Since the Wanli years, the world has fallen into the Xiaoice period, and the temperature has dropped sharply, not only natural and man-made disasters have continued, but also because of the decrease in temperature, photosynthesis has weakened, and the harvest in the fields has decreased sharply. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

In addition to natural disasters, the greater crisis comes from man-made disasters, first there are Yao Tiandong, Huanglong and other local tyrants who are rampant in the countryside in northern Sichuan, killing people and extorting money, and in the last years of Chongzhen, they occupy the state and county, which is a disaster place.

Although it is now the period of the Xiaoice River, Sichuan is rich, coupled with the accumulation of more than 200 years in Daming, each prefecture and county initially had surplus grain for everyone to eat.

Then Zhang Xianzhong and his 200,000 Western Army entered Sichuan from Huguang Province, although they destroyed most of Sichuan along the way, but they were fiercely resisted by the majority of squires (many squires committed suicide in many histories), in order to fight against the brutality of the Great Western Army, including Yang Zhan, Zeng Ying, Yang Xuan, Yin Chengqi and other Ming Dynasty generals and squires led their troops to resist, and cooperated with the Ming Dynasty crusade army entrenched in Yunnan and Guizhou to resist the Great Western Army.

In order to quell the troubles in various places, Zhang Xianzhong used a bloodier **** to fight against the rebel forces, in the name of enriching the capital, and used the method of drawing salaries from the bottom of the kettle to supervise the relocation of heroes and scholars from all over the country to the capital Chengdu.

Originally, people everywhere were panicked, and there were rumors that Zhang Xianzhong would slaughter all the Sichuan people everywhere, and now I see that the strong generals of the Great Western Army will be a scholar, and a wealthy family will move to Chengdu like a livestock, and the migrants are frightened, and the migrants are too late to move to the teeth, everyone in order to fight against the **** of the Great Western Army, under the leadership of the powerful families, scholars, and folk warriors, everyone retreats to occupy the cottage against the Great Western Army, and advances to capture the state and county like Zeng Ying and Yang Xuan.

In this way, many people in Sichuan are not producing, everyone you kill me today, I will kill you tomorrow, and the Great Western Army is in a melee.

In addition, the Chengdu Plain, which has made the situation more severe, the Chengdu Plain, which has been fertile for thousands of miles and the capital of the emperor in previous years, has been destroyed due to the excavation of Dujiangyan by Long Wenguang and Zhao Jiawei.

The flood of the Minjiang River rushed into the Chengdu Plain, not only washed away the people's houses, washed away the people's livestock and grain, drowned the people who did not have time to escape, because of the war, or there was no local governance experience at all, the flood in the Chengdu Plain has not been cured at all for a year, and when it rains heavily, the water flows into a disaster, and the surging river water is left from the Minjiang River, and the drought and flood become a disaster.

Although a small number of people are reluctant to leave their homes and run back to their hometowns to re-cultivate after the flood, the harvest is limited, and at most they can have enough food and clothing, let alone more than silver.

Most of the people fled to the southern, central, and northern Sichuan regions, and these displaced people did not produce for a while, and everyone was waiting to be fed, which caused a shortage of food in various places.

It can be said that after a year of tossing, the whole of Sichuan, except for Shunqing Mansion in northern Sichuan, is suffering from a food shortage.

The first to grab grain is entrenched in Bazhou Shake Huang thirteen, after several years of tossing, the three counties of Bazhou have no grain to grab, in order to solve the grain shortage, in the busy season Yao Huang although also relieved and returned to the field to cultivate farming, but the harvest is limited, there is not enough to eat.

In order to solve the problem of eating, Yao Huang often went out to loot during the slack time to solve the problem of food shortage.

Listening to the report, several counties bordering on it, such as Da County, Dongxiang County, and Yingshan County, have had a bumper grain harvest this year, and in order to grab the grain, Yao Tiandong, Yuan Tao and others have worked hard and sent many soldiers and horses to rob the grain.

Then there is Liu Jinzhong who is entrenched in Baoning Mansion, Wang Jiye who is entrenched in Xichong, and Zhang Wenxiu who is entrenched in Hezhou.

For these people, this food is much more important than Tang monk meat, Tang monk meat is just icing on the cake, immortality, and in troubled times, this food is a life-saving thing, no food only starvation.

Looking at the emergency documents in various places, I saw that Yang Xuan did not move at all, but just asked the militia groups of the bordering counties to quickly assemble, hold the pass, and cooperate with the 2nd battalion of Chen Yingzong stationed in Pengzhou and the 1st battalion of Fan Mingshan stationed in Dazhou to resist the people and horses who robbed the grain, and only urged the counties that were not affected by the war, such as Guang'an, Linshui, Dazu and other counties to dispatch strong security forces to rush to the aid of the counties of Dazhou and Pengzhou that were hit by the war.

The Great Western Army and the local tyrants were menacing, and Yang Xuan did not respond with the main force at all, but only dispatched the militia groups from various counties to deal with it, which made the imperial history and the supervising army Qian Bangqi quite dissatisfied.

Seeing that three days ago, the local rioters broke through two cottages from Daxian County and robbed a thousand loads of grain, Qian Bangxin was anxious and accused: "Your Excellency, last time when the governor Ma Gan and the deputy general Zeng Ying led their troops to attack Chongqing, you just sent a partial division to rescue, and now the local rioters and rogues are invading the territory, plundering the people under the general's rule, and robbing their rations.

My lord, everyone says that you love the people like a son and are a clean official, but today it seems that your heart is as hard as a stubborn stone, and you don't understand personnel at all. ”

Yang Xuan stared at the map, shook his head for a long time and said: "No, it stands to reason that Liu Jinzhong is entrenched in Langzhong, the governance office of Baoning Mansion, not only to guard against the Hanzhong Barbarian Qing, the Dashun Army will not lead He Zhen to return to the Shun Barbarian Qing, but also to prevent and control the local refugees, disaster victims, and rebel army to make trouble, and he has been suppressed by many parties, how can he have the strength to send so many men and horses to rob the grain?" ”

Yin Chengqi leaned over and said puzzledly: "My lord, what's wrong, does Zhang Xianzhong have any conspiracy?" ”

Yang Xuan thought for a while, closed his eyes and pondered for a moment, opened his eyes for a long time and said, "Everyone, do you remember?" A few months ago, Zhang Dingguo came with a threat, saying that if we don't return to Daxi, 500,000 Daxi troops will be killed and all the jade will be burned. ”

Qian Bangqi sneered: "My lord, you, you won't really take it seriously, right?" This is just a threat, was the adult really frightened and frightened by Li Dingguo's two words? ”

Shaking his head, Yang Xuan stood up and took two steps back and forth: "Everyone, up and down the whole Sichuan, if you want to talk about the lack of food, Yao Huang in Bazhou is the first to be recommended, followed by the Chengdu Plain, which was fertile for thousands of miles in the past, and the adjacent Tongchuan Prefecture (today's Suining City), and finally Baoning Mansion, Chongqing Mansion, Jiading Mansion and other places.

To the north of Liu Jinzhong is the Hezhen Department of Hanzhong, which has just surrendered to the barbarian Qing Dynasty, to the east is the most grain-starved Yao loess tyrant in Bazhou, and to the southeast is our loyal and righteous army.

In addition to Liu Jinzhong, the same is true of Zhang Wenxiu in Hezhou, who was under the attack of the Ming army of Zeng Ying's department and our department, and he did not care about life or death

Send soldiers and horses to loot food.

Isn't it a little strange that now the heavy troops of the Liukou are gathered in Chengdu Prefecture and Tongchuan Prefecture, and Zhang Dingguo of Tongchuan Prefecture has not moved?

Qian Bangqi opened his mouth, and pointed to Pan Mengke, the intelligence staff officer under him, for a long time, and said: "My lord, as the saying goes, before the soldiers and horses move, the grain and grass go first.

Now there are only more than 30,000 people in Tongchuan Prefecture but Zhang Dingguo and Bai Wenxuan, and it will be even more difficult to defeat our army and capture the city of Shunqing Prefecture. ”

Yang Xuan shook his head and sighed: "Since Liukou entered Sichuan, the Chengdu Plain has become a country of Qianli Ze, except for the garrison of the Loyal and Righteous Army, now the whole Sichuan is basically short of food.

The local tyrants in Bazhou are short of food, and the Great Western Army in various places is also short of food, so it is impossible for Zhang Xianzhong not to make plans, and it is impossible to be like the local tyrants, just looting the food in the people's villages, how much food is in the people's villages?

If I am not mistaken, Zhang Xianzhong will definitely send troops to attack Shunqing Mansion. ”

Everyone's faces changed greatly, Yin Chengqi shook his head and said: "My lord, no, our loyal army used to have only 6,000 people, and now after the expansion of the army, it has reached 8,000 people, and its combat power is far above the Great Western Army."

At the beginning of the year, the left army of the Great Western Army was the governor of the **** rate department to attack Pengzhou, and initially wanted to use the field battle to defeat the adults, and the adults defeated the **** Li Department of 4,000 soldiers and horses with less than 2,000 people, among which there were 2,000 people who could recruit good fighters, and their combat power was far from being comparable to ordinary soldiers and horses, but they were also killed by adults and turned over on their backs, and returned with a fiasco. ”

Yang Xuan shook his head and said: "Although we defeated the Great Western Army and killed **** Li, I think Zhang Xianzhong just thinks that it is Chen Yingrui and Feng Youqing who led their troops to surrender."

I studied Zhang Xianzhong, and I was quite conceited, probably thinking that my lifelong rivals were just Li Zicheng, Zuo Liangyu and others, and I didn't take us seriously at all. ”

Qian Bangxin next to him sighed: "My lord, what should I do for today's plan?" Is it true that the people are still being plundered by local thugs and bandits, and there are no troops to send except these local militias?"

Returning to the front of the map again, Yang Xuan thought carefully for a long time and decided to take countermeasures.

Qian Bangxin was sent to Chongqing to meet with Ma Gan, the governor of Sichuan, Liu Liangchang, and Zeng Ying, the deputy general of eastern Sichuan, and if his troops could capture Hezhou in September, the aid of grain and grass would be increased to 10,000 quintals, and it would be delivered in Hezhou.

The militia groups in Pengzhou and Dazhou counties were ordered to protect the territory and the people, and prevent local tyrants and rogues from robbing grain.

500 militia regiments were transferred from Guang'an Prefecture, led by staff officer Ma Mingluan, under the name of Guo Chonglie's 3rd Battalion, into Dazhou, and together with Fan Mingshan's 2nd Battalion stationed in Dazhou, they fought against the local rioters.

500 militia regiments were dispatched from Pengzhou, led by Du Jigui, the captain of the escort battalion, under the banner of Yao Zhijiao's 4th Battalion, and cooperated with Chen Yingzong's 2nd Battalion to fight against Zhang Nengqi who was fighting against Baoning Mansion and the local tyrants entrenched in Bazhou

Considering the great pressure on Pengzhou, Chen Huaixi led the navy to go upstream along the Jialing River and sail into the territory of Baoning Prefecture, directly threatening Langzhong, the administrative office of Baoning Prefecture.

While fighting against the local tyrants and rogue robbers plundering grain and grass, in order to guard against Zhang Xianzhong's counterattack, staff officer Yang Guangtai and staff officer Wang Zhiyao were asked to transfer another 1,500 militia regiments from Guang'an Prefecture to train day and night, so as to rush to the aid of Shunqing Mansion at any time and guard against the counterattack of the Great Western Army.