At this time, after getting Zhang Shan'er's letter, Zhang Dingguo frowned, and Bai Wenxuan, the governor of the right army next to him, said with a smile: "It turns out that Yang Xuan is so cowardly, he doesn't dare to fight with us in the field at all, and he is conscripted and sent to build fortifications with labor all day long." Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

General Dingxi, now that the loyal and righteous army is gathered under the city of Shunqing, and is building fortifications, all units of our army can drive straight into the other city, and then defeat it in a battle. ”

Zhang Dingguo frowned, shook his head and said: "Yang Xuan is cunning and treacherous, we need to beware of his deception, our army must not mess with itself, lest it be taken advantage of by Yang Xuan." ”

Bai Wenxuan laughed, thinking that Zhang Dingguo was quite timid, and since the new defeat of Hanzhong at the beginning of the year, he has no previous sharpness.

Zhang Dingguo thought that it was better to be cautious, and let the various ministries slowly drive to Shunqing Fucheng.

Zhang Guangcai led his troops to the forefront, crossed the Fujiang River in mid-September, and then led 3,000 men and horses to open the road in the mountains, build bridges when encountering water, and rushed to Shunqing City non-stop.

Zhang Guangcai was full of confidence, and when he attacked Shunqing City the year before last, he led his troops to go back and forth many times, and it can be said that he was familiar with the road and desperately marched towards Shunqing City.

But to Zhang Guangcai's surprise, just after crossing the Fujiang River, the army had just entered Shunqing less than 3 or 4 miles before the villagers found it, and for a while, the surrounding mountain villages were noisy with gongs and drums, and many people ran to the top of the mountain and shouted: "The Liukou is coming, the Liukou is coming, the Liukou is coming, the Liukou is coming, the Liukou is coming." ”

What made Zhang Guangcai even more distressed was that the roads were often blocked by boulders, and in some places there were several sharpened wooden stakes and bamboos, and the black lights blinded the fire, and even stabbed 3 or 4 war horses and injured more than a dozen brothers.

After a night of rapid marching, although Zhang Guangcai led his troops to the ferry, the other party had already fled from camp and was nowhere to be found.

In order to find out the whereabouts of the Loyal and Righteous Army, Zhang Guangcai sent more than 10 scouts to spy on the situation of the Loyal and Righteous Army, but only 6 of them came back completely, and the other 4 were mostly shot and wounded by the people hiding in the stockade.

With the bloody probe horses one by one, Zhang Guangcai was quite surprised, and sent people to search for the old and young in various villages to get news of the loyal and righteous army.

However, under the leadership of the local township chief, Lijia chief, and scholars, the docile people in the past saw that the rogues were lonely, and they went out to attack, and when they saw the rogue soldiers and strong horses, they hid in the cottage and made noise.

This is unique in the past campaign, Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong have been able to dominate the world for more than ten years, and the main reason is to gain the support of the people, so that they can do their strange whereabouts and make the Ming army wary.

However, the news of Zhang Xianzhong's slaughter of Sichuan had already spread, and the Daxi regime forcibly recruited the wealthy gentry and scholars from all over the country to Chengdu, which almost offended the squires, and everyone was quite hostile to the rogue.

As soon as they saw the rogues coming, the villagers immediately hid from the bandits and hid in the deep mountains and old forests.

Zhang Guangcai walked into a farmhouse and saw that the house was empty and could not find anything, and it seemed that the people were ready to hide from the bandits.

Finally arrested more than a dozen villagers, these former honest villagers declared:

Your Great Western Army wants to slaughter our Sichuan people, and everyone has no choice but to hide, everyone hides in the mountains, in the ravines, and in the stockade.

Ask how the scout was killed, and by this time he would have figured it out.

It turns out that in the past month, not only have the township chiefs been set up in each county, but also more than 100 security teams have been trained in each township, and in this month, these township chiefs have been beating gongs and drums every day to tell everyone that they should work during the day, and at night they will bury the valuable things in their homes and bury their food in the deep mountains and old forests.

In the past, everyone had seen the robbery of the rich with their own eyes, but now the war is in chaos, and many poor families are also pondering how to ensure food security, and now they hear the township chief asking everyone to hide the grain, and see those rich people transporting them to the mountains one by one, everyone panics and follows suit.

Hearing that the people hid all the food and killed it, and the army couldn't get any supplies at all, Zhang Guangcai couldn't help but complain about that Wang Zhaolin.

Say anything to be harsh on the Sichuan people, offend the squires and scholars everywhere, and now instigate the ordinary people to be so hostile to themselves, burying the grain in the deep mountains and old forests, like this, is this battle fought?

In order to appease the people, Zhang Guangcai explained again and again, saying that the Onishi regime had already exempted taxes for three years, and in the past, it only collected taxes from large households, and never collected food from the poor people.

But the other party will be suspicious, but most people seem to be facing a group of murderous demons, and they all look righteous and awe-inspiring.

Zhang Guangcai was quite annoyed, brandished his treasure knife and slashed the branches and cypress trees again and again, and said sadly: "My Great Western Army entered Sichuan, and if you want to say that there is no killing, it is false.

But what kind of people are we killing, it is the Zhu Ming clan who is full of food and has nothing to do all day long, it is the big gentry who oppress the people, and it is the big family who works for the tiger.

In the past, the general thought that Yang Xuan was a Qing official and a man who was upright and upright, but he couldn't imagine that he would insult our Great Western Army so much today, and say that our Great Western Army is no different from a local tyrant, is it tolerable or unbearable?

Brothers, enter Shunqing City with Ben and capture Yang Xuan alive. ”

Everyone cheered loudly, everyone shouted, and they killed Shunqing City like a tide.

Seeing that Zhang Guangcai marched so quickly, Zhang Dingguo was afraid of losing and urgently ordered Jin Tongwu, Gao Wengui and others behind him to lead his troops to follow.

Zhang Guangcai's troops led their troops to cross the Qushui River in the morning, but the soldiers have been hungry for a few months, and they are all in poor health, and now that the sun is big, if they continue to hurry, some people will faint from heat stroke.

More importantly, he had just received a military order from Zhang Dingguo, the general of Dingxi, ordering him to wait until the camp governor Jin Tongwu's troops had completely crossed the Qushui River before continuing to march, and now the Jin troops had crossed the Qushui River with less than 1,000 people.

Zhang Guangcai seemed quite helpless, and on the one hand he sent people to urge Jin Bu to cross the river quickly, while lazily turning over and dismounting, ordering everyone to rest on the spot.

Everyone hadn't settled down yet, and suddenly heard a burst of shouts and killings from the front, Zhang Guangcai felt quite surprised, in broad daylight, who would dare to attack the Great Western Army?

Hurriedly beat their horses and ran to the top of the mountain, killing nearly 1,000 men and horses from the north, middle and south directions in front, and they suddenly appeared in the woods and hills in front of the Great Western Army, and now they were waving flags and blowing the trumpet of the charge, killing overwhelmingly.

Zhang Guangcai's heart tightened, could it be that the other party had already taken precautions and saw that the headquarters had crossed the Qushui River, and the main force of the Great Western Army was still in the west of the Qushui River, ready to attack it halfway?

With disdain, Zhang Guangcai seemed quite unimpressed, there were 3,000 soldiers and horses in the headquarters, although many soldiers were hungry in the past few months, but the strength still existed.

Zhang Dingguo led 30,000 soldiers and horses to the west bank of the Qushui River twenty or thirty miles, and he could cross the Qushui River to support in a moment.

As long as you persist in working hard for half a day, when the time comes, the army of the Great Western Army will continue to kill, so that you will definitely be able to blossom in the middle and defeat the loyal army.

Zhang Guangcai drew his sword and ordered his troops to quickly occupy the surrounding hills to defend on the spot.

Just as everyone was climbing up the hillside next to them, suddenly the dust was flying from the north, and when they looked around, they saw hundreds of cavalry soldiers in six ways, killing along the winding mountain road.

The opposing cavalry was ambushed in the forest half a mile away on both sides of the avenue, with a very obvious intention, that is, they hoped to hinder the deployment of the Onishi Army through the rapid maneuvering of the cavalry, and divide the Onishi Army, which was distributed in three miles long, and then cooperate with the main force to encircle and eliminate it.

Seeing the cavalry killed, the officers and men of the Great Western Army looked quite confused, many people were frightened, everyone was stunned, and some even secretly retreated to the Qushui River and the direction of Wangjiaqiao.

In the vicinity of Wangjiaqiao, there are about 1,000 people in the camp governor Jin Tongwu's department crossing the Qushui River, if everyone can hug each other, so there are 4,000 people, and the loyal and righteous army must have a lot of trouble if they want to eat these 4,000 soldiers and horses in one bite.

Zhang Guangcai's face was pale, beads of sweat rolled down his cheeks one by one, for the sake of today's plan is to block the charge of the opponent's cavalry, if he allows these two hundred cavalry to gallop back and forth, then his three thousand soldiers and horses will definitely fall apart.

Zhang Guangcai came out on horseback, wanting to lead his own soldiers to stop the opponent's cavalry, although he had five hundred personal soldiers, and all of them were by his side, but the other party had six teams of men and horses, which could block all the way.

Zhang Guangcai just hoped that other generals would also lead the elite to fight out and block the opponent's cavalry, but he just hoped that the infantry would not break up before killing the cavalry of the loyal army.

The loyal and righteous army is strong and strong, and the combat power is strong, in the defense of Xiangru County, Yang Xuan once commanded less than half of the number of soldiers and horses to defeat the left governor of the Great Western Army.

Before the enemy was received, there was a burst of shouts of killing in the rear, Zhang Guangcai hurriedly tightened the reins of his horse and looked west, and saw that nearly 1,000 people had been killed on the north and south sides of Wangjia Bridge.

They were about a mile away from the ferry, waving flags and blowing trumpets, and now they were overwhelmingly rushing towards Wangjiaqiao.

Zhang Guangcai's heart tightened, this Qushui River is about 20 meters wide, the water flow is turbulent, the shallowest part is also up to the neck of people, and the local villagers build wooden bridges on both sides of the river to facilitate walking.

At present, more than 1,000 people and horses are killed in the north and south directions at the same time, and the other side is menacing, and the Jin Tong military department that crossed the Qushui River is only more than 1,000 people, and it is difficult to hold on.

Thinking that at the beginning of the year, the governor of the left army was defeated and killed, Zhang Guangcai felt a cold sweat on his backbone, and the other party clearly wanted to encircle and annihilate the soldiers and horses of the headquarters.

Zhang Guangcai felt frightened, and then looked at the soldiers behind him, it was even more chaotic, and many people began to retreat to the Qushui River despite the interference of the generals.

Sitting on the horse, Zhang Guangcai was at a loss, if he wanted to talk about danger, he was in danger on three sides, and if he wanted to talk about the way to deal with it, he only had 500 personal soldiers around him, and he couldn't deal with it at all.

Zhang Guangcai is like this, and the pro-army generals around him are even more so, and the pro-army generals said timidly: "Governor, we have fallen into Yang Xuan's hub, Yang Xuan wants to annihilate our department."

The only way to do this is to retreat to the Qushui River, and it will be too late if you don't retreat. ”

Zhang Guangcai's face was flushed, and he pointed to the panicked soldiers and said, "There is no battle yet, how can you throw down the soldiers and horses and flee in a hurry?"

If we escape like this, there will undoubtedly be these 3,000 men and horses entrusted to Yang Xuan, and I am afraid that the entire army will be wiped out. ”

The pro-army general next to him admonished: "Governor, the loyal and righteous army is strong and strong, and on that day, he defeated the Zuo Du Governor with less than half of his troops, and finally forced his army to be defeated and killed."

Now there are more than six or seven thousand people who can be seen (exaggerated), and there are some that cannot be seen, so it may be close to 10,000 people, Yang Xuan is pouring into the nest, and our army will not be spared. ”

Zhang Guangcai mourned and hurriedly led his subordinates to retreat to the Qushui River.