Section 41 Out of Control (Part 2)
When Zhao Guozuo approved the dispatch of Huzhou Green Camp, he felt it was ridiculous, and he hated Gui'an County's incompetence and corruption, which made him more determined to deal with the officials involved. A month later, Tan Ximin came to Hangzhou in person and knelt in front of Governor Zhao Guozuo and Hangzhou's Eight Banners General Song Kui, the two of them felt more than ridiculous.
"There is no less than the officials who are punished by the crime." Tan Ximin did not dare to stand up after entering the door, and kept apologizing. The farmer's courtyard now has more than 600 villages, Zhu's Zhunding, and more than 400 prisoners who can be used as cannon fodder. Among them, Zhunding also popularized armor and military weapons. The defense status and high walls offset the lack of qualified officers and non-commissioned officers of the shopper to a certain extent.
If you correctly understand the strength of the dealer, the generals responsible for suppression may choose to besiege. The manager is still relatively lacking in confidence in taking the initiative. Moreover, once you leave the wall and the cover of the trench, will the command system of Zhuang and Zhuang and Zhuang troops encounter a test? Those prisoners who have to be honestly cannon fodder on fixed positions may also take the opportunity to cause trouble. However, because the prefect's government office saves money, the generals must return to the military camp within three days, so after spending a day at the dealer, the generals omitted the investigation work and launched an attack directly. They planned to fight for a quarter of an hour, loot for two hours, and then go home.
So the Qing army rushed towards the banker's "three-dimensional defense". Taking advantage of the rest of more than ten days, the trench was greatly widened and a half-person-high chest wall was built behind. Behind the chest wall, the riflemen on the high wall formed a high and low configuration. The previous victory gave the banker the courage to place the tiger squat cannon outside the courtyard wall. When the Qing army group charged in front of the trench, four tiger squat cannons tore off the camouflage and bombarded the Qing army with a shotgun.
In the previous two fierce battles, the gunners of the tiger squat cannon had no chance to play. This time the volley was over. When the gunners of the tiger squat cannon were filled, the Qing army in front of the trench was almost defeated. The generals who commanded the troops saw the guns and cannons of the shopkeepers ringing together. After the Green Camp died and injured in front of the trench, they exclaimed to their personal soldiers: "Is this the shopkeeper's courtyard or the Forbidden City? Why do they even have cannons?"
After the second shooting of the tiger squat cannon, whether it was the commander of the Green Camp or the Zhuang, the prisoner suicide squad of the Zhuang Army had no doubt about the outcome. At this time, the Qing army had suffered more than 100 casualties, and most of the losses were senior officers and brave soldiers in the Green Camp of the Third Battalion. The remaining troops were completely blinded by the firepower of the merchants. Some people had begun to retreat, and some people were lying on the ground to avoid the firepower.
At this time, Zhuang Tingyue and Zhu Youming's son Zhu Nianshao commanded Pijia Zhuang Ding to launch a charge. The prisoner suicide squad, including Liang Zhi, was not willing to fall behind. Just now, Liang Zhi and others used crossbows to cooperate with rifles under Zhuang Ding's surveillance, and formed the first line of defense in front of the trenches to poke the green camp that was trying to climb over. The green camp, which was dazed by rifles and tiger squat cannons, was easily defeated by hundreds of Pijia Zhuang Ding and the prisoner suicide squats. The soldiers of the Third Battalion were killed in the battle and more than 270 were captured. Liang Zhi and others also made military achievements for Zhuang Yuncheng in the counterattack. Many of them were successfully upgraded to supervisors. Not only did they not have to continue to work hard labor, but they could also get more food rations.
When the general of the sect retreated to Gui'an County, the third battalion soldiers were more than 1,200 armored soldiers left with only more than 300 defeated soldiers who were abandoned. Almost all the local recruits of Wujia County, Wujia County, fled home, spreading the news of the defeat of the Qing army to all directions. In the next two days, there were scattered defeats of the defeated soldiers in return to An and reported to the general of the sect. However, some people fled directly to the capital city, and Huzhou suddenly became an uproar.
Tan Ximin ordered the city to be martial law and strictly prevented the Zhuangjia from counterattacking, and soon learned that there were unstable situations in all counties. Many areas have coaxed Zhuang Yuncheng to gather 100,000 troops, and they are preparing to go to Hangzhou to seek justice for themselves. Some people even said that Zhuang Yuncheng has launched a banner to clear the monarchy and wants to directly attack Beijing and the court to discuss right and wrong. The scholars in Zhejiang all sympathize with Zhuang Yuncheng, and the wronged people are unwilling to wait for death but fight back. They also defeated the powerful government that the scholars hated and feared, which is of course also a welcome thing.
With the support of scholars, local gangs in Huzhou also emerged. Many mountain kings listened to the wind and rain, thinking that the sky in Zhejiang was about to change. It was Zhuang Yuncheng's turn to be the dragon throne and Zhu Youming became the prime minister. These people took the banner of supporting Zhuang Wang and set up checkpoints on the side of the official road to collect the money for buying roads. In addition to these mountain kings, the heroes on the water were not willing to be lonely. They really took the banner of "clearing the side of the king" and began to sell private salt, pig iron, and local cloth.
However, Huzhou Prefecture is now out of control. After losing the Third Battalion Green Camp, Tan Ximin lost the ability to suppress the kings who toll along the road and the salt traders. With the loss of elite troops in the city and the sudden change of the situation in the territory, the counties did not dare to send the Green Camp out of the city, but instead made every effort to prevent any mistakes.
Without the interference of officers and soldiers, after the heroes from all walks of life were connected, many people became confident and planned to join forces to open a county town as a meeting gift for King Zhuang. After these heroes surrounded the county town, the county had no other good way except to close the city gates and ask for help from the city. Tan Ximin found that if the situation continued, sooner or later, the city would fall into a siege, so he had to come to Hangzhou and ask the provincial capital to dispatch troops to help Huzhou restore order.
"Tan Ximin, what are you doing?" Zhao Guozuo pointed to the nose of the Huzhou prefect and cursed: "Isn't Zhuang Yuncheng a rich man who wrote the anti-book? Why have he started to clear the emperor's side?"
The government's handling methods will of course be completely different when dealing with the rich man who writes anti-black books and the ambitious people who hold troops. Even if Zhuang Yuncheng is a mountain king, the government will not take it lightly and attempt to send a constable to arrest him. Even if the government soldiers are dispatched to mobilize a bandit, the participating general will seriously investigate the terrain, carefully weigh the pros and cons of strong attacks and long sieges, and conduct multiple test attacks to observe the opponent's firepower and support points, and the prefect will not give any three-day time limit.
Now Zhao Guozuo hates this most. The Huzhou government can even make mistakes about what kind of opponent the other party is. It is obviously a hard bone that needs to be gentle, but it actually treats it as a fat and juicy big meat. Not only was Hangzhou deceived, but it also reported this false information to the court.
If Zhuang Yuncheng was reported to him from the beginning, he would not be afraid of raising the banner of clearing the monarch, because this shows that the local officials' judgment of him is very correct. Unfortunately, Hangzhou has never warned Beijing like this, but talked about the wealth of the dealer. In this way, the dealer is not a rebel with ulterior motives, but a powerful man who was forced to rebel by local officials who covet his property - Hangzhou, Huzhou, a charge of arousing civil rebellion cannot be escaped. Oboi, who was in charge of this matter, would never take responsibility. He would only think that he was cheated by Hangzhou - Hangzhou wanted to use the minister of the regent as a gun, so he deceived the court in terms of the strength of the dealer and the Zhu family, and insisted on the two evil wolves as fat pigs.
After thinking for a while, Zhao Guozuo asked in his heart, "How long will it take for Huzhou to send troops to wipe out Zhuang and the other thieves of Zhu?"
"It will take at least six months..." Tan Ximin lay motionless on the ground. After learning about the losses of the third camp of the green camp, Tan Ximin knew that Huzhou Prefecture had gone bankrupt. It was already a manifestation of the Bodhisattva's spirit to be rebuilt in six months. At that time, the first thing to be wiped out will be the road tyrants and private salt dealers. As for Zhuang Yuncheng and Zhu Youming in Qingjunfang, it would be good if they would bring their followers to wipe out the Huzhou prefect's yamen within six months. So they must seek reinforcements from the provincial capital, otherwise Tan Ximin's rule in Huzhou will collapse.
"Six months!" Hangzhou General Song Kui jumped three feet high and cursed: "Not to mention six months, can the court spare you in just three months?"
"Travel the town army in the provincial capital to wipe out the two owners? You have always said that they were just rich men who wrote anti-books," Zhao Guozuo faced the same difficulties as those facing Tan Ximin before sending troops. If he admitted to the court that Zhuang Yuncheng and Zhu Youming had the strength to sweep Huzhou, then Zhao Guozuo's governor would have done the final result. Oboi would definitely think that there was a part of his deceiving the court. The governor did not try to appease and wait for an opportunity to weaken such a provincial tycoon.
He is strong and tries every means to force him to rebel. If he continues to insist that Zhuang Yuncheng and Zhu Youming are just rich men, then the governor will be almost over. Hangzhou cannot defeat the Sichuan army because the Sichuan army is stronger than the Central Army, and cannot defeat Zhang Huangyan because there is a sea in the middle. But now, Zhao Guozuo's subordinates cannot even defeat the two owners of the manor, and they all have to dispatch the military army to fight to the death with the two owners of the manor! Do you have to join the war even if Zhejiang Governors and Governors of the Bian have to participate in the war?
"Dispatch one town or two towns? Zhuang Yuncheng defeated the soldiers of the government in one day. I'm afraid the soldiers of one town are not safe? If there are two towns or three towns, what should I do if the soldiers of the army are running, food, fodder and rewards? This will cost hundreds of thousands of taels of silver? Can the court agree to me spend so much money to fight the two owners of the house? What should I do if I want to pay for this deficit? I just can't afford it." Zhao Guozuo thought in his mind, and occasionally threw a fierce glance at Tan Ximin who was lying on the ground: "What if the soldiers of the town are defeated? Wouldn't it cause chaos in the whole province? And how should we end up? Should we ask Liangjiang or Fujian to support it, or would we ask the court to send a banned brigade into Zhejiang - to suppress the two owners of Zhejiang?"
After being defeated by Li Xinghan, Ren Tang and others, Zhao Guozuo has been working hard to restore the vitality of Zhejiang Green Camp and also compensated him for the losses Li Lutai lent his troops to him. Zhejiang has great financial pressure, and the ban on the sea also made Zhejiang lose a large area of coastal land, huge fishery and trade income. Relying on agriculture alone, Zhejiang has no advantage over inland provinces.
Chapter completed!