Buried alive in the Qing Dynasty

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What he said was an extremely optimistic estimate, and if he was in Nanjing, some people might believe it.But here in Dengzhou, everyone is "knowledgeable", and they still know the situation in Liaodong.

If Daming wants to use Dengzhou as a base to land in Lushun, the possibility of success is not small, but it is not easy to swallow the entire Liaodong.

It's not that the Qing Dynasty made Liaodong as solid as gold soup, but that the Qing Dynasty's attack on Liaodong caused too much disaster. The homes where millions of people lived and worked in peace and contentment are now all barren.Even if Kangxi worked very hard to develop Liaodong, that is to say, there is a little vitality in Liaoyang and Shenyang.

Moreover, in the past two years, in order to prevent the Ming army from landing in Liaodong, Kangxi has also carried out a campaign to fortify the walls and clear the wilderness in the Liaodong Peninsula, and moved all the villages in the Liaodong Peninsula belonging to the nobles of the Eight Banners and the villages inhabited by ordinary bannermen and Han people to Fengtian Prefecture and Liaoyang Prefecture. up.

In this way, if the Ming army wanted to capture Fengtian and Liaoyang, they would have to go through five or six hundred miles of inaccessible land after landing... This is not easy to do!

When the big guys were doubtful, the door of Sihai Tea House was suddenly knocked open by someone.Everyone turned their heads and saw a tall, somewhat fierce old monk standing at the door with a short apprentice who was also elderly.

"Isn't this a one-stone monk? What a rare visitor!"

Some people know the old monk, oh, not really... Here in Dengzhou, very few people really know another person.But everyone knows that the old monk's current Dharma name is Yishi, and he also knows that he built a small temple at the foot of Sanxian Mountain in the west of Dengzhou Outer City, called Shitou Temple.

There is no incense in this stone temple, but this stone monk seems to never be short of money. There are dozens of monks and nuns in the temple. They live happily!

This monk also bought a lot of Pingliao debts a while ago, and told people that when the Ming Pingliao is successful, he will go to Shanhaiguan to buy a piece of land to build a big one-stone temple, and then he will pass away there... I guess He also lost a lot now!

The monk Yishi sized up the people in the teahouse, and then shouted: "The army led by Prince Ming has entered the city, and the army is going to pass through the commercial port soon!"

"Really?"

Some people don't believe it.

But before the one-stone monk could answer, everyone heard singing that became louder and louder. "Burning with anger, leaning on the railing to rest in the rain. Looking up, looking up to the sky and screaming, with a strong heart. Thirty years of fame and dust, eight thousand miles of road clouds and moons. Don't wait for the boy's head to turn white, empty sorrow..."

This is Yue Fei's "Manjianghong", and it is also the military song of the Ming army - "Love to fight will win" can only be sung by officers and soldiers of the Ming army from Guangdong and Fujian, while "Manjianghong" is a song that all Ming troops can sing .

So now "Love to fight will win" has become a special military song for the elite "Old Brothers Town" of the Ming army, and ordinary troops sing "Man Jianghong" when they appear on the stage.

Moreover, singing and advancing is also a major feature of the Ming army today. It is said that this can improve morale!

The people in the teahouse listened carefully, and the singing became louder and louder, as if tens of thousands of people were singing!

Now no one in the teahouse could sit still, they all stood up and rushed out of the teahouse.

The people in the teahouse did not stop after leaving the teahouse, but walked straight along the alley, and soon reached the main road of Dengzhou Commercial Port - Tiandi Street, which is a straight street leading to the Dengzhou Commercial Port Wharf .

It has just snowed in Dengzhou, and the roofs of the houses on both sides of Tiandi Avenue are covered with white snow.The street was originally covered with snow, but it has been swept to the side of the street and piled up into two white "snow embankments".

Although the temperature is very low now, there are still passers-by standing on both sides of the snow embankment, all of them are "new Dengzhou people", with all kinds of clothes.Some wore Qing Dynasty clothes, Ming Dynasty hats, and Ming Dynasty hair buns, some wore braided heads and Ming Dynasty-style Taoist costumes, and some wore weird Western costumes.

Everyone stared wide-eyed at the Ming Army infantrymen who were forming a column and passing through the street, wearing flying saucer helmets, carrying flintlock guns, and wearing blue military uniforms!

I don't know where these infantry came from. There are a lot of them. I can only see that their team is mighty, coming from the official road outside the commercial port continuously, as if there is no end to it.

Listening to the accents sung by these soldiers, they seem to be from Shandong, and they are generally tall, so you can tell at a glance that they are not troops transferred from the south!

Could it be that this army was recruited and trained locally in Shandong?Could it be that the so-called Third Prince City of Dengzhou was a bluff from the beginning, but its real purpose was still a stronghold for the Northern Expedition?

Just when the people who came out of the teahouse were surprised by the sudden appearance of the army, a scene that surprised them even more appeared.

A big red banner of "Jianguo Mingwang" suddenly appeared in the sight of everyone, followed by the cavalry of the brigade!

And walking in the front of the cavalry team was a female knight wearing a veil. The female knight was also wearing blue narrow sleeves, and she was wearing a purple armor.But this thick military uniform couldn't cover up the bulging chest of this female knight... There is no doubt that this female knight is Ye Yuling, the famous imperial concubine of Zhinu Palace!

King Ming of the Ming Dynasty has really come to Dengzhou!The cross-sea expedition to Liao is about to begin!

Chapter 543 The Ching Kingdom's Chance Has Arrived!

Of course Emperor Kangxi knew what Zhu Cijiong's real purpose was to establish Dengzhou Three Princes City, Dengzhou Tianwang City, or Dengzhou Free City!

But because Kangxi had just experienced the "shame of the fall of Beijing" at that time, all the Eight Banners of Manchuria clamored to seek revenge from Burni, and no one cared about what happened in Dengzhou.Therefore, Kangxi did not dare to go against the wishes of the people, leaving Burni alone and sending troops to Dengzhou.

Moreover, under the circumstances at that time, Burni was indeed a great threat to the Qing Dynasty... because once Burni conquered the entire Monan Mongolia, Khalkha Mongolia, and the host Mongolia, then a unified Mongolian Empire would come, and by then The cities of Beijing and Shengjing are under the front of the Mongols, and Burni comes and fights every now and then. Isn't it true that Emperor Kangxi's Qing Dynasty will become a great gold?

So Kangxi at that time could only pretend that he didn't know the threat of Dengzhou, and concentrate on cleaning up Burni first.

But I didn't expect that Burni was so "oily" that he didn't confront Kangxi head-on at all, and even placed his Khan Ting far away on the Houtao grassland near Ningxia.Moreover, it also regards Khalkha Mongolia and the Kobduo Grassland as its main attack direction.

Although Kangxi has attacked him several times, this Burni is obviously better than blue in his ability to run. His grandfather Lindan Batur can't compare with him at all!So every time he can easily escape.

Moreover, Kangxi was restrained by Zhu and Qi, and he couldn't let go of his hands and feet to use troops on the grassland. In the end, he could only accept the reality of "equally dividing Mongolia" with Burni.First firmly control the Bashang Grassland (Chahar Grassland) and the host Mongolia on the Monan Mongolia East Road, and temporarily abandon the attempt to recover the Monan Mongolia West Road (Hetao Grassland) and control Khalkha Mongolia.

But when Emperor Kangxi stabilized the situation on the grassland and looked back at Dengzhou carefully, he found that the third prince Zhu had already managed a very prosperous situation in Dengzhou, and it also meant that it was impregnable.

Of course, Kangxi was fully aware of the dangers of Dengzhou.But at the same time, he also knew that it would be quite difficult to attack Dengzhou, which had already built a solid defense system and was backed by the sea.In particular, Daming, which occupies Dengzhou, also possesses overwhelming sea power.

Therefore, in the past two or three years, Kangxi could only adopt a palliative policy towards Dengzhou-although appeasement will plant the seeds of disaster for the future, it is better than defeating Dengzhou again and again!

Because every defeat will consume Kangxi's little prestige. Once the prestige is exhausted, Kangxi can't wait for Zhu Heqi to kill him, so he has to let his own people kill him.

In recent years, the reason why Kangxi tried his best to scrape money from the Han and Koreans to satisfy the greed of the old and new Eight Banners;Isn't it because of losing the battle and eating too much, so the prestige is almost gone?

Now he has to coax the people below to live!

Kangxi already felt that the people below had become more and more disrespectful to him as the emperor, and everyone was making small calculations and hugging the United Party.

Those who have soldiers in their hands even form cliques in the ranks, trying to hold the military power belonging to the imperial court in their own hands... When Kangxi granted and granted land to the new and old Eight Banners soldiers below, this kind of unity in the army The sign of the party is particularly prominent!

In the New Eight Banners Army, those ministers in charge of the army (the chief of a new banner of a new army) or the capital commander of the new army (the chief of a certain Gushan of the new army) who hold a Gushan force in their hands will try their best to get all the soldiers under their command Participating leaders and their assigned fields are concentrated in one place.And those participating leaders want to gather the following assistant leaders together.The minds of the assistant leaders are not much different, and they also want to gather their bannermen together and hug each other.

Although Kangxi also knew this method, sooner or later the Eight Banners new army will become the same as the Eight Banners soldiers when Emperor Taizong just took over the Jinhan throne... only recognize their own big and small banner owners (now they are all ministers), and they don't listen very much If you sweat profusely.

However, in order to win over the ministers, the governors, the leaders, and the leaders who were in charge of the soldiers, Kangxi also reduced the conflicts between the banners for the convenience of mobilization and assembly.They also had to follow their wishes and distribute 3000 million mu of land around Beijing and several million mu of land around Shengjing to 24 Gushan under the Eight Banners New Army—according to the latest military system, the Eight Banners New Army Each Gushan has 1 households, and [-] people can be mobilized in the case of general mobilization.

Although through this series of concessions and decentralization, Kangxi temporarily stabilized the position of the Qing Dynasty.But he also knew that if he really wanted to stabilize his situation and restore his declining prestige, he had to win a convincing victory.

This victory cannot be found from the slippery "Genghis Running Khan", it can only be found from Daming.

Because "Genghis Runaway Khan" can't be caught at all, he was already a "runaway Khan", and it would not be considered a victory if Kangxi drove him away... Moreover, as soon as the Qing soldiers withdrew, the Runaway Khan would run back return!

Therefore, the goal of Liwei and comeback that Kangxi found for himself was Dengzhou!

In order to successfully win Dengzhou, especially in order to allow his own Eight Banners Heavenly Soldiers to take down the outer city of Dengzhou at a relatively low cost, Kangxi, in addition to joining Yue Le, Tu Hai, Chang Ning, Ba Hai, Fei Yanggu, Mingzhu, Suo'e Tu, Tong Guogang and other Manchurian confidants formulated a plan to raid Dengzhou, and sent Confucianism and people from the sticky pole of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to Dengzhou early to act as internal support.

Moreover, this group should not know the existence of the other party, so as to prevent one of them from being captured by Daming's Jin Yiwei and ruin the overall situation.

Just when Li Sixing, Monk Yishi and others were rejoicing because Zhu Heqi, Da Boling and their tens of thousands of troops marched into the Dengzhou commercial port, in the Dengzhou commercial port, a small red building near the harbor Inside.Cao Xi and Cao Yin, two confidantes of Kangxi's Ministry of Internal Affairs, are also holding binoculars and hiding behind a window of a small building to look around!

That Cao Xi seemed to see something good, and he was about to bleed out, "Tsk tsk tsk... If this is caught and used as a nanny, one of his mothers can be worth three or five!"

Of course Cao Yin next to him knew what his old man saw?He loves this, otherwise he wouldn't have married his mother, without her mother's milk...the Cao family wouldn't be as rich as it is today!

He just smiled wryly and said: "Ama, are you thinking too much? That Da Boling has committed a heinous crime. If he is arrested, he will definitely be executed at the earliest. How can he enter the palace and become a nanny?"

"If you want to execute Ling Chi, you have to be interrogated by our sticky pole first!" Cao Xi was still joking with his son in the same way.

"Ama! Can you be more serious! We are doing great things for the emperor!"

"Know, know..."

While talking, Cao Xi put down the binoculars with a smile, then quickly walked to another window of the small building, opened the window suddenly, and the sea breeze with a salty smell rushed towards him.

Cao Xi raised the binoculars again and looked into the harbor of Dengzhou Commercial Port.I can only see two or three hundred sand boats of different sizes and a small number of bird boats and lucky boats moored in the bay under the setting sun.

Some of them are warships of the Dengzhou Navy at a glance-this kind of warships are all used with oars and sails, and six or four rockets are installed on the bow and stern!

Some are merchant ships traveling between Shanghai-Huai'an-Dengzhou-Tianjin.Because the water on the coastline of Jiangbei is very shallow, sharp-bottomed ships can easily run aground or be overturned by rolling waves if they sail close to the coast. Therefore, most of the seaborne merchant ships heading north from Shanghai are flat-bottomed sand ships.

Of course, it's not that sharp-bottomed ships can't come to Beiyang, but they can't go along the coast, and they have to stay away from the coastline to ensure safety, which creates difficulties for sea-going ships to navigate.

But now there are both flat-bottomed and pointed-bottomed ships in Dengzhou Bay.There are both warships and merchant ships, obviously they have tried their best to collect them.

Cao Xi looked at it for a while. At this time, officers and soldiers of the Ming army who had arrived at the pier began to board the ship. In addition, some officers and soldiers of the Ming army entered the coastal defense fortress next to Dengzhou Commercial Port, as if they were going to be stationed there temporarily. .

And the "Da Bo Ling" boarded a large sand ship with a load of two to three thousand stones, and it seemed that they were going to be the first to cross the sea.

Cao Xi turned his head to look at his son Cao Yin, his expression became extremely serious, and he said every word: "Da Boling boarded the ship... It seems that Zhu Heqi is going to lead the army to cross the sea! The opportunity to turn the Qing Dynasty has come." .

My son, hurry up and get out of Dengzhou City, and go to inform Prince An... Tell the prince that Cao has led the dead men into Dengzhou City, and at that time, he will sacrifice his life to grab a city gate for him! "

Chapter 544: The souls of millions of king masters return, and there are loyal bones everywhere in Qingshan!

The "Da Bo Ling" who boarded the Dengzhou Navy's flagship Penglai under the gaze of everyone and a few binoculars is of course fake...but it is not completely fake. Covers and cushions.This person is Aoi Saiwu, Zhu Heqi’s maid in Macau. She took over the house very early, but she has no status until Zhu Heqi entered Nanjing and became King Ming, and she was given a maid. title.

This time, let her be Da Boling's "shadow warrior" again, this time to show off for her, attracting attention, and creating the illusion that Zhu Heqi has arrived in Dengzhou...

And the general who actually presided over the expedition in Dengzhou is also on the big ship that Aoi boarded at this moment, not one person, but three people.They are Liu Jinzhong, Governor of Liaodong, Jiang Sheng, Admiral of Dengzhou Navy, and Zhao Hongkui, Admiral of Liaodong Army.

In addition to the three of them, there were also Princess Kunxing who presided over the affairs of Dengzhou instead of Zhu Cijiong, Wang Shiyuan, the prefect of Dengzhou, Zhu Shangxian who had just been promoted to be the commander-in-chief of Dengzhou Town, and the Ten Household Office of Si Dengzhou, the governor of Jinyiwei North Town. Wang Zechen of Thousand Households - This man was originally Pang Gonggong's subordinate, his ancestral home is Sichuan, his father is from Dongchang, and he went south with Pang Gonggong, and now he is the chief instructor of Jinyiwei Tiqi.

He played with the "little father-in-law" Pang Siming when he was young. After Pang Siming joined Zhu Heqi's team, he also joined.At the beginning, he served in the army, but his talent was obviously not on the battlefield. Later, he followed Pang Siming to become a Jinyiwei, the first generation of Tiqi of the new Ming Dynasty Jinyiwei.

When Aoi boarded the ship, Wang Zechen, the highly vigilant spy chief, was squinting a pair of triangular eyes and watching Wang Shiyuan, the prefect of Dengzhou, who was about to go to Liaodong with the army... This Wang Shiyuan has a problem at first glance!

The relationship between him and Princess Kunxing is extraordinary, and he always runs to the princess mansion for nothing.It's okay, the princess is a widow now, and it's normal for a widow to have a lot of gossip.But why did Liu Jinzhong look at him so strangely?What secret do they both have?

In addition, why are there tears in Wang Shiyuan's eyes?And why is he so enthusiastic about restoring Liaodong?

Originally, Princess Kunxing arranged for Wu Xiaobao, the magistrate of Penglai County, to take a few "big farmers" from Dengzhou to inspect the farmland at Lushunkou on the opposite side, but this Wang Shiyuan had to go there by himself...

Just when Wang Zechen was feeling weird, an elderly woman opened the door of the cabin, came in from the outside, and saluted Princess Kunxing with her arms crossed: "Princess Cangxuan, servant Cangxuan has already boarded the boat... In addition, The bow reported that the sea is now westerly, and the sails can be hoisted and put out to sea."

Princess Kunxing nodded, looked around the cabin solemnly, and said with a straight face: "My family's calamity, in the final analysis, was caused by the defeat in Liaodong... Since Nurhachi rebelled in the last year of Wanli, he died on the battlefield of Liaodong There are countless famous and loyal generals. Nine out of ten of my family’s elite soldiers were also lost in Liaodong. This land of Liaodong is really the home of millions of kings and masters, and there are loyal bones everywhere in the green hills!

Today, the [-] royal masters went to Liaodong again, not only for the imperial court to recover the lost land, but also for the millions of loyal bones to be buried in the land of Ming Dynasty, and also to comfort the spirit of the late emperor Weimiao!

It's a pity that, as a woman, I have the responsibility of staying in Dengzhou, so I can't go to Liao with you... But I can still pray for the soldiers who are going to the expedition in the Penglai Pavilion and the Sanqing Palace! "

After hearing her words, Liu Jinzhong, Jiang Sheng, and Zhao Hongkui all got up and saluted Princess Kun to thank her.

Princess Kunxing also stood up from her chair, nodded to Liu Jinzhong, Jiang Sheng, and Zhao Hongkui, and said, "Now the wind is in the right direction, so hurry up and start... This is three hundred miles to Liaodong. If the wind is in the right direction, you can climb up tomorrow." Landed. The loyal souls of Liaodong have been waiting for too long, so you should start early!"

After saying these words, Princess Kunxing took Zhu Shangxian and Wang Zechen, who stayed behind in Dengzhou, out of the cabin together, and then went down the gangway to the pier.

At this time, the sailors on this large sand ship shouted in unison, and the wide bamboo-ribbed hard sail slowly rose to the mast, and at the same time, two long poles stretched out from the deck into the water, slowly pushing the wooden ship away. up the pier.

On the long Dengzhou commercial port wharf, there are more than a dozen large sand ships that have also completed boarding, and they have also hoisted their sails one after another.

At the same time, in the water city of Dengzhou, there are also more than a dozen large sand ships that have completed boarding, and they also raised their sails and sailed out of the port.

On the water surface off the coast of Dengzhou, the two fleets converged, and then in the setting sun, with the westerly wind, they headed northwest to Huangniwa Bay (Dalian Bay) in Liaodong.

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Liaodong, Huangniwa, evening of November [-]th.

Gunshots rang out sporadically, not intensively, but they never stopped.There are a lot of thin ice yellow mud pools floating on the sea near the beach. Hundreds of sand boats have already washed up on the beach, and the soldiers are busy transporting bags and boxes of supplies to the beach.

Facing the cold wind in Liaodong, the Ming army who came from across the sea broke out with the greatest energy, and the boats and boats were in full swing.

Because there are too many ships and troops concentrated in Dengzhou, and the capacity of Dengzhou port is limited, even if the commercial port and the water city (military port) are together, only dozens of large ships can be dispatched at a time.The more than a hundred large ships that are now concentrated on the Huangniwa side were sent out in two batches yesterday afternoon.

And the two or three hundred boats concentrated in Dengzhou will have to wait until tomorrow morning at least if they all leave and arrive - after all, it is not convenient to board the boat at night, and the wind direction on the sea is always changing. If there is a headwind, there is no way to go to sea.

And even if the two or three hundred ships have completed one transportation task, they can only transport less than 3 people to Liaodong.

Therefore, if you want to transport the army of more than 6 people who have been organized into five towns in Dengzhou to Liaodong, you have to run at least two times. If you want to transport some supplies, you have to run three times. Even with the help of God, it will take more than half a month to run!

Landing across the sea is really not easy.

Liu Jinzhong, Zhao Hongkui and Wang Shiyuan have all landed, and Liu Jinzhong and Wang Shiyuan are commanding the landing here at Huangniwa.

And Zhao Hongkui had assembled three battalions of fusiliers and two cavalry leaders, and marched towards Lushunkou.

Now the number of infantry battalions of the Ming army has reached 1000!There is a direct subordinate leader and four musketeers, and each musket leader is composed of four musketeers and a long gun deputy leader.

And the directly subordinate territory is composed of hammer-throwing artillery, skirmishers and battalion headquarters, and is mainly responsible for command and support.

The number of cavalry leaders in the Ming army is also [-], but only a very small number of elite cavalry are equipped with good horses that can launch an attack, and most cavalry have only bad horses for transportation.

The two leading cavalry following Zhao Hongkui's attack now are musket cavalry riding bad horses. Basically, they will not attack. Dismounting or riding on horseback to fire muskets is their main way of fighting.

Some of the gunshots that are being heard now are scattered by these Musketeers... They should have encountered a small number of Qing army blocking troops.

Liu Jinzhong listened with his ears up for a while, and suddenly laughed: "The gunshots are getting farther and farther away... It seems that Zhao Junmen is progressing very smoothly, and we will be able to take Lushunkou soon! Maybe tonight, we can We have entered Lushunkou City."

Wang Shiyuan was wrapped in a thick cotton coat, but he was still shivering from the cold, and his face was a little pale. After hearing Liu Jinzhong's words, he smiled slightly. Wisps of black smoke rose from all the peaks.

Liu Jinzhong had seen the black smoke a long time ago, and said with a smile at this time: "That is the Beacon Tower, which reported to Kangxi. I think Kangxi will know soon... Our Great Tomorrow Soldiers are back!"

Chapter 545 The rise and fall of the Qing Dynasty, here are two battles!

"Daheishan, Beisha City... Fuzhou River, Deliying City... Gaizhou, Dupan Walled City..."

In the Kaesong palace of the Qing emperor, Kangxi looked at a defense map of the Liaodong Peninsula in the South Study Room, and repeatedly chanted the three place names of Beisha City, Deliying City, and Dupan Walled City.

Although Kangxi withdrew the army originally deployed in Liaodong and transferred it to North Korea, it does not mean that he had no plans in the Liaodong Peninsula.

In fact, Kangxi's deployment in the Liaodong Peninsula was still very clever...he did not concentrate his troops to defend Lushunkou and Huangniwa...those two places occupy a large area, especially the bay of Huangniwa is so large that there are not many Wan Dajun couldn't defend at all.If only one or two bastions were guarded, it would not be able to stop the Ming army from landing.