In the late March of the 2nd year of Yongli (1648 AD), Yang Lin led his troops to the city of Changshou after a 20-day march, and after five days of fighting, Yang Bingyi led his troops to climb the city wall first, and the volunteers took advantage of the chaos to occupy Changshou.

After a short rest, he crossed the Yangtze River with the cooperation of the navy and approached the city of Fuling.

Yang Lin asked people to write a letter against Li Zhanchun and Yu Dahai, ordering them to surrender and avoid death, but Li Zhanchun refused.

Yang Lin turned his heart sideways and concentrated ten mortars to bombard the city, so it took two days to finally collapse one side. Although Li Zhanchun pulled out his sword and swore to resist to the death, except for some henchmen in the army, other soldiers envied the volunteers, and some saw the surrender of the whole team of the volunteers, and after half an hour of bloody battle, the volunteers took control of Fuling and entered the city.

The defeat was like a mountain, Li Zhanchun and Yu Dahai saw that there was no hope of resistance and led the army to flee eastward, and the remnants were defeated by Yang Wei, after two days of fierce fighting, Li Zhanchun was captured, and Yu Dahai was defeated and killed. (In history, Liu Wenxiu entered Sichuan, Li Zhanchun was arrested, became a monk, and was finally killed by the Qing army.) Yu Dahai led more than 10,000 troops to flee to Hubei. ）

Looking at Li Zhanchun, who was pushed up, Yang Lin was about to have a seizure, and Yang Jingxin, the deputy general of the 11th town who had just rushed to Chongqing to meet, knelt down and said: "My lord, my father was quite friendly with Li Zhanchun when he was here, and he was also kind to him.

This Li Zhanchun is a martial artist, and he was deceived by Li Gande, deceived by Zhu Rongfan, and provoked by Yu Dahai, so it became a big disaster.

My lord, thinking about it, this Li Zhanchun is also quite annoyed that he was deceived by Zhu Rongfan and deceived by Li Gande. ”

Yang Lin's face was stunned, and when he attacked Li Zhanchun and Yu Dahai, he used the excuse that he colluded with Zhu Rongfan and Li Gande to murder Yang Zhan, the commander of the Sichuan Xingdu, and now Yang Zhan pleaded in person, no matter what, it was not comfortable.

Zhan Tianyan, the right-hand political envoy, saw the opportunity, arched his hand upward, and scolded Li Zhanchun with a fierce voice: "Your Excellency has outstanding military achievements, your merits are in Sheji, and your merits are in Qianqiu, and you are the governor of Sichuan, Shaanxi, and Gansu officially appointed by the imperial court. ”

Li Zhanchun looked dazed, thinking about how to respond.

Zhan Tianyan continued to scold: "Li Zhanchun, you reckless man, you were deceived by Zhu Rongfan and Li Gande and sabotaged the Northern Expedition, you, are you guilty?" ”

Li Zhanchun struggled desperately, and said to the boss: "Yang Lin, I, Li Zhanchun, were deceived by Zhu Rongfan and Li Gande, and I did a lot of wrong things, but I definitely didn't mean to harm Yang Zhan and Yang Du's commanders, let alone sabotage the Northern Expedition."

You pulled Lao Tzu out with a thousand knives, I am convinced, but if I harm Yang Zhan and sabotage the Northern Expedition, Lao Tzu is not convinced. ”

Everyone was shocked, and Yang Jingxin knelt down and said, "My lord, my father praised his bravery when he was alive. My lord, this Li Zhanchun's heart is not bad, I hope that my lord can look at his father and forgive his life. ”

Thinking of the persecution of Yang Zhan and his help for Wang Yingxiong and others that day, Yang Lin had tears in his eyes, and his voice trembled: "I respect General Yang, because he is dedicated to the country and the people, and is a model for my generation.

Since this Li Zhanchun is valued by General Yang in front of him, the death penalty can be avoided, and he can be made a soldier of the Guardian Association to see if he can make contributions in the future. ”

When Yang Jingxin heard this, he shook his head again and again and said: "My lord, Li Zhanchun has been a general for many years, and now it is the time to employ people, so I am afraid it is not good to use a general like this." ”

Li Zhanchun jumped like thunder, shook his head again and again, and said: "Yang Lin, I have not been convinced by you in the past few years, and when I miss you as a security chief, I, Li Zhanchun, am famous in eastern Sichuan."

Now let me be your personal soldier, you are too humiliating, Yang Lin, you want me to be your personal soldier, it is better to simply kill me. ”

Zhan Tianyan, the political envoy of Youbu, laughed and looked at the crowd: "Everyone, everyone is too worried, my lord, the lower official is wrong to blame the adult."

The heart of adults who love generals should not be under the famous generals of the ancients. Although Li Zhanchun has been famous for a long time and relies on bravery on the battlefield, if it comes to training soldiers to fight, there are really many shortcomings.

The adult demoted him to a pro-soldier, in fact, it was to hone the other party, as long as Li Zhanchun sincerely assisted in the future, why not be rich in the future? ”

Yang Lin smiled bitterly in his heart, but on the surface, he seemed very open-minded, and said with a smile: "Right political envoy, don't say these things, it's so boring."

Li Zhanchun has the courage of ten thousand people, just like Zeng Yingzeng, the old general. I want to hone the other party, but I don't want it to repeat the old general Zeng's repetition.

General Yang is respected by the world, although General Zeng has such and such problems, but he is also a hero for a while, but because of too much support, Fang was defeated by the Liukou, and the city was broken and died. ”

Li Zhanchun is Zeng Yingyi's son, and he was not on good terms with Yang Lin in the past, but it was really caused by frequent disputes between the two armies.

Yang Lin ordered Zeng Ying's remains to be collected, his cemetery to be repaired, and a pension to be distributed to comfort his family.

Seeing Yang Lin like this, the defeated generals kowtowed to thank Yang Lin for his kindness.

Yang Lin was overjoyed, and according to the merits of the various ministries participating in the war, many of the ministries were expanded.

Talking about the unification of Sichuan politics, Yang Jingxin, the deputy general of the 11th town, said: "My lord, Li Gande, Yuan Taowu, Dading and others dared to murder their ancestors, but it was really because of Wang Xiang, Ma Yingjiao and others.

The two are jealous and jealous, and they have a lot of complaints about their late father on weekdays, and Li Gande dared to murder his late father because of their relationship. ”

Zhan Tianyan shook his head, arguing with reason, believing that for the sake of today's plan, the other party should be disarmed first, rather than announcing personal vendettas.

Yang Lin thought for a long time, leaving Yang Wei's 2nd town and Feng Youqing's 7th town to garrison eastern Sichuan to attack Zhu Rongfan.

Yang Bingyi led the 5th, 8th, and 9th towns to attack Ma Yingkao.

He personally led Wang Xiang who guarded the town, the 1st town, the 2nd town, the 10th town, and the 1st cavalry to attack Zunyi.

Wang Zhibang led the 10th town to go first, and defeated Wang Xiang's general Wang Mingchen at Qijiang.

Yang Bingyi defeated Ma in Yongning, and by early May, various armies were approaching Banzhou.

Wang Xiang came to the camp alone to ask for guilt in fear, Yang Lin was shocked, and immediately came out, looked at Wang Xiang who was naked, and said: "General soldier Wang, what are you doing, what are you doing?" ”

Wang Xiang sighed and said, "Your Excellency, the last general is guilty, and the last general is not forgiven."

I once had a small suspicion with Yang Zhan's general soldiers, and Li Gande sent someone to say that he would punish Yang Zhan's general soldiers, and the last general did not worry about him, so he immediately agreed.

Who would have thought that Li Gande, Yuan Tao, Wu Dading and others would be so vicious and actually killed Yang Zhan's general soldiers, and the general would be guilty.

There is also that Zhu Rongfan, in the name of the superintendent of the country, in the name of the deputy marshal of the world's soldiers and horses, asked us to lead the army to crusade against the adults, although the small one admired the general and the rogue ten battles and ten victories to expel the rogues, and the seven battles and seven victories to defeat the 100,000 army of Haoge, but the order was so, and the small one was forced to do so, and now he knew that Zhu Rongfan was an impostor, and it was too late to regret it. ”

Yang Lin smiled silently, and the fourth (Sichuan) patrol next to him shook his head and said: "Chief soldier Wang, probably not only this crime, everyone is so jealous and envious of the merits of the volunteers, and you are even more plundering, and the military discipline is very poor." ”

When Wang Xiang heard this, he bowed his head again and again and confessed.

Yang Lin looked at his own prison soldier Qian Bangqi beside him, he was completely bookish, and he was purely a good man.

After receiving the news of Yang Zhan's murder that day, the whole person almost collapsed, pondering how to calm down the tense.

When I returned to Shichuan this time, I tried hard again and again, but after being left dry for a few days without effect, I got a little better.

Now seeing that Qian Bangqi is now openly beating Wang Xiang, Yang Lin is also happy and comfortable, bowing his head and saying nothing.

Wang Xiang wiped the beads of sweat from his face again and again, and sighed: "Qian Xun envoy, you don't know that I have a lot of soldiers, there are very few products in this Bozhou Prefecture, and the soldiers can't eat or dress at all, there is no way, sometimes I only have to turn a blind eye." ”

Qian Bangxin glared at Wang Xiang and said, "Chief soldier Wang, look at it, you can't control Banzhou alone, there are actually ten towns of soldiers and horses.

The Volunteers control most of Sichuan, and the whole army is only 13 towns and horses, many of which are not fully staffed at all, and most of them are only C towns.

Only in this way can we provide the front line with 2 million taels of military salaries every year, and in this way, we can have the money to pay tribute to the martyrs. ”

Wang Xiang shook his head and bowed his head silently.

Yang Lin said with a smile: "Qian Xun is the envoy, General Wang is very brave in battle, which should be commendable.

Leading troops to fight is its strength, and being a politician is of course its shortcoming.

Since the officers and men of the department are now subordinate to my volunteers, I will treat them equally.

Wang Xiang and He Zhen served as the commander's envoy and Tongzhi together, and together with Yin Chengzhu, he was responsible for the operational staff work. ”

It was immediately decided to reorganize Wang Xiang's headquarters into three infantry regiments, which were respectively assigned the position of capital division, and incorporated them into the 1st town of Yangcheng, the 2nd town of Longzhiframe, and the 10th town of Wang Zhibang.

Wang Xiang was shocked, looked at Yang Lin and said: "My lord, this, our army has been an army for a long time, if it is reorganized, can you consider it?" ”

Yang Lin patted Wang Xiang on the shoulder and said: "Wang Tongzhi, since everyone is my brother, think about it, if the soldiers of my volunteer army eat and drink spicy food, the other departments will still have three meals, and some even make a living from looting." Brothers will feel unbalanced in their hearts when they see that although they don't say it.

Also, if there is a looting, the people will say that I Yang Lin is looting.

Mr. Wang, in order to avoid misunderstanding, the department of our association will be reorganized, don't worry, I will treat everyone equally after the coup. ”

Wang Xiang shook his head and said: "My lord, you know that the military discipline of our army is not good, if something happens to you at the instigation of some people during the reorganization, how can it be good?" ”

Qian Bangqi and Zhan Tianyan also reacted and also admonished Yang Lin.

Yang Lin said with a smile: "Everyone, just like everyone said just now, there are some scum in the army who make a living by robbing the people, if they can't stand the military discipline and oppose looting, then the scum in the army who robbed the villagers in the past have been found, and it will be the right time to punish them."

I know you're kind, but don't worry, with my three towns here, what can ordinary people do?

If there's anything really going on, it's very simple, let's find out these scum and solve it. ”

Wang Xiang was quite unwilling in his heart, but there was a huge difference in the combat strength of the two sides, and he was now in Yang Lin's big tent and even had the strength to oppose the United States and Europe.

Wang Xiang had to summon the general soldiers, Wang Mingchen, Wang Chaoxing, Zhou Dingchang and others to lead the soldiers and horses out of the city.

Yang Cheng waved his army into the city, and Yang Lin met with the top ten general soldiers appointed by Wang Xiang (these people like to appoint official positions in a big way), and Yang Lin met with everyone and explained the salary of officers at all levels after explaining the establishment of the army.

Hearing that the officials were demoted, everyone was initially depressed, but they heard that the volunteers were very high, and there were 21 silver coins for a thousand monthly salaries alone, and if you added the camp expenses in your hands, it would only be more.

Yang Lin immediately assessed everyone's martial arts, riding and archery, and strategy, and most of the people in this group who surprised Yang Lin were outstanding in martial arts, but the combat strategy was reviewed.

Immediately commissioned Lei Kaideng, Wang Mingchen, Zhou Dingchang and other three people for the guerrilla, the other seven respectively served as the capital division, Qian Zong (in history, when Wang Mingchen led the troops to occupy Shunqing City, each family gave a card to avoid death, and a few taels of silver were required.

Each cow gives a cow ticket, which requires a few taels of silver, so it seems that it is quite good at management. ）

After the reorganization was completed, Yang Lin ordered Li Chongyan, the leader of the rebel army in Boryeong Prefecture, to be the governor of Banzhou (Zhili Prefecture), and ordered Wang Zhibang to lead his troops to garrison Banzhou for reorganization.

At the same time as the reorganization of Wang Xiang's department, the Ma Examination Department, which had been stubbornly resistant, announced its surrender, and Yang Lin ordered it to be reorganized into the 5th town of Yang Bingyi and the 10th town of Ma Mingluan.

Since then, in Sichuan, in addition to the Ming Dynasty's Chu Fan descendant Zhu Rongfan occupied Wanzhou, Qin Hong Tan Wen and others occupied Kuizhou Mansion, after three months of strong conquest, the original Sichuan warlords, such as Li Zhanchun Yu Dahai Wang Xiangma should test everyone, or surrender or flee or die in battle, since then Yang Lin unified the Sichuan government.