After getting Zhang Shan'er's letter, Zhang Dingguo frowned, and Bai Wenxuan, the governor of the right army next to him, said with a smile: "It turns out that Yang Lin is so cowardly, he doesn't dare to fight with us in the field at all, and he is conscripted and sent to build fortifications all day long.

General Dingxi, now the volunteers are gathered under the city of Shunqing, and they are building fortifications, and all the units of our army can drive straight into the other city, and then defeat it. ”

Zhang Dingguo frowned, shook his head and said: "Yang Lin is cunning and treacherous, we need to beware of his deception, our army must not mess with itself, so as not to be taken advantage of by Yang Lin." ”

Bai Wenxuan laughed, thinking that Zhang Dingguo was quite timid, and since the defeat of Hanzhong at the beginning of the year, he has no previous sharpness.

The Great Western Army swept through the four Chuanchuan provinces in less than half a year, and the soldiers were invincible for a while, taking advantage of this great opportunity, Zhang Dingguo and Zhang Wenxiu led their troops into Hanzhong, who expected to kill the Dashun Army He Jinbu horse team halfway, panicked for a while, tens of thousands of troops were defeated one after another, not only controlled by the other side in Hanzhong, lost the gateway to northern Sichuan, but also let the Quartet heroes see the weakness of the Great Western Army.

Since the fiasco in Hanzhong, the generals of the Great Western Army have tried to recover the decline and attack everywhere in the face of fireworks from all directions, but Zhang Dingguo, who has always been brave, thinks that it is better to be cautious.

Zhang Guangcai led his troops to the forefront, crossed the Fujiang River in mid-September, and then led 3,000 men and horses to open the road in the mountains, build bridges when encountering water, and rushed to Shunqing City non-stop.

Zhang Guangcai was full of confidence, and when he attacked Shunqing City the year before last, he led his troops to go back and forth many times, and it can be said that he was familiar with the road and desperately marched towards Shunqing City.

But to Zhang Guangcai's surprise, just after crossing the Fujiang River, the army had just entered Shunqing less than 3 or 4 miles before the villagers found it, and for a while, the surrounding mountain villages were noisy with gongs and drums, and many people ran to the top of the mountain and shouted: "The Liukou is coming, the Liukou is coming, the Liukou is coming, the Liukou is coming, the Liukou is coming." ”

What made Zhang Guangcai even more distressed was that the roads were often blocked by boulders, and in some places there were a few sharpened wooden stakes and bamboos, and at the end of the day, he actually stabbed 3 or 4 war horses and injured several brothers.

Zhang Guangcai sent more than 10 scouts to spy on the volunteers, but only 8 came back, and the other 2 were shot and wounded by the people hiding in the stockade.

With the bloody horses covered in blood, Zhang Guangcai was quite surprised and sent people to search for the old and young in various villages to get news of the volunteers.

However, under the leadership of the local township chief, Lijia chief, and scholars, the docile people in the past saw that the rogues were lonely, and they went out to attack, and when they saw the rogue soldiers and strong horses, they hid in the cottage and made noise.

This is unique in the past campaign, Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong have been able to dominate the world for more than ten years, and the main reason is to gain the support of the people, so that they can do their strange whereabouts and make the Ming army wary.

However, the news of Zhang Xianzhong's slaughter of Sichuan had already spread, and the Onishi regime forcibly recruited the wealthy gentry and scholars from all over the country to the CD, which almost offended the squires, and everyone was quite hostile to the rogue.

As soon as they saw the rogues coming, the villagers immediately hid from the bandits and hid in the deep mountains and old forests.

Zhang Guangcai walked into a farmhouse and saw that the house was empty and could not find anything, and it seemed that the people were ready to hide from the bandits.

Finally arrested more than a dozen villagers, these former honest villagers declared:

Your Great Western Army wants to slaughter our Sichuan people, and everyone has no choice but to hide, everyone hides in the mountains, in the ravines, and in the stockade.

Ask how the scout was killed, and by this time he would have figured it out.

It turns out that in the past month, not only have the township chiefs been set up in each county, but also more than 100 security teams have been trained in each township, and in this month, these township chiefs have been beating gongs and drums every day to tell everyone that they should work during the day, and at night they will bury the valuable things in their homes and bury their food in the deep mountains and old forests.

In the past, everyone had seen the robbery of the rich with their own eyes, but now the war is in chaos, and many poor families are also pondering how to ensure food security, and now they hear the township chief asking everyone to hide the grain, and see those rich people transporting them to the mountains one by one, everyone panics and follows suit.

Hearing that the people hid all the food and killed it, and the army couldn't get any supplies at all, Zhang Guangcai couldn't help but complain about that Wang Zhaolin.

Say anything to be harsh on the Sichuan people, offend the squires and scholars everywhere, and now instigate the ordinary people to be so hostile to themselves, burying the grain in the deep mountains and old forests, like this, is this battle fought?

In order to appease the people, Zhang Guangcai explained again and again, saying that the Onishi regime had already exempted taxes for three years, and in the past, it only collected taxes from large households, and never collected food from the poor people.

But the other party will be suspicious, as if facing a group of murderous demons, one by one looks righteous and awe-inspiring.

Zhang Guangcai was quite annoyed, brandished his treasure knife and slashed the branches and cypress trees again and again, and said sadly: "My Great Western Army entered Sichuan, and if you want to say that there is no killing, it is false.

But what kind of people are we killing, it is the Zhu Ming clan who is full of food and has nothing to do all day long, it is the big gentry who oppress the people, and it is the big family who works for the tiger.

In the past, the general thought that Yang Lin was a clean official and a man who was upright and upright, but he couldn't imagine that he would insult our Great Western Army so much today, and say that our Great Western Army is no different from a local tyrant, is it tolerable or unbearable?

Brothers, fight into Shunqing City with Ben and capture Yang Lin alive. ”

Everyone cheered loudly, everyone shouted, and they killed Shunqing City like a tide.

Seeing that Zhang Guangcai marched so quickly, Zhang Dingguo was afraid of losing and urgently ordered Jin Tongwu, Gao Wengui and others behind him to lead his troops to follow.

Zhang Guangcai's troops led their troops to cross the Qushui River in the morning, but the soldiers have been hungry for a few months, and they are all in poor health, and now that the sun is big, if they continue to hurry, some people will faint from heat stroke.

More importantly, he had just received a military order from Zhang Dingguo, the general of Dingxi, ordering him to wait until the camp governor Jin Tongwu's troops had completely crossed the Qushui before continuing to march.

The two departments were more than ten miles apart, and Zhang Guangcai sent people to urge Jin to cross the river quickly, while lazily turning over and dismounting, and ordered everyone to rest on the spot.

Everyone hadn't settled down yet, and suddenly heard a burst of shouts and killings from the front, Zhang Guangcai felt quite surprised, in broad daylight, who would dare to attack the Great Western Army?

Hurriedly beat their horses and ran to the top of the mountain, killing nearly 1,000 men and horses from the north, middle and south directions in front, and they suddenly appeared in the woods and hills in front of the Great Western Army, and now they were waving flags and blowing the trumpet of the charge, killing overwhelmingly.

Zhang Guangcai's heart tightened, could it be that the other party had already taken precautions and saw that the headquarters had crossed the Qushui River, and the main force of the Great Western Army was still in the west of the Qushui River, ready to attack it halfway?

With disdain, Zhang Guangcai seemed quite unimpressed, there were 3,000 soldiers and horses in the headquarters, although many soldiers were hungry in the past few months, but the strength still existed.

Zhang Dingguo led 30,000 soldiers and horses to the west bank of the Qushui River twenty or thirty miles, and he could cross the Qushui River to support in a moment.

As long as you persist in working hard for half a day, when the time comes, the Great Western Army will continue to kill, so you will definitely be able to achieve the middle flowering and defeat the volunteers.

Zhang Guangcai drew his sword and ordered his troops to quickly occupy the surrounding hills to defend on the spot.

Just as everyone was climbing up the hillside next to them, suddenly the dust was flying from the north, and when they looked around, they saw hundreds of cavalry soldiers in six ways, killing along the winding mountain road.

The opposing cavalry was ambushed in the forest half a mile away on both sides of the avenue, with a very obvious intention, that is, they hoped to hinder the deployment of the Onishi Army through the rapid maneuvering of the cavalry, and divide the Onishi Army, which was distributed in three miles long, and then cooperate with the main force to encircle and eliminate it.

Seeing the cavalry killed, the officers and men of the Great Western Army looked quite confused, many people were frightened, everyone was stunned, and some even secretly retreated to the Qushui River and the direction of Wangjiaqiao.

Zhang Guangcai's face was pale, beads of sweat rolled down his cheeks one by one, for the sake of today's plan is to block the charge of the opponent's cavalry, if he allows these two hundred cavalry to gallop back and forth, then his three thousand soldiers and horses will definitely fall apart.

Zhang Guangcai came out on horseback, wanting to lead his own soldiers to stop the opponent's cavalry, although he had five hundred personal soldiers, and all of them were by his side, but the other party had six teams of men and horses, which could block all the way.

Zhang Guangcai just hoped that other generals would also lead the elite to fight out and block the opponent's cavalry, but he just hoped that the infantry would not break up before killing the volunteer cavalry.