Chapter One Hundred and One: Killing the Envoy and Retaining Silver
Zunyi fell and Sichuan was shocked.
After that, She led Zhang Tong to the chieftain army to advance eastward and besiege Xingwen County. The magistrate Zhang Zhende recruited civil warriors and personally climbed the city to fight the thieves' army.
The thieves under the city were noisy, and Zhang Zhende was not afraid. He looked at the thief who came to persuade him to surrender and cursed:
"Go back and tell Zhang Tong that I only had a magistrate with a dead head in the Ming Dynasty, and no magistrate who surrendered to the local chief!"
"She Chongming actually wanted to oppose the court and control the other side?"
"Is he a three-year-old child? It's so ridiculous to have such an idea!"
After saying that, Zhang Zhende gave the order, the Ming army on the top of the city fired arrows at the same time, and the cannons roared. The envoy was killed on the spot. Yu's chieftain ran away with his head and retreated for several miles.
"I don't know what's wrong!" Zhang Tong heard the news, slapped the table, walked out of the tent, and said, "Tell me the order, attack the whole thing, and siege the city from all sides, and see how long he can last!"
"Reinforcements?"
"Haha, he can't wait for reinforcements!"
So, the chieftains again purged the flag and drums, divided their troops around the four gates, carried simple ladders, pushed huge trees to rush to the car, and attacked the city in a mighty manner.
The magistrate Zhang Zhende and Qianzong of the City surrendered, and fought fiercely with the chieftain army for about half a day. Because the number of people was too small, the East Gate was first to be captured by the chieftain army.
The chieftain soldiers rushed into the city frantically, and then began a shocking robbery.
Looking at the city where the fire was soaring into the sky, seeing the chieftains chasing the people and slashing, Zhang Zhende cried and bowed to the capital from afar, crying:
"Your Majesty, I am guilty of death..."
Before the words had come to an end, the title soldier had already opened his bloody mouth and rushed towards the city with his swords and guns.
Several Ming troops went to resist and fought with more than a dozen chieftain soldiers.
Zhang Zhende and his wife and young men fought and retreated under the protection of the remaining Ming army and came to the Drum Tower, but not long after, countless chieftain soldiers were besieged in.
Zhang Tong's brother Zhang Xian led the chieftain soldiers into the Drum Tower. Looking at the dusty appearance of several Ming soldiers and the magistrate Zhang Zhende, they all laughed wildly.
But the next one, their faces became horrified.
However, several Ming army officers closed the Drum Tower and turned around and killed them to buy time for the inner city. Zhang Zhende and his wife held torches, and the ground was covered with oil and firewood.
"The emperor, the whole family of the criminal minister will redeem the crime of losing the city!"
For a moment, Zhang Xian seemed to understand something.
"Cut them, chop them!!"
In Zhang Xian's almost desperate roar, Zhang Zhende and his wife threw down the torch, raised the fire and burned themselves, and burned more than 20 chieftain soldiers to death.
Not long after, Zhang Tong looked at the pair of charred corpses under her feet, and couldn't believe that this was her younger brother.
He stepped forward and creaked, not knowing who had broken his bones.
Zhang Tong clenched his teeth, punched the black scorched pillar, turned around and shouted:
"Go to Hezhou!"
"I want them to bury my brother with me!!"
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Xingwen County was destroyed and all the defenders were killed. The magistrate Zhang Zhende and his wife raised fire and burned themselves, and the chieftain army continued to go east.
Hezhou City, the magistrate Weng Dengyan looked at the chieftain soldiers who rushed towards the city like a tide.
However, at this time, Weng Dengyan sneered all over his face, without any fear, because he had just received the news - the emperor personally fought for the war.
This news is undoubtedly a heart-warming injection for the entire Sichuan Province.
Those who heard the news were all excited, as if the dense rebels under the city were no longer terrible, because they all knew that the rebels would sooner or later die!
The Emperor of Ming Dynasty personally fought in the southwest, showing the court's importance to the situation in the southwest, and was even more of an attitude of not giving up on an inch of land.
At this time, the entire empire's eyes gathered in the southwest region.
When he learned that the emperor was in charge of the army and civilians in Hezhou were encouraged, the chieftains who had won consecutive battles all the way actually hit a nail here.
The prefect Weng Dengyan was well-organized, but he was a civil servant, but he carried a sword to supervise the battle and ran over the various city walls, repelling the chieftain's attacks again and again.
At this time, the chieftain army, which suffered heavy losses, was no longer able to siege Hezhou City. Then, Zhang Tong asked Chongqing for help.
She Chongming naturally knew that the Eastern Front needed to quickly open up the situation. Zhang Tong's ultimate goal was not Hezhou, but Chengdu, an important city in Sichuan behind.
As long as you take Chengdu, you will be able to compete with Anbangyan, Guizhou. By that time, Shuixi will respond to the rebellion in Guizhou and the general trend will be achieved.
She Chongming had no hesitation and directly added 70,000 troops to Hezhou.
By early July of the first year of Tianqi, Zhang Tong had gathered reinforcements from Chongqing, concentrated his superior forces, and continued to attack Hezhou City.
Since the rise of the army, She Chongming has been divided into the East and West lines, with the focus on the Chongqing siege.
Zhang Tong on the eastern front has a strategic goal to capture Chengdu as quickly as possible and contact the Shuixi'an home.
Once Anbangyan raises an army and responds, the Sichuan rebellion will affect Guizhou, Huguang, and even the provinces in Nanzhili.
She Yin on the western front was to hold back the reinforcements of the four provinces mobilized by Lu Qin and win time for the main army of She Chongming on the middle side to conquer Chongqing.
As long as Chongqing is captured, She Chongming can turn the gun and face Lu Qin's reinforcements.
The She Chongming rebellion was so fast and the layout was so wide that it was hard to believe that he had suddenly attacked rather than had planned it.
Although Chongqing City has not yet fallen, the chieftains army has conquered the city and occupied the territory. Zhang Tong on the east side and She Yin on the west side have conquered the city and captured the territory one after another.
Especially Zhang Tong, in more than a month, he had already begun to besiege Hezhou, the important outpost of Chengdu.
The fall of Hezhou is the next level.
She Chongming was not idle outside Chongqing City. He divided his troops into several groups and successively captured Naxi, Changning, Chaixian, Bishan and other places.
Since the Wanli period, these places have been recruiting and aiding the Ming army in Liao year by year. Although there are many garrisons, they are extremely empty and cannot resist the attack of the Tushi Army.
Things were developing exactly in the expected direction. She Chongming saw that he accounted for almost two-thirds of the entire Sichuan province, and was also a little fluttering.
On July 7, She Chongming claimed to be the King of Daliang, established the title of founding the country, imitated the Ming system, established the Prime Minister, the Governor's Office and other official offices.
When she was called queen, She Chongming sent an envoy to send olive branches to chieftains in the southwest provinces, especially to pay a lot of money to take care of Shizhu Xuanwei.
Since the rise of the army, the Ming army has been empty and the chieftain army has almost never met an enemy in Sichuan.
In the eastern part of Sichuan, tens of thousands of rebels and Qin Liangyu organized several battles of chieftains loyal to the court. Facing the Baigang Army, they were almost at a loss.
Then, She Chongming had the idea of surrendering Qin Liangyu, and sent envoys to Shizhu with a large sum of money, promising to seize the world and entrust territory to repay.
"The King of Daliang is willing to join forces with the Qin family in Shizhu to seek the world!"
Qin Liangyu sat upright on the seat, and the Xuanwei Office seal issued by the court was placed on the table. He heard that She Chongming sent an envoy to seek the world with him, and he sneered.
In front of the chieftains of the court, Qin Liangyu once again unswervingly expressed his loyalty to the Ming court, beheading Liu Yin, and vowed to fight the rebels to the end.
A few days later, the angry and embarrassed She Chongming personally led a large army to invade.
Shizhu Xuanweishi's office gathered all the chieftains to fight fiercely with the rebel plains, and they had a victory or defeat. At this moment, a line came from the Western Front.
It is said that the reinforcements of the four provinces of the Southwest Governor Lu Qin had entered Sichuan in a mighty manner, and in the first battle it defeated She Yin's rebels on the West Road.
Chapter completed!