Towing the boat into the reeds, a few men hid and quietly watched the army coming from the west.

The scale of this army was so large, there were thousands of boats in the river alone, covering the sky and the sun on the river several miles wide, and the soldiers marching along the south bank seemed to be endless, and it took two hours to pass through the hiding place of Liu Neng and others.

Looking at the army coming from the west, Liu Neng's expression changed, and his mood was extremely complicated.

The thieves are coming! The thieves are really coming. In order to deal with the thieves and defend Jiujiang, he lured Huang Shu to control the military power. And now everything is over, Zuo Mengeng is in rebellion, Jiujiang is already in chaos, what can I use to resist the thieves from the whole army?

Zuo Mengeng will not block it at all, he may lead the army to escape again, or simply surrender. Without the Jiujiang shield, there is only one line of defense west of Nanjing.

"My lord, what shall we do? Do you want to take a detour? One of his subordinates asked softly.

Jiujiang is in the hands of the rebels, the army of thieves is about to arrive, and soon the Jiujiang area will be caught in a big war, and it is very troublesome to return to Wuhu safely to find Chen Jianghe, unless you go south from here, bypass the winding mountains, bypass Poyang Lake south of Jiujiang, and make a detour to Wuhu. But the distance is too far, at least four or five hundred miles more, and it is a difficult mountain road.

Liu Neng thought about it carefully and shook his head slowly.

Zuo Mengeng's rebels, the thieves, and it is likely that there are Mantars who follow the thieves, the Jiujiang area has become a place where the three forces compete for each other, what happens here does not need to be reported by themselves, and the old marquis of Wuhu, Chen Jianghe, will also find out, even if he goes to Wuhu, what role can he play?

Liu Neng felt extremely remorseful for his mistakes, and he really wanted to be able to come up with another way to cover up his mistakes. So I decided to look at the battlefield nearby and see if I could do something about it.

So, Liu Neng stayed behind with a few of his subordinates, and the army of thieves was far away.

......

The continuous heavy rain forced the Shun army to stay in Wuchang for the time being, and waited for the rain period to pass before setting off eastward.

Although he was repeatedly attacked by the Qing army, and his territory and army became less and less, Li Zicheng was still full of confidence in the future. He was confident that as long as he followed the army, it would be easy to defeat the Ming army.

As long as Nanjing is conquered and the rich land in the southeast is occupied, with the Yangtze River natural danger, Dashun will surely rise again, accumulate strength and develop the army, everything is not a problem.

However, the most important thing at the moment is to lay down Jiujiang City first and pull out this nail stuck in the road to the east.

Jiujiang's army was Zuo Liangyu's subordinates, although the number was large but vulnerable, when encountering the Shun army, he would only flee from the wind, and Li Zicheng was full of confidence in defeating the left army to occupy Jiujiang.

But the speed has to be fast, and you have to get ahead of the Mantars. Poor Li Zicheng didn't know that when he led the army to hide in the city of Wuchang to avoid the rain, the Qing army set off in the rain and arrived in Jiujiang a few days before him......

When he was sixty or seventy miles away from Jiujiang, Li Zicheng ordered the army to stop advancing and arrange for the deployment of an attack on Jiujiang.

In addition to the more than 100,000 troops that followed, there was also an old battalion composed of 70,000 or 80,000 family members, all of whom were women, children, old and weak.

When fighting, it is necessary to properly relocate the old battalion and place it in a safe place away from the battlefield.

Here is sixty or seventy miles away from Jiujiang, and after the mountains separating Jiangxi and Huguang, the terrain on the river bank is quite flat, it is a good place to set up the old camp.

Following Li Zicheng's order, the family members of the old camp who took a boat on the river and took the waterway all went ashore and set up a large camp on the shore that stretched for more than ten miles. Because there was still a long distance from Jiujiang, and Li Zicheng didn't think that the old camp would be here for long, the camp was very sloppy, neither digging a trench nor building a camp wall, but only sent soldiers to cut down many trees on the river bank, and hastily built a fence outside the camp with tree trunks.

That night, Li Zicheng's Chinese army rested in the camp with the old battalion, but waited for the next morning to attack Jiujiang City.

It was night, the sky was full of stars, and the moon hung high in the sky like a hook. Liu Neng led a few of his men to lie on the hillside in the distance, observing the huge camp of the thieves from a distance. The lights in the camp gradually went out, and the chaotic sound of the whole camp gradually stopped, and fell into a deep sleep.

......

In Jiujiang City, sixty miles away from the camp, the west gate of the city gate was wide open, and a cavalry of 10,000 people was driving out of the open city gate one after another, and the torches lit at the head of the city illuminated the iron armor on the knight's body and the weapons in his hand, reflecting a shocking cold light.

A huge contingent of 10,000 cavalry walked out of the city gate for half an hour, and the whole process was extremely silent, except for the sound of heavy footsteps accompanied by the sneezing of war horses.

All the soldiers of the Left Army who surrendered inside and outside the city were ordered to stay in the camp and not to move, and the people in the city were even more silent, not daring to open even the slightest crack in the door.

Zuo Menggeng led his troops to surrender, and Yuan Jixian was captured, so that the Qing army could easily enter Jiujiang City.

And with the arrival of the Qing army, Zuo Mengeng's liquidation of the army that betrayed him also came to an end. Except for a few generals such as Xu Yong who fled from Jiujiang with a small number of troops and went downstream, most of the other Ming troops abandoned their weapons and surrendered, and the entire Jiujiang quickly stabilized.

Azig, the prince of Manchu Ying, only verbally praised Zuo Mengeng, asked him to wait for the reward from the Manchu court, and grabbed the power to surrender the army in his hands as soon as he changed hands, and directly ordered all the generals of the army beyond Zuo Mengeng.

In the face of the Manchu masters, these general soldiers no longer dared to disobey the Yin and Yang like they had done to Yuan Jixian, the superintendent of the army Huang Shu, and they were obedient like their grandsons.

More than 40,000 soldiers of the Eight Banners were all stationed in Jiujiang City, and all the troops in the city were driven out of the city. Azig ordered the dispatch of sentinel ships to swim upstream to investigate the movements of the Shun army. Now that Jiujiang has been taken, and the road of the Shun army to the east is completely cut off, Azig is determined to wipe out the Shun army outside the city of Jiujiang, kill the thief chief Li Zicheng, and completely eliminate the trouble of the Qing Dynasty's henchmen.

In the eyes of the upper echelons of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the Ming army was really vulnerable and not worth mentioning, and the only one who could threaten and cause trouble to the Qing army was Li Zicheng's Shun army.

Now, having finally waited for the news of the Shun army's advance, Azig was determined to launch an attack immediately and take the Shun army by surprise.

For this reason, when the sky was not clear, he personally led a group of 10,000 cavalry out of the city and marched towards the camp of the invading army, preparing to launch a general attack on the Shun army when the sky was just dawning!

At the same time, Azig ordered the other generals of the Eight Banners to cooperate with the surrendered Green Battalion soldiers to march from the river road and the waterway after dawn, and completely annihilate all the Shun troops.

ps: I took a look at the book review area, and there are a lot of sprays on the plot, and the author is also very helpless. Are today's readers so glassy? Do you have to push all the way to the cool? Also, please subscribe to a few chapters before spraying, and make the fans an apprentice disciple, so that I am also in the mood to reply to you.