In the night, a fire snake is in the north of Xiangshan County, belonging to the territory of Shunde County, twisting and turning, like a long snake sliding forward.

Of course, this is "day and night", quietly marching, going to attack the Shang family army in Xiangshan County. Shang Zhixiao is a filial son, so he Ama Shang Kexi said that he would walk day and night, and he naturally had to implement it to the letter. After the army arrived in the town of Foshan, it changed to rest during the day and march at night. And when marching at night, of course, you have to shoot torches, otherwise how can you walk in the dark? Who's to blame if you fall into a ditch or fork in the road? The terrain in the Shunde area is not very smooth!

Of course, the place in Shunde is excellent, the land of fish and rice! A very flat piece of land, with a humid climate and convenient transportation, is suitable for business, agriculture, fishing, smuggling, but it is not suitable for foot riding army, because there are too many rivers, and they are all wide and deep. And in recent years, Guangdong's infrastructure has not been done well, there are very few bridges on these rivers, and the places where the bridges are built are relatively random, and there is no planning - they are all built by the rich guys here in Guangdong for their own convenience and good deeds, what can be planned?

Therefore, Shang Zhixiao's 10,000 army can only march around the ground like a snake between the water nets, and in order to facilitate the identification of the road and find the bridge, they have to put on torches.

However, there are also comfortable places to march at night, and the temperature in Lingnan is relatively high during the day, and the sun is shining, and there is no strength to do anything. Just find a Pingnan Wangfu to live in the village to rest, the weather is cold at night, and then a night tour with torches, it is still very comfortable.

Shang Zhixiao, Shang Daxiaozi and Li Lang Li Dajunmen are more comfortable, these two masters are "noble second generation", one is the beloved son of King Pingnan, and the other is Ama who was the governor of Huguang, both of whom were born with a golden soup spoon. Although he has not yet become a stubborn master of the Eight Banners, he still understands the enjoyment very well. When these two marched, one did not walk, and the other did not ride horses, but sat on a slider and let the clothed house slaves under them carry it!

And they don't wear gowns, that is, military uniforms, but wear thin long shirts, a small melon skin hat, and a folding fan, so it's not leisurely. That Li Lang is still a fan of drama, and he is humming Kunqu Opera while sitting on the slider: "Send Zhang Sheng to Beijing today, ten miles of long pavilion, and arrange a feast; I went first with the elders, and I didn't see Zhang Sheng."

Although Shang Zhixiao couldn't understand Kunqu Opera, he still didn't forget to hold a personal scene, and when Li Rotten sang a song, he shouted "good".

He applauded, and the personal soldiers, cloths, and house slaves who were guarding Shang Zhixiao and Li Yan marching together also echoed together, and immediately there was a cheer in this marching team. I don't know, I think that Shang Daxiaozi and Li Da rotten people have rewarded the people below!

I don't know if it made the people below applaud and scream embarrassed, Li Yan stopped singing, and said to the people below while laughing: "Reward!" There are rewards for everyone, and one person will be rewarded with a hundred big dollars! ”

A hundred big money is not a lot, but a one-time reward of almost 10,000 green battalion soldiers and banner soldiers under the domain plus thousands of slaves with the army (the banner soldiers of the domain also have servants to serve), that is more than a thousand hanging big money is gone, almost a thousand small and a few hundred taels of silver!

However, this Li Rotan now has "strength", and he is no longer a gentleman in Beijing who lives on his Amma's greedy family business. He's a warlord now!

Before, he and Zhu Guozhi, the governor of Guangdong, were assigned to the territory of Huizhou Mansion!

When he first got the territory, he didn't know how fragrant it was. But now it's the winter of the eleventh year of Kangxi. has already collected an autumn tax, and Zhu Guozhi personally went to Huizhou Mansion to supervise the tax collection!

Zhu Guozhi not only collected all the autumn taxes in the eleventh year of Kangxi, but also paid off the arrears of the past years!

Anyone who resists taxes and does not pay, those who have a meritorious name are arrested after their fame, those who have no merit are directly arrested and beaten up, and those who refuse to pay off their debts will be confiscated and sold! Of course, not every county can do this, and Haifeng County can't do it. That's the anti-Qing old area!

During this time, because Wu Sanwei and Ao worshiped Xinning to "Fengtian to ask for Hu", Qiu Hui in Chaozhou next door also became very arrogant, and also got the help of Zheng Yanping.

But other counties under Huizhou Mansion have to learn how powerful Zhu Baidi is!

And the silver scraped by Zhu Baidi was not swallowed alone, but shared the account with Li Rotten and Chen Shikai, of which Zhu Baidi took 30%, Li Rotten took 50%, and Chen Shikai took 20% - such a way to divide is not because of how high Zhu Baidi's style is, but that Zhu Baidi, Li Rot, and Chen Shikai have to use it to raise soldiers after they get the silver. Among them, Zhu Baidi's own Fubiao now has 3,000 people, Li Yan's promotion has expanded to 6,000 people, and Chen Shikai's Humen Town has 2,500 people to support.

However, after the military salary and reward, Li Rotten still stuffed a lot of silver into his pocket!

Being a warlord is really fragrant!

Seeing that Li Rotten gave a reward to the people below, Shang Zhixiao was embarrassed to be too picky, so he immediately ordered loudly: "Pass on the official general's order, take down Haoao City, and each person will be rewarded with five taels of silver!" ”

Five taels of silver is a lot!

A green battalion soldier can actually get one or two pieces of silver a month, which is a lot! As soon as Shang Zhixiao made a move, it was five taels, and tens of thousands of taels were released at once!

However, he gave a promissory note, and he had to lay down Hao Ao first!

Lay down Haoao, Shang Zhixiao can make a lot of money!

Because Shang Kexi had already told him before. After defeating Haoao, Haoao Commercial Market will be under his control! Tens of thousands of taels of silver, didn't you just scavenge it and come out?

Shang Zhixiao's order was quickly passed down, and the number of rewards paid by the soldiers and generals below as soon as they heard it was immediately jubilant, and even the speed of the march accelerated.

Now the more than 10,000 people who followed Shang Zhixiao and Li Rotten already know that Haoao is empty! Wang Datou has already led his new army to go to Leizhou by sea, Haoao and the neighboring three counties of Xiangshan, Xinhui and Xinning, and there are only 10,000 or 20,000 township troops and a small number of so-called township soldiers of the new army of the green camp, which are just some peasants.

Just when the soldiers and horses of the Shang family who were marching at night cheered loudly, Yu Deshui, the acting governor of Xiangshan County, the alternate prefect of Guangdong, had already boarded the Huatuo Mountain Walled City outside Xiangshan County, stood on a watchtower at the highest point of the walled city, and watched in horror as the "fire snake" in the northwest direction slowly approached him!

He has been a "combat master" for Wang Fuchen for many years! Wang Fuchen is a chief soldier, and his master is not in charge of Qian Gu's criminal name, but a military staff, so he naturally knows how to march and fight.

So from a distance, you can see that this large number of people marched with torches at night. Looking at it, I'm afraid it's more than 10,000!

"Taishou (the honorific title of the prefect), this is the surname Shang who has come to sneak attack!"

The one who spoke was a samurai with a sword on his shoulder. Not a military attaché, because there is no serious official body. This person's surname is Lu, his name is Yijia, he is a native of Zhaoqing Mansion, Guangdong, in his twenties, not tall, but he is very strong, and he looks like a practitioner.

He graduated from the second phase of Jingwutang, an inner disciple, a member of the Heaven and Earth Society, and his current position is the director of the Yabing Section of Xiangshan County.

Of course, the county government military department is a private institution set up by Wang Zhongxiao, responsible for the management of the county and township soldiers, and its external identity is one of the masters of the county government, so it is paid and appointed by the Guangdong Customs Department.

The yamen of the head of this military department is not in Xiangshan County, but in the walled city on the Huatuo Mountain Heights in the east of Xiangshan County.

This walled city was originally a walled guard left by the Ming Dynasty, and it had been abandoned for many years when Wang Zhongxiao took over Xiangshan, but it has now been renovated to build barracks, artillery forts, outer fences and a high lookout.

Huatuo Mountain City and Xiangshan County in the west have formed a defense system that guards the Jiya Waterway, Xiaolan Waterway and Shigu River, which are the Beijiang River flowing into the Lingding Ocean!

As long as these two strongholds are in hand, it will be difficult for the army sent by Shang Kexi to attack Xiangshan County from the north - the current topography of Xiangshan is an existence between an island and a peninsula, and it is said that it is an island because there is water on all sides! It is said that it is a peninsula because the water in the west of Xiangshan is relatively "small", and it is full of narrow rivers in Guangfu, and bridges have been built on the rivers, so you can enter the boundary of Xiangshan without a ferry.

"Hurry up, light the beacon!"

Yu Deshui's reaction was quite fast, he thought about it, and said: "The river channel north of Xiangshan is too wide, and it is unlikely that they will come. It should turn west, and we'll have to hold them back a bit to buy time for the headmaster!" ”

"Okay, okay, let's go and gather the township soldiers immediately!" Lu Yijia nodded heavily, turned around and was about to go down to the watchtower to give orders.

"Wait," Yu Deshui suddenly stopped him, "Guanzhi (Lu Yijia's character), do you know what to say to the people below?" In this situation, who is considered to have rebelled? ”

This question is a bit complicated!

Now it is the king of Pingnan of the Qing Dynasty, the governor of Guangdong, and the governor of Guangdong who jointly attacked the governor of Liangguang, the king of Dingnan, and the governor of Guangdong to attack the Qing Dynasty. It seems that neither side has raised an anti-flag, but neither side seems to be a loyal minister of the Qing Dynasty.

Wang Fuchen, Wang Zhongxiao, and his son openly built a private army in Xiangshan, Xinning, Xinhui, and Xingjuntian, and the former created an opposition to the landlord class! Kangxi is the head of the landlord class in the Qing Dynasty! Not to mention the latter, 20,000 private troops!

And the Shang family's father and son are just as out of line, one does not ask for an order, and the other does not participate in impeachment, and directly sends 10,000 troops to fight the army of the governor of Liangguang and the Guangdong Customs!

These two families seem to be rebelling!

Lu Yijia shook his head, he couldn't figure out whether he was rebelling or not, but he still understood one thing, "Taishou, it doesn't matter who is a rebel, the important thing is that we have to fight the Shang family!" ”

The Cantonese people, especially the poor people in the coastal areas of Guangdong, do not need to be mobilized to fight Shang Kexi. You don't need money, you can bring your own dry food! As long as you are sure to win!

The reason why Shang Zhixin joined the rebellion of the three feudatories in history was not actually how much he opposed the Qing Dynasty, but the difficult situation of the Shang family in Guangdong forced him to follow the flow of Zu Zeqing, Liu Jinzhong and Liu Guoxuan.

At that time, Zu Zeqing was in western Guangdong, and the followers were like clouds! And Liu Jinzhong and Liu Guoxuan teamed up to defeat the 10,000 main forces of the Shang family with a few thousand people, and then easily swept the Chaohui and Huizhou mansions, among which Liu Guoxuan had already taken Huizhou and arrived at the door of Guangzhou Mansion!

If Shang Zhixin does not contradict, the Shang family will be finished immediately!

And now, the township soldiers of Xiangshan, Xinning, and Xinhui counties have divided their land, become soldiers and have guns! The enemy of the Shang family was also sent to the door to find a fight!

Does it matter who is rebelling?

When the beacon fire on Huatuo Mountain was passed to the Macau Castle by one beacon tower after another, Wang Zhongxiao was sleeping with Yang Xiaohuan in his arms

I was sleeping soundly, and the bell of "Boom" came to mind!

This is the bell on the castle, it is not something that can be ringed casually, this is the bell of warning!

Although the current Macau commercial market is more prosperous than in the past, its level of preparedness is also much higher than when Wang Zhongxiao first won it. However, Wang Zhongxiao was not worried that Shang Kexi would come to attack, but that the Western colonists would not know when they would call!

Although Portugal is weakened, it is not impossible for the Goa Governor's Mansion to shoot two or three thousand people to fight back.

In addition, Portugal and Britain are traditional allies. Mumbai is all the dowry of the Portuguese princess! Maybe the Portuguese will pull the British and fight together!

And the Netherlands and Spain are also masters who do not do people's affairs, and they are all robber countries that can rob and cheat and resolutely do not spend money to buy. Maybe it will also partner with the United Kingdom and Portugal to do a big deal.

So Macau's defenses have been strengthening over the past few months!

Piers were built on Dahengqin Mountain and Sanzao Island in the sea outside the Modaomen, and a small number of township soldiers - fishermen and township soldiers were stationed to fish while sentry.

In the southeast coastal area of Macao, which is suitable for landing, Wang Zhongxiao also ordered people to build a fence, and sandbags were piled up in the fence to form a half-seawall and half-city wall fortifications, and also built many watchtowers.

So his first reaction when he heard the bell now, he thought that there was an imperialist warship coming from the sea, and he didn't even have time to put on his clothes, so he got up from the bed with a grunt, walked quickly to the window near the sea, and suddenly pushed open the closed wooden window, and a salty sea breeze blew, which woke up President Wang, who was still a little vague!

He made up his mind, and then looked intently out into the sea and saw nothing!

There is no beacon fire in the direction of Dahengqin Island, and there is no movement in the watchtower on the beach in Macau, everything is as usual!

Imperialism didn't come?

"Boom"

But the bell still rings!

"Is it Shang Kexi?"

When Wang Zhongxiao was muttering, the door of his bedroom was knocked on, and Zhou Chang's voice was heard at the same time: "Headmaster, the headmaster Xiangshan direction is on fire!" Shang Ke is happy to be the opposite! ”

Shang Ke is happy to be the opposite?

Shang Kexi, the loyal dog of Emperor Kangxi, will also rebel?

Wang Zhongxiao hurriedly shouted: "Pei Gong, go and gather the generals, I'll come right away!" ”

"Yes!"

"Revenge, revenge, revenge."

When the sun was fully rising, on the slopes of Wangxia Mountain, the Guangdong villagers who stood in layers let out a high cheer. Standing on the top of the hillside, Wang Zhongxiao and President Wang also showed a satisfied smile.

Now is not the busy agricultural season, so quite a number of township soldiers from the three counties are participating in training in Macao, the number of which is about five or six thousand, and it can probably form four full-strength six-team battalions -- one battalion with four musketeers and two spearmen, a total of 12,300 people!

These four battalions together can have 5,000 of them, plus a team of artillery, a team of cavalry, a team of engineers, a team of baggage troops, and a command headquarters, which can almost make up a brigade of more than 6,000 people.

There are quite a few people, and the equipment is theoretically enough, but what is uncertain now is how the morale of the troops is?

After all, this is a unit dominated by village soldiers, and the village soldiers have a period of unpaid service every year - they have divided the land! And most of them have not participated in the battle (there are also some people who have participated in the battle, Guangdong characteristics of the weapon fight), compared to Wang Fuchen's new army is still a little worse.

Fortunately, the enemy we are going to deal with today is called Shang Kexi! Shang Kexi has done that little thing, he has offended most of the Cantonese people, and now is the time for the big guy to take revenge!

So when Wang Zhongxiao announced the mission, he was greeted by a frenzied shout!

It's time to divide the land, become a soldier, and have a gun to take revenge!

Wang Zhongxiao pulled out his waist knife, held it high above his head, and pointed sharply towards the northeast: "Gentlemen. That is the city of Guangzhou, and I will take you to cut off the head of the dog! ”

"Kill! Kill! Kill" everyone cheered again!

(End of chapter)