Zhong Xiang, Anlu Mansion City. Located in the north-central part of Hubei Province, the middle reaches of the Han River, east of Jingshan, south of Tianmen, west of Jingmen, the Han River from north to south through its whole territory, the territory of mountains, hills, plains, river ports, lakes at the same time. Originally, this place was not called by that name, but by longevity. But more than 200 years ago, the birth of a person changed the name of the place here, and also changed the history of China, he is Zhu Houxi, Emperor Jiajing of the Ming Dynasty.

Emperor Jiajing is very literate, to his own birth, originated here, take the meaning of "Feng Shui treasure, auspicious bell", then give the county name "Zhongxiang", and promote Anlu Mansion as Chengtian Mansion. The Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs and the name of the prefecture should be returned to Anlu, and the name of the county is still Zhongxiang.

There is nothing dangerous about this place. The number of militia groups in Anlu Province is also pitiful, and the total number of gentry caught along the way is less than 1,000.

Chen Ming didn't think that the militia of less than 1,000 people ahead could block the way of the army. And the fact is that even the prefect of Anlu Mansion didn't expect to be able to resist the southward movement of Chen Ming's army, he just wanted to make an appearance, it was best for Chen Ming to continue to go south after breaking the interception, don't give Zhong Xiang a moment.

Outside Zhongxiang City, by the Han River, the militia of Anlu Mansion built two forts and set up a camp with great effort. There were ditches and fences in front of the camp, there were horses and breastwalks, and there seemed to be some facilities in the camp.

But it doesn't matter, just the few small cannons owned by the Anlu Mansion militia will not have any impact on Chen Ming's army at all.

Of course, this is also the reason why Chen Ming's expedition has just taken the first step, and it is not unusual for Anlu Mansion to dare to come out and do 'looks' in such a situation. If Chen Ming really crosses through South China with one horse, I believe that if this situation is encountered again, a 'small dish' like Anlu Mansion will not even dare to make a appearance.

Now Chen Ming needs to make people realize that there is a price to be paid for being a 'look'.

The two earth-wood open-air artillery forts in front of him will collapse and destroy in the absolute superior artillery fire of the Chen family's army.

Under the vigilance of the musketeers and cavalry battalion horses, the artillery units in the team began to assemble and build an artillery position about 400 meters from the camp of the Anlu militia regiment.

The horse team wandering around, the musketeers holding muskets, and the A barracks not far away, Zhu Yan, the leader of the Anlu militia group, only turned into a long sigh. With such a powerful thief army, they are still so cautious. "Isn't the leader of the rebels a young man who is only eighteen years old?" Famous in all directions, invincible, there is not the slightest sense of ambition and arrogance??

Zhu Yan paid attention to Chen Ming as early as when Yongrui transferred troops north to Henan, although many of them were rumors, but looking at the battles experienced by Chen Ming, he only gave people the feeling that he was a stable veteran on the battlefield, without a little youthful spirit. That is, the battle of the horse team's raid on Chen Huizu is still a bit colorful, and the others are all head-to-head duels, head-to-head duels again and again.

Zhu Yan sometimes can't help but wonder, is Chen Ming a pretext launched by the Fu Han General's Mansion, but in fact, there are other people who command the army to fight and kill?

The civil structure of the barracks and the open-air forts were very vulnerable under the bombardment of artillery.

"Boom-"

"Boom-"

After several test firings, all the heavy guns in the artillery positions of the Fuhan Army erupted in flames, and round bullets hit the camp of the Anlu People's Regiment 400 meters away, and all the places they carried were shattered. The arm-thick wood has no resistance to the cannonball, even if the thigh-thick log is hit by the cannonball, it will also break.

And this artillery bombardment lasted for two quarters of an hour, and the entire artillery position was filled with smoke and water mist. When the artillerymen poured buckets of water on the barrels, with a slight wave of Chen Ming's arm, a large group of armored soldiers brandished knives and guns and rushed towards the rotten camp of the Anlu militia.

At the moment when the cannon of the Fu Han army sounded, the people of the Anlu militia exploded and drilled everywhere. Where have they ever seen such a battle? The cannons of the Great Wall on which they relied could not reach each other, but the shells of the other party's cannons could cover the entire camp, and when the earthen walls burst in front of them, when the wood burst in front of their eyes, these people were in disarray. None of the ten people honestly lay on the ground, silently letting the artillery fire of the Fu Han army bombard indiscriminately, and let the deadly shells rage around him.

Unable to hold their breath, the panicked Anlu militia will only make their losses bigger and bigger.

When Zhu Yan came out of the ditch and raised his head to look at the camp, there were no more people jumping around in the camp, which was originally four or five hundred people, but the corpses everywhere made him confused......

"Big brother, the thieves are coming......" A man in his thirties ran to Zhu Yan's side.

Zhu Yan froze down, his eyes looked at the camp again, and said without hesitation: "Let's go, let's go!" "If you don't leave, you won't be able to leave.

How many of the camp, which was originally four or five hundred people, are still alive? Regardless of whether they were really killed, or shrunk somewhere like Zhu Yan just now, anyway, Zhu Yan didn't believe that the remnants of the camp could block the attack from the opposite side. At least his own confidence was wiped out by the shelling, as the rest of the militia could imagine.

"Let's go, let's go. Don't run to the city, go to the countryside, go to the countryside......" Zhu Yan shouted to the dozens of people gathered around him. He couldn't be sure whether Chen Ming would attack Zhong Xiang, after all, with the combat effectiveness shown by the Fu Han army, Zhong Xiang was too vulnerable. So the current Zhong Xiangcheng must not go back!

Of course, Chen Ming would not pay attention to Zhu Yan and his party, who had fled, and the A battalion took the camp almost bloodlessly, and then the army attacked Zhongxiang City without any stop.

In the afternoon of the same day, the news that Chen Ming led his army to break Zhong Xiangcheng spread. At this time, Chen Ming did not receive the news, and he did not know that Xue Shiyan, the chief soldier of Yichang Town, had just entered Jingmen with his headquarters. Otherwise, it is difficult to say whether Chen Ming will suddenly change the direction of the army and wave his troops to Jingmen.

On November 9, Zhongxiang City was conquered, and on the 12th, Qianjiang was captured. After Chen Ming crossed the Han River in Xinglong Town and Zhangjigang, and effortlessly took Qianjiang County, the army's strategy for Jingzhou officially began.

In these days, the whole Hubei is shaking, and Chen Ming is obviously going to go down the Han River to the Yangtze River, and Hubei must be in chaos. Some places along the Han River and the Yangtze River have been hung by officials. They didn't want to die, but there was no army around, so they had better hang up the seal early and leave early, at least save their lives.

Tianmen and Chuyang Prefecture, which are not far from Qianjiang, quietly sent people to promise a large amount of money, grain and materials, just asking Chen Ming to raise his noble hand and let them go.

Chen Ming couldn't help but think of Li Jiannan. This guy ran away from Ruzhou to Luoyang, and I don't know how his life is going, or if he has left the chaotic Henan Mansion......