Tianzhu Mountain in the east of Guizhou, at the turn of spring and summer, the vegetation is flourishing. Between the greenery, the Ming military camp is lined up, and the shouts and killings of the drill come and go, and sometimes there are more horses neighing and elephant roars, which are not lively. This is in the battle situation in the south of Huguang, and it is as its name suggests, acting as the Optimus Pillar behind the Ming army in Chenzhou and Baoqing.

Here, there are 60,000 troops stationed here, and the power is quite strong. However, the significance of the existence of this army here is not limited to serving as the stamina of the Ming army on the front line of Chenzhou and Baoqing, their more important task is to attack, but they are probably forgotten by the commander of this army.

At the beginning of last year, Sun Kewang decided to reactivate Liu Wenxiu, the king of Funan who had been relieved of his military power due to the fiasco of Baoning in the sixth year of Yongli, hoping that Liu Wenxiu would be able to open up the situation in Huguang, and then capture Wuhan, go down the river, and cooperate with the rebel army of Nanzhili and Zhang Mingzhen and Zhang Huangyan who went north to seize Nanjing.

In the three games, not only Zhang Mingzhen, Zhang Huangyan, Qian Qianyi, and He Wangsheng were interested, but in fact, Sun Kewang really had great hopes for this. However, Liu Wenxiu's side first kept shirking, and then accepted Sun Kewang's appointment for the big recruitment, but after arriving at the Tianzhu Mountain camp, he did not take action immediately, but kept telling Sun Kewang that he had excuses such as insufficient training of sergeants, insufficient military supplies, and the current situation in Huguang was not conducive to sending troops, and he refused to say anything even for a moment.

Liu Wenxiu is as immobile as a mountain, but Sun Kewang has already agreed with Qian Qianyi on the big move of the eighth year of Yongli, where can he see such laziness. As a result, the letters of urging and explaining frequently exchanged between Guiyang and the Tianzhu Mountain camp, from the beginning of the eighth year of Yongli to April of the ninth year of Yongli, which lasted for more than a year, and the messenger's legs were thin, but Liu Wenxiu was still as immobile as a mountain.

In April, the army of 60,000 horsemen and more than 40 war elephants continued to train, and the birds and beasts around them had long been accustomed to the noise of these pitiful monsters who had no fur or feathers to cover their bodies, and had to put plants on their bodies to keep warm, as if they were no different from the previous year or so.

The most central part of the Yingpan Forest is Liu Wenxiu's main camp. In the big tent of the Chinese army, the two marshals Feng Shuangli and Lu Mingchen assigned to him by Sun Kewang at this moment are not here, but Liu Wenxiu's son, that is, Liu Zhen, the son of the king of Funan, is here. This father and son sat in an empty tent, and even the soldiers were retreated, but the sound of each other was far lower than when they were at home on weekdays, and the deliberate element was obvious.

"Father, are you going to send troops?"

"yes, I can't drag it out anymore."

With a sigh, Liu Zhen naturally understood best why his father had been delayed for more than a year. Earlier, Sun Kewang relieved Liu Wenxiu of military power, and when Liu Wenxiu lived in Kunming, he "followed the rules, carefully trained his son to study for the Confucian style, and wanted to enter Jizu Mountain to learn the Tao", which can be described as disheartened. This state lasted from the Battle of Baoning in the sixth year of Yongli to the beginning of the eighth year of Yongli, as long as more than a year, and when Sun Kewang wanted to use Liu Wenxiu again, Liu Wenxiu first shirked in every possible way, and as a result, the prison of Mr. Eighteen soon broke out, and Liu Wenxiu simply accepted the appointment and went to the Tianzhu Mountain camp to preside over military affairs.

is afraid that Sun Kewang will be dissatisfied and attack him, but that will not happen. He is not a political idiot like Li Dingguo, nor does he have the upright temperament of others, and he has never been a threat with the highest priority for Sun Kewang, at least when Li Dingguo is still there, Sun Kewang will not rashly move him, the four princes of the Great West.

However, the prison of Mr. Eighteen pushed the contradiction between the Yongli court and the Qin palace to the extreme, and Sun Kewang's usurpation ambition can be said to be obvious, Liu Wenxiu never intended to wear a pair of pants with Sun Kewang at this point, but he was similar to Li Dingguo in his mind, but his actions were not so intense, and his prestige in the southwest Ming army was also very much worse.

At the end of this political struggle, Liu Wenxiu nominally took over the handsome seal and prepared to go to the three rounds of the catalpa battle, but in fact he wanted to control the army in his hands, so that Sun Kewang would not have to personally lead the troops to the battle, so that the power of the Qin Wangfu would be difficult to control.

"However, if my father just refuses to move lightly, will Uncle Sun have the courage to lead the troops into battle?"

Liu Zhen's implication is very clear that after the battle of Zhoujiapu, Sun Kewang's judgment of his own military talent has completely fallen to the bottom. In fact, this is normal, a battle with a huge disparity in strength between the two sides, almost a sure win, and finally lost, I am afraid that Sun Kewang will no longer have the courage to lead the troops to fight in a short time. It is precisely because of this that Sun Kewang can tolerate Liu Wenxiu's excuses again and again.

"Without your Uncle Sun, wouldn't there still be Feng Shuangli and Bai Wenxuan? They are also the righteous sons of Ganda, but they are just a little lower than the four of us. A few days ago, news came that it was your Uncle Li and Chen Kai, the mastermind of Zhangguo Gong, who had joined forces to take Guangdong Province. Seeing that your Uncle Li has made new contributions, his strength has increased greatly, and he has a powerful ally, I am afraid that your Uncle Sun will no longer be able to bear it. ”

Liu Zhen had already heard of Sun Kewang's scolding Chen Kai for meddling in the Qin Palace, and he knew a lot about his regard for Li Dingguo as the biggest stumbling block to his attempt to usurp the throne.

Now, Sun Kewang is watching this biggest stumbling block become more and more beautiful, and it is natural that he is scratching his heart with a hundred claws, where can he endure it anymore - since the news reached Guiyang, Sun Kewang wrote a letter to Liu Wenxiu, and the wording was more severe than one another. After dragging on for such a long time, Liu Wenxiu couldn't find a reason to ask himself, so he had to tell Guiyang that the army had recovered and trained and could go on the expedition.

"Moreover, I will make a detailed return, saying that Hong Chengchou's old dog has transferred a large number of elite green battalions from Shaanxi, and if nothing else, it will be here in the next few months. If you don't do it, I'm afraid you won't be able to catch up with this empty situation in Huguang. ”

This is something that Liu Wenxiu has known for a long time, but the military has always been subordinated to politics. It's just that at this time, whether it is Sun Kewang or Liu Wenxiu, they don't know that there is no Ming army to respond to them on the side of Nanzhili, their final destination. Zhang Mingzhen and Zhang Huangyan's three entry into the Yangtze River is not to mention, even He Wangsheng's group of local influential anti-Qing people have also been touched by the Qing court.

Fortunately, for the three bureaus of Na Qiao, the rebel army of Nanzhili and the army of Zhang Mingzhen and Zhang Huangyan sent north by Zheng Chenggong have always only played an auxiliary role, and there is only one real main force, that is, the driving army of Qin Wangfu. There is no main force of the Ming army in the southwest to penetrate Huguang, and then go downstream, with the cooperation of the Zheng group, cut off the Yangtze River, where is the opportunity to wrap the Qing army south of the Yangtze River into dumplings, and then slowly eat the possibility of eating.

The military order was issued, and the army divided the water and land parts under the leadership of Feng Shuangli and Lu Mingchen, and went straight to Changde Fucheng.

This is a plan that Liu Wenxiu had made as early as last year, and he just waited until it couldn't drag on anymore before taking it out. During this period, the army led the water division with Lu Mingchen, and Liu Wenxiu and Feng Shuangli led the land division to advance.

The target, Changde Mansion, which is located in the west of Dongting Lake, the north-south division point of Huguang, as long as it occupies here, and at the same time uses the advantages of the current Ming army to control Dongting Lake, and then captures the first line of Yuezhou Mansion in the east of Dongting Lake, relying on the mountains of western Jiangxi, then the Huguang Qing army can be cut into two by the Ming army, and then realize the first south and then the north of each break.

Such a plan can be called magnificent, and Liu Wenxiu has always been keen on large-scale use of troops in the past. This fierce opponent who was sighed by Wu Sangui as "never seen in his life" is also the commander of the army second only to Li Dingguo in the ability of the Southwest Ming Army.

The two water and land divisions set off at the same time and rushed to the capital city of Chenzhou in advance. After arriving, the two divisions were officially divided. In April, during the rising season of the Yuan River, the fleet of more than 100 large and small warships led by Lu Mingchen quickly disappeared from the sight of the Ming army and land division along the flow of the river, like a sharp arrow off the string, shooting towards the Changde Mansion.

On April 17, Lu Mingchen's fleet appeared like a god soldier in Taoyuan County, which was only a dozen miles away from Changde Fucheng. This has always been the western gateway of Changde Fucheng, and Lu Mingchen's fleet suddenly came, and the Qing army guarding this place was immediately in a panic. At the same time, Lu Mingchen immediately organized his troops to disembark and launched a surprise attack on Taoyuan County, but the result was just a charge to pocket this county town and capture Li Ying, the county magistrate of Taoyuan.

Compared with the smooth sailing on Lu Mingchen's side, the main force led by Liu Wenxiu and Feng Shuangli was obviously borrowed by the former. As soon as the land and water divisions of the Ming army were separated, heavy rain began to fall in the mountains of western Hunan for several days. In the mountainous areas of Xiangxi, the roads are not as paved with bluestone slabs as those in big cities, and there are no asphalt roads in later generations that accompany a bare-ass time traveler to travel through time and space.

The army is moving forward in the mud, Liu Wenxiu is very glad that after this period of delay, Sun Kewang has always had more and no less to replenish military supplies in order to gag his mouth. At this moment, the soldiers of the Ming army were wearing robes, hats, and spears, and staggered away, plus the ginger soup and medicinal herbs that had been prepared at the next stop, which also reduced the chance of contracting the wind and cold. However, the speed of the army's advance is still like a turtle crawling, especially watching Lu Mingchen's "rabbit" go all the way away.

The drama of the tortoise and rabbit race was staged along the Yuan River, Liu Wenxiu led the army to move forward hard, and a few days later, probably God couldn't stand it anymore and accepted this magical power. Finally, there was no need to continue to look at the magnificence of the clothes and hats all over the road, Liu Wenxiu and Feng Shuangli breathed a sigh of relief, but the mud of the road could not be recovered in a moment and a half, so they continued to walk deep and shallow, until May 23, and they did not have time to reach Taoyuan County.

At this time, more than a month has passed since Lu Mingchen recovered this place. The army was still grinding on the road, but Lu Mingchen was really waiting for the landing division to follow up in Taoyuan County. After waiting until May 23, the sailor set out again, and arrived at the left side of Changde Mansion that night.

Changde Mansion City was called Wuling in ancient times, it was the third stop of Liu Bei's capture of the four counties of Jingzhou after the Battle of Chibi in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and the army went straight to Changsha after taking it, killing Han Xuan, and collecting Huang Zhong and Wei Yan.

This place is named, but it is still the Northern Song Dynasty when the Changde army was set up here, so it has the name of Changde. It was already late when Lu Mingchen and his sailors arrived, and it was too late to launch an attack, so the fleet docked at the dock and waited for dawn to attack, striving to capture the city in one fell swoop, as it had done in the attack on Taoyuan County.

The fleet docked, part of the Ming troops disembarked and began to carry out the necessary defense. However, at this moment, the shouting and killing of the left near broke out, and the Qing troops of the brigade came from all directions, and the flags displayed at the firelight were not the green flags of the green battalion, but the flags of the Eight Banners Army!

It turned out that on April 17, Lu Mingchen made a successful raid on Taoyuan County, and the main force of the Eighth Banner Army returned north earlier, and at the same time, Chen Tai, the general of Jingkou in Ningnan, who was sent by the Qing court to take over the defense line, got the news. This Eight Banners Army is difficult to compare in size with the one led by Nikan and Tunqi, but it also has two Gushan Ezhen plus a Baya Lama Zhangjing commander named Suke Saha. After receiving the battle report, Chen Tai was already sick and could not move at that time, so Nasuke Saha led a part of the Eight Banners Army south to reinforce Changde Mansion.

Suke Saha arrived in Changde on the tenth day of the fifth month, when Lu Mingchen was still immersed in the plot of the tortoise and rabbit race in Taoyuan County. When Lu Mingchen got tired of playing, the sailor went out again, and Suke Saha, who found out the news, hurriedly led the Eight Banners Army to set up an ambush outside the city, which happened to catch Lu Mingchen off guard.

The battle broke out suddenly, and on the night of late May, the two sides raised fire and fought, especially the presence of warships on the side of the Ming army, which illuminated the room as a bright light. The two sides fought desperately at the dock, and it was difficult to distinguish a winner for a while. Soon, the Qing army also dispatched some small boats, and the tactics of fire attack were the most common in the era of wooden warships, and the battle immediately spread from the docks to the Yuan River.

Burning, slashing, shelling, and stabbing, the battle unfolded in the fiercest scenes. However, because the Ming army did not know how many Qing troops had set up ambushes, but the Qing army knew better the size of the Ming army, the two sides were in a state of asymmetry in intelligence, and the Ming army was ambushed, which was even more panicked.

In order to motivate morale, Lu Mingchen, as the coach of the partial division, stood up and put himself in the most conspicuous position. Seeing the commander Rusi, the morale of the Ming army suddenly lifted, and the counterattack against the Qing army became more violent.

The battle continued, and the time passed little by little, it was already night at the beginning, and it was getting closer and closer to dawn, but the battle still did not end, as if the two sides were going to attack until the light of day. This kind of battle lasted until a sharp arrow was shot at Lu Mingchen from a tricky angle, and finally there was an end whistle.

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