Li Zicheng made up his mind to fight the Qing army in Wuchang.

But the situation was no longer what it was back then. The Qing Army's Eastern Route Army had already captured Jiangnan, and the Shun Army had no foundation in Wuchang.

Low morale is no longer the main problem. The supply of food and grass for the hundreds of thousands of troops has become increasingly difficult, and the people's attitude towards the shun army is also very different.

The Chinese army arrived at Sanli Town. Wan Jun asked the army to hide their traces and stationed here for a day.

According to Wan Jun's estimation, the Battle of Wuchang will take place within these few days, and Cui Ziyi and others are very excited.

Cui Ziyi looked at the map with a smile on his face several times in front of Wan Jun.

"Ziyi, why are you laughing?"

Cui Ziyi suppressed his smile and said, "Sir, we are disturbing the general trend of the world. In my opinion, after the Battle of Wuchang, the demise of the Shun Army is inevitable."

Wan Jun said, "Looking at the current situation, the Qing army is sweeping the world. If the Shun army is wiped out, we will have to fight against the Hu people alone."

However, in history, Li Zicheng did not fight the Hu people in Wuchang, but fled southward.

This trend seemed to be somewhat different from history, and Wan Jun was a little confused as to whether the butterfly effect he had brought about during this period of history had already appeared.

A lot has changed in the Battle of Shangzhou Mansion, and Wanjun doesn't care about it. If we can't change something in this time and space, then what's the point.

Cui Ziyi said, "There is news from the south of the Yangtze River. Nanjing surrendered to the Qing army on the 26th. The Qing army has basically taken control of the entire southeast. The front may move westward to join forces with Azige."

Hearing this, Wan Jun thought of the famous water is too cold again.

Just as the Qing army was marching south and about to reach Nanjing, Qian Qianyi, Minister of Rites of the Ming Dynasty, was persuaded by his concubine Liu Rushi to commit suicide by drowning. When they finally reached the water, Qian Qianyi tried the water.

, grabbed Liu Rushi and said, "The water here is too cold, we can't go down here." Soon he opened the gates of Nanjing and surrendered to the Qing army.

Wan Jun's thoughts were churning, "With such a group of people in Jiangnan, how can the Ming Dynasty survive?"

Cui Ziyi sighed, "Yeah, sometimes it's really hateful to think about it. For the sake of their own selfish interests, the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty either fought among themselves or secretly collaborated with bandits. How could the whole world not be destroyed?"

Wan Jun asked, "What's going on with Zuo Liangyu's tribe?"

Cui Ziyi said, "Zuo Liangyu's 800,000 soldiers and horses are almost like locusts crossing the border, plundering the people all the way south in Jiujiang, but they are moving very slowly, and they have not left Jiujiang yet."

Zuo Liangyu's soldiers and horses are said to be 800,000, but the actual number is about 500,000 or 600,000. However, most of them are soldiers and bandits. Although Zuo Liangyu is the leader of the army, many soldiers and horses cannot give orders.

Wan Jun fell into deep thought. Although he knew the direction of history, the current situation was paradoxical. Everything seemed to be the same as history, but there were many variables.

Wan Jun and Cui Ziyi used the current intelligence to carefully analyze the current situation. If Li Zicheng would die in Jiugong Mountain, then the Shun army in Wuchang would probably not defend. How would the situation in Wuchang end?

Although the Zuo army is huge, it does not pose a direct threat to the Chinese army. Although Zuo Liangyu's son Zuo Menggeng will surrender to the Qing army after Zuo Liangyu's death, it currently blocks the Qing army to the east.

In the direction of Wuchang City, the Qing army has broken through the Hanchuan River and is moving towards the Hanyang area quickly. The Qing army has deployed 100,000 troops along the Hanyang area. The two armies will soon have a decisive battle in the Hanyang area.

After the two analyzed for a while, Cui Ziyi said, "There is also good news. Chen Bajiao is leading 10,000 reinforcements from Xichuan south."

Sun Tzu said in The Art of War that when fighting a war, you must take all variables into consideration, first try to preserve yourself, then seek to destroy the enemy, and then seek victory.

Now that everything that could be thought of in the southeast, northwest, and northwest directions, Wan Jun suddenly remembered, "How is the situation at Wusheng Pass? Is it possible to go south from Xinyang and attack from Wusheng Pass."

Cui Ziyi said, "You can rest assured in the direction of Wushengguan. Shang Zhaoxin is heavily guarded in the direction of Wushengguan, and in the direction of Xinyang, Liu Hongqi, who surrendered to the Qing army, is currently being restrained by Chen Xinmin's second division."

"That's good!"

So what Wanjun can do now is to wait for the decisive battle between the Shun army and the Qing army in Sanli Town, Jiangbei, waiting for the opportunity to move and see the next move of both sides.

The mantis stalks the cicada, but the oriole follows behind!

In addition, Wan Jun remembered that there is another important thing that, if grasped, can completely change the current passive situation, probably in May of this year.

Wan Jun looked at the map of Wuchang, sighed, and said leisurely, "Come on, let's wait here for now!"

The three forces converged in Wuchang, and it was really about to rain. The depressing atmosphere before the war caused people near Wuchang to flee in large numbers. May was an important season for farming, but at this time, large areas of land were empty.

People take care of you.

Finally! The war begins!

On the third day when the Chinese army garrisoned Sanli Town, the situation in Wuchang suddenly changed. At the Dalan Lake west of Hanyang, Azige's Qing army vanguard collided with the Shun army's defense line.

The decisive battle between the Qing army and the Shun army in Wuchang has officially begun!

Wu Sangui personally acted as the vanguard, leading 10,000 Manchu and Mongolian Eight Banners and 30,000 Ming surrender troops to fully attack Hanyang, while 110,000 surrender troops defended along the line of the Great Blue Lake.

Unlike in history when Li Zicheng abandoned Wuchang and fled south, this time Li Zicheng's march south was delayed a lot due to the blockage of thousands of troops in Xiaoyi Town, and he brought nearly 80,000 fewer troops.

The Qing army lost one of its troops in Shangzhou Prefecture, so the Qing army going south could only detour to Nanyang. When the Chinese army approached Xiangyang, another part of the Qing army defended Xiangyang.

Therefore, the strength gap between the Qing army and the Shun army was smaller than in history. Li Zicheng chose to fight the Qing army in Wuchang!

This battle can be said to be the last battle of the Dashun Dynasty. If you win, you can get a chance to breathe and gain a firm foothold in the Wuchang area.

If it fails, Shun Dynasty will perish.

Li Zicheng was well aware of the seriousness of this battle and personally led Liu Zongmin, Tian Jianxiu, Bai Wang, Liu Fangliang and other generals to station in Hanyang. Li Zicheng placed his palace in the Hanyang government office and ordered Yuan Zongdi and Li Laiheng to station in Wuchang.

After learning of the decisive battle between the Qing Army and the Shun Army at Dalan Lake, the Chinese Army's scouting horses dispersed to the northwest of Hanyang. The main force of the army slowly marched westward from Sanli Town, trying to take advantage of the chaos and reap the benefits.

Although Li Zicheng had more troops than the Qing army, his morale was already far behind the battle of Shanhaiguan. Forty thousand Qing troops, led by Pingxi King Wu Sangui, stormed the Dalan Lake defense line. The Shun army's morale was low and they collapsed in one battle. The Qing army broke through.

Dalan Lake, immediately rushed forward, bypassed the Dalan Lake, and then headed south into the Yangtze River in an attempt to cut off the Shun army in the north of the Yangtze River.

When the situation was critical, Liu Zongmin, the first general of the Shun Army, personally joined the army and led his few brothers from the old camp to rely on the Xujiabao area to resist desperately.

Liu Zongmin shouted "Kill the barbarians!" and led the troops to charge.

The two sides fought each other back and forth until the sun set in the west. The Shun army repulsed the Qing army and pushed the defense line northward back to the vicinity of the Big Blue Lake.

The Shun army knew that the Qing army was good at night attacks, so they were on guard all night, but it was surprisingly quiet that night, and the Qing army did not attack at night.

As if they already knew the outcome of tomorrow, the Shunjun position was completely silent, and everyone was quietly waiting for the cruel fighting in the future.

The end of a hero is the saddest thing!

Liu Zongmin is a rough man. Of course he doesn't know what sorrow is, but he is full of anger but has nowhere to vent it.

He slung his sword across his waist, without removing his armor, he just pulled down his pants and roughly held the two maids down.

The woman's body was covered with bloody marks from being pinched, but she did not dare to say anything. For a long time, Liu Zongmin paused and stopped moving.

"Go away!" Liu Zongmin leaned back on the big chair dejectedly.

The two poor women adjusted their clothes a little and ran out as if they were running away.

The sky gradually became brighter, and the sun in the east burst out from the clouds in the distance. The camp was filled with smoke. Both sides started to light fires and cook early. They had a full meal before the battle. This was probably the last meal for many people.

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Soon the sound of "dong dong dong" war drums sounded, and along with this dull sound, people's hearts were gripped by fear and squeezed into a ball.

Liu Zongmin didn't know if he fell asleep, but when the drums sounded, he became awake again and full of fighting spirit!

It was still Wu Sangui who led the charge of the 20,000 Green Battalion. Liu Zongmin knew the intention of the Hu people. The small Hu people in Liaodong had a population of only a few hundred thousand. Every death would mean one less one. They stood behind the formation insidiously and watched the Han people fight with the Han people.

bleed.

Liu Zongmin was very angry in his heart, "Why can't these bitches understand? Why are they helping the barbarians to win the lottery?"

But what can be done? When they help the Hu people, they become extremely vicious. Dashun's soldiers are getting fewer and fewer, and they are becoming more and more unstoppable. How come they can't kill all these traitors?

The front line is surging again, it is a sea of ​​human heads, and the two armies are fighting together again to harvest human lives!

Liu Zongmin shouted, "Kill them all! Kill them all!" and rushed out first.

Liu Zongmin led the remaining three wall brothers and rushed into the enemy formation again and again. The blades were swung, the stumps and blood were flying, and the blood was sprinkled on Liu Zongmin's face, but he always held back anger in his heart.

Liu Zongmin found that he could not vent his anger whether he was fucking those women or cutting down several Qing soldiers with a knife. His eyes looked at the barbarians wearing colorful cotton armor behind Wu Sangui's soldiers.

What he wanted to kill were the barbarians who were supervising the formation behind him.

"There are so many barbarians in charge of the formation today?" Liu Zongmin took a look and thought to himself. The soldiers on the three walls around him fell one after another. Finally, Liu Zongmin also received a knife and retreated with the remaining soldiers. At this time, it was already

It was getting close to the end of the day, and the battle continued from morning to afternoon. The Shun army replaced a group of exhausted soldiers. The Qing army's offensive slowed down and it seemed that it could no longer sustain it.

After finally fighting for a while, the command flag on the Qing army's position turned, and the fighting Qing army breathed a sigh of relief and withdrew like a tide.
Chapter completed!