Fast forward to the following spring, and with the end of the dry winter period, the Ming army launched another overwhelming attack.

The defense of the Qing army was still meaningless.

All the way the Ming army in Hunan, Jiangxi and Fujian, the first and fourth armies along the waterway respectively in the early summer will be divided into Hengyang, and here the Qing army has carried out arguably the most stubborn resistance so far, the Hunan gentry in order to hold their last line of defense is also considered to be exhausted, and in this tragic battle of Hengyang, Yang Feng has been thinking about the long-shaved head of Zeng finally appeared......

But he failed miserably.

As a reviewer of the Hanlin Academy, he invited himself to return to his hometown to run a regimental training to resist the bandits, and at this time he had just armed a battalion of regimental training, which was inconspicuous in the nearly 50,000 Qing troops in the Battle of Hengyang, and the real main force of this battle was the Sichuan Governor Qi Shen, and the 10,000 Sichuan Shaanxi Green Battalion led by him was the core of the Battle of Hengyang, but the losses they caused to the Ming army were only less than 300 casualties of the Ming army in the street battle. Then the Qing army, which understood that the general trend had gone, began to rout again, and the 500 regimental training recruits who had shaved their heads also ran away, and it is said that he himself was almost angry to throw himself into the Xiangjiang River, in short, he stepped onto the stage of history in this way, as for Hu Linyi, who also returned to his hometown to run a regimental training, he failed to catch up with this battle because he came back late.

However, after the Battle of Hengyang, the Ming army once again temporarily stopped advancing, and then began to fight local tyrants on the spot to divide the land.

Yang Feng also fulfilled his promise, and all the grain of the Ming army was transported from the rear.

In fact, there is no food to collect locally.

When the Ming army occupied Hengyang, the people in Hengyang began to eat grass roots and bark, Yang Feng not only did not levy a grain of grain locally, but relied on the combined transportation of inland river steam ships and four-wheeled trucks to transport a large amount of Nanyang rice to Hengyang, and relieved the hungry people at the same time as the land reform in various places. This move easily disintegrated the illusion in the minds of those gentry that the rebels were swarming and sending bandits to be caught in the vast sea of people's war, and how could the common people who happily took away bags of life-saving food rebel against their god emperor. On the contrary, they organized their own convoys and drove their own boats to Chenzhou to help transport grain, because the land transportation in the southern section required a large number of manpower, and even the convoys pushing small carts appeared on the road from Yizhang to Chenzhou.

There was complete jubilation between Hengyang and Yizhang.

In some places on the periphery where the Ming army had not yet arrived, the common people were swarming with the rebels, but those rebels welcomed the Ming army, and they were full of enthusiasm for attacking the Qing army, and the Qing army, which knew that they were unable to fight for these places, simply retreated to Baoxiangtan.

So far, the Ming army has taken half of Hunan in one fell swoop.

The Second Army also conquered Meiguan, and began to build the road from Nanxiong to Dayu, and continued to move forward to seize Ganzhou while building the road, as for the Ming army from Meizhou to the north also conquered Ruijin, and finally the two armies met in the capital, and the material transportation of the Sixth Army also got rid of the dependence on land routes.

However, the two armies continued to operate separately.

The Second Army continued north along the Gan River to Ji'an.

The Sixth Army will go north along Meixi, rely on Meixi shipping to attack Ningdu, and then attack Guangchang by land from Ningdu, and the Third Army attacking from Fuzhou will join the Sixth Army in Guangchang, and then they will have to continue to build roads, that is, repair the road from Ningdu to Guangchang so that the supplies that come from Meiling in the south along the waterway of Zhangshui Gongshui Meixi can go north to the Xujiang River that connects Guangchang by land and enter Fujiang, so as to ensure that the Ming army will go down the river to take Fuzhou and join the Second Army along the Ganjiang River to attack Nanchang.

In the final analysis, for the Ming army, combat is not the most crucial, logistics is the most crucial.

This is also the reason why Yang Feng does not take Jiangxi as the main battlefield.

Compared with Hunan, Jiangxi's transportation is more difficult, and the current battlefield of the Sixth Army is the Central Yang Soviet District.

Even if the Ganjiang River, which is the support of the Second Army, the transportation capacity and the Xiangjiang River are not the same level, and the latter is a collection of materials from the two sources of the Beijiang River and the Lingqu to enter the Xiangjiang River, so as to ensure the operations of the First and Fourth Armies and the relief of the hungry people in Hunan. However, when the Sixth Army left Meizhou to fight Ruijin, there were only two brigades left, because the supply of materials for the entire army could not be guaranteed only by land transportation over the mountains and mountains, and the other two brigades and the attached artillery brigade could only stop, and it was very difficult for those shells, bullets, and grain to be transported between the mountains and mountains only by mules and horses, and before the Meiguan Highway was built, the Ming army could only temporarily stop the large-scale attack, and then wait for the gathering of materials and at the same time fight the local tyrants to divide the fields to relieve the hungry.

This also gave Daoguang hope......

Well, he's actually always been hopeful, because he doesn't know anything about the front line at all.

How could those generals on the front line be stupid enough to report the real situation.

Whether it is Yijing, the minister of the Jiangxi front, Niu Jian, the governor of Liangjiang, or the new governor of Huguang on the Hunan front, Cheng Xucai, and the general of Jingzhou, Lu Pu, in the performance to Daoguang, it was a great defeat of the bandits, our army turned into a victory, and then the bandits attacked a certain place, and our army met and defeated the bandits and fell into the river and drowned countless ......

That's all in all.

It's really hard to make up a big victory or something, after all, the Ming army conquered Hengyang, they definitely don't have the courage to hide it, but they can't hide it and they can also embellish it, what can't those civil officials write with a huge pen? For example, the fall of Hengyang was due to the escape of Sichuan Admiral Qi Shen, and the poor Admiral Qi, who fought the only bloody battle for the Qing Dynasty that caused heavy casualties to the Ming army, was actually beheaded by Daoguang to show public example. And those guys who were really about to collapse at the touch of a button glorified their fiasco as Qi Shen turned the tide after escaping, and defeated the attack of the bandits in Xiangtan to save half of Hunan, although they appeared under Xiangtan City, in fact, they were only a few hundred bandits in the nearby mountains.

But in terms of twists and turns, this is to turn the tide.

Jiangxi over there Yijing is more simply, the loss of Ganzhou is only, and it is not the loss of Nanchang, this kind of trivial matter can be directly understated, the front-line epidemic is prevalent, and the water is cut off, our army's material supply is not on, we have to temporarily retreat to Ji'an, the mountains and forests in southern Jiangxi are dense, and it is difficult to cross the bandits, Your Majesty does not need to worry about this, and the bandits have no cavalry, and the Mongolian cavalry will go south to my Qing Dynasty iron cavalry can be broken in one fell swoop.

Well, at this time, Daoguang had already begun to recruit troops in the Mongol tribes and went south.

And he is also the commander of the monk king.

At this time, the monk Grinqin was already the commander of Manchuria under the Zhenghuang Banner, and the first Horqin Mongol cavalry with a total of 10,000 people had begun to move south. And his new title is the general of Guangzhou and the governor of Liangguang, and at the same time, he also takes the head of the minister of the Qin mission to replace Yijing, which is also an important reason for Yijing to fool his uncle, anyway, now that the Ming army has temporarily stopped, he just needs to wait comfortably for Monk Lingqin to take over. And Daoguang also pinned his hopes on the monk king, he still trusted the monk Lingqin very much, and Niu Jian's performance was also very disappointing to Daoguang, what use did he have to do if he couldn't supply a logistics well? Therefore, the governor of Liangjiang was also replaced, replaced by Li Xingyuan, who was originally the governor of Shaanxi, he was from Hunan, and Cheng Xucai, the governor of Huguang, was from Jiangxi.

It should be said that Guang is still very clear who can be relied on at this time.

The Eight Banners are abolished, he himself knows this very well, but fortunately he still has the Mongolian cavalry and those gentry.

However, all his struggles were in vain.

"Monk Grinqin!"

Yang Feng said with a sneer.

Obviously, the appearance of the monk king, so that he was somewhat surprised, at this time more and more names that interested him appeared, even Jiang Zhongyuan in Shaoyang to run a group training, recently often harassed the Ming army, and even ambushed and killed two lone Ming soldiers, and then was awarded the deputy general for this merit, including Xiang Rong's name also appeared in the Jiangxi Qing army, and he was also a general soldier, and Sai Shang'a actually became the governor of Guangdong as the deputy of Monk Greenqin this time.

In other words, I don't know if Li Erdevil and Zuo Zongtang joined the ranks of loyalty.

Zuo Zongtang should still be teaching at his in-laws in Anhua at this time, as an old man who has not passed the exam for ten years, it is estimated that he will not be so attentive for the time being, but it is difficult to say that at this time, the Hunan gentry are about to mobilize, although his family is only a very small landlord, but after all, it is also a poetry and book heirloom!

As for Li Er's devil, his father is a Beijing official.

At this time, Li Er's devil should be just a showman, after all, he is just eighteen, his old glass devil six is still a little Zhengtai at this time, but his rival Weng master and his father actually started a group practice, Weng Xincun was originally idle at home, he was a Daoguang second year jinshi, until Dali Temple Shaoqing entered the study room, but I don't know why it is estimated that it is infighting and other resignations to go home, he is a frequent acquaintance, like such a leisure official, after experiencing two harassments by Yang Feng and the British, then don't hurry up to run this regiment training, At this time, it had been reinstated as a soldier and trained in Jiangxi with thousands of Liangjiang regiments.

"These are all celebrities! I can't see that there is really no shortage of loyal ministers in this Qing Kingdom! ”

The God Emperor said with emotion.

"God Emperor, please review!"

Zeng Tao, the admiral of the First Fleet of the Ming Navy in front of him, saluted and said.

Yang Feng nodded with satisfaction, and then boarded a steamship in front of him, and on the sea in front of him, eight giant battleships were neatly arranged, five of them were on the deck, and the muzzles of the guns as thick as human heads were raised, and behind these eight giant battleships, there were eight other slightly smaller battleships that were also neatly arranged, a total of sixteen battleships formed a spectacular formation waiting for his review.