Gao Yingxiang's suspicious tactics were particularly successful in deceiving Hong Chengchou, and Lu Xiangsheng and Qin Liangyu, who were rushing to Wuhan at this time, were of course unaware of it. Gao Yingxiang quietly slipped away from their encirclement with hundreds of thousands of troops.

After three days, Hong Chengchou finally sensed that something was wrong, although the camp that stretched for dozens of miles was full of people, and there was bonfire smoke every day, but the intensity of the siege was weakening day by day. And every day, the people are driven to attack the city, but the number of elite rogues next to the formation is very small.

As soon as Hong Chengchou thought that Lu Xiangsheng was coming, he guessed that the Liukou was cowardly, and fled without a fight, leaving suspicious soldiers to confuse him. He was also bold, and he sensed that something was wrong, and he dared to send someone to attack the Liukou camp at night, and this time he tried to find out the truth, at this time Lu Xiangsheng had already rushed to Hubei with a large army, and the generals would arrive in Wuhan in a few days. Zhang Xianzhong saw that the plan was seen through and was withdrawn from Hubei.

Hong Chengchou had few soldiers in the end, and he was afraid that it was the strategy of the rogue, so he didn't dare to go out of the city to pursue, and he couldn't feel the pulse of the rogue, so he could only wait in Wuhan City for Lu Xiangsheng to come to help.

After Lu Xiang ascended to Wuhan, he was not busy chasing Gao Yingxiang, but held a meeting first to study and study strategies, from how to defeat the rogue who was dozens of times more than himself in the past, to how to quickly kill Gao Yingxiang.

Sun Tzu's Art of War has a cloud: the husband is counted as the winner without a fight, and he has to count a lot; The temple is not victorious without a fight, and it is considered to be less. More wins, less wins. Lu Xiangsheng is familiar with military books, and he still understands this truth. And he asked himself about Gao Yingxiang's movements, and he was very sure.

In Lu Xiangsheng's opinion, Gao Yingxiang either took people to Henan to open up wasteland, or went to Shanxi to dig soil, and the most important thing was to go to Huguang to drill the ravine, what else did this uneducated old thief have.

This time, Lu Xiangsheng made sufficient preparations, he originally had the Tianxiong Army, Qin Liangyu's white pole soldiers, Zu Kuan's 3,000 Guanning Iron Cavalry, plus the 5,000 Guanning Iron Cavalry that Yang Su had just transferred to him, there were 40,000 elites, which made Lu Xiangsheng, who had always been a 10,000 people fighting the world, a shotgun for a gun.

Not to mention the more than 20,000 Hong soldiers under Hong Chengchou, plus good generals such as He Renlong and Zuo Liangyu, the lineup of the official army is unprecedentedly strong. is so powerful that Lu Xiangsheng is full of confidence in killing Gao Yingxiang. After all, they even defeated the Qing army, what else is there to fear.

At the conference, Lu Xiangsheng immediately patted his chest to Hong Chengchou and said, brother, you are now the governor of the three northwestern provinces, and now that the liukou has been repelled by you, you should go back to the northwest, and it is not appropriate to stay in Hubei. Otherwise, the group of Yushi who are full of food and don't do anything will say bad things about you again. This place will be handed over to my brother, and when the time comes, I will beat Gao Yingxiang to the point of holding his head, if he runs to the northwest, I will immediately lead the troops over to help you, brother!

Hong Chengchou also knew that Lu Xiangsheng was doing this for his good, and Hong Chengchou couldn't stay in Hubei for long, because his jurisdiction was not here. Of course, Hong Chengchou was not willing to stay longer. The local officials impeached him severely.

The local officials of the Ming Dynasty were extremely unfriendly to the foreign officials and soldiers, although there were factors that the civilian officials looked down on the military attachés, but more importantly, the military discipline of the officials and soldiers was not good. Just like Zuo Liangyu, this guy is more ruthless than a rogue in leading troops to rob the people. The thief has passed into the combing and the soldier has been washed, and it is Zuo Liangyu.

In later generations, Yang Sichang once again scared Zhang Xianzhong half to death, and at worst, the last one could kill Zhang Xianzhong, at this time Zhang Xianzhong bought Zuo Liangyu, not with silver as before, but with the sentence of cunning rabbit death and lackey cooking!

That's right, it's this sentence, not because Zuo Liangyu has a high level of merit, and the emperor has to kill him, but because Zuo Liangyu is too ruthless in all five poisons, and his hatred is known to the world, everyone knows it in their hearts, and of course Zuo Liangyu also knows it in their hearts. knew that as soon as Zhang Xianzhong hung up, the court would liquidate him. So Zuo Liangyu decisively let go of Zhang Xianzhong.

This is still not an exception, Zu Kuan was also like this when he first entered the Central Plains, fortunately there was Lu Xiangsheng to dominate, and then it was reined. And Hong Chengchou does not have such ability, Hong Chengchou's ability to fight is not inferior to Lu Xiangsheng, but his personal prestige and personality charm are far behind.

Hong Chengchou can't control Zuo Liangyu's private looting now. After Lu Xiangsheng's death, Zu Kuan returned to Hong Chengchou, and Hong Chengchou could not be governed, so he could only kill Zu Kuan.

At this moment, Lu Xiangsheng asked Hong Chengchou to return to the northwest, and Hong Chengchou was of course willing.

Then before Hong Chengchou could finish, Lu Xiangsheng was slapped in the face, Gao Yingxiang's crazy move this time was something that Lu Xiangsheng and Hong Chengchou never expected.

On September 1 of the eighth year of Chongzhen, Gao Yingxiang quietly entered Anhui for five days, captured Hezhou, and then repaired and withdrew for two days. At this time, Gao Yingxiang's actions were not obvious, after the capture of Hezhou, Gao Yingxiang took hundreds of thousands of Liukou and Zhang Xianzhong's subordinates, who caught up later, and began to attack Jiangpu, which was less than two hundred miles away from Nanjing City.

And the Red Lady's Department, which was originally honestly entrenched in Yangzhou and sent troops south to rob from time to time, suddenly raised troops in the direction of Nanjing.

At this time, Lu Xiangsheng began to panic, and Nanjing's request for help flew to the capital like snowflakes. However, after the last siege of Nanjing by the Red Lady, there were no troops around Nanjing. Fortunately, it is also because the red lady has been staying in Yangzhou. Therefore, Nanjing revitalized the army, and at this time there were still tens of thousands of troops stationed in Nanjing. But in the face of hundreds of thousands of rogues, they really have no bottom in their hearts.

Jiangpu couldn't stop Gao Yingxiang's footsteps at all, and went down in two days. After that, Gao Yingxiang took more than 300,000 troops and tens of thousands of Red Lady, with a total of 400,000 soldiers and horses, to gather under the city of Nanjing.

Staying in Nanjing is in front of Gao Yingxiang at this moment, he has no shortage of food, no shortage of elite soldiers and strong generals, and there is still his internal response in Nanjing, the right time and place and people are on Gao Yingxiang's side at this moment. Gao Yingxiang has reached another peak in his life, and he is afraid that reaching the top will create a new situation.

At this moment, Gao Yingxiang was in high spirits, standing under the city of Nanjing, looking at this thousand-year-old capital, as if everything had fallen into his hands, Gao Yingxiang decided to attack the city with a wave of his hand, he wanted to go further and reach the peak of his life.

"Just now, this king and Li Tianwang have already seen the gods in Nanjing City, and now they are already courting the righteous people in the city who are dissatisfied with the tyranny, and they are looking for an opportunity to help us open the city gate directly!" Gao Yingxiang sat in the big tent with a smile on his face and shouted to a group of leaders.

"Haha, we have more than 400,000 people, plus millions of stone grains sent by the Heavenly Palace, and there are still internal responses in the city, and there is still a reason why this Nanjing City can't be beaten! Even if they can't open the gates, they can't! Li Zicheng laughed.

It was because of his bitter yellow face that Zhang Xianzhong, nicknamed Yellow Tiger, had a little excited smile on his face at this moment, and said to everyone: "Nanjing City University doesn't need the small city we attacked before, and there are also King Lu Yan and Hong Chengchou chasing after us." If we can open the city gate like Fengyang, it will be great. ”