......Outside the Huangtian port in Jiangyin, dozens of warships of the Fu Han Army roared in unison, and white gunpowder smoke filled the river.

"Bastard, asshole!" Wu Bida pointed to the outside of the port and scolded bitterly, he set up a checkpoint along the river to the west of Huangtian Port, one mile at a time, one at a time, a full number of miles, and there was not a single person who issued an alarm to the port. Now that the fleet is blocked in the harbor by the naval division battalion of the Fu Han Army, how can Wu Bida not be angry? He gritted his teeth with hatred. And the fact is that Wu Bida didn't know how fully prepared Chen Ming was for this battle!

While the naval division battalion was moving down the river, the sniper team and reconnaissance brigade directly under Chen Ming carried out a raid on the entire line of 12 outposts along the river west of Huangtian Port in Jiangyin City. The suddenness and concealment of the attack on Huangtian Port by the Navy Battalion are absolutely guaranteed.

"Waste, it's all waste-" Wu Bida scolded. He really couldn't accept the facts in front of him, Huangtian Port was sealed by the Fu Han army, and half of his warships were in the port. These ships can't even rush out now. When the infantry of the Fu Han army killed ...... from the land, it was all over.

"The military gate is angry." The lieutenant general of the Chinese army said to Wu Bida that now is not the time for Wu Bida to get angry and curse, but to ask Wu Bida to quickly give them an order to direct what to do with them.

Half of the warships were blocked in the port of Huangtian, and the remaining warships were in Jiangyin City and further downstream, and they could not be counted on at all. Huangtian Port is a vanguard of the Fujian Naval Division, and it is the front-line anchorage of the Fujian Naval Division. Or should the sailors of the port immediately leave and retreat by land?

Although the other end of Huangtian Port is the Chengxi Canal, the warships of the Fujian Navy Division can also pass through the Chengxi Canal and take refuge in the inland water network. But everyone knows it's a dead end.

Since the Fu Han army has launched an offensive, it is impossible to just attack on the surface, how long can it take for their army to kill? The Jiangyin water network is very criss-crossed, and there are many rivers that run straight up and down from east to west, but the water surface is also narrow, because it is for the passage of boats, not for foreign sailors. If the warships of the Fujian Navy Division enter it, it is necessary to reduce the speed greatly, and there are many waterways that go straight up and down, and the Fujian Navy Division must go eastward, just like the running field, and must complete a section of the waterway to the south, go to the place where the river meets, and then turn back. In a word, it's to the south - to the east, and then to the south - and then to the east. In this case, the actual speed of the fleet going east is not fast. It was almost impossible for them to escape the pursuit of the Fu Han Army, which had a horse team.

Now that the navy of the Fu Han army has attacked the port, their land troops will soon be killed. Wu Bida's promotion of the deputy general of the Chinese army understands the fighting spirit of the current team very well, whether it is the naval division of Fujian or Lu Yong of Zhejiang, no one is willing to take their own lives for the two rivers that cut the door. Morale is low, morale is low.

There was a group of Qing artillery in the port of Huangtian Port, but it was equipped with small artillery. In the face of the warships of the naval division battalion of the Fuhan Army that suddenly killed at the door, this group of artillery did not have the determination to resist to the death. But it will not run away all at once, the green camp of the Qing army at this time is not as bad as it was in the late Qing Dynasty. You have to at least teach them a lesson, and they will run away with their heads in their hands.

"Let the artillery evacuate immediately. All sailors were evacuated ashore. Wu Bida held a monocular and looked at the warships of the Fu Han army on the river, which was consistent with the news from Huguang. The volume is smaller than that of the Fujian sailors, and the speed and dexterity are indeed higher than those of foreign warships.

Don't say that the warships in Huangtian Port are trapped in the port, even if the two sides put up a shelf and go head-to-head, the latter may not be an opponent. The Yangtze River is too narrow and too narrow.

As for the port artillery team, they have completely fallen into a disadvantage, and if they do not withdraw, they should also collapse.

On May 26, the Fu Han army stormed Jiangyin. The water and land defenders of Fujian and Zhejiang stationed in Jiangyin had low morale and retreated. The soldiers of the Fu Han army broke through Changshu under Jiangyin and pointed at Songjiang.

At this time, the city of Suzhou was silent. Teahouses, Quyuan, restaurants, you can no longer find the picture of the passionate discussion a few days ago, and the scene of the gentry and merchants in the city pointing out the country and promoting the words is gone. Why? Gai because Suerde, the political envoy of Jiangsu, sent He Huazhang, who had taken refuge in Jiangyin, into prison.

So, the city was silent and silent.

Jiangning General Rong Bao obviously won't tear his face with the sitting tiger Surde because of this matter, and Surde, whether it is for his reputation or his official prestige, must give He Huazhang a powerful look.

"Wait, wait until Guangdong's green camp enters Nantong Prefecture, and the old man will definitely make you suffer!" Surd knew that it would not be possible for him to deal with He Huazhang without reproach, but if there was a turning point in the battle of Jiangnan, then he would be able to suppress the slander by killing or severely punishing He Huazhang, and he was so determined in his heart. He Huazhang attacked him in Jiangyin, and when he arrived in Suzhou, he dared to speak ill of him unscrupulously, making Suerde very embarrassing and ugly, Suerde hated him very much, how could he let go of He Huazhang easily?

"Chen reverses the big seat, the army is in the south of the Yangtze River, and the foundation of the Qing Dynasty's money and grain is harmed. Now that the war has begun, there is no distinction between the north and the south on the ground, and there is no distinction between the people and the Han, all of whom are responsible for defending the land and resisting bandits and rebels, and they should all have the heart of sacrificing everything to make contributions to the country and the cause of the country. At this critical moment, we can only achieve great things thanks to the unanimity of the whole country, unity, and unity. How can you favor one over the other, complain about minor sections, and snub the provincial soldiers...... "In He Huazhang's words that slapped Soul's face, there were obvious traces of Chen Ming's interference. He added a few sentences from a certain Gonglushan's speech. But don't say it, the phrase 'the land is not divided into north and south, and the people are full of mans' goes straight to Suerde's heart, and it is really many times sharper than the words He Huazhang came up with himself. In addition to criticizing Sourde's 'geographical division' for destroying the overall situation, he also faintly satirized the difference between Manchu and Han. But it just makes people can't grasp the handle, because the words can be understood in a positive sense.

This is the 'indignation' that He Huazhang proclaimed when he first appeared on the stage in Suzhou, and it quickly spread throughout the whole city of Suzhou, among which the sentence 'There is no division between north and south, no division between people and Han, and they are all responsible for defending the land to resist bandits and rebels' is particularly shocking, spreading very widely, and has also reached the ears of Sürde. For the first time, he was struck down by Soule in a small notebook. And when the second and third came one after another in a short period of time, He Huazhang was doing his own [third sound] death.

In the dark prison, the disgusting smell of feces and urine permeated the entire cell, and the damp ground was full of bed bugs and cockroaches, all of which were hungry all the time eroding He Huazhang's tense nerves. Since he joined the Fu Han Army, how has He Huazhang ever suffered like this? Even before Chen Jigong and Gao Yanming were framed, the He family was poor, but they were also clean. The current scene really disgusted He Huazhang, who had enjoyed wealth for a while. Fortunately, the prison boss regarded him as a dead man, a felon, and did not keep him with other prisoners, but in a small private room. Otherwise, He Huazhang will suffer a greater sin than now.

He Huazhang successfully killed himself in prison and successfully completed the task assigned to him by Chen Ming. Although he came to Suzhou for a short time, he left a strong mark in Suzhou. In those days, he was in the restaurant restaurant, he was at the Shilin Cultural Conference, and he attacked Su Er with sharp words again and again, ignoring Gao Jin and Rong Bao, and blaming Su Er for the bad relationship between the Fujian and Zhejiang Green Camp and the Liangjiang government.

Shilin clear stream, Shilin clear stream!

He Huazhang suddenly felt that these four words were regarded as a stubborn disease by the Metropolitan Governor, and no wonder the Metropolitan Governor sneered at Qingliu. It turns out that Qingliu can really set off such a big storm with just one mouth, and it has such a great energy. Manipulating public opinion and seeking personal gain, it is really not possible to suppress it.

He Huazhang knew that when he was arrested and imprisoned, it was the beginning of the Fu Han army's large-scale attack on Jiangyin. Now calculate, Jiangyin City is afraid that it has been defeated by the Fu Han army.

Across a layer of walls, He Huazhang could already hear the sound of the dripping rain outside. On the day he was arrested and imprisoned, it rained again. He Huazhang wouldn't feel that this was God crying for himself, after all, he wasn't dead yet.

The jailer carried the wooden barrel and tapped it with a wooden spoon: "It's time to eat, it's time to eat...... and the voice came from afar.

He Huazhang reluctantly sat up straight, picked up the coarse porcelain bowl in his hand and walked to the fence. The food in the prison is really unbearable, dry and coarse multigrain steamed buns, clear porridge with a musty smell, and pickles with a strange taste. He Huazhang really had no appetite. But the silver accessories on He Huazhang's body were all scavenged by the Qing soldiers who captured him at the beginning, and he couldn't do it even if he wanted to buy something worthy of the entrance through the prison guards. And none of his original buddies and stewards have come to show up so far. He Huazhang didn't know if they were stopped by the prison guards and not allowed to visit the prison, or what happened, but he didn't worry too much. Anyway, that family is not his, it is the Fu Han Army, in addition to himself, there are two people in the guy who are always watching. If it was really confiscated by the government, or those two people were pecked by the geese, and the goods were swept away by other guys, he would not be distressed. If it is gone, it will be confiscated.

"Huh?"

The jailer who was cooking was skillful, and the delay here did not exceed thirty seconds, but He Huazhang froze. What's in his hand? The soft touch, the white color, is like the two lumps on the chest of the girl. Why? Why did the jailer suddenly throw him two big white steamed buns? And the pickles, which are no longer disgusting to eat, but two pickled cucumbers with the fragrance of sauce. That is, porridge, or the musty smell of sinking rice porridge.

He Huazhang was about to scratch the two steamed buns with his hand holding the white steamed buns, and he wanted to scream excitedly in his heart. Why did your life suddenly improve? Even if it was someone out there who gave money to the jailer again, there must be a reason why it happened today. That can only say that the situation outside has changed, the rumors have changed, did the Fu Han army take Jiangyin?

He Huazhang was not hungry at all at this moment, he wanted to ask the jailer out loud, shout out, and shout out. There were twenty-five rats in his chest, and he scratched his heart with a hundred claws.

He finally suppressed the excitement in his heart, and it was already dark. The white steamed buns turned into cold steamed buns, and the hot porridge became cold porridge, but what He Huazhang ate was called a sweet one.

……

At this time, the political envoy Yamen.

Sulde sat behind the copywriter in the study and said nothing, and there was not a single light in the room. Since returning from the Humble Administrator's Garden, where Rong Bao had left his feet, Soul, who was in an extremely bad mood, sat motionless in the study for more than an hour. I didn't even eat dinner.

But outside, no one came to persuade him at this time, even Suerde's wife and concubine did not dare to come over and touch Suerde's brow. The face of his own master will be lost, and tomorrow the news will spread throughout Suzhou City, and Suerde will lose face, and he will no longer have the face to continue to stay in Suzhou as an official.

You must know that Surd still had the idea of taking this opportunity to become the governor before, Gao Jin, the governor of Liangjiang, was transferred back to Beijing by Qianlong, and the lack of the governor was temporarily led by General Jiang Ning, and the lack of the governor of Jiangsu was like a carrot, hanging in front of Suerde's eyes, tempting him to keep working hard, hard, and hard!

But now?

A He Huazhang, his repeated criticisms, his 'foresight', and Suerde's 'annoyance and anger' made Suer almost cut off the possibility of continuing to be an official in Jiangsu.

Because, Jiangyin is really lost.

The Fujian Navy Division and the Zhejiang Green Battalion retreated after a short battle, the soldiers' morale was weak, and the local militia in Jiangyin was not highly motivated. You must know that the Manchu soldiers of the economic system have dropped their chains, and they don't want to be killed by the Fu Han army into a blood gourd, so they dispersed in a hurry, so that the Fu Han army almost bloodlessly took Jiangyin City, a strategic place along the Yangtze River. also confirmed He Huazhang's judgment!

Yes, now Surde can write a book to impeach Wu Bida and Duan Xiulin, ruthlessly refer to them, and give them a big hat to avoid the enemy and cowardice. But does this have a bird effect on his reputation and prestige in the northland of Jiangsu? Useless.

The problem now is that He Huazhang had 'foresight' and repeatedly pointed out the contradictions between the water and land reinforcements of Fujian and Zhejiang and the yamen of the Liangjiang government, which may have a bad impact on the war situation. However, Soule did not listen to good advice, and changed his mistakes when he knew them, but instead 'became angry' and arrested He Huazhang and locked him up in prison. What else can he do? The gods can't reply to this 'word'.

If Soule doesn't arrest He Huazhang, then there is still room for maneuver. Now that Soule has arrested He Huazhang, it proves that he has no understanding of his 'mistakes' in this matter.

Soul's face was still hot and hot. In the Humble Administrator's Garden, when the urgent military information sent by Jiangyin arrived, Rong Bao was inviting Suzhou officials and gentry, and Su Erde, as the political envoy, as the number two person in Suzhou City and the sitting tiger, was naturally present as an accompaniment. When Rong Bao sat down on the bench in shock, and when the content of the military newspaper spread at the banquet, it was really a thunderbolt from the sky, and Surd was stunned.

When Rong Bao's fierce eyes glared at Soule viciously, Soule really seemed to have fallen into an abyss, the chill penetrated the bone marrow, and at the same time, he was embarrassed and embarrassed and longed to find a crack in the ground to get into.

"Everyone, please ......"

"Lord Fantai drinks ...... first"

At the banquet that was lively a moment ago, Soule was still the focus of attention, and everyone flattered and flattered him. The next moment......, hehe.

Soule still remembered the officials and gentry in the hall, staring at him one after another, all of them were so bantering. There is not a hint of 'sighing, lamenting' in those eyes, but only mockery, ridicule and schadenfreude. Even though many of those who held office were his direct subordinates, many of the gentry once knelt like dogs before him.

Soul's face was as if he had been slapped loudly and loudly, and he was stunned at that time—his face was gone, and his authority was disgraced. His face was flushed, his fingers were gripping the armrests of the seat, his knuckles were white, and the back of his hand was bruised.

After decades of being an official and decades of life, Soule has never suffered such humiliation as he does today.

This humiliation came so suddenly, so violently. With a sudden blow, he tore through all his defenses, leaving him speechless to admit it.

He Huazhang was still imprisoned by him, but the cruel reality helped him mercilessly humiliate the dignity of Suerde, a political envoy from the second grade.

There is also Rong Bao. The latter is General Jiang Ning's temporary post of governor of Liangjiang, and it stands to reason that he is in charge of all the power of the military and government. However, Su Er has been an official in Jiangsu for many years, has a deep foundation, deep connections, and holds the treasury in his hands, and holds the militia in southern Jiangsu to practice bravery, he is an absolute powerful faction, and Rong Bao will not be able to move him in the short term.

Rong Bao then chose to tolerate and chose to 'cooperate' with Suerde, who as the No. 2 person in Jiangsu, has been standing like a mountain in the power field of the Manchu Qing Dynasty in southern Jiangsu these days. But did Rong Baozhen give up the power of money and food in Soul's hands? That's the money and grain of the entire southern Jiangsu, and it's not an exaggeration to say that it's a sea of gold and silver. For Rong Bao, who broke out of Nanjing and went bankrupt, it was an irresistible temptation.

Rongbao certainly won't give up. After relieving himself, Rong Bao immediately chose to fall into the well above the banquet, and said that the responsibility for the loss of Jiangyin was ambiguous, which directly involved the responsibility from Wu Bida and Duan Xiulin to Suerde, and he also asked Suerde what to do next? He's in a mess!

Rong Bao let out a bullshit himself, and then asked Surd what he thought? This method is too clear, and it suddenly makes the gentry know in their hearts.

Sulde can't remember how he answered at that time, his only thought at that time was that the tiger would not fall, and no matter how embarrassed he was, he couldn't completely lose his dignity in front of Rong Bao and this group of dogs. Even after returning to the political envoy's yamen, Suerde sat motionless in the study for more than an hour.

"The old man was defeated at the hands of a white-clothed bookseller? Ridiculous, ridiculous! "After decades of being an official, many ups and downs have been overcome, but in the most important can of his life, because of a bookseller with the smell of copper, he lost face.

"Someone ...... coming"

"Sir!"

"Take my life card to the prison and ...... He Huazhang"

"Master, I slaughtered him with my own hands."

"Let him go."

"Put? Master, you can't let him go, this grandson ......"

"Go ahead and do it." Soule waved his hand, then leaned back in his chair with his eyes closed. He will not be a different officialdom just like this, he Suerde is meritorious in Suzhou, and the emperor will not see it. If you change places, it's a big deal to continue to be a political envoy, or even an envoy. He will always make a comeback one day, and when the time comes, he will make Rong Bao and those Suzhou gentry who look down on people look good! (To be continued.) )