The vanguard of the Fu Han army fired more than a dozen cannons, the muzzle of the guns was raised and five rows of guns were fired, and the last Lian Yong of the Wuxi militia also fled out of the city in a hurry through the open east gate.

Chen Ziling and Qin Youzi are both very knowledgeable people. They didn't even go to Suzhou with their troops, but went straight east into Taicang, and then turned to Songjiang Mansion. These two men don't have much skill in fighting, but they have a keen sense of smell.

The Fu Han army dispatched 30,000 people this time, Chen Ming personally led the troops, and the large army had already marched to Changzhou. The soldiers pointed to Suzhou, and Yin Jishan, the governor of Liangjiang, and Rong Bao, the general of Jiangning, both had a bitter face on the verge of great disaster. The two sent a request for help to Hangzhou again and again, and Yin Jishan directly sent an order to the naval army of Songjiang Prefecture, asking them to attack the Yangtze River line of the Fu Han army, and to cooperate closely with the water and land armies, land at Haimen, and capture Nantong Prefecture, anyway, to do everything possible to attract the attention of the Fu Han army. But all of them were lost!

Just when the Qing army in Suzhou was panicking, the banner people of Suzhou City made a fuss again, they were not willing to stay in Suzhou and wait for death, the secret camp just spread the news that the army of the Fu Han Army had come over, and these Eight Banner Masters who ate Suzhou and used Suzhou and looked down on the locals in Suzhou fled to Hangzhou one by one like crazy. directly led to the fleeing tide of Suzhou citizens, and also made the morale of the Qing army in Suzhou drop a lot again.

It's boring to think about. Even the Eight Banners, the people who should live and die with my Qing Dynasty the most, ran faster than rabbits one by one, and still expected them to work hard for the Qing Dynasty?

Besides, the current Fu Han army is not the previous Fu Han army. The current Fu Han army has a bit of momentum to seize the world, and in the eyes of many people, this is a hidden dragon, and following the Fu Han army is called fighting the world, not causing trouble in the world. Following the Fu Han Army, their behavior can be called Conglong, which is very different from the previous 'rebel thieves and rebels'.

Those who steal the hook will be punished, and those who steal the country will be punished!

More than 2,000 years ago, this sentence of Zhuangzi has made the 'change' in the meantime clear.

"Take down Yixing and Liyang, and Suzhou City will be put off for a while." In the city of Changzhou, Chen Ming received the news that the vanguard troops had taken Wuxi without blood, and also received a report from the secret camp - the escape of the Suzhou bannermen triggered a frenzy of fleeing from the people of Suzhou.

Chen Ming smiled, it's good to flee, it's best that hundreds of thousands of Suzhou people have fled. Chen Ming was so happy to see them all running to Hangzhou and Zhejiang. He decisively slowed down the pace of the large army, and scattered the troops that were originally used to converge the front army to attack Hushu Pass, and sprinkled them on the surrounding Yixing and Liyang.

Two days later, Chen Ming entered Wuxi with a large army, and the secret camp reported that there were still many people fleeing from Suzhou, and at the same time, the morale of the Qing soldiers and civilians defending the city was even lower. "Let the troops who captured Liyang and Yixing go directly south to attack Huzhou [Zhejiang]. After the sailor battalion entered Taihu Lake, it swept away Dongshan, Shanshan, Zhenze, Wujiang and other places. ”

Chen Ming wants to stay in Wuxi for two more days. "You personally bring people back to Nanjing and bring over several ladies." There are obvious traces of activity in Nanjing, Yangzhou, Zhenjiang and other places, but the ruling institutions of the Fu Han army in these places are too weak to really penetrate into the people, and when they feel the traces and then arrest people, there are already 10,000 people. The security department cooperated with the soldiers and horses defending the city to attack the hidden camp repeatedly, but many of them failed.

Moreover, the Qing army also had rifled guns, and the generals and important figures of the Fu Han army were now out of the house, and the guards were much stricter than before.

On the shore of Lihu Lake, Chen Ming looked at the sparkling water, and felt that it was really a bit of a loss not to take advantage of this opportunity to visit this paradise in Suzhou and Hangzhou. He still remembered that he had promised Liu Bangyun that she would have the opportunity to enjoy the beautiful scenery of Suzhou and Hangzhou. Although the land of paradise is much darker under the war, and it is winter, there is always a glimpse of those garden scenery.

Anyway, this time the army attacked, and the battle was not very difficult. If the dark camp returns well, it is not only the soldiers and horses in Suzhou who are worried, but also the Qing army and civilian groups in Hangzhou, Huzhou, Jiaxing and other places.

Chen Ming didn't dare to say that he would definitely be able to take Hangzhou, but he didn't have to worry about taking Suzhou. Compared with Hangzhou's West Lake, Chen Ming is looking forward to Suzhou's exquisite and unique gardens. He himself is also in a very relaxed mood, he was worried and stressed for a long time before, but now he is relaxed and relaxed. For the first time in my life, before the Great War, I wanted to take a woman to the lake scenery.

Liu Wu walked out of the room quickly, beckoned a team of guards in the chamber, and then took the instructions given to him by Chen Ming, transferred three teams of men and horses to the right battalion of the guards, got on the boat, and hurried to Nanjing.

During the war, he still has to be accompanied by women, which is not a good phenomenon, but Liu Wu has never been a minister, his position is very high, and Liu Dezhao, who has already done the judgment of Nanjing, still has the title of deputy director of the chamberlain, and he is under him. But Liu Wu has always known what he does, he is Chen Ming's personal follower!

Is there a long follower in the world who frequently admonishes his master? Only to please the master at any cost.

There are also five newcomers in the secretariat of the attendant's room, but they are newcomers, where do newcomers have the courage to persuade Chen Ming. What's more, by the time they found out, Liu Wu had been out of the city for an hour or two.

……

Macau, Council Chamber.

At the heart of the Portuguese power in Macao, Rotony, the current chief civil officer, sat opposite each other with the head of the Macau army, Shadanye, who was usually the governor of Macao, a person appointed by the Portuguese government, but did not actually command all the Portuguese military and political forces in Macao, and was only responsible for the defense of Macao, and the official residence was also located in the main fortress.

As the military and political leaders of Macao, the two of them must reach a clear consensus on the matter of Fernandez.

Rotoni is the president of the Macau Council, and according to the regulations, the Macau Council holds an election every three years, with six members elected each time. The Governor of Portugal and India was finally appointed as a city councillor. Three of them are elders over the age of 40, two are junior judges over the age of 30 (also known as judges), and one is the civil magistrate, also known as the councillor.

Rotony had a deep connection with the Portuguese merchants in Macau, and to a certain extent he represented the interests of the Portuguese merchants in Macau, while Shadanye represented the interests of the Kingdom of Portugal. On the matter of arms trade with the Manchus, the two sides easily reached a consensus, and then traded with the Manchus twice, selling more than 40 cannons to the Manchus, and obtained huge profits.

A large part of these cannons were prepared by Rotony, and the instructor group headed by Blanco was formed by Shadanye. Now that Fernandez and the others had lost the battle and were tragically captured, the Chinese rebels knew about Macau's movements, and they asked the captured Fernandez and others to write a letter each, and then these letters were unwittingly delivered to the desk of the civil governor of the council hall, and God knows how frightened Rotony was when he saw these letters!

The secret camp of the Fu Han army, a while ago they almost killed all the governors of the Guangdong Customs, which is a thing that every European merchant who comes to trade in China has to pay attention to. In the eyes of the Portuguese, this is a terrifying organization, a legend even more powerful than Assasin. The latter is also only an assassination, and the work of the former is obviously intelligence.

"Alright, that's the end of it." Shadanye signed his name on a piece of paper, and then he stood up with some difficulty, the folds of his white chubby neck stretching.

Shadanye had been sitting for too long, and he had eaten too fat. He walked towards the door with a brisk look. Leaving only Rotony, who kept shaking his head behind him, Shadanye was relieved, he took out half of his wealth to make up for the mistake, and signed his name on the official apology statement, he had done everything he could. The rest is up to Rotony and his fellow merchants.

Less than a quarter of an hour after Chadanye left, a handsome middle-aged man in his thirties strode in, Luis Paolo Ribeiro, a Macanese of more than half Oriental descent. His family has been in existence in Macau for 200 years, and the Ribeiro family was the first Portuguese family to marry a Han Chinese woman.

At the same time, Louis was one of the two junior judges of the council.

Louis, a tall and handsome man from a wealthy family, was the dream lover of many Portuguese, and the maid who brought him a cup of tea had moist eyes and a flushed face.

"Don't spread your charm like a peacock in heat, we're in big trouble right now."

"I know that the Fuhan Army Secret Camp has put Fernandez's letter on your desk. You're scared! ”

"Of course I'm scared. They can put the letter on the desk of the civil magistrate in the council hall today, and cut off my head with a knife tomorrow. And they also threaten to destroy the whole of Macau. All of Macau! Rotony's expression, which had always remained calm, collapsed, and he stood up excitedly, waving his hands: "They use gunpowder, they can still set fire, they have too many means to destroy Macau, how can I not worry?" ”

"Nope. Rotony, I don't think so. It's just their threat, exaggerated threat. Just as Russia has always preached the threat of the Ottomans to Christian civilization, it is all frightening.

If the Fu Han army destroys Macao, they will be the eternal enemies of Portugal! ”

Rotoni disagreed with Louis's words, and he shook his head: "Dear Luis, do you think the Chinese will care about the threat of the Kingdom of Portugal?" They don't even know where Portugal is. "It's not that Rotoni doesn't have love and pride in Portugal, it's really ......, that's the reality. China's governing body for Portugal is only the county government office in Xiangshan County, a former cottage in Macau.

"Listen to me, now listen to me, Louis, Shadanye has decided to take out half of his savings as the ransom of Fernández and them, and I have also decided to take out all the proceeds of the two arms deals, along with Orian and Bi Jiabao, they will also take out a part of the proceeds, and finally there is the church, and the bishop will lead people to hope that God's people can return safely. If it's just Fernandez and their ransom money, I think that's enough. The problem is that now the Fu Han army does not want our gold and silver coins, but gunpowder and sulfur.

Swapping tens of thousands of lovely eagles for gunpowder and brimstone is a huge amount, and we can't afford to transport these things from the sea to their control area without everyone's eyes.

Now we need to have a good talk with the people of the Fu Han Army......"

"You want me to go and see the people of the Fu Han Army? You agreed to all the conditions they offered? ”

"Uh..., yes. There are not many people in the whole of Macau who can be trusted by me and Shadanye, and the most suitable person among them is you. Your identity, your looks, and your fluency in China's official language will all be of great benefit to the negotiations. ”

"Louis, I know there is a danger in this. But, you'd love to sit in the chair I'm sitting in, wouldn't you? ”

"I can assure you that as long as you can solve this matter perfectly, my Excellency Bishop and I will vote for you in next year's elections...... "Rotony and the Bishop of Macau have a significant influence among the Portuguese population in Macau. (To be continued.) )