On the fourth day of February, Li Zicheng led his army into Jiujiang City.
"Once Jiujiang is broken, the eastward march of the army will be smooth. The left bandits fled in panic. After resting for three days, they went down the river to see where this bereaved dog could escape." Li Zicheng stood at the top of Jiujiang City, talking to his side in high spirits.
The generals communicate the next strategy.
With Jiujiang as the gateway, the front lines of Jiangxi and Lufeng are wide open. You don't need to think about it to know that this is the time for the troops to rush forward bravely, no matter what, and rush towards Nanjing City.
After the army rested in Jiujiang for five days, Li Zi formed a group of troops and went to Nanchang. The main force went straight to Anqing.
Anqing is the official gateway to Nanjing. From the fact that later generations had their heads shaved and set up a camp in Anqing, we know how important this place is to Nanjing!
Li Zicheng thought that the battle for Anqing City would be a tough battle, and it should be more difficult than Jiujiang City. Unexpectedly, when the main force entered Anqing, he came to report that Anqing had no defenders.
"Where did Anqing's defenders go?" Li Zicheng asked Tan Ma in surprise.
"I heard from people in the city that the left thieves led troops and horses into Anqing City a few days ago and had a conflict with the defenders. I don't know what happened. In the end, the defenders and the left thieves retreated along the river towards Chizhou!
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The Ming army can't even defend Anqing City? What are they doing? Li Zicheng feels that this news is really unbelievable. Whether it defends or not is another matter, at least you have to defend!
After entering Anqing City, Li Zicheng received another news. When Zuo Liangyu retreated eastward along the river, he took all the civilians on both sides of the strait into the army, and also looted both sides of the strait.
What do you mean? Are you trying to prevent me from grabbing it? So you do it yourself! I have seen cool operations, but I have never seen such cool operations.
"Long live the Tanma who came out to report that the Zuo thieves did not stop in Chizhou but continued to withdraw eastward. They have been plundering and coercing the people along the way eastward. They looted everything within dozens of miles on both sides of the strait.
Even the common people are gone." Niu Jinxing reported the latest investigation situation to Li Zicheng. This news made everyone in the camp a little dumbfounded, because Zuo Liangyu's operation caused unexpected difficulties for the camp, and they did not
It is impossible to obtain supplies nearby.
The supply line has been pinched, and it can't be called clean. Although some supplies are also transported on the ship, 600,000 people need to eat and drink. With the supplies prepared on the ship, they will run out of food in a day or two.
"In order to prevent our army from advancing eastward, the official dog actually deployed such cruel tactics. He really did everything possible." Li Zicheng was so angry that he yelled in court. He had never seen such a shameless official.
The army. In the past, the army had looted and looted, but there had never been such a situation where they were searched and wiped out. Is this still the official army of the Ming Dynasty? It was simply worse than the rogue bandits.
"An order was sent to the army to suspend its eastward march. Soldiers and horses on both sides of the strait went deep into the two wings to search for food. In addition, a message was sent to Wuchang to quickly transport the army rations along the river. We must gather enough army rations to continue our eastward march."
Li Zicheng, who was tricked by Zuo Jiangyu, had to order the entire army to stop and collect enough supplies before heading eastward. Otherwise, the troops would be starved before the battle started. This delay shortened the time for the army to conquer Nanjing.
It will definitely have to be postponed quite a bit.
The spring rice planting period is about to begin, and winter wheat is also sprouting. This is actually the busiest time in Hubei and Jiangxi. With Zuo Liangyu and Li Zicheng going through so much trouble, it is foreseeable that people's livelihood will be difficult along the Yangtze River this year.
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Tongling County is located to the east of Chizhou, which is where Zuo Liangyu's army is stationed at this time. After retreating from Jiujiang east, Zuo Liangyu completely let go of his hands and feet. He not only robbed but also kidnapped people along the way. By the time he arrived in Tongling, his army had expanded.
To 400,000.
It turns out that expanding the army can be so simple? Lao Zuo feels that he has mastered the secrets and tricks of quickly increasing the army. Even though he was unsuccessful in increasing the army in the past, at least he didn't go to the military camp to arrest anyone he saw. Now it's better. I met him along the way.
All the men were added to the team by him. At first, he felt that there was a hidden danger in this matter, and the captured soldiers could easily escape. A few days later, he found that his worries were unnecessary, and the civilians entered the military camp and followed them.
After two times, they no longer had the idea of running away.
Once the devil in human nature is released, it is difficult to take it back without strong external force. Those Minzhuang people in Zuo Liangyu's army who were originally victims turned into perpetrators after a few days. They arrived next time.
Once he was in another place, he would double the suffering he suffered before and inflict it on others. Driven by this demonic effect, Zuo Jiajun expanded rapidly.
"Master Handsome, the trespassers stopped when they arrived in Anqing and did not continue to advance towards Chizhou." Zuo Liangyu, who was drinking and eating meat with a group of thieves in Tongling County and watching beauties dancing, received the notification of the horse inspection.
"The intruders didn't enter Chizhou? They were afraid that they would have no food, so they had to stop. It seems that our clearing tactics worked. The pedantic people in the court even told me to stop! How pedantic!
, If we don't do it, we will turn our troops and food to the thieves, which is siding with the enemy."
"What the handsome man said is true. Letting those pedantic people run the country is harming the country. In this world, people like the handsome man need to be in power. We must rush to Nanjing to help the emperor manage the government and help the country." Bottom.
The staff and generals tried their best to take pictures of Zuo Liangyu's rainbow farts. Speaking of which, some of these people really believe in rainbow farts. In any case, these few days have been the most comfortable time in their lives.
"I heard that Nanjing sent Zhou Yuji to rush to Dangtu with the Beijing camp to stop me from going to Nanjing. Can the few people in the Beijing camp stop our three to four hundred thousand troops? It's a joke.
!" A staff member took advantage of the drunkenness and began to talk about the current situation.
"Don't take it lightly. Zhou Yuji came from the Yongwei Camp. They still have a way of leading troops. Since the intruders will not go eastward during this period, we can take advantage of this period to expand our strength. From tomorrow on,
The army penetrated deeply into the two wings and captured all the food and people within hundreds of miles. In this way, we not only expanded our strength, but also cleared the way for the intruders. When the army has 500,000 to 600,000 people, we will advance.
Dang Tu, first capture the city of Nanjing, and then fight decisively with the intruders. Isn’t it true that the intruders rely on more soldiers than us? As long as we have more people than he does, it will not be difficult to defeat the intruders."
If heaven wants to destroy it, it must first make it crazy. Zuo Liangyu in Tongling City has gone completely crazy. The recent expansion of troops and horses, the troops marched into Nanjing City, and the temptation to hold the world's authority made him lose his last sanity. Now
There is only one idea in his mind, to try every means to expand the army. Three hundred thousand is too few, and half a million is not much. Seven or eight hundred thousand is more reliable. Occupy Nanjing City as soon as possible. In his opinion, occupying Nanjing City will be enough.
All problems can be solved, and you will be able to soar into the sky and walk towards the great road to heaven.