Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 124
Zhu Yihai noticed that the situation around Taihu Lake was becoming more and more chaotic, and the Yiyang King in Chongming seemed to be becoming more aggressive now because he drove high and low.

They are planning to gather troops and horses to attack Suzhou. In order to win Suzhou and compete with Lu Jianguo in eastern Zhejiang, the small court of King Yiyang on Chongming Island is now recruiting troops everywhere, even pirates, water thieves, mountain thieves, etc. Thieves are not spared either.

It is said that dozens of dukes and earls have already been conferred, not to mention the general soldiers who hang the seal and the general guards. Duke of the State, Wang Zhiren was awarded the Duke of Wu, and Zheng Zhilong was awarded the Duke of Min.

Zhang Mingzhen was awarded the Marquis of Ningyuan, and even Zheng Zunqian, who led the Yixing Army of the Shaoxing Uprising, was also awarded the title of Yixing Bo.

Huang Fei, with 4 horses in hand, was worshiped by the prince Taibao Zuo Dudu, added water and land to recruit Marshal and Qi Guogong, Jing Benche was the governor of Zhejiang Zhi, Zhao Guogong, Wu Zhikui, Lu Zhiyu and other generals were awarded earls, each led his headquarters, and would attack Suzhou.

Many pirates and water bandits were also awarded the titles of lieutenant general and guerrilla general.

It is said that the King of Yiyang has publicly declared that he will first go to Suzhou and then return to Nanjing, and that he will go to the city of Nanjing to worship Taizu in person, and then ascend the throne and proclaim himself emperor in the Nanjing Palace.

Regarding this, Zhu Yihai felt that King Yiyang was not only a dude with no strategic vision, but he could only lament that the people in the small imperial court of Chongming were also a bunch of bastards.

But seeing that they were going to make trouble and wanted to make big news, Zhu Yihai thought about it, and after discussing with the accompanying officials, he still felt that he could not sit in Jiaxing, so in the middle of June, Zhu Yihai led his troops along the canal Go north and enter the junction of Jiahu and Wusanfu on the south bank of Taihu Lake.

More than [-] troops marched northward one after another, and some of them had already accepted Yan Wogong's call to surrender. In fact, they were carrying some scary titles such as Hou Bo, General Guyin, and Deputy General of the General Army, and some local township troops were pretended to be surrendered. Soldiers, and then Yan Wogong awarded the flag to India, and then allocated land for resettlement.

Haiyan, Pinghu, Jiashan, Tongxiang and other Jiaxing counties were handed over to these local township regiments in this way. Zhu Yihai sent them some liaisons and some veteran instructors, and then handed over these counties to them.

Yan Wogong also took advantage of his envoys to recruit envoys to find a list of Jiangyang thieves from the old archives of the Jiaxing Prefecture Yamen, and then reported that he had successfully recruited for the imperial court, and gave them the titles of Commander General, Chief Qian, Guard, Dusi and other titles made them keep their places.

In fact, he just copied these names from the files. As for these thieves, Mr. Yan, I have never met nor planned to meet them. He just borrowed their names. In fact, he directly conferred official titles, flags, etc., all from Jiaxing The township militia group in the city was a team that Zhu Yihai had reorganized.

These country gentry and righteous men have turned into so-and-so murderers and robbed countless robbers, and now they have been recruited and become local defenders, guarding one side.

Yan Wogong also used this method to intercept most of the taxes, money and food from various places, and used them to secretly support the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty in the name of appeasement, silver rewards, and payment.

Li Yuchun, deputy commander of Jiaxing in Xie Town, now not only trusts Yan Wogong, but also respects him very much. He has changed his identity very well and has become Yan Wogong's loyal and reliable subordinate and accomplice. Li Yuchun's signature should be added.

He even used Li Yuchun and his men to suppress those captives, gentry and landlords or bandits and water bandits, etc. Afterwards, they captured the proceeds, and the two made two out of one. Li Yuchun was very satisfied with this kind of cooperation.

Even for the gentry and landlords who surrendered captives in various places in Jiaxing, Yan Wogong asked Li Yuchun to persuade them to donate and pay them. Under the temptation of the white money, Li Yuchun didn't tell those people that he was his own.

Every time he is targeted by him, he has to take off a few layers of skin even if he is not dead, and he will only stop when his family's wealth is almost blackmailed. ransacked home.

Because of Yan Wogong's proposal, Li Yuchun generally no longer openly plunders towns at will, but mainly targets those rich gentry, landlords and rich businessmen. The Qing faction, and even the leading parties.

The two cooperated, Yan Wogong used Li Yuchun's hand to eliminate the traitors who surrendered, and Li Yuchun used the banner of Yan Zhaofu to grab money, and they were very satisfied.

It has to be said that with the help of the big traitor Li Yuchun to cover up, Yan Wogong's "recruitment" in Jiaxing went very smoothly, and there was no doubt in Hangzhou.

Even Wu Kai from Haimen was secretly called to come to Hangzhou. He boldly visited Boluo and Zhang Cunren, etc., passed their test, and successfully accepted him as his own.

Therefore, Wu Yuan, the general soldier of Shipu, who had the seal of General Kaiyuan, who was the Marquis of Kaiyuan in the false Ming Dynasty, was appointed by Boluo as Regent Dorgon, and asked him to be named Shachenghou. The general military officer also gave python clothes, pommel horses, Liao ginseng, Dongzhu gold, etc.

Very generous to this general.

With Wu Kai's proven meritorious service in recruiting surrenders, the other Gu Qixuns and so on who were recruited by Mr. Yan in Hangzhou also believed in it, and reported to Beijing one after another, asking for official titles for these surrendered generals.

As for the low-ranking water bandits and pirates, etc., Hangzhou didn’t even bother to study it carefully. They approved and approved them according to the list, conferring official positions, giving battalion numbers, dividing resident defense areas, and rewarding each of them with a sum of money. , Let them guard the place well and fight against hypocrisy and rebellion.

They never thought that someone could tell them a big lie and deceive them around.

After all, whether it is Yan Wogong or Wu Kai, they have personally verified it, and Li Yuchun has always proved it. They believe that seeing is believing.

Furthermore, I also think that at this time the great power of the Ming Dynasty is gone, it is normal for civil servants and military generals of the remnant Ming to surrender to the Qing Dynasty and find another way out, such as Wang Zhiren, Zhang Guowei, Zhang Mingzhen, Yu Ying and others who are still sticking to the Ming Dynasty, those are abnormal of.

Abnormal ones are always a minority after all.

And when the letters of help from Tu Guobao, Wu Zhaosheng, Li Chengdong, etc. in the Susong area continued to be sent, Hangzhou also focused its main attention on the Susong area.

They began to focus on Yiyang Wang Jianguo, who openly claimed to attack Suzhou first and then return to Nanjing. They focused on the admiral Huang Fei who was said to have nearly 5 horses in his hand. They focused on Wu Zhikui, Jing Benche, Shen Tingyang waited for these Yiyang king soldiers to come, and even Wu Yi's rebel army from the white-headed army of Taihu Lake.

As long as the men and horses in eastern Zhejiang can't reach the Qiantang River, it is more important to ignore him for the time being and mobilize troops to work together to kill the false King Yiyang and his 20 men.

Boluo has received a letter from Jiang Ning Duoduo, asking him to start the class in advance, and asking him to lead the troops along the way to suppress the rebellion in Susong and other places. The letter even said that in order to suppress the rising rebel arrogance , You can imitate the city massacre after the capture of Yangzhou, pick a big city in Susong, and have another blood massacre, using 20 million people to ruthlessly kill these rebels.

He also said that now even the Beijing court has a lot of opinions on this Yiyang king who claims to be a supervisor of the country, and believes that it must be suppressed quickly and decisively, and the Yiyang king must be captured and sent to Beijing.

Because of Zhu Yihai's deliberate control of the Qiantang River defense line, especially after suppressing Fang Guoan's plan to counterattack Hangzhou, Eastern Zhedong has always shown a tepid attitude to the outside world, especially since Hangzhou has no threat to the Qing army. sex.

Zhu Yihai sent his army to the Northern Expedition, and kept a very good secrecy. On the side of Hangzhou Boluo and others, they still believed in the reports of Li Yuchun and Yan Wogong, and they defeated the Ming army in Zhujiazhuang who went northward. A temptation beat their false admiral Zhu Wu and fled, never to be seen again.

Zhu Yihai's strategy successfully made the Eastern Zhejiang court low-key and secretive, and made the Qing army's assessment of their danger much lower. On the contrary, King Yiyang and the others became impatient and nervous after suffering several big losses from Zhu Yihai. Radical, he successfully attracted the commanders of the Qing army in Hangzhou and Nanjing, and even alarmed the Qing court in Beijing, listing King Yiyang as the next must-remove list of the Qing army.

Suzhou, Zhenze Town.

In the first battle Zhu Yihai led his troops into Suzhou, he killed a group of thieves, salt dealers and guerrilla generals under King Yiyang.

But this is not the first time that Zhu Yihai has acted against the people of Yiyang King, and now he doesn't care much about it.

They are all the stuff of a nest of thieves, so they can be done in one pot.

"Even the King of Yiyang recruited such a person as a guerrilla general, and dared to say that he wanted to seize Suzhou and take Nanjing."

Looking at the rebellious soldiers under the banner of King Yiyang, Zhu Yihai and others looked contemptuous. From the beginning, Zhu Yihai felt admiration when he heard that King Yiyang was raising the flag in Chongming and persisted in resisting the Qing Dynasty. I deeply dislike it.

Those were not anti-Qing righteous men at all, but a group of deserters who were defeated and gathered together to play the banner of the imperial court, and then it was convenient for them to pay for food and salaries to rob places.

The flag has been raised for so long, and these people say that there are 30 to [-] people, but they have not done a decent thing until now. law and order.

They are just collecting food, persuading them to donate and raise salaries, and the money and food they get are constantly recruiting soldiers and horses to expand the army, but they are only used to deal with the local people, and they are used to grab money and food as a prestige.

It is said that the hearts of the people are against each other, and if they act like this, which common people are really willing to support them?

Even the former governor of Guangdong and Guangxi like Shen Youlong was blackmailed by these guys intolerable, and he publicly stated that he would also revolt.

Fushe Chen Zilong and others who once had high hopes for King Yiyang and contacted them also gave up. They would rather start anew and recruit volunteers to take back the city by themselves, rather than support this group of soldiers and bandits.

"If they want to beat Suzhou like this, isn't that going to kill them?"

"Let them fight, just to attract the attention of the Tartars, and it will be convenient for us to do things."

Several courtiers accompanying them were discussing, and Zhu Yihai frowned. Although he looked down on King Yiyang and the others more and more, he said that he would sit and watch them die, but he passed it.This is not only a matter of dying, but also related to the overall situation of resisting captives.

King Yiyang and the others are now in the clear, and the court of Lu Jianguo in eastern Zhejiang can develop secretly. If they are killed by one blow, then Zhu Yihai and the others will be completely exposed to the Qing army.

"Your Highness, Du Yinxi, the governor of Hunan, Zhang Kentang, the governor of Fujian, Qu Shixu, the governor of Guangxi, and Zhu Chenggong, the surname given by the Zheng family of Fujian, and Li Chixin, the surname given by the Zhongzhen Camp, have arrived."

Hearing these names, Zhu Yihai was excited, "It's finally here, please hurry up."

"Why is Your Highness looking forward to it?" Chen Qianfu was puzzled, "I think that these provinces are beyond our reach after all, and the hearts of the people have not really joined. Like the Zheng family in Fujian, they may not really be willing to contribute."

"Don't you know Gu, but since you can come, you have taken a crucial step, and what Gu is looking forward to most this time is not the arrival of the Zheng family, but Du Yinxi and Li Chixin."

"Why? Fujian Zheng's strength is far stronger than theirs?"

Zhu Yihai replied seriously, "Because Huguang is located in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, and we are now in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River. If the Ming army in Huguang and the thirteen families of the Zhongzhenying can unite to launch a wave of counterattacks against the Tartars in the upper reaches, it will certainly be able to threaten When we reach Nanzhi in the lower reaches, the Tartars here will divide their forces to deal with the threat from the upper reaches, don't you think this is the most direct and effective support for us?"

On the contrary, although the Fujian Zheng family is very strong at sea, they are still south of Zhejiang. It is Zhejiang that helps Fujian to block the Qing army.

"Your Highness, are the burglars trustworthy?"

"We'll know once we meet and talk!" Zhu Yihai said bluntly.

(End of this chapter)