The autumn ploughing was gradually coming to an end, and Yang Xuan rushed to the Senate every day, or gathered the generals in front of him, thinking about how to enter Yunnan to put down the scourge of the Liukou.

By early October, Yang Xuan left CD and rushed to Wumeng Mansion (today's Zhaotong) at the junction of Sichuan and Yunnan to convene the front-line generals to discuss the matter.

Different from the commander-in-chief in the past who commanded the army, the army now has established an intelligence office, a staff office, a logistics office, and other functional offices, and leading the troops to fight is far from being the business of the chief general alone, but the crystallization of the wisdom of all people.

The first thing to start with was the introduction of the enemy's situation, and there are now many rogue generals in the Volunteer Army, and the internal situation of the rogue and the formation of troops have long been the focus of intelligence collection.

As Wang Zhibang, Jin Tongwu, and Yang Wei introduced, when Zhang Xianzhong was alive, he appointed the four righteous sons as the four generals (princes) and commanded the armies.

Unlike everyone who imagines that the rogues are a rabble, the rogue mainly consists of three major parts, and its main force is the personal soldiers of the four major generals and their cronies, but the number is less than 20%.

Although the number of these soldiers was very small, each man had a horse, some of them were cavalry with very strong combat power, and some were infantry on horseback, and their units were well-equipped, and their combat power was far above that of ordinary officers and soldiers.

In addition to the personal soldiers under the main generals, the number of guards and officers who came to surrender was about 40%, but they did not pay enough attention in the army, and their fighting spirit was not strong, so they were generally used as cannon fodder.

The largest number of people are those who are coerced by the homeless, the number of more than forty percent, just like the people forcibly recruited by the official army, transporting grain and grass for the army on weekdays, and waving flags and shouting on the battlefield as suspicious soldiers on the battlefield.

Due to the many wins and losses in the perennial battle with the Liukou, everyone disagreed, Wang Zhibang and others, in order to make everyone take warning, talked about why the Liukou turned defeat into victory many times, because of the fact that his own soldiers are still in combat.

Zhang Xianzhong beheaded the Qing army on Phoenix Mountain, and after the Liukou was defeated for thousands of miles, the remnants of the Liukou were able to kill the Ming general Zeng Ying in one fell swoop and seize Chongqing, an important town in eastern Sichuan, mainly because Sun Kewang and others led his own soldiers to flee the battlefield for a hundred miles a day, and Zeng Ying, the general soldier of the Ming army in eastern Sichuan, was arrogant and arrogant, so that the other party took advantage of it and died in the city.

At present, the Liukou control Qujing Military and Civil Mansion, Xundian Mansion, Zhenxiong Mansion, Yunnan Mansion and other places, and the preliminary estimate is that the number of people is less than 100,000, but its main force is still above 20,000.

When it comes to the tactics of rogue bandits, the main thing is to send troops and generals to retreat one after another, lure the enemy deep into the hinterland, and choose favorable terrain to suddenly send personal troops to defeat the opponent in one fell swoop.

In addition, the biggest weakness of the rogues is that they are not good at defending the city, and there have been no successful cases of defending the city since the army started.

After the failure of the surrender, Sun Kewang was expected to defend the city of Kunming and coordinate in the center.

Li Dingguo, Feng Shuangli, Wu Dading, Yuan Tao and others were sent as the main force to guard the Qujing Military and Civilian Mansion

Liu Wenxiu guarded the Wuding Mansion to block the entry of the Volunteers into Yunnan.

Talking about the combat tactics of entering Yunnan, everyone talked about it, but Yang Xuan had an idea and ordered to enter Yunnan in three ways, and in one fell swoop, he swept down the Liukou and recovered Yunnan.

In the east, Wang Xiang, the commander of the capital, was the main general, and the 11th town of Wang Zhibang was set off from Banzhou to attack Li Dingguo's department of the Qujing Military and Civil Mansion.

On the west road, Cao Xun, the commander of the Sichuan Xingdu, was the main general, leading the 9th town of the headquarters, and after converging with Liu Weiming's 6th town, he entered Yunnan from Jianchang and approached Liukou.

In the middle road, Guo Chonglie's 3rd town was the vanguard, and Yang Xuan personally led the 2nd Cavalry Association, Ma Mingluan Artillery Regiment, Cao Zhang Guard Town, Yang Bingyi's 5th Town, and Feng Youqing's 10th Town as the main force, and slaughtered to Izumo (in the south.

Considering that the Liukou are good at luring the enemy into depth, choosing the characteristics of setting up ambushes on the battlefield, and taking advantage of the characteristics of the Liukou who are not good at defending the city, all units need to fight steadily and steadily in order to achieve full success.

Yunnan is located on the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, where the roads are difficult to walk and grain transportation is difficult, and this expedition will test the logistical support capability even more.

Along the way, in addition to paying attention to the battle ahead, Yang Xuan paid more attention to logistics support, and also dedicated himself to verifying the logistics methods of long-distance transportation of the navy army and short-distance transportation of the baggage battalion.

One ship can transport more than 200 loads of grain, and the Volunteer Army now has more than 150 transport ships, organized into 3 transport battalions and 15 transport brigades.

Large and small transport ships depart at the same time, and can transport 30,000 loads of baggage grain at the same time.

Even if long-distance transportation is considered, each transportation takes more than 10 days to go back and forth, and the daily operation can supply 3,000 quintals of heavy grain like the front line, which can completely ensure the front-line operation of 50,000 troops.

Large and small ships converge from the Jialing River, Minjiang River, Qujiang River, Fujiang River and other places, and then go up the Yangtze River to Wumeng Mansion (today's Zhaotong Mansion) to reach the front of the naval army Dazhai, the front waterway is not passable, and the front military needs to be changed from the waterway to the land.

Adjutant General Chen Huaixi led the local people to load bags of grain into warehouses, which were then transported by infantry to cash boxes.

Double-wheel car (a horse) can drag up to 4 loads of grain without carrying people on the post road, considering the damage to animal power caused by long-distance transportation, the actual transportation is mostly six or seven percent of them (sometimes it also needs to carry people), and the single-wheel car drags more than 3 loads.

There is no doubt that the four-wheeled carriage has shown its superiority in long-distance transportation, and on the post road a two-horse light four-wheeled carriage can tow 8 quintals of grain, and a four-horse carriage can tow 20 quintals of grain. (Encyclopedia of Military Logistics, Napoleonic era, light four-wheeled carriage can tow 600 kg.) Considering that the road is smooth, even if the Chinese mules and horses are thinner than the European ones, the weight of the post road should not be lighter than the number of field tows)

Due to the fact that the four-wheeled carriage had just been launched last year, not many people were manufactured, and there were few people who could control the four-wheeled carriage, the whole army formed a light four-wheeled carriage brigade (40 light four-wheeled carriages per brigade) and a heavy four-wheeled carriage squadron (10 heavy four-wheeled carriages), which also demonstrated unparalleled transportation capacity.

In the past, the distance of soldiers marching with heavy loads was about thirty or forty miles a day, and modern infantry battalions are equipped with a large number of two-wheeled carriages and wheelbarrows, and the infantry does not need to carry heavy armor to march, so the normal marching speed is also forty or fifty miles, and the rapid march can reach sixty or seventy miles.

Since the establishment of the Ming Dynasty by Zhu Yuanzhang, the Hongwu Emperor has built a national post road (like a modern national highway) in the whole country with the north and south Erjing as the center, and a post road (like a modern provincial road) with the provincial capital as the center, as well as a large number of official roads to facilitate the transportation of carriages and trolleys.

The four-wheeled carriage can reach 30 kilometers per day on the post road, far exceeding the two-wheeled carriage (two-wheeled carriage) in the past, which can not only ensure military supplies, but also transport food supplies from the rear again after the food consumption is completed.

The two-wheeled carriage can barely maintain a fast march, while the wheelbarrow and other baggage vehicles are not at all, so there is an ancient precept that the three armies go first without moving grain and grass.

Seeing this four-wheeled carriage, Yang Xuan was full of emotion, except that the power is a horse, except that the main component is wood, this four-wheeled carriage is not much different from the current tractor and car.

In front of the two horses are running side by side (four horses are dragging the front and back rows), the coachman sits on a high wooden plank to control the direction and speed, and behind is a trailer with four wheels connected together.

Compared with the Oriental cart, because there are four wheels of horses only need to drag the trailer behind without loading, plus the Western Europeans have solved the steering problem, the four-wheeled carriage dragged by these two horses can drag 8 loads of goods (1200 catties) a day to walk more than 60 miles, and its speed of cargo transportation is far above the Oriental cart.

The post road is very wide, about 3.5 meters at its narrowest point and 4 meters at its widest point, and the carriages can travel in one direction, and even parallel roads can be used in parallel on flat roads.

Unlike the Chinese carriages of the past, the four-wheeled carriages and horses only pulled goods on the flat slope, unlike the semi-load-bearing horses of ancient China, and the horses were liberated, even if they dragged heavy objects in the plains, they could run more than 200 miles, and in the mountains they could run 100 miles.

Looking at the mighty transport team, everyone sighed with emotion, if the place where the army passed in the past was restless, in order to ensure the transportation of grain and grass in the front, all the adult Zhuang men in the whole village were requisitioned and consigned, and the common people fled the famine in order to avoid arresting the whole village and the whole village.

Now it is completely unnecessary, at most in the turbulent area of the water to recruit the local people to pull the boats forward, in order to ensure the food and grass of the horses, at most let the local villagers supply the grass that the horses eat.

At first, everyone didn't believe it, but when they saw that the volunteers were innocent, they saw the long two-wheeled carriage and unicycle procession, and saw the mighty four-wheeled vehicle team, so everyone believed it.

Just like in the early years of the Republic of China, the people rushed to witness the car, and after hearing that the Governor invented the four-wheeled carriage, they were even more amazed, two horses pulled 8 loads of grain, and four horses pulled 20 loads of grain, which was really shocking.

If the two-wheeled carriage still has a bit of a coolie taste, and the four-wheeled coachman is simply described as light, sitting at the front of the carriage one by one, driving the carriage, and his body is clean, more decent than the coachman of a large family.

These coachmen are also quite particular about resting, and they are absolutely envious of others when they look at the style (in ancient times, materials were not circulated, and prices varied greatly from place to place).

Didn't get to the cloud (south thought the cloud (south is a wild place, the people are extremely poor, after entering the cloud (south completely reversed the past idea, although there are many mountains and deep ravines along the way, the people's life is also quite difficult, but the local economy is also quite developed.

On this day, he entered the territory of Qujing, and reported from the front, Guo Chonglie led his troops to play a triumphant song all the way, and defeated the enemy army many times in a row, and almost captured the culprit Yuan Tao alive once or twice, and now it is only separated from Qujing City by a Baishi River.

Now the Liukou are guarding the south bank of the Baishi River to prevent the volunteers from crossing the river.

Yang Xuan's brows furrowed, feeling that something was wrong there, Yin Chengzhuo's eyes lit up next to him, and he pointed to Baishijiang and said: "Master Hou, back then, when the Ming army conscripted the remnant Yuan, King Liang also sent elite soldiers to garrison Baishijiang.

Xiping Marquis Muying took advantage of the fog to send elite troops to cross the Baishi River and defeated King Liang's 100,000 soldiers and horses in one fell swoop, so he won such a big victory. ”

Yang Xuan thought about it, worried that there would be a loss in the rear, and led the guard town, the cavalry association, and the 10th town to the front line.