Chapter 282: Soldiers Point at Chongqing

On the night of arriving in Badong County, in a house in the city, when Li Ping pushed open the door anxiously, Zhao Lanyue, who was lying on the table and sleeping lightly, suddenly sat up and opened his blurred eyes.

Joyfully said:

"You're here!"

"I discovered a large-scale peasant army outside the city. I learned about the situation with the troops. It happened that the staff office wanted to report something urgent to me, so I was delayed for a while. I'm really sorry for keeping you waiting so long.

Long."

Li Ping explained hurriedly while he hurriedly sat down at the table, not even having the nerve to take off his hat and coat.

His heart is very weak!

The two of them made an appointment to have dinner together tonight.

But Zhao Lanyue didn't mean to be angry at all, and said very considerately: "It's okay, military affairs are important, it doesn't matter if I wait a little longer. You take off your coat first, then wash your hands, and we will eat."

After saying that, she called the maid outside to serve the food that had been kept warm in the pot.

When Li Ping washed his hands and sat down at the table again, Zhao Lanyue asked with concern before the food was served: "Is the peasant army outside the city okay?"

"It's okay, it's just a group of hungry stragglers who just came over from deeper in the mountains. They didn't know we had arrived here. We sent a battalion of troops to approach them, but they broke up before they made contact. We captured a lot of them.

Prisoners." Li Ping responded hastily.

Zhao Lanyue said "Oh" to express that she understood. Then she was no longer interested in saying hello to Li Ping, who was still sitting politely. Don't wait for the dishes to be served. Eat first.

In fact, Zhao Lanyue did not need to pay too much attention to the appearance of the peasant army outside the city.

When Li Ping received news in Yiling Prefecture (today's Yichang, Hubei Province) that Zhang Xianzhong had captured Wanxian and Fuzhou and then began to besiege Chongqing Fucheng, his forward troops had actually arrived and occupied the Sichuan Chengxuan Government Envoy Si Kuizhou Prefecture.

The government has governed Fengjie County for several days.

Without exploring the way forward, Li Ping could not have led all his troops into the dangerous Three Gorges of the Yangtze River.

Moreover, Li Ping's vanguard force was composed of a full regiment, a battalion of cavalry commanded by Zhang Qing, and an expanded direct reconnaissance battalion. They were very elite.

Most of the information about the movements of Zhang Xianzhong's army was sent by this vanguard force, and could be sent to Li Ping in a timely manner by traveling down the river.

Of course, the reverse command takes longer.

When Li Ping received the latest military information from Zhang Xianzhong in Yiling Prefecture and decided to speed up the march, his vanguard troops in Fengjie had just concluded a heated argument.

The reason was that Du Sanjiang, the chief of staff of the First Regiment, proposed that since it was confirmed that Zhang Xianzhong was concentrating his forces to attack Chongqing Fucheng, they should now take the opportunity to launch an attack on Wanxian County and capture the last important pass in the mountainous area along the river.

The main force that began to enter Sichuan cleared all obstacles.

At the same time, you might be able to grab some more supplies.

Along the way, they chased after Zhang Xianzhong and stayed behind Zhang Xianzhong's army. They grabbed many things and made Zhang Xianzhong almost furious. At the same time, they also forced all Zhang Xianzhong's troops behind him so that they did not dare to slow down.

But Han Jiu, the leader of the first group, did not agree with Du Sanjiang's opinion at first.

Han Jiu believed that Wanxian was different from the passes they had conquered before, which mostly had very few troops and obviously had no intention of holding on. Zhang Xianzhong still had a large number of troops in Wanxian and was strengthening the city defenses. He clearly wanted to stop them in Wanxian.

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But they are currently too far away from the main force, and because they need to dedicate part of their forces to occupy the passes that have been captured along the way, the existing forces are seriously insufficient.

And they currently have no idea whether the main force led by Li Ping has begun to enter Sichuan.

At this time, attacking a city where a large number of enemies are determined to defend is not only very dangerous, but also very unstable.

Moreover, when Zhang Xianzhong entered Sichuan this time, in order to ensure a smooth march, he paid special attention to winning over the hearts and minds of the people along the river. Not only did he attach great importance to military discipline and stopped indiscriminately killing and forcibly recruiting people, he also released food to the people in the mountainous areas who had always been poor and cracked down on bullies. This made people along the river

The people generally have a favorable impression of Zhang Xianzhong.

Even the big banner that Zhang Xianzhong carried when he entered Sichuan was written with four big characters full of positive energy: "Clarify Sichuan and Yue".

At the same time, many of Zhang Xianzhong's troops who were lagging behind and scattered also ran to the mountains on both sides of the river to take temporary refuge, so that the regiment not only could not let go of the captured passes along the river, but also had to be extremely careful!

Therefore, Han Jiu felt that he should defend Fengjie County and wait for the main force or further instructions from Li Ping.

After all, the trip to the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River is too long.

And Fengjie County is not only the prefecture of Kuizhou Prefecture, but also the starting point on the west side of the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River, the most dangerous and difficult area. They have already taken over the entire Three Gorges of the Yangtze River (the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River reaches Yichang in the east, which is Yiling Prefecture).

They have completed the task assigned to them by Li Ping, and guarding it is the safest way at present.

But Du Sanjiang still insisted on his opinion.

Du Sanjiang believed that their troops were not evil-doing and had stricter military discipline. It was unlikely and unreasonable for the people in the Three Gorges area to risk their lives to attack them.

The common people are not stupid. They cannot decide to rebel after getting some benefits, and the rebel army is just passing by.

As for Zhang Xianzhong's troops who were lagging behind and dispersed and were actually mainly lagging behind, they had nothing to fear. They did not have the guts to run out of the mountains and seek death.

Attacking Wanxian is not that dangerous, and the chance of success is actually very high.

Because many of Zhang Xianzhong's troops were newly recruited or forcibly recruited, and because Zhang Xianzhong's temperament changed drastically and he was too cruel to his own troops, his military morale was very disorganized, and his troops were seriously dispersed along the way.

The regiment was able to successfully plunder its lagging troops and supplies many times along the way and capture and contain them. In fact, it was mainly because it housed an incredible number of nearly ten thousand enemy soldiers and civilians. This was inseparable from this.

Now that Zhang Xianzhong is attacking Chongqing Fucheng, which is more than 500 miles away from Wanxian County and is famous for its solidity and precipitousness, all its few elites will inevitably be transferred, and it is impossible to think that both sides should take care of both sides and keep some far away in Wanxian County.

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The enemies remaining in Wanxian are most likely all rabble, no matter how many there are, there is nothing to fear.

Moreover, the enemies in Wanxian County probably don't know how many people there are at present, and whether the army behind them has already come up.

This is their opportunity and they should seize it.

Regarding the dispute between Han Jiu and Du Sanjiang, Zhang Qing, the commander of the cavalry unit temporarily assigned to the first regiment, was hesitant at first. He felt that what both men said was reasonable.

Besides, he probably knew the reason why Li Ping sent a group as the vanguard.

The elite of Yituan can rest assured that Han Jiu's simplicity and stability and Du Sanjiang's scheming and good judgment are almost indispensable.

However, after hesitation, he still chose to support Du Sanjiang, who had more and more sufficient arguments.

If you are going to fight, you can’t be too conservative!

Finally, after a heated debate, Han Jiu also recognized Du Sanjiang's proposal.

After they sent Li Ping the basis for their decision and the information that they would launch an attack on Wanxian County, they immediately launched action.

Therefore, Li Ping knew about all the above situations, and Zhao Lanyue also knew about them. If it hadn't been for the large number of peasant troops, Li Ping might not have specifically asked about it.

Although Zhao Lanyue stopped asking, after eating a few mouthfuls of food, Li Ping took the initiative to chat about military affairs again:

"According to the latest news, it is not only certain that Zhang Xianzhong has captured Chongqing, but also that Zhang Xianzhong has left Chongqing and is heading towards Chengdu."

"So fast?" Zhao Lanyue said in surprise.

"Yeah! This guy probably wanted to be caught off guard again. I heard that the officials in Chongqing, including Mingrui King Zhu Changhao (whose fiefdom is in Hanzhong) who was hiding from Li Zicheng in Chongqing, just didn't expect that Zhang Xianzhong would attack so fast and fiercely.

None of them ran away, they were all killed.

I headed straight to Chengdu so quickly, probably because I wanted to replicate the results in Chongqing.

And it is said that when Zhang Xianzhong captured Chongqing, he captured tens of thousands of officers and soldiers. He cut off an arm of each of these tens of thousands of people and then released them to scare the soldiers and civilians of Sichuan of the consequences of resistance. Now the soldiers and civilians of Sichuan are probably afraid of death.

He is dead! His will to resist must also have been severely weakened." Li Ping preached vividly.

Although Zhang Xianzhong entered Sichuan only two months earlier than in the original history, he captured Chongqing Prefecture more than six months earlier. This was due to the fact that the army was stopped for three months due to the surge in the river water, and it was also due to the fact that Li Ping

The troops are following behind and suppressing other factors.

Of course, it also made his capture of Chongqing smoother and faster than in the original history.

However, its violent nature has not diminished at all, and has even become worse.

"He is so cruel." Zhao Lanyue said with emotion.

Maybe it was because she was so emotional when she said this, she frowned and said: "You are very cruel now. You can just kill the soldiers who made mistakes. Just hold a public trial or execute them in public."

Is it necessary to stick it on a bamboo pole and display it everywhere? It’s so barbaric! It’s not afraid of scaring children.”

Li Ping was stunned and hurriedly explained: "You may not know that Kou Zhun, the famous Prime Minister of the Song Dynasty, once served as a county magistrate here. Because of his opera, Kou Zhun's reputation among the people is very high, and it is naturally even more so here.

Duan Qiang reported to me before doing this, and Zhou Wen also suggested that he should be stricter. In order to win the support of the people, I agreed."

"Kou Zhun?" Zhao Lanyue was also stunned for a moment.

It was obviously impossible for her not to know Kou Zhun's name.

However, after lowering her head and muttering something unexpectedly, Zhao Lanyue soon brightened her eyes and looked at Li Ping playfully, saying: "Those things you mentioned before, it seems, are not important matters!"

Zhang Xianzhong's cruelty is no longer new, and since they have received the news that the vanguard troops have achieved great victories in Wanxian County at "Wancuan Bihui" and "Wanshangbiji", they can already obtain information about Chongqing quickly and easily.

, so they already knew the day before yesterday that Chongqing might have been captured.

As for Zhang Xianzhong continuing to attack Chengdu, they were also not surprised because of the prophet.

"Yes, it really doesn't count."

Li Ping was stunned this time. It wasn't until he noticed that Zhao Lanyue's eyes were somewhat resentful that he suddenly understood something.

He couldn't help but smile a little!

He still liked Zhao Lanyue showing off her feminine side. If she really didn't care about anything, he might not be happy with it.
To be continued...