When Jin Sheng heard Ling Jingyang say this, he felt that Ling Jingyang was not the kind of warlord who was obsessed with power and territory, and said with a smile: "Governor Ling, there is no doubt in employing people, and there is no need to suspect people, since you are the governor of the five armies of my dynasty and the governor of Huguang, how can you not have a basic plate?" ”

"What about Changde, Changsha, Baoqing, Hengzhou and other places in the south of Huguang?"

Jin Sheng clapped his hands and said: "Lingdu Governor is really long-sighted, most of the southern part of Huguang is He Tengjiao's forces, we can't reach the whip, rashly lead the army to settle in, angering the remnants of He Tengjiao, those local snakes turned to support King Lu and King Tang of Fujian, isn't it infighting?" ”

The Qing army fought to Huguang, and the remnants of the Ming army were still fighting for a place.

Lingjuguan Nanyang always held his breath in his heart, and he talked to Jin Sheng again, what about the fortress groups such as Jiuliguan?

Jin Sheng obviously did not consider the fortress group, or he was not worried that the Qing army would move south again, believing that De'an and Huangzhou were not military important places, and even if the Qing army occupied these two provinces, to the east were Nanzhili and Jiangxi.

Nanzhili has Huang Degong, although he is fighting with the army of King Lu and King Tang, but the Qing army is coming, isn't it a self-standing target and was violently beaten?

Jiangxi has the Yangtze River and tens of thousands of defenders, and the main force of the Qing army is in Xiangyang Mansion, so there will be no extra soldiers and horses to attack these two places?

Ling Jingyang and he thought about the left, he thought that many of the Qing army could recruit good generals, and the Ming army in the south and the Ming army in Jiangxi could not withstand the attack of the Qing army at all.

Historically, Li Chengdong destroyed the two emperors with a small number of soldiers and horses, and Ling Jingyang believed that he should continue to garrison the fortress group to resist the surprise attack of the Qing army from here.

Ling Jingyang decided to personally lead a small number of soldiers and horses to Wuchang Mansion, and Yuezhou Mansion had to temporarily implement the rule of restraint.

Jin Sheng didn't say anything, but agreed with him to attack Xiangyang Mansion in early July, and in these months, Ling Jingyang would raise more troops to support the Great Western Army.

Ling Jingyang promised him that he could definitely complete the task, and with Ling Jingyang's assurance, Jin Sheng returned to Dasheng Pass overnight.

The next day, he led the troops to advance to Chengtianfu, and then a convoy of grain trucks came from Huizhou Mansion to send supplies to Ling Jingyang in Wuchang Mansion.

This is also the first time that Ling Jingyang was supplied by the Hongguang Imperial Court, he ordered He Zhen to be the main general, Lao Mantou to guard Jiuli Pass as the deputy general, Li Rufeng as the main general, Shi Tie as the deputy general to guard the Dasheng Pass, and Zhang Shun to guard the Muling Pass.

He led his direct troops, family members, Wang Mu and other civilian officials, as well as dozens of vehicles of grass to Wuchang Mansion.

On the way to Wuchang Mansion, Ling Jingyang imagined that there was no order in Wuchang Mansion, and there were chaotic and dilapidated scenes everywhere.

Wanting to quickly establish effective rule in the local area and pull up the team was a great test of his ability and that of Wang Mu and others.

Yingshan is 120 kilometers from Wuchang Mansion, and Ling Jingyang and his party only took four days to arrive at Wuchang Mansion.

Wuchang Mansion is the central area of the Huguang region and a prosperous area, but it has been invaded by war in recent years, and it has long been withered and thousands of miles away.

Ling Jingyang led his troops into Wuchang City, a historical city has no smell of fireworks at this time, the city gate is wide open, Ling Jingyang ordered Wei Lan to lead his troops into the city to occupy the commanding heights, don't be ambushed by other forces here.

After receiving the military order, Wei Lan led two hundred directly subordinate troops to the infantry army, holding bows and arrows, and cautiously entered Wuchang City, the city was terrifyingly quiet, like a ghost city, and there was no one to see.

"The Point Guard Is Here"

Wei Lan is a northerner, the first time he came to Jiangnan, he had heard people say, the land of fish and rice in Jiangnan, the city is full of people, today when I see it, how is it different from what I heard.

The city was in tatters, the streets were covered with excrement, and there were dead animals, and in some corners, corpses.

Wei Lan was a soldier, so naturally he would not be frightened by the corpse, he ordered half of the people to climb the city wall and occupy the commanding heights, and he led the soldiers to continue to advance.

Advancing to the north gate for three hundred meters, suddenly a sound of firecrackers sounded, and a group of people rushed out from all the streets and the gateway storefront.

This group of people looked at Wei Lan and the others fiercely with weapons in hand, and Wei Lan saw that they were outnumbered and were forced to retreat behind.

Ling Jingyang heard the sound of firecrackers outside the city, waved his hand, and led the troops into the city to reinforce Weilan.

The crowd surrounding Weilan was all hungry people whose eyes lit up.

Hundreds of hungry people surrounded Wei Lan and more than 100 other Ming troops in a small alley, they hated the officials and soldiers for not protecting the territory and the people, and hated the government for not opening warehouses for disaster relief.

Blocked by so many people, Wei Lan pulled out his waist knife expressionlessly, he has seen too many hungry people, these people will not give up until they grab food and grass, only by killing, killing these hungry people, can they live.

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The two sides drew their swords almost at the same time, and the combat effectiveness of the Ming army was quite strong compared with the hungry people, as long as the hungry people in the front were hacked to death, the hungry people in the back were like noodles, and they could be killed in any way.

Hundreds of people were fighting on the streets, and when Ling Jingyang led the troops to arrive, Weilan had already killed the hungry people, dozens of corpses were lying on the ground, and there were hungry people who had not lost their lives, who were raised by the Ming soldiers to wipe their necks.

Ling Jingyang ran quickly, shouting loudly, no killing.

was about to kill the soldiers who had not lost their breath and hunger, when they heard Ling Dudu's order, they all put down their weapons, Wei Lan wiped the blood stains of the big knife in his hand, came to Ling Jingyang, and said proudly: "Dudu, a group of hungry people, tried in vain to raid our army, and were cut down by the last general, and they were scattered as beasts. ”

Ling Jingyang originally wanted to scold Wei Lan for not knowing what to do, how could he kill innocents indiscriminately, but he thought that Wei Lan must be threatened by his life, so he would start killing.

He and Weilan ordered that the troops directly under them occupy the whole city, and there were more than 1,000 troops directly under them, barely occupying Wuchang City.

In order to win over the hearts of the people, Ling Jingyang deliberately asked the guards to provide disaster relief in the Wuchang City campus.

This was a decision he made after discussing with Wang Mu for a long time on the way to Wuchang Mansion.

The so-called disaster relief is to set up 20 iron pots, boil some gruel and give alms to the people, so that the people can regather under the court.

This is a test of Ling Jingyang's family background, he pinned his hopes on the Hongguang Imperial Court to send him supplies, Wang Mu actually didn't agree, the one-way device did not win the hearts of the people at this time, and there would be no people's hearts to pull the bell in the future.

Ling Jingyang led the Governor's Mansion into the official residence of Wuchang Mansion, and asked people to clean the house, and the two ladies took small steps to pack their luggage inside.

Ling Jingyang came to the school, Xu Sheng and other more than 100 guards began to cook porridge, Ling Jingyang asked Jin Dashou and other officials of the Governor's Mansion to beat the gong in the city, announcing that the people in the city, the Ming Dynasty Governor Ling Jingyang settled in Wuchang Mansion, and the nearby victims could come to Wuchang City to get relief.

After a while, dozens of hungry people who were about to die came to the sparse Lala, some of their relatives were killed or injured in the battle that attacked the Ming army just now, and at this time, seeing the Ming army's disaster relief, I didn't believe that the Ming army would have such a good heart.

In the distance, there were more than 100 people armed with short knives, wanting to continue to attack the Ming army, in order to be able to launch a surprise attack, the hungry people let the old, weak, sick and disabled step forward to block the sight of the Ming army.