Hubei, Yunyang Mansion, Fang County, Hualongyan.

This is the Yunyang defense line carefully arranged by Emperor Kangxi sent his most trusted uncle, Yunyang Admiral Tong Guoyao, facing the flank of Kuizhou Mansion and Daba Mountain, of course, it is also a very valued flank!

Emperor Kangxi was familiar with all kinds of military arts, and he also knew that in the chaotic times at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Yunyang area was once a battlefield where the Ming army and various righteous armies competed with each other!

Although the terrain in this area is very rugged, it is by no means the kind of desperate place that no one can enter. Instead, there are a large number of passes, river valleys, and mountain roads with dangerous terrain. As long as one passage is opened, the entire Yunyang defense line may collapse!

After all, Kangxi's troops at hand are a little tight, and there is a shortage of troops on the Shaanxi-Gansu battlefield and the Huguang battlefield! The Liangguang battlefield is rich, but Wang Fuchen and Shang Zhixin are loyal ministers who are likely to be busy fighting the civil war, regardless of the life or death of Kangxi, the emperor.

Therefore, Kangxi could only give Yunyang Fuzhi (similar to the governor, in charge of seven or eight prefectures) Yang Maoxun and Yunyang Admiral Tong Guoyao to piece together 11,500 green battalion soldiers and a fraction, they are all green battalions, or book soldiers, how many are only known to the conscience of Qing officials?

Moreover, these green battalion soldiers, whose specific number only conscience knows, are also in charge of six officials who lead the troops, including the Yunyang Admiral, Yunyang Fuzhi, Xiangyang General Soldier, Yunyang Deputy General, Jingmen Deputy General, and Nanyang Deputy General. On average, there are less than 2,000 book soldiers for an official!

In addition, there are two of these six officials who are big bosses!

Originally, according to the system of the Qing Dynasty, Yunyang Fuzhi, who was relative to the governor, must be the biggest leader in Yunyang, and everyone had to listen to Yunyang Fuzhi Yang Maoxun. But the problem is that Kangxi is not at ease. Yunyang is now the key place to block Wu Sangui from Hanzhong to Huguang!

Although Wu Sangui threatened to leave Qishan and also took action, what if it was a sound from the west to the east?

The people who are already nervous enough over there in Huguang, Ezha has such a few troops at hand, and they are being besieged by more than 100,000 troops of Wu Yingxiong, Li Zicheng, Wu Guogui, and Zu Zeqing! If Wu Sangui pulls another 20,000 or 30,000 people from Hanzhong all the way to Huguang, then Ezha will not be wiped out?

And if the whole army is wiped out, then the trouble of the Qing Dynasty will be big, and Wu Sangui will be able to garrison Xiangyang and shock Huaxia by then!

So Kangxi sent his uncle to Yunyang to "help" Yang Maoxun fight.

This Yang Maoxun's official is older than Tong Guoyao. But Tong Guoyao's nephew is Kang Mazi!

Therefore, it is really difficult to say who the boss on the Yunyang battlefield is.

And in order to ensure that Yunyang is not lost, Kangxi gave a face-to-face lesson when Tong Guoyao took office, pointed to the map of Yunyang, and gave Uncle Tong Guo a plan of "dividing troops and resisting step by step" - the fence must be tightened, and Wu Sangui, the scourge, must not be allowed to break through the Yunyang defense line!

With Tong Guoyao's ability and the more than 10,000 green battalion soldiers under his command, if he really had a big battle with Wu Sangui, he knew with his heels that the whole army must be annihilated

Therefore, Kangxi also took special care of Tong Guoyao, don't be smart and learn from Ma Yan. We must listen to the words of "Zhuge version of Kang Mazi", we must be the gatekeeper, honestly block all passages, and at the same time set up a total of three lines of defense, including "Yunzhu Defense Line", "Fanggu Defense Line" and "Xiangyang Defense Line".

Well, 11,500 soldiers were divided into three lines of defense to block dozens of openings, and it was really stretched to hold on to the five fortified cities of Yunxian, Zhushan, Fangxian, Gucheng, and Xiangyang!

However, these mountain passes, road crossings, river valleys, and important cities can't be guarded well!

If he didn't defend it, Wu Sangui would enter Huguang

So Tong Guoyao, who arrived in Yunyang, had no choice but to gather his chief soldiers, deputy generals and his immediate boss Yang Maoxun to discuss a plan to deploy defense separately and do it in pieces.

Among them, Yang Maoxun is responsible for sitting in Xiangyang. Personally led 500 elite soldiers, these 500 people are all selected from Yang Maoxun's raising bids, and they can be ten with one!

Tong Guoyao himself bravely shouldered the heavy burden, and together with Yunyang's deputy general Hong Fu, he was in charge of Yunyang's defense line against the Xinghua Mansion controlled by Wu Sangui. There are 8,000 soldiers on this line! The 6,000 people in person are all dividing the troops, and 2,000 people are placed in Yunxian as a reserve!

Yang Laijia, the general soldier of Xiangyang, was in charge of the "Fanggu Defense Line", leading an army of 2,000 to guard several mountain passes facing the first line of Daba Mountain in Kuizhou, and at the same time responsible for the defense of the two key cities of Fangxian and Gucheng.

If Tong Guoyao can't stand it in front, he will retreat to Fangxian and Gucheng to hold on together.

But the changes on this battlefield are always so unexpected, just when the "Zhuyun Defense Line" on the front line was still impregnable, the "Fanggu Defense Line" defended by Yang Laijia was quietly broken through by Wu Yingxiong, the "big bear" recognized by Beijing!

Wu Yingxiong, who was supposed to be a bear, has now come to a "bear first" and "bear unstoppable"!

At least in Yang Laijia's opinion, the Wu Yingxiong, who was on crutches, wearing straw sandals, wearing a robe, wearing a hat, stepping on the muddy road in the rain, and more than 10,000 elite soldiers of the Wu family who dared to cross the mountains and mountains appeared in the big town of Hualongyan outside Fangxian County. Where is the "big bear", it is clearly a big hero!

Although he sent people to lead the way to Wu Yingxiong, he also withdrew the troops guarding the various passes of Daba Mountain. But Wu Yingxiong dared to lead the troops in person, and he could walk the mountain roads with his subordinates, and it was really surprising that he had arrived in Fang County from Kuizhou in such a short time!

Anyway, Yang Laijia's team of green battalion soldiers placed in Hualongyan didn't expect so many "Red Turban Wu Soldiers" to suddenly appear in front of him - Yang Laijia didn't tell them that Wu Yingxiong was coming - so he was scared away directly, and he didn't dare to resist at all!

Yang Laijia, who stayed in Fang County and waited for Wu Yingxiong, learned the news, and once had doubts - on such a cold day, it was really hard enough for Wu Jiajun to cross Daba Mountain in the rain!

Just rush to this momentum, the Qing Dynasty is about to end!

Since the Qing Dynasty was about to end, Yang Laijia immediately ran from Fang County to Hualongyan with good food and drink and all kinds of supplies to greet the prince of the West and the army of the Wu family

"Minister Yang Laijia has asked the prince for a thousand years old!"

In a landlord's compound in Hualongyan Town, Yang Laijia led several generals and guerrillas, and when he saw Wu Yingxiong, who had just changed into a clean white round-necked robe and wore a red hood, he bowed his head and bowed.

"Flat, flat" Wu Yingxiong greeted with a smile, "Give Yang Zongzhen and a few people a seat. I came back suddenly, and I became a villain, and I scared all the brothers in the town away, and they were all right? ”

"Okay, they all retreated to Fang County, and no one was lost." Yang Laijia hurriedly assured Wu Yingxiong.

"Then Tong Guoyao doesn't know yet, right?"

"I don't know, I definitely don't know!" Yang Laijia suggested, "Lord Shizi, Tong Guoyao still has the eyeliner arranged by the minister Hong Fu, the deputy general of Yunyang, is the sworn brother of the minister, and he is determined to oppose the Qing Dynasty like the minister, and he has a thousand elite soldiers at hand, accounting for half of the defenders in Yunxian County!"

If the prince can trust his subordinates, his subordinates are willing to lead the troops of his headquarters to take Tong Guoyao's head! ”

"Tong Guoyao" Wu Yingxiong nodded, "It's still a little brave. Shifan! ”

"The child is here!" Wu Shifan, who was guarding the lobby, immediately responded.

"Lead your flintlock muskemen plus a battalion of white pole soldiers and General Yang to go this trip together to see if you can capture Tong Guoyao alive, he is Kangxi's uncle!"

Wu Yingxiong wanted to capture Tong Guoyao alive, of course, in exchange for his wife and children. In order to catch this Tong Guoyao, he also made a bloody investment, and directly gave Wu Shifan a team of flintlock pistols and the white pole soldiers of the Shizhu Ma family, a total of 2,200 elite soldiers! In addition, Yang Laijia has 2,000 people, and Hongfu has 1,000 people. A total of 5,200 people went to attack Yun County!

"The child understands," Wu Shifan understood what Lao Tzu meant, and immediately patted his chest and said, "The child must find a way to capture this Tong Guoyao alive!" ”

Wu Yingxiong looked at the rest of the generals in the lobby again, and said with a smile: "Everyone, can you still move?" ”

"Move!"

The big guys shouted in unison.

When is it now? How can it not be possible not to walk?

Wu Yingxiong is about to bear the shock of Huaxia, this is from the dragon's work!

"Good!" Wu Yingxiong said, "Rest for one night. Tomorrow, let's go to Xiangyang City! Hit Xiangyang and enter the Central Plains! ”

"Order!"

"Hit Xiangyang and enter the Central Plains!"

"And." Wu Yingxiong said again, "Don't play the banner of this son yet. Raise the banner of my father, President Wang Xiwang! ”

"Yes!"

"Li Zicheng you, you. It's too much of a deception! ”

When Wu Shifan went to arrest Tong Guoyao, and Wu Yingxiong was about to take Xiangyang to bear the shock of Huaxia, the number one leader of the Qing Dynasty in the Huguang region, the gambling king Ezha had fallen into a complete panic!

He has now led the 20,000 troops that he had managed to put together with great difficulty and drove into Shimen County, near Shimen Temple, Li Zicheng's lair. The soldiers got the stone gate without blood, and the Jiashan Temple was also close at hand, and it was easy to get it.

But Oza was not happy at all!

Because he already knows about "Li Zicheng out of the old thousand" - Li Zicheng, a native of Shaanxi, actually used the water army to raid the Shashi pontoon bridge, this is not out of the old man, what is out of the old man?

But the problem is that Ozha is now not sitting at the table of "fair gambling", but on the battlefield where the soldiers are not tired of cheating. On the battlefield, there is only one important thing, and that is to achieve victory!

As for whether the means of winning are glorious or not, it doesn't matter, and there is no place to reason with the loser!

Seeing that Ezha looked red-eyed and angry, Cai Yurong, the governor of Huguang who marched with him, and the commander of the Jingzhou garrison banner army, Babur, only sighed Duoduo's grandson!

How brave was Prince Yu Duoduo back then? Li Zicheng had nowhere to hide, so he had to hide in Jiashan Temple as a monk, and now his grandson was actually tricked by Li Zicheng as a monkey, and the 20,000 army pounced, and Li Zicheng copied it on the back road!

"Lord Wang, hurry back to Jingzhou!" Cai Yurong immediately proposed, "Isn't Li Zicheng breaking the Shashi pontoon bridge just to cut off our way back to Jingzhou?" He must want to take the opportunity to take Jingzhou! ”

Babur was also anxious: "Lord, Zhang Futai only has more than 1,000 people, if Li Zicheng gathers 20,000 troops to attack Jingzhou, Jingzhou will not be able to hold it for too long!" Jingzhou Yishi. We have to return to Wuchang and Xiangyang! Moreover, there are more than 10,000 families in Jingzhou City, and they will fall into the hands of Li Zicheng, and none of them will want to live! ”

When Ezha heard this, he shuddered, "Hurry, go back to Jingzhou. This king wants to fight to the death with Li Zicheng under the city of Jingzhou! ”

"Lord Wang." A deputy of the Eight Banners New Army asked, "Are we still going to fight Jiashan Temple?" ”

"Spank a fart!" Ezha shouted, "Jingzhou is going to be gone, what are you fighting in Jiashan Temple?" Do you want to be a monk? ”

"But. . . How do we cross the Yangtze River? "Our pontoon bridge is broken." ”

Eza's face collapsed suddenly, and he just muttered, "What should I do? What to do? ”

"You can go north from Shimen to Zhijiang, and Zhijiang is the territory of Xu Zhidu, the general soldier of Yiling," Cai Yurong reminded, "and it must still be in the hands of the Qing Dynasty now." When we get to Zhijiang, we will definitely find a boat to cross the river. ”

"Xu Zhidu? But he's in the army! Ozha shook his head, "He himself is no longer in Yiling, and more than half of the army under his command has followed this king to Shimen, can Zhijiang still be able to hold it?" ”

"Hold on!" Cai Yurong said with great certainty, "I am very familiar with this Xu Zhidu, and I also know his wife Xu, she must have a way."

"What?" Ozha looked back at Cai Yurong and found that this old boy was also good-looking, with a burly figure, thick eyebrows and big eyes, and a handful of sideburns and beards.

"Lord Wang." Cai Yurong saw that Eza's eyes were a little strange, and hurriedly explained: "This Xu Zongbing is good at taking his wife as a general, and his wife Xu is well trained by him, she can ride a horse to fight, and she can also supervise the army and defend the city for him." This Xu clan is not with the expedition now, and should still be in Yiling. Unless Li Zicheng sent a large army to fight, Zhijiang and Yiling would definitely be able to be saved. ”

"What? The royal wife is a general? Ezha was stunned, "There is still this kind of play?" ”

Play? Is this playing? This is to cultivate talents for the Qing Dynasty!

Cai Yurong frowned, but still nodded: "Yes, yes, Lord Wang, when you go to Zhijiang to see Xu Zhidu's wife, you will understand that this Xu Zongbing is a talent." ”

"Okay, let's go to Zhijiang first!" Ezha thought to himself: I have to go and see it, if this Xu Zhidu really has this ability, this king must ask him for advice.

"Huh!"

Cai Yurong didn't lie to Eza, he was indeed quite familiar with Xu Zhi and Mrs. Xu. And this Xu Da soldier really likes to train his wife into a heroic female military general - after his first wife Xu died in battle, he also trained his second wife Kong Shi into a female general!

Under the auspices of the Xu family, along the Yangtze River's Zhijiang, Yidu, Yichang, Guizhou and other places, they only relied on less than 1,000 officers and soldiers plus some native soldiers and people's strong, barely maintained, until Ezha fled from Shimen County with 20,000 Qing troops like lost dogs, and they were not lost.

But before Ezha and Xu Zhi could inquire about how to train his wife to become a general, the Xu Lady told Ezha a bad news that made him tremble!

"Lord Wang, the slave got the news from Xiangyang Mansion yesterday, Wu Sangui's army seems to have broken into Xiangyang Mansion from the direction of Yunyang. Several important places around Fancheng and Xiangyang Mansion City have fallen, and Xiangyang Mansion City may also have been taken by Wu Sangui! ”

"What?" Ezha was taken aback, "Wu Sangui has already penetrated Yunyang?" By the way, Mrs. Xu, is there any news from Yunyang? ”

Mrs. Xu frowned, imitating the tone of the official's speech, shook her head and said, "There is no news. However, the slave family has already sent someone to investigate, and it should be rewarded soon. ”

Hearing this, Oza's heart was already half cold.

No news is bad news!

Yunyang must have fallen into the hands of Wu Sangui!

And Xiangyang did not have many defenders, and Wu Sangui's tens of thousands of troops did not have much difficulty in capturing Xiangyang. And Xiangyang is lost, Jingzhou

Thinking of this, he hurriedly asked: "Then, what about Jingzhou?" Has it been taken by Li Zicheng? ”

"No, Jingzhou is fine." Mrs. Xu said, "At least the news that came yesterday shows that everything is fine in Jingzhou." ”

"All right? So where did Li Zicheng go? ”

"Not good!" Cai Yurong suddenly roared.

When Ozha looked back, he saw that the governor of Huguang had a pale face and cold sweat on his forehead.

"Ren'an, what's wrong?" Oza asked.

"Yuezhou and Wuchang!" Cai Yurong said in a trembling voice, "Li Zicheng's people will definitely dismantle the bridge for a boat after robbing the Shashikou pontoon bridge, and then continue to fight Yuezhou, there are many grain ships blocking Yuezhou, if they are all taken by Li Zicheng, then Li Zicheng can take the whole army east to Wuchang by boat, and Wuchang is also very empty now!" Wuchang is lost. The southeast is shaking! ”

"W-what can I do about this?" Ezha slumped on top of the chair in a moment, and the whole person just kept shaking.

(End of chapter)