Chapter 505: Three thousand rebels, nearly a hundred artillery?!

The news from Guangzhou was completely cut off the day after they saw the newspaper. Although they still cannot understand the truth of this rebellion, there is one thing that requires no doubt. They can control Guangdong and Guangxi in such a short time, and the green camp in Guangdong and Guangxi seems to have no power to resist. Then, it is indeed very likely that the green camp must have participated in it as mentioned in the newspaper, and the number is absolutely large.

In addition, I recalled the Fujian Navy Admiral who went to Taiwan Island to question Wu Liang, the general of Taiwan Town, but there was no news. Once the two were connected, everything became clearer and clear.

Who is the mastermind? He has pointed directly at the former Guangdong Navy General: Liang Pengfei, the general of the Guangdong Navy Humen Town.

Especially after Changlin, who had just left Guangdong, analyzed it to the Fujian and Zhejiang officials, Kuelun felt that more than 90% of the time could be sure that it was this guy who did it. Because after Changlin straightened the matter, the Fujian and Zhejiang officials understood this truth.

First, Wu Liang was a soldier from the Penghu Naval Division Association in Taiwan. Later, he went to Guangdong with Admiral Cai for less than two years and then transferred to Taiwan. It seemed that he had nothing to do with Guangdong, but in fact, he was promoted by Liang Pengfei, and his position was obtained by Liang Pengfei himself.

As for why he dared to rebel against the court and surrendered to Liang Pengfei, who is now standing shoulder to shoulder with him, this has become a doubt in the hearts of all the officials.

Second, among the Guangdong Navy, Wang Shouli has always been Liang Pengfei's boss, and the two of them were completely grasshoppers on the same rope. As for Wu Qianjin, he was just a slave of his Liang family at the time, but was highly valued and promoted by Liang Pengfei and eventually became the general of the navy in the town.

In addition, his uncle and father-in-law, these two are famous thirteen tycoons. It can be said that in recent years, the reputation of the merchants has completely replaced the Shanxi merchants, Huai merchants, and Hui merchants with the largest and most capitalized merchant groups in the entire continent.

Of course, don't forget that although Liang Pengfei is notorious among the officials of Guangdong and Guangxi and is regarded as a hatred by those officials, he has a high reputation among the people. Whether it is to run academies, establish a general school, donate funds to organize group training, build roads, or open large factories, recruit refugees and local poor people, these benefits of the people are enough to make those simple ordinary people grateful to Liang Pengfei, the general.

Besides, the coast of Guangdong and Guangxi was often attacked by pirates. After Liang Pengfei appeared, he often brought up a bunch of pirates' heads. Although he was cruel and easy to kill, the people were no longer harassed by pirates, and the fishermen had their food and clothing. Who else could they be grateful for if they were not grateful?

In addition, the publicity department under Liang Pengfei's hands exaggerated it openly and secretly, which made his prestige among small and medium-sized landlords, merchants and people reach an extremely high level. It can be said that Liang Pengfei is completely a complete image among the people of Guangdong and Guangxi, and he can almost use his portrait as a door god.

Therefore, in the eyes of officials from Guangdong and Guangxi, Liang Pengfei is like a terrible spider with a poisonous poison, entrenched in Guangdong and Guangxi, involving countless mismatched networks. Anyone who wants to touch him must think about the consequences. But the more he is, the more he is hated by those officials, which is one of the reasons why Old Man Zhu wants to use him to perform surgery.

Old Man Zhu believed in the court too much, or he believed in his abilities too much, thinking that with his means and the backing of Prince Jia in the court, Liang Pengfei, a small general who was powerful in the local area, wouldn't he let him hold it in his palm?

However, Changlin knew very well what kind of personality Liang Pengfei was. He was simply a living bandit who had been involved in the circle of literary scholars. He was also a scoundrel with a weapon on his waist and would be itchy if he didn't cause trouble for three days.

It is precisely because he saw clearly who Liang Pengfei was that he was able to live in peace with Liang Pengfei. What’s important is that he was not willing to deal with Liang Pengfei at all. Everything was handled by the sleek Wang Shouli, Liang Pengfei’s direct boss.

Of course, Changlin didn't know that Liang Pengfei was not ready to work on rebellion at that time, so the two of them were at peace. The famous scholar Zhu idiotically wanted to use Liang Pengfei to kill the chicken and respect the monkey, but in the end he became the best excuse for Liang Pengfei, who was ready to launch an uprising to carry out a revolution. This is a great way to rebel.

While the senior officials in Fujian were still arguing endlessly, they had not yet reached a complete conclusion. While strictly ordering officials from all over the country to thoroughly investigate and confiscate the flyers and newspapers, the Zhangzhou Prefecture capital in southern Fujian, Pinghe County, Zhao'an County, Yunxiao Hall, and Zhangpu had already fallen into the hands of the Liang family army, which had already been in place under the cooperation and cover of local regiments. Hengrui, the general of Zhangzhou Town, was hit by a heavy artillery and died, and countless deputy generals and generals surrendered.

There are also the Tingzhou Prefecture Prefecture and the Longyan Prefecture Prefecture Prefecture Prefecture, the Liancheng, Shanghang, Yongding, Wuping and other counties, which were successively conquered in just a few days.

The general of Tingzhou Town, Ma Erzhan led the town model soldiers to rescue Liancheng, but was robbed and killed by the Liang family army halfway. More than half of the two thousand soldiers in Zhenbiao were killed and injured. Marzhan escaped only and fled back to Tingzhou Prefecture. When the Liang family army pursued the city of Shaowu, Ma Erzhan ignored the persuasion of the Tingzhou Prefecture and led the Tingzhou guard camp out of the east gate and wanted to escape to Fuzhou. Of course, it was not called a escape. According to the general, it was a strategic transfer.

As a result, the Liang family army only bombed a few shots, and the prefect of Tingzhou Prefecture had no choice but to open the city and surrender. In less than half a month, the entire territory of Guangdong, most of Guangxi, southern Yunnan, and southern Fujian were almost completely defeated by Liang Pengfei.

When Fuzhou got the news, almost half of the southwestern Fujian had fallen into the hands of the Liang family's rebels. The nobles in Fuzhou almost scared the news into a psychopath.

This time, he was really panicked. Fortunately, Changlin and Kuelun were also people who had experienced major events. They soon developed countermeasures with a group of Fujian and Zhejiang officials. Fuzhou General Kuelun immediately began to summon troops. Whether it was the Eight Banners or the Green Camp, almost all the soldiers who could gather in a short period of time were pulled out. At least he tried to gather 18,000 troops and horses, and ordered Fujian Admiral Li Nanxin to lead three thousand troops to the Putian Prefecture to fight the enemy.

Kuilun led the main force to Yongchun Prefecture, intending to block the rebel army in the mountainous area of ​​Fujian. Of course, for the sake of Fuzhou's security, more than 300 cavalry were transferred from the 3,000 banners of Fuzhou. The others naturally had to stay in Fuzhou City with the only remaining Fuzhou City Association to maintain the public security and garrison of Fuzhou City.

But even though he summoned the army at the fastest speed and used the food and grass from the direct treasury, it took only three and a half days to set off from Fuzhou. Compared with the soldiers and horses of the Qing Dynasty, Kuelun was quite good at managing the army. However, even so, Kuelun never thought that his speed was already extraordinary, but the mobility of his opponent was outrageous.

Now, Kuelun and his troops have just entered Yongchun Prefecture not far away. He has even received a document of help from the magistrate of Yongchun Prefecture less than an hour after passing through Dehua County.

"Using the character Liang as the banner, the soldiers are fierce and aggressive. They must fight for the first place in every battle, mostly firearms, and few swords and weapons. Whenever they are in battle, hundreds of artillery will be fired together, and the sound will be shaken by a hundred miles, destroying the city and pulling the village..." On the side of the war horse, Kuelun, wearing a helmet and armor, looked at the subordinate who was reading the military newspaper with a blue face. "My east gate of Yongchun Prefecture is already in danger. I am afraid that the day when Yongchun Prefecture is destroyed will come again. I hope the general will rescue you quickly!"

"How many soldiers and horses are there in total in Liang thieves who came to attack Yongchun Prefecture?!" Kuelun asked in a deep voice at the Yongchun Prefecture envoy who was still kneeling in front of the horse and gasping. But his heart was secretly cold. How many soldiers and horses are there in Liang thieves? All the bad news came, it seemed that the entire southern Fujian was attacked wildly.

"More than two thousand, at most three thousand soldiers." The messenger thought for a while and replied with great certainty.

"Not three thousand men?" Kuelun couldn't help but raise his eyebrows, looking at the messenger, his tone seemed extremely suspicious. "Yongchunzhou is high and thick, and it is a strong city in Fujian. But your magistrate said that the city is about to be destroyed. What's the reason?"

"Sir, the other party's artillery is amazing." The messenger replied quickly.

"Architecture? The terrain of Fujian is rugged. Where did the other party come from?!" Kuelun said coldly. "Three thousand people, hundreds of cannons, can you masters regard the bird guns in their hands as cannons?"

"General, the other party does have many artillery guns, and they are extremely powerful. Each gun hits the power of the sky collapse and the earth splitting. In less than a short incense, the East Gate Tower of our Yongchun Prefecture was flattened. If the magistrate had not personally climbed the city to inspire morale, if the thieves had not promised to give us half a day to consider, I'm afraid..."

Hearing what the messenger said, the generals around Kuelun couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. A general who turned out to be the Eight Banners of the Capital had his eyes straightened: "This...is unlikely? Even if we have 15,000 soldiers and horses, we only carry a few small cannons. If we can blow a city gate tower within the effort of a incense stick, then at least about 5,000 kilograms of cannons have this ability, and at least dozens of them."

"Three thousand rebels, there are dozens of artillery pieces of about 5,000 kilograms. Is this possible?" A general next to him looked in disbelief.
Chapter completed!