The Zhejiang Army's self-disintegration broke the Zhou Shi's intention to walk the Yangtze River. Without the cooperation and help of the Zhejiang Army, the hundreds of Qing army navy and dozens of ships that surrendered to Jiujiang wanted to seize Anqing, which had the water and land Qing soldiers guarded, and then transported the four main towns of the Northern Expedition Army to Nanjing.

I only regret that King Yanping retreated too quickly. If he was still in Zhenjiang area, Zhou Shixiang would contact him no matter what, so that he would know that the upstream Jiangxi had undergone earth-shaking changes. As long as the Zheng army's huge fleet was across Zhenjiang and did not go, the Taiping army would even take land to attack Nanjing. No matter how delayed the road was, he would not be afraid of the Tatar Chief army. Because as long as the Zheng army was across the river, the Tatar Chief army would have to look at the river and sigh and could not enter Nanjing.

Without the threat from the Shunzhi army, Zhou Shixiang could calmly solve the Qing army in Nanjing. After all, he had the killer weapon to conquer Nanjing. The Taiping Army in his previous life left a successful battle example in history books of using the coffin blasting method to capture Shitou City. He did not need innovation, but just copied it. With the advocacy and improvement of Tie Yi, blasting technology has now become the magic weapon for the Taiping Army to break the city. If the city gate is weak, it will be covered with medicine. If the city gate is strong and thick, it will explode. Like Xinhui City and Liuzhou City, it will blow up the city wall in one fell swoop. As long as there is enough gunpowder, no matter how strong the city gate is in this era, no matter how solid the city gate is, it will become the treasure of the Taiping Army.

Unfortunately, the problem now is not whether Nanjing can win it, but how to go to Nanjing.

The collapse of the Zhejiang Army made all the generals of the Taiping Army silent. I heard that Zheng's army was defeated in Nanjing, and most of the generals in the hall were gloating because King Yanping refused to cooperate with the Taiping Army several times. This was the case in the Battle of Chaohui, and the support of the Tang King. This was even more so when King Jin fought in Guangdong in the east. This made King Yanping have a bad impression of the Taiping Army generals. Many people think that Zheng Yanping was too selfish. This time, he launched the battle to enter the north and was probably because he was self-reliant, and at least he was unwilling to regard the King of Tang as the King of Tang.

Zun, the idea of ​​starting a new fireworks. If Zheng Yanping could go north with the Taiping Army coalition forces, one from the Jiangkou, the other from Jiangxi, and the water and land were all together, the Qing army would not be able to stop it even if it had ten heads. Unfortunately, Zheng Yanping was too confident and believed that he was the best in the world, with more than 100,000 soldiers, but he ended up in a crushing defeat. However, Zhang Huangyan, the Minister of War, who often talked about the Zhejiang Army and the general, compared with the "Three Loyals in Lingnan", admired the Taiping Army and sympathized with it.

The information about the Zhejiang Army was almost open. The Ming army knew, and the Qing army knew even more. The Zhejiang Army was very complicated. The soldiers were mainly fishermen and farmers on the coast, as well as vendors, craftsmen, and actors. In short, all the three religions and all kinds of people were all. Although they were Zhejiang Army, many of them were from Southern Zhili, even Henan and Shandong. These people were not soldiers of the Ming Dynasty before joining the Zhejiang Army, but they joined the Zhejiang Army with their passion and followed the Dingxi Queen Zhang Mingzhen and the Minister of War Zhang Huangyan and the Tatars to the end.

However, the Zhejiang Army has been oppressed by the Qing army in the Zhoushan Islands. They were short of money and food, and they lacked weapons. They could not even have enough food to eat, so naturally there was no training. Therefore, whenever they fought with the Qing army, the Zhejiang Army would lose more than win less. Even so, the Zhejiang Army still gritted their teeth and persevered. Even if the base Zhoushan was occupied by the Qing army, they still retreated to Jinxia under the leadership of Zhang Huangyan to continue fighting with the Qing army. They would rather die than surrender. This time they followed the Zheng army into the Yangtze River and became the pioneer of the entire army. The words "benevolent and ambitious" and "Han Ying'er" were used in the ordinary people of the Ming Dynasty who participated in the Zhejiang Army's insistence on resisting the Qing Dynasty. However, they were actually role models for the Ming people in the world. Their integrity should be recited and remembered by the descendants of the Han family for generations!

"Didn't he notify Zhang Shangshu when King Yanping retreated? The Zhejiang Army had tens of thousands of troops and occupied so many territory, so he collapsed on his own?" Li Zhicui was a little unbelievable. As the Qing court's Jiangxi Censor, he had his own way to know the achievements of the Zheng army in the left prefectures of Jiangnan after the Zheng army entered Jiangnan, so it was difficult to believe that the Zhejiang Army collapsed solely.

Zhou Shixiang did not answer this question because there was no information on this, but it was obvious that Zheng Yanping abandoned Zhang Huangyan, otherwise why would the Zhejiang Army collapse on its own in Tongling? Apart from the despair of the future and the extremely sluggish morale, Zhou Shixiang could not imagine any reason for the Zhejiang Army, which had achieved great achievements in Jiangnan Zuo, to collapse overnight. The information of the Military Information Department clearly stated that the Zhejiang Army collapsed without any battle with the Qing army, or even contact.

When Dong Changqing was in Huizhou, he heard Zhang Cangshui's reputation as "not standing on the clear sky, and not stepping on the clear sky" and couldn't help but sigh: "The Cangshui Gong took the remaining soldiers to Yinghuo Mountain District, probably it would be dangerous."

"After the battle, the autumn wind laughs at the flowers, and the savages offer yellow flowers. I have seen the iron bones pass through the frost, so don't send the golden heart to the rain."

He silently recited a poem about Zhang Huangyan that he heard from others. Dong Changqing suddenly knelt down in front of Zhou Shixiang and begged earnestly: "I hope the general will send troops to rescue Cangshui Gong quickly, otherwise Cangshui Gong will fall into the hands of the Qing army!"

Li Zhicui frowned: "Save the Zhejiang Army? How to save it? We can't even get through Jiangbei, how can we go to Yinghuoshan District to save Zhang Cangshui?"

"Shangshu Zhang serves the country and the people, and is the hero of my Han family. How can I not save him?" Zhou Shixiang stood up and looked around the generals, and then said to Li Zhicui: "Who said we can't get through Jiangbei? Not only can we go to Jiangbei, but also to Nanjing City."

"How to go!" the generals asked at the same time.

Zhou Shixiang did not speak, but instead looked at Suna's face.

"Masterman?" Su Na was stunned, wondering what Masterman meant when he saw him.

Gui Yongzhi has been a staff member for decades and has a delicate heart. Seeing this, he realized something and said, "Does the general want the Manchu and Mongolian soldiers in the army to touch it?"

"It's not about touching it, it's just a legitimate and swaggering past!"

Zhou Shixiang's plan was very simple. The main force of the Taiping Army naturally could not cross the river, but the Manchu soldiers and Mongolian soldiers in the army could go because as long as they put on the clothes of the Qing army, they would be a very handsome Manchu and Mongolian soldiers!

Zhou Shixiang quickly made arrangements and ordered the Manchu and Mongolian soldiers from the Northern Expedition Army to form a Manchu-Mongolian Special Operations Team. In addition to rescuing Zhang Huangyan's Zhejiang Army remnants and carrying them out, the Manchu-Mongolian Special Operations Team also had a more important task, which was to destroy, destroy, and then destroy!

The prefectures, military camps, post stations, food and grass transportation lines, local gentry, Qing army's post soldiers... As long as people, objects, and institutions involved in the Qing government rule and Qing army's Qing army were the targets of the Manchu and Mongolian Special Operations Team.

Taking advantage of the identity of the Manchu and Mongolian soldiers, taking advantage of the prestige of the Manchu and Mongolian Tartars in the hearts of local officials and green camps of the Qing Dynasty, taking advantage of the fear of the Great Tartars by those officials and soldiers, taking advantage of the backward communication methods of this era, and taking advantage of the Qing Dynasty's advantages of the Taiping Army having a large number of Manchu and Mongolian subjugation troops (all those who know have been annihilated). Zhou Shixiang ordered the Manchu and Mongolian Special Operations Team to create panic on the left and right of Jiangnan and paralyzed the Qing Dynasty's rule in Jiangnan, cut off the Qing army's flood path, and turned the Qing army in Nanjing into deaf and blind.

"The ultimate goal of the Manchu and Mongolian Special Operations Team is to make the Qing army in Jiangnan distrust the Manchu and Mongolian Eight Banners, and no one believes in the Eight Banners. The Qing army in various places is suspicious of each other. You suspect I am clear, and I doubt you, anyway, no one communicates with the prefectures and counties, so that there is no official in the entire Jiangnan!"

"I ask all the Manchu and Mongolian naturalized soldiers to show their former prestige, get into the Qing army's stomach, stir up the ingredients, and tear them up!"

Zhou Shi handed over the task of forming the Manchu and Mongolian Special Operations Team to Suna and Wang. The assistant ministers were responsible because they had the most Manchu and Mongolian soldiers under them.

Zhou Shixiang had no doubt about the loyalty of the Manchu and Mongolian Special Operations Team. Because the Qing Dynasty's military law was harsh, Shangguan's subordinates were executed during the war. Moreover, the Mongolian soldiers had the lives of a prince of Manzhou, a prince of the county, and countless emperors, chief commanders, assistant leaders, and the Manzhou soldiers. The surrendered Manzhou soldiers, and tens of thousands of Manzhou women and children from Guangzhou were watching them in the sky.

The Qing court could spare the Han officials who surrendered to the Taiping Army, but would never spare these Manchu and Mongolian soldiers, because their existence and actions were the greatest threat to the rule of Manchu.

"If they don't follow me, they have to follow Jidu!"

Of course, when Wang Fuchen and Suna were selected to form the Manchu and Mongolian Special Operations Team, they still paid attention to the selection of officers. There were a small number of Han officers in the operation team, and Manchu and Mongolian officers were also used by them to ensure that the operation team would not make any mistakes.

There were 16 special operations teams of Manchuria and Mongolia that were sent to Jiangnan to operate. The largest number was the Mutu division that specifically responded to the Zhejiang Army, with more than 400 people. The other divisions had more than 100 people, and at least dozens of people, including 96 soldiers and generals in Manchu.

After receiving the mission, these former Manchu and Mongolian Tartars quickly disappeared from the south of the Yangtze River. They were too lazy to even make guards, because what they said was the greatest guarantee of their safety.
Chapter completed!