Anti-Qing: I'm actually an honest person

Chapter 173
On the fifth day of February in the 13th year of Kangxi, Shang Zhixin officially launched a mutiny in Guangzhou, put Shang Kexi, who was loyal to the Qing Dynasty, under house arrest, and declared himself the Great General of the Youzhu Kingdom of the Ming Dynasty.

At this point, the last Han vassal king in the Qing court changed his banner, and no one in the south of the Yangtze River would oppose him. The conflict between Manchu and Han within the Qing court became unprecedentedly acute.

It is said that at the age of 70, the loyal Pingnan Wang Shang Kexi deeply felt that he had such unfilial sons and grandchildren who had no face to face the world. After crying bitterly, he hanged himself on the beam at home with the intention of dying, but was unfortunately killed by his cronies. He tried his best to rescue him, but he was already under house arrest in the Pingnan Palace, which covers an area of ​​more than 100 mu. Poor, poor.

Anyway, regardless of whether others believe it or not, the Qing court must have believed it. This is already the last fig leaf of the entire Qing court, and Shang Zhixin led [-] soldiers from the Pingnan Palace to Huizhou to fight with Liu Dapao. It can be said that the meeting is very sincere.

You must know that soldiers and horses under the vassal and green battalion are completely different concepts. In fact, they have always been the Eight Banners soldiers. Under each soldier, there are several or even dozens of tenants who manage large tracts of farmland for them. Everyone is middle class. After San Francisco joined the system of West Pacific Corporation, everyone used their land as their asset, at least bought one or more shares of the company. This can be said to be true. The elite.

And after Shang Zhixin raised the anti-flag, Zu Zeqing, who had been blaming them in southern Guangdong, immediately agreed to an armistice agreement with Shangfan, and was thinking of becoming his own emperor here, but he immediately took over. When Liu Dapao's transfer order arrived, he was ordered to lead his troops north to help in the war, otherwise he would bear the consequences.

Under the anti-Qing righteousness, Zu Zeqing did not dare to be negligent, and immediately mobilized troops and horses, and led the infantry and cavalry coalition... 2000 people went to Huizhou to help in the battle.

This little army is simply sending off beggars, but at any rate Zu Zeqing came in person, and Liu Dapao couldn't say anything. The army simply stopped in Huizhou City, and ordered the local officials to prepare and transfer the grain and grass from Chenghai, and make some adjustments After a while, Liu Dapao led Shang Zhixin and Zu Zeqing, a pair of enemies who didn't like each other, on the road. Apart from some hypocritical politeness, they didn't talk about business at all.

The war is imminent, and all political issues will be discussed after the war is over.

So far, Liu Dapao himself has brought five thousand soldiers from Chenghai, plus Zu Zeqing's two thousand soldiers, plus Shang Zhixin's sixteen thousand soldiers, plus the original 3000 troops from Meiling Sanguan. The total number of soldiers and horses has exceeded 3, which has completely surpassed the more than [-] people Labu invested on the Meiling battlefield at this time.

This battle is for the fate of Ming Dynasty, only success is allowed, no failure is allowed.

As for Liu Dapao's first command of the army, it is of course impossible to say that he is not nervous along the way, so as long as he has spare time during this journey, he must not put it down, holding a copy of Romance of the Three Kingdoms and reading it again and again for several days. Later, when he finally reached the third pass of Meiling, he was surprised to read the entire 200 million-word novel.

How to fight is actually still at a loss.

if not?Otherwise what could he see?I won’t talk about military books that are boring. In fact, if you look at ancient military books in the seventeenth century, you can at most borrow some of their military ideas. How to fight a war is impossible to count on. Formation or something, whoever forms a formation in front of guns and artillery is an idiot, and since it is to learn military thinking, it seems that the Romance of the Three Kingdoms is enough.

In fact, sometimes it is not terrible for a pure layman to lead an expert in anything. After all, most of the pure layman can be a little humble and know how to ask for the opinions of the experts.

He was driving the expedition himself, and he didn't come to command the army.

In fact, Liu Dapao is very clear about how much he is, and the reason why he chose the imperial conquest is purely to show his face. Who made Feng Zhenhai unable to control the four towns of Haifeng?
And if he hadn't come to brush his face in person, Shang Zhixin and Zu Zeqing probably wouldn't have come, at least not in person.

As for the fact that he was actually on the battlefield, shutting up was his best quality as a prime minister.

Liu Dapao just tried his best to share the same room and food with the soldiers, and from time to time, he brushed his face to find a few young soldiers who were pleasing to the eye, and he continued to brush his face, that's all.

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The army finally reached Meiling, looking at the majestic mountains, their hearts were full of excitement for a while, and when they were still more than [-] miles away, they saw Feng Zhenhai leading his own guards and the crowd to greet him by the side of the road.

As soon as he saw Liu Dapao's chariots and horses, Feng Zhenhai knelt down in the middle of the road without saying a word, kowtowing: "My minister, Feng Zhenhai, has a heavy trust from the prime minister. He cannot repel the powerful enemy, and he asked the prime minister to come here to trouble you in your busy schedule." , guilty, guilty."

After finishing speaking, tears fell down, and behind him, all the civil servants and military generals who followed him also knelt down and said: "Your servant is guilty."

Liu Dapao could only sigh: "You are all shareholders of the company. The company stipulates that, except for the emperor and their parents and elders, shareholders don't need to kneel down to anyone in this world, including me. Get up. I don't like people talking to me on their knees."

"Thank you, Prime Minister."

"How long has Lai Meiling confronted Labu?"

"It has been more than three months since I returned to the prime minister."

"How many times have you fought Labu?"

"There were only six games in total. Labu took the initiative to attack and was retreated by our army with guns. After that, Labu was afraid of the power of our army's firearms and did not dare to fight again."

"Why didn't you take the initiative to attack?"

Hearing this, fine beads of sweat appeared on Feng Zhenhai's forehead uncontrollably.

Of course he knew that Liu Dapao came here in person, and he must be held accountable, and it was normal for him to reprimand him harshly. To be honest, under the current situation, Feng Zhenhai really wished that he would abdicate as soon as possible and let him When they returned to Chenghai, they simply engaged in logistics work such as shipbuilding and gun making.

However, he really never thought that Liu Dapao's accountability for him was actually in front of the soldiers of the three armies. In this large audience, he might not be trying to use himself as a prestige.

The head coach of the three armies was scolded bloody before the battle, which hurt his prestige very much, especially since he didn't have much prestige in the first place.

At the same time, I couldn't help but complain incessantly, the chief rudder is probably trying to make an example of me, right?

You won't just push me to the end, even let me take care of the factory, right?

But he could only bite the bullet and gritted his teeth and replied: "Our army lacks cavalry, but the Qing army has elite cavalry. Labu is setting up camps on the plains. I am afraid... I am afraid that I will fall into Labu's tricks during the field battle. Instead, they were taken advantage of by bandit soldiers."

Liu Dapao interrupted mercilessly: "According to what you said, our Ming army is obviously good at firearms, but they can only be used to defend the city? Throughout the ages, have you ever heard of the world being pacified by simply defending the city? Could it be that I The Ming army can only rely on defending the city, fighting against the Manchu Tartars?"

"The minister...is guilty."

"Hey~, get up, when I came, I had already discussed with the cabinet scholars and His Majesty, you should first resign from the military post, this position should be reserved for the virtuous, as for you, The imperial court has other arrangements for you."

"Yes."

(End of this chapter)