Zhu Ciyan is the ninth generation of King Jing of Huguang, he is the eldest son of the eighth generation of King Jing Zhu Youmao, and he is the nephew of Emperor Chongzhen today.

The history books say that Zhu Ciyan is versatile, and in the third year of the Apocalypse, Qizhou squire Li Qiong, Yue Zhenhua and others rebuilt the Shigu Temple.

Zhu Ciyan also donated money for this purpose, and personally wrote the "Jing Guozhu Rebuilding the Stone Drum Temple", which was later collected by the Qizhou Chronicles and Art and Literature Chronicles of Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty.

On the surface, this King Jing is really versatile, but in fact, this person is purely a straw bag.

When Chongzhen was ten years old, Zhang Xianzhong's army was defeated and fled into the territory of Huguang, Xiong Wencan, who was the secretary of the military department and the prime minister of the five provinces, issued a document to recruit Zhang Xianzhong, and Zhang Xianzhong surrendered.

In September, Zhang Xianzhong followed Xiong Wencan through Qizhou, and Zhu Ciyan's straw bag actually set up a banquet to entertain Zhang Xianzhong and a group of anti-thieves, and also let his wife and concubine come out to dance for this group of anti-thieves, and also took out the gold and silver jewelry of Jingwangfu to show off to Zhang Xianzhong.

Zhang Xianzhong surrendered by deception, even Gu Jingxing, who was only sixteen years old at the time, could see this, but Zhu Ciyan couldn't see it.

In the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, Zhang Xianzhong was incorporated into Qizhou, and directly dug the grave of Zhu Ciyan, who had been dead for more than a month, and whipped the corpse, and then abandoned the corpse in the wilderness. (This is excerpted from Gu Jingxing's "White Thatched Cottage", the credibility is half and half, but it is recorded in the history books that this Zhu Ciyan really did the thing of banqueting anti-thieves, but it was not Zhang Xianzhong, it was the old Huihui Ma Shouying and Ge Li Yanhe Yilong and other five people who were with Zhang Xianzhong.) )

When Zhu Ciyan heard that the Mo thief from Jiangxi had called, he was so frightened that he had no owner, and he wrote a letter to Tang Hui, the prefect of Huguang in Wuchang, and called Tang Shizhao, the governor of Qizhou.

Tang Shizhao is like this Zhu Ciyan is a straw bag, he immediately ordered people to block the city gate after receiving the news of the arrival of thieves outside the city, and posted a notice to recruit the people in the city to guard the city.

Qizhou City faces the river on one side, surrounded by lakes on three sides, and is built along the river in the east city wall, and the other three directions are built near the lake.

There is only a narrow man-made passage at the confluence of Yuanshi Lake and Chujia Lake in the whole city, which can be walked by people and horses.

This place is called Baimadu, and the government built a bridge in Baimadu, which became the most important and most commonly used road passage in Qizhou City.

Tang Shizhao closed the six gates of Qizhou City and sent troops to establish passes along the riverside passages.

The entire city was tightly defended at once, and the rebels wanted to attack the city unless they broke through the passes one by one.

Even if the pass is captured, the rebel army will be unable to deploy the large army due to the terrain, and can only send small groups of troops to rush upward.

After looking at the terrain, Mo Qian immediately shook his head and said: "This battle is not easy to fight, if you take the lives of the brothers to fill this siege road, then this battle will become a refueling tactic, even if we have 20,000 people, if we want to take Qizhou City, at least more than half of them will have to be killed and wounded." ”

When he finally heard it, he immediately frowned, listening to Dashuai's words, couldn't this Qizhou City be defeated?

"Dashuai, why don't you let me lead the troops to try, I don't believe that this bird feather Qizhou City can't be taken, how many battles have our brothers fought, when was it not born into the temple, just a Qizhou, it's not a problem!"

It was Peng Jinhong, the chief officer of the new third battalion, who spoke with confidence after Liankenankang and Jiujiang Prefectures.

Mo Qian ignored him, but ordered Lu Zhao: "Immediately repair the eighteen search warships captured yesterday for me, pay special attention to the cannons, and tomorrow I will bombard Qizhou City!" ”

Mo Qian thought to himself, since it was inconvenient to fight on the road, he would simply use firearms.

Eighteen warships were captured just yesterday, and although they were damaged, they were at least usable, and the most important thing was that the cannons on board were intact and fully functional.

If it can't be used on land, then attack the water gate on the west side of Qizhou from the Yangtze River in the west, and first bombard the water gate with artillery.

Lu Zhao didn't dare to slack off, and immediately took the craftsmen of the army to cut down wood and repair the warship, and the craftsmen worked overtime, and finally repaired the warship before the next morning.

In Qizhou City, Zhizhou Tang Shizhao and Jing King Zhu Ciyan saw Mo Qian retreat yesterday, and thought that these thieves could not do anything about them, and they celebrated it at night.

But as a result, the next morning, Tang Shizhao was called out by the deputy chief soldier stationed in the city.

Qizhou City is the largest city in eastern Hubei Province, there are 5,600 guards stationed in the city, but because of the perennial empty salary, the actual number of 5,600 guards is not even half of the now.

Li Qi, the commander of the Qizhou guard, is the hereditary commander of the Qizhou guard, his ancestor Li Ji was a soldier who fought with Zhu Yuanzhang, and the official residence was in a hundred households, and then passed to Li Xin and Li Bin, Li Bin had meritorious service in battle, and the imperial court changed Li Bin to Qizhou Wei, which has been hereditary to this day.

In addition to Li Qi's guard post of more than 2,000 people, there is another group of officers and soldiers in Qizhou City.

In the seventh year of Chongzhen, Zhang Xianzhong led his troops to attack Huang'an and Macheng, and the deputy chief of the imperial court, Ma Renlong and Zhang Xianzhong, fought in Yinshan, Macheng, and the Ming army was defeated.

Fortunately, Mei Zhihuan, the retired governor of Gansu, brought troops to respond, otherwise Ma Renlong was slaughtered by Zhang Xianzhong at that time.

After the defeat, Ma Renlong fled to Qizhou with more than 1,000 defeated soldiers and settled here.

After a year's rest, Ma Renlong recruited troops and expanded his army to 3,000 men, bringing the total number of defenders in the city to more than 5,300 people.

The reason why Tang Shizhao dared to fight this battle with Mo Qian was mainly because he had soldiers on hand now.

He felt that he had 5,000 soldiers and horses, and there were more than 40,000 people in the city, so many people, coupled with the favorable geographical location of Qizhou City, Tang Shizhao put 2,000 soldiers and horses on the house outside the city, and felt that it was not a problem to resist only 20,000 thieves.

Tang Shizhao thought that he was foolproof, but he didn't know that Mo Qian didn't add fuel to his tactics at all.

Early the next morning, the repaired warship was directly pulled out by Mo Qian, eighteen search warships, and more than fifty troop transport ships went to the river, and the momentum made the defenders in the city breathless.

As soon as Tang Shizhao heard that the thief Chen Bing was on the river, he was so frightened that he got up from the quilt and hurriedly led his troops to the west city wall.

Look at the river, good fellow, seventy or eighty big ships on the river are heading for the western wall.

Tang Shizhao was shocked, and immediately shouted to Li Qi: "Quick, transfer all the defenders outside the East Gate City back, come here to defend the city!" ”

Li Qi dared to delay, and immediately sent troops to deliver the order.

At this time, Mo Qian had already set up a posture and was ready to attack, and he ordered the eighteen search warships to line up on the river, and the muzzles of their guns were aligned with the water gate on the west side of Qizhou City.

Mo Qian pointed to the city gate and said, "Aim at the water gate for me, bang hard!" ”

Eighteen ships and fifty-four solid guns opened fire together, and in an instant green smoke billowed from the river.

Half of the fifty-four shells hit the city gates, and the rest hit either the water or the walls.

After only three rounds of shelling, the city gate was crumbling, and Tang Shizhao was shocked when he received the news from the soldiers guarding the city.

This water gate is made of iron fences, and the defenders of Qizhou City will open the iron gate on weekdays to let the traders and people outside the city enter the city.

When traders enter the city, they all have to pay taxes here, and the water gate is also called the water gate.

On the left and right sides of the Water Gate, respectively, the city wall is extended, the city wall is not high, only more than one zhang and eight feet, but it can accommodate 800 soldiers at the same time.

With 800 archers scattered around the area, the Water Gate was invincible in ancient warfare, because if you want to storm the Water Gate, the attacker must send someone to row over and force the Water Gate to enter the city.

However, it was absolutely impossible for the defenders on the city walls on both sides to let them pry open the iron gate so safely, so Tang Shizhao heavily troops under the three sides of Qizhou City, but only two hundred people were sent on the side of the water gate.

But now that he saw it, Tang Shizhao immediately felt bad in his heart, this anti-thief did not play his cards according to common sense, and actually took the bombardment first.

This solid shell hit the dense iron fence, and if it hit dozens of rounds, the iron fence would not be able to withstand it, and it would have to be bombarded.

Another round of shelling, this time the iron fence on the water gate finally could not withstand the onslaught of shells, and fell into the water with a clatter.

Tang Shizhao looked at it and immediately sighed: "Could it be that I, Tang Shizhao, died here?" ”

The sound of artillery outside the city not only made Tang Shizhao feel bottomless, but also frightened Zhu Ciyan in the palace.

He sent a guard to inquire, and when he returned, he told him that the water gate by the river had been breached by the thieves, and the thieves were now attacking the west gate in a big way.

When Zhu Ciyan heard this, he fainted on the spot......

As soon as the water gate was stepped on, the morale of the righteous army was greatly boosted, and Mo Qian immediately ordered his subordinates to row a small boat to start attacking from the water gate.

Hundreds of small boats prepared in advance set off at once, and the soldiers rowed with great force, and they reached the city gate as fast as lightning.

The defenders on both sides immediately picked up their bows and arrows and began to shoot, but the rebels had already made preparations, the soldiers took out the planks prepared in advance, and everyone worked together to put the planks on both sides of the hull, and the defenders' bows and arrows could not penetrate the planks, and soon the first boat entered the city.

The two armies began to engage each other on both sides of the Water Gate, and the one in charge of the attack was a group of veterans of the Righteous Army, who were strong in combat and extremely experienced in combat.

Before the veterans had landed on the shore, they first took out the thunderbolts they had prepared in advance and threw them on, and several thunderbolts landed on the shore, killing them in an instant, and seventy or eighty officers and soldiers who were ready to fight were killed and wounded by the bombing at once.

Taking advantage of this gap, the veterans seized the time to land on the shore, and soon fought with the officers and soldiers who came to support behind.

As soon as the two sides fought, the rebel soldiers gained the upper hand, and the officers and soldiers who were killed turned around and ran.

The rebel soldiers behind did not hesitate, immediately rowed the boat to the city, the water system in the city of Qizhou is developed, the rebel soldiers rowed the boat directly all the way to the shore, saw the officers and soldiers to kill, saw the officials to chase.

The entire Qizhou city was in chaos, and Tang Shizhao saw that the city could not be defended, so he went straight to King Jing's mansion with fifty of his subordinates, preparing to flee to Wuchang with King Jing.

I didn't want to go halfway, and suddenly collided with three squadrons of rebel soldiers, thirty to fifty, the rebel soldiers were not afraid of death, and when they saw Tang Shizhao wearing official robes, they immediately rushed over.

Tang Shizhao's subordinates were also holding back the fire at the moment, and the two sides fought directly on the street.

There were many officers and soldiers, but they were unable to use force, and they were actually defeated and retreated by 30 people, and more than 10 people were killed under the guns in nearly 20 breaths.

Tang Shizhao saw it and knew that he couldn't beat it, so he immediately turned around and ran away with the rest of the people.

When a squadron leader saw it, he immediately sneered: "If you want to run, it's not so easy, brothers, chase me!" ”

At this time, the sound of killing in the city was everywhere, and the follow-up troops of the righteous army entered the city from the water gate one after another, with the arrival of the large army, the five thousand officers and soldiers in the city fought less and less, and the commander of Qizhou Wei made Li Qi to be the throat of the archer captain Chen Qiyi with an arrow.

The deputy chief soldier and horse man Long was clever, and in less than half an hour after the start of the war, he knew that Qizhou would be broken, and escaped from the Xiongwu Gate of Beicheng with his five hundred soldiers and horses, and ran directly towards Wuchang Mansion.

As soon as the horses and dragons ran, the defenders in the city were leaderless, and they were soon slaughtered by the rebels.

The battle began at midnight and lasted until mid-afternoon, after two hours, the rebels finally cleared the officers and soldiers in the city and occupied the entire city of Qizhou.

Qizhou City fell, Jing Wangfu was naturally no exception, Mo Qian personally led the soldiers and horses to surround Jingwangfu, and took out a loudspeaker to let people shout outside the palace gate.

"Listen to the people inside, I am Cao Yan, the subordinate general of King Mo, the governor of Jiangnan, I will give you a stick of incense time to consider, after a stick of incense, everyone in the palace will open the door and surrender, and the king of my family will spare your lives, if you don't surrender, the army will break the door, and the chickens and dogs will not stay!"

Zhu Ciyan was stupid when he heard this shout, and he hid in the palace hall and shivered.

He looked at Qu Bao, the captain of his own army, and asked him, "Commander Qu, what can you do now?" ”

Qu Leopard thought about it for a while and said, "Lord Wang, the current plan is to open the door and surrender." ”

"But what if they want to kill the widow?" Zhu Ciyan asked with some concern.

Qu Leopard shook his head and said: "Lord Wang, there are now 20,000 anti-thieves in the city, and there are only 500 soldiers and horses in our palace, and there are only 500 guards.

If you open the door, you may be able to protect the lives of the whole family in the royal mansion! ”

When Zhu Ciyan heard this, he could only shake his head helplessly and sighed: "Open the door!" ”

As soon as the gate of King Jing's Mansion opened, Cao Yan immediately led the troops to rush in, rushed in and immediately got off the arms of the palace guards, and searched the palace carefully inside and out, and then invited Mo Qian to enter.

Mo Qian strode into the Jingwang Mansion, looking at the magnificent Jingwang Mansion, Mo Qian felt that he had opened his eyes.

Compared with this Jingwang Mansion, the three county palaces in Nanchang are like dog kennels.

Looking at the magnificent Jingwang Mansion built, Mo Qian couldn't help but praise: "It is worthy of being a prince who has been passed down for nine generations, and this palace is magnificent!" ”

The open space outside the main hall was full of kneeling people, both men and women.

Cao Yan came up and said: "Commander Qiqi, outside the guards of King Jing's Mansion, including King Jing, all the princesses and maids of all sizes are here, a total of ninety-eight people!" ”

Mo Qian looked at a fat man kneeling in the first place, pointed at him and said, "Your Excellency is Zhu Ciyan, the king of Jing, right?" ”

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