"The rolling Yangtze River flows eastward, and the waves wash away the heroes.

Right and wrong, success and failure turn into nothing.

The green mountains are still there, and the sunset is red several times."

At the Guazhou Ferry, the last pass of the Grand Canal flowing into the Yangtze River. Lu Si looked at the Yangtze River with his hands behind his back, and the water waves were all the way to think of the famous song "Linjiangxian".

On the other side of the river is Zhenjiang, and the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties was Nanjing.

A natural chasm of the Yangtze River lies in front of the Huai Army, blocking the Huai Army from crossing the river, and also effectively protecting the Huai Army.

Because the Huai Army did not have the ability to overcome this natural barrier.

The canal ships of the canal team can only travel in flat canals and other tributaries of Huaiyang, and cannot enter the Yangtze River at all.

At this time, there was no boat on the river. The Mingjiang waterproof archer who originally thought he might be cruising in the rivers near Yangzhou did not appear.

This navy was from the Zheng family. The commander was Zheng Zhilong's fourth brother, Zheng Chenggong's uncle Zheng Hongkui. He served as the Zhenhai Jiangjun last year and was responsible for the defense of the river. At that time, his nephew Zheng Sen came to Nandu with him and became the leader of Donglin and the literary tycoon Qianyi. His "big wood" was also founded by Qian Qianyi.

According to Huang Zhao and others, Zheng Hongkui's navy had about 100 warships and 4 to 5,000 sailors.

The reason for this is that Huang Zhao and others were just ordinary soldiers in the Zheng army and could not learn more about the use of troops and deployment of the upper class.

This force is estimated to be high. Lu Si believes that there will be no big deviation. Zheng Zhilong was transferred from a pirate to become an official army of the Ming Dynasty. He has been operating in Fujian and East Asia. The navy is the foundation and its strength, so it is impossible to send many troops to the north.

After hearing that the army had a Yangtze River Navy with more than 100 warships, many people within the Huai Army were worried that the Ming army would launch an attack on Yangzhou nearby.

"There are no characters in the Zheng family now."

Lu Si downplayed the words, telling the generals not to worry about the Ming army's naval army. According to him, the Zheng family's Yangtze River naval army had never been involved in any battle except for its existence.

It’s not that Zheng Hongkui refused to fight, but that Zheng Zhilong refused to fight him.

It is Zheng Zhilong's usual warlord style to preserve his strength.

After the Qing army advanced south in history, Zheng Zhilong's Ming army basically never fought with the Qing army. They just retreated all the way under the orders of the head of the family. In the end, the entire army cut their hair and braids. The main generals foolishly followed Zheng Zhilong to the north to receive the "reward" of the Qing court, and were finally killed with the Zheng father and son.

Zheng Hongkui was actually good. Although he did not lead the navy to block the Qing army from crossing the river, he brought Tang King Zhu Youjian back when he retreated to Fujian and first supported Zhu Ming's bloody prince as emperor, which made the Longwu regime quickly take up the banner of anti-Qing after the collapse of the Hongguang regime.

After that, Zheng Hongkui secretly let his nephew Damu, who might have been taken hostage by his brother to Beijing, and insisted on resisting the Qing Dynasty with his nephew Damu until he died of illness in Kinmen.

Looking at his life, he was unable to help but also had national justice, much better than his brother Zheng Zhilong.

Lu Si still agrees with this point.

It is recognized by recognition, and now both sides are also mortal enemies. Zheng Hongkui really wants to take the wrong medicine to take his navy ashore to attack Yangzhou, and Lu Si also wants to drive them all over the Yangtze River to feed the fish.

Never have ever been in operation during the Chinese New Year.

Lu Si moved.

On the second day of the lunar month, Cheng Lin, the official of Feng's name, was the main general. He led Feng's name, Ying, Chen's name, Ying, and Shen's name, more than 3,000 troops rushed to Taizhou in the east. In addition to chasing Gansu general Li Jianfeng and the military supervisor Gao Qifeng, this army also had to fight to Rugao and Haimen (later Nantong area), so that all the areas east of Yangzhou and north of the Yangtze River were connected together, so that all prefectures and counties were under the rule of the Huai Army.

Lu Si had sent fast horses to the Linzi Camp of Tongling Xia's army in Yancheng, and the Xin3 Camp of Xu's Monk went south to attack Fu'an, Xinghua and other places, and cooperated with Cheng Lin's offensive against Taizhou.

In a secret letter to Xia, Xu, Jiang and others, Lu Si asked that if they received a request for help from Huai'an, they would not have to pay attention to it. Wherever the Huai Army went, there were landlords and gentry forming camps to protect themselves, or recruiting young and strong people to resist the Huai Army, there was no need to be ruthless, and the power was to shock the place with blood.

"Nandu, no one."

This is the second sentence Lu Si said after looking into the Yangtze River from afar, and it was said to Shi Dewei.

The Huai Army captured Yangzhou on the 28th day of the 12th lunar month. Today is the fourth day of the Lunar New Year. Seven days have passed. There are no Ming army coming from the other side on the Yangtze River. What is it that there is no one in the south?

On the 27th, Yangzhou magistrate Tan Wendao sent people across the river to Nandu to report the news urgently, but after the person who reported the news arrived in Nanjing, there was nowhere to report it.

On the dynasty, the major yamen in Nandu were sealed and no longer signed and detained. They had to wait for the third day of the Lunar New Year before opening the office!

The seal is not sealed by the major yamen themselves, but by the Nanjing Imperial Heavenly Prison, which is in charge of the celestial phenomena. This is also the most popular time among the major yamen in the year.

When ordinary people celebrate the New Year, officials also celebrate the New Year.

There was nowhere to report any urgent matters, so anxious that the people who reported the news were so anxious that they finally got some guidance to find the Nandu Guard Office located in the area of ​​Baichuan Bridge in the city.

Han Zanzhou, the current eunuch of the Southern Capital, was the old man of Prince Xin. In the ninth year of Chongzhen, he served as the eunuch of Bingbi in the Sili Supervisor. When the Qing army invaded, Chongzhen ordered him to serve as the deputy governor of the Beijing camp to patrol the capital. He was just appointed as the eunuch of the Southern Capital by Chongzhen five months ago.

There are rumors that Han Zanzhou came to Nandu as the garrison eunuch, who came to stand for the emperor "Nanshou".

There is no real or false rumors, but since Han Zanzhou became the garrison eunuch, he has begun to rectify the three camps of Nandu and Caojiang. During these five months, eunuchs from Beijing have successively served in the garrison yamen.

In addition, the emperor appointed Shi Kefa as the Minister of War in Nanjing, Lu Zhenfei as the governor of the grain transport and the governor of Huaiyang, and appointed Ma Shiying as the governor of Fengyang, and ordered the powerful general Huang Degong of the Beijing camp to return to Ma Shiying. All signs indicate that there is no groundlessness. It seems that the emperor of Beijing really means "shou" to stay in the capital.

Han Zanzhou received an urgent report from someone from Yangzhou, and was kneeling in front of his Han family's ancestral plaque to burn paper money.

This is the custom of Han Zanzhou's hometown. From the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month to the thirty-year-old, descendants must burn paper money for their ancestors, saying it is "sending New Year's money" so that their ancestors can also have money and expenses in the underworld.

When the enemy was found in Jiangbei, the bandits were in chaos. The thieves entered Yangzhou to support the suppression of the capital Shi Dewei, Gansu general Li Jianfeng, and Sichuan deputy general Hu Shangyou were wiped out. Han Zanzhou was so panicked that he didn't even care about the New Year's money he gave to his ancestors. He rushed into a carriage and went straight to the residence of Shi Kefa, the Minister of War. He also asked someone to quickly notify the Nandu garrison Xu Hongji and other honorary officials.

After learning the news, Shi Kefa was so thunderous that he was in trouble at that time that he was in trouble. Without waiting for Duke Xu Hongji of Wei to arrive, he fired three command arrows.

The three command arrows were all given to Zheng Hongkui, the troops of the Yangtze River Navy, the closest to Yangzhou. The first one was to ask Zheng Hongkui to lead his troops across the river to reinforce Yangzhou;

The second route was sent at noon, but it allowed Zheng Hongkui not to cross the river for the time being, and led the navy to station in Zhenjiang and wait for the new order.

The third route was sent in the afternoon, and it was asked Zheng Hongkui to go to Nandu to discuss the military affairs.
Chapter completed!