Battle of Quzhou......

In fact, there was no defensive battle, but it was fought on a small scale in the first two days.

Those gentry and nephews did come back with a fierce slaughter and wanted to severely punish the people, but their soldiers were not interested, they were not beaten to death by the group, and even many of the soldiers' relatives shouted at them on the city wall! The cavalry that had arrived first on the first day tried to storm the city, but was immediately halted by a deterrent bombardment of artillery and muskets, and the next day the infantry arrived and stormed the walls with ladders, only to be the first soldier to emerge from the scene crashing into his brother and being slapped back by his brother.

The rest saw that this was the case on the city wall, and then they were defeated and retreated.

That night, the soldiers broke up.

This kind of battle is a fart, if you don't defect, you will be worthy of your conscience, and then there are wives and children scolding yourself on the city wall!

Hurry up and break up!

That night, the soldiers of the Quzhou Brigade dispersed in a hurry, went to the neighborhood to find relatives and friends to drink, and then on the morning of the third day, the gentry could only beat their chests under the city wall like abandoned women and curse the people in the city.

And then the same broke up.

They also understand that the tide is turning.

Some of them still wanted to resist, turned east to Jinhua to join the main force, and some of them completely lost confidence in the future, simply ran west to Jiangxi, and then accompanied their disband, Jiangshan and Changshan also broke out similar popular uprisings, Jiangshan gentry Xueshen Baoxu fled to Xianxia Pass to Fujian Tuanlian for help, but Zheng Zhilong finally refused to send troops.

Or that the Fujian gentry refused to rescue the Zhejiang gentry.

They're not stupid.

Yang Xin's target does not include Fujian.

Yang Xin had already made it clear that what he wanted was Nanzhili and Zhejiang, and that the Fujian gentry could provide arms for the Zhejiang gentry, anyway, the latter would give money, and it would be okay to support them morally, which was nothing more than to write a few Huanghuang Xiong articles, which Huang Daozhou often published in the newly established newspapers in the capital.

But sending troops is an exaggeration.

Honestly guard Xianxia Pass, and be optimistic about your own one-third of an acre.

Similarly, Jiangxi, after learning the news of the Quzhou incident, the Jiangxi regimental training Yang Tinglin's department, which had already arrived in Yushan, did not speed up and rushed to the rescue, but quickly deployed defense on the spot in Yushan, and strictly ordered the local gentry to immediately cash in all the white slips they opened. Obviously, these gentry have acquiesced in the fact that Yang Xin annexed Zhejiang, including Xu Du and other Zhejiang's own people, and only divided two armies to reinforce eastern Zhejiang, acquiescing in the fact that Yang Xin annexed Jinqu.

They knew very well that the best option now was to wait, wait for Lu Xiangsheng's follow-up army to arrive, and then have a decisive battle with Yang Xin, as long as they could win the decisive battle, what they lost could be recaptured.

Now that too much power is consumed in Zhejiang, there will be nothing left to lose the decisive battle.

In Zhejiang, where foreign aid was hopeless, the world of Datong of the gentry collapsed in an instant.

Immediately after that, the dragon wanderers changed.

Then the Shouchang front-line regiment was defeated in training, and the Jingnan army conquered Shouchang.

In order to avoid the expansion of chaos and ensure that they would not suffer the doom of the Quzhou gentry because of the collapse of order, the gentry in various places did not really resist, on the contrary, many people also used the Confucian family to join the Jingnan as an excuse, and quickly turned from resistance to welcome, and then the scene of welcoming the king finally began to be staged.

Jinhua, Taizhou, Wenzhou and other places in Yanzhou are practicing in groups, and they are retreating to Lanxi as quickly as possible.

The defenders of Yanzhou, who knew that the general trend had gone, had no choice but to go out of the city to disarm and surrender, and the Jingnan army finally really opened the door to Zhejiang, and Li Zhong's army immediately turned to Lanxi.

Immediately afterwards, the Jinhua Mansion Township Sage Association ordered that the Zhejiang regiment in Lanxi would disarm and surrender the Jinhua Army.

The Taizhou Brigade, the Wenzhou Brigade, and the Chuzhou Brigade retreated gloomily, in fact, it is impossible for them to continue to fight against the Jingnan Army, what they have to do at this time is to go back and wait for the results, and at the same time maintain local law and order, and do not have anything similar to Quzhou.

In this way, the battle in western Zhejiang was basically over.

Although there are still some places such as Kaihua and Sui'an, they still have not decided whether to surrender, but basically the overall situation has been decided, and they cannot resist, but they are just slow to react from a long distance, and in fact, Wuyuan in Huizhou has not surrendered to the Jingnan army. This area leaves the middle of the flat land, the outer mountains and mountains between these small county towns, the reaction to the outside world has always been like this, to say that there are gentry in the countryside around Wuyuan do not even know that the Jingnan army occupies Huizhou, it is definitely not a strange thing.

And the Jing Nanjun was not interested in caring about them.

Zhejiang West wins, and then it should be Zhedong next.

Dinghai.

"This feeling is a bit strange, obviously resisting the Japanese invaders, but becoming defending against us, are we considered invaders?"

Yang Yi said wistfully.

"No, we are liberators!"

Lin Sen, the instructor beside him, said with a smile.

"Then I'll understand!"

Yang Yi said very seriously.

Then both of them burst out laughing at the same time.

And on the deck behind them, four twenty-four-pound mortars were spewing flames, huge cannonballs trailing into the sky, falling on the blue sky, and then falling into the castle on the top of the hill in the distance and turning into a striking fire. The small castle was already shrouded in gunsmoke, like a ruin that had not yet burned out, and the flames of cannon fire were also shooting out of the castle, and columns of water were shot on the Yongjiang River near the battleship......

Well, they're shelling Weiyuan City.

This fortress built by Lu Bo was specially designed to defend against the Japanese invaders, and is now the main obstacle of the Jingnan army on this battlefield.

Zhaobaoshan Fort.

Weiyuan City.

Dinghai City.

Together, they form a complete defense system.

The fort of Weiyuan City to defend the core, the fort locks the Yongjiang River with a 10,000-jin cannon, and the sea pond or city wall that stretches at the end of the tide line in Dinghai City provides flank protection for Weiyuan City, and the tidal flats on both sides of the Yongjiang River estuary force any attacker to have no choice but to enter the Yongjiang River and face the 10,000-jin cannon.

So during this time, the Beiyang Naval Division and the Marine Corps never moved.

It's just to maintain deterrence in Zhoushan.

At this time, Zhoushan has become the third largest base of the Yang family after the Tianjin reclamation area and the Fengyang reclamation area, the fourth is Taiwan, the fifth is Macao and Hong Kong, and the sixth is Jeju Island.

After these years of fishing and industry with the canned food industry as the core, coupled with the expansion of shipping, the Yang family has hired almost all the idlers in Zhoushan, and because it is not enough, it has to send tens of thousands from other places, and at present, Zhoushan has a total population of more than 100,000, and it is estimated that 70,000 are working for the Yang family. As for the local gentry, they also became vassals of the Yang family, and Yang Xin alone invested more than two million taels of silver into this island every year, not counting the commercial profits brought by the ghosts who rented on the Yang family's land.

And what about the gentry?

The gentry were more profit-seeking, and the gentry in other places rebelled against Yang Xin because they wanted to protect their fields, but there was not much farmland in Zhoushan, and the gentry relied on nothing more than fishing and commerce.

Just follow the Yang family to have meat to eat.

Nothing else matters.

Yang Dudu leaked some meat scraps, which was enough for them to eat to their heart's content.

In fact, not to mention Zhoushan, even Ningbo and Dinghai also have a large number of gentry and Yang family trade, after all, Zhoushan needs coal, grain, etc. are all purchased from Ningbo, of course, Ningbo gentry also have to go to Zhoushan to trade with ghosts. Even now, although the two sides have started a war, there are no restrictions on trade, and all foreign merchants are only allowed to live in Zhoushan's Yang family's property, including business, can only be in Zhoushan, and then pay rent to the Yang family every year.

In addition, pay taxes to Ningbo Customs, including Ningbo Customs is also in Zhoushan.

Smuggling is strictly prohibited.

Although the two families are hostile, they can enforce the law at sea to investigate smuggling when needed, and they are even very active, after all, whoever catches it is whoever.

It's just that the focus of the two bans is different, and the Beiyang Navy Division mainly bans nitrate and sulfur.

These two things are strictly prohibited, iron weapons and even guns can be sold, but these two things are not allowed to be sold to Ningbo, any ghosts including the Japanese Ryukyu and other merchant ships, carrying these must be sold to the Yang family.

Otherwise, they will be shot.

However, they will not take risks, because the price of the Yang family's purchase is not low, so there is no need to risk smuggling to Ningbo merchants, and because of the competition of Fujian's smuggling groups, Ningbo merchants will not give them too high a price. After all, if the profit is not several times, there is no need to risk being shot, Yang Xin wants to shoot which ghost guy, but he will not tell them about nationality, you have to listen to him here,

Previously, between Ningbo and Zhoushan, it was like peacetime, how to do it, whether it was the Beiyang Naval Division or the Ningbo regimental training, it did not interfere with trade, and the naval division warships and anti-smuggling warships cruised in the same bay, and remained calm until the beginning of this decisive battle.

Now we have to attack.

If they don't attack again, the Beiyang Naval Division will have no decent credit in this battle, not only Yang Yi and these people, but also those Yang family households in Zhoushan behind them are also eager to make contributions.

The lord is watching them.

The Beiyang Naval Division, together with the two brigades of Yang Jiajiading in Zhoushan, and the two brigades of the Jingnan Army from the sea, together formed the Jingnan Army Navy and suddenly launched an attack on Dinghai.

After quickly sinking a smuggling cruiser and capturing 19 of them, he immediately entered the mouth of the Yongjiang River and began to bombard Weiyuan City, and landed on the east bank with cruisers and armed merchant ships to transport marines and launched an attack on the fortress group of Jinji Mountain. At this time, there was also a fort in Jinji Mountain, but this fort did not have heavy artillery, and the purpose was only to avoid the Jingnan army from capturing Jinji Mountain, and then like the last time in Wuxi, the mortar cannon was used to bombard the Zhaobaoshan fort on the opposite bank across the river.

"The regimental training reinforcements have arrived!"

Lin Sen said holding up the binoculars.

On the barren beach on the eastern side of Jinji Mountain, a large number of regimental exercises came in formation, and countless spears reflected a cold light in the sky......

"Tell the Marines to meet the enemy, it's time to see how our new tactics are!"

Yang Yi said.

(3 chapters)

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