Chapter 176: China is rich in emperors this year South Zhili, Changzhou Prefecture, Jiangyin County The surging Yangtze River flows past the county town, and the ancient city walls are covered with mottled damage and bloodstains.
Among the wild grass at the foot of the city wall, burned siege equipment was scattered, and occasionally a few unresolved bones could be seen.
Several villages and inns that were originally scattered within a few miles outside Jiangyin County have been burned into blackened ruins.
In the spring of the seventh year of Chongzhen's reign, Jiangyin County was the only Ming Dynasty city that had not been occupied by the Qing army in the entire territory of Changzhou Prefecture.
The wounds caused by the last Qing army's invasion of the city have not yet healed, and the beacon smoke of a new wave of attacks has quietly ignited at this time.
The Qing general Turge who attacked Jiangyin three months ago only used three Niulu's more than 200 real Tatars, plus thousands of temporarily collected traitor surrender troops, and he had already destroyed Jiangyin County. .
But this time, the Manchu Prince Abatai, who was about to invade Jiangyin, had twenty real Tatars under his command, as well as tens of thousands of Han troops who had shaved their heads and surrendered to the Tatars.
You can imagine the pressure on Jiangyin County.
Know.
Fortunately, at this critical moment, the soldiers and civilians stationed in Jiangyin County received a batch of crucial assistance.
"Woo" Accompanied by a long whistle and billowing soot, a steam-powered ship with a very different style from this era appeared on the water of the Yangtze River.
If any modern ship sailing enthusiasts see this ship, they will probably think that it is a mixture of ancient and modern styles: a slender clipper ship shape, a semi-sealed deck, an open turret arranged along the center line, two high mast, and two sets of steam engines burning pulverized coal.
In fact, the "Blast" fast cruiser, which was just launched at the Lingao Shipyard on Hainan Island, can almost be regarded as the most advanced warship that can be independently built on the planet.
After the establishment of the Chinese Alliance, various member republics considered In view of the needs of global strategy, it is believed that a "colonial patrol intervention ship that can reach the target area as quickly as possible and play a role" should be created.
Because a large part of the world is still in a savage state today, considering that it is much easier to mine coal than to mine oil, and you can burn wood as a last resort, coal-fired steam engines are chosen as power instead of more advanced diesel engines.
After the design was finally completed, except for the wooden hull, it looked like a World War I-era destroyer.
What's more worth mentioning is that this battleship has an astonishing speed that is almost unrivaled in the world: during a sea trial, the "Hast Wind" fast cruiser used both the machine and sails in sea conditions with Category 6 winds, and once reached a speed of Twenty-five knots of highway.
Even during normal sailing, this vessel can easily exceed fifteen knots.
In addition, the ends of the chimneys that are led to the sides of the ship are equipped with advanced spray and smoke elimination devices, which can spray water curtains at the smoke outlets to wash away the smoke and dust, reducing the recognition distance of the warship from the previous dozen nautical miles to Three nautical miles, greatly increasing the concealment of this cruiser's actions.
Anyone who has watched the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1894 knows that in naval battles in the era of steam ironclads, plumes of smoke could already be seen before the warships appeared.
This time, the delivery of ordnance and ammunition to Jiangyin County, where the Ming army was stationed, was the first mission of the fast cruiser "Blast" after it completed sea trials and officially entered service.
Since it is necessary to go deep into the inland waterways and negotiate with unreliable "allies" who have unpredictable attitudes and like to put on airs, in order to prevent the navy from causing trouble in Jiangyin, the owner of Zhao Yingong rarely left the Phoenix Villa in Hangzhou to personally Oversee this aid operation.
Wang Qiu, who had nothing to do, also came over, wanting to see what the Jiangyin Anti-Qing Rebel Army, which was famous in history, was like.
Under the guidance of a navigation boat, the fast cruiser "Blast" slowly docked at the dock outside Jiangyin City.
The marines carried on the ship immediately disembarked in formation and controlled the dock in accordance with tactical regulations.
Preparing for attacks was obvious.
They had no trust in the local Ming army.
On the other side, Admiral Shen Tingyang of the Yonghe Imperial Navy, who is currently stationed in Jiangyin, was standing on the shore with a group of colleagues to greet him.
At the same time, he carefully looked at this strange force.
According to Shen Tingyang's careful observation, he discovered these short-haired thieves.
Although they had gone through a long voyage, their military appearance was quite neat, just looking at their neat military formations on the pier.
As well as the proficiency in changing formations amidst the officers' commands and brass whistles, you know that this army is well-trained, at least much better than the beggar "official troops" in Jiangyin City who can't even get their uniforms together. .
However, although the "Australians" came to help in times of need, there are still people in Jiangyin who do not welcome this "friendly army" very much.
"Hmph, it's useless for this bandit to call himself a descendant of the Miao Dynasty of the Song Dynasty.
Looking at it now, he is wearing something like Hu clothes, and his beard and hair are also damaged at will.
I guess the Chinese orthodoxy in his country has been extinct and he is no different from the barbarians."
Behind Shen Tingyang, just now bring Chen Zhenhui, a celebrity from Nanzhili whose family fled all the way from Yixing to Jiangyin, shook his head with disdain and sighed with compassion.
Looking at his expression, it seemed as if he had witnessed some terrible human tragedy.
"Huh, more than that."
Xia Yunyi, the minister of the Ministry of War, who was standing aside, said angrily when he heard this: "I have also read the Kunshi Directory.
This generation has lived abroad for many years.
Their clothes, speech, and laws are not like those of the Chinese. , there is no doubt that the orthodoxy has been cut off.
Brother Xian has also read the document of Kun Thief, and the words are straightforward. , illiterate in literature and science, and simply insulting the gentlemen.
What's worse is that the thieves are said to have privately divided the land, bribed traitors, persecuted the gentry, and acted like beasts.
What can I say about such a wolf-hearted person until the Tatars are expelled in the future?
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We must raise a large force of heavenly troops to go south and kill all these thieves."
Xia Yunyi was born in Songjiang Prefecture, which had never fallen, and his family's property had not suffered any losses in this earth-shaking chaos.
However, Xia Yunyi, who was born in the gentry class and had a fiery temperament, still couldn't stand the land reform policy implemented sporadically in a small area in Zhejiang by the "Australian thieves".
Due to the lack of staff, it was not so much land reform as it was for some people.
The punishment of die-hard landlords has a feeling of harming others.
Even though he knew that the Manchu Tatars who were about to attack were the most important enemy at the moment, he still couldn't help but sharply criticized the reinforcements of the Kun thieves in front of him.
Xia Yunyi's harsh criticism aroused the echo of more scholars behind him.
These so-called reading seeds began to comment on everything they saw on the dock.
If you listen carefully, it is nothing more than Negative words such as "strange and obscene", "indecent", "no different from animals", "jackals, tigers and leopards" seemed to make everyone want to raise their swords and point them at the thieves on the opposite dock.
The warships slashed past.
Shen Tingyang, who was standing at the front to greet him, saw that it was not a big deal, so he turned around and scolded him a few times before calming down the chaotic discussion.
And the several Shachuan Gang bosses around Shen Tingyang secretly laughed sarcastically.
They were all rough men with pirate backgrounds.
Although they were highly appreciated and reused by Admiral Shen Tingyang, they were always irritated by these sour men.
He was playing tricks on the ground, and he had already been holding back his anger for a long time.
Now when he saw these sour men still shouting and killing the Kun thieves, he sneered secretly in his heart: These "Australian Kun thieves" are extremely powerful. , both water and land battles are invincible.
The Jurchen Tatars who are currently showing off their ferocity in the south of the Yangtze River were forced to flee to the south of the Yangtze River because they were driven away from their old nest in Liaodong by the Kun thieves.
These tiger and wolf masters are the ones you, the powerless pickers, can say anything about.
Do you really think that thieves don’t dare to kill people?
This is so ridiculous.
Even the "Ming Dynasty Court" in Songjiang Prefecture has been able to support itself until now, thanks to the support of Australian Kun thieves.
Without the hundreds of thousands of stones, grains and rice that the Kun thieves smuggled across the sea, and the tens of thousands of hungry people who were transported away, we would be completely impoverished.
The Shanghai court barely had some capital to move around, and the current Songjiang Mansion may have been burned to ruins by the mob.
Where can we send naval troops to support Jiangyin?
Don't think that these rice grains have been paid for, so don't take it seriously, and take it for granted.
If there are no Australian thieves from the sea to sell grains, no matter how much you have hidden at home.
Money, what can you buy in these war-torn times?
After all, everyone points to the Australian thieves to survive.
But even with the reinforcements and food supplies from Songjiang Prefecture, without the sharp ordnance supported by the Kun thieves, the current battle of Jiangyin would have limited chances of winning.
At that time, the navy can of course set sail and retreat, but you sours will have no choice but to stay and wait to die or become slaves.
While everyone in Jiangyin County was having different thoughts, the warships docked had already begun to unload the arms to aid the Ming army.
"Everyone pull hard" "Be careful" On the deck of the fast cruiser "Blast", the sailors struggled to use pulleys to pull up the wooden cargo containers one by one, and then relied on the coolies organized by the Jiangyin County Government to transport them to the open space on the shore at the end of the trestle and stack them.
The Ming Dynasty officers and soldiers who had been waiting for a long time hurried forward and pried open the wooden cabinet with all their hands, revealing the ammunition, knives and guns buried in the straw.
"Mr.
Zhao, we meet again."
Shen Tingyang, wearing a red official robe and carrying a scimitar at his waist, walked majestically towards Zhang Mingzhen and others.
He and Zhao Yingong had only met once in Hangzhou not long ago, so they were not familiar with each other, but this did not prevent him from making cordial gestures.
"Haha, Shen Junmen is also fine."
Although he has no friendship with Shen Tingyang, the leader of the Shachuan Gang, Zhao Yingong has been living in the intrigues of Jiangnan Shilin for so long and has learned all kinds of superficial skills well.
Without making the slightest pause, he stepped forward and grabbed Shen Tingyang's hand.
He held his hand and said with a smile: "Fortunately, I have lived up to my command.
Now I have sent you twenty pairs of armor, nine hundred sabers, six thousand iron gun heads, six hundred quick-fire rifles, and ten barrels of gunpowder.
In addition, there are also food Twenty boxes of bricks, five six-pound cannons, and three hundred rounds of shells.
The sailors have already unpacked the cannons."
The five six-pound cannons provided by Hangzhou to the Jiangyin Ming Army, together with the supporting gun mounts and shells, were packed in five fully sealed wooden cabinets.
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It has now been unpacked and assembled by sailors.
These artillery pieces, each weighing 700 kilograms, look gorgeously decorated, like the arrival of the God of Artillery.
In fact, this is just an ordinary smoothbore howitzer of the seventeenth century, but its appearance is more intimidating.
But Shen Tingyang stroked the dark and smooth barrel, his eyes shining brightly, "Good artillery is indeed a weapon for the military and the country.
Well, a batch of flash cap guns have been obtained in Hangzhou before.
After Jiangyin has these weapons, he wants to It will definitely cause the Tartars to suffer another heavy defeat."
"The Jurchen Tartars are just clowns.
They were lucky enough to be crazy and steal the imperial capital of Jinling.
But there are no good men in our land of China.
As long as all the heroes work together, we will be able to expel the Tartars and restore Jiangnan."
Zhao Yingong cupped his hands and responded with a smile, Randomly said some kind words.
Regarding this, Shen Tingyang, who was well aware that the current situation was dangerous, just smiled slightly, but Xia Yunyi, a stupid young man, took it seriously.
Regardless of the current situation, he immediately jumped out and spoke: "Mr.
Zhao, thank you for your generous help. , but although the two countries have now negotiated a peace and alliance, there are some things that must be made clear first.
Your country claims to be a descendant of the Miao people of the former Song Dynasty.
China's Taoist tradition, this puts our Ming Dynasty in the right place.
Since the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, we have conquered the world through hundreds of battles, not to mention that our Ming Dynasty has countless scholars.
The style of learning is not comparable to that of a small barbarian country like yours.
It will be clear where Hua Xia Zhengshuo will be in the future when the king drives out the Tartars and restores Shenjing."
"Yi Zhong be careful."
Because he was afraid that this overly straightforward guy would say something that would put both parties off the stage, Shen Tingyang had to pull Xia Yunyi back in desperation and spoke loudly at the same time.
He interrupted and said: "Today, the Tartars are tyrannical and the south of the Yangtze River is full of fishy smell.
This is a critical time for survival.
To continue such disputes of will will not benefit the country, the people, the court, or the emperor.
It will only make the Tartars laugh.
"Be careful" Xia Yunyi originally wanted to say something more, but after hearing Shen Tingyang's words, he forced himself to endure it.
He snorted and said nothing more.
He just stared at Zhao Yingong and other "thieves" with hatred in his eyes.
A group of scholars all acted like "killing people with their eyes", as if they couldn't show their scholarly character if they didn't take the opportunity to express their contempt and disdain for the Australian thieves.
In response, Zhao Yingong smiled coldly.
Although he was not a poor person who was oppressed and exploited by the gentry, he was still very disdainful of the wastes in front of him who were about to be eliminated by the times.
They were already so depressed that they relied on their own breath to survive.
It’s still gibbering.
It’s really a death wish.
Therefore, taking advantage of the hostility of these Jin gentry men, Zhao Yingong neatly rejected Shen Tingyang's request for "Australian warships" to assist in the defense of Jiangyin after completing the handover and transfer of this batch of ordnance and ammunition.
The reason was that he was worried about being attacked by Xia Yunyi and his gang.
Guy stabbed me in the back Then, before the flag of the Qing army appeared on the horizon, the fast cruiser "Blast", which had completed its scheduled mission, sounded its whistle, puffed out thick smoke, and, amid the complicated eyes of the people in Jiangyin, weighed anchor and sailed away from the upcoming city.
The city turned into a battlefield.
Commissioner Wang Qiu lay on the railing at the stern of the ship, watching Jiangyin County in the distance become smaller and smaller, and finally disappeared at the end of the line of sight.
"What do you think of the Ming Dynasty Rebel Army in Jiangyin City, Comrade Wang Qiu?"
Zhao Yingong strolled over slowly with a cigar in his hand.
"I'm very disappointed that the soldiers are as destitute as beggars, and the officials of the Jin gentry are as arrogant as the classic mediocre nobles in anime and games.
It's hard to imagine that these wretched people can actually become national heroes."
Wang Qiu shook his head, "By the way, why haven't I seen it?
That Yan Ying Yuan Dian Shi whose name is immortalized in history" "Please Yan Yingyuan, it's only been seven years since Chongzhen, okay?"
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Zhao Yingong puffed out a smoke ring and said with a smile, "The man who led 60,000 volunteers, faced 240,000 Qing cavalry and more than 200 heavy artillery, still stood firm in Jiangyin In eighty-one days, the Qing army defeated three kings and eighteen generals, and killed 75,000 people.
Yan Ying Yuan Dianshi was indeed a man of iron bones and righteousness.
But he was not from the south, but from Tongzhou, Beijing.
According to the original history, he would not come to Jiangyin to be the Dianshi until the eleventh year of Chongzhen.
I don’t know where he was at the moment.
Wandering around in nooks and crannies, he might even be dead."
"Why is Yan Yingyuan not in Jiangyin?"
Wang Qiu was suddenly surprised, "Then can they still hold on this time?"
"Who knows?"
Zhao Yingong shrugged.
"Shen Tingyang, who was sent by the imperial court in Shanghai to garrison Jiangyin, is also a famous anti-Qing hero in history.
I think he is quite capable.
However, even if they were unlucky, in the end the soldiers It doesn’t seem to matter if we are defeated.
It’s just that we may have a little more trouble in Hangzhou, and I’m afraid we need to deal with some blind Qing soldiers by ourselves.”
What I have to admit is that although the Yan Ying Yuandian Shi whose name is immortalized in history is missing, the blood of the people of Jiangyin is still extraordinary.
The day after the cruiser "Blast" evacuated, Prince Abatai of the Qing Dynasty led more than 30,000 troops to encircle Jiangyin County.
They built ladders and crashed into cars and attacked for five consecutive days.
Instead of being able to break into the city, the defenders used the weapons they had just obtained.
The percussion cap guns and "Australian artillery" caused heavy casualties and more than 3,000 soldiers were lost.
During the fierce fighting, even women and children in Jiangyin County climbed onto the city wall and threw stones at people.
During the water battle on the Yangtze River, Shen Tingyang's Shachuan Gang also easily swept away the Qing army's Yangtze River Navy and firmly controlled the river, making it impossible for the Qing army to cut off Jiangyin's external communication channels.
At this time, there was no big empire behind Abatai that could provide a steady stream of manpower and supplies.
Whether it was Emperor Haoge or the other two vassal kings Jierhalang and Azig, they all regarded each other as unlucky. relationship, all losses must be borne by his own tribe.
Therefore, after repeatedly attacking the fortified city, Abatai decisively gave up on Jiangyin, a tough nut to crack, and withdrew his troops.
So far, the second Jiangyin defense battle that broke out in this time and space still ended with the victory of the Ming army.
But the problem is that the victory of the Jiangyin Defense Battle does not mean the victory of the entire Jiangnan battlefield.
After being frustrated in his attack on Jiangyin, Abatai naturally avoided the situation and retreated for a while.
Then he sent his troops to bypass Jiangyin County and easily broke into Suzhou Prefecture again.
He then swept across Taicang Prefecture and then invaded Songjiang Prefecture. within the territory.
The Yonghe court in Shanghai suddenly fell into chaos.
Chen Zilong, the Minister of War, led 5,000 rebels to form a formation in Anting Town.
They were defeated by three powerful Qing cavalrymen and had to flee into Shanghai County to hold on.
Fortunately, although Sun Yuanhua who was guarding Shanghai was not a famous general, he was the most outstanding military engineer of the Ming Dynasty in this era.
He had studied the advanced fortress tactics of the Westerners, repaired many fortifications in the suburbs of Shanghai in advance, and installed the latest purchased weapons.
"Australian Firearms".
Several groups of Qing troops successively launched exploratory sieges against Shanghai County.
Due to the lack of heavy artillery and other equipment and the fierce firepower of the defenders, they all suffered heavy losses.
At this time, various Qing army units in the Eastern Expedition had already captured a lot of prisoners.
On the one hand, Abatai was unwilling to send too many soldiers and horses for the siege of Antfu, and on the other hand, he was worried that Haoge or Azig would attack him from behind.
As I have said, the current Qing Dynasty is already divided among warlords, and the relationship between the emperor and the vassal kings is to look at each other's misfortunes and add insult to injury.
So he decided to give it up as soon as he could, and returned with 30,000 troops, fully plundered, and returned to the old camp in Changzhou Prefecture.
At this point, the Yonghe court in Shanghai finally survived this wave of military crises and temporarily survived.
The price was that the entire Suzhou Prefecture was looted and massacred for the second time this year, with victims everywhere.
And half of Songjiang Mansion was devastated and dying.
But no matter what, the situation of confrontation between the Ming and Qing dynasties in Jiangnan continued to exist.
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In this way, in the land of China in this time and space, Zhu Cihong of Huizhou, Yonghe Emperor Zhu Yihai of Shanghai, Qing Emperor Hauge and Hongguang Emperor Zhu Yousong of Nanjing, and Jin Emperor Dorgon of Xuzhou appeared at the same time.
The situation in which the five emperors confront each other is dizzying.
However, it seemed that God couldn't stand the fact that all the noble emperors were crowded into the small territory of Nanzhili.
Then, in the other provinces of the Great Ming Dynasty, there also emerged one after another those who were said to be lonely, Taoist and incompetent.
The characters are in the water town of the south of the Yangtze River, where the rich and the weak are turned into a mill of flesh and blood by the Tartar cavalry.
The war in the northern country, which had been extinguished for the time being, has once again quietly ignited a new flame of war.
After the Qing Empire collapsed and the Chinese Alliance army of the time travelers stopped outside Shanhaiguan, the vast land south of the Great Wall and north of the Yellow River became the territory of the Guan Ning Army.
However, as external military pressure diminished, factional conflicts within Guan Ning's army quickly heated up.
In order to compete for the sole leader position, Jin Wang Zu Dashou and Zhou Wang Wu Xiang refused to give in to each other, which eventually led to a series of splits and internal strife.
After a brief but fierce battle, King Wu Xiang of Zhou hurriedly evacuated the capital with his troops and fled back to his base camp in Luoyang.
Prince Dashou of Jin took advantage of the situation to pursue and controlled Datong, Xuanfu, Shanxi and Beizhili. most areas.
Wu Xiang only controlled part of the western Henan region centered on Luoyang, as well as Pingyang Prefecture in the southwest corner of Shanxi Province.
At this point, the Guan Ning Army was officially split into the Zhou and Jin princes.
However, just when the King of Jin was riding his horse on his birthday, chasing death in the north, in an attempt to carve out a bigger piece of territory for his family, he did not notice that a suspicious-looking man with a fox tail sneaked in.
He left his territory and came to Shifokou in Luanzhou, northern Hebei Province.
He is the leader of the Wenxiang Sect, Wang Ke, who just caused a great chaos in Shandong and Lianghuai not long ago. s: There is one thing I would like to ask readers for their opinions.
I originally planned to write Sword Art Online in the next volume, but recently someone suggested that Sword Art Online is too outdated and it would be better to write Overord King of the Undead.
I imagined the situation when the arrogant king of pretentiousness, Mr.
Momonga, went around looking for other players, only to find that his grave had become a novice village.
It seemed quite fun.
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