Through the surrender of troops and generals, as well as Ye Dabin and other squires who returned to him, Yang Lin felt the crisis of Daxi's rule.

Now the Ming army is attacking from all sides (historically from the direction of Xuzhou, which is today's Yibin, from the direction of Suiqing, from the direction of Hongya, Jiadingzhou, etc.), the Daxi regime is compressed in the Chengdu Plain and the Jinniu Road, the North Sichuan Post Road corridor (in history, Yin Chengqi and others revolted, and Shunqing Mansion fell again after Zhang Xianzhong's northern expedition), and its internal rule was in jeopardy.

In the face of the Ming army's multi-way attack and humiliating defeat at Pengjiangkou, Zhang Xianzhong, who has been majestic all his life, has fallen into absolute madness, and is carrying out a ruthless purge in order to quickly find the heroic division that has been dominating the world for more than ten years.

In the past two years since entering Sichuan, if we say that in the first two years, due to the lack of local governance experience, the local economy of the four Chuan that was damaged at the end of the Ming Dynasty was not restored.

In order to increase the mobility of the troops, exacerbate local unrest, forcibly rob people's livestock, and destroy farming.

Cut off the arms of some of the surrendered soldiers and spread the atmosphere of terror to the society.

Or there were two or three students who surrendered to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the frenzied slaughter and suppression of hundreds of students expanded

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If all this is the crazy side of the rebel leader after he gained power, now after the tragic defeat at Pengjiangkou, he is like a trapped beast, showing the craziest side of mankind.

If there has been a fact in history when Zhang Xianzhong slaughtered Sichuan, the most likely thing is probably that in the face of the humiliating defeat of Pengjiangkou, after realizing that the Great Western Army was not as powerful as the 200,000 army shown on the books, Zhang Xianzhong showed the bestiality of human beings.

After receiving the news of the fiasco of the Pengjiangkou of the Great Western Army, after seeing Hong Zhenglong, Zhou Shangxian and other middle-level generals of the Great Western Army returning to Shun one after another, he once again touched the pulse of history as a traverser.

Although everyone was still apprehensive about the fighting power of the Liukou, although the Great Western Army still had 200,000 people, in the face of a possible human tragedy, Yang Lin still ignored everyone's opposition, and Yang Lin decided to go west again.

Although the strength of the volunteers was increased through various methods, the strength of the volunteers was limited due to the adoption of elite tactics and the difficulty of food supply due to the destruction of local areas.

And the Great Western Army is still very strong, at least on paper, the Great Western Army still has 200,000 people, and the strength is several times that of the Western Expeditionary Volunteers.

Compared with the passive response to the battle and the passive execution of orders in the past, Yang Lin took the initiative to put forward the strategy of advancing the army for the first time, sent messengers to the Ming army in various places, and pointed out that the Great Western Army was weak, just like the leaders of the righteous army such as Huang Chao in history, in the face of the other side of the murderous and bloodthirsty side that defeat may show, everyone should work together to prevent the tragedy from happening.

Wang Guangxian, the governor of Pengzhou, and the 4th Regiment General Lei Xiandeng were ordered to go to Liu Jinzhong and Zhao Ronggui's camps, hoping to lead the Ming army in the direction of Baoning to attack and capture Shengzhou (Guangyuan direction) to block the northward route of the Great Western Army.

The overseer Qian Bangxin went to Neijiang to meet Ma Gan, the governor of Sichuan, and went to the camp of Fan Yixuan, the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi, to inform him of the attack plan, hoping to lead his troops to help.

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At the same time as sending messengers from all roads, in late June, after occupying Tongchuan Prefecture for a month, the Volunteers launched another attack.

The first to be dispatched was the volunteers stationed in Bazhou and Shunqing Mansion, and with the cooperation of the naval army, Yang Wei led the 2nd Regiment to approach Xichong and take the lead in the battle.

At the beginning of the Western Expedition, the Volunteers had a feint to attack Xichong, and now the old trick is repeated, which is quite confusing.

Zhang Dingguo, who retreated to Yun County, was in a dilemma, the battle in Tongchuan Prefecture had just ended, and the casualties of the department were too large, if he led his troops to rescue, it would inevitably lead to the emptiness of the defense of Yu County, Yanting, and Zhongjiang counties, giving the volunteers an opportunity to take advantage of.

If they don't rescue, they are worried that the volunteers will take the opportunity to attack the city, seize Xichong, and cut off the post road to escape to Hanzhong and Guanzhong Avenue.

Absorbing the lessons of the Tongchuan Prefecture fiasco, Zhang Dingguo decided to stand still for the time being and wait for the follow-up affairs to develop.

The front line urgent documents followed, so after five days, on this day to visit the Malay newspaper, Xichong was lost, and the governor Wang Jiye led the troops to return to Yanting County.

It turned out that before attacking Xichong County, Liao Qifang's department and Chen Huai's western part of the navy army were sent to reinforce the army.

More than a dozen Flying Tiger warships and sampan boats cruised on the river, and dozens of large Franco cannons fired one after another.

The two sides attacked and defended for many days, everyone was familiar with each other, who expected that the firepower of the volunteers was so fierce, the defenders of the city were caught off guard, and the city walls were in chaos.

At the same time, Yang Wei and Liao Qifang led their troops to attack the city, and under the cover of the earth-shaking thunder, they broke into the city by a cloud ladder.

Yang Lin received the news of the capture of Xichong County the next morning.

Before the expedition, in order to express his determination to go west, Yang Lin personally wrote a letter to Wang Yingxiong, the governor of the four provinces, and Fan Yixing, the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi, hoping to urge all departments to work together to expel the Great Western Army from Sichuan, so as to save the people of Li from fire and water.

Yang Lin claimed that he would raise an army of 50,000 (in ancient times, he would boast his own troops) to march west to Zhang Xianzhong, hoping that they would be able to lead all the troops to come to support.

In mid-June of the 2nd year of Longqing (1646 AD), Yang Wei, a guerrilla general of the 2nd Regiment, led the regiment to garrison Pengzhou, Bazhou, Dazhou, to guard against Liu Jinzhong in Baoning Province.

The 1st Regiment of the Headquarters was stationed in Shunqing under the command of General Fan Mingshan, and the 6th Regiment of Jing Keqin was deployed to defend against the flood, Pengxi was prepared against Zhang Dingguo in Yunxian and Yanting, and Wang Jiye in Xichong.

Chen Huaixi's navy cruised in Jialing's house and the Fujiang River, transporting grain, grass and baggage by water.

After the grain and grass baggage arrived in Suining, Guo Chonglie's 3rd Regiment ensured the transportation of grain and grass by land.

Yang Lin personally led the cavalry battalion, artillery regiment, escort battalion, the 4th Regiment of Long Zhiframe, the 5th Regiment of Yang Bingyi, the 7th Regiment of Feng Youqing, the 8th Regiment of Dujigui, the 9th Regiment of Wang Shuji, the 10th Regiment of Wang Zhibang, and the 11th Regiment of Gao Wengui to enter the CD Mansion.

The CD Plain is located between Longquan Mountain, Longmen Mountain and Qionglai Mountain, and is formed by river alluvium by fault subsidence, covering an area of about 20,000 square kilometers.

There are two roads to enter the CD Plain from Tongchuan Prefecture, of course, the most spacious is the Ming Dynasty National Expressway, which is entered through Yu County (Tongchuan Prefecture Administration) and Zhongjiang County.

The second is to cross the Tuojiang River and bypass Genting City to enter.

Or take a detour to the east of Sichuan and enter through Longquanyi.

Genting City is one of the eight pillars of Sichuan's anti-Mongolian resistance, its geographical location is very dangerous, its east and Fortress Mountain lock river to strangle the Tuojiang River Jintang Gorge River defense;

The west controls the CD plain to defend the CD;

In the south, the deep valley of the Shuimo River is dangerous, and the passage of the Huai'an Army to the CD Dongshan Wuchang;

The Gaoding Pass of the North Dangerous Pass and the Xiaoyunding Mountain rely on each other to control the hole road from CD to Tongchuan Mansion.

This Genting Mountain is the gateway to the east of CD and the key point of the East and West Rivers.

On the same day, Yang Lin personally led his troops and horses to garrison Genting City for several days, and his intelligence staff officer and promotion officer Luo Mengke was a person from Jintang County, and he was quite familiar with the geographical environment around Genting City.

On this day, he led his troops to the mouth of Jintang Gorge, and there was already a report from Malay, and after Zhang Wenxiu led his troops to withdraw from Tongchuan Prefecture, he led a heavy army to garrison Yunding City to block the way of the army.

Looking at the Tuojiang River rolling in front, he ordered Ma Mingluan to lead the artillery regiment to build forts along the river, let people build rafts, and then sent water ghosts to jump into the river and connect the rafts one by one, so as to facilitate the army to cross the river.

Looking at the surging river below, although the current is very turbulent, the Tuojiang River makes continuous turns in the Jintang Gorge, forming a huge accumulation plain after exiting the canyon.

Now the volunteers crossed the river at the bottom of the plain, so the water flow was relatively gentle, and from a distance, I saw the water ghosts constantly jumping into the boiling river, dragging the raft first, and so slowly extending forward, forming two pontoon bridges four meters wide.

Sailors constantly rocked and dragged back and forth on the pontoon bridge to prevent the pontoon from being blown apart.

Thirty meters upstream and downstream of the pontoon bridge, more than 20 small boats have been lowered into the water, and the volunteers on the shore are constantly gathering, apparently preparing to cross the Tuojiang River.

Zhang Wenxiu frowned, it seems that the volunteers are fully prepared this time, basically holding the belief that they will win, thinking of this, he can't help but sigh secretly.

Although Zhang Wenxiu is quite good at water, he will never lead his troops to jump into the water to fight back and forth with the other party, and now he can only let all his troops strengthen their defenses and fight after the volunteers approach.

In this way, at noon, the pontoon bridge was spread across the center of the river, which happened to be within the firing range, and Zhang Wenxiu gave an order, and the artillery erected on the mountain fired at the center of the river.

But at this time, the artillery fire was really not flattering, and more than ten shells were fired, and only one shot fell on the pontoon bridge, smashing up a huge column of water.

Seeing that the artillery had been fired on the other side, the 2-pound guns of the volunteers took the lead in firing back, whether it was shooting accuracy or firing range, these 2-pound guns were on top of the large Franc machine guns, aiming at the continuous ignition of the Liukou artillery firing site on the opposite side of the river.

Iron balls fell from the sky, fell to the ground, were hit through the body, extremely terrifying, fell to the ground, and were smashed into a deep pit. (Solid bullets, non-exploding)

At the same time, forty small boats from the upstream and downstream rowed across the river to the other side of the river, with wet quilts hanging around the boats, and a small Furlong cannon in the bow, as if they were preparing to cross the river.

The Great Western Army on the shore was in turmoil, Zhang Wenxiu pulled out his sword and ordered everyone to fight back.

These small boats were constantly being shot with rockets, arrows, and birds, and they were charging towards the shore while firing their guns.

This is the most critical link in the defense of the river, that is, to prevent the other side from rushing to the shore, under the strict order, the officers and men of the Great Western Army rushed to the shore in a group, shouting loudly to deter the other party, and at the same time firing arrows.