Chapter 128 The New Army of the King of Chu

Song Yihe sat in Wuchang, but it was like a needle felt. Judging from the actions of Xing Tianjun, everyone has seen Xiao Xingtian's idea, that is, he is determined to take Huguang and put it under the jurisdiction of Xing Tianjun. Now the whole Guangxi Department, basically most of it has fallen into the hands of Xing Tianjun, and the lake After Zuo Liangyu's troops were besieged and annihilated in Jingzhou, the officers and soldiers from all over the country had become birds of the bow. Hearing the bad news, they immediately heard the wind and fled, or a large number of defections and surrendered to the Xing Tianjun.

In August, after Jingzhou was destroyed, it can be said that a man and horse could no longer be found in the Huguang area, which could compete with the Xingtian Army. Moreover, emergency documents were sent from the Huguang Department, the south and the north, saying that they had been attacked by a large number of people and horses of the Xingtian Army and asked Song Yihe for help.

So far, Song Yihe is not a person. Even if he gave birth to three heads and six arms at this time, he could no longer recover the situation in Huguang. He can conclude that after gathering the main force to take Xiangyang first, Xing Tianjun began to divide his troops against Suizhou, and then sent people to capture Yunyang, while Xiao Tianjian personally led the main force south to attack Jingzhou and destroy it. Zuo Liangyu's department fell off, and then divided his troops in Jingzhou again. All the way, he went down the Yangtze River under the leadership of the thief chief Xiao Tianjian to attack Yuezhou. On the other hand, he took the Han River to attack Mianyang. In this way, it was equivalent to fighting in Wuchang in three ways.

For such a situation, although Song Yihe tried his best to deploy the troops at hand and wanted to save the defeat, he was already unable to recover and was at a loss in Wuchang City all day long.

At the end of August, Song Yihe got several terrible news almost a few days later. First, Minyang was captured by the Xingtian Army, and then De'an Prefecture and the surrounding county were also broken by another Xingtian Army. Including De'an Prefecture, all of them were captured by the Xingtian Army. Wuchang and Hanyang have been exposed. Under the front of the Xingtian Army.

In addition, news came from Yuezhou that Yuezhou City was attacked by the Xingtian Army led by Xiao Tianjian, the thief chief of the Xingtian Army, and then Xing Tianjun killed Changsha again. This news made Song Yihe stunned like a wooden chicken, and he could not come back for a long time.

At this time, in addition to sending people to Nanjing in an emergency, he did not have many soldiers and horses to mobilized. Although Changsha was important, he was unable to rescue. Soon there was news that Changsha was broken by the Xingtian Army again, and several counties around Changsha also became the hands of the Xingtian Army.

So Song Yihe lamented, wrote a letter, and sent someone to report a letter to the capital teacher. Chen was guilty and asked the emperor to deal with it. In addition, in the report, Ding Qirui refused to send troops to Huguang to rescue, which led to the erosion of the situation in Huguang. At the same time, he also impeached Shao Jiechun, the governor of Sichuan, who refused to send troops to Huguang to rescue. In a word, the situation in Huguang is not all his responsibility at this time. He will lead the army to defend Wuchang before the emperor orders him to protect Wuchang.

But Song Yihe misunderstood Ding Qirui and Shao Jiechun. In fact, how could Ding Qirui and Shao Jiechun die? But at present, they don't have enough troops on hand to go to Huguang to help Song Yihe deal with Xing Tianjun.

Ding Qirui, as the governor, was not good at mobilizing the officers and soldiers in the area of Nanzhili. The soldiers and generals wanted to go to Huguang to suppress the Xing Tianjun. One or two of them shook their heads and refused to send troops under various excuses. Do he have any available generals on hand? Even if he was willing, he was powerless. He could only listen to the officials. See, first compile and train the new army to protect Nanzhili, and then seek to "repress" Huguang.

As for Shao Jiechun, he was busy dealing with Li Zicheng's attack on Sichuan during this period. The main troops in Sichuan were deployed in the northern part of Sichuan, and no many people could be transferred to Huguang to support the war in Huguang. Although he sent Liu Gui, the deputy general of Sichuan, to support, this After Liu Gui led the troops to set out, he hesitated and refused to speed up. Later, when he came to Guizhou, he heard the news of Zuo Liangyu's defeat. He was so scared that he did not dare to advance lightly. He staddled in the area of Guizhou and refused to move forward again.

Therefore, Song Yihe is crying every day at this time. He can only wait for the Xing Tianjun to attack Wuchang City. At this time, there are only thousands of weak soldiers in Wuchang City. Moreover, because of the perennial use of troops, there is almost no money in Huguang to pay the soldiers, and the soldiers are even more unwilling to work. If If you don't give enough food and salary, you will never work hard to defend the city.

For this reason, Song Yihe and the former ministers of the Ministry of Ceremonies who had just returned to their hometown in Wuchang City, He Fengsheng, the scholar of Dongge University, and the officials of the Chief Secretary, the Inspector, and the commander of the Ministry, joined forces and ran to the House of the King of Chu in Wuchang City. Zhu Huakui, the king of Chu, who was awarded here, could take out some silver and grain subsidies to help. They recruited soldiers to defend the city.

And the King of Chu, who was sealed in Wuchang, has accumulated a lot of money in the royal palace, which is no worse than the King of Fu in Luoyang, but he is also a virtue with the King of Fu. He is stingy for money and lifeless. When Song Yihe, He Fengsheng and other officials begged in front of him, he lived in front of him. However, when one of the kings hidden in the royal palace was divided into kings during the reign of Hongwu, he brought out a Baojin Taishi chair given to his family, saying that he wanted no money. He was so poor that only this chair could be taken out to pay, and asked the officials to sell this chair for payment.

As a result, Song Yihe, He Fengsheng and other officials of Wuchang Mansion could only leave the King of Chu's Mansion crying. At this time, they were completely desperate. What did they do? At worst, when Wuchang City is broken, they will die.

At this time, some officials kept an eye on their minds and arranged for their families to leave Wuchang City to flee to various places. At that time, it would be easier for them to do.

At the beginning of September, Luo Li and Liu Yaoben returned to the division in De'an Prefecture. The two armies met happily and reported their respective achievements to each other. They waited for Xiao Tianjian to lead the troops to arrive in Wuchang, and they joined forces to attack Wuchang City.

But they didn't expect that Xiao Tianjian suddenly changed his plan after attacking Yuezhou and turned around to attack Changsha. Therefore, the planned meeting with them was also postponed. Fortunately, Xiao Tianjian did not forget Luo Li and Liu Yaoben and ordered them to use their troops before he led his troops to Wuchang. Clean up the states and counties around Wuchang and isolate Wuchang City first.

So Luo Li and Liu Yaoben divided their troops again and began to launch an attack on various states and counties around Wuchang. Luo Li led his troops to the east and attacked Macheng, Huang'an and other places, while Liu Yaoben led his troops to attack Hanyang City.

The two men showed their power and began to fight in the area of Wuchang. First, Luo Li led the troops to take Macheng with a drum, and the people in Macheng, Huang'an and other places had long been looking forward to the Xing Tianjun's quick fight. The local righteous people spontaneously organized and fought with some local landlords first, and Huangzhou Of course, the gentry and dignitaries in the area can't sit back and watch them so noisy, so they also organized the township soldiers to suppress them. However, before they could suppress these local righteous people, Luo Li led the troops to kill them, and the local gentry and the villagers organized by the dignitaries could still deal with the local righteous people. It's okay, but when they meet the regular army of the Xingtian Army, they are not one! Immediately, he was beaten by Luo Li's troops, and he surrendered or fled one after another.

And the county magistrate in Macheng County originally planned to lead troops to defend Macheng County, but it did not think that when dozens of righteous people in the city came outside the city, they suddenly got into trouble, controlled a gate, and put the soldiers and horses of the Xingtian Army into the city. The defenders in the city should collapse. The death of the surrender, Zhixian immediately threw himself into the well and died, and Macheng was broken.

And Liu Yao did not spend too much time fighting Hanyang City. It only took a few days to bombard the gate of Hanyang with the help of the cannon, entered Hanyang City, annihilated more than 2,000 officers and soldiers in Hanyang City, and captured many ships at the riverside wharf, thus opening Wuchang Peking University. The door is across the river from Wuchang Mansion.

It was not until this time that the King of Chu in Wuchang City felt the pressure. He knew that once the thief crossed the river and killed Wuchang, his foundation was unlikely to leave him, so he hurriedly took out some silver and recruited soldiers and horses.

Money in the world can make ghosts grind. Originally, after the Xingtian Army went south to Huguang, many deserters and soldiers in Huguang fled to Wuchang Mansion. In addition, a large number of rich people took refuge in Wuchang Mansion to take refuge. Now Zhu Huakui, the king of Chu, took out money to recruit soldiers and set up a recruitment flag. There are really a lot of them. The food-eating guy came to work.

Not to mention that in a short period of time, the king of Chu gathered more than 10,000 new troops in Wuchang Mansion, and the king of Chu thought that these soldiers and horses were recruited by him with money and could not be handed over to Song Yihe for general control. He was afraid that Song Yihe would pull this man out and consume them elsewhere, so he handed this man and horse to the head of the King of Chu. Shi Xu Xueyan led it and called it the new army of the King of Chu. He has ignored the ancestral system at this time. Although after Zhu Di, after Zhu Di, the vassals and kings were not allowed to make friends with civil servants and generals, and they were not allowed to have their own soldiers and horses, otherwise they would be dealt with by conspiracy. However, at this time, the king of Chu also saw that he was sitting in the court. The emperor obviously didn't have the ability to care about him anymore. He simply ignored the old system and charged this man and horse as his private soldier.

But the king of Chu forgot one thing. These recruited people are basically defeated soldiers under Xing Tianjun. Most of them have seen the sharp edges of Xing Tianjun. They defected to the army just to solve the current food problem. In fact, they dare not fight with Xing Tianjun at all. In addition, only a small number of people are only to protect their families. With such a small number of people, he has a little fighting spirit. Unfortunately, this group of people have no combat experience, let alone much formal training. His combat effectiveness is not good at all. If he wants to rely on this team, he will defend Wuchang City. Obviously, it is a bit of a fool's dream. Even some of his generals in his new army of the King of Chu are very clear. For a long time, someone secretly began to send people out of the city to take a boat at night and smuggled across the Yangtze River to Hanyang to hook up with Xing Tianjun.

(Today, thank you for the reward of the two brothers, Qiang 2k and Baiyun! How was everyone doing on the second day of the long vacation?)