The Han River comes all the way south from Xiangyang, turns east at Chuyang, and joins the Yangtze River at Guishan Beilujiaji. The east side of the Yangtze River at the junction of the Han River and the Yangtze River is Wuchang Mansion, and the Yangtze River comes from the southwest, bypassing Wuchang Mansion and turning to the southeast. The Yangtze River divides the area into Wuchang and Hanyang, and the Hanshui divides Hanyang from east to west, with Hanyang Fucheng to the south and Hankou to the north.

The confluence of the rivers and the Han Dynasty has formed countless depressions and lakes, and the more lakes and the less cultivated fields, especially the confluence of the two rivers is very desolate, far from the prosperity of the great Wuhan in later generations.

Zhang Dingguo garrisoned Wuchang Mansion in Jiangdong, and personally led his troops to attack and defeated the 30,000 troops blocking Yinxi in one fell swoop, but did not chase from afar, but chose to return to Wuchang, because he wanted to lead his troops to attack Jiujiang and cooperate with Zhang Xianzhong to attack the main force of the Ming army in Jiujiang.

However, as soon as he returned to Wuchang with his army, his subordinates reported in a panic that a Ming army suddenly appeared in Hankou on the other side of the river, with a scale of tens of thousands. Zhang Dingguo personally came to the embankment and looked far away, and saw the shadows and shadows on the other side of the river, and there were hundreds of warships in the river.

"This Ming army arrived yesterday, the number is around forty or fifty thousand, judging from the flag, the Ming will be Hao Shaoqi, the rebel general of the original Shun army." Bai Wenxuan said to Zhang Dingguo. As soon as the Ming army appeared on the other side of the river, Bai Wenxuan sent a sentinel ship to investigate.

"Hao Shaoqi was originally stationed in Zhongxiang, Chengtian Mansion, and he must have received an order from Chen Yue, the prince of the Puppet Ming Qi State, when he suddenly came here, but what did those people in the Shun Army do to let Hao Shaoqi come here?" Zhang Dingguo frowned.

According to the agreement between Zhang Dingguo and Li Guo, the Great Western Army attacked the south of the Yangtze River, Huguangjiang, and went straight to Nanjing, while the Shun Army attacked Jiangbei. North of the Yangtze River, there are now two armies of Hao Shaoqi and Xiangyang Army, and the Shun army has more than 100,000 people, and it has been almost three months, and even these two armies can't deal with it, and Hao Shaoqi came to Hankou with the army!

"Maybe something happened that we don't know......" Bai Wenxuan on the side said hesitantly, he was Zhang Dingguo's lieutenant, and he had just been defeated by Gu Yinxi, so he didn't have much confidence to speak.

In ancient times, the transportation conditions were extremely backward, and a Yangtze River several miles wide was like a moat for the people on both sides of the river, and what happened on the other side of the river often took a long time to know.

The Shun army had a lot of people, but they were defeated one after another due to lack of food and clothing, and their morale was very low. But no matter how bad it is, it can't be easily defeated by a rebel general like Hao Shaoqi, right? You must know that whether it is President Yuan's first high merit, or Tian Jianxiu and Li Guo, they are all fierce generals who are familiar with military affairs and can fight habitually! The Ming army in Jiangbei is not elite, where can it be defeated so quickly!

According to the information that Zhang Dingguo has, not long ago, Li Guo led people to attack Xiangyang, is it defeated now?

But no matter what happened, it was a fact that Hao Shaoqi appeared on the other side of the river with a large army. Forty or fifty thousand Ming troops, and hundreds of ships, can definitely threaten the existence of the Wuchang Western Army, even Zhang Dingguo does not dare to ignore it.

From Wuchang to Jiujiang, you must borrow heavy ships to take the waterway, Zhang Dingguo does not dare to let a tens of thousands of enemy troops behind him and threaten his back road!

It is easy to defeat or even annihilate Hao Shaoqi's army, the other party is camped on the other side of the Yangtze River, and if you want to attack the other party, you must have a naval army, and although Zhang Dingguo's department has a lot of ships, they have just collected some small boats, and the big ships of the sailor were brought to Jiangxi by Zhang Xianzhong at the beginning, so it is not so easy to defeat Hao Shaoqi.

And just when Zhang Dingguo hesitated, a few days later, another army appeared on the other side of the Yangtze River along the Han River, and Hao Shaoqi set up a large camp with Han Shui, stationed in Hanyang on the south bank of the Han River.

What shocked Zhang Dingguo was that the Ming army of Zheng Senbu turned out to be a naval army, with hundreds of warships of all kinds, floating on the surface of the Yangtze River, and the ships of the Western Army that were going to the north of the Yangtze River were sunk one after another by Zheng Senbu's warships, and the entire river was blocked.

"These two Ming armies add up to seventy or eighty thousand, and the number of them is already about the same as ours, and their warships are far above us, so it's troublesome!" Bai Wenxuan said worriedly.

Although the number of the two Ming armies on the other side of the river is not as large as that of the Western Army, the size of the warships is far above that of the Western Army, and the battle on the Yangtze River is originally a water battle first, and the Western Army does not have an advantage at all compared with the Ming Army, let alone defeat the Ming Army on the other side, and you have to always worry about whether the Ming Army will attack. is as brave as Zhang Dingguo, and at this time he also knows that things are extremely bad.

"The Xiangyang Ming Army is also here, is it possible that Li Guo and them are really defeated and the whole army is annihilated?" Zhang Dingguo said to himself, "It's not right, if the Shun army is defeated and lost, it will inevitably ask us for help, and there will inevitably be a defeated army fleeing to the Yangtze River, so it is possible to be so silent?" ”

"Could it be that Li Guo and those people reached some deal with the Ming army, the Ming army gave up Xiangyang to let the Shun army pass, and then the whole army was able to reach the other side to deal with us?" Bai Wenxuan couldn't help but say.

"It shouldn't be, the Shun army has captured Beijing, and the enmity with the Ming army is as deep as the sea, how dare the commander of the Ming army risk taboos to reach such a deal with them?" Zhang Dingguo was puzzled. But otherwise, how can we explain the Xiangyang Ming Army that suddenly appeared here?

Just when Zhang Dingguo was puzzled, on the other side of the Yangtze River, Zheng Sen and Hao Shaoqi met for the first time.

When the two armies unite to deal with the western thieves in Wuchang, there must be a main general. Because Zheng Jiajun was good at water warfare and had many warships under his jurisdiction, Chen Yue gave the position of the main general to Zheng Sen, and Hao Shaoqi as his deputy. Hao Shaoqi has no objection to this, after all, his soldiers are not very good at water warfare, and the main general is just a name, Hao Shaoqi is unwilling to fight.

In order to coordinate the two departments to fight together, Gu Junen was left here by Chen Yue to join the army and give advice to Zheng Sen.

In the camp of Zheng Sen's Chinese army in Hanyang Prefecture, Hao Shaoqi, Zheng Sen, and Gu Junen met for the first time to discuss the matter of dealing with Zhang Dingguo's department.

"The war in Jiujiang is in full swing, and the number of thieves is several times that of our army. Therefore, Lord Jinglu ordered the two to abandon their original station and come to Hanyang to contain the Wuchang thief army.

The Jiujiang war situation is related to the fate of the Ming Dynasty, and Wuchang is related to the outcome of the Jiujiang war. “

Gu Junen conveyed Chen Yue's ardent hope for the two, and Zheng Sen and Hao Shaoqi hurriedly made a statement, saying that they would definitely obey the orders of Qi Guogong.