East Factory Governor

Chapter 527 Situation

A red firework rose, and the officers and soldiers outside the city suddenly shouted and killed like thunder, rushing over like a tide.

The rogues in the city were all shocked when they saw this. After a short period of confusion, they immediately rushed towards the west gate, trying to recapture the west gate and prevent the official army from attacking.

However, at this time, the White Lotus Sect in Ximen had reached four or five hundred people. They surrounded Ximen and fought fiercely with the bandits who came to rescue them.

Not long after, from an unknown corner, more than 400 people dressed as civilians rushed out, and they were naturally also members of the White Lotus Sect.

The bandit general Ding Tian, ​​who was in charge of defending the west gate, quickly mobilized three to four thousand people to encircle and suppress the eight or nine hundred members of the Bailian Sect. The rogues in the city came across the city gate.

Ding Tian immediately ordered the archers and crossbowmen to go up, and under the blow of the arrow rain, the Bailian sect without a few shields fell one by one.However, they did not catch them without a fight, but organized more than 200 people to rush towards the archers and crossbowmen camp.However, these people were soon surrounded by rogue infantry.

Not long after the fierce battle between the two sides, the Bailian sect lost two to three hundred people, and four to five thousand bandit soldiers gathered at the gate of the city—because they knew that the official army was outside the gate, so there would naturally be heavy troops at the west gate.

But the officers and soldiers rushed to Ximen immediately.First, a thousand heavy cavalry roared in, and a charge defeated the crossbowmen and archers camp of the rogues, and then a thousand light cavalry came in again, hacking and killing these rogues, making them cry for their fathers and mothers.

Immediately afterwards, the infantry of the official army rushed into the city from a distance, and began to attack the city wall and some street fighting locations under the city wall.

Li Zicheng in the city was shocked and angry when he heard that Ximen had been broken through by the inside and outside!But he did not panic, and immediately boldly withdrew half of the soldiers at the south gate, north gate, and east gate, and then brought the remaining reserve troops in the city, a total of 3 people, and began to arrange street battles in an orderly manner.

He already knew all the streets in Ankang City by heart, and he was very clear about where it was suitable for street fighting and where it was suitable for ambushes, and he had already prepared plans for street fighting after the city was broken, so it was easy to arrange!
It took more than a quarter of an hour for the officers and soldiers to let all 2000 to 600 troops enter Ankang City. After the last officer entered the city, the rogue defenders at the west gate had basically collapsed.The official army successfully captured the city wall and annihilated more than [-] defenders in Ximen, but they only paid the price of more than [-] people.

There were about 6000 rogues guarding the west gate. Seeing that Li Zicheng did not send troops to help them, they immediately chose to retreat. They were unwilling to fight to the death with the officers and soldiers.

More than 4000 people fled into the city in a hurry. The officers and soldiers only chased and killed about 500 people for a short distance before being ordered by He Kegang to return.

He Kegang was an experienced general. When he saw that Li Zicheng had abandoned Ximen instead of coming for reinforcements, he knew that he was going to fight in the streets, so he ordered the officers and soldiers not to pursue him, lest he be caught in an ambush.

Veteran He Kegang ordered the whole army to stand on guard and rest, waiting for dawn tomorrow before advancing.why?Because the officers and soldiers were not familiar with Ankang City, and Li Zicheng made it clear that he had ambushed men and horses inside, wouldn't it be easier to ambush them in the dark?That's why he decided to wait until dawn.

Therefore, Ankang City strangely stationed troops from two sides in one city.

At the same time, He Renlong and Zuo Guangxian led an army of 1 (plus the [-] that Qin Shuhuai allocated to them) and had been besieging the city for two days. They tried to attack several times in the past two days, but each time they failed. Come back with success.The defenders in the city have good fighting skills and are well equipped, so they have no good solution for the time being.He Renlong fought fiercely and was called a lunatic, but he was not really crazy. Seeing that it was not easy to fight, he had to frantically cut down the surrounding trees, made a large number of ladders, high archers, etc., and prepared for a storm that could accommodate [-] people at the same time. .

In Shanxi, in order to cooperate with Qin Shuhuai's offensive in Shaanxi, the new trilateral governor Lu Xiangsheng also ordered Du Wenhuan and He Huchen to launch a summer offensive against Zhang Xianzhong's troops. If they didn't go up, their goal was to prevent Zhang Xianzhong from fleeing to Shaanxi and help Gao Yingxiang.

In the Forbidden City, Chongzhen was devastated.

The Ministry of War came to report that Huang Taiji in the north with hundreds of thousands of troops had arrived outside Da'an again, and might attack at any time.Chongzhen asked the exact number, and the people from the Ministry of War reported for a while that it should be the [-] army that Lord Qin Hou said, and then said that there might be some Mongolian soldiers and horses.

But I don't blame the people in the Ministry of War, they are not on the front line, how do they know how many troops are on the other side?Yuan Chonghuan is most likely to know the opponent's team.It's a pity that Yuan Chonghuan can't help it. He doesn't have clairvoyant eyes and ears, and the spies he sends out often don't come back. , as long as they are Han Chinese, if they leave the customs at this time, they will be killed as soon as they are found.If the spies couldn't come back, how could Yuan Chonghuan know how many people were there?
In fact, not only Yuan Chonghuan's spies couldn't come back, even the members of the White Lotus Sect could hardly find an opportunity to pass information to the pass.

However, Yuan Chonghuan still knows a rough idea, that is, 10,000+. As for whether it is 11 or 19, he may not be clear, but of course he has to pay higher.Saying 10,000+ as hundreds of thousands, if he wins, it will show his credit, and if he loses, it is understandable-this is what everyone is used to at the time, it can be said to be a common practice, and it cannot be said that Yuan Chonghuan is wrong .

Closer to home.

Another thing that also caused Chongzhen a headache was that after hearing that Zhou Yanru had been arrested and imprisoned, the Donglin party members among the governors all over the country went up to plead for him.They said they were begging for mercy, but in fact their attitude was very tough. At one point in the memorial, they alluded to Chongzhen as a tyrant like King Zhou. Wantonly framing Qin Shuhuai, as if Qin Shuhuai was a sycophant and rebellious general, and deserved to be punished.

In short, the core purpose is only one, and that is to force Chongzhen to release Zhou Yanru. They even used words such as "otherwise it will make thousands of subjects feel cold and divorced" in the memorial.What's this?This is completely the threat of Chi Guoguo!Doesn't it mean that if Chongzhen doesn't let him go, they will be "divorced" from him?
There are more than a dozen governors, including the Governor of Water Transport, the Governor of Xuanda, the Governor of Sichuan, the Governor of Huguang, the Governor of Henan, and the Governor of Baoding. Besides these, it is estimated that the memorials of the governors farther away are still on the way.

Chongzhen was so angry that his lungs exploded!As the emperor himself, he couldn't even govern a single minister, what a shame and humiliation!
But there was nothing he could do!Now Daming is at a critical moment of life and death, if those governors collectively rebel, then he, the emperor, has also done it.

Angrily and helplessly, he was furiously writing, and when he was writing to Qin Shuhuai asking for advice, it happened that Qin Shuhuai's memorial had arrived!

(End of this chapter)