Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 268

Zheng Siwei trembled.

drop?
He wanted to surrender, but Li Guo and the others were willing to accept it.

But he killed Meng Changgeng to surrender to the Qing Dynasty. When Li Guo and others came from Badong before, Zheng Siwei fought several battles with Li Guo, which made Li Guo and the others ashamed. , now it seems that at that time I did everything I could.

Keep it, can't keep it, break through, can't break out.

drop, will not be accepted.

Zheng Siwei was in a desperate situation at this time.

In the city behind him, there were already shouts of killing. It was obvious that the intruders rushed in from several other newly-exploded gaps. Jingzhou's most elite armored soldiers guarded this gap with him, and other places were already insufficiently defended.

The desperate Zheng Siwei gritted his teeth and shouted, "Burn the granary, set fire to Jingzhou and don't let the intruders, fight them to the end!"

After talking, no one responded.

Zheng Siwei glared at the generals.

"General, surrender."

"I would rather die than surrender!" Zheng Siwei shouted sharply.

The next moment, his most trusted servant Guerrilla stabbed the back of his neck with a knife.

Several other generals also drew knives and stabbed him into the body.

Zheng Siwei vomited blood, and looked at these people with disbelief. These people had followed him in the mutiny to kill Meng Changgeng, captured Jingzhou and surrendered to the Qing Dynasty.

Now, these people actually drew their knives and stabbed themselves.He forgot that he could lead them to kill the boss, and now they can naturally kill the boss themselves.The first time is raw, the second time is cooked.

"General, you don't want to surrender, but the brothers don't want to die either."

Zheng Siwei fell down unwillingly.

Guerrilla chopped off his head with a single blow, held it in his hand, and yelled at the Ming army in the distance!
"The traitor Zheng Siwei has been killed, and I am willing to surrender!"

"Shunjun doesn't fight Shunjun!"

"We are all old brothers of Chuangjun!"

One by one Jingzhou soldiers roared loudly.

Then, they stood directly on the chaotic bricks and stones of the city wall, and threw their weapons and flags outside the city.

In the distance, Gao Yigong didn't seem surprised at all when he saw this scene.

"on!"

As the city wall of Jingzhou was blown up by the mercenary instructors from Frangji, Shenji Town, the imperial camp, the Jingzhou defenders collapsed, and Zheng Siwei was assassinated on the battlefield by his generals.

All the ministries in the city also gave up their resistance.

The Zhongzhen Battalion entered the city all the way, and the Ming flag was erected at the head of this important city in Jianghan.

Du Yinxi, the governor of Huguang and the head of the Zhongzhen Camp, entered the city surrounded by Li Guoxin and Gao Bizheng, the left and right governors of the Zhongzhen Camp.

Except for the city wall that was blown out with seven or eight gaps, everything in Jingzhou City was still intact, and there were soldiers kneeling on the street.

There is still a lot of food in the granaries in the city, and there are also many armors in the armory.

The military potential of this war fortress is great, but it was eventually destroyed by the blasting of the city wall. There were too few guards in the city, and there was no desire to fight to the death. In the end, there was no street fighting. The siege lasted for more than a month. The Loyalty Camp did not suffer any casualties and was finally recovered. This important town was once controlled by the Shun army for nearly two years.

It's just that this time they took over the city as the Ming army.

Whether it was Gao Bizheng or Li Chixin, they didn't feel too embarrassing for Zheng Siwei's soldiers. After ordering that Zheng Siwei's corpse, the dog thief, should be thrown into pieces and fed to the dogs, the rest of the soldiers would forget about it.

They happily divided up Zheng Siwei's more than 1000 troops, no matter the main soldiers, auxiliary soldiers or the old and the weak, and even specially divided more than [-] people into the Gentleman's Battalion of Governor Du Yinxi.

Nine towns originally besieged Jingzhou, but now they divide all the prisoners and harvest into ten shares, and give Du Yinxi a share.

Du Yinxi did not refuse, but readily accepted it.

All the soldiers were separated, even the officer Li Chixin and the others didn't dislike it. In Du Yinxi's opinion, there were many troubles, but they didn't seem to care much.

Li Chixin and the others paid more attention to soldiers, armor and food, especially iron armor, and ships. These things were strictly counted and divided into ten parts, one for each family.

"Yuan Zongdi, Hao Yaoqi and the others went to Wuchang, but they missed this great harvest. I don't know if they will regret it or not." Gao Yigong laughed.

In fact, the Zhongzhen Camp was originally thirteen families, but Hao Yaoqi had a conflict with Gao Yigong. In a rage, he simply ran downstream with his men and horses. Later, when Yuan Zongdi returned from Jiangnan, he wanted to mediate, but failed. Instead, Gao Yigong was provoked into anger, and finally took him to the headquarters.

In addition to General Tian Jianxiu and Li Zijing's third younger brother Li Zijing, it is said that they are attacking Wuchang with separate wings, but in fact the Zhongzhen Camp has split into two.

The specific reasons for the split are complicated, but Gao Yigong has always been dissatisfied with them who left.

For Governor Du Yinxi, he is actually happy to see the Shun Army split into two, and he and his supervisor Zhu Dianzheng wrote to the Supervisory State, requesting that Yuan Zongdi, Hao Yongzhong, Li Zijing, Tian Jianxiu and other departments be divided. , and another loyalty camp was set up.

This can also prevent the remaining forces of the original Shun army from becoming too powerful, which will not be lost in the future.

Li Guo was very unwilling to see the Shun army split, but now that he has come to this point, he has no choice but to smile, "Fuyuan, below Jingzhou, what should we do next?"

Du Yinxi looked at the flag of Ming Dynasty fluttering in the wind on the top of the city, and he was very excited, "Assemble an elite team to go to Wuchang by boat along the river to participate in the battle of besieging Wuchang, and the rest of the troops will divide into several groups to fight against Chengtian Mansion." Wait, in addition, the chieftains in Shizhouwei, Yongshun, and Baojing have surrendered to the Qing Dynasty before, and this time we have to divide our troops to beat one or two."

Li Chixin, Marquis of Xingguo, looked at Jingzhou City, "I went to the south of the Yangtze River to pay homage to Jianguo. His Highness also said that after capturing Jingzhou, he would hand over Jingzhou to Yuan Zongdi, Marquis of Jingxi. Now he is in Wuchang, but we want to abandon Jingzhou after we capture it. , I’m really a bit reluctant.”

Du Yinxi comforted, "It's just an empty city. If there's anything you can't bear, you can take it back at any time."

"However, even if you abandon the defense, you can't take advantage of the Tartars. Before you leave, mobilize the people to tear down the city wall and fill up the moat with city bricks."

The people in the city moved to the Badong mountainous area, especially the artisans had to be taken away, and all the ships had to be collected and taken away.

Don't leave a person or a grain of food for the Tartars.

"While there is still time, thoroughly sweep the whole of Hubei, and take away everything that can be taken away!"

a few days later.

Chengtian Mansion and Zhongxiang City were destroyed, and the city wall was blown down by the Frangji blaster. Zhongxiang didn't have many soldiers at all. He went south to reinforce Wuchang before, but now he was easily captured.

The garrison who stayed behind directly led his troops to surrender, but the prefect actually hanged himself in the government office.

His subordinates held official seals and books to surrender.

It was the Tianhu Department of the Zhongzhen Camp who came to attack Zhongxiang. They happily accepted the surrender and brought all the hundreds of Qing troops into the camp.

Of course, it’s not the way it was when it was in the army. Now it’s called clearing up captives and traitors. Not all big families are beaten, only those who do evil and help others. But even ordinary big families are required to move with the army.

It is impossible not to leave. If you don't leave, you will be a captive and collaborating with the enemy, and you will bear the consequences.

on the Yangtze River,
More than 2000 large and small ships sailed down the river and entered the three towns of Wuhan.

Zhu Dadian, the governor of the seven provinces, commanded soldiers from the thirteen towns of Huguang to encircle Fucheng and go up to Wuchang City.

Tian Jianxiu and Li Zijing divided their troops to surround Huangzhou Prefecture and Wuchang County (Echeng) on ​​the opposite bank.

Yuan Zongdi, Hao Yongzhong, and Liu Tichun will encircle Hanyang on the west bank of the Han River estuary.

A supervisor commanded more than 30 general officers, and led more than [-] loyal and loyal generals to encircle several major towns.

Tong Dai in Wuchang City was looking forward to the day and night, but finally saw a warship coming up the river, but found out that it was not the Qing army who came to help, but his mother, it was the Zhongzheng Battalion who had broken through Jingzhou and went south.

Desperate Tong Dai returned to the Governor's Mansion and couldn't help but began to write a suicide note!

(End of this chapter)