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Chapter 369

There is a town more than seventy miles northeast of Jingzhou named Chenghuang. A few days ago, many Qing soldiers came to this town, speaking with a strong Sichuan accent.

It's just that these officers and soldiers who came to Sichuan did not feel like officers and soldiers to the local people, because they were too polite.

Aunt Wang was so scared that she didn't dare to go out these days. She is 50 years old, and she has never seen officers and soldiers carrying water and firewood for the people.

Really hell.

I heard from the people in the town that these officers and soldiers were going to Jingzhou to fight against some kind of bandit. However, after seven or eight days, more and more officers and soldiers came, but they didn't even move a step.

Every day, the common people can see this group of officers and soldiers lined up at the entrance of the town, performing some exercises, and shouting slogans such as "swear to fight against the bandits, and protect the Qing Dynasty forever".

At the same time, Shu Jing'an, the right deputy general of Dingxi who was leading his troops to attack Yichang City, kept receiving documents from the Sichuan Green Camp.

Wang Fu, deputy general of Chengdu Town, said that they were constantly attacked by a small group of bandits during the march, which made the march slow, and asked for reinforcements to be sent quickly.

Ma Dayuan, the deputy general of Chongqing Town, said that the torrential rain caused flash floods and blocked the road leading to Jingzhou.

God is sorry, General Shu is going to die in the sun in Yichang.

The forwards who accompanied the army, the leader of the army, and the clan Qingyao said that the weather may be different for ten miles. They have a big sun here, but it is really heavy rain with Vice General Ma.

Zu Yingyuan, deputy general of Jinchuan Town, reported that the march was fast and there was no heavy rain, but he got lost on the way and almost ran to Jingmen Prefecture in the wrong direction.

In short, none of the three towns of Sichuan Green Camp sent out arrived in Jingzhou as required, which made Shu Jingan have to wonder whether Sichuan Green Camp was timid or fearful of war.

Qingyao suggested that he take someone to see the situation, and if the Sichuan green battalion really made excuses and refused to go to Jingzhou, they should report to General Feng Sheng for military law enforcement.

As a result, when Qingyao came back, he said that Ma Dayuan's department was blocked by mudslides; Wang Fu's department had burned food and grass due to the sneak attack of the bandits, and the whole army was starving, waiting for the general to deliver food to them; Zu Yingyuan had found a guide and was rushing to Jingzhou. They will definitely be able to reach Jingzhou in five days at the latest.

It is roughly the same as reported by the three towns.

How can Shu Jingan not believe the words of the clan?
Reluctantly, he sent an order to the Chongqing Green Camp to quickly detour, and at the same time asked someone to send three hundred shi of military rations to the Chengdu Green Camp.

Although it will take five days for Jinchuan Town to reach Jingzhou at the fastest, Jingzhou has 7000 people from the Eight Banners defenders, land and water soldiers, and a battalion from Huguang. It is impossible for the bandits to capture it in a short time.

The most urgent task at the moment is to take Yichang as soon as possible, cut off the way for the bandits to withdraw to the north, and at the same time go down the river, attack the bandits from east to west, and try to catch all the bandits fleeing from Jinchuan.

Ding Yizhen, the imperial censor of Sichuan, impeached Shu Jingan for colluding with the bandits, calling it a pursuit, but actually following them, and deliberately letting the bandits flee. In fact, he really wronged Shu Jingan.

He really couldn't win the battle of Cloud Gate.

Since then, the march has been slow, and it is true that they are afraid of being ambushed by bandits again.

The so-called gaining wisdom by eating a ditch, and then laying an ambush for the bandits, the emperor would not scold him for being incompetent, he himself would be ashamed to live in the world again.

As long as the Eight Banners of Jingzhou can stick to it, and soldiers from all walks of life gather from all directions, is it possible that they will not be able to completely wipe out the bandits under the city of Jingzhou?

After all, those thieves are now known as an army of tens of thousands, but the actual soldiers who can fight are still their thousands of veterans in Xiaojinchuan.

In the past in Jinchuan, the officers and soldiers had nothing to do with them due to the terrain, so they took the initiative to abandon the land and ran out.

It would be troublesome if he kept wandering around, taking the initiative to fight the important town of Jingzhou, wouldn't it be self-inflicted.

What annoyed Shu Jingan was that he couldn't win the small city of Yichang even after several days of continuous attack.

According to the people who escaped, there were not many bandits in the city, but no matter how much he urged Shu Jingan and how much he rewarded him, the battalions from Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Fujian and the five provinces of Yunnan who had just arrived from Jinchuan were unable to attack the city. .

The admiral of Yunnan, Chang Qing, was still in Agui's remaining party. Although the court did not investigate whether he was involved in Agui's rebellion, this person must have been terrified of it. He knew that he was acting as a scapegoat, so he led 4000 Yunnan soldiers to the place. After Yichang, he immediately went into siege and personally supervised the battle.

Unfortunately, no matter how hard Ren Changqing worked, he still couldn't win Yichang City in one go.

If it is said that the green battalions in the five provinces are afraid of war and refuse to contribute, and they are pretending to be siege, then Shu Jingan's old troops Garrison Eight Banners in Chengdu also participated in the siege, and the result is the same as the green battalion. Soldiers also work without effort?
In fact, Shu Jingan's information was wrong. The bandits in Yichang City were not the 3000 people as the people told them, but nearly 7000 people per division. The commander was Gu Mingyuan, nephew of Gu Shidao, commander of the Xinghan Army.

This division also has 200 people veteran soldiers.

The whole division is equipped with more than 3100 firearms, more than 30 large and small cannons and mountain-splitting cannons, and countless other ordnance, which can be said to be armed to the teeth.

They were all seized from the Qing Army's Sichuan Luying Chengdu Town in the First World War in Huangling Temple.

Anxious Shu Jingan knew that if this situation continued, his political life as Dingxi You Deputy General might be coming to an end, so he had to give another heavy reward. The first person to climb the city would be rewarded with 1000 taels of silver and be promoted to three ranks.What's more, after breaking the city, you can fight for three days.

Chenghuang Town.

The three giants of the Sichuan Green Camp are playing mahjong, which is also known as Ye Zixi.

"Everywhere we go according to the requirements of the adults, we will do what we can for the people after setting up camps and camps. We will not rob them or eat their food for nothing. Why are the people still so afraid of us?"

Ma Dayuan, the deputy general of Chongqing Town, who was forced to stop the march because of the mudslide, did not understand this at the poker table.

"How can there be people in the world who are not afraid of soldiers? Your Excellency is good in everything, but some things are too whimsical. If you are really good to the people, the people will support us in rebelling against the court?"

The speaker was Li Anan, a military officer in the admiral's mansion in Sichuan, the current governor of Chengdu's Lvying, and the nephew of Li Shijie, the governor of Sichuan, Li Anan. He looked at the cards on the table and decisively played a three cake.

Before the card left his hand, the deputy general Zu on the opposite side shouted: "Bump!"

"What rebellion is not rebellion? We never thought about rebellion. Your Li An'an's family is in Chengdu, sitting and talking without back pain, but our whole family is in Beijing. Rebellion? You want our whole family to die. Light?"

Zu Yingyuan played Zhang Siwan while speaking.

"bump!"

Li An'an brought [-] in front of him with a smile, drew two cards from his own cards and placed them together, and played five more cards.

Zu Yingyuan didn't want to bump into him again, and Ma Dayuan, who was sitting at Li An'an's house, was so angry that he cursed: "There is no end, I didn't draw a fucking card!"

"What's the rush? What's the matter, you're not allowed to play cards?"

Zu Yingyuan gave Ma Dayuan a blank look, "Your Excellency said that a brand is a character, and if your brand is not good, your character is not good."

Ma Dayuan snorted: "Nonsense, when did your lord say that?"

"If you don't believe me, ask Commissioner Wang."

Zu Ying Yuan Zui glanced at Wang Fu, who was not only the deputy general of Chengdu Town, but also a member of the executive committee of the Gongjin Association.

"Well, Lord Jia told Zu Yingyuan in a dream last night, and I was also in the dream at the time, so I can testify."

Wang Fu's nose twitched, and he touched a card in his hand. Without looking at the card, he touched the card back and forth with his finger, and he turned it right with a "beep" sound: "Nonsense, self-drawing, all of them, give me money!"

The three of them looked at it together, and Wang Fu really made himself feel awkward. They couldn't help saying that it was bad luck, and they counted the silver bills reluctantly.

While counting, Wu Er Er, the middle officer in charge of the logistics of Jinchuan Town and a good chess friend of Mr. Jia Jia, ran in and said with a smile: "My lords, stop fighting, Jingzhou is liberated! Ah, no, Jingzhou It fell, and the whole city was slaughtered by the Xinghan army!"

(End of this chapter)