Haining Guards governs the west of Haiyan County. It was built in the 17th year of Hongwu's reign. It has the left, right, middle and front four posts, as well as two posts, Kanpu and Zhapu. However, the guards in the Ming Dynasty had long been in decay and could no longer be used.
Zhu Yihai personally commanded the 10th Battalion and 10,000 horses to cross the sea and enter Wu. However, the actual person in charge of the army was Zhang Mingzhen, the chief military officer of Zhejiang. After asking Zhu Yihai for instructions, he was still very cautious and did not land in Haiyan rashly.
Instead, they first sent a vanguard fleet to observe and test in front of Qinwang Mountain in the south of Haiyan, and then sent a small group of Ye Bushou to go ashore for reconnaissance. After confirming that it was safe, the vanguard built a temporary reconnaissance camp at Qinwang Mountain. They also sent Ye Bushou to continue.
Reconnaissance further inland.
At the same time, he brought large forces to several islands in the bay, such as Men Island, Baita Island, and Ma Yao Island. He built temporary camps, docks, and temporary warehouses on several islands, and moved the grain, grass, ordnance carried on the ship.
Stored on the island.
Zhu Yihai did not interfere with this. On the contrary, he appreciated Zhang Mingzhen's caution. After all, crossing the sea and heading north at this time, he was already alone and deep behind enemy lines. If he was not careful, he would be in catastrophe.
Even though they had heard that the Haining Guards were still holding on to the Ming army, Zhang Mingzhen and Zhu Yihai would not go into it easily without knowing it clearly. They were here to rescue the Ming army from fighting the Tatars, not to die.
Zhu Yihai's boat stopped at the shore of Mendao, and he disembarked to the island.
Mendao is not big, only about a hundred feet away from Qinwang Mountain on the other side. The entire Mendao is actually an isolated mountain in the sea. There is no flat land and it is all hills and woods, so there are not many people on the island.
"Qinwang Mountain is actually still twenty miles away from Hainingwei, but it's so flat here. It would be faster if we could get there." Zhang Mingzhen proposed his plan. He would first send people ashore at night, disguise themselves as common people or businessmen, and try to collect people nearby as quietly as possible.
Information.
"If Haiyan City has not been lost, we will sneak into the city at night. I am afraid that there may be a scam."
"Well, you should be careful. How much do you know about Zheng Jiwu?" Zhu Yihai asked.
"Previously, when Governor Wang was the commander-in-chief of Zhejiang Province, he summoned the generals of Zhejiang to discuss matters. I met Zheng Jiwu at Governor Wang's place. This man is from the Haining garrison."
Since the mid-Ming Dynasty, the provincial and town camp system has gradually replaced the local garrison system. The level of garrison is not high, below the guerrillas and the garrison, but above the garrison.
Generally, they are responsible for guarding some more important castles, so they are called garrison. Like generals, generals, etc., garrison has no fixed number of personnel and no rank. Its rank mainly depends on its position in the Fifth Army Mansion or the Guard Station.
Determined by job title. Generally, they are drawn from the nearest guard station and serve every five years.
Since the mid-Ming Dynasty, the Ming army has formed a three-system system of mutual checks and balances, with civilian admirals supervising military affairs, military generals commanding troops in combat, and eunuchs supervising the army. As a low-level military attaché who guards a city and a fortress, the garrison actually has very little power.
Similar to the garrison leader in the Sui and Tang Dynasties.
In Zhejiang Province, there was one chief military officer and four generals during the Chongzhen period. However, during the Hongguang period, one deputy general was stationed in Wenzhou, and one deputy general was stationed in Wenzhou to assist in guarding the four routes. They trained guerrilla generals and battalions in the same city.
There are several guerrilla generals in the defense camp, and there are also several more people in charge of the garrison.
However, Zhejiang is the southeastern hinterland after all, and is not as important as Jiubian, so even for defense, the number of troops commanded is very few.
In Xuanda and other places, the garrison troops range from 500 to 3,000, and there are even military positions such as conduct, promotion, and defense, and the general level is further subdivided. However, in Zhejiang, Haiyan County already has Haining Guards.
Hainingwei was once one of the six commanders of the Zhejiang Coast Guard. The commander at that time was of a very high level, second only to the provincial capital secretary and at the level of the provincial capital secretary.
However, by the time Chongzhen arrived, the Japanese rebellion was no longer serious, so Haining was abolished, and Haining Wei was no longer the same as it used to be. Just because it was an important salt production area and a strategic military location to the north of Hangzhou Bay, Haiyan City was eventually
A Haining garrison was set up inside, and the Haining battalion under its command only had 300 people.
In terms of rank, the Haining garrison was under the command of Zhejiang branch garrison Hangjiahu, and he also had two generals under him.
Zheng Jiwu is somewhat similar to Haimen Cun general Wu Kai. He is also a hereditary military attache of Haining Guard. His family has been here since the establishment of Haining Guard in the 17th year of Hongwu. It has been passed down from generation to generation. He himself also serves as a garrison officer as Haining Guard.
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The battalion of 300 city defenders under his command were basically all military households of the former Haining Guards No. 6.
"Zheng Jiwu is in his early thirties. He is young and very brave, but he is a bit upright. When he came to see Governor Wang that time, he made rude remarks that offended General Xiao Wang."
"Zhu Dagoutang is one of the two generals under Zheng Jiwu. He is from Qianhu in Zhapu Suo. He is related to Zheng Jiwu and is his brother-in-law."
It is said that there are twenty-eight big families in Haining, twenty-five of them are the families of military attachés, headed by the two big families of Peng and Ma, and then three are local indigenous people, headed by the two noble families of Li and Xu.
"The Zheng family and the Zhu family are actually not the top among the big families in Haining."
But Zhang Mingzhen only knows so much. After all, he is not from Zhejiang, but Zhu Yihai can almost outline a picture through his words. Zheng Jiwu and Zhu Gangzhen themselves are Haining guards, natives of Haiyan City, and officers of the guards.
, and then set up a garrison, and the general's soldiers were all locals.
When the Qing army went south, the governor of Lu in Hangzhou, the governor of Zhejiang, and the Zhejiang general in Dinghai surrendered one after another. His superior, General Hangjiahu, also surrendered, so Zheng Jiwu and others followed suit at first.
However, the Tatars quickly ordered haircuts in all the places they occupied, and even began to collect food and collect it. Even the three wages collected by Lao Zhu's family began to be collected.
The three rates of the Zhu family are Liao rates, suppression rates and practice rates. This first Liao rate was originally levied to fight the Liaodong Tatars. Now that the Tatars outside the Guan Dynasty have occupied the Central Plains, they have also levied Liao rates. This
Not a grass egg?
The extermination pay was used to suppress the traitorous peasant army, and the training pay was also used to train troops to fight the Tatars outside the customs and the peasant army in the Central Plains. Now every Tatar must be recruited.
On the one hand, he shaved his hair and changed his clothes, and on the other hand, he wanted to recover taxes.
At this juncture, those pseudo-officials who took the opportunity to demote the Qing Dynasty took advantage of the opportunity to increase taxes. Among them, the taxes levied in the name of consumption completely exceeded the regular taxes. Then these pseudo-officials went around asking for bribes, such as Zheng Jiwu, Zhu Outline and so on.
The military attache couldn't escape either. Their family was a powerful local family and they demanded more.
Each of the twenty-eight big families in Haining was asked to pay thousands of taels of silver, not counting the regular taxes and the additional three rates, as well as the expenses, etc. Anyway, every family is faced with the dilemma of peeling off a layer of skin.
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In addition, the pseudo-officials are urging people to shave their heads, which will inevitably lead to turmoil.
After all, Zheng Jiwu and Zhu Dagoutou had troops in their hands. Although there were few troops, there were always troops. Moreover, although the military households at Haining Guard Station had long been out of use, they had always been obedient to these military attache families.
He stood up and raised his arms, and naturally people gathered in response.
They beheaded the new garrison king Dengxuan sent by the Tatars, drove away his looting and extortion soldiers, and announced that everything was restored.
Even the monk Gu Yinshi from Haining responded to this movement with a group of monks.
But Zhu Yihai was thinking that when Zheng Jiwu and others announced that they had resumed their duties, they were probably more likely to turn against King Yiyang. King Yiyang Jianguo didn't come to rescue him, but Lu Jianguo did come, and he didn't know whether he would welcome him or not.
The location of Haiyan is very important, and the Tatars in Hangzhou will definitely send troops to recover it. Zheng Jiwu and his battalion of defenders will definitely not be able to hold on for long. Even if he recruits troops and mobilizes the military households of the guard station, they will probably not have much combat effectiveness.
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But this is what Zhu Yihai values is. The Tatars must also know that Haining's soldiers have no fighting ability, so even if they send troops to fight, they probably still send a surrendered Ming general to fight with the surrendered Ming army under his subordinates. It is most likely that Li Chengdong
, Li Yuchun is waiting for these scum.
And this is also an opportunity.
On the other side of the Qiantang River, there is no chance of going directly to Hangzhou Boluo. We can only find another place. Just as the great man taught us, we have to think outside the box and get active and guerrilla.
When the enemy advances, we retreat, when the enemy is stationed, we harass, when the enemy is tired, we attack, when the enemy retreats, we pursue. We must take the initiative and cannot passively respond to the battle. Instead, we must mobilize the enemy to find opportunities for combat.
Thinking back to when Nur Hazhi, Huang Taiji and others fought against the Ming army, didn't they rely on moving, concentrating their strength, and defeating them one by one to survive, and then counterattack into Guanzhong step by step?
Bo Luo in Hangzhou definitely didn't expect that he, the Lu Supervisor, would quietly cross the sea and head north with ten thousand troops, so he is now the biggest surprise and variable.
The puppet army that came to attack Haining was Zhu Yihai's prey.
Use Haining as bait to catch the big puppet fish.
Therefore, Zhu Yihai was not in a hurry to go to Haining. He rushed into Haining at this time. In fact, he was strategically passive. It was a dead move. He had to hide outside Haining and wait for the enemy to enter the urn.
"There are multiple groups of people conducting reconnaissance at night. We must try to master as much intelligence as possible so that we can securely sit on the Diaoyutai. Otherwise, we may become the prey of thieves!"
Zhang Mingzhen admires Zhu Yihai's strategic arrangement very much. It's not that he didn't expect it, but most people's thinking must be to advance to Haining to gather reinforcements and defend against the city. Who would immediately think of such a sinister person? Without a hundred battle experience,
Most people are definitely not so shady.
Walking into the woods at the foot of the mountain, it suddenly felt a lot cooler. He found an open space and sat down. Zhu Yihai diverged his thoughts and felt that there must be a future in this way. He needed to win, win one after another, train his troops in battle, and accumulate little achievements.
Destroy the Tatars as much as possible.
In history, the Eighty Days of Jiangyin and the Three Massacres in Jiading proved that the people in the Sanwu area had a strong will to resist the invaders. However, they lacked support and fought individually. In the end, they were defeated and massacred by the Tatars and puppet troops one by one.
If Zhu Yihai can swim in the Sanwu area, and even lead more rebels to establish bases and engage in guerrilla warfare, then the Tatars' backyard will be unstable. This will not only reduce the pressure on eastern Zhejiang, but even reduce the pressure on the Tatars in western Zhejiang.
the power of.
Half a day later, Zhu Yihai was sleeping in the tent under the shade of the trees, and Zhang Mingyang woke him up.
"Ye Bushou has discovered the situation of the Tatars' invasion of Haining."
Zhu Yihai sat up and asked, "Who is leading the troops? How many troops are there?"
"It's Li Yuchun, the newly appointed deputy commander-in-chief of Jiaxing Xie Town by the Tartars." Zhang Mingyang reported the collected information to Zhu Yihai. "Li Yuchun was originally the chief military officer of Huang Degong, Duke of Jingguo in the Yongwei Camp. He later served as the staff general of Sizhou Xiezhen and served in the Qing army.
When crossing the Huaihe River, he voluntarily surrendered to the Tartars."
"The Tartars have just worshiped the traitor Zhang Cunren as the governor of Zhejiang, and awarded Tian Xiong, the former commander-in-chief of Huang Degong's command, the chief commander of Zhejiang. Zhang Jie, the general who surrendered to the captives, was awarded the deputy commander-in-chief of Xie Town in Hangzhou, Zhang Shiyuan was awarded the deputy commander-in-chief of Xie Town in Huzhou, and Li Yuchun was awarded the title of Jiaxing.
Deputy Commander-in-Chief of Xie Town."
"This time Zhang Cunren and Tian Xiong sent Li Yuchun to lead five thousand troops to attack Haining."
"Your Highness, there is a ship coming from the south," Yang Boxing also came to report. "The ship patrolling the ship is said to be your Highness's new bachelor Zhang Guowei, Liu Zongzhou, Qi Biaojia, Chen Meng, Fang Fengnian, Chen Hanhui, Song Zhipu, Ke Xiaqing and other senior ministers.
They."
"Is Li Yuchun also from the Yongwei camp?" Zhu Yihai asked Zhang Mingyang.
"This man was originally Huang Degong's general in the Yongwei camp. He later served as Sizhou's general. The Qing army went south and surrendered without a fight. Later, he went to Yangzhou City to persuade Shige's troops to surrender. He was wounded by an arrow. Later, he and Li Chengdong fought for the Tartars.
The vanguard of Yangzhou participated in the bloody massacre of Yangzhou after breaking the city, but now he has been promoted to the deputy commander-in-chief of Jiaxing. This time, I will definitely take the life of this thief and avenge the bloodshed of the 800,000 people in Yangzhou."
When Zhu Yihai heard about this despicable act, he was also very angry, "Thief, tell the whole army, if you meet this man on the battlefield, you must not let him go! If you want to see him alive, you want to see his corpse, and if you die, you want to see his skull."
It will be turned into a wine vessel and will be brought to Yangzhou to offer sacrifices to the people who died in the massacre."
"Sacrifice his heart and liver to the flag and feed his flesh and blood to the dogs!"
