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Chapter 162 Going to Xiangyang!Conquer the country!
Xiangyang City is not only tall, has complete defense facilities, but also has no shortage of troops.

Unfortunately, the morale of the camp soldiers was too low, and the rebels used grenades to clear the way too violently.

Not to mention the battles in Yuecheng and Wengcheng.

The west city gate was originally guarded by a general and more than 200 battalions of soldiers.

When they were frightened and panicked by the violent explosions and earthquakes outside the city gate, the guards of Sanbai Shengjie Camp who had sneaked into the city rushed out.

A wave of dozens of grenades were thrown over, and the explosion immediately caused the soldiers in the camp to fall on their backs.

The remaining battalions collapsed immediately.

He simply couldn't bring himself to resist. Being able to scream "enemy attack" before running away was already worthy of his monthly salary of less than one tael.

Huang Jie, the new commander of Shengjie Battalion, easily captured the city gate with 300 people.

The whole process went incredibly smoothly.

On the other side, He Lianyue and others' attack also went smoothly.

Seeing that the Ming troops on the Yue City Wall were all retreating towards the main city wall, Helianyue commanded the rebels to chase after them, trying to take advantage of the rout to attack the main city wall.

At the same time, he directed the remaining rebels to descend from the city wall to the urn city and open the urn city gate.

Because the moon city wall is far less wide than the main city wall, even if both sides launch an attack at the same time, three or four hundred people are enough.

The remaining people attacked Wengcheng.

Just when they were considering whether to ask Liu Sheng to bring another explosive pack to blow up the main city gate, the city gate was opened from the inside by the guards of Shengjie Camp.

Xiangyang City was captured by the Yibu rebels!

Seeing that nothing could be done, Zhang Kejian and Liu Guangxian retreated to the city with their servants, hoping to gather other battalion and rural soldiers to continue resisting in the city.

Xiangyang is a Fucheng, a big city, and there is Prince Xiang's Mansion. It does not mean that it will be completely lost if the city wall is lost.

The prefect Wang Cheng had previously underestimated the rebels, but now he saw that the famous fortified city in the world was easily breached by the rebels, but he couldn't accept it.

He also saw that the camp troops were not available and the country soldiers were not effective in fighting, and he felt that there was no hope of defending the city.

So he ran to the north city gate tower and threw himself into the Han River to die!

General Qian, who was responsible for guarding the north city wall, was trying to appease the soldiers here and was preparing to take people to the west city wall to support them.

He was so angry that he wanted to vomit blood when he saw Wang Chengzeng running towards him, facing north, crying and talking a lot, and then drowned himself in front of all the soldiers in the camp.

as predicted.

The hundreds of battalion soldiers who had been barely pacified saw that the prefects had all drowned and died, so they started making noises one after another and refused to listen to the command of General Qian. They dispersed and fled each other.

After Zhang Kejian and Liu Guangxian retreated into the city with hundreds of servants, they originally wanted to gather camp and rural soldiers.

But I found that some soldiers were robbing people along the street!

Because the rural soldiers were locals, even from the city of Xiangyang, they fought with the camp soldiers because of this.

Upon seeing this situation, Zhang Kejian knew that the camp soldiers had no hope and could only help the rural soldiers suppress the camp soldiers.

But this allowed more battalion soldiers to join in the confrontation with the country soldiers!
Although the camp soldiers lacked organization and had low morale, they were well equipped.

In various small-scale battles, he actually fought neck to neck with the local soldiers and servants of Zhang Kejian and others.

After Liu Sheng led the main force of the rebel army into Xiangyang from the west city gate, what he saw was a terrible scene of barracks and rural soldiers fighting in various places, and local ruffians taking advantage of the fire to loot.

With insufficient troops at hand, Liu Sheng did not immediately send troops to suppress it as he had done in the past.

Instead, they first divided their forces to occupy the four city gates, two water gates, and the governor's office in the city.

Through the intelligence collected previously, Liu Sheng knew that Yang Sichang set up his headquarters in Xiangyang after receiving the task of "supervising the division against the bandits".

The 10,000+ Ming troops needed to suppress the bandits, such as grain, grass, military pay, armor and other equipment, needed to be transported here from all over the country, and then distributed to various soldiers and horses through the governor's camp, as a means of controlling various soldiers and horses.

Therefore, the governor must have hoarded a lot of money, food and soldiers.

After Liu Sheng learned this information, he realized that the Governor's Palace was a more important target than Prince Xiang's Mansion.

Prince Xiang's Mansion probably has a lot of money and food, and besides money and food, the Governor's Palace probably also has a lot of well-made armors and weapons!
It was reported that the spies of the Feng camp and the guards of the Shengjie camp who had sneaked into the city in advance led the way. Liu Sheng quickly arrived outside the camp with the guards and a standing army battalion.

At this time, Zhang Kejian and Liu Guangxian led more than 100 and hundreds of rural soldiers into the camp for a short while, preparing to rely on the abundant supplies in the camp to stand and wait for help.

It's a pity that they had just started to arrange their defensive tasks when three hundred guards from the Huben Battalion attacked.

Even Liu Sheng personally participated in the attack.

He was wearing a bulletproof vest and was surrounded by many personal guards. He was armed with two revolvers and was dedicated to hunting down those who resisted in the Ming army.

In addition to the heavy-armored sword players, there are also a hundred heavy-armored fusiliers among the guards of Huben Camp.

Carrying thirty more squatting tiger cannons!

With such firepower, the already low morale of the Ming army could not stop it, and they were defeated in almost a single encounter.

During the battle, General Liu Guangxian was killed by a flintlock gun.

Zhang Kejian, who joined the army, committed suicide after being surrounded.

After capturing the governor's headquarters, Liu Sheng sent troops to capture the government offices and county offices, and then he had the idea to divide his troops to suppress the chaos in the city...

Xiangyang city was large, and the rebel army brought by Liu Sheng was only more than 4000.

So when it got dark, the chaos in the city was barely calmed down.

During this process, Zhu Changfa, King of Guiyang of Xiangfan lineage, and dozens of Zhu Ming clan members tried to escape from the east city gate, but were intercepted by the rebels. Several were killed on the spot, and the rest surrendered and were captured.

At eight o'clock in the evening.

Li Guofan, Liu Yushu, and Duan Lei, the military and political officers of the Third Battalion of the Guards, counted the money, grain, soldiers, armor and other materials confiscated from the governor's office, government office, and county office.

As Liu Sheng expected, the governor's office had indeed hoarded a lot of money, food, and soldiers.There are 32 shi of grain and 75 taels of silver.

The food and grass here include both grain, fodder and beans for horses and mules, which is actually not much.

As for silver, 75 taels is pretty good.

As the governor of the five provinces, Yang Sichang could allocate money and grain from the five provinces to fight against the invaders, but he did not bring all the money and grain earned by the five provinces in a year, but a part every month.

At the same time, some were shipped out and distributed to various Ming armies.

Therefore, Liu Sheng was quite satisfied with the amount of money and grain paid.

What surprised Liu Sheng was the soldiers and armors hoarded by Xingyuan.

Total: five thousand sets of cloth armor!Three hundred sets of Zhajia and chain mail each!

Three thousand swords, three thousand shields, two thousand bows, and fifty thousand arrows!

There are also five thousand spears and spears each, and miscellaneous cold weapons such as wolf mills and boring palladium ranging from one thousand to three thousand.

There are also a thousand blunderbuss!

Why add the "Western" prefix?

Because it represents a thousand gunshots purchased by the Ming Dynasty from Westerners, the quality is more guaranteed than those made by the Ming Dynasty itself, and they can basically be used.

In addition, there are more than 300 squatting tiger cannons of various calibers, and thousands of Ming Dynasty self-made firearms such as three-eyed blunderbuss.

There are also two hundred stones of sulfur, three hundred stones of charcoal, and fifteen hundred stones of saltpeter!

The finished granular black powder also costs three hundred stones!

Compared with the seizure of the governor's office, the supplies confiscated by the rebels from the warehouses of the government and county offices were much smaller.

The government warehouses have a total of 5000 shi of grain and [-] taels of silver.

The county government warehouse contains 3000 shi of grain and nearly [-] taels of silver.

As for the armor, I don't know whether it is because the governor's headquarters is here or for other reasons. There are only a few dozen pairs of armor in the prefecture and county warehouses, which can basically be ignored.

After listening to the report of the three people, Liu Sheng said: "Recruit some young and strong people to come over, and move the money, grain, soldiers and other materials from the county warehouse to the supervisor's camp overnight for unified supervision.

Remember, young and strong people must be recruited from all the neighborhoods in the city, and each person will be given one tael of silver after the work is done. "

After hearing this, the three military and political officers' eyes lit up.

Liu Yushu, the military and political officer of Shengjie Battalion, said: "The commander-in-chief wants to use this move to establish the prestige of our rebel army in Xiangyang City as soon as possible?"

Liu Sheng smiled and said: "It can be said to establish prestige, or it can be said to bribe the people, that's what it means anyway. Time is urgent, we can only adopt this utilitarian method."

"Students understand."

After the three people retreated, Huang Jie, the commander of Shengjie Battalion, came to report on the mission again.

During the day, after taking over the task of guarding the west city gate with his three hundred soldiers from Jieying, he was ordered to monitor Prince Xiang's Mansion.

After saluting Liu Sheng, Huang Jie said: "Prince Xiang's Mansion seems to have a lot of guards, and the defense is okay. If we attack tonight, I'm afraid it will be difficult to control the situation quickly."

If you can't control the situation, what you fear most is someone setting fire to you.

The money and food in Prince Xiang's Mansion are already in the pockets of the rebels. It would be a huge loss if some of them were burned by someone.

So Liu Sheng said: "Then we can wait until tomorrow to take Prince Xiang's Mansion. It would be best to make Prince Xiang surrender honestly."

Liu Sheng was not from the late Ming Dynasty, and his men were not newly gathered hungry people. He did not need to kill the vassal king Zhu Ming to vent the resentment of the rebel army.

Of course, if he met such a notorious vassal king, he would definitely kill him with a knife.

However, the Xiangwang lineage has always had little sense of existence.

The same is true for this generation of King Xiang. He has not heard of how he harmed the people, nor of what good deeds he has done.

How to deal with it depends on Zhu Yiming's performance tomorrow.

After Huang Jie left, Liu Sheng remembered that Li Dingguo entered Xiangyang City disguised as an official or military messenger, so he sent someone to call Shen Wandeng over.

After Shen Wandeng saluted, he asked, "What are your orders, Commander-in-Chief?"

Liu Sheng said, "Tomorrow you will still have to work hard with the Xiaoqi camp guards, and continue to pay attention to the situation on the official road from the western suburbs to Yinji.

You can set up an ambush in advance - if you encounter an official or military messenger, try to capture him alive.Remember? "

Shen Wandeng was quite puzzled when he heard this, but seeing that Liu Sheng had no intention of explaining, he clasped his fists and responded: "Please bear this in mind, general!"

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"drive!"

Zhang Dingguo, with sixteen personal followers, galloped on horseback.

In the morning, less than an hour after they separated from the army led by Zhang Xianzhong, they ran fifty miles.

After passing Yinji, Zhang Dingguo slowed down his horse slightly and told his followers: "We will arrive at Xiangyang City soon. Please cheer up, everyone. Remember what we said to each other before, and don't expose it." Telltale!"

The followers nodded in agreement.

Zhang Dingguo saw that the faces of his followers were tense, and he smiled again and said: "There is no need to be nervous. We have tokens and documents, and we are wearing official and military uniforms, so we can just pretend that we are really military officials."

After hearing this, all the relatives laughed and relaxed a little.

Zhang Dingguo then rode his horse and continued on his way.

When passing a forest, he had an inexplicable bad feeling. Just as he was about to rein in his horse, he saw a snagging rope suddenly pulled up in front of the horse!

　Second more.

　　Good night~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)