The enemy was actually hiding in the town! Yuan Chonghuan immediately opened his eyes wide.

In order to retreat quickly, Yuan Chonghuan restricted military discipline and was not allowed to stay by the way or harass the people along the way. There were no signs of fighting inside and outside Moling Town, but it was just a little quieter. Yuan Chonghuan thought it was because of the passing of the army, so he didn't care too much and did not send anyone to do it.

I went to the town to investigate, so that such a loophole came out, and an enemy army was leaked behind.

In fact, there were only more than a thousand imperial guards that rushed out, and not too many people. But the problem was that at this time, the troops under Yuan Chonghuan were all in front of Moling Pass and were not careful.

"Let's make an array!" Yuan Chonghuan had no time to think about where this imperial guard came from, and ordered anxiously.

However, there was no time to change the array in a hurry. In just a moment, the two armies had already fought each other and fought together.

In fact, the imperial guards that rushed out did not have time to form an array, but rushed over in a swarm, without any formation at all. The two sides fought between Moling Town and Moling Pass.

"Bang bang bang"

"Boom boom boom"

The sound of muskets, the explosion of grenades, and the shouts of fighting are endless.

"Kill!" Xu Fu shouted, and fought bravely with his subordinates, protecting Yuan Chonghuan behind him.

These five thousand soldiers were all Yuan Chonghuan's camp. From Xu Fu Zu to ordinary soldiers, Yuan Chonghuan was promoted by one hand. His salary was twice that of other troops, and his equipment was the best, with 200,000 thieves' army.

Among them, the combat power is also the strongest. Although he was attacked in a hurry, he was still able to stand firm and did not directly collapse.

However, just as the two sides were fighting fiercely, the gate of Moling Pass in the south opened, and a light cavalry rushed over quickly. There were only a thousand cavalry, less than one mile away, and in just a moment, they rushed to the thief formation.

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"Bang bang bang", a burst of guns rang out in the thief formation, and dozens of cavalry fell off their horses, but the other cavalry quickly moved forward regardless of the situation.

"Kill!" A crisp shout sounded, and a red horse suddenly rushed out of the cavalry, the first to hit the thief array, immediately a heroic woman in a red cloak, holding each hand with her hands.

A goose feather knife slashed left and right, and wherever he went, the bandits were chopped overturned left and right.

More cavalry followed the woman in red and rushed into the thief team, and then the thief team of thousands collapsed.

If the five thousand elite battalions were set up, it would be almost impossible to break the formation with more than a thousand cavalrymen. However, Yuan Chonghuan's troops were attacked in a marching state, and were first attacked by the Imperial Guards who rushed out of the town.

When they were rushing to meet the enemy, they were rushed by cavalry and had no time to react. In this case, even the elite army could only be defeated.

In the final analysis, Yuan Chonghuan underestimated the enemy a little, thinking that Moling Pass was absolutely in the rear under his control, so it was naturally impossible to encounter an attack. In addition, he was in a hurry to retreat to Jiangxi and did not send out a sentry to inquire, which led to such a disastrous defeat.

As for the sudden appearance of the imperial guards, they were naturally under the command of Li Dingguo, and the cavalry was the light cavalry under Hongniangzi.

Under Yuan Keli's arrangement, the Imperial Guards set out from Zhenjiang to Nanjing in two groups. Li Dingguo led three thousand elite Imperial Guards to attack Jurong and approached from the south road to Nanjing. At that time, considering that the rugged road on the north bank of the Yangtze River was not conducive to the cavalry, Jurong

It was a smooth journey to Nanjing, and Zhang Shize suggested that the cavalry of Hongniangzi's troops follow Li Dingguo all the way.

Starting from Zhenjiang, heading southwest, and soon arrives at Jurong County.

After Yuan Chonghuan attacked the outer city of Nanjing, the entire Yingtian Prefecture gentry took the initiative to surrender to Jiangxi, and the counties under Yingtian Prefecture also announced that they would change their flags and surrender to Jiangxi, and Jurong County was no exception.

At that time, because the inner city of Nanjing was not captured, Yuan Chonghuan did not send troops to surrendered prefectures, and still retained the post from the original officials. He only sent an envoy to urge money, grain, material and soldiers to mobilize the entire Yingtian Prefecture and even the Jiangnan area of ​​Nanzhili.

The power of the palace besieged the inner city of Nanjing.

When he learned that Zhu Youjian led the army to leave Zhenjiang, Yuan Chonghuan did not make a plan to fight. Instead, he wanted to use the entire outer city of Nanjing as the battlefield and drag the imperial guards into Nanjing city, waiting for the world to change. However, in order to control Jiangnan, he would

All the prefectures and Yuan Chonghuan sent an army to Jurong, Moling Pass, Dasheng Pass and other important places.

However, Li Ding's Ministry equipped a large number of horses to carry weapons and supplies, and the marching speed was extremely fast, especially the Hongniangzi Ministry, which was a light cavalry known for its speed. Moreover, Jurong's distance from Zhenjiang was not much further than that of Nanjing. When Yuan Chonghuan sent it out

When the army was still on the road, Li Dingguo's troops were already at the city of Jurong and easily attacked the city.

Later, Li Dingguo waited for his work and easily defeated the reinforcements sent by Yuan Chonghuan from Jurong. Hong Niangzi personally led the cavalry to pursue them. Yuan Chonghuan sent five thousand reinforcements to death in battle, and all the rest surrendered. After all, the two legs of the reinforcements ran away.

But the four legs of the cavalry of the Hongniangzi army.

After the Jurong was captured, Li Dingguo left a small number of troops to defend Jurong and led most of the troops to continue the attack.

According to the original plan, it was to capture Moling Pass and Dasheng Pass, and then attack various prefectures and counties of the surrendered pseudo-government state in Jiangnan, harass the rear of the rebels, and cut off their food supply.

Yuan Chonghuan's army of 200,000 was consuming countless money and grain every day, while the grain in the 24th Guards of Nanjing was controlled by Hong Chengchou. Yuan Chonghuan's army could not obtain enough supplies from the outer city, even if he ordered the plunder of the people in the outer city.

Due to the failure of the Yangtze River War, the Yangtze River waterway is now controlled by the Imperial Guards and cannot transport grain from Jiangxi to Nanjing through the Yangtze River. It can only rely on the surrendered Nanzhili prefectures to provide supplies. Huizhou, Ningde, Taiping, Ningguo

The prefectures were controlled by Yuan Chonghuan, and the prefectures and counties under Yingtian Prefecture were under the jurisdiction of the five prefectures for several months. The grain from Jiangxi could also pass through Raozhou and enter Huizhou and enter Nanjing from other routes.

As long as you build Moling Pass, you can cut off the contacts between Nanjing and Ningde, Huizhou and other places.

Therefore, after Li Dingguo took Jurong, he did not go to Nanjing, but came to Moling Pass. Because his subordinates had the joining of the Hongniang Light Cavalry, more than a thousand cavalry were sent around the army, which could cover up the enemy's situation. Many thieves and whistle detectives

He was killed by the Red Lady Light Cavalry, so that Yuan Chonghuan in Nanjing could not find out the movements of Li Ding's Ministry. Of course, Yuan Chonghuan did not care at that time, after all, according to previous investigations, Li Ding's Ministry had only a few thousand people.

However, these thousands of people actually bypassed Nanjing and set off Moling Pass south!

After Li Dingguo captured Moling Pass, he originally wanted to leave some troops to guard the pass and then lead his troops to Dasheng Pass. As long as he won the Dasheng Pass, he could cut off the connection between Nanjing and Taiping Wuhu and other places, so that Nanjing would become a

In the lonely city, Yuan Chonghuan's 200,000 troops would be trapped and killed in the outer city of Nanjing.

After several days of rest and recovering, Li Dingguo was about to lead his troops to set off when a whistle came to report and found a bandit army coming from Nanjing to Moling Pass.

At first, Li Dingguo thought that the Nanjing bandit army had discovered the news of the loss of Moling Pass, so Yuan Chonghuan sent troops to attack and seize Moling Pass. After careful consideration, Li Dingguo ambushed more than a thousand troops in Moling Town, hiding in the homes of various people. If the bandit army attacked vigorously

In Moling Pass, this army attacked the thief army from behind.

Unexpectedly, the bandit army was unaware of it, and even the provoys were sent through Moling Town. When they were about to arrive at Moling Pass, they realized that the situation was wrong and their reaction was really slow.

After discovering the bandit army noticed, the Imperial Guards ambushed in Moling Town launched an attack directly from behind, and Hong Niang also took the opportunity to lead the light cavalry to rush out and attack directly at the bandit army.

When Li Dingguo led the remaining infantry out of Guancheng, the battlefield situation was a foregone conclusion, and the five thousand rebels were defeated in the front and back.

Looking at the defeated subordinates, Yuan Chonghuan's eyes turned black. He tried his best to leave the army in order to escape, but he did not expect that he could not escape in the end.

Looking at the defeated subordinates and looking at more enemy troops coming from afar, Yuan Chonghuan felt a burst of despair and couldn't help but smile bitterly.

I think he has always regarded himself as a high-ranking person and has made ambitions to pacify Liaodong early on and made great contributions in Liaodong. Unexpectedly, he was excluded by the eunuch party and forced to resign and surrender. After Emperor Chongzhen ascended the throne, he quickly dealt with the eunuch party.

Yuan Chonghuan thought he would definitely be valued and was responsible for the entire Liaodong war situation. Unexpectedly, he received an imperial edict on his way to Beijing and was sent to Jiangxi to be the governor.

I spent four years in Jiangxi. After spending a lot of effort, I finally trained an elite soldier to block the rebellious Jiangxi bandits in the mountains, and they could be pacified one by one. Who knew that at this time, there was actually Guangdong.

The Fujian gentry intervened and occupied it, and got a large number of firearms to support the bandit army. They accidentally suffered a defeat and fled back to Nanchang.

In the following time, everything seemed like a dream. These bandits who were killed by themselves were desperate and quickly grew their strength like snowballs. They occupied the various prefectures in southern Jiangxi in just a few months, and actually developed to an army of 200,000.

Besieged yourself in Nanchang City.

It was not until then that Yuan Chonghuan discovered that most of the gentry in Jiangxi had been thieves, and even in Nanchang, people were in panic, and the officials and gentry in the city had the momentum to collude with the thief army.

After thinking about it all, Yuan Chonghuan knew that he could not defend Nanchang City at all, so he followed the persuasion of the gentry, joined forces with the thief army, and jointly supported Zhu Yousong, the former prince of Fu, who was rescued from Fengyang, as the governor, and embarked on rebellion.

The road.

The reason for rebellion was that on the one hand, it was because he was not appreciated by the emperor and felt that he was not valued by the emperor. More importantly, the gentry such as Huang Li promised that the new court would be dominated by Yuan Chonghuan, which made Yuan Chonghuan very moved and finally made a rebellion.

Then he led 200,000 troops out of Jiangxi and attacked Nanjing City along the river.

Looking back on the past few months of experience, as if he was dreaming, Yuan Chonghuan smiled bitterly, knowing that he had reached a dead end.

With a "clang", Yuan Chonghuan pulled out the sword from his waist and wanted to commit suicide with his sword.

"Don't do this in the Pavilion!" A personal guard of the Biao camp screamed, and shook his hands and smashed Yuan Chonghuan's sword with his gun.

"I will kill me soon, I will not want to be captured!" Yuan Chonghuan ordered to the personal guard. He knew in his heart how serious the crime he had committed. If he was caught by the Imperial Guard, what would be waiting for him would be

What a miserable end! It would be better to end it all.

"Don't commit suicide in the Pavilion. It's better to live without a single life than to die." The guard grabbed Yuan Chonghuan's wrist and shouted loudly at the imperial guards who came, "I'm arrested Yuan Chonghuan, I'm willing to surrender!"

The other guards were stunned for a moment, rushed over at the same time, and grabbed Yuan Chonghuan with their hands: "I have also captured Yuan Chonghuan, and I am willing to surrender!"

In an instant, more than a dozen personal guards pressed Yuan Chonghuan tightly, making him unable to move at all.

Seeing that the other guards couldn't get in, they rushed towards the others beside Yuan Chonghuan.

With a "clang", Huang Li pulled out the sword from his waist, slashed at a guard hard, and knocked the guard to the ground.

"Protect the cabinet and leave quickly, don't do anything randomly, we still have a chance!" Huang Li shouted at the top of his lungs. The whole Huang family in Quanzhou was searched by Li Yanzhi. Huang Li and the emperor were deeply frightened, and they would never surrender, let alone be killed by

I was arrested, just thinking about being able to escape back to Jiangxi and make a comeback.

Huang Li could see clearly that the number of imperial guards attacked was not as large as his own. As long as the soldiers were united, it was not impossible to escape.

However, Huang Li didn't know that in many cases, wars were not always possible. Although the current Biao battalion had a lot of troops and its equipment was not inferior to the attacking imperial guards, its morale had already left in a low position, and most of the soldiers were gone.

The fighting spirit would have happened, otherwise there would have been no such thing as the Biao camp soldiers rebel against Yuan Chonghuan.

"Don't mess up"

Just after shouting a few words, a spear suddenly stabbed from behind, stabbing Huang Li's body in the same way, and the shouting suddenly stopped.

Qian Qianyi stared at everything in front of him blankly, and his body shivered in fear. Like Huang Li, because the fields were divided and the slaves were disbanded. In addition, because the identity of Donglin's party leader was suppressed, he could not return. Qian Qianyi

He was already desperate about Emperor Zhu Youjian, so he chose to surrender to Yuan Chonghuan to join the ranks of rebellion.

Because he has close ties with the Donglin Party, Yuan Chonghuan attaches great importance to Qian Qianyi, and he will definitely be valued in the Jiangxi court in the future. For the sake of his career, Qian Qianyi also devoted himself to Jiangxi and helped Yuan Chonghuan wholeheartedly. If Qian Qianyi did not have help, Nanzhi

It is impossible for all prefectures and counties to surrender to Jiangxi in a short period of time.

As long as the entire Nanjing city is captured, the prince of Fu, Zhu Yousong, came to Nanjing to ascend the throne as emperor. With Qian Qianyi's status and contribution, he will definitely be above ten thousand people in the new court in the future. There is no doubt that he will enter the cabinet!

However, now, looking at the defeated Biao Camp and the rebellious Yuan Chonghuan guards, Qian Qianyi smiled bitterly, only to feel that what he had done in the past few days was absurd.

Qian Qianyi picked up a knife from the ground and spread it across his neck, trying to cut his neck hard and committed suicide. However, he stopped just after cutting his skin. It hurt so much that he couldn't do anything. Just when he was hesitant,

He reached out with one hand, took the knife away, and then reached out with several more hands to hold him firmly.
Chapter completed!