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Xu Yong led thousands of soldiers and horses to flee to Yunyang Mansion after the defeat of Xinye.

He was just an affiliated general of Zuo Liangyu's tribe, not a direct line. The governor of Yunyang happened to lack soldiers and horses, so he wrote a letter to keep him in Yunyang.

Speaking of which, Xu Yong can be regarded as a military commander who climbed up step by step from the bottom.

He lost his father when he was young and lived in Yulin with his mother and sister. He was adopted as an adopted son by a general named Xu, so he changed his surname to Xu.

Unexpectedly, after General Xu retired, the old tree sprouted new shoots, and a concubine actually gave birth to a son for him. Xu Yong was no longer taken seriously.

After Xu Zongbing died, Xu Yong could not tolerate Xu's family, so he went to Liaodong to join the army in the last years of Wanli, and changed his surname to Xu because of another person's misunderstanding.

During the Chongzhen period, Xu Yong was promoted to guerrilla due to his merits and was affiliated with Zuo Liangyu's tribe.

This man was okay at fighting, but like many generals in the late Ming Dynasty, he valued personal interests more than national justice.

He fled to Yunyang after the Battle of Xinye because he had guessed that the Wei army would take advantage of the situation and went to Xiangyang, and he did not want to confront the Wei army again. Who would have thought that only three months had passed and we would have to face the Yi army's attack again.

If it was what he thought, he should have withdrawn his troops to other places, such as Huguang or Jiangnan, before the Wei army attacked.

But he has not yet reached Zuo Liangyu's level of garrisoning troops wherever he wants, regardless of the court's orders.

Seeing Wang Yongzuo's repeated inquiries, he said: "The Wei thieves have many and sharp guns, and the soldiers are well-trained and fight bravely. Although Yun County occupies a favorable geographical location, I am afraid it will be difficult to stop the Wei thieves."

Wang Yongzuo's smile disappeared after hearing this, and he frowned and said: "Now there are more than 10,000 battalions and thousands of rural soldiers in Yun County. The city can also recruit thousands of young men to participate in defending the city. Is there really no hope of defending it?"

Xu Yong said: "The Hongyi cannons are numerous, with a range of more than three miles, and they mostly use explosive bullets. They are so powerful that no flesh and blood can resist them.

If Yun County wants to hold on, it will have to acquire dozens of Hongyi cannons with similar ranges and add another 20,000 to 30,000 troops. "

Wang Yongzuo didn't expect Xu Yong to be more pessimistic than him, and he felt even more anxious for a while.

"General Li, what do you think?"

Li Wanqing hesitated and said: "Futai, this city is indeed difficult to defend. It is better to retain our troops and rely on the geographical advantage of the Yunyang Mountain area. After the main force of the Wei thieves has penetrated deep, we can harass their grain transport team."

Wang Yongzuo actually thought that this strategy was okay, but when he thought about Chongzhen's treatment of the governor who lost the land, he shook his head and said: "No, we shoulder the responsibility of defending the land, how can we abandon the strong city and not defend it?"

Hearing this, Li Wanqing stopped talking.

This conversation ends here.

The next day, when he learned that the Wei tribe had sent an additional army to Junzhou, Wang Yongzuo's pressure increased greatly, so he recruited guerrilla Wang Guangen stationed in Yunxi and guerrilla Li Maochun stationed in Zhushan to Yunxian County.

Both units have more than 3,000 soldiers and horses, so Yun County has gathered nearly 20,000 battalion soldiers and more than 5,000 rural soldiers.

At this time, in addition to the governor Wang Yongzuo, Yunyang also had two civil servants. One is the deputy envoy to the inspection and military preparation, Gao Dou Shu, and the other is Xu Qiyuan, the prefect of Yunyang.

The three civilian officials all have several years of experience in suppressing bandits. After several military strategies and discussions with several generals, they made the following troop deployment.

Xu Yong led more than 8,000 battalions to garrison the tea shop (market town) south of the Han River, and Wang Yongzuo led 3,000 soldiers to supervise them.

Wang Guangen led nearly 3,000 battalions and 2,000 rural soldiers to garrison the river islands of Lanjiayan, Lijia'ao, and Sunjiagou at the corner of the Han River. They were under the command of the high-ranking commander Dou Dou.

Xu Qiyuan and Wang Guangxing (Wang Guang'en's younger brother) led a thousand battalions and three thousand township soldiers to garrison the county seat of Yun County.

Li Maochun led more than 3,000 battalions to garrison Yushan and Dafengcang - a peninsula extending into the river, which could form a three-sided pincer attack with Wang Guangen on Jiangzhou Island and Xu Yong's troops on the south bank of the river.

Li Wanqing's more than 4,000 battalions set up camp outside the county town, and they could form a rivalry with the county town and Li Maochun's Yushan troops to support each other.

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Chongzhen's fourteenth year, September 16th.

Liu Sheng led the Guards Hu Ben Guard, Sheng Jie Guard, the 8th Brigade of the Standing Army (under the Third Division, brigade commander Zhang Ao) and three militia regiments to Junzhou.

Together with the 10th Brigade of the Standing Army (Brigadier Commander Shen Wandeng) and a militia regiment originally stationed here, the Wei tribe gathered nearly 60,000 troops in Junzhou!

Junzhou City was submerged under the Canglang River in later generations, but now it is on the bank of the Canglang River. It is more than 70 miles away from Yun County in a straight line, and the waterway is only a hundred miles away.

It is now the autumn harvest, and God has just rained several times, causing the river water to rise a lot, which is convenient for the Kuaibei army to sail.

The next day.

Liu Sheng took Shengjie Wei as the vanguard and took a dozen warships (captured from the Ming army) and hundreds of civilian ships to explore the route first.

Huang Jie, commander of the Shengjie Guard Brigade, once again had the opportunity to lead a semi-independent army. He was excited but also cautious at the same time. In order to avoid encountering an ambush or other accidents, the sentinels were sent out for more than ten miles.

As for sailing against the current of the Han River, it is not difficult for the Ebu, let alone a disadvantage.

When traveling against the current of a river, a big boat relies on sails, a small boat relies on oars and poles, or both. Only in places with strong currents would trackers be needed to help pull the boat.

Although there are mountains on both sides of the Han River from Junzhou to Yunxian, the flow is generally gentle. The water surface is also wide - half a mile in the narrowest place, and the river surface is more than a mile wide in most places.

Countercurrent also has some benefits for the navy.

First, the advance is relatively slow, making it easier to control the artillery to bombard the enemy. Secondly, if things go wrong, retreat quickly.

If they march along the current, just the opposite is true. Naval warships often have difficulty retreating, or even make no progress at all.

Huang Jie checked several army guns on the warship again and saw several sentry ships returning quickly.

Soon, Shengjiewei, who was in charge of the investigation, boarded his ship and reported the situation face to face.

"Brigade, the Ming army built gun towers on the upper reaches of Chenjiapo and Monkey Rock, and equipped them with at least ten general cannons or flanges!"

Huang Jie looked at the military map and asked, "Is that place easy to land in?"

"If we don't pull out the turrets, even if we can force a landing, there will probably be a lot of casualties."

Huang Jie looked at the map and started thinking after hearing this.

He knew very well why Shengjie Guard was assigned as the vanguard of this battle - Shengjie Guard was originally trained for mountainous operations and street fighting in the city. Yunyang Prefecture is full of mountainous areas, which is where Shengjie Guard is used!

So he quickly made a decision.

"Order the 1st Battalion of the 2nd Regiment and the 1st Battalion of the 3rd Regiment to prepare to land near the Empress Temple in advance, and cooperate with the main force to raid the Ming Army artillery towers on the north and south sides respectively!"

"As ordered!"

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Chen Jiapo.

Li Wanqing's commander-in-chief Xiong Dachun was eating melon seeds and watched his brother Xiong Erchun scolding a few lazy soldiers outside.

The two brothers were refugees in Yunyang Prefecture, and they first followed Li Wanqing - Li Wanqing was still a peasant army at that time, and he had a very loud nickname, "Shooting the Sky".

The year before last, Li Wanqing surrendered to the Ming Dynasty, and they followed suit.

Needless to say, becoming an official soldier was more comfortable than being a peasant soldier. It was indeed a comfortable life for a year and a half.

Unexpectedly, last year, King Chuang, the Eight Great Kings, and Cao Cao successively broke through the encirclement and suppression by the army, and then Liu Wei appeared in Runing. He was so fierce that he occupied Runing, Nanyang, and Xiangyang successively in less than a year. Now it is even more so. To attack Yunyang Mansion.