Go to Yue from Wu, Wu Jiang and Yuelian.

There are many kinds of oranges in the garden, and there is no water and no lotus.

The fire by the bridge in the night market, the boat outside the Spring Breeze Temple.

This is more important than guests, and you must go through the years.

"Sending Friends to Wu Yue" _ Author: Du Xunhe

- I'm the dividing line -

When the city of Hangzhou completely fell, Jiang Huan disappeared at the same time.

"Waste, it's waste,"

Dong Chang, who was on his way to march along the Fuchun River, couldn't help but scold after receiving the news.

He originally planned to use Jiang Huan's resistance to the fortress to thwart the momentum of the Taiping thieves, and then take the opportunity to attack. In this way, after repelling the thief army, he can also take advantage of the situation to plot the state city.

However, I didn't expect Jiang Huan, who was unbearable, and couldn't hold on to it for even a day, to be seen by the broken city. So now it's Dong Chang's turn to sit on wax, and for this aid he has gathered three counties and two towns, and put together more than 20,000 people and horses, known as a lineup of 30,000 troops.

However, among these soldiers and horses, Ding Zhuang, who had little experience in battle formations and lacked training, accounted for a large proportion. Then the local regiments, the village soldiers, took up a large piece; Then the two generals and the three towns who followed him brought their private parts.

And what can be used as Dong Chang's basic plate and direct force is only the more than 1,000 remnants he brought back after the defeat, as well as the 3,000 left-behind children of the first stone mirror capital in Hangzhou. Therefore, after he launched and assembled, there was really no way to speed up the march.

For this reason, he specially selected 3,000 strong and strong men as the fast partial, and his brave and warlike nephew Dong Zhen took the lead in rushing to the vicinity of Qiantang City to wait for the echo. However, now once he decides to return to the division, it means that he has given up this team.

This made Dong Chang hesitate a little again, but he quickly made up his mind and said:

"The order is that the front army will become the rear team, the rear team will become the first hand, the waterway escort will return first, and the Chinese army will rectify and set up the village on the spot. He ordered all the forts along the coast to prepare more grain and grass equipment to provide them for support. ”

After all, he is a veteran of the southeast campaign, and he is also a general who has personally faced the thief army for the Shu soldiers; It quickly became clear what was at stake and what was at stake. At least it is a disadvantage to fight those Taiping thieves in the field, and these thieves are also very quick to react and are good at taking advantage of the situation to pursue.

Only by relying on the fortifications and villages in the township to block and delay along the way, it is possible to pull most of the men and horses under his command back to Lin'an, and then fight with the thief army with the advantage of city defense.

In addition, the results of Hangzhou Zhoucheng also made him particularly uneasy. Although the ancient city of Lin'an, which leans on the peaks of Tianmu Mountain, it is also one of the largest cities in the eight counties of Hangzhou after Qiantang.

It was only not long after his order was passed down that he heard a sudden boiling in the distance, and there was a lot of noise; Then someone hurriedly reported:

"The former military commander Huang Jie's department was attacked by the enemy's horse team, and most of the troops have been scattered in front of him, and he retreated to Baikouzha on the bank of the Huantang River to wait for reinforcements."

However, before Dong Chang could react, a moment later, someone shouted one after another

"Report, Chen Yu and Chen Duwei's troops in the secondary forward formation are changing formations on the spot, and they are suddenly covered by a large number of thieves to the point that they can't be defeated. It's been defeated to the west by the fist mountain.。。 ”

"Report, the left-wing guerrilla general Yuan Wei received the enemy, and in the midst of the bitter battle, he also asked the regiment to train and respond quickly."

"Report, the fleet of the Fuyang River led by Sima Cuiwen was attacked by enemy ships going upstream, and they are fighting and retreating."

At this time, Dong Chang could already see the curling plumes of smoke rising from the distant skyline. He couldn't help but shout loudly with a heavy face:

"Where is the left Lang Xu Xun and the right Lang Tang Jiu. The two of you quickly led the troops out of the Chajiang Estuary Gate under the Fist Mountain, and gathered and gathered the scattered men and horses on the spot,,"

When the two generals who were anxious received orders one after another and ordered their troops to leave, Dong Chang received another urgent report.

"What, Tangshan Durao Jing has already led his troops to leave!! There are also changes in the army of Wu Wenju in the hidden capital. How can this be reasonable.,Gather all the stone mirror brothers.,Hurry up with me to Zhenping.。。 ”

- I'm the dividing line -

Zhou Huai'an, who had already received the news that Qiantang had changed hands and had taken a boat south along the canal from Suzhou, was also checking the local seized maps and plates, and the staff officers of the battalion had perfected them one by one to the latest set of marching maps and sand tables.

You must know that although the Hangzhou household registration in the Tang Dynasty was slightly inferior to Suzhou, with only about 110,000 households, it was the first in the southeast in terms of confluence irrigation and water conservancy facilities.

As early as the reign of Tang Jingzong Baoli, Yuhang County ordered Guijiao to open the upper lake, the lower lake and the north lake; During the Zhenyuan period, Fuyang Hao County ordered Kaiyang Pihu; In the eighteenth year of Zhenyuan (802 AD), Du Yong opened Zixi in Qianxian County; There are also Guantang dug in Lin'an County, etc., so the grain output is also the leader of dozens of states in the southeast of the country.

Not to mention that as the starting point of the southern end of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal and the regional commercial center, it brings together the products and grain ships of Jiangdong, Jiangxi and Liangling; Every year, the miscellaneous tax money sent to Beijing alone reaches more than 500,000 yuan.

And since Hangzhou has been lowered, it is the turn of Yuezhou (now Shaoxing, Zhejiang) as the observer of eastern Zhejiang. The five prefectures of Suchanghu and Hangyue are established, and the Hangjiahu Plain, which occupies the majority of the population as the most elite of Jiangdong Province, is all in the hands of the Taiping army.

This is an important part of the southeast money bag that has maintained the operation and authority of the imperial court since the Tang Dynasty; The population and taxes of this part alone are the approximate number of Shangjingnan and Hunan combined. (The Taiping Army took over governance and clarified the previous traditional algorithms)

Therefore, after getting such a large piece of plains and water towns and hells, as long as it is managed and rectified a little; It is also a large rear area that can be connected with the territory of the Taiping Army, with a dense population and rich in products. Not to mention the cultural heritage accumulated in the local area.

Although it is impossible to directly use them to serve as officials and hold important positions, after a little training, they can still be barely qualified for one or two of them if they are assigned to other places to enrich the teaching force of education and enlightenment.

On the contrary, it is surrounded by Jiangdong, Jiangxi, and Lingnan on three sides, and the five prefectures of Fujian, which are located between the mountains, can be put aside for the time being; As long as you use a small number of troops to see the several passes in and out, you can rest assured that you will come back and slowly concoct them in the future.

In fact, since the start of this war, it has been much more abundant and more comfortable than the last time when we followed most of the righteous army to fight Jiangxi and Jiangdong and conquer Huainan. On the one hand, the increase in the depth of the site and the increase in the choice of manpower and material resources mobilization; On the one hand, there is an improvement in the strategic environment and a further reduction in maintenance costs.

Thinking of this, Zhou Huai'an couldn't help asking:

"The entire land of western Zhejiang is going to be taken down, and there is still no movement in Huainan, so no one wants to do anything...

In the corresponding staff group, someone immediately stood up and replied.

"Back to the governor, according to the news sent by the flying pigeons in Guangling City, the soldiers and horses of the Huainan camp are still in the deserted city; In addition, the foreign armies of Tianchang and Hailing are also entangled with local people. ”

In addition, the Jiangdu Water Division and the Gaoyou Water Division, which the governor focuses on, are all practicing in the corresponding military villages. The patrol team from Guangfu has also arrived off the coast of Yangzhou. We are looking for an opportunity to go ashore to investigate. ”

Zhou Huai'an nodded, the combat concept of the naval army in this era is mainly to use the soldiers on board to collide and jump gangs, supplemented by bow and arrow killings and arson surface battles.

Therefore, the Taiping naval warships, which have emphasized maneuverability and long-range projection from the beginning of its establishment, naturally have a natural advantage in the face of the only remaining Huainan naval army.

Therefore, at this moment, half of the Taiping Navy patrolled on the water near the mouth of the lower reaches of the Yangtze River as the corresponding blocking and blockade tasks.

Next, the main thing that attracts more attention is the news from the Kannai side.

Although Chang'an City has temporarily settled down because Huang Chao came out to look at things again. However, the chaos and disorder that spread some time ago, the damage and sequelae caused, are not so easy to recover.

During this time, thousands of people have been executed in the name of spies and rebels, and many more have been captured and imprisoned. Several unidentified armed men set fire to the city and clashed with each other, even setting fire to the neighborhood to attack each other, regardless of collateral damage.

After the fall of the imperial dynasty, the potential rifts and hidden knots caused by the fragile five-phase co-governance pattern are not so easy to bridge and remedy. What's more, this accident also made many people realize one thing, Huang Chao, who has been fighting for more than ten years, is already nearly sixty years old.

Could it be that he fell ill and recovered from this illness, so he dared to guarantee that there would be no next time. Even if he recuperates properly in the future, he will not get sick again, but how much energy and time will he have to maintain this long-established Great Qi Imperial Court.

Zhou Huai'an sensed a faint trend from these messages. That is, once the human heart begins to shake and diverge, it is not so good to unite and gather together; Therefore, whether it is Empress Cao's side or Zhao Zhang's side, they have all stepped up their contacts and exchanges.

In any case, the rebel army in the north is, in a sense, also an important buffer and disguised barrier for the Taiping army, and it is absolutely impossible to let it collapse and collapse so quickly. On the bright side, Huang Chao's face is also to be given.

Immediately, Zhou Huai'an approved in a document, in the name of his wife Cao Hongyao, he gave a batch of canned food, compressed rations and other dry goods products that were close to the expiration date, and asked people to escort them to Chang'an City in the name of returning the gift.

At this time, someone in the staff group who was reviewing the official documents reported:

"Qiyu Dadu, the surviving clansmen of the Wuxing Shen clan have been found."

"Just compare the example of 263 local well-dressed households and situation households in Huzhou who migrated to Jinghu, Liangling, and Shannan in batches, and I know that Xiangzhou is good." Zhou Huai'an did not raise his head and instructed.

"Dare to ask, why can't the Metropolitan Governor tolerate these eunuchs?"

However, outside the cabin, Lu Guangwei, who had just joined the staff group as a supernumerary consultant, was also cautiously asking for advice from Lu Yan, who was walking close to him.

"Of course, it is necessary to better implement the local administration and change the customs and reform."

Lu Yan shook his head disapprovingly.

"If you keep these generations and the township are intertwined and have deep ties of interests, you are only afraid of the obedience on the surface, and there is also the disadvantage of secret conflict and yin and yang."

"Isn't there a good house in Wuzhong that can really be used or helped to set as an example for a while?"

Lu Guangwei hesitated.

"Naturally, there will be, but there is no need and there is no need to bother. Under the rule of the Metropolitan Governor, you don't need this generation to be able to benefit the people and the township, which is enough. Lu Yan replied without hesitation.

"On the contrary, these prominent families are nothing apart from the countryside; Isn't it good to discipline and govern? If his generation can still uphold his original heart and remain committed to studying and running his family, then why should the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion give the corresponding promotion and service opportunities? ”

Of course, in a sense, his words were also specifically addressed to those behind Lu Guangwei, who wanted to dedicate themselves to the Taiping Army's Metropolitan Governor's Mansion and had special concerns.

At this time, in the direction of the bank of the Cao River, there was a sudden noise from far to near.