In addition, Zhang Xianzhong even took an aggressive offensive against the forces that he had tried to recruit and co-opt in the past, forcing the other party to submit, hoping to dilute the adverse effects of the Hanzhong War through a greater victory.

The generals of the Great Western Army have been dominating the world for several years, and they are all quite conceited, and after hearing that Zhang Dingguo and Zhang Wenxiu suffered setbacks, Ma Yuanli, who occupied Shunqing City, actually thought that he was looking for a rare good opportunity.

Since Zhang Kewang, Zhang Dingguo and other righteous sons gradually grasped the military power, veterans such as Ma Yuanli, Bai Wenxuan, and Feng Shuangli have been neglected, not only their positions are not as good as the four righteous sons, but also the soldiers and horses they lead are far inferior.

As a veteran, Ma Yuanli, the governor of Zuodu, could no longer tolerate Yang Linming's disobedience, and after many ineffective verbal intimidations, he made the decision to send troops to attack Pengzhou.

News came from the details of Shunqing Mansion that the Great Western Army has been working hard in the past few days, and it seems that there will be great achievements.

Everyone was anxious, and even a three-year-old child knew that the Great Western Army was a division of tigers and wolves, and its combat effectiveness was quite strong.

Everyone talked eloquently in the lobby, as if all parties were threats, and all parties needed to be on guard, so that Xu Kongtu, Li Shikai and others did not know how to deal with it.

As a traverser, Yang Lin does not believe in conspiracy very much, believes in the strength of both sides, and hopes to judge the other party's possible actions through the analysis of the confrontation between the two sides.

Now in the north of the Dazhou Bazhou area are the local tyrants, who are ready to take revenge and prepare to make a comeback after being attacked by the volunteers one after another.

In the west of Baoning Mansion, for the west of the Great West General Zhang Dingguo, Funan General Zhang Wenxiu Zhu, although the soldiers are strong and strong, but just defeated by the Dashun army, now a storm, it is difficult to raise troops to the south.

In the south of Shunqing Mansion City, there is the Daxi Left Governor Ma Yuanli Department, although its troops are more than 10,000, but 3 became the surrender of the Ming Guard, nearly half of them are the exiles who came to the coercion, and the real elite is only the generals under Ma Yuanli.

To the east is Guang'an Prefecture, where there are 3,000 troops under Zhang Guangcai, the governor of the Western Prefecture, who has just suppressed the rebellion of Li Yiyi, the head of the Ming Rite Department, and is now stationed in the place to deter the local people.

After determining the distribution of forces on both sides, Yang Lin quickly made his own judgment.

Under the continuous blows, the strength of the local tyrants in the north has weakened, and they have long lacked the backbone, and if the two sides fight, they can probably only sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, or take advantage of the fire to rob.

Although Zhang Dingguo and Zhang Wenxiu's troops in the west were strong, they had just suffered a crushing defeat for the Dashun army, and their troops suffered heavy casualties, and the threat was little in the short term.

Most of the real threats come from the city of Shunqing, from Quang Anzhou.

At noon on the third day of the second lunar month, the scouts came with the news that the gate of Shunqing was opened early in the morning, and a team of the Great Western Army walked out of the city gate and marched in the direction of Pengzhou.

The speed of the army's march was very rapid, and it had traveled thirty miles in half a day, and its advance was now approaching the junction of the two counties, which was jaw-dropping.

In the ancient era of cold weapon warfare, everyone wore thick armor, coupled with less oil to eat, and the speed of the march was so fast, it was really jaw-dropping.

Since the founding of the Volunteer Army, the principle of elite soldiers has been implemented, and the soldiers have been fished and eaten by going down to the river every three or five days, and they have gone to the deep mountains and old forests to hunt and eat every five days.

At the same time that everyone was talking, the porter came to report that Ma Yuanli sent a messenger, claiming that if he did not surrender, he would enter Xiangru County when the time came, and the chickens and dogs would not be left.

Yang Lin listened, and suddenly felt stunned in his heart, Zhang Xianzhong is a generation of heroes, and his generals are pretentious one by one, and this Hanzhong fiasco is because Zhang Dingguo and Zhang Wenxiu are fighting for their own merits.

Yang Lin's face sank, and he ordered the left and right envoys to drag out the major thirty boards, and then drive them out of the city.

Standing on the city wall, watching the envoy disappear in front of him, Chen Huaixi on his side shook his head and said: "My lord, as the saying goes, the two countries do not fight each other, and you beat the envoy of Ma Yuanli this time, so it will inevitably make him thunderous, and it will be us ordinary people who will be implicated at that time." ”

Luo Mengke, an intelligence staff officer, sighed and said: "My lord, I just found out that this time it was 4,000 men and horses led by Ma Yuanli, the governor of the left army of the Great Western Army, who had been galloping all the way north since leaving the Fucheng Administration this morning. ”

Chen Huaixi said angrily: "This, this is too arrogant, although Ma Yuanli's department has 4,000 people, but after all, he is alone, after all, he is a long-distance attack." ”

Yang Lin's face was heavy, he shook his head and said: "Everyone is too contemptuous of Ma Yuanli, think about it, we can find out Ma Yuanli's approximate strength, can't Ma Yuanli find out our strength?"

In Ma Yuanli's view, as long as we don't want to give up Pengzhou, the departments outside dare not move, if we move, we will inevitably be cut off, just like Huanglong last year, there will be no doubt about defeat.

Let's talk about it, in the face of more than 1,000 people in our two battalions, what kind of lone army does Ma Yuanli call going deep?"

Everyone was shocked, everyone didn't know what to do, and looked at Yang Lin one by one, hoping to reverse the adverse impact of the situation.

Yang Lin laughed, where did a few teacups simply pose the posture of the two sides, and said with a smile: "It seems that Ma Yuanli still miscalculated, if I transfer the 3rd battalion of the Dragon Frame to Xiangru County immediately, such a similar county will have 3 battalions of infantry and 1 battalion of cavalry, and in the face of the arrogant rogue, it can be completely defeated." ”

Chen Huaixi's face changed greatly, and he pointed to the ancient city of Yunshan on the opposite side and said: "My lord, the terrain of the ancient city of Yunshan is dangerous, easy to attack and difficult to defend.

This Yunshan ancient city and Xiangru county are each other's horns, when resisting the Mongolian invasion, my Song Dynasty military and people are to give up Xiangru county, to defend the ancient city of Yunshan.

Although Zhang Guangcai in Guang'an Prefecture has not moved now, if the other party moves, it will be a sword to seal his throat.

If the ancient city of Yunshan is still in our hands, there is also a barrier, and if the ancient city of Yunshan is lost, it is the back road is cut off. ”

Yang Lin stood up and said with a smile: "Brother Chen, as you said, the terrain of this ancient city is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack. We know this, and I think Ma Yuanli and Zhang Guangcai also know this. In that case, why don't we be suspicious? ”

Everyone frowned, Yang Lin beckoned, whispered a few times in Chen Huaixi's ear, Chen Huaixi was shocked, shook his head again and again, and said: "My lord, this, this can't work, how can you defend the ancient city of Yunshan with hundreds of Zhuang Ding?" ”

Yang Lin smiled and said: "Brother Chen, it's a shame that you boast that you have been familiar with military books since you were a child, one of the four generals of Zhongxing in the Southern Song Dynasty, and how did General Wu Jue, who had military achievements comparable to Yue Wumu, win the victory of Xianren Pass?" ”

Chen Huaixi shook his head, Yang Lin pointed to a pile of haystacks in the distance, and after Chen Huaixi whispered a few times in his ear, Chen Huaixi was initially puzzled, and then nodded his head again and again.

Chen Huaixi took the order and went to the ancient city of Yunshan with 30 servants in the name of strengthening the defense of Yunshan, summoned more than 10 villages in a radius of more than 10 miles nearby, and asked the surrounding large families to transport grain and grass to the ancient city of Yunshan.

It is now February, and the dry grass in the field has not yet rotted, and some of the dead grass is half a person high, and bundles are transported to the ancient city of Yunshan.

After working so busy all afternoon, in the evening, the gate of the village was secretly opened, and the 4th battalion of Long Zhijiao led the 4th battalion out of the ancient city secretly, took a ferry, and returned to Xiangru County overnight.

When I got up in the morning, I stood at the head of the city and saw the people outside the city running into the city with their families in tow.

Since the nursery rhyme spread, the people were full of fear of the Great Western Army, and everyone was worried that the Great Western Army would slaughter the people.

The carts were desperately pushing inside, and the officials were checking according to the household registration book and ID cards, and I heard that three spies had been found this time, and they were mixed with the fleeing people, in a vain attempt to sneak through the border and enter the city.

Martial law had begun in the county seat, and teams of officials beat gongs and drums.

The head of the township kept shouting, and each set up a big banner to let the villagers live together, so as not to be mixed in by spies, and then the villagers would take care of it.

At this moment, the herald arrived, asking Long Zhijiao to immediately enter the Zhizhou Yamen to discuss matters.

Everyone hurried to the Zhizhou Yamen, and everyone sat on the left and right after saying goodbye.

Looking at everyone's solemn faces, Yang Lin smiled and said, "Everyone, there are many rogues, do you have the confidence to fight out of the city with me, and first thwart the prestige of the rogue?"

Everyone looked at each other, one by one looked quite excited, everyone said that in the past, in the face of the local tyrant volunteers, they could be one as ten, although the combat power of the Great Western Army was stronger than that of the local tyrants, but they were also rogues, what was there to worry about.

When Yang Lin heard this, his brows furrowed, why did everyone despise the enemy so much, as the saying goes, arrogant soldiers will be defeated, and this is unacceptable for a long time.

It seems that he wants to pour a little cold water on everyone, so that they don't run rampant and think they are like local tyrants.

Signaled to Luo Mengke next to him, Luo Mengke immediately introduced the establishment of the Great Western Army, the equipment of the Great Western Army, and heard that the Great Western Army was also equipped with tiger squat cannons, and when he heard that the Great Western Army actually had a Frann machine gun, everyone put away their arrogance slightly.

Seeing that everyone's expressions became serious, Yang Lin analyzed with a smile: "We used to fight with the local tyrants, and the local tyrants had six or seven times as many troops as us, but everyone think about it, the local tyrants are a rabble, more than fifty percent of the displaced people are coerced, and about thirty percent of the cannon fodder troops have just been recruited.

The Great Western Army is menacing, although Zhang Xianzhong has been dominating the world for more than ten years, and his generals can fight habitually, but in essence, his subordinates are also born as rogues.

The two cities are more than 100 miles apart, and Ma Yuanli, the governor of the left army of the Great Western Army, marched more than 50 miles on the first day.

Although everyone was arrogant, they were only temporarily blinded, and now when they heard Yang Lin say this, although they were quite unconvinced, they had nothing to say.

Seeing that it was slightly shocking to everyone, Yang Lin continued: "Of course, all this must be seen on the battlefield, our four battalions of infantry, one battalion of cavalry, and one battalion of sailors, with a strength of nearly two thousand people.

Although Ma Yuanli's troops claimed to be more than 4,000 people, after a day and a half of rapid marching, many of them must have fallen behind, and the soldiers were inevitably exhausted.

I expected that the Great Western Army would inevitably approach the state city in the afternoon, and we could take advantage of the exhaustion of the other party's distance, go deep alone, and kill the other party by surprise. ”

Hearing that there was another big battle to fight, everyone hugged their fists and said yes, and they were even more happy.

Yang Lin wanted to fight, and Ma Yuanli, the general of the Great Western Army, hoped to use himself as bait to attract the volunteers to attack, so he defeated the volunteers in one fell swoop and captured Pengzhou.

As the five tiger generals with the highest official positions under Zhang Xianzhong (except for the four righteous sons), Ma Yuanli followed Zhang Xianzhong to fight in the south and the north, and with the continuous accumulation of military achievements, he also developed the habit of arrogance.

This time the attack on northern Sichuan almost out of the basket, when preparing to attack the city of Shunqing Fu, suddenly Qu County official Li Yi led the troops to revolt, fortunately led the troops to quell the rebellion, but also let Ma Yuanli touch a nose of ashes.

After occupying the city of Shunqing Prefecture, he was afraid that there would be any rebels again due to local instability, so he accepted the plan of Shi Jinchen and others, if he could surrender, it would be best if he could surrender, and if he could not surrender, he would stabilize the other party first, and then send troops to attack after the rule was consolidated.

In this way, he hit it off with Yang Lin, and the envoys of the two sides kept coming and going, but Yang Lin had no intention of surrendering at all. At this time, nursery rhymes were popular in various parts of Sichuan, and Zhang Xianzhong, the emperor of Daxi, in order to deter the locality, decided to take the Dashun army in Hanzhong, the Pengzhou Volunteer Army, and ordered Ma Yuanli to lead the troops to attack Pengzhou.

Ma Yuanli was quite conceited, it was in the field, not the siege.

Although the Great Western Army successively captured Chongqing, CD and other big cities, it was because the defenders in the city were empty, and the Great Western Army used the method of digging tunnels and burying explosives.

As analyzed in front of the station, there are only three battalions of soldiers and horses in Xiangru County, in order to ensure the safety of the back road, although Yang Lin placed the 4th battalion of the Dragon Frame in the ancient city of Yunshan, and personally led the guard battalion and the 5th and 6th battalions to garrison the state city, if he saw the excavation of the Great Western Army, he would not be indifferent.

After thinking about it, Ma Yuanli thought that the best way was to annihilate the main force of the volunteers in the field first, and then gather all kinds of soldiers and horses to besiege the county seat, rather than falling into a protracted siege war.

Ma Yuanli invited the governor Zhang Guangcai and others to discuss, although this Yang Lin is young, but his reputation is quite good, unlike other officials in the Ming Dynasty who are corrupt and bribery, and more importantly, the three thousand volunteers who have just been trained are strictly disciplined, and often win more with less, and many defeats have been the Yao loess riots in Sichuan for several years.

In this way, he took advantage of Yang Lin's weakness of seeking victory, and used Ma Yuanli's 4,000 soldiers and horses as bait to defeat the opponent in the field battle.

Although the Volunteer Army is quite elite, although it is easy to wait for work, everyone has more confidence in Ma Yuanli, and his unit is a long-fought division, and with 4,000 people to deal with less than 2,000 cutting-edge divisions, everyone is full of confidence.

Besides, Ma Yuanli is not blindly holding on to the big, and this battle has exposed his cunning.

In order to prevent the soldiers from being tired and unable to fight, three days ago Ma Yuanli ordered some troops to transport grain and grass out of the city first, and fought the army halfway.

Let Chen Yingrui, Feng Youqing and others in the back speed up the pace of marching, and if the battle is unfavorable, there will be a response or something.

Although many arrangements were made, after entering the territory of Xiangru County on the second day, Ma Yuanli deliberately asked the departments to slow down, and everyone stopped and stopped, far from being as fast as on the first day.

In the early days, the scouts in front came to report that Yang Lin led more than 1,000 soldiers and horses out of the city, and now they are rushing towards the Great Western Army.

In this way, the two sides openly tore off the hypocrisy on their faces and entered into a life-and-death struggle.