Without the cooperation and help of the Zhejiang army, the hundreds of Qing army sailors and dozens of ships that surrendered in Jiujiang wanted to capture Anqing, which was defended by land and water Qing soldiers, and then transport the four main towns of the Northern Expeditionary Army to Nanjing. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

I only hated that King Yanping withdrew too quickly, and if he was still in the Zhenjiang area, Zhou Shixiang would have to get in touch with him no matter what, so that he would know that Jiangxi upstream had undergone earth-shaking changes. As long as the huge fleet of Zheng's army is across Zhenjiang and does not leave, the Taiping army will attack Nanjing by land, and no matter how delayed on the road, it will not be afraid of the Tartar chieftain's army. Because as long as there is Zheng Jun on the river, the army of the Tartar chieftains will have to look at the river and sigh, and they will not be able to enter the city of Nanjing.

Without the threat of the Shunzhi army, Zhou Shixiang could calmly deal with the Qing army in Nanjing, after all, he had the killer weapon to conquer Nanjing-the Taiping army in the previous life left a successful example in the history books of using the coffin blasting method to capture Stone City, he did not need to innovate, he just needed to copy. Under the auspices and improvement of Tie Yi, the blasting technology has now become the magic weapon of the Taiping Army. If the city gate is weak, it will be exploded with a medicine bag, and the city gate will be blasted on the ground if it is strong and thick, and the city wall will be blown down in one fell swoop like Xinhui City and Liuzhou City. As long as the gunpowder is sufficient, no matter how strong the city gate and how solid the city is in this era, it will become the bag of the Taiping army.

It's a pity that the question now is not whether Nanjing can be won, but how to get to Nanjing.

The collapse of the Zhejiang army made the generals of the Taiping army silent, originally heard that the Zheng army was defeated in Nanjing, most of the generals in the hall gloated, because the king of Yanping refused to cooperate with the Taiping army several times, the battle of Chaohui was so, and the same was true for the king of Tang, and it was even more so when the king of Jin conquered Guangdong, which made the king of Yanping have a very bad impression of the generals of the Taiping army, and many people thought that Zheng Yanping was too selfish, and this time he launched the battle of going north into the river, I am afraid that he has the heart of self-reliance, at least he is unwilling to respect the king of Tang and start again. If Zheng Yanping can join forces with the Taiping army to go north, one enters from the mouth of the river and the other enters from Jiangxi, and the land and water will advance, and the Qing army will not be able to stop it even if it has ten heads. It's a pity that Zheng Yanping was too confident, and he believed that he was the first in the world, with more than 100,000 soldiers, but he ended up in a fiasco. As for the Zhejiang army and the marshal, Zhang Huangyan, the secretary of the military department, who is often on the lips and is on a par with the "three loyalties of Lingnan", the Taiping army admires and sympathizes at the same time.

The information about the Zhejiang army was almost public, the Ming army knew about it, and the Qing army knew even more. The composition of the Zhejiang army is very complex, and the soldiers are mainly coastal fishermen and farmers, as well as traders, craftsmen, and actors.... In short, all of the three religions and nine streams are complete. Although it is the Zhejiang army, there are also many people in the army from Nanzhili, and even Henan and Shandong. These people were not soldiers of the Ming Dynasty before joining the Zhejiang Army, but they defected to the Zhejiang Army with their enthusiasm, and followed Zhang Mingzhen, the Houhou of Dingxi, and Zhang Huangyan, the secretary of the military department, and the Tartars to fight to the end.

However, the Zhejiang army has been oppressed by the Qing army in the Zhoushan Islands, money and food are tight, weapons are even lacking, and even the stomach is not full, so naturally there is no training, so every time it fights with the Qing army, the Zhejiang army is more defeated and less victorious. Even so, the Zhejiang army still gritted its teeth and insisted, even if the base Zhoushan was occupied by the Qing army, they still retreated to Jinxia under the leadership of Zhang Huangyan to continue to fight against the Qing army, and would rather die than surrender, this time with the Zheng army into the Yangtze River, it is the vanguard of the whole army. People with lofty ideals, Han family Ying'er these words are used in those ordinary people of the Ming Dynasty who participated in the Zhejiang army to resist the Qing Dynasty, but they are really the models and examples of the people who resist the Qing Dynasty in the world, and they should be recited and remembered by the descendants of the Han family for thousands of generations!

"Didn't King Yanping inform Zhang Shangshu when he retreated? The Zhejiang army also has tens of thousands of horses, and it occupies so much territory, so it collapsed by itself? Li Zhicui was a little hard to believe, as the Qing court's Jiangxi superintendent of the imperial history, he had his own way to know the results of the Zhejiang army in the left provinces of Jiangnan after the Zheng army entered the Jiangsu, so it was hard to believe that the Zhejiang army collapsed like this.

Zhou Shixiang did not answer this question, because there was no information in this regard, but it was obvious that Zheng Yanping had abandoned Zhang Huangyan, otherwise why would there be a self-collapse of the Zhejiang army in Tongling. Apart from despair about the future and extremely low morale, Zhou Shixiang could not think of any reason for the collapse of the Zhejiang army, which had made great achievements in Jiangnanzuo, overnight. The intelligence of the Military Intelligence Department clearly stated that the Zhejiang army collapsed without any battle with the Qing army, or even contact.

Dong Changqing heard Zhang Cangshui's name when he was in Huizhou, "his head is not clear to the sky, and his feet are not clear to the ground", and he couldn't help but sigh at this time: "Cangshui Gong took the remnants of the army to Yinghuo Mountain, I'm afraid it's dangerous." ”

"After the war, the autumn wind laughs and laughs, and the savages prefer to offer yellow flowers. I have seen that the iron bones have been frosted and old, and the golden heart is slanted with rain. ”

After silently reciting a poem by Zhang Huangyan that he heard from others, Dong Changqing suddenly knelt down in front of Zhou Shixiang and pleaded: "I hope that the marshal will quickly send troops to rescue Cangshui Gong, otherwise Cangshui Gong will fall into the hands of the Qing army!" ”

Li Zhicui frowned: "Save the Zhejiang army? How to save? We can't even get through Jiangbei, how can we go to Yinghuo Mountain to save Zhang Cangshui? ”

"Zhang Shangshu is for the country and the people, he is the hero of my Han family, how can Ben Shuai not save him!" Zhou Shixiang got up and looked around at the generals, and then said to Li Zhicui: "Who said that we can't get along in Jiangbei?" Not only can we go to Jiangbei, but we can also go to Nanjing! ”

"How to get there!" The generals asked in unison.

Zhou Shixiang did not speak, but his gaze fell on Suna's face.

"Handsome?" Suna was stunned, not knowing what the big handsome man meant by looking at himself.

Gui Yongzhi has been a staff master for decades, and he has a delicate heart, seeing this, he realized something, and said: "Don't you want the Manchu and Mongolian soldiers in the army to touch it?" ”

"It's not touching the past, it's a justifiable, swaggering past!"

Zhou Shixiang's plan was very simple, the main force of the Taiping army naturally could not cross the river, but the Manchurian soldiers and Mongolian soldiers in the army could go, because as long as they changed into the clothes of the Qing army, they would be Manchu and Mongolian soldiers alive!

Zhou Shixiang quickly made arrangements and ordered the Manchurian soldiers and Mongolian soldiers in the Northern Expeditionary Army to be transferred out to form a Manchurian and Mongolian special task force. In addition to rescuing the remnants of Zhang Huangyan's Zhejiang army and picking them up, the task of the Manchurian and Mongolian special task is to sabotage, sabotage, and sabotage again!

Qing Dynasty's prefecture and county yamen, military camps, post stations, grain and grass transportation lines, local Tatar gentry, Qing army messengers... As long as it is involved in the rule of the local government of the Qing Dynasty and the people, objects, and institutions of the Qing army, they are the targets of the Manchurian and Mongolian special task forces.

Taking advantage of the identity of the Manchu and Mongolian soldiers, the prestige of the Manchu and Mongolian Tatars in the hearts of the local officials and the green camp of the Qing Dynasty, the fear of those officials and soldiers for the Tatars, the backwardness of the means of communication in this era, and the advantage that the Manchus did not know that there were a large number of Manchu and Mongolian troops in the Taiping army (all who knew had been annihilated), Zhou Shixiang ordered the Manchu and Mongolian special forces to create panic on the left and right sides of Jiangnan, paralyze the Qing Dynasty's rule in Jiangnan, cut off the flood channels of the Qing army, and make the Qing army in Nanjing deaf and blind.

"The ultimate goal of the Manchurian and Mongolian special task force is to make the Qing army in Jiangnan distrust the Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners, no one believes in the Eight Banners, the Qing army in various places is suspicious of each other, you suspect me to return to Ming, I suspect you anyway, no one communicates between the prefectures and counties, no one contacts each other, so that there is no official government in the entire Jiangnan!"

"I ask all the Manchurian and Mongolian naturalized soldiers to show their former prestige, burrow into the stomach of the Qing army, stir them up, and tear them apart!"

The task of forming the Manchurian-Mongolian Special Task Force was handed over to Suna and Wang. The auxiliaries were in charge, because they had the most Mongol soldiers under them.

Zhou Shixiang had no doubt about the loyalty of the Manchu and Mongolian special forces, because the Manchu military law was harsh, and the subordinates who were killed in the war were all executed, and the Mongol soldiers had a Manchurian prince, a county king, and the lives of the Manchurian soldiers, the commanders, the assistant leaders, the staff leaders, and the Manchurian soldiers. And those Manchu soldiers who surrendered, tens of thousands of Manchurian women and children in the city of Guangzhou watched them from the sky.

The Qing court could spare those Han officials who surrendered to the Taipings, but it would never spare these Manchu and Mongolian soldiers, because their presence and actions were the greatest threat to Manchu rule.

"If you don't follow me, they'll have to follow Jidu!"

Of course, Wang. When Fuchen and Suna selected and formed the Manchurian and Mongolian special task force, they still paid attention to the placement of officer candidates, and there were a small number of Han officers in the action team, and the Manchu and Mongolian officers were also used in pairs to ensure that the action team would not make mistakes.

There were 16 Manchurian and Mongolian special task forces sent to the south of the Yangtze River, and the largest number was the Namutu Department, which was specially adapted to the Zhejiang army, with more than 400 people. There are more than 100 people in other departments, and dozens of people at least, including 96 real Manchurian generals.

After receiving the task, these former Manchu and Mongolian Tartars quickly disappeared into the land of Jiangnan, and they didn't even bother to make the customs documents, because the words that came out of their mouths were their identity proof, and they were the greatest guarantee of their safety.

(To be continued.) )