Dominate the Country

Xingzi County, Nankang Prefecture, Jiangxi Province.

The heavy city gate has been completely blown open, the city gate tower has collapsed halfway, the parapet battlements are shredded, and there are gaps and fragments everywhere. The stones and earth bags that the Qing army stuffed in the city gate hole are being emptied little by little by the prisoners of war driven by the Fu Han Army. Yang Shijin has returned to the cabin and sat back on the chair. His injuries have healed, but his back has left sequelae, and his back will ache if he stands for a long time.

Today's battle was completely unexpected by the Qing army. The Fu Han Army caught the defenders and militia of Xingzi County off guard, and now the Qing army's defeat is irreversible. Some sailors from the Navy Camp joined the siege. Wu Hubing, the Jiangxi Provincial Surveillance Commissioner, fled in panic, and soon the team will be able to happily enjoy the rich fruits of victory.

Yang Shijin smiled very happily. Since the formation of the Navy Battalion, the Navy Battalion has been in the spotlight again and again, first in the Jiujiang counterattack, then in the southward Nanchang, and swept the Poyang Lake coast. Now the Navy Battalion, as a major participant, has taken down Nankang Prefecture, which has been the focus of the Jiangxi Qing Army since Jiujiang Prefecture was occupied by the Fu Han Army, together with two infantry battalions.

"It really couldn't be more beautiful!"

Yang Shijin felt that after this battle, the position of the Navy Battalion in the Fu Han Army would be thoroughly consolidated. It should be clear that after the Fu Han Army won the Jiujiang counterattack, because the Navy Battalion was to be transferred, in order to clear the surface threats in the short term, Chen Yongsheng sent two infantry battalions to cooperate with the Navy Battalion to sweep the Poyang Lake coast in the south, and cleared all the fishing boats and cargo ships hidden in the branch ports and reed marshes. Moreover, the navy battalion accompanied the two battalion-headed Fu Han army to the outside of Nanchang City. The panicked Wu Shaoshi urgently dispatched the Qing soldiers and militia from Nankang Prefecture to the south to support them. Then, with the advantage of water conservancy, the Fu Han army killed Xingzi County again. The battle was won easily. They took Xingzi County, the main base of the Qing army in Jiangxi, at a very small cost.

An hour later, Yang Shijin and Chen Yanxue walked into the Nankang government office. The latter was the commander-in-chief of the army in this battle. He was originally the deputy battalion commander of the tank battalion. With the rapid expansion of the total strength of the Fu Han army, some officers of the tank battalion were also transferred out one after another, such as Lu Hu and Chen Yanxue. These two former second-in-command and third-in-command Sou, and the first-in-command of the tank battalion, Shi Meng, were the three great generals under Chen Ming in the early days of attacking and overcoming dangers. But now that Chen Yanxue and Lu Hu have been transferred out, it is clear that they have lost the competition with Shi Meng in the tank battalion. As the commander of the Tank Battalion, the first ace battalion of the Fu Han Army, Chen Ming finally chose Shi Meng instead of Lu Hu or Chen Yanxue, who was his own family.

All the officials in the Nankang government office had fled, not to mention the Nankang prefect, the co-prefect and the teacher, whose bodies had not been seen.

Unconsciously, the wind direction had changed. The "chaste" local officials of the Qing Dynasty who frequently committed suicide at the beginning were now more slippery than the other. This did not mean that the moral standards of these people were declining rapidly, but that the "intensity of investigation" of local officials who lost land and cities by the Qing Dynasty was gradually relaxed.

Perhaps the Nankang prefect himself would be beheaded, but there was also a high possibility that he would only be dismissed from office, or even demoted and retained. When the situation of certain death turned into a glimmer of hope, haha, the "morality" of those local officials fell down so much that even gods could not stop it.

...

A group of people rushed towards the prison of Nankang Prefecture. The leader has three red copper five-pointed stars on his armor, which is the symbol of the sergeant officer in the Fu Han Army. This person is Deng Yun. During the Battle of Gunhe last year, he was just a soldier, but more than half a year later, he has become a sergeant officer. And he is a meritorious officer with deep qualifications or outstanding military exploits, otherwise he would not wear the third red star.

This is the case with a rapidly expanding team. Officers and soldiers have ample opportunities that are unimaginable in peacetime armies, although the military quality of officers is inversely proportional to the speed of expansion of the number of troops. Too many brave soldiers are promoted to grassroots officers, and grassroots officers become middle-level officers. In such frequent reshuffles, the army is tempered by wars one after another. Five battles will make a soldier a qualified grassroots officer, and ten battles will make a grassroots officer understand everything that a middle-level officer should have.

This is a process of great waves washing away the sand. Countless people have made a name for themselves; countless people have fallen on the battlefield.

Deng Yun is a very lucky person. Now he has reached the top of the grassroots officer class of the Fu Han Army. The next step is the battalion officer with a promising future waiting for him.

"Captain Deng, come and take a look at this, this is a Tartar officer..."

The soldier asked Deng Yun to hurry over with a surprised voice. He saw a middle-aged man lying on his back on the hay, about 30 or 40 years old, with blood on his face and white lips as if cracked, and he was completely unconscious. He is indeed an official. Although his official robe has been taken off, he is wearing official boots and silk pants, which can make people conclude that he eats public food. The white undershirt is made of the best Nanjing cloth, with bloodstains all over it, and his ten fingers have been clamped by the clamps, bloody and bloody.

"Feed him some water, carry him out, and send him to the medical camp."

As long as they are in the prison, they can almost be regarded as natural allies of the Fu Han Army. If they are divided into camps, they are from the same country. But Chen Ming knew very well how dirty the prisons of the Qing Dynasty were. There were indeed many people who deserved to be cut into pieces. He didn't want such people.

The Fu Han Army broke through the prefecture and county, opened the prison door, and must verify the prisoners in custody one by one.

If an official of a government office ran away, it is impossible for all the yamen runners to run away, not to mention that there is a criminal record on file, and there are people in the same cell as witnesses. After verifying one by one, those who should be killed will be killed, those who should be punished will be punished, and the rest are members of the Fu Han Army.

This official - Deng Yun easily asked the identity of the man from other people in the prison: Xie Hu, the magistrate of Dehua!

But what exactly this magistrate Xie did was not known by the prisoners in the prison. Even the prison bully in the prison only heard a few words from the prison head, saying that he had offended the censor.

Deng Yun did not think too much, but just based on the principle that the Fu Han Army would save those who wanted to die in the Qing Dynasty. Xie Hu, who was on the verge of death, finally struggled back to life. But for Xie Hu, this life experience was too magical. A few months ago, he and Zheng Wenzhi led the Jiujiang remnants and the Gannan militia to approach Jiujiang. Although they were defeated by the counterattack of the Fu Han Army, after the efforts of him and Zheng Wenzhi, they still received a small number of Qing soldiers from the periphery of Jiujiang City. He stood on the absolute opposite side of the Fu Han Army. But what about now? His life was taken back from the King of Hell by the Fu Han Army, and it was precisely his 100 loyal Qing Dynasty that sent him to see the King of Hell.

Can Wu Hubing represent the Qing Dynasty? After all, he is a senior official at the level of the Provincial Surveillance Commissioner. If he can't represent the Qing Dynasty, can only those who were personally ordered to be beheaded by Emperor Qianlong be considered as killings by the Qing Dynasty?

The next day, Xie Hu woke up on the No. 2 medical ship of the medical camp. Looking at the unfamiliar environment, he was puzzled at first, and then after figuring out where he was, he was silent and said nothing.

From Nankang to Jiujiang Prefecture, from the medical ship to the wounded camp on land, Xie Hu never said a word. But he did not show any signs of seeking death. Chen Yongsheng was very interested in Xie Hu. From the intelligence he gathered from Xingzi County, he learned that Xie Hu was recalled from Lushan area by Wu Hubing and placed under house arrest a month ago. At that time, Xie Hu's biggest supporter, Jiujiang Lieutenant General Zheng Wenzhi, had just been transferred to Nanchang. Wu Hubing temporarily placed Xie Hu under house arrest on the grounds that Xie Hu was involved in leaking military secrets, because Wu Hubing had not yet obtained solid evidence for external publicity. He was not imprisoning Xie Hu, but protecting Xie Hu.

This incident did not cause any sensation within the Qing army at the time. After all, Xie Hu was just a small county magistrate. And his biggest supporter Zheng Wenzhi was only a lieutenant general, and a lieutenant general without most of his soldiers.

Just five days ago, when the fleet of the Fu Han Army hit the surface of Poyang Lake outside Xingzi County and headed south to Nanchang, Wu Hubing suddenly got angry and threw Xie Hu into prison, tortured him day and night, and then obtained a confession from Xie Hu that he "did" leak secrets. Chen Yongsheng didn't know why Wu Hubing did this. Wu Hubing was very supportive of Xie Hu's previous actions in Mount Lushan. Why did he suddenly turn against him?

But no matter what, Wu Hubing wanted to kill Xie Hu. He tortured Xie Hu into confessing and accused him of leaking military secrets. That would not only cost Xie Hu his life, but also the entire Xie family. Xie Hu couldn't have no resentment in his heart, and he couldn't continue to be 100% loyal to the Qing Dynasty, otherwise he would have wanted to die long ago...

Chen Yongsheng regarded Xie Hu as a "rare commodity". He felt that the Fu Han Army was so powerful that it was time to "recruit surrenders and accept rebellions". Xie Hu could be used as a banner.

...

Just when the plum rains continued in the south of the Yangtze River and Xuzhou was flooded, the summer harvest came in Nanyang and Ruzhou in southwestern Henan.

The sun was already very hot, and the smell of wheat was rushing in the air. Large tracts of wheat fields were golden yellow, like a large carpet, flat and spread out, making people feel extremely broad. When the hot wind blows the wheat fields, the golden wheat dances with the wind, rising and falling like the tide, and the whole wheat field is like a sea of ​​gold. For most areas in Henan, this year is a year with a good harvest. It's just that their days this year will be more difficult than in previous years when the harvest was poor.

The grain price in Henan has dropped sharply due to the arrival of summer harvest, but the grain price is still twice that of this season in previous years. Who asked the Hunyuan Sect to open the Yellow River embankment in Xuzhou? The Yellow River flooded half of Xuzhou. This news made it impossible for the grain price to continue to fall.

The heavy rain in Xuzhou affected Xuzhou Prefecture itself and more than ten counties in Henan, Shandong, and Anhui. I don't know how much the heavy rain reduced the summer harvest in those places. The grain price has fallen to the current price, and it is impossible to continue to fall.

The Qing army's strategy to annihilate the Hunyuan sect's army failed completely. The Yellow River had opened a hole, and the heavy rains in the past few days flooded more than half of the entire Xuzhou Prefecture [southern part]. The grain harvest was lost, and hundreds of thousands of people had nothing, crying for food and waiting for relief. Under such circumstances, the Qing army in Xuzhou could only stay there to stabilize the local area, and also organize troops to continue chasing the Hunyuan sect's army. The Qing army on the battlefield in Henan was most directly affected. The troops that were withdrawn could not return on time. Aligun was dizzy in the face of such a situation, and he directly submitted a letter to Emperor Qianlong to resign. He was stunned by the heavy stick of the Hunyuan sect. Before the punishment in Beijing came, Aligun had no choice but to spread out the more than 10,000 Gansu Green Camp under General Fulu of Xi'an evenly from Xuzhou to Yancheng like pepper. Let this elite and brave army be scattered on various battlefields.

Ever since Fulu led 20,000 Gansu Green Camp soldiers to Henan, Wu Dashan took 5,000 of them, Aligun transferred 3,000, and the remaining 12,000 people have been in Fulu's hands, planning to launch a thunderbolt strike at the right time, but the result...

All Fulu's thoughts vanished into thin air.