It can be said that Zhang Xianzhong was one of the first people to understand the power of the Xuan army, as early as the fifth year of Chongzhen, Zhang Xianzhong was still mixed under Gao Yingxiang.

He remembered clearly that year he followed Gao Yingxiang's ass and attacked the city and plundered the land all the way to show his face, and then somehow he was full of self-confidence, and he patted his chest and asked Gao Yingxiang for the mission to attack Yingzhou City. At the beginning, Yingzhou City was almost captured by him, but he never thought that he would kill a Cheng bite gold halfway, Yue Yang took his five hundred regiments to practice and kill, and under a fierce battle, he beat his army of more than 10,000 Liukou to the ground, Zhang Xianzhong If he didn't run fast, he would probably have to explain there, and Gao Yingxiang, who finally picked up a life, escaped back and was made fun of by Li Zicheng, Luo Rucai, and Lao Huihui and others, and now when I heard the name of Xuan Dajun, all the new hatred and old hatred came to my heart.

"How many people are there in those Xuan army?" Zhang Xianzhong asked coldly.

The leader said respectfully: "The Eight Kings of Qiyu, those Xuan army will only have a thousand people to death, but their firearms are too sharp, Leader Liu led people to attack for a day and failed to defeat them, and Leader Liu didn't dare to persecute too much, otherwise he was afraid that it would not end well once those mud legs made trouble." ”

"Bullshit...... What a bad ending! Zhang Xianzhong jumped up and pointed at the leader and scolded: "I think Liu Wenzhong, this kid is afraid of death, you immediately allocate another 10,000 horses to Liu Wenxiu, and then tell him, if you can't snatch that batch of grain and grass for me today, don't blame me for enforcing military law!" ”

"Yes!"

After the little leader left, Zhang Xianzhong thought for a while and felt a little uneasy. As a professional rebel expert, Zhang Xianzhong's intuition is undoubtedly very keen, and when he saw that he was about to capture Chengdu last month, Sun Chuanting suddenly spread the news that Sun Chuanting had entered Sichuan. After hearing the news, Zhang Xianzhong knew that his idea of wanting to take Chengdu and achieve great things was in vain, so he withdrew his troops from Chengdu and withdrew more than 100,000 troops to Yibin, Luzhou, Chongqing and other areas to prepare for a war of attrition with the imperial court, because he knew very well that with Sichuan's current exit from the country, it would not be able to supply tens of thousands of troops. As long as there is no food and grass, the army of the imperial court will inevitably collapse without a fight.

I have to say that Zhang Xianzhong has fought for so many years, and he still has basic vision and judgment. After years of war, the originally rich land of Bashu has become barren at this time, and now the relatively rich places from Yibin, Neijiang, Nanchong, and Bazhong have all been owned by Zhang Xianzhong, and Ya'an and Chengdu are still under the control of the imperial court, but the terrain is steep and barren, and it is simply unable to provide enough food and grass for tens of thousands of imperial court troops. And it is too difficult for the imperial court to mobilize grain and grass from outside Sichuan, so as long as Zhang Xianzhong patiently drags it until the imperial court's army is cut off, he can calmly clean up Sun Chuanting and Hong Chengchou.

But things in the world are always very unexpected, just when Zhang Xianzhong was waiting for the imperial army to collapse without a fight because of the lack of food, the spies came with the news that a fleet had swaggered from the Minjiang River through the defense area under his control and swaggered towards Chengdu. At present, it is almost to Leshan. This news is tantamount to a thunderbolt on a sunny day, which directly bombarded Zhang Xianzhong dizzy, and in a panic, he quickly ordered Zhang Wenxiu to lead more than 10,000 people to rush to the front of the fleet, and set up an obstacle on a narrow river near Leshan to stop the fleet, force the fleet to dock, and then find a way to seize this batch of grain and grass, so that the fate of Sun Chuanting and Hong Chengchou can no longer be reversed.

"No, I'm not worried that Zhang Wenxiu is there alone, and I have to find someone to help him." Zhang Xianzhong muttered a few words to himself, and then called the guards to give a few orders, and soon a middle-aged man wearing a cyan robe with a cold face hurriedly walked in and said to Zhang Xianzhong: "Eight kings, dare to ask what you command." ”

The name of the person who came was Wang Zhaolin. He is one of the few scholars who took the initiative to take refuge in Zhang Xianzhong, and won his respect after taking refuge in Zhang Xianzhong.

"Ziming, you're here!" After seeing the visitor, Zhang Xianzhong hurriedly stepped forward and said to the visitor: "Two days ago, I asked Liu Wenxiu to hijack the grain and grass transported by the imperial court to Chengdu, you must have known about it. ”

"Yes!" Wang Zhaolin nodded, and then asked curiously: "With General Liu's strength, it should be easy to deal with those grain ships, could it be that something has happened?" ”

"It's just a change. It's like hitting an iron plate. Zhang Xianzhong smiled bitterly and told the truth of the matter one by one.

After hearing this, Wang Zhaolin took a deep breath and tightened his eyebrows, "It turned out to be the Xuan army, but I didn't expect that even he would interfere in the war in Sichuan." Students have long heard that if they talk about the combat power, the Xuan army can definitely rank first in the whole Ming Dynasty, and now they really deserve their reputation when they hear it. A mere thousand people were able to resist General Liu's army of more than 10,000 for a day. It seems that there is no vain under the fame! ”

"Now is not the time to discuss this." Zhang Xianzhong's face was full of irritability, "I have already received the news that Li Zicheng and Huo Cao Cao have been annihilated by the imperial court a few days ago. Now we are the only ones who have a bit of climate in the rebel army, do you know what that means? ”

"Students naturally know." Wang Zhaolin said with a solemn expression: "This also means that from now on, we will be a thorn in the side of the imperial court, and from now on, the imperial court will do its best to deal with our only remaining rebel army." ”

"If only you knew!" Zhang Xianzhong said solemnly: "So this batch of grain and grass must not be allowed to be transported to Chengdu smoothly, Sun Chuanting and Hong Chengchou are still so honest now because of the lack of grain and grass, if this batch of grain and grass is transported to Chengdu City, you know the consequences!" ”

Wang Zhaolin took a long breath and nodded: "The students know, what do the eight kings want the students to do this time?" ”

Zhang Xianzhong looked like you understand, took out a token from his arms and handed it to him: "You are now holding my token and mobilizing two thousand old camp brothers to rush to Liu Wenxiu, what you have to do is to urge him well, no matter what the price is, you must take down that fleet, even if you can't capture those grains, you must destroy them, and you must not let them enter Chengdu, do you understand?" ”

Wang Zhaolin nodded solemnly, he knew that Zhang Xianzhong was not very at ease with Liu Wenxiu, and let him go to actually do the work of supervising the team, and his own task was only one, once there was a situation where the team broke up due to excessive casualties, the two thousand old battalions led by himself would come in handy.

In fact, whether it was Zhang Xianzhong, Sun Chuanting, or Hong Chengchou, they didn't expect that this battle, which was originally just a battle for grain and grass, would be so dramatic.

When Wang Zhaolin led 2,000 old battalion men and horses to Leshan, he found that the situation in front of him was out of his control. Because the reinforcements of the Ming army actually went against the habit of delaying on weekdays, thousands of cavalry were able to rush from Chengdu to Leshan overnight, and now they are charging against Liu Wenxiu's men and horses, and the sound of shouting and killing and gunfire on the battlefield has become one. And the men and horses in Liu Wenxiu's hands except for the 1,000 old battalion men and horses are all cavalry, and the others are all foot soldiers, and they can't even satisfy each person with a weapon, so naturally they can't resist the repeated impact of thousands of cavalry, and soon they began to collapse.

After seeing such a situation, Wang Zhaolin didn't have time to think about it, and immediately threw the two thousand old battalion men and horses in his hand into the battlefield, and after some repeated battles, the situation was stabilized.

It was only then that Wang Zhaolin found Liu Wenxiu, who was covered in blood, and asked. "General Liu, are you okay, how did you become like this?"

Seeing Wang Zhaolin, Liu Wenxiu let out a long sigh, "Mr. Wang, you are finally here, if you don't come, I estimate that I won't be able to hold on." ”

Looking at the Ming army who retreated to the back to rest, Wang Zhaolin frowned and said, "Didn't you say that you were going to take those ships, how could you make it like this." ”

"Who's to say it isn't." Liu Wenxiu smiled bitterly: "Originally, after the reinforcements sent by the Eight Kings arrived, I scattered everyone. I was about to take those fleets down, but their reinforcements suddenly arrived and caught me off guard, and if you hadn't arrived in time, sir, I'm afraid I would have been planted here today. ”

Wang Zhaolin stomped his foot anxiously: "What can I do about this, the eight kings have said it." In any case, we can't let this batch of grain and grass arrive in Chengdu, but now it's like this, how can we explain to the eight kings when we go back! ”

"What to do? can only tell the truth, the eight kings want to kill him. Liu Wenxiu had a bitter face. The current situation is obvious, the other party's strength has increased greatly after three or four thousand more cavalry, and it has become an impossible task for him to eat that batch of grain and grass, unless he asks the eight kings to send reinforcements. But the terrain by the river is too narrow, if there are more troops, it should not be able to place.

Just when Liu Wenxiu was at a loss, someone came to report: "Leader Liu is not good, the officers and soldiers are dismantling the obstacles we have set up on the river." ”

Liu Wenxiu and the others took a look, but they were not right, hundreds of officers and soldiers were working hard to push away the broken boats and obstacles they were lying across the river, and once the obstacles were removed, those grain ships could pass through unimpeded.

Seeing this, Wang Zhaolin knew that his trip was in vain, and he sighed and asked Liu Wenxiu: "General Liu, it seems that we can't fulfill the entrustment of the Eight Kings now, let's go and confess to the Eight Kings together." ”

Looking at the Ming army not far away calmly dismantling the obstacle while being on guard, Liu Wenxiu looked unwilling, "Why...... Why is this happening, it looks like it's about to be done, it's almost there! ”

"Maybe it's fate!" Wang Zhaolin's expression was also very bitter, "You should know that since the beating of King Li Chuang and their wings in the Central Plains, I have felt that the imperial court's encirclement and suppression of us will become more and more severe, and we have to persuade the eight kings after we go back this time, everything must be careful." ”

Liu Wenxiu was silent after hearing this, he was not a stupid person, he naturally understood that the current situation was already very severe, and there were Li Zicheng, Luo Rucai, Lao Huihui and others in the Central Plains to help him share the firepower, but now these people have been annihilated by the imperial court one after another, and those people in the imperial court will never let go of their only remaining rebel army. And the imperial army, which was originally unable to move and could not move, will definitely not continue to nest in Chengdu after getting sufficient grain and grass, and I am afraid that there will be a tough battle to fight next. Thinking of this, Liu Wenxiu felt extremely depressed in his chest.

Things turned out to be as Liu Wenxiu and Wang Zhaolin expected, Sun Chuanting and Hong Chengchou were greatly demoralized after getting more than 100 boats of grain, and the two took the opportunity to command the army to kill Yibin and Zigong, and soon the flames of war burned on the land of Sichuan......

The war on the land of Sichuan has nothing to do with Yueyang, and at this time, Yue Yang was looking at the official document sent by the imperial court and pondering. This is an official letter sent by the Ministry of War, which orders Yueyang to send an army of no less than 10,000 people into Fujian in the middle of next month, and disarm the Zheng family's armed forces, and kill them if they encounter resistance. However, the signature of the official document is now Lu Xiangsheng, the secretary of the Ministry of War.

Looking at this official document, Yue Yang Chang sneered, looking at this posture, the imperial court is afraid that the Xuan army is too idle.

At this moment, there were several knocks on the door.

"Come in!"

The door to the study was opened, and Wang Yue walked in with a tray. She walked up to Yue Yang, put a steaming porcelain bowl next to him, and whispered, "Xianggong, this is a freshly cooked white fungus lotus seed soup, you can taste it." ”

"Well, put it there, I'll drink it right away!"

Yue Yang said while casually putting the official document on the desk, Wang Yue poked her head to see the official document that Yue Yang put on the table, she glanced at it and read it word by word: "Your department is limited to rush to Fujian before the fifteenth day of next month, and disarm Zheng Zhilong's department, and those who fail to arrive within the time limit will be severely punished...... Who sent this bastard letter to you? When she read this, Wang Yue was already annoyed.

Yue Yang picked up the porcelain bowl and gently stirred the white fungus in the bowl with a spoon, and said casually: "Who else, Lu Jiandou!" ”

Lu Xiangsheng ...... Governor Lu? Wang Yue exclaimed: "Didn't you say that Governor Lu didn't appreciate you the most in the past?" ”

"It's a time and a moment." Yue Yang smiled faintly: "In the past, Lu Jiandou was the governor of Xuanda, and I was his subordinate. He should appreciate me if I can win the battle for him, but now he is the secretary of the military department, and I am the feudal official and the prince of the first dynasty who owns the land of two provinces, and now that he sees me, he must first salute me. And I still control more than 100,000 Xuanda elites, as a traditional civil servant, can he look at me with the eyes of the past? ”

This kind of change was expected by Yue Yang, for the same thing or the same person, people at different times and in different positions will come to completely different attitudes, and this attitude is sometimes even the opposite. In the past, the Ming Dynasty was worried about internal and external troubles, and the Ming Dynasty urgently needed a military general like Yueyang who could fight. And Lu Xiangsheng is his boss who naturally wants to be around him, but now that Lu Xiangsheng is the secretary of the military department, it is natural for his attitude to change.

For the meaning of those people in the imperial court, Yue Yang's heart was like a mirror, with the fall of the Manchu Qing Dynasty and Li Zicheng and other rogues. Both the external environment and the internal environment of the Ming Dynasty have been greatly improved, and the civilian officials who are accustomed to grasping everything in their hands naturally cannot tolerate that more than 100,000 elite armed forces are not under their control, once they see that something is no longer in their control, their first reaction is to consume or even destroy this thing. Yue Yang can be sure. If he honestly listened to the dispatch of the military department to complete this mission, there would definitely be a lot of things waiting for him next, such as mixing sand into the Xuanda army, attracting the officers under his command, and so on. This kind of thing is a civilian specialty.

Seeing his man drinking the white fungus lotus seed soup one by one and still not saying a word, Wang Yue looked at Yue Yang with some worry and asked softly, "Xianggong, do you plan to go to Fujian to deal with Zheng Zhilong according to the will of the imperial court?" ”

Yue Yang put down the porcelain bowl, picked up a handkerchief, wiped his mouth, and said slowly: "Zheng Zhilong naturally wants to be annihilated, this kind of milk is a mother, and even those who collude with the Yi people to kill their compatriots will inevitably be punished." But how to fight and when to fight have the final say on us, and those who are too obedient these days will suffer. Originally, I thought that sending a batch of grain and grass to Sichuan would make those people in the court stop for a while, but I didn't expect the second wave to come again. ”

Wang Yue nodded: "Xianggong is right, as the so-called people are good at being bullied and horses are good at being ridden, if we are too obedient, I'm afraid no one will take us seriously, we can't give them a good face for this kind of person, otherwise they will ride on our necks and pee next." ”

A soft sound of "pop" sounded in the study, Wang Yue touched her buttocks and turned white with disgust, Yue Yang glanced at her and heard Yue Yang laugh and scold before she could speak: "Don't say foul language, you've only been here for a few days, and you're bad at learning!" ”

"Oh!" Wang Yue nodded aggrievedly: "People just heard those people say it a few times on the street, and they unconsciously learned that the concubine is really not sincere, and I won't dare next time." ”

Yue Yang feigned anger and said, "Hmph...... Don't think that Xianggong won't dare to beat you, if there is a next time I will beat your ass! ”

"Okay, don't pretend to be pitiful like this, sit down and write a reply letter to the military department for my husband, and you ......can write like this."

A few days later, a reply letter from a senior official was also sent to the capital, and it was quickly sent to the cabinet, causing an exclamation from the cabinet.

"Lawlessness...... It's really lawless! An angry voice sounded in the cabinet: "At this time, Your Majesty must be initiated, and the Marquis of Zhongyong must be severely punished!" ”

In the Wenyuan Pavilion of the Forbidden City, there were several pavilion elders such as Zhou Tingru, Xue Guoguan, Fan Fucui, and Chen Yan, and the middle-aged man who made an angry voice just now was named Chen Yan.

It's just that although there are more than a dozen court officials sitting in the Wenyuan Pavilion, only Chen Yan, the new pavilion elder, can make a roaring sound, and the others are just watching coldly.

Chen Yan shouted for a while, but found that no one echoed his opinion, and he couldn't help but be a little disappointed. (To be continued, please search, the novel is better and updated faster!)