Chapter 189 Take Fengyang lightly

Xiao Tianjian laughed and punched Shi Ran on the shoulder and said, "You are only less than 40 years old. What a bullshit to return to your hometown!" I think your words are a little sour. Now when I see that Lin Luo is doing a good job and has a posture to replace you, you will definitely not be convinced!

However, it's true that you Shoucheng, but there are two sides to the matter. Shoucheng is not necessarily your weakness. It depends on where it is used! In fact, you should have led the army alone! It's just that I haven't given you a chance over the years! All right! Don't be sour either! After this battle, I will allow you to form a new division and become an army alone! In this way, you don't have to be sour anymore! Ha ha!"

After hearing this, Shi Ran was suddenly overjoyed. He quickly bowed and took the order to thank Xiao Tianjian. Xiao Tianjian smiled and said, "You don't have to thank me!" You deserve it a long time ago! It's just a little late! You have a calm personality and are more suitable for doing this kind of thing. Nan Zhili is not small. I'm afraid I'll leave it to you in the future! After fighting Nan Zhili, you probably have to lead the department to fight in Zhejiang, and you won't worry about no war in the future!"

Shi Ran immediately replied, "Thank you for the commander-in-chief's trust, but the last general doesn't want to stay in Zhennan Zhili. After playing Nan Zhili, the commander-in-chief will definitely go north!" The last general is still willing to stay with the commander-in-chief and go north. It's glorious enough to beat the capital!"

Xiao Tianjian shook his head and said, "Don't fight for this. There is always someone to do this. Even if Nan Zhili is hit, it may not be stable for a long time. The Donglin Party is the most powerful in Nanzhili, and they will definitely not sit back and watch the Ming Dynasty. Moreover, the forces here are intricate and complex. There must be A suitable person will sit in this area, otherwise there will always be a fire behind my buttocks, and I can't go north at ease! That's it! Don't argue for anything anymore!"

After hearing this, Shi Ran was quite grateful. Xiao Tianjian's arrangement actually fully explained Xiao Tianjian's trust in him. Naturally, he knew the importance of Nan Zhili. Xiao Tianjian single-selected him to stay in Nan Zhili, which showed the importance he valued him. He went north to attack the capital. Once he was successful, although it was glorious, Nan Zhili was Bian really needed someone to sit in the town, so he stopped fighting for anything and hurriedly nodded to receive the order.

When it was getting late, Xiao Tianjian had arrived at the north bank of the Huai River in the north of Fengyang Prefecture. At this time, Liu Yaoben's front camp had basically eliminated a few officers and soldiers on the north coast, and the cavalry attacked everywhere, basically annihilating and driving the officers and troops on the north bank back to the south bank.

Far away from the light of the setting sun, Xiao Tianjian took a look at the situation on the north bank of the Huai River with a telescope. From the telescope, he saw that a large number of officers and soldiers were building fortifications on the north bank, with a force of about 10,000 people, and many captured people were working for the officers and soldiers. On the wide Huaihe River, the whole Huaihe River was sparkling. There were almost no ships on it. A large number of ships were forcibly towed to the south bank of the Huai River by the officers and soldiers in advance. Obviously, it was necessary to prevent the Xing Tianjun from crossing the Huai River and entering Fengyang Mansion in this way.

Fengyang Mansion was also known as the Zhongdu in the Ming Dynasty. The main reason is that Zhu Yuanzhang's hometown is here, and after the founding of the People's Republic of China, Zhu Yuanzhang rebuilt the mausoleum for his parents, which is called the Ming Emperor's Mausoleum. Therefore, the political status here is very important. Once Fengyang Mansion is taken, it is undoubtedly equivalent to a lot to the current dynasty. One blow, this is also the reason why Xiao Tianjian must take Fengyang Mansion.

Over the years, there have been a series of disasters in the Fengyang Mansion. Although as the emperor's fellow villagers, the people here have not received any preferential treatment. On the contrary, they have to bear the exploitation of the heavier government. Therefore, the local people in Fengyang Mansion are very hostile to the court, and every time there is a volunteer army test. When attacking Fengyang Mansion, the local people are full of followers. Unfortunately, Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and other generations who have come here before can only call it a thief at best. They leave here after a while, and they can't defend Fengyang Mansion at all. Therefore, there have been several wars here over the years. After that, it has already been even more dilapidated, and the number of people has been sharply reduced by several tens of times. Suddenly, the officers and soldiers gathered here, which undoubtedly made the people suffer again.

The officers and soldiers who came to Fengyang Mansion are not good. Naturally, it is inevitable to loot where they pass. This kind of land-like looting makes the local people in Fengyang hate it. When the arrival of the Xingtian Army, many people took the initiative to turn to the Xing Tianjun.

Therefore, although the officers and soldiers tried to collect the boats on the Huai River in advance, they did not prevent some people from hiding the boats into some reeds and avoiding the collection of the officers and soldiers. As soon as Xing Tianjun arrived at the edge of the Huai River, many people who made a living by the Huai River immediately rowed the boats out of the reeds and saileds to Huai River one after another. On the north bank of the river, it is necessary to help the Xing Tianjun to fight, and the people nearby do not hesitate to remove the doorboard and bedboard of their home and send it to the Xing Tianjun for the Xing Tianjun to build a pontoon bridge.

After seeing this scene, the generals of the Xing Tianjun all sighed with emotion, sighing that the imperial government was really over, and the people's hearts were completely turned to their Xing Tianjun. So what would be difficult for them to attack Nanjing next? Invisibly, this situation has greatly boosted the morale of Xing Tianjun.

In the middle of the night, some fishermen even on the south bank of the Huai River simply stole the ships docked on the south bank, desperately sailed to the north bank, defected to the Xing Tianjun, and provided boats to build a pontoon bridge for the Xing Tianjun. The south bank was chaotic all night, and the officers and soldiers with torches ran around to arrest those who tried to steal ships. The people of the river, who kept killing the people who tried to escape, made people angry and resentful until dawn. The officers and soldiers on the south bank saw that it was not a way to go on like this, so they simply set fire to the many ships detained on the south bank. The fire in the sky burned thick smoke, and many ship owners cried on the shore. I hate the officers and soldiers even more.

Xiao Tianjian was not in a hurry to cross the Huai River. After all, under the guard of the officers and soldiers, it is very unlikely that he will succeed in setting up a pontoon bridge on the river, which may also cause great casualties. Therefore, he ordered to simply pull the heavy artillery to the edge of the Huai River, put cannons on it, and bombard the officers and soldiers on the south bank directly and a long distance to create a The illusion of crossing the river at any time forced the officers and soldiers on the south bank to maintain a state of tension and dare not be distracted to other places.

Luo Li sent back the news that night and successfully captured Wuhe County. The next morning, he led his troops to leave Wuhe County, forcibly crossed the lower reaches of the Huai River, and began to take a detour in the direction of Fengyang Mansion.

And Li Shuanzhu did not disappoint Xiao Tianjian. After leading his troops to arrive in Huaiyuan County, Huaiyuan County knew that he was invincible. Even if Kaicheng surrendered to the Xingtian Army, Xiao Tianjian ordered all the officials who surrendered to the Xingtian Army directly temporarily stay in office and make other arrangements in the future, and ensured the surrender of the officers and the families of the officials. And the safety of family money.

After taking Huaiyuan County, Li Shuanzhu also crossed the river non-stop, and cooperated with Luo Li's troops towards Fengyang Mansion. Like a big pliers, he attacked the officers and soldiers around Fengyang Mansion, and rushed straight to the Ming Imperial Mausoleum.

The Ming imperial mausoleum was set on fire once by Zhang Xianzhong, Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng in the eighth year of Chongzhen, so this time the government also paid great attention to the protection of the Ming imperial mausoleum. Here, 4,000 officers and soldiers were stationed to guard the mausoleum, trying to protect the Ming imperial mausoleum, but when they found that the two wings had already been crossed by the Xingtian army. When the river enveloped them, he immediately messed up.

The eunuch who guarded the Ming imperial mausoleum heard that the soldiers and horses of the Xingtian army were rushing towards them. Even if they discarded the officers and soldiers, they changed the civilian clothes and fled from the imperial mausoleum overnight, so that the officers and soldiers guarding the mausoleum suddenly ran away in the direction of Luzhou. Many officers and soldiers simply met directly to the headquarters of the Xingtian Army. He surrendered to the Xing Tian Army on the spot and took Li Shuanzhu's troops to occupy the Ming Emperor's Mausoleum more than ten miles south of Fengyang Prefecture on the evening of April 22.

At this time, the officers and soldiers guarding the coast of the Huai River found that Xing Tianjun had appeared behind them. Suddenly, the army was in a state of turmoil. Even if the guard Liu Chengfeng led his army to escape from the south bank of the Huaihe River and did not even enter Fengyang Mansion, he took a detour and fled to Luzhou. The remaining thousands of officers and soldiers scrambled to escape. The defense line of Fengyang Mansion around the Huaihe River collapsed overnight.

On the morning of the 23rd, Xiao Tianjian began to order the construction of a pontoon bridge to cross the river. A large number of people abandoned by the officers and soldiers did not immediately escape, but helped build a pontoon bridge on the south bank. In just one day, he used the remaining ships to build three pontoon bridges on the Huai River. A large number of Xing Tianjun's main force led by Xiao Tianjian. Next, there was almost no resistance, so he successfully crossed the Huai River and reached the city of Fengyang Mansion.

At this time, sitting in Fengyang Mansion was the governor Zhu Dadian. Zhu Dadian once led the army in Shandong to suppress Kong Youde's rebellion. Because of his merit, he later became a servant of the Ministry of War and continued to patrol Shandong. After Fengyang was attacked by Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng and others in eight years, Zhu Dadian was transferred to Nanzhili and the governor Fengyang, Luzhou and other four prefectures. , preside over the appeasement of the rebels in this area.

Speaking of Zhu Dadian, this is a relatively contradictory figure. First of all, it is rumored that this person is extremely rich. He is a typical corrupt official who has been repeatedly impeached by other officials. However, in the past few years, for many reasons, Chongzhen has not spared his hands to deal with him, which makes Zhu Dadian safely stay in Fengyang Mansion until now, and the history Shangzhu Dadian was also a loyal minister and a loyalist. When the Qing army went south, Zhu Dadian recruited troops to fight against the Qing Dynasty in Jinhua. After the city was defeated, he took his whole family into the gunpowder bureau in Jinhua City and ignited gunpowder and martyred the whole family.

But at this time, Zhu Dadian, when the Xingtian army came to the city, did not show his loyalty. Seeing that a large number of officers and soldiers who were finally gathered were scattered under the three-way attack of the Xingtian Army, and they wanted soldiers to reach the city of Fengyang Mansion. Fengyang Mansion did not have a wall in the first place, only the palace in the city had a high wall. Although the wall of the palace was tall and strong, Zhu Dadian did not have much troops to guard it. The people in the city were moved by the wind and turned to the Xingtian Army one after another. He knew that he could not defend Fengyang Mansion. Knowing that he was waiting to die, Zhu Dadian abandoned Fengyang Mansion with his family the night before the Xingtian Army besieged Fengyang Mansion and fled. Go to Luzhou.

As a result, Xiao Tianjian could say that he did not spend much effort, so he easily took Fengyang Mansion, invaded the imperial city of Fengyang Mansion, and completely controlled Fengyang Mansion.

(Today, I thank my old friend for the hot death!)