Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 41
Suddenly, the entire land of eastern Zhejiang seemed to be ignited by a spark, threatening to start a prairie fire.

The decadence and frustration that had caused officials and gentry in Jiangsu and Zhejiang to surrender due to the capture of Hongguang and the surrender of Lujian Kingdom were all wiped away.

King Zhu Yihai of Lu was the first to behead the envoys to the north and surrendered to the magistrate in Taizhou and raised the banner of resisting the Qing Dynasty.

Immediately afterwards, Yu Ying, Zheng Zunqian, Liu Dadao and others raised troops in Shaoxing Fucheng, beheaded and demoted officials to restore Shaoxing.

Sun Jiaji and Xiong Rulin raised troops in Yushao, beheaded the puppet officials and restored the banner of Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Yihai even traveled to Haimen, Shipu, Dinghai and other places in person, bringing together Haimen general Wu Kai, Shipu guerrilla Zhang Mingzhen, and Zhejiang general Wang Zhiren under his banner.

In the city of Ningbo, Qian Sule and Lin Shiping raised their flags to show righteousness.

For a time, the entire eastern Zhejiang became like a prairie fire, and the situation was very good.

In Taizhou, Shaoxing, and Ningbo, the flag of Ming Dynasty once again floated on the land of the three prefectures, and the officials and gentry who surrendered to captives became bereaved dogs and were cast aside by everyone.

"Zhejiang inspected the governor's affairs to report to the public. In the middle of this month, I took a small boat to Xiaoshan with a short boy. The people were thinking of Han. The sages and gentry bravely captured Chen Ying, the false prefect. Kill the envoys on the list, while patrolling along the river, guarding the crossing, and at the same time summoning soldiers to pay...

Zhang Huangyan, the editor of the Imperial Academy newly appointed by Jian Guo, is reading the memorial for Zhu Yihai.

The situation is very good, Yu Ying's memorial even has some suspicions of exaggeration, why take a short boy to Xiao in a small boat, and then capture and behead the thief officer, it seems that Xiaoshan on the south bank of the Qiantang River can be killed without any effort. The county was taken.

In fact, of course, it is impossible to be so easy. Although the Eight Banners of the Qing army have not crossed the river, there are still some surrendered Ming troops stationed there. The fact is that Yu Ying, relying on Zhu Yihai to give him the title of inspector and governor of Zhejiang Province, ordered all roads in Shaoxing Prefecture The people and horses obeyed his command.

It was under this title that Liu Mu, the former deputy general who was at home, responded by recruiting [-] soldiers. Commander of Shaoxing Guard sent Wu Jingguo to recruit [-] volunteer soldiers, who gathered under Ying's command successively.

In addition to the Yixing Army Zheng Zunqian and Liu Dadao at the beginning of the Shaoxing uprising, as well as Sun Jiaji and Xiong Rulin's Sun Xiongjun who rushed over from Yuyao, at this time, no matter whether they can fight or not, the numbers are considerable. Full of momentum.

There are thousands of troops behind Yu Ying, and he took two bookboys into Xiaoshan City in a small boat. Of course, the gentry in the city knew how to choose, and there were already internal support in the city. The county magistrate came to welcome him.

"Yu Gong asked the gentry Xiao Ting, Xu Fanglie, He Zhijie and others to be responsible for raising salaries, to defend the Baili River with various rebels, Liu Mu guarding the head of Tan to spy on Fuyang, Zheng Weihan and Jin Yu crossing the river to guard Shenjiabu, and Qiao Si to unite with Haining.

Xu Yaozu joined the ship in the middle of the river, and Wu Jingguo camped on the river bank.

Zhu Shouyi, the former commander of Jinyiwei, and Zhu Zhaoxian, the commander of the army, led the volunteer soldiers to kill the turtle gate.

The original servant Shaoqing came to Fang Wei, and the head of the Ministry of War came to gather them, and led the volunteer soldiers to kill Qitiaosha.

Zhu Boyu and other recruits from the original capital made surprise guerrilla attacks. "

Zhang Huangyan originally came from Yu Ying's side, and at this time he couldn't help but feel excited, "Grand Yu praises it. In a short period of time, a line of defense has been built along the Qiantang River."

"Your Highness, Yu Gong waits day and night for His Highness to go to Shaoxing as soon as possible."

The good news came one after another. Now the whole east of Zhejiang is in turmoil. Previously, the Tartar soldiers were fighting fiercely. In particular, Hong Guang suddenly abandoned the capital and escaped and was captured. King Lu surrendered in five days. Fighting spirit, they waited for the wind to surrender one after another.

There are only a small number of people who are unwilling to surrender, or who are dead, or who are disheartened but don't care about the world, and only a very small number of people are still running around planning.

Now when the fire is burning, more people are willing to stand up.

Shen Chenquan, the former censor of Shanxi Province, Feng Yuanyang, the former secretary of the Ministry of War, and Zhang Zhengchen, the former minister of Dali Temple, also recruited brave people to respond.

Even in Sheng County, the abbot of a temple came out with a dozen monks to respond.

Zhang Huangyan opened the copy of Yu Ying's memorial again, his face changed slightly.

"Your Highness, Yu Gong's deputy Qi Zuo said that the northern soldiers who were exploring had pulled more than a hundred inland riverboats at the mouth of the river, and dozens of wooden rafts had been filled with soil, with the intention of spying on them. The heart of his journey to the south."

Not bad news.

On the south bank of the Qiantang River, all the prefectures in Zhejiang, which had basically waited and surrendered, suddenly became commotions, and Boluo in Hangzhou must be aware of it.

Collecting ships and even building wooden rafts is obviously a preparation to send troops to the south. As for whether it is really going to be a big fight, or just sending a team to investigate the situation, it is hard to say.

Zhu Yihai remembered that in history, the Qing army stopped its military offensive after capturing Hongguang and forcing the surrender of Queen Lu.

Prince Azige of the West Road chased Li Zicheng to Huguang and Jiangxi. After Li Zicheng was beaten to death by the landlord, the rest of his troops collapsed, and Azige led his troops back north without waiting for the imperial court's orders.

And the West Route Army, Prince Yu Duoduo in Nanjing and Belleboluo in Hangzhou, also returned to the north soon, leaving only Luck Dehun and others to take part in the defense.

Therefore, around the Qiantang River in history, the Lu Jianguo regime has been tossing here for a long time. First, it built Jiangfang, and then wanted to cross the river to recover Hangzhou. After the main force went south again, it was finally defeated by one blow.

This should be a strategic failure, and the goal was wrong from the beginning.

The Northern Army did not want to go south for the time being, so there was no need to defend the Qiantang River.In a heavy city like Hangzhou, even if you want to fight, you can't beat it.

So there is no need to waste precious time around the Qiantang River and Hangzhou City.

Yu Ying and the others planned to gather all the volunteers, join forces to cross the Qiantang River, regain Hangzhou City, and then respectfully invite Zhu Yihai to become the emperor in Hangzhou.

The idea is very good, but it is difficult to realize.

Daming now has only half of the country left, and there are a lot of terrible problems, which are like a mess. At this time, I want to fight the Qing army. Isn't this a joke?
Zhu Yihai would never be so naive.

But Shaoxing has to go.

"Zhang Qing is going to invite some generals to discuss matters."

Zhu Yihai was the only one left in the study room in the backyard of the Ningbo Government Office. He paced around with his hands behind his back, and the development of things was far better than he expected.

A gunshot in Linhai, Taizhou opened the great cause of an all-out resistance to the Qing Dynasty.

Perhaps after he succeeds in the future, future generations will call that day Nanming, or the starting point of the founding of the post-Ming Dynasty?
In the past few days, he has been non-stop, dare not stop for a moment, and has done many things against the clock.

Now, at least in the three prefectures of Taizhou, Shaoxing, and Ningbo in eastern Zhejiang, the brand of Lu Jianguo has been officially erected, although there are [-] northern soldiers in the north of Qiantang River, and they may go south at any time.

However, the benefits of erecting the Jian Guo brand are enormous.

Wang Zhiren, Zhang Mingzhen, the generals, Qian Sule, Shen Chenquan, Lin Shiping and other civil servants heard the call.

"Gu plans to go to Shaoxing immediately."

Shen Chenquan immediately objected. He thought that as the situation was improving now, Zhu Yihai, as a state supervisor, should pay more attention to his own safety. He should go back to Taizhou and leave the frontline affairs to the soldiers.

This Shen Chenquan is a child prodigy. He became a scholar in the Tongzi Examination at the age of nine. In the 13th year of Chongzhen, he became a Jinshi at the age of 25 and became a pedestrian department.After the fall of Beijing, Fu Wang was established in Nanjing, and Shen Chenquan was awarded the supervisory censor of Shanxi Province. He impeached the chief assistant Ma Shiying and Ruan Dacheng as traitors and misleading the country, and was almost killed.

Later, Su Song's soldiers were sent out to prepare for the war, Nanjing fell, Hangzhou surrendered, and all places in the south of the Yangtze River surrendered. Shen Chenquan returned to his hometown to make contacts, and Zhu Yihai thanked the three guests in Ningbo.

Zhu Yihai has a very good impression of him. Firstly, they are about the same age. Secondly, Shen Chenquan is very elegant, but he is not the kind of person who can only play tricks. What's more, this person has always supported Zhu Yihai in history, and he has never given up on no matter how difficult the situation is. , has been the chief assistant of Lu Jianguo, and finally accompanied Zhu Yihai to eat sweet potatoes in Kinmen, and asked to go to Japan to borrow troops, but unfortunately the ship sank due to wind and waves at sea.

Later, when the Qing Dynasty compiled the history of the Ming Dynasty, many people believed that loyal officials like Zhang Huangyan and Shen Chenquan could not be regarded as rebellious, and Kang Mazi also recognized it very much, and personally decreed to biography the two in the history of the Ming Dynasty.Later, Qianlong also pursued him as Zhongyi.

Shen Chenquan knew about military matters, and he didn't agree with Ying et al's optimism, and even opposed Zhu Yihai's personal visit to the front line. Wouldn't it be a matter of capturing the flag and beheading the commander immediately if the horse came to attack?
After finally opening up a little bit of the situation, all previous efforts will be wasted, and even Daming can no longer afford this kind of loss.

Therefore, he was a person who firmly opposed Zhu Yihai's going north, even if Zhu Yihai personally mentioned the Sixth Division's going north at this time, which would have a huge and exciting impact, he still opposed it.

"Chen Gu also understood in Shen Gong's previous performance. Because of this, Gu should go north."

Shen Chenquan, who was specially bestowed by Jian Guo as the censor of Youqian Capital, is very grateful for Lu Jian Guo's appreciation, and even more admires Lu Jian Guo's courage, but also cherishes this Jian Guo who can stand up in troubled times, and does not want him to be confused I will send it.

Wang Zhiren also opposed Zhu Yihai's going to Shaoxing, thinking that he should stay in Ningbo.Even he himself didn't want to go to Shaoxing, because Zhoushan had a hostile Huang Binqing.

Zhang Mingzhen is willing to lead troops to the north. He, the new chief soldier of Zhejiang, is willing to die for the king.

But Wu Kai, Wang Ping and others were almost all civil servants and generals against him going to Shaoxing.

But Zhu Yihai's attitude is very firm, just like when he first set up his own prison and then immediately left everything behind and ran to Haimen, Shipu, and Ningbo, he is also determined to go to Shaoxing now.

The real reason is also simple, what he is looking at is not the land in Shaoxing, but the rebels, righteous men and loyal ministers gathered there now.

In troubled times, it is worthless to fight for territory, but loyal people are the rarest.

What's more, Zhu Yihai is eager to recruit these people as soon as possible, and even integrate their soldiers and horses. This is the capital of his great cause of fighting the Qing Dynasty, how can he ignore it?

Ren Yinying and the others presided over it in Shaoxing, and they would bring this small court into the strategic gutter.

"Shaoxing is a must for this trip."

Wang Zhiren reminded Zhu Yihai that there is another Huang Binqing in Zhoushan, and he has not responded to any news so far. If they all go to Shaoxing, it will be troublesome if the backyard catches fire.

"Governor Wang led the Third Battalion of the Beijing Camp to go north with me. In Dinghai, I will leave a little General Wang to lead the Dinghai Battalion. I will leave Wu Kai in Shipu. In addition, the recovery battalion of Lord Qian in Yincheng will also stay here for training and garrison. With one battalion at Shanghai Gate, with these four battalions, you can be safe and secure."

There are two battalions of brave guards, one battalion of standard bearers, three battalions of Beijing battalion, and then Zhang Mingzhen's first battalion of Zhejiang General Soldier Standard Battalion, a total of seven battalions.

The full number is seven thousand, the soldiers are five thousand and six, and the husband is one thousand and four.

Of course, all the battalions are newly reorganized now, and there are only a small number of veteran soldiers, and almost two-thirds are newly recruited soldiers.

Zhu Yihai didn't care whether Taizhou was in power or not, anyway, wherever he was now, the prison country, the center of Ming Dynasty was there, and the imperial court was there.

"Huang Binqing ignores him for the time being, as long as he doesn't cause chaos, if he surrenders or invades, your soldiers will block the water and flood the earth, and just repel them."

Everywhere is chaotic now, and Zhu Yihai doesn't have the energy to play riddles with a warlord like Huang Binqing.

(End of this chapter)