Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 740

In the second half of 1648, the situation in southern China was extremely turbulent and volatile.First, Li Chengdong once again rebelled against the Qing Dynasty in Guangdong and attacked the neighboring Qing army. The former generals of the Zheng family Shi Fu, Shi Lang, Huang Ting, Hong Xishan and others who were originally under his command also left him with tens of thousands of soldiers. Go, take refuge in Zheng Sen in Xiamen.So far, the number of troops under Zheng Sen's command has soared from "thousands" at the beginning to nearly 10.

Of course, these 10 people are full of water, and there are only [-] to [-] who can really fight. The rest are all masters, handymen, sailors and the like.Moreover, as far as the [-] or [-] people who claim to be "capable of fighting" are only relatively speaking, they cannot guarantee victory when they encounter the weak green battalions staying in Fujian. It is conceivable how powerful they are. It is not unreasonable to discriminate against them. This group of people is really unbearable!

Fortunately, the Qing army remained in Fujian with few troops. Since Boluo returned to Beijing and took away most of the Manchurian Eight Banners soldiers, Zhang Cunren, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang appointed by the Qing court, has only 5 or [-] troops under his command. Most of them are gathered in northern Zhejiang and various traffic arteries, and the troops in Fujian province are very scarce.Originally, the Qing court relied on Li Chengdong from Guangdong to defend it, but now that Li Chengdong has surrendered, Fujian is naturally very empty.

At the end of 47 and the first half of 48, the Lu Jianguo Zhu Yihai, based in Zhoushan, frequently went ashore to attack the coast of Fujian and Zhejiang.In the beginning, his troops had a poor record and were particularly lacking in attacking fortifications, so that even if they took great efforts to take down a certain city, they were forced to give up because of the arrival of Qing reinforcements, and it was too late to raise supplies.It wasn't until the people on the east bank presented him with a batch of light weapons and went ashore to support his offensive that the situation of King Lu's troops gradually improved.

Beginning in June, they avoided Zhejiang, where the Qing army was strong, and gained the support of local gentry and some Zheng's officers and soldiers in northeastern Fujian.Although their combat power is weak, they have great political advantages. After a lot of hard work, they contacted the rebel army and instigated generals of the Qing army, and after a lot of hard work, they gradually squeezed the Qing army out of the 6 counties of the three prefectures in northeastern Fujian. With an initial piece of land, the strategic maneuvering space has been greatly enhanced.

Liu Haiyang, who sits on Daishan Island, saw the "feat of picking up leaks" of Lu Jianguo's department, and generously opened the arsenal, and donated a large number of bows, crossbows and arrows, leather armor knives and guns (produced in Jeju Island Arsenal) newly shipped from the north. gave them.Of course, now that Zhu Yihai and the others have a territory, they are embarrassed to take things for nothing, so they exchange local products (tea, raw silk, porcelain) with the people on the east coast.Of course, it is an exchange, but Zhu Yihai’s foothold is not stable now, and there is no military production capacity. The people on the east coast sell them some high-quality cold weapons, which is already a great military aid. These weapons are in this era. You But if you want to buy it, there may not be a place where you can buy it.

Why did Chuang Jun gradually fail in the battle with Kong Youde and others?Isn't it just that the production capacity of ordnance is insufficient!There will be attrition in wars, and the attrition is staggering. Whether it is to replenish soldiers or ordnance, failure to replenish them in time will lead to a decline in combat effectiveness. This is an irrefutable fact.At the beginning, the 5 Chuangjun defeated Wu Sangui's [-] horses in Shanhaiguan, so that he went out at night to ask Dorgon for help. When he was a man, he fought quite hard, and field battles were often unsuccessful, not because of the loss of ordnance and personnel!That's why their combat effectiveness is getting worse and worse, and now they are completely passive in Hunan. If Zhang Xianzhong hadn't died in Sichuan, and the people from the east coast had made a scene in Shandong and attracted a large number of Manchu and Mongolian main forces, Li Guo, Gao Yigong, etc. People are afraid that they will not be able to get along in Hunan long ago.

The Lu Wang regime echoed the Zheng family on the coast of Fujian and Zhejiang, attacking cities and lands, and anyway, Jin Shenghuan, Wang Deren, and Li Chengdong also suppressed forces loyal to the Qing court in Guangdong and Jiangxi provinces.Among them, Li Chengdong took 48 to 8 soldiers and horses he brought from Henan and Jiangbei to continuously attack the Guangdong local army that surrendered to the Qing court.Jin Shenghuan and Wang Deren claimed to support more than [-] soldiers. After obtaining two long-barreled siege cannons on the east coast (two were lost) through the Nanming regime, they finally broke through Ganzhou in August [-]. City, wiped out the Qing army defending the city, and connected Jiangxi's territory with Li Chengdong's department in Guangdong.

Emperor Yongli of the Southern Ming Dynasty was overjoyed when he heard the news, and began to send people to urge He Tengjiao, who lives in southern Hunan and northern Guangxi, to urge the 13 troops of his headquarters and the former Chuangjun Hao Yaoqi, Wang Jincai and other troops to work hard. Going north, echoing with Li Guo, Gao Yigong and others who insisted on the Shunjun in Yueyang, Changde, and Liuyang, the Northern Expedition restored Hubei—of course, this may be just a beautiful dream. The thieves under the banner of rebellion joined forces to fight?If they don't fight first, they already have a good view of the big picture.

In this way, in the second half of 1648, Sichuan, Hunan, Jiangxi, Fujian, Guangdong, and Zhejiang provinces south of the Yangtze River had fallen into full-scale chaos.Among them, the three provinces of Fujian, Guangdong, and Jiangxi have almost all fallen into the hands of Nanming, and half of Hunan is also in the hands of He Tengjiao. The situation is very good.Encouraged by this, the Li Guo Department of the Shun Army once again organized troops from Baling, Linxiang, Pingjiang, Lizhou, Yiyang, Liuyang, etc. In order to attack Hubei, Kong Youde and others, who had been attacking but not defending for two years, were caught off guard and suffered some losses.

For more than two years, Shun Jun has been oppressed and beaten by Kong Youde and others, and he is very aggrieved.Although Kong Youde and others did not receive reinforcements from the main force of the Eight Banners of Manchuria and Mongolia from Le Ke Dehun as in history, the green battalion from Nanjing was also transferred to Jiangbei on a large scale because of the bandits in yellow clothes. Less than half of the history, and there is no elite Manchurian Eight Banners in battle, but it still took them just over a year to rely on their advantages in logistics and replenishment of soldiers and equipment, and gradually drove the Shun army, which had a maximum of 30 horses, one by one. After leaving Hubei, they were pressed hard to the fortification area in Hunan, and then they barely stopped.

After all, those fortresses (bastions) with many cannons in yellow clothes are small and strong, and most of them are built outside the city (with the horns of the big city) or on the traffic tunnels. That's why the split Shun army lingered on in some areas of Hunan.

This time, the Shun army took advantage of the general decline of the Qing army in the south of the Yangtze River to fight back aggressively. The army invaded the territory of Hubei in one fell swoop, making Kong Youde furious.

Faced with such a difficult predicament, the Qing army did not dare to neglect, and immediately began to search for all possible troops.They sent out Chen Jin, who had lost his army and ground in the Battle of Denglai, together with Ke Yongsheng, the former commander-in-chief of Jiaozhou Town who had just recovered from his injuries, Zhenglan Banner Mailer Zhangjing Dong Alai, Minister of Criminal Justice Li Yanling, Ji Xiha, Zu Dashou's nephew Zu Zeyuan, and others carried out the "beheading operation" in Mobei to quell the Sauron tribe, and together they went to Fujian and Zhejiang provinces to reinforce Zhang Cunren, who was short of major generals (in history, Zhang Cunren had already returned to his hometown at this time), tried to counterattack Fujian and rescue Fuzhou, the provincial capital that was almost an isolated city at this time.

The strength of these reinforcements is generally small, but their combat effectiveness is not weak. Among them, Ji Xiha can be called a hero, Chen Tai and Dong Alai are also veteran generals who have fought in the Eight Banners for many years, and Chen Jin, Ke Yongsheng, Li Yanling and others are all The old man of the Han Army Banner has rich combat experience, and Zu Zeyuan is the nephew of the traitor Zu Dashou, and all the soldiers and horses under his command are from Jinzhou, so he is quite capable of fighting.Therefore, after the reinforcements with a total strength of no more than 5000 arrived in Zhejiang, they quickly pacified some anti-Qing rebels with a breeze sweeping away fallen leaves, and then went straight to northern Fujian without much delay, and joined forces with Lu Jianguo. All the troops are at war.

At the end of 48, when the Qing reinforcements entered Fujian, Zheng Cai and others, who held the actual military power of Zhu Yihai, were unable to resist and lost consecutive battles.The morale of the Qing army was like a rainbow, and there was even a shocking scene where Ke Yongsheng led more than 2000 remnants of Jiaozhou Town to chase tens of thousands of anti-Qing rebels and beat their asses. Zhu Yihai's mob was weak and collapsed almost overnight.

If the people from the east bank were here at this moment, they would be so shocked that their jaws would not close together.Ke Yongsheng's two thousand people are still some old and weak soldiers left in Jiaozhou Town!At that time, the main force of Jiaozhou Town was defeated in Yantai, and Yu was caught by Marshal Mo at the bank of Weishui River and beat him violently. How pitiful and pitiful it is to beg and kneel to beg.

But now this group of old and weak soldiers who stayed in Jiaozhou and survived the catastrophe went to Fujian and turned into a tiger and wolf army, defeating all the troops of Zheng Cai, Liu Zhongzao and others.It can also be seen from this that the Nanming army, which lacks professional and systematic military training, is vulnerable. If they do not rely on the bandits to arm them, then it is impossible to persevere-because most of Nanming's own army Combat power is negative.

Historically, after Jin Shenghuan and others had been rebellious, it didn’t take long for Dorgon to send his confidant Tan Tai to lead the main forces of the Eight Banners of Manchuria and Mongolia to go south. , Li Chengdong and other ministries were defeated one by one, making this big crisis invisible.But it is different now. Tan Tai has more troops than in history (5000), but they are all trapped in Shandong, which is even more troublesome.At this time, if Tan Tai's troops were sent south to attack Jin Shenghuan, wouldn't Shandong be turned upside down?

Similar to Tan Tai is Luck Dehun. In history, this person led a group of Manchurian Eight Banners elites to urge Kong Youde and others to fight all the way from Hubei to Guangxi, almost penetrating the entire southern China. With 6000 people squatting in Jinan, urging the encirclement and suppression of the Yuyuan Army, while monitoring the elusive and highly mobile yellow-clothed thieves, it was almost impossible to move an inch.Counting the 5 to [-] Manchurian Eight Banners who are fighting in Gansu, Shaanxi, Sichuan and other places, and the [-] to [-] people stationed in important places such as Nanjing, Tianjin, Xi'an, and Jinzhou, the Manchurian Eight Banners are also very tense.If you want to send a large army south to attack Jin Shenghuan and Li Chengdong at this time, you can only draw troops from Beijing and the above-mentioned key points, otherwise you will not be able to gather enough troops.

And every time I think of this question, I can't help but make the Manchu and Qing courts sigh.Without him, Shandong, which is at the elbow and armpit, has never been pacified. It is simply unreasonable to drag the northern green battalion mobile force (seven generals) and two veteran generals Tan Tai and Luck Dehun here.If Shandong was just a trouble for the Qing court in the past, it is obviously quite fatal now. Shandong alone has attracted more than [-] green battalions and [-] elites from the Eight Banners of Manchuria and Mongolia.Not to mention that the news that the Ninggu Pagoda in the north was defeated by the Yellow Clothes Thieves also spread to Beijing at the same time, which is even more disturbing.You know, those places can provide at least [-] new Jurchen troops for "My Great Qing" every year, but now that the yellow-clothed thieves have made such a fuss, it is not bad to receive a few hundred people a year.

Thief in yellow, why are you so targeting me, Da Qing? !It's like a tarsal maggot, it's too deceiving!

(End of this chapter)