Chapter 130 Trapped Beast

The battle in Jiayu County was just a small episode. After solving the problem of Li Wanshan's officers and water army, Xiao Tianjian's fleet basically encountered no effective obstacles and began to accelerate towards Hanyang.

However, good things often take a long time, and if you want to hurry, you can't do it. However, when Xiao Tianjian's soldiers arrived in Hanyang, something happened, which attracted Xiao Tianjian's attention and also affected Xing Tianjun's offensive plan for Wuchang Mansion.

It was also when Xiao Tianjian led the troops and Liu Yao met. There was an epidemic in the criminal army. Many generals from the north suddenly began to have a stomachache. Many people were in a mess. They were not only the people led by Xiao Tianjian, but also the people of Liu Yaoben and Luo Li, who had already beaten Hanyang. A similar situation has occurred.

At first, the situation was not very serious. At first, when they first took Xiangyang, this situation had already happened sporadically, but it did not attract enough attention from the generals. This kind of small matter was not reflected to Xiao Tianjian, but by this time, the situation became more and more serious. Up, there have been a large number of non-combat commits in all departments.

When Xiao Tianjian first heard about it, he didn't pay attention to it at first, but when the army arrived in Hanyang, Xiao Tianjian found that the situation was already not optimistic. Many soldiers who got off the ship, even those who were carried off the ship, even Situ Liang, who had always been fierce, were a little He was out of shape and was hung up before getting off the boat, so he hurriedly asked the medical officer, and then he knew the seriousness of the matter.

The main reason for the original occurrence of this situation is that many soldiers from the Central Plains are mostly caused by the unconvinced water and soil, because after going south, at the same time, because of the structure of diet has changed, these soldiers who are used to eating northern rice, suddenly arrived in the Yangtze River basin with many aquatic products, on the one hand, the staple food was changed to rice. On the other hand, in the face of the readily available fresh fish, first I was not used to it, and then I ate it quickly. In addition, I took raw water on the spot to drink, which made my stomach suddenly unable to bear it, resulting in diarrhea.

At the same time, because it is summer in the south, the temperature is very high. As soon as the water bags and kettles carry with the soldiers, the water will deteriorate. It is strange that they don't have to have a stomach when they drink it. In addition, there are also mosquitoes in the Huguang area because there are many rivers and lakes, mosquitoes in summer. Some military even appear. In the case of malaria, malaria is a very serious infectious disease in this era. In this era, there is no specific medicine for malaria, and it is very contagious. Once it gets it, it is very difficult to cure and attack repeatedly.

After understanding this situation, Xiao Tianjian hurriedly ordered to suspend the crossing of the river to attack Wuchang. He ordered that no one in the army should directly access the river water when drinking water in the future, but must be boiled and cooled to drink, and a large number of teas captured by the generals in various places will be distributed for The soldiers make tea to mediate the intestines and stomach and avoid or reduce the occurrence of diarrhea caused by water and soil.

In addition, when the battalion is resting, try to find some wormwood and other things as much as possible to ignite, so as to repel mosquitoes and reduce mosquito bites. The management of the field toilets in the barracks has also been strengthened. It is strictly forbidden for anyone to urinate randomly. If you catch it, you will be severely punished. Then a large amount of quicklime is collected from nearby and spread it in the camp. This is used for disinfection.

At the same time, all departments are asked to search for some famous doctors to enter the army as much as possible, strengthen the number of military medical officers, diagnose and treat sick soldiers in the army, and at the same time send people to the surrounding procurement to collect medicinal materials for military use. For those soldiers who have suffered from malaria, they will be picked out and find one separately. Isolation and treatment in various places can be used to control the spread of the epidemic in the army. Fortunately, although it was found a little late, the actions taken were very decisive and timely, and the epidemic was quickly controlled. Otherwise, for Xing Tianjun, the blow was really not small.

But in this way, Xiao Tianjian was also delayed for ten days, so that the attack on Wuchang was delayed until September before it was officially launched.

However, the benefit is that Luo Li's clean-up operation on the periphery of Wuchang has made more progress. After Xiao Tianjian led a large number of warships down the Yangtze River and arrived in Hanyang, the strength of the Xing Tianjun's water army completely overwhelmed Wuchang's officers and navy, forcing Wuchang's officers and soldiers to retreat to Wu. In Changcheng, many warships were abandoned on the river and became the booty of the Xingtian Army.

At the same time, after a large number of warships came to help, all the troops of the Xingtian Army also took control over the river. A large number of Xingtian Army warships down the river quickly cut off the connection between Wuchang on the upper and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, so that Luo Li easily captured Huangzhou in the lower reaches of Wuchang, and with the help of the water army. Crossing the river and capturing Ezhou City in one fell swoop, not only cutting off the connection between Wuchang and the downstream from the waterway, but even on the land, Xing Tianjun began to threaten the east of Wuchang.

In these days, the officers and soldiers of Wuchang Prefecture can be said to have done nothing. They did not take any action to stop the Xingtian Army at all. With the new army of the King of Chu as the main force, the whole army has basically retreated back to Wuchang City, and the military strength is far less than that of the new army of the King of Chu. Because of the poor military, they have no fighting spirit. They all retreated into Wuchang City, and even some officers and soldiers simply fled from Wuchang at night, or took off their military uniforms and went away to another place to make a living, or simply directly defected to the Xing Tianjun and sold all the situation in Wuchang City to the Xingtian Army.

It can be said that before Xiao Tianjian completed the offensive deployment of Wuchang, Xing Tianjun already knows the situation of Wuchang, and basically no one doubts whether Xing Tianjun can remove Wuchang.

On the tenth day of September, Xiao Tianjian officially issued an order to attack Wuchangfu. A large number of Xingtian's military personnel on the north bank of the river immediately began to rush to the riverside to board the ship. Nearly a thousand ships, full of Xingtian soldiers, formed a scene of thousands of sails on the wide river surface of the Yangtze River.

In just two days, the water camp transported nearly 30,000 Xingtian soldiers to the south bank of the Yangtze River, and with little effort, it eliminated a small number of officers and soldiers outside the city who tried to intercept the Xingtian Army and completely surrounded Wuchang City.

At this time, Song Yihe's Zuoshu was also sent to the capital and placed on Chongzhen's desk. Chongzhen looked at this Zuoshu and didn't even have the strength to be angry. At this time, it can be said that it was completely rotten. Among the Zuoshu sent from all over the world, he was even better. There is no news. The whole southwestern part of the mountain has been lost. The number of thieves in the northern Shuozhou is increasing day by day. Xuanda's soldiers and horses have nothing to do with it! And a large number of thieves have appeared in the northern Shaanxi border town, and there are many border guards who defected to the thief army because of the lack of service!

Henan was all occupied by the Xingtian Army. Li Zicheng Fuzhen occupied Hanzhong. Zhang Xianzhonggu City was resurrified and was merged by the Xingtian Army. Zuo Liangyu lost Jingzhou Prefecture, and the whole army was lost. Yuezhou was lost, Changsha was also lost, Suizhou was lost, and De'an Prefecture was also conquered by the Xingtian Army!

Sun Chuanting failed to advance in Zhangde Mansion, and Shandong Liu Liangzuo's soldiers and horses were defeated in Kaocheng. Now Wuchang is estimated to lose it. How much bad news can there be?

So much bad news is concentrated on Chongzhen's desk, so that Chongzhen doesn't know how to do it! Who else can control Xing Tianjun now? He sat in a daze on the dragon chair and looked at the desk full of bad news.

Ask Ding Qirui? Forget it! What can I do if I arrest and kill Ding Qirui? Who will be sent to deal with Xing Tianjun? At least Ding Qirui made it clear that the thief is getting bigger and bigger, and Huguang is already incurable. Now the key is to guard Nanzhili, Zhejiang and other places. In this way, it can still support some time, so that the capital will not cut off the grain of the south and lose to the capital. Although Chongzhen is unwilling to admit this, he has to accept this fact. Huguang is more important, but it is not as important as Nan Zhili. The goal of the criminal thief is actually very clear, that is, to take Huguang first, and then enter Nan Zhili. Once Nan Zhili is also lost, then his Ming Dynasty will be completely finished. Therefore, Ding Qirui and the officials of Nan Zhili are also good. At present, the southern officials have been However, it is not the opponent of Xing Tianjun. Now if Nan Zhili's soldiers and horses are also put into the Huguang battlefield, once they are defeated, Nan Zhili will also be in danger.

So arrest Song Yihe? Joke! Song Yihe is now trapped in Wuchang Mansion. At least, he is still trying his best to defend his Zhu family. Wuchang Mansion is about to be lost. Even if Song Yihe is arrested, what's the use? In that case, Wuchang estimated that he would lose it faster!

Song Yihe impeached Shao Jiechun, but Shao Jiechun was also sent to the capital to play. Chen Ming the current situation in Sichuan. The thief Li Zicheng revived in the Han Dynasty, and his strength was restored to tens of thousands of horses again. There were signs that he could not stay in the Han Dynasty and coveted Sichuan to the south. Shao Jiechun was in Sichuan. He was busy with Li Zicheng alone. It's going to die. Support Huguang, hehe! If he went in person, I guess there would be no good way!

As soon as Yang Sichang died, Chongzhen found that there was a capable assistant around him. Although Chen Xinjia replaced Yang Sichang in Beijing, this person was obviously not as good as Yang Sichang. Now Chongzhen misses Yang Sichang who died a little. If he hadn't been angry at the beginning and drove Yang Sichang to Huguang at the beginning of the year, Yang Sichang I guess I won't die so early, and I guess I can give him some advice.

Now Chongzhen thought about it carefully and found that the only elite soldiers that the imperial court can use now is probably only the soldiers and horses from all departments of Guanning in the north! However, now that Jiannu has just left the customs at the beginning of the year, he has begun to be ready to move again during this period. It seems that he has an idea about Ning Yuan's use of troops. Ningyuan's governor and Jin Guofeng have sent people to rush into Beijing. Chen asked the court to send reinforcements to Ning Yuan.

Once Guanwai Jiannu joins the banditment again at this time, won't he be finished in the Ming Dynasty? Chongzhen stood up upset and walked back and forth in the hall, and ideas came to his mind one by one. What should he do? What should I do? Is it possible that the Ming Dynasty, who was watching him like this, slipped towards the abyss of destruction?

At this time, an original idea "Mation!" suddenly appeared in Chongzhen's mind.