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Jiaxing's change of hands made the Qing army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang extremely frightened, they did not know where the next troops of the Zheng army would point, so the governor of Jiangsu, Zheng Duan, was forced to order Wan Yongqi's troops to abandon the Kunshan City that had just been recovered and withdraw to Suzhou, and Shi Lin, the governor of Zhejiang, also restrained the reinforcements from eastern Zhejiang that had arrived at the front line of Hangzhou, and only more than 15,000 people from the Xuancheng (Cheng) Guang (De) line to reinforce Huzhou, Anhui Wannan Town, Jiangxi Jiujiang Town, Hubei and Jiangnan Biao and other departments continued to assemble in northern Zhejiang. (The first text is published in the reading room biquge.info)

On 11 August, Prince Yabu of Jian, who rushed to Hangzhou from Fuzhou, received a holy decree from Kangxi to restrain the Qing army in northern Zhejiang from counterattacking Jiaxing as a general of rebellion, and on the same day, Jiangning general Miao Zina was ordered to control the Qing army in Jiangbei and Jiangnan to go to Suzhou to attack Songjiang in the south.

On the same day, Zheng's remaining troops in Dongning landed in Xinghua Bay with four divisions, cut off the official road between Xinghua and Fuzhou, and shelled Xinghua City the next day, forcing the Fujian Governor Dong Guoxing to urgently order the Fujian Qing army to turn south and prepare for Zheng's army to attack Fuzhou.

On 13 August, Yang Jie, the governor of Jiangnan in Huzhou, was ordered to command the Qing army in northern Zhejiang to advance eastward. On the same day, Miuzina, who arrived in Suzhou City, also brought with him about 13,000 soldiers from the Eight Banners stationed in Langshan Town, Jiangning, and Jingkou in northern Jiangsu, as well as the Dubiao Zuo Battalion, the Pukou Battalion, the Liyang Battalion, the Guazhou Battalion, the Yangzhou Battalion, the Caobiao Zuo Battalion, and the Shouchun Town in Anhui. So far, the Zheng army faced the Jiangsu Qing army of more than 35,000 people on the northern front, more than 18,000 people under Yang Jie's department on the western front, and 44,000 Zhejiang Qing troops under the personal command of Yabu in the southwest, a full 100,000 army like Mount Tai overwhelmed the generals.

On August 15, the Qing army in Jiangsu reoccupied Kunshan, and then divided its troops to capture Taicang and Jiading, at this time the Zheng army, which knew that the Qing army was very difficult to defeat, had driven thousands of people east to the seaside, some of these people were recruited by their families for the Zheng army, and this time they followed the Zheng army to avoid trouble, and more were looted and enslaved because of the organization of regimental training and hostility to the Zheng army.

Although the people who cried for their fathers and mothers were unwilling to leave their hometowns, but in front of Zheng Jun, who was killing chickens and monkeys, they did not dare to go to the end of the team, and after a day and two nights of day and night, Zheng Jun safely boarded the transport ship at the mouth of the Liuhe River, leaving only the mess of a place to the chasing Qing army.

On 17 August, the Zheng army abandoned the three counties of Shanghai, Huating, and Qingpu, and the Qing army in Zhejiang also captured the two counties of Tongxiang and Shimen

On 18 August, in view of the fact that the Qing army attacking from the direction of Huzhou showed signs of meeting with the Qing army that occupied Tongxiang and Shimen, the main force of the Zheng army took the initiative to abandon Jiaxing City and retreat to Pinghu and Zhapu. The next day, the Jiaxing gentry who found that the Zheng army had really retreated sent people out of the city to look for the Qing army, and the envoy met the Xiezuo battalion of Yanzhou (note: Jiande) in Quzhou Town, which was the vanguard of the Qing army.

On August 20, the Qing army in southern Jiangsu entered Qingpu and other counties, which had long been empty, and then the main force marched southward and approached the city of Songjiang, but at this time, the Zheng army that remained behind had already retreated to Lou County, and the Qing army also only received an empty city.

Although the Qing army in northern Zhejiang and southern Jiangsu repeatedly reported to Beijing, it could not hide that there was no head to report military merits, and southern Jiangsu and northern Zhejiang were the most important financial places of the Qing court.

On 21 August, six sentry posts and one artillery post of Zheng's troops in the direction of Songjiang seized the opportunity to strike at the Pukou battalion and Liyang battalion in front of the attack

"Quick," Ye Cheng felt irritated when he watched the small boats transporting artillery, horses, barreled gunpowder, etc. onto the ship one by one, and then seeing the scenes of Songjiang people who were unwilling to be driven by Zheng Jun to leave their hometowns from time to time deliberately tumble into the water and try to escape but were shot by Zheng Jun. "Captain, what kind of battle did you say this was, didn't you say that you would let the Northern Fleet break into Zhigu to deter Beijing, but now you let us act as transport ships"

"Ye Hujun, don't complain," although Xie Siqi was also dissatisfied with the current situation, he understood that if the strength of more than four divisions fell in southern Jiangsu and northern Zhejiang, even if it was not a catastrophe for the Zheng army and the land division, it would not be so easy to recover its vitality in the future, and the naval division would not be able to fight on land after all. "The top must have their own considerations, so let's obey orders." Speaking of which, Xie Siqi asked the boatswain on the side. "How much is it to be full?"

The boatswain looked at the list in his hand and replied, "Thirty more." ”

"Let them hurry up." Xie Siqi urged, and at the same time looked back at Ye Cheng. "I said second mate, don't be sad, the battle must be fought, you say, let's wait for the Tartars to build the Tianjin shipyard, or do it now when it's still white?"

On August 22, the Qing army regained Haiyan, Pinghu and the county seat of Louxian, in a sense, the Qing army had all recovered Songjiang and Jiaxing, but the Zheng army still relied on the ports of Zhapu and Nanhui to transfer troops and materials, and coerce the people and other people, so the Qing army could not complete the work.

However, because the intention of Zheng Jun to retreat on his own initiative was very obvious, whether to pursue Zheng Jun for this reason caused a lot of controversy within the Qing army, some people thought that the urgency would cause the situation of the poor rat backlash, and some people thought that letting Zheng Jun withdraw unharmed not only damaged the face of the Qing court, but also could not explain to Kangxi and was suspected of conniving with the enemy. After fierce debate, Yabu made the decision to attack Zhapu Port, as for the low-lying terrain on the Nanhui line, and the Jiangsu side had the warning of the Kunshan victory and the pursuit of Loubei, so although Miuzina also gave the order to attack, the Jiangsu side took every step of the way, which was equivalent to sitting back and watching the Zheng army leave.

On August 23, the Zheng army of Fujian broke through the city of Xinghua, and Dong Guoxing, the governor of Fujian, had no choice but to lead the governor and the military standard to go south to Fuqing in person, and on the same day, the reinforcements of the first line of Zhang and Chao also arrived in Quanzhou.

On August 24, the Qing army in Zhejiang had not yet launched a final general attack on Zhapu, and the new governor of Jiangxi, Yu Chenglong, was still stranded in Beijing and had not yet seen Kangxi, and the rest of Xiong Xin had an incident in Yining, Jiangxi (note: Xiushui) and other places, and the Qing army was extremely weak in the border areas of Hubei and Jiangxi because of the large eastward transfer of troops, and the righteous army under the banner of "Zhu Sanzi" reappeared and swept Wuning, Tongshan, Xingguo (note: Yangxin) and other places, threatening Huangzhou, Qizhou and Daye to the north, threatening Jiayu, Chongyang and Pingjiang to the west, and threatening Nanchang and Ruichang to the east. Crossing the Jiuling Mountain can threaten the southwest of Jiangxi

Also on 24 August, the 60,000-strong Qing army in Zhejiang formed three formations from the east, west, and north to slowly approach Zhapu, and the Zheng army's 8,000-strong troops who had not yet completed the transfer relied on Jiulong Mountain, Qilong Mountain, Dongchang Mountain, Tangshan and the former site of the Zhapu Water Division Camp to set up formations.

Although the hills along the rivers and seas such as Jiuli Mountain are not high, the terrain is also quite rugged, coupled with muddy places such as puddles, the Qing army focused its attention on the line of the original Zhapu Water Village. However, the Qing army had just launched the Hongyi cannon to shoot at the Zheng army's position, but it was counterattacked by the Zheng army's naval gunboats, not to mention the powerful four-inch (28-pound) short guns on the Zheng army's gunboats, and the inferior three-and-a-half-inch long guns were enough to laugh at the battlefield, and the results of the Qing army's artillery battle with them were naturally self-evident.

Seeing the defeat in the artillery battle, the Qing army tried to drown the Zheng army with the tactics of a sea of people, but under the blow of chain bullets and shotguns fired by the Zheng army's gunboats, less than half of the soldiers and horses passed through the artillery blockade line.

Because of the lack of correct understanding of the advantages and disadvantages between manpower and firepower, so the Qing army did not admit defeat, Yabu thought that the Zheng army's artillery could not continue to shoot, so he ordered to put more soldiers and horses to press, but the Zheng army cruised at sea with a large number of gunboats, one port gun overheated, and the other immediately went forward to take over, so as to ensure that the frequency of artillery fire was basically stable, so Yabu's tactics were declared a failure.

The first army was defeated, the third army was depressed, and the Qing army was forced to abandon the next battle and let the Zheng army withdraw in a good time.

On August 25, the Zheng army withdrew the troops on the front line of Jiulishan, and the Qing army hurriedly filled it, so that the Qing army occupied the commanding heights on the battlefield. However, while the Qing army was still panting and pulling its heavy artillery to the top of the mountain, the Zheng army had basically withdrawn the land forces on the Zhapu front.

Standing on the side of the trestle in Dinghai Port, looking at the Zheng soldiers unloaded from the returning ships one by one, Hong Gongzhu looked left and right and asked, "How many troops have not been brought back?" ”

The military officer standing behind Hong Gongzhu replied: "There is also a regiment of the Right Tiger Guard Division and four sentinels of the Left Guard Division. ”

"Pass the order, let the troops that returned to Changguo immediately renovate, and three days later, the whole army will be pointed south." Speaking of this, Hong Gongzhu asked again. "Have you counted the amount of grain and grass?"

"The grain transported from southern Jiangsu and northern Zhejiang is enough for the army to eat for 20 days, but if you count the people stranded on the islands of Zhoushan, it is enough to eat for 11 or 2 days at most."

"Now that the wind season has passed, the sea route from Dongning to Zhoushan has been reopened," Hong Gongzhu commanded, turning to the uneasy sneezing war horse. "Let Yan Dao and use the splint fast boat to transport a dry of people to Dongning as soon as possible, and at the same time bring back the grain as much as possible." A military officer immediately took the order, Hong Gongzhu rode on a war horse, looked at the southwest, and a mysterious smile appeared on his face. "I don't know what kind of reaction the Tartar chief Kangxi will have when he knows that our army has appeared under the city of Ningbo again?"

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