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Late April of the 20th year of Qianyuan in Dalai.

The Hui army crossed the Guazhou Ferry in Yangzhou Prefecture and headed south, with the cooperation of the navy Hailongwei, first taking Zhenjiang and then breaking through Nanjing.

In the following month or two, they successively captured Changzhou, Suzhou, Songjiang, Huzhou, Jiaxing, Taiping, Chizhou, Ningguo, Huizhou and other prefectures, and occupied Jiangnan in one fell swoop.

Many cities here surrendered upon hearing the news. Otherwise, even if the Xi army was so elite, it would be difficult to capture the Jiangnan Province so quickly with limited manpower. They could not even capture Huzhou and Jiaxing in the north of Zhejiang.

After several months of preparation and the autumn harvest, Liu Sheng sent a detachment to continue his campaign towards Zhejiang, and successively captured the three prefectures of Hangzhou, Shaoxing and Ningbo.

At the same time, he personally led the main force from Nanyang Prefecture to the south and captured the three prefectures of Xiangyang, Yunyang and De'an in one fell swoop.

In this year, several rebel armies led by Mr. Guan in Hebei successively surrendered to Dalai, and Daming, Guangping, Shunde, Zhangde, and Weihui prefectures were also successively owned by Dalai.

Also in this year.

After Xiong Chu moved its capital to Chengdu, because it was temporarily away from the threat of the Hui army, the struggle between Emperor Guangxi and the Chu Supreme Emperor quickly became fierce, and the court officials of the Great Chu and local civil and military officials were also either actively or passively caught up in the party struggles.

As a result, the politics of the Great Chu State became increasingly corrupt, and the local bureaucracy became even more murky.

Some military generals quickly became domineering, secretly raising (extorting) money and grain, expanding the military, and even interfering in local governance, becoming warlords.

At the same time, several powerful rebel armies quickly emerged in the three provinces of Shaanxi, Shanxi and Hebei, where the largest number of rebel armies were located.

Zhu Chongyang, nicknamed Little Qin Wang, has the largest influence in Shaanxi, Li Yuanyin, nicknamed Fantian Taibao, has the largest territory in Shanxi, and in Hebei, there are three forces nicknamed Mopan Yang, Bai Tianshi, and Hejian Wang, competing with each other for supremacy, with a huge difference in power...

The time entered the twenty-first year of Qianyuan in Dalai.

Liu Sheng did not use troops after the spring plowing, but chose to rest and recuperate with the people.

It was not until after the autumn harvest that he sent Crown Prince Liu Yu to take up the seal of General of the Southern Expedition and lead the three divisions of border troops formed in the first half of the year to the south, and captured the six prefectures of Anlu, Huangzhou, Hanyang, Jingzhou, Wuchang and Yuezhou in one fell swoop.

During the next three years, Liu Sheng stayed in the court and let Crown Prince Liu Yu lead the troops to fight outside.

Hunan, Jiangxi, Hebei, Shanxi, Fujian, and Guangdong were successively captured by the Hui army.

In the spring of the 25th year of Qianyuan, Zhu Chongyang, who occupied most of Shaanxi, led an army of 100,000 volunteers to surrender to Dalai and was named Marquis of Fuping by Liu Sheng.

Half a year later, Zhu Chongyang was appointed as the commander of the newly formed 10th Division of the Border Army, and was given the seal of General Pingxi. He led an army of 60,000 to 70,000, with the 10th Division as the main force and three security brigades as the auxiliary, to capture Gansu.

In the spring of the 26th year of Qianyuan, Gansu was pacified.

After the autumn harvest of that year, Liu Sheng ordered Crown Prince Liu Yu to take up the seal of General Zhengxi and lead three border army divisions, ten brigades of garrison troops from Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi and other places, as well as the Yangtze River Navy, as the main force to enter Sichuan from the Yangtze River.

At the same time, he ordered Guanghua Earl Zhang Dingbian to lead a brigade of Shengjiewei, the Fifth Division of the Border Army, and five security brigades as a detachment, and divide the troops into several routes from Shaanxi and Hubei, and take a small road into Sichuan.

At this time, the Great Chu only had the three provinces of Sichuan, Guizhou and Yunnan left. In addition, the party struggles in the court were fierce, and there were many warlords in the local areas. Facing the hundreds of thousands of fierce and wolf-like troops, they were no match at all.

No matter it was the main force led by Crown Prince Liu Yu or the several small armies led by Zhang Dingbian, they were all unstoppable after entering Sichuan!

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December 12th, the 26th year of Qianyuan in Dalai and the 6th year of Guangxi in Da Chu.

Chengdu.

This was originally the capital of Sichuan Province, the City of Abundance, and was extremely prosperous.

Since Xiong Chu moved its capital here a few years ago, Chengdu’s population has skyrocketed further, and now has a population of 800,000 to 900,000!

Abnormal prosperity!

The Great Chu Palace in Chengdu was built on the basis of the original Chengdu Prince's Mansion, which in turn was built on the basis of the palace built by separatist forces in Shu during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period and the end of the Southern Song Dynasty.

Because of its good foundation, the Da Chu Imperial Palace in Chengdu, although far inferior to Xiangjing, is similar to the "Imperial Palace" in Nanjing.

However, at this moment, the atmosphere in this nice-looking palace was extremely depressing, because the Hui army was about to approach the city!

In Chengtian Hall, Emperor Guangxi, who was about 28 or 29 years old, had a majestic beard, but had a fair complexion and a slightly red face, was roaring angrily.

"The main force of the bandits has already breached Yang'an Pass and captured Jianzhou. They will soon be approaching Chengdu. You guys can't think of any strategy to resist the enemy. What use do I have for you?!"

Speaking of which, this Emperor Guangxi did have some abilities.

When he first ascended the throne, he was completely a puppet of Emperor Jiahua and did not have much power.

However, he took advantage of the opportunity of moving the capital to Chengdu to secretly cultivate his confidants and win over court officials, and forcibly took away some power from Emperor Jiahua, thus starting a fierce party struggle between the two emperors.

Although the territory controlled by the Great Chu has become smaller and smaller in recent years, Emperor Guangxi has increasingly gained the upper hand in party struggles, but his previously hidden nature has also been quickly exposed.

He is narrow-minded, capricious, mean and ungrateful, but he also loves fame and has no sense of responsibility.

Now, hundreds of thousands of the imperial army were divided into several routes and were rushing towards Chengdu. The court officials had no confidence to resist, and having witnessed the true nature of Emperor Guangxi, no one answered at this time.

In fact, many people have already started to think about how to contact the enemy troops after their arrival, or even how to secretly open the city gates and surrender the city.

Although Emperor Guangxi was not a good person, he was not stupid. On the contrary, he was quite smart.

Looking at the reactions of the ministers, one could probably guess that many of them were thinking of surrendering.

This made him want to call in the imperial guards and kill all these incompetent and disloyal ministers!

But he was just thinking about it.

Then he felt very wronged.

It was obvious that he had worked so hard after he ascended the throne. He neither practiced Taoism nor built large palaces like his father, but he also took care of government affairs every day. He was about to truly grasp the power of the emperor. Why couldn't the Great Chu hold on?

Speaking of which, although Da Chu now only has three provinces left, it has a large number of soldiers and horses.

As far as he knew, there were more than 100,000 border troops and hundreds of thousands of local troops!

Even in Chengdu, there are 200,000 imperial guards, 100,000 border troops, and hundreds of thousands of local troops!

It should be noted that the 200,000 imperial guards in Chengdu are no longer just a fictitious number on paper like when his father was in power, but there are really 200,000 imperial guards.

Although this imperial army was formed with the Xiangjing imperial army as its backbone and probably could not fight, it could still gather 70,000 to 80,000 "elite" soldiers.

The imperial guards, border troops and local troops put together have hundreds of thousands of people, which is definitely less than the bandits who came to attack Chengdu. How come his ministers have no fighting spirit?

Is it really like what my father said, that people’s hearts have been scattered and it is impossible to recover and restore them?

Thinking of this, Emperor Guangxi's anger was almost replaced by confusion and despair.

Seeing that all the ministers lowered their heads and didn't look at him, he waved his hand in frustration and said, "Forget it, all of you can leave."

After saying this, Emperor Guangxi walked towards the back door of the palace without caring about the reactions of his ministers.

He wanted to see his "lovely, amiable and respectable" father again.