With Chen Kuan's handwritten letter and the support of Jianlou's forces, Liu Jian decided to go directly to Chengdu and wait and see the changes in the situation under Chen Kuan's protection. If Li Xiaofei made a breakthrough, he would attack east and west to take back

Half of the country is not a problem.

The group stayed in Lizhou for one night and then continued to set off. After walking for a few days, they found that many broken troops retreated from the northwest.

Liu Mingge observed carefully and found that these people were all Chen Jiajun's old subordinates, so Liu Mingge, pretending to be a fortune teller, stepped forward to chat with them.

After all this talk, I realized that things had changed again in Bashu and Chen Kuan was dead! It is said that the city of Chengdu was on fire and burned for several days and nights.

The little fire of hope that had just been ignited was extinguished again. It seemed that Chengdu would not be able to go. Where would Liu Jian and his party go?

Liu Mingge insisted on going back to Jianlou. He wanted to know the whole story and what happened in Chengdu.

Tan Hongyao insisted on returning to Chengdu alone, where there was Jinguan Pavilion and her sisters.

Liu Jian did not hesitate at this time, "Let's all go to Chengdu together. Just call me A Fei along the way. It's time to reach this point. I don't want to be vain anymore. The most important thing is that we live together!"

"What should I do if someone recognizes me? No matter how powerful Mr. Liu is, he can't be compared to thousands of troops?" Xiao Qian was a little worried.

"With all due respect, we people in remote mountainous areas have never seen anyone bigger than the pavilion chief in our lives. Even if His Majesty posted a sign saying he was the emperor, no one would believe it." Tan Hongyao felt that Xiao Qian's worries were too much.

Got it

Liu Mingge smiled, "You are despising the king like this. But then again, since the founding of the country by Taizu of Daliang, he has always been the emperor of aristocratic families, not the emperor of ordinary people. Well, since you all want to go to Chengdu, then go

Yes”

"I just figured it out. Chengdu is in chaos now. The more chaotic the place, the safer it is. No one would have thought that we would go to a place that is experiencing war." Qin Zhong also felt that going to Chengdu was a wise move at this time.

Since no one had any objections, the group continued to Chengdu.

Along the way, everyone witnessed the defeated troops robbing the people, killing people, and setting fires. In order not to expose his whereabouts, Liu Mingge did not take action.

Tigers are harmless to people, but tigers are harmful to people's hearts. Liu Mingge did not take action to save people, but the defeated soldiers took his ideas.

The main reason was that the long sword Liu Mingge was carrying was too ostentatious, and a group of defeated soldiers thought that they would be able to get a lot of money by snatching the long sword.

The result can be imagined. In just a moment, Liu Mingge slapped dozens of defeated soldiers to the ground. Liu Mingge didn't want to kill them, so he didn't stab or chop them. Instead, he used the long sword as a board and knocked them down one by one.

.

The defeated soldiers also knew that they had encountered a master, but after all, they were Chen Jiajun's old troops. They all said hard, "If you want to kill me, I will kill you. You are teasing and insulting us with your martial arts skills. We would rather commit suicide!"

"It's a joke. You obviously want to take the sword from my hand and sell it for money. If you can't keep it intact, you will kill us poor people and take off all the clothes on your body! Do you deserve to be called a man? If you can't be defeated, you can only bully the people and do whatever you want.

What a grass bandit! Bah!" Liu Mingge raised the sword in his hand.

"We are defeated, but we are not cowards. We were also people who fought for the country on the battlefield! But now, the king will not rule the king and his ministers will not obey him. A man can become emperor if he has soldiers in his hands, and he also murders his brothers. We who are soldiers

It’s just a matter of hanging around for a day. The emperor ran to death, the generals also died, some captains fell into the grass, and those who occupied the county seat occupied the county seat. We couldn’t occupy the county seat, so we had to go all the way home eastward.

!" The leader of the defeated army lay on the ground with his head held high, still looking unconvinced.

When Liu Mingge and Liu Jian heard this, they realized that there were some clues in what this man said.

, Liu Mingge looked at Liu Jian, Liu Jian asked the leader to stand up and speak.

"You said that the emperor ran away to death, and the generals also died. What is going on? Make it clear, we will not take your lives!"

The leader slowly got up and said, "You people are weird too. Forget these rotten things, I'll tell you! I hope you keep your word!"

The leader sat cross-legged on the ground and told everyone the ins and outs of the Chengdu Incident.

This leader's name was Wen Xiaoyi, a centurion under Chen Zhong. After Chen Kuan welcomed the old Chen family army into Bashu, he assigned some counties and counties to garrison in each of the twenty-four battalions, and promised each battalion land and population.

The generals in each battalion were naturally overjoyed. This was something that had not happened in thousands of years. The generals actually had their own fiefdoms and troops, which meant that everyone could become a local emperor.

After Chen Kuan became emperor, he issued hundreds of edicts, all of which commended the soldiers of the 24th Battalion. Perhaps he gave a large amount of gold, silver, cloth, and silk as rewards, and asked the generals of the 24th Battalion to take their men and horses to Chengdu to fetch them.

Everyone was naturally very happy to receive the reward, and since they could lead troops there, they were even more unprepared.

When the twenty-four generals and lieutenants gathered in the capital, Chen Kuan held a banquet in honor of them. During the banquet, they had all kinds of delicacies, and they were accompanied by beauties trained by Jinguan Pavilion.

Before departure, some people suspected that it was the Hongmen Banquet, but when they arrived in Chengdu, the soldiers and horses of the 24th Battalion were able to enter and exit the city freely, so no one had any suspicion anymore.

Until the end of the banquet, everyone was very drunk, and when they returned to the posthouse to rest, there was no abnormality.

When he woke up the next day and continued to attend the banquet, everyone was no longer wary.

On the night of the second day, Chen Kuan and everyone in Jinguan Pavilion led their own people to set a fire where the generals were staying, and a fire broke out.

Originally, the generals of each battalion were certain to die, but Zhang Mengqi of the Xiaoqi Battalion woke up early from drinking and remembered that the woman who accompanied him during the banquet was in Jinguan Pavilion, so he quietly left the post and went to Jinguan Pavilion.

When Zhang Mengqi went to the street, he found that all the Chengdu garrison had been dispatched, holding torches and setting fires everywhere.

Zhang Mengqi saw that something was not going well, so he turned back to lead the horse and prepared to fight out of the city. He turned over and entered the stable, but the horse was already gone.

Zhang Mengqi was so anxious that he poured an oil lamp on the bed and set it on fire. He took off his armor and hid in the toilet to escape the disaster.

Most of the other generals were burned to death in their sleep, or were hacked to death by the Chengdu garrison.

After Zhang Mengqi waited for dawn, he mixed with the crowd and left the city. After leaving the city, he bumped into people who were going to deliver orders to each camp. Zhang Mengqi followed a few of them calmly to the station where he had brought 500 people.

When these people summoned Zhang Mengqi to plot a rebellion and kill everyone without guilt, Zhang Mengqi was already in front of them with a spear.

Several people who were delivering the order were stabbed to death by Zhang Mengqi before they could panic.

Zhang Mengqi didn't waste any time and rushed to each battalion's garrison with his five hundred cavalry to contact the garrison.

When the rest of the garrison battalions heard that their general had been killed, they either took matters into their own hands or surrendered to Chen Kuan. After all, a lot of gold, silver and cloth were sent along with the messenger.

However, Zhang Mengqi had always been a brave leader in the three armies and was quite prestigious in the army. After some lobbying, he actually summoned a team of 5,000 people to fight in the city.

When Chen Kuan saw that the people who went to appease Zhang Mengqi didn't come back for a long time, he knew something was wrong and hurried to the city gate with his soldiers.

Both sides fought hard at the city gate, but the Chengdu garrison was finally defeated by the Chen army, which had been fighting for many years. Chen Kuan led his men to retreat, with Zhang Mengqi in hot pursuit.

Zhang Mengqi opened his eyes angrily and chased Chen Kuan with his gun pointed at him, "Old man! We serve you as our master, but you repay kindness with hatred and kill all the brothers! I, Zhang Mengqi, will not spare you today!"

Chen Kuan held his sword in front of him, "You are working for the tiger, you are a thief, you are carrying

You have betrayed the country and ruined Marshal Chen’s reputation for a lifetime! Even if I, Chen Kuan, am shattered to pieces, I will still do harm to the country and clear Chen Jiajun’s name!”

"Haha, you still believe in this idea of ​​loyalty to the emperor and the country! Where is the king? Where is the country? I have served on the battlefield for many years, but in exchange for the distrust of the eunuchs, supervisors, and the emperor! Why bother with that dog emperor?

Serve your life! Can’t we, the people in the army, be county magistrates and governors? Can’t we govern the country? I think you, an old man, have been following the literati for a long time, and you have become pedantic!” After saying this, Zhang Mengqi stepped forward to take the gun.

Chen Kuan.

Zhang Mengqi's shot was so powerful that several of Chen Kuan's soldiers and their shields were knocked away and fell off their horses.

Chen Kuan knew that this shot could not be taken forcefully, so he dodged with a backflip. Zhang Mengqi changed his stance and swung his spear across the target, and the tip of the spear passed by Chen Kuan's ear.

The battle took place outside the Wuhou Temple. At this time, there were fireworks everywhere in the city that were originally used by the Chengdu garrison. In addition, Zhang Mengqi's men set fires everywhere after entering the city, and everything was on fire.

Only at the Wuhou Temple, neither side dared to act recklessly. Before it was affected, the place where the battle took place was a small dirt bag. The sun was shining in the sky. Zhang Mengqi went into battle shirtless and stabbed Chen Kuan with a spear several times, but Chen Kuan swung his sword at them all.

Resist or dodge sideways.

After all, Zhang Mengqi was much younger than Chen Kuan, and he knew that as long as the fight continued, Chen Kuan would be exhausted and defeated.

"Old man, if you lose your knife, I will leave your body intact!"

Zhang Mengqi stabbed Chen Kuan's horse in the crotch with a spear. He drew his knife with his backhand and jumped up into the air to slash at Chen Kuan, who was leaning down.

Chen Kuan jumped up on horseback, rolled backwards and landed on a big rock. "Don't think that just because you are young, you can beat me! I have already occupied the high ground!"

At this time, Chen Kuan's soldiers also moved closer to the left and right sides of the big stone and erected shields to protect Chen Kuan. However, Chen Kuan waved his hands and said, "Get away. This is between me and him, and you. This is between me and Zhang Mengqi."

My private affairs! Don’t get involved!”

Chen Kuan not only ordered his men to disperse, but also shouted at Zhang Mengqi's troops. Except for Zhang Mengqi's 500 cavalry, the rest were also temporarily recruited.

Many people also received Chen Kuan's favor, so some quietly looted some stores and dispersed, while others happily sat on the mountain and watched the tigers fight.

Zhang Mengqi felt that Chen Kuan was too stupid. He was almost sixty years old, and he wanted to fight alone with someone in his thirties, so he raised his knife and said, "Don't interfere, lest people laugh at me in the future. Zhang Mengqi bullies me."

Young Master! Look at me beheading this old man today to avenge my brothers!"

Zhang Mengqi rushed forward with his sword, jumped up and stepped on the boulder to slash at an angle. At this moment, Chen Kuan squatted down and swiped his sword, directly cutting off Zhang Mengqi's right leg.

Zhang Mengqi immediately fell on the boulder. Chen Kuan was about to get up and retreat, but Zhang Mengqi reluctantly stabbed Chen Kuan in the chest with his knife.

Upon seeing this, soldiers from both sides immediately ran towards the boulder. After a bloody battle, Chen Kuan's army was wiped out, but Zhang Mengqi also died of his injuries.

Chen Kuan achieved half of his goal, and all the commanders of the 24th Battalion were killed, but Bashu became even more chaotic.

When Zhang Mengqi's men saw that their general was dead, they killed everyone they saw in the city, looted and set fire to everything.

Seeing that Chen Kuan was dead, everyone in Jinguan Pavilion had no choice but to escape from the city and go to Xianggao County.

This is what really happened in Chengdu, but what the leader said was that Chen Kuan held a Hongmen Banquet and killed twenty-four generals. People from Jinguan Pavilion rebelled and killed Chen Kuan. Then Chen Kuan's men burned down the city of Chengdu in revenge.

, armies from various places also dispersed, and some took the opportunity to attack cities and seize territory.
Chapter completed!