According to Duoduo's estimates, there are only a few hundred "real gold thieves" in Jiangnan Province, which is what the Ming people call Nanzhili, which is completely insignificant, but he obviously underestimated his old opponent.

In the first stage of the Jinhua Army's northern expedition, Liu Yongxi specially organized a number of detachments to infiltrate the territory of Nanzhili at all costs, and these detachments numbered as many as 3,500 and as few as 180.

Although there were many accidents in the middle, there were still thousands of armor soldiers who successfully entered the realm of Nanzhili, and later Liu Yongxi organized many infiltration operations against Nanzhili, and now the old troops of Jingkou Town in Nanzhili are more than 2,000 people, which is almost equivalent to the strength of Liu Yongxi who initially put into the battlefield of Huzhou and Jiaxing.

However, the reason why Duoduo has the illusion that "there are only a few hundred thieves in Jinhua" is largely because these Ming armies are scattered in dozens of prefectures and counties in Nanzhili, not because of the large-scale field battles with the Qing army in Zhejiang, but this is also Liu Yongxi's plan.

The current Great Qing State can be said to be the real peak situation, there are 120,000 troops under Duoduo alone, and the troops under the command of Azig are even more than Duoduo's troops, and there are many strategic reserves of the Qing army in the north, and with the power of Zhejiang Province, it is naturally impossible to resist the Great Qing State, which occupies most of China.

In this case, marching behind enemy lines is the best choice, after all, Jiangnan initially decided that Liu Yongxi used troops on the river again, and Duoduo did not have any spare troops to solve the Zhulu righteous army around him, and the Qing army unconsciously developed the Zhulu righteous division in the north.

But the "righteous teachers" alone can't really solve the problem, after all, these righteous teachers are often improvised armed farmers, fishermen, citizens, and merchants, and many righteous teachers can't even match their weapons, and the Qing army from the regular army can easily solve them.

Although the combat effectiveness of the old qualified Yue Ming army is good and can be supported by Zhejiang, the strength is limited, and the strength is limited, and it can only concentrate a few hundred people at most in Nanlizhi, and it will be covered by a large number of Qing troops under normal circumstances.

But after the combination of the Yue Ming army and the Zhulu righteous division, there is a very magical chain effect, and now the righteous army directly belonging to Empress Zhang and Liu Yongxi in Jiangsu has grown to nearly 20,000 people, taking advantage of the opportunity of Duoduo's main force to attack six or seven prefectures and counties in a row and annihilate a number of Qing troops, and the momentum is getting bigger and bigger, so that Duoduo and Li Shutai have the feeling of a fire in their backyards.

But although these arrangements are the credit of Liu Yongxi, Liu Yongxi generously gave up the credit: "Sister Xing, you have passed what you said, the edict of King Qin can only be sent out with the nod of Zhang Niangniang, and the edict of King Qin can have such a good effect, Sister Xing and Sister Xiangjun should be the first to take credit." ”

Mrs. Xing shook her head and said: "Xiangjun has indeed made great contributions to this matter, if she hadn't preached it with her heart, the power of this edict would be half at most, but our old husband and wife don't have to boast so much, it's all Xiangjun's credit!" ”

Mrs. Xing's comment is indeed true, half of the credit for this edict belongs to Liu Yongxi and Empress Zhang, and the other half of the credit belongs to Li Xiangjun, a strange woman from Qinhuaihe.

Mrs. Xing didn't expect Li Xiangjun to do this thing so beautifully, she copied and engraved thousands of copies of King Qin's edict in the first time, which was an unprecedented feat in Mrs. Xing's impression.

After all, in this time and space, although it is a very common phenomenon to engrave books and print books, but the scale is very limited, the number of one-time engraved books is often only a few hundred or even dozens of copies, after all, the loss of engraving is amazing, and it is already an incredible thing that a book can be printed at one time to reach 500 copies.

But Li Xiangjun copied and engraved thousands of copies of the edict of King Qin in one breath and delivered it to every state and county in the entire Jiangnan for the first time, and she also personally went into battle and sang and danced, so that everyone knew the true meaning of this edict of King Qin, and it was this comprehensive mobilization that made this edict of King Qin play an incredible role, and the anti-Qing forces in the entire Jiangnan were mobilized because of this edict of King Qin.

But Li Xiangjun didn't dare to take credit, she smiled at Mrs. Xing Yingying: "Since they are all old husbands and wives, everyone doesn't have to brag about themselves, it's all the credit of the mother, I just do it according to the mother's wishes!" ”

Although Li Xiangjun said modestly, her eyes were a little mysterious when she looked at Empress Zhang, and of course Empress Zhang knew what Li Xiangjun wanted to say: "Where is my credit, it is all the credit of Yue Guogong, Yue Guogong, I think your name should be changed!" ”

Liu Yongxi is now the generalissimo of the Yue Kingdom and the generalissimo of the world's soldiers and horses, in a sense, there is no seal, after all, according to the practice of the Ming Dynasty, although the generals have the first rank of the king, but they are not sealed first but posthumously sealed, if Liu Yongxi wants to go further, it is to break the precedent of the Ming Dynasty.

Liu Yongxi didn't expect that Empress Zhang and Mrs. Xing would reach a consensus on this issue, so he immediately replied: "Niangniang, you are in a hurry to use soldiers now, don't you rush to change your name?" Now that I can serve as the generalissimo of the world's soldiers and horses as the Duke of Yue, I am already deeply grateful to the emperor! ”

It's just that Yu Huang, the secretary of the military department headed by Liu Yongxi, has already understood the true meaning of Empress Zhang: "Yue Guogong, you are too humble, and at this time of life and death, you naturally need to order the three armies in a more appropriate name, otherwise it will make the soldiers of the three armies feel cold!" ”

The generals present didn't understand what kind of medicine Empress Zhang and Mrs. Xing were selling in the gourd, but now Yu Huang understood everything as soon as he said this, Empress Zhang wanted everyone to persuade King Yue!

And if Liu Yongxi can be crowned the king of Yue, everyone can follow the rising tide, even if he can't be crowned a duke, there is always hope for a marquis and earl!

Empress Zhang was particularly generous to Liu Yongxi, and named him the generalissimo of the Yue Kingdom and the generalissimo of the world's soldiers and horses, but she was a little harsh on the military generals under the Yue Guogong.

But if Liu Yongxi can become the king of Yue, everyone will naturally become an earl and a marquis, which can be said to be the ultimate dream of a martial artist, so the generals present have become hot no matter what their background: "Duke Yue, don't be too modest, your credit to the king of Yue is absolutely no problem!" ”

"Yes, it is a good thing for the country and the court that you are the king of Yue!"

"You have crowned the king of Yue, and our brothers will have hope and hope if they follow you!"

Some people are afraid that Liu Yongxi will not understand the mystery of this, so they said directly: "Only if you are promoted to the king of Yue, our group of old brothers will have the opportunity to be promoted to the rank of knight, do you think it is right for the Duke of Yue!" ”

Soon a consensus was formed on this matter, and Liu Yongxi naturally did not want to do it against everyone's intentions: "Niangniang appreciates, you brothers show love, then I can only be disrespectful, but now there is no suitable name, only by repelling this round of offensive of the Qing army, I have the courage to take on such a heavy task!" ”

For the Ming army commanded by Liu Yongxi, King Qin's edict had mobilized all his forces and even carried out a certain degree of overdraft to maintain an equal situation with the main force of the Eight Banners, but now after Empress Zhang raised the issue of Liu Yongxi's promotion to the king of Yue, these generals present suddenly had motivation again.

Their performance in the next few days will determine the most critical direction of their lives, and the first batch of people who can be crowned uncles and marquis are naturally the most powerful people in the new dynasty, so the Qing army encountered big trouble in the next two days.

"Big trouble" is not enough to describe the trouble encountered by the Qing army, Duoduo couldn't help but frown and asked: "It's all the same musket and the same medicine, why do I always think that the firearms of the Jinhua thieves are more difficult to deal with?" ”

After fighting in the past few days, Duoduo found that the heavy armor that the Eight Banners soldiers were most proud of had met a real nemesis, although from the perspective of shape, the arquebuses equipped by the Ming army were almost the same as the arquebuses encountered outside the Guan, the only difference was that the Jinhua thieves preferred to concentrate firepower in a short-range salvo, but the elite of the Eight Banners wearing heavy armor fell again and again in the Ming army's row of guns.

And even if there is a more intensive rain of bullets outside the pass, the armor soldiers of the Eight Banners are often unscathed or only suffer a small setback, unlike the Jinhua thief in front of him, every shot and bullet may be fatal, in two days alone, the Manchurian Eight Banners alone have killed and injured nearly 1,000 people, and there are more war dead than war wounded, and what is more troublesome is that most of the war wounded are seriously wounded, and dozens of people die every day.

This made Duoduo completely unable to understand that the burning stick in the hands of the Ming army suddenly turned into a big killing weapon, and although the Eight Banners generals present had a very deep understanding of firearms, they still couldn't understand the reason for the change, but Li Taishu suddenly thought of something, and he asked Kong Youde: "Gongshun Wang, you are the most firearmed, do you know what is going on?" ”

Kong Youde has also been anxious for the past two days, although he tried every means to dispatch the firearms battalion, but he always lost to the Ming army in the competition, so as soon as he opened his mouth, he shirked the responsibility: "Lord Wang, all of you, the Jinhua thief's firearms are indeed powerful, but the reason why they are so sharp I think they are using Western manipulation, and they must have Western instructors in the army!" ”

As soon as it came to Western exercises and Western instructors, Kong Youde suddenly came to his senses: "Anyway, the Jinhua thief will definitely not be able to do this game without Western instructors, maybe the muskets, medicines, and lead they use are all imported from the West!" ”

Kong Youde said this, Duoduo can finally understand the same muskets, medicines, and leads, and when encountering ordinary Ming troops, the Eight Banners soldiers can be as powerful as bamboos, and when they encounter Jinhua thieves, they always have not many ways, but this also makes him confident: "It seems that Jinhua thieves have exhausted all means before they think of such a passive way to be beaten, and they have more and more recruits, the opportunity is on our side, everyone is stable, Jinhua thieves' tricks are about to run out!" ”

After these two days of fighting, Duoduo finally had a correct understanding of the Jinhua thief in front of him, although there were 30,000 Jinhua thieves in front of him, but half of them were recruits who had not been in the army for a long time, as long as they continued to consume, the victory must belong to the Qing Dynasty.