When the officers and men of the Sichuan army defending Dachang heard that the main general had fled, they collapsed without a fight, and most of them scattered into small units, some surrendered to the high mountains, some abandoned their weapons and went home, and only a few of them chased after Shao Zhongguang and fled to Kuizhou.

Gao Junshan didn't expect that before others arrived in Dachang, Dachang was already his own, and the Hongyi cannon and Furang machine gun he brought were broken before they opened.

After entering Dachang, Gao Junshan left Chongwen's disciples to manage Dachang, and began to plan for the westward expansion of the army.

The first thing he had to understand was the movements of Luo Rucai and Ma Shouying, who had entered Sichuan in advance, according to the prisoners, Luo Rucai and Ma Shouying's rebels were besieged by Yang Sichang's heavy troops in the Kuidong area, due to the lack of food and grass, several small groups of rebels who accompanied Luo Rucai and Ma Shouying into Sichuan surrendered to Yang Sichang, and Luo Rucai and Ma Shouying brought less than 10,000 men and horses, hiding in the big ravine.

This time, Gao Junshan entered the east of Sichuan, and virtually relieved Luo Rucai and Ma Shouying, Yang Sichang shifted the focus of the bandit suppression to Gao Junshan, not long ago, Luo Rucai and Ma Shouying successfully broke through and went to Henan.

"Cao Cao ran away? Where can he go? Tian Wenju looked at Gao Junshan and asked.

Gao Junshan said: "Where else can he go?" Luo Rucai is reluctant to cooperate with me, he must have gone to Henan this time to defect to Li Zicheng. ”

Tian Wenju worried: "In this way, doesn't it increase Li Zicheng's strength?" ”

Gao Junshan said: "Do you think Li Zicheng is a good stubble?" I don't think Li Zicheng is as kind as me, he will sincerely take in Luo Rucai and Ma Shouying, once the time is ripe, Li Zicheng will definitely take Luo Rucai and Ma Shouying under the knife. ”

Tian Wenju's face was full of gloomy clouds: "According to King Qin's intentions, we and Li Zicheng will also part ways?" ”

Gao Junshan said confidently: "How can others be allowed to snore on the side of the couch!" ”

Tian Wenju listened to this sentence quite comfortably.

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However, it was said that the female general Qin Liangyu was galloping to the aid of Dachang, and when she got the news of the loss of Dachang, she immediately stopped her advance and camped in a place called Zhujiping, where she wanted to block the road for the righteous army to move west.

Qin Liangyu is a sixty-seven-year-old old woman who has led troops to fight since the twenty-seventh year of Wanli, and now has forty-one years of experience, and is a battle-hardened general.

As soon as the camp was set up, she took her own soldiers to climb the high post to observe the terrain. She decided to set up a formation in the same place, occupy a dangerous terrain, and take advantage of her "white pole soldiers" who are good at mountain warfare to block the advance of the high mountains.

So she placed her 3,000 soldiers and horses on the hills on both sides of the road, and ordered her soldiers: "You must fight to the death." When we keep this place, we keep our home. After this step, the thieves will be killed at our doorstep. ”

She also took the seven words "Guarding here is guarding the home" as a warning, engraved on several wooden signs, and placed them at the front of the position.

Although the two hills she guarded were not high, they were easy to defend and difficult to attack because of the good terrain. In order to stop the advance of the rebels, she also concentrated her bows and crossbows and muskets on the side of the main road, and encouraged her soldiers to stay with her.

On this day when Qin Liangyu was fully prepared, the forward battalion of Gao Jun Mountain drove along the rugged mountain road to this place, and was violently blocked by the "white pole soldiers" who were ambushed here.

Gao Junshan heard that he had encountered the "white pole soldiers", of course he knew how powerful the "white pole soldiers" were, and he also knew that they were good at mountain warfare, so in this unfavorable terrain, he did not plan to entangle with Qin Liangyu too much, and decided to transfer to Marven's field artillery battalion to deal with this old woman.

Although the field artillery battalion only has only nine field guns, but the operators of these field guns are all skilled gunners, and they are all disciples of Chongwen Academy, each shell can accurately hit the target, under the superb command of Marven, one shell after another in the crowd on the two hills blossomed and exploded, the sound of explosions, and the billowing smoke of gunpowder, so that the "white pole soldiers" who had never seen this kind of battle were frightened and covered their ears and pinched their noses, and what was even more tragic was that many "white pole soldiers" were blown up with flesh and blood. The trees were covered with their broken corpses.

After half an hour of heavy shelling, the earth suddenly became a dead silence, and the "white pole soldiers" who breathed a breath did not care about the warning that "guarding this place is guarding the home", so they pulled their legs and fled down the mountain, crying for their father and mother while running.

Qin Liangyu looked at the tragic image in front of him, extremely depressed. This time, the 3,000 men and horses she led were wiped out without experiencing a fierce battle, and the banner and the seal had been buried by artillery fire, and there was no possibility of recovery. As a last resort, she took a few personal soldiers and fled to Liangshan County with the scattered soldiers.

In just half an hour, one base number of shells, one hundred and eighty rounds, was completely gone. This time is also to test the performance of the field artillery, Gao Junshan ordered Marven to shoot all the shells, he wants to take a look, the hit rate and lethality of this field gun, after visual inspection, Gao Junshan is satisfied with the lethality of the field artillery, as for the hit rate, it all depends on the gunner's training and actual combat experience, this time can accurately dump one hundred and twenty shells on the two hills, that is because the gunners are all Chongwen's disciples, if it is replaced by ordinary gunners, the accuracy will be greatly reduced.

The sky was not beautiful, and the battle was over, and it actually rained heavily, and Gao Junshan had to order the whole army to withdraw to Dachang County.

Unexpectedly, this heavy rain lasted for a month, not only did it stop the military operation in Gao Junshan, but even the transport team of the Logistics Department could not transport the shells in time and was stranded on the other side of the Daning River.

During this time, Gao Junshan was not idle, of course he had to do to pacify the people and pacify the people, he also recruited more than 1,000 Dachang soldiers, with the support of the local people, his team could really survive, which he was not confused about.

After Gao Junshan had the stable territory of Xiangyang, his concept of governing the local area was very different from the past, and in the past, there was still more or less the idea of fighting against the rogues. Now it is different, he has to manage the acquired city from the root in a down-to-earth manner, first carry out household registration, urban and rural three-level management, and set up townships, fangs, li, and communities under the county, and townships, fangs, li, and communities manage natural villages respectively.

Townships, districts, districts, and communities are local grassroots organizations. In order to fabricate the requisition of household registration and enlistment and strengthen the rule over the grassroots, Gao Junshan established a strict grass-roots organization below the county level, setting up a fang (equivalent to the current neighborhood committee) in the city, a township (equivalent to a district) near the city, and a district or community far away from the county center.

Township heads, district heads, district chiefs, and presidents are responsible for local civil affairs, "education" and enlistment. Each level of organization has a grain chief, who is in charge of the collection of land endowments.

Most importantly, these officials are also responsible for supporting poor households and providing them with free tools for labor.

Therefore, we also manage according to this standard in Dachang.