"Wang Deren is really useless. Are more than 100,000 people under his command all pigs? Geng Zhongming and Shen Zhixiang only have 10,000 or 20,000 soldiers. Even with the Ming army and the newly established regiment training of the Jinsheng Huan army, the total military strength of the Qing army will not exceed 80,000, less than half of them.↗ But even in this kind of military strength comparison, they are still defeated step by step, which makes Geng Zhongming and Shen Zhixiang a traitor and scum like Geng Zhongming and Shen Zhixiang gain a great reputation for nothing. It's really outrageous!" Liu Haiyang was losing his temper at a cadre and general in the Southern War Zone Command of Yin County (formerly Ningbo Prefecture).

In fact, it is no wonder that he got angry. The news that came from the anti-Qing battlefields in various places was really speechless. Let’s not talk about it in the north. Wu Sangui’s army, with the help of cannons purchased by the Qing court from the Netherlands, had just wiped out the anti-Qing rebels in the Fugu area of ​​Shanxi. It is currently in the end. I believe that the war in Shanxi will be completely completed soon and then enter the west to help the war.

The situation in Shaanxi was attacked by some of the Eight Manchu and Mongolian Banners and Green Camps, and various rebels retreated one after another. He Zhen also suffered several defeats and retreated south into the mountainous areas. However, the Qing court still felt that the progress was too slow and urged Meng Qiaofang, Li Guohan and others to quickly calm the situation in Shanxi, and then joined forces with Wu Sangui to enter Sichuan and recover the country of Tianfu. Because it might be too late if they didn't hurry up, it might be too late. Because some prefectures and counties in northern Sichuan that were originally under the control of the Qing army were fiercely attacked by Zhang Xianzhong's troops in the past six months, most of them had lost their lives. If it weren't for the fact that the local landlords and gentry who had broken their families and served the court (spread the family wealth to organize group training), the northern Sichuan might have been completely out of guarantee, and Hanzhong would have been very dangerous.

But the situation is still very unoptimistic. Zhang Xianzhong's adopted descendants are expected to show their unparalleled military and political ability, and their troops are strong in combat. The Qing army in northern Sichuan was defeated and defeated. To be more serious, if the Qing army could not organize a powerful army to enter Sichuan for rescue within a few months, all prefectures and counties in northern Sichuan might be lost. This is also the reason why the Qing court urgently ordered Wu Sangui to resolve the war in Shanxi and the entire army entered Shaanxi to aid.

If it is understandable that the failure of the rebel army in the north to fight against the Qing Dynasty was unreasonable, then the situation of the anti-Qing Dynasty in Hubei, Jiangxi, Guangdong and other places in the south would be completely messy. Hubei is still fine. The Liu Fangliang's troops in the left camp of the Shun Army and Yuan Zongdi's troops in the right camp launched a large-scale attack from Jingzhou and Yunyang, and finally recovered most of the Xiangyang Prefecture. Their vanguard even attacked Dengzhou in the north, which shocked the Qing army in the Nanyang Prefecture three times a day; while the tens of thousands of troops of Gao Yigong, the troops of the Qianying camp, fought fiercely with the Qing army in Chengtian Prefecture. However, the progress was limited, not to mention Wuchang and Huangzhou in the east, the two prefectures that are still firmly controlled by the Qing court.

In general, after wasting more than half a year, what Dashun did was to consolidate the newly established Yunyang Prefecture, capture most of the Xiangyang Prefecture and a Chengtian Prefecture. In addition, Li Guo from the south also led the central camp and more than 70,000 troops to attack some areas of Chenzhou Prefecture, which was Shang loyal to the Qing court. The main force of the Qing army had been transferred east for so long, and the 200,000 to 300,000 troops in the Shun army actually captured only about three prefectures in Huguang area, and did not form a sweeping momentum. This was related to the decline in the combat effectiveness of the Shun army, and it was also related to the decentralization of power to the Qing court to the local government and encouraged gentry training. However, no matter what, the dividends brought by Jiang Xiang in the north have been lost most of the dividends. In the future, the elite combat power of the Qing army will go south one after another. The Shun army should be moving into a defensive situation next, and the situation is not very optimistic.

If Hubei is just making poor progress, then the battlefields of Jiangxi and Guangdong will be completely defeated. First of all, it was Jiangxi. After Jiergalang brought more than 10,000 Eight Banners soldiers squeezed out from east to west to destroy Jin Shenghuan's troops, Jin Shenghuan's tens of thousands of remaining soldiers retreated south and occupied the central part of Jiangxi, echoing the Wang Deren's troops who occupied southern Jiangxi.

Unfortunately, both of these two parts could not be helped, and Jin Shenghuan's remaining soldiers were even more frightened. Under the attack of Geng and Chen, they were defeated in succession. Even after Jiergalang's troops rushed eastward and rescued Zhejiang, they were still beaten to death and defeated. After being defeated by Liaodong cavalry in Ganzhou, Wang Deren, who was initially defeated by Liaodong cavalry, slipped back like a rabbit, temporarily extinguished his idea of ​​going north, and began to ask Emperor Yongli for food and salary all day long. He acted like a warlord, wasting the great counterattack opportunity created by the people of the East Coast.

The Huguang battlefield was not progressing well, the Jiangxi battlefield was in a stalemate, and the Guangdong battlefield was in failure. The Qing court originally transferred more than 15,000 troops from the north to Fujian to put out fire (also squeezed out from all over the place), under the leadership of Chen Tai, recaptured the northeastern Fujian region, and then stabilized the situation where other prefectures were ready to move, and began an attack on Guangdong and invaded Chaozhou Prefecture in northeastern Guangdong at the beginning of this year. Li Chengdong lost consecutive battles and could not recover with his superior forces.

However, when Chen Tai was trying to attack Huizhou, Guangzhou and other core areas of Guangdong, the East Coast people set off a massive offensive in the northern Zhejiang area. Liu Haiyang's army defeated Qing Ningbo general Zhang Jie, Zhejiang Admiral Tian Xiong, and Gushan Ezhen Jinli's troops, with more than 25,000 troops, with troops heading towards Hangzhou; in addition, more than 20,000 troops of King Lu were led by Zhang Mingzhen and Ruan Jinjin, and landed on land in the Hangzhou Bay area, and attacked everywhere. Seeing that the fertile land in northern Zhejiang was in danger of total control, the Qing court immediately transferred Chen Tai's troops to the north and quickly rescued Hangzhou (Jirgalang had received an order to transfer east before). After the main force of the Qing court made little progress in Shandong, he temporarily gave up and began to mobilize some troops to enter Jiangbei and Henan to prepare to stabilize the situation in this area.

In such a situation, Li Chengdong could have saved his life. What is even more amazing is that after Chen Tai of the Qing Dynasty led his main force to Zhejiang north, the more than 4,000 Manchu, Han and Mongolian Eight Banners and more than 20,000 Fujian-compiled green camps could actually resist the offensive of Li Chengdong's troops, and won a few battles, and once penetrated the tentacles deep into Huizhou Prefecture. If the Zheng water and land army had not landed in the Fujian area to harass, the situation Li Chengdong would probably face would have been even more If it is even more difficult, maybe even Huizhou Prefecture cannot be saved. At present, nearly 100,000 people who followed him south (mostly from Shaanxi, Henan, and Jiangbei) were depressed and homesick. Moreover, the epidemic in the army was prevalent, and many people died, and their combat power was extremely weak. If we don’t make up for it, the troops who fought from Jiangbei to Jiangnan, and then to Zhejiang, Fujian, and Guangdong (actually they were good at fighting against the Southern Ming army) would be completely abolished.

In short, in Shanxi Jiang Xiang, the people of the East Coast launched two major benefits: the two major benefits of launching large-scale offensives in Shandong and northern Zhejiang. The anti-Qing armed forces in the south were not able to grasp it well - or they are not able to grasp it for the time being - so the next situation is a bit difficult. Now, most of the Qing army in the north except Shaanxi and Shandong have been pacified. The elite warlike main forces can go south at any time except for some people dragged in Shandong. The Ming army and Shun army in the south (the Western Army has no worries for the time being) will face a major test. It is hard to say whether they can withstand the next wave of rapid offensives of the Qing army. It is hard to say that the people of the East Coast will have to vomit blood and launch a large-scale support action, which will firmly attract a large number of Qing troops in Shandong, Hebei and Zhejiang. Otherwise, these tens of thousands of elite Manchu and Mongolian soldiers will be carried out to the south with a large number of green camp armed forces. Who can block a blow?

"What a fucking waste! Waste!" Liu Haiyang was so angry that he was in the headquarters. The generals of the various departments present looked at each other, not knowing how to explain the persuasion.

Wei Boqiu, who had returned to Yin County, saw that it was not a problem, so he coughed softly and said, "Apart from the Shun Army, there are other things that are not covered with mud and cannot be used to hurry up. For the sake of the present, we should do our own business. In this Western Expedition, if we forced the migration from Shaoxing Prefecture, there will be 50,000 people to Ningbo, so how to resettle it is also a problem; in addition, the situation in Guanhaiwei and Cixi has basically been lost.

Our rule in the two counties of Control, Dinghai and Fenghua is also very weak, and Yin County is better (the division is mainly concentrated in Yin County, and the gentry and landlords were also killed very well); Xiangshan County, Changguowei and Ninghai County in the south have not yet been taken down. You see, if so many things are to be done, it is important to clear the place first and consolidate the foundation. As for the general trend, to be honest, we can't completely control it. Regarding this, we should discuss it with Yantai more."

When Liu Haiyang heard Wei Boqiu say this, he suddenly realized that the over the past year of occupying Ningbo Prefecture, because he was eager to fight and loot, he was not enough to sort out the local area. Nowadays, the Qing army soldiers gathered in Hangzhou and Shaoxing, but facing the repaired car stables and two snails, the hope of entering Ningbo Prefecture is also slim. Therefore, it is a great time to stabilize the place and clean up internal affairs.

For example, he and Wei Boqiu and Huang Yi discussed a while ago that Dinghai County's handicraft industry (cotton textile, silk reeling, etc.), salt production, irrigation and drainage facilities in Yin County (the county's land is fertile and will mainly focus on grain, sericulture, cotton planting), tea making, bamboo equipment processing, etc., must be done quickly. Of course, the most important thing is to strengthen land redistribution and improve the control of the people on the east coast of the country. Only by doing these things well, then overhauling water conservancy, carrying out transportation, and vigorously expanding trade in the country, can we truly grasp the more than 500,000 people of Ningbo Prefecture, and truly turn this rich fish and rice land into our own use.

"Old Wei said it well." After thinking for a while, Liu Haiyang nodded and recognized Wei Boqiu's suggestion, and then said: "Now the Third Division, the Fourth Division, the Sixth Division, and the Tenth Division (a total of 11,500 people) are all in our Ningbo Prefecture. The main force directly under my jurisdiction must support the war of Liu Guochang's troops on the side of the corridor ridge. The Third Division must guard the old camp in Yin County, and the Tenth Division must guard the Cixi area, so it can only be transferred to the Fourth Division.
Chapter completed!