From the time it was decided to attack Zhangzhou to the middle of February, all the grain, forage, ordnance, and silver needed by the Ming army had been transported to the front lines in Guangjing and Chaozhou.

Guangnan has been peaceful for half a year, and the gentry and common people have rarely mentioned that in the battle when the Qing soldiers invaded eastern Guangdong last year, human nature was always comfortable, and instinctively did not accept the heaviness and pain, and was unwilling to recall the hardships endured.

In order to support the Ming army's eastward advance to recover the old land, nearly 100,000 people in Guangnan worked hard day and night.

On the Pearl River, shirtless men pulling fibers are in an endless stream from morning to night, and the donkey carts, mule carts, and wheelbarrows from Guangjing to the front line of Chaozhou cover the road, stretching for dozens of miles.

To fight a war, you have to recruit people's husbands, and because there was no preparation before, Wang Yan set a time, so the labor intensity of people's husbands is particularly high, and some people's husbands are often tired of officials.

The ancients said that "harsh government is fiercer than a tiger, and conscription is as heavy as a mountain", Guangnan people support the entire Longwu court, plus nearly 100,000 Ming troops, money, people, and grain, although the court did not raise taxes, but the burden is not light, now it is close to spring sowing, and the people are requisitioned, which is definitely not benevolent.

At this time, there must have been complaints from the people, but since the Guangdong Political Department issued the requisition order, the people have not resisted, and the people have not fled or missed the schedule.

This is because the army gathered in the city of Guangzhou, the sailors and warships shuttling on the river, uncovered their memories of the war, and the increasingly prosperous economy of Guangjing seems to have erased the wounds of the battle of Guangjing last year, but in fact, hundreds of thousands of lonely graves are on the outskirts of Guangjing, and the wounds are still there, but they are not mentioned.

It is impossible for people to think about the pain of the past all the time, and for ordinary people, life has to go on, so Wang Yan can see the prosperous scene of Guangjing.

"The lips are dead and the teeth are cold, protect Guangdong and Fujian." This is the slogan of the government to mobilize Quang Nam, in fact, as soon as the memory of the people of Quang Nam was mentioned, most people also understood this truth, and if they wanted to live well in Guangnan, they had to drive away the Qing troops in Fujian, because they were too close.

The people of Guangnan know that the Ming army's crusade to the east is not only to restore the old frontier, but also to defend Guangnan.

Emperor Longwu, out of the palace, inspected the preparations for war with Wang Yan, saw the endless stream of people on the official road, marched to the east, looked at the slender man who was naked, shouted the trumpet, and pulled the big boat, and said Wang Yandao: "The people of Guangnan have paid a lot for the Ming Dynasty, if the Qing family can't succeed this time, then I'm sorry for the court and me, and I'm sorry for the people of Guangnan." ”

The Qing army garrisoned 30,000 troops in Zhangzhou, Zhang Cunren also had 30,000 horses in Fuzhou, Quanzhou, and Anping, and the Qing army in Fujian was about 60,000.

Wang Yan recruited 40,000 people this time, Zheng Chenggong should be able to send 10,000 troops, a total of 50,000 troops, considering that the Ming army attacked, the Qing troops defended, and the troops were scattered, the Ming army actually had an advantage, but the Qing soldiers were mostly old pawns, and the Ming army was mostly new pawns, Wang Yan's burden was actually very heavy.

He is well aware of the heavy responsibility and does not dare to be sloppy in the slightest.

After returning from Jinxia, as a university sergeant inspector, he issued an order from the military department, ordering the loyal battalion on the Chaozhou front line to prepare, order the superintendent, and change the loyalty of the guard rotation from the Chaozhou front, and transfer a lean group to assemble in Guangjing.

By mid-February, 20,000 infantry troops had been assembled on the Chaozhou front, and 14,000 infantry troops and 6,000 cavalry had been assembled outside Guangjing City.

In addition, Wang Yan also dispatched Pang Tianshou, the chief eunuch of the ceremonial superintendent, and 300 Portuguese firecrackers hired from Macao, first, to see Xiyi's tactics, and secondly, to prepare for dealing with the Dutch.

With such a big move on the side of the Ming army, the Qing soldiers in Zhangzhou naturally would not be ignorant, in fact, both sides of the Ming and Qing dynasties sent a large number of secret agents to each other in their respective jurisdictions.

As early as when the secret agents of the Qing army sent back the news of Wang Yan's meeting with Zheng Chenggong from Xiamen, Li Chengdong had a premonition that something was wrong, and at the end of January, the Qing army's detailed work found that the Ming army was mobilized on a large scale in Guangjing, and grain and equipment began to be transported to Chaozhou.

Last year, Li Chengdong and Wang Yan were hot, and there were several letters exchanged every month, but Wang Yan offered the conditions, Li Chengdong was not satisfied, and Wang Yan was only a thousand households below him before, but now it is so much higher than him, he will inevitably have some imbalance in his heart, and after the Qing court raised the flag for him, he cut off the correspondence with Wang Yan.

Zhang Cunren asked him to assist Tong Yangjia to guard Zhangzhou, he has been worried that Wang Yan is angry with him, to wave his troops to beat him, now the exact news comes, the Qing army general is a little difficult to sleep, he warned his subordinates, strict guard, while quickly reporting to Zhang Cunren, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, requesting that the Qing army from Fuzhou and Quanzhou be transferred into Zhangzhou Mansion.

Fujian is actually more embarrassing for the Qing court, because Gandi was not controlled by the Qing army as in history, so Fujian was actually surrounded by the Jiangxi Ming army, the Guangnan Ming army, and Zheng Chenggong.

If the Qing soldiers stationed more than 100,000 horses here, the Tao was not afraid of the Ming army's encirclement, but Fujian's eight mountains, one water and one land, the grain produced was not enough to raise more than 100,000 soldiers, and the Qing court had no experience in maritime trade, so if Fujian wanted to garrison heavy troops, it had to transport grain from Jiangnan, but this would undoubtedly weaken the power of Jiangnan.

Hong Chengchou still has a bunch of shit under his ass now, and the problem in Jiangnan has not been solved, so how can he have time to take care of Fujian.

Strategically speaking, Fujian was surrounded on three sides and was already at a disadvantage, but the Qing court finally lured Zheng Zhilong and got Fujian.

Zhang Cunren was defeated by Wang Yan before, and the hundred carts of gold and silver looted were all taken away by Wang Yan, which made him hate and jealous, he read Li Chengdong's secret report, and was worried in his heart, afraid that it would not be easy to rely only on the Qing soldiers of Zhangzhou Mansion to block Wang Yan and Zheng Chenggong's attack.

For a while, he could only quickly spread the news to Jiangnan, saying that Wang Yan's eastward expedition was inevitable, and let Hong Chengchou think of sending some reinforcements over, or attacking Jiangxi, not letting Wan Yuan Ji and Jin Shengheng enter northern Fujian and threaten Fuzhou.

When the news reached Jiangning, it was just when Hong Chengchou gathered more than 100,000 people to clean up Chen Zilong in Taihu Lake, and took his hands to support Fujian, which was thousands of miles away.

At the end of last year, Dolgon was keenly aware that after the Eight Banners entered the customs, their strength declined, and they could no longer be like at the beginning of the customs, when several armies attacked at the same time and fought on multiple fronts, so he decided to attack Shuzhong first, and then attack Chu and Jiangxi.

As a person of advice, Hong Chengchou's task was to stabilize Jiangnan, guard against the Chu, Jiangxi, and Ming armies, resume production, and provide food and tax sources for the Qing court.

The basis of all this is to ensure that Jiangnan is peaceful first, so after Hong Chengchou returned to Jiangnan, he went south to sit in the town and regain control of the military power, and formulated a strategy of 100,000 Qing soldiers to suppress Taihu Lake, and decided to pull out the big nail of the Ming Dynasty in Jiangnan first.

Jiangnan is about to be killed, how can there be kung fu to support Fujian, but if the Fujian Qing army is beaten by Wang Yan, so that the Ming army not only occupies Zhangzhou, but also recovers the entire territory of Fujian in one fell swoop, then the situation in the Ming and Qing dynasties will change greatly, and Zhejiang will be greatly threatened.

In view of this concern, Hong Chengchou finally decided to let Tan Tai, who was originally going to go south to encircle and suppress the rebel army of Siming Mountain, to receive less than 20,000 people and enter Fujian to assist in defense.

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