Zuo Liangyu held many soldiers and generals, but after the uprising, he left with the flow, and was unstoppable. He did not pay too much attention to his eyes and ears. Jiujiang could not capture him for a long time, so he could not tell him. However, Zuo Liangyu's spies did not dare to confirm the news of the emperor's personal expedition. They dared to report it several times, which made Zuo Liangyu's information seem backward.

"Return to the Grand Marshal, this matter has been confirmed many times."

"Okay, okay, okay." Zuo Liangyu said three good words, and his originally pale face was covered with blush: "I am the commander to attack Jiujiang City with all his strength, and be sure to take down the city in three days, and the entire army will go to Anqing and capture the emperor alive."

Zuo Liangyu only thought that if he captured the emperor in Anqing, he would win without attacking Nanjing, but he never thought about how shocking ordinary local soldiers would be after they learned that the emperor would be in charge of the emperor's command. The fig leaf on their heads that cleared the emperor's side would be completely removed. When they really had to face the emperor's dragon flag, even if the soldiers could obey orders to attack, how much courage would they have left.

Faced with the full attack of the left army, Jiujiang City's defense suddenly became tense. In these days, various defensive materials in Jiujiang City have been almost consumed. Some houses close to the city wall have been demolished, and the bricks and stones obtained have been smashed directly to the city wall, and the same is true for wood.

The cannons at the top of Jiujiang City have long been fired. The most powerful ones are the more than 2,000 muskets in the city. These more than 2,000 muskets were brought by General Huang Binqing, or the emperor personally ordered them to be transferred from the Nanjing Ordnance Office to Huang Binqing. However, as time went by, the muskets were scrapped faster and faster. These two thousand muskets only took a few days and more than 300 had been scrapped. This fully demonstrates how unreliable the quality of the firearms in the Ming Ordnance Office was. Fortunately, these muskets were not selected and there were not many blown-ups, so soldiers would not dare to use them. However, even if the muskets were not scrapped, most of the ammunition in the city was consumed. Yuan Jixian and Huang Binqing had left muskets at the beginning and did not use them. In addition to giving the rebels one, it was not because they knew that the muskets were too delicate and there were not many ammunitions.

Seeing that the muskets on the city were much less sparse than before, the rebels were in high morale. These days, the rebels had built a lot of siege equipment outside the city, and the moat had been filled. The rushing car, rushing car, and giant shield wheels rolled up. The soldiers hid far away under the giant shield or rushing car. In addition to the huge rocks, the muskets and bows on the city were helpless to them. The huge rushing car hit the city, making the entire city tremble.

Zuo Liangyu's army also brought dozens of cannons. Although some were damaged, there were more than twenty of them to use. When huge shells hit the city wall, the soldiers they encountered were often smashed into meat paste. Although due to the number and accuracy, not many shells could hit the defenders. In a few minutes, only a few shots could hit the city head, and only one or two shots could actually cause damage to the soldiers. Sometimes the shells would fall into the team that Zuo Army attacked under the city. However, the opponent's artillery fired, but his artillery was not moving, which undoubtedly greatly damaged the morale of the defenders.

Governor Yuan Jixian and General Huang Binqing immediately realized the crisis. They led their personal soldiers and reserve teams to run left and right on the top of the city like firefighters, rushing wherever there was danger. Finally, they blocked the waves of offensives before sunset. When the rebels began to withdraw their troops because it was dark, many of the officials on the top of the city were so tired that they suddenly collapsed on the ground.

Just when Yuan Jixian and Huang Binqing were glad that they had finally defended for another day, they did not know that with the strengthening of the rebel offensive and the inevitable increase in casualties of the officers and soldiers in the city, there was already an undercurrent surging in Jiujiang City. Whether it was the local soldiers in Jiujiang or the officers and soldiers brought by Huang Binqing, their own fighting will not be strong. If they had not been in a strong city, many people would have surrendered. After all, the strength of the two sides was too different, and Zuo Liangyu was different from the bandits. Surrendering to Zuo Liangyu was not as big as the psychological obstacles of surrendering to the bandits. When Li Zicheng captured Beijing, the Ming army did not surrender to Li Zicheng in batches.

Because of the ease of guarding, this kind of thinking was not popular among the officers and soldiers. But today, seeing the companions around me fall into pools of blood, the rebels outside the city are becoming more and more aggressive, and many people are gradually unable to withstand it.

That night, when Zuo Liangyu was discussing with the generals, a personal soldier came to report that someone in the city stole it and asked to see the general.

Zuo Liangyu was stunned and immediately realized something. The general agreed to end: "Hurry, bring people."

"Slowly, Grandmaster, what is the purpose of the visitor? You should not take risks. It is better to see you first. If there is no problem, it is not too late for the general to see you again." A general in his thirties stood up and stopped him.

The general Zhang Yingyuan who stopped Zuo Liangyu was Zhang Yingyuan. Zuo Liangyu felt a little bit, nodded, Zhang Yingyuan bowed and retreated in advance. After about half an hour, Zhang Yingyuan re-entered the commander's tent with joy: "Master, great joy, great joy."

"Who is the visitor?"

"It is the family of Jiujiang deputy general Zhang Shixun. Zhang Shixun intends to surrender to the general and agreed that he will launch a mutiny in the city tomorrow night. Zhang Shixun has a good relationship with him. He has convinced the general of the Northern Gate to raise fire as a call. As long as the city fires, the general can lead his troops to kill people from the Northern Gate."

"Zhang Shixun." Zuo Liangyu also heard of this person's name. He has a lot of military skills and martial arts. He can become the deputy general of Jiujiang City. He relied on tricks and bribing his superiors. Zuo Liangyu immediately dispelled his doubts: "Okay, everyone go back and have a good rest. I will drink hard in Jiujiang tomorrow night."

"Follow the order."

During the Battle of Jiujiang, Li Zicheng finally recovered from the attack of escaping from Beijing. From the battle with Wu Sangui on April 21, 17th year of Chongzhen, to the defeat on the 22nd, returned to the capital on the 26th, Beijing proclaimed himself emperor on the 29th, and escaped from Beijing on the 30th. Li Zicheng seemed to live in a nightmare. Hundreds of thousands of troops entering Beijing followed Li Zicheng and escaped from the 30th. The local area heard that Li Zicheng was defeated and rioted one after another. Either they threw the city into the Qing court or returned to the Ming Dynasty.

After Li Zicheng returned to Taiyuan, he was about to take a breath, but Yuci, who was so close to him, actually rebelled. Although he sent Chen Yongfu to extinguish the rebellion, Jiang Xiang, the former general of Datong, rebelled, killing Li Zicheng's confidant general Zhang Tianlin and others, hanging the banner of the Ming Dynasty. Officials and gentry in Shandong, Henan and other places counterattacked, either expelling the officials stationed in the Dashun Dynasty or directly killing them.
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