Chapter 44: The Treasure Ship

Zhang Xianzhong didn't need to know the situation above the battle array. He knew that among the Ming army, there was no one with such courage and ability, except for Yang Zhan.

Zhang Xianzhong ordered the ships to dock, which caused confusion in the fleet. After Zhang Xianzhong took his guards ashore, he only felt that the chaos on the river was out of control. Even in order to fight for the right to go ashore, a battle was set off on the river.

Moreover, the soldiers were all divided into one boat and one boat, and after going ashore, it was not easy to immediately regain their strength.

"Fortunately, the fleet spread for miles, and the flames couldn't spread here for a while, so it's safe here." Zhang Xianzhong tried his best to collect the soldiers. While thinking.

Wang Zhaoling also asked Zhang Xianzhong for his life at this moment, and said: "Your Majesty, take advantage of this time when the flame does not burn, let's use the silver first." ”

Zhang Xianzhong naturally had no reason not to agree.

The losses in this battle are already big enough, and if you can recover a little, you can recover a little.

At this time, Yang Zhan also discovered a new situation.

Flame is a weapon. But this flame does not distinguish between you and me. When Yang Zhan set fire to the ships at the front of the Great Western Army, under the action of the south wind, the flames ignited dozens of ships, burning bigger and bigger, the bigger and bigger, if someone looked down from the sky at this time, they could see a huge fire dragon and the course of the Qingshen River just coincided.

This battle certainly brought brilliant results to Yang Zhan. But there is also a problem, that is, Yang Zhan can't expand the results.

However, a few greedy young generals rushed into the burning ships, but they were never heard from again. Their fate can be imagined.

This fleet is so large that it is miles long from head to end, and it will take time to burn it out. Yang Zhan even felt that behind the fire, most of the ships of the Great Western Army had begun to evacuate.

With such an opportunity and such a result, Yang Zhan naturally didn't want to let it go.

Gritting his teeth, he ordered all the departments to abandon the ship and go ashore. On the east bank of the Qingshen River, he immediately ordered all the departments to make a big fanfare, set up a formation, although there were only 30,000 people, but put up a formation of more than 100,000 people, countless people waved their flags and shouted, the sound of killing shook the sky, and rolled north.

Seeing this situation, the soldiers who had just fled ashore did not have the slightest will to resist, and raised their hands to surrender. This is also related to the fact that these soldiers are all Sichuan soldiers and their will to fight is not strong. However, in this way, the momentum of the Ming army was increased.

For a time, there was the momentum of swallowing thousands of miles like a tiger.

Zhang Xianzhong saw that there were less than 10,000 soldiers gathered around him, and the rest of the soldiers were not scattered anywhere. I know that I can't fight. But he couldn't retreat like this, he suddenly remembered Wang Zhaoling, and immediately asked Wang Zhaoling to bring the silver taels that he had just rescued from the boat, and it didn't matter how many there were, an ancient brain was sprinkled on the riverbank.

He then ordered all the ships to be scuttled and all the soldiers to move closer to him.

In just a moment, Sun Kewang, Li Dingguo and others came with troops, gathered together and slowly retreated.

Zhang Xianzhong has a lot of experience in defeating battles. He knew that at this time, he would either turn around and leave alone, or slowly form a formation and retreat, so as not to let the enemy seize the flaw. Otherwise, it would be a big rout, if it was a few years ago, Zhang Xianzhong would have left with his cronies without saying a word.

But now. Zhang Xianzhong has a basic judgment on the general trend of the world, and he is sure that he has abandoned the army and run away, and I am afraid that there will be no chance of a comeback. That's why I took the risk and made such a decision.

For Yang Zhan, of course he wanted to attack and leave Zhang Xianzhong here today. But Yang Zhan knew very well that even though he burned a fire, the situation of being outnumbered had not changed, and more than 10,000 soldiers had gathered around Zhang Xianzhong.

These soldiers can quickly assemble in the chaos, they must be Zhang Xianzhong's old foundation, not to mention Zhang Xianzhong's money offensive.

This trick has been used from ancient times to the present, and I don't know how many generals have used it, which is simply unbearable. But the mundane is also quite useful. Yang Zhan has been training for several years, and he has not trained the general to the point where he doesn't pick up so much silver.

Not to mention Yang Zhan's department, even among the Xia army and the Qing army, there are only a few elites who can face hundreds of thousands of taels of silver sprinkled on the ground without picking them up.

Yang Zhan sighed, and he didn't force the departments to pursue.

So Zhang Xianzhong gathered his soldiers and slowly retreated into Chengdu City.

However, in a day or two, Zhang Xianzhong went out and entered from Chengdu City, but the feeling between "out" and "in" was very different.

When he left Chengdu, Zhang Xianzhong was full of ambition. Confident that it can connect the summer, resist the Qing, and hit the bright. However, after only a day or two of work out of Chengdu, he returned defeated, not only throwing away millions of furniture, but also losing tens of thousands of Sichuan troops on the Qingshen River.

What made Zhang Xianzhong even more angry was that if these Sichuan troops were killed and burned to death, Zhang Xianzhong would not be so angry. It was precisely because of his hind feet that he got the news that almost all of these Sichuan troops surrendered to Yang Zhan, except for the soldiers who were killed in the battle.

Yang Zhan's strength increased greatly for a while. Small groups of Ming troops from various departments went to attach.

At this moment, Zhang Xianzhong knew that Yang Zhan sang an empty city plan at that time, but within a day or two, Yang Zhan's empty city plan was filled. Zhang Xianzhong also knew that most of Yang Zhan's subordinates were newly attached soldiers, and now they were still unbearable. But Zhang Xianzhong also knew that he was the new defeated division. Morale has not recovered. This is not the time for a decisive battle with Yang Zhan.

But Zhang Xianzhong felt uncomfortable with anger in his heart, and said viciously: "You must kill all the Sichuan army." ”

Zhang Xianzhong vented his anger by himself, but he didn't see a general's face extremely pale, and his body was even more shaky.

This person is none other than Liu Jinzhong. As for why he has such an expression, the reason is very simple, because he is a general of the Sichuan army, Qingshenjiang is on fire, and most of the burns are Sichuan troops, although Zhang Xianzhong's old battalion soldiers are somewhat damaged, but they have not lost much. Some of them also fell into the water and drowned.

But the Sichuan army either died or surrendered. It's not that all the Sichuan troops were lost. At least Liu Jinzhong's department did not.

Originally, after Liu Jinzhong lost the battle, he was already panicked, and when he heard Zhang Xianzhong speak like this, he was even more frightened in his heart. If the person who spoke was someone else, Liu Jinzhong would think that he was talking angrily. But the person who spoke was Zhang Xianzhong.

Zhang Xianzhong has long been demonized in folk rumors.

It's the kind that kills people every day, doesn't kill people, doesn't eat well, and can't sleep.

In fact, there are some murderous elements in Zhang Xianzhong's character, but it is still very clear who should be killed and what should not be killed. His killing of the gentry in Sichuan was more of an amplification of his revenge than of nature.

The army is his foundation, how could Zhang Xianzhong kill the general without guilt?

But Liu Jinzhong didn't know that there was only one thought left in his heart at this moment, and he said secretly: "Escape quickly." ”

But how to escape is a difficult problem.

Sun Kewang said: "Father, this is not the time to talk about this, our army has newly defeated Qingshenjiang, and Yang Zhan has gathered hundreds of thousands of rabble. The soldiers are sharp, and it is useless to fight with them, and at this moment, the whole army should go eastward to open up the connection with the Xia army, and it is not too late to make other plans in turn. ”

Zhang Xianzhong said: "In this way, we will go to the north of Sichuan, but the Dongyu is in Hanzhong, what if the Dongyu suddenly arrives?" ”

Li Dingguo said: "The Sword Pavilion has been a natural danger since ancient times, just send an army to block the Sword Pavilion, and the army will pass through northern Sichuan." ”

Zhang Xianzhong frowned slightly and said, "Just who to send to guard the Sword Pavilion?" “

As soon as these words came out, the people below were silent for a while, and everyone knew that the person sent to guard the Sword Pavilion must be an outcast. For no other reason, the Great Western Army undoubtedly stayed in northern Sichuan for a long time, but to unite with the Xia Army and defend the Sword Pavilion, but it was a temporary move.

When the army was in northern Sichuan, Yang Zhan might not dare to chase after him.

But after the army left, the guards of the Sword Pavilion had the Eastern Capture in front and the Ming Army in the back, and the situation was quite bad.

"Your Majesty, the minister is willing to guard the Sword Pavilion for Your Majesty." A voice said. Zhang Xianzhong looked at it in a blink of an eye, it was none other than Li Jinzhong, Zhang Xianzhong said with great joy: "The general is really loyal, worthy of the name of Jinzhong." ”

"The last general is ashamed. But with a breath of the last general, he will definitely be able to defend the Sword Pavilion and not let Dongyu Nan take the next step. Li Jin said with a swear.