Chapter 252 Food
"Admiral Yan, wait for a while, there is still an artillery company that has not come up."
Yan Qingshan nodded, after arranging Qian Yong, he continued to command artillery to bombard the Qing army in the city.
After waiting for half an hour, Qian Yong's guard squad leader came back. Qian Yong saw it and hurried forward and asked, "Lao San, where are the people?"
"The division commander, all the brothers in the artillery company were killed. Their artillery had no ammunition, so they fought with the Qing army, and none of them were cowards!"
"Okay! OK! It's not a loss for me, Qian Sibao's brother! Damn, the Qing Tartars killed my brother today, and I will let you destroy the clan tomorrow!"
Yan Qingshan saw that all the brothers of the army boarded the ship and ordered them to drive the ship and leave the place early. The warships were parked here with too much danger. Now the Qing army was robbing and had no time to pay attention to them. When they poured out, they would be in trouble.
Qian Yong took his more than 2,300 defeated soldiers and generals. Seeing Jiangyin City getting farther and farther away, the crying in the city could no longer be heard. Qian Yong wiped his tears and said to his subordinates: "Brothers, let's throw away the bodies of a thousand brothers here. I, Qian Sibao, here I swear that I must destroy the Tartars in the future and avenge the dead brothers!"
"Eliminate the Tartars and avenge the brothers! Eliminate the Tartars and avenge the brothers!!" More than 2,300 people on the four ships shouted.
The Jiangyin Battle was basically over. In the half-month battle, Qian Yong and his team destroyed about 3500 Qing troops, effectively attacking the Qing Dynasty's rule in Jiangnan. However, the Jiangyin Battle was successful in tactical and failed strategically. Jiangyin still did not escape the fate of being slaughtered in the city. More than 200,000 people in the city who were unwilling to surrender to the Tartars lived and died together with the city.
At this time, the Qing army camp outside Jiangyin City, Boluo, the Qing Dynasty's general who was expeditioning the south, was watching the flames of Jiangyin City.
"I finally captured this city. I didn't expect that a small county town would delay my army for more than two months."
At this time, a fast horse came from the north gate and came to Boro. The horse knight jumped off the horse before he could stop. Seeing Boro coming forward and kneeling.
"General, the Ming army ship in the North Gate is back again. All the red cannons of the Han army flag were blown up. King Kong Youde of Gongshun was killed."
"What? Why don't you dog slaves report such important news early?"
The messenger lowered his head and said, "There are...and..."
"What else? Say it quickly, I'll cut you off the trouble that delayed me!"
"Berenican was also killed together!"
Boluo was stunned when he heard this news. This was the first time since entering the pass that the Qing royal family had died in battle. This made Boluo explain to Prince Yu Duoduo.
Boro was stunned for more than ten minutes. Duld, the commander of the guards beside him, was afraid that Boro would get hysterical, and shouted softly from the side: "General! General!"
At this time, Boluo recovered and asked, "Where is that group of Ming troops?"
"They have already boarded the boat, and it seems they are heading downstream!"
Boro, who was in a state of breath, gritted his teeth and said, "Send the order and kill all twenty miles around Jiangyin to avenge Berennie!"
No matter Boluo is furious, Yan Qingshan has left Jiangyin twenty miles away. Now there is no sight of Jiangyin City with fire in the sky. Qian Yong and others have fought for a day and a night, and are alone in a sleepy manner. They are now sleeping soundly on the deck.
Yan Qingshan knew that they were tired and asked not to disturb them, and at the same time, he was careful not to make noises.
The fleet rescued the stranded warship halfway, and the five ships headed towards Chongming Island at the estuary of the Yangtze River.
Now Chongming Island has become a large refugee camp, with more than 30,000 people from Jiangyin and more than 50,000 people from Jiading gathering outside Chongming County.
Lu Guang, the magistrate of Chongming, has been so busy that he has hit the back of his head in the past few days. There are only less than 20,000 people in Chongming County. In the past few days, nearly 100,000 people have flocked to the island, and the sea boats are still transporting people to the island every day. Now the island is crowded, so it is easy to say that the food shortage is very large. Lu Guang asked his grandfather and grandmother to ask for his grandmother to raise enough food for more than 80,000 people for three days. If there is no food to transport it in three days, it is hard to say what happens at that time.
When Lu Guang saw Yan Qingshan's five large ships docked, he quickly got on the boat and found Yan Qingshan and asked him to solve the food problem.
Who knew that Yan Qingshan flipped his hands and didn't care.
Seeing Yan Qingshan's appearance, Lu Guang was so angry that he was so angry. At that time, this guy was coaxing him with sweet words. Now there are so many people on the island, but this guy doesn't care. Lu Guang can give up and grab Yan Qingshan's sleeve, insisting that he give an explanation.
Yan Qingshan is also angry now. The battle is not going well, so he is already angry. Now this stinky old man is still annoying himself, so Yan Qingshan called a few sailors to throw the county magistrate out.
Lu Guang, who was driven out of the cabin, couldn't help feeling angry. He had known that this would be better than hanging himself at that time. Now he can't afford to die. What should I do if I die if I die?
While Lu Guang was struggling between death and immortality, the family next to him shouted: "Master, look, there are more than a dozen big ships!"
When Lu Guang heard the eyes raised his eyes and saw a shadow of more than a dozen large ships appearing in the sky, which looked no smaller than the five large ships in front of him. At this time, Yan Qingshan on the ship also received the news and went out of the cabin to watch.
Yan Qingshan laughed: "You slaughtered county magistrate, this is not a savior. This is the King of Chu's fleet. There must be food on it, why are you in a hurry?"
When Lu Guang heard Yan Qingshan say this, he felt relieved and rushed to the dock with Yan Qingshan to welcome the King of Chu fleet.
These are really reinforcement fleets sent by King Zhu Hongsan of Chu. Not only were there food on the ship, but five thousand army also added Qian Yong's losses.
After Qian Yong and Zhao Guodong left, Zhu Hongsan also felt a little regretful. The 3,500 people were a little short, and he might not be sure of the Shangqing army. So after receiving Yan Qingshan's messenger, Zhu Hongsan sent a second batch of reinforcements while sending a fleet. This time there were 5,000 people, and a large number of weapons and equipment to head north together.
Zhu Hongsan was still afraid that the army and the navy would not be able to act in a unified manner, so he sent Li Zhi, the new Guangdong Censor, to go north to take charge of the overall situation.
Now Li Zhi is honest about Zhu Hongsan. Zhu Hongsan has some moral stains, but as a monarch, he is really nothing to say. While supervising the country, he promoted Li Zhi to the position of a fifth-rank Taoist platform and directly promoted from a third-rank prison envoy. At the same time, he also handed over the naval power to Li Zhi.
This time, Li Zhi was sent to the military commander of the Southern Zhili. You should know that there are only two civil officials under Zhu Hongsan, one is Li Zhi, and the other is Fu Wenlong, the governor of Nanyang. How can Li Zhi not be grateful?
Li Zhi was riding a new ship built by the shipyard. This time the shipyard produced two large warships of 800 tons, all of which were sent to Nanzhili by Zhu Hongsan, which made Fu Wenlong from Nanyang very unhappy.
After Li Zhi waited for the boat to dock, he got off the boat and saw Yan Qingshan and Qian Yong greeting him at the dock. There was also an unknown seventh-rank official next to him, who should be a local official.
Yan Qingshan and Qian Yong stepped forward and bowed; "Welcome to the Censor Li."
Li Zhi nodded and said, "Two generals, I will bring the will of the country!"
颜,钱二人纷纷收拾衣服躬身听令.
The order was very simple, and Li Zhi was ordered to serve as the commander of the dispatched military in Nanzhili, commanding the military and civil affairs of Nanzhili and Zhejiang; Qian Yong was the commander of the army; Yan Qingshan was the commander of the Han army; and accepted the full leadership of Li Zhi.
After reading the order, Li Zhi smiled and said, "The two generals worked hard and made great contributions, and we will work together in the future."
颜,钱二人连说不敢.
"General Yan, this time I brought two newly built warships of 1,600 materials and four seaships of 1,000 materials. Now please accept General Yan. General Qian, Your Highness, the Superintendent of the State, send you five thousand supplementary soldiers, please accept them!"
Li Zhi knew that one of the two was the father-in-law of the King of Chu and the other was the confidant of the King of Chu, so he spoke very politely.
Yan Qingshan doesn’t care which one, just have a boat, and immediately smiled and accepted it. Qian Yong didn’t move the place and lowered his head and said, “Sir, Qian Yong is in Jiangyin to lose his troops and lose his generals. Please punish him!”
"General Qian, the governor told me before I left that people will die in wars. No one will make mistakes. As long as you make mistakes, you can make corrections. Also, I only have jurisdiction over you, but I really don't have the right to appoint and remove you. I really can't help General Qian's request."
When Qian Yong heard Zhu Hongsan forgive him, he knelt down at Nan and said, "The King of Chu is a thousand years old, the Four Treasures will definitely live up to the King of Chu's high hopes!"
Li Zhi smiled and helped Qian Yong up and said, "General Qian gets up quickly, let's go and accept your team. We still have a lot of work next."
钱勇答应一声去接受自己的新兵.
Lu Guang next to him saw that Li Zhi had handled the matter and quickly stepped forward to greet him.
"Sir, the magistrate of Chongming County Lu Guang."
Both scholars, Li Zhi's expression towards Lu Guang was obviously different from Yan Qian and others. Li Zhi also bowed: "Mr. Lu, this official, Li Zhi, the Guangdong Censor."
The Censor was a high-ranking official in a province, twelve or three levels higher than Lu Guang, the county magistrate of the county. Lu Guang quickly bowed and said, "I have met Lord Nietai!"
"Mr. Lu, now that Hongguang in Nanjing is in trouble, the King of Chu is in charge of the country in Guangdong, can you obey the orders of the King of Chu?"
Lu Guang dared not to agree, and would not say anything else. If he did not agree, the eighty or ninety thousand refugees outside the city would be enough to drink a pot by himself.
Lu Guang quickly bowed and said, "The King of Chu follows the will of the people and stands up in times of crisis in the family and country. He is the object of my loyalty."
Seeing Lu Guang surrender, Li Zhi quickly helped Lu Guang up and said with a smile: "Since that's the case, Lord Lu and I are the same ministers. Do you know what happened to Lord Lu?"
When Lu Guang heard this, he quickly knelt down and said, "Mr. Li, that Yan Qingshan is simply a liar. He tricked the officials into agreeing to transport the refugees to the island. The officials asked him to ask for food, but he asked someone to throw them out. There are now 80,000 to 90,000 refugees on the island, and the food is only enough for three days. After three days, a major event will happen. Please ask Lord Li to make the decision for the officials."
Chapter completed!