Buried alive in the Qing Dynasty

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"Revolution?" Wu Sangui was taken aback, "What kind of revolution?"

"To overthrow Confucianism! To overthrow industry! To overthrow the military and military system..." Xue Zhang said with a wry smile, "I just don't have the time to overthrow the Qing Dynasty!"

Wu Sangui laughed loudly when he heard this, "Okay, he's very busy, and I'm not in a hurry! It's too cold now, it's not a good time to use soldiers... I've been in the south for a long time, and I'm afraid of the cold.

So the old man has to wait until the hot summer before dispatching troops! "

Chapter 265 President Wu crosses the Yangtze River!

"Father commander, do you want to mobilize troops on a scorching summer day to force the Eight Banners soldiers back with the scorching heat? In fact, there is no need, the current Eight Banners soldiers are no big deal, they are no match for the second child and Shi Cong at all."

It was "Young President" Wu Yingxiong who was talking. The current configuration of their old Wu family is more like Li Tang than that of Zhu Heqi. The boss Wu Yingxiong followed Wu Sangui to make soy sauce, which is similar to Li Jiancheng.The second child, Wu Yingqi, led the troops to fight and charge forward, looking like a "Wu Er".

Moreover, this "Wu Er" also has a fiercer son, Wu Shicong, who has been a vanguard since Kunming dispatched troops.When fighting in Changsha, he personally brought grenade hammer soldiers to attack Miao Gaofeng at night, killing the Hunan Green Camp who was guarding Miao Gaofeng crying for his father and mother.It also made the Qing army defending Changsha terrified and collapsed, unable to fight again.The next morning, the green battalion officers guarding the city gate opened the door to welcome the surrender. The governor of Hunan, Sang E, was unable to organize the collapse of the troops, so he had to lead the remnants to Yuezhou... But before he could escape to Yuezhou, the elite soldiers led by Wu Yingqi had already arrived. Day and night, they arrived first and occupied Baling, the capital city of Yuezhou, which was empty of troops.

Although "Wu Er" father and son are as brave as tigers, Wu Yingxiong is not at all worried that his brother will be killed by some "Daqianmen Change" in the future.I also appreciate the invincibility of my brother and nephew.

Because the war was relatively smooth, Wu Sangui's "phobia of the Eight Banners" seemed to have improved a little.Hearing what his son said, he twitched his beard and laughed, "Ying Xiong, I chose to go to the army in the hot summer for my father, not to avoid the front of the Eight Banners."

Wu Yingxiong was taken aback, "Could it be for Guangdong? But Cantonese are not afraid of heat."

Wu Sangui looked around, as if he wanted to test the three or four counselors around him.

At this time, Liu Xuanchu, his "No. [-]" counselor (Yang Qilong is the number one), came out to speak: "Of course, the son is right, but once this hot summer arrives, will the autumn wind be far behind?"

"Autumn wind?" Wu Yingxiong still didn't understand what was going on.

However, Xue Zhang already knew what Wu Sangui was thinking, so he took up the topic with a smile and said, "Your Majesty, I don't know that there are more northerly winds in the southeast sea in autumn and winter, and more southerly winds in spring and summer. If the army is sent out in summer, if it is dragged along with the autumn wind, it will be against the wind. If the president sends troops to Wuchang in the hot summer, then the news will spread to Guangzhou, and the autumn wind will probably rise. Zhu and Qi want to send troops immediately, but there is no wind. I have to wait until next spring. By that time, if things go well, we will have gone down the river to Jinling. Even if the progress is not so smooth, we should be able to conquer Wuchang, the thoroughfare of nine provinces. And if the Qing government loses Wuchang, it will definitely go all out Jinling will be saved from death. Then we will be able to sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight in Wuchang!"

"It's high, it's really too high!" Wu Yingxiong couldn't help being overjoyed after hearing Liu Xuanchu's words, "The two Ming and Qing Dynasties will fight to the death in Jinling. The vitality has not yet recovered, and the prosperous land in the south of the Yangtze River is seized, so the world will be divided into two parts.

If the Ming army wins, then we will move our army to the north, first smashing the heart of the Central Plains, then pacifying Shaanxi and Gansu in the west, flattening Qilu in the east, and finally taking Beijing... The world can be determined! "

Wu Sangui's expression suddenly became solemn: "But Wuchang City is not easy to fight! It is surrounded by rivers and lakes, surrounded by mountains and rivers, the city is high and solid, and it has the advantage of water transportation. It is impossible to besiege. Such a fortified city, how to take it?"

Saying a word is like pouring a pot of cold water on Wu Yingxiong's forehead, which is still on Xing's head, and it is half cold immediately.

Wu Sangui's next words shocked Wu Yingxiong into a cold sweat.

Wu Sangui said lightly: "It's better for the president to cross the river north in the area of ​​Songzi and Zhijiang!"

"Father, handsome father..." Wu Yingxiong was startled by the old man's words.

Although he kept saying that the soldiers of the Eight Banners were no big deal, but his old man was really going to cross the river north, and he couldn't help being terrified.

Seeing his son's performance, Wu Sangui giggled and said, "This president has put all his money into it, so the third prince Zhu can't say no, right?

I heard that the North Factory of Zhu Santai's grandson produces white sugar for military use, which is twice as powerful as ordinary white sugar, and the sugar medicine boiled out of it is easy to preserve and will not be affected by moisture.In addition, Mrs. Zhu's grandson also made a kind of fire rope... Should I give some to the President? "

Military white sugar and Vulcan are now mass-produced—the "big magician" Zhu Heqi can make a lot of "potions" in the laboratory, but the energy production is not much .

The reason why he wants to make sugar medicine that is easy to leak is also because sugar medicine can be mass-produced.Who can't boil sugar?The catalyst is rust, the binder is gum arabic, no difficulty at all.Moreover, Guangdong and Fujian were the only large-scale production areas of sugar in the world at that time—there was also sugar cane in the Americas, but Europeans in this era did not know how to make sugar...

After Tangyao, Zhu Heqi's second "magic weapon" was a rope match made from yellow phosphorus matches.

The difficulty of making yellow phosphorus matches is not high, but the actual combat value is very high when combined with the sugar medicine grenade hammer-no need to use fire pockets to ignite!

In this way, soldiers can operate the grenade hammer with one hand, and they will not expose the target by using the fire pocket during night raids.Even the light cavalry can hang the fuse of the grenade hammer on the belt, just pull off the grenade hammer and throw it directly.

"President, it's okay to talk about this military white sugar... but I'm afraid it's not so easy to get this rope match!"

It is Xue Zhang who is speaking now. Xue Zhang provided Wu Sangui with information about military white sugar and matchlock rope, but all he can provide is information, and it is impossible to provide information about the production method.

Xue Zhang thought about it and said: "President, if you are willing to give up Guiyang Prefecture, Chenzhou and the southern part of Yongzhou Prefecture to Prince Zhu, there may be some discussion on this matter."

Guiyang, Chenzhou and Yongzhou are all located at the junction of Guangdong and Hunan, and are all under the jurisdiction of Hunan.

When Zhu Heqi marched into Shaozhou Prefecture, Nanxiong Prefecture, and Lianshan Prefecture, he did not take these three state capitals because of insufficient troops.Later, when Wu Sangui swept Hunan, Lin Ahu and Zhuge Zhengyang, who guarded Shaozhou and Nanxiong, sent troops to occupy several counties under the jurisdiction of these three Hunan prefectures, forming a situation of competition.

"It's just a few states and counties. It's okay to give them up."

After Wu Sangui finished speaking, he turned to Liu Xuanchu and said, "Xuanchu, how about a trip to Guangzhou?"

"Subordinates will not disgrace their orders!" Liu Xuanchu immediately accepted Wu Sangui's order without saying a word.

He then said to Wu Sangui: "President, you must not let Geng Jingzhong know that you are going to enter Jiangbei, otherwise the Qing court will probably know."

Wu Sangui laughed, "Isn't it good to let the Qing court know? This old man is going to cross the Yangtze River. Does Xuan Ye dare to follow?"

Wu Sangui crossing the river is no joke!This is the posture of "Stud"!It depends on whether Kangxi dares to follow?If he didn't dare to follow, then the Qing army in Huguang would definitely be terrified, and more people would defect to Wu Sangui at that time.He's going to follow... On a scorching hot day, can the Eight Banners soldiers really survive in a furnace-like place like Jingzhou, Hubei?

Liu Xuanchu was taken aback for a moment, but he understood Wu Sangui's thoughts in a blink of an eye, so he said with admiration: "The president is wise, and my subordinates really admire him."

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Liu Xuanchu's grasp of Geng Jingzhong is still very accurate - he is neither "sophisticated", nor "loyal", nor "upright".

To understand his name backwards is his character.

But Geng Jingzhong felt that he was getting better and better, almost becoming a fairy!After receiving the news that Wu Sangui was preparing to "turn the whole division to the north", he immediately gave Emperor Kangxi a secret letter.

It was the end of April in the 12th year of Kangxi's reign when his secret booklet was sent to Beijing.On the second day after Mi Zhe arrived, Emperor Kangxi met Wang Fuchen, a loyal slave of the Qing Dynasty, who had come from the Northwest in the South Study Room.

Chapter 266 Kangxi, will you follow?

In the South Study Room, Emperor Kangxi sat behind the table as usual, with a large group of eunuchs and servants waiting behind him and on both sides like stars and moons. stand.

Seeing Wang Fuchen coming under the guidance of Gabra, the minister of the guards, the imperial guards guarding the gate were about to go up and search.The rules for frisking are new.Because the news that the Ming army owned Lasuo Huolei also spread to Beijing.

During this period of time, although there was no major war between the Qing court and the Ming court, small-scale battles continued.These battles mainly took place between the Yanping Wangfu Fan Army loyal to the Ming court and the Fujian and Zhejiang defenders of the Qing court.

In order to ensure that Zhu Heqi can sail northward smoothly in a few months, the army of Yanping Palace is currently pulling out the Qing army's strongholds on the coastal islands of Fujian and Zhejiang.Sometimes they will go to the deserted beachheads outside the coastal boundaries, occupy some important places, and repair the abandoned cities and docks by the Qing army.

In this process, it is inevitable that there will be conflicts with the Qing army.And the Yanping Wangfufan army used a grenade hammer equipped with a rope and matchlock more than once in the battle with the Qing army!

When Kangxi got the report, the first thing he thought of was that Zhu Heqi and Zheng Jinghui would send dead soldiers to hide the thunder, sneak into Beijing, disguise themselves as ministers, blast the thunder when they went to court, and die together with him!

Therefore, the safety and security work of Emperor Kangxi was further strengthened... Gone are the good days when the concierge ministers went to work drinking tea, reading novels, and bragging.

When Wang Fuchen entered the Taihe Gate just now, he had already been groped up and down by a handsome boy from the Eight Banners, and now he was outside the door of the South Study Room, and he had to be groped again.Just when he was feeling uncomfortable, Emperor Kangxi's "Tianyu" had already come from the South Study Room.

"Ma Yaozi is my good servant, he is the most loyal, there is no need to search, let him in."

Wang Fuchen was a servant of Shunzhi, so he had known Kangxi for a long time, and he had been admitted once two or three years ago.However, the world of Qing Dynasty was still stable at that time, but now it is in turmoil.So Wang Fuchen is also a little curious, is this "Little Holy Lord of the Qing Dynasty" still calm?

With such thoughts in mind, Wang Fuchen followed Gabra into the South Study Room, and while kneeling three times and prostrating nine times, he secretly looked at Emperor Kangxi.I only saw that Emperor Kangxi was much more mature and stable than a few years ago, with a faint smile on his pockmarked face, as if everything was under control.

Kangxi watched with a smile as Wang Fuchen finished kowtowing, and then said with a smile: "Ma Yaozi, stand up and show me."

"Hey!" Wang Fuchen agreed loudly and stood up.

"What a burly general, he should be worthy of a Batulu!"

Batulu means "warrior" in Manchu, and was also conferred by the emperors of the Qing Dynasty as the "title of bravery" to the following meritorious generals.Although it is just a "courageous name" in the vernacular, it was very rare before the Xianfeng year of the Qing Dynasty in history.During the more than 33 years from the Year of Destiny to the Year of Xianfeng, only [-] people were awarded the title of "Batulu".However, after the Xianfeng dynasty, there were more Baturu warriors in the Qing Dynasty... hundreds of thousands, it is really "all the brave men in the dynasty"!

It is precisely because the brave title of "Batulu" was still very rare in the Kangxi year, so when Wang Fuchen heard that Kangxi was going to give him the title Batulu, he immediately knelt down and said gratefully: "Your Majesty, a slave should be valued by the first emperor. The servants take heavy responsibilities, send them the heart, and treat the servants as high as the sky and the sea deep. Although the servants have small achievements, they are not enough to repay the eventuality. Now that the country is in trouble, the servants have not made the achievements of killing thieves and destroying the enemy. How dare they be worthy The name of Tulu? Please take back the order of the emperor, and give the slave the title of bravery after he kills Wu Sangui, Zhu Heqi!

Your Majesty... please give this servant an elite soldier, and let this servant kill thieves for you! "

Seeing that Wang Fuchen was so grateful for being coaxed by his few words, Emperor Kangxi also seemed a little excited, nodded approvingly and said: "What I want is a man like you! You take this Batulu first, and treat it as what I paid you in advance Reward... Your chance to make meritorious service is coming soon."

As he spoke, he picked up several memorials from the table in front of him, and said to Wang Fuchen, "This is the memorial of Tu Hai, Le Erjin, and Geng Jingzhong. They all said one thing, that rebel Wu Sangui wanted to cross the Yangtze River." Already!"

"It's no wonder that Kangxi took out a Batulu to buy people's hearts as soon as we met," Wang Fuchen thought, "It turns out that Wu Sangui is going to desperately...I didn't expect this old guy to be so fierce. Fortunately, I didn't kill Wang Shirong with a knife, otherwise There’s really no way out.”

Thinking of this, Wang Fuchen kowtowed to Emperor Kangxi again: "Your Majesty, this is a good thing! If Wu Sangui, an old boy, has been hiding on the south bank of the Yangtze River, our Eight Banners Heavenly Soldiers cavalry will not be able to use it. If he dares to cross the river, then It's time to die! This servant is willing to be the vanguard, to kill this old thief for the emperor!"

"Okay!" Kangxi slapped his hands, and looked around again, "Everyone, now there is a fierce general like Wang Fuchen in the vanguard, can I personally conquer?"

When the surrounding ministers heard his question, they all knelt down and kowtowed to speak.

After Tuhai left, Suo'etu, who became the number one university scholar, was the first to express his support: "The emperor's imperial conquest, Wu Zhu's rebellion, must be torn apart!"

Mingzhu Mingzhongtang, who had just completed a bachelor's degree, also spoke: "The emperor is invincible, Wu Zhu Erni, you must run away!"

Jin Batai, the leader of the traitor university scholar, also said: "Once the emperor's heavenly soldiers arrive, the two rebels will definitely be defeated!"

Xiong Cilu talked the most, and he said at length: "Long Live God has seen the most holy and brightest. I thought that Wu Sangui had already declined after three drums, and was blocked by Tu Hai and Shi Lang in Yuezhou, so he ventured across the river. Take a gamble. According to my opinion, the master will conquer in person, and he will surely succeed in one fell swoop!"

Of course the ministers and servants all supported it.Although in history, when Emperor Kangxi hypocritically stated that he was going to fight Wu Sangui in Yuezhou, Hunan, the ministers below were crying and shouting to stop him from going.

But things are different now.

The question now is not whether Kangxi should go to the imperial conquest himself, but that he must put up the airs of the imperial conquest.

In fact, Wu Sangui didn't really cross the Yangtze River. He just waved the flag and shouted in Changsha, declaring that he was going to cross the river.

This is equivalent to a certain black boss clamoring for stud at the gambling table, but the hand has not pushed out the chips... This is the bottom line of the opponent, Emperor Kangxi, the "Ma Boss".

If Emperor Kangxi behaved a little cowardly, the hearts of the Qing people would be scattered.

If the hearts of the Qing Dynasty were to disperse first, and Wu Sangui crossed the Yangtze River later, it would be a smooth battle... Now in the Qing Dynasty, there is no such person as Oboi who can hold his ground.Even if Kangxi transferred Yue Le from Jiangning to Hubei to replace Le Erjin as Pingnan General, Wu Sangui was sure that he would win a complete victory.

If Kangxi lost his head and really let this little kid like Le Erjin fight Wu Sangui in Hubei, then Wu Sangui would faint from laughter.

It's a pity that Kangxi, the "Ma Boss", is not so cowardly...at least he doesn't fear Wu Sangui at all when he talks about it.After confirming that Wu Sangui had released the news that he was going to cross the river, he immediately announced the news of the imperial conquest at the meeting of important ministers in the South Study Room.

But if you don't be afraid when you talk about it, it doesn't mean you can win when you go to the battlefield.

Now Wu Sangui has already made a fuss about his going to cross the Yangtze River. If he can't cross the river in the end, then his rebellion will come to an end.

Therefore, after Kangxi began to make it clear that he wanted to drive himself to conquer, Wu Sangui will definitely cross the Yangtze River officially next.

Since the Jingjiang section of the Yangtze River is not very wide, most places are about two miles.Concentrating dozens of cannons, setting up fire boats, and even throwing some catapults and throwing sugar bombs and heavy-fire oil bombs can seal off a large section of the river.

Moreover, there are many tributaries on the north and south sides of the Jingjiang River, and these tributaries are also very navigable, so it is easy to get wooden boats and sailors.

Therefore, it is almost impossible to block Wu Sangui from Jingjiang and prevent him from crossing the river.

So after Kangxi finished bragging, he had to seriously consider how to fight with Wu Sangui face to face and face to face!

Chapter 267

Thinking of really going to fight Wu Sangui, Kangxi still felt a little empty in his heart.So he looked at the good servant Wang Fuchen and asked: "Wang Fuchen, you have been under Wu Sangui for several years as the commander-in-chief, and you also joined him in conquering Burma and killing Yongli. You should know the reality of the bandit army, right?"

"What do you want me to kill Yongli with him?" Wang Fuchen was so "praise" by Kangxi's words that he felt guilty!

However, "Living Lv Bu" is quite good at concealing his inner panic. After a moment of pondering, he said: "Long live, this slave does know the background of old thief Wu. Before this old thief Wu had 53 banner soldiers to lead him, There are also four towns plus ten battalions of green battalions. There are more than 3 soldiers on the books, but the actual strength is even more. Because there are quite a lot of bannermen and banner slaves under the old thief Wu, the old thief After guarding Yunnan, they were allocated land, and asked them to learn from the methods of the military households of the Ming Dynasty and the soldiers of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, serving the people in peacetime and serving as soldiers in wartime.

There were also tens of thousands of bandit soldiers under the puppet Emperor Yongli who surrendered to the old bandit one after another, and the old bandit selected the best of them to organize ten battalions of new troops.But the rest were not dismissed either, and the land was also divided, and the soldiers were distributed among the people.

The slave made a secret investigation at that time, and found that if something happened, the old thief could activate between [-] and [-] strong.These people are old thieves! "

"There are seventy or eighty thousand..." Kangxi was thinking about the troops Wu Sangui might bring across the river while speaking.

It was Wang Fuchen who went on to say: "In addition to these veterans, there are many rebellious green battalion soldiers in Guizhou, Sichuan, and Hunan. The slaves are estimated to be no less than [-] to [-]. The total strength of such old bandits should be around [-]!"

"One hundred thousand?" Kangxi took a deep breath, and said to himself: "The old thief has quite a lot of soldiers! The heavenly soldiers in my hand are a bit small..."

While Wang Fuchen was talking, he was also sneaking eyes on Emperor Kangxi, and found a trace of worry on Emperor Kangxi's face.

Mingzhu Mingzhu, Minister of the Ministry of War, also noticed that Kangxi's face was a little ugly, and quickly kowtowed: "Long live, Wu Ni now occupies a lot of territory. Even though Yunnan and Guizhou provinces are the rear, it is impossible to leave no soldiers behind. If that is the case, It was time for the chieftains in Yunnan and Guizhou provinces to raise troops and make trouble. The Ministry of War estimated that Wu Sangui would have at least [-] troops in Yunnan and Guizhou provinces.

A few days ago, Mo Luo, the governor of Shanxi Province and a scholar of the Wuying Temple, said that Wu Ni had sent his general Wang Pingfan to lead more than [-] troops into Sichuan to support Zheng Jiaolin, Tan Hong, Wu Zhimao and other thieves in resisting the heavenly soldiers.

Since Wu Ni raised his troops, he has always ordered the three armies by the pseudo-official of the President of the World Marshal Ma, and this official was not appointed by the pseudo-Prince Zhu of Guangdong.Moreover, the year name used by Wu Ni was the 46th year of Chongzhen, while the third prince of the false Zhu used the year name of Dingwang Jianguo.It can be seen that the two thieves are not one!Wu Sangui must at least use more than [-] soldiers to guard against the false third prince Zhu.

In addition, the three prefectures of Yuezhou, Changsha, and Hengzhou are facing Hubei and Jiangxi. Wu Sangui has at least [-] direct descendants in the three prefectures.

Therefore, [-] of his [-] soldiers cannot cross the river, and only [-] can follow him across the river. "

Fifty thousand...not a lot!

Emperor Kangxi was still a little worried.

These days, he has dispatched many Eight Banners Heavenly Soldiers.

Yue Le, Jie Shu, Le Erjin, Mo Luo, and Tu Hai each dispatched [-] Banner soldiers, a total of [-].

In addition, the four garrison generals, General Shengjing, General Ningguta, General Jiangning, and General Xi'an, each have three to two thousand eight-banner soldiers, and the total number of them is tens of thousands.

Add all of the above together, and you have twenty-five thousand and eight banner soldiers!

Now the number of Eight Banners soldiers is claimed to be 20, but in fact it is far from that many.Among them, the Eight Banners are full of 11 to [-], the Eight Banners Mongolia is about [-], and the Eight Banners Han army is more than [-]... Adding together, the full number is less than [-] and less than [-].

This number is about the same as Wu Sangui's current military strength... Although the Qing Dynasty still has about 20 green battalion soldiers.But these green battalion soldiers are quite unreliable. They have rebelled a lot recently, and the rest are between "rebellion and no rebellion".

And now it is not only Wu Sangui's family who are anti-Qing, there is also the third prince Zhu!

The Third Prince Zhu may not have as many soldiers as Wu Sangui, but his combat effectiveness is definitely not inferior... Fortunately, these two thieves have their own ghosts, otherwise, the Qing Dynasty might really be doomed!

But even if we concentrate our forces to fight against Wu Sangui alone, it doesn't seem to be enough! The 11 Eighth Banner soldiers deducted the [-], and left another [-] to guard Beijing, and the maximum available was [-].