos in Sichuan and could not sleep, Pan Du'ao suddenly brought Zhu Youlang, the king of Gui, to pay homage to Zhang Xianzhong.
Although Zhang Xianzhong had already abolished the order that "all members of the royal family, regardless of obedience or disobedience, soldiers and civilians, and those with the surname Zhu, will be killed", the clan princes of the Ming Dynasty were still very disrespectful in the Western Army.
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At this time, Pan Duao suddenly brought King Gui here. What did he mean?
Zhang Xianzhong looked at the King Gui brought by Pan Duao, and asked in confusion: "Mr. Pan, what kind of show are you playing for me, Mr. Zhang? Why did you bring this Prince Zhu... How did you bring this Brother Zhu here?"
Originally, Zhang Xianzhong had always killed all members of the Ming Dynasty royal family, regardless of whether they were near or far. However, since he was baptized by Anwensi's evangelism, he actually treated Zhu Youlang, a fellow believer, as Brother Zhu, and he became famous all over the world.
The principle that all church members are brothers seems to be a little bit sincere and affectionate.
Zhu Youlang, who was forced to meet Zhang Xianzhong by Pan Duao, thought that he would never come back, and half of his souls and six souls were frightened. Unexpectedly, as soon as he met Zhang Xianzhong, he heard the Eight Kings calling him "Zhu Youlang".
Brother", this immediately made Zhu Youlang's nervousness relax a lot.
Pan Duao patted Zhu Youlang hard from behind, and King Gui staggered forward, bowed to Zhang Xianzhong and said: "Your Majesty... Your Majesty... Mr. Pan told me, is there anything your Majesty can do with me?"
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Zhang Xianzhong looked at Pan Duao in confusion, and Mr. Pan smiled happily and said: "The current situation of our Great Western Army is really bad. With tens of thousands of troops stationed in Mianzhou, we may not be able to win the victory in a sudden attack.
Go down to Chengdu. The area in southern Sichuan is full of Ming Dynasty officials, gentry, generals and soldiers. There is chaos in all directions. What do you think the king should do next?"
"Humph!" Zhang Xianzhong said impatiently, "Mr. Pan is in the front. Mr. Xu said not to rush to capture Chengdu, so I divided my troops to capture various prefectures and counties in Sichuan.
What’s next?
It's just that we gather food from everywhere, and when we don't have to worry about food and clothing, we will surround the city of Chengdu. It's best if they are willing to surrender. I can also learn from Liu Huangshu and never make any mistakes. If Wang Guangen, the Huaguansuo in the city, doesn't understand, he plans to
If we fight to the end, we will naturally attack Chengdu and burn every jade stone."
With a half-smile expression on his face, Pan Duao pointed to the north and said, "I heard that Li Zicheng has proclaimed himself emperor in the north. What does your Majesty think of this?"
"He, Lao Li, is very powerful, but if he can become emperor today, tomorrow I can conquer Chengdu and become emperor in Xichuan. From now on, Zicheng and I will still have to fight."
"Haha. I heard that when Li Zicheng proclaimed himself emperor, he specially found the two vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty, King Qin and King Jin, and asked them to use their status as supervisors of the Ming Dynasty to give up the throne to his old Li Jiachan."
"Old Pan, what do you mean? Do you mean that we also have to give in to Brother Zhu for fun?"