Kangxi, your Qing Dynasty is dead

Chapter 329 What to do, Daming is going to end? (Seeking a monthly pass, asking for a subscription)
De'an Mansion, Suizhou City.

On the extremely solid city wall, the banner of "Zhou" has been flying high at this time.

This city stuck at the throat of the corridor is Li Zicheng's careful construction of the northern land gateway. The original thin old city wall has been doubled in thickness, which is enough to resist long-term bombardment. There were four trenches, and four branch cities were built, and an inner city wall was built in the city to prevent the outer city wall from being bombarded by the enemy's cannons, and the generals in the city would have no danger to defend.

But it was such a strong city with three floors inside and three floors outside, which could have been sieged for a long time, but Wu Shifan took just three days to break through it in one fell swoop!

And Wu Shifan's method of attacking Suizhou is simple to say, that is, to use the "returning regiment" formed by the gentry of the original De'an Prefecture who fled to Dazhou to attack and plunder the military farms outside Suizhou City, forcing the military soldiers in Suizhou City to fight to defend home.

Isn't Li Zicheng's military system divided into fields?This is to divide the land, so he can't enclose the land?Hubei here is not close to the sea, there is no white land where the Qing Dynasty moved from the coast, and there is no Sichuan where few people were slaughtered, and there is no fertile land in the northeast.Therefore, Li Zicheng can only engage in stock, that is, encircle the land of the gentry and landlords and distribute them to the soldiers.And he has no money to pay compensation, although he also imitated Li Zhongshan's method and used the urban land of Hankou and Wuchang to supply the gentry who were willing to cooperate. But at this time, Hankou and Wuchang were not comparable to Nanjing, Suzhou, and Guangzhou. Chuang's reputation was not as good as that of Ming Dynasty, so many landlords in Hubei, Lao Cai, resisted Li Zicheng's enclosure. After failing, they either fled to Nanjing or Xiangyang.

And those who went to Xiangyang were mostly used by Wu Sangui.Either become an official of the Wu family, or become a soldier of the Wu family.

Of course, the Wu family's soldiers also have land, but they are generally given to the farms in Sichuan. After a certain number of days as soldiers, they can organize a group to go to Sichuan to cultivate and farm under the organization of the Wu family. It's easy to let jackals, tigers, leopards, and giant pandas do it for development!

However, for those Hubei gentry who ran away from Li Zicheng's territory, it is not ideal to serve Lao Wu as a soldier for a few years before going to Sichuan to farm, and at the same time to perform military service for generations. Wu Sangui went back to his hometown to take back his family's property.

Now, isn't their chance coming?At least those Hubei gentry from De'an Prefecture have their chance!
Under Wu Shifan's order, all the soldiers from the De'an Prefecture among the guards were gathered to form the "Leading the Way and Returning to the Home Regiment", and the first batch drove to the vicinity of Suizhou City to wreak havoc.

And the Zhongwangfu soldiers on the Suizhou side were also caught off guard. Before they had time to fortify the walls and clear the fields, they transported their families and food into Suizhou City, and those returning home groups came!
Seeing that their home was about to be demolished, those soldiers loyal to King Li Zhong naturally couldn't bear it, and the number of returning troops from Wu Zhou was not large, it didn't look like a large-scale attack. Recently, it was rumored that Wu Sangui was about to die in De'an, and the "silly son" of the Wu family was going to fight among themselves.Therefore, the generals of the Zhongwangfu soldiers in De'an took their guard a little lightly, and took the troops out to expel those return home groups from Wu Zhou. Out of control and come to rob!

As a result, some of the troops sent out by Suizhou were ambushed and suffered heavy losses, and some returned to Suizhou City with refugees from the Home Returning Mission. The army led by Wu Shifan followed closely to the city of Suizhou, and immediately began storm.The Suizhou garrison, who had already lost a lot due to going out of the city to fight, had to rush into the battle. A returning home group who was not paying attention and was mixed into the city was caught off guard and lost a city gate, allowing Wu Shifan's army to rush into Suizhou city. !

Although the Zhongwangfu soldiers in Suizhou still relied on the inner city wall and the government office in the city to resist for two days, they were finally defeated by Wu Shifan. The big stronghold for Wu Shifan's march to Hankou!
The interior of this impregnable Suizhou Fortress is not very big, with only a dozen streets, the widest of which is an avenue passing through the city from north to south.At this time, only the brigade of Wu and Zhou's soldiers marched on this street, and the tall mules and horses from the northwest rumbled across the street, dragging bronze cannons cast by the Wu family's gunsmiths.Although there were numerous snowflakes in the sky, the temperature had already dropped below freezing point.But from the officers to the soldiers, everyone was sweating profusely and showed no intention of slowing down.The team composed of soldiers wearing bamboo hats and coir raincoats stretched from the north to the south of Suizhou City, and there seemed to be no end to it.

Wu Shifan, the great grandson of Emperor Zhou, was also wearing a bamboo hat and coir raincoat, riding a horse on a high ground outside Suizhou City, holding a binoculars and looking south, accompanied by Wang Pingfan, General Pingdong appointed by Wu Sangui.Wu Shifan and Wang Pingfan commanded the army of Wu and Zhou along the way.

From time to time, Chuanqi galloped from the front and reported the latest military situation loudly. The staff officers following Wu Shifan and Wang Pingfan would immediately record and report important information.

"His Royal Highness, the vanguard cavalry has rushed to Pingli City, Anlu County, and captured a Tangma from Mingzhong Prince's Mansion there. Through interrogation, it was learned that the Hanyang Gate, Pinghu Gate, Wenchang Gate, and Wusheng Gate in Jiangxia, Wuchang Prefecture Both the Wangshan Gate and the Wangshan Gate have been captured by our warriors of the Great Zhou! The Yellow Crane Tower is hunting the flags of last week!"

Wu Shifan laughed loudly: "Shuangyu is doing well. He has already knocked down five city gates in Jiangxia! Wang Pingdong, it seems we can report victory to my grandfather again!"

Wang Pingfan also had an indescribably complacent expression on his face, "What the grandson said is very true. It seems that the thunderous blow launched by our Da Zhou has now succeeded. Li Zicheng is finished this time! When Huguang wins all, The Qing army in Jiangxi and the Geng army in Zhejiang will definitely join the Great Zhou, and the unification of the world is just around the corner, and it will be the end of the Great Zhou, congratulations to the great-grandson!"

Wu Shifan nodded slightly, and the smile on his face gradually disappeared, replaced by a look of contempt for the world: "Notice the three armies, the heavenly soldiers have successfully attacked Jiangxia, and half of Jiangxia's city is already owned by me. Send an order to speed up the march, and our army will have to fight day and night." Concurrently, go straight to Hanyang, then cross the river and enter Jiangxia, laying the foundation for my Great Zhou in one fell swoop!"

"Long live! Great week wins!"

The surrounding staff and guards cheered!
"Long live the report, His Royal Highness the Emperor Taisun sent envoys to report the victory!"

On the head of Furen City on the bank of the Han River in the prefectural city of Xiangyang, Wu Sangui, who was leading the civil and military officials below, was inspecting his own navy. He took a wooden box from a royal guard, tore off the seal, took out a booklet inside, then threw the wooden box to an eunuch, unfolded the booklet and looked at it. Said: "Father, Shifan is here to avenge Shijue's victory this time. The five gates of Jiangxia City and the Yellow Crane Tower were all shot down by Shijue! Great victory!"

"Hahaha!" Wu Sangui finally burst out laughing.

When he received the news of Wu Shifan's victory over Suizhou, he just nodded slightly, even a little uneasy.Because conquering Suizhou only broke through the northern gate of Li Zicheng's territory, and it does not guarantee that a knife will penetrate the enemy's heart.And Wu Shijue's surprise attack on Jiang Xia is the key to success or failure!
Because as long as Wu Shijuan can control the docks and city gates of Linjiang in Jiangxia, Wu Shifan's North Road Army can take the grain ship brought by Wu Shijuan to cross the river after conquering Hankou Town (Hankou is just a commercial town without strong city defenses). Jiangxia City is gone.

Once Wu Shifan's army enters Jiangxia, the battle of Jiangxia will be a complete victory.

And once Jiang Xia succeeds, the Mingzhong Wangfu army on the forts along the Han River and the Yangtze River can only abandon the forts and run away or surrender.

In this way, the navy that Wu Sangui put together with great difficulty can head east along the Yangtze River!

Thinking of this, Wu Sangui turned his head to look at the countless warships moored on the relatively narrow Han River in winter, with a smug smile on his face that couldn't be concealed no matter what.

Since Wu Sangui took Hunan and Xiangyang, he began to build his own naval forces. At the beginning, Wu Yingxiong and Wu Guogui built naval forces in Dongting Lake and Xiangyang respectively. Wu Sangui, who suffered from this, formally established the Governor's Mansion of the Navy, and let his two sons-in-law Xia Guoxiang and Hu Guozhu serve as the left and right governors respectively, one took over the Xiangyang Navy and the other took over the Dongting Lake Navy.

After one or two years of continuous collection and building of ships and training of sailors, the Wu family's northern and southern naval forces have already overwhelmed Li Zicheng's naval forces and the Daming Yangtze River Navy at least in terms of scale.

The total strength of the two naval armies combined has exceeded [-], and the number of large and small warships they own has exceeded [-]!

Moreover, Wu Sangui also handed over all the mother and child cannons seized in previous battles with the Qing Dynasty to the navy, and built many heavy matchlock guns that could be mounted on the ship's side and fired.

Regardless of firepower or quantity, the current Wu Zhou navy is a powerful force!

This time Wu Sangui's Eastern Expedition is much more sure than Cao Mengde in history!

Moreover, Wu Sangui played smartly and attacked Jiang Xia at the beginning!

In addition, in Jiangxi and Zhejiang, there are Jie Shu and Geng Jingzhong who will raise troops to respond to him. If all goes well, Wu Sangui might be able to push him to the city of Nanjing, and he will soon catch up with Chen Youliang back then!

But Wu Sangui will not learn from Chen Youliang, he will fight steadily, first win the whole of Hubei, then drive the Ming army out of Jiangxi, then conquer Guangdong, and then attack Anqing. Step by step approaching Nanjing!

In this way, push steadily past Daming's dead end!
Thinking of this, Wu Sangui turned his head and said to Wu Yingxiong: "Boss, pass on the order. The army will set off tomorrow. Let's go to Jiangxia, kill Li Chuang, and avenge your grandfather and Chongzhen!" He gritted his teeth, "The old man finally waited until this day Already!"

"Yes, Father!"

"Your majesty, great joy, great joy!"

Lin'an Palace.Geng Jingzhong, who was frowning and thinking about how many days he had left in his palace, suddenly heard "Youxi", raised his head, and saw that the one who announced the good news to him was Yu Renying, his great military adviser—he is now Yu Renying. The first assistant Yu Zhongtang is here!

But this Zhongtang is not doing very well. Ever since he became the Zhongtang, the Dajing Kingdom has been shrinking and the number of soldiers has been decreasing!When he first came, Dajing still had five state capitals in Zhejiang and Anhui, and several state capitals in Fujian, a proper "quarter wall" of the country!

But now the land in Anhui has been lost, and the Fujian side is coming soon. Fuzhou has been beaten down by Zheng Jing, the local snake in Fujian!

What's even more frightening is that Liu Jinzhong, the king of the North, who ate inside and outside, also took down the two prefectures of Huzhou and Jiaxing, which belonged to Zhejiang, and pointed his troops at Lin'an, the capital of Dajing!

Dajing's quarter of the world seems to be coming to an end!

Once the Great Jing was over, wouldn't he, Geng Jingzhong, become the king of subjugation?
Subjugation does not end well!
Just when she was afraid, Yu Renying came to announce the good news.

Of course Geng Jingzhong wouldn't give this incompetent minister any good looks - he must be a wise king himself!So why is the wise king about to perish?Needless to say, it must be because the ministers are all ministers of subjugation!

But just as he was about to get angry, he saw a familiar face - that was Shang Shuying!

Seeing Shang Shuying, Geng Jingzhong couldn't help crying, Shang Zhixin is still his good brother!He is now the emperor, but the good brother...
"Shuying, is that you? It's great that you can come! By the way, where did you go? Didn't the devil Li Zhongshan catch you?"

Shang Shuying was also tearful, if it wasn't for the infidelity between men and women, she would have had a hug and cry with Geng Jingzhong: "Your Majesty, my concubine has been hiding with the Emperor of the Great Zhou these days. She even conferred the title of Princess Pingnan. "

"Are you Wu Sangui's lobbyist?" Geng Jingzhong felt a little unhappy at once.

He didn't feel that he should be a head shorter than Wu Sangui - Wu Sangui is the emperor, he is also the emperor, everyone should be equal.But that Wu Sangui always sent people to appease him, the Dajing Emperor said he wanted to make him a prince.

But if he wants to be king, he just needs to lie down in Nanjing safely.He is the Eastern King of Ming Dynasty!What did he rebel against?

Now go around for a long time, and go to become king for Wu Sangui again, isn't this tossing around?

Besides, Daming is the people of the country discussing politics, and the emperor is a vase.To be the king of Ming Dynasty, there is actually no real emperor above!There is no such thing as accompanying a king like a tiger!
But Wu Sangui has a real emperor, and there is also an eldest son, a prince, and a second son, the king of Qin. In the past, you have to bet, and if you bet 50.00% wrong, the bet is gone!
This is too exciting, right?

"Your Majesty, don't be angry, just listen to me!" Seeing that Geng Jingzhong was going to be angry, Shang Shuying quickly persuaded, "Now that the Ming Dynasty is coming to an end, the Emperor of Zhou gathered more than [-] land and water troops to march along the Han Dynasty. Shui and the Yangtze River marched, and also contacted the army of King Kang of the Qing Dynasty, planning to annex Li Zicheng's territory first, and then march into Nanjing with the Qing army in Jiangxi! Your Majesty, this is also your opportunity!"

"My chance?" Geng Jingzhong frowned, "Wu Sangui has ruled the world, isn't I the king of subjugation? What chance do I have?"

"Your Majesty, don't think so!" Shang Shuying laughed, "First of all, death to Da Ming is different from death to Da Zhou. To Da Ming, you are a traitor, and you will be caught if you catch it!"

Geng Jingzhong glared at Shang Shuying: "You too!"

"Yes, yes," Shang Shuying nodded, "but to the Emperor of the Great Zhou, you are the hero of the Ming Dynasty. The Emperor of the Great Zhou is our elder, and the Prince of the Great Zhou is our elder brother. We In the Great Zhou, are you afraid that there will be no glory and wealth?"

That's you. Geng Jing said faithfully: I was an emperor once!It's hard not to be suspicious!

"In addition," Shang Shuying lowered her voice again, "after the Great Zhou Emperor destroyed the Ming Dynasty, he may not come to destroy Jing without stopping. Besides, the Great General Li Zhongshan of the Ming Dynasty is a hero, and it is not so easy to destroy it. Li Zhongshan will lose both sides, and then Dajing may have a chance!"

"This." Geng Jingzhong was a little moved.

Yu Renying on the side said: "Your Majesty, I have just received a secret report from Jiangxi that Wu Shijue, the eldest son of Chu in the Great Zhou Dynasty, followed Lu Ziming in the Three Kingdoms period and led a group of elite soldiers disguised as merchants and sailors to attack Hanyang Gate in Jiangxia on a hundred grain ships. The wharf has succeeded, and Jiangxia has been captured ten days ago, and now Jiangxia may have been captured!"

"Ah, so powerful?" Geng Jingzhong also showed joy, "So, we have the opportunity to counterattack the Ming army in the southeast!"

"Emperor Shengming!"

"Your Majesty, don't hesitate, fight back!"

Geng Jingzhong nodded: "Quick, hurry up and invite the patriarch Yue Le into the palace!"

(End of this chapter)