Chapter 116: Sailing on the Qiantang River "In other words, through the images and photos of satellite reconnaissance and the informants planted by the former Vladivostok Far East Company in Liaodong, the Eight Jurchen Banners are currently migrating into the customs on a large scale.
By then, the defense force in Liaodong will be further greatly weakened, which will be more conducive to Our offensive, so the relevant departments were preparing to postpone the launch of the Liaodong offensive again, so they freed up a field force for my side to use."
In a tent on Zhujiajian Beach on Zhoushan Island, the frontline commander of the Jiangnan battlefield, Major General Sun Yang from the Chinese American Republic in North America, was sitting next to a table covered with a map of China in the seventeenth century, looking at today's The Chinese territory was torn apart by colored pencils representing various forces.
"Actually, no matter how many post-Jin armies there are in the cold weapon era, there is nothing to fear."
He smacked his lips disapprovingly.
"No, it is no longer the Jin army, but the Qing army."
Wang Qiu shook his head and corrected, "On the first day of the first lunar month of this year, Huang Taiji announced that he would move the capital to Beijing and change the name of the country to Qing.
Although we did not People will be afraid of the Eight Banners soldiers, but the smaller the resistance, the better.”
"So, our opponent has become the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty."
Sun Yang whistled, "Now, it's much easier to talk about it.
What I said before about Hou Jin always felt weird.
It seems that it's still weird.
It was the same as Yue Fei’s time in the Southern Song Dynasty.”
"No, Huang Taiji did not proclaim himself emperor, he is still the Khan of the Qing Dynasty."
Wang Qiu shook his head again, "Although some surrendered Han officials in Beijing have made petitions to persuade them to join, Huang Taiji seems to feel that his current territory is still too small.
If he proclaims himself emperor directly, he will probably be ridiculed as a mere fool, so he plans to continue to gain more territory first."
"He still thinks his territory is small.
Could it be that he wants to take over the entire North China?"
Sun Yang blinked in confusion.
Judging from the map, ever since the Guan Ning army defected and the Eight Banners soldiers entered the Pass, the Hou Jin Dynasty, er, the territory of the Qing Dynasty, has been in the midst of explosive and rapid expansion, breaking through the Pass and going south, sweeping the capital, seizing Beijing, and swallowing up the north.
In just half a year, Huang Taiji conquered more than 300,000 square kilometers of land from Zhili to Shandong in the south and Xuanfu and Datong in the west.
Due to the maritime trade through Tianjin's Dagu Port, the cumbersome refugee population was exchanged for a large amount of food and materials with the "Global Chinese Travelers Alliance", so even the snowy winter did not stop the elite soldiers of the Eight Banners.
At present, the Qing army on the western front has been chasing after Emperor Chongzhen's exiled court and has invaded the dilapidated Shanxi Province on a large scale.
With the few remaining troops in Emperor Chongzhen's hands, it is impossible to resist the defeated generals. live.
The Qing army on the southern front broke through Dezhou in December and attacked Jinan and Kaifeng like mercury pouring from the ground.
With the logistics supply fully guaranteed, the sharp offensive of the Eight Banners Soldiers of the Qing Dynasty seemed unstoppable.
Its vanguard even crossed the frozen Yellow River and penetrated deep into the border of Henan.
But on the other hand, the rapid expansion of the occupied area also led to the rapid shortage of Qing troops.
Therefore, Huang Taiji had to recruit surrender and rebels, and find ways to organize some traitor troops to maintain security in the rear; while desperately recruiting people from Liaodong, They even asked the Eight Banners soldiers to move their families into the pass and were allotted farms and mansions to stabilize the occupied area and ensure that they had a strong enough field army in their hands.
As a result, the military power in Liaodong is naturally becoming more and more empty.
However, no one in the entire Eight Banners is worried about such boring things.
Everyone is focused on the colorful world in the pass, wishing they would never have to return to that world in their lifetime.
A bitter cold place of ice and snow.
As for the "powerful pirates" who appeared in Vladivostok and burned Ninggu Pagoda, even Huang Taiji forgot to care about them.
Although in the eyes of the time-travelers, the white mountains and black waters that these people abandoned like worn-out clogs are the "foundation of an emperor" that is enough to carry an industrialized country.
"Since Huang Taiji is wisely draining the troops outside the customs, we might as well continue to wait patiently so that we can take over the entire Liaoning Province more peacefully in the future.
In this way, Vladivostok has freed up 30,000 mobile troops. troops."
Wang Qiu pointed to the Zhejiang area on the map, "Currently, the governor of Zhejiang in the Ming Dynasty is leading the only field force in the province, about 13,000 people, in the Wenzhou area with the 2,000 Fu soldiers entrenched in Fenshui Pass.
The Ning Army is facing a confrontation.
In response, the Funing Army Camp in Xiapu, Fujian Province has once again gathered 5,000 troops, commanded by Chief of Staff Jin Qiude, and is preparing to go north to Wenzhou to defeat this enemy in one fell swoop and complete the occupation of the entire southern Zhejiang region. .
Then, General Huangshi will soon come to Zhoushan to supervise the battle in person, preparing to use the random door to transfer 30,000 temporarily idle Far Eastern troops from Vladivostok, land in Ningbo in a large scale, launch a sweep of the entire eastern Zhejiang region, and finally meet Jin Qiude's southern route.
The army met in the Taizhou area. " "So if General Huangshi comes here in person, he doesn't mean to give these 30,000 people to my command."
Major General Sun Yang sighed with some disappointment, "So, what is my mission to stay in Zhoushan to guard the base?"
"No, that would be too wasteful."
Wang Qiu looked up at the huge fleet anchored in the bay and said meaningfully, "It's still pretty much the same as the original plan.
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Lingao will give you an additional 3,000 troops. , gather eight thousand marine troops, and then conduct sneak attacks and harassment on the rear of the Ming army, just like what the Japanese pirates did in the past.
As for the target of the attack, Hangzhou or Songjiang, you can choose one."
"Let's stick to Hangzhou.
At least we can see the Six Harmonies Pagoda and the West Lake.
Shanghai is not that interesting these days.
In other words, Songjiang is really not interesting."
After a moment of hesitation, Sun Yang made a decision, "However, before setting off, there are still some tails to be cleaned up in Zhoushan."
So, when a large group of heavily armed African black uncles with oil paint on their faces lined up in a chaotic formation, howling and screaming like Yakshas descending from the earth, they went up to Mount Putuo, frightening the bald donkeys in the temple to ring the bells randomly and chanting When Amitabha Bodhisattva protects you.
The Chinese-American Republic Expeditionary Fleet, which had just swept across the Zhoushan Islands, once again hoisted the military flag, raised sails and anchor, and blew the clarion call to set off for the mainland.
Then, accompanied by the sound of gongs, the densely populated Qiantang River suddenly fell into a commotion.
"Kun thief Kun thief's big ship is coming to kill."
Hangzhou, magistrate’s office
It is now the time for the New Year's seal to rest, and there is no official business to deal with.
The Yamen officers have already gone home to reunite with their relatives.
In the small study room of the back office, Liu Mengqian, the prefect of Hangzhou, was carefully wiping the shade of a glass oil lamp in his hand facing the winter sunshine.
This is a collection of treasures that the prefect's Yamen seized from the boudoir of "Australian famous prostitute" Pei Lixiu when they seized Ziming Tower in Hangzhou last autumn.
The clear whale oil in the lamp always exudes bursts of wonderful fragrance, and the eight colorful pictures of beauties carved on the milky white glass lampshade are even more ingenious, revealing a kind of beauty that is clear but not demonic, which is far better than what is available on the market. superior The ordinary "Australian oil lamps" on sale were more luxurious and exquisite, and Magistrate Liu, who prided himself on elegance, couldn't put it down at first sight.
Even the menial work of scrubbing the lampshade had to be done by himself, lest he be slightly damaged by the clumsy servants.
What's more, since the Fujian general Huang Shi colluded with the Kun thieves to rebel, and Nanjing issued a strict order requiring the Kun thieves and other foreign barbarians to "close the port and suspend the market", the source of all kinds of "Australian goods" on the market in Hangzhou has been cut off.
It disappeared quickly, which made the citizens quite unhappy.
Even the most common Australian lamps are priceless in Hangzhou today, let alone high-quality luxury goods like this.
In fact, Magistrate Liu Mengqian has always been disapproving of the inexplicable outbreak of the current war, and felt that he was taking the initiative to cause trouble.
It's just that the words of others can't affect the decision-making of the Donglin Party bosses.
They can only try to use this opportunity to gain more benefits for themselves by inspecting "thief industries" such as Ziming Building and Wanbi Bookstore, as well as Nanyang Street in Qinghefang.
When those shops sold "Australian goods", the entire Hangzhou government office made a huge fortune.
Next, another sum of money was taken from the heads of the gentry who believed in Western Christianity.
However, just when the government officials who had made a lot of money were satisfied with their ambitions and were ready to "kill all the remaining bandits" and go to inspect Fenghuang Villa, the "den of thieves" in the suburbs, they actually kicked up the iron plate.
People take They came to the house with iron rulers and sticks just to make a fortune, but they were beaten up by the village guards who ignored the official law.
They were beaten with volleys of guns and stabbed with long spears.
More than a dozen people died at once, and they had to escape all the way back in despair. .
After the embarrassing defeat from Phoenix Villa that time, Magistrate Liu originally thought of mobilizing more men to take revenge.
Unexpectedly, he took stock of his own strength and found that the Hangzhou Prefecture had no troops to mobilize at this time.
Governor Jiang had already led the entire province's troops south to Wenzhou, claiming to quell the rebellion in Fujian Province.
However, because the rebels had seized the Fenshui Pass first and it was a natural hazard, the officers and soldiers had no way to go south and could only follow endlessly in southern Zhejiang.
Funing army confronts.
And the Nanjing side was busy resisting the Wenxiang Cult monsters in Jiangbei and supporting the new emperor.
For a while, no one could care about the Hangzhou side.
Even the passionate scholars who had been chanting slogans all day long to defeat the bandits and restore the bright future of tomorrow, after learning the news of the fall of Beijing and the flight of the emperor, they focused all their attention on deposing Chongzhen and supporting the new regime.
In view of the great cause of the emperor, he no longer cares about the wars in Fujian and Lingnan. , not to mention this mess in Hangzhou.
Therefore, regarding the fact that there are still "remnants of thieves" entrenched in the suburbs of Hangzhou, Magistrate Liu finally had no choice but to take a careless look and deal with it vaguely.
If you can't go up, the thief in the villa can't get out either.
In this case, let's just make do with it and fool around with it.
Maybe if we drag it on, the matter will slowly calm down.
Today's world is already raging with war, and the officials and gentry are all in danger.
After all, Hangzhou is still a peaceful land, so why bother?
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Add more chaos After Emperor Yonghe of Nanjing, who was totally unethical in any way, ascended the throne, he faced the dual military threats of Jiangbei rebels and Chongzhen's deposed emperor, as well as the unanimous opposition or indifference of the entire world's royal family and most of the provinces.
The "insightful people" in the Donglin Party did not dare to cause trouble anymore.
Not only did they not In order to urge Magistrate Liu to continue to "eliminate the remnant bandits", in the past two days, Donglin boss secretly instructed him to use this communication channel at Phoenix Villa to send a letter there in an attempt to test Huang Shi's "recruitment" The Possibility of Huang Shi and Kun Thieves Although Huang Shi was forced to rebel, his attitude seemed not to be very firm.
Since the war started more than half a year ago, they have only sent people to seize Fenshui Pass and blocked the Zhejiang-Fujian channel, but there is no sign of going further north to Zhejiang.
This gives Nanjing the illusion that "the problem may be solved peacefully" As for the situation in Lingnan, since both Huguang and Jiangxi refused to recognize Nanjing, provinces further away from Nanjing had already cut off contact with the Nanjing court.
Even if the bandits destroy Guangdong, what does it have to do with the Donglin gentlemen in Nanjing?
Alas, no matter what, in the eyes of Magistrate Liu, this chaos in Fujian is likely to end without any problem.
However, just as Magistrate Liu was carrying out wrong fantasies and playing with the beauty pictures on this "glass cup" in fascination, his old housekeeper pushed the door hard and burst in, panting.
Shouted: "Master, it's not good" In an instant, the "glazed lamp" with a picture of a beautiful woman fell from his hand and was smashed to pieces.
Mr.
Liu's mood fell to the bottom.
Immediately, he became furious and raised his right hand to hit the butler in the face.
However, look at this The panicked face of the old man, and remembering that he had been working diligently with him for more than twenty years, Mr.
Liu finally managed to suppress his anger and asked in a deep voice: "What's the matter with such a sudden surprise?"
Tell me politely, what's the matter?"
However, the sudden change of "breaking the master's beloved glass lamp" made the housekeeper who was already panicked suddenly become even more panicked.
This poor guy was so nervous that he was speechless and thought for a while.
Blank, nothing to say.
As a result, the anger in Magistrate Liu's heart began to increase, and it became increasingly difficult to control his emotions.
Fortunately, before Master Liu's patience finally ran out, the old steward finally took a deep breath and said what he had been holding in for a long time.
Out of his mouth: "Kun thieves, Kun thieves have come in.
There are dozens of big boats on the Qiantang River, and they will soon reach the gate of Hangzhou City."
"Say what you said again" For a moment, the expression on Mr.
Liu's face froze, but he even suspected that there was something wrong with his ears.
Naturally, the old housekeeper obediently complied with his request: "Master Kun's warship has arrived on the Qiantang River outside the city."
After confirming the bad news, Magistrate Liu seemed to hear a sound like the glass oil lamp breaking just now in his subconscious, and his face was also pale.
Didn't they already start talking?
Why are these damn thieves?
I need to knock on my door "Quick, close the city gate immediately and get my film quickly and summon all the gentry in the city to discuss the important matter of defending the city." oshow7: