In mid-February of the twelfth year of the Kangxi reign of the Qing Dynasty, although Wu, Li, and Qing did not conduct a decisive battle in Huguang. But the plate of the Qing Dynasty in Huguang was still studed by the gambling king Eza, and it was on the verge of collapse!

Originally, although the situation of the Qing Dynasty in Huguang was precarious, there was still a considerable number of reserves on the side of Jingzhou Fucheng.

They didn't move, and Wu Yingxiong and Li Zicheng didn't dare to make a big move.

Otherwise, once Wu Yingxiong's army suffered some setbacks in Yunyang and Xiangyang, or even as long as it was a little sluggish, Ezha would be able to lead at least 15,000 troops to help.

At least 10,000 of these 15,000 troops are the most elite Eight Banners New Army of the Qing Dynasty!

Now it has been a year and a half since Yue Le's defeat in southern Sichuan, and the 10,000 new troops of the Eight Banners stationed in Jingzhou are not idle—they are training there every day!

Now after all, it is the Kangxi period, not the Guangxu period, and it is still somewhat useful for those Eight Banners disciples to practice.

And in accordance with Kangxi's will, Ezha also opened the slave door to these slaves of the Eight Banners New Army in Jingzhou, added a group of slaves to the New Army, and also released the identity of the banner man or the clothed person to them.

If you just become a minion with an organization, of course you will be more motivated!

At the same time, Ozha was also ordered to send a group of old and infirm Eight Banner soldiers back to Beijing.

A group of Eight Banners were also transferred to serve in the Green Camp New Army to strengthen their control over the Green Camp New Army in the town under the jurisdiction of the Changsha Battalion.

After some adjustments, although the situation on Huguang's side is not good, it can barely be maintained.

Therefore, Li Zicheng also did not dare to rashly enter Yuezhou, Yuezhou is also a strong city!

Even if there were only a few thousand defenders, Li Zicheng didn't dare to try it easily.

Because he also has an army of more than 10,000 people, and the army has been in the army for a relatively short time, and the quality is uneven, some are too old, and some are too young. Once Yuezhou could not be conquered quickly, and the reinforcements from Ozha arrived, Li Zicheng was not sure to win.

This is probably a delicate balance of "the enemy does not move, I do not move", right?

But Eza's blind movement allowed Wu Yingxiong, who was a thousand people, and Li Zicheng, who was good at seizing the opportunity, to find an opportunity to make a big move!

Yunyang, Xiangyang, Yuezhou and other places immediately "exploded" one after another!

The first thunderstorm was in Yunyang County, the city of Yunyang.

February 11, night.

The shouting and gunfire that lasted for a day and a night finally stopped completely.

The area around the Yamen of the Admiral of Yunyang has been beaten to a thousand holes.

Outside the gate of the Admiral's Yamen, there was the fiercest battle ever fought, and there were corpses all over the place. There are Qing soldiers with braided heads and cloth armor, and there are also Wu soldiers with red scarves who cut off their braids and wrap a piece of red cloth around their helmets.

The battle was very fierce, and some soldiers on both sides, even if they were killed, the corpses were still scuffling together!

Some of the Ma family's white pole soldiers from the stone pillar still maintained the posture of raising their spears and sprinting at the last moment, their spears had already pierced into the enemy's body, and they themselves were also shot and killed by arrows, but they were still angry and wide-eyed.

It seems that the people of the Shizhu Ma family are also fed up with the bird's spirit of the Qing Dynasty, and they are very active in helping Wu Yingxiong fight this time!

There are also some Fujian rattan soldiers from Yang Laijia's department, who are also extremely brave, and when they fall, they are shot in many places, but they still maintain a charging posture. Needless to say, these Fujian soldiers also know that they hate the Qing Dynasty deeply!

What was the treatment of them following the "big brother of an official" back then? What treatment did you get with the Qing Dynasty later? And the eldest brother of the official is so good (the boss who is willing to give a lot of money to the people under him is a good boss), and he also harmed Kang Mazi. And this Kang Mazi can also be a scourge on their Fujian hometown!

Wu Shifan commanded his flintlock pikemen under the cover of Yang Laijia's rattan soldiers, and here they listed a dense formation and Tong Guoyao's raised soldiers to shoot at each other.

The dense rain of bullets hit the wall near the gate and was densely packed with bullet holes!

The shotgunners under the command of Tong Guoyao were almost killed and wounded in this battle, and found that the firepower of the Wu soldiers was too fierce, and Tong Guoyao, who knew that the general trend was gone, was not willing to lose, and personally led his two or three hundred strong men with knives and guns to launch a decisive charge.

These strong men are not on Tong Guoyao's account, but Ding Zhuang that Tong Guogang and Tong Guowei helped him find from the Tong family's house slaves.

The Tong family was already the founding minister of Manchuria, and they have been relatives of the emperor for several generations, and now they are the maiden family of Kangxi's biological mother. Naturally, the nobles are incomparable, and the servants in the family are stronger and braver than others.

The two brothers were also anxious about Kangxi's urgency, knowing that Emperor Mazi was worried that the Yunyang defense line would not be tight, so they transferred 300 people from their own house and village and gave them to Tong Guoyao.

And Kangxi is also "generous", all of them gave them the identity of the Three Flags Coat!

This is the emperor's grace!

When Wu Shifan, Ma Wanshan of the Shizhu Ma family, and Yang Laijia, the general soldier of Xiangyang, rushed into Yunxian County under the response of Yunyang's deputy general Hong Fu, it was the three hundred "slave soldiers" who were not on the account who went out to help Tong Guoyao, so that the Admiral Yamen in Yunxian County would not fall in the first place.

Because the Admiral's Yamen was not immediately conquered, in Yunxian County, the Yunyang Biao soldiers who were originally scattered everywhere also had the backbone and moved closer to the Admiral's Yamen. This allowed Tong Guoyao to gather a team of seven or eight hundred people, who could rely on the sturdy building of the Yunyang Admiral Yamen to carry it for a day and a night.

However, there are 5,000 soldiers under the command of Wu Shifan, Yang Laijia, Ma Wanshan and Hong Fu, and the numerical advantage is too great! In addition, Wu Shifan's musket team could play very dense firepower, so the battle lasted until the night of February 11, and Tong Guoyao was still defeated.

But this Manchurian uncle still behaved quite stubbornly, leading his subordinates to launch three breakthroughs in a row. The last time he even rushed to Wu Shifan's front! Frightened, this young man who went to the battlefield for the first time was colorless, and the flintlock muskeliers under his command almost collapsed, and some people began to throw flintlock pistols and flee for their lives!

Fortunately, Yang Laijia's Fujian rattan soldiers and Ma Wanshan's stone pillar white pole soldiers played steadily and pounced on hand-to-hand combat in time, which resisted Tong Guoyao's coated strong men.

The two sides fought to the death outside the gate of the Admiral's Yamen, fighting for nearly half an hour, and Tong Guoyao's troops were finally wiped out!

And Tong Guoyao himself categorically rejected Wu Shifan's surrender, and finally killed himself!

Although this battle was won more difficult than imagined, with the death of Tong Guoyao, Yunxian County, the core of the Yunyang defense line of the Great Qing Dynasty, was still completely controlled by Wu Bing!

Two days after Yunxian County was broken by Wu Shifan, another line of Wu soldiers commanded by Wu Yingxiong finally completely took the last stronghold of the Yunyang defense line of the Great Qing Dynasty after a fierce battle, known as the iron-clad Xiangyang City!

The Qing army guarding Xiangyang was Yang Maoxun of Yunyang Fuzhi, he was the commander of the Han army with a white flag, the son of Yang Linxiang, who had been a general of Pingnan, and the proper "Great Han Army", like Zhu Guozhi, was already integrated with Manchuria, so it was naturally stubborn.

Although he only brought 500 Fu Biao, and was caught off guard by Wu Yingxiong under the banner of Wu Sangui, and lost some more, he still led the remaining 200 or so people to retreat to the most dangerous fortress "Lady City" in the northwest corner of Xiangyang City.

The city is bordered by the Han River to the north, part of the unusually open Yangyang moat to the south, the Xiangyang City Wall to the east, and the Hanshui Wharf to the west. The terrain is very precipitous, and the walls are tall and heavy. Wu Yingxiong, who did not carry heavy artillery, could only order people to storm Lady City along the city wall of Xiangyang, and fought for two days and two nights before finally pulling out the nail.

Like Tong Guoyao, Yang Maoxun was also stubborn to the end, and finally jumped off the building and died for the country - Ozha, who lost a stud and lost the bottom, has not committed suicide, but his two subordinates went down first to find Shunzhi Ye and cried, but I don't know if I can find it?

Yunxian and Xiangyang were lost, and the Yunyang defense line that Kangxi painstakingly managed was completely thunderous!

Although there are still many armies on the front line, the defensive hubs behind are all taken by the enemy, and the defenders in the frontline strongholds have all become lone troops, and they will face a two-sided attack by Wu Sangui and Wu Yingxiong, and it is only a matter of time before the whole army is annihilated.

However, the bigger thunder still exploded in Yuezhou City!

Because the Huguang battlefield was divided into several areas by the Yangtze River and Dongting Lake, as well as some other major rivers, the real hub of the Qing army in this area was not Jingzhou in the north of the Yangtze River, but Yuezhou at the confluence of the Yangtze River and Dongting Lake.

Therefore, in the past few months, Ezha has been placing thousands of soldiers in Yuezhou, and he is also running at both ends of Jingzhou and Yuezhou.

Yuezhou was blocked in the east, Jingzhou was blocked in the north, and Yichang was blocked in the northwest, and Li Zicheng was contained. Although he can still develop south, Wu Guogui and Zu Zeqing are coming from the south, and Li Zicheng is going south, isn't it a head-on collision?

However, Ozha transferred most of the troops guarding Yuezhou, and only one or two thousand people remained. At this point, it is reluctant to defend Yuezhou City, and those strongholds near Yuezhou City that guard the Yangtze River and Dongting Lake can only pretend to be a few random people.

And Li Zicheng, who originally didn't have many sailors and ships, grabbed dozens of big wooden boats to build the bridge after Li Laishun and Hu dismantled the Shashikou pontoon bridge with one shot!

Now Li Zicheng finally has a Yangtze River sailor composed of dozens of boats!

So he led his army to board the ship at Shishou in the southeast of Jingzhou, and more than 10,000 people marched all the way east along the Yangtze River, drove to the east of Yuezhou, and landed at Chenglingji, where Dongting Lake and the Yangtze River meet.

There were not a few defenders in Chenglingji at all, so naturally it fell immediately, so that the door for Li Zicheng to enter Wuchang in the east was opened!

The Qing army guarding Yuezhou didn't know what was happening, they found that Li Zicheng's army actually rushed towards them from the north, and thought that Bo Yi's Ozha had been wiped out! Naturally, he didn't dare to defend Yuezhou anymore, so he surrendered under the persuasion of Huang Zhisheng.

As a result, Li Zicheng's troops took the hub of the Qing army in the Huguang battlefield without bloodshed, and also grabbed a large amount of supplies hoarded in Yuezhou by Oza and the artillery used by the Qing army to block the shipping lanes along the Dongting Lake (they thought that Li Zicheng and Wu Guogui could only come from this side of Dongting Lake), and also obtained a large number of ships blocked on the river east of Chenglingji.

Now Li Zicheng's door to Wuchang is not only open, but there are enough ships, artillery, and food to carry out this task that is enough to change the pattern of the world.

And the Ezha who was proficient in the "way of stud", after discovering that the signs were wrong, actually took back the chips he thought he thought were from the "gambling table" - that is, the 20,000 troops who attacked Shimen, went around Yichang, and returned to Jingzhou City with the troops and reserves of Yiling Town.

When I went out to gamble, I had 20,000 yuan, and now I went home with 20,000 yuan, is this not a loss or a win?

With a bang, a table was overturned on the ground of Xi'anxing's south study.

Then came the roar of Emperor Kangxi: "Ezha. Damn it! ”

"The emperor is angry!"

"Your Majesty, although Ozha is at fault, the main force of the vast army of Huhu is still there"

Some of the bachelors and Hanlin scholars kneeling at the bottom had a good relationship with Eza, and they wanted to explain it for him, but they ushered in Kangxi's "death gaze", and they were so frightened that they didn't dare to say anything.

"Your Majesty, Jingzhou is already a lonely city, and the useless minions who defend it suggest that they immediately abandon Jingzhou and use troops in Wuchang and Hanyang! Wuchang and Hanyang are the gateways to the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and they must not be lost! ”

Someone finally understands why Ozha deserves to die!

Although he didn't pay much for the capital he brought out, Yunyang, Xiangyang, and Yuezhou, the three important strongholds on the Huguang battlefield, were all pulled out!

And Yuezhou is the gateway to Wuchang!

And there are few defenders in Wuchang City, once Li Zicheng's army goes down the river to Wuchang, Wuchang will not be able to hold it at all.

Now Wu Yingxiong is already in Xiangyang's "Xiong Zhenzhong", and if Li Zicheng takes Wuchang again, he will have to suppress the southeast!

Moreover, Li Zicheng was originally blocked south of the Jingjiang River and west of Dongting, and the development space was only to the south, and sooner or later he would clash with Wu Guogui.

Now Li Zicheng can be transferred to Wuchang, although Wuchang is the leader of Huguang, but the location is on the corner of the east of Huguang, Wu Guogui can completely ignore Li Zicheng, and Wu Yingxiong joined forces to attack the Central Plains.

If Wu Yingxiong and Wu Guogui attack the Central Plains together, what will Kangxi do?

Kangxi looked at the person who gave him advice, and it turned out to be a university scholar Suo Etu.

He sighed and asked, "Suo Etu, do you think Ezha can enter Wuchang before Li Zicheng?" ”

"This"

Suo Etu couldn't answer.

Kangxi shook his head: "He can't!" If he could, he should lead Jingzhou's army to Wuchang now!

But he cowered in Jingzhou and didn't move. He doesn't act when he should act, and he acts recklessly when he shouldn't! Can I count on him? ”

Another scholar suggested to Kana: "Your Majesty. The minion suggested that he be dismissed from his post. ”

"Who can go to Jingzhou to replace Eza?" Kangxi asked.

"Yue Le, the president of Qishan Daying, can go to Jingzhou to stabilize the situation." University Scholar Kimbatei suggested.

Yue Le's Prince An had already been killed, but Kangxi had no one to use, so he didn't send Yue Le back to Beijing to eat old rice, but made him the president of the Qishan camp and responsible for the defense of Ganlong.

"Yue Le can indeed do it." Kangxi nodded, "Now it's definitely too late for Jingzhou's soldiers to go to Wuchang, if they move rashly, they will leave Maicheng. It's better to let them be crucified in Jingzhou City!

Jingzhou City has sufficient reserves, the city is strong, and there is still a large area of territory around it to operate. If Yue Le does a good job, he should be able to contain Wu Yingxiong and Wu Guogui, so that they can't go north with all their might.

But as soon as Yue Le leaves, who will Gansu hand over? Le Erjin doesn't seem to work, right? ”

Several scholars shook their heads together.

Le Erjin definitely can't!

He is about the same color as Ozha, let him guard Qishan, and simply give him Xiahou Nan's script.

"Your Majesty, the old minister knows that one person can go out of Gansu." Du Lide, a scholar of Baohedian University, mentioned a person to Kangxi at this time, "Zhengbai Banner Mongolian capital Muludu. Laita is a veteran general in the army, in the early years, he followed the king of Yutong County to fight in the east and west, and his military achievements were impressive. ”

Baya Lajia Lazhangjing is the leader of the guard, if it is in the Kangxi year, it is the official who watches the gate of the imperial city.

However, the guardian commander of the Tiancong period was also the escort of the white flag of Duoduo as the banner master...... That's amazing!

The white flag of the year, that was a flag that macho men walked everywhere!

To be the leader of the most elite white flag and white armor soldiers, it must be a super macho man rolled out of a crowd of macho men, curled and fierce!

Later, this Laita also followed Duoduo to fight in the east and west, leveling Li Chuang, destroying Nanming, and not losing the Aobai in the debate, and the entire Aobai with a white flag!

If it weren't for the fact that the three brothers of the "old family" died later, and bad things got bad things, this Laita would have been the minister of the guard a long time ago.

But even if the "old family" is not good, he is not idle, he still made meritorious contributions to the Qing Dynasty in front of the enemy, fought Zheng Chenggong, resisted Li Dingguo, and later returned to Ping Yungui and him, and even fought Maolu Mountain.

It can be said that there is no service and no fighting, and every battle must be reached, and it was not until after the battle of Maolu Mountain that it was thrown into idleness...... If you don't let him be idle anymore, he will have to "make a lot of achievements"!

"Your Majesty, the minions also feel that it is necessary to defend Gansu!" Suo Etu also felt that this Laita could do, and he also understood Kangxi's thoughts, so he added, "This Laita is as fierce as a worship...... Otherwise, you won't be able to get into the eyes of Dorgon and Dord! ”

It's as fierce as a bow!

Now Kangxi also knows that Ao worships well...... Moreover, this "Aobai" is still a talent favored by Dorgon and Duoduo.

Can the person whom Dorgon and Dorgon fancy be worse?

"It's as fierce as a bow!" Kangxi nodded, "I just want to be such a hero!" How many such generals are there in the DPRK? If you think about it, I recommend it to me! I'm going to reuse it! ”

Kangxi now finally knows that the little princes of the clan who can play with him are unreliable!

You have to fight like a veteran!

He paused and said, "Jingzhou Mansion will let Yue Le guard it...... Give Prince Ann back to him! This time, I don't have any requirements for him, just keep Jingzhou City from losing.

Jingzhou is not lost, Wu Yingxiong and Wu Guogui will not be able to concentrate on going north.

But what about Li Zicheng's scourge? If he takes Wuchang, he should go to Jiangnan next, right? Gangnam ...... Who can defend me? ”

(End of chapter)