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

Chapter 121 I’ll give it a try

The 61st year of Emperor Kangxi's reign in the Qing Dynasty and the second year of Yonghe's reign in the Ming Dynasty.

In February, the north was calm, but the south was at war.

The Ming army divided into three groups and launched an attack on the three prefectures of Hangzhou (west), Huzhou and Jiaxing. Not to mention the two Ming armies in Hangzhou and Huzhou. Yang Gong, who was responsible for attacking Jiaxing Prefecture, set out from Hangzhou and headed east along the Hangzhou-Jiaxing Canal. rush
Linping, Xucun, and Chang'an towns were captured in one day, and Haining County surrendered without a fight.

Yang Gong took advantage of the situation to pursue and joined forces with Tang Tongjiang's navy, which entered the canal from the Qiantang River. They reached Shimen County in only half a day.

The magistrate of Shimen County, located in the border town of Liangfu and also a county along the canal, knew that he could not resist and committed suicide in despair.

The Ming army rested here for a while, and then marched northward again. Within half a day, they attacked Tongxiang and Puyuan, and reached Jiaxing Fucheng.

As a veteran of the Ming Army, the First Army had suffered some losses in the battles in Zhejiang, but it had been replenished before departure, and its strength had been restored to its full strength of [-].

Thirty thousand Ming troops besieged the city, and the sight of the sun and moon flags fluttering was terrifying. In addition, there were also a large number of Ming navy warships flying the sun and moon flags on the canal.

Of course, what's more important is that the leader of the Ming thief army that came to attack this time was still Yang Gong.

Now Zhejiang and even the entire Qing court are no longer as ignorant about the Ming army as they were at the beginning.

Not to mention the great rebel Zhu Yijiong, the remaining major officials and generals of the Ming Dynasty, especially Yang Gong, who had only 3 people to fight against 20 Qing troops in Zhejiang, were already on the list.

Even in Huang Sheng's memorial, in order to shirk the blame, he praised Yang Gong for a while, almost to the point of praising him as Prince Yue.

The reason why it is Prince Yue is naturally because there is a temple to Prince Yue in Hangzhou.

There is such a powerful general coming. He only has a thousand soldiers in his city, and they were all recruited some time ago. How can he resist it?

The prefect of Jiaxing did not even go through the basic process of kneeling three times and kowtowing nine times to the north. He just faced the north and cried: "Your Majesty, why did you let such a fool be the governor of Jiangnan! Longkodo, you have harmed everyone. Qing, you have harmed the Qing Dynasty! Wuwuwu~"

Well, another tabai, or whether he admits it or not, in the mouths of these Zhejiang officials, Longkodo has become a fool.

If he hadn't sent out a single soldier and watched Zhejiang being invaded by the Ming rebels, why would they have sacrificed their lives for the country?

After scolding Longkodo, the prefect of Jiaxing immediately jumped up.

Jiaxing Tongzhi, like other prefectures, was nowhere to be found. He most likely ran away in disguise. Only two Fuguo county magistrates, Xiushui and Jiaxing, led the wealthy households in the city to open the city and surrender.

The Ming army took Jiaxing Prefecture without any effort. It only took two days of marching on the road.

The city was destroyed, and the entire Jiaxing Mansion was like meat on the chopping board, just waiting for the Ming army to swallow it whole.

Outside Jiaxing City.

"It's so damn boring. We didn't win the battle. Commander Yang is really famous." Tang Tongjiang put down his telescope and was speechless.

Although Tang Tongjiang was a naval officer, he came from the New Army, and the navy was taught by Zhu Yijiong himself, so he was considered a disciple of the emperor.

The truth is that other people don't understand. Zhu Yijiong had seen a boat run away in his previous life, so he knew a few... theories.

Tang Tongjiang was the best among them, and he made rapid progress in his studies. Only then was he spotted by Zhu Yijiong and promoted to Navy Commander (there was no one left).

This can actually be seen from the way Tang Tongjiang addressed Yang Gong. Zheng Dingrui and other former veterans all called Yang Gong General Yang. Only Tang Tongjiang, who had received training and titles from the new army from the beginning, would habitually call Yang Gong General Yang. The military commander is worthy.

Before Yang Gong, Zheng Dingrui and other veteran generals knew it, the Ming Dynasty's military system had already become stratified.

In other words, the system of the old and young factions has emerged, but now the veteran faction is still more powerful, and only one of the new generals, Tang Tongjiang, can be regarded as emerging.

"It's a good thing that we didn't succeed. We captured the entire Jiaxing Mansion without spending a single soldier. This also shows that the power of the Ming Dynasty and His Royal Highness Jian Guo is growing!" Yang Gong said with a smile, not taking it seriously.After saying that, he immediately ordered his staff to write a report on the matter and send it back to Hangzhou with the army's fast horses.

Tang Tongjiang couldn't resist, so he asked again: "Then what should we do now?"

Yang Gong said: "What else can we do? I'll leave a whole army of troops here and let's go north together!"

Tang Tongjiang said: "I can go north to collect the canal, but Commander Yang doesn't need to..."

"Who said I was accompanying Qi to reclaim the canal?" Yang Gong suddenly said, seeing that Tang Tongjiang was a little confused: "Didn't the Supervisory State say that if we have spare power, we can try to seal a dozen of them? Isn't the opportunity coming now? ?"

Tang Tongjiang was shocked: "Commander Yang means..."

"Suzhou."

Tang Tongjiang woke up instantly and immediately looked excited. After all, a battle meant that he would have the opportunity to make meritorious deeds.

However, Tang Tongjiang didn't know that Yang Gong was not just trying to fight. Since the Qing army was so vulnerable and even took the initiative to give in and wanted to give up Zhejiang, don't blame him for pushing the envelope.

After resting for only two days and arranging the defense of Jiaxing Prefecture, Yang Gong immediately led his army north along the canal, and Tang Tongjiang also led a fleet up the river.

However, plans failed to catch up with reality.

As soon as Yang Gong's First Army crossed Wangjing Town, Tang Tongjiang's navy ran aground.

It turned out that Longkodo had previously ordered the Susong Town Navy to block the Grand Canal and cut off the connection between Zhejiang and Jiangsu.

As a result, Susong Town's general soldiers immediately laid a large number of iron chains on the river, and buried hidden iron hooks underwater, specifically hooking to the bottom of the warship. If the warship came, it would be blocked and capsized.

It's not that Tang Tongjiang has nothing to do, but it will take him a lot of time to clean up like this.

Yang Gong did not wait any longer and directly led the First Army to rush forward and arrived in Wujiang County in only one and a half days.

Su Song's navy, who was resting in Wujiang County, immediately discovered Yang Gong's First Army. It would be impossible not to discover it! More than 2 people were running, and they were still running straight to Wujiang. You could see a large area just from the smoke and dust.

The deputy general in charge of Su Song's navy was quite surprised when he saw this. He did not expect the Zhejiang Ming thief to come so soon, nor did he expect that the Ming thief actually had the courage to come.

As the Jiangnan Navy, they have never seen the combat effectiveness of the Fujian, Zhejiang and Ming armies, and all they know is hearsay.

But hearsay often exaggerates greatly, but when this matter is exaggerated, there are usually two situations, either becoming more and more scared, or not being scared at all.

The Su Song Navy anchored in Wujiang is obviously the latter. In their view, rebels are rebels and they cannot defeat the officers and soldiers.

So, they got off the warship directly, and with only less than [-] naval officers and soldiers plus some land artillery, they went to kill the Ming army.

Yang Gong just wanted to laugh when he saw this. The sailor who came ashore was like a tiger with its teeth pulled out, so there was nothing to be afraid of.

Yang Gong followed the old tactics and ordered the artillery to fire first, then fire blunderbuss at close range, and cooperated with the Tianlei battalion to help out. Finally, the entire army charged with knives, including the fire blunderbuss battalion, which also modified bayonets and turned into a close combat unit.

There was no suspense in this encounter. Three thousand against twenty-five thousand, not to mention the veterans under Yang Gong, even Lin Jun who was stirring up trouble in Guangdong could defeat the Qing navy that landed ashore.

From the beginning to the end of the battle, excluding the time between the two armies' main attacks, it only lasted about a quarter of an hour.

The Ming army won a great victory, directly occupied Wujiang, and forced its troops to Suzhou City.

"The Ming thief is coming? How is this possible?"

(End of this chapter)