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The whole Huguang is a big battlefield, more people choose neutrality here, they are the strongest, and they are also the most cowardly.

If you have to choose a place as a breakthrough, there is no more suitable place than Yuezhou Mansion. This is the weakest place for the Qing forces, and it is not the focus of Hong Chengchou's layout. This credit was originally sent to He Tengjiao, but now Governor He has become a prisoner.

Zhai Zhe sent Zuo Ruo away, he was selfish, and left the simplest credit to his own people. Those people in the loyal camp still need to continue to be tempered under the city of Jingzhou. His promise was a decoy, and Li Guo dreamed of getting Jingzhou, so the loyalty camp had to pay the price of blood.

When the general began to move his eyes, who in the entire Southern Ming Dynasty could stop him?

Yuezhou Mansion is on the edge of Huguang in Jiangbei, which is the center of the Huguang waterway, but it is not the richest place.

Andingzhai is one of the five strongest cottages here, and it has never fallen in ten years, not only because of its sturdiness. Whenever there are thieves and routs who come to Andingzhai, Yang Zongxin can always make the most suitable choice.

To ignore or give food, his choice is not static.

So when he saw that Zuo Ruo was determined to attack the village, he surrendered without hesitation. But now he doesn't have that freedom, because he's on his side. Once you stand in line, you will never change.

Dead or handsome, he would soon know whether the risky decision he had made five days earlier was worth it, after he had been cautious all his life.

There were no Jurchens in the defenders of Yuezhou Mansion, and among the soldiers besieging the city were former officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, as well as lost thieves. They had a dozen small iron cannons and thousands of bird guns. Compared with them, the equipment of the defenders of Andingzhai was much more shabby.

Whenever they saw the birds under the city raise their long poles, the villagers reminded each other: "Retract your heads!" What's more, they are guarding their homes, and there are several incidents of thieves or routs breaking through villages in various parts of Huguang every year, and they don't need to be told what the results will be if Andingzhai is breached.

Inside the city walls, boiling dung and tung oil steam and exude a distant smell under the scorching sun.

The two small iron cannons buried in the mountain behind the cottage made great achievements, and the iron balls condescendingly tossed and smashed on the road in front of the cottage, so that the queue of the Qing captives to attack the city often fell into chaos.

Almost all of the young Zhuang members of the Yang clan went into battle.

Yang Zongxin is very fortunate that a lot of the money he has obtained over the years has been put on strengthening this cottage.

Some people gathered in front of the Yang ancestral hall, and it was like a big tent of the Chinese army.

"I have sent people to Jingzhou City to ask for help, as long as we can hold out for three or four days, General Zuo will definitely lead reinforcements to arrive, and then these captives will only be left to escape."

Yang Zongxin encouraged several well-known clansmen. Others may have a way out, but he Yang Zongxin can only go one way to the dark.

"It's going to take another three or four days," someone exclaimed.

"What are you afraid of, there are no Jurchens outside the door, but the officers and soldiers who only knew how to bully the soft and fear the hard have changed their clothes"

"Yes, too," the crowd agreed. In this village, this fair-skinned old fox said nothing, in front of him, no one dared to show anything unusual.

The Qing attack was fierce, and Hong Chengchou expected that the Ming army would soon return to Yuezhou Prefecture, so he ordered the Yuezhou staff general to do his best to capture Anding Village.

Yang Zongxin was also not sure if Andingzhai would be able to hold on for three days, but things were smoother than he thought.

In the afternoon of the next day, when the two sides were fighting fiercely, the arrogant Qing captives suddenly retreated, and in the following half an hour, Yu Jingjing, who had news of the Qing soldiers outside the village, did not even leave scouts who spied on the movements.

The township soldiers burst into cheers, and some people beat gongs and drums to send the Qing soldiers away.

"The Ming army is back" Yang Zongxin's feeling was very keen, and it was likely that Zuo Ruo was back. If Zuo Ruo returns to Andingzhai again, he will immediately cook the raw rice of this marriage. He took such a big risk that he couldn't let the cooked duck fly away.

As soon as Zuo Ruo led the army into Yuezhou Mansion, he immediately received the news that the Qing prisoners were attacking Anding Village, and marched day and night.

The two armies of the Ming army passed by Yueyang Mansion only a few days ago, and the eyes of the Qing scouts were firmly fixed on the direction of Jingzhou City, and after learning that the Ming army had returned to Yuezhou Mansion, the Qing soldiers who attacked the Anding Village immediately fled and returned to Yuezhou City.

When Zuo arrives at Anding Village, there is only a gentle breeze and dense forest left.

Yang Zongxin took advantage of this gap to clean up the corpses killed in front of Anding Village, and hung four red lanterns on the gate of the village, killed pigs and sheep, and prepared to welcome Zuo Ruo's arrival.

When Zuo Ruo's high-headed horse arrived in front of Anding Village, the slightly famous clan elders in Anding Village lined up to meet him

"General Zuo is finally back, and the Qing Yu is fleeing from the wind" Yang Zongxin walked at the forefront, smiling very happily. He was now more certain of the Qing court's weakness in Huguang.

Although he wanted to marry someone else's granddaughter, Zuo Ruo did not pretend to be unapologetic, and replied with a straight face: "It's time to come back" He didn't have much respect for Yang Zongxin, in the General's Mansion, the status of literati is not as good as that of martial artists.

"That's, that's"

Yang Zongxin ushered Zuo Ruo in, and the two talked while walking.

"The monk who ran away couldn't run the temple, and I led the army back this time to capture Yuezhou City on the orders of the general." Zuo Ruo directly explained the intention. He had to have a lot of places where he needed Yang Zongxin's help, and he didn't need to hide his plans.

"That's the best, the Qing soldiers in Yuezhou City are empty, and Lord He was about to break the city a few days ago, and he retreated for no reason" Yang Zongxin smiled and closed his mouth. He didn't know that He Tengjiao had been imprisoned by the general.

"If you want to take Yuezhou, first take the counties of Weiyang and Huarong, and so on to cut off the branches and leaves of Yuezhou Mansion, and take Yuezhou City is a matter of course" This is the strategy set by Zhai Zhe for Zuo Ruo, with Zuo Ruo's own thoughts, he will not be like this, and it is his style to go straight to Huanglong.

"What Mr. Zuo said is that it is really a good strategy," Yang Zongxin only praised it.

"Or ask Elder Yang to contact the righteous men and squires from all over the country to assist our army in capturing a few county seats."

"Well, I have a force, and I will use a force"

Yang Zongxin led Zuo Ruo into the courtyard of the Yang family, and the thief lowered his voice and said: "Since General Zuo left last time, the granddaughter of the lower has been thinking about tea and dinner, looking forward to the return of the adults" The literati either do not want to flatter people, once flattered, people sound scared.

Zuo Ruo groaned slightly, and said: "Well, after I recover the Yuezhou Mansion, I will invite someone to rise up and propose marriage" In his mind, the battlefield is always more important than marriage.

In the following days, Zuo Ruo's army continued to attack, breaking through several guards of Yuezhou Mansion and camps that refused to open the door. Yang Zongxin came forward to unite with the squires from all over the country to provide grain, grass and intelligence, and some people directly infiltrated the county seat to assist the Ming army in taking the county seat.

Zuo Ruo had no right to expand the army, so he could only recruit township soldiers in Yuezhou Mansion in the name of Yang Zongxin, assist the regular soldiers to attack the county seat, and carry grain and grass.

The war in Yuezhou Prefecture progressed smoothly. Hong Chengchou was unable to mobilize troops and horses from Jingzhou and Hanyang Mansion to aid Yuezhou, and the idea of giving up Yuezhou Mansion was born in his heart.

Outside the city of Hanyang, there are Li Zhi'an, Yuan Qizhou and Jin Shenghuan, a total of 780,000 people, since Lucke Dehun led the Niupiling defenders to leave, the Ming army stepped up the siege of the city every day, and the pressure on the defenders increased sharply.

Only Jingzhou City, a fortified city that once hung by a thread, is now very safe. Zhai Zhe and the Loyal Battalion are persevering.

After the battle in Yuezhou Mansion, Luck Dehun immediately knew that the most elite soldiers and horses of the Ming army had left Jingzhou City, and his courage immediately became bigger, and he often sent cavalry out of the city to provoke.

The loyal battalion, the commander of the thirteenth battalion, became more and more in awe of Zhai Zhe. Especially when he saw the general leading his foot soldiers to hold the sneak attack of the Qing cavalry, and at the same time using firearms to counterattack and disperse the Mongol cavalry back to the city.

At the beginning of August, Li Guo and Gao Yigong invited a small number of troops who remained in Kuidong to the loyalty camp.

The most eye-catching among these people was Li Zicheng's queen Mrs. Gao. The reason why Mrs. Gao stayed in Kuidong was because all the men who fought in the loyalty camp were men, and it was extremely inconvenient for her to lead a group of family women to accompany her.

She went east this time, nominally at the invitation of Li Guo and Gao Yigong to inspect the barracks, but in fact, because Zhai Zhe had said more than ten days ago that she wanted to meet Mrs. Gao.

Of course, Li Guo and Mrs. Gao will not really let the general go to Kuidong, and the identity of the general is not comparable to that of Huguang Governor Du Yinxi.

On the second day of Mrs. Gao's arrival, Zhai Zhe went to visit the loyalty camp.

Zhai Zhe is peaceful, and in his heart he also thinks that he and Li Zicheng are contemporaries.

"Meet Mrs. Gao"

"I've Seen the General"

Mrs. Gao is over the middle of the year, her voice is very thin, and her demeanor is very kind, which is completely different from the image of Li Zicheng in Zhai Zhe's imagination. She was escorted by a group of female soldiers, and a ruddy-faced girl supported her, with a slender figure, similar to Mrs. Gao's.

"Mrs. Gao's ability to focus on state affairs and advocate the reorganization of the thirteen departments into a loyalty camp is really a blessing of the Ming Dynasty."

"The general resisted the Qing captives and recovered Jiangnan, he is really the pillar of the country"

The two complimented each other, and Li Guo and others accompanied them to speak. A group of female soldiers looked at Zhai Zhe with round eyes, which made him a little uncomfortable.

After talking casually for about a quarter of an hour when they met for the first time, Zhai Zhe said goodbye and left.

When he returned to the barracks, more than 20 warships docked outside Jingzhou, and the soldiers unloaded boxes of goods. The guards escorted them along the way, kept a close watch, and carried those things back to the camp.

Zhai Zhe was immediately promoted to general, and all thirteen commanders were here, as well as several powerful generals.

"In the past few days, I have watched the battle between the loyal battalion and the Qing captives, and there is no shortage of brave men in the loyal battalion, but the soldiers and armor are scarce, and there is no training on weekdays, so they often suffer."

"You are all my soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, and as a general, I can't turn a blind eye to such a situation, and watch the soldiers die in vain under the sword of the Qing Dynasty. Therefore, I would like to select two soldiers and horses from the loyal battalion, reorganize them with the Ming army, equip them with armor and firearms, and transfer them to the general's mansion, and from now on I will obey the orders of the general's mansion. ”

All the commanders were not mentally prepared, Zhai Zhe's move was to dig the foot of the wall in the loyalty camp, and everyone's eyes were on Li Guo and Gao Yigong.