The victory in the Battle of Shaoxing Mansion made Hangzhou Mansion happy.

Although he had long expected the good battle of Zhenguo Gong Wu Zheng, when victory really came, this pride of "I'll just say it" was enough to cause the people to go crazy.

I don't know when the Ming people of Hangzhou began to get used to victory.

The literati and students of Hangzhou Prefecture spontaneously held poetry meetings in and around the West Lake to praise Wu Zheng's merits.

In particular, hundreds of ships of grain from the granary of Daoxu were transported to Hangzhou, which caused the market to fall due to the sudden rise in rice prices due to the war, and the people were all happy.

Foreign merchant ships that had been stranded at Wusongkou to escape the war began to enter the port one after another.

And because of this, the docking of the two big ships made Wu Zhengxin, who was worried about the lack of troops, happy.

At the beginning of the campaign, there were 15,000 troops from Hangzhou to Shaoxing, including the three divisions of Li Ruhai, Lu Zhiyu and Zhou Dahu.

The army that could return to Hangzhou with Wu Zheng, except for the cavalry, was less than 8,000 people.

Zhou Dahuwen suffered the heaviest casualties.

With such a force, without repairing, it is probably inappropriate to take Changzhou to attack Zhenjiang, which is also the reason why Wu Zheng only wants to lead the cavalry north, of course, the speed of the march is also one of the important reasons.

And the 30,000 recruits who have just been recruited are not useful without training.

But now it's different, Wei Kuangguo is back.

Wu Zheng heard the news and personally went to the dock to greet him.

With Wei Kuangguo came 200 craftsmen, two ships of muskets, and 120 artillery pieces, which consumed all the gains that Mo had made in the grain price war—more than one million taels of silver.

To Wu Zheng's surprise, it was obvious that the number of people who disembarked was far more than two hundred, and at a cursory glance, there were at least six or seven hundred.

Privately, Wei Kuangguo explained that this was an arrangement of the Holy See.

The Holy See believes that it is in their interest to cultivate a power in the Far East that is receptive to God.

"Of course, the good remuneration you offer is also the reason why they are so popular." Wei Kuangguo pointed to the crowd who were disembarking and smiled bitterly, "Your Excellency may not know, twenty pounds can even make them betray God. ”

Wu Zheng laughed and said, "Mr. Wei will be paid much more than them, and my father guarantees that it will be so much that you can't think of it." ”

Wei Kuangguo shook his head again and again and said: "No, no, this is not what I want, what I want is for the imperial court to support me in Jiangnan to preach." ”

"Of course you can, not only in Jiangnan, but soon you can also go to Jiangbei to preach."

Wei Kuangguo asked in surprise, "Could it be that Your Excellency is planning to attack the Qing court in the north?" ”

Wu Zheng pointed to the group of craftsmen and said: "With so many craftsmen, I can let the Qing court know that their artillery technology, which was originally ahead of the Ming Dynasty, is now outdated, whether it is in the casting of artillery, or in the tactics of using artillery, of course, they will not know the significance of musketeers for future wars." ”

I don't want Wei Kuangguo to shake his head again and again: "No, no." Your Excellency may have misunderstood, but only three hundred of these people were craftsmen. ”

Wu Zheng was stunned, "Then who else is there?" ”

Wei Kuangguo explained: "There are also 500 retired soldiers recruited by the Holy See for Your Excellency, who are proficient in musket shooting and can train soldiers for Your Excellency. ”

Wu Zheng was overjoyed when he heard this, "Very good...... Very good! ”

After saying that, he warmly hugged Wei Kuangguo, and Wei Kuangguo said urgently: "However, Your Excellency may not know that the remuneration of these retired soldiers requires thirty pounds a Chinese New Year's Eve. ”

Wu Zheng was stunned.

Wei Kuangguo obviously misunderstood Wu Zheng's meaning, thinking that Wu Zheng was too expensive, and the artilleryman was only twenty pounds a year, and he explained: "The Far East in the war is training soldiers for Your Excellency, and they need to risk their deaths. Obviously, their lives are much more than thirty pounds, right? ”

Wu Zheng patted Wei Kuangguo on the shoulder and said, "You're right, go and tell them that as they wish, and in addition, as long as they do their best, I can pay the best of them forty pounds a year." ”

Wei Kuangguo's eyes widened and he exclaimed, "Oh my God, Your Excellency is really generous!" The Lord will bless you. ”

But then, Wu Zheng's words made Wei Kuangguo suddenly change his attitude, from praise to anger.

Wu Zheng said: "Since they are soldiers who are proficient in shooting, they just go with me to fight." ”

Wei Kuangguo looked at Wu Zheng in astonishment, "Your Excellency, did I hear it wrong?" ”

"No, you heard it right."

"God...... They're here to train soldiers for you, not to fight this damn war, are you trying to kill them? No...... No, you're murder! ”

Murder or kill them.

There will be brave men under the great reward.

When Wu Zheng increased the remuneration for participating in the war to one pound a day, and promised that there would be no danger to his life, and if he unfortunately suffered casualties, he would compensate one person for 100 pounds, the 500 people cheered wildly around Wu Zheng.

Wei Kuangguo, who was angry and ready to protest strongly, squeezed to the outermost part of the crowd.

……。

The combination of Zheng Chenggong and Zhang Huangyan was not conceived by Wu Zheng patting his head.

In fact, this combination made the Qing army suffer a lot in history.

If it weren't for Zheng Chenggong's three consecutive northern expeditions across the sea that were blocked, which consumed his mind and gave rise to negative thoughts, this combination might have really restored half of the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, Duoduo's 80,000 troops, even attacking Fuzhou City for ten days, it was difficult to gnaw down this fortified city that resisted the enemy with one heart.

The attrition of troops on both sides is significant.

So big that Duoduo had to temporarily stop the attack, and in the city of Fuzhou, it was even more miserable, 60,000 were temporarily recruited, and more than 10,000 casualties were killed in just one day of defending the city.

Fortunately, it was the beginning of the year, and the weather was not yet hot, otherwise the corpses under the three walls alone would very likely cause a large-scale plague.

When Dodor was running out of options, Bolo offered a plan.

That is to order Zheng Zhilong to lead his troops to Fuzhou and attack Nancheng.

Duoduo adopted Bolo's strategy, and immediately ordered Zheng Zhilong, who was on standby in Anping, to lead his troops north to help the Qing army attack Fuzhou.

At the same time, Duoduo's herald was sweeping the departments of Dorobelle Lekedehun in Xinghua, Quanzhou, and Zhangzhou counties, and led his army to move closer to Fuzhou.

History has undergone some minor changes here, and if Wu Zheng had not led his troops to cross the sea to the south, Zhu Yujian would have continued to flee south until he was arrested and killed.

Bolo, who quickly pacified Fujian, would allow Zheng Zhilong to be the governor of Fujian and Guangdong, and then lured Zheng Zhilong to accompany him to the north to meet in Shuntianfu, plus house arrest.

But now, due to the sudden appearance of Wu Zheng, Zhu Yujian was not captured, and forced Li Chengdong to surrender, with his headquarters as the main force, to collect the Ming army of the Longwu Dynasty, and Zheng Chenggong led his troops to return to Fuzhou, and Zhang Huangyan, Huang Daozhou, etc., built Fuzhou City into an iron bucket.

Bolo no longer has the conditions to return to Beijing to report on his work, and naturally there will be no move to lure Zheng Zhilong to Shuntian Mansion under house arrest.