Seeing everyone like this, Yang Xuan also seemed to be high-spirited, in order to comfort everyone, to analyze to everyone, the Great Western Army is strong and strong, if you concentrate all your strength to attack, the enemy is strong and I am weak, and of course you can capture Shunqing Mansion City for a long time. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

But what will be the result? The strength of the Great Western Army was greatly damaged, and the Yunnan-Guizhou army led by Fan Yixuan, the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi, has now entered southern Sichuan, and the Sichuan governor Ma Gan and the deputy general Zeng Ying have also taken control of Chongqing.

In this way, as long as Zhang Dingguo is defeated, the troops will inevitably be withdrawn at that time, so that Shunqing Mansion City will be safe and sound.

Everyone suddenly realized, and some even secretly scolded Yang Xuan for being too treacherous, but they didn't dare to attack.

Seeing that everyone was no longer as panicked as at the beginning, Yang Xuan ordered the escort battalion to parade more than 1,000 captives from the Battle of Qushui on the streets tomorrow to calm the people's hearts.

The more than 1,000 captives were screened, the stubborn ones were kept in custody for labor reform after the fighting subsided, the other able-bodied men were incorporated into the army, and the general public was incorporated into various security regiments and security regiments.

In this way, everyone was safe, everyone took turns on duty, and Yang Xuan returned to the back hall to rest.

Hearing that the generals of the Great Western Army were approaching the city, the people were worried for a night, and early the next morning, they heard that the adults were defeated on the banks of the Qushui River, more than 1,000 people were captured, and the gongs and drums were beating on the street, and now they were parading the streets, and everyone was a little relieved.

But then the yamen posted a notice, declaring that the city was divided into five security zones, and each security zone recruited more than 1,000 strong men to form a security group to search for spies throughout the city.

Although it disrupted everyone's life, everyone was in a good mood and few people resisted.

Liu Gouwa, the official of the office, took the head of the team to collect the people on the one hand, and searched for spies, two households out of a ding, the villagers in the big hometown, who was selected by the male is not good, for the sake of fairness, everyone often draws lots to decide, and the family that is drawn is like a mourning test, and the whole family is frustrated, quite frustrated.

But the strange thing is that after passing through this alley, the head of the household is ready as if he doesn't need to draw lots at all, and pushes a man from a distance, claiming that this is an agreed strong man.

Seeing that the head of the household was actually proud and had no sadness, and the man who was drawn was indifferent and frightened, Liu Gouwa felt strange.

Liu Gouwa shook her head, looked at the more than ten strange men, and said with a smile: "Alas, how are you Yan'er Lane, so impersonal, you actually pushed the men out from afar, really." ”

Everyone was indifferent for a while, and a man next to him shook his head and sighed for a long time: "We, we are relatives of their family from other places, at first they said that the army was in chaos, and they were worried that we would eat and drink, but now they heard that the yamen forcibly recruited strong men to defend the city, so they pushed us out." ”

Out-of-town relatives? Liu Gouwa's eyes lit up, and she said with a smile: "You guys, you have ID cards, take them out and I'll take a look." ”

Everyone looked quite flustered and took out their ID cards tremblingly. Liu Gouwa looked at it, this ID card is a little worn, not as well preserved as others.

In addition, everyone seems to be from the same village, but listening to the accent, it doesn't look like a Sichuan accent, and then looking at the figure, it's a bit different.

Liu Gouwa felt that there was something wrong there, and the government used to stipulate that those who did not bring their ID cards were fined 2 yuan of silver, of which 1 yuan belonged to the government officials, and 1 yuan was used as the cost of making ID cards.

Is there a problem with these dozen ID cards, if so, it is enough to have more than one or two silver, this is a windfall, thinking of this, Liu Gouwa called the head of the household, pointed to one at random, and asked if it was his relative.

The head of the household looked quite panicked and distracted.

What surprised Liu Gouwa even more was that these dozen men were even more panicked, and some of them ran away.

But now that the whole city is under martial law, Liu Gouwa has four or five officials around him, shouting, blocking two, and after interrogation, it was found that it was actually a spy of the Great Western Army.

It turned out that in order to attack Shunqing Mansion City, Zhang Xianzhong not only sent Zhang Shan'er to do such a meticulous work, but also sent more than 100 strong people to make up and enter Shunqing Mansion City.

However, the ID card check in the jurisdiction of the Loyal and Righteous Army is very powerful, although everyone enters Shunqing Mansion City as merchants, but if they are not careful, they may be discovered by the officials who check their ID cards.

For the sake of insurance, Zhang Xianzhong made a fake ID card for everyone, because it needs to be stamped on it, including the seal of the county government entrance room, the seal of the township, and the seal of the village, and the ancient imitation seal is particularly troublesome, so everyone's address comes from the same place.

Hearing that there were more than 100 people who had entered the city with makeup, Yang Xuan, who had just gotten up and washed, was very refreshed, and on the one hand, he promoted Liu Gouwa to the head of the team, rewarded the meritorious personnel, and punished the fraudulent families, and on the other hand, posted notices and carried out a full search.

Since the whole city has been divided into five independent security areas, coupled with the strict control of ID cards, those who originally wanted to find strange men as strong men saw others being punished, and pointed out that the suspects were rewarded, and came out to denounce them, so that in less than half a day, the spies who infiltrated the city were all wiped out.

As Qian Bangxin said, in the past, everyone has always thought that checking ID cards is a major malpractice, but there is no doubt that it is quite beneficial to screen good and arrest spies.

At this time, Yang Xuan was not in the mood to manage this kind of affairs in the city, and now Zhang Dingguo's 5,000-strong army was camping ten miles outside the city, ready to rest.

Since entering the territory of Nanchong County, the villagers have been beating gongs and drums along the way, waving flags and shouting, and they can be heard clearly for several miles. Zhang Dingguo had already known that the district under the jurisdiction of the Loyal and Righteous Army had already sent township chiefs and township officials, even if these lieutenant chiefs did not report to the government, those officials sent township chiefs and officials would definitely report to the government.

Despite this, he thought that the soldiers were fast, and thought that as long as he felt that Shunqing was under the city before the main force of the loyal army returned, he would have an opportunity to take advantage of it at that time.

However, after making a detailed report, the loyal and righteous army returned to help one after another after dark yesterday, knowing that the opportunity was not there, Zhang Dingguo ordered all units to rest and recuperate at midnight yesterday, and only this morning did he lead a large group of men and horses to approach the north of Shunqing City.

Standing on the hill in the distance, in addition to the fortifications on the hill in front, hundreds of people patrolling back and forth, what is even more fatal are those forests.

Some of the birds in the woods flew in flocks, and through the trees, they could clearly see large flags and flashing figures.

Zhang Dingguo gasped, in the past, when the army marched and fought, in order to boost morale, he often pulled the army out to deter the other party, but he didn't expect Yang Xuan to do the opposite, there were only hundreds of people in the open, and how many people were looking down in the dark?

The day before yesterday, the loyal and righteous army defeated more than 5,000 people of Zhang Guangcai and Jin Tongwu's department, although Zhang Dingguo's headquarters was quite elite, but the strength of the loyal army should not be underestimated.

Thinking of this, Zhang Dingguo felt a cold sweat on his back.

In order to ensure the rapid mobility of the army, the pro-armies of various departments often took donkeys from the market and farmhouses instead of marching, and in the battlefield fighting, these soldiers riding on donkeys and other livestock were no different from infantry.

Like Zhang Dingguo's army, although there are 5,000 people and horses, there are less than 1,000 knights who fight on horseback, and most of the others are carried by donkeys.

Now the whole army is on alert, and the donkeys and horses are put in the care of some weak men, and the stronger ones are ready for ground battle.