Zhu Yihai was grilling fish with his newly appointed ninth cabinet scholar Shen Chenquan. The conditions on the island were limited, and Zhu Yihai was not a picky person, so he just lit a fire, threaded the caught fish with branches and stuck them in the fire. Just grill it on the side. Although this method is too simple, the grilled fish is not heated evenly, some places are black and charred, and some places are a little raw, but it does not prevent the king and his ministers from eating the fish.
"Without accepting any reward at night, Li Yuchun sent troops to plunder Xiashi Town and then headed for Tongxiang."
"Tongxiang?" Zhu Yihai's understanding of Tongxiang is limited to knowing that there was a Wuzhen in Tongxiang in later generations, a place where Internet tycoons talked about the inferiority of Huashan. It is said that the Jiangnan water town has beautiful scenery and beautiful women.
"Could it be a false shot that hits the east and the west?"
With Haiyan in the south and Tongxiang in the north, the marching route of Li Yuchun and his gang of traitors was a bit strange.
Shen Chenquan didn't find it surprising, "Those were not an army at all, they were just a group of bandits who surrendered. They pushed hard in Xiashi Town, slandering a few local squires as rebels, ransacked their homes, looted, and beheaded hundreds of people. An innocent man took credit for his crime and looted the whole town. Now I go to Tongxiang just because it is rich there."
Tongxiang is famous for its wealth. Jiaxing is rich in silk, and seven out of ten silks from Jiaxing are produced in Tongxiang. In addition, Tongxiang is also a famous hometown of Jinshi. From the Song Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty, countless Jinshi candidates were produced, and a large number of Tongxiang people entered the court as officials. After becoming an official, he bought land, built a manor and established an academy, which made Tongxiang more prosperous.
In comparison, although Haiyan County is also the headquarters of Haining Guards, which has been famous for its rich production of sea salt since the pre-Qin Dynasty, it is far less wealthy than Tongxiang, the hometown of Jinshi, not to mention that Haiyan is still occupied by Zheng Jiwu and others, so Li Yuchun It is normal to gnaw on this meatless bone if you are not in a hurry.
"Your Highness, do we need to adjust our deployment? Do we need to save Tongxiang?"
"This place is only a hundred miles away from Tongxiang."
Zhu Yihai frowned and said, "Hangzhou is only a hundred miles away from Tongxiang. What's more, Huzhou, Jiaxing, and Chongde all around have soldiers and horses stationed there. We are hiding on the island now to catch them unawares. , if we were to rescue Tongxiang for more than a hundred miles, it would be difficult to guarantee confidentiality, and we would be surrounded from all sides."
"But are you just going to die without saving me?"
"We want to save the world. We must save Tongxiang if we can. But judging from the current situation, it is unrealistic for us to rescue Tongxiang. The enemy is strong and we are weak. We are crossing the sea alone. We can only rely on movement to annihilate the enemy. To kill the enemy, we must also preserve ourselves. .Otherwise, if we fight it all at once, there will be no future.”
Shen Chenquan sighed and couldn't eat the grilled fish in his hand anymore.
We had just won a battle in Meishan, and it had only been two days of excitement, but the reality was still so pessimistic.
"Then we just wait here?"
Zhu Yihai was silent.
The original plan was to ambush here and send Ye Bushou ashore to collect military information. After grasping Li Yuchun's route to attack Haining, he would then lead his troops ashore to ambush and attack, killing this group of troops in one fell swoop.
But now it seems that the plan cannot keep up with the changes.
Continue to wait and see?
Shen Chenquan's words made Zhu Yihai unable to calm down. With 10,000 troops in his hands, he just allowed the Tatars and traitors to loot and massacre the people unscrupulously?
"Summon Mr. Zhang over."
Before finishing the grilled fish, Zhang Minzhen arrived, as did the general envoy Yu Dafu, the deputy general of the flag-bearing battalion Zhang Mingyang and several others.
Zhu Yihai kept the story short and explained the situation, "What Mr. Shen said is that you can hold an army in one hand and cannot just sit back and watch."
Zhang Mingzhen quickly admonished, "Your Highness, although our army has ten thousand people, it is a new army. After the battle in Meishan, it also suffered a lot of losses. Although some new soldiers have been added, now the army is actually ten thousand people. There are only eight thousand, of which only one-fourth are veterans. Going north to reinforce Haining is already very risky, but at least it is close to the seaside, and we can advance, attack, retreat or defend. But if we rush more than a hundred miles to reinforce Tongxiang, we will risk our lives."
"I firmly oppose the rescue of Tongxiang!"
Yu Dafu had done military preparations in Taizhou before, so he knew some soldiers, and he also voiced his opposition to sending troops to Tongxiang. Such a lone army was still a new army, and going deep behind the enemy lines like this would not lead to death.
Zhang Mingyang stood up at this time and said, "I am willing to lead a team of troops to help Tongxiang."
"Are you going? How many people are you taking with you? If you take too few, you may not be able to defeat the thief Li Yuchun. If you take too many, you will never come back." Zhang Mingzhen lectured his brother very rudely.
Zhu Yihai looked at the Zhejiang Zhizhi map in front of him in silence. The Hujiahu area to the north of Hangzhou Bay is basically a plain area with crisscrossed water networks and convenient transportation. This is actually beneficial to the Tatars who have the home field advantage. It is not conducive to the Ming army that is now marching north alone.
In such a terrain, there is little room for change.
The original plan was to rely on the coast, use maritime troop transport maneuvers, and make surprise landings in coastal areas. This was based on the idea of not going deep into the inland, and taking the initiative to attack and hit.
If we go deeper into the interior now, we will indeed deviate from the plan.
"Since we can't send troops to help Tongxiang, I think we can only make some noise to attract them back on track." Zhu Yihai frowned and said, "We can't just sit back and ignore it, we have to find a way to lead them by the nose and return to our Come as planned."
"But Thief Li has already led his troops north."
"Then make the noise louder."
"What good ideas does Your Highness have?" Zhang Minzhen asked curiously. "Do we need to reinforce Haining in advance?"
Zhu Yihai shook his head, "Haining won't go yet, that is the last step. Let's make some other noise first!"
He picked up the map and explained his idea to everyone in detail. It was actually quite simple. He was still fighting guerrilla warfare, but this time he had to mobilize Li Yuchun to turn around and go south, but he couldn't overly alert others, so he couldn't reveal his true identity.
"Each battalion is divided into parts. It is best to use the banner of a rebel army or a township regiment and enter the coastal towns of Haining County, Haiyan County. According to the intelligence collected now, after the Tatars occupied western Zhejiang, their main force was in Hangzhou, and Although there are also troops stationed in Huzhou, Jiaxing, they are mainly stationed in a few prefectural cities. There are not many soldiers in the county towns, and the towns and villages are even less concerned. The place is now in chaos. Although many squires have taken the lead in surrendering to the Qing Dynasty, because the Tatars have now issued orders to shave their heads, They also began to levy three wages, land and dingyin, etc., and the people were excited. This is a good opportunity."
I thought they would have a good life when the Tatars came, but now the people in western Zhejiang have discovered that they have not had a good life since the Tatars came. They have to pay taxes and pay the same amount, not to mention the many officials who surrendered to the capitols. They took advantage of the opportunity to prey on the common people, and there were many local gangsters who took advantage of the opportunity to recruit troops under various banners. In fact, they took advantage of the fact that the ruling power of the Ming and Qing Dynasties was empty at the bottom to grab some territory and seize the opportunity to levy food and money.
The burden on the people has become heavier. They are being oppressed arbitrarily by all forces. They can't even find a place to reason, and the anger in their hearts is constantly increasing.
Many people have begun to miss the rule of the Ming Dynasty. Although the Ming court has not done anything serious in recent years, at least it will not be as chaotic as it is now.
What's more, the Tatars also want them to shave their heads and wear clothes.
People miss Han.
Zhu Yihai also calmed down. It was indeed too reckless to go to Tongxiang at this time.
So it is better to imitate the great man and encircle the city from the countryside. First, in the areas where the Tatars are weak, we should clean up the ruffians and evil gentry in the countryside, attack the traitors who have surrendered, and restore the peace of the people.
By the way, we can also raise some military expenses and food supplies.
They can also lure Li Yuchun over, and then they can gather together and annihilate him.
The plan is just such a plan. It sounds very simple indeed. It is just to break the current ten battalions with 10,000 troops into parts, land on the coast of Haiyan County, and operate within twenty or thirty miles of the coast, specifically in the countryside.
, each battalion keeps a certain distance and can contact reinforcements.
First attack the ruffians and bullies who took the opportunity to cause chaos in the countryside, and then attack the squires and landlords who surrendered, using various names of volunteer rural groups.
"Is this okay?"
Zhu Yihai is full of confidence.
"Of course it can be done, it can definitely be done." This was Taizu's magic weapon to win back then. I remember that Zhu Yihai loved reading when he was in middle school, but after his father confiscated all his novels because they were deemed as idle books that were not part of the real job, he became bored with studying.
I was able to read my grandfather's Selected Works of Mao. Although the book seemed boring at the time, I read it every day before going to bed and it was considered a familiar read.
Later, it became a habit for him to pick out the hair before going to bed. As he grew older and gained more experience, he read this set of books over and over again, and he constantly gained new understandings.
"If we want to revive the Ming Dynasty and restore the world, we must first understand what the world is. In Gu's view, the country, the country, or the world, is not the world of my Zhu Ming family and one surname, but the world of all the people of the Central Plains.
If we leave these people aside, everything will be empty, and everything will be nothing but a castle in the air and a castle in the sand."
"Even Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty once said that water can carry a boat but also capsize it. Thinking about the fact that our country has collapsed for more than 280 years during the Ming Dynasty, it seems that we have neglected the people."
"If we want to fight against the invaders and revitalize the people, we cannot do without the people. Although the people are weak, without them, everything we do will be in vain. Therefore, we must mobilize the people and unite the people to truly implement the resurgence.
great cause."
"Start now, start from here, I hope it's not too late."
After hearing these words, the generals Zhang Mingyang, Zhang Mingyang, and Zhang Mingyang were filled with doubts, but Grand Scholar Shen Chenquan was enlightened and suddenly felt enlightened.
Yes, resisting the captives and restoring the Ming Dynasty is not a matter of the Zhu family, nor is it only a matter of the civil servants, military officers, and officials, but also a matter of the entire people of the world. Without them, how can we talk about anything else?
"Everyone, we must not only resist the captives, but also care for the people. Now in the land of Sanwu, the people are in dire straits. We call ourselves King Division and we should save them from dire straits."
"Now let's discuss how each battalion should act, and what things should be paid attention to after landing on the coast." Zhu Yihai felt excited at this time, feeling that a wisp of fog had finally been lifted, and he saw a glimmer of light ahead!
