Nanming Engineer

Chapter 186

Li Chengen's face has long since lost the dumbfounded look, like a pervert who has seen a beautiful woman, he is holding on to the bamboo tube to kill the prisoner, treating it like a treasure, his face is full of excitement, and all the pockmarks on his face are shaking one by one. The skin is very white, and it looks very strange with the moving pockmarks.

If you look carefully at the pockmarks, you will find that they are not actually pockmarks, but shallow pits, pits embedded in the face. Anyone who often shoots birds will have such pits on their faces. This is because when aiming and shooting, , as long as you aim carefully, your face will be close to the fire door. When the bird's beak clip hits the fire door, sparks will inevitably splash on the face, burning the skin and forming small craters. Therefore, to see if a bird's hand is up to standard, just look at his You will understand now that those who have a lot of pitfalls must be veterans, and vice versa, they are mediocre players who are just dawdling.

There are also many pits on Zu Bian's face, but there are still very few such as Li Chengen's face, which also reflects from one aspect that Li Chengen is indeed an expert in firearms.

Li Chengen couldn't sit still anymore, and he was twisting and turning as if there was a needle sitting on his butt. Wang Huan saw that he was uncomfortable, so he simply didn't wait for the meeting to end, and sent a team of soldiers to lead him with his own handwritten orders. Li Chengen went directly to Shizhu Wanshou City to find Xu Tiezhu. At the same time, he also strictly ordered Meng Zhiyu to recruit [-] blacksmiths from the three prefectures in eastern Sichuan within ten days and move them to Wanshou City to serve as Li Chengen's craftsmen in setting up the war bureau.

Li Chengen left excitedly, carrying the exterminator bomb in his arms.

Next, Wang Huan continued to discuss the matter. The main topic was the next development direction. At this time, more than half a month had passed since the peace talks, and Zhang Xianzhong's battle around Chengdu had come to an end. Under the attack of the peasant army, they would not persist for a long time, and they were wiped out one by one. The heads hanging on the walls of the four gates of Chengdu were bloody, densely packed like grapes hanging on the branches. be terrified.

Under the horrific killings, the chaos in central and western Sichuan will soon calm down. The Daxi regime will be able to visit the Chongqing government without much effort. Persimmon, with Zhang Xianzhong's character, would definitely kill him immediately.

But Wang Huan remembers one thing, in the middle of November this year, that is, on the [-]th day of this month, Zhang Xianzhong will make a big event that both people and gods are angry with. After this matter, he will go east with his army to find trouble .

This matter is to use open subjects to recruit scholars, to kill and slaughter all the scholars in Sichuan. His open subjects are different from previous dynasties. He forced others to come. Even if you escape, you can’t escape. Zhang Xianzhong believes that the reason why Sichuan can’t be pacified for a long time is not because of the inhumanity of the Daxi Army, but because the scholars in Sichuan are deeply influenced by the sages’ books, and the people are bewitched to rebel. In Chengdu, living in the Dabei Temple, and then closing the door, thousands of people were directly killed. This is the famous "Blood Splattered Dabei Temple" in history.

As long as this incident happens, the day when Zhang Xianzhong sends troops will not be far away. What's more serious is that according to historical development, at the latest in March next year, when the spring is warm, the Haoge tribe of the Qing Dynasty will go south from Shaanxi via Hanzhong. Li Zicheng His subordinate He Zhenxian surrendered in Hanzhong, Zhang Xianzhong killed his wife and went north to fight against the Qing Dynasty, and finally died in Fenghuang Mountain.

That is to say, before the Manchus go south, they must occupy Hanzhong, the gateway to Sichuan, guard the Jinniu Road, and use the dangerous passes in central Shu to block the way of Hauge's advance. Otherwise, with Wang Huan's current strength, once the Qing army is released Arriving directly at the Chongqing government, the pressure is too great.

With less than half a year left for Wang Huan, Wang Huan was undecided whether he should take the time to attack Chengdu immediately.

At present, eastern Sichuan is not stable, and there are so many things that can make people feel dizzy. The bandits on the hilltops have not yet been wiped out, and the intricate families are still waiting to see. The power of a wealthy family like the Fengjie Tan family cannot be underestimated. There will be a fire in the backyard. After all, the three prefectures in eastern Sichuan are not as large as Shizhu Chieftain, and their places and populations are much larger.

Wang Huan prepared for a long time, and finally made a decision. He transferred Xu Tiezhu and Zhang Cheng from Shizhu, and handed over the management of Longevity City to Qin Liangyu.

For his adoptive mother Qin Liangyu, Wang Huan unconditionally rest assured.

And Meng Zhiyu, Xu Tiezhu, and Zhang Cheng are each in charge of a mansion. In the Xuzhou Mansion, Meng Zhiyu was placed in the most severe situation in the Chongqing Mansion because he valued his ability, while Xu Tiezhu was in the relatively safe and stable Kuizhou Mansion to exercise his ability.

Wang Huan himself stayed in Hezhou, which was close to Shunqing Mansion, and waited for the opportunity while training and reorganizing the army.

Since Zhang Xianzhong wants to kill scholars, let him kill him. He will offend the scholars all over Sichuan and make people angry. Only then can he take advantage of the situation and act like a righteous teacher who upholds justice for heaven, so as to win the hearts of the people to the maximum extent.We should take advantage of this period to reorganize and train the newly recruited soldiers.

Wang Huan now has a total of [-] regular soldiers, [-] Shizhu veterans, [-] soldiers recruited from Kuizhou, and [-] surrendered soldiers from Zeng Ying who were screened in Chongqing. They have different levels of combat power and different levels of loyalty. They must be rectified. After a while, select officers.

The original thousand generals were no longer enough. After listening to the opinions of Ma Xintian and Zu Bian, Wang Huan selected three new thousand generals from the Shizhu veteran captains, namely Ma Zuoheng, Zhang Jianchun and Liu Li. .

Ma Xintian emphatically recommended Zhang Jianchun and was full of praise: "This man is the son of Zhang Ling, the deputy commander-in-chief of Sichuan at that time. Zhang Ling was known as the divine crossbow general. He had amazing power and superb archery skills. Unfortunately, he died in the hands of Zhang Xianzhong. His My son fled to Shizhu and joined Mr. Qin. He is as powerful as Mr. Zhang in his time, with extraordinary arm strength and bravery that no man can match. You can pay careful attention to him."

So Wang Huan met the three of them, and they were all veteran generals with outstanding martial arts and more than calmness, especially Zhang Jianchun, who was in his 20s, with a handsome appearance and a strong back. One size, three stone bowstring strength, or his father's relics.

So Wang Huan handed over the three thousand-man teams composed of Kuizhou soldiers to three people who were divided into Qianzong. The three thousand surrendered soldiers collected by the Chongqing government took them back to the stone pillars and gave them to Qin Liangyu to polish them before returning to the team.

Wang Huan placed all 6000 people in his hands in Hezhou, released Prime Minister Chen's team of spies, and disguised themselves as various people to sneak into Chengdu, preparing for the upcoming military action.

While various affairs were in full swing, a messenger came from Kuizhou Mansion, bringing a letter from Xu Tiezhu.

Wang Huanzhan frowned as soon as he saw it.

Xu Tiezhu said in the letter that Wang Yingxiong, the Minister of War of the Ming Dynasty and the military governor of Yunnan, Guizhou, and Sichuan provinces, came to Kuizhou Prefecture to govern Fengjie and wanted to see Wang Huan.

"Wang Yingxiong? Isn't he hiding in Zunyi? What is he doing here?"

(End of this chapter)