Ming Taizi's Total War

Chapter 291

Just when Huang Degong, Zuo Menggeng and others came outside the city of Yuezhou Prefecture, they were busy contacting local gentry, landlords, and bureaucrats, asking them to organize manpower to help the army resist the invading army that might break through, and raise supplies for the army to use.

Li Zicheng was talking by candlelight with Li Zijing, Niu Jinxing, Song Xiance, Liu Zongmin, Liu Fangliang, Yuan Zongdi, Gu Kecheng and others in Yuezhou Prefecture City.

On a huge sand table, the mountains and terrain of Yuezhou Prefecture and the entire Huguang area were displayed, while Li Zicheng and others stood around.

The servants who came to cut the candles cut off the candles to make the candles burn more vigorously.

The dim light shone on Li Zicheng's face, allowing everyone to see clearly that ferocious and melancholy face.

Looking at the generals standing near Li Zicheng, they all had bitter faces, and none of them could soothe their brows.

After all, being driven all the way to Huguang by the Ming army, and losing successively to Huang Degong, Liu Liangzuo and other inconspicuous little players in the peasant war, who can be happy.

In addition, the Ming army is now trying its best to mobilize tens of thousands of people to besiege Yuezhou Mansion. Many brothers are either lost or defeated by the Ming army.

Liu Zongmin, Liu Fangliang, Yuan Zongdi, and Gu Kecheng used to be the chief generals of the left, center, and right front battalions. At their peak, which one did not command more than [-] troops.

It is a pity that since the disastrous defeat in Shanhaiguan, the Shun army was driven all the way from Gyeonggi to Shaanxi by the Qing army. Li Guo was defeated by Jierhalang in northern Shaanxi. Li Zicheng would not be able to make peace.

Now Li Zicheng's entire army is even worse than that of the previous front battalion. There are only more than [-] remnants of defeated generals, old, weak, sick and disabled.

Facing the monstrous momentum in the Huguang area, the hundreds of thousands of Ming troops who came to kill them were simply worth mentioning, like a lonely boat in the sea.

It was late at night, and the conference room where Li Zicheng and others were located was dead silent, as if this was the projection of the underworld on the human world.

Finally, Li Zicheng spoke first, breaking the dead silence.

"The Ming army has arrived outside the city. If you have any ideas, just speak up."

"Now we are trapped in Yuezhou Mansion, if we don't find a way to get out, we will really be at the end of our rope."

Poor Li Zicheng only realized the end of the mountain today. In fact, when the Ming army Huang Degong and his three men confronted him in Tongguan with [-] soldiers, Li Zicheng and his Dashun had already reached the end of the mountain.

In order to exterminate Li Zicheng and his peasant army, Zhu Cihong's Daming threw out his official positions almost without money. Whatever scattered officials, honorary ranks, hereditary one hundred households, hereditary one thousand households, as long as they can behead the peasant army, the next day the official department will I can send you the power of attorney.

Of course, Zhu Cihong is not an iron rooster. He will not be stingy with money, cloth, grain, fields, and manors if the treasury is sufficient.

This is much more generous than Chongzhen, Tianqi, and even Wanli before.

After all, Daming was already a dynasty that had died once. In order to keep the power and prosperity in their hands, all the bureaucrats and gentry in the world supported Zhu Cihong's actions, and Zhu Cihong did not have that much resistance to doing these things.

"We are not familiar with the south, and it is not easy to fight against the Ming army." Liu Zongmin complained nonchalantly.

The weather in the south is actually not suitable for combat. The weather is hot. Wearing armor is like taking a sauna, and it is very humid. The use of bows and firearms in this environment will be greatly restricted.

This may also be the reason why the southern regime was often unable to defeat the north in history, and was repeatedly defeated by the northern soldiers with fewer attacks and more defeats.

"It's not easy for us, is it easy for the Ming army?" Niu Jinxing interjected.

The soldiers of Huang Degong, Liu Liangzuo, and even Zuo Liangyu have actually been fighting north of the Yangtze River for a long time, and rarely come to the south of the Yangtze River. The Shun Army is not used to it, and in fact they are not used to it.

It's just that the gentry who hate and rebel against the peasants are chasing after them, but the Ming army is here like a fish in water.

"They are just relying on the large number of people, the large amount of supplies, and the support of several surrounding provinces, so they can defeat us. Otherwise, Huang Degong, Zuo Liangyu, which one of these people is my opponent in Dashun." Niu Jinxing said to himself. Said to himself.

Hearing his words, the others nodded unconsciously.

Obviously, Niu Jinxing and others are quite clear about the advantages of the Ming army.

It's just that they can't do anything about it. After all, they can't order the people in the north and south of the river not to pay taxes to the imperial court. Let's join them in resisting the imperial court.

Li Zicheng and the others didn't have that ability, they couldn't even let the peasant uprising army of other localities fight side by side with them, against the Ming government army.

"Don't talk about these useless things." Li Zicheng was disturbed by these people's words, and Li Zicheng slapped the table with a pair of thugs, shaking off the dust on it.

"We must not be trapped to death by the Ming army in this Yuezhou mansion. We must fight out. Only by fighting out will we have a way out." Li Zicheng said angrily, staring at the clouds in the sky outside the window.

"Where to kill?" Song Xiance, Niu Jinxing, and Liu Fangliang asked in unison.

Of course they know that they have to fight out to survive, but now that the world is so big, where is their shelter?This is a very critical question.

Originally, they thought that the Ming army in the Huguang area was empty, so they must not be able to take care of them, and they could give them a breathing space for military training.

But Li Zicheng never imagined that the Ming army had driven the Qing army out of the pass, and the pressure on the north was greatly relieved.

Therefore, Zhang Yong, Gao Jie and others were not allowed to guard the north. Instead, they attacked Shaanxi first. Whether it will be here is still unknown.

After Huang Degong and others in Tongguan found out that Li Zicheng had borrowed Shu to go south, they didn't even care about Tongguan.

Just wait for Li Zicheng to hit him head-on, and then strangle him.

That's why today's situation where Li Zicheng's lonely army is trapped in the area of ​​Yuezhou Prefecture appears.

"Go east, snatch ships on the river, conscript young men to join the army along the way, let's fight all the way to the south of the Yangtze River." Li Zicheng said with determination on his face.

"Jiangnan is thousands of miles away from here. Even if there is a ship to transport it, I'm afraid we won't be able to get through it."

"Besides, the Ming army is not a vegetarian. They will definitely dispatch navy, guards, and village braves to chase and intercept us." Niu Jinxing and Song Xiance expressed their concerns at the same time.

Although the fighting power of the Ming army is very hip, the military system designed by Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di is not a vegetarian.

(End of this chapter)