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In the thirty-third year of Qianlong, the world was shaken. Because Lushan produced a Chen clan, because Chen Ming's army marched eastward. Under such an uproar, the braid-cutting case did not seem to cause much of a wave, because the Han army could always suppress it in terms of 'word of mouth'. However, is it really not a big problem to cut braids?

In the notebook of the secret camp of the Fu Han Army, from the official outbreak of the braiding case in January to the middle of March now, in two months, the braiding case spread from Zhejiang to Anhui and Shandong through Jiangsu, and a total of 17 braiding incidents occurred in various places, of which 9 cases caused crowd gatherings, commotions or hysteria in villages, streets or markets, and 8 cases had the circumstances of people violently attacking the suspects, of which 2 "suspects" were killed; On the other hand, in the local trials, there are not only cases that were tried at the beginning, such as the case of the stonemasons in Deqing, Zhejiang, the beggar case in Suzhou, and the monk case in Xukou Town, but there are also cases where the county and government were wrongly convicted but the provincial-level government has no time to try and distinguish them, such as the case of the monk Xiaoshan, who died in prison like that without a degree; There are also wrongful judgment cases, such as the cases of Cai Tingzhang and Jin Guanzi in Shandong. The deaths of these two people did not hinder anything at all, but it was purely the torture of the Shandong local government during the trial, which caused the two to die in prison.

This seems to be only 17 cases with conclusive evidence, but it has caused panic among the entire East China people. Just like the White Lotus Sect has been preaching for thousands of years, 'the destruction of the world is so ridiculous in the eyes of non-believers, but this kind of theory can always make thousands of honest farmers firmly believe, this is very similar to the cults of the 20th century, don't those cults also use the destruction of the world to scare people, don't some people believe it?

Another important factor in the rapid and widespread spread of dreadlocks is the low cost.

As long as a braid, you can curse people to death, and you can hook people with money, which is very attractive to poor people. What's more, China has had a cultural emphasis on human hair since ancient times, and in the folk ghosts and ghosts, there are endless rumors of cursing people with hair. This has also played a huge role in promoting and promoting certain factors.

The Mixed Yuan Sect is a veteran in doing this, and Liu Song, Yang Ji, and Fan Mingde made a decision after a little discussion: they will do what the general's palace orders. Two hundred iron armor and one thousand knives and guns were extremely precious to the great cause of the Mixed Yuan Sect, and they were reluctant to give it up.

On 20 March, the horse team of the Fu Han Army went south to Suzhou along the Grand Canal through Wuxi. The city of Suzhou, which had already arrived in large numbers of Zhejiang green battalions, finally blocked the raging troops of the Fu Han army.

In the ten days before that, the Fu Han army took the horse team as the vanguard, and successively took Jingkou [Zhenjiang], Danyang, Jintan, Wuxi, Yixing and other places, and the logistics troops of the Fu Han army behind them really became a transport brigade, and a cart of gold and silver grain was transported back to Jiangning, as well as a large number of sulfur and saltpeter, which were all the credit of the hidden camp. They bought a large amount of sulfur and saltpeter early and put them in warehouses in various places, and when the Fu Han army came, it was naturally captured. The local people in Jiangnan didn't know it, and when they saw the long dragon-like convoy carrying a mouthful of large boxes, they thought that they were all boxes of real money. There are a lot of rumors.

Huang Jie led his troops to the north, and after taking Yangzhou, the old nest of the two Huai salt merchants, the army swept the north bank of the Yangtze River, and then captured Gaoyou and Baoying along the canal.

Huang Jie did not fight the Qing army in Huai'an, retreated south to Gaoyou Prefecture, and then divided his troops to sweep Nantong Prefecture.

Chen Ming, who was under Jiangning City, learned the old skills of the Taiping Army in the original time and space, and in the ten days outside the treasure gate, he wantonly prepared shield carts and long ladders, as if he wanted to divide his troops into multiple ways to attack the city gates of Jiangning City; On the other side, manpower was quietly organized to dig tunnels in Jinghai Temple and Tianhou Temple outside the Yifeng Gate in Jiangning City.

The Fu Han army did not use cave tactics at all along the way to attack cities and seize land, and the Qing army in Jiangning was also defenseless. Besides, after seizing the geographical advantages of Jiangning's periphery, the Fu Han army bombarded Jiangning City day and night, and set fire to the barracks and sentry posts left by the Qing army outside the city at night.

Chen Ming also divided the soldiers into numerous squads, carried out tactical harassment maneuvers, lured the Qing army at the head of the city to consume artillery fire, and made non-stop feints at night, so that the soldiers defending the city could not sleep at night. According to the later Jiangning Prefecture Chronicles: "The army is divided into dozens of people...... Half a mile away from the city, three or five snooped, hunting the defenders of the city with sharpshooters. When the defenders saw this, they fired continuous artillery and were disturbed...... From Chen to You, there are only dozens of thieves in the shares, and there are several gates in the southeast, north and south......"

At the same time, the secret battalion troops in Jiangning City continued to sabotage in the city, pasting the proclamation of the Han Army's recovery of Jiangning, which made the people in the city panic, and the soldiers were in a bow and snake shadow, "the group was suspicious, knowing that there were spies", and the will of the soldiers defending the city continued to collapse. Especially after these proclamations appeared in the camp of Minding Zhuangyong, everyone knew that there were spies of the Fu Han army in Minding Zhuangyong, and all of a sudden the soldiers' hearts were chaotic and suspicious of each other, what kind of team is this? 、

Zhang Fang, a talented talent in the south of Jiangning City, recorded in his diary: "The advance spies, spreading rumors in the city, and posting notices saying that they would not kill or plunder the people, and everyone believed it. If you believe it, you will be confused, and if you are confused, you will be confused...... Every time the party buys something, it multiplies with it. "These are the old skills of the Taiping army attacking Jiangning City, Chen Ming read according to the book, and the harvest is great.

Although there is a gap of more than 80 years between the two, the reaction of the common people is so the same.

The only thing that made Chen Ming puzzled was that he didn't know what the Taiping Army in history had spent a few days to conquer Jiangning City, anyway, he had been outside Jiangning City for more than ten days, and he had been digging tunnels for ten days, and the tunnels had not been dug yet. The people in the logistics battalion of the Fu Han Army also have miners, why is the efficiency so low.

During this period, the money, grain and materials seized by the Fu Han army in Jiangbei were also sent to Yuhuatai one after another.

When Huang Jie was fighting Yangzhou City, there was also an interesting story in Yangzhou City. On the eve of the approaching army of the Fu Han army, the soldiers and horses defending the city of Yangzhou not only fled by themselves, but also made a lot of money inside and outside the city of Yangzhou, and as a result, the vanguard of the Fu Han army laughed and drove into the south of Yangzhou City, where the city gate was wide open.

The system of the Manchu Qing Dynasty inherited the Ming Dynasty, and it was the same as the noble and the lowly, but because of the special class of banner people, many banner people could enter and exit the generals, which covered up this aspect to a certain extent.

In the consistent perception of civil officials, military attaches have not read the books of sages of loyalty, filial piety, and martyrdom, and there are many shameless people, and the defenders of Yangzhou even plundered the state city before fleeing, which is simply shameless. But as soon as they left, dozens of civil officials in the city sat on wax, and there were not only the prefect's yamen and the two county yamen of Jiangdu and Ganquan in Yangzhou City, but also the two Huaiyan government yamen. Just rely on these servants in the yamen to resist the wolf-like Fu Han army?

The civil servants also planned their own escapes. Now it is not as good as last year, before the Fu Han army has not yet become a climate, there are few local officials who have escaped, many people have sent their families out of the city, or they have either a white silk, or drank poisoned wine, jumped into the pool, and many died in the line of duty. But this year, there are many, many fewer people who are willing to die to repay the country's kindness in front of the soldiers of the Fu Han Army. Even the Manchu government no longer had no mercy on fugitives.

But after all, these civil officials are all people who read the books of sages, "if the name is not right, the word is not good", and everything must be explained, so when the Han army entered the city, the civil officials gathered in the Mingjie Hall of the Lianghuai Yan Political Yamen, anxiously looking for an excuse to escape. The most resourceful is the Lianghuai Yanzheng You Bashi, who just took office at the end of last year, claiming that Chen Bandit has the spare strength to invade Yangzhou, then Jiangning will inevitably be more dangerous, Jiangning is the capital city of the southern country, and there is no room for failure. He himself wanted to escort the silver out of the city with a fearless spirit and support Jiang Ning. Yu Bashi escorted the silver - 500 taels of silver tickets with him and went out of the city in disguise. Li Kai, the deputy envoy of Huainan Yanzheng, was indignant and directly denounced You Bashi as a giant deception who deceived the world. Li Kai said that after his own inspection, hundreds of thousands of salaries and silver were still in the treasury, and You Bashi did not escort the silver at all, so he volunteered to go out of the city to recover the giant deceit You Bashi, so that Lord Yanzheng could lead them to resist the thieves. So Li Kai dressed lightly, went out of the city in disguise, and slipped away. I just don't know if he and that Yu Bashi can meet in Huai'an.

As for Jiangning, Yu Bashi will never go there.

Other officials were also moved, claiming that they also wanted to contribute to the imperial court for escorting the silver, and each carried a hundred taels of silver out of the city in batches, and only Changqing, the prefect of Yangzhou, was left in the city.

As a banner man, Changqing was inadmissible to do anything, so he committed suicide after his suicide note. And Huang Jie, who entered Yangzhou City without bloodshed, is not counting the rich mansions of salt merchants in Yangzhou City, only in the Yangzhou Treasury and the Yanzheng Yamen Treasury, he seized 500,000 taels of silver, 140,000 strings of money, more than 70,000 stones of rice grain, 43 large and small copper and iron cannons [Lianchengtou], and countless gunpowder cannons.

These things were all explained by the Yanzheng Yamen officials caught by the Fu Han army who entered Yangzhou City, and were passed on to Chen Ming by Huang Jie as a joke, and Chen Ming changed hands and spread this matter to Jiangning both inside and outside, which greatly entertained the Fu Han army and suppressed the morale of the Qing army.

Chen Ming played a big game of chess in Jiangning.

Now the Shandong soldiers have stopped in Huai'an, the Zhejiang soldiers have stopped in Suzhou, and the Fujian reinforcements have not yet reached Hangzhou. And the Qing army's offshore division stopped at Jiangyin. The person who led the Outer Sea Division was Wu Bida, the commander of the Fujian Navy Division, who was already in his 60s this year.

The strength of his fleet is quite strong, there are six large ships alone, the length of the ship is nine zhang six feet [29 meters], the thickness of the board is three inches and one minute, the width is two feet and one foot [about 7 meters], 24 cabins, and can carry 1,500 stones. Each ship is equipped with more than 30 sailors and boatmen, and 80 sailors. There are 10 medium-sized boats, seven feet long and eight feet wide, with more than 20 sailors and boatmen and 60 sailors. The large and medium ships are all two-masted, double-rudder, and double-iron anchors. They were the main warships of the Qing court's naval divisions.

In addition, there are two large Tongan Shuo boats, seven feet long and two feet long, one foot and nine feet wide, which can carry 60 sailors, and are the same as medium-sized boats.

These eighteen warships were the main force in Wu Bida's hands, and the number of guns on board varied, and the large ones were either thirteen or fourteen, or eight or nine. The medium-sized ships and the Tongansuo ships had six or seven guns, or four or five guns.

In addition to these eighteen main warships, the Qing army's foreign naval division in Jiangyin was also equipped with 37 shipwrights, double-canopy boats, and fast sentry boats. There were fifty-five warships, nearly 300 guns, 2,000 sailors, and 7,800 sailors and shipwrights.

If it was only a duel of surface combat power, Wu Bida would have set sail and led his ships directly to the surface of the Jiangning River.

Chen Ming's Fu Han army now has 2,000 surface ships, and more than 200 ships dedicated to warfare, but what kind of ships are they? Compared with the specialized warships of the foreign naval divisions, it is not worth mentioning. However, the surface warships of the Fu Han army are not worth mentioning, but their cannons are very powerful, especially after sweeping the south of the Yangtze River, it is rumored that there are more than 500 cannons of the Fu Han army.

Whether it was in Wuchang, Jiujiang, Anqing and southern Anhui, the Fu Han army had a furnace to refine and remake the bronze cannons and iron cannons of the Qing army. The new artillery was mainly three-catty guns and five-catty guns, and the two-catty guns had been gradually eliminated in the Fuhan army.

Now the number of artillery in Chen Ming's army is much more than when the army went down the Han River in Xiangyang. In addition, his troops swept across both sides of the Yangtze River, and the hidden camp sent reservoirs of sulfur and saltpeter, and even barrels of gunpowder, which were bought by the Qing soldiers, greatly increased the gunpowder reserves in the Fu Han army, and the artillery units expanded again and again. But no matter how much it expands, the number will not reach 500. It was all spread by the Qing soldiers, and they scared themselves as a result.

Wu Bida is a typical example, frightened by rumors. Moreover, the Yangtze River waterway is very narrow when it continues to go up in Jiangyin, and the width of the river surface is still insufficient in many places for three miles. Especially in the area of Jingkou, Jiangxin Island one after another, after the Fu Han army took Jingkou, it sent artillery to deploy there strictly, and also drove the prisoners to lay wooden stakes in the river and place wooden platoons, and the foreign naval divisions of the Qing army will gather more and more in Wusongkou and Jiangyin in the future. But how do they go upstream?

As far as Wu Bida is concerned, if he wants to lead his troops to reinforce Jiangning, that is, he will lead his troops to directly attack Yanziji, the camp of the naval division of the Fu Han Army, and he can't even pass through Jingkou with this little strength. If you want to enter the Jiangning River, unless the Qing army land troops first sweep away the Fuhan army in Jingkou.

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Henan Battlefield.

Xiping in the southwest of Yuncheng, the confluence of the Tangjiang River and the Silt River. Two years ago it was a densely populated town, but now there are no more people. Some are just a team of the Fu Han army stationed here.

Xiping is the county of Yuncheng, and in the south of Yuncheng, this county was the hardest hit area by the war. Those who can escape from the locals have fled to other places, and those who cannot escape are only dead.

Since the late autumn of last year, the General's Mansion has built a series of fortresses in Xiping County. The fortified fortresses were connected in a line and in pieces, forming a most elaborate defensive network.

Now, this large defensive net is undergoing the greatest test, withstanding the tearing of the Qing army's horse team, which is its biggest, strongest and main enemy. (To be continued.) )