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Chapter 233: The King of Donghai Wants to Go North
Yang Feng guessed correctly.

Li Zicheng announced that he accepted the voting results of the Jiangxi Four People's Conference.

Just take advantage of the situation!
It is also a good opportunity to demonstrate one's noble character of keeping one's word and one's magnanimity of respecting public opinion.

In short, withdraw troops.

The Beijing troops in De'an and Jianchang were all withdrawn to Jiujiang, and the troops of Sun Shoufa and Zhu Yiwu in Pingxiang were withdrawn to Huguang. Other shed dwellers who responded to the uprising also withdrew to Huguang as official troops. There were many of them, including the sand dwellers at the junction of Hunan and Jiangxi in the south. They were all excited during this period and rose up in response to the call of the King of Qin. They suddenly became the official troops appointed by the King of Qin, which made the gentry miserable.

But now they are still the government troops. It can be said that these people who were originally at the bottom of society, who were actually abandoned people and did not even have civilian status, have all transformed themselves into government troops under the command of the King of Qin.

Can't say bad things either.

After all, these people used to live mainly in the mountains or lakes and swamps and could not be cleared out.

Now they have all been summoned by Li Zicheng.

No matter who they are now, at least they are no longer uncontrolled destroyers outside the order, but have integrated into the order.

On the second day after he announced his acceptance of the voting results, Ma Jinzhong, the general of Jingzhou, reported to Nanjing that Wang Yingxiong, the commander-in-chief of Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan, and the Grand Secretary, were escorting the elders of the three provinces to Nanjing, and their vanguard had arrived in Jingzhou.

Of course, this striker is a little special.

Sun Kewang, the top general under Zhang Xianzhong.

However, his current identity is the commander of the Sichuan militia’s front camp.

Behind him was Zhang Xianzhong, the commander-in-chief of the Sichuan militia.

Since everyone is playing group training, of course we can’t stop the people of Sichuan from playing.

Zeng Ying, the general of Chongqing.

Qin Yiming, the general of Guizhou.

……

It was said that an army of 150,000 strong was escorting a petitioning group consisting of 50 elders.

On average, each elder has 3,000 bodyguards.

Since it is a petition group, and it is led by the Grand Secretary personally...

Of course, Commander Wang is still in Chongqing.

But this was also a legitimate government army, and Ma Jinzhong, who was also a government soldier, certainly could not stop them, because the incident happened too suddenly. This was indeed sudden, but it was also reasonable. After all, the ships out of the Three Gorges were fast and went straight down the river! It only took a day to return to Jiangling, a thousand miles away. At this speed, he really didn't have time to do anything. In short, before he had time to do anything, the vanguard led by Sun Kewang had already passed through Jingzhou.

Li Zicheng immediately ordered Sun Shoufa and other troops to return to Yueyang as soon as possible, but they were still a step too late.

Sun Kewang, who went downstream, arrived in Yueyang before Sun Shoufa.

Then enter Yueyang.

The local government troops in Yueyang were Wang Guangtai's troops who withdrew from Xiangyang. Wang Guangtai had a grudge against Li Zicheng, but it could not be said that he had a great grudge against Zhang Xianzhong, so of course he did not put up any resistance.

Group training!
The militia is still just civilians.

Since they are civilians, they should be treated according to civilian standards. As long as they have a pass, they are legal merchants. Even if they carry cannons and muskets, they are legal merchants. The ban on civilian possession of firearms has been lifted. In short, the army cannot cross the border without a transfer order. As a local town commander, he should not allow them to cross the border without authorization. However, as civilians, the militia is legal as long as they have a pass.

They are good citizens with travel permits, just carrying some weapons for self-defense. What have they done wrong?

Reasonable and legal!

Sun Shoufa, who arrived in a hurry, attacked the city angrily, but was defeated by Wang Guangtai and Sun Kewang.

Wang Guangtai also reported to the emperor that Sun Shoufa was in turmoil and had allowed his troops to plunder Yueyang, and listed his crimes. As the general, he had no choice but to expel him because he had only recruited some volunteers due to insufficient troops.

Immediately after Sun Kewang, Guizhou General Qin Yiming arrived with the Shizhu Tusi soldiers.

He was the nephew of Qin Nainai, and had been appointed as the Sichuan General by Chongzhen, but the order was not sent to Li Zicheng, who went to Beijing. Later, Wang Yingxiong changed him to the Guizhou General, and he was stationed in Zunyi with the Tusi soldiers of Shizhu, Youyang and other places as the main force of his subordinates. Although he was a government soldier, he could not enter Yueyang without Wang Guangtai's order, but when Sun Shoufa rebelled, it was reasonable for him to participate in the suppression as a passing government soldier.

Soon after, the subsequent armies arrived one after another.

However, Zhang Xianzhong still hadn't arrived. He was actually in Chongqing.

He is not stupid.

He had to act together with Wang Yingxiong.

However, Sun Kewang and his troops did not continue to move forward, but instead claimed to be waiting for Wang Yingxiong in Yueyang.

Of course, from then on, all the food, weapons and ammunition transported from Hunan to the north were confiscated.

As for the reason...

public opinion.

The people of Huguang forcibly stopped the transport ships in Yueyang because unscrupulous merchants kept shipping out grain, causing the local grain prices to rise. This was public opinion, and Wang Guangtai certainly could not suppress it. Such things happened frequently. Ships transporting grain from Jiangxi to Zhejiang were often intercepted or even robbed by angry people halfway.

These unruly people!

But unruly people are also people, and their behavior is at most an economic dispute, which falls under civil affairs.

General Wang could only respond with indignation.

Because food supply was smooth during this period, Li Zicheng did not stockpile too much in Hankou. After all, he still had millions of subjects behind him. Even though Shaanxi had suffered great population losses in recent years, there were still more than five million people at present, not to mention Longyou and Gansu. These places all relied on Li Zicheng for food replenishment.

He basically shipped them all back to Shaanxi.

Although they will not run out of food in the short term, they will not be able to sustain it for too long.

Unless Yueyang is recaptured.

But facing Sun Kewang, Li Zicheng did not think that he could just send out a detachment. The number one general under Zhang Xianzhong, if he put him under his command, would be at the level of Li Guo. They were all old acquaintances and knew each other well.

Without giving his all, it would be difficult for him to recapture Yueyang.

But if he tries his best, the militia behind him will stab him in the back.

Xiao Gushan.

Prince Yang overlooks the mighty river.

This hill has been militarized by Chen Zilong...

Not as a turret.

The cannon can't be brought up.

It's hard just to climb up this mountain.

They can only serve as a guard post, or simply defend with musketeers. After all, although they cannot bring up the cannons here, they cannot ignore it completely. In fact, if they try hard, they can still bring up some small cannons weighing 100 kilograms. After all, it is not very high, and small cannons weighing 100 kilograms, especially mortars, can threaten Penglangji on the opposite bank.

Penglangji is the real fortress, where there are heavy artillery that can block the Yangtze River.

Using mortar shrapnel shells, we can find a relatively safe position on the back of Xiaogushan Mountain and then continuously fire at the artillery position of Penglangji.

Anyway, the latter can't be hit.

The entire Little Lonely Mountain serves as a shield!
"the river is long and tempestuous, it was like a hero!"

Yang Feng sighed.

The militia commanders behind him all sighed in unison. Then Du Yinxi popped his head out from the rock next to him, panting.

Chen Zilong quickly pulled him.

Governor Du immediately climbed up.

"Li Zicheng evacuates from Jiujiang!"

he said excitedly.

He was monitoring Li Zicheng on the north bank of Jiujiang in his capacity as the Governor of Huguang.

Huangmei belongs to Huguang.

Therefore, the small area between the south bank of Longgan Lake and the Yangtze River still belongs to Huguang. It is of course reasonable for the Huguang Governor to be in Huguang. Moreover, the Qing army was in Huangmei, and he was only leading troops in his jurisdiction to resist the Jianlu, and he was definitely not monitoring the King of Qin.

As soon as he finished speaking, there was immediate cheering all around.

For Chen Zilong and others, they finally won the victory, although they had never fought against Li Zicheng. They were mainly on the defensive, and the battle was fought by the Jiangxi militia, and the Zhejiang militia came to reinforce the Jiangxi militia. But the victory still belonged to them, or in other words, the wealthy families in Jiangnan finally managed to save their own industries with their own efforts, although the price they paid was a bit high. Tens of millions of silver alone had been spent, including the military expenses of the militia, the expenses of bribing Yang Feng, the expenses of bribing other generals, and the money for Li Zicheng, which was also indispensable.

enemy?

The enemy has to give it too!

Otherwise, they would have fallen out, and Li Zicheng would not have been like this at that time.

In fact, during this period, the tax grain sent from Nanjing to Xi'an continued, and was even given more generously than in the past.

There are also benefits that are given to the people.

This is also a loss. If you make less, it is of course a loss, and a huge loss. If you made one million last year and 800,000 this year, it means you lost 200,000 this year.

Of course, Yang Feng was not jubilant. He still stood there looking at the Yangtze River deeply.

"Prince of Donghai, it's time for us to march. Li Zicheng has withdrawn his troops to Hankou, but he still left Tian Jianxiu to guard Jiujiang. He probably wants to return to deal with Zhang Xianzhong. We can't just stand by and watch. We have to march to Jiujiang. In my opinion, we can surround Jiujiang and say that Li Zicheng has announced that he will abide by the voting results and withdraw from Jiujiang, so the Jiujiang militia wants to go home. Let the Jiangxi militia go north. There are tens of thousands of people in Jiujiang militia. Tian Jianxiu will definitely not dare to do so. If the militia makes trouble again and fires a few shots, Li Zicheng will retreat. If he still wants to occupy Jiujiang, he must dispatch troops back.

In addition, he ordered the Jiangxi militia to move from Yuanzhou to Huguang.

Just find a random excuse and say that Zhu Yiwu's troops crossed the border and killed the militia.

In short, it seems like a storm is about to come.

We are here, led by your subordinates, to counterattack Huangmei. All the armies will advance westward along the Yangtze River and must at least pass Wujiaxue.

All directions are launched simultaneously.

Li Zicheng could only divide his troops to guard.

After all, he doesn't dare to conclude, so we dare not take the opportunity to inflict heavy damage on him. Although he has a large number of troops, he is attacked from both sides, and He Yuncong is still watching. It's not that he will not join us. He and Wang Yuncheng still have tens of thousands of elite troops in Wuchang.

If a real fight breaks out, Zhang Xianzhong will go straight down the river, and we will cut off his lower reaches. He Yuncong will attack Hankou, and he may be trapped and die on the south bank. "

Du Yinxi came up to Yang Feng and said.

He is still very cunning.

If this idea really worked out, Li Zicheng would probably have to go to Jiugong Mountain.

"That's your own business. Don't look for me. I'm only here to mediate between you and Li Zicheng. The rest has nothing to do with me. I'm here to recapture Fengyang."

Yang Feng waved his hand and said.

Du Yinxi smiled slightly.

Of course, he also knew that at this point it didn't matter whether he used the King of Donghai or not. Even if Yang Feng did not take action, with the current strength of all parties, although it was still a little difficult to siege and destroy Li Zicheng, it would be enough to force Li Zicheng to withdraw his troops back to Shaanxi.

"The King of Donghai wants to retake Fengyang?"

He went on to say.

"It's not just me. Jianlu is the enemy, so naturally all the armies will join forces to suppress them."

Yang Feng said.

Du Yinxi was stunned for a moment.

"Meet the troops?"

he said doubtfully.

"Yes, gather the troops. As a vassal king and deputy marshal of the army, the King of Qin must send troops. Since the southwestern armies have come, we cannot just sit back and watch. The militias of various provinces are also your majesty's subjects, so they must be loyal to your majesty. Gather the troops, gather the troops of the world, recapture Fengyang, march north to the Central Plains, and recapture the capital."

Yang Feng said.

Then he picked up a big rock and threw it into the river below the mountain...

Meet the troops.

It's up to you to do whatever you want, but you all have to mobilize your troops and follow Prince Yang to recapture Fengyang.

After Yang Feng returned to Nanjing and reported to the regent that he had successfully completed the mission, the Nanjing Military Department immediately issued a transfer order, requiring the Prince of Donghai to personally lead the army to recapture Fengyang, and to march north to the Central Plains and recapture the capital, and requiring the militias in various provinces to draw troops to Nanjing to form a northern expedition army. Only militias were needed, not official troops, and this included the militias in the three southwestern provinces and even the militias in Guangdong and Guangxi, which of course also had militias.

There is no need to talk about the Guangdong group training.

The Guangxi militia was organized by Qu Shisi after he took office as the governor of Guangxi, modeled after Zhang Guowei in Zhejiang.

The purpose of his organizing the militia was not entirely to defend against the enemy. After all, there were no enemies to defend against in Guangxi. It was purely because the Prince of Jingjiang was a little restless...

The world is in chaos!
There is always this kind of ambition.

Prince Jingjiang was alone in Guangxi with no one around to watch over him. Chongzhen had already issued an edict that the princes of various places had the responsibility to protect their local areas. Although other princes were bullied by the gentry, Prince Jingjiang got the opportunity all of a sudden because the gentry in Guangxi was relatively weak.

Of course, Yang Feng didn't care about all this. He wanted to march north, and the militia from all provinces had to send troops.

But this takes time.

After all, it takes a long time to gather all these groups.

The armies upstream followed the plan made by Du Yinxi. This guy's talent has been recognized by the militia commanders. After all, they also need someone to take charge of the overall situation. It is not convenient for Zhang Guowei to come forward, and Zhang Guowei's military talent is not as good as Du Yinxi. In fact, he used to rely on Zhu Dadian, and now Zhu Dadian is in Huai'an. The original person in charge of the upstream was Yuan Jixian, who was even less talented. In this case, Du Yinxi stood out. He was cunning, had a deep background, had a high official position, and even had his own servants. It was most appropriate for him to command.

Immediately afterwards, the Jiangxi militia surrounded Jiujiang, and the 50,000 militiamen all said that they were from Jiujiang and wanted to go home.

Of course Tian Jianxiu didn't dare.

He only had 20,000 people left in Jiujiang!
The two sides exchanged fire.

Du Yinxi led the troops downstream and advanced by land and sea, claiming to recapture Huangmei, but he went straight west at Jiujiang. Tian Jianxiu did not dare to fire to intercept him, after all, the troops outside were already preparing for the attack.

At the same time, Yuan Jixian's son Yuan Yizao used the excuse that Zhu Yiwu's troops were robbing him and led the Yuanzhou militia to cross the border into Huguang for revenge. With the help of Fu Shan, his main staff member and his father's favorite student who fled from Shanxi to Jiangxi for refuge, they suddenly attacked Zhu Yiwu, who was almost killed by their cannons...

The downstream militia groups are advancing on all fronts.

At this time, another general under Zhang Xianzhong, Liu Wenxiu, also led the Sichuan militia to Yueyang.

At the same time, a group of so-called bandits suddenly robbed Li Zicheng's military supply ship in Shayang.

Of course, after the robbery, they ran to Jingzhou.

Ma Jinzhong, the general of Jingzhou, failed to suppress the bandits effectively and he feels ashamed of the regent!
(End of this chapter)