Unlike the previous battles, this time, in Lizhou Weizhong, there are still many young women's dependents. Especially the two concubines and a daughter in the commanding family, which made Hou Dagui and others look straight.

He was afraid of unscrupulous literati, in order to curry favor with Hou Dagui and others, he proposed to Zhao Dangshi to place these female dependents in the rear division, so that they could do some needlework, and secondly, they could also act as camp prostitutes for the soldiers to vent.

Although his motives are not pure, what he says is not unreasonable. In fact, the placement of some camp prostitutes in the battalion can effectively control the evil behavior of the troops in mobile combat - it is difficult for a soldier who has been holding back for more than half a year to maintain his sanity when facing unarmed women. Therefore, although the camp prostitution is inhumane, it has a significant stabilizing effect on the army, and it is still reserved in the modern army.

Zhao Dangshi is now thinking about how to survive and grow, even if there are some thoughts of the Holy Mother, they can only succumb to reality. He asked He Kewei to select a few women with better looks in Lizhou Wei and commanded the envoy's two concubines to be the rear boss, but he was open to the commander's daughter. After all, the other party is from an official eunuch, and he can't bear to be too dirty. It is only said that the generals in the battalion are willing to marry him, and he can get it.

In this way, the fierce light that was originally staring at the young lady was immediately reduced by half. In the end, an officer under Hou Dagui's division married her, and on the day of her father's tragic death, a humble marriage was held under the auspices of Zhao Dangshi.

Although Lizhou Wei was down, but Zhao Dangshizhi was not here, Zhao Ying's soldiers and horses were stationed for half a day, dismissed the rest of the prisoners, and then marched towards Guangyuan.

Guangyuan Zhixian got the news early, and the city gate was closed, and he cooperated with the local squires to recruit villagers and go to the city to guard. Guangyuan county town is not more fragile than Lizhou Wei, the city is built by leaning on the Jialing River, the city is nine miles around, the outer wall is covered with bricks, and there are many guns on the city.

Zhao Dangshi crossed his horse to the city as usual and shouted to surrender. That Guangyuan Zhixian stood on the city tower, scolded with a halberd, and at the same time secretly ordered the officers and soldiers to turn the muzzle of the cannon and fire at Zhao Dangshi.

With a "bang" sound, white smoke rose from the city, and the cannonballs smashed ten steps away from Zhao Dangshi, stirring up a lot of debris and gravel, which was sunken in the ground and emitting green smoke.

Zhao Dangshi's mount was frightened, and kept jumping, calming down for a while. At this time, the sun was scorching, he held his forehead with one hand, pointed to Nazhi County with the other, and said with a smile: "Carving insect skills, still come to offer ugliness?" "Words, with the look of his eyes instructed Xu Hui.

Xu Hui immediately pushed over a tiger squat cannon, operated it himself, and aimed at the city. Nazhi County was still in shock, only to hear a loud noise, the eaves of the city tower above his head exploded, and it was this first test cannon that hit him a short distance away. The splinters and sawdust fell from above, and the magistrate and several squires on the left and right were mostly smashed, staggering, and extremely embarrassed. The officers and soldiers were afraid that the next shot would come and several people would be crushed, so they immediately invited them down the tower.

Zhao Dangshi laughed and returned to the battle. This Guangyuan Zhixian has the courage, and the top and bottom are united, and it is not easy to attack and defend the city. In this city, the time is not good for Zhao Ying. His aim was to deter his opponents from acting rashly.

Hou Dagui received the order and stationed near Guangyuan County with a division of soldiers and horses, paying close attention to its movements. The rest of the men and horses turned to Jianzhou. Wang Shihua, the magistrate of Zhaohua County, sent generals Zhang Qiming and Zhang Hu to lead troops to block the attack, which was defeated in a battle and retreated to the city. The troops in this county are weak, and Zhao Dangshi doesn't want to spend more time on it, leaving only a small number of people to keep an eye on it and go around the city.

Previously, Zhao Dangshi had received the news that reinforcements from Jianzhou were coming, and at this time, he ordered Yang Chengfu to distribute the horse army under the outpost to intercept and kill the Tang soldiers near Guangyuan, so that the news would not pass here.

The reinforcements from Jianzhou arrived in the early morning of the next day, and Zhao Dangshi ambushed the army with a small sword, which was taken by surprise and defeated the official army, and took advantage of the situation to seize the Kuzhu Pass. The remnants of the official army retired to the Jianmen Pass and joined forces with the 100 households guarding the pass. Jianmen Pass is extremely difficult to enter, Zhao Dangshi does not want to attack, leaving part of the troops to hold the Kuzhu Pass, retreat to the Jialing River area to rest, and discuss the plan.

After two days of patrolling, there was no way to advance or retreat. During this period, the official army of Jianmen Pass came to attack once, and Guangyuan County also sent troops twice, but they were all repulsed. Zhao Dangshi was distressed in his heart, if he couldn't come up with a countermeasure in time, and waited until the official army in central Sichuan was properly dispatched, he would be trapped between the two cities, and the situation would be critical.

In desperation, he sent people to the army to find the local natives and ask if there were any trails to follow. When asked, it was like a long drought and a rainstorm, which made him see the sun. Originally, there was more than one sword pavilion to go to Jianzhou from Guangyuan, and there was a trail along the Jialing River to the south for several miles, which could bypass Jianmen Pass and go straight to Jianzhou.

Late then changed, Zhao Dangshi ordered Hao Shaoqi to bluff in the Kuzhu Pass area, since Wangxi Yi detoured through Nixi, Qingqiangdian to Jianzhou City. Jianzhou soldiers and horses were all attracted by the direction of the small sword, all gathered in Jianmen Pass, the state city garrison was extremely loose, Zhao Dangshi led the troops to attack the city, only one day, the city fell, Zhizhou Xu Shangqing was captured, led the soldiers and horses to garrison in the Jianmen Pass of the thousand general Wu Mingfeng heard that Jianzhou had been lost, the soul was scattered, and immediately led people to evacuate. Hou Dagui and Hao Shaoqi probed the sword gate empty, knowing that Zhao Dangshi had already succeeded, and led his troops to return.

Jianzhou is the throat of Sichuan, this city is lost, and the north door of Chengdu is opened. If it weren't for the urgency of entering Sichuan, Zhao Dangshi would never want to make such a big move to attract the attention of the Sichuan army. However, the wood has been completed, and the immediate priority is to collect materials in the city and recruit talents, which is what Zhao Dangshi must do when he captures a place.

Zhizhou Xu Shangqing is upright, and since he was captured, he closed his eyes and mouth, and did not say a word. Zhao Dangshi sent He Kewei to lobby, but he was sprayed with blood, and when he returned, his head shook like a rattle, only saying that Xu Shangqing would never surrender. Zhao Dangshi didn't want to waste time, and after personally appeasing him to no avail, he ordered the soldiers to push him out and behead him.

As soon as Xu Shangqing died, the people of Jianzhou City were excited, and Li Yingjun, the official and the squires in the city, led the people to riot and storm the state where Zhao Dangshi was located. Zhao Dangshi was furious and dispatched Hou Dagui and Hao Shaoqi to suppress and disperse the people. He had the intention of intimidating the people, and was about to make the second general kill all the arrested rioters in the city, but he was shocked when he heard it, and under his desperate begging, the massacre was stopped, and only Li Yingjun and a few squires led by him were beheaded.

From Xu Shangqing downwards, most of the officials refused to surrender, and only a few low-level officials kowtowed to take refuge. Zhao Dangshi couldn't look down on these people, so they were transferred to the rear camp and resettled. Jianzhou is an important military town, the arsenal and cangli are quite rich, Wang Laixing and He Kewei were ordered to select soldiers, transport grain, and almost prepare the Zhao camp up and down.

While rectifying military affairs in the city, Zhao Dangshi also paid attention to the movements of officials and troops near and far. He didn't plan to stay in Jianzhou for a long time, his number was too small, and sitting in a lonely city was tantamount to falling into a desperate situation. As long as the officers and soldiers react, they will inevitably suffer a steady stream of blows.

Since Zhang Xianzhong entered Sichuan in the seventh year of Chongzhen, although there are still many thieves in Sichuan, there have never been people who have continuously conquered the city like Zhao Ying. When Wang Weizhang, the governor of Sichuan, heard that Jianzhou had been lost, he was shocked and thought that it was Zhang Xianzhong or Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng and other giant thieves who had entered the Kou.

But if it is said that it is a rogue in the river, it is not like it. The Zhukou in the middle of the Sichuan are mostly called "stick thieves", known for their unfortified armor and sharp blades, and their combat effectiveness is very poor, and they have always taken refuge in the mountains and ravines, and make a living from guerrillas. It is impossible to have the strength to capture the fortified city. I also heard that there are quite a lot of firearms in the thieves who occupy Jianzhou, and the origin is very suspicious.

Wang Weizhang is a minister, and he is most afraid of the subordinates in his life, like Shaanxi and Henan. He sent troops and horses to guard the key passes in and out of Sichuan, and he was already unharmed for more than a year, but he could sit and watch the chaos in Shaanxi and Henan.

This gang of thieves must not be allowed to go further south. He has been impeached many times in the past two years, and if he can't deal with the gangster in front of him, then his black gauze hat can't be guaranteed.

On the third day of the Zhao battalion's soldiers and horses in Jianzhou, a scout came to report that Luo Shangwen, the general of the official army Li Ya, had arrived at Qinglinkou in the southwest of Jianzhou with an army of 1,500. Li Ya is between Jiangyou and Zitong, quite close to Jianzhou, and was discovered by Zhao Ying when she was under her nose.

Luo Shangwen was temporarily stationed in the important town of Qinglinkou, and at the same time recruited the scattered and ownerless guerrillas in the Jianzhou area, and Wu Mingfeng, who abandoned the pass and fled at Jianmen Pass before, led the troops to follow. In just two days, Luo Shangwen's troops could be deployed to more than 3,000.

Zhao Dangshi didn't know the details, so Hou Dagui attacked and tested.

Hou Dagui's subordinates are the leaders of the Zhao camp, he has repeatedly made military exploits, and he has broken the official army, and he is very conceited. The five hundred men under the division went west, and they didn't even bother to send out the sentry.

There is a small tong water between Jianzhou and Qinglinkou, the river is wide and deep, and only a narrow bridge can be crossed. Hou Dagui was eager to seek merit, so that those with horses led their horses to cross the bridge, and those without horses went directly to the river to wade through the water. In August and September, it rained a lot on the ground in Jianzhou, and the water in Xiaotong rose a lot, and the soldiers who went into the water walked into the river, and the river water almost overflowed their chests. The undercurrent at the bottom of the river is turbulent, the soldiers are unstable under their feet, and there are many people who slip on the river rocks.

Hou Dagui pressed the formation in the back, watching his subordinates barely cross the river, he was a little nervous, and he felt that he was too big. But at this moment, dozens of people have crossed to the middle of the river, and it is difficult to reap their fate, so they can only pretend to be indifferent, while secretly praying that everything will go well.

Unexpectedly, the more they feared something, the more they were afraid, and the first group of soldiers who waded in the water were about to reach the opposite bank, when they suddenly saw a cloud of smoke and dust rising from the opposite crossing, turned out a force, and rushed to the shore.

The other party did not raise the flag, but it is needless to say that he must have been waiting here for a long time. As soon as Hou Dagui's heart tightened, he could give the order to stop crossing the river. The first batch of soldiers of the Zhao battalion had already landed on the shore, and they were all shocked when they heard the sound of Mingjin, and they rushed to retreat. The soldiers who had crossed the route halfway were also panicked, and there was no order in the hurry, and many people fell into the water when they pushed each other, and no one helped them. Looking at the narrow bridge again, it is also a loss of ground, and there are many people who fall off the bridge.

The man who killed was none other than Luo Shang's Ministry of Culture. Its officers and soldiers began to shoot arrows more than 20 paces away, and at the same time, shuttles, javelins, and short axes were all over the sky, and the soldiers of the Zhao battalion scattered on the shore did not command, and the wolves ran and were killed. The officers and soldiers threw rope lassoes, steel claws, flying forks and other objects into the river, hooked them to the soldiers who had an unstable footing, and strangled them down like hooked fish.

Hou Dagui was in a hurry, and while organizing the men and horses who were still on this side to shoot at the opposite bank, he sent people to pick up the soldiers who covered the retreat. But in a hurry, the two sides of the strait fired at each other, but many of them fell on the soldiers of the Zhao Battalion in the river, and the crying and scolding and howling filled the entire sky above Xiaotongshui. After a while, even the river was pale red, and Hou Dagui saw that the army's heart was in turmoil, and he knew that he could not fight anymore, so he had to answer the few soldiers who crossed the river and retreated with the rest of the army. Luo Shangwen did not pursue, but only cleared the remnants of the Zhao camp who had no time to run away.

The defeated soldiers returned to the city, and the calculation was clear, more than 100 people were lost, and many were wounded, and then more than a dozen soldiers who fled back on their own returned to the camp, which could not hide the fact of the fiasco of this battle. This is the first time that Zhao Ying has been frustrated since Irikawa, but it happened to Zhao Dangshi's most relied on former boss, and the anger in his heart can be imagined.

It's just that Hou Dagui was asked to test the temptation, but who knew that the fake turned out to be true, and he got such a "big result". Zhao Dangshi immediately ordered Hou Dagui to be beaten by forty. After beating twenty sticks, Hou Dagui screamed miserably, fainted, and the generals immediately stepped forward to plead. Zhao Dangshi thought about it, and remembered that Hou Dagui had many merits in the past, so he temporarily wrote down twenty sticks and instructed him to learn a lesson and make meritorious contributions.

At that moment, the soldiers helped the unconscious Hou Dagui down, and Zhao Dangshi discussed with Xu Hui and others about countermeasures.

Xu Hui's attitude is very clear, he believes that Luo Shangwen is only the beginning of the Sichuan army, and if he continues to move in Jianzhou, he will only attract more regular troops of the government, and with the current strength of Zhao Ying, he will not be able to confront the main official army head-on. What's more, the people in Jianzhou City heard that the officials and soldiers were rescued, and the unstable elements in the city began to move again, and the entire state city seemed calm after Li Yingjun and others were killed, but in fact there was an undercurrent. Xu Hui is in charge of the prohibition in the city, and he understands this point very well.

There is a strong enemy on the outside, and it is unstable on the inside, no matter how you look at it, this battle should not be fought again. At the same time, he proposed to move to the eastern mountains as soon as possible before the officers and troops had sent troops to defend the east and block the eastward road.

Zhao Dangshi attaches great importance to his opinion, Hou Dagui is impatient, and Xu Hui is calm, one can judge things and the other is good at planning, and the two of them complement each other, so that Zhao Ying has today's weather. Despite this, Zhao Dangshi has a knot in his heart, that is, he has not defeated the regular army of the official army since he started the army, and the so-called regular army is the pacesetters and family members under the hands of the governors, general soldiers, and generals. These people are the real main force of the Ming army today. It seems that they are all Ming soldiers, if they hadn't really fought with these people, Zhao Dangshi would never know his catties. Therefore, after thinking about it again, he was still ready to fight Luo Shangwen again. It's just that for the sake of insurance, he chose to defend himself in the infant city, and he had a slight upper hand on the face.

Since he was determined to fight, his subordinate generals were not easy to say. As soon as the order to defend the city was given, the whole city requisitioned earth and stones, people's husbands, hooks, cables, guns, and cannons, and the entire Jianzhou City was busy preparing for that ideal victory.