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Chapter 129 Su Song

Zhu Yicheng made such arrangements with offense as defense, and at the same time attempted to disrupt Yin Huaxing's strategic deployment. In addition, the reason why Susong was chosen was that Susong's geographical location and importance to the Qing court. Moreover, Susong Town's troops are not strong now. Because of the encirclement and suppression of Yuan Qi and Zhu Jiancai's troops, Yin Huaxing had transferred the green camp of Susong Town to western Zhejiang, which gave Zhu Yicheng an opportunity to take advantage of it.

As mentioned earlier, Zhu Yicheng had thought about how to use the navy to fight long before he decided to attack Taiwan. If it weren't for the Ningbo Navy's current situation, and considering the logistics supply of the Ningbo Army, Zhu Yicheng might have chosen not Su Song but Tianjin.

Zhu Yicheng is not a soldier, but he has the vision that people of this era do not have, and his thinking is even more imaginative. As for the modern war model, it can be said that no one in this era is compared with him. If he were a conventional war, Zhu Yicheng might not be the opponent of Yin Huaxing, but he could break out of the circle of conventional war and use this method to attack the Qing Dynasty.

The main attack power is placed in the north, and Taizhou is just a feint attack, with the purpose of restraining the attention of Zhejiang and Fujian and preparing for Susong's landing.

As expected, when Ma Chengcheng's army set out in Taizhou, and when some Ningbo navy troops cooperated to point directly at Wenzhou, Fujian was frightened. Although Yin Huaxing has replaced the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, he is still in western Zhejiang after all, and there is no time to react. Fujian can only quickly mobilize troops to do local defense, and at the same time, the horses report to Yin Huaxing to seek support.

Ma Gongcheng was recruited by Zhu Yicheng to Ningbo for a long talk before sending troops. Although the troops were so powerful, he actually did not have the idea of ​​taking Wenzhou. Taizhou only needs to put on an stance, plunder the local area, and try to put pressure on Fujian. If you have the opportunity, you can fight a battle with the Qing army, but siege battles that will cause great casualties must be avoided as much as possible.

But who would have thought that just a few days after Taizhou sent troops, something big suddenly happened in Fujian. This big thing not only caught Yin Huaxing off guard, but even Zhu Yicheng was a big surprise.

As Ma Gong succeeded in his troops to suppress Wenzhou, the Fujian Green Camp hastily mobilized, resulting in insufficient troops in Fujian inland areas. At this time, in Zhangping, Fujian, Chen Wuxian, an old man from Tiandihui, gathered two thousand people to suddenly revolt, and took the banner of anti-Qing and restoring the Ming Dynasty. In the first battle, he defeated the local Qing army and left the green camp, killing the Qing army to lead the guerrillas. The momentum suddenly rose. Then he went to Yongshun and Dehua. The Qing army in Fujian was shocked when he heard the news, but its main force had been transferred to Wenzhou and had no time to transfer back to suppress. Chen Wuxian took this opportunity to recruit troops, and had more than 10,000 troops in less than half a month.

The occurrence of this incident was aggravated by the Qing army in Fujian, and was applauding Zhu Yicheng. He did not expect that the feint attack sent by Taizhou would lead to such a result. He quickly sent someone to inquire about Chen Wuxian, trying to contact Chen Wuxian in Fujian, and at the same time closely monitored the changes in Fujian.

At this time, the Ningbo Navy had already appeared on Chongming Island, which belonged to Susong Town. However, because the main force transferred not many troops to the island, when the navy came to Chongming Island in a mighty manner at the mouth of the Yangtze River, the Qing army on the island had no reaction at all. In just one day, Chongming Island easily fell into Zhu Yicheng's hands.

The navy took Chongming Island as its base, and could reach Haimen (Nantongzhou, now Nantong), and Songjiang (now Shanghai), and if it went up the river, it directly threatened Suzhou, and could even reach Jiangning in one breath. When the news of Chongming Island being captured by Ningbo Navy came, Haimen, Songjiang, Suzhou and other places were shocked and hurriedly asked for help from Jiangning.

There were also Yangtze River Navy stationed in Susong area, but the scale and equipment of this navy were far inferior to that of Ningbo Navy. After losing Chongming, the Yangtze River Navy sent troops from Jiangyin to fight hastily. Who would have thought that Ningbo Navy had prepared for it. When the first day of the first day of the lunar month, the Yangtze River Navy was defeated in a huge gunfire and rushed up the Yangtze River to escape desperately towards Jiangyin. Wang Dong slowly sank more than a dozen warships from the opponent and then withdrew his troops and blocked the Yangtze River to the fortress. In his opinion, the Yangtze River Navy, which had few broken ships, could not pose a threat at all. After taking Chongming, the main thing was to attack Susong. A few days later, with the assistance of the Ningbo Navy, Dong Dashan's army began to land in Maokongbang to Luhe area, and directly penetrated into the vital points of Susong's hinterland. After the army landed, the place fled in sight, and the Qing army was even more anxious.

The Susong area was a key source of taxation for the Qing Dynasty, and its importance was no less than that of Zhejiang. Don’t forget that before Cao Yin served as Jiangning Weaving, the one who served as Suzhou Weaving, and now Suzhou Weaving is Li Xu. He is a confidant official of Kangxi like Cao Yin. He has not moved since he took this position in the 32nd year of Kangxi, which is enough to prove the weight of this person in front of Kangxi.

"What is Yin Huaxing doing? He suppressed bandits and bandits, and actually suppressed bandits to Su Song?" Jiangning Weaver Mansion, Li Xu changed his usual gentleness and slapped the table in front of him. The Li and Cao families are in harmony, and Li Xu's brother-in-law is Cao Yin. The relationship between the two families is very close. When he learned that the Ningbo army took Chongming and landed in Su Song, Li Xu rushed to Jiangning to seek help without stopping.

"Brother, don't worry, stay here for a few days first. Jiangning is already deploying troops and generals in Su Song's affairs, and the situation of Su Song will be resolved soon." Facing Li Xu's anxiety, Cao Yin hurriedly comforted him. In fact, he was extremely dissatisfied with Yin Huaxing, especially Yin Huaxing transferred all the troops in Su Song Town before the war.

In his opinion, if the main force of Susong Town was still there, how could the Ningbo rebels take this opportunity to fight Susong? As a veteran, Yin Huaxing knew that Ningbo rebels had a great momentum, but he did not take any precautions. In order to encircle and suppress the thieves in western Zhejiang, he directly transferred Susong's troops. This is the reason for the current situation.

However, it was the will of Emperor Kangxi to be controlled by the Yin Huaxing, and it was difficult for him to oppose it as a minister, but his dissatisfaction with Yin Huaxing was obvious. In their opinion, Yin Huaxing, as the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, only cared about himself and did not care about Su Song's life or death, and he must carefully study this matter.

"When can Jiangning send troops? How many troops can it send? And when can Susong Town come back?" Compared to Cao Yin, Li Xu was extremely anxious. Once Suzhou is taken down as a Suzhou weaving manufacturer, he will at least lose his post and dismissal.

"Gali is already making arrangements. Brother, what's going on in Suzhou now when you came to you?" Cao Yin asked.

Li Xu shook his head and said, "Chen Pengnian is preparing for the city defense, but you know the situation in Suzhou. There are not many defenders in the city. I asked in detail before coming to Jiangning. This time, the rebels in Ningbo almost all came out. The land and water army had tens of thousands of troops. If reinforcements don't arrive again, Suzhou will be in danger..."

Cao Yin frowned, stood up and walked a few steps: "Since the situation is so dangerous, brother and I will go to see Gali now. No matter what, this Suzhou City must not be lost."
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