072 Clearing the Jun's side
Wang Lanping's battle report is almost pervasive, and the news he heard is true, but there is one thing that his battle report is somewhat negligent.
Zuo Liangyu raised a total of 150,000 horses and sailed eastward to Chizhou, this matter is true, and the sudden attack on Zheng Hongkui's water village is not false, but the purpose of Zuo Liangyu's eastward advance, Wang Lanping overestimated him, and the real reason is actually another hidden reason.
Speaking of Zuo Liangyu, we can't help but talk about his old colleague, Hunan Governor He Tengjiao, a feudal official who integrates the military and political power of Huguang, when the Hongguang Dynasty implemented the national policy of self-supply of local troops, Governor He saw the benefits, and in just over a month, he expanded his government pacesetters from more than 4,000 to more than 10,000. Suddenly, Li Zicheng's general Yuan Zong's 100,000 army marched south, and in the first battle, the 500,000 rabble of Wuchang general Zuo Liangyu were all over the ground looking for teeth, and ran to Jiujiang in one breath.
Governor He couldn't sit still in Changsha at this time, he was the highest governor of a government, Zuo Liangyu ran away, who to take the responsibility for losing the city and land, Hongguang Dynasty was newly established, and all kinds of waste were waiting for the new, it was a good time for men to make meritorious contributions.
So, Governor He shook his official authority, raised his arms and shouted: Without you Zuo Laohan, I can't recover the lost land.
He Tengjiao's vigorous Northern Expedition began, and he was about to fight, but almost all the garrisons in Huguang were tossed up by Zuo Liangyu's battle, and Governor He was able to move, thanks to his foresight, the 10,000 Fubiao army that he had privately recruited before, but these people were still farming a few days ago, and they were going to be put on the battlefield to fight today, which is a little more difficult.
From the beginning of May of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, He Tengjiao was in the whole armament war, sharpening the knife Huo Huo for more than two months, and finally improved, and then inquired, it turned out that Yuan Zongdi in Wuchang and other places turned around the army to fight to Anqing Mansion, the Shun thief garrison left in Wuchang is only about 20,000 people, this good news really made him excited, he immediately wrote to Zuo Liangyu, saying that this is a great opportunity to restore the whole territory of Huguang in one fell swoop, he asked Zuo Liangyu to lead the army up the river, directly to take Wuchang, he himself with the newly trained 10,000 Fubiao army from Changsha, through Yueyang, two combined attacks.
But Zuo Liangyu is a veteran of the battlefield, his probe has already heard it, Li Zicheng's 500,000 army has been divided into three ways, and the soldiers are pointing directly at the Jingxiang area, looking at Li Zicheng's rush to bring his family and mouth, eight adults have no intention of returning to Xi'an, although the war book says that the poor Kou Mo chases, sometimes the poor Kou is better not to block, if you are in a hurry, he will play with you, not to mention that Li Zicheng's ass is followed by a more powerful character, the 130,000 Tatar soldiers of the Manchu Ying Prince Azig, at this time the Northern Expedition to Wuchang, it is purely convulsive and stupid.
Zuo Liangyu doesn't move, Governor He can't not move, he is the governor of Hunan, and he has the responsibility of guarding the land, besides, if Huguang is gone, he will be the governor of the end, but at this time he sent someone to inquire near Wuchang, he was happy, the loss was that he didn't go to Wuchang to find death, otherwise he had to be trampled to death by Li Zicheng's people.
As the saying goes, the house leak happened to rain overnight, and when He Tengjiao was annoyed by the loss of Wuchang Mansion, there was another thunderbolt on a sunny day, and the Western Army of Zhang Xianzhong, the emperor of Xichuan Tu, also came to join in the fun.
The Daxi army is divided into two roads, one is led by Sun Kewang, the eldest of Zhang Xianzhong's three righteous sons, 150,000 soldiers and horses, starting from Chengdu, north into Hanzhong, and Li Zicheng's Dashun army Bai Wangbu fierce battle, don't look at the Dashun army in the northwest by Wu Sangui and Azig beaten all over the ground to find teeth, a twist of face, the Dashun army in Hanzhong and beat the Daxi army all over the ground to find teeth, Sun Kewang's 150,000 horses and horses retreated to Sichuan with a disgraced face, and threatened to be ashamed and brave, to find back the lost face on the Huguang battlefield.
The other route of the Great Western Army is led by Zhang's other righteous son Ai Nengqi, the army of 100,000 people, starting from Chengdu, crossing the Shanghai River, entering the Yangtze River, and entering through the Lingzhou Mansion.
Governor He finally realized a little, and said that the Jingxiang area is the belly of the world, and the place where soldiers must fight since ancient times, it seems that this is true.
In the blink of an eye, He Tengjiao's Huguang battlefield was already full of millions of troops, and if you look at your hands, it seems that there are 10,000 recruits who have just been in the army for two months.
He Tengjiao's mind is still quite sober, and he no longer has the idea of recovering Wuchang, just one word, run, the faster you run, the better, Changde Mansion is only more than five hundred miles away from Changsha Mansion, and the cavalry can attack it in five or six days, and if you don't run, you won't have a chance.
Governor He took such a look up and down the north and south of the river, it was safer to run south, it didn't matter if he ran, but he frightened Zuo Liangyu in Jiujiang Mansion, and as soon as Governor He ran, it was equivalent to Changsha being unfortified, and the result was that Ainengqi's soldiers were stationed in Changsha Mansion without blood, which was equivalent to completely exposing Zuo Liangyu's side in front of the Great Western Army.
The current Huguang area has become the world of Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, and there is no other day, and these two heroes in troubled times will have a big battle in Jingxiang sooner or later.
Zuo Liangyu is sleeping, thinking about it, I feel that Jiujiang Mansion is too close to these two bastards, it is better to hide away, the two tigers are fighting, don't take yourself.
What surprised Zuo Liangyu was that Li and Zhang did not go to war, but one entered Anqing Mansion from Wuchang East, and the other set off from Changsha and marched into Jiujiang Mansion and Nanchang Mansion.
I didn't have time to think about it, it was important to escape, Zuo Liangyu gave an order, and the 150,000 Ming army was assembled in only three days, starting from Hukou County at the mouth of the Yangtze River in Jiujiang Prefecture.
This is the real purpose of Zuo Liangyu's eastward expansion, and Wang Lanping thinks too highly of him, General Zuo does not dare to enter Beijing at all, this is just a 150,000-strong army fleeing for his life.
In such a hurry, Zuo Liangyu had to do the bandits, looting all the way, and when he ran to the territory of Chizhou Mansion, a spy reported that the army and the naval division Zheng Hongkui and the Dingyuan battalion of the champion army were storming Anqing City, which was occupied by the thieves.
It is said that this is a friendly army fighting, whether Zuo Liangyu has been ordered by the imperial court or not, he should at least go up to give the friendly army a strong momentum, but he didn't, he only saw that the Ming army's sailor camp was empty and insufficiently garrisoned, and the water village was full of heavy grain boats, and this thing was too tempting for Zuo Liangyu.
When Zheng Hongkui heard that the water village was robbed, he was surprised, he didn't hear that Li Lai enjoyed the water master, but after another investigation, he realized that it was Zuo Liangyu's Ming army who did it, and this kid surrendered to Li Zicheng? He was unwilling and wanted to grab it back, but as soon as he heard that the other party had 150,000 people, he still forgot it.
Losing grain and grass, Zheng Hongkui had to withdraw from the battlefield and lead the sailors to retreat south along the river, and the 10,000 people of Cao Dingjiao's division of the Dingyuan battalion who fought with him also knew that they were invincible to Li Laixiang's 60,000 Anqing defenders, so they had to withdraw.
The siege of Anqing this time was a bluff of Wang Lanping, and he didn't want to really fight, the purpose was just to take the attention of the governors of Jiangnan away from Nanjing, but he never expected that he would kill a trip to bite the gold halfway, it was really unexpected, the Dingyuan battalion that lost its flank defense was attacked by Li Laixiang from both sides when retreating, and chased and killed more than 50 miles all the way, fortunately, the Huang Degong Department stationed in Hezhou rescued in time, otherwise the whole army would have been wiped out, even so, the Dingyuan battalion also lost more than 2,000 soldiers, The loss of grain, grass and ordnance by the land and water armies was incalculable, and the vitality of the Dingyuan battalion was greatly damaged.
Zuo Liangyu snatched the grain and grass of the champion army, although he relieved the worry of the mutiny of the other sergeants, but he also understood that this move was a crime of killing the head, robbing the grain and grass of the friendly army to protect himself, who would dare to go to the battlefield with him in the future, how to explain it when he went to Nanjing, and how to face the world in the future.
When Zuo Liangyu was in a dilemma, a great news fell from the sky, and it was really a person who had just come to doze off, and someone came to send him off.
The person who sent the pillow was none other than Ruan Dacheng, the secretary of the military department who sneaked out of the secret passage in Ma Shiying's mansion, Ruan Shangshu took a bunch of Ma Shoufu's handwritten letters, and those generals thought about the title day and night out of Nanjing City, crossed the river at night, first went to Jiangbei to meet Liu Liangzuo, the chief soldier of Chuzhou, explained the intention, promised to succeed, promoted Liu Liangzuo to the Duke of Yasukuo, Liu Liangzuo is eager to leave the place of right and wrong, when Gao Jie was stationed in the Huai River, he still had some peace of mind, now Gao Jie is dead, the Huai River defense line is open, The Tatar soldiers may attack at any time, he doesn't want to die here, go back to Nanjing, what a good time, at the moment, the two hit it off, and immediately ordered to gather people and horses, and set off overnight, striving to return to Nanjing to win Wang Lanping and grab the first credit.
Then, Ruan Dacheng found Huang Degong in Hezhou, as soon as he finished speaking, he was bombed away by Huang Degong, what is Hezhou, this is the front line of the Mingshun battlefield, Huang Degong left, Li Laixiang, who was waiting for the fighter plane in Anqing Mansion, immediately dared to attack Jiangnan, because Hezhou was empty, Li Laixiang had no worries, not to mention, a group of people from the champion army was besieging Anqing, at this time to Nanjing to find Wang Lanping to start, this is not a righteous gentleman, even if Wang Lanping is in the court, it has to wait until the end of the war.
Ruan Dacheng scolded Huang Degong for not remembering the old feelings, saying that Huang Degong's function is all due to Ma Shoufu's today, and now Shoufu is in trouble, you can't save you when you see death, no matter what Ruan Dacheng scolds, Huang Degong didn't listen, blasted him away, and sent troops to support the Zhuangyuan Army's siege of Anqing.
Ruan Dacheng left Hezhou in a hurry, and as soon as he sneaked back to Jiangnan, he heard that Zuo Liangyu was in Chizhou Mansion, and the more exciting news was that Zuo Liangyu had robbed the grain and grass of the champion army and sailors inexplicably, which at least showed that Zuo Liangyu and Wang Lanping were already mortal enemies, and it was the best time to pull him at this time.
Ruan Dacheng entered Zuo Liangyu's military camp and presented Ma Shoufu's handwritten letter, telling him that as long as Shoufu escaped, Zuo Liangyu's Ningnan Marquis would immediately become Ning Guogong, as evidenced by the special character.
When Zuo Liangyu saw this letter, he cried on the spot, Ruan Dacheng thought that he was crying for the situation of the first assistant, but in fact, this was General Zuo crying with joy, not to mention the duke, even if there was no reward, he had to go, this is a lot of excuses, he Zuo Liangyu robbed the grain and grass of the champion army, that was for the emperor who was held hostage in Nanjing, for the sake of the Ming Dynasty, and in order to eradicate Wang Lanping and his henchmen.
As a result, Zuo Liangyushi became famous, and the banner of 'Qing Jun' waved, and 150,000 horses and horses burned and looted along the road to Nanjing, which was 1,000 miles away.
Zuo Liangyu's move, the ringers gathered, and in a blink of an eye, the land south of the Yangtze River surged, including Liu Liangzuo and Zuo Liangyu, nine armies, totaling 300,000, flocked to Nanjing from all directions.
And some of these generals knew that they were not Wang Lanping's opponents when they fought alone, so they did not move fast, and they always kept going hand in hand with other generals.
When it was more than 80 miles away from Nanjing City, the army of the Seven Roads was united, set up a large camp, and as soon as Zuo Liangyu and Liu Liangzuo arrived, they would besiege the city and force the palace.
The city of Nanjing was in chaos, and the cronies of the courtiers and Ma Shiying, who were suppressed by Wang Lanping, took the opportunity to spread rumors and use public opinion to incite the people to spurn Wang Lanping, but the overall situation in the city was still in the hands of the champion army, and the rumors in the market always supported Wang Lanping, which was due to the many students gathered in Nanjing, who were trying their best to maintain the justice of the Dingnan Marquis.
Because these students know that if Wang Lanping falls, then Ma Shiying will reoccupy the court, and with Ma Shoufu's employment style of 'Xianggong only loves money', scientific research is a superfluous thing.
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