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When Mei Zhihuan, Li Changgeng and Yuan Jixian led most of their troops to Wushan County, they saw piles of headless corpses on the dock by the river. The people in Wushan were carrying the bodies with cloth scarves around their mouths and noses.

"There are all old thieves dyed with blood on their hands. I will directly rectify them." Liu Jun, wearing a cotton armor, came to greet him. Seeing Mei Zhihuan and the others looking at the bodies, he explained.

"Since you have been captured, why should you kill him?" Yuan Jixian was surprised when he heard that these people were killed.

"The captives also get a few levels. Those ordinary followers can naturally give them a chance to repent and reform themselves. But the capricious old thieves, such as the King of the Sweeping Land, the Ten Anti-Kings, are just a disaster."

"You will kill the thief bandits, the tenth anti-king king, too." Yuan Jixian was shocked. He received a report earlier that he had killed the tenth anti-king king, and captured the sweeping king alive. However, he did not expect that Liu Jun actually killed the captured thief leader, the sweeping king, without a sound.

"Students think it's better to die Ten Anti-Kings."

"Is it better not to escort him to the capital and behead him?"

"There are too many prisoners, which makes people dream long and the dead do not need food." Liu Jun explained irresponsiblely. In fact, he felt that the Ten Anti-King was not Zhang Xianzhong, and it would save the repetition of the situation directly. If the Ten Anti-King expressed his loyalty and the court recruited him again, wouldn't he have a waste of effort?

Yuan Jixian was blocked and couldn't speak. Mei Zhihuan laughed, "If you kill, you will be killed, you will be a bandit who is not worth dying. But if you can capture Zhang Xianzhong alive next time, it's better to leave a living place."

The group stepped on the steps into Wushan County. On the long steps, there were dark black blood stains that had solidified. Mei Zhihuan looked at it, "Tell me about the specific battle, I heard that you fought very easily."

"Actually, there is nothing to boast about. Although our Nine-Headed Bird is a new army, the people of the Sweeping King and the Ten Anti-King King are even more chaotic. There are very few old thieves, most of them are ordinary refugees who are carrying them all the way. They lack armor, lack of weapons, and there is no organization, and there is no lack of officers. Moreover, these people underestimate the enemy. They can attack sneakily, but they are rushing in. As a result, three-wheeled cannons were set off on the top of the city, and they collapsed and ran to the riverside."

"Then you had expected this situation. You were ambushed by the river in advance, destroying their bamboo platoons first, cutting off the retreat of the teams, and then surrendering with artillery fire." Mei Zhihuan nodded while walking, "I have to say that the bandits are indeed stupid, but you, Liu Jun, are also very smart. This battle is very good and very skillful."

Li Changgeng also smiled and said, "But to be honest, you are indeed a bit bullying. The first battalion of troops carries hundreds of large and small cannons. The bandits must feel very dissatisfied."

Wushan County is not big. Although it lacks solid fortifications, no trenches, no urns, and no enemy towers, it is still good overall.

Since Emperor Chongzhen ascended the throne, Sichuan has not been peaceful in a corner. It originated in the She'an Rebellion more than ten years ago. It originally started in Chongqing in eastern Sichuan. The war lasted for 17 years from the first year of Tianqi to the tenth year of Chongzhen. It affected the four provinces of Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan and Guangxi, with more than one million casualties, and a large-scale war lasted for nine years.

It was not until the She'an Rebellion in the tenth year of Chongzhen that it was finally settled.

But in this year, Li Zicheng and other Shaanxi bandits launched a large number of attacks from Hanzhong to Sichuan. They captured 38 prefectures and counties, and surrounded Chengdu. The court sent a large number of generals such as Fu Zonglong, Hong Chengchou, Zu Dabi, and Cao Bianjiao to lead 60,000 to 70,000 officers and soldiers into Sichuan, and finally drove Li Zicheng and other bandits out of Sichuan.

However, Li Zicheng and other bandits entered Sichuan from northwest Sichuan and have been moving west of the Jialing River. Although Wushan, which is located in northeastern Sichuan, has not been affected this time. However, in the seventh year of Chongzhen, Zhang Xianzhong once attacked eastern Sichuan and occupied Fengjie and other cities for a time, not to mention that during the She'an Rebellion, Chongqing Prefecture and Kuizhou Prefecture were once occupied by rebels.

After all, the She'an Rebellion broke out from eastern Sichuan, and countless officers and chieftains fought fiercely, so Wushan City was indeed not as prosperous as before.

As soon as he entered the county town, Wang Qiren and others came to see each other quickly. Mei Zhihuan was quite polite to the magistrate who was born in the Jinshi list at the beginning, but he then heard about the magistrate who was pretending to be civil servants last night, and he immediately lost his face. What happened, but he still had to be civil servants. The little magistrate dared to call on the guerrilla general.

"Come on, take down the heads of the sweeping king and other bandit leaders and ask the Prime Minister to inspect it," Liu Jun shouted loudly.

Soon, the Nine-Headed Birdman raised many sacks and some small wooden boxes. The two most exquisite ones were the heads of the Sweeping King and the Ten Anti-King King.

All the heads were stained with lime and salt, and the sweeping king and the ten anti-king kings were directly soaked in mercury to maintain the original appearance of the heads.

"The two bandit leaders and below are in charge of more than 100 leaders and generals, and all are here. There are also 1,258 old thieves who were killed in battle formations and later identified the Dharma. There are 1,395 thieves, and there are 1,395 thieves, and there are more than 4,200 prisoners in prison."

Mei Zhihuan looked at these heads carefully, especially the two anti-king heads.

"Are their identities confirmed?"

"Clean verification confirms that it is correct"

Mei Zhihuan nodded with satisfaction. These two bandit leaders were quite famous among the bandit bandits, and they were both thieves who had repeated several times. Among them, the ten-rebel king Yang Youliang was previously dependent and was placed in Junzhou. When Zhang Xianzhong rebelled again, he followed Wang Guangen, Huiden, five other thieves, and swore to the court that he would never rebel. Not long after, only one of the five thieves was left, Wang Guangen, really insisted on not rebelling, and the other four thieves, Huiden, Yang Youliang, etc., all rebelled again.

"Since you have surrendered, why do you have to rebel against Liu Guoneng again? After Ma Jinzhong, Wang Guangen, Li Wanqing and others surrendered, the court treated him well. Now he has been awarded the titles of Deputy General, General, Guerrilla, etc. He has a peaceful life, but he has finally lost Qingqing's life."

"Some people had no choice but to rebel because they couldn't survive. But now, they had a choice, but still had to go on this path of no return, and that was because they were seeking death." Liu Jun had no sympathy and pity for these bandits. After this era, he deeply felt that these people were not peasant uprising troops or revolutionary troops. Perhaps some of them were once peasant farmers at the bottom of society, but they were not rebels.

The vast majority of the rebels eventually became vicious looters. After all, these people were just a group of bandits, destroying them everywhere without any advice.

How can we expect a group of people who don’t even have a base, don’t do production, and just wander around, rob, and kill, to be the rebels.

If they can't survive, the rebellion itself is correct, but the wrong thing is that they have no real goal. After the rebellion, they only know how to loot and have no ambitions. Why are most of the peasant army in history failing because they are short-sighted and have no order.

"Sending these two heads into the capital immediately and presenting them to the emperor should make the emperor happy and excited." Li Changgeng said.

Beijing.

The first report that Chongzhen opened in front of the imperial case early in the morning was bad news.

"The bandit Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai joined forces to leave Yunyang, Huguang and break into Sichuan, and then captured Dachang City in eastern Sichuan. Sichuan's deputy general Zhang Zukai led 5,000 troops to station in Dachang, but he could not fight. The city was trapped in the long day and then the entire army was wiped out."

Chongzhen felt a breathing irritation, and his anger surged. He clenched his fists tightly with both hands, and he was so angry that he wanted to beat Zhang Zukai to death with both fists. Incompetent, incompetent, or incompetent. Five thousand men guarded a city, but he didn't even defend the city for a long time. How did Zhang Zukai rise to the deputy general?

Then a greater worry arose in Chongzhen's heart.

He remembered Yang Sichang's previous report that he had always said that the thieves would break into Shaanxi, so the heavy troops were all on the border of Hubei and Shaanxi. Now the thieves and bandits broke into Sichuan. Doesn't this mean that Yang Sichang miscalculated, and there was no obstacle in front of the bandits now? Could it be that in the tenth year of Chongzhen, the thieves and bandits broke into Sichuan, conquering cities and breaking counties, and the disaster of soldiers surrounded Chengdu was about to be repeated.

Two years ago, Li Zicheng and others broke into Sichuan from Hanzhong and were rampant in Sichuan for a year. The court drew 70,000 to 80,000 people from all walks of life, and finally drove the bandits back to Shaanxi. Then, Hong Chengchou, Sun Chuanting, Lu Xiangsheng and others were able to annihilate Li Zicheng and other troops. But it was precisely because the court transferred too many troops to Sichuan and Shaanxi to suppress the bandits, which led to the emptiness of the border, which allowed the Qing army to break into the pass last year.

We must not let Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai traverse again to cause disaster to Sichuan. Once they enter Sichuan, the officers and soldiers will have to re-distribute the net. First, the imperial court did not have so many soldiers to adjust, and second, there was not enough money and food for the official army to enter Sichuan to encircle and suppress.

In addition to being angry, Chongzhen also began to feel a little disappointed with Yang Sichang.

Closed his eyes, Chongzhen leaned tiredly on the back of the chair.

Suddenly, he opened his eyes. He suddenly remembered that the six provinces suppressed bandits were in Sichuan and should not be far from Dachang City. Mei Zhihuan was in eastern Sichuan, and the governor of Yunyang Li Changgeng was also in eastern Sichuan. They also had his guerrilla general under their command. No, he had promoted Liu Jun to a general a few days ago, and the appointment should be almost in Liu Jun's hands.

However, can Mei Zhihuan, Li Changgeng, Liu Jun and their Huguang soldiers stop Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai?

Chongzhen dared not hope that Mei Zhihuan could defeat Zhang Zhe. His only hope was that his new Prime Minister would be more reliable than his supervisor, and could stop the bandits and stop their entry into Sichuan, so as to give time to pursue Zuo Liangyu, Chen Hongfan, Zheng Chongjian and other troops who were wrongly arranged by Yang Sichang on the front line of Hubei and Shaanxi.

At this time, he could only count on the Chu army.

That Liu Jun once defeated thieves and bandits with 600, but this time, can he turn the tide and save the current danger?

ps: I suddenly saw many familiar names on the fan list today, and I found that many readers are readers of the book, even the book, and some even those who started to support Muzi when he first started. I didn’t expect that there were so many friends who have been supporting the first book since the first book, and this is Muzi’s sixth book, and everyone is still there. Muzi was really surprised and moved. Thank you for your support, thank you for your continued. ~Search for the basket color and you can read the following chapters in the full text.
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