At noon on 20 February, Chen Huaixi led the navy to go first, and after a day's sailing, they arrived at the wharf of Wusheng County that night. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

In the distance, two fireships full of sulfur went down the river and rushed towards the opponent's water village, and when the other party was panicking, Chen Huaixi led the five Flying Tiger warships behind to follow, aiming at the ships in the dock from a distance to shell.

All of a sudden, the flames soared, and the crowd in the entire dock panicked, some were so frightened that they abandoned the ship and fled, and some rocked the boat and surrendered with the northern flag high.

This time, the navy was sent to the sneak attack, just to test the combat strength of the navy, and by the way, to harass the Great Western Army.

In less than half an hour, Chen Huaixi occupied Wusheng Wharf, looked at his results, sank two, damaged ten, and captured more than fifty ships and hundreds.

Seeing Chen Huaixi and the others majestic, everyone explained again and again that they were native fishermen, and they were recruited by the generals of the Great Western Army five days ago, and now everyone just wants to continue fishing, and they don't want to fight at all.

Standing on the pier, looking at the crowd of people who kept chanting, waiting for dawn with trepidation, something unexpected happened.

Dozens of squires walked in front, followed by a group of officials, and everyone escorted a person wearing official robes to the front of the water village, announcing the return of Wusheng County to the territory of the Ming Dynasty.

Looking at the squire's frightened looks, Chen Huaixi looked puzzled, but the squire quickly told everyone the answer.

It turned out that after the **** rate department captured Wusheng County, leaving a foreign county and dozens of old and weak soldiers, ten days ago after hearing that the loyal army occupied Shunqing Mansion, this pseudo-county seemed quite panicked, and ordered the government to collect ships and form a naval army to establish a water village.

But how can this rabble go into battle to kill the enemy? Last night, Chen Huaixi led the newly formed naval army to attack the water village.

The navy has five Flying Tiger warships and more than 20 small fishing boats, and its combat power is comparable to that of ordinary civilian ships.

Hearing that the naval army he had worked so hard to build was defeated by the Loyal and Righteous Army, the pseudo-Zhixian hiding in the city was terrified and prepared to flee overnight, but the team leader was a local, how could he let him escape, everyone shouted and tied him up and dedicated it to the army. (As many historical books say, after hearing of the military setbacks of the Great Western Army due to the establishment of the Southern Ming Dynasty, the squires of many counties expelled the officials appointed by the Great Western Army.) ）

In addition, Chen Huaixi even found out that at the same time that Yang Xuan led his troops to capture Shunqing Mansion, Zeng Ying, a former Ming general, was also gathering troops and horses to attack Fuling in the south of Chongqing.

After more than half a year of rest, especially after receiving money and grain assistance from Guizhou, the strength has recovered, and now Zeng Ying led his troops out of the mountains to capture Fuling and occupy Chongqing.

Fuling is in the south of Chongqing, if Fuling is occupied, the Ming army can drive straight into Chongqing, in order to ensure that Chongqing is not lost, the governor of the Western Army, Chongqing guard general Liu Tingju is fully aiding Fuling, and trying to ensure the safety of Chongqing, an important town in eastern Sichuan.

Chen Huaixi was overjoyed, and on the one hand, he sent fast horses to achieve victory, and on the other hand, he expanded the naval army, and announced that he would lead the army to attack Hezhou downstream, so as to attack the land of Chongqing with Zeng Ying's army.

Hezhou is the northwest gateway of Chongqing, not only the only retreat of the Great Western Army of Guang'an Prefecture, but also the confluence of the Jialing River, the Fujiang River and the Qujiang River, and the ancient city of Diaoyu in its territory is the most famous ancient battlefield in Chinese history, three hundred years ago, the Mongolian army invaded the Central Plains, the soldiers and civilians of the Southern Song Dynasty not only blocked the Mongolian army in the Diaoyu ancient city, but also killed the Mongolian Khan Meng Ge, delaying the pace of Mongolian unification of China.

Hearing that the Loyal and Righteous Army captured Wusheng County, and is now preparing to go down the river to take Hezhou, Zhang Guangcai threw the treasure knife heavily on the case, and now there are traces of the activities of the Loyal and Righteous Army all around, which direction is the main force of the Loyal and Righteous Army?

In Dazhou in the north, Fan Mingshan was leading his troops to attack Linshui and Qu counties in order to encroach on the territory of the Great Western Army.

In Pengzhou in the northwest, Yang Bingyi's more than 2,000 people entered the territory of Guang'an County, broke through several camps one after another, and the army approached Guang'an County.

In the west of Shunqing Fucheng, Chen Yingzong led several battalions of soldiers and horses to approach Guang'an Prefecture.

In the direction of Wusheng, Chen Huaixi led the naval army to drive straight into Hezhou, looking at the posture to cut off the retreat of the Great Western Army.

Now there are loyal and righteous troops everywhere, and they all claim that their subordinates are the main force of the loyal and righteous army, although it is clear that there is a bluff, but the front-line departments have been defeated one after another, and now the morale of the whole army is low, and that way is the main force of the loyal and righteous army, and it is impossible to distinguish it for a while.

Zhang Guangcai was frightened, and he had the intention to escape and withdraw from Guang'an Prefecture? But thinking of what happened to Zhang Dingguo and Zhang Wenxiu at the beginning of the year, I shuddered in my heart.

At the beginning of the year, the two righteous brothers Zhang Dingguo and Zhang Wenxiu led their troops to raid Hanzhong, but they were defeated by He Zhen, Zhang Dingguo was demoted to the general of Qian, and Zhang Wenxiu was demoted to a guerrilla general.

According to the city to the death? Now that the Ming army is attacking Chongqing Prefecture, Chongqing is an important town in the east of Sichuan, and its military and economic influence is far above that of Shunqing Prefecture, there is no reason for the Great Western Army not to save Chongqing and save Guang'an Prefecture?

Besides, defending the city needs the support of the people in the city, and now the gentry have always regarded the Great Western Army as a rogue, although they don't say anything on the surface, but the main force of the loyal and righteous army is killed, who knows what will happen?

Field battles, defeating the Loyal Army through field battles?

Ten days ago, when the ancient city of Yunshan was attacked, the whole army was not only killed and injured by the burning grass and trees that rolled down from the heights, but also burned and injured a lot of rolling wood and rocks.

Now the morale of the whole army is low, and the loyal and righteous army has just defeated more than 10,000 soldiers and horses of the **** Lisuo Department and occupied Shunqing City, the loyal and righteous army is menacing, Zhang Guangcai doesn't know what to do?

After thinking about it, Zhang Guangcai decided to adopt an alternative method, while ordering his generals to lead the old and weak soldiers to retreat to Hezhou to ensure that the rear was not lost, while he personally led the main force in the field battle.

In late February, the two armies met in Laisu Village, and after a fierce battle, the Great Western Army was unfavorable, Zhang Guangcai led the army to retreat in the direction of Hezhou, and the Loyal and Righteous Army took advantage of the situation to occupy Guang'an County.

After occupying the county seat of Guang'an, Chen Yingzong divided his troops to attack the neighboring counties of Qu County, Linshui, Dazu and other counties, after the main force of the Great Western Army withdrew, the prefectures and counties that passed through were invincible and surrendered, so in less than ten days, the loyal and righteous army successfully recovered the other four subordinate counties of Guang'an Prefecture.

Since then, the ten counties of Shunqing Prefecture, in addition to Xichong still in the hands of the Great Western Army, the Loyal and Righteous Army has recovered the other nine counties of Shunqing Prefecture in one fell swoop, plus Daxian County, Dongxiang County in Dazhou, and Wusheng County in Tongchuan Prefecture, and the Loyal and Righteous Army has recovered twelve counties.

Everyone clapped their hands to celebrate, Shi Jinchen, Zhao Sixuan and others thought that the Great Western Army was not enough to cause trouble, and suggested that Yang Xuan should drive straight into Tongchuan Prefecture and attack Chengdu Mansion with all his might.

And Yang Xuan shook his head again and again after some emotion, how could the murderous demon Zhang Xianzhong and his Great Western Army be so weak?

In addition, why did the Great Western Army in the direction of Boryeong have no reaction? Although the battle of Hanzhong was defeated, Zhang Dingguo's sixteenth battalion of soldiers and horses and Zhang Wenxiu's fifteenth battalion of soldiers and horses could be stationed in the direction of Baoning, plus Liu Jinzhong's cavalry battalion, it can be said that the soldiers are strong and the horses are strong.

Yang Xuan couldn't understand this situation, and in order to deal with possible changes, he sent scouts to Boryeong Mansion and Tongchuan Prefecture to inquire about the news, and on the other hand, he sent officials to the newly occupied prefectures and counties.

After the recovery of Guang'an Prefecture, Yang Xuan appointed Li Shikai, the former Tongzhi of Pengzhou, as the governor of Guang'an Prefecture, Tang Jietai of Dazhou as the governor of Pengzhou, and Yang Risheng, the magistrate of Daxian County, as the governor of Dazhou.