Chapter 109 The sky is not beautiful

Zuo Liangyu and his generals were very nervous. Relying on Jingzhou City and the dense water network behind them, they concentrated their warships in the Jingzhou area. At the same time, they also arranged many warships in the Changhu Lake in the northeast of Jingzhou City in order to rely on the advantages of water to restrain the Xing Tianjun's attack on Jingzhou.

At the same time, he also sent his generals to fortight along Gaoyang Town, Shilibao and other places from Chengtianfu and Jingmen County to Jingzhou, trying to contain the speed of the Xingtian Army's advance. In short, tens of thousands of horses were concentrated on the four sides of Jingzhou, and the elite cavalry were placed in the west of the city as a mobile assault force. I'm ready to attack the heavenly army on the side.

In addition to making a desperate battle, Zuo Liangyu also secretly left his hand in the name of building warships to resist the Xing Tianjun, urging the local people to speed up the construction of various ships for him on the Yangtze River and Long Lake, docked on the edge of the dock in Jingzhou, and was ready to escape. Once Jingzhou is not protected, he at least You can take a boat down the river from the Yangtze River and escape to the area of Dongting Lake in Yueyang.

However, Zuo Liangyu's cruelty to the local people in Jingzhou has long aroused the hatred of the people. Every day, a large number of soldiers escape from the barracks at night to defect to the Xingtian Army. Zuo Liangyu sent his cronies to constantly chase these fugitives and kill them in an extremely cruel way, but he still can't stop this situation. The morale of the whole soldiers under Zuo Liangyu's command was very low. Only the old troops he gathered in his early years felt that Zuo Liangyu was good to them and was determined to protect Jingzhou with Zuo Liangyu.

The whole battle of Jingzhou began in July. After defeating Chengtianfu and Jingmen County, Xiao Tianjian wanted to go south to take down Jingzhou. Unfortunately, the weather was not beautiful. When they attacked Jingmen, it suddenly rained heavily. The rain was very heavy. The water everywhere was full of ditches and flat, and the roads also changed. It was very muddy and difficult to walk, and even the Han River had a lot of water, which made it difficult for boats and boats on the river. With a little carelessness, the boat overturned and died.

At present, Xing Tianjun relies heavily on firearms, and there are quite a lot of heavy artillery and wrets accompanying the army. In such weather, it will obviously pay a considerable price to attack Jingzhou south. Therefore, Xiao Tianjian can only look at the sky and sigh, and has to order troops to rest in Chengtianfu and Jingmen, waiting for the weather to improve and the road to dry. After dryness, start going south again. Otherwise, it will be a disaster for so many people to crowd on the road.

Even so, the heavy rain made the officers of the Xingtian Army a little miserable. Because the rain was so strong that they could not even collect the firewood for cooking, so that eating became a problem. The soldiers could only swallow some rice and grain for two days.

Looking at the heavy rain in the sky, Xiao Tianjian is also a little annoyed. With so many people crowded in this area, people eat horses and consume a lot of food every day. Although they are not too short of food, they can't stand such consumption, so he patrols between battalions in the rain every day. While cheering up the soldiers, they inspect the maintenance of various weapons, especially the storage of gunpowder used in the army. Once the gunpowder is damp, it will not be replenished for a long time. The weather in the south is really rainy enough.

This rain was intermittent for seven or eight days, and the road was always muddy. It was not until the tenth day of July that the weather began to clear up. After another three days, the road was dry. Xiao Tianjian ordered to start marching towards Jingzhou.

After scouting Zuo Liangyu arranged a lot of sailors along the river in order to use their advantages on the water to intercept the south of the Xingtian army, Xiao Tianjian resolutely ordered to give up the waterway to attack Jingzhou. The whole army changed to land to march into Jingzhou, and continued to take Situ Liang's cavalry troops as the guide, and opened the way to Jingzhou in front. Tao.

Xiao Tianjian led the brigade behind, dragged a lot of artillery and heavy weight, and then advanced. Zuo Liangyu sent troops on the road to constantly intercept the Xingtian Army along the way. However, in the face of the elite Xingtian soldiers and horses, they were often defeated in a battle. Basically, they did not delay the Xing Tian Army's march, which made Xiao Tianjian The soldiers arrived in the northwest of Xingzhou City in mid-July.

Zuo Liangyu was at least a little brave. When Xing Tianjun had just arrived in Jishan Town in the north of Jingzhou City, he actually ordered his Wu Minshi to launch a counterattack against Xing Tianjun. He wanted to take advantage of Xing Tianjun's first arrival and his foothold was unstable, and he himself personally led 20,000 troops out of Jingzhou. As soon as Wu Minshi was ready to win, he waved his troops to cover up and beat Xing Tianjun back to Xiangyang.

But unfortunately, Wu Minshi could not complete the sacred task he gave him. After arriving at Jishan Town, he was just a fight. He was stopped by the iron bone camp under Liu Yaoben's command. A platoon of guns passed by Wu Minshi was immediately killed, and his soldiers and horses were scattered. As a result, Wu Minshi was also arrested by Xing Tianjun. He cut off his head and hung it on the high pole on the spot.

Without saying a word when Zuo Liangyu heard the news, he turned around and returned to Jingzhou City and ordered him to defend the city. Xiao Tianjian was not polite. Taking advantage of the rare few days of good weather, he continued to send troops to Jingzhou City.

When the army passed through the Changhu Lake, the navy under Zuo Liangyu's command suddenly landed and wanted to attack the flank of the Xingtian Army. But because the organization was not good enough, the soldiers were not willing to fight. After landing, they did not kill the Xing Tianjun, and the soldiers dispersed by themselves first, leaving less than 300 left. As a result, they were charged by one reserve battalion and one by the Xing Tianjun, and they were all killed on the shore of the Long Lake.

And after Xiao Tianjian learned the news, he immediately sent a heavy artillery battalion to the shore of the Long Lake, and the cannons bombarded Zuo Liangyu's warship on the lake, which made Zuo Liangyu's water army arranged in the Long Lake immediately scatter birds and beasts on the lake.

However, Xiao Tianjian's march into the army is still not smooth. After all, Jingzhou is a city surrounded by water on all sides, full of large and small rivers. Zuo Liangyu took advantage of the terrain here and constantly sent troops to harass the Xing Tianjun. The Xing Tianjun had to deal with it carefully. Even so, a team of soldiers behind was still a horse of Zuo Liangyu. The sneak attack was successful and burned a batch of grain of Xing Tianjun. Fortunately, Xiao Tianjian sent people to rescue in time and did not cause much damage. Otherwise, he would have cut off the grain before the battle started.

In addition, a cavalryman under Zuo Liangyu's command still tried to cut off the grain of the Xingtian Army. While the Xingtian Army went south, they took a detour to the north and killed the grain storage camp of the Xingtian Army in Jingmen County. Fortunately, when Xiao Tianjian was going south, Li Xin considered this in advance and left 500 soldiers and Three hundred soldiers left another reserve camp to protect this grain storage place. Zuo Liangyu's cavalry launched several assaults, but they were all repelled by these horses. After leaving more than a hundred bodies, they had no choice but to turn around and run back to Jingzhou.

On the road, he was intercepted and killed by Situ Liang, annihilating at least a thousand elite cavalry of Zuo Liangyu, making Zuo Liangyu steal chickens and eat rice.

Zuo Liangyu can be said to use all methods in order to save Jingzhou City, including night attacks, sneak attacks, ambushes, digging roads and digging trenches. However, Xiao Tianjian's side also saw moves and fought steadily. Under the efforts of Situ Liang's cavalry and Liu Yaoben's various war battalions, Zuo Liangyu's tricks were solved one by one, both sides Each has its own victory or defeat, but Zuo Liangyu still failed to stop Xing Tianjun from approaching Jingzhou City.

And the engineering battalion also made great contributions in this south attack on Jingzhou. They paved the way by building bridges and paved the way for the people of the Xingtian Army, and finally made Xing Tianjun finally arrive in Jingzhou.

The Battle of Jingzhou has also kicked off. This time, Xiao Tianjian clenched his fists and mobilized more than 10,000 elite soldiers, plus the troops of the reserve battalion, so that the number of troops exceeded 20,000 people, and nearly 20,000 people defected to the old army of Zuo Liangyu and the local people to fight against the Xingtian Army, pulling more than 40,000 people in Jingzhou City. Horse.

On July 17, after Xiao Tianjian arranged the task of attacking Jingzhou, he began to take action with an order. The seven war battalions led reserve battalions and auxiliary soldiers, and began to launch an attack outside Jingzhou.

After the beginning of the war, the sound of artillery and guns on the whole battlefield were like thunder, roaring on all sides. Rows of Xingtian arms and guns approached the front of the front of Zuo Liangyu outside Jingzhou City under the cover of the knife player, and opened fire on Zuo Liangyu's people and horses, beating the people and horses under Zuo Liangyu's command. They had to retreat again and again and give up their defensive position. As long as the soldiers attacked a line of defense, a large number of soldiers immediately swarmed up with tools, stripped off the pass wall built by Zuo Liangyu's subordinates, buried the dug trenches, and paved the way to Jingzhou City, so that the Xingtian Army's People and horses can continue to move forward.

A large number of cars were driven out, and batches were put into the battlefield to provide cover for the attacking soldiers and horses, and Zuo Liangyu also tried his best to keep sending people to fight back, trying to prevent Xing Tianjun from approaching Jingzhou City.

Since the 17th, the two sides have fought fiercely outside the city for three consecutive days. The various departments of the Xingtian Army annihilated the nearly 20,000 troops left by Zuo Liangyu outside the city. Most of them defected on the spot and began to help the Xing Tianjun turn around to deal with Zuo Liangyu's officers. In the end, under the sharp offensive of the Xing Tianjun, Zuo Liangyu had to order. He withdrew the remnants of the soldiers outside the city into the city and made the posture of finally defending Jingzhou City, and the various defense facilities he set up outside the city were completely eliminated by the Xing Tianjun.

Even the more than 3,000 cavalry he left in the west of the city failed to withdraw into the city in the end. Seeing that the Xingtian army was powerful and blocked their way to retreat into the city, the cavalry of the thief army was also quite powerful. Not only was it no longer helpful, but he might be killed by the Xingtian army if he was not careful, so these people Even if he fled to Songzi's defeat.

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