I will be the prince at the end of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 134 Crossing the River and Northern Expedition
In the city of Jiangning, there were lights and festoons everywhere because of the prince's wedding.

However, in the city of Shuntian, the capital of the Tartars, there was a lot of turmoil, businesses went out of business, and people closed their accounts.

Emperor Shunzhi of the Tartars, Aixinjueluo Fulin suffered from pox on the second day of November and was critically ill.

Called the academician Malji and the academician Wang Xi to draft the posthumous edict.

Aixinjueluo Xuanye, the third son of the imperial edict, succeeded to the throne, and specially appointed the three ministers of the interior, Soni, Ebilong, and Aobai, to assist the ten-year-old young emperor.

On the seventh day of the lunar month, Shunzhi died in the Hall of Mental Cultivation.

On the eighth day of the eighth day, officials were sent to promulgate the will throughout the country.

On the ninth day of the lunar new year, Xuanye is the emperor.

On November [-]th, in the Fengtian Hall of the Forbidden City in Jiangning, the emperor Zhu Youlang sat on a dragon chair facing south and facing north.

At this time, all the officials in the main hall whispered to each other, and there was a buzzing sound. At this moment, Jin Wang Li Dingguo came out and said: "Your Majesty, the Emperor Shunzhi of the Tatars has a new funeral, and the ten-year-old young emperor Xuanye is succeeding to the throne. It is me The northern expedition of the army, the opportunity to recover the rivers and mountains, I implore Your Majesty to issue an order to send troops to the northern expedition."

"I implore Your Majesty to send troops to the Northern Expedition..." Immediately afterwards, important officials such as Gongchang Wang Bai Wenxuan, Qian Guogong Mu Tianbo, Guangguo Gong He Jiuyi and others came out to plead for orders.

Zhang Huangyan, Minister of the Ministry of War, Minister of the Ministry of War, and Wang Weigong, Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, also came out and asked to send troops.

Standing aside, Zhu Cixuan was quite surprised when he learned that Shunzhi had passed away and Xuanye succeeded to the throne, and the three ministers of the interior, Soni, Ye Bilong, and Aobai, were assisting the government.

Because Shunzhi was two years later than in history, Xuanye, that is, Kangxi, succeeded to the throne at the age of eight, and the four ministers of the interior, Sony, Suksaha, Ebilong, and Aobai, assisted the government.

Now that Kangxi succeeded to the throne at the age of ten, Suksaha was killed by himself, and the four assistant ministers also changed from four to three.

At this time, there was a sudden silence in Fengtian Hall, Zhu Cixuan looked up and found his cheap father, Emperor Yongli Zhu Youlang looking at him eagerly.

Zhu Cixuan sighed in his heart, and thought to himself, this cheap old man of his own has a good skin, and he has no opinions of his own when encountering problems, so this is asking for his own opinion again.

So he came out, kowtowed and said: "What the father, the king of Jin, the king of Gongchang and all the ministers said is true. The Tartar emperor is newly mourned, and the young emperor ascends the throne. The Tartars must be in chaos. It is I, Daming. It is a good time to send troops to the Northern Expedition and recover the ancestral foundation.

I ask for your father's permission, and my boy is willing to lead the Longxiang Guards to go out and recover our Daming Rivers and Mountains. "

Seeing that his son also said the same thing, Zhu Youlang said: "Since all the Qing families agree to send troops to the Northern Expedition, let's discuss a charter first."

After an hour of discussion, it was finally decided that King Jin would command 15 Huben troops, King Gongchang would command 26 Wuxiang troops, and the crown prince would command [-] Longxiang guards.

Zhang Huangyan, Minister of the Ministry of War, accompanied him, and King Yanping commanded a 15 navy, responsible for transporting the [-] troops of King Jin, Gongchang, and the prince across the Yangtze River, and annihilating the Tartar navy on the Yangtze River in advance.

After the Great Court Meeting ended, the whole Nanming moved into action, preparing armor, ships, food and grass.

Zhu Cixuan assigned Yanping Wang Zheng Chenggong, Jin Wang Li Dingguo, and Gongchang Wang Bai Wenxuan each a thousand Mauser 98K rifles and a thousand boxes of bullets to strengthen the firepower of their troops.

At this time, the [-] navy of Yanping Wang Zheng Chenggong was equipped with [-] new-style flintlock guns and [-] old-fashioned matchlock guns.

Li Dingguo's Huben Army and Bai Wenxuan's Wuxiang Army are each equipped with 50 new-style artillery pieces, 98 new-style flintlock guns, and all old-fashioned matchlock guns have been eliminated, and they have been strengthened by [-] Mauser [-]K rifles allocated by Zhu Cixuan. It can be said that they are armed to the teeth. .

However, it is still incomparable with Zhu Cixuan's Longxiang Guard. At present, Zhu Cixuan's Longxiang Guard is equipped with 100 new artillery pieces, 98 Mauser 79K rifles, and 40 M[-] [-]mm grenade launchers, completely surpassing this era.

The semi-automatic weapon he obtained in another world, when he was about to take it out, was told that it could not be taken out or used in this world, which made Zhu Cixuan very upset, but there was nothing he could do about it, the system is so awesome that you are not allowed to use it , you just can't use that for no reason.

On November [-], Zheng Chenggong led [-] sailors and more than [-] warships to the waters of the Yangtze River, annihilating the Tartar sailors on the Yangtze River one by one, in preparation for transporting the army across the river.

On November 26, on the wharf outside Yifeng Gate, groups of soldiers from the Ming army boarded the navy's troop carrier.

At noon, Jin Wang Li Dingguo's [-] Huben army landed outside Jiangpu County, and Yang Ying, the magistrate of Jiangpu County, surrendered.

In Shenshi, the [-] Wuxiang army selected by Gongchang Wang Baiwen crossed the Yangtze River and marched into Jiangpu County.

At noon on November 27, Prince Zhu Cixuan of the Ming Dynasty and Minister of War Zhang Huangyan led [-] dragon guards to Jiangpu and joined Li Dingguo and Bai Wenxuan.

Zhu Cixuan met Yang Ying, the magistrate of Jiangpu County, and after encouraging him, he handed him over to Zhang Huangyan. Although Zhang Huangyan was a minister of the Ministry of War, he was a solid civil servant, and he was a juren in Chongzhen for 15 years.

Civil affairs are still handled by civil officials, isn't there a saying that says so?Professional things are left to professional people.

Zhu Cixuan is a layman, so he won't do it for him. He just needs to manage the army well. Power comes from the barrel of a gun. As long as he holds the barrel of a gun, he can do whatever he wants with them, and nothing will come of him.

The next day, Li Dingguo, Bai Wenxuan, and Zhu Cixuan split into three groups.

Li Dingguo's [-] Huben army marched westward, went to Luzhou, Runing, Bianliang, Zhangde, and entered Shuntian.

Zhu Cixuan and Zhang Huangyan led Long Xiangwei to take the middle road, marched into Fengyang, Guide, and entered Shuntian Daming Mansion.

Bai Wenxuan's [-] Wu Xiang army went to Huai'an, Xuzhou, Yanzhou, Dongchang, and entered Shuntian Hejian Prefecture.

The three armies, each of which is hundreds of miles apart, marched together, marching towards Shuntian mightily.

The prefectures and counties along the way watched the wind and surrendered. Individual Tartar Eight Banners soldiers tried to resist stubbornly, but were wiped out instantly under the powerful firearms of the Ming army.

On December [-]th New Year's Eve, at three o'clock at three o'clock, in the wilderness outside the Daming Mansion, amidst the sound of war drums, Zhu Cixuan rode on Dawan's horse and held up the binoculars.

There were tens of thousands of Tartar cavalry lined up in front of them, amidst the sound of long horns.A group of Tartar cavalry separated from the large group of troops and slowly advanced towards the neatly lined front of the Ming army.

"Your Highness, there are five thousand cavalry." The experienced Zhang Liao judged the number of cavalry at a glance.

A cold and contemptuous smile appeared on the corner of Zhu Cixuan's mouth.

The Tartars don't think about making progress. They have remained the same for decades and don't know how to change.This set of tactics of the Tartar cavalry is actually the cavalry version of guerrilla warfare.

When they are not absolutely sure of winning, they will send out a small group of cavalry to continue to carry out tentative attacks, making the opponent tired. one strike.

With this set of tactics, the Tazi cavalry achieved incredible brilliant results, defeated the Ming army's backward Shenji Battalion, and defeated the Ming army's hundreds of thousands of armored infantry.

In the battle with Li Zicheng, Wu Sangui's Guanning iron cavalry was also sent first. When Li Zicheng and Wu Sangui were in full swing, tens of thousands of Tartar cavalry charged and defeated Li Zicheng's peasant army in the first battle.

But time has changed, and now, Zhu Cixuan has 98 Mauser 79K rifles, 40 M100 [-]mm grenade launchers, and [-] new artillery pieces, forming a tight firepower network. how much damage your troops do.

Facing the Ming army equipped with new muskets, this tactic of the Tartar cavalry became the most stupid refueling tactic. The small group of cavalry sent out would soon be killed or injured under the intensive and continuous shooting of muskets. It won't work.

If the Tartars sent another group of cavalry to conduct a tentative attack, the result would be the same, except for increasing casualties, it would have no effect at all.

in real history.There is a very famous battle example!It happened during the Second Opium War.

In the battle between the Eight-Power Allied Forces and Seng Gelinqin at Baliqiao, 8000 Qing soldiers, [-] cavalry, and [-] infantry fought against more than [-] British and French allied forces.

At that time, the cavalry of the Qing army sent out cavalry teams to launch wave after wave of charges against the 8000 British and French allied forces.

They recklessly charged from the front of the British and French allied forces, charging with their horses while shouting in unison to kill the enemy.

Since the Qing soldiers were equipped with very few matchlock guns, they held scimitars, spears, bows and arrows, and faced the British and French allied forces with enthusiasm, trying to disrupt and split the battle formation of the British and French allied forces.

Some cavalry rushed to a distance of 50 meters from the enemy, and some even rushed near the enemy's headquarters.

The fierce battle lasted for an hour, killing and injuring several British and French troops. However, the cavalry of the Qing army suffered heavy casualties from the British and French infantry fighting in the trenches. Into the army.

The Battle of Baliqiao was fought fiercely from 7:12 am to [-]:[-] am.

Among them, the cavalry of the Qing army performed extremely bravely in the battle, braved the enemy's intensive artillery fire, and rushed to the enemy's camp many times to fight heroically.

But because of this backward tactic, the 8000 Musketeers of the British and French allied forces defeated the whole army. In the end, Seng Gelinqin fled with only seven riders.

French Expeditionary Lieutenant Paul Dragrange described the cavalry of the Qing army: "Cannonballs and bullets could not completely destroy them, and the cavalry seemed to be reborn from the ashes.

They are so tenacious that at one point they will desperately rush to get only 30 meters away from the cannon.Our guns fired continuously and repeatedly, shells flew to their left and right, and they fell under the fire. "

In the final battle of 3 against 18, the French army died 2 people and injured 29; the British army killed [-] people and injured [-] people.

The Qing army lost more than 1200 people, lost a large number of artillery, bows, arrows, and thousands of matchlock guns. Seng Gelinqin's royal banner was also thrown to the invaders, and the Qing army was completely defeated.

(End of this chapter)