Qin Zitan followed the extravagant flying tiger to the Jianshan outpost, and the harassing Huaidong warships were slowly withdrawing from Sansha Bay from the Dongchong Pass, looking left and right, a wreckage, the air was filled with the smell of burning and burning, and the beach was also full of the remains of sunken and burned fishing boats.

Although he expected this, he roared in hatred and slammed the earthen wall of the sentry tower with his saber.

Qin Zitan's face was also ugly, he was silent and did not say a word, more than 100 miles from Jin'an City, from the confirmation that the main force of Huainan's attack landed in Sansha Bay, he came to the aid of the elite starry night with the luxury flying tiger, and wasted more than a day on the road.

The three thousand foot soldiers galloped to help a hundred miles, and they were also a little exhausted, and the Huaidong Army had no intention of fighting a decisive battle at all. In the past day and night, almost all the eight towns and ports along the coast of Sanshawan have been disabled.

"Second son, look at this!" A lieutenant took down a few notices posted by the Huaidong Army along the coast of Sanshawan and showed them to the Flying Tiger.

It's good that Feihu didn't look at it, but when he saw it, he was even more furious, tore the notice to pieces, and smashed the captain's face: "Why don't you send someone to tear all these things off?" Qin Zitan didn't have time to read what was written in the notice, so he didn't think there would be anything good to say.

"Many clans in the towns were broken by the Huaidong Kou army, and when the Kou army left, the granary of the clan was opened and the villagers were allowed to take it for themselves; Other goods that could not be taken away were also distributed to some shabby settlements in the town. When many villagers heard the news, they rushed to the town and drove them away...... These clansmen all hope that the second son can help them make decisions and get back the grain, grain, and goods from the villagers and the towns! The lieutenant continued.

"It's all a mob, arrest the few who took the lead in making trouble for the crime of collaborating with the enemy, cut off a few heads, and they will know that they will be restrained!" Extravagant Feihu said hatefully.

"Second son, just drive away; Those who do not obey should be arrested and killed by three or five people, and it is not appropriate to expand arbitrarily! Qin Zitan said.

Judging from the attacks on Pingtan Fort, Dong'an Island and Sanshawan, the Huaidong Army showed no mercy when they ransacked the wealthy families and gentry, but at the same time, they would release the looted rice and grain to the villagers and break down the households, with the intention of being vicious. Qin Zitan believed that Jin An should give priority to stabilizing the situation, and if the gentry and wealthy households retrieved the scattered rice, grain, and goods from the villagers and broken households, it would undoubtedly cause more difficult chaos to control.

Yu Feihu breathed lightly, ignored Qin Zitan's advice, and only instructed the school captain: "As long as the Zong family can identify people, they will help them force them back, how can there be no law?" ”

Qin Zitan sighed in his heart and didn't say anything more.

The luxury family may have to pay more attention to the interests of the gentry in order to make the rule of the Governor's Mansion of Zhejiang and Fujian stable, but who can guarantee that the rich and the gentry will not make up for the losses from the poor?

Sanshawan, Pingtan Island, Dong'an Island and other places were beaten like this, and rich households and gentry were the first targets of the Huaidong Army. Unless the wealthy and gentry can sacrifice the interests of the coastal areas to move inward, the call for the eastern Zhejiang naval division to fight will become more and more fierce. The Metropolitan Governor decided not to fight, the pressure will be very great, and I only hope that there will be a breakthrough on the Western Front soon.

Luxury Feihu went to Jianjiang, Qin Zitan went to Zhangwan Town in the north, and when he arrived in the town, he saw what was written in the Huaidong notice that was torn up and shredded by Luxury Feihu.

The notices posted by the Huaidong Army listed the families of Hao, Song, Hu, Wen, and Deng as war criminals, falsely accusing the Hao, Song and other clans of plotting rebellion, invading the township, and plundering tens of thousands of gold and silver wealth, but about 200,000 Ding Zhuang in Eastern Fujian have been killed or disabled for more than ten years, and the people are living in embarrassment, selling their sons and daughters, and offering a reward of 100,000 taels of silver, inviting the villagers to fight together!

In the name of the imperial court, the proclamation exempted the six-six counties of the seven prefectures of Eastern Fujian from the five-year tax and land tax, and ordered all landowners in Eastern Fujian to exempt tenants from land rent for five years.

These notices were all well-printed, and it is believed that the Huaidong Army printed a large number of them in Chongzhou and carried them with the ships for later use, and when they came to Eastern Fujian, they were widely distributed to confuse the people. Maybe it won't have any effect, maybe it will make people's hearts unstable. Qin Zitan just asked people to take down these notices and burn them, so as not to let them circulate.

In the afternoon, a letter was sent back from the front, saying that the Huaidong Army fleet outside the Dongchong Pass had been anchored in the open sea for half a day and then set sail for the east.

Qin Zitan was surprised, he broke an arm, and it was inconvenient to ride a horse, so he took a carriage to Jianjiang to go to the luxury flying tiger, and it happened that Hu Zongguo, the chief historian, also came to inspect Sanshawan after the attack.

The Hu family has several properties in Sanshawan, which have been completely destroyed. According to the Hu family's military guards, who were guarding the resistance, sixty-seven people were killed, and nine of the Hu family's disciples who were in charge here also died. Counting those who were captured, the Hu family lost nearly one hundred and forty or fifty people at one time. Perhaps some have fled into the countryside and have not yet returned.

What is more worrying than the loss for oneself is not knowing where the next target of the Huaidong Army is?

"Maybe it's southern Zhejiang!" Qin Zitan said.

"Why did Zitan judge that the Huaidong Kou army would go to fight southern Zhejiang?" Hu Zongguo's face was ugly and asked.

"Huaidong can't just conclude that we will definitely not send the Zhedong Naval Division to attack, although the Huaidong Naval Army is strong, but the overall strength is still insufficient, its southern attack fleet will not stay in Jin'an for too long, and it is inevitable to close to the north," Qin Zitan said, "This is one of them." Second, the Huaidong attack fleet borrowed the wind to go east, which should be to enter the black water ocean, which is a shortcut for the Huaidong ship to travel on the sea in autumn and winter and go north quickly! ”

"What Zitan said makes sense." Hu Zongguo said.

"When the governor is immediately revealed, an elite army needs to be transferred to southern Zhejiang immediately!" Qin Zitan said.

Luxury Feihu and Hu Zongguo also immediately understood why Qin Zitan suggested this, and at the same time, their colors changed.

Xiapu, Jiaocheng, Luoyuan and other counties are the core areas ruled by the Metropolitan Government of Zhejiang and Fujian, even if it is regarded as the Huaidong Army to attack and seize the city, the Huaidong Army has no chance to gain a foothold in the city, and the Huaidong Army is at most mainly harassing and destroying on the southern front.

On the southern coast of Zhejiang, the situation is very different.

It has only been a year and a half since the luxury family completely conquered southern Zhejiang, and the rule is far from stable. The people of southern Zhejiang, even including many squires and wealthy families, succumbed to power on the surface and accepted the rule of the luxury family, but their hearts were still towards the Yuan court.

The luxury family was bent on making a breakthrough on the Western Front, so they could only plunder resources from the newly occupied land and forcibly recruit Ding Yong into the army, which also exacerbated the contradiction with the local forces in southern Zhejiang. The luxury family has heavy troops stationed in eastern and western Zhejiang, and southern Zhejiang is the inner line, and from the perspective of traditional thinking, there will not be much chaos in southern Zhejiang, so there are very few garrisons.

In the three prefectures in southern Zhejiang, the luxury family only directly garrisoned troops in the prefecture and a few key counties. From the south of Mingzhou Prefecture, there are twelve counties along the coast of southern Zhejiang, and there are only four cities directly garrisoned by the Governor's Mansion in eastern Zhejiang, and the other eight counties are only appointed officials, and the county soldiers are all recruited from the former sword archers.

Once the Huaidong Army landed on a large scale in southern Zhejiang, the situation in southern Zhejiang was really difficult to say. Even now, there are some places in Yandang Mountain and Kucang Mountain where the armed forces dare not belong to the luxury family, and they defend according to the danger, and it is impossible for the Huaidong Army to turn a blind eye.

Qin Zitan frowned, when Zhejiang and Fujian were strong, he had the ambition to sweep the south of the Yangtze River, and when the Huaidong Army fought strongly, he found that the heart of the heart was full of flaws. Under the current situation, the Zhejiang-Fujian Navy Division does not even have the ability to fight back, and the situation can be said to be too steep to be more precipitous.

Of course, although the situation in Zhejiang and Fujian is dangerous and passive, it is even more necessary to grit our teeth and focus on the western front. As long as a breakthrough can be made on the western front and Huaidong can be threatened from the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, Huaidong's tentacles will not dare to stretch so long again.

Besides, there may be a good show to watch in the Yanbei defense line this year......

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After the southward raiding fleet entered the Heishui Ocean eastward, it collected its sails and borrowed the current to go north, and in the middle of the night, it turned out of the Heishui Ocean and traveled westward by the north wind.

Chen Yan had two arrow wounds on his shoulder, both of which were shot through the gap in the nail piece, and they penetrated so deep into the flesh that he almost broke his bones, and he was asked to meditate and recuperate, so he got on Zhang Gou's boat.

Tossed the pain into the middle of the night, feeling that the fleet suddenly turned around, Chen Yan asked in surprise: "I can't see anything that can be compared when I open my eyes at this time, who knows where to go?" Suddenly turn around, will you just rush to Nanjishan Island? ”

"Let you learn astrology, if you don't learn it, then it won't be your turn to worry about idleness. It's only thirty or forty miles, and when you see the land in the morning, you can do it again......" Zhang Gou looked at the map with the help of the oil lamp fixed on the table, answering Chen Yan's doubts.

After being stranded off the coast of Jin'an for three days, the southern raiding fleet was withdrawn this time to attack southern Zhejiang.

Zhang Gou didn't know that Qin Zitan and the Governor's Mansion of Zhejiang and Fujian had expected this, and in fact they didn't care about it.

In the southern part of Zhejiang, the hills are high and the ravines are deep, and in addition to taking the sea route, the speed of the foot soldiers to move by land is extremely high, and the straight-line distance of fifty or sixty miles from the map may take four or five days to arrive.

The luxury family simply did not have time to react, and it was even too late to dispatch troops; I'm afraid that the luxury family has not been able to spread the news of the attack on the eastern coast of Fujian to Mingzhou Mansion or western Zhejiang by this time. Needless to say, the land route is slow, at this time the north wind is in full swing, and the fleet of Zhejiang and Fujian cannot go to the open sea and borrow the current of the Black Water Ocean to go north, and go north against the wind near the sea, and the speed of the sea ships will also be very slow.

This time, the southern raiding fleet was mainly harassing along the coast of eastern Fujian, and had no intention of attacking cities and seizing land, but in southern Zhejiang, there was a chance to fight one or two cities, and the significance would be greater.

Thinking about it seriously, it is not accidental that the luxury family was caught off guard and fell into passivity this time.

Almost everyone in the world limits their thinking to the traditional defensive line of defense, and luxury is no exception.

In eastern Zhejiang, the Zhejiang-Fujian rebels almost concentrated the most elite naval forces to form an eastern defense line with Mingzhou Mansion as the core, and confronted the Shengsi defense line in Huaidong, thinking that with this defense line, the safety of the hinterland could be guaranteed.

Although the Nantai Island Naval Division left behind in Jin'an had 6,000 troops, its warships were mainly deployed to defend the river, mainly to defend the mouth of the Minjiang River and ensure that Jin'an City was not threatened.

The defensive line established by the Zhejiang-Fujian rebels off the coast of Mingzhou Province did not pose much threat to the hinterland of Huaidong, and the Huaidong Naval Division could bypass its defensive line and strike a fierce blow at the hinterland of Zhejiang-Fujian.