Kangxi, your Qing Dynasty is dead

Chapter 452 Prince Gong, you can’t even wash yourself off if you jump into the Yellow River now!

Chapter 452 Prince Gong, you can’t even wash yourself off if you jump into the Yellow River now! (Happy National day!)
Before the officers and soldiers of the Spanish Armada on the sea could react, eight pillars of water had already risen on the sea, and then landed next to the armed merchant ship Banda Islands on the far right side of the landing fleet. The sea water poured down on them. Above the heads of the Japanese pirates who were still crowded on the deck waiting to transfer.

The entire landing fleet suddenly erupted with exclamations from Spanish, Dutch, and Japanese officers and soldiers.They are currently undergoing land transfer operations. The sailboats have anchored and furled their sails. They cannot move at all for a while. They are completely immobile and dead targets!
Lieutenant Zhang Wanyu, who just graduated from the Chongming Island Navy Lecture Hall more than a year ago, has been wearing a sack and lying on the stern deck of a 40-oar crab boat in the corner of Zhapu Port since yesterday evening.He had braved the cool autumn weather on the sea in September and stayed there for several nights, but finally his stay was not in vain.Seeing that the armed merchant ship Banda Islands was being bombarded, he immediately opened his sack and shouted: "Brothers, cut the cables, beat the drums, row the oars, and charge!"

"Yes, sir!"

There was not only Zhang Wanyu on this boat, but also forty other oarsmen, a drummer and ten musketeers.After hearing Zhang Wanyu's order, everyone suddenly became energetic - it is now time to make achievements, divide houses and land, and become a national.

These oarsmen, drummers, and gun shooters are all recruited from the army. In addition to earning military pay, they join the army just to find a career!
In today's Ming Dynasty, if you want to be an official or a local official, if you want to be an official without kneeling, if you want to participate in government affairs, you must have the status of a national or a national scholar. Among them, the upper limit of the positions that a civil servant can hold is higher, but the Chinese who want to be an official want to It's not that difficult to move up a level and become a national scholar.

But if you lack the identity of a Chinese, it will not be easy to climb up!

There are only three ways to obtain the status of a Chinese citizen. One is to take the imperial examination and pass the exam; the other is to spend a large sum of money to donate a Chinese citizen; the third is to enlist as a soldier and perform meritorious service or serve for ten years.

It is not easy to take the imperial examination. Not only do you have to read the Four Books and Five Classics, but you also have to be proficient in "New Confucianism" and "Practical Learning". Moreover, the number of places is limited, so it is not easy to pass the exam. Don't even think about it if you are not a top academic.

Donating money is a must!What to do if not?
For the vast majority of aspiring young people from the Ming Dynasty who want to make progress but are not top academics and whose families are not particularly wealthy, serving as a soldier is a good way to advance.

After serving as a soldier and making meritorious service, not only can you become a citizen of the country, but you can also be assigned to a farm. This is the propertied class!
In addition, compatriots who have served in the military can receive preferential treatment when applying for civil service positions. Many public security errands, or errands sent to remote areas, are reserved for veterans.

Therefore, in today's Ming Dynasty, it is still very popular to enlist as a soldier, and it is really possible for a poor child to turn around.

I saw a shirtless drummer with bulging muscles standing next to Zhang Wanyu, picking up an ax and breaking the rope connecting the dock with a click. Then without saying a word, he dropped the ax and picked up two Get the drum hammer and start beating the drum.

And the sound of the drum is the command!

As the drums of "dong dong dong" sounded, the forty rowers on the fast crab boat commanded by Zhang Wanyu had already rolled up their sleeves and were waiting to start work.Immediately I threw off my arms, swung the wooden oar, and started paddling hard to the rhythm of the drum!

Zhang Wanyu was not idle either. He picked up a purple flag from the deck and inserted the flagpole into a hole on the deck. The purple flag immediately unfolded in the wind.

In this way, the senior officers supervising the operations on the shore will know who knocked down several sampans filled with Japanese pirates. This will all be credited!

In various nooks and crannies of Zhapu Port, there were eleven other identical crab boats with similar things happening on them.

The sound of the cannon is the order, and the boats of Japanese pirates on the sea are the credit!
These Japanese pirates are so sensible. They came all the way to show off their merits. If they didn't knock over a dozen of their boats, would they be worthy of the kindness of the Japanese devils who sent their heads thousands of miles away?
While these twelve crab boats equipped with horns were driven by long oars and rushed towards the landing fleet outside Zhapu Port, a dozen fireships moored in Zhapu Port were also shirtless and ready at any time. Driven by the long oars in the hands of the suicide squad members who abandoned the ship and took a swim, they rushed towards the armed merchant ship that was undergoing land transfer operations on the sea.

At the same time, the bombardment continued round after round. The 18-pound heavy cast iron shells were blasted out in waves, all heading towards the armed merchant ship Banda Islands. After only three rounds, one shell had an eye. As if, it landed impartially on the midships of the Banda Islands, on the deck crowded with Japanese pirates. It immediately knocked over five or six Japanese pirates, two of whom did not die on the spot, and screamed. Suddenly it rang on the Banda Islands.The cannonball was not satisfied with knocking down five or six Japanese pirates. It smashed through the deck with a click and fell into the cabin.

This unlucky armed merchant ship was in a mess, and the Japanese pirates were still on the deck. The Japanese pirates were worried. The broken ship had now lowered its sails and anchored. It was a dead target, and now it was targeted by the artillery on the shore. Are you still going to have to be bombarded?

All the Japanese pirates rushed to the side of the ship. Everyone was vying to be the first to climb over the side of the ship and climb down the rope net.I don’t know which Japanese pirate with keen eyes was squeezing toward the side of the ship when he suddenly saw several lit fire boats drifting towards us from the direction of Zhapu Port!He almost screamed: "Fire ships. So many fire ships!"

In fact, there were not many fire boats. Li Zhongzheng only prepared eleven fire boats and twelve crab boats.However, the panicked Spaniards, Dutch, and Japanese could not tell what a fire boat was and what a crab boat was—they might be fire boats that had not yet been lit!

At this time, the landing fleet on the sea was in chaos. The sails were raised, the anchors were lifted, and the anchors were turned. The captains of these armed merchant ships carrying Japanese pirates did not care about the Japanese pirates who were transferring, and first avoided the fire. Let’s talk about the boat!
Pity the Japanese pirates who are still crawling on the rope net. They can't get up. If the armed merchant ship moves, it will be separated from the small sampan underneath, and it will fall into the sea.The shouts and curses suddenly became loud, and as if the crew of several armed merchant ships didn't think it was lively enough, they rang the warning bells, coupled with the booming artillery fire-not only the eight guns on the Zhapu Town Pier The 18-pound cannon was firing, and the gunboats and armed merchant ships on the sea also began to fire cannons on the shore. For a while, you were coming and going, the gunfire roared, and it was very lively.

In the midst of this chaos, twelve crab boats, like wild horses, began to rush towards the small, slow and clumsy sampans on the sea!
Zhang Wanyu was sitting on the stern deck of his crab boat, with a wooden shield placed in front of his body. He clamped the rudder with his right arm, pointed the bow of the boat at a sampan full of Japanese pirates, and rushed towards it!

The Japanese pirates on the small sampan also discovered that a large ship much larger than theirs was rushing towards them in a menacing manner. They all became anxious and shouted "Baga! Baga" while raising their flintlock guns. Shoot at the rushing crab boat.But it was not easy to fire a flintlock gun from an ups and downs sampan.
With a loud "bang", the crab boat Zhang Wanyu was on had hit the sampan heavily!

On the sea surface, the waves rolled, and the small sampan was knocked over on the spot. The Japanese pirates who were crowded on the sampan screamed and screamed, and then without exception, they all fell into the sea water, cooking with dumplings on the sea surface. When the pot was opened, water was all boiling.The bow of Zhang Wanyu's crab boat was also arched by the overturned sampan, exposing the metal horns like fangs. Then there was a heavy pressure, and only a click was heard, and the water splashed between them. The wood chips were flying together, and the thin bottom of the boat had been cut and pressed by the metal ramming angle of the crab boat and the hull, breaking into two pieces!
Seeing that the blow was successful, Zhang Wanyu quickly shouted in anger: "Add an oar, charge up, we have to get out of here quickly!"

This short assault battle on the sea near Zhapu Town did not last long. From the eight-door 18-pound ambushes in Zhapu Port opening fire, to the 12 crab boats that suddenly charged forward and completed or failed to complete the attack, and quickly evacuated. , which lasted less than half an hour.A total of 8 sampans were knocked over, and the losses caused to the Japanese pirates were at least 200. Their own losses, according to the report handed over to Li Zhongzheng afterwards, were only 18 killed, 16 injured, and 3 missing - —When two crab boats were evacuating, they were hit by 2-pound guns equipped on the gunboats of the Spanish Armada.

另外,布置在乍浦港内的8门18斤炮也损失了2门,炮组成员阵亡5人,伤2人。而这8门大炮的战果则是将班达群岛号打成重伤!

In other words, in this raid outside Zhapu Port, the Ming army's losses were only 23 dead, 18 wounded, 3 missing, plus the loss of 2 artillery pieces, and 2 crab boats were damaged.

However, this battle was only the first battle of the Zhapu offensive and defensive battle. Although Li Zhongshan was prepared to abandon Zhapu and even the entire Pinghu County, he had no intention of letting the Japanese pirates take over the territory easily.

Where is the southeastern powerhouse of the Republic of Ming Dynasty that is so easy to enter?Just when it was too easy to get in, the Japanese pirates should have known something was wrong!
Witnessing this "bayonet fight at sea" battle on the highlands of Jiulong Mountain, Li Zhongzheng seemed quite satisfied and issued an order on the spot: "It was a good fight. All participating troops will be credited with a meritorious service. The ships and artillery teams that have achieved results will be Add one more effort.

In addition, tell the No. 18 Division No. 30 Sixth Brigade and the Fourth Battalion of the No. [-] Sixth Brigade and the Zhapu Town Vigilante Group guarding Zhapu that they must hold on for two days and can only withdraw to Pinghu County after two days! "

"Yes!"

On the Spanish Armada flagship "Santa Maria Concepcion", Spanish Admiral Pedro de Zabala looked at the chaotic landing fleet, but he had a relaxed look on his face and was surprised by the people around him. Masatoshi Hotta, who was stunned by the fierce battle just now, said: "General Hotta, it seems that the ambush battle of the Ming Navy has been completed, and the control of the sea is still in our hands. The next landing should not be very dangerous."

The translator that Hota Masatoshi brought with him translated all these words into Japanese. The Japanese mercenary general finally breathed a sigh of relief and ordered the people around him: "Since there is not much danger in the next landing, let the Edo shogunate Report your victory! Being able to successfully land on the land of the Ming Dynasty is considered a great victory for the mercenary army!"

"Hay!"

In fact, Hota Masatoshi is right. For today's Japanese pirates, your landing is considered a victory, and capturing a town is a great victory. If you can capture a county, the shogunate will go and offer incense to Tosho Daigongen!

The original mission of this Japanese mercenary army was only to attract and contain part of the Ming army to reduce the pressure on the Qing Dynasty and the Zhou Dynasty. In this way, the situation of the three kingdoms competing for hegemony between the Ming Dynasty, the Zhou Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty could be maintained as much as possible.It is unthinkable to destroy the Ming Dynasty. If the current "last three countries" can be maintained, the great powers of all countries will be very satisfied.

After all, a China unified by the Republic of Ming Dynasty would be really terrible!

Whether it is the "Western powers" such as Spain, the Netherlands, England, and Portugal, or the "Eastern powers" such as the Qing Dynasty, the Great Zhou Dynasty, and Japan, there is absolutely no way to accept it.

Henan, Guide Prefecture, Taoyuan Pass.

September 22th, the [-]nd year of Emperor Kangxi's reign in the Qing Dynasty.

The autumn wind and autumn rain whistled down.

On the Yellow River near Taoyuan Pass, a pontoon bridge flew from north to south. On the plain south of the pontoon bridge, cavalrymen wearing raincoats and bamboo hats patrolled and warned in the vast rain and fog.

There is also a team whose beginning and end cannot be seen, quickly passing through the pontoon bridge.The soldiers in the team were all carrying baggage, wearing raincoats and bamboo hats. Under the bamboo hats, there was also a slender braid. There was no doubt that this was a Qing braid army.The braided soldiers all carried flintlock guns wrapped in oilcloth and walked quickly with their heads down.Everyone was walking in a hurry, seemingly eager to leave Guide, a place of right and wrong.

In addition to the soldiers, there were many people supporting the elderly and the young, pushing carts, and carrying luggage. They were all escorted by the soldiers to the north reluctantly. As they walked, they looked back, their eyes full of Reluctant to give up.

Emperor Kangxi's uncles Tong Guogang and Tong Guowei, as well as the "mansion master" Fan Chengxun of Guide Mansion, immediately stood on the Yellow River embankment in the rain and looked at the soldiers and people evacuated from Guide Mansion.

Fan Chengxun sighed and murmured: "Li Zhongshan came too quickly and there were too many people, 80 troops! Even if only half of them are soldiers and generals, and the rest are civilians, there are still 40 people to fight. How can the soldiers fight like this? Does the Qing Dynasty want it?"

When Tong Guowei heard Fan Chengxun's depressing words, he snorted and said, "Mr. Su, the Qing Dynasty can't be finished. Our emperor still has a way!"

"Is there any way?" Fan Chengxun was doubtful, "If there is a way, why don't you give up Guide Mansion?"

Guide Mansion was granted to Fan Chengxun a few years ago, and Fan Chengxun also spent some time managing his own territory, so of course he is not willing to give it up now.Although his family also has "Touxiajunzhou" outside the pass, but how can that corner be compared to Shanggui De Mansion in Henan?

Tong Guogang took over the topic and whispered to Fan Chengxun: "Mr. Su, this method can only be used if you abandon Guide!"

"Uncle Guo, please don't be so secretive. What are you going to do?" Fan Chengxun looked at Tong Guogang and asked eagerly.

He suffered a great loss by giving up Guide Mansion this time. It would be great if there was really some way for him to recover the lost ground.

Tong Guogang smiled mysteriously: "This idea is... to use water to replace soldiers!"

"What?" Fan Chengxun was shocked, "Your Majesty wants to drain the Yellow River? Why is this so important? If the Yellow River collapses, millions of lives will be ruined! How could your Majesty..."

Tong Guowei immediately interrupted him and said: "This is not what the emperor means, but what Prince Gong means!"

"Prince Gong?" Fan Chengxun looked at the uncles of the two countries, "Does this really mean what Prince Gong means?"

He didn't believe that Prince Gong Chang Ning was willing to do this... Chang Ning was Zhu Changning!
Even if Kangxi was defeated, he lost the land within the pass and even his hometown in the Northeast.Zhu Changning, you still have a chance to take your place and become the Lord of Mongolia.

You can still enjoy wealth and wealth in Mobei, Moxi and Taiping Valley Tianjing City, so why bother to do such a thing that will offend the Ming Dynasty to death?
Moreover, the flood of the Yellow River could not destroy Li Zhongshan's 80 army at all, and at most it could force them back.

In a few years, Li Zhongshan will again make another northern expedition to the Central Plains.

When the time comes, he will at best avoid the yellow flood zone, which is just a little troublesome.

Tong Guogang's face had darkened: "Mr. Su, don't you believe what I say? If it weren't for Prince Gong's order, would I dare to bring people here to pry the Yellow River? This crime of plucking the Yellow River without permission is something you and I can't do. Can people afford it?”

Tong Guowei said: "That's right, Mr. Su, who else do you think could give the order for this matter?"

"This..." Fan Chengxun certainly knew in his heart that Emperor Kangxi must be causing trouble in this matter!
Moreover, Kangxi wanted to blame Chang Ning for stealing the Yellow River... In this way, Chang Ning would be hated by the whole world. If he wanted to usurp the throne, it would be impossible to seize Kangxi's power.

"That's right!" Fan Chengxun had to follow the advice of the two uncles, "Prince Gong is still responsible! I admire him very much... But who is more suitable to do the work of digging the Yellow River?"

"Mr. Su," Tong Guogang said, "you are the master of Guide Mansion...it is your job to pick up the Yellow River. Why don't you send someone to do it?"

Tong Guowei said: "Su Gong, your people, together with many of the people under your rule, have now retreated northward... Turn around and cut the Yellow River again. Who do you think did this?"

After a little calculation, Fan Chengxun knew that he didn't run away this time!
Or help these two people named Tong to "drain" the Yellow River for Prince Gong, so that Prince Gong can't even clean himself after jumping into the Yellow River!

Either these two people named Tong will regard him as the culprit of the Yellow River!

Now either Prince Gong jumps into the Yellow River, or he jumps into the Yellow River himself... Forget it, let Prince Gong jump into it!
Who asked him to deal with Kangxi, a good brother?
Thinking of this, Fan Chengxun nodded: "Two uncles and uncles, I have already understood...the matter of the Yellow River, how about we do it together! In short, we are all doing errands for the Aixinjueluo family. What do they say above, we Let’s do this next!”

Tong Guogang nodded: "Mr. Su, I have been waiting for your words for a long time! Okay, let's quickly arrange people to do the work!"

(End of this chapter)

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