Blood Bleeds Red: Zhang Xianzhong and the Daxi Army
by Luo Xuepeng
About This Novel
In June 1645, Zhang Xianzhong captured Chongqing, took advantage of the momentum of breaking through the bamboo, and marched westward. The place he passed was filled with flames and bloody paths. After Chengdu was captured on August 9, Zhang Xianzhong couldn't wait to hold the founding ceremony and sit on the throne of the Emperor of the Great Western Kingdom. From the first day that Zhang Xianzhong moved into the Palace of Shu in Chengdu, there was no peace in the country. He and Li Zicheng, the Ming army, and the Qing army repeatedly fought and strangled, poisoning the whole Sichuan, killing soldiers and civilians, and bleeding and drifting. It was called the "Mountain of Bones and Sea of Blood". Its cruelty was unprecedented and unheard of. Just as the folk song at that time goes: "Every year comes when A, B, and B, the heavenly mansion bleeds red." It also goes: "Thieves come, thieves come, and the upper world sends him to behead people. If there is one person who cannot beheaded, the messenger of the plague is behind." Zhang Xianzhong's activities in Sichuan lasted less than three years, but he left too many huge mysteries. In order to unravel the eternal mysteries left by Zhang Xianzhong and the generals of the Great Western Army, the author is very knowledgeable and strives to make those historical figures who have passed away with the wind, along with the real tragic events that are unimaginable and thrilling for today's people, gradually and vividly presented to the readers from the dusty old papers.
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