"Wang Deren is really useless, are the more than 100,000 horses under his command all pigs? Geng Zhongming and Shen Zhixiang only had 10,000 or 20,000 soldiers, and even if the Ming army of Jin Shenghuan's troops who surrendered to the Qing Dynasty and the newly organized regimental training were added, the total military strength of the Qing army would not exceed 80,000, which was less than half of them. But this kind of comparison of forces was still defeated and retreated, so that traitors and scum like Geng Zhongming and Shen Zhixiang gained a great reputation in vain, which is really unreasonable! In the Yinxian Southern Theater Command (formerly Ningbo Mansion), Liu Haiyang was losing his temper in front of a cadre general.

In fact, it's no wonder that he is angry, it is really the news that has come one after another from the anti-Qing battlefields in various places is really speechless. Not to mention the north, Wu Sangui's army, with the help of the artillery purchased by the Qing court from the Netherlands, has just swept away the anti-Qing rebels in the Fugu area of Shanxi, and is currently in the process of finishing, and it is believed that the war in Shanxi will be completely ended in the near future, and then enter Shaanxi to the west to help the war.

The situation in Shaanxi was attacked by some of the Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners and the Green Battalion, and the rebels from all walks of life retreated one after another, and He Zhen also suffered several defeats in a row and retreated south into the mountains. However, the Qing court still thought that the progress was too slow, and urged Meng Qiaofang, Li Guohan and others to quickly pacify the situation in Shanxi, and then join forces with Wu Sangui to enter Sichuan and recover this country of abundance. Because if they don't hurry up, it may be too late, and some prefectures and counties in northern Sichuan that were originally under the control of the Qing army have been fiercely attacked by Zhang Xianzhong's troops for more than half a year, and most of them have already fallen. If it weren't for the fact that many of the local landlords and gentry broke their homes to serve the imperial court (scattered their wealth to organize group exercises), northern Sichuan might have been completely lost, and Hanzhong would also be very dangerous.

But now the situation is still very unoptimistic, Zhang Xianzhong's righteous descendants are expected to show unparalleled ability to govern the army and government, and the troops led by him have strong combat effectiveness. The Qing army in northern Sichuan was defeated. Say the words of Yan zhòng. If the Qing army could not organize a powerful army to enter the Sichuan rescue within a few months. The northern prefectures and counties of Sichuan may all fall. And this is also the reason why the Qing court urgently ordered Wu Sangui to solve the war in Shanxi and the whole army to aid Shaanxi.

If the defeat of the anti-Qing rebel army in the north is understandable, then the anti-Qing situation in Hubei, Jiangxi, Guangdong and other places in the south is a complete mess. Hubei is good to say that the left battalion of the Shun army, Liu Fangliang's division, and the right battalion of Yuan Zong's first division attacked from Jingzhou and Yunyang, and finally recovered most of Xiangyang Prefecture, and its vanguard even attacked Dengzhou in the north in one fell swoop, so that the Qing army in Nanyang Mansion was shocked three times a day; Tens of thousands of horses and horses of the former battalion Gao Yigong were fighting fiercely with the Qing army in the territory of Chengtianfu. But progress has been limited, not to mention the two state capitals of Wuchang and Huangzhou to the east, which are still firmly in the hands of the Qing court.

In general, most of the time was wasted, and all Dashun did was to consolidate the newly acquired Yunyang Mansion and capture most of Xiangyang Mansion and a part of Chengtian Mansion, in addition to Li Guo in the south, he also led more than 70,000 men and horses in the middle and rear battalions to invade some areas of Chenzhou Mansion that were still loyal to the Qing court. The main force of the Qing army was transferred eastward for so long, and the 230,000 men and horses of the Shun army only conquered the territory of about three prefectures in the Huguang area, and did not form a sweeping trend, which was not only related to the decline in the combat effectiveness of the Shun army, but also related to the Qing court's delegation of power to the localities. Encourage the gentry to organize group exercises. But no matter what, most of the dividends brought by the northern ginger inlay have been lost anyway. In the future, the elite combat power of the Qing army will continue to move south, and the Shun army should be transferred to a defensive posture next, and the shape is not very optimistic.

If Hubei is only making ineffective progress, then the Jiangxi and Guangdong battlefields will be a complete failure. First of all, Jiangxi, since Jierharang took more than 10,000 Eight Banner soldiers to quell Jin Shenghuan's troops, Jin Shenghuan's tens of thousands of remnants retreated to the south, occupying the central region of Jiangxi, echoing with Wang Deren's troops who occupied southern Jiangxi.

It's a pity that these two are Adou who can't be supported, and Jin Shenghuan's remnants are even more frightened, and they have been defeated in successive battles under the blows of Geng and Shen. Even after the hasty eastward transfer of Jierharang's troops to rescue Zhejiang, they were still beaten and defeated. And Wang Deren, who was entrenched in Ganzhou, also slipped back like a rabbit after being broken by the Liaodong cavalry at the beginning, temporarily extinguished the idea of going north, and began to ask the emperor of Yongli for food and salary all day long.

The Huguang battlefield made ineffective progress, the Jiangxi battlefield was in a stalemate, and the Guangdong battlefield was in a state of defeat. Originally, more than 15,000 soldiers and horses transferred by the Qing court from the north to Fujian to fight the fire (also cobbled together and squeezed out), under the leadership of Chen Tai, recovered the northeastern Fujian region, and then stabilized the situation of other state capitals, began to attack Guangdong, and at the beginning of this year, invaded the territory of Chaozhou Prefecture in northeast Guangdong.

However, when Chen Taimo's troops were fierce and wanted to invade Huizhou, Guangzhou and other core areas of Guangdong, the people on the east coast set off a large-scale offensive in northern Zhejiang, and Liu Haiyang's army defeated more than 25,000 men and horses of Zhang Jie, the general soldier of Ningbo in Shaoxing, Tian Xiong, the governor of Zhejiang, and Gushan Ezhen Jinli, and the troops approached Hangzhou; In addition, more than 20,000 people under the leadership of Zhang Mingzhen and Ruan Jin marched by land and water, and landed in the area of Hangzhou Bay, attacking and harassing everywhere. The Qing court saw that the land in northern Zhejiang was in danger of being completely out of control, and immediately transferred Chen Tai's troops to the north and quickly rescued Hangzhou (Jierharang had received an order to transfer to the east before this), and the main force in the north of the Qing court was temporarily dead after no progress in Shandong, and began to mobilize some men and horses into Jiangbei and Henan, preparing to stabilize the shape of this area.

In such a situation, Li Chengdong can be said to have picked up a life. What's even more overwhelming is that after the main force under the command of Qing Chen Tai went north to Zhejiang, the more than 4,000 Manchurian Han and Mongolian Eight Banners and more than 20,000 miscellaneous green battalions incorporated by Fujian who stayed in Chaozhou Mansion were able to resist the offensive of Li Chengdong's troops, and also won a few battles, and once penetrated their tentacles into Huizhou Mansion. If it weren't for the Zheng army's land and water army landing and raiding in Fujian, the situation facing Li Chengdong is estimated to be even more difficult, and perhaps even Huizhou Mansion will not want to keep it. At present, the morale of nearly 100,000 horses (mostly from Shaanxi, Henan, and Jiangbei) who went south with him at the beginning is low and homesick, and there is an epidemic in the army, and there are many people who have died of diseases, and their combat strength has been weakened to the extreme. If we don't rectify it well, this good war army that killed all the way from Jiangbei to Jiangnan, and then killed Zhejiang, Fujian, and Guangdong (in fact, it was just a good war against the Nanming army) will be completely abolished.

All in all, the two important things of the Shanxi Jiang Pavilion and the large-scale offensive launched by the people on the east coast in Shandong and northern Zhejiang at the same time were good, and the anti-Qing forces in the south were not able to grasp it well - or they were not able to grasp it for the time being - then the next situation was a bit difficult. Now that most of the Qing army in the north has been pacified, except for Shaanxi and Shandong, the elite main force that is good at fighting can move south at any time, except for some people who have been dragged in Shandong, and the Ming army and the Shun army in the south (the western army is worry-free for the time being) will usher in a heavy test. Whether it can withstand the next wave of rapid offensive of the Qing army, it is really hard to say, I can't say, when the people on the east coast will have to vomit blood to launch a large-scale response action, and firmly attract a large number of Qing troops in Shandong, Hebei and Zhejiang, otherwise these tens of thousands of Manchurian elites will carry a large number of green battalion armed forces to the south, who can block a blow?

"What a fucking shit! Rubbish! Liu Haiyang was so angry in the headquarters that the generals of the various departments present looked at each other, and they didn't know how to persuade them.

Wei Boqiu, who had already returned to Yinxian County, saw that it was not a problem, so he coughed lightly and said: "Among these people, except for Shunjun and some rules, the others are all muddy and can't be on the wall, and it's useless to be anxious." For the sake of today, we should still do our own thing. In this westward expedition, I am afraid that 50,000 people will have to be forcibly relocated from Shaoxing Mansion to Ningbo, and how to resettle this is also a problem; In addition, the situation in Guanhaiwei and Cixi has basically gotten out of control, and our rule in Dinghai and Fenghua counties is also very weak, and Yinxian is better (the land is mainly concentrated in Yinxian, and the gentry landlords have also been killed); Xiangshan County, Changguowei County, and Ninghai County in the south have not yet been taken. You see, with so many things to do, it is important to clear the place and stabilize the foundation first. As for this general trend, to be honest, it is not something we can completely control, so let's discuss this with Yantai more. ”

Hearing Wei Boqiu say this, Liu Haiyang's expression moved, and he suddenly realized that since he occupied Ningbo Mansion for more than a year, because he was in a hurry to fight and plunder, he had not combed the local area quite enough. Now that the Qing army is gathered in Hangzhou and Shaoxing, in the face of the two fortresses that have been repaired, the stable and the snail, the hope of entering the territory of Ningbo is also very slim, so it is a good time to stabilize the place and clean up the internal affairs.

For example, he discussed with Wei Boqiu and Huang Yi a while ago that Dinghai County's handicraft industry (cotton weaving, silk reeling, etc.), salt industry, Yin County's irrigation and drainage facilities (the county's land is fertile, and grain, sericulture, and cotton cultivation will be the mainstay), Fenghua's tea making, bamboo processing, and so on, these things must also be done quickly. Of course, the most important thing is to strengthen land redistribution and improve the control of the people on the east coast over the localities, and only when these things are done well, and then we can build water conservancy, conduct transportation, run farmland, and vigorously expand trade in the territory, then we can say that we can truly control the population of more than 500,000 people in Ningbo Prefecture and truly turn this rich land of fish and rice into our own use.

"Lao Wei is right." After thinking for a while, Liu Haiyang nodded in recognition of Wei Boqiu's construction, and then said: "Now the third, fourth, sixth, and tenth divisions (a total of 11,500 people) are all in my Ningbo Prefecture, and the main force directly under me must support Liu Guochang's division on the Yongdao Fortress at any time, the third division must guard the nest of Yinxian County, and the tenth division must guard against accidents in the Cixi area, so the fourth division and the sixth division can only be transferred south." Well, I will write a report to Captain Shao of Yantai to apply for more time for the two departments, first help me take Xiangshan County, Changguowei, and Ninghai County, and then talk about it, and the local landlords and gentry also have to clean up again, when my army went west a while ago, didn't there be a lot of gentry and businessmen who passed through the Qing army, hum, now is the time to settle accounts with them! (To be continued......)