Chapter 519 Rescue

Wang Zunde stroked his beard and said, "Since you mentioned the right time and place, there must be a third reason?"

"Your Majesty!" Liu Qian responded: "The third reason for humble position is human harmony. How can the Haihan people, based on Yazhou, spend several years and countless money to operate it?"

It was handed over to others. In order to protect the Wanshan Port at the Pearl River Estuary, the Haihan Militia did not hesitate to go to war with the pirate Liu Xiang who had been entrenched nearby for many years. This time, when it is freed up, it is bound to fight to the death with the pirates. And the people of Qiongzhou

There are many things that benefit from Haihan. If Haihan dispatches militia groups to fight against pirates, the local people will be happy to cooperate."

Wang Zunde snorted slightly when he heard this. Liu Qian immediately realized that he had made a mistake and quickly said: "Of course, this requires an order from the government so that the people will cooperate. Before the government and troops arrive, let the sea

It’s okay for the Han militia to be the local overlords for a few days. After the Han militia repel the pirates at sea, they can then send officers and soldiers to take over the city, and by the way, they can also recruit this militia, so it’s the best of both worlds.”

"The Haihan people may not be happy to incorporate the militia." Wang Zunde is not a fool. He still knows how much effort the Haihan people have put into running the militia to have the current combat effectiveness. Such an army built with money,

The smart Haihan people will definitely not let go easily.

"The Haihan people are all businessmen. The conditions can be negotiated slowly, and there is no chance." Liu Qian only thought that the purpose of the Haihan people in letting him be a lobbyist was to seek an official status for the militia.

Thinking of how terrible the real purpose hidden behind this was, he still persuaded Wang Zunde according to the established policy: "Let the Haihan Militia fight against the pirates for a few times to weaken their strength. After the Qiongzhou Rebellion is quelled, your Excellency will reward you."

In the name of the militia, give some free titles to the military leaders in the militia, and with a few promises, you can recruit these people."

Wang Zunde did not respond, thinking that if it were so easy to handle, after the Haihan militia defeated the rogue army in Panyu County the year before last, they had already recruited these people. At that time, the government also promised several positions in the commendation given to the militia, but

The other party did not accept the government's "good intention" and returned all the appointment documents intact. At that time, Wang Zunde had just arrived, and he was very upset because of the Haihan people's lack of appreciation.

Wang Zunde's eyes were slightly closed, and he was thinking about the pros and cons of sending the Haihan militia out. Liu Qian had already given out several reasons that he had thought of, and now he was quietly waiting for Wang Zunde to make a decision.

After a long time, Wang Zunde opened his eyes and asked, "How long will it take for Haihan to mobilize the militia to rescue Qiongzhou City?"

Liu Qian was well prepared for this and quickly responded: "The Haihan people have a unique secret technique that can transmit information from Guangzhou City to Qiongzhou Island in an instant, and they have long claimed to be ready for war. If your Excellency,

Give the order now and Haihan will be able to send troops within a day or two."

Wang Zunde glanced sideways at Liu Qian and said, "Haihan people have given you a lot of benefits for this matter, right?"

Liu Qian was startled and hurriedly lowered his head and said: "My lord, I know that Beizhi did not receive any benefits from it. It is just that the Haihan people have come to Beizhi many times recently to show their attitude of not willing to fight. Beizhi also felt that it was appropriate for them to send them at this time.

For practical purposes, let the Haihan people on Qiongzhou Island send troops first. Your Excellency, you can mobilize the troops from Guangdong and Guangxi first and raise supplies. If the Haihan militia fails to fight effectively, you can then send officers and soldiers to the battle to clean up the mess."

Wang Zunde snorted, but did not pursue the root cause of the matter. Instead, he ordered: "Go and draw up a document, notify the Haihan people, and ask them to send troops as soon as possible!"

Liu Qian was overjoyed and bowed in response: "If the Haihan militia is going to assist the army near Fucheng, should we give them more authority?"

Wang Zunde understood what Liu Qian meant, nodded and said: "During the battle, they are allowed to enter the city with arms, but after repelling the pirates, they must follow the arrangements of the local government! Also, since they have a method of communication, after they have news about the local battle situation,

You must notify this officer as soon as possible!”

"Follow the order, I'm here to draw up the documents and notify the Haihan people!" Liu Qian hurriedly agreed, and then hurriedly left. After talking to him two days ago, He Xi added before leaving, as long as this

If the matter is completed, Haihan will also give a thousand taels of silver as a thank you. For Liu Qian, this silver is not for nothing, so he quickly writes the paperwork and goes to the Haihan people to get the money.

On October 15, the official document sent from the Governor's Office of Guangdong and Guangxi in Zhaoqing was rushed to the Guangdong Office outside Guangzhou. After Ma Li Ke and He Xi read the official document, they couldn't help but smile at each other.

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He Xi signed the receipt, rewarded him with two taels of silver, and sent the courier away. Maliko copied the main content of the official document, called Zhang Qianzhi, and asked him to send it to the confidential room and send the news by telegram.

Return to base camp.

"With this Shang Fang sword in hand, Sanya can finally start taking action." Malik couldn't help but sigh. This plan has been prepared for half a year. Because there are too many variables in it, no one dares to take action before it reaches the implementation stage.

The probability of its success is guaranteed. But at this point, it can be said that the plan has been 70% successful. The remaining work is to finish it well and complete this unprecedented scam.

He Xi also smiled and responded: "So much money has been spent on paving the road, and now it's time to pick peaches."

While Malico and He Xi were chatting and laughing easily in the Guangdong Office, thousands of miles away, there was a turmoil in Qiongzhou City. The pirate army outside the city had been besieging Fucheng for several days, although they had never launched a major attack on the city.

A large-scale attack, but the cannons would be dragged out and fired at the city wall for several rounds almost every day. This kept the defenders on the city in a state of uneasiness most of the day. No one knew when it would happen.

Suddenly a cannonball flew out and hit the city.

The prefect also sent several teams to try to break out for help, but soon found that this attempt was in vain. Not only did these pirates block several city gates, but they also equipped cavalry teams, although it seemed that there were not many horses.

But it is more than enough to deal with a small number of infantry running on two legs. Those sent out to ask for help cannot escape very far.

The nearby river has also been blocked by pirate ships, and now even fishing boats cannot sail into the Nandu River. People in the city can only hope that some of the boats sent to Guangzhou for help a few days ago will slip through the net, so that Guangzhou can quickly

Reinforcements were sent at one o'clock to help.

Of course, there are some people with clear minds who know that even if Guangzhou wants to send troops, it will have to wait until half a month at the earliest, and it is difficult to say whether Fucheng can hold on for half a month.

At this time, many well-connected people went to the Haihan office in the city and asked the omniscient Haihan people for information. The news spread by Haihan was also relatively pessimistic - if we only relied on the existing

It may be difficult for the city-defending troops to hold out until reinforcements from the mainland arrive. If you want to retreat from the enemy, you can only look forward to other variables.

It's not that no one thought about the powerful Haihan militia under the control of the Haihan people, but the person in charge of the office just argued that he had not received the transfer order from the Governor's Yamen and that the militia should not be transferred at will to avoid suspicion.

With conscious promotion, the people in the city soon reached a consensus - the current situation on Qiongzhou Island can only be solved by the Haihan Militia, and the reason why the Haihan Militia did not come forward was because the local government did not want the militia to

The army took the initiative, even if Qiongzhou Island was lost for it.

Most people are definitely dissatisfied with this attitude of the government. Not to mention that the Haihan people have always been law-abiding and charitable. Even if it is to save their lives, at this time it is time to decisively let the Haihan militia attack. Leave Qiongzhou Island alone

There are thousands of usable soldiers, but we hope that Guangzhou, thousands of miles away, can send reinforcements as soon as possible. This approach is obviously a sign of being very careless.

But the government is actually in trouble. Everyone knows that the Haihan militia can fight, but because of this, no one dares to open the door to mobilize the Haihan militia to participate in the battle. It is easy to ask the gods to send them away, but it is difficult to send them away.

After the war, it was difficult to determine how to arrange the militia, and what attitude the local government should maintain towards the tyrannical Haihan in the future. As for whether to ask for help from Haihan, I only hesitated for a few days.

, Qiongzhou Fucheng had no other way out and turned into a dead city surrounded.

On October 16, the Haihan Militia began to assemble in the Sanya area, preparing to set off to the "battlefield" to perform one of their easiest combat missions in recent years.

Several relatively difficult battles have been completed by the Annan Militia Army, and the task of the regular army is to go to the local area to act as messengers of justice and take over the territory, population and governance. Some resistance may still break out in this process, but it will definitely

Not enough for a war.

The voyage from Sanya to Qiongzhou Fucheng in the north is more than 200 nautical miles. At the average speed of the navy, it takes about one and a half to two days to complete this voyage. This is also the largest Haihan militia group since the end of the Annan Civil War.

sent troops, but until this time, most people in Sanya still did not know the true purpose of this military operation. They thought that the northern region was really being plundered by pirates, so the Executive Committee sent militia troops to attack the area. Only a handful of senior officials

Only then did the cadres realize that Haihan's move was purely to capture the northern areas still under the rule of the Ming Dynasty, thereby realizing Haihan's rule over the entire Qiongzhou Island.

On October 18, the fleet of the Haihan Militia appeared outside the estuary of the Nandu River and engaged in "serial battles" with the pirate ships stationed here. Although the defenders and people in Fucheng had no way to directly see the fighting between the two sides, they

The dense sound of artillery can be heard clearly. And without asking, you know that the person with so many artillery on the warship is definitely not the Daming Navy who came to the rescue, but the Haihan Navy entrenched in the Sanya area.

At this time, the direction of public opinion in the city changed again. There was a lot of talk that the Haihan militia had sent magic soldiers from the sky and would solve the crisis that the city was in. Some people had already begun to jointly submit a letter to the prefect, waiting for the troops of the Haihan militia to arrive.

After entering the city, the city gates should be opened immediately to welcome them into the city to station.

Fucheng was still a little undecided about this until the early morning of the 19th. A group of Haihan soldiers used a powerful crossbow several hundred meters away to shoot the order issued by Wang Zunde, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, onto the city tower. The official document issued from Zhaoqing Mansion was announced on the 15th.

After arriving in Guangzhou, they immediately boarded the ship from the Pearl River Pier without stopping. At Wanshan Port, they were transferred to the "Lightning" that was sent here to wait here in advance. The "Lightning" then headed south at full speed and arrived at the entrance of Nandu River in the north of Qiongzhou City.

Haikou, handed over to the Haihan militia group who had just arrived here for a day.

The contents of the official document not only mobilized the Haihan Militia to rescue the trapped city in northern Qiongzhou, but also gave them the right to enter the city with armed forces during wartime. In order to ensure that their combat effectiveness was not compromised, the Haihan Militia was also chartered to maintain an independent command system.

, there is no need to accept the direct command of the Ming Dynasty's official army. This kind of treatment is of course limited to this battle against pirates, but what the governor did not expect was that after the pirates were defeated, the rules on the island would also need to be re-formulated.

On the afternoon of October 19, the Haihan militia and the pirate army had a brief battle east of Fucheng. However, because it was too far away from the city, the soldiers on the top of the city who were responsible for looking out could only see and hear the fireworks and roar when the artillery was fired.

There is no way to confirm the real-time battle situation.

After most of the people in the city spent an afternoon with anxiety, exciting news finally came in the evening - the pirate army in the east of the city chose to retreat, and was forcefully captured by the Haihan militia.

A road was opened to the city, and the people in the city saw the hope of escaping the siege.

In the evening of that day, the leading troops of the Haihan militia arrived at the city, and the defenders inside the city also cooperated to open the city gate and let the leading Haihan officers and their personal troops into the city.

After entering the city, the Haihan officers immediately made several demands after meeting the Qiongzhou magistrate. First, the Qiongzhou city must immediately raise food and supplies to provide food and drink for the thousands of Haihan soldiers who came to the rescue. Second, the garrison in the city must

The combat power is limited. In order to prevent the pirate army from counterattack, the Haihan Militia will station at three city gates and key areas in the city to cooperate with the Ming army to defend. Thirdly, the Haihan Militia will conduct military control of the city for several days to prevent

To prevent pirate spies sneaking into the city from causing trouble.

These demands all sounded reasonable. However, the Haihan militia had solved the siege of Fucheng only two days after it showed up, and indeed showed a trustworthy fighting capacity. After several senior officials put it together, they could only agree to Haihan.

The Haihan militia's request is unacceptable. The attitude of the Haihan militia is very tough. If the government is unwilling to cooperate according to the conditions, the militia will immediately withdraw from the vicinity of Fucheng and return to the south to defend Sanya.

Nowadays, the only people who can fight against the pirate army are the Haihan militia. Naturally, the government cannot let go of this great savior. Although these conditions are a bit unruly, after all, this is wartime, so they can only act urgently.
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