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Chapter 25 Yang Zhan's Bloodbath

Yang Zhan rushed to Sichuan with a rush, but it was still too late.

Li Zicheng led nine coalition forces, a total of 17 battalions, hundreds of thousands of troops, divided into several groups, and rushed into Sichuan in a mighty manner.

All the way through the shallows, they crossed the Jialing River, captured Zhaohua, crossed Tongchuan, and captured Jintang.

All the way, he captured Jianmen, Zitong, Mianzhou, Mianzhu and Wenjiang.

He grabbed the pass and seized danger all the way, arrived at Xindu, and a fire burned Xindu to ashes.

Several groups of people captured 36 prefectures and counties, surrounding Chengdu.

The country of Tianfu fell into a bloody storm, with corpses hidden for thousands of miles, and the world was dim.

Yang Zhan was concerned about Chengdu. As long as Chengdu was fine, Sichuan would be fine. The lost prefectures and counties will be recovered sooner or later.

Qin Liangyu went to Beijing to serve the king. This time, there was no white-rod soldiers from Shifu, so Chengdu was in danger.

Previously, Yang Sichang transferred defenders from all over Sichuan to Shaanxi to encircle and suppress Li Zicheng. However, Li Zicheng would not have thought that he would enter Sichuan instead. Now, he did not find a way to break the siege of Chengdu, but he placed 60,000 to 70,000 Sichuan soldiers mobilized from all over Sichuan on the front line of Baoning.

Yang Zhan’s road to rescue Chengdu was extremely difficult and dangerous. He only had more than 2,000 people, but he had to split into two groups.

All the way, led by Fei Xiaojin and Shuai Yuanhong, they passed through Chongqing and went to Shiquan to meet Ma Xianglin. Afterwards, they gathered the officers and soldiers who had collapsed along the road and prefectures and counties, and advanced towards Chengdu.

Leading along the way, he went up the Yangtze River, passed Xu Prefecture to enter the Minjiang River, passed Jianzhou, Jiading, and went to Meizhou to meet with Liu Jiankuan.

It was agreed that two groups of people gathered in Xinjin and lifted the siege of Chengdu from the south gate.

Fei Xiaojin met Ma Lanlan halfway. The peasant army rushed into Sichuan from other places, and Baizhang Pass was not at risk, so she was leading troops to Chengdu.

Liu Jiankuan followed Yang Zhan in Xu Mansion. He had organized monks, Taoists, river and lake wanderers, and wealthy families from the middle and lower reaches of the Minjiang River, and waited for Yang Zhan to arrive.

Yang Zhan's ship was upstream. When he arrived in Meizhou, hundreds of ships were following him, densely packed, spreading along the Minjiang River.

News of Yang Zhan rushing back from Hubei has spread throughout the western Sichuan plain.

Li Zicheng has been attacking Chengdu for more than 20 days. The stronger the Chengdu, the more he wants to take it. If he takes Chengdu, he will be king in Sichuan.

He rushed into Chengdu day and night, but the eighteen city gates were still closed.

The Chengdu defenders had only more than 2,000 troops, but they could withstand his 100,000 attacks. He did not believe that no matter how solid a city was, it would never be able to attack.

King Zhu Zhishu of Shu brought tens of thousands of people in the royal family, huddled in the Shu palace as silent as a cicada.

The sound of cannons rumbling and the smoke filled the gun.

Zhu Pingxi organized the people to keep moving wooden cannon stones to the city wall. Although his father repeatedly told him not to get involved with the army at any time, at critical moments, he could not watch Chengdu fall into war.

Yang Zhan has sent a carrier pigeon to inform him of the news of his rescue. As long as he persists, there will be a day of relief.

This time, the rescue cannot break through the city. Yang Zhan and his brothers can use the water escape technique to come and go from Jinjiang, and other heroes and soldiers in the martial arts world can't enter the city from Jinjiang.

This time, we must break through from outside the city.

The fleet drove to the Xinjin Wujin Ferry, just as they were about to get ashore, suddenly, they heard thousands of cannons firing and the water columns on the river soared into the sky.

In a moment, more than ten ships were either trapped in the sea of ​​fire or overturned the river.

Li Zicheng had long received news that Yang Zhan had returned to rescue Chengdu from the water. Since Chengdu could not capture it for a long time, he would first solve the reinforcements.

He removed the nine coalition forces from Chengdu and arranged them all in Xinjin, preparing to destroy Yang Zhan at Wujindu.

He didn't know that he had just fallen into Yang Zhan's plan to rescue the siege in Chengdu. Only Yang Zhan can sacrifice himself to save the world. As long as Chengdu is safe and western Sichuan is safe, his wish is enough.

Yang Zhan took Liu Jiankuan's fleet and the Jianghu Rangers to pretend that Wujin Ferry was ashore, attracting Li Zicheng's artillery fire from the south.

The 1,000 Guangyuan Iron Cavalry got off the boat in Meizhou City as early as the time of the year. Under the leadership of Master Chongtong Guandingzhen, he detoured to the west of Xinjin.

Tens of thousands of monks, Taoists, wealthy families, as well as defenders and people from the middle and lower reaches of the Minjiang River, got off the boat at the mouth of Pengshan River and walked by land to the south of Xinjin.

Fei Xiaojin, Shuai Yuanhong and Ma Lanlan siblings brought more than 10,000 officers and soldiers into Xinjin from the east.

Leave the north to let the rebels go back and forth wherever they come.

Everything was not as expected by Yang Zhan.

When Li Zicheng's artillery fell to Yang Zhan's bow, he and a group of heroes from the world rushed to the shore and entered the enemy's formation.

As soon as Li Zicheng's cannon sounded, he was attacked by artillery fire on both sides of the east and west. The rebel army was in chaos for a while, some people followed him to kill south, some people went east, and some people went west.

On the east are more than 10,000 people, including Fei Xiaojin, on the west are more than 1,000 cavalry of Taoist Dingzhen, and on the south are tens of thousands of monks and Taoists such as Yang Zhan, as well as Jianghu Rangers and wealthy families.

The bows and arrows, muskets intertwined, the big swords, the long swords were cut and stabbed, the horses were raised and the people were overturned, and the sounds of shouting and killing were endless, and the sounds of moaning were endless.

Yang Zhan led a group of monks, Taoist priests and gangsters to perform martial arts, like a heavenly soldier and general, and rushed directly to Li Zicheng's central army.

Li Guo drove tens of thousands of rebels to stand in front of Li Zicheng. The rebels thought they were in a heavy siege, so they were panicked and ran around.

Li Zicheng was quite calm. In this situation, it was impossible to organize an attack again. He could only fight to kill the siege, withdraw the troops from Chengdu first, and then make plans.

He ordered leaders such as Huntianxing to organize a rebel army to retreat north and stay to cut off the rear.

Therefore, the entire battlefield moved step by step to north of Chengdu according to Yang Zhan’s previous arrangements.

It is impossible for 20,000 to 30,000 temporary organizers to win the 100,000 rebels. Yang Zhan made the decisive battle with Li Zicheng at Wujindu, with the goal of getting them to evacuate from the north.

However, Huntianxing and other rebels soon returned from the north, and their eyes were full of fear, as if the god of death had arrived.

It turned out that the road to escape north was blocked by Hong Chengchou.

According to Yang Sichang's strategy of "four straights and six corners, ten sides of the net", Hong Chengchou forced Li Zicheng to Sichuan. Now, when he heard that Yang Zhan went up the Yangtze River and returned to rescue Chengdu from the water, he had the idea of ​​killing Li Zicheng in front and back.

He rushed from Shaanxi to Sichuan and transferred 20,000 officers and soldiers arranged in Baoning to north of Chengdu, with artillery in front and strong bows and crossbows in the back.

Huntianxing led the team to charge forward desperately, rushed through the cannon formation, and encountered arrow rain again. The crowd fell one after another, and the people behind lost their courage and turned around and ran south again.

Hong Chengchou blocked the northward journey of the trespasser army and handed over the problem to Yang Zhan, who had to fight Li Zicheng at Wujindu.

Li Zicheng issued an order to snatch ships from the waterway to retreat south. So his men turned around and pressed towards Wujindu.

No matter how good the martial arts of monks and Taoist priests and the gangsters were, they could not defeat many soldiers. Yang Zhan's iron cavalry, Ma Lanlan's white-rod soldiers, and Liu Jiankuan's wealthy family members were soon submerged in the crowd of peasant soldiers.

The one under Li Zicheng's men is Li Guo. Whenever Yang Zhan wants to approach Li Zicheng, Li Guo will block his way. He is very good at using the soldier formation and relying on the advantage of large people to resist Yang Zhan's attack.

Li Zicheng was surrounded by a crowd and retreated to the riverside.

The bodies gradually piled up into mountains, and the rebels gradually grabbed hundreds of boats that Liu Jiankuan was docked at Wujin Ferry. Seeing Li Zicheng boarding the boat and was about to go down the river, Yang Zhan flew over the head and jumped onto the big boat.

Arrows from all directions shot at him, but before they could land on the bow of the ship, he was already hit by three arrows.

But he stood steadily on the boat, carrying a sword in his hand, and went straight to Li Zicheng, and Li Guo brought people around him.

Seeing that he was trapped in a heavy siege, Liu Jiankuan kicked a branch into the river, walked on the branches, and also boarded the big ship. Behind him, Fei Xiaojin and Shuai Yuanhong quickly jumped into the river and came to pick him up.

Even though his brothers are very skilled in martial arts, they are outnumbered in the bloody battles with the rebels.

Fei Xiaojin shouted "Escape!"

The three of them pulled Yang Zhan, who was seriously injured, into the river.

Malanlan had organized troops to pick up bows and arrows on the shore, and tens of thousands of rockets shot at hundreds of ships, and the Wujin Ferry was filled with a sea of ​​fire.
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