Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 172

Regarding what to do next, in fact, even the civil servants and generals in the imperial camp are not unified.

For example, although Xu Shiqi was old and prudent, he hoped that Zhu Yihai would return to Shaoxing, but he wanted to stay. He hoped to follow the Northern Expeditionary Army all the way to Nanjing City.

If you really find an opportunity to attack Nanjing, whether you defend it or not, the meaning will be very far-reaching.

Chen Qianfu thought about penetrating Changzhou all the way, and then entered Chongming Jingjiang, using the natural danger as a base, relying on the advantages of the navy, based in the south of the Yangtze River, and then fought against Huaiyang and other places in the north of the river.

Yuan Zongdi didn't say much, he actually wanted to return the post of admiral of the Ma Jun early, and rushed back to Huguang. The battle of Wuchang in Jingzhou was about to start. He, the commander-in-chief of Hubei, of course wanted to go back early. I promised him that when Hubei was recovered, Jingzhou would be handed over to him for garrison.

If he doesn't go back, after Jingzhou is defeated, everyone may not leave it to him.

Zhang Mingzhen has received a new appointment. He was appointed as the admiral of Liangjiang, and went to Jiangxi to assist Zhang Guowei in guarding Ganzhou, recovering Jiangxi, and even supporting the two wings of Huguang and Anhui.

He readily accepted this appointment. From Shipu Guerrilla to Zhejiang General Soldier to Zhejiang Admiral, and now to Liangjiang Admiral, no matter what position he was given or where he went, he would resolutely obey the will of the supervisor.

So at this time, he had already begun to put his heart in Jiangxi, and was busy selecting 5000 people as the backbone of Jiangxi to prepare to go south according to the will of Jian Guo.

The eight towns of the Northern Expedition will inevitably be split up, and it is impossible to gather in the south of the Yangtze River for a long time.

Zhu Yihai also has a relatively clear understanding. Now it is unrealistic to say that he will take advantage of the victory to attack Nanjing, or that he will compete with the Qing army for the big city in the south of the Yangtze River.

I took advantage of the opportunity to seize a few cities before, but it is impossible to defend them at this stage, so I can only take the initiative to abandon them. I can get some money, food and supplies, clear some traitors and traitors, and attack the surrendered green battalion. fantasy.

It's almost time to disperse the soldiers, but this time the dispersal is also for the next stage of the big game.

Jingxiang, Huguang, and Anhui, Jiangxi, these two new battlefields need to be supported by the imperial guards who have experienced the experience of the Three Wu Dynasty. With them as the backbone to build the new army of the Ming Dynasty there, they need to have proved their loyalty on the battlefield Generals such as Wang Zhiren, Zhang Mingzhen, and Yuan Zongdi will go to command, and the battlefield will become even bigger.

The dispersion of the forbidden army is not harmful or weakening, but spreading fire.

Using the Forbidden Army as a fire to ignite righteous gentry and loyalists from all over the place to unite against the captives will make the Tartars exhausted. Only by mobilizing and dispersing them in this way can the Ming army have more opportunities to annihilate and weaken them.

"This time we will temporarily suspend our flags and drums, but this is only going from the open to the underground, and we will continue to fight against the captives, so I hope you can spread the word to the gentry and common people everywhere, so that they understand our strategy and do not follow the Tatars. The sons are fighting for a while."

In order to avoid the recurrence of the Jiangnan massacre in history, Zhu Yihai hoped that all places would not occupy the city to resist.

So I have to give up temporarily.

Yan Wo Guild is a very good chess piece. Next, he hopes that the rebels from all over the country will go underground, and some people will surrender to Yan Wo Gong.

In this way, all parts of the south of the Yangtze River will turn green overnight and return to the illusion of Tazi control, and there will be a great chance to avoid the random massacre of the Tatars.

Since Zhu Yihai's strategy has been continuously emphasized since the Northern Expedition, he can now get the understanding and support of the generals in the army. After all, it is indeed quite effective.

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Taicang Prefecture.

Zhang Shiyi and Zhang Pengyi, the commander-in-chief commanded by the King of Yiyang, each led [-] soldiers, crossed the river from Chongming to Qiya Port, and went ashore to attack Taicang.According to the plan, Huang Fei and Wu Zhikui attacked Suzhou, and Zhang Shiyi and Zhang Pengyi attacked Taicang.

Tian Yang, a scholar of Dongge University, led his troops to attack Taizhou in the north of the Yangtze River and threatened Yangzhou.

Jing Benche, the governor of the navy, stayed behind in Chongming.

Shen Tingyang, the left servant of the household department and the right servant of the military department, went to attack Jingjiang.

If the offensive goes well, they will gather in Zhenjiang and join forces at that time. After capturing Zhenjiang, Nanjing will be recovered.

The attack by Zhang Shiyi and others did not go well. The Qing army stationed in Liuhe Fort in Qiya Port refused to surrender. Go to fight Taicang Prefecture, but still can't attack.

At this time, Zhang Guozhu, an acquaintance of Zhang Shiyi, was guarding Taicangzhou City. He was also under Liu Zeqing's command back then.Both of them are actually the kind of people who are more capable of fighting. Back then, Zhang Shiyi was a guerrilla general under Zhu Dadian's command.

Brothers in the same robe in the past, but now they meet each other with swords.

Originally, when Liu Zeqing surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, both Zhang Shiyi and Zhang Guozhu refused to surrender, and each left with their soldiers and horses. Later, Zhang Shiyi and the governor Tian Yang supported the Yiyang King to supervise the country and worshiped as the commander-in-chief.

Zhang Shiyi sent a letter to recruit his good brother Zhang Guozhu, but because he didn't have many soldiers, he only got the rank of general.Later, Zhang Guozhu went south with Chen Wu, but capsized in Ningbo, managed to escape, and finally surrendered to Qing, and now he is under the command of Admiral Su Song, Wu Shengzhao, as a lieutenant.

He was sent by Wu Shengzhao to defend Taicang Prefecture. Apart from a few hundred old Jianghuai archers, he was newly recruited. More than a thousand people guarded Taicang Prefecture, but they resisted the onslaught of Zhang Shiyi and Zhang Pengyi.

Unable to attack for a long time, the second card lost a lot.

Zhang Guozhu sent someone to see Zhang Shiyi quietly tonight, and delivered a secret letter.

"Admiral Huang and Zongbing Wu were both defeated, and 8 or [-] people dispersed overnight. Now Admiral Huang committed suicide after being captured. When Zongbing Wu returns, he will be attached to the Qing Dynasty. To. My general said that Zhang Gong and Zhang Gong are sworn brothers, so I came here to persuade you. Those who know the current affairs are heroes. With Mr. Zhang's ability and my general's recommendation, he is at least a general soldier."

After being persuaded by the visitor, Zhang Shiyi was already a little moved.

Several of his cronies also persuaded him to surrender to the Qing Dynasty, because there was really no hope at this time. When they were under the command of Liu Zeqing in Huaibei, their soldiers and horses were much stronger than they are now, but they were still not even capable of fighting against the Qing army. No.Now the two Zhangs claim to be tens of thousands of people, but what kind of mobs are they? Can't beat it.

"I didn't expect Admiral Huang's army to be so defeated." Zhang Shiyi sighed. The King of Yiyang supervised the small court of the country, relying on Huang Fei's troops to support the scene. Unexpectedly, he was frightened and defeated without a battle in Suzhou City. Fei is dead.

"Surrender, General."

Seeing that all the generals under his command surrendered, Zhang Shiyi could only lament that fate is too late.

"If you want to surrender to the Qing, Brother Zhang Pengyi may not allow it."

"Then trick him into killing him, and then coerce his troops to surrender together." Someone shouted.

Zhang Pengyi, styled Xiaoxian, was born in Shaoxing, Zhejiang. At the end of Chongzhen, he was the deputy general of Wu Sangui, the general of Shanhaiguan. .

Later, he joined Yiyang Wang Chongming, governor of Huai'an, to supervise the country. Although his troops were small, they were strictly disciplined, and Zhang Pengyi's brothers were even more courageous than others.

No matter where his soldiers went, they never entered private houses, entered the city at night, and would rather stand all night, they would break into private houses, let alone loot the people.

It's a pity that the former Guan Ning elite is too small at this time, only a few hundred people, otherwise ten Zhang Guozhu can't stand up to Zhang Pengyi and his brothers.

"Okay!" Zhang Shiyi said in a dark voice.

Zhang Pengyi frowned when he saw the servant sent by Zhang Shiyi in the middle of the night asking him to discuss matters.

"Brother, Zhang Shiyi wants to rebel." Zhang Jirong said directly.

In fact, Zhang Pengyi had already seen that something was wrong. He was clear about the relationship between Zhang Shiyi and Zhang Guozhu. In the past two days of attacking the city, Zhang Shiyi obviously did not work hard, and he also found out that he was in private contact with Zhang Guozhu.

"Brother, is it true that Huang Shuai committed suicide in defeat and Wu Zhikui surrendered?"

"Probably so." Zhang Pengyi said.

"I'll call up my brothers, break into Zhang Thief's camp, and chop him up."

Zhang Pengyi called his brother to stop him, "Since Zhang Shiyi has surrendered to the bandits, I'm afraid he was already prepared, besides, it's useless to kill him now, call the brothers, let's go."

"Where?"

"Isn't it said that Zhu Wugang, the ninth younger brother of Lu Jianguo, the Jiangnan admiral, captured Suzhou? Let's vote for him."

Zhang Pengyi's subordinates claim to have 2000 soldiers, but they left behind [-] people to besiege Liuhe Fort. These days, they lost a lot of money in the fight against Taicang. The sudden news of the defeat of the second general Huang and Wu caused a lot of recruits to run away. .

The two brothers who can really fight are only the five hundred Guanning old troops. Most of the others are recruited refugees and ordinary people, and they have no combat effectiveness at all.

It's meaningless to fight Zhang Shiyi and Zhang Guozhu here. Instead, you may be dragged back by them and be surrounded by the tartars who rushed over.

After thinking about it carefully for a while, Zhang Pengyi decided to join Lu Jianguo instead of going back to Chongming. He was very disappointed in the Yiyang King he once supported.

But he was even more unwilling to surrender the Tartars.

If he was willing to surrender, he followed Wu Sangui to surrender, and now it is estimated that the governor of Zhejiang is not Zhang Cunren but him. After all, Zhang Cunren was also Wu Sangui's deputy.

The two brothers chopped off Zhang Shiyi's servants, summoned five hundred Guanning's old troops, and did not want other recruits. They packed up their things and left the camp at night.

When Zhang Shiyi received the news, his subordinates were going to hunt him down, but he stopped him.

"Don't chase the poor, leave him alone."

In fact, Zhang Shiyi also knew very well that if his cowardly soldiers really wanted to forcibly pursue Brother Zhang Pengyi, he was afraid that not only would he not be able to keep them, but he might suffer a big loss.

Zhang Pengyi refused to surrender, and if he wanted to go, he could go as long as he didn't hinder him.

"Incorporate all Zhang Pengyi's men and horses, and then send someone to recruit the 2000 people under Liu Hebao."

At dawn, Zhang Shiyi led nearly ten thousand people to surrender to Zhang Guozhu, who had a thousand people in Taicang City.

Zhang Guozhu was overjoyed and hurried to victory, saying that he had faced the siege of tens of thousands of thieves from King Yiyang for several days, and led more than a thousand soldiers to counterattack desperately. On a dark and windy night for a month, he led five hundred death squads out of the city to attack the enemy camp at night, and was defeated. Brother Zhang Pengyi killed thousands of them, and successfully persuaded Zhang Shiyi, the commander-in-chief, to surrender with his troops.

In order to make up for the thousands of Zhang Pengyi's beheaded men he lied about, Zhang Guozhu sent troops out of the city, went to the countryside to massacre the people, brought the heads back to the city, and then called them the beheaded Zhang Pengyi brothers.

After Zhang Shiyi surrendered, he also took the opportunity to add two thousand to five of the thousands left by Zhang Pengyi. The two brothers each got two thousand and half.

Boluo in Jiading soon got the report of Zhang Guozhu's Taicang victory. There was also a report on his desk. , Successfully recaptured the Suzhou city that Li Shuitai had lost. The puppet army in Suzhou was defeated and fled in all directions.

Jiangnan is stable again!

(End of this chapter)