Chapter 160 Ma Rongcheng rushes to take Jingmen

Almost while fighting with Yiling, Ma Rongcheng's troops who were heading towards Zhongxiang were about to arrive at their destination!

"Forward! Forward! Forward! Forward!

Our team is facing the sun, stepping on the earth of the motherland, carrying the hope of the nation, and we are an invincible force."

During the procession, the songs that should have been loud gradually became hoarse.

Ma Rongcheng wiped sweat from his face, looked up at the setting sun in the West, and his eyebrows were almost condensed into a ball. He looked at the team that was obviously weak and almost lost its combat power. He sighed in his heart and ordered the adjutant beside him: "Notify the team to rest for half an hour. Be careful not to disturb Zhong Xiang, and order to make a detailed exploration of the way forward and find out how far it is to arrive at Zhongxiang Town!"

"yes!"

The adjutant gave a military salute and trotted away.

Not long after, the team stopped, and a burst of cheers rang out between the world!

Ma Rongcheng rubbed his sore legs. He basically walked over on his legs along the way. His horse had already given a recruit who fainted from heatstroke. He was almost always on the way. Except for a little rest at lunch time, the entire team only had about 2 pm. In order to avoid the hottest weather, he took a rest for half an hour. Calculate, today he and the team behind him marched at least 170 to 80 miles. After all, it was almost time to get to the place!

"Guru."

"Guru."

There are sounds of drinking water everywhere, and it is really hard to make for these recruits. Now the commander has given a death order and must take over Zhong Xiang tonight, otherwise he may miss the best opportunity.

Therefore, for the military government's plan, they must arrive and take over Zhongxiang Town before it is completely dark.

"Report to Chief of Staff Ma and give me some detailed rewards. It is only more than three miles away from Zhongxiang Town!"

The adjutant came back soon.

Ma Rongcheng nodded and had been with Li Han for so long. Although he was still not very clear about the art of marching command, he also learned to check the map when he had nothing to do, first master the general trend and then refine the plan of small directions.

After the adjutant brought the map, he thought carefully there.

Opening the map, Ma Rongcheng often went to and from Li Han's office. His map was completely copied by imitators Li Han's office. There were several points on the map in Jingmen, Jingzhou, Xiangyang, Danjiang area and the Xindi in the south. Obviously, the commander had already decided in his mind that these places must be strategic locations that the military government must seize in the future.

The military government was really determined to win several strategic areas this time. Ma Rongcheng did not dare to drag the military government down, so he could only calm down and think about the strategic plan carefully!

As a result, he was immersed in his thoughts and had no other actions for a long time. Until an adjutant came to remind him that half an hour had arrived, he actually came up with a plan in a daze in his head.

"Adminton Chen, immediately send someone to sneak into Zhong Xiang to find out if Zhong Xiang received the change in Jingshan last night. The speed should be fast! The soldiers of each battalion were ordered to prepare for preparation and wait for my order to set off at any time!"

"yes!"

The adjutant took the order and left.

About twenty minutes later, Yiqi Feichen arrived quickly, which was the exercise he sent out before.

"Report to the commander, the price has been discovered that Zhongxiang Town has learned about the incident in Jingshan, and all the defenders, including the defenders, are in panic!"

Ma Rongcheng was excited and said in a deep voice: "Very good, send the order and continue moving forward. Order the artillery team to the first queue and prepare to take off the cannon suit!"

The fifth and sixth flags he brought had no artillery teams. However, in order to train qualified artillery soldiers, the military government also transferred several officers from the artillery flag to help train the first battalion of artillery soldiers, although there were only twelve small cannons.

"yes!"

The dust fluttered above the earth, and the team set out on the itinerary again. Not long after, a small town appeared in the eyes of the team!

"I order to enter the state of combat readiness and all weapons are on the bullet!"

After issuing the order, Ma Rongcheng ordered the artillery team to push twelve small cannons in the front row of the team, and arranged a team of guards on both sides of them. The guns emitting cold light from one door pointed directly at Zhongxiang Town. Each step brought huge pressure to the civilian army in the city.

"Report to the Chief of Staff, the defenders of the town sent people to ask which department we were from and asked us to withdraw immediately, otherwise we would be responsible for the consequences!"

Ma Rongcheng sneered on his face. After learning about the situation in the town, he understood that the other party did not dare to open fire with him, so he ordered someone to answer: "Go and tell them that we are the revolutionary army of the Hubei-zhong military government. When he learned that Deputy Governor Liu of Jingshan was poisoned by the Qing army, Jingshan was captured by the Qing army and immediately raised troops to support him and asked them to hand over the city defense immediately."

"yes!"

The soldier immediately went over to make a message, but he came back soon, and his face looked a little blue and purple.

"Report to the Chief of Staff, the civilian army insulted us as robbers and was unwilling to hand over the city defense!"

Ma Rongcheng obviously saw the blue and purple color on his face and snorted coldly, "Tell them that in order to resist northern Hubei and the Qing army on the Dangyang line, the revolutionary army had to take over Zhongxiang's city defense and ask them to hand over the city defense unconditionally and obey the command of our military government. In three minutes, we will have to launch an offensive!"

"yes!"

Not long after, the soldier came back, but this time he did not bring back any replies. The civilian army on Zhong Xiang drove him back directly.

Ma Rongcheng was impatient and waved his hand and began to calibrate the direction. A cold cannon hole gradually aimed at Zhongxiang Town.

Under such pressure, Zhong Xiang quickly surrendered. The envoy of the civilian army Zhong Xiang was a very young officer. It is said that he was a child of the Liu brothers. Unfortunately, the whereabouts of the Liu brothers are unknown now and are very likely to have been killed. He really can't get over the fish, so he could only hand over the city defense honestly.

After taking over Zhong Xiang's city defense, Ma Rongcheng counted the town's defenders, with only two thousand people, and none of them were the real veterans. Even the civilian army Zhongxiang guards had only been brave enough for a while. Jingshan was not as good as Hubei. After the army expanded greatly, they were eager to expand to the outside world. The soldiers had not received any formal training at all. No wonder last night, a few hundred Qing soldiers defeated the more than two thousand defenders in the city and fled.

One thousand five hundred people were selected from Zhongxiang's defenders and added to his team, because Ma Rongcheng unexpectedly got news that the city's important city was empty at this time, and there was less than one battalion of patrols in the city, which was the best time to take it.
Chapter completed!