Qian Qianyi looked at Liu Rushi, put down the paper in his hand angrily, laughed awkwardly, and said, "I have contacted the benevolent people and ambitious people from all over the south of the Yangtze River, and have good plans. Why do you need to do this more?"

Liu Rushi did not respond, standing there, just looking at Qian Qianyi. Qian Qianyi dodged Liu Rushi's gaze. After a long time, Liu Rushi's eyes turned red and tears flowed down, but she did not cry. After so much, Liu Rushi knew completely that crying could not solve any problem. Qian Qianyi couldn't bear it, so he walked forward and stretched out his old hand to wipe away the tears. Liu Rushi took two steps back, shook his head gently, and then owed his body, saying, "Goodbye Mr. Muzhai."

After saying that, Liu Rushi turned around and left without looking back. No matter how Qian Qianyi called, she left resolutely. When she arrived at the riverside, she stepped onto the boat, and the boatman left on the boat, leaving Qian Qianyi standing there in a mess. Liu Rushi knew at this time that she was deceived by the hypocritical Qian Qianyi again.

Once upon a time, Qian Qianyi, who returned frustrated in Beijing, devoted himself to the anti-Qing cause, repeatedly contacted the anti-Qing patriots from all over the south of the Yangtze River, gave all their wealth, and was imprisoned several times. Liu Rushi thought that the man who dared to be the first in the world had turned back and had completed his rebirth in the ashes. Even though the two of them had no family happiness, they were still fellows. They should cooperate without interruption, but Liu Rushi saw Qian Qianyi's true face again today, and he was still the hypocritical villain.

As Liu Rushi thought, Qian Qianyi was like this. He was the same as the great gentry in Nanjing, Suzhou, Changzhou and other places in Jiangnan. They were all the masters who did not show any eagles. Zheng Chenggong won two great victories in Chongming and Zhenjiang in succession, but they did not explain anything. These gentry in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties knew the best. They were not sure and must not place bets, otherwise they would be endless abyss. In the eyes of Qian Qianyi and others, even if the Zheng army attacked Nanjing, they knew very well. They knew the difference between the Ming army in Zhoushan and the Qing Dynasty. The difference between the two was just the difference between whether to shave their hair. In essence, they were all feudal dynasties supported by the literati. This difference cannot be considered a difference for the literati.

Indeed, the current status among the literati and officials is far inferior to that of the Manchu Eight Banners nobles, and even the Han army Eight Banners and Liao people. However, it can be seen that the status of Han officials, especially the Han officials in the south, has been improved, and the current power dissatisfaction is enough to be offset by the strong military forces of the Qing Dynasty. If the Zhoushan Ming army wants them to change their ranks, they need to defeat the heavy army group of the Qing Dynasty at least once. Qian Qianyi was not sure about this and refused the invitation from Zhenjiang and his student Zheng Chenggong. He didn't know where he knew that if he raised his arms, the gentry in Jiangnan would definitely respond in large numbers, but in that case, his retreat would be completely cut off.

Zhenjiang Prefecture.

Zheng Chenggong returned to the government office, felt depressed, and sat on the chair with his forehead pinched his forehead. In the past few days, he had met with people from all over the Yangtze River. Those who asked for names give names, those who asked for money, and those who asked for officials. He made countless promises, but the response was very few. What was even more hateful is that among the various prefectures in Jiangnan, several key leaders of Mount Tai avoided them and did not even reply to their letters. Obviously, everyone was watching.

A long time later, Zheng Jing appeared in front of Zheng Chenggong. Zheng Chenggong did not raise his eyes and asked, "What are the discussions of the generals?"

Yesterday, Zheng Chenggong saw that the appeasement of Zhenjiang was completed and the soldiers were ready. He convened the admiral and held a military meeting to discuss the attack on Nanjing. The key was whether it was an attack by water or a land attack. The central army admiral Gan Hui said: The soldiers are very fast, and the cunning enemy's souls are scared and have no time to prepare. He drove straight into the land and traveled together at night. He could be like a storm and return to Nanjing in one go.

This suggestion is very consistent with what Zheng Chenggong thought. He knew very well that most of his naval troops were large naval battleships. When he arrived in Nanjing against the current, there were many inconveniences. In fact, it took a lot of effort to arrive in Zhenjiang from Chongming, but many of the generals had opinions.

Zheng Jing said: "Many generals thought that our army came from afar and did not know the land and water, and had too many soldiers to carry heavy loads. Even if they went ashore, it would be difficult for them to travel together at night and would not have the effect of a surprise attack."

Zheng Chenggong slapped the table: "A short-sighted coward!"

Zheng Chenggong knew very well that those were all reasons. In fact, Zheng Fan did not have the ability to fight on land, and the generals lacked confidence and dared not get too far away from the ships. If you say that the local conditions were not suitable, Zheng Fan, who was born in Fujian and Zhejiang, was much stronger than the Qing army, which was mostly soldiers from the north.

"Many generals have this opinion, if." Zheng Jing reminded carefully.

Zheng Chenggong's fists clenched, but he still did not insist on his own actions. He was not sure about dealing with the Qing army's land division. What's more, it is still unknown what the Qing army's land division will be. In this situation, it is better to keep the soldiers and ships too far away.

"Forget it, I'll send the orders and leave the side troops to guard it. The rest will board the boat to travel west." Zheng Chenggong finally surrendered.

On the second day, the Ming army went to Nanjing City against the current and set out from Zhenjiang. It was only ten days before it arrived at Nanjing City. Not to mention this, Zheng Chenggong arrived with the army. Despite his fatigue and hard work, he wanted to attack the city when the Qing reinforcements had not arrived. However, he did not expect that the civil servants and the civil servants in the remaining troops, the military supervisor Zhu Yihai, and the newly dependent gentry unanimously demanded that Zheng Chenggong cry outside the city to worship Taizu and then use military wars. It was not a trivial matter to worship Taizu of the Ming Dynasty. After this, the war was delayed for several days before the war began.

The news that Zheng Fan entered the Jiangkou and broke through the Yangtze River defense was soon passed to Yue Le on the front line of Fujian and Zhejiang. After the fall of Zhenjiang, Duni, who was stationed in Jiangning, asked Yue Le to return to aid three times a day. Yue Le knew that Jiangnan was in danger, but also knew that once he retreated, Jiangnan would be dead. He had to inform the front line that the battle was stalemate and it was difficult to withdraw his troops. Duni could not sleep or eat in Nanjing. If it weren't for the Manchu throne Titicamou fighting to stop him, and Zheng Fan's forward came quickly, he might have abandoned Jiangning and ran to Yangzhou.

Yue Le's troops were actually very sufficient. After receiving the news that the Chongming Water Battle failed and the Zheng army entered the Yangtze River in a large-scale manner, Yue Le immediately selected nearly 10,000 elite Eight Banners to cooperate with the Green Camp, entered Shaoxing Prefecture from Yiwu, and rushed straight to Ningbo, defeating the Zheng army that was looting everywhere in Ningbo Prefecture, which was the first to take action in this battle.

The reason why the Qing army in Fujian and Zhejiang was sufficient was the United States' avoidance of war. The small Xianxia Pass was a mountain road that lasted hundreds of miles long. Not to mention 100,000 soldiers and horses, even 30,000 could not be expanded. The United States used various fortifications to fight step by step. The Qing army could only adopt the tactics of rotational battles of various units, maintaining strong attack strength, and forcing Xianxia Pass step by step. Yue Le's goal was to take the Xianxia Pass and force the battlefield to Fujian.

Yue Le had sufficient troops. One was unable to effectively develop the mountainous terrain at the junction of Fujian and Zhejiang, and the other was the strategy of avoiding war in the southeast war zone of the United States. According to the strategy of the southeast war zone, only Xianxia Pass and Wenzhou entered the Fenshui Pass in Funingzhou. In other words, the three prefectures in southern Zhejiang could be completely abandoned. Therefore, the troops were light in front of the front and heavy in the back, which made the Qing army unable to find the main force. Yue Le had also wanted to attack Chuzhou from Jinhua, enter the Oujiang River system, and recover Wenzhou and Chuzhou. However, when the elite troops were arranged in front of Xianxia Pass, Yue Le did not dare to act rashly. He had to consider that the main force that had never appeared in the southeast war zone was in Chuzhou or Wenzhou, and he was ambushing himself for the division of his troops. At this time, Yue Le was reluctant to bear the losses like the Battle of Fujian.

The United States' strategy of avoiding war became a trick to doubt the war, which was unimaginable to Li Mingxun. In the chaos in Jiangnan, Yue Le gave up the attack on Chuzhou and Wenzhou, seeking the possibility of returning to Jiangnan while stabilizing the direction of Xianxia Pass. In fact, this is what the United States is willing to see. When Zheng Fan besieged Nanjing, Yue Le and Wu Mu had a tacit understanding of a temporary ceasefire in southern Zhejiang.

In mid-December, Yue Le's first batch of reinforcements boarded the ship from Jinhua, led by Gushan Ezhen Yild. The total number of Manchu and Han troops was more than 15,000. After Yild entered Jiangnan, he decided on his own when to join the war. When Jiangning was in crisis, he rushed straight to Jiangning to rescue the siege. Jiangning Ku'an gathered all troops in Jiangnan and then counterattacked. This shows that Yue Le still had a relatively clear understanding of Zheng Fan's strength. He could be sure that Zheng Fan's army had a weak ability to fight land and could not accomplish any major events.

Zheng Fan besieged Nanjing City, and the defenders in the city were only about 10,000 yuan, but they were well prepared. In the Gushan Ezhenticacam, Manchu, and Lang Tingzuo, the governor of the Liangjiang River, were all people who dared to fight and could fight. Guan Qizhong, who succeeded Wang Yi, who was promoted to the admiral of the navy, also had an elite army. Those who supported the reinforcements until the arrival of the Qing army were not only the treacherous of the Qing army, but Zheng Chenggong's arrogance.

The treacherous Qing army was to delay time and wait for reinforcements to arrive at no matter what. The method was very simple, that was to surrender in the name of Guan Qizhen, the navy admiral Guan Qizhen. This was directly at Zheng Chenggong's itch. What Zheng Chenggong was most looking forward to was to surrender without fighting to enhance his political prestige. Perhaps he was also blinded by the scene of the gentry being surrendered during this period, and all officials were paid for the money. Therefore, no matter how Shen Tingyang, Zhang Huangyan and his subordinates asked for battle, Zheng Chenggong refused, but he kept ordering people to enter the city to persuade them to surrender. The Qing army climbed along the pole and asked for surrender in the name of Guan Qizhen.

Guan Yixian Envoy declared that the Qing Dynasty had rules. Even if he had been guarding the city for 30 days, he would not be aware of the family of the official general. He was afraid that his wife and children in Beijing would be killed, so he did not surrender immediately. He asked Zheng Chenggong to be thirty days, and Zheng Chenggong agreed happily and rewarded him generously. Even though many people under his command advised that this was a delaying strategy, he would not care. Perhaps Zheng Chenggong really thought that the Qing army in the southeast was entangled with the United States and could not escape, or perhaps he really believed in his tyrannical spirit. In short, the Qing army reinforcements had already gathered in Suzhou.

Su Song was the admiral Ma Jinbao, Suzhou general Liang Huafeng, Governor Jiang Guozhu, and the eight banners stationed in Hangzhou. All the generals were waiting for the arrival of the main force led by Yild.

At the end of December, Yild finally led a large army to arrive, but the general who followed Huang Taiji to fight in the east did not choose to aid Jiangning, but went straight to Zhenjiang along the canal, organized soldiers to strengthen the canal, and dispatched the navy in Hangzhou Bay to the Liangjiang River to participate in the war. In order to achieve the goal of quickly entering the Yangtze River, the Liaodong and Zhejiang navy only brought small warships to the destination.

It was not until the Qing army besieged more than 30,000 people in Zhenjiang Prefecture that Zheng Chenggong in Nanjing came to his senses and ordered the water and land to advance together to lift the siege of Zhenjiang. The two sides fought bloody battles around Zhenjiang and the Yangtze River channel for dozens of days. The Zheng army defended Zhenjiang to support the water battle and did not fight the Qing army on land, but the Qing army attacked Zhenjiang fiercely, thinking that it was a confrontation.

The Qing army surrounded Wei and saved Zhao. The dilemma in Nanjing was slightly resolved. Doni, who had been peeing his pants several times in Nanjing, also felt energetic and sent several waves of envoys to Jinhua, asking Yue Le to send elite troops back to rescue and completely annihilate Zheng Fan's army. Obviously, with Doni's wisdom, it was also a good opportunity to "get the record."

Yue Le, who has not opened up the situation in southern Zhejiang, was also excited. He had made meritorious service, but he had no contribution this time. He was afraid he would be unlucky, so he mobilized 30,000 troops to help Zhenjiang. However, Li Mingxun would not sit by and watch Zheng Fan be eliminated by the Qing army. Zheng Fan was also an ally of the United States. If Zhu Ming's four feudals are completely destroyed, it would be a huge blow to the rush to fight against the Qing Dynasty that had finally been launched. What's more important is that the commander-in-chief has received news, Zheng Chenggong was discouraged and was ready to retreat. The only difficulty is that the army in Zhenjiang City was restrained, and Zheng Chenggong did not want to abandon his car to protect the commander. He thought that Yue Le's second wave of reinforcements would force him to make a choice.

Zheng Chenggong is preparing to "harm others and benefit oneself", and the United States cannot bear this bad reputation.

At the end of January of the 13th year of Yongli, Wu Mu personally led the Third Army Division, two Marine Brigades and the 31st Division of the newly formed Army, with about 50,000 troops. He landed from Wenzhou, went west along the Oujiang River, and rushed straight to Jinhua through Chuzhou. After a sudden attack, he occupied Yongkang, which was considered to have officially entered the Qiantang River system and opened the door to the Jinqu Basin. In this way, Yue Le would not go back to the south of the Yangtze River, even Xianxia Pass would stop fighting, shrink his troops and gather together in Jinhua to resist the main force of Hezhong, and relocate all the second wave of reinforcements that had arrived in Hangzhou, and only the Zhejiang Navy was transferred to the war.

At the same time, Zheng Chenggong retreated in Zhenjiang Prefecture. Shen Tingyang's troops and Zhang Huangyan's troops were directly abandoned in Zhenjiang Prefecture without receiving any retreat orders. Zheng Fan's troops fled downstream to Chongming. When they arrived at Fujian and Zhejiang from various waterways, the Liaodong Navy continued to intercept them. Especially Shi Lang, who had been promoted to the admiral of the Zhejiang Navy, led more than 20 additional ships, passed Zhenjiang and entered the Yangtze River water system, chasing Zheng Fan's rear fleet and ships full of women's families. For a time, the entire Yangtze River was dyed red.
Chapter completed!