Chapter 370: Solving the Great Problem of the Henchmen
Night has covered the land. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info In the dark night sky, a bright moon hangs, and stars adorn the night sky like sparkling gems. The crescent moon is reflected in the river water, and the Yangtze River, which has been running for a day, looks particularly peaceful under the clear moonlight.
Chen Ming quietly looked at the north, and the lights of the Qing army's garrison in the pitch black of Yawo more than ten miles away were only a few faintly visible fire points. Yang Shijin is coming......
At this moment, at the Duck Nest Shaqing Army Naval Division, Huang Zhenggang looked at the herald who reported the news below, his face was full of surprise and surprise. Chai Daji Department rushed to Wusongkou at this time, this is really joy from the sky.
"Yujunmen, since Lord Chai left Zhoushan, he did not lead the troops to take the Yangshan waterway, but took a farther detour, and on the way he did not encounter the main fleet of the Fu Han army, and sailed safely to the mouth of Wusong, and now he is rushing towards Yawosha." As for why the sailors of the Fu Han Army have never returned, and there is still no trace of them, it is not for Chai Daji to know.
"Good, good, good!"
Huang Zhenggang, who was satisfied and couldn't be more satisfied, said three 'good' words in a row. After three days of fighting, his warships suffered great losses, and the morale of the army, which was already sluggish, was much lower, but now with the supplement of Chai Daji's twenty or thirty warships, the strength in his hands is stronger than before the war. Morale is bound to be greatly boosted!
"The order went down, and fires were lit everywhere, and sampans were sent to guide the way." Huang Zhenggang announced the news to the whole army.
Piles of bonfires and countless torches soon lit up on the island of Yawo Sand, which looked like a pile of rekindled ashes from a distance. The excited Huang Zhenggang personally rushed to the shore and looked forward to it, and the Qing army sailors who had gone dormant also became lively because of this 'surprise', and the reinforcements arrived, and they even had reinforcements!
It was really as happy as 'a long drought and nectar', just as Huang Zhenggang imagined, cheers sounded all over the duck's nest, and the morale of the whole team was greatly boosted.
The bright firelight was projected far away to Wusongkou, looking at the sky in the north, all with a layer of firelight red, and Chen Ming and the others on the high platform could see it clearly.
"Your Highness, Huang Zhenggang is looking for his own death." Liu Wudu laughed. Isn't it looking for death by yourself, the fleet that is still flying the Manchu flag has just changed to a red 'red heart'.
"Are the sailors ready?"
"Your Highness, rest assured. Deputy Commander Luo has already made arrangements. Liu Wu's face was still serious, and his eyes were full of excitement. When Chai Daji's surrender reached Chen Ming's hands, Chen Ming was stunned, and Liu Wu and the others around him couldn't even think of it. But it's always a big good thing. And it has been more than a day since the surrender, and those Qing soldiers who surrendered have not given birth to anything and are very obedient, so much unbelief has been extinguished by indisputable facts.
Now use their team to earn Huang Zhenggang's headquarters, as long as the fleet arrives at the duck nest sand, is it not a tiger into the flock?
Luo Daliang's task is to solve the Qing army patrol fleet in Wusongkou, and then fight the duck nest sand, the two sides turn, completely wipe out the main force of the Qing army's naval division, and solve Chongming at dawn tomorrow!
The big trouble in Chen Ming's heart has been eliminated!
Chen Ming opened his pocket watch and looked at it, the time had just passed half past eight. A cool night breeze blows......
The high platform is not simply a high platform, but a very large place, not only with chairs, but also with a tent to enclose a small shed, and even a place to pay tribute to the back.
Chen Ming and Liu Wu are staying in the shed now, drinking tea, hungry and snack, looking at the duck nest sand one by one. Chen Ming's tea in his hand had been changed twice, he didn't touch it, and after eight o'clock, others sat still. Although he didn't stand in front of the fence from time to time, his flat face let everyone know how great his expectations were for tonight.
"Boom, boom, boom......" at 9:20. The rumbling sound of cannon came from the duck nest sand.
Chen Ming jumped up and slammed his right hand on his left hand. "Good, good!" The sound of cannons finally sounded in the direction of Duck Nest Sand.
"Fire boats, set fire boats, burn them in the fleet." Yang Shijin, who was standing at the bow of the ship, ordered loudly, and the warships of the Qing army were now moored in an orderly manner, but they were all pigs and sheep waiting to be slaughtered. Looking at the Qing army sailors who quickly fell into the abyss and hell from a joyful mood, and the camp was full of panic, his heart couldn't be more refreshing. Huang Zhenggang, you also have today!
Because of Huang Zhenggang, because of the Qing Army Navy Division in front of him, the entire Navy Division is a head shorter in front of the Army!
Speaking of this, Yang Shijin was full of bitter tears.
Chen Ming and the others on the high platform immediately saw that the fire in the direction of Yawosha was once again flourishing, but one after another the fireboats were lit, and the river surface was red, and then they went straight into the mooring place of the Qing army's sailors along the night wind.
"It's finally all done!" The big stone in his heart fell completely. With this fire, this battle is stable.
The cannon sounded again and again, the fire was loud, and Chai Daji fiercely pitted Huang Zhenggang.
Chen Ming had just stepped to the fence when the cannon outside Wusongkou rang out. Luo Daliang personally rushed out of Wusongkou with ten fast crab boats. The Qing warships there were panicked by the sudden changes in the duck nest sand, and they had no fighting spirit at all.
- Reinforcements arrived not long ago, morale soared, how can you ...... now? Is it the other way around?
Chen Ming looked at the fast crab boats of the Fu Han army on the high platform as if they were fire snakes shuttling on the river, and the warships of the Qing army were all lit up with torches, and the two sides just touched, the latter retreated again and again, and finally two ships were surrounded by the large sampans that surged up later, and they did not resist as if they had surrendered. Chen Ming couldn't see it clearly from a distance, and only knew that the morale of the Qing army was cleared, but seeing that the two warships were honestly sandwiched by the big sampan boats in front and back, and there was no cannon sound, he knew that it must have surrendered.
Huang Zhenggang was not killed by the first wave of shells, he was not dead. While he was waiting on the shore, he was surrounded by a large crowd of people, and the torches and fires lit them very brightly, like a big signal light. Yang Shijin ordered all ships to concentrate their fire and fire the first shot there.
Shells rumbled, and iron shells and shrapnel flew sideways. But the people around Huang Zhenggang were too dense, and at the same time, he was also fatal, he did not die, but was only injured by two shrapnel. But how could a wound on his body hurt more than the wound in his chest?
Betrayal, this is betrayal!
"Chai Daji, Chai Daji......" Huang Zhenggang shouted these two names bitterly. All his expectations were utterly destroyed by this man. "Your Majesty, the old minister has eyes without beads, and there are eyes without beads......"
Huang Zhenggang, who was carried to the back, wept bitterly, looking at the water camp that was burned by the fire, he knew in his heart - they were completely finished.
"Stop fighting, surrender. Pass on my order, the whole army surrenders...... "The overall situation has been defeated, why bother to die again?"
After Huang Zhenggang, who was stabbed by someone with high hopes, gave the order for the whole army to surrender, he wiped his neck and was loyal to his Daqingguo martyrdom. The sound of gunfire disappeared, just like Huang Zhenggang's thick resentment, which disappeared into heaven and earth with his death.
The whole battle lasted only forty minutes.
When Huang Zhenggang's corpse was lifted in front of Chen Ming's eyes, looking at the corpse that had been stained with blood staining most of his body, and looking at this sixty-five-year-old Jiangnan old admiral who had brought him endless trouble, Chen Ming couldn't say anything about chopping up and feeding the dogs, so he waved his hand and said, "Find a good coffin and go down to bury it." ”
Glancing at Chai Daji, who was bowed and a little depressed, Chen Ming nodded even more in his heart. At this time, if Chai Daji showed a hint of joy at Huang Zhenggang's corpse, Chen Ming would really see him as a villain.
Yang Shijin told him that Chai Daji was going back to his hometown.
"Quzhou can go down every day, but now the sticky pole of the Tartars is rampant, acting viciously, your actions are great merit with my Han, and the Manchu Qing is a great evil, if the family returns to their hometown, without official guards, how can you ensure the safety of the family?"
What Chen Ming said in his mouth was still the old words that persuaded Duan Xiulin at the beginning, but it doesn't matter if he is old or not, as long as it is useful. Chai Daji's face immediately changed.
"If you don't want to go to the battlefield again, the Pontus Governor can find you two good places, one is the Sailor Recruit Barracks, and the other is the Sailor Academy." These two are one as a coach and the other as a teacher, and the Sailor College is ready to be located in Shanghai, with Chai Daji's ability, Chen Ming feels that these two errands can be done well.
He was really surprised by Chai Daji's surrender. Chai Daji fought with the Fu Han Army before, and the performance was quite eye-catching. Especially in the small battle with Chen Dai, there were not many warships on both sides, but the fighting was extremely fierce, Chai Daji's ship was about to be destroyed, and he still didn't retreat.
Chen Ming has always regarded him as a member of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, how can Chen Ming not be surprised by the sudden surrender.
"The villain also drank some ink in his early years, and he is willing to enter the Water Master Academy." Chai Daji didn't know what the Sailor Academy was for, and it was only literally understood that it should be a place to train sailor officers. He had heard of the college opened by the Fu Han Army, and he was also a teacher so good.
Chai Daji really doesn't have the courage to go into battle now, and it is also a blessing to be able to spend the second half of his life with a pen. Immediately responded.
The fire in the duck's nest sand burned until dawn before it was extinguished. The Fu Han army has completely controlled the Yawosha, and snatched seven large and small rushing ships, four water bow ships, two thunder boats and two shuttle ships from the Qing army, and the main warships, and there are many of them, but they are not recorded, and those small boats are either pulled to the logistics force, or pulled to the shipyard for dismantling. In addition, there were 32 cannons on land, and more than 6,000 barrels of gunpowder in stock, but all of them weighed 50 pounds. There were two warehouses of various types of shells, and the account books could not be found, and the captured treasury clerk replied that there were at least 15,000 large and small iron bullets, plus 3,000 or 4,000 shotguns and flowering shells. and the canvas, ropes, timber, jute, lime, tung oil, nails, brass bars, tin bars, etc., which were used to repair the ships, but this was a great windfall.
"Your Highness, the Qing army surrendered 6,000 people before and after, and 1,800 people were killed, and only a few fled to Chongming by boat."
After working for most of the night, some data was counted out and reported to Chen Ming's palm.
There were more than 10,000 Qing troops in Chongming, and after deducting Lu Yong, who was a few thousand, there were only eight or nine thousand sailors, and two or three hundred ships of all sizes. Seven thousand were lost in this battle, plus the previous casualties, the main force of the Qing army's sailors was absolutely finished.
Chen Ming didn't pay much attention to those captures, and after seizing Hangzhou Bay again, would the Fu Han army still be short of gunpowder?
The Zhang family and the Zheng family in the Taiwan Strait, as well as the Tiandihui on both sides of the strait, have already prepared high-quality sulfur to send to the north at this time, right? They don't need to go to Hangzhou Bay anymore, as long as they end up in Ningbo Port. What Chen Ming values is to solve the big trouble in Wusongkou. Regardless of whether Chen Dai and their attack on Zhoushan could succeed in one blow, the big stone that pressed on Chen Ming's heart was lifted.
Chen Ming's thoughts are clear, and he has made a thorough understanding of how many things he has been looking forward to day and night tonight, and his excitement is a little unbearable. This feeling is stronger than when Changzhou was taken, because in order to get rid of Huang Zhenggang, he wasted much more effort and energy than Changzhou. The hard work has paid off, and it is natural that I am extremely happy.
"The big trouble has been removed, Chongming Island is the bottom of the kettle, and the southeast is all owned by my Han." There were two points of emotion and two points of sigh in Chen Ming's voice, but more of it was extremely firm. He looked at the civil and military officers standing on his left and right, and encouraged: "When our army frees up its hands to sweep Fujian and Jiangxi, the troops go down to Nanling, the two Guangxi change hands, and the southern country is established, then repeat the old story of Zhu Ming and repeat the rivers and mountains of the Han family, why is it difficult?" Chen Ming spoke eloquently in a flat tone, but the majestic ambition nurtured in his words made the hearts of the people around him shake even more.
"Gentlemen, work hard! Don't miss this great opportunity to receive awards for meritorious service. ”
"Please rest assured, Your Highness, we dare not do our best!" Chen Ming's ears were buzzing with the loud voice, and he looked at the vigorous fighting spirit of the group of people in front of him, and nodded with satisfaction.
The singing and harmony on the edge of the Yangtze River are like the sun rising from the eastern sky, sprinkled with thousands of rays of light, and the endless darkness fades!
The outcome of this water battle outside Wusongkou was also accompanied by the summer sea breeze, which quickly spread from Songjiang to the north and south of the river.
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In Shandong, the news of the great victory of the Fuhan Army and the Navy reached Shandong, and the time had reached the end of April. The weather is getting hotter and the wheat is approaching maturity.
"Amitabha, Amitabha, Huang Laogou is finally dead."
In the mountains, Fan Wei, the military advisor of the Qingshui Sect Army, Wang Lun's friend and strategist, the former host of Xianqing Temple, clasped his hands together and said two Buddha horns in a row. Although he rebelled with Wang Lun, he still did not change his true character as a monk.
Opposite Fan Wei is Guotai, he is another military advisor under Wang Lun, this person was born in a salt merchant, traveled from south to north, and his vision is one of the best in the entire Qingshui Sect. At the same time, he is also the chief leader of the rebel army's military intelligence report, and every time the secret camp in Shandong contacts Wang Lun, he must first pass through Cathay's hand. "Yes, Lu Gong no longer has the trouble of controlling elbows."
The Fu Han army won a great victory at Wusongkou, and the Qing army Huang Zhenggang was annihilated and committed suicide, and at the same time, Zhoushan, which was panicked, was easily captured by the Fu Han army. The news spread all over the country. Clear-eyed people know that so far the land passages on the north and south seas of the Manchu Qing Dynasty have been tightly locked by the Fu Han army.
As soon as this news reached the Qingshui Sect Army in the Taiyi Mountains, Wang Lun was overjoyed, and his leaders, big and small, and capable generals were all in good spirits.
"Without this naval division, Chen Han's naval army will be able to kill Shandong at any time. The sailors in Dengzhou and Jiaozhou have been drained, and the sailor battalions in Tianjin are waste firewood, how can they resist it? The Qing army had to transfer troops to the east to garrison. "Then the pressure on them is a little bit less.
The Qingshui Sect is located in the middle of Shandong, Jinan, Zibo and other rich places are all on the edge of the Taiyi Mountains, and they drilled into the Taiyi Mountains, and the Qing army attached more importance to them than the Mixed Yuan Sect in southwestern Shandong. And most importantly, the 'strength' of the Fu Han Army gave them the hope of a 'new life'.
As long as the Tartars sit for a day, they will not be well. But if the Chen family sits in the world, they will be Chen Han's great heroes. Not to mention the dukes and earls in the future, at least glory and wealth are indispensable.
"Morale is hard to breathe. In my opinion, let's take advantage of the momentum and fight outside. "I also took the opportunity to grab some food.
Meng Can also chimed in. He was a horse dealer, how could a horse trader not see blood on his hands? Since the uprising, Meng Can has been the number one general under Wang Lun.
Wang Lun himself is strong in martial arts, and his group of apprentices and nephews are not ordinary. For example, Yang Lei, born with divine power, was known as "ten thousand enemies" in the righteous army after the uprising. These children are usually called 18 people, but in reality there are far more than that. But these people are only strong in personal force, and the arrangement of troops still depends on Meng Can and Wang Jinglong [Wang Lun Yizi]. Although the latter two are also wild roads.
There are also Wusheng Wu Zhaolong, Wensheng Yang Ronggui, Wuju Liu Tao, Xing Chengde and others, after being threatened by the Qingshui Sect Army, they participated in the battle of the Righteous Army to attack Tai'an, and when their shoes were wet, they were no longer 'pure white', so they died to serve the Qingshui Sect and played a great role in the subsequent battle array.
It's just that the role of these people in the battle formation is not small, but they don't have a high status within the Qingshui Sect.
The backbone of the Qingshui Sect is from Liaocheng, Yanggu and Shouzhang, and these three counties and nearby areas have been plagued by disasters year after 30 years of Qianlong. In the 32nd autumn of Qianlong in Yanggu County, there was a great flood in the autumn, 33rd year, 34th summer, and autumn drought, and famine. Liaocheng County Qianlong 32 autumn flood, 33 years, 34 autumn locusts, the same famine. There is also Shouzhang, and the grain harvest in summer and autumn is almost out of order. These successive years of famine will inevitably bring great difficulties to the lives of the people. But on the other hand, it is the government's intensified exploitation of the enemy's people. Since the thirteenth year of Qianlong, the Qianlong Emperor has passed through Dongchang on four trips, and because of the canal, Yanggu Shouzhang is the place where he must pass. Each time he went out on patrol, he brought a large number of officials with him. Along the way, the officials searched for the people's fat and ointment, and spent huge sums of money to welcome and send them off, in order to please the emperor, and Yanggu Shouzhang suffered for a long time.
Once it erupts, it will be revealed!
After the Qingshui Sect uprising, there were 30,000 or 40,000 people when the team entered the Taiyi Mountains, and this is also a poor place. The people of Shandong have been affected by disasters year after year, and the local officials have always imposed additional levies, which is really very bitter. This is just like the end of the Ming Dynasty, the court is in difficulty, the court has no money, the more you deduct money from the people and farmers, the more you don't want to live in peace.
"The Chen family is strong, and with the benefits of the sailor, it is easy to fight a dozen Shandong. Even if it is just a few shots, it can make Shandong shake. "Which is the blow to the Qing court that is more blowing? You don't have to ask.
If the Qingshui Sect Army hid in the mountains and quietly watched the Qing Army outside move away, this would indeed make the pressure on the Qingshui Sect much less, but their 'credit' in front of Chen Han would also be much less.
Wang Lun and the others would rather continue to bear more pressure now, but also give the Fuhan army a 'convenience'.
Whether it is the Qingshui Sect or the Mixed Yuan Sect, due to the limitation of their geographical location, their development is far from being comparable to that of the Heaven and Earth Society on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, and if their strength is weak, their natural ambitions will be much less.
Wang Lun never thought of being an emperor at all, compared with the unrealistic ambitions, he hoped that the Fu Han army would enter Shandong as soon as possible, and then he would hand over the military power and enjoy wealth and prosperity. Let the entire Wang family also enjoy the blessings.
"I'm going to send someone to contact them. Shandong sailors have been pumped into empty shells. The naval division of the Fu Han army was strong and strong, and a group was sent north to Shandong, which could cause the shock of Beijing and Tianjin. His Royal Highness Duke Lu has no reason not to agree. (To be continued.) )