Kangxi, your Qing Dynasty is dead

Wu Sangui in Chapter 351 listened, you are surrounded by foreheads! (ask for subscription, ask for monthly pass)
Hundreds of cavalry, surrounded by King Chu of the Great Zhou Dynasty, Governor of Hunan, General Pingnan Wu Guogui, walked on the official road from Chenzhou, Hunan to Shaozhou, Guangdong.

Behind this third master Wu, there are countless rolled dark red flags, and there are endless cavalry infantry and artillery dragged by mules and horses.Great Zhou Emperor Wu Sangui finally played his trump card!

After Wu Guogui, in addition to his father and son's lineage headquarters, there were Li Benshen, the governor of Guizhou, Zu Zeqing, the governor of Chang, Li, Yong and Kuidong, and the Jiangxi governor under Wu Guogui (who was in Jiangxi before Wu Sangui entered Jiangxi in a big way. Fighting against the Qing army) all of Wan Ji, and the [-] army sent to Wu Guogui by Wu Sangui and headed by Wu Shifan, the grandson of the Great Zhou Emperor.Now that Wu Sangui still has capital on hand, except for the five thousand personal guards, all of them have already belonged to Wu Guogui.With a total of [-] infantry, ammunition, food, and grass can be put together to support a fierce battle for more than a month. In order to support this surprise attack, Wu Guogui has already thrown in all the income he earned from operating in Hunan for several years.

Although the capital invested is not small, every Zhou army officer knows the prosperity of Guangdong!Everyone's face is full of longing and expectation, but behind this longing and expectation is deep worry about the country and oneself.Bad news such as Wu Sangui's serious illness, the critical war in Jiangxi, and the collapse of the Yangtze River Navy had already spread among the army.Everyone understands that this battle is already Wu Sangui's last fight, if he wins, this capricious old emperor can still give his descendants a relatively stable country.If he fails, the country he created will be ruined!
The gazes of countless people were only following the figure of Wu Guogui who was walking ahead.He was tall and burly, and his imposing body stood straight on the horse.Among Wu Sangui's three sons, this third master Wu, the second master Wu who is now staying in Shaanxi, and the second master Wu's son, young master Wu, are all handsome talents who can be alone, and their past achievements are quite outstanding.But the old emperor didn't know what he was thinking. This time when he went to Jiangxi and went to the south of the Yangtze River, he didn't use the three great generals of the old Wu family, but let the prince Wu Yingxiong, Xia Guoxiang and Hu Guozhu, two idiot sons-in-law, play the leading roles.
In fact, Wu Sangui's mind, everyone still knows that he is worried about Xuanwumen and the battle of Jingnan, and in the final analysis, the old emperor is old and his days are numbered.And the successors behind him are quite capable, and they have also developed their own forces.This situation is simply a replica of the three brothers Li Jiancheng, Li Shimin and Li Yuanji!That's why Wu Sangui was eager to support the prince Wu Yingxiong and help him build up his prestige.But such an arrangement was completely messed up, and the old emperor Wu was still hit hard, which made everyone feel a little ominous in their hearts.

How long can the old emperor Wu last?Once the old emperor is gone, will Wu Zhou Jiangshan, which he worked so hard to create, fall apart because of the three sons' struggle for power?
In front of the team, a group of knights galloped up, flying a banner with the word "Jia".They should have come looking for Wu Guogui's Wang Banner. The first rider was a white and clean young man in his 20s. He saw Wu Guogui in a silver plate armor with a combination of Chinese and Western riding a long-legged western horse. After that, he immediately waved his hand to stop the followers, and then flew to Wu Guogui himself.

Wu Guogui knew this young man well, he knew that he was Jia Hanfu's youngest son, he was the sixth son, and his name was Guozhu.After Jia Han returned to the real "Fu Han", he took his son home and appointed him a magistrate of Yizhang—his magistrate of Yizhang was not an ordinary magistrate, but a hereditary magistrate of Yizhang !
Because Jia Fuhan's two states were vassal lands, which were granted to him by Kangxi, and he brought Tou Ming with him.The magistrates of these two states and the county magistrates below are all surnamed Jia!Either Lao Jia's son or his grandson!
Moreover, Lao Jia made a will early on. After his death, he distributed the counties below the two states to his six sons, and passed them down from generation to generation.
Although this system of hereditary county magistrates has not been officially approved by the Ming court, Li Fuchen has issued an edict in the name of the Southern King of the Ming Dynasty before going north, allowing the old Jia family to inherit the two prefectures and retire with the country.

However, the Nanwang’s approval was revoked by Nanwang’s daughter-in-law in the name of the King’s son, and all the Jia family members were recalled to Guangdong and handed over to Li Jizhen for "care". Tang graduated, and has been leading troops in the Cantonese Army (as a hereditary county magistrate, he can be appointed as a deputy), he is very familiar with Wu Xiaotu, and he also served as the captain of the British Palace for a period of time, so he was sent by Wu Xiaotu to recruit Jia Hanfu. The Hunan Army, and then let him garrison Shaozhou.

This Jia Guozhu and Wu Guogui are also very familiar. When he was the captain of the Royal Palace Guard, he was ordered by Wu Xiaotu to give gifts to Wu Guogui many times.The horse Wu Guogui was riding, the armor he was wearing, and the flintlock guns used by Wu Guogui's soldiers were all sent to Changsha with the help of Jia Guozhu.Every time Wu Guogui would summon this Jia Guozhu and ask him about the situation of Guangdong and the Guangdong National Army.

But no matter how good the relationship is, it might not be able to withstand the test of confiscating the territory, right?
In fact, taking back feudal territories was already the national policy of Ming Dynasty after Li Zhongshan became the general!

Even vassal kings like Li Zhongshan and Zheng Jing have already "returned their titles", let alone a small lord of the Jia family's level?However, after Li Zhongshan and Zheng Jing "returned their copyrights", they could gain more benefits by controlling the Ming court and local real power.It's not that the vassal was really cut off, but it became a part of the central government.But vassals at the level of the Jia family are not treated so well. After being demoted, they can only become a rich man, and as the "little six sons" from a concubine, Jia Guozhu wants to be a rich man. .Even if his father could get a duke, it would not be his turn to become a duke.

In addition, the Jiashi Hunan Army also suffered a lot in this incident of cutting down the vassal.Because Jia Hanfu has no military salary to give to his subordinates, so his army can only be completely feudalized!He divided the land of Guiyang Prefecture and Chenzhou into two or three thousand "villages", and then granted them to the soldiers of Jiaxi's Hunan Army, and these "villages" directly borne the soldiers' clothing, food and equipment.In fact, these "villages" were turned into fiefdoms of soldiers!
Therefore, in Guiyang Prefecture and Chenzhou, people call these soldiers of the Jia Department of the Hunan Army "Ten Household Marquis". Although there are only ten households belonging to the people and a thousand acres of land, this is the foundation of the ancestors. Where is the Guangdong National Army? How many military salaries are comparable?

Therefore, the "Ten Household Marquis" who followed Jia Guozhu to Guangdong were all dissatisfied with the Mingying Palace!

Driven by these people, Jia Guozhu's resolute abandonment of the Ming Dynasty and the Zhou Dynasty is also very reasonable when his own interests are deprived.

And Wu Guogui didn't let him work in vain, he had already promised to seal the whole Chenzhou to him immediately!After Guangdong is conquered, Nanxiong Prefecture in Guangdong and Nan'an Mansion in Jiangxi will be granted to Jia's family!
Seeing Jia Guozhu coming as promised, Wu Guogui waved to him with a smile: "Sixth son, come quickly, come quickly. My imperial father's imperial edict to make you the Duke of Guiyang County (Chenzhou was called Guiyang County in ancient times) is here! From now on, Chenzhou is yours!"

"Really?" Jia Guozhu was surprised when he heard the words, and got off his horse on the spot to kneel down to receive the imperial edict.

Wu Guogui waved his hands and said, "This is not a place to receive orders, this is a canonized imperial edict!"

"Yes, yes, your Majesty, I have already prepared a camp and ships in Lechang, your army can enter immediately, rest for two days, and then we will go south by boat, take the Wujiang River and enter the Beijiang River. It will take less than ten days. Soldiers can enter Guangzhou!"

Upon hearing this, Wu Guogui nodded in satisfaction, and asked, "How is the situation in Guangzhou? Are you prepared?"

"Guangzhou is of course prepared," Jia Guozhu replied with a smile, "but in a hurry, the princess has nowhere to mobilize an army that can resist a hundred thousand heavenly soldiers. This matter must be done quickly! Otherwise, the people in Guangdong will wait Start it, and 20 Musketeers can be pulled out!"

"20?" Wu Guogui was taken aback, "That much?"

"Of course!" Jia Guozhu replied, "There are no less than 20 craftsmen in the town of Foshan alone! One-third of them already have Chinese identity. And most of them can use flintlock guns proficiently! After all, flintlock That's where the guns were made!"

The mobilization ability of a military industrial center city is of course far beyond the imagination of a feudal warlord like Wu Guogui. After all, a handicraft city has a large population density, a large number of young and middle-aged people, and handicraft production pays attention to discipline and precision. If the city's products If it happens to be flintlock guns, bronze cannons, gunpowder, bullets, and shells. This is simply an oriental version of the "Old District of Paris"!

However, Wu Guogui still didn't intend to give up, and nodded heavily: "Understood, six sons, lead the way, let's go to Guangzhou and Foshan together!"

"okay!"

When the [-] army led by Wu Guogui followed Jia Guozhu into Guangdong, to copy Li Zhongshan's Guangdong lair.His good elder brother Wu Yingxiong has been surrounded by a group of "changed clothes" Ming army in Jiujiang City.

"It's not good, sir, something is not right."

An old servant who had been following him all the way from Beijing broke into the study of Prince Wu Yingxiong's Xingyuan like a fly, and scared Wu Yingxiong who was talking with his in-law Guo Zhuangtu.

"What? What's wrong?" Wu Yingxiong looked at the elderly servant and hurriedly asked, "Is it my father?"

"No, no." The old servant shook his head, "It's the Ming army and they are lining up outside the city!"

"Hey, what's the matter?" Wu Yingxiong breathed a sigh of relief, not afraid at all, "Li Datou is my son-in-law, what is there to be afraid of? I just don't show up now, I will show up, he will definitely let me go .”

Wu Yingxiong has already calculated this period of time. He thinks that Li Zhongshan will not kill him and arrest him no matter what. Not to mention how close the relationship between the two parties is. Will do it!
Moreover, Li Fuchen, Li Zhongshan, and the Wu family are actually two small hills under a big gang. Not only are the two sides intermarried, but many people also have experience in both hills.So the two of them are only competing, not deciding whether to live or die.

Even if Wu Yingxiong was caught by Li Zhongshan, he would not lose his life, and his prosperity and wealth are still guaranteed!

As for Guo Zhuangtu, don't panic. He and Li Fuchen, Li Zhongshan are old acquaintances, and now they are still related to relatives. When they come to the Li family camp, they can still be officials.

So at this moment, he still smiled and pleaded with Wu Yingxiong, "Prince, I will go out to meet Wang Datou, you are Xiaojiao's father, let him not push too hard."

"Yes, that's right," Wu Yingxiong said with a smile, "I am the father of Xiaotu, and I am also the uncle of Xiaotu!"

"Prince!" The old slave interrupted suddenly, "Don't think about the Ming army changing clothes outside!"

"Change clothes?" Wu Yingxiong was taken aback, "What clothes?"

"I replaced the red scarf and red robe with green clothes and a white hat. The white hat is the white Fanyang felt hat!"

Wu Yingxiong still didn't understand: "The Ming army changed their uniforms? Aren't they the Red Scarf Army?"

"That, that, isn't that Chuang Wangjun's attire?" Guo Zhuangtu had already jumped up, and accidentally overturned the chessboard, and the black and white chess pieces fell to the ground.

"What? Li Chuang..." Wu Yingxiong was impatient now, and stood up immediately, "Hurry up, make it easier for the crown prince to wear armor! I want to go to the city to watch the battle!"

"Yes!"

In the south of Jiujiang City, at the foot of Lushan Mountain, there is already a world of white felt hats at this time!
The "white felt hats" of 6 to [-] people have already formed fifty or sixty battalion squares, a large expanse of whiteness, and in front of this expanse of whiteness, there are hundreds of bronze cannons.There are still many cavalry standing between the artillery groups!

Among them, right in front of the large formation composed of these "white felt hats", there are two large flags, one with a big "Chuang" embroidered on it, and the other with "Fengtian" embroidered on it.

In the middle of the two big flags, there is a horse standing, also wearing a white hat and green clothes, and a white beard and hair, with only one eye, looking at the city wall in the distance with a burning gaze.

This old man is of course Li Zicheng.When he saw the disturbance of flags and banners on the city wall, he thought it was Wu Sangui who was coming, and he opened his throat and shouted: "Wu Sangui inside listened, you are already surrounded by the foreheads, come out and surrender quickly, and you will not lose." As a Marquis, if you want to resist to the end, there is only one way to die. This time, there will be no Manchu Tartars coming to save you, an old traitor! Hahaha"

As soon as he finished shouting, the tens of thousands of troops below also shouted together: "Wu Sangui inside listened, you are already surrounded by them, come out and surrender!"

When tens of thousands of people shouted, Wu Yingxiong on the top of the wall was dumbfounded.

A good Li Zhongshan, how did he become Li Zicheng in the blink of an eye?Isn't this killing people?Li Zhongshan is easy to negotiate with, Li Zicheng will not let him go!Li Zicheng and Wu Sangui are mortal enemies, and they will never die!The kind that has to fight after death!
Wu Yingxiong didn't dare to surrender to Li Zicheng, he would die if he surrendered to Li Zicheng!

Thinking of this, Wu Yingxiong was about to cry. Two days ago, when Li Zhongshan was still there, he sent someone to negotiate. If he showed his head at that time, his head would be saved.

It's good now, Li Zicheng is here to claim his life!
"Fire the cannon! Fire the cannon! Fire the cannon quickly." Wu Yingxiong knew he couldn't escape, so he gritted his teeth and ordered the cannon to be fired, "Hit the prince hard, kill Li Zicheng!"

"boom"

A few red cannons erected on the city wall of Jiujiang had already been filled with ammunition. The gunners heard Wu Yingxiong's order and started firing without saying a word.However, Li Zicheng was still a little far away from the city of Jiujiang, and it was impossible to hit accurately with the red cannon.

However, Li Zicheng was not interested in being a target for others, so he laughed a few times and galloped back, returning to his central army.

As soon as he retreated, the artillery in front of Li Zicheng's formation immediately roared!
These cannons are not all light artillery pulled out by Li Zicheng from Mubu Mountain, but a considerable part of them are twelve-pound cannons transported by Li Zhongshan from the waterway, which are sharp weapons that can be used to smash down the city wall!

All of a sudden, the city of Jiujiang was filled with gunpowder smoke!

The Battle of Jiujiang officially started!
At the same time, on a southward official road to the west of Lushan Mountain, a group of infantrymen with muskets and red scarves and long robes were marching southward as if they were flying.The Li Zhongshan whom Wu Yingxiong missed very much is now among the Musketeers of this brigade.

And the reason why he was in such a hurry was because he was worried that his father, Li Fuchen, would fall into Wu Sangui's tricks. Because the Wu Zhou army who surrounded Nanchang suddenly broke the siege and retreated towards Yuanzhou!
This is obviously Wu Sangui wanting to lure Li Fuchen to lay an ambush on the border of Hunan and Jiangxi!
Li Zhongshan didn't want a large group of the second generation of the Li family to lose their father, so he quickly took two model towns and some cavalry, marched lightly, and rushed to Nanchang to find his father.
(End of this chapter)