Lord of Ming Dynasty

Feng Quan said: "If you make more, you can't guarantee the quality, and it may explode."

Aobai said: "Then let more Han slaves be caught as coolies, and let them fire the cannon, and bombing is also bombing them."

Hong Chengchou and Feng Quan were a little uncomfortable. It was one thing for them to surrender and be traitors, but it was another thing for others to say they were, and another thing for the royal people they were loyal to.

Hong Chengchou waved his hand, "Let's stop here for this review. It's over, it's over. Lord Ao, Lord Feng, we are going to attack the Huaxia Army next month. Let's take Jinling Mansion first."

Chapter 3: Strengthening the Anti-Qing Forces

Their conversation was captured by Zhang Qiang within a few days, because Tian Bin, Wang Chong, and Zhang Chao were in the first army of the new army of the Qing army, and this fact was easily obtained.

Hong Chengchou and the others were not discussing with a few people in a secret place, but they said it when the whole army was performing exercises, and the intelligence personnel who paid special attention to them quickly wrote down their conversation verbatim as intelligence and reported it to the Tian Bin and the others, Zhang Chao quickly sent it to Mi Lin, and Mi Lin gave it to Zhang Qiang.

After Zhang Qiang saw it, he was not in a hurry to mobilize and adjust the troops. Anyway, Wei Wuji was guarding the Jinling Mansion, and there were three field brigades and a garrison regiment. There were tens of thousands of militiamen defending there, and there were tens of thousands of field troops on the nearby river bank. The soldiers of the brigade are defending, and there are garrison regiments and militia troops in the rear. They may not be as strong as the Qing army in numbers, but they are quite elite compared to the Qing army.

But Zhang Qiang felt that the Qing army should not be allowed to relax too much.

Gotta find something for them to do.

Li Dingguo had already gained a firm foothold in Yungui. Zhang Qiang sent a group of veteran instructors who were good at firearms training and artillery training to support Li Dingguo.

At the same time, there are hundreds of foreign action members from the Ministry of Military Intelligence led by Milin. They will enter Sichuan through Yunnan and Guizhou, transport firearms, some captured Qing army armor, weapons, and high-quality armor weapons produced by the Huaxia Army to Sichuan. Mansion to support the uprising army in Sichuan Mansion.

For example, Qin Liangyu and others.

The intelligence personnel in the back are responsible for establishing post stations, building them all the way through Guangxi, Guangdong, and other places, and transporting materials into Yunnan and Sichuan. Huge materials, including food, war horses, and retired Jinkai 1 matchlock guns, some of which were captured by the Qing army Cannons, firecrackers, continuous support to the rebels in Sichuan and other places who resisted the Qing army.

Nanming Kingdom needs to spend money to buy it, and Li Dingguo also needs to spend money to buy it, but for the rebel army in Sichuan, as well as the Dashun Army, those who are willing to resist the Qing Army, the Daxi Army will give and transport for nothing. This line, through Li Dingguo and Long Wu Nanming's money to buy weapons and ammunition can maintain the operation without paying much money from the Huaxia Army.

At the same time, the caravan was also expanded to these areas, and the caravan was allowed to transport the special products of these areas. The Huaxia Army then did business with Lu Guo, Zheng Chenggong, and the Spaniards, and obtained rich trade income to support the finance of the Huaxia Army.

Surprisingly, Li Guo, who was fighting the Qing army in Huguang, and Li Zicheng's nephew sent someone to find them, hoping to support a batch of weapons and equipment for their Zhongzheng Camp.

Li Guo cooperated with He Tengjiao from Huguang, but He Tengjiao used them as shields and combat troops, and did not support them much, which made the Zhongzhen Camp resentful. When he learned that the Huaxia Army supported all the rebels who resisted the Qing army, They sent someone to find Zhang Qiang.

Zhang Qiang was also happy, and didn't ask who they were loyal to. It was Yongli Nanming or Longwu Nanming. They supported them not only for the captured weapons and equipment, but also for the chain armor, chain mail, and Mingguang armor produced by the Huaxia Army. Even war horses, food and grass.

This made the loyalty camp grateful to him.

Milin and the others also established a dragoon guard for Li Guo, Gao Yigong and others for free.

The best steel guns, the best horses, the armor, and the Jinkai 1 matchlock gun that can shoot on the horse, the short-fire blunderbuss, and the short-fire blunderbuss are all equipped by the chasing cavalry of the Chinese army in the past and can only shoot one shot. A steel wheel fired flintlock prototype musket.

They also learned from the Chasseur Guards of the Huaxia Army. Each of the horses hung five short guns. When charging, they approached for three rounds first. Fight with enemies.

After receiving the support of the Huaxia Army, the Zhongzheng Battalion changed their shotguns to cannons in less than a month. They had 7000 elite soldiers and [-] infantry equipped by the Qing Army.

When fighting with the Manggurtai tribe in Huguang, they have defeated Manggurtai twice, and captured some county towns, stopped their mobile combat operations, stayed at ease, and developed their strength. The Huaxia Army continuously supplied them with supplies.

In Huguang, there is also an army of the Anti-Japanese Army, Chen Youzheng, and Milin's intelligence personnel will not let it go, and they have been in contact with them a long time ago.

The support for them has also been continuously in the past, but they are only two thousand people, and their reputation is not obvious. Zhang Qiang asked Milin to send them to the junction of Huguang and Guangxi to find the people from the Jierhalang Department trouble.

Give them good crossbows, bows, and war horses, let them continue to attack the supply line of Jierhalang and some remote counties, villages, and gather troops. By the time they received the talk from the Qing army Hong Chengchou, Chen Youzheng had expanded his army to 5000. .

With 500 cavalry, 200 horse infantry, and [-] infantry equipped with crossbows and bows, they occupied a county and penetrated into Guangxi.

Because of the reputation of the Huaxia Army, Chen Youzheng wanted to join the Huaxia Army. Zhang Qiang immediately ordered Tong Dawei, who had just returned, not to take over the position of commander of the cavalry brigade, but to lead 1 cavalry, [-] pikemen, [-] musketeers. It is a militia unit, equipped with a Jinkai [-] matchlock gun, go to join them, and take the opportunity to annex this unit.

The Qing army is gathering strength, while Zhang Qiang is strengthening the strength of the anti-Qing forces.

But it's not all good news. In addition, the intelligence personnel who came back from Sichuan reported that Hauge from Ganshan finally quelled the anti-Qing forces there and led the army to re-enter Sichuan. Wu Sangui went south from Gansu to Yunnan and Guizhou. Two people fought against Li Dingguo's department.

At the same time, they wiped out the Tusi family in Yunnan and Guizhou, and accelerated their control over Yunnan and Guizhou.

Many chieftain families were wiped out, and many chieftains surrendered to the Qing army and became the support of the Qing army. This is not good news for Li Dingguo.

The Dutch ships arrived at Laizhou and brought with them a dozen or so Dutch armed merchant ships. The navy of the Qing army grew considerably in one day. Shi Lang took the opportunity to attack the Zheng army on Chongming Island. Chongming Island was in danger. Zheng Chenggong They had to send a large group of Zheng family ships to counterattack Shi Lang.

The battle at sea continued, and both sides had their own winners and losers.

Last month, Zheng Chenggong finally compromised and discussed with Zhang Qiang about buying warships from the Huaxia Army.

The warships of the Huaxia Army have already begun to build large warships of 110 tons. It is the kind of large super warship with four decks and [-] cannons. This was also a super warship in Western Europe at that time, and it belonged to the sail battleship. At this time, it marks that the Huaxia Army has already possessed the ability to fight in the open sea, and has entered the era of great navigation.

Under the escort of a special escort fleet, the merchant fleet of the Huaxia Army has conducted many trades with the Spaniards, whose relationship has been good and bad.

The largest merchant ship in the escort fleet is the 300-ton Dafu Ship, the general warship is more than 36 tons, the Galen Ship with 27 artillery pieces, and the [-]-ton Clark Ship with [-] artillery pieces.

The escort fleet has 27 Dafu Ships, 35 Galen Ships, [-] Clark Ships, [-] Guangzhou Ships, [-] Centipede Clippers, and nearly [-] warships, escorting merchant ships on three routes at the same time.

The footprints reached Japan, Manila, and even Malacca under the rule of the Dutch.

Sometimes I go to Vietnam.

When Zheng Chenggong came to find him, Zhang Qiang asked Gu Yuesheng from the household department to go out and discuss with him in person. In order to strengthen the anti-Qing forces, he sold Zheng Chenggong 100 tons of Guangchuan, 4000 tons of Dafu Ship, and [-] tons of Galen Ship. One and more than [-] other small boats received nearly ten million taels of silver. At the same time, some of the goods accumulated by the Huaxia Army over the years were sold to Zheng Chenggong, and the silver taels and the goods outside were worth [-] million taels of silver.

After Zheng Chenggong got these warships, he immediately fought several battles with Shi Lang and Huang Wu near Chongming Island. Shi Lang's morality was definitely not as good as Zheng Chenggong's. In three days, Shi Lang was defeated and fled. He lost three Clark ships sold by the Dutch to the Qing army, more than 20 armed merchant ships, and lost more than 100 Guangzhou Ships and Fuchuan ships. The army navy was devastated near Chongming Island and had to retreat to the vicinity of Laizhou Prefecture.

After receiving the news of Zheng Chenggong's victory, Zhang Huangyan couldn't sit still anymore. He immediately contacted Zheng Chenggong and sent Lu Zhenfei and his infantry and sailors to Chongming Island. Tens of thousands of infantry and sailors arrived at Chongming Island. Do not retreat.

But Zheng Chenggong didn't keep an eye on King Lu, who took the opportunity to arrive at Chongming Island, and the state of Lu was in danger of being separated again.

On Chongming Island, many of them were troops loyal to King Lu, such as Zhang Huangyan, so the strength of King Lu's troops on Chongming Island increased greatly.

The relationship between the two parties has become delicate and critical.

After receiving such news, Zhang Qiang sent someone to mediate the dispute between the two sides. After spending a lot of weapons and equipment, and even some gold reformed 2 matchlock guns, Zheng Chenggong no longer pursued the matter of King Lu's unauthorized escape, but the gap between the two sides was still irreversible. is generated.

Zheng Chenggong's subordinate Chen Peng rebelled against Zheng Chenggong and led some [-] medium-sized Guangzhou ships. Two thousand naval officers and soldiers took refuge in King Lu, who appointed him Admiral of the Navy and asked him to lead the navy.

The changing situation made Zhang Qiang think about it for a long time. He was unwilling to meddle in the relationship between the two at this time, but if there was another force to contain the Qing army, Zhang Qiang would do it without hesitation.

Immediately supported the King of Lu again, and gave them more than 20 Clarke warships and [-] small blessing ships. The King Lu's forces gained a foothold in Chongming Island, and Zhang Qiang compensated Zheng Chenggong with [-] Guangzhou ships. Anyway, the shipbuilding of the Huaxia Army Shipyards are now blooming in the southeast coast, and there are too many of them. Every bay suitable for shipbuilding has a shipyard of the Huaxia Army. Zhang Qiang is still very happy with Qing's power.

Even so, a ship worth almost 1000 million taels of silver was used up.

At the same time, Zhang Qiang told Zheng Chenggong that if he could cooperate with the Huaxia Army before the next war, he would give Zheng Chenggong one hundred lucky boats, twenty large lucky boats, or twenty [-]-ton Galen ships.

Zheng Chenggong immediately dispatched troops and generals, and sent [-] Zheng troops, [-] sailors, and [-] warships to station on Chongming Island, waiting to counterattack the Qing army.

Chapter 381 Cut him a Portuguese

The Qing army was not unaware of Zhang Qiang's arrangement and reaction, but there was nothing they could do about it. In other words, the Qing army had the confidence, because Gansu and Shanxi were pacified, and the Qing army could finally move its troops south.

After everyone's arrangement, it was not this side that fought first, but the Portuguese and Nanming Kingdom near Guangzhou.

Due to the arrangement of the Huaxia Army, the Portuguese lost their previous advantage in commerce and trade. The Portuguese were also arrogant and refused to bow their heads to the other powers of the Southern Ming Dynasty. The Huaxia Army and the others need not think about it. For the sake of trade and financial expenses, they can still trade with them, and even sold them Jingai 1 matchlock guns. Now that they blatantly support the Qing army, how could Zhang Qiang let them do business while helping their enemies?