Chapter Ninety-Eight: Recovering Funing Prefecture

It was not until the afternoon when Shenshi approached Youyou that the entire city of Fuzhou finally settled down, and the Qing soldiers who surrendered to the Ming army were taken to the Zuodu Command Office, where they were imprisoned and counted.

In the siege of Fuzhou Mansion, the Ming army under Su Yan lost more than 300 casualties, and the main casualties were due to the frontal assault on the city wall, which was killed and wounded by the Qing army's artillery fire, arrows and firearms.

The casualties on the side of the Qing army were not much, mainly because they surrendered too quickly, so after the Ming army entered the city, the Qing army killed more than 500 people, more than 3,800 people became prisoners, and many people took advantage of the chaos to flee into residential areas, disguised as civilians.

The difference in casualties between the two sides is not large, or because the Qing army occupies the advantage of the city wall, otherwise, the Qing army is afraid that there will be more casualties.

In addition, the arsenals of the two capitals, the treasury of the political envoy and the Changfeng warehouse have also been counted in combination with the account books registered before, Fuzhou is worthy of being the provincial capital, and the reserves are extremely rich, with more than 40,000 sets of armor of all kinds, more than 30,000 waist knives and long knives, more than 80,000 spears, more than 50,000 shields, 8,000 bows and crossbows, 5,000 bird guns, 120,000 taels of gold and silver reserves, and 1.8 million stones of grain.

The gold and silver reserves are not much, because not long ago, a large amount of silver taels were transferred from the Fujian treasury to support Guangdong and Hunan, and the Qing army that was fighting with the Southern Ming army was paid, and the remaining 120,000 taels were still left as emergency reserves.

In addition to the reserves in the arsenal, a large number of weapons and equipment were also captured on the battlefield, so I won't do much statistics here, and the Hongyi cannons, Furang machine guns and tiger squat cannons on the head of Fuzhou City also fell into the hands of the Ming army, but Su Yan did not lack artillery for the time being, so he continued to stay on the city wall as a city defense artillery.

When Su Yan finished reading the account books, Chen Ying had already returned from Zuodu with Zhang Yingmeng's confession, if Zhang Yingmeng's confession was true, then the Qing troops in Funing Prefecture, Jianning Prefecture, Shaowu Mansion, Yanping Mansion and Tingzhou Mansion were very empty, and even the defenders of each prefecture city did not exceed 15,000.

This is actually understandable, Fujian Province has been an indisputable place for soldiers since ancient times, but the country surnamed Ye insisted on resisting the Qing Dynasty in southern Fujian, so that the Qing court deployed more troops along the coast of Fujian, and after these troops were annihilated by Su Yan, the Qing army in Fujian Province had no ability to compete with Su Yan.

Therefore, Su Yan believes that this confession has eighty percent credibility.

Just when he decided to issue the order to send troops, the guards outside informed Huang An, the commander of Zheng's sailors, that he had come to visit, and Su Yan ordered someone to bring Huang An in.

As soon as Huang An came up, he saluted Su Yan with admiration on his face, congratulated Su Yan on recovering Fuzhou City, and then asked Su Yan if there was anything he needed for them, he scratched the back of his head, and added: "This is an order given by the master surnamed Guo, and the water master under the command is to wait for Tong Anbo's dispatch." ”

"General Huang came just in time, I really need you here." Su Yan looked at Huang An's fierce appearance, his eyes lit up, and said: "You and your sailor will repair for one night tonight, and tomorrow morning you will transport three thousand soldiers along the Min River to the north to attack Yanping Mansion." ”

"Mark and command." Huang An said with his fists clenched.

After speaking, he looked at Su Yan and did not leave, Su Yan was stunned, reacted instantly, and ordered Chen Ying with a smile: "Go and order someone to allocate five thousand taels from the treasury and hand it over to General Huang." ”…

Then he looked at Huang An and said, "General Huang, these five thousand taels should be regarded as my reward to the brothers of the navy." ”

"Thank you for your reward, and thank you for your generosity, brothers of the next generation." Huang An said with a grin, and then followed Chen Yingle to leave the governor's courtyard.

After Huang An left, Su Yan ordered Su Ci and Lai Xun, who were maintaining order in the city, to summon them, and he was ready to hand over the task of attacking the city to these two.

The two quickly followed the guards who went to summon them back, and Su Yan went straight to the point and said, "I want to order the two of you to lead your troops to attack other prefectures and counties, do you have the confidence to complete the task?" ”

The two of them were a little confused by Su Yan's words, but they still responded.

"Very good, with Ming, you will lead the headquarters of the Yiwu battalion to order another 2,000 soldiers, carrying ten Franc cannons and twenty tiger squat cannons, and rush to Shanghanghang tomorrow, and together with General Huang An under the command of the country, take a boat along the Min River to attack Yanping Mansion, Shaowu Mansion and nearby counties."

"Subordinates receive orders." Lai Xun responded with a fist.

Su Yan looked at Su Ci again and said: "Yuchen, you will lead the Chinese military camp of 3,000 (4,000 years ago, the defenders of Quanzhou were directly temporarily incorporated into the Chinese military camp after the training), bring ten Franco cannons and twenty tiger squat cannons, and go north by boat tomorrow to assist in attacking Yanping Mansion. ”

"The last general commands."

Shaowu, Yanping and Tingzhou have all set up offensive targets, and then only Funing Prefecture and Jianning Mansion remain, Su Yan is ready to personally lead the troops to attack Funing Prefecture, and then wait for the more than 1,700 soldiers who originally belonged to the Tong'an garrison to go north to join him after the training in Quanzhou has been completed, and then capture Jianning Mansion.

After receiving the order, Su Ci and Lai Xun went back to mobilize the soldiers who would go with him tomorrow, and after they left, Su Yan put the artillery foundry and the Admiralty into construction, and quietly waited for the end of the fifth day of December.

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The next day, Su Ci and Lai Xun led the army through the gate outside the city of Ningyue Gate, which had not yet been repaired, and went to the Shanghanggang port area to board the ship.

"Alright, it's time for me to go." Su Yan muttered to himself in a low voice.

Subsequently, he summoned the Shenji Battalion and the Tengpai Battalion, ordered the Weiwu Battalion to stay in Fuzhou City, and led the second battalion

Dear, this chapter is not finished, and there is a next page Oh ^0^ Carrying a large number of artillery from Tobu Gate, marching to Zhiningde County, Funing Prefecture.

Before he sent his troops, he also sent several envoys to persuade Yongtai County and Gutian County, which had not yet been recovered, under the jurisdiction of Fuzhou, to persuade them to surrender, Minqing County was on the northward route of the Huang'an Water Division, and they would easily recover the county, while Lianjiang and Luoyuan counties were on Su Yan's offensive route, so he would naturally personally use force to persuade them to surrender.

Faced with the threat of a large number of artillery guns, the defenders of Lianjiang and Luoyuan counties were very obedient to open the city gates, and surrendered to the Ming army under the leadership of the county magistrate and the garrison.

Next.

On the seventh day of December, the Ming army besieged Funing Prefecture, and the deputy general of Funing Association only resisted for a while, and then surrendered in the continuous artillery fire, and the Ming army then recovered Funing Prefecture.

On the ninth day of December, Fu'an County surrendered without a fight.

On the 10th day of December, the Ming army took over the two major passes facing Zhejiang, Fenshui Pass and Dieshi Pass, and consolidated the passes under Su Yan's orders.

At this point, the entire territory of Funing Prefecture was placed under the control of the Ming army.

Dear, this chapter is over, happy reading! ^0^