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When the smoke of gunpowder rose on Daya Bay, Chen Mingren also left Xiamen. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 With Chen Yongsheng as the commander-in-chief of the front, he led his troops south to Chaozhou, preparing to land in Shantou, and then to the north and take the capital city of Chaozhou.

Chen Ming himself stayed on Nanao Island.

It's just that the situation in Chaozhou has changed dramatically in just two days when he and Chen Yongsheng led their troops south by sea and arrived on Nanao Island. The Heaven and Earth Society of Chaozhou has revolted. Chen Jinsheng and Li Qi, the leaders of the local Heaven and Earth Society, organized hundreds of backbones to take the empty county seat of Chaoyang overnight, and then marched to Shantou under the banner of the Fu Han army.

The force soon expanded to more than 3,000 men.

Shantou is not a county at this time, the garrison of the Qing army and people bravely gathered a total of only a thousand people, led by Hou Aiquan is a local rich family, seeing that the situation is not good, he simply turned back, led people to fight back and took Chenghai, bet Chenghai Zhixian, raised the flag, and gathered thousands of people overnight, and then divided the troops into two roads, one in Tuopu Division [now Jinping District] to resist Chen Jinsheng and Li Qi from Chaoyang, and the other in Chenghai County, guarding the possible attack of Chaozhou.

This news was quickly sent to Chen Ming's hands.

Then Chen Ming was very unhappy. Even if he thought about it with his toes, he knew that Chen Jinsheng and Li Qi were purely 'opportunistic' when they raised troops at the moment, and this kind of action made him feel disgusted. Even with Hou Aiquan, he was impatient.

The backbone of Chen and Li is the real gang force, the Chaoshan Party, the old tradition. At the end of the Qing Dynasty in the original time and space, they were the standard party forces; And Hou Aiquan was born in a wealthy local family, and his actions before and after are completely in the category of squires.

"Your Highness. The matter of Chaozhou is afraid that it is a beginning. "Xiong Bingzhang is now more and more like Chen Ming's big butler. The voice and weight of the speech became heavier and heavier in front of Chen Ming.

Liu Wu was very disinterested in power, and gave up a lot of power that he originally held in his hands to Xiong Bingzhang, and when Wang Huizu was in Lushan and stayed in the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, Xiong Bingzhang's status in Chen Mingxingyuan became more and more prominent.

"Do you suspect that there are still people in Guangdong?"

"Your Highness, Guangdong has always been a place where there are many parties. Heaven and earth will be strong in this power, and there are many shares, not under Fujian. Xiong Bingzhang had read some secret reports sent by the secret camp, and he had a very bad impression of the Tiandi Society in Guangdong. Compared with the Tiandihui in Fujian, the Tiandihui in Guangdong is more focused on accumulating money, and is more like a gang than an anti-Qing dynasty.

The current uprising of Chen Jinsheng and Li Qi's generation is that opportunistic trick.

"Now that the wind is rising in Chaozhou, Chen Jinsheng and Li Qi's generation are no longer satisfactory, His Royal Highness will also reward them with one or two, give them a one-and-a-half official position, and set an example. The momentum is unstoppable. The minister thought that His Highness should let the secret camp get up quickly. ”

The operation of the dark camp in Guangdong was only the Heaven and Earth Association at the beginning, but when the Fu Han army went to the south of the Yangtze River for the second time and took Jiangsu and Zhejiang like a bamboo, many local squires in Guangdong Province also got on the ship of the dark camp. Now is the time for the dark camp to exert its strength, and it doesn't matter when the good news on the sea comes, the first strike is stronger. Otherwise, the entire Guangdong Hui Party will come to learn from Chen Li, and then lick their faces to ask Chen Ming for money, management and reward, which will not only add a lot of pressure to the Fu Han army, but also make the place fall into chaos.

The former is very disgusting to Xiong Bingzhang, and the latter is even more hindered by the plan to restore the Han army.

In the future, the southwest will be attacked, and Guangdong's money and grain will be the source of military funds for the Han army! How can Chen Ming tolerate chaos in Guangdong?

Now that the Fu Han army itself doesn't clean the place much and kills the gentry and squire, how can it tolerate the Hui Party taking the opportunity to make a windfall?

Chen Ming didn't correct Xiong Bingzhang's opinion. At this time, the Guangdong Tiandi Club and the Fujian Tiandi Club are indeed much different. Although in the original time and space, they also made a vigorous uprising after the Tianping Heavenly Kingdom uprising, and once gathered 200,000 troops to besiege Guangzhou, but at this time and that time.

Chen Ming did not hesitate at all, and immediately issued a secret order to the secret camp in Guangdong from what Xiong Bingzhang said. He originally wanted to wait for the good news of the sailor to come, and then order the secret camp to instigate the locality, and cooperate with the Fu Han army to encircle and annihilate the Qing army in Guangdong as much as possible, but now the plan has not changed quickly.

"Your Highness thinks that you want to seal Chen Li and his family?" Liu Wu asked on the side.

"Those who are not qualified will be paid and dismissed, and all those who are qualified will be included in the army and incorporated into the logistics unit. Chen Jinsheng and Li Qi gave them a battalion officer. Chen Ming was very disgusted by these two people. Chaozhou was originally in the bag of the Fu Han Army, but now it made Chen Ming feel like he was eating someone and vomiting out. But he had to eat this deflated again.

So Chen and Li don't think about it. Besides, the backbone of these two people is all the party, and in another sense, they are all black and astringent, and it is also a scourge to put them back in the place. They were all pulled into the army and drilled fiercely.

It's that Hou Aiquan, who was born as a squire, is still a showman, and his ancestors also have officials, although the biggest is from the fifth grade, this can be regarded as a gentry. The Hou family is not a big family in Chenghai, but the clan power is not weak. If it is a normal time, it is not possible to mix the location of a local county.

"Let him go to Chaoyang to be the magistrate of the county, otherwise he will go to Chaozhou to be an adjutant. What about the magistrate who was circled by Hou Aiquan? ”

"How's the official voice?"

"Is it okay? That's good. Ask him if he is willing to surrender, and if he is willing, let him continue to stay in Chenghai. ”

Chen Jiqing, who was on the side, raised his eyebrows, and he knew that he, an outstanding cousin who had already made him a cousin, would never give Chen Li and others good fruits to eat.

Chen Ming's temperament is not too aggressive, but he is a bit 'retributive'. In the Fu Han army, he was basically able to punish if he made mistakes, and reward him for meritorious service, and he remembered many things and merits very clearly. Therefore, the disgusting Chen Liren and others will definitely not be better, and even Hou Aiquan has been implicated. Don't look at the fruit that Chen Ming handed to Hou Aiquan looks very beautiful, and only he can bear how it tastes. The Chenghai Zhixian who was locked up by Hou Aiquan is still sitting in the Chenghai County Ya, will the Hou family's life be better?

"Fujian Tiandi will be a charcoal in the snow, this group of people is not even icing on the cake!" For the overall situation of Guangdong, the uprising of the Chaozhou Tiandihui did not have a good impact at all, and it also brought a very bad aftermath.

After the Fu Han army landed in Shantou, it entered Chenghai the next day, and the day after tomorrow it killed and ran to Chaozhou, and the Qing army and people who guarded the city of Chaozhou only resisted a little, and then abandoned their weapons and surrendered, and the money storehouse, grain, gunpowder and other materials were well preserved, and the three major members of Chaozhou's prefect, Tongzhi and Tongju fled to Dapu by boat through the Hanjiang River.

The former army left a reinforced battalion [adding a mortar artillery team] to cooperate with the Hou Aiquan Department to defend Chaozhou City, the main strength of the Fu Han Army was stationed in Shantou, and the logistics troops and more than 10,000 soldiers and civilians were busy from the moment they got off the ship.

The Fu Han army 'forcibly' purchased more than 400 buffaloes, donkeys, horses, mules, and other large livestock in the surrounding areas at a price that exceeded 10% of the market.

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In the early morning, the sun just sprinkled Wandao golden light, outside the city of Xin'an, Guangzhou.

When the Qing Army's naval division and the Fuhan Army's Southeast Naval Division fought Daya Bay, the Zheng brothers also took their own fleet to the sea off Guangzhou, and then went straight to the mouth of the Pearl River, which was empty, and pointed the spearhead directly at Xin'an County.

As the base camp of the Zheng brothers, Zheng Lianchang and Zheng Lianfu are not too familiar with Xin'an.

The army directly slaughtered the harbor outside Xin'an City, and more than 20 main gunboats and hundreds of cannons aimed at the port for a fierce bombardment, and the Qing soldiers of the first battalion guarding the port fell apart and fled in all directions. At this time, Su Bai, the deputy general of the Sanjiang Association in Xin'an County, had just beaten the drum of gathering troops.

Su Bai, whose old surname is Guerjia, is already a native of Guangzhou in the third generation of bannermen, and his ancestors moved to Guangzhou in the 30th year of Kang Mazi, only ten years later than the first Guangzhou general.

Eighty years have passed, Su Bai's plane has taken root in Guangzhou, he has never even been out of Guangdong Province in half of his life, he has not even been to Beijing City, his belly is as big as a woman who is six or seven months pregnant, his body is weak and he can't walk a hundred steps and sweats profusely, he can't ride a healthy horse, he can't drive a hard bow, and he has no military exploits. But with his status as a full man, he still jumped out of the category of flag soldiers, and in ten years, he sat in the position of deputy general of the Sanjiang Association, which was coveted by countless people.

The stone lions at the entrance of this yamen are bubbling with oil and water.

"Hurry, hurry, boys!"

In Macau, opposite Xin'an, Shadanye and several Portuguese artillery officers were constantly checking the preparations on the battery, shouting loudly to cheer up the soldiers. A group of black slaves, half-barechested, transferred boxes of shells from the rear to the positions.

The sudden rush of the Zheng fleet into the mouth of the Pearl River was something that the Portuguese did not expect, and although they knew that the Chinese pirates had become the troops of the Han army, the Europeans up and down Macau were still worried that the Zheng fleet would suddenly attack them.

The Zheng family's fleet is a gathering of most of the South Sea pirates, and it is the existence that European merchants hated the most in the past. Now without saying a word of greeting, they rushed into the mouth of the Pearl River, and it is strange that Macao does not raise its guard.

As soon as the news of the mobilization of troops by the Fu Han army reached Guangzhou, a large number of Europeans withdrew from outside Guangzhou to Macao. A number of Western sailing ships also sailed from Whampoa to Macao to anchor. Now even these sailboats are being prepared......

Half of the artillery on the large and small forts of the Portuguese was sold to the Manchus, and if it hadn't been for the heavy warning from the secret camp, these Portuguese would have sold the forts for a while, instead of half of them. This can be regarded as the revenge of the Portuguese against the Fuhan army!

The Zheng family's fleet that captured the dock first dropped a large number of sailors, and then a small and medium-sized artillery. The Zheng brothers, who thought they had the upper hand, were even so-so in constructing artillery positions, not to mention using rattan baskets and sandbags to build the outer protection of artillery positions, and even high-rise buildings for lookout and reconnaissance were more like simple buckets.

Little by little, the muzzle of the cannon began to rise, refracting a touch of cold light.

The sun rose from the right rear of the Nanyang Naval Division's ground camp, and the clean air of the morning made it easy to breathe, and the golden sunlight cast the dark shadows of the slanting light and the cannons on the ground. In the distance, the grove resembles a carved emerald, and the black tops of the trees can be seen on the horizon.

The official road of Xinhui runs northwest along the seaside, and a small village can be seen in the distance.

In Nanguan, Xinhui, there was a lot of chaos, and a large group of people fled with their families. By the time Subay had managed to assemble his troops, thousands of civilians had fled from the Nanguan Gate, which stretched from outside the city gate to the seaside pier.

Today, Xin'an Nanguan has been accounted for by the people of the Nanyang Navy Division's land battalion. After all, the Qing army was to defend Guangzhou, not Xin'an. Su Bai is just doing a show here, even the defensive positions and forts have not been built and prepared, and now the Zheng brothers suddenly lead troops to fight, and Su Bai can't change a complete defense system for a while.

When the sun rises, the morning mist melts, dissipates, and becomes transparent under the bright sunlight, and everything that can be seen in the fog slowly shows a clear outline.

The smoke and fog of the guns mingled, and in the smoke, the bright light of the morning shimmered everywhere - sometimes on the water, sometimes on the shore, sometimes in the city of Sinan, sometimes outside the city.

Through the smoke, you can see the black city walls of Xin'an County, with soldiers, muskets and cannons on them.

All this seems to be floating, floating in the fog. The entire space in this area is filled with smoke and fog. Especially on the right flank of the battle line, the Qing soldiers who had been killed from Xin'an County were attacking the flank of the land battalion of the Nanyang Naval Division.

In the woods, fields, depressions, and highlands, clouds of smoke continue to rise out of nowhere, sometimes in groups, sometimes in groups; The grenades thrown by both sides exploded.

In the sharp copper whistle and the high shouts, the armies on both sides seemed to have returned to one hundred and twenty years ago, and the Manchu and Han armies once again set off a battle in Xin'an. It's just that compared to the battle of the Fu Han army, the collision here is only fierce, not tragic.

The combat effectiveness of the land battalion of the Nanyang Naval Division was very bad. Compared with the marine battalion of the Fu Han Army, which was active on the coast of Shandong, although the number of people in the land battalion of the Nanyang Naval Division was large, it was really a group of outright rabble. Not to mention the platoon shooting, they can't even do a complete and clean formation. But Su Bai's Sanjiang Association is just as bad, and the two sides only entered the anxious state of 'chess opponents' under Xin'an City. But as more and more Nanyang sailors Lu Yong rushed ashore and more and more cannons came ashore, the Zheng family's fleet still had the upper hand little by little.

The smoke of gunpowder swelled out, and the sound of explosions rang out incessantly outside the city of Xin'an. Artillery fire sometimes leads to large fires, but the fires are often extinguished by prepared sides before they spread.

The Mazu Temple at Xinhui Wharf, which is a sturdy stone structure. Zheng Lianfu and his gang leaders stood in front of a map hanging on the wall, pointing. This is a very detailed and detailed map of Xin'an, where the Qing army's gunpowder, food, various material reserves and camps are all marked.

However, the standard of artillery operation of the Nanyang Navy Division was too poor and too poor. Such a detailed map is useless.

And Zheng Lianchang at sea was ashamed at this time. He was too embarrassed to look at the liaison at hand.

Looking at the Xin'an war situation from the sea, it is very simple and clear.

The firepower of the land battalion of the Nanyang Navy Division was completely superior, and dozens of cannons bombarded the south gate of Xin'an, not only destroying the city gate tower, but also almost sweeping away the female wall at the head of the city. If it is replaced by the Fu Han army, taking advantage of the firepower, holding a long ladder to climb to the top of the city, this battle will be there. When they stood at the top of the city, how could the Qing army sweep them down again?

But what about the land camp of the Nanyang Naval Division? Not only was their charge slow, but they also had to wait until all the artillery behind them had ceased fire, so they dared to rush forward. And three times he rushed to the head of the city, and three times he was killed by the Qing soldiers in the city, and the liaison officer himself was drunk.

Of course, the Nanyang Navy Division Lu Ying eventually occupied Xin'an County.

Because their strength and morale are much more than that of Lu Yong of the Qing army of the Sanjiang Association.

The liaison did not get off the ship, he just wrote a letter, and the entourage around him went down to two. Chen Ming received a flying pigeon message in Shantou that night, and the news that Xin'an was taken did not surprise him. What surprised Chen Ming was that the liaison officer of the dark camp greatly reduced the land combat ability of the Nanyang Navy Division in the letter......

"Is it really that weak?" The dark battalion's assessment of the land combat capability of the Nanyang Naval Division is not as good as that of the ordinary green battalion! (To be continued.) )