Guangzhou is the richest city in China.

Guangzhou is one of the most important commercial cities in China, but there is much more to the city's wealth than just business.

Of course, most of Guangdong's local taxes were consumed in Guangzhou, and in addition, the Tatar court needed to spend more than 3.5 million yuan a year on military salaries in Guangdong 16 years ago, and since the beginning of the Leizhou counteroffensive, Guangdong's military expenditure has exceeded 5 million taels.

A considerable part of such a large amount of military expenditure was deposited in the city of Guangzhou. After the coalition army conquered Guangzhou, the cash obtained through various channels was as high as 10 million taels, and only the two palaces of Ping and Jing found property worth 3 million taels of silver.

The treatment of the two feudal clans after the surrender of the Ping and Jing clans was very different, the Shang family preserved the lives and personal freedom of most of the people, while the Geng family was completely liquidated, the most heinous crimes were publicly executed, the rest were escorted to the mines, and the women were distributed to the army.

Most of the remaining 200,000 or so people captured in the new and old cities of Guangzhou and the counties of Xin'an and Dongguan were transported to Nanyang, excluding the enemy troops and their families who rebelled anyway.

Some Ming officials loudly protested against the plundering of human beings, and they were too lazy to deal with them. In fact, Guangdong cannot be self-sufficient in staple food, and Guangzhou is a consumption-oriented city, and keeping the population in the city will only consume transportation capacity.

The ordinary gentry and merchants in the new city of Guangzhou were allowed to redeem themselves and release them if they had money.

This kind of behavior of looking at money made many local gentry who were eager for the Ming Dynasty beat their chests and feet, and they were in pain, and shouted barbarians again and again.

Orderly just laughed it off.

At the initial stage, it is better to be practical, and the tone should not be too high.

Lower the general expectation so that you can go all the way from victory to victory.

The strength of the coalition forces cannot cover the whole province of Guangdong for the time being, the main force of the Tatars in the north is on the way south, and the future battlefield will definitely be in Guangdong Province.

Since he intervened in the war situation on the mainland, it meant that he had taken on a responsibility, and he wanted to do his best to avoid the slaughter of innocent people.

In general, the importance of provincial towns lies in the people. Guangzhou concentrated the upper elite of the whole province, and as long as they controlled the provincial capital, through the inextricable network of people and business, many places could be determined.

Before the decisive battle, the order wanted to retain more mobile troops and reduce the consumption on the defensive line, so the importance of this part of human resources to the order was greatly reduced.

The Battle of Canton affected the whole country.

The military expenditure of the Tatars for the bloody raiding of chickens and blood was about 40 million to 45 million taels, and the total military expenditure of the provinces without decisive battles in the country was about 25 million taels.

The Eight Banners of the Forbidden Brigade requires an additional 5 million.

The Tatars spent about 1,500 to 20 million on mobile troops, which was the basis for their offensive operations.

The battlefield cost about 80 to 150 taels of military expenses to supply a soldier, and most of these mobile military expenses were given to Yunnan, Liangguang and Fujian.

Last year, Wu Sangui and the Eight Banners spent more than 10 million taels on their military operations in Burma, and Guangdong accounted for the remaining 5 million.

The coalition counteroffensive in Guangzhou forced the Tatars to transfer the main military expenses to the Liangguang battlefield, which directly saved the remnants of the Ming army resting in the Golden Triangle region.

Wu Sangui's troops are very strong, and the military expenses given to him by Beijing are only enough for more than 10,000 troops under the 53 auxiliary leaders of the Wu Domain, a total of 50,000 troops in the 4 town green battalions and 10 battalions of the new annexed army, and the daily military expenses of Li Benshen, the governor of Guizhou, are not enough to cope with Li Dingguo's possible counteroffensive, let alone be transferred to other battlefields.

At least that's what Wu Sangui himself claims.

The Tatar court originally ordered Wu Sangui to disarm and withdraw the Green Battalion from 50,000 to 24,000, but after the war in Guangzhou, the disarmament was urgently suspended, and Beijing only cut military spending and no longer forcibly demanded Wu Sangui's disarmament.

Shou Xuan looked at the southwest report and sneered, the weirdness of things was a little obvious.

When the Guangxi Tatar army got the news of the battle of Guangzhou, they immediately scattered their daughters, withdrew on all fronts, and retreated to Nanning, Hengzhou, Guixian, Xunzhou, Tengxian, and Wuzhou, and deployed defenses along the Xijiang River.

The southeastern Ming Army was reinforced by the Taipei Brigade, and fought with the green battalions of Jiangnan Province and Zhejiang Province in the dark, and the Zhejiang battlefield was temporarily in a state of stalemate.

Shandong and Liaodong have not changed much.

Something big happened in Kuimen.

The camp led by Liu Tichun, Yuan Zongdi, Hao Shaoqi, Ta Tianbao, and Ma Tengyun, and the Ming army led by He Zhen and Wang Guangxing fought together.

The combined forces of the Chuang Ying and Ming armies recuperated in the mountains for several years and regained their offensive capability, and they made large-scale sorties to Hubei and Sichuan, among which the two tigers, Liu Tichun, had the strongest combat effectiveness. Kuimen's army even captured Xiangyang Xiongcheng for a time.

The Tatars were forced to organize a large army, with Li Guoying, the governor of Sichuan, as the commander, Dong Xueli, the governor of Huguang, Wang Yizheng, the governor of Shaanxi, and Bao Zhao, the general soldier of Hebei Town, and a total of 30,000 troops from the three provinces to encircle and suppress Kuimen.

In the main battlefield of Guangdong, the Marine Corps was replaced by the 3rd Town of Yang Qianqing's training army, and the Marine Corps returned to defend Guangzhou City.

Lan Qin's troops recruited new recruits, absorbed some prisoners, expanded to 2,500 people, and redressed and trained according to Nanyang standards.

After stabilizing Guangzhou, the various units attacked outward as planned.

The navy was organized into the Pearl River Detachment under the command of Chen Shangchuan, which cooperated with the Xijiang Naval Division of Chen Qice of the Ming Army, most of the pirates of Wang Huizhi were incorporated into the Pearl River Detachment, and Yang Yandi's troops were organized into the Dongjiang Naval Division.

The three counties of Shunde, Xiangshan, and Xinning, which were separated from each other in the rear of the coalition front, all surrendered, and the rout troops from all walks of life who could not escape to Zhaoqing poured into Xinhui County, with a total number of about 20,000 enemy troops.

Filhoff led a reinforced regimental detachment with the Ming army to attack to the southwest, commanded all allied forces in a unified manner, and surrounded Xu Chenggong's regiments in Xinhui County.

The siege of Xinhui this time was completely different from the one in Dingguo, and there were no reinforcements behind Xu Chenggong.

Under the command of Filhoff, there was an all-Nanyang equipped electric white regiment, and the new army had more than a brigade. In addition, there are 5,000 Ming troops from the four generals of Moyang and other departments under Xinhui City, 5,000 troops from Li Laiheng, and nearly 3,000 people from Guo Hu's department who have recently been rectified. The more than 2,000 green battalion soldiers who surrendered in Xin'an, Shunde, Xiangshan and other places were also dispersed and strengthened to several Ming troops under Xinhui City.

The total strength of the coalition army was 25,000, and Filhoff led 2 cavalry regiments, plus Li Laiheng's horse team and the Kuching Chesseur Regiment attached to the Dianbai Regiment, the cavalry had an absolute advantage, forcing the enemy to retreat in the county town and the camp.

The main force of the enemy army in the northwest abandoned Gaoming and other counties, retreated one after another, and concentrated under the city of Zhaoqingfu.

Yang Qianqing's troops guarded Sanshui County and confronted Li Qifeng and Shen Yongxing's nearly 20,000 troops. In this direction, there are more than 10,000 Ming troops such as Li Mingzhong and Xian Qiyu located in the mountainous area.

The Tatars used a lot of troops to garrison along the Xijiang River above Zhaoqing to ensure the back grain route, and they were unable to relieve the siege of Guangzhou before, and at this time they were trembling in the city of Zhaoqing.

On the eastern front, Yu Shihui led a brigade-level detachment, accompanied by the allied forces with the 1st town of Jin Shiying's training army, 2,500 soldiers of Ban Jisheng, and 4,000 Ming troops of Wang Xing and Xiao Guolong, with the support of the Dongjiang Naval Division commanded by Yang Yandi, with a total strength of nearly 20,000, to fight eastward, targeting the Tatar army of Chaozhou Huizhou and Zhangquan Erfu in southern Fujian.

With federal support, Zheng Chenggong repelled a massive Fujian Tatar attack on Xiamen last year, and his strength was restored to nearly 30,000.

Shou ordered and promised Zheng Chenggong that the four prefectures of Zhang, Quan, Chao and Ting would be hereditary by him.

Zheng Chenggong negotiated with the Tatars that year to ask for the four prefectures of Zhangquan and Chaohui, and to exchange Huizhou for Tingzhou in an orderly manner, which Zheng Chenggong accepted.

Zheng Fan gave up the Ningjing King and belonged to the banner of Hainan.

The coalition army pressed the Tatar army of Chaohui from the Dongjiang River head-on, Zheng Fan nearly 20,000 people landed in Chaozhou, the Tatar Guangdong army in this direction was vulnerable, Huizhou was soon liberated, and Chaozhou relied on more than 30,000 Fujian Eight Banners and Green Battalion soldiers who came in succession to withstand it.

Generally speaking, in the newly occupied areas, the allied forces took the Dongjiang River water transport from the Xijiang River in the lower reaches of Zhaoqing to Huizhou as the main lifeline, and the tributaries as the secondary lifeline, and concentrated their forces near the main water transport routes, but did not occupy the vast hinterland.

However, these areas cannot be easily let go, and the usual way to deal with them is that hundreds of people from the army or the Ming army arrive at the city, set up cannons to bombard the city, destroy the militia that dares to resist, practice bravery, and then ask for ransom fees, and the grain, silk, porcelain, and women can be charged with silver.

Some magistrates and gentry cried and shouted that their mothers wanted to surrender, and in the vast number of non-tactical places, they were driven back with bayonets by vicious soldiers.

After these cities paid the money, they still wore Tatar flags and were ruled by the braided governors of the counties. In some counties, the gentry and officials cut their braids too quickly, and watched the coalition troops swagger away, and finally had to buy a fake braid to take it back.

A series of actions by the coalition to refresh the lower limit once again subverted the perception of Shilin.

Officials from all over the country frantically reported to the governor of Liangguang and submitted an inscription to Beijing, saying that the shamelessness of the islands had not been seen for 3,000 years, and the soldiers and civilians in various places united as one to repel the invading troops of the islands, and beheaded hundreds to thousands.

Li Qifeng, the governor of Liangguang and Shen Yongxing, the Duke of Xushun, who were in the city of Zhaoqing, secretly doubled the number reported by various places.

The battle of Guangzhou made Beijing feel like a mourner, and it was extremely happy to receive the urgent news like snowflakes. Originally, Li Qifeng's disposal plan was to take Suo Na into Beijing and hand it over to the ministry to discuss the crime, but it was temporarily changed to be removed from his post and retained, and he was guilty of meritorious service.

The guards of the green camp of the county and the governor of the prefecture were also added to the ranks, and the earliest ones all got a semi-hereditary future.

Slowly, Beijing discovered that something was wrong, and if you add up the number of beheadings in Guangdong, the troops brought to Guangdong by the order are about to be wiped out twice, which is obviously not quite right. However, in the current situation, in order to motivate the soldiers to use their lives, it is impossible to recover the military merits given out, and the Tatar court can only knock out teeth and swallow blood, gritting its teeth and admitting it.

Orderly did not unexpectedly comment on his noisy evaluation, and his main focus was always on the enemy field group.

Filhoff collected 400 cannons, most of which were captured enemy equipment, including 80 heavy guns of more than 5,000 pounds.

Workshops near Guangzhou worked around the clock to melt scrap iron, pig iron ingots, and make cannonballs. The amount of enemy gunpowder captured in Canton and other places was too much to run out, and Filhoff opened up to fight in Xinhui.

In a week's time, as many as 50,000 shells smashed into Xu Chenggong's narrow position, and no matter how strong the army was, it couldn't withstand such a bombardment.

The enemy army was completely defeated, and the collapsed Green Battalion soldiers cut off Xu Chenggong's head and surrendered to the coalition forces. Filhoff granted leniency to the captives, and the manpower of the mine was temporarily sufficient, and the captives were sent to the South Seas Plantation.

Then, Filhoff led the main force eastward to reinforce Chaozhou, and defeated 40,000 Chaohui and Fujian Tatar troops in a battle.

The three cavalry regiments of the coalition army Houjiang, Hewan and Kuching, Li Laiheng and the horse team of Anyway, a total of 5,000 cavalry pursued the whole line.

The pursuers were all over the mountains, harvesting the enemy troops who only knew how to flee for their lives from behind, and the collapsed Tartar army was all annihilated except for a few who escaped into the ravine in time.

The coalition forces took advantage of the situation to capture Zhangzhou and Quanzhou, and once again obtained a total of 3 million silver materials.

Filhoff handed over the two provinces to Zheng Fan as agreed, and by the way, he gave him all the weapons captured in the Battle of Chaozhou and the prisoners of the Green Battalion, and Zheng Fan was able to expand his army rapidly.

Subsequently, the main forces of the coalition forces withdrew to Guangzhou to rest. Li Laiheng was assigned to Lianzhou to reinforce the Guangxi battlefield.

Shou ordered and appointed Lian Chengbi as the governor of Jiangxi, and led the four generals of Moyang, Xian Qiyu, Guo Hu and other Ming troops with a total of 12,000 people along the front line of the Beijiang River.

Lanqin prepared for the southern Jiangxi army, and led 7,000 troops including the headquarters and Banjisheng and Gao Jinku to attack Ganzhou.

Except for the earlier Xianqiyu Division, the reliability and combat effectiveness of the rest of the anti-Japanese army are a bit problematic, and the order does not want to stay in Guangzhou to increase the uncertainty, and it is safer to put it in northern Guangdong and Jiangxi.

Most of the family members of these troops were sent to Hainan, so that they could grab money and grain in Jiangxi to maximize their combat effectiveness.

Today's Ganzhou is not as good as Ganzhou during Li Chengdong's Northern Expedition.

The Jiangxi Green Battalion reinforced the Guangdong battlefield several times, but the main force was annihilated twice, and the towns and co-battalions were all left behind by some old, weak, sick and disabled and fritter soldiers, with low combat effectiveness and very empty defense.

It has been 10 years since Jiangxi achieved peace, and its productive forces have recovered a lot, and it has become a major grain-producing province for the Tatars, and it is not difficult to collect grain locally.

Lan Qin easily took the city of Ganzhou, and then he defended the city of Ganzhou with his headquarters and 4,000 of the most reliable troops, set up more than 100 heavy artillery, desperately scavenged for food, and stockpiled enough supplies for the army to use for two years.

In April 1662, the Tatar army marched south.

Tatar Dingyuan Pingkou general, and Shuo'an Prince Yue Le arrived in Wuzhou Prefecture, Guangxi.

General An Yuan Jingkou, the owner of the white flag Doroxin County, arrived in Xinghua Mansion, Fujian.

Jingyuan Dingkou general, the red flag lord Luo Keduo, the king of Duoluoping County, arrived in Nanchang, Jiangxi.

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