Fujian clouds, the sound of cannons rumbling, but it is echoing in the city, accompanied by the collapse of the face of the house, at the west gate of the collapsed section of the city wall, a group of red-clothed officers and soldiers like the stars and the moon, escorting a slender figure to step on the rubble.

Even though most of the rubble has been cleared, Yan Sanniang still has a hard time, where the leather boots fall, patches of reddish-brown bloodstains, making her pretty face pale, and then stepping on something strange, making a crisp sound, Yan Sanniang subconsciously looked, her body shook, she almost fell, she stepped on the head of a person with braids.

"Vomit ......"

The hideous head was in sight, Yan Sanniang's stomach was churning, covering her mouth and nauseating, and the maid Xiaohong hurriedly supported her.

"Ma'am?"

Xiaohong looked at her very strangely, as if she was studying whether the vomiting was any other signs.

"My ......"

Yan Sanniang gritted her teeth, suppressed the momentum of turning the river and the sea in her body, and looked up at the city.

"When they hit this step in the field, they still don't want to descend?"

She asked, frowning.

"There are not only Qing soldiers in the city, but also the people brave, who have been bewitched by the dog officials, just like the Xinhui people, who want to fight to the end."

An Wei, the commander of the front battalion of the Eagle Yang Army, replied respectfully, Yan Sanniang stood on the rubble, raised her eyes to look at the situation in the city, and saw at a glance that the city was a house that had been bombed down. The Qing soldiers and the people bravely defended the alleys, but the British and Chinese officers and soldiers had already had experience in street battles in Guangzhou, and directly pushed the artillery to level the city.

I saw that the avenue was densely packed with broken sacks. It should be the people who consciously or unconsciously blocked the intersection when the Eagle Yang Army rushed into the city through the gap. But this is not Xinhui, and the British and Chinese officers and soldiers are not stupid enough to retreat from their guns in close combat, these corpses should be victims of the platoon of guns.

Tears rolled in the corners of Yan Sanniang's eyes, and she began to understand a little why Li Shi always didn't want her to go to the battlefield. She didn't want to see this, her heart softened, it was her own soldiers who died, her heart hardened, but it was innocent people who died, and the war really excluded women.

Yan Sanniang couldn't help the torment in her heart, and finally ordered to stop the artillery fire and level the city, surround the recalcitrant enemy, and continue to persuade him to surrender. An Wei and the generals of the Eagle Yang Army looked at each other, and said in their hearts that this was the case, Yan Sanniang was still the heart of her daughter after all.

This order was a bit stupid from a military point of view, the street fighting was staggered, the own side did not move, the enemy had to move, and in order to level the battle line and facilitate the siege, it was necessary to give up a lot of territory that was only gained after a bloody battle. But Yan Sanniang's identity is special, not only the princess, but also the mentor of the generals of the Eagle Yang Army, even Wu Ya, the commander of the Eagle Yang Army, did not dare to be careful in front of her, let alone others, as soon as she opened her mouth, the sound of cannons in Yunxiao City suddenly fell silent.

"You can't fight like this, it's best to persuade you to surrender."

Yan Sanniang was very hesitant, she knew that her order was a little inappropriate, but she couldn't be ruthless, and let the Eagle Yang Army continue to fight in a way that was close to slaughtering the city.

When Li Shi left, he gave Yan Sanniang the title of patrol envoy of the Military Order Hall, let her take charge of the Yingyang Army and the Navy on the East Road, and also set three instructions for her, first, the primary goal is the whole army, second, at least to hold the first line of Raoping, Chaozhou and Nanao, and third, you can attack, but you must not cross Zhangpu in Fujian at the farthest.

After Li Shi left, Yan Sanniang was very cautious at first, so she instructed the Yingyang army to clear out sporadic resistance in Guangdong, and at the same time oppress Rao Ping's Zhang Wenhuan. But Zhang Wenhuan got the order of Yin Tebu, the minister of the Qincha, to let him enter Fujian to assist in defense, and he breathed a sigh of relief, retreated overnight, and threw Raoping Empty City out.

Seeing the Qing soldiers retreating in stride, Yan Sanniang was very excited, and waved her jade hand: Attack!

This time the Eagle Yang army was happy, Qingpu Battalion Fangtang Heng attacked Wuping, left battalion Pang Songzhen attacked Yongding, front battalion Anwei and right battalion Li Songshen attacked Zhao'an and Yunxiao, three-way attack, quite strong.

Xiao Sheng exerted the power of the navy to the extreme, and also disturbed up and down in two ways, forced by the pressure of the fast sail giant, the Fujian Governor Mu Tingyan did not dare to block the heavy troops on the border of Guangdong and Fujian, but retreated to the line of Zhangzhou and Quanzhou. Shi Shibi also did not dare to move in Penghu, and only barely maintained contact with the Taiwan government, and the news with Fujian was not smooth.

Just when Yan Sanniang, Wu Ya, and the generals of the Yingyang Army thought that they could sweep Fujian, and were still worried about the line drawn by Li Xian, thinking about how to advise and loosen this line, the enemy in front of them had changed significantly.

Yunxiao is an example, there are not many defenders in the city, but with the courage of the people, they even blocked the Yingyang army for two days, even if the city wall was breached, they still resisted stubbornly in street fighting, forcing Yan Sanniang to take pity and stop the offensive.

The encounter between the Qingpu battalion and the left battalion was roughly the same, but Wu Ya, who commanded these two roads, was very hard-hearted, and on the one hand, he used fierce artillery fire to break up the resistance, and on the other hand, he hung bead curtains on the heads of the Qing court officials and generals who were killed all the way, plus a number of braids, and made a "thousand heads and thousands of pigtailed flags" to intimidate the defenders in front of them. The recalcitrant rebels of the declaration will not be able to protect their heads, and they will use both soft and hard, which is why they have won the four counties of Wuping, Shanghang, Wuding, and Pinghe in western Fujian. Feeling that the resistance of the Min people on the road ahead was becoming more and more stubborn, Wu Ya also stopped in front of the line west of Longyan, which was originally drawn by Li Shi......

After the Yingyang army entered Fujian, most of the resistance encountered came from the local people, which surprised Yan Sanniang. When the captives were captured and asked, they learned that Yin Tebu, the minister of the Qin Mission, had sent a message to Fujian Prefecture and County, allowing him to organize his own people, make his own ordnance, and defend the city to resist thieves. With this statement of the Qing court, the power of the people in the prefecture and county was fully used by the local officials, and it was no longer the situation of collapse in the face of the wind before.

"Fortunately, these people are only scattered in the prefectures and counties, just to defend the city, if they are organized by the Qing court, I am afraid that there will be hundreds of thousands of more troops immediately."

Ying Yang Army's military room and letter sighed so much, he didn't agree with attacking the clouds, because the counties he had conquered before were not stable, and he needed to spend a lot of effort to take care of people's hearts. To the east of the clouds is Zhangpu, Zhangpu has produced many generals and officials, and the power of the squires and eunuchs is extremely heavy.

"Why didn't the Qing court organize these people?"

Yan Sanniang doesn't know much about politics, she just thinks that Kangxi Lao'er is very stupid, and she is very happy to face such a stupid enemy.

"It should be afraid, after all, Minyong is not an officer and soldier, if we are bewitched, hundreds of thousands of troops become unreliable, then the trouble will be even greater. The battle of Muye in ancient times, the battle of Guanzhong in the Qin period, the harm of the defective army, and even the enemy in person, I feel that the Qing court dared to let the prefectures and counties organize their own people's bravery, and they had made a great determination. ”

Fang Youxin said it clearly, Yan Sanniang blinked her phoenix eyes, and she still didn't understand too much. But she understood one thing, and it was never a way to fight like this. Not to mention the sharp increase in damage to her own family, and the innocent villagers also died very seriously, she believes that Li Shi does not want to see such a scene, not to mention that her hometown is in Yongchun, Quanzhou.

So she wanted to try to persuade her to surrender again, but she couldn't do it, so she simply withdrew from the clouds, and Fang Youxin agreed. The generals of the Eagle Yang Army were in awe of Yan Sanniang, but they were unwilling to withdraw from Yunxiao City, which had cost hundreds of lives, and they did not dare to speak out to their faces, and on the one hand, they carried out the orders of the enemy besieging the city, and on the other hand, they contacted Xiao Sheng, the general office of the navy, hoping that he could give advice. Xiao Sheng has a deep friendship with Yan Sanniang, and is even Yan Sanniang's life-saving benefactor, Yan Sanniang can listen to his words.

"This is not only a battle of guns, but also a battle of people's hearts, fourth brother...... This should be what the Heavenly King planned in Guangzhou, but before that, Yunxiao had better take it, Yin Tebu is gathering the green camp in the south of the Yangtze River, with Yunxiao, we have a forward defense line integrating land and sea. ”

Xiao Sheng soon arrived, and for his navy, Yunxiao had to get it, so that he could have one more foothold in Fujian, not only to disrupt the future offensive of the Qing court with the army, but also to more effectively shield Taiwan and Penghu from the interior of Fujian.

"Brother Xiao said bluntly that I am a woman's kindness, and I am not suitable for leading soldiers. But now that I'm still the manager, I have to take responsibility, and if Yunxiao is determined not to fall, I still want to give up. When Ah Huan has figured out the clues of the battle of people's hearts, it is not too late to collect the clouds again. ”

Yan Sanniang knew that she was emotional, but she couldn't overcome the hurdle in her heart, and she still had her persistence.

"I estimate that the King of Heaven is having another headache, and for the time being, he can't take care of the hearts of people outside Guangdong, and he has drawn a line for the Eagle Yang Army to advance eastward, which is also in consideration."

Xiao Sheng is still persuading that although the navy has Nanao and Dongshan Island, after all, they are both islands, unlike inland like Yunxiao, in addition to replenishing fresh water, the Fubo army can also carry forward its military strength and join the Fujian war, and now it has entered the city, it is a pity to give up like this.

"Something else?"

Yan Sanniang was a little worried, she felt heavy in her heart just by undertaking the military along the way, and she couldn't sleep well at night, Li Xi is now responsible for the future of tens of millions of people, I really don't know how tenacious a heart needs to be in order to be stable.

"Ask the merchants for money, I, the general office of the navy, will have to focus on how to get more silver from the king in the future, and the king will have to put his mind on how to get more silver for a country, we are like monks who are dervishes."

Xiao Sheng joked, now that the Lantern Festival has passed, this year's navy budget has already been clear, he has to start thinking about next year's budget, 400,000 taels can no longer satisfy his appetite and the admirals, but how much can be added depends on how Li Xian's harvest is.

To fight a war is to face innocent deaths, governing the government has to be like a miserly shopkeeper, the military and the government are together, it is not a comfortable thing, Yan Sanniang feels even more uncomfortable, the rebellion is really not as simple as she thought, just rely on generosity and blood.

But Sanniang is not a tiger-headed person, she has always had a beginning and an end, knowing that Xiao Sheng and the generals are against withdrawing from the clouds, she is ready to calm down and persuade everyone to live.

This contradiction has not yet surfaced, and the persuasion seems to have had an effect, and the remnants of the enemy trapped in a corner of Yunxiao City sent a messenger, who was led into the big tent by the guards, and saw the face of the comer, Yan Sanniang's brain was numb.

Liang Boyu!? In the past, her fiancé once robbed the prison regardless of his net worth in order to save her, but because Xiao Sheng arrived first, he didn't cover her with that great kindness.

"The two armies are fighting, the women and children are affected, even if the king of heaven takes the clouds, but a city of white land, it will not be good for the king of heaven. Hearing that the king of heaven is benevolent and righteous, we and other gentry discussed, and wanted to remit money and food, comfort the king's army, and ask the king to withdraw from the army. ”

Liang Boyu entered the big tent, and he didn't dare to look up at the red-clothed general sitting in the tent, and bowed his head to say what he meant. The British and Chinese troops persuaded them to surrender, and the people and merchants in the city already wanted to surrender, and the Tongzhi of Yunxiao Hall and a cadre of civil and military officials still pressed everyone to resist stubbornly, and the two sides were arguing. He was supposed to run a salt crossing, but unfortunately he was blocked in the city and suffered together. Seeing the battle between the government and the people, Liang Boyu couldn't bear to see the lives of a city ruined, so he stood up and proposed to use the silver to buy peace from the British Chinese army, and volunteered to serve as a messenger.

Liang Boyu has always been doing salt on this line, and he has always been famous, plus this method has the best of both worlds, so the Tongzhi of Yunxiao Hall allowed him to negotiate on behalf of the Yunxiao military and civilians.

When he said this, Yan Sanniang was even more confused, and she didn't know how to respond for a while, so she pursed her lips, her willow eyebrows frowned, there was silence in the big tent, and the atmosphere was very weird.

(To be continued)