In order to guard against the artillery and bird guns of the loyal army, the front of the team is a row of quilts or bamboo fences, because the firearm technology is not yet mature (mainly smoothbore guns, plus the proportion of gunpowder), the wet quilt and bamboo fence are like cotton armor, which can be used to prevent bird guns from attacking at a long distance. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

In order to block the damage of scattered bullets and arrows from the Fran cannon falling from the sky, the elite soldiers wore cotton armor and iron armor, and the ordinary soldiers wrapped their heads in towels and quilts, and everyone hid behind wet quilts and struggled to move forward.

Behind the wet quilt and bamboo fence, there are rattan players, who hold high huge shields to block the lead and arrows in front of them, although there are wet quilts and bamboo fences to guard against them, but if there is more gunpowder, the wet quilt still cannot be covered.

The commander hid in the gap between the two quilts, observing the movement ahead.

According to the past custom, the most effective impact distance is 30 meters, and the soldiers holding wet quilts and bamboo fences in front of them will quickly throw away the shelter, and everyone will rush up to fight cautiously.

But this time it was a little strange, when I was more than 50 meters, I suddenly saw more than 100 soldiers rushing out of the opponent's formation, they were draped all over their bodies, some held burning pine branches, and some rushed out with baskets of bamboo baskets.

Du Du Wang Zhibang was shocked, pressed his hands down, and was about to make everyone stop, but the other party suddenly stopped more than twenty meters away, and then threw the ignited fireballs into the formation.

Seeing the earth-shattering thunder thrown into the formation, the soldiers of the Great Western Army in the formation were shocked, although there were earth-shaking thunders of the loyal and righteous army in the past, but they were sparse and scattered.

This time three hundred people suddenly rushed out, and hundreds of them were thrown out in a blink of an eye, and all of a sudden, the explosion sounded, and the entire front camp was shrouded in thick smoke, and the explosions were bursting out, and the flames that burst out were wantonly devouring everything around.

As mentioned earlier, this earth-shattering thunder is different from the Tiger Squat Cannon, the Furlong Cannon, and the Redcoat Cannon, the Tiger Squat Cannon, the Franco Cannon, and the Redcoat Cannon have exploded in the barrel of the cannon and fell into the middle of the crowd, just relying on the original inertia to kill.

The Tiger Squat Cannon is different, the Tiger Squat Cannon is filled with black powder, and the outside is an iron shell, which is connected by a lead and falls to the destination, and the black powder inside is ignited and explodes, not only has a wave of air, but also blows up the iron shell, and kills and injures the opponent through the iron shell after the iron shell is exploded.

From this point of view, the explosion power of the earth-shattering thunder of the same gunpowder is several times that of the Tiger Squat Cannon.

In the sound of the explosion, the morale of the brigades of the Loyal and Righteous Army in front was greatly boosted, and before the explosion stopped, everyone rushed over from behind one by one, rushed into the thick smoke, and saw the man who was not wearing a white sleeve and raised his knife and gun to slash indiscriminately.

The officers and soldiers of the Great Western Army had seen such a battle, and they threw away their things and fled back with wet quilts and bamboo fences in their hands, and at the same time, Yao Zhijiao, Yang Bingyi, Liu Weiming, and Feng Youqing's battalions also led their troops to kill.

The state of the governor wanted to resist, but the surrounding soldiers panicked, everyone was in a mess, and they could not organize any effective resistance, and in the end they were surrounded by the loyal army, and after a fierce battle, they were captured on the spot.

Zhang Dingguo and Bai Wenxuan personally led the pro-army to help, and although they stabilized the formation after half a day of fierce fighting, the positions they captured a few days ago were recovered by the loyal and righteous troops in one fell swoop, and the two sides returned to the front line in the first battle.

Standing on the city wall, Yang Xuan watched the battle situation with a telescope from time to time, and saw the defeated Gao Wengui, Wang Jiye, Wang Zhibang and other departments, and the elite strength of the Great Western Army still exists, and now it is raining lightly, and there are basically few thunderstorms in the battalions on the front line.

Worried about being ambushed by the Great Western Army, Yang Xuan categorically refused Ma Chao and Cao Zhang's request for additional troops, ordered Mingjin to withdraw his troops, and the various departments slowly entered the fortifications.

Collecting troops and returning to the camp, seeing the heavy casualties of the siege departments, Zhang Dingguo was quite annoyed, although there was a guard against the use of earth-shaking thunder by the loyal and righteous army, but he did not taste Yang Xuan's use to the extreme this time, and there were basically a few men in each squadron who participated in the battle who were specialized in throwing earth-shaking thunder, so that the Great Western Army could not gather to counterattack at all.

There is a desire to attack other city gates, but Shunqing City faces water on three sides, and it is difficult to deploy troops, and it is difficult to attack it in a hurry, so it is better to lead the troops to retreat to Tongchuan Prefecture and then plan in the long run.

When the generals heard this, they all surrendered their hands and said yes, and after several days of fighting, this loyal army not only had sharp firearms, but also had very strong combat power in each department, far above Zuo Liangyu's department, if the battle lasted for a long time, it was afraid that the loyal army would be defeated.

When Bai Wenxuan, the governor of the left army, heard this, he hurriedly dissuaded him, if nothing else, he needed to fight to eliminate Zhang Xianzhong's dissatisfaction.

At the beginning of the year, the Great Western Army entered Hanzhong and was defeated by He Zhen, Zhang Dingguo led his troops to evacuate, and finally was beaten with 30 military sticks.

As long as the war lasts and there will be no food and grass at that time, it will not be too late to withdraw.

When Zhang Dingguo heard this, he shook his head and said: "The army is under the city, and the daily cost is very huge, and in order to supply the military supplies at the front, it is still too late to levy more than 10,000 people to transport grain and grass from Tongchuan Prefecture and Xichong County.

Now that the land has been seriously abandoned and displaced people are everywhere, it is not a pity to delay major events just because of the fear of punishment. ”

Everyone was shocked, now Lao Wansui's temper is getting more and more irritable day by day, if he hears that General Dingxi retreats without a fight, he will definitely be severely punished at that time.

Everyone strongly invited, Zhang Dingguo sighed several times, and agreed to postpone the matter of withdrawing the army for two days.

The next morning, Zhang Dingguo convened the generals again to discuss the retreat, and suddenly there was a commotion from the Chinese army.

Zhang Dingguo governed the army very strictly, not to mention the big tent, even the other battalions did not dare to make noise, just when everyone was at a loss, the governor Wang Jiye came to report, and a raging fire was ignited in the southwest direction.

Zhang Dingguo was shocked, and hurriedly led everyone to climb the mountain to look into the distance, and saw the smoke billowing from 60 miles away, and the flames soared into the sky.

The direction of the fire is where the grain turnover of the Great Western Army is, and there are nearly 10,000 loads of grain and grass in the post station.

Due to the hundreds of thousands of Western troops entering Sichuan, the number of people eating increased, and the Chengdu Plain was flooded, coupled with the continuous improvement of local production, and the local output has decreased sharply, and all departments have generally felt a shortage of food since the beginning of the year.

In order to solve the food shortage, while the Great Western Army forcibly recruited the gentry and large households into Chengdu, by the way, their grain and grass were used for military purposes, so as to alleviate the food shortage slightly.

Despite this, there were too many soldiers and horses in the Onishi army, and many soldiers could only eat two meals a day, and did not dare to eat and drink as much as in the past.

Now seeing the loyal and righteous army attacking the rear grain road, everyone was shocked, and everyone could no longer care about Zhang Xianzhong's punishment and decided to retreat.

In order to protect the grain in the rear, Zhang Dingguo sent Bai Wenxuan, the governor of the left army, to lead 3,000 elites to go first, and personally led 5,000 pro-troops to retreat, and the army slowly withdrew to Tongchuan Prefecture.

Bai Wenxuan led his subordinates to the ferry and was about to cross the river, when he suddenly saw twenty or thirty boats downstream, shelling the Great Western Army from a distance.

Bai Wenxuan was shocked and hurriedly organized troops and horses to counterattack, but most of the opponent's naval troops were all firing guns in the waterway, and they did not dock at all.

Worried about the battle ahead, Bai Wenxuan left a small number of troops to entangle here, and personally led the main force to a shoal upstream to cross the Xixi River, so that he could walk an extra forty miles.

Now is the troubled times, food is not food, but everyone saves lives and lives, Bai Wenxuan is about to lead his troops to protect the grain road, suddenly received a military report, more than 1,000 Western troops left in Xishan were attacked by the loyal and righteous army, and now they are defeated.

It turned out that seeing the raging flames of the rear post station, Jin Tongwu, the governor of the camp, was shocked, there were nearly 10,000 loads of military rations for the Great Western Army, and no food in troubled times meant failure, which meant that the army collapsed.

Jin Tongwu felt a heavy responsibility, the loyal and righteous army was surrounded in Shunqing City, outside the city there were only 2,000 loyal and righteous soldiers on the West Mountain, they relied on the terrain of the West Mountain to defend in danger, and now the rear grain was burned, it must be no different from the loyal and righteous army on the West Mountain.

Leaving the deputy general to lead 3,000 soldiers and horses to camp in front of the West Mountain, Jin Tongwu personally led 2,000 elites to protect the grain road.

The lieutenant general left behind was worried for a long time, and in the evening, the loyal and righteous army suddenly rushed down from the western mountain.

The deputy general was shocked, and hurriedly led his subordinates to meet the attack, and at this time, hundreds of cavalry suddenly came out from behind.

Suddenly, the loyal and righteous army was attacked before and after, and the Great Western Army was crushed, and everyone scattered and fled, so that the rout army met Bai Wenxuan halfway.