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Another hard day of siege.

The soldiers shuffled back with heavy steps, sweat dripping down the iron armor, some of them blood.

Today, hundreds of brothers have died under the city, and the soldiers have become numb, and there is no one who will not die in battle. To their relief, the weather had cooled down after the summer had passed, and the pain of waiting for the battle in the city to go up to the city was no longer the same as the pain of a month ago.

Zuo Ruo and Jin Shenghuan personally welcomed the soldiers back at the gate of the camp.

Both of them are generals, and they have been together for half a year under Hanyang City, and they secretly admire each other. Zuo Ruo wanted to find allies in the army, and Jin Shenghuan wanted to find a backer in the General's Mansion, and the two almost hit it off and got along very well here. And another general, Zhang Tianlu, got very close to Zhu Shouzhuang, the former subordinate of Jiujiang, and did not stay with the two.

The relationship between the military and the court is no different, each looking for their own companion. It can even be said that this is true wherever there are people.

Under the city of Hanyang, Zuo Ruojun and Jin Shenghuan are the main troops. Zhai Zhe knew the situation here well, so he ordered Zuo Ruo to be the main general, and the generals got along well to facilitate the coordination of the siege battle.

Under Zuo Ruo's order, the soldiers of each battalion went to the battlefield in turn, and there was no distinction between relatives and relatives, which was very appetizing to Zhai Zhe. Zuo Ruo never deliberately conserved his strength in war, he preferred to show his military prowess, to make the enemy fearful, and his companions to admire.

Attacking a fortified city is not a one-day effort, and there are two major taboos in siege warfare. One must not be impatient and force the soldiers to be too tight, causing the soldiers to be overworked and complaining. In addition, it is important not to slack off because of the long-term siege of the city, and give the opponent an opportunity to take advantage of it.

Duoduo's siege of Hangzhou and the siege of Jingzhou by the Loyal Battalion are two ready-made examples. Zuo Ruo reminded himself every day to hold back his temperament, because he had never been more eager to win than he was now.

The soldiers became more and more sophisticated, and the armor and equipment became more and more sophisticated.

After Chen Zilong implemented the new policy in the Jiangnan Governor's Palace, the income of various places increased significantly, so more silver was used to buy armor and firearms from the workshop. In recent days, ships carrying equipment have arrived in Wuchang Prefecture, some directly under the city of Hanyang, and some to Jingzhou.

Jin Shenghuan's personal guards are all equipped with Qi knives and chain armor, which are comparable to the former Jurchen armorers, and they are very good.

"General Soldier Zuo, I see that the defenders in Hanyang City have almost reached the end of the crossbow" His mentality was very relaxed, this was for the benefit of the deputy general, and the pressure was on Zuo Ruo's body.

"Hmm" Zuo Ruo snorted, still keeping a straight face, Jin Shenghuan was familiar with him and didn't care.

The closer he gets to victory, the more cautious Zuo Ruo becomes. The general first asked him to take the Yuezhou capital, and then let him attack Hanyang City. These two places are the credit of sending them to the door, if something goes wrong, then he will have no face to compete with Feng Qin for status.

Jin Shenghuan wanted to say something more, but suddenly a dozen scout cavalry in the distance galloped madly.

"The Qing captives have withdrawn"

"The Qing captives have withdrawn"

The scout shouted as he frantically whipped his horse.

Six or seven miles away, Zuo Ruo and Jin Shenghuan could only feel the scouts shouting again, there was urgent news to announce, but they couldn't hear what they were shouting.

Zuo Ruo reacted almost instantaneously, and turned to his own soldiers and ordered: "Lead my horse"

A moment later, two hundred cavalry rushed towards the scouts, followed by Jin Shenghuan.

The scout cavalry dismounted in front of Zuo Ruo and knelt on one knee, and said loudly: "The siege army has just come down, and the Qing soldiers and horses have left the city from the north gate and are fleeing in the direction of Xiaogan."

"The captives fled?" Jin Shenghuan repeated the news, his voice contained an unbelievable message, and his eyes naturally fell on Zuo Ruo.

"After four months of siege, the defenders of Hanyang City finally couldn't bear it anymore and chose to flee after losing the support of the Lekdehun tribe in Cowhide Ridge outside the city." In an instant, Zuo Ruo and Jin Shenghuan both had the same idea.

"Pursuit" Zuo Ruo waved his hands, his eyes were hot, and he urged the horse to turn his head and shout angrily to his own soldiers: "Order, order all units in the camp to immediately go around the city to pursue the Qing deserters, and the troops who retreated returned to Hanyang City and attacked Hanyang City overnight."

He once attacked the city under Hanyang, because it was the last moment.

There were no more soldiers and horses to resist in Hanyang Castle.

An hour later, the Ming army's chariots slowly walked to the city gates, and they remained unattacked. The strong men worked together to break through the city gate with sharp cones, and tens of thousands of Ming troops entered like dense ants.

If Zuo was not here, he personally led the army to pursue the fleeing Qing soldiers.

The Qing captives chose the right time to evacuate, and the Ming army marched all the way in pursuit, and it didn't take long for the sky to slowly get dark.

From Hanyang to Xiaogan Bacheng is a mountain road, the pursuit of an hour or so, Zuo Ruo defeated the Qing soldiers after three waves of breaks, killed and captured more than 3,000 Qing soldiers. Seeing that the Qing army had retreated far away, he was worried that Xiaogan's Qing soldiers would rise up to respond, and he was ambushed on the way and led the army to withdraw.

When there is expectation in his heart, he is no longer as unscrupulous as before. The recovery of Hanyang City is a credit to the hand, and his title of Marquis of the Broken Army has not yet been restored, but he doesn't want to make extraneous branches because of his greed for small merits.

Hanyang City was besieged for half a year, because Hong Chengchou had made sufficient preparations before, and the grain stored here was not consumed. But when the Qing captives withdrew from the army, they burned the remaining grain to the purification. The Ming army had to use its own rations to help the people in the city.

Because it was getting late, half of the Ming army was stationed outside the city that night, and half stayed in the city.

Zuo Ruo ordered people to hurry up and go to Jingzhou City overnight to report Zhai Zhe's victory.

The retreat of the Qing troops from Hanyang City was the beginning of Hong Chengchou's contraction of the Huguang defensive line. Hanyang City has been riddled with holes under the attack of the Ming army, and the defenders in the city are less than 10,000 people.

At the same time, Luckedhun led the 40,000 defenders of Jingzhou City out of the city under the cover of night and withdrew in the direction of Xiangyang.

After the situation in Shanxi and Jianghuai changed at the same time, Dolgon reluctantly followed Hong Chengchou's report and ordered the Huguang Qing soldiers to retreat to Xiangyang City.

Hong Chengchou had no choice. After the city of Hanyang was broken, the Ming army would attack Xiangyang in two ways, east and west, and with these horses in Xiaogan, he could not resist the attack of nearly 100,000 Ming troops. Instead of scattering the lost troops in various places, it is better to quickly concentrate Xiangyang, so as not to accumulate small defeats in various places and lose the morale of the army. After abandoning Jingzhou and Wuchang, the remaining 70,000 men and horses of the Qing army in Huguang will all be concentrated in Xiangyang City, which can be operated like a solid turtle shell, and wait for Dolgon to pacify Shanxi before launching an offensive against Nanming.

The backyard is unstable, and no one has the heart to charge ahead. So is Zhai Zhe, and so is Dolgon.

Since Luck Dehun had more than 8,000 cavalry in Jingzhou City, Zhai Zhe was more conservative than Zuo Ruo, and did not even send troops and horses to pursue.

Eat the rice one bite at a time. The Qing court's automatic abandonment of Jingzhou meant that the war would be even more difficult in the future. He no longer wants to win, he needs time to digest what he has gained in the past two years.

By the time Zuo Ruo's heralds arrived at the city of Jingzhou, the Ming army had already occupied the city.

The soldiers of the loyal battalion did not enter the city, only Li Guo, Gao Yigong, Li Laiheng and other commanders followed Zhai Zhe into the city to inspect. They besieged this place twice, lost more than 20,000 soldiers under this city, and finally took Jingzhou City.

The soldiers who entered the city first cleaned up Yu Yu Jingjing.

Under the banner of the great generals, the generals are mighty and majestic.

"This is Jingzhou City," Li Guo sighed. He led more than 100,000 defeated troops of Dashun to be reorganized into a loyal battalion in Huguang, and then lost nearly thirty percent of his brothers here.

"This is Jingzhou City" Zhai Zhe raised his head, full of ambition and slightly arrogant.

It's not arrogance, it's just pride, and he's proud of what he's achieved. He took Jingzhou, and took Jingzhou with the hands of the loyal battalion. If He Tengjiao wasn't in such a hurry, this should have been the territory under the jurisdiction of the Governor of Huguang, at least, the General's Mansion needed to share the city with Du Yinxi.

The changes in the situation are always so unexpected, just like when Duoduo led tens of thousands of Qing soldiers to occupy the entire Jiangnan. When God wants to pave the way for you, ordinary people can only bear it.

Everyone walked into the Jingzhou Mansion, and Zhai Zhe sat in the middle seat. He is now the master of the city

There were many generals under the hall, Li Guo, Gao Yigong, Li Laiheng, Yuan Zongdi, Fang Yuanke and Bao Guang stood up to congratulate: "Congratulations to the general"

"Rejoice with all of you"

"I can take Jingzhou City, and the loyal battalion should be credited, so" Zhai Zhe smiled slightly, and said in a long tone: "I ordered Li Guo to be the chief soldier of Jingzhou, and lead the soldiers of the loyal battalion to garrison here, reorganize the soldiers and horses here, and wait for the call of the general's mansion." ”

No one questioned him, in fact, the general did not have the right to appoint a local commander-in-chief. All the generals present took this for granted, and those who dared to question Zhai Zhe were being imprisoned in the barracks.

"Thank you, General," Li Guo said. He worked hard in Huguang for a year, and He Tengjiao only gave him the position of deputy general. The general did what he said and handed over Jingzhou City to the loyal battalion.

"Li Laiheng and Yuan Zongdi are the generals of the General's Mansion and will continue to go out with me to add luster to the loyal battalion."

The two generals walked out and said in unison: "Thank you, General"

From the moment Zhai Zhe wanted to marry Gao Huijun, the commanders of the Loyal Battalion understood that the generals would not discriminate against them because of their past. The Loyal Battalion finally found a home, not as glamorous as it was under King Chuang, but after a few years of dog-like life, they were content to have it at the moment. Because the fertile Jingzhou is many times better than the barren Kuidong.

"Take Jingzhou City, there is still one last step in the battle of Huguang" Zhai Zhe's tone became very strict, "Capture Xiangyang"

"We'll rest here for seven days, and then we'll send our troops in seven days."

"Obey orders" The generals are like thunder.

Seven days can give birth to a lot of things, the loyalty camp needs to rest, and Zhai Zhe has to fulfill his promise.