Yang Lin decided not to pay attention to the most threatening Great Western Army at all, and took the initiative to attack the local tyrants, burning the flames of war in the area under the jurisdiction of the local tyrants, rather than letting them come to attack.

Everyone was shocked, and Xu Kongtu admonished: "My lord, the local tyrants are just suffering from scabies, they will plunder the township at most and kill the living beings, but the Great Western Army is not like this.

In less than half a year, the Great Western Army swept through the whole province of Sichuan, and its vanguard reached Nanchong in Shunqing Mansion and Langzhong in Baoning Prefecture, and was arrogant. ”

Fan Mingshan retorted beside him: "Lord Xu, having said that, whether it is the Northern Sichuan Tyrant or the Great Western Army, no matter who is twice as powerful as our department, they can annex us, you say, what better way do you have?" ”

Although the Pengzhou soldiers implemented the strategy of elite soldiers, they were not more than 1,000 people when they were full, and even if they added the strong men who had just been recruited in various places, there were only 3,000 people, but these strong men were scattered all over the place, and at most they guarded the cities and villages, or waved their flags and shouted on the battlefield, which was difficult to really play a role.

But the local tyrants in northern Sichuan are also ten times as large as the official army, and the disparity in strength is so great that everyone looks at each other and doesn't know what to do.

Seeing that everyone was so heavy, Yang Lin laughed and explained that although the Great Western Army was in full force and seemed to be unstoppable, it was expanding too fast, and its own strength in the local area was insufficient, coupled with the fact that its own style of rogues was difficult to change in the short term, which was bound to cause a backlash from the local gentry.

Just as when the Great Western Army attacked Hechuan Prefecture, Wusheng Dong Kezhi scattered all his wealth and raised troops to resist.

Wen Jieyu, the governor of the Great Western Army, advanced lightly in Luzhou and was killed by local villagers.

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From this point of view, although the Great Western Army is in full swing, but the expansion is fierce, and now it has become the end of a strong crossbow, if you do not change its course and win the hearts of the people, you only know that it will blindly attack, so its defeat is not far away.

Although there are many of them, they were defeated by the officials and troops last year and lost a lot of materials, so they will inevitably plunder the villagers and do a lot of harm to the locality.

Although the safest way is to hold the city and let it attack, but in this way, the local tyrants will inevitably plunder the village and harm the living beings, but this will inevitably lead to defense everywhere, and the enemy everywhere will be able to deal with it.

If the local thugs have not yet entered the territory and take the initiative to attack, they can protect the township from the looting of the local thugs and can win by surprise.

Everyone was skeptical, but Yang Lin didn't dare to oppose it too categorically.

In detail, Yao Tiandong, the big boss of the local tyrant, took Dazhou, Huang Long, the second leader, took the Enyang Inspection Division, and Yuan Tao, the king of the sky, gathered soldiers and horses to prepare for the invasion with the Zengkou Inspection Division as the center.

With the general Fan Mingshan of the navy to lead hundreds of strong men to defend the city, early in the morning Yang Lin led the main force quietly out of the city, in order to avoid annoying people along the way to take the path, this day at noon arrived at the south of the city ten miles of the place, everyone rested on the spot, and Yang Lin and Yingshan County magistrate Ma Hongyuan, county Cheng Huang Hui, the second deputy general Yang Wei exchanged views together.

As Ma Hongyuan said, this year the sky fell apart, first the Ming Emperor Chongzhen Emperor hanged himself under the old locust tree in the coal mountain, and then Li Zicheng became the emperor, and the Manchu Tartars occupied Beijing.

And in Sichuan, first Zhang Xianzhong led his troops into Sichuan, and then the Dashun army also entered the customs from Hanzhong, and overnight the Ming Dynasty collapsed in Sichuan's rule, and only the land of Pengzhou three counties in northern Sichuan was still in hand, and the situation was very crisis.

In order to prevent the local thugs of the Great Western Army from encroaching on the territory, each township has determined the candidates for the strong men during the busy farming period, and now the farming has just been completed, and the strong men in various places have begun to assemble and train, and there are more than 1,000 strong men in the county at present.

Now the local rioters from the north and east of the county invade the territory, and the local people need to protect their own villages and cannot be transferred, and now there are more than 300 strong men gathered in the various markets in the south and west of the county.

Despite this, the people were panicked, and the strong enemies on all sides looked around and everyone did not have the confidence to hold on.

Yao Tiandong, the big boss of the local tyrants, even let it go, claiming that this time he gathered 100,000 people, and the various cities along the way needed to surrender and pay 500 loads of grain and grass.

In addition, what is even more urgent is that the local rioters have left their lair two days ago, coerced the nearby villagers, and advanced towards Yingshan.

The local rioters were menacing, and the mountains were full of people, beating gongs and drums along the way, flying large and small flags, and even sending men and horses to nearby villages to extort money and food.

Those who dare to resist, or refuse to pay the grain, once the village is breached, the chickens and dogs will not be left.

Due to the large number of people and the need to ask for food from the villages along the way, the local rioters marched very slowly, only more than 20 miles a day, and there was a miasma of smoke along the way.

Everyone was worried, Yang Lin stared at the map, asked where the local tyrant was currently located, suddenly pointed to the Qujiang River, and said with a smile: "The local tyrant is attacking from two ways, and its main force should be Yao Tiandong in the direction of Dazhou."

No matter from which direction, Yao Tiandong wants to attack the Yingshan and need to cross the Qujiang River, the art of war is said to cross the canal river, I have made up my mind, abandon Yuan Tao in the north, I will lead the main force to ambush in the mountains of Hexi, and wait for the main force of the local tyrants to cross the Qujiang River after the whole line is killed, in order to defeat it. ”

The enemy is strong and I am weak, and the best strategy is, of course, to fight all the way to defend and put all the way to put all the way.

That is, concentrate all their efforts to attack the main force of the local rioters under Yao Tiandong, send a division to guard against the flanks of the local rioters, and completely open up the strongest Western Army without defense.

Although there is an element of gambling, Yang Lin seems to be full of confidence, as unpredictable as a wizard.

But others don't see it that way, everyone sees that Yang Lin is full of confidence, and one by one thinks that there is probably no last resort.

Now that the general has already calculated, what is there for everyone to worry about?

Seeing that everyone was full of confidence, Yang Lin immediately ordered Ma Hongyuan, the magistrate of Yingshan County, to lead the local strong men to defend the city, and ordered the martial artist Chen Huaixi to lead more than 100 strong men to rush to the north of the county to harass the local tyrants of Yuan Tao's army in the north, and prevent them from driving straight into Yingshan County.

With Yang Wei as the vanguard, Yang Lin personally led the army to follow behind, secretly advancing in the direction of the Qujiang River, in order to avoid startling the grass and snakes, so that the whole army carried dry food, and died down along the way, dressed up as ordinary people, so as not to be discovered by the local rioters.

Considering that the local rioters are numerous, they secretly buy thousands of catties of tung oil, clear oil and other lamp oils, put them in bamboo tubes, and then seal them with oiled paper.

After two days of secret marching, he came to the west bank of the Qujiang River five or six miles away, and chose to live in a deep ditch.

This place is close to the southern foot of Micang Mountain, and it is the intersection of three prefectures and counties of Dazhou, Bazhou and Shunqing Fuqu County, with high mountains and dense forests, and in the distance is the possible river crossing port of the local tyrants - Baozhi Ferry.

According to the report, the local tyrant is less than 30 miles away from the ferry, and according to the speed of the march, the crossing will reach the west bank of the Qujiang River in the afternoon of the day after tomorrow.

Yang Lin rubbed his hands angrily, picked up the monocular and looked at the Baozhi Ferry in the distance, and the surrounding landforms for more than ten miles had a clear view.

Baozhi Ferry is the intersection of the three counties, except for a few miles around the ferry is relatively flat, the ground is full of villages, and there are more than ten villages of all sizes, and the rest of the place is high mountains and deep ravines.

Due to its proximity to the southern foot of Yonecang Mountain, except for the relatively flat ferry port, there are many ravines in other places, and the mountains are high and densely forested.

Since sweet potatoes, corn and other high-yield crops suitable for dryland have not yet been introduced to Sichuan, everyone just chooses a relatively flat and open area to live in groups.

After a simple count, there was only one small village in the mountains around the camp, and there were only more than a dozen families living in it.

Yang Lin didn't dare to be sloppy at all, in order to find out the situation of the local rioters, he sent more than ten soldiers to make up to find out the news of the local rioters.

In order to avoid alarming the surrounding villagers, secret sentinels were dispatched to major intersections two or three miles away, so as not to leak information and listen to the news.

Although it was freezing in winter, in order to be discovered by others, the tents were all set up in the forest, and dry food was eaten during the day and cooked at night.

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