Just as Yang Lin analyzed, it is impossible for the Liukou to let the volunteers approach the capital without fighting, and now all departments are short of food, and everyone is waiting for the autumn harvest to come up.

Since the Great Western Army entered the capital, its power has expanded rapidly, but it has not established a solid foundation for local rule.

At the beginning of his entry into Sichuan, Zhang Xianzhong announced that he would be exempted from paying taxes for three years.

At first, there was nothing, the Ming Dynasty was founded for more than 200 years, and the plains of the city have always been rich, whether it is the Shu Wangfu or the Yamen, they are full of grain, enough for everyone to eat for a while.

As the saying goes, hundreds of thousands of people in the city capital, hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians since the Great West Army entered Sichuan, everyone has eaten for two years.

Two months ago, Zhang Xianzhong led his troops to the south, and the ships and horses dragged them pulled a lot of grain, but who expected to be caught by Yang Zhan and lose tens of thousands of loads of grain.

After two years of eating and drinking, coupled with the current battlefield consumption, some warehouses are slowly bottoming out.

In order to raise food for the army, the Great Western Army was going to wait until the autumn harvest of this year to send soldiers and horses to various markets, and the big households forced to sell grain.

Hearing that the volunteers moved quickly, they walked more than 60 miles in two days, and the forward arrived at Hexingchang, and the monarchs and ministers of Onishi quarreled one by one.

A few days ago, when they encountered the grain collectors, the Sichuan people would only flee, but now they heard that the volunteers had entered the plains of the city capital, and those Sichuan people dared to resist.

During the day today, two grain collection troops were ambushed by the Sichuan people, and after the first battle, not only did they not collect grain, but both sides suffered heavy casualties.

Yizi, supervising the army, Pingdong general Zhang Kewang suggested: "Father, there is no king monkey in the mountains to be the overlord, and now the volunteers are killing the plains of the city, and those subordinates actually dare to resist.

If the volunteers are allowed to stay here, not only will the city be unstable, but the Sichuan people outside the city will lead troops to give feedback.

As long as we defeat Yang Lin and drive the volunteers out of the Chengdu Plain, we can deter all the units of the Sichuan army, and we can also collect food to feed the soldiers. ”

Zhang Wenxiu also felt quite tricky when he heard this, and said: "Father, Yang Lin is extremely cautious in his use of troops, and his marches and battles often set up secret posts four or five miles away, and set up open posts two or three miles away, so it is even more difficult to sneak attack his troops.

Although General Zhengdong can fight well, it is even more difficult to defeat Yang Lin, and for today's plan, his father must go out.

The volunteers claim to be 50,000, but in fact they are only 20,000. ”

Now the various departments are being purged, not to mention the Sichuan people in the city, that is, many generals in the army have their own small abacus, if they do their best, lead the 100,000 troops in the city to attack the volunteers, if the villains make a rebellion, maybe the city capital is not owned by themselves.

Just when he hesitated, Zhang Kewang, the general of Zhengdong, was dissatisfied: "General Funan has been defeated in a row, and it is reasonable to be cautious.

Killing chickens and using a knife to defeat Yang Lin, it is enough for me to conquer the east.

Think about it, generals, if the volunteers are really strong and invincible in the world, why did Yang Lin stop in Hexingchang?

It is true that the volunteers are strong and strong, I can send troops to attack first, and if it fails, it is not too late to attack. ”

Hearing Zhang Kewang openly accuse himself of leading his troops to defeat, Zhang Wenxiu was ashamed, but he still admonished: "Father, Yang Lin is quite cautious in using troops, and it is even more difficult to succeed in a night attack." ”

Zhang Xianzhong fell into contemplation, and Wang Zhaolin, the prime minister of the left next to him, came out and admonished: "General Funan, although the Volunteer Army is elite, its troops are only more than 20,000 people, where is this march to attack the city capital, but to press a nail on the edge of our city, wanting to trap us."

Just after the scout came to report, the first part of the Volunteer Army approached Jintang County this morning, and joined forces with the county seat to seize the city.

Now people outside are panicking, and some are even spreading rumors that our emperor is ready to slaughter the Sichuan people.

Yang Lin only needs to press one or two nails on the edge of the city capital, and then send troops and horses to attack the surrounding states and counties. ”

Zhang Wenxiu shook his head and said: "This is where Yang Lin's viciousness lies, deliberately provoking us and forcing the main force of our Great Western Army to go out of the city to fight a decisive battle.

In this case, we should not rush rashly, but should concentrate all our efforts on fighting a decisive battle. ”

Wang Zhaolin shook his head and said: "General Funan, you only know one and don't know the other, you know where Yang Lin's evil is, but you don't know his true intentions.

Hexing Field is more than 50 miles away from the city, and it takes two days for the cavalry to go back and forth, and it takes 4-6 days for the infantry army. ”

Zhang Kewang sneered: "Yang Lin is smart, although he defeated the two generals of Anxi and Funan, he actually thinks that he is invincible in the world, probably because he didn't meet a wall of my Zhang Kewang."

General Funan, you and Yang Lin have fought a few battles, all of them have lost their armor, if they are annihilated, you still need to wait for me to make a move, and you still need to wait for my father to make a move? ”

Zhang Wenxiu was speechless and silently retreated to the side.

Zhang Xianzhong immediately ordered Zhang Kewang, the general of Zhengdong, to lead an army of 20,000 to attack the volunteers, and ordered Zhang Nengqi, the general of Zhengbei, Wang Shangli, the governor of the Chinese army, and Feng Shuangli, the governor of the rear army, to lead an army of 30,000 to respond.

A few months ago, Zhang Nengqi, the general of the expedition to the north, and Feng Shuangli, the governor of the rear army, led his troops to conquer the Ming general Cao Xun in Ya'an, western Sichuan.

Before leaving, Zhang Xianzhong repeatedly told him that if he can win, he will win, and if he can't win, he only needs to stabilize the situation on the front line, so that it is not too late to wait for the army led by him to arrive, and then it is not too late to fight a decisive battle with the volunteers.

The movement of the army not only consumes food and grass and gathers soldiers and horses, but more importantly, it also needs to send troops and horses to defend the city.

Zhang Kewang and the governor Wang Ziqi, Wang Hui, Zhang Hu, and Guan Youcai led an army of 20,000 people out of the city secretly, and after a day's march, they reached the Xijiang River at dark, and everyone crossed the Xijiang River from fifteen miles downstream.

Leave Wang Ziqi and Guan Youcai five miles away from the camp of the Volunteer Army to respond.

The army continued on its way, and at a distance of two miles from the camp, they found several fires in front of them.

Everyone felt embarrassed, this volunteer army really set up a post so far away, it must be even more difficult to succeed in the surprise attack.

Zhang Kewang pointed at the volunteer army camp with a horsewhip and said, "Generals, Yang Lin is just pretending to scare people." On this field, how can you set up a sentry post so far away, this is probably just a suspicious formation.

Yang Lin thought he had a plan, who would have thought that I would dare to lead my troops to attack a wall.

As long as we rush over, we will surely defeat the volunteers at that time. ”

Immediately ordered the crowd to disperse, sent men and horses to finish off the volunteer outpost, and then rushed up to kill it.

But what Zhang Kewang didn't expect was that although there were only 2 people next to the fire, there were 3 secret sentinels not far from the fire, although the rogue killed the bright sentry, but it was still discovered by the scattered dark sentry, and the sound of gongs and drums shook the sky for a while, and these people shouted while running: "The rogue has attacked the camp, the rogue has attacked the camp."

The soldiers of each regiment who were observing from the watchtower car were awakened, and everyone picked up binoculars one after another, carefully observed the enemy situation, and then simply reported the enemy situation through the flag.

Although Zhang Kewang is not very old, he is quite cruel and easy to kill, and he has won the true biography of Zhang Xianzhong.

Seeing that the night attack attempt was discovered, if the other generals had not moved, but Zhang Kewang was Zhang Kewang, and he actually ordered the war drums to be beaten left and right, and commanded the generals to kill them.

When everyone saw Zhang Kewang kill him, they shouted and killed him.

After a while, they rushed to the former military camp of the volunteers, and the small leader in front was stunned, there was a trench in front of them, each trench was about one meter wide, and there were wooden thorns in front of it, which was not easy to climb over.

Due to the urgency of the matter, although a formidable mandarin duck formation was not formed, under the command of the squad leader and squadron leader, a team of people rushed over and fought with the rogues who threw away the wooden bars and jumped over the trench to fight into the formation.

Zhang Kewang was very angry when he heard that the front army really had a trench to block the way, and personally stepped forward with a knife, and after cutting down a small leader who was not moving forward, the people were greatly boosted, and finally opened a gap, and everyone jumped over the trench and killed the past.

Seeing the rogue coming, after a short counterattack, the volunteers quickly retreated and retreated to the second trench.

Zhang Kewang didn't know what to do, seeing that the volunteers were so vulnerable, he withdrew after a little resistance, thinking that the volunteers were just that, and led everyone to quickly jump over the second trench and kill in.