(Some people say that the author is forcibly boosting the morale of the Chu army.) In real history, when Zhong Xiang was killed in battle and Yang Qi had not yet established a leading position, these soldiers were cut off from food and lived by eating river mussels and snails, and they could fight to the death to kill the Song army when they were hungry. ）

At the time of the Dongting Lake Water Battle, Zhong Xiang had actually returned to Changsha, but he couldn't take care of the northern battlefield for the time being.

Because the two cities of Liling and Chaling were all besieged by the Ming army in Jiangxi.

Zhong Xiang hastily mobilized 15,000 elites, and even his imperial city guards were dispatched to destroy Quan Bangyan's 30,000 Jiangxi new army in Liling.

Kwon Bangyan fought with Zhong Xiang for a year before, and the two sides fought back and forth. That's not how awesome Kwon Bangyan is, but because he defended the city with the help of favorable terrain.

Now that he is fighting in the field outside the city, he immediately exposes all kinds of shortcomings, and he is beaten by Zhong Xiang and is powerless.

Quan Bangyan took thousands of remnants of the army, and retreated to Pingxiang in embarrassment, and no longer had the courage to go out of the city for a decisive battle.

Song Huizong is in Pingxiang......

He is now known as Ji Shao, was transferred to Pingxiang as the chief bookkeeper, and married Xue Su's widowed mother, Zeng.

As for Xue Su, this guy who was born as a bandit, was transferred to Jizhou as an officer, and is currently besieging Chaling with the army.

Zeng was worried: "How can Zhong Xiang be so powerful, defeating tens of thousands of officers and soldiers in two days?" ”

Song Huizong said: "After all, he is a reckless emperor, and he still has a hand in fighting." ”

Zeng's blind worship of her husband: "Xianggong has the name of 'Little Zhuge 'in Quzhou, why not offer a clever plan to help the officers and soldiers take Liling?" ”

Song Huizong's face flushed: "Although I have a clever plan, the officers and soldiers are too weak, and they dare not fight when they encounter the Chu army." ”

"Alas, it's also wronged." Tsang felt that her husband was too condescending.

The husband and wife were chatting, and suddenly a government came to invite Song Huizong to hurry back to the county government to do business.

However, it was the northern front troops of the Jiangxi New Army, and the grain and grass were captured by Zhong Xiang, and the traces of the Chu army were found on the border of Pingxiang, so they had to quickly recruit township soldiers and military rations to defend the city.

In fact, Zhong Xiang didn't chase after him at all, but only sent a miscellaneous army to create more flags to scare Quan Kuniyan.

But it was scary enough, and Pingxiang was so frightened that he hurriedly organized the people in the city.

I waited left and right for several days before I finally got the news that Zhong Xiang's army did not come, but only consolidated the pass at the junction of Liling and Pingxiang.

At this time, a messenger arrived from Yichun, bringing good news: when the Chaling Chu army was surrounded, there was infighting, first the deputy general killed the main general and wanted to surrender, and the soldiers loyal to Zhong Xiang were not convinced, and mutiny killed the deputy general of the Chu army. The Jiangxi New Army noticed the abnormality in the city and took the opportunity to attack the city and take Chaling.

The morale of the Pingxiang defenders was low, and they immediately rejoiced when they got the battle report.

Song Huizong was unhappy in his heart, because he knew all the civil and military generals who won the battle.

Xiang Zixu sat in Jizhou to engage in logistics, and Yang Yingcheng was in charge of front-line command, both of whom belonged to the Song family, and their ancestors were both from the Great Song Dynasty.

The Great Song Dynasty was in trouble before, and I didn't see you working so hard, but now you actually help the puppet Ming win the battle.

The more Song Huizong thought about it, the more angry he became!

"Ji Shao, why is there still a lot of food and grass?" The county commander pushed the door in and questioned angrily.

Song Huizong put down all his thoughts, bowed down and smiled: "The county is angry, and he is already urging grain, but the people in the countryside really don't have a few grains left." ”

The county decree said: "Within ten days, at least another 500 stone will be levied." The grain from Xinyu County (Xinyu) has been transported, and we have not been able to fill it in Pingxiang. Shangguan investigates it, you and I have to eat and hang! ”

Song Huizong stubbornly explained: "Pingxiang is poor, Xinyu is rich, how can you compare with them?" ”

"I don't care how much, hurry up and do it!" The county commander said angrily.

Song Huizong squeezed out a smile and sent the county order away, and then slapped the table and scolded: "Shameless dog thief, what's the use of forcing me?" The common people have no food, and I can't make food. If you force the grain and grass again, the people of Pingxiang will rebel! ”

scolded the county order, Song Huizong was still angry, and complained: "That Quan Bangyan is also, boasting of being an unworldly handsome minister, he went out with an army of 30,000 and was defeated by Zhong Xiang. Grandpa, I collected grain in Pingxiang for two months, and finally got some food, but it was all given to Zhong Xiang by this idiot. ”

……

Yin.

Zhong Xiang defeated Quan Bangyan at Liling and immediately led the elite north, leaving only a few troops to recruit Minfu to consolidate the pass.

He has gathered more than 20,000 troops in Xiangyin, and even recruited thousands of recruits, intending to go to the mouth of the Guiyi River to join Zhongyi, and then fight a decisive battle with the main force of the Ming Dynasty in Lujiao Village.

The southern military situation is urgent, and it is like snowflakes.

Yang Zaixing has led troops to besiege Shaoyang.

Although Li Heng was still suppressing the Dong people in Quanzhou and couldn't take the initiative to attack Yongzhou, the Chu army in Yongzhou actually had internal strife.

Those speculators, who had been converted to Zhong Xiang a few years ago, pretended to believe in Manichaeism. Now that he found that the situation was not good, he changed his flag and returned to the Ming Dynasty, killing the cronies left by Zhong Xiang and defecting.

Cao Cheng was unable to restrain the rebel army of all ethnic groups, so he simply led his headquarters to send troops to Yongzhou, and the rebellious Yongzhou Chu army immediately became a leading party. Now, Cao Cheng's army has passed Qiyang and may threaten Hengyang at any time along the Xiangjiang River.

The miners' rebel army of Guiyang Jian also relied on Neiying to set fire to the city of Chenzhou.

In just one month, the six southern states were mourned!

Now there is news that the county seat of Chaling was captured by the Ming army in Jiangxi. Fortunately, the walled fort in Yunyang Mountain is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and as long as it is stuck there, it can drag the Jiangxi Ming army.

But there are enemies on all sides, and Zhong Xiang has no troops to adjust.

He could only divide his troops to focus on defending Hengyang, Liling, Shaoyang, and Yunyang Village, and the rest of the territory in the south was all abandoned. Then, concentrate the elite main force to fight Bai Qi in a decisive battle, and then turn back to deal with the enemy forces elsewhere when the battle is won.

Two days later, Zhong Xiang and Zhong Yi joined forces at the mouth of the Guiyi River, counting nearly 90,000 people who transported grain, and claimed to have an army of 300,000 to the outside world.

The Xiangjiang River was blocked by the Daming Water Division, and Zhong Xiang's military rations could only be taken by land.

The distance is not long, only 60 miles from Xiangyin to the mouth of the Guiyi River, and only 70 miles from the mouth of the Guiyi River to the Antler Village.

However, without the protection of the navy, the Ming army could come by ship at any time to attack the grain transport troops.

Zhong Xiang left an army of 8,000 and let Zhong Yi guard at the mouth of the Guiyi River, which was the main hub for the Chu army's grain transportation.

Then, Zhong Xiang led the main force of the Chu army to the north to rescue Lujiao Village and wait for the opportunity to fight a decisive battle.

In front of Zhong Xiang were two strong fortifications that were horns of each other.

The barracks are all in the shape of "Hui", and the outer ring is a wide trench, and the soil dug in the ditch is then built into a wall. As a result of two more rains, the trench was full of muddy water, and it looked like a small moat!

Zhong Xiang personally went to observe the situation, and directly saw that his scalp was numb.

The general of the Ming army was determined to delay time, and he was unwilling to fight a decisive battle with him at all. With the help of these two strong camps, the Ming army was able to wear out with Zhong Xiang until he was old.

But Zhong Xiang couldn't afford to delay, and if the battle was not resolved within two months, it was estimated that Hengyang in the south would be gone.

Over the course of a few days, Zhong Xiang made some equipment and tried to launch several attacks.

But no matter how fierce the Chu army is and is not afraid of death, it is difficult to achieve much success, and this thing is not much different from a siege.

Wang Yuan may not be at the top of his command ability in the big war, but his basic skills as a general are absolutely solid. In strict accordance with the "General Essentials of the Martial Arts", he built the camp so that no water and fire could be entered, and Tianluo, Wuluo, Xingma, Tribulus and other facilities were readily available.

When Zhong Xiang defeated the Jiangxi New Army in Liling, Wang Yuan loaded a ship from Yuezhou and transported nearly 10,000 people, and he has been engaged in civil engineering these days!

In the face of such a complete barracks, it is impossible to rush into the camp at night.

What's more, there are observation decks all around.

At each lookout, soldiers use binoculars to take turns observing the enemy outside.

If there is a slight change on Zhong Xiang's side, the telescope will see the movement clearly, and Wang Yuan can calmly deploy troops to defend.

After fighting for more than half a month, Zhong Xiang had no temper.

However, there was good news from Hengyang, Zhong Ziang, the prince of Chu, set up an ambush in Shuikou Mountain and defeated the vanguard sent by Cao Cheng.

But bad news came from Shaoyang, and Yang Guang, the general of the Chu army, attacked the allied forces of various ethnic groups at night. In the case of absolute victory and the scattered camps of the righteous army one after another, Yang Zaixing led hundreds of soldiers in his headquarters to behead Yang Guang's son in a counter-charge formation in the chaos. Yang Guang was injured and retreated to the city, and Shaoyang's morale was low and precarious.

Immediately afterwards, Li Heng finally drove the Dong people back to the mountains and led the Guangxi Ming army into Yongzhou.

Because Li Heng and Cao Cheng had a grudge, Li Heng did not go to Hengyang to join Cao Cheng, but ran to surround Shaoyang with Yang Zaixing.

Shaoyang is probably almost gone.

"Your Majesty, our army's grain road was attacked, more than 200 sergeants were killed and wounded, and more than 600 stones of grain and grass were burned. The thief didn't kill the grain man......"

Zhong Xiang was silent, so he could only send additional soldiers to protect the grain delivery team afterwards.

The Daming Naval Division controls Dongting Lake, and also controls the lower reaches of the Xiangjiang and Miluo Rivers, and can choose a place to land at any time, and send a small elite force to attack Zhongxiang's grain transport troops.

Two days later, Yunyang Village was in an emergency.

The Jiangxi New Army in Chaling may break through the barrier of Yunyang Mountain at any time.

There are more and more emergency war reports in the rear, so that Zhong Xiang really can't sit still.

He secretly divided the elites to retreat at night, and retreated for several nights in a row, allowing these elites to set up an ambush on the retreat route.

Then Zhong Xiangda led the main force and withdrew his troops in a panic, pretending that a big city in the rear had fallen, and he was in a hurry to retreat and go back to preside over the overall situation.

As long as Bai Qi, Wang Yuan, and Lin Chong dare to chase after them, Zhong Xiang will be able to kill him immediately!

However, the Ming army did move, but instead of chasing Zhong Xiang, they frantically shelled Lujiao Village.

Zhong Xiang was about to retreat to the mouth of the Guiyi River, and still did not see the main force of the Ming army chasing after him.

Zhong Xiang is almost desperate, and if he continues to spend time here, the south will almost be unable to hold on. If he gave up here, it would be equivalent to giving up the prefectures and counties west of Dongting Lake, and his hometown of Dingzhou would be captured by the Ming army sooner or later.

"Boom!"

Another wall of the castle collapsed, but the Ming army did not take the opportunity to attack.

Zhou Lun called his son: "You broke through the siege at night to report to Your Majesty, and said that the enemy army was besieging but not attacking, and if the city wall collapsed, you didn't attack, because you wanted to drag the main force of our army here." Please Your Majesty stop caring about Lujiao Village, just divide your troops to defend Xiangyin, and lead the army to the south as soon as possible to quell the rebellion! I should be able to last ten days and a half a month here. ”

"Take care, father!"

Zhou Lun called Ying Xuan again: "Brother Ying can go, go back and tell the commander of the Ming army that I can surrender here in a month." ”

Ying Xuan smiled and asked, "Do you want to delay time for Master Zhong?" ”

Zhou Lun said: "In a month, Lujiao Village will definitely surrender. But the soldiers of Lujiao Village will not help the Ming army fight, and the soldiers are only willing to unload their armor and be the people. If the Ming army does not agree, then we will fight to the end. ”

"Farewell!" Ying Xuan arched his hand.

(End of chapter)