The Soul of the Han Dynasty in the Late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 780 Notorious
Mao Chenglu blinked and announced loudly:

"The 'Red Banner Army' is an army of benevolence and righteousness. The General Zhenglu is a British lord loved by millions of soldiers and civilians. He will not kill those who surrender in vain. The soldiers would not let them go."

Che was not stupid, immediately understood Mao Chenglu's implication, happily brandished an ax and yelled at a group of defected Han soldiers: "Brothers, follow me to kill those traitor generals!"

Soon the governor of the town reported the situation in Pyongyang. Of course, Mao Chenglu and Shang Keyi, the two main generals who entered the city, deliberately did not leave the Qing army to respond to the general and superior officials.

After learning about this situation, Huang Han decided to hold the city entry ceremony three days later, giving Mao Chenglu, Shang Keyi and the others enough time to clean up the scum.

He deliberately sent a boat overnight to pick up Wen Tiren and more than a dozen senior officials of the "Hanjiang Province" to attend the ceremony, and handed over the presiding work to Wen Tiren, the highest civil officer of Hanjiang Province.

General Zhenglu sent an order to Mao Chenglu and Shang Keyi. In order to ensure that there are no potential safety hazards in the city entry ceremony, it is necessary to eliminate potential dangers in Pyongyang. If there is trouble in the city entry ceremony, both of them will face the consequences of dismissal and investigation.

In history, Kong Youde was besieged by Li Dingguo in Guilin. He was the king of Dingnan in the Qing Dynasty at that time, and his whole family was in the city. Bury himself in the sea of ​​fire.

Now that history has turned a corner, but Kong Youde, a big traitor, has not been given a chance to die in another way. I wonder if it is God's will or a coincidence?
Mao Chenglu and Shang Keyi don't accept traitors and generals to surrender their sincerity.

But they can only secretly support their killing and surrender, and on the surface they have to say that as long as they surrender, the "Red Banner Army" ensures the personal safety of every general and soldier of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and makes a big publicity.

At that time, Jiang Xin will have to select some of the military officers who were left alive to speak out.

While the offensive and defensive battle of Pyongyang City was in full swing, a battle in the South China Sea was about to start.

The British are awesome. They have never been robbed by the Longwu Navy at sea.

Little did they know that a fleet with dragon flags fluttering appeared in the far east, and its force value was terrifying.

This is because the warships of the Longwu Navy have human-driven paddles, and each warship is now equipped with at least three fixed telescopes.

As expected, everyone rowed to drive a big boat. The widespread use of chain-driven gears to drive wheels and paddles made the efficiency of manpower conversion into thrust four times higher than that of direct paddling.

200 people pedaling can provide the force equivalent to seven or 800 people paddling, and it also makes the soldiers and civilians who drive the paddles less tired, just like riding bicycles in later generations, and can last longer.

Sea ships are so long, even if most of the Western Yi Galen ships are equipped with giant oars, it is impossible to increase the speed by two or three knots in an instant.

Because the huge oars of sea ships are quite heavy, at least two or three sailors can row them. How much energy is wasted?Efficiency can be imagined, and of course the paddlers will not last long.

Racing on the sea, the full-drive Longwu Navy warships are fully capable of catching up with merchant ships and warships that are trying to escape, except for small sentinel ships.

On the vast sea, the Longwu navy sees far, runs fast, has powerful firepower, and the warships are large and complete the robbery in groups. Generally, the Xiyi ships that are discovered will not slip through the net.

Although many Portuguese, Dutch, and Spaniards negotiated with the Longwu Navy through the compradors in Manila, Port Fefe, and Macau to pay the ransom for the crew members of the robbed merchant ships and warships.

But this is not something glorious, it is kept secret.

England, which has just risen, has a strong momentum. Of course, it is the enemy of the traditional maritime powers Spain and Portugal. The Dutch, a rising star, also regard them as imaginary enemies.

Surely they would not tell the English to be careful coming to the East, there is an unfathomable fleet there.

Spain, the Netherlands, and Portugal were always able to obtain good things such as porcelain, silk, cloth, and tea that Europeans loved from the far east. It is said that the profit from changing hands could reach ten or even a hundred times.

The English who love to plunder have long been envious of the huge profits of Eastern trade, but in the past few years they have always been fighting and have no time to care.

Now that they have finally risen under the watchful eyes of powerful enemies, they can free up their hands to develop new colonies to increase their financial resources, so a fleet set off, their purpose is to open up the Far East market.

The plan is to take an island in the Far East, a country rich in fine silk, or seal a piece of land with a natural deep-water port to establish a colony.

When mentioning the notorious "East India Company", all Chinese will think of Britain.

In fact, at the end of the [-]th century and the beginning of the [-]th century, Portugal, England, the Netherlands, Denmark, France and other countries successively established the East India Company in India, Indonesia, Malaysia and other places in the Eastern Hemisphere.

That's because Columbus mistook America for India and spread rumors about it. Later, he discovered that the real India was called the "East Indies", and the islands in the American Caribbean Sea were called "West Indies".

The British East India Company reached an agreement with the Portuguese Governor of Goa, allowing British businessmen to freely enter and exit Macau for trade.

King Charles I of England issued an order, appointed Captain Weddell as the commander, and led six first-class warships to the east to open up markets and establish colonies.

Captain Wedel of the Royal Navy of the British Empire led the team, and six first-class warships of the Royal Navy at that time came from a long distance. The average crew of a warship reached more than 2000, and the total number of people was about [-].

Not all crew members are sailors and gunners, half are musketeers, and many are craftsmen.

The English were the first to understand the true meaning of naval warfare, and had begun to focus on relying on artillery fire to attack enemy ships. The Spaniards always carried a large number of infantry in naval battles to fight side by side.

They suffered a lot in several battles with the English, because the English refused to join the battle, which directly caused the army on the Spanish ship not only to become a decoration, but also to become a burden, and suffered heavy casualties when faced with powerful artillery attacks.

Every time they lose a battle, the Spaniards will suffer a large number of casualties, and gradually lose the battle with the English.

If there is no accident, Britain will defeat Spain, the Netherlands and other maritime powers and become a new maritime hegemony, an empire on which the sun never sets in the future.

This is not only because of their fierce gunfire and advanced tactics, but also because of the pioneering spirit of the English, who are almost pervasive. As soon as they gained a strategic advantage in Europe, they rushed to send a fleet to the East.

Weddell's fleet has been going well, establishing colonies in Botkar, Cochin and Aceh along the way, and the plan is well executed.

Along the way, the old business of robbing merchant ships from other countries has also flourished. When entering the South China Sea, the number of ships owned by the fleet has doubled.

(End of this chapter)