The east is not bright and the west is bright, the Fu Han army fell into poverty in Jiangbei, and the main force of the army was dragged in Suzhou, which made Chen Ming's previous invincible momentum of sweeping Jiangnan dark. No one would have imagined that thousands of miles away in Fujian, a violent storm was brewing.

Fuzhou is the second most important town on the southeast coast after Guangzhou. During the Tang and Song dynasties, it was an important window for China's foreign trade, and countless domestic ships set sail from here for thousands of years, carrying porcelain, silk, tea, cloth, etc., to promote exquisite Chinese manufacturing to the world; There are also countless foreign ships, loaded with gold and silver, stepping through thousands of miles of waves, overcoming thousands of obstacles, sailing to China, to the land of wealth of their dreams.

The Manchu Qing Dynasty began to implement a policy of banning religion at the end of the Kang Mazi period. During the Yongzheng period, it was clearly stipulated that foreign merchant ships could only go to Humen in Guangdong and Xiamen in Fujian, and Ningbo and other places in Zhejiang lost the way of foreign trade. In the 22nd year of Qianlong, the policy of seclusion was officially implemented, and the Qianlong Emperor announced that Western merchant ships were allowed to dock at Humen in Guangdong, and ordered that foreign trade in Xiamen, Ningbo and other ports should be stopped except for Guangzhou (also known as the Thirteen Lines of Guangzhou).

The Manchu Qing Dynasty's seclusion dealt a heavy blow to the city of Fuzhou, but even so, the current population of Fuzhou exceeded 400,000. As the military, political and economic center of the entire Fujian, Fuzhou City has many yamen, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, the general of Fuzhou, the governor of Fujian, the Fuzhou Mansion and the Houguan of these three mountains, and the county government of Fujian County [another city and two counties] is extremely hard, not to mention that there are political envoys in Fuzhou City, and so on.

Now Cui Yingjie, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, rushed to Hangzhou, and the governor of Fuzhou was in charge of the governor of Euning and the general of Fuzhou Mingfu, and the uprising of the Yellow Sect in Taiwan caught the two people quite off guard, but compared with the shock of the two of them to the uprising of the Yellow Sect, the actions of Wang Wei, the general soldier of the town of Taiwan, made the two Eight Banners vomit blood angrily. With more than 5,000 soldiers, but sitting and watching the Huang Jiaojun, who was both young and strong, old and weak, calmly retreated into the mountains and forests, and Sun Xiaoyu, Taiwan's military commander, jointly signed a letter to Taiwan's prefect Zou Yingyuan, scolding Wang Wei for being extremely incompetent.

On the one hand, Beijing impeached Wang Wei for cowardice and arson, and on the other hand, Mingfu also hurriedly raised thousands of Fujian Lianyong, and then took out the soldiers and horses of the Fuzhou city garrison to cross the sea to Taiwan for reinforcements, but just a few days after the reinforcements were issued, Taiwan spread the bad news - Heaven and Earth would rebel. Yan Yan, a great thief who has been wanted by Fujian for many years, first raised troops in Changhua, Taiwan, and then Hsinchu, Chiayi, Tamsui, Fengshan and other places successively raised troops, Mingfu just sent 7,000 reinforcements to Taiwan, and the rebel army had tens of thousands more.

"Report, report to the general, Haitan is in an emergency, Haitan is in an emergency......"

Although the situation in Taiwan has suddenly become very troublesome, Erning and Mingfu can still maintain their composure. There is a strait between Fujian and Taiwan, and even if the Qing army cannot quell the rebellion in Taiwan for a while, it is impossible for the rebels to cross the strait to attack Fujian itself.

The land strength of the Qing army in the southeast may be insufficient, but it still has a great advantage on the sea. Fujian, Guangdong, Zhejiang, and the town of Luying Sailor have a full ten people, even though the foreign sailors of Fujian and Zhejiang were dragged down by Caoyun, the combat power of the Guangdong Sailors who went north to Wusong was only a small part of their own strength.

Mingfu and Ering are recruiting Ding Yong in power these days to squeeze local money and grain. They know very well what the Qing Dynasty looks like now, and Emperor Qianlong can't quickly mobilize a large army to pacify Taiwan anyway, and they can only rely on themselves at the moment, and they can only rely on Fujian's own money and grain.

"Haitan is in a hurry?" Ming Fu, who was discussing with Ening, looked up in astonishment.

"Marshal, Haitan sent an urgent report on the military situation, foreign bandits, Changhua foreign bandit Zhang Qiu and Guangdong Xin'an giant bandits Zheng Lianfu and Zheng Lianchang, merged to attack Haitan. The main force of Haitan Town has already gone north with the boats, and the remaining soldiers are only five or six hundred, which is really difficult to parry. I have lost all the water villages and retreated inland......"

Goshha, who came to report the news, obviously knew how bad this 'news' was for Fujian at the moment. Zhang Qiu actually got involved with the Zheng family in Xin'an, if Fujian and Guangdong's foreign bandits merge, then with Fujian's existing naval forces, it will be absolutely difficult to parry.

The Xin'an Zheng family, according to legend, is the ancestor of Zheng Chenggong's general. Kangxi Dynasty Zheng Ming perished, and his descendants went to the sea as thieves, colluding with the Tan people and fishermen along the coast of Qiongzhou, Guangdong, with manpower and materials, and the Guangdong sailors repeatedly encircled and suppressed it, and now the Zheng family's Zheng Lianfu and Zheng Lianchang brothers are all famous giants on the sea in Guangdong.

It's not that the Zheng brothers have tens of thousands of pirates and hundreds of big ships under their command, but they are very famous.

The Zheng family has been in the past seventy or eighty years, and has inherited the signboard of several generations, and it is very recognized by the pirates and foreign bandits in the southeast coastal area, and these two people have a very strong appeal.

However, the foreign bandits on the southeast coast also have deep geographical distinctions, and the foreign bandits in Guangdong have actually killed the foreign bandits in Fujian, and if they had not been recognized by the foreign bandits in Fujian, they themselves would have killed themselves on the sea surface to win or lose.

"Pap ......" Erning on the side touched the teacup in his hand, "This, this ......" The fourth son of Ortai, one of the three confidants of Emperor Yongzheng, definitely has no ability from his father. Suddenly hearing such bad news, people were already panicking.

Haitan Island is the base camp of Haitan Town, where the Yamen of the General Army is located. If it was captured by a gang of foreign bandits, what would be the face of the Qing Dynasty? Don't the foreign bandits in the southeast sea become more rampant?

"The big thing in Fujian has failed." Mingfu's tense body softened, and he collapsed in the chair in a dejected manner, if Haitan can be destroyed by foreign bandits, how many cities on the long coastline of Fujian dare to say that their own defenses are even more powerful than Haitan?

When the time comes, it will be too late for the township warrior regiments in various places to practice to protect their families, where will there be time to defend the country. In this way, how can he talk about suppressing Taiwan's 'banditry'? And if Taiwan's 'bandits' and foreign bandits collude again, will Fujian still be good?

There are a total of three towns under the command of the Admiral of the Fujian Navy Division, and the two towns of Haitan and Nanao are pure sailor battalion heads, and there are few soldiers on land, and Taiwan Town, as a direct force to suppress Taiwan, has much more troops than the two towns of Haitan and Nanao combined. Because the main force of soldiers in Taiwan Town is the army, the water division depends on the Penghu Water Division.

Now the land force of Taiwan Town has been completely suppressed by the Taiwan Rebels, and the Penghu Naval Division cruises along the coast of Taiwan, from time to time using artillery to bombard Luzai Harbor in Changhua, Dagou Harbor in Fengshan, Zhonggang in Tamsui, and Keelung in Beitou, which also contain a certain strength of the Taiwanese Rebels. And what about the town of Nanao? This is a very special military town, it accepts dual leadership, in addition to the Fujian Navy Admiral, there is also the Guangdong Navy Admiral, look at its general military signboard - Fujian, Guangdong and Nanao General Town Government. As for Nanao Town, Fujian was actually able to mobilize only one right battalion, and it also escorted the sea ships carrying grain early.

It is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice. When the foreign bandits of Fujian and Guangdong merged, there was no way to restrain Mingfu in his hands, and to solve this matter, it was necessary to have reinforcements from the Guangdong sailors. However, Fujian and Zhejiang are the same system, and it is not possible to transfer troops with Guangdong. If the soldiers go out of the province and follow the regular procedures, the matter must be reported to the military aircraft department and reported to the emperor.

"Dashuai, where is Haitan? I still have to hurry up and rescue Haitan......" Mingfu's chief retinue watched Mingfu write a recital and an official document to Beijing and Guangdong successively, and then ordered the local prefecture and county to summon Ding Yong as much as possible to gather in Fuzhou, and seemed to have forgotten how to go to Haitan, so he reminded and said.

"Save the sea altar? General Ben also wants to save it, but what can I do to save it? What about the ship? What about soldiers? It's all recruited, is there enough time? ”

The remaining soldiers in Haitan Town are only five or six hundred in total, Zhang Qiu and the Zheng family brothers are in one place, three or five thousand people are few, and Haitan is not saved.

What Mingfu has to think about now is how to deal with the aftermath, this matter can't be hidden, once it spreads among the people in Fujian, uh, Mingfu suddenly feels a headache and chaos.

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Taihu Lake.

A flock of water birds rowed across the lake, the weather was fine, the breeze was light, the water condition was good, a huge fleet appeared on the lake was speeding north, the duty officer went to the bow of the ship and reported loudly: "Camp, our army has just passed through Manshan Island, there are still sixty miles of waterway from Wuxi, and it is expected to reach the Wangyu River in the evening." "One of the many waterways leading to the Grand Canal in Wuxi.

"When we arrive at Dagong Mountain, send a fast boat to the mouth of the Wangyu River, so that the troops on land can be prepared." After the surface troops of the Fuhan Army entered Taihu Lake through the Guajing Pass, the Taihu Lake Naval Division of the Qing Army could not even see a single warship, and now the fleet traveled from Taihu Lake to the middle of Taihu Lake, which was very smooth.

Yang Shijin was confident, and after giving instructions to the duty officer, he continued to stand on the bow of the ship, looking around with great ambition. On the lake, there are more than 40 warships of the naval division battalion of the Fu Han army, and hundreds of cao boats are guarding the front and rear, and in the south where the naked eye cannot see, the remaining strength of the naval division battalion of the Fu Han army is sweeping the east and west mountains.

Drilling out of the small ditch of the Wusong River and looking at the vast water surface of Taihu Lake, it is broad-minded.

Outside Suzhou, the camp of the Fu Han army did not move, and Chen Ming had to wait for the return of the team that went south to Zhejiang, and then the army went north. If the Qing army from Hangzhou bit the tail of the southbound troops and followed them all the way to Suzhou, Chen Ming would not mind teaching them a lesson.

Yan Yan has already revolted in Taiwan, and the Tiandihui in Fujian has also entered a state of imminent war, because the local government has vigorously formed the Ding Yong militia, which has made the preparations of the Tiandihui more comfortable. Chen Liang has also arrived in Guangzhou, led by the Tiandihui in Fujian, and the secret camp is no stranger to the Tiandihui in Guangdong, which gives them great convenience in their work.

Now the only thing that worries Chen Ming is the third brigade in Jiangbei, Huang Jielai reported that in the battle of Nantong, the artillery of the Qing army suddenly became much sharper, and the shelling was much more accurate. Among the twelve catties of its shells, the city defense of Taizhou could not resist at all, and the size of the cannons was similar, as if the difference was very different from the artillery fire of the Qing army that had been experienced before.

Chen Ming also muttered when he saw it, Huang Jie said that the level of the artillery of the Qing army in Taizhou was much higher than the level of the artillery and the quality of the artillery of the Qing army in the past. Taizhou City was estimated to be unable to hold it, so Chen Ming transferred two of the new barracks in Nanjing City to Yangzhou. It's not a big deal if Taizhou can't hold it, there is a Shanyang River behind it, and there is a Yiling Town. But Taixing must be defended. (To be continued.) )