Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 292

Huguang, Qizhou.

He Mingluan, governor of Qinghuguang, and Song Yizhen, the inspector, have been trapped in Qizhou for nearly a month. They are also trapped in the city together with Zu Kefa, general soldier of Huguang, Xu Yong, general soldier of Huangzhou, etc.

They entered the Qihuang mountain area to suppress the 48 villages under the military order of Governor Tong Yanghe, and then the Ming army suddenly besieged Jingzhou and Wuchang. They retreated in a hurry, but they were finally caught in the Qihuang area.

Outside Qizhou City, 48 people gathered around the village.

The owners of each village are powerful and well-known gentry from the same country. Even Zhu Changyan, King Fanshan of the Ming clan, joined the village, as well as former Minister of the Ministry of War, Zhang Jinyan, governor of Shanxi, Hebei and Henan, and Shao Qiwei, the branch patrol road.

There is also Yao Minggong of Qizhou, who joined the cabinet in 12 years as a scholar of Wenyuan Pavilion, Prince Shaobao, and Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, and built Yao Gongzhai.

The former Governor of Southern Jiangxi and Macheng Mei Zhihuan, Governor of Gansu, etc., although they have died of illness, they used their wealth and fame to purchase armaments, recruit village bravery, and form regiment training, which became the main force of Qihuang to fight against Qing Dynasty at this time.

Before Mei Zhihuan died of illness, there was even a cavalry of hundreds of people, and an artillery team with several red cannons, which is very amazing.

At this time, the 48 villages came out of the mountains to encircle Qizhou and Huanggang. The seven provinces were supervised by Zhang Kuang, the commander-in-chief of the seven provinces. For a while, the momentum was astonishing.

There are two or three thousand soldiers in each village, one or two thousand soldiers, and one or two hundred soldiers in the small ones. Although the weapons are mixed and the banners are not uniform, the momentum alone is very amazing.

Anyway, these governors, inspectors, and general soldiers in Qizhou City have seven thousand green camps, but they dare not go out of the city to fight.They were chased out from the mountains and lost thousands of people along the way. At this time, there were [-] people left, but they were frightened and did not dare to fight at all.

"These thieves dig tunnels and ditches every day, build siege equipment, and gather ants to attack the city every now and then. If this continues, we can't hold it anymore."

Zu Kefa, the chief soldier, came here.

He is the adopted son of Zu Dashou, a general of the Guanning Army. After surrendering to the Qing Dynasty, he served as the deputy commander of the Zhenghuang Banner of the Han Army. Military officer.

There are five hundred elite Guanning cavalry under his command.

But at this time, facing the overwhelming Ming army outside, they did not dare to go out of the city. When they evacuated from the mountain area, Zu Kefa was the most elite, but he ran the fastest, even running one night earlier than the agreed retreat time. As a result, the people behind could only retreat early one after another, and then retreated in the middle of the night, causing the army to flee, scrambling to be the first, trampling many people to death in vain, the road in the mountain was dangerous, and many people couldn't see the road clearly and fell off the cliff in the middle of the night.

But after withdrawing to Qizhou City, neither the governor nor the inspector dared to punish Zu Kefa.

When retreating from all walks of life, the loss was not small, but his 7000 troops basically withdrew back, accounting for nearly half of the [-] people who entered the city, not to mention that Zu Kefa was the deputy commander of the Zhenghuang Banner of the Han Army, with a high status and a title in the body.Not to mention, the Zu family is also a well-known powerful family among the Han courtiers in the Qing Dynasty.

The governor and the others did not dare to offend this guy easily.

As he spoke, Zu Kefa started coughing, and even coughed up blood. He didn't know whether it was an old injury, or a new wound from the attack in the mountainous area, and then he fled outside and was frightened by the wind and night. What's more, after this guy came back, he couldn't afford to be sick. These days, he managed to pull himself together, but he coughed every now and then, and he saw blood when he coughed.

This inevitably made Governor He and others worried. Now Qizhou's defense of the city can all be counted on Zu Kefa, and Xu Yong can't be counted on.

Xu Yong is also a strong general, which they also admit, but Xu Yong was originally a surrendered general of the Ming army, and he was different from ordinary surrendered generals. This guy was very important in the Ming court before.

To put it bluntly, Xu Yong's surname was Gao, and he lost his father when he was young. He was adopted as an adopted son by Xu, the general of Ningwu, and he was regarded as an adopted son.When Xu Yong was in his teens, his adoptive father, Xu Zongbing, was old enough to have a son and gave birth to a biological son, so naturally he was not so close to this adopted son.

Later, after Xu Zongbing passed away, he also had a bad relationship with Xu's uncle Congxiong, etc. His foreign surname was not tolerated, so he had to go far away and travel the Kanto with his sword.

At the end of Wanli, he joined the army in Liaodong. At the age of 20, he was promoted to centurion by beheading.When he arrived in Chongzhen, with his excellent skills, he had already been promoted to guerrilla.Later, under Zuo Liangyu's command, he moved to the Central Plains to suppress thieves.

When Xu Yong was in Yunyang, he fought fiercely with He Yilong, Zhang Xianzhong, Huideng and other peasant armies many times, and repelled them many times.

Later, Xiangyang fell, King Xiang was killed, the court was furious, Yuan Jixian was convicted and dismissed, the new governor Wang Yongzuo moved to Xiangyang, Zuo Liangyu was stationed in Fancheng, and soon after Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai army attacked Xiangyang, Zuo Liangyu took the lead to abandon the city and escape , Then Wang Yongzuo also protected Fuqing Wang from Xiangyang and fled.

The guerrillas in Fang County, Yunyang heard the news and fled. Xu Yong sent troops to intercept and capture him.Later, under the order of Sun Chuanting, he attacked Gucheng and Xiangyang with Gao Doushu and others.

After Sun Chuanting died in battle, Xu Yong abandoned Yunyang and voted for Zuo Liangyu, and was finally coerced and surrendered to the Qing Dynasty.

For this extremely brave guy, although the Qing court awarded him the Huangzhou General Army, he has always been very wary.At the beginning, Azige asked Xu Yong, you defended Yunyang for six or seven years, and fought dozens of battles, without losing a single one. Why did you surrender to the Qing Dynasty now?
Xu Yong's answer was that eradicating the thieves is a great righteousness, and it is a great kindness to avenge the emperor's father. Now that the Qing army entered the customs under the banner of avenging Chongzhen and chasing the intruders, he should go together.

What he said was the same as Wu Sangui, obviously making excuses for his surrender.

But it also shows that Xu Yong, like Wu Sangui, actually still has a bit of heart, or he doesn't really belong to the Qing Dynasty.

Azig initially appointed Xu Yong as the general army of Jiujiang, and asked him to lead troops to pacify Huangguaizi, Li Juma and other ministries in Jiujiang, and was immediately transferred to the general army of Huangzhou.

In the battle against Qihuang Zhuzhai, Xu Yong performed much better than Zu Kefa. He must be the first in every battle, and even when Zu Kefa fled first, it was Xu Yong who broke up alone, so that they did not lose more .

Xu Yong's generals, Xu Qiren and Li Rulong, were also brave generals. Among the [-] soldiers who fled back to Qizhou, [-] were from Xu Yong's department.

In addition, in Huangzhou, he still has two thousand soldiers.

"The Ming army dug tunnels and ditches under the city. How long does it take to dig underground in the city now? The city wall may be dug down at any time. I suggest going out of the city to attack at night."

Zu Kefa's proposal made the governor very suspicious. This guy has elite soldiers in his hands, but he has never contributed much. Every time he charges in a battle, he is the last to charge, and he is the fastest to escape. Why does he propose to go out of the city to attack at night?

"Qizhou City is really going to lose its hold?"

"According to this momentum, within three days, Qizhou will be destroyed. Either the Ming army will dig tunnels to enter the city, or they will directly build ladders and ants to enter the city. There is no way for us to defend like this. These days, we have suffered thousands of casualties. Min Zhuang also suffered many casualties, although there is still food and grass available, but once the city is destroyed, it is absolutely impossible to defend it.”

He Mingluan and Xunyan looked at each other, suspecting that Zu Kefa wanted to take the opportunity to run away again. This guy must be holding back his bad luck again, just like when he was suppressing bandits in the mountains before, he was the first to propose to retreat and rest overnight. In the early morning of the second day, all the ministries retreated alternately, but in the middle of the night, he quietly led the troops to run first.

If this guy came and ran away in the middle of the night, then Qizhou would be completely over.

If you really run, no one can outrun Guan Ningjun.

"Luck De Hun Baylor will be there soon!" Governor He could only say so, "If we keep guarding and they dig tunnels, then we will also step up the wall around the city and dig a trench in the city, so that we can block them Digging a tunnel into the city."

Zu Kefa coughed a few times and coughed up a lot of blood.

"The method Fuyuan said can only deal with ordinary tunnels to steal into the city, but now the Ming army is not only digging tunnels to steal into the city, they also have the method of digging under the city wall and blasting it with gunpowder, directly blowing the city wall down. When the time comes, rush in directly from the gap."

"Burn the cylinder to listen, and when you hear the position, dig through it in reverse, and then fire and flood it, so they can't put the explosives."

"Fuyuan, there are too many thieves. Now it's not just three or five tunnels being dug together, but I don't know how many tunnels are being dug at the same time. We can't fight them. I suspect now that they have already dug several tunnels. It’s useless, I guess I plan to dig a few more places later, and then blast them together, and then there will be several gaps, which can’t be blocked.”

"The only thing we can do is fight with our backs, and see if we can attack the Ming army outside the city at night."

The governor and inspector did not believe this guy at all.

"Go ask Mr. Xu to come and discuss."

Zu Kefa coughed, his face was flushed, and he finally reminded them, "Xu Yong had already received the python robe and jade belt of the Ming Dynasty before, and I heard that Xu Yong's old boss, Wang Yongzuo, is now the new governor of Southern Jiangxi in the Ming Dynasty, Gao Doushu and Xu Guangqi are all successful, even Wang Guangen, who guards Yunyang, is now made an earl and an admiral."

"There are rumors that the Ming Dynasty secretly contacted Xu Yong and wanted to make him the admiral of Wubojia Huguang. Please be more careful in Fuyuan. If this person turns against the water, the consequences will be immeasurable. I suggest that he be placed under house arrest first and his military power be lifted. ,in case."

The inspector immediately objected, "How can you arrest someone without any evidence? Is Zongbing Zu trying to force Zongbing Xu to mutiny?"

"The enemy is in the present, and if you don't want to retreat from the enemy, why do you still do this?"

Zu Kefa coughed, "I lead troops to fight, so I only think about fighting. Although there is no evidence for Xu Yong's collusion with the enemy, there are rumors. This kind of thing is not afraid of [-], but just in case. It will happen. But it’s too late to regret. Xu Yong’s ability, you are as clear as I am, if he really wants to rebel, if he is still in this city, there will be no hope for Qizhou.”

After some words, Fu and Press both looked uncertain.

　Qihuang 48 Villages at the end of Ming Dynasty: Wang Guangshu and Yang Jishan in Baiyun Village in Huanggang, Yi Daosan and Yi Mingfu in Xiaoqi Village, Ma Shiying in Majiatan Village, Wang Zhijing in Daqi Village, Dai Jin in Ma’an Village, Fan Weizhang in Taohuadong Village; Lu in the Yunwu Village in Macheng Yuansun, Meihou Shanzhai Zhou Meng, Tazi Shanzhai Zhou Wenjiang, Baijiaobao Hu Gongguo, Huangan Dashengbao Cheng Jishan, Mopan Shanzhai Wu Zaiyu, Dafengzhai Jiang Zhongqing, Fengshui Shanzhai Wu Guoyu, Tiantai Shanzhai Geng Yingqu; Qishui Doufang Shanzhai Zhou Congzhu, Qin Zihui in Sanjiao Village, He Binran in Shimen Village; Zhang Xiangfei in Qizhou Ce Village, Zhu Tongqi in Qizhou Village, Zhang Danxi in Dazhuo Village, Liang Chongqi in Heishi Village; Zhang Guanghuan in Siwang Village in Guangji, Hu Zhihei in Yanziyan Village, Wu Zhihe in Wuzi Village Shanzhai Wu Shiying and Wu Kai; Huangmeilong Touzhai Ruan Sihuai; Shucheng Shanzhai Huang Jingsong and Hu Junfu; Efeng Zhai Hu Zhiyu; Dushan Zhai Li Dalai; Luotian Li Mangyan Zhai Lei Zhengxian; Yunfeng Shanzhai Hu Hairuo; Daluo Shanzhai Ye Changxue and Xiannvyan Zhai Xiao Xigao, Dulongjing Zhaijiang Wancong, Gaoming Shanzhai Guo Liangjia, etc.

　　
　
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