Chapter 20 Dongting Lake Water Battle IV

What can Huang Chaoxuan do? If it is on land, the Huang Dynasty will definitely kill a hundred people to make an example and deter the small group. But now all he can control is his ship.

"Pass the order," Huang Chaoxuan almost gritted his steel teeth and said, "Withdraw." ”

Huang Chaoxuancai didn't want to throw all his capital here, he felt that he could hold on until now, and he was already worthy of Ma Luan.

He is not Zhou Fuchen.

Zhang Xuan's promise to Zhou Fuchen was to make up for what he lost, and not to come back if he lost the battle.

But Huang Chaoxuan knew very well that the first Maluan would not give him much, or almost nothing. Even if Ma Luan has a father who is the first assistant, the resources in his hands may not be as many as those in Zhang Xuan's hands.

This can actually be understood as the suppression of Nanming's national strength by Great Xia.

Second, if he blesses his strength, Li Guo will not do anything to him, and even treat him well. Instead, for the sake of a victory, he played his own cards. His little life is in the minds of others.

This can be understood as the institutional suppression of Nanming by Great Xia.

The upper echelons of Great Xia can certainly be understood as the joint rule of several major military leaders. But the officers below did not have a chance to come forward. Don't dare to violate military discipline. But the system of the Southern Ming, no, not only the Southern Ming, has lost control over the generals with troops since the Chongzhen Dynasty. By the time of the Southern Ming Dynasty, this problem was even more prominent.

Although Longwu wanted to use civilian officials to take over the military power, he included the civilian officials who held the military power into the cabinet. But in reality, the military power held by civilian officials is a castle on the beach.

When you don't fight, you can't see it, but when you fight, you will find that it seems that the civilian bosses are the backers of those generals, but the backers are only the backers, and the real military power is still on the generals below.

Their control of the military seems to be solid, but it is actually a scratch in the shoe.

Huang Chaoxuan himself ordered a retreat, and he was counting on whoever held on.

Therefore, the Nanming Water Master suddenly scattered birds and beasts.

Zhou Fuchen breathed a sigh of relief at this time, and said secretly: "This little life is saved." Immediately, he had a strong heart of meritorious service in his heart, and said secretly: "Did you succeed in the first merit of the Southern Expedition like this?" ”

He couldn't believe it, he put away these thoughts, and immediately ordered the troops to divide into two routes, one way to continue to pursue Huang Chaoxuan, and all the way south to pursue the troop carrier that had just escaped.

For a long time, the chase was north.

When Huang Chaoxuan returned to Yueyang City, there were only more than 100 ships left under his command, and their morale was low, and the number of soldiers was only about 3,000. Huang Chaoxuan lost most of his capital in this war.

What made Huang Chaoxuan feel even more heartbroken was that since then he had lost the jurisdiction of the Dongting Lake waterway, and he could not enjoy all the benefits brought by it, black and white.

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It was just his own troubles, and what made him even more frightened was what happened to the troop convoy.

There are 10,000 or 20,000 loyal battalion soldiers on the ship, if it falls into the hands of Xia Jun, it would be strange if Li Guo didn't pick his skin, Huang Chaoxuan's heart moved, and he said secretly: "No, I must discuss it with Brother Zhang first." ”

In order to avoid punishment, Huang Chaoxuan decided to collude with Zhang Xianbi first, and then unite with other generals under Ma Luan.

I'm really afraid of something. What Huang Chaoxuan was afraid of was happening.

Since the troop carriers are all conscripted civilian ships. So the speed of the troop carrier is slow.

After all, there are also third-rate and ninth-class civilian ships, and the really good ships are already more than those recruited into the sailors, and the remaining ships are not very good ships.

Coupled with the transportation of people, the transportation of baggage, and the depth of the load, then they ran for a while in advance, but they were still caught up by the Xia Junshui Division.

Although there were still some Ming escorts on board, there were more loyal battalion soldiers on board.

They didn't think about just dying in Dongting Lake.

So when the Xia Junshui Division chased after them, they made a decisive decision.

That is surrender.

Speaking of which, for the loyal battalion soldiers, taking refuge in the Xia Army is not a psychological burden at all. After all, Xia Jun and Chuang Camp can almost be said to come from the same source.

Maybe the upper-level generals resist for one reason or another, but for the brothers below, they eat mixed rice everywhere. It's an old brother again, maybe this meal is a little better.

And what disagrees.

And the generals sitting on the ship at this moment are even more brazen.

"Little brother meets Brother Zhang." A general in his thirties and forties, kneeling on the ground with a big beard on his face, said.

Zhang Xuan's face was a little uncomfortable for a while. In Zhang Xuan's opinion, although he has been fighting horses for a period of time, he has been devastated by the wind and frost sword. The appearance is not as good as the original fight. It's getting a little rough. It's not so delicate anymore.

After all, not only women have the pinnacle of beauty, but men also have it.

But even so, he is also a good man, with good looks, and he is a handsome guy no matter what. The man in front of him looked a round older than him. There is a little forty, and he still calls him brother. It makes him very unaccustomed.

But he still had to continue.

Because counting from Luo Rucai's side, this world brother, Zhang Xuan really has no way to deny it.

His name is Ma Guangyu, and he is the son of Lao Hui Ma Shouying.

Lao Huihui is also the old qualification of the righteous army, and there is not much difference between Luo Rucai's qualifications. However, in the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, he died of illness. When he died, all his men belonged to his sons.

But his son naturally can't be compared with him, Ma Guangyu had to obey King Chuang, and was marginalized, it seems

Because the father and son of the Ma family are all back, let him guard the western frontier. Later, when Gao Yigong retreated, Ma Guangyu followed Gao Yigong and retreated from the northwest.

Ma Guangyu's subordinates are all back. Because of religious reasons, I followed Ma Guangyu.

However, Ma Guangyu's own ability, although Zhang Xuan is not very clear, but listening to the reputation, he can be called a tiger father and a dog.

No matter how much Ma Guangyu is fishy, it is just for the army under Ma Guangyu's command. In order to win over the other generals of the Loyal Battalion, Zhang Xuan had to treat Ma Guangyu well.

This is also the reason why the lower echelons of the loyal battalion surrendered to the Xia army without the slightest burden. Everyone is an acquaintance.

"Brother Ma Shi, please get up." Zhang Xuan laughed heartily and said, "I can get Brother Ma Shi to vote today, how fortunate is the little brother." ”

Zhang Xuan's words did not mention that Ma Guangyu was desperate and had no choice but to surrender, but it was as if Ma Guangyu had defected.

"Little brother, if you don't know the sky, it's a big mistake to abandon the darkness and turn to the light today." Ma Guangyu said with emotion: "The little brother is willing to serve the dogs and horses of Daxia and attack Yueyang City first." ”

Zhang Xuan smiled slightly and said, "Since Brother Shi has this intention, then I will first appoint Brother Shi as the commander of the Hui Army, and I will be the commander of the headquarters." As for the attack on Yueyang City, it is not too late to press it for the time being. ”

Ma Guangyu's coming made Zhang Xuan have a new idea about solving the loyalty camp, so he pressed Ma Guangyu first. Not letting him participate in the attack on Yueyang City was not only to appease Ma Guangyu, but also to let the other generals of the Loyal Battalion know that Great Xia had no idea of treating them as cannon fodder.

Zhang Xuan appeased Ma Guangyu. Let Ma Guangyu be stationed in the rear, and let Wang Jincai's department take care of it nearby.

Although Zhang Xuan didn't think that Ma Guangyu had the intention of rebelling, there were some things that had to be guarded against.

After Zhang Xuan sent Ma Guangyu away, he looked at Zhou Fuchen and said: "General Zhou, this battle defeated the official army and the naval division, and captured more than 10,000 elite soldiers. ”

Zhou Fuchen was overjoyed and said, "Thank you, General." ”

Zhang Xuan smiled: "No need to thank me, you can solve a big trouble for me." ”

With the control of the waterway of Dongting Lake in hand, it can be said that the entire Dongting Lake, and even the waterway of Dongting Lake, are left to Zhang Xuan, which is a transfer of strategic initiative. Coupled with more than 10,000 surrendered troops, it effectively supplemented Zhang Xuan's troops. After all, there were only fifty or sixty thousand people in Zhang Xuan's headquarters, and after the war began, the problem of insufficient troops was already plaguing Zhang Xuan.

Although Zhang Xuan was attacking step by step, the Ming army stuck Yueyang, so that Zhang Xuan could only knock the city hard. But now Zhang Xuan has too many other thoughts in his heart.

Although he couldn't put his ideas into plans for a while, Zhang Xuan was sure of one thing, that is, it was not necessary to fight Yueyang City now.

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