Zhu Yihai never thought that he would have to fight his own people before he had a formal battle with the Tartars.
Many people in the camp disapproved of Chen Wu's treatment. This was the first serious disagreement between the emperor and his ministers since they came together, but Zhu Yihai did not give in or compromise.
He also knew that he should not engage in such internal fighting at this time. He should first attack the outside world with guns blazing and jointly defend against the Tartars. After all, this saying must first be settled within the country when fighting against foreign forces, but it was criticized miserably by countless people.
But along the way from Cixi, he could not pretend not to see the miserable scenes in Minghe, Songpu and other towns.
In the end, Zhu Yihai insisted on his own idea. It was right to fight against foreign enemies together, but people like Chen Wu still had to deal with them one by one.
In troubled times, there are even more dangers, and if you are not careful, you may be in catastrophe.
Regarding King Yiyang, he had decided to send two scholars, Dong Zhining and Hua Xia, to Chongming to meet him and formally proposed to join forces to fight against the Qing Dynasty. As for the issue of superiority and inferiority, he decided not to worry about who was the orthodox, but agreed that the first to enter Guanzhong would be the king.
Whoever has the ability to recapture Nanjing in advance will become emperor.
Zhu Yihai is serious. With the current situation, it is very difficult to regain Nanjing. It is even harder than reaching the sky. There is no possibility of luck. Therefore, whoever can regain Nanjing will indeed have the ability to revitalize the Ming Dynasty, and it is natural for him to be the emperor.
Zhu Yihai also believed that it would be better for him to regain Nanjing than me.
At this time, we are not in a hurry to fight over each other, but to make such an agreement is to proactively show goodwill and avoid the two families from fighting first.
Chen Wu was just a general who caused trouble in the place. Zhu Yihai labeled him as a mutiny and chaos. I hope King Yiyang can understand.
Zhu Yihai was in Zhejiang, and King Yiyang was in Nanzhi. The two sides temporarily divided their territories accordingly.
He didn't know whether King Yiyang could accept this proposal, but this was his final bottom line.
It is impossible for Zhu Yihai to abdicate and return to the vassal state. He needs the title of supervising the country to fight against the Qing Dynasty. If he worships King Yiyang as the leader at this time, then it will be seen that King Yiyang's monarchs and ministers have not set off a single development in history.
, there is no way out with them.
You must stick to your own path!
noon.
Wang Zhiren arrived.
He led two battalions to mop up the rebels, and the results were good. None of the rebels under Chen Wu who scattered the countryside to plunder could be beaten. In other words, they did not expect that Lu Jianguo's soldiers would attack so decisively. One by one they might be defeated.
Or die.
"I captured about five thousand rebel soldiers, and basically all of them were captured, and they were not allowed to disperse and cause trouble in the countryside."
Wang Zhiren worked hard all night and was covered in sweat and smelly.
Zhu Yihai personally served him a large bowl of stewed horse meat.
"Do you know Zhang Guozhu?" Zhu Yihai asked.
"Liu Zeqing originally had a general named Zhang Guozhu who was good at riding and shooting. He had two battalions of archers who were very brave and elite. Hearing that after Liu Zeqing surrendered, he was unwilling to follow and led his men eastward." Wang Zhiren replied.
"This Zhang Guozhu joined Chen Wu and now has three thousand men and horses, including a battalion of 500 archers whom he brought from Jianghuai. Chen Wu had previously asked Zhang Guozhu to lead troops to Dinghai with the intention of plundering our retreat.
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Wang Zhiren ate the horse meat in big gulps. He speeded up and finished a large bowl of meat in a few seconds.
He wiped his mouth carelessly and said, "Please lead your troops back to Dinghai to aid."
Zhu Yihai nodded, "Although there is General Xiao Wang in Dinghai, Qian Sule in Yincheng, Wu Kai and Wang Xiang in Shipu and Haimen, we are afraid of being caught off guard."
"In this way, I will give you the Fifth Army Camp and the Three Thousand Battalion to take back to quell the chaos. In addition, you can choose some people from the rebel prisoners here to supplement them. Otherwise, I will let Zhang Mingzhen go with you to quell the chaos."
Wang Zhiren thanked him and said, "I have five military camps and three thousand battalions, which are enough. The troops are expensive and fast."
"Put Chen Wu on his head. If Zhang Guojun realizes the current situation and is willing to surrender, he will not have to use weapons. If he is willing to withdraw to Nanzhi, you can leave him alone. If he is willing to surrender, I can give him the position of deputy general, but if he dares
If you want to attack Ningbo, there is no need to be polite, I will kill you first and then show off."
"As for Huang Binqing and Wang Chaoxian, if they also send troops to invade, we can just fight them."
After this incident, Zhu Yihai now completely gave up hope on Huang Binqing. He occupied an important place in Zhoushan, so he must still be captured.
But he still had to rush to Shaoxing, so he left Wang Zhiren to return for reinforcements first. After he settled down in Shaoxing, he would definitely have to mobilize more troops to kill Huang Binqing.
Wang Zhiren nodded silently. The former commander-in-chief of Japanese suppression was furious and could not wait to go back and kill them.
"Huang Binqing's navy, Chao Xian's white spearmen, and the archers of this national pillar are all brave and elite. Wang Qing must be careful."
"I understand."
Chao Chaoxian was originally a Sichuan chieftain who was ordered to fight in Liaodong. In the last years of Chongzhen's reign, he had been leading troops away, and his 8,000 white-poled Sichuan soldiers had no chance to return to Sichuan.
Although the white-armed spearmen under his command are not as good as those of the Qin Liangyu family of Shizhu in Chongqing, they are also famous for their bravery and good fighting skills. If given the opportunity, Zhu Yihai is actually willing to recruit Zhang Guozhu, Wang Chaoxian and even Huang Binqing. But judging from the current situation,
You can only fight first.
"I accept my order."
In the afternoon, the monarch and his ministers chatted for a while. When the sun turned west and the heat dissipated, Zhu Yihai and Wang Zhiren divided their troops in Songpu. Wang Zhiren led five armies and three thousand battalions, and picked up three thousand rebels and prisoners. A total of five thousand troops returned to Dinghai.
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Zhu Yihai and Zhang Mingzhen continued their march north to Shaoxing with their magic machine, the troops of the Second Yongwei Battalion, the Flag Bearer Battalion, and the Four Battalions of Zhejiang Zhenbiao Battalion, plus the more than a thousand selected rebels, totaling 5,000 troops.
Both armies set off at the same time.
At this time, the large group of gentry accompanying Ningbo learned that a rebellion had just occurred. They vaguely heard that a Yiyang king had emerged from Nanzhi to supervise the country, and they also discussed it a lot.
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Ningbo, Dinghai.
Wang Mingqian, the assistant general of Dinghai City, stayed behind and was given the title of deputy general. He was busy organizing the training of his assistant soldiers. The servant came to report that a fleet came from the north sea, carrying a large number of soldiers and horses.
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Someone came on the boat asking to see him.
Wang Mingqian met the visitor, who claimed to be a personal soldier of General Zhang Guozhu and explained.
I heard that Zhang Guozhu was originally a general under Liu Zeqing, but now he could not stand in Nanzhi, so he had to collect some ships and led five hundred archers south to surrender to Wang Zhiren. Wang Mingqian inquired about it carefully and was moved.
Zhang Guozhu, a man of five hundred elite archers, came to shoot, which in his opinion was a good thing.
Firstly, the opponent is a veteran Jianghuai general, and secondly, the opponent does not have many elite soldiers. If you accept him, this will just strengthen your own strength.
After Wang Zhiren was promoted to the governor of the Beijing Camp, the soldiers in the hands of Wang Zhiren and his son were reorganized into three battalions, the Fifth Army and the 3,000 Liang Beijing Camp in Wang Zhiren's hands, and the Dinghai Xie Camp in Wang Mingqian's hands.
Although Zhang Mingzhen, the new commander-in-chief, is a member of his own family, in these troubled times, it is more valuable to have strong soldiers and horses.
After some examinations, Wang Mingqian decided to personally welcome Zhang Guozhu to Dinghai, settle him here first, and then write to his father later.
Shark Pass.
Zhang Guozhu stood on the deck of the ship, quietly looking ahead.
"Junmen, Wang Mingqian is coming with his own soldiers."
"How did he say?"
"Wang Mingqian agreed to the military gate to go to Dinghai, and made a condition. He can request the military gate to be stationed in Dinghai and serve as the general of the camp in the same city, but the military gate has to give him half of the 500 elite archers under his command."
Zhang Guozhu laughed loudly, "The little brat from Wang Jiuru's family has a big appetite. He wanted to eat half of my archers as soon as he came. Damn it, I have been traveling all over the Central Plains and only have these five hundred archers left in my hand. He is
It’s half as soon as it comes.”
General Qian of the Central Army under his command smiled and said, "He wants to swallow up half of our archers, but he doesn't know that we are also using this as bait to capture his Dinghai."
"Hahaha."
Everyone laughed loudly together.
"Archers, prepare. Wait for that kid to arrive in a moment. I'll give the order and capture him. If this guy knows what's going on, let him live. If he doesn't, shoot him to death with random arrows."
Although Zhang Guozhu did not follow Liu Zeqing to surrender to the Qing Dynasty, he was by no means a good person.
Anyway, in times of trouble, there is nothing absolutely good or bad.
He abandoned Liu Zeqing and joined Chen Wu. Now that he came south, he naturally wanted to find a piece of territory. Chen Wu promised him to capture Ningbo, and then appointed him Ning Shao as deputy general, and gave him Ningbo and Shaoxing as his jurisdiction.
Naturally, he came happily. In troubled times, soldiers alone are not enough, you also need money and territory.
With territory, you can recruit more soldiers and pay more, so that you can maintain your strength.
He used to have thousands of archers under Liu Zeqing's command, but now he only has 500 elite archers and 3,000 troops left. They are also short of pay and armor, and they need a piece of territory.
"Does the military think Governor Chen has captured King Lu?"
"It should be almost done."
No one paid much attention to that Lu Jianguo.
Even in the eyes of Zhang Guozhu and others, the Yiyang King Jianguo on Chongming Island is just like that, not much better than Hongguang, Lu Jianguo and others. They have no confidence in whether the Huangming Zhu family still has any strength.
, but no matter what, this does not affect them from acting under the banner of the Zhu family.
Wang Mingqian came on horseback with only thirty soldiers.
It's not that he was too big, but he believed that Zhang Guozhu came to surrender because he was out of strength. He also heard that there were only 500 archers, so there was no threat. He didn't know that King Yiyang had come out of Chongming to supervise the country, let alone Chen Wu.
, the Dynasty first waited to come south to grab territory.
I really thought that Zhang Guozhu could not stay in Nanzhi any longer, and he was thinking about how to recruit this team and expand his strength along the way.
Wang Mingqian came to Zhang Guozhu's temporary camp on the shore and discovered something was wrong. There were more than 500 archers at all.
At this moment, I felt uneasy, but it was already too late.
He was invited to the big tent in the camp.
Zhang Guozhu wore a helmet and greeted him with a smile on his face.
"General Wang Shen, please hand over your military talisman seal letter!"
"From now on, Dinghai and the Dinghai Associated Defense Battalion will officially be under the command of the general."
Wang Mingqian reached out to draw his sword. As soon as he touched the hilt, Zhang Guozhu's soldiers had already pointed more than a dozen bows at him.
"You want to rebel?" Wang Mingqian yelled.
Zhang Guozhu laughed and said, "Please allow me to introduce myself first. I am Zhang Guozhu, Ningshao's general assigned by Wang Jianguo of Yiyang in Chongming. Well, I will soon be the deputy general of Zhejiang to guard Ningshao. I also ask General Wang to cooperate.
