Daming: I help my wife be the empress

Chapter 235 Dashun's Jiangling City
Jingzhou Fuzhi, Jiangling.

Since Zhang Xianzhong and Li Zicheng entered Huguang successively, the Jingzhou Mansion has suffered from wars and turmoil. The Jiangling city wall of the mansion was even blown up, and the city was repeatedly burned by fire, turning into ruins.

Meng Changgeng was a scholar, and he was originally a gentry class, but his family was in decline and he was depressed.

Li Zicheng established a system in Xiangyang, so he took refuge.

In addition to the four military advisers Gu Junen, Li Yan, Niu Jinxing, and Song Xiance who followed Li Zicheng in the early days, Meng Changgeng and a group of Jingxiang scholars were regarded as the second batch of scholars who took refuge in Li Zicheng.

After being appointed as the defense envoy of Jingzhou, Meng Changgeng saw that Jiangling's geographical location was so dangerous that there was no city to rely on, so he persuaded Ren Guangrong, a general in charge of Jingzhou's military affairs, to conscript civilians to build Jiangling City.

This matter began since Zhang Xianzhong left Jingzhou Mansion in the 16th year of Chongzhen, and the Shun Army occupied Jingzhou Mansion.

After more than half a year, the construction of Jiangling City has finally been completed.

No, it should be said that it is stronger than before - after all, the Jiangling City of Daming was in disrepair for a long time, otherwise it would not be so easy to be blown up and breached by Zhang Xianzhong.

Today is the auspicious day that Meng Changgeng specially asked Taoist priests to look forward to, so he invited Ren Guangrong to attend the completion ceremony of Jiangling City.

On this day, at the gate of the city, Jingzhou government officials, civil and military, gathered, with the sound of gongs and drums, and the explosion of firecrackers.

Meng Changgeng and Ren Guangrong stood at the front of the crowd, looking at the tall gate tower.

Meng Changgeng asked with a smile: "General Ren, how do you think Jiangling City is built?"

Although Ren Guangrong was born in the peasant army, he couldn't help but feel joy and pride when he thought of such a tall and dangerous city being completed in his own military jurisdiction.

Hearing this, he smiled and said, "If I lead 10 elite soldiers to defend the city, even [-] horses will not be afraid to attack!"

Meng Changgeng said confidently: "Jiangling City is located at the end of the lower Bailizhou of the Yangtze River, so it can be said that it guards the vital point in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River.

Whether the Ming army came from Sichuan or Jiangnan, if they wanted to attack this city, let alone 20 troops, even [-] might not be able to do it. "

"Hahaha..." Ren Guangrong laughed heartily when he heard this, and said, "Meng Defense Envoy is right. Now that the city has been completed, our Jingzhou Mansion will no longer be afraid of enemies on the river and south of the Yangtze River!"

In the end, before Ren Guangrong could finish laughing, the Yishun army messenger galloped towards the pier and stopped only when he got close to the crowd.

The man carried a flag representing the urgent military situation on his back, panting, ran in front of Ren Guangrong, knelt on one knee and cupped his hands, and said: "General Qi, the navy of the Ming army came from the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, with sails like clouds, It is suspected that there are nearly a thousand warships and more than one hundred thousand soldiers!"

"What?!" Ren Guangrong frowned when he heard this, and immediately picked up the messenger who sent the military information, and asked: "Please explain clearly, where did the Ming army come from? How could there be thousands of warships?! "

The messenger said nervously: "General Ren, what the humble officer said is true!

Previously in Yiling, our army had intercepted the Ming navy with iron chains and a series of fire boats on the Hengjiang River.

But the Ming army not only had many tall warships, but also a kind of iron ship, which carried dozens of cannons, and was not afraid of swords and fire, and directly knocked away the serial fire boats of our army. "

"Nonsense!" Ren Guangrong threw the messenger to the ground, staring at him and said, "Is this general a fool? How can there be iron boats in this world? If there were any, they wouldn't sink into the water?

There is also a boat carrying dozens of cannons——Lao Tzu’s boat is so big, and it almost capsized when it was sent on the river with two tiger squat cannons. How could there be dozens of cannons on board?

Come on!Pull down this nonsense thing that tries to mess with our army's morale! "

When the messenger heard this, everyone was dumbfounded.

It never occurred to him that he risked the risk of sailing overnight from Yiling to report the news. Not only did he not get a reward, but he would be beheaded by Ren Guangrong who questioned him for falsely spreading military information.

If he had known this, he would have slipped away halfway.

Seeing Ren Guangrong's two wolves like tigers coming over to restrain the messenger and take him away, Meng Changgeng hurriedly shouted: "General Ren, wait a minute."

Ren Guangrong looked at Meng Changgeng unkindly, "Why, Defense Envoy Meng wants to teach me how to handle military affairs?"

"I don't dare!" Meng Changgeng hurriedly apologized, and then leaned into Ren Guangrong's ear and whispered: "General Ren, I don't believe in the iron ship, but there is indeed a warship carrying dozens of guns." of.

Xiaguan once heard from friends who have been to Guangdong that overseas barbarians have large ships sailing in the ocean, and they carry ten or twenty cannons, which are very powerful. "

Ren Guangrong blinked his eyes when he heard this, and said: "I don't study much, so don't fool me.

Besides, even if what you said is true, the Daming Navy came from the upper reaches, so the upper reaches of the Yangtze River cannot still be connected to the South China Sea, right? "

"This..." Meng Changgeng didn't have the self-confidence to know everything, he hesitated and said, "The upper reaches of the Yangtze River should not be connected to the sea, but it's hard to guarantee that they don't have similar warships.

General, I think it's best to take this messenger down for interrogation and learn more about the situation of the Ming army's navy. "

In fact, when Ren Guangrong wanted to kill the messenger who sent the military information just now, it was just a moment of heat - it was what the messenger said, which made him feel that his IQ was insulted.

Now calm down and think about it, we should really do what Meng Changgeng said.

Later, the two hurriedly held the completion ceremony of Jiangling City, and took some generals and important civil officials to discuss how to deal with the Ming army navy.

At the meeting, Meng Changgeng spoke actively.

After interrogating the messenger himself, he said: "Although our army has two or three hundred ships, there are more than a dozen serious warships, and the rest are just civilian ships.

Even if the navy of the Ming army did not have thousands of warships, but only a few hundred, it would be difficult for us to fight this battle on the river.

In addition, according to the messenger, although the navy of the Ming army broke the chain of fireboats of the Yiling navy, they did not send troops ashore to capture Yiling City, but continued down the river.

Therefore, according to the officials, the navy of the Ming army was either passing through the Jingzhou mansion, or they wanted to take advantage of my unpreparedness to attack Jiangling.

If the Ming army is just passing by Jingzhou Mansion, we don't need to fight with them, just let them pass.

If the Ming army wants to go to Jiangling City, we don't have to fight with them on the water, we just need to guard Jiangling City. "

Ren Guangrong is not reckless in fighting.

If the navy of the Ming army really had thousands of warships and more than one hundred thousand soldiers, he would be stupid to fight with them on the river.

Wouldn't it be nice to defend the newly built Jiangling City?
So, he followed Meng Changgeng's words and said: "In this case, then let the sailors withdraw their boats to the water fortress.

The generals of the various armies quickly went to check the materials for defending the city in all directions, and made preparations for the enemy's attack on the city. "

"Order!"

All the generals under Ren Guangrong's command took orders, and the military meeting was considered over.

The reason why it was carried out so quickly was because Ren Guangrong and others knew that since the messenger had arrived, the navy of the Ming army would surely arrive soon.

The courier said that they came here from Yiling day and night by a lone boat, but Ren Guangrong didn't fully believe it.

After all, taking the risk of sailing on the Yangtze River at night is too hard, not everyone can do it.

Who knows if the courier found a place to rest at night and only sailed during the day, but deliberately said that he sailed overnight to avoid the crime of delaying the military situation?

　Good night~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)