Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 295
Huguang and Qizhou.

More than [-] people besieged Qizhou, and the siege was impenetrable.

Seeing that the city was about to be broken, the generals Huang Chaoxuan, Zhang Xianbi, and Liu Chengyin discussed in secret, and reported the victory to the supervisor Zhu Dadian first, saying that Qizhou was broken, and all the credit should be given to the three of them.

In order to seize the victory of breaking the city, they sent troops to forcibly drive away all the other rebels under the city of Qizhou, especially the soldiers from the 48th village, and ordered them to retreat [-] li to set up camp.

48 When the village refused, Liu Chengyin beat them directly with an iron rod, wounding several village owners, and sent troops to drive them away. Zhang Kuang, the supervisor of the seven provinces, was unable to restrain them.

There are some reasons why these three dare to be so domineering.They are all one of the thirteen battalions established by He Tengjiao and Duyin Xibao Huguang before Zuo Liangyu.

Liu Chengyin is a drunkard, but he has great physical strength and is good at using iron rods. He is known as Liu Tiegu. He was recruited as a soldier.

Zhang Xianbi is a native of Yunnan. He encircled and suppressed the peasant army with his supervisor, Yunlong. Thousands of Yunnan soldiers, named Dian Qiying, are sturdy and brave to fight. He Tengjiao regards them as a strong army and represents them as the general army.

Huang Chaoxuan is also from Yunnan, and his father is also the son-in-law of Duke Qian, who guards Yunnan. Therefore, Huang Chaoxuan grew up in the Mu Mansion of Duke Qian, influenced by his uncles, and practiced military skills since childhood, which is very brave.The Houmu Mansion recommended him to lead the Yunnan soldiers into the DPRK to aid in the suppression, and under Yuan Jixian's command he accumulated meritorious service to the rank of lieutenant general, and He Tengjiao recommended him as the general soldier, one of the thirteen towns.

In order to be able to defend Huguang, He Tengjiao begged for Zuo Liangyu, no matter what kind of arrogant and powerful generals, as long as the leading generals were recruited, he recruited [-] generals, who were called the thirteen towns.

It's just that Liu Tiegun and others are domineering warriors in troubled times. After they were promoted to the general town, they recruited soldiers, bought horses, allocated land and paid them, and even openly robbed the people. He Tengjiao himself could not suppress these people.

You can only rely on means such as marrying children and in-laws to show favor and win over.

Another example is that from selling salt from Hengzhou to Changsha, Changsha, you can get tens of thousands of taels of silver every month. He Tengjiao took the initiative to share the silver with the thirteen towns. He took the silver and shared the benefits together. With this benefit, the thirteen towns The military leaders are also very supportive of He Tengjiao.

After He Tengjiao was transferred away, they had a quarrel for a while, and it was Du Yinxi who led the Zhongzhengying to balance them, and finally subdued them.

This time around the towns of Wuchang, the thirteen towns also divided their troops to attack, but these people behaved worse than the rebels in Qihuang Village 48. Although they were called regular soldiers, they looted along the way.

Huang Chaoxuan also used the excuse of insufficient food and grass several times to delay dispatching troops. Zhang Xianbi even looted the county town on the march, not to mention Liu Chengyin. The rogue came, and other rebels such as the 48th village could only retreat in resentment.

Zhang Kuang, the supervisory army of the seven provinces, although he also has a battalion of pacesetters, is obviously not the top opponent of the three armies, so he can only persuade him earnestly.

"Please don't worry, capital inspector. Our three towns are all equipped with elite troops. With 2 warriors, it is more than enough to take down Qizhou City. Those copycat mobs are fishing in troubled waters. There are too many people, but it is easy to cause chaos. If the time comes, the Tartars in the city will be released. , wouldn’t it be a failure?”

Liu Tiegun reeked of alcohol and showed no respect for Zhang Kuang.

"That's right, when we take down the city, we won't lose the Dujian's share of the spoils, and the Dujian's share has already been added to the success report of the meritorious service."

Zhang Kuang was originally He Tengjiao's old partner. He is a Jinshi in Songjiang, famous for his poetry and prose. He also has a brother Zhang Jian. He used to follow Shen Youlong and others in Songjiang's hometown, and now he is a branch patrol.At the end of Chongzhen, Zhang Kuang was the magistrate of Mianyang, Hubei Province. He led troops to challenge Zhang Xianzhong, Li Zicheng and others.

Before the fall of Beijing, he was impeached by the censor and dismissed from his post. He Tengjiao made a concerted effort to ask him to stay in his post.

Although Zhang Kuang is courageous and capable, he is a civil servant after all. Even if he works hard to maintain the situation, he is sometimes powerless in front of these domineering generals.

"Don't you forget that the king of Lu is the king of the country now, and the king of Lu doesn't like arrogant soldiers. You were all called by me at the beginning and recommended to Mr. He to give you the title of general soldier. Even Hengshan transported salt to Changsha. I got tens of thousands of taels of silver, and this was done by me, and I suggested that Mr. He pay the thirteen town soldiers with this salt and silver."

"Master Zhu is here, and I have always spoken good words for you, asking for grants and grants for you, and asking for salary and food for you. You are all in the main town now, but don't forget that you are still soldiers of the imperial court."

"Although I, Zhang Kuang, is only a civil servant, I am still the supervisor of the seven provinces. If you ignore the overall situation, then I will not miss the old feelings. I have the king's order from the supervisor and the sword of Shangfang."

Liu Tiegun said somewhat disdainfully, "Mr. Zhang, why bother to say such unreasonable things, we are all civil servants and generals in Hubei, and we are closer than outsiders like Zhu Dadian and Yuan Zongdi."

"We are the Huguang Jingzhi town camp. What is the 48th village? Does the Ministry of War have an establishment number? We let them retreat, that is to take care of them. If there is a real fight, if these mobs bomb the camp, I'm afraid that the time will be in charge. I can't take the responsibility."

Huang Chaoxuan said unceremoniously, "The capital prison has the Wang Ming flag, and the three of us also have it. Although it is a few fewer than the capital prison, it is also a serious Wang Ming flag. We are three majestic commanders. Can't compare to those cottage villagers?"

After finishing speaking, the three of them ignored Zhang Kuang.

Furious, Zhang Kuang rushed directly to the foot of Wuchang City, and went to the governor Zhu Dadian and the governor Du Yinxi to ask for soldiers and horses to deal with these three domineering generals.

Before dark, the 48th Village Camp was driven to twenty miles from the city by the [-] Town and Xie Bing under the command of the three, and they took some of them home with some copycat spirit.

midnight.

Xu Yong and Zu Yonglie each led [-] soldiers. Once they went out of the east gate and the other out of the west gate, they took a horse and bound their hooves.

After leaving the city, go straight to the barracks in the three towns outside the city.

The rocket pierced the dark night sky, illuminating the camps of the Ming army in the three besieged towns.

Xu Yong led his troops straight to the Ming camp, and they approached very smoothly without too much obstruction.

Because the 48 people in the 10 villages suddenly evacuated, there were obviously many gaps in the siege outside the city, and these days the siege had been pressing down on the city, so the three of Huang Chaoxuan took the enemy very lightly, and the barracks did not deploy too much defense.

It was a simple barracks, and they didn't even bother to waste energy digging trenches, and there were not many casual horses.

"Jiangning's reinforcements are here, kill the bandits!" Xu Yong shouted.

The subordinates followed suit and claimed to be reinforcements from Jiangning.

On the other hand, Zu Yonglie led his troops to attack Liu Chengyin's camp, but this general soldier Liu was very drunk, and Zu Yonglie even yelled in proficient Manchu, and he yelled in Manchu for a while. Translated into Chinese, he claimed to be Pingnan General Luck Dehunbeile to aid the Eight Banners of Huguang.

The Qing army was charging everywhere, countless rockets pierced the night sky and fell into the tents of the Ming army, and the shouts of the Qing army were everywhere in the barracks.

Jiangning reinforcements.

Hong Chengchou, the manager of the six provinces, has arrived.

Pingnan General Shuncheng County King Luck Dehun Baylor came in person!
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Without hesitation, Huang Chaoxuan jumped onto the horse under the guard of his own soldiers, and then rushed into the night, followed by his [-] Yunnan standard battalion.

And Zhang Xianbi's reaction was the same. When he discovered that the Qing army had attacked the camp, he didn't even bother to find out where the Qing army came from, but immediately led his troops to abandon the camp and flee.

Because Liu Chengyin was drunk, he was carried by his servants on horseback and ran away.

The three town chiefs, with a total of 48 town marks, are known as elites. They just drove away the [-]th village and other besieging soldiers during the day, but when the Qing army attacked at night, they ran away without any resistance.

And the more than [-] soldiers and horses in several Xie towns belonging to them also immediately followed.

The three generals fled in a hurry, and [-] officers and soldiers followed in a panic. In less than an hour, Qizhou was completely empty.

Soon, the fire spread far away, and the fleeing Ming army even broke through the new Ming army camps such as the 48th village that had just retreated [-] miles away.

All the soldiers in the villages who were sleeping were awakened, and then many people ran after them.

In the end, it was the bombing camp of the entire camp of 10 people that stretched for dozens of miles. Everyone shouted in horror that the Eight Banners were coming, and then rushed to escape.

They stepped on each other and even jumped into the river. In the dark night, they couldn't tell the difference between the south, the south and the north, and they couldn't tell whether it was the Green Camp or the Eight Banners. However, the panic spread in the night wind and finally swept over every Ming army outside Qizhou city. escape.

No one is wondering where the Qing army came from and how many there are.

They only know that others are running, so I have to run too. Others run away very fast, and I have to run faster than him. No one is thinking, why not resist, why run?
dawn.

Governor He Mingluan, who stood excitedly on the top of the city all night, finally waited for Xu Yong to return from victory.

"Master Hong Fu of the Nursing Academy, fortunately he did not disgrace his life last night. He attacked the Ming thieves at night, and the horses stepped on the battalion. They defeated 12 Ming thieves with [-] tigers and tigers. They chased and killed them for more than [-] miles all night. They beheaded countless people. Covering the fields and ditches, there are countless prisoners."

"Great victory!"

He Mingluan pulled Xu Yong, who was covered in blood, and even said it was hard work. Now he didn't doubt whether Xu Yong was collaborating with the enemy secretly. With such great achievements and performance, how could he secretly inform the Ming army.

Zukofa interrupted the two with a violent cough.

"These bright thieves are really a mob."

Xu Yong withdrew his hand from He Mingluan's, "Ming's bandits have lost their nerve. I think we should take advantage of the victory and pursue them. We should fight under the banner of Hong Jinglue and Luck Dehunbeile directly to the city of Huangzhou. Let's drive those The routs are the vanguard, and then use these frightened routs to scatter the Ming thieves under the Huangzhou city and regain Huangzhou in one fell swoop!"

He Mingluan agreed.

So on the same day, Xu Yong and Zu Yonglie continued to lead thousands of troops who defeated the Ming army last night, and rushed north to Huangzhou.

Just as Xu Yong expected, the few Ming troops besieging the city under Huangzhou City were routed and charged, and then they really thought that the elite reinforcements from the Eight Banners from Jiangning came to kill them, and those who besieged Huangzhou City were Tan Yuchun, Man Dazhuang, and Wu Shenghe Five generals, the crown prince, and Yang Peidong, each claimed to command five thousand troops, and there were also brave militia groups from surrounding towns such as Huangzhou, with a total of tens of thousands of people besieging Huangzhou.

But none of them are elite.

As soon as the rout soldiers came out, the whole battalion rumbled away.

Xu Yong then broke the siege of Huangzhou again, and the blockade of the downstream east of Wuchang was broken.

(End of this chapter)