During the Qing Dynasty, the Mongolian tribes in the north of the desert were loose sand, Japan in the east was closed to the country, and European colonists in the south were not in a state of chaos, while the Junggar tribe, Yarkand Khanate and Joshuot Khanate in the west were all at different degrees, and the different forms of internal fighting could have little impact on the situation in the Han territories.

From Shanhaiguan fourteen years ago, along a Great Wall, to today fourteen years later, Wu Sangui left Jiayuguan and set foot on the old road, but the direction was wrong, and the result was naturally different.

Now that Wu Sangui is dead, his head will be sent to Beijing by the envoy of the Weilat Mongolian Alliance in exchange for the constraints of the Qing Dynasty on the vassals of Monan and the northern tribes, so that Sengge can focus more on dealing with his brothers.

As for the traitor in the troubled times, before his death, he regretted trying to imitate the retribution of the Desert West Mongolian who had been brought into the pass, or was still jealous of the King of Shu Liu Wenxiu, who had not arrived at the appointment, it is unknown to others.

In fact, Liu Wenxiu, the King of Shu who had been hated by Wu Sangui for a long time, was also unfair. He did not want to arrive in Shaanxi in time and cooperated with Wu Sangui to fight the Qing Dynasty's counter-rebellion army. However, the causes planted back then have suffered bitter fruits, but he could only swallow them.

The Jianchang Guard of the Sichuan Xingdu Department in southern Sichuan has long been requisitioned by Liu Wenxiu as the temporary Shu Palace. The 20,000 soldiers and 30,000 auxiliary soldiers who had planned to go north, part of the former has retreated to Kunming, and the latter has now started farming work in Jianchang Guard. It has been delayed for more than half a year. Although Liu Wenxiu has not received news of Wu Sangui's defeat, he has not been able to consume the warlords in Sichuan. Fortunately, the farming here has also saved some of the food and grass accumulated by the court.

Since October last year, Liu Wenxiu has led a large army from Kunming, preparing to go north through Xingdusi, Jiadingzhou, and Chengdu Prefecture, and enter Shaanxi from Baoning controlled by Wu Sangui, to realize the confluence of the Ming army in the southwest and the Ming army in the northwest.

The army set off and entered the Xingdusi area after passing Wuding Prefecture. At first, they were all fine. Along the way, they were nothing more than cutting down trees and clearing weeds to make the road come back. This road was previously passed by Qi Sansheng, the general of Li Dingguo, and it was easier to clean it up, but when they passed the acropolis of Jianchang Guard, everything became completely different.

After leaving Jianchang Acropolis, a series of huge rocks blocked the official road, with traces of man-made traces from the mountain. The auxiliary soldiers sacked for a few days to clear the huge rocks, and then moved forward, it was flat, but it was dug to ravines and even creatively lured the river. Smaller pits dug on the official road were planted with small trees.

Next, the previous map and the current road began to deviate from one another and another. The road became narrower and narrower. Finally, they ran into the old forest in the mountains and wasted their strength and realized that the road had been tampered with, and the original official road was covered up. They naturally went astrayed along the newly opened road.

In fact, it was okay to walk into the old forest. Tens of thousands of troops were moving, and the tigers in the forest were scared away, but the time and food and grass were consumed that Liu Wenxiu and the Yongli court could not bear.

In the days that followed, Lao Linzi's jokes were gone, and he fell into a trap as he walked. There was obviously no bridge in the map where there were bridges on the map, and many places were even blasted with gunpowder. As for the wells, "savages" attacked the camp at night, and the messenger could no longer see them when he left the army's sight. It happened almost every day.

Originally, Liu Wenxiu promised to celebrate the Spring Festival in Baoning Mansion, and it would be no problem on the road. However, after more than two months of hard work, when it was approaching New Year's Eve, Liu Wenxiu discovered that the vanguard of the army had just entered the territory of Jiadingzhou.

The morale of the army is unstable, and food and grass are consumed in large quantities. Even if you want to arrive in northern Sichuan, it is probably not enough. Seeing this, Liu Wenxiu could only lead the army to celebrate the New Year in Jianchang, and consumed some food and grass in vain.

Who did these things? Liu Wenxiu felt that even with fingernails could figure it out. However, the Ming army in Kuidong was excluded by Sun Kewang in the years since the Daxi Army was in power. When Liu Wenxiu entered Sichuan in the sixth year of Yongli, he also merged many Ming army in Sichuan. It would be strange if the generals in Kuidong could trust Liu Wenxiu.

Moreover, last year Wen'anzhi reported that Chen Wen supported the Kuidong generals to enter Sichuan to farm, and was immediately impeached by Ma Jixiang and forced to retire and return home. Mao Dengshou, the current Sichuan-European general, said that his prestige was far from comparable to Wen'anzhi, and his ability to restrain the Kuidong generals was even more ridiculous.

He retreated to Jianchang in shame before the New Year, and Liu Wenxiu did not move again after the New Year. The food and grass needed by the army was supported by Yunnan and Guizhou, but the Yunnan warehouse was robbed by Wang Ziqi and Wang Shangli, and his savings were gone.

As the two kings and He Jiuyi reached an alliance in Guangxi, their three confidant generals of Sun Kewang quickly occupied the central and southern parts of Guangxi, including Nanning and Liuzhou, and important towns such as Chen Wen were under their control. If it were considered the eastern and northern parts occupied by Chen Wen, the only things that the Yongli court could manage were left in the western prefectures.

This is true in Yunnan and Guangxi. In Guizhou, Chen Wen took several months to move out hundreds of thousands of military households and emptied the Guizhou military camp system that Sun Kewang had worked hard to establish. In addition, Li Dingguo's internal affairs ability is really a bit urgent. The military households are lost, and those who have not run away are as lazy as possible, and the output is getting lower and lower. Originally, Sun Kewang was more than enough to support the 200,000 Western Army with Yunnan and Guizhou provinces. But now they are still these two provinces. The Minister of Revenue of the Yongli court has already stated that even supporting the 100,000 army is already a dream.

Yunnan and Guizhou have insufficient support capabilities, so don’t think about the support from Kuidong. The army will be scattered if there is no food. Since Liu Wenxiu cannot lead tens of thousands of troops to eat grass roots and tree bark, he arrives in Shaanxi in response to various obstructions and assist Wu Sangui in fighting the Qing army, he can only turn to farm in southern Sichuan to alleviate the huge financial pressure.

"Your Highness, the news I just got from Huguang that King Ji was defeated in both Tongguan and Weishui, and the army was gone, and now it is gone."

"Oh, the generals from Kuidong are short-sighted and use their own interests. I did it a bit too much back then."

Liu Wenxiu was like this, and as a general, Weining Bo Gao Chengen had to persuade: "Your Highness does not need to blame yourself too much. It is all that Chen Wen is too cunning to buy the remnants of the Sichuan Army and the Break Army in Kuidong. Otherwise, if Your Highness leads the army northward, how could the royal army lose to the Tartars? Now, I only pity the tens of thousands of troops of His Highness Ji."

"No, you are wrong. Even without the King of Qi, the generals of Kuidong would never let us pass through their controlled areas. Moreover, King of Ji and his Guanning Army were nothing pitiful. It was when they opened and opened the switch and let the Tartars enter the pass, and the world would be ruined. The poor people of Weinan and Xi'an, as well as those Shaanxi rebels, were innocent."

"Why."

Hearing this, Gao Chengen sighed sincerely. However, sighing alone could not solve the problem. Gao Chengen had to ask Liu Wenxiu: "Your Highness, what should we do?"

"If you want to break the deadlock now, you still have to try to go north and return to your hometown in Shaanxi. If you want to go back, there is absolutely no chance without the support of the generals of Kuidong. Supervisor Wen has been dismissed by Ma Jixiang. I really don't know what kind of mystery this fence-bearer has given the emperor and the King of Jin. Now it's no chance to just rely on Supervisor Mao. If you want to drive the generals of Kuidong to go north, unless the emperor can come to Sichuan in person, there may be a glimmer of opportunities."

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The Jianchangwei and Liu Wenxiu's army in the Xingdusi of Sichuan are still working hard to prepare food and grass for the future military operations of the army, and to alleviate the financial pressure of the Yongli court as much as possible.

Agricultural production in southern Sichuan is in full swing, but most of the prefectures, counties, villages and towns in other areas of Sichuan are like ghosts, and a living person may not be able to be seen in dozens or hundreds of miles.

Just now, the gates of Chengdu were closed, and only a very small number of soldiers were still lazily guarding the city gates of each gate, watching the surrounding situation. Looking back on the peaceful years, when Chengdu's business travelers were closed, even if they were open, they would inevitably be blocked by the crowds. However, if the gates were not closed now, the jackals, tigers and leopards outside the city would come in swagger, and the Ming army in the city would not be able to live in peace.

At this moment, it was lunch break, and the houses were demolished in the city, and the leveled military camp was close to each other. The ragged military households were eating dry food and drinking porridge in the broken house under the shade of trees, and resting on their energy for the afternoon work.

The sun was scorching like fire, and even under the shade of trees, the sweat of the military households dripped onto the ground. Fortunately, the water nets in the city were scattered and it was very convenient to use water. Even if there was firewood, there was no need to pick wood. However, the people in Chengdu were scattered so that one in ten were scattered. Even if the wood removed when leveling the land was more than enough to support the fire.

As the military and administrative center of the city, the General Mansion of Chengdu General Liu Yao was located in a small courtyard. Luo Lun stepped into it and looked at the interior layout and decoration of the courtyard. Before he left Sichuan, it was just a house of ordinary merchants. Not to mention anything else, the area alone could not support the role of the General Mansion Office.

"There are only more than 10,000 military households in the city, and they only have various places every day to inquire about the surrounding situation. It's really nothing to do. I thought that it's closer to the military camp, and it's more convenient to supervise the military households to prevent them from being lazy, so I pressed the General's Mansion here."

Liu Yao was a little embarrassed, but Luo Lun noticed that there seemed to be some unswept chicken manure on the ground. Liu Yao stepped on it in his old official boots, and deliberately rubbed it on the ground twice, and his face turned even more red.

"It is really not easy for General Liu to still stick to Chengdu Fucheng under such difficult conditions. When the lower officials returned to Huguang, they should report to His Highness the King of Qi and increase their assistance to the royal division of the Fucheng Fucheng."

"The last one will be Shero and the best words."

During the consultation in Wuchang City last year, General Liu Yao and Deputy General Yang Youcai were not present. If it weren't for Wanxian Santan to lead them as aid, so as to better compete with the Kuidong Ming Army, who were born in the Dashun Army, they would have been forgotten in the corner long ago.

"Remember not to talk to others. If others know, it will be difficult to get a job."

"The last one will understand, the last one will understand."

The assistance to the generals of Kuidong has begun. In more than half a year, the troops in Kuidong have now moved to their respective prefectures and counties, and the aid materials are also being delivered in batches. Luo Lun returned to his long-lost hometown by escorting the materials. Unfortunately, the prosperity here is no longer there. Even the military households in the city are few local people, and they are no longer the blooming southwest important town that was back then.

After receiving the promise of increasing aid, Liu Yao and Yang Youcai looked at each other and smiled happily. While guiding Luo Lun to continue walking towards the official hall, Yang Youcai asked tentatively: "The news of the general, Luo Tongzhi is also a man in the city. He doesn't know where his family lives. The general can also send someone to take care of it so as not to be damaged."

How could Luo Lun not know what the two of them were thinking? But when they mentioned their home, Luo Lun sighed and then said to them: "I have seen it on the way here, and they have planted crops. Moreover, after hearing from relatives who fled to Huguang, the Western thieves occupied the city of the palace by that time, and they had already burned to white land, and there was no need to pay attention to it."

Luo Lun was a little depressed. Yang Youcai cursed in his heart and then loudly condemned the atrocities of the Daxi Army after entering Sichuan. However, before he could say much, a defender came outside the mansion, saying that it was Fu Hou Tan Wen, Renshou Hou Tan Yi and Xinjin Hou Tan Hong had already arrived outside the city gate.

Santan is from Wanxian and is also a brother of the same generation. His ancestors moved from Huguang to Sichuan in the early Ming Dynasty. At this time, there was a saying that the three marquis of the Tan family in Wanxian were the same. At the same time, the Ming army in Sichuan was also of the same clan. Naturally, their divisions were all in the Xichuan Plain where Chengdu was located, in order to better deal with the potential threats of the former rebels and the Western Army in the south.

The supplies from western Sichuan were sent to the docks in Chengdu for distribution. Luo Lun came with a fleet. Santan had sent people to escort the guards before, so he had to divide the things here, so he naturally had to come in person. Only by getting the aid materials was he relieved.

There was a fixed quota for the distribution of materials, and they were the last stop, so they didn't have the opportunity to eat more and take up more. The staff below could make trouble for the distribution of materials. Santan, Liu Yao, Yang Youcai and Luo Lun simply set up a dragon gate formation in the official hall.

"Luo Tongzhi worked hard all the way."

"Mr. Marquis is polite. He can't be called hard work. He just looks like this. He is really depressed."

Luo Lun was like this, Santan looked at each other, and Tan Wen agreed: "Hey, Luo Tongzhi said so much. A few days ago, our troops entered Mianzhu County. The city was dilapidated. At night, the soldiers on the patrol saw tigers entering the city from the robbery to find food."

"Who said no, it's the same in Ziyang County."

"The Jiadingzhou is also dilapidated, and you can hear the wolf screaming in the city at night."

The three of them kept complaining, but it seemed that Chengdu was a paradise on earth. Liu Yao and Yang Youcai were anxious, but they didn't dare to talk too much. However, Luo Lun also saw their respective thoughts. After nodding frequently to express his agreement, he talked about some experiences on the road.

"Last time I assisted the Duke of Wan and the Marquis of Tongcheng to restore Chongqing's prefecture, Chongqing has burned a piece of white land for the Tartars, and all the houses from the wharf to the city must be rebuilt. In fact, this is nothing. On the way alone, the boatmen were attacked by tigers and wolves several times, and the soldiers had to get off the boat and lined up to guard them."

Speaking of this, Luo Lun sighed and shook his head, took a sip of water, and continued, "A few days ago, Xiaguan passed by Xuzhou and heard from Duke Linguo that he had previously divided his troops in Fushun County to control the waterway. Yushuijing Street at the north gate of the county town had been in a tiger's den for a long time, and the soldiers had to camp outside the city. But at night, the tigers and leopards in the city actually left the city to attack the camp, and even soldiers died at the tiger's mouth."

What Luo Lun said was not groundless. Sichuan's population dropped sharply, jackals, tigers and leopards reproduction became more successful, and the streets and alleys in many prefectures and counties have even become nests for tigers and wolves. In this large area that has become a jungle again, survivors of the people of Sichuan during the war had to gather in tall buildings, with large wooden fences outside as protection, but tigers could still enter. In many places, even the army had to go in armed forces to get water. Even this way, tigers dared to attack the army in broad daylight, which could be called unscrupulous.

Like Chengdu, water flows through the city. Although the city walls are in ruins, they are already extremely tall and can still guard against tigers and wolves. As long as the city gate is closed, they can be avoided from tiger disasters. This is extremely rare.

After a few words, how could Santan and Liu and Yang not understand. They quickly blamed the current destruction of Sichuan on the Great Western Army in Yunnan and Guizhou and the Qing army entering Sichuan, all of which looked like they wanted to eat their flesh and drink their blood.

Luo Lun knew that the great disaster in Sichuan Province, Zhang Xianzhong slaughtered Sichuan, the Qing army slaughtered Sichuan, and even the warlords between the local Ming army in Sichuan were inseparable. However, compared with Zhang Xianzhong, the demon king of the world, these remaining troops in Sichuan Ming army were also more important than the same province, and he was unwilling to point it out. However, they did not pretend to be false to the Daxi Army and the Qing army, especially the former, they hated them very much.

After chatting for a while, the results of the material distribution were also sent over. They were all carried out according to the agreement, and there was no even a deduction like Piaowei. Even though they had such cooperation before, they still made them overjoyed, and the compliments were even more unrestricted. From Luo Lun in front of them, Chen Wen led to Nanjing, they were all bragged by them that there was nothing in the sky and the earth. If they were wearing a thousand clothes and flattering, they would be very unreasonable if they didn't say a few nice words.

"Eat, eat, I am very happy today when Luo Tongzhi returned home. Finally, there was a chef who was born in a chef in the city. In the past few days, he also sent his soldiers out of the city to collect some difficult ingredients, and he happened to try the food in his hometown."

Liu Yao and Yang Youcai defended themselves in Chengdu. Even if they were from the Ming army in this province, they had never received assistance from the court and were completely self-reliant. With the assistance of the Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, they were excited and had to take out the treasures in their chests.

Unfortunately, although the food in his hometown caused the worms in Luolun's stomach to cause trouble, it still failed to make the chef show his skills. Instead, Luolun brought a lot of ingredients and handed them over to the chef who was on the boat. It took less than a while to serve them on the dining table. The soup with blood-like red soup really scared them.

"What's this?"
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