Lord of Ming Dynasty

The speed has been increased, the firepower has been increased, and the defense has been improved, but the number of artillery shots has decreased, and the number of ships has decreased. Although the cost is higher, it greatly saves manpower, material resources, and navy funds.

In the face of Yanjing's attack, when Yanjing is captured, Zhang Qiang plans to slightly expand the number of soldiers and horses in each division, replace the old equipment with new equipment, and then use the cavalry as the leading force, sweep the rear of the field troops, and attack the Manchurian territory in the Northeast. Destroy them completely, or deport them to the colder Siberia, let them go with the Russians.

Chapter 9 Yanjing Raiders 2

With the formulation of the strategy, the Zhaohu Corps has been strengthened, and according to the information, there are very few people left in the city, and their morale has basically been lost. The number of people in the city has dropped from more than 100 million to more than 30.

The young and strong died in battle, the women committed suicide, the old people were eaten, and the people left behind were not as good as the ghosts in the mountains. The beggars on the street and the soldiers on the street also wore tattered clothes and held swords, guns, swords and halberds. , Walking weakly, all those who were strong and capable of fighting were sent to the city wall to defend the Huaxia Army.

This is a city of pure Han people, but they are loyal to the Qing Dynasty and fight to the last moment.

Even the clothes of Yu Chenglong and Chen Yanjing did not change and wash. The cloth in the city was used to make military uniforms, to keep out the cold, or to wrap corpses. The line of defense was set up, and nearly a million young and strong people around Yanjing were coerced into the city to guard their capital of the Qing Dynasty.

Kangxi's imperial forest army, Manchu cavalry, and Mongolian cavalry have all retreated outside the pass. The Qing soldiers guarded the Shanhaiguan pass, and they were also smashed into a pile of corpses. This is not to say that the Huaxia army has no strength to take Shanhaiguan. Thousands of Japanese people and Southeast Asian people, all attacks are carried out around cannon fodder against cannon fodder.

In fact, the Han Eight Banners, Mongolian Eight Banners, and Qing Eight Banners who stayed in the city for nearly a year did not suffer much damage. The main force has already retreated to the outside of the pass. What is left behind are those that the Qing Dynasty does not want to see. The Huaxia Kingdom will not forgive them. They are particularly rare and loyal to the soldiers and horses of the Qing Dynasty. These soldiers and horses are as young and strong as the Han people. Those Manchus who are unwilling to leave face the desperate charge of the Japanese and Southeast Asian people. They also fight with the Japanese and Southeast Asian servants. .

Because of the strong city, the Huaxia army adopted the most energy-intensive ant-attached siege mode, so Yanjing has not been taken yet. The two sides, referring to the Qing Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty and the Huaxia Kingdom both wanted to consume the enemy's vital strength , but on the contrary, what the Huaxia Kingdom consumes is its own, and what the Qing Dynasty hopes to consume is the regular army of the Huaxia Kingdom, the Huaxia Army Field Army soldiers and horses.

Now the Huaxia Kingdom has no Japanese people attached to it, and there are no people from Southeast Asia. There are those Han people who were attached to the Qing Dynasty, but there are not many. The Huaxia Kingdom is as pure as a 16-year-old girl.

Basically met Zhang Qiang's request, pure Han.

Now there is a single powerful nation, the Huaxia.

Standing on the destroyed city wall, Yu Chenglong and Chen Yanjing saw the servants and civilians who had suffered heavy losses before, and soldiers and horses began to retreat slowly. What appeared in their field of vision were the elite Chinese infantry, artillery and cavalry.

Yu Chenglong raised his head with tears in his eyes and sighed, "Why is this so, why is this so, why is it too urgent to be at odds with each other from the same roots? Could it be that such a huge China can't accommodate a Manchu people? Pity me, Qing Dynasty, this battle , There is no turning back, Your Majesty, I have a heavy trust, I am unable to keep the capital, I am ashamed of my ancestors, my Majesty—"

Chen Yanjing was also very uncomfortable. He was so old, but he had to face such a desperate moment.

"Master Chen, I'm an official, take a step first and bless me in the underground." Yu Chenglong raised his head in despair and shouted.

"Master Yu, don't—" Chen Yanjing knew what Yu Chenglong wanted to do, it was already too late, and Yu Chenglong jumped off the 30-meter-high city wall. This is the main entrance, and the bluestone slabs below it On the way, Chen Yanjing only grabbed the corner of Yu Chenglong's tattered official robe, stabbed it, and with a sound, Yu Chenglong still went down.

Zhao Hu watched from a distance. In a year, even through the telescope, he was enough to know Chen Yanjing and Yu Chenglong, the two Qing officials who guarded the city.

Seeing Yu Chenglong jumping down and falling into a meatloaf, he put down the binoculars and spit out, "If you are stubborn, who will you show your death to? Let's see if you can leave your name in history or not, His Majesty the King said, the history books are Written by the victors, don’t try to change your loyalty, when the Qing Dynasty is destroyed, you will be a stubborn reactionary, and you will be infamous forever.”

He waved his hand back, "Commander, order the artillery to fire and burn Yanjing."

The messenger did not hesitate to convey Zhao Hu's order. He had had enough of this arrogant and conceited officer. He did not expect that this officer from the Military Intelligence Department had such a personality. He was different from other officers. Other officers They are all friendly, and only sometimes get angry when they are on official business, and they are violent, and even beat soldiers, but generally they are still very good.

But this officer is simply bitter and mean, arrogant and conceited to the extreme, and also very stingy, last time he secretly used some shoe polish, this guy turned his nose up, scolded him for three days and three nights, and even detained him This officer always dresses up like a glamorous man, and changes into a clean military uniform every day. He doesn't know his previous background, so he looks like the style of the former Ming officials and Qing nobles.

For such an officer, he is just a routine. He never talks to such an officer even half a word, asks him without asking, and immediately stands behind him like a wooden sculpture after executing his instructions, or rides behind him on horseback. Not having the slightest emotion towards him, the entire team of order cavalry behaved like this.

Zhao Hu didn't care about their attitudes, anyway, he didn't depend on them, as long as they could carry out their orders in a business-like manner, he was the supreme commander of the army.

Violent artillery fire projected the newly developed burning bombs of the Huaxia Army onto the walls of Yanjing, in every place in the city. In order to play the most effective role, Zhao Hu used all the field divisions under his banner, the Artillery Regiment directly under the Division, and the Corps Directly under the Artillery Brigade, all cannons capable of projecting a minimum distance of 1000 meters, from nine-pound guns to the latest [-]-pound siege field guns.

Standing five miles away, he felt the scorching air, and all the body fluid in his burning throat dried up within a quarter of an hour, giving off an uncomfortable burning sensation. The nine-pound gun company in front had already begun to retreat, like Like a defeated battle, he dragged the nine-pound cannon in embarrassment, grabbed the somewhat crazy pack horse, and fled back quickly, and was still running backwards.

There is no way, Yanjing has a radius of 21 miles, [-] miles long, and [-] miles wide. If such a city, a city with countless wooden buildings, is to be burned, even if it has just been burned, it will still make people burn within five miles. Feel the heat from outside the ground.

The air flow caused by the hot wind made them faintly hear the hysterical screams and cries coming from the wind, as if they could smell the smell of barbecue in their noses, and the various birds flying over Yanjing City were as crazy as the end of the world. Flying towards the outside, being swept down by towering flames and black smoke from time to time.

All the artillery regiments retreated hastily before finishing the prescribed base number. They retreated twenty miles away before stopping, and then they all silently watched the spectacular scene they created. What a struggle.

And Zhao Hu had already got into the tent on the mountain thirty miles away, and observed Yanjing with a telescope through the gap in the tent.

Finally he put down the binoculars and sighed, "It's a pity, there are a lot of good things in there. This time, the gold and copper are probably melted, and all kinds of cultural relics accumulated for thousands of years are buried in it, my majesty the king, You are too thorough."

Chapter 9 Nineteen: Kangxi, who fought more and more bravely

It took the Zhaohu Corps a year and a half to take down Yanjing, consuming a total of 3401 million Qing people around Yanjing in the Qing Dynasty, 15 Manchu soldiers in the Qing Dynasty, 35 million Manchus, and 11 Mongolian Eight Banners soldiers. Ten thousand troops, 13 Mongolians, 33 soldiers of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty, 56 bannermen of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty, 11 Goguryeo soldiers and horses, 3 Japanese soldiers and horses, and 11 soldiers of the Huaxia Army captured. There were 4 Japanese servant soldiers captured by the Huaxia Army, 33 Goguryeo servant soldiers captured by the Huaxia Army, 1307 soldiers captured by the Southeast Asian servant army of the Huaxia Army, and a total of [-] million captured Japanese and Southeast Asian civilians.

The field army of the Huaxia Army killed or injured 800 troops, damaged more than 21 artillery pieces, killed or injured 3108 horses, killed or injured 1307 Chinese civilians, killed or injured [-] million Japanese civilians in the Huaxia Army, and killed or injured [-] million civilians in Southeast Asia. people.

It can be said that both sides suffered heavy losses, and in the end the Huaxia Army got a piece of white land in Yanjing City.

The Old Summer Palace, the Forbidden City, the Eight Great Alleys, Dongjiaomin Lane, and various historical sites, except that the Great Wall of the Ming Dynasty still stands there, Yanjing has become history.

After the war, Zhao Hu used almost all his strength. The remaining 100 million Japanese people, 80 Southeast Asian people, 60 servants of the two races, and the remnants of the Manchu Qing Dynasty conscripted from a distance of 300 kilometers away, and [-] million people from the Manchu Qing Dynasty, carried out To clean up, two garrison brigades in the rear were mobilized, and all the soldiers of the field army who were not on guard were cleaned up. It took three months to clean up the ruins of Yanjing.

I found a valley in the nearby mountains, dug 50 meters deep, buried all the garbage and unburned corpses, then cleaned the street with water, sprinkled white lime, and excavated the foundation. Nearly 3000 million taels of silver were excavated from the foundation , plus those burnt and melted silver pieces, a total of 600 million taels of silver, gold, 150 million taels, 4000 million gold nuggets, worth [-] million taels of silver, plus those who can still recognize the shape, after cleaning Afterwards, the jewels that have not been burnt have a total value of [-] million taels of silver, which is almost equal to [-] million Huaxia Yuan.

The original place is no longer usable, at least in recent years. What if it is not cleaned thoroughly and a plague breaks out?

So the huge project of rebuilding a Yanjing City on the plain twenty miles away from the original Yanjing City began.

The task of the Zhaohu Corps was taken over by the garrison brigade, leaving half of the servants and civilians, and took the other civilians and the servants Zhaohu Corps to Shanhaiguan.

And far away in Shengjing, which is much smaller and simpler than Yanjing, the ministers of Kangxi Tong have a gloomy face. It has been half a year since Yanjing was captured, but each of them is still terrified, thinking of that Hundreds of thousands of unjust souls were haunted by the fire, and even Kangxi had nightmares every night for half a year, and was often awakened.

What can we do to stop the Huaxia Army's indomitable pace?

Hebei Prefecture was lost, Shanxi Prefecture was lost, most of the Mongolian grassland was lost, Yanjing was lost, and the strength of the Qing Dynasty, which retreated outside the pass, was greatly damaged.

The original population of 5000 million plus the population of nearly 700 million in Shaanxi-Gansu Prefecture, and the population of Shanxi Prefecture is 9000 million. Now they are all lost. The population of the Qing Dynasty has suddenly become 3000 million, and most of the people in the pass are Han Chinese. Some of the common people were sent to reform through labor and naturalized. They were obedient. Those who were disobedient were sent to the meat grinder attacking Yanjing and killed by the Qing army in Yanjing. The remaining civilians in Yanjing were also killed.

Don't look at the people who can squeeze out some people between the white mountains and the black waters, and they are still brave warriors in the Qing Dynasty, but in front of the cannons and guns, that is the material of cannon fodder. Now there are still a lot of soldiers that the Qing Dynasty can use, plus cannon fodder, but they can really fight There are less than 30 soldiers and horses armed with guns and artillery.

There are 800 million Han people outside the customs, 300 million Mongols, 100 million Japanese people, 300 million Goguryeo people, and 510 million Manchu people.

It seems that there are many more Manchus than before they left the customs. After losing the country in the customs, the Manchu race still retains more than half, but the Manchus have lost their original bravery. Most of the people who come back are nobles and dandies. Among the Manchus, Kangxi couldn't even recruit his Imperial Guards and Yulin Army. Many people were unwilling to serve as soldiers.

What is even more worrying is that there are 15 Japanese servants, but their fighting power is far superior to that of the Manchu Banners. The Goguryeo servants are slightly weaker, but there are 20 people, but their fighting power can unite 30 Manchus and Han Chinese. Soldiers and horses are looking for their teeth all over the ground. This is his cognition that all the manchu generals with insight have been reporting to him.

It can be said that under such circumstances, not to mention counterattacks, it is very dangerous to maintain the superficial Qing Dynasty from being annexed by Japan and Goguryeo.

Fortunately, the Japanese and Goguryeo people are also panicked now, and they are shocked by the strength of the Huaxia Army. No one thinks about this issue. Otherwise, the Qing Dynasty may be annexed by the two foreign brothers who have been enslaved by them. up.

Thinking of this, Kangxi's face was filled with sweat, and he called several iron hat princes to discuss it overnight.

Prince Yi said: "We can sow discord between the two by sending spies into Japan's Silla Province to disseminate Goguryeo's desire to drive them into the sea and regain their Silla Province. In the case of provocation, Japan can be provoked to think about occupying all of Goguryeo to gain the living space of the Japanese so that the Japanese can act against Goguryeo, and then we will adjust as the suzerain, always keeping both sides in our hands and not letting them Harmony is beneficial to us, so that we can continue to use Japanese and Goguryeo people to block the Chinese army's attack on our behalf."

Kangxi clapped his hands and said happily: "Uncle Huang is right, and Uncle Huang is in charge of this matter."

Prince Su also stood up and said: "Your Majesty, the current threat to us is the Russians. When we were fighting with the Chinese army, the Russian horse bandits occupied a large number of our land behind us. I think that with Our current weapons and equipment and combat effectiveness can completely defeat the Russian horse bandits who are sparsely populated and supplied thousands of miles away. Therefore, I suggest sending Mongolian cavalry and our cavalry to surround and eliminate the mobile forces of the horse bandits from Japan and Japan. Goguryeo’s servant army has dispatched a part of elite soldiers and horses, and most of our elite soldiers and horses have expanded our territory to the Far East, and if the Huaxia Kingdom comes over in the future, we still have room to maneuver.”

"Okay, Prince Su is in charge of this matter. We must take back our lost territory and approach them in depth along the footsteps of the Russians. As much as the Russians gain from us, we will go as far as they go. Also ordered the formation of new troops.”

He glanced at a Manchu guard, "Lonkodo,".

The Manchu guard said: "Your Majesty, the minister is here."

"Deploy elite soldiers and horses from the Han army flag, recruit loyal and brave men from the Han people, and form my new Imperial Forest Army. Those wastes will be dispatched to the Imperial Guard Army, and the Imperial Guard Army will be reorganized. The Imperial Forest Army has 60 soldiers and horses. The army has [-] soldiers and horses, and I want a brand new soldier and horse that can compete with the Han people. In addition, where did the Mongols draw [-] Mongolian cavalry from Horqin Mongolia, and [-] cavalry from the previous soldiers and horses to form my dragoons? Troops. The other soldiers and horses were disorderly and reorganized, and after selecting good generals to replenish enough soldiers and horses, the army was expanded to [-] soldiers and horses. All unqualified soldiers were sent to the local patrol battalion, and let them guard the place. "