The three sides of Shaanxi, Yansui Town, Ningxia Town, Gansu Town, it sounds like the area is not very large, but in fact it is big and scary, starting from the easternmost Yulinwei, until the westernmost Ganzhouwei, there are more than 2,000 miles of twists and turns, and the area is larger than that of Liaodong.

Yulinwei, Suidewei, Yan'anwei, and Qingyangwei in Yansui Town;

Ningxia avant-garde, Ningxia Zhongwei, and Ningxia defender of Ningxia Town;

Liangzhou Wei, Zhuang Langwei, Yongchang Wei, Shandan Wei, Ganzhou Wei in Gansu Town;

The jurisdiction of each health center is comparable to a state capital, and the entire three sides of Shaanxi are combined, which is comparable to two Liaodong.

Among them, the most famous is Yansui Town, originally Yansui Town was named after Yan'an Wei and Suidewei, but after nine years of Chenghua, Yansui Town moved to Yulinwei, so Yansui Town is also called Yulin Town.

There is a Ming generation, Yulin is the world's heroic town, the most elite soldiers, its loyalty and martyrdom is the most prosperous in the world, the Ming army in the Yulin generals can be described as many as a cow's hair, just Yulin Town out of the total soldiers are countless, like the end of the Ming Dynasty more famous, Shenyang General You Shigong, Changping General You Shiwei, Liaodong General You Shilu, Yansui General Li Changling, Yansui General Wang Ding, Ningxia General Hou Shilu, Shanhaiguan General Hou Gongji, Xuanfu General Wang Xueshu, Shanhaiguan General Wang Shiqin and so on, are all temporary generals.

I don't know if it's a coincidence or inevitable, most of the more famous generals or leaders in the peasant rebel army are also from Yulin, such as Wang Jiayin, Wang Ziyong, Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, Luo Rucai, Liu Guoneng, etc., all from Yulin Town.

This also created a tragic history, Chongzhen 16 September, Li Zicheng attacked Shaanxi, the governor Sun Chuanting in the imperial court under the urging of the hasty troops, led 100,000 troops and Li Zicheng hundreds of thousands of peasant troops to fight Ruzhou, and finally lost the enemy, the Ming Dynasty can be said to be exhausted, however, Li Zicheng did not immediately wave the capital, but led the army straight to the northwest, attacking Yulin Town.

According to historical records, Li Zicheng's army had tens of thousands of horses and dozens of miles of banners, and how many defenders were there in Yulin Town at that time, a total of only 5,000, Li Zicheng led hundreds of thousands of troops to attack Yulin Town, which was garrisoned by 5,000 guards, is it a bit of a fuss?

Later facts have proved that he is not making a big fuss, Suide, Yan'an, Qingyang three guards, the defenders are only hundreds, in the face of tens of thousands of troops have held on for a few days, and Yulin Town, Yulin City, at that time there were only 3,000 defenders, but Li Zicheng sent the right general Liu Fangliang and the general Li Guo to lead a 100,000 army to attack, with 100,000 troops to crush the 3,000 people, it stands to reason that it should be captured, but the result is not so.

At that time, the peasant army was no longer a rabble, and its combat effectiveness was almost equal to that of the Ming army, but the 3,000 defenders made the 100,000 peasant army suffer, and the 100,000 peasant army stormed for 13 days before the small Yulin city was captured, and after the capture, the street fighting lasted for three or four days.

The loyalty and courage of the Yulin generals is even more earth-shattering, after the city is broken, no one surrenders, there are still those who have the strength to fight and die, most of the exhausted people wear their clothes in their own courtyards, put out the incense burning, take out the family inheritance of the inscription, kneel to the east and say: "The ministers are exhausted", and then change into a shroud and hang themselves to martyrdom!

In this battle, there are few people who surrender to the captured soldiers, and even the women and children in the city are innumerable, there are historical records: Yulin battle, thousands of women in the city died righteously, but all the wells in the city are filled with the corpses of loyalty!

Later generations have poems to praise and say:

Yuxi whimpered and coagulated blood, and the yellow sand wailed and covered the bones.

Pity the three thousand armor guarding the city, I don't know why the country is broken.

Of course, none of this has happened yet, Yulin is still a Xiongzhen with many elite soldiers at this time, and Sun Chuanting is recruiting troops in Yulin Guard, the governing office of Yansui Town, at this time.

To be honest, he was still a little blind at this time, he didn't understand why Zhang Bin suddenly gave him the position of governor of the three sides, and he didn't understand why Zhang Bin had to ask him to come to Yulin Town to recruit troops, in history he went home from the third year of the Apocalypse to Taoguang to raise obscurity, and devoted himself to studying the art of war for 12 years, until Chongzhen did not come back in the eighth year, Chongzhen nine years, he was favored by Chongzhen because of his outstanding strategy, served as the governor of Shaanxi, and formed the Qin army.

At this time, it was only five years of Chongzhen, and he had only studied the art of war at home for six years before Zhang Bin was pulled out to serve as the procurator of Guangdong.

When he first arrived in Yulin, he was not in a hurry to recruit troops, but instead asked around about the Yulin generals who were idle at home, and he really asked him to inquire about a few.

One of the most famous is You Shilu, this You Shilu is terrible, he served as the chief military officer of Liaodong during the Apocalypse, and achieved a great victory in Ningjin with Yuan Chonghuan, but it is a pity that Wei Zhongxian took all the military exploits as his own, and used it to give his relatives the title of marquis, Yuan Chonghuan resigned and returned to his hometown, and You Shilu also returned to his hometown with his resignation.

You Shilu not only has great achievements, but also has a more terrifying family background, You family is one of the most famous families in Yulin City, and the You family has successively walked out of five general soldiers, including You Shigong, You Shiwei and You Shilu three brothers, it can be said that it is a handsome family, prominent for a while.

Sun Chuanting learned that there was this general at home, so he immediately came to visit, and asked Shilu to come back and serve as the chief soldier of Yansui.

Sun Chuanting's invitation can be said to be opportune, Shilu happily followed, and recommended the same clan warriors You Zhaiwen, You Dai and You Yangkun, etc., all of whom had the power of one enemy and one hundred forces, Sun Chuanting reciprocated the favor and recruited all of them to the account and appointed as a guerrilla general.

Shilu also recommended Hou Gongji, the son of Hou Shilu, the general soldier of Guyuan, Hou Gongji had followed him to break the thief in the river meander, accumulated military merits and was promoted to the general, and later resigned due to the disaster of the eunuch party, and has never been activated, Sun Chuanting also asked his official to be reinstated and served as a general of Yansui.

During this period, someone recommended Wang Shiqin, the former chief military officer of the left part of Shanhai, Shiqin also resigned and returned to his hometown because of the gap with the eunuch party, and has never been used.

There is also a garrison He Renlong, who once followed the governor Hong Chengchou to suppress thieves, fought bravely, repeatedly made military exploits, and the thieves were afraid of it, all called him "He Maniac", and Sun Chuanting also promoted him to Yansui General.

At this point, the leading generals have all been in place, Sun Chuanting then ordered the towns to start recruiting soldiers, unexpectedly, under his order, the people who came to recruit are like carp across the river, innumerable, in just one month, Yulin Town alone has recruited more than 20,000 elite soldiers, Ningxia Town and Gansu Town have also reported that there have been more than 10,000 recruits, this time it is nearly 50,000 troops, the frightened Sun Chuanting quickly stopped recruiting, it's not that he doesn't want to recruit more soldiers, the main grain and grass can't keep up!

Yulin this place is already dry and rainless, coupled with the drought in the northwest for many years, it can be said that there is no grain output here, it is impossible to raise grain and grass on the spot, most of the people are forced to rebel because they have no food to eat, and the military households are also forced to gnaw the bark of grass roots, and they are all counting on being soldiers, looking forward to receiving food and pay to help their families.

Therefore, after recruiting soldiers and horses in Yulin Town, the grain and grass could only be allocated by the imperial court, and this time, the imperial court only allocated 20,000 stone of grain and grass, and this month, the "recruits" who have been recruited have eaten 10,000 stone one after another, and the remaining 10,000 stone is only enough for more than 20,000 people to eat for half a month.

Of course, Sun Chuanting still has Zhang Bin's support, otherwise, the 50,000 army is estimated to have to be disbanded before it is formed, and he immediately led the army south to Suidewei, and at the same time ordered the recruits recruited by Ningxia Town and Gansu Town to also rush to Suidewei to assemble, ready to receive the grain and grass supported by Zhang Bin, and began to train the new army.

At this time, on the east bank of the Yellow River more than 100 miles east of Suidewei, a huge convoy was slowly moving forward, this convoy stretched for more than ten miles, and there were as many as four or five thousand carriages alone, plus the Ming soldiers accompanying the guards, the entire convoy was full of tens of thousands of horses!

At the front of the convoy, Li Shuben was looking at the Yellow River in front of him with a shocked face.

This is the first time he has seen the Yellow River, the width of the Yellow River is not much inferior to the Yangtze River he has seen, but at this time, the water of the Yellow River is pitiful, the widest place of the water flow is less than ten zhang, there are many places are divided into several zhang wide streams, flowing between the sandbanks, just like the wrinkles on the forehead of the old man.

Now that the Yellow River has dried up like this, what should the Loess Plateau on the opposite side look like!

In fact, he felt the terrible drought all the way from Beizhili, and the farmland near Dagu Port was not abnormal, and the fields were lush and green, and there was no drought at all.

However, after leaving the coast for more than 100 miles, the various crops in the field are becoming more and more scarce, more and more yellow, to the territory of Shanxi, the crops in the field are already yellow and green, yellow and green and less, after Taiyuan Mansion, there have been large tracts of wasteland, to the vicinity of the Yellow River, it is a hundred miles of red fields, except near the river, few people grow food!

He couldn't imagine how the ordinary people in Shaanxi on the other side could live, they couldn't grow food in the fields, what did they eat?

At this time, a member of the staff under the command of Zhang Zongheng, the governor of Xuanfu, was directing his subordinates to prepare for the convoy to cross the river, originally it was necessary to take a ferry here, but now there is no need to take a boat at all, there is such a little water in the river, no matter how small the boat is, it is estimated that it will have to run aground, if it is not for the steep river bank and the soft sandbank, the convoy is estimated to be able to wade directly across the river, and there is no need to make any preparations at all.

In fact, there is not much preparation that needs to be done at this time, that is, find a relatively gentle riverbank, dig some soil and stones to flatten both sides of the riverbank, and then cut some large trees that are more than a foot long and cushion them on the thin stream in the sandbar, and then pounce on thick wooden planks and fix them with large iron nails, even if the "bridge" is built, and finally spread some dry soil and stones on the soft sandbank, and the carriage can pass.

After nearly an hour of busy work, the carriages on the east bank had stopped for several miles, and this simple passage across the river was finally built.

However, at this time, the carriage did not cross the river, but remained motionless on the riverbank, and the Shanxi soldiers who were responsible for building the passage also withdrew one after another, and the wings were on both sides of the carriage, motionless.

Seeing this strange scene, Li Shuben couldn't help but ask curiously, "General Sun, what are they doing here?" ”

When Sun Biao heard this, his tender face was slightly red, there were really few people who called him a general, but this one kept calling him a general, and he never changed his words after being humble a few times.

He was ordered by Zhang Bin to protect Li Shuben and his entourage to go to Xi'an for free treatment, and it happened that Dongshengtang transferred the first batch of grain and grass from Guangdong to send it to Shaanxi, so they set off all the way.

The escort here is Lu Xiangsheng's arrangement of the Shanxi army, so naturally he will not run to Shaanxi, he explained: "The soldiers and horses in the provinces cannot run around without the order of the military department, and the Shanxi army dispatched by Lord Lu can only be sent here, and they are probably waiting for Lord Sun's Shaanxi army to come to respond." ”

Sure enough, it didn't take long for a horse on the other side of the river to come, looking at the outfit, it was also dressed by the Ming army, although the clothes on his body were a little shabby, but the fierce appearance was far better than that of the Shanxi army.

The rider rushed down directly from the opposite riverbank, crossed several improvised wooden bridges, and rushed to the vicinity of the general of the Shanxi Army, then turned over and dismounted, and knelt down on one knee to report.

After listening to the report, the general of the Shanxi Army nodded, and then waved his hand, and the carriage carrying grain finally began to slowly go down the slope and drive towards the opposite bank.

Sun Biao hurriedly stepped forward and asked, and then ran back to Li Shuben and said, "Mr. Li, Lord Sun's team is about to arrive, why don't we cross the river first." ”

When Li Shuchu heard this, he nodded, and arched his hand to the general, and then urged Ma and Sun Biao and more than 100 elites of the special operations battalion to rush to the front of the convoy and go straight to the other side.

They have not yet run on the other side of the river, there have been a group of Ming troops running down from the cushioned slope, the costume is like the first to ride the horse, shabby and old, but the momentum is also very strong, they ran down naturally not to pick up Li Shuben and his party, but to pick up the carriage, after all, there are more than 1,000 catties of grain on a carriage, if you don't push behind, it is very difficult for the horse to pull up.

Sun Biao didn't know these people, so he could only take Li Shuben all the way up to the riverbank, at this time, Sun Chuanting had already beaten his horse under the escort of several generals, Sun Biao hurriedly hit the horse and said, "See Lord Sun for the small one." ”

When Sun Chuanting saw Sun Biao, he couldn't help but be stunned, and after a while, he suddenly said: "Oh, you are the personal guard under Shuangquan, what is your name, why did you come here?" ”

Sun Biao hurriedly bowed his hand and said: "Little Sun Biao, on the orders of the adults, escorted the descendants of the Medicine Saint to Xi'an for free treatment. ”

Sun Chuanting slapped his forehead and said embarrassedly: "Yes, yes, your name is Sun Biao, and you are still from my family, look at my memory, which one is the descendant of the Medicine Saint?" ”

Sun Biao hurriedly introduced Li Shuben to the two of them, Sun Chuanting said with a little hope: "I don't know if Mr. Li is free, after the free clinic in Xi'an, can you come to Suide and Yulin for a few days, the border soldiers have always been short of medical treatment, and they are suffering from illness. ”

He has an element of consideration for the officers and men of the border army, and he still wants to win people's hearts.

Sure enough, as soon as he said this, the generals of the Qin army behind him immediately showed a look of emotion.

Seeing this, Li Shuben hurriedly arched his hand and said: "The adult has a life, how dare the villain disobey, Xi'an is over, I will definitely come to Suide and Yulin for a few days." ”

When Sun Chuanting heard this, he nodded with satisfaction and thanked him repeatedly.

During the greetings between the two, the carriages carrying grain were pushed onto the riverbank, Sun Chuanting confessed his guilt, and began to arrange for the soldiers of the Qin army to escort the carriage to Suide, the grain was finally continued, the biggest problem has been solved, and the next thing is to train the new army.

In fact, he doesn't have to worry about these new army drills at all, there are generals such as You Shilu, plus the Qin soldiers are originally border soldiers, as long as the generals at all levels are settled and practiced a little, they are an elite division, just like now, it has only been recruited for about a month, and the Qin army soldiers are no longer chaotic at all, just like the veterans of a hundred battles.

At that time, there were people who said that it would take several years for Lu Xiangsheng's Tianxiong army to become an army, while Sun Chuanting's Qin army only needed one month to become an army, not that Sun Chuanting's ability to train troops was stronger than Lu Xiangsheng's, and the quality of the soldiers in the main Yulin Town was far higher than that of the township Yong near the Daimyo's Mansion.