In the battle to defend Xiangru County, Yang Lin once commanded less than half of the number of soldiers and horses to defeat the left capital of the Great Western Army, Ma Yuanli.

Before the enemy was received, there was a burst of shouts of killing in the rear, Zhang Guangcai hurriedly tightened the reins of his horse and looked west, and saw that nearly 1,000 people had been killed on the north and south sides of Wangjia Bridge.

They were about a mile away from the ferry, waving flags and blowing trumpets, and now they were overwhelmingly rushing towards Wangjiaqiao.

Zhang Guangcai's heart tightened, this Qushui River is about 20 meters wide, the water flow is turbulent, the shallowest part is also up to the neck of people, and the local villagers build wooden bridges on both sides of the river to facilitate walking.

At present, more than 1,000 people and horses are killed in the north and south directions at the same time, and the other side is menacing, and the Jin Tong military department that crossed the Qushui River is only more than 1,000 people, and it is difficult to hold on.

Thinking that at the beginning of the year, Ma Yuanli, the governor of the left army, was defeated and killed, Zhang Guangcai felt a cold sweat on his spine, and the other party clearly wanted to encircle and annihilate the soldiers and horses of the headquarters.

Zhang Guangcai felt frightened, and then looked at the soldiers behind him, it was even more chaotic, and many people began to retreat to the Qushui River despite the interference of the generals.

Sitting on the horse, Zhang Guangcai was at a loss, if he wanted to talk about danger, he was in danger on three sides, and if he wanted to talk about the way to deal with it, he only had 500 personal soldiers around him, and he couldn't deal with it at all.

Zhang Guangcai is like this, and the pro-army generals around him are even more so, and the pro-army generals said timidly: "Governor, we have fallen into Yang Lin's hub, Yang Lin wants to annihilate our department."

The only way to do this is to retreat to the Qushui River, and it will be too late if you don't retreat. ”

Zhang Guangcai's face was flushed, and he pointed to the panicked soldiers and said, "There is no battle yet, how can you throw down the soldiers and horses and flee in a hurry?"

If we escape like this, there will undoubtedly be these 3,000 men and horses entrusted to Yang Lin, and I am afraid that the whole army will be destroyed. ”

The pro-army general next to him admonished: "Governor, the volunteers are strong and strong, and they defeated Ma Yuanli, the governor of the left capital, with less than half of their troops, and finally forced him to be defeated and killed.

Now there are more than six or seven thousand people who can be seen (exaggerated), and there are those who are invisible, so it may be close to 10,000 people. ”

Zhang Guangcai mourned and hurriedly led his subordinates to retreat to the Qushui River.

In order to ensure the rapid mobility and flow, each governor of the Great Western Army has a pro-army, which is strong and stubborn, and the equipment is far above the ordinary officers and soldiers, and everyone rides war horses and donkeys to ensure rapid action.

Although Zhang Guangcai is Zhang Xianzhong's righteous son, there are only 3,000 people under his command, but there are only six or seven hundred horsemen, everyone rides war horses, donkeys and other animal power, under the command of Zhang Guangcai, everyone retreats to the Qushui River.

The four-legged animal is very large, and the movement is even more amazing, and now seeing Zhang Guangcai retreating, the other rogues suddenly became a mess, and everyone fled one after another, but the road was narrow, there were many people, and everyone was crowded together.

Bu Ning led the cavalry to kill first, and everyone first lit the three-eyed gun in their hands, and suddenly released the gun when they rushed to the middle of the crowd.

Although the shooting accuracy of the three-eyed gun is not high, there are three barrels, after pulling the trigger, the gunpowder in the three barrels is ignited, and the iron sand inside (the scattered bullets of the Ming Dynasty, when the shooting accuracy is not high, a large amount of iron sand is loaded in the barrel, and after firing, it bursts out in a fan-like shape, shooting many people) bursts out of the muzzle and falls half a meter wide.

Due to the proximity, the iron sand in the three-eyed gun can penetrate ordinary armor, and the Onishi Army, like all rogues, often implements crowd tactics, and many people have no protection on them except for the pro-army.

Strong soldiers wore broken quilts as protection, and those who had no protection on their bodies were hit by iron sand, which could not only hurt the bone marrow, but also bleed pus, which was extremely difficult to heal in this era.

Seeing that the firepower of the three-eyed gun was so fierce, the Great Western Army did not set up a defense at all, and one by one did not dare to block it at all, many people turned around and fled, but the road was full of people, and how could a two-legged soldier outrun a four-legged war horse?

After releasing the gun, the knight wields the three-eyed gun as a stick, swinging the handle of the gun back and forth, or drawing his saber and slashing back and forth.

Zhang Guangcai shouted loudly, while dispersing the rogues blocking the road, forcing everyone to become cannon fodder to meet and kill the volunteers.

Although many of these rogues were skinny, and because of malnutrition, many of them had yellow faces and thin muscles, and they rarely had any armor or cotton armor on their bodies, and some only wore towels around their heads and quilts to shield them from arrows and flying lead.

Most of these people were coerced by the Great Western Army, everyone just wanted to eat for a while, and now they saw the figures of the volunteers everywhere in all directions, and the majestic pro-army soldiers and horses in the past were blocked in the formation and could not move, everyone felt frightened, and some even threw away the weapons in their hands and desperately fled in the direction of the Qushui River.

All of a sudden, the mountains were full of people, everyone desperately ran to the river, but the road was full of people, and they were about to scold their mother, when suddenly a volunteer army came, and the crowd became restless again, and everyone fled with their heads in order to save their lives.

The infantry battalions fought in large groups on the side of a mountain road about two or three miles wide, and each brigade basically rushed along a mountain road, with the killer squadron rushing in front and the musket squadron supporting in the rear.

Under the leadership of the squadron leader and squad leader, they broke into the formation, like sheep into a group of tigers, rushing back and forth to kill the panicked officers and men of the Great Western Army.

Some of the veterans of the battlefield in the rogue were proud of their bravery, and when they saw the volunteers coming, they shouted loudly in the hope of organizing a counterattack, but the soldiers of the volunteers did not entangle with them at all, and under the command of the squad leader, often three people formed a combat group, one group entangled with it, and the other two groups dispersed the other troops, and then killed again.

The officers and men of the Great Western Army often felt that they were weak, and everyone approached one after another, wanting to assemble into a military formation to block the soldiers of the volunteer army who were constantly rushing over, but before the assembly was completed, they often saw a squad of musketeers rushing from behind, and a burst of birds at close range, which made everyone dizzy, and then teamed up with the killer team, and the soldiers of the killer team killed the frightened soldiers.

Some people were ready to bully the musketeers (in the past, the musketeers did not have spurs), but these musketeers all pressed the spurs, and when they saw the soldiers of the Onishi Army rushing over, they did not panic, and after everyone released the bird guns, they quickly loaded the spurs, and then fought with each other.

Zhang Guangcai was covered in blood, the big fashion next to him undoubtedly exposed his identity, and the dark iron armor on his body was even more dazzling, and the soldiers of the volunteer army kept covering up, in order to save his life, Zhang Guangcai fought and left, but he was often bound by the soldiers around him.

And when he saw that the Onishi Army was defeated like a mountain and the whole army was in chaos, I don't know who was the first to shout: "Surrender the gun and don't kill, surrender the gun and don't kill", and the eyes of the Onishi soldiers who fell into despair lit up, first one, and then the whole team threw away the weapons in their hands and raised their hands to make a gesture of surrender.

Seeing that his soldiers were so unbearable, Zhang Guangcai was furious, brandished a big knife and cut down a soldier who raised his hand to surrender, and everyone around him was frightened one by one, seeing Zhang Guangcai running, he fled to safety timidly, and then raised his hands to surrender.

Zhang Guangcai felt pathetic, and did not care about wiping the sweat and blood on his face to drive away those soldiers who dared to surrender, but the defeat was like a mountain, and he still couldn't stop the men and horses who surrendered in groups.

Zhang Guangcai did not know that this crazy move delayed his retreat and the speed of his retreat, and the battalions of the Volunteer Army followed the big fashion to kill, and finally were surrounded in Houshigou with more than 50 pro-troops.

Seeing that the 3,000 Great Western Army was defeated on the whole line in less than half an hour, Zhang Xianzhong's righteous son, and Zhang Guangcai, the governor of the Great Western Army, were defeated and surrounded, standing on the nearby hill, and observing the overall situation of the war with a monocular from time to time, Yang Lin did not have the slightest expression on his face.

Due to the relatively sufficient preparations before the war, with the strength of the volunteer army, it is not a problem to completely annihilate the 3,000 officers and men of the Western Army, it is said that there are 3,000 people, except for Zhang Guangcai's 700 pro-army whose combat effectiveness is slightly stronger, the other 2,000 people, 70 percent of them are composed of displaced people, and the remaining 30 percent Although the battle is quite brave, many people are wrapped in quilts and wrapped their heads to guard against arrows and scattered lead fragments.

In addition, the officers and men of the Great Western Army looked very weak, and some of them were even yellow and thin.

The two weapons collided together, and it was common to see the soldiers of the Great Western Army being cut down and knocked to the ground.

Now it is important to cut off the Wangjia Bridge and prevent the main force of Zhang Dingguo's troops from crossing the Qushui River.

The 4th Battalion was ordered to ambush the commander Yao Zhijiao and the 7th battalion to ambush the commander Feng Youqing on the bank of the Qushui River, and after the siege and annihilation battle began, they suddenly fought out from the north and south directions to control Wangjiaqiao.

If he could control Wangjiaqiao, Zhang Dingguo would need to make a detour of ten miles upstream and fifteen miles downstream to cross the Qushui River, so that the war would have already ended, and he could wait for work to find a fighter plane and fight again.

Now Yang Bingyi's 5th Battalion and Jing Keqin's 6th Battalion have quickly resolved the battle, but Jin Tongwu, the general of the Great Western Army, firmly controls Wangjiaqiao, and the officers and men of the Great Western Army are constantly crossing the Qushui River.

Cao Zhang, the commander of the first battalion of the pro-army who served as the reserve, saw that the other battalions had won a complete victory, and asked for battle again and again, hoping to lead his troops to attack the bridgehead.

Yang Lin shook his head, pointed to the small space at the head of the bridge and said: "If my observation is correct, probably the two sides are crowded together, and it is difficult to deploy the troops.

If this is the case, if you put in more men and horses, the battlefield will be more crowded and it will be more difficult to deploy troops, if so, it will be unfavorable. ”

Yin Chengqi looked at the beads of sweat on his face and said: "In order to fight for control of the wooden bridge, everyone is huddled together, and they have to be in love."

My lord, this Zhang Guangcai is Zhang Xianzhong's righteous son, if he can surrender, it will be of great benefit. ”

Picked up the monoculars and looked at the bridgehead of the battle again, thought about it, and sent heralds to the battalions:

Yao Zhijiao and Feng Youqing were ordered to concentrate on the tiger squat cannon and the No. 3 Franc machine gun belonging to the battalion to bombard the enemy position, and then attack in turn under the cover of artillery.

Ling Buning, Yang Bingyi, and Jing Keqin led their subordinates to clean up the battlefield, count the prisoners, and then set up camp on the spot to rest in case Zhang Dingguo counterattacked.

And Yang Lin led everyone to fight horses and come to Monkey Stone Ditch to recruit Zhang Guangcai.

Seeing Yang Lin arrive, Wang Gao, the captain of the guard team, hurriedly ran over, and after some discussion, shouted to the other party.

Hearing that he was about to recruit himself, Zhang Guangcai looked very sad, brandished a big knife and replied: "Yang Lin Yang Ruzhen, Lao Tzu has always respected you in the past, thinking that you are a clean official, an honest official, who does not charge any harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, fights against the strong, takes care of the weak, and is a first-class hero."

But now it seems that you are no different from those Ming officials?

Our Great Western Army is doing the right thing for heaven and eradicating the injustice of the world, but you slander our Great Western Army like those Ming officials and those scholars, and keep calling our righteous army a rogue, and slandering that the soldiers of our Great Western Army are about to slaughter Sichuan.

Since our righteous army entered Sichuan, it has killed tens of thousands of descendants of the Zhu Ming clan, many corrupt officials and corrupt officials, many evil officials of the yamen, gentry and their domestic slaves, but it has never harmed those ordinary people.

It's good for you to slander our righteous army and beasts, saying that we are going to slaughter Sichuan.

This kind of behavior is definitely not done by the eldest husband, Yang Lin Yang Ruzhen, tell me, are you scholars too shameless? ”

Yang Lin felt that his face was hot, although the Great Western Army had killed a lot of people in the past year or so, it was mainly aimed at the Zhu Ming clan, the Ming officials, the local heroes and those resistance forces, and there were not many ordinary people who were really killed.

Although Yang Lin did not promote Zhang Xianzhong Tuchuan, there is no doubt that some scholars compiled the ballad of Zhang Xianzhong Tuchuan, and in this troubled era, the military discipline of the Daxi Army was no worse than that of many Ming troops.

Smiling awkwardly, Yang Lin picked up the simple horn and persuaded: "General Zhang, this general also had a relationship with you, and this general should know that he should not do something out of nothing."

General Zhang, now that the Barbarian Qing Tartars have invaded the Central Plains, I am afraid that my millions of land will fall under the iron hooves of the Tartars again, and my 10,000,000 compatriots may once again become slaves of the country.

The contradiction between the Ming Dynasty and Er is just a brotherly dispute, while the Manchu Tartars are external insults and enemies. Brothers are against the wall, and they are insulted outside.

If the general can submit to me, if he can resolve the dispute between my Ming and Er, and everyone will hate the enemy and fight against the Tartars together, a hundred years later, we will not insult our ancestors, and we can also become national heroes. ”

Zhang Guangcai laughed sadly, and said for a long time: "Yang Lin, you are here again."

Last year, my Great Western Army was in full swing, and I sent an envoy to your department, not only did you behave in a non-contentious manner, but also thought about my Great Western Army, and asked my father to make every effort to govern Dujiangyan and solve the floods in the CD Plain.

Now in order to humiliate his father, he actually made up lies, saying that his brother is on the wall and insulted him outside? It's just a lie made up when he saw his father lead an army of 100,000 to kill, knowing that the jade was burning, and he was cowardly. ”

Yang Lin swore to the sky, but Zhang Guangcai didn't believe it at all, not only did he refuse, but he also didn't want to be captured by the volunteers, he raised his gun and killed himself, and committed suicide in front of the battle.

Seeing that the governor Zhang Guangcai committed suicide, and his pro-army soldiers lost their backbone, everyone reluctantly raised their hands to surrender.

Yang Lin looked quite frustrated, originally thought that the surrender work would be a success and effortless, but he didn't expect such a result.

Looking at Zhang Guangcai's corpse lying on the grass, Yang Lin smiled sadly, and sighed for a long time: "My heart is clear to the sun and the moon, I just hope that the two families will stop fighting and fight against the Tartars together, but I was so misunderstood that Brother Zhang not only did not surrender to me, but actually raised a gun to kill himself." ”

Although he was puzzled in his heart, why did this general so persistently violate the national policy of the imperial court, and actually wanted to join forces to destroy the prisoners, and the Hongguang court advocated that it was to join forces to destroy the invaders, Yin Chengqi thought about it and thought that it was probably a delaying strategy.

Now Zhang Dingguo led 30,000 people to attack, and the volunteers were alone, and they persisted, and they did not hesitate to violate the national policy of the imperial court, and used the joint army to eliminate the current pressure.

Yin Chengqi felt a burst of fear in his heart, and forced his heart to be timid and offered advice: "My lord, if you really think that the strategy of exterminating the prisoners is feasible, you might as well return Zhang Guangcai's body to the Great Western Army, and attach a letter, hoping that the two sides can unite and fight against the Tartars together." ”

Yang Lin nodded, and asked people to write a letter so that they could be returned to the Great Western Army together with Zhang Guangcai's body.