Chapter 57: The Battle of Jinhua VIII

Immediately, the group carried out emergency supplies for Jinhua City.

Chen Ding almost spared no cost, from Chuzhou and other places, along the Nanxi River, into the Dongyang River, and then from the Dongyang River to Jinhua City. Zhang Xianbi also prioritized the place, and even transferred some of the materials of the captured Qing army to Jinhua City first.

This emergency supply lasted only two days.

Because two days later, Li Chengdong came back.

When Li Chengdong saw such a situation, he was immediately furious.

He was simply furious, and said to Du Yonghe: "I handed over the camp to you, and that's what you did?" ”

Du Yonghe didn't say a word, knelt on the ground, and said, "The last general is guilty." ”

Seeing this, Li Chengdong sighed slightly, and knew that the fault was not him, this time he was so passive, in fact, because he was calculated, he inevitably had some doubts in his heart, and said secretly: "After Xia is not a thief, he has no popular heart, so why should the people obey it." ”

He understands very well that without the support of local forces. Zhang Xianbi would never have done this.

For a moment he was a little suspicious. I suspect whether he was right or wrong to defect to the Qing army.

He quickly gathered his thoughts, focused on the matter at hand, immediately gathered the boats, set fire to the boats from upstream, attacked the pontoon bridge, and ordered the Qing army to set up camp on the south bank, and re-establish the large camp on the south bank. With the full counterattack of the Qing army.

The pontoon bridge was quickly truncated.

Even the Nanxi, the waterway of the Dongyang River, is also threatened.

However, according to the officials of the Zheng clan who followed Chen Ding, the water war between the two sides is simply a game, first, there are no good boats, and secondly, the Dongyang River is just enough, and Nanxi can be heard from the name, it is not a big river.

A few small cannons can be set up on the river's side to block a large section of the river.

Therefore, because of Zhang Xianbi's persistence, this waterway can also intermittently transport materials to Jinhua City. However, I don't know how long I can last.

Because Li Chengdong had already launched an attack on Zhang Xianbi's camp.

A series of failures made Li Chengdong have no way out at all, not only because of the hatred in his heart. And he didn't know how to explain to Nanjing, so he had to get a big victory.

Therefore, the Qing army continued to rush up.

For a while, Zhang Xianbi was a little unbearable, countless artillery shots on both sides, cannons roared, and long knives contended, which made Zhang Xianbi breathless for a while.

Zhang Xianbi immediately asked Chen Ding for help, asking him to immediately transport the prepared manpower and material resources, which was also supported by all kinds of materials in the state capital. It's just that Zhang Xianbi doesn't know how long it can last.

Just when the battle in Jinhua City was in jeopardy. In Fujian, all Zheng Chenggong's preparations were completed.

Zheng's sailors from the South China Sea, from Japan, and from all over the world have been continuously gathered in Fujian.

Zheng's troops from all over the country came to Quanzhou in a steady stream.

Zheng Chenggong and the internal mountains of the Zheng family continued to compromise and negotiate, in short, under Zheng Chenggong's efforts, all the strength of the Zheng family burst out. There are more than 1,000 naval warships. There are even more generals of all kinds, and the Zheng family almost did their best before the big cake drawn by Zheng Chenggong.

Even Zheng Cai, who had a conflict with Zheng Chenggong, gave up opposing Zheng Chenggong.

Such as Zheng Hongkui, Zheng Zhibao, Zheng Cai, Zheng Lian, Zheng Tai, etc., it can be said that most of the adult males of the Nan'an Zheng family are involved, and they bring their subordinates. or for generals, or for staff. It was one of the important forces of this expedition.

Of course, in addition to the Zheng generals, there are also many other generals.

The veteran sailor general, the member of the Eighteen Zhi who swore with Zheng Zhilong, Shi Lang's father, Shi Da?, Hong Xu, Gan Hui, the younger generation of generals, headed by Shi Lang. There are Liu Guoxuan, Chen Bao and so on, but these people are all newly promoted by Zheng Chenggong, except for Shi Lang, who is Zheng Zhilong's favorite general. is Zheng Chenggong's team, but the current strength is not big.

However, the strength of the Zheng Clan's sailors is strong, but the strength of the foot soldiers is much worse, mainly based on Zheng Hongkui's headquarters. Zheng Chenggong also personally formed several armies after the Battle of Chaozhou. is specially responsible for fighting, and the ironclad man is one of them.

This is Zheng Chenggong after coming into contact with Western armor, he felt that the armor was very strong, so he purchased and built more than 1,000 armor, and built it, all of which were selected as big men, wearing heavy armor and holding heavy soldiers, and a armored soldier needed two or three servants to fight.

As a result, although there were only more than 1,000 armor soldiers, the entire ironclad army had an establishment of 3,000 people.

In addition to this, there is also the Fire Gun Team.

It seems that Zheng Chenggong was influenced by Zhang Xuan to use firearms on a large scale, and Zheng Chenggong personally trained them. Heavy rewards and heavy punishments, and the training is extremely harsh. Under Zheng Chenggong's training, these thousands of fire commanders are by no means worse than the fire commanders under He Hutou's command.

Even Zheng Chenggong recruited many Western officers, and used a lot of Western-style training methods in his exercises.

The reason why this is the case is that Zheng Chenggong suspects that Zhang Xuan's military training method has something to learn from the West, because he found that there are many things and commonalities.

In addition to these, there is also the Nguyen Jin Department who has recently defected to the Zheng family. There is also the local army of Fujian.

Zheng Chenggong said in detail that there were as many as 150,000 troops on this expedition, and they were pouring out. Many people in the Zheng family still wanted to wait a little longer, but Zheng Chenggong didn't want to wait, because he keenly felt that the Jiangnan gentry's rebellion against the Qing army was brewing rapidly, especially with the Qing army's rampant conquest in Jiangnan. More and more people were sent by the gentry of Jiangnan to contact Zheng Chenggong.

For a while, Zheng Chenggong had the illusion that he had become the savior of Jiangnan.

What did the Qing army do in Jiangnan.

First of all, the shaving order was implemented in some large cities, and first of all, those who served the Qing army, whether they were officials or those who had been recruited, had to shave their hair. Although the scope has not yet been expanded, anyone with a discerning eye can see that the shaving order is imperative.

Coupled with the financial difficulties of the Qing army, it is natural to take Jiangnan.

At the beginning, he made a lot of money from the prefectures and counties that surrendered in Jiangnan, and then began to collect taxes again.

However, the Qing army levied taxes differently from the Ming and Xia capitals.

The taxes of the Ming Dynasty have not been collected in full, and these people have become accustomed to arrears of government taxes and silver. Even if the Xia Dynasty took over Jiangnan, it did not change much, but it was only the means of expropriation that should be strengthened, but it was also the annual income of the year.

After the Qing army came, it first overthrew the principle of white book collection and used the yellow book to collect.

The matter of the white book and the yellow book has been said before, that is, the Qing army does not recognize the private small accounts of officials at all levels, and must collect them with the total annual income in the yellow book. However, the records in the yellow book have long been worthy of reality, and it can be said that it is just a number for the showdown of each prefecture and county.

That's all.

But there is no need to be in arrears, and everything given must be levied in 10%.

In the Ming Dynasty, seventy percent could be levied, which was already a good official.

In this way, the people below are naturally complaining, and naturally some people protest, but in the face of such people, the reaction of the Qing army is to kill them. For a time, the Jiangnan gentry were everywhere, and it was inevitable to oppose the Qing army.

Hong Chengchou also knows this situation.

But in the face of a huge financial gap, Hong Chengchou also knows that he has no room for tolerance. Otherwise, the army will not be able to sustain itself.

Such a turbulent situation is the reason why Zheng Chenggong accelerated his northward journey. He couldn't bear to let go of this opportunity.

At this moment, Zheng Chenggong is sorting out his outfits.

A plate armor with gold shining on it, and I don't know how much gold dust it has been smeared. Coupled with some animal mouth reliefs, it doesn't look like there is a hint of Western taste. It is pure Chinese style. It's like some export porcelain from Jingdezhen.

Zheng Chenggong put on a long sword and held a helmet, even if he was holding it in his arms, the long tassel on the helmet exceeded the top of Zheng Chenggong's head, like a lightning rod.

Zheng Chenggong turned around the diorama, took a deep breath, put the helmet on his head, took a deep breath, and his face showed a resolute expression. Today is an extremely important day for him, and he said to the people around him, "Let's go. “

Then he walked out with the soldiers around him.