Mashi Town, northeast of Shixing County, was the only place for the Central Plains to enter Southern Guangdong as early as the Three Kingdoms period, and there were land and water wharves and land post stations. Since the siege of the Ming army, Su Yangzhi immediately led his troops and horses south to this place, thinking that he would be contained. The Ming army has never been strong in expelling the Qing army in the north, so Su Yangzhi has also been sitting here to deal with the changes.

It didn't take long for him to learn about the rumors from various sources. In this regard, he naturally scoffed, and even didn't bother to pay attention to it.

The two armies are at war and use rumors to shake the hearts of the enemy, which is the most common method. He is a veteran of martial arts for a long time, and he knows better that whenever the war is delayed, even if there is no enemy operation, the fear of those fools and fools among the people, and even some people with ulterior motives will give birth to all kinds of rumors. If you believe everything, then there will be no need to fight.

However, Su Yangzhi also knows that there are always few wise people and many fools in the world. He has experience, but it doesn't mean that his soldiers have; He has a will, and it doesn't mean that his soldiers have it. As a general, the military heart must be taken seriously, and he also has an excellent convenience at the moment, that is, the reinforcements from Nanjiang are still arriving, as long as there are reinforcements and grain and grass to arrive, the rumors can be self-defeating.

"Shaozhou Town guards the county seat, our department and the left battalion of Ganzhou Town are all outside to contain it, and there is only one city guard association in the capital city, Dashuai, will there be a danger of unstable back roads?"

Chen Kai has always been known for his cunning in the Qing army's comments, and there are many Qing court bigwigs who have been calculated by him, and many of them are no longer on their necks. Such characters, if they come to avoid the truth, they will be cut off, and the officers present will all feel a chill on the back of their necks.

"There is no need to worry about Fucheng, Ben Shuai received news that the right battalion of Nan'an Town has arrived. In addition, the marshal has already personally commanded the army to the south, and it will be soon. This time, it was also the first to solve Nanxiong's predicament, and the Tingzhou Mansion City was also solved. ”

Hearing Su Yangzhi's words, all the generals breathed a sigh of relief. The marshal in their mouth will not be someone else, but will only be the former commander of Southern Jiangxi, and now the commander of Southern Jiangxi Hu Yousheng. It is undeniable that Hu Yousheng has been in charge of Southern Jiangxi until now, and with the support of Liu Wuyuan, the former governor of Southern Jiangxi, he has stubbornly defended the Ganzhou Mansion, thus thwarting the three large-scale offensives of Jin Shenghuan and Li Chengdong.

At that time, the two provinces returned to the Ming Dynasty anyway, but Nanjiang, which was stuck in the middle, was still loyal to the Manchus. Such a huge pressure, but in the end turned the tide of the war, a sentence to turn the tide is absolutely worthy of praise.

Regarding the generals in the early Qing Dynasty, aside from the Ming army, most of the generals of the Eight Banners were touted by later generations, especially those clans. In Luying, Daniel Zhang, Wang Jinbao, Sun Sike, Zhao Liangdong, the four generals of Hexi, or Liang Huafeng, Cai Yurong and the like. The generals of Southern Jiangxi, since Hu Yousheng and below, have actually performed well on the battlefields of Southern Jiangxi, Huguang, Guangdong and other places. And for them, the marshal who was once directly subordinate is the Dinghai Divine Needle in the Southern Jiangxi region, as long as Hu Yousheng is there, the Ming army will not be able to get good.

Hu Yousheng's promotion is about to arrive, which is tantamount to a shot in the arm for the Nanxiong generals. After receiving the news, Su Yangzhi also hurriedly sent the elite cavalry of the headquarters to try to break through the interference of the Ming army, arrived at the city of Shixing County, and informed Jia Xiong, the chief soldier of Shaozhou, of the good news.

Time, in the continuous passage of time, the army of Nanjiang to raise the standard is moving south in an orderly manner, and Su Yangzhi can receive the latest progress almost every day. The situation is developing in a good direction, which makes him feel at ease, but the problem is that the Ming army on the side of Shixing County has not even moved at all - neither attacking the city nor besieging it, as if Chen Kai has come here to camp with that army!

"Dashuai, Chen Kai's guy is not an ordinary person, there must be a conspiracy here!"

The more Chen Kai didn't move, the more Su Yangzhi and the others were scared for no reason. Come to think of it, Jia Xiong in Shaozhou Mansion is probably in this state, and he is even more afraid, because they are the ones who face Chen Kai's huge threat the most.

In the following days, the expectations for Hu Yousheng and the worries about Chen Kai began to intertwine and entangle in the hearts of the Nanxiong generals, and gradually became a dead knot. Su Yangzhi is a general, and they know very well that if they want to untie this knot, they must first figure out why Chen Kai is motionless, or directly expel the Ming army from the territory of Nanxiong Mansion and win this war, otherwise there is no other way.

If you want to win, they alone are definitely not enough, and Hu Yousheng's army has become the only hope. Ganzhou Mansion is not too far from Mashi Town, and Hu Yousheng sent fast horses every day to report the progress of the march in order to stabilize the military morale of Nanxiong Mansion. In this way, the handsome who can take into account the psychological state of his subordinates makes Su Yangzhi feel at ease.

It's a pity that such news was suddenly broken not long after, and it was three days long. In the midst of this anxiety, they received news again, but it was a military order from Hu Yousheng, which ordered them to immediately abandon Nanxiong Mansion and lead their troops to return to Ganzhou Prefecture. It is a word that will be used at all costs!

"Handsome?"

The generals of the third battalion of Nanxiong Town gathered in the big tent, Su Yangzhi's face was pale, and cold sweat flowed down his forehead, and there was no way to hide it. When the generals saw this, they secretly said that something was not good, but the letter was in Su Yangzhi's hands, and they had to look at each other for a while, and the deputy general in charge of the guerrilla affairs of the middle battalion stepped forward and made a tentative speech.

This remark pulled Su Yangzhi back from the abyss. Seeing that the generals were suspicious, Su Yangzhi thought about it, sighed, and put the letter directly in the hand of the deputy general. Because, in the next action, it is impossible for him to hide the reasons from the generals.

After receiving the letter, the generals hurriedly stepped forward and filled their heads in every space where they could see the letter. The order was understood by them directly, and Hu Yousheng said that he could no longer give them assistance, but immediately led the army back to the capital of Ganzhou. As for the reason, it is only said that there is news from Ruijin County that the Ming army has captured the capital city of Tingzhou, and now Zheng Chenggong is leading the most capable generals under his command to conquer the capital city of Ganzhou through the official road at the southern foot of Wuyi Mountain. And the county seat of Naruijin was estimated to have fallen when the emergency came.

Many of the previous rumors turned out to be true!

"Haikou!"

Zheng Chenggong's name is like thunder, although in recent years, it seems that it is not as eye-catching as Chen Kai, especially for them in the Southern Jiangxi military, but everyone knows that Chen Kai is Zheng Chenggong's staff, and Zheng Chenggong pulled it up, and now the Guangdong prefectures and counties controlled by Chen Kai are actually the territory of the Zheng Group.

A behemoth leader, his generals are like clouds, and strategists are like rain, such as Chen Hui, Gan Hui, Huangshan, Wanli, Hao Wenxing, Wang Jin and other generals are all famous generals in the Fujian Qing army. These guys all appeared in their minds, and they had already decided in advance that Wang Xiuqi and Huang Ting were still presiding over the defense of Shaowu Mansion and Jianning Mansion, and they should not follow. But even so, the strength of the Ming army in Fujian is by no means something they can compete with, and it is difficult to even imagine it.

"I heard that last year, the Haikou captured Zhoushan in Zhejiang, and the Zhoushan deputy general Ba Chenggong and the Ningbo deputy general Zhang Hongde both surrendered to the Haikou. Those two guys are good at using cavalry. ”

"Even if there is no them, Wang Jin, Li Jianjie and that Ma Bao, which is not a famous horseman. Wild wave battle, we are going to suffer! ”

The Qing army and the Ming army may lose to the cavalry in the field battle, if you don't look at the current situation, I am afraid that I still think that the generals of this big tent have lost their hearts and gone crazy.

However, they were in the game, and they knew very well why Hu Yousheng would immediately set off to return to the capital city of Ganzhou, leaving them behind; Why did they order them to immediately abandon the place and retreat to the capital city of Ganzhou; Why use that word at all costs. There is only one reason, that is, Hu Yousheng knows very well that the scale of the army that the Ming army killed from Fujian this time is not at all what they can bear. In contrast to the two sides of abandoning Nanxiong and converging Chen Kai's army north with Zheng Chenggong and strengthening the strength of the city defense of Ganzhou Prefecture, he unmistakably chose the latter.

"The result of stubbornly defending Nanxiong Mansion is likely to be the convergence of Chen Kai and one of Haikou's partial divisions, and he will be able to take down the city directly!"

The result of the division of troops being broken by each can only be a senseless loss, and it is likely that it will not even be able to delay for long. The answer is that the gains outweigh the losses, and after reading the military orders here, the minds of the generals should be a big mess.

Fortunately, at this time, Su Yangzhi had eased up with his long-term experience in battle, and began to arrange the withdrawal of troops according to the old experience. The three battalions of the middle, left, and right battalions of Nanxiong Town, the left battalion of Ganzhou Town, the Nanxiong City Guard Association, and the right battalion of Nan'an Town, which had just arrived, the safety of these 6,000 troops were all taken care of by Su Yangzhi alone. Which army goes first, and which army is behind, these are all knowledgeable, and it is necessary to properly arrange all affairs.

"Big, handsome, that Shaozhou town ......"

"Let them behave for themselves."

Speaking of which, the relationship between Su Yangzhi and Jia Xiong has always been good, and when Yi Yonggui and Hu Yousheng decided to let Jia Xiong serve as the chief military officer of the rebuilt Shaozhou Town, they also took into account the friendship between the two generals. However, the current situation is changing too rapidly, so violent that they can't handle it at all. During this time, Su Yangzhi said this word by word, and the sound of blood dripping in his heart was clearly audible, but for the generals, the one who needed to seek more blessings was not only Shaozhou Town, but they were not.

The order of retreat was quickly determined, these armies were all in the Southern Jiangxi region, and many generals had eaten in the same pot. But in Nanxiong Mansion, the troops of Ganzhou Town and Nan'an Town are all guest troops, and he has no way to guarantee whether the guest army will be the first to collapse when attacked by the Ming army, so in his arrangement, the guest troops of the two battalions will set off first, cross Meiling, and evacuate through Nan'an Mansion.

When he arrived at Nan'an Mansion, the right camp of Nan'an Town could be rebuilt, and it had nothing to do with him. Although the left battalion of Ganzhou Town has been assisting in Nanxiong Mansion, he is no longer directly responsible after withdrawing from Meiling. At this time, he can rest assured and boldly take his troops and horses back to the capital of Ganzhou.

This process undoubtedly takes time, Su Yangzhi is preparing step by step, at the same time, the Ming army besieging Shixing County, Chen Kai, as the commander, also received a military information, and the urgency is really so tired that the messenger got off the horse and passed out directly. And with this military situation in his hand, Chen Kai's smile became a little thicker.

"Ke Shuai, it's time to move your muscles."

The commander's will was soon reflected in the deployment of the Ming army, and the siege artillery team that had already arrived was officially unveiled, led by the deputy guns of the two spirit guns, and sixty-six Hongyi cannons were lined up outside the city, and the cannonballs swept across the city walls of Shixing County like a storm.

Either he didn't move, and he moved with such strength, and before Jia Xiong came to his senses, the defenders at the head of the city were beaten in the first round of baptism. At this time, it stands to reason that the defenders on the city wall should be transferred down, and there is an observation post on it, Jia Xiong is not unaware of this truth, but the ferocity of the Ming army's firepower is really beyond his expectations.

It's not too late to make amends. Jia Xiong probably came to his senses and hurriedly adjusted his deployment. Next, the casualties were alleviated a lot, but the artillery bombardment of the Ming army did not seem to end easily, so it has been bombarding the city wall, the wall bricks are shattered, the rammed earth is cracked, the fine broken masonry and powder are scattering and passing at a faster and faster speed, and in the afternoon, on the walkway at the top of the city wall, the observation posts watched the crack under their feet spread sharply, and before they really escaped from the city, the collapse took the lead in pressing them and the Qing soldiers and people waiting to go to the city behind the city under the bricks and stones of the rammed earth.

"The city is broken!"

The screams of terror grew clear in the deafening deafening of the collapse of the walls. It was the increasing number of people who erupted in such panic, the decibels getting bigger and bigger, and the process of collapse gradually coming to an end. Directly crushed under the city, they could not live, and the flying bricks and stones and clods of earth broke the heads of the Qing troops and civilians farther away. Jia Xiong had already retreated to a building in the distance at this time, condescendingly observing the situation of the city guard, the collapse just now, he did not bear even a little flesh wound, but the problem is that the city collapsed, and the next step must be the Ming army to attack the city. Looking at the Qing army fleeing in the streets, he soon lost the courage to continue guarding.

The city was broken, and Jia Xiong fled with his own soldiers. At this time, the Ming army's side was not collapsed, the splash of masonry and earth and the direction of the collapse of the city wall were more favorable to them, and the artillery team had already prepared when they observed the general signs, and only waited for the moment of the collapse of the city wall, the army attacked directly, without half a moment's hesitation.

The Ming army outside the city rolled forward and soon arrived at the gap. Here, there is no Qing army to defend it, some are just screams of pain, coming from street corners, alleys, and even more from under those bricks and stones, some of which are clearly visible, and some of which are only faintly audible.

The Ming army didn't care about this, and went straight to all the key points in the city. First of all, the city gate was naturally opened, and when the city gate was opened, more Ming troops rushed in. At this time, even if Jia Xiong struggled to defend it, it was just a dead end.

The north gate opened, and the Qing army fled with their route. Su Yangzhi sits in Mashi Town, which is something that Jia Xiong and even the entire Shaozhou Town know, in order to boost morale, and now it has become their last way of life. At this time, just like the scene when Tingzhou Town abandoned the city and left, it was always easier for those with horses to escape from the battlefield than those without horses. But there was a problem that soon appeared in front of Jia Xiong, that is, the Ming army had long expected that they would be able to collapse the city wall, and behind the three missing ones was a large-scale Ming army chasing soldiers who would bite them to the death, whether it was for those two-legged foot soldiers, or for their four-legged cavalry.

"Dashuai, it's Li Jianjie who is chasing after you, it's Li Jianjie!"

This name has appeared in their ears since Li Chengdong swept Guangdong that year. Subsequently, Li Chengdong was defeated, and the name was depressed for a while, so that they were about to gradually forget, with Chen Kai's counterattacks again and again, it became clear again, and even became more and more thunderous.

For the Qing army on the side, it may not be so alarming. However, for the Nangan Green Battalion, it is not impossible for any unit of the Ming army to chase after them, even if they are caught up by Ma Bao and Hao Shangjiu, they have room for negotiation. But who is this Li Jianjie, Li Chengdong's godson, his godfather was pursued and killed by the Qing army in Southern Jiangxi and drowned in the Xinfeng River.

This is the revenge of killing the father, and it is not shared!

There was such a killing god behind him, and the Qing army even fled without hesitation. From the county seat of Shixing to Mashi Town, there are only more than 20 miles between these two places, this distance is fine for the cavalry, but the infantry soon could not run away, and was captured by the pursuing troops of the Ming army behind. And Najia Xiong, galloping on horseback, the fate of being captured has not yet come, but there are always Ming cavalry chasing behind the buttocks, and even the Ming cavalry behind him consciously drove the Qing cavalry fleeing in other directions.

On the official road, the wild run continued, and the 3,000 Ming army iron cavalry of six battalions in two towns drove the Qing army rout like a hunt. In Mashi Town, Su Yangzhi soon got the news, but the cavalry came in an instant, everything came too fast, so fast that he had no choice at all, so he had to hurriedly raise troops to fight.

The Qing troops in Ganzhou Town and Nan'an Town had already set off to help, and Nanxiong Town here was hurriedly lined up on the official road south of the town. In front of them, the cavalry of the Qing army fled in a hurry, getting closer and closer to them, and behind them, several times the cavalry of the Ming army spread out in an arc, and the rout of the Qing army was in a state of semi-encirclement.

With such a formation, Su Yangzhi of course understood what the Ming army wanted to do, and hurriedly signaled the Qing army's rout with a banner and ordered them to take a detour. However, it was Li Jianjie, the general who commanded the iron cavalry of the 3,000 Ming Army, who reacted earlier than him, and the strongest cavalry under Li Chengdong continued to implement his will with his actions.

"Tighten the mouth and force Jia Xiong's house to hit Su Yangzhi's spear forest!"

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