Lord of Ming Dynasty

Under Zhang Liang's running around, many people returned to Li Dingguo's department, and many people were defeated by the army led by Du Ge. Li Dingguo personally led the army to recover those stubborn generals, killed, ransacked their homes, and exterminated their clans, setting off a bloody storm.

After returning, Li Dingguo led the army to directly attack the hinterland of Guangxi of Nanming Kingdom, and along the coast, Nanming Kingdom had to call back Su Zhengqing and others to deal with Li Dingguo's attack with all their strength.

Southwest set off a bloody storm.

Internally, with the addition of Zhang Huangyan, about [-] counties around Kunming, Yunnan Province began to stabilize, resume farming, resettle the population, decentralize many officials for management, open up mountains and roads, and prosper.

Originally, Li Dingguo's original measures were good. Yunnan Province has been prosperous for a while. This time, the war between the two sides has ruined lives, and the people fled. Abundant, and soon regained its former prosperity again.

However, the Huaxia Army found a place to sell the goods again, and many goods that could not be sold before were sold to Yunnan Prefecture at a low price. The merchants recovered from the loss of trade with Nanming, sold the goods, resumed production, and sold many things. After selling at a low price, the funds will be recovered and the production of other things will continue.

The foreign trade of the Huaxia Army has partially resumed.

However, the trade loss of the Huaxia Army is still very large. Although many products can be sold in the vast places where the Huaxia Army is now, the profits from foreign sales are very large. There are many windfall profits.

The biggest loss is part of the commercial interests of the Huaxia Army's own government. After all, there are no Huai merchants, Anhui merchants, and Shanxi merchants in the Huaxia Army who can rule the market. These merchants will be severely cracked down because they have After gaining a huge advantage, you can compete with the government, control the government, and use the power of merchants to control the government. This is not allowed by the rulers of all dynasties.

These things are the current situation in the land of Daming, but it still looks so chaotic, and there is still no unified trend.

Qin Mo's No.20 Fourth Field Brigade was stationed in Zhoukou County, which was captured. Facing the Qing army transferred from Shandong Province, it was easy to fight. Because of the suppression of the Yangtze River defense force, the Qing army could not move too much. Even if there is a new army town, they are recruits that have not yet been formed. How can this compare with the No. 20 Fourth Field Brigade that has grown up after a year of fighting? Even if the 24 Some elite officers of the field brigade were also transferred back to the military academy to study, but the remaining manpower was not something that the Qing army could handle.

And Zhang Qiang transferred the No.20 Eighth Field Brigade to Xuanyuan Longfei. This newly organized unit was transferred to other places to rest for a period of time. It was replaced with the new improved guns of Jinkai 2, new artillery, and personnel equipment adjustments. Afterwards, veterans from other field brigades who were injured and returned greatly increased their combat effectiveness. They were stationed in Nanyang Prefecture to ensure the stability of the rear and to deal with the pressure from Dajin from Shaanxi, Gansu, Hebei, and Shanxi. They can also be pulled up at any time to help fight ahead. Before that, they had already dispatched a regiment to supplement Xuanyuan Longfei's fifth field brigade ahead, and another regiment to supplement Brother Zhu's seventh field brigade.

These two brigades are where the fighting is most intense, and Qin Mo's No. 20 Fourth Field Brigade sent a cavalry battalion and a militia squad of [-] people to protect the rear, transport supplies, and leave a regiment to defend Nanyang Mansion.

Chapter 536 Zheng Chenggong's Weakness

On Gulangyu Island, Zheng Chenggong sat in the lobby and looked outside in a daze.

Seeing that there is no hope of returning to his hometown, and no hope of recovering Ming Dynasty, he lives overseas. Although he has 20 troops and thousands of warships, he can't do anything to the Huaxia Army. The Chinese fought for a long time, gained many overseas stations, established many commercial stations, and at the same time established contact with the weakened Spaniards, and the two sides resumed trade and relations.

Then, the British, the Portuguese, and the Dutch came and got in touch with him and restored the relationship. After several talks, they reached a consensus that he became the king of the sea like his father Zheng Zhilong again. Around Baodao, And the Huaxia Army has established its own patrol system outside the [-] nautical miles of overseas patrols. Passing merchant ships and warships have to pay him fees, and even some places where Zheng Jun stationed in Manila, Brunei, Malacca and other places, those Taixi Everyone pays him the fee according to the regulations.

It is said that the kingdom he established is stronger than his father, and he should be happy, but he knows that these are not as good as one-tenth of the strength of the Huaxia Army. As long as the Huaxia Army wants to take it away, it can be taken away at any time. So it was not taken away because the Huaxia Army was determined to be inland, to the Ming Dynasty, to destroy the Qing Dynasty, and to restore the Han people.

Even if he was jealous, there was nothing he could do. He didn't even know why the Huaxia Army was so powerful.

Since the relationship with the Huaxia Army broke down, there has been a shortage of goods here. The Taixi people have urged him to buy goods several times, but he can only smuggle them through the Qing army, and get some through the trade of the Nanming Kingdom, but most of them. Good quality and low price is the best place in Huaxia Army.

The silk made by the Huaxia Army is smooth, tough, strong, and will not be easily torn or worn out, and it is cheap. It is better than the silk he bought in the Ming Dynasty. He doesn't know how the Huaxia Army did it.

Huaxia Army's tea is no longer the loose tea of ​​the past, but loose tea, which is relatively low-grade and low in price. Tea has changed the tea drinking habits of Thai and Western people, so that Thai and Western people are no longer the way of drinking tea by adding garlic, spices, etc. to the tea. Instead, they learn from Ming people and taste carefully. For this method, Taixi people obviously like it more than Daming people, and they can sell ten times or a hundred times as much as they supply.

The creativity of the Huaxia Army is simply the best in the Ming Dynasty, and it cannot be imagined by ordinary people's minds.

This is his evaluation of the Huaxia Army.

But now that he has expressed his support for Nanming Longwu, how can he reconcile with the Huaxia Army?

The relationship between the two sides has reached the point where swords are on the verge of breaking out. The two sides have hundreds of thousands of soldiers at the border, and there is a great possibility of a fight if there is a disagreement.

With the breakup of the relationship with the Huaxia Army, Baodao also closed the border facing the Huaxia Army's Baozhong Mansion. Chen Bing responded, and most of his warships also attacked Baozhong Mansion from the east and west sides. There were almost seven or eight hundred warships. The ship was confronting the fleet of the Huaxia Army.

Although that fleet is only a fleet, there are no less than a thousand ships. The new thousand-ton warships manufactured by the Guanghua Xia Army have 96 cannons, are 20 meters long and [-] meters wide, and their speed has reached an astonishing speed. The speed of eight knots is one knot faster than that of Guangzhou Shipyard.

The speed is fast and the artillery is powerful. It is said that there are more than 500 crew members, more than 200 sailors manipulating the ships and artillery, more than 200 soldiers who jump to fight in the Chinese army, and more than 100 handymen, making this warship almost unmanned. Can shake.

The Thais call it a first-class battleship, and it is said that only their queen has three such battleships.

The Huaxia Army fleet has eight ships.

Facing such eight warships, even if there were Thais who bought them, the Huaxia Army sold him the 76-material Galen warships from the Taisians before, and he knew that he could not compete with the Huaxia Army Navy. It can sweep all his battleships, not to mention that the Huaxia Army has an 370-ton battleship that is only smaller than this battleship, with [-] artillery pieces and a crew of more than [-] people. It is faster than this battleship by one knot, nine knots, this What speed is it.

The fastest of all his warships is just a small wide ship, only about ten meters long and three meters wide. This kind of wide ship can only run at a speed of ten knots, but the artillery on it can only give this kind of large-scale battle. The boat scratches the itch, even if this kind of boat is used as a fire attack boat, because the Huaxia Army also has this kind of fast Guangzhou boat. They are called traffic boats, and the speed reaches eleven knots.

The hull was taller, longer, wider, and more powerful than the ships he built himself.

On the bow and stern of the ship, there are two cannons called nine-pounders by the Chinese army, two six-pounders on each side, and six three-pounders in other places, which are used to clean up the enemy during gang battles. The deck of the ship has more than 30 crew members. One such Cantonese ship can beat five other Cantonese ships of the same type, or a medium-sized Fuzhou ship.

Thousand-ton large ships. Each fleet of the Huaxia Army is equipped with eight ships as standard, that is, six fleets of the Huaxia Army. There are a total of 48 thousand-ton large ships. Such large ships can destroy the country.

Moreover, for the [-]-ton warships, each fleet of the Huaxia Army is equipped with twelve ships as standard, and six fleets have twelve ships. If such two types of large ships lead [-] small Guangzhou ships to fight, he can only flee with the army , He has nothing to do with the Huaxia Army.

The Huaxia Army was made by hedgehogs, he concluded.

Feng Xin, Zheng Chenggong's think tank, said to Zheng Chenggong: "Your Majesty, the governors of the Taixi people jointly invite you to go to Batavia to discuss how to fight the Chinese army. They came to say that the Taixi people united and once again gathered more than two hundred ships from The warships from the west, with a force of [-], are equipped with new-style muskets and artillery. They said that if they can get your support from the county king, they will wipe out the navy of the Huaxia Army and conquer Fujian Province. Fujian Province will be ruled by you. Teachers are recruited by you, they still do business with you, and pay you tolls every year."

"In addition, they also said that they joined forces with General Shi Lang, the navy of the Qing Dynasty, and the Qing navy will also cooperate with us to fight from Chongming Island along the Yangtze River to the west, sweeping the garrison fleet of the Yangtze River Navy of the Huaxia Army, and blocking the Yangtze River. , to cause trouble for the Huaxia Army, let the Huaxia Army look south infinitely, regardless of the head and the tail, and mess up their own positions."

"Taixi people said that in the future, whether it is the Qing Dynasty or the Nanming Dynasty, you will be the king of the county, Fujian Province will be yours, and Baodao will be yours too. They will not want an inch of land from the Ming Dynasty, they only need to open up a few lands. port, just do business with them."

Zheng Chenggong said in a deep voice, "Is there any more?"

Feng Xin shook his head, "No more, the king of the county, Taixi people are like this. As far as Nanming is concerned, the emperor asked us to increase the harassment of the Huaxia army. It is best to fight a few battles so that the Huaxia army has no time to take care of them. They need to calm down Li Dingguo first. Rebellion."

Chapter 538 The Power of the Huaxia Army

Put down Li Dingguo?

Zheng Chenggong smiled speechlessly, what about after Li Dingguo was pacified?

He has almost the same nature as Li Dingguo. Will he be calmed down by then?

As a separatist sea overlord and a hero, Zheng Chenggong knew why the Huaxia Army fell out with the Nanming Kingdom. It was because they were too powerful. Those officials in the court must destroy them for their own benefit and prestige. Li Dingguo is Zhang Qiang in the Huaxia Army. He is currently the weakest existence among the three sea overlords of Zheng Chenggong.

The subordinates were all torn apart by the Nanming Kingdom with their official titles and titles, and in the name of orthodoxy. They were no longer united, and the territory was taken away by the subordinates. Although Li Dingguo was very good at fighting on land, he managed his subordinates They are too incompetent in terms of ability, and they were taken advantage of by Nanming State and weakened. If Zheng Chenggong's subordinates were like this, he would also be the target of Nanming State officials.

Su Guansheng and Zhu Yujian's tactic to drive away the wolves can be described as extremely vicious. He originally thought that he could do something for the restoration of Daming, but in the end he still couldn't escape the death of a cunning rabbit and the end of a lackey.

Nan Mingguo is now plotting against them. Zheng Chenggong doesn't know what's the point of taking refuge in him?

Moreover, he knew that the Taixi people might not have any good intentions. They also wanted to see Zheng Chenggong suffer heavy losses in the battle with the Huaxia Army, and come to carve up his power and territory.

He said to Feng Dao: "Leave them alone, let's do our own thing, warn the people below, just maintain the current situation, don't try to curry favor with the Huaxia Army, and don't care about friction with the Huaxia Army in the middle. That's enough, the Taixi people want us to be the pioneers, we don't do it, Nanming wants us to kill each other with the Huaxia Army, we don't do it, if we believe them, we may be eaten to the bone by them There is no scum left, forget it, you can go to someone to see if our shipyard can imitate those first-class battleships of the Huaxia Army, and with those large ships, we will have the strength to continue to dominate the sea."

"I'm afraid it won't be easy to handle. Those big ships are all built by the shipyards in the hinterland of the Huaxia Army. The craftsmen live inside and cannot come out. It is said that a confidentiality agreement has been signed. Even if we use means, we can't do it, let alone ours. People cannot enter the mainland of the Huaxia Army. I heard that you need a passport, a visa, etc. to enter the mainland of the Huaxia Army. It is very dangerous to walk in the interior of the army."

"Change your clothes and see if there is a leak in that place, or go down with the unloading ship pretending to be a coolie unloading, how can it be so troublesome?" Zheng Chenggong said impatiently.

Feng Xin smiled wryly and said: "Jun Wang, it can't be done. These subordinates have tried, and those people have disappeared. I heard that they all entered the hard labor camp of the Huaxia Army. The Huaxia Army is not so easy to talk to the enemy's spies. Finally Straightforwardly, a cross was erected on the port. As soon as the spies were discovered, they put the rope around their necks, kicked their feet, and then people jumped on it and died. The Chinese people commonly call it "swinging". Horror, like the way the Spaniards, Portuguese and other Thais deal with criminals."

Zheng Chenggong was annoyed, "Could it be that there is a solid wall and no one can go in?"

Feng Xin continued to smile bitterly, and said with a bitter face: "It's almost the same. If we want to go inside the Huaxia Army, we have to go to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at the pass to apply for a diplomatic visa. And there is a time limit. If you stay in their territory of the Huaxia Army, you will be arrested by the Ministry of Civil Affairs. After interrogation and interrogation, if you find that you have no crimes, you will be expelled, and you will never be allowed to enter the territory of the Huaxia Army.

If you have committed a crime, then send it to the Criminal Ministry for review. The Criminal Ministry will interrogate you with the officials of the Supervision Department, convict you, and then hand it over to the punishment camp. In the prison of the punishment camp.

For those who pose a particularly serious threat, they will be imprisoned for life, and those who are slightly less serious will be sent to a special camp in a hard labor camp for detention and labor. There is a law that they will die within a few days at the earliest. deport.