Xingshan City was on fire.

The black smoke rising from the sky was like a giant dragon, if it weren't for the mountains and mountains all around, I am afraid that the Qing army dozens of miles away could see it.

The Qing soldiers in the city were basically cleared, and the dog remnants led people to find the 3,000 war horses left by the Manchurian Eight Banners in Xingshan.

However, it was not found in the city, but in a place called the Hu family's shed in the east of the city.

About five or six miles.

Probably because there was no place in Xingshan City to accommodate these war horses.

Upon learning of this, Wang Wu immediately asked Xu Deyi, who was born in the Lao Shun Army, to take 500 people to Hujiapeng to garrison, and asked Wang Shengming, the general who had been in charge of the previous round, to take people to count the number of soldiers who would ride horses in each department, so as to train the first cavalry of the Ming army.

After highlighting the mountains, the mobility of the troops was Wang Wu's greatest concern, and it was even more of his dream to have a cavalry unit that could fight the Qing army head-on.

At present, the main forces of the Qing army in Huguang are gathered in Maolu Mountain, and the strength of the Qing army stationed in the rest of the area is limited, as long as the strategy is proper and does not attack hard to gnaw the city, it is possible for the Ming army that breaks through the siege to turn Huguang upside down, so as to transfer out the Qing army that encircles the base area.

Ordering people to set fire to the grain of the Qing army hoarded in Xingshan City was also to cooperate with this strategy.

There is no food, and there are Ming soldiers in Wuchang, see how he Dong Xueli is still guarding Maolu Mountain.

Cao Diwei suggested not breaking through for the time being, but holding Xingshan City for a period of time, he thought that in this way, the 60,000 or 70,000 Qing troops in Huguang would fall into a food crisis.

If you cooperate with the three old marshals, you can't reproduce the great victory of the Huguang Qing Army two years ago.

Wang Wu did not accept this proposal.

Because, he can't hold Xingshan City.

First, Xingshan is only a small county town, the area is not large, if tens of thousands of Qing troops attack, with the little force at hand can not hold it at all.

Second, the Qing army could obtain a certain amount of military food supplies from Shaanxi and Sichuan on the northern and western fronts, and even if the food shortage was serious, it would not collapse on its own.

Third, the longer he stays in Xingshan, the slimmer the chances of breaking through.

After all, it is impossible for the Qing army left behind outside the mountain not to notice that there is a change in Xingshan, and once they build a defense line on the eastern edge of Xingshan, the Ming army will still be surrounded.

The strategy of breaking through to Wuchang remains unchanged.

There is one thing that Wang Wu was very surprised, that is, after the Ming army broke the city, thousands of people spontaneously organized to help the Ming army search and deal with the green battalion soldiers.

Many of the green battalion soldiers hiding in private houses were searched by the people.

Many of them were beaten to death by the people at that time.

In addition, a pair of brothers named Wang Entai and Wang Enlai actually organized hundreds of people to defeat hundreds of battalions of soldiers at the North Gate, and also captured Wang Hengshui, the general of the Anlu battalion.

This incident made Wang Wu strange, and he didn't know where the people had the courage.

So he sent someone to find the Wang brothers and asked them why they wanted to help the Ming army deal with the Qing army.

The Wang brothers' reply was simple.

That is, the people who were requisitioned were not regarded as human beings by the Qing army at all, and five of the ten young men who left home to pick husbands died in Kuidong.

"Since serving in the West Mountain, the people have been miserable, forcing grain in the official mansion at home, selling cattle and children, some families have paid official food and the whole family starved to death, and the husband will go back to one of the two"

The eldest brother Wang Entai wept and said that the Qing court's bad government against the people, and said that the people in various places had long been dissatisfied with the Qing court, and he heard that there were more than a dozen incidents of the people, and the most serious trouble was in Daye County under the nose of the governor.

This information made Wang Wu's eyes light up, if there were civil uprisings in many places in Huguang, then Zhang Changgeng, the governor of Huguang, must be busy fighting the fire.

He led the Ming army to break through the siege at this time, and it was impossible to let the increasingly fierce people's uprisings expand and form a trend.

In that case, even if Dong Xueli was unwilling to break the siege, Zhang Changgeng would have to burn his eyebrows and urge him to return to the division to rescue.

"I've done something to kill my head, and the government will definitely not be able to tolerate me."

The two Wang brothers are willing to lead the Minfu brothers who followed them to follow Wang Wu to resist the Qing Dynasty.

Wang Wu agreed that the willpower of these people who took the initiative to kill the Qing army was much better than surrendering troops and taking prisoners.

Although the combat effectiveness is not good, who is born to fight.

But there is one thing that the two brothers should pay attention to, that is, the thousands of people in the city should voluntarily join the Ming army, and they must not be forced.

He also ordered that the people who did not want to join the Ming army should not be embarrassed, and gave them food and coiled to make them return to themselves.

The Wang Entai brothers were full of promises, and happily went to convey the meaning of the general of the Ming army to their fellow villagers.

When a group of high-ranking Manchurian captives entered Xingshan City, they were shocked by what they saw.

Looking at the grain that was burning in the fire, Yang Maoxun burst into tears.

The rest of the Manchurian generals were also as withered as a wreck, and they were extremely powerless.

Mulima on the stretcher didn't have any expression, just watched silently like a nerd.

I don't know if it's because of the death of the heart, or if he has closed himself off by the Manchurian generals who came with him.

Wang Hengshui, the general of the Anlu battalion, and more than 400 soldiers of the captured battalion were escorted to the colonel, and when they saw that Zhang Jinzhong, the deputy general of the standard battalion, was poked on the ground with a spear, Wang Hengshui's face turned white on the spot.

Except for a few dozen of Zhang Jinzhong's former battalion soldiers, almost all of them were wiped out, and more than 500 were taken prisoner.

After hearing Zhao Jinzhong's explanation that the army had suffered as many as 300 casualties in this battle, Wang Wu's face immediately changed, and he glanced coldly at the group of green camp prisoners, and then ordered someone to call Xu Lin over and said, "These prisoners are all handed over to you to dispose of." ”

"Give it to me?"

Xu Lin was stunned, he didn't understand what Wang Wu meant, and then he understood.

Under Xu Lin's arrangement, the Ming army began to kill prisoners.

"Xu Lin, you can't die well!"

Ge Qian, who put down the knife and surrendered, cursed far and wide, but Xu Lin on the opposite side grinned at him.

"Fifth brother, didn't you let the prisoners be killed before?"

Gou Yu was very puzzled about how the fifth brother, who had always advocated not to be killed, suddenly changed as a person.

"Because we're going to make a big enough noise."

In the past, he didn't kill prisoners or even release people, because the Ming army was too weak, and Wang Wu didn't want the Qing army to become warriors who fought to the death.

Now to kill the prisoners, first, these admirals and standard battalion soldiers have caused too many casualties to the Ming army; The second is that Wang Wu wanted to make Dong Xueli feel a sense of crisis through this incident, and also made the Qing army afraid of the Ming army.

Three days later, Dong Xueli, who was shocked by the news, hurriedly led his troops back, and his subordinate generals were stunned by the scene in front of them.

Not the fires in the city that have not yet been completely extinguished, or the black smoke that is still rising, or the military rations that have been burned by the fires.

Rather, the heads were hung from the city walls with ropes.

Zhang Jinzhong, Wang Hengshui

In front of the standard camp, the heads of more than 2,000 soldiers of the Anlu battalion were densely dropped side by side on the city wall.

Above the city gate, there is a line of big characters - "Don't send Dong thief, I'll go to Wuchang." ”

The payment is Wang Yaowu, the general soldier of Daming Huguang.