Buried alive in the Qing Dynasty

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With the protection of the "Jing Zhong" Wang Fuchen, this Emperor Kangxi seems to be safe, but the other Emperor Kangxi has not yet realized that a huge danger is approaching.

"Another Emperor Kangxi" is of course Jiangxi's high imitation Kangxi Emperor Fuquan... He is now under the control of the high imitation Zhu Santai grandson Zhu Heqi!

High imitation vs. high imitation, this is fate!

And now, in the early morning of October [-]th, Fuquan didn't know that his good brother Kang Mazi had been defeated by Wu Sangui in Hubei and was almost captured.

Otherwise, he would not dare to use Zhou Peigong's strategy of "strike east and west, wait for work with leisure, throw bricks to attract jade, and strike halfway" to deal with Zhu Heqi and Liu Jinzhong's tens of thousands of "tired troops" at the confluence of Ganjiang and Ruhe. ah!

Fuquan's high imitation line is here, and it is now placed in a small town called Shicha.This small town is located at the confluence of the Ganjiang River and the Jinjiang River. If you go west along the Jinjiang River, you can enter Ruizhou, Yuanzhou, and then enter Hunan from Yuanzhou.

Twenty miles south of the small town of Shicha, there is a tributary of the Gan River named Ru River, which happens to stop Zhu Heqi and Liu Jinzhong on their way north to Nanchang.

Along the Ru River, near the state border of Fuzhou, there is another small town named Sanjiangkou Town.

And Zhou Peigong's plan revolved around Ruhe, Sanjiangkou Town, Shicha Town, and the Jinjiang River leading to Ruizhou and Yuanzhou in the west.

Now that Zhou Peigong's plan has been arranged, it's just waiting for Zhu Heqi and Liu Jinzhong to be fooled!

Chapter 309 Capture Kang Mazi alive and overthrow the Qing Dynasty (15)

On the south bank of Ru River, Dagang Town.

Zhu Heqi and Liu Jinzhong's army is now stationed in this big town on the banks of the Gan River.

The army of more than 1 people drove four to five hundred miles in a few days, and arrived at Dagang Town at noon yesterday. The whole army was exhausted, and of course they had to take a good rest.

Moreover, Zhu and Qi also heard two unbelievable news from the people of Dagang Town.

The first is that the presence of Emperor Kangxi is actually placed in Shicha Town, dozens of miles away!

Then the freshman emperor, even if he came to Jiangxi, he should stay in a big place like Nanchang Fucheng. How could he come to a small town?What is he?Are you coming to play farmhouse?

The second news is that Emperor Kangxi also divided his troops and sent General Tuhai of Ningnan Jingkou to take half of the people across the Ganjiang River, and then went west along the Jinjiang River to Hunan.

This news is even more surprising than the first one... What is the Emperor Kangxi's obsession with?Zhu Heqi and Liu Jinzhong marched along the east bank of the Ganjiang River. Because they were in a hurry, they did not touch the city on the west bank of the Ganjiang River.Therefore, Emperor Kangxi should be able to know the approximate number of people under Zhu Heqi and Liu Jinzhong through the reports of these prefectures and counties.

The first town led by Zhu Heqi had more than 6000 people, and Liu Jinzhong's troops also squeezed out [-] elite soldiers, and the total number of the two was [-]!Moreover, they did not attack fortified cities along the way, and did not divide their troops to occupy large areas. Instead, the whole division rushed forward, leaving only a small number of wounded and sick and military officials who occupied several cities abandoned by the Qing army for "planting flags" and Take in stragglers.

Therefore, when the army arrived at the large port on the south bank of the Ru River, there were still 4000 people in the whole army.

Don't think that this number is small. During the Battle of Longtoushan in Guangzhou and the Battle of Dinghushan in Zhaoqing, there were only a few of Zhu Heqi's men.In the end, what happened to Shang Kexi and Tu Hai?Why didn't Emperor Kangxi learn his lesson?

"Hmph! If something goes wrong, there must be fraud!"

In a large house in Dagang Town, Zhu Heqi, who had just taken a nap, was drinking strong tea to refresh himself, while talking with Liu Jinzhong, Yang Qilong, Zhuge Zhengyang, Zhao Hongkui, Su Zhanhai, Yu Xiaoqian, Zuo Chunqiu , Ma Yinglong, Yang Xizhen, Wu Qizhen (son of Wu Liuyi) and others under Liu Jinzhong held military discussions.

Zhu Dashizi, who fought in the Battle of Jieyang, the Battle of Macau, the Battle of Longtoushan in Guangzhou, and the Battle of Dinghushan in Zhaoqing, has grown up now. After listening to Liu Jinzhong's report on the enemy's situation, he knew that there must be a fraud!

However, he hadn't reached the level of being able to pinch and count, so he couldn't figure out what kind of deceit the fake Kangxi was playing, so he had to turn his attention to Yang Qilong and Zuo Chunqiu, the two great military advisers.

But both of these two are "roughly simple" military advisers, good at conspiracy and strategy, but short at tactics, so they can't figure out what the pseudo-Kangxi is doing for a while?And they didn't guess that Kangxi on the other side of the Ru River was a fake.

"My lord, I think that as long as Xuanye is in Shicha Town, we can't let him go!" Yang Qilong said, "This little pockmark is only in his early twenties this year, and there is only one son named Yinti, who is only one or two years old. Big babies, don’t know if they can grow up? Once Xiao Mazi dies, the Qing court will be leaderless. Even if we can’t sweep the north and unify the world, we can take advantage of the chaos to seize the southeast and return the capital to Jiangning.”

Zhu Hechi nodded and said with a smile: "The world today is not the same as in the past. If the taxation and property are not in Fujian and Guangdong, they are in Jiangnan. If I own both places, how difficult is it to level the world?"

His words are not bragging!

Due to the emergence of "white sugar for military use", the four provinces of Guangdong, Fujian, Zhejiang, and Jiangsu not only have extremely high economic value, but also have great military value!

This "military white sugar" is no less useful to the war in the "sugar gunpowder" era than the iron weapons and war horses in the cold weapon era!

In this era, the world's sugar producing areas are mainly Guangdong, Fujian, and Zhejiang.

Ironware produced in Guangdong was also sold in East and Southeast Asia during this era.

In addition, the silk and cotton cloth produced in the south of the Yangtze River, and the porcelain produced in the three provinces of Fujian, Guangdong and Jiangxi are all fist products occupying the high-end of the world's industrial chain.And the tea that can be produced in large quantities in these provinces has gradually become popular in Europe.

It can be said that Guangdong, Fujian, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, and Jiangxi provinces are the regions that dominate the world's high-end industries.

Moreover, the population of these provinces is just right... There are quite a lot of people, but it is far from the point where rations have to compete with cash crops for land.

In other words, the agriculture of these provinces can also provide enough and low-cost raw materials for the handicraft industry.

It is no exaggeration to say that the conditions for the development of industrialization in Guangdong, Fujian, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, and Jiangxi are even better than those in the 1950s!That is, if you want to have an industry, you need a population that is just right, and you will not be short of capital—with high-end industries in hand, how can you be short of capital?Even if there is a shortage, you can send people out to sea to grab it, oh, to buy it for zero yuan!

Historically, the reason why these places could not develop in the 17th and 18th centuries was entirely the result of various restrictions and prohibitions in the Qing Dynasty... In fact, the pursuit of the Qing court was the lack of development or even regression.

And Zhu Hechi wants to develop, and knows how to develop.So once he wins the Yangtze River Delta and Jiangxi, it is only a matter of time before he can rule the world!

If Kangxi and Kang Mazi can be captured smoothly, the Manchu Qing Dynasty will definitely be in chaos, and it won't be long before Zhu and Qi rule the world.

Thinking of this, Zhu Heqi's spirit immediately came, and he asked Zuo Chunqiu with a smile: "Mr. Zuo, the pockmark in Shicha Town is not a fake pockmark, is it?"

Zuo Chunqiu said with certainty: "It's not fake pockmarks, it's real pockmarks. I looked carefully, and the pockmarked face is definitely real. And the figure and appearance are both right, that's Kangxi."

Zuo Chunqiu was Wu Yingxiong's staff back then, so he still had the opportunity to meet Kangxi.So he has met Kangxi, but he is not very familiar with it... At most, he is half-familiar, even half a bottle of water has not arrived, and he is still wandering around.

After all, Fuquan and Kangxi are brothers, they still look alike, and they are about the same age. Now there is a fake pockmarked face, which looks similar to the real Kangpock from a distance.

Seeing how confident he was, and knowing that he had been in Beijing for many years, and that he was not only Wu Yingxiong's aide, but also a well-known physiognomy in Beijing, Zhu Heqi of course believed his words.

At this time, Zuo Chunqiu took out another "pockmarked portrait" with iron wire and silver hook, and handed it to Zhu Heqi with both hands, "Master, this is the figure of Xuan Ye drawn by my minister."

There are pictures and truth!Zhu Heqi took "Mazixiang" and saw that the painting was quite good and lifelike. If he followed this painting, he should be able to catch Kang Mazi.

"As long as Kang Mazi is really in Shicha Town!" Zhu Heqian slapped his hands, "This kid has harmed the country and the people. He has committed a heinous crime. He deserves his death. We can't let him run away!"

"My lord's words are very true!" Liu Jinzhong quickly took over the topic and said, "My lord, I have already sent people to investigate, and found that Qing Yao gathered one or two hundred wooden boats on the wharf of Sanjiangkou Town, and piled them on top of them. The firewood seems to be ready to be used as a fireboat."

"Being a boat on fire?" Zhu Heqi was taken aback, "Kang Mazi plans to set the boat on fire when we cross the river?"

Liu Jinzhong nodded, "It should be."

Zhu Hechi thought for a while, "But we don't have a boat to cross the river! What can they burn?"

Liu Jinzhong smiled and said, "My lord, aren't those fire boats on the wharf of Sanjiangkou Town just boats? As long as we grab a dozen or so, we can build a pontoon bridge, and then the cannons can be pulled across the river."

"Can you grab it?" Zhu Heqi asked.

"Yes, definitely!" Liu Jinzhong patted his chest, "Wrap it on the minister...the minister will lead someone to grab it himself!"

"Okay!" Zhu Heqi nodded with a smile, "Then rest for another day, and the lonely family will prepare some grenade hammers for your people to take. The day after tomorrow, we will start in the early morning, grab the wooden boat, cross the Ru River... to capture alive Kang Mazi!"

Chapter 310 Capture Kang Mazi alive and overthrow the Qing Dynasty (16)

The thirteenth day of October, the second year of King Ding Jianguo of the Ming Dynasty.

On the third day after Kang Mazi defeated Jianyangshui, on the bank of Ru River in Nanchang Prefecture, Jiangxi Province, which is more than 1000 miles away from Jianyangshui, Kangxi Kang Mazi is about to usher in the third important event in his life. Decisive battle - the first decisive battle is to catch Oboi in Nanshufang; the second decisive battle is to fight Wu Sangui in Jianyang water; the third decisive battle is to face Zhu Heqi on the bank of Ru River in Jiangxi!

Well, it takes two or three days to travel more than 1000 miles. In theory, it is too late to go to Jiangxi from Hubei to fight this battle, right?

Kang Mazi's opponent in the Battle of Ru River, Zhu Heqi, had just arrived in Dagang Town on the south bank of the Ru River on October [-]th.For the remaining time on the [-]th, there are still two full days on the [-]th and [-]th, plus most of the half day on the [-]th, Zhu Heqi and his army are mainly resting.

At noon on the [-]th, the army had almost rested and started to move.Wisps of cooking smoke first appeared over Dagang Town!

This is not just the smoke of cooking, but the smoke of cooking plus sugar medicine!

Due to the appearance of the "Kaqiu Kill" and the Lasso-style grenade hammer, the current Ming army is "more and more sweet"... Everyone has to bring a large bag of military sugar or fire nitrate when marching.

And because the "ingredients" have been added to the military white sugar in advance, every piece of white sugar and every pack of fire salt has been weighed in advance.

As the craft of boiling sugar medicine becomes easier, more people can participate, and the output will of course be greater.

By the evening of the [-]th, all ministries had completed the preparation and filling of sugar medicine. More than [-] cable-style grenades and smoke bombs, [-] flowering hammers and [-] rocket bombs had all been assembled and released. Sent to the participating troops!

At the same time, the musketeers who participated in the war also produced more than [-] paper shell fixed ammunition.

Just looking at the quantity of these arms, you can see how powerful Guangdong is with its sugar and gunpowder—Guangdong's white sugar, porcelain, ironware industries, and foreign trade all require a lot of handicraft and transportation labor.With these workers, Zhu Heqi's southeast and northwest inner factories can rapidly expand their production capacity and provide a large amount of ammunition.

At the same time, Zhu and Chi's army could also recruit many fighters who were born as handicraft workers.These people may not be able to compete with peasant soldiers and herdsmen soldiers.However, compared with farmers and herdsmen, they have a kind of "artisan spirit", that is, they are more serious and responsible, can strictly follow the craftsmanship taught by their masters in production and production, and are more disciplined.

If these soldiers with "artisan spirit" competed in strength, horseback riding and shooting, they may not be the opponents of peasant soldiers, herdsmen soldiers and Manchurian soldiers.But it is better than operating muskets and cannons, preparing sugar gunpowder, making grenade hammers and rockets, it is not 01:30.

After all, traditional farming and animal husbandry is not a delicate job, it is almost enough.Moreover, traditional agriculture and animal husbandry largely depend on the sky and the earth, so they don't pay much attention to efficiency.

And the handicraft industry, even the traditional handicraft industry, pays more attention to exquisite workmanship, and everything cannot be the same.And you have to pay attention to efficiency...the more you save, the faster you can earn more!

Therefore, once the war enters the era of industrialization and pre-industrialization, the advantages of industrial countries and pre-industrial countries become extremely obvious.

After dinner on the [-]th, the soldiers of the first town of the Ming army who were about to join the battle received their three-day rations, and then checked their equipment one by one under the supervision of the officers—because of the So the first town of the Ming army no longer had special grenadiers, but sent grenades to musketeers, pikemen and cavalry, so except for artillery, heavy soldiers, and engineers, everyone was The grenadiers are gone.

At the same time, sword players and archers have also disappeared.The troop configuration of the first-line infantry leader has become half musketeers and half pikemen.The waist knife and grenade are standard equipment.

After checking the equipment, the soldiers of the first town left the backpacks they were carrying in the battalion, then lined up in armor and drove out of Dagang Town.

At the exit of the town, they also saw the third grandson of Zhu Dasheng who was wearing a breastplate and riding a long-legged horse!

Grandson Zhu San led a small number of "knights" under his command and lined up on the official road outside the town to send off these warriors.

Seeing every infantryman come out, these knights would shout together: "Catch Kang Mazi alive and fight to Nanjing!"

The morale of the infantry soldiers who went out also rose, and they all raised their arms and shouted: "Catch Kang Mazi alive and restore the Ming Dynasty!"

Catching Kang Mazi is not just shouting casually, Zhu Heqi is serious!

So Zuo Chunqiu has been busy painting Kang Mazi's portrait for the past two days, he has painted hundreds of pictures, and now he is so tired that he has fallen asleep.

And the portrait of Kang Mazi he drew has been distributed!Each leader and deputy leader has already received a portrait of Kang Mazi - just grab it!

According to the plans of Zhu Heqi, Yang Qilong, Zhuge Zhengyang and Liu Jinzhong.The Ming army will invest four infantry associations (including one Liu Jinzhong's association) at once on the battlefield of Sanjiangkou Town to launch an attack!The artillery of the first town, including the "Kaqiu Kill" rocket launchers, are also concentrated here!

One cooperation is the general reserve team, and the other is the association (Liu Jinzhong's department) with the battalion as the unit.Launch diversionary attacks in other directions.The units directly under the First Town, except for the cavalry battalion, all stayed in Dagang Town to see their "home".

And Zhu Hechi himself will lead the "grenade cavalry" to supervise the battle on the south bank of Sanjiangkou Town, and wait for the pontoon bridge to be built before crossing the river to participate in the battle.

Zhu Heqi must go all out and prepare to attack Shicha Town in one fell swoop, and capture or kill the Qing Emperor Kang Mazi alive!

In the early morning of the [-]th, the First Town of the Ming Army and most of the Yongwei Battalion under Liu Jinzhong, who participated in the battle, had already entered the attack position on the opposite bank of Sanjiangkou Town.

This attack position is located behind a section of embankment on the south bank of the Ru River, and the wharf of Sanjiangkou Town is on the other side of the river.

Because the ships on the Ru River and the nearby Gan River had been "cleaned up" by the Qing army, the Ming troops of Zhu and Qi did not find ships to use to cross the river.However, the Ru River is not very wide. The officers and soldiers of the First Town and the Yongwei Battalion built one or two hundred sheepskin rafts, which is enough to cross the river.

The six "Kaqiu Kill" rocket launchers belonging to the Artillery Battalion of the First Township have been pulled behind the river embankment and put away, just waiting to "shoot arrows to scare people"... The power of these things may not be very powerful, but when they are launched, they are really powerful. It's very bluffing.

If the Qing army on the other side of the river can be scared away, the forced crossing will be done!

In the early hours of the morning, the sky was already slightly brighter.On the attacking position of the Ming army, everyone tried their best to keep quiet, only the sound of the rolled up armor and weapons slightly colliding with each other - all the infantry came without armor, but rolled up.I'm going to cross the river later, and I accidentally fell into the water, and I can't float if I wear armor.

The people in the brigade were crowded together, and the atmosphere was a little tense.Liu Jinzhong was in charge of leading the battle. He selected 2000 elites from the three associations of the Yongwei Battalion under his command to form a temporary association (the army's first town has [-] members). Hand grenades, a machete on his back, and a rattan plate tied to one arm.Ten of them were assigned a sheepskin raft, and each of them received a bottle of sugar cane wine to strengthen their courage and warm their bodies.

Liu Jinzhong was also dressed like them, and at this time he was leading a few henchmen to kowtow to the old-looking "Emperor Chongzhen of Ming Dynasty" behind the embankment to pray for blessings!

A small hill not far from the attack position has now been controlled by the cavalry led by Zhu Heqi.His commanding position is here - as soon as the rocket launcher is fired, Zhu Heqi's "The world is for the public" flag and the "Human World Great Harmony" flag will be erected!

From Zishi to the present, Zhu and Qi have been standing on the hillside, using a telescope to observe the situation on the other side of the river... Sanjiangkou Town on the other side of the river is a little bit bright, and the place farther away is not counted. The Ming camp (that is, the camp with lights) is too big, and it seems that there are only 2 or [-] people.

A little less, there will be no fraud, right?

I don't know how long it took before Zhu Heqi put down the binoculars, turned to look at Yang Qilong and Zhuge Zhengyang, the chief soldier of the first town: "Almost...we can start catching Kang Mazi!"

Chapter 311 Capture Kang Mazi alive and overthrow the Qing Dynasty (17)

When the sky just turned bright, a thin layer of morning mist floated on the Ru River.Occasionally, there are a few waterfowls singing softly, but it makes the banks of the Ru River in the morning even more tranquil.

And a thousand or hundreds of bare-shouldered fighters carrying big knives and shields and grenades have already carried sheepskin rafts to the water surface on the south side of the Ruhe River under the cover of morning mist.

Cui Liu, the artillery battalion commander of the Army's No. 36 Town, held a command flag, leaned out half of his body from behind an artillery bunker built with sandbags, and saw that the artillerymen surrounded by six multiple rocket launchers were ready. Huo Zhezi, the [-] barrels of the six rocket launchers have also been loaded with rockets, so he waved the red flag in his hand heavily and shouted: "Fire!"

"ignition!"

The artillerymen with fire folders in their hands also shouted together, and then started to light the fire.

A multiple-launch rocket launcher has six copper tubes, and a rocket with a big head and a small body is inserted into each tube.The rocket is divided into two parts, the propulsion part and the combat part, which need to be ignited separately.

Among them, the fire of the propulsion part should be lit on the buttocks, and the fire of the warhead should be lit on the head, so there are two artillerymen responsible for firing.There are two other people who are responsible for supervising the ignition-the person who lit the ignition forgot that they have to be responsible for reminding!

One person stands at the muzzle of the bazooka, and holds a torch and clicks from top to bottom, first in the row of three on the top, and then on the row of three on the bottom.When igniting, you have to grab the "big head" of a rocket with one hand and lift it out a little, and then you can ignite a wooden tube fuze hidden behind the big head.Light one, and the fireman has to say "ignite on the first", "ignite on the second"... until "ignite on the sixth".

The artilleryman who was in charge of supervising him watched from the sidelines, and when he saw that the igniter was lighting the fire, he would say "end of number one", "end of number two"... until "end of number six".

The other ignition soldier half-kneeled at the tail of the rocket launcher, responsible for igniting the fire wire of the propulsion department.He ordered from the bottom row to the top, not just randomly, but also according to the number. He started from number six and continued to number one.However, when the number is called, it is not "a certain number ignites", but "a certain number launches".

In addition, the person in charge of supervising the ignition soldier will shout "the launch of the certain number is completed".

Such a calling is not easy to hear.And one person ignites and one person supervises, and it is not easy to make mistakes.

And after all the warheads and launchers of the six rockets are ignited, the six artillerymen will immediately hide in the bunker on the side—it must be taken just in case!

If something went wrong and the rocket exploded in the tube of the bazooka, at least it wouldn't kill anyone.