Kangxi, your Qing Dynasty is dead

Chapter 326 Li Zicheng, It's Your Time to Defend the Ming Dynasty! (ask for subscription, ask for monthly pass)
It's so... so shameless!
After listening to Wu Sangui's words, the group of confidants below were speechless!
This Wu Sangui, in order to find a legitimate reason for the Ming Dynasty to seize the territory, could actually make up a nonsense that the ghost of Chongzhen asked him to help him take revenge!
Chongzhen's sons are now the Emperor of the Republic of Ming Dynasty. If Chongzhen wants revenge, he should ask the Emperor of the Republic to help him, right?How can anyone ask you for help from the Great Zhou Emperor, who has betrayed four times and turned himself into the emperor?

Moreover, when this Chongzhen came looking for you, wouldn't Emperor Yongli and his family come to you and demand their lives?

Seeing the cold scene below, Wu Sangui's old face also turned cold, at this moment, his confidant Wang Shirong finally came to his senses, and said loudly: "Your Majesty, the spirit of Emperor Chongzhen must know that the Emperor of the Ming Republic is not in name, Li Zicheng who is entrenched in Wuchang has nothing to do with it. Looking at the whole world, only His Majesty can avenge Emperor Chongzhen! And if His Majesty succeeds in avenging Chongzhen, he can naturally replace the emperor’s nameless Republic Daming and become the orthodox of the world!”

Wang Shirong was still clever, and his words were quite solid.The expression on Wu Sangui's face has already relaxed. He figured out the story of Chongzhen entrusting his dream to ask him to help him take revenge. Apart from looking for a legitimate reason for himself to snatch the territory of the Republic of Ming Dynasty, he just wanted to compete with that Republic of Ming Dynasty for the orthodoxy of the world.

Wu Sangui is an emperor with a yellow robe and body, and his legitimacy is really insufficient. Not only can he not be compared with the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, but he is also inferior to Emperor Kangxi of the Northern Qing Dynasty. He completely abandoned the status of the emperor of the Central Plains, and became the emperor of Liao, Jin, Mengyuan, Beiyuan, and Qing (Later Jin).

As the emperor outside the Great Wall, Kangxi still has some legitimacy. After all, various Mongolian ministries once gave him the title of Enhe Amugulang Khan—this is the title of the Great Khan of Mongolia!
In contrast, what is Wu Sangui, the emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty who rebelled against Ming, obedient, Qing, and Ming, and finally ascended the throne as the Western King of the Ming Dynasty?This kind of behavior of going back and forth and finally becoming the emperor, no matter how you look at it, it looks like a tyrant and a false emperor.

That is to say, the people of Huaxia are now accustomed to the rule of "the emperor's soldiers are strong and his horses are strong". If it was put in the time when the heroes were fighting for hegemony in the late Han Dynasty, his behavior like this would definitely be Yuan Gonglu!

And if Wu Sangui doesn't want to stop at three points of the world, but wants to fight for a "Wu Guanjia" who is still missing a few corners of the world in his lifetime, he still has to compete with Daming for orthodoxy.

After all, the current Republican Ming Dynasty is not the Nanming who will collapse at the first touch, but a Daming with abundant martial arts virtues who have the Red Turban Army of the Huaixi people and the Township Army of the Guangdong people.If Wu Sangui didn't have enough orthodoxy, he might have little chance of winning against this republican Ming Dynasty who is full of martial virtues.

Thinking of this, Wu Sangui immediately smiled and said: "Today the world is divided into four parts, who is orthodox will only be known when the world is unified in the future. However, as the Son of Man, the Son of Heaven should avenge his father! Li Fuchen, Li Zhongshan, Liu Jinzhong and others are ministers of the people. , and you can’t let the king’s revenge go unreported! Therefore, after our soldiers come to Wuchang, we should transfer the letter to Jinling and invite the emperors and ministers of the Ming Dynasty to hunt in Chu!”

Fang Guangchen, Wu Sangui's First Assistant University scholar, was clever this time, and immediately took over the conversation, his voice was like a bell, full of air: "Your Majesty, if the Emperor of the Republic of Nanjing and the Li's Shogunate are not willing to draw a line with the rebellious party, then They are unfaithful and unfilial, and they should be condemned by the whole world! But you, the emperor, first expelled the Tartars, then rebuilt the Han Dynasty, and then avenged the Chongzhen emperor, of course it is the destiny! When the time comes, the false emperor of the Zhu family and the Li family If the shogunate is not willing to surrender with courtesy, the emperor can control the heavenly soldiers, wipe out Jiangdong, and rule the world!"

These words are obviously an excuse for Wu Sangui to crusade against the Republican Daming - this is called Shichu famous!After all, Wu Sangui was a courtier of the third prince Zhu, and his Western King was still appointed by the third prince.Long Live the King of the West had a wrong name and words.Now we have to send troops to destroy the third prince Zhu who has become the emperor of the Republic. Doesn't this look like a traitor?We have to find a way to whitewash him, and we have to whitewash this capricious "rebellious minister and thief" as the king of righteousness and reason that destiny belongs to!

Wu Sangui nodded with a smile: "The emperor of the Zhu family and the general of the Li family still know propriety, righteousness and shame, and they will definitely not shelter such a traitor as Li Zicheng! When our troops arrive in Wuchang, they will definitely send troops to join them."

When he said this, his tone suddenly sank, and he said proudly: "If they really decide themselves to the world and protect the traitor Li Zicheng, then I will tell the world to clean them up for Emperor Hongwu and Emperor Chongzhen!"

After hearing Wu Sangui's words of determination, a group of ministers bowed down one after another, shouting long live.Wu Sangui laughed lightly, and when these people finished shouting, he said confidently: "Now Li Zicheng's elite soldiers are being led by Li Laishun to attack Jiangxi. Wuchang, Hanyang, and Hankou are all extremely empty. I have Wu Shijue, Gao Dejie, Lin Xingzhu and the others led [-] elites and headed straight for Jiangxia on [-] grain ships!

The [-] cavalry led by Wu Shifan, Wang Pingfan, Zheng Jiaolin, Wu Zhimao, and Zhang Guozhu have already lurked in Xinglongji, which is close to the border of De'an Prefecture. In a few hours, they will cross the border and go straight to the place where De'an Prefecture is located. Go with the state!
That Li Zicheng thought that by blocking the Han River and the Yangtze River with a dozen forts, and building some fortresses along the Yangtze River and the Han River, he would be able to stop my Great Zhou Tianbing. What a wishful thinking!

This time, I am going to surprise him by attacking Jiangxia directly from water and land. At the same time, the army on land avoids the Yangtze River and the banks of the Han River, and advances between Tongbai Mountain and Dahong Mountain, so as to directly attack Hankou for Li Zicheng! "

The ministers in the room, except for Wu Yingxiong, Wu Yingqi, and Wu Guogui who were holding back the big move with Wu Sangui, everyone else was shocked. Wu Sangui actually deployed such a large-scale military operation without telling them!
Those confidantes of them don't know, and Li Zicheng, an old thief, has nowhere to know, so he will definitely be caught off guard by the emperor of Zhou!

It seems that the sword of the Emperor of the Great Zhou is not old!

The Wuchang section of the Yangtze River has been shrouded in heavy snow for the past two days. At this time, the heavy snow turned into sleet. Although the voyage of the "grain fleet" was a bit cold, it was smooth sailing, and the interrogation along the way was also very lax.It is often a small boat carrying a small official who is about to freeze into a popsicle, check it casually, and let him go after collecting some bribes. However, these petty officials on the Yangtze River who inspect private taxation are still very difficult to control. After all, the regime of the loyal king of Ming Dynasty is also a regime of the whole world, and the tax collection and private inspection of commercial circulation links are a worldwide problem these days. , so there is too much room for the little officials below to operate.

And Wu Sangui has been plotting for a long time. After Li Fuchen's "jiedou incident" last time, Wu Sangui began to plan a surprise attack on Wuchang!Wu Guogui and Lin Xingzhu are responsible for the implementation.

The two of them knew that Li Zicheng would definitely deploy defenses along the Yangtze River and the Han River, using fortresses and passes to consume Wu's army's offensive momentum.If you want to beat it section by section, you really don't know that you will have to fight until the year of the monkey!And it is impossible to raid the past one by one, let alone attack all the fortresses and passes along the way at the same time.

Therefore, the only feasible method, which is the most risky and unexpected method - relying on only [-] elites, disguised as merchants and boatmen, boarded a grain boat full of grain, and launched a surprise attack on Jiangxia, the capital of Wuchang!
In order to ensure the success of this raid, these elite Wu family soldiers disguised as sailors and businessmen on the grain boats were not allowed to carry armor and long weapons, so as not to be discovered by the officials of the Li family.

Of course, artillery can't be carried - who has ever seen a gunboat selling rice?
In the past, an army without armor, long blades, and artillery would not have much combat effectiveness.But since the introduction of flintlock guns that can be fitted with socket bayonets, the combat effectiveness of unarmored infantry has improved by leaps and bounds!
Wu Shijue and Lin Xingzhu stood on the bow of the front boat, both of them were wearing coir raincoats.

Wu Shijue held an extremely precious rifled flintlock gun in his hand—this was a gift from Li Zhongshan to Wu Guogui and Wu Shijue. At that time, only ten pieces were given, and they were for hunting and playing.There are still five unbroken ones, and the one Wu Shijue holds is one of them.

Lin Xingzhu was leaning on a machete, and there was a flintlock pistol on his belt under the coir raincoat.

Seeing the lights on Jiangxia Hanyangmen Wharf becoming more apparent in the dusk, the two of them breathed a sigh of relief.

Wu Shijue wiped off the rainwater on his face, and smiled at Lin Xingzhu: "Jiang Xia is watching, it seems that she is totally unprepared, this time we can succeed in one fell swoop!"

Lin Xingzhu counted the time in his mind, and murmured: "We were one night early. I don't know if the responders are still there? Also, the raid on the De'an Mansion on the northern line will start tomorrow morning, so let's do it here first." , the Ming army in Suizhou should know, and the actions on the northern front can't be taken by surprise."

In fact, Wu Shijue was worried about this problem when he was making plans. It was impossible for the two routes to reach an agreement on the timing of the raids from the north and the south. Therefore, if any route is attacked first, it may make the latter route lose its suddenness!
Of course, it is possible or not.

Because who knows how efficient Li Zicheng's information transmission is?

He forced a smile and said to Lin Xingzhu: "Brother Lin, the arrow is on the string, so we have to attack. We have 3000 people, and Li Zicheng must not have many soldiers in Jiangxia. We might be able to break into Jiangxia's imperial city in one fell swoop and kill old thief Li. Shoot it! Even if it doesn’t work, it can turn Jiangxia upside down! Jiangxia is Li Zicheng’s old battalion, and the loyal king’s army everywhere accepts the command of Sima Si, the marching commander of Zhongwangfu in Jiangxia’s imperial city. If the command fails, the loyal king’s army will be killed. It may fall into chaos, and the northern line will be able to hit Hankou like a broken bamboo! As long as Jiangxia and Hankou are taken by us, Li Zicheng's navy will easily be stuck downstream."

Lin Xingzhu was born in the Zheng family army, and he is good at water affairs. He nodded immediately and said, "As long as Hankou and Hanyang are captured, it will not be too difficult to blockade the Yangtze River. After all, Li Zicheng's navy has now gone downstream, going upstream to rush to the pontoon bridge of Suojiang River. It's very difficult."

Wu Shijue nodded with a smile, and then concentrated on watching the boat sail slowly to the pier outside Hanyang Gate of Jiangxia City.

Because of Li Zicheng's good management, the area around Hanyangmen Wharf outside Jiangxia City is extremely prosperous. Not only many wharves have been built, but also many restaurants, shops and hotels have been built along the city. will be closed overnight.In Li Zicheng's view, there is no need for that. There are many cannons on the walls on both sides of Hanyang Gate, and a battalion of defenders is stationed there. It is used to check taxes, and merchants have to pay taxes when they bring goods into the city!Moreover, the Zhongwang army guarding the gate is also very elite, not so easy to deal with.

So there is no need to close the door every day, affecting the commercial activities of the city.
Amidst the rain and snow, many boats were crowded on the Hanyangmen Wharf, and only a few berths were vacant on the west side of the wharf.

With a sullen face, Lin Xingzhu ordered to the people around him: "Send the signal!"

A soldier held up a lantern, three left and right three times in the air.

There was no movement on the other side.

Wu Shijue and Lin Xingzhu looked at each other, both a little nervous.Waiting again, Wu Shijue lowered his voice, his tone was anxious and eager: "Send the signal again!"

At this moment, a lantern emitting pale light appeared on the empty pier. It also swayed in the air a few times, and it also drove the surrounding rain and snow. From a distance, it looked like a swaying halo generally.

Lin Xingzhu sighed: "It seems that our brothers are still very reliable! At least we can reserve a landing pier for us. Later, I will bring the sword and poker player first, and you will bring the shotgun soldiers to cover. Let's go all out and grab it." Hanyangmen!"

The fleet finally landed on the pier silently. There are not so many berths on the pier, so the hundreds of grain ships can only be connected side by side one by one, and then tied together with cables, just like Prime Minister Cao's serial boats.

At this time, the "sailors and merchants" on the ship took out their own guys from the pile of grain covered by the oilcloth, most of them were flintlock guns, and a small part were knives.

Lin Xingzhu led dozens of sword players, and set off to Huanchengmen first.All I saw was that they used the round rattan badges as a rainproof bamboo hat, buckled them on their heads, then held a pistol in one hand and a machete in the other, and headed towards Hanyang Gate together.Because these people were all wearing coir raincoats, and it was already dark at the moment, it was difficult for people who were a little further away to see these people holding machetes and flintlock guns. The loyal soldiers guarding the Hanyang Gate were just I saw a large group of people in coir raincoats and bamboo hats coming.

"Stop! What kind of man?"

A soldier of the Loyal King Army who was standing guard outside the Hanyang Gate with a spear in his hand roared.

Lin Xingzhu acted as if she didn't hear it, but kept moving forward with her head covered.

"stop!"

"If you don't stop, shoot!"

There was a shotgun soldier beside the sentry soldier, and he had leveled the shotgun in his hand at this time, but the matchlock of the shotgun was not lit!

Lin Xingzhu was not afraid of the fact that there was no musket with a matchlock, but instead he quickened his pace.The "bat hat guests" who were following him also accelerated, trotting all the way and rushing forward.

At this time, there were still some pedestrians outside Jiangxia Hanyang Gate, and some porters waiting in line to pass the tax card. They were suddenly rushed by Lin Xingzhu's men, and they immediately messed up.

Someone else shouted: "What are you doing? Line up! Why don't you line up?"

"Yes! Are you in a hurry to reincarnate? Why don't you line up?"

Lin Xingzhu had already raised his pistol at this time, and shouted loudly, "Get out of the way, it's a war!"

Someone else answered in passing: "You have to line up to fight!"

Then someone reacted: "Ah, no, the enemy attacked"

"Boom! Boom! Boom"

"Kill!"

The sound of gunshots and shouts of killing then exploded!
The loyal army guarding the gate was not many, and they were not mentally prepared to fight the enemy. When they saw the chaos outside the gate of Hanyang, they were ready to rush out to maintain order. As a result, there was a burst of gunfire head-on, and several soldiers were knocked down immediately. indivual!
But the remaining soldiers of the loyal king's army were quite brave, not only did not scatter like birds and beasts, but also rushed up to fight with swords and guns.At this time, Lin Xingzhu had put away his pistol, removed the rattan shield on his head, and, like a "Fujian tiger", pounced on a loyal king's soldier holding a spear.And that soldier did not show any weakness, he raised his spear and stabbed at Lin Xingzhu's chest
Jiangxia, the imperial city.

Li Zicheng is having dinner at this time, the Wuchang ramen that he ate tonight. The mutton and mutton soup are added, that is a delight!
Li Zicheng has regained a bit of the feeling he had when he was the Chuang Wang. At that time, his favorite food was a bowl of hot mutton noodles. , Gao Yigong and the old guys eat together.Talking and laughing loudly while eating, talking about what to do when the world is won in the future
Thinking that these former old buddies are gone now, Li Zicheng couldn't help but burst into tears, and muttered to himself while crying: "It's all my fault, it's all my fault, why can't I sit firmly in the world?" ? If the forehead is firmly seated, the big guy won’t die so badly, woohoo”

This is not the first time he has cried, and the servants guarding him and the ladies of the Prince Zhong's Mansion are used to it!

At this moment, Hu Yiqiang's roar suddenly sounded outside the door: "Old Emperor, Old Emperor, it's not good, Wu Sangui's soldiers are coming!"

Clap la la.
Li Zicheng stood up abruptly, and accidentally knocked a bowl of Wuchang ramen on the table to the ground.

"One shot, what do you mean?"

"My lord, Wu Sangui's soldiers suddenly hit Jiangxia's Hanyang Gate."

Li Zicheng snorted, his eyes widened angrily: "Well done, I was thinking of going to find that surnamed Wu to avenge my old brothers!"

(End of this chapter)