Buried alive in the Qing Dynasty

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And Jingmen is the gateway to Xiangyang. After conquering Jingmen Prefecture, of course they will go to attack Xiangyang again!

Qianjiang is not the gateway to Hanyang, but it can temporarily block the traffic between Hanyang and Xiangyang.Moreover, after Wu Sangui seized the Qianjiang River, he could divide his troops across the Han River and advance to Hankou Town along the east bank of the Han River while the main force marched into Hanyangfu City along the west bank of the Han River.

In addition, Wu Sangui may neither attack Hanyang nor Xiangyang, but secretly mobilize the main force to Yuezhou, and then advance from the south bank of the Yangtze River to attack Wuchang Fucheng.

In short... the choice of where to fight lies with Wu Sangui, Kangxi can only wait to be beaten now!

"Xiangyang Fucheng?" Emperor Kangxi discovered a terrible thing from Zhuobutai's analysis, "Wu Sangui might let Hanyang and Wuchang go and attack Xiangyang first? Is Xiangyang so important?"

"Very likely! Although Xiangyang Fucheng is not that important, but..." Zhuobutai glanced at Emperor Kangxi, and said nothing.

There is Emperor Kangxi in Xiangyang Mansion!

Wu Sangui did not say that he killed or captured Kangxi, and drove him away from Xiangyang Mansion. That was also a decisive victory...it can even be said to be the beginning of the demise of the Qing Dynasty!

Because as soon as Kangxi ran away, the myth of the Eight Banners' powerful army and the invincible heavenly soldiers was completely shattered.

And the whole world will know that the Manchurian emperor is afraid of Wu Sangui.If Kangxi was afraid of Wu Sangui, shouldn't other Qing soldiers in Huguang and Jiangxi battlefields be afraid of Wu Sangui?

Then what else to fight?It's important to escape!

"Hanyang and Wuchang have Wang Fuchen's [-] troops rushing to help, there should be no serious problem." Kangxi has already made a decision, "Ezha, you return to Anlu City immediately and mobilize troops to help Qianjiang... Even if you can't hold it, you must Delay until Wang Fuchen arrives in Hanyang and Wuchang!"

"Hey!" Eza immediately knelt down to receive the order.

Kangxi then said: "Dong E!"

"The slave is here!"

Dong E also knelt down.

"Go to Jingmen right away!" Kangxi said, "and then dispatch troops to help Dangyang... If Wu Sangui's main force reaches Dangyang, you should set up an army on Xianglu Mountain in Dangyang County to prevent Wu Ni from advancing eastward. If Xianglu Mountain guards If you can't stop, then Jingmen Prefecture must not be lost!"

"Hey!" Dong E responded loudly.

"Zhubutai, Le Erjin!"

"The slave is here!"

"The slave is here!"

Zoltai and Leerjin both responded.

"There are more than 7 people in Xiangyang," Kangxi said, "1 of them will go to Hanyang and Wuchang with Wang Fuchen, and there are more than 6 people left. I will leave [-] people, led by Mingzhu to defend Xiangyang.

Everyone else follows the two of you... first go to Jingmen Fucheng, and then decide whether to go to Dangyang or Qianjiang according to the situation. "

"Hey!" Le Erjin said loudly, "Please rest assured, the emperor, no matter whether Wu Sangui's main force is fighting Qianjiang or Dangyang, the slaves will be able to destroy him together with Lord Chao Wu."

As he spoke, he suddenly paused again, "Your Majesty, if Wu Sangui's main force neither attacks Dangyang nor Qianjiang, what will the slaves do? Are they going back to Xiangyang with the soldiers?"

Hearing this, Kangxi immediately had the urge to give this Leerjin a shot.

"My lord," Zhuobutai said, "if Wu Sangui's two lines are empty soldiers, then we will attack Jingzhou City and force Wu Sangui to return from Wuchang. If Wuchang is lost, we only need to take Jingzhou City to win Go back a game."

"Oh," Le Erjin nodded, and said to Kangxi again, "Please rest assured, the emperor, the slave and Lord Chaowu will definitely finish the errand for you!"

Emperor Kangxi nodded approvingly, but he had no idea in his heart!

Because he has found that he has divided his troops very well... Even if Geng Jingzhong and Liu Jinzhong's more than 4 people are not counted, he has nearly 20 troops in the Huguang and Jiangxi battlefields. Together, they can beat Wu Sangui.But now these armies have been dismantled into an unknown number of roads in use, and Wu Sangui is likely to concentrate his main force on one road and defeat them one by one!

This situation...why is it so familiar?

Thinking of this, Emperor Kangxi gritted his teeth again, and said loudly: "Even if Wu Sangui concentrates his troops, even if we divide our troops...we will win this battle, because we have more than 20 troops, and Wu Sangui only has [-]. Dong E, Eza, you guys Even if you meet Wu Sangui's main force, don't panic, as long as you drag them and persist for a few days, you will be able to win a big victory, and then I will make you the hereditary iron hat princes!"

Chapter 292 No matter how many ways you come, Wu only goes all the way!

In the 46th year of Ming Chongzhen, September 22nd.

It was late at night, but the three fire dragons were still in Zhangshui and on both sides of Zhangshui, advancing side by side, and the forward had already broken into Dangyang County of Jingmen Prefecture.

And these three fire dragons, needless to say, are the Wu family's army marching overnight with torches and lanterns.

Zhuobutai's guess was right, and Kangxi's feeling was also right. Wu Sangui's current tactic is "Whoever you come, Wu only goes all the way"!

And this way is awesome!Wu Sangui not only transferred [-] of the [-] soldiers stationed in Changsha and Hengzhou to Jingzhou, but even Wu Yingqi of Yuezhou sneaked out of the Yuezhou camp with [-] elite soldiers under his command. Arrived at the Jingzhou camp of the Wu army.Now there are only [-] sailors still in training in Yuezhou.

5000 people from Hengzhou and Changsha, plus 1 from Yuezhou, plus 5 from Jingzhou brought by Wu Sangui, Wu Sangui concentrated a total of 5000 troops in Jingzhou.And 3000 of them are currently being led by general Gao Dejie to go to Qianjiang to bluff, and [-] of them are being led by Wu Yingxiong to stay in Jingzhou City.

The remaining [-] were taken to Dangyang by Wu Sangui!

Although Geng Jingzhong's "going crazy" caused the Qing army to move eastward in Wuchang and Hanyang, Wu Sangui did not take advantage of the emptiness to fight Wuchang and Hanyang.This is because the old thief Wu still doesn't know that "Geng Jingzhong is crazy", and Geng Jingzhong himself doesn't know that he is "crazy", so where does Wu Sangui know?

According to Wu Sangui's secret agreement with Geng Jingzhong, in order to create an opportunity for Geng Jingzhong to attack Hukou, he had to fight the Qing army on the Jianghan Plain first. This was what Wu Sangui was most afraid of. The small number of Eight Banners soldiers led by them were frightened and did not dare to cross the Yangtze River.

However, the continuous supply of white sugar for military use and black gunpowder from the inner factory, as well as the turtledove foot muskets made in Foshan, as well as the victories won by Zhu Heqi in the Battle of Longtoushan in Guangzhou and the Battle of Dinghushan in Zhaoqing, helped Wu Sangui gradually Overcome the fear in my heart.

After repeatedly experimenting with sugar grenades, Wu Sangui finally realized the truth that "no matter how fierce the heavenly soldiers are, they are also afraid of being bombed by thunder"!

The copper shell grenade filled with sugar medicine is simply the nemesis of all kinds of Tartars!Even if it was Batulu, once the thunder exploded, it would be a pile of minced meat.

In the more than three months after Wu Sangui crossed the river, Wu's army equipped with sugar explosives and mines still engaged in a series of small-scale conflicts with the Qing army commanded by Le Erjin, Dong E, and Eza on the Jianghan Plain.The "victory" of Wu's army in these conflicts was as high as [-]%, and even if they were defeated, the loss was not very great.

Moreover, in the few large-scale confrontations between the Wu army and the Eight Banners Heavenly Soldiers, the Wu army battle formation equipped only with long spears, turtledove foot muskets, bows and arrows, thunder bombs, and shield vehicles has achieved quite good results-they will Form a phalanx with spears and shield vehicles, and then shoot guns, shoot arrows, and throw grenades, so that the Eight Banners Heavenly Soldiers can't get close at all.

At the same time, Wu Jun's infantry will also send dead soldiers to use grenades to blow up the cavalry of the Eight Banners soldiers!

These dead soldiers don't need to form an array, and don't need to push on the shield cart. They just need to touch it quietly, find the assembly position of the Eight Banners soldiers and horses, and throw two grenades over there.

Of course, the Qing army is now also bombarded with sugar medicine.But Wu Sangui found that the Qing army's thunderstorms were quite strange... Not to mention the small power and small number, they would explode themselves!

Once during a confrontation, when the two sides were fighting inextricably, the Qing military camp exploded to pieces with a "boom" for no reason.So Wu Jiajun won inexplicably!

After winning, Wu Sangui couldn't figure it out... All the sugar bombs he used in the army were good and never blew up.Why did the Qing army explode by itself?Could this be the destiny of the legendary destiny?

So Wu Sangui became more confident and more confident, and felt that the Qing Dynasty was about to end!

Moreover, Wu Sangui also discovered the problem of scattered troops in the deployment of the Qing army, so he decided to launch a big battle on the Jianghan Plain when Kangxi arrived in Xiangyang City.

The reason for choosing this time is because Kangxi did not come early, and the strength of the Qing army on the Jianghan Plain was not too large.

If the Qing army on the Jianghan Plain retreated to the two big strongholds of Xiangyang and Hanyang, it would be difficult for Wu Sangui to fight.

And if the decisive battle is too late, the [-] to [-] troops brought by Kangxi are likely to be strengthened to Hanyang, Jingmen, Wuchang and other places.And Geng Jingzhong couldn't wait... That's why Wu Sangui calculated the time and chose a time when Kangxi arrived in Xiangyang to launch the Jianghan Campaign.

"Boom boom boom..."

Several dull explosions came from outside the cabin of a huge official ship that Wu Sangui was on.

Inside the cabin, President Wu was not sleeping, but was holding military discussions with Wu Yingqi, Xia Guoxiang, Hu Guozhu, Li Benshen, Fang Guangchen and other senior generals and advisers.

When the sound of the explosion came, the military discussion also temporarily stopped, and then I heard the voice of Wu Sangui's guard commander Ma Bao came in: "President... the thunderclap coming from the direction of Dangyang County should be from the front of Jin Wu. The general's men bombed Dangyang's city wall with sugar bombs!"

The former general of Jinwu was an official appointed by Wu Sangui to his adopted son Wu Guogui.

This Wu Guogui is a fierce general under Wu Sangui's command, and he is also the confidant of his best friend. Wu Sangui fought all the way out of Yunnan, he is a vanguard!

Jingzhou City was taken by Wu Guogui with five hundred cavalry!

And this time in the battle of Jianghan, Wu Guogui was a vanguard general and led five thousand elite soldiers to attack Dangyang County—the Qing army’s Baylor Dong E placed a full three thousand defenders in Dangyang County, and they were all "slaves" "The Green Battalion soldiers have a certain combat effectiveness.

Dangyang County has also been reinforced in the past two or three months, and the city wall has been thickened a lot. It would take a little effort to blow it down with Hongyi cannons.

However, when Zhu Heqi exported military white sugar to Wu Sangui, he also included the formula of sugar medicine, the method of making thunder bombs, and a set of methods for breaking the city by digging tunnels to bury bomb bombs!

That's an enhanced sugar bomb!

When a thunder strikes, even the thickest city wall will collapse for you!

"Hahaha!" Wu Sangui burst out laughing when he heard Ma Bao's report, stroked his beard and said triumphantly: "The nobles of the country have the courage of ten thousand men, if the city wall of Dangyang is blown down, it will be impossible to break the city." It's for tonight!"

"Father Commander!" Wu Yingqi suggested with a smile, "Dangyang will be yours, let's attack Jingmen next! You give me [-] soldiers, and I will break Jingmen Prefecture for you in three days!"

"No hurry, no hurry..." Wu Sangui waved his hand, "Jingmen Prefecture is not in a hurry to fight. Ying Qi, you will lead people to set up camp on the east bank of Zhangshui tomorrow morning. Remember, you must not occupy the high ground of Xianglu Mountain, We must give up this highland to Dong E."

"Dong E will occupy Xianglu Mountain?" Wu Yingqi couldn't believe it.

Wu Sangui smiled and said: "Most likely... If Kangxi doesn't come, he will stick to Jingmen Prefecture at most. But now that Kangxi is here, he has to perform well. And Kangxi must also want to block us in the front line of Jingmen Prefecture, so that he Only then can we calmly dispatch the army to besiege us. Ying Qi, do you know how to fight?"

"I know, I know," Wu Yingqi laughed, "Let Dong E go up the mountain first... We have a lot of people, so we should besiege him from three sides!"

Wu Sangui smiled, nodded and said: "You are still good at fighting, boy! Then my father will wait for you to win on the west bank of Zhangshui River. Remember, don't beat Dong E to death with a stick. No one dares to come. You give him more breath, so that Kangxi will continue to increase troops in Jingmen, and we can fight the Qing army in Jingmen. We have Zhangshui and Jushui water transportation support behind us, so artillery and chariots Can be shipped up.

But the Qing army can't do it. They have to transfer artillery and luggage from land to Tianzhu Mountain and Xianglu Mountain, and the number will not be too large.As long as you can fight with cannons, chariots, and thunder, you can win this battle for sure! "

Chapter 293 Kangxi is Coming!

September 12th, the 28th year of Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty.

Jiangxi Province, Guangxin Prefecture, Yingtan Town.

This big town located on the banks of the Jinjiang River and at the foot of Longhu Mountain is now full of slavish spirit, and has become a gathering place for slave soldiers of the Qing Dynasty and their families.

These slave soldiers in Yingtan Town are led by Geng Jingzhong who does not want to be a slave, but only wants to be the master.Although Geng Jingzhong was ambitious, he was very "sophisticated" and knew that he should not expose his ambition prematurely, and had to "play a slave" to confuse Emperor Kangxi.Therefore, after Geng Jingzhong became the governor of Fujian and had the power of "Geng Xuan", his slavish spirit became stronger than before.

Apart from Zeng Yangxing, Liu Yan, Wang Jin, Zuo Chunqiu, Liu Bingzheng, Wang Jingong and other very few confidants who knew his intentions.Most of the generals and officials below still regard him as a good slave of the Qing Dynasty!

Since Geng Jingzhong is still pretending to be a good slave of the Qing Dynasty, his army will of course have to be "servantized" adapted.However, the "slavery" of the Gengjia army is still different from that of other green camp soldiers of the Qing army.

The "minionization" of the green battalion soldiers of the Qing army is to carry all the middle and high-level officers into the Eight Banners Han army, and turn the grass-roots veterans into the eight banners' coated slaves-in this way, the backbone of the green battalion soldiers We will belong, everyone is a good slave of the Qing Dynasty!And there is also a clear minion map.

That is to say, the promotion route is the ordinary "Green Battalion Soldiers - Coated Slaves - Eight Banners Han Army - 24 Futures".

Once you climb to the level of the Eight Banners Han Army, you will truly join the glorious Eight Banners team and become the emperor's "self-servant", and your children and grandchildren will be stable slaves.

So after such a reform, the cohesion of the green battalion has indeed increased... Don't think that being a slave is ashamed, and being a traitor is even more shameful. They are all traitors, so why not be a slave?

But Geng Jingzhong has ambitions!

He can't do this, otherwise the people under him will become good servants and good coats of the Qing emperor, how can he be the emperor?

So he played a narrow-minded role and told Kangxi that the "slaves" of Geng's army should be divided into two steps. The first step is to determine who is a slave and who is a coated slave; They were compiled into various banners and placed under the direct control of the Qing emperor.

The reason for the two steps is because his army and family members have been very busy recently and had to move from Fuzhou to Shaowu and Guangxin.I also want to go to Hunan to copy Wu Sangui's retreat.So I don't have the time to "split the banners" for the subordinates - as a slave, it is a bit particular about which banner you belong to.The slaves who go up to the Three Banners and the slaves in clothes are much better than the slaves who go down to the Five Banners!

So once the flag status is also assigned to the minions and the coated minions, it will still be a lot of trouble.

In addition, after the division of banner membership, a new Eight Banners organization had to be established.The number of bannermen in the original Green Battalion was very small, so there was no need to establish additional organizations.But now that the "slavery" rate of the green battalion soldiers has increased, almost [-]% of them are slaves and coated slaves, so it is necessary to establish a group of "green battalion assistant leaders" under the management of the Eight Banners.

This is all trouble!

For such a reasonable request, Kangxi of course immediately granted it.

Therefore, Geng Jingzhong's army has only increased the "slavery rate" and has not incorporated these slaves into the corresponding Eight Banners system.

At the same time, he took this opportunity to mix up his Jingnan Palace Banner Army and the Green Battalion soldiers below, and reorganized the army under his command into a "squad" with 35 participating leaders and 170 five assistant leaders. "Banner Army", and set up seven capitals on top of the 35 participating leaders.

Moreover, he also deceived the middle and low-level officers and soldiers at the bottom, saying that they are considered to be "incorporated into the flag"...even if they are still green battalion soldiers, as long as they make meritorious service in the future, they can become slaves in coats and Eight Banners, and then they can start "" Mix up the future".

The so-called "Qiancheng" is actually the military merit system of the Manchu Qing Dynasty. From ordinary bannermen to first-class merit, there are 24 levels in total, which are called 24 Qianchen.And these "futures" are linked to official positions. With "futures", you will have a grade, and you will have the opportunity to be an official!

The combat effectiveness of the early years of the Manchu Qing Dynasty depended firstly on looting; secondly, it relied on supporting peers;

However, during the reign of Kangxi, because there were too many Eight Banners nobles with hereditary prospects, there were not enough errands to send, so the attraction of this system of military merits and titles to Eight Banners insiders who knew the rules had greatly declined.It can also deceive the green battalion soldiers and banner tenants who have been kneeling and looking up to the masters of the Eight Banners, as well as some "country coats", as well as various savage Jurchens (Saurons, etc.).

However, Geng Jingzhong is planning to start his own business. Once his court is established, there will be plenty of positions that can be used to reward people.

So he planned to use the ready-made set of military merits from the Eight Banners for his own use... Look, how smart this is!

I admire Geng Jingzhong, who is "sophisticated enough", and I'm in a pretty good mood these two days!

Because he had already learned the good news that Emperor Kangxi had arrived at the front line of Jingzhou and that Wu Sangui was marching towards Dangyang and Qianjiang from the Tang newspaper sent from above.

And he also received a court letter from Emperor Kangxi, urging him to march to Hunan as soon as possible!

Kangxi also promised in the court letter that once Wu Sangui was killed, he would be named the vassal king of Hunan—Yongzhen Hunan!

Obviously, the battle on the front line is tight!

In the Xingyuan of King Jingnan in Yingtan Town, Geng Jingzhong was holding the Tingji written by Emperor Kangxi he had just received, looking over and over again, and when he looked more and more proud, there was suddenly a rush of footsteps outside the door.Then came the voice of Fujian governor Liu Bingzheng: "My lord, my lord... Kangxi is here!"

"Who? Who's here?" Geng Jingzhong suspected that there was something wrong with his ears, so he hurriedly said, "Who is outside? Come in and talk!"

"Ah..."

A group of people responded with "嗻", and then they saw the door of the study being pushed open, and Liu Bingzheng, Zeng Yangxing, Liu Yan, Wang Jin, Zuo Chunqiu, etc. all rushed in.

These guys all had very surprised expressions.

"My lord," Liu Bingzheng was the first to speak after saluting Geng Jingzhong, "Kangxi is here! The Wang Jingong stationed in Anren County sent someone to report that the emperor has suddenly arrived at Huangqiu Port in the northwest of Anren County!"

"What?" Geng Jingzhong was taken aback, "How is it possible?"

"No mistake," Zuo Chunqiu also said, "Wang Dutong has already met the third master... The third master said that the emperor is going to Longhu Mountain to offer incense, and he will come to see you."