Du Yinxi was busy setting up a defense of the city, and Zhao Ming's army had already completed the assembly in Qizhou.

After accepting the Southern Zhili, the troops were somewhat insufficient.

Zhao Ming not only needed troops to guard the cities along the way, but also needed to prevent Zhu Yihai from Nanjing from taking the opportunity to accept the territory, so his troops were insufficient.

The Han Dynasty had an elite army of 300,000. Although the troops were elite, one thousand could be worth 20,000 to 30,000, but when the territory was large, it seemed too few.

At that time, the Hongguang Dynasty had more than 500,000 troops in the four towns in Jiangbei alone, and Zuo Liangyu was even known as one million.

Although the elite Han army was not comparable to those miscellaneous soldiers, the number of people was indeed too small.

Therefore, Zhao Ming has decided to reorganize the surrendered army and expand the army by 500,000 to 600,000 in order to complete the hegemony of the world of Buwu.

At present, Zhao Ming can only activate some surrendered troops and generals, and can barely control the current territory and complete the strategy of Wuchang.

Zhao Ming originally planned to put Li Chengdong to the end and put him under house arrest until he died, but due to lack of troops, he had to re-activate Li Chengdong.

Even Fang Guoan, who surrendered, was entrusted by Zhao Ming with important tasks and took his troops to Jiangxi and collected all areas in northern Jiangxi.

At this time, Zhao Ming led 70,000 elite Han troops and 30,000 surrendered troops, a total of 100,000 horses and stomping, and was rushing towards Wuchang in a loud manner.

A few months ago, Li Chengdong surrendered to the Longwu Dynasty and then served as the vanguard of the Longwu army, attacking and killing all the way to the city of Nanjing.

Now, Li Chengdong has transformed himself into a front pawn of King Zhao Ming of Han, leading 20,000 troops to be the vanguard of the Han army and storm towards Wuchang.

Along the way, the Han army posted a list along the way, claiming that the struggle between the Tang and Lu struggle brought to the people. When the Han army attacked, they did not search the house, did not withdraw the number, and did not increase taxes, just to end the dispute and restore peace to the world.

Wherever the army went, it did not disturb the people or collect food, and urged Wuchang to surrender immediately.

However, the Han army soon discovered that the posting of this list was basically meaningless.

This does not mean that the ban text is not well written. In fact, the ban text of the Han army, under the banner of mediating and ending the war, and promises not to impose taxes or draw strong men, should be supported by the people.

The meaninglessness is that the troops of Longwu and Jianwu Dynasty were tug of war in Huguang and Jiangxi, and the two sides fought and killed each other. The people were plundered too ruthlessly. When they heard that Jianwu's troops were coming, and Du Yinxi made an advance publicity, they had already run away.

Seeing this, the Han army stopped talking nonsense. The army buried its head in the army and advanced westward against the Yangtze River at the end of March and arrived in the eastern suburbs of Wuchang.

Wuchang City is an important city in the world. At that time, the Ming and Qing dynasties and Huguang were tug-of-war, and the Ming army attacked Wuchang several times, but failed to capture it.

After the transformation of the Qing general Kong Youde, this city has become a gun city similar to Ningyuan Fort, with complete defensive facilities and even more difficult to fight than Nanjing.

At the end of March, Li Chengdong first arrived at the city of Wuchang, led the cavalry around the city, peeking at the city defense, and couldn't help but sigh.

Two years ago, the Jianwu army broke through all the way and entered Huguang and fought to Huangshi. It was one step away from Wuchang, but it was ultimately unable to get close to Wuchang.

Now he is a Han general, he finally came to the foot of Wuchang City. But looking at Wuchang’s majestic city, I’m afraid that even if Jianwu came to Wuchang, it would be difficult to capture this strong city.

Li Chengdong peeked for a while, and was about to take a closer look, a soldier rushed out of Wuchang City and rushed directly to the group.

Judging from the banner, it was Li Laiheng, the Ming general who had been fighting and retreating all the way from Anqing to Wuchang.

Seeing this, Li Chengdong pulled out his reins and flew away immediately to report to Zhao Ming.

On the second day of April, it was sunny, and in Wuchang City, Ming soldiers were busy carrying cannons, stones, arrows and other objects.

On the enemy platform where the city wall was extended, red cannons were covered with cloth, and the gunners were carrying gunpowder and shells.

After all, the Longwu court was established for fifteen years. Although the treasury was empty in two years and the loss of two major tax provinces in Fujian and Guangdong, the treasury was empty and the army lacked food and wages, there were still some weapons and equipment after the accumulation of fifteen years.

At this time, the Ming soldiers on the top of the city were busy, and Du Yinxi, Zheng Chenggong, Gao Yigong and others inspected the top of the city.

Everyone stood on an enemy platform, Du Yin looked outside the city, feeling quite nervous, and said to the two people beside him: "King Yanping, King Linqu, fighting is the business of the military ministers, and I will leave this Wuchang City to you."

The two of them hurriedly saluted and said seriously: "Remember the humble duty!"

Du Yinxi looked at the two of them deeply, nodded again, and then said, "At present, guarding Wuchang, our cabinet thinks the most difficult thing is the unstable morale in the city and the people are in panic. This is the amount of money that the cabinet will raise as soon as possible to reward the soldiers to stabilize the morale of the army. As for the difficulties in defending the city, it depends on you."

After He Tengjiao was killed, Fu Shangrui and Liu Chengyin fled and surrendered to Dongqing.

Du Yinxi was not ruthless this time, and he really had no choice but to copy the family resources of more than ten members of the Chu Party including He Tengjiao, Fu Shangrui, Liu Chengyin, and obtained a sum of silver and money. He was preparing to pay the owed wages first, and then find a way to get a sum to reward the soldiers.

When I heard the words of the senior high school master, I couldn't help but be overjoyed, "In this way, Master Ge really helped a lot."

For Wuchang, the biggest threat to defend the city is not from outside the city, but inside the city, for fear that people will be unstable and some will be betrayal.

After all, when attacking Nanjing before, such a strong city was attacked, the inner capital was extremely easy to be defeated due to internal rebellion.

Zheng Chenggong said: "The impact of Nanjing's defeat is still there. Even if the salary is paid, once the enemy is approaching the city, the city may change. In order to prevent rebellion, I suggest using stones to seal the city gates on the three walls on the southeast, north and north, leaving only the north city without sealing, and sending trustworthy confidants to prevent people from opening the city to meet the enemy."

Du Yinxi nodded and ordered: "According to King Yanping's words, go and do it immediately!"

An official saluted immediately and hurriedly went to make arrangements.

At this time, Gao Yigong said: "Wuchang City is tall and strong, such as enemy platforms, towers, women's walls, horse faces, and urns. Just the moat, if the enemy wants to detain the city, it will have to work hard for ten days and a half months. The only thing I worry about is the enemy's naval guns, which are afraid that warships will attack the moat from the river surface and directly board the city from the warships. However, I have asked someone to place artillery at a critical point, and the enemy should not be so easy to kill in."

Gao Yigong has a better speech about Wuchang city defense than Zheng Chenggong. He has been guarding Wuchang for many years and has a very good understanding of Wuchang's city defense.

At this time, Gao Yigong reached out and pulled the red cloth, revealing a red cannon, and sighed: "It's a pity that our army is nervous and there are not many flowering bullets, otherwise the enemy's army would not have enough hundreds of thousands of times to attack."

As he was talking, a strange thing suddenly appeared on the top of the city. The originally busy Ming soldiers stood up and looked east.

Seeing this, everyone could not help but turn their heads, and immediately stunned. More than ten miles away, a large area of ​​black things were moving slowly.
Chapter completed!