July 30, 1649, Ningbo Mansion Guanhaiwei.

Under the ruins, a battalion of infantry from South Africa was cleaning the battlefield with spears, and they "cleaned" very carefully, and every time they found something good on the corpse of a Qing soldier, they immediately put it in their pockets with a smile, and the gendarmes who supervised the war often turned a blind eye and made a small fortune for these black soldiers who did not even have a salary.

This group of black soldiers came from the supplementary battalion of the New Army of the Eight Banners in South Africa, and compared with the 765 men of the ordinary battalion, they were only more than 500 people. The supplementary battalion, as the name suggests, is to supplement the shortfall of the other three infantry battalions, so although the South African side replenishes this battalion with new recruits every year, basically this battalion has never been fully staffed, and it has always been in a state of shortage.

This time, in order to cope with the offensive of Shao Shude, Mao Desheng, and others in Shandong, Captain Liu Haiyang, commander of the Heishui Task Force, decided to use the limited forces at hand to launch a landing and sabotage war along the southeast coast. Shao Shude admired their spirit of taking the initiative to attack in the south, so he took the initiative to allocate this Black Eight Banner supplementary battalion to him to increase the strength he had at hand.

This unit is tall, brave and daring, and very well-equipped, and after being transferred to Liu Haiyang's men, it has almost become a trump card in his hands. In several skirmishes near Hangzhou Bay, with the cooperation of artillery (temporary cameos of naval gunners), they were often able to defeat the sparse armed forces of the Qing regiments, tax officers, salt soldiers, and government servants who were guarding the places with a single charge.

Of course, at this time, Liu Haiyang's various troops may not be able to fight tough battles, but they are actually good at abusing vegetables. For example, Sun Shouzheng, one of the three departments in Jeju. Under his command, 1,500 regiments from Rugao County were trained. and more than 1,000 soldiers recruited by Dashun Cai Huaze in Shandong. The combat effectiveness is actually very average, and it is almost the same as the green battalion soldiers under the command of Zhang Cunren, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang in the Qing Dynasty. But who let them have muskets and cannons, if they encounter it in the field, if the Qing army's green battalion does not have a great advantage, its fate is really worrying.

For example, Cai Huaze's department, which was captured and left on Daishan Island, originally only had 400 veterans from Dashun, but later replenished many Qing army prisoners in Shandong and recruited some new soldiers. It grew to nearly 1,200 people. Among these people, the proportion of musketeers was relatively high, reaching as much as 40%, and the rest were mostly armored spearmen and some handymen, without cavalry or artillery. They used a wide variety of muskets, ranging from the 32-B flintlock rifle (the one without a bayonet) produced on the east coast, to the Spanish arquebuses in good condition captured during the war (sold to the Shun army on the east coast), and bird guns and other things captured from the Qing army.

Although there are many models of muskets and different performances, it is fair to say. The soldiers of this unit are quite diligent in their training in peacetime, and the people on the east coast will also give some gunpowder and lead to them from time to time on Daishan Island to supplement their losses. Therefore, his familiarity with firearms was second to none among all Chinese people in China at this time. After this battle is over, Cai Huaze will lead his troops to sneak to Huguang Guijian on the inland gunboat of the people on the east coast, and then the Shun army may select a group of people to come to Daishan Island again, while learning modern warfare techniques from the people on the east coast, and fighting behind their buttocks, accumulating experience in firearms combat.

And these soldiers who have learned modern warfare techniques, after returning to Dashun, believe that they can give a great touch to those thieves-born soil buns, let them know that they can no longer play the same game as before in war. The emergence of new weapons will inevitably lead to an innovation in tactics, and whoever is the first to innovate tactics and military systems will be able to seize the opportunity and be closer to victory.

More than 500 black heavy infantry, 1,500 spearmen from Sun Shouzheng's department, and 1,200 mixed troops from Cai Huaze's department, plus more than 100 naval gunners, these more than 3,000 people are most of Liu Haiyang's strength at hand (Sun Shouzheng's newly recruited 500 recruits stayed on Daishan Island). If they didn't run into the main force of the Qing army, they were well-equipped and well-trained, and they could basically walk sideways along the coast of Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

After all, Zhang Cunren, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, had only about 60,000 capable warriors under his old man, of which 15,000 elites were led by Chen Tai to stay in Fujian and suppress Guangdong, and they could not be moved lightly; The other 40,000 people are basically stationed in various parts of Zhejiang, and it is difficult to assemble in a hurry. Besides, the ground in Zhejiang is not very peaceful now, if all the green camps in these places are taken away and there is a sudden chaos in the place, he Zhang Cunren will die and cannot be redeemed.

For the sake of today's plan, the only way to do this is to order all localities to guard the gates, to be a turtle with a shrunken head, and to give up some places that are not very important, and to try to guard those famous cities and cities as much as possible. I believe that Lord Regent also understands his own hardships and will not blame himself too much, after all, it is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice.

Under such a guiding ideology, the activities of the people on the east coast in the coastal areas of Zhejiang have been much smoother. Along the way, they would hardly encounter regular green battalions - if they were few in number, and most of what they encountered were local miscellaneous cards such as regimental training and government servants, as encountered here at the Guanhaiwei Station, which were defeated in one blow and decided in one battle, and they could take a small coastal town with only minor casualties, as if they were on an armed parade.

"Where are King Lu's people?" Liu Haiyang loosened a brass button on the top edge of his military uniform and asked very easily. The war on the southeast coast was too easy, if he had known that the number of Qing troops in Fujian and Zhejiang was so small and the chief officer was so conservative, he would have led his troops to kill him, and let Zhang Cunren's old man get away with it for so long.

"It's still half a day's way from here. Those people are grinding and grinding, and the efficiency is too low. And their soldiers, they don't look like soldiers, and they are not much different from special peasants, I heard that they are busy with farm work most of the time, and they only pull out to practice for a while when they are about to fight, and the whole gang of rabble, and their combat power is not worth mentioning. "It was Huang Yi who replied to him, who was in charge of the foreign trade in the Heishui region. This gentleman has been in the Far East for three or four years, and he has been very close to Mo Dashuai, who has returned to the mainland, and the trade between the East Bank and Dashun and the Zheng clan (in fact, it is half sold and half sent) is in charge of him, so the contact with these local forces of the Ming Dynasty is also his man - under the guise of doing business.

The "gang of people" in Huang Yi's mouth refers to the department of Zhu Yihai, the king of Lu, who is currently retreating to the east coast of Zhejiang. Since they were defeated by the patchwork army led by Chen Tai in northeast Fujian like lightning, they began to move towards the junction of Fujian and Zhejiang, but at present, there is a shortage of food and equipment, which can be described as a dilemma, and the morale of the army is also quite low. Fortunately, the people on the east coast did not dislike these anti-Qing righteous soldiers, although they had lost the twenty-seven counties in northeast Fujian that they occupied at their peak, and there was no longer any goods to exchange with the people on the east coast, but Liu Haiyang still gave them some cold weapons and protective equipment as assistance to strengthen their determination to resist the Qing Dynasty. That's not all, the naval warships on the east coast anchored on Daishan Island will also patrol the sea near Shacheng where King Lu is stationed from time to time, and occasionally give them a little food, so that they have a little respite, and their subordinates will not collapse immediately.

This time, Liu Haiyang received Shao Shude's order to launch a large-scale landing and sabotage battle along the southeast coast in order to contain and disturb the sight of the Qing army. In order to avoid a shortage of troops, Liu Haiyang invited King Lu's troops to send some men and horses to fight with them, and by the way, they also had the opportunity to collect some valuable supplies nearby. After discussing it with Zhang Mingzhen, Ruan Jin, Wang Chaoxian and others, the generals under the command of King Lu, felt that the current cramped in the small Shacheng was not a long-term solution, and now they should take advantage of the time to join forces with the Haikou on the east coast to get the next piece of land on the east coast of Zhejiang to settle down.

It is close to Zhoushan, although Huang Binqing of Zhoushan is domineering, but after all, he is a loyal person who is loyal to the Ming Dynasty, and he will not do a knife in the back, which can be used as a retreat at the critical moment; Second, Zhejiang is far richer than Fujian on the ground, and it is more convenient to raise food and wages. Therefore, after all considerations, they decided to send troops to help in the war. At present, Zhang Mingzhen took more than 10,000 people from his headquarters to the Jianjian Institute by boat, intending to capture it as a place to stay; The first dynasty also led more than 10,000 men and horses to land in Hangzhou Bay, echoing with the army on the east coast, attacking cities and raising grain and grass; As for Danghu Bo Ruan Jin, he led the main force of the naval division to garrison Shacheng Port to protect the safety of King Lu and the state of Jianguo, and was ready to respond to Zhang and Wang's two departments at any time.

After meeting Liu Haiyang once when he landed at Hangzhou Bay in early July, Wang Chaoxian led his army to collect grain and grass in the nearby countryside -- well, or plundered -- and the army had hardly made any concerted offensive moves, almost like passers-by, except for sending men to communicate with the troops on the east coast every day. But in fact, everyone is really not familiar with each other, Liu Haiyang has given them a lot of assistance, but it is also a little difficult to expect them to put down their bodies and cooperate with the people of the East Coast now, unless there is a great benefit in it.

This time, after Liu Haiyang led his army to break through the Guanhai Acropolis, he saw that the Qing army did not react like a dead pig, so he became more bold and planned to lead the army south to attack Cixi, Dinghai, Yinxian, Fenghua and other places. After all, these places are known to be rich, and it is much better to get a handful than to dig three feet in the backwoods. However, it would not be possible to fight these counties without the assistance of more than 10,000 people from the first department of the dynasty, after all, there were few soldiers on the east coast and could not withstand too much attrition. In case the Qing army in some counties decided to defend to the death, even if the army on the east bank blasted through the city wall, it was inevitable that there would be many casualties in the subsequent street battles, which was really not cost-effective. Therefore, it is better to hand over this kind of broken battle to the Ming army, anyway, they have a lot of cannon fodder.

Wang Chaoxian himself was first surprised by Liu Haiyang's invitation, and then overjoyed. He didn't have the twists and turns in Liu Haiyang's stomach, he just felt that this yellow-clothed Haikou was enough friends, interesting enough, and had benefits and never forgot them, so he immediately agreed to come over and attack together because he lacked the ability to attack. At this time, the ministry had almost reached the vicinity of Guanhaiwei. (To be continued......)