"That's good..." Liu Guangshi closed his eyes and breathed a long sigh of relief. He only heard the staff say: "As long as nothing happens today, it seems that General Nie will not launch. In half a month, the commander-in-chief will

He can be replaced..."

"well……"

Liu Guangshi's response to the staff was a heavy, tired sigh...

…

In the months since Zhou Yong fled to sea, there has been almost no peaceful place in the world.

Near Changsha and around the Dongting Lake area, conflicts and frictions, large and small, gradually broke out, just like water droplets dripping into boiling oil, and the oil pan continued to crackle and roll.

These frictions are not large-scale military conflicts, but the constant collision of the world's changing thoughts and different people's hearts, people who want to protect themselves, people who are at a loss, people who are brave and generous, people who go with the flow... Under the influence of various forces,

Under manipulation and win-over, they gradually began to express their stance, and countless small-scale fights began to break out.

Since July, the Huaxia Army's lobbyists have been in action, the Jurchens' lobbyists have been in action, Liu Guangshi's lobbyists have been in action, and people with the intention of spontaneously rising to the Wu Dynasty have been in action, around Changsha, from Tanzhou (later Liuyang)

To Pingjiang, to Miluo, to Xiangyin, to Linxiang, fighting between large and small forces has broken out countless times.

In mid-July, Rong Ji, the prefect of Pingjiang, was assassinated twice and was so frightened that he hung up his crown and left.

In late July, bandits from the rivers and mountains near Miluo attacked the county town in the name of reviving the Wu Dynasty. In Linxiang, more than 300 people from the so-called Mayi Society took to the streets with knives, forcing the government to declare their allegiance to Liu Guangshi. The army suppressed them in the city, and blood flowed into rivers of fighting.

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In August, Xiangyin, where more than 7,000 Wu Dynasty defenders were stationed, declared their allegiance to the Jurchens under the lobbying of Jurchen spies and the former governor of Changsha, Niu Baoyuan. The resisters immediately rose up, and fighting continued in the city for two days, with less than half of the city being burned down.

,After that, the heads of the rebels were hung on the city wall.

Mid-August, late August... Similar conflicts continued. This was actually a fierce manifestation of everyone's hoarding and plundering of supplies before and after the autumn harvest. Although Chen Fan captured Changsha, the total number of Miao troops was originally small and could not hold on to the city.

Having reached the limit, several special operations teams withdrew from Jiangnan became active and seized a lot of victory materials. They also lobbied and won some forces to express goodwill towards the Chinese army.

However, in early September, the three surrendered Han troops originally stationed on Jiangnan West Road, totaling 140,000 people, began to move towards Changsha. The disputes between large and small forces near Changsha gradually subsided. Expressing a stance, or not expressing a stance, was in essence

The forces that surrendered to the Jurchens gradually increased.

…

As the sun sets, gun smoke fills the mountains, and the smell of blood spreads.

The fleeing soldiers scattered into the distance, or were driven across the fields, jumped into a nearby creek, and floated downstream. On the battlefield where corpses were scattered, soldiers reined in the fleeing horses, and some were counting the wounded.

He and the prisoners stabbed the tips of their spears off the horses that were dying from the shells.

Zhuo Yongqing, who was wearing software and a steel helmet, walked up the hillside with a human head in his hand. Qu Qing was sitting next to several corpses, with blood covering half of his body. The doctor accompanying him was bandaging the wound on his left side.

"Ah, it hurts so much..." He bared his teeth and hissed.

Zhuo Yongqing took off the red tasseled iron crown on his head: "It's better if he's not dead. I grabbed some horses and can carry you on his back."

"You have to go faster...what are you doing with the head?"

"The number one sword in northern Hunan, let me show it to you."

"Unlucky..." Qu Qing grinned, and then looked at the head, "Okay, don't carry it around. Although he is a green forest man, he used to be a heroic man. He did chivalry and helped his neighbors. In addition to

When he was a bandit, he was also a brave and heroic man. Before going to Liu to complain, Feng Zhen had inquired about the information. When the situation was at its most intense, he could consider fighting for this hero."

"That is to say, he brought more than a thousand people to chase him, and he might let us go." Zhuo Yongqing picked up the head and looked at each other.

"..." Qu Qing glanced at him, and then said, "It hurts so much."

Zhuo Yongqing's question naturally had no answer. In more than nine months and dozens of lives and deaths, they could not put their own safety on this small possibility. Zhuo Yongqing inserted the other party's head into the roadside

On the stick, when I came back, I saw Qu Qing on the ground calculating the situation nearby.

"Liu Chuisheng in Chongyang, Pingjiang in Daya, if the two sides are connected in series to join the Jurchens, this area will be connected, covering an area of ​​more than a hundred miles, with tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians. Yu Daya, this guy, seems to be a reckless and heroic person, but at the end of the day

In order to do this kind of thing, he wants to use you as a proxy to gain a good reputation in front of the Jurchens..."

Zhuo Yongqing sat down: "When will Guo Baohuai and the others arrive?"

"Guo Baohuai has 50,000 people, Yu Gusheng has 40,000 people, and Li Touhe has more than 40,000 people. From three directions, Yu Gusheng arrived first. It is estimated that in five to seven days, they can reach Pingjiang area. The Han army alone is now ten

Forty thousand, plus those who are coming one after another, plus those who are surrendering one after another... On our side, there are only more than 15,000 people in Changsha, and we are a bunch of stragglers..."

Qu Qing drew a map on the soil, and when he reached this point, he looked back and saw that the small battlefield below had almost been cleared. The wounded on his side had basically been treated, but the traces of the iron-blooded killings and the scattered corpses would not be eliminated.

At this point in his words, for some reason, he almost laughed angrily at the disparity and hopeless situation he spoke of.

"His mother, how are we going to fight this battle..." Qu Qing found out the curse words commonly used within the General Staff.

Zhuo Yongqing also sighed: "Yes."

The two of them sighed there for a while. After a while, the team regrouped and prepared to leave. Qu Qing wiped off the pictures on the ground with his feet, and with Zhuo Yongqing's help, he got on the horse with difficulty.

"...There are still five to seven days left. Feng Zhen's side is probably trying to trick us. Yu Daya's beast is trying to trick us. Let's go around and see if we can find a way to kill him..."

"Listen to you."

"Think about it, when have you ever used your brain? Brother Zhuo, I noticed that you have become lazier and lazier since you came out. You were not like this when you were in Zhangcun..."

"Brother Qu, I trust you."

"...Forget it, next time you wear a red hat, that's fine. I won't compete with you. Anyway, even if your brain is blasted, it won't be a big loss to our Chinese army."

"Ha ha ha ha……"

The sun was setting on the horizon, and the team that had just experienced the fight turned towards the other side of the mountain road in silhouette. Zhuo Yongqing's already heroic and hearty laughter spread with the evening wind.

In mid-September, this was just one of the countless scenes of brutal fighting near Changsha. Soon after, the first batch of surrendered Han troops of up to 140,000 people would arrive here and launch a massacre against Chen Fan's army of only more than 10,000 people.

The first wave of offensive.
Chapter completed!