The news from Guangzhou had been completely cut off the day after they saw the newspaper, and although they still couldn't understand the truth about this rebellion, there was one thing that didn't need any doubt, they were able to control Liangguang in such a short period of time, and the green battalion in Liangguang didn't even seem to have the power to resist, so it was indeed very likely that the green camp must have been involved in it, and there were definitely quite a few of them. 【】

In addition, I remembered that a month ago, the Admiral of the Fujian Navy went to Taiwan Island to question Wu Liang, the chief soldier of Taiwan Town, but there was no news.

And who is the mastermind, has already pointed to the former Guangdong Navy general: Liang Pengfei, the chief soldier of Humen Town, Guangdong Navy.

Especially after Changlin, who had only left Guangdong not long ago, analyzed those Fujian and Zhejiang officials, Kui Lun felt that he was more than ninety percent sure that it was definitely this thing. Because after Changlin straightened things out, the officials of Fujian and Zhejiang understood this truth.

First, Wu Liang used to be a soldier of Taiwan's Penghu Water Divisions Association, and later followed the Admiral Cai to Guangdong for less than two years and then transferred to Taiwan, which seems to have little to do with Guangdong, but in fact, he was brought up by Liang Pengfei, and his position was personally obtained by Liang Pengfei.

As for why he dared to rebel against the court and take refuge in Liang Pengfei, who is now only standing side by side with him, this has become a suspicion in the hearts of all officials.

Second, among the Guangdong sailors, Wang Shouli has always served as Liang Pengfei's boss, and the two are completely grasshoppers on a rope. As for Na Wu Qian, he was just a slave of his Liang family at the beginning, but he was reused and promoted by Liang Pengfei, and finally became the chief soldier of the water division of a town.

In addition, his uncle, his father-in-law, these two are well-known thirteen line bosses, it can be said that in the past few years, the prestige of the merchants, with their wanton expansion, coupled with the open and secret protection of Liang Pengfei and his network, has completely replaced what Jin merchants, Huai merchants, and Hui merchants, and has become the largest and most powerful merchant group in the entire mainland.

Of course, don't forget that although Liang Pengfei's reputation among the officials of the two Guangxi provinces is notorious and he is regarded as an enemy by those officials, he has a high reputation among the people, whether it is running academies, building sects, or donating funds to run group training, building roads, or opening large-scale factories to recruit displaced people and local poor people, which is enough to make those simple people grateful to Liang Pengfei, the chief soldier.

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Besides, the coastal areas of Liangguang and Guangzhou, in the past, were often harassed by pirates, and after Liang Pengfei appeared, he carried a string of pirate heads from time to time, although he fell into the name of cruelty and easy to kill, but the people were no longer disturbed by pirates, and the fishermen's food and clothing were also settled, who else could he be grateful for not grateful?

Coupled with the propaganda department under Liang Pengfei, he exaggerated openly and secretly, so that his prestige among small and medium-sized landlords, businessmen and ordinary people reached a very high level. It can be said that Liang Pengfei is completely a tall and complete image among the people of Liangguang and Guangzhou, and he can almost take his portrait as the kind of door god.

Therefore, today's Liang Pengfei, in the eyes of the officials of Liangguang, is like a terrible spider with poison, entrenched in Liangguang, involving countless intertwined networks, whoever wants to move him, must think about the consequences. But the more this happens, the more he is hated by those officials, which is one of the reasons why Old Man Zhu wants to use him for surgery.

Old man Zhu believes in the court too much, or does he believe in his own ability too much, thinking that with his means, and with the backing of Prince Jia in the court, Liang Pengfei is a small and powerful little general soldier in the local area, and he still doesn't let him hold it in the palm of his hand?

However, Changlin knows very well what kind of surname Liang Pengfei is, he is simply a living bandit who has infiltrated the circle of literati, and he is also a scoundrel with a murder weapon pinned to his waist, and he will be itchy if he doesn't cause trouble for three days.

And it is precisely because he sees clearly who Liang Pengfei is, so he can live in peace with Liang Pengfei, the important thing is that he is not willing to deal with Liang Pengfei at all, everything is handled by the sleek Wang Shouli, Liang Pengfei's direct boss.

Of course, Changlin didn't know that Liang Pengfei himself was not ready to rebel at that time, so the two were at peace, and the Zhu Daming idiot wanted to use Liang Pengfei to kill chickens and monkeys, but it became the best excuse for Liang Pengfei who was ready to launch an uprising to do revolution, which cannot but say that the arrangement of fate is so wonderful.

At a time when the high-ranking officials in Fujian were still arguing endlessly and had not yet fully come to a conclusion, while strictly ordering officials in various localities to thoroughly investigate and confiscate those leaflets and newspapers, the Zhangzhou Prefecture in southern Fujian, Pinghe County, Zhao'an County, Yunxiao Hall, and Zhangpu on the border between Zhangzhou Prefecture and Guangdong had already fallen into the hands of the Liang Jiajun, which had already been in place, under the cooperation and cover of those local regimental exercises.

In addition, the Nating Prefecture Prefecture and the Longyan Prefecture Administration of Liancheng, Shanghang, Yongding, and Wuping counties have also been conquered one after another in just a few days.

Tingzhou town general soldier Ma Zhan led the town pacesetter to save Liancheng, but was robbed and killed by the Liang family army on the way, more than half of the two thousand soldiers and horses were killed and wounded, Mal Zhan only escaped and fled back to Tingzhou Mansion, and when the Liang family army pursued the Shaowu city, Mal Zhan ignored the persuasion of the Tingzhou prefect and led the Tingzhou garrison from the east gate, intending to flee to Fuzhou, of course, it could not be called to escape, according to the general soldier's statement that it was a strategic transfer.

As a result, the Liang Jiajun only fired a few shots, and the prefect of Tingzhou Mansion had no choice but to open the city and surrender. In less than half a month, the entire territory of Guangdong, most of Guangxi, southern Yunnan, and southern Fujian almost fell into the hands of Liang Pengfei.

By the time Fuzhou got the news, almost half of the southwest of Fujian had already fallen into the hands of the Liang family's thieves. Those dignitaries and nobles in Fuzhou City almost frightened the news into a nervous disorder.

This time I really panicked, but, fortunately, Changlin and Kui Lun are also people who have experienced major events, and soon worked out countermeasures with a group of Fujian and Zhejiang officials, Fuzhou General Kui Lun immediately began to gather soldiers and horses, whether it is the Eight Banners or the Green Battalion, all the soldiers who can be concentrated in a short period of time are almost all pulled out, and finally managed to make up 18,000 soldiers and horses, and ordered Li Nanxin, the governor of Fujian, to lead 3,000 soldiers and horses from his headquarters to the south and rush to Putian Mansion to defend against the enemy.

Kui Lun led the main force of 15,000 soldiers and horses to Yongchun Prefecture, intending to block the army of those anti-thieves in the mountainous area of Fujian. Of course, for the sake of Fuzhou's safety, more than 300 cavalry were transferred from Fuzhou's 3,000 Eight Banners, and the rest naturally had to stay in Fuzhou City and maintain the security and garrison of Fuzhou City together with the remaining battalion of the Fuzhou City Association.

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Even if he used the fastest speed to gather the army, and used the grain and grass of the direct treasury, it only took three and a half days to draw 15,000 troops from Fuzhou, according to those soldiers and horses of the Great Qing Dynasty, Kui Lun still has a set of rules in governing the army, but, even so, Kui Lun never thought that his speed was already extraordinary, but his opponent's mobility was terrifying.

And now, Kui Lun and his soldiers and horses have just entered Nayongchun Prefecture not far away, and even less than an hour after passing through Dehua County, they have already received a request for help from the governor of Nayongchun Prefecture.

"With the Liang character as the banner, the soldiers are fierce and aggressive, they must be the first in every battle, mostly firearms, few swords, every time they are in battle, they must fire a hundred cannons, the sound is vibrating for hundreds of miles, and the city is destroyed......" Riding on that war horse, the helmet and armored Kui Lun looked at the subordinate who was reading the military report with a blue face. The east gate of my Yongchun Prefecture has shown a crisis, and I am afraid that the destruction of Yongchun Prefecture will be imminent, and I hope that the general will come to the rescue quickly! ”

"How many soldiers and horses are there in total for the Liang thieves who came to attack Yongchun Prefecture?!" Kuilun asked in a deep voice as he asked the envoy of Yongchun Prefecture, who was still kneeling in front of his horse and panting. But there was a dark chill in my heart, how many people did the Liang thief have? In the end, all the bad news came out, and it seemed that the whole southern part of Fujian was under a frenzied attack.

"More than 2,000, no more than 3,000 soldiers and horses." The messenger thought for a moment, and replied in the affirmative.

"Less than three thousand?" Quiren couldn't help but raise his eyebrows, looking at the messenger with a skeptical tone. "The walls of Yongchun Prefecture are high and the city is thick, and it is one of the few fortified cities in Fujian, but your Zhizhou said that the city is about to be broken, what is the reason?!"

"My lord, the other party's artillery is powerful." The messenger replied quickly.

"Artillery? My Fujian terrain is rugged, where did the other side get hundreds of artillery?! Quiren said coldly. Three thousand, hundreds of artillery, do you know that the Lord of Zhizhou treats the bird gun in their hands as artillery? ”

"General, the other party does have a lot of artillery, and the power is huge, every cannon hit, there is the power of the sky and the earth cracking, a short pillar of incense is not enough, it will be our Yongchun Prefecture's East Gate Tower to the ground, if it weren't for the Lord Zhizhou personally went to the city to boost morale, if it weren't for those thieves who promised to give us half a day to consider, I'm afraid it would be ......"

Hearing what the messenger said, several generals around Quillen couldn't help but gasp. A general who turned out to be a staff member of the Eight Banners Firearms Battalion of the Beijing Division had straight eyes: "This ...... It's unlikely, right? Even if we have 15,000 soldiers and horses, we only carry a few small cannons, and if we can bombard a city gate tower within the effort of a pillar of incense, it must be at least about 5,000 catties of artillery to have this ability, and at least dozens of guns. ”

"Three thousand anti-thieves, there are dozens of guns of about 5,000 catties, is this possible?" A general soldier next to him looked incredulous.

(To be continued)