Chapter 145: The Final Decision in the Northwest

After the New Year, Xiao Tianjian was not idle, under his supervision, all kinds of affairs in the DPRK and China were advancing rapidly, and all the ministries performed their duties, so that all kinds of affairs within the jurisdiction were going hand in hand, and all kinds of apportionments implemented by the Ming Dynasty were abolished by the Ming Dynasty.

In this way, the burden of the people everywhere will be greatly reduced, and as the land gradually returns to the hands of the peasants, the peasants also have hope for the days to come. As a result, the situation in various places began to calm down.

Of course, it can't be said that the situation can be restored to the state of national peace and security all at once, after all, every time the dynasty changes, there are always some people who are loyal to the old dynasty, and they are unwilling to bow down to the new dynasty, so there are still some foolish loyals of the Ming Dynasty in many places, and they are trying their best to gather people to fight against the Dazhong Dynasty, and want to restore the rule of the Ming Dynasty again.

However, for the Great Middle Dynasty, these local resistance forces are no longer a problem, and basically can no longer shake the rule of the Great Middle Dynasty, after the implementation of the policy of appeasing the people one after another, there are fewer and fewer people who are willing to follow those Ming foolish and loyal people to make trouble, mainly because of the establishment of the Great Middle Dynasty, some landlords, old officials and officials and soldiers who have damaged their personal interests are tossed around in various places.

For these people, Xiao Tianjian was ruthless, so that the garrisons around the country gave a strong suppression, and the troubled times used heavy codes, for the future peace of the Great Middle and North Korea, some people who refused to be honest must be eliminated, so the garrisons around the country have adopted high-pressure measures for this kind of resistance, one hand and the other hand, and it is just enough to accept Zhao'an, but as long as someone does not accept Zhao'an, then what awaits them is only a cold blow, many people have lost their heads for this, and even wiped out all the doors, but for Xiao Tianjian, This is the beginning of a new era, and the blood that must be paid, since they are unwilling to return to the rule of the Great Middle Dynasty, then they can only be erased.

And the ministers of the court and the central government do not agree with Xiao Tianjian's ruthless methods, but Xiao Tianjian does not say anything to them, and now the Dazhong Dynasty is his hall, and some people oppose it, so don't be an official in the Dazhong Dynasty anymore, so a group of officials also lost their official positions for this reason, and were driven home to farm, so that the voice of opposition in the DPRK and China was suppressed by Xiao Tianjian.

The first month of the second year of Tianyuan passed in Xiao Tianjian's busyness, and with the progress of the war in the northwest, at the end of the first month, a major good news came from the northwest.

Under the strong blows of the Northwest Army before Li became an adult, he was defeated in successive battles, losing more than half of his troops, coupled with the serious shortage of materials, forcing him to abandon Xi'an Mansion and flee into Hanzhong with the remnants to survive.

Yan Chongxi and Liu Bao quickly recovered Xi'an Mansion, originally according to Yan Chongxi and Liu Bao's ideas, they directly swept into the area of Hanzhong Mansion, and completely eliminated Li Zicheng, but this time Xiao Tianjian rarely interfered with their battle plan in the name of the emperor.

During the Chinese New Year, Xiao Tianjian issued an edict to Yan Chongxi and Liu Bao, ordering them to suspend their attack plans on Hanzhong Prefecture, but first stabilize the situation in Xi'an Prefecture, send troops to hold several key roads leading from Hanzhong to Xi'an Prefecture, and attack western Shaanxi and other places first.

The reason why Xiao Tianjian asked Yan Chongxi and Liu Bao to do this was that he listened to the opinions of Li Xin and other staff officers.

Although Li Zicheng has now lost consecutive battles, after all, he still has some strength at hand, once the Western Army invades Hanzhong Mansion, a big war will definitely be indispensable, in that case, the pressure on the logistics of Dazhong and North Korea is too great, not to mention, and it is easy to cause heavy casualties to the Dazhong Army.

Although Hanzhong is not small, but Li Zicheng wants to feed hundreds of thousands of subordinates in the land of Hanzhong, after being attacked by Li Xuanzhu at the beginning of last year, the grain stored in Hanzhong Mansion is simply not enough for Li Zicheng's soldiers and horses, and now it is winter, Li Zicheng can not solve the ration problem by reclamation, so instead of storming Hanzhong Mansion, it is better to adopt a siege strategy, trapping Li Zicheng in the area of Hanzhong Mansion, even if the Northwest Army of the province defeated Li Zicheng, and let Li Zicheng escape from Hanzhong Mansion and run to the western part of Shaanxi, In that case, it will be a great deal of trouble for the Great Middle Kingdom.

It is better to take advantage of the fact that Li Zicheng concentrated the main troops and horses in Hanzhong Mansion, and the rest of Shaanxi Li Zicheng controlled the territory of the empty army, first recovering the rest of the Shaanxi Prefectures, cutting off the way for Li Zicheng to escape again after the defeat of Li Zicheng, so as to finally exterminate Li Zicheng in one fell swoop.

Now the most important thing in the Great Middle Dynasty is to restore stability as soon as possible, like Li Zicheng such a giant, Xiao Tianjian will no longer be like the Ming Dynasty, let him wander around, when he raised Li Zicheng, that is to Li Zicheng in the northwest to cooperate with the Great Chinese Army to deal with the Ming Dynasty, now that the Ming Dynasty is over, then there is no need for this Li Zicheng to stay, so this time Xiao Tianjian sent Yan Chongxi and Liu Bao to lead the Western Army to conquer Li Zicheng, the purpose is to completely solve Li Zicheng.

After having Xiao Tianjian's edict, Yan Chongxi and Liu Bao immediately revised the battle plan, with a small number of troops, controlled the various key crossings leading to Hanzhong, and then sent General Wang Chengping to attack all parts of western Shaanxi after the year, and then divided the troops to recover Fengxiang Mansion, Qingyang Mansion, Pingliang Mansion and part of Gongchang Mansion, and completely suppressed Li Zicheng's Dashun forces in the area of Hanzhong Mansion.

Li Zicheng was completely surrounded by the Dazhong Army, and all the southeast, northwest, and northwest became the control areas of the Dazhong Dynasty, which made Li Zicheng's Dashun regime difficult, and the Dashun army under his command almost every day had people flee and defect to the Dazhong Army to ask for surrender.

And Li Zicheng still refused to give in, in the years ago, sent Liu Zongmin with Liu Tichun to lead 10,000 elite soldiers, began to enter Shu from Hanzhong, and rushed straight to Lizhou, trying to attack the rich Sichuan when the mountains and rivers were exhausted, relying on Sichuan's unique terrain advantages, continue to confront Dazhong and North Korea.

Although Xiao Tianjian ordered Li Xuanzhu's department to prepare to send troops to Yunnan, they did not ignore Sichuan's defense, and Li Xuanzhu had already prepared to meet the Dashun army in Sichuan.

Just when Liu Zongmin led his troops to Lizhou in a vigorous manner, Li Xuanzhu came to Boryeong Mansion in advance and mobilized nearly 10,000 large Chinese troops to deploy defenses in the vicinity of Boryeong Mansion.

Liu Zongmin and Liu Tichun divided their troops into two ways, wanting to attack Lizhou and open up the passage into Sichuan in one fell swoop, but at the beginning they also acted very smoothly, and only encountered slight resistance from the Dazhong Army along the way, so they entered the Lizhou area, but when they surrounded Lizhou, Li Xuanzhu suddenly led the army to cut off Liu Zongmin's back road, and the Lizhou defender Ma Qiang could not hold out of the city, and when Liu Zongmin and Liu Tichun led the troops into Sichuan, because the mountain road was difficult, they couldn't carry much heavy artillery. There were not many siege weapons, but after the siege battle began, the Dashun army hit its head and broke the blood flow under the city of Lizhou.

Liu Zongmin attacked Lizhou Buke, realized that the trouble was big, and got the news that a large number of large Chinese troops were surrounding them, so they hurriedly wanted to withdraw to Hanzhong, but at this time it was too late, a large Chinese army and horses, stuck on the road they retreated to Hanzhong Mansion, and then Li Xuanzhu led three thousand Sichuan troops who were good at mountain warfare, and suddenly appeared in front of Liu Zongmin's department.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Liu Tichun immediately abandoned his soldiers and fled into the mountains without a trace, but Liu Zongmin failed to escape, and was shot and killed by the Dazhong army surrounded by all sides on the spot.

As a result, Li Zicheng's idea of entering Sichuan came to naught in front of Li Xuanzhu's Sichuan army, and even Li Zicheng, the 10,000 horses that he had managed to put together, only less than 300 escaped into the mountains and forests, and it took a lot of effort to escape back to Hanzhong Mansion.

When Li Zicheng heard this, he was immediately shocked, but at this time, because of the delay of time, Li Zicheng had already lost Fengxiang Mansion, and all sides of Hanzhong Mansion had been surrounded by the Dazhong Army.

At this point, Li Zicheng had no way out, and Xiao Tianjian finally ordered Li Xuanzhu to lead a small number of Sichuan troops out of Sichuan in February, and cooperate with Yan Chongxi's army to conquer the west, and launch the final blow against Hanzhong Mansion.

In the middle of February, the weather in Shaanxi began to gradually warm, and the men and horses of the western army began to march towards the Hanzhong Mansion at this time, and Li Xuanzhu personally led 6,000 Chinese troops out of Lizhou and forced towards Hanzhong Mansion.

Li Zicheng knew at this time that all his dreams had been shattered, the Dazhong Army was not the Ming Army, and with Xiao Tianjian's efforts, the Dazhong Army was already an invincible army, and he wanted to continue to fight against the Dazhong Army, and he had no capital.

So at this time, Li Zicheng had to admit defeat and send people to Xi'an Mansion to seek peace with the Dazhong Dynasty, on the condition that he could abdicate, but asked Xiao Tianjian to seal him in Hanzhong Mansion, in fact, in charge of the military and political power of Hanzhong Mansion, and wanted to continue to be independent of the rule of the Dazhong Dynasty, seek a respite in Hanzhong Mansion, and find another way out in the future.

But Yan Chongxi saw what Li Zicheng was thinking at a glance, and did not give Li Zicheng a chance at all, and immediately rejected Li Zicheng's request for peace, ordering Li Zicheng to immediately give up all resistance and accept the dismissal of the Dazhong Army on the spot, and ordered Li Zicheng to surrender immediately.

After Li Zicheng was refused, he knew that the possibility of final peace was gone, so he was angry and ordered to gather all his generals and gather troops in the area around Hanzhong City to fight to the death with the Dazhong army.

The final battle in the northwest kicked off......

(Today is our National Shame Day, maybe for us civilians, we can't do more, but we can use not buying Japanese goods to show a little patriotism!) I hope my friends can remember this day and never buy Japanese products! Let the little devils know that we Chinese also have backbone! )