Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 67 The Northern Expedition
Yuyao, Meishan Village.

Huang Zongxi, Feng Jingdi and the others who were recuperating in the village had been waiting for news from the front line. If they hadn't been seriously injured, the supervisor had specifically told them to stay. They would rather go to the battlefield with guns than anxiously wait for news from the rear of.

"Great victory!"

"Great victory!"

Huang Zonghui came running in big strides. His injuries were relatively minor, so he kept guard at the gate of the village, reporting as soon as he received news.

"Win the fight?"

"The Tartars were wiped out, and more than [-] captives were beheaded. None of them escaped. I heard that the dead bodies were scattered all over the field. The blood of the Tartars stained the beaches for several miles."

Huang Zongxi listened to these obviously exaggerated words, but still felt very refreshed.

"To be wiped out completely, that's great, Meishan is a great victory!"

"Tell me the specific situation." Feng Jingdi was also dancing excitedly, not even caring about his injuries.

Huang Zonghui learned what he learned and sold it now, emphasizing the news he had just inquired about. It was obviously only a battle of 700 people against 80 people, but he said it was like Cao Cao's [-] army fighting against the Sun Liu coalition army in the Red Cliff War.

"color!"

"It's so wonderful, how can we not compose a poem to drink it?"

"There must be wine!"

Huang Zongxi and Feng Jingdi blushed with excitement. Although this was just a battle to wipe out [-] enemies, it was the most invigorating victory since the collapse of the sky.

This is a victory that Daming urgently needs now.

The arrogant and arrogant Tartars will also be annihilated one day, which shows that the Ming Dynasty is not exhausted, and the Han people are not ready to perish.

In particular, this battle was personally commanded by His Royal Highness Lu Jianguo, which shows that the recovery of the Ming Dynasty is hopeful.

How can they not applaud?

On the battlefield of Long Beach.

The battle is over, but the smoke has not cleared.

The Ming army is cleaning the battlefield.

Not a single Tartar was spared, not even a dead body.

Every head was cut off, especially the pig's tail was solemnly cut off and put away.

All their armor was stripped off, not even a pair of shorts, no matter whether you are cotton armor or leather armor, or iron arms or leather helmets, regardless of whether you are a smooth knife or a waist knife, a spear or a bow and arrow .

All the spoils of war were not spared, and some gold and silver hidden on the Tartars were also searched out.

Horses, mules, boats, grain, and tents are registered one by one.

Zhu Yihai rode across the entire battlefield, looked at the excited soldiers of the Ming army, and also saw the wounded Tartar soldiers screaming for mercy, with expressionless, even sad faces.

Obviously should be happy, but not happy.

This was the victory he had always wanted, and he finally got it, but when this moment came, he still felt heavy.

In two days and two battles, we wiped out thousands of Tartars, but among them there were no more than a hundred real Tartars, and only twenty or thirty elite vest soldiers. The so-called Ba Yala may only be a few, and more are outside the pass. The coated servants of the Han army banner, as well as the fishermen and guard soldiers who were forced to pull on the coast of western Zhejiang.

But even with such a small reconnaissance force, Zhu Yihai and the others did their best to annihilate it, and the casualties they paid were not small.

What weighed him down even more was the determination shown by the Tartars to fight to the end. Even those fake Tartar Chinese military flags were quite brave to fight, and even the fishermen and boatmen that his mother Tartars temporarily pulled They all work hard.

why?
Isn't it that the Chinese don't beat the Chinese?
Do these people really think they are Tartars?

Not to mention those coats outside the customs, these fishermen and boatmen in western Zhejiang were definitely still citizens of the Ming Dynasty a month ago, and they have become obedient citizens of the Tartars in just a few days?
One by one actually shaved their hair and left pigtails.

When had they ever been so brave and tenacious against the Tartars?
Now, to the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, are they still working so hard?
why?
The Recovery Camp in Ningbo, the Shizhong Camp in Meishan Village, the Sun Xiong Army in Yuyao, the Yixing Army in Shanyin, one after another loyal and lovely troops, once made Zhu Yihai extremely excited.

But today, these people poured cold water on him again.

Somewhat dispirited, Zhu Yihai ordered to go back to Meishan Village.

The dead and seriously injured horses of the two armies were also slaughtered and divided on the spot, and the skin, meat and internal organs were brought back to the village for stewing.

Back in Meishan Village, Huang Zongxi and others organized the residents of the village to hold a simple but grand welcome ceremony to celebrate their triumphant return.

The residents in the village were indeed very happy. The old village owner took the lead in slaughtering pigs and ducks to reward the soldiers.

People from many nearby villages also came here after hearing the news, some feared that the Tartars would invade and took refuge here, some heard that the Supervisor of Lu was recruiting troops here, and the food and wages were generous, so they came to join the army.

Some people also heard that porridge was given out here, so the poor people came here to beg for food.

Facing these common people, Zhu Yihai ordered stewed horse meat porridge to share with everyone.

In the village, Zhu Yihai, Zhang Mingzhen, Huang Zongxi and others gathered together to discuss post-war matters.

"The minister has sent someone to Shaoxing to remind Yu Gong and others in accordance with His Highness's order, beware of Tartar troops sneaking across the river to attack, and should be prepared."

Zhu Yihai asked, "Is there any news from Governor Wang?"

"Not yet, but Chen Wu is dead, and there are soldiers and horses left behind in Dinghai, so there should be no problem."

"It's okay to be careful."

Zhu Yihai has always been worried about Huang Binqing from Zhoushan, but now he has no energy to go to sea to beat this guy.

"Is Your Highness still planning to go to Ninghai?"

"Well, the original plan remains unchanged. After a short rest, I will go north to Ninghai."

"Your Highness, I ask your Highness to reconsider. It is better to go to Ninghai for rescue by Zhang Zongzhen, and then go to Shaoxing. His Highness has been running around since Taizhou, and there is no leader. Now the situation is open, and His Highness needs to be in charge in person. Ah." Huang Zongxi thought that Zhu Yihai was not doing his job properly, and was overseeing the country, so you should sit in the rear and manage the central government.

How can anyone run outside under the banner of Zhu Wu, the commander-in-chief of the banner battalion every day? This is not only dangerous, but also negligent of the government.

But Zhu Yihai ignored it, he had his own ideas.

After the change of Tumubao, the Ming Dynasty was basically reduced to a civil court, and the scholar-bureaucrats controlled the government in all aspects. After the Ming Dynasty lost the balance of the military group, the emperor was almost reduced to a mascot.

Whether it was Jiajing or Wanli later, although they wanted to do something, it was still difficult to compete with the already dominant civil servants. In the end, all they could do was use the eunuch group and use factory guards to beat the bureaucratic group of scholars and bureaucrats. .

But the results are mediocre, the emperor is always kidnapped by the civil official group.

When he arrived in Chongzhen, Wei Zhongxian was wiped out first as soon as he came to the throne, and the factory guard was overthrown. Naturally, everyone in the Donglin Party praised him, but in fact they blocked their own way.

It can be said that there is not even a real useful person around.

After more than ten years of tossing, no matter how many chief assistants and bachelors he appointed and dismissed, and no matter how many supervisors and chief military officers he killed, it still can't change the fact that the Chongzhen Dynasty has long been completely reduced to the control of civil officials and scholar-bureaucrats. up.

To kill a chief assistant and replace him with someone who still belongs to this interest group, whether it is to kill a supervisor or a general, the country's major policies have not changed in the slightest.

Therefore, the more Chongzhen struggled, the weaker the country became, and the more critical the court became.

The finances collapsed, the army collapsed, from head to toe, completely rotten.

Zhu Yihai was a bystander.

He can understand this, so he will never be willing to take the path that civil servants and bureaucrats want him to take, nor is he willing to take the path of Nanming Hongguang and Longwuchao's short-lived emperors.

Hongguang, Longwu, and even Yongli, the small courts of the Southern Ming Dynasty, broke the monopoly of government affairs by civil officials, scholar-bureaucrats, but it was so extreme that warlords and generals controlled the court and even the emperor.

In particular, Longwu and Yongli were actually controlled by warlords and became puppets.

Even in history, Zhu Yihai was later controlled by Zheng Cai. His bachelors were all thrown into the sea by Zheng Cai because they disagreed with Zheng Cai and drowned.

From one extreme to the other.

They are all dead ends with no way out.

Zhu Yihai neither wants to be Hongguang nor Chongzhen, nor does he want to be Longwu or Yongli, nor does he want to repeat the historical road of Lu Jianguo.

He has to take a completely different path.

It is not feasible to use eunuchs, factory guards to fight against civil officials, especially in this troubled time, but it is even more unfeasible to use military generals to deal with civil officials.

Zhu Yihai planned to be a warlord first, train and master a real army of the emperor, and then create a brand new group of Wuxun of Ming Dynasty to balance the group of civil servants and bureaucrats.

But this road is difficult.

But Zhu Yihai won't give up easily, that's why he doesn't want to hand over the army to others. He wants to control and train a new army by himself, a guard army.

Just like Li Shimin's Xifu Group, Zhu Yuanzhang's Huaisi Group, or Liu Bang's Peishang Group.

As long as he has an ever-expanding and strengthening army in his hands, then the court of Lu Jianguo can survive, otherwise, if he is busy going to the rear to form some kind of court of Lu Jianguo, even if he recruits and appoints a bunch of great scholars, he is busy holding court meetings all day long What, is putting the cart before the horse.

Emperor Longwu appointed more than 20 bachelors in one breath, is it useful?

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, every class had its limitations. Zhu Yihai could not let them lead him away, but had to take the initiative to change them.

Be it Donglin, Fushe, eunuchs, Shunni, etc., no matter what, Zhu Yihai doesn't want to follow their routine.

If Zhu Yihai were to go to Shaoxing or return to Taizhou now, it would be very difficult for him to fight against these forces with the authority of his prison country at this time. Zhu Yihai needed greater authority, and these were not what the identity of the Taizu’s descendants could give him. The more victories he won with one shot and one shot, he needed to firmly grasp more military power in his hands.

This is like the Zheng Group in Fujian, with a strong army and a lot of money, Emperor Longwu can only rely on him completely, and the Yongli Dynasty is basically controlled by Xiying and Dongxun Group.

After resting in Meishan for two days, Zhu Yihai sent people to collect a lot of boats, and on the third day he set sail from Long Beach to the north.

This time, he led the Zhejiang Zhenbiao Second Battalion, Yongwei Second Battalion, Banner Bearer Battalion, Shenji Second Battalion, and Shizhong Battalion, a total of ten battalions with 1 horses, and he went all out.

Standing on the deck, facing the wind and waves, Zhu Yihai was full of excitement.

(End of this chapter)