In early July, after several days of marching, he arrived at a small island called Gezhou Island, which Yang Xuan used as a naval camp.

Guo Chonglie, the deputy general of the 3rd town, and Liu Wenxiu, the general soldier of the 13th town, came to visit him in a small boat.

As early as May when the troops withdrew from Xiangxi, Liu Wenxiu and Guo Chonglie led their troops to transfer to western Hubei, and after a month of fierce fighting, they have now captured Yiling and are now marching towards central Hubei.

Now after hearing that Yang Xuan led a large army to help, the two handed over the front-line headquarters to their generals, and now they came to the camp by small boat to listen to the order.

Pointing to the map, Liu Wenxiu and Guo Chonglie introduced the distribution of enemy troops on the front line, and after the results of the battle between the two sides, the surrounding staff officers used different small flags to mark them one by one.

Looking carefully at the sand table in front of him, Yang Xuan pondered, pondering how to achieve the goal of grabbing grain, and whether to tell the audience about his strategy

At present, although the southwestern provinces have re-cleared their land, cleared up their population, and collected several times as much money and grain as before, they have been fighting wars year after year in the past few years, and their consumption has been very large, and the military rations in various localities are only hundreds of thousands of quintals, which can hardly support long-term warfare.

The reason why he hurriedly sent troops after returning to central Sichuan for less than two months was that he hoped to defeat the Qing army before the autumn harvest and restore the Jianghan Plain, so that the Manchus would not plunder local grain for military use.

Yang Xuan knows how many families the volunteers have, but his generals don't quite understand that after the reform, the deputy generals and guerrilla generals are only responsible for leading the troops to fight, grain, grass, baggage, army salaries, morale and so on

Seeing Yang Xuan sitting on the top and thinking deeply, Liu Wenxiu looked impatient, and said with confidence: "Lord Wang, our army is advancing eastward, and the people along the way have worked tirelessly to help transport food and report the enemy's situation, so our army has defeated the Tartars many times and occupied Yiling.

Despite this, now Xia Yiyu, the chief soldier of the Tartars, led more than 10,000 soldiers and horses to garrison the pavilion.

On that day, Lu Xun occupied the pavilion with Sun Heng, so it seems that the enemy and us are at a life-and-death juncture. ”

Yang Xuan sighed, in the past, the generals needed to take care of all the big and small things in the army, just like the state-owned enterprises in the previous life, they had too much weight and it was difficult to move forward with a light car.

The general only cares about victory, and the rest is managed by others.

After thinking about it, Yang Xuan

Yang Xuan looked at everyone with a smile: "Everyone, Guan Duoduo is just using soldiers to trick Lu Xun, although building two lines of defense, hoping to consume the strength of our army step by step, and then relying on the Manchurian and Mongolian cavalry to defeat our army in one fell swoop, this is just wishful thinking."

Since this is the case, then we can be like Liu Bei that day, Liu Wenxiu led the 3rd and 13th towns to attack Yaoting, and this king led most of the men and horses to recuperate in this Yiling, so as to wait for the good news of the troops in front. ”

When everyone heard this, they asked for battle.

Yang Xuan looked at Guo Chonglie next to him, patted him on the shoulder fiercely and said, "Everyone, among our army, General Liu has fought on the battlefield for many years, and he is a famous general in a hundred battles.

The battle of Yiting was a key battle in Sichuan, and the king borrowed General Liu in this battle, hoping that General Liu would win the banner and pull out the head.

Guo Chonglie, you have followed me for many years, and this time you must obey the command of General Liu. ”

When Guo Chonglie heard this, he hurriedly said yes.

Liu Wenxiu couldn't help but be overjoyed and said: "Thank you for your trust, since I have served the prince, I haven't made any contributions.

The last general will definitely occupy Yiling and tie up Xia Yiyu, a traitor, to the prince for disposal. Xia Yiju has 10,000 soldiers and horses, and the general is willing to lead 8,000 people to capture Xia Yiju alive and make a contribution to the prince. ”

When Yang Xuan heard this, he was overjoyed, and asked him to bring a wine glass and personally pour three glasses for Liu Wenxiu to show encouragement.

After Liu Wenxiu received the military order, he led his troops to rush to the Yiting, but Xia Yihe fortified everywhere and sent one or two troops to ambush the volunteers from time to time, so that the casualties on both sides were very large, and the progress of the volunteers was quite slow.

Seeing this scene, Liu Wenxiu said to Gao Chengen, the capital division: "Gao Du Division, what Xia Yiju relies on is nothing more than the difficult and dangerous roads, and the fortifications along the road to drag our army and consume the strength of our army.

Ben decided to adopt interspersed tactics, Du Si led his troops to continue the frontal attack, and Ben General led the elite to copy the back road of the Tartars and occupy the important Guanjin, so that the Qing army could be defeated.

The next day, Gao Chengen led his troops to attack the ancient back on the road, and the vanguard team was just halfway to a stockade and was blocked by the Qing army.

Gao Chengen reported to Liu Wenxiu, who was 10 miles away, and led his troops to meet him and fight with the other party.

As soon as he came into contact, Xia Dazhu, the general manager of Tartar Qian, felt that the situation was not right, although there were less than 1,000 people participating in the attack, but the momentum was far stronger than that of a pacesetter, not only concentrated on the Francophone cannon and the tiger squat cannon to bombard the cottage, but also under the cover of the musketeers behind, everyone lined up in a mandarin duck formation and sang songs, killing the cottage.

Due to too many firearms, as soon as he poked his head out, he was killed and injured by a raindrop of missiles, and seeing that the brothers around him were either dead or injured, Xia Dazhu had to organize a team of supervisors to prevent everyone from escaping.

But even so, due to the extremely rugged and dangerous roads, coupled with the difficulty of deploying troops, the volunteers were still unable to capture the cottage.

When the sun set, suddenly a military report came from the rear, Xia Dazhu saw the military report, and almost fell to the ground, the military newspaper said that a volunteer army sneaked up on the rear cottage Xiangshan Rock, and now it has completely occupied and cut off the retreat of the department.

Xia Dazhu was afraid of being surrounded, so he had to lead his army to escape along the lower road, and the volunteers took the opportunity to occupy the cottage and drove all the way to the pavilion

In less than five days, the Qing army suffered more than 2,000 casualties, and the volunteers were near the city of Yaoting, and Xia Yiyu, the general soldier of the Qing army stationed in Yaoting, was restless, and the more than 10,000 soldiers and horses under his department not only suffered heavy casualties, but also the army's morale was unstable, and the soldiers and horses of the green battalion who retreated from the front were frightened one by one.

In addition, hearing that the volunteers were coming, the squires in the city became restless, and some of them even blatantly persuaded themselves, asking themselves not to help the abuse, and forgetting their ancestors.

Every time I hear these scholars talk about politics, the veteran traitor Xia Yiyu smiles bitterly, such as today, the ten Tartars have occupied seven points, although the volunteers are strong, if they want to restore the Han family, it is simply a dream.

In addition, since the Great Song Dynasty, except for the Ming Dynasty, China has always stood side by side with the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the Northern Song Dynasty and the Liao State, and the Jin State once almost forced to land in the Southern Song Dynasty, and later with the Southern Song Dynasty.

Even if the barbarian Qing is not good, it is still possible to control northern China, and he is now the chief soldier of the Barbarian Qing, if he surrenders to the volunteers, not only his family will not be spared, but also it will be difficult to be reused by the volunteers.

Thinking of this, Xia Yihe raised his butcher's knife to kill a few Han squires who dared to speak out and disturb the hearts of the army, and on the other hand, he sent people to Yue Le and Duoduo to complain about the urgency, claiming that the pavilion was now unstable and hoped that Yue Le Duoduo would send troops to help.

Hearing that the battle of the green camp was unfavorable to Xia Yi's tribe and the defeat and escape of the Hui Yiting, now that the Yiting was in a hurry, Duoduo was also taken aback.

This pavilion is the last passage to block the volunteers out of the Three Gorges, and Duoduo, who is familiar with the history of the Three Kingdoms, certainly knows that Lu Xun defeated Liu Bei's army at Yiling Pavilion that day, so as to protect the safety of the Eastern Wu regime.

Since the Volunteers launched an offensive in November last year, they have successively captured many territories in Yiling, and now Yang Xuan has led a large army to the south, looking at this posture like a tiger descending from the mountain, and there is a great tendency to seize Yiting and capture the Jianghan Plain.

Duoduo listened to the advice of Prince An Yue Le, and personally led the Manchuria cavalry with the North Banner, the Mongolian North Banner, the North Banner Cavalry, the Han Army with the North Banner, and the Han Army with the North Banner.

After receiving the order, Cai Shiying, the governor of the north of the lake, led his troops to take the lead, and in less than two days they rushed to the city of Yaoting, at that time, the volunteers had occupied a corner of the city wall, and the department was pressing towards the city gate.

Seeing the dense volunteers on the city wall, Cai Shiying shouted incredible, and in just less than 3 days, the volunteers attacked the heavily garrisoned city wall, which made Cai Shiying and others sigh.

Some of the relics preach that the Tartars are invincible in the world, but in fact they are exaggerating. The Guanning defense line was attacked by the Qing Dynasty for more than 20 years and failed to break through, Jin Shenghuan's Nanchang defense battle, and then Du Yonghe's Guangzhou defense battle were fought for more than 8 months, and finally broke through Nanchang City on the side of food shortage.

This is true for attacking Nanchang, and even more so for attacking Guangdong, although Shang Kexi cast dozens of red-coated cannons, he mainly relied on traitors to break through the city of Guangzhou, so it can be seen that he has little ability to attack in the face of real warriors.

Relative to the ability of the barbarian Qing to attack the fortification, what is more terrible is the ability of the barbarian Qing to defend the city, Huang Taiji had occupied the four cities of Yongping during his reign, trying to use this as a bridgehead to attack Beijing at any time, but Zu Dashou concentrated Guanning soldiers and horses a day, and captured the four cities of Yongping after blowing up the four cities.

From this point of view, even in the later period of the Barbarian Qing Dynasty, the ability to defend the city is not much stronger than that of the Ming army, not to mention the Xia Yiyu Division, where the green camp occupies the main body.

In early June, after the volunteers killed under the city of Yaoting, Liu Wenxiu concentrated 10 Fran machine guns to bombard the city wall, and then under the cover of artillery fire, everyone pushed the siege tower, pushed the ladder, and densely killed the Qianting.

In the distance, there were five rows of volunteers, the first row of rattan players, the second, third, and fourth rows of flintlock musketeers, and the fifth row of wolf warriors, under the command of the captains, constantly aiming and shooting, attacking those Tartars who poked their heads out.

Under the walls, some people lit earth-shattering thunderbolts and threw them one by one on the walls, which were very unaccustomed to this tactical Tartar, and those who were crowded on the battlements were killed and injured.

Under the city walls, others built ladders under the cover of artillery fire, some filled their bows and crossbows to shoot at the nearby tartars, and others climbed up on ladders with stubbornness.

Less than two days after the siege of the city, when he saw that this pavilion was about to be breached, he suddenly probed the horses to report that the Tartars were constantly killed, and Liu Wenxiu secretly shouted that it was a pity to hurriedly lead his troops to retreat.

Seeing the retreat of the volunteers, Cai Shiying commanded two troops and horses to kill, but far away for the volunteers Franc machine guns, tiger squat cannons killed, in the near vicinity the volunteers have occupied various passes, and through the mandarin duck array under the cover of flintlock pistols to launch a counter-charge, the two sides fought in an area of about ten miles, until it was dark before they collected their troops and returned to the camp.

After retreating into the city, looking at the gray-faced chief soldier Xia Yiyu, Cai Shiying sighed and said: "General soldier Xia, although the morale of the volunteers is strong, but the department is not invincible, after half a day of fierce battle, didn't we kill him and flee for more than 20 miles?"

To defeat the volunteers, we must have a higher fighting spirit, you see, when people retreat, they are still singing war songs, and we, the generals of each department, are afraid of the enemy like tigers, how can we turn the crisis into safety. ”

Xia Yijuzhu defended: "Governor, it's not that the last general is greedy for life and afraid of death, it's really the firepower of the volunteers."

In today's battle, the governor also saw that there were too many tigers and thunderbolts of the volunteers. As long as our troops are gathered together, they will attack desperately, throwing one after another earth-shattering thunder into the crowd, causing us a lot of casualties.

Your Excellency, although we have won today, you have also seen from the castle tower that our army is far greater than the Volunteers in terms of casualties alone. For today's plan, we only need to defend the pavilion and block the volunteers in the mountains and mountains. ”

Cai Shiying glared at Xia Yiyu and said, "General Xia, rest for a long time, and the ambition of others will destroy their own prestige."

In the coming day, the governor ordered all the soldiers and horses to annihilate Liu Wenxiu's troops and horses in one fell swoop. ”

But what Cai Shiying didn't expect was that the next day, when the soldiers of the Green Battalion arrived, Liu Wenxiu and others had already relied on the ancient back and established a solid defensive position according to the local terrain characteristics.

Under the cover of artillery fire and musketeers, everyone held on to the danger, not only inflicting a large number of casualties on the Qing army, but also after a day of fierce fighting, only 2 or 3 small hillsides were seized.

Cai Shiying was quite frustrated, but Duoduo, who was overseeing the battle in the back, sent messengers to ask for the repulsion of the enemy in front of him, so as to turn the tide of the war and keep the volunteers firmly locked in the mountains.

In order to support Cai Shiying's counterattack in Yiling, Duoduo will also lead the Qing army's Yangtze River Water Division, and the Han army's two banners of the Zhengbei Banner Tong Tulai and Shi Tingzhu of the Northern Banner will be killed to support Cai Shiying's troops.

But what Duoduo didn't expect was that this just gave the volunteers the opportunity to take advantage of the opportunity for the Qing army's Yangtze River water division to leave Jingzhou and Zhijiang and disperse to break the Qing army's water division.

When Liu Wenxiu's troops approached the city of Yaoting, Yang Xuan felt that the battle situation had entered a critical link, and on the one hand, he supervised the troops to assemble in the Qianting, and on the other hand, he sent detailed work to check the dynamics of the various units of the Qing army in order to take corresponding combat measures.