nanming man

Chapter 1006 Withdrawing to Lingnan
The southern capital of the Ming Dynasty, Nanjing, fell, and the Wei army entered Nanjing, and the news that the army swept across the south of the Yangtze River shook the world.

The Ming Dynasty lost two capitals in a row and was on the verge of death. The Manchu Qing lingered outside the pass, and the Western Army could not support it alone. Wei accounted for seven points of the world's general situation.

At this time, the news came to Huguang, which immediately made the Ming and Western Union soldiers panic. The news that Wei Jun would go up the river and outflank Huguang was spread everywhere like wings.

Originally, the Ming-Western coalition forces fought fairly well on the Huguang battlefield. The coalition forces had already launched the Jingzhou Campaign. The army surrounded Wei General Zhao Zhuzi in Jingzhou, and prepared to take the city by force. Then, they marched into Xiangyang with the Wuchang Ming Army and drove Wei Jun out Huguang.

However, the news of Nanjing's fall immediately changed the situation drastically. After Sun Kewang got the exact news, without any hesitation, the army hurriedly withdrew to the south bank of the Yangtze River and retreated to its old nest in the southwest.

As soon as the Western Army retreated, emotions of fear, despair, loss, and sadness immediately spread among the Huguang Ming Army.

Nanjing fell, and the Ming emperor did not know whether he was alive or dead. The Wei army was about to counterattack Huguang, and the Ming army's morale was shaken.

Wu Yi, the commander of the Japanese Army, is the Central Forbidden Army, Zhu Cihong's confidant. He held on to the camp and was attacked by the Wei army. Seeing that the camp was about to be broken and the Jingzhou campaign fell short, he planned to use his sword to make benevolence. Jin Shenghuan captured all the more than ten thousand men and horses who stood firm in the camp.

The Western Army retreated, and the Battle of Jingzhou failed. The Wei Army took advantage of the momentum to cross the Yangtze River and regained Changde and other places.

In this way, Wuchang will be attacked on three sides. If the Wei army comes against the river and cuts off the connection between Wuchang and the south, then Wuchang will become an isolated city.

In view of this, and Zhu Cihong's life and death were unknown, the Wuchang Ming army immediately chose to break out to the south.

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To the north of Changsha City, more than two hundred miles away, there was a crowd of people in the wilderness. The front was thinner, and the crowd was denser as the sea was rising.

Tens of thousands of soldiers of the Ming army walked south quickly with bowed heads and hands, dragging their weapons. From time to time, some people quietly dropped their weapons, left the team, and burrowed into the woods and weeds beside the road.

Beside the road, Wang Yanlema stood there, looking back from time to time, watching the retreating Ming army.

At this time, Huang Degong rode over and said with a serious face: "Wang Fujun, another thousand people have escaped. If this continues, I am afraid that without Wei Jun chasing after them, 10 people will flee!"

Wang Yan frowned, "These soldiers and horses are mostly recruits from Wuchang, Huangzhou, and Jiangxi. We are going to retreat south, and they don't want to follow, so they flee one after another. Right now, we have to severely punish the deserters, wait until we retreat to Changsha, and stabilize our position. Things will get better."

With a gloomy face, Huang Degong scolded Sun Kewang a few words before he pulled up his horse and left, urging the army to retreat to Changsha.

At this time, the army had advanced more than ten miles, when a group of cavalry suddenly galloped up from behind, causing a commotion. The cavalry caught up with Wang Yan, dismounted from their horses, and hurriedly reported: "Fu Jun, I have a secret report from my humble position."

Wang Yan reined in the horse, frowned and said, "What's the matter?"

"A group of people came from behind, claiming to be His Majesty, and they are ignorant of their humble positions, so they rushed to report to Fujun!" Qianhu hurriedly said.

"What?" Wang Yan lifted his spirits, and his face was overjoyed, "Quickly inform Lord Yasukuni and take me there."

Not long after, more than a hundred cavalry galloped northward, and saw not far away, a large group of Ming troops surrounded by a group, Wang Yan and Huang Degong hastily tightened the reins.

When the soldiers of the Ming army saw the cavalry approaching, they hurriedly opened a passage, Wang Yan blurted out and asked, "Where is Your Majesty?"

When the soldiers heard the words, someone pointed out: "It's just ahead."

When Wang Yan heard this, he didn't dare to hesitate, and immediately ran forward with a whip, shouting while running, "Your Majesty, Your Majesty?"

He galloped for dozens of steps, and Chen Zilong and others who were in a state of distress in the distance stood up from the ground, waved and said, "Shi Heng, Your Majesty is here."

Wang Yan, Huang Degong and others hurriedly got off their horses, saw Chen Zilong, and then finally saw Zhu Cihong sitting on the ground, hurriedly ran over in three steps at a time, plopped on the ground, crying bitterly, "I pay homage to Your Majesty, I think~"

Zhu Cihong remembered what had happened to him, but neither the queen nor the prince had brought it with him. Tears welled up in his eyes, and the monarch and his ministers hugged their heads and cried.

……

Zhu Cihong did not die, nor was he captured by the Wei army, which undoubtedly boosted the morale of the Ming army.

The arrival of the Ming emperor made the demoralized Ming army gather around the emperor again. Tens of thousands of people trekked for three days and finally arrived at Changsha City.

The crowd originally planned to rest in Changsha City and stabilize their position, but when they were more than ten miles away from the city, they saw thick smoke billowing from the city, which made everyone think that the Wei army had already occupied Changsha City.

Huang Degong hurriedly sent people to investigate. After a while, Du Yinxi brought people to meet him, only to learn that it was not the Wei army that occupied Changsha, but that when the Western army retreated, they ransacked Changsha and pulled a large number of people to the south.

Zhu Cihong and his party entered Changsha and hurriedly convened everyone to discuss the matter. As soon as Zhu Cihong entered the lobby, he heard Wu Yi, Chen Youlong and others scold Sun Kewang for being damned, and suddenly withdrew troops, causing the situation in Huguang to collapse. The battle in Jingzhou was really useless.

Du Yinxi coughed, and the hall was immediately quiet. Wang Yan walked in surrounded by Zhu Cihong, and everyone immediately saluted, "Your Majesty, I will see you!"

Zhu Cihong looked up and down at the generals in the hall, and everyone lowered their heads. Wu Yi bowed in shame, "Your Majesty, I owe your Majesty's trust~"

Zhu Cihong shook his head, "It's not your fault, it's my fault, and it's Sun Kewang's treachery. Now that Nanjing has been lost and Huguang is in danger, I want to hear your opinions?"

Chen Youlong said: "The western army has withdrawn, we only have more than [-] people left, and it is too late to recruit temporarily. With these soldiers, I am afraid there is no way to fight the Wei thieves."

Huang Degong also shook his head, "Soldiers and horses are the next best thing. Once Jiangnan is lost, the military supplies will not be replenished, and the food and salaries will not be paid. The soldiers will be very difficult to survive, and it is impossible to fight."

Zhu Cihong's face was pale, and he asked Wang Yan: "The Qing family, what do you think?"

Wang Yandao: "Sun Kewang ransacked Changsha, and I am afraid that all parts of southern Hunan will also be looted. Huguang can no longer hold on. It is better to exchange Changsha and Xiangnan counties for time, and the army retreats to Lingnan."

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The mansion of Zheng Zhilong in Fujing City is heavily guarded by hundreds of soldiers.

In the study room in the backyard of the mansion, Zheng Zhilong looked at a letter with a solemn expression on his face, while Qian Qianyi sat beside him indifferently, holding a teacup and sipping tea carefully.

Zheng Zhilong didn't expect that the Emperor of Wei would send someone to surrender him so soon, his face was cloudy for a while, he was a pirate businessman, he valued real benefits, and now that the Nanming court was about to capsize, he really thought about going ashore, but he It is not clear what price he should propose.

"Brother Yiguan!" Qian Qianyi put down his teacup, and said earnestly, "You must be aware of the current situation. The general trend of the world has already belonged to Wei. As long as a brother surrenders to Wei, the emperor of Wei is willing to grant him the state of Min." Lord, what else is there to hesitate about, Brother Yiguan?"

Zheng Zhilong's face was tangled. To be honest, he was very tempted, but he didn't have contacts in Wei State, so he didn't know if Wei State's words counted.

When Zheng Zhilong and Qian Qianyi were discussing, in the military camp outside Fuzhou City, Gan Hui hurriedly opened the curtain to enter the tent, came to Zheng Sen's side, bowed his head and whispered for a while.

Zheng Sen raised his eyebrows when he heard the words, and his face immediately sank...
(End of this chapter)