Real war is never a one-on-one heads-up. Especially at the beginning of the flag, at the beginning of the rebellion. The Fu Han army was currently suffering from many enemies, but it had to distract itself from watching a number of separate small battlefields. Chen Mingdu felt that Zhuge Liang's six departures from Qishan were much better than the current Fu Han army.

Chen Ming now had to pay attention to the battle situation in the base area far away in Henan, and also to pay attention to the battle situation in the two separate battlefields of Jiujiang and Hukou and Anqing, which were thousands of miles apart, but the small number of troops of the expeditionary force of the Fu Han Army had to be divided into many pieces because of his greed to occupy a greater strategic and geographical advantage. Even so, while he was fighting in Suzhou, he had to stare at the evolution of the war situation in Jiangbei on the other side, and then pay attention to the changes in Fujian with one eye, and stared at Shandong with the other.

Neurasthenia, Chen Ming felt that if he continued for a long time, he would definitely have a nervous breakdown.

There are too many things to tell him every day, and there are too many decisions to be made every day. Compared with the days when I stayed quietly in Nanjing City before, there is a world of difference. And after the large army returned to Nanjing this time, Chen Ming had to have a good deal with the Qing army in Jiangbei, and if the Qing army in Suzhou and Songjiang also took the opportunity to surround them, the pressure on the Han army would become very great. But he had to keep going.

Because the strength of the Qing army gathered in the Jiangnan battlefield is the essence of the entire Qing army in southern China, only by firmly attracting them to the south of the Yangtze River can the Tiandihui in Fujian have a great future.

On the sixth day of July, Chen Ming's army marched from Changzhou to Zhenjiang, and the news of a thousand miles of urgent delivery made him feel nervous for a while. Fujian Heaven and Earth Society has revolted! The Fujian Tiandi Society, which was regarded by Chen Ming as the biggest hole card, revolted.

The old friends of the dark camp, Lu Maoke Zhangpu County, Zheng Ji started from Haicheng, Chen Biao started from Tong'an, Chen Pi started from Longyan, as well as Zhang Pu, Zhang Gou, Li Shaomin, Zhao Mingde, etc., for a time the beacon smoke burned all over most of Fujian. The uprising was unsuccessful, or there was only a blank space in the Heaven and Earth Society, and there were only three prefectures in Fuzhou, Funing, and Jianning.

The Qing army in northern Jiangsu may not have known this news, otherwise the Hangzhou general Esengge and the Fujian land governor Huang Shijian would not have led the troops to bite the back of the Fu Han army, and they were not satisfied with recapturing Wuxi, and continued to shout and kill in Changzhou.

"Governor, our army's secret camp has the advantage of flying pigeons, and the Tartars can outpace our army? The two thieves of Esengge and Huang Shijian must have known nothing about the changes in Fujian, so Fang Xian was ready to move, and he was eager to try Changzhou. However, Fujian's urgent report will be reported to the Qing military camp within five days, and the two thieves of Esengge and Huang Shijian will lead the army to retreat sharply.

Dadu Governor, if our army can ambush an elite army outside the battlefield, and when the Qing army retreats sharply, it will be able to win a complete victory with a thunderous blow. "Liu Dezhao's spirits are a little abnormal. He was by Chen Ming's side when the Fujian emergency report arrived, and he really never expected that his cheap son-in-law would be so far-sighted that the ambush soldiers would be buried directly in Fujian.

Liu Dezhao is clear about the form before Fujian, the Huangjiao and the Heaven and Earth Society originated in Taiwan, sucking away the last bit of land power in the land of Fujian, and then the Fujian and Guangdong bandits captured Haitan, which is the location of the Yamen of the general army of Haitan Town, and the news reached the south of the Yangtze River, and everyone was in an uproar. Just when everyone was watching whether the soldiers and horses of Fujian and Zhejiang would fight back against Fujian, there were still Fujian ambushes in the empty Fujian mainland, and now the whole Fujian was afraid that it would be over.

Liu Dezhao suddenly felt that he should not be so pessimistic. His cheap son-in-law can't achieve a hegemony without tasting it. Look at the current Qing Dynasty, after the Fujian army rose up, the north and south of the river and the Central Plains and Lingnan, all of them rose together, what will rot into? Daqing, it's really not the Daqing in my impression.

Liu Dezhao, who suddenly had spirit and hope in his heart, spoke to Chen Ming in an excited tone.

Chen Ming was a little surprised by Liu Dezhao's change, could it be that Fujian Heaven and Earth would revolt and inspire the people around him so much? As for Liu Dezhao's advances, I don't think there's anything special. That's something that anyone with a modicum of common sense and mind can come up with.

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Night covers the land.

A delicate crescent moon hangs on the tops, and the dense moonlight shines through the leaves and sprinkles on every piece of the earth. In that dark sky, countless sparkling stars are unwilling to be lonely to show their charm. A transparent gray cloud gently obscured the moonlight.

The Grand Canal glowed silver in the moonlight, and the bright moonlight fell on the surface of the canal, reflecting the hurried army on the riverbank.

Standing by the canal, the whole person is like a rock, and the wrinkles of the ravine are deeply carved on the rock by the wind and frost of the years.

"Marshal, the rebel army in Changzhou has not been dispatched, and the city gate is still closed."

"Keep watching. If there is any wind and grass, report it quickly. ”

The horse turned and retreated, turned over on the horse's back, and the sound of the horse's hooves of "da-da-......" went from near to far.

The monk turned and went down the embankment, not wearing the bulky cotton armor, but a regular robe, with a yellow coat over it. There has been no movement in Changzhou so far, and he can finally put his mind at ease.

"Let people inform Huang Junmen, the traitor has nothing to do, and withdraw the troops quickly."

Since receiving an urgent report of the military situation in Fujian, Esengge and Huang Shijian convened the generals to discuss that the withdrawal of troops must be withdrawn. But how to withdraw the troops has a problem. There are more than 10,000 soldiers and horses in Fujian and Zhejiang, but it is not just a matter of walking. Their march route was along the Grand Canal, and it was impossible to withdraw their troops without any heaviness, but retreating along the Grand Canal was still the most convenient passage.

When the army retreats, the most taboo thing is that the enemy soldiers are entangled and do not retreat, or take advantage of the chaos to attack. He advocated that the troops should not be held during the day, so as not to let the Changzhou Fuhan army see the flaws, and at night the army abandoned everything and left lightly. Because the canal is too narrow, if the Fu Han army makes another rapid detour, how can the Qing army dare to let go of its footsteps and retreat south?

The monk himself sat in the main force, and led a part of the elite soldiers to stay behind the formation, and Huang Shijian led his own promotion and ambushed Dingyan outside the city of Changzhou. As long as the Changzhou Fu Han army dares to kill it, the monk Ge does not dare to say that it will be dealt a blow to the head, but it can definitely guarantee that the Fu Han army will not take any advantage.

At the head of Changzhou City, Chen Ming stood with his hands tied, and he had been standing at the head of the city for more than an hour.

Chen Ming didn't know if his choice was right, maybe he should let the defenders of Changzhou rush at the Qing army, and retreat if he couldn't take advantage, the Qing army would relax after repelling the attack of the Fu Han army, and then he took the cavalry battalion, the tank battalion and the right battalion of the personal guard, and made a thunderous blow!

Such an approach does not seem bad. But Chen Ming just held down the army. He chose to let the defenders of Changzhou attack when the Qing army retreated.

The officer of the Fuhan military camp stationed in Changzhou was none other than Tang Wencan, who performed very prominently in the offensive and defensive battle of Wuxi, and his deputy was Jiang Wei. Although Tang Wencan is still a battalion officer, as the chief general of Changzhou, as long as he does not make mistakes in his behavior in the future, sooner or later the title of this commander will be worn on his head.

Jiang Wei is not unconvinced by this, he feels that Tang Wencan's background is not 'genuine' enough, but Tang Wencan's performance in the first battle of Wuxi is much better than him. Jiang Wei had nothing to say.

"Kill......"

The Changzhou defenders who attacked soon collided with the retreating Qing troops behind the palace, and there were not many real casualties on both sides, but the shouts of killing were very loud. Just when the Qing army's attention was completely attracted by the Changzhou attack troops, in the name of logistics and transportation troops, the tank battalion and the right battalion of the guards entered Changzhou in batches, revealing their true colors. And the cavalry battalion, which had been hiding in the Hengshan area in the east of Changzhou City, Chen Ming also released carrier pigeons to inform Chen Kaishan and asked him to attack the Qing army in the canal on Hengshan.

Esengge has a very good sense of battlefield, he found that the behavior of the Fu Han army was wrong, the Fu Han army killed in Changzhou City was obviously not enough to defeat their palace forces, why did they fight to the death, and did not retreat?

"Swiftly give the order to the front troops, and all the troops to stop advancing and be on guard on the spot-" A great sense of fear slammed into the heart of the monk, and he was almost out of breath when he gave the order.

The monk couldn't imagine the tragic scene after the vanguard was suddenly attacked by the Fu Han army, it was dark night, and it was the most lethal time for the Qing army's shotguns, if they were suddenly attacked, the shotgunners only had short knives on their waists to be trusted. Moreover, the composition of this army is complex, there are Fujian and Zhejiang, there are green battalions and militia groups, the green battalions come from different military towns, and the militia groups come from different prefectures and counties, and they encounter the enemy's fierce blows and collapse in the dark night, and there is no other way out except to collapse and wait for this army.

Then the Sangha's reaction was too late. When he vigilantly issued the military order, the horse team of the Fu Han army had already rushed to the side of the Grand Canal, and grabbed the tank battalion on the flank of the Qing army and the right battalion of the personal guard through the Tongji River by boat.

According to Chen Ming's prior arrangement, after defeating the Qing army, there was no need to rush to annihilate them, and immediately went north to besiege and kill the Qing army's palace troops, which were the elite of the Qing army. As for the scattered Qing soldiers and soldiers, they could have waited until dawn and the cavalry battalion would clean them up one by one.

The first part of the right battalion of the guards who stayed in Changzhou has already opened out of the city. Standing on the head of the city, Chen Ming could vaguely hear the shouts and fighting sounds coming from the dark night, no matter whether the Qing army's palace troops were brave or not, this battle, the Fu Han army was victorious.

……

In the ruins of the city of Taizhou.

Fernández carefully shuttled through the ruins, and his love for artillery and abundant curiosity led him to enter the murderous city of Taizhou.

The fighting between the two sides has completely destroyed this city, which is many times larger than Macau.

After losing the city walls, the Chinese rebels relied on the streets and houses in the city to engage in fierce street battles with the Qing army, and the Qing government forces have not been able to completely take the city. They have already paid more than 300 dead and wounded.

As a Portuguese, as an artillery instructor, Fernandez did not need to enter the city of Taizhou in person. But he was really curious about the kind of large-arc artillery in the hands of the rebels, which made him think of European mortars.

Although the Qing soldiers told him that it was a kind of gunpowder bag throwing speculation, Fernandez still wanted to see it with his own eyes.

Of course, as a secret of the Fu Han Army, none of the original guns have been captured by the Qing soldiers, and no gunner has been captured by the Qing soldiers. Everything was still confidential, and all the Qing army knew was the gunpowder bag thrown by the Fu Han army. That thing didn't blow up, and it was taken by the Qing soldiers. But how to project this thing, that's what the Qing soldiers don't know.

Now the Qing soldiers picked up another gunpowder bag that did not explode, and Fernandez personally opened the powder bag, which looked like a sackcloth cloth and wrapped it in white silk, and each gunpowder bag contained five catties of gunpowder -- according to the Chinese system, about four catties of iron sand and broken iron nails, etc., and so on with silk, linen and arquebus, one weighed about ten catties, which was converted into European measurements, which was 26 marks [8 ounces]. How powerful is such a powder bag thrown hundreds of meters after the explosion?

Fernández couldn't resist his curiosity and wanted to see for himself, or how could curiosity kill a cat. Although Fernandez had other tasks to do in Taizhou this time, he needed to draw a detailed map of Taizhou, so that the artillery outside the city could carry out a more accurate fire bombardment of the city of Taizhou.

Meanwhile, Pérez, the leader of the Portuguese on the battlefield in Taizhou, the vice-president of the Macau Parliament, is talking with Captain Blanco, the captain of the Portuguese artillery instructors, about his perception of the current war.

Just because of a battle, a city comparable to Porto found its destruction. In the past week, twelve sixteen-pounder guns fired at least 1,000 shells at the city of Taizhou. Perez admired the tenacity of the rebels in the city, and he was also cruel to such a battle.

He's just a businessman after all.

Captain Blanco took a different view, having suppressed indigenous revolts in Brazil and fought fierce battles with pirates on the seas. As a soldier, he is quietly changing his attitude towards the Chinese military.

"They were very brave. It's a city the size of Porto, and there are hundreds of such cities throughout China. In the minds of their emperors, a city may not be as important as the complete annihilation of a determined rebel army. ”

Blanco still does not have a high opinion of the combat effectiveness of the Chinese army, but he believes that the Chinese have the basis to become first-rate soldiers, and they are very brave.

"Is it really a 50,000-strong flintlock force that was organized all at once? The Great Emperor of China was richer than the kings of all of Europe combined. As a tiny captain, Blanco couldn't imagine what an army of 50,000 people would be. You must know that the population of the entire Kingdom of Portugal is only 2 million.

"This is just the first batch." A slap that compared Cai Yi to, from five thousand to fifty thousand, Perez, said to Blanco with bright eyes. "The Chinese Emperor's wish was to turn all the Eight Banners armies into new flintlock pistol units, and the Chinese Eight Banners army would number more than 200,000 men. This is a huge business opportunity. If we can seize this opportunity, even if we only get half of these trade orders, we will become the richest people in the whole of Portugal......"

Why did the Portuguese so easily make an agreement with the Manchu government and abandon the olive branch of Chen Ming brought back by the missionaries? Didn't you just see the real money of the Qing government?

Macau was just on the edge of Canton, and if they had reached an agreement with the Manchus, trade between the two sides would have been able to proceed quickly, conveniently, and safely. The entire Macau Council was dazzled by no real money, so they wouldn't have glanced at Chen Ming's Fu Han army. Like the thousands of gentry in the world, the Portuguese were convinced that the Qing government would eventually suppress and put down this wave of revolt. (To be continued.) )