During the Chenghua period, the imperial court resettled millions of refugees from Jingxiang and Xiangyang in Yunyang. Today, Yunyang has become the last city of the imperial court in the Chu region. Yunyang City was originally the location of Yunyang Fuzhi Hospital, but Yunfu King Yongzuo had already fled.
Yes, even now, Gao Doushu, who has been guarding Yunyang for more than a year, is not the real governor of Yunyang.
The imperial court was extremely suspicious of Gao Doushu. This was mainly because Wang Yongzuo, the official governor of Yunyang, left Yunyang and moved to Xiangyang, Wuchang and other places. As Wang Yongzuo's deputy, Gao Doushu joined forces with Xu Qiyuan, the prefect of Yunyang Prefecture, and the Yun army guerrilla Wang Guangen.
Together with Li Maochun and others, they appointed officials and garrison generals from Junzhou, Gucheng, Fangxian, Zhuxi and other places to recruit troops and form a strong Yun army.
For Gao Doushu, his approach was to try his best to save himself in the frenzy of invasion troops sweeping across Huguang; but for the imperial court, his approach was to ignore the country's discipline, recruit troops, and become a vassal and a separatist power.
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Therefore, the imperial court was extremely distrustful of Gao Doushu. Even though Wang Yongzuo had been defeated and fled, it still refused to grant Gao Doushu the official title of governor of Yunyang. Instead, it repeatedly wanted to transfer Gao Doushu to be the governor of Hanzhong or the governor of Shaanxi.
After the Ghost Festival, Li Guo had already mobilized his troops to go north, and Li Laiheng was also actively planning to launch a general offensive against Yunyang. At this time, the imperial court received a report on the situation in Yunyang Mansion from Hanzhong and Xing'an, and Gao Dou asked Xi'an to suppress the general.
He reported all the circumstances of Yunyang to the imperial court, hoping to obtain official recognition from the imperial court as the governor of Yunyang and obtain certain assistance.
But at this time, Chongzhen still considered stirring up dissent as the best strategy. The emperor did not appoint Gao Doushu to take charge of the overall war in Yunyang. Instead, he promoted Xu Qiyuan, the prefect of Yunyang Prefecture, to govern Yunyang, and only appointed Gao Doushu as the imperial servant Shaoqing.
This approach made Gao Doushu very disappointed, and made Wang Guangen and other Guanying people who attached themselves to Gao Doushu because of their enmity with the Chuang army feel that their future was not bright.
Soon after, as the war situation in Yunyang Prefecture worsened sharply, Gao Doushu became more interested in returning to Beijing from Hanzhong and Xi'an. However, Xu Qiyuan, who temporarily served as the governor of Yunyang, knew that his talents were limited, so he begged in every possible way. In desperation, Gao Doushu had no choice but to continue.
He stayed in Yunyang City and opened a separate office outside Fuyuan.
Gao Doushu started his career as an official of the Ministry of Punishment. He was a "technical bureaucrat" who was familiar with the name of Qian Gu. Later, he went to the local level to serve as the prefect of Jingzhou and the Bingbei Road in Changsha. He was a rare powerful figure among the officials of the Ming Dynasty.
But at this moment, Gao Doushu's heart was full of confusion. Of course, he still insisted on his absolute loyalty to the court and Emperor Chongzhen, but due to his understanding of military affairs, Gao Doushu could also feel that with the development of Zuo Liangyu's military group
Destroyed, Chuang Jun seemed to be completely unable to hold on.
This flame burning in the Central Plains and Sanchu land is no longer just a flame. From this flame, new firewood and new fuel have been born. It has the ability to continue and advance itself.
The energy has become a movement that can no longer be "pressed".
Even if Sun Chuanting comes out of seclusion now, even if he has amazing good luck and can defeat Li Zicheng, can the Qin army continue to wipe out Chu? What's more, Sun Chuanting's situation is so bad, and Emperor Chongzhen's urging is so urgent.
Gao Doushu was not ignorant of military matters. On the contrary, his shrewdness and ability told him that the imperial court was about to end!
However, the more precarious the world situation and the Ming Dynasty became, the more Gao Doushu felt that he had the responsibility to maintain the few remaining assets for Emperor Chongzhen.
The office where he currently works is located next to Xu Qiyuan's Fuyuan. Xu Qiyuan is very self-aware and does not become arrogant just because he was promoted to be the Fuzhi of Yunyang.
The person in charge of the city is actually Gao Doushu.
"When the mountains are left with water, when will God descend on Fenyang? When will the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty be able to collect Hannan and Hanbei again?"
Gao Doushu looked at the depressed and dilapidated atmosphere in Yunyang City, and his chest was filled with an air of depression that was difficult to express. He threw the pen aside, and with a click, the inkstone even broke out into a gap. The inkstone cracked, and this kind of literati regarded it very badly.
The ominous omen made Gao Doushu's mood even worse.
He stood up and ordered his servants to open all the windows. The summer rain moistened the city of Yunyang, and the gentle breeze blew a few water droplets into the house, wetting the paperwork on the table.
"Is it raining?"
Gao Doushu asked the old servant next to him dubiously. The old servant bent down and carefully replied to the master who had served him for more than ten years: "It's raining. General Hui, who came back from Zhushan, said that the difference between Zhushan and Zhuxi counties is
The rain is many times heavier than in Yunyang."
"Okay, finally there is good news. This rain has come in time. Not only can it help us fill up the ditches in the moat, but it can also make the mountain roads muddy. How can the intruders attack the city?"
Gao Doushu breathed a long sigh of relief. This late summer rain at the right time seemed to temporarily extinguish the fire of anxiety in his heart, and also seemed to give Yunyang City, which was besieged by the intruders, a glimmer of hope.
"Is Prime Minister Hui Deng back? How many troops and horses has he brought? Come on, I want to see Prime Minister Hui Deng quickly."
The current troops defending Yunyang are dominated by Wang Guangen, but "Huntianxing" Hui Dengxiang, who surrendered to the army along with Wang Guangen, is now also entrenched in Zhushan County and Zhuxi County.
Hua Guansuo and Hun Tianxing are both Li Laiheng's "old friends". They both believe that even if they surrender to the Chuang Army, they may not be able to get Li Laiheng's forgiveness. Regardless of Li Laiheng's personal character, according to their understanding, even Liu Xiyao
, Lin Chengcheng, a general who was an ally of the Chu army, joined Li Laiheng's command, and his deployment was also completely adapted.
As for Ma Jinzhong and other old Zuozhen generals who surrendered to Li Laiheng some time ago, they are still attending classes at Suiying School in Suizhou.
Therefore, Wang Guangen and Prime Minister Hui Deng knew that they could not take any chances with Li Laiheng, so they devoted all their energy and gathered their troops into Yunyang City, the last city controlled by the imperial court in the north of Huguang, in a desperate struggle and survival.
Because Miao Lichen, the general of the Chuang Army, went north from Fang County to attack Zhushan. He was a miner in Pingfengzhai, Song County, Henan Province, and was best at civil engineering. This time when he attacked Zhushan County, Miao Lichen built an earthen platform for ten meters overnight.
There are several earth platforms: one layer is made of earth, one layer is paved with wheat straw, and the height is a little higher than the city wall of Zhushan County. Each platform is two feet long and one foot wide, and is stacked with bricks and stones.
Attack the city with gunfire.
Although Li Laiheng concentrated most of the heavy Hongyi artillery in the artillery mark, during this time the Chuang army used materials from Xiangyang and Hankou to expand its army and produced a very large number of bird guns and light artillery.
In addition to being equipped with the latest and heaviest muskets and cannons, other units of the Breaking Army are also equipped with a large number of firearms.
Therefore, after Miao Lichen built an earthen platform in Zhushan County, he condescendingly attacked the city with muskets and cannons. Although Prime Minister Hui Deng tried his best to fight back, he fired shotguns, threw fire pots and burned the earthen platform, and even organized a commando team to leave the city the next night.
Destroy.
However, due to the lack of military strength, they ultimately failed to accomplish much, so they had no choice but to abandon Zhushan and Zhuxi counties and head north to Yunyang.
In his mind, Gao Doushu regarded the mixed camp that had retreated to Yunyang as a new force, but when he saw with his own eyes the appearance of the officers and soldiers under Prime Minister Hui Deng's command, he was not only greatly disappointed, but also shocked.
Since Prime Minister Hui Deng surrendered to the army, he has been under the command of Zuozhen for a long time, and has been completely imbued with the "excellent atmosphere" of the Zuozhen. What's more, now that the mixed camp has been defeated back to Yunyang, the military discipline is even worse, and they are pouring in
After entering the city, under the pretext of lack of food, without waiting for Gao Doushu and Xu Qiyuan to transfer military rations, they took action themselves and rushed into many houses. Not only did they loot the rice and vegetables, but they also didn't even put away other people's clothes, hats, underwear, and straw sandals.