When everyone heard this, they were shocked and hurriedly verified.

Although the ancient military books record that the two warring sides moved 100,000, but that includes the rear grain road, escorting grain and grass men and horses, and the long-term battle generally has one soldier and horse in the front, and the rear needs a person to ensure its grain and grass supply.

In ancient times, the roads were rugged and the grain transportation was difficult, and in order to ensure the supply of military supplies at the front, if the grain and grass were transported from thousands of miles away, the logistics replenishment required four times as many personnel.

This is also the reason why the Central Plains Dynasty was reluctant to fight with the nomads, and if they wanted to send soldiers and horses to fight deep into the nomads, they often needed to levy a lot of labor, which was time-consuming, food-consuming, and labor-intensive.

Ancient war history records that the two sides often recruited 100,000 soldiers and horses, in addition to being an imaginary number, describing the large number of personnel used by both sides, and more importantly, all those rear supply personnel were counted.

Now the Manchu Qing Dynasty has more than 10,000 remnants of the Manchu and Mongolian Eight Banners in Han, 40,000 soldiers and horses of the Green Battalion, and if you add 40,000 soldiers and horses of Wu Sangui and Guanning, its strength is too strong.

Yang Lin fell into silence for a while, stood up and looked at the map, then sat down to hold his cheek and ponder, and said with a smile for a long time: "On that day, Shu Wei fought in Hanzhong, although Cao Wei was strong and strong, but it was in vain, it was really because of the difficulty in supplying the grain road.

Although the Manchu Qing Dynasty was strong and strong, the three armies did not move the grain and grass first, and it was okay for Wu Sangui not to enter Hanzhong, and if he entered Hanzhong, the long supply line would also drag down the other party. ”

Peng Jianxin, the seventh assistant staff general, said disapprovingly: "My lord, it is difficult for the Qing army to transport grain, and it is not easy for our army.

Nowadays, the Tartars in the world have accounted for seventy or eighty percent, and the adults resist the Tartars with half of the Sichuan Province, so it is better to be cautious. ”

Next to him, Yin Chengqi touched his beard, looked at the first and said: "My lord, Hanzhong has the reputation of the country of abundance, and there will be a bumper grain harvest this autumn, if the Tartars are allowed to plunder the people's grain, it will definitely greatly relieve the pressure on the rear supply." ”

Yang Lin smiled, stood up and said: "Generals, the Tartars are cruel and arrogant, killing people and setting fire to us in Sichuan, and they have robbed the people's rations for more than ten days.

Ladies and gentlemen, you are from many peasant families, and you should know the importance of food, and we must not allow the Tartars to kill people and set fires in Hanzhong, and wantonly plunder the people's rations. ”

Thinking of the past years of famine, many generals were moved by the feeling and shouted and cursed.

Seeing that the morale was available, Yang Lin immediately ordered Jing Keqin, Peng Jianxin and others to lead their troops to the local area to protect the people's grain from being plundered by the Tartars.

It is only more than 80 miles from Calcium County to Nanzheng, the place of Hanzhong Governance, and the normal march of the army is only two or three days, and it can be reached in one day if the army marches urgently.

After occupying Calcium County, Yang Lin put on a posture of capturing Nanzheng, and after suffering a heavy defeat, the Manchu Belenikan did not dare to be careless, and hurriedly collected his troops and returned to the camp to wait for news.

For several days in a row, there was a calm in the west, and there was no posture of a big battle, and after a little inquiry, it became known that the main force of the Volunteer Army had no movement to advance.

Nikan secretly complained that it was a pity, complained that it was delayed for a few days, and in order to alleviate the losses of the army, he sent soldiers and horses to the place to plunder.

But Nikan immediately regretted it, and sent eight conscription teams to defeat the Volunteers, and the whole army suffered casualties, and in order to cheer up, he even whipped all the corpses of the Tartar soldiers who died in battle.

Seeing that the daily looting of food was decreasing, Nikan complained bitterly, and although he sent cavalry to suppress it, the volunteers were pervasive, often grabbing lone tartars and beating them.

In late October of the first year of Yongli (1647 AD), in less than half a month, the volunteers defeated Li Guoying's troops repeatedly, captured Dingjun Mountain, and captured Calcium County.

Yang Lin stood on the side of the case and fell into a deep thought, because the text prison himself had limited information about Wu Sangui in his previous life, he only knew that Wu Sangui had guarded the Shanhaiguan and let the Qing army enter the customs, and he only knew that Wu Sangui had become the king of Pingxi to guard Yunnan, and he didn't know anything about the festival in the middle.

It seems that Wu Sangui probably entered Yunnan from Hanzhong 4 (Sichuan) in history, and it seems that this Wu Sangui stained the crown on his head red with the blood of the Han people.

In this way, what Cao Zhongchun said is true, after the Volunteers defeated the Haoge army, in order to save the southwest dilemma, Dolgon not only ordered Duoduo to guard Guanzhong, but also ordered Wu Sangui to lead Guanning Iron Cavalry into Hanzhong.

Thinking of this, Yang Lin smiled and said: "General Cao, congratulations, you have provided a very useful information for my volunteers, and you can be spared from living but reinstated as a judge."

As long as you are truly loyal to our Han people, and as long as you can make meritorious contributions on the battlefield in the future, it is also possible to re-serve as a general and deputy general.

Cao Zhongchun wept with joy, knelt down again and again to thank him, and pointed to the people under the tent, hoping to forgive them.

Yang Lin pondered for a moment, and entrusted all the five or six captured generals as instructors to each battalion to help train soldiers and horses.

Seeing Cao Zhongchun and the others thanking each other and leaving, everyone quarreled non-stop, and some thought that our army had won successive battles, and the morale of each battalion was booming, and they just happened to kill under the city of Nanzheng to fight to the death with the Tartars.

Some people think that the enemy is strong and we are weak, and the strength is disproportionate, and in addition, it is winter now, and the weather is quite cold, and fighting at this time is beneficial to the Tartars and not to the volunteers.

Yang Lin also fell into a deep thought, looking at the sand table in front of him, Yang Lin also fell into a deep thought, the enemy is strong and I am weak and hard fighting is not my own character, if I withdraw the army like this, I will be exhausted, and then I will be exhausted, if I know the difficulty and retreat, I am afraid that I will fall into the predicament of Zhuge Liang's Northern Expedition.

Yang Lin felt that his brain was in a mess, thinking about all the shortcomings of his previous life, there is no doubt that most of these have traces of barbarism, if it were not for the barbarism, China's development would not lag behind the West too much, if it were not for the barbarian autocracy, China would not have fallen into the quagmire of dictatorship.

Stood up and sat down, sat down and stood up again, raised troops for the Northern Expedition, there were only 4 infantry divisions and 1 cavalry brigade around him, even if he added the 2 divisions under the command of Liao Qifang, there were no more than 30,000 people, and the Tartars included Duoduo's defeated banner, Wu Sangui's 50,000 Guanning soldiers and horses, and the men and horses commanded by Nikan, Li Guohan, Li Guoying and others, the strength was far stronger than Haoge's soldiers and horses in Shu that day.

Looking at the sand table in front of him, Yang Lin suddenly smiled and said: "Everyone, Cao Zhongchun said that Duoduo's department has just entered Tongguan, and Wu Sangui's department has just arrived in Henan, even if they are starry and nightly, there is still half a month."

Ladies and gentlemen, we can use these ten days to break through Hanzhong City, and then everyone will wait for Wu Sangui and Duoduo at ease. ”

Yin Chengqi shook his head and said: "My lord, this Hanzhong is not compared to other places, many places are very flat, although we have broken through Hanzhong City, but there are many cavalry under Duoduo and Wu Sangui, so it is not good for our army." “”

Yang Lin smiled: "Everyone, it's okay. Do you see that there is a Han River from west to east in Hanzhong, and everyone in Calcium County sees that this river is narrow and the water flow is turbulent, which is a natural danger to those landlubbers in the north.

I have made up my mind to have General Wang Fuchen serve as the guerrilla general of the naval army, and form a naval army based in Calcium County to control the various crossings of the Han River and prevent the Tartars from crossing the fierce generals.

The 4th town (division) of Yao Zhijiao was urgently transferred to Hanzhong to strengthen the strength of all units of our army's front line to reinforce our army. ”

Seeing Yang Lin put on a decisive battle posture, all the generals applauded loudly, and Yin Chengzhu, the commander of the envoy around him, admonished: "My lord, four (Sichuan) is the foundation of our army, although the whole Sichuan is quite smooth, but it is always necessary to guard against villains taking the opportunity to make trouble."

If there is no 4th town (division) to assist in defense, there is only Fan Mingshan's 1st town (division) in Sichuan, so it may be difficult to impeach the heroes of Sichuan. ”

Yang Lin thought for a while, shook his head and said: "There is a gap with my volunteers, but Yuan Tao, Wu Dading, Li Zhanchun, and Yu Dahai.

Now Yuan Tao, Wu Dading and others are far away in Yunnan, and they are beyond the reach of the whip. Although Li Zhanchun and Yu Dahai have strong troops, they are all short of food, so even if they make trouble, what big waves can they make? ”

Immediately disregarded, ordered Wang Fuchen, who was leading the naval army to transport grain and grass to the front line, rushed to Calcium County, collected ships, and formed a naval army based in Calcium County to control the various ferries around the Han River.

After leaving Jing Keqin's 6th town (division) to garrison Calcium County and defend the supply of grain and grass for the army, Yang Lin led the guard town (division), the 3rd town (division) of Longzhiframe, the 5th town (division) of Yang Bingyi, and the cavalry brigade hurriedly on the road and drove to Nanzheng, the Hanzhong governance office of more than 170 miles.

Hearing that the Volunteers had captured Ningqiang Prefecture and Calcium County one after another, the army was approaching Hanzhong, and in addition to the 3,000 defeated troops of Li Guoying's army, the 4,000 Manchurian Zhenglan Banner and Red Banner soldiers and horses stationed in Hanzhong were just formed.

As everyone analyzed, the newly formed Manchurian Zhenglan Banner and Red Banner Army not only had very few people, but also did not need to defend the city at all (the cavalry was good at field warfare but not good at defending the city), and the only thing that could really be seen to be able to defend the city in the First World War was Li Guoying's 3,000 defeated soldiers and other green battalion soldiers and horses.

In this way, the total number of people before and after is only more than 5,000 people, and it is even more difficult to defend the huge Han Zhongfu City.

The plan for now is to make Gao Mingzhan's troops retreat into Hanzhong City, but then the two volunteers will inevitably be greatly strengthened after the round, so it will be even more difficult to defend the city.

After the defeat of the Zhengchuan army, Dolgon secretly wrote many times to the generals of the front-line army, bluntly saying that the Manchurians had one less death and one less death, and that the Manchurian soldiers had to be pulled out to fight to the death unless they had to.

After thinking about it, Nikan still decided to lead the 4,000 newly formed Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners to attack, in order to slightly defeat the volunteers, and then defend Hanzhong City with all his might, so that he could hold on to Duoduo,