Traditionally, the CD Plain is located between Longquan Mountain, Longmen Mountain and Qionglai Mountain, and is formed by river alluvium due to fault subsidence, covering an area of about 20,000 square kilometers.

There are two roads to enter the CD Plain from Tongchuan Prefecture, of course, the most spacious is the Ming Dynasty National Expressway, which is entered through Yu County (Tongchuan Prefecture Administration) and Zhongjiang County.

The second is to cross the Tuojiang River and bypass Genting City to enter.

Or take a detour to the east of Sichuan and enter through Longquanyi.

Genting City is one of the eight pillars of Sichuan's anti-Mongolian resistance, its geographical location is very dangerous, its east and Fortress Mountain lock river to strangle the Tuojiang River Jintang Gorge River defense;

The west controls the CD plain to defend the CD;

In the south, the deep valley of the Shuimo River is dangerous, and the passage of the Huai'an Army to the CD Dongshan Wuchang;

The Gaoding Pass of the North Dangerous Pass and the Xiaoyunding Mountain rely on each other to control the hole road from CD to Tongchuan Mansion.

This Genting Mountain is the gateway to the east of CD and the key point of the East and West Rivers.

On this day, he led his troops to the mouth of Jintang Gorge, and there was already a report from Malay, and Zhang Wenxiu, the general of Funan in the west, led his troops to retreat to Genting City to block the way of the army.

The southern expedition, which had high hopes, actually ushered in the news of the fiasco at Pengjiangkou, and Zhang Xianzhong, who was preparing to attack from all sides, urgently ordered the Daxi troops to turn to defense.

Half a month ago, Zhang Wenxiu withdrew from Neijiang and was about to rest, when suddenly it was reported that the Volunteers had defeated the Great Western Army and occupied Tongchuan Prefecture.

Zhang Xianzhong was afraid that Yunding City would be lost, so he urgently ordered Zhang Wenxiu, the general of Funan, to lead his troops to deploy defenses along the river to prevent the volunteers from crossing the river.

There is a rolling Tuojiang River in front to block the way, and there are more heavy troops in the distance.

Standing on the shore, observing with a monocular for a long time, looking at the surging river below, although the current is very turbulent, the Tuojiang River turns continuously in Jintang Gorge, forming a huge accumulation plain after exiting the canyon.

Compared to other places, the water flow at the bend is relatively slow, and the pontoon bridge is completely deliberately built.

However, the surface of the river is only more than 500 meters, which completely exceeds the range of the large Franc machine gun, which is really difficult to do.

Difficult does not mean that there is no way, after thinking for a long time, Yang Lin finally had an idea.

Under an order, Yang Lin ordered Ma Mingluan to lead his troops up the mountain to cut down giant trees and make simple boats to be used as temporary gunboats.

It took a day of hard work, the gunboat was completed, and Yang Lin decided to take a strong attack on the opposite Great Western Army.

More than a dozen improvised gunboats were pushed into the water, and sailors cruising in the river with small boats to protect the safety of sailors.

The water ghosts kept jumping into the boiling river, first dragging the raft forward, then tying the rafts together and slowly extending forward, forming two pontoon bridges four meters wide.

Sailors constantly rocked and dragged back and forth on the pontoon bridge to prevent the pontoon from being blown apart.

Thirty meters upstream and downstream of the pontoon bridge, more than 20 small boats have been lowered into the water, and the volunteers on the shore are constantly gathering, apparently preparing to cross the Tuojiang River.

Zhang Wenxiu frowned, it seems that the volunteers are fully prepared this time, basically holding the belief that they will win, thinking of this, he can't help but sigh secretly.

Although Zhang Wenxiu is quite good at water, he will never lead his troops to jump into the water to fight back and forth with the other party, and now he can only let all his troops strengthen their defenses and fight after the volunteers approach.

In this way, at noon, the pontoon bridge was spread across the center of the river, which happened to be within the firing range, and Zhang Wenxiu gave an order, and the artillery erected on the mountain fired at the center of the river.

But at this time, the artillery fire was really not flattering, and more than ten shells were fired, and only one shot fell on the pontoon bridge, smashing up a huge column of water.

Seeing that artillery had been fired on the opposite bank, the improvised gunboats cruising in the river opened fire and returned fire.

Due to the iron-core bronze body Franc cannon made by iron mold casting and water cooling, the quality is far from being comparable to other artillery.

Now seeing that the artillery fire of the Onishi Army on the shore was exposed, they fired back one after another.

Iron balls fell from the sky, fell to the ground, were hit through the body, extremely terrifying, fell to the ground, and were smashed into a deep pit. (Solid bullets, non-exploding)

At the same time, forty small boats from the upstream and downstream rowed across the river to the other side of the river, with wet quilts hanging around the boats, and a small Furlong cannon in the bow, as if they were preparing to cross the river.

The Great Western Army on the shore was in turmoil, Zhang Wenxiu pulled out his sword and ordered everyone to fight back.

These small boats were constantly being shot with rockets, arrows, and birds, and they were charging towards the shore while firing their guns.

This is the most critical link in the defense of the river, that is, to prevent the other side from rushing to the shore, under the strict order, the officers and men of the Great Western Army rushed to the shore in a group, shouting loudly to deter the other party, and at the same time firing arrows.

The artillery of the Onishi Army on the shore also did not care about the soldiers of the volunteers who erected the pontoon bridge, so they hurriedly turned their guns and aimed them at the ships on the river and continued to bombard.

On the one hand, it is difficult to know how effective the battle will be when the red-coated cannons on the opposite bank are guarding against the iron balls falling from the sky, and on the other hand, firing cannons on small boats in the river.

With the passage of time, the pontoon bridge is getting closer and closer, and the upstream and downstream battles continue, looking at the fighting river, Zhang Wenxiu feels weird, fighting for a long time, the other party does not have a small boat to rush to the shore, this is too incredible.

Almost all the small boats were going back and forth at a distance of more than 40 meters from the shore, and a few of them caught fire and turned back to fight again.

Suddenly, Zhang Wenxiu secretly shouted that it was not good, could it be that there was no one on the other side of the ship except for the sailors, except for the gunners?

Picking up the binoculars and taking a closer look, it turned out that the ship was just a straw man model.

I wanted everyone to stop firing guns and arrows, but the other side ships were hung with wet quilts, and I couldn't see it clearly from a distance, although I knew the tricks of the volunteers, but I was helpless.

Seeing that there were many fewer artillery and arrows on the river, the volunteers on the other side cheered loudly one by one: Thank you General Liu, thank you General Liu.

In the Ming Dynasty, three or four percent of the children have gone to private school, which is much higher than the end of the Qing Dynasty, even those who did not go to private school, everyone has heard of Zhuge Liang, heard of grass boats borrowed arrows.

Now that they see themselves as Cao Bing, they are even more demoralized.

Zhang Wenxiu complained bitterly, seeing the ships rushing over, through the curtain I don't know if it was really full of soldiers, seeing a team rushing over, everyone knew that the plan was in the middle, but they could only release arrows to block the attack, and the pain can be imagined.

As the sun set, the two pontoon bridges got closer and closer, and in the end, when they were 100 meters apart, the battle became tense.

In order to block the construction of pontoon bridges for the volunteers, hundreds of officers and men of the Great Western Army jumped into the river to block the construction of pontoon bridges, regardless of the gunboats and rafts that were patrolling upstream and downstream.

And saw the soldiers of the Great Western Army jumping into the river, and the volunteers on the pontoon bridge also jumped into the water, and the two sides fought back and forth.

Unexpectedly, the other party attacked so strongly, Zhang Wenxiu felt that his blood was in his blood, and in order to prevent the volunteers from going ashore, regardless of the artillery fire on the river, he was on the front line and organized to guard the river.

In order to deter everyone, Zhang Wenxiu put a rope behind everyone, claiming that anyone who dared to retreat would be killed, and personally led the supervision team to supervise the battle behind.

However, the volunteers on the river were not vegetarians, and there were not only more than 40 or 50 simple ferries shuttling back and forth on the river, fighting with the Great Western Army on the other side.

As time went on, Zhang Wenxiu felt more and more that something was wrong there, but he didn't know that something was wrong there.

At this moment, there was a shout of killing from behind, and everyone was shocked, and they turned their heads to look, not knowing when hundreds of volunteers appeared behind them.

It turned out that when laying the pontoon bridge to attract the attention of the Liukou, Long Zhijiao led more than 300 strong men of the 3rd Regiment to rush to the opposite rocky beach in the morning, and then took advantage of the fact that the upstream war was in full swing to attract the attention of the Liukou, everyone secretly swam across the Tuojiang River and hid in the rocky beach one by one.

Relying on the mountain as a cover, everyone secretly detoured to the back of the Liukou, and when they saw that the pontoon bridge was about to be completed, they suddenly launched an offensive from behind.

Although there were only more than 300 people, almost all of them were dead soldiers, and their combat effectiveness was far from being comparable to that of ordinary armies. except

In addition, the more terrifying two or three miles downstream outsiders turned on their backs, I don't know when more than 20 rafts were laid down on the other side, and now they are constantly killing and running.

Last year, the morale of the Daxi Army was high, and Zeng Ying, the deputy general of the Ming Dynasty, led his troops to mix into his department, and after the outbreak of war, it suddenly broke out and defeated the Daxi Army.

I can't think of repeating the old trick now, it's really nerve-wracking.

And when I heard that the soldiers of the Volunteers were killed behind me, I saw that the pontoon bridge was about to be completed, and the Volunteer troop transports docked one by one, and now they were fighting to the death with the Great Western Army on the shore.

The morale of the Great Western Army was greatly demoralized, and Yang Lin took advantage of the situation to command the 5th Regiment and the 7th Regiment to kill the past, kill and disperse the recalcitrant soldiers of the Great Western Army, occupy the other side of the river, and all the units approached Genting City.

After half a day of fighting, it was only in the second half of the night that Zhang Wenxiu led 3,000 pro-troops to retreat to Genting City, and the other departments heard that they had been killed, and some even bypassed Yunding Mountain and retreated to Jintang County behind.

On the opposite mountain, at the foot of the mountain, there were bursts of killing, not bursts of singing, there were special for the people of northern Shaanxi, telling everyone that their homes were now occupied by the barbarian Qing Tartars, and the villagers had become captives.

There are targets for the people of Huguang, and everyone is coerced one by one, becoming thieves and slandering their ancestors.

The morale of the whole army was low, and Zhang Wenxiu ignored the rest, while arranging defense, he sent scouts to Zhang Xianzhong, the emperor of CD City, to report urgency.