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After fleeing to Suzhou, Gao Jin quickly took a sea boat from Songjiang to the mouth of the Yellow River [the Yellow River had not been diverted in this era], and then traveled all the way to Huai'an. As for the land of southern Jiangsu, there is Jiangning General Rong Bao, who also serves as the governor of Caoyun, and is more suitable to come to northern Jiangsu to supervise the war.

After the dripping plum rain made it impossible for the two sides to send a large army, Nantong Prefecture, Haimen Hall and other state capitals were swept away by Huang Jie's troops, and a large number of prefectures and counties were in a state of anarchy, so it can be said that every day of delay, the influence and control of the Manchu Qing in the local area weakened by one day. The greater the impact on local people's livelihood and social order. In these days, the surface fleet of the Fu Han army recruited 2,000 sailors and sailors alone, most of whom were unemployed sailors and boatmen from northern Jiangsu.

The Fu Han army was nailed to Gaoyou Prefecture, and Huai'an City had piled up five or six thousand Shandong Green Battalions and one or two thousand Northern Jiangsu Green Battalions and Caoding Militia Regiments, but they could only stay in the city and did not dare to attack, which led to the weakening of the prestige of the Qing court and its control over local people's livelihood and politics.

Of course, in this regard, the Qing troops in Huai'an City were full of eloquence: "Who let the Fu Han army arrange too many cannons inside and outside Gaoyou Prefecture?" The cannons to be sent in the capital are not in place, so how can they fight with the Fu Han army? The latter arranged sixty or seventy artillery pieces of various sizes in and outside the city of Gaoyouzhou, not including flying thunder cannons. With such firepower, with sufficient ammunition, the Qing army would have 100,000 people to attack the city, and there would be no good fruit to eat.

"Degong, Chen Wei is still collecting copper, iron, tin, and lead......" Gao Jin's henchmen and staff hurriedly arrived with the newly arrived detailed diction.

In return, Chen Rui searched all the temples in Jiangning, Yangzhou and other places, exchanged gold and silver for bronze, what bronze Buddha, copper bells, copper incense burners, etc., all pulled back to the inner city. Also purchased tin, lead, and iron material at a high price......"

The Fu Han Army recruited the disabled and deaf-mute along the way, especially the able-bodied deaf-mute. Originally, it was rumored that Chen Ming used the blood sacrifice of these deaf and mute people in the Jiangnan region to bless the Fu Han army with victory in a hundred battles. Of course, it was Chi Guoguo's slander, and Gao Jin didn't think it was true when he heard it. With the opening of the shipyard and gun sub-bureau of the Fu Han army in Jiujiang, with the opening of the second gun sub-bureau in Nanjing, and with the increasing number of cannons in the Fu Han army, the role of those disabled and deaf-mute was gradually revealed. It turned out that the Fu Han army was using them as gunsmiths!

It's a great idea.

As long as you turn your brain, you can guess why the Fu Han army did this. The guns of the Fu Han army are sharp, and the method of casting and manufacturing must be innovated, and of course the Chen family will not let this secret leak out, and they will do their best to keep the secret. In this regard, the deaf-mute with disabilities are clearly more trustworthy than the healthy. Because they were originally the most discriminated people at the bottom of the whole society, and now they are supported by the Fu Han Army's good food and drink, their loyalty to the Fu Han Army is much higher than that of healthy people, and with loyalty, they will naturally not leak the secrets of the Fu Han Army.

An even more vicious speculation is that once the Fu Han army is in decline, it will be easier for them to deal with than healthy people.

Since the capture of Nanjing, Chen Ming opened a gun bureau in the city, in addition to wantonly recruiting the disabled and deaf-mute into it, another very obvious method is to collect copper and iron, as much as possible to collect copper and iron. After the reserves of gunpowder were guaranteed, if we wanted to greatly improve the existing combat effectiveness of the Fu Han army, it would of course rely on artillery.

The artillery battalions in the army changed from one at the beginning, to two, and then to four. The artillery has also expanded from 30 at the beginning to more than 200 now, and this is only army artillery. All four artillery battalions have eliminated two-pound guns. The artillery battalion was full of three-pound guns and five-pound guns, and the tiger squat artillery became the standard firepower configuration of the first-level formation.

The most affected by the large-scale expansion of artillery is the cavalry battalion, most of the horses obtained by the Fu Han army from Jiangnan and other places have been added to the artillery battalion, and now the cavalry battalion is still stuck at 900+, less than 1,000 horsemen. It's just that for the Qing soldiers who have suffered the loss of the Fu Han army's artillery, they still see artillery in their eyes.

Unless it is an immortal, no one can conjure up hundreds of cannons empty-handed in Nanjing, and this number is still growing at a relatively fast rate, because the number of cannons at the head of Gaoyouzhou City, as well as the artillery forts outside the city, has been increasing. Gao Jin synthesized all aspects of intelligence and had to come to a conclusion that made him tremble: the artillery of the Fu Han army was cast in the city of Jiangning.

How did they manage to forge a cannon in just a few days?

Gao Jin felt that the top of his head was black.

The officers of the Jiangsu Green Battalion and the Shandong Green Battalion both believed that this was impossible, and firmly believed that it was impossible for the artillery to be built in just a few days. The cannons of the Qing army are all clay molds, and the casting cycle of a cannon is as long as several months, and the yield is worrying. These Green Battalion officers have never eaten pork and have seen pigs run, and they resolutely do not believe Gao Jin's 'speculation'. Then the Qing army's fine work went in and out of Nanjing and Yangzhou and other places, anyway, the Han army did not close the door. Except that the city is a military aircraft center, and idle people cannot approach, the current Nanjing City is no different from before the war. Even some shops and restaurants in Nanjing have opened one after another. As long as the Qing army is brave enough, it is very convenient to travel between the two sides of the Yangtze River and enter and exit the city of Nanjing.

Now all the spearheads are pointing at it, which shows that Gao Jin's previous guess was correct. The Fu Han army is really casting cannons!

Gao Jin's brain hurts, it really hurts, what does he do with the situation in front of him?

He is not good at fighting, but the emperor has already sent a decree to expel the Fu Han army from Jiangbei as soon as possible, and then to transfer Shandong Green Camp to suppress the mixed Yuan bandits. The emperor was very angry at the uprising of the Mixed Yuan Sect, and strictly ordered the provinces of Jiangbei to attack and suppress it for a period of two months. Northern Anhui and northern Jiangsu, these are the jurisdiction of the governor of Liangjiang, and the so-called provinces of Jiangbei are the governors of Liangjiang and the governors of Zhili to work together to suppress them.

This made Gao Jin very sad. Of course, he is not afraid of the rabble-like mixed Yuan sect army, but he has a headache How to beat the Fu Han army back to Jiangnan?

You must know that Gaoyou Prefecture is leaning on Gaoyou Lake, which is a "hanging lake", and the water surface and part of the lake bottom are higher than the ground in the Xiahe area of Yundongli, which threatens flooding in the eastern part of the lake, that is, Gaoyou Prefecture; And Gaoyou Lake is adjacent to the Grand Canal in the east, and the east embankment of the lake is the west embankment of the Grand Canal.

After the Fu Han army attacked Huai'an Buke, it did not fight against the north again. The line of control is not even Baoying, and the line of Ziyinggou is afraid that the Qing army will do something on the embankment of Gaoyou Lake. If the army attacks Huai'an City, the Qing army picks up the east embankment of Gaoyou Lake, the lake floods, and the logistics line of the Fu Han army is gone, and even the retreat is cut off, so does the team still have the heart to fight?

The Qing army was also on guard against this, and the Fu Han army was very strict about the garrison inside and outside Gaoyou, and the Qing army could not afford to pay such a large number of casualties, nor did it have the determination and will to pay huge casualties.

"You go and write an excerpt and show it to me. This matter needs to be reported to the emperor. Gao Jin's voice was full of three points of prostration. Such an excerpt is in front of Qianlong, it is completely Gao Jin's own 'excuse book' for cowardice, even if Qianlong will be shocked by this 'fact', he will definitely be disappointed and dissatisfied with Gao Jin. It was not easy for Gao Jin to make this decision.

But Gao Jin felt that as long as he could save a life, he would be stronger than Dingchang. Anyway, the Gao family is missing, and he has other pillars.

After the staff wrote a note, Gao Jin read it, copied it himself, and handed it to the people to report to Beijing. Then when the whole person returned to the bedroom, he was as if he was seriously ill, and all his strength and spirit were drained away, and his expression was confused.

This is the case with officialdom who have lost their power. Especially the young man Gao Jin was proud, rising steadily, leaning towards one side for decades, and suddenly gave up his official career and rights, and he aged a lot in an instant.

No one in the world knows that on this day, the governor of Liangjiang, the governor of Jiangsu, and the governor of Caoyun, Gao Jin, became a deserter in battle. All eyes of the world are on Xuzhou, which is at the junction of Anhui, Henan, Jiangsu, and Shandong provinces.

Five days ago, the Mixed Yuan Doctrine army blew down the city wall of Suzhou with the method of cave ground, broke through the city of Suzhou, and now the army is directly entering Xuzhou. At this time, Xuzhou City is on the south bank of the Yellow River, and the bent Yellow River water twists a 'several' word here in Xuzhou City, and the place where the 'several' word is in the middle is Xuzhou City. The infantry cavalry mobilized by the Qing army to fight the Henan battlefield also chased behind the rebels, and the horse team of them fought with the rebels early.

Huang Zhenggang still sent 3,000 people to the north when the Anqing Fu Han army marched north into Hefei, as well as the Shandong Green Camp militia on the other side of the Yellow River, and the Henan Qing army killed in the back, the Qing court's purpose was obvious, that is, to exterminate the mixed Yuan Sect army on the side of the Yellow River in one fell swoop.

Gao Pingshan got Chen Ming's order to contain the Qing army in northern Anhui, and he personally raised troops to fight Tongcheng to the north, captured the Lujiang River, and approached Hefei, the capital of Luzhou. However, on this road, the fast-marching Fu Han army did not carry a single cannon, and Gao Pingshan could only be helpless against the Qing army inside and outside the city when he reached the city of Hefei. At least in the short term, he can't beat Hefei.

At present, the Fu Han army in Nanjing and the Qing army on the opposite side are in a temporary 'equilibrium' situation, and the same is true for the Fu Han army in Yangzhou and Gaoyou, and even the Anqing and Yuxi generals' mansions are in a temporary 'equilibrium' situation after deducting all the battles outside the Yuncheng battlefield. In the entire system of the Fu Han army, only the army of Yuncheng and the Chen Yongsheng department of Jiujiang were still in a fierce battle with the Qing army at this time.

There is nothing to say about the battle in Yuncheng. On the whole, the Fu Han army had a great advantage, and the Qing army mobilized a large number of troops to strangle the Mixed Yuan Sect Army, and the logistics supply of the Qing army on the Yuncheng battlefield was gone, and the morale of the army was greatly affected. Chen Erbao, the left deputy governor of the Fu Han Army, commanded the team day and night to launch attacks again and again against the Qing army's Shahe joint camp, and the artillery roared.

Of course, such an attack was not a desperate attack regardless of the life and death of the soldiers, but a gnawing down one camp after another on the front line of the Shahe River of the Qing army with superior troops and artillery fire. The number of Qing troops on the Yuncheng battlefield was not small, and they were on the defensive, so they had a certain advantage. But the advantages of the Fu Han army are greater, especially the flying thunder cannon and melee combat, and the Fu Han army wearing armor has too many advantages.

Therefore, the balance of victory on the Yuncheng battlefield is shifting towards the Fu Han army little by little, as long as the other Qing troops in the Henan battlefield can't spare their hands to help Chen Huizu, the Qing army on the Yuncheng battlefield will be defeated. It's a question of how big the loss is.

Although Chen Erbao's offensive was not sharp and fast at all in Chen Hui's eyes. He mobilized 20,000 troops to Yuncheng, hoping for a quick victory as fast as thunder, and then the army could take advantage of the gap exposed by the Qing army to sweep Chenzhou City with a thunderous momentum, contain the Qing soldiers of Guide, and further create favorable conditions for the transfer of the mixed Yuan Sect army. As a result, Chen Erbao didn't do it at all. The battle of Yuncheng was turned into a grinding battle by him!

Among the battlefields of the Fu Han Army, only the Battle of Jiujiang was at an absolute disadvantage. The Qing army divided into two routes, one to take Huangmei on the north bank, the other to land in Ruichang, all the way to the east, forcing Chen Yongsheng, who was short of troops, to abandon Chengzi Town and Ruichang County successively.

In Poyang Lake, in a bay adjacent to Meijiazhou, hundreds of boatmen and carpenters were working hard here by the Fu Han army. This is the shipyard of the Fu Han army in Poyang Lake, and no one is allowed to enter or leave except for the convoys that send materials and grain to and fro. Each group of shipwrights and carpenters has their own tasks and docks, and if they can't complete the shipbuilding task within the time limit, they won't get paid for their work in vain. If you delay your progress, you will be punished. If the timber is burned, or if the quality of the ship is questionable, everyone is put to death. The stern law is the whip that urges the shipyard to work hard with an accurate number of more than 3,000 shipwrights, and it is the guarantee that one after another river warships with quality assurance are launched one after another!

The Fu Han army sent these shipwrights, carpenters and shipbuilders from Wuhan and Anqing to Jiujiang and Hukou, and from Yangzhou and Nanjing to Jiujiang. The mouth of the lake, not for them to grind foreign workers, but to really make an efficient appearance, to see the warship launched.

"Five days, five days at most. The sailors and artillery from Nanjing have already arrived in Pengze, and in less than two days, our sailor battalion will be formally established. In the yamen of the prefect of Jiujiang, Chen Yongsheng said excitedly to a group of camp officials with gunpowder smoke below.

The Jiujiang Shipyard has been established for two months, and thousands of craftsmen and the Fu Han army have collected ship materials, tung oil, canvas, ropes, etc. along the river, which is a huge burden, and even the Fu Han army in Jiujiang is facing the attack of the Qing troops upstream, and the strength is insufficient, also because a considerable number of soldiers are dragged in the shipyard.

Now, two months of hard work have finally paid off. The sailor battalion is about to become an army. Yang Shijin, Chen Dai and Xu Youruo took two or three thousand sailors and boatmen who had been transferred to sailors, as well as hundreds of large and small ship-borne guns and a large amount of ammunition, and had already entered Pengze Madang. In two days at most, the sailors and artillery from Nanjing will be in place, and the next three days will be enough for the sailors to form an army.

Then, the main force of the sailor battalion, equipped with 60 large sampans, would be able to cooperate with the 12 fast crab boats and long dragon boats that had been launched a month ago to sweep across the Yangtze River waterway, and sweep away the hundreds of miscellaneous boats that had come to Jiujiang with the Qing army from Huguang and Sichuan.

Chen Yongsheng naturally felt excited. When the sailor battalion is established, the heavy responsibility shouldered by the shipyard can be relieved of seventy or eighty percent, and the two old battalions he arranged in the shipyard can be transferred to the battlefield, and at most one new barracks will be returned. There will be a significant improvement in the combat power in his hands, and the new force of the two old battalions, of course, he is in high spirits. Although the command of the sailor battalion will not fall into his hands, after relieving the siege of Jiujiang, these warships will quickly return to the front line of Nanjing.

The rainy season will not be there forever, and when the rain stops, the battle in Gangnam will be staged. The Fu Han army crossed the south and north of the Yangtze River, but it had to be helped by warships.

Large sampan, shuttle type, twelve oars, two squeezers, one head penny, six gunners. The cannon was placed in the bow and stern of the ship, and it was spun off. It's blazing fast.

The long dragon boat has 20 oars, 4 oars, 8 gunners, and one large and two small boat cannons. It's a lot slower.

The fast crab boat is the largest, seven feet long, with 30 oars, two masts, one large and one small, eight oars, two heads and two guns, and 12 gunners. Carrying two catties of guns and two of three catties of guns.

With this sailor battalion, Chen Ming and the Fu Han army are like tigers. (To be continued.) )