After Yang Sichang got the news of Kejiaping's victory, he discussed with Wan Yuanji: "Now that the Liukou has escaped into Sichuan, I don't know what good strategy Brother Ji has to defeat the enemy?" ”

Wan Yuan Ji smiled slightly and said, "Liukou has changed the original method of scattering everywhere and fighting for their own purposes, and gathered in Sichuan with their own troops, which is self-defeating!" Shu is tight on the outside and loose on the inside, such as a chicken coop and a tiger, and it can be encircled and suppressed by the method of ten-sided nets, and it will be able to complete its work in one battle, and annihilate the two thieves of Zhang and Luo in one fell swoop! ”

Yang Sichang nodded again and again when he heard this, and motioned for Wan Yuan Ji to continue.

Wan Yuan Ji immediately strode to the front of the map, pointed to the map and explained to Yang Sichang: "Lord Cabinet, please see, the two thieves Zhang and Luo are now approaching Dachang, just order Shao Jiechun, the governor of Sichuan, to transfer troops in the area of Wushan, Dachang to Taiping, and Bashan, and hold the thirteen passes, and at the same time transfer Zuo Liangyu to block the way back, and the two thieves Zhang and Luo will sit and wait to die, trapped between the mountains and mountains!" ”

Yang Sichang thought it was true when he heard this, and immediately flew to the generals of the Sichuan Central Committee to march together to encircle and suppress the righteous army.

Let's say that Luo Rucai led the Cao Ying Righteous Army to the west into eastern Sichuan, and in the face of the encirclement and interception of the official army, he first attempted to smuggle from Dachang, and then attacked Wushan, but was blocked by the female general Qin Liangyu; In April, he forcibly crossed the Bawu River, but suffered another defeat.

As the official army pressed forward step by step, Luo Rucai was at the end of his rope and had nothing to do.

After learning that Luo Rucai was in a desperate situation, Zhang Xianzhong immediately led his troops to the rescue, and halfway through, there was a scout who suddenly reported that Luo Rucai had been defeated by the official army and fled in the direction of Xingshan.

Although the official army has garrisons in Badong, Yiling, Dangyang, Anyuan, Nanzhang, Fangxian and other places, and the two cities of Guizhou and Xingshan are also in the hands of the official army, but seeing that Zuo Liangyu did not move, the rest of the officers and soldiers also chose a wait-and-see attitude, unwilling to take risks easily, Zhang Xianzhong was able to calmly transfer to Baiyang Mountain, 60 miles west of Xingshan County, to camp.

Soon, the 70,000 Xiying rebels who stayed in Jiuluanping, under the leadership of Zhang Xianzhong's sons Zhang Hualong and Zhang Guangcai, came to Xing and Guishan mountains and joined the old camp, and the Xiying rebels have regained their momentum.

At this time, Luo Rucai was defeated by the official army of Beijing and the Chu army in Fengyiping, Xingshan, and killed 3,300 people.

After receiving Luo Rucai's urgent request for help, Zhang Xianzhong urgently ordered Dingguo to lead 5,000 elite horses from the Longxiang battalion out of the three dams of Yangping and go to Fengyiping to meet Luo Rucai.

Dingguo didn't say a word, and took 5,000 cavalry from the Western Battalion to Fengyiping day and night.

At this time, the fierce battle of Fengyiping was in full swing, Luo Rucai stood on the wall of Xizhai and looked down, but saw that the officials and troops were dense, like a tide, and many people had already climbed the wall and started a fierce competition with the Cao Ying Righteous Army.

Seeing that the battle was tight, Luo Rucai also joined the battle in person, only to see him rushing into the enemy formation with a big knife in his hand, stabbing forward violently, piercing the body of an officer and soldier, and then kicking the corpse away, drawing a knife and slashing it backhand, and splitting an officer and soldier behind him in half.

Suddenly, the soldiers behind him shouted nervously: "Cao Shuai! Dongzhai is lost! ”

Luo Rucai turned his head to look, only to see that Dongzhai was already in flames, thick smoke billowing out, it should be that the general guarding the village set himself on fire after the gate of the village was lost, according to the prior agreement.

"Cao Shuai, we can't hold it! It's come to this point, let's break through quickly! The soldiers behind him reminded loudly.

Luo Rucai reprimanded angrily without looking back: "There are officials and soldiers in all directions, where to flee?" Cheer me up and defend the wall! Reinforcements from the western camp are coming soon! ”

After that, Luo Rucai raised his big sword and rushed towards the official army again, and the defenders were infected by Luo Rucai, and they also clenched their blades one after another, and launched a desperate fight with the official army.

As the soldiers around him fell one after another, Luo Rucai couldn't help but feel a little desperate. At this moment, someone suddenly shouted excitedly: "Reinforcements! Our reinforcements are coming! ”

Luo Rucai struggled to kill a close officer, then turned his head to look outside the wall, only to see a Western Battalion cavalry roaring out of the valley on the west side, like a sharp sword inserted into the flank of the official army, like a bamboo, invincible.

With the sound of Mingjin's troops, the officers and soldiers on the wall of the wall turned around and retreated, and the righteous army guarding the village escaped with their lives, and a cheer broke out in an instant.

Lying on the battlement of the wall, seeing these thousands of cavalry of the Western Battalion rushing left and right in the official and military formations that were several times larger, Luo Rucai couldn't help but sigh: "Who is this leading general, who is so violent!" ”

It wasn't until the reinforcements were getting closer and closer to the walled wall that Luo Ru finally saw that the general of the Xiying who was at the forefront was Zhang Xianzhong's righteous son Zhang Dingguo.

When the official army was defeated and retreated, Luo Rucai hurriedly ordered the door of the village to be opened and personally went out of the village to greet him. Seeing Dingguo, Luo Rucai stepped forward with a smile on his face, hugged his fists and bowed and saluted: "Ning Yuxian's nephew, if you hadn't arrived in time, my life would have been suspended!" ”

Dingguo hurriedly turned over and dismounted, handed the plum blossom gun to Wang Guoren, the captain of the pro-soldier beside him, held up Luo Rucai, and said in a loud voice: "Uncle Luo is such a big gift, he has tormented the little nephew!" ”

"Hey, it's a shame to say that for several months, we have been defeated in battles, and everyone has rebelled and left, and now after this battle, there are only less than a thousand people left." Luo Rucai pointed to the remnants of the defeated army behind him, shook his head and sighed.

Dingguo then comforted: "Uncle Luo, relax, our righteous army has gone through ups and downs several times, and how many times has it been broken up by the official army, but which time has it not regrouped and made a comeback?" As long as our Xiying and Cao Ying's troops are united, and the two strands of rope are twisted together, even if there are several times more officers and soldiers, what is there to fear? ”

Luo Rucai nodded, and echoed: "Yes, if our righteous army joins together, life and death will be divided, I think that when we joined forces and defeated Zuo Liangyu in Luo Monkey Mountain, how high-spirited we were!" But later, I disagreed with your father and parted ways, and as a result, Jingxuan was defeated by Agate Mountain, and I was also a lost soldier. ”

"Uncle Luo, now is not the time to catch up with the past, the official army will make a comeback at any time, please go back to the village quickly to pack up your belongings and set off as soon as possible! Father has prepared a banquet for Uncle Luo in the camp of Baiyang Mountain, and he will wash the dust from the wind! Dingguo saw that it was not too early, and hurriedly reminded Luo Rucai.

Luo Rucai laughed self-deprecatingly: "No need! We have this little belongings left in Cao Ying, there is nothing to clean up, so let's go! ”

Seeing Luo Rucai's gesture, his own soldiers quickly brought a war horse for him, except for dozens of seriously wounded who could not move, who were scattered and placed in the homes of local people, the rest of the more than 800 people all got on the horse with Luo Rucai, left Fengyiping, and walked into the depths of the mountains in the west with Dingguo.

After the two armies joined forces, Zhang Xianzhong decided to go west to eastern Sichuan again.

Knowing that the main force of the official army was gathering everywhere, in order not to startle the snake, Zhang Xianzhong hid his men and horses in the mountains, and spent a lot of money to buy off the nearby mountain people, so that they would not reveal their whereabouts to the outside world.

In order to cross the Bawu River as soon as possible, Zhang Xianzhong took his righteous sons Zhang Kewang and Zhang Dingguo and 18 cavalry soldiers to the river to measure the depth of the river.

Returning from the river, everyone was about to return to the camp along the rugged mountain path, but at this moment, a voice suddenly came from the front.

"Hidden!" With Zhang Xianzhong's order, everyone quickly dismounted, hid the horses in the depths of the dense forest, and then turned back to the sides of the road and ambushed in the bushes.

After a while, they saw someone walking in their direction, and everyone hid in the bushes, and when they looked out, it turned out to be twenty or thirty mountain people selling rice.

Zhang Xianzhong secretly rejoiced, and was about to wait for this group of people to pass before moving forward, but who knew that something unexpected happened suddenly and inadvertently.

A mountain man threw the rice picker on the ground because of unbearable abdominal pain, and rushed into the bushes next to him. I saw that as soon as he took off his pants, he crackled and solved it, and he didn't think that this was just half of the solution, and he suddenly raised his head, only to find that there were more than a dozen pairs of eyes staring at him intently.

There was a hint of embarrassment in the air, and it took a long time for the mountain people to remember and shout: "Help......

Before he could utter a second shout, his mouth was choked, and the fellow mountain people lowered their burdens one after another, and walked towards the bushes together.

Seeing that he couldn't hide, in order to avoid revealing his whereabouts, Zhang Xianzhong had to order all of them to attack, and those mountain people were the opponents of these dozen or so personal soldiers, and they were all knocked to the ground in just a moment.

"Father, kill them, it's a hundred!" Zhang Kewang held the knife and said without hesitation.

When they heard that they were going to be killed, the mountain people were so frightened that they knelt on the ground and begged for mercy, claiming that they would never leak half a sentence.

Dingguo couldn't bear to say: "They are just ordinary people, if they don't distinguish between good and bad, and blindly kill innocents, what is the difference between us and those officials and soldiers?" ”

Zhang Kewang looked at Dingguo with a look of disdain: "Second brother, then tell me, these people can't be killed, they can't be released, but how to deal with them?" ”

Dingguo was about to refute, but Zhang Xianzhong spoke first, only to hear him say lightly: "There is no need to argue, even people and goods will be brought back to the old camp!" ”

With Zhang Xianzhong's order, although the group of mountain people was helpless, they were blindfolded with a black cloth and escorted all the way back to the old camp until they were released home the next day.

Thanks to Zhang Xianzhong's quick decision, they had just left, and the two hundred cavalry sent by the official army to inspect also passed by, and the two sides passed by in a thrilling way.

In the early morning of June 20, Zhang Xianzhong led a large army out of the mountains and approached the Bawu River.

This Bawu River to Bawu Mountain flows, through Daning, Dachang, to Wuxia and into the Yangtze River, the water is deep and the waves are rapid, the shore is dangerous and the stone is blocked, whether it is a boat or a floating horse, it is difficult to force crossing, in April, Luo Rucai had failed to cross the river here, lost a lot of soldiers and horses, and now the old place is revisited, and he has palpitations.

"Jing Xuan, the water here is turbulent, there are canyons and mountains on both sides, and the Sichuan army Liu Gui led his troops to defend the danger, if you want to forcibly cross the river, I am afraid it will not be easy!" Standing on the high cliff by the river, looking at the roaring river in front of him, Luo Rucai showed a look of timidity.

After hearing Luo Rucai's words, Zhang Xianzhong laughed and said disdainfully: "Otherwise! ”

Before the words fell, I saw Zhang Xianzhong swing his knife horizontally, point to the opposite bank, and said sharply: "Pass my military order, immediately cut down wood and build a raft, and the whole army will set off tomorrow to cross the Bawu River!" "If there is no former, there will be no forgiveness!"

With the issuance of the military order, the entire valley on the east bank was instantly busy, and everyone worked together to build more than a thousand large rafts in less than a day and night.

When the day dawned, with Zhang Xianzhong's order, Dingguo commanded 3,000 soldiers of the West Battalion, half of them held the blade, half of them rocked the oars, and took 300 rafts, went down the river, and rushed down the Yuzhu Creek downstream.

As the rafts were launched, Zhang Xianzhong ordered Zhang Wenxiu to place more flags in the valley on the east bank, beating drums and shouting to cheer, and for a time the drums in the canyon were thunderous, and the momentum was like a rainbow.

"Oh no! The thieves have crossed the river! The Sichuan army on the west bank panicked when they saw the raft coming in the river.

However, Liu Gui, who rushed to hear the news, looked at the raft densely covered with the river, but laughed and said: "Don't panic, everyone don't have to panic, follow me to fight, and let these thieves die in the belly of the fish!" ”

In his opinion, no matter how many rafts the other party makes, it is nothing more than choosing to cross the river during the day or at night, but there are many reefs in the Bawu River, and smuggling at night is undoubtedly a dead end, so there is only one option to force the crossing during the day.

For the forced crossing, Liu Gui relied on the natural danger of the canyon, and he had no fear, and he didn't take Zhang Xianzhong in his eyes at all.