The city was broken.

When the military report returned to Xiaogan, they had already begun to evacuate, Yang Kai had established strict military discipline for the attack on Wuchang City, although the left battalion was late and had little to deal with in the battle of Wuchang, he still planned to let the people of the left battalion be stationed in Wuchang.

After breaking through the city defense, he immediately withdrew from the territory of Wuchang Mansion and marched south to attack Yuezhou, which was nothing more than giving up the merit of capturing Wuchang City to Zuoying.

The reason for convincing themselves is simple, judging from the experience of this north-south extended front battle, with their current team, there are many difficulties, if they divide the troops into two fronts, the east and west will definitely be even more anxious, plus he and He Jin's relationship is concluded.

It's just that there is also information in the military report that Yang began to expect, and the reason why a group of people in Wuchang City broke into the palace of the king of Chu and exclaimed, the gold and silver stored in the house shocked everyone's jaws, and the war report document exaggerated and summarized with "the gold and silver hidden in the palace are difficult to carry hundreds of cars".

With so much gold and silver in front of him, he didn't take a penny, the generals were unwilling, and the soldiers were even more unwilling, and the generals were outside, and Yang Kai's emergency instructions, which could not be obtained, had to come up with ideas before the soldiers of the left battalion discovered this batch of gold and silver goods.

Cao Mang and Xu Shishu united with the people outside the palace of the king of Chu, in the shortest possible time, found a transport car, and transported more than 100 vehicles to the west of the city near the Yangtze River, which was also the Wenchang Gate where the fleet of the old soldiers of the Yanhou Dynasty docked, as the siege reward paid to them by the Zuo Ying.

Then, let the soldiers and goods go west by boat together, escorting the two families of Wei 13 and Zhang Gui'er, who were most seriously injured in the siege battle, and ordered them to transfer the gold and silver goods from Hanyang Mansion to Xiaogan City, where Yang Kai is located, so that they can be uniformly deployed, and the rest of the army will go south.

Yang Kai was very satisfied with his decision.

The day before Wuchang City was completely captured, he arranged the work of De'an Mansion City properly and came to meet Yang Kai, and the two first discussed the army's economy and local governance in depth on military salaries and politics.

Their current team size is getting bigger and bigger, and the military salaries they need are also increasing, and the silver money looted from various cities can be used for a temporary need, but it is not a long-term solution, and the discussion gave Yang Kai an accurate number, once the action of attacking the city and conquering the land is stopped, and the consumption of all parties can probably support the cost of the army for three months.

Yang Kai's heart is a little settled, regarding local governance, Xinyang is a model set by them, you can also give some time, observe the observation effect, and then decide whether to promote the use, the current military emergency, Yang Kai still has to put most of his mind on the battle situation, these things, still need to be discussed and thought about.

Let's talk about the surrender of Yuezhou Mansion, Yang Kaifang relieved himself to assign two hundred households with a handwritten order banner to escort him to Hanyang Mansion first, take enough silver in Hanyang Mansion, and then let the big ship transport him to Linxiang City along the river.

Finally, a handwritten letter, let the messenger who returned to the military newspaper bring it back, and arranged the operational strategy of attacking Yuezhou Mansion, or mainly to take grain and plunder Ding, as for Changsha Mansion, do not make an in-depth attack, only send people to follow Qin Chuanzong to surrender, if it is successful, it will be successful, and if it is not successful, it will take the plundered grain and Ding to the north, and return to Hanyang Mansion to rest.

The long-term battle plan originally planned in Xinyang was changed slightly, and there was no way to do it, the reaction and determination of the officers and soldiers were more resolute than they thought, Cao Mang was able to lead the army twice, and in the time specified by Yang Kai, he was able to complete the order, so he was relieved to arrange the war in the south.

Next, he will devote himself to the battlefield in the west.

On the Hanchuan side, Hu Shahu sent troops to Jingling for the fourth day, yesterday the troops outside Jingling City, today with the official army fought the first battle, the two sides fought an equal match, promised within five days, will go to Jingling, but according to the military report of the Yingcheng side, they faced the official army offensive, oppression did not weaken at all.

Yang Kai speculated that there were still reinforcements in their rear, so they were not afraid of danger, and according to the military report, the officers and soldiers were less than seven or eight thousand, and Deng Fang fought several battles with them.

However, Guan Juan's officers and soldiers also have a lot of firearms, and they can win in ambushes and chaos, but they can be used too much with the old ones, and the officers and soldiers are not fools, and the range of firearms is farther than that of bows and arrows.

Two days ago, Yang Kai had already ordered Yan Feng in De'an City to lead two thousand new soldiers to Suizhou to change guards, Liang Guang after more than half a month of recuperation, there was basically no major problem, but he did not get a response, Yang Kai only called Han Bin to lead Liang Guang's base camp soldiers to the south.

On the day of the destruction of Wuchang City, the letter instructed Hu Shahu to let Yin Zuochan make a judgment on advance and retreat, and he only led a team of 100 people composed of the pro-military battalion and two new soldiers, and the cloth armor transported by De'an, and rushed straight to Yingcheng.

......

Yingcheng.

"Be in charge, be in charge!"

A hurried shout woke Deng Fang up from his couch. In front of his eyes, it was the anxious faces of the soldiers below.

Since accepting Yang Kai's reorganization, most of the people below have been commensurate with their official positions, and few have called him in charge anymore. Sleepiness disappeared, and Deng Fang propped himself up: "What happened?" ”

"The last ambush point in the mountain pass was rounded up by the officers and soldiers from the rear and knocked it out."

After the soldiers finished speaking, they turned away, and Deng Fang saw thousands of soldiers standing behind them, their faces covered with blood, and the blood stains on the rough cloth were still dry. His name is Lu Yuanan.

"The officers and soldiers attacked at night, and they were noticed by the sergeant of the villain army, and they were preparing for war...... The villain was incompetent, and he didn't expect the officers and soldiers to come around from the rear. Lu Yuanan simply didn't explain, and fell to his knees, ashamed and angry.

The ambush points on both sides of Yingcheng out of Jingshan and Hongshan were all knocked out, which means that the officers and troops can already be unimpeded from Jingshan to Yingcheng, and now the situation is that the enemy is outnumbered, and the next few battles are really aggrieved, and the morale has fallen a lot.

Whatever you are afraid of, you will come.

Deng Fang also told the last few ambush points in the mountain pass before going to bed, of course he knew that Yang Kai was on the way to Yingcheng, he had thought that in the early hours of the morning, he would grab back a few more positions and meet Yang Kai with a victory, but he didn't expect the enemy to walk in front of him first.

Suddenly, I only heard a rattle, the cold wind outside tore the window paper, and the tea bowls and other things on the shelves and mirror frames swayed with the wind, and the price of beads rang into a piece.

The cold air poured into the room, which made him sober up a little, and he calmed down, but he heard a rush of footsteps outside, and another personal soldier walked straight to Deng Fang, reporting:

"Commander Deng, the general has arrived with reinforcements."

"How can it be so fast?!"

Deng Fang didn't sleep and changed his clothes, only took the waist knife next to the bed, led everyone out to greet him, and asked, "How many reinforcements have come from the general?" ”

"Two or two hundred people."

"More than two hundred?!" Deng Fang was so surprised that he paused, and none of the soldiers behind him were too late, and hit him in the back, his expression and behavior had already affirmed what he said before, Deng Fang was helpless, and walked out of the mansion again.

When he arrived at the gate of the mansion, Yang Kai happened to come on horseback, and when he came in from the gate of the East City, he felt the commotion in the city, and he was not angry, so he only let everyone enter the mansion where he lived under the order of the city and county.

After understanding the current situation, Yang Kai looked at Lu Yuanan and asked, "How many people have come from the first formation of the official army?" When will it arrive? ”

"Not to mention four or five thousand people, more than an hour ago, taking advantage of the dark night and strong wind, from the northwest direction of Hongshan, probably followed the path of our army's retreat on the ambush position in front. The villain was caught off guard. When found, it had fallen into the front and rear traps. ”

"How far is it from the mountain pass?"

"More than ten miles."

"Why hasn't there been any movement for more than ten miles?"

Lu Yuanan shook his head: "The villain has already fought with the enemy in the front of their night journey at the beginning. The villain should be surrounded by two thousand generals, the villain saw that he was encircled and did not make a stubborn resistance and led the people to run, at first there were dozens of horsemen to chase, and a few were shot down by the villain, so they all retreated, and seemed to ,......" He was not very sure, "I felt that there was a heavy ambush in the mountain pass." ”

"Crooked?" Yang Kai turned to ask Deng Fang, "Have they come to detect our army's appearance before?" ”

"Nope."

"Every official road on the mountain and on the periphery has not found the rangers of the official army?"

"It's not nothing, there are always a few positions, the villains have sent sentry posts, and those who come up have been killed."

"What about the mountain pass, isn't there a military report at the sentry post in the mountain pass?"

Deng Fang just woke up, how do you know, looked at the pro-soldier, the latter shook his head:

"No, except for the news that Lu Qianhu and the official army were engaged in battle, there was no military report from the sentry post in the mountain pass."

Yang Kai was silent when he heard this.

If the officers and troops want to attack, the mountain pass is the place where they must pass, and there is no military report at the sentry post near the mountain pass, so it can be concluded that these people have been killed or fallen into the hands of the enemy. I just don't know if the officers and soldiers can know anything in their hands.

He urgently ordered: "Send more scouts and rush to the mountain pass to investigate." Call all the thousand households and deputy thousand households in the army to come to this lobby to receive combat orders. The gates were closed, and the three armies assembled. ”

Yang Kai stood up, "Knowing that all the families are working hard to defend the city, General Ben came this time, and he didn't bring many reinforcements, but he brought you armaments." Walked up to Lu Yuanan and helped him up, "The enemy is strong, and the ambush position is originally used to delay the enemy's attack." The position was lost, and the responsibility of the brothers was not thousands. He paused, reproaching himself, "General Ben." ”

He was able to imagine the size of the enemy and arrange the layout of the position, but he ignored this important step in front of him and did not think about the problem from the perspective of the enemy's response to the ambush.

There are too many ambush points, but it has become a condition that the enemy can take advantage of...... Turning his head, the wind outside the window was raging and the night was falling, and he couldn't see his five fingers.

I looked at the map many times, but I still ignored this issue, and blamed them for not discussing it enough at the beginning.

Lu Yuanan fought all the way, was wounded in four or five places, and knelt on the ground for nearly a quarter of an hour, without saying a word of pain.

"It's also me, if I hadn't fallen asleep and moved a little earlier, this wouldn't have happened." Seeing Yang Kai say that, Deng Fang no longer covered it up.

As soon as Yang Kai's words of self-reproach came out, Lu Yuanan was stunned, he had never seen the main general take the initiative to stand up and admit his mistake, and when Deng Fang said it again, his eyes were even redder.

There is a difference between the upper and lower levels and the inferior, the main generals are already like this, they can't be small, how can they admit defeat, and secretly swear that the next battle will be shameful.