After the defeat of the Ming army in eastern Sichuan, Tongchuan Prefecture was stationed in Zhang Dingguo and Zhang Wenxiu's two Western Army, which can be said to be heavily fortified?

When to go out and how to start the battle has always bothered everyone.

In addition to this, even more annoying is the mobility of the Great Western Army.

Although since its formation, the Volunteer Army has strengthened the physical training of its officers and men, thus reducing the load on its troops, and the highest discipline has reached a record of marching 350 miles in five days.

However, compared with the Great Western Army, the main force of the Great Western Army mostly relied on animal power, often erratic, and marched more than 100 miles a day.

After scrutinizing for a few days, Yin Chengqi threw out a plan on this day, since the rogue was tightly defended in front of him, it was better to attack from all sides, so he set up a suspicious formation.

At the same time, troops and horses were sent to Suining County, Tongnan County in Chongqing Prefecture, and Xichong County due north to attack and harass, so that the Liukou would be exhausted and annihilate the enemy in a mobile battle, or take advantage of his unpreparedness to launch an offensive.

Yang Lin's eyes lit up, isn't this the military exercise he said in his previous life?

Quickly draw up a combat plan, first deduce on the sand table, and then pull the troops out for exercise.

Since the formation of the Volunteer Army, Yang Lin has been particularly concerned about the collection of intelligence, after more than a year of hard work, now the direction of the rivers in the surrounding Fucheng, the distribution of mountains and rivers are all displayed through the sand table.

The ancients liked metaphysics, paying attention to the unfathomable and profound, as a traverser, of course, they did not believe in this set, and paid attention to continuous drills, through drills, through training to solve problems.

Of course, this is an exercise after all, and only a small number of troops need to be dispatched each time.

After thinking about it, Yang Lin immediately convened the generals to discuss the matter, and decided to start continuous actual combat exercises and practice tactics in early May.

Today, the Volunteer Army has 1 naval army, 2 cavalry regiments (400 people per regiment), 8 infantry regiments (of which the escort regiment is 3 battalions, and the other regiments are 2 battalions), and 2 infantry battalions (the 8th and 9th battalions, which have just been expanded from the militia regiment).

In this western expedition, in addition to leaving Liao Qifang's 4th Regiment to garrison Dazhou, Bazhou, Yang Wei's 2nd Regiment to garrison Shunqing Mansion, Wang Shuji's 8th Battalion and Ma Mingluan's 9th Battalion to assist the navy in transporting grain and grass, other regiments will participate in the battle as the main force.

Since the end of the battle in Langzhong in mid-February, everyone has been training and resting for more than a few months.

In order to test the effectiveness of the training, the exercise needed to be conducted in accordance with the standards of actual combat, and after receiving the instructions, each regiment and battalion immediately engaged in intense pre-battle preparations.

Hearing that the 3rd Regiment was in charge of the Xichong direction exercise as a pioneer regiment, Long Zhijiao, the commander of the 3rd Regiment, was very happy, and the whole person was gearing up.

According to the drill plan, with the cooperation of the naval battalion, the third regiment needs to go deep into Xichong City, and in the back are three infantry regiments to ensure the safety of the exercise.

In order to achieve a realistic effect, on this day, the various departments left Shunqing Mansion City one after another, and Long Zhijiao led the department to approach Xichong City.

Since the volunteers occupied the city of Shunqing, Xichong is a major stronghold of the counterattack of the Great Western Army, the two sides have been deadlocked for more than a year without friction, this day suddenly attacked, the Great Western Army stationed in Jinshan Post collapsed, and the Volunteer Army quickly occupied the post station and approached Xichong.

After getting the news of the loss of Xichong, Wang Jiye, the governor of the Great Western Army, was shocked, but he was helpless.

Since the Great Western Army entered Sichuan, there have been disturbances in various places, and now there are large-scale abandonment in many places, and those who are still digging in the fields have limited harvest due to the lack of ploughing cattle.

In order to prevent the volunteers from going north to attack Xichong County, Wang Jiye also arranged more than 1,000 people in Jinshanyi, but there were only more than 200 people who could really fight, and most of the others were the guards who surrendered, or the people who came together.

At present, the harvest in the dilapidated fields in the localities is limited, and there are voices of dissatisfaction among the people, while there are many contradictions in the barracks, such as the contradictions between the Sichuan people and the veterans who have entered Sichuan, and the dissatisfaction with the lack of food and clothing, and the limited combat strength of each department.

The Volunteers suddenly attacked, and attacked the Western Army with an elite division, and the outcome was expected.

After receiving the news of the defeat, Wang Jiye, the governor of the Great Western Army stationed in Xichong County, was shocked and hurriedly sent an envoy to Zhang Dingguo in Tongchuan Prefecture to complain about the emergency.

Just as modern warfare mainly competes for transportation hubs, it is mainly caused by the Ming Dynasty national highways, from Beijing, through Hebei, Henan, Shaanxi, into Sichuan, through Langzhong, Xichong, Yunxian (Tongchuan Prefecture) to CD, this Ming Dynasty national highway passes through Xichong County.

If the Volunteers go north to capture Xichong County, so that this national highway is cut off, and the Great Western Army wants to withdraw to Shaanxi, it cannot take the Ming Dynasty national highway, but can only take the ordinary road.

Tanma kept sending back news, and more than 100 warships sailed downstream from Xihexi, and its front was only more than ten miles away from Xichong County.

The main force of the volunteers continued to kill.

Wang Jiye ordered the city gate to be closed and sent soldiers and horses to guard the whole city, and there was no time and energy to pay attention to the Jinshanpu battle for a while.

Due to the instigation of the landlords and gentry and scholars, and the fact that everyone could not eat enough at all, although there were heavy garrisons, some powerful people appeared in the countryside at intervals, and they colluded with the volunteers in an attempt to overthrow the rule of the Great Western Army.

After seeing that the Great Western Army in the city had been prepared, the Volunteer Army outside the city set up camp ten miles south of the city to block the retreat of the Jinshan Paved Western Army.

Wang Jiye complained bitterly, but he did not dare to send troops to attack.

The Volunteers often sent a small number of soldiers and horses to lure the enemy, and then took advantage of their unpreparedness to win a great victory.

Now there are very few soldiers and horses in Xichong County, if the army is sent to attack the plan to be annihilated, it is still second, if it is taken advantage of by the volunteers to occupy Xichong County, cut off the Ming Dynasty's national highway, that is the real big crime.

Hearing that the Volunteers attacked Xichong County, looking at the map in front of him, Zhang Dingguo was quite embarrassed, last year's grain harvest failed, the armies lacked food, and the war horses no longer dared to feed food, and lost more fat, which affected the mobility of the Great Western Army.

The soldiers of all departments now have two meals a day, everyone drinks gruel every day, puts some picnics, many people are skinny, and some even have vegetables.

Now the morale of the Onishi Army is low, and there are deserters in all battalions, and if the troops are sent out to fight now, even if they win, the exiles who have been captured will surely flee a lot.

However, the strategic location of Xichong was very important, and after pondering for a long time, Bai Wenxuan led more than 10,000 soldiers and horses to help, and he led his own army to follow.

Seeing that Bai Wenxuan led his troops to kill, Long Zhijiao saw that the goal was achieved, and led the army to retreat south.

Seeing the retreat of the Volunteers to the south, Bai Wenxuan led his troops to pursue, and encountered three infantry regiments and a cavalry battalion led by Yang Lin near Phoenix Mountain, and the two sides fought fiercely for half a day, killing six or seven hundred people, capturing more than 1,000 people, and the Great Western Army was defeated.

Everyone asked to turn around and fight again, Yang Lin thought that the purpose of the exercise was achieved, but he was even more worried that the Great Western Army would temporarily set up an ambush, so he left a battalion of soldiers and horses to garrison Phoenix Mountain, and led the rest of the troops to slowly retreat to Shunqing City.

After returning to Shunqing City, after a short rest, Yang Lin also commanded the naval army and the four regiments of soldiers and horses to approach Tongnan County in the south of Tongchuan Prefecture.

On May 9, Yang Cheng led his troops to approach the Xiaowan ferry north of the Fujiang River, and Yang Wei, the governor of the Great Western Army, led 3,000 soldiers and horses to defend the ferry.

On the morning of May 10, Chen Huaixi led the navy to kill, and while letting go, he rushed upstream, and set fire boats straight to the dock, and the pier was in flames.

The high ground around the wharf was even more miserable, and it was shelled by the navy one after another, and it was too late to organize the rescue of soldiers and horses.

The navy currently has 2 Flying Tiger warship brigades, 5 sampan boat brigades, and 5 transport brigades, and is now shelling the pier and the surrounding heights.

At this time, although the artillery was not very lethal, it looked very terrifying, and the lead flew into the air and then fell down several meters away like rain.

The officers and men of the Great Western Army were quite afraid of firearms, and when they saw more than 30 ships appearing on the river, they heard the sound of cannons, and they saw that lead was constantly falling from the sky, and everyone fled one after another.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Wang Shuji led his troops to rush up to the hill, and after a fierce battle for half a day, they occupied Xiaowan Ferry and captured Yang Wei, the governor of the Great Western Army.

Zhang Wenxiu, the general of the Funan of the Great Western Army in the south of the Yangtze River, saw that the loyal and righteous naval army had arrived, and urgently ordered Wang Fuchen, the right governor of the upstream naval army, to lead his troops to help.

Originally, the Great Western Army also had a naval army, and the main force of its naval army was mainly on the Min River and the Yangtze River, but since Zeng Ying's troops occupied Chongqing last year, the Great Western Army's naval army was completely cut off, so on the Jialing River and on the Fujiang River, the strength of the Great Western Army's naval army was very weak.

Last year, the Volunteer Army was defeated by the Navy, and after learning from the pain, Liu Wenxiu decided to form a Navy Army, and now there are more than 100 warships, which have installation ramming angles, which are quite fierce.

The Onishi Army and the Navy came over, Chen Huaixi was also quite flustered, this era was mostly a connecting war, but the adults asked to kill and injure the other party through artillery, through earth-shaking thunder, and through bird guns.

Nowadays, the Flying Tiger warship is equipped with 4 large Franc machines and 4 small Franc machines, and the sampan ship is equipped with two small Franc machines, and the actual combat effect is not known.

Seeing the navy of the Great Western Army going down the river and killing overwhelmingly from the upstream, Chen Huaixi ordered everyone to fill all the shells with gunpowder and lead, leaving a small part to operate the cannons, and most of them rowed boats and rushed up against the current.

The gunners kept igniting the guns, and used more scattered bullets in the water, and when a shell went down, it fell overwhelmingly, and there were falling lead everywhere in a radius of four or five meters.

The lead that falls in the river has no effect, but if it falls on the boat, there are countless of them, and many people jump into the water to avoid the lead in order to escape for their lives.

Some of those who escaped slowly were mostly hit by lead, and the whole person was covered in blood, which was unbearable.

Wang Fuchen sat on a large ship, standing at the front despite the falling shells, shouting loudly, asking everyone to rush over and hit each other with their ramming angles.

Seeing that their companions were killed, everyone was also anxious, shooting arrows while rushing around desperately.

About more than 20 steps, it is surprising that the soldiers of the volunteers who are going up the current are not afraid, except for seeing the oars rowing back and forth in the water, they cannot see the movement of the volunteers behind the female wall and behind the quilt.

The Flying Tiger battleship is larger, with a female wall and a sampan boat, but in order to guard against the opponent's arrows and birds, a layer of quilts is spread around the ship, which is dipped in water to guard against arrows and birds.

Wang Fuchen was overjoyed and ordered everyone to drive a wooden boat into it, so that after the two boats collided together, they could board the ship and kill the enemy.

The Great Western Army lacked firearms, but it did not lack courage, and it was beaten by the other side from a long distance.

At this moment, I suddenly saw that the soldiers behind the quilt of the enemy's sampan boat suddenly stood up and threw iron balls from a distance, the two sides were very close to each other, and they were thrown very accurately, at least eighty or ninety percent were thrown on the warships of the Great Western Army.

Wang Fuchen felt strange, did the other party want to hit himself with an iron ball?

At a cursory glance, I didn't hit a few people, and I was about to laugh when I suddenly saw the iron ball exploding with sparks.

Although it cannot be compared with modern grenades, the principle of explosion is the same, the gunpowder is contained in an iron ball, and the explosion occurs after igniting the outer lead, relying on the iron pieces produced by the explosion, and the shock wave kills the opponent.

The warships were very close to each other, and most of the earth-shattering thunderbolts were thrown onto the opponent's ship, and the warships in front often threw four or five, which suddenly exploded, and the iron pieces flew sideways, and the officers and men of the Onishi Army who were standing at the bow of the ship and were about to board the ship were blown to pieces.

In the past, the navy also used mines, such as the 28th year of Jiajing (1549), Tang Shunzhi's "Wu Edition", recorded "underwater mines", put the iron-shelled mines into a sealed large wooden box, sink into the water, use 3 iron anchors to position, and use ropes to fire the device to connect to the shore, when the enemy ship approached, the ambush soldiers on the shore pulled the fire and detonated. It is actually a kind of pull anchor mine.

There is also a kind of triggering sinking thunder, written by Wang Minghe at the end of the 16th century in the "Fire Attack Q&A", describing a kind of triggering sinking thunder, called "underwater thunder". It is to put the iron-shelled mine into a sealed vat, sink to the bottom of the water, and connect the rope on the surface of the water at a place of two inches (about 0.033~0.066 meters), and connect with the ignition device in the mine body, the enemy ship touches it, the machine falls and fires, and the enemy ship is blown up.

Although the Han compatriots in the late Northern Song Dynasty began to use earth-shaking thunder to defend the city, this was the first time it was used in water warfare.

There is a saying that in 1974, the heroic officers and men of the Republic of China in the Nansha naval battle used a grenade to defeat the Vietnamese Navy.

The Flying Tiger Battleship and Sampan Boat of the Volunteer Army are all refitted special warships, and the soldiers are hiding behind the women's wall one by one, hiding behind wet quilts, and now some quilts are already on fire, and they are directly lit at the burning place, and then they throw the earth-shattering thunder over.

In order to avoid the earth-shaking thunder, some people saw that the situation was not good, and even jumped directly into the water.

Wang Fuchen shouted loudly, wanting to retreat, but now it is a smooth water, it is even more difficult to retreat, the two sides are fighting back and forth on the river, such a stick of incense, the Great Western Army warships not only sank and injured more than ten ships, but also the entire formation was washed to pieces, everyone fought separately, extremely chaotic.

What is surprising is that the Volunteers had no intention of fighting at all, and now they actually rushed upstream, so as not to cause more damage.

The patriarch breathed a sigh of relief, and many people climbed back onto the warship from the water, and everyone regained their strength to restore their formation.

In less than half a pillar of incense, I suddenly saw the volunteers regain their strength and re-kill them from the upstream downstream.

The Volunteers who had rushed upstream, now reloaded and reloaded, were now shelling and sneering down.

Everyone was shocked, just now the other side sank and destroyed several of their own warships against the current, and now they are going downstream, and the battle situation can be imagined.

Now everyone ignored Wang Fuchen's orders, driving the ships to flee one after another, Chen Huaixi led the sailors down the river, after half a day of fierce battles, defeated Liu Wenxiu's Fujiang Naval Division, which was not easy to establish, and captured Wang Fuchen, the right governor of the Great Western Army. (Just as the Hunan army originally went down the river in the Jinggang water battle, but was blocked by the Taiping army and retreated in time, so it was defeated.) ）