Chapter Ninety-Six: No Regrets (End)
The moon stars are scarce, and the light is gently scattered in every corner of Wuzhou Mansion City, only the dark clouds drift by, blocking the eyes between mortals and the fairy of the Moon Palace, and only then can the word hazy be removed from the prefix of the night.
Without the word hazy, everything in the night becomes frighteningly naked. The curfew had already begun, and the Qing army had no intention of fighting at night, and even most of the troops had returned to the camp to rest. But at this moment, there were two Ming troops hurrying to the direction of the dock, so startled that the people along the way hurriedly retreated into the shadows, swallowing saliva from time to time.
On the other side of the wharf was the sailor of Yangchun Bo Li Xianfang, and the two Ming armies came one after another and boarded the ship directly, without the slightest hesitation, and it seemed that they were completely hesitant. The scale of these two Ming armies was not very large, and after a while, the ships that had completed boarding the ship pulled anchor and set sail slowly, and slowly sailed out of the dock, while the other ships were also hurrying to collect those soldiers on board, and then followed behind.
The next day, as soon as dawn, Lian Chengbi, the governor of Liangguang, rushed directly to the general town where Gao Wengui was, met him, and without saying a word, he directly pointed to Gao Wengui's nose and questioned.
This is something that has never happened before, not only because the status between the current Wen and Wu has undergone a qualitative reversal before the comparison of Jiashen, but more importantly, Gao Wengui is Li Dingguo's confidant, as the boss of the civil official group in western Guangdong who has a long-term cooperation with the Xining Domain, Lian Chengbi is the least necessary to offend his allies because of some trivial things.
"Controlling the army, the last general naturally knows about their unauthorized escape. But in the current situation, can the last general still kill them all? ”
Not to mention whether the melon is sweet or not, when the Qing army was besieging the city, the Ming army in the city could no longer have internal strife. Their purpose is to defend the city, there is no doubt about it, of course Lian Chengbi understands this truth, but he was forcibly woken up by his subordinates while he was still asleep, and the first news he received was such bad news that even the most reasonable person could not contain that anger.
Sitting on the chair dejectedly, Lian Chengbi certainly understood why this situation was happening-because the Qing army was so powerful? It's not just that, in the final analysis, the Ming court's ancestral system of civil control and military status contradicts the status quo, and he, as the feudal official of the Yongli court, can not effectively control the military generals in the jurisdiction, and the control over the various feudal towns in the jurisdiction is very weak.
In this regard, he did not understand this truth, and he did not try to change it, and the supervision standard built during this period was the best attempt.
This path is undoubtedly the right one, at least it is more confident than simply relying on the righteous name of the imperial court and its own prestige to dispatch the generals. And if this continues, it is also rebuilding the core force for the imperial court, so as to reduce the possibility and degree of being subject to the feudal town. If we can give him another two or three years, with the supervision of the standard as the core, gradually increase the strength, and restore the actual control of the generals in western Guangdong and Guangxi.
But the problem is that there is still a life-and-death struggle between the Ming and Qing dynasties, not when the Qing court has collapsed and the country has returned to peace, and it can be justifiably put into storage. Even, it has not yet developed into a situation in which the Qing army is purely passively beaten. In the stage of strategic stalemate, that is, you fight for each other, and do not give in to each other, and when the war goes well, there will naturally be more people willing to participate in the grand event and stand with the victor, but if there is a disadvantage, those wall grass smeared oil on their feet, and he, the governor, will never be able to control it.
The three support armies that rushed from Nanning and Xunzhou ran away overnight, and within an hour after dawn, they spread throughout the city, and the whole city was in an uproar.
The reinforcements withdrew without authorization, which further confirmed the credibility of the Qing army's large-scale attack in the hinterland of Guangdong. This has never been just a simple problem of reducing the number of soldiers, but overnight, the morale of the Ming army, which was still desperately defending the city, suddenly fell to the bottom.
Most of the officers were drawn from various feudal towns in western Guangdong and Guangxi, but the non-commissioned officers were basically newly recruited. Originally, after this defensive battle, the recruits could become veterans, and they would be much stronger if they went into battle again. But in this world, for recruits, the lack of experience undoubtedly magnifies fear.
At this point, even those veterans who are highly literate are inevitably subject to fluctuations. Especially when Li Dingguo led the army into Yunnan, they were already alone in Guangxi. The allies of other factions came to help in the battle, which naturally boosted their morale, but if it was like now, the loneliness would only double the morale that had been raised. Whether this battle is fought or not is a matter of two words.
In the general town's mansion, Lian Chengbi watched Gao Wengui punish the officers who came to ask for his life. He didn't come alone, he felt that the morale of the superintendent was probably not much better, Lian Chengbi hurriedly returned to the temporary office, and sure enough, the superintendent came really one by one, full of military confusion, and the soldiers were panicked, and strongly asked Lian Chengbi to lead the army to evacuate, so as not to be dumpled by the Qing army that advanced in the east and west.
"The morale of the army is unstable, you should go to deter the soldiers and restore morale, instead of coming to the officials to make noise!"
When the case was struck, Lian Chengbi was furious, and immediately blasted the officers out of the hall. Just sat on the Taishi chair again, what came to Lian Chengbi's mind was that when he rushed back from the main town hall, he looked out from the window of the carriage, and the people in the city were panicked, and even above the Ming army, there were even many people who were hurrying to buy incense wax, probably to save their lives after the Qing army entered the city.
"Chen Kai can't just lose like this, this is absolutely impossible!"
After all, it is the superintendent, in the past six months, Lian Chengbi has been kind and rewarding to the generals, and now even Chengbi is unwilling to abandon Wuzhou regardless of anything, even if they look at each other, they are not embarrassed to come out and provoke.
It was another day of fierce fighting, and the Qing army's earlier intermittent offensive suddenly became fierce on this day, apparently also getting news from Zhaoqing Mansion. Whether it was a struggle for merit or something else, the final result was that the Ming army had to fight back the Qing army's siege force with great effort, but Gao Wengui, as the commander-in-chief of the city, was still injured because of this.
"How?"
"A little bit of innovation, the army is worry-free."
Gao Wengui calmed Lianchengbi, and the wound was indeed not very serious as he said, and he was shot in the right arm by the archers on the Qing army lookout, just on the flesh and skin, and it was enough to recuperate for a while. What really worries him is actually the morale of the Ming army at the moment, this was attacked by the Qing army, if it weren't for the fact that he personally took his own soldiers to the city to stimulate morale, and annihilated the Qing army that had already climbed the city wall, I am afraid that the city would have changed hands long ago.
Repelled the onslaught of the Qing army, it stands to reason that the morale of the defenders will always rise after exhaustion. After the catastrophe, it should always be like this, but this time, for the Ming army defending the city, it only delayed the deadline for the fall of the city, and the Qing army attacked from both sides, and what should have come will always come, which is nothing more than the difference between dying early and dying late and dying one day.
Lian Chengbi and Gao Wengui promised a heavy reward, but their morale had already fallen to the bottom, and it was completely useless. After the night, the soldiers and horses of all units fled to varying degrees. It is unlikely that they will escape from the city, after all, the Qing army is still besieging the city, and it is estimated that most of them are still hiding in the streets and alleys of the city.
Searching the city is indispensable, and deserters must not be tolerated, otherwise it will easily lead to the disintegration of the army. However, without waiting for Gao Wengui and Lian Chengbi to really do this, the offensive of the Qing army outside the city attacked again, and at the same time, in the direction of the east of the city, along the bank of the Xijiang River, a Qing cavalry rode up, under the banner of Daniel Zhang, the governor of the right town of the southwest Jingbiao. Obviously, the two-way attack of the Qing army mentioned in the rumors earlier has really been realized.
When the end came, the Ming army in the east of the city was the first to begin to collapse, and the Qing army's offensive in the west of the city was launched at the same time. Only half an hour later, Gao Wengui, whose right arm was injured, stood in front of the city gate tower with a sword in his left hand, fighting with all his might. It's a pity that at this moment, the surrounding Ming army either died or surrendered, and even his personal army was wiped out, and only he was the only Ming army left in the entire city.
His body had been wounded in many places, blood was gurgling, his breathing was heavy, his chest was rising and falling, and his feet were full of Qing soldiers who wanted to take his life.
The Qing army around them surrounded them step by step, and the Ming army general in front of him was extraordinary, and what was even worse was that he was purely an outlaw, fighting to the death, and had no idea of defense at all. The Qing soldiers who fell around were all killed in this way, but this Ming army marshal himself was not much better, and this encounter should be the final blow.
"The last general is incompetent, ashamed of His Highness!"
Looking up to the sky and roaring, before the Qing army was all around, Gao Wengui had already rushed forward with a sword. In an instant, several spears had been inserted between his chest and abdomen, and he fell to the ground heavily, and he was no longer alive.
The collapse of the Ming army's defense stemmed from the collapse of morale, the loss of the city, and the Qing army's rush in, and the resistance in the city was negligible. Only the temporary office of the governor of Liangguang, the remnants of the superintendent's standard that had not yet run away, were still making the last resistance, until the former general of Wang Xing fell on the stone steps, and these Qing soldiers were able to face the highest-ranking official of the Ming court in the Wuzhou capital city under the leadership of Quan Jie, the governor of Liangguang Lian Chengbi.
"I have heard for a long time that the company has an outstanding army, like thunder. The court is thirsty for talent, and if the army is willing to be attached, the court will not hesitate to reward it. ”
The whole festival came out of the crowd and said those clichés of persuasion. At this moment, Lian Chengbi had already put his sword on his neck, looking directly at these Qing soldiers who rushed into the hall, without the slightest fear.
He is a native of Jinxi County, the capital of Fuzhou, the political envoy of Jiangxi Chengxuan, and is a fellow villager with Wang Huacheng, a scholar of the Yongli Dynasty. Chongzhen entered the officialdom in the thirteenth year, starting from the county, and assisted Wang Huacheng to rectify the military affairs of Guangdong after Jiashen, and rode into the camp alone, even if Wang Xing, who was still called Xiao Jiayin at the time, put the knife on his neck and was not afraid at all, which said that the Ming army commander who resisted the Qing Dynasty to death in history was lowered.
Later, Lian Chengbi once entered the court as an official, and when Liangguang collapsed, he served as a feudal commander, and guarded Wencun with Wang Xing to resist the Qing Dynasty. During this period, some people persuaded him to return to the dynasty to take up his post, and Lian Chengbi replied: The first thing with Wang Xing is not over, and it is a negative Xing. Until the thirteenth year of Yongli, Wang Xing was martyred, and Lianchengbi, who recruited troops outside, entered the mountains, and was repeatedly summoned by Shang Kexi and Li Shutai, and finally refused to surrender until he died.
With the emergence of Chen Kai, history has changed, and at the same time, the fate of Lianchengbi has inevitably changed. After the recovery of Guangdong in the eighth year of Yongli, and the hard work of the following year, Lian Chengbi has done his best, but his opponent is too strong, whether it is Hong Chengchou or the Dingnan Domain of Guangxi, at the moment when Li Dingguo entered Yunnan, he was no longer able to contend with it. Especially among those rumors, Chen Kai, who had been pinned on by him, had died, Guangdong had completely collapsed, and the turning point that the Ming court had easily ushered in lasted only a year before it was shattered again.
The pathos on his face was incomprehensible, and even Chengbi refused to believe that Chen Kai would be defeated so badly until this moment. However, once they think of their opponent this time, Hong Chengchou, it seems that everything has an explanation.
Hope, shattered, Lian Chengbi looked at the bitter heart of the whole festival, his hands were still holding the hilt of the sword, and shouted angrily: "Lian Chengbi, never surrender!" Immediately, with the strength of both arms, the sword cut a gap in the neck, blood splattered out, sprinkled all over the bookcase, and the person fell heavily on the Taishi's chair. Only those eyes are still full of unwillingness.
The military information of the Qing army's capture of the capital city of Wuzhou was sent to the Qing army camp on the south bank of Huangshui as quickly as possible, and the distance between the two places was very long, which undoubtedly took time. However, this messenger was destined to be unable to send the military intelligence to Hong Chengchu's case there, because as early as after Daniel Zhang and Hu Maozhen succeeded in raiding Zhaoqing Fucheng and reported to him, Hong Chengchu immediately led his army to evacuate and returned to Lianshan County by the same route, preparing to withdraw to Huguang from there.
"If you don't leave, I'm afraid you won't be able to leave."
"Old Jingluo, but the battle situation on the other side of Nanjiang ......"
"If there is no score there, when the news spreads, Chen Kai will not be able to take care of Nanjiang; If the outcome is already clear, it will be useless for us to spend it here, but it will become a lifeline. ”
The conversation between Hong Chengchou and Nan Yikui dissipated in the wind, and a few days later, Chen Kai personally led the army back, and all he saw was the abandoned camp.
The strategic sense of smell killed in the sea of blood in the Northland Corpse Mountain is not something that can be easily offset by crossing two words. Chen Kai looked at those company camps, which were already on the southbound boats, Hong Chengchou was in a hurry to withdraw to Huguang to avoid his troops, and he was not in a hurry to rush to Wuzhou Mansion to help in the battle.
It's just that with Hong Chengchou's departure, Chen Kai is becoming more and more pessimistic about the battle situation in Wuzhou City. Especially after a few days, after the Ming army's scouts robbed the messenger who hurried to report to Hong Chengchou, this pessimism was finally transformed into fighting spirit.
"Then take Zhaoqing Mansion back first!"
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