In 1680 AD, the 19th year of the reign of Emperor Kangxi of Qing Dynasty.

In Lingyin Temple outside Hangzhou City, Prince Yu Fuquan had just returned from burning incense. As a nobleman of the Qing Dynasty, Aisin Gioro Fuquan was born with a golden spoon in his childhood, and his status was extremely valuable. However, this does not mean that he was a fool who knew nothing. On the contrary, Prince Yu, who had received complete royal education, was not only familiar with the poetry and classics of the Han people, but also was not unfamiliar with the riding of horses and archery and the management of the army and wars passed down by the Manchus. Otherwise, no matter how high his status was, Kangxi in Beijing would not be a fool and would entrust him with national affairs.

Aisin Gioro Fuquan is now the General of the Conquest of the South, commanding the Manchu and Han army in Hangzhou, which is over 100,000. The defense areas include Songjiang, Jiaxing, Hangzhou, etc., and they not only have to deal with small groups of Shun soldiers who may have come from Jiangxi, but also shoulder the important task of eliminating the Lu King's regime. Of course, Prince Yu's most important task is to be aware of it, that is, to keep a close eye on the yellow-clad thieves in Ningbo Prefecture and prevent them from becoming a disaster.

Once upon a time, the yellow-clad thieves were at peace, which allowed the Qing army in the Hangzhou camp to have a peaceful life. But since a few years ago, they and the former Ming Lu regime that was dependent on it, they began to launch a large-scale attack on the Qing army in northern Zhejiang. Among them, the mixed armed forces under the King of Lu were the most active, and they mobilized tens of thousands of troops, although a considerable part of them attacked northern Zhejiang and were incorporated on the spot after western Zhejiang.

There are more than 100,000 Qing troops in the Hangzhou camp, but the area to defend is too large, so it often takes a certain amount of time to gather together. In addition, the yellow-clothed pirate warships are sharp, and they often rush around in the near sea, and then land and loot. They come and go like the wind, which is a headache. Therefore, the Qing court had to station a large number of troops in some important coastal defense centers all year round, which made their strength more dispersed and restrained. After all, no one knows when the yellow-clothed thieves really wanted to land, and when they shot them.

Therefore, the Hangzhou Camp took a lot of effort to slowly regain its advantages in the Shaoxing Prefecture area, and at the same time restored Yanzhou Prefecture in western Zhejiang, making Zhang Huangyan, the commander of the Three Roads of Nanming, lose all his face. It is said that after returning to Wenzhou, he immediately apologized and asked the King of Lu to choose another talent.

However, the local chickens and dogs under King Lu were easy to deal with, and the yellow-clothed pirates were very difficult to deal with. When Prince Yu first came to Hangzhou, it was the time when our Qing army bravely advanced south and planned to recover the lost territory of the entire Shaoxing Prefecture in one go. At that time, more than 40,000 people went south along the Cao'e River, quickly captured Sheng County, and pushed the troops under the Xinchang County, which was guarded by the yellow-clothed pirates.

Of course, the Qing Dynasty could only reach this point. If the 40,000 troops were placed on the ordinary battlefield, it would have been a large force, but in front of nearly 10,000 yellow-clothed thieves who had the benefits of cannons in the city, it was probably not enough, so they naturally became stalemate. The Qing army, who realized that it was impossible to seize Xinchang City, also retreated under Tong Guogang's order. With this order, Prince Yu Fuquan, who had been newly appointed to take over the position of General of the Conquest of the South, also agreed. He understood that what the emperor wanted was not to regain Xinchang and occupy Ningbo, but to stabilize the situation and not let it deteriorate again, so as to protect half of the Jiangnan country for the Qing Dynasty.

Jiangnan has always been a place of wealth and has contributed a large amount of raw silk, silk, tea and other materials to our Qing Dynasty for many years. The effect is not unimportant. Fuquan heard from the emperor's uncle Gong, who was in charge of the Westernization, that "the wealth and goods in the southeast are admired by the court." Although Jiangbei does not produce these, it is always very painful to lose Jiangnan. There are fewer goods that can be used to trade with foreign merchants. This is indeed a very realistic problem for the Qing Dynasty, which is extremely eager for foreign military equipment.

Moreover, Fuquan also learned that the situation in the western and northern borders is becoming increasingly serious. Since the Junggar Mongolia was unified again, it has shown increasing aggressiveness. Its leader Galdan constantly sent envoys to the Mongolian tribes in the fortress, while sending troops to conquer cities and expanding its territory. For example, two years ago, they had already marched into the former old land of the Chagatai Khanate. Because of their internal support, they heard that the journey was very smooth. Although they had also experienced a lot of fighting, they generally won consecutive battles. I guess they had completely controlled the six cities including Kashgar, Yarkand, Khotan, Yingjisha, Aksu, and Wushi. If Galdan completely digests these remnants of the Chagatai Khanate, they would be able to add tens of thousands of dragon spirits and fierce men, and their ambitions would only be greater.

The court is now very worried, worried that Galdan will unify Wei Lat Mongolia, destroy the Kashgar Khanate (both of these parts have probably been completed), and defeat the Kazakhs to the west, and after coercing the Kazakhs, he will likely turn the center of expansion to the Mongolian grasslands, especially the Mongolian tribes in northern Mobei that are connected with them. The integration of Manchuria and Mongolia has always been the basis for our Manchuria to check and balance China. Once the Mongolian in northern Mobei is occupied, there will inevitably be a storm in southern Mobei. How could the court have a peaceful life at that time?

Even if we do not consider the integration of Manchu and Mongolia, from the military perspective alone, it has always been an unbearable thing for the Central Plains dynasty to appear on the grassland. The Han Dynasty had the Huns, the Tang Dynasty had the Turks, the Song Dynasty had the Khitans, and the Jin Dynasty had the Mongolians. Our Qing Dynasty could not tolerate the rise of Junggar Mongolia on the grassland, so gradually adjusting the strategic focus and strengthening defense in the northwest border were no longer an irreversible trend.

Under such circumstances, maintaining the general stability of the southeastern country has become the goal that the court relies on for pursuit. As a brother of Kangxi, Fuquan was naturally very clear about this. Therefore, after arriving in Hangzhou to take over the camp, he ordered the army silted in the Xinsheng Basin to retreat in batches, leaving only thousands of troops under the Xinsheng General stationed in Shengxian County as a warning, and most of the rest returned to camps located in Hangzhou, Jiaxing, Huzhou and other places to guard the places.

But now the situation is obviously turning to the extremely unfavorable side to the court! Fuquan actually didn't understand and was very puzzled. Why did the yellow-clad thieves stare at them repeatedly and rarely had conversations, which made him feel incredible. Just like this time, the yellow-clad thieves first used a large number of ships to cruise around Jiaxing and Songjiang, which seemed to be landing in large numbers (even sent a small number of people to land to confuse the opponents), and successfully attracted many prefectures, including Hangzhou to help, and suddenly attracted 40,000 to 50,000 people to lean over, revealing a lot of flaws in other places, such as Shaoxing Prefecture.

Fuquan was using dinner when he received the news that Sheng County was broken. After hearing this, he was speechless and could not eat any food. He hurriedly summoned his confidants to discuss the matter. As a result, he couldn't tell the reason for this for a long time. Some people thought that the focus of the attack of the yellow-clothed thieves was definitely Songjiang, Jiaxing and even Suzhou prefectures in the north. They were always greedy for money and people. Whenever they arrived in a place, they would inevitably plunder them without leaving any grass. However, Shaoxing Prefecture had many years of fighting, fighting, population, and wealth losses were very serious, and they might not be able to get into the eyes of the yellow-clothed thieves. But at the same time, some people believed that because the yellow-clothed thieves used the boat army to land more often, this time it was possible to march from the south to the north. The messenger who fled back from Sheng County reported that the yellow-clothed thieves gathered "100,000" soldiers was a very exaggerated word. No one was a fool, but after deducting water, there were probably 20,000 or 30,000 people, which was very eye-catching.

Prince Yu thought about it, but finally chose to believe the second statement, that is, the yellow-clothed thieves did gather the main force to fight from the south, and the large number of ships wandering in the north were probably used to confuse people. Therefore, Fuquan quickly made a decision, convened his subordinates to discuss matters, began to hoard supplies and gather troops in Hangzhou, and also sent a capable team of more than 10,000 people to cross the river eastward as fast as possible to reinforce Shaoxing Prefecture. At this time, three days had passed since the people on the east coast besieged Sheng County. It was not that the Qing army was too slow, but that there was no country in the world who could enter the war at any time in this era. Fuquanneng made a large-scale reinforcement of Shaoxing Prefecture within three days (and one day of negotiation time required) and prepared more than 10,000 troops, food and excretion fees, which was considered as rapid.

However, not long after the troops advanced eastward to Kuaiji County, the yellow-clothed thieves rushed forward and rushed straight to the official road. The news of the contact between the east and west was also spread to Prince Yu Fuquan, who had just returned from the Lingyin Temple. There was no doubt that this news made him a little confused, and at the same time a little surprised. The yellow-clothed thieves were so quick! It took only a few days to rush to the lower reaches of Cao'e River, surrounded Shangyu County, and cut off the connection between the Yuyao garrison in the east and the western Fucheng area. It was so vicious!

Fuquan suddenly became angry. Although he was a noble man in his heaven and was in charge of heavy troops, he was just a young man in his twenties and was particularly unacceptable when encountering such a situation. Therefore, he suddenly strengthened his determination to lead troops eastward to rescue Shaoxing and fight with the people of the East Coast.

Just when Fuquan was determined to dispatch troops, Niu Gui, the commander of the 9th Division of the Servant Army who had just commanded the troops to retreat, was throwing a letter of surrender to the mud in the Qing army, and at the same time shook his head in his heart. The Tartars were really stupid. Although he was obviously in the jar, he was still "righteous" and wanted to surrender to himself with an edict written by the Tartar emperor. It was ridiculous.

According to the master, the edict should have been made by the Emperor Qing, and sent it to Hangzhou Prefecture, so that officials of various prefectures could act according to the order and recruit more generals on the East Coast. Looking at the content, Kang Mazi said, "The pirates and bandits occupied Ningbo and occupied for a long time", "whether they had done evil for a long time, they had no reason to return to the right; or they were coerced by the enemy, and they could not extricate themselves. Since they were deeply immersed in their own crimes, they might not be able to invite lenient decrees, hesitate and wait and see, and so on." It means that Niu Gui was coerced by the people of the East Coast, and hesitated and waited for a lot of evil, and then he felt that he was seriously guilty and could not be forgiven. Therefore, he went all the way to the dark and fucked the yellow-clad thief Niu Gui wanted to laugh after hearing these contents. The Emperor Qing was really arrogant and looked up with a high-ranking tone, and he didn't see that his butt was full of shit.

The funny thing is that Kangxi actually "has deep compassion for people like Niu Gui, and he made a special offer to forgive his past innocence and give him fame. If he can repent and surrender, he will forgive his previous sins and give him rewards." This is simply a big deal. Niu Gui thinks that the Qing court is really declining. If it is twenty years or thirty years ago, how could they use this almost weak tone to surrender? It is basically to throw an ultimatum like "If you don't follow, you will burn your jade and stones" and then you will be done. But now, you will even cleanse Niu Gui and others, saying that they are coerced. Even if you killed many green camps and many Eight Banners of Manchu and Mongolia, you can now be pardoned, and you will also be promoted to the title. It is simply shameless!

Niu Gui finally asked someone to put away the copy of the edict and planned to send it to the military police in a short time and hand it over to them for handling. Is he a soldier, or should he not be too energized by these messy things? What he should consider now is how to take down Shangyu County as soon as possible.

The east coast army has been besieging Shangyu County for two days. Although most of the more than 30,000 people have other tasks, artillery is equipped with many siege troops. Therefore, if Niu Gui's Ninth Division and Dong Dalang's Fifth Division cannot conquer the county town as soon as possible, it is indeed unreasonable.

The more than 30 artillery they gathered had already blown a large hole in the outer city of Shangyu County and sent troops to break in twice, but they were all fired by the Qing army with hidden artillery. Just now, the men under Niu Gui organized more than 500 people, braved the Qing army's artillery fire and arrows, rushed in and occupied a front position, and then covered several artillery into the city, and defeated the Qing army in one fell swoop.

At this moment, Dong Dalang's main team has been in succession and occupied a lot of key points. But what is so annoying is that it is probably because of the necessity of the conflict that Shangyu County has been continuously strengthened and rebuilt by the Qing court over the years. Not only has an outer city, but also a small inner city. At this moment, there are two or three thousand defeated soldiers hiding in the back and resisting, which makes people very annoyed. It is important to know that they cannot afford to delay time. Now the Qing army in Yuyao has begun to retreat in panic.

Commander-in-chief Lieutenant Colonel Junio ​​led the Seventh Mixed Battalion, the main force of the Zhejiang New Army's Fifth Division, began to accumulate eastward. The thousands of troops dispatched from Yin County were 3,500 people from Sun Shouzheng's unit of the Third Division of the Servant Army, 1,450 people from the 11th Mixed Battalion, and some local police and militia. The total number was about 7,000 people to launch a pincer attack, intending to take advantage of the fact that these people were panicked and had their thoughts not unified.
Chapter completed!