Liu Siyun saw Xia Yunyi scolding the street here, and his whole body trembled with anger. Liu Siyi is a royal history in the Chongzhen Dynasty, and he has always been an expert in scolding, but he really didn't expect that he would be scolded one day. Now that Xia Yunyi is pointing at his nose and scolding, he can still calm down.

"Xia Yunyi, what nonsense are you talking about, this governor is also for His Majesty's great cause! Now there are no rescuers outside Wuchang and no food and grass inside, how do you say to defend it? ”

In fact, what Liu Sicheng said is very right, the four counties of Wuchang are completely prominent outside Zhu Hongsan's territory, and it was good to have a navy to protect the flanks before, but now the navy is gone, and Wuchang is full of enemies in the southeast, northwest, and northwest, so it is better to shrink the defense line and withdraw to Jiujiang. But Xia Yunyi is not in his position and does not seek his own politics, he doesn't care about the overall situation, as long as he sees someone trying to escape, he will stop it.

Zhang Jian is a thirteen-year jinshi of Chongzhen, and his status is much worse than Liu Siyun and Xia Yunyi, so he naturally does not dare to point at the nose of the governor and scold the street, but Xia Yunyi has a white face, and he has to make a red face.

"Lord Zhengtai, think about it, Wuchang is the place where the emperor Longxing, the mausoleum of the Emperor Taishang and the Queen Mother is ten miles outside the city, if we are invincible, it is understandable that Wuchang will be lost, but if you can't shoot it, you will retreat, where is Your Majesty, how do you explain?"

This sentence really said that Liu Siyun was in his heart, what he was afraid of was this, what if the emperor blamed him?

Zhang Jian saw that Liu Siyi's mind was relaxed, and hurriedly said: "Also, there are many of His Majesty's relatives in the city, and now we have limited ships, these relatives must not all be transported to Jiujiang, if they all die in Wuchang City, it would be good, what if a few survived and sued you in front of the emperor?" ”

Liu Siyun thought about it, yes, those clan relatives are good at reversing black and white, making sugar is not sweet and vinegar is very sour.

Just when Liu Siyi was hesitating, a guard from the Governor's Mansion outside the door came in to report.

"Report! Producer-sama! Jiayu County Order Military Report! ”

Liu Siyi was stunned for a moment and shouted, "Bring it to me!" ”

Liu Siyun grabbed the military newspaper and was dumbfounded, this military newspaper was half red with blood, and it read: Jiayu County Emergency Report, the fourth day of the third month of March in the third year of Shenwu, the Qing army forward crossed the Yangtze River under the leadership of Wu Sangui, the king of Pingxi, and the Qing army bombarded the city wall with Hongyi cannons, and Jiayu County was in an emergency! Your Excellency the Governor, please send reinforcements quickly!

Liu Siyun looked at the date, it was the fourth day of the third month, and today it was the seventh day of the first month, and Jiayu County probably couldn't hold it.

Xia Yunyi saw Liu Siyun stunned on the spot, stepped forward to pick up the military newspaper and looked at it, and shouted: "Lord Taiwan, if you don't organize an army to defend the city now, when will you wait?" ”

Zhang Jian also said: "My lord, Jiayu is less than two hundred miles away from Wuchang, and it will be there in a few days down the river, and it will be too late if you don't prepare now!" ”

Liu Siyun was still undecided, but when he saw that the Qing army had Hongyi cannons in the military report, he was even more determined to retreat. It is true that Wuchang City is a strong city in the world, but it has been plagued many times at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and the city wall has long been dilapidated. The Qing army is in front of them, how can they have time to renovate the city wall?

Liu Siyun made up his mind, stood up and said, "Obey the orders of this governor!" Ma Kun, you go down and immediately organize the army to get on the boat, don't want all the baggage, burn it if it can be burned, and throw it into the river if it can't be destroyed! Lord Xia, the three of you immediately organize the officials in the city to get on the boat, don't bring any gold and silver, let's leave tonight! ”

Xia Yunyi heard that Liu Siyun was leaving tonight, and she opened her mouth angrily to scold her mother.

Liu Siyi sank his face and shouted: "This governor supervises Huguang by the holy decree of the Son of Heaven, what responsibility does this governor have!" Come! After Liu Siyun finished speaking, a group of guards from the Governor's Mansion rushed in from outside the door.

Liu Siyun pointed at Xia Yunyi and Zhang Jian and said, "Take down the two of them for the governor and put them in the boat!" ”

After speaking, he said to Xu Fuyuan, the remaining prefect of Wuchang: "Prefect Xu, do you also want to oppose the order of this governor?" ”

Xu Fuyuan is a person, and his current official position is only the prefect of Sipin, where does he dare to oppose the governor, he hurriedly said that he must do it according to the requirements of the governor.

Liu Siyun nodded and said, "Remember, only the relatives and soldiers of the officials are taken away!" ”

Xu Fuyuan asked cautiously, "My lord, what about those clans and clans in the city?" ”

Liu Siyun didn't want to see these guys in the first place, but now in order to kill them, he can't wait for the Qing army to enter the city and kill them all. That's going to take them with you!

"If you don't bring one, you will be driven down by fishing in troubled waters!"

As soon as the governor gave the order, the entire Wuchang city was full of chickens and dogs. Originally, Wuchang was choked enough by Zhang Xianzhong and Zuo Liangyu, but now he finally gained a little popularity, and after hearing that the Qing army had arrived at the door of his house, the governor was ready to let the city leave, and the entire Wuchang city was like a boiling pot.

Those grandfathers and uncles of Zhu Hongsan in the city, one by one, held their own identities, and when they heard that the Governor was leaving, they hurriedly ran to the Yamen of the Governor's Mansion and planned to run away with them. How do you know that Liu Siyun is very hard, and directly sent the Chinese army to drive away these unlucky relatives with whips. All the clans scolded in front of the governor's palace, saying that they would tell the emperor and kill Liu Siyi's entire family.

The residents of the city have become numb, and in the past ten years, you have killed and I have killed, and these residents have become accustomed to it. After the opening of the gate of Wuchang, more than 200,000 residents in the city immediately fled from Wuchang City with their families, old and young, large cars and small cars, and went to hide in the mountains and lakes outside the city, hoping to avoid the military disaster this time. When those clans saw that the governor did not take them to flee for their lives, they had no choice but to follow the residents of the city out of the city, and blessed themselves with the survival of the city, waiting to see that this governor Liu would not die well.

There were more than 300 grain ships and merchant ships at the wharf outside Wuchang, and more than 30,000 people to be transported away from the city.

The Qing army broke through Jiayu County on the fourth day of the first month of March, and the vanguard officer Wu Sangui did not stop at all, and directly led people through the city and rushed to Wuchang. It took five days on the road, and on the ninth day of the first month, I came to the outside of Wuchang City.

Wu Sangui came to the south gate of Wuchang with 30,000 horses, and saw that the south gate was wide open, and there was not a single guard guarding the gate.

Wu Sangui couldn't figure it out, he was afraid that this was the Ming army's strategy, and if he didn't get it, he would trick himself into entering the city, and then catch an honest one.

But after waiting for half an hour three miles outside the city, there was no movement in the city at all, Wu Sangui called the captain of his own soldiers and asked him to take ten people to the city gate to have a look, and it was best to catch two people back and ask.

After a while, the captain of the pro-soldier brought people back and told him that there was really no one at the city gate, except for this one, and he also arrested two old men who did not escape.

Wu Sangui looked at these two old men in their fifties and asked, "Say, what's going on in the city?" ”

The two of them were already half frightened to death, and one of them said boldly: "General, the Ming army has withdrawn two days ago, and most of the residents in the city have also fled, and now the city is an empty city!" ”

"Why don't you two run?"

"Back to the general, the two of us have no children and no daughters, and we can't run anymore when we are old, anyway, if we want to die, it is better to die at home!"

Wu Sangui was very happy when he heard that there was no one in the city, and he didn't have to fight to the death to make the first contribution, and said to the two old men: "Okay! You don't have to die, this king will reward you! Come, give each of them a hundred taels of silver, and run for your life! ”

After Wu Sangui finished speaking, he led people into Wuchang, and this important town of the Yangtze River completely fell into the hands of the Qing army.

The news of the occupation of Wuchang reached the back of Zilharang, and Zilharang was overjoyed. According to his estimates, Wuchang will fight for half a year, although he has a Hongyi cannon in his hand, but the Wuchang city wall is not a decoration. Now I didn't expect that the Ming army didn't defend it at all, and ran away. Zilharang thought in his heart: It seems that this Ming army is not so good at fighting as the legend, and those rumors are not credible, there must have been some other reason why Prince Yu was in Jiangxi back then, so he was picked up by the Ming army.

The next day, Jierharang entered Wuchang and accounted for half of the entire Huguang of Wuchang, and the morale of the Qing army was greatly boosted.

Jierharang ordered five days of repairs in Wuchang, and ordered Ma Jiaolin, the commander of the Huguang Water Division, to receive the Ming army's ships outside the city and repair the two damaged gunboats, after all, these ships were needed to capture Jiujiang in the next step.

Liu Siyun fled to Jiujiang with 30,000 men on 12 March, got off the boat, and sent a messenger to inform Zhang Jiayu, the governor of Jiangxi in Nanchang, that he would hide in a house in the city and never come out again. Liu Sicheng knew that the officials of the Ming Dynasty paid attention to the responsibility of defending the land, and as the governor of Huguang, he now came to Jiangxi, and it seemed that the emperor would not spare him. Therefore, Liu Siyun did not plan to defend himself, but handed over everything to Xia Yunyi and waited for the emperor's fate.

Xia Yunyi didn't feel very comfortable when he saw Liu Siyun so low, but where could he be a political envoy to manage the affairs of the imperial court, he could only wait in Jiujiang to deal with it.

As the governor of Jiangxi, Zhang Jiayu has been really high-spirited in the past six months, Zhang Jiayu was originally only a Jinshi in Chongzhen for 16 years, and he was promoted to governor in less than seven years, so it is inevitable that he will be arrogant. After learning that Liu Sicheng, who had always suppressed him before, was unlucky, and Wuchang gave it to the Qing army without firing, Zhang Jiayu was overjoyed. Now that Liu Siyun fell into his own hands, it was not revenge and revenge, whether he could also become a governor if he was defeated by Liu Siyi, Zhang Jiayu was in a very good mood when he thought that he could become a feudal official before he was forty.

Thinking that it was about to be done, Zhang Jiayu took out a pen and paper and reported Liu Siyi's abandonment of guarding Wuchang to Zhu Hongsan. On the excerpt, Zhang Jiayu said what he said, saying that Liu Siyun was greedy for life and afraid of death, lost his relatives, discarded all his baggage without firing, and threw all the heavy firearms such as artillery in Wuchang! There is also Liu Siyi's greed for life and fear of death, which caused the mausoleum of the Emperor Taishang and the Empress Dowager to fall into the hands of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

Zhang Jiayu was very satisfied after writing, he had been by the emperor's side for a long time, and knew that this emperor had a deep affection for the queen mother, as long as this article was added, Liu Sicheng would die!

Zhang Jiayu sealed the fold with a box and sent 800 li to rush into Gui, striving to hand over the fold to the emperor as soon as possible.