Daming kill

Chapter 285
Li Ping, who has already entered Sichuan, does not understand the chaos in Beijing thousands of miles away.

And even if he knows, it's not his turn to take care of it.

Besides, Li Ping also has his own troubles now.

Also on the ninth day of the first lunar month, the main force led by Li Ping had already arrived at Tongluoxia, the outermost line of defense in Chongqing, and launched an attack on the same day.

But a full month later, Zhang Xianzhong's army still firmly controlled Tongluoxia, while Li Ping retreated to Fuzhou to accompany the security camp and stopped.

Originally, the battle was not going well, and it was very boring to go up and down.

Just at this time, the huge prisoner camp and security camp also came to join in the fun.Not only did a lot of discordant voices come out, but there were also many incidents of people gathering and fleeing.

There was even a near riot in the prisoner camp.

Fortunately, Li Ping knows that people's hearts can't stand the test, or it can be said that Li Ping and his subordinates have foreseen this kind of incident, and they took decisive measures in a timely manner, so that no serious consequences were caused. .

But such toss and turmoil also made the air in Fuzhou even more dull.

Feeling depressed, Li Ping ran to Zhao Lanyue's place quite frequently.Taste her cooking skills and take a walk together to de-stress.

On this day, when Li Ping was eating noodles at Zhao Lanyue's place, the door was suddenly pushed open from the outside with no warning.

Since this was Zhao Lanyue's residence, and the two of them were alone in the house, Li Ping, who never thought anyone would dare to be so bold, almost choked on the food stuffed in his mouth in surprise, and coughed chokingly.

Zhao Lanyue, who encountered this kind of thing for the first time, was even more stunned. Her face changed suddenly, and a cold light flashed in her eyes in an instant, ready to explode.

But when the two people who were in shock saw the person who broke into the house right afterward, Li Ping was dumbfounded, his eyeballs were straight and he suppressed the cough behind him abruptly, and at the same time his whole body became stiff.

Zhao Lanyue froze for an instant, not only turned off the ignition, but also hurriedly stood up at a loss and said in a trembling voice, "Sister Gao, why are you here?"

The unexpected guest was actually Gao Lei, no wonder he dared to be so bold!No wonder none of the guards and maids outside dared to stop and had no chance to communicate.

Moreover, Gao Lei's complexion looked terrible like never before.

Gao Lei who broke into the house ignored Zhao Lanyue, stared at Li Ping angrily, and said, "Li Ping, you are indeed here! Let me ask you, are you blocking here on purpose, waiting for Zhang Xianzhong to kill everyone? Are you going to pick up cheap again?"

"Sister, why do you think so?" Zhao Lanyue called out in surprise, and she instantly understood Gao Lei's meaning.

However, Li Ping let out an "Ah" a little confused.

"Are you pretending for me?" Gao Lei shouted angrily. "Don't go to fight seriously, but hide here to relax, what is it that you didn't mean? When have you ever been afraid of Zhang Xianzhong's army, how could you fail? You can't just watch him massacre Sichuan just because you don't want to get your hands dirty. People! Those are human beings, living beings! How can you be so black-bellied and cruel!"

"Sister, Li Ping is not what you think. He really can't take Tongluoxia or Chongqing at the moment. Let me explain..." Zhao Lanyue blushed and immediately wanted to defend herself.

But at this moment, Song Baolai suddenly ran in from the outside out of breath, and immediately shouted after seeing the embarrassing scene in the house: "It's all my fault, it's all my fault, it's my words I didn’t make it clear, I was talking nonsense, Gao Lei, you misunderstood.”

"I didn't misunderstand, you don't need to defend him." Gao Lei stared at Song Baolai angrily with a dark face.

Li Ping and Zhao Lanyue looked at Song Baolai suspiciously.

The two were obviously a little confused.

The timing of Song Baolai's appearance was very strange, and the words he said were also very strange.

"You misunderstood! Really misunderstood. Sit down first, close the door, let's talk slowly, don't let people outside see the joke." Song Baolai said while panting heavily to pull Gao Lei.

Gao Lei began to struggle a few times, but he also looked back hesitantly.

Maybe because she realized that although the door was empty, the guards and maids were probably pricking up their ears at this moment, so she quickly let Song Baolai drag her to a chair beside her and sit down angrily.

She's not quite rational yet.

But after closing the door, Song Baolai looked at Li Ping with a guilty conscience and hurriedly explained: "Gao Lei went to my place just now, and wanted to ask about the attack on Chongqing, and she noticed that we had very few wounded during this period.

I was busy at the time, and I didn't think about it, so I casually said that I attacked Tongluoxia twice, and I stopped the attack soon after the attack failed, so naturally there were not many wounded.Now that most of the troops have withdrawn, there are no combat operations, and there are naturally fewer wounded.

Gao Lei was surprised and asked me what was going on?

I'm just joking and saying that it's not easy to fight so I won't fight!Just let Zhang Xianzhong kill more people, it is best to kill all the officials, gentry and landlords, so that we can save a lot of trouble later.Moreover, after Zhang Xianzhong lost all his support, not only would it be easier for us to fight back, but we would also be able to avoid a lot of losses.

Gao Lei didn't say anything at that time, and didn't ask any more questions, but turned around and left.

I didn't take it seriously because I was busy at the time, and I didn't pay attention to her face.It wasn't until a subordinate who came from another place said that Gao Lei's face was particularly ugly and he was still muttering your name before he realized it, and then hurriedly chased after him. "

"Did he say something wrong? Isn't that why you originally planned to follow Zhang Xianzhong?" Gao Lei said angrily.

At this moment, Li Ping finally looked stunned, and at the same time, he also had mixed feelings.

Since the relationship between him and Zhao Lanyue changed, maybe it was to avoid embarrassment, maybe it was because of something else, anyway, Gao Lei found a reason not to live with Zhao Lanyue anymore.

And not only that, Gao Lei has also reduced contact with everyone, especially if there are no special circumstances, she will basically never appear in front of Li Ping.

In order not to embarrass himself, Li Ping also would not take the initiative to provoke Gao Lei.

Although Zhao Lanyue has been pretending to be crazy and often harassing Gao Lei, it is impossible for her to be as casual and talkative as she used to be. Naturally, the two of them will agree on matters that are too serious about military operations and that Li Ping is personally responsible for. Avoid mentioning to prevent cold spots.

As a result, due to lack of communication, Gao Lei knew little about Li Ping's current military and political measures and goals, and all kinds of information were also very closed.

And indeed, following Zhang Xianzhong and directly taking over Sichuan, where all the officials, gentry and landlords were killed by Zhang Xianzhong, was also one of Li Ping's initial strategies.

And Li Ping has a history of black belly.

Under such circumstances, it is inevitable for Gao Lei, who has poor information, to become suspicious and then suspect Li Ping's motives and character.

Originally, Li Ping was a little uneasy about Gao Lei's obvious way of avoiding everyone. He had a very uncomfortable feeling that all this was caused by him.

Now that Gao Lei was suspicious, she didn't ask him or Zhao Lanyue to ask, but went to Song Baolai to turn around and ask. Li Ping felt the growing estrangement between them, and felt even more uncomfortable.

"Can I explain?" Li Ping said bitterly after sighing.

Zhao Lanyue also sighed at this moment, looked at Li Ping and Gao Lei with complicated eyes, but finally said nothing.

She knew it was best not to talk too much at this time.

"Speak up! I'm listening." Although Gao Lei's tone was still angry, she could feel that she was trying to calm herself down.

Especially when she finished speaking, she bit her lip and glanced at Zhao Lanyue, probably feeling uneasy and regretful.

Li Ping knew that he could no longer spend time thinking about how to organize his language in order to win people's trust, so he immediately began to use the simplest method of speaking according to the timeline to eloquently.

With regard to the current predicament on the battlefield, I really don't blame Li Ping for not working hard.

After Zhang Xianzhong left Chongqing, he left Li Rujing in Chongqing, and at the same time left Li Rujing with 10 people.

Because Li Rujing's troops did not participate in the White Water War, Zhang Xianzhong's and Liu Wenxiu's troops are the only two remaining troops that still have elite forces. .

Letting Li Rujing guard Chongqing shows Zhang Xianzhong's determination and determination to keep Li Ping out of the hinterland of Sichuan.

The fact that Li Rujing replaced Liu Tingju, a little-known general in history, to guard Chongqing, also shows Zhang Xianzhong's great importance and major changes in following Li Ping into Sichuan.

Although the 10 people left by Zhang Xianzhong to Li Rujing were not all soldiers, they were 10 after all, and included almost all of Li Rujing's original subordinates, and they were still defending. In addition, Li Rujing was a prestigious and ruthless character.

Under such circumstances, it would not be so easy for Li Ping to win with [-] soldiers.

What made Li Ping even more cautious was that he was almost certain that Li Rujing should be that great god-level figure in history, Li Dingguo.

But Li Ping did not hesitate at first.

Because according to his understanding, Li Rujing's elite and veteran soldiers are actually not many. After all, they have fought against each other and have a relatively deep understanding of his details.

So Li Ping first wanted to see if he could take advantage of the victory and use the power of winning streak and overwhelming psychological advantage to destroy the opponent.

But what I didn't expect was that the steepness of Tongluo Gorge was beyond Li Ping's imagination, and Li Rujing even released at least 1 horses, including a large number of elites, on Tongluo Gorge.

As a result, Li Ping, who could not and did not dare to cause huge casualties, failed in both frontal and sneak attacks on Tongluoxia.

At this time, Li Ping naturally thought of another way.

But something went wrong again. Zhang Xianzhong's method of attacking Chongqing in the first two months was almost superb, reaching the level that Li Ping could only look up to.

Tongluo Gorge is a famous natural barrier, with a wall height of more than 500 meters, cliffs, and Jiajiang confrontation. It is a pass that must be passed when entering Chongqing through the Yangtze River.

Since the Ming army also deployed heavy troops at that time, and set up iron chains to block the gorge and the river, and at the same time prepared a large number of artillery and rolling stones and trees on the mountain, Zhang Xianzhong's initial storm was also not smooth.

But Zhang Xianzhong quickly changed the old cloth army's containment and continued to feint the attack, and then led his elite to cross the mountains and ridges by land, skip Chongqing City directly, attack Jiangjin, which is more than 70 kilometers upstream, and then take a boat down the river, and suddenly land behind Chongqing City , and then seized the only land pass on the peninsula surrounded by water on three sides - Fotu Pass.

Because the back road was cut off, the city of Chongqing panicked, and the main force of the defenders of Tongluoxia was wrongly transferred back to help Chongqing City. As a result, the defenders of Tongluoxia collapsed without a fight.

After Chongqing became an isolated city, Zhang Xianzhong adopted the suggestion of his subordinates and sent troops to dig graves on the official hillside, using hard coffin boards as defense shields.While continuously sending troops to attack the city with coffin boards, they also quietly sent people to dig holes under the stone city wall and place a large amount of gunpowder.In the end, they succeeded in blowing down the city wall and entered Chongqing.

It can be said that in the fight against Chongqing, Zhang Xianzhong used all available strategies and tricks, making it difficult for Li Ping to come up with any innovations.

And this also allowed Li Rujing to fully learn from the failure of the Ming army.

In addition, Zhang Xianzhong and Li Ping had fought many times, and both sides already knew each other very well. This made Li Rujing very cautious in ordering the main force to only divide the troops to a few key points and resolutely not defend even though he had 10 troops.

It made Li Ping lose his temper at all.

Various tactics such as feinting, diverting the tiger away from the mountain, and ambush were also tried, but of course it didn't work.

But it would be fine if Li Rujing could not defend himself completely.

But this guy would send a small group of elite soldiers to do his best sneak attack from time to time to engage Li Ping.

This made Li Ping, who had few soldiers, very uncomfortable.

With the passage of time and further grasp of information, Li Ping discovered more troublesome things.

从万历18年(1590年)至28年的四川播州宣慰使杨应龙叛乱到从天启元年（1621年）开始至崇祯十年历时17年之久的奢安之乱。

The entire territory of Sichuan has almost never stopped, and there are only a handful of places that have not experienced war.Not to mention that Chengdu and Chongqing, the two most important cities in Sichuan, have been captured, and even the rebels established Daliang State in Chongqing more than 20 years ago.

In other words, in Sichuan, especially in Chongqing, Ming Court's dominance and sense of identity are very problematic.

Then Zhang Xianzhong entered Sichuan several times, and made a big circle almost in Sichuan, destroyed countless cities, and disturbed the whole Sichuan.

At the same time, it also collects countless fans.

Zhang Xianzhong's smooth entry into Sichuan this time has a lot to do with these factors. At the same time, it also made it even more difficult for Li Ping to use his status as an official to rely on and call on the local people.

And Li Rujing is currently guarding Chongqing.

This buddy is completely different from Zhang Xianzhong, and he is more courageous.He directly changed Zhang Xianzhong's massacre policy, adopted very strict constraints on his subordinates, and killed many disobedient generals and soldiers for this.

As a result, the popular support in Chongqing was quickly stabilized, which also made it more difficult for Li Ping to win the hearts of the local people.

But that's not all!

Then something more troublesome happened.

Zhang Xianzhong captured Chengdu more than a month after he left Chongqing, and just at this time he got the news that Li Zicheng was proclaiming himself emperor in Xi'an, so Zhang Xianzhong also hurriedly proclaimed himself emperor.

That's a full 11 months earlier than historically.

After the news of Zhang Xianzhong proclaiming himself emperor spread to Chongqing, Li Rujing, no, Zhang Rujing should be asked to spread the news widely now.

After Zhang Xianzhong proclaimed himself emperor, Li Rujing, Sun Kewang, and Liu Wenxiu, the adopted sons, immediately changed their surnames to Zhang Xianzhong's surname as in the original history.

As a result, the news that Zhang Xianzhong proclaimed himself emperor made the bandit army in Chongqing, oh!No, it's time to officially call it the Great West Army.

The Daxi Army in Chongqing was very excited, as if they had been beaten with chicken blood!

At this time, Li Ping's battle was even more impossible to fight.He even needs to consider whether he will be wiped out by others.

Speaking of this, even people who don't know anything about military affairs can't understand it.

And Gao Lei's expression was already very embarrassing.

She believed that it was impossible for Li Ping to lie to her about these things, and there was no need to lie to her.At the same time, she also fully understood how difficult Li Ping's situation is now.

"Yes, I'm sorry. I shouldn't doubt you, I shouldn't look like that. I'm sorry, Lan Yue, I don't know why I would..." Gao Lei lowered her head and pinched the corner of her clothes cowardly.

She was on the verge of crying.

"It's okay, you don't know the whole story. You are a good person, you don't see dirty things, you should be angry. In fact, it's my fault, I should take the initiative to inform you of these things." Li Ping comforted him hastily.

Zhao Lanyue also hurried to Gao Lei's side at this moment, hugging her shoulder to comfort her.

After briefly controlling her emotions, Gao Lei might not be able to bear the embarrassment, so she decided to leave immediately, but Zhao Lanyue tried her best to keep her on the grounds that she just wanted to talk, but it didn't work.

Seeing this, Song Baolai, the troublemaker, hurried away in the name of worrying about Gao Lei.

When the room finally fell into peace, Zhao Lanyue looked at Li Ping who was still standing at the door looking out, thought for a while, walked forward and hugged Li Ping's waist from behind, and said softly:

"With Governor Yuan Jixian's military order, we won't be ashamed to withdraw from Sichuan, and we don't have to worry about people not understanding, and maybe it will be a better world!"

(End of this chapter)