Nanming Yiming

Chapter 145
Qian Mo was taken aback by Liu Yichen's words, and asked, "According to the time calculation, Huizhou and Jiujiang should have already fought, and the information from the Intelligence Department will be transmitted so soon?"

Liu Yichen said: "The encrypted information of the Intelligence Department will be sent to Huating Mansion through the water gate every night by using water flow in bamboo tubes."

"The sounding arrow is sent out tonight to remind us that we have very important information to receive. According to the color of the sounding arrow, something major has happened in Zhejiang."

Soon Liu Yichen waited outside the water gate for the bamboo tube drifting in from the intelligence department, and rushed to his residence non-stop to take out the model translation secret letter.

Qian Mo was directly drinking tea at the side, waiting for Liu Yichen's translation.

Liu Yichen is still very talented in intelligence. Although this encryption system was proposed by Qian Mo, many of the details were perfected by Liu Yichen.

Right now, the intelligence department is actually equivalent to Jinyiwei in Qian Mo's hands. In the future, Qian Ning can entrust other important tasks and hand over the intelligence department to Liu Yichen's management.

Seeing Liu Yichen's expression gradually turn from tense to relaxed at first, Qian Mo was also relieved a lot, there should be nothing serious.

Although Qian Mo often made surprises and did not play cards according to common sense, he was actually quite cautious; he paid special attention to defense, and Hangzhou, Yanzhou, and Shaoxing all left a lot of troops in the rear.

On the contrary, he only led the 5000 White Robe Battalion in the Northern Expedition to Su Song, which was the most risky.

He really can't guess what happened in Zhejiang now, so he can only wait for Liu Yichen's translation.

In less than half a stick of incense, Liu Yichen completed Ke Mixin's translation, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and said, "I would like to report to Uncle Zhongyong, something serious happened in eastern Zhejiang. Zhang Mingzhen, Marquis of Dingxi, was shot by the Qing army under the city of Taizhou." The Ming army was also defeated in Taizhou, and now the Qing army is marching towards Ningbo."

This news shocked Qian Mo, Zhang Mingzhen also had at least nearly ten thousand elites in his hands this time.But before Yang Wenqi let Ma Xin fight, there were only a few thousand remnants and defeated generals left. Taizhou was in danger and it was absolutely impossible to defend it.

Qian Mo said: "Could it be that Yang Wenqi, a rebellious boy, has grown up? What's going on?"

Liu Yichen said: "The Qing army dispatched reinforcements from Fujian. The strength of Taizhou has exceeded 12000. Zhang Mingzhen lost troops in Taizhou and was unable to attack for a long time. He was attacked by the Qing army. He himself was shot by a firecracker. The Ming army was defeated."

"Fortunately, Ma Xin led 1000 cavalry in time to repel the pursuit of the Qing army. Now Ma Xin retreats to Fenghua City, Zhang Mingzhen was sent to Ningbo, and his life and death are unknown."

This sudden change really caught Qian Mo by surprise. Now King Lu's whereabouts are unknown, and Zhang Mingzhen's life and death are also uncertain.The Ming army in eastern Zhejiang is like a rootless duckweed, and it is a great opportunity for him to annex eastern Zhejiang.

The so-called thousand soldiers are easy to get, but one general is hard to find.Especially the two talents Zhang Huangyan and Ma Xin are far more valuable than the Eastern Zhejiang Ming Army.

It's a pity that now that Tan Tai's army is suppressing the situation, the war has already begun, and he was besieged by Ma Guozhu in Songjiang and couldn't get out, so he could only helplessly miss the opportunity.

Qian Mo said: "Fortunately, Ma Xin stopped the Ming army's defeat in time. Now the Qing army has completely occupied Taizhou, and Xinchang in the south of Shaoxing has been exposed to the Qing army's advance."

Liu Yichen said: "Wang Yi, the prefect of Shaoxing, has ordered the Baitou Battalion to strengthen the defense of Xinchang. In addition, the Shaoxing Battalion has stationed 1500 people in Yuyao, ready to support Ningbo at any time."

Hearing this, Qian Mo felt relieved, and said, "It's not a problem to deal with this situation with Wang Yi's ability. After all, there are Zhang Huangyan and Ma Xin in Ningbo, so it's no problem to deal with Yang Wenqi, a mediocre person."

"Order the Zhejiang Navy to let the Hongwu and Huzhou patrol Zhoushan and wait for the opportunity to sink the Zhoushan Navy's warship. At this time, we must restrain Huang Binqing's troops and not let him take the opportunity to make trouble."

Liu Yichen said: "According to the news from Su Jian, Yang Wenqi is in charge of Taizhou on the surface, but behind the scenes is a Taoist priest named 'Chuchen' who is secretly controlling the overall situation."

"Su Jian bought people around Yang Wenqi and found out that this Taoist priest had practiced in Tongbai Temple in Tiantai Mountain. After many investigations, he learned that this person's original name was Cao Kewang, and he was a good friend of Hong Chengchou. Later, he entered the mountain due to the failure of the imperial examination. Practice, after an old friend visited more than a month ago, he went down the mountain under the name of Yunyou!"

This amount of information is a bit large. Could it be that my "mentor" Hong Chengchou has come out again, but there has been no news from Beijing!

Liu Yichen said with some shame: "According to Su Jian's personal deduction, it is very likely that Hong Chengchou invited this Cao Kewang to come out of the mountain. I have already ordered the intelligence department to verify Hong Chengchou's whereabouts."

"In addition, according to Zhoushan's information, when Qi Yuanshan had a meeting with Huang Binqing that day, there was an old man by his side. Huang Binqing once had a private conversation with this old man in the house, and he announced his surrender shortly afterwards. Now this person is probably Hong Chengchou."

In fact, there is no need to prove it. At this moment, Qian Mo has already confirmed in his heart that the mysterious mastermind behind the scenes all this time is Hong Chengchou.

In this way, everything can be explained. It seems that I have really underestimated this "mentor". This old thing must have been secretly activated by Dorgon, and made a secret.

Thinking that he was almost assassinated in Ningbo last time, Qian Mo shuddered. This old dog is really ruthless!

Originally, he thought that his rear was quite stable, but now due to the appearance of Hong Chengchou, everything is full of variables.

Qian Mo said with a ruthless heart: "There is a way to come and not to be indecent! Try your best to find out the whereabouts of old thief Hong, and offer a reward of 10 taels of silver. You must take his head off for me."

Hearing what Qian Mo said, Liu Yichen was also taken aback. Although this loyal and brave uncle of his family is unscrupulous, he is still very principled.He has never bothered to use assassination as a means, it seems that this time he is really going to kill Hong Chengchou!

Immediately replied: "I obey my orders, I must find out the whereabouts of old thief Hong as soon as possible, and take off his head."

Previously, Qian Mo thought that the Qing army had only increased its strength, and Yang Wenqi, a mediocre leader, would not completely corrupt Eastern Zhejiang.

But now that Hong Chengchou has appeared, things are not so simple, and the old thief may have follow-up methods.The situation in eastern Zhejiang is now very critical. It is inevitable for Huang Binqing to send troops to attack Ningbo from north to south. Even Shaoxing is not safe.

Now Songjiang and Huizhou are at war with the Qing army, Huzhou may also go to war at any time, and if East Zhejiang goes to war again, Qian Mo will have almost no rear, which is equivalent to fighting on all sides.

Now Qian Mo felt besieged on all sides. The appearance of Hong Chengchou made him worried about the war in eastern Zhejiang. Ma Degong, who had been standing still in Jinhua, might join the attack.

Now that the situation is urgent, Qian Mo must hurry up before the situation in eastern Zhejiang gets worse

He regretted it a little now, he wasted 2 full days with Ma Guozhu in the city of Huating, and only wiped out 2 Qing troops in these 1500 days.

Time is the key factor in winning a war, wasting time will definitely be punished.

This is like in a fierce chess game, if a slow move is made locally, the opponent will definitely use this opportunity to expand the results in other places.

Now that the punishment is coming, if Ma Guozhu is not defeated, he will not be able to escape to the east of Zhejiang, but how easy is it to quickly defeat the [-] Qing troops outside the city?
On the artillery position in the west of the city, the patrol team of the Qing army was holding up their torches and carefully observing everything around them.

According to Ma Guozhu's judgment, there is a high probability that the Ming army will come to destroy the red cannons of the Qing army tonight, so the Qing army is extra vigilant.

A Qing army not far away said: "Vice General Wang, we have been on guard for a long time, will the Ming army come to sneak attack tonight?"

In fact, Wang Bicheng's judgment was the same as Ma Guozhu's. If the Ming army wanted to prevent the Qing army from attacking the city, they must find a way to destroy the red cannons of the Qing army. They would definitely come to sneak attack the artillery positions tonight.But last night he arranged for someone to guard the whole night in his camp, and ended up being lonely. At this time, he did not dare to speak out, and said: "The Ming army is likely to come and attack them. They are very cunning and we need to be careful." It's about being on guard."

The soldiers on the side said worriedly: "The armored infantry of the Ming army are too powerful during the day, they are simply a gang of killing gods. If they come to attack, will we be able to withstand it?"

Wang Bicheng sneered and said, "I'm not afraid of him coming, but I'm afraid he won't come. Swords, guns, bows and arrows are really not very useful against iron armor, but firecrackers can easily pierce armor at close range. Otherwise, why are we ambush here?"

Unfortunately, more than an hour passed, and the expected Ming army sneak attack did not appear.Now that Choushi has just passed, it is already Yinshi, and it is the time when people are most tired, and many Qing soldiers have already dozed off.

Suddenly, there was a loud "boom", which directly awakened the drowsy Qing army.I saw a few flames piercing the night sky and falling directly in front of the artillery positions of the Qing army.

Although it missed the cannon in red, it happened to land in the middle of the ambushing Qing army.The firing bombs fired by the Ming army were so powerful that the air waves they set off directly overturned many Qing troops, and the battlefield wailed in an instant.

The miserable cry seemed particularly pervasive in this dark night!

Even the Qing army camp a few miles away was startled by the sudden sound of artillery, and Ma Guozhu got up quickly and asked, "What's going on?"

The soldiers quickly reported: "Our artillery position has been attacked by artillery fire from the Ming army!"

After hearing this, Ma Guozhu also looked confused. The red cannons of the Qing army were 6 miles away from Huating. Can the artillery on the Ming army city directly hit so far?

Since they could fight so far, why didn't the Ming army fight back directly during the day?

No matter how big his brain was, it was impossible for Qian Mo to think that Qian Mo was afraid of scaring Tan Tai by eating him too fast, so he deliberately put water on him and walked him for two days.

At this time, Ma Guozhu was also afraid for a while. Fortunately, Wang Bicheng prevented him from camping directly outside the city before, otherwise he would be completely exposed to the artillery fire of the Ming army.

However, it was heard that the artillery of the Ming army was not many, so Ma Guozhu said: "I ordered the cannons in red to fire back, and I must destroy the artillery of the Ming army."

Although the Ming army urgently demolished the original city tower overnight and transformed it into a fort, there were only three 3-pound cannons on the city. After several rounds of bombardment, none of the shells landed on the retreating positions of the Qing army.

On the contrary, the gunners of the Qing army who were ambushing nearby suffered a lot of shells, and the Qing army who was planning to ambush suffered nearly a hundred casualties.

Since the red cannons of the Qing army had been bombarding the walls of Huating during the day, there was no need to readjust the shooting angle now.Soon the Qing army fired back, ten red cannons roared, and soon shells hit the city wall.

However, there were no other Ming troops on the empty city wall, and the Ming troops on the fort were safe and sound under the cover of sandbags, but the Qing army's artillery exposed their position after firing.

Soon the gunners of the Ming army made adjustments, and sure enough, after firing again, the shells accurately landed on the artillery positions of the Qing army.

All of a sudden, flames blazed and smoke filled the air, and the entire Qing army position was shrouded in smoke.The shelling brought violent vibrations, constantly shaking everything on the Qing army's position.

Suddenly a shell hit the ammunition of the Qing army, instantly blowing up the artillery.

The gunners of the Qing army next to the artillery were blown to pieces, and the two red cannons were directly blown up.

Looking at the huge flames ahead, the gunners of the Ming Army were overjoyed, the target was too obvious.

After several rounds of shelling, the Qing army's position was left with scorched earth and the wreckage of cannons, and none of the ten red cannons were spared.

At this time, the gate of Guyangmen was opened, and a large number of armored soldiers holding shields, spears and sabers came out slowly.Soon the Ming army completed the formation, and they all marched towards the Qing army's position in a uniform manner.

Against the backdrop of the moonlight, the steel shields in their hands and the iron armor on their bodies shone coldly, making people feel shuddering.

Fortunately, the Qing army had dug several trenches in front of the position, just to prevent the armored army of the Ming army from coming to sneak attacks.The gunners of the Qing army waited nervously behind, and they were very disturbed at this moment.Once their own firecrackers can't penetrate the steel shields and armor of the Ming army, they will be a group of lambs waiting to be slaughtered.

Having lost the cannons in red, and hearing that the armored army of the Ming army attacked overnight, Ma Guozhu hurriedly mobilized a large number of cavalry. If the gunners in front couldn't stand it, he could rely on the speed advantage of the cavalry to attack the Ming army.

Unexpectedly, the armored army of the Ming army moved very slowly, but several artillery pieces of the Ming army on the city kept firing in the direction where the Qing army was gathering.

At this moment, a sentry cavalry galloped over and said, "My lord governor is not good. A large number of cavalry from the Ming army rushed out from the Xianji gate south of Huating, and our soldiers can't resist it."

Ma Guozhu quickly asked: "How many cavalry does the Ming army have?"

The sentinel said: "At least 2000 people!"

Ma Guozhu shouted: "No, the Ming army is going to attack the camp. The cavalry should return to defend the camp quickly, and don't let the Ming army steal the camp."

Outside the gate of Xianji, Qian Mo said to Hong Fugui: "I'll leave Huating to you. Remember that if Ma Guozhu attacks the city, don't beat him too hard at the beginning. You can even put him on the top of the city first. Then let the Iron Armored Army deal with them slowly. Remember that your task is to defend Huating, and you are not allowed to go out of the city to chase the enemy without my order."

Hong Fugui said: "Uncle Zhongyong, don't worry, the Baipao Battalion will definitely wipe out Ma Guozhu and other troops. Now that the Qing army has lost their cannons, it is not terrible; but Uncle Zhongyong only takes 800 cavalry southward, so it may be too few."

At this time, Qian Mo's figure had gradually faded away, and he could only hear him shouting: "You should be on your own, and you can ask He Zhiyuan's opinion if you are undecided."

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