Nanming Yiming

Chapter 86 Soldiers Arriving in Hangzhou City (for Subscription Support)
Hangzhou Prefecture has jurisdiction over nine counties including Qiantang County, Renhe County, Haining County, Fuyang County, Yuhang County, Lin'an County, Yuqian County, Xincheng County and Changhua County.

Among them, Qiantang County and Renhe County are directly under the jurisdiction of Hangzhou Prefecture, and Haining County is stationed with the Hangzhou Navy of the Qing Army. Qian Mo has not captured it for the time being. Since Xiao Qiyuan has given up defense in the remaining 6 counties, Qian Mo naturally quickly included them. middle.

However, Qian Mo's troops are limited at this time. This time, 1500 people from the Jingnan Camp plus 6000 people from the Chongming Camp and Shenji Camp will go south to Hangzhou, making a total of 7500 people.

Naturally, it is impossible to station all of these sites. Among them, Jingnanying is stationed in Changhua, Lin'an, and Yuhang counties to ensure the safety of the flanks.

The other Ming armies in Yuqian County and Xincheng County were handed over to the county magistrate who announced the reversing after moving the treasury.

Shenjiying haunts the outside of Hangzhou from time to time, giving a sense of presence, forcing Xiao Qiyuan from Hangzhou to keep going out to rescue.

At this time, Qian Mo had climbed Leifeng Mountain outside the city with a group of generals, overlooking the distant city of Hangzhou.

The most famous of Lei Feng Mountain is of course the famous Lei Feng Pagoda.

Originally, Qian Mo wanted to climb to the top of the tower to see the sights of Hangzhou City, but it is a pity that the Lei Feng Tower is already a dilapidated scene with ruins and walls.

In the 34th year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty (1555 A.D.), Japanese pirates invaded Hangzhou. It was suspected that there was an ambush in the tower and set fire to Leifeng Pagoda.

After the Leifeng Pagoda was burned, only the brick body remained, and the whole body was red, still standing, looking desolate.

Therefore, Leifeng Pagoda is also called Xiguan Brick Pagoda.

As a later generation, Qian Mo has seen the exquisite beauty of Lei Feng Pagoda with his own eyes, and "Lei Feng Sunset" is one of the famous ten scenic spots of West Lake.

Qian Mo still remembers that archaeologists of later generations accidentally discovered the underground palace of Leifeng Pagoda when they were rebuilding Leifeng Pagoda, and unearthed a large number of valuable cultural relics inside, including a gold-plated Ashoka Pagoda studded with precious stones. It is said that this Ashoka Pagoda enshrines the treasure of the Wuyue Kingdom, the Buddha Sakyamuni's "Buddha's conch hair relic".

How can I say that Qian Mo is also the descendant of the Wuyue Qian family. When the time comes, he can open the underground palace of Leifeng Tower and take out this treasure to use it as "anti-Qing and restoring the Ming Dynasty". I believe that the Wuyue kings of all dynasties will not blame themselves.

After all, Wuyue Kingdom is so rich that even the Song Dynasty can hardly match it.

During the Five Dynasties period, dynasties in the Central Plains changed frequently, the people were in dire straits, and the population in the north decreased sharply.As the main dynasty of the Central Plains, the Later Zhou Dynasty had only 200 million households and a population of about 1200 million.

Only the Wuyue Kingdom in the two Zhejiang provinces has a population that has soared to 55 households. The country is stable and has never even had a peasant uprising.

Su Shi, a famous poet in the Northern Song Dynasty, once commented: "The people (referring to the people of Wu and Yue) died of old age, did not understand the military revolution, played around in four seasons, and heard the sound of singing and drums.

The Wuyue kings of all dynasties upheld the national policy of doing good things to the Central Plains and protecting the environment and the people, making the Wuyue Kingdom a rare paradise in the troubled times of the Five Dynasties.

During the reign of the Wuyue Kingdom, the Qiantang River Embankment was built, the Taihu Lake basin was dredged, and a large number of fertile fields were reclaimed. The proverb "Suhu is cooked, the world is full" began in the Wuyue period, and the capital of Wuyue, Hangzhou, surpassed Nanjing and Yangzhou at that time. The veritable first state in the southeast.

Wuyue Kingdom took advantage of its proximity to the sea to vigorously develop ocean-going trade, and Wuyue's caravan went to the Persian Gulf to trade with Arabs and Persians.

A tribute paid by Wuyue Kingdom in the Northern Song Dynasty, it is said that the tribute could be worth millions of taels of silver, so the wealth of Wuyue Kingdom has always been an unsolved mystery.

But at this time, Qian Mo didn't intend to destroy the tower and dig treasure.

Gu Yanwu sighed: "The "Buddha of the King" built by Qian Chu, the king of Wuyue, devoted all his efforts to the whole country, and now it is so dilapidated, it is really embarrassing!"

Qian Mo said: "Now that the Tartars are raging, my Ming Dynasty is also precarious, the mountains and rivers are broken, and it's not just a Lei Feng Pagoda that is broken?"

"Qian Mo made an oath here: One day, when the Tartars are driven out and the mountains and rivers are recovered, the Leifeng Pagoda must be rebuilt!"

The crowd also said: "We will swear to the death to follow the governor to drive out the Tartars and regain the mountains and rivers!"

Liu Yichen said: "Although Niu Xiaocun, the thousand general of the Qing army, has agreed to surrender to our army, his family members are all in Hangzhou city. It would be inappropriate for him to lead our soldiers into Hangzhou city."

Qian Mo also said: "This Xiao Qiyuan is not an idler, he is very guarded. The intelligence department has always been difficult to instigate the generals of the Qing army in Hangzhou. If Niu Xiaocun's family is in our hands, we can give it a try."

"Now Xiao Qiyuan took his family members to Hangzhou in advance, probably just to guard against our hands."

"But it's okay, didn't the Qing troops in Yanzhou and Jinhua also receive orders to support Hangzhou?"

"At that time, as long as we control one of the generals of the Qing army, we can also sneak into Hangzhou City under the guise of reinforcements."

Liu Yichen said: "According to the information from the Intelligence Department, Ma Degong, the general of the Qing army stationed in Jinhua, has been in secret contact with Qian Qianyi. Anyway, Qian Qianyi has been contacting Ma Degong to fight against the Qing. He didn’t agree, but his attitude was quite ambiguous.”

"It is said that after receiving Xiao Qiyuan's order to support Hangzhou, Ma Degong just stationed troops in Yiwu and did not go north to Hangzhou on the grounds that the Ming army entered Jinhua."

Qian Mo said: "This Ma Degong committed the serious crime of betraying Emperor Hongguang before. Even if he thought about it, he might still have many scruples anyway. You can ask His Highness Jian Guo to play the emperor, first pardoning his previous serious crime of treason."

Then Qian Mo said to Huang Yu: "We are besieging Hangzhou this time to force Xiao Qiyuan to ask for help. I don't think the Qing army is stationed at Fenghuang Mountain outside the city. Shenji Battalion can set up Folang on Fenghuang Mountain." Machine guns, from time to time, hit Hangzhou City a few times, beating and beating Xiao Qiyuan."

Hangzhou City is located between West Lake and Qiantang River, and has 10 city gates.

Although Hangzhou City has 5000 soldiers and horses at this time, it still seems a bit stretched to defend a city as large as Hangzhou.

Xiao Qiyuan quickly recruited more than 3000 young men to fill the city gates, which made Hangzhou look less empty.

At this time, Tan Ma came to report that the Ming army had occupied Fenghuang Mountain, set up artillery on the mountain, and bombarded the Fengshan Gate area in the south of Hangzhou.

Phoenix Mountain is the commanding height in the south of Hangzhou, and its mountain stretches directly to the south of Hangzhou. Xiao Qiyuan is not ignorant of the importance of Phoenix Mountain.

But at this time, the strength of the Qing army in Hangzhou was seriously insufficient. If he divided his troops to defend Phoenix Mountain, he would be eaten by the Ming army, and Hangzhou would be even more unable to defend.

The lesser of two evils, he can only give up the commanding height of Phoenix Mountain, and stick to the city wall of Hangzhou with sufficient food and grass.

Now that the agreed time has passed, the Qing troops in Changhua and Lin'an still haven't shown up; plus the Ming army has already approached the city of Hangzhou, I'm afraid they are in danger at this moment.

At this time, Xiao Qiyuan could only hope that the Qing army in the direction of Yanzhou and Jinhua could break through the blockade of the Ming army and enter Hangzhou City.

Yanzhou Prefecture is located in the west of Zhejiang Province, in the Qiantang River Basin.It borders Hangzhou, Jinhua and Quzhou in Zhejiang to the north, east and south, and Huizhou in Anhui to the west.There are many mountains in the area, surrounded by mountains and hills, only a small area of ​​plains in the middle, which belongs to the mountain and hill area of ​​western Zhejiang.

After Jin Shenghuan raised troops in Jiangxi before, the troops of Yanzhou Mansion were drawn to Guangxin Mansion in Jiangxi. Now there are only 3000 soldiers left in such a big and serious mansion.

After Zhang Tianhua, the magistrate of Yanzhou, received Xiao Qiyuan's order to transfer troops, he sent the general soldier Hou Qianhai to lead 2000 troops northward.

In fact, although Yanzhou Mansion is in the south of Hangzhou Mansion, and there are many mountains and hills in the mansion, it is very convenient to go to Hangzhou.

Everyone knows that the Qiantang River runs through the entire northwest of Zhejiang Province, but it has three different names. The upper reaches are called Xin'an River, the middle reaches are called Fuchun River, and the lower reaches are called Qiantang River.

It takes less than two days to get on the boat from Jiande, the prefectural city of Yanzhou, all the way down the river to Hangzhou, which is quite fast and convenient.

However, when Hou Qianhai's fleet reached Tonglu, it was already late at night. The mountains on both sides of the Fuchun River were steep and the current was fast. It was quite dangerous to cross at night, so Hou Qianhai decided to let the troops rest in Tonglu for one night before setting off in the early morning of the next day.

At this time, on the Fuchun River, one mile away from Tonglu Wharf, He Huasheng, the head of Yanzhou Station of the Intelligence Department, was making the final mobilization on board.

He Huasheng asked: "Have you checked everything, make sure that these fast boats must point to the transport ships of the Qing army on the pier."

A member of the intelligence department said: "Don't worry, there are a total of 5 clippers, filled with straw and kerosene, and when the time comes to keep them, give him a 'burning Chibi'."

Another member said: "The wind direction is right now, so it's hard not to light it up."

"There are our own people on the pier. These ships of the Qing army have been oiled for him, and the fire is burning brightly."

In the dark night, I saw a few small boats drifting downwind to Tonglu Wharf.When approaching the pier, these ships suddenly turned into fire boats and directly hit the ships docked on the pier.

For a while, the flames soared into the sky, and the entire pier was set ablaze.

By the time Hou Qianhai brought people to feel the pier, the fire had spread to the shore, and even the warehouse by the pier was on fire.

The fire burned for a whole night, and the entire pier was almost reduced to ashes. In addition to the official ships of the Qing army transporting troops, other ships on the pier were also burned.

Now there are only a few small fishing boats in Tonglu, and it is unrealistic to expect these boats to transport 2000 people away.

Hou Qianhai had no choice but to lead his troops to Hangzhou by land.

However, the land route is much slower than the water route, and the distance that can be reached in one day is estimated to take two days at the fastest.

After walking for a long time, we came to a fork in the road, and the sentry in front came to report: "Qi Zongbing Hou, there are two roads ahead, one leads directly to Fuyang in the northeast, and the other leads to Xincheng in the north. , which way shall we go?"

Hou Qianhai thought that Fuyang was the only way to Hangzhou, but the Ming army actually sent people to burn his boat overnight, maybe they had set up an ambush on the road ahead, waiting for him to sneak in.

Simply take a detour to the new city, and then decide how to go after checking the situation in the new city.

So an order was sent: "The army goes north and heads for Xincheng County."

Afraid of an ambush by the Ming army, Hou Qianhai walked cautiously along the way. Whenever he encountered a dangerous canyon, he would send people to investigate first. It took half a day for the two-hour journey.

Fortunately, they were not ambushed by the Ming army along the way, and Hou Qianhai and the others finally arrived safely at the foot of Xin'an City after stopping and stopping.

There was no Ming army stationed in Xin'an County, and the suffocated Huo Qing army performed extremely bravely in every way, easily driving away the civilian armed forces and regaining the county.

At this time, the soldiers came to report and said: "Several prisoners were found in the county prison and said they wanted to see Hou Zongbing, thank you for saving your life."

Hearing the word "thank you", Hou Qianhai regained his energy in an instant, and said, "Then bring them over, I want to see how they thank me."

I saw a few wealthy people coming over, and the leader of the fat man said: "The villain Huang Sanba is a businessman from Xin'an County, because the villain wholeheartedly supports my Daqing, and once reported some transparent anti He was thrown into prison by the Ming bandits, and the villain was asked to donate 1 taels of silver, otherwise he would be executed in the name of a traitor."

"Thanks to Hou Zongbing leading the army to recover Xin'an County, we were rescued just now. There is no repayment for saving lives. The villains specially donated 1 taels of silver as military funds. They also prepared wine and vegetables for the army to reward the brothers. us."

Hou Qianhai originally wanted to blackmail these businessmen, but he didn't expect that Huang Sanba was so knowledgeable, which saved him a lot of trouble.

Said to Huang Sanba: "Thank you, Mr. Huang, then Hou Mou would be more respectful than obedient."

Huang Sanba said: "Huang has already set up a banquet at Fuchunju, the best restaurant in the county, and invited Hou Zongbing to honor him."

After a few glasses of wine, the two began to call each other brothers.

Huang Sanba said: "I am the richest man in Xin'an, and I am known as 'Huang Batian'. If I want to expand my business to Yanzhou in the future, I will have to rely on Hou Qianhai for support."

Hou Qianhai had long wanted to get acquainted with these wealthy businessmen, so he simply became brothers of the opposite sex with Huang Sanba and made a fortune together in the future.

When Huang Sanba heard that Hou Qianhai was going to Fuyang to support Hangzhou, he hurriedly stopped him and said, "Brother Hou, you can't go to Fuyang. I heard that the main force of the army has already occupied Fuyang. It's a bad luck for you to go there."

"Brother, I heard that the head of General Pingnan Jin Li was directly sent to Hangzhou by the Ming army. Now that the Eight Banners in Hangzhou have been wiped out, Governor Xiao hastily ordered the states to rush to Hangzhou to help Hangzhou."

Hou Qianhai was half awake when he heard this, and immediately asked: "Brother Huang, are you serious?"

Huang Sanba said: "As a brother, I also have a lot of property in Hangzhou. This news is absolutely true."

Hou Qianhai said: "Then according to Brother Huang, I won't be able to make it to Hangzhou this time?"

Huang Sanba laughed loudly and said: "It's fortunate that you met my brother and me, so what's the difficulty in arriving in Hangzhou safely?"

"The Ming army intercepted my brother in Fuyang, so it's a bad luck for you to go to Hangzhou from Fuyang."

"But as a brother, I can earn today's business because I started my family by smuggling salt."

"There is a small road in the Damingshan area to the north of Xin'an, which can bypass Fuyang and go straight to Hangzhou. My brother used this small road to transport private salt from Hangzhou to Xin'an."

Hou Qianhai said: "Brother Huang really helped me a lot!"

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