Chapter 118: Ganzhou

Zhang Yingyuan looked at Ganzhou City, touched the reins with his hand, slammed it on the ground, and said angrily: "I don't believe it, this Ganzhou City can't be defeated." ”

He was trembling with anger, and his fat seemed to be a lot less.

I don't know if Zhang Yingyuan has supervised the first few sieges.

But every time the result is the same, that is, it is useless.

During the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, a frenzy of city construction was set off, so that many city walls on the land of China were built during the Hongwu period. But Ganzhou is an exception.

Ganzhou City is a Song city.

It is also a strong city, known as the iron city of Ganzhou.

Ganzhou City was built from the Jin Dynasty, in the Northern Song Dynasty, as the governor of Ganzhou Kong Zonghan, rebuilt Ganzhou City, but the purpose of the construction of Ganzhou City at the beginning was not to resist the enemy's attack at all, but to resist the flood.

The location of Ganzhou can be explained.

Ganzhou City is surrounded by mountains, and two rivers converge from the north of Ganzhou City. These two rivers, one is called the Dongjiang River, also known as Gongshui, and the other is called the Xijiang River, also known as Zhangshui. The two rivers converged together to form the famous Ganjiang River.

And Ganzhou City is at the junction of the two waters.

Because of these two rivers, near Ganzhou City, there are few plains among the mountains, and they are also suitable for farming. But also because of the two rivers, there are frequent floods here.

Therefore, during the Northern Song Dynasty, the city was built more to resist floods, and it is said that iron juice was poured into the foundation at that time, and all of them were built with bricks and stones. At that time, Kong Zonghan did not complete all the plans of Ganzhou City.

Later, some people continued, and after several generations of prefects, the sewers of Ganzhou City were improved. Even in later generations, the sewers of the Song Dynasty in Ganzhou are still playing a role, and when other cities open the mode of watching the sea, Ganzhou City can stand alone.

However, this can withstand the flood of the confluence of the east and west rivers, and it also brought great trouble to Zhang Yingyuan's siege.

First of all, the moat in the north of Ganzhou is nothing else, it is the east and west rivers, the volume of these two rivers is not small, many times, Zhang Yingyuan can only sigh, it is impossible to cross the river and attack, even if he has transferred some water divisions and blocked the two rivers, but in the face of the strong Ganzhou city, let the soldiers cross the river by boat, and then get off the boat to attack.

It's something you don't even think about.

Zhang Yingyuan could only cross the river upstream of Zhangshui, and then set up a village in the southwest of Ganzhou to supervise the attack on Ganzhou.

Although He Tengjiao was defeated in Ji'an, he already had thirty or forty thousand troops around him, coupled with the strong city defense of Ganzhou City, so no matter how many cruel words Zhang Yingyuan said, he could also fall into a long siege.

However, Zhang Yingyuan was extremely depressed under the city of Ganzhou, and he didn't know who to send his anger to, but the morale of the Ming army in Ganzhou City was not very high.

The news of the fall of Changsha City had already spread to the city of Ganzhou, and Zheng Chenggong also began his first westward expedition to Guangdong.

Maybe most of the Zheng family will devote their energy to the water division, although the Zheng family's army is not about to collapse at the touch of a button, but it is not much different, and the troops will not be able to attack the Chaozhou Mansion in Caicai. The Huang Governor of Chaozhou saw that the Zheng family's army was coming, and he couldn't resist, so he surrendered the heavy task of Che.

Che is a bandit who is rampant in the Chaozhou area.

After being appeased by the magistrate, he regarded Chaozhou as his own territory, and fought a few battles with Zheng Chenggong, Zheng Chenggong fought for the first time, and there were no effective army generals around him, so Zheng Jiashui occupied almost all the islands off the coast of Guangdong, and even ships were still haunting Humen. But the army could only stop at Chaozhou Mansion.

Fortunately, Che Chongshi is not a powerful general, and between him and Zheng Jun, it is only half a catty and eight taels. It can only hold on to each other.

However, the Zheng family's actions also strongly supported the Hunan and Jiangxi battlefields, at least now it is impossible for Ganzhou to get a single soldier from Guangdong.

Ganzhou is an isolated city.

It can still hold on for a while, after all, there are waterways outside Ganzhou City, even if the Xia army's fleet patrols day and night, it is impossible to keep a drop of water, and small-scale material transportation is still possible, but Zhang Yingyuan saw that Ganzhou City could not be captured, so he had already begun to send troops to attack everywhere and sweep away the Ming army forces in various places.

In this way, the situation in Ganzhou City is even more sad.

Ganzhou City is not a small city, there are not a few people in the city, relying on savings alone, it can be supported for a while, but after a long time, how to maintain it?

Li Guo couldn't sit down anymore.

"I want to see the Overseer." Li Guo stood in front of the Ganzhou prefect and said, "You don't know who I am? How dare you stop me? ”

"General Lee." Menzi smiled again and again, and said, "Of course we know who General Li is?" To borrow our courage, I don't dare to stop General Li, this is what the superintendent meant, and the superintendent said that he will not see anyone. ”

Li Guo looked at the red lacquer gate, gritted his teeth, a fierce gaze erupted in his eyes, and said secretly in his heart: "I work with such rats, and there is no reason to be invincible. I knew that Ming had fallen to such a point, and I should have taken it for myself in the first place. ”

Since the fall of Changsha and the news of Longwu came, He Tengjiao is what he is now.

I didn't see anyone behind closed doors, I didn't care about anything, and everything was left to Zhang Kuang and Li Guo.

As the supreme commander of an army, He Tengjiao's actions made Li Guo very angry.

"General Li, are you here?" Zhang Kuang said: "Just right, I think I'm looking for you." ”

Li Guo looked at Zhang Kuang and knew that under the condition that He Tengjiao didn't care about anything, he only had to discuss with Zhang Kuang. So Li Guo and Zhang Kuang left together.

"My lord, General Li and Master Zhang have already left." A servant came to He Tengjiao's side and whispered.

"Oh." He Tengjiao said.

He Tengjiao's eyes seemed to be godless, as if he was godless, it seemed to be intentional or unintentional, holding a teapot in his hand, the teapot was not big, but it was full, and he poured a handle of tea for himself. The turquoise tea is bubbling with a burst of fragrance.

But He Tengjiao didn't care, and gently sipped the tea.

During this period of time, He Tengjiao's heart was very complicated. Especially when he knew that Ma Shiying died in the chaos, he knew that his fate was not good, if he had a large army, even if others had any ideas, they would not dare to say it.

But now, although he still has a lot of troops, he is trapped in this fortified city of Zhangzhou. He knew very well that even if he could break through, he would be able to bring out a few thousand men at most, or even less.

The Xia army attacked from all sides, and in his eyes, Ganzhou was already dead. But isn't his location also a place of death? He didn't have to think about it to know that Guangdong must be preparing for the accession of the Tang King to the throne. After the king of Tang ascended the throne, he will definitely investigate the main responsibility for the previous incident and the fall of Changsha.

He Tengjiao, who does not have military power in hand, will definitely not end well.

Rather than this, it is better to be in the city of Ganzhou and keep it for a while.

Moreover, the battle of Ji'an lost all of He Tengjiao's confidence. He lost to Zhang Xuan. I still have some preparations in my heart, after all, Zhang Xuan is a general that Luo Rucai focuses on cultivating, he has presided over the defeat of Zuo Liangyu, and has resisted the Qing army in Xiangyang.

Since the southern expedition, there have been many victories.

But Zhang Yingyuan did not have such a record. In his opinion, he is just a dog guarding the household.

It's just that he fought with this dog guarding the household, but the result was a big defeat and loss, if it wasn't for Li Guo to turn the tide and resist the chasing soldiers, He Tengjiao would have returned to Zhangzhou City with the remnants of the army.

The battle of Ji'an broke all the spirit of He Tengjiao, so that he had to admit one thing, Daming has reached the point where it is now, and there is no possibility of turning the tables, even if he fights hard, it is only a slight continuation of the national glory.

There will be no fundamental change.

The death of the Ming Dynasty is only a matter of years.

He Tengjiao is so clear and understanding, he thought hard behind closed doors, and wanted to find a way to turn the tide. But the more I think about it, the more powerless I become, the more hopeless I become, and I can't even deceive myself. Slowly thinking behind closed doors turned into an escape.

He would rather spend the whole day making tea and tasting tea than looking at the situation outside. It seems that this is the only way to make it feel better.