The streets in the county town of Yuexi were empty, and the people were all hiding in their homes, and the magistrate had told them long before the war that the enemy army was extremely ferocious, and once they entered the city, no one would survive.

So when they were fighting, they almost all helped the defenders in the city, and now that Cheng Xiaolian and they have entered the city, all the people are hiding in their homes, and some people have taken the opportunity to run to the mountains.

But what I didn't expect was that Cheng Xiaolian didn't say that they were murderous, they didn't even grab food, they just changed the guards in the city, Qin Yue and he have many people who can be officials, and it is not a problem to pick a county order, but Cheng Xiaolian told him a thousand times, whether it is good to act at this time, or really dedicated to the people, even if the taxes are reduced again and again, they must let the people remember their goodness.

Then he arranged for someone to secretly spread the news, saying that he was a descendant of the Ming Dynasty and wanted to oppose the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty.

The reason why he wants to spread the news secretly is because he can't put on his own banner now, but he can't use Wu Sangui's reputation in a vague way, he must release the name first, of course, Wu Sangui may have doubts about this, as long as there is no exact news, he has no reason to give up the good situation in Jingzhou and run to Sichuan instead.

Once Wu Zhou's army enters the land of Jiangnan, it will not be so easy to transfer them back, and there are still many hermits in the Ming Dynasty in the land of Jiangnan, these people cannot fall into the hands of Wu Sangui, otherwise the entire Jiangnan Shi clan will have to be used by Wu Sangui, and then Wu Sangui will be able to map the Jingshi.

If Cheng Xiaolian wants to expand his power, he has to gather all the people who have not forgotten the Ming Dynasty, so the news must be spread in advance to give others a preparation. It is also necessary to test the hearts of the people in these cities in Sichuan, otherwise when he arrives in Chengdu and shows the banner of the Ming Dynasty, all the people behind him will be reversed, and he will be embattled.

After pacifying the population of Yuexi County, Cheng Xiaolian immediately took the army on the road, taking advantage of the fact that all parties have not yet reacted, and hurried to Chengdu.

However, on the way to the march, Cheng Xiaolian also felt a little abnormal, Sichuan is known as the land of abundance, but except for the guards, it is sparsely populated, it is like entering no man's land.

Cheng Xiaolian glanced at Yang Youcai: "Why are there no people in Sichuan?" ”

Yang Youcai coughed: "Your Highness, starting from Zhang Xianzhong, Sichuan has been fighting for many years, Zhang Xianzhong has entered Sichuan, and the Qing army has encircled and suppressed Zhang Xianzhong's remains for more than ten years. So when His Royal Highness said that he came to Sichuan, I agreed very much, this place is just land, as long as we can call people here, we can immediately have our own territory. ”

Cheng Xiaolian asked rhetorically: "What about Huguang filling the river?" ”

"What Huguang fills the river?"

"Is it to migrate the population of Huguang to Sichuan?"

"Your Highness said that it was a joke, the emperor of the Manchu Qing Dynasty did not agree, who would dare to move people here?"

Cheng Xiaolian was thoughtful, he probably figured out what was going on, after the rebellion of the three feudatories, there was probably only Huguang to fill the Sichuan, and now there is only an empty shelf left in Sichuan, and a lot of land is ownerless, so it seems that Sichuan is definitely suitable for him to establish his own territory.

Thinking of this, he hummed a song: "Little snail horn, tick tick blow, blow to death Wu Sangui, the old ghost." ”

Yang Youcai scratched his head: "Your Highness, it seems that you are only a little bit of a seventeen-year-old boy now, it's not that I said, when I was seventeen years old, I either went to dig a bird's nest, or went to someone's fruit forest to steal fruit to eat." ”

"Hmph, I want to dig the bird's nest, if I do, but I'm afraid you won't be able to accept it." Thinking of this, Xiaolian snorted in his heart: It's not that I haven't dug the bird's nest in the next life, but if I am twenty-seven or eighteen according to the future generations, how neurotic do I have to go to dig the bird's nest?

"Your Highness, I just said casually, you must be taken, otherwise I will be bitten to death by those adults."

Three days later, Cheng Xiaolian and they went to the Lizhou Pacification Division, the people in this place are basically not Han people, the pacification envoy of the Lizhou Pacification Division is a brother-in-law of the general of Wu Sangui's army, this eldest brother really has no ability, so he arranged to be here to be a pacification envoy, speaking of which is also a party member, but there is no silver, no soldiers, no right to speak, so the pacification envoy began to indulge in alcohol after the initial excitement.

Anyway, this place is the biggest for him, he can play as much as he wants, and he ends up happy.

Hearing that the army had come to this, the pacification envoy immediately jumped up from the green building: "Finally, it's my turn to make meritorious contributions, as long as I win the battle, see who dares to look down on me, and then I will follow the prince to the east and west." As he spoke, he pointed to a few people around him: "You are all prefects and counties." ”

Several soldiers hurriedly knelt on the ground: "Lord Xie promoted." ”

It turns out that the most losers are definitely not those who can't fight, but those who think they can fight. The pacification envoy did not even know the number of people on the other side, so he hurried out with the soldiers of the city, and in his opinion, the greater the strength of the rebellion, the better, so that he could take many heads for meritorious service.

So he took a thousand soldiers in the city out of the city, and he startled Cheng Xiaolian when he went out of the city: "They have a conspiracy!" This was Cheng Xiaolian's first thought.

Yang Youcai was also frightened: "Go and see the surrounding situation, have our brothers all been killed?" ”

Soon, the surrounding brothers flew to report: "There are no ambushes around, only these 1,000 people." ”

Cheng Xiaolian glanced at Qu Songjin: "What do you think of their combat effectiveness?" ”

Qu Songtin looked at it carefully: "The army is uneven, the queue is not neat, if you don't pretend to be like this, it doesn't have much combat effectiveness." ”

Cheng Xiaolian laughed: "Meng Ke, do you dare to go up and give it a try?" ”

Meng Ke smiled and lifted his sledgehammer: "I just wanted to go and see how powerful the main general on the opposite side is, dare to rush into battle with a thousand people." ”

Soon Meng Ke led two thousand people out of the camp and went straight to the enemy, and the archers in the rear began to release arrows when they ran to a distance of two hundred meters, and the shield bearers in front also raised their shields, waiting to meet the arrows fired by the other party.

But to Meng Ke's surprise, the other party had no intention of shooting arrows at all, and as his own archers released their bows and arrows, the other party's people quickly fell.

Meng Ke couldn't help laughing: "It seems that they treat us as bandits, so we don't have to be polite." ”

Then the pacification made the Lord and Meng Ke face to face, and their heads were chiseled by a sledgehammer, and an hour later, Cheng Xiaolian occupied the Lizhou Pacification Division.