Chapter 394: Emergency Transfer

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The unpredictable world is what Lu Yu is talking about, the good city, in the case of 5,000 young people helping to defend the city, and the morale of the Qing army has also increased greatly because of the encouragement of white flowers and silver, the city gate was broken in this way, and the broken Harhazi was inexplicable, and the entire Huzhou city was in chaos while still sleeping.

Lu Yu never thought that he was just looting some more money, how could he force the rich gentry in the city to contact Zheng Jun and sacrifice the city gate? As the saying goes, there must be a cause and effect, Wang Sicong, the son of Wang Zhanhui, a wealthy businessman in Huzhou City, was once jealous because of the competition with Lu Yu's son, and the entire Wang family was repaired by Lu Yu very miserably, and the Wang family's business in Huzhou was hit.

Wang Zhanhui of the Wang family was angry for a while and agreed with Lu Yu to say a few words, but this is the case, Lu Yu felt that his official authority was being challenged, especially as a small businessman, so he ordered Wang Zhanhui to be imprisoned, and then considered whether to release him after the Wang family collected 40,000 taels of silver and sent it to his mansion. Although the Wang family is rich, it is not a wealthy family that has been inherited for more than a hundred years, although the family property is as much as 300,000, but most of them are real estate estates and purchased land, and the current silver is only 50,000 taels, and it is scattered in Jiangning, Suzhou and other stores, and the shops in the entire Huzhou City and the family can make up a total of 30,000 taels, and this is not up to Lu Yu's requirements.

Wang Zhanhui's son, Wang Sicong, is a typical gentleman. Eating, drinking, prostituting and gambling are all available. Proficient in everything. But he has an advantage that he likes to learn the Liangshan heroes in the novel, so he can make friends, so he knows some of the three religions and nine streams in Huzhou City, because he is willing to spend money, and by chance he saved a few outlaws who were hunted down, the leader is called Li San and Li Si, who are twins, and the others are his subordinates. These people themselves are salt barons who sell smuggled salt. The head was pinned to the waistband of his trousers, and it was the first time he was chased and killed because of the failure to grab the turf, and after being rescued by Wang Sicong, he bowed to Wang Sicong.

The smuggling of illicit salt in Huzhou eventually fell into the hands of these people, but Wang Sicong did not participate, although he was a fool but still knew some of the severity, his Wang family was too insignificant in the south of the Yangtze River, and he was not qualified to participate in the smuggling of illicit salt, but he could make friends with this salt lord, Wang Zhanhui also agreed, and his son could have a foil if he had something in the future. This time, Wang Zhanhui was imprisoned. Wang Sicong and several aunts had no idea, and finally spent a lot of money to visit Wang Zhanhui in prison. Wang Zhanhui gave Wang Sicong such an idea.

Originally, this Huzhou City gave people the feeling that it was crumbling, but after Wang Sicong found Li San and Li Si, the two sides hit it off, and Li San and Li Si agreed to Wang Sicong's request. Li San and Li Si are both salt lords and brains, Li San first sent his henchmen out of the city to contact Zheng Jun, made an appointment to open the door, and waited until the people sent out came back, and only then did he sneak attack the south city gate with a hundred or so people under his command in this dark night.

Although Huzhou was surrounded by water, the Taiwanese soldiers were all soaked in the seawater, and all of them were very watery and could row, and they bypassed the east gate in front of them, and with the help of Li San and Li Si, they crossed the Dongtiaoxi River with 20 small fishing boats, and then attacked the city. There are only 2,500 soldiers left under the command of Harhazi, as for the newly recruited 5,000 young men and women, there is no need to count on them, these people have never undergone a day of formal training, they cannot be counted as soldiers at all, they are still ordinary people, and when the Zheng army came up, a large number of young men took the initiative to surrender. Just kidding, they're just ordinary people, and they still expect them to go up and fight hard, besides, they don't even have a spear or a waist knife in their hands, they just want them to fight, what do they use to fight!

Very light, Zheng army of 3,600 soldiers and horses just with simple weapons into the city, and then divided a part of the direct attack on the prefect yamen and the garrison yamen, and at the same time concentrated the main forces to attack the east city gate, Harwi Haji was caught off guard, and his soldiers and horses were either killed or captured, and he saw the opportunity early, only with a few personal guards to escape from the west gate, fled to the direction of Yizhou, Anhui. It was the place where the Qing army reinforcements had to pass, and he could only feel safe if he fled from the west.

It's just that Lu Yu is miserable, when Zheng Jun invaded the prefect's yamen, Lu Yu was holding his concubine and dreaming of being promoted to become rich, and he didn't react until Wang Sicong led Zheng Jun's soldiers and horses to his room. Finished! Not to mention being promoted and making a fortune, it is difficult to save your life! Lu Yu immediately knelt down and surrendered, and Wang Sicong also wanted to cut him with a knife, but Zheng Jun had already trapped Lu Yu, and it seemed that he was going to hand it over to General Shi Lang for disposal, which was not something that he Wang Sicong could interfere with.

Huzhou's change of hands made the Qing army in Suzhou extremely frightened, Pingnan general Lai Ta could expect that if the Zheng army continued to attack, it would definitely come to Suzhou, so Lai Ta ordered all the soldiers and horses outside to withdraw to Suzhou City, and the soldiers and horses reinforced by the Anhui Qing army had just arrived in Xuancheng and were still marching towards Huzhou, several troops and horses were Zhu Yao, the chief soldier of Anhui Wannan Town, Sashku, the general of Hubei Province, and Ma Hada, the deputy commander of Jiangnan Town, and more than 30,000 people were on their way to northern Zhejiang, and it was expected that it would take about five days to arrive.

At this time, the new governor of Zhejiang, Li Zhifang, who had only been in office for less than four months, was the most sorrowful, and was entrusted with an important task by Kangxi, preparing to mobilize troops and horses to assist the counterinsurgency army to attack Fujian and quell Geng Jingzhong's rebellion.

Kangxi's holy decree also came down, and Li Zhifang was not good at guarding the land, so he ordered him to be transferred back to the capital, and another decree was issued to let the governor of Liangjiang, A Xixi. The Guerjia clan was solely responsible for the conquest of Zheng Wei and the reconquest of the lost territory. The Governor of Liangjiang was in charge of the military and civilian affairs of Anhui and Jiangxi and Jiangsu (including Shanghai in later generations), and was one of the nine highest-ranking feudal ministers of the Qing Dynasty, just like Fan Chengmo, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang. Of course, this position can only be held by Kangxi's most trusted person. However, at this time, Ah Xixi was still on the road and did not arrive in Suzhou, and for the time being, Suzhou's military affairs were still in charge of Laita.

Mid-Autumn Festival, this festive day in the city of Suzhou but lost its original color, the whole city of Suzhou can now almost be said to have become a huge military camp, the entire city hoarded more than 40,000 soldiers and horses, A Xixi also officially arrived on this day, holding the holy decree written by Kangxi himself to the governor of Liangjiang and the general of the rebellion to control the Jiangnan Qing army counterattack Zheng Rebellion, he came to Suzhou to issue the first order is to immediately reorganize the army, three days later officially set off to take the lead in recovering Jiaxing!

Prior to this, the governor of Liangjiang, Maleji, was still very good, although he was a Manchurian, but he also had a good reputation, and he asked for several consecutive orders to reduce the taxes in Jiangnan by half, and intercepted the tax money to build water conservancy, which was quite a good official, which was not easy for a banner man. However, Wu Sangui rose up, Geng Jingzhong responded, Maleji still refused to raise taxes to the people, Kangxi immediately demoted him on the pretext that he had no political achievements, and at this time he was replaced by A Xixi, who has the ability, not only good at military affairs but also good at collecting money. It's just that Kangxi didn't expect that he asked A Xixi to serve as the governor of Liangjiang, and in the end, it was he who was tyrannical and tyrannical, which made the people of Jiangnan miserable, and many people responded to Wu Sangui, Geng Jingzhong or Zheng Jing. This made it convenient for Zheng Jing and them to create zào, which Kangxi could not have expected.

Shi Lang was not idle here, and after receiving the support of Taiwan's soldiers and horses, he was much more confident. The intelligence of many parties also shows that the total number of troops mobilized by the Qing army from several directions is less than 70,000, excluding the auxiliary soldiers, and the number of combat soldiers is only 50,000, which is not a big threat to their current 36,000 soldiers and horses, and Shi Lang has also made up his mind, now the focus is on defending the city, with the large army in his hands, the problem of holding the city is not big, and the Qing army can not attack for a long time, morale declines, and their own reinforcements come again, they can counterattack on a large scale, and it is best to take Suzhou directly at that time. In this way, Suzhou and Hangzhou, the richest places in the south of the Yangtze River, fell into their hands!

On August 18, Pingnan General Lai Ta was ordered to command the Qing army under his command to advance south. About 35,000 people from the Eight Banners Battalion, the Supervisory Biaozuo Battalion, the Pukou Battalion, the Liyang Battalion, the Guazhou Battalion, the Yangzhou Battalion, and the Caobiao Zuo Battalion stationed in Jiangning and Jingkou arrived at Shengze Town at the junction of Suzhou and Jiaxing in two days. At the same time, more than 32,000 people from Zhu Yao, the chief soldier of Anhui Wannan Town, Sashiku, the general of Hubei, and Ma Hada, the deputy commander of the soldiers and horses of Jiangnan Town, also arrived at the city of Huzhou, and the two armies were more than 60,000 like Mount Tai to kill the generals.

In this Jiangnan region with a dense water network, war horses have no effect, and the most useful place for the two sides to fight is only the infantry army, that is, in terms of siege, then only the infantry army can be used to attack the city. At this time, although Zheng Jun was divided into several parts, Jiaxing City and Huzhou said that they only had 15,000 and 12,000 soldiers and horses respectively, and the other soldiers and horses were stationed in Hangzhou, but at this time, Shi Lang and others were full of confidence in being able to defend the city. Although the enemy's Qing army has more than twice as many soldiers and horses, or even three times, it is still advantageous as the defending side, and as long as they hold on for ten days and half a month, the follow-up Taiwanese soldiers and horses will definitely arrive.

And because it is to defend the city, Shi Lang has also made a lot of preparations, all kinds of city defense equipment in these days are also ordered to keep preparing for the subordinates, compared to their more advantage, Shi Lang ordered them to be moored in the Qiantang River in the Taiwan Navy warship to drive out, the Navy warship on the Furlong machine gun dismantled a total of 100 separately and installed on the city of Jiaxing City and Huzhou City, which also made the morale of the Zheng army as the defender of the city greatly increased, with these guys, it feels a lot easier to defend the city. (To be continued......)

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