Lord of Ming Dynasty

Emperor Longwu was on a three-story attic in the county government office, looking at Pingnan County.

He Kai beside him carefully said to Emperor Longwu: "Your Majesty, you let Mr. Su take over the position of magistrate here, and let the minister take over the house. Will this make Zongbing Zhang feel that we are a little dissatisfied with him?" Too friendly?"

Emperor Longwu, Zhu Yujian said: "It's okay, military generals should fight, and you civil servants should take care of the people's livelihood. With us behind him, he can fight with peace of mind." After a moment of silence, Longwu said to He Kai : "Aiqing, do you think that besides the name of Zhu's descendants and the status of Emperor Ming, at this moment, I am useless to change the current situation?"

He Kai couldn't write a good answer, but he saw that there were no Zhang Qiang's subordinates around, and said cautiously: "Your Majesty, at this moment, it is not the people's livelihood, not the name, and some false names can play a role. The main role is to see whose military strength Strong and powerful, that is what we lack. Although there are so many Daming officials and righteous soldiers, their strength is too weak to compete with the Qing army. , and most of them hesitated to fight, or simply surrendered to the Tartars, this is the reason why we cannot recover."

Zhu Yujian nodded, "He Aiqing, well said, so what does He Aiqing think I should do to recover?"

He Kai said: "Your Majesty, first of all, you must have generals to follow Your Majesty, and you must have generals and soldiers who can withstand the Qing army's attack and have the strength to attack the Qing army. A country without generals to defend it will be unstable after all."

Zhu Yujian sighed, "A ruler is not a ruler of a subjugated country, but all ministers are ministers of a subjugated country. The former emperor has already told us that it is very difficult for a minister to be reliable."

"If you treat your courtiers well, they will definitely serve you," He Kai said.

Zhu Yujian said: "Didn't the late emperor treat those people badly?" He Kai was speechless.

"Report, Your Majesty, Mr. Zhang will meet you."

Zhu Yujian turned his head and said to the guard, "Xuan."

"Sir, Zhang Qiang kowtowed to His Majesty, wearing armor, please forgive me for being rude." Zhang Qiang walked in wearing a chain mail, and said to Zhu Yujian.

Zhu Yujian turned around and said to Zhang Qiang: "Ai Qing, you don't need to be polite, let's be flat."

"A seat." Zhu Yujian said to the guard.

Zhang Qiang hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, if you stand still, I dare not sit down, so I should just stand here."

Zhu Yujian didn't try to persuade Zhang Qiang anymore, but asked: "Looking at Aiqing's inspection of the city defense, the road is full of wind and dust, non-stop, Aiqing is tired."

Zhang Qiang quickly responded, "Your Majesty, the enemy is besieging the city, and the strong enemy has not retreated. How dare I be indifferent. I am responsible for the safety of your majesty, the empress, the prince, and the safety of more than ten thousand soldiers under me. I dare not slack off."

Zhu Yujian stroked the beard on his chin, "Ai Qing, are you sure you can defeat the enemy?"

Zhang Qiang turned his head and thought for a while, "Your Majesty, it seems that after yesterday's bloody battle, the enemy was terrified. According to reports from the scouts, the other two groups of soldiers and horses retreated dozens of miles, and they will not threaten us for the time being. Zhang Cunren, the pseudo-governor of my son, is still resisting, and his army is still strong, with [-] elites against [-] elites in our city. There are more than [-] people, if the city is attacked, I have the ability to hold on for ten and a half months, but if the enemy's troops come in a steady stream, then I am afraid that I will not be in danger."

He Kai asked from the side: "General Zhang Qiang, can there be a way?"

Zhang Qiang shook his head, "There is no other way but to stick to it. I have sent people to ask for help. When reinforcements come from Taizhou Prefecture to contain the enemy, I will decide whether to defend or attack, or break out of Taizhou Prefecture."

1 Chapter Twenty Consumption

Seeing that Zhang Qiang had no choice, Zhu Yujian felt a little sad, his confidence dropped again, and he felt lost for a while.

The three of them were silent for a while, Zhu Yujian raised his head again and asked, "Zhang Aiqing, I have ordered Xueshi Su to take over the county government and serve as the county magistrate. I don't know how Aiqing thinks about this matter."

Zhang Qiang hurriedly said: "Your Majesty is in charge of this matter, I only fight in battle."

He reacted quickly. In fact, he knew that he couldn't fall out with Zhu Yujian at this moment. Besides, he didn't have the talent to deal with civil affairs. No matter what, Su Guansheng had been a magistrate, a magistrate, and handled government affairs for the emperor. With such a talent, why should he send Those half-baked people are going to take care of those things, anyway, I don't intend to stay here, how long Su Guansheng will be the county magistrate, it has nothing to do with him, he will take them to evacuate here if he has a chance in a few days.

But this is a signal, a signal that Zhu Yujian wants power from him, and he has to rely on Zhu Yujian. Compared with other brothers and uncles, he is wiser and less short-sighted. Worried about being controlled by Zhu Yujian's finances and civil affairs, he can let Zhu Yujian control everything here or elsewhere, but he doesn't intend to let Zhu Yujian intervene in Taizhou, Jinhua, or even Chuzhou.

That was his territory, his turf, even if those who took office were fools, he would not let Zhu Yujian interfere, this was his bottom line.

A week passed like this. Zhang Qiang stepped up to reorganize his troops, weeded out the old and weak, and added strong soldiers. At the same time, he repaired the city wall, strengthened the fortifications, and trained soldiers.

This time, he trained [-] rebel soldiers at a time. These soldiers have been integrated into his army since the eighth day, and those rebel soldiers have become less and less.

The rebel soldiers fought continuously and had some combat effectiveness. He only trained for a week, and they changed from militiamen to skilled Jinhua rebel soldiers and put on the uniform of Jinhua rebel army.

Of course, these people must be gunners. Zhang Qiang trained them to strengthen his team of gunners.

However, half of them took the low-level firecrackers that were eliminated from the Ming army, and half of them took the three-eyed firecrackers, which are a kind of firecrackers that can only hit a distance of 30 meters. However, the advantage is that they can be fired continuously.

The only thing to consider is the issue of blasting the guns. The previous gunmen also held these guns, and the blasting killed many gunners he trained in the early stage.

But at this moment, he has nothing to do, and he can't produce firecrackers, these are all seized.

After driving back and forth, we have to build an arsenal to produce firecrackers. We can't let the Portuguese be idle, just repair some damaged firecrackers and dawdle.

"Enemy, enemy,"

"Dangdangdangdang" the guards on the city wall rang the gong to call the police.

In less than a quarter of an hour, all of Zhang Qiang's subordinates arrived at the top of the city.

Zhang Qiang held up a captured binoculars and looked outside the city. There were densely packed Xiangyongs outside the city.

Farther away, it was the enemy's artillery, and the enemy brought the artillery.

"It seems that the enemy has been waiting for a week to transport artillery." Zhang Qiang handed the binoculars to Tang Dianfeng.

Tang Dianfeng picked it up and observed carefully, "My lord, there are quite a few cannons in red clothes. Depending on the situation, they are relatively good. I am afraid they are the artillery of the Portuguese. This time the Portuguese will not go into battle in person, and sold them to the Qing soldiers."

Both Gu Yuesheng and Yang Yangyang took a telescope to look at it a few times, "How do you fight, my lord?"

Zhang Qiang said: "Let the soldiers on the top of the city go down and gather behind the city wall, leaving the artillery and some soldiers to observe. Once the enemy attacks, the soldiers climb up from the ladders on the inside, attack the enemy's troops, and let the enemy bury it. The moat, let's put the enemy on the wall to fight."

The battle started, everyone sat in one direction, Zhang Qiang sat on the south wall, Tang Dianfeng sat on the east wall, Gu Yuesheng sat on the west wall, and Yang Yangyang sat on the north wall.

The howling shells hit the crenels of the city wall, taking away one crenel after another, and smashed on the wall, splashing a lot of debris. Some shells fell on Chengcheng and penetrated the roofs of many houses in the city near the city wall. , hurt some people.

Violent artillery fire is very rare. Zhang Qiang has only seen such a scene when Jinhua Mansion faced the bombardment of hundreds of Qing army artillery.

Some soldiers who were in charge of observing the enemy huddled behind the crenels of the city wall. From time to time, some people were thrown into the air and injured.

The artillery bombarded for half an hour, and the bravery of the Qing army covered a large number of civilians to fill the moat and destroy the obstacles outside the city.

After another hour, when some small cannons on the top of the city were smashed and the artillerymen were injured, Zhang Qiang ordered the Hongyi cannons that had captured the enemy placed on the top of the city to start to fight back. The civilian husbands were all missing arms and legs, and their death conditions were extremely tragic.

Some peasants began to flee, and Xiangyong went up to stop and drive them away. Only a very small number of peasants were beheaded.

The civilian husband had to run back to fill the moat again.

After an hour, the moat was almost filled, and the townspeople drove the peasants to push the siege equipment, carrying ladders, and began to attack the city.

At this time, the Fran machine guns at the top of the city began to fire. There were many of these guns, which caused greater panic to the enemy. Only then did they force them to move forward.

Watching them get close to the city wall, the Tiger Crouching Cannon began to erupt iron sand, a large area at a time.

But this was not enough to prevent the enemy from attacking the city. Zhang Qiang ordered Minzhuang, with archers, to go up to the city to fight back.

All of a sudden, the civilian husband and Xiangyong suffered heavy losses, and only after exhausting all their efforts, they approached the city wall and shot at the archers and the people on the wall.

The artillery on both sides did not mean to stop, but became more and more violent.

Casualties are inevitable, and the casualties are getting heavier, on both sides.