Lord of Ming Dynasty

Therefore, the communication between the Huaxia Army and the Yongli Court is cold and impersonal. Even He Tengjiao, who is still loyal to the Yongli Court, and other remnants of the Ming Dynasty who are active in Huguang, Shaanxi, Gansu, and other provinces are not as big as the Huaxia Army. In the scent of incense, Tong Dawei's previous contacts with them were limited to Tong Dawei being able to sell them firearms.

But for them, they are still used to fighting with cold weapons, and firearms are only used as elite weapons.

In Tong Dawei's living atmosphere, Zhang Liang brought Wang Yuqun's No.19 field brigade to Longwu Nanming Kingdom to carry out mission activities.

Chapter 424: Nanming Beacon 5

Longwu Zhu Yujian has changed from a life of fear every day. The courtiers are basically fully equipped. Nanming has the foundation of the Ming Dynasty and the orthodox legitimacy that the people want. At least now there are many great Ming scholars and gentry who are determined to restore the Ming court. , the civil servants came here one after another, and quickly made up for the embarrassment of the shortage of officials and generals in Nanming.

After several disasters of destroying the country, Long Wu has learned or has been able to let go of those officials and generals who disobeyed him. Su Guansheng basically agrees with him and is stronger, which is exactly what he needs to see, a Zhang Ju The official chief assistant was his thinking. After a few hard times, he felt that this was the best match at the moment. Besides, Su Guansheng did not have Zhang Juzheng's methods and talents. He just had some means to maintain this situation. Ask Su Guansheng to do more, but Su Guansheng can't do it.

In the recent period, the war with the Portuguese and the war with Kong Youde made him bother and feel a little exhausted, but the situation did not collapse as he imagined. The dirty side of the Yongli court has also been alleviated. Su Guansheng sent a group of officials from the Ming Dynasty to join him, and combined them vertically and horizontally. Through bribery, intimidation, and persuasion, the surrounding Yongli Ming army finally no longer troubled the Nanming Kingdom. It was worth it for him to lose some land and money.

It's just like the Huaxia Army's method against Nanming Kingdom, except that the relationship between Nanming Kingdom and Huaxia Army is really love-hate. There is no relationship with Yongli Ming Army. It's just your territory, my territory, you occupy Too much, I accounted for too much, you are legitimate Ming orthodox, I am not legitimate Ming orthodox dispute.

Zhu Yujian became increasingly ignorant of this young neighbor's thinking, so he could only try his best to maintain it, and tried his best to maintain it. According to the character of the previous court, those who disobeyed Wang Hua were all enemies, rebels, and traitors. Annihilated.

But in the current situation, it is not certain who will kill who.

The Taixi people are powerful. Hundreds of thousands of Nanming troops went to destroy them. Which one was better at the beginning, but in the end, hundreds of thousands of Nanming troops were almost completely wiped out. After a quick tidying up, more than 2 remnants and defeated generals were obtained. If it weren't for the Huaxia Army Well, if Zhang Qiang, the governor of the Huaxia Army, was not on the battlefield, and the Huaxia Army came to help overnight, the Thai and Western people might have broken into Guangzhou Mansion or directly wiped out the Nanming court in Zhaoqing Mansion.

The Huaxia Army only used less than 1 people to defeat the Taixi people, and captured [-] Taixi people and tens of thousands of Taixi people to join the army. At this moment, although most of the Nanming Kingdom has stabilized, it has returned to the Hongguang court. wealthy.

The army also has 40 people.

Feng Shuangli, who was good at fighting, resisted the attacks of the Ma Degong Ministry several times, and occupied the territory from the coast of Guangxi to the flank of Zhaoqing Mansion.

The garrison troops in some garrison places are mostly newly recruited Ming army countrymen, regiments, and servants of the squires, about [-] people.

And the [-] people under Su Guansheng's current control are equipped with elite soldiers of the Ming army purchased from the Huaxia Army and captured weapons and armor from the Qing army.

There are also some other military generals and rebels from Yongli Daming who came over to join them, such as Li Chengdong, Wang Deren and others. The strength of these people is about [-] to [-].

And now after three months of training, about 9 new army soldiers have been drawn from various armies and recruited from the local area, and they have been combined into eight field brigades and one Imperial Guard unit.

In his opinion, these troops are already very elite, ten times stronger than the previous Ming army, but he has watched the Huaxia Army grow up, and the strength of the Huaxia Army cannot be shaken by his troops.

Su Guansheng has always opposed the Huaxia Army's garrison in Nanming, but he knows that without the Huaxia Army's garrison, Nanming's back is not strong, and it lacks confidence. It is one-sided hope that the Huaxia Army will garrison at least one unit to prevent the Qing army from attacking the imperial court, repeating the mistake of the Qing army attacking Fujian Tingzhou from the southwestern Guangdong government last time.

These officials don't want to go to the Huaxia Army's territory to stay for a while longer. Although the Huaxia Army's territory is very rich and stable, and it is a good place to live, these courtiers are carefully selected by Zhu Yujian, who are determined to follow him to restore the country Zhu Yujian can see through those Nanming officials who stayed on the territory of the Huaxia Army and refused to leave when he returned to the country. He would rather be a rich man than be an official of his Nanming Kingdom. .

"Your Majesty, please consider carefully the proposal made by the envoy of the Huaxia Army. We have managed to rebuild an army, and we cannot use it to help the Huaxia Army fight a meaningless war. We have no hope of winning, and if we win, it will be tragic. Victory, this is not in line with the current situation of the Nanming Kingdom, and the ministers and the people will not agree." Li Guangdi said to Longwu Zhu Yujian as if he was loyal and pleading for the people and ministers of the Nanming Dynasty.

He had experienced fighting with the Taixi people, and after he came back, he felt lingering fears, and he recuperated for nearly half a month before returning to serve as an official. Because of the victory there, he was promoted by Long Wu to be the minister of rites. He was promoted, but every time he was right People who inquired about that battle often cried bitterly when they talked about the tragedy of that battle, and they didn't want to mention it again.

Su Guansheng was calm and rational, and he said to Long Wu: "Your Majesty, we have to accept the proposal of the Huaxia Army. After all, it is beneficial to our recovery. If we can recover Guangxi in this battle, our territory will be able to recover." Expand more than half of the province and directly border Huguang instead of needing to transfer to Jiangxi Prefecture to contact Huguang. At that time, He Tengjiao may defect to our country again, and recognize the legitimacy of His Majesty's inheritance of the country, and our power will expand. a lot of."

Longwu Zhu Yujian calmly listened to the opinions of the two very important ministers in Nanming Kingdom at this time, obeying the opinions of others, and then choosing carefully was his advantage.

He didn't answer the two people's questions, but said to Su Guansheng: "How likely is Feng Shuangli to accept a decisive battle to completely solve our problem with Kong Youde?"

Su Guansheng said: "So far, he will still listen to us in a righteous way, but in fact he is still very cautious. He doesn't want to participate in any battle where he wants to lose his soldiers, or any big battle. , unless the Qing army forced him too hard, he would take a bite crazily. Judging from the battles in the past six months, he seemed to be playing a balance with Ma Degong, and Ma Degong seemed to have figured out his character. There will never be a big battle with him, basically control the conflict with less than [-] troops, the Qing army seems to be waiting for something."

Long Wu was very disappointed. Feng Shuangli and other generals of the Ming army still couldn't change their previous habits. They always wanted others to fight and lose. To bet on both sides, for a king, such generals are the most annoying. If he were Chongzhen, he would have pushed such people out of the Meridian Gate and beheaded him, but he can't control them now. What he can mobilize is Five thousand imperial troops, as well as the [-] troops under the command of General Su Zhengqing and Su Guansheng.

Maybe they have to lose a little bit so that they can completely obey their own emperor.

"Fight, why not fight? We can't rely on waiting, just wait for the Qing army to die. The more we wait, the stronger the Qing army will become, and when they regain the hearts of the people in the North, there will be more Qing troops. What are we afraid of if we lose some?" , as long as the Huaxia Army is still there, we still have hope of recovery."

"Then how to arrange for the military march?" Su Guansheng asked.

"Su Aiqing, you sit in the center of the court, led by General Su Zhengqing, accompanied by Li Chengdong and Wang Deren, attacking the enemy from south to north, Feng Shuangli attacked southwest, and pushed the border to the southeast of the Yunnan-Guizhou border." He glanced at Li Guangdi.

"Li Aiqing went to Feng Shuangli's army to supervise the army, and the No.19 Field Brigade of the Huaxia Army followed Feng Shuangli's army to supervise the opponent's advance. Tong Dawei's Fifth Cavalry Brigade followed Wang Deren and marched behind Li Chengdong, and sent a military servant into their army. Overseer."

Li Guangdi asked: "Then how to arrange in the court, so that all the troops can't go to fight?"

Longwu Zhu Yujian said: "Zhaoqing Mansion is so close to Guangzhou Mansion. There is still a brigade here, as well as [-] imperial guards. The Qing army can't come, and they can't win if they come. The Qing army will not be allowed to succeed, this time the imperial court will definitely be very safe, and there will be no such thing as the last time when the enemy sneaked into the palace and almost caught me."

He turned to the eunuch beside him and said, "Go and inform Minister Zhang Liang of my decision." After speaking, he felt a little regretful that Zhang Liang, the chief eunuch next to him, had actually become someone else's minister. ?

Longwu Zhu Yujian's decision was quickly dispatched from Zhang Liang's eight hundred miles, but Zhang Qiang knew about Longwu Zhu Yujian's decision within a few days.

Brother Zhu, who was in charge of the Second Cavalry Brigade, also quickly came to Nanchang Mansion to have an audience.

The three of them carefully compared the maps and discussed how to deal with the attack from the Nanming Kingdom and the reaction of the Qing army.

"Brother Zhu, let the militia brigade cover the people along the Yuezhou Mansion, and evacuate to Nanchang Mansion as much as possible. I hope that after the war, the people can retreat. The Yuezhou Mansion is too prominent, so there are only the army and the militia brigade left behind. , The garrison brigade also retreated to Jiujiang Mansion to strengthen the guard there.

It is estimated that 50 to [-] people will be retreated, and there will be [-] to [-] militiamen and garrison troops. We have disengaged from the Qing army. Your main task is to guard the passage between Nanchang Mansion and the subsequent mansions.

Jiujiang Mansion must be prepared to be besieged by the enemy. Here, the [-]th Field Brigade and Mi Chun should prepare as much as possible to support the [-]nd Cavalry Brigade. If necessary, they can abandon Jiujiang Mansion and fight the enemy in Nanchang. "

Let go of a hole, and then let the enemy land, destroy the enemy on land, a narrow area, just to limit the enemy's troops from advancing as much as possible.

Zhang Qiang's idea is that the positive Qing army can't take this opportunity to land in Yuezhou Prefecture and Jiujiang Prefecture. They may mobilize troops to wipe out the Yongli Ming army in Huguang, and then support Kong Youde's Guangxi army, but the Qing army must not be fully prepared. Preparations for a decisive battle with the Huaxia Army.

Because it was too difficult, Hong Chengchou must have seen the power of trenches, forts, muskets, and artillery in the battle of Raozhou Prefecture. If he was not sure enough, he definitely didn't want to fight head-on with the Huaxia Army, but hoped that the Huaxia Army would cross the river and land. Use trenches, muskets, and artillery to consume the strength of the Huaxia Army, and then a million troops counterattack, enclosing the Huaxia Army in a narrow place, just like what the Huaxia Army did in Raozhou Prefecture.

Hong Chengchou is an opportunist.

Chapter 425: Nanming Beacon 6

Hong Chengchou is an opportunist, so Zhang Qiang predicted that Hong Chengchou would not take the initiative to attack the Huaxia Army.

The strength of the army is superior, at least in terms of numbers, it can be seen that the strength of the Qing army is definitely much larger than that of the Huaxia army. Long, maybe there will be a hundred thousand Qing troops rushing in that place. This is nothing to the defensive Huaxia army, but it will not be too good to the offensive Huaxia army. After the deployment of troops, either the rear is empty, or the front line is empty. , there are always loopholes.

Based on this foundation, Zhang Qiang thought about mobilizing the Qing army's strength as close as possible, so that the Qing army's defense strength should be as small as possible. When their strength is also stretched, the Huaxia army will strike again.

The two armies of the Nanming Kingdom were mobilized within half a month, and they were preparing to attack the Qing army of Kong Youde on the opposite side. Of course, such a large mobilization cannot be hidden from the fine work of the Qing army. Perhaps the Chinese army's mobilization of the Qing army is becoming more and more difficult to penetrate. Yes, because that is two worlds, no household registration, no folks as guarantee, no identity certificate, and was caught by the government officials and the police every minute.

On the territory of the Huaxia Army, the patrolling density of the militia, village guards, and yamen servants has almost reached the point of every 10 minutes at night. If you see a suspicious person, you will go up and check it out. Once you find that you have no strong proof of yourself The means of identity, first detain, then interrogate, no one guarantees you, prepare to report to the garrison, the garrison will send you to a nearby prisoner camp before they know who you are, and hand it over to the prisoner camp for custody, you have to labour reform.

On the territory of the Nanming Kingdom, there is a lot of worry, and the ties are broken, because many gentry and powerful, you don't know whether they are anti-Ming or anti-Qing.

When the Nanming Kingdom mobilized enough troops and was ready to move out, who led the Nanming Kingdom, how many troops, and where to attack from, had all been placed on Kong Youde's table.

Looking at this information, Kong Youde said angrily: "Is this still the Emperor of Ming Dynasty? Why did you follow the orders of the Huaxia Army, and you came here when they asked you to fight? You are really a bunch of pigheads."

As a separatist warlord, Kong Youde, who had the title of vassal king and actually formed a separatist regime with the Qing army, was very angry. He was confident that his soldiers and horses could defeat the Nanming army, and he also had some of the Nanming army. Tong Dawei sold it to He bought at least 1% of the gold reformed [-] matchlock guns of the anyway army and the rebel army, and [-]% were bought by people under his control. There were at least [-] of these matchlock guns, and he equipped his own direct army.

He had more than 3 imitation matchlock guns sent by the Qing army, and he bought more than 1 of them with his own money. More than 4 of his 5000 new troops were equipped with these matchlock guns, and he paid for them. They bought more than 1 matchlock guns from the Portuguese, and the remaining [-] troops were equipped with shotguns from the Qing army and matchlock guns captured from the Nanming army.

He also has a cavalry force of [-] people, and some of them also have horse-mounted matchlock infantry and cavalry like the Huaxia Army.

An artillery brigade of 5000 people, equipped with the Qing Army, the Huaxia Army, and the Nanming Kingdom, captured artillery from Yongli Daming, nearly [-] artillery pieces. Since the battle with the Huaxia Army in Raozhou Prefecture, he Deeply feeling the power of the cannon, desperately searching, desperately equipped and expanded.

This is the firearms unit. He also has tens of thousands of cold weapon units of the Qing army, and tens of thousands of cold weapon units adapted from other Qing army units, as well as many recruited young and strong and rebel units. Anyway, the army units, The total force exceeds 30.