In Wenzhou Prefecture, after Zhu Yihai took the stage to command, he was preparing to march towards Fujian.

However, before the Ming army moved, news came from northern Zhejiang that Zhang Cunren, who was in charge of Hangzhou, ordered 40,000 troops to go up the Fuchun River and advance to Yanzhou.

After Zhao Ming ended his harassment of the Qing Dynasty at the end of last year, the army rested in Zhoushan for nearly a year. During this period, the Qing Dynasty also took a rest and its strength increased.

The Qing Dynasty implemented a ban on the sea coast, and implemented a national policy of focusing on agriculture in the south of the Yangtze River, returning cotton to fields, and returning mulberry to fields. The army had sufficient food and salary.

Zhu Yihai had long expected the actions of the Qing army in northern Zhejiang, leaving behind the general Fang Guoan and the minister Li Chengdong to defend western and southern Zhejiang.

Among them, Yanzhou, Quzhou, which Li Chengdong defends, is the most critical. Yan and Qu prefectures are located at the junction of Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian and Nanzhili provinces. The territory is mountainous, easy to defend and difficult to attack. In the south, Xianxia Pass is the key road to Fujian. If Duoduo enters Fujian from now on, his retreat will be threatened by Li Chengdong.

It is precisely because of this that Duoduo had already ordered Zhang Cunren to raise an army to attack western Zhejiang again, one for the army to solve their worries, and the other for the restraining of Zhu Yihai's Zhejiang-based Ming army and prevent Zhu Yihai from interfering in Fujian.

The Qing army stationed 100,000 troops in Zhejiang, but due to the threat from the Ming army in the East China Sea, Zhang Cunren did not dare to dispatch all his troops, and only mobilized 40,000 Qing troops to attack Yanzhou.

Zhang Cunren was from Liaodong and was originally a deputy general of the Ming Dynasty. After surrendering to the Qing Dynasty, he belonged to the Han army's Inlaid Blue Banner. He was a famous general in the early Qing Dynasty.

Since the last Battle of Jinhua, the Qing army in Zhejiang has been resting for two years. They occupied the wealthy Hangzhou area and recovered much faster than the Ming army in western Zhejiang in remote areas.

At this time, the Qing army was full of food and morale was high, and many Qing soldiers transferred from the north were ready to do a big battle.

After the Battle of Jinhua, the original elite Qing army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang suffered great losses, and the Qing court could only mobilize the Qing army from the north to move south.

Many of these soldiers were border troops of the Ming Dynasty, with strong combat power and had never fought with the Ming army in Zhejiang, so they were very unfamiliar with the Ming army in Zhejiang and did not take them seriously.

However, as soon as these Qing troops entered Yanzhou, they found that this was not a good place. It was completely different from the northern plains. There were hills and streams everywhere. They finally saw a piece of flat land. Because the paddy fields were filled with mud, the bottom of the foot was filled with mud.

The Qing soldiers kicked down and buried them directly into their calf. The war horses were even more afraid to go down the fields, so they could only walk on official roads and small paths, which seriously restricted the Qing army's advance.

Compared with the Qing army, Li Chengdong's army stationed in Yanzhou was originally subordinate to Gao Jie's army, and was an elite Ming army who was good at field battles and could attack and defend cities.

This group of people retreated from Guanlong to Zhejiang, and took root in western Zhejiang, recruited local people and expanded to 30,000 people.

After 10,000 of the elite soldiers were transferred to Fujian by Zhu Yihai, Li Chengdong still had 20,000 troops.

After being stationed in western Zhejiang for nearly two years, Li Chengdong was very familiar with the terrain of Yanzhou. When he learned that Zhang Cunren was walking up the river, he immediately decisively gave up the relatively flat Tonglu area east of Yanzhou, in an attempt to lure the Qing army into the upper reaches of Fuchun River, near Fuchun Mountain, Wulong Mountain, Xuxi and Dongyang River.

The hills in this area are undulating and densely packed with streams, which is not suitable for large corps to engage in combat, so the Qing army in the north will not adapt.

Zhang Cunren received the news that Zhu Yihai gathered troops in Wenzhou and immediately led 40,000 troops to go up the river, advancing all the way, defeating many Ming troops along the way, and soon occupied Tonglu, crossed Xuxi, and headed straight for Jiande.

After the Qing army bypassed Fuchun Mountain and collapsed over Xuxi, Wulong Mountain blocked the road in front, Xin'an River on the right, undulating terraces on the left, and Fuchun Mountain and Xuxi behind.

The Qing general Ma Degong once fought with Li Chengdong, and the more he walked, he felt something was wrong. Even if Zhu Yihai pulled away Li Chengdong's elite soldiers, Li Chengdong should not be so vulnerable. So he reminded Zhang Cunren to be vigilant. After all, Li Chengdong and Zhao Ming entered the Yangtze River and fought against Jinhua, which can be said to be one of the few powerful generals in the Southern Ming Dynasty.

As soon as he finished speaking, a group of people appeared on Fuchun Mountain behind him. Li Chengdong's general Yan Keyi led three thousand soldiers to kill him. The Ming army's grenade guns were fired, killing countless Qing troops.

Zhang Cunren was suddenly attacked, and his men were not messy and he was ready to launch a fight, but he discovered that due to the terrain restrictions, 40,000 Qing troops could not be deployed at all. Qing soldiers found that there were paddy fields and ditches everywhere. They could not even pull out their shoes after one foot, which affected their actions and made them complain.

At this time, the Ming army, who were ambushing in other directions, attacked everywhere. The Ming soldiers had already chosen the terrain. Many soldiers in western Zhejiang drank a bowl of wine to warm up their bodies, then barefoot, rolled up their trousers, and took off their weapons to charge.

The Qing army could not be carried out, and the people and soldiers were bluffing in the mountains and forests. Seeing that the army was in chaos, Zhang Cunren had to order to retreat. However, the Qing army could not escape the Ming army in western Zhejiang. Many people and war horses were trapped in the mud. The Ming army picked up weapons and rushed forward, killing the Qing army's corpses everywhere and wailing all over the ground.

Li Chengdong led his army to chase and kill for more than 30 miles before he withdrew his troops and returned to Jiande, while Zhang Cunren retreated directly to Tonglu County to stabilize his position.

When the Qing army retreated with deep and shallow, everyone was still scared. Many Qing soldiers lamented that the green mountains and rivers in western Zhejiang were bad, and the unruly people were everywhere, which was really not suitable for the Qing army to fight.

Zhang Cunren ordered people to count the losses, and only 35,000 people came back for 40,000 people, but 5,000 Qing soldiers were annihilated by the Ming army.

After this battle, the morale of the Qing army in Zhejiang was greatly relieved. Zhang Cunren did not dare to advance carelessly anymore. He stationed his troops in Tonglu County, sent scouts to inquire, explore the terrain of western Zhejiang, and prepared to find a good way and then invade again.

This time, the Qing army attacked Fujian, and there were three groups of people. When Zhang Cunren was blocked, Luke Dehun urged Jin Shenghuan to lead 60,000 Qing troops, concentrated the main force of the Qing army in Jiangxi, and rushed directly to Ganzhou.

Duoduo's plan was that Zhang Cunren would restrain Zhu Yihai, Luke Dehun and Jin Shenghuan from Zhejiang, and restrain Jin Shenghuan from southern Gannan.

In this way, both the left and right wings of Fujian were restrained by the Qing army, and Duoduo could lead 100,000 main forces of the Qing army to calmly seize Fujian.

At that time, the Qing army chose to go east and attack Zhu Yihai, Zhejiang with Zhang Cunren, or to encircle Ganzhou to the northwest, or to take advantage of the emptiness of Guangdong and Guangxi to drive directly to Guangzhou, all of which followed Duoduo's decision.

Ganzhou is an important town in southern Jiangxi. It is located at the junction of Fujian, Jiangxi, Guangdong, Guangxi and Huguang provinces. Its location is important and it is a place that military strategists must compete for.

Ganzhou's strategic location was more important to the Ming army than western Zhejiang.

Since the Qing army headed south, the Ming army and the Qing army have been fighting in southern Jiangxi for nearly four years. If the Ming army loses the connection between southern Jiangxi, Huguang, Fujian and Zhejiang, it will be cut off. If you want to contact, you can only cross the Nanling Mountains, first go to Guangdong, and then take a detour into Fujian and Zhejiang.

After so many months, everything is over.

At this time, there were more than 40,000 Ming troops gathered in Ganzhou, and these 40,000 people had a characteristic, which was described in one word, which was "miscellaneous"!

In the past four years of tug-of-war, in order to defend Ganzhou, the Ming Dynasty continuously drew troops from various places to reinforce Ganzhou. Therefore, in Ganzhou, there were Zhao Yinxuan, Zhao Yiqing, Hu Yiqing, Guangdong army from Guangdong, Tong Yizhen, Chen Ju, Cao Zhijian, Hunan army from Huguang, and the original Jiangxi army defender Wu Zhifan and Zhang Guozuo.

It can be said that Ganzhou gathered the southwestern provinces and drawn troops.

During the four-year tug-of-war, the Ming Dynasty also suffered great losses in southern Jiangxi, including Yang Tinglin, Huang Daozhou, and Guo Weijing, the Minister of War Guo Weijing. All the deputy state-level and senior officials were killed in the battlefield, and other officials suffered more losses.

At this time, the Grand Secretary Wan Ji guarded Ganzhou. After four years of hard work, he was already a qualified commander, leading the Ming army from all over the country to repel the Qing army's attack on Ganzhou several times.

Since the last time, Zhao Ming sent troops to Shandong and occupied Dagukou, forcing the Qing army to mobilize troops from the south to head north. After the Qing army attacking Ganzhou withdrew its troops, Wanji only did one thing, which was to strengthen Ganzhou's city defense.

When Luke Dehun urged Jin Shenghuan to lead a 60,000 army and entered Ganzhou again, he did not suffer any resistance along the way, and even saw a single hair. The 60,000 Qing troops rushed to the city of Ganzhou with a rush.

Lukedehn was not polite. Since the Ming army was huddled in the city and waited for him to attack, he immediately activated Jin Shenghuan, set up artillery, chariots, ladders, and launched a fierce attack, but they were all blocked by the Ming army, which had been in defensive battle for a long time.

When the Qing army took action separately, Zhu Yihai also led more than 30 generals including Zhao Ming, Zhang Mingzhen, Wu Zhaosheng, Li Yuanyin, Fang Shiyan, and more than 53,000 cavalry troops, and went to Fujian for more than 53,000 people.

After the army reached Fenshui Pass, Zhu Yihai, as the prince, asked the defenders to turn on and off.

At this time, the thoughts within the Zheng army in Fujian were extremely chaotic. The army stationed at the pass and threatened to attack. Liang Li, the deputy general of the defending pass, killed the defending general and opened the switch to welcome Zhu Yihai.

At the end of November, 50,000 Zhejiang troops entered Funing Prefecture from Fenshui Pass, and the army advanced towards Fuzhou in a mighty manner.
Chapter completed!