Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 133
Leap in early June.

The Governor of Su Song appointed by Zhu Yihai, Shen Youlong, Chen Zilong, Xia Yunyi and others led the army to raise the army, and the banner of righteousness was held high.

In half a day, they captured Songjiang Fucheng and captured Chang Shouning, a general of Wu Zhikui's general under King Yiyang's command.

Shen Youlong counted several major crimes such as looting and extorting officials and gentry after Changshou Ningzhen Songjiang, and then executed him to please the people.Immediately afterwards, the Changshou Ning Department was incorporated, and Li Daiwen, the former Zhongshu Sheren, Shan Xun, the former magistrate of Macheng, Zhang Jian, the former county magistrate of Luoyuan, and Sun Shousun, the Juren, were ordered to lead the rebel army and guard the four gates.

Chen Zilong, Xia Yunyi, Xu Fuyuan, Huaxia, and Dong Zhining were also sent to attack Shanghai and Huating counties, as well as Jinshanwei, Nanhuizui Zhonghousuo, Qingcun Zhongqiansuo and other places.

This uprising had been planned long ago and received support from Zhu Yihai, so after the uprising, he acted quickly and almost took over the entire Songjiang Mansion. At almost the same time, Gu Yanwu, Wang Yongzuo and others also raised troops in Kunshan, the northern Suzhou prefecture, at the same time. The two sides echoed from the north to the south, and the momentum was shocked for a while.

Huang Fei and Wu Zhikui also assembled their troops to attack Suzhou, causing a turmoil in the south of the Yangtze River to start a prairie fire.

Zhu Yihai convened civil and military meetings for an interim military meeting.

Chen Qianfu, who co-organized the Supervision Office, gave an intelligence speech first. Although the intelligence network of the Supervision Office is not perfect, but now has contacts with Songjiang and Kunshan, and Yan Wogong, a top spy lurking in Jiaxing, is there. The intelligence in Chen Qianfu's hands is still Very timely.

"How many Qing troops are there in Suzhou City right now?"

"According to reliable information, there are only more than a thousand cavalry in the city of Suzhou. The governor of Jiangning, Tu Guobao, is stationed. Li Yanling, the general, is leading a group of cavalry outside the city."

Liu Kongzhao also came all the way south through Suzhou before, and asked suspiciously, "There are only a thousand people in Suzhou, isn't it possible?"

Chen Qianfu told him that the Tatars are preparing for the squadron, Boluo in Hangzhou is also heading north with the main force, and Duoduo in Jiangning has already transferred his headquarters back to Jiangning, ready to leave at any time, and even a few troops have already left in the vanguard .

Tu Guobao, the governor of Jiangning, is now mainly the bidder in his hand.

In addition, Songsu Admiral Wu Shengzhao went to Changzhou with a bid to suppress the uprising people who refused to shave their hair. As for the general Li Chengdong, he took the town bid and a few troops to attack Chongming.

It is true that there are only a few thousand guards in Suzhou City now, but compared to the situation where Songjiang Mansion has already fallen, Suzhou is better, after all, this is the governor's residence.

"Then, wouldn't Huang Fei, Wu Zhikui and the others want to win Suzhou in one battle?"

"How many people are there in Huang Wu's Second Division?"

Holding his notebook, Chen Qianfu read with a blank expression, "Huang Fei claims to have [-] troops, and Wu Zhikui claims to have [-] troops."

"Do you actually know how much?"

"When Huang Fei withdrew from Nanjing, there were indeed more than 4 people, but now there are more than [-] soldiers in his army who can really be called regular soldiers, but there is still a lot of water in it."

Liu Kongzhao nodded immediately, Huang Fei was one of the six generals under his admiral Cao Jiang, "Huang Fei's Ding Laoying has at most [-], but he does have quite a few ships under his command.

Huang Fei was originally the nephew of Huanglong in Dongjiang Township. His surname was Tu. When he was young, he followed his uncle Huanglong to fight in Liaodong. The general of Dongjiang Town.

In the sixth year of Chongzhen, Huanglong and the Tartars were killed in a fierce battle in Lushun, and had no sons. Huang Fei was able to inherit, so he took the surname of his uncle.From the garrison promotion to the commander-in-chief Tongzhi, to aid in the suppression of the commander-in-chief of the Northeast Navy, the admiral Guan Liao and the Huaihaijiang Town Navy acted cheaply.

Hong Guangli, Huang Fei led more than [-] troops from Denglai to the south, stationed in Zhenjiang, and then stationed in Wuhu to quarry. Together with Huang Degong, they blocked Zuo Liangyu. Fei led [-] horses to the east, and did not wait for Zheng Hongkui's soldiers in Jiangkou, so he went to Chongming again, and supported Yiyang King to continue to fight against the Qing Dynasty.

To say that Huang Fei is actually quite a tough guy, and his experience and prestige in commanding troops are not bad, but he has Queen Yiyang, but he has nothing to do.

As the actual leader of the generals of the Yiyang Dynasty, Huang Fei has been busy with one thing in the past two months, recruiting soldiers and buying horses everywhere, and then collecting food and donating everywhere, causing complaints from all over the place. At the time, some prefectures and counties were occupied, but they could neither reassure the people nor guard the border.

Now the troops are assembled to attack Suzhou, but this matter has been planned for a month or two, and it has been a waste of time until now.

"Most of Huang Fei's soldiers are sailors. They are not good at land warfare, let alone attacking cities. Moreover, his soldiers have been defeated all the way. It has been a long time since they have fought a tough battle. Their legs are weak when they see tartars!"

This was said by Yang Wencong, but it was not belittling, but the truth. In fact, many Ming soldiers are weak against the Eight Banners. It has a long history. When Sun Chuanting was in command, he told Chongzhen the truth, saying At that time, when the Ming border army led by him faced the rogue peasant army, the peasant army often saw them with weak legs. Sometimes a small cavalry team of the Ming army that did not accept nights could scare thousands of peasant troops into desertion. .

But it was these Ming frontier soldiers who were like tigers in front of the peasant army. When they arrived at the Liaodong battlefield, they were too frightened to fight after seeing the Eight Banners.

Often tens of hundreds of banners can scare away one or two thousand or even more Mingbian troops.

The reason is not that the Ming army was inherently afraid of the Jurchens, thinking that the Jurchens who were killed by the frontier soldiers of the Ming Dynasty were called Grandpa.

But in the past few decades, the Ming army has begun to see Tartars calling grandpa. The most important point is that the Ming Dynasty did not have enough protection for the officers and soldiers. Many soldiers transferred to the Liaodong battlefield have long been invincible soldiers and lack of training. , lack of food and wages, insufficient equipment, everyone went to the battlefield hungry or even cold, coupled with rigid upper-level decision-making and command, the Ming army went to Liaodong to fight, and lost once in every battle, and lost once in every battle. Started to be afraid of Tartars.

But as long as there is sufficient protection and there is no random command, the Ming army can still fight. Sun Chengzong's fortress tactics were actually effective, and the Guanning army built by Yuan Chonghuan was also fully capable of fighting the Qing army head-on.

Even in the battle of Songjin, in fact, the early stage was not bad.

When an army is still unable to defeat the opponent, it will have psychological fear, and it will be scary when it sees it.

In contrast, those newly recruited soldiers are stronger in this area. Why, because they don’t have that shadow in their hearts, they are simple farmers and miners who enlist in the army, receive strict training, have enough food and even It was the guarantee of equipment. Before meeting the Qing army, they didn't know what the Qing army was like. They fought against some bandits and bandits and won many victories, so they had a strong self-confidence.

As the so-called newborn calf is not afraid of tigers.

Before being defeated, he was always unconvinced.

Huang Fei's army is completely different from Zhu Yihai's Northern Expeditionary Army. His soldiers are very complicated. There are veterans from Dongjiang Town, soldiers from Denglai Town, and even soldiers who were defeated from Liaodong, Beijing and other places, as well as soldiers from Shandong Province. Soldiers from various places such as Jiangnan, Huaiyang, and Jiangnan, and even Zuo Liangyu's old subordinates, there are peasant soldiers, bandits and water bandits, and many young men who have just joined the army.

Although such a force is said to be in the tens of thousands, they are all defeated soldiers. In previous battles with the Qing army, they had more defeats than victories, and even if they had won, they were terrified.

Yang Wencong once had [-] Guizhou soldiers under his command, and these soldiers were still capable of fighting. These soldiers from the southwestern mountainous area, like the white-armed soldiers of the Qin family, were known for their tenacity.

But when he had 5000 troops under him, he also clearly felt that his combat effectiveness was not as good as before.

"Huang Fei and Wu Zhikui only know how to blindly recruit soldiers and sweep the ground to serve as soldiers, but in fact his soldiers lack training and cannot strictly enforce military discipline. Therefore, although there are many soldiers and horses, I dare say that they will never attack Suzhou. Well, maybe even defeated."

Zhu Yihai felt that this was not a sign of aspiring others. Yang Wencong had retreated all the way from Nanjing. He had seen how the navy in the four towns of Jiangbei and the six towns of the Yangtze River in the Hongguang Dynasty had tens of 10 troops, and was beaten by 3 people in Doduo. Kneel down and beg for mercy, even run away.

Zhu Yihai looked down at the map, Zhenze was very close to Suzhou, especially with the canal connected, less than a hundred miles away.

If the speed is fast, the cavalry can arrive in a day.

It is four to five hundred miles from Nanjing to Suzhou, but it is less than two hundred miles from Changzhou to Suzhou, and only three hundred miles from Zhenjiang to Suzhou.If the Qing army in Nanjing City reinforces them, it will actually be very fast.

Xu Shiqi seemed a little unbelievable, "Tens of thousands of horses, can't they beat more than a thousand people?"

"Normal fighting, of course you can fight. I'm afraid that there are too many soldiers, so I underestimate the enemy. Moreover, although there are only a thousand soldiers in Suzhou City, they are brave cavalry. If one cavalry is equal to five, it can be worth seven or eight thousand elites." That’s right, and there are only so many real elites in Huang Wu’s Second Division, so if we really have to make detailed calculations, the possibility of Huang Wu’s defeat is even greater.”

"However, Songjiang and Kunshan can attack the city and break the county? Shen Youlong and Wang Yongzuo are just new recruits."

"The situation in Songjiang and Kunshan is different. In fact, there are no real northern captives stationed there, just some local officials who have surrendered captives, and even some local defenders."

Xu Shiqi looked at Zhu Yihai, "Your Highness, please send troops to the north quickly to reinforce the two generals Huang and Wu, and join forces to take Suzhou."

Zhu Yihai is still looking at the map. Now Jiaxing Mansion is nominally under the control of Yan Wogong and Li Yuchun, but it is actually under the control of Zhu Yihai. The entire Songjiang Mansion has basically been taken by Shen Youlong and the others. Now The incident in Kunshan is also going well, and Suzhou is becoming an isolated city.

The situation is great.

But in history, Huang Fei and Wu Zhikui seem to have lost miserably in Suzhou?How did they lose?

It seems that after the failure of the attack on Suzhou, Huang Wu's navy was annihilated by Li Chengdong and Wu Shengzhao's counterattack. They first rescued Suzhou, and then the Qing army took advantage of the situation and went south to Songjiang, all the way to Hangzhou Bay.

"Okay, let's go to Suzhou, but not to rescue Huang Fei, but to reinforce the local governor!"

As soon as Zhu Yihai's words came out, everyone was astonished and thought they had heard it wrong.

(End of this chapter)