Qingchuan calendar Hanyang tree, fragrant grass and parrot island.

This is Cui Hao's poem, which refers to the two place names of Qingchuan and Parrot Island, but it is related to the fate of Wuchang Wangcheng.

There is a very important springboard for attacking the security gate west of Wuchang City from Hanyang, and that is the Parrot Island in the heart of the river.

Garrison Qingchuan, and then occupy Parrot Island, and then land on the shore to grab the security gate, this is the most convenient passage to attack the Wuchang Royal City, as long as people who know a little about military affairs understand.

Zhang Xianzhong also understood the stakes, so he ordered his two godsons Liu Wenxiu and Ai Nengqi to lead 30,000 troops, and with the cooperation of Di Sanpin, the governor of the Huangzhou Navy Division, they seized Qingchuan yesterday evening.

Parrot Island is very small, and most of it is submerged during the flood season, and it is actually a dangerous place.

Fortunately, it is not yet the flood season, and Parrot Island is still "fragrant grass" and verdant.

But now it is the beginning of April, and the peach blossom flood in mid-to-late April is coming, and no one can afford to delay this time, Liu Wenxiu and Ai Nengqi dare not waste time.

On the night of the arrival of the army in Qingchuan, Hanyang, Liu Wenxiu and Ai Nengqi discussed and decided to let the naval warships send 3,000 people to Parrot Island overnight, and launch an attack on Baoanmen before the early morning of tomorrow with the assistance of the artillery of the naval commander Di Sanpin Sailor.

What Liu Wenxiu and Ainengqi didn't expect was that the three thousand army had not yet landed on Parrot Island, and a fire suddenly broke out at the security gate of Wuchang Wangcheng across the river, and it was accompanied by the sound of killing.

Someone is attacking the King City of Chu in Wuchang!

Liu Wenxiu and Ai Nengqi looked at the monstrous flames that reflected half of the sky, and discussed for a long time without a reason: even if their father's army came over, they should attack the big east gate or small east gate of Wuchang Wangcheng, how could they go around to the river and attack the security gate in the west?

The sudden change made Liu Wenxiu and Ai Nengqi puzzled: since it was not the large army of their father Zhang Xianzhong, they had not heard of any major military operations by others here recently. Who are the people who are attacking the Wuchang Royal City now?

No matter who it is, since someone has taken the lead, he can't delay the good opportunity to fish in troubled waters.

Liu Wenxiu was just about to order his own soldiers to raise the lanterns and tell the forward troops not to disembark at Parrot Island, but to go straight to the south bank. No sooner had the order been given than another incident occurred.

Tom - Suddenly thousands of cannons rang out on the other side of the river, and the top of Parrot Island was suddenly bombarded into a miasma. There were also many lead balls that fell into the river and splashed into the sky.

When Liu Wenxiu and Ai Nengqi saw such a fierce artillery fire, they immediately understood: the people on the opposite side not only attacked the Chu Wang City in Wuchang, but also shelled Jiangxin Parrot Island at the same time, which was to prevent themselves from participating in the siege.

One after another huge changes made Liu Wenxiu and Ai Nengqi anxious and angry: This is to eat alone, are there any rules in the rivers and lakes?

The scene that Liu Wenxiu and Ai Nengqi saw was true, and there were indeed huge changes in Wuchang Chu Wangcheng now.

The troops desperately setting fire to the perimeter outside the city were the women's barracks of Yehnara Wanying and Yehenara Wanqing.

The troops who shouted and shouted to attack the security gate of Chu Wangcheng were none other than the Chige Shooting Battalion, one of the four main forces of the Xiong Family's army.

The troops that bombarded Parrot Island with 10,000 artillery guns were none other than Shen Xiyue and Jiang Tengjiao's Dongting Lake Naval Division.

This is a series of actions of Miao Sanguan's plan to kill three birds with one stone, and it is also a premeditated joint action.

Li Dingguo led the cavalry battalion of the Central Protector Army to travel day and night, from Hengyang Wangcheng to Wuchang Chu Wangcheng, all the way through the market, attracting everyone's attention.

However, although Li Dingguo was under the banner of rescuing the Chu Wangcheng, his troops did not appear in the Chu Wangcheng.

It turned out that according to Miao Sanguan's order, Li Dingguo hid the cavalry battalion on the bank of the Xunsi River, with only 360 personal guards, and took advantage of the second half of the night to hide close to the Chu Wangcheng.

Li Dingguo didn't want to enter the city, but to meet one person: Chige, the commander of the shooting battalion and the general of the flying dragon.

"I didn't expect to see the little guy who was less than nine years old for ten years, and now he is now a major general in charge. ”

When he saw Li Dingguo, Chige almost didn't recognize him.

"Uncle Chige, you really know how to tell jokes, don't I want to grow up?" Li Dingguo also smiled: "I heard that Uncle Chige is very powerful, he was invincible in archery at the age of fourteen, and even the lord is not an opponent." Not long ago, there was a battle across the sea in Malacca, and it was even more majestic, and you are the only one in our Xiong family's army. ”

"That's the lord deliberately giving me a long face, don't believe these words. Chige hurriedly waved his hand: "Brother Li came over today, there must be a new situation, right?"

Li Dingguo nodded: "Zhang Xianzhong's vanguard has already traced the river, and it is likely that they will arrive here in the next two days." Parrot Island is a good springboard, and it is impossible for Zhang Xianzhong's sailors not to know it. ”

Chige asked in a low voice, "What should the Miao Third Champion Master ask me to do?"

"I will put the main force outside the town of Chumen, and only bring three hundred and sixty people into the city. If Zhang Xianzhong's sailor comes, you will divide half of the people to attack the security gate in the west under the banner of the homeless Zhang Xianzhong. I will have people from inside and outside to open the city gates for you, and then let the two aunts go straight to the royal city and occupy it, and I will do the rest. ”

The palace of the king of Chu is located in the ancient city of Jiangxia (now the first line of Yuemachang), located at the southern foot of Gaoguan Mountain (Snake Mountain), north of Gaoguan Mountain, east and west are two miles wide, and north and south are four miles long.

It is the largest royal city among all the vassal kings, equivalent to half of the ancient city of Jiangxia (now the ancient city of Wuchang).

The palace of the king of Chu is built all over the palace, the pavilion and the courtyard of the water pavilion, the palace, the palace room, the hall library, the temple and so on more than 800 rooms, the surrounding stone is the city, the height is two zhang and nine feet, it is called the "royal city".

After Li Dingguo conveyed Miao Sanguan's order to Chige, he appeared at dawn in the town of Chumen (now Wangfukou, Ziyang Road), just south of the city of Chu Wangcheng.

Although Li Dingguo was born as an orphan, he has been under the direct attention of Xiong Chu, Yan Erniang, Lan'er, and Fang Qianxun since Sichuan, so he has grown up very quickly, he is very high-flying, and he has some youthful appearance.

Now, Li Dingguo is dressed in a silver helmet and silver armor, an oolong horse on his crotch, and an iron spear hanging on the saddle bridge, which is even more majestic outside the city gate.

Behind him, a burly pro-soldier held a big flag with gold characters on a red background with one arm to wave in the wind: Li Li, the commander of the guard army in Hengyang Yongsheng Wangfu.

The town Chu Gate is painted with copper nails, and the height of the blue-green city wall is more than two zhang and four feet, and Li Dingguo found that the Chu Wangcheng is more luxurious and magnificent than the Hengyang Palace.

It's a pity that I probably heard that Zhang Xianzhong, the eighth king, was about to be killed, and there were people fleeing from the city gate who kept dragging their families and pouring out. Among the endless crowds, they called their fathers and mothers, and shouted for their children and daughters, making the vicinity of the city gate a miasma.

Looking at the chaos in front of him, Li Dingguo was frowning on horseback, and rushed out of the city gate hole, and a guy with a helmet and armor shouted loudly: "Cui Wenrong, the general of the guard army in the Lower Chu Palace, is it General Li, the reinforcement of the Hengyang Palace?"

Li Dingguo stared at it, and the guy who came from Pegasus had red eyes, looked like he was in his thirties, and his beard was more than three inches long.

"In Xia Li Dingguo, I came to see how the prince of Chu prepared to meet the enemy. Li Dingguo bowed his hand slightly on horseback, and said lukewarmly: "Our prince has been out of the domain for less than ten years, and he has always had a shallow foundation and is too busy to take care of himself, and there are definitely no reinforcements." ”

"The palace of the king of Chu was built by Emperor Taizu, and it has always been a tree with deep roots and lush branches. Now that the Liukou is here in the blink of an eye, the prince of Chu's family has hundreds of millions of dollars, can't he still gather the homeless people to form a city guard?"

Cui Wenrong flew off his horse, clasped his fists at Li Dingguo and said: "What General Li said is very true, and he also begged the prince to take out money and recruit the displaced people to form a loyal army. However, the prince swore to the sky that he had no money, and he was powerless to do anything in the future, so he counted on the King of Changsha Dehua and the King of Hengyang Yongsheng for reinforcements. ”

Li Dingguo found that this Cui Wenrong was not a treacherous person, so he also turned over and dismounted and pointed to the fleeing crowd and said: "In less than half an hour after coming down to this place, there are no less than 3,000 people coming out of the city gate. There are at least eight hundred young men available, why doesn't Prince Chu want to save himself?"

After looking around carefully, Cui Wenrong walked up to Li Dingguo and said: "Don't be afraid of General Li's jokes, the two old men He Fengsheng, a scholar of Zhishi University, and Wu Siwen, the former political envoy of Guangxi, entered the palace not long ago to cry, but the prince of Chu is an iron rooster, absolutely indestructible." ”

"Last night, Kuaima reported that Liukou's sailors had passed Yangluo, and the East Road army had arrived at the front line of Jiufeng Mountain. The sailors will be able to rush to the west side of the river by tomorrow night at the latest, and the army on the east road will be able to rush to the outside of the Dadong Gate at noon tomorrow. ”

"There are only more than 600 patrol soldiers in the Chu Palace, and there is no preparation for city defense. If the rogue attacks, the city will be destroyed. When the time comes, the jade will be burned, and it will only be in vain. ”

Li Dingguo was secretly happy in his heart, but his face was silent: "As far as I know, Zhu Huayi, the king of Jiangxia, and the prince of Chu are brothers, and he has 3,000 elite soldiers under him, why didn't he come to reinforce him?"

Cui Wenrong's expression was gloomy: "Everyone is a prince of unknown origin, where are the brothers of the hand clan? Now Lord Xu Xueyan is still in the city to persuade the people to defend the city, but the prince does not give a penny or take a grain of grain, so he can't leave the people behind. I can only do my best to obey the destiny of heaven, and when the time comes, I will die. ”

"Since it is the prince of unknown origin, why does General Cui accompany him to the funeral?" Li Dingguo's eyes rolled: "In this way, I will go in and visit the prince to see if there is a turnaround." ”

"Let's make an agreement, if the Liukou break through the royal city, I will protect the prince and go first, and General Cui will lead the people to break through to the south, there is no need to defend one place. As long as you live, you can still move forward. ”

As the saying goes: the country is easy to change, and the nature is difficult to change.

If you want Zhu Huakui, the king of Chu, to come up with money to form a city defense force, it is directly similar to asking for his life, and you might as well kill him.

When Li Dingguo saw the prince of Chu, he knew that Zhu Huakui, the king of Chu in his fifties, looked like a big ball of meat, and he couldn't even distinguish his neck and chin.

For the sake of the name of "Hengyang Yongsheng King", Zhu Huakui reluctantly met Li Dingguo once, but his tone did not have the slightest room for change: "This king really has no money, can General Li let the people help defend the city first, and then talk about money?"

Li Dingguo sneered in his heart, but said in his mouth: "The prince is above, and it doesn't matter if the people want money or not, but they have to eat when they defend the city." The prince took out more than 100,000 taels of silver, that is, to buy grain. If there is no cash, the prince can also take out the food to cope with it for a while. ”

"The king is unwell and has a splitting headache, and the matter will be discussed another day. Throwing down a sentence, Zhu Huakui had already entered the inner hall with the support of the four palace maids, and he didn't talk to Li Dingguo at all.

Seeing Zhu Huakui's back disappear, Li Dingguo's face finally showed a smile, and then he came to the outside of the palace and said to his own soldiers: "Two hundred-man teams have taken over all the defenses of the harem of the royal city, and no one can enter or leave without my order." Another team of 100 changed their clothes and sneaked into the vicinity of the West Gate, and then acted according to the predetermined plan!"

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