Ming Zhengzhi, I am Zheng Kezang

The recovery of Jiasong and Fujian’s report on August 28 that the Qing government breathed a sigh of relief, the troops from Anhui and Jiangxi provinces that had entered Zhejiang were transferred back to western Jiangxi together with the green battalions of Hubei and Hunan provinces to besiege western Jiangxi against the Qing. Rebels.However, the Qing government was worried that the Zheng army would make a comeback, so they did not remove all the troops on the front line of Jiasong. In this way, southern Jiangsu was not worried, but the defense of eastern and southern Zhejiang was weakened to a dangerous level.

One of the purposes of the Zheng army sending troops to Jiasong was to mobilize the Qing army. Naturally, it is impossible to let go of the current situation. On August [-], after a slight postponement, the Zheng army that had finished its rest decisively went south, and the Zhoushan squadron first destroyed the Qing army. The fort set up in Zhaobaoshan, and then Zheng Jun of the four divisions landed in a meandering manner, successively conquered Zhenhai, Cixi, Yuyao and surrounded Ningbo.

"Lu Renxuan (recommended by friend ar12) you are so courageous, you dare to come back alive!" Shaoxing prefect Li Duo looked at the former prefect of Yuyao (Note: Yuyao belonged to Shaoxing instead of Ningbo during the Ming and Qing Dynasties) kneeling in the hall, dressed in rags Instead of showing sympathy, there was disgust on his face. "Come on, take this guy who abandoned his job and ran away to the provincial capital, and wait for him to be dealt with!"

"My lord, I've been wronged." Seeing the yamen servant who was about to pounce on him, the former county magistrate who was born in Juren shouted repeatedly. "The next official is not abandoning his post and running away, the next official is not abandoning his post and running away!"

"It's not that you abandoned your job and ran away, so why did you show up in Shaoxing?" Li Duo questioned. "Should die together in the city!"

Looking at the boss in front of him who was determined to put himself to death, the resentment in Lu Renxuan's heart is self-evident, but the knife is in his hands, so he couldn't help but respond humbly: "The sea is against the city, and the subordinate is on the way!" The city supervised the battle, but the gentry Zhuo Wenyuan (recommended by friend Baima Heitan) in the city led his family members to pretend to defend the city, but turned his back on the battlefield, and the subordinate officials accidentally captured him.

"Hehe," Li Duo sneered a few times. "What a good one was captured by Haini. I didn't expect Mr. Lu to tell jokes like this. Well, it's really good. It turned out that he betrayed the Lord and begged for glory, and became an accomplice of Haini. Come, why don't you take down this thief , when will it be!"

"My lord, the lower officials are not rebellious!" Lu Renxuan, who was pressed to the ground by the guard's hands, cried out in pain and aggrieved. "The reason why Hai Ni stepped down from his position and came back was because he had a message for his subordinates to pass on, no," Lu Renxuan, looking at Li Duo's stern gaze, knew that the other party was convinced that he had betrayed the Qing court. In order to keep his head, he hurriedly explained . "It's not the persuasion that your lord thinks, it's Hai Ni who snatched the principal of Shuangpu and asked the court to release his son together."

Hearing this, Li Duo's expression became serious, and then he made a gesture to disperse the yamen servants. The yamen servants let go of their hands when they saw this, and the free passerby A couldn't bear the ups and downs of his mood, and sat down in the second hall of the government office all of a sudden. on the cold ground.

"Hai Ni snatched Huang Zongxi away?" Li Duo walked up to Lu Renxuan and bent down, sweeping this seemingly humble former subordinate with chilling eyes. "You still want the imperial court to release Huang Baigu? What a wishful thinking! Go back and tell Haini now, stop having such sweet dreams!"

"The people from Haini said that as long as the imperial court releases Huang Baigu's family, they are willing to release the flag soldiers captured in the two previous attacks on Taiwan and the battle of Jiaxing." Lu Renxuan said hesitantly. A gleam of joy suddenly appeared in my heart. "In addition, Haini doesn't want us to answer. They also know that adults have no right to answer. They just want to tell the adults from the lower officials, and then the adults will report to the higher levels. As for the lower officials, they don't have to reply."

Li Duo snorted coldly. He understood that Lu Renxuan had already seen through his intention of trying to hide and not report the situation in the bud, so he had no choice but to slow down his facial expression, and said to the county magistrate Lu Da in a pleasant manner: " So it seems that this official has wronged my brother, but I am afraid that the boss will still investigate the loss of land, so I will wash up first and change my clothes. I am afraid that this news should be sent to the provincial capital in person."

Since the troops in the eastern part of Zhejiang were transferred in large numbers, and the troops in the northern and southern parts of Zhejiang could not be deployed for a while, the remaining troops of Dinghai Town, Zhenhai Division Battalion, and Zhenhai Xiecheng Guard Battalion and the total strength of Ningbo City were 300 troops. The [-]-strong Ningbo Xiecheng garrison was unable to stop Zheng Jun's advance at all. Therefore, on the seventh day of September, just five days after Zheng Jun's soldiers approached the city of Ningbo, this important town in eastern Zhejiang fell into the hands of Zheng Jun.Immediately afterwards, Zheng Jun went down to Fenghua again, and entered Shangyu. For the Qing court, after southern Jiangsu and northern Zhejiang, eastern Zhejiang fell into a state of corruption again.

At the beginning of Zheng Jun's landing, the Zhejiang province that got the report speculated about Zheng Jun's intentions. Some people thought that Zheng Jun was attacking south and north, but he was still in the north of Zhejiang. The plan is not to be feared, and some people think that Zheng Jun's capture of northern Zhejiang was a bluff

All kinds of opinions were debated endlessly, so that the commander-in-chief Prince Jian Yabu also fell ill in Hangzhou. As a last resort, Zhejiang Governor Shi Lin resisted all opinions and personally led [-] Qing troops from northern Zhejiang to go south to reinforce Ningbo. Continue to stay in Songjiang to help defend Jiaxing and other places nearby.

However, it took time for the [-] Qing troops to drive back to Hangzhou from Jiaxing, and the waterway of the Qiantang River was blocked by Zheng Jun. The Qing troops could only bypass the Fuchun River. To overcome the undulating coastal hills in southern Zhejiang and the rivers across the period, the speed is also extremely slow. In this case, we can only sit back and watch Zheng Jun transport a large number of people and material resources to the nearest front line of Zhoushan.

On September [-]th, the Qing army on the northern front recaptured Shangyu, and Yuyao two days later. Just as the Qing army generals below Shi Lin thought this was another bloodless march to the north of Zhejiang Province, the main force of Zheng’s four divisions was about [-]. More than a thousand combat soldiers set up a formation at Zhangting, west of Cixi, to welcome the arrival of the Qing army.

Listening to Tan Ma's report, Shi Lin glanced at the military officers in front of her, and asked with an open mind: "Hai Ni retreated step by step in the north of Zhejiang, but now he is setting up a battle formation in Zhangting. In the last fight, all the adults thought that the sea reversal operation was so abnormal, could there be deceit in it?"

Chen Shikai, the admiral of the Zhejiang Army Division, stroked his flowing gray beard and responded: "In the army, the lower officials thought that Hai Ni was fighting because there were few people in the headquarters, and now from the escaped gentry, it is known that Hai Ni is transporting population and supplies. It is necessary to block the soldiers of the officers and soldiers, put them away and continue to act."

Chen Shikai, who had the highest status, made a judgment, and all the generals around him also echoed: "If the officers and soldiers sit idly by and do not fight, Haini will naturally retreat once the population of Ningbo is transported. Tell the emperor."

Speaking of Kangxi, the corners of Shi Lin's mouth twitched slightly. To be the governor of a province, he naturally has connections and contacts in Beijing. Of course he knows, because Daxi and Zheng Jun who recovered from southern Zhejiang and northern Zhejiang and then attacked Ningbo The great compassion caused Kangxi, who was anxious to pamper his concubine, to return to the sick bed once he recovered. Therefore, if he could not return to Ningbo as soon as possible, there seemed to be no suspense whether the seriously ill Kangxi would use him for surgery.

Although he understood what the consequences would be, Shi Lin still had some doubts in his heart. If he couldn't solve it, he wouldn't dare to send troops to fight: "There are only more than ten thousand sea rebels, how can you have such courage to stop an enemy that is three times stronger? Besides Now, the towns of Haimen and Huangyan must also be sending reinforcements to the north, isn't Haini afraid of losing his way during the confrontation with the army?"

"I'm afraid we can't expect too much from the towns of Haimen on the southern route." Chen Shikai is a veteran and naturally has rich experience. "Not to mention the hindrance behind the mountains along the way, even if the towns of Haimen and Wenzhou do not avoid danger and block the arrows, but if the sea reverses like the Xinghua incident and disturbs between Wentai and Taiwan, I am afraid that the South Route Army will not be able to stand firm from head to toe. ah."

Chen Shikai himself did not expect that his words would come true. In fact, at the moment he spoke, Zheng Jun's Fubo fleet sailed into the Oujiang River again to bombard Yongjia City. At the same time, another team of Zheng Jun's gunboats also After bombarding the water village in Haimen Town, Shujiangkou, the [-]rd Regiment of Hailongxiang Division also sent several sentries to the land to make a large-scale invasion, forcing the two places to make emergency calls to Hangzhou and Xiang Junqian respectively. Immediately turned around and returned to help, but the speed of advancing to the front line of Fenghua inevitably slowed down.

"Hai Ni has hundreds of plywood gunboats running across the sea, and the sea is shaken a little bit, and the whole line is a warning." Shi Lin sighed. "The old general is right. If there are police in Wenzhou and Taizhou, it is impossible to count on the newly reconstituted Fujian side. The South Route Army can only turn back, so Haini can concentrate on dealing with our own army."

"As for the combat power of Haini, I know a thing or two." Yang Jie, the general of the guest army, seemed to recall something. "Back then when Zhu Jin committed crimes in Fujian, the subordinate officer once acted as the admiral of the Fujian Lu Division and fought against him." In order to set off his own ability, Yang Jie couldn't help exaggerating the strength of Zheng Jun. "Hai Ni back then was extremely brave and good at using cannons. Liu Guoxuan, the head of Ni, used artillery fire to defeat the army several times. Although Liu Guoxuan has died of illness, but now Hai Ni has a lot of firearms, and his combat power may not be better than that of back then It's bad." Yang Jie was talking, when he suddenly saw Chen Shikai's displeased eyes, he suddenly realized and smiled. "However, the strength of the Zhe army is also famous all over the world, and our army has a three-fold advantage, so Haini must be short of a blow."

Shi Lin didn't notice the eye contact between Yang Jie and Chen Shikai, so when he heard that Yang Jie, who had fought with Zheng Jun before, believed that this battle could be fought, he felt relieved: "Since the sea is against the big, the official army Just teach them a lesson, come here, order the whole army to eat at five o'clock tomorrow, and the whole army will fight the enemy bravely. If you can wipe out Haini in one fell swoop, I will ask the court for credit. And show your skills"