Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 327

When the Ming army began to cross the river, the Qing troops in Zhenjiang and Jiangning were in a panic.

Ma Degong, deputy general of Zhenjiang, was originally Huang Degong's deputy general. He and Tian Xiong captured Hongguang to the Qing Dynasty, but he was not allowed to be reused. At this time, he is still only a deputy general of Zhenjiang.

Of course, compared to Tian Xiong who was forced to commit suicide by wiping his neck in the city of Hangzhou, he was still lucky, after all, he was still alive.

But when the Ming army started to cross the river from Yangzhou, Ma Degong still panicked.

If you cross the river in Yangzhou, you can go straight to Zhenjiang.

It feels a bit absurd to think about it. He was a dignified lieutenant general of the Qing army stationed in Zhenjiang, but the Ming army actually crossed south from Yangzhou.

"Report to Jiang Ning Yan Jinglue for help. Lu Jianguo and the Nine Kings are about to cross south. There are few troops in Zhenjiang. I'm afraid they won't be able to defend it. Please Yan Jinglue and Chen Admiral quickly send troops to help."

After Chen Jin became the admiral of Caojiang, he was added to the post of governor of Anhui. Liu Yingbin, the former governor of Anhui, was demoted to be the Zuo Buzheng.

During this period of time, in view of the naval superiority of the Ming army, they also came up with some strategies, such as the Jiangjiang Locking Line of Defense formed by connecting iron chains and ships. At key places, a floating camp on the river was set up, called Mucheng.

Many coastal defense forts and dozens of cannons were also built on the sandbars and ferries in the middle of the river.

These fortifications also cost Chen Jin countless efforts. No matter how difficult the conditions are, he must find a way to make up for the shortcomings of Jiang's defense, otherwise the Ming army can come and go freely, and Jiangning will not be safe.

It's just that that's all Chen Jin can do, and this is still supported by my father, Mr. Yan, who gave priority to building Jiangfang with the little money, food and materials.

The envoys even failed to complete the reorganization of the bids and supervision bids. There is a shortage of food and salaries.

In order to squeeze out money and food to engage in Jiangfang, Yan Jinglue, Governor Ma, Niu Hulu and Chen Caodu also accelerated the reorganization of the green battalion, resulting in a large number of green battalion being cut and merged, and many green battalions were dismissed, which also provoked many green battalion military officers rebellion.

These people were originally the Ming army who had just surrendered. After the surrender, the imperial court appointed officials and stationed in various places. As a result, they were short of food and salaries. However, everyone has soldiers and knives in their hands, and they can rob and conscript, and they can live well. Going forward, even the generals are generally living a good life.

But now the imperial court wants to get serious with them, to abolish them, and then let them go to Jiangning to accept the assessment of the governor of economic strategy and admiral, appoint them according to their ability, and even let them go to the Ministry of War in Beijing to elect marquis officials, isn't this nonsense?

Not to mention that Yan Jinglue was still stern and selfless, first he took a few green battalions in Jiangning with his knives, charged them with false names, withheld military pay, robbed the people, etc., and chopped them off, chopping off a lot of heads.

Now the officers of the green battalion who are more forced can't sit still, no one is willing, they are all soldiers and thieves in troubled times, how can you handle them with a knife?

The other way around.

There is no master here, there is a place to stay, you don't want to see me in the Qing Dynasty, I will go to the Ming Dynasty.

During this period of time, Lu Jianguo and Nine Kings were on the northern expedition in the Xuhuai area of ​​Shandong Province. General Tan Tai and King Sanshun were under pressure. They even forced a prince to death, and Jiangnan was not peaceful.

Since Wu Shengzhao and Li Chengdong, the two major army leaders, all kinds of generals, guerrillas, garrison, and even the rebellion of the generals and generals have come one after another.

But Yan Jinglue has a clear attitude and will never compromise.

Whoever dares to rebel will do so.

This side recruits soldiers and horses, rebuilds the classics, supervises, and raises the bids, and then goes to various places to suppress rebellions and suppress them, fighting every day.

Anyway, Mr. Yan sent several reports to Beijing that day. Today it was rebelled here, and tomorrow it was rebelled. Fortunately, Mr. Yan was decisive, and the governors, Ma Guozhu and Chen Jinchentai, were also more attentive. With everyone working together, rebellions everywhere It's spinning up and down.

The rectification of the Jiangnan Green Camp is also gradually advancing.

Although in this process, the newly formed pacesetters also suffered a lot of losses, and the casualties were quite large, especially the ordnance and other damages were serious and urgently needed to be replenished, but the green battalion, which was originally unusable, can also be regarded as completely breaking the pustules and eliminating hidden dangers.

Ma Degong, deputy general of Zhenjiang, has been suppressed for a long time, but he is more tolerant. After all, he and Tian Xiong captured Hongguang to surrender to the Qing Dynasty. Now the imperial court has sent Hongguang to Nanjing, and is negotiating with the Ming Dynasty to send him Go back and reset.

There is no way for him to retreat immediately after his success. The other green camps can turn around and join the Ming army, but he can't go back.

Can only endure.

He could only honestly hand over the roster and ask Yan Jinglue to count his soldiers and equipment, and ask him to spit out some of the soldier's blood, but there was no way.

Anyway, in the past few months, Ma Degong, the deputy general of Zhenjiang, has been working all over the place, and he has become the deputy general of the Zhenjiang battalion, one of the twelve battalions under Admiral Caojiang Chen Jin, with only 1000 people under his command.

There are actually 1000 people. It turns out that he has 5000 people under his command.

Even the officers were stuffed in a lot, and now it was Chen Jin who had the final say.

But Ma Degong has to endure.

Originally the general of Zhenjiang in the south of the Yangtze River, he was demoted to be the deputy general of Xiezhen, and now he is the deputy general of the Zhenjiang Battalion of the Admiral Caojiang Naval Division. He is directly subordinate to Chen Jin and has become a naval general. His status is much lower than before.

But he also had to endure.

In Jiangning city.

Knowing that the Ming army began to cross the river from Yangzhou, Yan Wogong immediately summoned Ma Guozhu, the governor of the three provinces, Chen Jin, the admiral of Caojiang and governor of Anhui, Chen Tai, the governor of water transportation and governor of Huaiyang, Zhang Dayou, the new governor of Jiangning, Liu Yingbin, the Zuo Buzheng, and the Eight Banners. The left-wing Bashan and others discussed urgently.

"I suggest concentrating our forces and attacking halfway across!" Chen Jin's 2000th Battalion of the Yangtze River Fleet was also barely reorganized. Adding Ma Guozhu's supervising standard adds up to several thousand more.

Yan Jinglue and Governor Ma each had 3000 supervision bids, and they only actually recruited [-] people from the third battalion. Together, they are half of Admiral Chen's.

What's more, Zhenjiang has also been comprehensively rectified and strengthened in order to build three wooden city floating camps and dozens of forts.

"Although the bird boats of the Ming army have a lot of artillery, they are boats in the river after all. I built a fort on the sandbar in the river with dozens of artillery pieces. This is an unsinkable gunboat, not to mention the rolling boats blocking the river There are several dragons in the river, as long as we unite all the soldiers and horses and fight freely, we will use the Yangtze River as the battlefield, and we will have a great chance of defeating the Ming army."

In order to explain that the Eight Banners garrisoned by Bashan and others participated in the war, he also brought up the fact that the Ming army refused to negotiate a peace, "Isn't the supervisor of Lu unwilling to negotiate a peace? , as long as we can gain a little upper hand, then he will not dare to be so arrogant in the future."

"If we can still do heavy damage, then we will have the initiative in the future, and even if the main force of the Lu Jian Kingdom is seriously injured, they will have to retreat to Chongming, Zhoushan and other places, and dare not enter the Yangtze River or Jiangnan to harass and plunder. "

"Instead of passive defense, how can we take the initiative to attack?"

Watching Chen Jin's impassioned speech, Yan Wogong expressed his support as always.

"My Qing Dynasty needs a courtier who dares to take responsibility like Admiral Chen. As the local officials of the court, we have to worry about the king's salary. Now the Ming army is so unscrupulous and arrogant, how can we tolerate it? We know that the reorganization of the Jiangnan Green Camp has not been completed, but the situation is urgent, we can't reorganize slowly, they just returned from Shandong, we have to teach them a lesson."

"Fight, I support Admiral Chen's fight. If you don't fight, you can't do it. The imperial court raises so many soldiers and horses. Is it just for food?"

Jinglue and Admiral Caojiang are so high-profile, Ma Guozhu, the governor of the three provinces, can't say no to fighting, and even the Eight Banners, Mei Lezhang Jingbashan, who is stationed in Jiangning, can't back down.

Although he felt that Chen Jin's river fortifications were still a bit too crude, especially the lack of a real navy, but it was true that the Ming army could not freely enter and exit the Yangtze River.

Especially the country of Lu Jian who had just plundered Xuhuai, Shandong, if they were allowed to cross the south of the Yangtze River like this, then they would inevitably loot Jiangnan again.

Now there is still a big river to defend, once they are released, how will they be defended?
Ma Guozhu didn't want to fight, it wasn't because he was timid.

But like Bashan, he felt that he didn't have the strength.

The current situation in the south of the Yangtze River is obvious. Except for the important towns of Jiangning, Zhenjiang, Anqing, Hefei, Changzhou, Suzhou, and Taiping, the Qing army has basically lost control of other places.

In particular, the rebellion of the green camps in various places caused by the recent reorganization of the green camps has made the situation worse. In this case, the Qing army in the south of the Yangtze River is very depressed.

Although they are also actively recruiting new troops, the old green battalion is useless, the new army has not yet formed, there is a shortage of food, pay, and armaments, and the imperial court cannot transfer support.

Up to now, the standard battalion of the governor, admiral, governor, etc. has not been completed, let alone the original plan of the eight town commanders, let alone the deputy generals and generals of the town.

Ma Guozhu wanted to be safe, but Qian Qianyi sent Hongguang to Nanjing via the route of Hefei from the north through Henan, and tried to negotiate with Ming, but they were unwilling to negotiate.

People even made it clear that they did not recognize Hongguang's throne at all, because before the Lu Jianguo court had officially abolished Hongguang's throne and Hongguang reign, last year was the 17th year of Chongzhen, this year is the first year of Lu Jianguo Shaotian, there is nothing like Hongguang thing.

You send Hong Guang here now, aren't you a disgusting person?There is nothing more to talk about.

Ma Guozhu, the governor, has had a hard time recently, because of the three provinces he governed, Jiangxi is now completely lost, and Henan is the only one that is relatively better, but Henan is poor and chaotic, and Henan can't take care of itself.Jiangnan is even worse, Anhui and other places in the upper river are struggling to support, the Taihu Lake area in the lower river is even more miserable, and Xuhuai in the north of the river has completely fallen.

As the governor, he has great responsibilities. He wants to ease the situation, and he also supports Yan Wogong's rectification of the green camp, and the rebuilding of the new army has begun, but now there is no money, no food, no ordnance, and the Ming army is getting stronger and stronger.

"Fight, gather soldiers and horses to Zhenjiang, fight!"

(End of this chapter)