On the official road leading from Yiwu to the Shaoxing River network area, groups of ordinary people slowly moved to the river under the supervision of the Ming army. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

"Hurry up! Otherwise, the Tartars will catch up! Liu'er, dressed in military uniform, led a group of female soldiers to maintain order.

Although the Ming army had begun to relocate the people of Quzhou, Jinhua, Yiwu and other places as early as two months earlier, the homesickness of the Chinese made the relocation of the Ming army very difficult. It was impossible for the Ming army to use knives to force the people to leave their hometowns like the Qing army moved to the sea, so they could only persuade them bitterly.

Although the propaganda team of the Qiongzhou Army persuaded the people again and again, saying that the Qing army would slaughter the city and the village when they returned, the people could only move to Ningbo if they wanted to save their lives. But most of the people were unmoved and unwilling to leave their homeland.

The Qiongzhou army could only move in batches, first transferring a group of people who were easy to talk and staying away from leaving, and then using soft and hard means to those who were unwilling to leave.

"When I went to Zhoushan, everyone had a field to plant. If you are willing to move overseas to Luzon and other places, each Dingkou will own the wasteland he cultivates, and he will not have to pay taxes on farming. The propaganda team patiently advised the people.

In fact, farming in overseas Nanyang land does not seem to pay taxes on the surface, but there is more farmland, and the grain grown by oneself cannot be eaten, and it is always necessary to sell it, and when selling grain, it is equivalent to paying taxes.

Those who stay in China to farm have to pay taxes, and they don't have to pay taxes when they go to Nanyang to farm, but most of the people still don't want to go out, preferring to stay in China to farm and pay taxes to the government.

At present, the issue of farming is not being considered, and the people in Jinhua and other places must be transferred first. The strength of the Ming army was limited, and with the expansion of territory, it was impossible to hold so much territory. Wang Xinyu adopted the method of clearing the wilderness, giving up all the places that could not be defended, and taking away the people with food.

If you lose your land, you will lose your land! Save people and lose land, people and land survive!

The Ming army gave up the land that could not be held and gave it to the Qing army to occupy. After the Qing army occupied, it had to divide its forces to garrison the land they "recovered", and in the face of uncultivated land, the Qing court was reluctant to give up the rich farmland in the Jinhua area, so it could only move people to cultivate, and the Qing army had to leave troops to garrison. In this way, the Qiongzhou army skillfully dispersed the forces of the Qing army, and then killed a horse gun to eat the scattered Qing army in one bite.

This is also a space-for-time tactic, which can disperse the Qing army's forces and break them one by one.

As for important strongholds such as Xianxia Pass, Shaoxing City, Ningbo City, and Wenzhou City, the Ming army had to defend them. Needless to say, there are 1,000 people stationed in Xianxia Pass, and the Qing army cannot pass through thousands of troops. Shaoxing, Ningbo and Wenzhou have all been converted into fortresses, and the Qing army will inevitably run into bloodshed if they want to attack the city.

The captured cities in Fujian, Wang Xinyu did not have to worry about the Qing army coming to attack, because Xianxia was in his hands, which ensured that the Ming army had no worries and did not have to worry about being attacked from behind. The front is the main force of the Qing army, and as long as the Ming army advances head-on, it can advance all the way to Guangdong by defeating the main force of the Qing army.

It's just that the marching speed of the common people is too slow, and they can only walk crookedly for more than ten miles every day. The speed of the march of a team is determined by the slowest people, some old people, women and children, dragging down the speed of the march.

"Girl, the old man really can't walk, can you let the old man rest on the side of the road?" A gray-haired old man begged Liu Eryang.

The old man refused to leave, but the old man's son was a dutiful son, so he refused to leave, and stayed with the old man, and even his daughter-in-law, grandson and granddaughter also stayed.

There were more and more people sitting on the side of the road panting, and no matter how much the Ming army advised, they refused to get up and leave.

Jinhua, Yue Le led the Qing army into Jinhua City. Just like when he entered Quzhou, Nuoda's Jinhua City was deserted, and the streets were deserted, except for the Qing army walking around, not a single person could be seen. In the past few days, the Qing army has also swept through the surrounding villages, and the result is the same, all the villages are empty.

"This pirate has moved the people! I don't know how they deceived the people! Yue Le said angrily.

Prince An's reputation is actually quite good, compared to the two hundred and five masterpieces, I don't know how much better. The reason why Ao Bai sent Yue Le was not only that Yue Le could fight, but also that Yue Le could restrain military discipline and did not like to slaughter cities. After all, in Aobai's eyes, the people here are all the people of the Qing Dynasty. If that two-hundred-and-five-year-old masterpiece comes, maybe he will slaughter the city and the village, and he can do anything.

But Yue Le came along the way, but he didn't see a few people, so he was naturally very annoyed.

Bei Zi Zhangtai stepped forward and said: "Prince An is benevolent and generous, and those foolish people are not grateful, but they listen to Haikou's words, which is really hateful!" Please also ask the prince to let the last general personally bring the cavalry to pursue! Catch those Diao people, and let them all fall to the ground! Only then can we know the prestige of my Qing Dynasty! ”

Yue Le said: "They are all my people of the Qing Dynasty, but they have been bewitched by thieves!" If Beizi leads the troops, disperse the thieves, and bring the people back! ”

"Wow!" Zhangtai was overjoyed and hurriedly made a thousand.

Exiting Yue Le's Chinese army camp, Zhangtai thought in his heart: If Ben Beizi catches up with those ignorant Diao people, he will definitely kill him a group of stubborn Diao people! robbed those rich people's property again, and arrested a few rich ladies! As for the rest of the poor mud legs, they can just bring them back to farm, and they can't squeeze out a few copper plates anyway.

Zhangtai took 2,000 cavalry and went straight to Yiwu. Although Yue Le didn't let him kill the people, with the cruelty of the Qing army, how could these barbarians not kill the people! Being able to kill a few fewer is already a favor to the people in their opinion!

When the Eight Banners cavalry arrived outside Yiwu City, they saw that the city gate was wide open and the city head was empty.

"The thief will definitely repeat his old trick! This is an empty city, our army entered the city, and it was another meritorious achievement to recover a city! Changtai pointed to the wide open gate and laughed. This is obviously the credit of sending it to the door, the city abandoned by the Ming army, the Qing army entered, and the court could regain the lost territory.

However, Zhangtai still kept an eye on it, he himself did not enter the city immediately, but sent more than 100 Eight Banner cavalry into the city, and waited for them to enter the city after everything was safe, and then sent a signal.

"Who wants to go into the city?" Jang-tae asked.

A leader of the Eight Banners stood up and arched his hand: "The last general is willing to lead one hundred and fifty warriors from his headquarters into the city!" ”

Originally, there were more than 300 to more than 500 people in the Eight Banners, because the Eight Banners had lost a lot in the previous Jiangnan War, and there were also some Eight Banners soldiers who stayed in Anqing and did not come down, so now there are 150 to 200 people in one Leader.

After receiving the order, the Eight Banners leader entered the city with one hundred and fifty cavalry of the Eight Banners. These soldiers of the Eight Banners are actually heavy infantry on horseback, with a layer of iron armor on their bodies and a layer of cotton armor on the outside. When fighting, you can dismount and shoot arrows, and you can also dismount and charge on foot. Once the opponent's formation is broken, you can ride a horse and slash from behind.

The vanguard of the Eight Banners entered the city and had just entered the city gate, but they heard a loud "bang", and the jack gate at the city gate suddenly fell, blocking the city gate. At the same time, the drawbridge was slowly pulled up.

"There's an ambush!" Zhangtai outside the city was scared into a cold sweat. He was glad that he didn't rush in, otherwise he would have been shut down and beaten up.

It is vain to abandon the city and respond to the enemy with an empty city. But it can't be a void to the end, the Qiongzhou army has an ambush in Yiwu City, and ambushed a thousand dragoons and five hundred heavy cavalry in the city, which was originally going to eat Zhangtai's two thousand Eight Banner cavalry, but Zhangtai was not fooled, so he had to eat more than 100 Qing soldiers sent into the city by Zhangtai first.

When the Qing army leader who entered the city saw that the city gate was closed, he knew what was going on and shouted: "There are barbarians in the city!" Sons, follow Benzo to lead the killing of barbarians! ”

Before the words fell, countless musketeers suddenly appeared on the roofs on both sides of the street, only to hear the sound of a row of muskets firing "bang bang bang", and the dense bullets were fired at the Qing soldiers, although the Qing army leader had two layers of iron armor and one layer of cotton armor on his body, but he was still hit by the strong kinetic energy of the bullets and flew up from his horse, and fell backwards on his back.

The rest of the Eight Banners cavalry were shot one after another, and one after another spewed blood mist and fell off their horses.

"Kill!" A group of cavalry suddenly rushed out from behind the house, sweeping through the remnants of the Eight Banners formation like a whirlwind. The Eight Banners soldiers who were not killed by muskets were rushed by the heavy cavalry of the Ming army, and were either pierced through the body by spears or trampled to death by horses' hooves.

In the blink of an eye, the 150 cavalry of the Eight Banners who entered the city were all cleaned up like garbage that had been swept away, and not even a single one was left alive.

Zhangtai outside the city shouted anxiously: "There are thieves in the city!" ”

The cavalry of the Eight Banners did not carry siege weapons, and they could not attack the city, so they could only anxiously circle outside the city. At this moment, countless Ming troops suddenly appeared at the head of the city, muskets and bows and arrows shot towards the city, and dozens of Eight Banners cavalry who had no time to run away were shot by arrows, turned over and fell off their horses.

The city gate was wide open, and the heavy cavalry in heavy armor rushed out of the city gate and rushed straight towards the Qing army.

Seeing the heavy cavalry rushing towards him like an airtight iron can, Straw Bale Zhangtai didn't dare to fight at all, he knew the strength of the heavy cavalry, and immediately led people to disperse. Among the Eight Banners, the Mongolian cavalry shot arrows with their bows from afar, but the arrows could not penetrate the heavy cavalry and were bounced to the ground.

Behind the heavy cavalry, the dragoons of the Ming army rushed out. After the dragoons left the city, they immediately dismounted, fired with pulley compound bows and long-barreled muskets, and took advantage of their long range to beat the Mongol cavalry who were riding and shooting arrows one after another.

"Let's go, don't fight!" Seeing that the Qing army formation had been dispersed, Wang Zihao immediately ordered the entire army to retreat.

Five hundred heavy cavalry withdrew first in front, and dragoons broke in the rear. The heavy cavalry is one man and two horses, the Don hippopotamus is fast and has good endurance, and the Qing army does not want to catch up. Although the dragoons are lightly armoured, they have pulley compound bows at hand, and many of them are Mongolian cavalry who surrendered, and they are good at mangu tactics.

Zhangtai suffered a big loss, and he didn't dare to lead his troops to pursue, so he had to stay outside the city and wait for the main force of the Qing army to arrive.

After Yue Le arrived with the main force of the Qing army, he saw that the Zhangtai cavalry was embarrassed, so he stepped forward and asked, "Why is Beizi so embarrassed?" Is there an ambush in the city? ”

"The last general will knock on the prince! There are 5,000 thieves and cavalry in the city! The last general was ambushed and hundreds of people were lost! Please cure the villain's defeat! Zhangtai stepped forward and bowed.

"Get up!" Yue Le helped Zhangtai up, "I didn't expect the thieves to ambush so many cavalry!" The thief cavalry is well-equipped and numerous, and this is not to blame Beizi! I only blame this king for negligence, thinking that the thieves are afraid of my king and dare not fight. Who knows that thieves are real and false! ”

The 1,500 cavalry left by the Qiongzhou army was actually used after the break. If every city is given up in vain and the Qing army is not taught a lesson, then with the retreat speed of the people, it will definitely be caught up by the Qing cavalry.

After the Qing army "recovered" Yiwu, it continued to advance to Shaoxing. But then the Qing army's march is not easy to go, the Qing army scout cavalry in front is often attacked, the Ming army squad sentry cavalry uses rifled guns to shoot from a distance, and after close range, there are also lightning bolts to shoot quickly, each sentry cavalry also has two double-barreled short guns, and the Qing army scouts can suffer heavy losses before the melee battle.

After nightfall, the Ming army set up a fast artillery cart with flying cavalry artillery, set up outside the Qing army camp, bombarded it from a distance, and then hung up the gun carriage and left.

After being attacked and harassed continuously, the speed of the Qing army's march was much slower, buying enough time for the retreating people.

By the time Yue Le's Qing army was about to catch up with the people, the retreating people had already entered the Shaoxing River network area, got on a boat and left.

The Qing cavalry in front arrived, looked at the ships that were moving away, and shot a few arrows from a distance, and the range was simply out of reach. The cavalry of the Qing army wanted to chase along the riverbank, but there were many rivers in Shaoxing, and not long after the pursuit, the cavalry was blocked by a river in front and could not pass, so they could only pursue by a detour. When I got to the place where there was a small bridge, I found that the bridge was damaged.

Thousands of miles away in Quanzhou, the siege battle is raging.

The Ming army has been attacking Quanzhou for many days, although the Qing army has a strong city, and the will to defend the city is very tenacious, but for the Ming army, which has a lot of heavy artillery firepower and sophisticated siege weapons, the city can not bring much shelter to the Qing army.

Obviously, the Ming army did not rush to attack the city, but set up artillery to bombard the city, and pushed the nest car up, and used the personal soldiers on the nest car to guide the artillery fire to attack the Qing defenders at the head of the city; While the auxiliaries filled the moat, the archers and musketeers of the Ming army killed and wounded a large number of Qing soldiers at the head of the city.

Wang Xinyu was not in a hurry to conquer Quanzhou, but mainly to consume the living forces in the city, using his powerful firepower to give the Qing army in the city the greatest damage, and wait until the Qing army suffered too much loss and no morale, and the city was naturally breached.

Liu Xiangzhen was very anxious, worried that if this continued, the Qing soldiers and the people would not dare to go to the city to defend the city. If no one dares to go to the top of the city, this city will not be easily taken.

"My lord! The villain has a plan! We can drive the people of the city to the top of the city to repair the walls and stop the dogs! "The master stepped forward to offer a plan. (To be continued.) )