Quzhou, not only takes the name of thoroughfare, but also connects Zhejiang, Nanzhili, Fujian and Jiangxi provinces. Looking at ancient China, the name of the Longyou merchant gang can also be listed after the Jin merchants and Hui merchants.

Because Quzhou borders Huizhou, the business exchanges between the Longyou Merchants and the Huizhou Merchants are extremely frequent. Goods from Zhejiang and Jiangxi entered Huizhou through this, and the same is true for bulk tea, silk and other goods in Fujian. Some are just directly from northern Fujian through Xianxia Pass into Quzhou, or through Wenzhou and Chuzhou, and rely on Songyang to transport to Quzhou.

In peacetime, trade exchanges, these two routes are very busy. Today, the southern part of Quzhou has been reduced to a battlefield. The trade routes were cut off, and the governments of both sides also set up blockades on the border, and the usual trade routes were no longer used.

Officially, this is naturally the case. But in this world, making a profit is indispensable for taking risks. There is no drama in Xianxia Pass, after all, no one can play smuggling under Zheng Chenggong's nose, it is all the little tricks played by the Zheng Group. However, on the line from Funing Prefecture to Wenzhou, on the trail between hills and mountains and forests, the small caravan was guarded by men with swords and money rat tails, and they did not dare to make a big noise, but they sneaked towards the destination, lest they be discovered by the Ming and Qing troops who were patrolling.

On the other hand, there is a saying that keeping hair is obedient to the people and shaving hair is a refugee, so it is convenient for people like them to run around in the Ming and Qing dynasties all year round, and it is also convenient to keep a money rat tail.

In fact, most of the people who can make a living like this kind of brainless business are filial piety in both black and white, and even the people in the government are involved. However, it is wartime, the Ming army and the Qing army are fighting a war of attrition in Quzhou day and night, and the tug of war in Taizhou and the attack on Ningshao are also cut off one day.

Smuggling teams travel along the paths, and although there are not many goods, they have always been scarce and expensive in this world. Nowadays, the trade routes of Fujian and Zhejiang provinces have been cut off, and the profits of goods will naturally increase significantly, and it is such huge profits that prompt them to take risks.

From Funing Prefecture to Wenzhou Fucheng, from Fu'an, go to Shouning, pass Taishun, board the boat on the Anyang River, the follow-up journey, Wenzhou's local partners have already arranged, up and down the dot properly, not as dangerous as the border. However, taking such a route is helpless after all. For example, the original caravan used to go to Tongshan Fort, Fenshui Pass, all the way along the official road of Wenzhou through the Qiancang River, go to Pingyang County, through Feiyun Pass to Ruian County, and finally north to the Wenzhou Mansion on the bank of the Ou River, all the way to the mountains and dangers are really a lot, and the time and energy consumed are by no means comparable to the former.

It was easy to arrive at the capital of Wenzhou, and the goods were unloaded, and they were not needed on the next journey. At this time, it was already nightfall, and besides, the boat and car were tiring, so I had to rest all night before leaving for Fujian.

"The situation has not been good recently, and the city is checking tightly, so don't leave the inn if you can, so as not to get into unnecessary trouble."

"Don't worry, we'll know what matters."

When the goods arrive, they cannot return empty. This night, it stands to reason that the goods sent to Fujian should also be ready. However, the situation was not good, the ground was not quiet, and the goods were not collected for a while, so this smuggling team could only continue to stop for a few days.

In the next two days, two more smuggling teams came to the city one after another. With so many Fujianese in the city, the local government and the green camp are inevitably a little nervous. However, money can make ghosts grind, this principle is still common to ancient and modern China and foreign countries, the silver is in place, and the size of the three smuggling teams together is only about 100 people, which is completely negligible compared to the two thousand green battalions stationed in the city, and the worries can naturally be thrown aside.

The goods were gathered a few hours after the arrival of the third smuggling team, but unfortunately the gates were closed at that time, so they had to wait until tomorrow to set out. The gates were closed, and before the sun could literally cross the horizon, the curfew in the city had already begun.

This Wenzhou capital city was built during the Jin Taining period. It is said that at that time, it was the Jin Dynasty genius Guo Pu who was responsible for site selection and design, and his design concept was quite advanced, and he saw that "several peaks are staggered, such as Beidou, and Huagai Mountain locks the mouth of the bucket", so it is recommended to cross the mountain as the city, and carry out the urban layout with the principle of leaning on the river, negative mountain, passing water and East Temple, South City, West Ju, and North Port.

Guo Pu's design makes the structure of Wenzhou Mansion City quite easy to defend and difficult to attack, even if it is still a medieval city wall. For example, at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, Fangla rebelled, and in just three months, it swept through the land of Mu, She, Hangzhou, Wu, Qu, and six states, but in the face of Wenzhou, it was a fierce attack for more than 40 days, and the city could not be broken. Fang La is like this, the Jiajing and Japanese rebellion in the Ming Dynasty, the Japanese repeatedly invaded the coastal provinces of Suzhou, Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangzhou, etc., and captured many cities. In the forty-third year of Jiajing, the Japanese invaded Hangzhou and burned down the Leifeng Pagoda. In the eleven years from the 31st to the 42nd year of Jiajing, Wenzhou City was invaded by the Japanese invaders six times, but the Japanese invaders failed to enter the city.

This is in response to the sentence that Guo Pu said after the city more than 1,000 years ago: "If the city surrounds the mountain, it should be rich and prosperous, but it will inevitably be wary; If the city is in the mountain, it will not enter the fight, but it can be safe and easy for a long time. ”

The city of Wenzhou is easy to defend and difficult to attack, which is a clear proof that it has been surrendered for thousands of years. But Rao is so, the security of Wenzhou City here is still very strict, it is really because although Wenzhou City has an advantageous terrain, it is located in the lower reaches of the Oujiang River, only dozens of miles away from the sea. At the mouth of the Oujiang River, the Dongtou Islands, where the Ming fleet was entrenched, were stuck in Wenzhou Bay, just like Chongming on the Yangtze River and Zhoushan off Ningbo.

The commander of the Ming fleet that occupied this place was precisely Zhou Rui, the Marquis of Min'an, who was entrenched here.

Back then, the Zhou brothers parted ways, and it was in this Wenzhou Sanpan. But after joining the Zheng Group over the years, the strength of Zhou Rui's department is much stronger than when the brothers joined forces before.

The large Fu Ship and the Guang Boat were on the side, and the shadow shrouded the hearts of the Qing army, and the black hole of the cannon of that gate made their eyes widen and their mouths dry.

The Ming fleet cruised along the coast, covering and connecting the passage between Fujian and Taizhou and Zhoushan, and even attacked and disturbed the prefecture and county from time to time. When the poor Taizhou naval division of the Qing army had long ceased to exist, the coastal areas of Wenzhou had long been overwhelmed. Although the local Qing army was expanded from a 2,000-strong town to a 3,000-strong town shortly after Fujian fell into the hands of the Ming army, plus some troops who held the key points, it still seemed to tremble in the face of the actual threat of the Ming army.

Zheng Chenggong swore in Fuzhou to the Northern Expedition so far, the Ming army in Zhoushan and Taizhou is only a partial division, and the scale of the war is not too large, and it is basically concentrated in Quzhou. In Wenzhou, it is roughly like Zhoushan and Taizhou, and even inferior. However, even so, the local area is still inevitably affected.

The city was defended, and the Qing army was tightly guarded. In the city, a curfew system is enforced. The city was densely packed with torches, and the soldiers patrolling were continuous, lest they be attacked by the Ming army at night.

This was true in the past, and it is true today. However, when the Ming army's artillery fire sounded, it was swarthy, if it wasn't for the firelight, I was afraid that the cannonballs were bombarded on the city wall, and it was difficult to judge for a while that this sudden attack would actually come from the Ming warships on the Oujiang River.

"Enemy attack!"

With roars, fires, and vibrations, the Qing army on the city wall was like a bird in the forest, and there was a commotion. The officers, who were quite experienced, hurriedly organized the non-commissioned officers to defend - informing the commander-in-chief and county officials, organizing the people, carrying the guards, assigning battlements, gun emplacements, etc., etc., etc., and they were so busy that they were very happy. Obviously, the sentry posts and fortresses set up by the Qing army on the Jiangxinzhou and along the river over the years were either successfully attacked by the Ming army, or successfully rebelled by the Ming army, otherwise the Ming warships attacked the Oujiang River, and they would never be as ignorant as they are now!

This is a deliberate attack, and it is bound to be thunderous. Sure enough, it didn't take too long for the two armies of the Ming and Qing dynasties to smear and shoot at each other, and in the direction of the south of the city, the firelight in the distance was dotted, like a sudden river, flowing in the direction of Fucheng.

At this point, there is no need to have the slightest suspicion, the Qing army defending the city is fully mobilized, and the county government also urges the small officials and Li Zheng to organize the people. In the dim night of southern Zhejiang, the lights of Wenzhou City are bright, and the chickens and dogs are jumping, which seems to be louder than the movement outside the city.

With the passage of time, the Qing army hurriedly prepared, and the Ming army also rushed to the city at the speed of a rapid march, and sent a large number of troops at the first time, carrying a series of ladders straight to the city wall. And at this time, they didn't even have time to reorganize the formation!

The Ming army's impatient siege of the city was really unexpected by the Qing army. However, with the "early warning" of the previous shelling, the defenders also had relatively more time to prepare. In terms of the odds of victory, the disconnect between the Ming army's naval division and the land division has affected the effect of the raid, and even if it were not for the dark night, the Qing army would not dare to rashly go out of the city to fight, but I am afraid that Liu Wenxiu's Changde fiasco will appear today.

Such a precedent, for an experienced military general like a guard general, even if he can't cite a few examples, he can still see the Ming army's manipulation at the moment. It's just that under such a night, he never dared to go out of the city easily, for fear of being ambushed by the Ming army. What's more, in the distance, it seems that the number of the Ming army is no less than four or five times that of the defenders, and this gap is still expanding.

"Come on, strictly monitor the movements in the city, but if there is the slightest abnormal movement, it is better to kill the wrong person than let it go!"

With the precedent of Jiangxinzhou and the sentry posts and fortresses along the river, this Wenzhou general soldier could also feel intuitively that the Ming army would inevitably sneak into the city, which made him feel a huge sense of crisis.

Just in case, the chief officer quickly prepared to be in order. As a result, not too long passed, with the Ming and Qing armies around the city wall of the offensive and defensive battles fiercely, in the city not too far from the county government inn fire, and quickly spread to the periphery.

"Fast, suppress the fine work as quickly as possible, regardless of men and women, no matter what they kill!"

At the sound of the order, the contingency force that had been prepared immediately set off. The chief officer looked at the back of the contingency force rapidly advancing towards the place of the incident, and felt a little relieved. It's just that before he turned his head back and refocused on the siege battle with the earth-shattering shouting of killing, he only felt a chill on his neck, and a steel knife was already on his neck.

"You're going to betray the court!"

The line of sight extends on the blade of the knife, and after three feet, it has reached the hilt. There, the trembling arms were holding the steel knife tightly, and it was already sweating profusely. And looking further back, a familiar face was full of shrinkage and guilt.

"Dashuai, the last general has seen with his own eyes how Fujian was lost. With the surname of the country and Chen Fujun here, the Tartars will be driven out sooner or later. Now ......"

"How dare you betray the Lord and be ungrateful?"

The anger of the chief officer provoked the officer to grit his teeth fiercely. In the next second, the sword flashed, and the head that was still angry broke away from the shackles of his body. And this scene has become a signal. The shout of "the city is broken, and the Ming army has entered the city" quickly sounded on the head of the city. Suddenly, the defenders, who were still trying their best to fight the Ming army, and even occupied a geographical advantage, dispersed in a scream.