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

Chapter 115 Dragon Heads Up

The second year of Yonghe in the Ming Dynasty and the 61st year of Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty.

On February [-], the dragon looked up.

The Ming army arrived in Hangzhou.

In less than half a month since the war in Chuzhou, the three prefectures of Yanzhou, Shaoxing, and Ningbo in northern Zhejiang were all in the hands of the Ming army. No, it should be called recovered now.

Zhu Yijiong didn't want to be so anxious, but Longkodo, a famous figure in the history of the Qing Dynasty, actually came to Nanjing, which meant that the Qing court not only noticed him, but even took him seriously.

Zhu Yijiong had no choice but to speed up his offensive, not only to engulf Zhejiang immediately, but at least to capture Hangzhou first, as a basis for facing the Qing court's upcoming more and more violent attacks.

All right!Zhu Yijiong still didn't know that Longkodo at this time was actually not as awesome as in history. He would have to wait until the Yongzheng Dynasty to become truly awesome. After all, this was the only person in the 200-year history of the Qing Dynasty who could be called "uncle" by the emperor.

Moreover, Longkodo arrived in Nanjing this time to take charge of counter-insurgency matters. Although it was indeed Kangxi who noticed that Zhu Yijiong, a Ming thief, was making a lot of noise in the south, it was more because Longkodo himself had committed a taboo.

You must know that Kangxi's original warning and promise to Longkodo was that as long as Longkodo did not form a party, especially if he could not clearly lean towards a certain elder brother, Kangxi would always promote him.

Earlier, Longkodo was able to follow Kangxi as an imperial guard for three campaigns against Ge Erdan, and it was also Kangxi who was gilding him.

Kangxi was happy to see that Longkodo was close to his two favorite elder brothers, but he would never tolerate him clearly taking sides, and still brought the power of the imperial infantry to help the elder brother he supported fight against each other.

Although all this was a misunderstanding, making mistakes allowed the Ming army to quickly master the new tactical system of blasting and siege.

In order to save time and reduce battle losses during the siege, Zhu Yijiong did not hesitate to adopt the tactics Yang Gong had used before when he attacked Quzhou City. He directly sent several battalions to form the vanguard, and then used shield cars to escort the coffins and explosives and forcibly assaulted the city. .

On the whole, it is still the Ming army's old method of assaulting the camp first, except that they no longer forcefully attack the city, and each battalion also brings an extra coffin with them when charging, and the coffin is full of sugar and gunpowder.

In the absence of heavy armor units, the losses for a forced siege will only be much higher, but it may not be successful. The blasting of caves takes too long and can easily delay the fighter's opportunity. However, this kind of forced blasting directly under the city is not only time-consuming, but also very time-consuming. Short and effective.

If one of these vanguard camps succeeded, the city would be considered destroyed.

The Ming army divided into two groups and marched simultaneously, one in Yanzhou and the other in Shaoxing.

There was no accident. Although the two mansions resisted vigorously, they were unable to hold on for even half an hour under the forcible blasts by the Ming army. The city wall collapsed with several loud noises, and the young men temporarily recruited to defend the city inside fled in an instant. All gone.

The Ming army suffered no more than a hundred losses, half of which were accidental injuries caused by not being able to escape in time during the blast.

At the same time that Yanzhou and Shaoxing were captured by the Ming army, off the Zhoushan Islands, the Ming Navy also used wolf pack tactics to defeat the Qing Navy's Dinghai Town Navy.

The commander-in-chief of Dinghai Town died on the spot and was buried in the belly of a fish. Although the rest of the remaining soldiers and warships resisted hard, they were no match for the Ming Navy's navy, which had many guns and ships. They almost didn't even have a chance to join the gang fight, so they were all sunk. The remaining one-third surrendered relatively quickly and survived.

Although the Ming army won this battle, it was a natural victory. Commander Tang Tongjiang even risked his own life and led a quarter of the warships to serve as bait to lure the Qing naval fleet to take the initiative to attack Dinghai Town. The encirclement of the Ming Navy.

In this way, we can easily win.

After this battle, Ningbo Prefecture was directly surrounded by the Ming army on three sides, water and land, and it was impossible to escape. The prefect of Ningbo took poison and committed suicide in despair, and it was over.

The remaining government officials were missing. The magistrate of Fuguo and a group of low-level officials only besieged the city for less than half a day before opening the city and surrendering.

On this day, Tu Yi, the governor of Zhejiang, came to the city in official uniform to inspect the defense as usual. Although he had steeled himself to look more majestic, a closer look could still be seen from his description. A little haggard.

Can you not be haggard?
In the past two days, the naval warships of the Ming Army almost regarded the Fuchun River as their own inland river. There was an endless stream of warships transporting grain, grass and baggage, which could only be seen from the top of Hangzhou City.

Since the Ming army occupied southern Zhejiang last month, in less than half a month, all three prefectures of Yanzhou, Shaoxing and Ningbo in northern Zhejiang have fallen.

Only three prefectures in Zhejiang, Hangzhou, Jiaxing and Huzhou, were still under the rule of the Qing Dynasty, and the capital of Hangzhou directly became a frontier town.

Tu Yi raised his head and glanced at the river, seeing that winter was almost over. The temperature was gradually getting warmer, and Hangzhou City might not be able to hold on for much longer... "...Has there been any reply to the letter asking for help?"

The general Fu Biao Ginseng next to him had a troubled expression on his face: "Sir, this man has only been away for two days, I'm afraid he hasn't gone so fast..."

Before he finished speaking, Tu Yi waved his hand to signal that he didn't need to say any more.

It's useless to say more. There are still two comforting words left and right.

Although Tu Yi was just a civil servant, and he had made stupid moves like being surrounded on all sides, which further worsened the situation in Zhejiang, it did not mean that he was really a fool.

The letters and official documents asking for help came one after another. Except for the first letter from Longkodo, which encouraged him to stick to it and wait for help, it has been almost half a month. There has been no reply from Nanjing, but the Grand Canal on the Jiangsu-Zhejiang border Above, Su Song's navy can be seen dispatched, vaguely trying to block the canal.

In this regard, Longkodo had already explained that the chaos in Fujian and Zhejiang had caused the increase of water bandits, and the navy was dispatched to patrol the canal to protect the water transportation.

Just a joke!
Zhejiang has almost lost its water transportation, but it still manages water transportation.

Moreover, not to mention the Su Song Navy, if Longkodo really wanted to support Hangzhou, no matter how slow it was, the reinforcements would have arrived. Even if the reinforcements did not arrive for some reason, at least there would be a reply!

"Abandoned son..." Tu Yi suddenly said something for no reason.

General Fu Biao, who was accompanying him, suddenly changed his expression and said hurriedly: "Sir, be careful what you say!"

"Ah."

Tu Yi said no more.

Fortunately, he didn't speak loudly, and the Qing soldiers who were loyal to their duties also didn't notice, and they still stood upright at the top of the city.

Tu Yi said a few more words and felt depressed. He only made a cursory inspection and then went down the city wall.

Tu Yi took his personal entourage without wandering around, and went directly to the governor's Yamen, which is now the temporary military power center of the entire Hangzhou city.

"How is it? Is the city still peaceful these days?"

Lu Jiude, the prefect of Hangzhou, quickly handed over his hand and reported: "Replying to Mr. Futai, there has not been much trouble in the city these days. Only the price of rice has fluctuated a little. It seems that several grain stores are trying to take advantage of the opportunity to stock up on goods and drive up the price of grain. This is the list found by the subordinate!"

Lu Jiude said, respectfully handing over a brochure.

Tu Yi didn't look at it after taking it, and just said lightly: "This is a good job. All the people involved in the case on the list do not need to be interrogated again. They are all charged with treason and their property has been confiscated and put into the treasury!"

"Also, remember to arrange for government officials to patrol the streets every day. There is no plan to prevent the thieves from arriving before we, Hangzhou, disrupt our position."

"The subordinate understands!"

The prefect Lu Jiude, together with the county magistrate Fu Guo and other officials, quickly raised their hands and said yes.

Although he knew that Hangzhou had become an abandoned city, Tu Yi was still unwilling to give in. At least he could not let Hangzhou be easily captured by the Ming thief.

Speaking of which, although Tu Yi, the governor of Zhejiang, was also corrupt, his official reputation was generally good.

There are only eight words for his evaluation in the history books, which are slow to conquer and weak to restrain, but not strict enough to observe.

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(End of this chapter)