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Chapter 243 The troops march into Yunyang, where the Shengjie Guard comes into play!

Xu Yong led thousands of soldiers and horses to flee to Yunyang Mansion after the defeat of Xinye.

He was just an affiliated general of Zuo Liangyu's tribe, not a direct line. The governor of Yunyang happened to lack soldiers and horses, so he wrote a letter to keep him in Yunyang.

Speaking of which, Xu Yong can be regarded as a military commander who climbed up step by step from the bottom.

He lost his father when he was young and lived in Yulin with his mother and sister. He was adopted as an adopted son by a general named Xu, so he changed his surname to Xu.

Unexpectedly, after General Xu retired, the old tree sprouted new shoots, and a concubine actually gave birth to a son for him. Xu Yong was no longer taken seriously.

After Xu Zongbing died, Xu Yong could not tolerate Xu's family, so he went to Liaodong to join the army in the last years of Wanli, and changed his surname to Xu because of another person's misunderstanding.

During the Chongzhen period, Xu Yong was promoted to guerrilla due to his merits and was affiliated with Zuo Liangyu's tribe.

This man was okay at fighting, but like many generals in the late Ming Dynasty, he valued personal interests more than national justice.

He fled to Yunyang after the Battle of Xinye because he had guessed that the Wei army would take advantage of the situation and went to Xiangyang, and he did not want to confront the Wei army again.Who would have thought that only three months had passed and we would have to face the Yi army's attack again.

If it was what he thought, he should have withdrawn his troops to other places, such as Huguang or Jiangnan, before the Wei army attacked.

But he has not yet reached Zuo Liangyu's level of garrisoning troops wherever he wants, regardless of the court's orders.

Seeing Wang Yongzuo's repeated inquiries, he said: "The Wei thieves have many and sharp guns, and the soldiers are well-trained and fight bravely. Although Yun County occupies a favorable geographical location, I am afraid it will be difficult to stop the Wei thieves."

Wang Yongzuo's smile disappeared after hearing this, and he frowned and said: "Now there are more than 1 battalions and thousands of rural soldiers in Yun County, and thousands of young men can be recruited to defend the city. Is there really no hope of defending it?"

Xu Yong said: "The Hongyi cannons are numerous, with a range of more than three miles, and they mostly use explosive bullets. They are so powerful that no flesh and blood can resist them.

If Yun County wants to hold on, it will have to acquire dozens of Hongyi cannons with similar ranges and add another [-] to [-] troops. "

Wang Yongzuo didn't expect Xu Yong to be more pessimistic than him, and he felt even more anxious for a while.

"General Li, what do you think?"

Li Wanqing hesitated and said: "Futai, this city is indeed difficult to defend. It is better to retain our troops and rely on the geographical advantage of the Yunyang Mountain area. After the main force of the Wei thieves has penetrated deep, we can harass their grain transport team."

Wang Yongzuo actually thought that this strategy was okay, but when he thought about Chongzhen's treatment of the governor who lost the land, he shook his head and said: "No, we shoulder the responsibility of defending the land, how can we abandon the strong city and not defend it?"

Hearing this, Li Wanqing stopped talking.

This conversation ends here.

The next day, when he learned that the Kuei tribe had sent an additional army to Junzhou, the pressure on Wang Yongzuo increased greatly, so he recruited the guerrilla Wang Guangen stationed in Yunxi and the guerrilla Li Maochun stationed in Zhushan to Yun County.

Both units have more than 3000 soldiers and horses, so Yun County has gathered nearly 5000 battalion soldiers and more than [-] rural soldiers.

At this time, in addition to the governor Wang Yongzuo, Yunyang also had two civil servants.One is the deputy envoy to the inspection and military preparation, Gao Dou Shu, and the other is Xu Qiyuan, the prefect of Yunyang.

The three civilian officials all have several years of experience in suppressing bandits. After several military strategies and discussions with several generals, they made the following troop deployment.

Xu Yong led more than 8000 battalions to garrison the tea shop (market town) south of the Han River. Wang Yongzuo led [-] soldiers to supervise them.

Wang Guangen led nearly [-] battalions and [-] rural soldiers to garrison the river islands of Lanjiayan, Lijia'ao, and Sunjiagou at the corner of the Han River. They were under the command of the high-ranking commander Dou Dou.

Xu Qiyuan and Wang Guangxing (Wang Guang'en's younger brother) led a thousand battalions and three thousand township soldiers to garrison the county seat of Yun County.

Li Maochun led more than 3000 battalions to garrison Yushan and Dafengcang - a peninsula extending into the river, which could form a three-sided pincer attack with Wang Guangen of Jiangzhou Island and Xu Yong's troops on the south bank of the river.

Li Wanqing's more than 4000 battalions set up camp outside the county town, and they could form a rivalry with the county town and Li Maochun's Yushan troops to support each other.

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Chongzhen 14th year, September [-]th.

Liu Sheng led the Guards Hu Ben Guard, Sheng Jie Guard, the [-]th Brigade of the Standing Army (under the Third Division, brigade commander Zhang Ao) and three militia regiments to Junzhou.

Together with the [-]th Brigade of the Standing Army (Brigadier Commander Shen Wandeng) and a militia regiment originally stationed here, the Wei tribe gathered nearly [-] troops in Junzhou!
Junzhou City was submerged under the Canglang River in later generations, but now it is on the bank of the Canglang River, more than 70 miles away from Yun County in a straight line, and the waterway is only a hundred miles away.

It is now the autumn harvest, and God has just rained several times, causing the river water to rise a lot, which is convenient for the Kuaibei army to sail.

The next day.

Liu Sheng took Shengjie Wei as the vanguard and took a dozen warships (captured from the Ming army) and hundreds of civilian ships to explore the route first.

Huang Jie, commander of the Shengjie Guard Brigade, once again had the opportunity to lead a semi-independent army. He was excited but also cautious at the same time.In order to avoid encountering an ambush or other accidents, the sentinels were sent out for more than ten miles.

As for sailing against the current of the Han River, it is not difficult for the Ebu, let alone a disadvantage.

When traveling against the current of a river, a big boat relies on sails, a small boat relies on oars and poles, or both.Only in places with strong currents would trackers be needed to help pull the boat.

Although there are mountains on both sides of the Han River from Junzhou to Yunxian, the flow is generally gentle.The water surface is also wide - half a mile in the narrowest place, and the river surface is more than a mile wide in most places.

Countercurrent also has some benefits for the navy.

First, the advance is relatively slow, making it easier to control the artillery to bombard the enemy.Secondly, if things go wrong, retreat quickly.

If they march along the current, just the opposite is true. Naval warships often have difficulty retreating, or even make no progress at all.

Huang Jie checked several army guns on the warship again and saw several sentry ships returning quickly.

Soon, Shengjiewei, who was in charge of the investigation, boarded his ship and reported the situation face to face.

"Brigade, the Ming army built gun towers on the upper reaches of Chenjiapo and Monkey Rock, and equipped them with at least ten general cannons or flanges!"

Huang Jie looked at the military map and asked, "Is that place easy to land in?"

"If we don't pull out the turrets, even if we can force a landing, there will probably be a lot of casualties."

Huang Jie looked at the map and started thinking after hearing this.

He knew very well why Shengjie Guard was assigned as the vanguard of this battle - Shengjie Guard was originally trained for mountainous operations and street fighting in the city. Yunyang Prefecture is full of mountainous areas, which is where Shengjie Guard is used!

So he quickly made a decision. "Order the [-]st Battalion of the [-]nd Regiment and the [-]st Battalion of the [-]rd Regiment to prepare to land near the Empress Temple in advance, and cooperate with the main force to raid the Ming Army artillery towers on the north and south sides respectively!"

"As ordered!"

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Chen Jiapo.

Li Wanqing's commander-in-chief Xiong Dachun was eating melon seeds and watched his brother Xiong Erchun scolding a few lazy soldiers outside.

The two brothers were refugees in Yunyang Prefecture, and they first followed Li Wanqing - Li Wanqing was still a peasant army at that time, and he had a very loud nickname, "Shooting the Sky".

The year before last, Li Wanqing surrendered to the Ming Dynasty, and they followed suit.

Needless to say, becoming an official soldier was more comfortable than being a peasant soldier. It was indeed a comfortable life for a year and a half.

Unexpectedly, last year, King Chuang, the Eight Great Kings, and Cao Cao successively broke through the encirclement and suppression by the army, and then Liu Wei appeared in Runing. He was so fierce that he occupied Runing, Nanyang, and Xiangyang successively in less than a year. Now it is even more so. To attack Yunyang Mansion.

Xiong Dachun was actually reluctant to be sent to guard this blockhouse this time.

According to the defeated soldiers who escaped from Nanyang, the rebels had extremely sharp guns and fierce fighting. Even Zuo Liangyu's servants were no match for them, let alone people like them.

The blockhouse he was guarding was actually a small walled city eighty paces long and sixty paces wide, built of earth and stone.

The wall is two feet and three feet high. Originally there were only four general cannons. When he came to garrison this time, three more French guns were added to the wall.

He has 300 people under his command, most of whom are "veterans" who have been in the army for more than one year, and there are only a few dozen recruits.

If the Eight Kings' soldiers invaded, he would not be afraid at all.But facing a thief he had never heard of, he felt really unsure.

"Second brother, don't be nagging them. It's fine if you punish them by missing a bowl of porridge at night. The sun is about to reach your head. You can lead a patrol and replace all the sentinels by the way."

"understood!"

Xiong Erchun responded and led dozens of people on patrol.

Not long after, Xiong Dachun heard faint shouts of killing coming from the east.He quickly threw away the melon seed shells in his hand and ran to the wall to watch.

Just then I saw a dozen people running towards this side in a hurry, shouting as they ran: "The thief is coming!"

Xiong Dachun searched nervously among the dozen people, but couldn't find Xiong Erchun, and he suddenly became anxious.

When these people rushed to the bottom of the village and hurried in, he got off the wall of the village and asked urgently: "Where is the second spring?"

Those who escaped shook their heads.

One of the captains said: "We were on the way to patrol when we were suddenly attacked by a group of people. These people were wearing colorful robes, with faces painted like ghosts, and they were very skilled. We were instantly defeated. I didn’t pay attention to the bear whistle.”

"Fuck your mother!"

Xiong Dachun was so angry that he kicked the captain down.

Before he could continue to vent his anger, he heard a sharp whistle, but the enemy was coming.

When Xiong Dachun returned to the wall of the village, he saw hundreds of enemies in colorful robes emerging from the woods to the east and north, but they did not approach rashly.

Only five people escorted one person and walked slowly and slowly.

Xiong Dachun took a closer look and saw that the person being held captive was his younger brother, Xiong Erchun.

"Brother, surrender!" Xiong Erchun shouted with a red face.

When Xiong Dachun heard the sound, he first looked behind him - when he saw his younger brother being captured, he was ready to surrender, but he was just worried about being beheaded by the people around him.

However, at this time, most of the people behind him were downcast and had no fighting spirit. Some even looked at him expectantly, as if they were eager for him to surrender.

He then felt relieved and shouted: "Open the village gate!"

By chance, Chen Jiapo's turret was captured effortlessly by Shengjie Guard.

The artillery tower stationed by Xu Yong's troops on the north bank was not so unlucky, but it was quickly defeated by Shengjie Guards and the navy's naval guns with several rounds of artillery fire...

Tea shop (market town).

Xu Yong arranged for a group of sentries near the gun tower to come back and report the news that the gun tower had fallen.

Wang Yongzuo, who was sitting here to supervise the battle, found it difficult to accept this.

"You didn't even hold on for a cup of tea and were captured by the bandit army? How is that possible!"

The captain of the watch post looked at Xu Yong next to him, but did not answer these words - although he did not get close to see, he could guess that most of the people in the artillery tower were fired by one or two rounds of artillery before they surrendered.

Xu Yong can definitely guess this.

But Xu Yong didn't say anything.

He is Xu Yong's soldier, so naturally he won't say it.

But Wang Yongzuo was not stupid either. He quickly thought of this possibility and said angrily: "They must have surrendered the thieves easily because they didn't know how to stand firm and wait for help!"

As he said this, Wang Yongzuo wanted to reprimand the general Xu Yong, but thinking about the current situation, he finally held back.

He took a deep breath, suppressed his anger, and said urgently: "The rebel army may have passed Nangou now. According to this, there is only more than ten miles of land. There are many places along the way that can be landed. I also ask Lieutenant General Xu to send cavalry immediately to take advantage of the enemy." Attack the troops before they land and gain a firm foothold!"

　First more.

　　Good night, the second update is gone, so I can only make it up tomorrow.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)