As soon as he said he would do it, Hao Shaoqi immediately ordered the whole army to make preparations for crossing the river, and all the ships in Chuyang Prefecture were collected, with two or three hundred large and small boats.

The river in Chuyang Prefecture is four or five miles wide, and there are more than 30,000 people under Hao Shaoqi, and it is not so easy to cross the Yangtze River to reach the other side.

The ships were not too big, and a batch could only carry three or four thousand people, and it would take at least two or three days to transport the entire army to the other side.

Fortunately, Zuo Liangyu didn't have any sense of defense at all, and his army was all cowering in Wuchang, completely ignoring Chuyang, which was two hundred miles away from Wuchang, and not even sending an army.

Hao Shaoqi's first batch of soldiers reached the other side of the river safely, and encountered no resistance at all. This area of Chuyang Prefecture is already remote, not close to Wuchang and Yuezhou Mansion, and it is simply a three-way zone.

It took two days to cross the Yangtze River, Hao Shaoqi packed up the army, and immediately led the army to Wuchang.

A day later, he broke through Jiayu County, sacked the whole city, and then continued to march towards Wuchang.

In Hanyang Mansion, tens of thousands of Shun troops surrounded Hanyang to death and were launching a fierce attack. The Shun army made a large number of long carts, which were covered with long wooden planks, which were pushed across the moat, and the wooden planks were stuck on both sides of the moat to form a wooden bridge.

Through the wooden bridge, a large number of Shun troops crossed the moat and launched a strong attack on Hanyang Fortress.

Thousands of Shunjun archers stood under the city wall and launched a bow and arrow shoot at the head of the city, and the rain of arrows fell over the city wall to the head of the city, and the Ming army on the city could not raise their heads at all.

Under the cover of bows and arrows, countless soldiers carried the ladder to the city wall, erected the ladder on the city wall, and immediately began to attack the city.

Rocks fell like rain at the head of the city, countless soldiers of the Shun army screamed and were thrown off the ladder, and countless soldiers continued to climb and attack the city.

The Manchu cavalry had already pursued to the county seat of Hanchuan, and the general Liu Zongmin was leading people to block it. Hanchuan County is only dozens of miles away from Hanyang, once the Manchu Tartars cross the Hanchuan defense line, the consequences are very serious, and now the Shun army has really reached the end of the road.

Li Zicheng's plan to encircle Hanyang and then lead the army across the river was not successful, because the ships near Wuchang in Hanyang had already been collected by the left army. With so many ships, they can only send more than a thousand soldiers to the opposite shore at a time, let alone threatening Wuchang, and it is not enough to fill the gaps between the other side's teeth.

There was no way, Li Zicheng had to order a strong attack on Hanyang, completely regardless of casualties. There is a water gate in the east of Hanyang City, and there is a river leading directly from the city to the Yangtze River, and the Ming army in Hanyang controls two or three hundred warships, as long as Hanyang is captured, the boats crossing the river will not be a problem.

The Shun army's attack regardless of casualties put great pressure on Li Guoying's troops in Hanyang City.

Looking at the frantically attacking Shun army, Li Guoying was stunned and drenched in cold sweat. Shunjun is really crazy!

The archers of the Shun army under the city continued to shoot arrows at the head of the city regardless of their own casualties, which caused great pressure on the Ming army, and the Ming army in the city suffered heavy casualties, and many people did not dare to show their heads from the battlements.

If you talk about the will to fight alone, the Ming army of Zuo Liangyu is much worse than the Shun army.

Not long after Li Guoying was promoted to the general army, his army was composed of defeated soldiers and displaced people, and his combat effectiveness was even worse.

In the face of the frantic attack of the Shun army, it was soon unable to withstand it.

"General, withdraw quickly, the brothers are dead for more than a thousand. Master Hou hasn't sent reinforcements yet, and he clearly wants us to die. His own soldier Chihu cried.

"Nonsense." Li Guoying said sharply. After looking down and thinking about it, he felt that he should retreat while the morale of the brothers was still there. If the Shun army is really allowed to attack the city, it will be difficult to retreat safely.

Taking advantage of the fact that the Shun army was once again repulsed, Li Guoying ordered a retreat.

A normal retreat must have a priority, and the army must be left to defend the city. As the chief general, Li Guoying should defend to the end and ensure the safe evacuation of the whole army.

The Ming army in Hanyang controlled more than 200 warships, one of which could carry forty or fifty people, and it only took three or four trips for the whole army to withdraw from Hanyang to Wuchang on the other side.

However, Li Guoying had no intention of leaving the aftermath at all, leaving the deputy general to defend the city, and took the lead in the first batch of warships.

Seeing the retreat of the Ming army from Hanyang, Li Zicheng immediately ordered the army to launch a more fierce attack.

There are still more than 10,000 Ming troops in Hanyang City, and there is no problem in holding the city wall in terms of troops. However, the retreat of the main general made the soldiers in the city demoralized, and they were ineffective in the face of the attack of the Shun army.

Soon a Shun army attacked the head of the city, and there was a fierce battle for the head of the city.

Seeing that things were not going well, the lieutenant general led by him secretly got on a small boat and fled from Hanyang City. As soon as the adjutant general ran away, the remaining Ming troops were no longer willing to fight, and they fled the city wall one after another.

However, the north of Hanyang City is the Han River, the east is the Yangtze River, and the southwest is surrounded by the Shun army, and the Ming army in the city has nowhere to flee, and in the face of the Ming army that has invaded the city, they can only disarm and surrender.

The Shun army captured Hanyang as they wished, but the purpose of the tactic was not achieved, because the ships in the city were all taken to the other side by Li Guoying. However, with Hanyang City, the Shun army can at least take a breather.

In Wuchang City, Zuo Liangyu was in shock. A Shun army broke through the Yangtze River from Chuyang Prefecture, broke through Jiayu County, and had already attacked Jinkou Town, which was only forty or fifty miles away from Wuchang.

Zuo Liangyu hurriedly sent the chief soldier Zhang Yingxiang to block it. Zhang Yingxiang led his headquarters of 30,000 troops to meet the Shun army in Jinkou Town, and was immediately attacked by the Shun army. Although the Shun army was ragged and incomplete, and many soldiers even held bamboo spears sharpened from bamboo poles, the desire to fight was extremely strong. In particular, a Shun army of three or four thousand people has a significantly higher armament than other Shun troops.

The vanguard of 5,000 people sent by Zhang Yingxiang was defeated by this Shun army with just a stick of incense, and fled in the desert crying. In desperation, Zhang Yingxiang could only take the family team to pick up and take over with Shunjun.

Zhang Yingxiang's family has more than 1,000 people, including more than 300 horsemen, who are well fed and paid on weekdays, and their combat effectiveness is much higher than that of ordinary soldiers under his command, and they are also the main force in battle.

But such an army did not please in front of the Shun army.

Three hundred horsemen assaulted, actually encountered a phalanx composed of spears, in the face of galloping horses, the Shun army was not afraid, in front of the dense gun forest, the horsemen could only choose to retreat, but were shot by the gunners in the Shun army's gun array, and were killed on the spot twenty or thirty people.

Seeing that the horsemen who had finally saved up died so much, Zhang Yingxiang was distressed and burst into tears, and when the Shun army shouted to attack, he turned his horse's head and ran away with his family.

In this way, the 30,000 Ming army was defeated by the same number of Shun troops. When the news of defeat reached Wuchang, Zuo Liangyu once again had the heart to evacuate Wuchang.