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Chapter 723: A hard-won firearm


What is the big gift that Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming want to give to Huang Taiji When Kong Youde attacked Dengzhou.

Zhang Dake, the commander of Mingdeng Prefecture, and Sun Yuanhua, the governor of Mingdeng Prefecture, combined their troops to fight with the rebels in the east of the city.

The officers and troops won first and then lost, and the losses were very large.

In the first month of the fifth year, the rebels, with the cooperation of Geng Zhongming, the defender of Dengzhou, captured the city.

Dengzhou was the base for Sun Yuanhua to manufacture new artillery and train artillery, and nearly 100 Portuguese and other foreign gunners and craftsmen, as well as a large number of trained artillerymen, were captured by the rebels.

The captured more than 100 large and small artillery pieces and a large number of cast artillery technicians were simply a relief in the snow for Huang Taiji, who turned from attack to defense, so that he would have the opportunity to confront Lu Hanqiang and use artillery to defend the city he was now in control.

One is desperately attacking, and the other is desperately defending, so the two sides of the Pao Ze brothers fought fiercely under this water city for nearly half a month.

At this time, under the continuous bombardment of hundreds of cannons, the water city of the Denglai Navy Division was already dilapidated and crumbling, and the defenders of the guards had already been killed and wounded, Zhang Dake and Sun Yuanhua pulled the sailors in the water division on the city wall, but in the face of overwhelming artillery fire, in the face of organized and powerful rebels, at this time, the guards of the Denglai Navy Army had reached the end of the crossbow, and the fall of the water city was not far away.

Looking at the rebels who had completed the formation in the distance and were about to attack the city again, Zhang Dake locked his wife and children on a wooden building, and firewood and grass had been piled up under the wooden building, waiting for once the city was broken, he would let the family and the enemy die together.

Zhang Dake, who was carrying a knife with a broken waist, said a final farewell to his boss Sun Yuanhua, the governor of Denglai: "Shuicheng is about to fall, and the last general bears the emperor's grace, but he leads a family to die here with all loyalty, but the adult has the heavy responsibility of the imperial court, and must not die in the water city with the last general, and the last general has arranged a ship to send Sun Daren to Tianjin, and ask the court for reinforcements, or go directly to Huludao Port, ask for reinforcements from the strong people of Lu Han, extinguish the rebels and recover the hometown of Shandong, and avenge the last general." ” Looking at this iron-clad old chief military officer, Sun Yuanhua burst into tears, grabbed Zhang Dake's hand tightly, and shook his head painfully: "It is absolutely impossible to move troops to Liaoxi, Lu Hanqiang is too busy to take care of himself in the face of the fierce Jiannu, how can he withdraw from us to quell the rebellion, especially the emperor will never agree to Lu Hanqiang's interference in the military and politics of Shandong." ” Then his face turned to sadness: "I will say goodbye to the general, take a boat straight to Tianjin, turn to Beijing, and meet today."

It's not that the official is greedy for life and afraid of death, and he is unwilling to die and die with the general, but in the war of pacification and chaos between the country and the dynasty, if he dies a governor who is the second in the world, it will make the government and the opposition shake the hearts of the army and frustrated, and the arrogance of the rebels and the rogue, my head, I would rather let the emperor cut it off, to boost the morale of the army, and deter those officials and officials who are greedy for life and afraid of death, so as to complete my last bit of loyalty to the Ming Dynasty, and the general and your whole family go to the country in stark contrast.

Give those soldiers who are fighting on the front line a wake-up call for martyrs, and be greedy for life and afraid that the dead will be stinking for 10,000 years. ” Zhang Dake's lips squirmed for a while, and tears couldn't help but fall in his eyes, as the so-called people have life and death, they should die as they deserve, and now it seems that compared with Sun Yuanhua's death, Sun Yuanhua is more respectable.

As a result, when Sun Yuanhua and Zhang Dake, who were defending Dengzhou Water City, said goodbye, suddenly someone with sharp eyes cheered and shouted: "Boats, countless boats, on the boats are our Ming military flags." ” The sails on the sea were like a forest of war drums, and the reinforcements of Wu Xiang and Wu Sangui, who were covered by the sea near and far, miraculously arrived.

Lu Hanqiang chose to go all out to rescue Shandong, Zhang Dake chose to die tragically, Sun Yuanhua chose to die as a warning example, and Wu Xiang chose to fight hard.

For the result of Lu Hanqiang's poor rescue outlined by Wu Xiang, Wu Xiang is deeply convinced, this is more real than any militaristic righteousness, for the sake of his family and his family, this time Wu Xiang is desperate, he ordered his soldiers to die in this battle, either annihilate Kong Youde Geng Zhongming, rescue the Shandong bigwig and the general soldiers, everyone is promoted to make a fortune, or wait for the emperor to destroy his family and die without a place to be buried.

Then he gave a death order to his subordinate soldiers, he will press on the front line to be the supervising team, and his son Wu Sangui will rush to the front line to give a sample to the army, and those who retreat will be killed, and those who advance will be rewarded.

Then he also announced on the spot that seven components of the battle were captured and given to the soldiers.

Everyone knows that the rebels plundered most of Shandong and a part of Hebei, and the gold and silver in their hands were not only huge, but the distribution of seventy percent would immediately make countless people jump into wealthy families.

So with the desire to make meritorious contributions, with the dream of getting rich overnight, as soon as the fleet docked, Guan Ningjun roared and killed the battlefield like a tide.

The army of Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming, who were tired of fighting for a long time, really didn't expect the reinforcements of the Ming Dynasty to fall from the sky, and it was also the famous Guanning Iron Cavalry.

Just after saving Sun Yuanhua and Zhang Dake, Wu Xiang took his son Wu Sangui to continue to pursue the victory, and in just a few months after that, with the armies of other brothers, they surrounded on all sides, completely exterminated Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming's rebels, and let the history of Shandong for two years, and finally brought artillery technology to Houjin Kong Youde Geng Zhongming and other three mine rebellions, in just half a year in a blink of an eye.

Once again, history has taken a big step forward.

It was precisely because of Lu Hanqiang's full support that he not only saved the life of the chief soldier Zhang Dake, but also saved the life of Sun Yuanhua, changing the fate of two people and changing the fate of hundreds of people in Shandong.

Of course, there are a few whose fate has been changed, that is, Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming, they can't be the princes of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the Manchus can't get the technology of cannons.

And there is another person who has changed his fate, that is, Guan Ning's current number one ancestor.

Now it's okay, after two transfers, the original known as 150,000 Guanning Iron Cavalry, now in the hands of Zu Dashou, there are less than 70,000 people left, and there is no way to jump with Lu Hanqiang in terms of strength.

And Sun Chengzong also played the means of beating the water dogs, taking advantage of this shareholder wind, with the support of Lu Han's emphasis on allocating 10,000 cavalry to Sun Chengzong, he began to thoroughly investigate and rectify Guanning, eliminate the old and weak, squeeze out the empty water, and put 70,000 Guanning iron cavalry that still exists in western Liaoxi in name only, and directly clean up and rectify the number of 25,000, which is still Sun Chengzong's kindness, and gave him Zu Dashou 5,000 empty amounts to support his family, and at the same time did not investigate Zu Dashou's original guilt for eating empty quotas and greedy for military salaries, so he tasted Lu Hanqiang's powerful Zu Dashou.

This time, he completely died down, surrendered to Lu Hanqiang, and honestly hid in the rear to watch the scenery.

Lü Hanqiang's battle against Zu Dashou once again ended with Lü Hanqiang's complete victory.

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