Dominate the Country

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[Thanks to ‘Wuling Heroes’ 588]

The 24th day of the twelfth lunar month. In traditional Chinese folk customs, this day is the day of sweeping the dust. It is a day to clean up and welcome the new year cleanly. But on the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month in the 32nd year of Qianlong, the whole of Hubei was immersed in anxiety.

The Fu Han Army, with more than 20,000 captives and bannermen, finally arrived in Hanchuan after half a month of travel. The entire Wuhan Three Towns were silent. But fortunately, Chen Ming did not immediately go south to attack Hanyang County. Instead, he sent a team to capture Xiaogan, Yingcheng, Yunmeng and other places before the New Year's Day, and then launched an attack on Huangpi. The Anhui Green Camp guarding Huangpi retreated without a fight and went south to join the three towns of Wuhan.

Panic and fear have completely enveloped the three towns of Wuhan. Although the Fu Han Army has not yet come, Hanchuan is only a step away from Hanyang. Beyond Hanyang, across the Yangtze River is Wuchang. At this time, the Governor of Huguang, Ding Chang, died in bed. Even though Ding Chang had stopped managing specific affairs before, and all military and political affairs were handed over to the Governor of Hubei, Fan Shishou, he was still the No. 1 Qing soldier in Huguang in name. His death caused the morale of the defenders of the three towns of Wuhan, which was already low, to drop again. It also greatly shook the confidence of the people and gentry in the three towns of Wuhan in the success of the Qing soldiers in defending Wuhan.

At this moment of turmoil, a large number of Jiangnan ships suddenly passed through Hukou and Jiujiang and came to the three towns of Wuhan. They waved silver to buy cloth, grain, porcelain, fruits, fans, combs, felt socks, needles, paper and other goods on the market in Hankou Town and Wuchang City, or raised the price several times or dozens of times for the merchants with big bellies and fat intestines, and the gentry and landlords with panic on their faces, moving their property and valuables.

As long as there is a possibility, few rich and powerful families dare to stay in the three towns of Wuhan.

Of course, all this was the "wind" blowing from Jiangyin. There are many smart people in China. It was just after the New Year, and a large number of ships had already arrived in the three towns of Wuhan, which was many days earlier than Chen Jigong's initial "plan".

"Coo, coo..."

No one noticed that there were suddenly more pigeons flying in the sky between Wuchang, Hankou, Hanyang and even Hanchuan these days.

Chen Ming has received pigeon messages from the dark camp in the past few days. There are more and more ships in Hankou and Wuchang. It's time to close the net.

"Hurry up, it must be fast." Chen Ming pointed to Hankou Town, and then pointed to Xinhe Town, "The cavalry passed through here, and took Hankou for me before the Qing soldiers woke up." Xinhe Town was a node of confrontation between the two sides, and the Qing soldiers deployed 180 people there. Of course, this number of people could not be used to resist the offensive of the Fu Han Army. Xinhe Town was a frontier outpost for the Qing army. As long as things were not right, they did not need to return to resist, they just needed to get on the boat and run back quickly.

The cavalry of the Fu Han Army has exceeded 800 cavalry, and this is because some inferior horses were transferred to the logistics and artillery. Taking Jingzhou is a great supplement for the cavalry battalion led by Chen Kaishan. The mounts of the Jingzhou cavalry became their mounts, and then too many inferior horses that were not worth looking at were kicked out of the team. Otherwise, the cavalry battalion would have exceeded 1,000 cavalry long ago.

"Go through Xinhe Town and take Hankou." Chen Kaishan repeated his task with confidence on his face. This is the confidence of the cavalry. In China, no, in the entire earth, cavalry seems to be better than infantry. Chen Kaishan always thinks so, and the people in the cavalry battalion think so, and Chen Ming did not correct it. It is still the 18th century, and even the infantry of the Fu Han Army thinks so, and now the old America has not yet established a country.

Chen Kaishan left, and Chen Ming did not think about whether the cavalry battalion could complete the task beautifully. The main force under his command rested for another ten days around the New Year, and it was time to stretch his muscles. Alyajiang has returned to Wuchang with the remnants of the defeated army, and the Green Camp from Sichuan has entered Jingzhou Prefecture. Chen Ming wants to end the Battle of Wuhan quickly.

Winter is about to pass. Just like everything grows in spring, the Fu Han Army also needs to speed up.

Chen Ming certainly does not intend to kill all the captives with more than 25,000 people and the bannermen in Jingzhou, let alone take them to "travel" to the south of the Yangtze River. My God, it takes more than half a month to go from Jingzhou to Qianjiang and then to Hanchuan, and it is safe and smooth all the way. What kind of turtle speed is this?

But Chen Ming will definitely tear the nobility and dignity of the "bannermen" to pieces in front of the whole world and trample them heavily.

As long as Wuchang is captured, the army will go down the river, ask Anhui, visit the two rivers, wander around the south of the Yangtze River, and cut off the canal. Chen Ming will let his part of the team replace the general's mansion in northwest Henan and become the biggest disaster in the eyes of the old man Qianlong.

If possible, he will also let the dark camp communicate more with the foreign bandits. Foreign bandits are not foreigners from the west, but pirates.

During the Qing Dynasty, there was no end to foreign bandits on the southeast coast of China.

As far as the Qianlong and Jiaqing periods are concerned, there are many "heroes" that Chen Mingguang remembers, including Zhu Fu, Cai Qian, the six major banners of red, black, yellow, blue, white, and blue, as well as Zheng Yi Sao and Zhang Baozai. Some of these people may not have been born in the 32nd year of Qianlong, but nothing is done in one day. There must be a reason why people from the southeast provinces went to sea. Cai Qian, Zheng Yi Sao, and Zhang Baozai were not born yet, but what about the six major banners? What about the predecessors of foreign bandits in the southeast? There must be a lot of them, right?

Chen Ming hoped to communicate with these people as soon as possible. In his eyes from the future, the importance of the ocean is no less than that of the land, not to mention that Chen Ming's dream is still so huge that it cannot be achieved by land alone.

There is a thick stack of letters on Chen Ming's desk, which were sent from Henan. The arrival of winter gave the base a good buffer time. Taking advantage of the last days of the 32nd year of Qianlong, the General's Mansion made every effort to reorganize the volunteers and increased its troops from more than 10,000 to 40,000. And almost all of them were equipped with rattan armor and high-quality swords and guns.

It can be said that the combat effectiveness of the General's Mansion has been greatly improved after the buffer period before the New Year.

Now the Qing soldiers have gathered from Linru, Xuzhou, Yancheng and other places. Although the large-scale attack has not yet started, as long as the weather turns warm, the war will start. Chen Ming can see from the handwritten letter sent by Chen Hui that his cheap father is under great physical and mental pressure.

What can Chen Ming do? He can't take the troops back to Henan, right?

All he could do was write a letter to his father, asking him to relax and fight hard and fight to the death.

After these days of the uprising, Chen Ming felt that the Qing Dynasty's Green Camp could not be said to be completely rotten, and there was still a certain difference from the Green Camp after the memory. But this does not mean that they were really so brave and brave. The Gansu and Shaanxi Green Camp and the Zhenxiang soldiers were just so-so.

The General's Mansion now has 40,000 troops, and they are determined to fight a few fierce battles to shock these troops who have gathered around them, so that they can see the huge casualties in the war, and they will definitely be relaxed.