The handsome tent is located in the tower above Donghua Gate. There are traces of fireworks and the walls are scorched black. However, the urn city of Donghua Gate is extremely strong. Even if a large number of people and equipment are used to destroy it, it will not be destroyed in a short time.
Destroyed. Of course, it is more likely that the Huaidong Army deliberately wanted them to see the hope of holding the outer city, hoping that they would jump into this pit.
How can you not jump into this trap?
She Wenzhuang paced back and forth, his cotton robe swaying with the candlelight on the side wall. She Feihu, Tian Chang, Su Tingzhan, Yu Wenshan, Fang Zhenhe, Luo Wenhu and others all looked at him with their breath, waiting for him to win the final
idea.
Although Jiangning City is open, the open Jiangning City is like a monster with its bloody mouth open, revealing the irresistible temptation inside, waiting for them to get in and bite it.
She Wenzhuang suddenly stood still, and everyone's hearts skipped a beat. They saw the Governor slowly turning around, his haggard and skinny face even darker under the shadow of the candlelight. He spoke with a hoarse and cold voice that left no room for doubt.
The voice said: "All the troops and horses on the right wing were handed over to the command of Feihu. According to the Donghua Gate, we should resist the strong enemy on Prison Island and attack the imperial city. We will destroy the imperial city and plunder it for seven days. He also informed the generals that Yue Emperor Yuan Jianwu was running.
After leaving Chizhou, Su Tingzhan immediately led 8,000 elite troops to march westward. Tian Chang immediately returned south and joined the main force of the Central Army. They marched westward from the northern foot of Maoshan Mountain and pursued Chizhou to Pochizhou. They were also allowed to plunder for seven days.
.I will personally lead the remaining troops and station them to quarry stones to prevent the Jiangzhou Army from advancing eastward..."
The discussion lasted until late at night, who would have thought that the Governor would make such a decision.
Luo Wenhu opened his mouth and said: "When Emperor Yue moved west along the Yangtze River, he was probably going to Luzhou, and it was unlikely that he would go to Chizhou!"
Su Tingzhan, Tian Chang and others looked at Luo Wenhu, their eyes squinted and their mouths crooked, thinking in their hearts: The fool is indeed a fool, the governor is telling a huge lie, not to deceive the Huaidong Army and Jiangzhou Army, but to deceive the Huaidong Army and Jiangzhou Army.
He wanted to deceive the ordinary generals of the Zhejiang and Fujian armies.
When the Huaidong Army and the Jiangzhou Army surrounded them, their combined strength would be more than 130,000. Even if the Zhejiang and Fujian Army retracted Zheng Mingjing's left wing, and the Zhejiang and Fujian Army plus the surrendered soldiers, there would only be a total of 80,000 troops, and they could attack without division.
opportunity, the military disadvantage is too great.
The imperial city was still standing, and the morale of the army was uncertain. When the Huaidong Army and the Jiangzhou Army came hand in hand, it was too difficult to defend the outer city, so Shewenzhuang made up his mind to leave.
I want to leave, but how?
When Jiangning City opened its four gates and walked in, he turned around and left. How should he explain to the generals?
Su Tingzhan, Tian Chang and other senior generals knew that Jiangning City was a bait for Huaidong, and they also knew that in war, the strong should avoid bullying the weak, but this principle did not make sense to ordinary generals, so lies were needed.
How to tell a lie?
That is, the Zhejiang and Fujian troops not only want to capture Jiangning City, but also capture Yue Emperor Yuan Jianwu!
In fact, the few people who could sit in the handsome tent to discuss matters were not fools. Even Luo Wenhu knew that the possibility of Emperor Yongxing going to Chizhou was quite small.
Chizhou is close to the river and sandwiched between Jiangzhou and Jiangning. Jiangzhou is crumbling. In the minds of Emperor Yongxing and Jiangning officials who abandoned Jiangning, the city of Jiangning is also unsafe.
Should Emperor Yongxing go to Chizhou City, which was about to be attacked by two armies of Zhejiang and Fujian armies, or to go to Luzhou, an important town in Huaixi with Yangtze River, Huaishan Mountain, and Huaidong barrier on the periphery? This question is not difficult to answer.
However, as long as they put on a show and let the sentry cavalry come back and lie that the Yue Emperor is heading for Chizhou along Jiangxi, senior generals such as She Wenzhuang, She Feihu, Tian Chang, Su Tingzhan, etc. will not question it, and ordinary generals will also
Believe it to be true.
The Yue Emperor abandoned the city and fled westward, and most of the Jiangning officials accompanied him.
As long as ordinary generals are made to believe that Emperor Yue has gone to Chizhou, countless generals will surely scream and demand to pursue westward!
Let She Feihu stay in Jiangning and be responsible for leading the troops to attack the imperial city. The purpose is to make the lie look more real so that the generals below will not be able to question it.
Nearly two-thirds of the right-wing troops who stayed to attack the imperial city surrendered to the imperial army. Even if there were nearly 4,000 troops left to temporarily form a navy, the navy would naturally follow the westward pursuit and stay behind to truly
Those who can be considered direct descendants of the She family can only be said to be six or seven thousand people - even if these six or seven thousand people cannot break out in the end, it is still the price that must be paid to preserve the main force.
Luo Wenhu saw the different expressions on everyone's faces. It took him a while to realize it, and he cursed in his heart: Damn it, isn't this the golden cicada escaping from its shell? Thinking that the more than 10,000 soldiers and horses he had finally gathered together might be here,
It hurts in his heart, but it's better than leaving it to himself.
She Wenzhuang looked at Su Tingzhan and said, "Tingzhan, what do you think?"
Su Tingzhan licked his lips. Most of the soldiers and horses on the right wing were his direct descendants. She Wenzhuang meant that in addition to the 4,000 navy troops, he would be supplied with 4,000 elite soldiers. However, following the old brothers who had been through life and death, in the end,
The probability of breaking out is not too high, making it difficult for him to give up.
Su Tingzhan swallowed hard and said: "I will obey the orders of the Grand Governor."
She Wenzhuang looked at his son She Feihu and said: "If you can capture the imperial city before the main force of the Huaidong Army arrives, then defend Jiangning City, and I will lead my troops to assist Jiangning; otherwise, you will abandon Donghua Gate and go to Jiangning."
Go west..."
She Feihu nodded. As a child of the She family, he must be willing to make sacrifices for the She family at this time.
They failed to attack the imperial city, and after the main force of Huaidong soldiers and horses arrived, they abandoned Jiangning and fled. It was not so much a retreat as a flight for their lives. If the Huaidong army pursued, it would be impossible for many soldiers and horses to escape.
Several people here came to an agreement, and Shewenzhuang immediately summoned the generals above the battalion general for a military meeting, and arranged for hidden stakes and outposts to meet Emperor Yongxing's escape from Chizhou.
The successive victories made ordinary generals of the Zhejiang and Fujian armies become greedy, aggressive and arrogant.
Before Shewenzhuang decided to escape the golden cicada, Su Zhanting, Tian Chang, She Feihu and others, even if they knew in their hearts that there was a murderous intention hidden in Jiangning City, why didn't they want to take a gamble?
Many generals were not satisfied with the massacre and plundering of Lishui, so they thought of going to Jiangning and fighting hard. However, when they heard that the Yue Emperor and officials from Jiangning were fleeing to the west, they were even more excited and screamed, "No need to go to Wenzhuang"
Or when Su Tingzhan and others were acting, several generals would stand up and ask for a follow-up pursuit.
For a long time, the elimination of the Jiangning regime and the capture of the Yue Emperor Yuan Jianwu alive have been the important goals of the Zhejiang and Fujian troops marching north to invade Jiangning.
Since ordinary generals believed that the Yue Emperor and all the officials in the city had fled to Chizhou, it was logical to pursue them one after another.
Of course, in addition to the desire to obtain more dazzling military exploits, the Yue Emperor and officials throughout the city must have brought many gold, silver, jewelry, and accompanying beauties, which also made it difficult to restrain their greed.
She Wenzhuang immediately decided to divide his troops and march westward, leaving She Feihu in Jiangning to defend the prison island. He immediately organized an attack on the imperial city and occupied the entire Jiangning city. Other troops immediately marched westward to attack Chizhou and promised to break the city.
That is, the promise of massacre and plunder.
The navy that was temporarily reorganized in the upper reaches of the Rouge River gave up the plan to storm Prison Island, and immediately recruited another 4,000 elite troops to board the ship, and headed upstream to Jiangxi at dawn.
The main force of nearly 20,000 soldiers and horses in the middle route was still on the way to Jiangning. In the end, Shewenzhuang decided that he and Tian Chang would go back south to join the main force of soldiers and horses in the middle route, go west directly from the northern foot of Maoshan Mountain, and attack Nanling and Qingyang.
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She Feihu immediately took over the right-wing troops and organized an attack on the imperial city with Yu Wenshan and Luo Wenhu as deputy generals.
Naturally, a secret order will be sent to Liyang and handed over to Zheng Mingjing, so that he can choose the opportunity to move westward, but it will not be too urgent, and the left wing troops will need to stay in Liyang to confuse the judgment of the Huaidong Army.
In addition, as long as Zheng Mingjing led his troops to block Liyang, the Huaidong army would not dare to run away. For She Feihu, there were still seven to ten days to attack the imperial city.
Why does She Feihu want to be a bereaved dog? In seven to ten days, it might not be impossible to capture the imperial city. It is necessary to give it a try, it is worth a try, and it is necessary to confuse the Huaidong Army's judgment.
Jiangning City was a trap that the Zhejiang and Fujian Army had to step into, and the nearly 30,000 troops and horses on the right wing of the Zhejiang and Fujian Army was a bait that the Huaidong Army could not refuse.
She Wenzhuang, Tian Chang, Su Tingzhan, Fang Zhenhe and others left one after another.
She Feihu immediately arranged the deployment with Yu Wenshan and Luo Wenhu. He abandoned the camp outside the city that night, and the right-wing troops immediately stationed at nine gates in the four cities. Two battalions of soldiers were arranged in each of the other eight gates to suppress the rebels and mobs. The main right-wing force was 15,000.
More than a thousand people gathered inside Donghua Gate and launched an offensive against the Imperial City, which was only five hundred miles away from Donghua Gate.
In melting snow weather, the roads are wet and slippery, and the temperature in Hangzhou is not cold enough to freeze the muddy roads all day long. Huaidong soldiers and horses marching north often break camp at dawn, and by the end of the day, the roads are so rotten that it is difficult to walk.
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The supplies of the Huaidong Army can be said to be more abundant than those of the imperial army, but waterproof leather riding boots can only be used up to the rank of captain. Ordinary soldiers still have cotton soles tied with hemp rope to prevent slipping when marching in winter.
Hangzhou and Huzhou have been busy with wars in recent years, and the post roads have been in disrepair for many years.
Often when thousands of people have passed by in front of them, the original appearance of the road is no longer visible. Once you step into the mud, it takes a lot of effort to pull it out. For elites who can travel hundreds of miles in a day, on this kind of road,
After walking thirty or forty miles a day, I was exhausted.
It was not until noon on the 27th that the main force of the Huaidong Army arrived at Deqing County in the north of Hangzhou.
"Damn it, if I had known earlier, it would have been better to have the Chongcheng army go to Chongzhou for repairs before going to Jiangning!" Lin Fu couldn't help but complain when he looked at such a bad road.
Since it was unfavorable for large sea ships to enter the Yangtze River in autumn and winter, the Second Water Camp actually did not have any extra warships to transport the infantry of the Chongcheng Army from the west to Jiangning. Therefore, Lin Fu decided to send the Chongcheng Army to Xiaoshan and follow Changshan.
After the main force of the army reunited, they headed north.
The combined forces are strong, and it is necessary to prevent the Zhejiang and Fujian armies from retreating to Huizhou. The real battlefield is likely to be in the Guangde and Liyang areas. The original decision to let the Chongcheng army enter Xiaoshan to rest was not wrong, but it was different who encountered such a situation.
I can’t help but complain about the bad roads.
The post roads along both sides of the Yangtze River need to be repaired all the time, and the condition is naturally much better than the post roads in northern Zhejiang.
Furthermore, it is colder along the Yangtze River, which means the roads will remain frozen for longer.
Chen Huawen led the horse and when he heard Lin Fu's complaint, he didn't respond. He raised his head and looked into the distance, unable to see the end of the team at a glance.
The front of the army has already camped in the west of Guangde City. They are in the middle and rear of the entire army, and they are still more than ten miles away from entering the camp to rest.
After the fall of Liyang, the main force of the Hanghu Army was destroyed. The news that Meng Yishan's life and death were unknown did not reach Hangzhou until late at night on the 25th. After the fall of Liyang, the northern foot of Xiling was controlled by the rebels. If you want to get more news about Jiangning, you have to
Make a big circle from Danyang.
Lin Fu and Chen Huawen did not know the situation of Jiangning City at this time, but the main forces of the Zhejiang and Fujian armies were moving north. Calculated, there were 40,000 to 50,000 troops rushing to Jiangning City. Even if the Huaidong Army and Dongyang Army were slow,
It should also be possible to enter Prison Island one after another before nightfall today. But as long as the main force here cannot get through, there will be no possibility of a battle.
Lin Fu was also anxious: if the Zhejiang and Fujian troops spared Jiangning and turned westward, Yue Lengqiu would block them; if the old fox at Shewenzhuang immediately retreated south, they would bite Zhejiang and Fujian in the north of Ning State.
To get to the rear of the army, we have to hurry up.
Zhang Gou and Chen Kuili did not lead their troops into Dongyang County until the 25th. After wiping out three thousand enemies, they forced the remaining defenders to abandon their weapons and surrender.
Lin Fu was able to put aside his worries about the back line in eastern Zhejiang on the 25th, and immediately ordered Chen Kuili to lead his troops to take over the defense of Dongyang County, Luoheshan Defense Village and Shengzhou. Zhang Gou led his troops north to Xiaoshan to rest and recuperate.
The main forces of the Shan Army and the Chongcheng Army also accelerated their march northward from that day forward.
Chen Huawen also led 3,000 Haiyu troops to accompany him.
The soldiers and horses marched under the leadership of the general, and Chen Huawen accompanied Lin Fu.
Lin Fu saw him depressed and thought that he was probably unhappy because the main force of the Hanghu Army was destroyed in Liyang, which made it difficult for the Chen family to have any other choice.
A dozen people on horseback came from the wheat field on the left side of the post road, led by Tang Fuguan, deputy commander of the Chongcheng Army, Chen Zhi and others.
There was nothing strange at the front, and Tang Fuguan, Chen Zhi and others were responsible for supervising the march of the troops in the front formation. Seeing them coming together, Song Fu, who was sitting in the front of the carriage, perked up and said, "It should be someone important in Jiangning."
The news came..."
"These turtles can't get enough of fighting in Eastern Fujian. They can't wait to rush to Jiangning to work hard; I don't know if the She family can do what they want!" Lin Fu said with a smile, reining in the horse and waiting for Tang Fu to watch them.
He galloped over and asked, "What message did you intercept in advance?"
"The Emperor abandoned Jiangning and fled westward on the night of the 25th!" Tang Fuguan held in his hand the message that had just arrived from Jiangning and detoured to Danyang. He dismounted and said, "Mr. Gao also has a secret letter sent back from Jiangning!"
"Fuck!" Lin Fu subconsciously uttered a curse word from the corner of his mouth, Song Fu smiled slightly, Zhou Pu and other generals' eyes flashed, and Chen Huawen was stunned on the spot - Xiang Chen's hard work and the thousands of generals who died in Liyang
What meaning does death have left at this moment? What meaning does the Chen family have for being loyal to the court and the emperor all these years?