Along the way, people beat gongs and drums, and some even offered food as a reward, cheering the victory of the volunteers.

After two days, the news of the defeat of the Great Western Army by the Volunteers had already come out, and after the fiasco at Pengjiangkou, the Great Western Army still had 200,000 people, and the strength was strong.

The croppers who had escaped the military disaster came out of the deep mountains and old forests, from the barren grass, and although everyone was in rags, they were happy when they saw a group of volunteers driving by.

Everyone sighed, one by one, calling out that life in the past two years was not easy, and lamenting the withering of life.

Since the local uprising against the Great Western Army, Zhang Xianzhong has increased the local rectification, especially this year, many official eunuchs and wealthy families have suffered tragic disasters.

Some gritted their teeth and denounced the destruction of agriculture by the Great Western Army, and the forced abduction of horses, cattle, mules, and donkeys in the countryside, causing the people to return to the era of slash-and-burn farming.

In the past two years, the war has continued, local bandits and bullies are rampant, and many people estimate that if one or two out of ten die in the war.

In addition to the people along the way, unless the Onishi Army was heavily defended, many surrounding prefectures and counties, led by local squires, responded to the volunteers, and everyone chased the foreign officials appointed by the Onishi regime to arrest the few soldiers who followed.

Arrived at Huilong Mountain, fifteen miles north of the city, and rounded with the regiments that arrived in advance.

Yang Lin set up the baggage battalion of the large battalion of the Chinese army on Huilong Mountain, and the other regiments advanced forward and set up an area of four or five miles around the main battalion.

The regiments and battalions dug deep trenches and built fortifications to prevent a sneak attack by the Great Western Army.

During the period, good news came one after another, the news of the defeat of the Great Western Army by the Volunteers came out, and the surrounding states and counties responded accordingly, and within a few days, it was successively reported that Zhongwei County in Tongchuan Prefecture, Xindu County and Xinjin County in CD Prefecture were led by local squires anyway and broke away from the Great Western Army.

Everyone sent envoys to the camp of the Volunteer Army, hoping to send officials to obtain official appointments and calm the hearts of the local people.

After the last celebration party, Yang Lin more clearly realized the weakness of the Great Western Army, and understood the most urgent thing now, that is, to appoint officials and restore order.

Settle displaced people in the local area and carry out farming in order to stabilize local order.

Or order them to train soldiers, and after passing the examination, they will be incorporated into the Volunteer Army and fight in the field.

Only by reforming maladministration and re-examining order can we be reborn in the fire of desire.

At this time, it was a different scene in the city capital, receiving the news of the defeat of various departments, Zhang Xianzhong was annoyed and ashamed, and sent two uninteresting officials on the spot.

For more than ten years in the world, the fierce opponents encountered in his life were only a few Hong Chengchou, Cao Wenzhao, and Zuo Liangyu, but at that time, the officers and soldiers were strong and strong, and their strength was significantly stronger than that of the righteous army.

This time it was completely reversed, but it still suffered a fiasco, and how unwilling Zhang Xianzhong was to be such a strong person.

Sichuan and Shaanxi mountains and rivers are connected, in the past many times led the troops into the four Chuan, and also many times wanted to be like Liu Xuande according to this to achieve a hegemony, the old dream came true the year before last, especially after the defeat of Ma Ke, how heroic the heart was.

In the past few years, some scholars have bewitched the people to make trouble, and some villains have made rumors about Zhang Xianzhong Tuchuan.

Some of the stories are also troublesome, saying that when he was young, he was deceived when he entered Sichuan to do business, and he said that he was cut by thatch, which is really unbearable.

Since ancient times, there has been a saying that Qin and Shu are strong, and it is difficult for the rebels to establish a stable regime in the Central Plains, so the best way is of course to follow Liu Xuande's example to enter a corner of Shu to gain power, and then occupy the hometown of Qin. If you retreat like this, you will dominate one side, and if you advance, you will sweep the world.

At the beginning of entering Sichuan, although Zhang Xianzhong slaughtered the relatives of the king of Shu, he was bent on winning the hearts of the people of Shu.

Mianzhou Jinshi Yan Ximing was appointed as the right prime minister, and the four Jinshi Gong Wanjing and Jiang Dingzhen were appointed as the six Shangshu.

Everyone was exempted from the hardships of labor and food, and was ordered to be exempted from money and food for three years.

But in the past two years, I have encountered villains, especially those annoying readers, who have bewitched those people who do not know the truth, and let their efforts be in vain.

In the past two years, the local people have fled the famine, and even the thousands of miles of fertile land in the Chengdu Plain have been abandoned in a large area, and now it is difficult to raise even military rations, and many barracks have two meals a day and drink thin every day.

Initially blamed the four generals and the five major governors for their ineffective conquest, the 200,000 troops marched south this summer, but they were unexpectedly set on fire by Yang Zhan, and the rear army was in chaos, with countless ships sunk and millions of money and food lost.

I wanted to return to the capital city to settle down a little, and take advantage of the situation to punish those villains who were in line with the yang and the yin, and just killed three or five generals who were traitors, who expected that Yang Lin would lead his troops to the west to enter the plain of the city capital and defeat the 50,000 troops of Zhang Kewang and Zhang Nengqi.

After receiving the news of Zhang Kewang's defeat, Zhang Xianzhong personally led more than 10,000 pro-troops out of the city to respond, and wanted to kill the other party by surprise, who knew that the volunteers were very cautious, and the forward crossed the Xijiang River, and the pursuit distance was only twenty miles away.

After that, the volunteers collected their troops and returned to the camp, and now the camp moved forward for more than 40 miles, reaching the Huilong Mountain in the northeast of the city, pressing the camp, digging deep trenches, and building fortifications, and there was no intention of besieging the capital at all.

In this way, on this day, we went up to the city wall to see that about 4,000 volunteers had set up camp for four or five miles, and set up camp at the entrance of the North Pole, two or three miles away from the north gate, and were now digging trenches and building fortifications.

Standing on the city tower, Zhang Xianzhong was annoyed and ashamed and prepared to lead the army to drive away the volunteers, and Wang Zhaolin, the prime minister of the left next to him, grabbed his shirt and said: "Your Majesty think twice, although Yang Lin is young, his use of troops is cautious, far from being comparable to ordinary generals.

Your Majesty, please see, although the Volunteers are defenseless on the outside, they are well organized on the inside, as if they are facing a great enemy. ”

Zhang Kewang also admonished: "Father, although Yang Lin is still young, he is under the strong enemies that his treacherous father has encountered in the past.

The volunteers fought successively, and that time was not a trick to lure us into the bait, and then take advantage of our army's unpreparedness to defeat our army.

Now the volunteers are nailed like nails under the city capital, causing panic in the city.

In order to allow the other Ming armies to attack together, Yang Lin even sent envoys to various places to release the news, saying that his father had ruled the world for more than ten years and had accumulated tens of millions of assets.

In the past, the Ming army of Zhulu began to act, and the scouts came to report that Yang Zhan of Jiading Mansion had led his troops to go out yesterday, and the other Ming armies had corresponded.

The eldest husband can bend and stretch, father, for the sake of today's plan, you should consider how to evacuate this place of right and wrong. ”

Zhang Xianzhong fell into silence for a while, Zhang Nengqi, the general of the expedition to the north, was young and vigorous, although the main force was still defeated by the volunteers last time, he refused to admit defeat.

Now listening to Wang Zhaolin Zhang Kewang say this, he was quite angry and said: "As the saying goes, the soldiers will block the water and cover the earth, and now the volunteers are stepping on the door and approaching the city.

Father, the last time the war of Hexing had a chance to win, who expected that the Chinese army would be defeated first and had to withdraw, after this battle, his brothers were not convinced.

The minister was willing to be the vanguard, leading the troops to expel the volunteers outside the entrance of the North Field. ”

When the Great Western Army entered Sichuan, there were more than 100,000 soldiers and horses, and the captured guards and horses exceeded 200,000 at one time.

In its heyday, the Great Western Army had a total of 120 battalions, except for the four battalions of Huwei, Baotao, Longxiang and Yingyang as the guards, and the 22 battalions stationed in the city, the other battalions were mostly under the command of the four generals and the five major governors.

Among them, the most abundant troops are the general Zhang Nengqi of Zhengbei, with the most soldiers and horses, a total of 20 battalions.

Then there was the Pingdong general Zhang Kewang, who had 19 battalions

Anxi General Zhang Dingguo again, there were 16 battalions

Funan General Zhang Wenxiu had the weakest troops, with 14 battalions.

The five major governors, the naval governors and other close generals led the remaining 25 battalions of soldiers and horses.

Each battalion is divided into large battalions and small battalions, and at its peak, the large battalion had more than 3,000 soldiers and horses (like Zhang Guangcai's department), and the small battalion was only more than 1,000 people.

Now there is a shortage of food, and many of the various units have fled, so that there are more than 1,000 people in each battalion, and rarely more than 2,000 people.

In addition, such as Ma Yuanli's department, Zhang Nengdi's department, Zhang Guangcai's department, Liu Tingju's department, and Zhang Hualong's department were completely annihilated by the Ming army, and Zhang Kewang's department, Zhang Dingguo's department, and Zhang Wenxiu's department were heavily damaged by the volunteers.

Now in the whole army, in addition to Zhang Xianzhong's personal army, there is no big loss in strength, that is, Zhang Nengqi, the general of Zhengbei.

Zhang Xianzhong's pro-army, mainly put into use in the most critical link of the campaign, now listening to the northern general Zhang Nengqi has the heart to fight again, Zhang Xianzhong was overjoyed, and immediately ordered him to lead his troops to fight, and ordered Funan general Zhang Wenxiu to lead his troops to respond.