Yang Sichang has been in power for many years, relying on Chongzhen's favor and trust in the court, and has always been invincible, and he has achieved the high position of a cabinet assistant minister at the age of fifty, and he is also a high-minded and arrogant person, and he is very dissatisfied with Zuo Liangyu's suggestions.

It's just that since Zuo Liangyu sent out his troops, he has won many battles, and more than 10,000 enemies have been annihilated in the two battles of Shaliping and Qilizhai, and Luo Rucai, who has been beaten, has fled into the mountains, making Zhang Xianzhong's department completely become a lone army.

Now that Zuo Liangyu insists on entering Shu, Yang Sichang is afraid that preventing Zuo Liangyu from entering the army will chill the hearts of the generals under his command, so he hesitates.

Supervisor Wan Yuan Ji said: "Zuo Liangyu made a generous statement, only the enemy is seeking, and the general will be outside, when the local conditions are not subject to the Chinese system, it is advisable to listen to his convenience." ”

After repeated consideration, Yang Sichang finally agreed to Zuo Liangyu's strategy, and then ordered the Shaanxi Governor Zheng Chongjian to go out of the countryside and form a pincer posture with Zuo Liangyu's troops to flank Zhang Xianzhong.

In fact, Yang Sichang also took into account that Li Xingzhi's Shandong soldiers had arrived in Wanzhou by water, and Zhang Xianzhong had no way to retreat under the attack of Zuo Liangyu and He Renlong, so he could only rush into the Shandong military defense area in Wanzhou.

I have to say that Zuo Liangyu is worthy of being a general who has commanded the army for many years, and his strategic vision is by no means comparable to ordinary people.

The peasant army was fighting in the mountains, and the official army controlled the official road, and Li Xingzhi received the news that Zhang Xianzhong had been defeated by Zuo Liangyu in early December and had begun to move to the Sichuan area.

For this reason, Li Xingzhi immediately summoned the generals and personally went to the Agate Mountain near the Wanyuan Ferry to inspect the terrain.

Wanyuan Agate Mountain is the remaining vein of Daba Mountain, connecting Xingshan, the mountain is steep and majestic, it can be said that it is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it is adjacent to Taiping Town in the south, Baisha Town and Calyx Township in the east, and it is bordered by Feldspar Mountain in the west, and it borders with Ba County in Shaanxi in the north.

Li Xingzhi also secretly praised after surveying the terrain of Agate Mountain, Zhang Xianzhong is worthy of being a thief who has been dealing with the official army for many years, and his vision is indeed unique.

The advantages of the traverser are fully displayed in this decisive battle of survival of the fittest, since he knows that Zhang Xianzhong and Zuo Liangyu are going to fight in this agate mountain, then Li Xingzhi can naturally deploy calmly.

"Brothers, according to Ben Shuai's estimate, Zhang Xianzhong will go to Wanyuan when he goes out of Xingshan, in order to completely annihilate this fang and the Zuo Liangyu that followed, Ben Shuai is determined to set up an ambush on the Yuquan Mountain in the north of Agate Mountain, Calyx Mountain in the south and Xing'an and Pingli in the west, and rely on the mountain to lay a huge pocket array around the Agate Mountain, do you have any opinions?"

"This ......? Let's fight Zuo Liangyu together, I'm afraid this is a little inappropriate, after all, we are still an official army, if this news spreads, we will stand on the opposite side of the imperial court, which will inevitably affect our strategic deployment of attacking Liaodong. ”

Zhang Shaoqian and Liu Zhongwu really had some opinions about Li Xingzhi's plan to beat rabbits with grass.

Li Xingzhi said angrily: "Hmph, bandits are like combs, soldiers are like grates, Zhang Xianzhong and Li Zicheng are like locusts crossing the border, are there fewer innocent people killed by Zuo Liangyu and He Renlong?" You can know that the imperial court went out this time, mobilized more than 100,000 troops, the emperor only distributed 40,000 taels of silver, the rest are self-raised, this Shuai listened to the fierce tiger said, Yang Sichang to Huguang, a total of 500,000 taels of silver, what can this silver do? Zuo Liangyu, which of them doesn't set troops to loot places? I am afraid that they have done more evil things than Li Zicheng, and the killing of this person by this handsome is in line with the purpose of my Li Jiashan to do the right thing for heaven! ”

"Moreover, after the Liao salary, there is a salary, after the salary, there is a training salary, and the local officials are excessively apportioned, and the people have long been miserable, if it is not for such a heavy levy and miscellaneous taxes, the people can be thieves, what is the point of such a court, to protect a court that can make decisions for the people."

"The last general will obey the commander's orders!"

Questioning is questioning, listening to orders is listening to orders, Zhang Shaoqian and Liu Zhongwu can still distinguish clearly, their identities and positions are all given by Li Xingzhi, and their own family is small and in Laizhou City, can they do not obey military orders?

"Okay, then, Zhang Shaoqian, you will lead the Fourth Town Mandarin Duck Soldier A Team, the Long-Range Soldier A Team, and the White Pole Soldier A Team to set up a defense line in the mountains of Xing'an, remember that our defense line must be fifty miles away from Onyx Mountain."

In this era, the farthest distance of the scout is twenty or thirty miles, and the Wanyuan ferry is between the ten thousand mountains, Li Xingzhi put his ambush circle fifty miles away to calm the hearts of Zuo Liangyu and Zhang Xianzhong, so that they can rest assured that dogs eat dogs.

After arranging Zhang Shaoqian, Li Xingzhi led three infantry teams led by Liu Zhongwu to guard Yuquan Mountain and block Zhang Xianzhong's road to Shaanxi; Zheng Qian also led three infantry teams into Calyx Mountain to prevent Zhang Xianzhong from fleeing south.

In order to prevent changes, Li Xingzhi ordered the Mongolian Army's Green Banner Alan Chai Department to join the Han Army's Green Banner Akma Department to enter Wanyuan Ferry; The Manchu Army's Green Banner Anba Division, together with the Han Army's Green Banner Zak Division, was stationed in Xingshan for the purpose of dispatching and responding, and it could also be directly inserted into Sandun Township in the eastern part of Onyx Mountain after the various units of the Jingbei Army launched an offensive, thinking that it would be a situation of closing the door and beating dogs.

Using Manchurian soldiers to intercept the rear of the official army and the peasant army, Li Xingzhi was also helpless, he had a serious shortage of soldiers and horses in his hands, and the only thing he could rely on was his familiarity with history.

After blocking the plan of Zhou Zuo of Agate Mountain, Li Xingzhi personally commanded the artillery team and the iron soldiers and the 3,000 young men who accompanied the army to enter Yanxia Mountain in the northeast of Wanzhou, which was only more than 30 miles away from Agate Mountain, and could sit and watch the decisive battle between Zuo Liangyu and Zhang Xianzhong.

Of course, it was impossible for Li Xingzhi to hide the matter of Li Xingzhi's entry into Yanxia Mountain, and it was originally Li Xingzhi's intention to let him sit in the county seat.

Who knew that this guy actually asked to go with Li Xingzhi, saying that he wanted to observe Li Dashuai's martial arts in person, and there were two Nanzhen Fusi Jinyi guards with him, one named Chen De and the other called Hu Yong.

This made Li Xingzhi a little surprised, although this product was greedy for money, but he dared to go to the battlefield in person, at least this courage was much stronger than Gao Qiqian's cowardice.

"Father-in-law Zhang wants to watch the battle in person, Ben Bo is not allowed, but the sword has no eyes on the battlefield, and Ben Bo may not be able to protect his father-in-law at that time, you see if you are waiting for Ben Shuai to make contributions in Wanyuan."

"Penglaibo Mo doesn't look down on our family, although our family is a eunuch, but when we go into battle to kill the enemy, our family is still not afraid, and with Penglaibo's martial arts, what can our family do? Tartars are no match for you, can a few thieves still work you to carry a knife? We are the safest to follow you. ”

Zhang Cheng looked resolute, Chen De and Hu Yong are also the first to be like pugs, Penglaibo is unparalleled in the world, we must hold this thigh, then Penglaibo will be happy, reward us with ten or eight thieves' heads, this official position is not rubbing up.