Chapter 104 Bingwei Chengtianfu

Since Zuo Liangyu was pushed to the area of Jingzhou, he knew that Jingzhou would become the target of the next Xingtian army to attack, so he sent people to Nanjing three times a day to ask for help. On the other hand, he built warships in the area of Jingzhou and plundered the area. At the same time, all the men over 15 years old and under the age of 50 around Jingzhou were captured into the army. Be a soldier in the battalion.

Zuo Liangyu can be said to be familiar with this kind of thing, and his son Zuo Menggeng is even more cruel and unkind. He not only robs men to enter the army, but also the beautiful young woman was also ordered by him to be abought into the army as a military prostitute.

In this way, not long after Zuo Liangyu returned to Chengtian Mansion, he actually gathered more than 100,000 troops, known as 300,000 soldiers. In order to solve the problem of these soldiers and horses eating, drinking food and salary, Zuo Liangyu is even more local. This time, the big rope is not only for the poor, but also the homes of the powerful. Don't let it go. First, they sent people to force them, and if they didn't give or little, they immediately sent troops to attack their village and made the best of their wealth. Even their wives and concubines were abted into the army to serve the soldiers and generals.

Suddenly, the area around Jingzhou became hell on earth. In this regard, Zuo Liangyu did more than many Rebels. At least the rebels usually targeted the rich, but Zuo Liangyu treated everyone equally.

Although Xing Tianjun also solves the military capital problem by looting the homes of rich land sovereign nobles, he rarely infringes on ordinary rich households and small landlords. He only chooses famous big landlords and powerful people from all over the world to do it, and kills as little as possible. Therefore, except for the particularly large land sovereign nobles who are afraid of Xing Tianjun, it is generally The small landlords and rich households did not resist the Xing Tianjun very much.

However, when Zuo Liangyu did this, he offended everyone in the whole area around Jingzhou. After many rich families broke down, they went to Wuchang to find Song Yihe, the newly appointed governor of Huguang, to sue him. Song Yihe was originally a military supervisor in Henan. Because of his achievements, he was transferred to the imperial history of the Huguang Inspectorate. Now because Xiangyang was defeated by Xing Tianjun, and Fang Kongzhao, the former governor of Huguang, was ordered by the emperor to be dismissed, so he was just promoted to governor of Hubei.

After Song Yihe learned the news that Zuo Liangyu was in Chengtianfu, Jingmen and Jingzhou, he immediately sent someone to scold Zuo Liangyu and restrain him a little. He also wrote to him in person and asked him not to do so. Otherwise, Jingzhou would be unprecated.

But how can Zuo Liangyu listen to him now? Thinking that Yang Sichang can't do anything about him, how can Song Yihe suppress him? In order to save Jingzhou, Zuo Liangyu can be said to be crazy. He tore up Song Yihe's letter directly and ignored him at all. However, Chengtianfu patrolled Li Zhensheng to find Zuo Liangyu's theory and was also driven out by Zuo Liangyu, so no one can control him at present.

After solving Zhang Xianzhong's trouble, Xing Tianjun began to go south in Xiangyang on the tenth day of June. At this time, after the efforts of the whole army, Xing Tianjun collected hundreds of ships on the river in the Xiangfan area, including nearly 100 large ships and hundreds of small and medium-sized ships, and Yang Kun, the deputy capital of Henan Water Camp. At this time, Shan had led 500 water battalion soldiers from Luoyang to Xiangyang, took over the fleet here, and recruited more than 2,000 soldiers in Xiangyang on the spot. After simple training, he took over these ships and began to go south.

And Xing Tianjun was also very popular in Xiangyang because of the act of requisitioning the ship. When requisitioning the ship, he did not take the method of forced rope, but paid the ship owner and guaranteed that once the ship was only damaged, Xing Tianjun would compensate for its losses, so when he knew that Xing Tianjun When he was about to go south to attack Jingzhou, many boat people around came to help fight, so in addition to more than 2,000 sailors organized by Yang Kunshan, there were more than 2,000 boat people who went south with the boat to help the battle this time.

In addition, after Luo Rucai and Li Shuanzhu took Fancheng in April, they began to recruit people to build ships in the area of Fancheng for southward use, so all kinds of ships together basically solved the problem of capacity.

With Xiao Tianjian's order, all the people, horses and heavy burdens began to load the ship. In addition, some people and horses took land along the south of the Yangtze River, went both water and land, and rushed to Chengtianfu.

Originally, with the ability of Xing Tianjun, if Zuo Liangyu fought with the fleet of Xing Tianjun on the water, it can be said that it is difficult for Xing Tianjun to win. It is much more difficult to train the water army than to train the step army. However, Zuo Liangyu has been really scared by Xing Tianjun over the years. In addition, there are too many new recruits in his army now. It is very difficult for the limited generals to control these recruits, so although he has a hundred warships in Jingzhou, he does not dare to take the initiative to go against the water to meet the fleet of Xing Tianjun.

Therefore, under the guidance of Yang Kunshan, the fleet of Xingtian Army opened the way with only more than 20 pieces of battleships. Unexpectedly, the safe Shunhan water arrived at Fengledu, which was dozens of miles away from Chengtianfu, and unloaded the ship with the Xingtian military supplies and horses loaded with the ship.

At the same time, the cavalry on land and several war camps also arrived to the north of Chengtianfu one after another. Along the way, they also captured Yicheng County. The soldiers swept away some hostile forces on both sides of the Han and water along the way, and defeated the Huguang general soldiers in Yicheng County in Yicheng County, and killed the money on the spot. More than 3,000 officers and soldiers under his command were basically annihilated, and most of them became the people of the Xingtian Army.

Zuo Liangyu had already learned the news that Xing Tianjun was going south of Hanshui. He sent his subordinate Liu Guoneng to lead 30,000 horses to station in Chengtianfu, while his son Zuo Menggeng led 50,000 horses to station in Jingmen. He personally led 70,000 troops to station in Jingzhou in order to form a momentum to prevent the Xingtian army from going south to Jingzhou.

This time, Xiao Tianjian went south, and the number of soldiers and horses led was not large. The main battle was only one integrated division of the Guards Division, with seven war battalions and two cavalry battalions and two heavy artillery battalions. The main combat force was only about 15,000. In addition, there were 10,000 new auxiliary soldiers and three reserve battalions. In addition, the strength of the water battalion is less than 10,000, and the total strength is slightly stronger than 30,000.

Luo Li's second division has now come out of Zaoyang to kill Suizhou, while Li Shuozhu's third division has not gone south with the army because it has a large loss in Xiangyang and has to stay in the Xiangfan area.

In terms of strength alone, Xiao Tianjian's troops are obviously incomparable with Zuo Liangyu, but Xiao Tianjian does not think that he is at a disadvantage. On the contrary, Zuo Liangyu is completely in the state of passive defense.

When Xiao Tianjian arrived in Chengtianfu, Liu Guoneng was already like a frightened bird, shrinking his main forces around Chengtianfu, leaving only a small number of troops, trying to delay the attack of the Xingtian army.

Unfortunately, his practice could not delay Xing Tianjun at all. Under the fierce attack of Liu Yaoben and others, it took only two days to basically eliminate the officers and soldiers north of Chengtianfu.

Nowadays, the quality of the officers and soldiers under Zuo Liangyu's command is no longer comparable to that of the Xing Tianjun. On the contrary, the Xing Tianjun has become a regular army, and the officers and soldiers under Zuo Liangyu have become a peasant army. In a short period of time, although Zuo Liangyu has wrapped a large number of people as soldiers, there is no place to get the equipment, and many soldiers have no Weapons, not to mention armor, so often the officers and Xing Tianjun immediately collapsed as soon as they met. Many soldiers did not give Zuo Liangyu their lives at all, and directly fell to the battle and helped Xing Tianjun attack and kill the officers who bullied them.

So after Xiao Tianjian arrived at Chengtian Mansion, he quickly cleared Liu Guoneng's scattered soldiers outside Chengtian Mansion and surrounded Chengtian Mansion.

Although Liu Guoneng tried to send his navy to fight and go to the Fengle area to burn the fleet of the Xingtian Army and the grain reserves in Fengle Town, the owner of the water camp led Yang Kunshan to intercept the fleet he sent on the surface of the Han River. After a desperate battle, he defeated his water army. Yang Kunshan's water battle this time Among them, he took the lead and led his troops to jump on the enemy ship to fight with the officers and soldiers, and finally killed Liu Tong, the guerrilla general of the officer's navy, and finally made the officer's navy collapse.

On the shore, there were continuous soldiers firing cannons and cannons on the army ships on the river to support the water camp. Under the two attacks, Liu Guoneng's water army was defeated and fled. Dozens of ships sent were destroyed on the spot, more than a dozen were surrendered and more than a dozen were captured. The rest went south like bereaved dogs, Liancheng Tianfu. Without stopping, he fled to Jingzhou.

Liu Guoneng saw that the thief's army was strong, and he was unable to stop them from capturing Chengtianfu, so he hurriedly sent people to ask Zuo Liangyu and Zuo Menggeng for help. Zuo Liangyu immediately sent troops from Jingzhou to try to help Chengtianfu, but the 10,000 soldiers and horses sent were mutant on the road. The master was killed by his subordinates, and thousands of officers and soldiers defected on the ground. He defected to Xing Tianjun and became an auxiliary soldier under Xiao Tianjian's command in a blink of an eye, helping Xiao Tianjian surround Chengtianfu.

After Zuo Menggeng heard the news, he led 20,000 soldiers and horses from Jingmen to fight, and also tried to help Chengtianfu. However, as soon as he went to the area of Cold Water Town, he was blocked by Situ Liang's cavalry. After a fight, the soldiers and horses under Zuo Menggeng's command also collapsed immediately. Zuo Menggeng fled back to Jingmen with less than 3,000 people and no longer dared to reinforce Cheng. Heaven.

The attack battle of Chengtianfu began on June 20. Liu Guoneng sent a supervision team to supervise the battle in various departments, and built a lot of trenches and earth walls outside the city, trying to prevent the Xing Tianjun from approaching the city wall, and he personally took command in the town.

After the beginning of the war, Xiao Tianjian, Liu Yaoben and other soldiers led the assault troops with the war barracks as the main force in several directions to carry out a heart attack on Chengtianfu. At the same time, they mobilized auxiliary soldiers to follow the battle barracks to help the battle. In addition, two heavy artillery battalions were put on the northeast sides of Chengtianfu to open the way for the army with heavy artillery.

The members of the Xingtian Army raised their shields to attack the officers and soldiers. In just two days, the defense measures that Liu Guo could arrange outside the city were basically completely conquered by the Xing Tianjun. A large number of officers and soldiers surrendered to the Xing Tian Army on the spot, and then began to help Xing Tianjun fill in. Trenches, road paving, and machinery have surrounded Chengtianfu City into an iron barrel.