From Dachang to the west, enter the avenue of Sichuan, and be defended by the Sichuan army under the command of Shao Zhiyuan, the governor of Sichuan. The Sichuan army was insufficient, so the imperial court specially transferred the army of Li Guoqi, the general soldier, from Shaanxi to help with the defense. Unexpectedly, just a few days ago, Li Guoqi's army suddenly mutinied due to lack of pay, and more than 10,000 troops rushed back by themselves.

This change suddenly made Shao Zhiyuan numb his claws. There are only about 20,000 Sichuan troops under his command now, and most of them are old, weak, sick and disabled. The most effective "Shizhu Tusi White Pole Soldier" was also transferred to Huguang by Yang Fei in advance. Originally, in his plan, to block Zhang Bingzhong and Luo Mengde, he mainly relied on the more than 10,000 people under Li Guoqi. Many important strongholds were also handed over to Li Guoqi to defend. Now, the mutiny of Li Guoqi's troops has not only reduced the number of troops that can be used in his hands all of a sudden, but what is even worse is that many key positions are no longer guarded.

This change was completely unexpected by Shao Zhiyuan. Li Guoqi's army is indeed short of pay, but like today, except for the Guan Ning army, who else is not short of pay? Shao Zhiyuan's Sichuan army is also short of salary! Of course, in terms of the allocation of materials, Shao Zhiyuan admitted that the Sichuan army under his command was more taken care of. But this is also the practice of the world, and the guest army that fights in the field has never given priority to obtaining supplies as the main army. But how can you mutini and run away because of this? This is not to ask them to go to war with the Tartars, how can there be a reason to mutiniate and run away because they lack some money?

But Shao Zhiyuan knew that after this incident, if the imperial court wanted to hold him accountable in the future, he would probably suffer the most. As long as Li Guoqi still has soldiers in his hands, the imperial court will not really do anything to him, at most, he will be demoted by one level first, from the chief soldier to the deputy chief soldier, and then let him "make meritorious contributions", in short, it will not be long before he can become the chief soldier again. But as a Wenchen, he is different, if he doesn't do it well, he will lose his head!

At this time, Qin Zhensu, the chief soldier of Sichuan, and Zhang Lin, the deputy chief soldier under him, were not around, and in a hurry, Shao Zhiyuan could not find someone who was proficient in military affairs to discuss. He gave an order indiscriminately and let the Sichuan army take over the stronghold abandoned by Li Guoqi's army. The result was naturally that the Sichuan army, which was already short of troops, was more and more dispersed.

At this time, according to Shao Zhiyuan's order, Qin Zhensu, the general soldier of Sichuan, was arranging defense in the area of Chongqing. In Shao Zhiyuan's plan, he originally put Li Guoqi's army at the forefront to fight with Zhang Bingzhong, and then arranged Zhang Lin and Qin Zhensu in turn, and used the slightly more elite Qin Zhensu's troops as a mobile force.

When the news of Li Guoqi's mutiny came, Qin Zhensu was serving wine to Lu Xun, the governor of Mianzhou, who had returned to his hometown, in Chongqing. Lu Xun used to be friends with Qin Zhensu's husband, and now he is returning to his hometown and passing through Chongqing, Qin Zhensu knows about it, so he sets up a banquet here, and his nephew Qin Yiming comes over to accompany him.

"The old woman is sixty-seven years old this year, two years older than her husband, and now she is dancing with a knife and a gun. Mr. is only sixty-five years old, and he may be considered old among ordinary people, but when Mr. is in the prime of life, why did he resign and go home? Qin Zhensu raised his wine glass and toasted to Lu Xun.

"How dare I compare with a general?" Lu Xun also raised his glass and said, "Although I am two years younger than the general, now, when we stand on the street together and let outsiders see, they will definitely feel that the general is younger than me, and he is more than a little younger." Last year, I had another serious illness in Mianzhou, and I almost threw this old bone in Mianzhou. Fortunately, the famous doctor Su Qi happened to pass by Mianzhou, and I picked up a life and came back. It's just that after the condition was almost better, Dr. Su said that my body can't stand the burden of the case now. So I resigned from my official position and rushed back to my hometown as soon as possible while I was still dead. But he didn't want to meet the general in Chongqing. ”

Qin Zhensu smiled and was about to say something more, but when he saw his nephew Qin Zuoming striding in, he hurriedly asked, "Zuoming, what's wrong, why did you come here?" ”

Today, Qin Zhensu came out to feast, so he left his nephew Qin Zuoming in the barracks to guard. Now that he's here, something must have happened.

"Lord Commander," Qin Zuoming hugged his fists and said, "There is military intelligence." As he spoke, he glanced at Lu Xun.

Qin Zhensu said: "Lord Lu is his own person, if there is anything to say, just say it." ”

Qin Zuoming said: "Lord General Soldier, Li Guoqi's department mutinied, and they all ran to Shaanxi by themselves!" ”

Qin Zhensu was taken aback when he heard this, and hurriedly asked, "Is there any other news?" ”

"Lord General Soldier, Governor Shao has ordered Deputy General Zhang to divide his troops to take over the stronghold that was originally guarded by Li Guoqi. To prevent the thief army from breaking through, he also ordered the chief soldier to immediately lead troops east for reinforcements. ”

"What!" Qin Zhensu was taken aback, stood up suddenly, and almost overturned the wine table.

"Deputy General Zhang is also a veteran, how can he be willing to listen to such a chaotic fate!" Qin Zhensu couldn't help but say.

"This young general doesn't know." Qin Zuoming replied.

Qin Zhensu stomped his feet and scolded: "This Shao Zhiyuan is really 'not knowing the power of the three armies but the same task of the three armies', not enough success, more than defeat!" If you don't do it well today, Zhang Lin and I will die in the hands of the thief army with him! And that Zhang Lin, how many years have he been fighting, and he listens to this kind of chaotic fate! Shao Zhiyuan is not sensible, is he not sensible? Resist his life, could Shao Zhiyuan really dare to use Shang Fang's sword to kill him? ”

After scolding this, she turned to Lu Xun and hugged her fists and said: "Lord Lu, the old woman was originally going to practice for adults, and she didn't want such a thing to happen, and now the old woman wants to immediately lead troops to reinforce Deputy General Zhang......

Speaking of this, she raised her eyes and looked to the east, as if she could see the battlefield directly over there from thousands of rivers and mountains, she paused, and continued: "I hope there is still time—the old woman can no longer accompany the adult, so she will take her leave." If the old woman is lucky this time, she will not die, and I hope that there will be a chance to see the adult again. ”

Lu Xun also stood up and hugged his fists and said: "The general is diligent in the king's affairs, and it should be, I wish the general a victory and success." ”

Qin Zhensu listened, pursed her lips, and seemed to want to say something, but in the end she didn't say anything, just arched her hand towards Lu Xun, and turned around and went out.

Back in the barracks, Qin Zhensu immediately arranged for the army to prepare for the camp to the east. Early the next morning, before dawn, the whole army rushed in the direction of Dachang.

Along the march, Qin Zhensu heard more news along the way. And these news made her more and more anxious.

Shao Zhiyuan dispersed Zhang Lin's army and filled in the strongholds left by Li Guoqi, and used Shuizhai Guanyin Rock as the first pass to defend, and let the subordinate general Shao Zhongguang garrison, while Yasha Rock, Sanhuangling, Moziyan, Yuhedong, Xiachong and other places each sent three or four hundred people to guard. Then let Zhang Lin take the rest of the army to guard the yellow mud pool.

"What's the use of putting 300 people in each place!" Hearing this news, Qin Zhen Suzhen really didn't know how to describe Shao Zhiyuan's art of war who made such a strange decision.

He probably didn't know that the only result of doing this would be that these troops would be eaten by Zhang Bingzhong one bite at a time! Well, maybe Shao Zhiyuan, a stupid person, still remembered looking at the map and seeing that these places don't seem to be too far away, if they are really going to fight, they can still cooperate with each other in a 'corner trend', right? But this is a big mountain, a place that can be seen, and it may not be enough time to run for half a day! Although the mountainous terrain can strengthen the army's defense capability, but at the same time, it is also to disperse its own forces, the speed of the general's command and transmission, and the speed of the army's mutual rescue are greatly reduced, as long as the enemy breaks through all the way, Shao Zhiyuan's troops in other dangerous areas are equivalent to all idle, and the result must be that the thief army is constantly defeated by more and less. How did the old lady meet such a stupid governor! Qin Zhensu said to her son Ma Xianglin.

"Mother, maybe Zhang Bingzhong hasn't discovered this loophole yet, let's rush over, it's still too late." Qin Zuoming rode on his horse and replied as he hurried.

"If Zhang Bingzhong was so stupid, he would have died a hundred times." Qin Zhensu said so.

After a day of marching, Qin Zhensu even slowed down the speed of the army, and she explained to her nephew: "If Zhang Bingzhong discovers the changes in our army in time, he should have broken through our army's defenses at this time, and further on, he may encounter the thief army at any time, and our army must be ready to fight an encounter with the thief army at any time." ”

At around noon that day, Qin Zhensu's army approached the yellow mud pool where Zhang Lin was stationed, which was also the last line of defense arranged by Shao Zhiyuan. As soon as I got closer, I heard a commotion in the distance.

"Mother, we're just in time!" Qin Zuoming said as he picked up the riding spear on the victory hook and prepared to fight.

"That's not right! It's not fighting, it's the sound of a rout! Qin Zhensu said, "Quick, the army immediately prepares for defense, don't let the defeated army break up our ranks." ”

If Qin Zhensu's subordinates were still the white pole soldiers during the bloody battle of the Hunhe River, then they would definitely be able to quickly complete the transformation from a marching state to a combat state at this time. Even if it was the army that his son had brought to Huguang, it would have been able to do the same. But now her troops are no longer as strong as that, but an army that has not been drafted and has not experienced much training, and has never been on the battlefield.

Qin Zhensu's formation had not yet been fully arranged, and the rout appeared. They ran desperately westward, shouting "Defeated!" as they ran. Defeated! Or, "General Zhang is dead, General Zhang is dead!" ”

"Zhang Lin is dead?" Qin Zhensu was taken aback again, although on the way here, Qin Zhensu scolded Zhang Lin more than once, but she was still very surprised when she heard such a shout.

The rout rushed towards Qin Zhensu's army formation, and more "thief troops" behind him also followed. Although in fact, Qin Zhensu's soldiers had not yet been attacked, the entire military formation was shaken......