Hainan Island, Qiongzhou.

Zeng Ying is no longer in charge of affairs, rarely goes to the superintendent yamen, and the affairs in the city are basically handed over to Zhou Luqing, the governor of Guangdong, and his nephews, and the old man lives next to the order in the suburbs.

Shou ordered to return home from the front line and visit the door.

Zeng Ying made tea and reported the situation in Haibei to the old man in an orderly manner.

Haibei Zhuzhou County, in addition to Li Yuanyin of Qinzhou, Li Laiheng of Lianzhou, the rest of Yulin, Huazhou, Leizhou and other more than ten prefectures and counties since 1654 Li Dingguo sent troops to Xinhui, sent troops and food, fought for nearly 4 years, during which they suffered a heavy defeat, Dingguo and the towns of the Yue army a total of 40,000 people withdrew less than 20,000, the loss of heavy weapons, can be called the poverty of the people. Leizhou's great victory in the first battle pulled the Gaolei War Zone back from the brink of exhaustion.

It is already reluctant for Gao Lei to support the local defense operations, and it is really not enough to support the front hundreds of kilometers away. The towns of the Ming army pursued eastward to the Moyang River valley, and after acquiring hundreds of thousands of people, they successively withdrew to their respective defense areas.

Prefecture and county civil officials distributed fields, distributed seeds, and urged soldiers and immigrants to participate in spring ploughing. With the newly reclaimed tuntian of these immigrants, if there is no major disaster, Haibei will be able to recuperate this year, and it is expected to make up for it next year.

After the main forces of the Ming army retreated, most of the weapons captured in Leizhou were distributed to the Ming troops on the periphery of Gaolei and Qinlian.

The Green Battalion weapons were useless against the Federal Army, but they were a life-saving supplement for the Ming troops on the periphery who had suffered heavy losses. With weapons, the Ming army was able to recruit anti-Qing rebels and civilians who were homeless and hateful to the Tatars because of the ban on the sea.

Haibei was divided into enemy-occupied areas, guerrilla areas, and liberated areas, and a newly liberated area east of the Jianjiang River with a guerrilla area of 20,000 square kilometers.

Zhang Xiaoqi, the governor of Gaolei, stationed in Lianjiang and reorganized the remnants of the Jiangxi army that were originally stationed in the local area into Fubiao, with 1,000 soldiers. The remnants of the Chu army were incorporated into Xiong Zhaozuo and Zhou Jintang, which belonged to the same part of the Qinlian Theater.

Xiao Yuan's battalion was also heavily damaged in the previous battle, and was combined with Yang Qianqing to form the third town of the training army, stationed in Suixi County. The first town of Jin Shiying's training army is stationed in Xuwen, and the second town of He Huchen is stationed in Haikang. The three counties of Leizhou are each stationed in one town, and the three towns have a total of 9,000 soldiers. The rest of the fort garrisons and Tuntian soldiers were commanded by Yu Cuiqing, the commander of Leizhou Soldiers.

Xian Qiyu continued to be stationed in Huazhou, and he had 1,500 people in his headquarters, and the 2,500 people in the remaining green battalions of other provinces controlled by him outside Dianbai City were received by Hainan, and according to the performance at the time of surrender, they were either divided into various armies, or brought back to Leizhou to farm, or sent to the mines.

Hainan did not have enough financial resources to reorganize all the Ming troops on the periphery, and these Ming troops were accustomed to fighting in their hometowns, and the cost performance of the whole reorganization was not necessarily good.

Wencun Wang Xing and Xiao Guolong guarded Enping and Yangchun, and monitored the Pearl River watershed to the north, which was the easternmost flank of the defense area, and confronted the main force of the Tartar army in Guangzhou.

Shi Shangyi, Ye Biao, and Luo Chengji went down the mountain to reoccupy Xinyi County and two 2,000 households in the mountains of Hankou and Fulin, and this road was mainly in the mountainous area, confronting Zhaoqing Town, Luoding Prefecture Association, and Xinxing Camp.

In the rear of these two departments, Zhang Yue, Zhang Daoying, Wu Wenwen, and Liang Desheng of Hailing Island reoccupied the four cities of Moyang and were responsible for the main stream of the Moyang River south of Yangchun.

Lu Zhan's territory has expanded to Baixian County and half of Maoming.

Wuchuan Li Mingzhong reoccupied Maoming Daying and brought most of the county's land under its jurisdiction.

The Ming military districts were divided according to their nature, with the west of the Moyang River and the south of Xinyi being liberated areas. North of Xinyi, east of the Moyang River and east of the Tatar defense line as a guerrilla zone.

According to the scope of civil jurisdiction, the area outside Gaolei was supervised by the governor of Liangguang appointed by Yongli. Lianchengbi is stationed in Yangchun County, and the four generals of Moyang do not listen to his command, and the rest of the towns still respect this old gentleman.

Determining the defense area is a troublesome matter, and there will be people in the Ming army town who are very contradictory to each other, and they have met many times in the past, and in the past ten years, only Li Dingguo has reluctantly united them under a big banner.

The order did not copy the original county border, and comprehensively considered the relationship between the generals and the territory, as well as their respective strength and military exploits. If there are many people and the location is poor, we will give more weapons and try to meet the needs of the majority of people.

When the alliance leader is rewarded and punished fairly, and the order is borrowed from some practices of Sun Kewang and Li Dingguo, but it is not as strict as Xiying, most towns will be more relaxed. The Ming army on the periphery allowed its tuntian to raise itself and draw troops from various departments during the war, which was a bit like the practice of the Eight Banners in Liaodong in the early days.

Zeng Ying listened quietly, and waited for Shou Ling to finish speaking before saying: "After Haibei is stable, I will cross the sea and go over to inspect the defense areas. ”

Shou Xuan said: "That's great, I'm worried that the old gentleman will be tired of the saddle horse, and I haven't dared to ask for it." ”

"You don't have to worry, although I don't have much energy, I feel that I can survive for a few years, and I will never drag you down."

"Old gentleman......"

Zeng Ying smiled and waved her hand, "What is Shang Kexi, Geng Jimao's reaction recently?" ”

"Geng Jimao's strength was greatly damaged, and after returning to Guangzhou, Lu Yingxue replaced Lian Decheng, who was killed by us, as the commander of the right-wing green battalion, and returned the left-behind troops scattered in various places to Guangzhou, and requisitioned Dingkou under the domain to expand the army."

"Does he have any money?"

"Jing Fan fought from the north to the south, and there were countless Kecheng, if you take out all the family assets, there will always be hundreds of thousands of taels."

"Then his newly trained army is not as good as the original Liaodong old book."

"Yes, we judge that the strength of the Jing Domain will drop to the level of the Green Battalion."

Zeng Ying nodded, "What about the Ping Domain?" ”

"Shang Kexi lost a wing of the green battalion in Leizhou, and his strength in Guangzhou is stronger than Geng Jimao, so he can hold it for the time being. Geng Jimao is now only in charge of the internal affairs of the domain, and basically does not care about foreign affairs, and Guangdong is supported by Shang Kexi and Li Qifeng, the governor of Liangguang. ”

"What are their arrangements?"

Spread out the map in order.

"Wait a minute." Zeng Ying put on reading glasses.

"Li Qifeng sat in Zhaoqing, commanded the Zhaoqing General Soldier Hou Xijue and the two battalions of supervising pacesetters, and drew reinforcements from Shaozhou and Nanxiong Green Battalions in northern Guangdong."

"What about Shang Kexi?"

Shang Kexi went out of Guangzhou to inspect the front line and appease the army. The third son, Shang Zhilian, rebuilt the left-wing green camp in Guangzhou, and the deputy capital commander Ban Jisheng reinforced Xu Chenggong, the capital of the Jing Domain, and guarded Xinhui. The right-wing commander Wu Jingong guarded Gaoming, and connected Zhaoqing in the north. Guo Hu guards Xinning. Wang Yanyan, deputy general of the Guanghai Association, guarded Guanghaiwei and connected the sea to the south. Zhang Guoxun, the commander-in-chief of the Guangdong Naval Division, was also sent into the Pearl River, and this naval division had a full strength of 6,000 people, and it was impossible to find out how many soldiers were drawn. Chen Qice, Deng Yao, Li Yanrong, Zhou Zhen and Zhou Yu's sailors from Shangxiachuan Island on our side will be severely injured in the new society, and they will not be able to break into the Tanjiang River and the Pearl River for the time being. ”

Ban Jisheng is the son of Ban Zhifu, and after the old Ban died of illness, the title was inherited by Ban Jisheng.

"Well, Shang Kexi's speed of rebuilding the defense area is not slow, there are land divisions defending the city in the front, and there are water divisions in the back, how many soldiers do they have?"

"There are more than 30,000 on the line from Zhaoqing to Guanghai."

"So many?"

"Look at the establishment, there are more than 100,000 soldiers from the two feudal clans in Guangdong, plus the local green battalion, and the green battalion from other provinces, and we have killed 35,000, and they still have more than 60,000 people in theory, excluding the shortage, there are always 4,50,000, and they can also force the strong Ding."

Except for a small number of field troops, the green battalion is more concentrated in its strength, and it is more divided into flood areas to guard the key points in various places, and in the war, more than a dozen soldiers are drawn from this flood area, and 100 men are drawn from the head of that battalion. After the defeat of Leizhou, Shang Kexi and Li Qifeng further drew troops from the towns and camps to strengthen to the front line. Shang Kexi even transferred the three towns of Chaohuirao in the Dongjiang area. Because the army had many new recruits and weak soldiers, the Cantonese Tatar army was unable to attack again and barely maintained the defensive line.

"What are your plans?"

"The land divisions in each town are mainly to recuperate, and to maintain contact battles with the Tatars on the front line, in order to obtain population."

Zeng Ying tilted her head to guard the order, "Master Lu, do you want to move the water master again?" ”

Shou Xuan smiled, "Yes." Old man, we will not go to the front line to attack the city, nor will we enter the Pearl River. Since Shang Kexi mobilized the defenders from the east, we mobilized the naval division and warships to cross the mouth of the Pearl River, and used Sanmen Island as a base to attack Chaohui Erfu. If Damu wants to participate, he can also divide several counties into several counties. ”

The naval divisions of the Ming army were seriously damaged, and the orderly plan sent Rong Dashuai, Suli of Qianjieshi Town, Hao Yao of Chaozhou Town, plus Wang Huizhi of Hong Kong, and several other Ming troops to Chaohui to make a fortune.

After the Tatars forbade the sea, it was a no-man's land within 50 miles from the sea, and it was not easy for sailors to go ashore to make a fortune. But without the support of the mobile troops of the Green Battalion, the coastal wall of Guangdong was made of paper, piercing through the border wall, and several counties were laid down to make up for the brethren at sea.