Just after the New Year, in the first month of the first year of Hongguang (1645 AD), Yang Lin also felt the aggressive offensive of the Great Western Army, and Ma Yuanli, the governor of the left army of the Great Western Army, sent three messengers to Pengzhou within ten days, ordering Yao Tiandong, the great boss of the local tyrant, to accept the officials appointed by the Great West.

Everyone was at a loss and had no idea, some people suggested that Yao Tiandong, the big boss of the soil tyrant, should be cast for the time being, and temporarily avoid the edge of the Great Western Army, after all, since entering Sichuan, the Great Western Army has been invincible, and in less than half a year, it defeated hundreds of thousands of Ming Guards, defeated the Great Shun Four Chuan Jiedu Envoy Li Yutian Division, and defeated the Mongolian cavalry of the former Liaodong General Army Ma Ke Division.

Yang Lin was even more bitter in his heart, feeling that the problem was extremely thorny, the ancients paid attention to loyalty, treachery, good and evil, and if you are a thief for one day, you will be a thief for life.

If the official seal of the Ming Dynasty was handed over in the past, it could be said that it was a plan to delay the army, but today, if it is handed over to the local tyrants, it can be said that it betrayed the ordinary people who were invaded by it.

On the one hand, he and the envoy of the Great West were false and wronged, and on the other hand, Yang Lin secretly adjusted his defense to deal with the possible crisis.

Yang Wei's 2nd Division (Battalion) was stationed in Bazhou, and Liao Qifang's 4th Division (Battalion) deployed Yilong County to guard against the Great Western Army in the upper reaches of the Jialing River.

The 3rd Division (Battalion) of the Dragon Frame is stationed in Yingshan to guard against local rioters in the direction of Dazhou.

Yang Lin personally led the Escort Division, the Cavalry Division, the 1st Division, and the 5th Division to garrison Xiangru County with the naval army to prevent possible accidents.

It is said that it is a naval army, but only five warships, but this is not an ordinary warship, but modeled after the model of the Flying Tiger warship in the early years of the Southern Song Dynasty, the battleship is about 15 meters long, about 5 meters wide, about 2 meters high, with a draft of about four feet and a single deck.

On each side of the battleship there are four eight-leaf waterwheels, which drive the ships forward by stepping on the waterwheels.

In addition to the waterwheel drive, there is a hard sail more than six meters high and four meters wide at the stern, and the canvas can be hung on the windy weather to move forward with the power of the wind.

Behind the sailboat, there is a helmsman who adjusts the direction of the boat's movement by turning the rudder.

The armament of the warship was planned to be equipped with 8 guns, and the opponent could be killed by firing the tiger cannon and bird gun at a distance, and by firing arrows and guns at a close distance.

However, now there are fewer tiger squat guns in each unit, and some warships have only one gun, and at most only two.

In addition to the six-month period of building a small naval army, another change is the change of infantry army.

In order to improve the combat effectiveness of the troops, a grenadier group was established in each squadron of the escort battalion, and each squadron selected three of the strongest and farthest and most accurate soldiers to be equipped with 30 earth-shattering thunderbolts.

When the two armies rushed to about 20 paces, the grenadiers lit the lamps and threw earth-shaking thunders at the crowded places of the opposing side under the command of the captain to blow up the opponent's formation and kill and injure the enemy in front of them. (Yang Lin didn't know that since the British Glorious Revolution, Britain began to form grenadiers in various elite units, and in the West, grenadiers are a symbol of elite).

However, considering the strength of the surrounding Onishi Army, everyone still felt that the difference in strength between the two sides was too great to match.

In the direction of Shunqing, the strength of the Great Western Army exceeded 13,000 people, including 7,000 troops under Ma Yuanli, the governor of the left army, and more than 3,000 troops garrisoned by Chen Yingrui and Feng Youqing on the left and right.

In the direction of Guang'an Prefecture, there were 3,000 people under the command of Governor Zhang Guangcai.

In the direction of Baoning, there are not only Liu Jinzhong's cavalry battalion, but also Zhang Dingguo's 16th battalion of soldiers and horses, and Zhang Wenxiu's 15th battalion.

The enemy is strong and I am weak, and the difference in strength between the two sides is huge, in order to preserve his strength, Yang Lin even once planned to withdraw the whole army to Dazhou if the battle is not good, so that space is exchanged for time.

Yang Lin was so tormented that he didn't even dare to tell others what he thought in his heart, and sometimes he was startled in the middle of the night, and patrolled the camp with torches in the middle of the night to make everyone more vigilant.

Seeing that the New Year was about to pass, this day was discussing in the hall, and suddenly the 4th Battalion sent Liao Qifang to report quickly, claiming that there was an important military situation.

Yang Lin was shocked and opened the envelope to take a look, and breathed a sigh of relief, it turned out that Zhang Wenxiu and Zhang Dingguo sent troops to Hanzhong ten days ago, but they were defeated by the Dashun army, and now they fled back to Guangyuanzhou.

Since ancient times, if you want to protect Sichuan, you must occupy Hanzhong, after the defeat of the Dashun army in Sichuan Ma Ke, the emperor of the Great West Emperor Zhang Xianzhong wanted to capture Hanzhong and completely occupy the entire territory of Sichuan, so as not to covet Sichuan.

In order to eliminate the influence of rumors, Zhang Xianzhong ordered the wealthy families and scholars from all over the country to move to the CD in the name of consolidating the imperial capital, and on the other hand, let the foreign commanders fight the war will take the lead in winning two battles, so as to calm the hearts of the people in Sichuan.

After receiving the military order, Zhang Dingguo, the general of Anxi and Zhang Wenxiu, the general of Funan, decided to send troops to Hanzhong, defeated Ma Ke, the general of the defeated army, and recovered Hanzhong, so as to calm the people's hearts.

Zhang Dingguo and Zhang Wenxiu were just over twenty years old at this time, and they were bloody, plus Ma Ke, the Sichuan general soldier of the Dashun Army who killed him a few months ago, lost his armor and fled in a hurry, and they didn't take the Dashun generals in their eyes at all.

The two soldiers divided into two ways and entered Hanzhong, in a vain attempt to expel the Dashun army in one fell swoop, dominate Hanzhong, and then peep into the Central Plains.

After the defeat of Irichuan, Li Zicheng re-strengthened the defense of Hanzhong, and appointed his general He Zhen to replace the defeated general Ma Ke who had lost his territory, and reorganized the defense.

Seeing that Zhang Dingguo and Zhang Wenxiu's armies were so ferocious, He Zhen commanded all the troops to retreat step by step, and then took advantage of Zhang Wenxiu's lone army to go deeper, led heavy troops to fortify, and the soldiers and horses of the four roads suddenly came out and surrounded Zhang Wenxiu in the center.

Although Zhang Wenxiu was quite heroic, his two fists were difficult to defeat with four hands, and Hanzhong was located in the Qinling Mountains with extremely difficult terrain (Zhuge Liang's terrain of Qishan Mountain), so he was suddenly ambushed and could only be beaten passively.

Another general, Zhang Dingguo, heard that Zhang Wenxiu was surrounded, although he led the army to rescue, but was blocked by the Dashun army, and the two armies did not correspond to each other, and were surrounded by the Dashun army separately.

At this time, the Anxi general Zhang Dingguo suddenly realized that he hurriedly led the army to retreat, and after seeing the retreat of the friendly army, the Funan general Zhang Wenxiu fled in a hurry, so the Hanzhong campaign of the Onishi regime suffered a heavy setback.

After hearing the news of the battle of Hanzhong, Yang Lin breathed a sigh of relief, if it was said that the Great Western Army entered Sichuan at the beginning of the momentum like a bamboo, unstoppable, in just half a year to capture the entire territory of Sichuan, which made Yang Lin fearful, now after hearing the news of Zhang Wenxiu's defeat and Zhang Dingguo's escape from Hanzhong, he obviously felt that the momentum of the Great Western Army was no longer there, and he felt that the Great Western Army was heading for the road of sinking.

As a magistrate, Yang Lin has a deep understanding that if the Sichuan people were quite disappointed in the government half a year ago and looked forward to Zhang Xianzhong, then now their hopes are basically shattered.

The Sichuan people's hopes for the Onishi regime and Zhang Xianzhong were dashed, mainly because:

First of all, after the Onishi regime entered Sichuan, it did not eradicate the five beetles that caused trouble to the place at all (the Sichuan people said in the late Ming Dynasty, mainly referring to the royal palace guards, the official officials, the local heroes, and the local scholars) to stabilize the place. On the contrary, due to the fierce clashes between the old and new forces, many places are restless, and the turmoil has intensified, and the people are not at peace.

Second, the Onishi regime could immediately win the world, but it was helpless in the face of government affairs. Among the many government affairs, the most important thing is the CD flood and restore the glory of the land of abundance. Since the Qin and Han dynasties, Sichuan has been called the land of abundance, because of the CD Plain, the CD Plain covers an area of more than 20,000 square kilometers, and has the advantages of Dujiangyan water conservancy, not only the land is fertile, drought and flood are guaranteed, so Sichuan has won the reputation of the country of abundance, and has obtained the economic status of Yang Yi Yiyi.

However, Long Wenguang and Zhao Jiawei dug up Dujiangyan, and the river poured back, flooding several prefectures and counties, adding tens of thousands of victims out of thin air. However, since Zhang Xianzhong entered Sichuan, he has not resettled the victims at all, resulting in disaster victims in various places, and has failed to rebuild Dujiangyan to solve the flood caused by the Minjiang River, and the Sichuan under his control is far from Sichuan, a country of abundance, but a Sichuan that is full of crises.

The second is the return of scholars, since Zhang Xianzhong entered Sichuan, he initially reused Sichuan scholars, such as Mianzhou Yan Ximing was appointed as the right prime minister, Xichong entered Shijiang Ding Town, and Gong Wanjing was appointed as a scholar, all kinds of measures, although once stabilized the people's hearts, attracted some Sichuan scholars to return to their hearts.

But Yan Ximing and others are not local leaders, and their influence is quite limited. On the other hand, when Nanming used the former cabinet university, Wang Yingxiong was the supervisor, the governor of the four provinces, the Jinshi of Xuzhou, the squire of the military department Fan Yixing was the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi, Wang Yingxiong and Fan Yixin were eunuchs for many years, and there were many protégés.

In the end, it was the military defeat that made everyone more aware of the weakness of Zhang Xianzhong and his Onishi regime. People often say that the world is chaotic Shu first chaos, the world has been governed by Shu and then ruled, why is so, it is really a very vast area of Sichuan, which can not be controlled by ordinary heroes. In the past, Zhang Xianzhong's soldiers were prosperous, and everyone did not dare to resist, but now after the fiasco in Hanzhong, everyone sees that the Daxi regime is strong outside the country, and many heroes are bound to be unwilling to be lonely and raise troops to oppose it.

After thinking about these truths, Yang Lin also seemed to be ready to move, knowing that the opportunity had come?