Autumn of the 17th year of Chongzhen

Chapter 539 Heart Floating
The two parties started a scuffle around Snake Mountain.They wear the same armor, hold the same weapons, speak the same Chinese, and even accuse each other of the same slogan, which is to accuse the other party of treason and surrender.

At this time, Liu Chengyin was a little scared after the blow just now, and hurriedly withdrew from the building. As soon as he left, the morale of the soldiers who had a large number of soldiers lost their morale, and the lobby was occupied by Chen Youlong and his group instead.

After he came out of the building, he was taken aback when he saw the situation at the bottom of the mountain. Like Fu Shangrui, he suddenly felt a mess in his mind.

In fact, today, as long as any group of people is unprepared, this matter can be ended quickly, but it happened to fall to pick up an ingot.

Liu Chengyin commanded the soldiers to continue attacking around the Yellow Crane Tower, making sure to kill Chen Youlong and others, and at the same time ordered the soldiers to resist Chen Youlong's own soldiers who had already climbed up the mountainside, and then sent his confidants to the barracks to get all the troops out.

Although Snake Mountain is a small land parcel, it is enough to overlook the whole city, so Liu Chengyin directly built a commander's platform on the top of the mountain, and used war drums and flags to command Liu's soldiers and horses fighting in the melee below the mountain. He could see the battlefield clearly and quickly took the initiative.

It's just that there is a raging Taoist soldier, and there will be a raging nest. Compared with Chen Youlong's troops, the troops brought out by Liu Chengyin, a frequently defeated general, are not a star and a half behind.

Although he could clearly see the layout of the Chen army at the foot of the mountain, and with Fu Shangrui's caressing the bid, and his soldiers and horses gradually gathered at the bottom of the Snake Mountain, the number was far greater than that of Chen Jun, but he also pointed out the weakness of Chen Jun with the command flag , but the men and horses under him are not strong enough, they just cannot defeat Chen Jun.

There was anxiety at the bottom of the mountain, and the situation on the mountain was not good. A soldier came to report, "Futai, General, Chen Youlong is hiding in the building. The brothers attacked several times, but they were all kicked out."

The current situation made Fu Shangrui look anxious. After hearing the report, he frowned and became impatient, "Why hasn't it been resolved! Since a strong attack is not possible, won't you attack with fire? Burn down the building, Chen Youlong died, and the following The rebellious soldiers will disperse."

"Burning the building?" Although Liu Chengyin is a warrior, the Yellow Crane Tower is a famous building in the world. After it was rebuilt with great difficulty, it was burned again. They must be scolded to death, especially the literati in Chu. His body was shattered, and thinking of this, he couldn't help reminding: "Futai, the Yellow Crane Tower is a treasure of Wuchang, it's a pity to just destroy it like this."

Fu Shangrui was silent for a moment: "The prosperity of the country and the prosperity of the building, the fate of the Ming Dynasty is exhausted, this building should be destroyed, this is the arrangement of God's will."

Liu Chengyin just asked, since Fu Shangrui spoke, he immediately ordered: "Set fire to the building, and tell the outside world that the fire was set by Chen Youlong."

The soldiers led the way and ordered people to prepare torches, but at this moment, the officers and soldiers of the Liu Department on the top of the mountain suddenly discovered that on the Yangtze River, a fleet came from the west to cover the river.

The first few giant ships are like castles on the river, with white sails hanging high, like a sea of ​​clouds moving in the sky.The mast goes straight up to the sky, above the watchtower, the sun, the moon and the bright flag are buzzing.

"Futai, Dongting navy!"

The soldiers exclaimed, Fu Shangrui looked back, but was so frightened that his liver and gallbladder were torn apart. He saw hundreds of large ships going down the river, and there were countless small boats of all kinds behind them.

To be able to have this scale, it is only the Dongting Navy, which has developed desperately in the land of Sanxiang and Four Rivers in the past year.

Before, Chen Youlong killed him by coercion, but this time it is probably the imperial court who came to arrest him.

Liu Chengyin's expression also changed when he saw it, panicked, and hurriedly asked: "Futai, what should I do?"

Fu Shangrui looked at the situation at the bottom of the mountain, and decisively broke his wrist, "Go quickly, I'm afraid you won't be able to go if it's too late! It's not that I didn't plan well, it's really bad luck, bad luck."

Liu Chengyin glanced at the boats on the river, he was afraid that Nanfu Du Yinxi would come in person, and the city is in chaos right now, once Hunan soldiers and horses enter the city, they will only have a dead end.

He couldn't help but let out a long sigh, the success was in vain, they never expected that the Dongting navy would arrive at this time, if they knew this, they didn't covet Chen Youlong's 7000 troops, they directly occupied the city, maybe they could wait for the Duoduo soldiers to come, but now everything is in jeopardy late.

At that moment, the two hurried down the mountain, leading the soldiers and horses straight to the west gate. At this moment, some Fubiao and Liu Department officers and soldiers felt that something was wrong. Didn't they say that Chen Youlong was treasonous? Going to run instead?

Some of the more than 2 Ming troops who fought in a muddle-headed battle slowly fell out of the team because of doubts. When Fu Shangrui and Liu Chengyin fled all the way to Huangshi, only 2 of the [-] people were left.

Duoduo originally wanted to seek revenge from Jin Shengheng, and the main force first wiped out Jiangxi and killed Jin Shengheng, a rebel, but because he received a secret letter from Fu Shangrui, Hong Chengchou suggested attacking Chu first. Wuchang came running.

Duduo was very dissatisfied with this, but his adviser Huang Shu suggested that he treat Fu Shangrui with courtesy, entrust him with important tasks, and publicize it to the outside world.

Sure enough, under the influence of the Hubei governor of the Ming Dynasty who surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, some counties in eastern Hubei began to surrender to the Qing army. In addition, Fu Shangrui was familiar with the terrain of Hubei, the deployment of the Ming army and the combat power of various ministries, and his connections in the officialdom made the Qihuang area very popular with the Qing army. The harassment of the soldiers was immediately reduced, and the speed of the Qing army's advance was greatly increased.

Duoduo left 5000 troops to stay in Huangzhou to ensure logistics, and the army immediately rushed to Wuchang in mighty form.

At this time, Wuchang City had settled down, but both the gentry and the people in the city, as well as the defenders of various ministries, were covered in a haze.

The enemy is approaching, but there is an internal strife in the city. The second in command in Hubei leads troops to surrender to the enemy. Even if the troops from Hunan come to help, they can't blow away the haze in people's hearts.

At Wuchang Wharf, there are many warships moored on the edge of the Yangtze River. Teams of navy officers and soldiers stepped off the warships and began to build water villages under the command of the officers.

In the Tang Dynasty, Li Bai had a poem "A Thousand Miles of Jianglings Are Returned in One Day". Although it is a bit exaggerated, it generally shows the speed of going downstream.

In history, the reason why the Southern Dynasties had to occupy the upper reaches first was mostly due to this reason. Tens of 10 people flowed down the river, and the lower reaches were basically difficult to resist.

After receiving the news that the Qing soldiers were about to invade the bandits in June, Du Yinxi moved from Changsha to Yuezhou. When he received the news from Gao Yigong, he wrote a letter to He Tengjiao while leading Man Dazhuang to prepare East down.

The reason why Dodo walked slowly was that apart from being harassed by rebels, he was going upstream and lacked experienced sailors to steer the sails. But it's different, from Yuezhou to the south, the wind is smooth and the speed is extremely fast.

Because Fu Shangrui left in a hurry, the Yellow Crane Tower did not completely burn. Chen Youlong and others rushed out of the building. They, who survived the catastrophe, rushed to the pier to meet Nanfudu before they could wash off the smoke from their faces. Yinxi enters the city.

After Wuchang experienced this chaos, the people in the city were unstable, and the gentry and common people couldn't tell the situation at all. Why did Beifu have to vote?Was it forced by Chen Youlong?People's hearts are fluctuating, and Chen Youlong's qualifications are too low to control the situation at all, and He Tengjiao is not around, so he can only ask Du Yinxi to go to the city to stabilize people's hearts.

The pedals were put down on the warship, and it was put on the pier. Man Dazhuang helped Du Yinxi to disembark cautiously. Chen Youlong and others hurried forward to see him.

(Thanks to someone who is like a dog for the five hundred book coins.)
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