Niu Jinxing, a native of Baofeng, Henan, in the middle of the Apocalypse, Chongzhen joined Li Zicheng's peasant army in the fourteenth year, and gained trust for his resourcefulness and planning.

In the first year of Hongguang, Li Zicheng was defeated and died, Niu Jinxing deserted with his son Niu G, and took the initiative to surrender to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, because his reputation among the Han gentry was too bad, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty did not arrange an official position for him, and only appointed Niu Ga as the prefect of Huangzhou, and then he has been living in Huangzhou Mansion.

In all fairness, Niu Jinxing was not without achievements in politics, and made a certain contribution to the Dashun army, Li Zicheng went through ups and downs at the beginning of the army, but in the last years of Chongzhen, he swept through the northern provinces, which is directly related to some of the strategies proposed by Niu Jinxing.

But in general, Niu Jinxing is just a politician who is good at speculation, there is no lack of small cleverness, but there is no great wisdom, the Dashun regime has always lacked the guidance of the programmatic line, smashed the old order, but did not know how to establish a new order, and soon went to the inevitable demise. Li Zicheng was a hero, but in the end he was only a figure like Huang Chao and Zhang Jiao, and did not become the founding emperor of Liu Bang and Zhu Yuanzhang.

Traitors are always the most hated, Niu Jinxing is the prime minister of Dashun, but he surrendered at a critical juncture, and the rest of the Dashun army has formed a mortal enmity, Li Guo, Tian Jianxiu, Yuan Zongdi and others all hate him to the core, and after Niu Jinxing surrendered to the Manchu Dynasty, he changed his face as a slave, and he was naturally taboo about the past.

Since it came out and sold. I hope that this world will laugh at the poor and not laugh at prostitutes, Niu Jinxing will be a traitor, and I also hope that everyone in the world will be a traitor, so he is loyal to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and hopes that the Qing army will eliminate the loyalty camp as soon as possible and eliminate the Nanming regime.

Under his guidance, Niu Yan threw away his unrealistic illusions and summoned his subordinate officials overnight. Recruit young and strong people, raise military salaries and grains, repair city defense equipment, and stick to Huangzhou Mansion wholeheartedly, preparing to live and die with the city.

Huangzhou Mansion is Xu Yong's territory. The Huangzhou Green Battalion under Xu Yong had nearly 30,000 horses, including more than 10,000 armored soldiers. Guarding all parts of Huangzhou Mansion. After Kong Youde came to Huguang, Xu Yong sent Xu Bin to garrison Xianning County, and he took the main force to support Chengtian Mansion, and there were only a few thousand men and horses left in Huangzhou Mansion, among which there were many old and weak and auxiliary soldiers.

Seeing the Ming army pressing the border, the defenders of Huangzhou Mansion hurriedly shrank the defensive line. The green battalion soldiers stationed in various places were transferred to the capital city of Huanggang, and at the same time sent fast horses to Wuchang Mansion to report the emergency, Huanggang is Xu Yong's old nest, and the old camp family members are in the city. If Huanggang is captured by the Ming army, the Huangzhou Green Battalion will inevitably be in turmoil, and even collapse without a fight.

Whether or not Huanggang City can be held is related to the fate of the Huangzhou Green Battalion itself, the enthusiasm of the officers and men is very high, the prefect Niu Yan also fully cooperates, the gentry and merchants have the money to contribute, and the preparation work in Huanggang City is in full swing.

While preparing for war, they still had a bit of luck, after all, the Chu army was on the other side of the Yangtze River, and if they rashly crossed the Yangtze River, they would also have to take a lot of risks, and they might take the initiative to withdraw.

In between, they received good news and bad news.

The good news is that Xu Yong is coming back, he has arrived at Wuchang Mansion with thousands of men and horses, and he can reach Huanggang in just one day by boat, in addition, General Pingnan has ordered that Geng Jingzhong, the king of Huaishun in Wuchang Mansion, should be ready to fight and support Huangzhou Mansion at any time.

The bad news is that the Chu army really has signs of crossing the river, they occupy all the wharves in the lower reaches of Huanggang, collect boats, recruit people, and it seems that they will soon cross the river in a big way, obviously coming to Huangzhou Mansion.

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After the Chu army captured Daye and Ezhou, it continuously swept all the villages and towns along the Yangtze River, and then divided the Ji'an battalion into two groups, Wang Ding and Gu Zongfu each brought one, and cooperated with some of Wang Meng's cavalry to attack the periphery of Jiujiang Mansion, and at the same time ordered Ti Zhaorong to send a small number of cavalry to attack the mouth of the three rivers of Liangzi Lake, making the illusion of harassing Wuchang Mansion.

These are very simple suspicious tactics, which can be seen through at a glance afterwards, but when they are in the game, they are not easy to judge.

The so-called virtual is real, the real is virtual, the virtual and the real can be transformed into each other at any time, the Ji'an camp attacked Jiujiang Mansion, it was just a false shot, but it also paved the way for the main force of the Chu army, and at the same time tested the virtual reality of Jiujiang Mansion, if Jiujiang Mansion is easier to fight than Huangzhou Mansion, Wang Kefan will turn to Jiujiang Mansion and turn the false move into a real move.

Choose the enemy's weak link to strike, this is the advantage of the attacking side, as long as the Chu army opens the stance, the Qing army must have a response plan, otherwise it will be careless and passive step by step.

Of course, Wang Kefan still regards Huangzhou Mansion as the first target for the time being.

There were many cavalry of the Chu army, and the scouts of the Qing army were driven dozens of miles away, and they could only monitor from a distance, and it was difficult to grasp the movements of the Chu army.

After a little rest on the bank of the river, the Chu army set off again at dawn, the whole army died down, with the Tongshan battalion as the vanguard, and the army followed up, all the way to Huanggang, a total of more than 30 miles away, the sky had just brightened, and the vanguard of the Chu army had seen the Huanggang city wall.

The Chu army crossed the river overnight, to everyone's surprise, the area around Huangzhou Mansion was occupied by the Qing army for almost two years, the people who got up early saw the Chu army, they were dumbfounded, startled, Wang Kefan ordered people to appease the people, and then give some silver money, to explore the reality of Huanggang City.

Like the information from the scouts, Huanggang City was empty, and Wang Kefan ordered to speed up the march.

The Chu army arrived outside the city of Huanggang, there were a few people in the farmland who were doing farm work, and when they saw the Chu army's brigade from a distance, they immediately threw down their farm tools and ran into the city, but the Qing army in the city did not have time to let them in, hurriedly pulled up the suspension bridge, closed the city gate, and the drums and horns sounded at the head of the city, and the panicked Qing soldiers rushed up the city wall with a bang under the urging of the officers.

Wang Kefan ordered to camp in the village, surround Huanggang City on three sides, and then build a cloud ladder flying bridge to directly attack.

According to Wang Kefan's expectations, there were not many Qing troops in the city, and most of them were old and weak soldiers.

Soldiers are fast, and sometimes they have to take risks. (To be continued......)