Eight days later, the Qing army re-undertook a swearing-in ceremony, boosting morale with the promise of excessive rewards and post-war plunder.

At this moment, the Qing army attacking Zhoushan, led by the Pingnan general Gushan Ezhen Jinli, began to board the ship and was just waiting to set sail.

At the same time, on the other side of the Zhoushan Strait, the city of Zhoushan in the Zhoushan archipelago.

According to the information obtained, as well as Chen Wen's deduction, the imperial court of Lu Jianguo finally decided to use the Marquis of Danghu Ruan Jin to lead the water division to guard the sea area from Dinghai to Zhoushan; The three battalions led by Anyang General Liu Shixun, Governor Zhang Mingyang, and Zhongzhen General Ma Tai were responsible for the defense of Zhoushan City in conjunction with Minyong.

The reason why this is so is more because of the fact that the Qing army's naval division is not as good as the Ming army's, and the Ming army has famous generals like Danghu Hou Ruan Jin, so it should be difficult for the Qing army to make a difference.

Just like Zhang Mingzhen once said when he played the right game, "Jiaoguan is dangerous, and the armies on the sea are familiar with the wind letters, which are enough to be far apart, and they must not cross suddenly." It was precisely because of these considerations that only three battalions of troops were left behind to defend the all-important Zhoushan City.

Unlike the previous period of history, because Chen Wen and Yu Guowang said that they would conduct a diversion operation against the Qing army on the southern front, they finally decided to use Zhang Mingzhen, the Marquis of Dingxi, who originally held the southern front, to lead most of the rest of the naval division to the north to meet Wu Song's naval division; Zhang Huangyan, who was originally in charge of the northern front, and Ruan Jun, the son of Ruan Jin, led a small number of naval divisions to the south to monitor the movements of the Qing army in Jinhua, Taizhou, and Wenzhou, which were led by Ma Jinbao, the president of the southern line of the Qing army.

Since the Qing army planned to attack Zhoushan today, the Ming army on the northern front, which was personally commanded by Lu Jianguo, and the Ming army on the southern front, which was responsible for surveillance, were ready to set sail.

At this moment, in the port outside Zhoushan City, Lu Jianguo read out the sacrifice to the sea god surrounded by the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty.

"To the ninth grandson of Emperor Gao of the Ming Dynasty. Since Gaozu expelled Hu Yuan, laid Ning Fangxia, and Huairou Baishen. All the gods of rivers and rivers are worshipped. And God is the most respected and big in the water, and the spring and autumn fate is where there is a priest to sacrifice but to be cautious, covering three hundred years in here! God will not forget! The ugly captives of the near are rampant, and they live in the capital, and they don't know whether they have sacrificed or not? If the sacrifice is listed and the one who worships the lower is the one who has the left hair, the one who knows the gods will rise up in anger and spit it out and not enjoy it. ”

"To the uprising in eastern Zhejiang, with the courage of the seven years, and two years parked here, the wind does not raise waves, the rain can moisten the soil, treasure the wrong things, all out of the fresh, and know that the gods do not forget Mingde, Yu Shi is blessed also. Today's righteous brigade is like a forest, the Central Plains responds, and should lead the civil and military generals, swear to sail, and plan for great things. After the departure, the sun and the moon are bright, the stars are rotten, the wind and rain are thin, the water waves are not alarmed, the yellow dragon is meandering, the purple gas is thick, and the sky is working together, and the left and right are concentric. The success is determined, and the spirit of the seal is the god and eats the fragrance of my Ming in the eternal world. ”

"Today is the beginning, and it is revealed."

This sacrificial text was written by Zhang Huangyan, and was later included in the "Zhang Cangshui Collection". Sacrificing to the god of the sea is nothing more than wanting to gain the protection of the gods and at the same time boost the morale of the lower army. After boosting morale, Lu Jianguo boarded the ship with Zhang Mingzhen and the Ming soldiers who were facing the Qing army on the northern front. But at this moment, Zhang Mingzhen stepped forward to admonish.

"The minister's mother is already old, and she doesn't dare to leave easily, I'm afraid that the soldiers will be cold? Heart, the Lord Governor led the six divisions, wearing armor, it can be said that it is passable, how can the son of the world leave easily? Otherwise, the people will have resentment. ”

Lu Jianguo's original intention was to lead the prince to see the battle array, but this battle was a matter of life and death, if Lu Jianguo and the prince were not there, the Zhoushan army would be uneasy. Seeing this, Lu Jianguo, who has always been "good as a stream", had to give up this idea. In this way, the son of Lu Jianguo stayed in Zhoushan City together with Lu Jianguo, the Chinese courtiers, and the families of the military generals who accompanied the army.

The Ming armies on both the north and south lines had set sail, and Ruan Jin, the Marquis of Danghu, who was responsible for defending the coast of Zhoushan, continued to wait for the movement of the Qing army on the other side of the strait. At this time, hundreds of miles away, Taizhou Prefecture ruled Linhai County, but it was a different scene.

Since Chen Wen and Yu Guowang captured the county seat of Tiantai, the Ming army in the entire Taizhou was like a stimulant, whether it was receiving Yu Guowang's letter, or the Qing army that had not received it at all, they went down the mountain to attack various places.

The Ming army of Tiantai Mountain has been in trouble for a long time, but it has not captured the county seat like the Ming army of Siming Mountain. This time, with the help of Chen Wen, Yu Guowang took the county seat of Tiantai that had been brought back two years ago, which greatly boosted the morale of the Ming army in various departments in Taizhou. For a time, the entire Tiantai County instantly became a sea of Ming troops, and many other counties also had Qing troops or county towns attacked by the Ming army, and the entire Taizhou Mansion was instantly in chaos.

After Yu Guowang separated from Chen Wen, his strength rose rapidly after taking advantage of Tiantai County's warehousing inventory and collecting a tax. It's just that he didn't stay in Tiantai County for long, and he entered Sanmen County before the news of the fall of Tiantai County spread, and captured the county seat of Sanmen County with the help of Neiying arranged by Jintang before.

According to his previous discussion with Chen Wen, no matter whether Yu Guowang captured Sanmen County or not, he must make preparations to besiege Linhai County, in order to contain the Qing army on the southern front so that he would not dare to act rashly at the risk of being cut off from the back road. At this time, Yu Guowang and several other Ming troops had arrived in Linhai County for several days, and they always made a posture of waiting for more Ming troops to arrive.

At the head of Linhai County, Taizhou General Soldier Ma Xin and Jinhua General Soldier Ma Jinbao stood side by side, looking at the direction of the Ming Army Company Camp on Tiantai Mountain in the distance. It's just that although the two are standing side by side, the atmosphere between them is not so harmonious.

"This place is the place where the people are in charge of suppressing the army under the orders of the imperial court, is it not possible to allow thieves to spread wild on their heads like this?"

Ma Jinbao, who had a Shanxi accent, opened his mouth with this mocking remark, which instantly attracted the angry eyes of the generals beside Ma Xin. It's just that Ma Xin doesn't seem to care about this.

Ma Xin is a native of Chang'an, Shaanxi, Chongzhen Dynasty was the chief military officer of a town in Taizhou, and the Qing army chose to surrender to the Qing Dynasty after going south, but the Qing court never considered letting it move its defense.

The reason is, on the one hand, that due to its geographical location and topography, this Taizhou has never been the key to the contention between the two armies of the Ming and Qing dynasties; On the other hand, although most of Ma Xin's subordinates were local people in Taizhou, they had been in Taizhou for a long time, and if he rashly changed his guard and caused him to take refuge in the prestigious Lu Jian State in Zhejiang, then the Manchu rule in Zhejiang would not be so stable.

Ma Xinqi fought bravely and fearlessly, and was quite insightful in the details of his troops, as evidenced by the fact that he used archers to defeat the Dutch with rifles ten years later.

In contrast, Ma Jinbao was a native of Xi County, Shanxi, and was the deputy general of Anqing during the Hongguang Dynasty, and later relied on the merits of recruiting Zhang Liang, the governor of Anlu Chitai, Yang Zhenzong, the chief soldier, and Li Zichun, the deputy general, and the more than 10,000 soldiers under his command. After that, Boluo, the prince of Duanzhong, went south and captured Jinhua Mansion, and he had a share in the slaughter of the city.

When Boluo returned to the north, he left him as the chief military officer of Quzhou Town, responsible for the defense of the four prefectures of Jinhua, Quzhou, Yanzhou and Chuzhou. Until the third year of Yongli, Ma Jinbao was transferred from the Quzhou General Army to the Jinhua General Army, but he was only transferred to the Zhizhi Office, and he was still in charge of the defense of these four prefectures, so as to facilitate his suppression of Yin Can and Zhou Qingui's Baitou Army uprising, which can be regarded as an old acquaintance of Sun Yu and Wu Dengke and others.

In history, Qian Qianyi had persuaded him many times through personal friendships to do it anyway, but he never succeeded. Until the thirteenth year of Yongli, Zheng Chenggong made a northern expedition to Nanjing, and he made great progress along the way, and he had the posture of sweeping away the bloody Jiangnan River. Ma Jinbao, who had been ordered by the Qing court to change his name to Ma Fengzhi, said that he would wait for Zheng Chenggong to capture Nanjing before publicly stating that he was right. It's just that it was because of this rat head that he was executed by the Qing court a year later in the name of Tonghai.

Although both of them are surnamed Ma, and they are both from the northwest of Zhejiang, and even the defense areas are bordering each other, the relationship between the two is not harmonious.

Previously, when Ma Xin's subordinate garrison Xu Shouxian participated in the encirclement and suppression of Jinhua Dongyongshan, he was executed by the Qing court because Ma Jinbao sued him for privately getting out of the way, causing the local Ming army leader Xu Shouping to flee. But thinking of Xu Shouxian's performance when he defeated Yu Guowang in the third year of Yongli and then defended Tiantai County, it is not easy to say what the truth is.

Ma Jinbao, as the chief soldier who led the military affairs of the four prefectures, was already higher in identity than Ma Xin, the chief soldier who was only responsible for governing Taizhou. This time, as the president of the southern front, he was ordered to lead the headquarters and the sailors of Taizhou and Wenzhou to the north to participate in the siege of Zhoushan, but when he set off, the Linhai county seat governed by Taizhou was attacked by the Ming army.

In this way, the great achievement is in front of him, but Ma Jinbao is stranded here because the back road may be cut off at any time, so naturally he will not have a good face with Ma Xin.

"Your Excellency has just arrived, and I don't know that this group of Tiantai Mountain thieves didn't know where they learned a new set of formations, and it is not easy to break from the bottom view. There are not many artillery in the headquarters, so I am going to unload the guns on the warship and bombard the bandit battle formation when the battle is about to fight, and as long as the formation is broken, it can be completely annihilated in one fell swoop. ”

Ma Xin's remarks were not perfunctory, but the result of his observations over the past few days. It's just that he doesn't take Ma Jinbao seriously at all, but in Ma Jinbao's eyes, he is extremely angry.

"The artillery on the warship is the weapon of the sailor, and it is for the purpose of attacking Zhoushan, and it has no right to move. The thieves in Tiantai Mountain and the town standard camp in Taizhou are not opponents, aren't they afraid that the officials and generals of other provinces will laugh at no one in Zhejiang? ”

Although Ma Jinbao is higher than Ma Xin in status, he is also the chief soldier, and Ma Xin is not his subordinate, so Ma Jinbao has no right to command Ma Xin. Participation after the war was inevitable, but at the moment he could only provoke him with words, prompting Ma Xinshuai's army to attack.

It's just that Ma Jinbao has been a powerful person in Jinhua for a long time, and he has always been arrogant, and now his intentions are no more obvious, how can Ma Xin not see it?

"If you don't use artillery, you don't dare to be sure of the battle with your dignified formation. If you think that we will be ridiculed for guarding the city, then it is better for you to lead the brothers of Jinhua Town to fight, and you are willing to help. ”

"You!"

After staring at Ma Xin for a moment, Ma Jinbao replied with a sneer on his face: "Since you know that you have no ability to be a general, then this town will teach the sons and daughters of Taizhou how to use soldiers!" ”