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Song Yihe sits in Wuchang, but it is like sitting on pins and needles, from the action of the Xingtian Army, everyone has seen Xiao Xingtian's thoughts, that is, he is determined to take Huguang and put it under the jurisdiction of the Xingtian Army, and now the entire western part of Huguang, basically most of them have fallen into the hands of the Xingtian Army, and the officers and troops of Huguang have become frightened birds after Zuo Liangyu's department was encircled and annihilated in Jingzhou. *..!。 *

In August, after Jingzhou was broken, it can be said that there is no longer a force in the Huguang area that can compete with the Xingtian Army, and the western, southern, and northern parts of Huxi have sent urgent messages, saying that they have been attacked by a large number of people and horses of the Xingtian Army, and asked Song Yihe for help.

At this point, Song Yihe is not a person, even if he gives birth to three heads and six arms at this time, he can no longer save the situation in Huguang, he can judge that after the Xingtian Army gathered the main force to take Xiangyang first, it began to divide troops to Suizhou, and then sent people to capture Yunyang, while Xiao Tianjian personally led the main force south to attack Jingzhou, destroyed Zuo Liangyu's department, and then divided his troops in Jingzhou again, one way down the Yangtze River under the leadership of the thief chief Xiao Tianjian, attacking Yuezhou, and the other way to attack Chuyang by Hanshui, In this way, it is equivalent to the soldiers being divided into three ways to kill Wuchang.

For such a situation, although Song Yihe tried his best to mobilize the troops at hand and wanted to redeem the defeat, he was already powerless and was at a loss in Wuchang City all day long.

At the end of August, Song Yihe got several terrible news in almost a few days, first Chuyang was captured by the Xingtian Army, and then De'an Mansion and the surrounding counties were also broken by another Xingtian Army, including De'an Mansion, all of which were captured by the Xingtian Army, and Wuchang and Hanyang had been exposed to the Xingtian Army.

In addition, there was news from Yuezhou, saying that Yuezhou City was broken under the attack of the Xingtian Army led by Xiao Tianjian, the thief chief of the Xingtian Army, and then the Xingtian Army went to Changsha again.

At this time, in addition to sending people to Nanjing to report the emergency, there are not many troops and horses to mobilize, although Changsha is important, but he is also powerless to rescue, and soon there is news that Changsha was broken by the Xingtian Army, and then several counties around Changsha also fell into the hands of the Xingtian Army.

So Song Yihe sighed, wrote a note, sent someone to report to the Beijing division, said that he was guilty, and asked the emperor to deal with it, and in the middle of the song, impeachment Ding Qirui refused to send troops to Huguang to rescue, resulting in the erosion of the situation in Huguang, and at the same time, he also impeached Shao Jiechun, the governor of Sichuan, for refusing to send troops to Huguang to rescue, in short, the situation in Huguang is at this point, and it is not all his responsibility, he will lead the army to defend Wuchang before the emperor orders him to be arrested, and strive to ensure that Wuchang is not lost.

But Song Yihe misunderstood Ding Qirui and Shao Jiechun, in fact, how did Ding Qirui and Shao Jiechun see death and not save them! It's that they don't have enough troops at hand to go to Huguang to help Song Yihe deal with the Xingtian Army.

Ding Qirui is the governor, but he is not effective in the transfer of officials and troops in the area of Nanzhili, those generals heard that they want to go to Huguang to suppress the Heavenly Army, one or two shook their heads, and refused to send troops under various excuses, and he has a few available generals at hand, even if he has the heart, but he is powerless, he can only listen to the opinions of the officials, first organize and train a new army to protect Nanzhili, and then seek to "recover" Huguang.

As for Shao Jiechun, who was busy dealing with Li Zicheng's attack on Sichuan during this time, Sichuan's main forces were deployed in the northern Sichuan area, and there were not many men and horses sent into Huguang to support Huguang's war, although he sent Sichuan deputy general Liu Gui out of Sichuan to help, but after this Liu Gui led his troops to set off, he refused to speed up, and later when he came to Guizhou, he heard the news of Zuo Liangyu's defeat, and he was so frightened that he did not dare to advance lightly, entrenched in the Guizhou area, and refused to move forward again.

Therefore, Song Yihe is crying every day at this time, and he should not call the earth and the earth ineffective, so he can only sit and wait for the Xingtian army to attack Wuchang City, and at this time, Wuchang City only has thousands of weak soldiers, and because of the perennial use of soldiers, Huguang has almost no deposit to pay for soldiers, and the soldiers are even more unwilling to work, secretly saying that if they do not give enough food, they will never work hard to defend the city.

For this reason, Song Yihe and the former Ministry of Rites Shang and He Fengsheng, a scholar of Dongge University, as well as the officials of the Political Division, the Judicial Division, and the Command Department in Wuchang City, united and ran to the palace of the King of Chu in Wuchang City, begging Zhu Huakui, the king of Chu who was sealed here, to take out some silver taels and food to help them recruit soldiers and horses to defend the city.

And this King of Chu in Wuchang has been searched for many years, and the amount of money accumulated in the palace is not worse than that of King Fu in Luoyang, but he is also a virtue with King Fu, and he is stingy with money, when Song Yihe and He Fengsheng and other officials begged to come to his door, this guy actually hid a treasure in the palace when the kings were divided during the Hongwu period, Taizu gave him a gold-wrapped Taishi chair and brought it out, saying that there was no money, and he was poor and only this chair could be taken out to help him. Let the officials take this chair and sell it for help.

As a result, Song Yihe, He Fengsheng and other officials of Wuchang Mansion could only leave the Chu Mansion crying, and at this point, they were completely desperate, how much love was there! It's a big deal that when the city of Wuchang is broken, they will be martyred and pulled down.

However, at this time, some officials kept an eye on it, and first arranged for their families to leave Wuchang City and flee to various places, and it would be easier for them to be left at that time.

At the beginning of September, Luo Li and Liu Yaoben returned to the division in De'an Mansion, and the two armies were jubilant when they saw each other, informing each other of their respective achievements, and one by one they waited for Xiao Tianjian to lead the troops to Wuchang, and they joined forces to attack Wuchang City.

But they didn't expect that after Xiao Tianjian conquered Yuezhou, he suddenly changed his plan and turned around and attacked Changsha, so the planned day of meeting with them was also postponed, but fortunately, Xiao Tianjian did not forget Luo Li and Liu Yaoben, and ordered them to use the forces at hand to clear the prefectures and counties around Wuchang before he led his troops to Wuchang, and isolate Wuchang City first.

So Luo Li and Liu Yaoben once again divided their troops and began to attack the various prefectures and counties around Wuchang, Luo Li led his troops to the east, waving his army to attack Macheng, Huang'an and other places, while Liu Yaoben led his troops to attack Hanyang City.

First Luo Li led the troops to take Macheng, and the people in Macheng, Huang'an and other places had long been looking forward to the Xingtian Army to fight quickly, and the local righteous people spontaneously organized, and some local landlord armed forces went first, and the gentry and magnates in the Huangzhou area of course could not sit idly by and watch them so noisy, so they also organized the township soldiers to suppress it, but before they had time to suppress these local righteous people's armed forces, Luo Li led the troops to kill, And the township soldiers organized by these local gentry and magnates can still make do with the local righteous people, but when they meet the regular army of the Xingtian Army, they are not one! Immediately, Luo Li sent troops to fight all over the ground, and they surrendered or fled.

The magistrate of Macheng County originally planned to lead his troops to defend Macheng County, but he didn't think that dozens of righteous people in the city suddenly attacked when the Xingtian army went outside the city, controlled a city gate, and put the soldiers and horses of the Xingtian army into the city.

And Liu Yaoben fought Hanyang City, and it didn't take too much Zhou Zhang, it only took a few days, with the help of artillery, he blasted open the gate of Hanyang, entered Hanyang City, annihilated more than 2,000 officers and soldiers in Hanyang City, and captured many ships on the riverside wharf, so as to open the north gate of Wuchang and face Wuchang Mansion across the river.

It was only at this time that the king of Chu in Wuchang City felt the pressure, knowing that once the thieves crossed the river and conquered Wuchang, his foundation was estimated to be impossible for him to stay, so he hurriedly took out some silver taels and recruited soldiers and horses.

In this world, money can make ghosts grind, originally after the Xingtian Army went south to Huguang, there were many deserters from all over Huguang who fled to Wuchang Mansion, and there were also a large number of rich people who dragged their families and relatives to flee into Wuchang Mansion for refuge, and now Zhu Huakui, the king of Chu, took out the money to recruit troops and set up a recruitment flag, and there are really a lot of guys who eat food to serve.

In a short period of time, don't say it, let the king of Chu gather more than 10,000 new troops in Wuchang Mansion, and the bastard of the king of Chu thinks that these soldiers and horses were recruited by him with money and cannot be handed over to Song Yihe to manage, for fear that Song Yihe will pull this army out and consume it in other places, so he handed over this army to Shi Xu Xueyan, the head of the palace of the king of Chu, and called it the new army of the king of Chu, otherwise, it will be dealt with as rebellion, but at this time, the king of Chu also saw that the emperor sitting in the court was obviously incapable of caring about him anymore, so he simply ignored the old system and used this army as his personal soldier.

But the king of Chu forgot one thing, these recruited men and horses, basically are the defeated soldiers under the Xingtian Army, most of them have seen the sharpness of the Xingtian Army, and the army is just to solve the current problem of eating, in fact, they don't dare to fight with the Xingtian Army at all, and only a small number of people are to protect their families, only this small number of people have a little fighting spirit, but unfortunately this part of the people has no combat experience at all, let alone much formal training, and the combat effectiveness is not good at all, he wants to rely on this team, so he will hold Wuchang City, Obviously, it is a bit of a fool's dream, which even some of the generals in his new army of King Chu are very clear, and some people have already secretly begun to send people out of the city at night to take a boat, and smuggle across the Yangtze River to Hanyang to hook up with the Xingtian army.

(Today, I would like to thank the two brothers Qiang 2K and Baiyun Guochao for their rewards!) On the second day of the long holiday, how did everyone live? ）