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

Chapter 76 Unification of Fujian
People's Fat People Cream.

Your salary and salary.

God is hard to bully.

The people are easy to abuse.

This sixteen-character mantra can be said to be a vivid interpretation of Funing Mansion at this time.

While the officials of Funing Prefecture were scrambling against time, frantically exploiting and plundering the people's wealth, and by the way... recruiting troops to fight against the Ming Dynasty, the Ming army gathered in Luoyuan County was also not idle.

On the fifth day of December, the Ming army in Luoyuan County was assembled, with a total strength of 5000.

Yang Gong directly led the army, went north across the border between the two prefectures, and went straight to Ningde County.

"Your Majesty, the thieves are coming!"

Almost as soon as the Ming army entered the jurisdiction of Ningde County, the officials reported the news to the magistrate of Ningde County.

With such a large army going on an expedition, there is no way to hide the news. Of course, there is no need to hide it.

The magistrate of Ningde County, the county magistrate, and the chief bookkeeper all went up to the city tower to take a look, and saw the flags of the army fluttering outside the city.

Just looking at the color of the uniforms, at least one third of them are real thieves.

For a moment, everyone turned pale.To put it bluntly, all of you here are just unlucky ghosts because of Lu Youlong's involvement. After the entire Fujian Green Camp army was destroyed, the entire Funing Prefecture was stretched thin, and Ningde County had long been regarded as an abandoned son by Shen Deyuan.

"Your Majesty, it's better to quickly open the warehouse to store grain and recruit troops to defend the city!" Ningde County Magistrate said at this time.

However, when the Ningde County Magistrate heard this, he just looked at him with a strange expression and said: "Open a warehouse, what kind of warehouse did you open? Mr. Futai has already taken away all the money and grain, so now where is there even half a cent of grain for recruiting troops? "

"Am I just going to do this and wait to die?" The person who spoke was the third-in-command chief clerk. He was not a local official, but was transferred here at the beginning of this year. Before he could make much money, rebels were ushered in, or was it? A giant bandit who even controlled Taiwan and Futai was defeated by him.

If he had known that Fujian was so troubled, he would never have come to serve as an official here.

"As the saying goes, eating the emperor's salary is the only thing to be loyal to the emperor!" The Ningde County magistrate had already had a death wish. "Whenever the thieves break the city, I will die for the country!"

Good guy, you knew you couldn't hold the county seat, so you just left it to die.Everyone immediately looked at each other, and no one needed to remind them. The Ningde County Magistrate and the Chief Registrar immediately ran down the tower.

The county magistrate has been ruined, but Ningde County can still hold on.

As for the wealthy gentry in the county, they were already ready to welcome the Ming Dynasty King's army at any time.

Yang Gong did not attack the city immediately, but first spent half a day raiding the villages on the outskirts of Ningde County. Ningde County was abandoned by Shen Deyuan, and these villages were also abandoned by the county.

The gentry and local tyrants faced no pressure from the Ming army.

If you don't surrender, are you really waiting to die?They are not imperial officials.

All villages and villages on the outskirts of the county were swept away, and Ningde County was transformed into an isolated city.Since ancient times, the isolated city cannot be defended, let alone Ningde County, where everyone has no fighting spirit and is an abandoned son.

The Ming army just arrived at the city, without even using the red cannons, and all the people on the top of the city fled.

Yang Gong looked through the telescope and saw a man wearing a pseudo-upright official uniform jumping down from the tower.

The magistrate of Ningde County was quite lucky. Ningde County was not short in height and he was still standing with his head on the ground. Therefore, he did not suffer any pain. His brain collapsed and he died in an instant.

Regarding this, Yang Gong had no trouble in his heart. Today, the Ming Dynasty is no longer what it used to be. Even the capital Fuzhou has been captured, and the number of officials who have surrendered is too many to count. Even Tongzhi, a big official in the capital, knows everything about it. , a mere county magistrate is no longer worth anything.

As the Ming army's vanguard camp ascended the city, a sun and moon flag was planted on the city's head. Ningde County did not even resist, and immediately changed hands.

All the gentry in the county were eating pots of pulp to welcome the king's master.

The former magistrate of Ningde County and the unlucky chief secretary of the previous city tower were no exception. They surrendered to the Ming army along with the county officials.

After all, who would want to die if he didn't have to die?
Moreover, at this time, they all saw that Fujian was at their fingertips, not only to fight for the world.

In short, take it one step at a time and wait and see.

From the arrival of the Ming army in Ningde County to Pocheng, it only took half a day.Yang Gong led his army to rest for a while in Ningde County. After leaving a thousand garrison troops, the main force did not stop and once again broke camp and headed north.

On the morning of the third day, the Ming army arrived at Funing Fucheng.

Shen Deyuan, the prefect of Funing, was shocked when he heard this. He quickly climbed up the city tower to inspect the enemy's situation, and saw a large army gathering outside the city. A rough estimate was that there must be at least tens of thousands of troops.

"Why did the Ming thief arrive suddenly? Why is there no news at all from Ningde County?" Shen Deyuan only glanced at it and then asked Tongzhi Funing beside him.

Tongzhi Funing was also unlucky. He was just the second-in-command in the government office, and usually assisted the prefect in his work. He also had Shen Deyuan's approval to abandon Ningde County.

Now I'm asking him why. Isn't this a joke?
"Dong Weng, the top priority is to defend the city. There are only more than ten thousand thieves. If we insist on defending, it is not impossible to defend." But it was Master Xu, the aide, who spoke to save the siege.

Funing Tongpan also joined in and said, "What Mr. Xu said makes sense. The thieves are so arrogant that they only have ten thousand people to attack, and there are so many fake thieves. If they don't come too quickly, they must know what they are." sharp!"

"Yes, that Ming thief Zhu Ni still claims to be the Ming Dynasty orthodoxy, which is simply ridiculous."

"It's hard to say that back in Quanzhou it was only Mr. Futai who underestimated the enemy and was able to win by chance. Now that the city is high and the walls are thick and we have well-equipped troops, I'm afraid the Ming thieves will return without success this time."

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The officials in the city seemed to have reduced the Ming army outside the city to nothing with every word they said to me.

The posture seemed like if they were allowed to lead the troops, they would be able to wipe out all the thieves outside the city in a matter of minutes.

But he didn't want to think about it, if the Ming army was really so weak, then why they were the ones hiding in the city now.

Shen Deyuan was still sober and was not as arrogant as others and underestimated the enemy.To be able to capture so many state capitals along the way, and even the capital city was destroyed by it, how could the Ming thief be such a simple thing.

Although there were only more than ten thousand thieves outside the city, and most of them were fake thieves, Shen Deyuan still did not take it lightly.He first ordered the defense of the city in the name of the prefect to prepare for war, and specially deployed heavy troops in several important defense areas of the city wall, supplemented by defensive materials such as hammered wood, rolling stones, and gold juice.

It was obvious that this frail prefect had read some military skills.

As for city defense artillery, there are some in these treasuries, but those artillery are small-caliber squatting tiger cannons. The Ming thieves have red cannons. Isn't it a joke to use the squatting tiger cannon to attack people?
Moreover, Shen Deyuan does not have qualified gunners!

Those special talents were all taken away by Lu Youlong before, and then all were given to the Ming army in one wave. I don’t know how much food and time it will cost to train myself.

Shen Deyuan moved very quickly, and within half an hour, the defense of the entire city wall was basically completed.

On the top of the city, the golden liquid is constantly rolling, emitting waves of stench. It can be said that everything is ready, just waiting for the thieves to attack.

And then... no more.

Until lunch, there was no movement from the thieves outside the city.

No, it wasn't that there was no movement, because these Ming thieves also divided their troops to raid the surrounding towns. Those towns had no troops to defend. Facing the wolf-like Ming army, they naturally surrendered without hesitation.

Just like Ningde County before, Funing Mansion soon became an isolated city.

But this is meaningless. The money and food that Funing Mansion had raised from the wealthy gentry before would last for a few months, not to mention a year and a half.

Shen Deyuan was a little confused. In order to cheer up, he even ate at the top of the city. The smell of the golden juice made him not even eat lunch.

Is it possible that the Ming thieves were afraid, so they didn't dare to attack, so they just looted and left?
Shen Deyuan was not sure and did not dare to go down. He was afraid that as soon as he stepped forward, the thieves would attack the city with their hind legs.

The two sides remained in a stalemate, and soon it became dark.

The thieves outside the city finally made some noise, and they actually came to the city in droves and loudly persuaded the soldiers at the top of the city to surrender.

Shen Deyuan noticed it in time and ordered the archers to release arrows. However, it was all in the dark, and the thieves under the city were in groups of twos and threes. They also had shields and leather armor. In addition, Shen Deyuan's archers were all young and brave soldiers recruited from below. If they could shoot arrows, they would be considered powerful. , still expect to be able to shoot someone?

A round of arrows rained down, but it did nothing but attract ridicule from the thieves in the city.

Shen Deyuan was about to go crazy, but had no choice but to pay out a large sum of money from his own pocket and distribute it on the spot. This was able to calm people's hearts.

Shen Deyuan had a very hard night.

(End of this chapter)