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After all, although the Qing Dynasty and Wu Zhou could not support 50 soldiers, it would not take much effort to maintain 30 to [-] troops each.
Therefore, the combined strength of the two countries is actually no less than that of Xin Ming.
As far as Xin Daming is concerned, if it can be solved first, at least one of the countries will be hit hard first, which is the best choice.
And Zhu Heqi asked the heavenly king Zhu and Zhao Zhongyi to return to Nanjing from Dengzhou just to discuss this matter.
On the third day after Zhu Tianwang returned to Nanjing, he and Zhao Zhongyi were invited to the enclosure of the Hall of Martial Arts in the Forbidden City.
After more than two years of construction, the first phase of the overhaul project of the Forbidden City in Nanjing has been completed.
In this first phase of overhaul, all three halls of the Forbidden City in Nanjing have been rebuilt and restored to their former grandeur.
The Wuying Hall and Wenhua Hall on both sides of the Three Great Halls were completely flattened, and then two surrounding buildings were built on the original site—actually, two office buildings with the same names as before, but their uses were completely different.
Among them, the Wenhua Hall is the office building used by Zhu Heqi to handle government affairs. The Prime Minister's Mansion, the University Academy, the Hanlin Academy, the Advisory Council, the Confucian School Headquarters, and the Huangzhuang Headquarters all have offices in the surrounding buildings of the Wenhua Hall.
The Hall of Martial Arts is the office building used by Zhu Heqi to handle military affairs. Military institutions such as the Military Division Office, the Ministry of War, the Commander of the Navy, the Academy of the Army and the Navy, and the Jinyiwei all set up offices in the Hall of Martial Arts.
In addition, there are several map rooms in the Hall of Martial Heroes, hanging a huge map called "Great Tomorrow Going to the Land", there are also maps of the provinces of Ming Dynasty, sand tables of provinces and special military maps-these maps and The sand table was slowly made by the Ming Army Officer Academy and Military Advisor's Office in the past few years according to Zhu Hexi's guidance.I don't say how accurate it is, but it can always be seen.
Today, the military meeting attended by Zhu Tianwang and Zhao Zhongyi was held in Map Room A with the huge map of "Going to Earth Tomorrow".
This is a large room with windows facing south. The windows are large and all are open to allow light to come in directly, so there is no need to use lights, and the room is very bright.
Zhu Heqi, Zhu Tianwang, Zhuge Sanhe, Zhao Zhongyi, Su Yong, Yu Zhongxian, Zuo Chunqiu and others all stood in front of the huge map.
And Zhuge Zhengyang, the right military officer of the military division's mansion, pointed on the picture with a long thin wooden stick, and at the same time explained the basic situation of the world today.
"According to the situation grasped by the imperial court, the main army of the Qing Yao imperial court is currently distributed in the area from Liaodong Peninsula to Jinzhou; Xuzhou-Suzhou-Guide area; Datong-Koubei Santing area; Beijing to Tianjin area... respectively by Sheng General Bahai of Beijing, General Fei Yanggu of Xuzhou, General Chang Ning of Fuyuan, and Kangxi himself are in charge. Each of these four armies has about 6 troops, and the Qing court has about 30 troops stationed in various places, so The total force is as high as [-]!"
Zhu Tianwang was surprised when he heard the number, "30? Is there that much?"
Zhu Heqi took the question and replied: "Although Kang Mazi's money is not as much as ours, he has cheap host Mongolian soldiers to use... 30 people are almost enough!"
The host Mongolia he was talking about was the Zhesuotu League, the Xilin Gol League, the Zhelimu League, and the Zhaowuda League. There were dozens of Zasak Banners under them, and at least hundreds of thousands of Mongolians were under their control... Maybe millions!
It is not a problem for Kangxi to recruit [-] to [-] "cheap soldiers" from it.
In addition, Kangxi's own Eight Banners new army originally had 10,000+ people in the pass, and the Eight Banners and Sauron soldiers outside the pass had about 30. In addition, the green battalion soldiers from all provinces are now all in the banner. Even if the total strength is not [-], it is still about there.
Zhuge Zhengyang said again: "Wu Yingxiong's military system is similar to ours. They all equalize the land first and then the government soldiers. The population under his rule is about 900 million, 200 million, and 30 per seven. The number of troops that can be pulled out is about 15...of which 5 are in Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, and Guangxi, and the number of troops on the front line in Huguang is at most [-].
Therefore, the suggestion of the Military Division Office is to use the Dengzhou army to hold back the main force of the Qing army, and at the same time concentrate the troops on the southern front to surprise Wu Yingxiong and capture Wu Yingxiong's Huguang... At least capture Hubei, and then turn north and go to Henan, taking the route of Wu Yingqi's Northern Expedition. Xiangyang advances towards Kaifeng! "
Among the Ming, Qing, and Zhou kingdoms today, Wu Zhou is actually the weakest...the population is too small!
Moreover, another split occurred after Wu Sangui's death, so Wu Yingxiong's ability to maintain an army of [-] on the front line of Huguang is already a remarkable achievement.
And Zhu Heqi can concentrate at least 30 troops on the front line of Huguang, thus forming an absolutely superior force of three against one.
After capturing Huguang, Wu Yingxiong lost the capital to fight for the world. Whether he ran to Sichuan or Yungui, the situation was over.
Therefore, Zhu and Qi don't have to worry about him for the time being, just concentrate their forces and fight Kangxi for a decisive battle.
"Abba," Zhu Heqi said to Zhu Tianwang with a smile, "The southern line is 30 against 18...you can win with your eyes closed! The problem now is the northern line. There is an army of [-]. Although Burni in Mobei can somewhat contain Kangxi's strength, Kangxi's Hao'an Dagardan has developed rapidly in the past two years, and has already posed a big threat to Burni.
So Burni is likely to move westward to compete with Galdan for territory... In addition, the Russians have also had several conflicts with Burni in recent years, which may also draw Burni's attention.
Therefore, the worst case is that the Dengzhou Army must use 6 troops to deal with the Qing army of tens of thousands of people. Can it win? "
Zhu Tianwang smiled and said: "Although the Qing army has 10,000+, how long is the coastline of Liaodong and Liaoxi? If North Korea is included! So their forces are scattered, while ours is concentrated...so I have the initiative, and I can definitely concentrate my forces to launch a surprise attack!"
"Surprise attack?" Zhu Heqi asked, "Abba, where is the best way to make a surprise attack?"
"Of course it is Lushunkou!" Zhu Tianwang said, "Lushunkou is the closest to Dengzhou, and there is a good port available."
"Lushunkou?" Zhu Heqi was taken aback, "Qing Yao has been on guard at Lushunkou for several years, is it possible for me to take advantage of it?"
Zhu Tianwang laughed and said, "So what if it's been a few years? I can gather an army to fetch them, but Qingyao has a lot of places to save...it's not difficult to mobilize them. Besides, Kangxi probably doesn't know that I have hidden [-] strange soldiers in Dengzhou !"
Chapter 517 I just want to fight a world war!
"Your Majesty, the commander of the navy also believes that capturing Lushunkou is the best choice!" Qiu Rong, the right minister of the Ministry of War, spoke.
Now the Ministry of War of the Ming Dynasty has two ministers on the left and right. The left minister is in charge of the military and political affairs of the army, and the right minister is in charge of naval affairs—the navy is in charge, not the navy.
Therefore, the military commander in charge of the navy's military order is a subordinate of the Youshangshu of the Ministry of War... and the military division's office in charge of the army's military order is a yamen on the same level as the Ministry of War, and there is no subordinate relationship between them.
The reason for this arrangement is of course to prevent the Lu Shangshu (Zuo Shangshu) of the Ministry of War from becoming too powerful and posing a threat to the future imperial power.
As for the Navy Shangshu (Youshangshu), because there are not many soldiers on land to dispatch, it is impossible to pose any threat to the imperial power, so there is no need to be too restrictive.Therefore, the Minister of the Navy's military commander became a subordinate of the Navy Shangshu.
Therefore, the real power of the navy minister is much greater than that of the army minister!
"Lushunkou is a good natural port, which can berth large open-sea sailing ships, and it is also a year-round ice-free port." Qiu Rong said, "At the same time, it is also the military port of the Qing Yao Beiyang Navy. Although it is well-prepared, the port facilities are relatively complete. All my soft-sailed large ships above ten thousand stone can also sail directly into the port, and the efficiency of transporting troops and food can be greatly increased!"
The so-called Wanshi ship refers to a load of 1000 stone, that is, a load of about [-] tons, and a displacement of about [-] tons.Now the large seagoing ships owned by the Nanyang Trading Company and the Ministry of War of the Ming Dynasty are basically of this level, and their "ancestor" is the Great Eastern, which was hijacked by Zhu Heqi many years ago and then forced to buy... This ship is from Europe. It is said that it has long been a large-scale ship that has been eliminated, but now it is finally understood by the shipyards in Guangzhou, Quanzhou, and Songjiang.
Qiu Rong went on to say: "If we don't take Lushun, but go ashore in a place without a big port, even if it is easy to capture, the subsequent transportation of troops and food will be a big trouble. Why don't we be more ruthless at the beginning and stop Lushun from stuttering?" Already!"
Zhu Heqi nodded: "Since the Navy and the Dengzhou Battalion both mean this...then take the capture of Lushunkou as the goal of the first period after the war!"
As for the matter of the surprise attack, this is the final word!
But now is not the time to end the meeting and go back to their respective homes, because Zhu and Qi still want to play bigger.
"Qing Yao has stationed [-] troops in Liaodong. If we don't mobilize some, our surprise attack will be difficult to succeed?" Zhu Heqi looked at the Liaodong Peninsula on the big map with burning eyes, "Then how should we mobilize Liaodong? Qing Yao?"
"You can attack Ningyuan first!" Zhao Zhongyi said, "The Qing Yao has been preventing us from attacking Liaodong, so the soldiers are all in Liaodong, and there are not many garrisons in Liaoxi. At the same time, there are many fortresses left by the Ming Dynasty in Liaoxi. If we take down a few and stand firm... it will be like dividing the three major forces of the Qing Yao's Liaodong Army, Beijing-Tianjin Army, and Kouwai Army, and Kang Mazi will definitely fight back with all his strength."
What he is talking about now is the strategy that the Dengzhou camp has been preparing for two years. It has a fairly complete plan, but it doesn't suit Zhu and Qi's wishes.
Zhu Heqi asked, "Is it just Ning Yuan?"
"Is one Ningyuan not enough?" Zhu Tianwang was stunned, "Our Dengzhou camp has a total of more than 7 people, and we have to guard against the Qing monsters attacking from Shandong. If we can send 6 people to attack Liaodong and Liaoxi in the north, we will be able to conquer the sky. If you want to attack Ningyuan to lure the enemy, Ningyuan must send at least one town, and the remaining three towns can attack Lushunkou... If you divide your troops to fight elsewhere, there will be insufficient troops to fight Lushun."
Zhu Hechi shook his head, "Regardless of Dengzhou's soldiers...the four towns are concentrated in the Lushunkou area!"
"No division of troops?" Zhu Tianwang asked, "Then how to mobilize the Qing Yao's Liaodong Army?"
"Soldiers regardless of Dengzhou," Zhu Hechi said, "we can send troops from other places!"
"From somewhere else?" Zhu Tianwang still didn't understand what his son meant, "Could it be that you want to go directly to the Bohai Sea from the south of the Yangtze River?"
"If you don't enter the Bohai Sea, why do you enter the Bohai Sea?" Zhu Hechi shook his head, "Let's enter North Korea!"
into North Korea?
This time it wasn't Zhu Tianwang who was stunned, but everyone in the map room was stunned.
In fact, the big guys have suggested more than once in the past two years that Zhu Heqi should attack North Korea... At least they should also destroy Haizhou Port, the "concession" of the Qing Dynasty on North Korea.
Moreover, someone from North Korea has been secretly contacting Daming, wanting to ask Daming to send troops to help North Korea drive out the Tartars.
However, Zhu Heyi only talked and didn't do anything, while sending envoys to North Korea, asking King Li Xuan of North Korea to expel the Qing people and foreigners in Haizhou.On the one hand, it did not add a single soldier to North Korea, and even vetoed the navy's proposal to send warships to attack Haizhou Port.
Due to Zhu Heyi's "gentleman speaks but not hands" and Kangxi's decisive troops, the "Northern Expedition" in North Korea has long since lost power, and now almost all the ministers assisting King Li Xuan are "Shiqing faction".
The big guy originally thought that Zhu Heqi's intention was to fight against the outside world first, but he didn't expect that now that the civil war was about to start, he thought about sending troops to North Korea... The way of King Zhu Daming, the big guy is getting more and more do not understand.
"Your Majesty," Zhuge Sanhe, who can pinch and count, is a little confused about Zhu Hechi's thoughts now, so he frowned and reminded, "This North Korean country was forced to join the Sixteen Nations Alliance under the pressure of Qing Yao." ...Although most of the sixteen countries are quite far from North Korea, Japan may still send troops under the instigation of the Netherlands and Spain. If we want to attack North Korea, we'd better find a way to pull Japan."
The right minister Yu Zhongxian also echoed: "Your Majesty, Tokugawa Mitsuki, a disciple of the great scholar Zhu Shunshui, is now in a high position. He is the deputy general of the shogunate. Maybe you can ask Mr. Shunshui to come forward and persuade the Tokugawa shogunate to make good friends with me and withdraw from the Ten Thousand Commandments." The Six Nations Alliance."
Zhu Hexi nodded, and said with a smile: "That's fine, Mr. Shunshui can be invited to work hard. But on the issue of Ryukyu, we must not waver in the slightest!"
Zhuge Sanhe and Yu Zhongxian frowned a little. If Daming did not make concessions on the Ryukyu issue, how could the shogunate withdraw from the Sixteen Nations Alliance?
In fact, the Tokugawa shogunate was drawn into the Sixteen-Nation Alliance by the Dutch and Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty because the Ming side always provoked them with the Ryukyu issue.
They joined the alliance not so much to oppose Ming Dynasty, but rather to use the alliance as a bargaining chip to start diplomacy with Ming Dynasty.
Of course, if Ming Dynasty used thunderous means to win Ryukyu earlier, the Tokugawa shogunate would recognize it... Ryukyu is not the territory of the Tokugawa shogunate, but the territory of the Satsuma clan.
After the Satsuma clan took possession of Ryukyu, they used Ryukyu's special status to bypass the Tokugawa shogunate's lock-up order, and secretly traded with foreign barbarians and Ming Dynasty, which did not benefit the shogunate's rule.
But now the shogunate is under the pressure of public opinion, and it is not easy to cede Ryukyu to Daming... and Daming is just "talking about it". .
Not only will they not withdraw, but they might also send three or five hundred warriors to the Wakan in Busan to show their toughness when Daming sends troops to North Korea.
Zhu Heqi paused for a moment, then asked Zuo Chunqiu again: "Mr. Zuo, how do we open the situation in North Korea? Is there any record in the military division's office?"
"Report to Your Majesty," Zuo Chunqiu replied, "now there are two cliques in North Korea, the Confucian Party and the Confucian Party, and the leader of the Confucian Party is Yin Kai, the former leader of the Northern Expedition Sect and the Southern Ren Party. After being pushed out of the center by the king of North Korea, Lee Bong, he colluded with Song Shiyeol, the leader of the Western People's Party, who was old and out of power. Both of them wanted to squeeze out the Confucian Party around Li Bong and return to the center of North Korea... We can send a message to North Korea The Confucian Party provided assistance to allow them to rise up in Seoul, the capital of North Korea, and try to control the North Korean monarch, so that we would have an excuse and support to send troops.”
"Okay!" Zhu Heqi nodded, "That's it! But we can't drive away all the demons at once!"
Chapter 518 Ming and Qing battles, North Korea is about to end!
At the beginning of August in the 17th year of Kangxi, North Korea, Seoul.
The streets of Seoul, the capital of North Korea... are really bustling a bit too much now!
It's not the prosperity and prosperity, but the excitement caused by the gathering of forces from all sides, which is so hot that it's about to burn, and it's so noisy that it's about to fight!
Since the 15th year of Kangxi, when Ba Hai, the general of Shengjing in the Qing Dynasty, led five thousand and eight banners of heavenly soldiers into the capital of North Korea, the peaceful years of the North Korean kingdom are gone forever.
It is unbelievable to say that before Bahai’s new army of Five Thousand Eight Banners marched into North Korea, the ruling Nanren Party in North Korea was divided into the Northern Expedition faction and the Moderate faction because of whether it wanted to raise troops to respond to Zhu Heqi. Party struggle!
That's right, it's partisanship!
It's not really about the Northern Expedition, the Northern Expedition is something I would never dare to do in my life, but the mouthpiece of the Northern Expedition can still be released...
So a group of ministers of the Korean state started a political struggle on the theme of "Is it better to make an immediate northern expedition? Or a steady northern expedition?"
Among them, Yin Kai, a great Confucian of the Southern People's Party, advocated sending people to Nanjing immediately to contact King Ming, the supervisor of the Ming Dynasty, and at the same time build a large number of chariots to fight against the cavalry of the Qing Dynasty.
Xu Ji, another leader of the Nanren Party, advocated a steady wait and see.
But at the same time, he should also build a city in the border area close to the Qing Dynasty to prevent the chaos in China from spreading to North Korea.
In addition, Xu Ji also proposed the establishment of a military command organization - Tifu, and served as the inspector of the five provinces of Gyeongsang, Jeolla, Chungcheong, Gyeonggi, and Gangwon to secretly rectify the armament.
But before the two factions could come to a conclusion, Bahai's five thousand and eight banner soldiers drove over aggressively.
This frightened the princess Kim and the then 15-year-old North Korean king Li Yun, thinking that North Korea was about to end.The couple didn't listen to the quarrel between the Northern Expeditionists and the Moderate Cliques, so they hurriedly ordered the gold and silver to be cleaned up and wanted to escape—they didn't want North Korea either, so let's escape to Nanjing first!
If it wasn't for the factions of Xu Ji and Yin Kai who stopped their bickering and came together to stop their wives, the Lee Dynasty of North Korea would have been accidentally wiped out by Ba Hai more than two years ago...
And after learning that the Korean kingdom was almost destroyed by himself, Ba Hai also broke out in a sweat—Kangxi asked him to "protect" North Korea from false invasion, if he shook his hand and wiped out North Korea, How to explain back?
Because they are worried that North Korea will be wiped out by false claims, so they are going to be destroyed first?
Bahai, who almost wiped out North Korea, hastened to send Nalan Mingzhu, a Confucian master, to talk to the North Korean monarchs... Let them know that the Qing Dynasty is a good country, not an evil country that pretends to be unkind and unrighteous.Therefore, the Qing Dynasty will not destroy North Korea, and North Korean monarchs and ministers can still be kings and engage in party disputes with peace of mind.
So Li Wei reluctantly returned to the palace and became king for more than two years, and the topic of the Korean party dispute changed from whether to go to the Northern Expedition to whether to believe in Confucianism or to join Confucianism, or whether to believe in both sides and continue to play Neo Confucianism.
Of course, Yin Kai, who advocated the Northern Expedition before, must lose power and step down.And after he stepped down, because he was unwilling to fall down, he contacted the "Killing Confucianism" who came to North Korea to spread the truth of Confucianism, and joined the Confucianism.
And Xu Ji, who continued to be in power, saw his former political opponent enter the Confucian sect, so he immediately approached Mingzhu and became a member of the Shenggong sect.
In addition, Song Shiye, the great Confucianist of Confucianism in North Korea who has been in the opposition for many years, and the leader of the Western People's Party continue to adhere to the traditional "Gentleman Confucianism"-neither beating people with swords nor beating people with sticks, so they can be persuaded!
Therefore, there are actually three factions in North Korea that are distinguished by Confucian factions.
It's just that Song Shilie was always close to the Ming Dynasty, so he was more polite to the Confucians who cut people, so he was regarded as his own by the Confucianists who came from the new Ming Dynasty and whose Confucian skills were not enough.
It’s okay if it’s just these three factions engaging in party struggles. The Kingdom of Korea has been doing this for many years, and it’s not like this?
But Kangxi had other requirements for North Korea!
Bahai and Nalan Mingzhu read Emperor Kangxi's imperial decree to their wives shortly after North Korea's King Li Xuan and Princess Jin returned to the palace.
In the edict, Kangxi asked North Korea to "lease" Haizhou Port to the Qing Dynasty for military training and transportation to the West. He also announced that North Korea would set up a supervisory office and permanent soldiers.
Moreover, Kangxi also asked North Korea to join the Sixteen Nations Anti-Ming Alliance!
Now it's really over!
Because joining the Anti-Ming Alliance means not only becoming an enemy with the former "father country" of Ming Dynasty, but also becoming allies with Japan, the Netherlands, and Spain...
This is simply to recognize the enemy as a friend and the thief as a father, and to deal with the father's country together with the thief country and the enemy country!
But the five thousand heavenly soldiers of the Qing Dynasty are just outside the city of Seoul, and where is the army of the Ming Dynasty?
So the Korean monarchs and ministers whose lives were at stake had no choice but to succumb to the Qing Dynasty, bit the bullet and joined the Sixteen Nations Anti-Ming Alliance, and handed over Haizhou to the Qing army.
But joining the alliance and renting out Haizhou is not enough... The "beating Confucianism" with a stick, the fierce-looking Bai Yi in strange clothes, and the arrogant nobles from Shangguo with long braids and arrow sleeves, all of them are... The flow of water poured into the gate of North Korea, and it couldn't be stopped!
In addition, Emperor Kangxi continued to ask North Korea for money, food and equipment, and even sent North Korea "gunmen", asking North Korea to donate [-] musket barrels to the Qing Dynasty every year... and also demanded that the quality Wait, it's not easy to explode!
And I don't even give you a penny... It's for nothing!
And under this kind of naked oppression, people of insight in North Korea certainly have a feeling that North Korea is about to end.However, they did not have the ability to fight against the Qing Dynasty, so they had to wear "Confucius clothes" and hang "Confucius swords" from their waists in protest.