Hubei, Yunyang Prefecture, Fangxian County, Hualongyan.
This is where Emperor Kangxi sent his most trusted uncle, Yunyang Admiral Tong Guoyao, to carefully arrange the Yunyang defense line. The flank facing Kuizhou Mansion and Daba Mountain is of course also a very important flank!
Emperor Kangxi was familiar with all kinds of military art, and he also knew that during the chaotic times of the late Ming Dynasty, the Yunyang area was once a battlefield where the Ming army and various rebel armies competed with each other!
Although the terrain in this area is very rugged, it is by no means the kind of dangerous place where only one man can pass through and no one can enter. Instead, there are a large number of passes, river valleys, and mountain passes with difficult terrain. As long as one passage is opened, the entire Yunyang defense line may collapse!
After all, the troops Kangxi had on hand were a bit tight. Both the Shaanxi-Gansu battlefield and the Huguang battlefield were short of troops! The Guangdong and Guangxi battlefields are rich, but loyal ministers such as Wang Fuchen and Shang Zhixin are likely to be busy fighting civil war regardless of the life or death of Kangxi, the emperor.
So Kangxi could only give Yunyang governor (similar to a governor, in charge of seven or eight prefectures) Yang Maoxun and Yunyang Admiral Tong Guoyao pieced together 11,500 green battalion soldiers and a fraction of them. They were still green battalions, or Only the conscience of Qing officials knows how many book soldiers there are?
Moreover, only conscience knows the specific number of these Green Camp soldiers, and they are divided into six military officers, including Yunyang Admiral, Yunyang Fuzhi, Xiangyang General Soldier, Yunyang Deputy General, Jingmen Deputy General, and Nanyang Deputy General. On average, one officer There are only less than 2,000 book soldiers!
In addition, there are two big bosses among these six officials!
Originally, according to the system of the Qing Dynasty, Yunyang Fuzhi must be the biggest boss in Yunyang compared to the governor, and everyone had to listen to Yunyang Fuzhi Yang Maoxun. But the problem is that Kangxi is worried. Yunyang is now the key point blocking Wu Sangui from entering Huguang from Hanzhong!
Although Wu Sangui threatened to leave Qishan and took action, what if he wanted to attack the east from the west?
The people in Huguang are already nervous enough. Ezha only has a few troops at hand and is being besieged by an army of more than 100,000 people from Wu Yingxiong, Li Zicheng, Wu Guogui, and Zu Zeqing! If Wu Sangui pulled another 20 to 30 thousand people to fight all the way from Hanzhong to Huguang, wouldn't Ezha's entire army be annihilated?
And if Ezha's entire army was annihilated, the Qing Dynasty would be in serious trouble. Wu Sangui would then be able to station troops in Xiangyang and shock China!
So Kangxi sent his uncle to Yunyang to "help" Yang Maoxun fight.
This Yang Maoxun's official position is higher than that of Tong Guoyao. But Tong Guoyao's nephew is Kang Mazi!
Therefore, it is hard to say who the boss on the Yunyang battlefield is.
In order to ensure that Yunyang was not lost, Kangxi gave Tong Guoyao instructions when he took office. He pointed at the map of Yunyang and gave Uncle Tong a strategy of "dividing his troops and resisting step by step" - he had to tighten the fence. , We must not let the scourge Wu Sangui break through the Yunyang defense line!
With Tong Guoyao's ability and the more than 10,000 green soldiers under his command, if he really had a war with Wu Sangui, he would know with his heels that the entire army would be wiped out.
Therefore, Kangxi also specially warned Tong Guoyao not to be smart and imitate Ma Di. He must listen to the words of "Zhuge Kang Mazi" and be the leader, block all the passages honestly, and at the same time set up the "Yunzhu Defense Line" and "Yunzhu Defense Line". There are three lines of defense: "Fanggu Defense Line" and "Xiangyang Defense Line".
Well, the 11,500 book soldiers were divided into three lines of defense to block dozens of openings, and they had to hold on to the five strong cities of Yunxian, Zhushan, Fangxian, Gucheng, and Xiangyang. It was really stretched!
But it’s no good if we don’t guard these mountain passes, intersections, river valleys, and important cities!
If he doesn't guard, Wu Sangui will rush into Huguang.
So Tong Guoyao, who arrived in Yunyang, had no choice but to summon his generals, deputy generals and his immediate boss Yang Maoxun to discuss a plan to deploy the defense separately and work together.
Among them, Yang Maoxun, the governor of Yunyang, was in charge of Xiangyang. He personally led 500 elite soldiers. These 500 people were all elites selected from Yang Maoxun's bidding. One could be as good as ten!
Tong Guoyao himself shouldered the heavy responsibility bravely, and together with Yunyang's deputy general Hong Fu were responsible for Yunyang's defense line facing Xinghua Prefecture controlled by Wu Sangui. There were 8,000 account soldiers on this line! The 6,000 people in person are all divided into positions, and 2,000 people are placed in Yun County as a reserve team!
Yang Laijia, the commander-in-chief of Xiangyang, was responsible for the "Fanggu Defense Line", leading two thousand troops to guard several mountain passes facing Daba Mountain in Kuizhou. He was also responsible for the defense of the two strategic cities of Fangxian and Gucheng.
If Tong Guoyao cannot withstand the front, he will retreat to Fangxian and Gucheng to hold on together.
However, the changes on this battlefield are always so unexpected. Just when the first-line "Zhuyun Defense Line" was still impregnable, the "Fanggu Defense Line" defended by Yang Laijia was quietly recognized by the city of Beijing. "Big Bear" Wu Yingxiong made a breakthrough!
Wu Yingxiong, who was supposed to be the bear of a den of bears, now has a "one bear takes the lead" plus "an unstoppable bear"!
At least in Yang Laijia's view, the man carrying a cane, wearing straw sandals, a raincoat, and a bamboo hat, walking on the muddy road in the rain, appeared outside Fang County with more than ten thousand elite Wu soldiers who dared to cross the mountains. Wu Yingxiong in Hualongyan, Dazhen. Where is the "big bear"? He is clearly a great hero!
Although he sent people to lead Wu Yingxiong, he also withdrew the troops guarding the entrances of Daba Mountain. But Wu Yingxiong dared to lead the troops in person, and he was able to walk on the mountainous roads with his subordinates. It was really surprising that he got from Kuizhou to Fangxian County in such a short time!
Anyway, the group of green soldiers that Yang Laijia placed at Hualongyan did not expect that so many "red scarf Wu soldiers" would suddenly appear in front of him - Yang Laijia did not tell them that Wu Yingxiong was coming - so they were scared away. , dare not resist at all!
Yang Laijia, who was staying in Fang County waiting for Wu Yingxiong, heard the news and had doubts for a while - in such a cold day, the Wu Jiajun had really worked hard to cross the Daba Mountain in the rain!
With this energy, the Qing Dynasty will be over!
Since the Qing Dynasty was about to end, Yang Laijia immediately ran from Fangxian County to Hualongyan with delicious food, drinks and various supplies to greet the Prince of the West and the Wu family's army.
"Your Majesty Yang Laijia would like to pay my respects to His Majesty Qianzai!"
In a landlord's compound in Hualongyan Town, Yang Laijia led several generals and guerrillas. When he saw Wu Yingxiong, who had just changed into a clean white round-neck robe and a red hood, he came to take a look. bye.
"Pingshen, Pingshen," Wu Yingxiong greeted with a smile, "give Mr. Yang and the others a seat. I came back unexpectedly and became a bad guest, frightening all the brothers in the town away. Are they all okay? "
"Okay, they have all retreated to Fang County, and no one is missing." Yang Laijia quickly assured Wu Yingxiong.
"Then Tong Guoyao doesn't know yet, right?"
"I don't know, I definitely don't know!" Yang Laijia suggested, "Master, Tong Guoyao also has an informant arranged by me. Yunyang Lieutenant General Hong Fu is my sworn brother. He is as determined to fight against the Qing Dynasty as he is. He has a number of elite soldiers at his disposal. Thousands of people, accounting for half of the defenders in Yun County!
If the prince can trust his subordinates, he is willing to lead his troops to take Tong Guoyao's head! "
"Tong Guoyao" Wu Yingxiong nodded, "You are still a bit brave. Shifan!"
"The child is here!" Wu Shifan, who was guarding the lobby, responded immediately.
"Take your fusiliers, a battalion of white pole soldiers, and General Yang on this trip together to see if you can capture Tong Guoyao alive. He is Kangxi's uncle!"
Of course Wu Yingxiong wanted to capture Tong Guoyao alive in exchange for his wife and children. In order to catch this Tong Guoyao, he spent a lot of money and directly gave Wu Shifan a team of fusiliers and Shizhu Ma's white-armed soldiers, a total of 2,200 elite soldiers! In addition, Yang Laijia has 2,000 people and Hongfu has 1,000 people. A total of 5,200 people went to attack Yun County!
"My child understands," Wu Shifan understood what I meant, and immediately patted his chest and said, "My child must find a way to capture this Tong Guoyao alive!"
Wu Yingxiong looked at the other generals in the lobby and said with a smile: "Everyone, can you still move?"
"You can walk!"
Everyone shouted in unison.
What time is it now? How could you not be able to walk?
Wu Yingxiong is about to shock China. This is the power of Conglong!
"Okay!" Wu Yingxiong said, "Have a night's rest. Tomorrow, let's go to attack Xiangyang City! Attack Xiangyang and enter the Central Plains!"
"Got the order!"
"Fight Xiangyang and enter the Central Plains!"
"Also." Wu Yingxiong said again, "Don't use the banner of my son first. Use the banner of my father, King Xiwang, the President!"
"yes!"
"Li Zicheng, you, you are going too far!"
When Wu Shifan went to capture Tong Guoyao and Wu Yingxiong was preparing to take Xiangyang to attack China, the Qing Dynasty's top leader in the Huguang area, the gambling king Eza, was already in a complete panic!
He has now led an army of 20,000 that he had put together with great difficulty and marched into Shimen County, near Li Zicheng's hometown, Jiashan Shimen Temple. Shimen was captured without a single blow, and Jiashan Temple was also within easy reach.
But Eza was not happy at all!
Because he already knew about "Li Zicheng cheating" - Li Zicheng, a Shaanxi native, actually used the navy to raid the Shashi Floating Bridge. This is not cheating, what is cheating?
But the problem is that Ezha is not sitting at the "fair gambling" table now, but on a battlefield where soldiers are always willing to cheat. On the battlefield, there is only one important thing, and that is victory!
As for whether the means of winning are honorable or not, it doesn't matter, and the loser has no place to argue!
Seeing Ezha's angry and angry look, Cai Yurong, the governor of Huguang and Babur, the governor of Huguang who marched with him, and the commander of the Jingzhou garrison flag army, could only sigh and said, "grandson of Duduo!"
How brave was Prince Duduo of Yu back then? After being beaten, Li Zicheng had no place to hide, so he had to hide in Jiashan Temple and become a monk. Now his grandson was actually tricked by Li Zicheng as a monkey. The 20,000-strong army rushed to nothing, and Li Zicheng took advantage of his retreat!
"Your Majesty, hurry back and help Jingzhou!" Cai Yurong immediately suggested, "Didn't Li Zicheng cut off the Shashi Floating Bridge just to cut off our way back to Jingzhou? He must have wanted to take the opportunity to take Jingzhou!"
Babur was also anxious: "Your Majesty, there are only more than a thousand people in Zhang Futai. If Li Zicheng gathers 20,000 troops to attack Jingzhou, Jingzhou will not be able to defend it for long! Once Jingzhou is lost, we will have to retreat to Wuchang and Xiangyang! And! There are still more than 10,000 banner family members in Jingzhou City, if they fall into Li Zicheng's hands, none of them will survive!"
When Ezha heard this, he trembled and said, "Hurry up, go back to Jingzhou. I want to fight Li Zicheng to the death at the gate of Jingzhou City!"
"Your Majesty," a deputy commander of the Eight Banners New Army asked, "Should we attack Jiashan Temple?"
"Hit me!" Eza yelled, "Jingzhou is almost gone, why should we beat Jiashan Temple? Beat it and become a monk?"
"But how are we going to cross the Yangtze River?" the captain asked, "our pontoon bridge has been cut off."
Eza's face suddenly fell, and he just murmured: "What should I do? What should I do?"
"You can go north from Shimen to Zhijiang. Zhijiang is the territory of Yiling Commander-in-Chief Xu Zhidu," Cai Yurong reminded. "It must still be in the hands of the Qing Dynasty. When we get to Zhijiang, we will definitely be able to find a boat to cross the river."
"Xu Zhidu? But he is in the army!" Eza shook his head, "He himself is no longer in Yiling, and more than half of his troops have followed me to Shimen. Can Zhijiang be defended? "
"You can hold it!" Cai Yurong said with certainty, "I am very familiar with this Xu Zhidu, and I also know his wife Xu. She must have a way."
"What?" Eza looked back at Cai Yurong and found that the old boy was not bad looking, with a tall build, thick eyebrows, big eyes, and a big beard. He could compare with that live Lu Bu Wang Fuchen.
"Your Majesty." Cai Yurong saw Eza's eyes looking a little strange, and quickly explained: "This General Xu is good at managing his wife as a general. His wife Xu has been trained well by him. She can ride a horse to fight, and can also supervise the army for him." City. This Xu family is not with the expedition now and should still be in Yiling. Unless Li Zicheng sends a large army to fight, Zhijiang and Yiling can definitely be saved."
"What? A wife as a general?" Eza was stunned, "Is there such a way to play?"
How to play? Is this for fun? This is to cultivate talents for the Qing Dynasty!
Cai Yurong frowned, but nodded: "Yes, yes, Your Majesty, you will understand that Mr. Xu is a talent when you go to Zhijiang and meet Xu Zhidu's wife."
"Okay, let's go to Zhijiang first!" Eza thought to himself: I have to go and see it. If this Xu Zhidu really has this ability, I must ask him for advice.
"嗻!"
Cai Yurong did not lie to Ezha. He was indeed very familiar with Xu Zhi and Mrs. Xu. Moreover, General Xu really liked to train his wife to be a heroic female military general - his first wife in history. After Xu died in the battle, he also trained his second wife Kong to become a female general!
Under the auspices of the Xu family, Zhijiang, Yidu, Yichang, Guizhou and other places along the Yangtze River managed to survive with less than a thousand officers and soldiers plus some local soldiers and strong people, until Hubei. Zha and his 20,000 Qing troops, who were like bereaved dogs, were not lost when they fled from Shimen County in embarrassment.
But before Eza and Xu Zhi could ask how to train their wives to become generals, Mrs. Xu told Eza some bad news that frightened him!
"Your Majesty, I received news from Xiangyang Prefecture yesterday. Wu Sangui's army seems to have broken into Xiangyang Prefecture from the direction of Yunyang. Fancheng and several important places around Xiangyang Fucheng have fallen. Xiangyang Fucheng may have been captured by Wu Sangui. !”
"What?" Ezha was shocked, "Wu Sangui has penetrated Yunyang? By the way, Mrs. Xu, is there any news about Yunyang?"
Mrs. Xu frowned, imitating the tone of the official's words, shook her head and said: "There is no news. But the slave family has sent someone to inquire, and there should be a return soon."
Hearing this, Eza's heart was already cold.
No news is bad news!
Yunyang must have fallen into Wu Sangui's hands!
Xiangyang did not have many defenders, and Wu Sangui had tens of thousands of troops. It would not be difficult to capture Xiangyang. When Xiangyang was lost, Jingzhou
Thinking of this, he quickly asked: "So, what about Jingzhou? Has it been taken by Li Zicheng?"
"No, everything is fine in Jingzhou." Mrs. Xu said, "At least the news from yesterday shows that everything is fine in Jingzhou."
"Is everything okay? Then where did Li Zicheng go?"
"No!" Cai Yurong suddenly yelled.
Eza looked back and saw that the governor of Huguang's face was pale and his forehead was covered with cold sweat.
"Ren'an, what's wrong?" Eza asked.
"Yuezhou and Wuchang!" Cai Yurong said with a trembling voice. "After Li Zicheng's people robbed the Shashikou pontoon bridge, they will definitely dismantle the bridge and turn it into a boat, and then continue to attack Yuezhou. There are many grain transport ships blocking Yuezhou. If They were all taken by Li Zicheng. Then Li Zicheng was able to sail his entire army eastward to Wuchang, but Wuchang is now very empty! If Wuchang is lost, the southeast will be shaken!"
"What, what should I do?" Eza immediately collapsed on the chair, his whole body just trembling.
(End of chapter)
