After the Ming army conquered Jinhua, they waved Quzhou non-stop.

There was no suspense in attacking Quzhou, the Ming army sent people to shout under the city, and the Qing army at the head of the city opened the city gate and surrendered.

The king's ministers, who were already ready for a big battle, said in disappointment: "The Tartars surrendered too quickly!" Ben didn't even have a chance to perform! ”

Not long ago, Wang Xinyu found Cai Dezhong and others to compete with Wang [Fu] Chen, and fought on foot, Wang [Fu] Chen really couldn't beat those masters who were proficient in martial arts, and they fought on horseback, and Wang [Fu] Chen was much more powerful than them. However, for Cai Dezhong's martial arts masters, Wang [Fu] Chen still admires them from the bottom of his heart.

When attacking Quzhou, Wang [Fu] Chen was eager to try and wanted to make a great contribution, but the Qing army did not give him a chance to make meritorious contributions, so he opened the city gate and surrendered.

As a general, he must be eager to make meritorious contributions in order to be affirmed by the new lord. Seeing that he had no chance to make meritorious contributions, Wang [auxiliary] ministers were very disappointed.

"Looks like General Wang is very disappointed?" Wang Xinyu said with a smile, "But it's okay, there will be many opportunities to make meritorious contributions in the future!" Our army is about to enter Fujian, and a vassal palace in Fujian is waiting for you to break it! And Li Shutai, if you can catch him, it will also be a great achievement! ”

"The last general will not disappoint the general!" Wang [Fu] ministers swore an oath.

The Ming army conquered Quzhou, Xianxia Pass was in the hands again, and it was just a gesture to enter Fujian, but the Ming army was not in a hurry to enter Fujian, but advanced by waterway and marched to Wenzhou in southern Zhejiang.

From Jinhua to Quanzhou, Shangxian, Jinyun, Lishui, Chuzhou and other places are almost not garrisoned by Qing troops, only some local people and rabble such as government officials, fast catchers, and white laborers. As long as the Ming army captures Lishui, it will be able to go down the river. The Ming army, which was attacking on the sea, would go upriver from the Oujiang River, and the two armies would meet under the city of Wenzhou.

Wenzhou used to be the seat of the Yamen of the Fujian and Zhejiang Governor's Mansion during the Shunzhi period, and the city was strong. Later, because the two "Haikou" forces of "Zheng Revers" and "Zhang Reverse" were rampant, in order to strengthen the encirclement and suppression of the "Haikou", the Qing court disintegrated the Fujian and Zhejiang Governors' Mansions and established the Fujian Governor's Mansion and the Zhejiang Governor's Mansion separately.

The Zhejiang Governor's Mansion was originally still in Wenzhou, but after Zheng Chenggong and Zhang Huangyan conquered Hangzhou, the Qing court moved the Zhejiang Governor's Mansion to Ningbo, and as a result, Ningbo Beiwang Xinyu captured it. At this time, there was no governor of Zhejiang, and although the city of Wenzhou was strong, there were very few defenders.

The Fujian Governor's Office was in Zhangzhou, and Li Shutai was still the Governor of Fujian, mainly responsible for monitoring Xiamen Island opposite.

Although the Zheng army broke out first, and then after the internal strife was resolved, the Ming army was dispatched to the south of the Yangtze River on a large scale, but Li Shutai, who suffered from the lack of a sailor, did not dare to rashly land on Xiamen Island. The Fujian Naval Division was completely annihilated, and Li Shutai once made a batch of dilapidated boats and rebuilt the Fujian Naval Division, but it had just been formed, and was attacked by the Ming army on the other side.

Since then, the Fujian Navy Division has become an inland river division that can only hide in the Jiulong River, and it cannot even get out of the Jiulong River estuary, let alone land on the two islands of Xiamen and Kinmen.

There are also some small boats in Quanzhou and Fuzhou, including Geng Jimao's Jingnan Wangfu Han Eight Banner Sailors, but whether it is the Fujian Sailors in Quanzhou, or the Fujian Sailors in Fuzhou and the Eight Banners of Jingnan Wanghan, there are only a few pitifully small boats.

At present, the largest ships of the Fujian Navy Division and the Jingnan Wangfu Han Eight Banner Navy Division are two-masted sailing ships, with a length of only seven zhang and one foot and a width of about one zhang, a single deck, a small cannon at the bow and tail, several firearms such as bowls and guns on both sides, and the sailors on board are equipped with bows and arrows and bird guns. The general sailor warships are all sloops, about four or five zhang long and less than one zhang wide. There are also a large number of small sampans.

It was once the most powerful Fujian naval division in the Qing army, but now it has degenerated to this point, which is completely the result of Wang Xinyu's Nanyang naval persecution.

The Qing army could not build a big ship at all, and as long as there was a big ship going to sea, it would be sunk immediately. Since they can't go to sea, Li Shutai and Geng Jimao don't bother to build big ships anymore. With the shipbuilding funds allocated by the imperial court, they symbolically built a batch of small boats, and the rest of the silver fell into their own pockets, isn't this a beautiful thing? Anyway, it is a waste of money to build a big boat, either to bask in the sun on the inland river, or to go out and be sunk to the bottom of the sea to feed the fish.

Huang Wu originally wanted to send a small boat to smuggle into Xiamen Island, but as soon as the Qing army set out, he was discovered by the Ming army. Dozens of small sampans were sunk, and more than 500 Qing soldiers were killed.

However, later Li Shutai received another piece of good news: Guo Yi and Cai Lu, the generals of the Ming army stationed in Tongshan, were ready to surrender! The two secretly sent a letter to Li Shutai, saying that they were willing to submit to the king and follow the trend.

Li Shutai was very happy and sent a thousand green battalion troops to prepare to take over Tongshan. Who knew that before the Qing army arrived at the beach, the matter between Guo Yi and Cai Lu was revealed, and the Nanyang Marines boarded Tongshanwei, and Guo Yi and Cai Lu were captured and beheaded. The Qing army of the Green Battalion did not know the situation, and also climbed the copper mountain, and all of them were taken prisoner.

The repeated failures on the seashore in Fujian made Li Shutai no longer dare to make calculations on the other side.

Huang Wu, who had not built an inch, hid in the mansion in Zhangzhou every day in fear, and he wanted to build a powerful sailor, but he could not succeed at all.

The Qing army was powerless to take the islands on the other side and could not cross the sea to attack at all, but the Ming army came and went freely, and could threaten the safety of the Qing army at any time.

"Why hasn't the red-haired ghost come yet? As long as they come, they will be able to break the foundation of the pirates! Li Shutai and Huang Wu looked at each other, looking forward to the Dutch's powerful fleet coming soon.

"If the red-haired ghost comes, it will be easy to do! It is said that their largest warships are much larger than the largest warships of Zheng and Wang Rebellion! As long as the red-haired ghost arrives, the thief will be defeated! Huang Wu said to Li Shutai.

Huang Wu was right, after the Dutch signed a treaty with the Qing court, they sent a powerful fleet with seven provincial battleships as their main ships to prepare for a voyage to Asia to attack Wang Xinyu's Nanyang navy.

The arrival of the battleship was the most serious challenge facing Wang Xinyu's Nanyang Navy. The Nanyang Navy had never encountered a real battleship before, but this time the Dutch spared no effort to dispatch battleships "in order to help the Qing court"! At present, the Dutch battleship has passed the Cape of Good Hope, and it will take about half a year to sail and reach the waters of China.

And Wang Xinyu's silver was spent on land warfare, even if he wanted to build a battleship, it would be too late, even if he was prepared, he would not be able to build a battleship, because it would take five years to dry oak. At present, the oak wood in the Singapore shipyard has only been drying for more than a year, and it is simply too late to build battleships.

Ebert, who was cruising around Malacca, did not know where the Dutch battleships had gone, but they knew that the Dutch were likely to send battleships, and that preparations were being made on the island of Singapore.

After the army captured Quzhou, it turned back to Shangxian.

When the Ming army arrived in Shangxian, Wang Xinyu made people shout: "Listen to the Qing court magistrates in the city, you can't stop our attack at all!" If Kaesong surrenders, you will be spared death! If you are obsessed, when our army captures the county, you will not be spared! ”

The Qing court magistrate of this county does not know if he has backbone or is worried that his family will be killed by the Qing court, because when the Qing court magistrate goes to take office, he cannot bring his family, and his family members stay in his hometown. Not only did the magistrate not open the door and surrender, but poked his head out and scolded at the city: "Dare to rebel!" Don't accept the king! I, the Qing Dynasty, have already unified the country and the world is peaceful, but you have to provoke a war and poison the people! I am an official of the imperial court, how can I surrender to the traitor! ”

"What else to say about the guys who have forgotten their ancestors? Get ready for the siege! Wang Xinyu was furious.

Originally, a few days ago, a group of green battalion soldiers who had retreated from Jinhua passed through this place and wanted to enter the city, but the county was afraid that there would be a Ming army mixed in it, so they did not dare to open the city and let people in. As a result, the defenders in Shangxian County are now 72 government officials and more than 100 white soldiers, and the county magistrate has also recruited more than 2,000 people to help defend the city.

The Ming army began to attack the city, and did not even build large-scale siege weapons, but directly pushed the shield cart to fill the moat.

The defenders of the city were about to shoot arrows with their heads out, but they were all beaten back by bows, flintlock muskets, and rifled guns from under the city.

In a short time, the auxiliaries and the people filled in a section of the moat. Then the Ming army opened artillery bombardments and flattened all the battlements of the female wall, so that the Qing army at the head of the city lost the protective barrier. Subsequently, the Ming soldiers carried simple ladders and launched an attack on the county seat. The swordsmen set up ladders on the walls, and the archers and musketeers below fired at the city.

The female wall and battlements at the head of the city were gone, and the Qing army stood at the head of the city to counterattack, and it was directly exposed to the fire of the Ming army. After a few rounds of shooting, not a single Qing soldier who could stand on the head of the city could be seen.

The Ming army ascended to the top of the city and slashed like a chicken and a dog. How could those officials, catchers, and minzhuang be the opponents of the elite Ming army? After a few people died, the others fell to their knees and surrendered.

After the Qing court magistrate set fire to the warehouse, he committed suicide in the palace.

After the Ming army conquered Shangxian, it advanced non-stop in the direction of Lishui.

On the sea, the Ming army fleet that set sail from the Zhoushan area sailed south along the coastline and sailed towards the waters of Wenzhou.

The naval division of the Qing army in Zhejiang had long been swept away by the Nanyang Navy, and the Ming army fleet, all of which were Chinese-style hard sailing ships, arrived in the waters of Wenzhou, and was not intercepted by the Qing army at all along the way.

The Ming fleet sailed in from the mouth of the Oujiang River and landed swaggering in the lower reaches of the Oujiang River.

Although Wenzhou was the location of the former governor of the Zhejiang Army, the number of defenders in Wenzhou at this time was very small, in addition to the local green battalion soldiers of 300 people, there were also 2,000 local practitioners who did not enter the stream, plus the government service and the like, the garrison strength did not exceed 3,000 people, and they were all rabble.

However, the local prefect was also prepared, and before that, he recruited more than 5,000 people into Wenzhou to help defend the city.

The Ming army that landed did not rush to attack Wenzhou City, after all, it was a strong city. (To be continued.) )