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The battle of Jiayu County was just a small episode, and after solving this Li Wanshan's official army and navy, Xiao Tianjian's fleet basically did not encounter any effective obstacles, and began to accelerate towards Hanyang.

However, when Xiao Tianjian's troops arrived in Hanyang, an incident happened that attracted Xiao Tianjian's attention, and at the same time affected the Xingtian army's attack plan on Wuchang Mansion.

It was also when Xiao Tianjian led his troops and Liu Yaoben to join the division, and there was an epidemic among the various Xingtian armies, and many soldiers and generals from the north suddenly began to have stomach troubles, and many people were in a mess, not only these horses led by Xiao Tianjian, but even Liu Yaoben and Luo Li, who had already conquered Hanyang, also had a similar situation.

At first, the situation was not very serious, at the beginning when they had just captured Xiangyang, there were already sporadic situations in this situation, but it did not attract enough attention from the generals of all departments, and this kind of trivial matter was not reflected to Xiao Tianjian, but during this time, the situation became more and more serious, and there were a large number of non-combat attrition in all departments.

When Xiao Tianjian first heard about it, he didn't pay attention to it at first, but when the army arrived in Hanyang, Xiao Tianjian found that the situation was not optimistic, many soldiers and generals who came down from the ship, and even those who were carried off the ship, even Situ Liang, who had always been fierce and fierce, was a little out of shape at this time, and he was only off the ship when he was carried on a soft and collapsed ground, so he hurriedly asked the medical officer, and then he knew the seriousness of the matter.

It turns out that the main reason for the emergence of this situation is that many of the soldiers and generals from the Central Plains are mostly caused by the lack of adaptation to the water and soil, because after going south, at the same time, because of the change in the structure of the diet, these soldiers who are accustomed to eating northern rice have suddenly arrived in the Yangtze River basin, where there are many aquatic products, on the one hand, the staple food has been changed to rice, and on the other hand, in the face of the fresh fish that is readily available, first from the unaccustomed to eating, and then feasting, plus taking raw water on the spot to drink, so that the stomach and intestines suddenly can not bear it, resulting in diarrhea.

At the same time, because it is summer in the south during this time, the temperature is very high, the water in the water bladder and kettle carried by the soldiers will deteriorate for a long time, and it is strange to drink it without making a stomach, plus there are many rivers and lakes in the Huguang area, and the mosquitoes in summer are more powerful, and some of the army even has malaria, and malaria is a very powerful infectious disease in this era, there is no special medicine for malaria in this era, and it is very contagious, once it is obtained, it is very difficult to cure, and it is recurred.

After learning about this situation, Xiao Tianjian hurriedly ordered the suspension of the operation of crossing the river to attack Wuchang, and ordered that no one in the army should directly take the river water when drinking water in the future, but must boil it and let it cool to drink, and the large number of tea captured by the generals in various places was distributed for the soldiers to drink, so as to mediate the stomach and avoid or reduce the occurrence of diarrhea caused by water and soil adaptation.

In addition, when the battalions are resting, try to find some artemisia grass and other things to ignite, so as to repel mosquitoes and reduce mosquito bites, and the management of the field latrines in the barracks has also been strengthened, and it is strictly forbidden for anyone to pee indiscriminately, and it is a heavy penalty to catch them, and then a large amount of quicklime is collected from nearby and spread in the camp to disinfect.

At the same time, all departments were ordered to collect some famous doctors into the army as much as possible, strengthen the number of military medical officers, diagnose and treat the sick soldiers in the army, and at the same time send people to the surrounding areas to collect medicinal materials for the army, the blow is really not small.

However, in this way, Xiao Tianjian was also delayed for ten days, so that the time for the attack on Wuchang was delayed until September.

However, compared to the benefits, Luo Li's troops in the periphery of Wuchang purge operations have made more progress, after Xiao Tianjian led a large number of warships down the Yangtze River and arrived in Hanyang, the strength of the Xingtian Army's naval army completely overwhelmed the Wuchang official army, forcing the Wuchang officers and troops to retreat to Wuchang City, and many warships were abandoned on the river and became the trophies of the Xingtian Army.

At the same time, after a large number of warships came to help, the Xingtian Army also grasped the control of the river, and a large number of Xingtian Army warships down the river quickly cut off the connection between Wuchang and the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, so that Luo Li easily captured Huangzhou in the lower reaches of Wuchang, and with the help of the navy, crossed the river and captured Ezhou City in one fell swoop, not only cut off the connection between Wuchang and the downstream from the waterway, but even on the land route, the Xingtian Army began to threaten the east of Wuchang.

And these days, the officers and troops of Wuchang Mansion can be said to have done nothing, and did not take any action to stop the Xingtian Army, the defenders with the new army of King Chu as the main force basically retreated back to Wuchang City, and the officers and soldiers who were far less than the new army of King Chu also withdrew into Wuchang City because of poor salaries and no fighting spirit, and even some officers and soldiers simply fled from Wuchang at night, or took off their military uniforms and went away to find another way to make a living, or simply took refuge in the Xingtian Army, Sold all the situation in Wuchang City to the Xingtian Army.

It can be said that before Xiao Tianjian completed the deployment of the attack on Wuchang, the Xingtian Army was already well aware of the defense of Wuchang, and basically no one would doubt whether the Xingtian Army could take Wuchang.

On the tenth day of the first month of September, Xiao Tianjian officially issued an order to attack Wuchang Mansion, and a large number of Xingtian army troops on the north bank of the river immediately heard the order and began to rush to the river to board the boats.

In just two days, the water camp transported nearly 30,000 soldiers of the Xingtian Army to the south bank of the Yangtze River, and almost effortlessly, wiped out the small number of officers and troops outside the city who tried to intercept the Xingtian Army, and completely surrounded Wuchang City.

And at this time, Song Yihe's recital was also sent to the Beijing Division, placed on Chongzhen's desk, Chongzhen looked at this recital, and he didn't even have the strength to be angry, the situation reached this time, it can be said that it has been completely eroded, and among the sparse notes sent from all over the country, there is not even a good news, the entire southeastern part of Shanxi is lost, and the thieves in the northern Shuozhou area are increasing day by day, and the Xuanda soldiers and horses are helpless against it! And the thieves have appeared in large numbers in the border towns of northern Shaanxi, and there are many soldiers guarding the border who have defected to the thieves because of lack of pay!

Henan was all occupied by the Xingtian Army, Li Zicheng Fuzhen occupied Hanzhong, Zhang Xianzhong Gucheng was resurrected and was annexed by the Xingtian Army, Zuo Liangyu lost Jingzhou Mansion, the army was defeated and died, the whole army was gone, Yuezhou was lost, Changsha was also lost, Suizhou was gone, and De'an Mansion was also conquered by the Xingtian Army!

Sun Chuanting failed to advance an inch in Zhangde Mansion, Shandong Liu Liangzuo's soldiers and horses were defeated in Kaocheng, and now Wuchang is estimated to be lost, how much bad news can there be?

So much bad news is concentrated on Chongzhen's desk, so Chongzhen doesn't know what to do! Who else can control the Xingtian Army right now? He sat blankly in the dragon chair, looking at the notes on his desk that were full of bad news.

Arrest Ding Qirui? Never mind! What can you do if Ding Qirui is arrested and killed? And who will be sent to deal with the Xingtian Army? Anyway, Ding Qirui said clearly, the thief is getting bigger, Huguang is already irretrievable, and now the key is to hold Nanzhili and Zhejiang and other places, so that it can support some time, so as not to make the Jingshi cut off the grain from the south to the Jingshi, although Chongzhen is unwilling to admit it, but he also has to accept this fact, Huguang is heavy, but it is not as heavy as Nanzhili, the goal of the criminal thief is actually very clear, that is, to take Huguang first, and then enter the army Nanzhili, once Nanzhili is also lost, Then his Ming Dynasty is completely finished, so Ding Qirui and the officials of Nanzhili are not bad, at present, the southern official army is no longer the opponent of the Xingtian Army, and now if all the soldiers and horses of Nanzhili are also put into the Huguang battlefield, once the army is defeated, Nanzhili will also be in danger.

So ask Song Yihe? Joke! Song Yihe is now trapped in Wuchang Mansion in a lonely city, and he is still trying his best to defend the land for his Zhu family, and Wuchang Mansion is about to be lost, even if Song Yihe is arrested, what is the use? In that case, Wuchang estimates that he will lose it faster!

Song Yihe impeached Shao Jiechun, but Shao Jiechun was also sent to Beijing to play the sparse, stating the current situation in Sichuan, the thief Li Zicheng was revitalized in Hanzhong, and the army was restored to tens of thousands of horses again, and there were signs that he could not be entrenched in Hanzhong, and coveted Sichuan to the south, Shao Jiechun was in Sichuan, just to deal with Li Zicheng, he was busy to death, supporting Huguang, hehe! If he goes in person, there is not much good way to do it!

As soon as Yang Sichang died, Chongzhen found that there was one less capable assistant around him, although Chen Xinjia replaced Yang Sichang into Beijing, but this person was obviously not as good as Yang Sichang, and now Chongzhen is a little nostalgic for the dead Yang Sichang, if he hadn't been angry at the beginning, Yang Sichang would have rushed Yang Sichang to Huguang at the beginning of the year, Yang Sichang estimated that he would not have died so early, and he estimated that he could still help him with advice.

Now Chongzhen thought about it carefully and found that the elite soldiers that the imperial court can use now are probably only the soldiers and horses of the northern Guanning departments! But now that Jiannu outside the customs has just come out of the customs at the beginning of the year, this time it has begun to move again, and it seems that there is an idea of using troops for Ning Yuan, and the governor of Ningyuan has sent someone to send an expedited concert into Beijing, and Chen asked the imperial court to send reinforcements to reinforce Ning Yuan.

Once at this time, if Jiannu outside the gate swings his master again, then won't he be finished? Chongzhen stood up and walked back and forth in the main hall in a distraught manner, and one thought after another appeared in his mind, what should I do? What to do? Could it be that he sat back and watched his Ming Dynasty slide away from the abyss of destruction?

At this time, Chongzhen's mind suddenly appeared with a thought at the beginning: "Peace!" ”