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When there is an external threat, Sun Kewang, Liu Wenxiu, Li Dingguo, and Ai Nengqi still advance and retreat together.

However, as soon as He Luohui retreated, the contradiction between the four people was immediately exposed, Sun Kewang was originally called Sun Kewang, he changed "Wang" to Wang, it goes without saying that what he hoped for was the throne left by Zhang Xianzhong.

But his prestige is not enough to convince the other three.

Zhang Xianzhong played balance when he was alive, and the strength of the four righteous sons was about the same, Sun Kewang wanted to seize the throne left by Zhang Xianzhong, at least he had to win the support of two of them, and under the absolute advantage, it was possible to achieve what he wanted.

When Qin Mu's envoy Wang Huanran came to Sichuan, Li Dingguo intended to join Qin to resist the Qing Dynasty, and Ai Nengqi was friendly with Li Dingguo, and he was also inclined to Li Dingguo's opinion, so the four of them also quarreled.

Later, Sun Kewang received a secret report, saying that Wang Huan then came to meet Li Dingguo and Ai Nengqi in private, gave them a lot of gifts, and talked secretly for a long time before leaving Shu happily.

Sun Kewang, who felt that the situation had changed, decided to strike first, and overnight in the name of deliberations, invited Li Dingguo and Ai Nengqi to his mansion, and used his knife hand, preparing to restrain the two first, and then force Liu Wenxiu to accept the facts after taking over the army under the two.

However, just as Sun Kewang shouted and the ambushed knife hand rushed in, two fierce explosions sounded outside the hall one after another, and for a while the smoke and dust were filled, the beams and pillars shook, and the tiles fell one after another, and everyone panicked;

Li Dingguo and Ai Nengqi took advantage of the chaos to rush out, converged with the soldiers in the front yard, and killed Sun Kewang's mansion together.

Sun Kewang didn't have time to figure out that there would be a sudden explosion in Weishenme, because Li Dingguo and Ai Nengqi then joined forces to lead the army to kill back, and a scuffle broke out;

Liu Wenxiu didn't know why, so he withdrew from Chengdu first in order to protect himself, Sun Kewang was defeated by Li Ai's coalition army, and was forced to withdraw from Chengdu before dawn.

Later, Li Dingguo and Sun Kewang both sent people to find Liu Wenxiu, each with their own reasoning, and Liu Wenxiu could not distinguish between right and wrong. Led 40,000 horses and horses to leave Chongqing in a fit of anger, Sun Kewang could not win Liu Wenxiu, and could not cope with the offensive of Li Dingguo and Ai Nengqi alone, so he was forced to retreat south with 50,000 horses to Jiading Mansion.

The four people split, resulting in a great chaos in the state capitals controlled by the former Great Western Army, Shizhu 2,000 white pole soldiers, under the leadership of Qin Yiming and Ma Wannian, quickly attacked, even broke Fengdu, Fuling, and attacked Chongqing before Liu Wenxiu.

To the east of Jingzhou, the 5,000 Qin army was also under the leadership of Liu Yongzhi. Urgently advancing westward, Liu Yongzhi turned out to be an important general of the Great Western Army, surrendered to Qin Mu in the Battle of Liuyang River, this time Qin Mu sent him into Sichuan, it was to use his relationship to recruit the Great Western Army along the way.

Sure enough, Liu Yongzhi appeared to persuade him to surrender, and the resistance of the Great Western Army in Yiling Prefecture (Yichang), Guizhou, Badong and other places along the rest was extremely weak, and Liu Yongzhi not only advanced very fast. Under the surrender all the way, the number of troops increased unabated, and soon reached tens of thousands, approaching Kuizhou.

At this time, Wang Huanran, who was in the stone pillar, made a major mistake. Before he could persuade Qin Liangyu to express his support for Qin Mu, he revealed that Ye Bushu was stepping up the division of Zhang Xianzhong's four righteous sons, so that Shizhu was prepared in advance and quickly sent troops to attack Chongqing.

See how to lobby. Qin Liangyu just didn't let go, and even asked Qin Mu to support the descendants of the Zhu family. Wang Huanran's heart was in turmoil, and he hurriedly chased Qin Yiming and Ma Wannian to the city of Chongqing. tried to persuade the two to join Qin Mu, although the two were moved, they did not dare to disobey Qin Liangyu.

Wang Huanran had no choice but to temporarily give up lobbying Qin Yiming and Ma Wannian, urgently detour to Guang'an, Nanchong, and then go to Chengdu in order to reach an agreement with Li Dingguo and Ai Nengqi.

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When the news returned to Wuchang, Qin Mu secretly frowned and sent Wang Juanran to lobby Qin Liangyu, in order to use Qin Liangyu's high prestige in Sichuan to quickly win the support of the Sichuan officials and the people after dividing Sun Kewang's four people.

Although Qin Mu is not satisfied with Wang Huanran's performance, there is no way to do it, you can't expect every subordinate to never make mistakes, and you can't expect them to have the eloquence of Su Qin and Zhang Yi.

Now he must carefully grasp the rewards and punishments for the merits and demerits of his subordinates, and must be objective and reasonable, at least he can no longer act according to his own likes and angers.

Wang Huanran failed to convince Qin Liangyu, which itself has its objective factors, Qin Liangyu fought for the Ming Dynasty all his life, loyal, to convince him is an extremely difficult thing, Wang Huanran's mistake is that before he failed to convince Qin Liangyu, he revealed his own actions, and this responsibility will be investigated later.

Now the situation is very passive, whether Qin Yiming and Ma Wannian can capture Chongqing, and whether it will be beneficial or disadvantageous to their own side after capturing Chongqing, these are difficult to assess at present.

Fortunately, Qin Mu has been blocking the news now, and Qin Liangyu has not yet learned the news that Zhu Yujian is the emperor in Fujian. It's just that paper can't contain the fire after all, Qin Liangyu will get the news sooner or later, and it's really hard to say how she will react then.

Qin Mu didn't have a plan for a while, so he asked left and right: "Mr. Sima, how to clean up the chaos in Sichuan?" ”

Sima An muttered: "In the minister's opinion, the first step to divide Sun Kewang and the four people has already been taken, and the next important thing is to cage Li Dingguo and Ainengqi;

As for Qin Liangyu, if he can't be convinced, let it go first, or don't tear his face with him first;

If Liu Yongzhi can successfully take Kuizhou, he can bypass the stone pillar and advance directly to Dazhou and Guang'an to the west, so that once Wang Huanran convinces Li Dingguo and Ainengqi, we can also connect with Chengdu. ”

Li Yuan continued: "After all, King Qin and Qin Liangyu have a single source, although Qin Liangyu did not express her support for King Qin, but she did not scold King Qin for calling him king, which shows that she still has reservations;

In the opinion of your subordinates, our king might as well bypass Qin Yuliang and send someone to directly appoint Qin Yiming as the chief soldier of Sichuan and Ma Wannian as the deputy chief soldier, no matter whether they dare to accept it or not, let's show our sincerity first, so that at least Qin Yiming will not be the enemy of our army. ”

He Liang thought for a while and said: "Your Highness, we can also try it from Fujian, and let our people claim in Fujian that Qin Liangyu has voted for our Qin State, if Zhu Yujian makes any radical reaction because of this, it will be very beneficial for us to win Qin Yiming and Ma Wannian." ”

"Okay, just do as you say."

Although Sichuan is important, according to the current layout, the Qin army's top priority is to seize the "right to control the river", Liu Meng and Zhao Han's reorganization of Li Zicheng's remaining troops and the Guanning army has been basically completed, and now the 100,000-strong army has been assembled and is ready to take Anqing in the east.

Therefore, the focus of Qin Mu's discussion with Sima An and the others quickly shifted to this aspect, and at this time, Yan Gaofei walked quickly into the Chongzheng Palace, and reported: "The Black Flag fleet of King Qin, Hui Dengxiang and Jin Shenghuan has arrived in Jiujiang, and the two of them asked to meet you, King of Qin, before agreeing to discuss the matter of annexation. ”

Li Yuan immediately stopped: "King Qin, you must not be in danger, in case the two of you are cheating. ”

Qin Mu nodded noncommittally, although the behavior of the 60,000 horses under Hui Dengxiang and Jin Shenghuan was questionable, there were hundreds of large and small ships, all of which were stolen from the prefectures and counties near Nanjing when the Qing monarch was on the side, and these ships were exactly what the Qin army needed most now.

In order to smoothly receive this army, Qin Mu said: "Anyway, our center of gravity will also move eastward, it doesn't hurt for this king to go to Huihui and Jin by the way, you can rest assured, this king will not be alone in danger, after arriving in Liu Meng's army, let the two of them go ashore to negotiate, this is always okay, right?" ”

Li Yuan happily replied: "That's very good. ”

"King Qin, King Qin" Liu Boquan, the head of the household, came in with a look of ecstasy, and after trying to suppress his emotions, he whispered, "King Qin, it's done, it's done."

"What has it become?"

"King Qin, Yun really didn't lie, the things in the big ditch were dug up, and General Ling had transported the things back to Xiangyang in two nights."

"Haha, okay, don't we have a large number of grain ships to transport grain and grass to Ma Yongzhen, and arrange for grain ships to transport things back to Wuchang as soon as possible on the return trip, and try to cover it up, so as not to spread the news to Luoyang."

"King Qin don't worry, hehe, how many boats will King Qin build this time, and the minister won't frown."

After Liu Boquan finished speaking, everyone in the hall showed a happy smile, 70 million taels, even if you don't collect taxes from Huguang and Jiangxi, it is enough to squander it for a year or two.

Of course, this is impossible without taxes.

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PS: The editor said that this crackdown is very "strict", and it is not okay to play a little bit of edge ball, and some chapters of my fifth volume need to be deleted and modified, and I have been busy all day, and the chapters are out of order, and my nerves are also out of order. And the author can only delete three VIP chapters a day.,I didn't finish it today.,It's estimated that I'm still getting two chapters tomorrow.,Everyone, please pay attention to the new chapter serial number.,So as not to repeat the subscription.。

My heart aches.,It's the chapters that have the highest number of subscriptions to be deleted.,The average subscription will drop a lot because of this.,Alas!

However, the chapters that need to be deleted have a relatively high number of subscriptions, what does this mean? This means that the masses need it, hehe

(To be continued......)