Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 168 Eastern Expedition to Anhui
On the bank of Jiyang River, Xiuning County.

As soon as the shouts of killing were over, a scholar in armor and with a sword climbed up to the tower with a big banner and raised the flag.

"Those who kill captives prosper and those who surrender captives perish"

The eight large blood characters on the banner are extremely eye-catching.

The people cheered and jumped for joy.

The scholar who held the banner stood on the tower, "Those Tartars and traitors who surrendered to the country, all beheaded at the bottom of the city, and sacrificed my blood flag!"

With the shout of beheading, dozens of Eight Banners soldiers were beheaded, and hundreds of captives and traitors were executed.

The flag of righteousness fluttered over Xiuning County, Huizhou, and the name of this scholar who held the flag resounded throughout Huizhou again.Originally, the future was bright. In the second year of Chongzhen, the Qing army entered the border and approached the capital. Chongzhen summoned the platform, and he recommended Xu Shenfu.

Chongzhen granted Xu Shenfu the deputy commander-in-chief to recruit new troops. Jin Sheng asked him to supervise the army, but Chongzhen did not allow Xu Shenfu to join the army as a censor, so Xu Shenfu acted cheaply.Although Xu Shenfu had the reputation of being a soldier, he had to recruit thousands of wanderers from the market in a hurry, and went out of the city to fight with the Mangui and Heiyunlong armies. He fought with the Qing army and was defeated in the suburbs of Beijing. Xu Shenfu also attacked the camp for the Qing army at Lugou Bridge, was shot and killed by random arrows, and the whole army was wiped out.

Jin Sheng, please lead troops to counterattack, no.

After the Qing army retreated, the censor impeached Jin Sheng for failing to recommend someone, saying that the scholar had wronged the country. Chongzhen knew that his loyalty would not be investigated, and went to Xicheng to inspect the censor.After that, Xu Guangqi, a bachelor, recommended him to study almanacs, but he did not go.

He concentrated on lecturing and writing books in his hometown academy.

In the seventh year of Chongzhen, he was summoned again to serve as an inspector for Shandong Province, and he should submit a sparse resignation.

At this time, hungry people are everywhere, and peasant armies are everywhere, so Jin Sheng recruits volunteers in his hometown, organizes group training, and organizes county gentry to donate food for disaster relief, so as to prevent the livelihood of the hungry people from changing.

In the turbulent situation in various places, Xiuning is rarely peaceful, and it is a pure land.

Chuangjun invaded Beijing, Chongzhen died, and then Wu Sangui led the Qing army into the customs, King Fu proclaimed himself emperor in Nanjing, and specially called him to be the censor of Zuoqin capital, but Jin Sheng still did not go to his post.

The Qing army captured Nanjing, and Jin Sheng rejected Duoduo's surrender letter, and led the regiment to carry the bloody banner of killing captives.

Under Jin Sheng's active contact, Qiu Zude from Ningguo, Wen Huang from Huizhou, Wu Yingming from Guichi, Yin Minxing from Jingxian County and other officials raised their troops one after another, echoing each other from afar.

For a time, the Chi, Hui, Ning, and Tai four prefectures on the south bank of the upper reaches of Nanjing were all responded by rebels.

It was at this time that a Ming army marched west along the Xin'an River from eastern Zhejiang.

"Duke Huang has arrived in Shexian County, Huizhou!"

"Did Mr. Huang come so fast?"

Jin Sheng came to the city with his younger brothers Jin Jing and Jin Wei, bringing good news.

"Huang Gong entered Huizhou under the decree of the Lu Supervisor, and we in Huizhou finally have reinforcements."

Jin Jing held a box in front of Jin Sheng, opened it, and there were several things inside.

The first is a silver seal.

Hold it in your hand, and there are four large characters printed on it.

"God-sent loyal minister!"

These four words made Jin Sheng burst into tears. He studied essays for the first half of his life. He passed the Jinshi examination in his 30s. He also followed a lot of advice, and as a result, the Xu Shenfu recommended by him was defeated and wiped out, and he also fell into the name of Zhao Kuo, who is talking about soldiers on paper.

Since then, although the emperor was not guilty, he was also depressed and resigned and returned to his hometown.

15 years.

While he was lecturing and writing books in the academy, he also organized a regiment to practice Xiangyong. Over the years, he has always protected the peace of one side.

Fight against bandits and bandits.

However, the situation in the imperial court deteriorated day by day, the two capitals fell, the country collapsed, and the Qing army surrendered. He resolutely refused, and resolutely raised the flag to raise troops.

I vowed to keep the peace of one side of the village and prevent the Tartars from invading.

The defeat of Xu Shenfu back then was a great blow to him, and he has been working hard to get rid of the name of Zhao Kuo.

Now under his leadership, the Ningtai Fourth Mansion in Huichi has a massive uprising, recovering towns and counties one after another. At this time, Lu Jianguo, who was in the Northern Expedition Army, gave him a silver letter saying that he was a loyal minister from heaven. How could he not be moved? .

"Brother, this is an imperial decree for your appointment. His Highness confers on you the right deputy capital censor and the Minister of the Ministry of War, and is also a bachelor of the Imperial Academy. The governor of Ningchi, Taizhou, Anhui, the admiral of military affairs and the management of food and pay, and the king ordered eight flags and eight flags. cards, and Shang Fang’s sword.”

The governor of Anhui, the admiral of military affairs, is also the title of the right deputy capital censor and the minister of the Ministry of war, and even a bachelor of the Imperial Academy, which is really a great official.

The next step is the governor, and then you can join the cabinet.

The two Jinjing and Jinwei brothers were very excited. Everyone raised their heads to fight against the captives. Apart from defending their hometown, of course they also hope to make contributions.

However, Jin Sheng didn't pay much attention to the official positions. After all, in the past ten years, the imperial court has repeatedly recruited them, but he has refused them all. The official positions are higher than the other, and he has never cared about them.

He looked at these things, and what he cared about was that Lu Jianguo in eastern Zhejiang finally turned his attention to Anhui, and finally sent reinforcements.

Huang Daozhou, the former governor of Jin Quyan in eastern Zhejiang, and Liu Zongzhou, the famous minister who was called the second week in the court, was awarded the governor of Anhui by Lu Jianguo this time, and he brought a team of elite soldiers.

At the same time, Zhang Guowei, a scholar of the Wuyingdian University and Minister of the Ministry of War, was awarded the title of supervisor, and the supervisor of Liangjiang.

The two rivers supervised by Zhang Guowei refer to Jiangxi and Jiangnan. Jiangnan is now divided into Anhui, Fengyang, Jiangning, and Susong by Lu Jianguo, each with a governor.

In fact, Jiangnan has a very large area, and has always been a place of wealth and wealth. It also has the accompanying capital of Nanjing and Fengyang, so in the past, these places under the jurisdiction of Nanzhi were also complicated to manage. Generally, the north and south of the Yangtze River were sometimes used as the boundary, and they were divided into Jiangbei and Jiangnan. Sometimes, the upper and lower reaches are divided into upper and lower rivers.

It is a bit trivial for Lu Jianguo to divide Nanzhili into four parts now, but now Nanzhi is also the place where the Qing army is heavily stationed, so subdividing it is actually a lot of convenience.

Each set up a governor, and then added Zhang Guowei, an important minister and supervisor.

Jin Sheng was very pleased, not that he was the governor, but that the Ming Dynasty was hopeful for ZTE, and now not only has the trend of collapse been stopped, Lu Jianguo even personally led the Northern Expedition, which is almost reaching Nanjing all the way.

"Follow me to meet Huang Gong!"

He became even more excited when he thought of the new arrival of the imperial court's strong aid, and the fact that the rebels in Anhui would no longer fight on their own, but could integrate together, especially Jiangxi in the upper reaches, Su Song in the lower reaches, and Zhejiang in the back. .

Go down the river to Huizhou Fucheng.

The Xiuning River flows eastward and joins the right branch of the Xin'an River. Not far downstream is the river mouth where another major tributary of the Xin'an River joins. Not far from the river mouth is Shexian County, the capital of Huizhou.

The location of She County's prefectural city is unique, at the junction of the two major mountain systems of Lianjiang Valley and Xin'anjiang Valley.

There are two continuous fertile river valleys in the north and south, and there are mountains such as Huangshan in the farther.

The rivers and streams are vertical and horizontal, the traffic is developed, and the land is fertile.

But they still guard the geographical advantage, which is easy to defend but difficult to attack.

Go east along the river to Hangzhou, go west along the valley to go out of Jiangxi, go south to Fujian, and go north to the Yangtze River and Huizhou Basin. There are not only dangers of mountains and rivers, but also favorable geographical conditions.

It was also very convenient for Huang Daozhou to come from Quzhou in the south. At this time, he led [-] soldiers and horses, because Jin Sheng and others acted righteously, and also caught the Qing army by surprise.

Especially at this time, because Duoduo prepared the squadron and called back the soldiers and horses, the surrounding areas of Nanjing began to be handed over to some green battalions who surrendered, or the Eight Banners Han army who went south from the north.

Huang Daozhou was appointed governor of Anhui, Zheng Zunqian of the Shaoxing uprising was awarded the admiral of Anhui, Mao Youlun was the inspector, and Gu Yinshi, a monk general who had killed the uprising in Haining, was the commander-in-chief of Huizhou.

During the trip to Tokyo, Huang Daozhou not only gave the Yixing camp to Huang Daozhou, but also replenished him with a lot of money, food and military equipment, so his 5000 people came with neat banners and banners, and they looked strong.

When Jin Sheng was outside the city, he could see flags from afar. The battalions of Superintendent, Tier, Town, Road, etc. all had clear flags, and the soldiers were all very imposing and lacklustre.

The rate of wearing armor has reached more than [-]%, and there are even many cavalry.

The closer to Fucheng, the more people and horses, patrolling, closing guards, and strict inspection. Although it is cumbersome, he is very happy, which shows that this army is indeed an elite division.

After going through the inspection all the way to the city, Governor Huang Daozhou, Admiral Zheng Zunqian, Inspector Mao Youlun, Chief Soldier Gu Yinshi and others came to welcome him.

After meeting, read out the imperial edict of Jian Guo first.

(End of this chapter)