Zhang Dingbian led his troops to attack the city, although this battle failed to achieve Zhang Dingbian's goal.

However, among the ten thousand armies, Zhang Dingbian, who rushed left and right, and regarded the tens of thousands of Tartar troops as nothing, still greatly launched the prestige of the Tianwan court.

After this battle, the morale of the defenders in Wuchang City could not help but become more sluggish.

But at this time, I don't talk about them first, but talk about the other side. After three days of non-stop driving, the scout officials sent by Zhang Shihua to the hundreds of households, but finally came to the southern city of De'an Mansion - Yunmeng City by three or five subordinates.

Yunmeng City is a small county town at the southern end of De'an Mansion, and it is also the only place where De'an Mansion leads to Hanyang Mansion.

After Zhang Shihua led a large army to attack Huguang Province, in order to facilitate his actions, Zhao Yufu also changed the garrison of soldiers and horses to outside Yunmeng City after discussing with Lin Ziqian, the prefect of De'an.

Like Gao Kaida, Zhao Yufu, who is also a general, is actually very low in the position of tens of thousands of households in the black-clothed army.

Like Guo Yu, Zhang Shihui, Zhang Mingtong, etc., although in terms of official positions, Zhao Yufu, who was born as a demoted general, is only one and a half levels different from them. But if it is really in front of these three people, Zhao Yufu, as a general, has no status at all.

Guo Yu and the others instructed Zhao Yufu, which was similar to the thousands of households under the command.

So in such a situation, Zhao Yufu, who is a seven-foot man, is naturally unwilling. Determined to be like Bai Xi, who is also a general, to show his strength in the black-clothed army, he has made a lot of contributions, so that others will no longer dare to underestimate him.

When he saw the scouts sent by Zhang Shihua in the barracks outside Yunmeng City, he couldn't help but be excited, and even had a feeling of wanting to look up to the sky and laugh.

"I thought that I could only watch this battle, but I didn't think that this battle would also have a chance for me Zhao Yufu to show his strength. Now Lord Pingzhang and the Tartars of Jiangxia City are at a stalemate, if I can go south to Hanyang at this time to break the situation, it will be a god-high credit! ”

In the big tent of the Chinese army, Zhao Yufu's face was flushed with excitement.

"Quick, pass on my military order, order all the soldiers and horses, pack up the baggage, and a day later, the whole army will go south by water!" Zhao Yufu, who was extremely excited, roared, and the originally quiet military camp suddenly couldn't help but become busy like a bazaar.

……

Early the next morning, that is, on the 15th day of December in the 14th year of Zhizheng, the 7,000 soldiers and horses under the command of Zhao Yufu could not help but gather on the school field according to Zhao Yufu's orders, ready to go.

And looking at the 7,000 soldiers and horses with high morale and ready to go, Zhao Yufu, who was eager for meritorious service, didn't say any nonsense. Just dressed in armor, standing on the platform, waving his big hand, shouting, "Brothers, follow me to the south to kill thieves and make meritorious contributions!" Then he led these soldiers and horses, and rode the warship towards the direction of Hanyang Mansion to kill.

There were 7,000 soldiers and horses, but it only took one day to march in the direction of Hanyang Mansion under the call of Zhao Yufu. I have to say that such a speed of assembly and preparation can definitely be regarded as a god speed in this era.

After all, in this era of close manpower and animal power, it is not a simple matter to dispatch the grain, grass, tents, and ordnance needed by 7,000 people.

It was Zhao Yufu who sent troops for him as soon as possible, and he only asked his soldiers to bring food and grass for three days.

Anyway, in his Zhao Yufu's thoughts, they were only a day's work away from Hanchuan City in Hanyang Mansion. And the defenders in Hanchuan City all add up to less than 2,000 people. Among them, there are some old and weak, sick and disabled.

With the tiger Ben under his command of Zhao Yufu, attacking a city like Hanchuan, one day is definitely enough.

And when it comes to laying down Hanchuan, grain and grass and the like, it will naturally not be a problem.

Coming south with such a purpose, the seven thousand soldiers under Zhao Yufu's command were naturally murderous.

After all, no one wants to go hungry, and Hanchuan City is only a county seat. But it is also a large county with a population of tens of thousands, and if such a county can be conquered by them, it is needless to say that the benefits are there.

Although the military law of the black-clothed army is strict, it is strictly forbidden to kill good people or slaughter people.

But Zhang Shihua also knows that it is impossible to want the horse to run, and also want the horse not to eat grass. It is because of the seizure of loot and other aspects, which leaves a lot of room for maneuver.

For example, after the troops conquer a certain place, they can keep one-third of all the loot they have captured.

Of course, the one-third of this self-retained army also has a unique distribution system in the black-clothed army.

According to the system of the Black Army, the one-third of the loot left by itself will also be divided into three parts. And these three parts are one to the generals and two to the soldiers.

Of course, among them, there are still more detailed systems. But there is no need to go into detail at this time.

Anyway, after capturing Hanchuan City, Zhao Yufu will definitely have a lot of benefits for them.

After all, the richer people are, the more they will lose their lives. When Hanchuan City is laid, the multiple-choice question of money or death, for those big families, the answer is self-evident.

Therefore, when Zhao Yufu led his troops to Hanchuan City, he let his soldiers rest for a night, and then launched an attack on Hanchuan City the next day.

……

A few hours later, the time was only evening, but the head of Hanchuan City was also full of soldiers of the black-clothed army.

But it only took half a day's work, and a gateway place like Hanchuan City changed hands under the attack of Zhao Yufu.

And after capturing Hanchuan City so smoothly, Zhao Yufu, who had the power of a great victory, couldn't help but take advantage of this to make an appointment to meet with the prestigious big families in Hanchuan City.

Then after some coercion and temptation, he couldn't help but let these big families choose to break the fortune and avoid disasters wisely, and decided to organize the people to act as masters in the army and serve the black-clothed army.

It was only two days after the capture of Hanchuan City, Zhao Yufu made up a batch of military rations for his sons and daughters enough to allow them to eat for nearly a month, and found a civilian man who could escort military rations for the army.

So on the 19th of December, Zhao Yufu couldn't help but lead 6,000 fully armed soldiers (more than 200 people were killed during the siege, and the remaining 700 people were guarding the city), and rushed towards the direction of Hanyang City.

Hanyang Hanchuan, the two are only more than 100 miles apart in a house.

It was Zhao Yufu who led the army to capture Hanchuan City, and Hanyang City had already received the news.

However, until now, the news of the fall of Hanchuan Fortress was only known to a few high-ranking generals in Hanyang Castle.

After all, in some ways, Hancheon Castle can be said to be the back road of Hanyang Castle. Now the back road is decided, and you are about to be flanked by the enemy from both sides. The generals in Hanyang City didn't dare to let their soldiers know about such news.

The month-long offensive and defensive battle has already reached the limit of the ability of the officers and soldiers defending Hanyang City to endure. If they were to know such news again, the soldiers would probably collapse without a fight.

Under such circumstances, when the Hanyang City side learned that Zhao Yufu led his troops to kill, the senior generals such as Qianhu and Wanhu, who were the leaders, couldn't help but fall into a panic.

Hanyang City is located in the north of the Yangtze River, so when Hanchuan City, which is located in the north of them, falls, nearly 10,000 officers and soldiers trapped in Hanyang City can also be said to have completely become trapped beasts.

In such a situation, these defenders in Hanyang City, they don't even have the option to break out of the city.

At this time, for these defenders who are like trapped beasts. Either it was shattered with Hanyang City under the attack of the black-clothed army from the north and the south, or it was ...... Be a handsome man who knows the times.

……

"Kill, !!" A heart-rending roar resounded in the sky.

On the night of December 19, a few hours after Zhao Yufu led his soldiers and horses south to Hanyang, the city of Hanyang could not help but completely degenerate into a burning Shura field.

Hancheon Fortress is more than 100 miles away from Hanyang Castle. In this era when the rush is basically leg, even if Zhao Yufu, who led a full 6,000 soldiers and horses, discarded all the baggage and let his soldiers run to Hanyang City empty-handed, it would be absolutely impossible to complete the journey of 100 or so miles in just one day.

Therefore, tonight's riot in Hanyang City can't help but confirm a truth again. That is, "even the decaying Yuanmeng Empire will never lack "Junjie" who understands current affairs! ”

Yes, when the high-level generals trapped in Hanyang City had a clear understanding of the predicament they were in. Among them, some high-level generals who have families and jobs and uphold the idea that "survival is more important than anything else" also let their henchmen disguise themselves and go out of the city to contact the black-clothed army as soon as they returned to their stations.

Then, the four Han army officials in the city who controlled the soldiers and horses couldn't help but hand in their names for the black-clothed army in the middle of the night.

The four Han army thousand household officials combined, a full force of more than 2,000 people, even if they could not defeat the ten thousand household officials in the city, completely control the situation in the city. But it was enough to disturb the situation in the city, and in the chaos, it took away the water gate of the southern city of Hanyang City, and let the black-clothed soldiers outside the city who had already sharpened their knives enter the city.

After a night of chaos, Hanyang City, which was originally a horn with Jiangxia City on the south bank, officially changed hands.

……

In the fourteenth year of the year, winter, December. Hanyang was besieged by the black-clothed army for more than 40 days and finally fell.

Such a big battle in which tens of thousands of troops were invested before and after, and thousands of casualties were killed. If you log in to the annals of history and implement it after the text, what you can get is probably just this short sentence.

But the sad thing is that this short sentence implemented in the annals of history will never be noticed by future generations.

Because when everyone in later generations looked through the annals of history, all their attention had already been focused on another event that also happened during this time period.

However, at the beginning of December of the fourteenth year of Zhizheng, there was a strange celestial phenomenon in the north of Jiangzhou.

The red gas is like a fire covering the sky, and if this is placed in the future generations, it will be just a large-scale phenomenon of burning clouds.

But in today's superstitious feudal era, such a phenomenon has driven public opinion very well, and with the help of well-intentioned people, it has gradually become a sharp weapon that can give the final blow to political opponents.

"The red gas is like a fire covering the sky, is it true that the heavens are really suggesting that those red scarves will become more and more intense!?"

"The red turban thieves are getting stronger! How is it possible, hasn't Xiangye already led his troops south to quell the rebellion. Those red scarf demons, even if they really have three heads and six arms, can they still stop Xiang Ye and the hundreds of thousands of kings under Xiang Ye's account!? ”

"Hmph, Xiangye!? Xiangye went out of Beijing, and when he went south, he took more than 100,000 soldiers and horses from the capital alone. And after arriving in Jiangbei, he collected all the military power of Jiangbei and Huai. There are more than a million soldiers and horses under the account. But now, when the troops were dispatched in March, they couldn't even take a small Gaoyou City. It's really "incredible"! ”

"This ...... Maybe the thief is too cunning and cunning. After all, Li Qi, the champion master, also died at the hands of this group of people. ”

"Cunning, come on! You don't know, that Zhang Shicheng, what kind of background is that. It's just a poor salt farmer who burns salt in a salt factory. From him, the ancestors checked the eight generations, they were all mud legs who didn't know a single word, a person like this, who could take advantage of the chaos to occupy Gaoyou, it was all great luck, how could it be the opponent of my big yuan million king's division! ”

"This ...... But so. But if you say that, it can't be that Xiangye ......"

"Hey, hey, brother, be careful, be careful. Xiangye is a first-class luxury figure in our Dayuan, if there is no one on his mouth, he really has to be careful of his head! ”

The two talked, and when the words stopped, they couldn't help but part ways. But the same scene began to be staged in every corner of the capital.

……

Under the impetus of people with hearts, in just three days, an ordinary fire cloud imagination turned into a sharp blade that kills people without seeing blood. And the spearhead of this sharp blade was also directly pointed at the right prime minister who led the army out of Beijing to quell the rebellion.

"The right prime minister got rid of it, had bad intentions, and took the opportunity of counterinsurgency to support the army and respect himself, and he already had the heart to stand on his own feet in the south of the Yangtze River."

In just three days, this groundless thing was rumored to have noses and eyes under the word of mouth of countless people.

So much so that the officials in the court, under such public opinion, couldn't help but suspect that they had escaped.

After all, compared with Zhang Shicheng, who was trapped in a lonely city, he had endless manpower, material and financial resources, and the advantage he occupied was too great.

Troops, material resources, and financial resources, combined to get rid of the advantages he occupies, are dozens of times more than Zhang Shicheng. And it can also be seen from the war in Xuzhou that the prime minister is not an incompetent mediocrity who can only talk on paper.

So this time, why can't you attack a small Gaoyou City?