Feng Yunshan couldn't help but be overjoyed when he learned that the 3rd Division had inquired about the whereabouts of the Dexing Copper Mine from the local squires and had occupied the mining area!

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However, this burial depth is for future generations, and in today's era when there is no mining machinery, the burial depth of this mineral deposit may be considered deep. That's why the mine hasn't been mined on a large scale.

Even the local miners knew that it was a copper mine, but they thought it was just a small ordinary mine, and they could never have imagined how amazing the wealth could be hidden in the ground in this remote ridge.

Feng Yunshan was very excited, even though he was already a Saint King, he still had the joy of winning five million in the next generation. Because there was a steam engine in this era, steam power could be used to drive mining machinery and open mines. In this way, this huge copper mine, which was originally buried not very shallow, can really be built into a huge open-pit copper mine.

Moreover, combined with explosives blasting, mine pumps driven by steam engines, steam-powered drum shearers, and steam-powered percussion drills and other machinery, as well as auxiliary steam winches, excavation, jaw crushing and other machines, Feng Yunshan has some understanding.

With this direction, and then organize a group of people to conduct research and development, it should be possible to manufacture suitable mining machinery. When the time comes, this open-pit copper mine will be mined, and a steady stream of wealth will roll in.

Therefore, Feng Yunshan decided to send 2,000 people from Dabaoshan Iron Mine to Dexing Copper Mine to prepare for the early construction of the copper mine. At the same time, the B19th Brigade and the B20th Brigade were stationed in the Dexing area, preparing to build a solid defense line around the Dexing Copper Mine and completely hold the copper mine.

Just when Feng Yunshan was staring at the land of the Northern Expedition of the Taiping Army, He Lu, the commander of Fujian's 1st Division, sent someone to report urgently:

Nanping City, the capital city of Yanping Prefecture, occupied by the 1st Division B, was captured by a surprise attack by 12,000 troops led by Li Tingyu, the land commander of Fujian. The 3rd and 4th Regiments of the 1st Division B stationed in Nanping City suffered heavy losses, half of the establishment was disabled, and more than 2,000 soldiers were killed in the battle, and the rest were also wounded, abandoned Nanping City, and fled to Gutian County.

It turned out that more than 5,000 people of the 1st Division, including the 1st, 2nd, and 5th Regiments, the Artillery Regiment, and the Engineer Regiment, under the leadership of the division commander He Lu, made a detour to the north to avoid the eyes and ears of the Qing army, and prepared to go to capture Gutian City. Only 2,500 men of the 3rd and 4th regiments were left to guard Nanping City.

Unexpectedly, Li Tingyu, the land governor of Fujian, who was strategically surrounded in Fuzhou Prefecture, actually left Fuzhou City and personally led 12,000 personally trained regimental training and green battalion soldiers to go up the Min River and sneak attack the weakly defended Nanping City.

On the night of the third day, the Qing demon divided 10,000 troops, and outside the city of Nanping, there were already squires in the city and the Qing demon should set fire to the city, take advantage of the chaos to open the city gate, and let the Qing demon enter the city. Li Tingyu led his troops into the city, and the third regiment stationed in the garrison was caught off guard, and was defeated by the overwhelming Qing soldiers, and the fourth regiment that rushed from the other city gate was also in chaos.

In particular, a group of regimental training armies of Fuzhou Prefecture, under the guidance of Li Tingyu and his sons and clansmen, and under the tough training of Enwei and He, they were much more elite than the regular green battalion soldiers, and they burst out with strong combat power and were unstoppable, and the two main infantry regiments of the capture army were actually pressed and beaten.

Of course, it is also because it is a second-class division, not to mention foreign guns, and bird guns are not complete, and more than half of the weapons are still spears and brand knives. But even a cold weapon like a sword and spear can't compete with Li Tingyu's Min Lianyong.

Seeing that Nanping City could no longer be held, the deputy division commander who stayed behind hurriedly ordered to abandon Nanping City, withdraw to the direction of Gutian, and join the main force of the 1st Division in order to preserve his strength.

And Li Tingyu led a cadre regiment to train and the green battalion soldiers, and continued to pursue in the direction of Gutian, preparing to wipe out the entire 1st Division. Fortunately, Lin Fengxiang, the 1st Division of the First Division, which was stationed in Xinghua Mansion and Dehua County in Yongchun Prefecture, received a report from the spies and quickly dispatched troops to the border of Yongfu County, preparing to intercept Li Tingyu halfway to Minqing.

When Li Tingyu heard the news, he gave up the city of Nanping Mansion that he had acquired, and only took a group of officials and gentry from Nanping Mansion to the Min River along with their family wealth, and rushed back to Fuzhou City by boat.

And he himself led his troops to continue in the direction of Gutian.

And He Lu, who had already captured Gutian, heard that Li Tingyu led tens of thousands of Qing soldiers to fight violently, and listened to the deputy division commander who rushed to Gutian to tell that he knew that he was invincible, so he gave up Gutian and turned to Jianning Mansion in the northwest to avoid the edge of the Qing army.

Li Tingyu led the troops to collect Tutian County, and did not leave troops to garrison, but still swept most of the people, grain and grass, and then brought the gentry and people who were willing to enter Fuzhou City to take refuge, and divided 200 troops to send people and property back to Fuzhou Mansion.

He led 12,000 Qing soldiers, and directly stationed in Minqing County, and camped outside the city with great fanfare, putting on a posture, preparing for a decisive battle with the 1st Division A that went to support.

Lin Fengxiang led his troops along Meixi, all the way to Minqing County, because the terrain was not familiar, in a valley by Li Tingyu's 8,000 regiment who had quietly withdrawn from Minqing County, ambushed by the first division, the first division was not noticed for a while, and was trained by the Qing regiment to apply rolling logs and falling rocks, blocked in the valley and intercepted.

Fortunately, the foreign guns equipped by the 1st Division of the First Division shot the regiment from afar, which greatly reduced Li Tingyu's ambush plan, but he was attacked by the Qing soldiers and injured hundreds of people in the early stage.

But even this made Lin Fengxiang blame himself, and he was full of anger and ordered the First Division A to intercept and kill. Taking advantage of the long range of foreign guns, they pestered each other like evil ghosts and lined up to shoot.

Li Tingyu's regimental training could not withstand the high-density firepower shooting, and they were defeated one after another. Helplessly, Li Tingyu brought the regimental training into the mountains and forests, and the branches and shrubs all over the mountains greatly reduced the long-range effect of the foreign guns of the First Division.

Lin Fengxiang was worried that he would be ambushed again, so he didn't dare to lead his troops into the mountains and forests, so Li Tingyu led the regiment to practice and easily return to Minqing.

Because the Minjiang River area is full of such deep mountains and old forests, Lin Fengxiang saw that the purpose of rescuing the 1st Division B had been achieved, so he retreated to Dehua.

But Li Tingyu's arrangement is more than that. He also sent a partial division, combined with the banner soldiers of the Fuzhou general, from the border of Fuqing County, to Xinghua Mansion.

There was no local garrison in Xinghua Mansion, and the main force of the 1st Division A temporarily stationed in it was transferred by Lin Fengxiang to the rescue of the 1st Division B, and there was only one battalion of defenders in Xinghua Mansion, which was naturally easily conquered by the Qing army.

Feng Yunshan received the report and secretly blamed himself: his territory was getting bigger and bigger, and the troops stationed there were constantly scattered, and like the Manchu Qing Dynasty, it was difficult to defend everywhere.

Next, we can't continue to expand our territory, and focus on talent and infrastructure.

However, for the Qing demon in Fuzhou, some lessons must be learned.

Feng Yunshan ordered Luo Xuan and Liang Peiyou to lead the naval divisions stationed in Xiamen and Quanzhou, as well as the 5th and 5th Divisions B, to attack the coastal towns around Fuzhou and Funing Prefecture and attack the prefectures and counties.

In addition, in order to cope with the problem that the army attacking Fujian did not have heavy artillery, Feng Yunshan allocated a total of 80 newly purchased 30-pound heavy erection guns to be transported to Quanzhou by sea and land.

Thirty gates were installed on the warships of the Fifth Division, and fifty gates were ready to be handed over to Lin Fengxiang for them to use in the siege of the city.

At the same time, Lin Fengxiang led the 1st Division to attack Xinghua Province. The Qing army had long known that this force was the most powerful and held the city of Xinghua.

Lin Fengxiang led his troops to attack twice in a row, but they were repelled by several artillery pieces at the head of the city and Qing soldiers with raised guns. Because of pity for his soldiers, Lin Fengxiang did not force the onslaught, and after holding on for a few days, seeing that there was no chance to find it, he retreated to Yongchun Prefecture and waited for the heavy artillery to arrive.

The naval division of the captive army sent half of the warships, led by Luo Jian himself, to attack all the way along the coast and harass the area of Fuzhou Prefecture.

The area around Fuzhou and Funing is miserable. Most of the warships of the Fujian Navy Division were lost, and they were unable to fight at all, so they had to hide in the Minjiang River bay in Fuzhou, unite several batteries on both sides of the river, and carefully defend.

The captive army and sailors did not dare to enter the mouth of the Min River easily, but wandered around several coastal states and counties, causing the gentry and officials of several states and counties to flee one after another.

However, since Feng Yunshan did not order a complete capture of Fuzhou, and the captives only attacked and harassed, the situation in Fujian was intertwined. (To be continued.) )