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The Ming army used firearms as a sharp cone to break through the Qing army's defense line, used spears to maintain the battle line, and used heavy armor to cover up the killing

This is a typical fighting style of Zuo Ruojun.

He said that he only had a palm-sized battlefield in his eyes, but in every inch of the battlefield, no one in Jiangnan did it better than him.

Today's Ming army is no longer the weak division that did not dare to fight with the Jurchens in the past, and today's Qing captives are not the elite of a hundred battles in the grassland.

Li Laiheng, Yuan Zongdi, and Jin Shenghuan crossed the river fifteen miles downstream of Fancheng, and then stabbed at Shang Zhixin's army on the north bank like a three-strand fork.

Two powerful forces collided on the north bank of the river, and the two neat queues were constantly twisting and swaying due to the pressure. The defenders have their backs to the Yangtze River and have no way out; The attacker descended the mountain like a tiger, and his momentum was like a rainbow.

Wen Linzhu took the opportunity to urge the water division to go north from the dark river and enter the brightly lit place dozens of miles away.

After Li Laiheng led his army to engage the Qing captives for a while, he began to intersperse with the north and make a posture of outflanking.

Shang Zhixin only had 20,000 troops, and he had to defend against the sailors in the river, and watched as the torches of the Ming army spread into an arc and surrounded them.

The Qing soldiers were like a piece of solid porcelain, scarred all over their bodies by three diamonds.

The Jurchens and Mongols crossed the Yangtze River and did not have time to celebrate, and immediately threw themselves into battle. Luckedhun captured a war horse in Shang Zhixin's army and commanded the Jurchens to march north, and he wanted to open the way back to Nanyang as much as possible.

The horses of the Xiangyang cavalry were all left on the opposite bank. The originally elite Mengbaqi cavalry was like a broken arm, and could only charge into battle with the foot soldiers. The Qing soldiers did not have large ships, and no one could safely cross the shore, let alone horses.

The three soldiers and horses of the Ming army crossing the river did not have an advantage over the Qing captives, they just wanted to take advantage of the Qing army's hurry to cross the river and fish in troubled waters. So far, Zuo Ruo still doesn't know what happened to Nanyang City.

Mo said that it was him, Zhang Huan did not return to Nanjing, and Zhai Zhe couldn't guess what Wu Sangui was thinking.

If Wu Sangui rebelled against the Qing and surrendered to the Ming, he should contact the Ming army and jointly flank the Qing captives who crossed the river. Therefore, Zuo Yao's idea is to take Xiangyang City safely and steadily.

The river is narrow, and the shuttle wooden boats are like carp crossing the river.

By the time the Ming army was on the offensive, the Jurchens and Mongols had all crossed the river, and the Han soldiers also boarded the wooden boats in batches.

Hong Chengchou boarded the largest wooden boat surrounded by a group of squires, and the people around him still relied on him, and he was already worried that he would not be able to protect himself.

"Xiangyang, Xiangyang" Hong Chengchou stood on the bow of the boat and looked back, and couldn't help but let out a long exhale. It is said that Xiangyang, which is iron-beaten, did not lose to the Ming army on the battlefield, but the battlefield was never an isolated fight.

The sadness in his heart was indescribable, just as he had been defeated at the foot of Songshan and captured by Huang Taiji in the camp.

For more than a year, he had also heard the saying that the Han people who had risen in the Shilin in Jiangnan should be established. In his opinion, this was nothing more than a deceptive trick. Whether working for the Qing court or serving as an official in the Ming Dynasty, only power and interests are the most practical, and should not be swayed by those illusory statements.

However, the general trend of the world has changed.

The Han Chinese were no longer willing to be slaves to the Manchus.

Wu Sangui's rebellion was not affected by this statement.

The sound of cannons rumbled, and the guns rang out.

The firelight reflected on the water illuminates the defeated Qing soldiers like lost dogs.

Tiger Head Peak.

The heralds shuttled non-stop.

Zuo Ruo ordered: "Order Gongchen and Zhang Tianlu to attack Xiangyang City" Seventy percent of the Qing soldiers have crossed the river, although the remaining soldiers are resisting, they are already panicked in their hearts, and the time he has chosen is right.

He turned his head towards Zong Mao and said, "Sect Director, I want to go to the battlefield in person, and I will not accompany you."

Zong Mao returned the salute and said, "Okay, I wish the general a victory and kill all the captives." ”

His casual words were chilling.

If Zuo leaves, only Zong Mao is left at the Hutou Mountain Observation Deck.

Standing on the top of the mountain and looking down on the battlefield with a clairvoyant mirror, he really had the feeling that all living beings were like dogs. They are fighting, they are nothing more than tools for others to compete for power; They were shouting, they were struggling in vain.

Zong Mao has been watching, and he doesn't feel tired after watching for an hour.

The sound of the cannon has stopped, and the sky-high fire in Xiangyang City has ignited, it seems that Hong Chengchou does not want to leave a complete Xiangyang City to Daming. Although Hong Chengchou was unlucky and lost consecutive battles, he was more proficient than all the civil officials in Jiangnan now. It's only to blame that he met the general as an opponent.

In the past two years, under the rule of the general, Jiangnan and Huguang swept away the previous malaise and showed vigorous vitality. And he changed from the head of the Great General's Mansion under one person to the head of the Huguang Xiangyang Army.

The Qing soldiers left behind a few Han foot soldiers who had no time to cross the river, and fought and retreated, retreating in the direction of Nanyang City. After the Jiangbei Ming army took Fancheng, which was separated from Xiangyang by a river, they stopped pursuing.

The Ming army entering the city was extinguishing the fire in Xiangyang City, and in order to prevent Xiangyang from being destroyed, Zuo Ruo had to mobilize more soldiers and horses to enter the city to extinguish the fire.

Zong Mao put down the clairvoyant mirror and fell into a longing contemplation, "Lord Wang, what kind of official position will you give me?"

There was a little white in the east, and it was almost dawn.

The fire in Xiangyang City was still burning, and the city was filled with the smell of grease.

The burned people cried and cried, and the soldiers who entered the city cleared the passage and road, and at the same time demolished the houses to isolate the fire zone.

Zuo Ruo's face was pale, and Hong Chengchou served a stinky dish to the banquet he was enjoying.

"Water, water"

Surrounded by fast-running soldiers, the well water in the city had bottomed out, and the Ming army had to use horse-drawn carts to carry water into the city outside the city.

The city of Xiangyang was covered with corpses all the way to the Yangtze River, not only people, but also countless livestock corpses.

The Qing captives were unable to bring the mules and horses in Xiangyang City back to Jiangbei, and Hong Chengchou ordered his soldiers to slaughter the livestock in Yujing to prevent the Ming army from getting the horses. Except for Xiangyang City, Hong Chengchou did not leave anything for Zuo Ruo.

Li Laiheng and Yuan Zongdi stayed in Fancheng, Jiangbei, and Jin Shenghuan had returned with his army.

It was not until the afternoon that the fire in Xiangyang City was extinguished.

Zuo Ruo drafted three war reports and sent them to Yao Qisheng, the governor of Huguang, and the governor of Huguang, Du Yinxi, and Nanjing.

The Ming army put up a bang to calm the people, and Zong Mao led the servants of the baggage battalion to set up a porridge shed in Xiangyang City to relieve the people who lost a qiē in the fire.

This was the end of the war in Huguang

The cavalry that reported the victory galloped in the state capitals, and the aftermath of the victory was overwhelming, and the undercurrent brought about by the reform of the imperial court and the two taxes disappeared without a trace.

Yao Qisheng came to Xiangyang four days later to appease the panicked Xiangyang City.

He did not build a large prison as before, and investigated the sin of the common people and squires in the city for assisting the Qing captives to defend the city. Hong Chengchou's henchmen and cronies have long since left, and the Ming army now does not need to search for squires to accumulate military funds.

Xiangyang Mansion was relaxed.

The ruins in the city could not affect the favor of the generals to take Xiangyang City.

Yao Qisheng specially set up a banquet to entertain the generals in the army.

The generals in the army are not happy to drink, but if Zuo Ruo governs the army strictly, although the generals are happy, they dare not be too presumptuous.

After drinking tea, some people took their leave early and returned to the barracks.

There were three people sitting in the pavilion in the garden, Zong Mao, Yao Qisheng and Zuo Ruo.

After the imperial court reformed the military system, Zuo Ruo and other armies were no longer under the command of the governor of Huguang, Zong Mao was the head of the general's mansion, and Yao Qisheng deliberately made friends with the two after the Huguang War. Such an opportunity is rare, even Zuo Ruo can see that Zong Mao is about to leave Huguang, how can Yao Qisheng not know.

Only three people were present, and Yao Qisheng explained in detail the causes and consequences of the chaos in Nanyang City.

Huguang produces black tea with a strong fragrance. Such tea is very popular in the grassland, but it is not elegant in Daming. But today there are two people here who once spent time in the steppe.

Zuo Ruo listened to Yao Qisheng while sipping tea, and finally asked: "So, from now on, Wu Sangui is the king of Zhenxi of the Ming Dynasty?" His tone and expression were very steady, and the famous generals in the army paid attention to not changing their faces in the face of landslides.

Yao Qisheng spit out the tea leaves in his mouth and replied, "Exactly" He doesn't like black tea.

Zuo Ruo's second sentence used a rising tone, asking: "Since you have descended to the light, why don't you fight with me to clear the captive?" ”

Yao Qisheng shook his head and said, "I'm afraid that he himself will know that the matter is urgent that day, and after Zhang Envoy returned to Anqing, he made an exception to inform me of the news and returned to Nanjing immediately."

Zong Mao interjected: "It can be seen from this that although he rebelled against the Qing Dynasty, he was not willing to take refuge in the Ming Dynasty, but it was just that Dolgon wanted to copy his back road, and he returned to Sichuan in a vain attempt to divide the territory." ”

"It's ridiculous that there is a person who is carried away by ambition," Zuo Ruo sighed. It's just a pity that he couldn't catch Hong Chengchou and Le Ke Dehun and others in Xiangyang.

He had that thought a long time ago, and now he's glad he did. Especially this year, after the general asked him to lead the Huguang war and regain his position in the army.

The ambition of his youth has been like a cloud of smoke, and the most regrettable thing in his heart is that his second brother Lei Yanqian, who was out of the jam at the same time. One wrong step, one wrong step, he was struggling alone in Shanxi, delusional to confront fate. After Xiao Zhiyan came to Huguang, when the two mentioned Lei Yanqian, they both had infinite regrets.

"If everyone in the world can see the general trend clearly, will there be so many wars?" Yao Qisheng's face was calm, and he continued: "The dull ones fight against the general trend, the smart ones take advantage of the general trend, and only those who are tenacious and unscrupulous can reverse the general trend."

Zuo Ruo was still puzzled, Zong Mao showed a subtle smile and asked, "Is Lord Yao talking about the prince?" "The only prince in his mouth is King Jin.

Yao Qisheng did not shy away and nodded in praise.

"There are many dry bones in Jiangnan, and the addition of two taxes will also cause so many suspicions and objections, the prince is too merciful to those people"

In this case, Yao Qisheng only dared to think about it in his heart, and only Zong Mao dared to say it. He was confined in Ningbo for a year, but his nature remained unchanged.

"This Ming dynasty was brought down by the prince."

The three of them looked at each other and smiled, and they searched for people who thought the same thing.

This kind of thing, whoever walks in the front can get a good position.

In the civil bureaucratic system, the Donglin Party is still huge, especially Chen Zilong, who is in the position of real power in the Ministry of Officials. The Zhejiang people are getting closer and closer to those who go north.