Zhuge Wuhou seven out of Qishan, why do you go to Qishan and Chencang, because compared with other post roads, Qishan Road and Chencang Road are flat and the road is easy to walk.

Now our army is stationed in Calcium County, completely controlling Qishan Road and Chencang Road, and the only way for Tatars to enter and exit Hanzhong is to take the Baochuan Road, Fu Luo Road, and Meridian Road in the east.

The slope is closer to us, and you only need to send a detachment to it.

Fu Luo Dao and Meridian Road are far away from us, and the adults can release the news, saying that they have contacted He Zhen, Liu Tichun and other remnants of Dashun, and the other party will send troops and horses to go soon, so that not only can prevent the atrocities of the Qing army, but also force the Manchu Tartars to divide their troops and garrison, which is conducive to the decisive battle between the two sides. ”

Qian Bangxin, the capital supervisor, shook his head and said, "Such a plan is too obvious, and the old man will definitely not be fooled." ”

Yang Lin smiled and said: "I don't think so, the Qing army entered Sichuan that day and was defeated by us, and finally had to escape into Hanzhong through the Mingyue Canyon Post Road.

Once I was bitten by a snake for ten years and was afraid of the well rope, as long as we did it well, I don't believe that the Manchu Tartars would dare to turn a blind eye? ”

Seeing that Yang Lin no longer insisted on leading his troops to the expedition, everyone laughed.

Back in the tent, Yang Lin called Feng Youqing and ordered him to lead a group of men and horses to attack Baocheng Town and control the ancient city (Jiaobaonei County in the Tang Dynasty).

He ordered Wang Fuchen to build warships in Calcium County and use Hanzhong as a base to control the Han waterway.

There are rumors that the volunteers have made contact with the remnants of Dashun, He Zhen, Liu Tichun and others, and the other party will lead the elite soldiers to control the Fu Luo Road and the Meridian Road plank road, and the volunteers will close the door and beat the dogs, and wipe out the 50,000 true and false Tartars.

In Nanzheng County, the first county in Hanzhong, the Tartar Belenikan lived in the palace of King Rui, who was the fifth son of Emperor Wanli and the uncle of Emperor Tianqi, Emperor Chongzhen, Emperor Hongguang and Emperor Yongli, who was slaughtered by Zhang Xianzhong.

Just like all the dragons of the Ming Dynasty, even if they can't be the emperor, they are also a tyrant in the place, and Zhu Changhao, the king of Rui, is sealed here, and one-fifth of the entire Hanzhong City is the residence of the king of Rui.

Before Sichuan, Hanzhong also had the reputation of the land of abundance, and in such a prosperous place, the Tartar Belenikan seemed impatient for no other reason, because of the sweeping war in recent days, and because of the rumors in the market these days.

After the volunteers entered Hanzhong, they mobilized the people to resist the Tatars to forcibly requisition grain, and the people were overwhelmed and responded one after another, killing the grain collector and sending soldiers, and for a while Hanzhong was bloody and bloody.

In order to punish the rebels, Nikan sent soldiers and horses to the local area to clear up, but the volunteers also sent soldiers and horses to fight, and with the support of the people, the grain convoy was ambushed by the volunteers and suffered heavy losses.

The fighting intensified, and in less than ten days, two sweeping teams were ambushed, and in addition to the defeat of the volunteers at the beginning of the year, the morale of the whole army is now extremely low.

But Nikan did not dare to retreat, except to let the sweeping soldiers and horses not be too far away from the city to avoid being ambushed by the volunteers, and there was no other way to face the volunteers who entered Hanzhong.

As the Manchu and Mongolian generals believed, the main reason for the defeat in the battle of Sichuan at the beginning of the year was the division of troops by the Qing army, mainly because the hills in northern Sichuan were endless, which was conducive to infantry and not conducive to cavalry battles.

Nikan sent troops and horses out of the city to sweep the city, mainly to provoke the volunteers and make them lead their troops to the south and Zheng to fight to the death.

But this morning, news spread quickly, saying that the volunteers were going to block the road into Shaanxi and close the door to tens of thousands of Manchu troops.

There are five official roads from Hanzhong to Shaanxi, and everyone disagrees, and some even talk and laugh, and they ridicule the strategy too much.

Nikan felt inappropriate, but for a moment he couldn't say so, so he was sullen in the back garden.

At this moment, Ghosh came to report that the Volunteers had captured the town of Bao and took full control of the Bao Slope.

Nikan was shocked, looked at the map in front of him and said hoarsely: "Although there are five post roads from Hanzhong to Shaanxi, the most difficult ones are Fu Luo Road and Meridian Road at that time, and now the other three roads have fallen into the hands of the volunteers, it seems that Yang Lin is really ready to encircle and annihilate us in Hanzhong." ”

The generals under the tent were silent one by one, and everyone remembered the rout at the beginning of the year, and everyone complained bitterly when they saw the volunteers preparing to repeat their old tricks.

Until now, the Tatars had to face all kinds of rumors, and Nikan did not dare to be as carefree and generous as in the past, and sent messengers to sweep the various tribes, so that they would not be able to withdraw to Nanzheng in the near future.

In addition, it is more important to protect the safety of Meridian Road and Fu Luo Road, and in desperation, Nikan sent the general soldiers Lu Guangzu and Nan Yikui to guard Meridian Road and Fu Luo Road to protect the safety of the rear.

In this way, the Qing army swept away without a problem, and everyone was adding wounds and preparing for the future war.

In early October of the first year of Yongli, after half a month of preparation, the volunteers were assembled, leaving Feng Youqing, the deputy general of the Seventh Association, to lead his troops to garrison Calcium County, and assigned troops and horses to control Baochuan Road and Chencang Road to protect the safety of the rear.

He ordered the general Wang Fuchen to garrison Calcium County and build warships to facilitate the transportation of grain and grass in the Hanzhong belt.

The volunteers were divided into two routes, and Yang Lin personally led the main force, including the two cavalry associations of the Escort Association, Bu Ning, and Yao Chonglie, the 1st Association of Yang Cheng, the 3rd Association of Long Zhiframe, the 5th Association of Yang Bingyi, and the 6th Cooperation of Jing Keqin as the main force.

The deputy general Liao Qifang led the 4th Association of the Headquarters and the 10th Association of Wang Zhibang entered Hanzhong from Micang Road and attacked the Qing army in Hanzhong.

Long Zhijiao led the 3rd Association (Brigade) to walk in the front, after starting from Calcium County, it was all the Great Plains, because he was worried about the attack of the opponent's cavalry, he placed the scouts ten miles away, twenty miles away along the way, and it was just now that Yang Lin sent his staff officers to inquire if he found anything abnormal, especially the Tartar cavalry.

Now it is only more than 20 miles away from Hanzhong City, just when Yang Bingyi was about to complain that Yang Lin was too careful, along the way asked everyone to push the wheelbarrow, the knife car first, when camping, not only need to rely on the terrain to dig trenches, bury tree stumps, arrange defensive positions, but also connect wheelbarrows and two-wheeled carriages together to build fortifications, suddenly there was a sound of horns, through the horn everyone clearly judged that the enemy horse was found in front.

Long Zhijiao climbed up to a high ground and observed the enemy situation with the help of a telescope, and saw a puff of smoke and dust rising from a distance of thirteen or fourteen miles away, followed by the sound of horses' hooves.

Long Zhijiao was shocked, and on the one hand, he sent someone to report to Yang Lin, and on the other hand, he commanded all departments to move closer to each small dirt slope, and commanded everyone to quickly form a military formation with a wheelbarrow.

Although Hanzhong is dominated by mountains, with mountains accounting for 75.2% of the total land area (including low mountains accounting for 18.2% and high mountains accounting for 57.0%), hills accounting for 14.6% and Pingba accounting for 10.2%, there are many Pingba and few hills near Nanzheng.

Because of the long-term planning, the Tartars came very quickly, and arrived in a few moments for more than ten miles, and after seeing that many positions had not yet been closed, some of the Tartars hid behind and released arrows, and more rushed over with sabers held high.

When he saw the Tartar killing, Long Zhijiao stood at the front, and repeatedly beckoned the tiger squat cannon and Franc machine gun that each battalion could concentrate to return fire, concentrate the bird gun to return fire, and when the cavalry approached, he threw one after another earth-shattering thunderbolts over, killing and injuring the opponent's horses.

But on the plains, the cavalry moved quickly, and some even hid under their horses and bent their bows to return fire.

If the hilly terrain under Shunqing City restricted the Tartars' movements that day, now the cavalry can give full play to their advantages in this flat dam.

Seeing that everyone was quite unaccustomed to the crazy fighting style of the cavalry, some of the brigade positions had been broken by the Tartar cavalry, and in order to escape, some soldiers desperately sprinkled their tripping horses on the ground to escape.

Now the Volunteers have been equipped with a large number of wheelbarrows and two-wheeled carriages, and their transportation capacity has been greatly increased.

Even so, the opponent was very fierce, and some even used the advantage of war horses to fight into the battle and fight with the rather panicked volunteer soldiers.

Seeing the opposing cavalry menacing, and his own infantry being slaughtered by the other party, Long Zhijiao felt a heartache.

Whenever the Tartar cavalry captured a position, Ryunoku often sent soldiers to the rescue, but the Tartar cavalry was very fierce and the rescue was quite limited.

Just when Long Zhijiao felt caught off guard, a staff officer rode over from the big tent of the Chinese army, and Long Zhijian wiped the beads of sweat from his face again and again, and asked, "Counselor Wang, my lord, what are your orders?"

The Tartars were really unstoppable in the battle on the plains, and our town did not build any fortifications, and in less than a stick of incense, he broke through the positions of 3 or 4 brigades. ”

The staff officer handed over a letter and opened it, and Long Zhijiao found that it was written: "The plains and hills are the same as the method of fighting the cavalry, and the Tartar cavalry is most afraid of artillery bows and crossbows, and only a combination of long, medium and short can block the Tartars."

It can make the artillery musketeers in the middle, the Tartars attack one side, bombard with artillery from a distance, and use muskets and crossbows at medium distances to fight close to each other. ”

The dragon frame was overjoyed, unfurled the flag, and sent heralds to each division (battalion), asking everyone to adjust their forces to resist the Tartar cavalry.

The first thing to change was the guard division (battalion) under the personal command of the dragon frame, which was the 10 Furlong cannons in his possession.

Seeing the Tartar cavalry rushing from a distance, and just jumping over the ridge in front of him, Long Zhijiao personally commanded the 10 Furlong cannons in his possession to open fire.

Facing the ridge of the field two hundred meters away, the scattered bullets were shot into the air and then fell like scattered flowers in the sky, covering an area of four or five square meters.

Although the Tartar cavalry moved quickly, the Franc cannon was a rear-loading gun, and the loading speed was not much faster than that of the bird's gun, and more than 10 Franc cannons were fired at the same time, quickly stabilizing the panicked military spirit in front like a Dinghai Shen needle.

After seeing the power of the Fran cannon, although the rear cavalry was quite brave, although some of them desperately beat their horses and wanted to rush over to attack the position of the Fran cannon of the volunteers, but there was a ridge about two feet high in front of them, which virtually became a natural barrier, greatly slowing down the speed of the Tartar cavalry.

After leaping over the ridges, the Tartar cavalry swarmed in, and the musketeers had already completed their formation, and before they could shoot their arrows at the rushing cavalry, at the command of the squadron leader, everyone fired their guns and fired at the rushing riders.

But the Tartar cavalry ran very fast, and it was very difficult to shoot the running horses, many riders rushed to the front, but the volunteers had already used wheelbarrows and two-wheeled carriages to build a chariot formation, and saw the Tartar cavalry rushing to the side, under the leadership of the squad leader, everyone raised the bird guns in their hands, aimed and shot together, so many were shot and killed.

A small number of Tartar cavalry jumped over the chariot formation and rushed into the formation, but surprisingly the other party did not panic and fled at all, but under the leadership of the squad leader, the various killers rushed forward in the squadron, and the wolf whiskers raised the wolf whisks about two feet long to attract the attention of the riders on horseback, and the palladium and spearmen often took advantage of the weakness to attack.

In addition, the most difficult to prevent are those rattan players, who often use rattan cards as a cover to bully themselves in front of the horse, and suddenly fly machetes and slash at the horse's legs.

Unlike other Ming armies, the Volunteers had a lean policy, and although they were far fewer in number than other troops, they were well equipped.

Not to mention anything else, the big knife in the hand of the rattan player is made according to the regulations of the past horse chopping knife, and if you hold both hands together and fight hard, you may cut off the horse's head.

Although it is difficult to play on the battlefield, in the face of the charging cavalry, everyone forms a military formation, and some even fight hard regardless of safety, and it is also common to cut off the horse's leg with a knife.

The Tartar cavalry came and went very quickly, and after resisting the opponent's attack, everyone became more and more confident, on the other hand, the Tartar cavalry was very few killed by the Fran machine gun artillery, and under the repeated fire of the superior musketeers, one by one actually became a live target.

Seeing that there were many volunteer musketeers, some Tartars were even more frightened, and many of them hid in the distance to shoot arrows, although the distance shot was close to more than 200 meters, but the crosshairs were limited, and the number of Tartar cavalry was very small, so it had little effect at all.

Those who rode on horses and fired flat, the range was only seventy or eighty paces, and they were also worried about the Franco machine guns and tiger squat cannons in the distance, worried that the bird guns would shoot the war horses, and that the bird guns would shoot themselves at close range.

The cavalry came and went very quickly, and after a slight change of formation, they resisted the attack of the opponent's cavalry, and after giving huge damage to more than 200 cavalry, after seeing this cavalry retreat, everyone's morale was high.

A successful blow, Long Zhijian was full of confidence, commanding the tiger squat cannon and musketeer of the Guard Division to face the distant Tartar cavalry who were besieging the various departments of the Volunteers, and Long Zhijiao commanded the Fran machine guns around him to support with flowering shells, the range of flowering bullets is the same as that of live ammunition, which can reach more than 600 meters, covering almost all positions on the front line of the Volunteers.

After receiving the support of the guard battalion, the other battalions also woke up from the initial confusion, and concentrated their artillery and muskets to fight back at the Tartar cavalry.

The battlefield is the best teacher, and many squadron leaders and group leaders participate in the martial arts hall to study, and their tactical literacy is certainly far beyond that of ordinary people.

Everyone knows that the legs of the people on this flat dam can't outrun the four legs of the Tartar war horse, and the tripping nails in the face of the rushing Tartar cavalry may be able to tie the opponent's cavalry, but they can't run far at all.

In the past, there was no way to stop the opposing cavalry, but now after finding a way, one by one they are even more calm and fight with the Tartar cavalry.

Dog Wazi is a captain, when he was young, his family was poor and became Yao Huang, and later surrendered to the Volunteers, and became a captain at the beginning of the year because of his combat bravery.

The Volunteer Army has such a habit, that is, officers above the rank of captain are often required to go to the Armed Forces Hall for training for half a year. When Gou Wazi was still the squadron leader, he led the troops to fight during the day, and at night he participated in the literacy class under the leadership of the brigade secretary to learn to write.

After arriving at the Wubei Hall, they first had seven days of queue training, followed by various tactical training for cavalry, artillery, and infantry during the day, and a new interpretation of the "Actual Record of Military Training" at night, and training in terrain, tactics, and teamwork.

After half a year of training, the dog baby felt that he had been reborn, and when he saw the Tatar cavalry entering, he knew that if he escaped, there was only one way to die, and what he could do now was to rely on the wheelbarrow formation to block the Tatar cavalry.

Everyone was the first to fight separately with the heart of death, hoping to exchange their sacrifices for the precious defensive time of the brothers behind, and some even organized men and horses to fight the Tartars in the battle against the Tartars in the battle.

But how could the infantry be an opponent of the four-legged cavalry? The dog baby watched the brothers around him continue to fall, and launched a counter-charge with a squadron of muskets.

Far away at the Tartar who was wielding a knife to slash the brother, a dozen birds fired at close range, and after a volley, the rider on horseback shook twice and fell off the horse.

After a successful blow, everyone's confidence was greatly increased, and everyone continued to reload the bird guns and constantly shoot at close targets, so the third one actually shot four or five horsemen, stabilized the morale of the army a little, and everyone automatically regrouped around the dog baby.

And seeing that the brigade of Gouwazi actually relied on a small hill to shoot several horses, Tartar Niu Lu was obviously quite surprised, and now he was blowing the horn and leading more than 30 horsemen to rush over.

Everyone was terrified, and the best way to stop the Tartar cavalry was to use two-wheeled carriages and wheelbarrows to form a chariot formation. But now the Tartar cavalry came too quickly, and the defensive positions were not built at all.

When the dog baby was at a loss, he suddenly received an order from the general, suddenly realized, and shouted to the surrounding soldiers: "My lord said, the Tartar cavalry has nothing to fear, we can rely on the musketeers to support in the center to avoid being broken by the other party."

As soon as everyone heard this, their morale was greatly boosted, and three or five soldiers formed a four-like military formation, and everyone relied on wheelbarrows, two-wheeled carriages, and side carriages as cover, first delaying the momentum of the Tartar cavalry, and then relying on the numerical advantage to fight with the other party.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the dog baby led the musket squadron to release cold guns and shoot continuously at the Tartar cavalry on horseback, which slowed down slowly.

Even so, the dog baby's brigade was also heavily damaged, and after a fierce battle, only forty or fifty people were able to stand up now, and everyone was covered in blood and wounded.

Seeing that everyone finally killed the Tartar cavalry, some soldiers were still dancing wildly with weapons in their hands, and some soldiers hugged the brothers who died in battle and cried with joy, the dog baby felt that his eyes were rosy, but when he saw that more than a dozen Tartar cavalry were coming, he shouted and woke everyone up from the excitement just now, everyone used the Tartar corpse to quickly plug the gap with various things, and then reorganized the five squads in the city to form a military formation to counterattack.

The battlefield is the best teacher, and after the initial panic, the various brigades have found a trick, which is to form small positions based on the mountain terrain, and then use artillery, muskets, bows and arrows to support each other and cooperate with each other, so that everyone can support each other and cooperate with each other.

After an hour of fierce fighting, although the position was still constantly broken by the Tartars, everyone was no longer as panicked as at the beginning, and some even retreated in an organized manner.

Nikan was the first to be quite proud, and although the Volunteers were powerful, they were constantly being chased by the Tartar cavalry on the plains.

Although last year, the volunteers under the city of Shunqing took advantage of the convenience of the hilly terrain and relied on the advantage of position to contend with the Qing army, but now they are in the plains.

In the past, the cavalry that used to face the galloping on the plains had not yet been officially engaged, and the morale of the infantry was broken, and everyone had not yet waited for the commander's order to flee one by one, so that thousands of infantry became prey on the horseback of the cavalry.

Although the Volunteers were very strong, in the face of the cavalry brigades, although they turned around and fought hard, because there was not much cover, coupled with the instability of the army, the position was constantly broken through by the Manchurian cavalry. (The ancient cold weapon engagement is completely like the modern army fighting bayonets, and without high morale, it is difficult to ensure a high will to fight if the determination to die is hard).

But this confusion did not last long, and slowly the volunteers found a way to confront it, that is, the soldiers in the front relied on the incomplete positions to fight the Tartar cavalry, and the soldiers behind used muskets and artillery support.

As the battle continued, the battlefield was in a stalemate, seeing that the surrounding cavalry was killed and wounded a lot, Nikan ordered the Han army to set the blue flag Gushan Ezhen Li Guohan to push more than ten artillery pieces up, in an attempt to break the stalemate.

Unlike the cavalry, the ancient artillery was mostly transported by mules and horses, and the movement was very slow, and now it is still thrown 4,5 miles away.

Finally pushed these more than 30 Francophone runs, and as soon as the two sides exchanged fire, Nikan once again felt a huge gap between them.

Although the Tartars had a large number of artillery pieces (a Han army flag), the opponent seemed to be fighting accurately, and even attacked with more than 30 artillery pieces of his own with a small number of enemies.

What made Nikan even more embarrassed was that due to the lack of artillery support, everyone could only rely on cavalry and horses to storm the positions of the volunteers, and as time went on, the casualties of the various armors continued to increase.

Nikan had the intention to retreat, but as Heluo Hui said, if the more than 3,000 soldiers of the Eight Banners of Manmeng could not disperse the more than 5,600 volunteers on the Pingba and defeat them, then the morale of the volunteers would be like a rainbow, and if that was the case, the city of Hanzhong would not be able to hold it at all.

Heluohui pointed to the battlefield and analyzed, it was rumored that after the defeat of the Qing army in Sichuan, the Volunteer Army was reorganized, and after the reorganization, the Volunteer Army was often two regiments to form a town (division).

On the battlefield, the volunteers were clearly divided into two parts, probably a defensive position built with regiments as units, while the Wang Zhibang regiment in the north of the battlefield was smaller in number and weaker.

And what the other side relies on is nothing more than a rapidly formed military formation, but a sharp firearm?

Now that the attack has been frustrated, it is better to concentrate on attacking the King's Bang Regiment in the north first, and if the battlefield can be won, then besiege the Dragon Frame Regiment in the south.

Nikan was overjoyed, drew his sword, and personally commanded the Manchurian Zhenglan Banner to besiege the 10th Regiment of Wang Zhibang in the north.