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Chapter 276 Ashes to dust, dust to dust

Two days later.

Xuyi.

His Royal Highness the Prince of Qi stood in front of a huge pile of corpses, looking at the one at the top with some sadness.

I am Kong Youde, the obedient King of the Qing Dynasty.

It's just that because he started the fire himself, he burned himself into a fried chicken shape.

His identity was confirmed by some unburned items on his body, and by the surrendered Green Flag Army soldiers who saw him commit suicide. It was the same as his original history, but the difference was that his son was not here. His son Kong Tingxun was still young and could not fight with him, so theoretically he should be in the capital, including his younger daughter Kong Sizhen, but she might have been a slave in a family in Shandong a long time ago...

Because according to intelligence, Kong Youde's family had already moved back to Liaoyang, but there had been no news of his son being rewarded.

Ever since Yang Feng used the captured concubines and princesses of the Qing Dynasty to entertain guests, the princes and nobles of the Qing Dynasty would no longer admit that their women and children were captured, and usually covered it up by moving them back to Liaoyang.

After all, it's still shameful to admit it.

They can just move back to Liaoyang. If that’s still not enough, they can move back to Hetuala. We can’t have someone chasing after them and investigating, right?
As for what Yang Feng announced, they just had to deny it. Sister Dayuer and Fulin had no choice but to admit it. After all, their identities were different. They couldn't just make up a fake one, otherwise they would not be loyal ministers. As loyal ministers, they had to admit it even if they were captured. But it didn't matter for those princesses and ladies of Fujin. They could just disappear from people's memory.

In fact, Yang Feng was not very clear about the identities of the prisoners.

Catch too much.

There is no way to identify them one by one.

Minors like these are divided up by the soldiers. They may be taken home to be raised by the soldiers, or they may be sold directly to entertainment venues.

This is really hard to investigate.

In short, his children were suspected to have been captured, and then it is unknown in whose family they were enslaved, but whether it is certain remains unclear.

"Burn them all!"

His Royal Highness the Prince of Qi sighed and said.

The soldiers who had been waiting nearby immediately came forward with oil drums, and then poured gasoline and other things on the cleaned enemy corpses, a total of 11,000, and as the torches fell, they became a huge torch on the bank of the Huai River. Whether they were the Eight Banners Manchus, the Eight Banners Han Army, or the Green Banner Army, they all turned into a wisp of ash in the flames of my Qing Dynasty. In my Qing Dynasty with clear hierarchy, they finally achieved equality here, and they didn't need to care about them after burning, they just threw them here. The Huai River would flood several times every year, and this river bank would be almost submerged in the spring, and then the surging river would wash these bone residues into Hongze Lake.

The generals also looked at him with complicated eyes, and they were somewhat emotional about Kong Youde's ending.

After all, everyone understood that the fundamental reason for Kong Youde's rebellion was actually the court, especially the death of Mao Wenlong and the complicated struggle in Dongjiang Town, and these were more of the sins of the court. After all, they were able to persist in Dongjiang Town and they were worthy of the old Zhu family. Moreover, before this, he was in a similar situation to the generals around Yang Feng now. Liu Zhaoji and Jin Shenghuan were all Liaodong military households, but they did not have the special situation of Dongjiang Town.

But if it really happened, Jin Shenghuan would probably end up like Kong Youde...

It's not like he hasn't done this before in history.

"Let's go. Everything has turned to ashes. The right and wrong, the past has turned to ashes. All armies should march to Fengyang immediately."

Yang Feng said.

"Your Majesty, the water transport is blocked and it is difficult to transport the cannons. Even if we reach Fengyang, we will not be able to attack the city."

Zhu Dadian quickly reminded him.

"Then we will move them slowly, but we have to rush forward and not give the Jianlu a chance to breathe. Even if we cannot recapture Fengyang, we have to clean up the surroundings, especially the roads from Fengyang to Chuzhou and Hefei. We have to cut them off first. Don't we still have 10,000 new troops in Huai'an? Transfer them all over. I will also transfer 10,000 Shandong soldiers to continue to Fengyang together. While it is frozen, we will first clean up those strongholds on the north bank."

Yang Feng said.

Zhu Dadian had no choice but to nod.

And there is nothing wrong with Yang Feng’s plan itself.

With Xuyi captured, the Jianlu only had Chuzhou left on the eastern front, and it was estimated that it would not take long. The gateway to Fengyang was actually open. While it was still frozen and convenient to advance by land, they could first attack Fengyang and then clear out the small strongholds around it, especially those on the north bank of the Huai River. Because after the Yellow River was opened, the water of the rivers such as the Wohe River and the Huihe River flowed southward into the Huai River, so a large area of ​​the Yellow River flooded east of the Wohe River. In other words, in winter, they could cross the Yellow River flooded area without passing through Fengyang and attack the main channel for the Qing army to transport goods to the north, along the Yinghe River.

If they could take advantage of this opportunity to attack and capture Huaiyuan or even Yingzhou, the Qing army's connection between the north and the south would be cut off.

Of course, after the spring thaw, those who stayed there would become isolated.

and so……

Why do you care so much?

King Yang has already given the order, so everyone should just listen to him.

With King Yang personally leading everyone, even if they really attack Fengyang by force, they will definitely succeed. After all, he can shine.

In fact, all the armies are now in a state of obvious mental abnormality. The generals don't care, because they have seen many miracles of King Yang. But it is most terrifying that ordinary soldiers are in this state. They are now like fanatics and regard following King Yang as their mission. With soldiers in this state, it is not impossible to attack Fengyang even if they really do. After all, they are not afraid of death now.

Zhu Datian was eventually deceived and left him in Huai'an, while the 10,000 new troops from Zhejiang that were originally assigned to guard against Yang Feng's southward advance were transferred here.

From then on, there were no more militia or Jiangnan armed forces from Shandong to Guazhou.

Guazhou was originally controlled by Yang Feng, where there were a large number of Yang family industries, even fishing. Yangzhou was Gao Jie's camp, and Huai'an was controlled by Huai'an militia.

The generals of the Huai'an militia were all Confucian knights.

Even other Jiangnan militia in Jiangbei, including the Jiangnan camps in the Northern Expedition Army, had left Pukou at this time. Before Xuyi was liberated, they had already blasted open Quanjiao City with heavy artillery.

So now we are marching towards Hefei.

The only defenders left in Nanjing were mainly composed of militia from Yingtian, Huizhou and Ningguo prefectures.

In fact, fighting also broke out upstream at this time. Li Zicheng did not get what he wanted after all. Except for Huguang, which had no choice but to follow him, other places were still waiting and watching. So he knew that if he could not win a victory, he would never be able to make these guys bet on him, so he had already begun to attack Jiujiang.

Similarly, other routes also began to attack northern Jiangxi and Yuanzhou. Therefore, the upstream armies were also reinforcing Jiangxi.

In this way, Nanjing's outer defenses were basically drained away.

Just when the Zhejiang New Army received the order to set out from Huai'an to Xuyi, and the vanguards of the Xuyi Army marched westward from Xuyi and headed towards Fengyang...

South of Dayangshan Island.

A paddle trawler from Zhoushan is sailing on the sea.

Moreover, the sailors on the deck were constantly throwing the processed and even frozen sea fish in the cabin into the sea. Not only sea fish, but also food and fresh water were thrown into the sea. As for the artillery that was originally used to seize fishing grounds at sea, only empty gun positions were left.

"Hurry, row faster, and you'll all be free once you reach the shore!"

The ship owner, standing on the deck, shouted anxiously at the hatch below him.

Rows of Japanese slaves chained to their oars, whipped by the whips of the Korean supervisors, tried their best to paddle their oars, pushing the fishing boat, which was losing weight, to more than ten knots with the help of the sea breeze. The relatively slender fishing boat even plowed through the waves, because the Yangtze River looked like a centipede crawling quickly on the sea. The owner, who had finished speaking, raised his telescope anxiously and looked at the sea behind him.

Then he simply put down the telescope.

No need.

Because he could directly see the seemingly endless white behind him.

He could even see several of the largest warships, and he had seen them before. The last time Zheng Chenggong went north to offer captives, they had stopped at Zhoushan.

This is the battleship of the Fujian Navy.

As for the endless white behind the warships, he didn't need to see clearly to know that it was Shandong's trawlers, because only Shandong's trawlers could gather at this scale. Although trawling in the south was also developing rapidly, it was two years late after all, and the scale was still incomparable. And the organization was the same. Shandong's trawlers were organized, after all, there was the Confucius and Mencius Knights, but the southern regions were already heavily bulked.

For example, the prefectures in Nanzhili still do not have a provincial elders association. Although Zhejiang has one, the prefectures and even the counties within each prefecture are actually unable to work together. Under such circumstances, fleets from all over the country compete for fishing grounds at sea. There is no organization when it comes to interests, and they even attack each other at sea.

"We would have to mobilize all the trawlers in Shandong to transport 100,000 people!"

The ship owner murmured to himself.

As for what they are here for...

Is there any need to guess?
The team was led by Zheng Chenggong!
Last time he snatched the emperor away and was even declared regicide, and until now, the court has not yet rehabilitated him.

He then turned around and went into the cabin himself, took the whip from the supervisor, and beat a Japanese slave who was obviously lazy.

"Drag this bastard out and chop him to pieces!"

He shouted viciously.

The two good-dog Korean slaves immediately pushed a spare Japanese slave forward, opened the iron ring on the lazy Japanese slave's waist, dragged him out, stuffed the spare Japanese slave in and locked it again, then dragged the lazy Japanese slave to the side and hacked him with a knife. The scream of the Japanese slave cheered up all the Japanese slaves rowing the boat, and then they rowed desperately. Because he was hacked to death, the Japanese slave continued to scream, and the Japanese slaves rowing the boat were inspired by his screams and rowed desperately.

The loads that kept falling from outside made the ship continue to accelerate, and even widened the distance between it and the fleet behind it, heading for Dinghai, more than a hundred miles away, to report the news to the Ningbo Hometown Association.

The target of the fleet behind them is obviously Dinghai.

However, the ship owner knew that even if he could get to Dinghai first, it would be useless, because at that time, Zhejiang militias were all on the front line in Jiangxi, the Zhejiang New Army was in Jiangbei, and even the main force of the Zhejiang Navy was in Jiujiang. Ningbo only had a thousand militias to suppress the unruly people. In addition, Dinghai and Zhoushan still had some old warships, but because the original military households were transferred to the fishing industry, they had actually been abandoned long ago. As for anti-piracy, there was no need to consider it. They had already used Japanese slaves, so there were no Japanese pirates. Even if there were small groups of pirates, they were surrounded and beaten by local elders and sages who mobilized trawlers.

There is no need to defend against pirates along the coast anymore, but large warships are increasingly needed to fight for fishing grounds and trade routes in the ocean.

Large warships like Zheng Chenggong.

but now……

"Liar, all liars. Didn't we agree that the King of Qi would no longer care about the regicide case?"

He said with grief and indignation.

Indeed, they were deceived, or rather, the gentry in Jiangnan were deceived by Yang Feng.

This devil said that he accepted the reality, and even went to the front line in Xuyi to personally supervise the attack on the Jianlu, paralyzing the Senate and the officials in Nanjing, but in fact he mobilized the army to raid Zhejiang.

The trawler under his feet was still accelerating and widening the distance between it and the fleet behind, but it was obviously not fast enough.

"Drag this bastard out and chop him to death!"

He pointed at another exhausted Japanese slave and shouted.

……

Thanks to the continuous sacrifices of the Japanese slaves, the trawler finally arrived in Dinghai five hours later, one hour ahead of Zheng Chenggong's fleet, and then reported to the Dinghai Hometown Association, which hurriedly reported to the Ningbo Hometown Association and summoned local young men for defense. But it was useless. It was only one hour. What could be done with such efficiency at that time? It was not even enough to pass the news to Shaoxing. Besides, those trawlers carrying troops were not battleships, so they did not have to take the route of the Yongjiang River estuary.

In fact, these troop transport ships had already separated and rushed to various fishing ports along the coast. The mouth of the Yongjiang River alone could not accommodate a landing of this scale.

Similar to the port facilities construction brought about by the rapid development of Shandong's fishery, Zhejiang's coastal areas also built a large number of docks that could accommodate trawlers. These fishing boats were no different from those in Shandong, and the fishing ports that could accommodate them could also accommodate those in Shandong. These troop transports that arrived with the tide quickly rushed into the fishing ports along the coast from Beilun to Linshanwei before anyone on the shore could figure out who they were, and then rushed to the nearest castles at the fastest speed...

This area is full of coastal defense castles of all sizes.

The Acropolis, the fortress, and even the hundred-household fortress, once occupied, can be used as a stronghold for the march, and these coastal castles have their own docks.

It can be said that in just a few hours, the entire coast of eastern Zhejiang was filled with troop transports rushing into fishing ports, and teams of soldiers who had drifted on the sea for three days directly rushed into castles, and completed their control of their castles in the completely confused eyes of those military households who had long lost their military capabilities.

There was a doomsday-like chaos in eastern Zhejiang.

(End of this chapter)