Chapter 242: The November Siege
Xiao Guizi's father-in-law's words intentionally or unintentionally reminded Gong Jichang of Feng Jiao'er. Who is so boring, eating and worrying (nosy), and secretly reporting the secret identity of the eldest princess Feng Jiaoer to the imperial court, isn't this asking for Lao Tzu's life? If it weren't for the fact that the Queen Mother Lala clan had an intersection with herself, once the charge of hiding a "traitor" is confirmed, the day when the Gong family will be in trouble is not far off.
Thinking about it, Gong Jichang suddenly felt that his back was cold, and everyone was golden, and the three of them became tigers, and the words were terrifying...... What a headache!
King Kang Wang Haiyang's wolf army was beaten and fled, Gong Jichang made people rummage through these earthen buildings in Shiling, but did not see Feng Jiao'er's figure, where would she hide? Did you go back to your hometown in Huaxian County?
So, while Gong Jichang was appeasing the Hakka people in Shiling and helping them rebuild their homes, he paid attention to the female soldiers in every blue wolf army, and vowed to find Feng Jiaoer (Ran Yingying) intact.
Some people say that a good wife is happy for three generations. The happiness of a wife is the premise of a family's happiness. Only when the wife is happy, the child will grow up healthy and worry-free under the care of the mother!
Meng Ting, the eldest daughter in the family, can't live without her mother, otherwise the absence of mother's love will be very detrimental to Meng Ting's growth. When the blue wolf army is all pacified, it is time to go back to Baishui Village to build a mansion for his wives, so that they can have a place to live.
Only when the wife is happy, the husband can have a stable rear and work hard outside with peace of mind! The importance of a wife to the family is self-evident.
Men want to have a good wife, but they often forget that a good husband comes before a good wife. Gong Jichang also forgot the original vow of the alliance, and after marrying Feng Jiaoer, he couldn't help but accept three concubines one after another, the reason was to "pass on the ancestry" and continue the incense of the Gong family, this seemingly grandiose excuse made Feng Jiaoer very helpless.
Wang Haiyang and the other remnants of the army were defeated and escaped, which made Gong Jichang linger for a long time. The war is still going on, and there is still a long time before the horses are put into Nanshan and the swords and guns are put into storage!
Chasing Wang Haiyang has not let go, fighting to the death, maybe this guy is likely to know the whereabouts of the eldest princess Feng Jiao'er, only if he is captured alive, the "young master Feng Fu" will settle down for a while, and Feng Jiao'er will give up and return to his side.
After running around Nanyue for a long time, and the day of the Chinese New Year is getting closer and closer, Wang Haiyang decided to find a new territory for development and rebuild a base against the Qing and Heguo, and Jiaying Prefecture is the first choice.
Jiaying Prefecture of Nanyue County is located in the northeast of Nanyue County, bordering Longyan Mansion and Zhangzhou Mansion of Minyue County in the east, Chaozhou, Jieyang and Shanwei in the south, Heyuan in the west, and Ganzhou in Jiangzuo County in the north.
Jiaying Prefecture is one of the Hakka distribution centers and settlements, with a population of two or three million, for Wang Haiyang, who is short of food, grass and soldiers, occupying Jiaying Prefecture is undoubtedly a good opportunity for salted fish to turn over.
However, Gong Jichang will not give Wang Haiyang this opportunity, Gong Jichang wants to completely eradicate this last blue wolf army, and he can go home to reunite with his relatives and have a happy Spring Festival.
After besieging Shiling for several months, the Jingyi battalion suffered relatively large losses, and Xi Qitian, the commander of the "Xi Family Army", in order to preserve his strength, ordered Gong Jichang to lead his troops back to Jiangzuo County, rest for a month, and give the opportunity to other Jingnan troops.
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At the critical moment, you can't drop the chain, but Wang Haiyang dropped the chain. Li Shixian's arrival made Wang Haiyang very panicked, one was afraid that Li Shixian would be questioned if he would die in the battle of Zhangzhou, and second, he was afraid that the military power would fall into the hands of Li Shixian (Li Shixian's title was higher than Wang Haiyang).
On a windy and dark night, Wang Haiyang sent four of his subordinates to assassinate the defenseless Li Shixian while he was asleep, and also made public the crime of "spies", which made Li Shixian's old subordinates very dissatisfied, including Fengwang Huang Penghou and others.
Wang Haiyang openly provoked infighting, which was a big mistake, and it also planted bitter fruits for him to be besieged by the Jingnan army later, and no one came to the rescue. After the incorporation of Li Shixian's remnants, Wang Haiyang had 150,000 troops, but the army was unstable and lacked food and clothing, making it difficult to survive the cold winter.
In view of this situation, Wang Haiyang decided to borrow a city for the New Year, and finally targeted the city of Jiaying Prefecture (now Meizhou City, Guangdong), which was empty in defense, to give his subordinates a chance to rest and recuperate, and then break through in the next year, and go north from Minyue County and Jiangdong County to unite with the "Red Wolf Army" of Chen Yuchao, the eagle king in the north, to disrupt the overall situation of the Central Plains.
King Kang led the blue wolf army of about 80,000, lightly armed, through Heping, Longchuan, Xingning, ten days of thousands of miles, got rid of the large Qinghe army in the pursuit, the wolf army entered the territory of Jiaying Prefecture.
October 19th, dawn.
Hearing that the blue wolf army was coming, Cheng Peilin, the governor of Jiaying Prefecture, took his troops and abandoned the city and fled. More than 100 people from the forward horse team of the blue wolf army went to the city, and when they saw that there was no one above the city, they shouted and entered, captured the defender generals, and pacified the people in the city.
Most of the people in the city were Hakka people, who warmly welcomed the arrival of the Blue Wolf Army and provided them with a place to live, food and lodging.
At dusk, Wang Haiyang's brigade arrived in the city, that night, the blue wolf army attacked from all sides, the east road to Xiyang, Fenshui, Jinpan, Bingcun and other townships, the south road to Shuinan, Nanshazhang, Changshawei, Baishui Shishi Festival and other townships, the west road to Nankou, Dacha, Xiaozha, Daping, Longhuwei and other townships, the north road to Xiangcun, Shifan, Guiling and other townships, sweeping the regiment to train armaments and collect military rations.
In the next few days, the blue wolf army roosters crowed, returned at sunset, and within a radius of 20 to 30 miles around Jiaying City, they searched for a large number of ropes to attack the small units of the Qinghe Army lurking nearby.
Subsequently, Wang Haiyang began to actively deploy defense, strengthen the city, build fortresses, dig deep trenches, build fences, build Tucheng watchtowers around the outside of the city, and set up headquarters in Renfeng Tower in the west of the city to prepare for the defense, which is the last city of the remnants of the Blue Wolf Army.
Long after the Blue Wolf Army captured Jiaying, Gao Liansheng, the vanguard of the Qinghe Army, caught up. They marched for six days and six nights, exhausted, and as soon as they arrived in Jiaying Prefecture, they fell into the ambush circle of the blue wolf army, suffered heavy losses, and hurriedly retreated.
On November 16, Wang Haiyang and Tan Tiyuan led their troops to suddenly attack, successively defeating the Qinghe army under Fang Yao, He Yunzhang, Gao Liansheng, and Liu Qingliang, killing thousands of Qinghe troops and dealing them a heavy blow.
On 21 November, as soon as the Qing Peace Army arrived and its foothold was not stable, Wang Haiyang led his troops to attack the White House City, and once again defeated Fang Yao, an army in southern Guangdong, killing more than 1,000 enemies.
On 24 November, Wang Haiyang inflicted heavy losses on the Qinghe army of Gao Liansheng and Liu Qingliang at Shuangqiao, killing 17 civil and military officials such as Wang Yuyuan, the magistrate of the county, and pulling out many Qing military camps, killing more than 2,000 enemy troops, and giving the invading Qinghe army a dismount.
Hearing that Jiaying was lost, Yin Zongtang, who was remotely commanded in Pinghe County, Minyue, couldn't sit still, and was horrified, and urgently ordered Bao Chao to be stationed in the north of Jiaying City, Gao Liansheng, Liu Qingliang, and Kang Guoqi to guard the west, and Liu Dianjun to go out of Dapu to assist in the east. Huang Shaochun and Wang Debang attacked its southeast. Fang Yao and Deng Anbang, the commanders of Nanyue County, were stationed in Nankou, and Lai Chang and Zhang Mo were stationed in Bingcun.
On 29 November, the Jingnan Army continued to advance. Yin Zongtang ordered Liu Dianjun to enter Bingcun from Songkou, and Wang Debang to the area of Taziao and Fozigao in the east of the city, connecting with the military camp of Liu Dianbing Village. Huang Shaochun stationed in Jingukeng to guard Kwai Ling Road, which was connected to the camp of Gao Liansheng Zhangshuping. Bao Chao, Xi Qitian, and Liu Shengxiang strangled the two roads of Xianggongting and Daping in the northwest...... The momentum of the encirclement is gradually taking shape.
In the face of the increasingly grim situation, Wang Haiyang still calmly responded to the battle, took advantage of the gap to attack, and fought many bloody battles with the Qinghe army, dealing a heavy blow to the other side.
Although the blue wolf army has achieved a lot of victories, there are no reinforcements outside, no food and grass inside, and it is not a long-term solution to trap the lonely city, and breaking through is the most important thing.
Only then did Wang Haiyang realize that he made a mistake in sticking to the lonely city, and he couldn't make it this year. Of course, the most lethal is the endless stream of rebel generals, such as Youwang Li Yuanji, Fengwang Huang Penghou and other traitors, mixed into Wang Haiyang's troops, and they can't be prevented.
On the first day of December, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, Yin Zongtang, led 800 soldiers from Zhangzhou in Minyue County, and rushed to Dapu in Nanyue at night to supervise and suppress across the border.
In view of the lessons learned from the past, Yin Zongtang adopted the strategy of locking the trap and gathering annihilation, and secretly instructed the opportune to make the camps of all walks of life intermittent and intermittent, if they left immediately, so that the blue wolf army would not be aware of it, and after the armies arrived at the convergence, they would choose a date to launch a general attack together.
After more than ten days of preparation, the large encirclement of Jiaying City by the Qing and Army of all roads was finally formed. General Yin Zongtang moved from Tai Po to Songkou, supervised the troops nearby, improved the siege into a siege, and slowly narrowed the encirclement, he wanted to trap the blue wolf army in the city, so as to achieve the goal of surrendering the army without a fight.
The ground was surrounded by Yin Zongtang, and behind Jiaying Prefecture was the sea, and it seemed that Wang Haiyang was really going to fight against the water. At this time, the Hakka people in Jiaying Prefecture also lost patience with Wang Haiyang, who killed at will, thinking that the Blue Wolf Army had disturbed their peaceful life and did not continue to support the Blue Wolf Army in the city. lost the hearts of the people, and Wang Haiyang's death was approaching.
Gong Jichang, who had rested in Jiangzuo County for a month, was also ordered by Xi Qitian to rush to the outside of Jiaying Prefecture. The main purpose of his coming here to fight is to find the lost eldest princess Feng Jiao'er.
Gong Jichang, who was looking for fighters outside the city, had little chance of confronting Wang Haiyang because the number was too small. Gong Jichang, who was very depressed, went to Liu Dian's camp to contact his feelings, but he didn't expect that when he arrived at the gate, a rebel general of the Blue Wolf Army, Ding Taiyang, stopped him: "Who is coming?" ”
"I am Gong Jichang, the commander of the left battalion of the Jingyi Battalion, and I am here to visit General Liu Dian of your department." Gong Jichang hugged his fists.
"Oh, you're the kid who had an affair with the current Queen Mother?" Ding Sun smiled.