Cutting over the end of the Ming Dynasty: a dog-leg knife at the beginning

Chapter 1026 Crazy
Originally, according to Yang Menglong's plan, the Heluo New Army should stop after taking Jinzhou. They have won enough honors in this battle, and it doesn't matter if they leave the honor of regaining Shenyang to the Tianxiong Army.But the Heluo New Army is obviously unwilling to do this. Invading the capital of a country and completely destroying the enemy is the dream of all soldiers, and no army will let it go.Moreover, the Tianxiong Army was not happy about it. They thought that they would be the first to attack Shenyang without the need for the Heluo New Army to surrender. Therefore, after a mess of arguments, the three armies of the Heluo New Army stayed behind after capturing Jinzhou. The next two infantry brigades guarded this important rear town, and the main force, along with the two regiments of the Tianxiong Army, went straight to Panjin and pointed their swords at Shenyang.

There is nothing to say about what happened along the way. Lu Xiangsheng's troops were far behind the real Tianxiong Army and the Heluo New Army. The Qing Army was still unable to stop them. If the five New Army legions came together, they would be even less able to resist. Most people fled before the new army arrived. Those who tried to arrive found themselves opening a copy of Hell within an hour... When encountering resistance, the new army didn't even bother to pick up a rifle, so they just watched lazily. Then, the artillery pushed the cannon up and blasted the Qing army's stronghold, blasting the entire stronghold into a sea of ​​flames. Then they wisely chose to fall back to the Ming Dynasty's Guan Ning army and swarmed up. A stronghold was taken down in this way, and then It's useless to resist!
It has to be said that the Guan Ning Army after reforming their evil spirits seemed to have changed their souls. Their fierceness, their belligerence, and their morale made every general who knew the Guan Ning Army dumbfounded. Cao Wenzhao more than once He muttered in private: "What I saw must be a fake Guan Ningjun!"

Regardless of whether it is true or not, more than 1 Guan Ning troops acted as pioneers, which really saved the New Army a lot of trouble. They took care of the Qing army strongholds along the way, and they also killed the sporadic Qing troops who tried to harass the Ming army's rear. Everything was clean and tidy. The New Army was basically carrying out an armed parade, which was very relaxed.However, after arriving in Panjin, this relaxed and comfortable atmosphere was ruined.

On the Panjin battlefield, there are many bones, broken spears, broken carriages, broken flags, sharp arrows stuck on the ground... These messy things almost cover everyone's field of vision, and countless bones lie among the grass No one stopped, and the grass roots were already wrapped around the bones.Among the countless corpses, foxes appeared, rats scurried, and crows kept circling. Being among them would make even the most daring person shudder!In the great war last year, 30 troops suffered a devastating blow here, except for the Guan Ning Army who had long betrayed Ming Dynasty, and the 3 troops who followed Lu Xiangsheng and fought for thousands of miles, and finally rushed all the way to Fuzhou People, more than half of the more than 20 Ming troops fell on this terrible battlefield.When the war ended, the Ming army was unable to collect their remains, and the Qing army had no time to collect their corpses. The corpses of countless fallen soldiers lay in the wilderness and turned into countless bones under the sun and rain. Their anger, their His unwillingness turned into overwhelming resentment, making the sky in this area darken.No one dared to enter this terrible battlefield. Even the Qing army deliberately avoided this area when they went south, for fear of getting bad luck. The countless soldiers of the Ming army who died in battle were just forgotten until the Ming army fought again. Come back.

Tens of thousands of soldiers of the Ming army stared silently at this world made of bones, their chests were blocked.Catherine's face turned pale, she kept crossing herself on her chest, and murmured: "My God, it's too cruel, this war is really too cruel!"

Xue Siming said: "This is probably the most tragic defeat of our army in Liao since the end of the Battle of Saarhu, right? Fortunately, such a tragic defeat will not happen again. I ordered the entire army to stay here for one day and restrain the casualties. The remains of the soldiers were cremated, and we took them to Shenyang!"

The Ming army stopped advancing in Panjin, and everyone collected the remains together, chopped dry firewood, piled the remains on the firewood and lit them, countless pillars of smoke rose up, rising higher and higher.

At the other end of this battlefield that stretches for hundreds of miles, there are also pillars of smoke rising higher and higher. Under the pillars of smoke, countless soldiers in fiery red military uniforms are lined up neatly, full of murderous aura, heading straight for Shenyang. .The remains of countless Ming army soldiers burned in raging fire, and the monstrous anger also burned in the hearts of the survivors.

The two armies met in Panjin. There was no extra nonsense, and they met. All the five new armies were handed over to Lu Xiangsheng's command, and then 10,000+ armies joined forces to attack Shenyang with overwhelming force.

Standing in the Qiaolou in Shenyang City, Abatai watched the columns of smoke rising from behind the horizon, listened to the sound of footsteps brought by the wind, and said expressionlessly, "They are here."

Daishan was also expressionless: "It's over..."

Shenyang City has become a large military camp. No matter if they are from the city or escaped from Liaodong or Liaoxi, and whether they are bannermen, Han Chinese or Mongols, as long as they can wield a knife and draw a bow, they are all armed. Get up, ready to go into battle.The Qing army’s wealth had long been wiped out, and there were very few reserves in the grain depot and armory. Therefore, Daishan and Abatai conducted the most thorough search of Shenyang City, and the scrap copper they could collect was rotten All the iron was returned to the furnace, and the fires of dozens of blacksmith shops were not extinguished all day long, and weapons were forged day and night. In order to raise enough metal, they even melted Nurhachi's bronze elephant.In order to survive, in order to live longer, this city can be said to be doing its best, but everyone knows that they can't hold this city, and what awaits them is destruction!
The sound of rumbling guns soon came from outside the city of Shenyang, which meant that the satellite towns on the outskirts had exchanged fire with the Ming army.Defending the city is not like the TV movies where all the troops retreat behind the thick walls to resist tenaciously. The city is only the heart of the entire defense system. Its periphery is composed of a series of satellite towns and fortresses, relying on the city to support each other. , relying on each other, doing everything possible to contain the enemy, delay the enemy, and consume the enemy.Once the enemy army has advanced to the bottom of the city wall, it can only be said that the general situation is over, and no matter how strong the city wall is, it will be difficult to sustain it.Daishan and Abatai have fought for a lifetime, so they are naturally proficient in this way. They turned all the towns around Shenyang into strong fortresses, dug deep trenches, built hard fortresses, equipped with muskets and artillery, strong bows and crossbows. Like a hedgehog.The Ming army advancing towards Shenyang ran into these hedgehogs, and the war kicked off.Both sides were bombarded with cannons and muskets were firing at each other. One side was attacking like a tide, while the other side was desperately defending. Everyone was merciless. This fierce battle has reached a fever pitch from the very beginning!The Qing army kept their oath of "not retreating a step" and fought extremely tenaciously. As long as they had a little strength, they would jump up and rush towards the Ming army. Be a little surprised.

A powerful nation, even at the last moment, the energy that erupts cannot be underestimated!

The battle of Shenyang affected the hearts of thousands of people and attracted the attention of the whole country, but there was a guy who didn't care about it. He didn't know where his free thinking had gone.

That's right, that guy is Yang Menglong!
Apart from him, there is no other guy who is so unreliable in the court.

Right now, the Ming Dynasty is surrounded by wars and wars, and this guy actually has the idea of ​​​​opening up the territory.During a private conversation with the emperor, he pulled out a document signed with the Spaniards and pushed it in front of Zhu Yujian: "Xi Yi is here to urge us. When will we release the prisoners?"

Zhu Yujian was at a loss: "Captive? What prisoner?"

Yang Menglong said: "The Spaniards alone took thousands of captives when Taiwan was recovered, and they are still locked up in the city of Taiwan. Those foreigners were so anxious that they did not hesitate to cede land to redeem these captives." , I saw that the land they cut was quite fat, so I agreed... Well, this is it!"

There was a map on the document, which Zhu Yujian couldn't understand, and even if he could understand it, he wouldn't know where it was.However, he still knew about the Spaniards' land replacement: "Which piece of land did they cut off in exchange for prisoners? If the land is not good, I won't do it. Those bastards have invaded my Ming territory for decades, and they have to pay for whatever they say." Some price!"

Yang Menglong said cheerfully: "The land they cut is definitely a good land. I'm afraid it will be difficult to find better land in the whole world!" Pointing to the large area circled in red ink on the map, " The Plain of La Plata, the most livable area on the entire earth!"

Zhu Yujian looked at the map suspiciously. He instinctively felt that the land was really small. However, the word "plain" still caught his attention. Plain means that it is easy to develop, suitable for farming and settlement, a good place: "The Plain of La Plata? Where?"

Yang Menglong said: "It's so far away that even the fastest sailing boat will have to travel for several months to get there if it sails around the clock. Of course, the speed of the sailing boat can be increased. If we can create a sailboat driven by a steam turbine It will no longer be a problem for the ship to arrive within two months."

Zhu Yujian was stunned: "It's so far away! Then you want to use this land for some purpose! To say it's far away is to be polite, this is simply another world!"

Yang Menglong said anxiously: "This land is great! According to the information provided by Xiyi, the area of ​​the La Plata Plain is 150 million square kilometers. Think about it, does our country have such a vast plain? No?"

Zhu Yujian thought about it seriously, but there really wasn't one.The vastest plain in China is the North China Plain, but its area is only 30 square kilometers, which is only one-fifth of that of the La Plata Plain. What a difference!

"There are hundreds of large rivers in the La Plata Plain, which is extremely rich in water resources, and the land is sparsely populated. The entire plain is almost uncultivated. The fertile soil is unparalleled, and the climate is superior. The summer is not too hot, and the winter is not too hot. Too cold, suitable for farming and animal husbandry, is it wrong to say that it is the most suitable area for settlement?"

"The most amazing thing is that there is no decent country or nation around it at all! No animal nation, no mountain barbarians, they don't exist there. Even if there is a little bit, it will be chased away by a mere hundred Spanish expedition members. I went to a very remote area, boss, think about it, is there a more comfortable and comfortable place than this?"

Zhu Yujian pinched his chin, pondered for a moment, and said: "Hearing your bragging so much, I'm really interested in that so-called La Plata Plain. Such a precious place is so uninhabited, it's not a waste of money, it's absolutely wrong. Allowed!"

Yang Menglong has a gratified expression that can be taught by a child... He is the emperor, you are so relieved!He laughed: "The idiots in the West know how to rob gold and silver, but they don't even know that the value of that land is a thousand times, ten thousand times the sum of gold and silver in the world! Of course, even if they know, they don't care , because they are not good at farming at all, so I promised to exchange those thousands of prisoners of war with them for the La Plata Plain, they don’t want it, we want it!”

Zhu Yujian screamed: "What? Exchange a territory equivalent to a quarter of the Ming Dynasty for thousands of prisoners of war!?"

Yang Menglong curled his lips: "Didn't I say that people are only interested in gold and silver, and there are no gold or silver mines in this land, and there are not even many residents, so it is completely worthless to them, and it is exchanged for thousands of people. What's so distressing about prisoners of war?"

Zhu Yujian was in a mess: "Xiyi... is sick? You can do this kind of thing! Don't talk about ceding, even if you lose the land of a few provinces, I will have no face to see my ancestors. They actually took Come and exchange thousands of prisoners of war!"

Obviously, the Ming emperor could not understand Xiyi's behavior of exchanging more than 100 million square kilometers of land for thousands of prisoners of war. In his opinion, the Spanish emperor must be crazy!
(End of this chapter)