"Your Majesty, Kuizhou, Wanxian, Liangshan, Zhongzhou and Fuzhou are all lost. The officers and soldiers are approaching Chengdu!"

Sun Kewang's report did not cause Zhang Xianzhong much panic. When he heard that the Huben Guards were attacking the capital, he had already expected that this day would come sooner or later.

For some reason, Zhang Xianzhong had a feeling in his heart at that time that Li Zicheng would definitely be defeated, and then it would be his turn, because the enemies he and Li Zicheng faced were:

Ding Yunyi!

The rebel's natural enemy, the rebel's lifelong nightmare. Now it's just this nightmare that has happened all over again.

He was already making preparations. When Li Zicheng was preparing to march to the capital, he also started to march to Sichuan.

In the first month of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, Zhang Xianzhong led his troops to Sichuan. The rebel army conquered Kuizhou, and then connected with Liangshan, Zhongzhou and Fuzhou, defeated the general Cao Ying, and broke through Fotuguan. The Ming Dynasty Sichuan general Qin Liangyu led his troops to fight.

, was also defeated by Zhang Xianzhong. After Zhang Xianzhong conquered Luzhou, he also occupied the important town of Chong Qing in northern Sichuan. A group of Ming Dynasty clan members and bureaucrats, including Zhu Changhao, the king of Rui who had escaped from Hanzhong, Chen Shiqi, the governor, Chen Hu, the deputy military envoy, and Wang Xingjian, the prefect, were captured.

Li Zicheng was captured and executed. Later, Zhang Xianzhong ordered Liu Tingju to guard Chong Qing. He personally led the army in three directions and advanced towards Chengdu, Sichuan Prefecture. Along the way, the watch winds in prefectures and counties collapsed, beacon fires continued for hundreds of miles, and Chengdu was severely shaken. Long Wenguang, governor of Sichuan,

Shunqing rushed to help Chengdu, and also dispatched the general Liu Zhenfan and nearby local soldiers to defend the city. At that time, "four reinforcements from Chengdu gathered, and they showed their loyalty and made them pretend to be reinforcements and infiltrated into the city. Long Wenguang could not distinguish them."

Li Zicheng attacked the city from all sides at the same time, combining the inside and the outside, and the city was destroyed in three days.

The Western Army captured Chengdu. Ming Dynasty Chengdu King Zhu Zhishu, Taiping King Zhu Zhilu committed suicide, Sichuan Governor Long Wenguang, Inspector Liu Zhibo, Deputy Inspector Zhang Jimeng and other major Ming officials stationed in Sichuan refused to surrender.

He was executed by the Daxi Army.

In the Ming Dynasty, Ma Ke was stationed in Mianzhou. Zhang Xianzhong sent Ai Nengqi to attack Mianzhou but failed to defeat it. He went to take command personally. Ma Ke was defeated and fled to Hanzhong. Later, Sun Ke expected to capture Baoning. Liu Wenxiu went to Long'an and asked Wang Xun to defend it. He also led his troops.

Attack Maozhou and defeat it.

Then, Ai Nengqi captured Yazhou. At this point, most of Sichuan was controlled by Zhang Xianzhong's peasant army.

Zhang Xianzhong proclaimed himself emperor in Chengdu, and the founding name was "Daxi". He changed the Yuan Dynasty to "Dashun" and made Chengdu the Xijing. After the establishment of the Daxi regime, he appointed left and right prime ministers, six ministers and other civil and military officials. He ordered "Wang Zhaolin to be the left prime minister, and Yan Xi to be the right prime minister."

"Prime Minister". With Wang Guolin, Jiang Dingzhen, Gong Wanjing and others as ministers, the Daxi regime promulgated the "Tongtian Calendar". A money bureau was set up to cast "Dashun Tongbao" for use. Open a subject to recruit scholars, and select thirty people as Jinshi.

He was appointed as an official in counties and counties. The Daxi regime announced that the people of all ethnic groups in the southwest will be "free from rent and taxes for three years on the border." Zhang Xianzhong's orders were strict and he was not allowed to "recruit troops without authorization", "acquire people's words without authorization", and "take local women as wives without authorization"

”, Violators will be punished.

In terms of military affairs, the Daxi regime established five military governors' offices: Wang Shangli in the middle army, Wang Dingguo in the front army, Feng Shuangli in the rear army, Ma Yuanli in the left army, and Zhang Hualong in the right army. They were divided into 120 battalions. There were "Huwei, Leopard Tao, Dragon Tao, and Eagle"

Yang was appointed as the "Suwei", and the governor was appointed to lead it. There were ten large camps and twelve small camps outside the city, and the old camp was set up in the middle, which was called the imperial camp. Zhang Xianzhong lived in it.

Everything was going very smoothly before, until the Huben Guards decided to invade Sichuan, and everything took a drastic turn.

It was impossible to stop the Tiger Guards' attack, no matter what methods Zhang Xianzhong used. The Great Western Army was defeated by the Tiger Guards one after another.

The nightmare begins again!

The Tiger Guards were like an iron wall in front of the Great Western Army, making it impossible for them to cross.

Those cavalry, those musketeers, and the artillery soldiers that came with reinforcements all looked so terrifying. And Enenchi knew this very well.

He was the first to fight against Hu Benwei. At first, he still maintained unlimited confidence. He believed that since Ding Yunyi did not go out with the army in person, the Great Western Army had hope of victory.

But his fantasy was completely shattered.

That happened during the Battle of Mianzhou...

...

He watched with his own eyes the cannonballs of the Tiger Guards falling in front, back, left, and right of him. He watched with his own eyes that his soldiers died in pieces, but he could only watch helplessly.

He was really powerless to do anything that happened in front of him! So the Daxi Army was completely destroyed, and Mianzhou fell into the hands of the Ming Army without any suspense.

Ai Nengqi didn't feel any shame, because his Daxi Army was not at the same level as the enemy. At least he had tried his best.

But it still failed, and all that was left were corpses and blood everywhere. Mianzhou fell into the hands of the Tiger Guards.

Ai Nengqi ran back to Chengdu.

Zhang Xianzhong listened carefully to Ai Nengqi's report on everything that happened in Mianzhou. He did not feel angry at all. Instead, he said calmly to his adopted son: "Thank you for your hard work."

"Your Majesty, let's go." Ai Nengqi said loudly: "The Ming army's artillery fire is so fierce that we can't resist it at all. They are about to arrive in Chengdu. I have seen their artillery fire and the city walls of Chengdu.

There is no way to stop the bombardment of artillery fire!"

"Nengqi, where else can we run?" Zhang Xianzhong smiled bitterly: "Now the whole world belongs to Ding Yunyi, and most of Sichuan has fallen into Ding Yunyi's hands. Without Chengdu, we will become

If we have lost the lost dogs, we will fight them to the death here."

His subordinates were silent.

Yes, there is no way out, so let's fight to the death with Huben Guard here.

What was supposed to come finally came...

When Tiger Guards appeared in Chengdu, everything became chaotic.

The generals of Huben Guard sent envoys to persuade them to surrender, but Zhang Xianzhong refused.

Huangfu Yunjie, Houlu, Ahu and other Tiger Guard generals no longer had much hope in successfully persuading Zhang Xianzhong to surrender, and the attack on the city began immediately.

The artillery shells rained down on Chengdu. Under the bombardment of artillery fire, there was no possibility for Chengdu to defend itself.

At this time, Sun Kewang did what all armies who had fought against General Hu Benwei would do. He rushed out with a large number of troops.

In their opinion, only by rushing in front of the Tiger Guards can they offset the threat posed by artillery fire to the greatest extent.

But all of them were wrong...

What they faced was nothing but horrific massacre! The intertwined firepower of those artillery shells and muskets killed and wounded the rushing enemies round after round, ruthlessly and indifferently.

Sun Kewang watched in despair as his soldiers died in pieces under the terrible artillery fire from the opposite side, but he had no way to change everything.

He closed his eyes in pain. Only by not seeing what was happening in front of him could he minimize his inner torture.

All the soldiers Sun Kewang brought out died.

The corpses on that ground, the blood all over the mountains and plains! Looking around, Sun Kewang looked at everything around him alone, completely ignoring the Tiger Guard soldiers who were gradually approaching him.

His heart is dead at this time...

"Surrender." Hou Luce came up immediately and looked at the rebel general in front of him and said.

He admitted that Sun Kewang was still brave. Even though he knew he would die, he still launched hopeless charges again and again until he was the last person left.

Sun Kewang shook his head. Then he said something strange: "Thank you."

Is it to thank Houlu for surrendering him at this time? Or to thank Houlu for finally freeing him? Maybe it's both.

Huangfu Yunjie and Ah Hu also arrived. They looked at the rebel general, but no one made any move.

Sun Kewang got off his horse and kowtowed three times to the city wall of Chengdu: "Your Majesty, foster father, the children are unfilial and there is really no way for them to stop them. Your Majesty, take care!"

Then he stood up and ended his young life with the sword in his hand!

Sun Kewang is dead. In fact, everyone who is unwilling to surrender will eventually die, and this is why Ding Yunyi did not send Li Dingguo.

It's not because Li Dingguo was once Zhang Xianzhong's adopted son, but because Ding Yunyi didn't want Li Dingguo to bear the pain of his former brother dying in front of him.

From this point of view, Li Dingguo should be grateful to King Wulie.

Sun Kewang and his soldiers were all dead, and there was no suspense about the capture of Chengdu. The only thing the Daxi Army could do was to persist.

Holding on to a hopeless hope...

When he heard the news of Sun Kewang's death, Zhang Xianzhong shed a few tears. He had four adopted sons in total. One of his adopted sons, Li Dingguo, surrendered to Hu Benwei, and now the other adopted son, Sun Kewang, also died.

He looked at Liu Wenxiu and Ai Nengqi: "Are you afraid?"

"Afraid!" Ai Nengqi said honestly: "We are really scared, but we will always be with His Majesty. Even if Chengdu is broken today."

"We are always with His Majesty!" Liu Wenxiu also said firmly.

Since there is no hope, let's live and die together.

Zhang Xianzhong smiled, feeling a little touched in his heart. He was gratified that he could not abandon him at this time. At least, there were people around him who were willing to live and die with him...

..

The sound of cannons continued to come, and bad news came one after another.

Zhang Xianzhong just sat there, constantly listening to the reports of his subordinates. The generals of the Daxi Army were leading the soldiers of the Daxi Army to fight there.

But what they faced was actually just massacre.

A naked massacre, they had no ability to resist in the face of the Tiger Guards' artillery fire.

Two days of continuous bombardment tore numerous holes in the city wall of Chengdu, and the soldiers of the Huben Guards began to march towards Chengdu in neat formations.

The one at the forefront of the defense was Governor Zhang Guangcai.

From the first artillery attack by Huben Guards, Zhang Guangcai was shocked by the terrible artillery fire, and the death of Sun Kewang and those Daxi Army soldiers also clearly fell in his eyes.

He was shocked, desperate, and helpless. But he was still determined to fight to the end and use his own life to make some final contribution to Zhang Xianzhong.

He led his men and rushed towards the Tiger Guards who rushed up, but in front of the Tiger Guards' muskets, all the charges seemed so insignificant.

The soldiers of the Daxi Army were continuously knocked to the ground, and they did not even have the ability to resist in front of the muskets.

Zhang Guangcai screamed and roared loudly, constantly driving his subordinates to fill the terrible bottomless pit batch by batch, until there was no one around him to fill.

This is a great sorrow and torture...
To be continued...