After being promoted from Chongzhen to a general for ten years, Yu Yongkai's status in Sichuan has been dramatically improved.

In the twelfth year of Chongzhen, Zhang Xianzhong, Li Zicheng and other rogues rebelled again, and the northeast of Sichuan once again became a big channel for the rogues to go back and forth.

Under the cover of Liu Ximing and Du Liangji, Yu Yongkai successively made a lot of military exploits in Baoning Mansion, Kuizhou Mansion and other places, and was finally promoted to chief military officer in the fourteenth year of Chongzhen.

In the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, military towns in various places began to recruit troops on their own, and the army on Yu Yongkai's face also "rapidly" expanded to 70,000, and instantly became an existence that could not be provoked.

It's just that few people know that Yu Yongkai can mobilize not only so little, but as many as 150,000.

Shunqing is the old nest of the Liu family, how could Liu Ximing take it lightly.

Yu Yongkai knew the news of Zhang Xianzhong's westward expedition earlier than Chen Shiqi and others, and from then on, Liu Ximing's order was very clear, to abandon Chongqing and let Zhang Xianzhong enter Sichuan, but he would never be allowed to cross Dingyuan County.

It was under such circumstances that Yu Yongkai took advantage of the fact that Chen Shiqi and others were busy defending Chongqing, and quietly came to Dingyuan County with an army of 100,000 to station.

In the Yongkai camp, a fast horse flew into the camp.

"Report to the general soldiers, the brothers intercepted three messengers from Chongqing, saying that they were going to transfer us to Chongqing to defend the rogues."

In Yu Yongkai's big tent, dozens of major military officers such as Zhang Jingliang and Li Jinghong were gathering together to discuss the military situation, and when they heard the report outside the door, everyone in the room laughed.

"Hehe, who does this old man Chen think he is, our army will be tuned when he says it, is it really Wanli Year at this time?"

"Hahaha, what I'm saying is, damn it, in the past, these literati flaunted their might, but now it's time for them to be turtle grandsons."

The lord sat down, and Yu Yongkai also smiled, "First take everyone into custody, Zhang Xianzhong has already arrived in Chongqing, I think Chen Shiqi can't hold on for a few days, and then we will avenge him." ”

Several Chongqing messengers with bewildered faces were directly thrown into the tent and put into custody.

On the tenth day of February, with a violent explosion under the Tongyuan Gate in Chongqing, the strong city walls of Chongqing City collapsed.

More than 300,000 soldiers of the Great Western Army flocked in from Tongyuanmen, but fortunately, because Zhong Yuhe offered the explosives package as a weapon to break the city early, Zhang Xianzhong and others did not lose too much in the siege.

The originally brutal Great Western Army was much more restrained than in history, but including Zhu Changhao, the king of Rui, who fled to Chongqing from Hanzhong, and Chen Shiqi and other officials, all of whom were killed by Zhang Xianzhong one by one.

On February 25, Zhang Xianzhong, who had been renovated in Chongqing, came straight to Shunqing with an army of 300,000.

"Knock Knock Knock"

Outside Dingyuan County in the Yongkai camp, the sky-high war drums sounded, instantly alarming all the 100,000 soldiers.

The army under Zhang Xianzhong's command has been less than ten miles according to this.

Yu Yongkai and others have been stationed in Dingyuan County for more than a month, and they have already set up a large array here, and all the armies occupy advantageous positions, especially the artillery positions.

The terrain in the northeast of Sichuan is rugged, although there are no famous mountains and rivers, but there are also hills everywhere, Dingyuan County, where Yu Yongkai and others are stationed, is the most convenient road to Shunqing along the Jialing River to the north, Zhang Xianzhong and others really came along this road as scheduled.

Southwest of Dingyuan County, in the camp of the Great Western Army.

The huge troops of the Great Western Army finally discovered the movements of Yu Yongkai's department, and the 300,000 troops had to stop and camp while inquiring about the intelligence of the officers and troops on the opposite side.

"King, the scouts have all found out, the army on the opposite side is all wearing the battle flag of Yuzi, and it should be the army under the command of the chief officer Yu Yongkai. But ......"

The scout captain who came to report to Zhang Xianzhong said and said, "However, according to the Chongqing prisoners, this Yu Yongkai should only have 70,000 or 80,000 soldiers and horses, but the small ones investigated in many ways and found that there were at least 100,000 officers and soldiers on the opposite side. ”

In the main account of the Great Western Army, taking Chongqing once again made Zhang Xianzhong angry, seeing that the country of abundance was about to bow his head in front of him, but when he heard that there were still officials and troops blocking the road on the opposite side, Zhang Xianzhong was angry.

"Dog officer army, what can I do if there are 100,000 people, can't I beat him with more than 300,000 people, pass the order, let the army camp as soon as possible, everyone will enter Shunqing, and arrest Liu Ximing's whole family."

However, before hundreds of thousands of people in the Great Western Army could set up the camp, several strange things suddenly appeared in the Yongkai camp opposite.

"A little higher, tighten the rope a little more, ignite, ignite quickly, yes, yes."

In Yu Yongkai's Chinese army, hundreds of officers were all gathered on the field of the Chinese military academy and looked at these strange things in front of them.

Below this object is a large basket made of bamboo strips, in which four people squatted in, and above is a large round ball sewn out of silk, and the inside is also woven into a frame with fireproof bamboo strips and other materials.

This thing is the hot air balloon that the Liu family has recently successfully developed.

Except for a flat land near the county seat, the rest of Dingyuan County is all hills.

Even the artillery positions set up on Niutou Peak in the northwest could not clearly observe the entire camp of the Great Western Army, so naturally they had to rely on hot air balloons to observe at this time.

Under the guidance of the technicians specially sent by the Liu family workshop, after a while, four hot air balloons rose into the sky.

"Hooray! Banzai! ”

As soon as the 100,000 soldiers in the Liu family's army saw their hot air balloon rise into the sky, they all cheered excitedly.

The hot air balloon rose to a height of 50 zhang and then stopped rising, and the artillery observer in the hanging basket below immediately picked up the telescope and triangular ruler in his hand to estimate the distance between the positions of the Great Western Army.

After a while, a few small notes in bamboo tubes were thrown from the hot air balloon, and a few fast horses went straight to the artillery position.

The hot air balloon was such an eye-catching thing, and the Great Western Army naturally saw it, but Zhang Xianzhong took Li Dingguo and other generals to look up to the sky and watched for a long time, and they didn't understand what this thing was for.

While the generals of the Great Western Army were puzzled, a rumbling sound faintly came from the low hill in the northwest corner of the battlefield.

"There are artillery!"

Li Dingguo's eyes were sharp, and at a glance he saw bursts of white smoke coming out of the northwest peak opposite, and he was so startled that he immediately shouted.

Artillery was not uncommon in these years, and it stands to reason that Li Dingguo's roar was not a big deal, but the shells fired from the opposite mountain peak seemed to have eyes, and they shot straight into the camp of the Great Western Army at least four or five miles.

With a "boom", the entire shell exploded directly above the camp of the Great Western Army, exploding a ghost crying wolf.

At this moment, the fear that the generals of the Great Western Army would be dominated by the artillery under Liu Xi's command under Wuchang City suddenly came to their hearts.

"Damn, it's that Liu Ximing again, he personally led the troops!"

Beside Zhang Xianzhong, a small colonel who was stimulated under Wuchang City was so frightened that he went insane on the spot, and he cried out loudly.

His shout directly caused many other generals to also blow up.

"Fuck you", seeing that the little colonel was nervous and wanted to turn around and run away, Zhang Xianzhong's mouth was crooked, he pulled out the waist knife from the waist of the guard next to him, and directly slashed the person to the ground.

"Who the fuck dares to move!"

A stream of blood spurted out from the young colonel's neck, and sporadic blood splashed on Zhang Xianzhong's face, adding a lot of horror to him.

"Fuck Liu Ximing, how can he come here while he is still in Wuchang, I have been careful with Lao Tzu, I don't believe that they can shoot so accurately."

"Boom"

As if echoing Zhang Xianzhong's words, as soon as his words fell, dozens of shells fell from the sky and fell into the camp of the Great Western Army.

"!"

The entire camp of the Great Western Army was suddenly in chaos.

The Great Western Army is currently about ten miles away from the army under Yu Yongkai, but this is calculated in the case of circling mountain roads, and if you look at the distance in a straight line, the two armies are actually only five or six miles apart.

Shunqing is the old nest of the Liu family, except for Luzon, all the arsenals of the Liu family are gathered in Liujia Village.

Yu Yongkai's command naturally has the most powerful firepower of the Liu family.

In order to deal with Zhang Xianzhong's huge rogue army, Yu Yongkai brought a total of more than 500 artillery pieces of various calibers this time.

What is this concept?

It is equivalent to the total number of artillery in two and a half divisions in the Liu family system!

In addition, there are too many troops under the command of the Great Western Army, and it will take more than ten miles to build a camp alone, and the artillery of the Liu family is almost accurate.

Originally, Zhang Xianzhong and others were still counting on the opposite side to not last long, but they didn't know that this attack would be half a day, and nearly 20,000 shells fell like raindrops, directly turning the entire position of the Great Western Army into slag.