Dong Xueli is worthy of being a "veteran", and in a short period of time, he has thoroughly analyzed his life and future.
In his opinion, Zhang Changgeng was newly relocated from the governor of Huguang to the governor of Huguang, which was changed in normal times, but the pie that fell from the world was greatly promoted.
However, now the governor's position is very piercing, and if he doesn't do it well, he will even lose his life.
I think that Hu Quancai has only been the governor for seven years, and he has no merit and hard work, but the court said that he would take him down, and he didn't save any face, and he was directly locked into Beijing, but I think what will happen to Governor Hu who was escorted back to Beijing.
And Zhang Changgeng took over, saying that the emperor is important when it sounds good, and he is ordered when he is in danger, and he is afraid that it is also the top cylinder if it is ugly.
If the Huguang war situation continues to be so corrupt, the imperial court will always find someone to take the blame, the previous one was Hu Quancai, and the next one must be him Zhang Changgeng, so the emperor can't carry this pot by himself.
Zhang Changgeng is also unlucky, when Hong Chengchou was in Changsha, he always looked at him as the governor of Huguang and was unpleasant, and repeatedly wanted to replace him, if it weren't for him Zhang Changgeng was born in the Han military banner, I am afraid that he would have slipped away long ago.
Now that he has become the governor of Huguang as he wished, Hong Chengchou was also driven to Yunnan by a holy decree of the emperor, and the sky of Huguang can be covered with one hand.
However, the fact is that Zhang Changgeng has only been in office for three days, and the Kui Dongming army has come to attack Hanyang City.
Once Hanyang is lost, Wuchang has no danger to defend, and if Governor Zhang abandons the city and escapes, the imperial court will definitely want his head; If he doesn't run, the Ming army will also ask for his head.
Therefore, Zhang Changgeng is not a person inside and outside at the moment, and he wants his life inside and outside.
In order to save his life and keep this hard-won position as governor, Zhang Changgeng must repel the invading Ming army, even if the situation cannot be restored quickly, he must ensure that it does not deteriorate faster in his hands.
For this reason, after learning that the Ming army was attacking on a large scale, Zhang Changgeng was anxious to lose his official reputation and reputation, and wantonly apportioned and urged the gentry and the people of Wuchang to pay a large amount, and wantonly forcibly pulled the strong Ding, which made the people angry and resentful in Wuchang City, so he recruited a team of more than 30,000 soldiers and horses within a few days.
Originally, although the Ming army was Hao Shaoqi and Ta Tianbao, the two thieves, but there were only 10,000 soldiers and horses, but there were more than 30,000 people on their side.
Unexpectedly, before he and Governor Zhang arrived in Hanyang, Dong Xueli, the vanguard, was defeated.
When the news came back, Dong Xueli was sure that Zhang Changgeng must be angry and ruined, and he had a hundred thoughts about killing himself.
According to Dong Xueli's thoughts, Zhang Changgeng knew that after his defeat, there were no more than two ways to deal with it, one was to return to the division and retreat to Wuchang, and Hanyang didn't want it, so he would defend Wuchang; The second is to continue to go south, looking for Hao to wave the flag and fight a decisive battle.
If Zhang Changgeng chooses to return to Wuchang, he will definitely not be able to get rid of the responsibility for the defeat of the Hanyang army, and the court in Beijing will dismiss him if he can't say it, and at that time, the gentry in Wuchang City who were blackmailed by him will definitely unite with the group of officials who secretly oppose Zhang Changgeng to complain to the court, and then Dong Xueli can also completely put the responsibility for the defeat on Zhang Changgeng, saying that he does not know the army, and he is rash and pushes this leads to the defeat, so that he can take himself out.
If Zhang Changgeng chooses the second method, that is, if he does not return to Wuchang and continues to go south, there can only be two results.
One is to defeat the Ming army, in that case, Zhang Changgeng will not have too much hatred for Dong Xueli, the defeated general, Dong Xueli is more interesting, come to the guilt of Jing and ask for it, and prepare a heavy salute, the governor wants to come and be forgiven, and he will not worry about anything with him.
In case Chang Geng's fate is the same as his Dong Xueli, Dong Xueli will be even more afraid, and even the silver can be saved, because Zhang Changgeng will definitely be cleaned up by the imperial court, and everyone will fall, what is Dong Xueli afraid of, and what kind of money will be wasted, and then he will casually pull a group of strong men nearby and bring them back to Wuchang, and the new governor may have to slap himself, because in addition to him Dong Xueli, who else can defend Wuchang City for him.
Good or bad, Dong Xueli expected it, and now it depends on how Zhang Changgeng decides.
Dong Xueli hoped that Governor Zhang would be stupid and continue to go south, so that he could return to Wuchang openly and become the new governor's dependence.
Dong Xueli has no other confidence, but he is full of confidence that Zhang Changgeng will inevitably defeat the Ming army.
The source of this confidence is the details of the more than 20,000 soldiers and horses under Zhang Changgeng.
If others don't know, can he not know that a group of strong men brought from the city and nearby villages can call the army, and only after they can fight and win the war can they have ghosts?
You must know that he Dong Xueli is not stupid, and all the soldiers in Wuchang City who can fight are under him, and this will be defeated early Zhang Changgeng is really stupid, what does he use to fight, and what does he use to win Zhang Changgeng, the new governor of Huguang, is now in a terrible mood, pacing around the tent and unable to calm down, and wants to kill people.
And the group of officials who always surrounded him on weekdays would have stayed away from it, lest they touch the governor's bad head.
There was also a lot of discussion in the army, saying that this battle could no longer be fought, and many generals even ordered their subordinates to pack up their things and prepare to return to Wuchang.
The news of Dong Xueli's defeat was tantamount to a thunderbolt on a sunny day for Zhang Changgeng, more than 10,000 soldiers were defeated by the Ming army, and less than 1,000 people fled back to Hanyang.
Although Dong Xueli is not dead, he doesn't know where to hide, Zhang Changgeng is not a chick of officialdom, how can he not know what Dong Xueli will do, but he can't clean him up.
Predicament, Zhang Changgeng felt that he was really in a dilemma now, the news of Dong Xueli's defeat had already spread throughout the army, and he couldn't block it even if he wanted to.
It's not that he didn't think of immediately retreating back to Wuchang now, but he really can't just go back, if the imperial court knows that he will be defeated as soon as he takes office, and he still complains in Wuchang City, he can have a good end But if he continued to go south, Zhang Changgeng would not have the guts.
The Ming army has just defeated Dong Xueli, and the morale is bound to be high, and he is not looking for death when he takes people to crash into it.
Dong Xueli couldn't beat Hao Shaoqi and them, how could he win, even if he was willing to fight, the generals below who had begun to pack up their things and were preparing to return to Wuchang would not fight After thinking about it, Zhang Changgeng sighed, thinking that maybe going back to Wuchang was the safest choice.
As for the imperial court, as long as he tried his best to exaggerate the strength of the Ming army, he insisted that the Ming army was Kui Dongbing and Taiping Kou, and there were hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses, but it was not that he Zhang Changgeng could be the enemy, and the court and the emperor might be more lenient than him for the sake of his new appointment and the slave of the Han army.
However, if you do this, you must win over Dong Xueli's bastard to confess, and the officials and generals who know the inside story of this matter will also have to be bought, otherwise this plate will not be able to be covered.
Who would have thought that Zhang Changgeng would ask the master to reveal the tone of the confession to the subordinates sent by Dong Xueli, but the subordinates refused to follow the governor's words.
The reason why this is the case is that Dong Xueli has already discussed with this subordinate a long time ago, thinking that Zhang Changgeng has offended the Wuchang gentry and many officials, and his position is already unstable, plus a big defeat, so there is no need to put himself in for the sake of Governor Zhang, who will fall at any time.
Hoodwinking the court is a capital crime, if Zhang Changgeng does not fall, then of course there is nothing, but once Zhang Changgeng takes the old road of Hu Quancai, then Dong Xueli, who participated in the court of deception, will be unlucky.
Dong Xueli is not stupid, he just wants to get himself out safely, not to return to Wuchang with any hidden risks.
Dong Xueli refused to give in, Zhang Changgeng had no idea, and he didn't order to return to the division or order to move forward for two days, so he stayed like this.
On the third day, Zhang Changgeng's cronies couldn't stand it, and they came to persuade the governor to make a decision as soon as possible, otherwise things might become more and more out of control.
Zhang Changgeng smiled bitterly, he had already made a decision, what he decided Just when Governor Zhang didn't know how to advance or retreat, there was good news from Hanyang, saying that the Ming army besieging the city had suddenly withdrawn "This news is serious" Zhang Changgeng excitedly grabbed the shoulders of the soldier who reported the news, and called him a soldier who was also excited, this is the Governor The news is not false, the Ming army really withdrew.
The Ming army Hao Shaoqi, Ta Tianbao, and He Zhen, who had just won the victory in Caikou Town, miraculously withdrew their troops, and they withdrew quickly, and the Qing army that was about to arrive in Hanyang did not find that the Ming army was gone until the next day.
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"The Governor is overjoyed, rejoicing," one of the staff members shouted excitedly, and danced with his hands.
"Where to be happy" Zhang Changgeng was stunned, although the withdrawal of the Ming army was a good thing, it was not a great joy The staff member coughed lightly, stepped forward and said excitedly: "The Governor personally led the army to inflict heavy losses on the Ming army, forced the Ming army to flee, and successfully held Hanyang, how is it not a great joy?"
"Oh" Zhang Changgeng's expression became very strange, and after a while, a smile appeared on his face, he couldn't help nodding, and said again and again: "It's indeed a happy event, it's a happy event." ” Hao Shaoqi, Ta Tianbao and He Zhen did withdraw their troops, to be precise, He Zhen led his troops to arrive not to reinforce Hao Shaoqi and Ta Tianbao to attack Hanyang, but to order the little tiger Li Laiheng to order Hao Shaoqi and Ta Tianbao to retreat quickly.
At the same time, several other Kuidong soldiers who were attacking everywhere also received orders from Li Laiheng and Liu Tichun, ordering them to shrink separately, and at the same time, the commanders of each army would rush to Yingcheng to discuss the army.
The reason that prompted Li Laiheng and Liu Tichun to order the departments to shrink was because they received an urgent letter from the Taiping Army in Yuanzhou.
The letter is written by Zhou Shixiang, the marshal of the Taiping Army, and only one thing is said in the letter, that is, the Yongli Emperor has abandoned the country and fled to Burma, in order to resist the overall situation of the Qing Dynasty, Zhou Shixiang intends to unite the Kuidong Zhujia and the Jinxia Zheng family to support the Tang King Zhu Yuyi to supervise the country, and act on behalf of the Son of Heaven, with the heart of the army and the people in Anhai. oshow7 t1706231537: