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"Report! Moling Pass has been lost!"

Moling Pass fell?

Inside the tent, Zuo Liangyu and the others couldn't help but change their expressions when they heard the shouting, and at the same time they felt confused.

Moling Pass is also a rather tall and strong fortress, garrisoned by more than 20,000 people from Wang Zhilun and Jin Shenghuan.

The nearest Yi army was in Lishui. It is said that there were only more than 3,000 troops. How did they capture Moling Pass without anyone noticing?

The messenger was quickly brought into the tent by the servants and delivered an urgent battle report.

Before Zuo Liangyu finished reading, his originally sickly pale face turned blood red with anger. He slammed the table and said, "Jin Shenghuan! What a fucking immature thief!"

Hearing this, Chang Deng not only stared and said: "Uncle, could it be that Jin Shenghuan rebelled?"

Zuo Liangyu gasped, "This dog thief secretly defected to the Wei thief, attacked and killed Wang Zhilun, and helped the Lishui Wei thief capture Moling Pass!"

"what?!"

Although Chang Deng and Xu Yuxian had some guesses, they were still shocked when they heard this.

Jin Shenghuan was originally a military household in Liaodong. Later, his whole family was killed by Jiannu, and he entered the Pass alone. He became one of the bandit leaders in the early years of Chongzhen, nicknamed "Yidousu".

In the tenth year of Chongzhen's reign, he was demoted from the army and became an affiliated general under Zuo Liangyu.

Because he was from Liaodong, Jin Shenghuan was treated more favorably by Zuo Liangyu than other bandits who surrendered to the imperial court. Zuo Liangyu started his family in Liaodong, and almost all of his direct subordinates were from Liaodong.

Even so, Zuo Liangyu still did not have complete confidence in Jin Shenghuan and sent his immediate deputy general Wang Zhilun to garrison Moling Pass with him.

I never thought that I still couldn't prevent it.

After coming back to his senses, Xu Yuxian couldn't help but remind him, "Uncle, Moling Pass was captured by the Wei thieves, and Dasheng Pass may be surrounded by the Wei thieves.

Moreover, it is possible for the thieves to go straight down the Qinhuai River to Nanjing! "

"I know!" Zuo Liangyu said impatiently.

Chang Deng and Xu Yuxian looked at each other, not knowing what to say.

Zuo Liangyu wanted to cough again, so he said to the two of them: "You guys, please step aside and let me be quiet."

"Yes."

After the two people retreated, Zuo Liangyu coughed violently, and then walked back and forth in the tent anxiously.

Thinking of the increasingly severe situation, he couldn't help but wonder: Was it really wrong to stop the thieves in Nanjing?

···

It was the fifth day of March in the fifteenth year of Chongzhen.

Zhang Guying, deputy commander of the First Division of the Standing Army, led a brigade and ten garrison regiments trained by the five revolutionary bandits from the left for more than half a month, crossed the river to Jiangning Town, and joined the Guards and the Yangtze River Navy.

On the same day, the Tai army successively captured Dantu, Danyang, and Jintan in Zhenjiang Prefecture. Zuo Liangyu and his affiliated tribes of more than 200,000 Ming troops were restricted to a small area of ​​several dozen miles in and around Nanjing.

Suddenly, people inside and outside Nanjing were panicked.

On the seventh day of March, Liu Sheng personally led nearly 100,000 land and sea troops from Jiangning Town eastward to attack Dasheng Pass.

Zuo Liangyu is still at Dasheng Pass.

He was also panicked when he learned that the Tai army was marching eastward.

It's not that he doesn't want to escape, but he knows that Nanjing has been surrounded. Even if hundreds of thousands of troops break through, they will only collapse into many small groups, making it difficult to gather together.

And his body is likely to die during the breakout process.

Moreover, he was the one who took the lead in defending Nanjing before. Now he has nearly 100,000 officers and soldiers combined to defeat Guan, and he has a strong city to rely on. If he still dares not to fight against the Yi army, the morale of the army will be completely shattered, and the same goes for Nanjing City. There is no way to keep it.

After learning that the Yi army had left the Jiangning Town camp, Zuo Liangyu immediately summoned his generals to discuss matters.

In addition to the navy deputy generals Chang Deng and Xu Yuxian, there were also Hao Xiaozhong, the commander of his three thousand servants, and then the attached general Lu Guangzu, the direct deputy general Xu Ensheng, as well as the former Fengyang general Mou Wenshou and the former Anqing general Liu Liangzuo.

The latter two are not even considered generals attached to Zuo Liangyu, but are only temporarily controlled by him.

Time was urgent, and Zuo Liangyu didn't mince words.

He looked around at the generals and said: "Everyone must be aware of the current situation. If we don't stop the Wei thieves at Dasheng Pass or even defeat them, we will have no choice but to defend Nanjing.

Nowadays, except for the sea route, transportation between Jiangnan and the capital is almost cut off, and it is not known whether reinforcements from Zhejiang, Fujian, and Guangdong and Guangxi will come.

Therefore, if we want to survive, we have to rely on ourselves! If you lose this battle, it will not be easy for you all; but if you win, I guarantee that you will be promoted to official positions and titles! "

Now that we have reached this stage, no one dares to openly oppose Zuo Liangyu - Zuo Liangyu's three thousand servants are not vegetarians.

So all the generals clasped their fists together and expressed their stance: "We will fight to the death with my uncle!"

"it is good!"

Zuo Liangyu's face turned red with joy, and he wanted to cough again, so he hurriedly said: "I'm afraid the thieves will arrive soon. Everyone, please go down and prepare. Chang Deng and Xu Yuxian will stay here for a while."

The others retreated. Zuo Liangyu turned his back and coughed for a while, then turned around and said: "This water battle is extremely important - if the navy is defeated, the Yi army can not only land from the lower reaches and outflank Dasheng Pass, but also take Nanjing directly. .

Therefore, if you cannot stop the thieves in this battle, then come to me with your head raised, do you understand? ! "

Chang Deng and Xu Yuxian both looked ugly, but they still responded: "I will eventually understand."

"Go."

Jiangning Town is only a dozen miles away from Dasheng Pass. Not long after Zuo Liangyu held a pre-war meeting, the Yi army arrived three or four miles away from Dasheng Pass.

Liu Sheng did not allow the camp to be set up, and directly ordered more than a hundred army artillery to be pulled out to bombard Guancheng.

Boom boom boom...

This was not Zuo Liangyu's first battle with the Yi army. He knew that the Yi army liked to bombard the city with artillery first, so he did not arrange many people on Guancheng.

After two rounds of bombardment, Liu Sheng looked through his binoculars and saw that there was no one at the top of the city, so he asked Zhang Guying to lead the second brigade and five guard regiments to the south of Dasheng Pass, preparing to attack the Ming army camp behind the pass.

Excluding the navy, the Ming army had more than 60,000 people in Dasheng Pass. Of course, they could not all stay in the city. Instead, they built several camps on the north, south, and east sides, which were connected to each other and served as horns to each other.

But the camp is not as good as Guancheng. Facing the shells of army artillery, it will definitely collapse faster than Guancheng.

In the southernmost camp, Liu Liangzuo could not help but look ugly when he saw the Yi army pulling out "Red Yi cannons" one after another from a distance.

He actually wanted to surrender, but he didn't expect the enemy to arrive too quickly. Even if he wanted to send someone to negotiate terms secretly, he wouldn't have time.

If he had known this, when he retreated from Jiangbei, he should have gone directly to Zhejiang instead of staying in Yingtian Mansion.

"Ask everyone on the wall to retreat, leaving only one sentry to watch, and everyone else retreat behind the mound!"

"Yes!"

The Ming army and the Yi army have been fighting until now, and there has been no progress at all.

Although they could not build as many and powerful "Hongyi cannons" as the Yi army, they summed up the artillery defense method through repeated defeats, which was to add mounds of earth and trenches.

The Ming army's bomb-proof method of mounds and trenches had only been tried for a short time, and the fortification structure was still very rough.

Even so, the Ming army reduced a lot of casualties under the shells of the Yi army, and their morale was not too low by the shells.

However, after several rounds of artillery shells, the Ming army soldiers managed to resist collapse, but the village wall failed to resist, and a large section suddenly collapsed under the sixth round of artillery shells!

Seeing this, Zhang Guying immediately ordered an attack on the stronghold.

dong dong dong

"Kill--"

With the sound of beating drums, a regiment of the Yi army led two guard regiments and launched an attack from three directions at Nanzhai where Liu Liangzuo was stationed.

At the same time, the seventh round of bombardment by army artillery came, making it difficult for the Ming army to defend the wall.

Liu Liangzuo saw that it was difficult to defend the village, so he took thousands of servants on horseback and fled out of the Beizhai Gate!

Zuo Liangyu was still hiding in Guancheng and enduring the shelling of the Yi army. Hearing that Nanzhai had been breached and Liu Liangzuo's troops collapsed without a fight, he couldn't help but spit out a mouthful of blood.

"What a slut! I'll kill you if I catch you!"

Just after he finished cursing, another messenger came running in a panic——

"Report! Uncle, the navy was defeated and fled eastward!"

Zuo Liangyu was in disbelief when he heard this and said: "How long has it been since the war started? It hasn't been two quarters of an hour, right? The navy has been defeated again?"

In the midst of confusion, Zuo Liangyu saw the strange expression on the messenger's face. He immediately guessed something and immediately shouted: "Say! Did Chang Deng and Xu Yuxian escape without a fight?!"

The messenger bowed his head and said nothing.

Seeing this, Zuo Liangyu knew that he had guessed correctly.

"Chang Deng! Xu Yuxian!"

Zuo Liangyu was so angry that he yelled, eyes flashed with stars, and he almost fainted.

Then he angered the messenger and said, "Pull this man down and chop him down!"

"Uncle, please forgive me!"

The messenger begged for mercy, but to no avail, and was quickly beheaded.

A shell happened to fall nearby, covering Zuo Liangyu with mud, which frightened him too.

He finally realized that the military morale of all the troops had been lost a long time ago, and there was no way to defend Dasheng Pass and even the city of Nanjing!

If he ran away, he might not live for a year or even half a year because of his wandering life.

But if he defended Nanjing, he might not survive even a few days!

Thinking of this, Zuo Liangyu quickly summoned a servant and said: "Quickly inform Hao Xiaozhong to gather soldiers at the east gate and prepare to break out and return to Nanjing!"

"Yes!"

After the servant took the order and left, he called another servant and said: "Send orders to Lu Guangzu and Xu Ensheng to guard the north and south walls and wait for the thief ants to attack the city and then counterattack!"

The servant understood and immediately took the order and left.

Second update.

Good night~