A fire dragon is rolling forward on the official road of the Jianghan Plain in the dark and starless night of this month.

The Jianghan Plain, of course, is flat. The water network here is dense, and the lakes are dotted, just like the water country in the south of the Yangtze River. The Yangtze River and the Han River, one south and one north, flow through them in a zigzag manner. Unlike the wide river downstream, the wide section of the Yangtze River is actually not a natural hazard. It is only a few hundred meters wide, and for the Dashun and Ming armies, which have a certain number of artillery, they can actually use a small number of boats to cross the river on a certain section of the long Yangtze River under the cover of artillery.

And any of the belligerents, as long as a certain number of artillery pieces are deployed on a high ground on the Yangtze River, can also block the opponent's superior naval army.

Therefore, when Zhu Cihong did not succeed in uprooting the two cities of Hanyang and Hankou, his superior naval army could not actually enter the Jingjiang section of the Yangtze River.

In the case that Zhu Cihong's navy could not become a trump card for the time being, Li Zicheng had the advantage of fighting on the inside.

Li Zicheng's army could take advantage of the flat terrain and convenient official roads of the Jianghan Plain, as well as the dense water network, to quickly mobilize the main force and form a local superiority in forces in the east and west directions.

His opponent, Zhu Cihong, had the advantage of total strength on the Huguang battlefield, but because he could not maneuver in the Jianghan Plain, he could only maneuver in the Dongting Lake Plain, so he had to go a lot more wrongfully in the east-west movement, and it was difficult to concentrate superior forces in some parts.

That's right, the current strength advantage in the Huguang battlefield is on Zhu Cihong's side!

Because although He Tengjiao and Chang Yanling are warlords who support their own troops, they are undoubtedly on Zhu Cihong's side!

The two of them can become warlords, aren't they supported by Zhu Cihong behind them?

When Zuo Liangyu didn't die and Zhu Cihong didn't beat Haoge to death, this piece of Hunan was difficult for Prince Zhu to directly control.

So he adopted the method of supporting He Tengjiao and Chang Yanling, and let them control Hunan.

This has two advantages, one is to ensure the stability of Hunan - Hunan is a big granary, and half of the lake is in Hunan!

Second, when necessary, it can provide support and convenience for Zhu Cihong's military operations in Huguang!

Without the existence of He Tengjiao and Chang Yanling, it would have been impossible for Zhu Cihong's army to carry out a large-scale rapid maneuver in the Huguang Jiangnan region, and without Li Zicheng being completely aware, it moved to the vicinity of Jiangling, the capital city of Jingzhou!

The new army that is now moving to Jingzhou Mansion is not only a regiment of Tang Laosi, but also the main force of the right army division of the New Army led by Wu Guoyong, and Tang Laosi is only a vanguard. This division was one step later than the Chinese Army Division led by Zhu Cihong and the Left Army Division brought by Li Yan from Huaixi, and did not enter Wuchang, but drove directly from Jiangxi into Hunan, and quietly followed He Tengjiao to the west.

In addition to the more than 14,000 people in Wu Guoyong's first division, Chang Yanling also has 16,000 elites of the Hunan army in his hands - including He Tengjiao's Fubiao, Chang Yanling's town standard, and the elite soldiers provided by several other prefects in Hunan.

Naturally, the combat effectiveness of these units cannot be compared with that of the regular new army, but they are not too weak, at least they bear hardships and stand hard work, and their equipment is complete, so they are very good regimental training.

In the vicinity of Jiangling, in addition to the 30,000 troops of He Tengjiao, Wu Guoyong, and Chang Yanling, there were 8,000 people of Daniel Zhang (of which 300 were in Jiangling City), 15,000 people of Qiu Lei, Zuo Mengmei, and Du Yinxi, and 7,000 people of Ma Jiaolin in Yuezhou - Ma Jiaolin himself did not catch up with Zuo Mengmei, but took a thousand people to send to Zuo Liangyu, but his army was surrounded by Wu Guoyong's troops and forcibly absorbed.

In addition, there are 30,000 people from Jin Shenghuan's department stationed in Yiling, who have also secretly taken refuge in Zhu Cihong. Together, the total number of Ming troops in Jingzhou Mansion is as high as more than 90,000 people!

Although the number of the Ming army was as high as 90,000, the weakness was also obvious, that is, the miscellaneous and patchwork troops, and there was no unified command - Zhu Cihong may be able to command, but He Tengjiao, Wu Guoyong, and Chang Yanling do not have the prestige of commanding so many miscellaneous armies.

But Zhu Cihong has not yet arrived in Jingzhou Mansion...... Because the distance is too far, it is not so fast to walk.

However, Li Zicheng was able to take the lead and lead his main force, nearly 30,000 old battalion soldiers, to rush from the Hanyang front line to Gangneung City, where the fire was raging.

The morale of this army is quite high!

The 30,000 old battalion soldiers have just been given a share of the land - now they can be regarded as sharing the fruits of the victory of the Great Shun Dynasty!

In addition, since the method of calculating the land was supported by the poor peasants in all parts of the Jianghan Plain, these Dashun Heavenly Soldiers had the feeling they had when they advanced to Beijing two years ago.

And there is also good news in the north during this time, it is said that Yan'an Mansion and Yulin Town have returned to the hands of the Dashun Heavenly Dynasty - it was the Dashun Dynasty that surrendered to the Qing Dynasty Some generals suddenly launched an uprising, killed the Qing Dynasty's governor and general soldiers, and returned to Dashun as the third minister......

So judging from the map, the market of the Dashun Dynasty is bullish, and the emperor Li Zicheng may still be the true son of heaven!

At this time, Li Zicheng also had a feeling that his luck had turned back...... Victory is just around the corner, try hard, you should be able to catch it!

"Emperor! The Emperor ......"

I don't know when, several scouts have already arrived in front of Li Zicheng and shouted: "Jiangling City is on fire, and there is a scuffle in the city!" ”

Li Zicheng woke up from his thoughts suddenly, looked up into the distance, and only saw a red light flashing in the sky in the distance!

"Hahaha......" Li Zicheng raised his head and laughed, "Jiangling City is still fighting...... Command the three armies, move forward at full speed, and the rise and fall of the great shun will be fought here! ”

"Whoa!"

The pro-soldiers who gave orders left and right responded violently.

......

Jiangling, the capital city of Jingzhou, has become a sea of fire at this time, not only a sea of fire that is beaten, but also a sea of fire that is snatched out and burned!

Zuo Menggeng's army is no longer crazy, but demonic! Even Zuo Menggeng himself lost control of this group of soldiers who had turned into demons.

His Zuojia army was originally a routine of big warlords coaxing small warlords, and the standard of big warlords and small warlords is not the number of troops under their names - the Zuojia army is known as 800,000! The number of people is a mystery at all, but I'm afraid that Zuo Mengeng himself doesn't know?

However, everyone knows how many soldiers there are!

Among them, Zuo Liangyu and Zuo Mengeng father and son have the most families, with a full 3,000 people, and they are all strong men in western Liaoning, well-equipped and well-trained.

However, the 3,000 people of the Zuo family were easily beaten by the 2,000 people brought by He Tengjiao during the day today, hundreds of them died, hundreds of them dropped, and although the rest ran back, they were also swept away - the dead soldiers of the Zuo family, but that's it!

So the following generals didn't buy it.

However, most of these were from Liaozhen (Ma Jiaolin was not from Liaozhen, but from Shaanxi), and the general and deputy general did not think of killing Zuo Mengengtou Zhu Cihong...... First, Zuo Mengeng is not easy to kill; second, Zhu Cihong's army did not come; Thirdly, there is also a Gangneung Castle to plunder!

Let's grab a handful first!

On the other side, He Tengjiao's military ability is a bit insufficient.

At this time, among the six gates of Jiangling City, only one of the Great North Gates was captured by Daniel Zhang with the dead, and the remaining five gates were under the control of the Zuo Family Army.

If He Tengjiao's military ability is enough, he should let Tang Laosi's regiment bypass Jingzhou City, enter the city from the Great North Gate, and engage in street battles - don't look at the fact that there are at least 50,000 troops fighting in Jiangling City now, in fact, most of the officers and soldiers (the officers and soldiers on both sides have a virtue) are robbing, and there are not many who really fight with their hearts!

If Tang Laosi's 2,000 people were killed and really fought, Jiangling City would be captured.

But He Tengjiao was too cautious and wanted to defend the situation first, so he asked Tang Laosi to pile up a bridgehead outside the city, ready to hold on to help. At the same time, he also sent people to contact Zuo Mengmei and Qiu Lei, so that they could withdraw from Jiangling City if they really couldn't do it.

Therefore, when in the early morning of the next day, when several rolling fire dragons appeared in the northeast direction of Jiangling City, after a hard night, everyone sent a sum of money to the "Chu Wang Army", and there was no interest in fighting again, so they protected Zhu Cizhao and Zuo Mengmei, withdrew from the Great North Gate, and retreated to the south of the Yangtze River through the pontoon bridge in the south of the city.