Hearing the situation of the Great Western Army, thinking of the captured homeless people and soldiers one by one, Yang Xuan knew that the Great Western Army was gone, and decided to lead his troops to the west in mid-May. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

Before the expedition, in order to express his determination to go west, Yang Xuan personally wrote a letter to Wang Yingxiong, the governor of the four provinces, and Fan Yixuan, the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi, hoping to urge all ministries and everyone to work together to expel the Great Western Army from Sichuan, so as to save the people of Li from fire and water.

Yang Xuan claimed that he would raise an army of 50,000 (in ancient times, he would boast his own troops) to march west against Zhang Xianzhong, hoping that they would be able to lead the troops to come to support.

In mid-June of the 2nd year of Longqing (1646 AD), Chen Yingzong, a guerrilla general of the 2nd regiment, led the regiment to garrison Pengzhou, Bazhou, Dazhou, to guard against Liu Jinzhong in Baoning Mansion.

The 1st Regiment of the Headquarters was stationed in Shunqing under the command of General Fan Mingshan, and the 6th Regiment of Liu Weiming was deployed to defend against Shehong, Pengxi to defend against Zhang Dingguo in Yunxian and Yanting, and Wang Jiye in Xichong.

Chen Huaixi's navy cruised in Jialing's house and the Fujiang River, transporting grain, grass and baggage by water.

After the grain and grass baggage arrived in Suining, Guo Chonglie's 3rd Regiment ensured the transportation of grain and grass by land.

Yang Xuan personally led the cavalry regiment, artillery regiment, guard regiment, Yao Zhijiao 4th Regiment, Yang Bingyi's 5th Regiment, Feng Youqing's 7th Regiment, Dujigui's 8th Regiment, Wang Shuji's 9th Regiment, Wang Zhibang's 10th Regiment, Jin Tongwu's 11th Regiment and other ten regiments of soldiers and horses into Chengdu.

The Chengdu Plain is located between Longquan Mountain, Longmen Mountain and Qionglai Mountain, and is formed by river alluvium under fault subsidence, covering an area of about 20,000 square kilometers.

There are two roads from Tongchuan Prefecture to the Chengdu Plain, of course, the most spacious is the Ming Dynasty National Expressway, which enters through Yu County (Tongchuan Prefecture) and Zhongjiang County.

The second is to cross the Tuojiang River and bypass Genting City to enter.

Or take a detour to the east of Sichuan and enter through Longquanyi.

Genting City is one of the eight pillars of Sichuan's anti-Mongolian resistance, its geographical location is very dangerous, its east and Fortress Mountain lock river to strangle the Tuojiang River Jintang Gorge River defense;

control the Chengdu Plain in the west to defend Chengdu;

In the south, the deep valley of the Shuimo River is dangerous, and the passage of the Huai'an Army to the five fields of Dongshan in Chengdu is linked;

The Gaoding Pass of the North Dangerous Pass and the Xiaoyunding Mountain rely on each other to control the hole from Chengdu to Tongchuan Mansion.

This Yunding Mountain is really the gateway to the east of Chengdu and the key point of the east and west rivers.

On the same day to aid Chengdu, Yang Xuan personally led troops and horses to garrison Genting City for several days, and his intelligence staff officer and push officer Pan Mengke was a person from Jintang County, and he was quite familiar with the geographical environment around Genting City.

On this day, he led his troops to the mouth of Jintang Gorge, and there was already a report from Malay, and after Zhang Wenxiu led his troops to withdraw from Tongchuan Prefecture, he led a heavy army to garrison Yunding City to block the way of the army.

Looking at the Tuojiang River rolling in front, he ordered Ma Mingluan to lead the artillery regiment to build forts along the river, let people build rafts, and then sent water ghosts to jump into the river and connect the rafts one by one, so as to facilitate the army to cross the river.

Looking at the surging river below, although the current is very turbulent, the Tuojiang River makes continuous turns in the Jintang Gorge, forming a huge accumulation plain after exiting the canyon.

Now the loyal army crossed the river at the place under the plain, so the water flow was relatively gentle, and in the distance, I saw the water ghosts constantly jumping into the boiling river, dragging the raft first, and so slowly extending forward, forming two pontoon bridges four meters wide.

Sailors constantly rocked and dragged back and forth on the pontoon bridge to prevent the pontoon from being blown apart.

Thirty meters upstream and downstream of the pontoon bridge, more than 20 small boats have been put into the water, and the soldiers of the loyal and righteous army on the shore are constantly gathering, and it seems that they are preparing to cross the Tuojiang River.

Zhang Wenxiu frowned, it seems that the loyal army is fully prepared this time, basically holding the belief that it will win, thinking of this, he can't help but sigh secretly.

Although Zhang Wenxiu is quite good in water, he will never lead his troops to jump into the water to fight back and forth with the other party, and now he can only let the various departments strengthen their defenses and wait for the loyal and righteous army to approach before fighting.

In this way, at noon, the pontoon bridge was spread across the center of the river, which happened to be within the firing range, and Zhang Wenxiu gave an order, and the artillery erected on the mountain fired at the center of the river.

But at this time, the accuracy of the artillery firing was really not flattering, more than a dozen shells were fired, and only one fell on the pontoon bridge, smashing up a huge column of water.

Seeing that the artillery had been fired on the other side, the 3-pound guns of the Loyal and Righteous Army took the lead in firing back, whether it was shooting accuracy or range, these 3-pound guns were all on the large Franc machine guns, aiming at the continuous ignition of the Liukou artillery firing site across the river.

Iron balls fell from the sky, fell to the ground, were hit through the body, extremely terrifying, fell to the ground, and were smashed into a deep pit. (Solid bullets, non-exploding)

At the same time, forty small boats from the upstream and downstream rowed across the river to the other side of the river, with wet quilts hanging around the boats, and a small Furlong cannon in the bow, as if they were preparing to cross the river.

The Great Western Army on the shore was in turmoil, Zhang Wenxiu pulled out his sword and ordered everyone to fight back.

These small boats were constantly being shot with rockets, arrows, and birds, and they were charging towards the shore while firing their guns.

This is the most critical link in the defense of the river, that is, to prevent the other side from rushing to the shore, under the strict order, the officers and men of the Great Western Army rushed to the shore in a group, shouting loudly to deter the other party, and at the same time firing arrows.

The artillery of the Onishi Army on the shore also did not care about the officers and men of the loyal and righteous army who erected the pontoon bridge, so they hurriedly turned their guns and aimed at the boats on the river and continued to bombard.

On the one hand, it is difficult to know how effective the battle will be when the red-coated cannons on the opposite bank are guarding against the iron balls falling from the sky, and on the other hand, firing cannons on small boats in the river.

With the passage of time, the pontoon bridge is getting closer and closer, and the upstream and downstream battles continue, looking at the fighting river, Zhang Wenxiu feels weird, fighting for a long time, the other party does not have a small boat to rush to the shore, this is too incredible.

Almost all the small boats were going back and forth at a distance of more than 40 meters from the shore, and a few of them caught fire and turned back to fight again.

Suddenly, Zhang Wenxiu secretly shouted that it was not good, could it be that there was no one on the other side of the ship except for the sailors, except for the gunners?

Picking up the binoculars and taking a closer look, it turned out that the ship was just a straw man model.

I had the intention to ask everyone to stop firing guns and arrows, but the other party's ships were hung with wet quilts, and they couldn't see it clearly from a distance, although they knew the tricks of the loyal and righteous army, but they were helpless.

Seeing that there were many fewer artillery and arrows on the river, the loyal and righteous troops on the other side cheered loudly one by one: Thank you General Liu, thank you General Liu.

In the Ming Dynasty, three or four percent of the children have gone to private school, which is much higher than the end of the Qing Dynasty, even those who did not go to private school, everyone has heard of Zhuge Liang, heard of grass boats borrowed arrows.

Now that they see themselves as Cao Bing, they are even more demoralized.

Zhang Wenxiu complained bitterly, seeing the ships rushing over, through the curtain I don't know if it was really full of soldiers, seeing a team rushing over, everyone knew that the plan was in the middle, but they could only release arrows to block the attack, and the pain can be imagined.

The sun set, the two pontoon bridges were getting closer and closer, seeing that there were only more than 100 meters, the situation on the battlefield became extremely tense again, Zhang Wenxiu personally transferred a team of 1,000 people in front, firing guns and arrows, while the soldiers of the loyal army hid behind the pontoon bridges and returned fire through birds and arrows.

The two sides went back and forth, and the battle situation entered the white heat again, especially the small boat that was still cruising on the river just now suddenly rushed over, and the crowd standing by the river fell into fear again.

Zhang Wenxiu also rushed to the front line, ready to command the attack, suddenly from behind a shouting of killing, everyone was shocked, turned their heads to look, and saw that more than 100 loyal soldiers suddenly appeared three miles downstream, and now they are rushing to kill.

It turned out that when laying the pontoon bridge to attract the attention of the Liukou, Yao Zhijiao led more than 300 strong men of the 4th Regiment to rush to the opposite rocky beach in the morning, and then took advantage of the fact that the upstream war was in full swing to attract the attention of the Liukou, everyone secretly swam across the Tuojiang River and hid in the rocky beach one by one.

Relying on the mountain as a cover, everyone secretly detoured to the back of the Liukou, and when they saw that the pontoon bridge was about to be completed, they suddenly launched an offensive from behind.

Although there were only more than 300 people, almost all of them were dead soldiers, and their combat effectiveness was far from being comparable to that of ordinary armies.

And when he heard that the soldiers of the Loyal and Righteous Army were killed in the back, and saw that the pontoon bridge was about to be completed, the troop carriers of the Loyal and Righteous Army landed one by one, and now they are fighting to the death with the Great Western Army on the shore.

The morale of the Great Western Army was greatly discouraged, and Yang Xuan took advantage of the situation to command the 5th Regiment and the 7th Regiment to kill the past, kill and disperse the recalcitrant officers and soldiers of the Great Western Army, occupy the other side of the river, and all the units approached the Genting City.

After half a day of fighting, it was only in the second half of the night that Zhang Wenxiu led 3,000 pro-troops to retreat to Genting City, and the other departments heard that they had been killed, and some even bypassed Yunding Mountain and retreated to Jintang County behind.