Zhou Shixiang was preparing to go to Hangzhou. If time permits, he wanted to go to Fuzhou in person because he wanted to have a chance with Guo.

Before finally conquering Jinxia with force, Zhou Shixiang would do his best to discuss the possibility of "peace" with the surname of the country. If the surname of the country was willing to put the overall situation first and gave up the Zheng family to be independent, and entered the court, Zhou Shixiang would naturally treat him well. Otherwise, there would be only a war and a victory or defeat would be decided.

As for Zheng Jing, Zhou Shixiang didn't take it seriously yet. Zheng Jing's private acceptance of Wu Sangui's title of Prince Min in Yongli court had long been reported by the Military Information Department. At that time, Zheng Jing would be conquered with great justice and could not speak. Moreover, Zheng Jing's current status is not solid, and the harm caused by father and son's rebellion to the country was of great importance, and it had a great impact on Zheng Jing, the "rebellious son". Zhou Shixiang did not believe that the "princestors" of Jinxia really had the confidence and loyalty to protect the prince. Gan Hui had already set off from the sea to Fujian. Whether Zheng Sen was willing to meet Zhou Shi would soon know.

In Fujian, Suna led the Sixth Town, and three independent brigades adapted from the Qing army of Zhejiang and Ma Fengzhi's troops to advance to Fujian in two directions. One was led by Suna to Shaoxing, Ningbo and through Taizhou and Wenzhou to attack Fujian; the other was led by Suna's deputy general Eduo led by Yanzhou, Jinhua and Chuzhou to attack Fujian.

When the Taiping Army of Zhejiang entered Fujian in large numbers, the territory of Zhejiang was not completely pacified. After Ningbo and Taizhou two prefectures fell in Hangzhou, they sent envoys to surrender. The Qing army of Taizhou, led by the prefect Zhu Junsheng, stood firm and resisted each other. Suna attacked Taizhou Prefecture City with a brigade force, but failed to defeat it for three days. Zhu Junsheng used the Taiping Army as a bandit soldier and killed all the gentry wherever he went, and encouraged Taizhou gentry to train the soldiers in the village to resist the Taiping Army.

On August 26, the gentry group of the two counties of Xianju and Tiantai took advantage of the Taiping Army's main force besieging Taizhou Prefecture City and the rear forces were empty, and they plotted to seize the county town and cut off the Taiping Army's food route. However, due to the leak of news, Su Nade timely prevented the attack and captured more than 70 leaders, and divided the troops to encircle and suppress more than 10,000 riots in the village, killing more than 1,000 people. The rest of them were all disarmed and returned to the village to guard the country.

After the gentry and civilians near Taizhou were pacified, the city was alone and could not support it. On September 4, the east gate was attacked and blasted. The prefect Zhu Junsheng jumped into the city and committed suicide. The Qing army, officials, gentry and young men and women in the city were slaughtered. After the Taizhou tragedy, part of the Qing army in Wenzhou fled to Fujian, and the rest fled either by surrender.

The Taiping Army of Elulu was also progressing smoothly in the early stage. Before the Qing army resisted, it captured Yanzhou, Jinhua and Chuzhou. When attacking Quzhou Prefecture, it was stubbornly resisted by the Manchu and Han army led by Zhang Jing, the left governor of Fujian. After the Taiping Army captured Quzhou, Zhang Jing led the remaining troops to retreat to Jiangshan County and vowed not to surrender. Edu personally led troops to surround Jiangshan City. Under the command of Zhang Jing, the Qing army resisted stubbornly and transferred from Fujian.

When the red-clothed cannons came, Dasu sent more than 400 soldiers to help the battle, causing heavy losses to many E troops. The green camp and more than 3,000 bandits who were incorporated in Jinhua, Yanzhou and Chuzhou were driven into cannon fodder by Eduo. They attacked the city for several days, and most of them were killed or injured. The remaining hundreds of people even roared at night, almost causing chaos in the entire Taiping Army. After the roar was suppressed, Eduo became very fierce and ordered all the surrendered soldiers involved in the rebellion to kill.

Fourteen days after the fierce attack, the E-department finally captured Jiangshan County on September 12. Zhang Jing and his confidant general rushed to the Gunpowder Bureau when the city was broken, ignited the lead, and a loud bang, which made his Qing master gloriously successful. After the Taiping Army of E-department entered the city, due to the unsuccessful attacks in the city, the army was in a state of dissatisfaction with casualties and heavy morale, and the morale of the army was depressed. He ordered more than a thousand Qing soldiers and children of officials and gentry in the city to reward the three armies.

There were respected and respected old men in the city who came forward to dissuade the Taiping Army, saying that the Taiping Army was the King's Army of the Ming Dynasty, how could it be done like a beast? E Duo said angrily: "When my army attacked the city, why didn't you tell the Qing army to put down your weapons? When my army stained the city blood, why didn't you see you cry? Now that you just captured some Qing army women, you will jump out, but how can you feel? If you want to put people back, it's okay, my army of Daming will imitate the Qing army, and you will leave women and men in Jiangshan City. How can you see?"

The old man didn't dare to say anything anymore. On September 15, many Taiping troops from Hubei set out from Jiangshan and crossed Xianxia Ridge without any resistance, and pointed directly at Jianning Prefecture, an important town in northwestern Fujian. At the same time, the Taiping Army of the East Route set out from Pingyang, Wenzhou under the leadership of Suna, occupied the gateway of Fenshui Pass into Fujian without any soldiers. At this point, there was no danger in Fujian to stop the Taiping Army, and the restoration of the whole province was a foregone conclusion.

On September 10, the Seventh Town, which was heading from Chaohui, Guangdong, captured Tongshan, under the leadership of the town general Hu Qili, and Nanzhao, troops entered Zhangzhou Prefecture and sent envoys to persuade the surrender. Dong Xueming, the governor of Zhangzhou in Qing Dynasty, Lin Changquan and others opened the door to surrender. After Zhangzhou was restored, Hu Qili marched towards Quanzhou immediately according to the original plan of the military headquarters. Zhutong's tenth Town, which set out from Nanxiong, also attacked Tingzhou Prefecture through Huichang, Jiangxi, and after two days of fierce fighting, he annihilated more than 1,200 Tingzhou defenders and then advanced towards Yanping Prefecture.

The four Taiping Army troops advanced together, and all the four routes played triumphant songs. In addition to Fuzhou and Shaowu, all of Fujian Province fell into the hands of the Taiping Army. Dasu, who only had the two prefectures in his hands, was powerless to stop the Taiping Army, and it was difficult to even organize a decent counterattack. The news that Zhang Jing died in the battle in Jiangshan and his entire army was wiped out, and Dasu knew that he could not escape death. He only hid in the Fuzhou General's Mansion every day, drinking and drowning his sorrows, and no longer cared about it.

The Eight Banners and their families in Fuzhou also felt that the sky was about to collapse. For the Taiping Army, everyone in Manzhou was panicked. There were Guangzhou, Hangzhou, and Jiangning, and Jiangning, far away. It can be said that since the Taiping Army launched its army, none of the city has survived. Such revenge has made the Eight Banners of Fuzhou both despair and angry. The so-called surrender is death, and it is better to fight to the death than to surrender. Faced with the death situation, the Eight Banners of Fuzhou were very beastly and hunted down Han people in the city and plundered, saying that they would die anyway, so it would be better to change the species of the Southern Barbarians.

For seventeen days, four or five Han people in Fuzhou were slaughtered, two or three of them fell into the river and threw them into the well, and only one ten of them escaped from the city. From seventy old men to the babies who had not spoken, all males were killed by the soldiers in Manzhou. There were dozens of women in the monk's dormitory in the city. As a result, the children were slaughtered and killed, and blood was flowing like a storm in the stream.

When the atrocities in Fuzhou spread to Zhou Shixiang, it was September 29. At this time, the atrocities continued. He told Gu Yanwu, who had just arrived in Songjiang, what happened in Fuzhou.

Gu Yanwu sighed and said, "Since ancient times, there have been destruction of the country and the world. Changing the surname and changing the name is called destruction of the country, and benevolence and righteousness are all the same. As for leading animals to eat people, people to eat each other, it is called destruction of the world."

Zhou Shixiang was half-understood and couldn't help but ask: "Who did my Ming Dynasty lose its country or the world since Jiashen?"
Chapter completed!