Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 297 Yongzhen Taiwan
The rice is ripe and golden.

This is a good thing, but for the Ming army, it is not a good thing.

Because one of the most important countermeasures for the Qing army going south was to fortify the walls and clear the fields. The battlefield should be placed in Susong and other places, and in the area around Taihu Lake, with the Yangtze River, Qiantang, East China Sea, Taihu Lake, and canals as hubs. The advantage of the teacher is to stop the elite of the Eight Banners going south.

"The rice is ripe, and the Qing army has food. It will be difficult to stop them from going south."

Chen Qianfu also had a dignified face. Many people were looking forward to the rice ripening. When the rice was ripe, it meant that countless people would not have to endure hunger, and they could survive the long winter and spring seasons.

However, the Qing army marched southward, and the newly ripened rice would also become their supply.

"Let's grab the rice with them."

"It's useless," Zhu Yihai shook his head, as long as the people had food in their homes, the Qing army would not have to worry about food supplies, and if there was no food in the government warehouses, they would forcibly confiscate from the people.

It is impossible for the Ming army to take away all the food from the people in the south of the Yangtze River, it cannot and cannot be done.

What can be done now is to attack the Qing army's grain requisition team and transportation supply team as much as possible.

It was the people who suffered the most from the war. After Su Song started the tug-of-war in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the people were hurt even more. But could Zhu Yihai stop fighting because of this? Did he just give up?

However, the Qing army is more powerful. If they take a stupid way to carry enough food and equipment at one time, so that the supply troops can follow the main force, it will be very difficult for the Ming army to attack. Although this method is stupid, although the cost It is much taller, but it can still support them all the way south to Hangzhou to Shaoxing.

I couldn't fight head-on, so I had to change houses and went behind them to fight.

You only have so many main forces. If you go south, I will go north.

Hurt each other.

"Let the people hide their food as much as possible, otherwise this winter will be very sad."

"Your Highness, many people in the south of the Yangtze River have abandoned their land and fled to Zhejiang and Fujian, and even entered Taihu Island, Donghai Island, and mountainous areas. Chongming reported that the total population of several sandbanks has exceeded 50, which is overcrowded. gone."

When Zhu Yihai heard the news, he could only lament that the war was so cruel and merciless, forcing the people to be homeless.

"Relocate as much as possible, and transfer some population to Zhoushan, Yuhuan, Xiangshan and other places. In addition, Chongming Jisha can also build more workshops, which will serve as the frontier fortress of our Northern Expedition at the mouth of the Yangtze River. If there is not enough food, it will be shipped from the rear. "

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Chongming Islands had a population of more than 20. There were many fields on the islands, and the harvest was good. In fact, there were a lot of cultivated land on each sandbar, and there were also many tidal flats available for reclamation. Except for tidal soil and saline soil, they could not be reclaimed. Cultivation, other sandbars can be reclamation, as long as the embankment first and then reclamation, there are as many as 60 million mu of land available for reclamation.

If it is fully developed and cultivated, Chongming Zhusha can obtain one million mu of cultivated land. Although the reclamation project is not small to achieve this figure, it shows that there is great potential.

What's more, Chongming does not rely entirely on agriculture. It is located at the mouth of the Yangtze River, connecting the two sides of the river. Its own fishery and salt industry are also very developed, and the shipping industry is also very powerful. It can be further developed.

Not to mention that as a frontier fortress against the Qing Dynasty, it can also become a shipbuilding and military industrial base.

In history, Zheng Chenggong once wanted to use Chongming as the frontline base against the Qing Dynasty. Later, he turned to Taiwan after defeating Nanjing. Although Taiwan was big at that time, in Zheng Chenggong's eyes, it was far worse than Chongming. Islands are far inferior.

Because Chongming had a population of more than [-] at the end of the Ming Dynasty, relying on the huge population on both sides of the Yangtze River, the potential was huge, but Taiwan was isolated on the sea, except for those rebellious islanders, the Dutch and Spanish who colonized the island, etc. Even those mountain natives are out to eat people.

Long before Zheng Zhilong, they had immigrated to the island to reclaim wasteland and farmland, but it cost a lot and the harvest was not great. For the sea forces who pay attention to efficiency, this thing is too laborious and thankless. Find an island to occupy, engage in smuggling trade, etc., the benefits are much higher.

Zheng was also forced to transfer to Taiwan after successive defeats in the mainland.

Zhu Yihai does not have the energy to develop Taiwan now, but he has already mentioned this matter to Zheng Zhilong, Zhang Kentang, and He Tengjiao, asking them to send some people there first, to contact and negotiate with the local natives and Dutch colonists, etc., to prepare for the early stage information collection and mastery of geographical and hydrological information.

When the time is right in the future, he will definitely go to the island. He has even set up a map of the frontier and established the Taiwan government, which belongs to Fujian. Zhu Yihai encouraged the Zheng family to recover Taiwan. He even promised Zheng Zhilong that if the Zheng family recovered Taiwan for the imperial court, To expand the territory, then Zhu Yihai will confer the title of Zheng's Yongzheng in Taiwan, just like the case of Guizhou Duke Mu's Yongzheng in Yunnan.

Even implying Feng Guogong.

This is actually equivalent to half a prince's town.

He also promised that Taiwan will set up a municipal customs office in the future, which will be managed by the Zheng family.

This condition can be said to be very astonishing. What the Zheng family has always wanted is not only the benefits of monopolizing the southeast maritime trade, but also a higher political status to ensure the inheritance of this right.

But now Zhu Yihai offered Zheng Zhilong this condition, not only to let him develop Taiwan, but also to let the Zheng family go to sea, so as to help He Tengjiao, Zhang Kentang and others bring Fujian under the control of the imperial court.

Zheng Shizhi is definitely not willing to exchange Taiwan for Fujian, but Zhu Yihai still has follow-up means, that is, agreeing to hand over Xiamen and Jin to Zheng, and even hand over Fujian Customs to them, then Zheng will take good care of it. Considered.

After all, such an opportunity is rare. As Zhu Yihai's power in the north is getting stronger and stronger, the Zheng family who guards Fujian is gradually at a disadvantage. The imperial court collapsed, and the short-term control of Fujian has not even really controlled Fujian.

Now this control is still weakening, Zhu Yihai gave him such a condition, it is very face-saving for him.

Although he was not granted the title of king, he promised to be the duke of the state, and even the eternal town of Taiwan. This is equivalent to the kindness granted by the Ming Dynasty to the Mu family of the duke of the state of Qian.

This treatment is so good that it makes people jealous.

What Zheng wants, Zhu Yihai is giving enough and good enough, he should be satisfied, this is an exchange.

Of course, if Zheng Zhilong is not ignorant of good and bad, Zhu Yihai can only ride a donkey with him to read the libretto and wait and see.

"Your Highness, Mr. Yan has secretly reported that Jiangning Zhumala, Bashan, and Tuo Sanmei Lezhangjing led the Eight Banners [-] and went south to rescue Changzhou. Although he tried his best to be slow, he couldn't delay any longer."

Zhu Yihai nodded, Yan Wogong did a good enough job, and the Eight Banners delayed and delayed for so long.

"Since Changzhou can't be defeated, let's withdraw. Don't let the Eight Banners reinforcements make dumplings. Before evacuating, try to harvest the rice as much as possible!"

Wu Yi, Zhang Mingbin, Lu Xiangguan and others took the Kangkara marching route provided by Yan Wogong, ambushed halfway, and then surrounded Changzhou, but after fighting for so many days, although they succeeded in annihilating [-] soldiers in Benniu Town and Wuxi Eight Banners, and defeated thousands of green battalions, but Kangkala's headquarters defended Changzhou with [-] people. They attacked for a long time, but it was still difficult to capture.

There are Eight Banners on which the city can rely, urging the Green Battalion soldiers and the Minzhuang to defend Changzhou to the death. Although Zhang Mingbin and others attacked with all their means, the casualties were not small. They still only killed and wounded some Qing troops defending the city and were unable to break into it.

This also made Zhu Yihai, who was still looking forward to it, understand that the strength of the two sides is still very different.Zhang Mingbin was also in command of the imperial battalion of a town, and Wu Yi, Lu Xiangguan and other ministries were also reinforced by navy troops. There were not many soldiers and horses, but many problems were still exposed when they attacked Changzhou City.

One is that the city is hard to attack, and the other is that the Eight Banners defend the city with a strong will to resist. Although the Ming army is numerous, they have little armor. Although they have artillery, they are not effective in front of the fortified city.

Up to now, Kangkala still has more than [-] banners. This time he led [-] banners and [-] green camps to go south, and now there are [-] banners left. The loss is actually very huge, but They have a strong will to resist and have rich combat experience. They have countermeasures for various siege methods of the Ming army.

Even if you want to rely on the gentry and spies in the city to open the city, it will not work. On the contrary, many insiders have been exposed and have been ransacked by the whole family.

"Let's withdraw. It's already very good to fight like this this time. Almost one thousand and eight banners have been annihilated. When the news is sent back to Beijing, the whole city will probably cry."

If one thousand people die and cover the Eight Banners, it means that one thousand families will cry in mourning.

How many flags are there in total for the Eight Banners?

One thousand deaths, for them, even surpassed ten thousand deaths of the Ming army.

This casualty, for the Ming army, is already a very great victory this time, not to mention annihilating thousands of green camps as a side effect?

He also captured many cities such as Jiangyin and Wuxi, and even Suzhou was captured twice by Wu Shengzhao and Li Chengdong anyway.

Kang Kara was beaten so badly, which can be said to be one of the reasons why Wu Shengzhao and Li Chengdong were willing to surrender.

The Eight Banners were unable to go south for a long time, and the Ming army plowed Susong again.

Bashan and others have finally gone south, so they can no longer continue to attack Changzhou.

"This time we attacked Kangkala with a few people from the town. We knew the marching route in advance, ambushed halfway, and took advantage of the victory to encircle Changzhou. It's a little surprising that we couldn't defeat it," Chen Qianfu said.

"It's normal not to be able to fight. It's a surprise if we really do. I'm a little surprised to say that this ambush can defeat Kangkara. Soldiers can't be trained overnight. We can win this time in the ambush of Kangkara." It’s amazing, and don’t ask so high.”

"Do you know why I didn't let you guard Xiangyang and Jingzhou?"

"It's not that I don't know these places are important. It's just that at this stage, the generals will be happy to abandon them. But if they are really allowed to stick to it, how many people do you think can do it? Are they willing to defend and dare to fight?"

"At the beginning, Zuo Liangyu claimed that" 80 soldiers supported Xiangyang and went south. Liu Liangzuo's [-] soldiers guarded the Huai River without firing an arrow. The whole army surrendered. The six towns of the Yangtze River Navy dared not meet the enemy. "

"I'm just afraid that once the order is kept, those generals won't obey the order. What will they do then? Even if they keep it, they won't have the strength to keep it. When the time comes, they will lose their wife and lose their troops. The loss outweighs the gain."

Zhu Yihai's Imperial Battalion does not have the strength to fight the Eight Banners head-on at this stage, let alone the local troops in Huguang and other places. The Zhongzhen Battalion attacked Jingzhou, which claims to be 20, but the actual number of soldiers is only [-] to [-], and there are not many armored soldiers.

The Yunyang army that took Xiangyang was only [-] remnants.

What are they holding on to?

"Then after retreating from Changzhou, what's next?"

Zhu Yihai thought for a while, "Avoid the enemy's sharp edge, sneak attack when you find an opportunity, attack if you can, and dodge if you can't attack, let the Yangtze River Navy, Zhezhi Navy, and Yuying Navy return to Chongming and follow me Moving northward, Wu Yi's Caobiao and Lu Xiangguan's Zhongsu Camp remained in the Taihu area, and Zhang Mingbin brought the Shizhong Camp to Chongming."

"The Ming army in Jiangyin and other cities should evacuate as soon as the city is demolished, so as not to be surrounded by the Tartars."

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Zhu Yihai went north along the coast and received a series of bad news as soon as he arrived in Chongming.

"The army collapsed in Qizhou, the army collapsed in Huangzhou, the army collapsed in Wuchang, the army collapsed in Hankou, and the vast lake collapsed!"

(End of this chapter)