Kangxi, your Qing Dynasty is dead

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Caozhou Prefecture, Heze County, the Qing Emperor is here.

Emperor Kangxi, who had finished his oath of hatred on the bank of the Yellow River, now moved to Heze, the westernmost capital of Shandong Province.This city, which is located on the Luxi Plain and has no danger to defend except the Zhaowang River and Nanqing River nearby, was transformed into a huge fortress at some point!

The originally small county town has now become the core of the bastion. Outside this square town, a low outer wall with eight sides has been built with rammed earth. Outside each "side", there are A solid rammed earth fortress in the shape of a triangular prism protects the octagonal outer wall and eight small gates.Outside the eight solid forts, there are two winding trenches - these two trenches were built close to the eight solid forts, forming two octagons one inside the other.

On the eight solid platforms, 12 6-pound cannons made of bronze are placed, which can form a dense crossfire against enemies trying to attack the city!
Even though this bastion was poorly built, anyone who wanted to conquer it would have to dig parallel trenches and advance toward the city wall little by little, and finally deploy them in the trench near the city wall in the blind spot of the cannon on the triangular platform. In addition to the sky cannon (mortar cannon) and the use of explosive shells to attack, the only thing left is probably the siege.

If anyone wants to take down a fortress like Heze Bastion by forcefully attacking and heaping lives, it is not impossible, but the loss will be too great to bear!

But you have to dig parallel trenches to attack the city. According to the experience in the French-Dutch War, even with several times the number of troops and firepower, it will take about a month to break through this kind of octagonal bastion with a double fort. .

If you add in the time to march to Heze and the time to clear Heze's outer strongholds and complete the siege, it will take at least two months.

"Okay! Okay! Master Chen, your bastion is well built. It doesn't cost much, but it is impregnable. Moreover, the fortress is quite large. It is not a problem to station tens of thousands of troops. If Li Zhongshan wants to break the Heze bastion, he will need at least two people." We have to mobilize an army of [-] men every month!”

Standing on a tower at the core of the Heze Bastion, Kangxi crossed his arms and looked quite satisfied with the bastion that Chen Tingjing and his men had spent several months building.

Chen Tingjing dropped his hands and stood next to Kangxi. Although he was smiling, his forehead was full of beads of sweat - he was transferred to Caozhou Mansion from Shanxi by Queen Yang, and he was still serving as an assistant in Beijing at that time. There is no need to go to Caozhou in person to take charge of government affairs.Empress Yang's purpose of transferring him was to strengthen her control over Shandong Province. At that time, she did not think about blocking the Heavenly Soldiers in Heze. Heze was a place that was undefeated, and it seemed that it no longer had traffic connections. On the road.

But no one expected that as soon as Kangxi came back, he drew an arc on the map starting from Heze, Caozhou in the west and ending at Zijin Pass in Yizhou in the east. He then said that it was a line of defense against the Ming Dynasty's Northern Expedition. This line was not long on the map, but In fact, it is a long line of defense that is 400 miles long.And this 400-mile defense line can be easily bypassed.Just start from Xuzhou, go westward along the Huiji River south of the Yellow River, push it all the way to Kaifeng Prefecture, and then directly cross the Yellow River.

If Kangxi wanted to extend this defense line all the way to the foot of Taihang Mountain, it would have to be extended at least another 400 miles. This is completely impossible!
At the same time, Chen Tingjing learned about Kangxi's "one country and one city" plan, so he took it for granted that Kangxi's 400-mile defense line was just a cover, and at most it was a fortress that could hinder the Ming army in the Northern Expedition. .

Later, Chen Tingjing discovered that his backstage Queen Yang was gradually losing power. As Kangxi's teacher, Chen Tingjing knew how much he, a good student, liked to settle accounts after the fall!Once Queen Yang completely falls, he will definitely be implicated.

At this time, Kangxi handed him another ladder-let him go to his vassal territory of Caozhou to build the Heze Fortress, and also gave him a large sum of money.

Chen Tingjing put it all together and felt that this ladder was not bad. No matter what happened in the future, he would always get a castle like a turtle shell.If Kangxi wanted to kill him, he could seize the city and surrender to the Ming Dynasty. If the Ming Dynasty's Northern Expedition came, he could also seize the city and watch quietly. The worst he could do was "surrender and go ashore."He and Li Fuchen and Li Zhongshan didn't have any deep grudges. They were all colleagues who bowed their heads but never raised their heads to see each other. After handing over the Heze fortress and army, why can't he be made a count or viscount if he can't be made a marquis?

So he happily came to Heze to build a city and accumulate grain, preparing to hold on and wait for surrender.

But no one expected that Kangxi would be so bad now. He dug a dam on the Yellow River and created a yellow flood area in Guide Prefecture, Xuzhou Prefecture, Fengyang Prefecture, and Sizhou Prefecture. Not only did it cut off the food supply of the Ming Dynasty's Northern Expeditionary Army, Road, and also blocked their route westward along the Huiji River!
Now the Heze-Zijinguan defense line looks a bit valuable!

This is not the most troublesome thing. What troubles Chen Tingjing the most is that Kangxi also transferred Fan Chengxun, the direct murderer of the Yellow River, from Guide Mansion to Heze. He also said that he would help Chen Tingjing defend the city!

Is this to help Chen Tingjing defend the city?This was because Chen Tingjing refused to let him surrender.
Kangxi glanced at Chen Tingjing and saw his teacher sweating profusely with anxiety. He felt an indescribable pleasure in his heart. Then he smiled and said: "Master Chen, you don't have to worry about the safety of your family members." !”

my family?

Chen Tingjing's heart skipped a beat, knowing that something bad was going to happen again!
Kangxi continued: "Master Chen, Fan Chengxun!"

Chen Tingjing and Fan Chengxun, who followed Kangxi, looked even uglier than Chen Tingjing, and quickly responded together: "I'm here!"

Kangxi smiled and said: "You two and your subordinates' families don't want to stay in Heze. These people are wasting military rations, can't go to battle to kill the enemy, and make the soldiers worried. Why don't you follow me to Dongping Prefecture first, and then withdraw?" Go to Beijing and you will be safe."

Chen Tingjing knew something was really going to happen, and his family members were all taken to Beijing. There was an even bigger unlucky guy named Fan Chengxun watching over him, so would he still have a way to survive?

"Your Majesty, Fan Chengxun, thanks the Emperor for your great kindness!"

Chen Tingjing still wanted to struggle, but Fan Chengxun had already knelt down to thank him.

This time he was tricked by Kangxi even worse than Chen Tingjing!

At most, Chen Tingjing did not need any family members, but he could still surrender to the Ming Dynasty to save his life. If Kangxi really killed Chen Tingjing's family members, Li Zhongshan might still reuse Chen Tingjing.But he, Fan Chengxun, has no way out!

It was he who led the men to steal the Yellow River. How could he still bring down the evil spirit?
Before breaking the Yellow River, Kangxi promised him to go to Touxiajunzhou outside the Pass to retire, but now he and Chen Tingjing were asked to defend the Heze Fortress together!
Moreover, Kangxi wanted to take away him and his subordinates' families. Now he had no choice but to fight to the end!

"Your Majesty, Chen Ting, would like to thank you for your great kindness!"

Chen Tingjing had no choice but to kneel down and thank him.He only had two brigades of 5 soldiers on hand. The army Kangxi brought to Heze had ten brigades of 1 soldiers, and there was also Fan Chengxun's [-] soldiers who could only follow Kangxi's dark side. So he could only hand over his family members honestly. , and then stayed in Heze to wait for death, or wait for Li Zhongshan to run out of food and retreat.

Kangxi laughed. With Chen Tingjing and Fan Chengxun as his team, the Heze Fortress could always be defended for two months. And how long could Li Zhongshan's military rations last?Three months?Four months?At most, even if he could capture a fortress like Heze, he wouldn't have much food left to march towards Dongping Prefecture, which was guarded by Kangxi himself.

Once Li Zhongshan runs out of food, the time will come for Kangxi to counterattack!

And that traitor Wu Yingqi will definitely seize the opportunity to stab Daming!
Thinking of this, Kangxi turned around and said to the several high-spirited princes and ministers of the Qing Dynasty behind him: "Fifth brother, Bahai, eldest uncle, younger uncle, King Kang. Jining Prefecture, Ziyang (Yanzhou Prefecture), Qufu, Juye, I will leave these five forts in Surabaya to you to guard! These five forts are all double-layered bastions similar to the Heze Fortress, and each bastion has enough food and grass for an army of [-] to [-] people for three to four months. . As long as we can hold on for three or four months, Li Zhongshan will definitely run out of food and be defeated!" After listening to Kangxi's words, Chang Ning, Bahai, Tong Guogang, Tong Guowei, and Jieshu all had the intention of immediately rebelling against him. After thinking about it, four of them, Chang Ning, Ba Hai, Tong Guogang, and Tong Guowei, are also inseparable from the crime of tapping the Yellow River!

Among them, Chang Ning is the one who takes the blame, Ba Hai is the minister who takes the blame, and Tong Guogang and Tong Guowei, like Fan Chengxun, did the dirty work for Kangxi. Although Li Zhongshan may not be aware of their crimes, paper cannot cover it up after all. Stay on fire!
As for Jie Shu, he is also a die-hard member of the anti-Ming Dynasty!Moreover, Kangxi arranged for him to be in Sishui County, which is located on the edge of Yimeng Mountain. He also had to guard Baima Pass, Jiunv Pass, and Zijin Pass in Yimeng Mountain, so he did not have to defend Surabaya.And this Sishui County's position on Kangxi's "Four Hundred Miles of Defense Line" was not very important, and it was unlikely that Li Zhongshan's 80-strong army could bypass it.

"Your Majesty, don't worry. Even if my ministers are shattered to pieces, they will still defend the city for Your Majesty!"

Although Chang Ning, Ba Hai, Tong Guogang, Tong Guowei, and Jieshu were reluctant, they were all forced into this position by Kangxi and could only stick to being targets.

But having said that, they may not necessarily die if they defend the fortress, because Li Zhongshan did not have enough military rations and Kangxi spent three months on the front line in Heze, Juye, Jining Prefecture, Ziyang, Qufu, and Surabaya. These three months are not the end of the matter. There is also the Dongping Prefecture Fortress 120 miles behind this defense line. It is a triple fortress built on the lakes and hills. There are also a large number of forts around it. There may be many defenders. Up to fifty thousand!
To capture this fortress, at least 15 troops would have to be deployed to besiege it for three months!

The distance from Pizhou to Dongping is more than 500 miles. This distance means huge transportation consumption and the logistics line is always under the attack of the Qing cavalry!

"General, the food and grass stored in Pizhou City can only keep the army stationed for four to five months at most. If the army wants to launch an offensive, then it will be good if it can last for three months!"

In the Pizhou camp, a pre-formation military meeting is underway!
The one who was speaking was Jin Fu, the logistics manager.Although the Ming Dynasty General's Office had long expected that Kangxi would divert the Yellow River, due to traffic conditions, Jin Fu only stored food and grass in Pizhou for three months - this was 80 people and countless livestock to carry out the task. Three months of food and grass during military operations!

It’s really not easy to come up with this amount!
But Kangxi's deployment took at least six to eight months to break!

"Military advisor, can we raise three months' worth of food and grass from Shandong?" Luo Dawei asked.

"It's a bit difficult," Zhou Chang said, "After all, our army has too many people, and the food and grass we need is not 01:30. And now that the Yellow River has been dug up, our food roads are flooded, and the powerful people who have agreed with us before , most of them will also be shaken.”

Because of the enemy's preparations for food, of course, they have been prepared long ago. This is not just a "grab", it can be done by grabbing 2 or 80 people. [-] mouths, where can we grab them?Therefore, you must contact the powerful people in Shandong and Henan in advance!

The Mongolian East India Company under Shang Shuying's management did exactly this, and had already given out millions of deposits!
Many powerful people have already agreed that as soon as the army arrives, they will eat pots of slurry to welcome the king's army.

When the time comes, the people will have the people, and the people will have the food and grass!

But the problem is, Master Ming must prove that he will win!

Otherwise, those Shandong tycoons (Henan tycoons are busy fighting floods) would not dare to give food to the Ming army. They are all wealthy people, how can they dare to make fun of the lives of their own people?

It was originally expected that the Ming Dynasty would win, but now this expectation has been shattered by Kangxi's flood, so these Shandong tycoons must take another look.

Everyone in the auditorium felt a little embarrassed. They all turned to look at Li Zhongshan, but Li Zhongshan looked confident.He smiled and said, "Isn't it just three months' worth of food? What's the problem?"

"General," someone asked immediately, "are there any of you who are ready to abandon the Qing Dynasty and join the Ming Dynasty?"

If Shang Shuying could win over a Qing prince who was sealed in Shandong, the food problem might be solved!

Li Zhongshan smiled noncommittally, and then said: "The Northern Expedition with 80 Heavenly Soldiers naturally caused people's hearts in the north to fluctuate. Now that Kangxi has experienced a flood, it has brought back a little bit of people's hearts. However, as long as we can prove that the Heavenly Soldiers are invincible, Shandong's tycoons are still willing to join us. Food comes and goes!
Once the powerful people from Shandong come back, Kangxi will either abandon the city and go north, or risk sending troops to fight and we will win!Maybe it won't take three months at all before we can invade Beijing! "

"But how can we make people believe that the king's army will win?" Luo Dawei asked, "None of the six fortresses in the north is easy to chew on!"

"Then stop chewing!" Li Zhongshan said, "Put it through!"

"Go through?" Luo Dawei shook his head, "What about the logistics? There are hundreds of thousands of troops!"

"We don't need hundreds of thousands of troops," Li Zhongshan said with a smile. "We don't need hundreds of thousands of troops to pass through Kangxi's defense line and go north. A vanguard army composed of three divisions will bypass the west of Heze Fortress, and then march northward. "

"Bypass and go straight to Beijing?" Luo Dawei was stunned when he heard this plan. "Is it possible? It's almost 1500 miles to bypass Heze and go north, right?"

Li Zhongshan smiled and turned his attention to Zhou Chang, Zhou's military advisor.

Zhou Chang said with a smile: "The army marched in a hurry, hundreds of miles a day, and reached the gates of Beijing in fifteen days! When Li Zicheng attacked Beijing, he only had an army of tens of thousands. He attacked the city all the way, but he also fought a million troops. Momentum? Now everyone in the north knows that I have 80 heavenly troops for the Northern Expedition. It is inevitable that people's hearts will fluctuate. If there are tens of thousands of heavenly troops heading straight for Beijing, how can the northerners know how many there are? Maybe they will spread rumors and think that there are Millions of heavenly soldiers are going to attack Beijing.

Will Kangxi still be able to sit comfortably in Dongping Prefecture by then?As soon as he retreats, Shandong's powerful forces will return with food and troops. As for Heze, Juye, Jiningzhou, Ziyang, Qufu, and Surabaya, they can be solved with the parallel trench siege method in two months, so there is nothing to worry about. "

"It's so high!" Luo Dawei was the first to raise his thumb, "General, this move is too high! When the time comes, our army will divide its forces and approach those fortresses. If the Qing troops guarding the forts try to escape, they will definitely be defeated. We will annihilate them all. If we don't run away, we will be dead. If Kangxi doesn't let them go, he will be forced to come and fight us."

Li Zhongshan nodded, looked at Luo Dawei and said: "Dawei, are you willing to imitate King Li Chuang?"

(End of this chapter)