On the afternoon of February 13 in the third year of Longwu, Anhua County. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

In the wilderness between a great river and the mountains in the distance, dense tents stretched. In the camp, you can see the fire red flag of the Ming army and the officers and soldiers in helmets and armor everywhere. A closer look shows that the ostensibly unified camp is actually divided into two parts, fluttering the handsome flags of the characters "Liu" and "Pang" respectively.

This is the Huguang General Soldier Pang Yue Division and the Wugang General Liu Chengyin Division, which are led by Zhu Dadian, the secretary of the military department, and are preparing to go to Changsha.

Soon after setting off from Chenzhou, Zhu Dadian sent a fast horse messenger to Changde to inform Ma Jinzhong and Wang Yuncheng, and asked them to lead the army to meet here. Yesterday evening, the messenger reported that Ma and Wang had come south with more than 12,000 soldiers and horses from their headquarters, and they would probably be able to arrive here within today's day. So, Zhu Dadian ordered the whole army to camp again and wait for the arrival of Changde's soldiers and horses.

At this time, in Zhu Dadian's tent, Pang Yue, Liu Chengyin, and several important generals under their respective subordinates were gathering together to analyze the current situation between the enemy and us.

However, most of the time, it is Pang Yue and the generals of Huguang Town who speak, and Liu Chengyin and the generals of Wugang Town rarely take the initiative to make any remarks, and even if they do, most of them are "reasonable!" It seems that the upcoming war has little to do with them, they are just a bystander.

Regarding this situation, Pang Yue had already expected this situation before, and he didn't take it too seriously, and still informed everyone of the various Qing army movements sent back by the Intelligence Department, and added a little analysis of his own.

"Overseer. Uncle Dingman and the generals," Pang Yue stood in front of the map in the tent and introduced to the people around him, "According to the news that our troops have probed from the front. This time, the Qing captives who went south to Huguang were commanded by the white-flaged slave chieftain Duoduo, and the composition of its troops mainly included in the following parts:

Pseudo-Gongshun Wang Kong Youde, Huaishun Wang Geng Zhongming, Zhishun Wang Shang Kexi, Xushun Gongsheng Zhixiang Department, these four Han army banner soldiers nearly 20,000;

The Han army is the Blue Banner Melle Zhangjing Tong Tai Division, the Manchuria Blue Banner Melle Zhangjing Lan Bai Division, the Manchuria White Banner Melle Zhangjing Zhuoluo Division, each of these three troops and horses, each of which includes 2,000 soldiers in its banner Aliha Chaoha Battalion, more than 4,000 auxiliary soldiers and Baoyi Ahha. more than 18,000 in total;

The Han army inlaid with the red flag and the real gold gravel department, the Manchuria inlaid with the white flag and the Ezhen Ilden department, and the Han army inlaid with the white flag and the Ezhen Tong Tulai department, these three troops and horses. Each of them includes more than 400 soldiers of the Bayala battalion in its banner, more than 2,500 armored soldiers of the Aliha Chaoha battalion, and more than 4,000 auxiliary soldiers and coated Ahha, a total of more than 20,000;

Then there are the green battalion soldiers recruited from Huguang, Henan, and Anhui, of which the Hunan green battalion is the puppet Yuezhou general army and Ma Jiaolin department. Xiangyang General Soldier Wang Guangen Division, a total of more than 8,000 people, Henan Green Battalion for Henan General Soldier Zhang Yingxiang Division, a total of more than 5,000 people. The Anhui Green Battalion is the Huangzhou General Soldier Xu Yong Department and the Chizhou General Soldier Yu Yongshou Division, with a total of more than 7,000 people. The above green battalions have a total of more than 20,000 soldiers and horses.

In this way, the Qing captives who went south this time included Manchuria, the Eight Banners of the Han Army, and the green battalions of various departments. It is roughly around 80,000, and it is known as 100,000 to the outside world. ”

Although he didn't know how Pang Yue's Tanma obtained such accurate information, Zhu Dadian still frowned tightly. Unexpectedly, the Imperial Court attached so much importance to this southern expedition, and actually sent 80,000 troops, it seems that they want to finish their work in one battle! Needless to say, the 80,000 Qing troops of the Eight Banners of Manchuria are fierce, and the combat power of the Eight Banners of the Han Army cannot be ignored, and even the more than 20,000 green battalion soldiers will become vicious dogs that bite people one after another after receiving sufficient food and salary and the supervision of the Eight Banners. It seems that the next battle will be very dangerous!

After Liu Chengyin and his subordinates heard Pang Yue's report, some panicked colors flashed on their faces, and a few people even turned pale. …,

"The clearing is big, the clearing is big!" Liu Chengyin's eyes were a little straight, and he sighed again and again.

The rest of the Wugang generals also sighed and discussed: "My God, there are 80,000 people in Qing!" "In this battle, I'm afraid our army will be more than lucky!" ……

Zhu Dadian saw that Liu Chengyin and others were silent when discussing military affairs, and when he heard that the Qing army was menacing, he opened his mouth to extinguish his prestige, and he was immediately furious, but because of his face, he was too angry, so he just suppressed the anger in his heart and shouted: "What are you panicking about? Although there are 80,000 Qing captives, our dynasty is not less than this number in Huguang, as long as all the towns work together and fight bravely to kill the enemy, it may not be impossible to repel the Qing captives! ”

In fact, Zhu Dadian also knew that although the number of soldiers and horses in the towns in Huguang was not lower than that of the Qing army that went south this time, or even slightly exceeded, the soldiers who could fight and dared to fight were probably less than fifty percent.

However, despite this situation, Zhu Dadian could not tolerate Liu Chengyin and others' nonsense to shake the morale of the army, and he could not stop it without saying anything.

After drinking the frustrated words of Liu Chengyin and the others, Zhu Dadian looked at Pang Yue and the generals of Huguang Town who had a calm face, and couldn't help but sigh in comparison

"Supervisor, this time the Qing captives are menacing," the panic in Liu Chengyin's eyes still hasn't completely disappeared, "In the eyes of the last general, we have to report this matter to the imperial court as soon as possible and ask for more reinforcements." Otherwise, the next situation will be unimaginable! ”

There's no end to this?! Zhu Dadian's anger that had just calmed down a little rose again, and when he was about to reprimand him severely, a personal general outside the tent opened the curtain and entered, hugged his fists and said: "Report to the superintendent, Changde's chief soldier Ma Jinzhong and deputy general Wang Yuncheng have arrived with their headquarters. ”

Hearing the news, Zhu Dadian swallowed the curse words that came to his lips, and said to the people in the tent: "Since this is the case, then you will go out with me to greet the two generals Ma and Wang!" ”

"Yes!" The tents will be promised.

After leaving the camp tent, Pang Yue saw a mighty army coming from the north, only a hundred steps away from the gate of the camp.

Although he has not met Ma Jinzhong, Pang Yue, who has read relevant historical materials, still knows something about this person, this Ma Jinzhong was also a general in the camp, nicknamed "mixed 100,000", and was later defeated by Zuo Liangyu and was incorporated by him. In the first year of Hongguang, Zuo Liangyu died of illness, and his son Zuo Mengeng led the army to surrender to the Qing Dynasty, but Ma Jinzhong did not obey, so he led his troops and horses to break away from the left army, and accepted the adaptation of the Southern Ming court. Later, Ma Jinzhong became an important general of the Yongli Dynasty in the Southern Ming Dynasty, followed Li Dingguo to participate in many battles against the Qing army, was named the king of Hanyang, and always insisted on resisting the Qing until he died of illness after the defeat in the twelfth year of Yongli (1658). (To be continued.) )

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