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Twenty-fourth of the lunar month. In traditional Chinese folklore, this day is the day of dust sweeping. It is the day of cleaning and cleaning, clean and welcoming the New Year. However, on the 24th day of the lunar month of the 32nd year of Qianlong, the whole of Hubei was immersed in anxiety.

With more than 20,000 captives and bannermen, the Fu Han army finally arrived at Hanchuan after half a month's journey, and the entire three towns of Wuhan were silent. But fortunately, Chen Ming did not immediately go south to attack Hanyang County, but sent a team to take Xiaogan, Yingcheng, Yunmeng and other places before the arrival of the New Year, and then launched an attack on Huangpi, and the Anhui Green Battalion guarding Huangpi retreated without a fight, and went south to merge into the three towns of Wuhan.

Panic and fear have completely enveloped the three towns of Wuhan, although the Fu Han army has not yet hit, but Hanchuan is also one step away from Hanyang, and across the Hanyang Yangtze River is Wuchang. At this time, the governor of Huguang, Dingchang, died of illness in bed, even if Dingchang was no longer in charge of specific affairs before that, and all military affairs were handed over to Fan Shishou, the governor of Hubei, but nominally he was still the No.1 of the Huguang Qing soldiers, and his death made the morale of the defenders of the three towns of Wuhan drop sharply again. It also greatly shaken the confidence of the common people and gentry in the three towns of Wuhan in the success of the Qing army in defending Wuhan.

At this stormy moment, suddenly a large number of Jiangnan ships passed through the mouth of the lake, crossed the Jiujiang River, and came to the three towns of Wuhan. They waved silver to buy cloth, grain, porcelain, fruits, fans, comb grates, felt socks, needles, paper and all other goods on the surface of Hankou Town and Wuchang City, or raised the price several times or dozens of times for the big-bellied and fat merchants, and the gentry and landlords who were full of panic, carrying their household property.

As long as there is the slightest possibility, few wealthy and noble families dare to stay in the three towns of Wuhan.

Of course, all this is the 'wind' blowing from Jiangyin, and there are many smart people in China. It has only been the New Year, and a large number of ships have already arrived in the three towns of Wuhan, which is many days earlier than Chen Jigong's original 'plan'.

"Goo, goo......"

No one noticed that these days between Wuchang, Hankou, Hanyang and even Hanchuan, there are suddenly more pigeons flying in the sky.

In the past few days, Chen Ming has continuously received flying pigeon reports from the secret camp, and there are more and more ships in Hankou and Wuchang. It's time to close the net.

"Be fast, be fast." Chen Ming pointed to Hankou Town, and then pointed to Xinhe Town, "The horse team passes through here and takes Hankou for me before the Qing soldiers wake up." "Xinhe Town is a node in the confrontation between the two sides, and the Qing soldiers have 180 people stationed there. Of course, this person could not use it to resist the offensive of the Han army, Xinhe Town was a forward outpost for the Qing army, as long as things were not right, they did not need to resist in return, they just needed to get on the boat and run back quickly.

The strength of the cavalry of the Fu Han army has exceeded 800 horsemen, which is still because some inferior horses have been transferred to logistics and artillery teams. Taking Jingzhou was a big supplement for the cavalry battalion led by Chen Kaishan. The mounts of the Jingzhou horse team became their mounts, and then too many unsightly inferior horses were kicked out of the team. Otherwise, the cavalry battalion would have been able to exceed a thousand horsemen a long time ago.

"Pass through the town of Xinhe and take Hankow." Chen Kaishan repeated his task, his face full of confidence. This is the self-confidence of the horse team, in China, no, on the whole planet, the cavalry seems to be better than the infantry. Chen Kaishan always thought so, the people in the cavalry battalion thought so, and Chen Ming didn't correct it. It's still the 18th century, and even the infantry of the Fu Han Army themselves think so, and now the United States has not yet established a country.

Chen Kaishan left, Chen Ming didn't think about whether the cavalry battalion could complete the task beautifully, and the main force under his command rested for another ten days around the New Year, and it was time to move his muscles. Al Yajiang has returned to Wuchang with the remnants of the defeated army, and the green camp from Sichuan has entered Jingzhou Mansion, and Chen Ming wants to end the battle of Wuhan as soon as possible.

Winter is coming to an end. Just like the growth of everything in spring, the Fu Han army also needs to speed up.

There were more than 25,000 captives and bannermen in Jingzhou, of course Chen Ming was not prepared to kill them all, let alone take them to 'swim' in the south of the Yangtze River. God, from Jingzhou to Hanchuan, all the way to the situation of peace and stability, it takes more than half a month, what kind of turtle speed is this?

But Chen Ming will definitely tear the nobility and dignity of the 'flag man' to pieces in front of the whole world, and trample on his feet.

As long as Wuchang is taken, the army goes down the river, asks Anhui, patronizes the two rivers, wanders the south of the Yangtze River, and cuts off the canal, Chen Ming will let his part of the team replace the general's mansion in northwest Henan and become the biggest disaster in the eyes of Qianlong Lao'er.

If possible, he will also ask the dark camp to communicate more with the foreign bandits. Foreign bandits are not foreigners from the west, but pirates from the sea.

In the Qing Dynasty, foreign bandits along the southeast coast of China were never cut off.

As far as the Qianjia period is concerned, Zhu Li, Cai Lian and the six banner gangs of red, black, yellow, blue, white, and green, as well as Zheng Yi's sister-in-law, Zhang Baozai, and Chen Mingguang remember many 'heroes'. Some of these people may not have been born in the 32nd year of Qianlong, but nothing was done in a day. There is definitely a reason why the people of the southeastern provinces go to the sea, Cai Lian, Zheng Yi's sister-in-law, and Zhang Baozai have not been born yet, but what about the Six Great Banner Gang? What about the predecessors of the southeast? There's always going to be no less, right?

Chen Ming hopes to be able to communicate with these people as soon as possible. In his eyes from later generations, the importance of the sea is no worse than that of land, not to mention that Chen Ming's dream is still so huge that it cannot be reached by land alone.

There is a thick stack of letters on Chen Ming's case, which was transmitted from Henan. The arrival of winter gave the base area a good buffer time, taking advantage of the last days of the 32nd year of Qianlong, the general's palace made every effort to rectify the volunteers, and the rioters generally soared their strength from the initial more than 10,000 to 40,000. And almost all of them are equipped with rattan iron armor and high-quality knives and guns.

It can be said that the combat effectiveness of the General's Mansion has improved by leaps and bounds after the buffer of that period of time a year ago.

Now the Qing soldiers have gathered from Linru, Xuzhou, Yuncheng and other places. Although a large-scale offensive has not yet begun, as soon as the weather warms up, a major war will surely begin. Chen Ming could see from the handwritten letter sent by Chen Hui that his cheap father was under a lot of physical and mental pressure.

What can Chen Ming do? You can't bring troops back to Henan, right?

All he could do was write a letter to his father, asking him to relax and fight a tough battle to the death.

These days, Chen Ming feels that the green camp of the Manchu Qing Dynasty cannot be said to be all rotten, and there is still a certain difference between it and the green camp after the memory of the crow. But that's not to say they're really brave enough to fight. The Ganshan Green Battalion and the Zhenxiao Soldiers are just like that.

There are now 40,000 horses in the General's Mansion, so they have the idea of fighting, fight a few fierce battles, and shake these people and horses who have gathered around, so that they can see the huge casualties in the battle, and they will definitely be sparse.