Hanzhong Fucheng, Nanzheng.

When Li Guohan led his men and horses to march eighty miles along the south bank of the Han River, they crossed the Han River on a pontoon bridge not far upstream from Nanzheng. When they were about to enter Nanzheng City, the forward Tangqi hurried back.

"Nanzheng City, the sun and moon flags are already on the city!"

"Ming army, Ming army captured Nanzheng."

Still sitting on the mat on the south bank of the pontoon, Li Guohan, who looked tired, was following the military advisor to discuss how to report the battle to Beijing. He was stunned on the spot when he heard the news.

"They are obviously still upstream, can they fly?"

Li Guohan thought it was Zhu Pengfei who sent troops to seize Nanzheng, but Tang Qi told him that it was another Ming army. The banner they flew was Sichuan Guixing Camp, and the general's flag was Zhang.

Li Guohan was silent.

He didn't understand what was happening.

"Explore again!"

There was no way to write down the question anymore, so Li Guohan stood up and urged the whole army to cross the river quickly.

He rode across the pontoon bridge and asked people to quickly set up formations on the north bank.

Sure enough, Tangqi of the Qing army appeared at the gate of Nanzheng City, which quickly attracted the Ming army to stay at night.

A group of night riders arrived from afar and stopped in the distance to look at them.

Dozens of eight Manchurian cavalry rushed forward, but the group of Ming cavalry actually did not run away. They started mounted shooting two miles away from the military formation on the north bank. Both sides chased and attacked each other. After a while, they actually suffered casualties on each other.

Finally, the Mingqiu flew away.

The Qing cavalry lost more than ten of its cavalry, but they were somewhat disgraced.

When Ao Bai heard the news and led his cavalry to arrive, Li Guohan had already led his troops to a few miles away from Nanzheng City and formed a military formation again.

The Ming army in the city was not afraid and actually sent a group of troops out of the city to form an array.

When Li Guohan, Ao Bai, Xu Yong and others looked at the flags on the opposite side several times, they couldn't help but be a little surprised.

Except for the eye-catching sun and moon flag.

Many flags appeared in front of the Ming army formation, for example, some were written with the name of the imperial camp Sichuan Guixing Camp, and some were written with the name of Admiral Zhang of the Sichuan Guixing Camp. There were also flags such as Qin, President of the Five Provinces.

"That red-armored general seems to be a woman. Is it really Qin Liangyu?"

"Maybe it's her."

The Ming army had its back against Nanzheng City and its left side against the Han River.

Nanzheng City in the Ming Dynasty was renovated and built on a large scale during the Jiajing period. However, the general layout of Nanzheng City in the Ming Dynasty was laid down during the major renovations in the early Hongwu period.

During the Jiajing period, it was heavily renovated during the Wanli period. During the Tianqi period, the palace of Prince Rui was built and expanded a lot to the north.

The moat surrounding the city wall was rebuilt during the Wanli period. It is ten feet wide and one foot eight deep. Water from the mountain river weir is drawn in from the north of the city, and reeds are planted on the riverside.

The four city gates, Chaoyang, Zhenwu, Wangjiang, and Gongchen, were all built with bricks and reinforced during the Jiajing period, and new large and small forts were added. The city gates are double gates with an additional urn.

There is a suspension bridge and an observation deck at the corner of the city.

Due to the large population of Hanzhong Fucheng during the Jiajing period, a large residential area was formed in Dongguan outside the city. Later, Dongguan Tucheng was added to the city, which was both exterior and interior and echoed the Fucheng.

It can be said that the entire Hanzhong Fucheng Nanzheng is actually very large and solid.

Previously, He Zhen was guarding Hanzhong, but Li Guo and others retreated from behind. He Zhen surrendered to the Qing Dynasty and used the city to block the attack. This made Li Guo and others very sad, and finally had to turn to northern Sichuan to borrow a road south to Huguang.

However, He Zhen was defeated in Chang'an, but when he returned, Ma Ke surrendered to the Qing army again and refused to defend the city. He Zhen was not convinced and attacked, but also suffered many casualties, and finally had to leave angrily.

But at this time, this big city had actually fallen into the hands of the Ming army.

The bright flag is fluttering on the city.

The Ming army also sent troops to the west of the city and set up military formations.

Li Guohan had a gloomy face and was so angry that he could not speak.

Just like Yangping Pass, the Qing army lost big cities and dangerous passes because they transferred their troops to Dingjun Mountain.

Who would have thought that the Ming army would suddenly come and kill them.

There were still some garrison troops and strong people in Nanzheng City, so how come they were captured without even the slightest resistance?

Zhang Xianzhong was not completely annihilated and allowed them to break through and run away. As a result, both the pass and the city were lost, but they were now in an extremely difficult situation.

Looking at the city, looking at the military formation.

The Ming army was at its peak.

On the contrary, the Qing army was very depressed at this time.

"The old woman Qin Liangyu is here. I'm afraid this battle will be difficult. It will be difficult for the white-pole soldiers to fight."

"There is also Zhang Shipeng of the Sichuan Guixing camp. He is Zhang Guowei's son. He has thousands of troops and is said to be very elite. He had leveled all the Ming troops in central Sichuan before. Zhang Xianzhong did not dare to fight them."

I looked left and right, but couldn't see any flaws. On the contrary, the more I looked, the less confident I became.

The most terrible thing is that they were fighting a big battle at this time, with a lot of casualties, and the soldiers and horses were exhausted, but the Ming army had already seized the city and had the upper hand.

In addition, there was a Ming army upstream that was trying to rob Mian County, which made them extremely passive.

"Since they came out of the city to fight, then fight them. I don't believe that these Ming troops suddenly became good at fighting. They are all defeated generals. Are you afraid that they will fail?" Obai said very rudely.

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None of Xu Yong wanted to fight.

You can tell by looking at the morale of the soldiers that it is so sluggish that many soldiers have not even had time to bandage their wounds.

Moreover, when they besieged Dingjun Mountain, both Yangpingguan and Jiamian County of Nanzheng City had stored a lot of grain, grass, equipment and military supplies transferred from various places. The Dingjun Mountain camp did not have much grain and grass.

At that time, we also considered that there would be good storage in the city, but now we have a shortage of food and grass.

In front of the Ming army formation opposite.

The people and horses were in full force. Although they had just arrived, it took little effort to capture Nanzheng City. In the early morning, the people in the city should respond in advance. Before the traitors had time to react, the city was already on fire and in turmoil. Then the city gate opened

Being controlled in the hands of insiders.

The forwards of the Ming army lurked outside the city. When they saw the signal, they immediately rushed to the city and rushed into the city. They quickly took control of the situation in the city.

Many of those dog officers were assassinated, controlled, and the young men were not even organized into groups.

"Fortunately, we caught up. If it had been half a day later, we would have missed this good opportunity."

Qin Liangyu, a veteran in armor, looked at the Tatars with a sense of joy.

Zhang Shipeng looked at the Qing army, but he was vaguely excited. In fact, after Zhang Nengqi borrowed the road to pass by, they had already followed closely. However, the road was difficult, and they were not in a hurry.

They sneaked into Hanzhong like ants moving, and gathered more than 20,000 people, waiting for the opportunity.

Zhang Xianzhong lasted longer than the Ming army expected.

Fortunately, they arrived in time and took advantage of the opportunity to seize Hanzhong Fucheng.

"Calculating the time, I don't know if Mr. Guo Xing has arrived."

"It shouldn't have arrived yet."

The two of them chatted while riding on the horse, very calmly.

Behind them were eight thousand soldiers, including those from the Sichuan Guixing camp, the President's pacesetters, the Zhongyong Zhenbai pole soldiers, Yang Zhan, and Qin Yiming, all of whom were elite and had high morale.

What's more, on the city behind them, there was also the governor of Wen'an, and there were 8,000 men and horses in Tucheng and Fucheng. There were even many ships hidden in the bend of the Han River downstream, and there were 2,000 men and horses as surprise troops.

Although they couldn't bring the big guns, they still had a lot of small cannons.

There are also many musketeers in Jianzhi's army, and they are eager to try this battle.

"Please ask the Duke of Shu to return to the city to hold down the battle for the last general, and leave it to the general's command here!" Zhang Shipeng said to Qin Liangyu.

"It would be good if there is a Wen Jing Lue in charge of the city, and I, the president, will be commanding from the front line."

Although Qin Liangyu was over seventy years old, he refused to accept old age. Seeing the Tatars at this time, he became even more unwilling to retreat. During the bloody battle at Hunhe River, the Tatars had not repaid the blood debt they owed them to the white-pole soldiers.

"In the bloody battle of Hunhe River, the Sichuan and Zhejiang armies had a firefight in Tongzhou before the war. As a result, they failed to cooperate with each other to cover the Hunhe River battle, and were eventually defeated by the Tatars one by one.

Today, we, the white-poled soldiers of the Sichuan Army, are working side by side with your imperial camp from eastern Zhejiang again. I hope we can cooperate well this time and avenge the great vengeance together!"

Zhang Shipeng banged his chest and his armor clanged, "Please don't worry, Duke of Shu. This battle will not be divided between the imperial camp and the Sichuan army. We will fight hand in hand. Please take charge of it, Duke of Shu. I will be the deputy general."

The camp was not subject to the control of the governor, governor, etc., but now Zhang Shipeng took the initiative to hand over the command to Qin Liangyu.

At that time, Qin Bangping had 3,000 white pole soldiers led by Ma Qilin, plus 4,000 Youyang local soldiers, Wu Wenjie and other Sichuan soldiers, and Zhou Yuji and other soldiers, a total of more than 15,000 soldiers. They were defeated in the bloody battle of Hunhe River.

For Qin Liangyu, this is an unforgettable blood feud.

On the banks of the Hun River, the three armies of the Liaodong Iron Cavalry, the Sichuan Army, and the Zhejiang Army were supposed to be working hand in hand, but as a result, there was already internal strife when they were still in Tongzhou, within the pass. Both sides fired guns and artillery, and fought fiercely, causing numerous houses and shops in the city to collapse.

The Zhejiang army and the Jizhen army did not get along, so during the subsequent battle, the Sichuan army crossed the river to set up their formation, while the Zhejiang army set up camp on the other side. The two armies were deployed across the river, which was in itself motivated.

Qin Liangyu was very grateful for Zhang Shipeng's trust.

If the Sichuan and Zhejiang soldiers had such trust back then, they would not have been defeated.

"Since our army has robbed Nanzheng City, it is only to defend the city in formation. Admiral Zhang's imperial camp is on the left, and I lead the Sichuan army on the right. They respond to each other on the left and right and support each other."
To be continued...