It was only half a month before the fall of Changsha, and Hanyang, the gateway to Wuchang, fell.
The soldiers who fled back said that the Ming army that came to attack this time was not only the original loyal battalion in Kuidong, but also the Taiping army from Hunan.
Those Taiping troops wearing red red uniforms were really evil, and they blew down the Hanyang city wall not long after they came, and as a result, the loyal battalions that had been attacking the periphery of the city for more than ten days without progress swarmed up, and Hanyang fell.
Changsha is lost, Zhang Changgeng doesn't care, anyway, since he was promoted to the governor of Huguang, Hunan has been more erosive than Hubei.
The order given to him by Beijing is also to ensure that Wuchang does not make too many demands on Changsha, and he wants to come to Beijing because he knows that more than 100,000 original thieves and Ming troops are eyeing the west of Wuchang, and Zhang Changgeng cannot take care of Changsha at all.
After receiving the report that Beijing had transferred Shi Lin, the governor of Shaanxi, to serve as the governor of Hunan, Zhang Changgeng breathed a sigh of relief; Originally, the governor of Hunan had always been the responsibility of the governor of Biyuan and the economic strategy of the five provinces in Changsha, and although the governor of Huguang nominally governed the two lakes, he could only manage one place in Hubei.
Yuan Kuoyu, the governor of Biyuan, is also Hong Chengchou's protégé, and Hu Quancai, the former governor of Huguang, just wants to reach out to Hunan, and he has to see if Yuan Kuoyu has any opinions on ignoring himself and Hong Lao Jingluo.
The governors are all local officials, and the governor wants to take care of more, but the governor doesn't want to have a mother-in-law on his head.
When Zhang Changgeng was the governor of Hubei, he also stumbled Hu Quancai, and he couldn't wait for the imperial court to immediately remove the governor of Huguang, so that he would be the actual controller of Hubei.
In the end, his dream came true, and Hu Quancai really left, but this Hubei became a volcano.
Wuchang is this crater, and the hot flames spewing out from below can melt him at any time.
Hunan side is even worse news, first Shi Lin went out to fight and the whole army was annihilated, and then Changsha fell, the righteous king Sun Kewang was expected to be captured by the Ming army, and then the Dongting Lake water division returned to the Ming anyway, and the Yuezhou guard Wang Sanbao rebelled according to the city, tied up the prefect and a cadre to surrender to the Ming army.
This is not the most fatal, and the Tongshan County Commander bordering Jiangxi sent an urgent report, saying that Wuning and De'an, Jiangxi, which border Tongshan, have been captured by the Ming army, and the Ming army's forward sentinels have arrived at the foot of Jiugong Mountain in Tongshan Zhang Changgeng was stunned by this news, the Ming army appeared at the foot of Jiugong Mountain, didn't it mean that Jiangxi fell into the hands of thieves He didn't believe it, and he didn't dare to believe it, so he hurriedly sent the Wuchang Water Battalion to the downstream Jiujiang River to investigate, but the water camp reported back that the red flag of the Ming army was planted on Jiujiang City.
Finished Zhang Changgeng immediately sat on the governor's throne.
Jiangxi is the land of the four provinces, and the Taiping army occupied Jiangxi, cutting off the contact between Huguang and Jiangnan, so that the Huguang Qing army really became a lone army.
Jiangnan still doesn't know what the situation is, a few days ago I only received news that Prince An Yue Le led a large army to Jiangning, but whether to repel the bandits, Zhang Changgeng has no way of knowing.
Jiugong Mountain is in the territory of Wuchang Mansion, and Li Chuang died there back then.
Zhang Changgeng was worried that the Taiping army in Jiangxi would cross Jiugong Mountain and attack the territory of Wuchang Mansion, so that he would have to face the danger of being attacked on three sides by thieves in the west and Jiangxi and Hunan in the east.
On the one hand, Zhang Changgeng delegated power to the counties as the governor, and ordered the local gentry to organize more regimental exercises to protect the localities; on the other hand, the people and horses were stationed in Hanyang to ensure that the gate of Wuchang was not lost; In addition, the Wuchang Water Battalion was asked to strengthen its vigilance to avoid being attacked by the rebellious Dongting Lake Water Division.
As long as the Wuchang Water Camp can still control the Yangtze River, then Zhang Changgeng is not worried that the thieves west of Hanyang will cross the river and attack Wuchang City.
Without the burning danger in the west, there is the natural danger of the Yangtze River, and Zhang Changgeng has a certain confidence in holding Wuchang.
After all, the east of Wuchang Mansion is mostly a mountainous area, and it is difficult for the Ming army in Jiangxi to come in.
If you keep it for three months, you will be able to see the clouds Zhang Changgeng's confidence came from the fact that the emperor's army had already set out from Beijing and headed south.
Once the Manchurian army led by the emperor reached Jiangnan, the Jiangxi Taiping army was the first to bear the brunt.
In order to ensure that Jiangxi is not lost, the Taiping army will inevitably shrink its forces, so that the pressure on Wuchang will be greatly reduced.
Li Laiheng's big thieves have a solid reputation, and as soon as they came out of Kuidong, they raised more than 100,000 soldiers and horses, but after all, they were still thieves, and they lacked siege experience and equipment, and there were no water divisions available, so it was difficult to pose a real threat to Wuchang.
However, people are not as good as heaven, and Hanyang was lost like this Zhang Changgeng didn't know how to report the loss of Hanyang to the imperial court, because he had just won the Hanyang victory not long ago, severely injured the thieves Li Laiheng, He Zhen, Ta Tianbao and others, and achieved the great merit of beheading 14,000 people.
He could not explain to Beijing why the battered Ming army had gone and returned, and so easily captured the city of Hanyang.
Zhang Changgeng couldn't sit still, and Dong Xueli, the commander of the Huguang Green Camp at the other end, couldn't sit still.
After the defeat of Caikou Town, Dong Xueli hid outside for several days, and when he heard that the Ming army had withdrawn to Yingcheng, Zhang Changgeng immediately rushed back to Wuchang after reporting the victory to the imperial court.
As he expected, Zhang Changgeng not only did not pursue his crime of defeat, but tried his best to win over him, scraped together left and right, and gathered 10,000 soldiers and horses to hand over to him.
However, Zhang Changgeng hoped that Dong Xueli could take this army to Hanyang to garrison, but Dong Xueli refused to go.
So the relationship between the two became cold again, and I heard that Zhang Changgeng is now setting his sights on Wuchang Shuiying, and the people in Shuiying have taken a large amount of silver from the governor's yamen for several days.
This made the green battalion generals under Dong Xueli look red-eyed, and complained in front of the Admiral from time to time.
Dong Xueli knew that he had to take action, and his subordinates followed him to be promoted and made rich, not because they couldn't even drink soup when they ate meat.
He was ready to ease relations with Zhang Changgeng, and on the condition of going to Hanyang to sit in Hanyang, he would exchange for Zhang Changgeng's support for his subordinate Green Battalion.
Unexpectedly, before this was acted, Hanyang was lost.
As soon as Hanyang was lost, the Wuchang portal was opened.
Only the Yangtze River could stop the Ming army, which meant that the importance of the Wuchang Water Camp became more important than ever.
In other words, in the coming days, if there were no accidents, the Huguang Green Camp could only continue to watch the Governor send boxes of money extorted from the Wuchang gentry and the common people to the Wuchang Water Camp, while they could only watch.
This is tolerable or unbearable Dong Xueli was also unwilling, after all, he was the commander of the Huguang Green Battalion, and the Wuchang Water Battalion was nominally under his command, not under the control of the governor Zhang Changgeng.
Why did Zhang Changgeng cross himself to win over the gang of people in Shuiying, and why didn't those people take themselves in their eyes, did they think that if they hugged the thigh of the governor, they could see the governor in their eyes Dong Xueli was furious and took his own soldiers out of the city, but he was going to seize the command of the Wuchang Water Battalion.
Dong Xueli and the others had just left the city gate with their front feet, Zhang Changgeng naturally received the news, as soon as he heard that Dong Xueli went to the water camp, Zhang Changgeng's face also changed greatly, he spent a lot of money to pull the water camp into his hands, how could Dong Xueli take it again.
So Zhang Changgeng also lit the superintendent mark, and hurriedly drove out of the city to the Shuiying station.
The people in the city who did not know it saw that first the admirals rushed out of the city in anger, and then the governors of the governor went out of the city with murderous horses, and they thought that the governor and the admiral were going to fight together.
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That is, the kung fu of the front and rear feet, Zhang Changgeng rushed to the riverside, after all, Dong Xueli's subordinates are all infantry, but his superintendent is more than 200 cavalry.
"Where is Dong Xueli?"
Seeing a green battalion standing by the river from a distance, Dong Xueli was looking up at the river on his horse, Zhang Changgeng was angry and rushed to the horse.
When he arrived, he stood up to the fierce Le Ma, and looked at the river in a daze like Dong Xueli.
On the river, more than 200 boats of all sizes in the Wuchang Water Camp lined up, but the color of the flags on the boats was wrong, it was originally a green flag, but now it has become a red flag.
"What are they going to do?"
Zhang Changgeng was stunned: What do the people in Wuchang Shuiying want to do Dong Xueli smiled bitterly: "Governor, can't you see it, those bastards in Shuiying have rebelled" "Boom" twice, the Wuchang water battalion on the river suddenly fired two cannons.
Two large iron balls landed in the ranks of the Qing army on the shore, startling the Qing soldiers to flee in all directions. oshow7 t1706231537: