Daming: I help my wife be the empress

Chapter 242 Li Zicheng is here! [Thanks for the "Walking the Sword Book Fleeting Years" Rewards]

On the third day when Zhu Yuxi's army came to Jiangling, the captured grain in the city was divided into three parts.

Fifty thousand stones were captured and taken away with the ship, [-] stones were distributed to the people on both sides of the strait, and the remaining [-] stones were left in Jiangling City.

There were more than [-] Shunjun troops who were not reorganized due to various reasons after surrendering, and were left under the command of a reliable Shunjun general.

In this way, it can be barely guaranteed that Jiangling City will not lose order after they leave, and they can wait until the reinforcements from the Shun army arrive.

Because Aimee Zhu and Hao Guangming know very well that for the common people, even a bad order is better than a chaotic environment.

It took one day to complete the above disposal, and the Yangtze River Navy left Jiangling on the fourth day, and continued to go east along the river...
However, it is said that when the Ming army invaded Jiangling, Zheng Siwei took advantage of the convenience of guarding the North City Gate to gather 1000 troops from his headquarters and more than 3000 defeated troops. Jingmen at the junction fled, ready to wait and see for help here.

To say why Zheng Siwei made this choice, he had to talk about the situation of Shunjun in Jingxiang.

The situation in Jingxiang in this time and space is basically the same as that of later generations. After Zhang Xianzhong entered Sichuan, the Shun Army mainly occupied the four prefectures of Xiangyang, Chengtian, De'an, and Jingzhou.

Because of Zhang Xianzhong's departure, Zuo Liangyu's department and the Minyong, the rest of the officers and soldiers, who were trained by the officials and gentry in the local heart of the Ming Dynasty, took the opportunity to move westward and regain the lost ground.

It can be said that since the main force of the Shun Army went northward in the 15th year of Chongzhen, the Shun Army has been fighting against the forces of the Ming Dynasty on the lines of Macheng, Huangpi, Xiaogan, Hanchuan, Mianyang, and Jianli.

This year, the main force of the Shun Army is basically in the east of Jingxiang.

The three main points are Anlu (shun changed its name to Anle), Jingling (Tianmen), and Jiangling in De'an Prefecture.

Among them, Anlu was garrisoned by the Jiedu envoy Bai Wang himself, who mainly confronted and fought against Zuo Liangyu's headquarters currently stationed in Wuchang.

Jingling was garrisoned by the mighty general Ma Shitai, mainly defending the Ming army in Mianyang and Hanchuan.

As for General Guoyi Ren Guangrong who led the army to garrison Jiangling, he mainly defended against Ma Jinzhong and Wang Yuncheng of Zuo Liangyu's troops who rushed to Qianjiang, and the Huguang Ming army in Shishou and Jianli downstream.

On the southernmost side, the mighty general Wang Wenyao was stationed in Lizhou, Yuezhou Prefecture, and was mainly responsible for guarding against the Ming army in Hunan.

In other words, from Macheng, the capital of Huangzhou in the northeast, to Lizhou, the capital of Yuezhou in the southwest, this oblique line across the land of the five prefectures is the battle line between the Shun army and the Ming army in Huguang in the past two years.

Anlu, where Baiwang was stationed, was too far away from Jiangling, and it would be at least ten days before he received the news from Ren Guangrong's fast horse and came with his army.

Therefore, Ren Guangrong also sent fast horses to Jingling, Zhongxiang, and Jingmen at the same time.

The reinforcements from these three places will pass through the Jingmen Station in the north of Jiangling.

As a result, Zheng Siwei waited for a few days, but he waited for three thousand elite cavalry led by Li Zicheng himself.

Li Zicheng's face was full of wind and frost, and his expression was haggard.

He was obviously surprised when he met Zheng Siwei's department in Jingmen, and then he realized something, and asked with a dark face: "Jiangling has fallen?"

Sensing Li Zicheng's anger and killing intent, Zheng Siwei was so frightened that he immediately knelt down to plead guilty, but spoke in defense.

"Your Majesty's forgiveness is not because the last general waited to defend the city without dying, but because the Ming army's cannons were too powerful.

At that time, the Ming army used more than 100 new artillery pieces similar to the Hongyi cannon to continuously bombard the southern city wall, until our army dared not step on the city. Later, it directly blasted through the southern city gate with a cannon.

Immediately afterwards, they bombarded our army inside the city gate with tiger squatting artillery, causing countless casualties to our army, and General Ren was also killed on the spot. Jiangling City fell. "

Naturally, these things were not witnessed by Zheng Siwei with his own eyes, but some of the defeated troops he gathered had escaped from the south city wall, and he asked him about the process of the fall of the south city wall.

However, when Zheng Siwei said these words, he didn't notice that Li Zicheng's face was getting darker and darker, as straight as the bottom of a pot.

After Zheng Siwei finished speaking, Li Zicheng couldn't help but whipped his horsewhip on the ground, and said bitterly: "It's a cannon again! Could it be that I am going to die under the cannon by the way?!"

In Li Zicheng's capacity, he shouldn't have said such depressing words in public.

But he couldn't help it.

Tongguan fell because the Qing army brought Hongyi cannons, and now Jiangling fell because the witch of the Ming Dynasty had cannons.

When did wars depend entirely on cannons?
When thinking so in his heart, Li Zicheng also faintly regretted it.

In the past two or three years, he has won many battles with the Ming army, and also captured a lot of firecrackers and cannons.

It's a pity that cannons are too bulky and conflict with the Shun army's habit of moving and fighting, so they are not as important as firecrackers in the army.

Generally speaking, if the Shun army attacked the city with cannon nearby, they would use the old method, or dig the city wall with a large number of people, or open the city inside.

He also explored Zhang Xianzhong's method of throwing a stick to blow up the city wall, but unfortunately he has not been successful.

When the capital was captured last year, a lot of cannons were seized, including many Hongyi cannons.

It's a pity that these cannons were thrown to the Qing army when they retreated from Gyeonggi.

'If I had known this, I should have blown up those Hongyi cannons no matter how bad it was! '

After another cry of hatred in his heart, Li Zicheng looked at Zheng Siwei with his yellow eyes, and asked in a cold voice: "Ren Guangrong died in battle, why are you still alive?"

Zheng Siwei was taken aback when he heard this, and then hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, the last general who was stationed at the north city wall at that time saw that the Ming army was really difficult to deal with, so he gathered the rout and escaped to keep the soldiers and horses!"

For Shunjun, who started as a bandit, it is not a scandal to withdraw if they cannot be defeated, and there has never been a saying that they were accused of losing ground.

It was also for this reason that Zheng Siwei dared to wait for reinforcements here.

It's just that he never expected that Li Zicheng would look like he was going to kill him.

Li Zicheng looked at Zheng Siwei and remained silent for a while.

For a moment, the surrounding atmosphere was extremely depressing.

At this time, a general came to Li Zicheng's ear and said something, and Li Zicheng looked at Zheng Siwei even colder.

"Do you have friendship with Li Yan and Hong Niangzi?"

Upon hearing this question, Zheng Siwei's heart sank immediately.

Isn't he from the same hometown as Li Yan and Hong Niangzi?Why do Ren Guangrong and Li Zicheng suspect that he is transparent?
He hastily explained: "Your Majesty, the last general has only met Li Yan and Hong Niangzi a few times, and has nothing to do with it!"

The more Zheng Siwei explained, the less Li Zicheng believed it.

Since Shanhaiguan was defeated last year and he withdrew from the capital, Li Zicheng has not only suffered various defeats one after another, but his generals have also continued to rebel.

Among them, the surrendered generals and ministers of the original Ming army are the main ones, but there are also some peasant generals who are not firm in their will.

In Li Zicheng's view, this Zheng Siwei is obviously not firm-willed.

The most important thing is that it was just now that Zheng Siwei's defeated soldiers belonged to Meng Changgeng's personal entourage, and that Hong Niangzi wrote to Ren Guangrong about Zheng Siwei.

Although the follower only heard Meng Changgeng mention it, and didn't know what Zheng Siwei was specifically mentioned in Hong Niangzi's letter, it made Li Zicheng completely lose trust in Zheng Siwei.

So, he stared at Zheng Siwei with one eye, and asked in a gloomy voice: "How do you prove that you didn't collude with Li Yan and Hong Niangzi?"

how to prove?

Zheng Siwei was speechless when he heard this.

How can you prove such a thing?Shouldn't there be no proof that he colluded with Li Yan and Hong Niangzi?
Seeing that Zheng Siwei was anxious and at a loss, Li Zicheng snorted coldly, and said, "Come here, take this sloppy thing out and chop it up!"

Hearing this, the guards around Li Zicheng immediately took Zheng Siwei down and dragged him outside.

At this time, Zheng Siwei didn't know that Li Zicheng had made up his mind to kill him, so he cursed: "Li Zicheng, you indiscriminately kill Zhongliang indiscriminately, and you will die a good death! I will marry your mother—"

Zheng Siwei's voice stopped abruptly, apparently beheaded.

But Hu Sandao, the guard in charge of beheading, came in immediately, pleading guilty with a nervous face, "Please forgive me, I really didn't expect this Zheng Siwei to be so, so..."

He didn't expect that Zheng Siwei would scold Li Zicheng so directly in the end, so he was afraid that Li Zicheng would blame him for beheading him too late.

As a bodyguard, he knew very well how violent Li Zicheng had been these past few months, and he even became bloodthirsty obviously.

No, now Li Zicheng has touched the handle of the knife.

But he opened his mouth and said: "It's okay, a dead person, so what if he scolds the forehead? Get up."

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　　To put it bluntly, in history, Zheng Siwei betrayed the Shun army, killed Meng Changgeng, offered Jiangling City, and then used Jiangling City to resist the siege of 10 people from the Ming-Shun Allied Forces for a long time. The coalition forces occupy more than half of the territory in Huguang.

　　Of course, most of the 10 people of the Mingshun coalition army are family members of the Shun army and coerced people. Mingshun has limited elite soldiers, and priority is given to equipment, not to mention the status, which is almost negative.

　　
　
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