Chapter 642: Jingzhou Attack and Defense
When a time-traveler arrives on this plane, history is reversed. In another time and space, not long after the invasion of Sichuan, as the Qing army moved south, Sichuan also faced a threat from the Qing army from the north. Zhang Xianzhong chose to lead his troops north to fight a decisive battle with the Qing army and attack his hometown in Shaanxi, which was really a helpless move, because Huguang and other places had also been occupied by the Qing army, and Sichuan was his lair, so he had to fight a decisive battle with the Qing army Haoge Department who were plotting in Sichuan.
And in this time and space, the Manchu Qing Dynasty's southern expedition failed, and they were powerless to plot Sichuan, and the entire south was still the territory of the Ming Dynasty. Between the barren Shaanxi and the rich Huguang, it's easy to choose. And for the Ming army, Zhang Xianzhong was not afraid at all. Therefore, when Zhang Dingguo and Zhang Kewang suggested to him that they should go out of Sichuan to attack the city and plunder the land, expand the territory and reduce the burden of the Sichuan people to support the army, Zhang Xianzhong decisively made a strategy of attacking Huguang to the east.
The Shun army in Kuizhou is already a lost dog, and Zhang Xianzhong has no intention of annexing. However, Zhang Dingguo told him that there was no need for infighting among the rebels, after all, Shunxi came out of Shaanxi and was of the same origin.
And now the Ming army is still very strong, it is better to keep the Shun army to share the pressure of the Ming army. Li Zicheng is dead, and Li Zijing, the new owner of the Shun army, is not a fart in Zhang Xianzhong's eyes, and he is not afraid of releasing the Shun army to threaten his side, so he followed Zhang Dingguo's advice.
After Zhang Dingguo and Li Guo reached an agreement, they immediately returned to Chengdu, and Zhang Xianzhong decided to take advantage of the midwinter to assemble troops to attack Ming.
Leaving the most trusted Yizi Pingdong general Zhang Kewang as the supervisor of the country, staying in Chengdu, with Yizi Anxi general Zhang Dingguo as the vanguard, with 50,000 troops to Kuizhou, and the Shun army to attack Jingzhou together. Zhang Xianzhong himself took an army of 200,000 as the back road, and after Jingzhou was captured, he sent troops to Huguang.
With the grain and grass provided by the Great Western Army, the morale of the Shun army was greatly boosted, and they quickly sent troops to Kuizhou, Lianke returned to Zhouzhou and Yiling, and the troops pointed directly at Jingzhou.
In Jingzhou City, listening to the battle report sent from the front, Hao Shaoqi's face sank like water.
After taking refuge in the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty court was kind to him, and named him a marquis, so that he could sit in Wuchang.
After all, the Ming Dynasty is the orthodoxy of the three hundred years since the founding of the country, Hao Shaoqi is a partial general of the Shun army, a thief from a peasant, and by chance he became the marquis of the general army of a town, and he is naturally grateful to the Ming court.
He is not as ambitious as Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, and he has no ambition to stand on his own and replace him. Being rich and prosperous is his greatest wish.
Therefore, Hao Shaoqi is always very active in the dispatch of the imperial court. Lu Zhenfei led the Northern Expedition, and Hao Shaoqi was transferred from Wuchang to Jingzhou, responsible for defending the Shun army in Kuizhou.
Hao Shaoqi treated his former comrades-in-arms without mercy, and repelled two attacks by the Shun army in a row.
Hao Shaoqi's subordinates are also Shun troops, and the Shun army in Kuizhou knows the roots, and the combat power is similar, but because of the support of the Ming court, Hao Shaoqi's troops are neat, there is no shortage of grain and grass, and there is a territory to raise soldiers, and the remnants of the Shun army in Kuizhou are not in their eyes.
The weather in this era is exceptionally cold, in the middle of winter, even the banks of the Yangtze River are also snowflakes, cold weather, coupled with the upcoming New Year, no one thought that the Shun army in Kuizhou would suddenly attack at this time.
When Yiling's defeated army fled back to Jingzhou and reported the news of Yiling's loss, Hao Shaoqi was also shocked. Yiling land chokes the throat of E, the upper control of Bakui, the lower lead Jingxiang, the terrain is dangerous, there are 3,000 soldiers stationed, I did not expect to be captured by the Shun army in an instant, from the soldiers who fled back to tell that it took only one day from the Shun army to Yiling to break the city, it can be seen that the Shun army offensive is fierce.
Hao Shaoqi did not have the idea of sending troops to recapture Yiling and the decisive battle of the Shun army, even if he was loyal to the Ming Dynasty in such weather, he was unwilling to lead troops to fight.
"Jingzhou Jiancheng, we have 70,000 troops stationed in it, if we don't capture Jingzhou, there will be no way back for the army, and we will not be able to safely attack various places. Instead of braving the heavy snow and cold and fighting a decisive battle with the Shun army in the field, it is better to defend the city to the death. It didn't take much time for the cold and lack of food and grass to force the Shun army to retreat. As long as we chase them down when the time comes, we can defeat them completely! ”
Looking at the Shunjun troops that appeared outside the city, Hao Shaoqi said to Li Wentao, the supervisor of the army sent by the imperial court.
Li Wentao nodded, deeply convinced.
However, there are more and more Shun troops outside the city, Li Guo, Yuan Zongdi, Gao Yigong, Bai Wang, Tian Jianxiu, He Zhen and other Shun generals have appeared one after another, nearly 200,000 troops surrounded Jingzhou City on three sides, making the Ming army in the city tremble one by one.
"There are so many troops, and all the Shun troops in Kuizhou have appeared!" The general soldier Lu Dayou looked at the familiar flags outside, they were all the generals of the Shun army, not to mention him at the beginning, even Hao Shaoqi's status in the Shun army was far inferior to them.
"It's good to come, just in time to wipe them all out in a battle!" Hao Shaoqi said with a cold face and began to assign generals to defend the city.
"Otherwise, let's ask the Governor of Huguang, He Tengjiao, Lord He, for help!" Looking at the continuous camp of the Shun army outside the city, Li Wentao, the imperial history of the supervising army, said with some fear. The strength of the Shun army is more than three times that of the Ming army in Jingzhou, and it looks like it is hungry and red-eyed, where is it so easy to deal with?
Hao Shaoqi thought about it and agreed with Li Wentao's suggestion. Now that he is a member of the Ming army, there is no need to fight to the death with the Shun army, which will cause heavy casualties among his subordinates. He Tengjiao stationed heavy troops in Yuezhou on the south bank of the Yangtze River, and asked He Tengjiao for help from internal and external attacks to completely annihilate the Shun army.
The plan has been decided, and while the Shun army did not besiege the south gate, Hao Shaoqi quickly sent an envoy out of the city to ask He Tengjiao for help. The Yangtze River is mighty, even in winter, it does not freeze, and the envoy immediately crossed the river by boat when he left Jingzhou.
The offensive of the Shun army was unusually fierce, and it was completely inferior to the appearance of casualties. Countless soldiers of the Shun army carried the rudimentary ladder and rushed to Jingzhou City.
The arrows on the city rained down, and the soldiers of the Shun army carrying the ladder fell to the ground one after another, and the Shun army behind picked up the ladder from the ground and continued to rush towards the city wall.
As soon as the ladder was erected at the head of the city, countless Shun troops climbed towards the head of the city with weapons.
The city was covered with rolling stones like rain, and the besieging Shun army was smashed and screamed and fell from the ladder one after another.
Groups of archers poured out from behind the Shun army, lined up under the city walls, drew their bows and arrows, and the arrows shot like locusts at the head of the city, and the Ming army at the head of the city screamed again and again, and hundreds of soldiers fell from the arrows. This made the defenders of the city unable to deal with the Shun army who climbed the city, and turned the direction of the arrows and launched a counterfire at the Shun archers.
The battle is heating up from the start, and a brutal siege battle is unfolding. Every moment, countless people screamed and fell in pools of blood, and the red blood stained the snow on the ground like blood-colored flowers in full bloom.
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