ps: Save some manuscripts for the New Year.

This is the first time Cai Chongji has returned to China.

Although he knew his roots were there since he was a child, this was the first time he had set foot on China's land in twenty years.

The Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi Fuller, Fuller, ordered the Dutch the weapons at a high price.

And pack all the instructors prepared by the Dutch.

Qianlong was not a fool.

He knew very well the difference between the flintlock gun and the flintlock gun, but it was obviously impossible to call the Qing Dynasty to take out a large number of flintlock guns in a short time. Then he had to buy it!

Just like Masahiro bought artillery from Portugal, they could also buy arms from foreigners.

So not only the Dutch got the order, but also the Portuguese and British in Macau also received it. However, one of the latter two is too small in size, and the other base is a bit far away, not as fast as the Dutch.

Artin used Chinese merchant ships from Batavia to transport these arms, and there was no need to wait for the southeast monsoon to arrive, which was half a year shorter than the British.

As the first batch of truly meaningful arms, Fullerhun was very happy.

Even Cai Chongji, who is a translator in the instructor team, earned ten taels of silver a month.

But Fullerhun never knew how much he hated the Qing Dynasty (Cai Chongji) in front of him.

After the Hongxi tragedy, the Dutch were worried that the Qing Dynasty was dissatisfied with it, and they sent people to the capital to apologize. As a result, Qian Xiaosi's words made the Chinese in Ba who survived the massacre all hated the Qing Dynasty.

Qian Xiaosi treated them as abandoning people overseas and being guilty of their own people. How could they really regard the Qing Dynasty as their mother country?

Especially now, the Zhao family, who was rebelling, also severely beaten the Dutch in Nanyang. Although it caused quite a lot of trouble to the Chinese in Baba, it also made many Chinese feel very happy. Looking at the noble foreign devils so sad, wouldn’t it make people feel very happy?

This is the only thing that the Zhao family won the favor of countless Chinese people in Nanyang, and Cai Chongji is one of them.

He also asked his servant to send a letter to the Zhao family, and he also held a token given by the Zhao family in his hand.

It’s a pity that he doesn’t know how to contact the Zhao family now.

However, Cai Chongji soon became unhappy. After receiving the arms, Fullerhun did not arm his troops on the spot, but instead transported all of them to the front line of the Yangtze River.

It is mainly Jiangnan and Huguang, with 46 points on both sides.

There is no need to say much about the importance of Jiangnan, but the situation Chen Jun made in northern Jiangsu is very obvious, that is, a defender.

Without an absolute advantage on the water surface, the Qing army on the other side could not defeat the Yangtze River at all.

But the same is true that the little power of the Chen army in northern Jiangsu could not hit Jiangnan.

However, Huguang area is very worried.

Since the White Lotus Doctrine Army left Yichang and entered southern Sichuan, Sichuan and Shaanxi in November last year, both places have been unstable. Cheng De, the Sichuan and Shu admiral who had already led troops into Huguang to Beijing, hurried back to Kuizhou Prefecture.

As for Chen Jun opposite, Wang Jinglong, the chief manager, set up his camp in Jingmen and directly put pressure on Jingzhou.

The generals were also deployed to hoard them in Hanyang, which shocked Wuchang City every day.

Anyway, the situation in Huguang is even more tense than that in Jiangnan.

However, Cai Chongji was not assigned to Huguang area, but arrived in Jiangning with others. Just when he arrived in Jiangning, the Qing army came again bad news.

——Anqing lost.

Chen Jun started to stop his troops last winter, and it has been three or four months since then.

The recent rumors are all about Zhao Liang's illness in Kaifeng Prefecture. Who knew that at this critical moment, Wang Jinglong's troops sent to seize Anqing!

Shulin, the governor of Anhui Province, was caught off guard.

Because the troops who came down from northern Hubei were on water routes. Peng Bingkang led 5,000 troops to go down the river by boat, and rushed past the mouth of Jiujiang and Hukou, and the army rushed straight into Anqing.

Who said that all the Qing army navy in western Ganzhou was defeated?

So the Qing army warships patrolling Hukou were just large civilian ships. Facing the Chen army's large army, let alone going out to block the attack, they would not even dare to chase after them.

Even in Chen Jun's fleet, there are many ships transporting military supplies, civilian ships.

Not only that, the Qing army was even one step too late to report the news.

Shulin was almost as if he was attacked by Chen Jun without any defense. He was caught off guard. Most of the Qing army in Anqing were the militia he recruited over the past few days. You can imagine how military qualities he suddenly suffered from attacks. He was already in chaos first, and then the guard team of more than 10,000 people was defeated in a mess.

Shulin fled to Luzhou before stopping, and then raised a flag to recruit defeated soldiers. There were more than 10,000 soldiers in Anqing City, but he only collected less than 3,000 people, and there was not even a large number of Qing troops that had been established before.

The fall of Anqing shocked the entire Yangtze River Basin, Hukou, Jiujiang, Wuchang and other places all became nervous. Although the Chen army in northern Jiangsu seemed unable to send troops, the Chen army in northern Hubei was still very rich.

Who told the Qing army prisoners who were sent to mine labor reform in the past few months to cry and ask their parents to surrender?

Moreover, more people were willing to work hard for the Zhao family in Yunyang.

There are also Dabie Mountains, Funiu Mountains, and the Central Plains. Although there are many plains, the mountainous areas in western and southwest Henan are still very large, and there are even more poor people.

These people are potential soldiers of the Zhao family.

Now Wang Jinglong has a total of ten divisions under his command, responsible for starting from Yunyang, Yichang in the west, the Yangtze River in the south, the Central Plains in the north, and the Huangzhou and Anhui Province in the east.

The total land force is close to 60,000.

If this is a fierce attack on the Qing army's defense line south of the Yangtze River, it will be difficult for the Qing army to defend fully.

In particular, the Chen army had the advantage of water routes and the speed of mobilizing troops and supplies was far higher than that of the Qing army. They could gather across the opposite side of Jingzhou, but in just a few days they could send tens of thousands of troops to Hanyang hundreds of miles away, and Wuchang launched a fierce attack. The Qing army had no ability to transport the Yangtze River waterway, so they could not do this.

But in essence, Zhao Liang's goal was basically on the front line of the Yangtze River. He asked Peng Bingkang to go to Anqing, but because the distance between northern Jiangsu and northern Hubei was too long, Zhao Liang felt that his navy needed to find a place to settle down here, and Anqing was the most suitable one.

Similarly, the fat piece of Anhui that has been in Zhao Liang's bowl is the ripe fruit, and you can pick it off with your hands. When the influence of auspiciousness spreads, it is when Chen Jun completely takes over Anhui. Now it doesn't matter if you want to take a bite of Anqing.

Zhao Liang’s own real goal is to be in Linqing.

Last winter, Mingliang learned Fu Kang'an and played multiple offensives. There were really several Qing troops breaking through the Yellow River line. Even though Zhao Liang rushed north and the Qing troops retreated one after another, Mingliang did not let go of Liaocheng and Guantao.

Because after pinching these two places, it was equivalent to pinching Chen Jun’s fastest and most convenient channel to communicate with Linqing—one is the Grand Canal and the other is the Wei River.
Chapter completed!