Just As Li Chang set out on the road to find Yang Mingzhao, Yang Mingzhao was busy seizing territory.
Last year, Yang Mingzhao had led the Taiping Army in taking Baoning Prefecture. This had originally only been part of the Taiping Army's expansion plan, yet it was like opening Pandora's box, causing the whole of Bashu to Fall Into rebellion.
This Year had only just begun in early spring when the rebel armies within Bashu began expanding on a massive scale.
First, the Nine Heavens King captured Wusa Prefecture, Zhenxiong Prefecture, and Wumeng Prefecture. After that, Ma He, commander of the Shunan Regional Military Commission, encroached upon Shunan Prefecture, Dongchuan Prefecture, and Mahu Prefecture. Then the Black Tiger King, unwilling to be left out, directly captured the largest prefecture in Bashu—Yuzhou Prefecture.
Together with Yang Mingzhao, this Prince of Taiping, the land of Bashu Fell Into a situation where it was being nibbled away by rebel armies from four sides.
Under such circumstances, Yang Mingzhao naturally would not sit idle. He also entered a phase of large-scale expansion, occupying Long'an Prefecture and Songpan Prefecture to the west, and Sneak In Shuzhou Prefecture, Tongchuan Prefecture, and Shunqing Prefecture to the south.
In just over half a year, Yang Mingzhao had already occupied the territory of four prefectures. Bashu Province's six provinces and thirteen prefectures had been divided up by the four rebel forces for the most part, and the prefectures and counties the Imperial Court could still control amounted to less than three prefectures' worth of territory.
At this moment, Bashu's Three Judicial Offices were like a small beast surrounded by a pack of wolves. They could only hide Inside the City of tall, majestic Shuzhou, trembling, and did not dare leave the city at all.
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