The Changliu flags of various colors fluttered in the wind, the flagship Laxis raised the signal flag, and the main force of the local fleet composed of 5 Galen, 4 frigates, and 1 notification ship stopped sailing and anchored at the mouth of the Houjiang River.

After a cannon salute, the orderly frigate Yuexiu sailed past the Laxis. The sailors of the two ships stood on the side slope, and the sailmen climbed the booms, took off their hats and raised their hands, and shouted three times in cheers. Orderly waved to the fleet commanders and lieutenants, Stirling and Collingwood.

The Yuexiu tightened its sails, swung its bow and chased north after the huge convoy of transports. The southerly wind season is coming to an end, and this is the last wave of the year to go north.

The people of Quang Nam silently watched the Junk fleet sailing along the coast, they had long been accustomed to these harmless merchant ships over the years.

The voyage of more than 700 nautical miles takes only one week, and the distance between Houjiang and Hainan Island is too close. The ports to the west of Hainan were full of transport ships from the Nanyang, and the Yuexiu sailed into Dongshui Port.

Andre, the commander of the East Water Port, urged him to finally complete the East Water Fortress last winter. The main wall of the fortress is made of rammed earth, and the perimeter is built with stones. The binder is cement made from volcanic ash from Weizhou Island in the North Sea. Weizhou Island is now the main building materials supply base in Qiongzhou, and the Haibei Provincial Fortress Group Project has a great demand for volcanic ash.

Changing horses at Dongshui Port, Shou Xiang led the guards to the capital city of Qiongzhou.

Seeing Zeng Ying, the superintendent's complexion was much better than when he left in order, which was related to the front-line battle situation.

In the past winter, Zeng Ying mobilized more than 14,000 troops to attack in four directions, and set foot in the central Li District. Hainan Province newly established five counties, Shuihui, Qiongzhong, Le'an, Baoting, and Baisha, and appointed Dai Wenwei as the prefect of Qiongzhou Island. The prefect of Hainan Island was originally established in the Ming Dynasty, but it was revoked after it was unable to conquer the Shengli District.

Among these 5 counties, Shuihui County relies on thousands of households in Shuihui, and the county is in the same city. Le'an County relies on Le'an Military Fort, and the remaining 3 counties rely on smaller forts. When the rainy season came, most of the Ming army withdrew to the place of departure. The resistance in the Li District has become more and more fierce, and Dai Wenwei has worked hard to support him in the Shuihui City. Dai Wenwei used to be Yang Sichang's staff, and he had suppressed rogue gangsters in the Central Plains, so he was no stranger to dealing with this kind of law and order war.

Read the briefing in order. The intensity of the public security war was not great, and the Ming army in Qiongzhou was mainly recruited, but it was fully equipped, and under the leadership of veterans, the number of people occupied an absolute advantage. The Ming army was able to win most of the battles, and the soldiers wielded their swords to see the blood, starting from the low intensity, and then summing up the experience after surviving, forming a good positive cycle.

The main point of the law and order war is to spend time and energy and do the work carefully. With the current progress, with two more winters of all-out military use on the island, the Shengli District will be able to digest it.

Set your sights on the battlefields of the whole country.

Jiang inlaid according to Datong anyway.

Wu Sangui opened the mountain customs when the army was prepared, and Han Zhaoxuan raised troops to the southwest.

Wang Yongqiang raised troops to Yulinwei and conquered Yan'an.

Ding Guodong and Mi Layin set up troops in Gansu, Liankegan, Suzhou, Liangzhou, and Lanzhou, captured and killed the first governor of the Tatars, the second soldier, the first general soldier, and the third deputy general soldier.

The combat effectiveness of the northern border army was very strong, and the Ming armies of Shanxi and Shaanxi were united, and the Tatars were under great pressure. In the battle to suppress the Ming army in Gansu, a new general star was raised in the Tatar camp, the new commander of Gansu, Daniel Zhang.

On the Hunan side, the main force of the Eight Banners of the Tatar Auxiliary Prince Zilharang captured He Tengjiao, and the Ming army and the loyal battalion fled on all fronts. The Ming army turned southward at a very fast pace, and the main forces of all divisions were largely completely withdrawn to the watershed of the Pearl River and the Xiangjiang River for defense. The Manchurian, Mongolian and Han Eight Banners once again advanced to Quanzhou, Guangxi, and confronted the Ming army in Guilin across the rock pass.

Jilharang had little interest in Guangxi, and after suppressing Hunan, he hurriedly returned to Beijing.

The Huguang Ming Army, which retreated into Guangxi, found that the main force of the Eight Banners had left the front line and, like last time, launched a counterattack from the Hunan and Guizhou borders. When the order was in Qiongzhou, Jiao Lian's troops, Zhao Yinxuan's troops, Hu Yiqing's Yunnan army, Cao Zhijian's troops, Ma Jinzhong's troops, and Wang Jincai's troops advanced northward on their respective fronts, and the Ming army successively recovered Jingzhou, Wugang, and Hengzhou's swallow's nest, which was important on the Xiangjiang River.

The remnants of the Shun army, such as Yuan Zongdi and Liu Tichun, who fought independently, also entered Hunan to collect grain, and Hunan fell into a chaotic war.

From 1646 to 1649, the Hunan battlefield lasted for three years, and the local people were already exhausted and exhausted. Whether it was the Tatars or the Ming army, or the rest of the Shun army, everyone's military discipline was a mess. The purpose was to capture men and women and plunder silver and grain.

There were many Ming soldiers, except for a few towns such as Changsha, Hengzhou, Yongzhou, and Xiangtan, and the Ming army seemed to have recovered most of Hunan.

Jiangxi battlefield, Nanchang fell. The Tatars slaughtered the city, and hundreds of thousands of men and women in Jiangxi were sold by the Tatars.

Jin Shenghuan's family committed suicide, and Wang Deren was tortured by Ling Chi after being captured. Tan Tai's Eight Banners reinforced Ganzhou, and Li Chengdong was defeated and killed. Cheng Dong fulfilled his promise and went to the water to die, he didn't even go to Meiling.

Like Zilharang, Tan Tai returned to Beijing after defeating the Ming army in Guangdong. The fleet of ships carrying slaves and booty numbered several thousand, the leader of which reached Nanking, and the tail of which was still in Nanchang.

Guangdong Ming Army.

The generals under Chengdong publicly elected Du Yonghe as the leader, and the Yongli court tried to use Li Yuanyin and civilian officials to collect the military power in Guangdong. The emperor could only reluctantly accept the reality.

Du Yonghe and others elected Yan Keyi as the front-line coach. Yan Keyi was a good general, he reorganized the defeated army that fled back from Jiangxi, built forts in the Nanxiong area, and cast cannons. The relieved Chengdong Division repelled three attacks by the Jiangxi Green Battalion in a row, and the situation in Guangdong eased slightly.

Zierharang and Tan Tai withdrew their troops from Hunan and Jiangxi respectively, and lost the battlefield to the Green Battalion, which had a direct causal relationship with the northern border army anyway.

The only discordant voices came from Fujian, where the brothers Zheng Cai and Zheng Lian occupied Kinmen and Xiamen, controlled the Fujian maritime trade window, and seized most of the legacy left by Zheng Zhilong.

Zheng Chenggong ordered troops in South Australia and gathered a group of elite soldiers, and he had no money to feed the soldiers. Li Chengdong and Yongli successively sent people to contact Zheng Chenggong, hoping to join forces to attack Fujian. Zheng Chenggong was unable to attack the Tatars, he carried forward the old tradition of bandits, sent troops to land in Chaozhou to collect grain, Zheng Fan's military discipline was extremely poor, and the invasion was like fire, killing people everywhere, setting fire to robbing grain and women.

Hao Shangjiu, the Ming army general of Chaozhou, wanted to make peace with Zheng Chenggong at first, but Zheng Fan took the opportunity to open his mouth and put forward conditions that were unacceptable to the Ming army in Chaozhou. Hao Shangjiu couldn't bear it for a long time, and fought with Zheng Chenggong, and the two armies won and lost each other. After Zheng Chenggong suffered a loss, he joined forces with his uncle Zheng Hongkui and prepared to land in Chaozhou with all the main forces.

Chaozhou ranks second only to Guangzhou in terms of economy in Guangdong Province. Every year, there are 56,000 taels of silver alone, and 200,000 silver grains can be collected a year after the addition, which is really a piece of fat.

Although there are some noises, on the whole, so far, the Eight Banners have returned to Beijing and joined the battlefield of the Ming army in the north, and the positive pressure on the Yongli Imperial Court in the south has suddenly decreased, and they can take a breath for the time being. The situation seemed to be maintainable, so the proposal to retreat from Haibei Province in an orderly manner did not receive a positive response from Hainan officials. Zeng Ying only used Hainan local merchant ships to transfer more than 10,000 people to Borneo, and the territory allocated to Zeng Ying in Borneo was very large, which was only enough for saltpeter.

There was no hurry to keep order, and the merchant fleet temporarily stayed in the ports of Qiongbei and Qiongxi. He went to Qiongxi to inspect the military academy and the shipyard of the Qiongzhou detachment at the mouth of the Changhua River.

Jonesy began to build four types of ships, frigates and notification ships for the navy, and two and a half types of galley and galley warships for the local troops in Qiongxi.

Thanks to the reception of many shipwrights who fled from the Pearl River Delta and Macau, the production capacity of the Qiongxi shipyard has grown rapidly. At present, the small output is limited by the problem of raw materials, and there is too little dry wood. By September, when the north wind lifted, the bad news arrived on time for the season.

The Tatars canonized Kong Youde as the king of Dingnan.

There were more than 20 leaders under the Dingnan Wang, a total of 3,100 soldiers, and Beijing transferred the green battalion to Kong Youde to replenish 20,000.

This Tatar force joined the Hunan battlefield and quickly arrived at the important town of Hengzhou, relieving the siege of Yongzhou, which had been surrounded by the Ming army for five months.

Yongzhou is really a fortified city in the hands of the Tatars, last year He Tengjiao besieged 7 months to conquer, this year Qu Shiyun besieged 5 months and finally fell short. The attitude of the military and civilians in Yongzhou was very firm, and they defended desperately, keeping the Ming army out of the city wall. This represents the attitude of many people in Hunan towards the Ming Dynasty officials and troops and the so-called peasant rebel army.

Then Shang Kexi and Geng Zhongming were successively named the kings of Pingnan and Dingnan.

There were 15 assistant leaders and 2,300 soldiers under the Pingnan Wang's domain. King Jingnan had 16 leaders and 2,500 soldiers. The two armies arrived in Nanjing. The Tatars transferred green battalions from Nanzhili and western Zhejiang, and gave each of the two feudal kings 10,000 troops, and the army marched to Jiangxi. The Tatar reinforcements were slower than Kong Youde's because Shang Kexi and Geng Zhongming were involved in the fugitive case.

The Tatars plundered the Han Chinese as slaves for many years, and many slaves who could not bear the oppression fled after the Tatars entered the customs. Kong Youde, Shang Kexi, and Geng Zhongming, as the Han kings who held military power, had many of their subordinates hiding many fugitive slaves out of friendship with the same clan or for other reasons. When this happened, Dolgon was furious, and he wanted to deal with the case strictly, regardless of the fact that the army was on the way.

Different from previous expeditions, this time the three feudal kings went south, bringing all the family members of the feudal lords and Dingkou. The Yongli court resisted stubbornly in the south, tugging back and forth, and every time it was crippled, it couldn't be killed. The Tatars were frightened, and Dolgon gave Guangxi and Guangdong to the three feudal kings as their hereditary domains. There is news in Nanjing, and even Wu Sangui, who was idle in Ningyuan, has the intention of reviving. Wu Sangui was the strongest Han army under the Tatars, and his strength surpassed that of Kong Shanggeng and the sum of his subordinates.

Shou Xuan received Zeng Ying's letter in the Qiongxi Hall, smiled lightly, rode a war horse, and then went to the Yamen of the Governor of Fucheng. Zeng Ying's main officials are all there.

"What should I do?"

Zeng Ying asked the question that everyone was at a loss. Hainan Haibei Soldier Preparation Road, Bu Zheng, according to the two divisions, four prefects, all the general soldiers, deputy generals are all watching the order.

Shou Xuan pondered for a while, "Xie Yuanbian and Zhang Shijie have read the news from the front line in Hezhou, right?" ”

Hezhou was the front unit of the Ming army in Qiongzhou, and what they sent back was first-hand information from the battlefield.

The loyal battalion did not resist in the face of the Tatar cavalry, and in May withdrew to Liangguang via the mountain path. It enters the Hejiang River basin through Lianshan and Xingzi. Li Guo Tu Huaiji, Zhang Shijie accepted the friendly troops withdrawn from Huaiji and held in Hezhou Infant City. He Huchen was stationed in Bucheon.

Zhang Shijie was definitely not the opponent of Li Guo, Gao Yigong, and Li Laiheng in the field battle, but fortunately, the Qiongxi Ming Army was fully equipped and had sharp guns. The loyal battalion, which brought their families and their mouths and was in disarray, had no intention of storming the fortified city, plundering summer grain, capturing men and women, and pulling out hundreds of river boats in the four counties along the Hejiang River and heading down the river.

There was chaos in the rear of the Ming army.

The Yongli court scolded the plugging of Yinxi for causing a big disaster, and Yang Dafu, the chief soldier from the front, was urgently reinforced in Zhaoqing. Under his mediation, the large fleet of immigrants in the Loyal Battalion arrived at the main stream of the Pearl River and headed west to Wuzhou, without attacking Zhaoqing.

Ye Chengen, the general soldier of Wuzhou, used artillery to defend the city, and the loyal battalion plundered the field. When everyone was embarrassed, Chen Bangfu, the guard of Xunzhou, Qingguo Gong, took Nanning as a bait and took the initiative to invite the loyal camp. Li Guo and Gao Yigong continued to drive westward, close to the territory of Qiongzhou.

Shou Xuan smiled, "Whoever thinks you can stop the loyal battalion on the battlefield, you can go to the front line to try." If you feel unsure, please organize Haibei to rush to transport autumn grain and evacuate the population to Qiongzhou Island. ”