Between Zhejiang and Fujian, the hills and mountains were dangerous, and Xu Feihu and Qin Zitan were in Xiapu County, and it was not until October 18 that they learned the news of the southern attack on the Huaidong Army and the Yandangkou to capture Yongjia and Yueqing counties.

Thanks to the support of the eight surnames, the luxury family has created the current situation of the Zhejiang and Fujian Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, so the luxury family will make every effort to protect the interests of the gentry and the clan in Eastern Fujian. On the one hand, the luxury family can draw more manpower and material resources from the southern part of Zhejiang to support their war in western Zhejiang, and on the other hand, they can strengthen the infiltration and control of the Fujian clan in southern Zhejiang, so as to ensure that everyone can obtain sufficient war benefits from it.

After the fall of the entire territory of southern Zhejiang, a considerable number of those officials and gentlemen and local forces who were loyal to the Dayue Yuan clan or whose interests were infringed upon did not surrender to the luxury clan, but retreated into the majestic mountains of southern Zhejiang, such as Yandang Mountain, Kucang Mountain, and Tiantai Mountain, to resist and wait for Wang Shi to recover his hometown.

The terrain in southern Zhejiang is complex, the prefectures and counties are isolated, the land route is dangerous, and there are many steep walled cities that are easy to defend and difficult to attack between the mountains. The luxury family's control of southern Zhejiang was originally short, and the military resources were concentrated in the western and eastern parts of Zhejiang, and they were unable to eliminate these remnants for the time being.

In the eyes of the luxury family, the so-called Yandang Kou is a resistance army led by Ye Su, the former lieutenant of Qingtian County, and Liu Wenzhong, the leader of the Yongjia clan. Ye Su and Liu Wenzhong were the first to resist the Zhejiang-Fujian rebels in Qingtian County for half a year, and after the fall of Yongjia, they faced the danger of being flanked, so they withdrew into the Yandang Mountains and united with other remnants of the resistance to become the main force resisting the Zhejiang-Fujian rebels in Yongjia Prefecture, with more than 3,000 soldiers.

In the luxury family occupied southern Zhejiang, they encountered strong resistance under Yongjia City, and Yongjia City was dilapidated afterwards. The luxury family moved the government to Ouhai County on the south bank of the Yongjia River, and Yongjia City has not been repaired, which is also the main reason why the Huaidong Army is easy to attack.

After Huaidong attacked Yongjia City, Ye Su and Liu Wenzhong led their subordinates to Yandang Mountain and joined forces to trap Yueqing......

The main forces of the luxury family in Yongjia Mansion are concentrated in Ouhai City on the south bank of the Yongjia River, and there are only 2,000 elites, and they can only watch the Huaidong Army recover from Yongjia, Yueqing and other places.

Yongjia, Yueqing and other places, including the officials sent by the luxury family and the local officials and gentry who surrendered, nearly 100 people were executed, and nearly 1,000 people were sentenced to move to Hecheng.

In such a grim situation, Luwenzhuang had to add the Southern Zhejiang Governor's Office to be responsible for the defense of the southern coastal areas of Zhejiang.

On the morning of the 19th, under the escort of dozens of followers, he and Qin Zitan resolutely took the risk of crossing the sea north in two fishing boats.

The land route between Zhejiang and Fujian is even more precipitous, and Yongjia Mansion needs to recover reinforcements from Yueqing and Yongjia, so it can only be transferred from western Zhejiang. At present, although it is still necessary to ensure that the focus is placed on the western front, it is also necessary to transfer some elites from the western front to stabilize the defense line along the southern Zhejiang and eastern Fujian coasts.

Extravagant Feihu and Qin Zitan sat in the cabin, and only three attendants disguised as fishermen were left outside the cabin, alerting to the Huaidong Army sentinel ships that might appear at any time at sea.

At most, another 3,000 elites will be transferred from the Western Front, and after the Luxury Feihu successfully arrives in Ouhai, the troops that can be mobilized will only be 5,000 elites. With 5,000 elites, it is difficult to recover Yongjia, Yueqing and other counties, and to guard against the disturbance of the Huaidong naval army on the southern coast of Zhejiang...... However, even if the coastal areas are abandoned and the Yongjia River is completely blocked, the hinterland of southern Zhejiang must be preserved, which is the consensus reached by the Metropolitan Government of Zhejiang and Fujian.

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The East China Sea in late autumn is as clear as blue, Lin Tie is accompanied by Fu Qinghe, Zhou and others, climbs the lookout platform at the southern foot of Jinji Mountain, looks at the open sea, in the vast sea of clear blue color, the islands and reefs are scattered like treasures.

"There is a letter from the south," Fu Qinghe's left arm was broken from his elbow, and his right hand held a saber at his waist, and he bound the forest of the latest letter sent back by the southern raiding fleet, "Ye Su and Liu Wenzhong are unwilling to accept our suggestion to retreat to Yuhuan Island and Jishan Islands, they are bent on sticking to Yongjia and Yueqing, and confront the luxury family. It seems that the northern part of Zhejiang has a stronger influence on them......"

Yuhuan Island is a large island located in the eastern sea area of Yongjia Province, the situation is dangerous, and the Jishan Islands are called the southeast sea gateway of Zhejiang. The two islands face each other in the north and south, and they are horns with each other, and the beaches and shores are full of rocks, open reefs and reefs are staggered, the high tide disappears, and the low tide emerges, which poses a great threat to the ships on the islands. As long as Ye Su and Liu Wenzhong led 3,000 troops to retreat to these two islands, it would be difficult to conquer these two islands except for the main force of the Eastern Zhejiang Water Division.

Lin Bin's original intention was to persuade Ye Su and Liu Wenzhong to lead the main force of the resistance army in southern Zhejiang to retreat to these two islands, so that they could cut off the sea connection between eastern Fujian and eastern Zhejiang once and for all.

Although most of the resistance forces and local armed forces that retreated to Yandang Mountain, Kucang Mountain, Tiantai Mountain and other places were contacted by the Huaidong side first, Dong Yuan, who first served as the Xuanfu envoy of the two Zhejiang, and then served as the right attendant of the Jiangning Military Department and concurrently served as the envoy of the northern Zhejiang, had a greater influence on them.

Emperor Jing and Ning Wangfu saw that there were still so many people loyal to the imperial court after the fall of southern Zhejiang, and in addition to rewarding the officials, they also assigned these resistance forces to the northern Zhejiang system envoy Si Yaoling, ignoring the fact that only by sea can these resistance forces be supported materially.

"Then let them go," Lin Jian sighed and said, "Send someone to tell Dong Yuan how much supplies Liu Wenzhong and Ye Su want to get from us, and the Northern Zhejiang Envoy will compensate us twice - otherwise we will fight ours, and the Southern Zhejiang Army will fight them!" ”

Lin Jian said this angrily.

Ye Su and Liu Wenzhong led their troops to hold on to the two cities of Yueqing and Yongjia without retreating, in addition to being more deeply influenced by Dong Yuan, it is not excluded that they, as representatives of local forces, are more eager to recover southern Zhejiang from the hands of the luxury family.

Yueqing Linhai, as long as Ye Su and Liu Wenzhong can hold Yueqing City, in addition to being able to contain more luxury soldiers and horses, the Huaidong fleet also has a foothold in southern Zhejiang, and it will be more comfortable to advance and retreat.

Fu Qinghe frowned and thought for a while, and said: "Although Ye Su and Liu Wenzhong are unwilling to accept the proposal of the Huaidong Military Division, it does not mean that no one in the resistance forces in southern Zhejiang can recognize the dangerous situation. Yuhuan Island is too close to the land, if Yueqing is lost, Yuhuan Island will be more difficult to defend, maybe someone in southern Zhejiang will agree to guard the Jishan Islands! ”

Just to defend the Jishan Islands, the Huaidong faction of three or five hundred soldiers is enough.

The reason why they went to great lengths to persuade the resistance army in southern Zhejiang to retreat to the island was that, on the one hand, it was considered that it was relatively easy for the luxury family to gather troops on land in southern Zhejiang, even if it was Yueqing City near the sea, it was actually more than 20 miles away from the coast, not to mention Yongjia City, and it was also very difficult for Ye and Liu's troops to hold Yueqing City. Once Yueqing is lost, the resistance forces in southern Zhejiang will be dealt a devastating blow, which will be unfavorable to the development of the situation in southern Zhejiang.

On the other hand, Lin Jian must consider the issue of fighting with Dong Yuan for control of southern Zhejiang and other places after driving the luxury family away. Obviously, as long as Huaidong has enough influence over the resistance forces in southern Zhejiang, it will undoubtedly have the upper hand in the struggle for control over southern Zhejiang and other places in the future.

Hearing Fu Qinghe say this, Lin Jian could only nod in agreement.

Ye Su, Liu Wenzhong and others are all representatives of the gentry and wealthy families in southern Zhejiang, and they will not have a good impression of him. However, it was obviously with the assistance of the Huaidong Army that they recovered Yongjia and Yueqing, and they also had to get close to northern Zhejiang and alienate Huaidong, and they really didn't know what to say, and they didn't know whether they were alive or dead.

Maybe it's because it's too easy to recover the two cities of Yongjia and Yueqing.

Let those forces in southern Zhejiang who are disgusted with Huaidong stay in Yueqing and consume them!

Lin Jian sighed slightly, and couldn't see any action of the extravagant Zhedong sailor on the front line of the Daishan Islands, so he went down Jinji Mountain and returned to the Qingxi Bay camp at the northwest foot of Jinji Mountain.

As soon as he got off Jinji Mountain, Chen Enze handed over a letter that would be urgently transmitted from Chongzhou.

"Luo Xiancheng led his troops south, and he captured Qichun five days ago!" Lin Jian weakly handed the letter to Fu Qinghe, and he really didn't know what to say about it.

Although Huaidong had predicted the possibility of the Changle rebels advancing south as early as July, he also informed the Governor's Palace, the Ningwang Mansion and the Jiangning Military Department several times.

Jiangning ignored Huaidong's warnings; On the Jinghu side, not only was it wary of the Changle army moving south, but it even drew troops from Qichun and other places to strengthen the defenses of Jiangxia and Jingzhou.

The letter that Luo Xiancheng led the Changle army to the south and the fall of Qichun actually reached Chongzhou on the same day - Lin Jian stuffed the letter into Fu Qinghe's hands, and said resentfully and indifferently: "The Yuan clan can restore the rule of Zhongxing, it's really a ghost!" ”

Fu Qinghe read the letter and asked, "Jiang Ning wants to transfer a water battalion from Huaidong to the west in case the Changle army crosses the river, what are you going to do?" ”

"Now is not the time for us to move west," Lin Jian said, "let's just say that our eastern front is tight, and we can't draw a single soldier - whoever makes the mess should be cleaned up......"

Fu Qinghe handed the letter back to Chen Enze and said to Lin Lian: "Lord Gu may want the Huaidong Army to advance westward, how should I deal with it?" ”

"Even if I want to take care of the west, I really don't have enough strength to take care of myself, so I can only take care of myself first," Lin Jian said, "Luo Xiancheng captured Qichun, and there is not much difference between him crossing the river into Jiangxi, it is enough to make Jiangning a mess." Even if I go back to Chongzhou, I will have to wait for the southern raiding fleet to return safely. For Daishan and Changguo, it is also necessary to fight appropriately, and the Haiyu army cannot fail to exert its strength! ”

The Huaidong Navy attacked the coast of eastern Fujian thousands of miles away, and whether the luxury family would send the Zhedong Navy Division to fight was a matter between the two.

Lin Jian must be ready for battle in the sea area east of Chongzhou at any time.

In addition to the southern attack fleet ready to return to reinforcements at any time, the main forces of the Jinghai Second Water Battalion and the Third Water Battalion were all concentrated on the front line of Hecheng, Jiangmen, and Chongcheng. Moreover, in addition to ensuring the needs of capital construction, Huaidong is concentrating more resources on the development of water camps.

Nearly two-thirds of the shipbuilding capacity of the Guanyintan Shipyard is used to build warships, and other new shipbuilding only gives priority to ensuring the transportation capacity of core resources such as coal and iron.

Since there was no ability to forge large areas of steel plates at that time, Lin Jian could only use copper to cover the deck of the newly built warship.

Fusang produces copper and silver, and Huaidong has the ability to refine the silver, but it requires manpower and time.

Wang Chengfu suggested that the Huaidong Military Division use miscellaneous silver and copper to directly raise high-face value copper dollars, Zhou Guangnan and others were eager to get the matter of preparing copper dollars to the name of Huaidong Qianzhuang to do, Lin Mengde also felt that this was a way to relieve Huaidong's financial pressure - however, Lin Tie would transport more than 200,000 catties of copper back from Haidong to the Guanyintan Shipyard at one time to cover the newly built warships.