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But now most of Dengzhou City already know that they are going to sneak attack, can such a sneak attack succeed?Isn't this sending you to death?
But Cao Xi was unwilling to give up the sneak attack plan - he had no choice but to launch it!
His son has already contacted Yue Le and Chang Ning, and he is about to come to Huncheng. If he doesn't act as the internal response, then his son will die.Even if he was beaten to death when he was not in the mixed city, he would be killed by Yue Le and Chang Ning as a scapegoat afterwards!
Although Kangxi favored the Cao family very much, who were Yue Le and Chang Ning?Of course Emperor Kangxi knew how to choose!
Moreover, Cao Xi also felt that the Jinyiwei in Dengzhou City must have been eyeing him, and he couldn't escape no matter what.Since you can't run, you might as well give it a go. Even if you don't succeed, you will be worthy of the kindness of the Qing Dynasty if you make a fuss.If he could kill a few more traitors, it would be more or less repaid.
And once he died for the country, the Cao family would be saved.
But when Cao Xi was about to die for the Qing Dynasty, there was a sudden noise outside the house. He hurriedly listened, and he heard someone shouting loudly: "The Qing demon is here, run away..."
Then there was a burst of crackling gunshots and bursts of crying!
The surprise attack... actually succeeded!
Cao Xi couldn't believe his ears. He turned his head and asked the warriors on the sticks beside him, "Have you heard that? This is..."
"It's done!"
"The surprise attack was successful!"
"Lord Cao, let's attack!"
Cao Xi nodded, raised the flintlock pistol in his hand, and shouted: "Brothers, it's time to serve the court, kill the traitor!"
After yelling, he took the lead, pushed open the door and rushed out.
After rushing to the street, Cao Xi realized that the Dengzhou commercial port had become a mess. The streets were full of people and refugees running wildly, as well as panicked Dengzhou defenders—these boarders The state defenders usually look like that, but when they really encountered an enemy attack, they vented. It turned out to be full of mobs, shouting while running: "Qing Yao is here, go to Dan! Yashan and Tianhengshan..."
Cao Xi knew that there were four dangerous places in Dengzhou City, all lined up along the Bohai Sea, namely Tianheng Mountain, Danya Mountain, Dengzhou Water City, and Dengzhou Inner City.
People who have lived in Dengzhou for a period of time know that the water city and the inner city are restricted areas, and if they encounter enemy attacks, they will be closed immediately.
If the people in the outer city want to take refuge, they can only go to Tianheng Mountain and Danya Mountain.Although these two small hills by the sea are not high, they are extremely dangerous.
Moreover, there are beaches and piers on the side of Tianheng Mountain and Danya Mountain facing the sea, and there are also ferries to Changshan Island.
Changshan Island is less than [-] miles away from the city of Dengzhou by water, and it takes only a few hours to go there by boat. Moreover, the island is not small. It has also built military camps, warehouses, and docks, storing a large amount of supplies, and tens of thousands of troops can be stationed!
Moreover, the sea around the island is not frozen all year round, so as long as you go to the island, you will be absolutely safe.
As early as when Dengzhou Free City opened, Zhu Tianwang began to manage Changshan Island, and even had people promote the refuge function of Changshan Island in the commercial port of Dengzhou.
Therefore, the people in the commercial port knew that there was Changshan Island as a way out. Now that they were really in trouble, their first reaction was to run to Tianheng Mountain and Danya Mountain.
When they ran, the soldiers and officials in Dengzhou shouted together, and even the refugees who had taken refuge in Dengzhou also ran to Tianheng Mountain and Danya Mountain together.
At the same time, the "fenced area" beside the commercial port of Dengzhou was also attacked - the Confucian disciples lurking in the city of Dengzhou were responsible for the attack!
This group of people got a batch of kerosene from nowhere, and set fire to several houses and the fence wall as soon as the quarrel broke out.This scene looks much more lively than here in the commercial port.
Most of the people living in the "fence area" have a few net worth, otherwise they would not be able to afford such a good house!
Most of them also heard that the Qing army was coming for a sneak attack, and there were internal responses in the city, so they were also prepared to run away. The Yishi Temple on the seaside of Xianshan is hiding - there is a fishing village next to the Yishi Temple, and there is also a pier where you can board a boat and go to Changshan Island!
Of course, most people will not run to Changshan Island so decisively... They still have a little confidence in the city defense of Dengzhou. The city wall of the outer city of Dengzhou looks so majestic, it cannot be broken by a surprise attack, right?
And there are quite a few defenders in Dengzhou City, so they can't help but fight, right?
Just when the big guys were still having fantasies, the sound of "boom, boom, boom" gongs suddenly sounded from the gate towers of the west gate and south gate of Dengzhou - this is the sound of early warning when encountering enemy attacks!
At the same time, louder shouts also came from the direction of the west gate and the south gate.
"The army of Qing Yao is coming, run!"
At this time, if anyone stands on the gate towers of the west gate and south gate of Dengzhou, they will be able to see quite a desperate scene!
In the heavy snow, a group of people and horses had already come from the direction of the Yellow River in the distance, and they appeared in sight. These people and horses were all under the banner of the Qing army, including infantry and cavalry, and they were already rushing towards Dengzhou City, which was just attacked by surprise. come!
Chapter 566 Denkirk
"The Qing demon is coming, run!"
"Qing Yao is here, run to Danya Mountain... If you don't run, you will die!"
"Qing Yao is here to slaughter the city, run to Tian Hengshan!"
"The demon-clearing brigade is here, hurry to Sanxian Mountain..."
As the panicked shouts became louder and louder, many places in Dengzhou City were already in an apocalyptic scene!Although there were only a thousand Qing soldiers in Huancheng, there were only a few hundred people in the sticky places and Confucianism in the city, and the [-] troops led by Yue Le and Chang Ning were still ten or twenty miles away from the city.But the outer city of Dengzhou is already a chaotic scene of people fleeing from the city.
The only thing that is in chaos is the section between Dengzhou Dadongmen and Daximen, plus the fence city between Xiaonanmen Street...
The outer city of Dengzhou is shaped like a moon. One end of the city wall is on the west side of the inner city of Dengzhou, near Tianheng Mountain and the seashore of Dengzhou Shanggang, and the other end is on the west side of the inner city of Dengzhou, near the seashore of Sanxian Mountain.The Dadongmen and Daximen are not close to the sea, but open in the "waist" of the outer city of Dengzhou. The two gates are connected by a straight long street.Sanxian Mountain, Dengzhou Inner City, Dengzhou Water City, Tianheng Mountain, Danya Mountain, and Dengzhou Commercial Port are all on the north side of the long street.The Dengzhou commercial port stretches along the long street, and there are many shops on both sides of the long street, which is the most prosperous place in Dengzhou.
In addition, there are two main roads extending from the large and small south gates of the outer city of Dengzhou to the inner city of Dengzhou and the water city of Dengzhou, and form a cross-shaped intersection on the long street between Daximen and Dadongmen.Dengzhou's high-end residential area - Lilicheng, is located between the inner long streets of the South Gate and the South Gate.
According to the agreement between Cao Xi and Liu Fengtian, the master of the Confucianism Dark Hall in Dengzhou, his men and horses at the sticky pole are responsible for attacking the Dadongmen, while Liu Fengtian will lead the people to attack the Xiaonanmen.
But for some reason, Liu Fengtian led the disciples of Confucianism to set fire to Libicheng, and also ignited dozens of sugar medicine sky thunders.It was arson and an explosion, which frightened those "new Dengzhou people" who were fools in the fence city to throw away their family property, and ran to Sanxian Mountain, Tianheng Mountain, and Danya Mountain with only bonds, bank notes, and passbooks. ... As for whether anyone will be hacked to death by Confucian disciples on the way, or run too hastily and forget some important things, it's hard to say.
It's all bad for clearing demons. My wife is living a normal life, so why do you want to sneak attack?It doesn't talk about Wude at all.
And when there were explosions and fires in Liba City, Dengzhou Commercial Port was also in chaos.
Dengzhou commercial port has always been cold in the east and hot in the west, because the west of the commercial port is close to Dengzhou commercial port.And Cao Xi and the others attacked the Great East Gate of Dengzhou Outer City, which was obviously the west of Dengzhou Commercial Port, and Cao Xi and Liu Fengtian didn't arrange anyone to make trouble there... But somehow, Dengzhou Commercial Port The west side of the city was also in chaos, not only a fire broke out, but also people shouted "Qing Yao is coming" everywhere, so frightened that a lot of businesses, big and small, ran to Tian Hengshan.
They all know the great reputation of the Qing soldiers massacring the city.
In addition, during this period of time, people from various prefectures and counties in Dengzhou Prefecture continued to seek refuge in the city of Dengzhou Prefecture, so Dengzhou Town and the government office of Dengzhou Prefecture set up many tents and shacks near Sanxian Mountain, Tianheng Mountain, and Danya Mountain for shelter. The refugees took shelter, and they were given thick cotton-padded clothes, quilts and a lot of rations.Moreover, due to an "oversight" in management, yesterday Dengzhou Town sent people to distribute more than 100 million pieces of Shaanxi buns that were baked hard and dry to these refugees...
And today, when the news of "the Qing demon is coming", the "foolish" Dengzhou Town immediately did not know how to organize the refugees to resist, but "confused" issued an order to board the ship and evacuate.
And the wharves in the outer city of Dengzhou "coincidentally" were full of sandboats ready to go, the sailors on the sandboats also "coincidentally" were in the port, and a large number of Dengzhou town officers and soldiers also "coincidentally" carried out the execution on the wharf. I don't know what task.So Princess Kunxing, who presided over the government and military affairs of Dengzhou, made a prompt decision and issued an evacuation order.
When the evacuation order was communicated to various piers, it was already dark, but the various piers were brightly lit, and lanterns with Arabic numerals were hung on the ships moored in the harbor. The numbers on the board took turns to berth, and the refugees who were already under the control of the officers and soldiers of Dengzhou Town were sent to the ships one by one.
On the pier, there is a special person holding a horn made of hard cowhide to promote: "Don't be afraid, everyone, the king of heaven is benevolent and righteous, and he will not ignore you... The camp on Changshan Island is now empty. How long do you want to stay here?" It's all right, keep food and drink, and when Dengzhou finishes playing, everyone will come back to live and work in peace..."
And while they were shouting, near the Dadongmen of Dengzhou Outer City, there were bursts of intensive gunfire from time to time, and the roar of artillery from time to time!
Obviously, the war is tight!
Thinking of Zhu Tianwang's benevolence and righteousness, Kang Mazi's brutality, and the possibility of returning to Dengzhou to live a peaceful life in the future, the people who had already run to the pier no longer hesitated, and all under the arrangement of the Dengzhou town officers and soldiers, they dragged their families away. Take the boat on the ground.
Of course, there are too many people to be transported away, even if it is just a ferry to Changshan Island, it cannot be transported in one or two trips.I'm afraid it will have to be transported continuously for ten days and half a month!
Therefore, beside the pier where these refugees gather, fences and sheds have long been set up to protect them from the wind and snow, and they have also prepared firewood for heating.
Yue Lehe and Changnian had already boarded the tower of the Great East Gate of Dengzhou Outer City at this time, seeing the bright lights in the dark night, they both breathed a sigh of relief.
Yue Le nodded and said with a smile: "The traitor is going to run... It seems that we have won a complete victory this time, and we can report our victory to the emperor!"
Chang Ning also said with a relaxed face: "The national calculation of our Qing Dynasty is back... The emperor succeeded in North Korea, beheaded the king of North Korea who betrayed our Qing Dynasty, and plundered countless people and property! And we are here again Dengzhou victory, although the inner city of Dengzhou is not so easy to take down, but as long as the outer city is captured, the rebels in Dengzhou will be trapped, and most of the territories in Penglai, Fushan, Ninghai, Rongcheng and other counties can be recovered .This is an unprecedented victory!"
Cao Xi, Cao Yin, and Liu Fengtian, the master of the Dengzhou Confucian sect's dark hall, also went to the city at this moment, and they were all relieved to hear the two princes bragging about themselves there.
To be honest, the Battle of Dengzhou was not easy at all!
Not to mention Dengzhou Chengjian, the money of those people in Dengzhou Commercial Port and Dengzhou Fence City... It's really hard, and I don't know how many people will be offended!
Now this is really a happy ending for everyone!
It's easy for the emperor to explain, the bigwigs in the court should be satisfied, and the sages from all over the country... They may not be very satisfied, but they can barely accept it.
At the same time, on the wall of the inner city of Dengzhou, Princess Kunxing saw the destruction of the Dengzhou commercial port she participated in, feeling very uncomfortable, and sighed softly: "No wonder the king of heaven wants to hide in Nanjing... He knew about this a long time ago!"
Zhu Shangxian followed her. Hearing what she said, he felt a little sad, but he still laughed a few times and comforted him: "Who made the population in the world too small now? If it wasn't for this way of doing things, who would want to leave their hometown and go to Liaodong? If there are always soldiers but no people, there is no way to prosper. Now that Dengzhou has a population of 30 to [-] people who migrated there, within three years, Lushunkou will be the new Dengzhou. With the new Dengzhou as a backup, In five years, Ping Liao will be sure!"
In fact, the ending of Liberty City in Dengzhou was doomed from the very beginning!This is just a step to land in Liaodong. Now that the Ming army has landed in Liaodong, Dengzhou is no longer important.
Princess Kunxing nodded: "Five years of flattening the Liao Dynasty... After the flattening of the Liao Dynasty, it's time for Beijing, right? I haven't been to the Forbidden City in Beijing for many years, and I haven't paid homage to the late emperor..."
Chapter 567 Big head Wu!
Hubei, Xiangjing.At the end of December in the fifth year of Zhaowu.
Xiangjing is the original Xiangyang Mansion. I don’t know how it happened. Since the spring of the fifth year of Zhaowu in the Great Zhou Dynasty, there have been auspicious signs in this area... After a while, Ganoderma lucidum grew in the back garden of the newly completed President Befu in Xiangyang City; After a while, someone saw the phoenix yelling on Xiangshan Mountain; after a while, someone fished out a stone tablet from the moat of Xiangyang City, engraved with "three points to one bear"!
All kinds of signs indicate that Xiangyang is a big place, and the emperor is about to come out!And this Emperor Xiangyang is also related to "bears"!
Lu Yifeng, the magistrate of Xiangyang Prefecture, did not dare to neglect, and immediately reported to Jiangling Prefecture.Then President Wu Yingxiong summoned experts and scholars from the Great Zhou Kingdom to study together, and after the research, he came to the result... that is, Wu Yingxiong happened to be the man of destiny who wanted to unify the world, so he should be the emperor.
So the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty in the Great Zhou Kingdom persuaded them to enter together!
But Wu Yingxiong was cautious and wanted to go to Xiangyang Mansion to investigate the auspiciousness in person, so he drove from Jiangling Mansion to Xiangyang Mansion in autumn, and on the day Wu Yingxiong came to Xiangyang Mansion... there was a phoenix flying in the sky of Xiangyang Mansion!
This phoenix is so big, with fire under its two wings, it flew over the Xiangyang Mansion, and finally turned into a ball of fire, and disappeared over Xiangshan Mountain.This scene was witnessed by half of the people in Xiangyang City!
That was really an uproar in the whole city, and everyone in Xiangyang City was shouting long live.
Lu Yifeng then took the lead in another persuasion.
But Wu Yingxiong still refused, but at the same time he announced that he would move his capital to Xiangyang and change Xiangyang to Xiangjing. Got it.
But who knows when he will take this last step?
Time soon came to the end of the fifth year of Zhaowu in the Great Zhou Dynasty... At this time, Xiangjing has become a military city!
It turned out that at the same time that Wu Yingxiong moved his capital to Xiangyang, he also issued an order to "raise more troops after autumn".
They began to gather Wu and Zhou military households who were stationed in Xiangjing, Jiangling, Wuchang, Hanyang, Anlu, Changsha, Yuezhou, Changde, and Lizhou to gather in Xiangjing, saying that they wanted to conquer the Central Plains in the north and unify the world!
The military household system of Wu Zhou is the main achievement of the military and political reforms promoted by Wu Yingxiong after he ascended the throne, and it is also the main reason why Wu Zhou regime has been maintained in Wu Yingxiong's hands until now.
The military household system and land equalization system of Wu and Zhou were implemented together, mainly in the process of land equalization, in nine state capitals including Xiangjing, Jiangling, Wuchang, Hanyang, Anlu, Changsha, Yuezhou, Changde, and Lizhou. More than 2000 million mu of high-quality paddy fields were produced on the land, and then distributed to the [-] Wu Zhou military households below.
After allocating the military households, Wu Yingxiong implemented the "one-third fan service" system, allowing [-] military households to devote one-third of their time to military service each year. Among them, those who served in the capital of Wu and Zhou were called " "Fan Shang", those who serve in the local area are called "Fan Service", and the military households who stay at home also need to respond to the call at any time.
In addition to the [-] military households, Wu Yingxiong also implemented the family system, allowing the generals under his command to support a certain number of family members as their own soldiers and private troops through the management of fiefdoms, employment fields and other businesses.Wu Yingxiong himself raised [-] iron cavalry as his servants, and he also used the name "Yiding Tuqi"... This is the name of the private army that Wu Sangui established when he worked for the Ming Dynasty.
Relying on these two forces, public and private, Wu Yingxiong's regime finally has the force to maintain its rule, and it also has the capital to deal with Wu Yingqi.
But Wu Yingxiong didn't know that the Wu family army, which he worked so hard to straighten out, would have fallen behind if he didn't pay attention...
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"The fourth chastity of the concubine respectfully invites the Long Live God and the Empress to be blessed, and congratulates the Long Live God and the Empress..."
On the day when the new year was approaching, Wu Yingxiong accompanied Princess Jianning, who wanted to lose weight, back from a walk in the imperial garden of the Dragon and Phoenix Palace, and then walked into the bedroom called the Dragon and Phoenix Palace, and saw that she was wearing a tight-fitting purple and red skirt. Kong Sizhen came out of the bedroom, kowtowed to the two of them with a smile, and called them Long Live Lord and Empress Empress.
"Sister Sizhen, get up quickly." Jianning, who was always fat after subtraction, saw Kong Sizhen, who was always slender, so respectful, and greeted her with a smile to get up.
Kong Sizhen is now aliased as Hong Sizhen, and has become Wu Yingxiong's concubine as Hong Shiming's adopted daughter.
"Yes." Kong Sizhen didn't wait for Wu Yingxiong to speak, and got up from the ground with a smile, and then went to Princess Jianning's side to please her, and walked into the bedroom with her.
Wu Yingxiong saw that his wife and sister were deeply in love, of course there were satisfied smiles on his face, and he also walked in, and then sat down on a large dragon chair, while Princess Jianning sat on a nearby chair. sat down.
After Kong Sizhen supported Jianning to sit down, he took two yellow-covered memorials from a case table, and when he arrived in front of Wu Yingxiong, he knelt down respectfully again, held the memorials above his head with both hands, and said with a smile: "Long live Lord, this is the secret document of Wang Shirong and Dai Liangchen... just sent into the palace by Yi Dingwei's people."
Yi Dingwei is the Yamen that specializes in Yiding Tuqi, and it is also an existence similar to the Jinyiwei of the Ming Dynasty. It not only manages Yiding Tuqi, but also manages intelligence work.
Kong Sizhen has always been involved in Wu Yingxiong's important military affairs, and after entering the mansion under a pseudonym and becoming a concubine, she continued to act as Wu Yingxiong's "secretary".
And Wu Yingxiong has been the emperor behind closed doors since three years ago, so all the rules in the harem of the Presidential Palace have to follow the rules of the imperial palace...and it belongs to the imperial palace of the Qing Dynasty!
So Kong Sizhen had to kneel down and play to Wu Yingxiong.
"Wang Shirong and Dai Liangchen's secret document?" Wu Yingxiong took the document, but did not read it. At this moment, he remembered that she had congratulated him before, so he immediately asked: "It has something to do with Zhu Heqi and Kangxi... ?”
"Long live Lord Shengming," Kong Sizhen said with a smile, "they are both in North Korea, and they were still fighting in the suburbs of Seoul in November!"
Princess Jianning interrupted and asked, "Who won?"
Kong Sizhen smiled and said: "Both won... Both sides said they won. After the fight, Kangxi withdrew and went back to Haizhou for the winter, while Zhu and Qi stayed in Seoul for the winter. It was probably a draw, and no one could do anything about it." .”
Princess Jianning breathed a sigh of relief.
Wu Yingxiong remained expressionless.
Kong Sizhen said again: "There is still good news... Da Qing and Da Ming are still fighting two more rounds in Shandong and Liaodong. Da Ming sent troops from Dengzhou, crossed the sea to attack Liao, and landed at Lushunkou. And Qing's Prince An Yue Le and Prince Gong Chang Ning led an army of [-] to attack Dengzhou. They caught Dengzhou by surprise, took down the outer city of Dengzhou, and swept up several counties below the capital of Dengzhou. Currently Yue Le, Chang Ning and Ming Army confrontation in Dengzhou!
It seems that the Qing Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty are really angry, and they have no time to meddle in our affairs. "
Wu Yingxiong finally laughed: "Sizhen, let people go to announce Xia Guoxiang, Hu Guozhu, Guo Zhuangtu, Hong Shiming, and Lu Yifeng into the palace!"
"Yes." Kong Sizhen kowtowed, then got up and left.
Seeing Kong Sizhen leaving, Princess Jianning immediately moved to Wu Yingxiong's side, "Master, are you really going to be the emperor?"
Wu Yingxiong smiled and glanced at his wife, "Princess, don't you want to be a queen?"