After Yang Zhan was killed, Yuan Tao and Li Gande thought they could successfully accept the soldiers of Yang Zhan's subordinates and thus expand their strength.

Unexpectedly, the soldiers under Yang Zhan refused to obey Yuan and Li's command. Under the leadership of several Yang Zhan's confidants, they gathered to attack Yuan Tao and Li Gande, and vowed to avenge the general.

Yuan Tao and Li Gande had limited troops in the city, and were surrounded by danger under the attack of Yang Zhan's troops, which was in a turbulent manner. Yuan Tao sent people to ask Wang Xiang for help many times, saying that as long as Wang Xiang could suppress Yang Zhan's troops, he and Li Gande would be headed by Wang Xiang in the future.

Wang Xiang immediately led his troops to suppress Yang Zhan's troops, and the two sides fought fiercely in the east city of Ziyang City.

After the Sichuan Governor Ma Gan, who rushed over, was very sad after learning that Yang Zhan was dead, but he knew that the matter had come to this point and could only appease Yang Zhan's soldiers and ordered Wang Xiang, Yuan Tao and others to continue to guard Ziyang City, otherwise they would definitely be taken advantage of by the thieves outside the city. Therefore, as the governor, he came forward to ask Yang Zhan's subordinates to return to the camp to listen to the arrangements of Hou.

However, the officers under Yang Zhan refused to obey Ma Gan's request. They were afraid that Wang Xiang would wait for them to return to the camp to surround them. They were also indignant that the governor could not preside over the justice of General Yang, so they rushed to the east gate together, shouting, "The Chief Secretary cannot preside over the preside over me, so they led the Dashun army!"

Then, after Ma Gan, Wang Xiang and others stopped him, they opened the east gate of Ziyang. Then, Zhou Zongbao and Jiang Jiancheng two officers rushed to the Shun Army camp at night, explaining their intentions to ask Shun Army to enter the city quickly.

Li Laiheng, who was suffering from the Ziyang crisis, heard that the Ming army had surrendered in the city and occupied the east gate and asked the Shun army to enter the city quickly. At first, he was extremely surprised, because he was worried that it was the Ming army's trick, so he did not act rashly.

Wang Xiang and others in the city were frightened by Yang Zhan's subordinates surrendering to the Shun Army, fearing that the Shun Army would cause uncontrollable consequences, so they fought desperately to launch an attack on the east gate.

The movement in the city became increasingly louder and louder. Only then did Li Laiheng realize that it was definitely not a trick by the Ming army, so he quickly sent people to the east gate. Sure enough, the Ming army guarding the east gate did not resist the Shun army, but instead rushed to welcome the Shun army into the city, and shouted in the city: "Shun army enters the city, Shun army enters the city!"

The entry of the Shun Army caused complete chaos in the Ming army of Yang Zhan's troops in the city, and Yuan Tao was the first to lead his men out of the city to escape.

Wang Xiang was in a hurry to escape from the south gate to Zunyi. Governor Ma Gan sighed, not expecting that Ziyang was so lost. He wanted to commit suicide in grief and anger, but was blocked by his personal staff and aides. He took advantage of Shunjun to protect the governor and ran towards Chengdu.

Another wise general in the city, Li Gande, was missing from the riot army.

After dawn, the Shun Army had fully controlled Ziyang City. In addition to the nearly 10,000 surrendered Yang Zhan's troops, thousands were captured.

Ma Yuanliyan, the former governor of the Left Army of Xiying, claimed that Wang Xiang's Ming army abused the people like a tiger and a wolf, and had cut off all the local officials appointed by Daxi and the captured soldiers. The Ming army in the city could be pardoned, but Wang Xiang's subordinates could not pardoned.

Li Laiheng immediately ordered that more than 1,600 Ming soldiers under Wang Xiang's captured and surrendered Wang Xiang's troops be cut off their hands, and then asked someone to bandage and stop bleeding and release them.

As a result, thousands of Ming soldiers with no hands fled from Ziyang to various places. The tragic situation shocked the Ming troops in central Sichuan. The Ming army stationed in Yang'an Pass in Jianzhou was afraid of the same end, so they quickly sent people to surrender to the Shun army and told Chengdu that it was empty.

Li Laiheng was overjoyed and led 4,000 light cavalry to Yang'an Pass first to receive and march towards Chengdu. Ma Yuanli stayed in Ziyang to reorganize and surrender the Ming army, so as not to cause abnormal movements in surrendered troops.

After being reported to conquer Ziyang, Li Laiheng marched towards Chengdu. Liu Wenxiu and Li Chengdong were both very happy and accelerated their attack on Chongqing.

The artillery army general, Hong Bao, was given all the gunpowder in the general. On June 21, after defending for four months, Chongqing City was finally captured by the Shun Army.

Ming general Zeng Ying, under the protection of his subordinates Li Dingchong, Hu Mingfeng and others, emerged from the city, but was surrounded by tens of thousands of people from Shun's army by the river.

There were dense soldiers on the land, and the warships on the river were waving. Zeng Ying, who was trapped in a heavy siege, had to dismount because his horse was shot and killed by the Shun army, but he was unable to stand out.

Liu Wenxiu felt that Zeng Ying was quite talented and still young, so she was able to persuade her to surrender in front of the battlefield.

"The Ming Dynasty only has a dead general, no surrendered general!"

Zeng Ying was unwilling to surrender, nor was he willing to be captured and humiliated, so he jumped into the Yangtze River. He was only twenty-eight years old when he died. His subordinates Li Dingchong, Hu Mingfeng and others chose to surrender.

After capturing Chongqing, Liu Wenxiu asked Wu Dading to stay troops to garrison and be responsible for the food route of the army. He personally led the main force of the 12th Army to Chengdu westward, while Li Chengdong led the main force of the 9th Army to attack Luzhou.

Wang Yingxiong, the governor of Sichuan who had previously run to Jiading, heard that Chongqing was broken and the Shun army was approaching Chengdu. He knew that he could not resist the Shun army and even more unable to defend the entire Sichuan, so he had to move to the Lizhou Pacification Office in western Sichuan.

On the 27th, Li Laiheng's troops captured Jianzhou, the gateway to Chengdu with the assistance of Yang'an Guan Mingjun. Three days later, the Shun army arrived in Chengdu.

Ma Qian, the governor of Sichuan who fled back from Ziyang, was unwilling to abandon the guards, and led the general Cao Xun and others to swear to survive and die with Chengdu. Unfortunately, Cao Xun was afraid of the power of the Shun army and sent his son Cao Changzuo to secretly leave the city and ask for surrender to the Shun army.

On the third day of the seventh month, Cao Xun suddenly launched a strife to capture Ma Qian and the Ming Dynasty officials in the city, and left the city to surrender to the Shun army.

After Li Laiheng entered the city, he asked Cao Xun to issue a notice to safeguard the people, strictly order the soldiers to rob, and quickly restore the order of the residents in the city.

The market is safe and all industries are prosperous.

Liu Wenxiu arrived in Chengdu on the ninth day of the lunar month, and then took charge of the city, ordered Helan to lead troops to take Meizhou, Zhang Yuanli to lead troops to attack Jiading, and Li Laiheng to pursue Wang Yingxiong, the governor of Sichuan who fled to the Lizhou Pacification Department.

Yan Ximing, the Southwest Punishment Envoy appointed by the central government of Dashun, led his entourage to take over the Sichuan Governor's Office from officials, built Dashun's regime system in Sichuan, and temporarily served as the Sichuan Governor.

When Yan Ximing and Wang Zhaoling served as the left and right ministers of the Daxi regime in their early years, they paid great attention to appeasement of Sichuan and were well aware of the taxes, money and grain in various places in Sichuan. Therefore, under his leadership, the regime structure of Sichuan prefectures and counties was quickly implemented.

Zhang Yuanli led the army to attack Jiading and captured the Ming general Long Mingyang alive. Helan took Meizhou very smoothly. However, because Li Laiheng had too many armed forces in the Lizhou Pacification Department, the governor of Ming Sichuan, Wang Yingxiong, "fighted guerrillas" in Lizhou again, and he would not be able to catch the governor for a while.

Li Chengdong's attack on Luzhou was also very smooth, basically because the Shun Army had not arrived at the place to change its flag and surrender. Li sent general Yang Qingquan to attack Xuzhou. The Ming army of Xuzhou knew that it was difficult to resist the Shun Army, so he abandoned Xuzhou and retreated to Yongning. At this point, the Shun Army successively captured the main areas of Sichuan such as Baoning, Shunqing, Chongqing, Luzhou, Chengdu, Kuizhou, Tongchuan, etc.

From the Battle of Baoning to the Battle of Xuzhou, more than 30,000 enemies were wiped out, more than 40,000 prisoners were captured, and nearly 100,000 surrendered troops were recruited.

The news of good news spread to the Imperial Camp. Li Dingguo, deputy envoy of the Privy Council, believed that "the entire Shu gradually settled down" should be emphasized, and he should start to march into Yunnan and Guizhou to complete His Majesty's strategic concept on the large encirclement.
Chapter completed!