The Green Camp Qing Army Chen Guerrilla Station stood at the head of Guangyuan City, looking at the river in the southwest. Originally, according to the scheduled time, the grain convoy that came from Yucheng three days ago should have arrived in Guangyuan, but until now, there has been no shadow of the grain convoy, which makes Chen Guerrilla a little worried. He was not worried that the fleet might be hijacked by the thieves, and the thieves who had been compressed by the imperial army to the point that only dried tofu were left with a large territory would be difficult to protect, and how could they have the strength to fight back. He was only worried about whether the fleet would be in distress on the way, for example, if a ship sank and blocked the shipping lane, it would be delayed for a long time.

Seeing that the destruction of Kuidong's camp was imminent, the Qing army in the southwest would soon be able to immediately enter this deserted ghost place and enter the rich land in the south of the Yangtze River downstream, which was much better than staying in this place where even mosquitoes were public all day long.

It is said that the lowest-grade kiln sisters in Jiangnan are all smart, and an official of the level of Chen Guerrilla can find a mid-range or above! Thinking that he would be able to go to Jiangnan after destroying the camp, Chen Guerrilla was a little excited. Although I heard that the Haikou currently entrenched in the south of the Yangtze River is extremely fierce, much more powerful than the thieves. However, when he went to Jiangnan, he did not necessarily have to fight, and judging from the current situation, Ao Bai did not want to attack rashly, but was more willing to be a local warlord.

It is true that Aobai was frightened by the coalition of the Qiongzhou army, the Fujian army and the Zhejiang army, and the Qing army lost too much, and at this time, the Ming army built castles everywhere, and there was a water network connection, and the Qing army had to fight more difficult if it wanted to attack again. At present, Aobai sits in Jiangnan, controls half of Jiangnan, and confronts the Ming army. With heavy troops in hand and sitting in the rich land of Jiangnan, he is actually equivalent to the vassal king entrenched in Jiangnan, so why not do such a beautiful thing.

What's more, although Ao Bai is in Jiangnan, he still has a strong influence in the imperial court, needless to say, Suppression is his person, and even Sonny's son is obedient to Ao Bai.

is also in Chen's guerrilla fantasy. When he was going to Jiangnan to live a good life of spending time and drinking, a shout pulled him back from his dream to reality.

"There's a fleet coming!" A flotilla of ships flying the green flag of the Qing army of the Green Battalion appeared on the river.

A Qing soldier said: "Looking at the size of the fleet, it must be the fleet of the Governor's grain carrier." ”

Another Qing soldier nodded and said, "Yes, it is indeed the fleet of the Governor, this fleet is so large, it must be here to transport grain." It is impossible for the convoy of the king of Pingxi to have so many ships. ”

The fleet gradually approached Guangyuan City, and the Qing army at the head of the city could already see the "Li" handsome flag hanging in the fleet, which was obviously Li Guoying's flag. This grain convoy sailed to the wharf outside the southwest gate of Guangyuan and docked, and disembarked from the ship in groups disguised as non-commissioned soldiers of the Western Expedition who carried grain and cleared the troops.

A few Qing soldiers came out of Guangyuan City. When I arrived at the dock, I checked Zhang Wei's waist card and found that the waist card was indeed correct, but Qing Bing was still a little strange: "Why is Mr. Liu here to escort grain and grass?" What about you Yang Qian? ”

Zhang Wei replied: "When our fleet was going upstream, a large ship sank halfway and blocked the channel. Mr. Yang Qian organized people to salvage the wreck, which dredged the channel. However, Mr. Yang Qian contracted a cold, and when he arrived in Zhaohua, he got off the boat first and went to the city to rest, so the official temporarily came to collect grain and grass for Mr. Qian. When the return voyage comes, I will take Mr. Qian back with me. As he spoke, he also showed Yang Qianzong's waist card and handed it to Qing Bing.

"It's Mr. Yang Qian's waist card. Wait here for a while, and we'll organize people to move the food out of the city. Qing Bing saw that the waist card was correct, so he asked Zhang Wei to wait at the dock.

After about a stick of incense, the Qing army in the city came out and shouted: "The grain and grass have been prepared." We will ship it to Yucheng immediately! ”

A group of Qing army auxiliaries pushing wheelbarrows came out of the city, and the wheelbarrows were full of food. Qing army auxiliaries arrived at the shore and unloaded grain bags from wheelbarrows. The auxiliaries on the dock had just loaded the grain bags onto the ship, but they found that the cabin was crowded with Ming soldiers in red battle uniforms!

"Ariake dog!" The Qing army auxiliary shouted.

The words did not fall. With a flash of the sword, the head of the hapless Qing army auxiliary rolled down the deck.

"Kill!" A group of Ming soldiers dressed in red jumped out of the cabin, wielding various weapons. Jumped on the dock and rushed towards the open Guangyuan City Gate. Several Qing soldiers at the city gate were caught off guard, and they were shot into hedgehogs by oncoming arrows and fell at the city gate.

There are not many soldiers in the gate, some people are relatively fast, and they are about to close the city gate, Zhang Wei has rushed into the door with a few personal soldiers, the knife in his hand falls, the blood splashes everywhere, the Qing soldiers have no time to close the city gate, and they are all cut down in a pool of blood.

Standing at the head of the city, Chen Guerrilla found this sudden change and anxiously shouted: "Hurry up and release the jack gate!" ”

The Qing soldiers on the city tower were preparing to turn the winch and try to lower the jack gate above the city gate. Who knew that a loud roar suddenly sounded behind them, and several soldiers wearing the armor of the Pingxi Wangfu Army didn't know when they had gone up to the city tower, and they were slashed indiscriminately, and the Qing soldiers who had not had time to turn the winch were cut down at the head of the city one after another.

Chen Guerrilla was startled, and looked up the steps, only to see more than a dozen corpses of Qing soldiers lying on the steps leading to the city tower, which were obviously the Qing soldiers who were slashed and killed when those wearing the armor of the Pingxi Wangfu Army had just rushed up.

Needless to say, I also know that these Ming soldiers wearing the armor of the Pingxi Wangfu Army must have been brought into the city yesterday by the person who called himself Wang Shirong of the Pingxi Palace! At this time, Chen Guerrilla realized that the grain ship of the Governor had been hijacked, and the so-called "Wang Shirong" who came yesterday was actually the first to infiltrate the inner response in the city!

At this time, "Wang Shirong" was leading dozens of soldiers, and he had already attacked the city, cutting melons and vegetables to kill the Qing army.

"Kill the dog!" Chen Guerrilla roared, raised a thick-backed broadsword weighing thirty-two catties, and slashed at the head of a Ming soldier wearing the armor of the Pingxi Wangfu Army.

Who knew that the Ming sergeant did not dodge or dodge, clenched the long knife with both hands, roared, and stabbed straight at Chen Guru's chest, completely holding the same fighting style, and didn't care about his life and death at all. If Chen Guerrilla cut off the head of this Ming soldier with a knife, he himself would be stabbed into the heart by the Ming army! In desperation, Chen Guerrilla had to withdraw the knife and press down to block the long knife that stabbed him in the chest. As soon as the two weapons collided, after all, Chen's guerrilla martial arts were much higher, and the Ming soldiers were so shocked that they almost couldn't hold the knife steady.

Chen's guerrilla broadsword drew a beautiful arc and raised it from the bottom to the top. and slashed down diagonally, directly slashing the neck of the Ming army.

The mountain soldiers of the Ming army still did not dodge, but just bent down slightly, and the steel knife in his hand swept towards Chen's waist!

"Die!" Chen's guerrilla trick is actually a false move. Seeing that the Ming soldiers were still playing with the same madman, Chen Guerrilla turned the big knife in his hand down, and with his own strength, he split the long knife of the Ming army's mountain soldiers, and then sent the thick-backed big knife forward, swept it smoothly, and cut the mountain soldier into two with one knife.

"Whoosh" Arrows fired from two crossbows flew in.

Chen Guerrilla saw that the arrows of the two sharp arrows flashed with a terrifying black. He was shocked in his heart, he knew that this kind of arrow was a poisoned arrow smeared with severe poison, and as long as it was shot, it would be bloody and seal his throat! He quickly dodged and dodged two hidden arrows.

The two Ming soldiers who shot crossbow arrows threw away their crossbows and slashed at Chen Guerrilla from the left and right. These two Ming mountain soldiers, one of whom used a pair of thick plate axes, and the other with a pair of heavy sledgehammers, looked like Hercules and attacked very fiercely. One left and one right attacked at the same time, and it was so that Chen Guerrilla only had the ability to parry, but had no power to fight back!

"These soldiers are so fierce! It looks like those Tusi soldiers from the Pingxi Palace! Chen Guerrilla was sweating profusely and was surprised in his heart.

Wang Jinzhong, who had just cut down several Qing soldiers, came up from the other side. Dodged to the right back side of Chen's guerrilla, and slashed at the back of Chen's neck.

No matter how high this Chen's guerrilla martial arts are, it is difficult to reach the two mountain soldiers in front and Wang Jinzhong in the back. Guerrilla Chen heard the wind behind his head. Turning his head and brandishing a big knife to block the Miao knife cut by Wang Jinzhong, a mountain soldier in front of him slashed at him with an axe, and Chen Guerrilla couldn't dodge. was hit in the left shoulder by an axe, and suddenly a large piece of flesh and bones flew out of the entire shoulder, and the blood flowed like an infusion. At this moment, another mountain soldier smashed down on the top of his head with a hammer, Chen Guerrilla flashed, the hammer smashed on his right arm, only the sound of bones shattering, and the big knife in his hand fell to the ground with a "clang".

"Die!" Wang Jinzhong took the opportunity to stab, and Chen, who was already injured in two places, had no way to dodge, and had no weapons to parry, so he had to use his hands to grab the Miao knife that he looked at.

The two mountain soldiers waved their weapons and were about to kill Chen's guerrilla, but three Qing soldiers rushed up and blocked them. However, the three Qing soldiers were not opponents at all, and they were smashed by two mountain soldiers with axes and hammers, and with a bloody flying sword, they were corpsed at the head of the city.

Another mountain soldier wearing the military uniform of the Pingxi Royal Mansion stepped forward and stabbed Chen Guerrilla into the waist from the side. Then Wang Jinzhong and several soldiers smashed with knives and axes, axes and awls, and Chen Guerrilla was dismantled and fell in a pool of blood.

Wang Jinzhong lifted the head of Chen's guerrilla and shouted at the Qing soldiers surrounding the city: "You Lord Chen are dead!" If you want to live, surrender quickly! ”

When the Qing soldiers saw that their master was about to be killed, they lost their backbone at once, and they threw away their weapons and surrendered on their knees.

Under the city tower, a large group of Ming troops led by Zhang Wei had already entered the city. Most of the Qing troops stationed in Guangyuan City were auxiliaries, and the number of soldiers was not large, so they could not resist the fierce Ming army, and they were killed from the south of the city to the north of the city, and all the Qing soldiers who resisted were killed on the streets, and those who survived were those who knelt and surrendered.

The Qing court Guangyuan prefect in the city and several garrisons, Qianzong and other officers, seeing that the situation was not good, tried to escape from the north gate of the city, but Wang Jinzhong's people had already blocked the retreat of the Qing army.

However, the Qing army in Guangyuan City still issued a beacon smoke signal, and several Qing soldiers on the southeast city tower lit a beacon fire, and firewood, dried reeds and weeds ignited a raging fire, igniting sheep dung, dog dung, and wolf dung, forming thick smoke and rushing into the sky. By the time the Ming army reached the southeast city tower and cut down those Qing soldiers, the beacon smoke signal had been sent.

"My lord, we're a step too late, and the Tartar is already emitting wolf smoke!" A soldier knelt on the ground and confessed to Zhang Wei.

Zhang Wei didn't blame the soldiers, but pointed to the plank road in the north: "The Tartars will know if they know!" How is it possible for such a big operation to be completely secret? We burned down the plank road to Hanzhong, and the Tartars couldn't transport grain from the north into Sichuan for a while! They can only transport grain from the Yangtze River upstream! ”

As long as the plank road from Guangyuan to Hanzhong was burned, the road for the Qing army to transport grain down the river to Yucheng was cut off. In this way, the only way to enter Yucheng is to take the Yangtze River waterway. However, ships laden with grain want to swim upstream, through the fast-flowing Three Gorges of the Yangtze River, only in summer when the southeast wind blows. It was winter, the northwest wind was blowing, and it was very difficult for heavy ships loaded with grain to travel upstream. What's more, the activities of the Kuidong Righteous Army above the Three Gorges on the riverside may threaten the safety of shipping on the Yangtze River at any time, and this grain transportation road is extremely unsafe.

Almost all of the Qing troops in the city were wiped out, and only a few escaped.

Guangyuan City fell into the hands of the Ming army, and the mountains of food, gunpowder, weapons and other materials in the city also became the spoils of the Western Expeditionary Army. These military supplies sent by the Qing army from Hanzhong with a lot of manpower and material resources were all prepared to be sent down the river to Yucheng to exterminate the Kuidong Righteous Army, and now these materials are lost, and more than 100,000 Qing troops in Yucheng and other places will lose their grain and grass, and they will run out of food soon. When the time comes, how will the Qing army, which can't even eat enough, deal with Li Laiheng and them?

"The Tartars estimate that they will soon concentrate heavy forces to attack Guangyuan! We couldn't take away so much grain and gunpowder, so we had to burn it all in one fire, which is a pity! Zhang Wei sighed.

"Burn it, burn it! Burning these grains, grasses and gunpowder is to save the Kuidong Anti-Qing Righteous Army! Wang Jinzhong said.

The Western Expeditionary Army prepared to evacuate Guangyuan, took away all the grain and gunpowder that could be taken away, gathered those that could not be taken away, sprinkled gunpowder on the grain, connected the fuse, and used incense as a timer. Another group of Ming troops went to the north of Guangyuan, poured fire oil on the plank road, sprinkled sulfur, set a fire, lit the plank road and withdrew to Guangyuan.

Wang Jinzhong retreated to the southwest with the Western Expeditionary Army, and after leaving Guangyuan City, the incense ignited the fuse, and the mountains of grain were swallowed up by the raging fire.

The beacon tower near Guangyuan found the wolf smoke emitted from Guangyuan City, and immediately lit the beacon fire and sent a wolf smoke signal to the next beacon tower. In this way, the beacon towers transmitted wolf smoke signals, and Li Guoying, who was in Yucheng, soon knew that a major change had occurred in Guangyuan!

"The thieves have occupied Guangyuan?" Li Guoying understood the seriousness of the matter, spit out a mouthful of blood, and immediately fainted on the ground.

"Master Li!" Tu Hai, Zhao Liangdong and others surrounded him and pinched Li Guoying's people.

After a while, Li Guoying gradually woke up, and his first words were: "Quick! Hurry up and send troops to Guangyuan! If the thieves occupy Guangyuan, our army of more than 100,000 will lose food and grass, and the morale of the army will be weakened! The plan that the imperial court has spent nearly twenty years to exterminate the thieves will all come to naught! ”

"My lord, I'm afraid it's too late! If the thieves occupy Guangyuan, the first thing must be to burn the grain and grass and burn the plank road! Our grain can only be brought in from the Yangtze River when the summer winds change. Tuhai said heartbrokenly. (To be continued.) )