Vow to die at the end of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 176 Entering Sichuan ([-])

Sichuan, the Land of Abundance, was originally a place of Wuhua Tianbao, outstanding people, but now it has almost become a dead place.

In the first month of the 17th year of Chongzhen in the former Ming Dynasty, Zhang Xianzhong led his army to turn to Sichuan, to Wushan, Xiawan County, Liankeliangshan, and Zhongzhou.After moving to Luzhou, he captured Chongqing, and then sent troops to Chengdu.For a time, Sichuan was in chaos and wars broke out.

In less than a year, Zhang Xianzhong controlled most of Sichuan Province.On November 17, the [-]th year of Chongzhen, he proclaimed himself emperor in Chengdu.

Not long after, the remnants of the defenders from various places in the former Ming Dynasty gathered troops and horses to attack the Daxi Army.The entire Sichuan Province was in chaos and people were displaced.

In the second year of Huaxing, after the Tartars overthrew Canming Hongguang's regime, they sent people to recruit Zhang Xianzhong, but he refused.

At the same time, the Daxi Army continued to fight against the Remnant Army and the local landlords, gradually depleting their strength in the internal struggle.

At the beginning of the third year of Huaxing, the Tartar court sent Hauge, Prince Su, as General Jingyuan, and Wu Sangui led the Tartar Han army to rush to Sichuan.

At this time, Yang Zhan, the former Ming general, led the troops to recapture the Southern Sichuan County, led his troops to the north, and fought fiercely with the Daxi Army at the Jiangkou of Pengshan.The Great Western Army was defeated and returned to Chengdu.

When the battle between the Great Western Army and the Remnant Army intensified.In May, Haug led the Tartar army to capture Hanzhong.

Hanzhong is the gateway to Sichuan, and to guard Sichuan, one must guard Hanzhong.Knowing that Hanzhong was captured by the Tartars, and that the war with the former Ming army was unfavorable, Zhang Xianzhong decided to go north to fight against the Tartars.In July of the third year of Huaxing, Zhang Xianzhong killed all his wives, concubines and children, and then slaughtered the whole city to search for money and food.In September of that year, he led a crowd of more than [-] to Hanzhong.

At this time, Liu Jinzhong, the general of the Daxi Army, surrendered to the Tartars, and the Tartars quickly entered northern Sichuan with Liu Jinzhong as a guide.On November 27, he contacted the Daxi Army at Fenghuang Mountain, Xichong County, Shunqing Prefecture.

The battle between the two sides was fierce, and the Daxi Army suffered heavy losses. Zhang Xianzhong was also killed in this battle.After Zhang Xianzhong was killed in battle, Sun Kewang, Li Dingguo, Ai Nengqi, Liu Wenxiu, Feng Shuangli and others of the Great Western Army had no choice but to lead their troops south, divert to Guizhou, and then captured Yunnan.Later, he joined forces with Remnant Ming to resist the Tartar army.

When Zhang Xianzhong was in Sichuan, he had the habit of massacres, and the former Ming army did the same when it was collecting food and people.The two sides fought again and again, causing countless casualties among the people.In the north of Sichuan, there are also Thirteen Shakers who are rampant and rampant, massacring countless people.

At the beginning, the thirteen families of Yaohuang were headed by the surnames of Yao and Huang, local tyrants in Hanzhong, which are homophonic for Yaohuang.Later, people in Sichuan were afraid of Zhang Xianzhong, so they defected to Yaohuang Shisan's family one after another.In the end, the Shaking Huang Shisanjia developed into a large force with more than [-] soldiers headed by Yuan Tao, Wu Dading, Hu Jiusi, Bai Jiaolong, Liu Weiming and Yang Bingyin.

Under the leadership of Yuan Tao, Wu Dading and others, the Yaohuang Shisan family had a good relationship between the Daxi Army and the former Ming army, sometimes surrendering and sometimes rebelling, and finally chose to join the former Ming army.Compared with the former Ming army, the Yaohuang Shisan family killed even more.

In the second year of Huaxing, the thirteen families of Yaohuang slaughtered Bazhou, Tongjiang, Dongxiang, Taiping, Dazhou, Liangshan, Xinning, and Kaixian, all of which were completely inhabited.Break through Changshou, Dianjiang, Linshui, Dazhu, Guang'an, Yuechi, Xichong, Yingshan, Quxian, and Dingyuan prefectures and counties, and burn all cities and fields.

In the third year of Huaxing, the Tartar army returned to the north. Zhu Rongfan, who falsely claimed to be the son of the king of Chu, came from the east of Kui to recruit An Yaohuang, in an attempt to restore Chongqing.Not long after, the officers and soldiers discorded and dispersed separately.Wu Dading surrendered to the Tartars, and shortly afterwards rebelled against He Shiyuan of Guyuan Road, and returned to Sichuan after being defeated by the Tartars.

In the fifth year of Huaxing, Wu Dading came to Chengdu. Because of the lack of military supplies, he chose to ask Yang Zhan for help and was accepted.At the same time, Yuan Tao who occupied Luzhou and Hu Jiusi who occupied Fushun also asked Yang Zhan for help, and they both received help.

However, Yuan Tao and Wu Dading were envious of Yang Zhan's rich territory, and after regaining their strength, they sent troops to Jiading to kill Yang Zhan and annex his territory.After this battle, countless corpses were strewn across the field, and the rest of the people were displaced in the mountains.

In addition to the internal fighting and massacre between the Daxi Army, the former Ming Army, and the Yaohuang Shisan Family.Disasters and epidemics are also one of the reasons for the large decline in Sichuan residents.In addition, there are tigers, food shortages and other reasons.

Of course, in addition to these causes of death, there was also a massacre from the Tartars.

"People and thieves mix together, jade and stone are hard to separate. Either slaughter the whole city, or slaughter the male and keep the female."

In this way of thinking, the process of the Tazi's attack on Sichuan was also bloody and bloody all the way. With the rolling of heads, the people in Sichuan suffered another catastrophe.

Now it is the sixth year of Huaxing. In Qiu Tianxing's previous life, there will be ten years of tug-of-war between the Tartars and Remnant Ming, and during the San Francisco Rebellion, Wu Sangui sent troops to Sichuan and fought against the Tartars in Sichuan.The combination of all these factors led to the fact that there were not more than one hundred people in Sichuan, and the Tartar court could only fill up Sichuan.

Fortunately, at this time, the number of Sichuan residents is not as rare as 30 years later. In Ye Su's eyes, Sichuan is still a very suitable base.As long as he can occupy Sichuan and recruit people to reclaim the land, Sichuan will soon be able to recover.

Of course, there are other reasons for choosing Sichuan. Ye Su, who has read a lot of poetry and books, knows it from history books. 300 years ago, Ming Yuzhen started an incident in Suizhou, then transferred to Sichuan, and achieved some hegemony.Although Ye Su led the troops to fight the Tartars near Yingshan, but as the leader of the first battalion, he really laid the foundation for the sixth battalion in Suizhou.Therefore, Ye Su also wanted to lead troops into Sichuan like Ming Yuzhen, and root the Sixth Battalion in Sichuan.The previous hesitation was just because of the lack of population in Chuanzhong after the war, and if you go in rashly, you may be trapped in Chuanzhong.But Ye Su also thought that since the population in central Sichuan is not large, he can also recruit from Hubei and use his own strength to develop Sichuan.

Now Ye Su owns Changle and Badong counties.After occupying Badong, the Sixth Battalion can enter Sichuan from Badong.All the way to the west of Badong, Wushan County is after Peishi Town.

A few days ago, Tang Chengbin, who fled separately, also traveled all the way to Yichang Mansion and joined Ye Su.In this way, Ye Su has three hundred more veterans in his hands.With these [-] veterans as the backbone, he expanded the team into a brigade.

Now that he has decided to enter Sichuan, it would be a waste of troops to continue to station troops in Changle County.In addition, Changle County has already been dilapidated after several months of wars.So Ye Su moved the population and property of Changle County to Badong County, completely abandoning Changle County.Badong County is the main route out of Sichuan, so it must be heavily guarded.

So Ye Su arranged for an expanded brigade brought by Tang Chengbin to defend Padang, and then 3000 people selected from the local people formed a reserve army.Ye Su appointed Tang Chengbin to command the [-] troops in Padang, and then gathered all the remaining [-] elites to cross Peishi Town and enter Sichuan with the logistical support of [-] civilians.

(End of this chapter)