Seeing that Zhang Xianzhong was injured, Zhang Yingyuan immediately led an official army to rush out of the walled gate, condescendingly, like a tiger descending from the mountain to kill the righteous army. This made Zhang Xianzhong red-eyed, and he successively slashed to death three or four rebel soldiers who fled backwards, which stabilized the battle situation a little, and the two armies started a fierce hand-to-hand battle on the hillside.

Just when the two sides were fighting inseparably, Zhang Kewang and Zhang Dingguo's 2,000 elite horsemen appeared at the rear of the official army camp just right.

Under the leadership of Zhang Kewang and Zhang Dingguo, the two thousand elite horsemen of the Western Battalion held a steel knife in one hand and a short crossbow in the other, galloped on horseback, and swept to the wooden fence behind the official camp at a very fast speed.

An officer and sergeant guarding the gate of the back village was horrified, and opened his mouth to shout, but the words were still in his throat, and a crossbow arrow had already shot out, only to hear the sound of "oh", the arrow shot straight through his neck, inserted into the wooden fence behind him, and entered the wood for three points.

The officers and archers standing on the watchtower also hurriedly grabbed the horn and wanted to blow the horn to warn, but the arrow instantly pierced the head and fell from the high watchtower.

In just a moment, this elite cavalry of the western camp broke through the back gate, stepped on the company camp, and killed many officers and soldiers who fled in panic in the camp one by one.

"The thieves have robbed the camp! The thieves have robbed the camp! "These officers and soldiers guarding the camp are recruits, how have they seen such a formation, they were able to barely resist the previous guards, but now they are facing the fierce and vicious cavalry, and they are suddenly in chaos.

At this time, Wang Yunfeng was supervising the battle in the front, and suddenly heard that the rear camp was attacked, so he hurriedly brought troops back to help.

Dingguo held the plum blossom gun in his hand, and was stirring up a group of people in the back camp of the official army to turn over on their horses, and suddenly saw a group of officers and cavalry coming from the front camp, and the first member of the general rode a high-headed horse, wearing a golden helmet, wearing a gold lacquered mountain pattern armor, the armor was distinct, and the majesty was majestic.

Dingguo immediately reined in the horse and pointed at Wang Yunfeng, and asked loudly: "Who is coming?" Quote your name! The master's plum blossom gun does not kill the nameless! ”

Seeing that the person on the opposite side was only a young man in his early twenties, Wang Yunfeng didn't take Dingguo in his eyes at all, only to see Wang Yunfeng urging him forward, holding a long knife high in both hands, and shouting: "Bold anti-thief!" Today is the time of your death! ”

"You're so rude!" Dingguo was furious, and also followed the horse to catch up, raised the plum blossom gun, and stabbed straight at Wang Yunfeng's choked throat like thunder, Wang Yunfeng only felt that the cold light flashed in front of him, and hurriedly dodged sideways, and took advantage of the situation to swing the knife with his backhand and take Dingguo's lower waist, Dingguo did not hurry back to the gun to block, and instantly opened the knife, and the two horsemen took a look at each other, and separated.

After this round, Wang Yunfeng was secretly surprised in his heart, and he didn't dare to underestimate Dingguo anymore, so he immediately shook his spirits, turned around, brandished a long knife, and fought with Dingguo again.

The two of them fought back and forth for about 20 rounds, and Dingguo saw that he couldn't win for a long time, so he sold a flaw, luring Wang Yunfeng to attack, and then suddenly passed the long knife, raised the gun and swept towards Wang Yunfeng's face, and the tip of the gun slapped on Wang Yunfeng's head fiercely, hitting him so that his brain burst out, his eyes protruded, and he immediately fell off the horse and died.

Wang Yunfeng's death caused the entire official and military camp to be completely chaotic, and the soldiers threw away their armor and fled in all directions, crying and screaming endlessly.

Zhang Yingyuan led the army to fight with Zhang Xianzhong in front, suddenly heard the sound of killing behind him, knew that the big thing was not good, and hurriedly reined in the horse back to the camp to rescue, and finally retreated to the walled gate, and the defeated soldiers escaped and reported Wang Yunfeng's death to him.

Hearing that Wang Yunfeng was dead, Zhang Yingyuan had no intention of fighting, and he did not enter the gate of the village, so he abandoned the camp, bypassed the wooden fence alone, and ran straight to the official road to the east.

Dingguo chased out of the gate and found that Zhang Yingyuan was going to escape, so he hurriedly reined in the horse and took the gun, held the bow in his left hand, and took an arrow in his right hand, aiming at Zhang Yingyuan's back. Zhang Yingyuan heard the sound of the bowstring behind him, and hurriedly raised his gun sideways to block it, but the arrow came too fast, and he couldn't block it at once, hitting his right arm.

Zhang Yingyuan was in pain, his right hand subconsciously unloaded, the spear fell to the ground with a "dang chang", seeing that the pursuers were coming, Zhang Yingyuan couldn't get off the horse to pick up the gun, covered the wound, lay on the saddle, and fled in embarrassment.

Who knew that less than ten miles after running out, a rebel army suddenly came out of the slope, led by the leaders of the rebel army, Bald-tailed Wolf and Xiao Guansuo.

The two of them had been lurking here for a whole day, and they were just about to collect their troops and return to the camp, but they saw a general of the officer and army fleeing alone towards this side.

Zhang Yingyuan saw that there was a righteous army blocking the way, in order to survive, he roared and pulled out his saber from the sheath, and rushed over like crazy, the bald-tailed wolf took the lead, brandishing a big axe to meet him, the two horses intersected, and the battle was only two rounds, and he was cut down by Zhang Yingyuan with a knife.

Behind Xiao Guan Suo saw that his brother died unexpectedly, he raised the long knife in grief, patted the horse to follow, Zhang Yingyuan turned the horse's head violently, grabbed the handle of the knife chopped by Xiao Guan Suo with his left hand, and endured the arrow pain with his right hand, and cut off half of Xiao Guan Suo's helmet and brain.

In a matter of moments, both leaders were killed, and the rebels fled in disarray.

Zhang Yingyuan killed the ambush soldiers, immediately turned over and dismounted, picked up Xiao Guansuo's long knife from the ground, weighed it in his hand, and felt that it was still a good hand, so he put the knife on the saddle, and then remounted the horse, heading towards Wushan County.

After defeating Zhang Yingyuan and Wang Yunfeng, Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai stationed troops in Yuanduping. At this time, although the official army was on the border, because the main force was fighting against the Thirteen Shaker Families, the internal defense was very empty, and it could be said that it was strong from the outside and strong in the middle.

On the sixth day of the ninth month, Zhang Xianzhong took advantage of the weakness of Shao Jiechun, the governor of Sichuan, to disperse his troops to garrison the passes, and ordered Zhang Dingguo and Zhang Wenxiu to lead 20,000 men and horses of his headquarters as the vanguard, and broke through several passes defended by only three or four hundred troops along the way, marched to the Daning River, and approached Dachang.

The ancient city of Dachang is surrounded by water on three sides, and one side is surrounded by mountains, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack, but when I heard that Zhang Xianzhong's army was coming, Shao Jiechun, the governor of Sichuan, was so frightened that his soul was scattered, and fled to Kuizhou overnight, leaving only the deputy general Shao Zhongguang to lead 5,000 troops to garrison, and flew to the Sichuan general Qin Liangyu and the deputy general Zhang Ling, so that they could rush to help.

After receiving Shao Jiechun's urging from Yu Yu, Zhang Ling quickly waved his army to Dachang, and at the same time sent a fast horse to tell Shao Zhongguang that he only needed to hold on for three days, and the reinforcements would arrive.

There are three crossings on the Daning River, namely Shangmadu, Zhongmadu and Xiamadu, which are the only way to Dachang. After receiving the news that Zhang Ling's reinforcements were coming, Shao Zhongguang was more confident, and immediately led 3,000 troops out of Dachang, and divided troops to guard the ferries along the Daning River.

Shao Zhongguang thought to himself that he had the Daning River in hand, let alone three days, even if he was allowed to keep it for another ten days and half a month, it would be easy. But I never expected that the advance of the righteous army was still more than 20 miles away from the Daning River, and the Sichuan army guarding the ferry had infighting due to the long-term arrears of salaries, and the soldiers surrounded Shao Zhongguang's Chinese army tent, threatening that if they did not pay salaries, they would no longer work for the imperial court.

In the Sichuan army, since the governor Shao Jiechun, it is no surprise that the first-level deduction of the soldiers' salaries is no longer a strange thing, since the meat has been eaten in his mouth, and if he wants to spit it out, Shao Zhongguang can't do it. The soldiers made a fuss for a long time, but there was no result, so they had to disperse separately.

After being made so troubled by the soldiers, Shao Zhongguang came to his senses, he knew that he couldn't do anything, and after thinking about it again, even if he lost Dachang and was covered by Shao Jiechun, he could completely shift the responsibility to Zhang Ling, an old thing, and treat him for the crime of ineffective rescue, so why bother to ask for hardship and do this thankless thing?

Thinking of this, Shao Zhongguang suddenly had no intention of sticking to and waiting for help, and asked his soldiers to quickly pack up the gold and silver, and as soon as the rebels showed signs of crossing the river, they immediately pulled out their legs and ran away.

Standing on the rocky beach on the bank of the Daning River, Zhang Wenxiu looked at the roaring river in front of him, turned his head to look at Dingguo, raised his whip and frowned: "Ning Yu, I look at this Daning River, the water flow is turbulent, the river channel is wide, it is not comparable to the previous Bawu River, if the official army guards the ferry, I am afraid it will not be easy for us to cross the river!" ”

After hearing this, Dingguo smiled slightly, and said confidently: "That Shao Jiechun is as timid as a mouse, I heard that our army is pressing the border, and he has already become a frightened bird, once there is a wind and grass, he will definitely flee when he hears the wind, the officers and soldiers have no leader, and there is no danger of the Daning River, how can it last long?" ”

"How is the second brother going to cross the river?" Seeing that Dingguo was confident, Wenxiu's heart suddenly became much more steady.

Dingguo thought for a moment, and then said slowly: "Last time, we suffered a loss of rafting across the river in the Bawu River, and we lost a lot of soldiers, plus the heavy rain a few days ago caused the river to rise sharply, and the waves were rapid, so it was not suitable to cross the river. For the time being, set up camp along the river, and wait for the rising water to recede a little in a few days, and then make plans. ”

Just as the two were talking, they saw Chen Xi flying in front of him, stopping in front of Dingguo and Wenxiu, holding the reins and holding his fists and reporting: "Boss! Happy event is coming! ”

Seeing Chen Xi's smiling face, Dingguo hurriedly asked, "Chen Xi, what happened?" ”

Chen Xi sat on the horseback and kept panting, and rested for a while, before he relieved himself: "A few days ago, Shao Jiechun, the governor of Sichuan, heard that our righteous soldiers were on the Daning River, and they were so frightened that they fled back to Kuizhou overnight!" Now there are only 5,000 Sichuan troops left in Dachang City, the deputy general Shao Zhongguang! ”

"Great!" Dingguo was also overjoyed when he heard this, and immediately instructed Chen Xi, "Chen Xi, you came just in time!" Immediately send an order to let the soldiers camp on the spot, and then every thousand people will be divided into small teams, each of which will act separately, collect boats and boatmen along the riverbank, and cross the river on a certain day! ”

"No!" Chen Xi replied loudly, then turned the horse's head and went to the army to give orders.

Soon, the Xiying Rebels collected more than 300 wooden boats from various ferries and people along the coast, and assigned two boatmen to each boat.

Everything was ready, and when the rising water receded a little in the early morning of the 12th, in accordance with the previously agreed operational arrangements, Jin Tongwu and Qi Sansheng each led 1,000 troops, and placed more flags on the opposite bank of Zhongmadu and Xiamadu, so they deployed suspicious troops to contain the officers and troops on both wings.

With the sound of a horn, hundreds of boats set off in unison, and 3,000 soldiers of the Western Battalion, divided into more than 100 wooden boats, launched an attack on Shangmadu.

Seeing that the righteous army rushed to cross, and soon broke through the two barriers of Shangmadu and Guanyinyan, Shao Zhongguang hurriedly sent a messenger to Kuizhou to meet Shao Jiechun, and lied that his governor led the soldiers to desperately defend the defense line of the Daning River. After the messenger left, Shao Zhongguang immediately left the three thousand defenders and secretly fled with dozens of personal soldiers.

The news of Shao Zhong's escape soon spread among the Sichuan army, and everyone was already owed wages, and now they heard that the lord would flee without a fight, and there were still people who were willing to continue to work hard, so they immediately broke up and fled.

The Xiying Righteous Army was able to cross the Daning River calmly without bloodshed.

With the Daning River defense line broken through by the Xiying Righteous Army, Dachang was no longer in danger to defend, so Dingguo and Wenxiu divided their troops to break Dachang, and then concentrated their forces and marched in the direction of Kuizhou.

The news of the defeat was transmitted to the superintendent, and Wan Yuanji, who joined the army, was very annoyed by Shao Jiechun's behavior of blindly avoiding the war, so he asked Yang Sichang to behead Shao Zhongguang in front of the army on the grounds of improper defense of the Daning River defense line, and gave Shao Jiechun a play to kill chickens and set an example for Shao Jiechun. This statement is exactly what Yang Sichang meant, and he immediately agreed.

It didn't take long for Yang Sichang to order the execution of Shao Zhongguang's flying slurs to Kuizhou by water, Shao Jiechun was greatly dissatisfied after seeing it, and immediately replied to the letter and argued: "In the battle of the land ridge, the two battalions of the army could not stop the thieves, Zhongguang only defended the wall with a few weak soldiers, and the defeat was not because of its lack of defense. ”

Yang Sichang was furious when he read the letter, and immediately ordered the army to rush to Kuizhou with Shangfang's sword in hand, and in front of Shao Jiechun, Shao Zhongguang was corrected on the spot.