A war eagle, a war eagle that he couldn't see, flew from Jingzhou Mansion to Jingmen County, and was observing Jingmen County, and one after another orders were issued from Xiaogan County, which was an order directly issued by Zhang Qiang, and the orders reached Xiao Fei's forward command headquarters, and then reached the hands of Brother Zhu of the Seventh Field Brigade on the front line.

After receiving the order, Brother Zhu took the Seventh Field Brigade, rested during the day, marched at night, the scout cavalry and cavalry troops quickly surrounded the scout troops of the Anyway Army, slaughtered in the fields, and then guarded the various passes, the cavalry rushed into every village and town it encountered, and then guarded all around, and soon a group of militia troops of the Chinese Army rushed into the town, occupied the town, the village, and blocked the road.

In the other direction, the 23rd Field Brigade, which monitored Lu Guoming's army, also under the leadership of the Dutchman Jodel, marched quickly, crossed these areas, and advanced to the other direction of Jingmen County, the northwest, occupying the main roads, passes, towns, villages, and county seats. Blocked the way to the northwest of his escape.

And none of these situations escaped the eyes of the war eagle, because these areas are within the detection range of the war eagle.

There was also a force guarding the place facing Jingzhou Mansion.

So by the time Chen Youzheng found out, he had already cut off contact with Li Guo's loyalty camp in Jingzhou Mansion and was completely cut off.

Chen Youzheng inspected the surrounding military camps, returned to the city, and stared at the wall of the county government in a daze.

Of the 100,000 people, half of them are old, weak, young and young, and the remaining third are weak or unable to fight.

There are still more than 30,000 people who can be used as labor, transportation materials and cannon fodder, and only 3,000 young people can be used as soldiers, barely having the courage to pick up swords and guns to slash and kill the enemy.

These 3,000 soldiers and horses were arranged by him to guard the old and weak outside the city, as well as the laborers and ordinary people who transported heavy baggage.

What he could really fight was the 8,000 soldiers under his original command and the 2,000 young men in the city who were recruited.

Two thousand young men can be used to defend the city, eight thousand soldiers are all soldiers who have experienced battles, five thousand are elites, they can attack, and if necessary, they can cover his escape.

As for the 10,000 soldiers sent by Li Guo, he sent them to camp outside the city on all sides and used them as forward troops to prevent enemy attacks.

Those people are all dissidents in the loyalty camp, and he can see at a glance that they are all thorns, so Li Guo and Gao Yigong will send them, which is equivalent to throwing off the burden of the loyalty camp and throwing these to him, and when the time comes, there will be a problem, it is his problem, and it is the grain and grass in Jingmen County that is consumed, which he knows.

No matter how it is said, it is also a usable army, and he hopes to at least hold him back from the Huaxia Army, and see how effective the Huaxia Army is.

His cronies ran over and whispered to him, "General, the Huaxia army has reached the periphery and is fighting with the troops of the loyal battalion, it seems that this time we are surrounded on all sides, why don't we take the elite and flee to Henan Mansion now?" ”

Chen Youzheng looked at him and said with difficulty: "But there are garrison troops of the Huaxia Army on the road, as well as patrol cavalry, and the all-pervasive scout cavalry, even if we can avoid these cavalry, troops, we have arrived near Xiangyang Mansion, will He Tengjiao, that old thief, let us go?" Didn't he take the opportunity to eat us? ”

The general patted the coffee table beside him and said: "Brother, you are confused, if you don't leave now, we will definitely die, the Huaxia Army has no friendship with us, their previous combat examples, whether you are the Qing army or the Ming army, as long as you are the enemy, there must be only two ends, one is to die in battle, and the other is to go to the prisoner camp, or the hard labor camp." ”

He quietly looked around, "I inquired, you have to stay in the prisoner camp for at least three years, and you can only be promoted to the supervisor of the prisoner camp if you perform well, if you are a small soldier after five years, you can have the opportunity to become an ordinary person, like some middle and lower-level officers, you may also be released or turned into a regular after seven years, and become a militia member of the Huaxia Army, or be sent to Longwu Nanming to become the Nanming Army, but that opportunity is very rare, and if you go, you will be divided by the generals of the Nanming Army, we are impossible, because we are all senior generals, This is the positioning given to us by the Huaxia Army. ”

Chen Youzheng nodded slightly, motioning for him to continue, and the general said: "Our officers have a certain chance to become prisoners of the prisoner camp, the most likely is to serve in the hard labor camp, that place, I heard that it is a place where felons, as well as high-ranking generals of the enemy, and traitors and the like are imprisoned, they only have one end to work to death, toss you to death, and have no intention of letting you go." ”

Speaking of this, he checked Chen Youzheng's face, and found that the muscles on his face twitched slightly imperceptibly, obviously being moved, he cautiously glanced at his own soldier standing under the steps of the lobby outside, and saw that he nodded slightly, before continuing to persuade.

"General, the hard labor camp is really not a place for people to stay, many people, it is said that tens of thousands of Qing army green battalions, Han army banners, as well as Mongolian soldiers, Manchu soldiers and generals who were captured by the Huaxia army ten years ago, are almost dead now, they are all exhausted to death, or beheaded, lucky, they were driven to the front of the battle as cannon fodder, and were shot by the Qing army, and those who survived were either sent to Longwu Nanming, or surrendered to the Huaxia army and became a member of the Huaxia army, but they were also low-level officers, at most they were the commanders of the garrison. Among the 10,000 people, only a few of them can survive and become a member of the Huaxia Army. ”

Chen Youzheng's heart was beating, his face was pale, he reached out and grabbed the general's hand, and asked in a trembling voice, "Is there a way not to die?" ”

The general was silent for a while, and waited for Chen Youzheng to wave his hand urgingly before saying: "There are some Ming troops who were captured later, that is, Ming generals who surrendered to the Qing army, such as Ma Weixing, Qi Sansheng them, a few months later, they were promoted and became garrison officers, and Bai Wenxuan, who has taken refuge in the past in recent years, this person is the best, he has become a general who leads an army alone, from officer to deputy general, depending on the situation, he can be promoted to the general army, we have nothing to do with the Huaxia Army in the past, and at the same time, we have always been against the Qing Dynasty and restored the Ming Dynasty, if we can ...... ”

"My lord, my lord, it's not good, it's not good, the Huaxia army is coming, and it's all over the mountains." While the two were talking, a man dressed in the costume of a Ming Dynasty official, wearing a black gauze hat, and a Yanling knife ran in and shouted in panic.

The general glanced at him, and he knew that this guy was the former head catcher of the county government of Jingmen County, and he was a rebellious guy with Chen Youzheng anyway, helping Chen Youzheng deal with civil affairs, and he was a typical official and a snake.

Chen Youzheng had already stood up and hurriedly walked outside, the generals hurriedly followed, and the two of them were led by the chief catcher, followed by the two of them, the guards, and some catchers and officials of the officials, and climbed up to the top of the city.

At this time, the sky was already bright, and more than ten miles in the distance, several military camps were burning, and a large number of officers and soldiers were rushing to the county seat in embarrassment.

Behind them were waving flags and dusty, and the cavalry of the brigade was struggling to charge at the fleeing soldiers, driving them, slashing and arresting them, and this chaos affected the barracks of the coerced civilians who were encamped outside the city, and for a time, the barracks became a hodgepodge of panic.

Many people trampled on each other, scattered, slashed, and fled for the outskirts of the city.

But there were trenches on the periphery of the city, and there were pits for horses, and there were irregular pits, and small dirt bags that rose and fell, and the soldiers who guarded the fort where they were closed their doors and closed their doors, and set up obstacles, bent their bows and arrows, and shouted loudly, driving them away from running to other sides, and not allowing them to storm the camp.

The drawbridge over the moat behind has been pulled up, the city gate has been closed, and the young men on the city wall are holding guns and spears, bending bows and arrows, and they have long been ready for battle.

(End of chapter)