Dominate the Country

On September 20th, Chen Ming was reading the latest news sent by North Korea. The Min family army unexpectedly broke into Chunjiang Prefecture. The leader was Min Honghao's eldest son, Min Zhenhao, who previously commanded the Kaesong City Defense Army.

Chunjiang Prefecture was controlled by the Hancheng Royal Army, and the leader was the direct descendant of the Andong Kim family.

After the Min family army began to attack Gangwon Province and Hamgyong Province, Min Zhenhao, as a pioneer, first captured Icheon Prefecture and Cheorwon Prefecture in Gangwon Province, and then he was left in Cheorwon by his father as the commander-in-chief of the defense of Gangwon South Province.

After a few months, Min Honghao had already captured Gangwon North Province and most of Hamgyong Province. A lot of evidence was found. In his territory, any family that had had any connection with the remnant Qing Dynasty was either killed or fled to other places.

The entire march was unexpectedly smooth.

Many of Chen Zhongsheng's prepared back-up plans were not used. One city after another, one army after another was defeated, but Min Zhenhao's sudden attack on Chunjiang Prefecture was also an unexpected situation.

Chen Ming put down the information in his hand, and he had already made excuses for Min's army in his heart. This offensive war was not deliberately provoked by Min Zhenhao. How to say it? When Min Zhenhao led his troops to patrol the border of Cheorwon Prefecture, the Korean king's soldiers on the opposite side [make a distinction] fired first. Min Zhenhao naturally fought back, but the result was somewhat absurd. As soon as the Min family army fired, the soldiers on the opposite side collapsed. Min Zhenhao had only a thousand soldiers, but he broke through several counties in Chunjiang Prefecture and fought all the way to the Han River. The Han River of Korea!

Min Zhenhao didn't dare to fight. At that time, his feverish brain calmed down for a while, because he didn't get permission from the top for this battle, and the troops were also weak. Chunjiang Prefecture, as an important town opposed to Cheorwon Prefecture, had at least 3,000 king's soldiers.

So Min Zhenhao ordered his troops to stop by the Han River.

Min Zhenhao sent people to negotiate with the other side, intending to get a verbal advantage and leave. During this period, the forces of both sides gathered, and Min Zhenhao's troops doubled. The Korean royal soldiers in Wonju were also supporting Chunjiangfu, and the first batch of 500 cavalry arrived at Chunjiangfu.

The two sides confronted each other across the Han River, and the Min family army set up positions on the riverside. At this time, a team of elite royal soldiers was the cavalry unit that came from Wonju to support. It is not easy to engage in cavalry in Korea. Most of the horses come from China, and most of the leaders are descendants of the Andong Jin family, including the generals of the cavalry in front of them.

The Min family army was only a team of soldiers. They fired at the Joseon king's troops across the river. There was no danger at all. They just showed their tough attitude. As a result, the hundreds of cavalry on the opposite side immediately fled in droves, leaving their armors and helmets behind. So the officers of the Min family army crossed the river on their own initiative to pursue them... The subsequent Min family army followed immediately, and Chunjiang Prefecture became the territory of the Min family in one day.

"Liu Wu, what do you think of this?"

"The Min family is not confident enough to break up with Hancheng now, but I don't think Min Honghao will bring up a scapegoat to evade Hancheng. If he does that, it will be too much of a blow to the morale of the Min family."

Liu Wu didn't have any good feelings for Hancheng and Andong Jin's people, but from the overall strength, Hancheng was still much stronger than the Min family. This was not only because Hancheng had great righteousness, but also because Hancheng's troops were not only the Andong Jin's. The latter represented themselves more, not even the two-class nobles. The soldiers under the Qingfeng Jin family were well evaluated by the National Security Bureau.

"I estimate that Min Honghao will punish his son for disobeying military orders and then withdraw from Chunjiang Prefecture."

"Disobeying military orders?" Chen Ming laughed, "What if he disobeyed orders? The victor is not to be blamed. To be precise, the soldiers of the Min family army just exposed a lie carefully fabricated by the Seoul government. From that moment on, the dignity of North Korea in the hearts of the warriors was probably gone." Chen Ming's voice was full of emotion.

After all, it is a country that has existed for four hundred years.

Chen Ming was thinking in his heart. After the Min family made such a fuss, if China really gave up on North Korea, I am afraid that there would be a real separatist regime there, and war would start again.

The majesty of the central government of North Korea was completely crushed to dust.

A country that has existed for four hundred years has gone to its true demise under Chen Ming.

Suddenly, Chen Ming frowned, and he thought of a question he had never thought about before. North Korea has existed for four hundred years? If we look at the original time and space history, the entire Joseon Dynasty has a history of more than 500 years, which is much longer than the feudal dynasties in China.

"Confucianism is really unique in stabilizing social classes and solidifying rule." This can be clearly seen from the Joseon Dynasty. Chen Ming thought about Joseon carefully and saw the shadow of the Song Dynasty in it.

The founder of the country, Li Chenggui, was the same as Zhao Kuangyin in the past. They were both generals who rebelled against the country and founded the dynasty. Therefore, their ruling styles were very similar. They both emphasized culture and suppressed military affairs. They shared the world with the scholar-bureaucrats. Even the results were quite similar. Since the founding of the country, the Kingdom of Korea has only experienced three large-scale wars. One was the Japanese invasion during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, another was a series of wars in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, and the third was the Manchurian invasion by the time traveler Chen Ming Butterfly. The Qing invaded the dynasty again. In these three wars, the army of the Korean Kingdom has always performed very unsatisfactory, just like the two Song Dynasties were beaten three times by the three foreign tribes of Liao, Jin, and Mongolia. Compared with the large and complete civil service system of the Li Dynasty, the rigid military system and weak soldiers could hardly adapt to any war. In view of Li Chenggui's way of founding the country, the Li Dynasty, like the two Song Dynasties, could hardly trust any generals. After hundreds of years of development, under the rule of a well-functioning civilian class, the economy and culture of the Joseon Kingdom have made great progress. Literati and poets emerged in endlessly, and the rule of the entire dynasty was as stable as a rock. But only the lack of force made everything in this dynasty less glorious. She failed to resist a foreign invasion.

If nature is about natural selection and survival of the fittest, then the history of the development of human civilization is also a history of cruel competition.

There is no country without external enemies. No matter how well your internal development is, if you cannot withstand external blows, it is also a failure of competition at this level of the country. Such a 'political system and governance philosophy' will eventually be ruthlessly eliminated by history. Otherwise, the price the entire country and nation will have to pay is endless sinking.

For example, China, North Korea, Annan in the original time and space...

Today's North Korea and China in the past have reached a turning point in history.

In Chen Ming's eyes, Min Zhenhao had made great contributions. His blow directly increased the maturity time of North Korea by 10%. After tearing apart the outer skin of Seoul's royal soldiers, I don't know how many local powerful people will have an ambition to 'replace' them in their hearts. This effect can definitely accelerate ripening by 10%!

Bright light passed through the glass to the outside. Rows of guards stood tall and two eunuchs in blue stood at the left and right of the palace door with their hands tied.

Zhang Dayong stood quietly in the corner of the hall. He knew Chen Ming's rules when working. He didn't speak or make a sound. He seemed to be invisible. It wasn't until his eyes saw the eunuch's figure flashing past the door that he quietly walked out.

Melaleuca walked on the matted carpet and made no sound.

Walking out of the door of the inner hall, a eunuch was waiting quietly outside the door holding a red box. Zhang Dayong opened the box and strode back.

"Your Majesty, we have military information sent to you."

There is a pigeon nest in the palace. There are more than twenty eunuchs in it, plus a similar number of guards. It can be said that it is the most densely populated in the palace except for the limited important places of Qianqing Palace and Fengtian Palace. place.

In addition to the eunuchs who served the doves, there were also a group of people who translated the secret messages. After the translation is completed, the letter is put into the box, sealed and sent immediately.

The level of the seal is different. For example, the current red box is one that must be presented immediately no matter what time or what the emperor is doing, even if the emperor is visiting his concubine.

After tearing open the red sticker, Chen Ming took out the folding book inside. When he saw it at first glance, a smile appeared on his face.

"Luzon was captured."

After the Battle of the Bayou, the Marine Corps chased the remnants of the enemy all the way to the Spanish King's Castle. Those guys were all frightened, and some of the guys whose clothes were in tatters and blackened by gunpowder smoke were already crazy. Even when the guards in the royal city saw the Chinese Marines retreating and opened the city gate to meet the defeated soldiers, these people just laughed and cried and had no intention of fighting.

A raging fire was ignited in the residential area outside the city, and rockets fell on the big duck's head every once in a while.

The residential area here is the best bunker for the rocket troops. The reason why the fire was ignited was caused by the Spanish bombardment itself.

Black smoke billowed, and everything seemed to be burning. Every building is burning, every forest is burning.

Wearing military boots, the heat from the hot ground still penetrated the soles and reached the soles of the feet. The smell of burning objects in the air, including the pungent smell of burning flesh, strongly irritated everyone's respiratory systems.

This is a battle between adults and children, a crushing battle. It is also the best explanation of the saying "One trick can eat everything in the world".

In a few years, China has stockpiled enough rockets in Nanyang, and this battle will be fought entirely with rockets.

There was no fighting in formation, no volleying to kill.

After Europeans have dominated the world for two to three hundred years with their muskets and artillery, now they also have to taste the taste of being crushed.

A British ship also floating in Manila Bay had experienced the entire battle here. The British East India Company's Taipan in Singapore on the deck had a face as cold as a marble.

As bystanders, they gave a fair judgment to the war: "This was an unfair battle. The Chinese navy and army, which had fire dragon bombs and could give full play to the power of this devilish weapon, were like A strong adult, whereas the Spaniard in Luzon is a skinny toddler."

Just like the Spanish with muskets who conquered the native Americans, China easily conquered Manila with this powerful weapon.

The British and the Dutch were very concerned about the war in Luzon, but it was too late to send ships when Batavia received the news. The British, who had set up a trading house in Singapore, caught up with the battle.

They watched the only naval battle in Manila Bay from afar.

That battle ended in a disastrous defeat for the Spanish Navy. The Spanish Navy, with only four warships, was no match for the Nanyang Navy. But the clipper warships were not invincible, and they would also be injured.

The biggest difference between them was the difference in lethality. With the accuracy and power of the front-loading smoothbore cannons of this era, it was difficult to say that a warship could be destroyed in one round of cannon fire. Even a clipper warship could not destroy the entire huge warship in one round of attack. But the power of the clipper bow + fire dragon bomb was that they could injure a large ship in an instant.

Especially in a single-ship battle, the latter could use its speed to go around the bow and stern of the warship to launch an attack.

Whether it is a fourth-level battleship or a third-level battleship, the fire dragon bomb can cause a heavy blow to the power facilities [sails] and direction facilities [rudders] of the battleship, and then they can launch a second round of attack more calmly, or the orthodox sailing warships will rush in...

In the eyes of the British who were watching the naval battle in Manila Bay, it was not just Spain that failed, but the entire European navy. In terms of the naval warships of Europe at this time, no one can withstand the tactics of the Chinese navy.

Even the first-level battleships can't withstand several such tossings.

Although there is still an insurmountable distance between China and Europe, it is really difficult for the two sides to have a real naval battle at this time. But these British people all have a premonition: when the scenes they saw were "transmitted" to Europe, a new round of shipbuilding reforms in the European world will start again.

This means that the powerful Royal Navy warships of Great Britain are all outdated overnight. For John Bull, this is a tragedy.

Unless this weapon of the Chinese is also mastered by Europeans!

After a wave of rocket bombardment, the Spanish Royal City exploded, and the countless Spaniards hiding inside were like a pot of boiling porridge. They were no longer willing to stay in the king's city. Even if they surrendered to the devil-like Chinese immediately, they were unwilling to stay in the city and be bombed.

Luzon, an important stronghold connecting Mexico and the core area of ​​Spanish galleon trade, can be said to be a small jewel in the crown of the Spanish colonial empire. However, the Chinese navy and army successfully cut it off from the crown in less than five days. If this news spread to Europe, it would shock the entire Western world.

Because the Spanish Royal City in Manila is a standard fortress city, the star-shaped structural layout shows that it is a building based on bastions. Such a city represents trouble in Europe. Even if it is surrounded and attacked with sufficient troops and artillery, it will take at least a month and a heavy price to conquer it.

But the Chinese now...

The power of rockets is beyond the imagination of people of this era.

The British who were watching thought of the Indian rockets in their own hands, which was really a comparison between rotten copper and gold.

Just like the opium war in the original time and space, the same guns and cannons, the guns and cannons in the hands of the Qing Dynasty and the guns and cannons in the hands of the British, there was a qualitative difference.

The arrogant "Heavenly Kingdom" suffered enough in the opium war, and for the first time realized the power of foreigners. The same is true for Europeans today.

The current big duck is such a role. This former overlord of Europe, even if it has been in decline for many years, is still a force that cannot be underestimated in Europe. It is now so miserable that it has been hit by non-white countries in a formal war. This is the second failure of European civilization after the decline of the Ottoman Empire.

The first failure was not in the hands of the King of the Kingdom. The strength of the Dutch in Taiwan at that time could not be compared with the current Battle of Luzon. Similarly, the first time was not Kang Mazi's Battle of Yaxsa. The latter was not a war, but just a conflict. The first defeat was against the Russians on land. In the battle between infantry and cavalry, the Russians, who were not strong enough, were placed in the hands of the emerging Chinese. However, compared with the desolate and empty Siberia, Luzon has a greater reputation in the whole of Europe, and the significance of naval battles is also greater, so the impact it will have will be even greater.

The Chinese, who have proven their strength on both land and sea battlefields, will successfully replace the Ottoman Empire as the strongest country outside the world of monotheism. In the eyes of Europeans, in addition to Tianfang, the whole world will surely have another ancient civilization in the East.

In the eyes of Europeans, the latter is no longer a "non-real" existence separated by a layer, but a real threat to their interests.

In a word, which European country can resist this combat mode of the Chinese naval fleet? John Bull or Gallic rooster? Or a polar bear who likes to swim?