Nanming Engineer

Chapter 260

Chapter 260

Ten days after Hauge's army withdrew from Xi'an and headed north, Shaanxi Governor Meng Qiaofang received an urgent report from General Chencang that there were soldiers who had escaped from Hanzhong. When he was drunk, he got into trouble. He was taken out of the mansion and beheaded at the gate of the city in front of the people of Hanzhong.

The rebel soldiers raised the flag of the Ming Dynasty, opened the city gates, and disarmed more than 2000 Xi'an officers and soldiers who followed Zhang Yong to Hanzhong. Then beat gongs and drums to welcome a Ming army coming down from the Qinling Mountains into the city.

Upon hearing the news, Meng Qiaofang's hair all over her body exploded. She reached out and threw the blue and white tea cup on the table to the ground, spilling the porcelain tea on the floor.

If you go against the grain, will the Qing Dynasty still take it seriously?The governor of Gansu, Zhang Wenheng, was incompetent. What kind of people did he support? He thought he would be of great use, but unexpectedly he defected to the Ming Dynasty. Zhang Wenheng must be removed from his post, his house searched, and he must be arrested and imprisoned.

Meng Qiaofang came back to his senses after smashing it in the study. It is useless to say anything now, and it is the business to recover Hanzhong as soon as possible. Zhang Wenheng has to let him go for a while, keep him, and transfer troops from Gansu to work with him on both sides. Flank attack is the best policy.

So Meng Qiaofang dispatched general Ma Ning, deputy general Zhao Guangrui and others to lead the Guanzhong Army Ma Xingye to rush to Chencang, intending to use Chencang to rescue Hanzhong.

Unexpectedly, as soon as Ma Ning and others stepped into Fengxian County from Chencang Road, they encountered the Han-Hui allied forces waiting in full force. The army of nearly 2 people blocked the exit of Chencang Road tightly, and the " The banner with the character of "Kuizhou General Soldier" and "King" is particularly eye-catching, and there is no other way but to fight hard.

After a battle, Ma Ning was killed, Zhao Guangrui fled, and the Qing army in the 3000 pass was killed and injured. Only less than [-] people fled back to Xi'an with Zhao Guangrui. up.

However, in this battle, the Kuizhou Army's reputation for good use of firearms was completely defeated. The fleeing Qing soldiers went back to report that the Ming Army had a new type of firearm, which looked like an ordinary bamboo tube. It was no more than a foot long and no thicker than an arm. When thrown, it seemed like Thunderbolts will explode like thunder, with a sound like thunder, and everyone within a hundred feet will be turned into powder.

At this time, the people who made a detour from Guyuan also came back, and they also escaped. They never went to Ganzhou at all, and they listened to the people who escaped there halfway. Ding Guodong, the general at his side, was the leader of the Ming Dynasty. Ding Guodong returned to Ganzhou to restore the Ming Dynasty, and returned to the whole province to create chaos, which spread to all states and counties almost overnight. Today's Gansu has no more soldiers from the Qing Dynasty, and the flags of the Ming Dynasty are everywhere. Anyone with a rattail will be forcibly cut off, and those who don't follow will be killed without mercy.

Two thunderbolts struck Meng Qiaofang one after another. Meng Qiaofang was so shocked that she immediately fell down on the chair of the Imperial Master. Her whole body became limp and she couldn't stand up. She fainted. People on her left and right hurriedly pinched him and called the doctor. After a lot of confusion, he was revived.

The first thing Meng Qiaofang did when he woke up was to use up all the soldiers in Guanzhong and defend the passes of the Qinling Mountains. He figured it out, the rebellion in Gansu and the fall of Hanzhong were not isolated and accidental coincidences, and Zhang Wenheng's death was not an imperial servant either. Wufang, this is all a conspiracy, driven by a certain force. When Hauge's army retreats, the Qing court will no longer mobilize troops to make expeditions in a short period of time. , definitely not something that ordinary people can have.

He was lying on the sickbed, struggling to deal with the military affairs of all parties. The Qing army also had meticulous work, and the Kuizhou army was so radiant. If you want to know something, you can get it easily. Soon, Meng Qiaofang learned that the operation plan All of this is caused by a Ming Dynasty general named Wang Huan.

As early as when Hauge was still in Guangyuan, this person guarded the Jiange, went to Yinping alone, killed Li Guohan, and then broke through Hanzhong and cut Tuge. Hauge was forced to withdraw his army by disappearing and disappearing. He almost resisted the westward advance of the Qing Dynasty with his own strength.

With trembling hands, Meng Qiaofang wrote down the information she got one by one on the paper. Then she looked at it carefully and thought about it carefully. She was even more shocked. This Wang Huan, who was originally just an unknown figure in the river, actually turned out to be an unknown person. Taking advantage of the Qing Dynasty's conquest of Zhang Xianzhong, he was silent and empty-handed, and it seemed that he took the whole of Sichuan and Longxi into his pocket without much effort. Not seen.

With her lone lamp and shadow alone, Meng Qiaofang worked hard all night and wrote an urgent memorial to the Qing court in the far north, explaining the current situation in the northwest and the countermeasures she could take. She hoped that the court could send elite troops to reinforce it as soon as possible. .

In this memorial, the word Wang Huan appeared for the first time. From then on, this name, which made the Qing court restless, will frequently appear in various official documents of the Qing army and become the norm.

However, what gave Meng Qiaofang some peace of mind was that after the Ming army occupied Hanzhong, Gansu, they seemed content and had no intention of advancing into Guanzhong. There were no smoke alarms at the passes. Instead, they built cities and settled fields in Hanzhong, recruited refugees, and trained soldiers and horses. It seemed that Make long-term plans.

The two armies of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, separated by the Qinling Mountains, lived in delicate peace and harmony, staring at each other, and vigilantly maintaining a balance.

Guanzhong is peaceful, but Ankang is in chaos.

He Zhen was originally very happy. Although she endured the fierce battle with Tan Bai, she was like a person drinking water and knowing whether he is warm or cold. He Zhen only knew the pain in it. He Zhen knew that he was almost wiped out. If he knew clearly, The army continued to besiege for another ten days and a half, and the loser was definitely He Zhen.

So as soon as Tan Bai left, He Zhen rewarded her subordinates for three consecutive days, and suddenly relaxed from the extreme tension of life and death. I am also drunk every day and sing songs every night.

Three days later, he procrastinated for a few more days to sober up. It was not until half a month later that He Zhen led the team and set off from Ankang with red eyes. He wanted to go to Hanzhong to try his luck. Unexpectedly, he received an urgent report from the spies .

There is no need to go to Hanzhong, there has already been a replacement.

Wang Huan, the commander-in-chief of Kuizhou in the Ming Dynasty, subdued the Qing general Mi Layin, and together with tens of thousands of returning soldiers, he has erected the Ming Dynasty banner in Hanzhong. In all the prefectures and counties in the Hanzhong Plain, gentry volunteers can be seen everywhere anyway, killing clean officials one after another He raised the Ming flag and surrendered to Wang Huan. Today's Hanzhong has long been surnamed Wang.

Only then did He Zhen remember that when she sent Li to Huguang, she did see Wang Huan when she passed through Kuizhou.

As a result, the situation changed, and He Zhen raised funds. She was playing under the banner of the Dashun Dynasty, not the Ming Dynasty. Dashun and the Ming Dynasty are at odds with life and death. If there is a fierce battle, with my current remnant soldiers, the chances of winning are not great when I encounter tens of thousands of Ming troops.

Before He Zhen could figure out what to do next and whose territory to conquer, someone came to her door.

A team of nearly 2 people rushed out from the direction of Baoning Prefecture. Although the armor was dilapidated, it was menacing. On the big flag in front of the head, there was a big red "Li" embroidered on it.

(End of this chapter)