Buried alive in the Qing Dynasty

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And following the arrow-clothed knight were a few knights who were still wearing the cavalry coat of the Qing army, but had their braids cut off. A group of people entered from the north gate of Ganzhou Fucheng, and then rushed towards the center of Ganzhou Fucheng, where the guards were heavily guarded. "Zhongshu Ling Xingyuan" galloped away.

Chapter 296 Capture Kang Mazi alive and overthrow the Qing Dynasty (2)

"Cannon Zhu... No, my son, Kangxi is here, Kangxi is here in Jiangxi!"

"His Royal Highness, Emperor Xuanye of the Qing Dynasty led [-] Banner soldiers to Jiangxi. He also sent Geng Zhaozhong, the third younger brother of King Jingnan, to enter Jingfan's camp suddenly, and launched a military coup. He arrested Jingnan under the pretext of going crazy. King, seized the power of Jing Fan..."

Kneeling on the third hall of Zhongshuling Xingyuan in Ganzhou City and reporting loudly to Zhu Hexi, it was Geng Jingzhong's military adviser Zuo Chunqiu and Lu Renyi who followed Zuo Chunqiu to be an alternate magistrate on Geng Jingzhong's side—that is Zhu When He Qi was in prison, he was a benevolent leader of the Chaozhou government.

These two men were also in Anren County when Geng Jingzhong "went mad and arrested". Among them, Zuo Chunqiu was taken to kowtow to the fake Kangxi.

But Geng Zhaozhong, who finally got his wish, didn't recognize the crow's mouth Zuo Chunqiu.So after coming out from the fake Kangxi, Zuo Chunqiu immediately approached Lu Renyi, asked him to prepare horses and guides, and then fled overnight!

Of course, there were many people who ran away quietly that night!

The composition of Geng Jingzhong's subordinates is a bit complicated, only a small part is the confidant of the Geng family, and the rest are a little bit wrong.For example, Zhao Desheng is from Wu Sangui, and Ma Weixing is one of the three horses in Nanming. The "Eight Banners" were bluffed, and it was impossible to even think about asking them to change their past.

And this group of people either ran away by themselves, or sent their confidantes to report to the backstage bosses.

In short, the night roads in Anren County and Guixi County were very busy that night!

Although Zuo Chunqiu already knew that Liu Jinzhong had betrayed Geng Jingzhong, he also knew that it was impossible for this Liu Jinzhong to be loyal to the Qing Dynasty.The reason why this guy wants to sell Geng Jingzhong must be the intention of the backstage boss.

And Liu Jinzhong's backstage boss is either Wu Sangui or Zhu Heqi, maybe both!

So Zuo Chunqiu, who slipped out of Anren County, immediately went straight to Ganzhou Mansion together with Lu Renyi.It took only two days to pass through the territory of Fuzhou Prefecture and enter Xingguo County of Ganzhou Prefecture, which had been taken over by Daming.

After arriving in Xingguo County, Zuo Chunqiu and Lu Renyi were intercepted by Liu Jinzhong's cavalry stationed in Xingguo County. After asking about their purpose, they were immediately taken to Ganzhou Fucheng to meet Zhu Heqi.

"Kangxi came to Jiangxi?"

After hearing Zuo Chunqiu and Lu Renyi's reports, Zhu Heqi was also very surprised.

He originally thought that Kangxi would send Tu Hai and Jie Shu to lead troops to Jiangxi to fight Geng Jingzhong... He was ready to strike at the critical moment!

But I didn't expect Kangxi to do it himself!Moreover, this Kangxi acted vigorously as soon as he made a move. Before Geng Jingzhong officially raised the anti-banner, he used the Eight Banners to frighten him, and then used Geng Zhaozhong to launch a military coup, and took Geng Jingzhong down in one fell swoop.

The layout that he and Yang Qilong had worked on for so long was destroyed by Kangxi just like this!

Oh, and it's not exactly broken.Zhu Hexi said in his heart: "If Kangxi really led tens of thousands of Eight Banners soldiers to Jiangxi, then the strength of the Jianghan battlefield would be much reduced. Moreover, Shi Lang's navy had to help Kangxi transport troops, so he would also leave Wuchang and Hanyang. And without Shi Lang's navy and tens of thousands of land divisions, the Qing army would be extremely passive on the Jianghan battlefield."

"Master, hurry up and send troops!"

Seeing that Zhu Heqiu was still in a daze, Zuo Chunqiu hurriedly said: "After capturing the Geng's army, Xuan Ye wanted to use the Geng's army as the guide to personally lead the army through Nanchang, Linjiang, Yuanzhou, and go straight to Chaling Pass... he They want to invade Hunan and steal Wu Sangui's back route!"

"what?"

"really?"

"how is this possible?"

Now Zhu Heqi, Liu Jinzhong and Yang Qilong were all shocked.

"You can't go wrong!" Zuo Chunqiu said, "I heard what Xuan Ye said with my own ears...and I feel that Xuan Ye has to resort to military tactics to bring back the decline of the Huguang battlefield. If he wants to return to the division now Dangyang, before his troops arrive, Wu Sangui has already defeated the tens of thousands of Qing troops led by Zhuobutai."

Zhu Heqi also knew that Wu Sangui was fighting the Qing army in Dangyang, but he didn't know the specific situation, so he asked: "Mr. Zuo, as far as you know, how is the situation in Dangyang?"

Zuo Chunqiu said: "Reporting to my lord, Wu Sangui gathered all the elite in Dangyang area, designed to surround Dong E's 2 people, and then used these 2 people to catch Zhuobutai's 6 to 10,000 people... …Now the [-]+ armies of the two sides are fighting in the Dangyang area! Although Wu Sangui has the upper hand, if Xuan Ye leads an army of tens of thousands into Hunan, Wu Sangui may have to withdraw from Jiangbei.

Once he withdrew, the Wu family's army would be in decline!Moreover, Wu Sangui is already 61 years old. If he loses this time, he will lose his ambition!At that time, the anti-Qing cause will be hit hard! "

Speaking of this, Zuo Chunqiu suddenly bowed to Zhu and Qi, with tears in his eyes: "My lord, you don't have to think about Wu Sangui, but please look at the people who died in the Qing Dynasty in Beizhili, Shandong, Shanxi and Henan. For the sake of tens of millions of Li people who have been slaughtered with swords and iron hooves, encroaching on land, occupying houses, fleeing people, etc., and many other evil laws and tyranny... Xuan Ye must be held back, and he must not be allowed to enter Hunan!"

Zhu Heqi knew from the accent of the Zuo military division that he was from Northern Zhili.It is estimated that the family was also slaughtered by the Qing Tar... Bloody revenge!

Thinking of this, he sneered: "Hold on? Is the lonely family sending troops just to hold Xuan Ye back?"

"Master, you..."

Zhu Heqi stood up suddenly, with excited faces, and said loudly: "The lonely family... wants to capture this Kang Mazi alive, and avenge the hundreds of millions of Han people who died at the hands of the Qing captives!"

As soon as his words came out of his mouth, both Yang Qilong and Liu Jinzhong were startled.

Now Zhu Heqi only has more than [-] people in the first town of the army, and Liu Jinzhong can still send thousands of troops.

And in Kangxi's hands, plus Geng Jingzhong's army, there are at least [-] people!

Tens of thousands to [-]... one to four, it seems not very sure!

However, Zhu Hexi was full of confidence, "Kang Mazi really has a way to heaven, but he doesn't go, but he has no way to hell, he just wants to come. Now that he has come, Jiangxi will be his death place!"

"Beat the drums, gather the generals!"

Zhu Heqi shouted again, "Send orders to the other ministries that Xuan Ye has come to Jiangxi, so the lonely family wants to arrest Kangxi and destroy the Qing captives!"

"I have to order... to arrest Kangxi and destroy the Qing captives!"

The messengers of the No. [-] Town of the Jinyi Pro-Army Army standing outside the gate all raised their arms and shouted!

……

"Long live Long live Long live……"

In Dangyang, in the camp of the Qing army fifteen miles east of Xianglu Mountain, there was a sudden cheer that shook the sky.

The cheers were so loud that they spread to the Wu army camp ten miles away, disturbing President Wu's slumber.

The President was still laughing in his dream when he heard someone shouting "Long Live", talking in his sleep while laughing: "Wow haha... This yellow robe is so beautiful!"

It is estimated that the old man is dreaming of wearing a yellow robe!

Then Wu Sangui felt a shaking, and woke up after shaking.

When he woke up, he saw a round face of an old lady smiling at him. It was Chen Yuanyuan's face.

"What's the matter?" As soon as he opened his mouth, he heard the cheers of "Long live, long live". The cheers were not loud, as if they came from far away.

"The Qing captives are shouting long live on the mountain?"

Wu Sangui sat up abruptly, with a puzzled look on his face, "What's going on? They've been defeated for so many days in a row, what are they talking about?"

"Father Commander," Wu Yingqi's voice suddenly came from outside the tent, "Are you awake?"

Wu Sangui said loudly: "Wake up, come in!"

Then I saw the curtain of the big tent being lifted up, and Wu Yingqi, Wu Guogui, Xia Guoxiang, and Hu Zhuguo all came together.

The four of them saluted Wu Sangui first, and then Wu Yingqi said, "Father, do you hear that? Qingyao is shouting long live!"

"I heard it!" Wu Sangui asked, "What's going on?"

Wu Guogui said: "Father, it seems that Kangxi came to Jingmen Prefecture."

"What?" Wu Sangui was taken aback, "Did Kangxi come to die?"

Chapter 297 Capture Kang Mazi alive and overthrow the Qing Dynasty (3)

Of course, Kangxi Kang Mazi didn't come to die. He still wanted to live another 500 years. How could he have a good life, but he ran to Jingmen Prefecture to die?

But the battle situation on the front line of Jingmen Prefecture is really tight!

And the rise and fall of the Qing Dynasty is in this battle.If Dangyang is defeated, the prosperous Qing Dynasty of Emperor Kangxi will be gone, and it will become the chaos of the Three Kingdoms.

Regardless of the fact that the Qing Dynasty had more than 20 troops on the Huguang and Jiangxi battlefields, but now there are only more than 7 troops in Jingmen Prefecture and [-] to [-] troops in Jiangxi that can conduct large-scale field battles.

In addition, there are tens of thousands of people in Anlu, Hanyang, Wuchang, and the official roads by the Hanshui River... they must be gathered first before they can be of great use.

Among them, the [-] to [-] troops in Jiangxi, which Kangxi placed high hopes on, are now far away from the main battlefield.It will take at least another ten days for them to invade Hunan. When they take Changsha and Hengzhou, it may be half a month later.

Fifteen days later, the besieged Dong E either died of starvation or became a second official of Manchuria. That old fellow Zhuobutai might have been defeated and fled... At that time, the [-] or [-] troops in Wu Sangui's hands would be nothing. Just "live".

Once the 6 or [-] Wu troops "live", and at the same time the Qing army in the Jianghan area rests, even if the [-] or [-] troops in Fuquan take down Changsha and Hengzhou, it will be useless.

As long as Wu Sangui led the Jiangbei army back to Hunan, the Qing army who had penetrated deep into Hunan retreated a little slower, and they might be caught and swallowed by Wu Sangui!

At that time, Wu Sangui will be able to complete his "Two Famous Kings"!

But if the battle situation really develops to this stage, then the Emperor Kangxi's personal conquest will be a fiasco!

Therefore, Emperor Kangxi, who was in Xiangyang Mansion, couldn't sit still anymore, so he asked Mingzhu to take 5000 people to protect him from Xiangyang to the south, and arrived at the front line of Jingmen Prefecture yesterday evening.Early this morning, the Qing army on the front line of Jingmen discovered that their master had arrived, and they shouted long live like a frying pan.

While going south, Kangxi mobilized [-] elite soldiers from Eza, and ordered Wang Fuchen, who had just arrived in Hanyang, to bring his more than [-] green flag soldiers to Jingmen Prefecture.

Then, he asked Eza to lead the remaining ten thousand people under his command into Wuchang and Hanyang to defend the city.

After some scheduling, Emperor Kangxi finally gathered another 5000 troops (including the [-] Dong E stayed in Jingmen Prefecture).And with the [-] army that was not yet fully in place, Kangxi's waist became stiff again.

Now the Emperor Kangxi is walking in the city of Jingmen Prefecture, with his stiff waist sticking out, standing in front of a wooden map to study the battle situation!

Zhuobutai, Leerjin, Mingzhu, Shuotuo, Bahai and other generals in the army all bowed and stood behind him, waiting for Tianyu to inquire.

"Forty thousand plus fifty thousand is ninety thousand. Wu Sangui has seventy thousand at most, and twenty thousand will be used to encircle Xianglu Mountain... that is ninety thousand plus fifty thousand?"

"Your majesty is wise!" Zhuobutai hurriedly knelt down, and then flattered him.

Kangxi turned his head and glared at the old man, "How could I be the emperor with such a simple arithmetic?"

Of course it can... Kneeling Zhuobutai said heartily: "You became emperor because of pockmarks on your face, not because you are good at arithmetic."

Kangxi asked again with a pockmarked face: "Zhubutai, let me ask you, do we have an advantage over Wu Sangui's 9 with 5?"

"This..." Zhuobutai was really in trouble!

Now compared to the number of people on the front line of Dangyang, it is true that the Qing army has the upper hand.However, this advantage is not too great. Counting those trapped on Xianglu Mountain who have not starved to death or been beaten to death, it is estimated to be around 8000.And Wu Sangui's department may have [-] people.

But compared to firepower, the Qing army is far behind.

Wu Sangui's cannon is much stronger than the Qing army on the front line of Dangyang!His cannons were cast directly in Yuezhou, and then transported by water to the front line of Dangyang.Because Wu Sangui originally planned to use these cannons to bombard Shi Lang's navy, and also wanted to use them to bombard Wuchang.Therefore, they are all "heavy artillery" with a weight of more than one thousand catties.

Although the Qing army also possessed a large number of red cannons, there were hundreds of them seized from the hands of the Ming Dynasty alone.

In addition, after the two big rebels, Prince Zhu Sangui and Wu Sangui, started a quarrel, Kangxi ordered Western missionaries such as Nan Huairen, Fobao, and Shuo Sitai to set up artillery factories in Beijing to cast Shenwei Invincible General Cannon, Wucheng Yonggu, etc. General Cannon and General Weiyuan Cannon.

Among them, the Shenwei Invincible General cannon weighed more than 2000 catties, and the ammunition weighed more than seven catties.General Wucheng Yonggu's cannon is a heavy siege cannon with a bomb weight of [-] jin.As for the Weiyuan General Cannon, it is a large-caliber mortar.

These three kinds of artillery are all relatively advanced Western cannons, but the problem is that except for the lighter General Weiyuan cannon, the other two long cannons are too heavy.Now they are with other red cannons, and they are still on their way to Xiangyang!

Most of the artillery that arrived at the front line of Huguang were light artillery weighing less than [-] catties.Only a small amount of heavy artillery ranging from seven to eight hundred catties to one thousand catties was distributed to Shi Lang's navy for use.

In addition to artillery, Wu Sangui's fire mines are also more powerful than those of the Qing army-this is more deadly than artillery!

Wu Jun's Huolei uses military white sugar produced by Guangzhou North Factory and high-quality fire salt produced by West Factory. It is boiled on the front line of Dangyang according to the formula provided by Zhu Heqi.And there are two kinds of explosion type and smoke type.Moreover, the shell case of Wu Jun Huolei was also cast in bronze in Yuezhou based on the samples provided by Zhu Heqi.

Therefore, these fire mines are not only powerful, but also safe and reliable without self-explosion.

The Huo Lei of the Qing army was figured out by Kangxi, Zhang Zhenren, Shi Lang, and Deng Zhong themselves.But it did not solve the problem of catalyst and coagulant, and also used iron casing as the shell, and directly added rusty iron nails inside, so it was easy to self-explode.

But the bigger problem is that Kangxi's sense of secrecy is too strong!

Only the "medicine slaves" in the firearms battalion of the coated slave army under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Internal Affairs can be taught the "secret method of fire and thunder" by Zhang Hongtian, a Taoist scholar... In this way, the secret is kept.Even Nan Huairen still thinks that the "Fire and Thunder Secret Technique" is magic!But this output is a problem.

On the front line of Dangyang, the number of fire mines thrown by the Qing army was less than one-tenth of the number of fire mines thrown by the Wu army.

One can imagine how miserable the Qing army fought in this battle.

But it was Kangxi's decision to keep Huolei secret!

How could Zhuobutai, who had suffered so much, dare to speak out?So he hesitated and "stuck".

"Your Majesty," Guarja Bahai, who was transferred from Ningguta, didn't know how powerful his master was. Seeing that Zhuobutai was "stuck", he helped him continue, "I think this battle cannot be fought in Dangyang. down!"

"Not in Dangyang?" Kangxi asked, "Where should we fight?"

"Fight on the way to Jingzhou City!" Bahai said, "Dangyang is next to Zhangshui and Jushui, and there are ready-made piers for loading and unloading artillery. Wu Sangui transported one or two hundred heavy artillery pieces from Jingzhou in one go. , beat our brothers so much that they couldn’t lift their heads. And their fire and mines are more powerful than ours..."

"Cough cough cough..."

At this time, Zhuobutai suddenly coughed violently, which startled Emperor Kangxi, and quickly turned his head to look at the old guy—this old guy must not be infected with some kind of disease, and it would be a heinous crime to pass it on to the emperor!

"Your Majesty, this servant thinks that Bahai's suggestion is very good!" Zhuobutai said, "From Jingmen Prefecture to Jingzhou, it is a flat river, and Wu Sangui probably doesn't know that our new army is coming soon. The slave suggested that Hanyang, Anlu The fresh troops that come over don’t have to come to Jingmen Prefecture anymore. They can go directly to Jianyang Town and Shilipu on the bank of the Jianyang River to set up formations, and wait for the army from Dangyang to lead Wu Sangui’s soldiers and horses there. This will not only fight Wu Sangui alone If we are caught off guard, and Wu Sangui's heavy artillery can't follow up, our chances of winning are great."

"Okay!" Emperor Kangxi slapped his hands fiercely, "I want to personally lead my troops south into Jingzhou... I want to see if Wu Sangui dares to follow!"

Chapter 298 Capture Kang Mazi alive and overthrow the Qing Dynasty (4)

"Listen to the old man, Xuan Ye is not very old, he is only in his early twenties, he is quite thin, with a sharp mouth and monkey cheeks, and has pockmarks on his face... If you catch such ones, bring them to the old man. The dead ones were also carried by the old man!"

When Emperor Kangxi was dispatching troops and generals to change places for a turnaround, Wu Sangui was also holding a military meeting.But what he's discussing now is more festive. The old guy is already preparing to capture Kang Mazi alive!

Of course, he was trying to cheer up his subordinates.You have to build up the confidence to win!

It doesn't matter whether the real Kang Mazi can be caught or not, but the big guy must have such confidence - the little pockmarked guy will come to catch the big guy alive!