Dominate the Country

Yangxin Hall, Dongnuan Pavilion.

Emperor Qianlong sat high on the top, with eight beile Yongxuan, eleven bele Yongxuan, and twelve bele Yongcang at the bottom. Emperor Qianlong's three adult sons, plus several princes bele, a group of military ministers, and six Manchu and Han ministers, All the royal family dignitaries and first- and second-rank officials in Beijing were present.

Twenty or thirty people gathered in Dongnuan Pavilion, and the atmosphere was very depressing.

Why is this so? Of course it was because news of the fall of Fuzhou reached the capital.

There are four to five thousand flag soldiers in Fujian [total], three thousand training troops equipped with automatic muskets, and supervisors from Mingfu and Ening, plus thirty to forty thousand green camp civilian warriors. These people withstood the fierce attack of the Tiandihui rebels, and good news came not long ago. Chen Jie defeated the Fujian bandits with the weak and the strong, and killed Zhao Mingde, one of the bandit chiefs. Beijing City was delighted for several days after receiving the news from Beng Hock. And how long has it been? Is Fuzhou doomed?

Looking at the entire Battle of Fuzhou, from Lianjiang to the General's Mansion, it took the Fuhan Army three days to complete the attack. The entire upper echelon of the Qing court is in trouble!

Everyone here is very familiar with the topography of Fuzhou. It's so dangerous, surrounded by mountains on three sides and facing water on one side. It's hard to find a few places in the world with better terrain than Fuzhou. Even if Wu Bida failed to live up to his divine grace and led the Fujian Navy to rebel, leaving the Minjiang River wide open, wouldn't he have lost the city in three days and wiped out tens of thousands of soldiers?

This is more than what is recorded in the "Records of the Ancestors of the Qing Dynasty", in which the Qing soldiers defeated more than 20 formations of bandit soldiers, and surrendered 20 total soldiers, 41 lieutenants, 72 auxiliary soldiers, and 68,500 horse and infantry soldiers. More than a hundred names, Xiping, Fujian, even more exaggerated.

Even if everyone in the world now knows that the Green Camp is unstoppable and it is reasonable for the Fuhan Army to fight with overwhelming force, it should not have lost so quickly. It simply took off the last pair of pants of the soldiers of the Qing Dynasty. And more importantly - Huang Shijian surrendered.

The first-class Duke of the Qing Dynasty surrendered! This is unheard of.

Although Duan Xiulin before and Wu Bida now were both admirals, their weight was completely different from that of Huang Shijian. The latter was Duke Haicheng of the Qing Dynasty. The first-class Duke also surrendered. Can the Han people still believe it? A dark cloud completely enveloped the city of Beijing.

Fuzhou General Ming Fu, Fujian Governor Ening and many other high-ranking officials died with their families. Only two prominent figures in the Fujian Navy and Army surrendered, first Wu Bida and then Huang Shijian, both of whom were Han members. The defeat of Fuzhou seems to have It seems logical.

But the influence has already fermented in Beijing, the heart of Manchu rule. Everyone present, both Manchu and Han, hated Wu Huang to the core!

Although that is still on the lips, who can guarantee that it will not truly become a reality in the future? No rational person would think that was a good thing. Once the Manchu and Mongolian suspicions of the Han people were exposed, the Qing Dynasty would be over. But this suspicion is the most difficult to eliminate.

Let's talk about the Qing army in Fuzhou. Thousands of Eight Banners disciples who have been tempered by battles, the superintendents of Mingfu and Ening, and the training troops in Fuzhou are the fundamental forces that the Qing government relied on to stabilize Fuzhou. Many of the weapons used by the flag soldiers, supervising the standard, and training the army were shipped directly from Beijing to Fuzhou by sea. Although I did not 'imagine' them to be as powerful as the Eight Banners New Army, I also believed that the combat effectiveness of these armies was far superior to that of the Green Camp Mingyong.

As a result, these powerful teams faced the Tiandihui Rebel Army. When facing the Fuhan Army, the huge city was destroyed in only three days. All Eight Banners officials in Fuzhou City were killed...

When the news reached Beijing, the heads of the Qing court, especially those who were bannermen, felt as if their hearts were broken.

Because of the particularity of the situation in Fujian, because of the continuous operations of the Fuzhou Qing army, and because of the series of achievements of the Fujian Qing army against the Tiandihui rebels in the province, these people had great confidence. Maybe they didn't think that the Qing army in Fujian could really withstand the Fuhan army's violent attack, but at least they could delay it for a little longer and buy more time for the Manchu Qing...

Who would have thought that this would be the case.

Several high-ranking officials were martyred, which proved on the one hand that Fuzhou's resistance was exhausting and tenacious. However, despite all their efforts, they still could not withstand the Fuhan Army's overwhelming offensive, which further highlighted the Fuhan Army's absolute advantage in combat effectiveness.

Before summoning the princes and ministers, Qianlong's hands were trembling after reading the report. He asked Fu Heng, "Could this be false?"

Fu Heng replied: "I thought it was true. Sticking sticks are worthy of belief in such a big matter. Moreover, the rebels are so powerful that they look like they are swallowing up the Southern Kingdom. Even if there are one or two false exaggerations in this article, we should treat it as it is. Of."

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The entire conference will not just be in Dongnuan Pavilion with sadness for spring and autumn. The most important thing for the Manchus now is to boost the morale of their own people.

"The Admiral of Guangxi, Xu Chenglin, has personally led the twenty-fourth battalion of the border army to Guangzhou. The Admiral of Guizhou, Bai Ling'a, has also sent 10,000 Guizhou soldiers to enter Guangxi. Yunnan Ha Guoxing has also gathered nearly 10,000 troops, and his troops are in Chuyao Town. Ma Biao has already marched into Nanning..."

"Sichuan Governor Altai came to report that Dong Tianbi has led his army from Ningqiang Prefecture [Hanzhong] and is approaching Nanzheng [Hanzhong Fucheng]..."

"Gansu Admiral Lu Wei and Hanzhong Chen Ni's army fought fiercely in Feng County..."

"Xi'an Vice-Capital Commander Nayan's troops arrived at Shaanxi Ning Hall..."

A large pile of memorials came up with a clatter. It seems that there is no gratifying progress on either side, but with such a huge list of contents being reported, the atmosphere in the entire Dongnuan Pavilion immediately became much more lively.

The officers and soldiers in the southwest and northwest are still working hard. They didn't just take the money and do nothing. The court asked Sichuan and Guangdong to pay several million taels of silver to the three provinces of Guangxi, Yunnan and Guizhou, and allowed the local officials in the warring areas to set up lijin checkpoints on their own. The power was given up. Overnight, the court seemed to have returned to the time when it first entered the Central Plains, but it was not in vain. The officers and soldiers in the southwest are still loyal.

Today, the Manchu and Han officials in the East Warm Pavilion have all experienced the uprising of the Fu Han Army, and their psychological endurance is quite outstanding.

Fuzhou is the first city of Fujian, and it is very shocking and throbbing to lose it. But as long as the southwest officers and soldiers don't do anything weird, everyone will have a bottom line in their hearts. Because the Fu Han Army will have to completely deal with the military situation in the southwest if it wants to go north in a big way, and the southwest has a complex geography, which can delay the Fu Han Army for several years. What Beijing lacks most now is time.

With time, they can train new troops, cast guns, and move a large number of bannermen back to Guandong, manage the areas outside the Great Wall, and set their sights on Korea, digging into Korea's walls to make up for the shortage of Daqingguo. All this takes time!

So much so that when Mingfu and E'ning were to be given posthumous titles, the ministers in the Dongnuan Pavilion lost their initial hesitation and fear.

At the end of October, the Qing court appointed Hailancha as the deputy governor of Shengjing, led 5,000 new troops of the Eight Banners, 5,000 Zhili training troops, and escorted a group of more than 30,000 honest people drawn from various banners to the north outside the Great Wall. This was the first group of people sent out from Beijing since Chen Ming went to Changzhou.

But it seemed that they were bodyguards for the Eight Banners children returning to the Northeast. And they were definitely not going south-

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In Fuzhou, the confiscation work was still in progress, just like Nanjing and Hangzhou at the beginning, Fuzhou was also a sea of ​​gold and silver.

The Fu Han Army swept the entire Fuzhou City, and only those officials and merchants who colluded with them spit out a large amount of money and food.

The Fu Han Army took the money with good reason. They only took the share amount of the officials, not digging out the roots. Of course, the profiteers and evil merchants, those who bully the market, still have to be robbed cleanly. But other than that, it is really civilized. Even for some merchants with no obvious bad deeds and good reputation, if they can't get enough money for a while, as long as they sign an agreement and settle the interest, they can postpone the time.

In just ten days, the Fu Han Army's income exceeded one million taels of silver.

And as long as the silver is in hand, what should the Fu Han Army do with these merchants who colluded with the Qing officials? After the silver is in hand, the Fu Han Army will no longer restrict them. They, the old and the young in the family, can enter and leave Fuzhou freely.

It is said that before and after the war, many Fuzhou people fled from the city to the countryside. Now they are returning one after another. In just a few days, the market has become bustling...

Hanzhong Ningqiang Prefecture is a county in the southwestern corner of the entire Hanzhong Prefecture. The Jialing River passes through its west and goes straight into Sichuan. The current Sichuan Admiral Dong Tianbi took great efforts to take this place.

It is very easy to advance to Hanzhong Prefecture from Ningqiang Prefecture. There are official roads and many post stations along the way. In peacetime, you can go north along the road first, turn east at Qingyang Post Station, first to Mianyang County, and then to Hanzhong Prefecture.

There is also a Da'an Post Station in front of Qingyang Post Station, and there is also a Wuding Mountain in front of Da'an Post Station. Wuding Mountain is horizontal to the west and Yangping Pass.

If there is no war, it will not take a few days to run all the above-mentioned places, relying only on foot and 11 vehicles.

But now it is a war period, so it is a big trouble.

Once the Fu Han Army blocks the only road, the Qing Army can only bite hard step by step. Or take great risks, abandon all heavy weapons, and attack from the mountain roads. But if this fails, then it will be all over.

Dong Tianbi has already captured Berlin Post, with Wuding Mountain in front and Yangping Pass on the side, and the Fu Han Army has deployed heavy troops.

Dong Tianbi must take both into account if he fights again, otherwise he will capture Wuding Mountain but not Yangping Pass, how can he continue to move forward? And if Dong Tianbi's Sichuan soldiers can capture Yangping Pass, he can even follow the Jialing River to Fengxian and join the troops in the north. At least the traffic between them is opened.

Let's not talk about anything else. Just say that if Sichuan's grain can be transported to the north through the Jialing River - Baishuijiang Town in Lueyang, Hanzhong, it will be a big shot in the arm for the Qing Dynasty.

Although the river section from Baishuijiang Town to the source of the Jialing River in Fengxian is shoal-filled and tortuous, it is not navigable. But at Baishuijiang, the Qing army can completely transport Sichuan's grain to Gansu.

It doesn't have to be shipped to Shaanxi. Solving the problem in Gansu would be a great help to the Qing army.

In Chen Ming's previous life, the Haici said: Guangyuan and below are navigable. It is easy to be understood as that Guangyuan and above are not. In fact, when the Chu-Han War broke out, Xiao He stayed in Bashu and used the Jialing River to send grain from Shu to supply military supplies. There were many records of navigation during the Han and Tang Dynasties. When the Three Feudatories of the Qing Dynasty rose up, the river section below Baishuijiang Town in Lueyang was also the lifeline of the Qing army. Many times, the grain ships were burned by the Wu army and the army was short of food, which led to a great decline in the offensive.

So this temptation is absolutely great for Dong Tianbi.

Dong Tianbi didn't know that Fuzhou had been captured by the Fu Han Army. At this moment, he was holding a telescope and looking at the Fu Han Army's position opposite. Since Chen Qi led the teaching division to capture Hanzhong last year, he has fought with the Fu Han Army many times. To be honest, he doesn't think he has won a single battle. In those so-called "victories", the casualties among his Sichuan soldiers were more than those of the Fu Han Army.

A dozen officers of different sizes surrounded Dong Tianbi. These people were Dong Tianbi's old subordinates. Since Dong Tianbi was awarded the title of military scholar, he has been working in the Sichuan Tibiao Camp for 10 to 20 years. After the former Sichuan Admiral Ma Mingxun died in battle, Dong Tianbi took the position of Sichuan Admiral, and no one disobeyed him.

There are still many people in the Sichuan Army who have the same experience as Dong Tianbi. Because Sichuan is close to Hubei, the Qing Dynasty has repeatedly drawn Green Camp from it, and admirals, generals, deputy generals, lieutenant generals..., one after another fell in the fall of the Fu Han Army. The old ones left, and the new ones came up. Whether it is soldiers or officers, the Sichuan Army has been updated rapidly in the past two years.

Altai trusts Dong Tianbi. Because Dong Tianbi is from Daxing County, Shuntian, that is, Beijing. His family and relatives are all in Beijing, Dong Tianbi will never dare to rebel, right?

"Boom boom boom..."

The artillery of the Fu Han Army on the hilltop fired at Dong Tianbi. Dong Tianbi cursed fiercely, "son of a bitch", and led his men to retreat from the hilltop. Having lived in Sichuan for 10 to 20 years, Dong Tianbi speaks Sichuan dialect very authentically.

It was afternoon, and violent explosions sounded on the battlefield. Deafening, overwhelming, covering any sound on the ground. Fire and smoke continued to rise on the front-line positions at the foot of the Fu Han Army.

"Damn it, bang, I'm in the dirt." Jiang Kui said "Puh" twice in a row, closed his eyes, and opened them for a long time.

He is now the deputy battalion officer of the teaching brigade. They were responsible for guarding the position on this hilltop, and Jiang Kui rushed to the front line in person. As an officer from the military school, Jiang Kui was not good at infantry and artillery coordination. But haven't you eaten pork or seen pigs walk? His vision is not bad at all.

The Sichuan Army's artillery bombardment and the infantry attack that followed the bombardment had a very poor coordination between the infantry and the artillery! Or rather, there was no coordination at all!

Dong Tianbi's infantry was as slow as a turtle crawling.

The bombardment did not last long. When they saw a lot of smoke rising from the Fu Han Army's position, the Sichuan Army artillery on the opposite side stopped with satisfaction. When the infantry on the front saw that the artillery had stopped, they became bolder and cried out "Wow!" Groups of infantry neatly fired volleys at the Fu Han Army's position. The gleaming bayonets almost blinded Jiang Kui behind the telescope.

Dong Tianbi directly threw in a thousand troops, divided into two groups, front and back, intending to defeat the Fu Han Army's position in one fell swoop. And after a thousand people were arranged in a horizontal line and launched an attack, the momentum that erupted was quite terrifying. Who made the teaching division's current position equipped with few cannons!

Even if Chen Han's cannons are worthless, he can't equip a single teaching division with thousands of cannons and mortars, right? Let them gather dozens of cannons in any defensive position or sniper position?

As for the flying thunder cannon, it is powerful, but the gap opened by the Sichuan Army is also large.

But Jiang Kui only smiled coldly when he looked at the Sichuan Army soldiers in the distance. If the Sichuan Army fought like this, the main forces on the hillside and the top of the mountain would not have to worry about this battle, let alone request reinforcements. This front-line team can easily deal with them.

"Prepare the rocket launchers!" Jiang Kui shouted at the Qing army. Besides