Chapter 626 Sending troops to Hangzhou
Hu Weizong left Zheng Cai's mansion and walked into the alley. His subordinates immediately came out of the darkness.
"Sect Master, what do you say about that guy Zheng Cai?" asked a man.
Hu Weizong waved his hand, "He has promised to be sufficiently intimate. Now we must leave Hangzhou as soon as possible."
A thin backbone road: "There is a line for humble officials. There is a general in the south city of Hangzhou, who is ours. He is responsible for inspecting the south city wall tonight, so we can fall out of the city at night."
Hu Weizong said in a deep voice: "Are people reliable?"
"Absolutely reliable. He collected a lot of money and sold a lot of information about Hangzhou city defense, and there was a handle in our hands." The man said in a deep voice: "However, we have to go to Nancheng to hide now, so that we can act at night."
During the day, there are many people on the streets, which are prone to fishing in troubled waters. There are curfews in Hangzhou at night, and the gates are closed. The inspections are tight, making it difficult to pass through.
Hu Weizong immediately said, "While the Jinyiwei is still searching for the East City, let's go now."
The group of people, dressed up for a moment, pushed a big cart and pretended to be a transporter, heading towards the south city.
Hangzhou is a big city with a population of hundreds of thousands. The streets of yamen runners and troops are patrolling and inspecting passing residents and businessmen.
Hu Weizong and his group avoided the patrol team all the way and came to Nancheng cautiously.
Just as he was about to approach the stronghold, a loud shout suddenly came from behind him, "Stop, what are you doing?"
Hu Weizong's expression frightened, and the men of the Tiandihui stopped and stopped.
Behind him, a group of detectives came over, and the men immediately dispersed and stood around the vehicle, seemingly standing casually, but in fact they had already occupied a favorable position and were ready to silence the team of detectives at any time.
"Dear officials, we are delivering goods from Changsheng." said a thin old man next to Hu Weizong.
Seven or eight detectives stood in front of everyone. One of the young detectives looked at the cart and said with a stern face, "Open!"
Several constables stepped forward, Hu Weizong and others clenched their fists, and were about to take action. The old constable in the lead looked at everyone, knowing that they were not good people, and suddenly stopped them and said, "Forget it. You guys go!"
Hu Weizong glanced at the old captain, and the thin old man beside him hurriedly thanked him, and the group quickly left.
"Sect Master, why did the constable let us go?" said a congregation.
Hu Weizong sneered, "He won't let us go, they will die first. They are pretty sensible, they just eat food. It won't affect their food when they come. Why not take their lives seriously!"
After saying that, everyone had already turned into another alley and disappeared into the vast houses in the south city.
At night, at the third day of the day, soldiers wearing torches were patrolling back and forth at a fixed frequency on the top of the city of Nancheng.
At this time, a team of soldiers patrolled from the city. Just as they were about to return, General Xu Zhongming came over, stopped the patrol troops, and asked in a deep voice: "What's the situation? Can the rebels be discovered?"
The patrol officers of the hundreds of households immediately clasped their fists: "Report to the general, everything is normal!"
Xu Zhongming glanced at the back of the officials of the households and the team. Several black shadows took the rope to jump up to the top of the city, and then quickly fell from the other side and fled from Hangzhou.
Zhao Ming seized 15 million taels of silver in Nanyang. After these silvers were cast into "Zhao Datou" with a content of 70% silver, it would turn into more than 20 million silver dollars.
This is comparable to the silver dollar, which is quite significant compared to the tax revenue of the Longwu court in three years, and Donghai Town uses this silver to sell and instigate enemy generals.
Xu Yixian said seriously: "The Duke issued a death order, and he must not escape a thief. You must patrol carefully. If the thief escapes from the southern city, I will never let him go!"
Baihu said in panic: "As for the order of humble duty!"
At this time, Xu Yixian saw the last black shadow falling down from the city wall, and then said, "You are going there to patrol and don't make any mistakes!"
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Zhoushan, the place where Donghai Town started.
Now, with Donghai Town, occupying Jiangdong, Taiwan and other places, Zhoushan Island is small and has scarce supplies, and its status has gradually declined and become an ordinary prefecture and county in Donghai Town.
At this time, in the Liegang of Jintang Island, hundreds of warships gathered, and tents were also everywhere on the island.
After signing a peace agreement with the Dutch, Zhao Ming left 3,000 people to guard Luzon, and ordered Luzon Governor Dong Zhining to send a fleet to transport supplies to Xinmingzhou and to bring Han people from Java to Borneo to establish a stronghold. After the Dutch surrendered in Rezhelanburg, he led more than 10,000 people to secretly go to Zhoushan.
At the same time, the new army, which had been trained for nearly a year in Jiangdong, took the merchant ship to Japan by Huaxing Company and quietly arrived in Zhoushan.
Now, more than 20,000 water and land troops have been hidden near Zhoushan Island. Just by Zhao Ming’s order, he rushed to Hangzhou and seized Zhejiang.
At this time, Zhao Ming had been in Zhoushan for more than half a month, but Zhao Ming was still waiting patiently, and he was waiting for news from Hangzhou.
In fact, the troops in Donghai Town were too scattered at this time, and the main force of the Land Division was concentrated in North Korea and Liaodong, and was restrained by the Qing army. Zhao Ming did not have many troops to use.
Hangzhou is a big city, with Fang Guoan holding more than 100,000 people. The Longwu Dynasty also assembled hundreds of thousands of troops and stationed troops in Jiangnan.
Therefore, if Zhao Ming cannot quickly take down Hangzhou, Zhejiang will return to the Zhejiang regime in a very short time. Once the court's troops intervene, Donghai Town will be extremely passive.
Therefore, Zhao Ming must wait for Hu Weizong to contact him with information from his internal support.
However, more than half a month has passed now, and more than 20,000 troops are stationed in Zhoushan. It is very likely that Fang Guoan will find out, so he is prepared for it, which makes Zhao Ming a little anxious.
On this day, Zhao Ming was in the camp and sent personnel to Jiangbei to meet Li Chengdong and Zhang Mingzhen, and sent money and food to Jiangbei's Zhejiang army to stabilize the hearts of Zhejiang soldiers. Ruan Mei suddenly picked up the tent and came in, "Prime Minister, Hu Weizong is back!"
Zhao Ming was overjoyed when he heard the words and ordered a few staff members to say, "Wait and go to Jiangbei!"
After the staff took the order to leave, Zhao Ming hurriedly said, "Let Hu Weizong come to see me!"
Soon after, Hu Weizong entered the tent and saluted Zhao Ming and said, "I'm not going to see the Prime Minister!"
Zhao Ming strode forward, grabbed his hand, and asked anxiously: "What's the situation?"
Hu Weizong smiled and said, "Reporting to the Prime Minister, I am lucky to be a blessing in disgrace to my fate, and I have contacted me properly. Zheng Cai, Xu Zhongming, Zhou Bo and other eight generals are willing to act as internal supporters. In fact, I can contact more people, but I am worried about leaking the news, so I contacted so much."
Zhao Ming was overjoyed when he heard this, "It's enough to have these people! There are so many people that it's just a hindrance!"
Hu Weizong said: "I have agreed with them that on September 15th, the army will take Hangzhou at night."
"September fifteen?" Zhao Ming stood up, "Only three days left!"
Chapter completed!