Just when Yang Lin was hesitating, the porter came to report, claiming that Wang Yingxiong, the governor of the four provinces, had sent a messenger, hoping that the volunteers could send troops from Shunqing Mansion to attack Zhang Xianzhong from the north and south.

It turned out that after a year of rest, now the strength of the Ming army in southern Sichuan and eastern Sichuan has increased greatly, Wang Yingxiong and Fan Yixuan, the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi, are in southern Sichuan, planning to concentrate their forces to storm the Great Western Army and restore the CD.

The Volunteers are entrenched in the north of Sichuan, and the geographical location is extremely important, and it can form a north-south flank with the Ming army in southern Sichuan.

The more important volunteer army was strong and strong, and in less than ten days, it defeated the army of Zhang Dingguo and Bai Wenxuan, and in less than half a month, it was the disaster of Yao Huang, a local tyrant who had plagued northern Sichuan for several years, and the army was greatly boosted.

Although the adjutant general Zeng Ying defeated the Funan general Zhang Wenxiu with a strategy, and the deputy general Yang Zhan also defeated the governor of the Daxi Metropolitan Zhang Hualong, but compared with the record of the volunteers, it was still much inferior.

Under the city of Shunqing, the volunteers fought a bloody battle with the 30,000 Western troops who came to attack for ten days, and defeated the other party with outnumbered enemies and won the victory.

Wang Yingxiong, Fan Yixing, Ma Gan and others unanimously believed that if the Northern Sichuan Volunteer Army sent troops from Shunqing, such a rogue would definitely be defeated.

However, the Volunteer Army belongs to a local regiment training and armament, and its strategy and tactics are completely autonomous, and it does not listen to the dispatch of the governors of the four provinces at all, which is quite a headache.

A month ago, he received a letter from Qian Bangxin, claiming that Yang Lin might lead his troops to seize Bazhou and plan to enter Hanzhong to block the Manchu Qing from entering Sichuan.

Wang Yingxiong was shocked, if the volunteers went north to Hanzhong, they would not besiege the Great Western Army from the north.

In order to win over the volunteers, Wang Yingxiong sent Liu Liangchang, a political officer in eastern Sichuan, to Shunqing to stop, who would have expected that just arrived in Shunqing, the volunteers had already captured Bazhou, and the prosperity of the soldiers was jaw-dropping.

After reading it briefly, he handed it to Yin Chengqi, Ran Lin, Zhang Lang and others next to him, and then sat on the top and closed his eyes to recuperate, looking like he had nothing to do with himself.

Ran Lin is a native of Bazhou, when the local rioters were entrenched in Bazhou, he once led the local heroes to fight against it, and when the volunteers entered Bazhou, Ran Lin used his local prestige to provide information.

Liu Lanchang arched his hand and asked, "This is the strategy drawn up by Lord Wang, the governor of the four provinces, Lord Fan, the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi, and Lord Ma, the governor of Sichuan, after discussing for several months.

Adult and young heroes, now they have put down the rebellion of the local rioters in one fell swoop, and their knowledge is far above ordinary people, how about adults? ”

Yang Lin was shocked in his heart, the history books clearly stated that this year, the Great Western Army will abandon the CD, and after the evacuation, Zhang Xianzhong was beheaded by the Tartars in Xichong County, Shunqing Prefecture, and before, the Great Western Army was likely to attack Shunqing Mansion with all its might, and there were only two ways to solve the puzzle.

One of the volunteers entered Hanzhong, breaking the possibility of the Tartars driving straight into Sichuan, so that although Zhang Xianzhong can be preserved, but so the enemy on both sides, Shunqing Mansion and Hanzhong Mansion will be gained and lost, and the Volunteer Army may be wiped out.

The other is, of course, self-preservation, seizing territory, and enhancing strength, but in this case, the Great Western Army will inevitably be even weaker, and Zhang Xianzhong will definitely die.

No matter which path he chooses, he will leave endless disasters behind, and after months of hard thinking and meditation, Yang Lin can't make a decision.

Although it is difficult to recover from the overall situation, then how to take advantage of the current situation.

Wang Yingxiong, the governor of the four provinces, and others were quite interested in besieging Zhang Xianzhong, and since this was the case, it was better to do the opposite, on the one hand, to show their foresight and gain fame, and on the other hand, to expand their influence.

After thinking about it, Yang Lin shook his head again and again and said, "Since it was discussed by the adults, we sesame mung bean officials can implement it."

But those with a little common sense know that to ensure the tranquility of Sichuan, Hanzhong must be protected first, and now although He Zhen abandoned the darkness and led 20,000 elite soldiers to kill in Guanzhong, but the enemy is strong and I am weak, what can these 20,000 soldiers and horses do?

Although we defeated Zhang Xianzhong, if the barbarian Qing occupied Hanzhong and entered the four Chuan, would we want to repeat the bitter fruits of the Mongolian iron cavalry? ”

Everyone was shocked, Yang Lin ate the bear's heart and leopard gall, and actually dared to publicly criticize the cabinet scholars of the current dynasty, the governors of the four provinces, and the governors of Sichuan and Shaanxi in public?

But in the Ming Dynasty, it advocates freedom of speech, the Donglin Party people are listening to the sound of the wind and rain, the sound of reading, family affairs, state affairs, everything in the world is concerned, in the Ming Dynasty, the official speech, the scholar discusses politics, this is a common thing.

After careful consideration, Yang Lin's words are not unreasonable.

Wang Yingxiong, the governor of the four provinces, and Fan Yixuan, the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi, thought about the overall situation of the four provinces, and how to annihilate the Daxi regime that caused the trouble.

What Yang Lin is thinking about is how to protect the entire territory of Sichuan from the harm of Jiannu Iron Cavalry.

Liu Lanchang felt in a dilemma, and sighed: "What the adults said is not unreasonable. But the Governor, the Governor, made such a decision, and I think there is a reason for it. ”

Yang Lin was overjoyed in his heart, and said with disdain on his face: "Everyone is blind, and they don't care about the general trend of the world at all."

On that day, the princes of the imperial court joined forces to destroy the emperor, but they were too short-sighted, and they were too focused on the present.

The result was that the barbarian Qing eliminated the Liukou, and then the soldiers were divided into two ways to attack my Daming, and finally I stayed in the capital, and Emperor Hongguang was taken away by the Tartars.

The same is true now, all of us only think of the Liukou, and our eyes are only on the Liukou, instead of thinking about how to defend our hometown and block the Manchu iron cavalry into Sichuan. ”

Liu Linchang was speechless, and had to repeatedly demand that he obey the orders of Wang Yingxiong, the governor of the four provinces, and Fan Yixing, the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi.

After complaining for a long time, under the persuasion of everyone one after another, Yang Lin no longer publicly criticized the strategy of the governors of the four provinces.

Liu Liangchang was overjoyed in his heart, and arched his hand: "My lord, the army of southern Sichuan will march in April, I don't know when my lord will enter the army?" ”

Yang Lin thought about it, was noncommittal, and sighed: "Since ancient times, Sichuan has a saying that the upper Sichuan and the lower Sichuan have been said that if you want to ensure the safety of Sichuan, you must control the upper Sichuan.

Now the official army has just taken control of Bazhou, but the local rioters have been entrenched in Bazhou for many years, and the place is unstable.

And the battle in Guanzhong of the He Zhen Department was unsuccessful, and Liu Jinzhong of Baoning Mansion was about to move, if he wanted to march west, there must be no threat from the rear, right? ”

Although Yang Lin answered truthfully, it was not the case in the crowd.

Although young, Yang Lin seems to be familiar with the way of being an official, and for things he doesn't want to do, he wants to give soft nails, rather than openly refusing.

Now to raise a difficulty, this is clearly a refusal.

The two walked out of the lobby with pale faces, and there was nothing they could do after thinking about it.

In the end, according to Qian Bangqi's observation, this Yang Lin was quite obsessed with the official position, and if he wanted to obey the order, he would probably have to be promoted to the rank of knight.

However, Wang Yingxiong, the governor of the four provinces, was different from other officials, attaching importance to his name and position, and could not be rewarded unless he made great achievements.

Now that they have hit a soft nail, Liu Liangchang and Qian Bangxin are anxious, and on the one hand, they persuade Yang Lin to change his mind and obey the strategic arrangement of the governors of the four provinces, and on the other hand, he wrote to Wang Yingxiong, the governor of the four provinces, hoping to give him a position in exchange for his active cooperation.