With the help of the clairvoyant mirror, almost every move of the Liukou outside the Guanwai was clearly seen by the detectives of the Hanzhong Army.

By the 26th, the camp of the peasant army was almost half empty.

However, the offensive outside the border did not decrease but increased, and it was strengthened by several points compared with the first day.

All this is naturally wanted to cover up in Chen Wang's eyes.

Just after the afternoon, the peasant army launched another attack on Guancheng, this time with the same momentum.

After two days of bloodshed, many of the recruits of the peasant army had begun to fade away from their initial fears, and their momentum began to change.

After a few days of siege warfare, the brutality of the battlefield, and the test of war, these recruits will inevitably be able to be reborn as real soldiers.

It's a pity that many of them are destined not to get to the point of rebirth.

They were just abandoned sons from the beginning, Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai had already diverted to Sichuan, and they were just left behind to attract the attention of the soldiers and horses.

The peasant army outside the gate flocked to the city again like a tide.

And this time, they were greeted not by a rain of arrows and buckshot from the battlements.

Just as they put the simple ladder up the wall, the gate of Baitu Pass also opened, and the sharp and piercing sound of the horn suddenly penetrated the ears of everyone outside the gate like a magic sound.

In the next moment, the sound of horses' hooves, which was as loud as thunder, was already sounding.

A large number of cavalry of the Ming army came out of the pass, Chen Wang and Cao Bianjiao were left and right, each wearing battle armor, prancing horses and holding a lance, leading the cavalry behind them to gallop out of the city.

Above the city, dozens of artillery pieces opened fire in unison, and the sound of artillery was like thunder.

The long-suppressed Shaanxi soldiers in the two camps on the left and right outside the pass came out with the sound of cannons like thunder.

The Ming army marched in all directions, rushing into the peasant army's large array like four evil dragons with teeth and claws.

The dragon's claws are indestructible, and the dragon's teeth are unstoppable.

In the midst of the terrible howls, countless soldiers of the peasant army were knocked to the ground in wail.

The saber flying up and down ruthlessly cut through the flesh and blood of one peasant army after another.

The smell of blood filled the outskirts of Sino.

The mournful cries of the dying were mixed with desperate and mournful cries, lingering over the fields outside the Baitu Pass.

The sound of horses' hooves is like thunder, the headwind is like a knife, and the crimson flag is stretched straight in the headwind.

The iron hooves of the war horse trampled over one peasant army after another, and the Ming army armor soldiers wearing red armor on horseback looked indifferent, just mechanically waving the sabre in their hands to slash and kill all the moving enemies in their field of vision.

The bowstring vibrated with a sound like cotton, and a large number of arrows shot from the cavalry to the left and right.

The Yan Ling knife continued to slash down with beads of blood, constantly flying up and down, until all the peasant troops in front of them fell to the ground

The peasant army outside the pass had already endured a round of artillery bombardment, but the large array was already in tatters, and the morale of the army was greatly affected.

The cannonballs rolled into the formation, plowing the bloodstains of the road.

This absolute power made the soldiers of the peasant army fearful.

The infantry armor that came from the two wings made them panic, and the armored cavalry coming from the two directions in front made them feel even more desperate.

The defeat was like a mountain, and the collapse of the peasant army was almost instantaneous.

The collapsed peasant army completely lost its organization, and the generals and colonels above and below could no longer control the army, and could only flee to the rear with the rout of the army.

The Shaanxi soldiers pressed on both flanks continued to slash and kill the rogues who were blocking the front, driving these panicked routs towards the troops behind them that could still maintain the array.

The red dragon composed of the armor soldiers of the Ming army circled and drove the peasant army outside the pass, and those rout soldiers were driven and gathered together, and continued to sweep towards the peasant army in the rear.

Thousands of routs spread across the land like mercury.

The elite of the peasant army had already followed Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai to eastern Sichuan in the evening of these two days.

Most of the peasant armies outside the pass were new soldiers, and the defeat was like a mountain, where could they stop the rout.

The peasant army in the middle still wanted to resist one or two, but they wanted to resist, and the horse army and elite cavalry who were hiding in the rear fled first.

The flight of the main general further disintegrated the morale of the peasant army.

The rout was carried into the formation of the peasant army in the center, and in the shouting of the tsunami, the armor soldiers of the Ming army suddenly entered the formation like a tiger entering a flock of sheep.

Outside the Guanwai, which was originally violent, and the tens of thousands of peasant troops with great momentum were completely defeated.

Chen Wang led his troops out of the pass, chased and killed for more than 20 miles, and finally led the troops back to Baitu Pass.

By the time Chen Wang led the troops back to Baitu Pass, all the camps of the peasant army outside Baitu Pass had already been uprooted by the soldiers who went out of the pass.

A group of soldiers were cleaning up the battlefield outside the gate, sorting through the corpses, picking out the weapons and armor that were still usable, and looking for anything that could be used again.

The casualties were only 100 people, but more than 3,000 thieves were killed and wounded, and this was a real victory.

At the beginning, with his reputation and resolute methods, Chen Wang temporarily subdued a group of arrogant generals who came to help.

But these days, in the face of the siege of the peasant army, Chen Wang issued a military order to stick to it, and chose to avoid the battle, which made the generals of Sichuan and Shaanxi under him complain.

In particular, a group of generals and colonels in Sichuan heard that the Liukou might be transferred to Sichuan, so they were even more anxious to ask for war one after another, and even jointly signed a letter of invitation with extremely fierce wording.

With the great victory outside the Baitu Pass, all doubts and objections disappeared from the army.

Those Sichuan generals and colonels who jointly wrote a letter to ask for war are now all outside the Baitu Pass to greet and apologize.

Although Zhang Ling did not sign the joint letter, he also followed a group of Sichuan generals to wait for Chen Wang to return to his division outside Baitu Pass.

After Chen Wang dismounted, he walked quickly to Zhang Ling's side, and held up Zhang Ling, who was half-kneeling on the ground, with both hands.

"Mr. Zhang, please get up, and all of you too."

Chen Wang wanted to win the heart of the Sichuan army and lay a good foundation for his future actions.

Therefore, it is natural that it will not be condescending and domineering.

"The whereabouts of the two thieves are strange, and it is indeed very likely that they will enter eastern Sichuan, and it is natural for you to worry about Sichuan soil as a Sichuan person, and I have reported this matter to the Yang Pavilion Department."

"It's just that the time has not come, if the division is unfavorable, once the Liukou enters the Hanzhong Mansion, enters Shaanxi from the Hanzhong Mansion, or merges with Li Zicheng's troops, the Liukou will prosper again, and it will be out of control."

Not long ago, I got the news that Li Zicheng left the general Liu Zongmin under his command to lead the main force to be stationed in northern Sichuan.

Li Zicheng led a group of elite soldiers, galloped out of northern Sichuan in the starry night, entered Gongchang Mansion in southern Shaanxi from Long'an Mansion in northern Sichuan, attacked Qishan, rushed into Fengxiang Mansion, and stirred up the storm in Shaanxi again.

This is now well-known news.

A group of Sichuan army generals and colonels stood up one after another.

"The Yang Pavilion Department ordered me to guard the Hanzhong Mansion, and I must not allow Liukou to enter Shaanxi, as a general, I can only act on orders."

In just a few words, Chen Wang had already pushed the responsibility on his shoulders clean.

He also moved out Yang Sichang's order, and explained that he had told Yang Sichang the news that Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai might enter eastern Sichuan.

What Chen Wang said is true, even if he goes to verify, it is indeed the case.

Although Sichuan can be saved, to save Sichuan, the variables after that are too great, and the price that Chen Wang has to pay is also huge.

In history, the reason why Yang Sichang wanted to replace Zuo Liangyu with He Renlong was precisely because Zuo Liangyu put forward his opposite opinions to Yang Sichang several times.

Although the final result did prove Zuo Liangyu's correctness, Yang Sichang was still disgruntled.

Yang Sichang has a narrow temperament, does not have much tolerance, and is extremely ruthless.

This can be seen from the fight between Yang Sichang and Lu Xiangsheng.

Although the party struggle at the end of the Ming Dynasty was fierce, it was generally to the point, and it was just a matter of letting one party lose his official position and remove him.

However, all the means used by Yang Sichang against Lu Xiangsheng were to make him a scapegoat that led to the defeat of the Wuyin Revolution and forced Lu Xiangsheng to go to the top of the road.

"Now that the outrunners of Baitu Pass have collapsed, and the defense pressure of Hanzhong Mansion has been reduced, I have sent a fast horse back to the Yang Pavilion Department to report the battle here, and redeploy you to return to eastern Sichuan to garrison."

After Zhang Xianzhong entered Sichuan this time, the damage caused was not small, and Chen Wang said these words in advance precisely because he knew what would happen in the future.

If this matter is not handled properly, the generals of the rivers will be resentful at that time, and when they enter Shu, these resentments will inevitably explode one day.

Zhang Xianzhong was so devastated when he entered Sichuan for the first time that after entering Sichuan for the second time, he was frantically counterattacked by forces from all over Sichuan at that time.

With Zhang Xianzhong's experience in the past, Chen Wang naturally didn't want to repeat the old things.

Naturally, he said this in order to win the favor of the generals and colonies of the Sichuan Army.

"General Gao Yi, these days we have misunderstood the general."

Chen Yilong was the first to come up, and he had accumulated a lot of complaints about Chen Wang in his heart these days.

But now these complaints have also disappeared with this big victory, as well as what Chen Wang said.

"The Liukou outside the Guanwai have retreated, the army on the eastern front is in Fang County, it doesn't take much time to go back and forth quickly, you will be able to receive the return as soon as the evening, and you will be able to lead the troops south and return to Sichuan tomorrow morning."

Now Zhang Xianzhong is leading a group of elite riders to gallop in the starry night, but I am afraid that they have already entered Sichuan.

The fall of Chuandong is almost a certainty, and everything is already too late......

……

On the evening of the 26th.

The messenger sent by Chen Wang hurriedly whipped up his horse, and at a place thirty miles east of Zhushan County, he encountered the Ming army of the Eastern Front stationed in the suburbs.

The leader of the troops was the guerrilla Liu Shijie under Zuo Liangyu.

Liu Shijie received the news from Baitu Pass, so he naturally did not dare to slack off, and immediately sent more than a dozen family members to escort the messenger to the east to continue his journey.

At this time, Yang Sichang led the soldiers and horses of the Yongwei Battalion and was stationed in the western suburbs of Hefang County.

By the time Yang Sichang received the news, it was already the early morning of the second day.

When he heard the news of the victory at Baituguan, Yang Sichang was in a good mood.

Previously, because Chen Wang's dissatisfaction with the delay in sending troops, also disappeared at this time.

"Capture and behead the thief's head Xiao Qin Wang Baigui, kill three thousand, kill countless injuries, good, good, good!"

Yang Sichang held the battle report in his hand, flipped through it several times in succession, and said three good words in a row.

However, Yang Sichang read all the paragraphs in the previous paragraphs, as for the last Tang Bao said that most of the thieves swept south, as well as Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai's reports that seemed to enter Sichuan, Yang Sichang didn't read much.

Chen Wang's follow-up request in the Tang newspaper to transfer two battalions of Sichuan soldiers to the south to guard eastern Sichuan, Yang Sichang directly responded, sent someone to write a reply and quickly delivered it.

Yang Sichang didn't care about the rest of the things, but continued to observe in the tent with the Tang newspaper that reported the victory.

With a slash of three thousand, he also killed a thief leader, such a record is enough for him to temporarily explain to Chongzhen.

Yang Sichang now has a sense of crisis, since Sun Chuanting Qin Wang went north to win the victory at Qingshan Pass, Sun Chuanting's status has also increased day by day.

Originally, he didn't even want Sun Chuanting to enter the Beijing Face Saint, but there was really no excuse to shirk it.

In the end, Sun Chuanting and Chongzhen were able to meet face-to-face.

Now Chongzhen has more and more faith in Sun Chuanting, but he has a lot less trust in him because of the bankruptcy of Xiong Wencan's appeasement plan.

Before he went south to supervise the division, he recommended Fu Zonglong to act as the secretary of the military department, which was really a lot of effort.

At that time, Chongzhen had already intended to let Sun Chuanting take his place and take charge of all matters in the military department.

The great victory that Chen Wang has won now is like a timely rain, allowing him to redeem Chongzhen's trust in him.

A hint of fierceness flashed in Yang Sichang's eyes, and after Sun Chuanting was now appointed as the governor of Baoding, he made a number of drastic changes.

In the past few months, he has put forward many different opinions on the affairs of his appointment as the secretary of the military department, and he has even said some inappropriate words one after another.

Yang Sichang didn't want Sun Chuanting to indulge in the north like this anymore.

"With this good news, the effect will be much better."

Yang Sichang put down the newspaper in his hand and turned his head to look at the dimly lit place in the tent.

A scribe wearing a square scarf and a dark blue robe was sitting quietly on a chair at this time, bowing his head and listening to Yang Sichang's orders.

"Sun Baigu's wanton behavior in Baoding has long caused dissatisfaction in the court, and there are concerts to impeach him every ten years."

"This time, the cabinet department went south to supervise the division and reaped a great victory, and Sun Baigu is now plagued by illness, which is a godsend."

The scribe stood up, bowed down, lowered his voice, and said with confidence.

"Today's plan has been eighty percent successful, and the cabinet is in Huguang and only needs to wait for good news."

"Eighty percent is not enough."

Yang Sichang's eyes were slightly condensed, he stood beside the square table, pressing the Tang Bao with one hand, and the other hand was on the jade belt around his waist.

His voice was cold, and he did not hide the cold murderous intent on his body.

"Ten percent, I want to be ten percent sure, and this matter must be done clean and beautiful."

(End of chapter)