Chapter 199 A Good Story [Various Requests]

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Shishou is located in the geographical center of the two lakes plain (Jianghan Plain and Dongting Lake Plain) and is the southern end of the central axis of Hubei. It is adjacent to Anxiang and Huarong in Hunan Province in the south, Jiangling in the north, Jianli in the east, and Gong’an in the west.

Alyajiang led the Wuchang reinforcement troops, mainly composed of the Hunan Green Camp East Route Army, and has arrived here with the transportation of hundreds of ships. They came up the river and had the convenience of water conservancy, so that although Wuchang was much farther away from Jiangling City than Xiangyang, the tortuous waterway of the Yangtze River made the journey much longer, but the Wuchang reinforcements he led were able to reach Jiangling at almost the same time as the Xiangyang reinforcements led by Shi Liang, all because of the Yangtze River.

Shishou is 300 miles away from Jiangling by water. This is a very safe distance. Alyajiang did not even expect that Chen Ming had already known that his troops had arrived in Shishou, because the wings of pigeons are much faster than the four legs of fast horses.

He arrived at Shishou yesterday, but he did not continue to march to Jiangling, but insisted on letting the troops reorganize in Shishou for a day. Although Hunan also has lakes and rivers, not every Hunanese can swim, and even those who can swim can not get seasick in the Yangtze River.

The Wuchang reinforcements came quickly, but the 10,000 people stayed on the boat for these days, and their combat effectiveness was reduced a lot.

It takes two days to get from Shishou to Jiangling by boat, but if the soldiers' combat effectiveness is gone, they become weak shrimps one by one, then no matter how fast the Wuchang reinforcements arrive, it will be useless.

After a day, the Wuchang reinforcements set sail in Shishou. On this morning, Alyajiang, who was on the boat, received an urgent report from the fast horse of Jiangling City. Chen Ming failed to trample on the dignity of the bannermen, and he was angry and formally attacked Jiangling City.

No one believed that Chen Ming attacked Jiangling because he was "angry and humiliated". The express report also revealed Chen Ming's dirty demands. Al Yajiang was furious and the blood vessels on his neck were exposed. But he absolutely did not believe it. Even if Chen Ming was the world's number one pervert, he would not be interested in two old women. This was more like an excuse?

But the relationship between the Fu Han Army and Jiangling City did not allow him to make excuses, right?

Al Yajiang deeply believed that Chen Ming's attack on Jiangling City was due to the approach of the reinforcements from Xiangyang and Wuchang. This made him put aside his previous doubts. Al Yajiang needed to march into Jiangling as soon as possible. Even if he did not land, putting the team on the south bank of the Yangtze River could firmly tie down one leg of the Fu Han Army.

The Battle of Jingzhou was a very clever battle. Chen Ming sat outside Jiangling City for ten days and extorted a large amount of material money and food. This directly made outsiders less determined to attack Jiangling.

Now the Qing army is approaching Xiangyang and Wuchang with great momentum, but Chen Ming can easily withdraw from Jiangling City, return to Qianjiang with a large force, and then kill all the way to the three towns of Wuhan.

At that time, the troops from Alyajiang can quickly return to Wuchang by boat, so what about the troops from Xiangyang? Will they continue to chase Chen Ming? Be careful of being eaten back. There is still a vast space north of the Yangtze River for Chen Ming to move around.

And Shi Liang, who has already entered Shilipu Town, which is closer to Jiangling City, from Jianyang Town, the border between the two prefectures. After seeing the urgent report sent by Jiangling, the deputy governor drew his knife and chopped the table beside him into pieces.

A great shame, an absolute great shame!

A great shame for the bannermen and soldiers of Jingzhou, and for Shi Liang himself!

"Chen Ming, little thief, I swear not to be a human being if I don't chop off your head!"

This move by Chen Ming is too disgusting. After this incident, even if everything was fine, the reputation of Shi Liang's wife and daughter would have an extra layer of "gorgeous halo" that would make people look at them differently. Shi Liang was so angry that he just wanted to tear Chen Ming into pieces.

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Jiangling City, which was beaten by the artillery of the Chen family army, had no idea that Chen Ming had taken a team of 2,000 people and quietly left at a small dock not far from Nijiatai using the boats collected in these days. They first went northeast, then turned southeast, bypassed Taibo, and continued to turn northeast. After traveling 30 miles by water, the whole team turned northwest, and then 20 miles by water, and controlled Hougang Town in the night. Overnight, 2,000 Fu Han troops had passed the entire Changhu Lake and turned to the northwest corner of Changhu Lake, which was located southeast of Shilipu, but a little too east.

Chen Ming didn't dare to say whether anyone had discovered his whereabouts along the way, but when he took control of Hougang Town with his team, he didn't care anymore. At least the people in Hougang Town were extremely shocked by the arrival of the Fu Han Army. It was absolutely unexpected, which was enough to prove the suddenness of his move.

Jingzhou is a land of hundreds of lakes. If you fight here, you must pay attention to the waterway.

Just as Alyajiang believed, Chen Ming attacked Jiangling City because of the approach of two Qing reinforcements. He wanted to create a time difference and deal with one first. The reinforcements from Xiangyang are of course the best choice. Whether in terms of distance, combat effectiveness, or number of people, they cannot compare with the reinforcements from Wuchang.

Xiangyang is a strategic town in Hubei. When Nanyang Prefecture is controlled by the Fu Han Army, the Qing Army must have left a team to guard Xiangyang. So how many reinforcements did Shi Liang bring?

The report from the dark camp was 5,000 to 7,000, and a small half of them were militias. In short, the strength of this Qing army was not high, and the military quality was very poor.

Chen Ming would not do it without 5,000 people to deal with Alyajiang's Qing army. But when it came to fighting Shi Liang, he felt that a sudden attack from two thousand men would be enough.

For the convenience of action, he did not even carry artillery, except for a few tiger squat cannons and flying thunder cannons. He wanted to attack in this battle. As long as Shi Liang led his troops to continue to go south, he would start from Hougang Town and meet the Qing army halfway. Although Hougang Town is nearly thirty miles away from Shilipu.

Chen Ming was very confident in the quality of his team. They had been trained for ten days before. But the Qing soldiers rushed here from Xiangyang for several days. When Shi Liang led the team to the south from Shilipu, it was Chen Ming's time to hunt.

The battle took place in the afternoon of this day.

In the morning, Chen Ming confidently let the team rest for another two hours in Hougang Town. It was almost halfway through the morning before the team left the town. At noon, Chen Ming received an urgent report from the dark camp that the Xiangyang reinforcements were still far away from Jishan Town. Their marching speed was quite slow, and the various camps were very slow.

So when the battle broke out in the afternoon, the 6,000 reinforcements under Shi Liang collapsed at the first touch. The 2,000 Fu Han troops pushed from beginning to end. The battle was like a chase game, and there was no decent resistance at all.

Shi Liang, the deputy governor who wanted to tear Chen Ming into pieces, ran away. The Fu Han troops didn't even touch him, and his personal soldiers, Goshaha, also ran away. Shi Liang proved with facts that he was just a trash who talked big.

Perhaps this "gossip" that was destined to spread could become a "good story" in Jingzhou a hundred years later. It was changed by countless people in the process of spreading among the people. Chen Ming did not realize this "danger" and he was smiling smugly now.