On October 8, the ninth year of Chongzhen's reign, Temple Beach on the Han River.
"Could these be the reinforcements sent by the Governor?" said a Qian general next to Qin Yiming.
"These people are unreliable!" Qin Yiming, the commander-in-chief of Xiangyang, shook his head and said, "They said they sent five thousand, but only three thousand came to Xiangyang, and only eight hundred came here to fight. Looking at them, they probably have touched them in this life.
hoe!"
This time, Ma Shouying's two sprints immediately opened a big gap for the Ming army. In addition, it was autumn and the food was high, so Ma Shouying joined forces with Luo Rucai, Zhang Xianzhong and other battalions, a total of 200,000 horses, to attack Xiangyang. And Ma Shouying
He was also elected as the leader of the alliance and always in charge of the plate.
With a large army in hand, Ma Shouying immediately deployed his troops, combined his forces, divided them into three groups, and surrounded Xiangyang.
One group was led by Zhang Xianzhong and set off from Junzhou in the northwest, the other group led by Lao Huihui and Ma Shooying set out from Xinye north of Xiangyang, and the other group led by Xie Zikuan set off from Tang County east of Xiangyang, while approaching Xiangyang.
Seeing this critical situation, Wang Jiazhen, the governor of Huguang, sent 5,000 troops to reinforce Xiangyang and carried out sniper attacks at the Pailou Pavilion. Qin Yiming, the commander-in-chief of Xiangyang, also led 2,000 cavalry to cooperate. Qin Yiming focused his defense on the temple beach in the shallow water of the Han River in an attempt to stop Cao Cao.
Cao Luo Rucai, Liu Guoneng sneaked here to join Zhang Xianzhong's troops on the north bank.
However, because Wang Jiazhen, the governor of Huguang, had no soldiers available, he sent local military households. Many of those military households had fled, and many soldiers were only on the roster. In addition, when they fled during the march, they only arrived in Xiangyang.
The number became 3,000. In order to save their own wealth and lives, the civil and military officials in Xiangyang City kept the strongest among them in the city, so that those who supported Qin Yiming became the weakest 800.
"Otherwise! Let's also retreat to Xiangyang City!" A general next to him suggested.
"Once you enter the city, it becomes a dead end. Our cavalry can't play any role at all. How can we prevent the rebel army from attacking hundreds of thousands of people? If the city is full of our white soldiers, we can still defend it, but those crooked soldiers
To be honest, I'm really worried about the melons and dates. It's better to fight here by the river." Qin Yiming refused.
"But the river section we have to guard against is too long. We don't know where the rebels will cross the river. If we make a mistake, then Xiangyang City will fall without us, and the fall will be inevitable. Even we may be attacked by the rebels.
Pincer attack." Another general said.
"Damn it! I have long warned that Thief Zhang has evil intentions. The governor still wants to raise tigers to cause trouble. Even if we drive Thief Zhang away from Xiangyang, it would be better than now! As a result, the bandit army is now staring at our Xiangyang City.
"It's gone." Qin Yiming cursed angrily, "You all should be smart and send more spies up and down the Han River. As soon as we see the bandit army crossing the river, we will run immediately. Remember! Run towards the direction of Runing Mansion, okay.
Where is my cousin?"
Qin Yiming was Qin Liangyu's nephew, so he was also related to Wu Shigong. Therefore, if the battle situation was unfavorable, Qin Yiming decided to use the high-speed mobility of the cavalry to escape to Runing and accept the protection of the Runing army.
"When will the Second Major General's reinforcements arrive?" a general asked again.
"The person who was sent didn't even see my cousin, and said he was seriously ill. But the person who received him was very polite and said that 10,000 troops would be sent to support Xiangyang twenty days ago. So there is still a need for blacksmithing.
We are stubborn and want others to help us. No matter what, we have to hold on for these ten days!" Qin Yiming replied.
In fact, Qin Yiming knew very well that the Runing Army's idea of sitting on a mountain and watching tigers fight was not difficult to guess. A few months ago, the Runing Army conducted a pacification military operation in the Huguang area between Xiangyang and Wuchang.
The current Runing Army has no operations in other directions, so it will not be without troops to send.
But Qin Yiming couldn't confess to his subordinates. Wouldn't this be a slap in the face? So he could only hope that he could hold off the peasant army for nearly ten days and that the Runing army would keep its promise and send troops as planned.
"Boss! That's all you got these boats?" Luo Rucai asked.
"There is no way, godfather!" Yang Chengzu replied: "All the nearby boats were burned by the official dogs. These boats were hidden by the nearby fishermen."
"Then how long will it take for so many of us to cross the river?" Luo Rucai became obviously irritated, "How many people can we cross in one night?"
"A dozen counts as ten thousand!" Yang Chengzu told the truth.
"Ten thousand dollars is worth nothing?" Luo Rucai immediately cursed.
The large troops of Luo Rucai and Liu Guoneng have been hanging around on the other side of Qin Yiming, just to attract the attention of Qin Yiming's troops. On the evening of October 13, the two battalions of peasant troops moved with lightning speed to the Luohan deep in the Han River.
Beach. Prepare to cross the river here.
However, Yang Chengzu, who was searching for ships here, could not find many ships, so Luo Ru was furious.
"Chengzu did a good job!" Liu Guoneng, who was on the side, persuaded, "Guan Gou is really cunning, so I can't blame him. Anyway, the Eight Kings on the other side are already close, let them attract Guan Gou's main force, we mean
I want to send some people there to get it."
"How can this be done? We managed to capture a big city with great difficulty, but with fewer people going there, what benefits can we get?" Luo Rucai said what was in his heart.
"I think Cao Cao is reluctant to bear the daughter of Prince Xiang's family in the city!" Zhu Guoneng made a joke about Luo Rucai.
"Who says it's not the case!" Luo Rucai suddenly burst into laughter, "The eight kings had a great time playing in Fengyang. I don't know how many of them I will leave for my brothers. I want to play with a few princesses this time!"
As soon as they talked about dirty jokes, Luo Rucai and Liu Guoneng had more topics to talk about. The two joked for a while, and Luo Rucai expressed his real thoughts: "Well, Runing, butcher Wu who returned to Germany didn't move. I always feel a little uneasy."
.If we are slow in crossing the river, we are afraid that Butcher Wu will come and kill us! Xiangyang is too close to there. So I want the whole army to cross the river as soon as possible and get together together. It will be convenient for fighting or escaping!"
Liu Guoneng nodded and said: "Cao Cao, you have the right idea. In this way, we will send another 3,000 old battalions from our army to Chengzu to let him cross the river as soon as possible. We will also collect more official dogs to drag the boats to the other side to speed up our crossing of the river.
speed."
Luo Ru thought for a while and said: "It's still like this. First, we can get over the five thousand people, then pull over some horses and artillery, and capture Xiangyang first. After that, without the threat of Xiangyang's official dogs, we will not be able to do anything.
I'm afraid of Butcher Wu. I don't believe it. We have so many battalions of rebels, but we can't beat a single official dog?" (To be continued...)