Anti Qing

Chapter 83 Suizhou Incident
As soon as possible, Li Zijing doesn't know when this "as soon as possible" will arrive as soon as possible, so it's just a big cake first.

Even Li Zijing didn't know the situation in Xiangyang, and he was attacked on several sides. The most lacking thing now was manpower.

Otherwise, Li Zijing would not have been involved in so many routines by Li Zicheng in Xi'an for Wu Zhaosheng's three or four thousand surrenders.

There is really no way to temporarily promote a captain.

Li Zijing is now a general with no soldiers, let alone capable officers, and the situation in Jingxiang cannot be separated from either Wu Zhaosheng or Hao Yaoqi.

Zhang Xian can be regarded as a veteran officer who has been fighting for many years. Needless to say, his combat skills, when he was the head of the former battalion, Li Zijing thought this post was always good.

But to keep him in Dengzhou, Li Zijing actually didn't expect much.

It's not the same as being the chief sentry and being the captain who leads the army to garrison a place alone. It's hard to say what Zhang Xian can do.

The only hope is that Zhang Xian can stay in Dengzhou for a long time, until Li Zijing establishes a situation in Jingxiang and stands firm, and then turns back to the north.

Being able to figure out Duoduo's movements clearly is a great achievement for Zhang Xian.

As for Zhang Xian's ability to take over Neixiang before Xiangyang sent more people, Li Zijing did not have this extravagant hope.

It would be good if Dengzhou was not lost. With more than 200 people, it is simply unrealistic to build a defense line from Dengzhou to Neixiang.

After setting the candidates, Li Zijing garrisoned in Dengzhou for three days, and on the fourth day, he led the main force of the former battalion to go south to Xiangyang.

The newly promoted Captain Zhang Xian, with [-] ordinary soldiers and [-] veteran soldiers under his command, was ordered to stay in Dengzhou.

Because there were no people in Dengzhou, let alone supplies, Li Zijing left a batch of supplies and gold and silver for Zhang Xian before he left to help him open up the situation in Dengzhou and recruit exiles.

It is impossible to restore the place of Dengzhou in less than 80 years, so Li Zijing also gave Zhang Xian an order.

In Dengzhou, the strategy of fortifying the walls and clearing the wilderness was implemented, and no matter whether the refugees returned or the people fled, they were all guided to Xiangyang.

In troubled times, the more the population, the more soldiers.

Fortunately, Dengzhou is less than a hundred miles away from Xiangyang, and there is a wide waterway for water transportation. If the wind is favorable, it can be reached in two days.

This was also the reason why Li Zijing chose to set up an outpost in Dengzhou. Even if he couldn't keep it in the future, it would be convenient for Zhang Xian to withdraw.

If there is a way to retreat, you will not be surrounded to death, and the morale of the former battalion soldiers in Dengzhou will be relatively stable.

From Dengzhou to the south, the climate gradually warms up.

Especially after going out of Nanyang Prefecture to Xiangyang Prefecture in Huguang, the climate will be more pleasant, with birds singing and flowers blooming everywhere along the way, and the weather is sunny.

At this time, it is very hot to wear a set of cotton clothes.

The cotton-padded clothes that were used to save lives in Guanzhong became a burden at this time. It was wet and hot on the body, and it was necessary to change clothes as soon as possible.

You don't know what you will encounter along the way, so you can't waste your soldiers' energy on such things.

Therefore, shortly after Li Zijing passed Xinye, he ordered the army to stop advancing, camped at the junction of Huguang and Henan for a night, and planned to go straight to Xiangyang tomorrow morning.

The Dashun Army was defeated one after another, and the news had not yet reached Xiangyang. There was still chaos in Huguang, and the morale of the Dashun Army was not high.

Because the front battalion played a vital role in the first battle in Tongguan, after the reconstruction, the little Chuang Wang Li Zijing personally led the team, and the morale was maintained.

Since leaving Xi'an, the former battalion has fought against local villages and the weakly defended Dengzhou. Along the way, they have occasionally suppressed bandits blocking the way and looting. At least so far, they have not suffered any defeats.

After taking Dengzhou easily, although it was not a victory, it still boosted morale.

Walking south along the way, the soldiers of the former battalion also started talking and laughing, and the haze of the past few days was swept away.

From Nanyang to Xiangyang, there are no high mountains and high mountains, but mainly plains. The official road is more like a corridor, with mountains on the left and water on the right.

Finally, there are some people living in Huguang, but the population in the north of Xiangyang is still sparse, bandits are more common, and many villages have been burned down.

Most of them are deserters, defeated soldiers, and refugees caused by the competition between the Yunyang Ming Army and the Xiangyang Dashun Army in the past six months.

Along the way, Li Zijing was also mentally prepared.

This is the case in the north of Xiangyang, and it is conceivable that the situation in Xiangyang City is not good.

I heard that Xiangyang was besieged by the Ming army last year. It is estimated that the Dashun garrison staying in the city has the power to protect itself!
The real situation will not be known until after arriving in Xiangyang.

When they arrived in Xiangyang Prefecture, Li Zijing ordered the banners of the front battalion to be erected, firstly to deter the local bandits, and secondly to show off to the garrisoned Dashun Army.

The flags cover the sky, and the drums rise up.

At any rate, it was a battle of thousands of people. Since Dengzhou went south, many refugees have been recruited. Although there are many bandits in the north of Xiangyang Mansion, there is no such thing as a mountain king who is tired of working and coming to trouble Li Zijing.

As soon as Dashun's banner was hit, this was the ancestors of those bandits, and before they saw each other, they knelt down and begged to surrender, and before it was too late, who was rushing to seek death.

Of course, Li Zijing has no intention of suppressing the bandits now, and they feel uncomfortable if they don't come to find them, so they just turn a blind eye and close their eyes. Everything is based on rushing to Xiangyang as soon as possible to familiarize themselves with the situation.

In the towns to the north of Xiangyang Prefecture, the situation is still somewhat murky.

Along the way, there are places with the banner of Dashun, which seem to have garrisons, and some deserted wastelands.

Seeing the big black banner of the front battalion from a distance, almost everyone chose to watch. Huguang suddenly saw a troop of this size, and many people couldn't figure out what was going on.

Li Zijing got mixed news from the refugees gathered from the north of Xiangyang Prefecture.

Xingping Bo Gaojie, one of the four Jiangbei towns of the Hongguang court, who was ordered to station in Suizhou in the first month of the first month, intending to attack Jingxiang with the Qing army, died in Suizhou a few days ago, that is, on the twelfth day of the first month.

Li Zijing knew who killed Gao Jie without asking. It was Gao Jie's subordinate Xu Dingguo.

And Xu Dingguo had only one reason to trap and kill Gao Jie, that is, he wanted to go north to surrender to the Qing Dynasty.

So this news is not entirely good news for Li Zijing.

In history, after Gao Jie's death, the Nanming army was in chaos, especially the old generals of the high department were leaderless, and coupled with Shi Kefa's coquettish operations, almost all of them were cast out later.

The threat from the east is temporarily lifted, but a bigger crisis is brewing!

Duoduo, who is in Huaiqing's army reorganization, will suddenly receive a big pie falling from the sky, and hundreds of thousands of Gao Jie's old troops will go north to surrender in the near future.

Receiving such news made Li Zijing a little uneasy.

In the last more than 40 miles, the front battalion changed the cotton clothes and moved forward lightly. They found some mules and horses in Dengzhou, and the march speed was accelerated.

On the evening of the 21st day of the first lunar month, I saw a large archery tower standing at the head of the Guancheng of Fancheng in the north of Xiangyang.

On the other side of the ground level, there is a large-scale city located in the north of the Han River, and a big blue banner is flying high.

Seeing this scene, everyone in the front battalion breathed a sigh of relief, speeded up their march, and soon arrived at the city.

(End of this chapter)