Nanjing Yanzi Rock, Taiping Quarry Rock, Yuezhou Chengling Rock, and called "the three major rocks of the Yangtze River".

Chengling Ji controls the throat of Dongting Lake, and has been a battleground for soldiers since ancient times. Historically, Zhang Xianzhong defeated the officers and soldiers on the Chengling Rock, and the defenders in Yuezhou City surrendered directly.

It was very interesting at that time, Zhang Xianzhong fought from Yuezhou to Xiangyin, and was resisted by Xiangyong all the way.

When he arrived in Changsha, Zhang Xianzhong sent people to publicize the policy everywhere, and the content was just one sentence: "Residents will be exempted from money and grain for three years if they are operating normally." ”

This order was issued, and within one day, the three prefectures and two states surrendered without a fight.

Then, the whole of Hunan surrendered directly, and half of Jiangxi surrendered. Local officials could not recruit soldiers, large landowners could not recruit soldiers, and the common people waited for Zhang Xianzhong to come to the tax exemption for three years.

Compared with Zhang Xianzhong's situation, do you still think that Zhao Han is too easy to fight?

Long Wenguang, the prefect of Yuezhou, is definitely not easy at this moment.

General Li Bingqian also had a heavy expression on his face, he was a northerner, and he could not surrender to the thieves, otherwise the whole family would inevitably be implicated.

"Boom, boom!"

The artillery continued to bombard the city tower, and Jiang Dashan sat in the Chinese army to watch the battle.

The height of the city wall is 11.5 meters, and there are 1,365 pheasant moats on the city, each of which is more than 1 meter high. There are six city gates, four of which have urn cities, and the other two city gates are difficult to attack normally.

The moat, 65 meters wide, just fills in the moat, and the rivers and mountains are tired enough.

The siege has been half a month, and a few sections of the moat have just been filled.

At this moment, Huang Qi had already set out from Changsha, defeated Xiangyin County, and led his troops to Yuezhou Mansion to join Jiang Dashan.

"How is this city so high?" Huang Qi was taken aback.

Jiang Dashan said: "I asked the locals about it, and it was ordered by Xu Da to repair it. ”

Huang Qi asked, "How are you going to fight?" ”

"I just filled in a few sections of the moat, and every day I fired cannons, and I was quietly digging tunnels," Jiang Dashan said, "There is a lot of dark water here, and the tunnels are not easy to dig." ”

Huang Mi smiled and said, "Then you slowly besiege the city, and I'll go and take down the surrounding prefectures and counties." ”

This kind of fortified city, as long as the soldiers defend it, there is no heavy artillery to conquer it. The Datong army is not good, the Liukou is not good, and the Manchu Qing is also not good.

After the Manchu Qing issued an order to shave their hair, the south often defended the city.

A group of temporarily conscripted people, guarding the city wall half lower than Yuezhou, could withstand the Manchu army for three to five months. In many cases, it was not broken by the Qing army, either the city starved to death due to lack of food, or there were traitors who opened the door to sacrifice the city.

Jiang Dashan sent people to carry the soil, crossed the moat and accumulated high platforms, as if they were going to build high platforms, and shot at the city condescendingly.

In fact, he used the high platform as a cover, hiding behind and digging tunnels, intending to use gunpowder to directly blow down the city wall.

Unfortunately, there is too much groundwater, and all kinds of stagnant water in the tunnels are flooded.

……

"Fire!"

"Boom, boom, boom!"

There was a camp on the rock of the city, and there was a fortress there. Later, it was changed to the Inspection Department, whose main responsibilities were to inspect smuggling and arrest water pirates.

The fort has long been abandoned, but it was rebuilt last winter and is still quite strong.

Jiangxi's self-produced large-caliber artillery has fired more than 200 shells, but it has not collapsed the castle.

"Boom!"

A cannonball hit the wounded area, but it finally had an effect, and a piece of the castle collapsed.

Jiang Liang stood up excitedly and shouted, "Aim at that place and continue to fire!" ”

At this moment, the Jiangxi sailors came mightily.

The Datong army suddenly became invigorated, and the morale of the defenders in the castle plummeted.

Both sides knew that the sailor went to war, and whoever came back first would win.

The battleship loaded with the Franc cannon was ordered by Gu Jianshan to sail towards Chenglingji, and fired at the watery side of Chenglingji.

This inland river boat, carrying artillery, could not pose a threat to the castle, but it was a serious blow to the morale of the defenders.

Artillery is booming on several sides!

They were all pacesetters of the governor of Huguang, and they were fed with silver by Fang Kongzhi. They respected Fang Kongzhi very much, but Fang Kongzhi was arrested and imprisoned.

If it weren't for the new governor Xu Renlong, who also treated them well, these pacesetters would have surrendered long ago.

"General, why don't you surrender?"

"Yes, we have been holding on for more than half a month, and we are already worthy of the governor."

“……”

General Zhou Qinxue angrily reprimanded: "As a soldier, you should be loyal to the country and serve the country." If there is a person who surrenders, he will not be spared! ”

Zhou Qinxue was born in a family of northern military generals, and it is not necessarily how loyal he is. But if he is not loyal, the whole family will have to be punished, and the imperial court has been very strict with the family members of the generals in the past two years.

The soldiers dispersed, all full of resentment.

Since Fang Kongzhi was imprisoned, the pacesetter's salary has become less and less. Moreover, although they are from Huguang, their home is north of the Yangtze River, who the wants to come to the south to fight?

"Boom!"

Another one was blown down.

Jiang Liang stood up fiercely: "Prepare to attack!" ”

The Datong army carried the ladder and ran towards the castle. Some of the heavily armored warriors, with long knives in their hands, advanced towards the gap opened by the shells.

The defenders had no firearms, so they could only fire arrows constantly.

When the arrow falls on the heavily armored warrior, it is either bounced off the spot or staggered, and the warrior only needs to raise his arm to cover his face.

Not cotton armor, but real double heavy armor.

The inside is chain mail, and the outside is the armor, forming a kind of composite heavy armor with excellent performance in all aspects.

Armor is not easy to build, and it is not easy to find a strong man who can wear it to fight.

Nearly 30,000 Datong soldiers were trained, and only 600 heavily armored soldiers were trained, 300 were thrown to the Southern Yuan Army, and 300 were thrown to the Intermediate Yuan Army, which were only used when it was extremely critical.

"The world is the same!"

"Farming and eating!"

Three hundred heavily armored soldiers, armed to the teeth, shouted such earthy slogans in unison, and the scene was really a bit funny.

Of course, the defenders in the castle would not think so.

Zhou Qinxue organized officers and soldiers to plug the gap in the castle, and there were many spears, and the formation was extremely elite.

However, seeing the heavily armored soldiers, the formation slowly advanced, and these elite officers and soldiers subconsciously retreated. Aren't they stupid, wearing leather armor themselves, fighting with these tin cans?

The three hundred heavy-armored warriors did not run, and the full-width double-layer armor was more than sixty catties, and it was too physically exhausting to run forward.

They walked forward without hurrying, carrying long Miao knives on their shoulders.

Brush!

When he came to the gap in the city wall, he stabbed the spears of the officers and soldiers, and the Miao knives were slashed out with a brush.

"Run!"

At the moment of engagement, the officers and soldiers directly collapsed.

They were elite, but they were demoralized by artillery. The former governor was imprisoned, the current governor was defeated, the two commanders were gone, and they were left to fight in their hometowns.

"Don't retreat!"

Zhou Qinxue sent a team of supervisors, but the team took a few steps forward and saw the tin cans holding Miao knives on the opposite side, and they were immediately frightened and collapsed and ran away.

Someone wanted to resist and was directly split in half with a knife.

Cut in two, not an adjective.

"Surrender or kill!"

"Dangdang, dang!"

The officers and men laid down their weapons one after another, knelt on the ground and asked to surrender.

Zhou Qinxue sighed, turned to the north, closed his eyes and slashed himself.

When the news of the loss of Chenglingji came, Long Wenguang, the prefect of Yuezhou, and Li Bingqian, the general of the staff, all turned pale.

Chenglingji is the gateway to Yuezhou City, and if it is lost, it will become a lonely city.

Moreover, the people in Yuezhou City were very unfriendly to them, the officers and soldiers who came from the north. The local people have long wanted to surrender, for fear that the resistance will be too fierce and cause unnecessary trouble for themselves.

The hostility of the local people to the officers and men from other places has become more and more obvious.

The officers and soldiers in other places were angry, we crossed the river and fought with our lives to defend the city for you, and you still look like this.

"Woohoo!"

The earthen platform erected outside the city brought many arrows, all of which were letters of persuasion.

The Dongting Lake Water Division was completely annihilated, the governor of Huguang had been captured alive, and now Chenglingji was also lost. These were written on the letter of persuasion, and when the literate person saw the letter, he was so frightened that he wanted to jump down and surrender on the spot.

Long Wenguang called Li Bingqian: "General Li, you lead your troops to surrender, Zhao Thief is not a person who loves to kill, there is no need to kill more." Yuezhou City can't be defended. ”

Zhou Qinxue smiled bitterly: "My wife and children are all in my hometown, where can I be a thief?" The second son of my family is still a man, and he can't delay his future. ”

"Whatever you want."

Long Wenguang was happy and paced back to the mansion. He called the servants and maids, took out the money, and said, "You have divided the goods, and do not leave them in the palace." ”

"Sir!"

When the house slaves guessed that he wanted to kill himself, they wept sadly.

"Let's go!" Long Wenguang shouted.

A group of domestic servants took the money and departed one after another.

Long Wenguang untied his belt and committed suicide by hanging the beam.

After a while, an old servant turned back. He took Long Wenguang's corpse, rolled it up in a mat, and waited there, hoping to send his master's ashes back to his hometown.

General Zhou Qinxue stood on the city tower, smiled miserably, and suddenly pulled out his knife and killed himself.

"The military courtyard, the water in the tunnel has been drained, and in half a month at most, you will be able to dig up to the bottom of the city and put explosives!"

"No need."

Jiang Dashan put down the clairvoyant mirror, and he saw with his own eyes that the enemy general would commit suicide.

Moments later, the gates opened.

In the entire south of the Yangtze River, the top five cities in terms of urban high energy finally surrendered by themselves.

Chongzhen should be relieved that Yuezhou Mansion and Chenglingji were martyred by a prefect and two generals.

Long Wenguang actually doesn't have to die, he is from Guangxi, Zhao Han will be able to hit Guangxi next year at most, isn't it fragrant to surrender in advance to pave the way for the family?

Li Zheng set out from Changsha and has conquered Ningxiang, Yiyang, Yuanjiang, Changde, and Taoyuan at this moment. There was almost no much resistance, and all the way was to look at the wind and fall, only Taoyuan Zhixian wanted to defend the city, and was tied up by the county and the main bookkeeper.

With the assistance of the water division, Huang Qi led his troops to attack the city along the river, and he had to kill until he reached Shi Zhouwei (Enshi).

As for Jiang Dashan and Jiang Liang, they attacked Wuchang Prefecture (south of Wuhan) and Wuchang County (Echeng) to the east, and fought until Xingguo Prefecture bordered Jiangxi.

In this way, we can take the whole territory of Hunan - the mountains in the west of Hunan, and I am too lazy to fight for the time being.

However, Zhao Han's Hunan Province took the Yangtze River as the boundary, and included Enshi, Ezhou, Huangshi, and southern Wuhan in Hubei in later generations.

Anyway, Huguang was divided between Zhao Han and Zhang Xianzhong, the south of the Yangtze River belonged to Zhao Han, and the north of the Yangtze River belonged to Zhang Xianzhong.

The premise is that Zhang Xianzhong can eat the officials and soldiers there, and more than 30,000 people are shrinking in two cities, and it is really difficult to eat if they can't hold out.

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