Chapter 363: The Siege of Nanjing

"According to the Helmsman's will!" , The weak don't have much choice, Tianjing Zen Master reluctantly agreed to Chen Jialuo's plan, "These brothers of the Heaven and Earth Society will please entrust it to your association!" ”

"Zen master, please rest assured, as long as these people follow the rules of my Red Flower Society, they will definitely be safe, but if they rely on their martial arts to do evil, this is no wonder that my Red Flower Society will not remember the past!" , People in the rivers and lakes are used to being casual, and they can't stand the rules, and some things are better to be clear in advance, "If those who are not used to living a stable life, the Zen master might as well persuade them to go to Nanyang and other places." ”

The Europeans occupied the United States, Australia, and other places by relying on criminals, so it is similar that the Red Flower Society is now throwing these criminal reserves into the newly developed colonies.

Well, this is a good way, when you conquer other places, exile those unruly martial arts sects, squire families and so on to the colony, and then send people to manage them in a unified manner, and these insidious and cunning people with the backing of force will go to the scourge of those local natives!

After determining the general direction, Chen Jialuo and Zen Master Tianjing discussed various details in detail, until the moon was in the middle of the sky, and finally decided on the strategy of how to deal with the Liangguang Tiandihui.

The Qing army in Guangdong had lost a lot before, and the Red Flower Society sent an army to attack from southern Hunan and southern Fujian, and the sailors also attacked Guangzhou on a large scale.

Because Li Shiyao, who went home from Ding Wei, was lucky to escape this catastrophe, he couldn't help but secretly shout at home to rejoice, and suddenly broke Ding Wei's mind to continue to serve the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and began to think about his own way out.

Zhejiang in the south and Anhui in the west have fallen under the control of the Red Flower Society, and the sea in the east has been blocked by the ships of the Red Flower Society, and Jiangsu is suddenly surrounded on three sides.

Jiangsu is involved in the safety of Caoyun. If this line is broken, the life of the capital will not be easy, so the imperial court's attention to Jiangsu is far above that of Anhui, Hubei and other places, so although the imperial court is now almost out of the pot, it still mobilized tens of thousands of reinforcements from Shandong and the capital to enter Jiangsu, trying to stop the progress of the Red Flower Society with the Yangtze River and Nanjing Jiancheng!

After the reconquest of Guangdong, the Red Flower Society's army rested for a while. After leaving enough troops to control Guangdong, he quickly sailed to Jiangsu; Because the troops on the Hubei side had completed their tasks earlier than the Guangdong side, they had finished replenishing their ammunition and recruits after repairing and went down the river, and within three days they had successively descended to Dangtu, Ma'anshan, and other places, and approached the city wall of Nanjing.

After the Qing cavalry fighting in the first battle out of the city was completely annihilated by the Red Flower Society, all the Qing troops retreated into the city of Nanjing, trying to rely on the city wall to resist the attack of the Red Flower Society.

Geng Chen did not attack the city directly, but began to clean up the surrounding Qing army strongholds in a hurry, after half a month. The surrounding Liuhe, Jurong, Lishui and other places all fell into the hands of the Red Flower Society.

At the same time, Lin Hu's troops also moved north from Hangzhou, conquering Huzhou, Suzhou and Changzhou one after another; The navy entered the Yangtze River from Songjiang, captured Songjiang, Changshu and other places, and joined forces with Lin Hu in Zhenjiang.

By this time, most of Jiangsu had fallen into the hands of the Red Flower Society, leaving only Nanjing in the south of the Yangtze River and a small half of the territory in the north of the Yangtze River, and the army led by Lin Hu and Geng Chen and Su Changquan's navy besieged the city of Nanjing.

"Your Excellency. The city of Nanjing is thick and thick, and there are 100,000 elite soldiers in the city! Adults can rest assured! ”。 In the governor's mansion of Jiangsu, the master comforted him with kind words, "As long as you hold on, it won't be long before the enemy army retreats!" ”

"Don't say such useless words! Nanjing has been easy to attack and difficult to defend since ancient times, except for the repulsion of Zheng Chenggong when the founding of the country, that attack did not fall quickly! ”。 The governor of Jiangsu scolded his mother in his heart, why was the labor and management so unlucky to be sent to Jiangsu, and now more than 100,000 troops outside the city are besieged, and I am afraid that I will have to explain here this time.

"The art of war has clouds, and it is surrounded tenfold. Now there are only hundreds of thousands of troops outside the city, and the outcome of this battle is still unknown, so you must not say such things in front of the generals! The master hurriedly persuaded, and at the same time pondered how to change his dress if the city was broken, and ran away with the money he had obtained over the years.

"I can only watch one day at a time!" , Mingde sighed, "I hope the Holy Lord can send reinforcements to drive out the thief army under the city as soon as possible!" ”

"Nanjing is lost, the thief army is no longer hindered by the northward advance, the imperial court categorically refuses to sit idly by and watch Nanjing fall, presumably now all the princes of the court and China are preparing reinforcements for Nanjing, right?" , the master agreed, but he knew the situation in the court, the two batches of reinforcements that had come before had emptied the pockets of the imperial court, and now Shandong almost had no way to suppress the rebellious people, and there were not many remaining troops in the capital, and the young men of the Mongolian tribes who obeyed the orders of the imperial court were also consumed in the first few battles, and they could not recover their strength in ten or eight years, and they could only find a way to transfer troops from Shanxi.

"Hongli Xiao'er is really uneasy and kind!" , Prince Zhuang has now occupied the northeast, watching the territory of the Aixin Jueluo family shrink day by day, he can't help but grit his teeth and scold, "What has the foundation of the ancestors been ruined by him!" ”

"Lord Wang, my nephew has borrowed a thousand elite soldiers from the Rakshasa people, and has 5,000 fine muskets, plus the troops in the hands of the Mongolian tribes and us, we can start attacking Shanhaiguan!" , was scolding angrily, Hongyang came in from outside and said.

"Good! Sure enough, it is a good descendant of our love Xinjue Luo family! Prince Zhuang patted Hongyang's shoulder and praised, "Now that the DPRK and China are empty, we will be able to break through in one fell swoop!" ”

"Uncle Wang might as well wait!" , Hongtian hurriedly grabbed Prince Zhuang, "Now that the safflower thieves are besieging Nanjing, Shandong, Beijing and Henan are no longer able to draw troops, I'm afraid the imperial court will have to transfer troops from Shanxi; When Shanxi is empty, wouldn't it be convenient for us to enter the customs from Datong? ”

"My nephew is really calculating!" The two of them laughed in unison.

"What! It's all dumb! In the court, Qianlong looked at the silent ministers with a cold face, "What should I do in Nanjing?" You've got a way to figure it out! ”

"At the moment, there is only one way to transfer troops from Shanxi!" , said a Manchurian minister who had already taken refuge in Prince Zhuang.

"Yes, there are no soldiers anywhere else!" , a group of full-man ministers hurriedly echoed!

"But what if Zhuang Yi enters the customs from Shanxi?" , a Hanchen retorted.

"There are successive wars in the Northeast, how can he have the strength to enter the customs?" , I don't know if it's intentional or I really don't know that Prince Zhuang has received reinforcements from the Rakshasas.

"Decree, Shanxi immediately dispatched 30,000 green battalions, Henan and Shandong each sent another 10,000 people, and immediately reinforced Nanjing!" , After some arguments, Qianlong issued an order. (To be continued......)