Xiangyang has always been a place where soldiers must fight, the importance of its geographical location is self-evident, Zhang Xianzhong and Li Zicheng discussed, decided to attack Xiangyang City, is a bold move, it should be said that attacking Xiangyang City, will definitely cause the shock of the imperial court, triggering a larger scale of the imperial army to encircle and suppress, but Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, who have been dormant for more than a year, are thinking of attacking the battle of Xiangyang City, to strengthen the prestige of the righteous army, change the decline of the righteous army in recent years, and let the righteous army develop faster.

Zhang Xianzhong's Liu Wenxiu, Li Dingguo and Ai Nengqi are all extremely brave, Zhang Xianzhong believes that during that time in Sichuan, the army led by Liu Wenxiu, Li Dingguo and Ai Nengqi repeatedly broke through the city and plundered a large number of supplies, so that Zhang Xianzhong's army could develop and grow.

Zhang Xianzhong will not forget that he was almost wiped out by the Zheng family army in Kuizhou, Sichuan, and his godson Sun Kewang was killed by the Zheng family army, but it can be regarded as Zhang Xianzhong's good luck, the white pole soldiers who have been guarding Sichuan and the Sichuan general soldier Qin Liangyu have encountered great difficulties, which greatly weakened the strength of the Sichuan guards, and let the righteous army have more and better development space in Sichuan.

Zhang Xianzhong originally wanted to develop and divide in Sichuan, and no longer enter Huguang and the Central Plains, Sichuan has a dangerous terrain and is known as the country of abundance, and it is also very good to be able to divide and live a comfortable life in this rich place, but a conversation with Gu Junen made Zhang Xianzhong wake up, I am afraid that the days of secession he thinks about are castles in the air, the power of the imperial army is still very strong, and the Zheng family army is eyeing it, if the righteous army is limited to this part of Sichuan, it is difficult to get real development. Once the idea of small wealth and peace spreads, the soldiers of the righteous army will lose their combat effectiveness, and at that time. If you want to leave Sichuan, the possibility is not very great.

Regarding Li Zicheng's suggestion to attack Nanyang Mansion City and he led a large army to attack Xiangyang Mansion City, Liu Wenxiu, Li Dingguo and Ai Nengqi and others had no objections, and even showed excitement, if they could directly take Xiangyang Mansion City, then Zhang Xianzhong and the righteous army under his command. The general's reputation was greatly shaken, and at the same time Xiangyang was captured, and the rebels were able to get a large number of supplies.

However, if you want to attack Xiangyang Fucheng, it is not so simple, you must know that Xiangyang is a place where soldiers must fight, the city wall is tall, easy to defend and difficult to attack, during the Three Kingdoms period, Xiangyang was once a place where Wei, Shu and Wu fought and played many times. In terms of geographical location, Xiangyang Mansion City is surrounded by water on three sides and backed by mountains on one side, and the seven-kilometer-long moat built in the Han Dynasty strictly guards Xiangyang Mansion City, which also makes Xiangyang Mansion City known as the Xiangyang of iron.

If you want to take such a city, if you don't have strong combat effectiveness, it's a self-inflicted thing.

It may be for this reason that Zhang Xianzhong led the righteous army towards Xiangyang. It didn't attract much attention, but it was the righteous army led by Li Zicheng who went to Nanyang Fucheng. It attracted the attention of Sun Chuanting, the governor of the five provinces.

Zhang Xianzhong will not believe in evil, what about the iron-clad Xiangyang, there is no city that the righteous army cannot break, and if the righteous army can take the city of Xiangyang Mansion, it will be able to show a very different power.

Fang Kongzhi, the governor of Huguang, wrote a lot of twists and turns to the imperial court, when Zhang Xianzhong's liukou went in the direction of Xiangyang Fucheng. Fang Kongzhi not only wrote a memora to the imperial court, but also wrote a document to Sun Chuanting, the governor of the five provinces, asking Sun Chuanting to lead the army to Xiangyang Fucheng for reinforcements, but unfortunately Sun Chuanting's decision was to reinforce Nanyang Fucheng.

In desperation, Fang Kongzhi asked Zuo Liangyu, the general soldier of Huguang, to send 20,000 soldiers to guard Xiangyang Mansion. At the same time, the Huguang Water Division was dispatched to help guard Xiangyang Mansion, and in Fang Kongzhi's opinion, with 20,000 soldiers and 5,000 sailors guarding Xiangyang Mansion, no matter how many Liukou there were, it was impossible to take Xiangyang Mansion City.

Huguang general soldier Zuo Liangyu under the command, known as 100,000 troops, when the governor of the five provinces Sun Chuanting came to transfer the sergeants, Zuo Liangyu complained vigorously, saying that Huguang is a huge area, and a large number of sergeants are needed to wait, and the rogue Li Zicheng is plundering all over Huguang, it is really impossible to draw sergeants, under the coordination of Fang Kongzhi, Zuo Liangyu reluctantly transferred 3,000 sergeants and handed them over to Sun Chuanting.

This time, Fang Kongzhi asked Zuo Liangyu to send 20,000 soldiers to guard the city of Xiangyang Mansion, Zuo Liangyu also talked about a lot of difficulties, until Fang Kongzhi agreed to give 100,000 taels of silver salary, Zuo Liangyu agreed to send 20,000 soldiers to Xiangyang, and he himself was still in Wuchang Mansion.

Fang Kongzhi had a very bad impression of Zuo Liangyu, and Zuo Liangyu also made some military exploits, especially when he followed Hong Chengchou and others to exterminate the Liukou, he fought some tough battles, and later he was appreciated by Yang Sichang, the minister of the cabinet and the secretary of the Ministry of War, and was recommended as the general soldier of Huguang, and at the same time was named the prince Shaobao, but Zuo Liangyu was too arrogant, and he was a little ignorant of current affairs, and he was even more messy in terms of managing the army.

The army under the command of Zuo Liangyu was stationed in a military camp ten miles away from Wuchang Mansion City, and the sergeants under his command often plundered the people, and even raped women, making a mess in the local area.

Zuo Liangyu has never read a book, he can't read big characters, but he still looks down on readers, thinking that reading is weak.

Of course, Zuo Liangyu still didn't dare to offend Fang Kongzhi too much, after all, he was the chief soldier of Huguang, you must know that Fang Kongzhi was a member of the Donglin Party and had very good support in the imperial court, and he really wanted to provoke Fang Kongzhi to be impeached, and he would be the end of the general soldier.

Li Zicheng led the Liukou, in Xiangyang and Yunyang activities for a year, but did not make any big noise, are some small fights, during a period of time, Li Zicheng also led the Liukou into Henan and Sichuan and other places, which did not arouse Fang Kongzhi high attention, but this time the Liukou attacked Xiangyang City, or made Fang Kongzhi nervous, if Xiangyang Mansion City fell, he, the governor of Huguang, still has a lot of responsibility.

Seeing that Zuo Liangyu's staff general under his command led 20,000 people to Xiangyang, Fang Kongzhi was finally relieved, there were still more than 2,000 soldiers in the Xiangyang garrison yamen, plus the Huguang Water Division, an army of nearly 30,000 people, with the solidity of Xiangyang Fucheng, there was no big problem in holding it.

Despite this, Fang Kongzhi still kept writing to the imperial court to complain, and the purpose of his doing this was just in case, if the Xiangyang Mansion City was really broken by the Liukou, then he would be able to defend himself at that time and not take too much responsibility.

In his heart, Fang Kongzhi has some opinions on Sun Chuanting, compared with Xiangyang Mansion City and Nanyang Mansion City, the importance of the two is not the same, Xiangyang Mansion City is obviously much more important, but Sun Chuanting has been operating in Runing Mansion and Nanyang Mansion for about a year, and he is not thinking about being able to safeguard his own interests, such thoughts Fang Kongzhi is very clear, you are unkind to me and I am unjust, Fang Kongzhi wrote to the imperial court, faintly pointed out this problem.

Compared with Sun Chuanting and Wu Fu, Fang Kongzhi's life is slightly more comfortable, the only uncomfortable thing is that he was knocked out of 100,000 taels of silver by Zuo Liangyu, the wool is on the sheep, Fang Kongzhi is often in arrears of military salaries, and this time he is given some subsidies.

Because Liukou attacked Xiangyang Mansion, as the governor of Huguang, Fang Kongzhi could not leave Huguang, or even Wuchang Mansion, what he didn't expect was that in the thirtieth month of Layue, his son Fang Yizhi made a special trip to Wuchang Mansion.

For this son, Fang Kongzhi is still very relieved, Fang Yizhi studies hard, has no bad temper, as one of the four sons of Donglin, but there is no breath of the other three, Chen Zhenhui, Mao Xiang and Hou Fangyu joined forces to calculate Zheng Xunrui, Fang Yizhi did not participate, and also persuaded Chen Zhenhui and others, seeing that Chen Zhenhui and others were stubborn, Fang Yizhi simply left Nanjing and returned to his hometown, and it was precisely because of Fang Yizhi's accurate judgment that he escaped Zheng Xunrui's revenge.

This incident made Qian Shisheng and Hou Xun and others, and the other party Yizhi also have an unusual understanding, not only did they not get angry, but they thought that Fang Yizhi had brains in doing things, and he must be the most promising among the four sons in the future.

Father and son get together for the festival, Fang Kongzhi is of course happy, out of the ability to investigate Fang Yizhi, after eating the New Year's dinner, Fang Kongzhi will Zhang Xianzhong attack Xiangyang Mansion City, Li Zicheng attack Nanyang Mansion City, and the governor of the five provinces Sun Chuanting galloped to aid Nanyang Mansion City, all of them told Fang Yizhi, he wanted to hear what Fang Yizhi thought.

Fang Yizhi listened very seriously, and quickly spoke.

"Father, the child thinks that the biggest problem may be the union of Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, Li Zicheng is known as a 150,000 army under his command, and Zhang Xianzhong is known as a 100,000 army.

Fang Kongzhi shook his head a little helplessly, he originally thought that Fang Yizhi would have an unusual analysis, who knew that if he said such childish words, if Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong could unite, then the army led by Sun Chuanting would be able to withdraw and launch an attack, where would they wait until the two of them united.

"It is impossible for Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong to join forces to attack Xiangyang Fucheng, not to mention that they are not compatible with each other, even if they have the intention of uniting, the army led by Lord Sun can also calmly attack, so Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong are difficult to take care of, not to mention attacking Xiangyang Fucheng, self-protection has become a big problem."

As soon as Fang Kongzhi finished speaking, Fang Yizhi immediately spoke.

"Father, the child thinks it is not necessarily, the child has already said before, Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong's rogues, together there are 250,000 people, whether they are claimed or not, but in the face of such a huge army, there are only 40,000 troops under the command of Lord Sun, how dare they attack without scruples, the child thinks that Lord Sun will definitely think of this, there must be concerns."

Fang Kongzhi was stunned for a moment, his face turned a little pale in an instant, Fang Yizhi's prediction was accurate, once Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong united, Xiangyang would definitely be in danger, Sun Chuanting only had 40,000 people under his command, and he didn't dare to attack rashly. (To be continued......)