[Today's three watches, there will be a chapter later.] A certain classmate, the 10,000-character chapter is really unrealistic, but the 10,000-word update is still possible. 】

Rong Bao has returned to Suzhou City.

For him now, it is the first priority to slow down the pace of the Han army advancing into Suzhou as much as possible, so as to buy time for the Qing army to return to the reinforcements.

For example, the Wusong River was blocked with a shipwreck.

However, the speed of the vanguard of the Fu Han army was too fast, and the naval army was only sixty or seventy miles a day, and the infantry cavalry on both sides of the strait could insist on keeping up, and there were many battles along the way.

Suerde had planned to set up a barrage on the Wusong River, which was erected on the Grand Canal when the Fu Han army first attacked Suzhou. As a result, the shelves on both sides of the Wusong River had just been erected, and before the iron cables were erected, the Fu Han army had already been killed. The green battalion and the militia sent were vulnerable, and the three iron cables, thousands of catties of good iron and white were cheap for the Han army.

What about the sailors of the Taihu Association? It's even more waste. None of the fireboat hairs that were made burned the Fu Han army. After only two engagements, it was completely sluggish. Hiding in Taihu Lake, he is reluctant to fight again.

The Qing army made several efforts, but fortunately, before Rong Bao arrived in Suzhou, the vanguard of the Han army was blocked out of Suzhou.

"Blocking the Wusong River?" Soule was so shocked that he couldn't sit still.

Rong Bao's face sank like water, "Not only the Wusong River must be blocked, but the canal must also be blocked." I want to suffocate Chen Rei's fleet of sailors in the Wusong River. "Otherwise, the sailors and fleets of the Fu Han army could go directly to Taihu Lake through the Wusong River, which would be a great threat and blow to the Qing court's rule in the Taihu Lake area. Anyway, in Wuxi, at the north end of Taihu Lake, they can go back to the canal.

But in this way...... "Soule is a civil official in the end, and he has three points of 'benevolence' in his thinking." The Wusong River and the canal are crucial to the economic operation of the south of the Yangtze River.

"If Chen rebels don't get rid of it, where does the canal come from? How can Jiangnan be peaceful? Isn't it easy to get rid of Chen Yi and re-dredge the canal? "There are three different ways in which Rong Bao sees the problem from Sourde. The Fu Han army fought Wu Songjiang to kill Suzhou, although he had to give up Wuxi, Rong Bao also saw another fighter from it - the naval division of the Fu Han army.

Compared with the Yangtze River, the Wusong River is just a small river ditch, and the sailors of the Fu Han Army performed well in the Yangtze River, but when they were put in the narrow Wusong River, it was 'the dragon swimming in the shallows was played by shrimp, and the tiger fell in Pingyang for the dogs'. If there was no cover for the land infantry of the Fu Han army, even if the Qing army fired rockets at night, the Fu Han army fleet would be burned on the Wusong River.

After the Navy Battalion officially became an army, it swept Huguang, swept Poyang Lake, and then attacked Jiangyin and Songjiang, which can be called Chen Ming's other arm. If it can be suffocated in the Wusong River, the blow to the Fu Han army will be much heavier than one Wuxi and one Changzhou. Besides, he really wanted to prevent the sailors of the Fu Han army from entering the Taihu Lake, and if they swept along the coast, the losses would be too great.

In one night, when the Fu Han army entered the beachhead of the Luzhuang Bang River, more than 20 miles southeast of Suzhou City, at noon the next day, the horse team of the Fu Han army first found that the river in front of it was blocked.

Chen Kaishan stood on the river embankment, and through the clear water, he could clearly see the sunken ship sinking to the bottom of the river.

You must know that the Wusong River is very shallow, very shallow, the water depth in many places is less than two meters, and the deepest is only four or five meters. In this case, the shipwreck can of course be seen clearly by Chen Kaishan on the shore.

"Hurry up and return to the Governor. Immediately! ”

Chen Kaishan's face was as if he had smelled a stinky fart, and it became quite ugly.

"Camp, if the Tartars block this first place, they will be able to block the second place. I'll lead the troops right away......"

"Beware of the ambush of the Qing soldiers." Suzhou is the most dense place in the south of the Yangtze River, which is not suitable for cavalry to gallop back and forth, and it can be seen from the repeated engagements of the vanguard that if there is not an infantry team to follow, the vanguard of the Fu Han army will not be able to fight so smoothly at all.

The follow-up troops of the Fu Han army actually marched quite quickly, and it was just past noon when Chen Ming received the report from the front, and the Qing army's action of sinking ships to block the Wusong River was not unexpected. In Jiangyin, the Guodang used 43 naval warships and merchant ships, as well as 185 civilian ships and salt ships, to pay the price of the destruction of the first and second fleets of the main force of the Central Navy, and to delay the Japanese naval fleet's upward march up the river for a period of time, so that hundreds of important factories and thousands of skilled workers in Shanghai, Nanjing, and other places could be evacuated urgently.

At present, the Wusong River is much easier than the Yangtze River waterway in Jiangyin. As for the Manchu Qing boats, which were filled with sediment and sank in the Wusong River, it is estimated that more than a dozen of them can form an underwater Great Wall.

The large force of the Fu Han army, a huge fleet composed of dozens of warships and hundreds of cao boats, was more than 20 miles long, and the infantry headquarters of the Fu Han army were guarded on the left and right banks of the Wusong River, and any idle people were close to the riverside.

However, it is the nature of the Chinese people to look at the liveliness, and many people in the villages on both sides of the Wusong River climb on the roofs and big trees, looking at the fleet on the river from afar, just like watching a big show. Because they found themselves doing this, the Fu Han army didn't care about them, as long as they didn't go to the riverside.

The Fu Han army swept half of Songjiang, which is also the most elite part of Songjiang, and there are rumors in the south of the Yangtze River that the hundreds of ships of the Fu Han army are loaded with gold and silver treasures, and some people swear that they have seen the countless gold and silver treasures with their own eyes. When the Fu Han army carried the box to the ship, one of the boxes was too heavy and heavy, and it broke the flat burden, and as a result, the box rolled to the ground and fell apart, and all that rolled down the ground were ingots of silver, snowflakes.

The dark camp couldn't find out where the news came from, and the rumors spread faster than the wind.

Chen Mingda prepared to take the Wusong River into Taihu Lake, and the large army took Suzhou City, forcing the Qing army to retreat and return to the army, and he was ready to fight a protracted war. Anyway, the Qing army in Songjiang Mansion had just been severely damaged by him, and the Qing army's offshore division was certainly powerful, but if hundreds of warships were squeezed into the small ditch of the Yangtze River, no matter how many warships they had, they would not be enough to bombard the batteries of the Han army. In the territory of Jiangbei, the Fu Han army still holds Taizhou and Taixing, and the Qing army cannot subvert the general trend of the Fu Han army in the short term.

Chen Ming spent some time grinding outside the city of Suzhou. He also planned to take the opportunity to patronize Jiaxing and Huzhou in Zhejiang, and then roll up the Dongting Dongshan and Western mountains, the latter being the main force of the Su merchants in this era. The famous Dongting merchant gang refers to the people on the two islands of Dongshan and Xishan in Taihu Lake. This merchant gang is not named after Suzhou or Wu County, but only after the name of the mountain in Dongting East and West Mountains, and its history has been for a long time! In the Ming Dynasty, Feng Menglong, a novelist in Suzhou, wrote about the situation of the merchant gang in his novel collection "Xingshi Hengyan". In the novel, it is written: The people of the two mountains are good at goods breeding, and they go to business for business, so there is a slogan on the rivers and lakes, called "Drilling the Sky and Dongting".

The Dongting merchant gang had a prototype as early as the Northern Song Dynasty, and after the middle of the Ming Dynasty, Wang Weizhen, a big merchant in Dongshan, was the third son of Wang Yanxiang. One of its veins came out of the three dynasties of the Ming Dynasty, filial piety, and martial arts, and the official to the cabinet of the prime minister Wang Wei. It was the ancestor of the prime minister in the mountains who was well versed in the art of accumulation and good at financial management, thus laying the foundation of the Wang family's business. Later, Wang's succeeded Weng Di, Weng Xu Yunxiong, and Xi's Jixing. The Dongting merchant gang was so rich that the rich and noble families in Dongshan and Xishan gathered, and they had a deep relationship with the Manchu government, and the Xi family completely consolidated their position in the merchant gang by welcoming Kang Mazi in the south of the Yangtze River.

If the Fu Han army swept the east and west mountains as they were, the effect would not be inferior to taking Suzhou City. But now, the news that the Fu Han army is advancing west along the Wusong River has spread, and those slippery guys must have begun to transfer their family property.

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The defeat of the Han army and the westward advance of Wusong River was a turning point in the war in the south of the Yangtze River, and Suzhou, which was originally in a very secondary position in this battle, suddenly became very important. The Qing soldiers who retreated to the east of the Huangpu River began to 'wantonly' regain the lost territory, but it was impossible for them to stab the ass of the Han army. Even though Rong Bao's official document has gone down to Nanhui.

The Qing Army's foreign naval divisions, which were based on Chongming Island, also approached the waters of Jiangyin with great arrogance, but in the face of the cannons erected on Huangshan [Jiangyin Huangshan], none of them dared to easily break into it. The narrow river is only three miles away, and the cannons on the top of the hill can completely block the entire river. Although everyone knows that the five forts built by the Fu Han army on Huangshan are only grass structures.

Therefore, don't look at the large army of the Fu Han army being dragged in Suzhou, but Jiangyin, the bridgehead, the Qing army can't gnaw down, they can't threaten Zhenjiang, let alone Nanjing City, Chen Ming is very down-to-earth.

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In the city of Beijing, a piece of news quickly spread throughout the entire Sijiu City with the opening of Qianlong's golden mouth.

-- The Qing Dynasty is about to have a second Nan Huairen and a second Tang Ruowang.

The Jesuit missionaries in Beijing were promoted by many officials in Beijing, and at the behest of Emperor Qianlong, Chao Junxiu (proficient in astronomical algorithms), Jin Jishi (proficient in carving and astronomical algorithms), and Li Junxian (proficient in clocks and watches) -- why did the Jesuit missionaries at that time have a kind of stick in their names? - Sibora [who is familiar with painting and has experience in firing glassware) and many others entered the cannon factory, the court office of the Palace of Yangxin, and engaged in the work of cannon casting and musket arrangement.

This is the first batch of foreigners who entered the Qing Dynasty National Artillery Factory and set out to make 'the country's heavy weapon' for the Qing Dynasty after the ban on religion. These missionaries have not been able to do an inch, and they have already been rewarded by Qianlong with five or six official hats. And what is particularly eye-catching is that there are two more people who entered the artillery factory of the Yangxin Palace with these foreigners, Chinese [I wipe, what happened to the river crab god again], Chinese born and raised in Beijing: Gao Zhisi and Yang Dewang. These are two yellow-skinned and dark-haired Chinese who have received the baptism of the True God Cult early, because their families are relatively few True God Christians in China at this time. Not only can they speak many foreign languages fluently, but they also went to France more than ten years ago to study at the French University in Lavres, where they studied French and Latin, as well as theology and philosophy. After graduating from university, the two came to Paris and asked to become monks in a convent, but the French Jesuit president, considering the opinions of the Jesuit priests in China and taking into account the actual conditions of China, did not approve it, but arranged for them to continue their studies in the Jesuits.

Although the two of them tended to study theology and philosophy in Europe, they also had a lot of knowledge of modern Western knowledge and saw the guns of the French. After Qianlong received a recommendation from the Jesuit priest in Beijing, he naturally adopted the two men. It's good to use them as translators.

For many Chinese people, the emperor ordered a group of foreigners to enter the gun factory, which obviously recognized the level of these foreigners' attainments in guns. It also reflects that the emperor is dissatisfied with the gun attainments of his own craftsmen and officials. Doesn't this mean that the foreigners in the guns are more powerful than me??

This hurt the self-esteem of countless masters of Sijiu City who regarded themselves as 'people of the Tian Dynasty'. And there are a lot of people who scold Gao Yang for having no father and mother, and even their families have been affected, they are really afraid of being famous, pigs and being strong.

Such news is also a big deal, and the dark camp company in Beijing City reported the relevant matters to the headquarters, and then the news was transferred to Chen Ming's hands. He was not surprised that Emperor Qianlong asked foreigners to make guns, Qianlong was not Daoguang Xianfeng, and the Manchu Qing at this time was not the Manchu Qing at this time, Chen Ming felt that Qianlong would even buy guns directly from the West when necessary, just like Zhu Ming at the end of the Ming Dynasty.

What really made Chen Ming interested was Gao Zhisi and Yang Dewang, isn't this a 'foreign student'? At the first glance of the secret report, Chen Ming's eyes were about to pop out. Although these two people must have been theological subjects in Europe, in China in the middle of the Qianlong era, Chinese who had such an encounter were really too rare and rare. If these two people are placed in his hands, they can be of great use after the establishment of new China.

When envoys were sent to the West, these two were not qualified to be envoys, but they could also serve as deputy envoys and interpreters. Of course, Chen Ming was very uninterested in the identity of Gao Yang and the two True God Cultists, and the things that could be used were not perfect, as long as they were easy to use, he was really curious about these two people.

"Keep an eye on them. Spy on the progress of the cannon factory as much as possible! ”

Chen Ming walked out of the cabin, and a sunken ship in front of him was slowly floating under the tow of four boats and a herd of buffaloes on the shore. More than a dozen sailors with good water ability dived into the water and tied the gang and cabin of the sunken ship with iron nails + ropes, dozens of big buffaloes on the riverside were driven by whips, burying their heads and exerting force forward, and there were four warships that had minus the soil bags to pull up the wrecked ship under the water.

This is the salvage operation of the Fu Han army, water and land concurrently, all work hard, for this reason the Fu Han army also deliberately collected hundreds of buffaloes from the surrounding townships, and the reincarnation alternately came to exert force. It is also the richness of Suzhou Prefecture that the people can easily gather so many buffaloes.

Chen Ming had been waiting on the ship for three days, and it took three days for the Fu Han army to break through the first line of defense of the Qing army's shipwreck.

But this is only the first line of defense of the Qing soldiers, there is a second line in Zhangjiabang not far away, the narrowest swing head of the Wusong River is the third line, then the confluence of the Wusong River and the canal, and finally the Guajingkou - the birthplace of the Wusong River.

In Suzhou, the Fu Han army still had time to consume.

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In the hot and humid land of Fujian, there were obviously six ice basins in the house, but the sweat still kept hitting Chen Liang's forehead.

This ghost place, if it is possible, Chen Liang will not want to stay here for a day. It's so hard!

"Eighth Master, the Yellow Sect has already decided to have an incident on the fifteenth of this month."

"The silver weapons were sent to them, and my Fu Han army had promised them to him, so he would not be untrustworthy." Chen Liang quickly fanned his fan, "Is there still any connection between the Yellow Sect and the natives in the mountains?" ”

"The connection is still close."

"Foolishness is unbearable to teach. Let him go......" (To be continued.) )