Nanming Yiming

Chapter 153 Huzhou is in Danger
After much deliberation, Qian Mo decided to keep Ma Degong.

Although this guy caused a lot of anger and grievances in Jinhua, killing him can regain the hearts of the people in Jinhua Mansion as soon as possible.

But how to deal with the large amount of property embezzled by Ma Degong?

It's not likely that Qian Mo will organize a public trial to rehabilitate these people, and then return the property that Ma Degong and the others embezzled to the original owner.

Now that the war is imminent, Qian Mo also urgently needs a large sum of money to expand his army. How could he spit out the 20 mu of fertile land and 50 taels of silver that he ate!

At that time, let the Jinhua government properly distribute some relief to the people in difficulty to ensure that they can survive; the people without land can let them be tenants in their own farms at a lower rent.

As for those gentry and wealthy households, Ma Degong had already donated these properties to Qian Mo's Northern Expedition, how dare they go back?

Only by accepting Ma Degong's surrender and donation can Qian Mo silence these people.

If you succeed in killing the horse, I am afraid that the wall will be overthrown by everyone, and these people will have to redress their unjust, false and wrong cases and return the embezzled property.

In addition, keeping Ma Degong alive can also temporarily reassure the Qing troops who surrendered, lest they worry about being liquidated by Qian Mo's counterattack.

This is also to set an example for other generals of the Qing army. Ma Degong, the Ming army who betrayed Emperor Hongguang, could spare his life. Why are you still hesitating, and lead your troops to surrender.

Now that the war is tight, it is too late to train recruits, so they can only find a way to convert these surrendered troops into the fighting power of the Ming army as soon as possible.

This time Qian Mo went south to the east of Zhejiang, all thanks to Batu and Tang Li's surrendered troops to open the situation, these surrendered troops are all sweets and cakes.

To Qian Mo, a living Ma Degong is far more valuable than a dead one!

So Qian Mo said: "Since you have the heart to repent, this governor will spare your life; but you know well what you have done in Jinhua, if you stay in Jinhua, I am afraid that this governor will not be able to protect you comprehensive."

"In addition, you once betrayed Emperor Hongguang. Although His Royal Highness the King of Lu promised not to kill you before, the death penalty can be avoided, and the living crime cannot be escaped. After our army takes over Jinhua, you will be fined to work in Tianmu Mountain for half a year. Do you accept it?"

Ma Degong is a smart person and knows what he should do.So he said: "Thank you Uncle Zhongyong for not killing him. The general will take the blame and make meritorious service in the future, and hand over the Jinhua Mansion to the governor's mansion intact."

Qian Mo said seriously, "You don't have to thank me. If you want to thank me, thank His Royal Highness King Lu. If he hadn't made a promise to you, the governor would never let you go so easily."

Hearing what Qian Mo said, Ma Degong knew that his life was saved.

Qian Mo was really good at throwing the pot, unexpectedly thought of using Lu Wang's previous promise to talk about it. Wasn't Lu Wang's promise made at Qian Mo's request?
Ma Degong also regretted it at this time, wouldn't it be good to stay in Jinhua and enjoy the blessings?
I blame myself for being greedy and unable to withstand Hong Chengchou's temptation, so I took the initiative to come to Shaoxing to provoke Qian Mo, the god of plague.

Now "man is a knife and I am a fish", so I can only accept my fate obediently.

Although the Zhongyong uncle in front of him is not very old, he is extremely vicious and decisive in his actions, quite like Hong Chengchou. The two masters and apprentices are really of the same breed.

Seeing the Mongolian cavalry beside Batu, Ma Degong felt that Qian Mo was simply a monster.He has never been defeated since Huzhou raised troops. He insisted on leading thousands of Taihu rebels and killed the Qing Dynasty. result of extinction.

Facing such a person, Ma Degong can only be manipulated by him.

In addition to Xu Qingyun's soldiers and horses before, there are now 6000 soldiers in Shaoxing.

Qian Mo ordered Yu Guowang to lead the 2000 Baitou Battalion to the south and directly receive the remaining 3000 Qing troops from Jinhua Prefecture to form the Jinhua Battalion.

As for the candidate for the prefect of Jinhua, Zhu Xu, a bookworm, was imprisoned in the Jinhua prison by Ma Degong before, so it is most suitable for him to take this position.

Later, Qian Mo promoted Jin Tang to the head of the Baitou Battalion, and selected 2000 soldiers from the surrendered army.Among them, 1000 people were transferred to Shaoxing camp, and another 1000 people were transferred to Baitou camp; another 1000 people were added from Shaoxing camp to Baitou camp.

In this way, these pawns were dispersed.

Of the remaining 4000 surrendered soldiers, 1500 cavalry were drawn out to belong to Batu's Mongolian battalion; the other 2500 were assigned to Tang Li's Jinshan battalion.

In this way, the Mongolian camp and the Jinshan camp now have a scale of 7000 people. Although their combat power is not strong and most of them are soldiers, they can still play a big role under the personal command of Qian Mo.

At this time, Yang Wenqi was resting in the camp outside Fenghua City.

To be honest, he is quite afraid of Ma Xin, and has been defeated by Ma Xin many times since he betrayed Yang Wenqi.Ma Xin first played him a trick of "Golden Cicada Escapes its Shell" in Linhai City, and then defeated many with less in Ninghai City; finally, Yang Wenqi made a splash and defeated Zhang Mingzhen in Linhai, but this Ma Xin came out again, Killing the Qing army was caught off guard and almost turned the tables.

Originally, Yang Wenqi relied on his superior force to attack Fenghua in one go.As a result, Ma Xin's defense was impeccable. The Qing army stormed for several days, causing nearly 2000 casualties. There was no way to take Fenghua City.

Ma Xin often used cavalry to attack Yang Wenqi at night, exhausting his troops.

Originally, there was a Daoist priest by his side to advise and advise, and he was not very guilty because of the large number of soldiers.

Now that Chuchen went back to Linhai to see Hong Chengchou, Yang Wenqi lost all confidence in an instant.Since Xu Qingyun led 3000 people to Xinchang, he felt that his troops were insufficient, so he simply gave up the siege and shrank his troops into the camp.

At this time, Xu Qingyun led his troops to the camp. Yang Wenqi was overjoyed when he saw this, and said, "Vice General Xu has worked hard this time. How is the battle going?"

Xu Qingyun said: "Thanks to Admiral Yang's ingenious plan, this time Xiao Ni of the White-headed Army turned against the water, and we took Xinchang easily; at this moment, the army of Jinhua General Soldier Ma Degong has occupied Sheng County, and the general will worry about changes in Fenghua. Hurry back and report back."

Yang Wenqi laughed loudly and said, "Vice Chief Xu is indeed brave in battle. Taking Xinchang this time is a great achievement. This admiral will definitely ask for credit for you in front of Governor Hong!"

Xu Qingyun said: "Master, thank you, Admiral, for your support!"

"The final general discovered that Xiao Ni had already mastered the production of the Lumi guns of the Ming army. He has a powerful fire gun team under his command. I brought back Xiao Ni's men as well, which can help Admiral Yang."

Yang Wenqi knew about the Lumi blunderbuss made by Xiao Ni. He shot and wounded Zhang Mingzhen with Xiao Ni's Lumi blunderbuss, causing the Ming army's morale to be in chaos.

Yang Wenqi said: "Mr. Xu has a heart. If he captures Fenghua this time, I will give you another credit."

His confidence suddenly increased, and he wished he could fight Ma Xin immediately.

At this time, Zhang Jie, the commander-in-chief of Ningbo, was ordered to come to support Fenghua, and Ma Xin already had 8000 Ming troops in his hands.

Soon the soldiers came to report: "Admiral Yang, Ma Xin led the army out of Fenghua City and is attacking our army camp."

This is really sleepy giving a pillow. Originally, Ma Xin was huddled in the city, and Yang Wenqi had nothing to do with him, but now he dared to go out of the city to die.

Yang Wenqi asked Ma Xin how many people came?
The soldier said: "There are about two or three thousand cavalry!"

It is clear that Ma Xin is good at using cavalry Yang Wenqi, but when did Fenghua have so many cavalry?

Fortunately, Xu Qingyun has returned to defense in time, and now more than 1 people are still afraid of him.

So he quickly ordered the Qing army to line up to fight.

Yang Wenqi had had enough of Ma Xin's arrogance, and this time he personally led the cavalry into battle, wanting to avenge his shame.

The two cavalry are facing each other tit for tat, and they are about to fight.

Yang Wenqi suddenly found that there were bursts of "bang, bang, bang" firecrackers coming from behind him. Looking back, he saw that his camp was full of flames and chaos.

At this time, Batu led the cavalry of the Mongolian battalion to rush out from the rear and attack the infantry of the Qing army.

And Xu Qingyun, who deliberately dragged the cavalry to the end, also directly launched an attack, attacking the Qing cavalry in front.

The formation of the Qing army's cavalry suddenly became chaotic, and Ma Xin's cavalry swarmed in at this time. Once they fought, the Qing army's cavalry collapsed instantly.

Seeing Xu Qingyun's betrayal, Yang Wenqi immediately led some soldiers to break out to the south.

Ma Xin shouted: "Don't chase the fleeing cavalry, just disperse the Qing infantry."

Now these abandoned infantry were miserable. Facing the two-sided attack of Ma Xin and Batu cavalry, they were simply lambs waiting to be slaughtered, and the battle soon became one-sided.

It didn't take long for the battle to end. Yang Wenqi fled with about 500 cavalry. The remaining Qing troops killed 4000 and captured 2500.

Just as Qian Mo was going to go south to recover Taizhou in one go, Liu Yichen rushed over.

Looking at his anxious expression, Qian Mo knew that there was some bad news coming, so he quickly ordered everyone to retreat.

Before Qian Mo could ask, Liu Yichen said directly: "I would like to report to Uncle Zhongyong that something is wrong. The Qing army has already approached the city of Huzhou, and now Huzhou is in danger!"

Although Qian Mo had guessed in advance that Tan Tai's main force was likely to break through from Huzhou.

But this news is really unbelievable. Weng Zhiheng has always been on the alert in Huzhou. Both Changxing and Si'an towns have bastions. Huzhou has Taihu camp, Tianmu camp and Huzhou camp. There are 12000 people in three camps, which can be described as heavily fortified. .

The Qing army can actually go straight to the city of Huzhou, so it may not be true that Tan Tai bet all the main force in Huzhou?
It is a pity that at this time the main force of the Qing army in Zhejiang has almost been wiped out.Next, it is easy to seize the four prefectures of Taiwan, Wen, Chu, and Qu, and occupy the entire territory of Zhejiang.

At this time, the Qing army actually reached Huzhou so quickly, it was a complete failure!
Qian Mo found that: With the emergence of the anti-Qing upsurge, the national situation has undergone obvious changes.Jiangxi, Guangdong, and northern Zhejiang were included in the territory of Ming Dynasty, and now the Qing army in Fujian and southern Zhejiang provinces has become a lone army.

However, if the Qing army wants to open up the Zhejiang-Fujian channel, there are two directions to choose from.

One is naturally to conquer Huizhou and Raozhou, and open up the channel from Jiangxi to Fujian and Zhejiang; there is also a simpler and more direct method, which is to conquer Hangzhou.

Geographically speaking, Jiangxi is a place where the Four World Wars took place, but with the changes in the situation, Jin Shenghuan's current situation is actually much better, and the east is bordered by his own Zhejiang.

Although the city of Ganzhou in the south has not been conquered, the entire southern Jiangxi area has been occupied by it, and the passage to Guangdong has been opened; in the west, He Tengjiao has begun to go north, captured several prefectures in southern Hunan, and is now storming Changsha prefecture.

The location of Jiangxi is not so abrupt.

On the contrary, his own territory lies between the Qing army in the south of the Yangtze River, and what he occupies is an important taxation area of ​​the Qing court. The Qing army will naturally change its strategy and pull out Hangzhou as soon as possible.

Qian Mo felt that he was a bit out of play. Originally, he was worried that Jin Shenghuan would not be able to hold on, and that almost all the Qing troops near Hangzhou would be eaten by him, so he rushed westward to Huizhou to open the passage to Jiangxi.But opening the Jiangxi channel on my side is equivalent to cutting off the channel of the Qing army.

In addition, there was Hong Chengchou behind him, who made troubles in eastern Zhejiang several times, and successfully instigated Huang Binqing's rebellion, causing Chongming to fall.

Now I am surrounded by enemies and exhausted.If he had known about the existence of old thief Hong, Qian Mo would never have chosen to go west to Huizhou.It must be going south to Quzhou, strangling the thoroughfare of the four provinces, and then taking advantage of the situation to take over the entire territory of Zhejiang.

Fortunately, Qian Mo broke out from Huating in advance, solved the crisis in East Zhejiang, and successfully defeated Hong Chengchou's plot.If I was still trapped in Huating at this time, and Huzhou, Huizhou, Ningbo and Shaoxing were attacked by the Qing army at the same time, then my hometown Hangzhou would probably be taken over by the Qing army.

Qian Mo asked, "Where is the envoy of Emperor Yongli now?"

Liu Yichen said: "I have already entered Raozhou, and I can reach Hangzhou in at most 3 days."

Qian Mo said: "Notify Huang Yu, and send someone to escort him all the way. Be sure to ensure the safety of the envoy."

Then Qian Mo picked up the brush, wrote a letter directly to Liu Yichen, and said, "This is the letter from Ben Du. The Intelligence Department must deliver it to Li Chengdong as quickly as possible."

Liu Yichen said: "Uncle Zhongyong invited Li Chengdong to go north to Ganzhou?"

Qian Mo shook his head and said, "I did invite him to go north, but I didn't ask him to go north to Jiangxi, but to go to Fujian."

"At this time, Chen Jin, governor of Fujian and Zhejiang provinces, had 4 soldiers and horses in his hands, and Zheng Cai and Zheng Chenggong's forces in Fujian still had to contend with him; as long as Li Chengdong led an army of 20 to go north, taking Fujian was like picking something out of a pocket."

Liu Yichen sighed: "Fujian is indeed a piece of fat, so wouldn't it be a pity for Li Chengdong to be so cheap?"

Qian Mo thought that this piece of fat in Fujian is not so delicious, Zheng Chenggong is also a master who can make troubles, and said: "Fujian is a piece of fat, but unfortunately we can't open our mouths to eat it now; no matter how capable old thief Hong is, There is nothing you can do without soldiers.”

"Old thief Hong has repeatedly stabbed me in the back and attacked me. I also need to give him some eye drops. As long as Chen Jin is entangled by Li Chengdong, it will be impossible to spare troops to support old thief Hong. Only in this way can I go north and talk to Tan with peace of mind. Thailand's southern conquest armies fought against each other."

Rescuing soldiers is like fighting a fire. From Fenghua to Huzhou, the cavalry will take 2 days and 1 night at the fastest, and the infantry will take longer.

Qian Mo decided to lead 2500 cavalry from the Mongolian battalion to go north first; let Tang Li lead 4500 cavalry from the Jinshan battalion to support Huzhou as a follow-up force.

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