It is now late March, and after four or five months of training, especially after nearly two months of hunting exercises, the morale of the lieutenant generals is like a rainbow, and many squads are basically proficient in their own training essentials.

The queue is also neat, and everyone moves in unison

Everyone's physical fitness is getting better and better, whether it is tiger struggling or running, it is obviously better than before, and some bureaus can march up to 80 miles a day

The shooting action of the bird gun and the bow and crossbow is also standard and skillful

The earth-shattering thunder throwing is also quite a crosshair, and some throwing experts can continuously and accurately throw humanoid targets 30 meters away

The fighting kung fu is also quite outstanding, and in the process of training, he often fights with real knives and guns in close combat

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Everyone's ambition is quite high, everyone frankly said that the Pengzhou soldiers can be compared to the world's heroes, seeing everyone boast so much, although they know that it is a bit exaggerated, but there is no doubt that it is also an elite division, as long as they practice diligently for several months and experience more battlefield training, Yang Lin is confident that it will be tempered into a strong force in the world at the end of the Ming Dynasty.

(Although the ancients were hard-working, they read less and saw less, a very obvious example is that they learn things slowly, just like Chen Cheng trained a strong man during the Anti-Japanese War, and he couldn't walk for half a month.)

In the era of firearms, the operation of firearms was more cumbersome, so it took about three or four months for a qualified infantryman and six months for a good musketeer. ）

Yesterday, I received news from the Daotai Yamen that Long Wenguang, the military preparation of the Northern Sichuan Army, would come to the review to discuss the matter of conquest of the local tyrants.

The whole camp cleaned up, Yang Lin and Zhizhou Xu Kongtu and other cadres gathered at the foot of the mountain early in the morning to greet them, and at noon the music and drums sounded in the distance, and saw more than 100 people coming to the foot of the mountain from a distance.

Everyone greeted them, and it took a long time to get off the sedan door, and when they saw a group of generals and local squires who greeted them, Long Wenguang said: "Ruzhen, you, you are still quite popular with the people in the place."

When the old man was in Yilong County two days ago, the county magistrate Qin Mintang and the squires praised your merits one by one, and today when you come to this ancient city, these squires are probably rushing to your face. ”

Yang Lin was overjoyed in his heart, but he was still very modest on the surface: "The last general has such a thin name today, and it is not all due to the cultivation of the governor and the Daotai.

The last general is just a poor talent in the countryside, suffering from unknown grievances and being in prison, the teacher and the Daotai adults are not despicable to the students, they start in the countryside, and pull out in the Lijia, so that they can come out to do something for the villagers, and seek the source, all of which is still the power of the Daotai adults and the teacher. ”

Long Wenguang shook his head, did not speak, and returned to the eight-person sedan chair with the support of the left and right, and was carried by eight strong men to the outside of the camp.

The various brigades were practicing, and after seeing everyone appear, Yang Lin ordered the three-way drum to be sounded, and the brigades quickly assembled, lined up neatly, and ran up to report.

Yang Lin had a happy face and said with a smile: "Daotai Daren and Wushuangquan, please review my Pengzhou soldiers." ”

Shi Jinchen, the prefect next to him, was full of disdain, shook his head and said: "Yang Lin, you look like a strong soldier, today the Daotai Lord came to review the various departments and still practiced, you are also quite rare." ”

Yang Lin said with a smile: "My lord Mingjian, this way of civil and martial arts was originally figured out, of course, the adult Jinshi background knows that there are more than three readings, so the same is true for military training, you also need to practice diligently, you can't go through the motions."

If it weren't for decades of hard study, it would be difficult for the prefect to enter high school even though he was talented, and in the same way, this Pengzhou soldier was originally a soldier, and everyone used to be just a mountain village man, if you don't practice diligently, how can you go to the battlefield and defeat the stubborn enemy at that time? ”

Everyone was silent for a while, and Long Wenguang shook his head for a long time and said: "The main purpose of this school's military parade is to count the number of people and prevent the generals below from eating empty salaries. The morale of the soldiers in Guanpeng Prefecture is booming, and the queue is neat, how many are there now? ”

Yang Lin arched his hand and said: "Report to Lord Taiwan, Pengzhou soldiers now have four divisions and eight bureaus, plus a small flag for guards, a small flag for tiger squatting artillery, a small flag for cavalry, plus staff and blacksmiths and carpenters in the army, there are currently a total of 1,050 soldiers and horses, please review them." ”

In the ancient army, empty pay was prevalent, and some people did not believe in running to count at first.

Unlike other military forces, as long as it is one person, it counts, and in the Pengzhou soldiers, the soldiers are not only neatly dressed and show their mighty spirit, but they are also different among the gangs, and there is no reason for good people to pretend.

Everyone was quite surprised, and the prefect Shi Jinchen sneered: "Yang Lin, now all the departments are eating military salaries, how can you Pengzhou soldiers be just local first-class soldiers, but the number of them is overnumbered?" ”

Yang Lin smiled and said: "Now the world is disturbed, there are Liaodong Tatars who have invaded the Central Plains many times, and Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong have caused trouble in China, especially last year, Sun Chuanting, the governor of the five provinces, was defeated, Henan and Shaanxi were lost, and the world was shaken.

Now that the local tyrants are entrenched in northern Sichuan, Zhang Xianzhong led hundreds of thousands of troops to confront our official army on the front line of Liangshan and Wanxian.

Although the terrain of Liangshan and Wanxian is dangerous, I expect that I will definitely not be able to stop the Liukou, and the decisive battle between our officers and troops is the first line of Qianqing.

At the end of the day, he planned for the governor and the Daotai, and when the time came, he would concentrate the strength of the whole Sichuan on the front line of the province to block the Liukou and force them to return to Huguang Province in vain. ”

Long Wenguang looked noncommittal, while Shi Jinchen shook his head again and again: "Zeng Ying and Zhao Ronggui are famous generals in Sichuan, and now they are guarding the dangerous pass and resisting the Liukou.

You actually grew up with other people's ambition to destroy your own prestige, and claimed that the two of them would definitely be defeated, so I don't know what your intentions are?

And now that Liukou Li Zicheng now occupies the entire territory of Shaanxi, he may enter Kou Sichuan at any time, and the Sichuan army is fighting on two fronts, do you want to give up northern Sichuan? ”

Yang Lin stood up and arched his hand: "Li Zicheng led his troops to the east, even if he sent troops and horses into Sichuan, his strength was limited and the threat was very little.

Zhang Xianzhong is different, Zhang Xianzhong tried his best to enter Sichuan this time.

Folk rumors that Zhang Xianzhong once convened the generals to discuss the strategy, some people advocated going straight down the river to take the south Zhili, and his head Wang Zhaolin Li thought that the four Chuan fertile fields are thousands of miles, the land is vast and the people are solid, and they want to divide one side according to the story of Liu Bei, Wang Jian, and Mingyu (the former Shu Gaozu, who once established a separatist regime in Sichuan).

Zhang Xianzhong's menacing arrival this time is by no means comparable to previous years, and the number of people who came to Huguang alone reached 100,000, and if the old battalion is added, the soldiers and horses are close to 200,000.

Although Zeng Ying and Zhao Ronggui are famous generals in Sichuan, they have few soldiers, and Zhang Xianzhong is menacing, so Zeng Zhao can match them. ”

Zuo Liangyu and Cao Wenzhao are also famous generals in the world, Sun Chuanting and Yang Sichang are even more handsome in the world, and most of these famous generals are also defeated by Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong. ”

Xu Kongtu, the governor of Pengzhou, thought for a while and asked: "Since you think that the enemy situation in eastern Sichuan is very urgent, why don't you go to the book to Governor Daotai to mobilize heavy troops at the intersection of Wanxian and Liangshan to fight a decisive battle, but instead you want to fight in this Qingcheng City?" ”

Spread out the map, Yang Lin said: "Eighty miles of Hezhou in the upper reaches of Qianqing, there are canal rivers and Fujiang rivers confluence in the Jialing River, and Qianqing is the confluence of the Jialing River, the Min River and the Yangtze River.

Even so, if you want to defeat the Liukou, you need to gather the elite soldiers and strong generals of the whole Sichuan, otherwise you will not be able to catch it, and my four chuan will suffer a catastrophe. ”

Everyone was silent for a while, and Shi Jinchen asked, "Need to gather all the soldiers and horses of Sichuan?" Let Li Zicheng enter Kou Sichuan? This, this is not to allow the local tyrants to ravage northern Sichuan? ”

Yang Lin nodded heavily, and said with a smile: "There are priorities, this local tyrant in northern Sichuan is just a thief who defends himself, and Li Zicheng in Shaanxi is not firmly rooted, so it is difficult to invade northern Sichuan in the short term."

Zhang Xianzhong has now entered Sichuan, if he does not first concentrate all his strength to defeat it, and as he is hesitating now, it will be Zhang Xianzhong in eastern Sichuan, Li Zicheng in northern Sichuan, and the official army will fight on two fronts, even if Sun Wu is reincarnated, the overall situation is irretrievable. ”

Long Wenguang was noncommittal, and Shi Jinchen sneered: "Yang Lin, the old man doesn't know what your purpose is for being alarmist?"

Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong are just a giant Kou, you say that they are amazing, Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong have entered the Kou many times, and want to use Sichuan as the foundation, what is the result? ”

Everyone laughed when they heard this, and Yang Lin defended loudly, claiming that although Sichuan was now attacked from the east and north, Zhang Xianzhong was a great threat to the east, and if he defended everywhere, he would inevitably be attacked everywhere.

For the sake of now, we should concentrate the main force to block the most threatening side, otherwise we will inevitably be defeated by the rogues, and at that time we may fall into a place of no return.

But everyone didn't listen, and Yang Lin's words were interrupted by Long Wenguang and Shi Jinchen many times.