As Zhu Eyan moved into the back hall of the Yamen, the news spread in the streets and alleys overnight, that is, He Gongzi, a friend of the adults in distress in the past, actually disguised himself as a man, and turned out to be the lord of the Daming Shu Palace.

In addition to sighing, those doubts because of Shi Jinchen and Gou Weiyi's incident disappeared, at least in the various states and counties under the rule of the rare surface of peace and unity.

At the same time, fighting on the front line resumed, and on the night of 29 April, the naval army led by Chen Huaixi, the commander-in-chief, led the naval army down the Jialing River, and suddenly launched an offensive against the ancient city of Diaoyu at midnight.

Previously, when attacking Guang'an Prefecture, the Volunteers made a plan, that is, to attack the Diaoyu Ancient City and attack Hezhou to force Zhang Guangcai to withdraw his troops, so the Volunteers had an understanding of the deployment of troops in the Diaoyu Ancient City and Hechuan City.

Diaoyu ancient city is the confluence of Jialing River and Qujiang River, if the Diaoyu ancient city is captured, the counties of Guang'an Prefecture can be the same as the river of Shunqing Prefecture, fast cargo transportation.

Compared with land transportation, shipping can reach more than 200 miles in a day and a night downstream, and more than 100 miles in countercurrent. More importantly, the number of goods carried, a cargo ship can easily transport more than 40 loads of cargo.

And land transportation is different, according to the quite fast wheelbarrow, at most two loads of goods are transported, and at most more than 40 miles a day, in the steep slope section is required one person to pull in front, another person to push in the back, quite troublesome.

Due to the important strategic location of Diaoyu City (which is a strategic point for Sichuan), and the fact that the Volunteers have now captured Wusheng County, in order to prevent the Volunteers from going down the Jialing River, Zhang Wenxiu left his deputy general Wang Mazi to lead more than 500 people to defend here.

The scout reported that in order to defend the Diaoyu City, Zhang Wenxiu can be said to have spared no expense, and there were 5 Franc cannons and more than 20 large and small ships on the Diaoyu City alone.

That night, He Dou, the captain of the naval army, led five sampan boats and two small boats filled with sulfur down the river and lit the sulfur about 200 meters away from the water village.

The water village is full of collected warships, most of these boats are rebuilt from fishing boats, and they are suddenly attacked, and the water village is in chaos, and He Dou and others sail close to the water village, and use tiger squat cannons to bombard the boats inside the water village from a distance.

In order to avoid the volunteers from attacking the camp, the Furlong machine gun in the ancient city was pulled over, and the sampan boats on the river were bombarded from afar.

And the boats in the water village swarmed out, ready to besiege the sampan boats.

Seeing that the goal had been achieved, He Dou led the sampan boat to fight and walk, so that he walked for more than ten miles.

Wang Mazi saw that although the opponent's ship was not big, it was quite fast, and he was afraid of being ambushed, and was about to turn around and retreat to the ancient city of Diaoyu.

Suddenly, more than 30 ships sailed out from the downstream and opened fire on the small boats of the Great Western Army.

However, the volunteer ships did not give a chance to fight at all, and shelled the ships of the Onishi Army from a distance, and when they got closer, they released birds and threw thunderbolts.

The Great Western Army was not accustomed to this strange tactic at all, and fought until dawn, except for six ships that escaped back, more than ten other ships were bombed and sunk on the Jialing River.

After thwarting the naval forces of the Great Western Army, after a short rest, Chen Huaixi led the naval army to avoid the Furlong machine guns on the Diaoyu Ancient City, drove straight in, and resisted the upper reaches of Hezhou on the morning of May 3, and then used the Furlong machine guns and tiger squat guns on the Flying Tiger warship and the tiger squat guns on the sampan ships to bombard the Hezhou Water Village in the distance.

Yin Sansheng, the general of the Hechuan garrison of the Great Western Army, led the Hezhou Naval Army to fight, but most of the naval troops were rebuilt from civilian ships, mainly to connect operations, and their firepower, speed, and defense were far inferior to the Volunteers.

Just after the fight, the volunteer army and the navy fought and walked, and the Great Western Army did not recognize this tactic, everyone went against the current to pursue all the way, although the pursuit of the volunteer army sailor more than ten miles, but was injured and sunk more than ten ships.

Yin Sansheng saw that the situation was not good, and hurriedly led the army to retreat, seeing that the other party wanted to retreat, Chen Huaixi led the navy down the river, and there were as many as five or six captured warships alone.

In the face of the fighting style of the Volunteer Army, Yin Sansheng had no choice but to send a messenger to Zhang Wenxiu's big tent for help.

At this time, Zhang Wenxiu was defeated by the Ming general Zeng Ying, and his troops were retreating to Hezhou.

It turned out that Zhang Wenxiu left 5,000 soldiers and horses to garrison Hezhou to protect the safety of the back road, and personally led the army to attack Chongqing.

In order to defeat the invading enemy, Zeng Ying ordered the generals Li Zhanchun, Yu Dahai, Zhang Tianxiang and others to lead a large army to garrison Chongqing City, and personally led more than 1,000 personal soldiers to suddenly detour to the rear of the Great Western Army, taking advantage of their unpreparedness to defeat the heavy troops of the Great Western Army.

The next day, Li Zhanchun, Yu Dahai, Zhang Tianxiang and others led the main force to fight, and as soon as the two sides fought, Zeng Ying led the army to make a rebellion, the Great Western Army was defeated, and Zhang Wenxiu was killed and retreated for more than 30 miles before closing the formation.

Now hearing that the volunteers are coming from the upper reaches of the Jialing River, Zhang Wenxiu was shocked, although the number of volunteers is very small, but this year has sprung up, and its troops have not only defeated the local tyrants in northern Sichuan many times, but also defeated the Great Western Army two months ago, killed Ma Yuanli, the governor of the left capital, and captured Shunqing Mansion.

In addition, Hezhou is the confluence of the Jialing River and the Fujiang River, and if the Fujiang River is lost, it will not only cut off the grain and grass transportation of the Great Western Army by water, but also the return route of the Great Western Army at this stage.

Gritting his teeth, Zhang Wenxiu had to draw more than 2,000 men and horses from the precious siege soldiers and horses, led by Wang Fuchen, the left governor of the naval army, to protect the safety of the back road.

After seeing the main force of the Great Western Army's naval army coming back to help, Chen Huaixi led the army to retreat ten miles north, established a water village at the upstream Yunmen Wharf, formed a corner with the infantry army, and sent the naval army and cavalry across the river from time to time to harass the various units of the Great Western Army and threaten the safety of its rear.

Zeng Ying became famous for defeating Zhang Wenxiu's department in Chongqing, and Zeng Ying even thought that he had the qualifications of a famous general and did not take other generals seriously.

The battle at the front was in full swing, and in order to prevent the Great Western Army from counterattacking, Yang Lin started summer training in full swing just after the farming was over.

The battle at the front was in full swing, and in order to prevent the Great Western Army from counterattacking, Yang Lin started summer training in full swing just after the farming was over.

In addition to requiring all battalions to intensify their training, the officer training camp was officially opened in early May, with Yang Lin personally serving as the general office, and Qian Bangqi, Fan Mingshan, Yin Chengqi, Cao Zhang, Ma Mingluan, Du Jigui, and Huang Xueluan serving as instructors.

The training camp is located in Nanchong Xishan, surrounded by famous buildings such as Anhan City Tower, Chen Gong Ancestral Hall, Ziyun Pavilion, Chen Shou Reading Platform, Chen Shou's Former Residence, Wanjuan Building, etc., and Chen Shou, the author of "Three Kingdoms", once wrote a book and said in the vicinity, and wrote the popular "Three Kingdoms".

The squad leaders, squadron leaders, and brigade captains recruited from various battalions all looked quite excited, and in the past two years of fighting in the south and the north, it was rare to have time to take a good rest.

But when I hear about reading, everyone has a headache, just like some people say, everyone is from a military background, what is the use of reading well?

However, there was no way, the general personally asked the battalions to be appointed, and I heard that some of the captains were selected by the generals themselves, and although there were a thousand people who were unwilling, they had to participate in this officer training camp one by one.

Early this morning, everyone came to Anhan City Tower, and saw the familiar one from afar, not a few years after joining the army, the past cattle herding baby actually became the captain? Looking at each other's boards, everyone couldn't help but shout.

However, the front of the Anhan City Tower was heavily guarded, not only were there ten soldiers of the guard battalion lined up left and right, but also there was a senior senator in the army, Yin Chengqi, who passed by and signed first.

But many of them have not read at all, and they are timid, begging others to help them sign their names, and then under the guidance of a personal soldier, except for helmets, they ask to take out everything on their bodies and put them in a box, and then choose a set of ceremonial clothes, two sets of training clothes, a belt, a pair of straw sandals, and a pair of riding boots according to the size of the body.

Wearing new clothes?

It was a very new thing for the ancients, and three sets of summer clothes were distributed at once, one by one looked jubilant, everyone wore them, and although the whole figure looked straight, it still felt obedient.

This is Yang Lin's pure cotton ceremonial dress designed according to the clothing, training clothes, short gown and short-sleeved round neck, cloth buttons are changed to copper buttons, everyone wears them, see the shining copper buttons, and some joke that if you lack money, you can also change a bun. (In ancient times, copper coins were hard currency and could be used to buy things).

The ceremonial dress is slightly different, first of all, the fabric used is much stronger than the training uniform, it is a short gown with short sleeves, lapels, and the shoulders are thickened, which looks quite wide, and the whole dress has a straight feeling when worn on the body.

In addition, each person was also issued a simple armor, which was said to be simple, and the other armor was covered all over the body, and this armor was obedient, wrapped in a layer of cotton cloth on the outside, and four or five steel plates were attached together to protect the chest, abdomen, and waist.

Everyone is quite curious, some joke that this armor is too little, why is there no back and no hand protection?

Someone immediately retorted, don't you go to war and run away? If you fight with the other party, you only need frontal protection.

Like the Mongol cavalry, many crossbowmen had little protection other than helmets.

And hand protection? I feel that it is in the way, but now I don't have a protective gear on my hands, and my movements are much more flexible.

This is designed by Yang Lin based on the body armor of his previous life, with the development of firearms, the bird gun projectile can shoot more than 200 steps, can penetrate 80 steps of cotton armor, armor, even if you wear two or three layers, you can easily penetrate forty or fifty steps away.

This is still a general bird gun, if it is a Lumi gun, its caliber reaches 13mm, the barrel is 1.5 meters long, the whole gun is 2 meters long, the gun weighs 4 kg, the bullet weighs 11 grams, and the firing range is 250~300 meters, which is what we said in our previous life, it can easily penetrate three layers of armor from 100 meters away.

With the use of steel plates (or iron plates), its defensive effect is far above the three layers of armor, and it can resist the attack of a spear at a distance of seventy or eighty paces, and the attack of a normal bird at a distance of forty paces.

It took half an hour to make a fuss, everyone arrived one after another, and the various departments gathered, it seems that this time they participated in the set and then everyone reported the number from one to nine, and the number of reports was the same as a group, and the team leader was selected respectively, and finally nine squads were formed, Yang Cheng served as the first squadron leader, the 2nd squadron leader of Long Zhiframe, and the 3rd squadron leader of Yang Bingyi.

Not only the captain and squadron leader participated in the training, but also Wang Shuji, Yang Fuquan, Niu Dayong, Wang Gao, the general commander of the 1st Battalion, the general Yang Cheng of the 3rd Battalion, the general Yang Bingyi of the 5th Battalion, and the deputy general Jing Keqin of the 6th Battalion.

First of all, nine people who can read and hyphenate were selected, and everyone was asked to stand at the front and determine the number.

After the formation of the team was completed, it was to reallocate the accommodation and live with the squad, so toss until noon, when everyone finished eating and was resting, suddenly the school field sounded a burst of war drums.

Everyone was nervous, and hurriedly ran to the school field, and saw from a distance that General Yang Lin and a group of instructors were on the stage, watching everyone.

Everyone gathered quickly, and some even aimed at Yang Lin, seeing that the other party was not the silver armor (the one that captured the Yellow Dragon) in the past, but was wearing a ceremonial dress, but a golden ribbon was placed on the left and right shoulders, which of course imitated the appearance of the general in the previous life.

The squadrons assemble as a whole and report the number of people, and then the whole squadron assembles as a whole.