Plugging Yinxi was in full swing to arrange and defend the city, and Zhao Ming's army had already completed the assembly in Qizhou.The 150,000 Han army, after accepting the Southern Zhili, was somewhat insufficient.Zhao Ming not only needed soldiers and horses to guard the cities attacked along the way, but also needed to prevent Zhu Yihai in Nanjing from taking the opportunity to accept the territory, so the troops were insufficient.The 300,000 army of the Han Kingdom, although the soldiers and horses are elite, 10,000 can withstand 20,000 or 30,000 others, but the territory is large, so it seems too few.At the beginning, the Hongguang Dynasty, only the four towns in Jiangbei, had more than 500,000 troops, and Zuo Liangyu was even known as one million.Although the elite of the Han army is not comparable to those miscellaneous soldiers, it is indeed too small in number.Therefore, Zhao Ming has decided to reorganize the army and expand the army by 500,000 to 600,000 in order to complete the hegemony of Buwu in the world.At present, Zhao Ming can only enable a part of the surrender of troops and generals, so that he can barely control the current territory and complete the strategy of Wuchang.Zhao Ming originally planned to put Li Chengdong under house arrest until death, but due to a lack of troops, he had to reactivate Li Chengdong.Even, even Fang Guoan, who surrendered, was entrusted with an important task by Zhao Ming, and took the people of his headquarters to Jiangxi to collect the lands of northern Jiangxi.At this time, Zhao Ming took 70,000 elite Han troops and 30,000 descending troops, a total of 100,000 horses, marching towards Wuchang with great noise and noise.A few months earlier, Li Chengdong had surrendered to the Longwu Dynasty and then served as the vanguard of the Longwu army, all the way to the city of Nanjing.Now, Li Chengdong has become a pawn of Zhao Ming, the king of the Han Dynasty, leading 20,000 soldiers and horses to be the vanguard of the Han army and kill Wuchang.Along the way, the Han army posted a list along the way, claiming that the Tanglu dispute brought to the people, the Han army attacked, one did not raid the house, the second did not draw Ding, and the third did not raise taxes, just to end the dispute and return the world to peace.Wherever the army went, it did not disturb the people, did not levy food, and urged Wuchang to surrender immediately.However, the Han army soon discovered that this list was basically meaningless.This is not to say that the list is not well written, in fact, the Han army's list text, under the banner of mediation and ending the war, and promised not to levy taxes and draw strong men, should be supported by the people.It is meaningless because the armies of Longwu and Jianwu Dynasty were in Huguang and Jiangxi before, and the two sides were killing and killing, and the people were looted too hard.Seeing this, the Han army stopped talking nonsense, and the army buried its head in the army, and at the end of March, it marched west against the Yangtze River and arrived at the eastern suburbs of Wuchang.Wuchang City is an important town in the world, when the Ming and Qing dynasties and Huguang tug-of-war, the Ming army attacked Wuchang several times, but did not take it.This city, after the transformation of the Qing general Kong Youde, has become a city similar to Ningyuan Fort, with complete defensive facilities, even more difficult to fight than Nanjing.At the end of March, Li Chengdong first arrived at the city of Wuchang, led the cavalry around the city, peeped at the city defense, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart.Two years ago, the Jianwu army broke through all the way, entered Huguang, hit Huangshi, and was one step away from Wuchang, but finally failed to get close to Wuchang.Now he is a Han general, and he finally killed under Wuchang City, but looking at Wuchang Xiongcheng, I am afraid that even if Jianwu kills Wuchang, it will be difficult to capture this strong city.Li Chengdong peeped for a while, and when he was about to take a closer look, a group of soldiers and horses rushed out of Wuchang City and killed the group directly.Look at the banner, it is these days, fighting and retreating, all the way from Anqing to Wuchang Ming general Li Laiheng.When Li Chengdong saw this, he immediately pulled the reins of his horse and immediately flew away to report to Zhao Ming.On the second day of the first month of April, on a sunny day, on the city of Wuchang, the Ming soldiers were busy carrying artillery, stones, arrows and other things.On the enemy platform projecting out of the city wall, the red-coated cannons were covered with cloth, and the gunners were carrying gunpowder and shells.After all, the Longwu Imperial Court was established for fifteen years, although it was said that the treasury was emptied in two years, and the two major tax-paying provinces of Fujian and Guangdong were lost, resulting in the emptiness of the treasury and the lack of food and salary for the army, but after fifteen years of accumulation, there are still some armor and equipment.At this time, the Ming soldiers at the head of the city were busy, blocking Yinxi and Zheng Chenggong and Gao Yigong and others to inspect the city.Everyone stood on an enemy platform, and Du Yinxi glanced at the outside of the city, feeling quite worried, and said to the two people around him: "King Yanping, King Linqu, the war is the business of the military ministers, and this Wuchang City will be handed over to you." ”The two of them hurriedly saluted, and said, "Remember your humble duties!"
”Du Yinxi glanced at the two of them deeply, nodded again, and then said: "Right now, guarding Wuchang, this pavilion thinks that the most difficult thing is that the army in the city is unstable and the people are panicking.At this point, the cabinet will raise a sum of money as soon as possible to reward the soldiers and stabilize the morale of the army.As for defending the city, it is up to you to have any difficulties. ”After He Tengjiao was killed, Fu Shangrui and Liu Chengyin fled and surrendered to the Eastern Qing Dynasty.Gu Yinxi didn't have a soft hand this time, and there was really no way, he copied the family assets of more than ten Chu Party members such as He Tengjiao, Fu Shangrui, Liu Chengyin, etc., and obtained a sum of money.When Gao Yigong heard this, he couldn't help but be overjoyed, "In this way, Elder Ge has really helped a lot." ”For Wuchang, the biggest threat to defending the city is not from outside the city, but from inside the city, for fear that the people's hearts will be unstable and someone will rebel.After all, before attacking Nanjing, such a strong city, because of the internal rebellion, Neiguo was defeated very easily.Zheng Chenggong said: "The impact of Nanjing's defeat is still there, even if the salary is paid, once the enemy army comes to the city, there may be changes in the city.In order to prevent rebellion, I suggested that the gates of the three walls of the south, east and south should be sealed with stones, leaving only the northern city unsealed, and sending trusted henchmen to guard it, so as to prevent anyone from opening the city to meet the enemy. ”Du Yinxi nodded and ordered: "According to the words of King Yanping, go and do it immediately!"
”An official immediately saluted and hurried to make arrangements.At this time, Gao Yigong said: "Wuchang City is high and strong, such as the enemy platform, watchtower, female wall, horse face, urn city, these do not need to be mentioned, just the moat, the enemy army wants to seize the city, you have to work for ten days and a half months."
The only thing I was worried about was the enemy's naval guns, and I was afraid that the warships would break into the moat from the river and go directly to the city.However, I have people place artillery in key places, and the enemy should not be so easy to kill. ”For the city defense of Wuchang, Gao Yigong is more complete than Zheng Chenggong, he has been guarding Wuchang for many years, and he knows the city defense of Wuchang very well.At this time, Gao Yigong stretched out his hand to pull open the red cloth, revealing a red-clothed cannon, and sighed: "It's a pity, our army's gunpowder is tight, and there are not many flowering shells, otherwise the enemy army is hundreds of thousands, and he will not want to enter it." ”As he was talking, there was a sudden strange appearance at the head of the city, and I saw the soldiers of the Ming army, who were originally busy, straightened up one after another and looked east.Seeing this, everyone couldn't help but turn their heads one after another, and they were immediately stunned, only to see that more than ten miles away, a large black thing was moving slowly.Gao Yigong was immediately shocked when he saw this, and said with a calm face: "It's here!"
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