Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 299 Clearing the Portal
Tong Yanghe was surrounded by tens of thousands of people. Every day, he sprinkled money on the top of the city to encourage the people to be strong. suicide note.

There is a thick stack of suicide notes.

Who would have thought that the Ming army would suddenly collapse?
Then Tian Jianxiu sent someone to ask for surrender.

He didn't believe it at first, thinking that it might be a trick of the Ming army, but then carefully sent people out of the city to check, and found that the Ming army had really escaped, and Tian Jianxiu and the others really wanted to surrender.

Then Li Zijing and others personally bound Jing to plead guilty.

Tong Yanghe saw that after Li Zicheng's death, Li Zijing, who had succeeded as Emperor Dashun for a short time, came to surrender in person, so he finally believed it.

Overjoyed, tears of excitement fell straight down.

Then Xu Yong, Zu Kefa and others arrived.

In Wuchang City, Governor Tong Yanghe received more than 1 soldiers including Xu Yong as reinforcements, and more than 5000 soldiers including the newly surrendered Tian Jianxiu. At that time, there were 3 soldiers in the city. Even if Wuchang City is besieged again, it will not be afraid.

But at this time, the Ming army still had no ability to encircle Wuchang again. The two towns of Zhongyong and Zhongwu were defeated for thousands of miles. They not only ran away, but also attacked and looted Changsha, Yuezhou, and fled into Hengzhou.

Seeing that the situation was not going well, the Zhongzhen Camp retreated back upstream to Padang to guard their home in a panic.

Half of the troops of the Zhongyi Camp surrendered to the Qing Dynasty with Li Zijing, Tian Jianxiu and others, and the other half, led by Yuan Zongdi Hao Yaoqi and Liu Tichun, withdrew to Tongcheng and Pingjiang.

Superintendent Zhu Dadian, Governor Zhang Kuang, Governor Du Yinxi, Governor Fu Shangrui, etc. were also evacuated by the rout. Zhu Dadian withdrew to Changsha, Fu Shangrui to Yuezhou, Du Yinxi to Jingzhou, Zhang Kuang to Mian Positive.

It was a great game of chess, and it all collapsed like this.

The collapse was unbelievable. Anyway, it was several days after Zhu Dadian retreated to Changsha that he finally figured out the whole story. The reinforcements from the Qing army never came, and they were still in Anqing.

Huang Chaoxuan, Ma Jinzhong and others shocked the entire army.

But it was all too late.

Tong Yanghe, who used to write suicide notes every day in Wuchang City, unexpectedly rose up bravely. Seeing that the Ming army was defeated thousands of miles away, he began to attack without waiting for the Qing army's reinforcements to arrive.

Take Xu Yong, Zu Kefa, Tian Jianxiu and others along the river and go straight to Yuezhou.At this time, Yuezhou was plundered by the rebels and set on fire and almost turned into ruins. Governor Pianyuan led some soldiers to withdraw to Yuezhou. When Tong Yanghe came, Fu Shangrui's Biaofu officer directly held the man who had vowed to defend the city. The governor ran away.

Tong Yanghe Bingbuxueren regained Yuezhou, and then marched into Changsha.

Zhu Dadian tried to gather all the ministries in Changsha to fight back, but the morale of the army was unstable and the people were panicked. Changsha was robbed by Ma Jinzhong and others. There was no food for the army, and the Ming army could not even eat. All the ministries dispersed regardless of the military order.

Zhu Dadian could only be hugged all the way south, and finally withdrew to Hengzhou.

Ma Jinzhong and others did not dare to meet Zhu Dadian, and when they saw him coming, they left Hengyang voluntarily. Zhongwu and Ma Jinzhong's tribe went southeast to Chaling and other places, while Wang Chaoxuan and others went southwest to Yongzhou Lingling and other places.

Tong Yanghe followed in the footsteps of the Ming army and regained Changsha again.

Immediately afterwards, Xu Yong was sent to recover Jingzhou.

Zhang Kuang was unable to cross the river, so he had to abandon Mianyang and go north to Yunyang.

For a while, not only did Wuchang break the siege, but also quickly regained all parts of the north of the Yangtze River except Yunyang, and recovered the two important towns of Changsha and Yuezhou in the south of the Yangtze River.

As for the Huguang Wuzhong Fanzhen, which is known as an army of 50, except Zhongkai Town in Yunyang, which did not participate in the Wuchang Battle, the rest of the ministries suffered a lot.

Loyalty is good, after they captured Jingzhou, they raided the various mansions, and gained a lot, and they settled their family in the Badong mountain area, but now that the situation is not good, they immediately retreated by boat, basically without loss.

But other people from all walks of life were not so good, especially Zhongyi, who was directly demoted to the Qing Dynasty.

Loyal, loyal and brave, almost rebellious.

The standard battalions of the supervisors, supervisors, governors, etc. were also seriously damaged, not to mention the serious consequences of the loss of Changsha, Yuezhou.

It turned out that Zhu Yihai's strategy was to take advantage of the emptiness of the Qing army's Huguang, counterattack across the board, severely consume a wave of Qing army's green battalion troops, and then flatten the Jiangbei into a buffer zone, retreat to the south of the Yangtze River with all its strength, and rely on the Yangtze River and Dongting Lake to defend Changsha and Yue Concentrate forces in the upper reaches to contain the Qing army's soldiers in Huguang and Jiangxi.

Who knew it would be like this now.

"Your Highness, please don't be too angry." Chen Qianfu was so angry that he almost vomited blood.

"I'm not angry, I'm not angry, if I'm so angry, who will be happy?" Zhu Yihai also felt panicked.

Huguang drove high and low, but the fucking gap was too big.

"I still underestimated those army chiefs. The situation in Huguang, it is too naive to expect to send a supervisor to solve it. But this time there are Huang Chaoxuan, Liu Chengyin, Zhang Xianbi, and Tian Jian. Xiu, Ma Jinzhong and other thieves, but it also let us see their true colors."

"Fortunately, there are loyal soldiers like Yuan Zongdi, Li Chixin, and Du Yinxi."

"The battle of Huguang is now over, but it is not a complete failure. At least the early stage was fought well. Jingzhou and Xiangyang have been won, and Hubei has basically been wiped out. Even if they regain one city now, the Qing army wants to It is also very difficult to restore the granary of Huguang in a short period of time."

Zhu Yihai comforted himself.

"Your Highness, if Yuezhou Changsha is lost, Hunan will be in trouble. What's more, if Changsha is lost, it will threaten Jiangxi, and even upstream Badong and Chongqing."

"We must take back Changsha and Yuezhou."

Zhu Yi thought for a while, "The army is newly defeated, and it will be difficult to regroup in a short period of time. I feel that instead of trying to compete for Yuezhou in Changsha, it is better to be ruthless and deploy troops to declare Zhang Xianbi and Liu Chengyin first. Ma Jinzhong waits for these thieves to calm down, otherwise they will cause chaos in the rear, and the Qing army will press the border in the north, and then they will have to face the enemy."

"Your Highness, it is indeed an unforgivable crime for Zhongwu Zhongyong to escape, but with the current situation in Huguang, do you want to give them a chance?"

"Do not."

Zhu Yihai shook his head.

He was able to appease Li Guogao and others, and he was willing to reorganize Tian Jianxiu and others before, all of which had prerequisites.The premise is that they are now willing to obey the imperial edict and fight against the Qing Dynasty together.

So let bygones be bygones.

However, Wang Chaoxuan, Ma Jinzhong and other guys, some of them used to aid the enemy army, some were local battalion soldiers, some were from the Shun army, and some were from the Zuo Liangyu tribe. Keep your promises and serve your country well.

But during this period of time, they have ignored the imperial court's orders, disobeyed the military orders of the superintendent, expanded their troops at will, and plundered all kinds of things. What?
Do they leave them as a facade to support the numbers?

No, Zhu Yihai doesn't want this kind of rat shit. He and Zhu Dadian made a mistake before. They thought that it was a good thing for a few officials and titles to recruit countless soldiers because of the order of the court.

It now appears that this is poisonous bait.

If you eat it, you will be poisoned and die.

The lesson this time was very miserable, and we must learn from it.

"Immediately send an order to He Tengjiao, the supervisor in Guangzhou, to send troops from Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi and three provinces, and immediately go north from Guilin to Hunan, and cooperate with Zhu Dadian and Du Yinxi to clean up the house first, and these guys must be dealt with."

"Also, from now on, the three towns of Zhongwu, Zhongyong, and Zhongyi will be withdrawn, and Yuan Zongdi, Hao Yaoqi, Liu Tichun, etc. will be directly subordinate to the governor Zhu Dadian and the governor Du Yinxi.

Du Jian Zhang Kuang was unable to supervise the army, so he was removed from his post and transferred back to Shaotian to make other arrangements. "

"Governor of Pianyuan, Fu Shangrui, was ineffective in the army, so he was dismissed, and Wen Anzhi, the governor of Yunyang, took over the post of governor of Pianyuan."

"Also, let Jiangxi Liangjiang Governor Zhang Guowei and Liangjiang Admiral Zhang Mingyang dispatch troops from Ji'an Mansion west to Hunan to encircle and suppress the rebels together."

"Your Highness, think twice."

"People like Liu Chengyin and Ma Jinzhong are hopeless. Long-term pain is worse than short-term pain. They must be eliminated immediately and decisively. Since Changsha is lost, then keep Hengyang. If Hengyang can't keep it, then keep Guilin. Get rid of these evils."

"But what if they are forced to surrender?"

"It doesn't matter if they are in a hurry or not."

"Add another decree. As long as the original three towns of Zhongwu, Zhongyong, Loyalty and Yi surrender to the officers and soldiers, they can be pardoned for capital crimes. If they can kill Ma Jinzhong, Liu Chengyin, Tian Jianxiu and other rebel leaders and backbones to surrender, they can make atonement for their crimes."

Chen Qianfu wanted to persuade him again, but Zhu Yihai waved his hand weakly, "Chen Qing go out first, just want to rest for a while."

"My minister retire."

Chen Qianfu withdrew, and there was the sound of things being thrown from the floor, and the sound of ping-pong-pong sounded, representing the extreme anger and disappointment of Jian Guo.

He didn't dare to stay longer, but let Jian Guo calm down alone.

When they came outside, Shen Tingyang, Huang Binqing, Ruan Jin, Zhang Mingbin, Shen Youlong, Zhou Hezhi and a large group of important officials were waiting there.

"Is the supervisor okay?"

"Well, Jian Guo is quite calm. He said that although Huguang made some mistakes in the end this time, the overall situation is not bad, but it's a pity to drive high and low."

Everyone sighed.

This is more than a pity.

"Now I can finally understand why Jian Guo always said that Xiangyang could not defend Jingzhou, so he left after the fight. If he really insisted on defending, judging from the performance of the Huguang towns now, the result will only be worse " Shen Tingyang said.

Huang Binqing didn't say anything, she just frowned and kept thinking about something.

"How to deal with the situation in Huguang?"

"His Royal Highness has declared that the three towns of Zhongyong, Zhongwu, Zhongyi are rebellious, and ordered Huguang, Jiangxi, and Guangxi to send troops to jointly encircle and suppress the chaos."

This is a somewhat surprising result.

"What about us, shall we go north as planned?" Huang Binqing finally asked.

"Let's talk about this matter tomorrow." Chen Qianfu said helplessly.

At this time Yang Boxing came out, "Everyone, there is an order for the state supervisor to call all the adults to discuss matters."

Everyone passed by.

Zhu Yihai didn't control himself just now, he smashed a chair to pieces, he felt a little regretful after smashing it, and his mood calmed down a lot.

"Everyone, the Tartars have taught us a very deep lesson this time, so Gu intends to repay them well."

(End of this chapter)