Chapter 790

Liu Bu is busy planning his Xiangyang strategy. Once this strategy is successful, it can hold the whole Huguang, and take the momentum of attack to suppress the direction of Henan.

Mainly to suppress Zhu Xieyuan's army retreating to Henan.

Of course, if this is to succeed, it must be the successful formation of Li Dingguo's Xiangyang division, plus a number of auxiliary forces, with a total force of no less than 50000. Otherwise, it will be a little difficult to suppress Daming in the whole direction.

Now the confrontation between the north and the south between the Ming Dynasty and China has begun to take shape.

However, such confrontation is extremely beneficial to the Chinese Empire and extremely fatal to Daming. This is because the whole Shandong falls into the hands of the Chinese army, which makes them reach into the north, so that they can attack Henan, Hebei, Shanxi and other places through Shandong at any time, and even their capital is under the attack range of the Chinese army.

The current situation is very dangerous for Daming. It's just nice to say that it is a confrontation between the north and the south. In fact, they are under the suppression of the Chinese army.

If the Chinese army attacked the capital from Shandong on a large scale, Daming would have to finish.

Therefore, the Chinese army came to the conclusion that after the spring of next year, the Ming army will use up its last strength and last force to attack Shandong. If Shandong can't win it, Daming will move its capital or perish.

After knowing that the other side would do so, the Chinese army did not wait to die. They also prepared for next year's war. It should be said that this year.

Liu Bu's Xiangyang strategic goal is to deploy troops here. Once the other party dares to transfer troops from the south to the Shandong battlefield, they can suppress him from the direction of Xiangyang.

The world is a big game of chess. Now Liu Bu knows how to play chess.

Liu Kang and Dai Qianyuan led tens of thousands of people and horses to help the river westward and invade Sichuan.

A place where there is no one awesome, and the Yiling has been attacked by them, and the soldiers and food that are piled up here are all owned by them. This allows them to have access to Sichuan, especially their navy, especially to force Guo Chun's naval corps to be destroyed. In this area, they are more like entering an uninaccessible environment, coming and going like wind.

Under the cover and escort of the Navy, they quickly crossed the Three Gorges and captured Wuxian county. For them, the door to Sichuan has been opened.

Sichuan has been surrounded by mountains since ancient times. It is very difficult to enter. As long as they guard a few limited entrances, they can resist the enemy.

This time, Zhu Xieyuan and Sichuan governor Zhang Youwei led hundreds of thousands of troops out of Sichuan to help Huguang. As a result, they failed to help, but were defeated, which brought a huge blow to the local area.

Like the Three Gorges and Wuxian important areas, there were heavy troops stationed, but the transfer of a large number of troops made their troops extremely empty and had no ability to resist the enemy.

Another reason is to benefit from Dai Qianyuan's persuasion.

Don't underestimate Dai Qianyuan. Although he is greedy for life and afraid of death and is very timid, he is very powerful here. They have joined the army for generations, and countless people in the family join the army. It's not too much to be called the military gate. It can be said that the disciples and old officials are all over the south of Sichuan.

Dai Qianyuan personally came forward this time to persuade the surrender. Wherever he went, the generals of these cities basically offered the city to surrender, because Dai Qianyuan was originally the deputy commander in chief of Sichuan and a senior official in this area.

When these soldiers heard that the governor had died and these senior officials came forward to persuade them to surrender, they also had no intention to resist and surrendered one after another.

As the gateway to Sichuan, the Three Gorges easily fell into the hands of the Chinese army. They can go straight in for a long time. Now they are directly in Fengjie and Wanxian to spy on Chongqing.

The number of people in the western expedition of the Chinese army is up to 10000. The chief general is Liu Kang and Liu Bu's former followers. They have followed Liu Bu and fought in the South and North over the years. They have made a lot of contributions. They can also be regarded as mixing up and becoming a figure at the division level.

In terms of ability, Liu Kang is not as good as several other divisions of the six main forces of the Chinese army, so Liu Bu will consider Mao Shengli as the deputy commander of the partial division of the western expedition army.

Who knows that Mao Shengli capsized in the gutter and was ambushed by the enemy. He had no choice but to let Liu Kang lead the army.

Liu Kang led the army this time. Compared with the past, there are many differences. The biggest difference is that Zhu Xieyuan has been defeated and will not peep at the side and choose people at any time. The other is that he has Dai Qianyuan, a leading Party, to lead the way in front.

Dai Qianyuan, a leading Party, led the way in front. It was a very hard journey, but now it's a little relaxed.

The Dai family has a very high prestige in this area. Most of their children serve as military officers in the nearby area. When they heard that Dai Qianyuan had surrendered, these people abandoned the city and sent troops to attach.

Even if they were not the children of the Dai family, they all had a good cooperative relationship with the Dai family. They heard that the governor died, marshal Zhu Xieyuan was defeated, and the other party led the army into Sichuan. Seeing that things could not be done, these people laid down their weapons one after another.

On the contrary, their men and horses fought more and more. They attacked near Chongqing, with more than 30000 troops.

Liu Kang thought that entering Sichuan would be an arduous battle. Who knows that when his army arrived, all the cities fled and fell at the sight of the wind. They actually directly arrived at Fengjie outside Chongqing.

Even if they were going to besiege Fengjie, Dai Qianyuan said confidently, "give your humble position half a day to persuade the guards in the city."

Liu Kang said, "saving soldiers is like fighting a fire. Now the two sides are competing for time. Are you sure we have half a day to waste?"

Dai Qianyuan said, "marshal, you'd better prepare for war and wait at the same time. This is the greatest support for the humble position. Zhang Deping, the dutiful general, is a greedy man who is afraid of life and death. As long as our army promises benefits, he will not fight to the death. Finally, he can persuade him to surrender to our army."

Seeing that he was so positive, Liu Kang knew that he was eager to express himself and to make meritorious contributions.

Although he was the general soldier of the Ming Dynasty, he executed Sichuan governor Zhang Youwei and so many officers himself. Therefore, he said he had no way back. If he didn't hold the thigh of the Chinese Army tightly, he might be killed.

Moreover, his performance these days is also obvious to all. Dai Qianyuan works extremely hard, even harder than the officers of the Chinese army. It is really related to this person that the Chinese army can make such rapid progress.

They could not have arrived here so soon without him, a leading Party and a familiar local snake, who opened up all aspects of the joints.

They made rapid progress, even faster than Qin Liangyu's army who also retreated in this direction. Most of them took mountain roads because they wanted to avoid the attack of the Chinese navy.

In fact, there is nothing wrong with this choice, because these soldiers are used to climbing mountains and rivers. They have more advantages in home combat on their own territory.

However, when they meet the Chinese army, it is different. The Chinese army is divided into two routes, water and land, and advance at full speed. When the other party is still crossing mountains and mountains and making every effort to withdraw to Chongqing, they have passed through the Three Gorges, won Wuxian, Fengjie, Wanxian and other counties, and the forward reaches Chongqing directly.

And this time the Chinese army sent troops, they were very low-key. Their forward pretended to be a deserter of the Ming army and went in a rout.

These deserters and deserters are not fake, but real Ming soldiers, real Sichuan soldiers. They have taken refuge in the Chinese army and become a member of the Chinese army. Now they mainly pretend to be deserters, mainly to flee to the city and hide their eyes and ears.

Liu Kang led his main force, followed by them. These days, they have occupied so many places and won the gateway of Sichuan, but they haven't even fought a big war.

This makes Liu Kang feel that he is destined to conquer Sichuan.

Mao Shengli is more capable and good at fighting. His Qingzhou division is also an elite force in the Chinese army. Otherwise, Liu Bu would not send him to attack Sichuan and take charge of strategic operations in one direction. This is great trust and recognition of his ability.

However, Mao Shengli screwed up. Mao Shengli's loyalty and ability are not a problem, and his Qingzhou division's combat effectiveness and equipment are not a problem. The biggest problem is that they are unlucky, encounter bad weather, and are attacked by Zhu Xieyuan, an old fox.

Now, these adverse factors are gone. It's hard to say about the local weather, but without the threat of Zhu Xieyuan's army, they will certainly make them go smoothly.

Sichuan's military strength is not large, its military equipment is abandoned and its defense is empty. In order to suppress the chaos of extravagance and security, almost the whole Sichuan's military strength has been mobilized and mobilized.

But no one expected that this big battle, which has been fought for more than ten years, has turned Sichuan, the land of abundance, into a white land. The people are extremely poor, and the people live in deep water and fire.

The people have been extremely poor, but Daming did not stop collecting taxes, but further increased taxes. The biggest problem is that Daming has constant domestic and foreign troubles, and the exiles and slaves have not been destroyed. There is a rebel like the Chinese army. They must do everything they can to suppress this rebel.

Therefore, they did their best to mobilize 200000 troops from Sichuan, gathered a large number of food, grass and soldiers, and went out of Sichuan to support Huguang. Zhu Xieyuan's World War I in Yiling was very powerful. Zhu Xieyuan and Zhang Youwei also became loyal ministers of the Ming Dynasty.

Who knows that at this time, they actually defeated. Such a defeat is fatal and dangerous for them.

The reason why we say this is because after Sichuan has removed so many troops and food and grass, the local defense is extremely empty, which can be described as virtual.

On the one hand, the division of tigers and wolves is ready to go and spread everywhere. On the other hand, it is in vain. How can it compete with the army of the Chinese army?