There was a wound on the buttocks, coupled with the identity of a criminal, it was quite inconvenient to move, and after careful planning, it was decided to take a boat along the Min River to reach the city of Qianqingfu, and then return to Pengzhou along the Jialing River.

Since ancient times, China has the tradition of building cities next to the water, in addition to providing drinking water, it is because of the many benefits of the waterway, the boat not only has a large transport volume, the large ship on the Jialing River in the Minjiang River reaches more than 400 quintals (equivalent to the load of 30 tons), and the small ones also have dozens of quintals, not only the transportation volume is large, it is easy to walk more than 100 miles every day, which is much faster than the land route.

Compared with the land route, the biggest threat to water transport is the shipwreck, on the land route most encountered robbers or accidentally fell into the abyss while walking, but the waterway has more shipwrecks, a year will always hear about several shipwrecks, often ship wrecks and deaths, miserable.

Unable to sit down due to an injury to his buttocks, Yang Lin chatted with the boatman whenever he was free, and occasionally helped hang the sails or help with paddling.

Unlike Western cloth sails, the Chinese use hard sails, which are very heavy and often require several people to hang up, and if the sail is sailed downwind, it can run twenty or thirty miles per hour.

When there is no wind or no wind, you can only rely on the current to move freely, or paddle.

The boat weighed more than 400 loads, with six oars on each side, and it was quite laborious to row.

Recalling various rowing experiences in his previous life, Yang Lin thought of the car and boat, both of which used blades to paddle to drive the boat forward, and in this sense, this car and boat are probably the originators of modern boats.

Thinking of the history of ship development, Yang Lin is very interested in vehicles and ships, and talks about vehicles and ships with Fan Mingshan, and the ship boss and others, but although everyone has heard of it, they have never seen it, as if it is slowly extinct.

Passing by the Chaotianmen Wharf of Qianqing Prefecture, a large number of military ships and civilian transport ships are moored at the wharf, compared with civilian ships, this military ship is mostly made of good pine and cypress, very strong, and there are more crash angles outside, and the opposing ship can be smashed and overturned by driving with all its might.

In addition to this, the military ships were very tall, one level higher than civilian transport ships, and were surrounded by wall battlements for archery.

The wharf was noisy, and the officers and soldiers ordered the city gate to be closed, and the larger ships were levied, and the size of this ship was originally among the levies, but the boat boss spent ten taels of silver to survive.

It turned out that Zhang Xianzhong had already defeated the generals Zeng Ying and Zhao Ronggui approaching Fuling, and the former governor of Sichuan was dispatching troops to set up a camp in Causeway Bay, thirty miles downstream, to block the invasion of the Liukou.

Inquired about the soldiers and horses, and the only ones gathered were the Lijia soldiers led by Chen Xun, the deputy commander of the Guannan Army, the deputy general Bian, and the regular army led by the commander Gu Jing, but there were only 20,000 people at full strength, and they were stationed in Tongluo Gorge and Chongqing City, not to mention that they were far from their own ideas, even the traditional heavy defense was not counted.

Yang Lin felt that the general trend had gone, and his whole body was upset, and he drank for days.

In the annals of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, folklore all point to Zhang Xianzhong's slaughter of Sichuan, and he is full of sweat and cattle, and he doesn't dare not believe it, nor dare he believe it all.

Manchu Tartars? Zhang Xianzhong died at the end of 1646, after which the two sides fought in Sichuan for 14 years?

Is it the tiger, when humans can't unite to defend against the beasts, the tigers and leopards are rampant, and the lonely people are just the beast's delicacy?

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Now that we know that a tragedy is imminent, we are trying to know the answer, and we are trying to avoid it.

Looking at the rolling Jialing River and hearing the bad news, the only thing Yang Lin could do was to pray that Zhang Xianzhong's slaughter of Sichuan was made up, and that he could accumulate strength to prevent the tragedy from happening again when Zhang Xianzhong and the Manchu Qing Dynasty were killing people.

After a long journey all the way, the three parties returned to the ancient city of Yunshan in early May, and what they have to do now is to recapture their own defense of the thousand generals and grasp the military power.

Along the way, everyone cheered and thundered, since Yang Lin was dismissed for some reason, the Pengzhou soldiers returned to the Shunqing Garrison Division to control it.

Chen Yingrui initially wanted to use the method of bribery and disintegration, but Yang Wei and others did not appreciate it at all, and the two sides became more and more angry.

Half a month ago, Chen Yingrui changed his method and sent a thousand generals, two generals and forty or fifty pro-soldiers to the Pengzhou soldiers, but these pro-soldiers lacked training at all, and not only did they not obey the public, but they ridiculed them.

In order to suppress the officers and men in the army, some people were punished every once in a while, and the morale of the upper and lower levels was extremely low, some firmly believed that Yang Lin would return safely to regain control of his department, and some really couldn't stand the torture and chose to leave.

After hearing that Yang Lin was back, the new President Qian was frightened, and ran to him under the escort of his own soldiers and said: "Yang Lin, you, you fugitive, according to the inspection envoy Yamen, you were sentenced to exile in Yunnan, you, why did you come back?" ”

Yang Lin arched his hand to the north and said with a smile: "If there is chaos today, Li Zicheng captures Beijing, and the emperor dies." The imperial court asked the king of Qin from all over the country to escort him, how could he get this general.

Let's talk about it, although this Qian Bao is tall and big, but he is useless, does he do this Pengzhou Shouyu Qian's head office? ”

Chen Bao looked unconcerned, took out the appointment document, took out the seal ribbon and displayed it in public, and said: "There is no basis for the words, the imperial court has its own regulations of the imperial court, I have the appointment letter of the Shunqing Garrison Division Yamen, and the imperial court seal, you, what do you have?" ”

Everyone's momentum was frustrated, and just as Yang Lin was about to speak, Fan Mingshan next to him shouted: "Of course, my lord will also have a yamen official document when he comes back this time, and there is also a court seal.

You, you are just a dog raised by Chen Yingrui, you also deserve to see the official documents of the imperial court, and you also deserve to see the seal? ”

When everyone heard this, they applauded loudly, and everyone took the opportunity to attack him and beat him out with sticks.

After the three drums, Yang Lin looked around majestically, and then returned to the stage and said: "Everyone, this general has offended corrupt officials by resisting rampant expropriation and extortion, and this official has offended the government in order to raise money from his brothers.

Although the governor has rescued me many times, these corrupt officials and corrupt officials have been beaten into tricks, locked me up for more than ten days, beat me with 30 military sticks, and want to send me to Yunnan and never come back. ”

There was a burst of crying from the crowd, and everyone shouted: "Kill corrupt officials, kill corrupt officials!" ”

Yang Lin raised his right hand to signal everyone to be quiet, and then said: "New hatred and old hatred, we will definitely settle with corrupt officials and corrupt officials in the future, but now we have the most important thing to do."

Ben General was originally killed on the way to exile, but the Emperor of Beijing was killed, and the governor thought that it was rare for me to be rehabilitated when the imperial court was employing people (making up stories out of nothing and obtaining legal status), and asked me to return to our Pengzhou soldiers to lead everyone

Brothers, Zhang Xianzhong burned, killed and looted all kinds of evil, we all come from poor families, in this troubled world we must unite, we must defend our hometown and relatives. ”

When everyone heard this, they shouted slogans such as defending their hometown and their relatives, and their morale was high.

Yang Lin was overjoyed, on the one hand, he ordered Fan Mingshan to visit the acting governor Long Wenguang, hoping that he could be reinstated and serve the country, and on the other hand, the soldiers and horses went down the mountain for ten miles to be vigilant, and the soldiers were extremely trained and vigilant.