Chapter 124 Local Situation 2

At the same time, Liu Yaoben also led his troops to send troops to Minyang. First, he took Jingling County without any effort, and then attacked Minyang down the water. Minyang Zhizhou knew that he could not be defeated, and he was greedy for death and fled with his family. However, he was intercepted by the army. One of the officers and soldiers was determined to turn to the Xing Tianjun, and he was about to Wang Zhizhou took it, and the rebels robbed his wife and concubine in front of him, robbed him of his possessions, and bound him and surrendered to the Xing Tianjun. Mianyang was also quickly captured by Liu Yaoben because of the rebellion of the officers and soldiers in the city. So far, the whole Guangxi part of the lake basically fell into the hands of Xing Tianjun. As for these rebellions Jun, after Liu Yaoben surrendered them, he found that these guys were a group of ruffians and could not be used at all. Moreover, this group of people had a notoriety in Mianyang, and the people were extremely angry. Although they defected to the criminal army, it was not enough to absolve their guilt, so Liu Yao should have executed some of them, and the rest He was sent to Henan to dig coal and mine to atone for the crime.

As for Li Shuanzhu, he was not so idle. During this period, a large number of new recruits were trained in the Xiangyang area. Because Zhao Erlu was defeated in Wudang County, he was furious and led his troops to capture Wudang County and defeated Wang Guangxing's troops who sneaked on Zhao Erlu. After a period of rest, although Zhao Erli was wrong, he had After being removed from the post of deputy capital, Xiao Tianjian was the first old subordinate to follow him. In the end, he did not aggravate the punishment, so that he temporarily led a battalion, made contributions, and continued to follow Li Shuanzhu.

The relationship between Li Shuanzhu and Zhao Erli was very stiff because of this incident. Li Shuanzhu scolded Zhao Erli as a stupid donkey, which made Zhao Erli quite unhappy. Although Zhao Erli continued to stay under Li Shuanzhu to work, the two were already separated, and they didn't even say anything to say anything to each other.

After taking Wudang County, Li Shuanzhu had an idea for Yunyang Mansion. In July, when Xiao Tianjian led his troops to attack Jingzhou City, he also mobilized the elite of his headquarters, led Gao Tiantian and Zhao Erlu Donkey and other troops to send Yunyang, and then launched the Battle of Yunyang.

At this time, Yunyang Mansion is the governor Wang Yongzuo. When he was lost in Wudang County, he realized that Xing Tianjun would divide troops to attack Yunyang Mansion, so he also made quite sufficient preparations in advance. While dispatching guerrilla Liu Yaoyuan to bring all the people around Yunyang into the city, nominally to protect the people from thieves and military disasters. Harm, but in essence, it is necessary to strengthen the wall and clear the field, so that Xing Tianjun can't find food and help the people in the local area. At the same time, it can increase the number of people in the city, which can coerce them to help the officers and soldiers defend the city.

Because of its geographical particularity, Yunyang is exactly the junction of Huguang and Sichuan and Shaanxi. For more than ten years, all kinds of Shaanxi volunteers have often taken this area to enter Henan, Huguang, or return to Shaanxi and other places through this area. Therefore, Yunyang suffered the most, and a large number of volunteers have been active in this area, so the local people of Yunyang There are many early military disasters. By this time, there are only a few thousand households left by Yunyang. Basically, it can be said that it is a hundred miles away. A large amount of land has been abandoned, and dozens of miles can't be seen.

And according to the original historical development, Yunyang is another amazing place. After Li Zicheng recovered in Henan, Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai attacked Yunyang Mansion many times after the recovery in Huguang, and even the whole Huguang was captured by Li Zicheng, but Yunyang was never attacked by the rebels. Later, because all the surrounding areas fell, the court did not know that Yunyang had officers and soldiers to defend for two years.

In addition to the governor Wang Yongzuo, who stuck to Yunyang in history, there is also a very important person here, that is, Yunyang inspects Gao Doushu in Yunyang Mansion, and Wang Guangen defended Yunyang, so Yunyang has never been captured by Li Zicheng.

But now history has been turned upside down by Xiao Tianjian. Not to mention that Gao Doushu is still serving as a deputy envoy of troops in Changsha, and Wang Guangen, as the chief general of Yunyang, has already been killed by Xiao Tianjian in Nanyang, so Yunyang Mansion has no Wenwu generals at present, leaving only Wang Yongzuo and Wang Guangxing of Fuyuan. His partner is too weak to deal with Xing Tianjun, who is ten times more fiercer than Li Zicheng.

When Li Shuanzhu gathered his troops and arrived outside the Yunyang Mansion, there were only 3,000 or 4,000 officers and soldiers left in Yunyang in the city. Under the leadership of Wang Guangxing and Liu Tiaoyuan, they were stationed in the city and were responsible for the defense of the city. Although Wang Guangxing's sneak attack on Zhao Erli was successful, after all, he was not as good as his ability as his Wang Guangen. In addition, he took The soldiers were defeated by Li Shuanzhu in Wudang County, which greatly damaged the strength of Wang Guangxing. Therefore, Yunyang Mansion at this time had no strength to stop Li Shuanzhu at all.

As soon as Li Shuanzhu arrived at Yunyang Mansion, he immediately ordered the officers, soldiers and officials in the city to surrender immediately. However, Wang Yongzuo resolutely refused to surrender. In addition, Wang Guangxing killed many members of the Xing Tianjun. He knew that once he surrendered, Xing Tianjun estimated that he could not let him go, so he was determined to resist to the end.

They recruited all the men in the city who were over the age of 15 and under the age of 60 to climb the wall to defend them. At the same time, even the healthy women in the city were recruited by them to transport all kinds of rolling wood and stones and boiling water for the head of the city to help the defense, in order to prevent the Xingtian Army from breaking the city with all the soldiers in the city.

Li Shuanzhu saw that the officials in the city refused to surrender, so he didn't talk much with them. He immediately divided his troops on the southeast side of the Yunyang Mansion City and began to launch a fierce attack on Yunyang.

The battle was quite fierce at the beginning. The defenders in the city, led by Wang Guangxing, Wang Yongzuo and Liu Tianyuan, fought back the attack of the Xingtian army outside the city.

This battle lasted for more than ten days. The losses of the battalions under Li Shuanzhu were not small, but because the Xing Tianjun occupied the advantage of firepower, the defenders in the city also suffered heavy casualties, and the wall was also dilapidated. Liu Tiaoyuan, the general, was also killed on the wall on the spot, and the body was broken into several. It shocked everyone in the city.

In the end, there was a detailed work of Xing Tianjun in the city who took the opportunity to encourage a group of people and defenders. Suddenly, they made trouble and arrested Wang Yongzuo, the governor of Yunyang. Then he opened the east gate of the city and put Xing Tianjun into Yunyang City. As soon as Wang Guangxing saw that the general situation had gone, he led his troops to fight with Xing Tianjun in the city, while trying to open the west gate. Escape.

However, he was caught up by Zhao Er donkey at the west gate of the city. After a good fight, he finally injured Wang Guangxing and captured him. Zhao Er donkey hated Wang Guangxing and let him lose face in front of his colleagues. On the spot, he unloaded Wang Guangxing to eight pieces and threw him outside the city to feed wild dogs. At the same time, he was angry. At the same time, he ordered to slaughter Wang Guangxing as much as possible. Hundreds of officers and soldiers were reprimanded by Li Shuanzhu for this reason, and the two of them were even more unhappy. Li Shuanzhu immediately whipped Zhao Er's donkey and locked up Zhao Er's donkey.

As for the captured Yunyang governor Wang Yongzuo, Li Shuanzhu did not kill him. He sent someone to ask Xiao Tianjian how to deal with him. Xiao Tianjian also just defeated Jingzhou at this time. After hearing the news, he asked Wang Yongzuo about his character and learned that this person was a relatively upright official. It is an order to Li Shuanzhu not to treat him badly, and to send him to Ruzhou to settle in charge, which will be arranged separately in the future.

In essence, Wang Yongzuo is also a national hero. After the Qing army entered the customs, he became an official in Nanming and insisted on recruiting the rebels in the south to resist. Later, he persisted until his death. The Qing army later grabbed his mother and cut off his mother's arm. He refused to surrender to the Qing Dynasty, so it was also an iron-boned article. Officials, so this kind of person Xiao Tianjian meets. Even if he opposes him, Xiao Tianjian, he can't bear to kill them, so now he is sent to the editor of Ruzhou. There is a person there who may be able to convince Wang Yongzuo that sooner or later such an official will still be used by him.

Of course, Xiao Tianjian also learned about Zhao Erlu. For this reason, he felt that Li Shuanzhu had gone a little too far. Although the killing of prisoners was forbidden by him, it was also divided. Wang Guangxing became a sworn enemy of Xing Tianjun because of his brother's affairs. It was useless to leave him. In fact, it was not wrong for Zhao Er didn't slaughter him and his subordinates. Therefore, Li Shuanzhu whipped him, and he was a little on the line.

So Xiao Tianjian secretly warned Li Shuanzhu not to continue to live with Zhao Erlu. After all, the two of them have been together for a long time. It's not appropriate to make so much trouble. In addition, he instructed Li Shuanzhu to let Zhao Erlu to guard Yunyang Mansion for the time being. The two should be separated for a period of time and don't make trouble anymore. It is.

After Li Shuanzhu received Xiao Tianjian's oracle, he thought about it and quickly released Zhao Erlu, and Xiao Tianjian personally praised Zhao Erlu's contribution to this battle. He slightly scolded him for killing the prisoner, and lightly exposed the matter. At the same time, he said that Zhao Er's name was not suitable for him at present. After all, he is also a general of Xing Tianjun. The two donkeys come and go. It doesn't sound good. He gave the name Zhao Er donkey and changed his name to Zhao Weihua, which secretly changed his name to Wei Han. After Zhao Er donkey learned about it, he cried a lot and asked Xiao Tianjian to thank him.

After stabilizing the situation in Yunyang, Li Shuanzhu also invited Zhao Er donkey, apologized to Zhao Er donkey in person, and restored Zhao Er donkey to his position, was promoted to deputy capital, and ordered him to sit in Yunyang Mansion to guard against the officers and soldiers of Sichuan and Shaanxi.

Although Zhao Weihua (Zhao Erli) still has a pimple in his heart, after all, he has cooperated with Li Shuanzhu for such a long time, and on the surface, he no longer cares about this matter and takes over the defense of Yunyang Mansion.

By this time, there were only two or three thousand households left in Yunyang Mansion. After returning to Xiangyang, Li Shuanzhu collected a group of people and moved them to Yunyang's home, which more or less restored the number of households in Yunyang. Otherwise, I'm afraid that the land around Yunyang Mansion will be completely abandoned.

Just after Li Shuanzhu led his troops to capture Yunyang, the activities in the Tianxing Huidengxiang, Tuo Tianwang Chang Guoan and other departments in the area west of Yunyang also saw the general trend. They led their own troops to Yunyang and threw themselves into the Xingtian army. For this reason, Li Shuanzhu temporarily left them in Yunyang, listened to the dispatch of Zhao Er donkey, and strengthened Zhao Er donkey's soldiers. Li, guarding the area of Yunyang Mansion, has greatly enhanced its strength.

(These two chapters are transitional chapters. Explain some situations. Otherwise, the following will be very abrupt. Be patient!)