Governor Su Song appointed by Zhu Yihai, Shen Youlong, Chen Zilong, Xia Yunyi and others led the troops to raise troops, raised the flag of righteousness high, and all the men and women in the city came to join the army, which greatly boosted the morale of the people.
In half a day, they captured Songjiang Fucheng and captured General Chang Shouning of Wu Zhikui, the commander-in-chief of King Yiyang.
Shen Youlong listed Chang Shouning's crimes of plundering and plundering after the town of Songjiang, blackmailing officials and gentry, etc., and then executed him, which greatly pleased the people. He then incorporated Chang Shouning's department and ordered Li Daiwen, a former member of the Central Book School, to Shan Xun, the former magistrate of Macheng County, Zhang Jian, the former magistrate of Luoyuan County, and Juren Sun Shousun, etc., led the rebel army and guarded four gates.
Chen Zilong, Xia Yunyi, Xu Fuyuan, Hua Xia, Dong Zhining and others were also asked to divide their troops to attack Shanghai, Huating counties, Jinshanwei, Nanhuizui Zhonghou Post, Qingcun Zhongqian Post and other places.
This uprising was planned in advance and received liaison support from Zhu Yihai. Therefore, they acted quickly after the uprising and almost captured the entire Songjiang Prefecture. At almost the same time, Kunshan, Suzhou Prefecture in the north, Gu Yanwu, Wang Yongzuo and others also raised troops at the same time. Both sides echoed from the north to the south, and the momentum was great for a while.
Huang Fei and Wu Zhikui also gathered troops to attack Suzhou, and for a time Jiangnan was ablaze.
Zhu Yihai convened a temporary military meeting between civil and military officials.
Chen Qianfu, who co-organized the Supervision Office, gave an intelligence speech first. Although the intelligence network of the Supervision Office was not perfect yet, it now had connections with Songjiang and Kunshan, and with Yan Wogong, a top spy lurking in Jiaxing, Chen Qianfu still had intelligence. Very timely.
"How many Qing troops are there in Suzhou right now?"
"According to reliable information, there are currently only a thousand cavalry in the city of Suzhou. They are stationed by Tu Guobao, governor of Jiangning, and General Li Yanling is leading a force outside the city."
Liu Kongzhao had also passed through Suzhou all the way south before. He asked suspiciously, "There are only more than a thousand people in Suzhou. Is it impossible?"
Chen Qianfu told him that the Tatars were preparing their troops. Bolo from Hangzhou was also heading north with the main force, and Duduo from Jiangning had already transferred his headquarters back to Jiangning to be ready to leave at any time. Several troops had even left as a vanguard. .
Tu Guobao, the governor of Jiangning, is now mainly the governor in his hand.
On the other hand, Wu Shengzhao, the Songsu admiral, went to Changzhou with Zhenbiao to suppress the uprising people who refused to shave their heads. As for the commander-in-chief Li Chengdong, he took Zhenbiao and a few troops to attack Chongming.
It is true that Suzhou City only has a few thousand cavalry guarding the city now, but compared to the situation where Songjiang Prefecture has already fallen, Suzhou is better off. After all, this is the governor's residence.
"Then, Huang Fei, Wu Zhikui and the others are going to defeat Suzhou in one battle and easily win it?"
"How many troops are there in Huang Wu's second division?"
Chen Qianfu held his notebook and read expressionlessly, "Huang Fei claims to have one hundred thousand troops, and Wu Zhikui claims to have fifty thousand troops."
"Do you know how much you actually know?"
"When Huang Fei withdrew from Nanjing, he did have more than 40,000 soldiers. However, now there are about 20,000 serious soldiers in his army, but there is still a lot of water in it."
Liu Kongzhao nodded immediately, Huang Fei was one of the six generals under his command, Cao Jiangshi, "Huang Fei has at most three thousand servants in his old camp, but he does have a lot of ships under his command.
Huang Fei was originally the nephew of Huang Long in Dongjiang Town. His surname was Tu. When he was young, he followed his uncle Huang Long to fight in Liaodong. Later, after Dongjiang Town's general Mao Wenlong was killed by Yuan Chonghuan, Dongjiang Town experienced Liu Xingzhi's rebellion. Finally, Huang Long was appointed as the new general. General Soldier of Dongjiang Town.
In the sixth year of Chongzhen's reign, Huanglong and the Tatars were killed in a fierce battle in Lushun. He had no children, so Huang Fei inherited his uncle's surname. He was promoted from the garrison to the commander-in-chief and the commander-in-chief of the Northeast Navy to assist in the suppression of the Northeast Navy, and the commander-in-chief of the Guan Liao Tong Huaihai River Town Navy
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When Hongguang was established, Huang Fei led more than 40,000 troops south from Denglai, stationed in Zhenjiang, and later stationed in Wuhu to quarry. Together with Huang Degong, they blocked Zuo Liangyu.
Fei led 20,000 horses eastward. He did not find Zheng Hongkui's troops at Jiangkou, so he went to Chongming and supported King Yiyang to continue resisting the Qing Dynasty.
Huang Fei is actually quite tough. His experience in commanding troops and his prestige are quite good. However, he has gained the support of Queen Yiyang, but he has done nothing.
As the de facto military leader of the Yiyang Dynasty, Huang Fei has been busy with one thing in the past two months. He has been recruiting troops and horses, and then going around collecting food and soliciting donations. This has caused complaints from all over the place. Although he also took advantage of the empty space when the main force of the Qing army went south.
At this time, they occupied some prefectures and counties, but they could neither calm the people nor defend the territory.
Now we are gathering troops to attack Suzhou, but this has been planned for a month or two, and it has been going on until now.
"Huang Fei's soldiers are mostly navy soldiers who are not used to land warfare, let alone attacking cities. Moreover, his soldiers have been defeated all the way and have not fought a hard battle for a long time. The sight of Tatars makes them weak!"
This was said by Yang Wencong, but it was not a disparagement, but the truth. In fact, many Ming troops now have a weakness for the Eight Banners. This has been said for a long time. When Sun Chuanting took command, he told Chongzhen such a truth, saying
At that time, when the Ming Dynasty border troops he led faced off against the rogue peasant armies, those peasant armies would often weaken when they saw them. Sometimes, a small cavalry unit of the Ming army that stayed awake at night could scare thousands of peasant armies into fleeing.
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But these Ming frontier troops, who were like tigers in front of the peasant army, arrived at the battlefield of Liaodong and were so frightened that they did not dare to fight after seeing the Eight Banners.
Often dozens or hundreds of banners can scare away one, two thousand or even more Ming border troops.
The reason is not that the Ming army was naturally afraid of the Jurchens. I think back in the past when the Ming frontier troops plowed holes in the courtyard, the Jurchens they killed were called grandpa.
But in the past few decades, the Ming army has begun to see Tatars calling them grandpa. The most important point is that the Ming Dynasty did not provide enough protection for the officers and soldiers. Many of the soldiers deployed to the Liaodong battlefield were already incompetent soldiers and lacked training.
, lack of food and pay, insufficient equipment, everyone went to the battlefield hungry or even freezing, coupled with the rigid decision-making and command from the top, the Ming army went to Liaodong to fight, losing every time, and losing every time. Over time, everyone became
I started to be afraid of the Tatars.
But as long as there are sufficient guarantees and no random command, the Ming army can still fight. Sun Chengzong's fortress tactics were actually somewhat effective, and the Guan Ning army built by Yuan Chonghuan was fully capable of fighting the Qing army head-on.
Even the battle between Song and Jin was actually pretty good in the early stages.
When an army is unable to defeat the other side, psychological fear will arise, and you will be afraid when you see it.
In contrast, the newly recruited soldiers are actually stronger in this area. Why, because they don't have that shadow in their hearts. They are simple farmers and miners who enlisted in the army, received strict training, had enough food and even pay.
It was equipment protection. Before they met the Qing army, they didn't know what the Qing army was like. They fought against some bandits and bandits and won many victories, so they had strong self-confidence.
As the saying goes, a newborn calf is not afraid of tigers.
You are always unconvinced until you are defeated.
Huang Fei's army was completely different from Zhu Yihai's Northern Expedition. The composition of his soldiers was very complex. There were veterans from Dongjiang Town, soldiers from Denglai Town, and even soldiers who had been defeated from Liaodong, Beijing and other places, as well as soldiers from Shandong. , soldiers from Huaiyang, Jiangnan and other places, and even Zuo Liangyu's old subordinates, including peasant soldiers, bandits and water bandits, and many young men who had just joined the army.
Although such a force was said to be in the tens of thousands, they were all defeated troops. In previous battles with the Qing army, they had suffered more defeats than wins. Even if they had defeated, they had been beaten to the point of being frightened.
Yang Wencong once had 800 Guizhou soldiers under his command, and these soldiers were very capable of fighting. These soldiers from the southwest mountainous area, like the white-pole soldiers of the Qin family, were known for their toughness.
But when he had five thousand men under his command, he clearly felt that his combat effectiveness was not as good as before.
"Huang Fei and Wu Zhikui only know how to recruit soldiers and sweep away the land to make troops. But in fact, their soldiers lack training and cannot strictly enforce military discipline. Therefore, although this army is large, I dare say that they will never attack Suzhou. Smooth, maybe even defeated."
Zhu Yihai felt that this did not reflect his ambition. Yang Wencong had retreated all the way from Nanjing and had seen the cowardice of the navy in the four towns of Jiangbei and the six towns of the Yangtze River during the Hongguang Dynasty. Hundreds of thousands of horses were beaten by Duduo's 30,000. Kneel down and beg for mercy, or even run away.
Zhu Yihai looked down at the map. Zhenze was very close to Suzhou, especially because it was connected by a canal, less than a hundred miles away.
If we move faster, the cavalry can arrive in one day.
It is four to five hundred miles from Nanjing to Suzhou, but it is less than 200 miles from Changzhou to Suzhou, and only 300 miles from Zhenjiang to Suzhou. If the Qing army in Nanjing city is reinforced, it will actually be very fast.
Xu Shiqi seemed a little unbelievable, "Tens of thousands of troops, can't they defeat more than a thousand people?"
"In a normal fight, of course I can beat the enemy. I'm afraid that I will underestimate the enemy because I think there are too many troops. Moreover, although there are only a thousand soldiers in Suzhou City, they are full of brave cavalry. If one cavalry is counted as five, they can be as good as seven or eight thousand elites. There are only so many real elites in the Huang and Wu tribes, so if you really think about it carefully, Huang and Wu are more likely to be defeated."
"But Songjiang and Kunshan are able to attack cities and counties? Shen Youlong and Wang Yongzuo are just new recruits."
"The situation in Songjiang is different from that in Kunshan. There are actually no real northern barbarians stationed there, just some local officials who surrendered to the barbarians, and even a few local garrison troops."
Xu Shiqi looked at Zhu Yihai and said, "Your Highness, please send troops north quickly to reinforce Generals Huang and Wu, and join forces to capture Suzhou."
Zhu Yihai is still looking at the map. Now Jiaxing Mansion is nominally under the control of Yan Wogong and Li Yuchun, but it has actually fallen under the control of Zhu Yihai. The entire Songjiang Mansion has basically been taken over by Shen Youlong and the others. Now The revolt in Kunshan is also going smoothly, and Suzhou is becoming an isolated city.
The situation is excellent.
But in history, Huang Fei and Wu Zhikui seemed to have failed miserably in Suzhou? How did they lose?
It seems that after the failure of the attack on Suzhou, Huang Wu's navy was annihilated by Li Chengdong and Wu Shengzhao. They first relieved Suzhou, and then the Qing army took advantage of the situation and marched south to Songjiang, all the way to Hangzhou Bay.
"Okay, let's go to Suzhou, but not to rescue Huang Fei, but to reinforce the local governor!"
As soon as Zhu Yihai's words came out, everyone was stunned and thought they had heard wrongly.
