Kangxi, your Qing Dynasty is dead

Chapter 350 Fight to Jiujiang and capture Wu Sangui alive! (Seeking a monthly pass, asking for a subscription)

In the third year of the Republic of China, the fifth day of July.

Yangtze.

The rainstorm is like notes, pouring down.

Two pontoon bridges have been erected on the river, and the cavalry, wearing cloaks, patrolled and guarded in the vast rain and fog.The heavy rain almost formed a wall of water, and it fell from the ground to the sky.

It turned out that the east wind that started on June 25 was the vanguard of a typhoon that blew all the way from the southeast coast. It blew well in the first few days, and it blew Li Zhongshan's navy all the way to the junction of the two provinces of Hubei and Jiangxi. Wuxue.But starting from June [-]th, the Yangtze River began to have strong winds and heavy rains. In the next ten days, there were two consecutive rains, one for five days and one for four days (until the fifth day of July). The rain stopped for a day - it is estimated that Fengyan happened to be passing through Wuxue to Chengzi Town.After God "rested" for a day, it continued to blow and rain. The wind was much less windy, but the rain was still quite heavy, and it kept falling.

Due to the violent storm, Li Zhongshan stopped the fleet on the water of the Yangtze River near Wuxue under Liu Guoxuan's suggestion, and did not continue westward.At the same time, he got the good news that "Wu Sangui was ill by some kind of anger" and "Wu Sangui couldn't move in Jiujiang".

Li Zhongshan counted, this year is the third year of the Republic of China, and the Kangxi side is the 16th year of Kangxi. Converted to the Western Christmas calendar, it is the birthday of Brother Jesus in 1677. It seems that Wu Sangui is about to go down to Emperor Chongzhen Reported to work.

Now that Wu Sangui was almost here, it was really possible that he would lie flat on the spot in Jiujiang after being provoked by someone, and would not be able to get sick.

Then Li Zhongshan, together with Zhou Chang, Yao Qisheng, Li Zhongzheng, Liu Guoxuan and others, changed the plan slightly and divided the troops into two groups. The first route was Liu Guoxuan leading the main force of the navy and adding a town , not Mofan Town) Master Lu continued to push westward a little while the east wind was not over, at least to take down Tianjia Town and Banbi Mountain, which are the key points across the river, and then block the Yangtze River with pontoon bridges and iron cables up.Then build a navy camp in Tianjia Town and Fuchi Town in the southeast of Banbi Mountain to repair ships damaged in typhoons, battles and voyages.

The second route was led by Li Zhongshan himself. A total of eight towns' land divisions first crossed the river with one part, took down Chengzi Town in Jiangxi, and then built a pontoon bridge on the Yangtze River. After that, the army crossed the river and entered Jiujiang Prefecture, Jiangxi Province. In the territory, depending on the situation, decide whether to go to Jiujiang to send Wu Sangui on the road, or go to Nanchang to rescue Li Fuchen first, and then go north to Jiujiang together to send Wu Sangui to see Chongzhen.

After several days of hard work, the two pontoon bridges were finally erected on the broad Yangtze River.

Under the torrential rain, two teams with invisible ends were quickly passing the two pontoon bridges.Every soldier was wearing a bamboo hat and a coir raincoat, with a long spear on his shoulder and a musket wrapped in an oilcloth, walking quickly with his head buried.Occasionally a bolt of lightning strikes from the dark sky, and there is always a bright red flag illuminated by the flash.

Li Zhongshan was riding on a horse, and all around him were young staff officers who had studied in the staff class of the Jiangwu Hall, as well as Zhou Chang and Yao Qisheng who joined the army, and Li Zhongshan's personal guard cavalry regiment led by Li Zhongzheng. The flintlock gun wrapped in oilcloth, immediately in the rain, stood on the embankment on the south bank of the Yangtze River, watching the surging Yangtze River, rolling eastward.

The rain hit Li Zhongshan's face, almost making him unable to open his eyes. Amidst the sound of rain and wind, he could only hear him muttering to himself.

"If this Wu Sangui just dies like this, everything will be fine. I'm afraid that this old boy won't go down to see Chongzhen quickly, and wants to struggle again. But if he still wants to struggle, where will he make moves?"

Zhou Chang and Yao Qisheng did not know when they had joined Li Zhongshan's side. They seemed to have heard him talking to himself, and they were also thinking about the same problem, and had some ideas.

Zhou Chang said: "General, I also feel that Wu Sangui is probably pretending to be dead again! He has already pretended to be dead twice. We have to guard against it. I always feel that Wu Sangui is still holding back what's wrong! After all, his water Although the division is gone, he still has at least 30 Lu divisions! Among them, there are at least 25 Lu divisions in Jiangxi and Hunan. They are definitely capable of fighting!"

Li Zhongshan nodded slightly, he also felt that Wu Sangui might be holding back his big move!

Yao Qisheng said: "General, I feel that the half-dead Wu Sangui in Jiujiang City is very likely to be a fake. If the official is Wu Sangui, after confirming that the water battle cannot be won, the Yangtze River waterway will soon be owned by the enemy, and the main force of the Zhou army will not be able to be all." In the case of returning to Wuchang, I will lead my own army to deal with the Ming army in Jiangxi. At the same time, let Wu Yingxiong and Wu Shifan return to Xiangyang to sit in the town first, and mobilize troops to strengthen the defense of Jiangxia, Hanyang, and Hankou to prevent us from going west to recover Hubei.

In this way, even if he is defeated in Jiangxi, Wu Zhou can still control Huguang, Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, Shaanxi, Gansu and Henan. "

Li Zhongshan wiped the rain from his face, "Peigong, Xizhi, where do you two think Wu Sangui will fight us?"

Zhou Chang thought for a while and said, "Nanchang is most likely. He has surrounded Nanchang for so long, isn't it just to besiege the city and fight for aid?"

Yao Qisheng said: "If Wu Sangui doesn't fight us in Nanchang, he will lead us to the territory of Yuanzhou Prefecture to attack our ambush. Even if the battle is unfavorable, we can still retreat to Hunan."

"Then how should we deal with it?" Li Zhongshan continued to ask.

Zhou Changdao: "First of all, if we want to take down Jiujiang Mansion or not, our control over the Yangtze River is a bit weak. If we don't do well on the Yangtze River in Hubei, I'm afraid we have to return to Anqing."

He paused, "Secondly, we still have to break the siege of Nanchang and rescue the old prince's army from Nanchang city. After joining forces with the old prince, our strength will be much stronger. The next step is to march to Hunan, If we still march towards Wuchang Mansion, the initiative will be in our hands."

Li Zhongshan thought about it again, "That is to say. The key is to attack Jiujiang and rescue Nanchang! Our strength seems a bit insufficient, right?"

"It's really not enough," Zhou Chang said with a smile, "our more than [-] people are enough to conquer Jiujiang or fight Wu Sangui around Nanchang. However, if we want to do these two things at the same time, the number of troops is still small. a little."

Yao Qisheng added: "If we solve Jiujiang first, and then solve the siege of Nanchang, I'm afraid that the old prince will be surrounded and run out of food!

If we don't care about Jiujiang and go directly to Nanchang, we might be flanked by Wu Zhoujun from the outskirts of Nanchang and Wu Zhoujun from Jiujiang! "

Li Zhongshan said with a smile: "It seems that we have to send someone to Mubu Mountain to find Li Zicheng and Wu Sangui who surrounded Jiujiang!"

While talking, he looked back at his good brother Li Zhongzheng, and said with a smile: "Brother Zhongzheng, you should work hard and go to Mubu Mountain!"

east!Xiangdong. Go catch Wu Sangui!
In the night, the troops of the brigade and brigade were moving forward along several mountain roads from Mubu Mountain at the junction of Hunan, Hubei, and Jiangxi provinces.There was a sound of people shouting and neighing.This army from the "anti-Wu base area" in Mubu Mountain was of course led by the old Chuang Wang Li Zicheng, who was aliased as Li Fengtian, and was entrenched in the Zhongwangfu Army in Mubu Mountain.Because Wu Sangui's army recruited many Hubei local tyrants and evil gentry who lost their land because of Li Zicheng's faithful implementation of the "Tianchao Farm System", and let them serve as the Home Returning Corps, the incidents occurred in Wuchang, Hanyang, Anlu, Dehua, and Huangzhou in Hubei. Waiting for the war between Wu Zhou's army and Zhongwang's army in the five mansions, it actually has some meaning of "land life war"!

Since it is a "Desperate Land War", there are many people participating in it!This is no longer a war between two warlord groups, or two or feudal lords, or two feudal dynasties, but a war between the Wu and Zhou feudal dynasties, the local tyrants and evil gentry in eastern Hubei, and the working people in the five prefectures of eastern Hubei!Moreover, the "Tianchao Tianmu System" implemented by Li Zicheng's group in the five prefectures of eastern Hubei was endorsed by the "Republic of Ming Dynasty".

The "Republic of Ming Dynasty" is not some rogue bandit, but the orthodoxy of the world that has inherited the "Imperial Ming Dynasty" legal system!

Although the working people in eastern Hubei didn't think that "Republic of Ming Dynasty" was so orthodox, but when the big guys got the land allocated in the name of "Republic of Ming Dynasty" and thought about it carefully, they all felt that "Republic of Daming" was too orthodox up!
Since it is the orthodox distribution of land in the world, it is the land they legally own, justifiably and confidently!Those local tyrants and evil gentry who want to go back are rebels!
So defending the "Republic of Ming Dynasty" is to defend their own land and I heard that this Republic of Ming Dynasty is quite rich, and when the defense is completed, the big guys will be given a military salary and rewards!Therefore, the determination of the working people in the five prefectures of Eastern Hubei to defend the "Republic" is firm!

Moreover, because Wu Sangui was eager to enter Jiangxi eastward, he did not promptly clear up the Zhongwangfu army who had fled into Mubu Mountain, and even did not send troops to capture Xianning County on the plain at the foot of Mubu Mountain, so that Li Zicheng and Zhongwangfu gained valuable Taking a breather, it quickly gained a firm foothold in Mubu Mountain and grew stronger.

And when the news that Wu Sangui's "Million Army" suffered successive defeats in Xiaogushan, Balijiang, Xiaochikou, Chengzi Town, and Wuxue Town, and even Wu Sangui himself was trapped in Jiujiangfu City reached Mubu Mountain, That is really full of boiling water!The King Zhong's troops squinting in the valleys and valleys were all overjoyed. This is a good bet!When Wu Sangui was about to die, they turned out to be heroes of the Republic. After becoming heroes, why don't they reward them with a few dozen acres of land?
So Li Zicheng's Zhongwangfu army doubled in size!A lot of honest farmers who were still working as tenants for the gentry of Wu Sangui's Home Returning Corps threw down their hoes and went up the mountain to vote for Li Chuang.

For a while, it was difficult to see young and middle-aged farmers in the countryside around Wuchang Fucheng!

But Li Zicheng became even more aggressive. He met Li Zhongzheng at Jiugong Mountain, and learned from Li Zhongzheng that Wu Sangui, who had lost the "Battle of Xiaogushan" and lost the main force of the navy, had been trapped in Jiujiang Fucheng. , and it is very likely that I will not be able to afford it. After being unable to move, I am really happy.Without even talking about money with Li Zhongzheng, a mobilization order was issued immediately, and a total of 5 people were marched to the east of Mubu.

Li Zicheng himself rode on a horse, marching forward with the soldiers under Sima Si who marched in Zhongwangfu and Li Zhongzheng who came from afar.This "old man" of Wu Sangui is now an old man over seventy years old, and he can still be so hale and hearty. In addition to tasting the sweetness of power again, he has a wave of vitality in his whole body, because there is still a great enemy of subjugation, There are still so many old brothers who have been killed and have not reported to Wu Sangui!
And this time, the opportunity for revenge has finally come!Although the road was full of dust and dust, it couldn't hide the high spirits on his old man's face.Around his Chinese column, there were battalions of marching infantry, as well as carriages and mule carts dragging six-jin bronze cannons.Li Zicheng has done some construction in Mubu Mountain these years, repaired the mountain road, erected bridges, the rain has stopped these few days, the road has dried up, the weather is cool at night, and the moon is still high in the sky. It's a good thing for marching and fighting.In addition to the sound of marching in the night, you can occasionally hear the voices of the generals of the Zhongwang Mansion clenching their molars and mobilizing: "Um, this is going to Jiujiang to kill Wu Sangui, the grandson of Wu Sangui! Big guys, work hard, don't worry!" Tell this old boy to slip away!"

"Yes! We must work harder, otherwise, even if this old boy Wu Sangui didn't slip away, he might have wiped out the general's troops!"

"Don't let the general kill Wu Sangui! That's our blood feud. We have to kill Wu!"

Listen to this accent, listen to the hatred in this tone, you will know that this "second generation" is supposed to be the wealth of the ancestors, but this old boy has been wiped out. I was startled, that would be a lifetime where I would never have a good day!
The high morale echoed in the local Hubei accent in the queue.In addition to the few old battalion soldiers and the second and third generations of Chuang, the troops of the Zhongwang Mansion are mostly young and strong from the five prefectures in eastern Hubei.Some of them have long been soldiers of the Prince Zhong's Mansion, and already have their own farms and countrymen's status, and more of them are former farmers who hope to get the land and countrymen's status after the victory.

It has to be said that the "Roman-style" national military system of the Republic of China is really expensive. But as long as the status of the Chinese has a high gold content and there is enough land to be distributed, then this Chinese army , there is no opponent they cannot beat!

If Wu Yingxiong, who was "abandoned by his father" in Jiujiang City, saw this large army rolling forward in the dark night, and saw the gray-haired Li Zicheng, who only had revenge for the rest of his life, he would be so frightened that he immediately surrendered to Li Zhongshan
It's a pity that Wu Yingxiong didn't know that his good son-in-law Li Zhongshan sent people to Mubu Mountain to "shake" Li Zicheng, the old devil, to attack Jiujiang Fucheng, and at the same time, he was waiting for Li Zicheng to arrive in the Ming army camp on the outskirts of Jiujiang City. Li Zhongshan didn't know that Wu Sangui would give Wu Yingxiong a hard time at this critical moment. He certainly didn't expect that Wu Sangui's situation would be so big. If he couldn't win in Jiangxi, a golden cicada came out of his shell, leaving behind a son and more than [-] Wu Zhoujun In the face of thunder, he led [-] Wu and Zhou elites to Hunan to join forces with Wu Guogui, and was ready to attack Li Zhongshan's "old Chinese district" Guangdong!

However, Li Zhongshan did not guess wrong. The emperor of the Zhou Dynasty was indeed running out of time. He obviously had a heart problem. On the way to Hunan, he had a small seizure, although it did not kill him. , but it made him unable to ride a horse, so he could only sit on a sedan chair and be carried into Hengyang City.

Wu Guogui's palace was originally located in Changsha, but in order to carry out the mission Wu Sangui sent him to raid Guangdong, the palace had been moved to Hengyang two or three months ago.Moreover, he still concentrated [-] troops in Hengyang. If Wu Sangui brought [-] troops from Jiangxi, as of the tenth day of July, Wu Sangui and Wu Guogui had as many as [-] troops that could be used to attack Guangdong!
In addition, Sun Jiqing also recruited 14 mobs, and the total strength of Wu Zhou's army to attack Guangdong has reached [-]!

This means that the Wu and Zhou dynasties also implemented the government military system, and also acquired Shaanxi, Gansu and Huguang with relatively large populations. Otherwise, it would not be so easy to gather so many troops.

However, Guangdong, an "old area of ​​Chinese people", also has a strong mobilization ability, so Wu Sangui has been worried all the way that Guangdong will not be easy to fight.When he arrived in Hengyang, he lived in Wu Guogui's palace. After resting for the night, he immediately called Wu Guogui, Li Benshen, Wu Shijuan, Wu Shifan, Liu Xuanchu, Wang Shirong and other generals and advisers to his soft couch, and began to discuss with them how to attack Guangdong. something happened.

"Father, don't worry about your old man. Now the troops from Guangdong have been transferred to Wuzhou. Jia Hanfu, who could have acted as a buffer, was transferred back to Guangzhou by Xiao Tu. The sixth son of his family is leading Hunan soldiers to guard Shaozhou. As long as we reward He is a vassal in Zhili Prefecture, and he will definitely defect!"

While Wu Guogui was reporting to Wu Sangui, he secretly looked at his adoptive father who looked old, with purple lips and pale face.

"Then, is it very sure that we can win the Guangfu?" Wu Sangui asked Wu Guogui in a spirited manner, but before he could answer from his adopted son, he said in a more emphatic tone, "Guogui, in the first battle of Guangdong, I can overwhelm Daming. This is the key battle to unify the world in the future. If it fails, then Ming Dynasty will be like Cao Wei in "Three Kingdoms". No, it should be Han Xiandi who occupied Cao Wei's territory! Do you understand?"

"Father," Wu Guogui patted his chest quickly and said after hearing what the old man said, "Don't worry, if Xiaotu dares to lead troops to resist my Great Zhou Tianbing, my son will not recognize her as a daughter!"

Wu Sangui nodded, "Guogui, I brought 4 people from Jiangxi for my father. Except for [-] Zhen's personal soldiers, the others are handed over to you. You must fight hard!"

"Yes, Father!"

(End of this chapter)