Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 474
Prince Su Hauge did not expect Zhou Ze, the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi to be so generous. Instead of complaining that he stayed in Xi'an, he gave him [-] shi more than the [-] shi he asked for.

Therefore, Prince Su Hauge's favor for Zhou Ze doubled.

Hauge even directly said that Zhou Ze deserved to be the person Luck Dehun liked, and he was a good slave.

Even though Haoge knew that Zhou Ze was promoted by Dorgon, he still felt that Zhou Ze was also an abandoned son thrown out by Ji Erhalang, and he felt a sense of sympathy for Zhou Ze.

Therefore, Hauge did not interfere with Zhou Ze's deployment in the rear, allowing Zhou Ze to conquer Sichuan with peace of mind and fulfill Zhu Youjian's will for him.

Li Yongxing, Lieutenant of Jinyi, who has become the commander of Zhou Ze's vanguard battalion, is now armed with infantry armed with [-] Chongzhen [-]-style flintlock guns, fifty infantry light field guns, fifty infantry heavy field guns, and five infantry soldiers. The hundred cavalry formed a vanguard battalion and headed to Chaotianguan in Sichuan.

Although Zhou Ze's green battalion is mostly recruits, most of the vanguard battalion is Jinyi Antan, and these Jinyiwei spies are all officers and soldiers with strong comprehensive combat capabilities selected from the Guards before, so their combat effectiveness is not weak. .

As soon as they reached Chaotian Pass, fifty heavy infantry field [-]-jin artillery pieces began to bombard Chaotian Pass.

Zhang Xianzhong's main forces were all in Chengdu and eastern Sichuan and southern Sichuan, so the Daxi troops in northern Sichuan were relatively weak. As soon as the gate of Chaotianguan was blown down, the Qianfeng Battalion successfully captured Chaotianguan and officially entered Sichuan.

At this time, Zhou Ze had personally led a total of 6 people in the guard barracks and infantry battalions, and 3 people from He Zhen's troops followed closely.

And Li Yongxing took the forward battalion to capture Guangning again.

Moreover, in order to create a sensation for Zhang Xianzhong's Onishi regime, the Qianfeng Battalion also went around to prevent fires, and suddenly the whole of northern Sichuan was full of smoldering smoke.

Zhou Ze’s vanguard battalion was mostly Jinyiwei with sharp firearms and Zhang Xianzhong’s lax guards in northern Sichuan, so they were invincible all the way, then occupied Zhaohua, and finally broke through the northern Sichuan gate-Jianmen Pass!

After Jianmenguan was also lost, it naturally caused a greater sensation to the Daxi regime, and there was an endless stream of people rushing to Chengdu to report.

"Your Majesty, it's not good, the Qing army has defeated Chaotian Pass!"

"Your Majesty, Guangyuan has fallen!"

"Your Majesty, Jianmen Pass has fallen!"

After a series of news arrived in Chengdu, Zhang Xianzhong couldn't sit still any longer, and immediately summoned the ministers of civil and military affairs to discuss countermeasures.

In the end, Zhang Xianzhong decided to dispatch Ainengqi's and Liu Wenxiu's troops to help Baoning Fucheng, considering that there was still a Ming army in the south.

after all.

Once Baoningfu City falls, it means that the entire northern Sichuan will fall into the hands of the Qing army.

At this time, Zhang Xianzhong was not only anxious, he not only rushed Ainengqi's and Liu Wenxiu's troops northward, but even his own [-]th Battalion of the Chinese Army began to assemble.

But at this time, the news that the Gao Yi Gong Department of the Extermination Army went to Fengdu and Fuling, and Yuan Zongdi's Department went to Lian Tianguan and Yeshan Pass was also sent to Chengdu Mansion.

Zhang Xianzhong didn't dare to transfer away from Ainengqi's troops, so he had to change the order and ordered Liu Wenxiu's troops to stay in Chengdu, and he personally led the main force of the [-]th Battalion to go north to Baoning.

"Although you have always managed the army very strictly, you are not good at fighting. If you support northern Sichuan, I am afraid it will be a mistake. For the time being, stay in Chengdu. You must implement the strategy of strengthening the walls and clearing the country. At the same time, I will pass on the order to your elder brother and second brother to guard Xuzhou and Jiading. , Do not let the Ming army enter Sichuan!"

After Zhang Xianzhong entrusted Liu Wenxiu with all the matters, he immediately set off camp and headed north. He arrived in Jianzhou in one day, entered Suining in three days, arrived in Shunqing in five days, and entered Baoning Fucheng in ten days.

At this time, Zhou Zebu's vanguard battalion had just captured Cangxi.

As soon as Zhang Xianzhong arrived in Baoning Fucheng, he was not afraid of the Qing army, and directly took the initiative to counterattack Cangxi, dispatching an army of [-], [-] bronze cannons and [-] archers to attack Cangxi County overwhelmingly.

On the other hand, Li Yongxing defended Cangxi City, with one hundred infantry field cannons and three thousand Chongzhen [-]-style flintlock guns, which repelled Zhang Xianzhong's attack.

Zhang Xianzhong was so angry that he gritted his teeth, but he was not discouraged. Three days later, he organized troops to counterattack the Qing army again.

Li Yongxing didn't want to sacrifice his Jinyiwei's strength in vain, so he took the initiative to retreat to Tieshan Pass.

Li Taibai said that the road to Shu is difficult, and it is difficult to go to the blue sky.

Because of this, there are more than a dozen dangerous passes on the entire road from Hanzhong to Sichuan. This Tieshan Pass is a dangerous pass on the way from Jianmen to Baoning Fucheng in the south.

Now even if Zhang Xianzhong has hundreds of thousands of troops, he can only attack Tieshan Pass in the narrow and long valley road.

Zhou Zebu's vanguard battalion defended the city with muskets and cannons, forcing Zhang Xianzhong to be unable to advance an inch, leaving countless corpses behind. Blood stained the entire Shu road, and the entire Jialing River was wailing.

At this time, Zhou Ze's main force also rushed to the area of ​​Tieshan Pass, and raided Zhang Xianzhong's camp from the direction of Dahuo Mountain.

Zhou took the opportunity to capture Liangshan Pass, and the Qianfeng Battalion also recaptured Cangxi, and raided into Nanjin Pass, and the soldiers pointed directly at Baoning Mansion.

Zhang Xianzhong sent all his troops to start a decisive battle with Zhou Ze's Qing army under the city of Baoningfu, but Zhang Xianzhong did not expect that the Qing army's Zhou Ze's firearms were so sharp that the [-] cavalry sent by the Qing army were defeated, and Hexiguan was also broken by the Qing army's artillery. The morale of Zhang Xianzhong's troops was in turmoil.

The [-] Jinyiwei cavalry from the Qianfeng Battalion suddenly came from the direction of Tongshui when Zhang Xianzhong was about to evacuate Baoning Fucheng. He has personally led an elite team to hunt down Zhang Xianzhong's troops.

"There was news from the inside that Zhang Xianzhong's face was as red as grease, he had a scar on his forehead, he was wearing black padded armor, his head was wrapped in a red scarf, and his horse was white!"

Li Yongxing and other Jin Yiwei had always remembered Zhang Xianzhong's general appearance, and suddenly saw a red-faced man on a white horse fleeing south surrounded by tens of thousands of people. He immediately picked up the Chongzhen [-]-style flintlock gun with his left hand, loaded the ammunition, and opened the fire door. He took out the bayonet with his right hand and stabbed the horse's belly fiercely. When the horse was galloping due to severe pain, a thunderbolt was thrown into the crowd in front, causing chaos in Zhang Xianzhong's front army.

Li Yongxing took advantage of this to rush into the siege first, raised his hand and shot Zhang Xianzhong in the shoulder.

Zhang Xianzhong fell from his horse, bleeding profusely.

At this time, Li Yongxing leaped over and smashed Zhang Xianzhong unconscious with the butt of his gun, and captured Zhang Xianzhong alive.

As a result, the Daxi soldiers were completely defeated and fled south in a hurry.

Zhou Ze, He Zhen and others also rushed to the scene at this time, and finally confirmed that Zhang Xianzhong was the prisoner, and immediately reported the news to Hauge, and at the same time, Li Yongxing himself passed the news to Jin Yiwei Wu Mengming.

On August 28, Zhou Zebu of the Qing army arrived at Fenghuang Mountain in Peng'an, which was only a day away from Shunqing Mansion.

But Zhou ordered a temporary rest on the grounds of insufficient food and grass, and ordered He Zhen's troops to attack Jiangyou, Mianzhou and other places along the Xiaotong River.

The reason why He Zhen was transferred was that Zhou Ze was in order to contact the Ming army more conveniently. His mission was to kill or capture Zhang Xianzhong, so that the officers and soldiers in Daxi would hate the Qing army instead of the Ming army.

For this reason, Zhou Ze used the banner of Prince Su Hauge everywhere, and even began to loot the local gentry in northern Sichuan, all of whom spoke Manchu and filled the banners. There are hundreds of thousands of stone grains.

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