Spreading out the map, Yang Lin was thinking about how to cross the Jialing River, and was thinking about whether he needed to abandon his baggage and gallop to help, the sound of horses' hooves outside the camp gate sounded, and everyone's hearts tightened, Guo Chonglie flashed out of the big tent, and quickly walked in with a horse and a man with a broken arm.

It turned out that a few days ago, the two sides were deadlocked on the first line of the Causeway Gorge for several days, and just when everyone thought that Zhang Xianzhong was blocking his way, who expected that Zhang Xianzhong would lead a fine cavalry to march more than 150 miles a day to sneak attack Jiangjin 80 miles upstream, and seize his ships.

As soon as Jiangjin lost the defense line of Tongluo Gorge, the defense line of Fotu Pass was lost, and the periphery of Qingqing was completely lost, and the defenders panicked, some of them scattered in all directions, and some fled back to Fucheng in an attempt to hold on to wait for reinforcements, but it was too late.

After capturing Fotu Pass, Zhang Xianzhong ordered the Liukou to collect thick wooden planks to cover them, and even dug up the graves of many wealthy families, abandoned the corpses, took out the coffins, and then approached the city wall one by one with thick planks to dig caves, so that there was only one day to dig several caves in the north of the city to fill with gunpowder.

On the morning of the 20th (that is, yesterday), thousands of crossbowmen lit gunpowder to the outside of the cave, and the city wall was blown down several sections.

Zhu Changhao, the king of Rui, Chen Shiqi, the former governor, and Chen Xun, the deputy envoy of the military garrison, were killed on the same day as the prefect of Qianqing and the prefect of Ba County, and the Liukou occupied the important town of Qianqingfu in eastern Sichuan.

For the captured soldiers and horses, Zhang Xianzhong divided the people who were willing to follow the Great Western Army and those who wanted to go home into two groups, and then asked people to cut off the arms of the men who were willing to go home, and there were hundreds of people who broke their arms in a while.

Although he had been psychologically prepared, Yang Lin couldn't accept it when he suddenly heard such news, and he cried vigorously and claimed that he had the grace of sitting on the teacher (buying people's hearts), and everyone admonished him for a long time before he stopped crying.

The generals were summoned to discuss, and everyone thought that the Liukou had captured the city of Lingqing, and the only way to do this was to withdraw to the station.

If it is said that it is only forty miles a day, many people are deliberately delayed by conscription and labor, and the withdrawal of the army can only be described as speedy, everyone is like an arrow, and it reaches more than sixty miles a day, if it is not for Yang Lin deliberately obstructing it, it may go faster. (Li Zicheng's large army marched at a speed of 70 miles, and there were many hills in northern Sichuan, but it only took official roads and country roads, and its marching quality exceeded that of Li Zicheng's Dashun army in the eastern Hebei Plain, and it was also as good as the Manchu Eight Banners.) ）

At the end of June, when he returned to the ancient city of Yunshan, the acting governor Long Wenguang sent someone to give an order that after the occupation of Suiqing, the Liukou troops were now divided into three ways to attack the CD, and the official army was now assembling in the provincial capital to prevent the Liukou from capturing the entire territory of Sichuan.

Everyone complained bitterly, and Yang Lin pointed to the map and said: "In order to rescue our troops after a thousand miles of march to no avail, now the army has food and grass, and the soldiers are tired, and they hope to rest for a while before marching." ”

During the recuperation period, letters were constantly sent from people, declaring that the situation was dangerous, urging them to march day and night.

Among them, the most bizarre of the Shu Prince's Mansion Governor Shi Si actually sent a letter, promoting Yang Lin to the command of the CD Central Guard, and hoped to lead the department to take office.

During the Hongwu period, each vassal king generally ruled two or three guards, and later the imperial court became more and more strict with the vassal kings, and some guards were removed, but the king of Shu also had two guards, CD Zhongwei and CD Zuowei.

The commander of the guard is a four-grade military position, which is equivalent to a guerrilla general in the army, and it can be said that he has been promoted to three positions in a row for a thousand generals who are to be convicted (including thousands of generals, capital divisions, garrisons, and guerrillas).

Hearing the letter from the Shu Wangfu, Xu Kongtu, the governor of Pengzhou, repeatedly admonished, not to mention that the Ming Dynasty had quite strict restrictions on various vassal kings, but that in order to resist the enemy, the Shu Wangfu and the Yamen were constantly being filthy recently.

In early June, the officials of the four Chuan and the three divisions of the yamen went to the palace of the king of Shu to ask for peace, hoping to use gold and silver to recruit the people to defend against the enemy, but the king of Shu declared that Emperor Chongzhen had escaped and ordered the princes of the world to be king.

The king of Shu decided to supervise the country, seal the officials, and lead the army to resist Zhang Xianzhong and other rogues, and went north to King Qin.

In ancient times, the prison was equivalent to exercising the power of the emperor on behalf of the emperor, which was a major event, and the inspector swore to die according to Liu Zhibo, so he jumped into the pond, and finally the two sides broke up unhappily.

Now that the Shu Wangfu has sent a letter to hire the commander of the CD central guard, is it any wonder that everyone is nervous?

The Ming Dynasty was quite taboo about the military generals befriending the vassal king, and in the end, in order to clear himself, he had to show He Gongzi's letter, claiming that he was helping to plan, so everyone was relieved.

In mid-July, the whole team was on the road in a hurry, but the morale of the whole team was low, and the walk was even slower.

On this day, he had just arrived at the north bank of the Jialing River and was preparing to cross the river, when suddenly a news came from northern Sichuan that Li Yutian, the envoy of the four major Shun troops, and the general soldier Ma Ke had led his troops to occupy Guangyuan Prefecture and seize the Jiange of the dangerous pass, and was now preparing to seize Langzhong and Shunqing.

After the occupation of Lingqing, the Great Western Army was divided into three routes, of which Ma Yuanli, the military governor of the Northern Road, had also occupied Hezhou and approached Guang'an Prefecture to threaten Pengzhou.

Rao is Yang Lin is well-informed in the face of such a change and does not know what to do, and the Pengzhou soldiers are local soldiers, and most of the soldiers are locals, and now they hear that the Dashun army is approaching their hometown, and everyone is reluctant to march into the CD, and they come to the tent in groups to ask to return to the division to defend their hometown.

Yang Lin sighed and said: "The governor yamen has repeatedly urged orders, if I disobey the order, the military law will not tolerate it." ”

Long Zhijiao admonished: "The adults are familiar with the books of the sages, and they are determined to be loyal ministers of the court, but they don't want to think about how these bureaucrats treat adults.

Last year, I was arrested and imprisoned for opposing the government's expropriation and extortion, and since I led the army, I have made remarkable achievements, but the water is so clear that there are no fish, but I was put in prison on fabricated charges, and I was sentenced to cane and exiled to the army. ”

Yang Lin couldn't cry or laugh, holding his mouth and saying angrily: "Don't talk nonsense, the first teacher treats Yu very kindly, first take Yu as a showman, and then take Yu as a tribute, even if he is young and reckless, he will defend it in many ways, everyone think about it, if it is not for the protection of the first teacher, how can I escape the poisonous hands of the corrupt official Li Yitian?"

This year's prison disaster, I also enjoyed the blessings in prison because of the maintenance of the first teacher, but who would have thought that the first teacher was killed by a traitor and was dismissed from his official position by the imperial court, so he was exiled by the cane.

The first teacher Chen Gongshiqi is toothless and unforgettable, and from now on, everyone will have to say bad things about him, if he dares to disobey and be heard by me, he will not forgive. ”

Everyone was shocked and claimed that it was, but now that the rogue is approaching his hometown, everyone is reluctant to reinforce the CD, in order to persuade the other party, Liao Qifang thought about it and said: "It's right that the lord is loyal and patriotic, but now the rogue is approaching Pengzhou on both roads, and most of the soldiers are locals, and they all want to return to the division and do not want to reinforce the CD. ”

Seeing this, Yang Wei also admonished: "My lord, although Zhang Xianzhong's army is approaching the CD now, the CD has the three guards of the King of Shu and the reinforcements from all walks of life, and the morale of the brothers is low, even if the adults forcibly lead everyone to the CD, it will not help."

And Pengzhou is different, the local tyrant always wants to make a comeback, plus the Dashun army in the north and the Daxi army in the east, the enemy is attacked on three sides, the adults are so ruthless, do you want to entrust the hometown father to the hands of the local tyrant? ”

Thinking of what the local tyrant had done in the past, there were cries in the tent, Yang Lin held back his tears, and sighed for a long time: "That's it, even if the court blames it in the future, I will bear it."

Let's just guard against the local riots, the Dashun army, and the Daxi army in northern Sichuan. ”

Everyone was overjoyed when they heard this, Fan Mingshan thought about it, and thought that now that the strong enemy was looking around, it was better to lead the army into Shunqing Mansion City and join forces with the left garrison Chen Yingrui, and the two sides would have a care.

Yang Lin shook his head: "Although the left garrison Chen Yingrui has the courage of a horseman, his troops and horses have more than enough to disturb the people and not enough to fight on the battlefield, if our two armies are combined, it will be difficult for the two sides to work together, but it is not good." ”

Fan Mingshan admonished repeatedly, but seeing that the other party's expression was firm, he knew that he had made up his mind, so he had to let the family sell his wealth and move his family to Pengzhou.