After getting acquainted with the generals of Kuizhou Mansion, Zhu Shuren didn't have much time to sort it out slowly, after all, the military situation was like fire, and he needed to get back to Chongqing as soon as possible.

Therefore, he can only have a rough preset stereotype of each person's character in his heart, and then observe the performance of each department in actual combat to see who is brave in doing things, who wants to preserve his strength and does not contribute to work, and is unwilling to fight a tough battle, so as to further distinguish the loyalty and traitor of the generals.

The day after arriving in Fengjie County, he privately held a small-scale military meeting, and only found Qin Liangyu, Ma Xianglin, and Fang Guoan alone to learn about the latest battle situation on the current front, the distribution of forces in the areas occupied by the enemy and us, and the strength of the troops and horses of each unit.

These reports did not need to be attended by grassroots generals, so Zhu Shuren asked others to rest and recuperate first, and hurry up to prepare for the big war.

From Qin Liangyu and others, Zhu Shuren learned that all the front-line soldiers of the imperial court in Kuizhou Mansion are about 24,000 people.

Qin Liangyu and Ma Xianglin's white pole soldiers were originally full of about 20,000, but they also fought several battles with Zhang Xianzhong's troops, and there must be casualties and various losses, and the wounded soldiers who could not go to the battlefield for the time being must also be temporarily deducted, so the remaining 17,000 people can be called at any time.

Among the remaining six or seven thousand people, Wang Guangchang and Wang Guangxing brothers accounted for about half, each of them had a battalion, and each of them had about 2,000 soldiers, all of whom had been thieves for several years and served as officers and soldiers for four years after being edicted by the imperial court.

The remaining half are Tan Wen, Tan Hong, and Tan Yi's soldiers and horses, and their strength is even weaker, and they all only have barely more than a thousand soldiers.

But they also have an advantage, that is, they are a local clan, and they have a certain appeal in the local area, if they are really loyal to the court and are willing to die, they can draw their own strong men from Wanxian and Dazhou counties to temporarily join the army.

As long as the imperial court pays the military and equipment, it is possible to pull out a few thousand more people.

However, Qin Liangyu also added a little information: Wanxian County, one of the Tan family's spheres of influence, is located along the Yangtze River, on the transportation artery between Zhiba County in Chongqing Prefecture and Fengjie County in Kuizhou. Therefore, before the arrival of Zhu Shuren, the part of Zhang Xianzhong who stayed in Chongqing occupied Wanxian along the way when he tried to counterattack Fengjie, which is now an enemy-occupied area.

I heard that after Zhang Xianzhong broke the Chongqing Mansion, he only burned and looted in Ba County, which was governed by the Prefecture, but for other surrounding counties, he mainly adopted the method of appeasement and drawing.

After all, Ba County is the richest, and after taking all the stock wealth there, it is time to buy people's hearts and expand the army in other places.

Therefore, at present, I heard that some of the clansmen of the Tan family who stayed in Wanxian County were dragged away by Zhang Xianzhong's department and became thieves.

The three teams of the Tan family also retreated to Dazhou after the fall of Wanxian County, and then retreated to Dazhou after the fall of Wanxian County, and retained their vital forces-

In fact, it can also be seen from the place name of Tanjialing that the Tan family is so powerful in Wanxian and Dazhou that even the mountains there are named after their surnames.

If you look at the topography of Chongqing on the Baidu map of later generations, you can see that between the Yangtze River and the Qujiang River basin in Chongqing, there are mountain beams separating the two parallel rivers.

It was not until the Hechuan District of later generations and the vicinity of the ancient Hezhou Diaoyu City that there was a gap for the Jialing River, the Fujiang River and the Qujiang River to break through the mountains and go south, and the three rivers converged into the new Jialing River, and finally flowed south for nearly 100 miles, and joined the Yangtze River in the Chaotianmen area of Ba County, the core urban area of Chongqing.

Therefore, Tanjialing is the watershed between Wanxian and Dazhou, between the Yangtze River and the Qujiang River, and it will stretch all the way to Hezhou Diaoyu City.

Of course, the mountains there are also very dangerous, otherwise if they can easily climb over and even maintain the grain route, then there is no need for the Mongolian Khan Meng Ge to die in the Diaoyu City of Hezhou for more than 30 years, until the Mongolian Khan himself was killed by the Song army under the Diaoyu City.

The mountainous areas around Chongqing are really not something that outsiders can climb casually, and it is a hellish nightmare.

It's just that the Tan family is a local native, who has lived on both sides of Tanjialing for generations, and crosses mountains and mountains like walking on flat ground, which can be regarded as a bit of a special ability in this regard, and they can run away from the mountains when Zhang Xianzhong called.

Of course, Zhang Xianzhong's pursuers did not have the ability to easily cross Tanjialing, so they couldn't chase it, but they felt that they had given up Wanxian and the key nodes on the Yangtze River waterway, and there was no longer a threat, and they were too lazy to spend a lot of money to kill them all.

Zhu Shuren followed Qin Liangyu to interpret the distribution and occupied areas of the soldiers and horses of the various units of the official army, and also roughly figured out the current situation of the enemy and us.

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Therefore, now there are more than 24,000 local officers and soldiers, of which 20,000, that is, the men and horses of the white pole soldiers and Fang Shen Generals, are all in front of Fengjie, and some of them are distributed in the surrounding Yunyang and Kaixian.

The local armed forces of about 4,000 people are distributed in Dazhou north of Tanjialing, and along the Qujiang River below Dazhou, Zhang Xianzhong's troops have not come to divide troops to occupy them, and Quxian and Guang'an counties downstream of Dazhou are still nominally controlled by imperial court officials, but they lack garrisons?

Zhang Xianzhong's troops, after taking Chongqing Prefecture, only divided their troops against the Jialing River to the north, held the Diaoyu City in Hezhou, and ensured that the imperial court's troops north of Tanjialing could not break through the Jialing River defense line from the gap in Diaoyu City to the south?

The remaining main forces of Zhang Xianzhong's left-behind troops are all concentrated in Ba County, the core of Chongqing Prefecture, and Wan County, downstream of Ba County? Do you know how many troops Zhang Xianzhong left behind? ”

After Zhu Shuren sorted out the distribution of his own troops, he finally confirmed it, and also asked about the size of the enemy.

Qin Liangyu was old, he was a little panting when he spoke, and his answer was a little slow: "As the surname of the country said, the troops left by Zhang Xianzhong are mainly stationed in these three places. There are still more than 100,000 people, but in fact, of course, there can't be.

The old man estimated that the people and horses he brought out from Qianzhong Road could stay in Chongqing, and there were definitely no more than 20,000. Most of the rest should be along the Yangtze River and Minjiang River, plundering Chengdu and other places.

But he relied on the slaughter of the city to distribute money and food indiscriminately, and pulled hundreds of thousands of new people, it is really possible, Zhang Xianzhong is too good at coercing civilians, but these people's combat power should not be afraid, and they may not even be worthy of weapons. ”

After listening to this, Zhu Shuren nodded in a deep voice: "In this way, I know how to fight, Chongqing really still has to strive for a quick victory, only by breaking the gap in Chongqing, can we completely open the road along the Yangtze River, Jialing River, and Fujiang River radiating the hinterland of Sichuan.

Race against Zhang Xianzhong for time and limit the scope of his scourge as soon as possible. Even if Zhang Xianzhong is desperate, we won't have time to save Chengdu, so don't let Zhang Xianzhong erode too many other places. Who is the main general Zhang Xianzhong left behind in Chongqing, and is there any information? ”

Qin Liangyu: "I heard that Bai Wenxuan was the main one and stayed in Ba County, but none of his righteous sons were left, it seems that he doesn't pay much attention to the back road, and only wants to enclose the land and expand the army as soon as possible."

However, Bai Wenxuan had a close relationship with Li Dingguo, and I heard that Zhang Xianzhong recently distrusted Li Dingguo the most for his sons, and he was not worried about letting Li Dingguo's people stay behind. Therefore, from Sun Kewang's old department, two lower-ranking generals Di Sanpin and Zhang Mingzhi were selected to assist, and Bai Wenxuan asked them to guard Hezhou and Wanxian. ”

Zhu Shuren figured it out, among these people, except for Bai Wenxuan, the others were garbage that they had never heard of in history books, and they probably didn't have any skills.

In this way, it is more certain to quickly cut the wings of the thief army other than Ba County.

Zhu Shuren held the jade fracture fan, patting it gently in the palm of his hand, while pacing back and forth slowly, occasionally glancing at the map, bowing his head and meditating.

It didn't take long for him to come up with the most basic way to play: no matter what, first attack and pull out Wanxian and Hezhou, and by the way, in the process, observe the fighting spirit of the local departments in Sichuan and the sincerity of contributing to the imperial court.

Even if you want to use a strategy to attack the heart, such as deception or separation, you have to wait for the final attack on Ba County, and then take advantage of the situation, see who performs badly, and then push out the bitter meat.

After all, these strategies cannot succeed twice in a short period of time, so there is no need to use big plans and small ones, and they were taken out from the beginning. Just leave it until when dealing with Bai Wenxuan himself, and then it's not too late.

Otherwise, it would be too wasteful to kill Di Sanpin and Zhang Mingzhi without any damage.

"In this case, the official's will has been decided, and General Qin will obey the order." Zhu Shuren's face instantly changed from a pleasant face to a solemn one.

Qin Liangyu also changed his previous easy-going attitude, and promised with a straight face: "The end will be." ”

Zhu Shuren: "This official ordered you to take the local people of Kuizhou as the front and attack Wanxian and Hezhou first. Among them, for Wanxian, if you want to attack and completely open up the Yangtze River waterway, let Wang Guangchang and Wang Guangxing be the front, and you will lead the white pole soldiers as the backup, and I will reinforce your Hongyi cannon to break the wall and break the door.

As for Hezhou, you can go down the river from Dazhou, clear the way, surround but not fight, go around the city, block the Hezhou thief army to break through, cross the Panjialing Mountains and go back to Ba County in the Jialing River waterway, just take Tan Wen and other three-way people as the front, and Ling Lang Ke will lead a white pole soldier as the backup. ”

Qin Liangyu thought about it, first expressed his order, and then asked for instructions: "If you don't attack Hezhou, but only clear the way, how can you guarantee the grain route of Dazhou going south?" Since ancient times, Hezhou was an important place for soldiers in eastern Sichuan, and Meng Ge, the great Khan of Mengyuan, did not dare to bypass this place, lest the defenders in Hezhou City cut off their grain routes. ”

Zhu Shuren raised his hand: "Hezhou to Ba County is only more than 100 miles, let the people and horses around the city carry ten days of dry food, there will definitely be enough food on the road, as long as you open up and clear other areas along the Jialing River, after arriving in Ba County, our army will naturally be able to go up the Yangtze River from Wanxian County and transport grain and grass to them."

Therefore, the two roads of Hezhou and Wanxian are actually from Wanxian. Our army has the advantage of being a sailor, and Bai Wenxuan in Ba County also pinched the Yangtze River and Jialing River waterways. ”

Qin Liangyu felt that this strategy was relatively safe, so he didn't question it anymore, but just reminded him: "The surname of the country, you are a foreigner, and you may not know the geography of eastern Sichuan." In the middle of winter, the Jialing River does not have a lot of water.

Even in the Chaotianmen area of Ba County, which finally flows into the Yangtze River, the water flow is only tens of zhang wide in the dry season, and the depth can sometimes be waded in vain. ”

Zhu Shuren: "There is no need for the old general Qin to worry about this, as long as the old general opens the conditions, if he wants a big ship, he can have a big ship, and if he wants a small boat, he can have a small boat, and he can do it enough." I have been a maritime merchant for several generations, and my father has also contracted transportation for the imperial court, and there are not many others, but the most ships. ”

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Zhu Shuren's general orders were quickly issued layer by layer, and the grassroots generals did not dare to disobey the orders, but it was inevitable that those local people in the Sichuan army would complain.

Whether it was the Wang brothers or the Tan brothers, they originally thought that the main force of the imperial court army would enter Sichuan, and they would definitely be able to take a hitchhike and enjoy the shade under the big tree.

Zhu Shuren has 20,000 people from Zhang Huangyan's department, and 50,000 people from his descendants.

Who knows, when the main force of the court comes, it still wants them to fight the vanguard, fight for consumption, and go to the dead to suffer first, so the main force of the court is not in vain! Isn't this bullying honest people, and it's hard to catch the local army!

"The imperial army is full of sixty or seventy thousand, plus the people and horses of Qin Zongzhen, there are more than eighty thousand in total! Why can we have thousands of people as siege vanguards! ”

Almost the same words, on the side of the Wang brothers, it was the elder brother Wang Guangchang who complained and questioned, and on the side of the Tan family brothers, it was the younger brothers Tan Hong and Tan Yi who complained to Tan Wen, all of whom wanted to think about a way to work relatively hard, but to work hard.

In contrast, Wang Guangxing and Tan Wen are a little more far-sighted than their brothers, so their attitudes are similar:

"Although the main force of the imperial army has arrived, our Dongchuan army has lost its land, and it is our responsibility, and the surname of the country should be to give us the opportunity to make up for it, and it is also appropriate to sell some strength. What's more, Hezhou and Wanxian are always easier to attack than Ba County, and when we cut off the outer wings of the thief army in the front formation, and finally attack Ba County, maybe we will be embarrassed to let us go first. ”

When the group of lazy factions heard this, it seemed to make sense, in exchange for less effort when they finally hit the main city of Chongqing, now they will make some efforts when they hit the outer counties, and then report a little more casualties.

It is only said that when the battle reached the city of Ba County, the troops had lost their combat effectiveness, and the surname of the country should be embarrassed to stare at the two of them to gather wool.

No matter what kind of thoughts they have, these local troops have finally started to attack. Zhu Shuren is not bad for hungry soldiers, for the troops before the attack, he still rewarded the troops with wine and meat for a day, and also prepared dry food for people, which was better than the military food he usually ate.

In the end, Zhu Shuren also asked Zhang Huangyan to supervise the troops attacking from North Ludazhou, and brought some musket teams as fire support to help the Tan brothers' troops.

And Zhu Shuren himself took the main force, followed Fang Guoan and the Wang brothers, and used Hongyi cannons to help them fight.

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After one day of preparation and two days of marching, on the 19th day of the lunar month, the officers and troops who marched against the main channel of the Yangtze River along the south road were the first to arrive in Wanxian.

Zhang Mingzhi, the general of Zhang Xianzhong's army, brought two or three thousand veterans brought by Zhang Xianzhong from other provinces and fled into Sichuan, as well as more than 10,000 local strong men, and stationed them in Wanxian County.

Zhang Mingzhi's troops are not very complete in terms of weapons and equipment, and only veterans who have traveled to several provinces can ensure that all of them have regular weapons and armor.

The strong men can't even get together knives and guns, only about half of them have regular weapons, and the rest can only rely on farm tools to fight, and the armor rate is even more terrifyingly low.

However, it is still okay for these people to go up to the city wall and throw rolling wood and stones when defending the city, anyway, they don't need to be skilled to hit people with heavy objects, and they don't need sophisticated weapons.

Seeing that there were tens of thousands of officers and soldiers outside the city, coming by land and water, Zhang Mingzhi was also quite timid in his heart, and regretted a little why General Bai Wenxuan Bai let him rush forward to guard this place in the first place.

Wanxian County is actually not a very suitable place for heavy defense, and it is better for the whole army to retreat and defend Ba County. It was only after Zhang Xianzhong quickly attacked Chongqing that he vainly wanted to take advantage of the situation to occupy Kuizhou Mansion and completely blockade Qutang Gorge to prevent the official army from reinforcing Sichuan from the Three Gorges waterway of the Yangtze River, so he attacked all the way to Wanxian.

Now Fengjie White Emperor City can't take it, only Wanxian County, and he is reluctant to lose it, but he is in a dilemma, and has become a trap to disperse his own forces.

However, things have come to this point, and Zhang Mingzhi has to find a way to hold on first, because it may not be too late to run. Before the city was besieged, he could only send a clipper and a fast horse back to Ba County to report to Bai Wenxuan, asking General Bai to find a way, either to reinforce him, or to retreat to Ba County to meet the division.

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ps: I can't guarantee a watch at noon these days...... Just one big shift in the afternoon, four or five thousand words. It's almost noon when you stay up late to watch the ball.

Another thing that caused me to write slowly was that I found that I was too realistic in writing about war damage. Mainly sixty or seventy chapters ago, that is, when Zhang Xianzhong was beaten in Huguang, too many generals under Zhang Xianzhong's command who had been traitors in history were killed, and the five armies were all killed.

Now I find that when I write about Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, the small rhythm is a bit broken, and the NPCs are not enough.

I now fully understand what kind of mentality it is that those villains who can't die easily when writing books, and after finally creating some villains, they have to use the surplus value to squeeze them dry before killing, and "don't kill them and keep them for the New Year".

I asked myself if I knew a little bit about the history of the late Ming Dynasty, and I knew a lot of NPCs, but it was a bit not enough to be killed by me, so I had to spend a lot of time digging out more information about relatively unknown small NPCs

(I also have to pay attention to which people under Li Zhang in history were traitors and who were not traitors, only those who became traitors were used as resources to be killed, and those who were not traitors insisted on resisting the Qing Dynasty, I still have to try my best to ensure that they survive, which is written more slowly)

Finally, a little lazy here, a little hanging, with the help of the collective wisdom of almighty readers and adults, maybe these two paragraphs can be written quickly-

Everyone must have read much more during the late Ming Dynasty than me, and who knows which other generals and strategists under Li and Zhang have been traitors and have not died in my book, can rumor behind this paragraph. I'll make a list of deaths, and I can plan it well in the later plots, and line up in batches one by one in which plot passages.

Anyway, I basically made sure that when Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong died, their subordinates were traitors' lackeys and were killed together.