I'm sure of the prosperous age of Kangxi and Qianlong!

Chapter 114 Eastern Guangdong is out of control
In January of the 61st year of Emperor Kangxi's reign in the Qing Dynasty, Chaozhou Prefecture, Guangdong Province.

The news that the main force of [-] Ming thieves went south to Chengxiang soon spread to Fucheng, and the whole Chaozhou was shocked.

"How is this possible? The main force of the Ming thieves, tens of thousands, went south. Why is there no movement from our side?" Hou Wei, the commander-in-chief of Chaozhou Town, looked in disbelief.

From a strategic perspective, if the Ming thieves really wanted to go south, they should first destroy Chaozhou Prefecture.What kind of method is this to attack Chengxiang County? Aren't the Ming thieves afraid that the logistics and food routes will be cut off and they will be trapped in a tight siege?
"Mr. Hou, the problem now is not why the thieves came, but how we should deal with them."

"How else can we deal with it? If the thief comes, I'll go there soon!"

"But those are tens of thousands of real thieves! Isn't it a bit too aggressive to attack them directly?"

"What's there to be afraid of? We have [-] masters of scriptures. Are we still afraid that he can't surpass thousands of thieves?"

A group of civil servants and military officers wearing T-shirts chattered non-stop. Some felt that they should be steady, while others felt that they should attack directly, so as to show the power of the Qing Dynasty.

These people argued back and forth for a long time, but could not come up with a reason. Guangdong Admiral Feng Yi, who was sent by Yang Lin to personally take charge of the Chaozhou front line, suddenly said: "Ahem, what you all said makes sense, but no matter what, The five counties of Chengxiang have been defeated, and the Ming thieves are so arrogant. If we still stand still, wouldn't it mean that the majesty of the Qing court has been wiped out, and the Holy Lord's face will be lost?"

In a few words, he got involved with the Holy Emperor, Kang Mazi, the eternal emperor who cherished his body and his name very much.

Then what's there to fight for? If we don't want to fight, we have to fight.

This was done deliberately by Feng Yi. All in all, the three generations of the Feng family can be regarded as hardcore Qing dynasties. Starting from his grandfather Feng Yougong, he followed Shunzhi into the Han Army Banner.

Feng Yougong was actually not very famous, and he only had two achievements in his life. One was to defeat Taiyuan with red cannons, and the other was to defeat the Nanming Ma Jinzhong tribe in Huguang.

Feng Yi, like his father Feng Guoxiang, relied on the legacy left by Feng Yougong to manage to get an admiral position in Guangdong.

Now this little ancestral shadow is almost exhausted, which can be seen from the fact that Feng Yi became the admiral of Guangdong only when he was very old.

This was because of his hard work and hard work, so after hearing that the Ming thief went south to Guangdong, Feng Yi started to think about it.

He doesn't expect to continue to be promoted, and he won't be able to work for a few years if he is promoted, but he has to pave the way for his son!
"What Master Dutai said makes sense, I have learned from you!" Everyone in the hall didn't know what Feng Yi was thinking, so they all agreed in unison.

Feng Yi nodded: "Yes, Mr. Hou."

Hou Tong quickly came out of the queue: "The general is here!"

Feng Yi waved his hand and said: "I have ordered you to be the vanguard of the army. We will march north to Dapu with our seven thousand troops, and we must cut off the retreat of the Ming thieves in Zhenping County."

"The end will obey orders!"

"The governor will also personally lead the army to the north to capture the Ming thieves in Chengxiang. At that time, they will attack from the north and the south and cut off the escape route. These bold Ming thieves will be killed in Guangdong!"

The voice fell.

The prefect of Chaozhou took the lead in praising: "Master Dutai is wise!"

"Lord Dutai is wise!"

Everyone present shouted in unison.

What's so wise is that it's nothing more than a very crude pincer offensive plus a group attack from behind, encircling and annihilating them.

On January 23, Hou Kang's [-] troops set out from Chaozhou Prefecture and headed north along the Han River to Dapu, preparing to cut off Zhenping County and block the Ming rebels' retreat.

Feng Yi did not waste any time. He personally led [-] governors and recruited local troops to form a brave camp. A total of [-] troops went north to Chengxiang County.

The army marched for half a day and arrived at Gongling Pass, which had already been captured by Lin Jun.

Feng Yi did not hesitate and immediately ordered the attack. There seemed to be not many thieves in Gongling Pass. When he saw the Qing army's arrival of [-] troops, he was frightened and fled in panic. The Qing army captured Gongling Pass without spending a single soldier.

The battle was won easily. Seeing that the Ming thief's combat power was so unrealistic, Feng Yi, who was complacent and realized that his sword was still young, immediately ordered a rush march regardless of the original plan and the soldiers who were tired from the attack.

The reason is to catch the thief off guard before he can react.

The generals of the Qing army also shouted that they would fight to the death with the Ming thieves. After all, the Ming thieves were so weak, so this was a wasted effort!
As for whether the soldiers are tired or not, do their shit.

The Qing army only stationed [-] brave battalions at Gongling Pass, and the main force of [-] troops quickly moved northward, finally arriving at Tongguzhang before dark.

Feng Yi rode his horse, glanced at the sky, and finally did not ask to continue marching, and said: "Send the order, let the soldiers camp on the spot, wait until tomorrow to collect ships to cross the river, and destroy this bandit in one fell swoop!"

A general said with a flattering look on his face: "Master Dutai loves his soldiers as much as his sons, you really do..."

Before the flattery was finished, there was a bang, the sound of artillery.

Did the artillery camp catch fire?
Before Feng Yi and the generals around him could react, they heard loud shouts of killing, and a large number of Ming thieves dressed in red sprang out of the mountains and forests around Tongguzhang.

Judging from the number of people, it is almost no less than the [-] troops under his own command.

No, there is an ambush!

Feng Yi exclaimed: "There is an ambush, hurry up, hurry up and fight!"

However, it was already too late.

The situation on the battlefield was changing rapidly. This time, Lin Jun did not hesitate to use Chengxiang County as a bet and led an army of [-] troops to ambush here just to raid Feng Yi, the Admiral of Guangdong.

The Qing army had been marching for days and was already exhausted. They hurriedly responded to the battle and were bombarded by artillery. Even if it was only light land artillery, the morale of the army was in chaos.

In just a short moment, the Qing army was defeated like a mountain and could not organize effective resistance at all. Feng Yi's eyes were about to burst and he kept shouting: "No retreat, no retreat, hold on, kill the thieves." !Kill the thief!"

However, no matter how he shouted, if he lost, he would lose. The original pincer attack was because he was eager for quick success, underestimated the enemy and got into an ambush.

At this time, the soldiers beside Feng Yi spoke urgently: "Sir, leave quickly! If you don't leave, it will be too late."

These words are inexplicably familiar. Almost all the generals of the Qing army who fought with the Ming army and their own soldiers have said similar words more or less. The reason why the Qing army and the Ming army have been defeated repeatedly in battles so far is that apart from the war Apart from the power gap, the most crucial point is the general's escape.

Almost half of the defeats were due to the flight of Qing generals or friendly troops.Feng Yi gritted his teeth and said: "Let's go! Let Du Biao retreat immediately, and the rest of the troops will be responsible for breaking up the rear!"

This order was sent to the front army. All the generals of the front army were blue in the face and angry in their hearts. The admiral didn't care about underestimating the enemy and rushing in. When he was ambushed, his first thought was to save the direct line Biao camp and let them take charge of the rear. , This is simply not taking their lives and their soldiers’ lives seriously!

What he said was ridiculous. They were obviously the same as Feng Yi before, but now they immediately changed their stance after being asked to stop.

"Sir, the supervisor has escaped!" However, some of the general's soldiers saw it, and all the supervisors quickly evacuated back without hesitation.

"Idiot, this old thief is an idiot!" The general was immediately furious, and the supervisor ran away. What should they do? Are they waiting to die?
"I am willing to surrender, I am willing to surrender!" Without hesitation for almost a second, the general decisively defected on the battlefield. With the emergence of this first defection, the remaining Qing army generals also defected and surrendered one by one.

It only took Lin Jun less than half an hour to successfully clear out all the Qing troops on the battlefield. Among the surrenderers, there were even more than two thousand Dubiao Qing troops.

But Feng Yi no longer knew about it, and would never know about it again. Just as he was running away in a hurry, he was ambushed again. This time, it was the Gongling Pass that he had captured just a few hours ago. .

It turned out that Lin Jun had made arrangements long ago, using the weakness of Gongling Pass to lure the enemy deeper, and then asked his general Huang Ergou, the same Ergouzi who carried the flag at the previous cottage, to lead 5000 people to recapture it, so as to attack from both sides.

A very crude imitation.

Feng Yi only had less than [-] supervisors left, so naturally he couldn't defeat Huang Ergou's [-] elite troops. After just one charge, he was completely defeated.

Feng Yi was wearing armor and sitting on his horse at a loss, looking at the red-clothed thieves who were constantly chasing and killing his own army.

"puff!"

After days of hard work, his already old and sickly body, and the ups and downs, as well as the double mental and physical torture, Feng Yi became so angry that he spurted out a mouthful of old blood, and then he staggered and fell off his horse.

Seeing Feng Yi suddenly vomiting blood and falling from his horse, the personal guards around him, as well as the personal soldiers holding the admiral's banner high, were a little unable to react for a moment.

One of the soldiers stepped forward and stretched out his hand to check Feng Yi's breath, and then his face instantly turned pale: "No... no more breath!"

If you have no energy, doesn’t that mean you are dead?

"The Admiral has died in battle!" the soldier responsible for carrying the flag suddenly shouted, then threw away the banner and ran away.

As he ran and shouted, he was soon heard by the rest of the Dubiao Qing army. They were already retreating steadily, relying solely on their will to survive.

Now, after hearing that the admiral died in battle and even the big banner fell, how can we still fight?
The retreat suddenly turned into a crushing defeat. Huang Ergou did not miss this opportunity and led his army to pursue and fight fiercely. In the end, less than two thousand of the more than two thousand supervisors escaped, and the rest were either dead or surrendered. .

On the second day, Lin Jun learned about the Qing army's plan from the prisoners, and immediately ordered the entire army to change into Qing army uniforms, and then quickly led the army north to Zhenping County.

Hou Tong did not expect that Feng Yi would be defeated and defeated so quickly, so he did not doubt Lin Jun's disguised Qing army at all.

There was almost no suspense in the battle. Chaozhou general Hou Wei died in the battle. The main force of Chaozhou town either died or surrendered, and some fled into the mountains and forests, but they no longer posed a threat.

At this point, all the military defense forces deployed by the Qing army in Chaozhou completely collapsed, and Lin Jun did not hesitate to go south and directly occupy the capital city of Chaozhou.

This time, none of the Chaozhou magistrates and officials committed suicide and fled, but all chose to surrender.

Good guy, compared to Zhu Yijiong's treatment, Lin Jun is more like the Lord of the True Dragon.

In fact, this was Lin Jun taking advantage of Zhu Yijiong, because in the eyes of everyone in Chaozhou Mansion, Lin Jun was the forward general of the Ming Dynasty Zhu Yijiong and the general who conquered the south.

With such a capable warrior under his command, how could Zhu Yijiong, the master of the Ming Dynasty, really hope to dominate the world?
Even if you can't dominate the world, it should still be possible to dominate half of the world, right?

With the officials of Chaozhou Prefecture taking the initiative, Lin Jun easily controlled the entire territory of Chaozhou without much effort.

This speed has obviously exceeded He Changyun's expectation. Their original plan was to accumulate strength in the county first, and not to manage the capital for the time being. They were taking a slow-down approach.

But who would have thought that Feng Yi, a talented person, would give them such a great gift.

Not only Lin Jun did not expect, but Yang Lin also did not expect that the Guangdong admiral whom he specially sent to sit on the front line in Chaozhou would actually become the one who ordered Chaozhou to die.

Let him know early that he will not send Feng Yi, an old fool, to Chaozhou no matter what.

At this time, not only Chaozhou Prefecture fell, but also Guangdong Admiral Feng Yi died in the battle.

This was a huge earthquake for Guangdong. Yang Lin, the governor of Guangdong who was based in Zhaoqing, hurriedly mobilized the remaining troops of Guangdong and even began to mobilize the Guangxi garrison. He did not seek to annihilate the Ming thieves, but only wanted to block them in Huizhou Prefecture to prevent The situation worsened.

However, it happened to rain when the house was leaking. Yang Lin had just assembled tens of thousands of troops and had not yet had time to set off.

Huizhou Prefecture rebelled!

The rebels were none other than the Tiandihui, which had been lurking in eastern Guangdong for many years.

In the past, the accumulated strength of these people would not have been enough to launch an uprising. But now, the main force of the Ming thieves has gone south, the Guangdong admiral has died in the battle, coupled with famine, corrupt officials, and conflicts between natives and foreigners (caused by the sea ban), these successive " good news".

It's like dry firewood that explodes at the drop of a button.

The Huizhou Tiandihui took advantage of the situation and soon gathered tens of thousands of people, directly launching the banner of "anti-Qing and annexing Ming". They surrendered to vassal rather than regaining power.

Obviously, these people are also smart people and know how to win over foreign aid.

Although Lin Jun is not a real Ming army, but just in the name of Zhu Jianguo's general trend, he also knows that the Huizhou Tiandihui uprising is a key move to break the situation in Guangdong.

Lin Jun defied all opinions and led only [-] lightly armed troops to attack Huizhou.

Under the coordination of internal and external forces, the Qing army in Huizhou Prefecture, which was already weak in strength, was caught off guard and almost collapsed at the first touch, and the city was destroyed in one day.

After this battle, the situation in eastern Guangdong was completely out of control.

　so tired

　　
　
(End of this chapter)