In the mountainous areas of southern and western Zhejiang, there were many anti-Qing righteous divisions active, and after the Chu army entered Zhejiang, some of them changed their banners and threw themselves under the banner of the Longwu Imperial Court. According to their ability, character and strength, Wang Sheng was granted different official positions, guarding the various state capitals in Zhejiang, and Shaoxing Mansion was also handed over to an anti-Qing leader named Jiang Shui, and gave him a letter of appointment for the Shaoxing General Army.

Jiang Shui has more than 1,000 anti-Qing volunteers, it is enough to maintain local law and order, if King Lu's army comes to attack, he will definitely not be able to hold it, but with the strong Chu army as the backing, King Lu will not take the initiative to provoke a conflict as long as his brain is not in the water.

Wang Sheng, Zhang Mingzhen, and Zhang Kentang reached a verbal agreement, the Chu army withdrew from Shanyin (Huiji) City first, and King Lu's army also withdrew, and Jiang Shui sent a small force of 400 people to be stationed in Shanyin City, which played the role of preventing theft, banditry, and Japanese robbers, and did not pose any threat to King Lu's regime. Jiang Shui also had more than 1,000 soldiers and horses under his command, stationed in various prefectures and counties, ferries, passes and Bingtang in the western part of Shaoxing Prefecture.

Since Wang Sheng marched into Zhejiang, he occupied Jiaxing Mansion, Huzhou Mansion, and half of Shaoxing Mansion, there were a large number of gaps in local officials in various places, and the Longwu Imperial Court could not take care of fighting for power and profit with Chu Xun during this time, and the "Chu Election Official" appointed by Wang Kefan was not yet fully in place, Wang Sheng in addition to enabling the Manchu Qing Dynasty to surrender officials, and appointed some local gentry who supported the Longwu Imperial Court, especially the local gentry who were close to Chu Xunguan @↑ as local officials, Qi Lisun and Qi Bansun temporarily acted for the government affairs of Shaoxing Mansion, Wang Ting, Lu Qiuke, Wang Mingyue and others were also sent to the lower prefectures and counties to be petty officials of eight grades and nine grades to maintain local order. As far as possible kuài restore fù production.

Although Lu Qiuke, Wang Mingyue and Wang Ting have stains, the opportunists also have an advantage. is keen on fame and fortune, and if you have milk, you are a mother. Seeing that the Ming army steadily occupied the three provinces south of the Yangtze River, he had already left "my Qing Dynasty" behind, and he was very active no matter what he did, and desperately expressed himself in front of Wang Sheng...... When Wang Sheng was employing people, he saw that a few of them still had some ability, so he gave a letter of appointment and asked them to become local officials. repeatedly expressed loyalty to Wang Sheng, expressed determination, and then happily took office with the letter of appointment.

Wei Geng, who had the strongest ability, was the person named by Wang Kefan, Wang Sheng explained the situation to him, asked him to settle down in his family, and went to Nanjing with the Chu army.

Settle down for a good qiē. Wang Sheng led the Chu army out of Shanyin City and launched an attack on Xiaoshan County, northwest of Shaoxing, close to Hangzhou......

The Qing army was originally quite powerful in Zhejiang, and Meile Zhangjingji Xiha was stationed in Hangzhou, and Hetuo was stationed in Suzhou. The formation of a corner, coupled with Songjiang, Jiaxing, Shaoxing and other state capitals, constitutes a very solid defensive formation. This defensive formation is based in Hangzhou and Suzhou. Songjiang, Jiaxing, Shaoxing and the various prefectures and counties below are used as branches and leaves, as a barrier between Hangzhou and Suzhou. also relied on Suzhou and Hangzhou as backup, and the Chu army successively captured Suzhou, Jiaxing, Shaoxing and other prefectures. Just like cutting down a few of the largest branches on the big tree of Hangzhou, except for some small strongholds, Hangzhou has become an isolated city, and the fate of being conquered by the Chu army can no longer be reversed.

Suzhou was conquered by the Chu army, and Hetuo was almost completely annihilated, which was a heavy blow to Ji Xiha, Tian Xiong unexpectedly returned to the Ming Dynasty anyway, which made matters worse, although some of the remnants of Hetuo fled to Hangzhou, and Ji Xiha's men only had a few thousand Eight Banner soldiers, with some green battalions and sailors, and the troops were stretched thin, and the morale was extremely low...... They were trapped in the hinterland of Zhejiang, and it was impossible to escape by land, so they went to sea by boat, and King Lu and Zheng Chenggong's sailors were blocked in Hangzhou Bay and the mouth of the Yangtze River, so they could only stay in Hangzhou and defend to the death, fantasizing that Dolgon would send a large army south.

Wang Sheng marched into Xiaoshan, and ordered Teng Shuanglin and other troops to attack Xincheng, Tonglu and other outlying strongholds of the Qing army from other directions, the total strength of the Chu army exceeded 25,000 people, approaching Hangzhou step by step, the Qing army near Hangzhou was greatly shaken, and after asking Jixiha for help, they abandoned their strongholds and retreated to Hangzhou and Fuyang.

For the Qing army, other strongholds can be abandoned, but Fuyang County must be defended.

Fuyang is sixty miles away from Hangzhou, the north is a mountainous area with mountains and mountains, the south faces the Fuchun River, the west is connected to Qililong, and the east is close to the Qiantang River, the terrain is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it is also an important barrier in Hangzhou.

After the Chu army occupied Tonglu, it collected merchant ships and civilian ships, advanced by waterway, and suddenly launched an attack on the lower reaches of the Fuchun River. The Chu army sent a 500 cavalry as the vanguard force, running for nearly 100 miles for a long distance, and suddenly appeared in front of the camp of the Qing army's water division.

After the main force of the Chu army arrived, the battle of the Qing army's naval division camp had ended, Wang Sheng and Teng Shuanglin met under the city of Fuyang, and various ships temporarily put together were stationed on the south bank of the Fuchun River, and the land division was stationed in Xinqiao, facing the Qing army across the river.

If it was replaced by an ordinary Qing army general, most of them would have to hold out at this time, but Jixiha's tactical characteristics are different, more active, more active, always trying to give full play to the cavalry advantage of the Eight Banners, and the troops are obviously inferior, but they still take the initiative to attack...... Under the order of Ji Xiha, the Qing army of Fuyang did not wait for the attack to gain a firm foothold, and launched a counterattack out of the city, the Chu army Teng Shuanglin set up an ambush in front of the new bridge, the Qing army suffered heavy casualties in the front of the army, and the main general with the troops ordered to retreat, Teng Shuanglin led the army to chase and kill, all the way to Fuyang City, the results were impressive, the casualties were not counted, Ji Xiha at this time led thousands of elite Eight Banner cavalry from Hangzhou to come, from the flank to copy Teng Shuanglin's back road, Teng Shuanglin was in front of Fuyang City, and found that the side rear was threatened by Yan zhòng, had to retreat in the direction of Xinqiao, but Ji Xiha did not relent, and used cavalry to constantly entangle Teng Shuanglin's infantry, and launched attacks again and again, so that Teng Shuanglin suffered a lot, but fortunately Wang Sheng sent troops to the rescue, Teng Shuanglin escaped and retreated to Xinqiao.

Seeing Ji Xiha concentrating his forces on Fuyang, trying to take advantage of the special terrain here to fight a decisive battle with the Chu army. Both Wang Sheng and Teng Shuanglin felt that it was very tricky.

Although the strength of the Chu army was more than double that of the Qing army, the Qing army was mainly the Eight Banners cavalry with strong mobility ability. In addition to some of the Eight Banners soldiers left by Tan Tai at the beginning, the Eight Banners of the Hangzhou Garrison under Ji Xiha were also carefully selected Eight Banners elite soldiers. They have been fighting with King Lu's army in recent years, and they have not been corrupted as quickly as the Eight Banners in Beijing, and they still maintain a high combat effectiveness, and they have been staying in Hangzhou to rest in the last half a year, and they are in the best state in all aspects, and the Chu army is not familiar with the place, and it is not easy to eliminate them in one fell swoop.

At the critical moment, Wei Geng proposed to build yì. The Chu army bypassed Fuyang County and launched an attack on Hangzhou from the shore of Hangzhou Bay.

Wang Sheng was very interested in this construction, and carefully studied it with Teng Shuanglin and other generals, and formulated a battle plan to divert the tiger from the mountain......

The Chongyang battalion under Wang Sheng, which was also the absolute main force of the Chu army, had a large number of troops, and was split into two divisions, the seventeenth division and the eighteenth division, each of which transferred a brigade from the brother army. The strength has been further strengthened. The task of attacking Hangzhou Bay in a roundabout way was undertaken by these two divisions.

Fuyang is in the southwest of Hangzhou, close to the Fuchun River and the Qiantang River, after the Qing army's naval division camp was breached. The waterway of the Fuchun River was under the control of the Chu army, and more than 200 ships, large and small, collected by Wang Sheng, were moored on the south bank of the Fuchun River.

Early in the morning. The Qing army scouts suddenly found that the south bank of the Fuchun River was empty. The two hundred ships of the Chu army were all gone overnight, and I don't know where they went.

Wang Sheng led the 17th and 18th Divisions to leave Fuyang by boat. Descend the river and reach Xiaoshan. Xiaoshan County is located in the northwest of Shaoxing Prefecture, only separated from Hangzhou by a river, Wang Sheng originally left Shaoxing, long ago occupied Xiaoshan, from here the 17th and 18th divisions landed across the river, into the suburbs of Hangzhou.

Under the guidance of the guide, they first turned northeast, walked to the seaside of Hangzhou Bay, and then turned due north to launch a surprise attack on the Wangjiangmen Sailor Camp set up by the Qing army on the edge of Hangzhou Bay.

Wangjiangmen Sailor Camp, backed by Hangzhou, facing the sea, is much larger than Fuyang Sailor Camp, but also much stronger, garrisoned by nearly 3,000 Qing Army Sailor Miscellaneous soldiers, is to defend Hangzhou from the sea attack of the fortress. Although the Qing army panicked, it was not at a loss, and pressed the gate to hold on, turning the artillery on the fort to bombard the Chu army, and the commander of the Qing army's water division sent people to Hangzhou for help, intending to attack the 17th and 18th divisions.

What disappointed him was that seeing that the 17th and 18th Divisions had seven or eight thousand armored soldiers, the Qing army in Hangzhou did not dare to attack too fiercely, and only sent more than 1,000 people to carefully launch a tentative attack to contain the Chu army from the flank...... The main force of the Qing army was brought to Fuyang by Ji Xiha, and the defenders in Hangzhou were less than 3,000 people, and the dispatch of more than 1,000 people had reached the limit and could not affect the overall situation.

Seeing that the Chu army was attacking fiercely, but the friendly forces were not supporting well, the commander of the Qing army's naval division had no choice but to grit his teeth and rely on his own strength to hold on...... This naval division camp is extremely strong, there are seven coastal ramparts with a large number of forts alone, and the muzzles of those cannons are usually facing the sea, but at this time they are turned around, and they are constantly bombarded against the Chu army, and all the cannons maintain the highest rate of fire, with a posture of "just go crazy this time, and it will not be in the future".

Under the fierce artillery fire, the Chu army's attack was blocked again and again, seeing that the soldiers suffered heavy casualties, Wang Sheng ordered He Shanyong, the commander of the 17th Division, to slow down the pace of the attack, not to let these elite veterans use flesh and blood to fight against the shells, and slowly consume the Qing army, they will always have a time when they are short of ammunition.

What I didn't expect was that the Qing army, a naval division camp, actually stored a large amount of gunpowder and shells, and inside each wall was a permanent ammunition depot, and the shells seemed to be inexhaustible, from morning to afternoon, without the slightest sign of insufficient ammunition. Wang Sheng couldn't help but be a little worried, the Qing army in Hangzhou would definitely ask for help from Jixiha in Fuyang, if the time dragged on too long, Jixiha would come to the aid with a large force of Eight Banners cavalry, and the 17th and 18th divisions would fall into passivity......

On the Fuyang side, Ji Xiha heard that Hangzhou had been attacked, and hurriedly rushed back with the Eight Banners, and when he crossed the river from the ferry, Teng Shuanglin, who had been ambushed here, suddenly came out, and the Chu army of another division launched a flanking attack on Ji Xiha. The terrain of the ferry on the Fuchun River is narrow, and there are not many ships, and the Qing army crossed the river slowly, just after halfway, the Chu army took the opportunity to attack half-crossing, and the two sides immediately launched a fierce battle.

Ji Xiha was able to become the garrison of Hangzhou Mele Zhangjing (later renamed Hangzhou General), in charge, responsible for fighting with the Lu Wang regime, Zheng Chenggong, is also a good general in the Qing army, when crossing the river, he has long seen that the terrain here is treacherous, and left a guard in the periphery, as soon as Teng Shuanglin appeared, this army immediately greeted it, and stopped the Chu army to cover other troops to cross the river.

Unexpectedly, the Chu army left a back hand, and there was another division, which killed the Qing army from the flank, and under the attack from both sides, the Qing army's alert troops were defeated, and then the Eight Banners on the riverside launched a killing. The Eight Banners struggled to resist, while looking for an opportunity to break through, relying on them to be cavalry, and after a hard battle, they finally found an opportunity to break through the encirclement of the Chu army and fled into Fuyang County in a hurry.

Ji Xiha stood on the opposite bank, unable to help in a hurry, and worried that Hangzhou would be lost, so he hurriedly left with more than 2,000 cavalry of the Eight Banners.

Teng Shuanglin checked the results of the battle, and in this battle, he eliminated more than 500 Eight Banner soldiers, and finally avenged Ji Xiha......

Hangzhou Wangjiangmen Water Division Camp, the Chu army has been unable to conquer for a long time.

The scout came to report, Ji Xiha led more than 2,000 cavalry of the Eight Banners to Hangzhou, and he would arrive in less than half an hour, Wang Sheng looked up at the sea, the sea was empty, except for the sea and the sky, there was no sail shadow.

"Sue sù He Shanyong, prepare to attack!" A strong assault meant huge casualties, but now there was no choice. As soon as Wang Sheng said this, on the top of the hill, suddenly a red flag shook back and forth violently, and the soldiers of the Chu army who served as lookouts seemed to have discovered something, and kept shouting loudly to this side.

Wang Sheng's heart moved, and he quickly climbed the small stone mountain, raised his binoculars and looked at the sea. In the distance, the figure of a row of warships appeared on the sea level, and as the distance continued to approach, the flag on the bow of the ship could be clearly seen from the telescope, which was the Zheng family sailor who stayed on Chongming Island at the mouth of the Yangtze River, as well as the Chu army's own Guangdong sailor!

It's finally here!

Wang Sheng smashed his fist in the palm of his hand, with the help of the sailors, and the attack from both sides, he would definitely be able to catch up in front of Jixiha and conquer the camp of the Qing army in Wangjiangmen. (To be continued......)