Zhoushan Shengsi Islands, sea breeze hunting.
Sungui, the Marquis of Dinghai, raised his hand to Lincha, the Marquis of Fuming, and said, "Brother Lin, I have to say goodbye to you after seeing you for a thousand miles. Don't see me off again!"
Following Zhu Hengjia's orders, Sun Gui led 30,000 Fujian naval forces to the north to capture Chongming Island in Suzhou Prefecture. He first went to Zhoushan Island in Zhejiang Province and met with the admiral of the Zhejiang Navy in the Ming Dynasty and Lin Cha, the assistant Ming lord. The two formed a friendship during the battle to capture Guangdong.
They have a profound friendship and treat each other as brothers.
My friend is on an expedition, so you should see him off.
Lin Cha took Sun Gui by boat, from Zhoushan Island, Daishan Island, Dqushan Island, to the Shengsi Islands.
Hearing this, he also cupped his hands and said, "We are going through thousands of mountains and rivers, dear brother, please be careful!"
"Brother, take care of me!"
After bidding farewell to Lin Cha, Sun Gui's navy sailed straight to Chongming Island.
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"There will be a fierce battle this time. Tell the brothers to be vigilant," Wang Sheng, the vanguard of the Ming army, told Cai Lu, the deputy vanguard. The two of them led a hundred ships and six thousand soldiers and horses at the forefront.
First they attacked Chashan Island. This island was very small and there was no defender. They surrendered without a fight. Then they attacked Hengsha Island. This island was much larger than Chashan Island. There was a sentry commander and hundreds of soldiers stationed there. Wang Sheng grabbed it ashore and chopped it down.
Kill the captain and successfully seize the island; then go north to the larger Nansha Island, where there is only a general and only 300 people, which is not enough to fill the gap; Sansha Island and Changsha Island also have 300 defenders each, and the same
Take it off easily.
After receiving Wang Sheng's victory report, Sun Gui ordered his generals Huang Ying, Yang Zheng, and Dai Jie to defend Sansha, Nansha, and Hengsha Islands. The main force went straight to Chongming Island. But he was muttering in his heart: Strange, the Tatar defense
Where did the army go?
He didn't know that under the planning of Jin Yiwei, a guy named Bai Shoufu and a group of poets and righteous men raised troops in Kunshan to fight against the Qing Dynasty, and attracted a large number of Qing troops from Suzhou and Songjiang Prefectures to Kunshan.
Naturally, there are fewer defenders in Chongming.
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Outside Jiading City, Wang Xun, the commander-in-chief of the Wusong Navy of the Qing Dynasty, looked at the "Ming" flag on the city and was furious. Bai Shoufu, Bai Shoufu, you are eating the food of the Qing Dynasty, but you dare to rebel against the Qing Dynasty. After I caught you, I had to cut you.
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After following Hong Chengchou's order to attack Zhoushan and failing, Wang Shui's 15,000-strong navy suffered thousands of casualties. Returning to Wusong Water Village, he recruited thousands of new soldiers to make up for the battle losses, but the combat effectiveness of the new soldiers was inferior to that of the veterans.
It takes time to train.
While they were practicing their troops, they received a letter from Wang Fuchen, the commander-in-chief of the Suzhou Army, asking for help. Suzhou and Songjiang Prefecture have always been tax-rich areas, and originally had 20,000 soldiers and horses in the Green Battalion. Hong Chengchou mobilized 13,000 soldiers and horses from Li Benshen's army to Huizhou Prefecture to resist.
Zhu Hengjia and Wang Fuchen only had 7,000 soldiers left. It looked like a lot, but not many were scattered among the counties. They put some soldiers in Wu County, Changshu, Huating, Shanghai, Qingpu and other counties. In other places, they could only rely on defenders.
Soldiers stationed.
Bai Shoufu's uprising suddenly spread like wildfire. Wang Fuchen wanted to suppress it, but was afraid of the response from other counties, so he did not dare to send more troops. He only mobilized 2,000 troops and horses, which was insufficient, so he asked Wang Sui's navy for help.
The rebels have captured Jiading County, which is only a hundred miles away from Wang Shen's water village, and they can't help even if they don't want to.
Wang Shen left 7,000 naval troops to guard the stronghold, and he led 5,000 soldiers and horses to join Wang Fuchen to quell the rebellion. He only left 3,000 soldiers and horses in Chongming, allowing Sun Gui to easily occupy most of Chongming.
There were only five thousand rebels in Jiading City, but in addition to Wang Shen's five thousand soldiers and horses, the Qing army also had Wang Fuchen's two thousand men, making the force already up to seven thousand, and they were all fighting soldiers.
"Brother Wang, our army is strong, we should take advantage of the bandits' unstable footing to attack them," Wang Fuchen suggested to Wang Sui.
Wang Xuan praised: "My dear brother, this proposal coincides with mine. We will build siege equipment today and attack the city tomorrow."
Bai Shoufu was a local garrison. When he saw the soldiers, he was instinctively afraid. Hearing that thousands of green battalions were coming from the Qing army, he began to retreat. However, he was forced to revolt and had no real power.
The rebels were controlled by Chengyibo Liu Kongzhao and Pingyuan General Yao Zhizhuo.
"Uncle Sincerity, General Pingyuan, the Qing army is powerful and our army is isolated and helpless. Why not spread it to the Taicang area and then make plans?"
Liu Kongzhao and Yao Zhizhuo were hesitating when they suddenly reported that three brothers Wu Zongqian, Wu Zonghan and Wu Zongmi, members of the Jingyin Poetry Society, had come to join them with three hundred righteous men. Wu Zongqian was one of the founders of the Jingyin Poetry Society, and his elder brother Wu Zhenyuan was once a member of the Jingyin Poetry Society.
The former member of Lu Jianguo died heroically for his country.
"Brother Wu, why are you here?"
Gu Yanwu, Guizhuang, Chen Chen, Wu Yan, Pan Zerzhang, Wang Xichan, Wan Shouqi Daxi.
"What's the point of asking? I'm here to help you all."
Liu Kongzhao, Yao Zhizhuo and the Wu brothers were all former members of Lu Jianguo and were very familiar with each other.
"Brother Wu arrived just in time. We are discussing whether to retreat or defend the city?"
Wu Zongqian said seriously: "We can't evacuate. I have found out clearly that Wang Fuchen has five hundred cavalry. Jiading is all plains. How can people outrun the horses? We can only defend the city."
Bai Shoufu was very worried, "But if we are surrounded by Qing troops in the city, isolated and helpless, and wait for Qing troops from all over the country to arrive, wouldn't it be a dead end?"
"Hahaha", Wu Zongqian looked up to the sky and laughed, "Where are the Tatar reinforcements? You don't know yet, Yan Pinglu's army has conquered Fuzhou and is attacking Zhejiang together with the king's division in eastern Zhejiang and Jiangxi; King Jing's army has already
By the time we get to Huizhou, almost all the garrison troops in southern Zhili have been mobilized. As long as we persist in Jiading for two months, we expect that there will be great changes in southern Zhili."
A rumor spread in Jiading City. It was said that the Tatar general outside the city had spoken. After the city was broken, it took three days.
As soon as this rumor came out, the people of Jiading were in an uproar. This was the place where the "Three Jiading Massacres" took place. As soon as they heard that the Qing army was going to massacre the city again, which brought out old and new grudges, they all sent people to help the rebels defend the city.
Five thousand men were recruited. Although these men lacked training, they had high fighting spirit and dared to risk their lives for their relatives in the city.
The whole city was united, and the rebels numbered more than 10,000 people. They defended the fortified city and fought against the Tartars.
On the third day of the brutal city defense battle, the Qing army lost more than 300 people but gained nothing.
Wang Shen frowned. He was a habitual general and knew that the first three days of a siege were the most important. If the defenders withstood it, it would be difficult to attack later.
"Let the soldiers come up!"
Wang Shen became furious. He had five hundred personal soldiers, all of whom received double pay. They were very elite. Now it was time for his soldiers to die.
A group of Qing soldiers hid behind the carriage and approached the city wall. Holding a shield in their left hand and a knife in their right hand, they climbed up the ladder.
Wu Yan raised a large stone and threw it at the bottom of the city. A stray arrow hit him in the neck.
"Chiming!"
Pan Taizhang was stunned, and hugged Wu Yan tightly, trying to cover the gurgling blood on Wu Yan's neck. He and Wu Yan were close friends from the same hometown, and they often collaborated on writing history together, and they were brothers.
The bleeding couldn't be stopped and tears welled up.
A Qing soldier climbed up and saw that he was acting foolishly, so he slashed with his sword.
"Be careful with the sacred wood." Wu Zongbi, Wu Zongqian's younger brother, pushed Pan Taizhang away, but he was split into two pieces by the knife.
"Ah!"
In one day, Pan Taozhang lost two friends in a row. He went crazy and stabbed the Qing army to death with a sword. Who said that Xiucai didn't kill people? It was just because he was not angry yet. Pan Xiucai killed people, one after another.
Although the combat effectiveness of the rebel army is not as good as that of the Qing army, their leaders Liu Kongzhao, Yao Zhizhuo, Gu Yanwu, Guizhuang, Wu Zongqian, etc. are all veterans who have participated in many uprisings and have rich experience in defending the city. Stones, rolling logs, golden soup, and wolf fangs?
?Very well prepared.
Seeing that his subordinates suffered heavy casualties, Wang Shen ordered a suspension of the siege. "Come, go to the water village quickly and bring the cannons from my commander's warship." At first, Wang Shen looked down on the rebels. In order to quickly quell the chaos, he did not bring heavy artillery. Now look at
, it’s really impossible without cannons.
He didn't wait for the cannon, but he waited for a bolt from the blue: the Ming Navy captured Chongming Island.
This chapter has been completed!