"Lieutenant Juan is back!" A report woke Liu Haiyang up, who was thinking about it. He had put on his military uniform that had been dusty due to the war for several days, then turned around and looked at an east bank inland gunboat moored on the bank of Cixi. At this time, a short, sturdy naval officer on the deck of the gunboat was jumping on the shore and then walked towards Liu Haiyang.

"Talk the point directly." After Liu Haiyang and Lieutenant Juan salute each other, they stopped his possible routine report and said bluntly: "What do you say over there in Li Guo?"

"The generals of Shunguo unanimously agreed to launch a counterattack against the Qing Dynasty. They have gathered more than 100,000 people and divided into two groups to attack Jingzhou. The left side is led by Liu Fangliang, the left side, and the right side is led by Yuan Zongdi, the right side. Both sides are the main elites, bringing enough food and grass. In addition, there are some Spanish mechas and bronze artillery we support. It should be no problem to capture Jingzhou. In addition, the Baron Linqu has a high-yield power Tian Hu, Yang Mingqi and other former battalion generals have gone out of the Hunan-Chu border and are ready to respond at any time." Speaking of this, Lieutenant Hu also shook his head, showing that he was dissatisfied with the Shunguo's strategy of division of troops: "They have lost more and won less in the past one or two years, and they are a little unconfident when they were in the Qing team, so they always like to divide the troops and are afraid of being taken away by others."

"Is there any movement in Nanming?" Liu Haiyang continued to ask. To be honest, the monarchs and ministers of Nanming were really messed up in their grand strategy. It is not an exaggeration to say that they were extremely stupid. Basically, they were all doing things that their relatives would hurt their enemies. He was really afraid that He Tengjiao, who was entrenched in southern Hunan, would cause any trouble. This is a very difficult thing to say.

"I stayed in Baling and Changsha for more than three months. During this period, there were only a few small-scale border conflicts between the Ming and Shun Kingdoms. Shun Kingdom was in a hurry to fight the Northern Expedition. The two sides stopped. But two days before I came back, I heard that the Ming Kingdom in the south was having friction again. They wanted the Shun Army to give up Changsha, which caused dissatisfaction among the Shun Kingdom. At present, their supreme commander General Li Guo and Li (Li Guo did not claim to be emperor) have led Ma Chongxi, Zhang Neng, Li Shiwei, Wu Pingxiao, Wang Youjin, Helan and other central camps, and the generals of the Houbasket returned to Changsha to take charge. There were more than 70,000 troops and horses returning with him. These people could have been used to fight the Qing Kingdom in the Northern Expedition. But the reality is that they could not concentrate their full efforts, which is a pity."

"In addition, I heard that the Shun Army generals Hao Yaoqi, Liu Tichun, Wang Jincai and others who defected to the Ming Dynasty also had a difficult life. They were transferred to Guangxi and Guizhou by Ming Dynasty to suppress the rebellious chieftains in the local areas, and at the same time fought against the Western teams of Qing Dynasty and Zhang Xianzhong, and suffered a considerable loss. In addition, most of their subordinates were soldiers from Shaanxi and Henan, and many died of illness in Guizhou and Guangxi. Moreover, local Ming officials and local gentlemen also hated them and deliberately did not send food and grass to them. Once they were forced to raise food and grass on their own, these people would scold them for plundering their own troops, and then mobilized the army to destroy them. In short, the Ming Dynasty did not seem to have planned to really accept these people, and was just deliberately playing with them. Therefore, these generals all hoped to return to Shun Country again. It is said that their envoy had contacted Li Guo's people many times."

"Hmph, it's better to be successful than to be defeated. It's not surprising that a group of sour Confucian scholars are at this level." Liu Haiyang smiled coldly and said harshly: "I think the troops of King Lu are much more awake than them. At least they know whether it's useless to play with the silence in the morning and the situation is not as good as the ones. For this reason, they can do everything, and their figure is much softer than those of the Yongli people. The stupid pigs in the South Ming will only create enemies continuously, and the destruction is just a matter of day and night. If Li Guo was not willing to kill each other, we would not agree. Shunjun might have destroyed a fool like He Tengjiao who has self-respecting troops and has strange ambitions."

"Guo Sheng has now been promoted to General Right Guoyi of the Central Camp. He is Li Guo's confidant general. He often says good things about us in front of generals such as Li, Liu, Yuan, and Gao, and highly respect our army's tactics. Therefore, Shunguo sent a group of people here on our speedboat, hoping that we can help them train the troops. If possible, they also hope to change the troops. Of course, they said they would pay." Second Lieutenant Juan pointed to the group of people who were disembarking on the bank of Cixi and said.

At this time, eight inland gunboats were parked in line on the banks of Cixi, each carrying about a hundred people. Their clothes were very messy, but their discipline was very good. After getting ashore, they started the whole team under the scolding of the officers, and their efficiency was quite high, which made Liu Haiyang look at him with some admiration.

The Shun Army sent about less than a thousand people this time, but the proportion of old peasant troops from Shaanxi, Henan and Chu provinces is not low, and the combat effectiveness is quite unambiguous. It should be able to play a significant role in the Fujian and Zhejiang provinces where the Qing army ruled weakly.

Their leading general was named Liu Guochang, whose original name was Liu Xiyao, and he was the deputy general of the Dashun Zuoying. He was very old and very radical. He firmly opposed the decision of Li Guo and others to work together with Nan Ming. He often made a fuss in the army to completely eliminate the Southern Ming and wipe out the Tartars. He belonged to the radical faction. Therefore, this time he was kicked by Li Guo, Gao Yigong and his old superior Liu Fangliang to the East Coast people, so as not to be noisy in their ears.

He was also accompanied by Liu Shijun, the Marquis of Dashun Yue. The daughter of this man was the queen of Li Zicheng in Xi'an in the first year of Yongchang, so she was pursued by the Qing court. This man had a good relationship with Liu Guochang. In history, they opposed surrendering to the Nanming army, so they were besieged by the Nanming army in Guangxi. Then the two led their troops to Guangdong. They were unmoved in the face of the Qing army surrender and resisted resolutely. Later, they either died of defeat or died of illness on the stuffy and humid Guangdong ground. One or two thousand tribes disappeared.

In addition to these two, two young generals from the army of Yuan Zongdi's son Yuan Bao and Lin Yangcheng (formerly known as Lin Yangcheng. After Li Zicheng ascended the throne, he changed his name to avoid taboos. He died in the raid of the Qing army's Zhengbai Banner) were also here with the East Coast people. He sent these new generations of generals to learn advanced organizational management and military technology, and it can be seen that the Shunjun has the intention to cultivate successors.

"Call Aoguanhai here." After a few greetings with the generals of Shunjun, Liu Haiyang said to his adjutant.

Aoguanhai came soon. This was a black Xhosa man, whose original name was Aolan, and he was a Klar in the supplementary camp (second only to the officer under the battalion). He was the first to attack Guanhaiwei and was named Guanhai by Liu Haiyang because he was the first to attack Guanhai.

"Take these people down to eat. Then distribute weapons to them and prepare for the next battle." Liu Haiyang ordered. And with his order, the thousand Ming Shun Army was quickly arranged to live next to Cai Huaze's troops and started to have lunch. Lunch was standard on the east coast, with corn rice and pickled saury, and each person could also get a bowl of vegetable soup, which was quite good.

While they were having a meal, the royal dynasty troops, who were surrounding Yin County, Ningbo Prefecture, were still launching continuous attacks. The Yin County wall had been bombarded by artillery on the east coast, and the Qing army in the city was frantically blocking it. The royal dynasty troops outside the city were attacking inside with the assistance of artillery on the east coast, and both sides fought hard and stood there for a while. However, the Qing army's resistance was only futile. With their situation of no food and grass inside and no reinforcements outside, Liu Haiyang probably would not be broken if he could not hold on tonight.

In fact, Liu Haiyang overestimated these Qing troops. In the evening, Liu Guochang and others who had watched the show next to him for a long time selected three hundred elite soldiers. While the Qing army was attracted to the gap, they successfully climbed the city in one fell swoop. Then they killed a few Qing troops guarding the city gate and opened the city gate. The Qing army's resistance collapsed. As soon as they appeared, the Shun Army showed its eye-catching combat power and its chief general's excellent battlefield reading ability (knowing when and where to invest how much troops they are).

Yin County is the prefecture of Ningbo Prefecture, which is extremely rich, and there are countless wealthy families in the city. After Wang Chaoxian and Liu Guochang's troops entered the city, their respective actions were also very interesting. Among them, in addition to plundering the Qing army's generals and officials, Wang Chaoxian's subordinates did not dare to offend the gentry and great officials in the city. They mainly raised funds from ordinary people. After Liu Guochang and Liu Shijun led their troops into the city, they basically did not invade the people. Instead, they distributed military funds and food to the rich merchants in the city. For this reason, they almost had a conflict with the troops of the Zhaoxian.

However, no matter how they quarreled, Liu Haiyang still collected a total of 150,000 taels of silver, as well as a large number of priceless books, antiques, jade and jewelry, as well as raw silk, porcelain, tea and so on, and they were all packed and sent back to the local area for sale, so that others would always say that the Far East was very expensive.

After the battle of Yin County, Liu Haiyang convened a meeting, unify his thoughts, and then led his army to set out quickly east. The naval gunboat accompanied him and conquered Dinghai County with lightning speed. After raising food and money, he boarded the naval transport ships anchored outside and captured the Jinshanwei in Songjiang Prefecture, Nanzhili across the sea, shocking the two provinces. At this point, from the capture of Guanhaiwei on July 30, to today on August 31, the east coast army commanded by Liu Haiyang and the two friendly forces, Liu Guochang and other two friendly forces had successively conquered Guanhaiwei, Yuyao County, Yin County, Cixi County, Dinghai County and Jinshanwei near Hangzhou Bay, destroyed more than 7,000 Qing troops, seized countless materials, and also collected a large number of craftsmen.

As they continued to harass the coastal areas of Zhejiang, the local emergency documents from the Qing court flew to Hangzhou like snowflakes, which made the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang very upset. What's more, some local gentry whose family business was damaged during this process even wrote letters to relatives and friends who were officials in Beijing, impeaching Zhang Cunren to hold on and watch the local decay, causing the successive fall of famous cities and cities, which damages the prestige of our Qing Dynasty, and should be severely punished.

But Zhang Cunren is a hard-core traitor (from the Han army flag), so how could they be easily shaken by these new traitors? However, after being done like this, Lao Zhang was under a lot of pressure for a while. Therefore, after thinking about it, he still gritted his teeth and squeezed out 5,000 green camps stationed in Hangzhou and handed them over to Ke Yongsheng, the former general of Jiaozhou Town who had just returned from Fujian, and ordered him to lead more than 7,000 troops (there are more than 2,000 people in Ke Yongsheng's headquarters) into Jiaxing Prefecture, and join some reinforcements sent from Nanjing to kill Songjiang Prefecture, and work together to suppress the yellow-clad thieves.

But there were unexpected situations in the world. When Ke Yongsheng led the few mobile troops in Zhejiang (Zhang Cunren's command had more than 40,000 troops to defend various important roads and stationed major cities, which were extremely scattered), he suddenly encountered the army under Liu Haiyang. At this time, the East Coast army was mainly composed of three parts, namely more than 3,000 people from the East Coast headquarters, more than 4,500 people from the Shun Army Liu Guochang and Cai Huaze (Liu Guochang expanded his troops in Ningbo for 2,000), and more than 16,000 people from the first troops of the King of Lu, a total of nearly 25,000 people.

The result of the encounter was obvious. The more than 7,000 people under Ke Yongsheng's command were not three heads and six arms. Except for the more than 2,000 Jiaozhou soldiers in his headquarters who were still able to fight, the other five thousand were ordinary. After persisting for more than two hours, the entire line was defeated. After more than half of the troops lost, they hurriedly retreated to Jiaxing County.

On September 13, the east coast army captured the capital of Jiaxing County. Ke Yongsheng was defeated and committed suicide. The remaining more than a thousand remaining soldiers surrendered. Many officers and soldiers of the dynasty's leading troops hated the massacre of their comrades in Fujian, and vented their anger and killed more than 300 captives of Ke Yongsheng's headquarters.

After conquering Jiaxing, the army on the east coast board boarded the ship again, and then rushed towards the empty city of Hangzhou, which made the people of Hangzhou panic for a while. Zhang Cunren summoned the rich gentry and wealthy families in the city to collect donations and recruit warriors to defend the city, but they still couldn't give people any sense of security. However, they were lucky. When reinforcements from Nanjing arrived, Liu Haiyang felt that the troops were insufficient, so he ordered the withdrawal.

However, just when Zhang Cunren was relieved, news suddenly came from the south that Ruan Jin, Zhang Mingzhen and others captured Jiantiao Station, and then conquered the city nearby, and captured a large territory for a while.

After hearing the news, Liu Haiyang dissuaded the dynasty who wanted to go to the reunion. Then he led his troops to land in Songjiang Prefecture again on September 25, and then plundered the Qing army (reinforcements sent by Nanjing). He boarded the ship again and left, and suddenly appeared along the Yangtze River in early October. He approached Zhenjiang Prefecture, making the Qing army go wild and lose sight of each other.

At this time, Nanjing's troops were already quite empty, let alone Zhenjiang here. Some of the troops stationed here were transferred to Jiangxi to support Jiergalang, and some went south to support Hangzhou. The remaining troops were spared and were not in progress, so they could only sit down and watch the army on the east coast show their might in the nearby countryside to collect food and grass.

On October 10, the East Coast army captured Jingkou Ferry, which was guarded by the Qing army. Before retreating, the Qing army burned down the huge amount of grain and tax silver stored there, so they all fell into the hands of Liu Haiyang, Liu Guochang and Wang Chaoxian. The more than 200,000 stones of rice and grain, as well as the tax silver of as much as 450,000 taels, were filled with more than ten 1,200-ton sailboats, and the East Coast people also transported them here for more than ten days. During this period, some troops were sent to try to retake Jingkou Ferry, but they did not make any promises in front of the East Coast army supported by naval naval guns, and retreated in a panic.

On October 24, after a fire burned down the Jingkou Ferry, the east coast army returned to Hangzhou Bay again by boat at the end of the month. The Qing army, which was short of troops, was exhausted to deal with it. The situation was originally pretty good, and the situation in the southeast coastal area that could provide steadily food and wages to the Qing court actually showed a gradual collapse.

However, at this time, the good luck of the Qing army gradually came. With the northeast wind blowing on the nearby sea, the 1200-ton 1200-ton sailboats gathered here at most began to sail to Yantai, Jeju, Dabo and other places in batches - the annual immigration transportation season began again. After all, the most important task of the East Coast people in the Far East is to immigrate, and fighting with the Qing army is second.

After these ships left, the East Coast army, whose mobility was greatly reduced, could no longer launch a counterattack, because at this time they only had four ships (naval gunboats and a coal transport ship to the Jiujiang area to attack the Qing army ship that transported supplies for the Jirgalang troops, dragging them back) could be used to transport supplies and personnel. This obviously also allowed the Qing army, who was originally exhausted, to breathe a sigh of relief and to adjust the layout calmly.

After seeing the yellow-clad navy ship heading north, Wang Chao felt that there was nothing wrong with it. Therefore, after informing Liu Haiyang, he began to lead his army to Zhoushan. More than 20,000 people in the unit (the army has been expanded) will go to Jiantiao Station in the south after a short rest and meet with Zhang Mingzhen and Ruan Jin. I heard that the Lu Jianguo stationed in Shacheng Port also intends to return to eastern Zhejiang, which is even better. Everyone joins the army and there is no shortage of food and salary for the time being (they were quite well seized a while ago), and they can plan for great cause.

Liu Guochang, Liu Shijun, Cai Huaze and others from Dashun retreated to Ningbo Prefecture in eastern Zhejiang at the suggestion of the East Coast people. The place is rich and the terrain is excellent, and it is close to the Zhoushan Islands, so it can be used as the base. Liu Haiyang suggested that they recruit civilians to build a bastion in the mountain corridor from Yuyao County to Yin County. The terrain here is narrow, and after the bastion is built, cannons can be installed to control the overall situation. If the Qing army did not remove this nail, the large army would no longer be able to easily enter the hinterland of Ningbo Prefecture. In this way, the Shun army might take the opportunity to occupy it here. Of course, if things are inconsistent, they can also retreat to the sea with the assistance of the East Coast Navy, which is very convenient.

In early November 1649, just when Liu Haiyang in the south racked his brains to cause trouble for the Qing army, the Qing army vanguard who returned from Shanxi appeared in the territory of Guide Prefecture, Henan and Hejian Prefecture, northern Zhili, and Zhanyun once again enveloped the sky above Shandong. Of course, the people on the east bank soon discovered the movements of the Qing army. After all, the movements of tens of thousands of troops were difficult to hide. The people on the east bank began to pack their luggage according to the plan formulated in advance and prepared to evacuate Jinan City. (To be continued, please search for astronomy, the novel is better and faster!
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