"You must abide by military discipline and obey the orders of Marquis Anding, otherwise Lan will not feel at ease even if he returns to the capital..." Outside the military camp, Lan Shaoqun, dressed in Yanju uniforms, had one person, one old servant, and a lame donkey. He took nothing else with him, so he left without hesitation. However, to his surprise, there were the commanders of the left and right route armies, commanding Tongzhi, commanding Qianshi, Qianhu, deputy Qianhu, Zhenfu, and Baihu. They all knelt on both sides of the official road and tried to persuade him to stay! But his successor, the left minister of the Ministry of War of the Ming Dynasty, Xu Yuan, the Marquis of Anding, was sitting in the empty Chinese army tent and furious!
However, in the face of this situation, even though Xu Yuan, the Marquis of Anding, was a noble minister, he had nothing to do with these poor soldiers. In the end, the helpless Marquis Xu had to order his own soldiers to escort these guys out of the country. The Chinese army was ordered to beat twenty army sticks to end the problem!
At the beginning of the thirteenth year of Jingxi, Xia Ting learned that the commander of the Ming army south of the Yangtze River had changed. He believed that the time had come for a counterattack, so he mobilized 10,000 soldiers from Anyang (the capital) and 10,000 infantry from Chenzhou (east of Anyang and west of Qingzhou). Fifteen thousand people were left in Quzhou (north of Chenzhou, southeast of Xuanzhou, equivalent to all of Hebei, Anhui, Shandong, and a small part of Henan in China). Sima's army was left with 10,000 people. Qingzhou (east of Chenzhou, equivalent to China's Henan Province) Hebei, Henan, Jiangsu, a small part of Anhui, and all of Shandong) 20,000 horse infantry troops, Liaozhou (east of Quzhou, equivalent to all of Liaoning in China, Jilin, Inner Mongolia, and a small part of Hebei) 5,000 horse troops, Xuanzhou Infantry The army of 5,000 people totaling 65,000 people in six routes went south to join the remaining 68,000 people of the three armies in Lizhou to rebuild Hutoushan Camp and Liyuan Camp, trying to take the opportunity to defeat the Ming army in the south of the Yangtze River and regain the major grain-producing state. ——Lizhou, and in order to be more safe, Xia Ting also paid a lot of money to hire Manzhou (Emperor Taiping, the uncle of Emperor Jingxi of Great Xia, came to the throne three years ago and ordered General Mao Yu to move to the five states of Qu, Chen, Qing, Lei, and Xuan) Two hundred thousand civilians and three hundred thousand slaves went north to build six large cities, more than twenty small cities, and nearly a hundred small forts, forming the twenty-fifth state of the Great Xia Dynasty, Barbarian State, and the size and number of states and counties under its jurisdiction Although it is not as good as the original twenty-four states, it is still considered the most prosperous place in the Far North. It is also a good place to resist the Mongols, Jurchens and their indigenous lackeys, the Chadani, Fuling, Luocidi, and Lin. The Chadani people (the front line of the Hu people) who had been enemies for generations, Luo Cidie's 30,000 horsemen went south to help!
Facing the aggressive 160,000 enemy troops, the left minister of the Ministry of War of the Ming Dynasty and Xu Yuan, the Marquis of Anding, panicked. Then the man who had never fought in a war decided to stick to various camps in Lizhou and not conflict with the Xia army head-on! He wanted to use the Ming army's specialty of city defense and fortification to consume the Xia army's elite forces!
However, Chen Qizhi, the commander-in-chief of the Xia army who faced him, was not a stupid person. He joined the army at the age of twelve and was very experienced in battles. He had made great achievements for the Xia Empire! Therefore, he was not prepared to attack the Ming army that was defending the city wall. Instead, he used infantry brigades such as the Chenzhou Army, Forbidden Army, Qingzhou Army and Xuanzhou Army to garrison the camp and contain the Ming army that was defending the city wall. He himself sent Kan State Guards Envoy (Xia Empire military system, a local state is allowed to have an army of 50,000 people, the highest commander is the Guard Envoy, they are all children of aristocratic families, and the Guard Envoy is composed of Defense Envoys, Guard Envoys, Patrol Envoys, Patrol Envoys , garrison envoy, Pai army, Yamen general, thousand-man general, hundred-man general, team leader, fire leader) Mao Shanqi led the Quzhou Army, Liaozhou Army and Qingzhou Army, a total of more than 20,000 cavalry, to intercept and kill the Ming army. Sentinel Cavalry, ambush the Ming Army's grain transport team! Sometimes, this group of daring riders even dared to go deep into Lizhou and wander outside Su County, the temporary capital of the Ming Dynasty!
The sentry riders were killed, so that the Ming army in the walled city could not get accurate military information; the food team was ambushed, so that the Ming army in the walled city could not get enough supplies... All of this made the Ming army soldiers at the bottom They are full of disappointment with the new Li Lei Supervisor Xu Yuan, so they miss the previous Li Lei Supervisor (first served as Li Lei Manager, and later promoted to Supervisor due to his military exploits) Lan Butang!
"The blue thief is gone. We no longer have any worries. Xu Yuan is just a boudoir woman painted with makeup. She is not as powerful as serving the army, so there is nothing to worry about..." To be honest, ever since the old rival Lan Shaoqun was revealed. After the puppet leader transferred back to Sucheng, most of the senior generals of the Xia Army, such as the governors, defense commanders, and garrison commanders of various states, all relaxed their worries, because in their hearts, Lan Shaoqun's departure meant that The combat strength of the Ming army in the south of the Yangtze River has been reduced by more than half, and it will no longer pose any threat to itself!
The subsequent development of the situation was just as they thought. The newly appointed Xu Yuan could not suppress the proud soldiers under his command, nor could he effectively counterattack the Xia army's constant harassment. Therefore, for a while, the balance of victory was It seems to be leaning towards the Xia army led by Chen Qizhi!
It's just that sometimes luck is like a bitch in a prostitute's village. She doesn't come if you want her to, but she clings to her shamelessly if you don't! In the summer of the thirteenth year of Jingxi's reign, a plague broke out in the Xia army's camp, which had already gained the upper hand. For some reason, a plague broke out in the Xia army camp. Tens of thousands of the more than 100,000 troops died in one fell swoop, and the rest also withdrew from the tiger camp that had been operating for a long time. Toushan Dazhai. Therefore, the endangered Ming army got the most precious chance to breathe!
In the second year of Yongwei in the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Xingzu appointed Liu Xiucheng, the son of Liu Wenxiong, the chief minister of the cabinet, as the commander-in-chief of the rear army and the commander-in-chief of the capital of Lizhou. Hong Jianbin, the son of Hongyushan, the Marquis of Leicheng, was appointed as the commander-in-chief of the capital. Guo Lifu, the cousin of Hu Yinglong, the uncle of Yueshan As the commander of the forward guard, he led the newly formed six guards with a total of 30,000 troops to rush to the aid of Xu Yuan, the commander of Li Lei in Yushan, at night.
In the 13th year of Jingxi, the Ming army of Xu Yuan's army in Yushan, after receiving support from Liu Xiu's city army, used artillery warships as the forerunner to annihilate the Yunmeng navy of the Xia army in one fell swoop. They surrounded Liyuan's camp from the flanks and instead locked Chen Qingzhi's Xia army Surrounded tightly in Liyuan!
What surprised Chen Qingzhi and his defense envoys the most was that Xu Yuan, who they thought was a pedantic scholar or even a boudoir woman, turned out to be someone not easy to mess with! To first show weakness to the enemy, and then take advantage of the enemy's lax vigilance, concentrate all the troops to strike with a thunderous blow, and completely block the opponent in the camp, this is extremely cunning!
At this time, looking at the south bank of the river, except for Chen Qingzhi's Liyuan camp, all the Xia army forces in Lizhou had been wiped out by the Ming army that had been preparing for a long time! The Chinese people in the Daxia Empire really underestimated the cohesion and unity of the Ming Empire! The Ming Empire, which descended from another time and space, finally officially opened its big mouth full of fangs to this chaotic imperial continent!
In July of the thirteenth year of Jingxi, the Ming army recaptured Yunmeng, an important town in Leizhou, and annihilated 8,000 Leizhou garrison troops. In August, they occupied Leizhou Kangjun, annihilated 3,000 garrison troops, killed the county garrison envoy Mao Wanjin, and captured the prefect Bai Bai. Xiqiu, the county magistrate Qin Chengzhi, and countless subordinate officials under them! What shocked the world even more was that Bai Xiqiu, who could not withstand the torture of the Jin Yiwei, betrayed Qin Chengzhi one after another and surrendered to the Ming Dynasty. Since then, the civil servants of Daxia officially set a precedent for officials to surrender to the Ming Dynasty invaders.
In October of the thirteenth year of Jingxi, Qian Liewen, a wealthy man from Muling County, Kang County, Leizhou, killed the county magistrate Su Dawei and led the gentry in the county to surrender to the Ming army. In November of the thirteenth year of Jingxi, the Leizhou garrison guarded the right side of Yupingzhai. Military Academy Lieutenant Hu Guangchang opened the village gate to welcome the Ming army into the city. On November 15, the thirteenth year of Jingxi, Qian Yun, the new commander of the Kangcheng Guards, led more than 5,000 soldiers and horses of the guards to Leicheng, Leizhou City, and then the Ming Army Regardless of the extremely hard days of marching, they attacked the city overnight, but unfortunately Leicheng was a state city with a large garrison and a strong city, so it was difficult to conquer in a hurry! Therefore, Qian Yun did not waste his precious troops under the high wall of Leicheng, but instead joined up with another Ming army and easily captured the barrier of Leicheng, Ziting Mountain. As soon as Ziting Mountain was reached, Leicheng appeared naked like a naked woman in front of the Ming army! Moreover, the Ming army, which received military support, also cut off all channels from Leicheng to the outside world, preparing to play a good game of catching turtles in an urn.
At the end of November of the thirteenth year of Jingxi's reign, after learning that Leicheng, an important town in the southeast, was besieged by the Ming army, Qingzhou in the north of Leizhou had to send an infantry of thousands of people south to rescue under the strict urging of the central court. However, when they heard that the Ming army had captured Leicheng, everyone fled back to Qingzhou at a speed several times faster than when they came!
At the beginning of the 14th year of Jingxi's reign, Leicheng, which had been besieged by the Ming army for three months, finally fell under the attack of artillery and trebuchets. All the left-behind officials, starting from the prefect, and the remaining troops, starting from the garrison envoy, were killed! And this also officially marked that most of Leizhou, represented by Leicheng, had fallen into the control of the Ming army.
