One by one, Ming army warships left the river bank and sailed towards the center of the river.
The Ming army's land infantry and cavalry on the north bank also withdrew one after another and bypassed Guangji.
While carefully guarding against a sudden attack by the Han army from Guangji City or the stronghold camp, they continued to march northwest along the narrow passage between the Dabie Mountains and the Yangtze River waterway.
Outside Guangji City, only a few thousand Ming troops were left to monitor Guangji.
Zhu Yuanzhang was sitting in the cabin decorated like a palace.
He closed his eyes slightly, thinking about the argument he had with the officials in this cabin just two hours ago.
"Your Majesty, it is impossible for our army to bypass Guangji and directly attack the hinterland of Han Dynasty."
Li Shanchang heard that Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to withdraw from Guangji and attack Wuchang directly, and he quickly persuaded him.
Zhu Yuanzhang said disapprovingly: "Then what do you think we should do?
You have also seen that Guangji cannot be captured in ten days and a half.
Unless we besiege him for a year and a half like Zhang Shicheng's Pingjiang City, we can It’s possible to win.
But it’s long enough for that little kid in Wuchang City to grow up and sit back and watch.”
After a pause, Zhu Yuanzhang continued: "Don't forget the main purpose of our trip.
In addition to conquering the Han Dynasty, more importantly, we need to capture Queyue City and seize his craftsman equipment that can produce sharp firearms.
If the time is prolonged, , what if he transferred these?"
Li Shan sighed and said, "Have you ever thought about it, Your Majesty?
What if we encounter a setback when attacking Queyue City in Wuchang City, and the Han army stationed in Guangji blocks the passage with barracks, blocks the river with artillery, and cuts off our way back?
is good" Xu Da on the side smiled disapprovingly and said: "Mr.
Shanchang is overthinking.
I have specially observed the range of the Han army's artillery these days.
I found that their artillery is much farther than our bowl-mouth blunderbuss, but it is only four hundred steps.
Even if Erecting it on a mountain like Jiangjun Mountain can increase the range to one mile at most.
Although the Yangtze River here is narrow, it is still more than three miles wide.
As long as we let the fleet sail near the center of the river, they will not be able to block the river. " Zhu Yuanzhang took over and said: "Xu Da is right.
In addition, I have left more than 10,000 soldiers on land to set up camps to monitor the movements of the Han army in Guangji City.
If the Han army does not leave the city, they will be dismissed.
Once they do, they will be sniped by our soldiers outside the city. " Chang Yuchun, who has always been taciturn, rarely expressed his opinion at this time: "Your Majesty, although this is the case, it is assumed that there are no reinforcements from the Han army.
Once our army passes through Guangji, there will be fertile fields thousands of miles away.
In Jianghan Plain, there are no passes to control At this time, the Han army can bypass our army to reinforce Guangji.
The minister believes that there are still too few soldiers left in Guangji, but should be deployed at the northwest gate of Guangji City, between the Dabie Mountains and the Yangtze River waterway. 50,000 troops to ensure that this does not happen.”
Zhu Yuanzhang shook his head and said: "No, we cannot divide our troops too much.
We must concentrate our forces to capture Wuchang and Queyue City in one fell swoop.
I am bound to win.
Of course, I have also prepared for the worst and will not be as desperate as Chen Youliang.
Wan one us We suffered setbacks at Wuchang and Queyue City, and Guangji was sealed off by the Han army.
So I have a way to withdraw our troops when the time comes.
We will sail into the Dongting Lake, go up the Xiangjiang River, and abandon the ship in western Jiangxi.
Landing, Sapphire will meet us there."
On the top of Snake Mountain within the west city wall of Wuchang, on the Yellow Crane Tower, a young man in armor looked down to the northeast of the river with a telescope.
In the telescope lens, the shadows of layers of masts and sails rise from the northeastern horizontal line of the river.
"The tiger and wolf have finally entered the cage."
The young man Chen Li showed a hint of joy on his face and whispered to himself.
When the Ming army warships entered Wuchang, they did not approach Wuchang behind the river between Han and Yang, but went straight to Queyue City.
The Ming army immediately launched an attack on the Han army's water village opposite the Han River in Queyue City and the Han army's camp on Guishan.
More than a thousand warships, large and small, docked and anchored one after another along the Yangtze River and Han River waterways.
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A large number of Ming army generals landed at the foot of Guishan Mountain to assemble.
In half a day, Queyue City was completely surrounded.
"Reporting to your Majesty, our army captured the Han army's water stronghold."
"Reporting to Your Majesty, Queyue City has been surrounded by our troops from all sides."
"Reporting that our army's artillery returned and began to bombard the Han army's Guishan camp with thunderbolt shells."
Battle reports were sent to Zhu Yuanzhang's desk one after another, and continuous roaring and explosions were heard outside the tent.
That was the sound of a sky-shattering explosion thrown by a cannon.
Everything seemed to be going well.
But Zhu Yuanzhang was not optimistic after reading the details of the battle report.
The Han army's water stronghold captured by the Ming army was actually an empty stronghold.
Except for a dozen sampans and small boats, and a dozen bowl-mouthed earthen guns, nothing was obtained.
Queyue City was besieged, but several attempted sieges launched by Xu Da were easily crushed by the defenders in the city.
"Queyue City is difficult to capture.
I have predicted it a long time ago.
Therefore, the first focus of our attack should be Guishan Mountain, which is close to Queyue City."
Zhu Yuanzhang seemed to be talking to himself, and seemed to be sitting opposite the Chinese army.
The counselors and generals in the big tent were talking.
After an hour, Zhu Yuanzhang, who was impatient to wait, asked the guard general in charge of the troops: "Why has the battle report of Guishan not been sent for so long?"
"To report to Your Majesty, the Tiance Guards sent by me went to inquire about it.
Geng Zaicheng, the general leading the troops, said that they were fighting fiercely with the Han army, but there was no result yet."
Zhu Yuanzhang frowned, looked at the fortress-shaped Queyue City in the distance outside the tent and said: "Capturing Guishan is crucial to conquering Queyue City.
I gave him all the newly trained fire muskets." , if he can't take Guishan, come and see him with his head raised."
At this time, the four slopes of Guishan were covered with corpses of Ming army soldiers, and the smell of gunpowder smoke and blood filled the air.
Several attacks by the Ming army were easily crushed by the Han army in the Guishan camp.
Geng Zaicheng was so anxious that he was sweating profusely.
After listening to the oral instructions conveyed by the emperor's personal soldiers, his whole body and mind felt as if he had fallen into an ice cave.
He glanced at the supervising team behind the soldiers, which was composed of Yingyang Guards, one of the twelve guards of the emperor's personal army.
He knew in his heart that today was probably the last day of his life.
No matter what, he would die anyway, so he risked it.
After assembling and deploying the remaining approximately 5,000 soldiers.
Geng Zaicheng held a blunderbuss in one hand and pulled out his sword with the other, and shouted: "Brothers, we must capture the Guishan camp today, otherwise our generals and others will be abandoned on the bank of the Han River, at the foot of Guishan.
Otherwise. , you and I will definitely receive a generous reward from the Holy One.”
After that, he pointed the knife towards the top of the mountain, shouted: "Kill", took the lead, stepped on the layers of corpses and rushed towards Turtle Mountain.
The team braved the free fire of the Han army and rushed to the middle of the mountain.
When they were less than fifty steps away from the Han army's trenches, the gunmen lowered their heavy bowl-mouth cannons from their shoulders and mounted them on the ground.
They fired cannons one after another towards the mountains.
The crossbowmen also randomly fired their bows and arrows at the top of the mountain to provide cover.
The troops continue to charge
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