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Wuchang City and Hanyang City face each other across the river.

Both Hong Seungcho and Luck Dehun saw Hanyang as one of the focal points in the defensive line.

Zhai Zhe sent He Tengjiao away, prepared in Wuchang Mansion for half a month, grain, grass, gunpowder, and iron cannons were ready, and the army crossed the river to fight on May 5.

This day is the Dragon Boat Festival, and Qu Yuan is a native of Chudi.

Thousands of ships blocked the waterway of the Yangtze River, and the sailors first bombarded the guards on the shore with artillery, and Zhai Zhe ordered Zhang Tianlu and Jin Shenghuan to land first. After the two generals returned to the Ming Dynasty anyway, they did not make an inch of merit, and they have always felt inferior in the General's Mansion, and letting them go into battle is also an opportunity for them to make meritorious contributions.

There are three places opposite Wuchang Province that are suitable for large armies to cross the river, namely the Hanyang Province Wharf directly opposite and the Longwang Temple and the Wen River on both sides.

The Ming army had warships and artillery covering the long range, and there were no clear troops ten miles from the river bank.

At that time, Zhang Tianlu and Jin Shenghuan went ashore with the most elite pro-soldiers of the governors. In the distance, the Qing soldiers lined up in a neat line, like a forest growing in the fertile field.

The land by the river was damp and soft, and the Ming army marched three or four miles after coming ashore, and then quickly marched in formation, and the follow-up soldiers kept following.

More than a dozen miles away, the battle flag of the Qing captured moved.

A large number of Qing soldiers were like the tide that appeared on the calm water, and the soldiers were gritting their teeth and looking hideous.

"Killing" Lucke Hun rode and wielded a sword, his advantage over the Ming army was that he had more cavalry.

The Qing soldiers were armed with foot soldiers as the central army, and the cavalry came to cover the two flanks, including Jurchens, Mongols, and more Han Chinese. They are all fighting for the Qing Dynasty.

Lucked was determined to fight a victory to boost his morale. After the Qing soldiers lost Jiangnan, they were defeated in successive battles, and in the past, the Ming army was afraid of the Jurchens like tigers, but now they have become Qing soldiers who are afraid of the Ming army in Jiangnan.

Hong Chengchou, the governor of Huguang, also supported his idea, and he always regarded Zhai Zhe as the biggest threat to Huguang.

The Ming army is all bald-headed, and the posture is a bit like the monk soldiers mentioned in the book. The Qing troops were very violent, and Jin Shenghuan and Zhang Tianlu personally crossed the river to command the battle and stabilize the morale of the army.

Zhai Zheli was in the middle of the river, using a clairvoyant mirror to see the battle situation on the shore.

Seeing that the main force of the Qing army had appeared, he turned to order: "Order Zuo Ruo and Fang Guoan to ascend from Longwang Temple and Wenyang respectively." ”

The long Yangtze River defense line had many places that could cross the river, and the Qing could not stop the superior Ming army, and Luck Dehun just wanted to give the Ming army a little bitterness. Zhai Zhe was also willing to fight the Qing soldiers on the bank of the river, at least it would be easier than attacking a strong city.

Directly in front of the battlefield, the two teams of soldiers and horses are getting closer and closer.

The Qing soldiers were like steaming bulls, and the ranks of the Ming army were like a fence made of spears.

Zhai Zhe was very bold when he landed on the front with the surrender army, because he believed that Jin Shenghuan and Zhang Tianlu would always show him something.

The weather was good, the spring breeze was warm, and he chose a day.

Luck Dehun saw the deflection of the sailors of the Ming army in Jiang Xinxin, and knew that there was not much time left for him, so he ordered: "Attack"

The pikemen ran forward with neat steps, the toes of the descendants stepping on the heels of their predecessors, and the crowd made them look less panicked. They are the cheapest of the troops, requiring only a wooden spear, an iron helmet, and a piece of armor to protect the vital part of the chest. They were also the most heavily equipped in the army, and only a sufficient number of pikemen could maintain a stable front.

Spear for spear.

The wooden poles slammed into each other, making a dull "crackling" sound. Some of the hapless eggs were impaled in the chest in the first shot.

"Bang" This is the sound of birds, and the smoke of gunpowder blocked Zhai Zhe's vision. He lowered the clairvoyant mirror, perhaps just in time for him to lose sight of the battlefield in the distance. The sight of a stump and a broken arm flying up still makes him feel a little uncomfortable, although he is also a battle-hardened general.

The Ming army was equipped with more firearms than the Qing soldiers, and the Qing soldiers had more archers than the Ming army.

After galloping to the pike-lined line, the Jurchen cavalry dismounted at the two corners of the queue, drew their bows and shot arrows. Their archery was good, and their bows and arrows had a longer range than muskets.

The front of the Ming army's spear queue was immediately killed and wounded, and the formation was slightly loosened. But they have no way back, and behind them is the mighty river.

"Raise the shield" "Raise the shield"

Jin Shenghuan saw that the shape was not good, and decided to attack instead of defending, and instructed Jiading to assault into the Qing army's spear team from the middle road. His cronies were well-equipped, and some of them even wore multiple armor and were not afraid of bows and arrows, and scattered the pikemen oppressed by the Qing soldiers.

As soon as the queue of Qing prisoners oppressed, the Jurchen archers who stood still were likely to be sniped by the Ming army, and they all mounted their horses and retreated.

On the damp land five or six miles away from the bank of the river, the Ming army and the Qing soldiers were pulling each other like two hard sawtooth strips, and the contact was like a grinding disc crushing. If only the foot pawn is against the foot pawn, the strength of the two sides is equal, and it may be impossible to distinguish the winner from the dark of the stalemate.

But the Qing soldiers had ghostly cavalry archers.

Wherever it appeared, as soon as it was loosened, thousands of cavalry archers would want to ask the smell of flies swarming, dense long arrows shooting at the cut wound.

Jin Shenghuan was tired of running for his life, and ordered the follow-up soldiers and horses to keep up and make up for the shortcomings in the battlefield with their numbers.

The Ming army came ashore like squeezing toothpaste, and tens of thousands of soldiers were waiting on the river.

The frontal battlefield was more than 20 miles long and 10 miles wide, and could not accommodate too many men and horses, Jin Shenghuan and Zhang Tianlu did not dare to rashly let all the troops cross the river, in case of collapse, they would suffer heavy losses.

The shape of the battlefield was very unfavorable to the Ming army, and Zhai Zhe was as stable as Mount Tai on the warship. If Jin Shenghuan and Zhang Tianlu couldn't hold out for even an hour or two in the face of the Qing soldiers, they didn't deserve the respect of the general. The strong are admired in the army, and opportunities are reserved for those who are capable.

Zhang Tianlu and Jin Shenghuan are not mediocre generals, otherwise one would not have become the governor of Huiningchi in the Qing court, and the other would be the general soldier of Jiangxi.

The Qing soldiers seized an opportunity to tear apart the battle formation of the Ming army, and Jin Shenghuan and Zhang Tianlu kept mobilizing reinforcements to fill the gap. Little by little, the corpses of the sawtooth junction accumulated to form a bulging earthen wall.

An hour later, the battle was stalemate, and the Qing army had the advantage, but it was never able to completely overwhelm the Ming army.

On the official road in the field to the east, a scout galloped wildly and dismounted in front of Le Ke Dehun and said: "The Dragon King Temple has been broken through by the Ming army, and 20,000 Ming troops are landing on the shore. ”

That was the direction of Zuo Ruo's breakthrough, which was faster than Luck Dehun imagined, and faster than Zhai Zhe imagined. The Dragon King Temple is forty miles away from Hanyang, and the Ming army will come over within two hours after completing the 6th Climb.

Luckedhun looked at the battlefield in front of him, and then looked at the dense warships in the middle of the river, and ordered: "Storm."

This was the most tragic war Jin Shenghuan fought, and he didn't expect his subordinates to maintain such a strong combat power against the Jurchens. Zhang Tianlu is much calmer than him, he has fought with Zhai Zhe in Huizhou Mansion, and the strength of the Ming army and the Qing army can be compared most intuitively, this Qing army is far less terrible than the troops of the Zuo General Army.

The scouts and messengers of Jiangbei did not stop for a moment, and the battle lasted less than an hour, and Luckedhun led his troops back, because Zuo Ruo's reinforcements exceeded his prediction again.

The 80,000 Ming troops all crossed the river in the future.

Jin Shenghuan and Zhang Tianlu cleaned up the battlefield, and the two lost a total of more than 2,000 soldiers, and the loss of the Qing soldiers was only 20% of them. Although the result did not make Luck happy, he barely achieved his goal.

The army set up a village west of Hanyang City, and thousands of ships transported supplies overnight.

Luckedhun led 35,000 troops to garrison at Niupiling in the east of Hanyang City, holding the retreat to Xiaogan, and fighting each other with Tong Tulai, who held on to Hanyang.

The offensive and defensive battle of Hanyang officially began.

Hanyang and Wuchang are only separated by a river, the Ming army is convenient to transport materials, the only defect is that there is no stronghold in Jiangbei, once the attack can not be carried out for a long time, the army will be slack, will give the Qing soldiers an opportunity. It's like Duoduo's fiasco under the city of Hangzhou.

In Hanyang alone, although the Ming army had an advantage over the Qing captives, it was not obvious. Hong Chengchou gathered almost all of Huguang's forces to deal with Zhai Zhe's offensive.

Zhai Zhe only spent two days in Jiangbei and returned to Wuchang City in the south of the Yangtze River.

The siege of the city was handed over to Zuo Ruo to command, and Hanyang City knew at a glance that it could not be captured in one or two days, and the breakthrough in the battle of Huguang was probably not in Hanyang.

Liu kept coming news from Huguang with the wind.

The Shang Alliance has already handed over 100,000 taels of silver to Gu Yinxi's hands.

After He Tengjiao returned from Wuchang Mansion, Liu Suifeng did not dare to stay in Changsha Mansion anymore, but followed Plug Yinxi to the west and Kuidong and Yingzhongzhen to the east. He Tengjiao couldn't count on it, Zhai Zhe put his hope on Plug Yinxi, and Liu stayed by Plug Yinxi's side with the wind, so that the two could report the news.

Huguang heavy troops gathered in Hanyang, Jingzhou was empty, and the loyal battalion could just continue last year's incomplete achievements.

With 80,000 remnants of the loyal battalion and 20,000 soldiers and horses from Ma Jinzhong, the strength of Du Yinxi is not much worse than Zhai Zhe, and even stronger than He Tengjiao. He Tengjiao didn't look down on the loyalty camp, so he let Du Yinxi take advantage. But the loyal battalion is not as obedient as the soldiers recruited by He Tengjiao, and the bitterness of Plug Yinxi is that he does not have enough food to support so many soldiers and horses.

After He Tengjiao returned to Changsha Mansion, the first thing he did was to cut off the food and salary of Plug Yinxi. The Huguang Governor's Mansion had no high-sounding reason to stop Du Yinxi from attacking Jingzhou, so it had to resort to all kinds of tricks to delay it.

After receiving Liu Suifeng's secret report, Zhai Zhe personally wrote a letter to Du Yinxi, which was completely different from his attitude towards He Tengjiao.

"Regarding the matter of the food and salary of the loyal camp, I will do my best, and I only hope that Brother Muzi can supervise the army to capture Jingzhou and tide over the current difficulties,......"

The salary of 100,000 troops is not a small amount, only relying on the land endowments from various places, Zhai Zhe cannot afford it now, but there is still enough power to supply grain and grass. Zhai Zhe has always been very willing to spend money, since he was in the grassland, most of his silver went in and out of his left hand, and he was in a state of not enough to spend.

If the officials and gentry do not pay for the grain in one piece, the rich Jiangnan will also reach the time when its financial resources are exhausted.

He suddenly remembered a person, a person who should have arrived in Jiangbei, and that person might be able to help him get through the urgent need.