Not to mention how Liu Jinzhong learned from the pain, how to prevent the volunteers from going upriver again to attack and harass all parts of Baoning Mansion, just say that Zhang Dingguo of Tongchuan Prefecture heard that Yao Huang's army was defeated, Liu Jinzhong in northern Sichuan was blocked, and the four-way siege strategy failed, the whole person looked quite annoyed.

Now the Ming army is surrounded on all sides, Wang Yingxiong, the governor of Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Hu and Guangzhou, and Fan Yixing, the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi, led the Yunnan-Guizhou soldiers and horses from the Yunnan-Guizhou region into southern Sichuan.

In eastern Sichuan, Sichuan governor Ma Gan, deputy general Zeng Ying, political staff Liu Lanchang and others had just led their troops to kill Liu Tingju, the governor of Daxi, and defeated Zhang Wenxiu, the general of Funan, and occupied Chongqing.

In addition, due to the destruction of water conservancy facilities such as Dujiangyan by the Ming army, the flood in Sichuan was serious, and many places were abandoned, and many people became displaced people.

In order to ensure the mobility of the troops, the Great Western Army collected a large number of livestock from the people wherever it went, and the number of horses and mules for ploughing cattle and carrying grain and grass in various places was drastically reduced.

In addition to these factors, there was a vague sense that the Volunteers were not as weak as they appeared on the surface.

Compared with the tens of thousands of other departments, the Great Western Army now has 200,000 people (less than 100,000 real elite soldiers), and Ma Gan and Zeng Ying also have 50,000 or 60,000.

On the other hand, the volunteers, the talented soldiers, are completely in a situation of protecting the territory and the people, and now there are only 6,000 people in the full fight.

Although the implementation of the elite policy, but in this era to fight for morale, courage, numbers, so from this point of view, the strength of the volunteer army is the weakest, plus in the midst of the local tyrants, rogue heavy surrounding, can be used as soft persimmon pickup.

In order to defeat the volunteers, Zhang Xianzhong arranged in all directions this time, allowing the local tyrants Yao Tiandong and Yuan Tao to attack from Bazhou in the north.

Liu Jinzhong, the governor of the Xiao cavalry battalion, led his subordinates down the river from the Baoning Mansion to entangle the main force of the volunteers.

Zhang Wenxiu, the son of Yizi, went against the current from Hezhou, bluffed, and attracted the main force of the volunteers.

Although the siege strategy on all sides was frustrated, it still dispersed the forces of the volunteers, and now wait for Zhang Dingguo and Bai Wenxuan's troops to set off from Tongchuan Prefecture and launch the final blow.

Everyone was full of confidence, who would have expected that in less than ten days, the local tyrants in Bazhou would be defeated, and the rear of Baoning Mansion would be restless, and now they would defeat the volunteers, and the only way to pin on Zhang Dingguo was to pin on Zhang Dingguo.

Although Zhang Dingguo was only twenty-four or five years old, he joined the army since he was a child, and before he was twenty years old, he led tens of thousands of soldiers and horses to cross Zhou County.

Zhang Dingguo carefully analyzed the defeat process of Ma Yuanli, the governor of the left army that day, Yang Lin first defeated the Daxi army in the field battle of Dawangmiao, and then defended the city.

Yang Lin and his volunteers are quite good at field warfare, and Zhang Dingguo is a master of field warfare.

In this case, why not needle-to-needle against Mai Mang, why not lure the volunteers to fight in the field, and then win the battle.

On the outskirts of Shunqing Prefecture, Yang Lin wears a silver helmet and a summer short-sleeved shirt with a round neck, the silver buttons on the front of the shirt and the three silver epaulettes on the left and right shoulders look particularly dazzling in the sun.

The buttons are made of casting, iron buttons used by ordinary soldiers, copper buttons used by squad leaders, squadron leaders, and group leaders, and silver buttons used by the total and above to distinguish them.

Yang Lin is now an official to worship the generals, and the buttons used are of course different, and the buttons on his clothes and the epaulettes on his left and right shoulders are plated with silver foil, which looks majestic and particularly conspicuous.

Dressed in calf-length shorts, tucked into shorts, with a cow belt around his waist and riding boots, he occasionally stops with a sword or stops to pick up a telescope to observe his surroundings.

In this era, monoculars have long been used in the military field, and in the past, when I was in Pengzhou, I also wanted to make or buy monoculars, and only after the seizure of Shunqing Province this year did someone have something to make telescopes.

Unlike binoculars in the previous life, it is necessary to close one eye and open one eye to observe when operating, which is very hard, so while producing monoculars, I have been discussing the manufacture of binoculars with craftsmen and masters.

Seeing the prefect dressed like this, the expressions of the people around him were very different.

At first, everyone was very unaccustomed to this new military uniform, and some people joked that not only the armor was like a short skirt, but also wore a short coat and a short coat to save fabric.

After using it, everyone slowly discovered the benefits.

The short coat is comfortable to wear on the body, and it is not as stuffy as it used to be when worn all over the body.

The weight of the breastmail armor (the one that changes the cotton armor of the whole body into the chest) is less than 3 percent, which can not only cover the long-range shots of most bows and crossbows, and prevent frontal cuts, but also light weight, and it is also comfortable to wear, unlike the prickly heat all over the body like in the past.

Now I see that the prefect is actually wearing this new style of dress, although it is slightly different from ordinary military uniforms, such as the large silver button on the front and three silver epaulettes on the shoulder, some of them are not so calm.

Seeing a group of people passing by, although everyone didn't dare to put down the work in their hands, they looked at it with their eyes from time to time, and felt quite strange.

Although he felt the slight difference in everyone's expressions, Yang Lin did not care, and after watching a piece of terrain, he often stopped to talk to the villagers who were building the fortifications to boost morale.

The urban area of Fucheng is more than 5 square kilometers (the ancient city of Langzhong, the city of Baoning of the same era, the original construction area is more than 4 square kilometers, although the military status of Shunqing Fucheng is not as good as that of Langzhong, but the famous fruit city and silk city in history, the economic status is far above Langzhong), and it is composed of a city wall of 5,6 meters high.

Although the terrain is not as majestic as the ancient city of Langzhong and Chongqing City, it is also a place that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, the rolling Jialing River flows through the east of the city, and in the west of the city and the south of the city is the West River stream of more than 100 meters wide, which is wound outside the city like a jade belt, and the Jialing River surrounds the city of Shunqing Mansion together, constitutes a natural moat, and the Flying Tiger warship and the sampan boat can come and go freely during the period.

Outside Xihexi, it is composed of 12 characteristic peaks such as Qile Mountain, Huofeng Mountain, Guanbao Mountain, Ma'an Mountain, Rentou Mountain, Flag Mountain, Ruquan Mountain, etc., which are composed of West Mountain, among which Qile Mountain is more than 200 meters higher than the Nanchong city wall, standing on Qile Mountain, a house and a tree in the city are in full view.

The terrain in the north is relatively open, and there are no mountains and rivers to block it, this time the Great Western Army came from the CD in the west and the Xichong in the north, and the most important defense is the West Mountain, the West River Creek and the north city wall.

In the careful study of Xiangyang, Wuchang, Chongqing, CD and other city defense operations, the biggest feature of the siege of the Great Western Army is the surprise attack and blasting, if the field battle outside the city is not carried out, the commander of the Great Western Army will drive straight into the city, and select a blasting point in any part of the city wall to carry out blasting, so that Shunqing City will not be able to defend.

In order to resist the attack of the rogues, it was decided to build fortifications based on the surrounding mountains and terrain.

Three days ago, Du Jigui, Yang Guangtai, and Wang Zhiyao successively brought local security brigades from all over the city, plus more than 2,000 people in the city, and they worked with 1,000 laborers in the city to assist the soldiers and horses of each battalion in digging fortifications.

It is now the beginning of September, although the people have completed the autumn harvest, but many people are ploughing in the autumn, in order not to delay the agricultural time, except for the more than 1,000 laborers levied from the city, there is no more labor from the locality, more than 8,000 people are distributed under the city wall within a radius of four or five miles (4 infantry battalions, 1 cavalry battalion, 1 water battalion, about 5,000 people, plus 2,000 security regiments, 1,000 laborers in the city), everyone is sweating like rain, and they are digging trenches and fortifications.

In the west and south, the 3rd Battalion led by the garrison Yang Wei and about 1,500 people of the Guang'an Prefecture Security Regiment relied on the peaks of Xishan Mountain and built fortifications with Qile Mountain as the core to defend Xishan.

In order to defend the West Mountain, not only a large number of stones, rolling logs, and haystacks were arranged, but also more than ten tiger squatting guns were equipped to support at critical moments.

In addition, it was Chen Huaixi's navy, cruising on the Jialing River and Xihe Creek to provide fire support to the volunteers on the Xishan Mountain at any time, or breaking through to the upper reaches of the Xihe River to cut off the grain route of the Daxi Army (the Xihe Stream flows through Xichong County and flows into the Qianli Jialing River in Shunqing City).

In the north of the city, due to the relatively flat terrain, after the offensive was frustrated, the Great Western Army might make a detour to the north of the city, and then drive straight to the bottom of the city, blowing up the city walls as in the attack on Chongqing City and CD City.

There is no doubt that the focus of the Great Western Army's attack will be in the north of the city, and Yang Lin also arranged heavy troops in the north of the city, building three lines of defense in front of and behind, digging three horse rejection pits in front of each defense line, even if the opponent breaks through the horse rejection pit, a large number of hidden stakes and wooden thorns are placed more than ten meters behind to hinder the offensive of the enemy group.

The Tiger Squat Cannon and the Small Franc cannons of each battalion were mostly installed on the hill at the core of the fortifications to provide support to the surrounding area, while the 20 large Franc cannons with a range of more than 600 meters were pressed on the city wall to provide support to the city.

Due to technological improvements, especially the iron mold casting speed, the success rate is far more than the clay mold, the cost of the iron core copper cannon is far lower than the general copper cannon, a large Franc cannon costs more than 600 taels, and a No. 3 Franc cannon casting cost is 100 taels of silver, so that the volunteers can cast artillery on a large scale. (During the Apocalypse, the Ming Dynasty purchased red-coated cannons from the Portuguese, about 4,000 taels of silver each, which made the cost even lower.)

The cost of the Franc cannon is far inferior to that of the red-coated cannon, and after the technical improvement, the pass rate of the iron film casting cannon has increased to more than eighty percent, and the cost of the iron-core copper cannon itself is much lower than that of the copper cannon in the past).

Simulating the opponent's possible offensive route and conducting continuous offensive and defensive drills, Yang Lin looked triumphant, and said with a smile to the left and right: "In the west and south of the city, I rely on the peaks of the West Mountain, not only to build a large number of organ fortifications, but also on Qile Mountain there are ten large Franc cannons and twenty No. 3 Franc cannons, and it is even more difficult for the Liukou to break through the west and south defense lines.

After the setback, the Liukou will inevitably achieve a breakthrough in the north of the city, but I will use the Zhuma pit and trench as a link, and the No. 3 Fran machine gun position as a stronghold, although the Liukou have 100,000 people, but if I want to break through my steel Great Wall, it will be even more difficult. ”

Everyone was also full of admiration, it seems that this fortification is not only an impregnable wall, but also a variety of operational principles, and the combat plan has been continuously deduced and improved by sand table deduction and improvement to reach each battalion (although some of them are not very literate, such as Yang Bingyi of the fourth battalion and Liu Weiming of the sixth battalion, but there are staff officers who can make up for this.

Yang Lin was born in Xuangong, and there were many talented scholars in the army, and most of them participated in the first phase of the officer training camp, and those who had been tested in actual combat had their abilities further sublimated and could play the role of staff officers.)

But the right capital Si Chen Yingrui was full of disdain, pointing to the dug trench and sharpened wooden thorns and hidden stakes and shook his head: "My lord, don't be unconventional all day long, just like this wooden thorn, this trench is far from being unique to adults.

In order to resist the attack of the barbarian Qing Tartars, my Ming Dynasty once advocated that the cannon defend the city and defeat the slave chieftains. I, Daming, also dug a large number of trenches on the Guanning defense line and arranged wooden thorns.

But the trench is dead, the people are alive, and the Manqing Dynasty has bypassed the Guanning defense line many times and rushed directly to the city of Beijing.

The adults dug a large number of trenches, which seemed to be impregnable, but how useful it was, the two sides did not actually compete, and now it is just a battle on paper. ”

Turning his head to look at Chen Yingrui, Yang Lin secretly shook his head. After the soldiers entered Shunqing City, Mingsheng secretly surrendered, relieved his military power, and was promoted to the nominal Right Capital Division, which made him quite complaining, and from time to time he made insulting remarks.

Yang Lin smiled, patted the other party on the shoulder and said: "What Qian Dusi said is good, now it is on paper, but the clever commander has the ability to let the enemy be led by the nose according to his expectations, although nothing in the world is exactly as expected, so it requires the leader to make a decision immediately, and we must not learn from Zhao Kuo and Ma Yan."

Also, the cannon guards the city, densely covered with trenches and dark piles, these are all left by our ancestors, we should not imagine out of thin air, do not look down on our ancestors, we should continue to innovate on the basis of our ancestors, not to regress, let alone rest on our laurels, so that many good things are lost.

Ladies and gentlemen, is this what the general said? ”

Unexpectedly, Yang Lin not only did not get angry, but accepted it with an open mind, and everyone nodded yes when they heard it, with admiration on their faces, while Chen Yingrui felt frustrated, and his face was bloodless.