I want to be emperor

Chapter 511 Daming Is Dead? (two in one)

Li Dagou has lived in this small coastal village belonging to Jinzhou Wei Zhongzuo since he was a child, and he is very familiar with the surrounding area.

Soon he led a group of Chu soldiers in gray uniforms to chase all the way back, and it didn't take long for him to catch up with the escaped Dong captives ahead.

When they chased after them, seeing that they couldn't escape, those Dongbao people even tried to fight back.

Especially the leader, the middle-aged little leader of Dongbao, brandishing a waist knife, rushed up with a strange cry, and Li Dagou almost turned around and ran away in fright.

But what happened next surprised him.

In his eyes, he was extremely brave. In hand-to-hand combat, the leader of Dongyao who could easily hit several people fell to the ground before taking two steps. Not only him, but also the other two Dongyao soldiers fell directly. One of them was just hit in the leg, and after falling to the ground, he let out an extremely shrill scream.

And tens of meters in front of the leader of the Dongbao, there are a dozen soldiers of the Chu army who have just fired!

After the soldiers of the Chu army fired, more than a dozen soldiers of the Chu army behind them opened fire on the remaining soldier from the Dongyao people!
The Dongbang soldier wanted to rush forward just now, but luckily he was not hit by any bullets.

At a distance of 70 meters, it is considered to be the effective range of the two-year-style flintlock gun, but it is still a smoothbore gun, and the hit rate is still very impressive. Most of the time in combat, it relies on many bullets to cover and kill, and fires muskets When the number is relatively small, the hit rate for small targets is still not good.

That's why there was such a fish that slipped through the net. At this time, he still had the courage to fight back, so he quickly let go of his feet and tried to escape.

But this time, the remaining Eastern captive soldier did not have such good luck. This time, more than a dozen flintlock guns were aimed directly at him and fired.

Suddenly, three blood holes appeared on his back, and he fell down and remained motionless!
Dead can't die anymore!
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Seeing that the four soldiers from the east who were pursuing had been killed, Captain Shi Yuankai, the sentinel of the Sixth Grenadier of the First Battalion of the Ninth Division Infantry Regiment, did not show any signs of relaxation. The wounded but not dead soldiers of the Eastern Raiders fired another round of musketry, and then nodded slightly after seeing that the man was still.

At this time, he said: "Be alert to the left and right, go up and check the battlefield with a few people, be careful when going up, make up the knife first when going up, to prevent fraudulent injuries. "

After all, he put the Suifa pistol in his waist back into the gun pouch, and turned towards Li Dagou, looking at Li Dagou who still looked terrified, Shi Yuankai showed an unnatural and kind expression: "Thank you this time lead the way."

"Go home quickly, this is a battlefield, it's very dangerous!"

Li Dagou did not move, but gritted his teeth, then raised his head and asked, "Master, are you from the other side of the sea? From Daming?"

Shi Yuankai laughed after hearing this!
Ming dynasty?It has long been swept into the garbage dump of history by their Great Chu Empire, not to mention the orthodox Ming Dynasty, even the Ximing after the death of Chongzhen has now become history.

But this is just the Liaodong Han people living under the Dongyao people. They don’t know that the situation in the pass is normal. Let alone the people in Liaodong, even in the hinterland of the Great Chu Empire, people in many places still don’t know the world. The dynasty has changed.

Especially those living in remote mountainous areas where the grassroots tentacles of the Great Chu Empire have not yet reached. Under the lack of news, the mountain people may not know that the surname is no longer Zhu, but Luo.

So Shi Yuankai didn't think this man's words were strange, and he didn't blame him because he regarded himself as a soldier of the Ming Dynasty, but said: "No, we are soldiers of the Great Chu Empire Army, and there is no Ming Dynasty on the other side of the sea. Now, it is our Great Chu Empire!"

Daming is dead?

In fact, Li Dagou has no idea about Daming, he just heard about it before, this place was managed by Daming before, and the other side of the sea was also owned by Daming.

Now it seems that there has been a change of owner.

Li Dagou wanted to ask a few more questions, but it was obvious that Shi Yuankai was not in the mood to talk nonsense with a farmer who was kidnapped into the battlefield, so he led the team away.

Anyway, the reward had already been given, and he was let out of the battlefield, and even answered a question for him.

This, that is, in the army, to use the above words, you must always pay attention to the impression of the soldiers!
If he hadn't applied for the military academy before and was still in his hometown, he wouldn't have said a word of nonsense to this kind of mud leg, let alone talking, even if he was close to him, he wouldn't get close.

After all, he, Shi Yuankai, is a son of a scholarly family. In many villages near his old home, nine out of ten households are tenants of his family.

Moreover, his character is far from friendly.

But that's all in the past... Now, no matter how disgusted you are, you can't beat and scold casually, and you even have to show a smile against your will.

After all, he is an officer of the Great Chu Empire Army, and his words and deeds represent the image of the Empire Army in front of the common people.

No one cares about you in private, but in public, if you dare to pretend that I am an official, beating and scolding people at will, you will be criticized or even punished every minute.

He, Shi Yuankai, is the hope of the Shi family in the army, so he must be extremely cautious in his words and deeds!
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Ever since the emperor raised his troops and swept across Huguang, Huguang was shaken at that time, a large number of families were uprooted overnight, and their Shi family was lucky.

Shi Yuankai's third uncle used to be the county magistrate in northern Chu. When the emperor raised his troops, he followed the dragon and sent a letter to his hometown to make them ready before the army went south to southern Chu.

What to prepare?
Naturally, it was the preparation to welcome Master Wang.

At the same time, his third uncle also told his family members that if they didn't welcome him, the only fate would be to ransack the family and exterminate the family!
It's the same even if you don't resist...

During the time of dynasty change, it is very dangerous to be in the wrong team, and it is also dangerous to not be in the team!

Who made their Shi family rich and landed, and they are the leading wealthy family in Hengyang Mansion!

Ordinary people do whatever you like, no one pays attention to you, even those notorious tax officials don't bother to look at you!
But for a local wealthy family like the Shi family, he had to make a choice!

But there is only one way to survive: take the initiative to defect to the Great Chu Empire, obediently pay taxes!
There is no problem with life in such a short period of time, but if you want to avoid being targeted by subsequent tax officials, you have to sell or donate the land altogether. To be able to keep the family business.

Especially the land, which is basically not negotiable!

How to say about the land policy of the Great Chu Empire... change requires bloodshed, let alone such a change that affects fundamental interests!

If you want to keep thousands or even tens of thousands of acres of land under the rule of the Great Chu Empire, it is actually possible according to the current laws of the Great Chu Empire.

The Great Chu Empire has never issued any legal provisions or official documents, so it is not allowed to own a large amount of land.

It's just that those goddamn tax officials will deduct a tax evasion hat for you every three days.

That's not right, taxation is something that will be found out through strict investigation, and you will be fined a high fine if it is found out.

If you refuse to pay the fine, then it will become tax resistance...it will become compulsory enforcement, and the house will be ransacked.

If you still dare to summon the guardians to resist, then you are armed to resist the tax... then basically the genocide has not escaped.

The Shi family didn't want to be ruined, so they could only follow the policies of the Great Chu Empire, and took the initiative to spend a large amount of money and food to welcome Master Wang, and then took the initiative to respond to the land policy of the empire, and sold a large piece of land on their own initiative, and sold it to the government at a low price , the installment payment... Basically, it’s no different from free gift.

The head of the Shi family, that is, Shi Yuankai's father, was very courageous. After the arrival of the Chu army, he directly gave away all the 8000 mu of land that their Shi family had accumulated for hundreds of years.

Moreover, the Patriarch of the Shi family recommended himself as an official to serve the Great Chu Empire, and he also brought a group of Shi family children into the official position.

In terms of loss, it would be huge!

In terms of risk, it is extremely huge. If the original Great Chu Empire was wiped out by the Ming army, the Shi family would be wiped out in minutes.

But if you want to talk about the harvest, it's too big!
The Shi family became the Hengyang mansion, and there was only one local wealthy family that was able to keep many industries besides the land. At the same time, it was appreciated by the military and government officials of the original Great Chu Empire in southern Chu, and was listed as a typical gentry.

The follow-up gave them a lot of benefits, such as helping the government-run industries to purchase raw materials, transport goods and other orders, and also instructed them to set up an agricultural machinery workshop, using iron materials provided by the government-run steel factory to make various agricultural tools and cooking utensils for sale. Iron things are basically very profitable.

After going back and forth, their Shi family found that the money was not only not short, but had actually increased...

At the same time, a large number of members of the Shi family have also successfully become officials. Although most of them are low-level officials, they are still officials.

Later, Guochao called on aspiring young people to apply for military ranks. As a typical gentry, the Shi family first sent a few people from the second house there, and after another year, when Shi Yuankai turned 16, they sent Shi Yuankai, the eldest son of Shi Yuankai, to the family. Sent to Army Academy.

The Shi family was basically tied to the Great Chu Empire at that time.

There are three houses in the direct line, and various houses in the side line. More than a dozen people entered the court as officials, five entered the military academy to join the army, and mobilized a large number of ordinary young and strong from nearby villages. enlisted in the army.

And the Shi family who did this also got huge rewards!
His third uncle has now been promoted to the chief minister of Guangxi, the third rank, and there is a high probability that he will go further in the next year or two.

This is the highest time that their Shi family has gone in the political arena in the past hundred years.

However, compared to the smoother life in the political arena, their Shi family's children were not doing well in the military. Before Shi Yuankai, four of them had joined the army, but unfortunately they were all doing badly. Now the Shi family puts their hopes on On Shi Yuankai!

But the four of them didn't do well before, they didn't do well in the military academy, and they didn't do well after graduation. Although they climbed faster during the large-scale expansion of the army, they still couldn't get a battalion leader in the main force. position of officer.

His second cousin is a relatively good guy, but now he is only a lieutenant colonel, and he is still in the second-class division...

The commander of the lieutenant colonel in the second-class division is not as valuable as the commander of the major in the first-class division...

Now the second-class divisions in the Chu army are basically reduced to the second- and third-line forces. The second-class divisions deployed in the border towns are not bad, and they can make some credits anyway, but the second-class divisions stationed in various places Waiting for the teacher, it is basically a place for retirement, or a place for losers.

Those officers who made small mistakes in the first-class division, or had no hope of promotion, and were looked down upon by their superiors, where did they go in the end?
In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, and the number of officers in the army was relatively scarce, it was unrealistic to retire on a large scale.

In fact, these people were basically assigned to the second-class division and the local garrison headquarters in the end.

Let these people work in the local garrison headquarters and the second-class division for a few years. During the transition period, if they perform well, they can continue to work in the army. If not, they can only be transferred to the reserve. Then arrange a transfer.

Luo Zhixue basically doesn't know how to kill donkeys. Even though the generals who followed him in the earliest days were from thieves, although their abilities are far behind, Luo Zhixue will still arrange for them. Idle jobs, reward titles.

Power cannot be given, and if it is given, it will also harm others and oneself.

But Luo Zhixue would never give less to them.

From this point of view, a large number of second-class divisions in the Great Chu Empire Army actually took on the role of the army's reorganization and re-equipment of the main force. In the process of upgrading, they accepted a large number of unqualified officers and even ordinary soldiers who could not keep up with the times. .

This is also the reason why the Great Chu Empire planned to build second-class divisions on a large scale. From the first few to more than 20, the scale has now expanded to more than 40.

In fact, most of these more than 40 second-class divisions have no combat effectiveness and can only be used for internal repression and low-intensity combat, but their role is still important, so the Chu army still attaches great importance to them.

Moreover, the combat effectiveness of these second-class divisions is a bit weak now, but as time goes by, after a large number of officers and soldiers in them are gradually retired, it is almost time for reorganization and replacement. will gradually increase.

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When Shi Yuankai on the shore led his men to pursue the fleeing Dongren, many soldiers from the No. 90 Infantry Regiment also set foot on land one after another.

And at another place not far away that is suitable for landing, the vanguard of the Second Marine Regiment of the Navy has also begun to land.

This time the large-scale landing, the Chu army chose to carry out the two landing sites at the same time, not far apart, and in order to reduce accidents as much as possible, they did not choose to directly break into Lushun Port, but directly in the nearby small tidal flat. Beach landing.

According to previous naval investigations, Lushun Port has now become the main naval port of the Dongyao people in the Liaodong Peninsula. There are many ships and even coastal defense forts in it. There is a certain risk in breaking in and landing directly. , especially for those troop carriers with little protection and little firepower.

If a troop carrier was sunk when it landed, the loss would be great.

So to be on the safe side, the Chu army directly chose the barren beach for beach landing.

The place where the No.90 Infantry Regiment landed was such a barren beach, and there was only a small area suitable for landing, but there were no enemies here. There was only a small coastal fortress with Eastern captives inside. But only a few dozen people.

And the whole landing process was as expected, without using most of the troops of the No.90 Infantry Regiment, the first batch of soldiers from the first battalion who landed on the beach simply took down the small fortress and killed all the East and West soldiers. He captured soldiers, and by the way, captured or rescued more than 100 young men who were forcibly recruited by the Eastern captives.

After the vanguard troops successfully landed and cleared the enemy forces on the beach, a number of special ships in the rear, loaded with construction materials such as wood and a large number of engineers, quickly stepped forward.

At the same time, a group of small boats with special shapes in the fleet also began to approach.

These small boats are specially designed to build temporary floating docks. The hull design is very special and can be easily interlocked with each other. After reinforcement with special tools, they can be connected into one piece.

At the same time, its mast and sail are also the kind that can be easily disassembled.

The reason why the Chu army specially chose to go to sea and land when the weather is calm is because the navigation capabilities of these pontoon ships are particularly poor. Not only are the ships small, but their seaworthiness is not good. Many kilometers of sea journey.

The engineers quickly used the tools they carried to connect these specialized pontoon ships together. Soon, a temporary trestle bridge tens of meters long was built at the landing site, and there were also a large number of engineers on the land side. A road tens of meters long was built from the mud with thick planks, wooden piles and gravel.

Immediately afterwards, more soldiers began to land quickly through the trestle bridge.

The engineers and soldiers began to construct a second, larger temporary trestle bridge for artillery and a large number of luggage to go ashore.

For these temporary trestles, the navy and army engineering units prepared for several months, specially built a batch of ships for the pontoon bridges, and at the same time refitted a number of large ships as construction ships to carry materials, and directly in the Simple and light lifting operations at sea.

Only in this way can two floating temporary trestles be built in a short period of time. Otherwise, it would only take a few days for the 2 people to land by wading on the beach and transferring by small boats.

More importantly, the artillery can't come down in a short time!

But now with these two temporary trestles, landing has become much easier.

Batches of Chu soldiers in gray military uniforms and bald heads staring at a military cap were directly transported by small boats, or quickly landed on the first temporary trestle bridge.

It took only half a day for the No.90 Infantry Regiment and a large number of engineers to land successfully. Not only soldiers, but also artillery, ammunition, food, fresh water, horses and other large quantities of combat supplies, and the engineers also came ashore. A large amount of wood, sandstone, iron bars and many other building materials and tools were collected.

The landing operation is not just a matter of people running up directly.

Soldiers need weapons and equipment when they go ashore, especially artillery and ammunition, otherwise how can we fight...

The people who were kidnapped from the east had artillery.

According to the intelligence of the naval investigation, the Dongbao people are stationed at a point on the left of the center, including at least two to 3000 ground troops in Lushun Port. Anti-turret.

If you want to take down these soldiers from the East, how can you do it without artillery!
You don't need cannons, people can pull out a bunch of cannons to hit you after changing hands.

And when the main force of the No. 90 Infantry Regiment landed one after another, the East Captive garrison from the Zhongzuo Office also rushed over in a hurry.

A general in armor among the Dongyao people looked at the overwhelming Chu army fleet on the sea, and couldn't help but gasped. How many fucking ships are there, hundreds of them!

Then he said in a panicked tone: "Hurry up, send someone to report to Jinzhou immediately, just say, just say that Chu Manzi has landed, there are at least three or four hundred ships, tens of thousands of people!"

After ordering someone to report to Jinzhou, this person was also busy directing the formation to prepare for battle.

Although there are many Chu thieves on the sea, it seems that only a few thousand of them have landed now, and he also has six or seven hundred soldiers from the east and more than 2000 auxiliary soldiers under his command. It would be possible to drive them into the sea.

The Dongyao people's system is actually similar to that of the Ming army's frontier army.

In the Ming army there were personal soldiers and servants, and in the Dongyao people there were also white armored soldiers, ordinary soldiers.

The Ming army had a large number of ordinary guards with relatively poor combat effectiveness, and the Dongyao people also had a lot of assistants.

These auxiliary soldiers do not mean that they directly belong to the official establishment of Dongyao people, but are the domestic slaves of those soldiers...

When soldiers from Jianzhou go out to fight, they often choose a few loyal and strong house slaves to go out together. These house slaves usually help build tents, carry weapons and food, and go up to fight together in wartime.

Zhongzuo is the southernmost place in the Liaodong Peninsula, and beside it is the Changshan Eight Islands controlled by the Chu Army, and on the opposite side of the sea is Shandong controlled by the Chu Army.

At the same time, the Chu army fleet was very strong and completely suppressed the Dongyao people's navy. Therefore, in order to ensure the safety of the coast, the Dongyao people actually deployed a lot of troops in some coastal cities suitable for landing.

For example, Gaizhou, and several fortresses along the coast near Jinzhou, and even North Korea, they have made the North Koreans increase their defenses against coastal areas or islands such as Phi Island.

Under such circumstances, there are actually quite a few Dongren troops on the front line of the Zhongzuo Institute.

This is also an important reason why the Dongyao general wanted to fight back immediately.

Regardless of other circumstances, you can only fight back if you have enough troops, otherwise, you can't fight without troops.

And when the Dongyao people appeared and began to line up to fight back, trying to drive the Chu army into the sea, the No. 90 infantry regiment, which the Chu army had successfully landed, also left the sea and began to line up!
But their formation looks far thinner than that of the Dongyao people on the opposite side!
The array of the Dongyao people basically starts with six columns, which looks extremely thick!
However, the infantry formation of the Chu army has only three rows, and some even have two rows, which looks very fragile.

Looking at the thin formation of the Chu army on the opposite side, the leading general of the Dongyao people no longer panicked like before!

He had a hunch that he might be able to win a battle today!

The other side didn't know what went crazy, but they put on such a thin formation, and it was a formation composed of musketeers.

Faced with such a thin formation of musketeers, I am afraid that when the soldiers of one's own side rush over, the Chu Manzi on the opposite side will collapse on the spot!
In this regard, he is confident!
(End of this chapter)