Hezhou, Sichuan.

This was once a place where the Mongol Yuan and the Southern Song Dynasty had been tug-of-war for decades, and even a miracle where the Southern Song Dynasty was destroyed and Diaoyu City was still unsuccessful.

However, Shang Kexi, who was surrounded by Hezhou, did not have the ability to create this miracle.

April of the fourth year of Yongli in 1662.

The same month when Zhao Ming captured Hailanpao, Hezhou City, which had been besieged for half a year, was eventually captured by the Ming army because of the rebellion in the city because of no support from Meng Qiaofang in Chengdu.

Zhou general Li Guoying, the Qing general who defeated Liu Wenxiu several times in history and wiped out the thirteen Kuidong families, led his troops to break through when the city was broken, but he was not allowed to leave several times and was shot dead at the city gate by random guns.

Zhou general Shang Kexi, one of the three kings of Shun, chose the same path as Kong Youde after the Ming army attacked the city, and burned himself in the Hezhou Prefecture. His son Shang Zhixin and others chose to surrender to the Ming army.

Li Dingguo and Tang Tong captured Fuhezhou, Shang Kexi and Li Guoying were killed. For a time, Sichuan and Shu were in great shock. Zhou troops in Ziyang, Suining and other places abandoned the city and fled.

At the end of April, after the Ming army took a break, Li Dingguo and Tang Tong led the main force and advanced to Chengdu. The army took Bishan, Tongliang, Tongnan, Suining, and Lezhi, approaching Anyang Pass, Jianzhou, and all the way. The prefectures and counties were descending.

At the same time, Liu Wenxiu went north from Luzhou, went to Neijiang and Ziyang, and met with Li Dingguo in front of Anyang Pass on the third day of the fifth month.

Three hundred thousand Ming troops approached Chengdu, with only a hundred miles away.

This made the Zhou army in Chengdu go around in a mess. No one expected that in less than a year, most of Sichuan would be lost.

At this time, in the Hall of the Supervisor's Mansion, Meng Qiaofang was sitting in the coach's position, with the lower generals with a gloomy face and silent.

"Supervisor, the Ming army is approaching the brink of the brink of trouble. Please come up with a strategy as soon as possible!" Gao Qilong said worriedly.

Meng Qiaofang remained silent, and many Zhou generals stared at him with heavy faces, waiting for him to make an idea.

After a while, Meng Qiaofang looked up and glanced at everyone and said, "The Ming army is powerful and Chengdu has no danger. This governor decided to give up Chengdu and retreat to Hanzhong!"

As if they were afraid that Meng Qiaofang would repent, many Zhou soldiers immediately stood up and folded their fists, praising them loudly, "The Supervisor is wise!"

Meng Qiaofang sighed and waved, "Let's go away, take away everything you can, and leave tonight."

The generals bowed and hurriedly left the festival hall. Before night, the Zhou army units rushed out of the city and rushed to flee to Hanzhong.

For a time, the city of Chengdu was in chaos. Before the Zhou army could be forced to recruit people's carriages, merchants' cloth and food, the city was in chaos.

The tradition of evacuating Zhou's army has always been there. Seeing that he might be the only one left at night, Meng Qiaofang also took the Biaoying out of the city in panic.

Seeing this, Qin Shang in Chengdu City hurriedly stopped Meng Qiaofang and asked anxiously: "The Governor is going to give up Chengdu and hand over Sichuan to him."

Qin Shang is one of the top ten business groups in China, the earliest business group to rise in the Ming Dynasty, and the largest business group once again.

After the founding of the Zhou State, many of the domestic grain and materials were relied on Qin merchants to help transfer.

This is just like the Shanxi merchants were to the Qing Dynasty. Qin merchants were very important to the Zhou State, and the commercial expansion of Qin merchants also relied heavily on the expansion of Zhou State.

The Zhou State had a vast territory, but there were not many rich places. Sichuan could be said to be the only rich place with abundant resources and sufficient food. Qin merchants invested a lot here, so naturally they did not want the Zhou State to give up Sichuan.

Meng Qiaofang had no choice but to break free and said evasively: "Don't misunderstand, this governor is just a strategic move and will never give up on Sichuan."

After speaking, he hurriedly pulled out his horse and surrounded by the commander's bid, he left Chengdu in a panic.

Shang Kexi and Li Guoying's killing shocked the Zhou army in Chengdu.

When he learned that the Ming army had arrived at Yang'an Pass and 300,000 troops were at the city, Meng Qiaofang predicted that Chengdu could not stand firm, so he did not care about it. He led 40,000 Zhou troops and a group of civil and military officials of the Zhou army in Sichuan to flee to Jiange in a hurry, and then headed north and headed to Hanzhong.

In order to prevent the Ming army from taking advantage of the situation to attack Hanzhong, the Zhou army burned the plank road along the way and cut off the connection between Hanzhong and Sichuan.

After Li Dingguo, Tang Tong and Liu Wenxiu met at Yang'an Pass in Jianzhou, 300,000 troops broke through the city of Guancheng and rushed to Chengdu.

On May 6, Liu Wenxiu, as a striker, arrived at the city of Chengdu first.

This is the center of Sichuan and the capital of the former Great Western Kingdom.

In the past twenty years, Chengdu has changed hands several times, but now it will return to the Ming Dynasty.

Looking at the towering city wall, Liu Wenxiu and other Western soldiers couldn't help but sigh that this was their third time to capture Chengdu.

The first time was to follow Zhang Xianzhong into Sichuan and seize Chengdu from the Ming Dynasty. The second time was to follow Sun Kewang and seize Chengdu from the Qing army. The third time was to now, they will restore Chengdu as the Ming army and end decades of chaos in Shu.

Looking at the place where they had fought, Li Wenxiu and others couldn't help but feel emotion in their hearts.

At this time, the soldiers looked at the city and couldn't help but ask: "Governor, should I fight or treat me?"

During the Battle of East Sichuan and the Battle of Hezhou, the Zhou army in Sichuan lost nearly half of it. The Zhou army that remained in Chengdu must have been in panic and the morale of the army was in chaos.

Liu Wenxiu controlled the war horse and said in a deep voice: "Let the army set up a formation and prepare for siege. In addition, send people to deliver letters to make the enemy in the city surrender."

At this time, only a few local soldiers and officials who were unwilling to leave Sichuan were left in Chengdu. After seeing Meng Qiaofang leading the main force to escape, they were already trembling and anxious.

Now seeing the Ming army approaching the city, the defenders in the city have the courage to resist.

Just as the Ming army was about to send soldiers to the Book City and urged surrender, the Chengdu gate had been opened, and a group of people walked out of the door hole and came towards the Ming army's formation.

Not long after, an official led a group of merchants and gentry in Chengdu to the Ming army formation and was taken to the central army by soldiers to pay homage.

"The Chengdu order of Zhou State to lead the people of the whole city to Xiancheng, and hope that the king's army would enter the city to appease the people, and respectfully invite the king's army to enter the city."

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Guanzhong, Chang'an.

The news of the Battle of Sichuan soon spread to the Palace of King Zhou, which caused Wu Sangui to be furious.

Bashu and Hedong are the two wings of Guanzhong, guarding the land of Guanzhong like arms.

Now that the Ming army captured Bashu, it was equivalent to cutting off the Zhou Kingdom's arm, making Wu Sangui a one-armed hero, and his other arm was not very obedient, and the Zhou Kingdom was deposed.

"Shang Kexi, I believe him wrongly."

"Meng Qiaofang, what a timid! Who told him to give up Chengdu without authorization and withdraw to Hanzhong?"

Faced with Wu Sangui's exposure and curses, the officials of Zhou State in the palace were as quiet as a cicada and did not dare to speak out.
Chapter completed!