Zhu Jiang saw Song Wazi foaming at the mouth, and sighed in his heart, what kind of emperor with what kind of soldiers. His father, Zhu Hongsan, is so lustful, what aunts and nephews, mothers and daughters, sisters, wives, and widows have all played, and the officers under him naturally follow suit. However, this Jiang Company has a big face, and a little regiment commander can find his father to speak for him.

"Song Wazi, how does Company Commander Jiang recognize the emperor? Why can the emperor ask about him? ”

"Platoon commander, you don't know, our company commander Jiang is not simple, I heard him himself say that he has followed His Majesty the Emperor from Huguang Wuchang, and saved the lives of Governor Ma's family in Xinyang, Henan, I heard that he is still a student of the second batch of teaching regiments, and he is a serious protégé of the Son of Heaven, platoon commander, can the emperor not speak for the company commander for this reason?"

Hearing that Jiang Pengju had saved his grandfather's life, Zhu Jiang was stunned. He suddenly remembered that his mother had told him that during the bloody battle in Xinyang, his father ordered all the female dependents of his grandfather's family to be killed in order to let his grandfather follow him with all his heart, including his two aunts, but only his grandmother, that is, his grandfather Ma Jiyuan's concubine, was left. My grandmother was a thin horse in Yangzhou back then, and she was bought and given to her grandfather Ma Jiyuan. At that time, my grandmother had small feet and was inconvenient to walk when fleeing for her life, and my father Zhu Hongsan also had the idea of killing to reduce the burden, and at this time a soldier carried his grandmother and escaped from the city, so that my grandmother escaped to Wuchang safely.

Zhu Jiang's mother, Ma Ruyan, told Zhu Jiang about this, so that he would have the opportunity to repay this person in the future, but he didn't expect to meet him today! Zhu Jiang smiled secretly in his heart, that Zhao Guodong was honest, and it must have been his handiwork to let him come here under the control of Jiang Pengju. However, I can't say anything about this matter at present, after all, more than ten years have passed since the Xinyang incident, who knows who Jiang Pengju is now, let's take a look first.

Just as Zhu Jiang was looking at his new residence, Jiang Pengju of the company also received a letter from the division commander Zhao Guodong. The letter was very simple, tell Jiang Pengju the identity of Zhu Jiang and let him take care of it. Although the order given by Zhu Hongsan was the same treatment as ordinary soldiers, Zhao Guodong dared to do so, and hurriedly wrote a letter to his old subordinate Jiang Pengju after Zhu Jiang left, asking him to take proper care of Zhu Jiang. Jiang Pengju smiled slightly after reading the letter, it seems that the key to his recovery from the new is on King Qin.

Not to mention how Jiang Pengju trained Zhu Jiang, Zhu Hongsan's army officially prepared to set out on the first day of October after ten days of repair, firing the first shot back in the old capital.

Zhoushan is only more than 200 miles away from Hangzhou Bay, and less than 500 miles away from Hangzhou Mansion on the Qiantang River. However, Zhu Hongsan's fleet was too large, so the plan was to dock at Hainingwei in Hangzhou Bay. Hainingwei is the Haiyan County of the later generations, this place was originally the mouth of Taihu Lake in the early years of the Ming Dynasty, so the Hainingwei set up here during the Hongwu period, and the Tianjin Wei in the north, Weihaiwei in Shandong, Zhenhaiwei in Fujian, Hainingwei and Jinshanwei in Songjiang became the key to control Hangzhou Bay. In the early years of the Ming Dynasty, 12,000 regular troops were stationed here all year round, and Zhejiang Patrol Sea Road was also located here.

However, in the Wanli period, after hundreds of years of siltation, the mouth of Taihu Lake has been completely blocked, and at the same time, because the Grand Canal has become the main inland capacity, the busy Hainingwei has become a dilapidated place, coupled with years of peace, the armament is slack, Hainingwei This place now only leaves less than a thousand garrison troops, but because after all, it used to be a big port, and the infrastructure is still there, so Zhu Hongsan decided to put down Zhao Guoliang's eighth division here and let Zhao Guoliang advance along the east bank of Taihu Lake. He led the main Praetorian Guard Division and the Second Division to attack Hangzhou Mansion.

Zhu Hong set off from Zhoushan on the first day of the thirtieth month, and arrived at Hainingwei on the second day of the first month, which is not only the health office but also the seat of Haiyan County, Jiaxing Prefecture, Zhejiang. In the past, there were more than 30,000 inhabitants in Haiyan County, but with the Manchu occupation of Nanzhili and Zhejiang, Haiyan was also affected. However, at the beginning, the residents of Haiyan County did not hate the Manchu rulers, in their eyes they were just an emperor surnamed Zhu, and a new emperor was replaced, and he only needed to pay taxes according to the regulations, but he did not expect that the next "head shaving order" made the entire Zhejiang Province boil.

Haiyan is not far from Jiaxing Mansion, and at the same time as Jiaxing was occupied, a surrender show was sent to Haiyan as a county commander, and there were also 100 Manchu pigtail soldiers who came. At first, the people of Haiyan were relatively cooperative, but when they saw the notice of "head shaving order", the whole county began to be in chaos. Haiyan is the station of Hainingwei, there are still some guards who did not flee, and everyone elected a thousand households to be the leader, killed the Manchu county order, and occupied the county seat of Haiyan.

Haiyan County was lucky, at that time, the main forces of the Manchu Qing Dynasty were in Jiangyin and Jiading, and they really couldn't take action to clean up a small county seat, so Jiaxing Mansion was resigned to Haiyan here. Next, Li Zhi occupied Zhoushan, and the Jinyi Wei secret agent began to contact the rebel army in Haiyan to provide them with food and weapons, so that Jiaxing Mansion was not an opponent, and the Qing army sent to suppress the bandits several times was defeated. At the same time, Li Zhi also sent a new county order for Haiyan, a person who did not want to shave his head and fled to Zhoushan, so that the Guangdong New Army had a foothold at the entrance of Hangzhou Bay.

It was already afternoon when Zhu Hongsan's fleet set off from Zhoushan to the dock of Haiyan County, and Zhao Xiru, the magistrate of Haiyan County, came to Zhu Hongsan's ship to meet Emperor Shenwu.

It was the first time Zhao Xiaoru had seen this Shenwu Emperor, and at first glance it looked different from the legend. In front of him was a tall middle-aged man, wearing a bright yellow dragon robe, looking at himself with a smile.

"Chenhai Yanzhi County Zhao Xiru greets His Majesty the Emperor!" Zhao Xiru glanced at it and didn't dare to look more, so he quickly knelt down and kowtowed, he knew that the emperor had a holy decree and a scholar with a meritorious reputation could not kowtow, but he was a foreigner, neither the old ministry of Huguang nor a noble minister, it was better to keep a low profile.

"Lord Zhao, please get up, Haiyan is well governed by you in this way, what did you do before?"

"Back to Your Majesty, the minister used to be the county of Haiyan County, when the Manchurian Tartars came, Zhang County ordered the whole family to be martyred, the minister was timid and afraid of death, but he didn't want to die for the Manchu Dynasty, so he crossed the sea with his family and went to Zhoushan, just when Li Zhitai needed officials who were familiar with the environment of Jiaxing, the minister recommended himself and returned to Haiyan."

It turned out to be a ghost who was afraid of death, Zhu Hongsan nodded when he heard this. In this era, the literati pay attention to martyrdom for the country, like Zhao Xianru, there are very few people who escape, most of the officials either resist to death, or open the city to surrender, and those who flee are not nothing, then later, everyone sees that the Ming Dynasty really can't do anything, so they have lost their will to fight, either fleeing to Nanyang or living in seclusion in the mountains. However, Zhu Hongsan didn't want to dig deeper, and it was at least better to run away than to stay and be a traitor.

"Okay, Zhao Zhixian, since you are familiar with the geographical environment of Jiaxing, I will appoint you as the Tongzhi of Jiaxing, the acting prefect, and liberate Jiaxing with my general Zhao Guoliang, you may be able to do it?"

Zhao Xiru was worried before he came, after all, he was an official who had escaped, and he was afraid that the emperor would be unhappy and remove him from his official position. But I didn't expect Emperor Shenwu to be very easy to speak, not only did he not blame himself, but also let himself act as the prefect of Jiaxing, and he must work hard, and strive to remove the word acting and become a dignified four-poinsettia robe.

"Your Majesty, rest assured, the minister will do his best to assist Lord Zhao, so that the whole of Jiaxing will know the prestige of Emperor Shenwu!"

Zhu Hongsan nodded, waved his hand and asked Zhao Xian to go down and continue to work hard for himself, Zhu Hongsan stood by the boat and watched the busy crowd on the dock.

Zhao Guoliang's Eighth Division had a total of 12,000 men, plus nearly 30,000 people, as well as a large amount of supplies and baggage, and it seemed that they would not all be unloaded until tomorrow morning.

Zhu Hongsan turned his head and asked the civil and military ministers behind him: "Now that we have landed in Hangzhou Bay, the Manchu Qing Dynasty should have received the news, how do you see this battle fought?" ”

Li Zhi, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, stood up and said: "The morale of our army is high, and the Qing army does not have 20,000 people in the whole of Zhejiang, most of them are still concentrated in Hangzhou. ”

Zhu Hongsan didn't expect Li Zhi to have such advanced thoughts, and he also knew the phrase "cannon is truth, caliber is justice". Zhu Hongsan asked strangely: "Li Aiqing, don't you literati all like to surrender without a fight?" Why do you want to learn the same from those Qiu Ba today? ”

Li Zhi's old face turned red and said: "Your Majesty, the minister is not a pedantic person, now that he has fought with the Manchu Qing Dynasty like this, there are still soldiers who can surrender without a fight, and only by really destroying them is the best policy!" ”

Hearing Li Zhi say this, Zhu Hong nodded again and again and said: "Yes, we are stronger than the Manchu Qing Dynasty now, so don't talk about those strategies, the cannon is the truth, the caliber is justice, this is what we should do!" ”

Zhu Hongsan's words were recognized by all the generals, and Zhao Guodong shouted: "His Majesty the Emperor is really a genius, this famous sentence is really right, my old Zhao can't think of it!" ”

Listening to Zhao Guodong's stiff sycophant, Zhu Hongsan felt amused, and scolded: "Don't shoot if you don't know how to shoot the fart, what does Lao Tzu know yet?" is also a genius, Lao Tzu is a little stronger than Emperor Taizu Gao, he is illiterate, I am semi-literate, that's all! ”

Hearing the emperor say this, the civil and military ministers burst into laughter, but Ma Jiyuan looked at Qian Qianyi, who was smiling very happily, and thought in his heart: Old man Qian betrayed my Ma family and Tong Yangjia to get together, and he must not be let go!

Thinking of this, Ma Jiyuan stood up and said: "Your Majesty, now that the entire Zhejiang and Southern Zhili are about to be recovered, in addition to a large number of righteous soldiers who fought to the end with the Manchu Qing Dynasty to be rewarded, are some traitors and traitors who betrayed the Ming Dynasty and acted as lackeys for the Manchu Qing Dynasty also have to be punished?" ”