Autumn of the 17th year of Chongzhen

Chapter 298 The Fall of Fan City
Yang Yanchang did follow Gao Yigong's order, and galloped all the way to report the situation in Xiangyang to Wang Yan. Although Gao Yigong didn't say that he wanted to send reinforcements, Yang Yanchang knew it well, and Gao Yigong didn't know what to do. up.

Xiangyang is indeed in danger, but Gao Yigong and Wang Yan agreed to guard for two months, and now less than a month has passed, he lost Fancheng, and he doesn't know if he can guard Xiangyang for another month.

After losing Fancheng, Gao Yigong was no longer full of confidence, but he didn't know what the situation in Wuchang was like. He wanted to ask for reinforcements, but he was afraid that Wang Yan would not be able to draw out troops and destroy Wang Yan's overall situation. Hiko judges for himself.

At this time, Yang Yanchang heard Wang Yan's question, and he clasped his fists and replied sadly: "I would like to report to the Duke that the situation in Xiangyang is indeed not good. Wu Sangui used the plan of a fire boat to set down a hundred fire boats from the upper reaches of the Han River. Two pontoon bridges were burned down, cutting off the connection between the two cities of Xiangfan. Then the Qing soldiers drove more than [-] people to fill up the moat and attack the city with their backs. Chengqi, in the end, Fancheng was not defended, [-] loyal soldiers, only Lieutenant General Liu and the last general waited for hundreds of people, fled back to the south bank by small boat~"

"Siege the city with the soil on its back?" Wang Yan narrowed his eyes, flashing with hatred. He heard that the Qing army took down Fancheng in a month, and almost wiped out the defenders of Fancheng. The power is astonishing. It turned out that it was driving the people to attack the city and disrupting the morale of the Ming army.

Decades ago in the Qing Dynasty, they lived a life of raw hair and blood in the mountains. They were like savages, and their temperament was like wild animals. They had no humanity at all. Wherever they went, they would bring serious disasters.

Their occupation of Liaodong is a disaster for the Han people in Liaodong. Every time they enter the pass, they will leave behind a heavy sin.

In their eyes, the Han people are the targets of being plundered and slaughtered. They use the lives of the Han people to fill the moat and attack the city without any sense of guilt. They are just so barbaric and beastly.

Although the battles among the Han people were also bloody, when the soldiers faced the people in the city and watched them cry and pile up baskets of soil under the city, they could not completely calm down. This is civilization and barbarism difference between.

"Yes~" Yang Yanchang said with anger in his eyes: "The Qing soldiers are simply inferior to beasts. Azig's men and horses ravaged Northwest Hubei, not only robbing food, but also arresting people. No matter men, women, old or young, they forced Participating in the siege, let them fill up the moat, and then carry baskets to pile soil under the city wall. The people did not retreat, and were killed by the Qing soldiers immediately, and we shot and killed the pile of soil below the city. It is extremely miserable. We His heart is not as ruthless and inhuman as the Qing soldiers, and in the end they piled up a dirt slope that can directly ascend the city. The Qing soldiers took the opportunity to attack Fancheng. Seeing that the city was broken, Deputy General Liu ordered the city to be burned, and was defeated back to the south bank. .”

Yang Yanchang's short words described the course of the Battle of Fancheng. Although he didn't say it very carefully, or he avoided something on purpose, Wang Yan knew that the Battle of Fancheng must have been particularly tragic, and E The people in the northwest are probably even more miserable than Wang Yan imagined.

After this battle, the vast land in Northwest Hubei will be empty, and it will become a barren land without the crowing of chickens for thousands of miles.

"Then how is the situation in Xiangyang now?" Wang Yan asked with a serious face.

"Wu Sangui and Azige have already built a pontoon bridge upstream, and are preparing to cross the river to attack Xiangyang. With the brutality of the Qing soldiers, I am afraid it is the previous method of attack. They have harmed the people on the north bank of the Han River, and the people on the south bank may not be able to escape. This calamity."

Wang Yan heard Yang Yanchang's meaning, the Qing soldiers would not spare the lives of the people at all, he would force the people to fill the city again, and use the corpses of the people to pile up a road leading to the head of Xiangyang City for them.

Although Xiangyang City is three feet high, it does not need soil, and the corpses of tens of thousands of people can be piled higher than the city wall.

This is how the Mongols and the Yuan defeated the Song Dynasty. It was the same way in the Battle of Changzhou that year, and it was extremely shameless.

Wang Yan couldn't help but lined up on Zhuo's case angrily. He stood up and muttered cursing: "Human face and animal heart~human face and animal heart~"

Seeing this, Yang Yanchang and Liu Fangliang at the side felt equally heavy.

At this time, Wang Yan was not only worried about the people of the prefectures in Northwest Hubei, but also the compassion of the scholar-bureaucrats, which really made him hate the dirty way of the Qing soldiers taking the people to attack the city, but he had experienced such wars, and he was no longer an ordinary literati. He is a decisive commander, so when he has compassion for the people, he also approves of Liu Tichun's practice of shooting and killing the people filling the city.

This is war, and it is so cruel.

What Wang Yan is most worried about now is Xiangyang City, whether he can keep it for another month as agreed.

At this time, Wang Yan couldn't help weighing in his mind. There were 10 Qing soldiers attacking Xiangyang, and among them Wu Sangui and Azige were extremely difficult to deal with. Without comparable troops, Wang Yan was really not sure how to fight Bei Lu Qingbing fought.

Now there are nearly 16 troops assembled around Wuchang, but more than 5 Qihuang rebels can basically only wave their flags and shout their strength. That is, the 6 horses in Wang Yan's hands.

If there are fewer troops to rescue Xiangyang at this time, it is to deliver food to Azig, and if he wants to compete with the Qing soldiers on the North Road, then he will have to divide at least [-] troops, but in this way, Wuchang will not be able to fight.

Jiangnan and Jiangxi are both in the hands of the Qing army, and Wuchang is very important. If Wuchang is occupied, Wang Yan only needs to send 2 troops to prevent the Qing soldiers from entering the interior of Huguang.

If Wuchang is not captured, in case the Qing soldiers send troops into Chu, Wuchang can be used as the foundation to copy Wang Yan's back route.

Wang Yan walked back and forth in the commander's tent, thinking about it non-stop, and in the end he decided to bet against the Qing soldiers to see who would conquer the city first.

"Zizhan, you rush back to Xiangyang immediately and tell Bizheng to hold on for another 20 days no matter what. When the governor breaks Wuchang, he will immediately send troops to the north to aid."

Yang Yanchang heard that although Wang Yan only mentioned the deadline for ten days, he knew that perhaps because of these ten days, nearly ten thousand Ming troops might die under the Wuchang city.

"The last general takes orders!" Yang Yanchang had been traveling all the way, he did not want to rest, but he didn't dare to neglect at this moment, he quickly saluted and responded. "I'm going back to Xiangyang now."

After Yang Yanchang finished speaking, he took his leave and left, and Wang Yan then asked the guards to call the officials and said: "You wait and send a message to Xunyang, Chengtian and other places, and immediately bring the people outside the city into the city to strictly prevent the Qing army from looting. "

　Thanks to Yuedongwoxin and Shuzhan Zhishang for their rewards, and pushed the book "Yaoyuezhu"

　　
　
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