Chengdu, the governor of Sichuan in the Qing Dynasty, Gao Minzhan, was very worried about the current situation.

Since the failure of the Thirteen Kuidong families to attack Chongqing, Gao Minzhan moved the Governor's Yamen from Chongqing to Chengdu. The former Yongning General Yan Ziming moved the Governor's General, and the former Chongqing Kui General Cheng Tingjun was the Governor's General. The Governor's Terminal of Sichuan and Shaanxi was still in Baoning and did not move into Sichuan. The move to Chengdu was Gao Minzhan's intention to quell the Governor's Terminal to Chengdu. However, he did not expect that the situation would have such a drastic change.

Earlier, after the King of Pangxi Wu Sangui entered Yunnan, the Ming Yanchang Bo Zhu Yangen of Jiading Prefecture, General Long Haiyang, Deputy General Wu Zongxiu and others asked the Qing army to surrender, but after learning that the Kuidong army was supported by the Taiping Army in Huguang, they rushed out of the Qing army blockade and were now besieging Wuchang, these Ming army generals immediately rebeled and seriously threatened the connection between Chongqing and Yunnan and Guizhou.

In Jianchang, the Ming Dynasty, Feng Shuangli, King of Qingyang, Wugong Bo Wanghui, King Ainengqi, the eldest son of Ai Chengye, the general You Sanpin, and others continued to attack the Qing army, making it difficult for the Sichuan Qing army to take care of. In addition, there were still troops of the Ming Dynasty governor Wen'an in eastern Sichuan. The remaining troops of the thieves who rushed to Huguang did not give up their base in Kuidong, but instead fed the money and grains they got in Huguang to Kuidong, making Kuidong stuck in the throat of the Sichuan Qing army like a fish thorn. It could neither pull it out nor ignore it. It was really difficult.

If it were just the resistance of these Ming troops, Gao Minzhan would not be very worried, because no matter how fierce the Ming troops were, they would not be as good as the thirteen coalition forces attacked Chongqing on that day. The remnants of the Ming troops in Jianchang and Jiadingzhou said that there were kings and dukes there, but in fact they were just a group of stray dogs driven out of Yunnan and Guizhou. They were short of money, food and weapons, and their territory was barren, which was difficult to maintain for a long time. At present, all these Ming troops could do was to make small fuss and not be able to capture cities and territories. It was said that the old man Wen, who was in charge of military affairs in Sichuan, was very sick and was about to die. If Wen Anzhi died, the Ming army in Sichuan would be even more headless, like a pile of sand, so Gao Minzhan was not afraid that these Ming troops would threaten Chongqing and Chengdu.

Gao Mingzhan was worried that the Prince Ping of Guizhou repeatedly urged him to transport grain to Guiyang, and after more than ten years of war, Sichuan was sparsely populated. The governor's headquarters in Chengdu Prefecture was plundered, but only more than 30,000 people. Chongqing was a little better, but it was only more than 50,000 people. Other places were even sparsely populated, and often there was no village or town or a living person a hundred miles away.

Why is Sichuan so deserted?

Gao Mingzhan, who entered Sichuan with Prince Su Haoge, knew it well that it was not after Zhang Xianzhong's death that the remaining troops of the Daxi Army and the Yuan Ming army of Sichuan did not surrender to the Qing Dynasty, but fought a desperate battle with the Qing army, resulting in heavy casualties. In order to quickly pacify Sichuan and solve the problem of food and grass in the army, Prince Su Haoge imitated the Jiangnan example and ordered the slaughter of Sichuan!

"The people and thieves are mixed together, and it is difficult to separate jade. Each tribe may slaughter the whole city, or slaughter men and keep women."

After slaughtering the Chuan order, the villages and fortresses occupied by the Ming gentry and landlords who were fighting against Zhang Xianzhong in northern Sichuan were the first to be hit because the Qing army needed the food in their hands. Gao Minzhan remembered clearly that he followed the soldiers of Manzhou to search for food day and night to ask for food, burned people, and even killed them if they had food, and even if they had no food, he would be burned to death. Once, he led his troops to attack a village guarded by the Ming army, killing more than a hundred traitors, and more than a thousand people fell off the cliff and fell to death. The women, cows and equipment they received were rewarded with meritorious soldiers, and the boy was all killed.

In the fourth year of Shunzhi, when the Qing army gathered and retreated to Baoning, they started killing all the way. Regardless of goodness or surrender or not, they were all slaughtered, and hundreds of thousands of victims were killed. Later, Liu Wenxiu, the Ming army led his troops to recover Chengdu and retreated to retreat to the Qing army to take only thousands of people in Chengdu's prefecture to Mianzhou. When food was short of food on the road, they fed the people. When they arrived in Mianzhou, no one survived.

Nowadays, Gao Minzhan doesn't remember how many Sichuan people were killed by the Qing soldiers back then, but he knew that after Prince Su returned to Beijing, Sichuan was in decline. If many places were not immigrated to fill, it would probably not be restored for a hundred years or two hundred years. Gao Minzhan planned to submit a memorial to the court after Sichuan was completely pacified, asking people from Huguang to fill in Sichuan.

Three years ago, Gao Minzhan received a document from Beijing, and ordered that the Haoge army in Sichuan should not be mentioned again in the future, and the reason for the rapid reduction of the population in Sichuan was to Zhang Xianzhong, who died in the third year of Shunzhi. In this regard, Gao Minzhan took it for granted that the Qing army was the army of the king, how could it commit such atrocities? The so-called success is the king, and the defeat is the enemy. If the Qing Dynasty dominated the world, Gao Minzhan believed that the truth in Sichuan would never be known. Repeating the lies a thousand times is the fact, the truth, let alone the Qing Dynasty has been for thousands of years.

However, Prince Su's massacre in Sichuan brought bitter fruit to the Qing army. On that day, Wu Sangui entered Sichuan from Baoning because of the food brought by the Qing army from Shaanxi, otherwise he would not be able to move forward. Even now, the supply of food and grass in the Qing army in Sichuan depends on Baoning's transportation. If Baoning's food and grass were cut off, Gao Minzhan would not be able to stay in Chengdu for a day. This was so difficult, so where could he get the food to Prince Ping?

Gao Minzhan was very troubled and panicked because he never thought that the southwest army would be trapped in Yunnan and Guizhou one day and could not leave. Sichuan, which was originally relatively relaxed, has now become the only channel for communication with the outside world. In the Yunnan side, King Xin pointed at Sichuan, and Prince Ping of Guizhou also pointed at Sichuan, but Sichuan had no food at all, so who could he expect?

Gao Minzhan thought about it for a long time in Chengdu and finally decided to kick the ball to Governor Li Guoying. He sent someone to send a letter to invite the Ming generals who surrendered to the Qing Dynasty in Sichuan to Chengdu for a while. After receiving the letter from the governor, Tan Yi, the Marquis of Xiang Hua, Tan Hong, the Marquis of Muyi, the General Du Zixiang, Ma Wenyuan, Guo Xiaoqing, Feng Guoming, and the Tugong An Chongsheng, etc., came to Chengdu.

The surrendered generals gathered together, and Gao Minzhan ordered good wine and meat to be supplied. After saying some compliments to each other, Gao Minzhan picked up the wine glass and expressed his purpose.

"I heard that Feng Shuangli, Ma Bao, Ma Weixing and others used to be of great use to Sun Kewangxin, but they all betrayed Sun Kewang in the end, causing Kewang to surrender to our Qing Dynasty. Now it seems that this person's heart is really unpredictable."

After hearing Gao Minzhan’s inexplicable comments on this matter, the surrendered generals looked at each other. Muyi Hou Tan Hong seemed to think of something and said, “Governor, everyone here is full of thick people, and there are not so many crooked intestines in their stomachs. If you have something to say, please tell me.”

General Du Zixiang looked embarrassed: "Does Lord Futai suspect that I will learn from Feng Shuangli and the others?"

Tan Yi sat there, holding a wine glass and chanting without saying a word.

Gao Minzhan smiled slightly and said, "Don't think too much, I have a sudden feeling. However, I invite you here this time, but I hope that everyone can place their families in Chengdu Prefecture. In this way, when fighting with the Ming army, everyone will not have any worries. Haha, you can rest assured that with our prefecture in Chengdu, snacks and drinks are indispensable for the generals' families."

"this"

The generals did not expect that the governor invited them to come and asked them to send their little family to Chengdu, and they were all stunned.

Tan Hong snorted secretly. Gao Minzhan said it nicely, but this was simply to take their family as hostages. He betrayed his elder brother Tan Wen to surrender to the Qing Dynasty. The Qing court could not trust them! He suppressed his anger and said lightly: "Does Lord Futai distrust us?"

Gao Minzhan shook his head and said, "It's not that I'm not trusting you. The situation is really urgent. I have to make this decision. I hope you can forgive me! My husband has already arranged this place, and you can get proper placement when you come to your junior."

Tan Hong smiled bitterly, but there was no good banquet, but he had no reason to object to this matter, and he didn't want to be killed by Gao Minzhan to warn the monkey. Unfortunately, if he had made a mistake on the day, it would be difficult to turn back. If he had not been persuaded by Tan Yi, he would probably have gone to Huguang with Yuan Zongdi, He Zhen and others.

Tan Yi never said a word from beginning to end. When the other generals saw Ertan not opposing, they had no reason to oppose this strength. Gao Minchan was overjoyed when he saw that no one was against him, so he didn't have to do that tough move. The banquet continued, but everyone was not as happy as before. The meat was chewed in his mouth and the wine was as light as water.

After coming out of the governor's yamen, Tan Hong still ignored Tan Yi. Unexpectedly, Tan Yi caught up from behind, pulled him, and whispered to him: "You really want to send your family to Chengdu?"

Tan Hong said in a muffled voice: "Gao Minzhan said so, we have no right to do this. I don't care what you do. Anyway, I accept my fate." After that, he went straight forward and held his own cavalry from his personal soldiers and left.

Seeing Tan Hong go away, Tan Yi felt very uncomfortable. He knew that his third brother hated him very much. Looking back at the governor's yamen, Tan Yi's lips sneered: Gao Mingzhan is afraid!

Ningguo Mansion Jingde has passed the army again.

This time, we were not the Green Camp soldiers who fought the green flag, nor the Manchu and Mongolian soldiers who were inlaid with red and white, but the Ming army who fought the Red Army flag. I heard that this Ming army came from Jiangxi, also called the Taiping Army. The leader was the Xinhui "thief scholar" who killed the Qing prince Jidu and the peaceful prince of the Nanfan last year.

The Taiping Army appeared on the official road leading to Xuancheng the evening of the previous day. The first one to find them was Li Zheng from Hule Town at the foot of Zishan Mountain. Then the Li Zheng took a ox cart into the city to report the news. After hearing the news, the magistrate Jia Zhen was very scared and scolded the officials of Huizhou Prefecture for being trashed. The Ming army came to the city and didn't know how to spread the news. Now, the Ming army was at the city, and Jia Zhen took his life to block it!

The county magistrate was quite calm and hurriedly asked people to report to the Fucheng and the surrounding Taiping and Ningguo counties. However, none of the people sent out could come back. At this moment, County Magistrate Jia felt that something was wrong. (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!