The Wuchang water battalion was in turmoil, and they waved the banner of the Ming army under the leadership of the deputy general Cao Shou and the guerrilla Ma Yulong, one to meet the Dongting Lake water division coming from upstream, and the other to shell Wuchang City. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Zhang Changgeng never expected that he would have high hopes and feed Wuchang Shuiying with more than 100,000 taels of silver would turn his face and refuse to recognize people.

Without the Wuchang Water Battalion to control the river defense, Wuchang City was in danger. Soon, the people of Wuchang City saw that the river was full of boats carrying the Ming army across the river, and groups of Ming troops wearing red military uniforms drove to the city of Wuchang.

Yu Shizhong, the commander of the Huguang Aid and Suppression Corps, and Tie Yi, the deputy commander of the Loyal Battalion, met with Li Laiheng and Yuan Zongdi, the representatives of the Loyal Battalion, in Hanyang City, and the two sides decided on the military deployment of joining forces to break through Wuchang and the question of the ownership of Wuchang after the war.

As promised by Zhou Shixiang in the past, Wuchang and the whole province of Hubei were still under the loyal battalion, and Yuan Zongdi was the governor of Hubei, but the loyal battalion had to send troops to Henan after capturing Huchang.

The Loyalty Battalion has no opinion on this condition. They have always wanted to take Wuchang, but their strength is that even Hanyang has been unable to take it for a long time, and as a result, as soon as the Taiping army arrived, they easily left Hanyang City, which made the loyal battalion both happy and suspicious. Many people are afraid that if the Taiping Army takes Wuchang, they will renege on their previous agreement and dominate Wuchang and not hand it over to the Loyal Battalion, after all, the Taiping Army is much stronger than them. I don't want the Taiping army to still abide by the previous agreement, after the city of Hanyang was broken, not a single soldier entered the city, and Hanyang was completely handed over to the loyal battalion, which made the leaders of the loyal battalion feel at ease, and they were very active in crossing the river to attack Wuchang.

After the meeting, Tie Yi personally crossed the river and was responsible for commanding all the Ming troops under Wuchang City, including the loyal battalion. Hao Shaoqi and He Zhen passed the word to their subordinates, and whoever didn't listen to General Tie's command would have their heads.

Yu Shizhong coordinated with Li Laiheng and others in Hanyang, and at the same time agreed on the money, food and military support that the Taiping army could give after the loyal battalion sent troops to Henan. These things are too cumbersome, and they can be negotiated in a moment and a half. However, the atmosphere of the negotiation was very good, because neither the Taiping army nor the loyal battalion had any doubts about taking Wuchang.

The order to form the Huguang Reinforcement and Suppression Corps was sent from the Marshal's Office to the Guangxi Field Corps and the Hunan Field Corps more than a month ago. This order ordered Yu Shizhong, the commander of the Guangxi Field Corps, to step down, lead the fifth and thirteenth towns to the north, and form the Huguang Aid and Suppression Corps with the second, new and fourth towns of the Hunan Field Corps, with a total strength of 41,200 people in the five towns.

The task of the Huguang Reinforcement and Suppression Corps was to cooperate with the Loyal Battalion to capture Hanyang and Wuchang, and then seize Anqing along the lower reaches of the river, occupy the prefectures and counties of Anhui in Jiangbei, and respond to the reinforcement of Nanjing. If you use a rhetoric, then the Huguang Aid Suppression Army is a sword hanging over the head of the Qing army downstream, including the upcoming Shunzhi army. Because they could not figure out when the mobile regiment would join the battlefield and from which direction it would appear in front of them.

In the order, the Huguang Reinforcement Suppression Corps took Yu Shizhong as the principal and Tie Yi as the deputy. The Fourth Town and the Fourteenth Town, which originally belonged to the Guangxi Field Army, were temporarily controlled by Governor Shao Jiugong, and together with the Tenth Town, they undertook the defense of Guangxi. The main task of the fourth and fourteenth towns is to block the Guizhou-Guizhou border, relying on the fortress fortifications to completely crush the Yunnan-Guizhou Qing army's desire to enter Guizhou.

The new five, new six and ninth towns of the Xiangxi Bandit Army, which originally belonged to the Hunan Field Army, continued to be commanded by Zhao Sihai, who was the commander of the legion, because Zhao Sihai had been appointed by the imperial court as the governor of Hunan, so he resigned from the post of commander of the legion, and only commanded the armies as the governor.

Now there is no major war in Guangxi and Hunan, so the corps establishment is all abolished, and the commander of the corps also resigns and hands over the military power, so as not to sit on the generals.

The situation in the provinces is now that Liao Ruixiang, the governor of Guangdong, controls the seventh town of Chaoshan, the eighth town of Zhaoqing, and the two towns of Xinqi and Xinba, and the naval division is directly under the control of the military marshal's office; Shao Jiugong, the governor of Guangxi, controlled the three towns; Hunan: Zhao Sihai controlled the four towns; The newly established Huguang Aid and Suppression Corps controlled the troops of the Five Towns, while Zhao Ziqiang, who was far away in Annam, controlled all the expeditionary forces. Together with the eastward advance of the Taiping Army and the soldiers and horses left behind in Jiangxi, the total strength of the Taiping Army has reached 200,000, but the main force is less than 100,000, and the cavalry is only more than 3,600. Compared with the Manchu side's cavalry superiority in the north, the Taiping army lagged far behind, and there was no way to narrow the gap in this area in a short period of time.

After Tie Yi crossed the river, he sent people to the city to persuade him to surrender according to the custom. The content of the letter of persuasion has now been standardized, and it basically means the same thing, if you do not surrender, the gentry and their families will be slaughtered after the city is broken. If demoted, the original official will be appointed.

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"I want to be Emperor Zhang Changgeng and Emperor Taizong Jianba, from its pen paste style to the secretary of the academy, only one year to move to the Hongwen Academy to study. One day, Emperor Taizong went to Hongwen Academy, saw that there were patches on my clothes, and immediately asked his subordinates to allocate several slaves to me, and gave me a big house, and even gave me the position of leader, so that I Zhang Changgeng could have no worries about food and clothing. Today, the saint believes in me, and orders me to be the governor of Hubei, and then the governor of Huguang. Since I took office, I have tried my best to think that the Qing Dynasty will pacify the lake and live up to the expectations of the saints. However, I never thought it would be like this..."

In the governor's yamen, in front of a group of staff, Zhang Changgeng couldn't say anything. The staff members were also choked up.

"I only hate Cao Shou and Ma Yulong's people for being ungrateful, incorruptible and shameless, and turning their backs on the governor, so that I have no river defense to rely on, and sit and watch the thieves trap the city!"

Zhu Changxu, the prefect of Wuchang, was very emotional, and his hands were clenched into fists. Now in Wuchang City, because of the persuasion of the Ming army, many officials have the intention of surrendering, especially the family members are in the city, and the family is in Hubei, and they can't wait for the governor to open the door and surrender immediately, otherwise they will be buried alive. It's just that if you take the Qing court's money and make some small money on weekdays, you really want to make the whole family and the clan be slaughtered by the Taiping army, which is really wronged.

Zhu Changxu is a native of Xiangyang, Hubei, and was born in Shunzhi for four years, so it stands to reason that his family is in the city, and his clan is in Xiangyang, so there is no reason to insist on not surrendering, and he must be the main battle faction. From the moment he saw Zhang Changgeng, Zhu Changxu was excited, and he claimed that he would never surrender, and he would rather have the officials and gentry of the city shattered, and would not be humiliated by the thieves. This attitude made other officials who were bent on surrendering very disgusted. But the Governor couldn't make up his mind, and no one dared to say that it would be lowered.

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Today, my sister brought me a bottle of Wuliangye, 68 degrees, the first time in my life to drink such a tall wine, just into the stomach half a bottle, I feel that I am full of strength.

I looked up to the sky and shouted, "Please subscribe!" (To be continued.) )