276. Sweep

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"Congratulations, congratulations, you will definitely be able to seal the marquis this time. (The fastest update speed is on the Aishang Novel Network biquge.info)"

Listening to the congratulations of the military officers around him, Hong Gongzhu's face showed a hint of joy. That's right, Ming Zheng now has no third-class marquis except for Zheng Cong, Zheng Ming, Zheng Kezang and other three Zheng clan relatives who have been awarded the title of marquis, but with the completion of the unfinished deeds of the previous kings, he may indeed become the first person.

But full of joy and full of joy, Hong Gongzhu's mind is still very clear, he knows that this qiē is just the beginning: "Has the city been taken down?" Did the troops entering the city seal off the treasury? Have the Qing court officials below Wang Qiu been caught? Have the remnants of the Qing army been wiped out? What changes did the Qing army in Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Jianning, Xinghua and other places? If these things are not implemented, Fuzhou will not be able to hold on. ”

Seeing this scene, Hong Gongzhu couldn't help laughing, and then he seemed to realize something, and turned to Wu Ben beside him and ordered: "Immediately report to Dongning, and then ask the Inspector and Lu Fuyuan to come to Fuzhou immediately to preside over the overall situation."

Fuzhou, as the provincial capital of Fujian and the largest military station in the Ming and Zheng wars, hoarded a huge amount of materials, including more than 4,000 horses of all kinds alone, and in terms of captured artillery, there were 12 Wucheng Yonggu cannons and 12 Shenwei invincible general cannons in the Qing army, as for the rest of the caliber Hongyi cannons, Franc machine guns, and tiger squat cannons, a total of 427 cannons, in addition to 4,100 bird guns, 3,072 bows, 500,000 catties of gunpowder, and 3,509 collars of various types of armor. There are still more than 490,400 taels of silver in the treasury, and the rice and noodles stored are as high as 400,000 stones, which is enough for all Zheng Jun to eat for more than two years, and the rest of the iron, wood, and oil are piled up.

"I've made a fortune this time." Looking at the jubilant generals, Hong Gongzhu's face was also full of smiles. "However, those traitors who have forgotten their roots and the gentry who are willing to be slaves must be investigated and dealt with as soon as possible." This is to make everyone, and Xi Daping, the commander of the Zuohu Benshi stationed in Fuzhou City, has a smile on his face. "Before the war, the lord said that he would use the new recruits from northern Fujian to build two more divisions, and now that Fuzhou has been recovered, this matter must be stepped up, and each division should draw out a part of its strength to reinforce the new division, of course, the insufficient part must be made up as much as possible, and the combat power cannot be lower than before the war."

Everyone agreed, and at this time, Hong Gongzhu walked to the Zuo Funing division with the same smile on his face, but his expression was a little alienated, and he was in front of Zhou Zhenghe: "Lord Zhou, this officer knows that your Zuo Funing division is not well organized, and it just so happens that more than 3,400 green flag soldiers were captured in the battle of Fuzhou. ”

Looking at Zhou Zhenghe, who was surprised and delighted, Hong Gongzhu added. "However, this official did not leave you much time for reorganization, two days at most, and after two days, you will inevitably lead the troops up the Min River, first occupy Minqing, and then capture Gutian and Youxi, so as to monitor the movements of Jianning Town."

Zhou Zhenghe responded, but his heart was bitter, he knew that he was a new attached army, and naturally the hardest and most tiring work had to be handed over to himself, no, don't look at the territory given to the three counties and replenished the troops, but in case the Qing army from Jianning Town and Jiangxi pounced, he would be the first to bear the brunt.

However, Zhou Zhenghe understands that if he changes the court at this moment, not to mention that he has to pass the pass of the military supervision first, even if his subordinates have the ambition to follow him, he may not be able to please him when he returns to the Qing court, after all, the experience of Geng Jingzhong's monk is still close at hand, and he does not dare to touch this mold.

Hong Gongzhu didn't pay attention to Zhou Zhenghe's mental activities, he took care of himself and ordered: "Now you can order Deputy General Cai to do something to Zhenghe, Zhou Dun (note: Zhouning County, at that time set up a county Yamen), Songxi, however, be sure to ask him to choke the passage of the Qing army from Zhejiang into Fujian as the first priority, as long as the Qing army from the north is blocked, the Shijue he wants is just around the corner."

The news of Cai Yuanshu's rebellion and the landing of Zheng Jun was not actually hidden from the Qing army in Wenzhou, but at first no one believed that this was the truth, and after the fleeing people brought the news of the siege of Fuzhou, the shocked Wen Chudao and Wenzhou Town reported the news to Hangzhou, but this was already after the messenger from Hangzhou learned the truth about Fujian. As for the sudden attack on Fuzhou by the Zheng army, in fact, the Zhejiang Province side welcomed it, because in this way, the pressure on Zhejiang Province on the front line of Ningshaotai was weakened. However, Zhejiang was afraid that this would be a repeat of Zheng Junsheng's old trick of attacking the north from the south, so it did not dare to draw troops south. After thinking about it, a group of provincial officials finally decided to adopt the same strategy as Zhang Yunyi, and attacked Xiangshan and Taiping as an explanation to Beijing, so two strange battles that did not aim to defeat the opponent began.

Zhejiang could not draw troops to the south, and Jiangsu did not dare to withdraw troops from the southern Jiangsu defense line, so the threat from the north was greatly reduced, at this time Zheng Jun Qiongzhou landed in Qinzhou Bay, plundered more than 600 people, and suddenly attracted more than half of the attention of Guangdong Province, and there were not enough troops to take into account the defense of the first line of Zhangquan and the reinforcement to the north, the new Fujian Navy Admiral Zhang Wang had to tear down the east wall to make up the west wall, and transferred the Nanao Town Biaozuo Battalion, Tongshan Water Division Battalion, which had no station. More than 3,000 people from the Left Battalion of the Kinmen Association and other units went north as the first batch of reinforcements, and this strength was naturally useless.

Moreover, the embarrassment of the Qing army was soon discovered by Zheng Jun, who personally rushed to Fuzhou and commanded the various units that were still in the process of training and recuperating to quickly cross the Min River and go straight to Fuqing. In the face of the main force of the Zheng army of nearly 20,000 people, the Qing army left behind in the front line of Fuqing was forced to flee into the city of Fuqing to defend it, but it was not expected that the Zheng army surrounded Fuqing with only one part, and the main force pointed directly at Yangmen.

Since Zhang Yunyi was defeated, the defenders of Fuqing naturally had no hope, and had to take the initiative to open the city and surrender, so he was organized by Zheng Kezhang as the Fuqing division, and then went all the way south. At this time, the strength of the Zheng army had swelled to 33,000 people, but the more than 6,000 frightened remnants and reinforcements who were affected by the remnants and had no hope of reporting the war were not Zheng Jun's opponents at all. Zheng Jun repeated his old tricks, blasted the Xinghua city wall with a thousand catties of gunpowder, and then broke into the Xinghua city. Although Zhang Yunyi and Zhang Wang tried their best to cope with the battle, their subordinates surrendered one after another, and the two of them who fought fewer and fewer troops finally died in battle, so Xinghua also fell into the hands of Zheng Jun.

On the day Zheng Kezhang entered Xinghua, he immediately assigned the Fuqing Division, which had contributed a lot of strength in the attack on Xinghua, to attack Yongtai and Xianyou counties, and used Xinghua to surrender troops to form the Xinghua Division. After that, the Zheng army, which had rested for a day, went all the way south along the coastline, and the Hui'an defenders, who bore the brunt of the attack, opened the city and surrendered, and Quanzhou was exposed to the Zheng army's troops without any cover.

The defenders of Quanzhou also did not dare to resist, before the Zheng army arrived, the prefect and the garrison led the troops to abandon the city and fled, the Zheng army attacked in the direction of Nan'an, Anxi, Yongchun and Dehua with the Xinghua division, and the main force killed Zhangzhou along the official road, and immediately seized Tong'an, Changtai and Haicheng counties, and besieged the last strength of the Qing army in Fujian Province in the city of Zhangzhou.

Zheng's army swept through Fujian in less than a month, and the news of repeatedly conquering famous cities and capturing governors, governors, generals, and admirals quickly spread throughout the country, and everyone was stunned by this fact. Kangxi issued a series of edicts to mobilize troops and horses from Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Jiangxi, Guangdong, and Guizhou provinces to reinforce Fujian, but Jiangsu and Zhejiang were very worried about going south, and the anti-Qing uprisings in Guangdong, Guizhou, Hunan and other places also quickly rose.

Seeing that each province had its own calculations, Kangxi was furious and immediately announced that he would drive the expedition, for which he mobilized soldiers and horses from Zhili, Shandong, Henan and other places and banned the eight banners of the brigade with a total of 50,000 and claimed to be 200,000 to go south to the south of the Yangtze River, under the persecution of Kangxi's imperial expedition. Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces were forced to transfer the main forces garrisoning southern Jiangsu and northern Zhejiang to the south.

On June 15, the 46th year of Yongli, Zheng Jun mobilized heavy artillery to collapse the southern city wall of Zhangzhou, and saw that the general trend had gone. After hearing that Zhangzhou had opened the city, Wang Xinhua, the chief soldier of Tingzhou Town, who had already led reinforcements to Longyan City, sent an envoy to meet Zheng Kezang, and then after receiving Zheng Kezang's promise, he announced in Longyan on June 20 that he would be the right deputy commander in Fujian.

After Wang Xinhua was anyway, Zheng Kezhang combined the divisions of the newly annexed armies such as Fuqing and Xinghua that were originally established with the divisions of the Zheng army that came from Dongning, and replaced the original Kunlun slave as the artillery army, baggage, and middle base with the new annexed army, and established eighteen (Kunlun) slave armies with the surplus Kunlun slaves, so that the Zheng army and land division already had 15 divisions and 22 regiments and 120,000 people without Cai Yuanshu and Wang Xinhua

"Although Lianke Dayi has obtained a lot of materials this time, it is not beneficial to Dongning's inventory." Looking at the ministers in front of him, Zheng Kezhang said clearly. "What's more critical is that the Tatar chief Kangxi has openly announced his personal expedition to the south, and seeing that hundreds of thousands of enemies in the north are about to press over, he wants to know, should this domain stay on the mainland or leave with the past?"

"The minister thinks that there are almost a few provinces in this domain, and if he leaves without a fight at this time, I am afraid that it will not only chill the hearts of the army and the people, but also have a bad impact on the future return of this domain to the mainland." From the perspective of appeal, Hong Gongzhu's words are not wrong, once the outside world determines that Zheng Jun is just a rogue, then it is almost impossible to have someone to follow. "So I thought I would fight no matter what."

"The minister also thought that he should fight." Sun Youlao, who had just been promoted to the same post in the Military Academy, also said. "Don't look at the huge momentum of the Qinglu, how can these hundreds of thousands of people go south to central Zhejiang as fast as possible, and then there is the grain, although the Qingyu can use the grain of Suzhou, Anhui and Jiangxi to supply nearby, but what about hundreds of thousands of people, how much does it cost for people to eat and chew, and this alone can make Qingyu's income this year completely ruined."

"You also think you want to fight?" Zheng Kezang's gaze swept over Lin Sheng and Lin Xian's faces, and when he saw that the two of them also nodded, he stopped asking. "Since you want to fight, let's talk about it later, which direction should this clan advance from?"

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