Chapter 175
Chapter 175
Chapter 175
Zhu Chenggong was ordered to play the vanguard and lead a fleet to Jingjiang, passing through Jiangyin.
In Huangtian Port, the new-style double-decker gunboat from the Zheng family in Fujian was tall and mighty. The dozens of guns looked so ferocious and ferocious. Hundreds of boats, big and small, parked neatly at the port.
The flag of Ming Dynasty on the mast made Jiangyin officials and people excited to see it.
After the news that Su Song and other places were seized and lost again, it caused quite a shock in Jiangyin. At this time, Jiangyin City gathered countless people.
Not all of these people came to fight against the Qing Dynasty. Many came here to avoid the shackles, and some came from Jingjiang to avoid fighting. Some even came to do business because they heard that there were many people here.
Anyway, now Jiangyin is a sensation everywhere, very lively.
There were even more than a dozen groups of pirates who came to join in the fun, some came to sell goods and smuggle salt and iron, some came to want to be recruited, and some even wanted to fish in troubled waters.
There were also some people who heard that Suzhou had fallen, so they started running away.
The arrival of the Ming army fleet at this time is undoubtedly exciting.
Wang Zhengzhong was the nephew of Wang Zhiren, Governor of Beijing. He did not know Zhu Chenggong, the son of Fujian Governor Zheng Zhilong, but he also knew that this young man had a strong background and was now walking in front of the imperial court, so he warmly invited him to Jiangyin City to rest.
Zhu Chenggong's task is to play forward, and one of the tasks is to play a front stand in Jiangyin City.
Entering Jiangyin City together, Zhu Chenggong also observed along the way, and found that Jiangyin City was heavily guarded at this time, and morale was quite high. There were red flags waving everywhere, teams of volunteers were practicing, and even many cannons were found on the top of the city.
Wang Zhengzhong also enthusiastically introduced the current state of Jiangyin City's preparations for war. Wang Zhengzhong and Xu Guanhai each led a battalion of [-] battalions, and they also organized [-] regiments to practice bravery.
In addition, the common people organized and practiced Baojia civil defense, and they also practiced together.
They also organized craftsmen, built weapons workshops, and prepared medical camps in advance.
"We are ready to fight the Tartars resolutely!"
Previously, the puppet magistrate of Changzhou heard about the righteousness here, so he sent 1000 horses to crusade, and then the general soldier Xu Guanhai led everyone to ambush halfway, killed them by surprise, and finally killed them in a big defeat, and beheaded dozens of people. people.
Since then, no soldiers have come to Changzhou Prefecture.
"It's amazing that Jiangyin can defeat the enemy so neatly." Zhu Chenggong praised.
"Actually, there is nothing worthy of praise. The leader of the army is called Wang Liang. This guy was originally from Jiangyin. Later, he did smuggling business, and later he became a pirate. He has some ships and troops under his command. The Tartars came south and accepted the recruitment. , transformed into a guerrilla. This time I brought my men here, although there were thousands of people, they were all mobs. We detected the attack and ambushed halfway. Crashed."
"It is said that after Wang Liang went back, he was scolded by the sect thief and wanted to punish him, so he went out of the city again and took his subordinates to continue being a thief."
Zhu Chenggong came from Zhu Yihai's side, he was very aware of the deployment of the supervisory country, and he had no intention of sticking to the city at this stage, so after entering the city and sitting in the Yamen, he also conveyed the supervisory country's will.
"Seize Jingjiang and Chongming in the Yangtze River and defend them, and abandon Susongchang Township and County City?"
Wang Zhengzhong was a little puzzled.
"Jiangyin is full of loyalty and righteousness, and all the scholars and people are willing to defend the city and resist the captives."
Zhu Chenggong explained, "Your Highness also knows Jiangyin's loyalty, but Boluo from Hangzhou has arrived in Suzhou, and Duoduo from Nanjing has also arrived in Zhenjiang, and they are coming here to encircle them. Your Highness wishes to avoid their edge and not fight with them. He fights theirs, we fight ours, withdraw after the fight, don't fight for a city, save strength, wait for the opportunity."
When Wang Zhengzhong and the others heard this, they were a little stunned.
I think it sounds like you are afraid of death and dare not fight, afraid of the enemy.
But the story is what Jian Guo said, this Jian Guo personally launched the Northern Expedition, from eastern Zhejiang to western Zhejiang, from Haining to Suzhou, can it be said that Jian Guo is afraid of the enemy?
Wang Zhengzhong still followed Ningbo all the way to the north, so he still believed in Jian Guo more.
"If we give up the city, the Tartars may not let us go easily. If they sweep the countryside, it will be even more difficult for us to defend!"
Zhu Chenggong followed Jian Guo every day, and still understood Jian Guo's strategy very well. "Don't be afraid of the Tartar raids. We will leave when he comes, and we will come back when he leaves. How can the Tartars know the local situation better than we do? Can't sweep the countryside?"
When Xu Guanhai was under Liu Kongzhao, he had been persuading him to guard Taiping and Suzhou, but Liu Kongzhao resigned and returned to his hometown in Jiangyin because he refused to guard him. Now that he heard the deployment of Jian Guo, he couldn't figure it out.
"I've never heard of this style of fighting. How can we fight without the support of the city? Don't we want to become rogues?"
Zhu Chenggong said, "Mr. Xu shouldn't look down on the tactics of the rogues. He said that Li Zicheng of this dynasty was just an abolished postman when he rebelled. The people who gathered were muscular people who couldn't fill their stomachs. But more than a dozen After years of fighting, they finally broke into the city of Beijing and almost captured the world. What does this mean? It means that even if they were rogues, when they were not strong enough in the early stage and confronted the court head-on, they managed to protect themselves by moving and roaming tactics. , and even continue to grow in strength."
"Furthermore, Jian Guo raised [-] soldiers from Ningbo to go north, and now it has [-] to [-] troops, gathering small victories into big victories. Although they didn't defend a mansion or a city, isn't the effect still obvious? Let's It is enough that the enemy is strengthened and the enemy is weakened."
"The city is dead, and it won't run away."
The defense of Jingjiang and Chongming is because this is Jiang Zhongdao, and now the Qing army is most short of sailors, so if they take these two places and send troops to defend them, they can advance, attack and retreat.
"Jiangyin City and the Jingjiang River face each other across the water, maybe they can defend each other and become horns of each other?" Xu Guanhai is still not willing to give up directly.
"Mr. Xu, I worked for Jian Guo and learned a lot. If we are defending the city now, that would be self-defeating, which is the worst strategy. Jian Guo often said that if the enemy is strong and we are weak, then there is only one move in war, and you must take the initiative." You can't be led away by the enemy, you must take the initiative, even if he hits his, and I hit mine, only in this way can we have a chance. If we are now defending the city in a corner, that is what the enemy can't wait for."
"There is no unbreakable city in the world, defending the city and fighting is the best choice."
But Zhu Chenggong failed to convince Xu Guanhai.
Zhu Chenggong couldn't persuade him, and he didn't persuade him much. His mission was to be a striker. The Northern Expeditionary Army had already divided up in Taihu Lake, and went north to Changzhou. Anti-clearance stronghold.
Zhu Chenggong led the forward of the navy to prepare for the capture of Jingjiang.
At this time, Jingjiang was not in Jiang Zhongdao's state.
During the Chenghua period, Jingjiang separated from Jiangyin County and established itself as an independent county.
Then about twenty years ago, during the reign of Tianqi, the north of Jingjiang Island was gradually connected with the land of Taixing County in the north due to sedimentation, leaving only the old road of Beijiang.
In the seventh year of Chongzhen, the people of Jingjiang and Taixing crossed the heavily silted Beijiang old road one after another to reclaim sandy land on each other's beaches. As a result, serious fighting broke out, causing heavy casualties, and the trouble reached Nanzhili.
Later, the Provincial Highway Station convened relevant officials from Changzhou Prefecture and Yangzhou Prefecture, together with the county magistrates of Jingjiang and Taixing counties, to conduct on-the-spot inspections and decided to use the old Beijiang River as the boundary. After that, the old road was excavated and dredged several times to form a boundary river. for irrigation and transportation.
The original Yangtze River North Road has now become a not-so-wide boundary river, and Jingjiang Island is actually no longer an island.
Jingjiang is a place in the north of the Yangtze River under the jurisdiction of Changzhou.
However, Jingjiang people are closer to Jiangyin people in terms of culture and customs. They are all warriors who love to eat puffer fish. Cross-strait exchanges of marriage and business are also frequent.
The Baili Boundary River makes Jingjiang not an ideal base for the Yangtze River, but it is feasible as a supplement to the upper reaches of Chongming.
Before Zhu Chenggong arrived, Shen Tingyang had just withdrawn from Jingjiang City. They besieged Jingjiang for more than half a month, but failed to take it down. Jing Benche and Tian Yang came with Yiyang King. When they heard that Chongming had been lost, Shen Tingyang withdrew his troops and retreated.
The Qing army in Jingjiang thought that Shen Tingyang had gone and returned.
At this time, Jingjiang had just received new reinforcements, and the guard looked down on Chongming's Ming army a little bit, so he rushed out of the city, trying to forcefully drive the Ming army who dared to turn back down the river.
So on the riverside, Zhu Chenggong, who had just landed, encountered the Jingjiang Qing army.
When they played against each other, both sides were surprised.
When the Jingjiang Qing army came up, they encountered an armored infantry, like an iron man, with a set of iron armor and a layer of cotton armor on the outside, and even a cotton helmet on the outside of the iron helmet, and the whole person had two eyes exposed.
Wielding a big knife, they lined up in a wall of swords and moved forward.
There are a lot of gunners and even cannons in the back.
They were immediately stunned. They had no idea that what they were facing was not the Yiyang Wang Navy adapted from Shen Tingyang's sea transport team, but the elite family member who was handed over to his son by Fujian maritime overlord Zheng Zhilong, and Lu Jianguo Zhu Yihai. The elite Zhu Chenggong standard battalion Iron Man Army.
Zhu Chenggong's standard battalion of iron men is not many, only five hundred, one hundred armored heavy infantry, then two hundred pikemen, one hundred archers and one hundred musketeers. This configuration is very elite.
Especially the one hundred armored soldiers, all brought from Fujian.The gunners were also Fujian navy soldiers brought by Zheng Cai. Zhu Yihai dispatched manpower to form this elite battalion for Zhu Chenggong. He usually followed Zhu Chenggong to guard Zhu Yihai, but now he came to play forward.
There is also naval gun cover behind the sword and gun shot.
Originally, they were arrogant and wanted to drive the Ming army down the Yangtze River to feed the fish, but who knew that they were stunned all of a sudden.Before he could react, he had already been chopped up like melons and vegetables.
Seeing this, Zhu Chenggong immediately sent an order to put the whole army on top.
The horn sounded quickly, and the Ming army shouted and charged.
The Qing army was defeated, turned around and fled to Jingjiang City.
In Jingjiang City.
The newly arrived reinforcement guard is Qin Dapeng, deputy general of Zhenjiang. He was born in the Chuang army. The general, who has been fighting for many years, has some skills. After he was surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, his official position was not high, so he was only awarded the deputy general of Zhenjiang.
This time when he was ordered to come to Jingjiang for reinforcements, he had heard that Mingjun had run away, so he thought it was a waste of time, but when he heard that he had returned, he immediately sent troops out of the city to fight, while he himself was hugging a Jingjiang woman he had just snatched. Drinking and listening to music.
As a result, his subordinates were defeated and fled back, which surprised Qin Dapeng.
When he hurriedly pushed away the beauties, dressed neatly and came to the top of the city, he found that they were actually surrounded!
(End of this chapter)
Zhu Chenggong was ordered to play the vanguard and lead a fleet to Jingjiang, passing through Jiangyin.
In Huangtian Port, the new-style double-decker gunboat from the Zheng family in Fujian was tall and mighty. The dozens of guns looked so ferocious and ferocious. Hundreds of boats, big and small, parked neatly at the port.
The flag of Ming Dynasty on the mast made Jiangyin officials and people excited to see it.
After the news that Su Song and other places were seized and lost again, it caused quite a shock in Jiangyin. At this time, Jiangyin City gathered countless people.
Not all of these people came to fight against the Qing Dynasty. Many came here to avoid the shackles, and some came from Jingjiang to avoid fighting. Some even came to do business because they heard that there were many people here.
Anyway, now Jiangyin is a sensation everywhere, very lively.
There were even more than a dozen groups of pirates who came to join in the fun, some came to sell goods and smuggle salt and iron, some came to want to be recruited, and some even wanted to fish in troubled waters.
There were also some people who heard that Suzhou had fallen, so they started running away.
The arrival of the Ming army fleet at this time is undoubtedly exciting.
Wang Zhengzhong was the nephew of Wang Zhiren, Governor of Beijing. He did not know Zhu Chenggong, the son of Fujian Governor Zheng Zhilong, but he also knew that this young man had a strong background and was now walking in front of the imperial court, so he warmly invited him to Jiangyin City to rest.
Zhu Chenggong's task is to play forward, and one of the tasks is to play a front stand in Jiangyin City.
Entering Jiangyin City together, Zhu Chenggong also observed along the way, and found that Jiangyin City was heavily guarded at this time, and morale was quite high. There were red flags waving everywhere, teams of volunteers were practicing, and even many cannons were found on the top of the city.
Wang Zhengzhong also enthusiastically introduced the current state of Jiangyin City's preparations for war. Wang Zhengzhong and Xu Guanhai each led a battalion of [-] battalions, and they also organized [-] regiments to practice bravery.
In addition, the common people organized and practiced Baojia civil defense, and they also practiced together.
They also organized craftsmen, built weapons workshops, and prepared medical camps in advance.
"We are ready to fight the Tartars resolutely!"
Previously, the puppet magistrate of Changzhou heard about the righteousness here, so he sent 1000 horses to crusade, and then the general soldier Xu Guanhai led everyone to ambush halfway, killed them by surprise, and finally killed them in a big defeat, and beheaded dozens of people. people.
Since then, no soldiers have come to Changzhou Prefecture.
"It's amazing that Jiangyin can defeat the enemy so neatly." Zhu Chenggong praised.
"Actually, there is nothing worthy of praise. The leader of the army is called Wang Liang. This guy was originally from Jiangyin. Later, he did smuggling business, and later he became a pirate. He has some ships and troops under his command. The Tartars came south and accepted the recruitment. , transformed into a guerrilla. This time I brought my men here, although there were thousands of people, they were all mobs. We detected the attack and ambushed halfway. Crashed."
"It is said that after Wang Liang went back, he was scolded by the sect thief and wanted to punish him, so he went out of the city again and took his subordinates to continue being a thief."
Zhu Chenggong came from Zhu Yihai's side, he was very aware of the deployment of the supervisory country, and he had no intention of sticking to the city at this stage, so after entering the city and sitting in the Yamen, he also conveyed the supervisory country's will.
"Seize Jingjiang and Chongming in the Yangtze River and defend them, and abandon Susongchang Township and County City?"
Wang Zhengzhong was a little puzzled.
"Jiangyin is full of loyalty and righteousness, and all the scholars and people are willing to defend the city and resist the captives."
Zhu Chenggong explained, "Your Highness also knows Jiangyin's loyalty, but Boluo from Hangzhou has arrived in Suzhou, and Duoduo from Nanjing has also arrived in Zhenjiang, and they are coming here to encircle them. Your Highness wishes to avoid their edge and not fight with them. He fights theirs, we fight ours, withdraw after the fight, don't fight for a city, save strength, wait for the opportunity."
When Wang Zhengzhong and the others heard this, they were a little stunned.
I think it sounds like you are afraid of death and dare not fight, afraid of the enemy.
But the story is what Jian Guo said, this Jian Guo personally launched the Northern Expedition, from eastern Zhejiang to western Zhejiang, from Haining to Suzhou, can it be said that Jian Guo is afraid of the enemy?
Wang Zhengzhong still followed Ningbo all the way to the north, so he still believed in Jian Guo more.
"If we give up the city, the Tartars may not let us go easily. If they sweep the countryside, it will be even more difficult for us to defend!"
Zhu Chenggong followed Jian Guo every day, and still understood Jian Guo's strategy very well. "Don't be afraid of the Tartar raids. We will leave when he comes, and we will come back when he leaves. How can the Tartars know the local situation better than we do? Can't sweep the countryside?"
When Xu Guanhai was under Liu Kongzhao, he had been persuading him to guard Taiping and Suzhou, but Liu Kongzhao resigned and returned to his hometown in Jiangyin because he refused to guard him. Now that he heard the deployment of Jian Guo, he couldn't figure it out.
"I've never heard of this style of fighting. How can we fight without the support of the city? Don't we want to become rogues?"
Zhu Chenggong said, "Mr. Xu shouldn't look down on the tactics of the rogues. He said that Li Zicheng of this dynasty was just an abolished postman when he rebelled. The people who gathered were muscular people who couldn't fill their stomachs. But more than a dozen After years of fighting, they finally broke into the city of Beijing and almost captured the world. What does this mean? It means that even if they were rogues, when they were not strong enough in the early stage and confronted the court head-on, they managed to protect themselves by moving and roaming tactics. , and even continue to grow in strength."
"Furthermore, Jian Guo raised [-] soldiers from Ningbo to go north, and now it has [-] to [-] troops, gathering small victories into big victories. Although they didn't defend a mansion or a city, isn't the effect still obvious? Let's It is enough that the enemy is strengthened and the enemy is weakened."
"The city is dead, and it won't run away."
The defense of Jingjiang and Chongming is because this is Jiang Zhongdao, and now the Qing army is most short of sailors, so if they take these two places and send troops to defend them, they can advance, attack and retreat.
"Jiangyin City and the Jingjiang River face each other across the water, maybe they can defend each other and become horns of each other?" Xu Guanhai is still not willing to give up directly.
"Mr. Xu, I worked for Jian Guo and learned a lot. If we are defending the city now, that would be self-defeating, which is the worst strategy. Jian Guo often said that if the enemy is strong and we are weak, then there is only one move in war, and you must take the initiative." You can't be led away by the enemy, you must take the initiative, even if he hits his, and I hit mine, only in this way can we have a chance. If we are now defending the city in a corner, that is what the enemy can't wait for."
"There is no unbreakable city in the world, defending the city and fighting is the best choice."
But Zhu Chenggong failed to convince Xu Guanhai.
Zhu Chenggong couldn't persuade him, and he didn't persuade him much. His mission was to be a striker. The Northern Expeditionary Army had already divided up in Taihu Lake, and went north to Changzhou. Anti-clearance stronghold.
Zhu Chenggong led the forward of the navy to prepare for the capture of Jingjiang.
At this time, Jingjiang was not in Jiang Zhongdao's state.
During the Chenghua period, Jingjiang separated from Jiangyin County and established itself as an independent county.
Then about twenty years ago, during the reign of Tianqi, the north of Jingjiang Island was gradually connected with the land of Taixing County in the north due to sedimentation, leaving only the old road of Beijiang.
In the seventh year of Chongzhen, the people of Jingjiang and Taixing crossed the heavily silted Beijiang old road one after another to reclaim sandy land on each other's beaches. As a result, serious fighting broke out, causing heavy casualties, and the trouble reached Nanzhili.
Later, the Provincial Highway Station convened relevant officials from Changzhou Prefecture and Yangzhou Prefecture, together with the county magistrates of Jingjiang and Taixing counties, to conduct on-the-spot inspections and decided to use the old Beijiang River as the boundary. After that, the old road was excavated and dredged several times to form a boundary river. for irrigation and transportation.
The original Yangtze River North Road has now become a not-so-wide boundary river, and Jingjiang Island is actually no longer an island.
Jingjiang is a place in the north of the Yangtze River under the jurisdiction of Changzhou.
However, Jingjiang people are closer to Jiangyin people in terms of culture and customs. They are all warriors who love to eat puffer fish. Cross-strait exchanges of marriage and business are also frequent.
The Baili Boundary River makes Jingjiang not an ideal base for the Yangtze River, but it is feasible as a supplement to the upper reaches of Chongming.
Before Zhu Chenggong arrived, Shen Tingyang had just withdrawn from Jingjiang City. They besieged Jingjiang for more than half a month, but failed to take it down. Jing Benche and Tian Yang came with Yiyang King. When they heard that Chongming had been lost, Shen Tingyang withdrew his troops and retreated.
The Qing army in Jingjiang thought that Shen Tingyang had gone and returned.
At this time, Jingjiang had just received new reinforcements, and the guard looked down on Chongming's Ming army a little bit, so he rushed out of the city, trying to forcefully drive the Ming army who dared to turn back down the river.
So on the riverside, Zhu Chenggong, who had just landed, encountered the Jingjiang Qing army.
When they played against each other, both sides were surprised.
When the Jingjiang Qing army came up, they encountered an armored infantry, like an iron man, with a set of iron armor and a layer of cotton armor on the outside, and even a cotton helmet on the outside of the iron helmet, and the whole person had two eyes exposed.
Wielding a big knife, they lined up in a wall of swords and moved forward.
There are a lot of gunners and even cannons in the back.
They were immediately stunned. They had no idea that what they were facing was not the Yiyang Wang Navy adapted from Shen Tingyang's sea transport team, but the elite family member who was handed over to his son by Fujian maritime overlord Zheng Zhilong, and Lu Jianguo Zhu Yihai. The elite Zhu Chenggong standard battalion Iron Man Army.
Zhu Chenggong's standard battalion of iron men is not many, only five hundred, one hundred armored heavy infantry, then two hundred pikemen, one hundred archers and one hundred musketeers. This configuration is very elite.
Especially the one hundred armored soldiers, all brought from Fujian.The gunners were also Fujian navy soldiers brought by Zheng Cai. Zhu Yihai dispatched manpower to form this elite battalion for Zhu Chenggong. He usually followed Zhu Chenggong to guard Zhu Yihai, but now he came to play forward.
There is also naval gun cover behind the sword and gun shot.
Originally, they were arrogant and wanted to drive the Ming army down the Yangtze River to feed the fish, but who knew that they were stunned all of a sudden.Before he could react, he had already been chopped up like melons and vegetables.
Seeing this, Zhu Chenggong immediately sent an order to put the whole army on top.
The horn sounded quickly, and the Ming army shouted and charged.
The Qing army was defeated, turned around and fled to Jingjiang City.
In Jingjiang City.
The newly arrived reinforcement guard is Qin Dapeng, deputy general of Zhenjiang. He was born in the Chuang army. The general, who has been fighting for many years, has some skills. After he was surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, his official position was not high, so he was only awarded the deputy general of Zhenjiang.
This time when he was ordered to come to Jingjiang for reinforcements, he had heard that Mingjun had run away, so he thought it was a waste of time, but when he heard that he had returned, he immediately sent troops out of the city to fight, while he himself was hugging a Jingjiang woman he had just snatched. Drinking and listening to music.
As a result, his subordinates were defeated and fled back, which surprised Qin Dapeng.
When he hurriedly pushed away the beauties, dressed neatly and came to the top of the city, he found that they were actually surrounded!
(End of this chapter)