[Today is still the third watch, and the two chapters will be put at 5 and 7 o'clock in the afternoon]

Qingjiang, a tall Xingyue church. The bright silver stars and crescents on the green dome lost their brilliance under artillery fire.

Inside the church, Mu Songqing closed his eyes in pain.

"Invite Bai Ziwang and Ma Chengdong, I have something to discuss with them."

The mountains and rivers are exhausted, and there is no way out. Mu Songqing knew it was time to make up his mind. Otherwise, what awaits them tomorrow is an irresistible suffering.

He didn't want to die, let alone his son and grandson die, and he didn't want his Mu family to be cut off, and the huge industry cheapened the group of bandits of the Fu Han Army. It would be miserable if thousands of Christians died like that!

Since the great migration of the H people in the early years of the Ming Dynasty, well, the widespread spread of the Xingyue Sect in the Ming Dynasty was related to Nanjing, the capital of the Ming Dynasty, and a considerable number of H troops were stationed in Nanjing, and then they were drawn to all parts of the country with the troops. Most of those H soldiers are the descendants of the Semu people, in order to express their sincerity to the Ming Dynasty, they have taken Nanjing as their hometown, and they came from the "Dragon Land" for glory, and then the Xingyue Sect and its followers evolved from 'Yuan Dynasty hh all over the world' to 'Jinling hh all over the world'.

As a large number of H people moved to the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, they multiplied, and the population increased exponentially, so that many H people villages appeared. At the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the Xingyue Sect had an obvious Sinicization feature in the canal area - that is, a group of "H Confucians" appeared, they were all H people who had received a good Confucian cultural education, and Qi Zhi clearly proposed that the teachings of the Xingyue Sect must be organically combined with the traditional Chinese Confucian culture, which was the only way out for them. And this group of people did the same. Therefore, Chen Ming really did not regard the Xingyue Sect and its followers along the Grand Canal and the Xingyue Sect and its followers in the Great Northwest as people of the same country.

These H people have taken root here for hundreds of years, and a group of people have been doing business to get rich, and the Mu family is the leader among the rich businessmen of Qinghe. And no matter what race or country the rich people are, when death comes, they are always the ones with the weakest knees.

Therefore, Mu Songqing wants to communicate with bandits, and he wants to make a deal with the Fu Han army outside.

If Qingjiang persists, it will only be death. When the city is broken, the whole army surrenders, how can it be better to be a 'bandit' now? As long as it is done secretly and not known by outsiders, after the Fu Han army is gone and defeated, they can continue to make a living here.

Besides, the contradictions between the Han and the Han along the Grand Canal are far less acute than those from the northwest, and although Mu Songqing has the concept that he will be discriminated against by the Han army, he did not put it in the first place. If it weren't for the fact that the Grand Imam didn't dare to refuse the request of the Qingjiang government and sent the only force of the Order, HH, to defend the city, Mu Songqing would have been able to stay at home, sit and watch the turmoil, and watch the prosperity and defeat.

The big cities that the Fu Han army broke down are not one or two, as long as they don't die, no matter how rich the family is, they will not see the Fu Han army directly looting and bloodbathing.

But the matter of making a deal with the Fu Han Army is not something that Mu Songqing said alone, Bai Ziwang and Ma Chengdong are directly controlled by the forces of the Order, and in order to do a good job in this sale of the city, the two of them Mu Songqing must be persuaded first.

In the afternoon of this day, the sound of artillery outside Qingjiang City suddenly stopped. The Qing army and militia in the city got a precious respite, and immediately organized men to hurriedly extinguish the fires that were spreading in various parts of the city, as well as repair the city head.

Then the entire Qingjiang fell silent again.

Until the night, there was a fierce commotion in Qingjiang, because the Fu Han army attacked at night, and unfortunately, the two well-known H Confucians in the order were unfortunately killed by bombs, and then the group of dragons had no leader and ran away in a swarm. The night attack lasted for a short time, but the Qing army was finished. Soon several bright fireworks rose inside the castle, illuminating the entire Qingjiang River in white.

The Fu Han army, which had been prepared outside the city, smiled. This battle is complete, don't look at the fact that they only have three infantry battalions and artillery, less than 2,000 men and horses, but they have laid down a city defended by 3,000 people.

Qingjiang is very close to Huai'an, and after the city was broken, the Xingyue Sect ordered to pile up muskets and gunpowder in front of the church.

"The Grand Governor, the 14 stubborn people in his order, along with more than 100 party members, have all been captured."

"In addition, the people of Qingjiang gave 50,000 taels of silver and 500 taels of gold, two boxes of jewelry, 600 horses of silk, 100 quintals of tea, 2,000 catties of medicinal materials, 1,000 stones of grain and rice, and 100 mules and horses."

Chen Ming was surprised, the H people in the small Qingjiang can come up with so much money, "This H people are really rich." ”

"Metropolitan Governor, that's Qingjiang." The Grand Canal crosses the Yellow River there, so you can imagine how advantageous the location is.

"Let the people of Qingjiang strictly guard the Yellow River, and if anyone dares to dig the embankment, they will be killed." When the Fu Han army captured the Qing River, this obligation to defend the Yellow River also overwhelmed the head of the Fu Han army.

Attacking northern Jiangsu, Chen Ming's biggest distress lies in the Yellow River and Gaoyou Lake, which are two huge killing weapons. Therefore, Chen Ming only used partial divisions to attack the Qingjiang River, and if the Qing army really dug up the Yellow River, the 2,000 people were killed, and more than a dozen cannons were lost, and Chen Ming also admitted it.

The Qing army was thirty or forty miles away from Huai'an, and the flooding of the Yellow River in August and September could not sweep away his three armies!

In the early morning of the second day, the Fuhan army launched a fierce attack on Huai'an City for the fifth time, with heavy shells, hand-to-hand combat with knives and guns, the corpses under the city were in a mess, and the blood in the city flowed like a river. But now that the door of Huai'an has been opened, Li Shiyao can no longer close it.

At that time, the Daystar was still hanging in the sky. The east gate of Huai'an was wide open, and the Fu Han army poured out of the city one by one, and the sound of guns, explosions, and shouts of killing was louder than the siege of the city. The Fu Han army had already opened the south gate before, but there were so many Qing soldiers in Huai'an City after all, and there was Li Shiyao, the master who didn't take human life seriously, and directly used his life to withstand the attack of the Fu Han army. In the day before the East Gate was broken, the two armies fought continuously, the Fu Han army launched three major onslaughts, more than ten small-scale assaults, the Qing army was about to dry up the blood, but also quickly dried up their courage, when the east gate was opened, the Huai'an Qing army faced the more fierce attack of the Fu Han army, resisted a small hour, and finally collapsed.

……

The upper reaches of the Yellow River, Suqian, Xuzhou Prefecture.

On the banks of the Yellow River, an army was marching listlessly. This is exactly the rescue man composed of the Shandong Green Battalion and part of the Beijing Division Patrol Battalion, which were ordered to advance to the Huai'an area from the Shandong battlefield. Huai'an is an important place, and the entry of the Fu Han army into Huai'an directly touched the heart of Emperor Qianlong, and ordered Shandong to strangle the men and horses of the mixed Yuan sect and quickly dispatch an army to the south. Now this listless team is the people and horses who are heading south to Huai'an.

The total number of five or six thousand people was led by You Qing, the general soldier of Yanzhou Town, Shandong.

Shandong soldiers can't be compared with the green battalion in the northwest, but it's not much worse to say, Shandong Han, it sounds tough!

However, at the moment, the reinforcements with Yanzhou Town as the main force are really not strong, and the Fuhan army that fights Huai'an is not the object of their madness.

Under the fluttering battalion flag, a green sedan chair swayed forward, four sedan chair drivers were sweaty, their clothes were wet, and the pace was adjusted according to the frequency of the sedan chair shaking up and down to save physical strength, and behind them were the other four sedan chair drivers.

The curtain of the sedan chair was rolled up to reveal a face with fine skin and tender flesh, and a beautiful beard with a well-repaired jaw. This person is You Qing, the chief soldier of Yanzhou Town, Shandong.

You Qing looked left and right, and asked lazily, "Where is this going?" ”

Captain Goshha on the side came over and said respectfully: "Zhentai, the team is almost in Zhongxing Town." "The road from Suqian to Huai'an is almost halfway through.

You Qing still has two points of ability, he knows very well how far Zhongxing Town is from the Yellow River, and he yawned lazily and said: "Tell the brothers in the patrol camp in front of you that everyone will rest when you arrive in Zhongxing Town, and it will not be too late to hurry tomorrow." You Qing lowered the curtain, and Gosh Hayu outside could hear him muttering in the sedan chair: "Why are you walking so fast?" We're here to cheer, not really to fight with those Chen Rey who should be killed. If you go too fast, you're not afraid to fill in your own life......"

This kind of small abacus is a shrewd ghost and a shrewd Qing army general, and there is never a shortage of Manchu ranks. Whether it is Shandong or Jiangnan, when danger comes, these people can always come up with some unthinkable methods.

You Qing was bumpy in the sedan all day, and people were already dizzy. Leaning on the inner wall of the official sedan chair, close your eyes and recuperate. Outside, Goshha came to report that he was about to enter Zhongxing Town, and he just said 'um'.

After walking for a short while, there were faint cries outside, and some loud scolding was interspersed. You Qing's brows furrowed, and when he opened the curtains, he heard a clearer cry outside, full of impatience.

Needless to say, this must be some bastard who can't control the guy in his crotch, and he robs the people's girls when they see that they are about to camp.

You Qing angrily called Captain Goshha and scolded: "Do you want to die? Dare to rob the people's girls to make it earth-shattering, don't you know that there are still people patrolling the camp in the team?

You go and tell them to stop tossing and turning, and leave some strength to fight in the future. ”

Captain Goshha nodded and said, "Yu Shenrong sent someone here just now, and the villain was afraid that he would disturb the rest of the town, so he sent him back." He said that Yu Shenrong found a few yellow flower girls, and when he arrived in the town, he sent them to pay tribute to the town. ”

The anger on You Qing's face did not change at all, and he scolded: "You dog, did you say everything that this town just said in vain?" Tell Yu Duzhong that the town's eyes recognize his surname Yu, and the people patrolling the camp in front of him can not recognize him Yu Duzhong. If the news is stabbed, Yang Zhitai will cut off his head, and Lao Tzu will not be able to save his life. "The Yang Zhitai that You Qing said is Yang Yanzhang, the governor of Zhili. The Han army is inlaid with yellow flags, and the hereditary leader.

Captain Goshha's head shrank, and he was about to report the news. You Qing kept holding the curtain and looking in that direction. As a result, the crying was not small at all, but became louder and louder, and You Qing was angry in his heart. Is Yu Zhongping, a dog, really going to die? At this moment, he regretted a little, he had been too indulgent to these Qiu Ba before. But soon You Qing felt that something was wrong, and there was a buzzing sound in front of him, which soon turned into an earth-shattering shouting and crying.

Wrong! This is by no means a noise that Yu Zhongping can make by grabbing a few girls!

You Qing had a bad premonition in his heart, and he stepped out of the fallen official sedan chair in one step, and he was about to send someone forward to investigate, but Captain Goshha had already stumbled back.

"What's going on? Say it. "Being so flustered, isn't this disturbing the morale of the army?

"Chen Cheng is here, Chen Ming is here, Zhentai is running."

"What?" You Qing was stunned. It's like a thunderbolt on a sunny day, completely defenseless. How did the Fu Han army come to the north of the Yellow River?

You Qing was put up by the Goshha and pushed on horseback, and when You Qing's spirit returned to its place, he saw groups of town standard battalion soldiers and a large number of green battalions running north in the 'choppy waves', and some cavalry were faintly visible behind him.

On a bare hill next to Zhongxing Town Road. Chen Kaishan was standing on horseback, and beside him was his personal entourage.

Looking at the Shandong Green Battalion soldiers and the men and horses of the Beijing Division Patrol Battalion who trampled on each other in the rout, Chen Kaishan laughed and said: "These local chickens and dogs dare to come to save Huai'an, they are vulnerable." ”

"The Metropolitan Governor is really clever. Knowing that the morale of the Qing army was low on this road, let us cross the attack directly in the Qingjiang River, and it was really a soft persimmon ......" (to be continued.) )