Chapter 416 In the Battle of Yangxian

From Wang Yan sent Yan Qiheng to envoy Daxi, Zhang Xianzhong led the army out of Sichuan to fight against the Qing soldiers, and now Haoge has entered Hanzhong, Daxi and the Manchu Qing have been at war for half a year.

The 130,000 Western Army against the 60,000 Qing Army, although the strength is in an advantage, but the Qing Army has the Eight Banners Cavalry, and the Green Battalion soldiers are mostly the surrender of the Ming Dynasty official army, they are well-equipped, and their combat effectiveness is much stronger than that of the Liukou, so the 60,000 against the 130,000 army is not inferior at all.

After Zhang Xianzhong entered Sichuan, he organized more than 120 battalions, known as a million troops, but there were actually more than 100,000 people who could really fight tough battles.

Yangxian County, unlike other strongholds of the Great Western Army in Hanzhong, the terrain is not dangerous, he is located on the eastern edge of the Hanzhong Basin, which is not very conducive to defense, but Zhang Xianzhong still let Zhang Wenxiu garrison here, but because he not only blocked the Qing army from taking the Lychee Road over the Daba Mountain into Shuzhong, but also controlled the Changluo Road and the Meridian Road, the two exits from Hanzhong into Guanzhong.

In this way, with the addition of Chencang Road and Qishan Road controlled by Wudu Mountain, when Haoge was defeated and fled, he could only take Baocheng in the north and go out of Lianyun Road and Baochuan Road, which would improve the efficiency of the Western Army's pursuit.

After Meng Qiaofang supervised the army into Yangxian, he immediately launched a fierce attack on Yangxian, he was the governor of the three sides of Shaanxi, so he knew very well about the grain and grass problem of the Qing army, if he could not take Yangxian within two months, or induce Zhang Xianzhong to rescue, they would lose.

The defenders of the Great Western Army in Yangxian County had 20,000 people, led by Zhang Xianzhong's righteous son Zhang Wenxiu, who was familiar with the art of war, followed Zhang Xianzhong across the Central Plains for decades, and was a general who was enough to stand alone.

The Qing army's offensive against Yangxian was quite fierce, and on the first day, both sides were red-eyed, and no one could take a step back, and the two sides launched a fierce bloody battle near Yangxian.

In half a month, the Qing army and the western army fought more than 50 battles, large and small, the battle was extremely bloody, neither side left prisoners of war, and the wounded soldiers and prisoners of war of the other side were all executed.

The Qing army paid the price of 5,000 men and cleared all the strongholds of the Western Army on the outskirts of Yangxian, and the Western Army also lost 3,000 people.

After that, the two sides entered a more brutal battle of attack and defense of the city, and the war brought a large number of casualties to the soldiers on both sides, but the most heavy losses were the ordinary people of Hanzhong.

The western army carried out the strong wall to clear the wilderness, burned the houses, looted the grain, and the Qing soldiers came to rape and plunder, so that hundreds of thousands of people fled their homes, walked the ancient road to the east into Huguang, or crossed the Daba Mountain, Micang Mountain fled to Shuzhong, and the Hanzhong Mansion, which was originally quite rich, became thousands of miles of red fields, and the cities were empty.

In the blink of an eye, the New Year came, in the camp of the Qing army outside Yangxian County, groups of Qing soldiers lined up, holding dishes and chopsticks to prepare for dinner, and the soldiers were standing in the cold wind, with whining words in their mouths.

"Every day the city is attacked, and the food is getting worse and worse."

"It's thinning out of the dry, how can you have the strength to fight like this."

In the long line, the green battalion soldiers were listless one by one, and at this time, the team at the front suddenly broke out in a commotion.

"~ Brothers attack the city every day, and you play with your head, you give us this, this can shine on the figure, and the urine will be completely gone, can you be full? Can you fight? One of the Green Battalion angrily brought a bowl of gruel as thin as water to the Firehead, grabbed the clothes on his chest, and lifted it up and shouted angrily.

When a group of green battalion soldiers saw the food in the pot, they also echoed it, scolding and questioning.

The one that always looks like black charcoal, leopard eyes and whiskers, looks fierce and vicious, and does not look like a good class at first glance, the Huotou Army was lifted by him, and he was immediately frightened and trembled, and explained timidly: "This can't be blamed on us, there is no food in the house, what can we do?" ”

After hearing the words, he waved his hand and slapped the firehead army a few times, and the "pop" sounded, swelling the firehead army's cheeks, and blood flowed out of his mouth, before he stopped, pointed to the eight banners in the distance and said: "There is no food, what do they eat?" ”

"Yes, the Lao Tzu worked hard, but they didn't even have to drink the soup, they stood behind five people and six people, but they ate dry and drank fragrant, you say, what's going on?"

The Green Battalion soldiers surrounded them, shouting noisily, and their faces were full of anger.

Huotou Jun looked at it, in the distance, the Eight Banners were eating bread, pickles, and even cured meat, he had nothing to say, he couldn't afford to offend the general and green battalion soldiers in front of him, and he didn't dare to provoke the Eight Banners masters, so he could only bow his head and tremble in the midst of everyone's questioning.

The Eight Banners, who were eating in the distance, heard the general words, and saw the noisy green battalion soldiers, suddenly stood up, picked up the war knife and walked over.

"Dai Tianlei, don't you want to live?" Several Eight Banners surrounded them, and when they saw the Green Battalion soldiers looking at them viciously, they didn't care, but threatened sharply.

This was originally the Shaanxi Righteous Army, because the sound was as loud as thunder, was called Dai Tianlei, after Sun Shoufa attacked Xi'an defeat, Dai Tianlei was captured by the Qing army, with the main general to surrender to the Qing, was incorporated into the green camp, is a famous thorn.

Dai Tianlei saw a few Eight Banner soldiers surrounding him, but he was not timid, but his face was even more angry, "A group of bad goods, a hundred brothers of Lao Tzu, were driven by you to attack the city, and most of the first war was reimbursed, the brothers played with their lives, and they didn't even have a full mouth, a group of you will only stand in the back, killing your own people's bad goods, but you can still eat cured meat, Lao Tzu is not convinced~"

"Dissatisfied~" The Eight Banners sneered, "Who do you think you are?" If you dare to insult us, believe it or not, we will correct you on the spot now. To tell you the truth, people like you, Lao Tzu will kill him, and the general will not blame, because according to the rules of the Qing Dynasty, our Eight Banners are one level higher than you, if you don't accept it, you can also carry the flag if you have the ability! Hahaha~"

The battle of Yangxian has been fought for more than a month, the Qing soldiers have suffered heavy casualties and the sergeants are tired, but Meng Qiaofang not only has no intention of stopping the siege, but the food in the army is getting worse and worse.

Dai Tianlei was holding his breath in his heart, in yesterday's siege, one of his fellow villagers was hacked to death by the Eight Banners who supervised the battle because he retreated first, which made the hatred in his heart deeper.

"Lao Tzu will kill you first~" Dai Tianlei listened to the words of the Eight Banners, and immediately exploded, he was already short-tempered, and suddenly yelled, "Fuck ~ thief your mother ~", the whole person jumped up and scuffled with the Eight Banners soldiers led by him, and the surrounding green battalion soldiers saw this, and they also roared to join the battle group.

There were few soldiers in the Eight Banners, and they were knocked to the ground in a moment, but at this moment, a majestic shout suddenly sounded, "What are you doing?" Don't stop it yet! ”

A large group of elite Qing soldiers rushed over, quickly dispersed the green battalion soldiers, and arrested Dai Tianlei and others who were still scuffling, Meng Qiaofang turned over and dismounted, came to the middle, squinted his eyes and asked, "What's the matter?" He pointed his horsewhip at Dai Tianlei and said, "Answer Bendu!" ”

Dai Tianlei was pressed to his knees by Meng Qiaofang's personal guards, and he struggled unconvinced: "The brothers gave up their lives and forgot about death, but they didn't even have to drink porridge, and the Eight Banners didn't do anything, but they ate bread and drank broth, I was not convinced." ”

When Meng Qiaofang heard this, he looked at the green battalion soldiers who were blocked out of the circle by his own soldiers, his face was full of anger, and he was shocked, he turned around and walked to the big pot where the green camp was cooking, lifted the lid, and saw that there was a pot of water inside, and his face sank.

In the current situation, it is very likely that there will be a mutiny in the green camp, Meng Qiaofang suddenly walked back to his war horse, stroked the horse's head a few times, and then stabbed the heart of the war horse with his sword, and a large amount of horse blood flowed down his official robe.

Seeing this, the surrounding green battalion soldiers and Dai Tianlei were stunned for a while, and they didn't come back to their senses until the war horse fell to the ground with a mournful roar.

Meng Qiaofang threw away the knife, walked to the middle, and immediately said: "It is a dereliction of duty to let the soldiers eat such things, this war horse is a mount given to the governor by Prince Su, and today the governor killed it with his own hands to reward the soldiers, and the soldiers have been convinced." ”

The governor slaughtered his mounts to give them more food, and the green battalion soldiers had nothing to say, and immediately bowed together.

Meng Qiaofang saw that the green battalion soldiers were calmed down, and then looked at Dai Tianlei and said, "Have you ever been convinced?" ”

"I am convinced~" Dai Tianlei stopped struggling and bowed his head.

Meng Qiaofang nodded, and then said: "In the army, military law is like a mountain, although you have extenuating circumstances, but military law is ruthless, someone will drag him out and kill him, hang the head of the camp gate, and warn the whole army." ”

Gathering people in the army to make trouble and resist law enforcement, this is a capital crime, a group of green battalion soldiers heard the words, although they had relatives in their hearts, but no one came out to intercede, after all, the governor even killed the horse, and they were just small soldiers who had no right to speak, and in the end they were not very familiar with Dai Tianlei.

Only a few of Dai Tianlei's subordinates wanted to rush out, but they were quickly stopped by Meng Qiaofang's personal soldiers, and they could only watch Dai Tianlei being dragged away.

A moment later, Meng Qiaofang's personal soldier brought over a bloody human head, Meng Qiaofang glanced at it, and then turned to leave.

As he walked, he said to Li Guohan on the side: "At present, the army is short of food, the morale of the army is unstable, and the governor does not have many war horses to kill, so I can only kill the general who made trouble, so as not to cause trouble again." General Li also has to take care of his Eight Banners and don't cause any more trouble, otherwise you and I will not end well. ”

When Li Guohan heard this, he said with a smile: "Don't worry, Governor, I will instruct my subordinates to try not to conflict with the Green Battalion." ”

Meng Qiaofang nodded, "The governor is going to Nanzheng, and he is asking for a batch of grain and grass, so General Li will temporarily take care of the affairs of the camp~"

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