When Xianxia Pass was broken, Yue Le remained unmoved because the Yanping camp stored a lot of food and grass, which could completely support the arrival of Doni. More importantly, behind him was Shanguan leading to Jiangxi. Since ancient times, there was "Min had Xianxia, ​​Shanguan, and Qin had Tongguan, Linjin, Shu had Jiange, and Qutang. Once it was lost, Fujian could not be protected."

However, the army entered Jiangxi from northern Fujian, which caused a completely different situation. Jiangxi was always the rear of the Qing Dynasty. Jiangxi elites transferred to strengthen the offensive in the southwest. The remaining troops may serve under Shen Yongzhong, blocking Ganzhou, blocking the Qiongfan army heading north of Meiguan, or entering Fujian from Shanguan to strengthen the Yanping camp. Now Jiangxi has been attacked by enemies and the rear is instable. What is even more terrifying is that the army can break through Guangxin, Fuzhou and Jianchang prefectures. This means that the traffic between Jiangxi and Fujian has been completely cut off. When the troops in Jiangxi cannot be stopped, only the Qing army retreated in Yanping camp can protect the retreat.

In late April of the 12th year of Yongli, the Qing army began to retreat from Yanping City. Yue Le personally directed the retreat operation. First, the Jiangxi Green Camp returned to Shanguan to defend the retreat, and then the Zhejiang and Jiangnan Green Camps. Yue Le personally led the eight banners under his command to attack the Fujian Green Camp Hall, and stepped forward and retreated in an all-round way.

The plan was perfect, but it was full of situations when implemented. Jiangxi and Zhejiang Green Camps successively experienced large-scale mutinies, robbery and Yanping, Shaowu prefectures, burned and killed all the way back to Jiangxi. The reason for these foreign tourists was that they were short of wages. After the Battle of Guangdong and Guangxi, the situation of the Qing Dynasty's rapid progress disappeared, and was replaced by the offensive, defensive and defense on the front thousands of miles. The migration of the boundary and ban on the sea destroyed the taxes of several coastal provinces, which made it accumulate for several years.

Money and grain could only support the full expenses of the Yunnan-Guizhou battlefield. Even so, in the 11th year of Yongli, due to the tight wars, the Qing Dynasty restored the "three salaries" of the Zhu Ming era, thereby increasing fiscal revenue by more than 5 million yuan, but it still could not support the two major wars in the southeast and southwest. After resources had long been allocated to the southwest, the finances in the southeast battlefield were tight, and many green camp soldiers often owed money. Now they are retreating, and the foreign military naturally took the opportunity to plunder and intercept them to make up for the arrears.

The looting of the enemy army quickly expanded to Zhejiang and some green camps in the south of the Yangtze River, causing Yanping to lose order. After the Qing army left Yanping Prefecture, the Marine Corps and some naval sailors forced their way across the Min River and quickly occupied the dock of Yanping Prefecture. The people in the city had been harmed by wars. Seeing that the military discipline of the whole army was good, they paid and hired ships, pulled fibers, and transported people responded and helped. The army crossed the river in less than five days. After crossing the river, the army cavalry quickly organized the pursuit of troops. Wumu organized several teams of troops and sent them to the pursuit of the roads and small roads, forcing the Qing army to give up a lot of money, grain and supplies.

More than ten major battles broke out in Yanping and Shaowu prefectures, and the army rushed fiercely, but the Qing army was unwilling to fight. The Qing army defeated many times, so Yue Le, who was behind the palace, could not control the green camp in Fujian, and was forced to lead the elite troops of the Eight Banners to fight the bloody path and retreat to Shanguan first.

Wumu and Bahai each led the cavalry forward and the team chased. Halfway through, the mixed cavalry brigade led by Wumu was blocked by the Madegong headquarters of Fujian Green Camp. However, Bahai's cavalry, mainly light cavalry and dragon cavalry, rushed to the Guangze area. This place was only more than a hundred miles away from Shanguan. A group of Fujian deserters were caught. Yue Le led the Eight Banners to cross the river at Guangze Wharf, and Bahai quickly gathered troops to pursue them.

Near Guangze, it is already the upper reaches of the Minjiang tributary, and there are almost all high mountains and dense forests on both sides. The pier is outside Guangze City, standing between the two mountains. It is one of the few gentle areas in the upper reaches, but the water flow is still fast. The Qing army had more than 40 ships of all sizes and big and small, and a pier where horses and soldiers could pass through.

Bahai climbed the mountain and looked at it, but saw that the terrain near the pier was wide open, and a large number of artillery and supplies were abandoned on the roadside because of the failure to cross the river. The Qing army here had learned that the pursuers had arrived. On the south bank of the river, they set up fences and connected large chariots to form fortifications. The cavalry were deployed on both wings, and bird guns and archers were arranged behind the fortifications. The Qing army had nearly 20,000 on the south bank and nearly 1,000 cavalry, almost three times that of the troops under Bahai.

As the sound of the trumpet sounded, the cavalry of the United States organized an attack. The cavalry led by Bahai was mainly dragoons, supplemented by some light cavalry. Bahai organized dragoons to circumnavigate the left wing of the Qing army and attacked their cavalry. The dragoons fired with flintlock rifles on their horses, and their range and lethality were far superior to the horn bows in the hands of the Eight Banners of Manchuria opposite. The Eight Banners were beaten in vain and had to rush in toward the front and shoot with cavalry bows. The Dragoons retreated, and the light cavalry stepped forward and formed two formations to ride the walls, easily tearing a small number of cavalry of the Qing army.

Facing the huge infantry formation, Bahai did not use egg-strike stones, but ordered the cavalry to retreat and gather the artillery left by the Qing army along the way. These artillery were abandoned because they could not cross the floating bridge, but most of them were damaged by the Qing army, so they had to use six artillery pieces. Fortunately, Bahai contacted the blocked Wumu tribe. After contacting, he responded to two flying cavalry and cannon companies, resulting in three Red Artillery guns, three Big Bo Lang machine, eight four-pound cannons and four light howitzers under Bahai. Bahai used guns to bombard the Qing army's formation. Most of the Qing army camps were small cannons such as mountain-splitting cannons, and they could not counterattack. The array was temporarily formed, and the soldiers were blocked without any barriers, and they soon collapsed under the attack of grenades and socks.

Whether it was Manchu and Han, whether it was the Eight Banners or the Green Camp, the Qing army ran to the floating bridge to escape and snatch ships. Some people even jumped into the river to escape. The dragon cavalry dismounted and used flintlock guns to press more than 10,000 Qing soldiers to the riverside. Rows of volleys knocked down hundreds of people. The river was stained with blood and the bodies floated down. The Qing army lost order in the chaos, and the floating bridge could not bear it and broke directly. At this time, the flying cavalry and cannons also leaned against the shore and covered the Qing army by the river with shotguns. The Qing army fell in pieces like wheat grass. Some people wanted to surrender and ran to the shore, but were shot to death by flintlock guns.

Until the dragon cavalry and artillery were gone, they were shot and killed. The entire river bank was full of corpses, and the Qing army also suffered many casualties and injured. Bahai's troops killed more than 5,000, and nearly 8,000 were captured, and thousands of people were also killed. The corpses fell into the water and disappeared, which became the biggest capture of the Battle of Fujian. The only pity was that Yue Le boarded the ship and left, and sent Yi Zhangjing to wear his armor and hold his big flag to command it, so that he could escape.

When Wu Mu led the army to arrive, the Qing army had already burned the ships, docks and remaining floating bridges on the other side of the river and went directly to Shanguan. The army collected ships everywhere and built rafts across the river. The Qing army had no will to resist. The grenadiers and hunters who crossed the river broke up some of the green camps and gathered teams to rush towards Shanguan. Shanguan was built on Shanguan Ridge. There was Zhushi Mountain on the left and Huanggou Ridge on the right. The north and south mountains were endless. Unlike Xianxia Pass, Shanguan not only built the city of Guan in Jiashan, but also built the city wall on the ridge, claiming that one man was the pass and ten thousand men could not open it.

Yue Le led the remnants to retreat into Jiangxi. He knew very well that if Shanguan was not protected, it would cause the army of Jiangxi and Fujian provinces to join forces, and it would be difficult to compete at that time. So he personally selected more than 4,000 Eight Banners of Manchu and Han to guard Shanguan. At the same time, he dispatched various troops and horses to suppress the Hezhongs into Jiangxi. With Jiangnan, various green camp soldiers from the north rushed to Jiangxi one after another, and the additional salary sent in Jiangxi made up for the owed salary, and the Jiangxi territory gradually stabilized.

The army attacked Shanguan several times, but they were not defeated. The terrain of Shanguan was dangerous, and the road was extremely narrow and could not be expanded at all. The United States could not cooperate with the infantry formation and infantry artillery that the United States relied on for its survival. Fortunately, Wumu did not only stick to Shanguan, and sent troops to seize the nine passes on the main line of Wuyi Mountain. This was not the main road to enter Fujian. The Qing army was negligent in preventing the situation. Many passes did not have garrison troops, and some garrison troops were not even aware of the situation in the Fujian, so they were easily captured by the army. However, these passes were not accessible to large troops, so they were far less convenient than Shanguan.

As the rain increased, the army and marines entering Jiangxi successively retreated to Fujian, and had many difficulties in fighting in the inland and were inconvenient to supply. The Southeast War Zone first blocked several passes into Fujian, and then dispatched troops to occupy the prefectures of the Fujian prefectures. Two major troops were formed in Shaowu Prefecture and Jianning Prefecture, and were commanded by Wumu and Li Shan respectively. Since then, the Southeast War Zone has carried out several relatively small military operations, and they have also taken advantage of the lack of military strength in Zhejiang to capture territory.

Li Shan led the army from Xianxia Pass to Zhejiang, recovered the entire territory of Quzhou, and then to Jinhua Prefecture. However, he went south to Chuzhou without fighting. The Marine Corps was not in a hurry to recover Funing Prefecture. Instead, they landed in Wenzhou, Zhejiang, and finally joined forces with the army in Chuzhou Prefecture, and were able to persuade most of the Qing army in southern Zhejiang and northeastern Fujian. The military operation lasted until July of the 12th year of Yongli, when Duni led the main force to Jiangning. At this time, the United States not only restored the entire territory of Fujian except Shanguan, but also occupied the majority of Quzhou, Chuzhou and Wenzhou Prefectures in southern Zhejiang to the north. Zheng Fan of Zhoushan also took advantage of the contraction of the Qing army in Zhejiang to occupy some prefectures and counties in Taizhou and Ningbo, but as the Duni army arrived, he voluntarily gave up.

At this time, the situation in the mainland seemed to have returned to the time when Longwu was in power ten years ago. At that time, the Longwu court probably ruled or nominally ruled similar areas.

In the summer of the 12th year of Yongli, the southeast battlefield was basically in a state of truce. The first phase of the battle had ended. Next, it was to see how the Qing Dynasty should react, that is, the movements of the reinforcements led by Doni. In fact, it was hardly necessary to consider that the army must be used on the southeast battlefield. After all, the Southeast War Zone has approached the two major financial areas of the Qing Dynasty, Jiangnan and Huguang.

The war situation in the southwest was still in a tug-of-war state. All Xiangxi was lost. Bai Wenxuan retreated to Quanzhou and built a defense line from Quanzhou to Guilin. It was very stable. Most of Guizhou was lost. Especially after the mountain brigade was transferred from Guizhou to Fujian, Li Dingguo lost the strongest army. However, he still had sufficient troops and continued to use Qin vassal troops to fight against the Qing Dynasty. The Jinfan and Shufan in his hands had never moved. After defending Meiguan, Qiongfan sent elite troops west to Yunnan and Guizhou to accept the dispatch of Li Dingguo. The strength in the Yunnan-Guizhou area was strengthened again. The Qing army units that met in Guizhou were planning the strongest wave of attacks, with the target directly aimed at Kunming, Yunnan.

There was quite turmoil within Yunnan, and the chieftains in various places were in chaos one after another. The civil officials who were having a good meal advocated the withdrawal to Guangxi and even Guangdong. It was a major event, especially during the war. The Yongli court requested the removal of the military morale several times, but they were rejected by the King of Jin. Zhu Youlang's private messages pleading for mercy were even sent to Taipei to seek Li Mingxun's support. Li Mingxun ignored it, but Li Dingguo was ruthless. Not only did he refuse the emperor's transfer, but he also returned to Kunming himself, protecting the emperor and personally rushing to the front line of Guizhou, pulling Yongli from the stable Kunming city to the front line of Guizhou, making the emperor miserable.

The Allies basically reached a pre-war plan, exchanged Guizhou for Fujian Province, and took a little advantage. The Qing army accumulated strength in Jiangxi and Zhejiang to prepare for a counterattack, but Hezhong suppressed the reactionary forces on a large scale in Fujian and southern Zhejiang. Fujian had a scene that often appeared in the Qing Dynasty occupied areas in the past, that was, the Ming Dynasty court issued various imperial edicts and sealed letters to the rear resistance forces, and was not stingy with titles and official positions, allowing them to make trouble in the Qing Dynasty occupied areas. Now the Qing Dynasty has also made a big bid for officials and wishes in Fujian and southern Zhejiang, allowing local gentry to fight to the death, restrain more troops from the United States and create more trouble. It is precisely because of these people's trouble, the strength of the Southeast War Zone has not been fully exerted.

In addition to the official appointment and making wishes, the Qing Dynasty demonized the United States throughout the country, resulting in a large number of resistance forces that should not have appeared in various parts of Fujian, and these forces belong to a relatively embarrassing class - the common people's landlord class.

As we all know, the United States has taken the responsibility of eliminating the gentry groups and gentry classes in the continent in the past. These people, like common people, belong to the feudal landlord class, but are different. The ones liquidated and eliminated by the United States were gentry landlords who mastered a large number of means of production and enjoyed political, tax and judicial privileges. Common people were the landlords who occupied the majority of the landlord class, but did not have the political privileges of those gentry classes. These small and medium-sized lands are mainly bullied by the gentry and wealthy families, and at the same time bullied tenants and villagers. These people were also blinded by the Qing Dynasty, believing that the United States wanted to liquidate and eliminate all wealthy families on the mainland.
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