Just as Chen Kai informed Zheng Chenggong immediately after defeating Geng Jimao's offensive, the news of Zheng Chenggong's victory at Jiangdong Bridge and the recapture of Zhangzhou Fucheng were also sent to Chen Kai's case.

The east and west fronts, one defensive and the other offensive, are inevitable in the strategic situation. Now both sides are blooming, and the good news is from west to east, and from east to west. One moment it is the Qing army, it is victory in the field battle, another moment it is the defensive battle that defeats the Han army flag, and now it is the defensive battle that defeats the Han army's flag, and now it is the Qing army's victory.

It was to recapture the city and sweep the Ming army's control areas back and forth. Since the Liao Dynasty, there has never been such a situation. The necks of the gentry and common people were twisted by Lubu Feijie coming and going.

However, it is undeniable that this is an invisible improvement to the morale of the people, and it is also an excellent endorsement for the government's governance. At least today, when the morale of the Ming army is so high, those who want to cause trouble must first think about the aftermath.

The Ming army on the eastern front has been victorious in consecutive battles, and a solid fortress has been established on the western front. After the Qing army in Guangdong suffered a big blow in front of the fortress, it has recently restrained its minions. It seems that it is exactly what Chen Kai expected.

Then he went to Guangzhou to ask for artillery. Since there was no war on the western front, Chen Kai reassigned the defenses of each town and set off back to Chaozhou Fucheng.

Returning to the capital city of Chaozhou, Chen Kai could have directly taken a boat on the Hanjiang Waterway, but due to the continuous implementation of land distribution and farming, Chen Kai learned that there seemed to be many gentry and common people in newly recovered counties like Huilai and Chaoyang who were worried about this, so he simply

I took the opportunity of returning to Fucheng to do some inspection.

In Huilai County and Chaoyang County, behind the dissatisfaction voices in the two places were the local tyrants and local bandits who were not as powerful as local emperors. The Ming army's successive victories had made many people choose to shut up. After Chen Kai made an inspection tour and made it clear

After saying that they would not divide land for farming in these two counties, worries gradually subsided.

After leaving Chaoyang, Chen Kai took a boat back to Chaozhou Fucheng. The boat sailed along the coastline towards the Hanjiang Waterway. He passed by a place that looked very familiar. When he thought about it, he had indeed been there before, and Chen Kai remembered it even more through the Ou Ting Village.

Another funny statement.

Historically, after Zheng Chenggong won the Jiangdong Bridge victory, he first attacked the city of Zhangzhou with ants, and then adopted the method of letting it collapse, just like he had done when he attacked Changtai County earlier. Neither method succeeded, so Zheng Chenggong simply besieged the city of Zhangzhou and continued to do so.

The siege was so severe that General Jin Li of Pingnan came with the Eight Banners garrisoned in Hangzhou to help, and then the siege was relieved and the battle started.

From the siege in April to Zheng Chenggong's relief at the end of September, these five months lasted. According to historical records, in the first few months of the siege, the city could barely support itself with the help of warehouses and the savings of the gentry, but by "August and September"

, the price of each stone and rice was as high as five hundred and fifty taels, grass roots, wood leaves, rats, birds, cattle and horses searched and ate them all, followed by human flesh." Later, "died of illness, starvation, and drowned themselves in water.

They died by the hundreds every day. The mountains of corpses were piled up, and the filthy news could be heard for miles." And the defenders in the city, in addition to threatening and extorting the people, "tiger and wolf soldiers were boiling in the morning and night, with gold, silk, pearls and jade, their waists were full of ropes, and there were still drunken people singing and singing.

"Those who entertain their commanders and generals have no fighting spirit in the front and no sense of defense in the rear. If the soldiers are delayed for a few days, then the city and society will not be ruins and the civil servants will not be defeated."

It is undeniable that Zheng Chenggong really wanted to use hunger as a weapon to attack the capital city of Zhangzhou. Therefore, in May, he sent reinforcements from Jinhua into the city to intensify the food shortage.

However, some people in later generations claimed that Zheng Chenggong massacred 70,000 people in Outing Village. They also claimed that Zheng Chenggong besieged Zhangzhou City and starved to death 700,000 people.

Ordinary siege tactics were said to be one of Zheng Chenggong's major crimes. The same group of people, regarding the 800,000 people martyred on the 10th of Yangzhou, said, "We didn't kill that many at all because there was no evidence of mass graves or anything like that."

"; Regarding the Guangzhou Massacre, in which 700,000 people were massacred, and there were shared graves as evidence, they said, "There are not that many people in Guangzhou, so there is no possibility of killing so many people."

When he was in Outing Village, Chen Kai once felt that the brain was a good thing, but many people didn't have it at all. Now that he is revisiting his hometown, and thinking of the examples of Zhangzhou Fucheng, Yangzhou and Guangzhou, he can only say, "The butt determines the brain." As for the question,

For those who were deceived, he really couldn't tell whether the deceiver was too cunning or the deceived did not seek to understand.

Taking history as a mirror, we can know the ups and downs. This is a wise saying that Chen Kai heard when he was in school. He believes that anyone who has a certain understanding of Chinese history will not be too unfamiliar with this. However, knowing it means knowing whether to do it or not.

How to do it is decided entirely based on the buttocks, and often even arguments are made for the sake of argument, without any regard for right or wrong.

Thinking about it deeply, it seems that there is nothing surprising about this. Isn’t this what the Donglin Party had always done back then? Once he thought of this, Chen Kai suddenly lost the desire to continue worrying about it. Especially at this moment, in

While the war situation in southern Fujian and eastern Guangdong has improved, other places and other things are more worthy of Chen Kai's attention.

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Southern Fujian and eastern Guangdong are all coastal areas that are more beneficial to the Ming army's superior navy. The deeper inland, the more disadvantageous it is to the Ming army, especially the Fujian Ming army. And the most famous in Fujian

On the other side of Wuyi Mountain, in distant Jiangxi, is the Jianghu Mountain Camp in Guixi County, Guangxin Prefecture. This is the residence of Jiangxi Governor Jie Chongxi, and it is also the core of the Jiangxi Ming Army's farming in eastern Jiangxi.

In the second half of last year, when Chen Kai was traveling in the southeast, he also came here to have a chat with Jie Chongxi. The two sides maintained a semblance of harmony, but cooperation was not achieved, even though Chen Kai wrote a special letter before leaving Jiangxi.

Admonition to Jie Chongxi did not actually change the Jiangxi Ming Army's own strategy.

After Chen Kai left, relying on Chen Kai's suggestions, the Jiangxi Ming Army deployed a large number of manpower to continuously strengthen the defenses outside the control area at the expense of delaying some of the farmland. In the following days, the Ming Army in Jiangxi Province continued to strengthen the defenses outside the control area.

After the most ferocious offensives of the Qing army in the first few waves, the Qing army may have lost more than the gains, or they were afraid that the defeat would worsen the situation in Zhejiang. The offensive continued intermittently. Although the war was not completely over, it also gave them a rare victory.

respite.

But this year, as the Qing army in Zhejiang completed the suppression of the large-scale anti-Qing movement in Zhejiang, at the beginning of the year, Jinhua General Soldier Ma Jinbao, who was in charge of the Green Camp of the Four Prefectures of Jinqu Strict Department, was transferred to assist in the battle, and the offensive resumed, and this time

, their situation is actually worse than last year.

"What Chen Kai said is true. The Tatars from Zhejiang are indeed coming."

"Fortunately, the Tatars in Fujian are still very busy. Otherwise, they would be attacked from three sides, and there would be no way out."

This kind of conversation has lasted for two months since Ma Jinbao led his troops into the territory of Guangxin Mansion at the beginning of the year. At this moment, in the simple governor's office, Jie Chongxi, Fu Dingquan, Cao Dahao, Hong Guoyu and Zhang Zisheng

When the leading figures gather here, what they are discussing is the next step.

"The Tatars in Zhejiang are more difficult to deal with than the Tatars in Jiangxi. That Jinquma, apart from his ability to instill jealousy, seems to be no ordinary commodity."

Compared with Jiangxi Green Camp, which has been short of strong troops since Jin Shenghuan and Wang Deren were dismissed, Zhejiang Green Camp itself has many troops with strong combat effectiveness, such as Tian Xiong and Zhang Jie, Huang Degong's generals from the four towns in Jiangbei, and the Han Ba ​​Banner who garrisoned the Eight Banners in Hangzhou.

The army, such as Zhejiang and Fujian Supervisor Biao and Ma Jinbao who was a rogue bandit, plus the opponent has always been the regular Ming army under the command of Lu Jianguo, the opponent is stronger, and the tempered combat effectiveness is naturally more powerful. It is completely incomparable to the situation in Jiangxi

Same thing.

The recent battles have been very difficult, and they have had to abandon some of the outer camps and fortifications that were difficult to defend. This has made Jie Chongxi and others worried about this, and even brought up Chen Kai's original suggestion again.

"One of the breakthroughs at Tongmuguan, Fenshui Pass and Taniguchi Pass is probably impossible now. The army commander, the late general sent spies to investigate a few days ago. Now the Fujian Tatars have completely closed the pass. It seems that there are still more

There are signs of soldiers. With our attack capabilities, I’m afraid we won’t be able to conquer the level.”

Retreat into northern Fujian and use the Wuyi Mountains at the junction of Fujian and Jiangxi to deal with the Qing army. This was Chen Kai's suggestion last year. However, times were different. Now the Qing army in Fujian was under great pressure. Zhang Xuesheng asked his grandfather and grandma to send reinforcements from all walks of life.

While fighting in Fujian, on the one hand, the checkpoints were blocked, lest the Ming army from Jiangxi enter Fujian and further undermine the overall suppression of Fujian province.

I regret that no one said this at the beginning. At that time, they did have their own difficulties, such as lack of strength, difficulty in coordination, etc. But now, even if they have not said it, they will inevitably have problems such as

The fantasy of "What would happen now if I teamed up with Chen Kai to break through the barrier?"

"There should be some holes to hide in the Shaowu Mansion..."

Hong Guoyu's words came out, but in fact he could not guarantee anything. The attitude of Jie Chongxi and others was also worried about this, especially because they retreated to northern Fujian, and the farming here was not completely abandoned, but

It is nothing more than a temporary deal, but if they move south and enter Fujian from Shaowu Prefecture, they will have to completely abandon these farmlands. And what they need to face is Fuzhou Prefecture, the provincial capital of Fujian, and Shaowu Prefecture are connected by a Minjiang River.

is the most dangerous.

There was nothing to be done, and they discussed and discussed again and again, but it was still like this, and it was just in vain. The only difference from the previous times was that this time Jie Chongxi took out a letter, circulated it, and then asked the generals: "
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