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Chapter 56 Three Axes

The last time Ma Guozhu came, he sent news about the Battle of Qingtian.

According to the report of Ma Xin and Hu Laijin intensified documents, the Ming army launched a series of attacks on Qingtian County during those days, attacking the city several times. However, under the tenacious resistance of the Qing army defending the city and the continuous attacks of the Taizhou Green Camp and the Taizhou Navy as reinforcements, the Ming army had to give up the hard-earned results and temporarily slow down the attack rhythm to deal with the harassment of the Qing army on the flanks.

For several days, the Ming army was forced to withdraw after a series of attacks failed and the strategy of luring the Qing army outside the city was seen through by Ma Xin.

Although the details and thrilling degree of the battle in the good news were also exaggerated, they were far less than the one sent from Jiangshan County before. Instead, they asked for reinforcements and guarding tools to make more mistakes, which made Hong Chengchou let go of some concerns about Qingtian County.

Since surrendering to the Qing Dynasty, Hong Chengchou has never been able to look back. His status and the joke that Chongzhen thought he had sacrificed his country made him so that he could only go on this road once he surrendered to the Qing Dynasty.

"I heard that Mr. Hengjiu's dynasty was a great man in the battle of Songshan and Xingshan, and blood splattered in Zhangqu. The former emperor was shocked and praised and moved the Chinese and foreigners. I always admired his loyalty and wiseness. Although I was young, I killed myself to serve the country. How could I let him go... Mr. Hengjiu died for a long time, and everyone in the world heard of it. He once sacrificed seven altars. The emperor came in person, and tears filled the dragon's face and the ministers were sobbing. What a rebellious disciple, you dare to entrust his name to defile loyalty and soul!"

"When the opposite is concerned, the former emperor gave him a title, set up a temple, sacrificed his sacrifice, and embraced him; if he was against his righteousness and lost his kindness, he would enter the house, flatten my tomb, burn my ancestral temple, if he was guilty of the heavens, he would pass Li Ling and Wei Lu would be far away."

"A historical writing is famous, even if you don't become famous, you can finally do it; if you are so grateful, you cannot avenge the country."

“…”

Over the years, the curse of him has never stopped, and even his mother and brother have no longer recognized him.

Whenever I think of this, Hong Chengchou thinks viciously: "If the Qing Dynasty conquered China, then I, Hong Chengchou, will at least be the slave of the Qing emperor, and I am the best. And you guys who cursed me and your descendants may not be able to survive. Even if you can survive, they will be Han people who are not as good as slaves in the Qing system. What harm will the insults of you and others do to me?"

It is precisely for this reason that Hong Chengchou was extremely concerned about the Qing Dynasty's suppression of the anti-Qing movement and did his best to do everything well. Whether in the Qing Dynasty or in the position of responsible governor of Jiangnan, the influential Ming court civil and military officials always recruited the influential Ming court as soon as they could. If they really couldn't recruit them, they would kill them to be a deterrent effect. His efforts also made the Qing Dynasty rarely suffered a crushing defeat in suppressing the rebel army of Jiangnan's anti-Qing in the past few years before entering the pass.

After Ding You ended, Hong Chengchou went through a series of events in the court where Dorgon was in power and Shunzhi ruled after his death, but he was still very concerned about the long-lasting anti-Qing struggle.

Chen Wen rose in Zhejiang. Several wars not only wiped out the Qing army in southwestern Zhejiang, but also indirectly led to a series of chain reactions such as the breakthrough of Zhang Zisheng in Jiangxi and the successful capture of Zhangzhou and the siege of Quanzhou.

Even without these, the Qing Dynasty supported the bannermen, the civil and military green camps in the north, and supported the army to suppress the anti-Qing uprising in various places, especially the Yongli court in the southwest. These all needed wealth from the southeast to support them. Among them, Hangzhou, Jiahu, Zhejiang and Susongchang Town in the south of the Yangtze River were the key points. Jinhua, where Chen Wen's army was located, was only a distance from Hangzhou. If it was allowed to develop, Jiangnan would no longer be owned by the Qing Dynasty. By then, even if Suojiang defended the Qing Dynasty, it would not last for a few years.

After taking over Chen Jin's mess, he quickly gained a basic understanding of the current situation based on Hong Chengchou's understanding of Jiangnan and the essence analyzed through the words and phrases of the report.

Although the Qing army in the four southeastern provinces still have absolute military strength advantages, it is difficult for them to mobilize too many troops to suppress the rebel forces in various places. Chen Wen was able to easily defeat Jinhua. This is an example.

Now the Ming army in Zhejiang and Ming army in Fujian have strategic initiative. The Qing army, especially the Qing army in Fujian, dare not act lightly, because if a mistake is made, the Fujian province may not even have a chance to say goodbye to the Qing Dynasty under the attack of these two Ming armies. In addition, before he set out, he killed Kong Youde and swept the Li Dingguo who had not long been around in Guangxi. Although these three Ming army forces are unlikely to join forces, once they join forces, whether it is Chen Zheng in northern Fujian, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, Chen Li in Jiangxi, or Li Zheng in Guangdong, the Qing Dynasty's rule in the southeast can be declared over.

The sudden change in the war situation in the Southeast came from Zhejiang, and we must start from Zhejiang. The governor of Zhejiang and Fujian, who had died for a short time, was not a mediocre person who was ignorant of the army. Chen Wen, who was able to defeat him several times and finally forced him to death in Quzhou, was naturally not a good role.

After careful deployment, Hong Chengchou finally gained some time, and the news of this good news announced the stagnation of the military conflict that was enough to change the regional situation this year in southwestern Zhejiang. However, Hong Chengchou knew very well that this was actually just temporary.

The reason why the plan for the joint defense of the three counties in Quzhou and the plan to defend Qingtian was successful was that the greatest heroes were not the Qing army, such as Yang Jie, Wang Zhigang, Ma Xin, Zhang Guoxun and Hu Laijin, who fought bravely under the pressure of the whole family, but Chen Jin who had already died in Quzhou. It was Chen Jin who delayed the Qing Dynasty for a month, and he only took advantage of the weakness of the Ming army's continuous battles and soldiers' exhaustedness, and there was nothing to be proud of.

In a few months, once the autumn tax collection in the Ming army occupied by Zhejiang Province is completed and the recruited recruits are completed, the war in southwestern Zhejiang will surely rekindle.

Hiding his tracks, hiding in the dark, and implementing them in the name of others, finally made Chen Wen temporarily restrain his minions, but the dormant tiger in western Zhejiang was just for the next culling to be more rapid. At present, the green camp in the north and an elite army coming from Shunzhi were far from setting off. For a moment, he had no way to deal with Chen Wen, but all this was already in his calculations and was not beyond his expectations.

Li Dingguo, who had just killed Nikan, was still in Huguang. The news just came that Dorobetunqi, who had succeeded Nikan, had already occupied Hengyang, where Li Dingguo had previously defended. Since the southwest battlefield has been calmed down and there is no threat in the southwest Zhejiang for the time being, Hong Chengchou can feel at ease to swing his third axe, and his goal is Zheng Chenggong, who is watching Quanzhou.
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