In the fierce sound of war drums, Cao Cao's henchman Yang Chengzu's subordinates rushed forward with swords and guns.

Not far from their charging queue, on a hill where bows and arrows and firearms could not be shot, the generals of Zhang Xianzhong, Luo Rucai, Zhang Kewang, Zhang Dingguo, Wang Long and other families each reined in and watched the battle.

The commanders of the two families came to the front enemy to supervise the battle, and naturally Cao Ying's soldiers and horses did not dare to slack off, and desperately waved the swords and guns in their hands and killed the white pole soldiers in one place.

Although it is not like the Qi family's spear skills, it is necessary to stab the opponent's eyes, throat, heart, waist, and feet in an instant while beating a drum twenty steps away to be qualified, but dozens of funeral guns and hedgehogs are gathered in one place, and a group of guns stabbed back and forth, fighting in this narrow and steep mountain, which really made the Cao Ying soldiers and horses suffer some losses.

The sharp head of the funeral spear kept drinking hot blood, drops of blood in all directions. The horse guerrilla attack on the Qinhuai River that day was already promoted to a general at this time, and he led these three or four thousand people to block the impact of Cao Ying's attack on the mountain road.

Cao Ying's two consecutive 1,000-person charges from the morning ended with hundreds of dead bodies and more than 100 people hanging colors, but they invisibly boosted the morale of the white pole soldiers.

The white pole soldiers who killed the soldiers of the peasant army had divided the property, clothes, armor and weapons of the peasant soldiers who died in front of them in the ancient virtues, and divided the reward for killing the thieves. One by one, they held the ash pole in their hands and grinned.

"Turtle sons! Are you all happy? What a fight! One more day, Lord Governor said. Our allies have arrived. At that time, I'm afraid that your pockets will not be wide enough to hold so much silver! ”

"Your Excellency! We're not going to ask for silver, okay? We've heard that there are a lot of good things in the thief camp, so let's just need those good things, okay? ”

"Lao Tzu Day, you ancestor! You have money, what can't you get? Tian Laosi! Haven't you always wanted to add an iron ploughshare to your home? After this battle, my surname Ma will go to the shopkeeper of He Da for you, and I will get you a set back no matter what! ”

In the shouting and scolding full of eastern Sichuan accents, Yang Chengzu was defeated, and his arm was picked off by the head of the mourning gun, and a deep wound that could be seen could not stop bleeding downward.

On the mountain road. More than 1,000 Cao battalion soldiers were attacked by two white pole soldiers rushing down from the hillside and white pole soldiers on the mountain road in front. The fight once again left more than 100 corpses, dozens of wounded and swords, guns and instruments in one place, and the wolf bèi fled.

"The last general is incompetent! Please punish the commander! ”

Yang Chengzu knelt down in front of Cao Cao's horse and whispered guilt.

"We've all seen it. I can't blame you for this! Go down and wrap the wound! Eat something. ”

Cao Cao comforted Yang Chengzu with a pleasant face, and ordered his own soldiers to take Yang Chengzu down to look at the wound, bandage and apply medicine without mentioning it.

"Lao Cao, Qin Liangyu, this old lady. This trick is good, though. But let's Lao Zhang. It's also very simple. Through the brass monoculars in his hand, Zhang Xianzhong could clearly see the chaotic replacement of garrison troops by the white-pole soldiers on the mountain and on the mountain road. He was very keenly aware of a flaw in the white pole soldiers.

"Jing Xuan, you can't be joking now. Behind, Zuo Liangyu and Mengruhu, two dog thieves, were as crazy as eating aphrodisiacs, and they rushed to our side, and the brother of the horse at the back post said that they were less than two days away from us. If we can't solve this group of white pole soldiers blocking the road here, then our Xiying and Cao Ying will have a good life! ”

Cao Cao blinked his little eyes and was a little anxious, but he also knew that if he didn't make such a situation, he was afraid that the Eight Great Kings would not be so easy to come up with his ideas.

"Lao Cao, if we Lao Zhang make a bet with you, I can break the barrier of the white pole soldier in one battle, what do you lose to me?"

"Jing Xuan, were you confused by the Luzhou Daqu in Zhang Ling's camp? We've been here for two days. At this time, you said that you can break the enemy in one battle? Such! If you break this pass in a battle, my Lao Cao will give you the six Sichuan girls who have just arrived in my account! Knowing that several of your eight kings' beautiful mothers-in-law are in the Xiangyang class room, your anger has nowhere to disperse! ”

"Women, it's better for you to keep it for yourself! defeated Qin Liangyu, let's rush to Chongqing Mansion, what kind of woman didn't? In this way, how about you lose me ten thousand pieces of silver, plus fifty good horses?!"

"! Why don't you grab it? ”

"Huh! In the eyes of the officials, the army and the gentry and the big food households, we are all thieves, and we were meant to rob us! ”

The two coaches teased and joked with each other, which relieved everyone's mood a lot.

"Wen Xiu, Neng Qi, the two of you each reorganize your troops and horses, and prepare to take over Cao Shuai's subordinates to attack the camp of the white pole soldiers!"

"Obey my father's orders!"

Under Zhang Xianzhong's deployment, the soldiers and horses of the West Battalion began to replace the soldiers and horses of the Cao Battalion and entered the attack position. Zhang Nengqi and Zhang Wenxiu each led hundreds of people to line up in front of the formation, tie up their clothes and armor, and straighten their weapons, not to mention it.

In front of their queue, there were several layers of archers, more than a thousand strong bows were stretched out by the archers, and the arrows that shot Zhang Ling were pulled out of the quiver and placed on the bowstring twisted from raw cowhide. Behind the archers, there was a dense group of hand-to-hand fighters armed with shields and broadswords.

A letter cannon sounded, a war drum beating, Zhang Xianzhong's adopted son, one of the four generals of the Xiying camp, Zhang Nengqi, personally waved his knife forward to take the lead, holding a knife in one hand, and leading some soldiers and horses of the old battalion of the Xiying camp with a flag in the other.

"The two sons of the thief have been dispatched! It seems that this thief is in a hurry to jump off the wall! ”

Qin Liangyu, who was also watching the battle behind his own front, looked at the soldiers and horses of the Xiying roaring over, and dozens of large flags in the crowd were marked with the names of the generals who led the charge. The flag, waving in the hands of the flag bearers, was amazing.

Thousands of bowstrings rattled almost simultaneously, and the rain of arrows was so dense that it felt like the sky was darkening for a moment.

"Dodge the arrows!"

This round of arrow rain caused more than 100 white-pole soldiers lined up on the mountain road in front of them to be shot through by sharp arrows immediately. He pinned his body to the red soil, and in the blink of an eye, the blood that flowed from his body made the red soil even more scarlet.

"Carry away the dead and wounded brothers! Queue up! Those who dare to run around, slash! ”

"Archer, step forward! Shoot at the Rogue! ”

The white pole soldiers also quickly adjusted their tactics, and ordered their archers to come forward and engage in fire with the archers of the western camp.

After a few rounds of bow and arrow fire, hundreds of people fell on both sides.

Seeing that there were cavalry galloping back and forth in Zhang Xianzhong's array, Qin Liangyu knew that the attack on the western camp was about to begin. "The herald passed. The people and horses on the hills on both sides immediately pressed down after seeing the thieves dispatched! The follow-up people will climb the mountain immediately! ”

In the West Camp Formation. Zhang Nengqi and Zhang Wenxiu, waving the battle flag and long knife in their hands, shouted and urged their subordinates to step forward, watching the soldiers and horses of the West Camp pressing over step by step. Not to be outdone, the white-pole soldiers facing the enemy head-on. Order. Thousands of spears were immediately clenched in calloused hands, and people were ready to use the heads and blood of these thieves in Xiying to earn a good life for themselves.

Seeing that they were about to rush to the front, Zhang Nengqi and Zhang Wenxiu suddenly waved the military flag in their hands to the left and right. "Brethren, get out of the way!"

The soldiers and horses charging from the western camp immediately retreated to the left and right, exposing the dozens of non-stop waving battle flags behind them in front of the formation of the white pole soldiers.

"Exactly! Let's take the flag! ......" This thought flashed through the mind of General Ma Shen, but unexpectedly, those flags that had been dazzling suddenly flashed open, revealing what was hidden behind the flags!

That's ten six-pounder guns, eight large Franc machines!

"Come back to the ......" Qin Liangyu and the officers and generals of the white pole soldiers on the hillside in the distance all shouted in unison, intending to call back the thousands of white pole soldiers who had already rushed down the hillside and were ready to use the tactics of attacking from three sides to obtain the first rank of military merit again.

However, it was already too late.

Eighteen shells, in the queue of white-pole soldiers rushing from three sides, made more than ten flesh alleys.

Caught off guard by this artillery fire, the white-pole soldiers were defeated when they landed!

On the one hand, there is a mountain road facing the enemy, and the narrow terrain makes it impossible to show the troops, so it can only increase the depth of equipment, but in this way, it gives the shells a stage to display, and under the vertical and horizontal bounce, a shell will make more than 100 people lose their combat effectiveness, and what is even worse is that the soldiers on the mountain road no longer have the will to fight, so they drop the spears in their hands and turn around and flee!

And the two roads on the hillside are even more wolf-bèi.

Originally, the kinetic energy of the condescending impact could have been used to increase the lethality to the maximum, but in the face of the muzzle of the cannon pointed diagonally towards the hillside, such an impact method was tantamount to sending flesh and blood to the shell. Seeing that dozens of soldiers who rushed in front were beaten by cannonballs, their flesh and blood flew and their limbs were splashed, the white-pole soldiers who rushed down from the mountainside suddenly stopped, but the team that rushed down from the top of the mountain could not hold back. For a time, the soldiers at the foot of the mountain fled to the mountainside, the soldiers on the mountainside were pushed down by the soldiers on the top of the mountain, and a large group of people and horses rushed up behind the mountain to take over the defense.

"Aim at the mountain, the place with the most people, give us Lao Tzu!"

Ten cannons fired another round of shells at the most crowded and disorderly spot on the hillside.

The white-pole soldiers on the hillside collapsed, trampled on each other, turned around and fled behind the mountain, knocking their comrades who were trying to climb the mountain head-on down the mountain, and in the blink of an eye, the white-pole soldiers were killed and wounded.

"Kill!"

Under the watchful eye of two six-pounder guns and six large Buddha machines, the white-pole army formation on the mountain road had collapsed. Zhang Nengqi and Zhang Wenxiu immediately jumped on their horses, and the command post department launched a cover-up.

"How about it, Lao Cao, let's say it right! Xiao Wang, I will go to your Uncle Luo's camp to choose fifty good horses in a while! Plus 10,000 pieces of silver! Zhang Xianzhong winked mischievously at Luo Rucai, teasing his old partner.

"It's okay! Willing to lose! Maotang virtuous nephew, go back to your uncle's camp, good horses are up to you! ”

As he spoke, the generals of the Xiying and Cao battalions had already slashed and slaughtered behind the defeated soldiers of the white pole soldiers, which further exacerbated their rout.

The defeated soldiers rushed across the mountain road, and the commanders of Qin Liangyu, who supervised the battle in the rear of the battle array, were all scattered.

"Auntie! Please get on the horse first! Let's retreat to the camp first! ”

Several generals didn't care about Qin Liangyu waving the sword in their hands to supervise the battle, put her and Ma Fengyi on the war horses, and retreated to the camp in the midst of the defeated and retreating crowds.

She can't be blamed for that. The impact of Zhang Xianzhong's cannon on the white pole soldiers was huge, not only defeating the white pole soldiers' bodies, but also luring and breaking out a huge psychological shadow hidden in their hearts.

This shadow is the predecessor of the White Pole Soldier who was annihilated by the Jiannu Eight Banners with cannons in the Battle of the Hunhe River.

"Lao Cao, look, this is the imperial poem that Chongzhen gave to Mrs. Qin?"

In Qin Liangyu's camp, Zhang Xianzhong and Cao Cao, who had just kicked this camp, looked at the capture of the soldiers with great interest, Qin Liangyu's big seal, tokens, arrows, and the banner with the four poems given to Qin Liangyu by Emperor Chongzhen.

defeated the white pole soldiers, and the gains brought to Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai were huge. There were as many as three or four thousand ash pole mourning guns captured, and more than two thousand prisoners were captured. Two large and intact battalions were breached. More importantly. The road to Chongqing was opened.

And in this battle, the credit of the Xiying artillery team is undoubtedly huge. Eighteen six-pounder guns and large Buddha Lang machines were carried forward by the soldiers, constantly maintaining the pressure of artillery fire on the defeated white-pole soldiers.

"Jing Xuan! 10,000 silver, 50 good horses, I am convinced! But. You also have to give our Lao Cao a secret. Where did these artillery teams of yours come from! The artillery of the officers and soldiers is definitely not so good! Don't fool us, Lao Cao said that you cast it yourself. Your men don't have this skill! ”

The soldiers of Cao Ying carried out a box of silver dollars, and the silver dollars wrapped in mulberry paper accidentally broke the package and fell into a box with a clang. The crisp sound of the silver dollar striking was a nice one. Zhang Kewang on the side led his own soldiers to lead fifty fat and strong war horses, and galloped back and forth in this large camp that belonged to the white pole soldiers not long ago.

"Lao Cao, are you planning to get a few cannons to play with? This time, I know why we entered Sichuan this time, our Lao Zhang cut the pass in front, and it was so easy to attack the city and break the village, right? No matter how strong the soldiers are, they have to flee when they see cannonballs! ”

"Less nonsense! Where did you get it? ”

"Like those Nanban swords, guns and armor, they were all sold to us by Nanban merchants."

"Shhh As if he had a toothache, Cao Cao gasped, his camp was not without swords, guns and armor produced in Nanzhong, and there were even dozens of firearms given to him by Zhang Xianzhong to equip his own soldiers. But artillery, such a sharp weapon, the Nanban merchants dare to sell it!?

"Don't think how noble these merchants are! Do you think that if they sell swords, guns, armor and artillery to us, they will not sell them to the officers and soldiers? Joke! Even if it's those dogs in the official army, don't they still sell military food and weapons to Dazi?! Zhang Xianzhong pursed his lips and expressed disdain for Luo Rucai's purity and kindness.

"Do you know why we want to go to Chongqing all the time?"

Zhang Xianzhong asked himself and replied: "The businessman who has dealings with our old Zhang has brought a large number of grain, grass, weapons, armor, knives and guns, which are piled up on the dock of Chongqing Mansion!" With these weapons and armor, our Lao Zhang can send Yang Sichang, Shao Jiechun, and the old dog Xiong Wencan, who treats our Lao Zhang as a fortune boy, to see Zhu Yuanzhang one by one! ”

After saying the thoughts in his heart to his partner, Zhang Xianzhong nodded and called the secretary of the old camp and ordered him to put the 10,000 silver sent by Luo Rucai into the joint account of Cao Ying and Xiying. "There are also the salaries, rations, and weapons of the captured white pole soldiers, which are also half of our two families. Lao Cao, you prepare the silver, take down the Chongqing Mansion, I will introduce you for you, your Cao Ying can also use the silver to buy cannons, and those merchants will help you train the gunners. ”

The news of the defeat of the White Pole Army immediately spread around at an explosive speed.

On the order of Governor Shao Jiechun, the former governor of Mianzhou (now Mianyang), who had just stepped down from his post to escort 30,000 white pole soldiers to the front line, was confronted by the defeated and retreating white pole soldiers, and hurriedly reported the news of the defeat here to Chongqing, while quietly transporting the general's salaries and military rations home.

"This, what should I do about this?" Shao Jiechun, who had already ordered his staff to prepare a manuscript for the presentation of the manuscript to the Beijing division and the superintendent Yang Sichang, was at a loss when he received this unfortunate news, his gums were red and swollen, and his throat was swollen.

"Lord Futai, the Governor of Qin said that he would send all the soldiers of Shizhu Xitong to the front line to defend against the enemy, but he only asked Lord Futai to give her 20,000 people of food and armor and staff......"

"Nope! No! Where did the official go to find her so much money, food, and weapons? The food for 30,000 people was lost in the blink of an eye! She still has the face to ask her official for food?! ”

After calming down the situation a little, Shao Jiechun went back and forth in the courtyard of the governor's yamen like a drowning man who was in a hurry to grab a life-saving straw.

"Where is the army of the flat thief general Zuo Liangyu? Where has the army, which is as fierce as a tiger, gone? Didn't they all say in the documents to their officials that they were rushing to the front line day and night, and they would be able to join Qin Liangyu and annihilate all the thieves and Cao thieves in a few days? Where have they been now? ”

A friend hesitated to find two official documents, but they were the ones that Zuo Liangyu and Meng Ruhu had just sent to Pegasus.

In official documents, it is either sincere in words or arrogant in language, but it generally means that the soldiers are exhausted and the army lacks food and grass after days of forced marching. You have to take a break and reorganize your troops and horses before you can go into battle.

In the same way, Yang Sichang's supervising army in Sichuan, Wan Yuan Ji's department, and Huguang's deputy general Zhang Yingyuan's department, both sent a message to Shao Jiechun on the grounds that the weather had been rainy for several days, the roads were muddy and slippery, and it was difficult to transport grain and grass, telling him that our troops could not move forward, and that they had to rest in place for a few days and wait for the weather to clear before leaving!

Looking at the big sun outside, Shao Jiechun couldn't help but scold, "A group of silverfish! "When you make up nonsense, make up a fig leaf for fear of the enemy, please use your brains a little, and make up nonsense as deceptive as possible!

"My lord! Oh no, sir! Fubiao Zhongjun stumbled directly from the gate into the small courtyard where Shao Jiechun's detention room was located.

"Bastard thing, what's wrong with it, sir!"

Shao Jiechun's evil fire suddenly hit the head of this Chinese army, and he was about to hit him with a slap.

"My lord! Oh no, model brigade, model brigade! ”

However, it was Wu Biao's model brigade of more than 6,000 people, who did not receive a military order, and still went upriver in the direction of the defeat and retreat of the white pole soldiers.

"Quick! Go chase them back! Shao Jiechun was so frightened that he was covered in a cold sweat and used Wu Biao's model brigade, but he saw that the white pole soldiers were fighting very well in front, so he made his own decisions and forcibly ordered this army that Yang Sichang promised not to be dispatched within three months. Once these 6,000 people have a mistake, I am afraid that not only will Governor Yang turn his face, but also several fathers-in-law of the celebrant will also send people to arrest him and bring him to Beijing.

"Quick! Send someone Pegasus to inform General Wu! Order him on the spot, no, hurry back to Chongqing to fortify and prevent the thieves and thieves from attacking the city! ”

With the fall of Qin Liangyu, the last Dinghai Divine Needle on the battlefield in Sichuan, the whole Sichuan became chaotic, not only the hungry people and poles in eastern Sichuan have defected to Zhang Xianzhong and Cao Cao, but also the so-called Shake Huang Thirteen families such as Huanglong and Shaking the Sky in northern Sichuan, and the Tukou who are called "local tyrants" in Sichuan also began to loot the prefectures and counties.

The situation in Sichuan suddenly became out of control. (To be continued......)