The Ming army's strategy against Yongfeng County, Guangxin Prefecture was extremely smooth, and even when the outpost cavalry of the Ming army approached the city, the civilian officials and defenders in the city surrendered one after another, and they did not dare to have the slightest resistance. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

After the capture of Yongfeng County, Chen Wen formed an alliance with Zhang Zisheng, the uncle of Pingjiang, and Zhang Zisheng had no objection to the confluence.

Since they were able to get out of the encirclement of the Qing army last year, it was to take advantage of the momentum of Chen Wen's rise in southwest Zhejiang, and the Qing army in Jiangxi has never had time to encircle and suppress their Ming army forces, which are not extensive and dangerous, and the reason is also that Chen Wen's pressure on the Qing army is too great, and most of the Qing army can no longer take care of their small-scale anti-Qing forces. He doesn't know much about other places, but in Jiangxi, he counts one, Yang Wen of Jiuxian Mountain, which is not far away, and even the Yunxiao Mountain Anti-Qing Righteous Army in western Jiangxi has more or less stained with the light of the Zhejiang Ming Army in the past two years.

But now, although Hong Chengchou's four provincial capitals have failed, the Qing army's strength in Jiangxi is unprecedentedly strong, and it is likely to be further strengthened in the future. With Hong Chengchou's prestige and the background of these armies that he had inquired about, even if he wanted to remain on the defensive for the time being, it was impossible to let these small forces that had the ability to create some momentum continue to exist.

Rather than fleeing to Zhejiang and seeking refuge at that time, it is better to negotiate the matter of confluence while the strength in hand is not damaged.

Zhang Zisheng's joining is a very good thing for Chen Wen, this army has more than 10,000 people, although the vast majority of them are old and weak, women and children, but there are also two or three thousand men. Among them, many of them were scholars from Jiangxi, and they could be used to strengthen the rule of the occupied areas and the vacancies of officers, military judges, and staff officers in various ministries. And those ordinary men, according to the selection standards of the Zhejiang Ming Army, more than 1,000 people can still be selected.

Most of these soldiers were veterans of the Qing army for many years and had a lot of combat experience, but some of them had to be corrected. However, in this regard, Chen Wen has also expressed his plan to break up and reorganize with Zhang Zisheng, Zhang Zisheng has no objections, and does not regard this armed force as his own private property at all, and even shows a certain degree of expectation for becoming Chen Wen's general.

Zhang Zisheng was the first anti-Qing rebel army to take the initiative to serve, Chen Wen naturally would not treat him badly, according to the plan, a war battalion would be formed to be commanded by this Pingjiang Bo, but it would not be until he completed his studies in the martial arts school.

In contrast, although Yang Wen of Jiuxian Mountain was also in the boundary of Yongfeng County, he was opposed to joining the Ming army in Zhejiang, and even Zhang Zisheng failed to persuade him through the relationship of Zhou Tianji, a staff member of Huang Daozhou. just politely expressed his admiration for Chen Wen's great martial arts, and the rest was not to be talked about. However, Zhou Tianji came to explain the situation to Chen Wen.

At that time, the leader of the Ming army on Jiuxian Mountain was Huang Kuiyu, the general of Zhan Zhaoheng, Yang Wen bullied him a lot after going up the mountain, "he returned to the poor and embarrassed, and the slaves treated him, and lewd his family" The impact was very bad, and it was completely a posture of occupying the mountain as the king, but it lost the original intention of resisting the Qing Dynasty. As a result, Zhou Tianji and Yang Wen conspired to kill him, and Yang Wen took the position of the head of the rebel army of the Nine Immortals Mountain.

This person has always had a suspicious attitude towards the Ming army because of Huang Kuiyu's incident, and the camp, castle, and plank road of Jiuxian Mountain have been completed, and the terrain is steep, and there is a name of "one husband is a pass, and ten thousand people are not allowed to enter", so that it is not so uneasy. The original alliance with Zhang Zisheng was just a reinforcement to prevent being surrounded by the Qing army, but it was also a difficult thing to lead the people to join the Ming army.

According to Zhang Zisheng's understanding, the leaders of the Jiuxian Mountain Righteous Army are Yang Wen and Yang Wu brothers, and there are also Zhou Tianji, a staff member of Huang Daozhou, and Xu Jingshi, a local eunuch in Guangxin Mansion, as the mastermind and presiding over the affairs, with 9,000 people.

In fact, if it weren't for the appearance of Chen Wen, the Jiuxian Mountain Righteous Army began to mobilize some mobile troops in Zhejiang, Jiangxi and Fujian provinces in the sixth year of Yongli in history to besiege the group, but it took two years without capturing, and finally because of an accident that led to the death of Yang Wen, the Qing army took advantage of "the cottage has no owner, and the ants have descended" to pacify the Jiuxian Mountain Anti-Qing Righteous Army.

For this anti-Qing rebel army, Chen Wen does not intend to force it, at least for the time being. It's one thing to have a twisted melon that isn't sweet, this time he smashed Hong Chengchou's four provincial capitals, in fact, his own internal injuries are also very light, and it always takes some time to heal the injuries and digest the fruits of victory, how can he have the time and energy to pay attention to this kind of unwilling and unwilling forces.

Ten days later, covering the Ming army under Zhang Zisheng, Chen Wen led the main force of the Zhejiang Ming army back to Quzhou, but left the Shentang camp in Yushan County to end the attack on Jiangxi.

At the same time as the Ming army withdrew, the Qing army on the Eastern Front, which had always served as a foil and did not even have a sense of existence, also completed this camping activity aimed at consuming the limited storage of Taizhou and Wenzhou, and withdrew from the boundary of the state capital to Taizhou and Wenzhou. As for Qingtian County, it will continue to be guarded by the remnants of the Green Battalion in Chuzhou, anyway, they are going to take the troops home to escape the summer.

Retreat to the boundary of Wenzhou without danger, Ma Xin led the army back to Taizhou, this time the Ming army was huge, Taizhou has been empty for a long time, nine times out of ten will jump out of some anti-Qing rebels, it is very unfavorable to the stability of the place, and it is necessary to return immediately to deter the place.

After saying goodbye to Wenzhou deputy general Hu Laijing, Ma Xin set off to return, with the deepening of friendship, from Hu Laiji's tone, Ma Xin knew very well that this colleague seemed to be a little dissatisfied with this sit-in, but once he thought of the rumors that the eight banners of the Han army could not defeat the Ming army in Zhejiang and the personal experience of the battle of Shentangyuan, he did not dare to come up with anything else.

This dissatisfaction in Ma Xin's thinking was probably due to the worry that he had not made a meritorious service, but he only comforted them, saying that this battle had nothing to do with them, and as long as the matter of the state fortress was reported, it would be fine. After all, the elite of Zhejiang Green Camp like Tian Xiong and Zhang Jie can't do anything, and Jin Li didn't have any tricks at the beginning, so no one can say that they are not on this.

On the way back to Taizhou, Ma Xin can be said to have a lot of thoughts, from the beginning of the Qing Dynasty to today, there have been several years, the original Zhejiang Ming army headed by Lu Jianguo He is not unseen, the internal battles are too frequent, fierce, not a force that can succeed at all.

Originally, he thought that the situation in the southeast would depend on the ability of Zheng Chenggong in Fujian, but now it seems that Chen Wen in western Zhejiang has more energy to play a role in turning over the rain in the southeast. Especially in this battle, the Manchus lost so many Eight Banners Army, even if it was only the Eight Banners of the Han Army, but it was enough to make the Manchus suffer a lot of trauma.

"I finally see this day, but I can't be too anxious, I have to see everything clearly before making a decision......"

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Throughout the month of June, the Manchu officialdom in the southeast was silent, but the Jinluan Hall in Beijing was bustling with activity, and almost every day some new jokes were transmitted to the market through the intricate network of relatives of the Eight Banners of Manchuria.

The four provincial capitals failed, the Eight Banners of the Han Army were almost wiped out, and there were only more than 1,000 people who successfully escaped back to Hangzhou, all of whom were officers with horses, Goshha and cavalry, and the main force of the Qing army led by Li Benshen was not much better, and he escaped back to Guangxin Mansion by luck, relying on the foreign gadgets that Hong Chengchou learned from the Jesuits in Beijing to barely block Chen Wen's troops, which was really embarrassing.

Shi Tingzhu died, and a first-class Jingqi Nihafan, the Han army's red flag Gushan Ezhen was beheaded in public by the Ming army under the city of Guangxin Mansion, and when this report was sent to the city of Beijing, even those Manchu magnates were dumbfounded. And when the report describing the details of the decisive battle was sent to Shunzhi's imperial case, the Manchu Dynasty was full of condemnation of Hong Chengchou and Liu Zhiyuan.

Hong Chengchou has no problem in planning, under normal circumstances, this level of calculation will almost be a complete victory, but this time the Ming army encountered this time is really unreasonably tight, so that such a calculation was finally completely pulled back by the Ming army through field battles. In fact, it can be said that Hong Chengchou and Liu Zhiyuan have done their best, but what the Manchu magnates saw was only a fiasco, so someone must be responsible for this, Liu Zhiyuan can be regarded as a mistake, and Hong Chengchou is completely underestimated from the point of planning, and not severely punished is not enough for future generations.

It's just that the final decision on this matter is still in the hands of Shunzhi, especially after Shunzhi returned to the harem and discussed with the Empress Dowager Bumu Butai, he immediately vetoed all the impeachments against Hong Chengchou, and ordered the arrest of the Pingnan general Han Jun with the red flag Gushan Ezhen Liu Zhiyuan's family.

There is no other reason, those noble kings when the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs have almost died, and no one among the civil and military generals can compare with Hong Chengchou in terms of ability. Now Hong Chengchou can barely hold the front, if he changes others, he is afraid that the next eight-hundred-mile expedited order they receive will be Chen Wen sweeping Jiangnan.

In this case, Liu Zhiyuan can only be used as this scapegoat. In fact, this is already the second Pingnan general to be imprisoned this year, who will take over the Eight Banners of the Hangzhou Garrison, and how to complete the Eight Banners of the Hangzhou Garrison, these courts and China still need to continue to discuss and weigh, but the people in Beijing are not concerned about this.

"The younger brother heard that it was the queen mother who begged the emperor to spare Hong Chengchou, it seems that there is still something unclear between them, it is said that when Hong Chengchou returned to the Qing Dynasty, it was the queen mother who accompanied him for a night before making a decision."

The horns of the city were dark, and the two brothers with different surnames in the hut were together, and they were talking about the jokes that they had popped out of the master's mouth, whether true or false, but the voice was as thin as a mosquito, as if they were afraid that others would hear it. The Bao Yi who heard this knew that the son of his brother's master's aunt was in the Four Banners of the Left Wing of Jiangning, Jiangnan, and he was far more informed about Jiangnan than him, but he also knew some things.

"It's hard to say, but these words are also out of the mouth of a virtuous brother and into the ears of a foolish brother, and that's it, don't spread it out, this is a big crime of raiding the family and exterminating the clan."

"It's nature."

"Actually, Brother Fool has also heard about it, saying that the artillery of the Ming army smashed all the joint camps on the opposite side across the Qujiang River, and it was more than ten miles of land with one shot, which is amazing."

"The younger brother has also heard of it, but it is that the Hou Ye of the Explanation Army knows the demon method, and he is still doing it in front of the two armies, and his soldiers are invulnerable after receiving the spell, and those Eight Banners of the Han Army are defeated in this way. It is said that not only this Hou Yehui, surnamed Chen, but several generals under his command will ......"

For these nonsense in the Eight Banners and the market, the magnates above are not completely ignorant, and even some of them come from their mouths, and even some powerful and civilian officials who know the soldiers think that Chen Wen actually used the Yangmen Array to smash the Qing army camp across the Qujiang River, which is not a big deal.

There was a lot of discussion among the people, but now no one in the Manchu court has the strength to pay attention to this.

One day in late June, the Minister of Parliament, Shi Ning Wan of the University of the National History of the Inner Hanlin Academy, impeached the secretary of the Ministry of Justice, and Chen Mingxia, a member of the Inner Hanlin Academy of Secretaries, said that his people claimed that "as long as you keep your hair and redress your clothes, the world will be peaceful."

As a representative of the southerners in the Manchu court, Chen Mingxia had countless political enemies in the court, such as the university scholars Feng Quan and Liu Zhengzong, who competed for impeachment.

Immediately afterwards, one of Chen Mingxia's servants who was kicked out of the house reported that Chen Mingxia had secretly met a suspicious young man at home in the seventh year of Shunzhi, and the house slave vaguely heard the young man call Chen Mingxia as his uncle, and mentioned in his words that he went south to join the army, and he was also kicked out of the house because Chen Mingxia suspected that he might have heard this.

One stone stirred up a thousand waves, and almost all of a sudden, even the previous Governor of Shandong and Henan, Ma Guanghui, investigated Chen Wen's origin to no avail. Liu Zhengzong, a scholar, said that a thorough investigation should be carried out to determine whether there was a clansman named Chen Wen in the Chen Mingxia family, or a clansman with a pseudonym Chen Wen, who went south to defect to the Ming army, and some people in the court and the central government even believed that Chen Mingxia's clansmen should not only be thoroughly investigated, but also other Han officials surnamed Chen in high positions in the DPRK and the central government, because they had access to the military secrets of Jin Li and Tian Xiong in the four years of Yongli to encircle and suppress Siming Mountain, among which Chen Zhixuan, a household secretary from Haining County, Jiaxing Prefecture, Zhejiang, was a suspicious object......

The party struggle between the north and the south has intensified, and the vigorous "Tongzhejiang case" has officially kicked off, and the Manchu and Qing dynasties have become a mess. However, at the end of June, Shunzhi still received a good news, that is, Chen Wen's general Chen Guobao led 20,000 Zhejiang Ming troops to capture Yanzhou Mansion, and then went north along the Fuchun River, blocked by Xincheng and Fuyang, and fought hard for half a month without success, and was forced to withdraw, and the southeast Qing army finally blocked the final blow of the Zhejiang Ming army in the first half of the year.

In fact, the 20,000 troops that Xiao Qiyuan, Tian Xiong, and Meler Zhangjing and Wu Ruyu insisted on were just the Pujiang battalion of the Ming army in Zhejiang, and after being ordered to recover Yanzhou Mansion, they went to Hangzhou to try out, but they were intercepted by Zhejiang Biao, Fubiao, the remnants of the Eight Banners garrisoned in Hangzhou, and Su Song and Su Song Zhenbiao of the Jiangnan Green Battalion.

It's just that due to the southward movement of Jiangnan Green Camp to aid Zhejiang, dozens of men from Suzhou and Songjiang gathered in a Zhuangzi on the shore of Mao Lake, and the person at the head was Yu Shizhong's former colleague Qian Yingkui.

"Brother Yu has already gone south to Jinhua more than a year ago, Marquis An Yuan knows about us fighting the Tartars here, and now Marquis An Yuan has defeated the Eight Banners Army, and we must not be left behind.

"Brother Qian, just say it, everyone will listen to you what you do!"

Seeing that others had no objections, Qian Yingkui said loudly to everyone: "Suzhou and Songjiang are connected by many lakes and rivers such as Dianshan Lake and Yangcheng Lake. Just do this thing of killing Tartars, so that the whole world will see the courage of our Su Song boy! ”

"That's it!"

"Everyone, just wait for this sentence, kill the Tartars!"

"Long live the Ming Dynasty, long live the emperor, and the Marquis of Anyuan is mighty!"

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Half a month later, Qian Yingkui, the leader of the Songjiang Anti-Qing Rebellion, called himself General Pingnan and raised troops against the Qing. Although it was two years earlier than in history, the situation in the southeast had changed greatly, and Qian Yingkui contacted a large number of men who were interested in resisting the Qing army at the beginning of the army, and the momentum spread almost instantly in Susong and Songfu. Almost overnight, the Manchu Qing Dynasty was in the most critical area south of the Yangtze River.

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"Ming Ji Nanluo * Zhejiang Ji (continued)"

Xinhai Ji Dong Yi You, Wuxi Ji Liuqi inscribed in the Qingzhou Mansion

Cao Conglong's Rebellion

In the fifth year of the Yongli calendar of the Ming Dynasty, Cao Conglong, the squire of the military department, was appointed to patrol Zhejiang. At that time, there were tens of thousands of troops in Zhejiang, and the king's division was only a house in Jinhua, and the soldiers were only 7,000.

Shen Chenquan, the head of the cabinet from Longyin, instigated the king of Zhejiang to enter Taizhou in the east. However, Jinhua is located in the west of Zhejiang, with Hangzhou in the north and Quzhou in the west. Conglong's plan was unsuccessful, and when Wang Shixi attacked and broke the capture of Chen Jin, the governor of Zhejiang and Fujian, he brazenly rebelled in Jinhua's Jieluo Chengyan Baitou Army, so that Wang Shi was forced to give up the siege and return to the division to quell the chaos.

The army returned to the division, and the handsome horse entered Baoling later than Wucheng, and everyone praised it. From the dragon did not think about his own faults, he was not willing to bind, released the captives, conspired with Liu Cheng to reinstate the rebellion, and the king was defeated again and placed under house arrest in the city.

On the twenty-ninth day of the sixth year of the Yongli calendar, Shentangyuan won a great victory, Chen Jin died, Quzhou was recovered, and Li Dingguo's two famous kings were successively spread throughout Zhejiang.

Or said: If there is no such chaos, it is not difficult for Wang Shiguang to recover Jiangxi, and if he goes downstream, Nanjing can be restored, which is a pity.

Four provincial capitals

In April of the seventh year of the Yongli calendar of the Ming Dynasty, Hong Chengchou was captured as the southeast strategy, and the army of the four provinces was assembled to encircle and suppress the Zhejiang Wang Division. Hong was full of cunning, and Wang Shi was in trouble between Jin Qu......

In May, the Qiantang Sailor broke into Lanxi, and the commander Gushan Ezhen Shi Tingzhu and Liu Zhiyuan raided Jinhua, and led by Liu Guangbizhi, the culprit of Jinhua's slaughter, broke through the southwest of the city wall. Yin Yue, the general soldier of Jinhua, held on to the night with two percent of the troops of the capture division, and the Wang division rushed more than 100 miles to return to the reinforcements in one night, arrived at dawn, broke through the first battle, pursued and killed dozens of miles, and captured more than 6,000.

Chen Wen once said: Therefore, Qi Shaobao once ran more than 100 miles in Taizhou Mansion City to defeat the Japanese Invaders, and now Wang Shi also ran more than 100 miles in one night, defeated the Eight Banners of the Han Army, and finally lived up to his predecessors.

Before half a month, Wang Shi returned to Quzhou and defeated the 60,000 troops of Li Benshen, pursued for more than 200 miles, captured more than 40,000, and returned to Guangxin City. Li Ruixin, the general soldier of Quzhou, defeated the Fujian Green Camp again north of Xianxia Pass, Yang Minggao, Wang Zhigang, and Ma Degong abandoned the army and fled.

(Volume 4, Mountain Fires, End) (To be continued.) )