Chapter 552 Bridgehead According to his heart, there are not many people in this world who can admire Zheng Zhilong, and Quan Xu is just the most important one among them.Zheng Zhilong is not like the son of an official eunuch, he is almost the same as Quan Xu, he was born recklessly, and he relied on his own struggle to rise rapidly in just a few years.Although Jiannu did not threaten the south, it became a big trouble for the Ming Dynasty, fighting with the Ming Dynasty, winning more and losing less, but Quan Xu was able to repeatedly make Jiannu suffer big losses, it can be said that almost all of Jiannu's defeats were strengthened by Quanxu to Jiannu.What's more, Quan Xu is now the marquis of Daming, which makes Zheng Zhilong even more jealous.Of course, he went to the opposite side of Quanxu, also because of interests, because Quanxu built huge shipyards in Dengzhou and Liaodong respectively, which Zheng Zhilong could not tolerate.On this sea, there can only be one king, and that is Zheng Zhilong, and anyone who tries to challenge him as the king of the sea, he must nip the threat in the bud.At that time, the Dutch dealt with the Liaodong fleet, and Zheng Zhilong personally led the Zheng fleet for this reason.It's just a pity that Zheng Zhilong didn't calculate that Quan Xu and the whole family army would be so difficult, and he actually used the Japanese to drive a suicide ship.Zheng Zhilong's carelessness did account for part of the defeat last time, but this time, he decided not to give Quan Xu a chance again, and he wanted to fight a battle that Zheng was best at in the most familiar environment.Zheng Zhilong has already chosen a cemetery for Quan Xu, as long as Quan Xu dares to come, Zheng Zhilong has an absolute chance to leave Quan Xu in the South China Sea.If time can be restarted and Zheng Zhilong is given another chance to choose, he will also start a war with Liaodong, if he is given a choice, then he will not be so late, but take advantage of the fact that Quan Xulian Dengzhou shipyard is not built, and nip the threat in the bud.This is not a battle of consciousness, nor is it a battle of meaning, to put it bluntly, it is because of vital interests.Zheng Zhilong is an out-and-out gambler, as early as the fourth year of the Apocalypse, Zheng Zhilong and Yan Siqi in Nagasaki, Japan, prepared to overthrow the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate in Japan, establish political power, and accept the canonization of the Ming Dynasty, however, due to the leakage of the matter, Yan Siqi led the crowd to escape from Japan, and then landed in Taiwan and began to pass through Taiwan.After becoming the leader of the Taiwan Alliance, he took advantage of the drought in southern Fujian in the sixth year of the Apocalypse, and many villages even had eaten up the roots, so he took the opportunity to immigrate to Taiwan with the people, and his power skyrocketed.Zheng Zhilong's best thing is to take advantage of the situation, a drought made Zheng Zhilong from a pirate leader to the king of the South China Sea.Quan Xu led the whole family army to land in Kyushu and set off a bloody storm on Kyushu Island.Although Quan Xu left Kyushu Island because of the unexpected changes in Luzon, it is just that although Quan Xu left, his strategy for Kyushu Island has always remained the same.After more than half a year of raiding the house, the whole family army copied the warehouses on Kyushu Island and burned most of the cities in Kyushu to a blank slate.The whole family army raised five or six hundred new daimyo on one Kyushu island, and the strength of these daimyo was even smaller, the big daimyo could feed one or two hundred samurai, and the small daimyo could only barely feed a dozen or twenty samurai.Despite this, with the support of the whole family army, they launched a bloody fight, and the civil unrest in Kyushu caused at least more than 200,000 casualties, and more than a million young men were escorted to Liaodong to work as laborers.The Tokugawa shogunate wanted to provide disaster relief, but the problem was that the distance was long and the transportation was inconvenient, and the number of hungry people was too damn too much, even if the shogunate's grain depot was emptied, it couldn't be done, so Tokugawa Iemitsu had no choice but to say to the people of Kyushu: "You find a way to go to the king of the sea, he will give you a little care." ”"King of the Sea" is Zheng Zhilong's tuba, he once mixed in Japan for a period of time, married a Japanese daughter-in-law, and has a bit of an in-law relationship with Japan.The people of Kyushu had no choice, and tens of thousands of samurai went to Zheng Zhilong.These Japanese samurai hated Quan Xu to the core, Zheng Zhilong wanted to raise his hands and feet with Quan Xuzuo in favor of them, and they were the ones who robbed the Liaodong merchant ships the most during this time.This is also Zheng Zhilong's confidence, I don't know how the brains of the dwarfs grow, they are very yearning for death, this time, Zheng Zhilong learned from Quan Xu, and built nearly 6,000 suicide ships in one go.This is Zheng Zhilong's confidence, so what if Quan Xu has advanced gunboats?
He has an inexhaustible supply of dwarfs to fight for him and die for him.To put it bluntly, this is all caused by Quan Xu, and he even has to thank Quan Xu, it was Quan Xu who fulfilled him.On the second day after Quan Xu went to sea from Liaodong, he received the Sixth Division on the Seal, in fact, the Sixth Division of the Whole Family Army was the original Sixth Brigade of the Whole Family Army, and the Sixth Brigade was directly upgraded to a division.The 6th Division has 3 brigades and 6 regiments under its jurisdiction: the 6th Infantry Brigade, the 24th Brigade, the 25th Brigade, the Cavalry Regiment directly under the division, the Cavalry Reconnaissance Regiment, the Artillery Regiment, the Baggage Regiment, and the Guard Regiment and the Teaching Regiment.The Sixth Division of the Quanjia Army is a division with very obvious characteristics, because it is close to the Tumochuan Mongolian Plateau, so it is very easy for Chen Ying and Luo Shiming to obtain war horses.Coupled with the development of Tuntian, the Sixth Division of the Quanjia Army is a very alternative Quanjia Army unit, in terms of muskets and artillery, the equipment is only slightly stronger than that of the Tianxiong Army, but there are more war horses.Nominally, the Sixth Division has three infantry brigades under its jurisdiction, but in fact, these three infantry brigades are all mounted infantry, and the entire Sixth Division has nearly 120,000 war horses, with nearly three war horses per capita.In September of the sixth year of Chongzhen, the Mongolian plateau suffered a rare black disaster, and in October, the Mongolian plateau was originally hit by a black disaster, followed by a snowstorm for more than 40 consecutive days.The blizzard during the Xiaoice River period was quite terrifying, which caused the Mongols to suffer extremely heavy losses, and many weak tribes disappeared into the snowstorm and were never to be found again.The Mongols were desperate in the face of the cold and starving cattle everywhere, their herds were already devastated and how they could live the rest of their lives!
What's even more terrifying is that in the southern and northern regions of the desert, the Mongols suffered even more heavy losses, some tribes not to mention cattle and sheep, and even the war horses that regarded them as the root of their lives died so that there were not a few left, and the Mongols who were driven crazy by the pressure of survival began to migrate to the Hetao area, trying to get a little compensation from this rich land of drought and flood protection, and make do with this year of catastrophe.In fact, the only way for any nomadic people to survive the difficulties is to break through the border, plunder the agricultural areas, and obtain food, cloth and other materials for survival from the border towns.It's all about survival, it doesn't matter what is right or wrong.But the problem is that the people at the border also have to live, they are not Shakyamuni, but they do not have the habit of cutting meat from themselves to feed the greedy falcons, the jackals are coming, they naturally have to take up arms to defend their homeland.This blizzard made the Mongols go south at all costs, and this time they poured out, with the young and strong walking in front, and the old and weak women and children, cattle and sheep walking behind.There were many people who fell to the ground as they walked, and then, unable to get up again, the other Mongols did not look at them, and continued to walk with their heads down.The tried-and-tested Luo Shiming has slowly grown up, and he seems to smell blood in the air, and in this case, he can only ask Quanxu for help.How could Quan Xu have a way to support the Sixth Division?
Now that the Sixth Division, that is, the Fair Army declared to the outside world, is not short of food or territory, Quan Xu's order to Luo Shiming and Chen Ying is to shrink the defense and temporarily abandon the outer strongholds.Almost the same as Liaodong, the resettlement sites located in Ordos in the Mongolian steppe belong to Dongsheng County, Fumin County, Zhenwu County, Hebin County, Furou County, and Ningren County, a total of 6 counties and 271 towns.Theoretically, these forts could withstand the attack of the Mongols and even the army of Jiannu, but this attack could not be too long, or else there would be mistakes.The Mongol army, like locusts, will not leave any living mouth in its pass.When receiving Quan Xu's order, the fair army led by Luo Shiming and Chen Ying began to prepare, organized the people to go south, and at the same time, began to arrange the Hetao defense line.At present, the official war has not yet begun, and this terrible wave is still fermenting, and it has not yet officially broken out, and tens of thousands of Mongol soldiers are on their way to the Hetao region hungry.However, when it erupts, it will definitely be a landslide and a shock.Although Quan Xu has not yet arrived in Taiwan, he has joined the Second Fleet of the Navy, and in fact, the Second Fleet and the Marine Corps have already begun mobilization.In Tainan and Taipei, a large number of workers were naked, shouting trumpets, running around the wharves like flying, carrying boxes of heavy supplies onto ships.The major warehouses were also opened, canned food, dry food, shells, bullets, explosives, raincoats, shoes and socks were served...
All kinds of military supplies were moved out of the wharf one by one and transported to the wharf.Dressed in black uniforms, the taciturn soldiers of the whole family army boarded the big ship with high spirits, their shiny rifles clenched tightly in their hands, and the bayonets on the rifles flashed with a terrifying edge.Fighting a war is already the norm for the whole family of soldiers.If they don't fight, they are not used to it, don't look at the time in Liaodong, the whole family army seems to be as stable as an old dog, this is actually an untrue view.If it weren't for the whole family army, how would the Liaodong immigrants be resettled, and now the Tuntian Fort of the people of Liaodong has been built in the rear banner of the right wing of Horqin, could it be that Jiannu let it out?
Although large-scale wars have not broken out, small-scale wars have never stopped, but ordinary people have not felt them.Quan Xu has a good habit of always running at the front of the army in every big battle, and this habit also affected all the generals, Yang Yandong and Mao Yuanyi led thousands of men.Go to Zhoushan Island in Shanghai to establish a bridgehead.