Chapter 532: That's in Wuchang, this is in Xiangyang

The land sold in Shandong is in full swing, and this matter has nothing to do with Li Chuang. However, the news that Li Zicheng was relieved to form a camp of the Northern Expedition Army in the Three Guards of Tianjin.

The failure of King Li Meng of Qi to lead the army to attack Xiangyang personally means that the next main attack direction of Jiaozhou Camp will not be placed on Xiangyang. This is a real contempt for the Shun Army and does not regard the Shun Army as an opponent worthy of serious treatment. This contempt is quite awkward for the Shun Army.

But this is always a good thing. Although Chen Liu's Central Plains Army is also strong, it must be a gap compared to the core troops of the Jiaozhou Camp, so it is easier to start the battle.

Chen Liu was already preparing ships to cross the Han River, and the army had begun to clear out some of the remaining strongholds of the Shun Army in the north of Xiangyang. When the Shandong soldiers and horses were in Henan, the Shun Army had already experienced it. Chen Liu had 15,000 soldiers and horses for local security and purges throughout Henan.

But the remaining more than 25,000 troops and more than 100,000 soldiers of the Shun Army did not dare to underestimate them at all, and they set up tight defenses. The King of Rebellion Li Zicheng personally presided over the arrangement of the defense battle.

As the commander, King Chuang always observes the terrain nearby, surveys the battlefield, and the territory around Xiangyang are strictly controlled by the Shun Army. Li Zicheng is also at ease with safety.

On June 29, the first year of Hua, Li Zicheng led 300 guards to Lumen Mountain in the south of Xiangyang City to investigate. If Chen Liu of the Central Plains Army led his troops to fight from Zaoyang, it would be a big and small trouble.

From Xiangyang City to Lumen Mountain, there are the military camps of the Shun Army along the way. Now Liu Zongmin and several other generals are mobilizing troops everywhere. On the one hand, there is no problem with safety, but on the other hand, there is no one to be drawn. The King of Rebellion Li Zicheng and Li Shuangxi led their troops to Lumen Mountain to investigate the terrain.

Dinghuguang took Henan, won the hearts of the world and then took the world, and oppressed Li Meng to surrender with the general trend. These were the strategies given to Li Zicheng by Niu Jinxing and a group of civil officials. It was indeed very smooth at the beginning. Shunjun continued to occupy the territory step by step, watching as he got closer and closer to this goal, and then all collapsed.

Such a great situation suddenly disappeared. Although Li Zicheng, the King of Chuang, knew that this was an irreversible momentum, it would be impossible to say that he had no complaints about the civil servants and counselors in his heart.

Moreover, after this defeat, the Shun Army's spirit of fighting repeatedly and perseverance was completely dispersed. Even if they were frustrated at the beginning, the Shun Army would always overwhelm the other side to win in the end. However, with such obvious advantages as Jiaozhou Camp, what can be even tougher? It is not a failure again and again.

Li Zicheng's heart gradually became resentful. Song Xiance's prophecy and divination word "Eighteen Children are the main artifact" at that time almost forgot the ecstasy and pride he heard it, but just thought that the prophecy and divination clearly meant that Li Meng, the King of Qi, had nothing to do with me? He had misunderstood for so long, and he was really boring to find out.

The strategist Song Xiance has been silent since the defeat in Henan. Niu Fu was displaced in the chaos and did not know how to live or die. Niu Jinxing stayed in the door, but Li Zicheng was too lazy to pay attention to it. In this situation, the useless literati still care about what he did.

Niu Jinxing stayed in his door and only had some of his confidants' families outside. Li Zicheng, the king of Investiture, was the supreme ruler of this sphere of influence, and every move he made would be traceable.

Many people knew about the news that Li Zicheng was going to Lumen Mountain to survey the terrain three days ago, so naturally it could not be hidden from Niu Jinxing. After Niu Jinxing pondered in his house for a night, the next day, a family member from Niu Mansion, who was in Yunyang Mansion, said that he had something to do at home and wanted to go home to visit relatives.

Although the Shun Army had already started martial law nearby, Niu Jinxing's servants naturally had the privilege to be there, and the people outside the city could go there after a moment of investigation.

After Li Zicheng led the light cavalry to set off from Xiangyang City, he did not stop all the way and arrived at the Lumen Mountain area. This was another pass. If he organized troops to cross the river in Zaoyang opposite, the Shunjun would organize defenses in the Lumen Mountain area and had to look at the terrain in advance.

Baiyun Village is near Yicheng. Liu Hongqi learned the news before Li Zicheng left the city. He lit up more than 3,000 strong backbone members who could mobilize and went down the mountain together.

What happened to this matter? There are various statements in the official historical materials and local chronicles, as well as the unofficial historical notes recorded by literati.

What everyone admits is that when the King of Rebellion Li Zicheng came down from Lumen Mountain, he was ambushed by the landlords led by Liu Hongqi, Baiyun Village.

The three hundred elite cavalry under his command tried their best to fight, but they could not resist the other party's equally strong military generals. None of the cavalry escaped. When the nearby garrison arrived, there were no living people at the scene. The landlords who came to ambush took away their casualties before leaving.

The guards are not important, the key is how life and death of King Chuang. After searching through this, I only found a headless corpse wearing King Chuang's robe. All the ornaments and weapons on them were not found.

In fact, I have seen the King of Chuang himself, and I can already identify it from this body and some characteristics, but I am very serious and dare not make a judgment without authorization.

I had to report to Xiangyang in a hurry and ask people there to send someone to check and confirm that Xiangyang was already very wet and hot in July, and the body of the "suspected" King of Breaking was already rotten a lot, so I could only use lime to deal with it urgently.

This fact was too sudden. Gao Yigong, a general in Xiangyang, led his team personally to the army. Of course, there would be no surprises. This is the body of the King of Chuang. It is not clear who the murderer is, but the strength of such a large army can be mobilized nearby is only those big villages.

However, the uncertainty about the body of the King of Chuang led to many folk stories and legends in the future that the King of Chuang did not actually die, but became a monk in temples in Huguang. The official was too lazy to investigate this, and as a result, there were countless literary works with this theme.

The head of Baiyun Village shot King Chuang on the cheek with a bow and arrow in the melee. After the King Chuang fell to the ground, the head was cut off by the person who followed him.

The head of the King of Chuang was put into a wooden box, with lime and medicine in it, and sent someone to the small road, and quickly sent it to Henan General Chen Liu in a hurry.

Gao Yigong, who was full of revenge, now had no chance to take revenge. The local garrison came to the foot of Lumen Mountain when he heard the news and informed Gao Yigong to come and check it out. It took almost ten days to go. On the fourth day of the news circulation, the Central Plains Army launched an attack.

The Han River is not a natural danger, and Fancheng is just a piece of paper. The real hard thing is Xiangyang City. The Shun Army also arranged a lot of defenses between the Han River and Xiangyang.

However, after the war started, the firearms troops of the Jiaozhou Camp quickly landed ashore and arranged positions. The Central Plains Army suffered casualties on the shore in the Han River. Moreover, compared with the normal battles of the Jiaozhou Camp, the casualties were quite serious. The reason was very simple, because the guards of Xiangyang City Shun Army used cannons.

Although these artillery were very backward and could be used on city defense and fortifications outside the city, it was of great use. When boats cross the river, artillery fire was fired at the same time.

Such a difficult situation was when the Central Plains Army landed, and the artillery was set up and reversed. The flexible and accurate Shandong military artillery began to remove the opponent's artillery array one by one.

After a large number of infantrymen arrived ashore, the artillery fire of the Shun Army no longer poses any threat. According to common sense, taking advantage of the opponent's foothold, they will immediately send troops to attack head-on, which will definitely be effective. However, as soon as the Central Plains Army landed, the Shun Army's position collapsed immediately.

Many soldiers of the Shun Army fled directly from the positions, and the officers could not stop them no matter how they pressed them. When the garrison near Lumen Mountain found the body of the King of Chuang. When the news was being rewarded, fragmented news began to spread in Xiangyang City, saying that the King of Chuang had been killed.

The first-year high school soldiers were led to see the truth, which undoubtedly strengthened the authenticity of this rumor. The yamen runners and military officers in Xiangyang City used the remaining yamen runners from the Ming Dynasty to maintain public order. It was only a matter of barely enough to find out the source of the rumor. Everyone knew in their hearts that this rumor might have flowed out of those people.

But when the Central Plains Army on the other side suddenly started attacking, but there was still no news of the King of Chuang in the city, everyone understood in their hearts. Maybe this matter was true. King of Chuang was the leader of the Shun Army. Liu Zongmin and Li Guo could not convince the public. Moreover, King of Chuang Li Zicheng was also a symbol. Once he died, the last trace of loyalty and hope of the soldiers of the Shun Army to Dashun disappeared.

In the history without Li Meng, after a crushing defeat, Li Zicheng, Wuchang was attacked and killed by an armed militia. This series of crushing defeats did not affect the fighting spirit of the Shun Army soldiers. They had always fought the most resolute struggle with the Qing Tartars. But now, the Jiaozhou camp is not a foreign barbarian. The people under the rule of the Qi King can have a full meal and live a better life than before. The Shun Army's goal has been achieved. The King of Chuang Li Zicheng died. The targets and targets and targets of Shun Army's combat and loyalty disappeared suddenly, so don't talk about fighting spirit.

The outer periphery of Xiangyang City was quickly swept up, the area on the ashore was cleared out, and a large number of soldiers and supplies began to land under shipment.

Liu Zongmin and Li Guo were both in Xiangyang City. They had realized that the rumors about the King of Chuang in the city might be true. There were also backbone troops they could seize in the city. Relying on these troops and the strong city defense fortifications might be able to support them for a while.

However, after seeing the cannons set up by the Central Plains Army in Jiaozhou Camp outside the city, they all became suspicious of their judgment...
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