Chongzhen Undergraduates

Zeng Ying's subordinates were the defeated army in the original Shu land, while Yang Zhan was the landlord's armed forces he had drawn up by himself.These two people are currently gaining momentum, occupying all the Sichuan land along the river, and have begun to approach Jiading (now Leshan, Sichuan).

Zhu Youjian wants to take over their military power?I can only think about it.Counting Hou Jin's army and Mu Tianbo's chieftain army, the Southwest has gathered nearly 80 troops with Sichuan as the center, forming a quartet of forces vying for it.Zhu Youjian's Xinchuan Army is the one with the least troops.The total strength of all opponents is more than ten times that of his.

The Azige Department of the Later Jin Dynasty has nearly 15 troops, Wu Sangui has 30 troops; Zhang Xianzhong has 5 troops; Yang Zhan has 80 troops;Add up to nearly [-] horses.

The difficulty of this game is far more than that of the previous four towns in Jiangbei, and Zhu Youjian basically only has Mu Tianbo as a helper and Wang Yingxiong, Fan Yiheng and others are superficialists with evil intentions.

"Navy, the navy must enter Sichuan." Zhu Youjian stared at the map, thinking about how to deal with it.

If you want to sail into the Three Gorges, it is best to go to the dry season in winter.Yanyudui at the mouth of Qutang Gorge is a huge reef lying in the middle of the river, about 5 meter long and [-] meters wide, locking the Yangtze River waterway. In the dry season, it is more than [-] meter above the river surface. In summer, when the water rises, Yanyudui hides The water is even more dangerous. Since ancient times, boatmen have regarded it as a fear of the road, and if they are not careful, the boat will crash and people will die and be buried in the belly of the fish.

Only in the dry season, many hidden reefs will emerge from the water, and the core channel can sail.

The upward movement of the ship relies on manpower to pull the fibers, and the sails do not play a big role.The total length from Yiling to Fengjie is more than 120 miles. Among the Three Gorges, Xiling Gorge is the longest. Here, the waterway is tortuous and there are many strange rocks. The water flow suddenly becomes rapids and rapids everywhere. There are Xiling Gorge and the "three beaches"—— Xietan, Qingtan, Kongling Beach, and the "Four Gorges" - Dengying Gorge, Huangniu Gorge, Niuganmafei Gorge and Bingshu Baojian Gorge.On the Yangtze River route, there are a few sayings circulating: "The travel in Xiling Gorge is thick, and the beaches are full of ghosts."

For thousands of years, the number of sunken ships in the Three Gorges channel is unknown. Zhu Youjian once witnessed a sunken ship after the foundation of the Three Gorges Dam was drained, and a lot of copper coins of the Tang Dynasty were buried in it.

"Your Majesty, it will take at least two months for the navy to enter Sichuan, will it be in time?" Zuo Maodi, the commander of the Sichuan Army, is relatively free now, and a large group of staff officers under him are sorting out all kinds of information, but it is not as hard as before.

"Let the ships from Yiling come in first, followed by the ships from Wuchang, and the ships from Jiujiang can arrive within a month. As long as there are fifty battlefield ships across the river, we will not be passive. I will personally go to Fengjie to ask the old man Boatman go."

The water system in Sichuan also extends in all directions. No matter which direction the Minjiang River, Tuojiang River, and Jialing River are moving troops, with the assistance of the navy, it will be more effective.

There is another reason Zhu Youjian didn't say, that is, the navy went north from the Jialing River and rushed to Nanchong, which was the shortest route for Jin after the blockade.As for Chengdu, according to Zhu Youjian's information, Zhang Xianzhong has already been in trouble.

"Then let me quickly send people to investigate the situation in Chongqing. We have to take Chongqing first before we can enter the Jialing River." Zuo Maodi heard that Zhu Youjian was about to go to Fengjie in person, so how dare he sit in the headquarters and enjoy the blessings.

"Send someone to send an imperial edict to Mu Tianbo and Lu Daqi to let them march into Zunyi. It's impossible for that old boy Wang Yingxiong to hide in Zunyi and enjoy his success. Just let Lu Daqi take his place."

Zhu Youjian didn't bring Huang Zongxi with him when he came out this time. Firstly, Sichuan is currently a war zone and not Huang Zongxi's specialty; secondly, Zhu Youjian wanted him to spend more time with Fang Jinnan.

At this point, Zhu Youjian is not like other traversers, who can't wait to hug all the girls in his arms when they see the girls.It's as if women all over the world are rushing to marry him.

To put it bluntly, Zhu Youjian is a bit "choosy" when it comes to eating. It doesn't mean that he needs to have "meat". It may also have something to do with Chongzhen's body. After all, he is not a 20-year-old body.

Zhu Youjian led a group of dozens of people to cross mountains and ridges for two days before arriving in Zhongzhou. After taking a boat in Zhongzhou for another two days, he arrived in Kuizhou. Kuizhou is Fengjie.Baidi City is located on Baidi Mountain by the river, and the city of Baidi City is built around this hill and facing the river.

At the end of the Western Han Dynasty, Gongsun Shu ruled Shu and built a city on the mountain. Because a well in the city often emits white gas, like a white dragon, he used this to call himself Baidi and named the city Baidi City.After Gongsun Shu's death, the local people built a temple on the mountain to erect a statue of Gongsun Shu, which was called Baidi Temple.

Baidi City is located on the top of Baidi Mountain on the north bank of the Yangtze River at the mouth of Qutang Gorge. A battleground for military strategists of all dynasties.

Of course, Zhu Youjian didn't come to Baidi City for tourism, they came here just for the "chat head".There are many boat gangs stationed in Kuizhou, and there are also many "chaozitou" of each boat gang. It is not ordinary difficult to order these boat gangs and "chaozitou" to obey the command uniformly.

During this period, most of the ship gangs were named after regions, indicating the sphere of influence of the boat gangs.From Yiling to Chongqing there were Yiling Gang, Guizhouxia Internal Gang, Guizhouxia Outer Gang, Kuiwu Gang, Wanxian Gang, Zhongfeng Gang, and Changfu Gang.

The predecessor of the Paoge organization was the Three Gorges Ship Gang, but in this era, their power has not been strong enough to control shipping.During this period, the Tan brothers mainly controlled the Three Gorges River.

In the 12th year of Chongzhen (1639), the three brothers Tan Wen, Tan Hong and Tan Yi and Mo Zongwen defeated Zhang Xianzhong in Sanjianzhai, and were appointed generals to guard Dazhou.In the 17th year of Chongzhen, he and Wang Xueshi stationed troops in Badong. They were brutal and undisciplined.

Rather than saying that Zhu Youjian recruited the ship gang, it is better to say that he came to recruit the three brothers of the Tan family.In the original history, the Kuidong Thirteen Family was composed of Liu Tichun, Li Zicheng, and the three brothers of the Tan family.

(ps: At the beginning of the third year of Kangxi, the Qing government mobilized 10 troops to surround Li Laiheng's troops in Maolu Mountain. On August [-]th, when the food was exhausted, seeing that the situation was over, Li Laiheng distributed the gold and silver treasures to the soldiers, and ordered his subordinates to disperse and escape. However, he set himself on fire with his whole family, and the last team of the Dashun Army was finally wiped out.

So far, the Kuidong Thirteen Uprising Army, which has persisted in fighting for 21 years, has failed.

Among Kui Dong's thirteen families, Tan Hong and Tan Yi were the first to descend to the Qing Dynasty. They teamed up to kill their eldest brother, and then surrendered to the Qing Dynasty.Only the remnants of the Dashun Army, such as Liu Tichun and Li Laiheng, never surrendered, and they persisted with Gao Guiying until the last one. )

It should be said that more than half of the generals officially entrusted by the Ming court at the end of the Ming Dynasty surrendered in the end. Only the peasant army produced many heroes who defended their homes and the country; There are many evocative characters among the scholars.

The Peasant Rebel Army was the root cause of the chaos at first, but they were also the guards who surrounded the Ming Dynasty; the Donglin Party was not only the chief culprit of the chaos, but also made many unexpected patriotic actions later.

Simply scolding who is good and who is not good is biased.Just like everyone is debating whether it is the Eunuch Party or the Donglin Party that is harming the country, in fact they are both harming the country.

Chapter 295: The tracker has no love

To pass through Kuimen, one must change the "title" in Fengjie.

Standing by the river in Fengjie, Zhu Youjian saw a "Haozitou" leading a group of trackers along the rocky beach by the river to pull fibers upstream.

In this winter, the tracker is wearing a cloth scarf around his head, his arms are bare, his waist is tied with a piece of cloth that is only enough to hide his shame, and his feet are a pair of tattered straw sandals, crawling on the edge of the cliff.

An old man with a gray beard was prostrated on the ground, his hands were tightly grasping the rock in front of him, his legs kicked back vigorously, his chest almost touched the ground.

"Haozitou" was standing behind him, and still whipped him.The old man was in great pain, and grinned hoarsely, the rope belt on his shoulders completely strangled his thin skinny bones.

This is a big boat going up, and the hull is pulled by two ropes, dragging it slowly up from a distance.Each rope is pulled by more than 30 trackers. It takes six to seventy people to pull the boat just for the Kuimen section.

Zhu Youjian calculated silently in his heart that the navy's ship was bigger than this one, and it might take one or two hundred people to pull it.

Zhu Youjian couldn't sing "Tracker's Love" at all in his heart, and he wanted to play "Two Springs Reflecting the Moon" in the scene in front of him.It turns out that the tracker's love is deceitful, and the tracker is alive, so how can he talk about love?

A ten-year-old child stubbornly walked past Zhu Youjian with lifeless eyes. He was also one of the many trackers. Zhu Youjian actually saw a thick layer of calluses on his shoulders. .

Perhaps the child was afraid of being whipped, so he kicked his two calves and exerted all his strength, but the stones would always be trampled under his feet unconsciously.

"You son of a bitch, did you feed the dog lunch for lunch?" "Haozitou" then lashed the child's back with a whip, and there was only a layer of red marks.Zhu Youjian thought to himself that the child didn't know how many whips he had been through.

The little tracker was beaten, his feet slipped, and he tripped over a strong man behind him. The strong man didn't stand on the rope on his shoulders and pulled him over.All the trackers were dragged backwards at once.

This time is more dangerous. If you don't hold it back, you may be dragged and bumped on the rocky beach. The downward force of the boat is still very large, especially this kind of big boat.The other team of trackers saw that something happened here, and they all crawled on the ground, not even daring to move. If the other team was pulled, this boat would run off the hook.

"Haozitou" was impatient, and joined the team himself. Everyone tried to hold the rope, and in the blink of an eye, half of the team was overturned to the ground.

"Help me quickly." Zhu Youjian had quick eyes and hands, ran a few steps and grabbed the rope, and greeted him, and everyone around him went to grab the rope.

After the rope was stabilized, "Haozitou" ran to the riverside and kept saying good things to the people on the bow. Fortunately, the boss of this ship was more talkative, and he promised "Haozitou" that he could rest for a while go again.

"Go and ask the boss of the ship what kind of goods are being pulled." Zhu Youjian saw that the ship seemed to be loaded with a lot of goods. It is said that now that Zhang Xianzhong occupies Sichuan, there should be no big merchants entering Sichuan.He had to find out the identity of the other party, and inquire about the situation along the way.

Ji Biao gave a look to a guard beside him, who turned around and left.Today's Ji Biao is no longer an errand runner who likes to move around. He has begun to personally lead the team to train the guards and become Zhu Youjian's temporary helper.

"This guy, everyone won't recognize you, so come over and play a clicker." "Haozitou" looks fierce, but he is actually not bad. After he organized people to fix the rope, he first came to thank Zhu You check.

"It's easy to say, we're just passing by." Zhu Youjian didn't want to get involved with these people too much. In the Three Gorges waterway, if he went to contact the "Haozitou" one by one, I'm afraid it would be enough for him to work for a year.

There must be another channel for Zhu Youjian's trip, in fact, he has to rely on Shizhu Qin Liangyu to contact these people.

"Haozitou" saw that Zhu Youjian didn't intend to pay more attention to himself, and seeing that the clothes of these people were not ordinary people, he retreated knowingly.

Immediately afterwards, Zhu Youjian heard the sound of the whip, and when he turned his head again, the child was already crawling on the ground with his head in his arms, and the whip on his body slammed loudly, and the child didn't make a sound.

"Why do you beat the child like this?" Zhu Youjian hurried forward and grabbed the "head".

"Outsiders, it's not your turn to take care of this matter." "Haozitou" glared at Zhu Youjian.

"Then what if we have to take care of it today?" Ji Biao was annoyed. Is there still an emperor in this world who can't take care of things?

"Then let's find the commander-in-chief's subordinates to discuss the theory." "Haozitou" stretched out his thumb and turned it backwards.The general government office of the three brothers of the Tan family is in the lower reaches of Padang, from Padang to Zhongzhou, which is the territory of the Tan family.