After the governor of Zhejiang, Tong Guoqi, sent an urgent report that the Zheng army might invade the Yangtze River, Shunzhi and the ministers were frightened, and immediately ordered the Qing troops in Zhejiang and Jiangsu to concentrate on garrisoning and strengthening the defense of coastal prefectures, and also issued an order to transfer troops and horses to Henan, Jiangxi, Shanxi, and Shandong provinces, under the unified command of Yue Le, Prince An, to send reinforcements to Jiangning in batches, and at the same time urged all ministries to prepare for the expedition as soon as possible, and it was scheduled to drive the southern expedition on July 15. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoBecause Zheng Jun may invade the Yangtze River, Shunzhi will not dare to delay for a moment for the pro-conquest, otherwise if Nanjing is lost, this situation will really be out of control, and even if he personally conquests, he may not be able to recapture Nanjing.

When the Qing court dispatched troops on a large scale, Zheng Jun moved his boat north after collecting food and wages in the Wenzhou area, preparing to enter the Yangtze River and capture Nanjing. On the occasion of Wenzhou's northward march to Zhoushan, the king of Yanping County issued an edict: "The officers and soldiers are on an expedition, not without internal considerations; Traveling with your family, you are naturally happy. The master of the domain, the Northern Expedition, the Central Plains, in order to build a great cause. Considering the generals and officers of the towns, they had the idea of being home when they were in Yongzhen, and they had already sent troops and household officials to rush to the boats to carry their dependents; The officers and soldiers who ordered their dependents to be brought by ship were sent according to the law, temporarily staying in the forest gate, and waiting for the order to accompany them. ”

After the edict was issued, Yanping specially assigned Zhongjing Bo Chen Hui and Xuanyi Qianzhen Chen Ze to lead the water division to protect the women's ships and move with the army. At this order, the officers and soldiers of the Zheng army were all happy and encouraged, but they were suffering from seasickness.

Some of his subordinates had dissuaded Yanping from not letting women join the army, but Yanping said that this time he went north to the Yangtze River and seized Nanjing, and he was very sure that the main force of the Qing army led by Doni had been blocked by the Taiping army in Yungui and could not come out in a short time. According to the information provided by the people who restored the Ming Dynasty in the south of the Yangtze River, the Manchurian Eight Banners stationed in the Nanjing area were only a small team led by Ang Bangzhang Jing Kakhamu, with less than 1,000 people, and the rest of the troops were mostly green battalions, although the number was large, but they could not resist the Zheng army at all. I am strong and the enemy is weak, Nanjing, Zheng Jun will Yongzhen Jiangnan, how to prevent women from following the army to damage morale.

ordered to march with his family, firstly, Yanping was full of confidence in the capture of Nanjing, and did not consider the danger of defeat at all; The second is to learn from the past. When Yanping led the army abroad, the Fujian Qing army repeatedly took advantage of the weakness to enter, resulting in the death and wounding of the family members who stayed in Jinxia, which seriously affected the morale of the army, so that when the Zheng army fought abroad in the future, the officers and men were worried that Jinxia would be attacked by the Qing army again. Last year, when Zheng's army marched north, there were many worries in the army. After a year of rest and preparation, and then Guangdong supported the establishment of the Tang Dynasty to supervise the country, Yanping was urgent to seize Nanjing to worship the filial piety tomb and occupy the righteousness, so there was no room for any worries in the army, so he ordered his family to follow the army. After seizing Nanjing in this way, it is also necessary to send people back to pick up their families.

After Zheng Chenggong and Zhang Huangyan joined forces to go north, they first arrived in the area of Dinghai, Zhejiang in May, and after two days of fierce fighting, they completely annihilated the Qing army defending the place, captured the Dinghai Artillery City, and burned more than 100 ships of the Qingshui Division. After capturing Dinghai, on the one hand, the Zheng army created the illusion of attacking Ningbo Prefecture in Zhejiang Province to attract Qing troops from Jiangsu and Zhejiang to come to help, and on the other hand, it divided its troops to attack the coastal areas of Fujian in order to confuse the Qing army in Fujian.

Dasu, the Qing court's minister in Fujian, was confused by Zheng's actions and ordered the coast to shrink. The Guangdong Taiping army in the south also launched an attack on Fujian again, although the scale of the offensive was not large, but it contained the Qing army in southern Fujian, which made Dasu even more panicked, thinking that the Zheng army and the Taiping army were joining forces to seek Fujian, so he had to continue to ask for help from Jiangning and Zhejiang, and at the same time sent an urgent report to Beijing.

Tong Guoqi, the governor of Zhejiang in the Qing Dynasty, judged that Zheng's army was not just to attack the coastal areas of Zhejiang to collect grain, but that it was possible to enter the Yangtze River and invade Jiangning City, so he sent an expedited 800 li to Beijing, and at the same time sent someone to Jiangning to inform him that Lang Tingzuo, the governor of Liangjiang, should quickly deploy the Yangtze River defense line, so as not to be easily entered by Zheng's army.

On June 19, after more than a month of tactical confusion, Zheng Chenggong finally led 160,000 soldiers and horses, divided into more than 3,000 large and small ships, from Dinghai to the north, divided into three routes, by the central governor Gan Hui to unify the front army, Zheng Chenggong personally led the troops in the center, the general Chen Wenda Palace, the mighty march to the mouth of the Yangtze River.

When the Zheng army entered the Yangtze River this time, the scale of the ships was huge, and its naval division was dozens of times more than the two Guangming warships, and the Qing army's naval division was far inferior, so that the coastal Qingshui division fled from the wind when they saw the Zheng army's warships from afar, and did not dare to come forward to fight. Ma Fengzhi, the commander of Wusong in the Qing Dynasty, even supported the troops and watched, without fighting or surrendering.

However, Zheng Jun went north with such momentum, but there was a scum in the army. Before entering the Yangtze River, Ma Long, the former town of Zheng Jun, surrendered to Zhapu, Zhejiang, and there were five ships with Ma Long, including two water bow boats, two double-canopy boats, one underwater boat, and more than 140 men and women of soldiers and their families, but the equipment they carried was 13 red-coated cannons, 45 bronze 100-son cannons, 10 three-eyed guns, 10 shotguns, 42 barrels of gunpowder, with a total weight of 1,889 catties, 1,663 red-coated iron bullets, 182 barrels of 182 iron bullets, and a total weight of 8,899 catties. One hundred and five barrels of iron fragments, weighing 5,190 pounds with barrels, 42 pieces of iron armor, 26 pieces of iron armor, 9 pairs of iron hands, 9 iron skirts, 14 pairs of iron shelters, as well as cotton helmets, armor, knives, arrows, spears, rattan cards, etc.

Although these five ships only had more than 100 people, the number of offensive guns and iron armor for self-defense was quite amazing, which also showed the great strength of Zheng's army. After Ma Long surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, he quickly informed the Qing army of the Zheng army's plan to enter the Yangtze River to seize Nanjing, and the governor of Zhejiang, Tong Guoqi, was even more shocked after hearing about it, but from the time calculation, the Zheng army has entered the mouth of the Yangtze River, and whether or not he can keep Jiangning City depends on whether Lang Tingzuo, the governor of Liangjiang, pays attention to his warning.

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Jiangsu Changshu Luyuan Xipu, a generation of literary tycoon Qian Qianyi's house, Jiangnan genius Mao Xiang and his wife Dong Xiaowan visited.

When he saw his teacher, he bowed down sincerely: "Master Zongbo, the student greets you!" ”

"Hurry up, hurry up!"

Seeing the students visiting, Qian Qianyi, who was in his seventies, was very happy, stepped forward to help Mao Xiang up, took his hand and entered the house. Mrs. Liu Ru also greeted her, pulling her sister Dong Xiaowan on the bank of the Qinhuai River in the past, and seeing that Xiaowan had lost so much weight, her eyes instantly turned red. Dong Xiaowan has not seen Liu Ruis for many years, and the woman's family is easy to fall in love, and her eyes are also hazy.

Qian Qianyi is very enthusiastic, although he is called the master of Mao Xiang, but his wife is a sister to Mao Xiang's wife, so he does not perform a long ceremony, and after a period of greetings with Mao Xiang's wife, the atmosphere immediately became relaxed. In the conversation, it is natural to mention the recent wars.

"That Zhou Shixiang is really Wu Mu alive, and he is even more impressive than the King of Jin back then!" Qian Qianyi was quite excited.

Mao Xiang also sighed with emotion: "Yes! In just four years, first Hahamu, Shang Kexi, Li Shutai, Wu Liuqi, etc., then Jidu, the prince of the Tartars, and this year it is Luo Tuo and the line Guoan, tsk, four years let the Tartars reimburse a Manchurian prince, two Han vassal kings, a governor, two governors, five Gushan Ezhen, six Dutong, two admirals, tens of thousands of soldiers, and countless green battalions of the Han army.... Such a brave person, but he is a talent, the student is really admired, this person is really a hero who God gave me the restoration of the Han family! ”

"I don't know anything about the frontier, since Mr. learned about the war between the two Guangzhous, the whole person is different than before. I used to see him lamenting and sighing, but now he is very verbose, babbling all day long, as if he commanded those battles. Liu Ru covered her mouth and smiled.

"It's no wonder that Bijiang has become what it is now, it turned out that I learned it from my husband." Dong Xiaowan also said with a smile.

"What do you know, since Jiashen, my Han family has lost all its clothes, you don't understand what it means that the homeland is not there, and the tradition is interrupted. Over the years, the old man has really regretted the beginning, borrowing wine to kill his sorrows, and he didn't go away..."

Qian Qianyi suddenly blamed himself, Mao Xiang and Liu Ru were busy comforting him, they all said that the past has passed, and there is still a chance to restore the situation today, why should Mr. blame himself.

Qian Qianyi wiped his tears: "It's okay, it's okay, fortunately, there is Li Dingguo first, and then Zhou Shixiang, they are all heroes of my Han family..."

Seeing this, Mao Xiang hurriedly diverted from this, and then said: "The student heard that the battle in Guangxi was commanded by Shizhong, a general under Zhou Shixiang. This person is a native of Yuyao, Zhejiang, a descendant of the Qi family's army, when Zhu Changshu, the king of Lu, confronted the Qing army in the Qiantang River, this person wrote a bloody letter to ask for battle, but was beaten by Zhu Changshu in public with a hundred sticks. After Zhu Changshu surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, Yu Shizhong was unwilling, and led hundreds of people to fight with the Qing army, and finally took dozens of his men to Fujian to surrender to Longwu. In the blink of an eye, more than ten years ago, I didn't think that this person would become the general of the Taiping Army today, and he fought such a big victory! ...”

After Qian Qianyi heard this, he sighed: "In this way, the sky will not destroy my Ming Dynasty, and my Han family will not die.... It's a pity that no one appreciated these heroes back then, otherwise, why would they let the Tartars occupy my country. ”

"At present, the main force of the Qing army is in the southwest and cannot come out, although the Son of Heaven has abandoned the country, but Zhou Shixiang and the loyal battalion jointly supported the Tang Dynasty and the prison country..."

Qian Qianyi couldn't see what the students were worried about, he shook his head and said, "After so many years, you and my generation should also see clearly, is what I have done all these years really to regain my sight?" ... No! After Longwu, everything the old man did was not to restore his sight, but to restore the clothes of the Han family! He grabbed the money pigtail at the back of his head, and said in disgust: "The old man is over seventy years old, do you really want to bring such an evil thing to see your ancestors!" (To be continued.) )