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Text Chapter 41 Losing control (Part 2)

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    When Zhao Guozuo approved the dispatch of Huzhou Green Camp, he just felt it was ridiculous. He also felt deeply disgusted by Gui'an County's incompetence and corruption, which strengthened his determination to deal with the officials involved.  And a month later, when Tan Ximin came to Hangzhou in person and knelt down in front of Governor Zhao Guozuo and Songkui, the Eight Banners general stationed in Hangzhou, the two people felt more than ridiculous.

    "I I am punished by death for being an official." After Tan Ximin entered the door, he did not dare to stand up and apologized tremblingly.  The Zhuang family compound now has more than 600 Zhuang and Zhu Zhuang Ding gathered in it, and more than 400 captured death squads who can be used as cannon fodder. Among them, the Zhuang Ding has also popularized armor and military weapons. The defensive position and high walls have offset the Zhuang family to a certain extent.  Insufficiency of qualified officers and NCOs.

    If the strength of the banker is correctly understood, the generals responsible for suppressing it may choose to besiege. The banker's confidence in taking the initiative is still relatively lacking, and once out of the cover of walls and trenches, the command system of the Zhuang and Zhu coalition forces will also be tested.  Well, those prisoners who have to serve as cannon fodder in fixed positions may also take the opportunity to cause trouble.  However, due to the prefect's Yamen's goal of saving money, the generals must return to the military camp within three days, so after spending a day driving to the banker, the generals even omitted the investigation work and directly launched an attack. They planned to spend a quarter of an hour fighting and two hours looting.  , and then headed home.

    So the Qing army crashed into the dealer's "three-dimensional defense". Taking advantage of the ten days of rest, the trench was greatly widened, and a half-man-high parapet was built behind it.  The riflemen behind the parapets and high walls formed a high-low configuration. The previous victory gave the dealer the courage to place the squatting tiger cannon outside the courtyard wall. When the Qing army group charged to the trench, the four squatting tiger cannons tore off their camouflage and fired towards them.  The Qing army carried out shotgun bombardment.

    In the previous two fierce battles, the gunners of the Crouching Tiger Cannon had no chance to perform at all. The salvo ended this time. When the gunners of the Crouching Tiger Cannon completed loading, the Qing army in front of the trench was close to defeat.  When the general who commanded the army saw the Zhuang family's guns and cannons firing, and the green battalion lying dead and wounded in front of the trench, he exclaimed to the soldiers around him: "Is this the Zhuang family's compound or the Forbidden City? Why are there even cannons?"

    After the second firing of the Tiger Crouching Cannon, neither the general commanding the Green Battalion nor the prisoner death squads belonging to the Zhuang and Zhu coalition forces had any doubts about the outcome. By this time, the Qing army's casualties had exceeded a hundred people, and most of the losses were in the third battalion.  Senior officers and brave warriors in the Green Battalion.  The remaining troops were completely blindsided by the dealer's firepower. Some people had begun to retreat, and some were lying on the ground to avoid the firepower.

    At this time, Zhu Nianshao, the son of Zhuang Tingyue and Zhu Youming, commanded the armored Zhuang Ding to charge. The prisoner death squads including Liang Zhi were not far behind. Just now, Liang Zhi and others used crossbows and riflemen to fight under the supervision of Zhuang Ding. They were still in the trench.  The former formed the first line of defense and used their spears to poke the Green Battalion who was trying to get over.  The green camp, which was stunned by rifles and tiger squatting cannons, was easily overrun by hundreds of armored soldiers and prisoner death squads. In the battle, more than 270 soldiers of the third battalion were killed and more than 600 were captured.  Liang Zhi and others also made military exploits for Zhuang Yuncheng in the counterattack, and many of them were successfully promoted to supervisors. Not only did they no longer have to work hard, but they also received more food rations.

    When the generals retreated to Gui'an County, out of the more than 1,200 soldiers of the third battalion who were wearing armor during the expedition, only more than 300 defeated soldiers were left who had abandoned their armor. Almost all the unarmored county warriors recruited from the local area fled home, leaving them behind.  News of the Qing army's disastrous defeat spread to all directions.  In the next two days, sporadic defeated soldiers continued to return angrily to Anhui to report to the generals, but some people fled directly back to the city. Suddenly the whole city of Huzhou was in an uproar.

    After Tan Ximin ordered the city to impose martial law to prevent dealers from counterattacking, he soon learned that instability was occurring in all counties.  There are rumors in many areas that Zhuang Yuncheng has gathered a hundred thousand troops and is going to Hangzhou to seek justice for himself; some even say that Zhuang Yuncheng has waved the flag of the Qing Dynasty and wants to go straight to Beijing to discuss right and wrong with the imperial court - Zhejiang scholars are very fond of this.  I sympathized with Zhuang Yuncheng, but the wronged man was not willing to sit back and wait for death, but turned back and defeated the powerful government that the scholars hated and feared. Of course, it was also a happy thing to see.

    With the encouragement of the scholars, local bandits also emerged in Huzhou. Many mountain kings believed that the weather in Zhejiang was about to change. It was Zhuang Yuncheng's turn to be the dragon chair and Zhu Youming became the prime minister. These people started to support Zhuang.  Under the banner of the king, one after another set up cards at the official road to collect the money to buy the road.  In addition to these mountain kings, the heroes on the water were not willing to be lonely. They really took up the banner of "Qingjun Side" and began to sell illegal salt, pig iron, and homespun cloth.

    But now Huzhou Prefecture is out of control. After losing the three green camps, Tan Ximin has also lost the ability to suppress the toll kings and salt peddlers along the way.  When all the elites in the capital city were lost, and when the situation within the territory suddenly changed, the counties did not dare to send the green battalion out of the city, but instead went all out to enforce martial law to prevent any mistakes.

    Without the interference of officers and soldiers, after the heroes from all walks of life joined forces, many people became confident and planned to join forces to launch a campaign.?? County towns as a meeting gift to King Zhuang.  After these heroes surrounded the county town, the county had no other good solution except closing the city gates tightly and asking for help from the capital city.  Tan Ximin realized that if the situation was allowed to develop, sooner or later the city would be under siege, so he rushed to Hangzhou and asked the provincial capital to send troops to help Huzhou restore order.

    "Tan Ximin, what on earth did you do wrong?" Zhao Guozuo pointed at the nose of the prefect of Huzhou and cursed: "Isn't Zhuang Yuncheng the rich man who wrote a rebellion? Why are you starting to betray the emperor?"

    Of course, the government's approach to dealing with a rich man who writes a rebellious letter and a self-respecting careerist with military support will be completely different. Even if Zhuang Yuncheng is a mountain king, the government will not take it lightly and try to send arrests to bring him to justice; even if the government soldiers are dispatched to arrest a  Bandits and generals will also carefully survey the terrain, carefully weigh the pros and cons of a strong attack and a long siege, and conduct multiple trial attacks to observe the opponent's firepower and support points. The prefect will not give any three-day time limit.

    What Zhao Guozuo hates the most now is this. The Huzhou government can even misunderstand what type of opponent the opponent is. He is obviously a tough guy who needs to be softened, but he actually treats it as fat and juicy meat. Not only was Hangzhou deceived, but they also used this false information  Reported to the court.

    If Zhuang Yuncheng was reported to be rebellious from the beginning, he would not be afraid if he raised the flag of the Qing Dynasty, because this shows that the local magistrate's judgment of him was correct. Unfortunately, Hangzhou never warned Beijing in this way, but talked about the bankers.  Wealth, so that the banker is not a rebel with ulterior motives, but a powerful man who was forced to rebel by local officials who coveted his family property-Hangzhou and Huzhou cannot escape the charge of provoking civil unrest, and Ao Bai, who presides over this matter, will never  If he takes responsibility, he will only think that he was tricked by Hangzhou - Hangzhou wanted to use the assistant minister as a gunman, so it deceived the court about the strength of the Zhu family and the Zhu family, and just called the two evil wolves into fat pigs.  .

    After thinking about it for a while, Zhao Guozuo asked thoughtfully: "How long will it take for Huzhou to send troops to wipe out the two thieves Zhuang and Zhu again?"

    "It will take at least six months" Tan Ximin lay motionless on the ground. After learning about the loss of Sanying Green Camp, Tan Ximin knew that Huzhou Prefecture had gone bankrupt. It would be a bodhisattva's manifestation to rebuild Green Camp in six months. At that time, priority would be given  The road bullies and private salt dealers who had become the climate were also eliminated. As for the Qing emperor Zhuang Yuncheng and Zhu Youming, it would be good if they did not lead their party members to wipe out the Huzhou prefecture's Yamen within six months.  Therefore, reinforcements must be obtained from the provincial capital, otherwise Tan Ximin's rule in Huzhou will collapse.

    "Six months!" Hangzhou General Songkui jumped three feet high and cursed: "Not to mention six months, even three months, can the court spare you?"

    "Send out the provincial army to annihilate the two village owners? You kept saying that they were just rich men who wrote rebellion." The problem that Zhao Guozuo faced now was similar to the one that Tan Ximin faced before sending troops.  If Zhuang Yuncheng and Zhu Youming were admitted to the court that they had the power to sweep Huzhou, then the governor of Zhao Guozuo would have almost reached the end. Obai would definitely think that he had a share in deceiving the court. The governor actually did not try to appease and then waited for an opportunity to weaken such a powerful force in the province.  , and tried every means to force them to rebel; if they continue to insist that Zhuang Yuncheng and Zhu Youming are just rich people, the governor is almost done - Hangzhou cannot defeat the Sichuan Army because the Sichuan Army is more powerful than the Central Army, and cannot defeat Zhang Huangyan because there is a sea in between.  But now it turns out that Zhao Guozuo's men can't even defeat the two village owners, and the dignified governor has to send out the army to fight to the death with the two village owners!  Does it mean that even Zhejiang's bid supervision and bid raising companies have to join the war?

    "Send out one town or two towns? Zhuang Yuncheng defeated the soldiers in one day. I'm afraid one town's soldiers are not safe, right? If two or three towns are sent out, what about the departure, food and rewards? This will cost hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, right?  ? Will the court allow me to spend so much money to beat two village owners? What to do with this shortfall? I even want to pay for it out of my own pocket." Zhao Guozuo was thinking in his mind, and from time to time he threw his money at Tan Ximin who was lying on the ground.  He glanced viciously: "What if, what if the town soldiers are also defeated? Wouldn't it mean that the whole province would be in chaos, and how would it end? Should we ask for support from the two rivers or Fujian, or should we ask the imperial court to send a banned brigade into Zhejiang¡ª  ¡ªEnter Zhejiang to suppress the two village owners?"

    After being defeated by Li Xinghan and Rentang, Zhao Guozuo has been working hard to restore the vitality of Zhejiang Green Camp and compensate for the losses caused by Fujian Li Shutai borrowing troops. Zhejiang is under great financial pressure, and the sea ban has also caused Zhejiang to lose  With a large area of ??coastal land and huge fishery and trade income, Zhejiang has no advantages over inland provinces based on agriculture alone.

    "Why don't we recruit him?" Zhao Guozuo suddenly felt that his life was gloomy. He restored the court's trust, established a relationship with Deng Mingyang, and made up for the shortfall. He was still counting on this Ming Dynasty case: "I was a high-ranking official in the border area, but I was betrayed by two rich men.  I¡¯m about to hang myself!¡±
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