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On October 5, the 19th year of Chongzhen, on the order of Chen Yue, the governor of the capital, Chang Yanling, the Marquis of Huaiyuan, led 30,000 soldiers from the Beijing camp into Zhejiang, joined the Zhejiang soldiers of Zhang Bingzhen, the governor of Zhejiang, and went west to put pressure on Zhang Nengqi, the thief army at the junction of Jiangxi and Zhejiang. At the same time, Jin Shenghuan launched a fierce attack from Raozhou Mansion and Yan Yingyuan from Fuzhou Mansion to Guangxin Mansion, where the thief army was located.

After months of training, the soldiers had enough food and drink, and the soldiers had distributed fertile land to each of them, and it was the time when morale was at its highest. After the thief army experienced a major defeat, its morale was long gone, it lacked food and clothing, and it was able to rely on the complicated terrain to hold on, but now more than 100,000 officers and troops have gone crazy to attack, Zhang Nengqi couldn't withstand it at all, and had to withdraw into Zhejiang with the remnants of the army.

The 30,000 soldiers of Chang Yanling's Beijing battalion arrived in Quzhou through Huizhou and are currently in the capital city of Quzhou. And Zhang Bingzhen, the governor of Zhejiang, was stationed in Chuzhou and Jinhua with Zhejiang soldiers. Zhang Nengqi's army, which entered Zhejiang, was encircled by the official army on three sides, and the only one without heavy troops was the direction of Fujian in the south, and it was very difficult to go to Fujian across the heavy mountains.

Zhang Nengqi is Zhang Xianzhong's righteous son, who has been fighting with Zhang Xianzhong's army for more than ten years, and is very experienced, he knows that if he hesitates to wait until the official army is surrounded on three sides, the only way to wait for his remnant army of more than 30,000 is to be destroyed. So, he sent an elite army who was good at mountain climbing to the south to raid Xianxia Pass, defeated hundreds of defenders of Xianxia Pass and occupied the pass.

And Xianxia Pass is the only pass from Fujian to the north to Nanjing, Zhejiang, which is extremely important, but because Fujian has not been war, the station of Zheng Zhilong, the general soldier of Fujian, is in Anping, Quanzhou, on the coast, and does not pay attention to it at all, and only hundreds of soldiers are stationed at such an important pass. And Chen Yuewei is leading the water to the east, so naturally he will not notify the Fujian army to take precautions.

After capturing Xianxia Pass, the road to Fujian was completely opened to the thief army. Zhang Nengqi immediately waved his army into Fujian, but the unsuspecting Fujian was powerless to stop it, and the northernmost Jianning Mansion soon fell.

Even after sending Zheng Sen and Zheng Zhibao's two armies, the Fujian army still has more than 100,000 people, but more than half of these more than 100,000 people are deployed in Quanzhou, the coastal city, and Fuzhou, the provincial capital, and there are not many soldiers in each prefecture and county. Moreover, the Fujian army was out of the water division, and the combat effectiveness of the infantry army was really average, and the thief army was caught off guard by the sudden attack.

Zhang Kentang, the governor of Fujian, hurriedly deployed troops to resist, and at the same time ordered Zheng Zhilong, the general soldier of Fujian, to quickly send troops to quell the rebellion.

After the failure of the plot to proclaim the Tang king, Zheng Zhilong was always worried, fearing that the murder of the third prince would cause the court to declare him a rebel. Some of his subordinates suggested that he simply support another vassal king, such as King Lu, to raise troops to rebel and confront the Nanjing court. But after Zheng Zhilong thought about it, he didn't dare. Because he knew that there would be no way back for him. As for fighting, he is not the opponent of Chen Yue, the king of Qi, at all, and now even the once proud naval army has no certainty of victory in the face of the Dongfan Water Division.

Zheng Zhilong was jealous when Chen Yue first occupied Dongfan Island, and now that Chen Yue has mastered the Nanjing Imperial Court, Zheng Zhilong is even more afraid to move. Because he can't afford to fail.

If it was placed ten years ago, it would have been a big deal to sail to the sea if it failed, but now Zheng Zhilong's family has a great cause, and the rich life has destroyed the will, and he has long lost the courage he had when he was a pirate. endured the calm for a while, took a step back and opened the sky, now he no longer dares to say goodbye to Chen Yue, the king of Qi, just hoping to keep his current wealth.

So these days, he has been trying to reconcile with the king of Qi, hoping to keep everything now. And those who sent to assassinate the three princes had just returned to Fujian, so he ordered them all to be killed......

And when Zheng Zhibao was put back, Zheng Zhilong breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that this level might have passed. So these days, he is very honest, even in the sea trade, he no longer dares to compete with Dongfan, and takes the initiative to give up some interests. In Zheng Zhilong's opinion, as long as he can keep his position as the chief soldier, plus Zheng Sen, the son of a civil official, and Zheng Hongkui, who leads the army, there is no sea trade, and with the massive wealth that the Zheng family has earned over the years, the Zheng family is still a big family in Fujian!

However, what Zheng Zhilong didn't expect was that Chen Yue, the king of Qi, didn't trouble him, but the western thieves who were ravaging Jiangxi entered Fujian, conquered the city all the way, swept the Jianning Mansion in the north, and the soldiers pointed directly at Yanping and Fuzhou.

As the chief soldier of Fujian, it is naturally his duty to exterminate the rebels. When the order of Zhang Kentang, the governor of Fujian, reached Quanzhou, Zheng Zhilong immediately summoned a large army to quell the rebellion.

Quzhou Mansion, Zhejiang and Jiangxi armies meet, and more than 200,000 troops Chen soldiers Quzhou. However, the 200,000 troops were divided into various parties, and the imperial court did not appoint a commander such as the Governor to be responsible for unified command. Fujian is another province, and without the holy decree of the imperial court, the generals have no right to bring troops in.

Fortunately, it didn't take long for an order from Nanjing to come. Chen Yue, the governor of Qi, ordered that Chang Yanling, the Marquis of Huaiyuan, be appointed as the general of Pingkou, and led the Beijing battalion and a part of Zhejiang to attack Xianxialing and enter Fujian to suppress bandits. Zhejiang Governor Zhang Bingzhen, Wuning Hou Jin Shenghuan each took their headquarters back to their original stations.

For this order, the reason given by Chen Yue, the king of Qi, was that he wanted to immediately send troops to Shandong to rescue Dengzhou, which was attacked by Qing soldiers, and the financial resources of the imperial court were simply unable to open two battlefields at the same time, so Chang Yanling could only pursue the thief army with 50,000 troops and cooperate with the Fujian soldiers to eliminate Zhang Nengqi.

Yes, Chen Yue, the king of Qi, is going to send troops to the Northern Expedition! When he reported his decision to the imperial court, he was supported by the civil and military forces of the Manchu dynasty.

In the past year, the righteous people of the northern provinces have raised their hearts to the imperial court, and they have asked for the support of the imperial court, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty has a lot of internal troubles, which is a God-given opportunity to send troops to the Northern Expedition to recover the lost land, but because the western thieves went out of Sichuan to attack Huguang, the Ming Dynasty itself fell into civil strife, and he could not grasp the opportunity.

Now it is easy to flatten the rebellion of the Western Thieves, the bandit leader Zhang Xianzhong awarded the head, but most of the righteous army in the north was wiped out by the Qing army, that is, the hundreds of thousands of troops of Zhao Yingyuan in Qingzhou were also defeated by the Qing army, and now the only one who still insists is the Dengzhou Wuping Division. And the reason why Wu Ping has been able to persist until now is because he was originally a person of Chen Yue, the king of Qi, and he has persevered until now with the support of Chen Yue's continuous supply of food and weapons.

But if the imperial court does not support it, I am afraid that the small Dengzhou will not be able to stop the attack of the Qing army. And if the imperial court has not sent troops, the people in the north will definitely be disappointed, and it may be difficult to get the support of the people if they want to go on a northern expedition in the future.

As for whether Shandong can be recaptured and defeated by the Qing army, with Chen Yue, the king of Qi, there should not be a problem. Of course, for the civil officials of the imperial court, Chen Yue has put too much pressure on them in the past six months, and they also hope that Chen Yue can leave the imperial court, even if it is temporary.