Chapter 171: Occupy the Two Provinces and Temporarily Suspend Expansion

When Qin Liangyu was hurrying to get to Sichuan as soon as possible, the Salvation Army also launched a fierce attack in Sichuan.

Facing the powerful Salvation Army, the resistance of the city defenders seemed so futile.

Even if it was necessary to build bridges and roads and arrange officials to take over the city, it still took only more than half a month to reach Chengdu Prefecture.

Even though he knew that it was more dangerous than good, Liu Jiayun, the general of Chengdu Prefecture, still led his officers and soldiers and 1,800 militiamen out of the city to fight.

Needless to say, the result was that after just one round of shooting, Liu Jiayun and his subordinates were all shot to death on the spot.

Afterwards, Li Yu, the commander of the Western Route Army, personally took action and broke through the gate of Chengdu Prefecture with the power of the military formation and entered Chengdu Prefecture.

After receiving the news, Zhu Zhishu, the last King of Shu, was ready to lead his family to jump into the well and die for his country.

However, the speed of the people's rescue army was too fast. He had just gathered his family when they were killed in the mansion by the people's rescue army. Zhu Zhishu, the king of Shu, and his family were captured.

On the other side, Wang Shi, the commander of the Eastern Route Army, had also led his army into Chongqing Prefecture.

At the same time, Qin Liangyu, who was rushing, had also arrived at Yunyang Prefecture in Huguang and resolutely entered Sichuan.

However, under the leadership of Qin Liangyu, the brave and invincible white-pole soldiers encountered a strong blockade and were almost destroyed in one battle.

First, they attacked Daning and were intercepted by 300 people's rescue soldiers. In the sound of gunfire, thousands of white-pole soldiers suffered heavy losses in an instant.

Even though Qin Liangyu found something wrong at the first time and immediately ordered a withdrawal, there were still nearly a thousand casualties, which made Qin Liangyu very sad and angry.

Later, Qin Liangyu led her troops to attack Dachang again.

Even though she had been careful again and again, she was still defeated in the end, and she almost died herself.

If she had not relied on the special power that had grown in her body before, she would have died under the city of Dachang.

Qin Liangyu had no choice but to take a detour again, passing through Jingzhou and entering Shizhouwei, hoping to enter Shizhu Xuanweisi directly through Jiannansi of Shizhouwei.

At this time, nearly ten days had passed, and Qin Liangyu's soldiers and horses were barely left with only one thousand.

When she arrived at Jiannansi and entered Sichuan, she found desperately that Shizhu Xuanweisi had been occupied by the Salvation Army.

Facing the rifles of the Salvation Army, they were discovered and repelled before they even approached.

In the end, Qin Liangyu could only retreat to Huguang, hoping to find other places to enter Sichuan.

On the third day after she withdrew from Sichuan, Chongqing Prefecture was breached and Chongqing Prefecture was completely occupied.

So far, the two most important prefectures in Sichuan have all fallen into the hands of the Salvation Army.

Needless to say, the next battle, many cities surrendered.

Two months later, the Salvation Army occupied the Sichuan Xingdusi, Dongchuan Prefecture, Wusa Prefecture, Bozhou Xuanweisi and other places in the southernmost part of Sichuan, completely occupied Sichuan, and set their sights on Yunnan, Guizhou and Hu Guang.

On the other side, Qin Liangyu went all the way south, hoping to find a way to enter Sichuan.

Unfortunately, she tried again and again, but she was always one step slower.

In the end, she could only sigh helplessly and sigh helplessly.

Originally, she wanted to recruit soldiers in Yunnan, Guizhou, Huguang and other places.

However, she was not so famous in these places.

Chongzhen did not allocate money and food, so how could she recruit soldiers?

In the end, she could only write to Chongzhen, hoping that Chongzhen could allocate some money and food.

But in the end, she was still disappointed.

Chongzhen still said that money, food and troops should be raised by themselves.

Being able to let him serve as governor as a woman was already a promotion by him without any restrictions.

For this, he had a tough fight with all the court officials. He could not allocate a large amount of money and grain, which would inevitably lead to opposition from all the civil and military officials in the court.

Even if Chongzhen was the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, he had to consider the consequences of doing so.

After receiving the news, all the civil and military officials in the court sneered and rebuked.

After all, daughters are not as good as men.

After this word spread, Qin Liangyu's nephew Qin Yiming, who was still stationed in the capital, could not help but be very angry. If it were not for the deputy general's dissuasion, he would have almost beaten him.

However, even so, he also wrote to Chongzhen, asking to return to Sichuan to help Qin Liangyu.

After receiving the memorial, Chongzhen was actually a little embarrassed.

After all, he only appointed Qin Liangyu as the governor of Sichuan, but he had no soldiers and no money.

Sichuan was occupied by the Salvation Army, so what was the point of his appointment as the governor of Sichuan?

Could it be that she could enter the territory of the Salvation Army to recruit soldiers? Wouldn't that be courting death?

In the end, Chongzhen agreed to Qin Yiming's request, and ordered Qin Liangyu to be the general of Shizhou Guard, and he could recruit soldiers in Shizhou Guard.

In addition, Hong Chengchou was appointed as the governor of Huguang, in charge of all military and political affairs in Huguang, recruiting soldiers to eliminate the bandit army.

In addition, Song Tongyin, the governor of Shanxi, was promoted to the governor of Shanxi, in charge of the suppression of bandits in Shanxi, and asked him to cross the river to attack the rear of the bandit army while the bandit army attacked Sichuan and the rear was empty.

After receiving the imperial edict from Chongzhen, Hong Chengchou immediately led his troops to Huguang, and Song Tongyin also began to dispatch troops, hoping to take advantage of the situation to attack the west bank of the Yellow River and directly attack the bandit army's lair.

Hong Chengchou was not optimistic about this.

He did not think that Song Tongyin's ability could really defeat the Salvation Army, even if the Salvation Army had an empty rear defense.

Even after entering Huguang, Hong Chengchou did not launch an attack immediately, but found Qin Liangyu to inquire about the information about the Salvation Army.

When he knew that the Salvation Army had sharp firearms with a range of a thousand meters, he couldn't help but feel his scalp tingling.

When he followed Yang He, he also fought with the Salvation Army.

At that time, the Salvation Army relied on the advantage of bows and arrows, and suppressed them from a distance of four or five hundred meters. Coupled with the strength of the Salvation Army itself, this was how they defeated their tens of thousands of troops.

Now, if the Salvation Army really had firearms with a range of a thousand meters, then there would be no need to fight this battle.

They would be annihilated by the enemy's firearms before they could even touch the enemy.

For a moment, Hong Chengchou couldn't help but feel discouraged.

Unless

Feeling the warm current flowing in his lower abdomen, Hong Chengchou fell into deep thought.

Qin Liangyu once relied on this power to barely avoid the vital points under the firearms of the bandit army.

So, if his power is stronger, or even let others have this power, will they be able to deal with the bandit army's firearms?

Moreover, if the army dispersed, could it further avoid the damage of firearms?

If Wang Chao knew his idea, he would definitely tell him that he was right.

The war in the later era of guns and cannons is no longer suitable for dense formations.

However, that is for ordinary armies.

For the Salvation Army, where everyone is a sharpshooter, it doesn't make much difference whether you disperse or not.

It may even have a counter-effect.

After all, if the crowd is dense, the soldiers in the front can block some bullets for their comrades behind.

At least, it can also increase the difficulty of shooting.

Although the final result may not be much different.

After all, when the army charges, there are always gaps between each other.

For sharpshooters, that is enough to shoot the people behind.

However, if it is dispersed, it can avoid large-scale casualties from artillery.

But rifles are not good, and they can still be shot one by one if they are dispersed.

However, although Hong Chengchou has some general ideas, all of this needs time to verify and practice.

Therefore, Hong Chengchou, in the Huguang Chengxuan Administration, raised funds and recruited soldiers step by step, while starting to study the power in his body and new military formations and tactics against firearms.

On the other hand, the Salvation Army, which had expanded from occupying half of the province to occupying two provinces, was now stable.

In the short term, the dynasty would not think about expansion.

However, if he wanted stability, it would depend on whether others agreed.

First, Song Tongyin, the governor of Shanxi, led 50,000 troops westward and wanted to cross the Yellow River into Shaanxi.

However, before the dynasty sent troops to support, the 800 Salvation Army in the city near the ferry on the west bank of the Yellow River had already vividly staged a half-crossing attack for Song Tongyin, the governor of Shanxi.

The 50,000 Ming troops suffered heavy losses, and only 20,000 escaped.

Since then, Song Tongyin no longer dared to attack Shaanxi at will, but focused on eliminating small groups of rebels such as Gao Yingxiang and Zhang Xianzhong.

In Xi'an Prefecture, Wang Chao sensed the sparse bright yellow national destiny in the newly occupied areas, and the countless gray-black air rising into the sky. He couldn't help but sigh in his heart, and there was a long way to go.

With the occupation of the two provinces, Wang Chao began to control the rapid expansion of spiritual power.

Although it eventually became extremely thin, it finally covered the two provinces.

However, the growth of a large number of people's spiritual power also caused the concentration of spiritual power to increase rapidly.

And with the spread of spiritual power, the spiritual power emitted by the vast number of people was absorbed, and the bright yellow national destiny and the gray-black people's resentment began to derive.

Compared with these newly occupied areas, the gray-black air in the eastern part of Shaanxi was already dissipating rapidly.

First, the occupation time here was longer.

Second, before the Salvation Army occupied these places, the members of the agricultural society had already sneaked in here, secretly promoting the policies of the Salvation Army, recruiting members, etc.

Therefore, after the Salvation Army occupied these places and truly implemented the propaganda policies, the people's hearts here immediately quickly returned.

The northern part of Sichuan is not much different.

The southern part of Sichuan is inevitably much worse. Most of it is gray and black, with only a very faint bright yellow glow covering the surrounding area.

There are also some Tusi tribes in Sichuan, which are almost a small world of their own. It is reflected in the national destiny that that area will form a gray and black air mass isolated from the outside world.

However, the dynasty will not spoil these Tusi like the Ming Dynasty.

All of them must implement the system and policy of the Salvation Army.

If you disagree or don't obey, then beat you until you agree and obey.

Facing the guns and cannons of the Salvation Army, which is faster than them in the mountains and forests, those Tusi tribes have no choice but to surrender.

As a large amount of spiritual power was transformed, Wang Chao felt that the power he controlled was rising rapidly, as if the entire two provinces were within reach.

Moreover, Wang Chao could feel that if this continued, he would be able to make further progress in just one or two months.

After all, the population base of the two provinces was too large.

Just in Shaanxi, there are nearly 10 million people.

Even if the spiritual power generated by each person every day can only push the power of the dynasty upwards by a tiny amount.

But the combined population of 10 million is enough to increase the power of the dynasty like a rocket.

Coupled with its permanent residence and limit-breaking talents, there is almost no bottleneck.

Moreover, compared to Shaanxi, where many people have died after the successive disasters of the rebel army and the Ming army.

Sichuan, which was quickly captured by the Salvation Army, has even more people.

The two provinces together have a population of at least 24 to 25 million.

With the spiritual power of these people, it is difficult for the dynasty not to increase its power.

And just when the dynasty was preparing to stabilize for a period of time and develop well.

Wang Sanshun, the chief of staff of the Salvation Army, Wuchang, the current doctor of the Political Processing Department, Ji Mingyuan, who is now the doctor of the Commercial Department, and other civil and military officials, all came to the door with serious expressions.