The Shunqing Prefecture had just been pacified, and the top priority was to expand the territory and expand the strength before the Great Western Army reacted.

Despite this, the election of the prefect is still quite unpleasant.

In the inner hall, Yang Lin's face was full of iron, and all the staff around him were forbidden, especially Luo Mengke, an intelligence staff officer.

Kneeling in the hall, Luo Mengke's voice trembled: "Adult, the villain is negligent, the villain deserves death, the villain used to focus mainly on the rogues and the local tyrants, but I didn't expect Shi Jinchen and Gou Weiyi to come to this hand." ”

Yang Lin stood up, took a few steps back and forth, walked over for a long time and helped him up, and said, "It's not your fault, it's also that I'm too careless."

Although I have repeatedly made military exploits, in the past, the officialdom was corrupt, and the common people were struggling to make a living, and if we want to save the world, we must reform society, so we will inevitably offend some people.

On the surface, these Ming officials are familiar with the books of sages and pretend to be saints, but in fact, many of them are male thieves and female prostitutes, and we can't relax our vigilance.

This, what did Gou Weiyi do in the past, and what does it have to do with Shi Jinchen? ”

Luo Mengke touched the beads of sweat on his forehead, and sighed: "My lord, this little one has been figured out, this Gou Weiyi was born in a businessman, has been in business for generations, and has also been a talent in Chongzhen for 12 years.

When Shi Jinchen served as the prefect, the two were quite friendly, and the Gou family began to operate the official salt trade, so that within four or five years, the Gou family became a well-known businessman in Shunqing Mansion.

According to rumors in the neighborhood, this time Da Ma Ke entered the city, and the Gou family donated 5,000 taels of silver, and Ma Yuanli entered the city, and the Gou family also donated 5,000 taels of silver.

These big families, why do they have so much money at home, there have been natural disasters in the past few years, and they took out thousands of taels of silver at once, how can they seem to be fine. ”

Thinking of the movie I saw in my previous life, it was like the embarrassment of a Hong Kong tycoon's eldest son being caught by Zhang Zihao, thinking of Wang Beilin and False Yin's fat body, I couldn't help but show a sly smile, profiteers, officials, businessmen, if businessmen collude with officials, it is simply a day to make money.

Let Luo Mengke arrange for an intelligence officer to secretly investigate, and report as soon as there is a major discovery.

At this stage, Yang Lin will focus on how to recover Guang'an Prefecture and connect the various subordinate counties.

In the Ming Dynasty, Shunqing Mansion basically included Nanchong City, Sichuan Province, most of Guang'an and Dazhou region (i.e., Qu County, Linshui), and governed Nanchong County, Xichong County and Pengzhou, Guang'an Prefecture two scattered prefectures.

Pengzhou belongs to the scattered counties of Buling County, including Xiangru County, Yingshan County, and Yilong County.

Guang'an Prefecture belongs to the prefecture of Lingxian County, including five counties: Guang'an, Yuechi, Quxian, Linshui and Dazu.

The five counties below Guang'an Prefecture are almost equivalent to half of the prefectures and counties under the jurisdiction of Shunqing Prefecture, and more importantly, if Guang'an Prefecture is occupied, the space for troops to turn around will be increased.

A few days after occupying the city of Shunqingfu, Yang Lin decided to attack Guang'an Prefecture.

The 2nd Battalion of Yang Wei and the 5th Battalion of Yang Bingyi were ordered to guard against the Great Western Army in the direction of Baoning.

Liao Qifang's 4th Battalion, with the cooperation of the local militia group, went out of Xiangru County and went straight to Guang'an Prefecture in the east.

The 1st Battalion was ordered to take the 7th Battalion of General Yang Cheng and Feng Youqing and the Cavalry Battalion as the main force, and put on a posture of directly taking Guang'an Prefecture.

Chen Huaixi led the naval army to set off first, and with the assistance of the 3rd Battalion of Long Zhijiao, he went down the Jialing River, approached Hezhou, and cut off the rear road of the Great Western Army in Guang'an Prefecture.

Yang Lin led the guard battalion to garrison Fucheng to respond in the center and guard against the Great Western Army in the direction of Baoning.

At noon on 20 February, Chen Huaixi led the navy to go first, and after a day's sailing, they arrived at the wharf of Wusheng County that night.

In the distance, two fireships full of sulfur went down the river and rushed towards the opponent's water village, and when the other party was panicking, Chen Huaixi led the five Flying Tiger warships behind to follow, aiming at the ships in the dock from a distance to shell.

All of a sudden, the flames soared, and the crowd in the entire dock panicked, some were so frightened that they abandoned the ship and fled, and some rocked the boat and surrendered with the northern flag high.

This time, the navy was sent to the sneak attack, just to test the combat strength of the navy, and by the way, to harass the Great Western Army.

In less than half an hour, Chen Huaixi occupied Wusheng Wharf, looked at his results, sank two, damaged ten, and captured more than fifty ships and hundreds.

Seeing Chen Huaixi and the others majestic, everyone explained again and again that they were native fishermen, and they were recruited by the generals of the Great Western Army five days ago, and now everyone just wants to continue fishing, and they don't want to fight at all.

Standing on the pier, looking at the crowd of people who kept chanting, waiting for dawn with trepidation, something unexpected happened.

Dozens of squires walked in front, followed by a group of officials, and everyone escorted a person wearing official robes to the front of the water village, announcing the return of Wusheng County to the territory of the Ming Dynasty.

Looking at the squire's frightened looks, Chen Huaixi looked puzzled, but the squire quickly told everyone the answer.

It turned out that after Ma Yuanli's troops captured Wusheng County, they left a foreign magistrate and dozens of old and weak soldiers, and after hearing that the volunteers occupied Shunqing Mansion ten days ago, this pseudo-magistrate county seemed quite panicked, and ordered the officials to collect ships and form a naval army to establish a water village.

But how can this rabble go into battle to kill the enemy? Last night, Chen Huaixi led the newly formed naval army to attack the water village.

The navy has five Flying Tiger warships and more than 20 small fishing boats, and its combat power is comparable to that of ordinary civilian ships.

Hearing that the naval army he had worked so hard to build was defeated by the volunteers, the pseudo-Zhixian who was hiding in the city was terrified and prepared to flee overnight, but the team leader was a local, how could he let him escape, everyone shouted and tied him up in front of the army. (As many historical books say, after hearing of the military setbacks of the Great Western Army due to the establishment of the Southern Ming Dynasty, the squires of many counties expelled the officials appointed by the Great Western Army.) ）

In addition, Chen Huaixi even found out a news, at the same time that Yang Lin led his troops to capture Shunqing Mansion, Zeng Ying, a former Ming general, was also gathering troops and horses to attack Fuling in the south of Chongqing.

After more than half a year of rest, especially after receiving money and grain assistance from Guizhou, the strength has recovered, and now Zeng Ying led his troops out of the mountains to capture Fuling and occupy Chongqing.

Fuling is in the south of Chongqing, if Fuling is occupied, the Ming army can drive straight into Chongqing, in order to ensure that Chongqing is not lost, the governor of the Western Army, Chongqing guard general Liu Tingju is fully aiding Fuling, and trying to ensure the safety of Chongqing, an important town in eastern Sichuan.

Chen Huaixi was overjoyed, and on the one hand, he sent fast horses to achieve victory, and on the other hand, he expanded the naval army, and announced that he would lead the army to attack Hezhou downstream, so as to attack the land of Chongqing with Zeng Ying's army.

Hezhou is the northwest gateway of Chongqing, not only the only retreat of the Great Western Army of Guang'an Prefecture, but also the confluence of the Jialing River, the Fujiang River and the Qujiang River, and the ancient city of Diaoyu in its territory is the most famous ancient battlefield in Chinese history, three hundred years ago, the Mongolian army invaded the Central Plains, the soldiers and civilians of the Southern Song Dynasty not only blocked the Mongolian army in the Diaoyu ancient city, but also killed the Mongolian Khan Meng Ge, delaying the pace of Mongolian unification of China.

Hearing that the Volunteers captured Wusheng County, and now they are preparing to go down the river to take Hezhou, Zhang Guangcai threw the treasure knife heavily on the case, and now there are traces of the Volunteers' activities all around, which direction is where the main force of the Volunteers is?

In Pengzhou in the northwest, Liao Qifang's more than 2,000 people entered the territory of Guang'an County, broke through several camps one after another, and the army approached Guang'an County.

In the west of Shunqing Fucheng, Liao Qifang led several battalions of soldiers and horses to approach Guang'an Prefecture.

In the direction of Wusheng, Chen Huaixi led the naval army to drive straight into Hezhou, looking at the posture to cut off the retreat of the Great Western Army.

Now there are volunteers everywhere, all claiming that their units are the main force of the volunteers, although they understand that there is a bluff, but the front-line departments have been defeated one after another, and now the morale of the whole army is low, and that way is the main force of the volunteers, and it is impossible to distinguish it for a while.

Zhang Guangcai was frightened, and he had the intention to escape and withdraw from Guang'an Prefecture? But thinking of what happened to Zhang Dingguo and Zhang Wenxiu at the beginning of the year, I shuddered in my heart.

At the beginning of the year, the two righteous brothers Zhang Dingguo and Zhang Wenxiu led their troops to raid Hanzhong, but they were defeated by He Zhen, Zhang Dingguo was demoted to the general of Qian, and Zhang Wenxiu was demoted to a guerrilla general.

According to the city to the death? Now that the Ming army is attacking Chongqing Prefecture, Chongqing is an important town in the east of Sichuan, and its military and economic influence is far above that of Shunqing Prefecture, there is no reason for the Great Western Army not to save Chongqing and save Guang'an Prefecture?

Besides, defending the city needs the support of the people in the city, and now the gentry have always regarded the Great Western Army as a rogue, although they don't say anything on the surface, but the main force of the volunteers is killed, who knows what will happen?

Field battles, defeat the Volunteers through field battles?

Ten days ago, when the ancient city of Yunshan was attacked, the whole army was not only killed and injured by the burning grass and trees rolling down from the heights, but also the burning grass and trees that were constantly rolling downwards with everyone to avoid the rolling stones, and the burning grass and trees that kept rolling downwards were killed by Yao Chonglie's department, and everyone retreated more than ten miles before they stabilized their foothold.

Now the morale of the whole army is low, and the volunteers have just defeated more than 10,000 soldiers and horses under Ma Yuanli's department and occupied Shunqing City.

After thinking about it, Zhang Guangcai decided to adopt an alternative method, while ordering his generals to lead the old and weak soldiers to retreat to Hezhou to ensure that the rear was not lost, while he personally led the main force in the field battle.

In late February, the two armies met in Laisu Village, and after a fierce battle, the Great Western Army was unfavorable, Zhang Guangcai led the army to retreat in the direction of Hezhou, and the Volunteers took advantage of the situation to occupy Guang'an County.

After occupying the county seat of Guang'an, Liao Qifang divided his troops to attack the neighboring counties of Qu County, Linshui, Dazu and other counties, after the main force of the Great Western Army withdrew, the prefectures and counties that passed through were invincible, so in less than ten days, the Volunteer Army successfully recovered the other four subordinate counties of Guang'an Prefecture.

Since then, the ten counties of Shunqing Prefecture, in addition to Xichong still in the hands of the Great Western Army, the Volunteers have recovered the other nine counties of Shunqing Mansion in one fell swoop, plus Daxian County, Dongxiang County in Dazhou, and Wusheng County in Tongchuan Prefecture, and the Volunteers have recovered twelve counties.