Seeing that the Western Army was finally repulsed, Hutong also breathed a sigh of relief, wiped the cold sweat on his head, and said in his heart: "It's so dangerous, it's so dangerous, I still lack experience, and I didn't take care of the entire battlefield, so that the enemy army has an opportunity to take advantage of." Fortunately, Li Long repeatedly emphasized that no matter how tight the troops were, they must also set aside a part of the reserve troops, which came in handy at this juncture. Otherwise, this position will be difficult to hold. ”

Hutong looked at the front defense line again, and Hu Yijing recruited all the soldiers who rushed out of the trench back, and rearranged the defense in the trench. And the attacking men and horses of the Western Army all retreated. In this way, it seems that it is not a problem at all to hold on to the second fleet to the shore. And at this moment, one of the soldiers said: "Commander, you see, our ship has reached the shore. ”

When I looked up at the alley, I saw that there were several large ships that lowered their sails and were approaching the slowly temporary wharf, and behind them, there were countless boats, all slowly sailing towards the shore.

Just when the Shandong soldiers welcomed the second batch of ships to the shore, in the formation of the Western Army, Sun Kewang and Liu Wenxiu almost quarreled.

It turned out that after Liu Wenxiu led the army back to the position, because of his success, he was still worried about it, so he blamed Sun Kewang for a few words. It would be good to say that he should let the frontal attack last a little longer, so that the Shandong soldiers would be flawless to take care of the defense line on the left, and then his own roundabout attack would be successful, and now he might have broken through the defense line of the Shandong soldiers.

And Sun Kewangtong was also angry, after listening to Liu Wenxiu's words, he added fuel to the fire, of course he would not admit that he did not do a good job, so he immediately refuted Liu Wenxiu, he ran away just now, did not help himself to supervise the battle in the front, forced the soldiers to attack, and as a result, the troops were scattered, and he was alone, otherwise he would have been able to break through the defense line of the Shandong soldiers in the front.

Liu Wenxiu was just sending a few nagging words, but Sun Kewang was reasonable, and he also pushed all the unfavorable mistakes of the middle attack on his own head, so he was naturally unconvinced, so he argued with Sun Kewang. As a result, the two of them insisted on each other, refused to give in to each other, and the more they talked, the more fierce they became, and they almost started a fight.

In fact, if the two continue to quarrel, they will have to fight, and the reason why the two did not fight is that the string of guns fired more violently than the platoon just now, and it is still shocking, or there is a huge roar.

It was the artillery of the Shandong soldiers who opened fire.

The artillery is loaded on the first few ships to dock, although the heavy artillery is inconvenient to carry, but the medium and light artillery is still very convenient, the tiger squat cannon can be carried by one soldier, and the long-barreled cannon can be carried by only two people. Therefore, the first to be carried off the ship were six long-barreled cannons and six tiger squat cannons.

Hutong didn't care about waiting for other artillery, so he arranged these twelve cannons on the battlefield first. The distance of two hundred steps and five right is still a bit far for the tiger kick cannon. But it was within the range of the long-barreled cannon, but it was a solid bullet, and if you wanted to fire a shotgun, it was a little farther away. Therefore, in order to achieve the best strike effect, Hutong ordered to push the artillery through the trench and advance forty or fifty paces forward.

In the Western Army, Sun Kewang and Liu Wenxiu were arguing, so no one noticed that the artillery of the Shandong soldiers was approaching.

"Boom-boom-boom-boom-"

After the distance is shortened, not only the long-barreled cannon can fire shotguns, but even the tiger squat cannon can also fire solid shells. Therefore, after the roar of artillery, in the Western Army, there were immediately pieces of death, and the whole team was in chaos.

At this time, Sun Kewang and Liu Wenxiu were also taken aback, and they didn't expect that the Ming army even brought up artillery, so they also stopped arguing and hurriedly collected their own teams. But at this time, the team was in chaos, and it would be able to hold on for a while, and the Shandong soldiers would not give them this opportunity.

The artillery continued to bombard, and the shotguns and solid bullets were all smashing down on the heads of the Western Army, only killing and wounding the Western Army, and screaming for a long time. And the other Western troops dared to stay here again, and they all turned around and ran. And Sun Kewang and Liu Wenxiu were also frightened by the Shandong soldiers, and they didn't dare to hold on anymore, so they immediately followed the defeated army, retreated together, and fled back to the city of Hanyang Mansion to defend.

It was only at this time that Hutong ordered a pursuit. However, he didn't chase it far, but he was sure that the Western Army had really retreated, so he collected his troops and returned to the bank of the river to continue to defend.

At this time, all the forces of the three regiments also reached the south bank of the Han River, rearranged the defensive line on the Hutong side, and on the other hand, according to Li Long's order, sent Hu Yi to take a musket battalion and two pikemen companies to seize Liujia Village, as a foothold for Shandong soldiers on the south bank of the Han River.

At dusk, the ships were also closed one after another, and most of the troops and grain and grass supplies of the Shandong soldiers crossed the Han River by warp, and Li Long also arrived on the south bank of the Han River with the boat, leaving only Yang Dali to lead a part of the men and horses to stay on the north bank of the Han River, waiting for tomorrow to continue crossing the river. And Liujia Village has already been successfully captured by Hu Yi. The Shandong soldiers successively transferred the materials to Liujia Village and Town.

Fortunately, Liujia Village is close to the edge of the Han River, only two or three miles away from the place where Shandong soldiers crossed the river, so not long after the sky darkened, the Shandong soldiers' people who crossed the river settled in Liujia Village.

Liujiacun Town was originally a small town close to Hanyang Province, although the scale is not large, but because of its proximity to Hanshui, there are many merchants and customers, and it is also prosperous. By this time, however, it was empty, most of the houses had been ransacked, and the whole town was almost completely ruined. It is quite similar to the situation of Xiaogan, Yingcheng and Yunmeng counties captured by Shandong soldiers on the north bank of the Han River.

The place occupied by Zhang Xianzhong is completely different from the place occupied by Li Zicheng, because by this time, Li Zicheng began to have the ambition to dominate the world, not only began to defend the captured place, but also paid more attention to winning the hearts of the people and maintaining local stability, so the military discipline was quite strict, as long as there was no serious resistance, he would no longer kill innocents indiscriminately. For example, the residents, houses, and farms in Gwangju, Xinyang, Suiju, Deanfu, and other places that were attacked by Li Zicheng were relatively well maintained, and basically did not suffer any damage.

And Zhang Xianzhong is still in the style of a rogue, and he does not intend to stick to the places he has captured, and he has stationed troops in a few places such as Hanyang and Wuchang, and he is only temporarily stationed, and for those places that are not stationed at all, it is completely plundering, slaughtering cities and plundering wealth, which is commonplace. Therefore, the places occupied by Zhang Xianzhong were basically seven or eight out of ten, with countless corpses, and property, food, and even the male and female populations were plundered and searched.

Therefore, when Li Long saw the appearance of Liujia Village, and then thought of the situation in Xiaogan, Yingcheng, and Yunmeng counties, he didn't feel quite indignant in his heart. For Li Zicheng, Li Long still has some respect, no matter what you say, Li Zicheng can be regarded as a hero. And Zhang Xianzhong can only be regarded as a hero in troubled times at most, and Li Long basically has no good impression of him.

Judging from the records of the historical materials, the evaluation of Zhang Xianzhong is described by the words "killing people like hemp", which is very appropriate. Some people even said that Zhang Xianzhong was the reincarnation of the Heavenly Killing Star. And judging from a lot of historical records, Zhang Xianzhong simply regarded killing as a performance art. There are different numbers about how many people Zhang Xianzhong has killed. In later generations, many people have made statistics, but they range from one million to ten million. In the history of the Ming Dynasty, it was even said that 600 million people were killed, but in fact, the population of the whole of China at that time was only about 150 million, but the 500,000 and 5 million people killed were only the difference in numbers, and their nature was the same. It is by no means the same as killing 1 million is a lesser crime than killing 10 million.

Although there is no lack of exaggeration in the historical records, and in some places, Zhang Xianzhong still bears the blame for the atrocities committed by the Manchu Qing Dynasty after entering the customs, Zhang Xianzhong is undoubtedly much more murderous and more ferocious than Li Zicheng. Therefore, for Li Zicheng, Li Long may still let him go, where he can keep his hands, try to keep his hands, but if there is a chance to kill Zhang Xianzhong, Li Long will never let go.

At this time, Hutong, Hu Yi, and Tang Hekuan also came to see Li Long and reported to him the results of the battle on the river beach during the day. In the daytime battle, only 14 soldiers were killed and 31 others were slightly wounded. The Western army killed 2,757 and captured 246. It's also a big win.

However, when Hutong reported the entire battle process to Li Long, Li Long couldn't help but be a little surprised, he couldn't imagine that the Western Army would use such a tactic to attack the west, and in the end it almost succeeded. If it weren't for the fact that Hutong did not advance recklessly and retained a certain reserve force, and the battle of the Western Army was too weak, then the outcome of this battle would still be difficult to predict. Although it is not yet a loss of position, it will at least have to go through a hard battle. The loss of men and horses will definitely increase a lot.

Li Long also nodded and said, "Hutong, you did a good job, but next time you must pay attention to the fact that you are commanding a complete battlefield, not a certain position." It's okay to make mistakes, but it's important to remember this lesson and not to make the same mistakes again next time. ”

Hutong nodded and said, "Don't worry, my lord, the last general will definitely remember it." ”

Li Long smiled slightly and said, "But who came up with this tactic, is there still such a general in the Western Army?" His heart moved, and he suddenly asked: "Hutong, have you inquired clearly, who is the main general of the thief army?" ”

Hutong said: "We asked the captives, and the leaders of the thief army will be Zhang Xianzhong's two adopted sons, named Sun Kewang and Liu Wenxiu. ”

Li Long smiled and said, "It turns out that Liu Wenxiu, it is really him, and only he can come up with this method." ”

Liu Wenxiu is another famous historical figure. After the Qing army entered the customs, the Han nationality emerged many heroes in the process of resisting the Qing army, but the vast majority of them are known for their loyalty, and there are not many famous generals who can really be called them, strictly speaking, only Liu Wenxiu is alone. Including Zheng Chenggong, who closed the bend, although he can be called a national hero, he is still quite far from a famous general.

In the late Southern Ming Dynasty, Liu Wenxiu and Zheng Chenggong were the twin pillars of optimus; One west and one east, supporting the Southern Ming regime for 20 years, and in terms of military exploits, Zheng Chenggong was mainly based on naval battles, among all the generals in the late Ming Dynasty, only Liu Wenxiu was able to command the army, organize large-scale movement warfare and annihilation wars, dare to fight to the death with the Eight Banners, Liu Wenxiu once trampled the Qing Dynasty king, so that the world was shaken, so that the Qing court was once ready to give up the seven southwestern provinces, if it were not for the traitor leakage, it had almost caused Wu Sangui's entire army to be destroyed. It's just that the current Liu Wenxiu is far from becoming famous, just a general under Zhang Xianzhong.

Hutong couldn't help but be very surprised, and said, "Dada, how can you conclude that it was Liu Wenxiu, not Sun Kewang, who came up with a flank attack plan?" ”

Li Long said with a smile: "This is the only place where Zhang Xianzhong is stronger than Li Zicheng, because he has Liu Wenxiu under him." ”

The next day, after another day of busyness, all the horses and materials of the Shandong soldiers crossed the Han River and were stationed in Liujia Village. Seeing that the Shandong soldiers had crossed the Han River, Liu Wenxiu and Sun Kewang both felt tremendous pressure, so the two also put aside their disputes for the time being, divided their troops into two routes, and launched an attack on Liujiacun and Jiangtan positions respectively.

However, Li Long was also prepared for this, and without waiting for the Western Army's men and horses to arrive, he sent Hutong to capture Hanyang Mansion, and gave the Western Army a siege of Wei to save Zhao.

After Liu Wenxiu and Sun Kewang learned about it, they were also taken aback, and they hurriedly returned to the army to rescue Hanyang Mansion regardless of attacking the Shandong soldiers again. As a result, on the way, Zhang encountered the resistance of Shandong soldiers. And Li Long ordered Yang to lead the five regiments to kill from behind the Western Army, attack twice, and defeat the Western Army, dismantling more than 6,000 troops on the spot, and capturing more than 1,000 people. Sun Kewang and Liu Wenxiu had to make a detour and flee back to Hanyang Mansion, closed their doors, and at the same time sent someone to Zhang Xianzhong to ask for help, asking Zhang Xianzhong to send troops across the river quickly.

But the next day, the Shandong soldiers launched an attack on Hanyang Province.

Since going south, the Shandong soldiers have won consecutive battles, and they have been like bamboos all the way. However, although many cities were also conquered, they basically relied on sneak attacks or the power of Shandong soldiers to force the other party to abandon the city and flee. But it has never been possible to forcibly attack a city, and Hanyang Mansion will be the first city to be attacked by Shandong soldiers in the south.

At this time, there were still more than 10,000 horses left in the Western Army, and the strength was far more than that of the Shandong soldiers. But after two days of fierce fighting, the western army had already been killed by the Shandong soldiers, and they did not dare to go out of the city to meet the battle, and even Liu Wenxiu lost the confidence to fight with the Shandong soldiers, so after the Shandong soldiers arrived at the city of Hanyang Mansion, the western army was all hiding in the city, and the four gates were closed and the defense was intensified.

Hanyang Mansion is located at the corner of the Yangtze River and the Han River, and the city wall is also built along the river, so there are two sides of the water on all sides, the southwest two sides are the dry gates, and the northeast two sides are the water gates. The direction of the main attack of the Shandong soldiers is the West Gate. The men and horses of the Shandong soldiers were about 300 steps away from the city wall, and they set up a formation. Li Long stood on the command car and used a telescope to observe the city walls of Hanyang Province.

The walls of Hanyang Province are about four zhang high and spread horizontally for more than two miles. There is a tower in the middle of the gate, two horse faces on each side of the gate, and a tower at the corner of the city on both sides. Most of the sheep and horse walls outside the city have not been repaired for many years, and only a small part remains.

Li Long nodded and said to the alley beside him: "Ignore other places, all the artillery is concentrated and fire at the place where the city tower is located." After opening the gates, send musketeers into the city. ”

Hutong said: "Yes." Then he turned around and got out of the command car. The soldiers were immediately instructed to prepare artillery.

In a short time, the guns were all fired and angled with adjusted firing and angles, and loaded with gunpowder and solid shells.

"Boom-boom-boom-boom-"

With the huge roar, the eardrums of the people hurt, and Liu Wenxiu and Sun Kewang, who were commanding the defense on the city tower, felt as if the city wall was trembling.

Hundreds of solid bullets smashed into the city wall, smashing the wall out of tunnels of different sizes, and the edge of the tunnel was full of cracks. Although the gate was made of half-foot-thick wooden planks and covered with iron sheets, there were still a few cracks. And two of them fell directly on the city tower, only to crack the doors and windows of the city tower, and sawdust flew around. Hundreds of soldiers were also stoned to death. It also frightened the other soldiers on the city tower to hide.

Liu Wenxiu and Sun Kewang glanced at each other, both of them shocked by the siege tactics of the Shandong soldiers. In Liu Wenxiu's view, the siege should be close to the city wall, set up a ladder or a tower car, and then climb up to attack, understanding that it is to pile people up and exchange people's lives for the city. As a result, siege warfare is often the most costly. Ordinary generals will try to avoid siege warfare. The Shandong soldiers completely subverted Liu Wenxiu's traditional concept, and the men and horses did not get close to the city wall at all, and bombarded them with artillery from a distance, apparently planning to blast the city gate open. I couldn't help but be horrified in my heart, can the siege war still be fought like this?

Since Yuan Chonghuan achieved the victory in Guanning, the Ming Dynasty has been positioning the use of artillery as a weapon to defend the city, in fact, Yuan Chonghuan's victory in Guanning, to a large extent, because in this battle with artillery to inflict heavy damage on Nurhachi, so that he died of serious injuries. There is a certain amount of accident in itself. But since then, Yuan Chonghuan himself has also formulated the tactic of "relying on the fortified city and using cannons". It also became the principle of artillery use in the Ming Dynasty military, and even after the death of Yuan Chonghuan, this tactical principle did not change.

As a result of this tactic, the Ming Dynasty not only blindly pursued large-caliber heavy artillery in the last two or three decades, but also neglected the manufacturing, development and application of medium and light artillery and muskets. And, in fact, the use and development of heavy artillery has also advanced a strategic misunderstanding.

In fact, the biggest role of heavy artillery is not in defending the city, but precisely in besieging it.

Heavy artillery like the Hongyi cannon is indeed huge, but when used in field battles, it is bulky and inconvenient to transport, and it is used to defend the city, and because the function of black powder in this era is not large, even if it is used with shotguns, the lethality is only concentrated in a small area, and the effect is indeed limited. And if the attacker has a long-term siege of the city, it will be useless to have Hongyi cannons.

After the death of Yuan Chonghuan, Zu Dashou guarded the Daling River and defended Jinzhou in the two battles, although the Ming army had a large number of Hongyi cannons, but the Qing army used tactics such as long-term siege, siege but not attack, siege and reinforcement, etc., as a result, the results of these two sieges were all ended with Zu Dashou food exhausted, and finally surrendered, and the result was that a large number of well-made Hongyi cannons were given to Houjin in vain. On the contrary, it became the most powerful weapon of the Qing army to break through the fortified city of the Ming Dynasty.

Because the Hongyi cannon is used to siege the city, it can give full play to its advantages of long range and high impact, and it can be used to attack the city tower and the city wall to suppress the resistance of the city head, bombard the city gate, and open a gap for the soldiers besieging the city. There is no need to fill the city with human lives. Some cities that seemed impossible to conquer at once can be conquered.

In modern warfare, since the advent of artillery, there is no shortage of heavy artillery to defeat the enemy's defensive positions, city walls, fortresses, etc., and achieve victory, the most famous example of which is: in World War I, the German army used the Great Berta cannon to conquer the Belgian fortress of Liège.

This point is very clear to the Qing people, in the seventh year of Tiancong, Zhu Shichang gave Huang Taiji a note that said: "Since ancient times, offensive and defensive, all firearms, such as shotguns, three-eyed guns, Baizi guns, Buddha Lang machine, two generals, three generals, cannons, etc., are used to defend the city very well." If you want to attack a city, you must have a cannon. "In the battle of Songjin in the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, the battle of Yangzhou in the second year of Hongzhi in the Southern Ming Dynasty, and the battle of Jiangyin, the Qing army was able to break through the city, and the Hongyi cannon played an important role. It can even be said that if the Chun army did not have Hongyi artillery, it would be difficult to sweep the Southern Ming.

Of course, Li Long was familiar with modern and modern combat examples and the use of various weapons, and he paid attention to grasping the initiative in both offense and defense, so when forming the Shandong Army, he mainly used muskets and small and medium-sized artillery, but he did not give up heavy artillery. However, Li Long did not use the Hongyi cannon as a weapon to defend the city, and improved the gun carriage of the Hongyi cannon to minimize the difficulty of its transportation, because this big guy was still very useful when attacking the city.

And this attack on Hanyang Mansion was a testing ground for Li Long to test the methods used by Hongyi artillery in siege.

The 160 cannons spewed out tongues of fire after a continuous operation, and when they found the roar, they fired cannonballs mercilessly at the walls, towers, and gates of Hanyang Province. After seven or eight rounds of continuous bombardment, the city wall was the most bulleted, and the city wall near the gate of Hanyang Province was densely packed with dozens of uneven pits, and the cracks on the city wall were as dense as spider webs.

The tower was also shelled with more than a dozen shells, several large holes were cracked in the walls, even the roof was smashed in two, and the rooms in the tower were even more in ruins, and more than 200 soldiers were killed. And the defenders in Hanyang City didn't dare to stand on the tower at this time, and they retreated to both sides, even Liu Wenxiu and Sun Kewang retreated to the side, and the entire city tower was almost undefended.

In fact, the artillery focuses on hitting the city gate, although the accuracy of the artillery in this era is not high, but because the distance is close, the target is concentrated, so in each round of bombardment, there will always be thirty or forty shells hitting the city gate, so six or seven rounds down, the city gate also suffered more than 20 times, and there were four or five depressions on the city gate. If you look at the back of the city gate in the hole of the city gate, you can find that there are many wood cracks on the city gate, and the door bolt is bent and deformed.

There was another loud bang, and the cannonballs fired by the two Hongyi cannons hit the city gate almost at the same time, and the bolt of the gate, which had been overwhelmed, finally broke down, and the gate of Hanyang City was separated from the left and right.

"Run! The Shandong soldiers entered the city. ”

"Run! Everybody's running! Shandong soldiers came in. ”

The city gate was bombarded by artillery, the defenders' only little will to resist was completely dissipated, and the nature of the rabble of the Western army was completely exposed. Therefore, when the soldiers of Shandong Bing entered the city of Hanyang Prefecture, they basically did not encounter any decent resistance.

And Sun Kewang and Liu Wenxiu also knew that the general trend was gone, if they didn't escape, they were afraid that they wouldn't be able to escape, so the two also left the West Gate, so there was a dock in Hanyang City, and the ships of the Western Army were moored there, so the two led more than 1,000 soldiers around them to flee in the direction of the dock in the city, preparing to cross the Yangtze River by boat and escape back to Wuchang Mansion.

But after walking for a while, the two found that the avenue leading to the pier was overcrowded, and the passage was blocked and impassable.

It turned out that most of the soldiers also knew that they could escape from Hanyang Province by boat, so they also fled in the direction of the dock, but how big can the dock in Hanyang Province be, nearly 10,000 people want to leave by boat, and there will be a boat there for a while? Moreover, most of the ships did not have sailors, and even when they got on the boats, they could not drive, and as a result, the more and more people gathered, the boats could not drive, but blocked the road to the docks.

Sun Kewang and Liu Wenxiu were also a little late, and they were still hundreds of steps away from the dock, but they just couldn't get through, so they were so anxious that the two of them only stomped their feet. And just then, several gunshots rang out behind him.

Now the western army is frightened, so when they hear the gunshots, everyone is frightened, some of the people behind are desperately crowding forward, while the people in front are desperately holding the boat, and there are a few boats with sailors who can no longer wait for others, unmooring and anchoring, hoisting the sails, and going offshore. The soldiers on the boat, which had no sailors, were now in no charge, and were busy untying the cables, pulling up the sails, grabbing the oars, and scraping the boats, just to sail the ship to shore. There are also many people who fall into the river because of crowding and scrambling. The entire dock was also in chaos.

Looking ahead, three or four boats had sailed away from the shore, and looking back, it was clear that the soldiers of the Shandong soldiers had appeared on the other side of the avenue, and the situation was critical. Sun Kewang said to Liu Wenxiu: "Fourth, there is no other way now, but to fight a bloody way and grab a boat to escape from Hanyang Mansion." ”

Liu Wenxiu glanced at the situation and said: "Big brother, I'm afraid it's too late, the Shandong soldiers have caught up, so let's go and seize the ship, I'll take someone to resist for a while, and then go to you." ”

Sun Kewang heard this, and immediately said, "Okay, let's do it, I will definitely wait for you on the boat again." ”

After the two agreed, Liu Wenxiu immediately took half of the soldiers and rushed to kill the Ming army on the other side of the avenue. Sun Kewang drew his saber and shouted to the remaining soldiers: "Brothers, follow me and kill to the docks." With that, he led the charge into the crowd, and with a wave of his saber, he cut down the two soldiers in front of him.

At this time, Sun Kewang's relatives also knew that if they didn't grab a boat and escape, they would all die in this place, so they all raised their weapons and killed the crowd. only killed the heads of the crowd and fell to the ground one after another, and Sun Kewang was brave, dancing with a single knife without wind and rain, opening bows left and right, and killing more than ten soldiers in a row.

When the other soldiers of the Western Army saw it, they were naturally not convinced, so they all raised their weapons to fight back. But Sun Kewang's relatives are all old brothers who have followed Zhang Xianzhong for many years, and they are also the elite of the Western Army, but they are not comparable to these rabble, and at this time they are also supported by the hope of survival, and everyone is fighting desperately, so they are fighting hard in the crowd, and the other Western Army soldiers are opponents, seeing that they are fierce, they dare not stop anymore, and they retreat to both sides, so that Sun Kewang and his troops finally killed to the dock.

At this time, there were still twenty or thirty large and small ships parked on the edge of the wharf, and five or six boats left the shore in a few ways, and every boat that docked on the shore had many soldiers of the Western Army, and many soldiers were also scrambling to get on the boats. And Sun Kewang also immediately led people to a docked boat to kill, they rushed to kill, first killed the soldiers who rushed to get on the boat on the shore, and then Sun Kewang took the lead, pedaled, three steps and two jumps, and then jumped on the deck of the ship, raised the knife in his hand, and cut down two soldiers into the river, and the other relatives also got on the boat at this time, and after a while, the boat was completely controlled.

As soon as the boat arrived, Sun Kewang was a little relieved, and then ordered his entourage to block the other soldiers from pedaling the boat, and on the other hand, he ordered to hurry up and prepare to start the boat. At the same time, he also sent someone to inform Liu Wenxiu to come soon.

Among Sun Kewang's personal entourage, there were a few who could handle the boat, so everyone pulled the sails and anchors, adjusted the rudder oars, and prepared to start the boat. At this moment, I saw more than ten large ships coming down the river from the upstream, approaching in the direction of the pier. Sun Kewang saw it, and also felt a little strange, and was thinking, this is a ship from there, could it be a warship of Shandong soldiers?

Suddenly, he only heard the loud sound of "boom-boom-", and a large amount of smoke spread from the bows of three large ships, and Sun Kewang couldn't help but be surprised that these three ships were actually equipped with artillery.

It turned out that when Li Long sent troops to attack Hanyang Mansion, he estimated that once the city was broken, most of the Western troops would escape by boat from the dock. However, the Shandong soldiers also did not have a naval army, so they could not intercept it on the river. However, Li Long selected ten larger ships from the ships crossing the river, and all of them were equipped with artillery, of course, all of them were small and medium-sized guns, the largest of which was the No. 2 Franc cannon, and he sent thirty musketeers on each boat, and the ordinary ships were upgraded to warships. Li Long estimated that the Western Army would not have warships, so everyone would be half-pounded and eighty-taels, but their own ships were equipped with artillery and muskets, and the chances of victory were still very good.

Therefore, after the start of the war, Li Long asked these ten ships to wait near the city of Hanyang. After the Shandong soldiers blasted open the city gate and entered Hanyang Mansion, Li Long ordered ships to attack the docks of Hanyang Mansion. However, the rout of the Western army was much faster than Li Long had expected, so by the time the Shandong soldiers' warships sailed to the dock, six or seven ships had already left the dock and headed for the other side of the Yangtze River.

The No. 2 Furlong cannon of the first three warships also opened fire at once, and one of the three shells hit the water, stirring up a column of water more than two feet high, while the other two shells hit two ships respectively, and one hit the ship's building, smashing wood chips and splashing, killing four or five people in a row. The other hit a boat less than three feet above the water, smashing a hole the size of a water tank. Although the gap was above the water, the gunwales near the gap were cracked and the side sides actually began to flood.

Later, the guns of several other ships also opened fire, but the other warships were equipped with long-barreled cannons and tiger squat guns, and the distance was simply out of reach. However, although most of the shells fell into the water, the deterrent effect on the Western Army was not small, because the current Western Army trembled as soon as they heard the sound of guns. And a few of the boats that sailed out of the dock shook their oars desperately, hoping to escape the artillery blows.

When Sun Kewang saw it on the boat, he couldn't help but be frightened, and hurriedly said loudly: "Start the boat, start the boat quickly." ”

A soldier replied, "General Sun, General Li, they haven't come up yet?" Wait for them. ”

Sun Kewang was furious and said, "What are you waiting for? Do you want all the people in our boatload to accompany him here and wait for death? Listen to my orders and set sail right away, you know? Sail now. Otherwise, I will kill you first. ”

The other soldiers didn't dare to argue with Sun Kewang any longer, so they cut the cable, swayed the oars, and sailed away from the shore.

After Liu Wenxiu and Sun Kewang divided their troops, they led their men and horses to kill the Shandong soldiers. As soon as the Shandong soldiers saw that the enemy took the initiative to rush towards them, they immediately stood in a three-stage formation and opened fire on the western army.

The road is not very wide, and only about twenty people can stand side by side. The soldiers of the Shandong soldiers were obviously trained in street fighting, and the soldiers responsible for shooting were divided into two rows, the soldiers in the front row squatted on the ground, and the soldiers in the back row stood to form a superimposed shooting, but they used to change the gun without changing the person to shoot in turn, and in the narrow environment, the Western army also could not show its strength, and could only rush forward one by one, and all of them died tragically under the guns of the Shandong soldiers.

After several rounds of attacks, the Western Army finally found that it was completely sent to death in vain, and it could not hurt the enemy's hair, although it was the elite of the Western Army, but under the blow of this ruthless fact, the psychology still quickly collapsed. So they all turned around and fled for their lives. And Liu Wenxiu also received a notice from Sun Kewang, saying that Yijing had grabbed the ship and asked him to rush to the rendezvous as soon as possible, so Liu Wenxiu had no intention of fighting again, so he had to flee with the defeated soldiers.

Fortunately, at this time, Sun Kewang's group had not yet completely completed the bloody road, and Liu Wenxiu led the men and horses to rush violently, and it didn't take much effort to rush to the edge of the dock. But it was at this moment that Sun Kewang ordered someone to cut the cable and sail away from the shore. Liu Wenxiu and the others could only watch from the shore, and Sun Kewang's figure standing on the stern of the boat gradually became smaller and smaller.

was so angry that Liu Wenxiu stomped his feet on the shore, pointed to the river, and scolded Sun Kewang. And at this moment, the Shandong soldiers behind him also came up. Seeing that it was useless to scold again, Liu Wenxiu had no choice but to hate and say: "Let's go find another ship, let's escape from Hanyang Mansion first, and when we return to Wuchang Mansion, we will see the king, and then we will find Sun Kewang to settle accounts." ”

Although Liu Wenxiu wanted to find another boat to escape from Hanyang Mansion, it was not easy to talk about, because at this time, the Shandong soldiers were killed from various exits to the dock, and many soldiers who had not had time to get on the boat fell under the guns, and the other soldiers also retreated to the river bank one after another, and were gradually surrounded by the Shandong soldiers.

On the river, the Shandong soldiers fired several more cannons and sank a small boat, although they spared six or seven boats, they successfully shocked other ships that had not yet left the shore, or had just left the shore. However, the boat that Sun Kewang was on was lucky enough to escape several shellings, and one of the shells hit a place less than two feet away from the bow of the boat, and the rushing water column splashed Sun Kewang's body. But he still broke away from the pursuit of the Shandong soldiers and headed for the other side of the Yangtze River.

In fact, the number of artillery pieces of the Shandong soldiers is limited, and on the river, the accuracy is even more limited, if all the ships are desperate to escape from the shore, more than half of them will be able to escape. It is only now that the fear of artillery and muskets has been implanted in the hearts of every soldier of the Western Army, and when they hear the sound of artillery and muskets, the soldiers not only lose the courage to resist, but also lose the courage to escape. As a result, they didn't even dare to drive the boat, and the offshore ship sailed back to shore, so they could only be caught honestly.

At this time, the two musket regiments of the Shandong soldiers formed a semicircle and surrounded the remaining Western troops inside, and each musketeer was aiming at the Western army in the encirclement with a musket on his hand. And because Liu Wenxiu was also on the shore, the soldiers of the Western Army instinctively surrounded Liu Wenxiu and regarded him as their own. And Liu Wenxiu could only smile bitterly in his heart, at this point, who can he rely on? Turning his head and looking at the river again, the boat that Sun Kewang was on was sailing away, Liu Wenxiu was still thinking with hatred in his heart, why didn't the artillery of the Shandong soldiers sink the boat just now?

At this moment, I saw a road in the Shandong army formation, Li Long came to the front of the formation from the road, and said loudly to the remnants of the Western Army: "You guys, I am the general of the imperial court, Li Long, the governor of Shandong." Now you have no way to retreat, if you put down your weapons and tie your hands and take them, I can get you alive, if you continue to resist stubbornly and refuse to surrender, what awaits you is only a dead end, where to go, you choose for yourself. ”

Liu Wenxiu also heard very clearly in the formation, looked left and right, and said: Brothers, there is nothing to say at this point, if you resist, there is only one way to die, everyone should come down. As for life and death after the fall, then leave it to fate. As he spoke, he threw his saber on the ground first. The other soldiers, apparently following his horse, threw down their weapons and surrendered when they saw him do so.

When Li Long saw this, he immediately ordered the soldiers of the Western Army to line up one by one and come out of the encirclement, first search their bodies to see if there were any hidden weapons, and then designate a place for them to sit together and send someone to guard them. Because there were thousands of soldiers of the Western Army who surrendered this time, they could not find so many ropes for a while, so they could only be put into custody first.

There are fewer and fewer people coming out of the encirclement, and the last one to come out is Liu Wenxiu. In fact, from the moment he opened his mouth to ask the soldiers to surrender, Li Long noticed him with a scripture, and it was obvious that this was a big man in the Western Army. Therefore, when Liu Wenxiu walked out, Li Long personally stopped him and said, "Who are you?" Tell me your name? ”

Liu Wenxiu said: "I am Liu Wenxiu." ”

Li Long nodded, looked up and down, and saw that Liu Wenxiu's figure was quite tall, only a little shorter than himself, and it was estimated that he was more than 1.75 meters. Li Long smiled: "So you are Liu Wenxiu?" ”

Liu Wenxiu was also slightly stunned and said, "Do you know me? ”

Li Long did not answer his question, and said, "The day before yesterday, you attacked the river beach and attacked from the flank, but did you come up with it?" ”

Liu Wenxiu was also quite surprised, and said, "How do you know it's me?" ”

Li Long still didn't answer his question, turned to Hutong and said, "How about it, what I said is not wrong!" The plan of the flank attack the day before yesterday was what he came up with. ”

Hutong smiled bitterly and said: "My lord, I have convinced you, you are Zhuge Liang, you know everything." ”

Li Long also smiled slightly, and ordered someone to take Liu Wenxiu down first and take care of him alone. Liu Wenxiu also felt inexplicable, and when he was taken away, he couldn't help but look back at Li Long a few times.

At this time, the Hanyang Mansion Yijing completely fell into the hands of the Shandong soldiers, Li Long ordered the soldiers to sweep the battlefield, count the treasury and the spoils of war, and appease the people in the city, the Shandong soldiers came to rescue the Hanyang Mansion, will protect their lives and property safety, so there is no need to be careful, so that the merchants and farmers, the five elements and eight works, the three religions and the nine streams of people, etc., can be safe.

The situation in Hanyang Province is slightly better than in other counties, and the population of the city is still about half. Li Long stayed in the palace. In the evening, the results of this battle were also counted.

In the battle to capture Hanyang Province, the Shandong soldiers lost only 26 soldiers in total, while more than 22,000 were beheaded and more than 6,500 were captured. However, Bi Jing captured a city, and the harvest was quite rich, a total of more than 60,000 stones of grain, more than 50,000 stones of flour, more than 100,000 taels of silver, and more than 5,000 horses were also seized, 36 large and small ships, as for other swords, guns, weapons and armor, the Shandong soldiers did not look down on it at all, so they didn't bother to count, just throw it away.

Later, Li Long ordered Liu Wenxiu to be brought to the lobby, and he wanted to question him personally.

After a while, Liu Wenxiu was brought up, Li Long ordered someone to untie him, and asked him to sit down, Liu Wenxiu was also puzzled, and said: "Li Long, what are you really doing to me, you might as well say it directly!" I, Liu Wenxiu, have been captured, and if I want to kill, I will listen to him. ”

Li Long smiled faintly and said slowly: "Liu Wenxiu, the name is Hongyuan, a native of Yulin, Shaanxi, born in the first year of the Apocalypse, Yu Chongzhen three years from Zhang Xianzhong to Kou, transferred to Qin, Jin, Henan, Chu, the enemy is called brave, known as "Xiao Chai Wang", and the army is called "Xiao Wei Chi". He is now the general of Anxi by Zhang Xianzhong. Are these all correct? ”

When Liu Wenxiu heard this, he couldn't help but be surprised, and said, "How do you know these things?" ”

Li Long continued: "You don't need to ask me how I know this, I also know that you like to read the art of war, the books of "Zizhi Tongjian", you have literary and military talents, although you are in the army of thieves, but you are only lenient, you have not tried to kill in vain when you break through the city, and you will try to save it when you meet the gentry and the people. Hehe, it's a kind person, but it's a pity, a beautiful woman, but what about a thief? ”

Liu Wenxiu "snorted" and said: "What can I do if I don't follow the thief, my parents died when I was ten years old, and my family was poor, these are all harmed by the government, if I don't follow the thief, then I can only wait for death." ”

Li Long smiled: "It's the truth. But he immediately turned pale and said, "But what have you done since you became a thief?" How many people are like you, their parents are dead, their families are poor, and they can only wait for death? ”

Liu Wenxiu was silent when he heard this, although he was generous and usually tried his best to protect some innocent people. But Zhang Xianzhong did too many indiscriminate killings of innocents, and most of them were done in front of Liu Wenxiu, but Liu Wenxiu knew that he shouldn't, but he was powerless to stop it.

Li Long saw that Liu Wenxiu didn't speak, and said: "Liu Wenxiu, now that we are in troubled times, in fact, with your talent, it is the time for heroes to be useful, make meritorious contributions, and get ahead, but if you have been following Zhang Xianzhong, there is no future." ”

Of course, Liu Wenxiu could hear that Li Long had obvious intentions to solicit. If Liu Wenxiu is not moved, it will naturally be a lie, because now he is still an unknown person, and he can be valued and recruited by Li Long, and Liu Wenxiu is also quite happy in his heart. Because although Li Long is about the same age as him, he is obviously famous for his achievements. However, Liu Wenxiu still shook his head and said: "It was the government that forced me on this road, and I will never take refuge in the government." What's more, the deeds of some officials are not as good as those of us who are thieves. ”

Li Long said with a smile: "In the official government, there are good and bad, others don't say it, but you should have heard of my Shandong soldiers!" We will not oppress the good and do anything wrong. Everywhere the people went, Qiu did not commit any crimes. ”

Liu Wenxiu said: "I admit that you are indeed a good official, but unfortunately the good officials in the court can't do it for long, I think you will either be persecuted by the court and die, or you will rebel from thieves like us." ”

Li Long couldn't help laughing and said, "That's a good point, but how can you conclude that I only have these two paths to take, maybe I have a third way to go?" ”

Liu Wenxiu stared at Li Long, and after a long time, he said: "Master Li, I understand your intentions through the scriptures, but the Eight Kings and I have the grace to save my life, and I must not abandon them." ”

Li Long nodded and said with a smile: "Very good, I don't forget to repay my kindness, I don't give up, I really didn't mistake you." If you surrender immediately, I'll look down on you. But you just have to remember what I said today, and you figured it out that day. You can come to me anytime. As he spoke, he ordered someone to take Liu Wenxiu down to watch him.

After Sun Kewang fled to Wuchang, Zhang Xianzong learned that there were less than 2,000 people who had fled back, and the three major armies were all wiped out. In desperation, Zhang Xianzong decided to abandon Wuchang and flee to Nanchang Mansion in the southeast.

And Li Long had already received the news, and first led the army to ambush Zhang Xianzong on the only way to flee to Nanchang. How could Zhang Xianzong's remaining 20,000 horses be the opponent of more than 100,000 elite troops, in less than an hour, Zhang Xianzong's troops were left with less than 5,000 people. Seeing that there was no hope of escaping south, it was like retreating to Wuchang to continue to resist stubbornly. As a result, Li Jiantai's 100,000 pursuers caught up. 5,000 vs 100,000...... There are 130,000 behind it. 、…… The details of the battle need not be stated. With the loss of 20 people, the Shandong soldiers completely annihilated Zhang Xianzong's troops. Capture Zhang Kewang, Zhang Xianzong.

Li Zicheng was captured, all the generals were killed, Zhang Xianzong, and Sun Kewang were captured...... After careful consideration, Liu Wenxiu decided to surrender the official army. At this point, Li Long's battle to suppress bandits in the south can be said to be over. Territory from Shandong Province, Hebei Province. In one fell swoop, it expanded to six provinces: Hunan, Hubei, Anhui and Henan. It has a population of more than 100 million people. All the 6,000 captives who captured Zhang Xianzong were killed. Not a single one is left.

On the one hand, Li Long sent a letter to the Beijing division to report the victory, and on the other hand, arranged for the generals to garrison troops in Huguang, Anhui, Henan and other places. Then Huguang was handed over to Li Jiantai's garrison to take care of. This can be regarded as Li Long's absolute trust in Li Jiantai, Li Jiantai was moved with a handful of snot and tears that night, and he said in his heart that he must guard the lake and the vast land for Li Long. The army returned to Shandong in triumph.

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