The north and south of the Ming Dynasty had two completely different attitudes towards the invasion of Huazhou. The capitals in the north felt the danger of the destruction of the country and were anxious.

The Nanjing office looked like a joke, and even a big boss from the Eastern Party in Nanjing laughed:

"If the capital falls, we can use the Yangtze River natural danger to embrace half of the Ming Dynasty!"

Originally, the conflicts in the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty were just a battle for power between eunuchs and civil officials, but Emperor Jiajing's successive purges and palace changes always killed one civil officials and then helped another to take over. This factional rise will inevitably suppress other factions. After the eunuch's power weakened, the factional disputes between civil officials were even more powerful.

The struggle between the East and West parties made all the officials and ministers of the East Party in the capital all charged with various crimes, beheaded or exiled. The East Party was completely excluded from the core of the court center and could only live in Nanjing.

The literati were unscrupulous and the party struggled, and they didn't care about the rise and fall of the country. Seeing the court retreating step by step in the north, many people were there with a joke. The Ministry of Revenue of the Capital issued a document that Jiangnan needed to increase the transportation of grain and various utensils, but the Ministry of Revenue of the Nanjing Ministry of Revenue used various reasons to swear.

On that day, Emperor Jiajing attacked the Eastern Party through a coup and took up his post. He was afraid of turmoil at that time and simply gradually cleaned up the civil officials and powerful officials of the Eastern Party in the capital and the north. Many of the crimes were not serious, and the bureaucrats who lost power went to Nanjing to resettle according to the convention of the Ming Dynasty.

The six ministries of Nanjing and all the yamen were controlled by the Dong Party. Even during such wars, Emperor Jiajing was worried that if he adopted strict policies, it would first cause internal instability. Therefore, despite the various methods of delaying and delaying there, the Dong Party could only issue orders again and again.

Nanjing and Huguang also had elite troops, but they used these troops to support the north, so officials in the south were more willing to transfer these troops to Fujian to quell the rebellion.

Originally, the "Spanish people" in Fujian were all powerful and attacked from Zhangzhou City. Zhangzhou, Quanzhou and Yanping were occupied by them. The Ming army did not dare to emerge at all. Later, they found out that these people were soldiers from Huazhou. Originally, the Nanjing Ministry of War and generals had already planned to give up Fujian and mobilized heavy troops to station on the borders of Zhejiang and Guangdong.

Unexpectedly, the other party's troops suffered a loss under the city of Fuzhou, and were then suppressed all the way back to Quanzhou by the Ming army in Fujian. No matter what, this means there is a bargain to make money.

Think about the defeat of the imperial army in the north, if the Huazhou army could be defeated in Jiangnan or even recover the lost territory, wouldn’t it be a slap to the imperial court and the Western Party?

The officials of the Eastern Party, who were not active, all began to act and allocate troops. The troops from Nanzhili and Zhejiang began to enter Fujian, preparing to encircle Zhangzhou City and completely drive out the Huazhou army in the south.

In this operation, the Ming army had more desire for victory than ever. The city of Nanjing has always maintained a strong defensive force, and there were also strong soldiers refined by several noble children. This time, more than half of them were mobilized, including the troops from Zhejiang and the troops coming from Huguang.

They actually made them come up with a large number of numbers. These troops entered Fujian from Zhejiang in a fierce manner. At this time, the troops led by the Fujian General were oppressing the occupied Huazhou army to the south of Quanzhou. The Huazhou army seemed to be oppressed a little fiercely, so they began to show more powerful resistance.

However, this resistance was quickly dispersed under the oppression of the army. The Huazhou army began to retreat in full swing from Quanzhou. The Ming army was unusually smooth and pursued them all the way.

When a war was taking place in Luanzhou in the north, the fierce Huazhou army in the south was already oppressed to several cities in Zhangzhou, Changtai and Haicheng. They relied on the fleets in Zhangzhou Bay to defend the city. When the Ming army in Jiangnan arrived, they heard about the powerful artillery in Huazhou. They dared not advance quickly. They could only rely on their superior forces to prepare for the momentum of encirclement.

At this time, the officials in Nanjing began to become very impolite in their letters to the capital. They criticized Emperor Jiajing in their words, and their implication was that because the emperor appointed the Western Party and sent tax prisons, which led to the anger of heaven and people, and a monster like Huazhou also emerged.

If you look at the achievements of the Ming army in Fujian, you will know that Huazhou is not that difficult to defeat, because the Eastern Party in Jiangnan is in line with the will of heaven and the people are surrendering.

Emperor Jiajing saw this kind of memorial and official documents, and he could not control his temper directly in the inner study room, so he threw it into the incense burner and burned it clean. However, there was no other way except to curse. After all, Huazhou in the north was suppressed step by step and could no longer have conflicts with the south. He started to fight internally first.

Although it is under the world, it is the king's land, but this principle is sometimes not so easy to use.

However, the good mood of the people from the Nanjing Dong Party did not last long. When Huguang's troops were about to enter Fujian, they received news that Quanzhou was lost overnight, and an unprecedented huge fleet easily defeated the Ming army's navy and shore troops in Quanzhou Bay.

A large number of merchant ships transported 5,000 Huazhou soldiers to the ashore. The Ming army in Jiangnan had an inexplicable contempt for the Huazhou army.

However, the 15,000 Zhejiang soldiers stationed in Quanzhou fought to seize the city and were defeated by these 5,000 soldiers. You must know that this is not a field battle, but a defense of the city. Isn’t it all about the siege of the city at least more than five times the strength of the city defense to have a chance of winning?

However, the Huazhou Army had a force of only 5,000. Quanzhou City was operated from the Song, Yuan and early Ming dynasties, and never lacked any funds, and the construction of city defense fortifications was considered to be the top-notch in the entire Ming Dynasty. But even so, it was still captured by the 5,000 Huazhou Army.

At this time, the Ming army besieged Zhangzhou, the Huazhou army, which was compressed into the city, suddenly emerged from the city and won consecutive victories. The Ming army did not expect that the Huazhou army, which was retreating step by step, had such combat power. They were caught off guard and were dizzy.

When they realized, they found that their road to Guangdong had been blocked. Yanping Prefecture to the west was mountainous and the army could not retreat at all. The retreat route to Quanzhou to the north had been blocked, and the fleet of Dahai and Huazhou to the east were Dazhou.

The Huazhou army was only 30,000 in Fujian, and the fleet sailors were only 35,000, but it surrounded nearly 100,000 Ming army.
Chapter completed!