Thank you Brother Feng for a 100 yuan reward Jinmen in the Yuan Dynasty is a military town and grain transit center, after the opening of the Ming Dynasty, set up a guard in this place, called Tianjin Sanwei, the heyday of the three guards 16,800 people.
Since then, with the increase of population, commercial development, many affairs, and disputes over word litigation, the Ming Dynasty has successively set up officials, offices, and schools in Tianjin, or moved foreign officials and yamen to Tianjin.
In addition, Tianjin is also the location of the command yamen of the Jinyi Guard.
During the Chongzhen period, Luo Yangxing, who had been the commander of the Jinyi Weidu, was appointed as the governor of Tianjin by the Qing court, and was later dismissed for welcoming the envoy of the Hongguang Emperor of the Southern Ming Dynasty without authorization, Zuo Maodi, but he still added the prince and the governor of Zuo.
Later, he was awarded the Zhejiang Palm Seal Division, and died soon after.
With the Manchu Qing Dynasty successively occupying China and pacifying the northern seas, Tianjin's status as a military town gradually declined, and in recent years, Tianjin Shizhen was only a general, and the troops were adapted from the Ming army that followed Liu Zeqing's surrender to the Qing Dynasty.
The Tianjin Water Battalion was hastily formed only a few months before Shunzhi's death, and was originally prepared to merge with the Laizhou Water Battalion to form the Daqingshui Division, and to purchase ships from the Dutch to train sailors to deal with the threat of the Taiping Army's Naval Division.
There was no strong naval division, so that the Jiangbei camp could not cross the river when the Taiping army was not firmly established in Jiangnan that day, giving the Taiping army time to run Jiangnan, which eventually led to the disastrous defeat of Shunzhi's personal expedition.
After returning to Beijing, Shunzhi learned from the pain, reformed the system on a large scale, enriched the strength of the Eight Banners of Manchuria, and also attached importance to the formation of the naval division, and even signed a loan with the Dutch to borrow troops to achieve the strategy of "using Han to control Han" and "ruling Han with Yi".
It can be said that building a sailor force that is not weaker than the thief Xiucai is one of Shunzhi's several wishes before his death, but this plan was stopped after Shunzhi's death.
On the one hand, although the Hongyi of Dongfan signed a contract with the Qing Dynasty, they did not fulfill the agreement, helped the Qing army in Fujian to withdraw by sea, and promised to sell the four warships to the Qing Dynasty were not delivered.
After Fan Chengmo, the son of Fan Wencheng, who was in charge of negotiating with Hongyi, returned to Beijing from Dongfan, he vaguely told the auxiliary ministers that if they wanted the Dongfan people to fulfill the treaty, they must first be able to solve the imminent danger of the Qing Dynasty, otherwise, they should not expect the Dongfan people to help the Qing Dynasty do anything.
After Fan Chengmo's words reached the ears of the Empress Dowager, her old man just sighed and said to Aunt Su Mala: "The boss of the Fan family is right, our Daqing is not our waists, how can we expect outsiders to help us."
In this world, it is not uncommon to have icing on the cake, and it is rare to send charcoal in the snow. ” In addition to Dongfan Hongyi continuing to wait and see, on the other hand, after Shunzhi's death, the Qing court was busy treating the funeral and also had to deal with Wu Sangui's 200,000 army, money and food were really tight, and there was no way to form a sailor according to Shunzhi's wishes.
Therefore, after several auxiliary ministers discussed, they unanimously agreed to suspend the formation of the Daqingshui Division, which led to the fact that the Tianjin Water Battalion was half-dead from the date of its formation to the present.
On the Laizhou water camp, it is still three days of fishing, two days of drying nets, and living a passable life.
Although the Taiping army in the south can fight, but after all, it is far away, and there is Xuzhou in front of it, and Laizhou Shuiying never thought that one day, they would become the target of the Taiping army.
Until they find out that something won't happen if it weren't for their wishful thinking.
After the news of Shandong's Taiping Army's naval division attacking Kou'an and occupying Laizhou Shuiying reached Beijing, it caused a huge sensation among the elites of the Eight Banners.
It can be said that this news shocked the Qing court even more than when I heard that Zheng's naval army had hit the city of Nanjing.
After all, Shandong is close at hand, but Nanjing is thousands of miles away.
Laizhou is too close to Gyeonggi, and the sailors of the Taiping Army can attack Laizhou, they can attack Tianjin, and even land from Tianjin to Beijing Beijing is now an empty city Two-thirds of the elite of the Eight Banners of Manchu in the Qing Dynasty were brought to Henan by Aobai, and the remaining one-third had to be led by Dunbai to Shanxi to defend against the enemy because Wu Sangui divided his troops into Shanxi.
Therefore, in the current Beijing City, in addition to the guards in the palace, that is, those of the palace, there are also the city patrol guards of Shuntian Mansion.
If the Taiping army fought from the sea to Tianjin again and killed Beijing, how could it be obtained?
Counting on the palace guards to kill the enemy, or the robed servants of the palace guarding the city, or the patrolmen who only know how to collect money to work for the Qing Dynasty The news couldn't have been worse.
Many Manchu officials thought of the lesson of Jidu's fiasco in Guangdong, and it was precisely because of the thief Xiu that the soldiers and horses were transported to the rear of Jidu through the sailors and blocked the official road, which made Jidu and his more than 30,000 Manmeng Han Erlang trapped in Chaohui's palm-sized place, and finally the whole army was annihilated.
There are two of them, and who dares to guarantee that the thief Xiucai will not take advantage of Beijing's emptiness to conduct another sea landing operation Some Manchurian princes and ministers scolded the thief Xiucai for not being trustworthy, not keeping his promises, and tearing up the armistice agreement.
However, they can only scold, what else can they do is to order the army to cross the river and level him thief Xiucai, or can fly a sword for thousands of miles and take his head Out of the customs, all old and young are out of the customs, this Beijing city can no longer stay Dozens of princes and ministers of the Eight Banners entered the palace and begged the Empress Dowager to abandon Beijing and leave the customs, because this pass was really unwanted, and if it went down, Manchurian old and young would have to be buried together.
"What's the panic, the sky hasn't stepped down yet, and he hasn't run under the nose of the mourning family."
The Empress Dowager was so calm that she scolded the princes and ministers, and then told them the good news that her maiden family Horqin was about to enter the customs again.
This is indeed good news, coupled with the fact that Ao Bai defeated Wu Sangui in Henan one after another, and there was Admiral Kuenbu in Kaifeng who severely damaged the loyal battalion, and Belle Tuntai was leading troops to encircle and suppress the rebellious people in Shandong, as long as these links did not collapse, the danger faced by the Qing Dynasty was not as serious as imagined, and it would not be so hasty to flee back to the Guanwai.
However, Horqin and other troops will not be able to fly to Beijing for a while and a half, so the Qing Dynasty still has to find a way to minimize the danger in Gyeonggi.
Prince Kang Jieshu proposed that the main force of the Taiping army did not go north, and it was only their sailors who attacked Laizhou, so the imperial court must select an excellent sailor general to go to Tianjin to sit in Tianjin.
As long as Tianjin is not lost, there will be no danger to Beijing.
There are no excellent sailor generals in the Manmeng Eight Banners, but Han officials do.
Shi Lang, who sat on the cold bench in Beijing for nearly ten years, was so poor that he could only rely on his wife and daughter to sew clothes for others to live, and was once again valued by the Qing Dynasty and ordered him to be the governor of Tianjin and go to Tianjin to defend against the enemy.
This is a full year since Shi Lang was last valued by the Qing Dynasty.
A year ago, Shi Lang received an order from the imperial court to go to the Jiangbei camp to serve as the chief military officer of the naval division, but before others could go to Yangzhou, the Jiangbei camp was defeated.
In desperation, he had no choice but to go back to Beijing and continue to be his idle official, and he was looked down upon by others.
It was really God's heart, and Shi Lang finally waited for his chance again.
After receiving the order from the imperial court, he immediately asked his wife to pack his clothes for him, and then went to Tianjin with several officials sent by the military department.
After arriving in Tianjin, Shi Lang didn't even go to the Admiral's Yamen, and went directly to Shuiying.
He knew very well that the key to defending Tianjin was the water camp, and if the water camp could not repel the sailors of the Taiping army, then no matter how many troops and horses on land were useless, because you did not know where the enemy at sea would land.
The Qing army in Tianjin was not enough to deploy defenses everywhere, so the best way was to take the initiative to lead the water battalion to find an opportunity to destroy the enemy and keep the enemy out of the "national gate".
However, when Shi Lang saw the so-called warships parked on the dock and the sailors who were hurriedly called by Shangguan, his heart was completely cold.
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Shi Lang couldn't believe that what he saw was the Tianjin Water Camp, which was an important component of the imperial court's plan to merge with the Laizhou Water Camp into the Great Qingshui Division.
There are 136 ships, but only 35 of them can be called warships, and only 35 can go to sea to fight.
Although Shi Lang has been idle in Beijing, he has paid close attention to the situation in the south, especially the Zheng Shui Shi, who has been absorbed by the thief Xiucai, has always been a big trouble for him.
He knew very well that according to the current combat strength and ship scale of the Tianjin Water Battalion, there was no need for Zheng Mingjun's uncle and nephew to dispatch the main force, but only to send a partial division over, and the Tianjin Water Battalion would only be wiped out.
This point, the experience of Laizhou Shuiying has been clearly written.
If you are someone else, you know that you can't do it, but you are afraid that you will give up and get by.
But Shi Lang can't, he must rectify the water division and prepare for battle.
It's not that he Shi Langzhen is loyal to the Qing Dynasty, he is a person who understands and can see that the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which has lost the wealth of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and is facing the blows of the Taiping Army and the Guanning Army, will not be able to hold on at all.
Smart people, what should be done now is to choose which side to surrender, and not to be buried for the Manchus.
It's just that Shi Lang didn't have a choice, the thief Xiucai incorporated the Zheng Navy, the generals of the Zheng Navy, and now the generals of the Zheng Navy, Zheng Chenggong's younger brother has also become the prince of the Dingwu Imperial Court, Zheng Mingjun and they are even more feudal marquis, and he is the enemy that everyone in the Zheng family wants to catch and bite to death.
Therefore, it is impossible to join the Taiping Army, because it is self-defeating.
Huang Wu sent someone to find Shi Lang, wanting to pull him to surrender to the Dingwu court, Shi Lang rejected Huang Wu at that time, he would not tell the Qing court, but he was sure that Huang Wu had thrown himself over, and it would never end well.
The trapped beast is still fighting, the rabbit is in a hurry and bites, Shi Lang will not be restrained, he will struggle, struggle to find a way to live.
Defending Tianjin is Shi Lang's only way to live.
The Manchu Qing Dynasty does not fall, he can live.
If the Manchu Qing falls, he can also live, because he can surrender to Wu Sangui.
In any case, the Taiping army could not be allowed to occupy Tianjin, so Shi Lang worked hard and began to devote himself to the rectification and training of the Tianjin water camp and garrison.
I have to say that Shi Lang is indeed an outstanding sailor general, and under his leadership, in just three months, Tianjin Shuiying has a new look.
Shi Lang personally participated in the reconstruction of warships, increased the number of warships in Tianjin Shuiying to one, eliminated the old and weak, selected young and strong, and created a 3,000-strong sailor team.
In view of the serious lack of artillery in the water camp, Shi Lang played to the Qing court, dismantled all the artillery left outside the pass and transported it to Tianjin by ship, and even the cannons left by the Ming army in Ningjin and Shanhaiguan were dismantled.
Even if it is rusty, it can solve Shi Lang's urgent need.
The Qing court could only give Shi Lang so much, and he had to figure out the rest by himself, in addition to weapons and equipment, what Tianjin lacked the most must be money and food.
Shi Lang, who had been cautious in Beijing for ten years, was very bold this time, and without reporting to the Qing court, he wantonly apportioned and even confiscated the gentry merchants in Tianjin.
When everyone in Tianjin scolded Shi Lang for being skinning, Tianjin's defense was finally like this.
Naturally, the Qing court received numerous letters of complaint from the Tianjin gentry, and there were also officials with relatives and friends in Tianjin, who jointly played a petition to ask the court to remove Shi Lang, but as a result, it was only Sony who reprimanded Shi Lang in the name of the Empress Dowager.
The thunder is loud, the rain is small, it's all at this juncture, how could the Qing court remove Shi Lang for the sake of some businessmen and gentry.
With the endorsement of the imperial court, Shi Lang was even more courageous.
At the same time as sending countless meticulous works to Laizhou, Shi Lang vigorously searched for the Taiping army spies in Tianjin, but he did not catch many spies, but found a lot of paper copies of the Song and some books and pamphlets about the massacre in the customs since the Qing army entered the customs.
Shi Lang didn't care about these, what he cared about was a book written by someone who didn't know who actually said that the Manchus were not China, so the people of China should expel the Manchus and restore Chinese orthodoxy.
"If the Qing Dynasty were not China, what kind of traitor would I Shi Lang" Shi Lang was very dissatisfied with what this book said, and ordered the people below to find out who wrote it, and if it was in the territory of the Qing Dynasty, he must go to the imperial court to kill his family.
Although his strength is not as good as that of the Taiping Army, he believes that the lack of strength is not the only condition for determining the victory or defeat, if the command is proper and the timing is appropriate, he can win more with less, and hit the opponent by surprise.
Shi Lang sharpened his knives, and the East China Sea Division in Laizhou was also looking for fighters.
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