August twenty-eight of the sixth year of the Heavenly Sage.

Lin Chong led a large army to the south along the Grand Canal by boat, and had arrived in Yangzhou, preparing to cross the river.

It was two days later than the original plan made at the beginning of the month, because in addition to the 50,000 troops, Jia Hui also asked Lin Chong to bring over the newly built sixty large cannons of the Linzi Military Bureau and the Luoyang Military Bureau, a large number of gunpowder raw materials, and craftsmen.

These craftsmen will do the final gunpowder mixing work at the Zijinwei camp in Jinling.

Eighteen days after the siege began on the fourth day of the eighth month, there were basically no reinforcements from the White Lotus Sect.

This is a good thing, it consumes a lot of troops from the White Lotus Sect, and basically there is only enough army left to defend the city.

Du Yi, the embroidered spy who captured Hangzhou with the second main force of the White Lotus Sect, also resumed stable communication with the Jinling headquarters again.

Now the White Lotus Sect, with Hangzhou as its base camp, is presided over by the two sons and daughters of the sect leader, that is, the White Lotus Holy Maiden and the young master.

According to Du Yi's intelligence, in addition to being good-looking, the two of them are also well-qualified.

Not so good, not so bad, and their dad is a virtue.

This mediocre qualification also made their prestige not add up to the point of subduing the old ministers.

This is indeed good news, without the constraints of the sect master, the ambitions of these old ministers are unprecedentedly high, and the White Lotus Sect has fallen into a state of actual division.

Coupled with the fanning of the factory guards who can speak well, I believe they will be broken more completely.

"General, Mr. Lin Qian's first troop carrier has entered the port."

The soldiers found Jia Hui, who was polishing his blade.

"Well, it's finally here, and the camp is ready?"

Picking up a towel and wiping his hands, Jia Hui looked back at his own soldiers.

"It's all ready."

"Very good, send the delicious food and drink over first, let them rest and rest, and wait for them to cross the river. In the evening, I'll go in the evening. ”

"Yes!" The soldiers hurriedly ran towards the dock.

"Hey" Jia Hui chuckled, grinding harder.

It's more reassuring to maintain your own weapons, at least you can know what problems occur in the maintenance as soon as possible, rather than suddenly breaking the weapons while playing them

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Lin Chong and his more than 1,000 subordinates were the last to board the ship, and before boarding, he had been keeping an eye on the crossing of the river by the 50,000 army, and even had a meal with Lin Ruhai during the period.

It was not until all the 50,000 troops boarded the ship that they crossed the river on the warship of the inland river division and arrived at Xijindu, which had already been built.

Guan Sheng, who had been waiting here for a while, won enthusiastically, and after a few words of greeting, he took him to Jia Hui's festival hall.

Today, Guan Sheng rested, and Yang Zhi went out to inspect.

"Hahaha, Lao Lin, you can be regarded as back!"

In the temporary festival hall of Xijindu, Jia Hui laughed and hugged Lin Chong, who had been grinning, and slapped him on the back a few times.

"Ahem, ahem, ahem, the general, the master!" Lin Chong's back was slapped by Jia Hui's slap, and he couldn't help coughing a few times, and then he got out of Jia Hui's bear embrace.

"Yo, this is a void, you have had a good time in Huai'an during this time?"

"General, there will be no general." Lin Chong retorted weakly.

"Tsk, don't tease, come, sit down, and tell me how these children of Caogong are doing?"

After Jia Hui sat back down in the court, he motioned for Lin Chong to sit down as well.

The soldiers hurriedly stepped forward with the tray and poured a cup of tea for Lin Chong, and then retreated to Jia Hui's side.

"Yes, general, in this group of people, the young ones are about the same as the group of infantry troops in the Northern Expedition last year, after all, they are only one or two years apart. But this time, we have veterans involved! 10,000 of the 50,000 troops are veterans who have retired from the Beijing camp, and they even feel that this 50,000 army is much stronger than the 50,000 infantry army in the Beijing camp last year! Speaking of the team he pulled up, Lin Chong introduced it to Jia Hui excitedly.

After the completion of their service in Beijing, the children of Caogong will have a chance to choose to stay, and many people choose to retire and return home for various reasons.

Now, there are some veterans who are unwilling to retire and choose to fight again.

After all, the battle situation is already clear, and if you don't seize the opportunity to fight again, this life will pass like this.

Then they chatted about the time of two teas, and when they saw that Lin Chong was still a little tired, he guessed that he was socializing with someone in Yangzhou.

"Yes, you can go down and rest first, and when it's night, let's go see them together."

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"Grandpa! Look, it's Grandpa! ”

"Grandpa is here!"

"Come and see Grandpa!"

"Oh, Lao Ning, look, my grandfather has come to see us!"

"Don't shake, don't shake, I can't see clearly!"

Hearing that Grandpa Jia Hui and Grandpa Jia had come to the barracks to see everyone, the children of Caogong suddenly boiled, ran out of the camp tent one after another, and spontaneously came to the school field, waiting for Grandpa to come over.

Then I saw more than a dozen cavalry guarding a big man riding a tall horse in the middle and coming to the front of the general's platform.

It's Grandpa!

The children's eyes immediately turned red with excitement, and there was a commotion in the queue.

Look, that's the pride of our old Caogong, the descendants of the first batch of Caogong Yuancong who followed the great-grandfather to raise troops back then!

It is also the highest lord of the old workers who are born in the nobles!

Jia Hui laughed and got off the horse, and waved his hand to everyone and went to the platform.

The grandfather raised his hand and made a downward pressure in the direction of the large army.

Grandpa is going to speak! Everyone immediately fell silent.

"Brothers, Jia Hui is here!"

The crowd was silent at first, then erupted into louder voices.

"Grandpa Wansheng!"

Everyone looked at Grandpa Jia on the stage with a fanatical expression, this man carried the coffin for the old lady, but he was really his own person!

Jia Hui looked at the army of Caogong who had been chanting "Grandpa Wansheng" and nodded with satisfaction.

Very good, the military heart is available.

As long as they maintain a state of invincibility, their morale and military spirit can continue to rise.

Again, this morale is extremely unstable. It's okay to lose one or two small games, but if you lose one big game, even if it's just a big loss, the morale of this army will almost collapse.

The White Lotus Army in Zhenjiang City is a good example.

Even if the food inside can last for several months, the army that breaks through is getting weaker and weaker.

Just those 10,000 old soldiers can maintain a certain morale.

However, Jia Hui is not worried about losing.

The strength of both sides is here.

"The White Lotus Sect is in turmoil, wantonly slaughtering Zhongliang, and the children of Caogong, you are willing to quell the rebellion with me!"

"Swear to follow Grandpa!"

50,000 people shouted in unison, murderous.

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"Lao Feng, I'll leave these things to you about besieging Zhenjiang and stabilizing the territory, don't let me down."

"Don't worry, the general, the affairs of Jinling and Zhenjiang will be handed over to the last general!" Feng Tai bowed his hand to Jia Hui, his tone firm.

"Hmm."

Jia Hui nodded, but still didn't feel safe, so he leaned over to Feng Tai.

"Do a good job, if you do a good job, when your term as the chief military officer of the Jiangnan battalion expires, I will guarantee that you will enter the Left Army Governor's Mansion to be my fellow knowledge." After whispering to Feng Tai, ignoring Feng Tai, who was confused by a few words, Jia Hui turned over and got on the horse.

"Let's go!"

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On the twenty-ninth day of August in the sixth year of Tiansheng, Jia Hui, the general of the Great Sima, led 50,000 soldiers of Jianghuai Caogong, more than 3,000 Zhuque Iron Cavalry, and 3,000 firearms battalions, a total of more than 56,000 Great Qi regular soldiers, and 30,000 auxiliary soldiers, totaling more than 86,000 people, known as 100,000 troops, from Xijin to the east, bypassing Zhenjiang City to embark on the journey of counterinsurgency.

In September, Jiangyin, Wuxi, and Changshu were recovered one after another.

On the 18th, with the help of latent embroidered clothes, the Qi army successfully broke through the city.

On the 20th, the army besieged Jiading City, and the embroidered guards mobilized the people in the city who could not bear the oppression to rise up, attacked and killed eight high-level rebels such as the Jiading garrison of the White Lotus Sect on the street, and the defenders of the White Lotus Sect in Jiading opened the city and surrendered.

So far, the whole territory of Changzhou and Suzhou has been restored.

On the 22nd, the rebels in Songjiang Province were forced to recruit a total of 130,000 strong men, claiming that the 200,000 army wanted to defeat the counterinsurgency army in one fell swoop while the Qi army was tired and recuperating.

The two sides broke out in Malu Town, southeast of Jiading City, and the great Sima general Jia Hui ordered the firearms battalion to bombard the rebel front army, and personally led the Vermilion Bird Iron Cavalry to break through the position of the White Lotus Army's front army, broke into Mazhen, and shot Daxu with an arrow! The already weak morale of the rebels collapsed in an instant, and the troops were defeated like a mountain, and they surrendered one after another.

On the 26th, Songjiang Prefecture no longer had the strength to resist, and they surrendered one after another. The whole territory of Songjiang Province was restored.

On the seventh day of October, the Qi army, which had completed its cultivation, went south again, broke Jiashan, Pinghu, and Tongxiang, and surrounded Jiaxing.

On the twenty-first day, the general defeated the Huzhou reinforcements of the White Lotus Sect in Nanxun. and Pingliang Boluda attacked the capital city of Huzhou, and on the twenty-seventh day, Pingliang Bo took the lead in breaking the city. The whole territory of Huzhou was recovered.

On the second day of the first month of winter, the general led his troops to suddenly go south to capture Deqing, as if intending to attack Hangzhou directly.

The young master and saint of the White Lotus Sect in Hangzhou were shocked, and hurriedly recalled the 30,000 troops who had besieged Tongxiang for nearly half a month to come back to help.

On the fourth day of the first lunar month, the Qi army ambushed the exhausted rebels in the southeast of Banshan, and the rebels were defeated, with less than 3,000 people fleeing back to Hangzhou.

"By the 11th day of the winter month, our army had besieged the city of Hangzhou. Yuhang, Fuyang, Lin'an and other surrounding cities have been recovered.

On the twelfth day of the winter month, only Zhenjiang City, Hangzhou City, Shaoxing Mansion and Jinhua Mansion were still ravaged by the White Lotus thieves. A few months ago, the minister had blockaded Jinhua Mansion to the troops of Taizhou, Wenzhou, Chuzhou, Quzhou, and Yanzhou. In addition, the East China Sea Division was ordered to guard Ningbo Mansion. The white lotus rebel is like a turtle in an urn, and the limit has arrived. ”

In Xiyuan, the emperor held the eighteenth eldest princess in his arms, holding the fold sent by Jia Hui and looking at it carefully word by word. And made Chen Jingyuan, the prince of Yiyong, who was recently promoted to a good grandson, read aloud with a rubbing, and nodded with satisfaction from time to time.

Seeing the good grandson coughing, the emperor hurriedly asked people to pour water for the good grandson to drink.

"Father, the fourth nephew is studying so hard, let him rest and rest!" The five-year-old eldest princess was not yet able to understand the difference between a music and a book. In her opinion, any piece of paper full of words is called a book.

However, seeing that his nephew had already read to the point where he began to cough dryly, he hurriedly pleaded with his father.

"Okay, okay, just listen to Xiao Qi'er, good grandson, don't read it, come to the emperor's grandfather and sit down and thank you!"

Since the eldest princess has admonished, the emperor naturally follows the advice, beckons to the good grandson and asks him to come over and eat an orange.

"Huh, Grandpa Xie Huang." Chen Jingyuan finally breathed a sigh of relief, and it could be regarded as the end of reading.

Jia Da, Jia Da, why don't you write such a long recital?

"Ouch, nephew, thank you Aunt Eighteen for interceding" sat on the soft couch, picked an orange from the tray and peeled it, Chen Jingyuan thanked the eldest princess with a smile.

"You're welcome, you're welcome, the imperial nephew is also very hard!" The eldest princess's face was full of pride.

He smiled and ate half of the orange, and then tore off the other half of the white silk and handed it to his little aunt, who was more than ten years younger than him.

Although the eighteenth aunt was persuaded or not to persuade it just now, she still had to present this love. Kindness deserves to be celebrated.

The emperor smiled and looked at the scene of harmony between brothers, sisters, aunts and nephews in front of him, and was immediately relieved.

When I'm older, I like to watch this kind of family having fun.

"Father, the son is here!"

The inside and outside of Yanguang Temple were immediately full of kneeling people, saluting the man who broke the warm atmosphere and looked excited.

"Well, here's the fun-busting thing."

"Uh-hehe-hehe." The emperor did not lower his voice, and Chen Jingyuan, who heard these words, could only smirk for a while.

"Brother Huang!" When the little princess saw the visitor, she quickly broke free of her father's arm holding her and hugged the visitor.

"Son-in-law, see father!" Chen Jingyuan also bowed down.

"Ah, the emperor is exempt. Father, the son of the emperor said hello to the father! ”

Isn't it the day that someone came?

"Humph!" Seeing that his favorite good daughter was smiling and hugging her stupid third brother, the emperor was angry.

Why is this kid so likable to children? Why don't I have the skills to do this!

"Come, little eighteen, give you this, go out and play, the royal brother is going to talk to his father about something." The emperor smiled and took out a bamboo dragonfly from his arms and handed it to the eldest princess. Lying on the third brother's face, he pecked him, saluted the emperor and ran out of Yanguang Courtyard happily.

The emperor looked at the emperor more and more unpleasantly.

There were only three people left in the room: the emperor, the emperor and Chen Jing's distant ancestors.

"Good grandson, your brother is doing a very good job." The Emperor said to Chen Si quietly, his eyes full of nostalgia.

"Hey, it's mainly the emperor's grandfather and father's insight that gave Jinyu a chance and trust. In addition, Jinyu is also competitive, and he still has some skills, if he doesn't have this ability, he won't be able to seize no matter how many opportunities he is given. Chen Si said modestly for Jia Hui.

It's just that the emperor's grandfather's "good grandson" is so angry!

The Emperor smiled, and looked at the Emperor with a blank face.

"Emperor, what are you doing?"

Can you not change your face so quickly, Father!

The emperor felt a little aggrieved, but after so many years, he got used to it, and immediately adjusted his mentality.

"Father, right now, Jinyu has besieged Hangzhou City and successfully surrounded the two sets of command teams of the White Lotus Sect. Erchen came this time to discuss the reward for the soldiers who suppressed the rebellion. ”

I've been waiting for a long time, and I've been writing this chapter all day long, and I've been struggling with the details and abbreviations of counterinsurgency, and I've been revising it, and finally I decided to abbreviate it.

After all, the only thing left is to attack the city, and it is enough to write and attack one.

Let's end this plot as soon as possible, I'm tired of writing.

In addition, I decided to write Gao Xianye to death vigorously, after all, the former dynasty was lonely and loyal, the last martyr for Da Liang, how about this glory?

(End of chapter)