Zheng Sen's analysis cheered up Du Yinxi, and then he frowned, "Since King Qi secretly supports the rebels, how can he watch the rebels be wiped out by us?"
Zheng Sen said: "So we need to advance quickly and wipe out the rebels before King Qi reacts.\ As long as we defeat the rebels, King Qi will not dare to move.
Although the King of Qi's army is strong, it still needs the support of the court for food and salary, and it is not that easy to rebel even if he wants to.
At that time, as long as the imperial court issues an edict to appease him, he might be able to borrow the donkey from Poxia, and the crisis will be overcome safely.
If your majesty is willing to confirm the princess's qualifications as the imperial heir and hold a grand wedding for King Qi and the princess, King Qi will still be a loyal general of the Ming Dynasty. " In order to comfort Du Yinxi, Zheng Sen spoke fluently and described a bright future.
Du Yinxi looked at Zheng Sen deeply: "Master Zhu is so eloquent."
In fact, there was no need for Zheng Sen's persuasion.
Even if Chen Yue led his own troops to rebel, Du Yinxi would follow the imperial court's orders and lead his troops.
He was just worried about annihilating the rebels.
It is human nature to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, but there are always some people who do it knowingly that they cannot do it, just because of their thoughts.
Du Yinxi is also such a person.
After determining the strategy of dispatching troops quickly, Du Yinxi immediately accelerated the pace of dispatching troops, ordering the troops from Changsha and Yueyang to quickly come to Wuchang to assemble, and at the same time collect ships and food.
From Wuchang to Zhejiang, it is most convenient to take the Yangtze River waterway, and a large number of ships are indispensable.
Although Zheng Sen came quickly, he did not carry much food and baggage, and there were not many ships in the army.
He had to recruit Yinxi from Wuchang.
While Du Yinxi and Zheng Sen were making preparations for the expedition in Wuchang, a war was raging thousands of miles away in Zhejiang.
From Fujian to Zhejiang, Xianxia Pass is the only place to pass.
However, under the raid of the rebels, Xianxia Pass was easily captured by the rebels.
After hearing the news that the rebels had broken through Xianxia Ridge, the southeastern governor Zuo Maodi urgently mobilized the Zhejiang and Jiangxi troops to Quzhou where Xianxia Ridge was located to contain them.
The Jiangxi soldiers were too far away to reach Quzhou in time, but the Zhejiang soldiers were ready when Zuo Maodi took a boat to Hangzhou.
Because the Fujian Rebellion had little to do with Zuo Maodi, the imperial court after the fall of Fujian did not pursue Zuo Maodi's culpability too much.
Although a new Southeast Supervisor was appointed, it was ordered that Zuo Maodi should be appointed before the new Supervisor arrived with his troops.
The second is to temporarily take over the responsibility of the superintendent and make meritorious deeds.
After Zuo Maodi arrived in Hangzhou, he actively deployed soldiers from Zhejiang and organized an army of 100,000.
After the rebels captured Xianxia Pass, Zuo Maodi immediately ordered that Zhang Bingzhen, the governor of Zhejiang, be the commander, and he would lead Huang Fei, Bu Congshan, Fang Guoan, Wang Zhiren and other generals to Quzhou to contain the rebels.
The rebels must be blocked in Xianxia Ridge.
In the mountainous areas, not a single soldier is allowed to enter the fertile land of Zhejiang.
After Zhang Bingzhen arrived in Quzhou, he deployed 100,000 troops on the front line of Jianglang Mountain, firmly blocking the rebels' way of protruding into the mountainous area.
Repeated fighting broke out between the two armies.
The rebels were defeated and retreated for several days, unable to break through the Zhejiang defense line.
However, for an army of 100,000, the amount of food and salary wasted is astronomical.
Every day, food is transported from Yanzhou and Jinhua, which are adjacent to Quzhou, and there is an endless stream of food transport teams on the mountain roads.
However, on this day, a rebel army of several thousand people suddenly appeared behind the Zhejiang army formation and attacked the grain transport team.
More than 20,000 loads of grain were burned in flames.
More than 20,000 loads of grain, which was enough for an army of 100,000 people for nearly ten days, were burned like this.
It was too late to transport food from other places, and the 100,000-strong army suddenly fell into a desperate situation of running out of food.
The soldiers had to dig wild vegetables in the mountains and fields to satisfy their hunger.
Without food in the army, the morale of the army was naturally disorganized.
The Zhejiang soldiers were just ordinary Ming armies, and their combat effectiveness and discipline were not much better than other Ming armies.
Although Zhang Bingzhen thought of a way, he ordered the Quzhou local government to urgently raise a batch of food for emergency use, and then sent many soldiers to dig wild vegetables and eat them with food, trying to survive until the arrival of military rations.
However, the distant water could not quench the near thirst, that is, after eating wild vegetables for three days, the morale of the soldiers was immediately dispirited, and some soldiers even tried to escape from the army.
At this moment, the rebels suddenly rushed down from the mountain and launched a fierce attack on the positions defended by the Zhejiang soldiers.
Although the Zhejiang soldiers had a favorable geographical location, no one was willing to fight when they were hungry.
In addition, the rebels used grenades and other deadly weapons.
In just a short confrontation, the Zhejiang soldiers were easily able to break through the defense line, and countless soldiers turned around and ran away. .
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Like dominoes being toppled, any loss on the front line immediately caused a chain effect.
Before the rebels could attack, the Zhejiang soldiers in other positions had already abandoned their positions and turned around and fled.
The 100,000-strong army collapsed in an instant.
Seeing this situation, Zhejiang Governor Zhang Bingzhen was stunned with horror.
He shouted at the top of his lungs, but no one paid attention to him.
Countless soldiers dropped their weapons and ran past him, refusing to look back.
Facing the defeated Zhejiang soldiers, Qian Fenglin ordered 30,000 rebels to come out in full force and launch a fierce attack and pursuit.
After three days of starvation and replenishing their energy with plenty of food, many Zhejiang soldiers did not even have the strength to escape.
They immediately knelt down and surrendered when the rebels came.
Zhejiang soldiers knelt down and surrendered all over the mountains and plains.
Of the 100,000 Zhejiang soldiers, only a few died in the battle.
Most of the soldiers surrendered to the rebels.
The commander-in-chief Huang Fei and Bu Congshan were captured, and the governor Zhang Bingzhen fled to Jinhua Mansion in embarrassment.
After accepting the surrendered troops, Qian Fenglin's troops suddenly expanded to as many as 100,000.
He ordered the elimination of the original senior officers and sent Dongfan officers and soldiers as the backbone to take charge of the army.
In addition to retaining 10,000 soldiers as the main force of the battle, all the other 20,000 rebels and surrendered troops were reorganized.
After spending more than ten days reorganizing the army in Quzhou, Qian Fenglin ordered troops to be sent to capture Zhejiang Province.
The army was divided into five groups, each led by Chen Mo, Wang Qing and other generals, and launched a strategy like a prairie fire.
Zhejiang soldiers were all sent to Quzhou by Zuo Maodi and became rebels.
The governments in Zhejiang were extremely empty and unable to stop the rebels' offensive.
Chuzhou, Wenzhou, Taizhou, Jinhua, Shaoxing, Ningbo and other prefectures fell successively.
Qian Fenglin personally led an army to attack Hangzhou.
Facing the fierce offensive of the rebels, Superintendent Zuo Maodi made an impassioned speech, calling on all Hangzhou gentry to contribute and recruit civilian men to defend the city.
However, at this time, the officials and gentry in Hangzhou had long been disappointed with Zuo Maodi.
The officials had the responsibility of guarding the territory and could not leave.
The gentry fled Hangzhou with their families one after another.
Faced with this situation, Zuo Maodi became furious and ordered the city gates to be sealed and no one to leave the city.
So, when Qian Fenglin attacked outside Hangzhou, all the gentry in Hangzhou were arrested: