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Chapter 763: Wuchang Water Camp

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Less than half a month before the fall of Changsha, Hanyang, the gateway to Wuchang, fell. The soldiers who fled back said that the Ming army who came to attack this time was not only the original loyal camp in Kuidong, but also the Taiping army from Hunan. Those Taiping troops in red military uniforms are also really evil. Not long after they arrived, they blew up the Hanyang city wall. As a result, the loyal camps that had been attacking the city for more than ten days made no progress, and Hanyang fell.

Changsha was lost, Zhang Changgeng didn't care, anyway, since he was promoted to the governor of Huguang, Hunan's erosion was worse than Hubei. The order given to him by Beijing was also to ensure Wuchang, and he did not make too many demands on Changsha. If he wanted to come to Beijing, he knew that more than 100,000 former thieves and the Ming army were eyeing the west of Wuchang, and Zhang Changgeng could not care about Changsha.

Zhang Changgeng breathed a sigh of relief after receiving the news that Beijing transferred Shaanxi Admiral Shi Lin to be the governor of Hunan. Originally, the governor of Hunan and the five provincial economic offices in Changsha were in charge. It has jurisdiction over the two lakes, but in fact it can only manage one place in Hubei. Yuan Kuoyu, the governor of Yuan Yuan, was also a disciple of Hong Chengchou. Hu Quancai, the former governor of Huguang, wanted to reach out to Hunan, so he had to see if Yuan Kuoyu ignored him and Hong Laojing had a little opinion.

The governors are all local officials. The governor wants to be in charge, but the governor does not want to have a mother-in-law on his head. When Zhang Changgeng was the governor of Hubei, he made a lot of troubles for Hu Quancai. He wished that the court immediately abolished the governor of Huguang, so that he would be the actual controller of Hubei. In the end, his dream came true, Hu Quancai really left, but this Hubei has become a volcano. Wuchang is this crater, and the hot flames are spewing out from below, which can melt him at any time.

There was even more bad news on the Hunan side. First, Shi Lin fought and the entire army was annihilated. Later, Changsha fell. The righteous king and grandson were expected to be captured by the Ming army, and then the Dongting Lake navy division returned to the Ming Dynasty. Bound the prefect and waited for Kaesong to surrender to the Ming army. This is not the most terrible thing. The magistrate of Tongshan County, which borders Jiangxi, sent an urgent report, saying that Wuning and De'an in Jiangxi bordering Tongshan had been captured by the Ming army, and the vanguard of the Ming army had all arrived in Tongshan. Under the Jiugong Mountain!

Zhang Changgeng was stunned by the news. The Ming army had all appeared at the foot of Jiugong Mountain. Does it mean that Jiangxi fell into the hands of thieves?

He didn't believe it, and he didn't dare to believe it, so he quickly sent Wuchang Water Camp to the lower reaches of Jiujiang to inquire. As a result, the water camp reported that the red flag of the Ming army was planted on Jiujiang City.

Done!

Zhang Changgeng immediately slumped on the throne of the Governor. Jiangxi is the land of the four provinces, and when the Taiping army occupied Jiangxi, they cut off the connection between Huguang and Jiangnan, making the Qing army in Huguang truly a lonely army. The Jiangnan side didn't know what the situation was. A few days ago, I only received news that Prince An Yue Le had brought soldiers to Jiangning, but Zhang Changgeng had no way of knowing whether the bandits were repelled.

Jiugong Mountain is in the territory of Wuchang Mansion, and Li Chuang died there. Zhang Changgeng was worried that the Taiping army in Jiangxi would cross the Jiugong Mountain and enter Wuchang Prefecture, so he would have to face the danger of being attacked by thieves in the west, two Taiping armies in Jiangxi in the east and Hunan in the south.

On the one hand, Zhang Changgeng delegated power to the counties in his capacity as governor, and ordered local gentry to train in groups to protect the locality; on the other hand, he assembled troops and horses to station in Hanyang, so as to protect the gate of Wuchang; The rebellious Dongting Lake navy attacked. As long as the Wuchang Water Camp can still control the Yangtze River, Zhang Changgeng is not worried that the thieves in the west of Hanyang will cross the river and attack Wuchang City.

Without the looming danger in the west, and with the natural danger of the Yangtze River, Zhang Changgeng had certain confidence in defending Wuchang. After all, the east of Wuchang Mansion is mostly mountainous area, and it is difficult for the Jiangxi Ming army to enter. As long as the local regiments practice together, it is not a problem to contain them.

Keep it for three months, and you will be able to see the sky open!

Zhang Changgeng's confidence came from the fact that the emperor's army had set off from Beijing and headed south. Once the emperor led the Manchu and Mongolian army to the south of the Yangtze River, the first to bear the brunt was the Jiangxi Taiping Army. In order to protect Jiangxi from being lost, the Taiping Army will inevitably shrink its strength, which will greatly reduce the pressure on Wuchang. Li Laiheng's big thieves have a solid reputation. As soon as they came out of Kuidong, they raised more than 100,000 soldiers and horses. However, after all, they are still thieves. real threat.

However, people are not as good as heaven, and Hanyang was so lost!

Zhang Changgeng didn't know how to report the loss of Hanyang to the imperial court, because he just reported the victory of Hanyang not long ago, and he severely injured the big thieves Li Laiheng, He Zhen, Ta Tianbao and others, and obtained the great merit of beheading 14,000. He had no way of explaining to Beijing why the battered Ming army would return and seize Hanyang City so easily.

Zhang Changgeng couldn't sit still, and Dong Xueli, the admiral of the Huguang Green Camp on the other side, couldn't sit still either. After the defeat of Caikou Town, Dong Xueli hid outside for several days. Hearing that the Ming army had withdrawn to Yingcheng, Zhang Changgeng immediately rushed back to Wuchang after reporting the victory to the court. As he expected, Zhang Changgeng not only did not pursue the crime of his defeat, but instead tried his best to win over him, and he gathered a thousand soldiers and horses to him. However, Zhang Changgeng hoped that Dong Xueli could take this army to Hanyang to garrison, but Dong Xueli refused to go. So the relationship between the two became cold again. I heard that Zhang Changgeng is now focusing on Wuchang Shuiying. The Shuiying gang has taken a lot of money from the governor's yamen for several days. This made the green camp generals under Dong Xueli look jealous and complained in front of the Admiral from time to time.

Dong Xueli knew that he had to take action, and his subordinates followed him to get promoted and made a fortune. He was going to ease the relationship with Zhang Changgeng, in exchange for Zhang Changgeng's support of his opponent's Green Camp on the condition of being in Hanyang. Unexpectedly, before this action, Hanyang was lost.

As soon as Hanyang was lost, the gate of Wuchang opened. Only the natural danger of the Yangtze River can stop the Ming army, which means that the importance of the Wuchang water camp has become more important than ever. In other words, in the next few days, if there is no accident, Huguang Green Camp can only continue to watch the governor send the treasury and boxes of money extorted from Wuchang gentry and common people to Wuchang Water Camp. able to watch.

This is unbearable and unbearable!

Dong Xueli was also not reconciled. After all, he was the Admiral of the Huguang Green Camp, and the Wuchang Water Camp was nominally under his command, not the Governor Zhang Changgeng. Why did Zhang Changgeng go beyond himself to win over the people from Shuiying, and why didn't those people take him seriously! Don't they think that by hugging Lord Governor's thigh, they can despise Lord Governor!

Dong Xueli was furious, and led his own soldiers out of the city, but he was going to seize the command of the Wuchang Water Camp.

Dong Xueli and the others just walked out of the city gate, and Zhang Changgeng naturally received the news. When he heard that Dong Xueli went to the water camp, Zhang Changgeng's complexion changed greatly. He spent a lot of money to finally pull the water camp into his own hands. Let Dong Xueli take it again.

So Zhang Changgeng also clicked the sign, and in a hurry, he drove out of the city and ran towards the water camp. The people in the city who didn't know it saw that first the admiral's soldiers rushed out of the city in anger, and then the governor's sign was murderous and rode out of the city. They thought that the governor and the admiral were going to fight each other.

That is to say, the kung fu of the front and rear legs~www.NovelMTL.com~ Zhang Changgeng rushed to the riverside. After all, Dong Xueli's men were all infantry, but his supervisor was more than two hundred cavalry.

"Where is Dong Xueli!"

Seeing a row of green battalion soldiers standing by the river from a distance, Dong Xueli was looking up at the river on his horse, Zhang Changgeng was not angry and rushed away. When he arrived, he suddenly stopped his horse and stood there, staring blankly at the river just like Dong Xueli.

On the river, more than 200 large and small ships of Wuchang Water Camp were lined up, but the color of the flags on the ships was wrong. It used to be a green flag, but now it has become a red flag.

"What are they going to do?"

Zhang Changgeng was stunned: What do the people in Wuchang Water Camp want to do?

Dong Xueli gave a wry smile: "Can't the Governor still see that the **** in Shuiying have betrayed!"

"Boom" twice, the Wuchang Water Camp on the river suddenly fired two cannons. Two large iron **** landed on the Qing army team on the shore, and the Qing soldiers fled in shock. (To be continued.) Mobile users, please browse and read for a better reading experience.

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