Dominate the Country

Chen Ming had already issued a clear order regarding the Lu Gong Temple, so there was no time to delay. In just six days, Lu Fuming and Lu Jianze, two Lu family members who had secretly joined the Fu Han Army last year, were found in Changzhou. At this time, Lu Guoping, along with several scholars from the Lu family and the local "people" in Yixing who were willing to make a bet right now, had already arrived in Changzhou. But he had not yet been summoned by Chen Ming.

When the two sides met, the excitement of the Lu family could not be stopped.

"Your Highness means that everything will be torn down from the beginning, every brick and tile inside will be discarded, and every piece of paper and wood will be replaced with new ones. The first allocation is 50,000 silver dollars." Lu Fuming and Lu Jianze's faces were full of pride and excitement. The Fu Han Army has now activated the Yan Gong Temple in Jiangyin and the Lu Gong Temple in Yixing, and allocated 50,000 silver dollars each in the first phase. This news, along with the shocking news that the main force of the Qing army in Changzhou was surrounded, spread throughout Jiangnan and northern Jiangsu.

On the way to Changzhou, Er Lu had been informed of some of Chen Ming's plans. Chen Ming wanted to completely demolish the Lu Gong Temple and rebuild it! The same is true for the Yan Gong Temple in Jiangyin.

Because these two temples were built by the Qing court. The location of the temple was not moved, and the original bricks, tiles, beams and wood were thrown as far as possible. Although it was a bit of a waste, the Fu Han Army wanted to hold up martyrs such as Lu Xiangsheng and Yan Yingyuan as spiritual idols to lead the people's morale. It would be a defilement if there was a trace of Qing Dynasty artifacts in his temple.

Er Lu was so excited. This kind of "luxury" would only make Er Lu deeply proud of his ancestors. As descendants of the Lu family, they were very happy to see this kind of pomp and circumstance attached to the construction of the new Lu Gong Temple.

In the few days before Er Lu came to Changzhou, the news that "Changzhou was besieged, and the main force of the Qing army in Jiangnan was besieged!" had spread all over the north and south.

In the south of the Yangtze River in early March and in the north of the Yangtze River in early March, this was the hottest news, discussed by countless people. It was like a swift wind, blowing through every corner of the country, penetrating every hole.

Countless people hoped that their "research" could gain something from it, because it was a game with their lives at stake. In the whole Jiangnan, from the Jin Dynasty to the early Ming Dynasty, any history books about the Southern and Northern Dynasties and the confrontation between the North and the South were in great demand. Many people also discussed the gains and losses of Chen Youliang in those years.

As early as last year when Chen Hui was called the King of Han, some people had already compared him with Chen Youliang, who competed with Zhu Yuanzhang at the end of the Yuan Dynasty.

On the tenth day of March, Emperor Qianlong in the Forbidden City received an urgent report from Rong Bao from northern Jiangsu, followed by an urgent report from Li Shiyao, the governor of the grain transport, which was sent six hundred miles away.

——Feng Sheng'e's army was besieged in Changzhou.

A real big bomb made the whole city of Beijing silent, which was more shocking than a thunderbolt in the clear sky. Millions of Eight Banners were speechless, and the sixty-year-old Emperor Qianlong looked even older. Business in the Eight Great Hutongs was much quieter for a while.

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"Rescue?"

"How to rescue? Where to send troops to rescue?"

"Henan?" "Beijing?" "Or Gansu and Shaanxi?"

"The main force of the small 100,000 government troops was surrounded in one day, and Jiangnan was empty, Jiangnan was empty." In the Yangxin Palace, Qianlong was so angry that he beat his chest and stamped his feet. "Feng Sheng'e deserves to die!"

Qianlong did not hide his gaffe for Fu Heng, Liu Tongxun and other important officials of the Military Affairs Office. At the beginning, he instructed Feng Sheng'e to defend Changzhou to the death, connect with Jiangyin, and block the Fu Han Army to the east of Taihu Lake. For this idea, Qianlong had great hope, and now he has great disappointment.

And the Governor-General of Liangjiang, Yin Jishan, has also moved to Changzhou, a dead place!

When Qianlong just received the urgent report from Rong Bao, he was stunned and almost fainted.

However, when Qianlong appeared in front of the civil and military officials of the Manchu court, the princes and ministers of the Manchu Qing Dynasty did not find any major changes in their emperor. The Qianlong Emperor who appeared in front of them was still full of confidence and majesty. I don’t know if there are any careful landlords who have noticed that Emperor Qianlong summoned ministers several times, and the time was not more than half an hour; and this old emperor who likes color has not visited his concubines for two months. The "Jingzhong Qijuzhu" of the Jingshifang is not too mysterious; no one knows that Emperor Qianlong’s face is already painted with rouge...

The city of Beijing has discussed again and again, but it can’t come up with a definite way to rescue Changzhou.

This is not the siege of Heishuiying twelve years ago. The Qing army has to face the powerful Fu Han army, not the Huihui from Xinjiang. Zhaohui led 3,000 Qing troops to resist the attack of the H army, which is more than five times the number, in a very difficult environment. Feng Sheng’e may not be able to lead the Qing army, which is more than the Fu Han army outside the city, to defend for three months under the bombardment of 500 cannons.

Besides, what can Beijing use to rescue Changzhou now?

The Qing army in northern Jiangsu?

The Qing army that went south to fight Shandong had about 20,000 people. Li Shiyao and Rong Bao also organized a team of 10,000 people, and there were militias in northern Jiangsu. These 30,000 or 40,000 people had to deal with the Fu Han army in Yangzhou. How could they go south to Changzhou?

The Qing army that was blocking the outside of Yangzhou had been transferred to the south bank by Feng Sheng'e after the Qing army in Shandong went south.

For the first time, the princes and ministers in Beijing City discovered that their Daqingguo had become so fragile. The dignified Daqingguo could not even gather a team to rescue Jiangnan?

After the troops of Zhili were partially tied up by the battlefields of Henan and Shandong, the rest had been filled into the bottomless pit of Jiangnan. The Green Camps of Gansu, Shaanxi and Shanxi were all in Henan, and there was also the battlefield of Hanzhong that was about to begin. In the vast north, the Manchus, apart from the Beijing Banners and the Manchu-Mongolian cavalry in the grasslands and outside the Great Wall, were unable to mobilize the army...

Countless nobles of the Eight Banners and officials and gentry were alerted for the first time - the Daqingguo had become very fragile, and they truly felt the crisis of national extinction for the first time.

A voice began to sound in Beijing - dispatching the Manchu-Mongolian cavalry.

The Manchu Qing cavalry, which was much stronger than the Fu Han Army, had now become the psychological support of many people in the Manchu Qing. Many people didn't know how to form the impression that the reason why the Fu Han Army did not dare to move north in a large scale was because they were afraid of the Manchu-Mongolian iron cavalry. At the time of the crisis in Changzhou, many of the Eight Banners children subconsciously used this big move.

And the Forbidden City was like missing ears, and could not hear the voices of the "people" at all.

Haha, it costs money to dispatch the Manchu and Mongolian cavalry. How can Emperor Qianlong have silver now? "The lijin system will be implemented nationwide." The desperate Emperor Qianlong added another bowl of arsenic to the poisoned wine he drank.

This year, the taxes in Jiangnan are less, and it is still unknown where the iron-clad crops of the millions of Eight Banners in Beijing will come from.

And for many scholars in the world, these scholars who know the world without going out, don't know when they started to classify Chen Han and Chen Youliang's Han together.

It may be that the same surname Chen plus the same Han King is too tempting.

Even by the end of March, Chen Hui and Chen Ming had another ancestor above their heads-Chen Youliang, and the Lushan Chen family was also said to be the descendants of Chen Youliang.

God saw that the ancestral home of the Xiaonangou Chen family was in Chenzhou, and it was not the same family as Chen Youliang in his hometown of Hubei five hundred years ago.

Of course, any rumor has value.

The rumor is not just about a "Chen Han" and Chen Hui and Chen Ming are descendants of Chen Youliang. The rumor also analyzes the strategies of the two Chen Hans in detail. From Huguang to the southeast, Chen Youliang made the same choice. It also analyzes why Chen Youliang, who was so powerful at the time, "made a mistake and then collapsed", and was destroyed by Zhu Yuanzhang. That is, Chen Youliang spared the people's strength and relied on military force.

"Haven't you heard that the weather is not as good as the location, and the location is not as good as the people!" Many scholars have dragged this sentence. Zhu Yuanzhang's victory in the battle that year was attributed to his courtesy to the wise and humble, recruiting talents, uniting a large number of elite scholars, and working together. Chen Youliang lost his "way" and had few helpers!

Chen Ming knew the ultimate purpose of these rumors as soon as he heard it. For those who "work hard", he only had: Haha.

Chen Youliang became the ancestor of Chen Hui and Chen Ming. This news reached Chen Ming's ears within two days of mid-March, but he didn't care. Chen Hui of Lushan didn't care either. He wrote a letter to Chen Ming, saying with a smile that he wanted to recognize a hero as his ancestor, but the ancestral home of the Chen family in Xiaonangou was clearly in Chenzhou. They moved to Lushan because of the war in the late Ming Dynasty. The family tree recorded everything very clearly, so they didn't dare to add another ancestor from Hubei.

As a result, just two days after Chen Hui's letter was delivered to Chen Ming, this rumor spread uncontrollably across the country. Chen Ming realized it later, and when he instructed the dark camp to put out the fire, it was too late.

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The battle situation in Changzhou had no room for change at all. Even if the Qing army could send some highly skilled soldiers to break out, the Manchu Qing could not gather a slightly powerful army in the entire Jiangnan area.

Before the cavalry arrived, the Fu Han Army's navy battalion had already captured Jiangyin, which had become an abandoned city. Suzhou also became an empty city. When the cavalry's vanguard arrived outside Suzhou, the gates of Suzhou were still wide open. Dong Wei boldly led his team into Suzhou, but ran into a group of gentry and wealthy families wearing silk and satin, followed by a group of musicians with drums and suonas. The officials had all fled.

The people of Suzhou were preparing a "welcome gift", no wonder the city gate was swept clean and the gate was open.

Then there were Taicang and Songjiang. Except for Chongming Island, where Huang Zhenggang led a navy and land force, which had not yet been hoisted with a red flag, the entire southern Jiangsu changed color in the short six days after the siege of Changzhou.

So this "color change" seemed to have caused little shock to the people, and it was passed very calmly. When the Fu Han Army organized the local government again, the old officials in the county were more active than one another. Chen Ming had a feeling that the resistance of southern Jiangsu to the Fu Han Army had weakened.

Chen Ming successively dispatched troops in Changzhou to attack Zhejiang in the south, and then some troops advanced to Wusongkou, closely chasing the Fu Han Army Navy on Chongming Island. They fought four or five times with the Qing Navy warships in the Wusongkou area, but could not determine the winner. The situation of the naval battle was tense!

After the 15th, the troops of the 4th Division and the 1st Garrison Division that went south had already taken Huzhou Prefecture and Jiaxing Prefecture in Zhejiang.

Chen Ming did not see the resistance of the gentry and people in Jiangnan, nor did he see the Qing army that rescued Changzhou. The city of Beijing was like a mute, watching the days of Changzhou being besieged increase day by day, but did not say a word.

So, Chen Ming bombarded Changzhou for twenty days. The troops he sent out planted red flags all over southern Jiangsu and across northern Zhejiang. Hangzhou and Ningbo also pointed their swords. Seeing that the entire paradise of Suzhou and Hangzhou would fall into his hands. Before the news came that the naval battalion had completely overwhelmed the Qing navy, the two There was a battle at the mouth of the Yangtze River, and there were four or five small battles, but the winner was not yet determined; and there was no reinforcement from the Qing Dynasty. The Manchu Qing launched an all-out attack and containment of the Fuhan army in other directions, especially in Hunan. Hanzhong, which was attacked from both sides, gave itself an ancestor.

"Your Highness, Duan Xiulin's family has been picked up. This is the handwriting of his son Duan Xuan."

"Have someone send it to Duan Xiulin. Tell him that at midnight tomorrow, our army will launch a general offensive. Let Duan Xiulin think clearly and don't make any mistakes."

Chen Ming has spent enough time outside Changzhou. As for the Qing army in Changzhou City, from the earliest time when Xiao Xiang wanted to besiege the city and provide reinforcements, now he is directly attacking them.

Changzhou is bombarded every day, every day, and there are propaganda wars again and again. The Fuhan Army has captured everything. The Fuhan Army never kills Han prisoners of war. There are big rewards for voluntarily surrendering anyway, etc. There are also feints every now and then. These days are coming to an end!

Since it is impossible for the Manchu Qing to rescue Changzhou, let's eat this piece of fat as soon as possible. So that we can take over the whole of Zhejiang!

Duan Xiulin looked bitter after receiving his son's handwritten letter.

For twenty days, not a single reinforcement was seen, and shelling continued every day. How could this boost the morale of the Qing army who was tightly surrounded in Changzhou City?

Their original morale had been shattered by the Fuhan Army after that night's battle, and now they were completely demoralized.

After twenty days of siege, daily shelling and "temptation", starting from the night of the seventh day, every night there were brave Qing troops who came out of the city to surrender to the Han army. According to their account, the Qing troops in the city were brave. Morale is already very low, which means the attitude of the Eight Banners soldiers is quite tough. Chen Ming also asked them to hold loudspeakers and shout into the city to persuade them to surrender.

After the Qing army surrounded Changzhou City, Feng Sheng'e encouraged his soldiers to build fortifications and obstacles frantically in the city, clamoring to turn Changzhou City into a tomb of the Fuhan Army. To this end, they demolished houses one after another. But does the Qing army now have the courage to fight in the street?

Duan Xiulin's face became even more bitter. Unless he knew that Changzhou would be a dead end, how could he join the Fuhan Army?

The day Chen Ming contacted Duan Xiulin, a Manchu veteran, was on the twelfth day of the siege in Changzhou, and Duan Xiulin was completely desperate. Most of his soldiers were from Zhejiang, and his family was also in Ningbo. The Fuhan Army was sweeping across the south of the Yangtze River, and of course they would not let Zhejiang go.

So Duan Xiulin sent a signal to the Fuhan Army.

Such behavior is of course disloyal to Da Qingguo, but Duan Xiulin, who is already fifty-seven years old, cannot help but think about his own family. The most important thing is that he has lost confidence in the Manchus.

On the vast northern plains, the Qing Dynasty, which held a powerful cavalry force, might still be able to fight the Fuhan Army. After all, the latter's operational arrogance relies too much on its logistics and transportation capabilities. But in the Jiangnan Water Town, where waterways are easy to operate, as long as the Fuhan Army's gunpowder reserves are not exhausted, they will be invincible!

More than 500 cannons completely overwhelmed Duan Xiulin. He couldn't imagine what kind of method allowed the Fuhan Army to produce so many cannons in this short period of time. The magic of weapon making - yes, many people have called the Fuhan Army's method of quickly casting cannons the magic of weapon making. It's really amazing.

But that's beside the point. The point is that the Fuhan Army with so many artillery is completely invincible in Jiangnan.

Chen Han can at least sit in a Southern Dynasty!

Not only could they occupy the Southern Kingdom, Yungui and Bashu could not stop their advance. Chen Han will not only be able to sit in the Southern Dynasty, they will also be a Southern Dynasty with a strong south and a weak north!