"All the people of the city have seen clearly, and see who these people are......"

Under the city of Jiangling, more than 2,000 prisoners of war were escorted by the Fu Han army to beat the city and turn, one by one the triangular dragon flag, one by the other by the Hubei militia flag, by the soldiers of the Fu Han army casually thrown to the ground, by thousands of feet walked over it.

Xue Shiyan and Abukai's faces turned blue and black, while the officials such as Daotai and the prefect were all colorless.

The good situation broke down in an instant, and in the face of this group of black and oppressive prisoners of war under the city, they thought with their heels how badly the Xiangyang reinforcements were defeated. And Shi Liang was defeated like this, and the 'great achievement' of Jiangling City's 'hard work' to carry the 'onslaught' of the Fu Han army for more than a day immediately became not worth mentioning.

Without the threat from the north, the situation in Jingzhou seemed to be back to twelve days ago. It's just that at that time, it was the Hunan Green Camp West Route Army led by Zhang Rui who fought the Yangtze River.

Oh, by the way, Zhang Rui also arrived in this battle, and led his two or three thousand remnants to the ranks of Wuchang reinforcements. It has strengthened the strength of the Wuchang reinforcements, but it is difficult to say whether the infusion of this group of defeated soldiers will have an impact on morale.

The Arya River had already landed on the north bank with its troops, and they crossed the river from the town of Zhuanshi, more than 30 miles west of Jiangling City, landed on Mayangzhou, and then crossed to the north bank of the Yangtze River.

Arya Jiang learned the lesson of Zhang Rui and set up camp on Mayangzhou and by the Yangtze River. But as soon as Al Yajiang had set up the fence, he heard the bad news of Shi Liang's defeat.

The table in front of "Bang ......" was directly kicked over by him, and the pen, ink, paper, and inkstone on the desk were scattered all over the ground.

"Shi Liang, this idiot!" Arya was furious. The rout of the Xiangyang reinforcements completely put Chen Ming's plan in front of the Qing soldiers. Now anyone can see that Chen Ming's attack on Jiangling City is a disguise, a show used to attract the attention of the Qing soldiers and relax their nerves, and his real purpose is to defeat an enemy before the two reinforcements converge. He did it!

Chen Ming's abacus was successful, and Al Yajiang sat on wax. The Fu Han army has not yet had direct contact with other units, but the artillery of the Fu Han army has never stopped, and has been bombarding Jiangling City.

Are the walls of Jingzhou high? Is Jingzhou's city defense strong?

Arya Jiang can say to anyone with great certainty: Jingzhou's city walls are very high, and Jingzhou's city defenses are very strong.

The average height of the walls of Gangneung Fortress is more than nine meters, and in some sections the walls are more than ten meters. The whole city is an irregular rectangle, seven and a half miles long from east to west, two and a half miles wide from north to south, and now there are urn cities in eight city gates. The thickness of the city wall is three zhang, and the moat outside the city is ten zhang wide and one zhang and three feet deep. It leads to the Fuzhang River in the west and the Changhu Lake in the east, which is connected with the ancient canal. In the pre-Ming Dynasty, in order to prevent the city base from subsidence, the flood flooded the city, and the glutinous rice slurry was poured in the stone crack at the foot of the right city, so the city wall was particularly strong. In addition, the Gangneung city wall is also equipped with an urn city, an enemy tower, a war house, a fort, a hidden soldier cave, and a city gate, and the defense system is complete. Although Yongrui pulled all the high-grade cannons in Gangneung City when he set out on the expedition. But Gangneung Castle, which had been bombarded by artillery for a day and a half, did not look like it was about to collapse.

So how to fight this battle?

In Chen Ming, he naturally wanted to repeat the glory of the previous battle, which destroyed the Wuchang reinforcements, and by the way, the defenders of Jiangling City had to come out to die. However, Al Yajiang was much more cautious than Zhang Rui, especially after the news of Shi Liang's defeat came.

"Now Anhui's troops have entered Huangpi." Why can the Hunan Green Camp East Route Army be boldly released by Wuchang? It is because the Anhui Green Battalion has filled their vacancy, not that the troops and combat effectiveness of the Anhui Green Battalion are stronger than those of the Hunan East Route Army, but that their presence is enough to contain the Fu Han Army in the Hanchuan area.

The Fu Han army that Chen Ming brought to the outside of Jiangling City was only seven or eight thousand, and he still had five or six thousand people left on the line from Qianjiang to Hanchuan.

If there was no Anhui Green Battalion to enter Huangpi, Chen Ming asked Hanchuan's men and horses to try to attack Hanyang and Hankou, and he had this plan at first, but the killing of the Anhui Green Battalion made the Fu Han army that had already attacked had to shrink back.

"The Qing soldiers of Sichuan have arrived in Guizhou [the western end of Hubei, Zigui]."

"There are also Qing soldiers from Jiangxi, at least 5,000 people have entered Tianjia Town." This place is the throat of the Yangtze River waterway, 300 miles away from Wuchang, and the opposite bank of Banbi Mountain and Fuchikou are the horns of each other, and it is the gateway of Hubei, Anhui and Jiangxi provinces. In the original time and space, whether it was the Taiping army or the Guo army, they all fought fierce battles with the Qing soldiers and the Japanese army in this place.

On the huge map, Qing soldiers were marked everywhere, and it can be said that the situation of Chen Ming's department was not very good. But his move to go south in Xiangyang did reduce the pressure on the base area.

Anhui originally only had two towns, Shouchun and southern Anhui, but they experienced Chen Huizu's 'disaster', and now they were transferred by Qianlong for the second time to attack the general's mansion. Anhui's own strength has been greatly weakened, and now it has once again sent troops to Hubei, which has drained Anhui's strength. There is also the green battalion in Sichuan, if there is no expedition to the south, it is obvious that the Sichuan soldiers will go north. But now they are hurrying from the western tip of Hubei to the east.

Chen Ming had stayed long enough in central and western Hubei, and he had to break the city of Jiangling in a short time, then attack the three towns of Wuhan, and then jump out of Hubei to attack Anhui and Jiangxi, and then he would be able to pose a real threat to the Manchu money bags.

Chen Ming compared and drew on the map, and finally reluctantly threw down the stick in his hand, he really couldn't think of any way to cheat. Then rely on hard power and really fight a battle.

The 3,000 Fu Han army was stationed at the western end of Gangneung City, and the rest of the army stormed Gangneung.

The change of the Fu Han army immediately aroused the idea of Al Yajiang, and in a short period of time, the Qing soldiers could not detect how many people of the Fu Han army were deployed to the west of Jiangling City, but Chen Ming's actions clearly expressed the fact that he had already divided the army into two.

One part is used to siege the city, and the other part is used to stop the enemy.

Moreover, the lesson of Zhang Rui beside Al Yajiang is still vivid, and if he doesn't pay attention to it, the Fu Han army, which is divided into two, may merge into one, turning the enemy from attacking the city into a siege and sending reinforcements.

Chen Ming's strategy was not unfathomable, but it was clearly hung in front of the Qing soldiers. But this heavy pressure is enough to keep Arya Jiang awake all night.

When the dawn of a new day came, in the last days of the lunar month, the Fu Han army, which had been 'shelling' the siege, showed real effort when attacking Jiangling City.

In the late November days, the ice of the moat, which had been cut off by the Han army, was very thick, although some shells fell into it, smashing gaps in the ice of the moat like a jade belt.

The logistics troops of the Fu Han army used five-foot-long wooden boats as the 'base', and the small wooden boats they had prepared were lowered on the frozen river, and then the bundled wooden rafts were dragged to the city by horse-drawn carts and spread on the 'base', and the front and back were connected by ropes and iron rings, and a pontoon bridge was completed. During this period, the flying thunder cannon was still bombarding the head of Gangneung City without a single shot.

What if the small cannons in the hands of the Qing army could bombard the surface of the moat? Chen Ming was very careful.