Valley Emperor

Jiangnan, Qinhuai River, in the evening.

A tall and splendid painting boat by the river is opening its doors to welcome guests. Seven or eight young scholars in Confucian robes boarded the painting boat one after another.

Although the twilight was heavy, the lanterns hung high in the painting boat, and it was very bright. After the group walked in, several maids stepped forward one after another, bowed and invited the honored guests to take their seats.

After a while, the wine and dishes were served one after another, and seven or eight women dressed in veils also came up one after another with their waists twisted like willows and took their seats, pouring wine and dishes for the guests.

However, these students kept their eyes fixed and turned a blind eye to these veiled women. All of them sat upright and talked about world affairs while drinking and eating.

"I heard that the bandit army in the south has already marched into Fujian. Alas, I don't know how the situation there now!" A young scholar said: "The bandit army crossing the border is like a locust. The people of Fujian are going to suffer!"

"Don't worry, the thief army under General Yu's army in Fujian is unparalleled in combat power. The thieves army has always been defeated by General Yu in the past two years. Now that the thieves are boldly attacking Fujian, General Yu will definitely be able to give them a head-on attack. Calculate the time, it is estimated that there will be good news from Fujian soon!"

"Yeah, I heard that the Bandit Army under General Yu's command is a first-class elite division, and its combat strength is superior to that of Master Zhang Shaobao's superintendent!"

"That's right, my brother only went to Fuzhou to visit friends last year. During this period, I saw the bandit army drill. The lineup is neat and the guns are sharp. With such a strong army, the bandit army will definitely face blood when they go to Fujian!"

Everyone speaks my word, and highly respects Yu Dayou's bandit army, but at this time, a young student next to him opened his mouth and said, "Zongbing Yu's bandit army is strong, but its strength is not large. Now, I heard that there are only 10,000 soldiers, but the thieves who invaded Fujian, I heard that there are more than 30,000 people, and they are still advancing by sea and land!"

But as soon as this person finished speaking, someone retorted: "It's just 30,000 thieves, what's the matter!"

Hearing this, the young student who spoke just now showed a wry smile: "But 30,000 thieves? Last year, Jiangxi Hengyang fell, and more than half of the hundreds of thousands of troops under Mr. Zhang's army were damaged. It's not more than a hundred thousand!"

"That's because Director Zhang's command was wrong, and he allowed the Jiangxi Huguang thieves to reconcile. If An were to lead the army, he would definitely not let the thieves from the two places meet, and then destroy each of them!" At this time, another person said the same: "The thief The strength of the army is nothing but the sharpness of the guns and guns, and now there are many guns and guns on the side of the bandit army, how could it be lost, even if the bandit army cannot be severely damaged, but self-protection should be safe!"

Seeing these people say this, the young scholar stopped refuting, but gave a wry smile, and then drank for himself.

These classmates simply don't know the horror of the pseudo-Tang bandit army!

But he himself had seen the horror of the pseudo-Tang bandit army with his own eyes.

He originally went to the second uncle's house in Nanchang to live temporarily last year, and was able to personally experience a series of battles by the bandit army near Nanchang, Jiangxi, especially the battle of defending the city. He had seen how the pseudo-Tang bandit army used it in the city. Guns and cannons thwarted the offensive of the officers and troops outside the city time and time again.

At that time, because he refused to take the initiative to serve the city defenders, he did some paperwork. In the end, like a large number of ordinary young men in the city, he was arrested and built various fortifications. He went to the city wall many times to repair it under the fire of the official army. Various works.

At that time, he believed many times that the official army could break into the city and liberate them who still had their hearts on the Ming Dynasty.

After all, at that time, there were 60,000 or 70,000 officers outside the city, which was several times the number of thieves in the city, and there were plenty of guns and guns outside the city. I heard that there were dozens of heavy guns weighing more than five pounds.

It was a mighty fight, but even so, the official army failed to conquer Nanchang.

Whenever the official army tried to launch a charge to attack the city, the thieves on the top of the city would use guns and shells to inflict a large number of casualties on the official army.

In the end, Nanchang City was defended by the bandit army. The official army retreated after the siege for several months. After the siege was over, he was able to leave the city and hurried back to his hometown.

It is precisely because he has personally experienced the war between the bandit army and the official army that he has a deeper understanding of the gap between the bandit army and the official army.

And he also knew that the bandit army was no longer what it was a few years ago, and there were real and fake bandits. It was said that almost all bandit armies were exactly the same.

If the number of thieves entering Fujian really numbered 30,000, he was not optimistic that General Yu would be able to defend Fujian. Although he also hoped that General Yu would be able to defend, he still did not think so.

Others don't know, but he has heard the comments of the pseudo-Tang thief army on the officers and soldiers such as the supervisor and the broken thief army in Nanchang. The training of the army is inferior, the frontier army is going to be second, and the Jiangnan new army is inferior. As for the soldiers of the guards, those pseudo-Tang thieves have not paid attention to it at all.

In their mouths, the Bandit Army was similar to Zhang Shaobao's training.

However, in the battle between Huguang and Jiangxi, Zhang Shaobao's supervising and training troops were defeated. He did not think that Yu Zongbing's bandit army was stronger than Zhang Shaobao's army.

After all, the one who knows the strength of the official army the most is the Puppet Tang Bandit Army, and everyone in the Puppet Tang Bandit Army thinks so.

More importantly, Yu Zongbing's bandit army was too small, only numbering 50,000, how could it be against the 30,000 menacing bandit army.

However, these classmates obviously don't think so. The young student thought, I'm afraid it won't be long before the thieves will take Fujian, and the next step is to kill them in Hangzhou. By then, the land of Jiangnan will probably not be able to avoid war. , and Jinling City is probably the place where the two sides fight, and it is very dangerous. It is better for me to return to my hometown in the countryside as soon as possible. This Jinling cannot be stayed.

He didn't want to be trapped in the city any longer, and then be caught by the officers or the thieves. It's nothing to suffer, but if he's not careful, he might lose his life.

The army is in chaos, but no one cares about the life of a young scholar!

The next day, he said goodbye to his classmates and friends, and then took a boat back to his hometown. These days, his hometown in the countryside is the safest.

What he didn't know, however, was that shortly after he left Jinling City, there were rumors in the city that the bandit army had broken Shaowu, Zhangzhou, and Quanzhou in Fujian, and the bandit army was approaching = Fuzhou.

Two days later, rumors spread that the thieves had even captured Nanping, and now they are attacking Fuzhou with heavy troops. Fuzhou is in danger, and Fujian is in danger!

At this time, many people have thought that if Fuzhou falls, Fujian will be finished, and once Fujian is finished, Zhejiang and even Jiangnan will be the prosperous place behind.

For a time, both civil and military officials and wealthy gentry and wealthy households in Jinling City were panicked, and many people asked Wang Yiqi, the minister of military affairs in Nanjing for news.

But now Wang Yiqi is also annoying, how can he be in the mood to pay attention to these people in the city!

The messages in the city are all true, because these news were spread from Fujian, and Wang Yiqi actually learned about the situation in Fujian through the five hundred mile emergency report earlier than ordinary people.

But for the crisis in Fujian, he was helpless!

Fujian can't be saved, and all he can do now is to prepare to rebuild the defense line in southern Zhejiang, trying to keep the pseudo-Tang thieves out of Zhejiang, at least in southern Zhejiang.

Because once it crosses the central and southern Zhejiang, it will be the northern Zhejiang Plain, and this area is already a prosperous place in the south of the Yangtze River. By that time, everything will be over.

In order to build the defense line in southern Zhejiang, Wang Yiqi did not hesitate to dispatch troops from Jinling and Anqing to urgently go south, and the memorial to the north for reinforcements is endless. He wants money, he wants soldiers, he wants guns, in short, he wants everything. .

Otherwise, he would not have the confidence to defend Jiangnan at all.

At the same time, he also went to Xinhanyang and asked Zhang Yue to find an opportunity to launch a certain counterattack to contain the thief army. Otherwise, the thief army would be able to concentrate a large number of troops and march into Jiangnan.

Of course, these letters are still on the way, and they won't arrive in a while.

What's going on in Fuzhou, Wang Yiqi still doesn't know!

The information transmission was too slow, so whether it was the Ming army or the Tang army, the rear's understanding of the situation on the front line was delayed for a long time.

At this moment, Wang Yiqi had no idea that Fuzhou City had already fallen into the hands of thieves.

Two days ago, the 6th Infantry Division joined the 1st Mixed Regiment and the 9th Mixed Regiment. It was also the first time that Lieutenant General Wang Chaohong completely controlled all the main troops of the Third Army. Today, he also started the official general offensive.

But after the siege, it was discovered that Yu Dayou had not deployed the main force in the city at all. Although there were many troops in the city, they were all guards.

On the contrary, during the siege, they found Yu Dayou's 8,000 thieves from the flank trying to attack their flank.

Immediately, the 6th Infantry Division on the flank fought an interception battle. As a result, the first wave of forwards sent by Yu Dayou failed without any suspense, and the loss was more than half.

Seeing this scene, Yu Dayou still didn't know that this battle could not be fought, so he directly led the main force that had not participated in the battle to evacuate without looking back.

Then they ran all the way to the north~www.wuxiaspot.com~ leaving behind more than 10,000 Ming army guards who were still standing in Fuzhou city, messed up in the wind.

Since Yu Dayou gave up and they led the army to evacuate, the more than 10,000 guards in the city were not easy to mess with. After a few high-level generals discussed it, they couldn't hold it anyway, and Yu Dayou ran away by himself, and they still fought. What kind of energy is it? I don't care if I donate the city directly. The big deal is like Qin Zhifu, the chief soldier of Nan'ao Island. I should not be an official of Daming, but a pseudo-Tang. No, it is our Datang's official.

Glory and wealth are still there, and who still beats to death!

As a result, the generals of the Ming army guards in the city quickly took control of Fuzhou, and then they also wanted to pull the civilians in the city to surrender together, but the civilians were different from the generals of these local guards.

The families of the generals of the Weisuo are all in the local area, so there is no need to worry about their families being raided and exterminated by the Ming Dynasty after they surrendered.

As a result, except for a few civil servants who were willing to go anyway, some committed suicide, some fled, and some were killed.

Just an hour after Yu Dayou's army retreated, the Ming army in the city offered the city to surrender!