Chapter 112: There is no Hongguang in the first year of Hongguang

On the Yangtze River waterway.

Although it is winter, the Yangtze River is already mighty, but there is a little more bleak atmosphere.

A fleet came from the east and went upstream.

This is not the Zheng family's fleet, but the fleet of the Wuchang small court.

Now that he has left Wuchang, it cannot be said that it is a small court in Wuchang.

I have to say that the small court has rotted to a certain extent.

Even running for your life is not efficient.

When Zhang Xuan had just conquered Jiujiang, Ma Shiying and He Tengjiao finalized the general direction of retreat. But when it was executed, it was already time to go up the river and break the Huangzhou Mansion. Only then did I make up my mind to go, and I was very embarrassed when I left.

At that time, there were only one or two thousand soldiers in the entire Wuchang City. This is still plus Zuo Liangyu's remnants of the defeated army.

This retreat brought with it hundreds of civil and military officials, as well as the families of hundreds of civil and military officials, and hundreds of boats, which almost filled the Yangtze River.

Ma Shiying and He Tengjiao sat opposite each other, blowing the river breeze, and said: "Go to Yuezhou Mansion first, arrange the defense of Yuezhou, and then withdraw to Changsha, temporarily take Changsha as the line, which will trouble Lord He." ”

He Tengjiao said: "This matter is on this official, Zhang Kuang is in Changsha, and he can rest assured." ”

Zhang Kuang was a more trusted person in He Tengjiao's entrainment, so he was appointed by He Tengjiao as the governor of Hunan.

In the Ming Dynasty, the official position of governor also had the characteristics of a bit of Qincha, which was not set up at the beginning, but was set up because of things, and governed several prefectures, not in a province, there was only one governor, such as Wang Shouren served as the governor of Southern Jiangxi. At that time, there was also a Jiangxi governor in Nanchang, and such a thing was very common.

Zhang Kuang, the governor of Hunan, is the governor of Changsha. Almost the vassal king of Hunan Province in later generations.

The reason why Zhang Kuang was favored by He Tengjiao was because Zhang Kuang's record was outstanding, he was originally a prefect, when Li Zicheng went to Huguang, he repeatedly defeated Li Zicheng's army, and when Li Zicheng's troops came to the city, he fled with the official seal.

After being promoted, he led the army, cooperated with Fang Guoan, pursued Zhang Xianzhong, and captured several counties from Bai Wang. It's just that Bai Wang is also still colorful, but the main force of the camp is in the north, so he didn't set off a big war.

And he is a native of Songjiang, and Chongzhen has been exchanging yuan for nine years. But he made a mistake in the examination, and only ended up with a scholar background. Only then did he become a magistrate.

The most difficult imperial examination in the world is Jiangnan, and Zhang Kuangneng won the title of Xie Yuan in Nanjing, which shows his ability.

With such a family name, it is a serious Shilin lineage, and he can lead troops to fight, so he is naturally favored by He Tengjiao. Even Ma Shiying is very fond of this person, but He

Tengjiao's foundation in Huguang is deeper than Ma Shiying's, and such a character has long been held in He Tengjiao's sleeve.

"Oh. Can Governor Zhang make a decision? Ma Shiying said.

He Tengjiao said: "Yes, Zhang Kuang has already written to me, saying that the important thing now is not in Wuchang, but in Nanchang, the fall of Wuchang has almost become a foregone conclusion, and Nanchang is still holding on, he thinks that he should send troops to defend Yuezhou, and then reinforce Nanchang." ”

"Hold Nanchang, Yuezhou, the thieves dare not go south easily, once Nanchang is lost, he is afraid that Changsha will also be in danger. The thieves may attack Changsha directly from Nanchang. Bypass Yuezhou Mansion. ”

"It's not safe for Changsha to be in this way."

Ma Shiying pondered for a while, only feeling that the troops that could be called upon in his hands were only tens of thousands, and where the troops needed were not only dozens, the soldiers in his hands were sprinkled like pepper noodles, and they were not used at all. The shortage of troops is a real problem faced by Ma Shiying.

Defend Yuezhou, how many people guard Yuezhou, you can't let people guard it with empty mouths and white teeth, troops, grain and grass, salary and silver, this must be there.

The small imperial court already had more remnants of mountains and rivers left, and there was already a lot of financial shortage, and since Hongguang became the ruler of Wuchang, there was almost no time to stop using troops, even if there were mountains of gold and silver, they had spent everything. Plus this escape. The already inadequate finances are even worse.

Ma Shiying, the person in charge, knows that the problem of the current imperial court is not a problem of strategy, but a problem of not being able to implement any strategy.

Just when the two of them were discussing whether Zhang Kuang's plan was reliable, a muffled thunder sounded far away in the east, and the two of them were shocked, they were both people who passed through the Jinge Iron Horse, and they couldn't hear it, this was not thunder at all, but the sound of cannons.

Someone caught up.

It was none other than the coalition of Zhou Fuchen and Zheng Tai who caught up.

Since Zhou Fuchen's sailors marched westward, they have fought a lot of battles, and then they have been replenished from the captured officers and sailors, after all, these captives Zheng Zhilong are not uncommon, most of the people in his army are Fujianese, and the language of these people may not be the same.

Therefore, Zhou Fuchen asked Luo Rucai to come forward and allocated these sailors to him.

Now Zhou Fuchen's sailors also have some combat power.

Zhang Xuan sent him over this time, just to add some more merits to Zhou Fuchen, and he was also worried that Zhou Fuchen would not be able to take it alone, so he also invited a fleet from the Zheng family to assist, and Zheng Tai was the leader of this fleet, and Zheng Tai was Zheng Zhilong's cousin.

On the water war, he is not as talented as Shi Lang.

But Shi Lang is not the Zheng family after all, this war, Zheng Zhilong also knows that it is a big battle to pick up cheap and make credit, so naturally he has to rely on his own people, so he sent Zheng Tai over.

This battle started, and as expected, most of the hundreds of ships were civilian ships

There were a very small number of ships with artillery. Most of the ships did not even have artillery, so the battle was one-sided from the start. The only thing that made the two of them feel depressed was that there were too many Ming boats, crowded together on the fairway, and playing a game of bumper boats, so that they wanted to pursue but had no way to pursue.

The two of them could only give up the big goal of Hongguang and take down all these ships first.

After almost a busy day, I counted the prisoners, and found that the families of hundreds of civil and military officials had captured a lot, and even the concubines of Emperor Hongguang were taken a lot, but Emperor Hongguang himself, and the Queen Mother, did not catch them, but they caught a lot of vassal kings.

It's just that today's market is not as good as it was at the beginning.

When Chongzhen was fourteen years old, he was able to make the next vassal king, and the world was shaken, and now he has won a few vassal kings, but it is just an ordinary merit.

The two were naturally unwilling, and while sending people to Huangzhou, they continued to chase after them, and they must chase Emperor Hongguang.

When they were looking for Hongguang, even Ma Shiying and others were looking for Emperor Hongguang.

When the thieves chased after him, there was a big chaos on the river, and no one could find anyone, so he could only desperately swim upstream, and it was easy to get down safely, and then he looked for Emperor Hongguang, but found that Emperor Hongguang was gone, and only found a queen mother.

For a while, Ma Shiying and He Tengjiao looked at each other, and they didn't know what to do for a while.

Hongguang is almost an ornament in the imperial court, but without this ornament, how can this imperial court be established.

"Lord Shousuke, I can't delay now." He Tengjiao gritted his teeth and said: "If there is something that you can't bear to say, you can wait for it in the next one, and then go to Yuezhou with the Queen Mother." If it really doesn't work, you can only follow the old things of the orthodox years. ”

Ma Shiying said: "That's all it can be. ”

Hongguang can't find it, there are three possibilities, one is to escape. This is the best estimate, as long as you escape, you will definitely go to Yuezhou, and wait for the convergence in Yuezhou, the second is to die in the chaos, although this is unfortunate, but there are also precedents, find someone to succeed the unification. Anyway, there are never a few children of the Ming Sect. Third, the last thing they wanted, that is, Hiromitsu was captured.

What is the old thing in the orthodox years that He Tengjiao said?

It is the story of the Tumubao Change, the emperor was captured, and then Yu Qian supported the Ming Dynasty.

This is the change of Tumubao, how many hidden dangers were buried for the Ming Dynasty back then, and now this plan also has the same shortcomings. It is a candidate plan that has to be done, and Ma Shiying sincerely hopes that it will not be adopted, in a sense.

Ma Shiying would rather Hongguang die in the chaos of the army.

It's just that at this time, where is Hongguang? He is neither in the Cao Ying army nor in the Ming army, where is he?

In fact, now Emperor Hongguang himself doesn't know where he is.

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