The situation is changing rapidly, and it is clear that it is constantly deteriorating.

Time is running out, the military order is issued, and the grain and grass in the counties and warehouses are constantly being transported to the ship. However, this was only for the follow-up operation, but in a few days, the right vanguard town, which was the vanguard of the army, set out in advance, and their target was not Sanheba in the upper reaches of the Han River, but the county seat of Raoping County.

In later generations, the county seat of Raoping County was located in Huanggangbao, but in this era, it was in Xiarao Fort, which was in the capital of Xiange, that is, Sanrao Town. In the thirteenth year of Ming Chenghua, Raoping set up a county, and there was a soil city built here, which was thought to be the place of governance. Up to now, it has been based on the local tyrants, and their position is unclear, blindly resisting the levy.

Persuasion has been proven to be ineffective, but when the army of the right vanguard town suddenly appeared under the city and put on a siege posture, the attitude inside immediately softened. Not only did they belong to Zheng Chenggong's banner, but they also did not have the slightest complaint about the food and grain, the only condition was that they were still stationed here, but Yang Cai and Guo Tai, who came from Huanggang, did not hesitate, the cannon collapsed the city wall, and a county town was taken down with just a charge, and the original local tyrants were tied up and sent to Chaozhou and handed over to Zheng Chenggong for disposal.

Guo Tai has been in charge of the local affairs of Raoping County for some time, but he has always been squatting in Huanggang, and is not allowed to settle in the county seat, which is a big grievance, even if the garrison Huanggang also has the intention of dividing the water and stamina, but it is inevitable. Yang Cai and Guo Tai were originally robes in the army, and they had a good relationship, so they wanted to give this bad breath to their old brothers. As for the local tyrant, he can only admit that he is unlucky, and there is nothing else to do.

Starting from Raoping County, Zheng Chenggong's control of his troops penetrated deep into the central region, and began to threaten Dapu County in the north and Sanheba, an important town in Dapu County. Guo Tai is responsible for the defense here, but the task is not light, not only the problem of local guests, but also the ancestor of the She nationality in the southwest of the county.

However, in this era, many later generations of southern ethnic minorities were not very different from the Han people, but the problem of the contradiction between the Turks and the Hakka was more conspicuous, which also formed some unique customs and cultural characteristics of the Hakka people, such as the Hakka walled houses.

After Guo Tai's department arrived, he began to control the surrounding villages and towns. The right pioneer town returned to the east bank of the Han River, as the flank of the army, waiting for the northward pace of Rongqi Town and the left pioneer town.

Without Yang Cai having to wait long, these two heavy troops set out in a big way and went north along the Han River, with the goal of Sanheba. At the same time, Zhong Kuangbo Zhang Jin also led Qinding Town, Zhongchong Town, Zuochong Town, Youchong Town, and the newly formed Qianchong Town to follow, planning to follow the Hanjiang-Meixi route to Chengxiang County to cover the flank of the army.

Zhang Jin's troops did not mention it, it was nothing more than the task of covering and isolating, and the army of 5,000 soldiers led by Zheng Chenggong was the key to the whole battle, because they had to eradicate Wu Liuqi, the most powerful tyrant in northern Chaozhou, so that the Ming army could restore the rule of northern Chaozhou.

Wu Liuqi's Sanhe Dam, as the name suggests, is the confluence of the three rivers Meixi, Tingjiang and Qingyuan River to form the Han River. Its strategic significance is important, the city with a brick and stone structure was built in the Ming Dynasty, much stronger than the earthen city of Raoping County, the Nanchang Uprising in later generations, when the rebel army transferred into Guangdong, it also fought a very famous resistance battle here, and it was also made into a movie decades later.

The wall of Sanheba is 1,547 meters long, 4.5 meters high, 2.4 meters wide at the top and 3.3 meters wide at the bottom. The whole city wall is equipped with 918 butterflies and 4 gates, which is a place that is not easy to attack. However, although Wu Liuqi's troops have good combat effectiveness, their numbers are limited, and the two thousand or so soldiers and horses really can't compare with the army of thousands or tens of thousands under Zheng Chenggong's command. Therefore, the last time Zheng Chenggong rescued Shi Lang, he chose to retreat, and this time when the Ming army attacked again, he did not dare to defend here, so he simply retreated to Dapu County, and fought against the enemy together with the local tyrant Jianglong.

Like Raoping County, the county seat of Dapu in this era was not in Huliao Town in later generations, but in Chayang Town, which flowed up the Sanheba Ting River. With the Sanhe Dam in general, it is also the city built during the Jiajing period, the scale is almost the same as the Sanhe Dam, "choose the place according to the trade-off, build the city according to the mountain, sit in the south and face the north", there is a tea mountain as a barrier, the peak of the crane top is the horn, although it is remote and good, but it is more easy to defend and difficult to attack.

Wu Liuqi and Jiang Long were originally a little dirty, but the momentum of Zheng Chenggong's army sweeping Chaozhou is irreversible, and these local tyrants can only huddle together to keep warm, otherwise, like Xu Long and Yang Hu, they can only be broken by each other.

"Brother Jiang, how are the officers and soldiers in Tingzhou?"

Yongding County, which is adjacent to Tingzhou Prefecture in Fujian, discovered Zheng Chenggong's intention to go north as early as the Xizuo on the side of Chaozhou Prefecture, so they hurriedly asked for help from the Qing army in Tingzhou Prefecture. Zheng Chenggong will divide his troops into two routes at Sanheba, which they don't know, but whether it is the more than 10,000 troops before the division of troops or the 5,000 troops after the division of troops, it is difficult for them to resist. However, Wu Liuqi's army had already retreated to Dapu County, and they were divided into camps and stood in separate villages, but they still didn't see the shadow of half of the Qing army, and they couldn't help but be anxious.

However, Wu Liuqi is like this, but Jiang Long also has a bitter face, and when he heard Wu Liuqi's anxious question, he sighed even more heartily, and only then did he bring out the cruel reality.

"The officials and soldiers of Yongding County said that we are not within their jurisdiction, and we are not under the management of the Yamen of the Southern Jiangxi Governor. If it is an official army, it is not allowed to leave the place of faith without permission, let alone trespass into their defense area, otherwise it will be directly exterminated as a rogue, and it will not be tolerated. ”

"What, what?"

Hearing this, Rao is heart is as determined as he is, and he inevitably saw a dark in front of him, and he almost failed to stand firm. Wu Liuqi knew very well the meaning of this statement, Tingzhou Mansion was under the jurisdiction of the Yamen of the Southern Jiangxi Governor, and they did not recognize Wu Liuqi's so-called identity as a Qing army. is even more reluctant to set themselves on fire for the sake of these "black households".

In fact, it is no wonder that Wu Liuqi is the local force temporarily recognized by Li Chengdong and Tong Yangjia when they entered Guangdong, and has not yet been incorporated into the green camp system of the Qing army. Now that Li Chengdong and Tong Yangjia are anyway, they don't even have an "introducer", who can still trust their identity as a Qing army. In addition, Zheng Chenggong's strength is not a bandit, and Ganzhou, where the Yamen of the Southern Jiangxi Governor is located, was still under the threat of Li Chengdong not long ago, and he was also strictly ordered to defend all parts of the jurisdiction, who would dare to provoke Zheng Chenggong for no reason.

"Then, what about the officers and soldiers in Zhangzhou?"

"Uncle Jian, it's inappropriate for the foolish brother to say something, we can't count on the officials and soldiers in Zhangzhou. They were calculated by Zhu Chenggong at the water division last year, and now Zhu Chenggong is in the south and Zheng Cai in the east, and they are still too busy to take care of themselves, let alone come to help us. ”

Jiang Long was telling the truth, Wu Liuqiyan couldn't understand the truth. However, Zheng Chenggong is menacing, they are absolutely difficult to resist with their own strength, and now there are no reinforcements, and the situation like Shi Lang earlier has now fallen on the heads of their "Qing army".

"No, let's go down. The national surname can reuse the big slap, you and my brother are not better than that reckless man, how bad can it be? ”

"Are you crazy?!"

In the face of Jiang Long's persuasion, Wu Liuqi stood up even as soon as he was free. Next, such as the Manchurian Eight Banners are invincible in the world, and now it will be difficult to descend the Ming army and then return to it, just like Xu Long persuaded the Xu clan relatives at the beginning, out of Wu Liuqi's mouth, he will show his might for my Qing Dynasty again. It's a pity that Xu Long is the patriarch, and Yu Xu's clan has great prestige, but the relationship between Wu Liuqi and Jiang Long is just an ally, and in the end, no one can convince anyone, so they have to compromise with each other, planning to look at the wind in the back.

Fortunately, he still knows something about Jiang Long, this is a guy who wants to be the emperor of the local soil, he has no big ambitions, Wu Liuqi won the battle, and even held on for a few days, and when he was tired of the Ming army, he could exchange the conditions for guarding here, and at most give some grain, grass and silver money every year, but it was also said that Jiang Long moved some thoughts.

It's just that he returned to the camp outside the city, Wu Liuqi's heart was already cold - a strong enemy was coming, there were no reinforcements outside, and the allies inside also had different aspirations, and there was really no way to fight this battle, but he was not like Xu Long, he could still sail and escape, and now he had no way to go, and it could be said that he had fallen into death.

"Unexpectedly, I, Wu Liuqi, am going to die here?"