Nanming Yiming

Chapter 200 Li Dingguo went east to Guizhou, Liu Wenxiu went north to Chengdu
Although Sun Kewang had always wanted to be crowned prince, but now that Nanming was gaining momentum, Qian Mo and Wu Sangui were only crowned a county king, and he also knew that he would not be able to get the title of prince.

But Nanming actually granted Li Dingguo a county king. Originally, Li Dingguo was quite prestigious in the Great Western Army, and now the two of them are named county kings, which undoubtedly increased Li Dingguo's prestige.

This is to tell others in a disguised form that in Yongli's heart, the weight of the two is equally important.

The so-called sky has no two suns, and the country has no two masters.Yongli's operation like this is undoubtedly adding fuel to the struggle between the two, and the intention of sowing dissension is very obvious.

Sun Kewang is naturally clear about Yongli's thoughts.But now Li Dingguo's threat to him is real, even though he knows that Yongli has ulterior motives, he still decides to attack Li Dingguo to cut off this trouble.

However, Li Dingguo has a high prestige in the army. If he is forced to fire, both sides will suffer. Even if Li Dingguo is lucky enough to get rid of Li Dingguo, it will make the Daxi Army feel alienated from him.

And Li Dingguo is not stupid, he has been wary of him for a long time, after thinking about it, he must first find a way to weaken the strength of Li Dingguo.

Sun Kewang knew very well that Yunnan was located in the frontier and it was difficult to support so many troops.Although he cracked down on landlords through land reform, he increased the enthusiasm of ordinary people to farm land and pay taxes, and he also controlled the salt wells and copper mines in Yunnan to increase income.But these are difficult to maintain for a long time after all. If the Great Western Army wants to develop, it must expand abroad.

Now Wu Sangui has completely occupied both Gansu and Shaanxi, with tens of thousands of soldiers, sitting on the Guanzhong Plain and the pasture fortress in the northwest, and was crowned the king of Lintong County by Yongli. It can be said that he is a proper king of the Northwest.

Next, it is unlikely that Wu Sangui will go out of Tongguan to attack Henan. The so-called Longwangshu, his target is likely to be the Qing army Li Guoying who is entrenched in Baoning and Chengdu.

So Sun Kewang negotiated with Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu, and the three quickly reached an agreement that they must go north and enter Sichuan as soon as possible, defeat Li Guoying before Wu Sangui, and seize Chengdu, especially to control Jianmen Pass in Guangyuan.

Ningyuan Mansion in southern Sichuan is currently under the control of the Great Western Army. If you go north to Chengdu, you must rely on it as a base. Liu Wenxiu's department will station Bai Wenxuan here, so this time the north will be dominated by 3 troops from Liu Wenxiu's department.

Li Dingguo had a good relationship with Liu Wenxiu, and he thought that the 3 troops going north was a bit weak, so he assigned 1 of his subordinates to Liu Wenxiu's command to participate in this attack together.

At this time, Sun Kewang said: "After Hunan was captured by the Ming army, the Qing army in Guizhou was already a lone army. Now the Huguang Ming army and the Qing army are facing each other in Wuchang, and they have no time to take care of Guizhou. They only occupied Tongren Mansion and Liping in the east. Mansion and Sizhou Mansion, we can take this opportunity to occupy Guiyang."

After speaking, he looked at Li Dingguo and said, "Please also ask the king of Xining County to attack Guiyang and consolidate the foundation of our Great Western Army in the southwest."

If Sun Kewang had said this at the beginning, Li Dingguo would not have given Liu Wenxiu 1 soldiers; but now that he has said it, it is difficult for him to take it back.

The Qing army in Guizhou is indeed a lone army at this time, and there are not many troops. It is still very easy to take Guiyang with only 2 soldiers, but Li Dingguo always feels that something is wrong.

Especially when Liu Yichen visited Li Dingguo before, he intentionally or unintentionally reminded him to be careful of Sun Kewang, and even gave him a pistol for self-defense, which made him suspicious.

Seeing that Li Dingguo was still hesitant, Sun Kewang said: "I will let Feng Shuangli who is stationed in Yongning Prefecture obey your orders and help you take Guiyang."

Feng Shuangli was originally Ai Nengqi's subordinate, and his 1 soldiers were stationed in Guizhou. With his help, taking Guiyang was like finding something out of a pocket.Li Dingguo finally dispelled his doubts and decided to send troops to Guiyang.

After Li Dingguo's troops set off from Qujing Mansion in Yunnan, they arrived in Yongning Prefecture soon.

After joining forces with Feng Shuangli, the Daxi Army had 3 people. At this time, the Qing Army in Guizhou only had a total of more than 1 people. It is easy to win Guizhou.

So Li Dingguo ordered his deputy Wang Sancai to be the vanguard, and led 5000 people to attack Zhenning Prefecture.

I thought it would be easy to take Zhenning Prefecture, but unexpectedly, Wang Sancai was attacked by the enemy when he crossed Guanling and lost more than a hundred people, and then suffered repeated setbacks at the bottom of Zhenning City. Take Zhenning City on the 1000rd day.

This made Li Dingguo very confused. He knew the combat power of the Western Army, which was far higher than that of the Qing Army in Guizhou.

He asked Feng Shuangli: "The Qing army in Guiyang has only this little force. It's incredible that they didn't retreat to Guiyang City and stick to it, but still blocked us in Zhenning."

Feng Shuangli said: "The king of Xining County does not know that Peng Ershu, the governor of Guizhou, has already concentrated the peripheral forces to Guiyang. However, this guy is extremely cunning. He actually handed over the northern part of Zhenning Prefecture to several chieftains of the Buyi tribe, and the southern part Then I handed it over to a few Miao chieftains. These barbarians usually live in the mountains with high mountains and dense forests, and when they see that there is a city to occupy, they don't know how to fight against our army."

There are many chieftains in the Yunnan-Guizhou area. These people seem to obey the central government, but in fact they are obedient and obedient. As soon as you find that your strength is weak, they will immediately jump out and act as demons.These chieftains should not be underestimated either. They are proper local snakes. The "Shadingzhou Rebellion" in Yunnan almost completely overthrew Nanming's rule in Yunnan.

Even his fourth brother Ainengqi was unfortunately shot by their poisonous arrows when they put down the Dongchuan chieftain's rebellion and died.

Li Dingguo never expected that the Qing army would directly hand over a large number of cities to these chieftains and let them fight against him.Now we have only laid down a town of Zhenning, and before going to Guiyang, there are Pudingwei, Pingbawei, Weiqingwei and other large and small cities.

If we fight with these chieftains all the way, I am afraid that we will lose a lot of people before we reach Guiyang.

Li Dingguo from Guizhou is no stranger. They had entered Yunnan all the way from Guizhou before.He knew that instead of taking the Puding Guard, he could go directly to the Jinzhu Appeasement Division to bypass these guard cities and reach the south of Guiyang Mansion directly.

Of course, there is also a problem of crossing a large number of Yi nationality chieftains. An Siyuan is the largest chieftain of the "Shui'an Clan".

Fortunately, this An Siyuan had a very good relationship with Mu Tianbo, Duke of Qian. Soon after, Li Dingguo sent someone to find An Siyuan with Mu Tianbo's autographed letter and 3000 shi of grain.

An Siyuan still has some doubts about this. After all, it is too dangerous for tens of thousands of troops to pass through his territory.The Yi people have suffered a lot from the Han people. If Li Dingguo gave him a "fake way to destroy Guo", wouldn't he be leading wolves into the house.

In the end, the two sides agreed that An Siyuan accepted the food and said that he could come forward to persuade other small chieftains to let Li Dingguo pass through the border, but the number of Ming troops must not exceed 8000.

After much deliberation, Li Dingguo accepted An Siyuan's conditions.Feng Shuangli led an army of 2 to attack Pudingwei from the front, and attacked Guiyang all the way to attract the attention of the Qing army.He personally led 8000 elite troops to cross the Yi District and go straight to the south of Guiyang City.

In this way, the two armies, one light and one dark, just cooperated with each other.

An Siyuan personally communicated, and Li Dingguo and others traveled smoothly without being harassed by the chieftain. They set off from Zhenning Prefecture and crossed the mountainous area south of Guiyang in only 3 days.

An Siyuan pointed to the valley in front of him and said: "Crossing here is Qingyan, which is less than 30 miles away from Guiyang City. I wish the king of Xining County success and take Guiyang in one fell swoop, and I will send it here."

After Li Dingguo and the others left, An Siyuan immediately became serious and shouted: "Quickly block the entrance of the valley with fire starters, and the crossbowmen immediately lie in ambush on both sides of the valley to prevent Li Dingguo from protruding."

His son An Zaiqing said: "Father, we not only deceived Li Dingguo this time, but also deceived Duke Qian Mu Tianbo. Is it really worth it?"

An Siyuan snorted coldly, and said: "There is a saying in the Han people that there is no poison and no husband. Sun Kewang promised his father that as long as he helps him get rid of Li Dingguo, he will restore the Guizhou Xuanwei Division in Guizhou, and then I will be able to reappear. The glory of the Shuixian clan!"

Thinking of this, he couldn't help laughing out loud.

But with a sound from Taniguchi, his laughter stopped abruptly, and Li Dingguo led the team back again.At this time, An Siyuan's troops had no time to block the valley entrance, and the Yi soldiers were at a loss for a while.

An Siyuan knew that if he made a move at this time, his thousands of people would be killed by Li Dingguo.He immediately signaled his subordinates not to act rashly, and hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Prince Xining, why did you turn back again?"

Seeing that these people were preparing to block Taniguchi, Li Dingguo proved that his previous guess was correct, and there was indeed something wrong with An Siyuan.If I come a quarter of an hour later, I'm afraid I won't be able to get out when they block the entrance of the valley, right?He remained calm and said calmly: "The terrain ahead is complicated, I was in a hurry just now, and I forgot to ask you for some guides."

An Siyuan immediately said to the followers around him: "Musang, you guys will act as guides for the army, and you must bring the army to the city of Guiyang."

I saw Li Dingguo shook his head, strode up and put a knife on An Siyuan's neck, and his personal soldiers quickly arrested An Siyuan's entourage.

An Siyuan shouted: "Prince Xining, what do you mean?"

Li Dingguo said with a smile: "You must have attracted the Qing soldiers lying in ambush in the valley ahead. If you don't go there yourself, how could the Qing soldiers let them go?"

Hearing what Li Dingguo said, An Siyuan panicked even more, because he did contact the Qing army to ambush Li Dingguo on the other side of the valley.It's just that it will take some time to get to the other side of the valley. He didn't expect Li Dingguo to come back so soon!
Originally, Li Dingguo only guessed that there was a problem with An Siyuan. After all, the road was too smooth, so he turned back to take a look. Now that these Yi soldiers are already blocking the entrance of the valley, any fool can see what An Siyuan wants to do up.

So Li Dingguo exerted a little strength in his hands, and blood instantly left An Siyuan's neck.

An Siyuan panicked completely, he said: "The king of Xining is merciful, this is not what An Mou wanted, it was Sun Kewang's instruction."

"He promised me that as long as he lures you into the ambush of the Qing army, he will reset the Xuanwei Division in Guizhou and let me, the Shui'an family, take over."

Li Dingguo laughed out loud when he heard that, and said, "Chief An, the vicinity of Guiyang has long since been converted to native land, so how could Sun Kewang restore Guizhou Xuanweisi?"

"You killed his sworn brother, the King of Xining County in Ming Dynasty, and Sun Kewang let you take charge of the Guizhou Xuanwei Division? I'm afraid the first thing he did was to kill you under the banner of revenge for the king. Kill and silence!"

Li Dingguo's words made An Siyuan break out in a cold sweat. These Han people are really shameless. The probability of Sun Kewang destroying himself is indeed much higher than sealing himself up.

So he said: "An Siyuan was instigated by a traitor and almost harmed the prince. What to do next is up to orders!"

Li Dingguo kept An Siyuan's son An Zaiqing in the army as a hostage. Under An Siyuan's guidance, Li Dingguo bypassed the canyon, and then together with the Yi soldiers defeated the thousands of Qing troops ambushing on the other side of the valley.

These "Qing Army" pretended to have won a great victory, and escorted the Western Army prisoners all the way into Guiyang City.Peng Ershu, the governor of Guizhou, was caught off guard and was killed by the Ming army. Li Dingguo successfully captured Guiyang, and then quickly controlled the entire territory of Guizhou.

Feng Shuangli did not expect that Li Dingguo not only survived, but also took Guiyang before him.He is a member of Sun Kewang, and he has known about this plan for a long time.

But he is not stupid, he has already made two-handed preparations.If the Qing army killed Li Dingguo, he would take advantage of the situation to capture Guiyang and kill An Siyuan in the name of avenging Li Dingguo; now that Li Dingguo took Guiyang, he pretended to be okay and returned the soldiers and horses that originally belonged to Li Dingguo to him.

Although Sun Kewang is not as good as Li Dingguo in fighting, he is indeed a good hand in internal affairs, and he insisted on supporting 10,000+ Western troops with a single province of Yunnan.Even Qian Mo did not dare to carry out the "land reform" in Zhejiang, but Sun Kewang dared to carry out it in Yunnan. Although it hit the landlords, it won the support of the people in Yunnan and solved the tax problem.

Feng Shuangli was sure that Li Dingguo didn't dare to turn his back on him because Sun Kewang was stuck with Li Dingguo's supplies, and Li Dingguo himself couldn't rely on Guizhou to support his tens of thousands of horses.

But he didn't expect that Li Dingguo would put him directly in prison and annex his 1 horses.

Soon after, under the operation of Qian Mo, the Yongli court appointed Li Dingguo as the governor of Guizhou and the admiral of Guizhou, with an overview of the military and political power in Guizhou, and also handed over the three eastern Guizhou prefectures controlled by the Ming army to Li Dingguo.

According to the previous agreement between Liu Yichen and Li Dingguo, Li Dingguo handed over several large copper mines in southwestern Guizhou to Huizhou merchants under Qian Mo for development. These merchants provided Li Dingguo with 3 taels of silver and 3 shi of grain every month.

Qian Mo also dispatched 2000 troops to enter Guizhou Southwest in the name of mine protection, in order to deter Sun Kewang.

Li Dingguo was willing to obey the orders of the Yongli court, but Sun and Li turned against each other, which made the Yongli court actually bring Guizhou under its own rule.

Of course, this all depends on Yongli's strategy of "killing three scholars with two peaches", but Ma Jixiang made great contributions in going to Yunnan, and Qian Qianyi made a good plan.Yongli was happy, and made Qian Qianyi the uncle of Changshu, and Ma Jixiang of Jin Dynasty the Duke of Yu.

Li Dingguo's action really caught Sun Kewang by surprise. It seemed that he was shooting himself in the foot. Now that the court had intervened, it was even more difficult for him to attack Li Dingguo.

But fortunately, the mulberry elm was harvested in the east, and good news came from Sichuan.

Liu Wenxiu led an army of 4 to the north, and the road was like a broken bamboo.

Successively captured Syria, Jiading and Meizhou, and entered the Chengdu Plain in just 20 days.

At this time, Sichuan has experienced many years of war, and its population has already withered and dilapidated.

In the sixth year of Wanli (1578), the registered population of Sichuan was more than 300 million. Taking into account factors such as officials' neglect of government in the late Ming Dynasty and the hidden population caused by poll tax, the actual population may exceed 600 million.

In the 18th year of Shunzhi (1661), the first census of the Qing Dynasty showed that there were only 1 households left in Sichuan, and only 6 people remained.Although there are also factors of hidden population, the actual population will not be very large.

The sharp decline in population after wars has often occurred in Chinese history, but it is unique that the population of Sichuan in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties has dropped by more than 95%!

Looking at the empty towns and these ruined walls covered with weeds, Liu Wenxiu couldn't help but sigh.

Is this still the Chengdu Plain known as the "Land of Abundance"?
Fortunately, now that Sun Kewang has figured out a new taxation model, and has achieved success in Yunnan, they no longer need to plunder the people to raise military rations.

In fact, Liu Wenxiu understood that his battle to conquer Sichuan was actually a battle for supplies. Even in Chengdu, there might only be a few thousand old and weak people left, which is not enough to support soldiers.

What happened next confirmed his conjecture. Li Guoying did not choose to stick to the Chengdu Mansion at all, but directly gave up Chengdu and withdrew his troops to Mianzhu.

Since he went north, he has been making great progress all the way, but he has not received much supplies at all. The empty granary in Chengdu makes him choose to stay still and wait for the food and grass in Kunming.

Li Guoying was also quite depressed. He was originally Zuo Liangyu's general, and he followed Zuo Menggeng to the Qing Dynasty, and then he walked smoothly all the way.

First, he followed Prince Su Haoge into Sichuan to fight against Zhang Xianzhong. After the Qing army captured Chengdu, Li Guoying was promoted to the chief of the Chengdu government due to his meritorious service.

Later, he was appointed by the Qing court as the first governor of Sichuan to preside over Sichuan's military and political affairs.

In February last year, Tan Hong led his troops to attack Baoning Prefecture, but was defeated by Li Guoying and retreated.Then Li Guoying divided his troops into three groups, advancing by land and water, and captured the Shunqing Mansion guarded by Wang Mingchen, and captured his generals Li Xiande and Zhu Chaoguo.Li Guoying and Huiying, the general soldier, were ordered to attack Xing Shiwan and Ma Chao who were entrenched near Baoning, captured their general Hu Jing, recovered Tongchuan Mansion, pursued them to Mianzhou, and captured the officials Lu Jimin and others.Soon Liu Weiming and Yang Zhanlai were recruited to surrender, and Mianzhou was recovered.

This year Li Guoying led the army to capture An County and Zhangming, captured Qushan Pass at night, occupied Shiquan County, and killed Xie Guangzu who was resisting in the stronghold.After stabilizing the northern Sichuan area, Li Guoying took advantage of the situation to regain Chengdu!

He almost completely controlled the area of ​​Beichuan and Xichuan by himself.

If it were in normal times, his credit should have been promoted to the ranks long ago.It's a pity that today's early morning is turbulent, and Li Guoying's small achievements are quickly overwhelmed by the defeat reports.

Although he was promoted to Admiral of Shaanxi-Gansu by Dorgon at the beginning of the year, the entire Gansu-Shaanxi region fell into Wu Sangui's hands in less than two months.

The northern Sichuan area he occupied has become an enclave of the Qing army. To make matters worse, Wu Sangui has lost the patience to negotiate with him. He sent troops from Hanzhong to Baoning Mansion, and Hu Guozhu was leading an army to attack Jianmen Pass.

Sun Kewang also saw this opportunity and sent Liu Wenxiu to go north, but now he was pinched by these two "old six" from north to south, and the situation was very critical.

It's not that Li Guoying didn't think about surrendering to Wu Sangui, but Wu Sangui was just a Lintong county king in the Ming Dynasty. If he really wanted to surrender, why didn't he skip Wu Sangui and surrender directly to Daming? Wu Sangui couldn't give as much as Yongli?

Having followed Zuo Liangyu for many years, Li Guoying is well versed in the way of surrender, and the situation is stronger than anything else. He will not be buried with them just because the Manchu Qing gave him high-ranking officials.He was originally a general of the Ming army, and he would not have any psychological burden to declare that he would return to the Ming anyway.However, if he can defeat Liu Wenxiu and Wu Sangui, and show enough strength to surrender to Ming Dynasty, then not only can he keep his Sichuan governor, but he can also take advantage of the appointment of the Ming Dynasty to take advantage of the opportunity to annex other forces in Sichuan, which is much better than surrendering directly to Wu Sangui .

Wu Sangui's Guanning Army is strong in battle, and is blocked by the Jiange, so the northern front can be stabilized for the time being.So Li Guoying naturally set his target on Liu Wenxiu, who came all the way from the south.

First of all, Li Guoying showed weakness and gave up Chengdu, continuing to lengthen Liu Wenxiu's supply line.

Then Li Guoying sent envoys to Chengdu to negotiate with Liu Wenxiu, expressing his willingness to give up Tongchuan Mansion and Shunqing Mansion in the east of Chengdu, as long as Liu Wenxiu agreed to a ceasefire between the two.

If Li Guoying gave up Chengdu, it can also be understood that he did not want to put the main force on the Chengdu Plain to fight against Liu Wenxiu, so he avoided his edge.

Let Tongchuan Mansion and Shunqing Mansion be a bit intriguing. After all, these two mansions belong to the center of Sichuan. If Li Guoying's lair Langzhong is lost, they will be exposed to the Western Army's soldiers.

Liu Wenxiu quickly sensed the trickiness, and it seemed that Li Guoying must be in serious trouble.

So he quickly sent sentry cavalry to investigate, and soon Wu Sangui stormed Jianmen Pass, and Li Guoying's main force had all been transferred to Baoning Mansion.

Not to mention Tongchuan Mansion and Shunqing Mansion, even Mianzhou north of Chengdu is also empty of troops.Mianzhou is the key to guarding the Chengdu Plain, and it is also a transit station between Jinniu Road linking Chengdu and Hanzhong. Its location is extremely important.

If you want to keep Wu Sangui out of Sichuan, you must take Jianmenguan, and if you want to take Jianmen, you must first take Mianzhou.

On the one hand, Liu Wenxiu agreed to Li Guoying's truce, and sent 5000 troops to take over the two prefectures of Tongchuan and Shunqing; on the other hand, he personally led 5000 people to attack Mianzhou.

Liu Wenxiu occupied Mianzhu at the junction of Chengdu Prefecture and Mianzhou Prefecture for a long time. After taking Mianzhu, he was even more convinced that Mianzhou was an empty shelf, so he left 2000 people stationed in Mianzhu and personally led 13000 troops to Mianzhou.

After learning that Liu Wenxiu had entered Mianzhou, Li Guoying snorted coldly and said, "I knew that these western thieves would not keep their promises and would definitely attack Mianzhou by surprise, so let him come and go!"

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