On the third day after Zhu Meiyu's army arrived in Jiangling, the seized grain in the city was divided into three parts.

Fifty thousand stones were taken away by the ship as the capture, and 40,000 stones were distributed to the people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, and the remaining 40,000 stones were left in Jiangling City.

More than 3,000 Shun Army, who were not reorganized for various reasons after surrendering, were kept and were led by a reliable Shun Army general.

In this way, it can be guaranteed that Jiangling City will not lose order after they leave, and that they can wait until the reinforcements of Shunjun arrived.

Because Zhu Ma and Hao Guangming are very clear that for the people, even bad order is better than disorderly and chaotic environments.

After completing the above-mentioned disposal in one day, the Yangtze River Navy left Jiangling on the fourth day and continued to go east along the river...

However, when the Ming army invaded Jiangling, Zheng Siwei took advantage of the opportunity to defend the North City Gate and gathered 2,000 troops and more than 1,000 defeated troops from the headquarters, totaling more than 3,000 people, and left the North City Gate and went straight to Jingzhou Prefecture.

Jingmen, at the junction of Chengtian Prefecture, fled and prepared to wait and see here.

If you want to talk about why Zheng Siwei made this choice, we have to talk about the situation of Shunjun in Jingxiang.

The situation in Jingxiang in this time and space is basically the same as in later generations. After Zhang Xianzhong entered Sichuan, the Shun Army mainly occupied the four prefectures of Xiangyang, Chengtian, De'an and Jingzhou.

Because Zhang Xianzhong left, Zuo Liangyu's tribe and the local people who were eager to be brave and brave, the officials and gentry of the Ming Dynasty, took the opportunity to advance westward and recover lost territory.

It can be said that since the main force of the Shun Army heading north in the 15th year of Chongzhen, the Shun Army has been fighting with the Ming Dynasty forces on the lines of Macheng, Huangpi, Xiaogan, Hanchuan, Mianyang and Jianli.

By this year, the main force of the Shun Army is basically in the east of Jingxiang.

The three main points are Anlu in De'an Prefecture (shun changed its name to Anle), Jingling (Tianmen), and Jiangling.

Among them, Anlu was personally led by the Jiedushi Bai Wang, and mainly confronted and fought against Zuo Liangyu's headquarters, currently stationed in Wuchang.

Jingling was stationed by the mighty general Ma Shitai, mainly defending the Ming army in Mianyang and Hanchuan areas.

As for General Guoyi Ren Guangrong, who led his army to guard Jiangling, he was mainly prepared to defend Ma Jinzhong, Wang Yuncheng, and Shishou downstream and the Ming army in Huguang in the Jianli area.

On the southernmost side, the mighty general Wang Wenyao was stationed in Lizhou in Yuezhou Prefecture, mainly responsible for preventing the Ming army in Hunan.

That is to say, from Macheng, Huangzhou Prefecture in the northeast to Lizhou Prefecture in the southwest, this diagonal line spanning the five prefectures was the front line between the Shun Army and the Ming Army in Huguang in the past or two years.

Anlu, where Bai Wang stationed, was too far away from Jiangling. When he received the news that Ren Guangrong's fast horse had been sent, he would lead his army to come at least ten days later.

Therefore, Ren Guangrong also sent a fast horse to Jingling, Zhongxiang and Jingmen.

The reinforcements from these three places will all pass through the Jingmen Station north of Jiangling.

As a result, Zheng Siwei waited for a few days, but waited for the three thousand elite cavalry led by Li Zicheng himself.

I saw Li Zicheng's face was covered in frost and his face was haggard.

He was obviously surprised to meet Zheng Siwei's troops in Jingmen. He immediately realized something and asked with a dark face: "Is Jiangling lost?"

Zheng Siwei felt Li Zicheng's anger and murderous intent, and was so scared that he immediately knelt down to apologize, but said something to defend himself.

"Your Majesty forgives the crime. It is not that the last generals are not willing to defend the city. It is because the Ming army's cannons are too powerful.

At that time, the Ming army used more than 100 new artillery similar to red cannons to bombard the southern city wall, which made our army dare not kick the city. Later, it directly bombarded the southern city gate with a cannon.

Then, he even bombarded our army in the city gate with a tiger squatted cannon, killing and injuring our army. General Ren was also killed and killed and injured on the spot, and Jiangling City was lost."

Of course, these things were not seen by Zheng Siwei with his own eyes. But some of the defeated troops he gathered escaped from the South City Wall. He asked about the process of the loss of the South City Wall.

However, when Zheng Siwei said these words, he did not notice that Li Zicheng's face became darker and darker, as straight as the bottom of a pot.

After Zheng Siwei finished speaking, Li Zicheng couldn't help but whip the ground and said hatefully: "It's a cannon again! Could it be that I will die under the cannon by the way?!"

As Li Zicheng's identity, he shouldn't have said such despairing words in public.

But he couldn't help it.

The fall of Tongguan was because the Qing army transported the Red Barbarian cannons. Now Jiangling is lost because the witch girl in the Ming Dynasty had the cannons.

When did the war actually rely on cannons to decide the outcome?

When Li Zicheng thought so, he also regretted it vaguely.

In the past two or three years, he has won many great victories with the Ming army and has also seized many muskets and cannons.

Unfortunately, the cannons are too bulky and in conflict with the Shun Army's usual movement and combat methods, so they are not as important as muskets in the army.

Generally speaking, if the Shun Army attacks the city, it will be used to use cannons nearby. If there is no, it will be done by the old method, or by digging the city wall with a large number of people, or by opening the city within the city.

He also explored Zhang Xianzhong's stick-release technique to blow up the city wall, but unfortunately he never succeeded.

When I captured the capital last year, I really seized a lot of cannons, including the Red Barbarian cannons.

Unfortunately, when they retreated from the capital again, these cannons were thrown to the Qing army.

‘If I had known this, I would have blown up the red cannons if I had not helped!’

After a secret hatred in his heart, Li Zicheng looked at Zheng Siwei with his yellow one-eyed eye and asked in a cold voice: "Ren Guangrong died in battle, why are you still alive?"

Zheng Siwei was stunned when he heard this, and then quickly said, "Your Majesty, the last general was stationed in the northern city wall at that time. He saw that the Ming army was really difficult to deal with, so he gathered the defeated soldiers and fled to preserve the troops!"

For the Shun Army, which started its own business, it is not a scandal if it cannot be defeated. There has never been any claim to be charged for losing land.

It is also because of this that Zheng Siwei dared to wait for reinforcements here.

But he never expected that Li Zicheng would actually kill him.

Li Zicheng looked at Zheng Siwei and said nothing for a moment.

The atmosphere around was extremely depressing for a moment.

At this time, a general came to Li Zicheng's ear and said something. Li Zicheng's eyes looked even colder when he looked at Zheng Siwei.

"You have a friendship with Li Yan and Madam Hong?"

When Zheng Siwei heard this question, his heart suddenly sank.

Isn’t he just a fellow villager with Li Yan and Hong Niangzi? Why did Ren Guangrong? Li Zicheng suspects that he is clear?

He hurriedly explained: "Your Majesty, I only met Li Yan and Madam Hong, but I only met him a few times, and I have no other connection!"

The more Zheng Siwei explained, the less Li Zicheng believed.

Since Shanhaiguan was defeated last year and withdrew from the capital, Li Zicheng has not only suffered various defeats one after another, but also his generals have been rebelling.

Among them, the former Ming army surrendered generals and ministers were the main ones, but there were also some peasant generals with instability.

In Li Zicheng's opinion, Zheng Siwei is obviously a person with a weak will.

The most important thing is that just now, the defeated soldiers under Zheng Siwei's command had said that Meng Changgeng was personally following him. Hong Niangzi once wrote a letter to Ren Guangrong and mentioned Zheng Siwei.

Although the accompanying man only heard Meng Changgeng mention it and did not know what happened to Hong Niangzi in the letter, it made Li Zicheng completely lose trust in Zheng Siwei.

So he stared at Zheng Siwei with one eye and asked in a gloomy voice: "How do you prove that you didn't collude with Li Yan and Hong Madam?"

How to prove it?

Zheng Siwei was speechless when he heard this.

How to prove this kind of thing? It shouldn’t be impossible to show that he colluded with Li Yan and Hong Madam?

Seeing that Zheng Siwei was at a loss, Li Zicheng snorted coldly and said, "Come on, take this food that is ripped out and chopped it out!"

When the guards beside Li Zicheng heard this, they immediately took Zheng Siwei down and dragged him outside.

At this time, Zheng Siwei didn't know that Li Zicheng had made up his mind to kill him, so he cursed: "Li Zicheng, if you don't know what to do, killing Zhongliang will never die well! I'll join your mother-"

Zheng Siwei's voice came to an abrupt end, and he had obviously been beheaded.

But Hu Sandao, the guard in charge of beheading, came in immediately and apologized with a nervous look on his face, "I really didn't expect that Zheng Siwei would be like this, like this..."

He didn't expect that Zheng Siwei would scold Li Zicheng so directly in the end, so he was afraid that Li Zicheng would blame him for being too late to behead his head.

As a guard, he knew very well how irritable Li Zicheng had in recent months, and even became obviously bloodthirsty.

Now Li Zicheng has touched the handle of the knife.
Chapter completed!