Zheng Sen's analysis lifted Du Yinxi's spirits, and then he frowned again, "Since King Qi secretly supports the rebels, how can he watch the rebels be exterminated by us?" ”

Zheng Sen said: "So we need to march quickly to destroy the rebels before the King of Qi reacts." The king of Qi was far away in Beijing, thousands of miles away from Zhejiang and Fujian, and could not directly support the rebels. Dongfan Island is just an overseas island, how many people are there on the whole island?

As long as we defeat the rebels, the King of Qi will not dare to move more. Although the army of the King of Qi is strong, it still needs the support of the imperial court for its food and salary, and it is not so easy to rebel. At that time, as long as the court decrees to soothe, maybe it will borrow the slope to get off the donkey, and a crisis will be passed safely.

If His Majesty is willing to establish the princess's qualifications as the imperial heir, and then hold a vigorous wedding for the king of Qi and the princess, the king of Qi will still be a loyal and fierce general of the Ming Dynasty. ”

In order to comfort Plug Yinxi, Zheng Sen unfolded his tongue and depicted a bright future.

Du Yinxi glanced at Zheng Sen deeply: "Lord Zhu is so eloquent!" ”

In fact, there is no need for Zheng Sen's persuasion, even if Chen Yue himself leads the troops to rebel, Du Yinxi will obey the will of the imperial court and lead the troops to the battle, he is just worried about exterminating the rebels. It is human nature to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, but there are always some people who will know that they can't do it, just for the sake of their hearts, and Plug Yinxi is also such a person.

After determining the strategy of sending troops quickly, Du Yinxi immediately accelerated the pace of sending troops, and ordered the army of Changsha Yueyang to quickly come to Wuchang to assemble, and at the same time collect ships and food. From Wuchang to Zhejiang, it is most convenient to take the Yangtze River waterway, and a large number of ships are indispensable.

Although Zheng Sen came quickly, he didn't carry much grain and baggage, and there were not too many ships in the army, so he needed to be requisitioned from Wuchang.

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Just when Du Yinxi and Zheng Sen were preparing for the expedition in Wuchang, a big war was in full swing in Zhejiang, thousands of miles away.

From Fujian to Zhejiang, Xianxia Pass is a must-pass place. However, under the surprise attack of the rebels, Xianxia Pass was easily conquered by the rebels.

Hearing that the rebels had broken through Xianxialing, Zuo Maodi, the southeastern governor, urgently mobilized the troops of Zhejiang and Jiangxi to Quzhou, where Xianxialing was located, to besiege it.

The Jiangxi soldiers were too far away to reach Quzhou, but the Zhejiang soldiers were ready when Zuo Maodi arrived in Hangzhou by boat.

Because the Fujian Rebellion had little to do with Zuo Maodi, the fallen court of Fujian did not pursue Zuo Maodi's guilt too much, although a new southeast governor was appointed, but the order was to temporarily replace the supervisor before the arrival of the new governor with troops, so as to make meritorious contributions.

After Zuo Maodi arrived in Hangzhou, he actively carried out deployment, transferred soldiers in Zhejiang, and organized as many as 100,000 troops.

After the rebels conquered Xianxia Pass, Zuo Maodi immediately ordered that Zhang Bingzhen, the governor of Zhejiang, be the commander, and lead Huang Fei, Bu Congshan, Fang Guoan, Wang Zhiren and other generals to Quzhou to encircle the rebels, and be sure to block the rebels in the Xianxialing Mountains and prevent a single soldier from entering the rich land of Zhejiang.

After Zhang Bingzhen arrived in Quzhou, he deployed 100,000 troops on the line of Jianglang Mountain, firmly blocking the rebels' road to protrude through the mountainous area.

Repeated battles were fought between the two armies, and the rebels were defeated for several days and retreated, unable to break through the Zhejiang defense line.

However, the 100,000-strong army spent an astronomical amount of grain and wages, and every day grain was transported from Yanzhou and Jinhua, which were adjacent to Quzhou, and there was an endless stream of grain transportation teams between the mountain roads.

However, on this day, a rebel army of several thousand people suddenly appeared behind the Zhejiang army and attacked the grain transportation team, and more than 20,000 loads of grain were burned in the flames.

More than 20,000 loads of grain, which was the ration of an army of 100,000 for nearly ten days, was burned like this. It was completely too late to transport grain from other places, and the 100,000-strong army suddenly fell into a desperate situation of running out of food. The soldiers had to dig wild vegetables in the mountains to feed themselves.

There is no food in the army, and the morale of the army is naturally weak, and the Zhejiang soldiers are just ordinary Ming troops, and their combat effectiveness and discipline are not much better than those of other Ming armies. Although Zhang Bingzhen thought of a way, he ordered the Quzhou local government to urgently raise a batch of food for emergency, and then sent many soldiers to dig wild vegetables mixed with grain to eat, trying to survive the arrival of military food.

However, far water could not quench the thirst of the near, that is, after eating wild vegetables for three days, the morale of the army immediately became dissipated, and some soldiers even tried to flee from the army.

At this moment, the rebels suddenly rushed down from the mountain and launched a fierce attack on the positions defended by the Zhejiang soldiers.

Although the Zhejiang soldiers occupy a favorable position, no one wants to fight when they are hungry, and the rebels sacrifice grenades and other big killing weapons, just a short confrontation, the Zhejiang soldiers were easily broken through the defense line, and countless soldiers turned around and ran.

Just as the dominoes were overthrown, a little defeat on the front line immediately caused a chain effect, and before the rebels attacked, the Zhejiang soldiers in other positions had already abandoned their positions and fled. The 100,000-strong army was scattered in an instant.

Seeing this situation, Zhang Bingzhen, the governor of Zhejiang, was stunned in horror, he shouted hoarsely, but no one paid attention to him at all, and countless soldiers threw down their weapons and ran past him, but they refused to turn their heads.

In the face of the defeated Zhejiang soldiers, Qian Fenglin ordered 30,000 rebels to pour out and launch a fierce attack to pursue them.

On the one hand, they were hungry for three days, and on the other hand, they were well-fed and recuperating, and many Zhejiang soldiers did not even have the strength to escape, and immediately knelt down and surrendered when they saw the rebels coming. The mountains were full of Zhejiang soldiers who knelt down and surrendered.

Of the 100,000 Zhejiang soldiers, few were killed in the battle, most of the soldiers surrendered to the rebels, the general soldiers Huang Fei and Bu Congshan were captured, and the governor Zhang Bingzhen fled to Jinhua Mansion in embarrassment.

After accepting the surrender of troops, Qian Fenglin's troops suddenly expanded to as many as 100,000, and he ordered the elimination of the original senior officers and sent Dongfan officers and soldiers as the backbone to take charge of the army. In addition to retaining 10,000 soldiers as the main force of the battle, the other 20,000 rebels and surrendered troops were all reorganized.

It took more than ten days to reorganize the army in Quzhou, and then Qian Fenglin ordered troops to occupy the whole province of Zhejiang.

The army was divided into five routes, each led by Chen Mo, Wang Qing and other generals, and launched a strategy like a burning prairie fire.

The Zhejiang soldiers were all sent to Quzhou by Zuo Maodi and became rebels, and the provinces in Zhejiang were extremely empty, and they were powerless to stop the rebels' offensive. Chuzhou, Wenzhou, Taizhou, Jinhua, Shaoxing, Ningbo and other prefectures fell successively.

Qian Fenglin personally led a large army to attack Hangzhou, and in the face of the fierce offensive of the rebels, the superintendent Zuo Maodi made a generous statement, calling on the gentry of Hangzhou to contribute and recruit people to defend the city.

However, at this time, the officials and gentry in Hangzhou had long been disappointed in Zuo Maodi, and the officials had the responsibility to defend the land and could not leave, and the gentry fled Hangzhou with their families. Faced with this, Zuo Maodi was furious and ordered the city gates to be sealed and no one was allowed to leave the city.

So, when Qian Fenglin attacked the outside of Hangzhou, all the gentry in Hangzhou were arrested......