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Carts moved slowly on the muddy roads, each loaded with grain, and in the pouring rain, the oxen pulled people and dragged them, and they could only move slowly. And this is still on the official road, if it is a dirt road in the countryside, now on this day, cattle and horses can't pass.

This is the Hunan Green Camp advancing towards Wuchang. Fang Shijun and his own soldiers had already entered the Jiayu County in front, and the large army was still far behind. Heavy rain and exhaustion are reaping the last strength of this army.

Fang Shijun was here, and met Shi Liang, who had fled back in Wuchang West, and there were less than 300 banner soldiers left in his troops.

Life is full of hope - Shi Liang. But what is with hope is often a disaster, and only with a disaster can hope be precious. Shi Liang rushed to Wuchang in high spirits, but his heart was not full of hope, but his hope came to naught, and only a few 300 men and horses remained of the 5,000 Manchu Han soldiers. And just when his heart was broken, the arrival of the Hunan soldiers rekindled hope in his life.

Fang Shijun is very concerned about what happened to Shi Liang, and what he is doing now is likely to repeat Shi Liang's mistakes.

Without artillery, how could the Hunan soldiers go head-to-head with Chen Yi?

If his team was not in Jiayu County now, but in Jinkou, Fang Shijun would have the courage to wave his army and fight with the Fu Han army guarding the Yehu area. The heavy rain turned the muskets in the hands of both armies into waste, which was not as good as burning sticks, and had the same great impact on the artillery positions arranged in the field. If Fang Shijun's team could have arrived outside Wuchang City a few days earlier, it would really be able to put a lot of pressure on the Fu Han army under Wuchang City.

But this heavy rain can't go on like this forever, maybe it will stop tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. At that time, the artillery of the Fu Han army was still rumbling, and their muskets were still sharp. The Hunan Hunan soldiers were numb.

Just like the battle between Xiaogan and Hanchuan, the rain poured down, and the Fu Han army retreated into the city wall, and built a shed for soldiers and artillery to protect from the rain on the city wall. Even if the main force of the artillery battalion could not effectively engage in battle, only the muskets fired from the front row of the city and the squatting cannon and mortar cannon could discourage the Qing troops in the north and west.

The Fuhan army under the city of Wuchang also successfully captured Shuangfeng Mountain, Chen Ming invested in the tank battalion, and the Wuchang Qing army wilted on the battlefield of Shuangfeng Mountain after the conservative trauma of the Hongshan War, and the Fuhan army easily took here, so that the dispatch of the tank battalion seemed overkill. Chen Qi moved his headquarters to Changchun Temple on the southern slope of Shuangfeng Mountain.

Twenty-four mountain cannons marched slowly on the muddy road, each of which was pulled by the horse-drawn men, and in the mud while the rain was still pouring, they made a hard way forward.

The horses neighed loudly, struggling to support their hind legs and pulling hard, the horsemen waved their whips and shouted loudly, and the soldiers of the Fu Han Army, who rolled like mud monkeys, crowded on both sides of the carriage and pushed the wheels desperately. The carriage was loaded with cannons and gunpowder. The heavy rain undoubtedly caused more obstacles for the attackers. After the Qing army lost the Shuangfeng Mountain, it completely retreated into the city of Wuchang. But Chen Ming, who didn't want to waste time at all, was still determined to move the cannon before the heavy rain stopped. As soon as the heavy rain stopped, the artillery positions were immediately organized, and then the city of Wuchang was bombarded.

Just this morning, Chen Ming received a letter from his father again, and the Qing army's sticky pole is now really capable, and the rumors have spread to the old base. The General's Mansion found out in time, and the newspapers and notices refuted the rumors, but it still cast a shadow on the joyful atmosphere of the General's Mansion, which also made Chen Hui very angry.

Because there are still many ordinary people in the base area who don't believe the words of the general's mansion at all, but insist on believing the gossip and rumors released at the sticky pole. This made Chen Hui very angry, and for the first time urged Chen Ming to take Wuchang quickly, and then swept Hubei and connected to southwest Henan. He believed that if the influence of these rumors could only be dispelled by the millions of people in the base areas who saw a large number of salt, cloth, and medicinal materials being transported in by boats and truckloads, and when they saw the territory of the Fu Han Army expanding from a corner of the southwest corner of Henan to the whole of Hubei, they would believe what they saw with their own eyes.

After all, according to the plan, Chen Hui will take the throne in the summer and autumn, and then this year's autumn grain will be completely exempted. If the situation allows, Chen Ming will have enough money and materials in Jiangnan, and enough materials in the subsequent campaign, then next year's summer grain will be exempted. This is almost enough to convince the people of the control area.

The Fu Han army has been controlling Ruzhou, Nanyang and other southwestern Henan regions for a year and a half. In this small area, village officials, mainly veterans, disabled veterans, martyrs, and military dependents, are scattered in most places in southwestern Henan. And when the Fu Han army seized the counties of Ruzhou, it was very cruel to the local gentry and eunuchs, and to a large extent, it gave the local gentry power and the local squire clan power, which was a heavy blow. Later, when the Fu Han army entered Nanyang, a large number of landlords and gentry from various counties, villages and towns fled one after another. Because when the government suppressed the Fu Han army, they all contributed money and food to support them. This drastic method and the flight of a large number of gentry and landlords left a lot of power vacuum in the countryside of southwestern Henan, and the village officials of the Fu Han Army, mainly disabled veterans and the families of martyrs, easily stepped in, and still established a certain degree of control in more than a year.

No matter how drastic the means are, it is impossible to scare away all the landlords and squires, and these remaining landlords and squires are the main competitors of the rural cadres of the Fu Han Army, and they are also the main targets of the Fu Han Military Government.

The two battles gave the Manchus a lot of opportunities, Chen Ming originally asked the secret camp to throw forbidden books to the readers from all over the country, and now the sticky pole also uses his own way to govern his people, stuffing some reactionary letters to the squires and landlords, intensifying the conflict and fighting between the two sides, and at the same time, it has also taken root in the base area little by little. By the time the General's Mansion caught this point and wanted to figure out the sticky rod, it was already a little late. It can't be said that all the measures are ineffective, but just like the clothes stained with ink, no matter how you wash them, there is a mark there, and it is difficult to completely remove them.

After Chen Ming arrived in Huangzhou [Hubei], he and Chen Hui often exchanged letters. The Fu Han army evacuated from Jiangnan to Hubei, during this period, the decline of local public opinion and various pressures, Chen Ming told his father a lot of things in the letter, Chen Hui was worried after reading it, but it was still difficult Chen Ming's army to kill back to Huguang from the flower world in Jiangnan was the right decision. It is a fact that the base area is becoming more and more difficult, and the defense of the Fu Han army on the Henan battlefield is very solid, but the offensive capability is insufficient; To the south, you can't pass Xiangyang, and the southwest of Henan is almost trapped to death.

Medicinal herbs, cloth and so on are easy to say, and the lack of salt is a major event that cannot be ignored. In addition to the army, more important is the common people.

Ordinary people can eat small salt, but scraping salt soil to boil small salt also requires a large amount of salt land, right? If only the salt soil can be scraped next to the toilet thatched house, or the salt soil can be scraped behind the roots of the old wall, then what kind of salt is there to boil? Henan's saline-alkali land is generally divided into low-lying areas in northern and eastern Henan, and of course there are saline-alkali lands in southwestern Henan, but it is delusional to expect that the saline-alkali soil scraped up by those saline-alkali lands will make millions of people in the entire base area eat a small amount of salt. It was also Chen Ming, Chen Hui and others who didn't pay attention at first, when the army swept through northern Hubei and southern Henan, their eyes were all about grain and silver.

For Chen Hui, whether it is from his own interests, or from the dignity of being a father, or the unity of the team, the base area must be persevered. For the Jiangnan Flower World, he is also greedy, but no matter how good the blessed land of heaven is compared with the base area, he still chooses the base land.

Chen Ming lost the Jiangnan and Xihui returns, and he lost a lot of personal interests alone. Because the expeditionary force is his descendant, and the troops in the base area can no longer be said to be his descendants. The expeditionary force lost the big fat meat in Jiangnan to eat the fleshy bone of Huguang, and Chen Ming sacrificed his own vital interests to save the base area. Although the main force in Chen Ming's descendant troops is mostly Henan and Hubei veterans.

Chen Ming's efforts are not without gain. His dedication has made his position in the entire system of the Fu Han Army firmly consolidated. As long as Chen Ming opened up the passage to Henan and Hubei and solved the crisis of the General's Mansion, what he won was the recognition of the entire Fuhan Army.

It is foreseeable that in the future, the general's government department in the base area and the expeditionary army line under Chen Ming will have a blood relationship regardless of whether they are related by blood before, and with the meeting between the two sides and the distribution of interests, the outbreak of contradictions will be inevitable. Chen Ming's 'sacrifice' was to make his status jump from the leader of the expeditionary force to the leader of the entire Fu Han army. He can now sit at the city gate and watch the scenery and sit firmly on the Diaoyu Tai. The fight between the General's Mansion Department and the Expeditionary Military Department will always involve those generals and officials, not Chen Ming himself. It was impossible for anyone in the general's mansion to set off a struggle and point the spearhead at Chen Ming.

Don't think it's a trifle. Think about the rabbit back then, after the central bigwigs arrived in Ruijin from Shanghai, they met twenty-eight and a half Bolsheviks to stir up the situation, and then Mao Taizu's prestige in the army and among the masses was reduced. You don't care if there is a route problem or anything here, what is Futian or not, do you dare to say that there is no dog and fly camp here? It's all burning and sincere beliefs and ideals? Let's the calf.

Therefore, Chen Ming doesn't think that 'sacrifice' is really 'sacrifice'. Chen Hui never regretted letting Chen Ming return to the west.

He took over the power with a harmonious spirit, and everyone expected it, Chen Ming has always hoped for this, instead of sitting on the throne with a knife. And that's just one reason for the return of the army to the west.

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The ground was full of mud, and when you stepped on it, the muddy water went straight to your ankles.

The rain curtain is heavy, outside the city wall that the Qing army on the city wall cannot see, in the silt it is a scene of full horses and horses, although the rain is heavy, it does not water the enthusiasm of the soldiers of the Han army at all.

-- Finally seeing the Wuchang city wall, the battle is coming to an end. Of course, the enthusiasm of the officers and men of the Fuhan Army was high.

An officer was directing the soldiers to transport ammunition, and the movements of the soldiers next to him suddenly stopped, and one by one turned their heads behind him. The officer was stunned for a moment, and was about to curse, when he heard one of the soldiers shouting: "It's the Grand Duke!" The Metropolitan Governor has come to see us! ”

Chen Ming rode a black war horse, which was a rare and good horse captured after the Battle of Northern Jiangsu, it should be a horse of Central Asian blood, and the height was almost four feet five. Chen Ming rode on a horse, with dozens of heavily armed guards, and walked through this busy scene, everywhere he went, every officer and soldier recognized his own big boss. At first, he still stood and saluted, but later, I don't know who cheered at him first, and the cheers rang out one after another, and finally became a wave as deep and wide as the sea.

Chen Ming arranged five artillery positions in various places in the southwest corner of Wuchang and assembled 155 artillery pieces. Even if the Qing army's Snake Mountain Fort was made of iron, 155 cannons could turn iron into water.

When the Snake Mountain Fort was abolished, the artillery of the Fu Han army could be erected on Shuangfeng Mountain, or directly outside Wuchang City, and bombarded the big east gate and the small east gate, presumably by that time the defenders in the city had lost all morale.

Chen Ming sat on horseback and wore only a rainproof cloak, and he went out on patrol to boost morale. The heavy rain was falling, pouring him and the guards behind him drenched, but looking at the reaction of the soldiers, the effect was obvious, thousands of tigers were cheering for him!

The sound of cheers easily spread to the opposite city of Wuchang. Aligon, who was inspecting the Snake Mountain Fort, immediately became nervous with a relaxed face. He had now pinned all his hopes on the army on the periphery. In the heavy rain, if the Sichuan army and the Henan army can fight to the death without dying, they will definitely be able to give the Fu Han army a lot of impact, and Fang Shijun's Hunan Hunan soldiers, I don't know where they are now.

Striding out of the corner tower, the heavy rain soaked Aligon's official robe, and the flowing goatee was beaten by the rain, Aligon walked directly to the forefront of the fort without caring at all, and watched every move on the opposite side with a serious face. Fortunately, after the thunderous cheers, the horn of the soldiers charging did not immediately sound on the opposite side.

In Wuchang City, there is no longer a single light in the bustling streets and alleys, only the refugees who have fled into the city are cowering under the eaves, and occasionally the cries of dolls are heard.

A patrol was marching tiredly. They wore robes and hats, and barely glanced to the left or right with their eyes. They just wanted to finish as soon as possible, and when the time was almost over, they could go back to their lodgings and sleep beautifully.

After nightfall, the rain seemed to be heavier, pouring like a torrent, and the heavy rain almost formed a rain wall, dense and impermeable.

Under such a torrential rain, the morale of the green battalion was completely exhausted by the clammy cold.

Dachao Street by Ziyang Lake, Zhao Mansion. This family, which rose to prominence in Hanyang, Wuchang fifty or sixty years ago, is now one of the giant businessmen standing at the pinnacle of wealth in Hubei. When the Fu Han army went to the three towns of Wuhan, although the Zhao family lost a lot of wealth, the backbone was still there, and the loss of some floating wealth did not make the family break their bones.

When the Qing army recovered Wuhan, the Zhao family took the opportunity of the reconstruction of Hankou to get a piece of fat from it. If the turmoil set off by the Fu Han army is stopped, and the Zhao family is not slaughtered as a fat pig by the Huguang official mansion, this family will continue to continue its glory and wealth, and it will not be possible to see the shadow of their decline in thirty or fifty years.

However, the turmoil set off by the Fu Han army did not subside, Chen Ming unexpectedly gave up Jiangnan, did not go to the significant Northern Expedition, but returned to Huguang, which made the Zhao family have to experience the scourge of swords and soldiers for the second time.

Huguang under the governor of Aligon was no longer than it was back then, and the Manchus were even more cheeky at that time, and they only persuaded donations. Now Arigon is donating, extorting, and forcibly donating, and he does everything. As a well-known businessman in Huguang, the Zhao family donated as much as 120,000 taels of silver to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and got a top from the third grade, which almost made their family nailed to death in the Manchu sequence.

Now what frightens the Zhao family up and down is that the form in Wuchang City is not good. The positions outside the city were held one after another, and the morale of the defenders was low......

"Husband and wife are birds of the same forest, and they fly separately when disaster comes!" Zhao Wen, the head of the Zhao family, said.

A secret meeting to decide the fate of their family was quietly held in the pouring rain. (To be continued.) )