Zhou Shixiang was going to go to Hangzhou, and if time permitted, he wanted to go to Fuzhou in person, because he wanted to have a meeting with the national surname. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Before finally using force to conquer Jinxia, Zhou Shixiang had to try his best to discuss the possibility of "peace" with the national family no matter what. If the surname of the country is willing to focus on the overall situation, give up the Zheng family's independence and enter the dynasty, Zhou Shixiang will treat him favorably. Otherwise, there will only be a battle between the soldiers, and the winner will be divided.

As for Zheng Jing, Zhou Shixiang has not taken it to heart. Zheng Jing's private acceptance of Wu Sangui's title as Prince Min of the Yongli Imperial Court had already been reported by the Military Intelligence Department, and at that time, Zheng Jing would be consulted with the righteousness of the imperial court, and no one would be speechless. Moreover, Zheng Jing's current position is not firm, and the damage caused by the father's and son's opposition to the national surname is certainly great, and the impact on Zheng Jing, the "rebel son", is not small. Zhou Shixiang didn't believe that those "Shizi faction" in Jinxia really had the confidence and loyalty of the Shizi with an iron heart. Gan Hui had already set off for Fujian by sea, and whether Zheng Sen was willing to meet with Zhou Shixiang or not would soon know the results.

On the Fujian side, Suna led the Sixth Town, and the three independent brigades reorganized by the Zhejiang Qing Army and Ma Fengzhi's Department to march to Fujian in two routes, one route led by Suna himself, and then to Shaoxing and Ningbo through Taizhou and Wenzhou to attack Fujian; On the other hand, Suna's lieutenant general Eduo led the attack into Fujian from the direction of Yanzhou, Jinhua, and Chuzhou.

When the Zhejiang Taiping Army entered Fujian in a big way, Zhejiang was not completely pacified. After the loss of Hangzhou, the two prefectures of Ningbo and Taizhou sent envoys to surrender, and the Qing army of Dutaizhou held on to resist under the leadership of the prefect Zhu Junsheng. Suna stormed the capital city of Taizhou with a brigade of soldiers and did not resist for three days. Zhu Junsheng took the Taiping army as a rogue soldier and killed all the gentry wherever he went, and encouraged the Taizhou gentry to train the village soldiers to resist the Taiping army.

On August 26, the gentry regiments of Xianju and Tiantai counties took advantage of the fact that the main force of the Taiping army was besieging the capital city of Taizhou and the rear force was empty, and plotted to seize the county seat and cut off the grain route of the Taiping army. However, due to the leakage of the news, Suna was able to take precautions in time, arrested and beheaded more than 70 people, and divided troops to encircle and suppress more than 10,000 villagers and rebels, and killed more than 1,000 people, and the rest were disarmed and returned to the township for custody.

After the gentry and rebellious people in Taizhou were pacified, the city was difficult to support alone. On September 4, the east gate was attacked and blasted, and the prefect Zhu Junsheng committed suicide by jumping into the city, and more than 4,000 Qing soldiers, official gentry and young men in the city were slaughtered. After the Taizhou tragedy, a part of the Qing army in Wenzhou, Zhang Huang, fled into Fujian, and the rest either surrendered or fled.

The early progress of the Taiping army of Oduolu was also smooth, and it took Yanzhou, Jinhua, and Chuzhou without resistance from the Qing army, but when attacking Quzhou Mansion, it was stubbornly resisted by the Manchu and Han troops led by Zhang Jing, the Zuobu Zheng of Fujian. After the Taiping army captured Quzhou, Zhang Jing led the rest of his troops to retreat to Jiangshan County, vowing not to surrender. Edo personally commanded the soldiers and horses to surround Jiangshan City on all sides. Under the command of Zhang Jing, the Qing army resisted stubbornly in the city, and transferred red-coated cannons from Fujian, and Dasu sent more than 400 soldiers to help in the battle, resulting in heavy losses in many parts of Hubei. More than 3,000 green battalions and bandits who were incorporated in the three prefectures of Jinhua, Yanzhou, and Chuzhou were driven as cannon fodder by Eduo, and attacked the city for several days, killing and wounding most of them, and the remaining hundreds of people actually roared in the camp at night, almost causing chaos in the whole army of the Taiping Army. After the battalion was suppressed, Edo became so fierce that he ordered all the soldiers who participated in the rebellion to be killed.

After 14 days of onslaught, the Eduobu finally conquered Jiangshan County on September 12. Zhang Jing and his cronies rushed to the gunpowder bureau when the city was broken, lit the fuse, and made a bang, glorifying his master of the Qing Dynasty. After the Taiping army of Hubei entered the city, due to the failure of the siege of the city for several days, the casualties were heavy, and the morale of the army was sluggish, so they ordered to take more than 1,000 of the Qing army's female dependents and the children of the gentry in the city to the outside of the city to reward the three armies.

There are respectable old men in the city who come forward to dissuade them, saying that the Taiping army is the master of the Ming Dynasty, how can they do this beastly thing. Odo said angrily: "When my soldiers attacked the city, why didn't you dissuade the Qing army from laying down their arms? When the blood of my soldiers stained the city, why didn't you shed half a tear? Today, I just kidnapped some Qing army women, and you will jump out later, but what is An's heart? If you want to put people back, you can also, my big soldiers will learn from the Qing army, leaving women but not men in the city, can you wait and see? ”

The old man didn't dare to say anything more. On September 15, the Taiping army of Hubei set out from Jiangshan and crossed the Xianxia Ridge without any resistance, and the troops pointed directly at Jianning Fu, an important town in northwest Fujian. At the same time, the Taiping Army of the East Road, under the leadership of Suna, set out from Pingyang, Wenzhou, and occupied the water gate of Fujian without a single soldier. At this point, there is no danger in Fujian to stop the Taiping army, and the recovery of the whole province is a foregone conclusion.

On September 10, the seventh town from Chaohui, Guangdong, under the leadership of the town general Hu Qili, captured Tongshan and Nanzhao under the jurisdiction of Zhangzhou Prefecture, and the troops entered Zhangzhou Mansion and sent envoys to persuade them to surrender. Qing Zhangzhou prefect Dong Xueming, deputy general Lin Changquan and others opened the door and surrendered. After the recovery of Zhangzhou, Hu Qili immediately marched to Quanzhou according to the original plan of the military department. The tenth town of Zhutong from Nanxiong also entered the Tingzhou Mansion of Fujian Province through Huichang, Jiangxi, and after two days of fierce fighting, more than 1,200 defenders of Tingzhou were annihilated, and they advanced to Yanping Mansion.

The Taiping Army marched together on all four routes, and all four roads played triumphant songs, and the whole province of Fujian except for Fuzhou and Shaowu fell into the hands of the Taiping Army. Dasu, who only had the second government in hand, was no longer able to stop the Taiping army, and it was difficult to even organize a decent counteroffensive. Zhang Jing was killed in the battle in Jiangshan, and the news of the annihilation of the entire army came to Dasu, and Dasu knew that he could not escape death. Every day, he only condensed in the Fuzhou General's Mansion, drank alcohol to drown his sorrows, and no longer cared.

The Eight Banners garrisoned in Fuzhou and their families also felt more and more that the sky was about to fall, and for the Taiping Army, the Manchurian soldiers were all frightened. There are Guangzhou City, Hangzhou City, Jiangning City, and Jiangning City, it can be said that since the Taiping Army started the army, where the city is located, none of them survived. Such revenge naturally made Fuzhou Eight Banners both desperate and angry. The so-called surrender is death, and if you don't surrender, you will die, it is better to work hard. In the face of the dead situation, the soldiers of the Eight Banners of Fuzhou were furious, and they actually hunted and killed the Han people in the city, and plundered them, saying that they would die anyway, so it was better to change the species of the southern barbarians.

In the whole seventeen days, four or five out of ten Han people in Fuzhou were slaughtered, two or three out of ten fell into the river and threw themselves into the well, and only one-tenth escaped from the city. From the seventy-year-old man to the infant who had not yet spoken, all men were killed by the Manchurian soldiers. There are dozens of hidden women in the monk's dormitory in the city, and as a result, the children are killed, and the blood is rushing, like a stream of water.

When the atrocities in Fuzhou reached Zhou Shixiang, it was September 29, and the atrocities continued. He told Gu Yanwu, who had just arrived in Songjiang, about what happened in Fuzhou.

Gu Yanwu sighed and said: "Since ancient times, there have been dead countries and dead worlds. The surname Yi changed to say that the country is dead, and benevolence and righteousness are full, and as for the cannibalism of beasts, people will eat each other, which is called the death of the world. ”

Zhou Shixiang was half-understood when he heard this, and couldn't help asking: "That gentleman thinks that since Jiashen, my Ming Dynasty has died in the country or the world?" ”

"Manchu led the beasts to eat people, ruined my Chinese clothes, and regarded my people as livestock, and they were the world's perish. It is the reason why it is known to protect the world, and then to know that it protects its country, and that those who protect the country are its kings and ministers, and those who eat meat seek it; Those who protect the world are cheap. and responsible. ”