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As soon as two edicts with similar contents were issued in the 34th year of the Kangxi reign of the Qing Dynasty and the 7th and August of the 3rd year of the reign of Wuding of the Ming Dynasty, the warring north and south were taken aback. No one would have imagined that at a time when the war was in danger and the victory was undecided, each crown prince would ignore the situation and start an armed rebellion like ants and trees in the fundamental land.

Although the prince in the south has a few more reasons than the disloyal and unfilial prince in the north in the name of purging the traitors and returning to the royal family, the "people of insight" all regard the two as reckless and disruptive people who do not know how to advance and retreat, how to pursue advantages and avoid disadvantages. Therefore, it is asserted that even if they are lucky enough to get to the top, it may not be able to help the overall situation.

Of course, after the news from the north reached the south, Zheng Fan was heartbroken, believing that the Nanjing Revolution and the eastward retreat of Liu Ning'an's main force had deprived the Northern Expeditionary Army of the opportunity to win in one fell swoop, so he treated the Ming Chamber coldly and scolded him; And Kangxi in Beijing also beat his chest after getting the news from the south, thinking that Chang Ning's unauthorized retreat had lost a good opportunity to turn the tide of the war, so he ordered to seize his position as commander and replace him with Bo Guoduo, the prince of Zhuang.

Fortunately, the coaches of both sides are all temporary heroes after all, and they know that if they miss it, they will miss it, and there is no regret medicine in the world, not to mention that they clearly realized that it was providence rather than manpower that led the two sides to die down in the end, so they adjusted their mentality in a short time and moved their attention to the next big battle.

Where will the next possible big war be? As long as you know a little bit about history, you can see the goal at a glance. Yes, guarding the river must guard Huai, but without Jingxiang, there will be no Huai, this truth is not only understood by Kangxi, but also by Zheng Kezang. Since this is the case, the siege of Wuchang, which is still going on, is bound to attract the attention of both sides.

So Kangxi and Zheng Kezhang began to try their best to accumulate troops to Huguang. However, Anqing, who was still holding the throat of the Yangtze River in front of Zheng Jun, could not pull out this thorn in the flesh, not only would he not be able to use troops on a large scale, but he would also have to worry about the safety of the newly acquired Huainan and Jiangbei regions. As far as the Qing army was concerned, if the Qing army occupying Gansu was unwilling to withdraw its troops, then the Green Banner soldiers in Sichuan, Shaanxi, Jin, Henan and other provinces that were pinned down in Shaanxi would not be able to move south.

What to do? The two sides can only compete for time to see whether the Zheng army defeated Anqing first, or the Qing court first pacified the Xizhun army. Of course, the battle under the city of Wuchang is also very important, and it can be said that it will determine the order of the entire battle.

On August 25, a group of reinforcements of Zheng's army arrived in Ruichang. The next day, Zheng Junshui, who had no time to rest, marched in unison, broke the interception of the Qing army in front of him in one fell swoop, and smoothly rescued Xingguo Prefecture (Yangxin), which had been besieged for nearly a month.

In the early morning of 27 August, the Yangtze River Fleet of the Zheng Army's Naval Division made a new attack from Yangxin, and at noon it successfully intercepted a Qing army's grain convoy at the Wuchang County (Ezhou) river near Chibi on the eastern slope, captured 23 large and small grain ships, and captured 800 Qing reinforcements who crossed the river with the boats.

On 28 August, the Yangtze River Fleet that went west to Dongting to reinforce Wang Xinhua's troops sailed to Jingzhou, releasing guns and guns along the way to disperse civilian ships. The warning news came that Jingzhou was shaken, and the Qing army did not dare to meet the Zheng army on the river, so they prepared to use the method of iron locks across the river to block the Zheng army's advance. However, the iron cable of the Hengjiang River became the raw material for Zheng Jun's return to the furnace to make iron, and the connection between the two sides of the Jingjiang River was still blocked. However, the number of ships of the Zheng army's naval division was limited, and the enemy-controlled area could not be too dispersed, so the Qing army could still continue to communicate with Jiangnan through the upper reaches of Jingzhou.

On 29 August, Zheng Kezang, who led his troops to join Hong Lei, inspected the three armies under the city of Anqing, and the cheers that soared to the sky could even be heard in the city. Just when Wang Weizhen, the governor of Anhui and the governor of Anhui, did everything possible to appease his subordinates and strengthen his will to defend the city, Zheng Kezhang ordered Hong Gongzhu, the general soldier of Huguang, and Wu Shu, the general soldier of Jiangxi, to transfer their posts. At the same time, Zheng Kezhang urgently ordered Wu Shu, who was in Nanchang, to rush to Xingguo Prefecture to preside over the overall situation, and then transferred two divisions of the Longxiang Army to reinforce Wuchang.

On the same day, Zheng Kezhang appointed Xi Daping as the commander-in-chief of Huainan and presided over the setting up of the Huainan defense line. In view of the fact that there were still 19 divisions, including the newly built three divisions, and more than 6,000 new annexed troops under Anqing City at this time, Zheng Kezhang allocated three of them to the north to transfer Lufeng, and at the same time ordered the first division of the Yongwei Army to lead Yang Bokang to lead his troops and the new annex army of 2,000 to enter Lu'an Zhili Prefecture, so as to prevent the Qing army from sneaking into the war zone from the northern foot of Dabie Mountain and the south of Yingzhou Prefecture.

On September 1, the Qing army besieging Wuchang broke through the Caobu Gate (also known as Wusheng Gate, at the Jiyu Bridge) in the north of the city. Although it took a lot of effort to repel the Qing army's attack, the three gates of Xicheng sent people to tighten at the same time.

Seeing that the city of Wuchang Mansion was about to be broken, there was a sudden rumbling cannon sound on the river. Seeing that the situation was not good, the Yangtze River fleet, which had been rampant, decisively approached Jiangnan and carried out a fierce artillery bombardment of the rear positions of the Qing army that attacked the three city gates. Shanahai, the commander of the Qing army who commanded the siege, was worried that the Zheng army's sailors would strike a blow in the back to the Qing army at a critical time, so he had to order the Qing army that had already reached the head of Wuchang City to withdraw. As a result, the city of Wuchang was saved by luck.

However, the fatigue in the city is fully revealed, and if reinforcements do not arrive, I am afraid that the destruction of the city is also in sight.

For this reason, Wu Shu, who rushed to Xingguo Prefecture to command the war while ill, did not dare to slack off when he heard the news, and immediately drove an army of 30,000 to Wuchang County. The Qing army besieging Wuchang was forced to relax its attack on the city of Wuchang under pressure from the outside line, and instead implemented a siege, and the main force moved eastward in an attempt to defeat the Zheng army that came to relieve the siege.

At this time, the Wang Xinhua Department of the southern line also marched north with a section under Zheng Kezang's repeated strict orders, and Tongcheng, Chongyang, Puqi and other counties that had just annexed the enemy immediately changed their doors again to declare their allegiance to the Ming Dynasty, and staged a scene of the city's changing king's banner.

However, Wang Xinhua's pace was still too slow, and after the three counties of Tongcheng changed banners, Liu Bu, who had surrendered to the Qing Dynasty in Jiayu, Xianning, Tongshan and other places, had the intention of attaching himself, but Wang Xinhua was worried that he would be hit by the main force of the Qing army after adventurously, so he could not respond to the promise. Since the threat on the southern front was not great, it was natural that the Qing army was able to calmly dispatch and devote all its energy to dealing with the Zheng army coming from the west.

But Zheng Jun, who entered Wuchang County along the river, suffered a sudden crisis: the coach Wu Shu originally came with illness, and at this time, he traveled back and forth, coupled with hard work, and his condition worsened for a while and he was bedridden.

Under these circumstances, several commanders of the same rank either said that they would withdraw their troops or insist on continuing to march into the army, but they could not convince each other, so they had to send ships to Anqing on the one hand to report and ask for instructions, and on the other hand, under the cover of the fleet, they set up camps along the river and held on.

The Qing army did not know about the changes in Zheng Jun, but the mystery of Zheng Jun's actions gave Shana Hai a few opportunities.

Therefore, after a night of military discussions, the Qing army decided to attack immediately and defeat the Zheng army before it could build a camp. However, Shanahai never imagined that Zheng Jun had built a number of fortifications in a short period of time using cement, and although they were not very strong because they had not yet dried completely, his plan to take advantage of the situation would fail.

Relying on the existing fortifications, the divisions of the Zheng army were shelled from afar, and the infantry guns were used at the nearest, coupled with the repeated artillery of the red single boats on the river, although the Qing army attacked several times and suffered many casualties, but the gains were not large, and even a fort of the Zheng army was not overcome.

The frustrated Shana Hai was not willing to stop there, and he turned to cut off the grain route of the Zheng army, but the Zheng army had sailors to help the war, and the rolling Yangtze River was a natural passage that the Qing army could not block, so the Shana Hai plot went bankrupt again. As a last resort, the Qing army could only stand on the city and form a confrontation with the Zheng army. In this way, Wang Xinhua's northward advance troops became the key to the campaign.

However, Wang did not have this realization, and after hesitating for several days, Wang Xinhua's department finally slowly advanced north. But the opportunity has been missed, and Li Gao, the general of the Liu military department who originally promised to invest in the royal department, was once again tempted by the price offered by the Qing army, and closed the door to the royal department, and the royal department was trapped under the city of Xianning, so he had to prepare for the siege.

Seizing this opportunity, Shana Hai sent a cavalry of more than 1,000 men to attack on light horseback. The Wang Department who was attacking Xianning did not expect the Qing army to appear in front of him so quickly, so in the case of being caught off guard, more than 10,000 soldiers will be dispersed on the spot, and the Qing army will be killed by the situation.

The day before he won the victory in Xianning, Hong Gongzhu, who had just been transferred to the general army of Jiangxi, led the Zheng army of three and a half divisions to defeat the Qing army in Hunan in the three battles of Fenyi, Yichun, and Luxi, and then counterattacked into Hunan.

Mao Hongyan, the commander-in-chief of Hunan, who had been gearing up for a long time, also took the opportunity to transfer troops north, and the two units formed a joint force and approached Changsha from the southeast and southeast.

The Yangtze River Fleet, which was still in Dongting Lake, broke through the obstruction of the Qing army's naval division and also entered the Xiangjiang River.

Hunan Governor and Hunan Governor Sang E saw that Zheng's army was powerful and invincible, so he abandoned Changsha City early in the morning and led more than 10,000 remnants of the army to flee back to Baoqing in panic.

Sige, the Zhennan general who had just been appointed by the Qing court, had nothing to do at this time, so he had to lead more than 6,000 people to escape back to Changde.

In this way, the threat to the south of Yueyang can be completely removed, and the main force of Wang Xinhua's department can concentrate on dealing with the battle on the northern front without shirking. It was precisely because he understood the current situation, and also in order to wash away the image of the previous ineffective battle, that Wang Xinhua personally supervised the rectification of the three divisions to the north on the third day after Changsha changed hands.

As a result, the Huguang Qing army will face the unfavorable situation of attacking from the north and the south.

Shanahai was also a veteran of the battlefield, and he understood that the only way to resolve the current crisis was to ignore the main force of the Zheng army in Wuchang County, gather the Qing army that surrounded the city of Wuchang and go all the way south, first defeating Wang Xinhua's army, and then capturing Yueyang. But if he really wanted to do so, he would have to ignore two possible actions. Not only that, but because Zheng Jun's sailors crisscrossed the river, he also had to consider whether the grain and straw could support to conquer Yueyang.

So after thinking about it, the Shana Hai decided to take the initiative to withdraw the troops, but the withdrawal had to ask the Zheng army whether the Yangtze River Fleet would agree. Therefore, the Shana Sea bluffed every day, and then rushed to cross the river overnight, and withdrew most of its forces across the Yangtze River before the Zheng army on the north and south roads reacted. In the end, the Yangtze River Fleet, which was still sailing at night, saw that the enemy situation had changed, which at least left the Qing army after the break

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