Anti-Qing: I'm actually an honest person

Chapter 218 The eve of the decisive battle
Letting go of Ma Xiong's line temporarily, it is really impossible to write if it is so sensitive.

On the other side, Wang Fuchen and Wu Sangui died together, and the situation of the whole world was affected by this.

The Ming court took the whole of Hunan, Yunnan, Guizhou, and Shu as its own territory as it should, and Jiu Nan had already begun to directly issue imperial edicts to the major soldiers under Wu Sangui's command.

Wu Sangui, an old traitor, doesn’t care if he committed suicide or not, but in fact, the timing of his death is really good. When he dies at this time, he is still a super high-ranking member of Ming Dynasty, Marshal of Soldiers and Horses. After his body is transported to Chenghai Both Jiunan and Liu Dapao went out of the city for thirty miles to greet him, and gave Ariake a state funeral of the highest standard.

An old traitor was finally personally helped by the emperor of Ming Dynasty and the prime minister. The civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty knelt and worshiped, offered sacrifices and cried, and had a grand funeral. Invite this person into the Taimiao and be worshiped by the emperors of later generations.

Among other things, just for Wu Sangui's posthumous title, the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty racked their brains for a whole day, and their brain cells were about to explode. Finally, they pinched their noses and gave the word Zhuang first.

After thinking about it for a long time, I couldn’t think of any other words that could match the word Zhuang. It is said that what is the word Miao? It has become a totem, a spiritual symbol.

Therefore, although the word Zhuang Miao itself is not considered a great posthumous posthumous title, the word Miao itself is full of sadness, but it always makes people feel weird to say that the posthumous names of Wu Sangui and Guan Yu are put together.

Finally, after much deliberation, there is really no beautiful posthumous title worthy of Wu Sangui. Liu Dapao once suggested giving him the word Wei or Yi. That guy is like stabbing the hornet's nest of those civil servants. In other words, if Wu Sangui could get the word Yi, he would crash to death in front of Liu Dapao, and let him see what it means to be strong and able to judge Yi.

It's magical.

It is completely incomprehensible to Liu Dapao that the ancient people attached great importance to the posthumous title, but there are indeed some people who have lived for this posthumous title all their lives.

In the end, Wen Qu and the officials unanimously agreed that Wu Sangui could be given a tripod character. Although the tripod character can only be regarded as a middle posthumous posthumous posthumous title in the posthumous law, to be honest, this word is indeed suitable for Wu Sangui.

He, Old Wu, can be considered a posthumous posthumous title in his life, which already makes some people feel sick.

Wu Busui was called Zhuang, and before he was changed, he was called Ding. The body of Wu Sangui, the Duke of Zhuang Ding, was buried in the Taimiao outside Chenghai City.

Now that Wu Sangui has no suitable heir, it may be difficult for the forces under his command to exist independently, and he must and can only choose someone to attach to, either Ming or Qing, and the victory in Liucheng did give Liu Dapao a certain amount of confidence.

So after the funeral, Liu Dapao directly ordered the whole army to prepare. He would personally lead the [-] army and [-] navy with a total of [-] soldiers and horses to attack Xiangyang City.

He didn't say anything about Wu Jun's cooperation, just to show off his muscles. If this battle is well fought, then almost the entire southwest region can be passed on.

Today's Ming army is already very strong, especially Chenghai Four Guards, as Liu Dapao's personal guard, although the number is still small, there are only more than 8000 people in total, half of which will be left for this time.

But the 4000 people who were taken away were all riding bicycles, and they were basically able to shoot while riding.

Everyone has a rifled gun. To be honest, it is not a big problem for Chenghai to mass-produce rifled guns. The main thing that restricts the power of rifled guns is the limited supply of bullets.

Due to Liu Dapao's interference, Chenghai's bullet manufacturing directly skipped the development process of paper cartridges, and instead directly developed copper bullets, which were filled with nitrocellulose that could not yet be mass-produced, which greatly restricted production. , At the same time, pure copper bullets also greatly increase the cost of bullets.

The primer did not use Thunder Mercury. Thunder Mercury is still under development. Now Liu Dapao’s research involves the field of chemistry, and the research is very slow, so it can only be realized by using gunpowder as a substitute for gunpowder. As a price, it is inevitable to clean up the slag after the gunpowder burns when loading ammunition.

The new type of rifled gun is called the Invincible Gun, and it has high hopes. It can be loaded by pulling the bolt. Even if you count the cleaning residue, the loading process will take about three seconds. If you ignore the bombing during the fierce battle Risk, it can be faster, and it can be compared to Hanyang, or even Mauser and Sanba Dagai.

Of course, the bullets are thick, long and big, and the combustion efficiency of gunpowder is still a bit worse. Compared with the [-] big guns, the range is still very large. If the bullet is fired, the barrel may not hold up and there is a risk of explosion.

It's a pity because the bullets that match this gun are too expensive and too few, so that when everyone goes out to fight, not only the amount of ammunition they carry is limited, but also an ordinary fuming gun in addition to the rifled gun for alternate use.

The more important thing is that it is impossible for everyone to use such expensive bullets to practice marksmanship on weekdays. When the gun feel trained with a smoothbore gun is replaced with a rifled gun, it is still inaccurate at long distances.

But let’s not hide the flaws. Anyway, this is an out-and-out 19th century rifle, born in the 17th century. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is invincible.

Tuhai and Labu were also preparing their troops, and he also had a premonition that with Wu Sangui's sudden death, the decisive battle between the Qing court and Nanming was very likely to have already begun.

When the news reached the capital, Kangxi also desperately sent all the newly trial-produced artillery guns and new gunpowder to the front line, and almost supported a large number of war horses on the two-line battlefield in a way of throwing pots and selling iron. I gave it all to Tuhai.

You must know that after the Qing court lost the alliance between Liaodong and Chahar and Mongolia, there was actually almost no land for raising horses.

If this battle is lost, or even if Tuhai is completely annihilated like Rabu, then the Qing court may not be too far away from a complete collapse.

However, on the other side, Xia Guoxiang, Hu Guozhu and other generals under Wu Sangui's command were still thinking about how to seize military power and how to sway from side to side, but suddenly they received the news that Junggar suddenly sent troops from Tibet, and joined hands with Yue Le to attack Wang Pingfan, and even returned the troops. Two ways, go straight to the news of Kunming.

The rain is coming and the wind is all over the building.

Everyone understands that this battle is almost a decisive battle for the world.

　There's only one chapter today, sorry for the delay.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)