When Zhu Jiang saw Song Wazi talking, he sighed in his heart, "What kind of emperor is the kind of soldiers." His father, Zhu Hongsan, was lustful, and had played with aunts, nephews, mothers, daughters, widows, and widows. The officers under his command naturally followed suit. However, this company commander Jiang had a great face, and a small regiment commander could actually find his father to speak for him."

"Song Wazi, how did Company Commander Jiang recognize the emperor? Why could the emperor ask about him?"

"Plane Commander, you don't know. Our Company Commander Jiang is not simple. He said that he has followed His Majesty the Emperor from Wuchang, Huguang, and saved the life of Governor Ma's family in Xinyang, Henan. I heard that he was still a student of the second group of teaching groups. He is the serious disciple of the emperor. Platoon Commander, you said that this is the reason why the emperor could not speak for the company commander?"

When he heard that Jiang Pengju saved his grandfather's life, Zhu Jiang was stunned. He suddenly remembered that his mother told him that during the bloody battle in Xinyang, in order to let his grandfather follow him wholeheartedly, his father ordered all the female relatives of his grandfather's family to be killed, including his two aunts, but only his grandmother, the concubine of grandfather Ma Jiyuan. Grandma was a thin horse in Yangzhou and was bought and given to grandfather Ma Jiyuan. When his grandmother was a slim horse in Yangzhou, he was unable to walk when he ran away, and his father Zhu Hongsan also had the idea of ​​killing him to reduce the burden. At this time, a soldier carried his grandmother and escaped from the city, which made his grandmother safely escape to Wuchang.

Zhu Jiang's mother Ma Ruyan told Zhu Jiang that he would repay this person if he had the chance in the future. Unexpectedly, he met him today! Zhu Jiang laughed in his heart, saying that Zhao Guodong was honest and that he would definitely be under the jurisdiction of Jiang Pengju. But he could not tell this matter at present. After all, more than ten years have passed in Xinyang. Who knows who Jiang Pengju is now? Let's take a look first.

Just as Zhu Jiang was watching his new residence, Jiang Pengju of the army received a letter from the division commander Zhao Guodong. The letter was very simple, telling Jiang Pengju of Zhu Jiang's identity and asking him to take care of him. Although Zhu Hongsan gave the same order as ordinary soldiers, Zhao Guodong dared to do this. After Zhu Jiang left, he quickly wrote a letter to his old subordinate Jiang Pengju, asking him to take good care of Zhu Jiang. After reading the letter, Jiang Pengju smiled slightly, and it seemed that the key to his recovery was the King of Qin.

Let’s not talk about how Jiang Pengju trained Zhu Jiang. After ten days of renovation, Zhu Hongsan’s army officially prepared to go to war on the first day of October and fired the first shot that was restored to the old capital.

Zhoushan is only more than 200 miles away from Hangzhou Bay, and less than 500 miles away from Hangzhou Prefecture by Qiantang River. If you have a good wind, you can reach the city of Hangzhou in one day. However, Zhu Hongsan's fleet is too large, so the plan is to stop at Hainingwei in Hangzhou Bay. Hainingwei is the Haiyan County of later generations. This place was originally the estuary of Taihu Lake in the early Ming Dynasty, so the Hainingwei, which was established here during the Hongwu period. Like Tianjinwei in the north, Weihaiwei in Shandong, and Zhenhaiwei in Fujian, Hainingwei and Jinshanwei in Songjiang became the key points to control Hangzhou Bay. In the early Ming Dynasty, there were 12,000 regular troops stationed here all year round, and Zhejiang's patrol channel was also located here.

However, by the Wanli period, the Taihu estuary had been completely blocked after hundreds of years of siltation. At the same time, because the Grand Canal became the main transportation capacity in the inland, the busy Hainingwei, which was once busy, became a dilapidated place. With years of peace and military abolition, the Hainingwei only had less than a thousand garrison troops left in this place. However, because it was a large port before and the infrastructure was still there, Zhu Hongsan decided to put down Zhao Guoliang's 8th Division here, let Zhao Guoliang advance along the east coast of Taihu Lake, and led the main guard division and the second division to attack Hangzhou Prefecture.

Zhu Hong set out from Zhoushan on the first day of the 30th month and arrived at Haining Wei on the second day of the day. In addition to the garrison, it was also the seat of Haiyan County, Jiaxing Prefecture, Zhejiang Province. In the past, there were more than 30,000 residents in Haiyan County, but as the Qing Dynasty occupied Nanzhili and Zhejiang, Haiyan was also affected. However, at the beginning, the residents of Haiyan County did not hate the Qing rulers. In their eyes, it was just an emperor named Zhu, and he changed to a new emperor. He just had to pay taxes according to the rules. However, unexpectedly, the next "head shaving order" made the whole Zhejiang Province excited.

Because Haiyan was not far from Jiaxing Prefecture, while Jiaxing was occupied, a surrendered scholar was sent to Haiyan to be the county magistrate, and there were also one hundred Qing Dynasty braided soldiers. At the beginning, the people of Haiyan were relatively cooperative, but when they saw the notice of the "Barshaving Order", the entire county town began to become chaotic. Because Haiyan was the garrison of Haining Guard, there were still some unsuccessful guard soldiers. Everyone recommended a thousand households as the leader, killed the Qing Dynasty county magistrate, and occupied Haiyan County Town.

Haiyan County was lucky. At that time, the main forces of the Qing Dynasty were in Jiangyin and Jiading, so they really couldn't take action to clean up a small county town, so Jiaxing Prefecture let Haiyan go. Next, Li Zhi occupied Zhoushan, and the spies of the Jinyiwei began to contact Haiyan's rebel army to provide them with food and weapons. In this way, Jiaxing Prefecture was no match for them. The Qing army sent several times to suppress bandits were beaten to pieces. At the same time, Li Zhi also sent a new county magistrate for Haiyan, a juren who did not want to shave his head and fled to Zhoushan. In this way, the Guangdong New Army had a foothold at the entrance of Hangzhou Bay.

It was already afternoon when Zhu Hongsan's fleet set off from Zhoushan to the Haiyan County Wharf. Zhao Rongru, the magistrate of Haiyan County, came to Zhu Hongsan's ship to meet Emperor Shenwu.

This was the first time Zhao Rongru saw this Shenwu Emperor. At first glance, he looked different from the legend. In front of him was a tall middle-aged man wearing a bright yellow ball dragon robe and looking at him with a smile.

"I am the magistrate of Haiyan County, Zhao Ru, pays homage to the Emperor!" Zhao Ruru looked at him and did not dare to look at him. He quickly knelt down and kowtowed. He knew that scholars who had imperial edicts and fame could not kowtow, but he was a foreigner, neither a former subordinate of Huguang nor a noble minister, so it would be better to be low-key.

"Please ask, Lord Zhao, Haiyan seems to be well managed by you. What did you do before?"

"When you go back to your Majesty, I was the county magistrate of Haiyan County. When the Manchu Tartars came, the whole family of Zhang County was killed in the country. I was timid and afraid of death, but I didn't want to work for the Qing Dynasty, so I took my family across the sea to Zhoushan. Just as Li Jiantai needed officials who were familiar with the environment in Jiaxing, I recommended myself and returned to Haiyan."

It turned out to be a fearful devil. Zhu Hongsan nodded when he heard this. In this era, literati valued dying for the country. There were very few people like Zhao Ru who escaped. Most officials either resisted until death or opened the city to surrender, and they would not have escaped. Then, after that, when everyone saw that the Ming Dynasty was really unsuccessful, they lost their intention to fight, either fled to Nanyang or lived in seclusion in the mountains. However, Zhu Hongsan did not want to go deeper. At least it was better to escape than staying to be a traitor.

"Okay, Magistrate Zhao, since you are familiar with the geographical environment of Jiaxing, I will appoint you as the Tongzhi of Jiaxing, acting magistrate, and liberate Jiaxing with my general Zhao Guoliang. What can you do?"

Before coming, Zhao Rongru was nervous. After all, he was a fleeing official. He was afraid that the emperor would be unhappy and would be exempted from his official position. However, he did not expect that Emperor Shenwu was very easy to talk to. Not only did he not blame him, he also asked himself to act as the prefect of Jiaxing. He must do his best to try to remove the word "Agent" and become a dignified fourth-rank red robe.

"Don't worry, Your Majesty, I will do my best to help Lord Zhao so that everyone in Jiaxing can know the reputation of Emperor Shenwu!"

Zhu Hongsan nodded and waved his hand to ask Zhao Rong to continue working for him. Zhu Hongsan stood by the boat and looked at the busy crowd on the dock.

Zhao Guoliang's Eighth Division had a total of 12,000 people, plus nearly 30,000 civilians, and a large number of supplies and supplies. It seems that they will not be fully unloaded until tomorrow morning.

Zhu Hongsan turned around and asked the civil and military officials behind him: "Now we have landed in Hangzhou Bay, the Qing Dynasty should have received the news. Let's see how to fight this battle?"

Li Zhi, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, stood up and said, "Our army is in high morale. The Qing army has no 20,000 people in the entire Zhejiang, and most of them are still concentrated in Hangzhou. Now there is no need for any strategy. The warships can just drive under the city to collapse the city wall. In the face of absolute strength, any strategy is futile."

Zhu Hongsan didn't expect that Li Zhi had such advanced ideas and knew that "cannons are the truth, and caliber is justice." Zhu Hongsan asked strangely: "Li Aiqing, don't you literati like to defeat others without fighting? Why do you learn from Qiu Ba today?"

Li Zhi blushed and said, "Your Majesty, I am not a pedantic person. Now I have fought with the Qing Dynasty in this way. I can still defeat the troops without fighting. Only by truly destroying them is the best strategy!"

After hearing what Li Zhi said, Zhu Hongsan nodded repeatedly and said, "Yes, we are better than the Qing Dynasty now, so don't talk about any strategies. Cannons are the truth, and caliber is justice. This is what we should do!"

Zhu Hongsan's words were recognized by all military generals, and Zhao Guodong shouted: "Your Majesty the Emperor is such a genius. This famous saying is really true. I, Lao Zhao, can't think of it!"

Hearing Zhao Guodong's stubborn flattery, Zhu Hongsan was amused and cursed: "If you don't know how to flatter, don't slap it. I don't know what kind of knowledge I have? I am a talented person. I am a little better than Emperor Taizu Gao. He is illiterate and I am semi-illiterate, that's all!"

After hearing what the emperor said, the civil and military ministers burst into laughter, but Ma Jiyuan looked at Qian Qianyi who was smiling very happily and thought to himself: Old man Qian betrayed my Ma family and Tong Yangjia to get the same place, so he must not be let go!
Chapter completed!