Nanming Yiming

Chapter 177 Ming Army's Counterattack

After Huizhou merchants and Qian Mo joined forces to release grain, the grain prices in Nanjing and Yangzhou were finally suppressed. Because Shanxi merchants took away a large amount of grain, the grain price here remained at 1 tael or 2 renminbi per shi , significantly higher than the Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions.

However, Shanxi Merchants' plan to rely on high grain prices to harvest Jiangnan's wealth fell through. They purchased a lot of grain at high prices, while Huishang Group and Qian Mo became the ones who reaped the fruits of Shanxi Merchants' victory and made a lot of money. Bowl full.

At this time, the Huizhou Merchants Group in Yangzhou has completely turned to Qian Mo and has become an important force supporting the Governor's Office of Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

Now that the food and grass for the Manchu Qing to go south has been fully prepared, it is estimated that in another half a month, the 21 troops of Boluo and Haoge will arrive at the Jiangnan battlefield, so there is not much time left for the various Jiangnan Ming armies to adjust .

However, good news came from the Jiangxi and Fujian battlefields.

First of all, the city of Ganzhou in Jiangxi, which had been besieged by the Ming army for more than 3 months, was finally broken.

Although Tan Tai's southward army had reached the cities of Nanchang and Poyang, the Qing army was unable to continue going south to break the siege of Ganzhou.

After receiving the information provided by the intelligence department, Liu Yipeng, the chief soldier of Ji'an, decided to start attacking Ganzhou again.

As early as one and a half months ago, Qian Mo stopped sending food to Ganzhou at a sky-high price. Liu Wuyuan and others relied on the previous food storage and only ate one meal a day, so they insisted on it for so long.

Now Liu Wuyuan wanted to surrender but was rejected by Liu Yipeng. Facing these weak Qing troops, the Ming army quickly broke through the city of Ganzhou.

At this time, Ganzhou City is already a dead city, with dense bones everywhere. In the huge Ganzhou City, only more than 700 people survived in the end.

The battle situation in Fujian is also changing extremely fast.

First, Chen Jin, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, led his troops to conquer Funing Prefecture in northeast Fujian, and Zheng Cai had to lead thousands of remnants to retreat to the sea.At this time, Zheng Cai, who was isolated and helpless, had to choose a new force to join.

Although Zheng Cai and Zheng Chenggong are uncles and nephews, Zheng Cai supports King Lu, while Zheng Chenggong supports Longwu. The two have different political stances, so the relationship is not good.

However, after Qian Mo accepted the canonization of Yongli, the royal family of Lu had actually collapsed; and Zheng Chenggong also declared that he respected Yongli as Zhengshuo, and was canonized by Yongli as Yanpingbo. exists.

Zheng Chenggong is besieging Quanzhou and urgently needs Zheng Cai's support.He lowered his posture and invited Zheng Cai to join the gang, and finally Zheng Cai led his troops south to Quanzhou. After receiving the support of Zheng Cai's troops, Zheng Jun's morale was greatly boosted, he conquered Quanzhou City in one fell swoop, and quickly occupied the entire Quanzhou Prefecture.

Chen Jin was also very depressed. He just pressed the gourd and raised the gourd. Just after he defeated Zheng Cai in the north, Zheng Chenggong in the south rose up again. This gang of Ming troops is really endless.So he mobilized all the main forces to Fuzhou, preparing to go south to recover Quanzhou in one fell swoop and completely wipe out the Ming army in Fujian.

But at this time, the news that "Li Chengdong led an army of 40 to go north to Fujian" made the situation on the entire Fujian battlefield suddenly change.

Li Chengdong and his adopted son Li Yuanyin divided into two groups and entered Fujian from Tingzhou and Zhangzhou.The main force of the Qing army was concentrated in Fuzhou at this time, and the southwestern Fujian region was empty of troops. In just 7 days, Li Chengdong conquered the three prefectures of Tingzhou, Zhangzhou and Yanping.

The 40 army is a claim, but the 15 Ming army is real. Facing the menacing Ming army when they came, Chen Jin had to gather heavy troops to defend Fuzhou.Li Chengdong is worthy of being a veteran on the battlefield. When he saw Chen Jin gathering heavy troops to defend Fuzhou, he personally led 10 troops to the city of Fuzhou.

At this time, Li Yuanyin led 5 troops and continued to attack the northern Fujian provinces.Soon Shaowu Mansion, Jianning Mansion and Funing Prefecture were all captured by Li Yuanyin.

However, Li Yuanyin did not return to the south and lead the army to join Li Chengdong, but led the army north from Jianning Mansion.

At this time Shi Lang said: "Young Commander, further north is Xianxia Ridge, and we are about to enter the territory of Zhejiang; Duke Hui had previously agreed with Duke Yue that our army would not enter Zhejiang."

Li Yuanyin said: "I didn't mean to break the contract and take the state capital of Zhejiang, but this Xianxia Pass is the key to defend the three provinces of Fujian, Zhejiang and Jiangxi. It is too important. Only by taking this Xianxia Pass can our army be able to advance and retreat freely." ,never fail."

Shi Lang and these Fujian generals were not well received by Li Chengdong.According to the original historical trajectory, Shi Lang was attacked by Hao Shangjiu, the Chaozhou general of Li Chengdong's department at this time, and switched to Zheng Chenggong.

But now that Li Chengdong went north to attack Fujian, these Fujian generals were reused because they were familiar with the terrain and the enemy's situation. Li Yuanyin was able to recover many state capitals in Fujian so quickly, thanks to Shi Lang and others.

Xianxia Pass is located on Xianxia Ridge in Jiangshan County, Quzhou Prefecture, Zhejiang Province. More than 700 years ago, Huang Chao went south and opened up an ancient Xianxia Road in the mountains between Zhejiang and Fujian.It starts from Jiangshan, Zhejiang in the north, and ends in Pucheng, Fujian in the south, with a total length of 120 kilometers. It is named because it runs through Xianxialing

Xianxia Pass is not a single pass, it is composed of a "pass group".There are four passes in total, two in the northeast and two in the southwest, all made of stone.Each pass is built in a dangerous place, and there is only an ancient stone-paved road between the passes, which is a strategic point.

Shi Lang's uncle Shi Fu used to be the guard of this Xianxia Pass, so Shi Lang is very familiar with this place. This Xianxia Pass can be said to be "one man guards the pass, and ten thousand men cannot open it".

So Shi Lang said: "Since this is the case, Shi is willing to lead 3000 troops to explore the pass first. If Xianxia Pass is still in the hands of the Qing army, we will take this opportunity to seize this pass!"

Xianxia Ancient Road is located in the mountains, it is extremely rugged and difficult to walk, and it is impossible for troops to display it.However, Shi Lang was very familiar with this ancient road, and soon his men arrived at the pass.

Seeing a sun, moon and dragon flag fluttering in the wind, and the closed Ming army waiting in formation, Shi Lang understood that they had lost the opportunity.At this time, a large number of Ming troops appeared around the Chengguan, and he heard the leading general say: "I am Zhang Xiaofan, the commander-in-chief of the Jingnan Battalion under the command of the Governor of Jiangsu and Zhejiang of the Ming Dynasty, but the Ming army under the command of Duke Hui?"

Shi Lang cupped his hands and said: "The last general is Shi Lang, the general of Tong'an under the command of Duke Hui, and he came to Xianxia Pass to find out the enemy's situation under the order of Li Yuanyin, the young governor of my family."

Zhang Xiaofan said: "It turned out to be General Shi. Our army occupied Xianxia Pass ten days ago. Now that the whole of Zhejiang has been occupied by our army, I don't need your army to help. But since General Shi and the young governor have arrived Before the customs, you might as well enter the customs for a while, I happen to have important military information here to report to you!"

After learning that the Ming army had captured Xianxia Pass ten days ago, but did not take advantage of the situation to go south to Fujian, Li Yuanyin had to sigh: "The soldiers of Yue State are like gods, and they keep their promises so well. I can't do it!"

Soon Li Yuanyin and Shi Lang came to Xianxia Pass, Zhang Xiaofan set up a banquet for the two of them.

Li Yuanyin knew that his chicken-stealing behavior was not on the stage, so he took the initiative to say: "I originally wanted to go to Xianxiaguan to help your army, but it seems that I was too worried."

Zhang Xiaofan said: "We are all friendly troops, and we should take care of each other. Thank you, Commander-in-Chief! According to the latest news, the Qing army will send 21 troops led by King Boluo of Duoluo Duanzhong County and Prince Su Haoge to increase troops again. In Jiangnan, most of them are elite this time, and there are 85000 people in the Eight Banners of Manchuria alone."

Zhang Xiaofan's words surprised Li Yuanyin and Shi Lang, the Qing army is coming to fight desperately.

Li Yuanyin said worriedly: "In this way, we should break through Fuzhou as soon as possible, so that we can deploy troops to the north as soon as possible to support Yue Guogong and Yu Guogong in a decisive battle with the main force of the Qing army. It's just that Fuzhou City is difficult to conquer for a while."

Now the relationship between Li Chengdong and Zheng Chenggong is a bit delicate, although Li Chengdong went north to help Zheng Chenggong break the siege of Quanzhou.However, Li Chengdong shot too quickly, taking down five prefectures and one prefecture in Fujian one after another, greatly reducing Zheng Chenggong's development space.

Therefore, the two armies did not form a joint force to besiege Fuzhou. Instead, they were wary of each other, and there were even small-scale frictions.Chen Jin still has nearly 3 troops in Fuzhou City. Without the cooperation of the Zheng family navy to attack Fuzhou, Li Chengdong will really have no way to take Chen Jin for a while.

Seeing that Li Yuanyin hesitated to speak, Zhang Xiaofan said: "But Uncle Yanping Zheng Chenggong has a suspicion with Duke Huiguo?"

Li Yuanyin nodded.

Zhang Xiaofan said: "The Duke of Yue has already sent Qian Qianyi to Fuzhou to mediate this matter. Mr. Qian is a well-known scholar in the south of the Yangtze River and the teacher of Uncle Yanping. , Fuzhou Mansion is under the jurisdiction of Hui Guogong, and Xinghua Mansion is placed under the name of Uncle Yanping, so that the two of you can work together to eat Chen Jin."

In fact, the reason why the various forces in the Southern Ming Dynasty restrained each other was nothing more than profit. Xinghua Prefecture is today's Putian. It is said that it is a prefecture that is actually not as big as 1/5 of Fuzhou Prefecture.

It must be worthwhile for Li Chengdong to exchange one Xinghua mansion for the entire Fuzhou mansion, plus the complete elimination of the Qing army in Fujian.Although Zheng Chenggong has great ambitions, his current strength is limited after all. Even if Zheng Cai's thousands of people are swallowed up, he only has more than 2 horses in his hands.Occupying the two prefectures of Quanzhou and Xinghua can barely support these people.

This is a happy result.

Shi Lang was originally an old general of the Zheng family, seeing how dirty the two families were, it was actually embarrassing for him to be caught in the middle.Seeing Qian Mo intervene, he was naturally the happiest, and immediately said: "With Duke Hui's Lu division and Uncle Yanping's navy, we will definitely be able to conquer Fuzhou!"

Although Li Yuanyin, like Li Chengdong, looked down on Zheng Chenggong's military strength, he had the idea of ​​annexing the Zheng family.But after all, he is a local snake in Fujian and has a powerful navy. At this time, the Qing army is overwhelming, and it is really not the time to engage in internal strife.

Based on his understanding of his adoptive father, Li Chengdong would definitely accept Qian Mo's plan.So he said: "Thanks to the mediation by Yue Guogong, I believe that Fujian will be pacified in a few days."

Zhang Xiaofan said: "According to the information, the Qing army's southward army will arrive in Jiangnan in half a month at most, and there is not much time left for us to prepare."

Li Yuanyin said: "Don't worry, Mr. Zhang, Fujian is all right now, and the tens of thousands of troops under Li's command can still support Jiangxi."

After Jin Shenghuan raised his troops, he took down eleven of the thirteen mansions in Jiangxi. Only the Ganzhou Mansion and Guangxin Mansion have been in the hands of the Qing army.Now Ganzhou has also been conquered by the Ming army, and Guangxin Mansion, which lies at the intersection of the four provinces of Jiangxi, Fujian, Zhejiang and Anhui, has become a battleground for military strategists.

Li Mi, a native of the Song Dynasty, also pointed out the superior geographical location of Guangxin Mansion in "Dafa Haiyuan Ji", saying that it "was the southeast Wangzhen at the turn of Wu, Chu, Fujian and Vietnam."

In history, merchants from northern Jiangxi and many other provinces entered Fujian through Fenshuiguan. Hekou Town in Guangxin Prefecture is known as the "thoroughfare of eight provinces". , and then go north to Qiaktu, or go south to Guangzhou. Once there were many commercial ports, and they were prosperous for a time. Together with Jingdezhen, Wucheng Town and Zhangshu Town, they were also known as the four famous towns in Jiangxi.

In addition, it is also a well-known paper industry center in the country, producing precious continuous history paper, and it is one of the five major handicraft centers in the south of the Yangtze River (the remaining four are cotton spinning in Songjiang, silk weaving in Suzhou and Hangzhou, pulp and dyeing in Wuhu, Porcelain industry in Jingdezhen).

After Qian Mo captured Quzhou, he naturally coveted the Guangxin Mansion next door for a long time.

Zhang Xiaofan said: "For northern Fujian, there are two most important passes, one is Xianxia Pass in the north, and the other is Fenshui Pass at the junction of Jiangxi Guangxin Mansion in the west."

"We can't sit still and wait for death. We must take the initiative to attack before the main force of the Qing army arrives, take down Guangxin Mansion, and completely open up the situation in Jiangxi."

Li Yuanyin naturally understands the importance of Fenshui Pass. Now that Xianxia Pass is lost, if Fenshui Pass can no longer be controlled by himself, then the passage to Wuyi Mountain will be completely in the hands of others, which is too passive.

So he said: "Zhang Zongbing don't worry, I will send troops to attack Fenshui Pass."

After Jin Shenghuan's death, Guangxin Mansion has been under the peak of the Ming army. Fortunately, there are Longhu Mountain, Yashan Mountain, and Xiangshan Mountain to the west of Guangxin Mansion, Sanqing Mountain and Huaiyu Mountain to the north, and Wuyi Mountains to the southeast.In addition, the main force of the Ming army was not in the direction of Guangxin, and the Qing army stationed 1 troops in Guangxin Mansion, but it was still stable.

But now Quzhou in the east of Guangxin and Fujian in the southeast have all been occupied by the Ming army, and this place has become precarious!
At this time, there was an urgent report that tens of thousands of Ming troops were attacking Fenshui Pass, and the situation was extremely critical. In desperation, the defender had to send 3000 soldiers and horses to support Fenshui Pass, and at the same time asked Tan Tai of Raozhou Prefecture for help.

However, he never expected that not long after he sent out reinforcements, the Ming army in Quzhou also dispatched.The Ming army went all the way, occupying Yushan County and Yongfeng County successively, and soon surrounded Shangrao, the prefecture of Guangxin.

Zhang Xiaofan said to Huang Yu: "Now there are only 3000 troops in Shangrao City, I don't think the Shenji Battalion needs to be dispatched, just leave it to the Jingnan Battalion, just to test the power of these mortars."

Relying on the advantage of the range of Lumi guns, the Ming army quickly suppressed the Qing army on the city, and then a series of large-caliber mortars were pushed up by the Ming army; Large, most suitable for destroying city defense fortifications.

With the firing of the mortar, a huge explosion sounded from the city of Shangrao, shaking the mountains instantly.

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