After scolding and scolding, it was impossible for the boat to come back to pick them up anyway, Li Benshen and Hu Quancai had to hurriedly embark on the road to escape from Jiangxi, and their destination was far clearer than Liu Fangming's, that is, to go directly to Jiangning, and only when they got there could they get rid of the threat of the Ming army. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

As for the next operation, Li Benshen is Gao Jie's nephew, and those who were surrendered to the Qing Dynasty together that year, such as Wu Shengzhao, Li Chengdong, Hu Maozhen and others have all died one after another, but people such as Gao Jinku are still alive and are still working for the Manchu Qing Dynasty. With these people here, the Manchu court will have some scruples, and the punishment of him will not be too harsh. Moreover, Hu Quancai also has connections in the DPRK and China, and he can always cross this pass.

While Li Benshen and Hu Quancai took the road to the north and then went down the Yangtze River, Liu Cheng and Zou Zhuoming, who had escaped from the Ming army-controlled area after making a big circle, were going up the Yangtze River, preparing to go south to see Hong Chengchou after entering Jiangxi.

In fact, if Hong Chengchou sent troops for a month at night, he might still be able to meet Liu Cheng, and there would be no change in the outcome of this battle, but he could also know some anecdotes about the internal affairs of the Ming army in Zhejiang.

Hong Chengchou was not able to see Liu Cheng, which was his misfortune and his regret. However, for Liu Cheng, although regret is inevitable, it is his supreme luck.

When the boat arrived at the mouth of the lake, they planned to buy some fresh water and continue on the road, but they happened to hear the news of Hong Chengchou's defeat at Yushan, and there was a disagreement between Zou Zhuoming and Liu Cheng.

"Lao Jinglu's use of troops is unfavorable, we have to step up and dare to go to Guangxin Mansion to help Lao Jinglu!"

There were a total of six people present, Zou Zhuoming and his four entourages accounted for five places, it seemed that Liu Cheng was weak, but he didn't think so.

"I think it's just a matter of sending people to death now."

"What did you say?!"

Hong Chengchou's ability, Zou Zhuoming couldn't be more convinced. The defeat in the field battle, he only felt that it was a small setback, and he would not have thought that the Qing army had lost confidence in the field after this battle.

In contrast, Liu Cheng's understanding of the Zhejiang Ming Army is far better than Zou Zhuoming's, and Chen Wen will always have some strange ideas, which can often produce miraculous effects once they are put into practice. There is no need for those whimsical ideas, today's Zhejiang Ming Army's ability to tolerate casualties is not comparable to other armies, I'm afraid it can't even be the Eight Banners Army, let alone the Green Battalion.

The lack of clarity about the combat effectiveness of the Ganshan Green Battalion made Liu Cheng's evaluation of the battle situation far more pessimistic than Zou Zhuoming's. However, among these six people, it is not him who is talking, but Zou Zhuoming, the "introducer" who seems to be more powerful.

"General Liu, with the old strategy and strategy, even if you lose in the field, you can always stabilize the front, which has been confirmed last year, do you still have any doubts?"

As soon as these words came out, the four entourages immediately surrounded Liu Cheng, the target of the original protection, on the spot, although it was only a subconscious move, and the range of action was not large, but for a character like Liu Cheng, there was no possibility that they could not see their intentions. Otherwise, he would have died under Ni Liangxu's hands and would not have appeared in this place.

"I just hope Your Excellency can think about it seriously."

The mouth is asking Zou Zhuoming to think about it seriously, but in fact, he himself is also thinking about it.

Zou Zhuoming is a literati, although his four entourages are all skilled in martial arts, but in order to infiltrate the Ming army's occupied area, they are also specially selected those who do not see murderous aura, and martial arts are naturally not the first choice. In the secret room fight, Liu Cheng has eight to ninety percent confidence that he can kill these four people within twenty moves, and finally solve Zou Zhuoming, and no one will know that he appeared in this county town in northern Jiangxi.

However, in this way, no one will recommend you, and it will be too difficult to mix up with the Manchu Qing Dynasty. Even whether they will be able to join the equation will be unknown.

"Mr. Zou, although the old Jinglu was unable to win, the fortress is strong and the troops are still superior. And Chen Wen's soldiers were all tired, and the officers and troops from several directions also maintained their existence, and he would never dare to stand under the fortified city. ”

"But this time, the Fujian Green Camp is in ruins, and it still needs to face the threat of pirates; Taiwen's Ma and Hu thieves rebelled, and Chen Wen not only no longer had to guard against the eastern front, but also obtained an outlet to the sea and reached a cooperation with Haikou; The eight banners of Hangzhou garrison and the three elite teams of the standard, the standard, and the standard were defeated, and the two prefectures of Ningshao had also fallen into the hands of the enemy. ”

"Lao Jingluo used troops at this time, and he could have taken the opportunity of Chen Wen's troops to divide the troops in various places to fight more and fight less, but he was still defeated, and he was defeated so quickly. Now Chen Wen, there is no one to check and balance, I am afraid that the army has already come to the city, and it is difficult to say whether Guangxin Mansion is still in the hands of the official army. ”

Chen Wennai is the only one of the anti-Qing forces who can keep pace with Li Dingguo in the use of troops, although the tactics of the two are very different, and the habits are also different, Chen Wen's aura of commanding the battle is far inferior to Li Dingguo, but it is better than that invincible fierceness. Therefore, the degree of difficulty is not far behind.

This was what Hong Chengchou told him personally, and Zou Zhuoming was naturally convinced. As a result, Chen Wen naturally attached great importance to him, and even in the process of infiltrating the Ming army's occupation area and plotting against Liu Cheng, he also spent a lot of effort and was careful every step, lest he be discovered by Chen Wen's men.

After Liu Cheng's analysis here, Zou Zhuoming, who had no military experience, began to doubt, but Hong Chengchou's far-sighted image was still influencing him.

"There is also a fortress, even if the soldiers are coming to the city, there is still a fortress to rely on, it is impossible for Chen Wen to capture Guangxin Mansion!"

"Bastion?"

Liu Cheng smiled coldly, he knew that he was only one step away from convincing this young civil official, and he was about to release the rhetoric that had been brewed just now.

"Mr. Zou, don't forget, the fortress was the first to be taken out by Chen Wen. From what I know about him, this man has seven tricks in his heart. No matter what he dares to take, he must know how to crack it! ”

What Liu Cheng said was true, Chen Wen had used the fortress for a much longer period of time than the Qing army, and it was reasonable to say that he had more experience. Moreover, Liu Cheng was born in Chen Wen's subordinates, and he was still the first batch of generals, so it was inevitable that he would have a deeper understanding, otherwise they would not have worked hard to pull this rebel general over.

After thinking for a moment, Zou Zhuoming had to sigh and ask Liu Cheng, "Then General Liu means not to see Lao Jingluo?" ”

"Nope! Of course we have to go, but not now, we must find out the situation there, otherwise the sheep will fall into the tiger's mouth, and the loss to the court and the old Jinglu will only be greater. ”

Zou Zhuoming's question was clearly a trap, and Liu Cheng had even heard it from the breath of the four people around him. However, with this answer, Zou Zhuoming and his four entourages also put their minds at ease for the time being, and then they only need to wait for news, which is also a safe way.

Hukou County, as the name suggests, is where the Yangtze River and Poyang Lake meet, and is known as "the key to the rivers and lakes, the thoroughfare of the three provinces". This is a place where soldiers must fight, and the news is also well-informed, because the war has not yet affected here, compared to the usual days are just a little more worried, the people inside and outside the county generally still maintain the rhythm of running for life on weekdays.

Liu Cheng and Zou Zhuoming temporarily stayed in Hukou County, waiting for the next news, and also to see if it would be misinformation. However, Nanchang here is a different situation.

Nanchang is the provincial capital of Jiangxi, once named after Hongdu, and is the place where the battle of Hongdu took place in history. Because this is the place where soldiers must fight, the city must be impregnable in construction.

The city wall of Nanchang today is no longer the same as it was in the Tang and Song dynasties, but was rebuilt in the early Ming Dynasty. The city wall is two feet nine feet high, two feet thick, and one foot deep, and the existing moat on the east, south, and north sides has been dredged, and the west moat has been newly excavated, connecting them together and surrounding the whole city.

There are seven gates in the city, which are called: De Sheng, Zhang Jiang, Quang Run, Huimin, Jinxian, Hue and Yonghe. The city gate is specially repaired with urn city, all of them are made of tung oil, lime, glutinous rice juice to build huge bricks, one third lower than the city wall, and the urn city is equipped with a gate weighing a thousand catties, it can be said that it is easy to defend and difficult to attack.

The Jinxian Gate in the south of the city, formerly known as Fuzhou Gate, is a city gate that Fuzhou people in the southwest of Guangxin Mansion always have to pass through when they enter Nanchang. There is a folk proverb in Nanchang, saying that it is a camel cage hanging bag into the Xianmen, which is the situation of people coming and going. It's just that this statement refers to the back then, and now Jinxianmen can't pass three melons and two dates for most of the day, not only here, but also the seven gates of the entire Nanchang Mansion City, and some are even much worse.

Since the Qing army moved south, there have been many attacks and defenses against this area. The Qing army captured Nanchang, Jiangxi Governor Jin Shengheng anyway, Tan Tai went south to suppress, after several wars, especially the time when Tan Tai went south, it was a brutal massacre of this provincial capital, more than 200,000 people were killed. So much so that now, Cai Shiying has been patrolling Jiangxi for several years, trying his best to restore people's livelihood, but he still wants to restore the old view, but it is still like a fool's dream.

Five years have passed, but the population of the city has not recovered much, there are few people in the city, and business travel is not profitable, so they will not come, and there will be fewer people in and out of the city.

Because of this, the guards at the city gate are also lazy and lazy, and they are not as good as the Zhangjiang Gate in the west of the city, where the yamen gathers, and they may be seen by those officials, so they are naturally happy. However, today I don't know whether the sun is going to set in the east or the moon is going to rise in the south, and from a distance, it seems that a cavalry is coming here in the distance.

"That's right, didn't those who went to Guangxin Mansion go to Guangxin Mansion, where did the cavalry come from?"

The officer guarding the city said so, but he didn't care, even if the Ming army came, there was a jack gate in the urn city, even if it rushed into the urn city, it was useless even to rush into the city - once the jack gate fell, heaven and man would be separated forever!

Before long, the cavalry rushed to the city, and the defenders saw that the cavalry was wearing Qing army uniforms, and the healthy horses of Mongolia and Hetao under their crotches were a little tattered on their armor, and some did not even wear helmets, but they also let the defenders see clearly, and the head was also a serious money rat tail, and it was definitely not a Ming army with tied hair.

"Where did you come from, do you have military orders?"

As far as the eye can see, there are about 100 cavalry members, more than dozens of people, less than a dozen people, divided into several parts, it seems that they are not from a single army, but more like they are temporarily entangled.

Seeing that the cavalry dismounted in front of the moat, two of the reassured defenders also came out and came to question them. Unexpectedly, the officer at the head, that is, the leader of the largest part of the people, looked tired and dying, but he spoke politely.

"Ben will be the new Yongfeng County garrison, I can't talk to you, take Ben to see you general, 100,000 urgent, fast!"

Yongfeng County was captured by the Ming army last year, and then handed over to a local bandit, not long ago Jiangxi Governor Liu Guangbi just regained the county seat, the new garrison naturally no one knows what to call. However, judging by his anxious appearance, the guard was not a fool - delaying the military situation was a capital crime, and there was no need to be concerned about this attitude.

He entered the urn city with the garrison and a few accompanying personal soldiers, and soon met the gatekeeper of the Jinxian Gate. He retreated left and right, but unexpectedly, after listening to the answer of the person who came, his face changed, and he hurriedly pulled the garrison into the city, and asked his subordinates to put the cavalry outside the city into the urn city.

The gatekeeper always took his own soldiers and the garrison into the city and went all the way north, but he looked at the guards for a moment.

"Brother, drink saliva, what's wrong, it's inconvenient to tell us."

The guard who spoke was very polite, and the cavalryman who took the water bowl did not hesitate, poured a big mouthful into his stomach, and said to the guard: "Brother, I see that my brother is a good person, I will explain it to you today, hurry up and run away with my family." The old scripture is gone, the Guangxin Mansion has been lost, and even the fortress has been captured, and some of the Tianming army will have to be killed. ”

"Huh?!"

As soon as the news came out, Deng immediately shook the guard in place, and his exclamation attracted the curious guards even more.

The cavalry who spoke spoke with a Liaodong accent, saying that it was a chief of the left shrimp battalion, and the left and right shrimp battalions were Hong Chengchou's personal soldiers of Jingluo Mansion, and the two commanders were also from the inner guards, and it was said that the emperor specially sent them to protect the famous old manager. Even these people have abandoned their armor and fled back, so it is really the end of Guangxin Mansion.

"How is this possible? What kind of character is that, how can he die like this? ”

"What's impossible, Lao Jingluo was defeated last year, and he was also defeated in Yushan a few days ago, and the opponents were all the Xiu Guogong of the Ming Army, and this time it was the killing god who came over with his soldiers."

"Yes, yes. I'm waiting for tens of thousands of troops, and they're all fighting to the death, but they can't be defeated. Zhejiang's Ming army is too fierce, and the knife is slashed on the body like no one, do you say you can not lose? ”

"I've also heard that the commander of the Ming army knows how to do it, and his soldiers are invulnerable, maybe that's really the case."

"So what's going to be done?"

“……”

The guards of Jinxianmen are all natives of Nanchang, and when the northern green battalion soldiers of the standard battalion and the standard battalion were trained in Nanchang, they inevitably had to steal chickens and dogs, which was very unpleasant to look at. But now that even Hong Chengchou is finished, there is a Fubiao battalion in Nanchang City, a huge city, how to defend it, won't the locals be unlucky when the time comes.

After a while, the defenders of Jinxianmen and the cavalry chatted in a mess, and there were all kinds of strange jokes, so that they even forgot their own duties to defend the city, and probably only the gatekeeper was still doing his duty as a defender. (To be continued.) )