The troops in eastern Zhejiang were originally more than 100,000, and nearly 30% of them were lost after the battle of Rehang. Later, the Ming and Qing armies entered a stubborn attitude, and the King of Lu quickly incorporated some troops and their troops were restored to 100,000.

But these 100,000 people are very watery, and there are probably less than 30,000 soldiers who can fight, and the others are new soldiers who have been recruited in less than half a year.

If the two armies faced each other in the wilderness and fought head-on with real swords and guns, 100,000 Zhejiang soldiers might not even be able to defeat 10,000 real Manchus.

Therefore, Zhao Ming was not optimistic about Jiang Fang and believed that the Zhejiang soldiers could not stop the Qing army, so he insisted on returning to Jintang Island and was ready to take measures to harass the Qing army's rear to save the crisis in eastern Zhejiang.

In the whole world, there are nearly 180,000 Eight Banners soldiers on the Qing Dynasty, about 80,000 Mongolian soldiers on the outer vassals, about 50,000 Guanning troops, and about 60,000 Ming troops on the nine borders, including Jiang Xiang, Tang Tong and other nine borders. In addition, they have also surrendered the four towns in Jiangbei, Wuchang Zuo Town, and a total of about 400,000 troops, as well as some of the surrendered Shun Army.

According to calculations, the Qing Dynasty had about 800,000 troops, which can be divided into third-rate according to its combat power. The first-rate is naturally nearly 180,000 Eight Banners soldiers, and the second-rate is Guanning Army, foreign vassal soldiers, and the Nine-Border Ming Army, with about 190,000 troops. The third-rate is Liu Liangzuo, Liu Zeqing, Zuo Menggeng and others surrendered Ming Army, as well as Wang Tizhong, Wang Deren, Zheng Siwei, He Zhen and other Shun Army, a total of about 430,000 troops.

The Ming Dynasty's current military strength is about 300,000, and it is divided into camps such as eastern Zhejiang and Fujian. The combat power of the army is not as good as that of the Qing army's third-rate army.

Historically, Li Chengdong, one of the third-rate troops, fought from Xuzhou to Jiangnan, then conquered Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangzhou, and penetrated the entire southeast.

Jin Shenghuan, who is also a third-rate, also conquered a province in Jiangxi with his own strength.

Now there are 300,000 Ming troops, about 100,000 in eastern Zhejiang and Fujian, and the remaining 100,000 are distributed in southern Jiangxi, Huguang, Guangdong and Guangxi, Guizhou and other places. It is difficult to support each other, and the situation and crisis can be imagined.

If it weren't for the shaving order, the Qing army would have taken away the Ming Dynasty in a wave.

Although Zhao Ming was active in Jiangnan and forced Li Chengdong in advance to save everyone in Jiangyin, the general trend between the Ming and Qing dynasties did not change. The general trend of the world was still in Qing and not in Ming. The situation of the Ming Dynasty was still as dangerous as it could be defeated at any time.

The only reliance for eastern Zhejiang to compete with the Qing army was Jiang Defense. Now that the Qing army has broken through the upstream, the Ming army in eastern Zhejiang is in danger of its destruction.

If the 100,000 Ming troops in eastern Zhejiang were finished, Zheng Zhilong would definitely surrender, and the Ming Dynasty would be out of troops, and the Qing army would be able to take away Zhejiang, Fujian, southern Gannan, Huguang and the Ming army would have no chance to turn around.

After hearing Xia Wanchun's words, Zhao Ming immediately realized that the situation was critical and that at such a critical moment, he had to take action.

Zhao Ming readily agreed to send troops, but Xia Wanchun said melancholy: "Although the situation in eastern Zhejiang is urgent, the Xiaguan went to the island from Liegang, but found that the general's troops were not strong, and it may be difficult to alleviate the pressure in eastern Zhejiang."

There were only a few dozen boats in Liegang, and most of them were just fishing boats. When Xia Wanchun got ashore, his heart was cold, which was also the reason for his melancholy.

Zhao Ming understood what Xia Wanchun meant. He felt that Zhao Ming had too few troops, but in fact, Zhao Ming's troops were indeed pitifully small.

Although Duoduo's main force is in Zhejiang, there are not without Qing troops in Jiangnan. At least three or four thousand Qing troops are stationed in any prefecture. Zhao Ming wants to restrain the Qing army. With only two thousand Taiping Camps, he may not be able to defeat a county town.

Zhao Ming stood up and said in a deep voice: "Don't worry about Master Xia. I have asked someone to invite all the rebels from all walks of life to come."

As he said that, Zhao Ming looked like Chen Mingyu, "Sir, I want to ask you to go to Zhoushan and express your feelings to General Huang. It is related to the safety of the world. Please send troops to help the war!"

Chen Mingyu's eyes lit up and nodded, "General Huang has a battalion of soldiers and many warships. If he is willing to help, it will be easy!"

Xia Wanchun stood up when he heard the words, "I'll go there together!"

Now Zhu Yihai has accepted the title of Emperor Longwu, and is the crown prince of the Ming Dynasty. Xia Wanchun represents the crown prince. It is better for him to see Huang Binqing.

Zhao Ming nodded immediately: "Okay, it's not time to go, everyone will take action separately."

Since the Qing army captured Yanzhou and was facing Jinhua, there was a gap in the Zhejiang army's defense line. Boluo could attack Jinhua, kill Taizhou, or directly attack Zhejiang eastern. The situation was urgent.

At that moment, Chen Mingyu and Xia Wanchun immediately set off and went to Zhoushan Island to visit Huang Binqing, while Zhao Ming hurriedly summoned Ma Shiao, Wang Deshun, Ruan Mei, Li Zhongming, Guo Zhong and others to discuss matters and prepare for the war.

Two thousand soldiers of Taiping Camp were left with only one hundred people to guard the village, and all the remaining troops went on a war. The craftsmen and women and children on the island kept making weapons and fighting robes for the soldiers day and night.

On the second day, before the rebels on other islands came back, Cheng Bi's fleet returned from Japan, bringing a lot of sulfur, Japanese swords, and more than 30 Japanese ronin to the island.

On the third day, the rebels on nearby islands arrived one after another. More than 6,000 people and more than 100 sea boats slowly gathered on Jintang Island. Chen Mingyu and Xia Wanchun, who had moved troops from Zhoushan Island, never came back.

At Liegang Wharf, Zhao Ming looked out, but Huang Binqing's fleet never came.

"General, why don't I go to Zhoushan to ask?" Wang Deshun suggested.

Zhao Ming frowned, "Zhoushan is only half a day away from Jintang Island. The person surnamed Huang is coming, so he has come long ago! He hasn't come yet, so he probably doesn't want to send troops."

Wang Deshun said annoyedly: "Zhi Madam, if he doesn't come, he will just stand in the pit and not shit, and he is not worthy of being the general of Zhoushan!"

Zhao Ming swelled his cheeks and was a little annoyed by Huang Binqing. At this moment, Li Zhongming said: "Here I'm back!"

Zhao Ming looked up and saw four sea boats appearing swaying outside the harbor.

Soon after, the ship docked, Chen Mingyu and Xia Wanchun got off the ship, Chen Mingyu looked guilty, "I have been entrusted by the general and did not convince General Huang to send troops!"

Xia Wanchun said coldly: "The Xiaguan stayed on the island for two days before he met Huang Binqing. He claimed that his duty was to guard Zhoushan and he was unwilling to send troops. Mr. Chen persuaded him so much that he sent four sea boats!"

Historically, eastern Zhejiang was wiped out by the Qing army, and King Lu was fled to Zhoushan. Huang Binqing was directly rejected, and King Lu had to escape to Fujian.

King Zhiren of Xingguo led the Zhejiang East Navy to meet, but Huang Binqing ordered people to suddenly fire artillery, sink the Zhejiang soldiers' ships, and rob the Zhejiang soldiers' warships. In grief and anger, Wang Zhiren sank the 93 family members on a boat, all drowned and died. He went to Nanjing to die and was killed by the Qing soldiers.

Zhao Ming was not very clear about this history, but he realized that Huang Binqing and Zheng Zhilong had a close relationship, so he was not surprised by this result.

Zhao Ming said in a deep voice: "Since that's the case, let's not care about him for the time being!"

That night, the leaders of the rebel army who came to Jintang Island gathered under Zhao Ming's tent in the Juyi Hall.

The Zhoushan Islands are short of supplies, and whoever has money and food can immediately attract a large number of people to obey the orders.

Zhao Ming ordered people to take out all the stored grain and silver on the island, and according to the prior agreement, they paid 30% of the money and grain to the rebels who came to help the war, and then shouted: "Dear leaders, this time, I can come for the world, and the other is to give me Zhao face. Today, Zhao promises everyone that Zhao will not lose any amount of money and grain that he promised. If he captures the city, Zhao will have a reward!"

"General, please lead us!"

"General Zhao killed Tunqi and captured Nikan, which was awesome to the Three Wus. We all listened to the general!"

With money and food to divide, Zhao Ming has a high prestige, and the leaders of various rebel army expressed their willingness to obey orders.

Seeing this, Zhao Ming immediately shouted, "Okay, no matter how hard we will send troops to the Yangtze River!"

There was a response below, and more than 6,000 people boarded the ship overnight and headed towards the estuary of the Yangtze River.

Although the various rebels were not in charge of each other and were in a mob, more than a hundred sea boats left the port, which looked quite spectacular from a distance.

On the dock, Chen Mingyu saw Zhao Ming off and whispered: "General, all the elites on the island are coming out, I'm worried about Huang Binqing~"

"Mr. I remind you that, however, things in eastern Zhejiang are urgent, I must go on the battle! Beware of Huang Binqing's affairs and leave it to Mr. Zhao Ming sneered in his heart, thinking that if Huang Binqing dares to do something, it will be an excuse for me.
Chapter completed!