After only half a month since Changsha fell, Hanyang, the gateway to Wuchang, fell. The soldiers who fled back said that the Ming army that came to attack this time not only did the Zhongzhen Camp in Kuidong, but also the Taiping Army coming from Hunan. The Taiping Army in Red Army uniforms were really evil. Not long after they arrived, they blew up the Hanyang city walls, and as a result, the Zhongzhen Camp, which had been besieging outside the city for more than ten days without any progress, rushed up, and Hanyang fell.

Changsha was lost, and it didn't matter. Anyway, since he was promoted to the Governor of Huguang, Hunan has become more corrupt than Hubei. The order given to him by Beijing was to ensure Wuchang, and he did not make too many requirements for Changsha. I think Beijing also knew that more than 100,000 former treason Ming army was eyeing the west of Wuchang, and Zhang Changgeng could not care about Changsha at all.

After receiving the newspaper report that Beijing transferred Shaanxi Admiral Shi Lin as the governor of Hunan, Zhang Changgeng breathed some less relief. Originally, Hunan was always in charge of Governor Pianyuan and the five provincial governors located in Changsha. Although Governor Huguang nominally governed the two lakes, he could only manage one place in Hubei. Governor Pianyuan Yuan is also a disciple of Hong Chengchou. Hu Quancai, the former Governor of Huguang, wanted to reach out to Hunan, and he had to see if Yuan Kuoyu ignored him and Mr. Hong had any objections.

The governors and governors were all local officials. The governor wanted to take too much control, but the governor didn't want to be a mother-in-law. When Zhang Changgeng was the governor of Hubei, he often stumbling over Hu Quancai, and he wanted the court to immediately abolish the governor of Huguang, so that he would be the actual controller of Hubei. In the end, his dream came true, and Hu Quancai really left, but Hubei became a volcano. Wuchang is this crater, with flames spraying out from below, which could melt him at any time.

There were even more bad news in Hunan. First, Shi Lin went to fight and the entire army was wiped out, and then Changsha fell. King Sun Kewang was captured alive by the Ming army. Then the Dongting Lake Navy returned to the Ming army anyway. After all, the Yuezhou garrison Wang Sanbao reigned in the city and tied up the prefect and others to open the city to surrender to the Ming army. This was not the most deadly. The magistrate of Tongshan County, which bordered Jiangxi, sent people to report urgently, saying that it was Wuning, Jiangxi, which bordered Tongshan, and De'an, had been captured by the Ming army, and the Ming army's vanguards all reached the foot of Jiugong Mountain in Tongshan!

Zhang Changgeng was shocked by the news, and the Ming army appeared at the foot of Jiugong Mountain. Wouldn't it mean that Jiangxi was in the hands of a thief?

He didn't believe it, nor did he dare to believe it. He hurriedly sent Wuchang Water Camp to Jiujiang downstream to inquire. As a result, the news came back from the Water Camp that the Ming army's red flag was planted in Jiujiang City.

It's over!

Zhang Changgeng immediately collapsed on the throne of the governor. Jiangxi was the place of the four provinces, and the Taiping Army occupied Jiangxi, and cut off the contact between Huguang and Jiangnan, making the Qing army of Huguang really alone. Jiangnan did not know what the situation was. A few days ago, he only received news that Prince An Yue Le brought troops to Jiangning, but Zhang Changgeng had no way to know whether to repel the pirates.

Jiugong Mountain is in Wuchang Prefecture, and Li Chuang died there back then. Zhang Changgeng was worried that the Taiping Army in Jiangxi would cross Jiugong Mountain to attack Wuchang Prefecture, so that he would have to face the danger of a trespass in the west, Jiangxi in the east, and Hunan in the south, attacking from three sides.

On the one hand, Zhang Changgeng delegated power to various counties as the governor, and ordered local gentry to form groups to protect the local area; on the other hand, he put together troops to station in Hanyang to ensure that the Wuchang portal was not lost; on the other hand, he asked the Wuchang Water Camp to strengthen his vigilance to avoid being attacked by the rebellious Dongting Lake Navy. As long as the Wuchang Water Camp could still control the Yangtze River, Zhang Changgeng would not be worried that the trespasses in the west of Hanyang would cross the river to attack Wuchang City.

Without the danger to the west and the natural danger of the Yangtze River, Zhang Changgeng had certain confidence in defending Wuchang. After all, there were mostly mountain monuments in the east of Wuchang Prefecture, and it was difficult for the Ming army in Jiangxi to come in. As long as the local regiments work together, it would be no big problem to restrain them.

If you keep it for three months, you will surely be able to clear the clouds and mists!

Zhang Changgeng's confidence came from the emperor's army that had set out from Beijing to south. Once the Emperor led the Manchu and Mongolian army to Jiangnan, the one that was in the brunt of the Jiangxi Taiping Army. In order to protect Jiangxi, the Taiping Army would inevitably shrink its troops, and the pressure on Wuchang would be greatly reduced. Li Laiheng's big thieves were famous and raised more than 100,000 troops as soon as they left Kuidong. However, after all, they were still a means of bandits, lacking experience and equipment for siege, and there was no navy to use it, making it difficult to pose a real threat to Wuchang.

However, man's calculations are not as good as God's calculations, and Hanyang was lost like this!

Zhang Changgeng didn't know how to report to the court about the fall of Hanyang, because he had just reported the great victory in Hanyang not long ago, and severely injured the great thieves Li Laiheng, He Zhen, Ta Tianbao and others, and achieved the great merit of beheading 14,000 levels. He could not explain to Beijing why the severely damaged Ming army would return and seize Hanyang City so easily.

Zhang Changgeng was unable to sit and lie down. Dong Xueli, the admiral of the Huguang Green Camp on the other side, could not sit still. After the defeat in Caikou Town, Dong Xueli hid outside for several days. When he heard that the Ming army withdrew its troops to Yingcheng, Zhang Changgeng immediately rushed back to Wuchang after reporting the victory to the court. As expected, Zhang Changgeng not only did not pursue his defeat, but instead tried his best to win over him and put it together, and then put it together ten thousand troops to hand it over to him. However, Zhang Changgeng hoped that Dong Xueli could take this army to Hanyang to guard, but Dong Xueli refused to go. So the relationship between the two became colder. He heard that Zhang Changgeng is now looking at the Wuchang Water Camp. The people of the Water Camp have taken a large sum of silver from the Governor's Office for several days. This made Dong Xueli's green camp generals jealous and complain from the Admiral from time to time.

Dong Xueli knew that he had to take action, and his subordinates were promoted and made money, not because they could not even drink soup when they were eating meat. He was going to ease his relationship with Zhang Changgeng and obtained the support of Zhang Changgeng against his subordinate Green Camp on the condition of taking over Hanyang. Unexpectedly, Hanyang was lost before he could take action.

Once Hanyang was lost, the Wuchang gate opened. Only the natural danger of the Yangtze River could block the Ming army, which meant that the importance of the Wuchang Water Camp became more important than ever. In other words, in the following days, if there were no accidents, the Huguang Green Camp could only continue to watch the Governor send boxes of silver extorted from the Wuchang gentry and the people to the Wuchang Water Camp, and they could only watch.

This is unbearable!

Dong Xueli was not willing to accept it. After all, he was the admiral of the Huguang Green Camp. Wuchang Green Camp was nominally commanded by him, not under the jurisdiction of the Governor Zhang Changgeng. Why did Zhang Changgeng go over to win over the people in the water camp? Why didn’t those people take themselves seriously? Do they think that they could look down on the Admiral if they held the thigh of the Governor!

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

As soon as Dong Xueli and others left the city gate, Zhang Changgen naturally received news. When he heard that Dong Xueli had gone to the water camp, Zhang Changgen also changed his expression. He spent a lot of money to pull the water camp into his hands. How could Dong Xueli take it again?

So Zhang Changgeng also lit the Supervisor's bell and drove out of the city in a hurry to run towards the water camp station. The uninformed people in the city saw that the Admiral soldiers first rushed out of the city angrily, and then the Supervisor's bell was riding on horseback. He thought that the Admiral and the Admiral were going to have a fight.

In other words, Zhang Changgeng rushed to the riverside with his skills. After all, Dong Xueli was all infantry under his command, but his commander was more than 200 cavalrymen.

"Where is Dong Xueli!"

From afar, he saw a row of green camp soldiers standing by the river. Dong Xueli was looking up at the river. Zhang Changgeng was angry and rushed to the horse. However, he suddenly stood up and looked up at the river like Dong Xueli.

On the river, more than 200 large and small ships in Wuchang Water Camp lined up in a row, but the color of the flags on the ship was wrong. They were originally green flags, but now they have turned into red flags.

"What are they going to do?"

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

Dong Xueli smiled bitterly: "Can you still see that the Governor General? Those bastards have been betrayed!"

Two "boom" sounds, the Wuchang Water Camp on the river suddenly fired two cannons. Two large iron balls fell into the Qing army on the shore, which shocked the Qing soldiers to flee everywhere. (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!