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Volume 1: Invasion of the Capital Chapter 921: March into Jiangbei

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    After Zuo Liangyu's death, his generals recommended his son Zuo Menggeng to stay behind, imprisoned Yuan Jixian in the ship, and continued to lead troops eastward, occupying Pengze, Dongliu, Jiande, and Anqing successively, and led directly to Taiping Prefecture.  .  The Hongguang court was greatly alarmed when it received reports from the governors, fu and town officials from upstream that Zuo Liangyu had rebelled and led his troops eastward. The court decided to appoint Ruan Dacheng, the Minister of War, together with Jingnan Hou Huang Degong, Guangchang Bo Liu Liangzuo and Chikou's general military force.  Guoan and others organized a blockade and suppression.  Huang Degong's army was transferred to Taiping Prefecture south of the Yangtze River (the government was in Dangtu and governed Wuhu and Fanchang counties), and Liu Liangzuo's army was deployed on the other side of the Yangtze River in the north.  After a fierce battle, Huang gained a great victory and finally blocked the left army from going down the river.  But the inner conflict within Nanming made Zhou Xun, Xue Yong and others unable to bear it any longer.  Now or never.  So Zhou Xun, Xue Yong and others decided to disobey the order and take advantage of this opportunity to capture Nanming in one fell swoop.  On June 7th, the Zhou Dynasty patrol ordered the general to conquer the south. Zhang Biao from Nanyang led 5,000 troops (Nanyang local troops), and passed through Runing to join 10,000 troops (recruits of the village protection team), a total of 15,000 troops.  Force Fengyang and attack eastward.  Xue Qiang led all the garrison troops to protect the entire territory of Henan and Huguang to resist foreign enemies from invading the territory.  Zhou Xun and Zhang Biao led an army of more than 130,000 soldiers down the river, leading directly to Nanjing.  Although there was no connection between the two battlefields of Shandong and Huguang, the two units of the Daping Army launched a three-pronged offensive at the same time.  In the Huaiyang area, Suqian's victory without a fight also brought a large number of surrendered troops and generals to the Shandong Army of the late Ming Dynasty.  Among these surrendered generals, there are some ambitious people who can't wait to be the "leading party".  And when the Nanming Army surrendered, the entire front did not surrender neatly and at the same time, in order to level the front.  The Shandong Army will definitely send troops to attack strategic points that have fallen into its own front.  And some of the Nanming Army who were attacked were still hesitating, and some even just couldn't find a way to contact the Shandong Army and surrender.  So when they saw the Shandong Army coming to attack, and when they encountered those surrendering generals coming to persuade them to surrender, they might have fled.  Or the whole army surrendered, and the Shandong Army's operations to advance the front went very smoothly.  Especially after the surrendered generals learned that Chi Ming was originally the commander of Wu Shigong's personal troops, they praised him even more.  In the military system of the Ming Dynasty, the commander of the Guards was the most trusted person by the commander, so his status was no worse than that of the leading general.  Even the status is slightly higher.  So those surrendered generals had a small calculation in their minds: if Chi Ming performed extraordinary feats, then these surrendered generals would also be able to climb a big tree and gain a higher status in Wu Shigong's new dynasty.  Therefore, these surrendered generals encouraged Chi Ming to launch an offensive.  Therefore, these surrendered generals not only told a lot of information about Nanming's army, but also exaggerated the dilemma faced by Nanming.  so.  The enemies that cause the most harm to you are often not your mortal enemies, but your former comrades who turn against you.  In fact, no one expected that although the intelligence reported by the surrendered generals had been greatly exaggerated, the Nanming Army in the Huaiyang area was in even worse shape. The entire situation could only be described in four words - chaotic.  Even the civil servants and military attach¨¦s who commanded the Nanming Army fell into hysteria.  After learning about the emergency situation of Zuo Liangyu's troops moving eastward and Shandong Daping Army invading south, Shi Kefa panicked.  There is no idea in mind.  According to the record of Ji Yingtingji, the Huai'an official at the time, Shi Kefa, the military supervisor: At that time, a part of the Nanming army was stationed in Gaoyou. Shi Kefa issued the order arrows three times in one day. In the morning, he ordered Ying Tingji, Pisu Tuntian Road, to "supervise the military weapons, money and grain to be sent to Pukou meeting".  "Suppress" Zuo Liangyu's rebels; at noon, he ordered "the troops do not need to go to Si, but return to Yangzhou quickly to listen to orders"; in the afternoon, he ordered "Xuyi is in an emergency, and Pisu Dao can supervise the troops to Tianchang to respond."  So Ying Tingji said to the generals: "The cabinet department is in chaos. How can it be possible to travel a thousand miles and pay such a salary three times a day?" From this, it can be seen that even Shi Kefa is in chaos.  The orders issued were all incomprehensible, let alone other civil servants and military generals in Nanming.  All the Nanming Army troops were like headless flies, flying around in circles, but they didn't know what to do!  The young and energetic Chi Ming finally couldn't stand such a huge temptation.  In addition, he also learned from the surrendered generals that Zuoliangyu's tribe in the Southern Ming Dynasty rebelled, and the Hongguang Dynasty also fell into internal conflicts.  So he did not bother to ask Wu Shigong for orders, and without hesitation launched his troops into a full-scale attack.  On June 16, Chi Ming led the main force of the Shandong Army to approach Xuyi, and the defenders of Xuyi surrendered.  Shi Kefa himself rushed to Tianchang on June 17 to mobilize all the troops to assist Xuyi. Suddenly he received a report that the Xuyi defenders had surrendered to the Daping Dynasty, so he almost completely lost control of the troops.  After that, Shi Kefa rushed to Yangzhou in the rain and mud all day and night to preside over the defense of this important city in the north of the Yangtze River.  And on the 24th?The Shandong Army marched to the camp twenty miles away from Yangzhou, and the next day the troops came to the city.  At this critical moment, Shi Kefa called for reinforcements from various towns, but none of them arrived.  In fact, the generals of Liu Liangzuo and the former Gaojie vassal controlled by Shi Kefa surrendered without a fight in the past few days.  On June 25, Li Benshen, the admiral of Gao Jie's department, led his entire army to surrender to Chi Ming, and Guangchang Bo Liu Liangzuo also led his troops to surrender. On the 27th, General Zhang Tianlu and Zhang Tianfu led their troops to surrender, and then they were ordered by Chi Ming to surrender.  On the second day of July, he participated in the capture of Yangzhou.  At this time, in Yangzhou City, there were only the Zhongguan Battalion headed by General Liu Zhaoji and He Gang, and their military strength was quite weak.  Due to the high city wall and the fast march of the Shandong Army, Chi Ming sent people to surrender Shi Kefa, Huaiyang Governor Wei Yinwen and others before the siege artillery arrived, but they were severely rejected.  On the 27th, Gansu Town Commander Li Qifeng and Supervisor Dao Gao Qifeng led four thousand troops into the city. Their intention was to kidnap Shi Kefa and surrender Yangzhou City to the Daping Dynasty.  However, Shi Kefa resolutely said: "This is where I died. What do you want me to do? If you want to be rich and noble, please do what you want." Li Qifeng and Gao Qifeng saw that there was no chance to take advantage of them. On the 28th, they led their troops and colluded with Sichuan generals Hu Shangyou and Han in the city.  Shang Liang went out together to calm down.  Shi Kefa reasoned that if they were prevented from leaving the city and surrendering, they might be killed internally, so he let it go without any prohibition.  In fact, at this time, Shi Kefa no longer had any confidence in defending Yangzhou City, and he was helpless to protect the land north of the Yangtze River. Therefore, he had completely given up his command and left it to chance as to the survival of Yangzhou City.
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