On the third day of the fifth month of the ninth year of Yongli, Qian Yingkui, the leader of the Su Song Righteous Army, played the banner of responding to Zhu Chenggong, the king of Yanping County, in Dianshan Lake, and gathered the rebel troops who could be contacted to march to Songjiang Fucheng. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

For a time, Songjiang Mansion was in a hurry, and the headquarters of the Su Song General Soldier Standard Battalion, which had already been determined to rush to Jiangning as the second echelon, saw the assembly of the righteous army, and Liang Huafeng, who was always worried about Qian Yingkui and his hide-and-seek in Susong's river and lake system, immediately led the army south from Jiading County, Suzhou.

The two armies fought north of Songjiang Fucheng, and although the righteous army was strong, it was not the opponent of the elite soldiers of the green battalion trained by Liang Huafeng himself after all.

The ending seemed to be doomed, but just as Liang Huafeng began to be surprised by the tenacity of the rebel army, a "rebel army" behind the formation began to put on armor, and the shining iron armor almost blinded the eyes of everyone present. And the banner painted with winged tigers began to flutter on the battlefield, and the Qing army, which originally had the absolute upper hand, immediately fought without even the strength to fight back, and was defeated by the Ming army before it lasted long.

In the battle, the Ming army beheaded 312 and captured 1,247. Su Song's general soldier Liang Huafeng was wounded and absconded, and Su Song's guerrilla Li Bi, who served as the rearguard, surrendered, and Su Song's town mark was completely broken, and even Songjiang Mansion had to open the city to surrender to the Ming army.

Ma Xin's tactics were the same as when Chen Wen first marched into Jinhua, and today, when the local gentry were full of enthusiasm for the Fujian king's master, Liang Huafeng basically became deaf and blind. There was only one war battalion in his hand, but Ma Xin still led the large number of Su Songyi army and those people who heard the news to start a comprehensive recovery of Songjiang Mansion. For the Qing army, in the Susong area, the original bid has been rushed to Jiangning, and today, when the town mark was broken, the local green camp is even more insufficient.

At the same time as the battle in Songjiang, the city of Jiaxing was also captured by Houying. In fact, the gentry of Jiaxing Mansion had already begun to persuade the local green camp and the government to surrender, in order to get rid of the risk of being occupied by the Ming army of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Zhejiang as quickly as possible when Zheng Chenggong went south. As a result, the kung fu was done, and it became the desire of the people anyway, but when Zheng Chenggong was still grinding on the way to Nanjing, Chen Wen's army arrived first.

Guangxin, Nanchang, Ganzhou such a fortified city is not a problem, the defenders naturally do not dare to make a time, the two sides negotiated the civil and military generals according to the initiative anyway classification, the family property autumn did not commit, the crime of the Qing Dynasty was written off, and the civil official training class and the martial arts school re-education continued to be an official, and the city completely changed hands.

Next, the subordinate counties of Jiaxing Prefecture also immediately changed their doors after receiving the news that the Nantang Battalion had defeated Susong Zhenbiao in the first battle. As for those gentry, they hated pressing gold threads year after year, making wedding clothes for others, and most of them had no place to cry.

However, everyone underestimated the reaction speed of the local gentry, and when these gentry found out that Chen Wen had taken the lead in picking peaches, they immediately threw the banner of supporting the king of Yanping County behind. As for what is said behind the scenes, it doesn't matter anymore.

Hangjiahu in Jiangnan and Zhejiang, for the Ming army of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Zhejiang, which has recovered eastern Zhejiang, Jiangxi, southern Jiangxi and other places, is a ripe fruit, which can be easily picked as long as you stretch out your hand. What's more, the gentry in these areas responded to Li Zhichun's call to greet Zheng Chenggong's army, and the civil and military generals in these areas had already done too much work. Although the final result did not meet the wishes of the gentry, it was the desire of the civil and military officials anyway, and the restoration of the Han family's clothes and crowns was the people's will here, and everything fell into place.

Songjiang and Jiaxing were immediately down, and Chen Wen also completed the convergence with Jinhua Division. In the naval battle of Hangzhou Bay, the Ming army sailors of the "strong ships and sharp guns" were crushed all the way, if it were not for Yang Kai's fear of unnecessary losses caused by the stranding of the ship after going deeper, the injured Wang Jing was afraid that he would not even have the possibility of escaping back to Hangzhou alive.

After the war, the channel of the Qiantang River and the control of the sea in Hangzhou Bay changed hands, but the Jinhua Division did not force the crossing from the waterway near Hangzhou, but landed from a pre-selected landing site far east of Hangzhou. Immediately afterwards, with the arrival of Chen Wen, the Ming army, including one division and one battalion, began to march westward, and the target was naturally the capital city of Hangzhou.

The Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Ming armies now have five divisions, including Jinhua, Yongjia, Danyang, Yuzhang, and Luling, as well as eight combat battalions and two mounted infantry battalions, including Nantang, Qian, Hou, Yushan, Ruian, Pujiang, Lishui, Chun'an, Feixiong, and Feihu. Coupled with the 25 prefectures in Zhejiang, Jiangxi, and Nanjiang provinces, the local garrisons of more than 100 counties, and the Zhejiang Inland River Water Division, the Zhejiang Coastal Patrol Water Division, and the Jiangxi Poyang Lake Water Division, 100,000 iron armor is no longer a claim.

However, the number of opponents facing them has increased, the defensive surface has increased, and the number of troops that can be concentrated in one direction is actually not very large. However, this time, the two divisions of Jinhua and Yongjia and the four battalions of Nantang, Qian, Hou, and Pujiang, totaling more than 34,000 soldiers, participated in the operation to recover Hangjiahu, and their strength had already surpassed the Manchu garrison.

In Chen Wen's words, he has grown so big, and he has never fought a battle against the outnumbered, and this is the first time in the world!

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At the same time as the overall plan was underway, Chen Wen went west, and Li Ruixin's road went north, and the two sides planned to return to Hangzhou and besiege it.

If the Ming army was allowed to join forces under the city of Hangzhou, then the Qing army, which was at a numerical disadvantage, would inevitably be besieged in the city. The ability of the Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang is also famous, although Hangzhou is a strong city, but it is not necessarily able to defend. Yue Le is very clear about this truth, not only he is very clear, but also the Mongolian Gushan Ezhen he brought and Liu Liangzuo, who is responsible for commanding the Eight Banners of the Han Army. So it was necessary to act before the Ming army besieged the city, otherwise it would be too late.

"Jiangning's urgency, have you seen it all?"

"Back to the prince's words, the minions have seen it, and said that Guazhou was lost, and the minion who was loyal to him was also beaten miserably. Poor emperor's minions, how can you let this Han dog command the battle. That guy also has some courage on weekdays, but this time there must be love, and the slave thinks that he should be impeached! ”

In the four banners of the left wing of Jiangning in Jiangnan, there was a Mongolian Niu Lu, and the Mongolian Zhengbai Banner Gushan Ezhen Hesheri Ibai first expressed strong dissatisfaction with Guan Zhongzhong.

This Hesheri clan is not a Mongol, but a Manchurian, and he himself is also the banner man of the Manchurian Zhenglan Banner, but he is just a Gushan Ezhen who received the Mongolian Zhengbai Banner. The use of Manchurian military generals to lead the Mongolian Eight Banners and Niulu was also a means for the Manchu Qing Dynasty to envoy and guard against the Mongolian Eight Banners.

He is a veteran Manchurian general, and in the first year of Shunzhi, he was already the Gushan Ezhen of the Mongolian Zhenglan Banner, and he still had the identity of the Minister of Parliament before the expedition, and he existed as Yue Le's deputy, and he had no scruples about speaking.

Yibai talked eloquently, and Liu Liangzuo, who was sitting on the side, listened to this sentence awkwardly, but there was nothing he could do. Guan Allegiance is an old traitor who has been surrendered from outside the pass, and he is just a Qing army who surrendered to the Qing when it went south. Originally, he killed Huang Degong by sneaking attack, which can be regarded as a credit to the Qing Dynasty, but the siege of Jiangyin was really embarrassing, and the Manchu magnates did not treat him very well. And this time, it's just like he went south to Jiangxi with Tan Tai before, with a troop as an assist, even if he was pointed at his nose and scolded, he didn't dare to say a word, not to mention that he was just splashed by spittle stars now.

Liu Liangzuo didn't speak, but the generals of the Eight Banners patronized and scolded Guan for his loyalty, and the more Yue Le listened, the more angry he became, until finally he slapped him on the table.

"This king told you to wait, not to hear from you how to impeach Guan Guan for allegiance to that minion. Now Jiangning is in danger, and the Zhejiang bandits have also sent troops. What to do, this king wants to hear your words now! ”

"Minions deserve to die."

After dying of nonsense once, you can get to the point. Yibai is Yue Le's deputy, so he is naturally the one who will do it.

"Lord Wang, the slave thinks that this Jiangning has no soldiers, so let's rush back to rescue as soon as possible. This Hangzhou, Zhejiang bandits are willing to give it to him. Let's drive away the Haikou first, and when Prince Jian's reinforcements arrive, it's not too late to come back and quell the Zhejiang bandits. ”

The Qing army in Jiangnan and Hangjiahu is now being attacked on two fronts, Zheng Chenggong entering from the Yangtze River in the north, and Chen Wen in the south is crossing the Qiantang River.

Wang Jing had returned, seriously wounded, and the sailors were no longer able to compete with the Ming army for the waterway of the Qiantang River. Now Chen Wen's army is encircling from two directions, and the road to the north through Huzhou and back to Jiangning has not yet been cut off, and there is a chance to return to Jiangbei in time, or if they are trapped in Jiangnan, God knows if Jidu can cross the river and defeat Zheng Chenggong to relieve them from the siege.

Ibai's proposal was supported by the vast majority of the Eight Banners generals present, but some were not satisfied. For example, Xiao Qiyuan, the governor of Zhejiang, the banner man of the Han army, such as the Mongolian Gushan Ezhen stationed in Hangzhou to defend the Eight Banners, and Meler Zhangjing of the Manchurian and Han armies, they could not support this proposal.

"Give up Hangzhou? Do you know how much tax this government pays to the imperial court every year? Without this input, it will fall into Chen Wen's hands, and he will be able to raise tens of thousands of more troops, how can he suppress bandits at that time? ”

"Then slaughter Hangzhou, we can't get it in the Qing Dynasty, and we won't leave it to those Han dogs."

"Whew!"

The slaughter of the city did not arouse the anger of Xiao Qiyuan and Meler Zhangjing of the Han Army Banner, but it was the Mongolian Gushan Ezhen who was the deputy of Dasu with Wu Ruyu who took the lead in slapping the table and scolding his mother.

"Your mother-in-law and children are not in Hangzhou, but our people who are stationed in Hangzhou are here. When you say slaughter, do you also slaughter us? Yibai, it can be seen that you don't feel sorry for the people who are not in the blue flag, but the minions in the city are all emperors, and you still want to make decisions for your master? ”

It's no fun to run, the family members stationed in the Eight Banners are here, and the people who have been looted in Hangzhou over the years are also there, Chen Wen's army is getting closer and closer, is it possible to run with his family members, it would be fresh if he could retreat with his whole body.

In fact. As early as the defeat of Dasu's army, the bannermen stationed in Hangzhou to defend the Eight Banners had already germinated plans to send their families and goods back to Beijing. However, with Yue Le's southward movement and the formation of Jidu's reinforcements, they felt that Hangzhou could still hold on, and they put this matter behind them. After all, Yue Le and Ji Du are both pro-noble kings, and Da Su is just an ordinary general, and there is no way to compare.

In this way, the extension to the present day has become a reluctant burden. But now it is no better than outside the customs, the mother-in-law is gone, the children are gone, the goods are gone, and the marriages within the Eight Banners have long been intertwined. Besides, who wants to leave their mother-in-law, children and family property behind and flee without even seeing a fight?

"You cowards, tens of thousands of Eight Banner Army, don't you even have the courage to fight in front of the Zhejiang bandits?"

"Now it's not a question of whether to fight or not, it's that once Jiangning is lost, we will be attacked by Zhejiang bandits and Haikou from both sides!"

The military meeting turned into an internal fighting meeting of the generals of the Eight Banners, and the adherent faction of the Eight Banners stationed in Hangzhou and the transfer faction of the reinforcements began to go from debating to scolding each other and then exposing each other's old background of the other party and the flag and Niu Lu where the other party was. It's just that it hasn't developed to the level of martial arts, and it was stopped by Yue Le, who really couldn't stand it. Arguments always have to have a result. However, the Manchurians were scarce, and the Eight Banners of the Mongol and Han armies were also slaves of Shunzhi, and Yue Le couldn't decide for a while. However, the reinforcements are stronger, and no matter how you look at it, they have the upper hand.

The meeting lasted for an afternoon and did not come to a result, and at dinner, all the generals were angry, only Xiao Qiyuan, a local minister, should eat and drink. If it sounds good, it is calm, and if it doesn't sound good, it is a broken jar, anyway, no one cares that he doesn't have many soldiers in his hands, and even the scope of his jurisdiction is equivalent to that of the over-the-top governor of Hangjiahu Soldiers.

If things go on like this, it is estimated that it will be settled tomorrow, but the next development is far beyond everyone's expectations.

In the evening, the old ladies and daughters-in-law of the Manchurian and Mengbaqi in the city, especially the aunts and grandmothers of the bannermen, came out of each household one after another, crying and screaming to find Yibai to find out if they were going to throw them to the Ming army, and even Yibai had nothing to say, because there was a bannerman aunt and grandmother who happened to be the cousin of his little daughter-in-law's aunt, and a cousin of this relative was now in the palace, and it was said that she was very talkable to the queen mother.

How could he remember such a distant relative, but relatives are relatives, and an elder pointed his nose and asked, Rao is he is not young, and he really has no face to take out the theory of sacrificing these women and children to protect more slaves for the emperor at the meeting.

The Han people pay attention to three obedience and four virtues, so this "women's movement" does not have the participation of women in the Han Army Banner, but there are too many aunts and grandmothers of the bannermen, which is the most feared group of the children of the Eight Banners.

Because according to the customs of the Manchurians, men are "hands-off shopkeepers", and "they don't help the oil bottle when it is poured". Things outside the house are all handled by these "aunts", who have a high status in the family. "The third generation who has not gone out", even if he goes out and becomes an "outdated aunt and grandmother", when he returns to his parents' house, he can instruct his sister-in-law to be the same as the third grandson, Lao She's "Under the Red Flag" has some such descriptions. What's more, there are also draft girls who enter the palace and become masters, which is a shortcut to becoming winners in life, which makes their status in the family not as good as that of the Han family's daughters.

In the end, the Manchurian customs and the intertwined kinship of the Eight Banners succeeded in defeating the "right-leaning escapist" elements led by Ibai. At the meeting that night, the Converts faction was "forced by the pressure of public opinion" and kept silent, and it completely became a stage for the Diehards. It's just that this insistence also has to be divided, whether to defend the city to the death, or to divide the troops and think that it is a horn, or to take advantage of the fact that the Ming army has not yet converged to defeat all the way, there must be a way to hold on.

"It is absolutely impossible to defend the city, the artillery of the Zhejiang bandits can even collapse the fortress of Guangxin Mansion and the fortified city of Ganzhou, and the city wall of Hangzhou will not be able to withstand a few hits."

The defense of the fortress is against the sky, and with the Qing army several times under the fortress city of Anhua Town, Chen Wen had to temporarily withdraw the army in the face of the fortress of Guangxin Mansion after breaking through the four provincial capitals, which has long been the consensus of the world. And the fortified city of Ganzhou was also forged by the failure of Jin Shengheng and Li Chengdong. However, in front of the Ming army of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Zhejiang, these are like paper paste, and the confidence in sticking to Hangzhou is naturally much smaller.

"It's useless to divide the troops into another village, first bombard the village with artillery, and then attack the city, change the soup and not the medicine."

In that case, the rest is a way out of the city and a field battle.

"That's right, our Eight Banners Army is unparalleled in cavalry and shooting, and defending the city is not what we do, we should attack as soon as possible now, defeat the Zhejiang bandits all the way, and the rest will be easy to do."

The two Ming armies, which way to fight seems to be a problem, but in fact it is not a difficult problem, and the answer is self-evident.