Nanming Yiming

Chapter 130 The King of Lu Disappears
After Qian Mo received the news that Jin Shenghuan led the army to go north, a hanging stone in his heart finally fell to the ground.

Historically, due to the siege of Ganzhou, the northern part of Jiangxi was basically undefended and was easily captured by the Qing army.After learning that Tan Tai's army was approaching Nanchang, Jin Shenghuan and Wang Deren hurriedly withdrew their troops, and asked Liu Wuyuan from Ganzhou to replenish food and grass, which later hindered Li Chengdong's northward journey to Ganzhou.

Now driven by Qian Mo, Jin Shenghuan still left a 5 army to besiege Ganzhou.Although Qian Mo secretly sent food to Ganzhou, it was also to achieve the strategic goal of leading the Qing army to Jiangxi and earn some money by the way.

If Ganzhou had already fallen before Tan Tai went south, would the Qing army rush to Nanchang City to break the siege of Ganzhou?

This becomes an unknown.

And counting the days, Li Chengdong in Guangdong is about to go anyway. When Li Chengdong only needs to go north, isn't it ripe for Ganzhou?

Speaking of Li Chengdong, Qian Mo is still a little envious. This guy has embezzled the property accumulated by Ding Kuichu, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, who has searched the people's wealth for many years. A full 300 boats of gold, silver and jewelry are said to be worth 84 taels of gold, which is a full 840 million taels of silver. .

After spending so much effort, Qian Mo prepared 5000 taels of grain in Ganzhou, and when all of them were sold out, it cost only 50 taels of silver. Excluding the cost of grain collection and the commission of the relevant personnel of the Intelligence Department, the actual amount in hand was less than 40 taels .

Qian Mo, the so-called "richest man in the world", is simply poor and can't be compared with Li Chengdong.

Fortunately, now Jin Shenghuan's more than 20 horses will soon arrive at the Jiujiang and Huizhou front lines one after another, and with his help from the side, although it cannot be said that he is sure to defeat the Qing army, there is always no problem in a stalemate for a while.

Just as Qian Mo was raising his troops in Huizhou and preparing to fight the Tartars, Huang Yu walked in excitedly and said, "I have received two pieces of news, one good and one bad."

Qian Mo said: "Let me guess the good news first. Seeing that you are so happy, it should be Li Chengdong from Guangdong who announced that anyway, the Yongli court will recover Guangdong and Guangxi in one fell swoop!"

Huang Yu looked at Qian Mo in surprise, the news was quite sensational, but Uncle Zhongyong was able to predict the future.

Seeing Huang Yu's surprised expression, Qian Mo said, "It's not surprising that Li Chengdong has shown signs of doing anything wrong. The intelligence department has already sent the news."

But I can't guess the bad news, Mr. Huang should just say it directly.

Huang Yu said: "Bashan led a large number of the Manchurian Eight Banners and the Green Battalion into Songjiang, numbering no less than 4 people. On April 15th, the Qing army tentatively attacked Jinshanwei in Songjiang Prefecture, and was repelled by our defenders, but the Qing army continued to attack. Increase troops."

This news also surprised Qian Mo, he never expected that he was waiting for Tan Tai in Huizhou, but the Qing army took the lead in increasing troops in Songjiang.

This is unreasonable. Now that Ganzhou is at stake, the Qing army did not march into Jiangxi to force Jin Shenghuan to return to Nanchang; instead, they increased their troops in Songjiang and attacked Jinshanwei.

Seeing that Qian Mo was silent, Huang Yu continued: "The Qing army's entry into Songjiang can only explain one problem. Tan Tai's southward army has already arrived in Nanjing, at least the vanguard has already arrived, otherwise the main force of Bashan would never dare He rushed to Songjiang."

Qian Mo still agreed with this point, so he said: "It seems that we need to adjust the deployment, and the governor is going to Jiaxing."

"Order the Zhejiang Navy to advance to Jinshanwei and use naval guns to assist in the defense; the Chongming Battalion immediately moves out to defend Jiaxing."

At this time, Huang Yu said: "What if this is a plot by the Qing army to attack east and west?"

Qian Mo said: "It's okay, Jin Shenghuan's [-] troops have already arrived in Raozhou, and they will arrive in Huizhou tomorrow."

"We didn't have a navy before, so we couldn't help the Qing army's Wusong navy, so naturally we couldn't take down the entire Songjiang mansion; now if the Qing army dares to play tricks, then I will personally lead the army to capture Su and Songjiang mansions."

At this time Qian Mo also figured out that offense is the best defense; he had set up four bastions in Huzhou and Jiaxing, and was too passive to wait for the Qing army to attack.

Especially in Huzhou, the Taihu Battalion, Tianmu Battalion, and Huzhou Battalion were deployed with 3 battalions. The Qing army never came to fight, and these troops were left idle.

He can't defend passively in both directions of Huzhou and Jiaxing.

Huzhou is located in the Tianmu Mountains, with three bastions in Changxing, Si'an Town, and Nanxun, plus Weng Zhiheng personally led 12000 people to sit in the town, which can be described as impenetrable.

But Jiaxing is a plain area. Although Tianjiabao has the largest bastion, the cavalry of the Qing army can still bypass it. Now that the Qing army has suddenly increased its troops, Songjiang must have a plan. He must personally lead the army to Jiaxing to sit in the town.

If the increase in troops in Songjiang was just a conspiracy by the Qing army to attack the west, and the target was still Jiangxi, he would not return to Huizhou, and he could not be controlled by the Qing army.He directly led the army to attack the two prefectures of Su and Song. He did not believe that the Qing army would be indifferent to such a heavy taxation.

Then he glanced at Huang Yu and said: "The governor now appoints Huang Yu as the admiral of Western Zhejiang, with 16000 people in charge of the four battalions of Shenji Camp, Huizhou Camp, Yanzhou Camp, and Jingnan Camp, and is fully responsible for the war in Huizhou and Yanzhou."

Although Huang Yu had been looking forward to this appointment for a long time, after all, since Huang Yu led the army to go out, news that Huang Yu was going to be promoted to admiral had been circulating in the army.

When the appointment really came down, Huang Yu still couldn't hide the excitement in his heart, and said loudly: "The final general will definitely live up to the promotion of the governor, and vow to defend Huizhou to the death."

Qian Mo nodded in satisfaction, and said to Huang Yu: "Remember our first priority is to defend Huizhou and prevent the Qing army from entering Zhejiang. Don't attack lightly. If the Qing army besieges Jin Shenghuan, you only need to consume Qing troops on the periphery. The mobile force of the army, pay attention to preserving strength. I have arranged for Qian Ning to follow Jin Shenghuan directly, so I think Jin Shenghuan will not be confused."

Huang Yu said: "The last general obeys orders!"

Then Qian Mo added: "Transfer the 1000 Iron Armored Army from the Jingnan Battalion to Jiaxing, and leave you 15000 troops to guard Huizhou and Yanzhou, which should be enough!"

After arranging everything, Qian Mo led 2000 cavalry from the Chongming Camp to Jiaxing. Although he didn't know what the Qing army was planning, his intuition told him that it would not be that simple.

The horses struggled to cross the rugged mountain road, and every step was very difficult.The horse's hooves made a crisp sound when they landed on the rough stone road. The horse seemed very nervous, panting with its head down from time to time, showing a tired look.

On both sides of the narrow mountain road are towering peaks, surrounded by mountains and shrouded in clouds and mist.The undulating and steep mountain roads require the horses to walk with full attention so as not to be frightened.

Hong Fugui said: "These mountain roads are too difficult to walk. Why don't Zhongyong take the waterway with those infantry. Huizhou goes down the Xin'an River, and you can reach Hangzhou in less than three days."

Looking at Hong Fugui's complaining expression, Qian Mo said, "Could Mr. Hong not see my intention of leading the cavalry on the mountain road?"

Hong Fugui said: "Uncle Zhongyong underestimates Hong too much. You let us take this mountain road because you want to test for yourself whether the cavalry of the Qing army can pass through the Tianmu mountain area and enter the hinterland of our army."

Qian Mo nodded in satisfaction, and said, "Since you know the intentions of the governor, don't complain so much. Dusong Pass is ahead, and it's getting late. Let's hurry up and settle in Deqing County tonight, and we can reach Jiaxing at noon tomorrow. gone."

As soon as the army arrived at Dusong Pass, Qian Mo saw a familiar figure in front of the pass.

Qian Mo frowned immediately, thinking that Gu Yanwu was blocking him here, something big must have happened.

Sure enough, when Gu Yanwu saw Qian Mo, he ran over in a hurry, and whispered in Qian Mo's ear: "Uncle Zhongyong is in trouble, the Qing army has occupied Chongming!"

This news was too shocking, it really shocked Qian Mo.

Qian Mo asked suspiciously: "Will the Wusong navy of the Qing army defeat the Chongming navy?"

At this time, Gu Yanwu waved his hand, and a man dressed as a general came up.

The man knelt on the ground and said with a choked voice: "The last general is Hu Dahai, the deputy general of the Chongming Navy. On the afternoon of April 4, our Chongming Navy pursued the Qing Army Navy to the Shengsi Islands. The army and sailors joined forces to attack. The enemy ships were several times larger than ours, and they laid ambushes ahead of time. Although our Chongming navy fought hard to meet the enemy, they were outnumbered, and the general Ruan Jin unfortunately died fighting to cover the last general's breakout."

In the end, Hu Dahai almost cried and said: "General Chu Mo risked his life and led a lucky boat to break out of the encirclement, and more than a hundred warships were sunk or captured by the enemy; all 1 officers and soldiers of our Chongming Navy were wiped out."

The news was really shocking, Huang Binqing turned his back on the water, and Qian Mo was stunned for a moment.

Although the "Zhoushan Island Lord" in history did a lot of annexing friendly troops and even murdering the clan, he never took refuge in the Qing army.

It was also for this reason that although it was reported that Huang Binqing and Tian Xiong had a tacit understanding with each other, Qian Mo really didn't think about it.

Qian Mo has always felt that there is a mastermind behind the Qing army who is planning this series of conspiracies secretly. It seems that this time Huang Binqing's betrayal is also his handiwork. He must call the intelligence department to find out this mastermind behind the scenes.

It seems that due to his appearance, the original history has been completely changed, and now the main force of Tan Tai's Eight Banners has already moved south ahead of schedule.

At this moment, Qian Mo helped Hu Dahai up, and said with relief: "Deputy General Hu will stay in our Zhejiang Navy for the time being. The governor will definitely rectify the navy and ask Huang Binqing to settle this account."

Gu Yanwu said: "Don't worry, Mr. Zhongyong. Governor Xia has already ordered Shaoxing, Hangzhou, and Jiaxing to martial law to prevent Huang Binqing from cooperating with the Qing army to attack us. In addition, this news has been sent to Zhang Huangyan in Ningbo. Huang Binqing should have no chance to take advantage of it."

Hearing this, Qian Mo's face softened a little, and he said, "Thanks to you handling it properly, you didn't make the matter worse."

Gu Yanwu said: "These are what the subordinates should do."

Qian Mo hurriedly asked, "What's going on in Chongming? There are at least 1 horses on the island. Why did they get lost so quickly?"

"Did His Highness Jian Guo fall into the hands of the Qing army?"

Gu Yanwu said: "After Huang Binqing wiped out the Chongming navy, he cooperated with the Qing army to attack Chongming. Originally, Chongming Island had a fort and 12000 soldiers, and it was still capable of fighting."

"However, at the critical moment, the commander-in-chief Tu Guobao led his troops to turn against the water and seized the opportunity to occupy the Chongming Fort. Without the containment of the fort, the Qing army landed on the island recklessly. Afterwards, the Qing army joined forces with the Tu Guobao Department to besiege Chongming County from all sides. In the early morning of the 18th, they entered Chongming County."

"According to the information sent back by the intelligence department, after the Qing army broke through the city, the whole city searched for His Highness Jian Guo. However, it was quite chaotic at that time, and the Qing army did not capture His Highness, and the arrests continued."

"Our people have no news of His Highness, and we are not sure whether he has escaped from Chongming County. His whereabouts should be considered unknown now."

To be honest, King Lu is like a tasteless to Qian Mo now.

Those with chicken ribs are tasteless to eat, and it is a pity to discard them.

King Lu didn't have much territory anymore, and basically relied on Qian Mo to maintain the scene.

Moreover, King Lu's political endorsement to Qian Mo is not unique, because what King Lu can give to Qian Mo, Yongli can give, and I am afraid there will be more.

If Qian Mo declared his allegiance to Yongli now, he believed that the titles of Duke of the State and Governor of Jiangsu and Zhejiang would not be able to escape, which was far more than what King Lu gave now.

Moreover, Emperor Yongli is far away in Guangxi, so he is simply out of reach for Zhejiang, and there will be fewer constraints.

On the surface, King Lu also obeyed Yongli's order. Even if Qian Mo accepted Yongli's canonization, others would not be able to blame him.

The only person in King Lu's hands that Qian Mo could never forget was someone like Zhang Huangyan.

However, for these talents to be used by Qian Mo, King Lu does not necessarily need to be alive; on the contrary, if King Lu is dead, it will be more convenient for Qian Mo to annex those talents under King Lu.

Qian Mo can use the name of avenging King Lu to take the opportunity to annex King Lu's family property.

From these perspectives, in fact, a dead King Lu is more valuable to Qian Mo than a living King Lu.

If King Lu died at the hands of the Qing army in this Chongming incident, Qian Mo would definitely be the beneficiary.

Of course, saving King Lu is not without any benefits.

As a subordinate of King Lu, Qian Mo could win the reputation of a loyal and brave savior, thereby increasing his prestige.

Another thing is to hold King Lu in his own hands and directly "take the emperor to order the princes".

It's just that King Lu's quality as a prisoner is much worse than that of Emperor Yongli, and the only prince left is Zhang Mingzhen.

After weighing the pros and cons, Qian Mo immediately gave up the idea of ​​retaking Chongming and rescuing King Lu.

So Qian Mo said to Gu Yanwu: "It was too sudden for Huang Binqing to join the Qing army, and the navy of the Qing army suddenly became stronger. Although my Zhejiang navy has a huge ship like the 'Lisbon', its overall strength is not as good as Huang Binqing. If we attack rashly, I'm afraid Hangzhou will be attacked."

"In addition, the main force of the Qing army has already moved south, and the war may break out at any time; it is not advisable to divide the troops to fight Chongming at this time."

Gu Yanwu sighed, and said helplessly: "The situation is critical now, it is really not feasible to send troops to Chongming, and I can only hope that His Highness Jian Guo will be a blessing!"

Qian Mo said: "Although we can't send troops to Chongming, His Highness Jian Guo can't help but send Liu Yichen to Jiaxing to see me."

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