Changsha in winter has a very Jiangnan taste, and Chen Ming thinks this is the reason for the water. The www.biquge.info is located on the water's edge, and it is sure to be wet and cold in winter.

Chen Ming had a big stove in front of him at this moment, and around him sat Chen Yongsheng, Shi Meng, Ma Wenjie, Zhao Yongji and other generals. The Fu Han army went to Hunan for two months, and now the large army has been withdrawn from central and southern Hunan. Because the people of Liangguang and Jiangxi have been transferred to Hunan.

The news from Fujian, the situation of the Heaven and Earth Society has not yet been greatly displayed, but the news from Jiujiang proves that the part of the Qing soldiers divided is very important to the Qing army in Jiangxi, and the Jiangxi Qing army and the regiment training Minyong, who have been competing with Jiujiang Lake Mouth before, have now taken the initiative to retreat to Nankang. In the Poyang Lake area, a defensive network was formed with Xingzi [Nankang], Duchang, Raozhou, and Nanchang as support points.

Of course, Zhou Zhilin of the Xiangdong Independent Regiment also withdrew from Pingxiang, and after he led his troops to block the Jiangxi Qing army in Zhuling Pass for two days, he retreated to Liling, and then lost Liling, and now he has retreated to Liuyang. Zhu Hongfei and Hu Mantian in Xiangxi fought two battles with the Qing soldiers from Guangxi, and retreated to Hengyang, leaving only a thousand people left in the two regiments.

When these two were in high spirits, many people came to burn a fire, but now the Qing army of Liangguang is going north, and the two have been defeated again and again, first losing Daozhou, and then Yongzhou, I don't know how many people escaped in the middle. It's just that the people who can follow these two people to Hengyang together are all the hardcore or iron-hearted people who want to oppose the Qing Dynasty.

Chen Ming returned to Changsha, but Hengyang was still garrisoned by a regiment of the 15th Brigade and a naval division. Whether it is the Qing soldiers from Guangxi who entered Yongzhou or the Qing soldiers from Guangdong who entered Chenzhou, these two groups of people want to relieve the siege of Changsha, and Hengyang is a hurdle that they cannot overcome.

Part of the men and horses of the 15th Brigade are now hanging in Hengyang, the other part is in Xiangtan in the south of Changsha, the east is corresponding to the Jiangxi Qing army from Liling, and some of them are merged into the large army of the Fu Han army outside Changsha with Zhao Yongji.

Chen Ming drew a simple map on the ground, poking at the location of Changsha, "Changsha has been watched for two months, although there is no shortage of food in the city, but the morale of the army and civilians is not high. Especially after that article came in, their morale dropped even more. "Those who are officials are no longer working for the Qing Dynasty, should those who are soldiers be more loyal than those who are officials?

"What's more, there is also the Qinglian Sect in Changsha as an internal response, it should be quite simple for us to fight Changsha now. Now it depends on whether the Qing army outside will come. If they don't come, we can only simply eat Changsha; When they're coming, we've got an extra fish. "The siege of the city also depends on whether the enemy takes the bait.

Chen Ming has been in Hengyang for the past two months, but he has not relaxed the situation in Changsha City. The Fu Han army circled Changsha and moved south, which re-stabilized the morale of the Qing army after the defeat, and it seemed that Chen Ming had made another unwise move. But this move was intentional by Chen Ming, because he could give the people of the Changsha Qinglian Sect more opportunities to get ahead. For example, the credit for the night position on duty!

After the defeat that night, the morale of the Qing soldiers defending the city fell greatly, and they were not even willing to do the errand of guarding the position at night. Changqing didn't force his subordinates, so the matter was pushed to Fang Shijun, and Fang Shijun still had a little Hunan Green Camp and Minyong under him, so he could only pressure Hunan soldiers and Xiangyong to do this dangerous work. At that time, the Qing army was afraid that the Han army would attack at night.

And this is the opportunity for Qinglian to teach people to come forward, have they been in contact with the Fu Han Army?

After the large army of the Fu Han army moved south, the crisis in Changsha was resolved, and the Yungui Qing soldiers took over the errand of night duty again, because they felt that there was no danger.

But in the ensuing confrontation, the Fu Han army almost never launched an active attack on Changsha during the day, but the attacks at night were much more frequent. The Qing army, who was killed soon, was afraid, and this errand returned to the hands of Hunan soldiers and Xiang Yong. Relying on the collusion of both sides, the Qinglian Sect, which originally had a small foundation in Changsha, has now really controlled the military power of some Hunan soldiers and Hunan Yong.

Chen Ming wants to really fight Changsha at this time, which is far easier than taking advantage of the victory before.

When hundreds of cannons were bombarded by Chen Ming on the positions outside the city north of Changsha, Changqing, Daxing'a, and Fang Shijun were all as ugly as their dead mothers.

When the smoke of artillery shells filled the Qing army's position, the hand-to-hand combat troops of the Fu Han army, wearing iron armor and holding spears and swords, quickly pounced and drilled into the position of the Qing army. The war turned into hand-to-hand combat, and the Qing troops guarding the positions had little chance of winning.

Changqing and Fang Shijun could only go all out to ask for help from the Jiangxi soldiers and horses in Liangguang and Liling, and even Ben Jinzhong in Changde. It's all a relationship between them. As soon as Changsha is broken, there will be no city in the area east of Dongting Lake that can resist the footsteps of the Fu Han army, and they can completely enter Pingxiang County, southern Hunan, and the west bank of Dongting Lake again.

Changqing and Fang Shijun could only comfort themselves like this, and on the other hand, they tried their best to add grace to their teams, and used gold and silver to boost the morale of the soldiers, and then they asked God to bless them!

"There is only one regiment in Hengyang, plus a thousand defeated soldiers in Xiangxi. The two Qing armies combined with 10,000 or 20,000 troops, how could they not dare to fight Hengyang, I directly sent a brigade into the city of Guangzhou. ”

Chen Ming soon received reports of an attack by the Qing army on the Hengyang side. Laughing loudly, he ordered the troops of the 15th Brigade in Hengyang not to hold on to Hengyang, and directly asked them to retreat in the direction of Xiangtan.

"Changsha wants to fight harder. The Jiangxi Qing army in Liling has not yet moved. ”

Changde Ben has more than 10,000 Qing troops who have been loyal to him, and he has been really honest in the past few months. If the men and horses of Liangguang and Jiangxi converged to the south of Changsha, would the Qing army of Ben Jinzhong still not move?

When the troops changed from a general battle between the two armies in a certain position to a multi-way offensive and defensive battle scattered within a range of hundreds of miles, Chen Ming felt that he seemed to have faintly completed a transformation, or this change came too suddenly, his eyes did not stay on Changsha City, but paid more attention to the 'outside'!

The attack of the Fu Han army under the city of Changsha continued, and in a few days the Fu Han army took the Kaifu Temple in the north of the city, so that their troops were only three miles away from the new opening of the north city.

Changqing's letter for help flew to Liling like snowflakes, and Zhou Kaitai, the chief soldier of Jiangxi Southwest Gan Town, who led the troops stationed here, was also bitter in his heart. Since his family knows his own affairs, the troops under his command look quite the same thing, and the so-called Xiangdong Independent Regiment used to fight Zhou Zhilin has also been frequently successful, but Zhou Kaitai has not fought with the Fu Han army in Jiujiang and Hukou, and the combat power and armament on both sides are not on the same level at all. If the 10,000-strong army under his command fought head-on, even two or three thousand armored Fu Han troops would not be able to stop it.

In the spring and summer of last year, Jiangxi's 30,000 horses and horses also frequently attacked the Fu Han army troops at the mouth of Jiujiang Lake, and from time to time there were small good news reports, although they were not worth looking at seriously. However, on the front, the Jiangxi Qing army occupied a certain initiative. However, in May, the Fu Han army in Jiujiang changed its armor and artillery, and the Qing soldiers in Jiangxi could not fight again. On the contrary, the Fu Han army in Jiujiang frequently launched small-scale counterattacks from the mountains, and the Qing army suffered losses again and again, and had to turn the offensive into a defensive position.

Wu Shaoshi was also clamoring to match the soldiers with armor in Nanchang City, but he was only clamoring. Now there are more and more guns and cannons in the ranks of the Qing army in Jiangxi, because of the armor of the Han army, plus there is a Lushan Mountain in Jiujiang, there are many mountains, and the artillery is inconvenient to travel. Carrying a gun and a cannon can be useful in skirmishes in the mountains, but in large-scale frontal battles, it's simply a mistaken tech tree.

"Lord Zhentai, if you want to rescue Changsha, you don't need to go to Xiangtan. Let's go north directly and hit Liuyang. ”

Changsha is only 80 miles away from Xiangtan, and the Fu Han army can reach it by boat in half a day, and whether the Jiangxi soldiers and horses can come out again when they arrive in Xiangtan is two different things. But if you go to Liuyang by land, the enemy in front of you is Zhou Zhilin's rabble, and there is nothing to worry about at all. If the army of the Fu Han army comes, then they will retreat in stride. If you can't defeat the Fu Han army, can't you still run away from the Fu Han army?

So just when Chen Ming received a report from the dark camp, saying that Shandong's 'Liangshan Plan' had been opened, Zhou Zhilin also sent a express report that the Qing army in Liling did not attack Xiangtan to the west, but turned to the north to take the not easy to take the land route, and came to Liuyang. It seems that not a single decent artillery piece has been seen in this Jiangxi Qing army in the north!

"Your Highness, the troops of Liangguang attacking Hengshan have retreated."

The not very good news came one after another, the Qing army that had just 'captured' Hengyang, the troops who went north to Hengshan suddenly returned the same way, and the dark camp of the Qing army in Liangguang immediately flew pigeons to report to Changsha.

Qing Jun is not an idiot, Chen Ming knows it very well. But Changsha is such an important place, won't the Qing army save it? It's not scientific!

Chen Ming stood up suddenly, there were not many troops used by the Han army in this battle, how did the Qing army do it?

"Let the troops take all the positions outside the north wall of Shacheng." Chen Ming, who couldn't think of a clue, could only let the troops press Changsha more tightly. And then there was Changde's Benjin Zhongbu, Chen Ming never saw him move. The Qing army of Liangguang, which had already gone north, also suddenly returned to Hengyang, and there must have been changes within the Qing army that he did not know, but in any case, he was going to send reinforcements in the siege of Changsha, but he couldn't do it.

On that day, the onslaught of the Fu Han army on the position north of the city attracted all the attention of Changqing and Fang Shijun. In the Liuyang Gate Gate Tower on the west side, the sun had already set, and the garrison Shen Zichun was already a little restless. Seeing that the sky is already dark, how can you say that the good people have not arrived? "Is there trouble on the way?" Shen Zichun asked himself, but he immediately denied the idea.

This time, the Qinglian Sect was well-planned, they cooperated with the Fu Han Army for more than two months, and many people were promoted to the position of garrison and general manager by the line of fire, although this was due to Fang Shijun's messy hair. But today, the Fu Han army launched a fierce attack on the north of the city, and everyone's attention in the city turned to the north city, and the people of the Fu Han army should have no problem entering the city.

"It's hard to walk on the road!" Shen Zichun couldn't help comforting himself in his heart. The Fu Han army never launched an attack on the west of Changsha, and over time, even Fang Shijun and Changqing ignored the west, but this also shows that the Qing army's defense line in the west of Changsha is complete. Although the guards here are not very good.

The team infiltrated by the Fu Han army had to come to Liuyang Gate under the watchful eyes of most of the Hunan soldiers and Xiang Yong in the positions in the west of the city, even if it was led by the Qinglian Sect, it would be troublesome. Ever since he received the letter this morning, Shen Zichun has felt cold all over his body, and his heart has been up and down. When I meet my colleagues, I always feel that the eyes of others looking at me are full of inexplicable meaning.

"Your Excellency!" One of the generals rushed into the city gate tower and said to Shen Zichun: "There is a branch of the township outside approaching. ”

Shen Zichun's heart paused at this moment, and a palpitating sensation that could not be described in words rose from his heart. It was like being held tightly in the heart, and the feeling of suffocation made him forget to breathe at that moment.

"Whose banner is it for?" Shen Zichun's mind was blank, but he didn't hesitate to get out of this sentence.

As soon as the word "number" blurted out, Shen Zichun slammed a spirit, and everything returned to its original state, mind, body and mind. The tremendous pressure, the palpitations, as if it had never been there, suddenly disappeared without a trace. Shen Zichun's mind is extremely clear at this moment, and his state is good, and he can't be better.

"It's dark, I can't see clearly."

"I'll see." Shen Zichun stood up, straightened his horse coat, and stepped out of the city gate tower.

Standing on the city wall and looking around, I saw that not far away, outside the defensive line of the position outside the city, a group of soldiers and horses were approaching quickly and openly.

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On the twelfth day of the lunar month, the defenders of Changsha Xicheng rebelled, and Changsha City immediately fell. More than 20,000 Qing troops fought hard, defeated and retreated to Jinpenling in the south of the city, the whole army was annihilated, Fang Shijun, the governor of Changsha, the main general of the army below Changqing, and dozens of civil and military officers were gone...... (To be continued.) )