After expressing his dissatisfaction, Yang Xuan asked Qian Bangqi to assist in handling the military aircraft in the name of the general and the order of the foreign monarch on the grounds that he was not subject to the orders of the foreign monarchs, and in the name of Liu Liangchang's participation in politics in the north, and Yin Chengqi to help deal with the military aircraft in the name of the senator (so as not to endanger the place), leaving Fan Mingshan's 1st Regiment to garrison Bazhou and Dazhou, and personally led the Ma Chao Cavalry Regiment, Cao Zhang's Guard Regiment, Yang Bingyi's 5th Regiment, Liu Weiming's 6th Regiment, Feng Youqing's 7th Regiment, and Ma Mingluan's 9th Regiment to return to Langzhong. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Liu Jinzhong besieged Wei to save Zhao, but after besieging Pengzhou for more than a month, the progress of the whole army was limited, and now the army is tired and the morale of the whole army is low.

Of course, Yang Xuan will not return to the division to rescue Pengzhou, and now the best way is to return the favor to Liu Jinzhong.

Since it has been decided to pay attention to the westward expedition, the Langzhong Great Western Army is located in the upper reaches of Sichuan, and can go down the river to Pengzhou and Shunqing at any time, and now it is just taking this opportunity to thwart Liu Bu and relieve his worries about the future.

On the way to explore the Malay newspaper, Zhang Xianzhong killed hundreds of scholars last month, it turned out that last year Zhang Xianzhong lured his scholars to come to Chengdu in the name of opening a branch to recruit scholars, so as to be detained nearby.

However, at that time, the Manqing Dynasty nominally controlled Hanzhong, and the Manqing general Heluohui sent an envoy in the hope that Zhang Xianzhong would return to the Qing court, but was refused.

And the person who sent the letter to Manqing happened to be a scholar, just like the current classmates, that scholar didn't have many classmates, and it happened that one or two of the scum heard that Manqing surrendered, and saw that everyone was under house arrest by Zhang Xianzhong, and actually plotted to unite with Manqing and resist the Great Western Army.

Zhang Xianzhong gathered these scholars in Chengdu and imprisoned them together, one was quite uneasy about these readers, and the other meant to be detained nearby.

Now seeing that there are people in the detention who are actually plotting to rebel against the Great Western Army, they are quite annoyed, and send Wang Shangli, the governor of the Chinese army, to lead the soldiers and horses to surround the Dabei Temple.

In the Song and Ming dynasties, scholars were still quite virtuous, and now let them point out rebellious people in public, of course these scholars don't dare.

Zhang Xianzhong was furious, and immediately asked the sergeant to find out these scholars one by one and kill them all in front of the Great Compassion Temple.

This is the famous Zhang Xianzhong massacre of scholars in history, about 500 people were killed this time (although there are more than 100 Xiucai people in each county, but now the army is in chaos, and many scholars have rebelled against the Great Western Army.

In addition, the official army has controlled all of eastern Sichuan, northern Sichuan, and southern Sichuan, so the number of scholars gathered in this way is quite limited in previous years).

Yang Xuan's deputy list was born in a person, just like many readers at this time, he went to school in different private schools, plus participated in the county examination, the government examination, the hospital examination, the township examination or something, and came into contact with many different readers.

After the establishment of the Loyal and Righteous Army, many of the former classmates took refuge in them, and many of them, such local officials, generals, supervisors, assistants, and secretaries, were scholars (just like the Hunan Army hundreds of years later).

Now hearing that Zhang Xianzhong openly slaughtered hundreds of scholars, everyone was indignant, and they knelt outside the camp one by one, asking for troops to be sent to crusade against the Great Western Army.

Yang Xuan was also quite annoyed, threw the paperwork on the ground fiercely, and said angrily: "Zhang Xianzhong is cruel and cruel, and he has lost his humanity.

Of course, there are one or two scum who are scholars, and these two scum have taken refuge in the barbarians, even if you kill them with a thousand knives, you shouldn't harm others.

Zhang Xianzhong is good, he actually slaughtered more than 500 unarmed scholars at once, and the vast majority of them are loyal and righteous people, which is tolerable, which is unbearable. ”

The morale of the crowd was greatly boosted, and everyone asked for battle.

The terrain of Langzhong is more dangerous than that of Shunqing, and the geographical location is far more important than that of Shunqing.

The Jialing River forms a U-shaped peninsula here, the Jialing River is rolling on the southeast and west sides of Langzhong, only the north is a tall hill, Zhang Fei was stationed here, it is the most dangerous place for the defense of northern Sichuan since ancient times.

Just as the national expressway in the Ming Dynasty was introduced earlier, the national expressway from Beijing through Hebei, Henan, Shaanxi to Chengdu, Sichuan passed through Langzhong, which was a traffic artery.

After discussing the siege of Wei and rescuing Zhao, in early February, five infantry regiments and one cavalry regiment crossed the Guanyin River ten miles east of Langzhong.

At the same time, Yao Zhijiao's 4th Regiment took a boat upstream, escorted by the navy, and quickly built a water village and fortifications after everyone disembarked, in case the rogue counterattacked.

Hearing that the loyal and righteous army was coming, and broke through five checkpoints in a row, Zhao Ronggui, a rebel general who stayed in Langzhong City, was quite panicked, tried to defend in vain, and did not dare to fight in the field at all, and led the army to slowly withdraw to the city.

After two days of fierce fighting, the loyal and righteous army occupied the Baba Temple, Qieryan and other dangerous places in the north of the city, built forts, set up large Franc machine guns in them, and bombarded the densely populated places on the city wall from time to time.

The Franc cannon belongs to the sub-mother gun, and the firing speed is far above the general cannon, and it is now installed on the gun mount, and there is also a gauge on the gun mount to help aiming, and the firing accuracy is far higher than that of the general cannon.

Scattered bullets were fired into the air and rained down like scattered flowers, with a deviation of no more than twenty or thirty meters, often several artillery salvos, and the enemy on the city wall was often not spared.

Although Zhao Ronggui also organized artillery to fight back, the artillery of the Loyal and Righteous Army was set up on a hill half a mile away, not only sheltered by trees, but also at an altitude similar to the city wall.

Most of the artillerymen of the Loyal and Righteous Army have studied private school for two or three years, plus Yang Xuan has trained a little basic knowledge of artillery from time to time, and the gunner's ability is far above that of the Great Western Army.

In addition, the Franco machine guns mostly use iron-core copper guns cast with iron film, and the artillery performance is far above that of the Great Western Army, and after several rounds of shelling, the Great Western Army is completely inferior.

At the same time, Yang Xuan decided to use trench tactics, the last time he defended Shunqing City, he dug a large number of trenches, and then arranged wooden thorns outside to prevent the opponent from attacking.

In less than two days, they dug three and a half deep, and then erected a small mound one person high, and under the evolution of the No. 3 Franc machine gun, the tiger squat cannon and various firearms squadrons, they dug forward in an inverted triangle pattern to more than 100 meters.

Zhao Ronggui didn't care at first, after he lived in the high wall, you can dig as much as you like, as long as you don't attack the walled city, whatever you want, you don't interfere.

Seeing the trench dug under the city wall, Fang suddenly realized, some people think that the loyal army will smash the city wall, the Great Western Army used to do this in the past, and now see the loyal and righteous army approaching the city wall, and the Great Western Army on the city wall is weak to deal with, everyone is frightened.

Zhao Ronggui also panicked, this Langzhong City is surrounded by water on three sides and mountains on one side, if you want to return to Shilangzhong from Yilong on the south bank of the Jialing River, you need to cross the Jialing River.

The Loyal and Righteous Army's naval artillery is sharp and there are many ships, so it will be even more difficult to cross the Jialing River, and if the waterway is blocked, it will definitely be even more difficult to cross the Jialing River and lead the troops to rescue.

On the one hand, Zhao Ronggui sent a messenger to Liu Jinzhong's army, claiming that the loyal and righteous army had approached the city, hoping to return to the division to rescue quickly, but on the other hand, seeing that the trench had been dug under the city wall, he hurriedly sent soldiers and horses out of the city to fight, hoping to hinder the loyal and righteous army from digging the trench.

The city gate opened, Zhao Ronggui personally led 3,000 soldiers and horses out of the city, from a distance to see that the loyal army did not react, everyone rushed forward with a big burden, so about ten steps, suddenly saw the trench thrown out of the door to shake the sky, smoke, fell into the formation.

Zhao Ronggui was shocked, could this be the legendary earth-shattering thunder? Under the city of Shunqing, the Great Western Army was killed and injured by the earth-shaking thunder.

But in this era, the people's knowledge is limited, although Zhao Ronggui knows the power of the earth-shaking thunder, but he doesn't know how to dodge.

And those officers and soldiers of the Great Western Army had never seen it in the past, and when they saw the smoking things thrown over, one by one they only prayed to the heavens for protection, and everyone desperately charged forward to avoid the calamity.

But the disaster star is not said to be able to hide, the earth-shaking thunder continued to explode, the entire front of the front of the shrapnel flew horizontally, thick smoke, in the sound of successive explosions, Feng Youqing, Ma Mingluan command post from the left and right directions.

Zhao Ronggui watched this scene in horror, flying with big swords, forcing everyone to rush forward, but in front of them were the soldiers of the loyal and righteous army who rushed over, and they killed with the support of the Tiger Squat Cannon, Franc Machine Cannon, and Musket Squadron, and rushed into the panicked crowd, rushing left and right, unstoppable.

The Liukou was defeated, and under the escort of more than ten pro-soldiers, Feng Shuangli retreated to the city under the escort of everyone.

Standing on the city tower, seeing the crowd outside the city gate, and the loyal and righteous army actually mixed in, worried that the city gate would be lost, Zhao Ronggui ordered the city gate to be closed, and watched hundreds of pro-soldiers cornered, one by one raised their hands to surrender.

Seeing that the 3,000 soldiers and horses of the department were defeated in less than half an hour, more than 200 people were killed in the first battle, and the number of wounded and captured reached 6 or 700, and the morale of the entire city was low, Zhao Ronggui was very annoyed, and constantly sent messengers to the front-line military camp, hoping that Liu Jinzhong could withdraw the army to rescue.