Great Qing Dynasty talker

Chapter 240 There were many non-mainstream mathematicians in the Qing Dynasty who were good at using four arithmetic operations to solve all difficult problems.
"Why is it so chaotic outside today?"

"Robbing rice, stealing medicinal materials, and setting fires. There were more than a dozen cases this day. Killings and arson were happening everywhere."

Liu Qian looked solemn, thought for a while, and said with a smile:

"The deadline for Jiangning City has arrived!"

Public opinion surged like lava, and it was no longer something Li Shiyao could suppress.

The Qing officials and the Eight Banners stationed in the city were already sitting on the powder keg. Once you slack off even a little bit, you will be destroyed.

"Director, I'm a little worried about the brothers."

"Ok?"

"Yesterday alone, we lost 4 brothers. They were all accidentally dragged into the civil unrest. We don't know whether they were killed by officers and soldiers or by the rioters. I can confirm that Jiangning City is getting more and more chaotic. , it’s no longer safe to go out with a knife in broad daylight.”

"Let our brothers gather on this street. The food and weapons are all ready. We must also keep a secret sentry at night when sleeping. Don't capsize in the ditch. It would be a pity to die on the eve of victory."

In such a critical moment, no one wants to meddle in others' affairs.

……

He will tell everyone only after "fighting out of Jiangning".

Thinking of this, he stood up again:

The money earned was spent on food, drink, guns and gambling.

"I am careless. The in-laws of this gentry are serving as ministers in the Ministry of Justice. You must keep your mouth shut, otherwise once this incident happens, there will no longer be a place for our second lieutenant in the Qing Dynasty."

He glanced down at the city and saw a group of sneaky guys waving to the city.

Either he fled to Jiangbei, or he took advantage of the opportunity to make a lot of money.

The cost is divided equally, and each person throws a small ingot of silver into the copper basin.

They even killed a gentry family near Taipingmen who had been expelled from the Han army flag.

If enough money is given to the defenders of Taiping Gate, they can leave the city.

"Money is an extraneous thing, so spend it quickly. The people who saved it are gone, but the money is still there. Give the brothers some extra food in the evening."

However, as a well-informed Duolong who has given up hope in this world, he knows very well that the wealth and honor in the world are accompanied by the risks in the world. It is not an exaggeration to say that there is a narrow escape from death.

"Sir, the slaves feel tired of eating in restaurants, so why not eat salted duck. There are chicken and duck, this is more suitable!"

Duolong, who was wearing a belt and walked out of the city gate in despair, heard the soldiers asking for instructions:
"The group of businessmen who went out in the morning are back again."

So, the whole family of gentry went to the Hall of the King of Hell neatly.

When the city was broken, cannonballs and guns were flying everywhere. Who cares about whether you are a spy or a bannerman?
It's better to wait and see your fate than to break out in a hail of bullets.

"Dog slave, go ahead."

two letters,
One of them with fire paint will be sent to the First Legion camp outside the city, and will be delivered to the lord by Lin Huaisheng. The other copy was personally signed by Lin Huaisheng.

"Yes."

Although Liu Qian sent someone to inform him that when Jiangning city was destroyed, he would give him a set of incredible wealth.

"Whoo."

After a while, Liu Qian unfolded the white paper and started writing a letter.

"Sir, please don't be short on fine fodder."

Submit your certificate!

Doron shouted:
"Which restaurant and which kiln will I send the goods to tonight?"

Before killing people, Duolong gave everyone psychological training:
"Those who were removed from the Han army flag by the emperor's personal order are worse than dogs. We are serious bannermen, and it is only natural that we kill them."

"Are all the war horses well fed?"

"Let's check. As long as you have the ID card issued when you leave the city, just put the hanging basket up."

The Qing army was not surprised and was too lazy to do anything. After all, Master Duolong, the leader, didn't say a word, so the people below don't need to pretend to be loyal ministers and good generals.

Just collecting out-of-city fees is no longer enough to support the consumption of everyone in the 3rd and 2nd Assistant Leaders of Zhenglan Banner.

"Thank you, sir."

……

Duolong said to his bannermen:
"How long this head can be carried on the shoulders is still unknown. Why not be more open-minded, be more unrestrained, and do something that you normally wouldn't dare to do."

In fact, Duolong's purpose is to increase the cohesion of his subordinates. After everyone has done bad things together, it will be easier to communicate and it will be less likely for two or five people to appear.

It makes sense that the closer the ship is to sinking, the crazier the people on board will be.

Then he casually reported a sudden illness and died, and temporarily built a house as the assistant leader's residence.

But there is no other way. If you take one step back on the path of rebelling against thieves, you will be doomed, but if you take a step further, you can still survive. Because the psychological pressure is too great, you have to enjoy yourself in time.

When he arrived at Duolong, he threw out a piece of gold and muttered:

……

I cursed in my heart: I bet there is some trickery here.

"It's not enough. From today on, each horse will be given 3 eggs, 3 apples, and 3 pounds of barley."

"what?"

"War horses are our good brothers, we can't favor one over the other. Use money to buy them, and if you can't buy them, rob them. In short, I will bear the responsibility if anything happens."

"Whoo."

A group of bannermen from the second sergeant were whispering about their master.

"My lord, it seems that we never care about the king's law?"

"He is a tough guy who was killed among the dead. He doesn't care about these vitriol and fake jealousies."

The old man with gray hair suddenly opened his eyes and said disdainfully:
"The city is about to be destroyed, so why should we pay attention to king's laws? Today's young people are really naive and stupid. If it were the same as my grandfather~"

"What's going to happen?"

Old Qiding gathered up his white hair that was fluttering in the wind, and squeezed out two words in a sinister tone:

"Begging for help."

All the young flags, Ding Dun, felt their stomachs churn and felt very uncomfortable. Looking at the soy sauce beef in their hands, some couldn't help but ran to the city wall to vomit~
Lao Qiding glanced disdainfully. He was already sixty-two this year.

I don't know why, but I can't stand the current young bannermen, and feel that they don't have the ferocity of the Eight Banners.

It's just that he selectively forgot that he lost a fight with a group of children. After he came back crying, his grandfather jumped on his feet and scolded him as a "cowardly thing".

……

Jiangning City, which had been surrounded for dozens of days, began to experience various strange phenomena.

Although the Li Jiajun has not launched an attack, the city is still on fire, killing people and setting fires everywhere.

Fu Changan was already a little numb.

These days, he has suppressed rioters more than fifty times. There is no risk, it is just a unilateral massacre.

But his saber was no longer sharp. Half an hour ago, he drew a rioter's shoulder at the speed of his horse, and it only bled.

And most of the cavalry under his command are like this.

He thought silently in his mind:
"If the knife is dull, it can still be sharpened. If the people's hearts are numb, they will not be able to pull it back in a short time."

"I am afraid that the Qing Dynasty will lose Jiangnan."

……

The top of Purple Mountain,
Lin Huaisheng and Liu Wu looked at the city with telescopes.

"Old Liu, this battle is strange."

"What's strange is that my lord is truly a man of heaven. Jiangning's Qing army is already on the verge of collapse."

"I've wanted to attack by force for a long time, but the Lord wouldn't allow it."

"By the way, Li Shiyao's master came for a secret visit yesterday. He promised me a general soldier, plus 2 taels of silver, on condition that I strike back."

"so what?"

"I left the envoy behind and sent my horse to ask the lord how to deal with it."

Lin Huaisheng put down his telescope and looked at Liu Wu seriously.

Liu Wu was confused and asked:
"What are you looking at?"

"Why didn't I notice before that you, a carpenter, are quite a playboy?"

Liu Wu smiled and didn't want to continue this topic.

He really wanted to say that the person hiding in Jiangning City at the moment was a powerful character that no one noticed.

He didn't say it out loud because he was worried that the words would reach his ears.

Today is different from the past. The backbones are all in charge of their own affairs, so getting along with each other is difficult.

When wearing straw sandals, everyone thinks very simply. Putting on official boots, people change.

After going down the mountain, Liu Wu asked for some more cement.

A small hillside was selected in Jiangxinzhou, the foundation was raised half a foot, a cement fort was built, and several heavy cannons were unloaded from warships and placed inside to prevent the Qing navy from flowing down the river.

If both sides are evenly matched, shore-based forts can have a huge advantage over surface warships.

Because warships can sink, but forts cannot.

……

Central Hubei,

Emperor Hong Sheng's strategic mistakes were magnified countless times. The main forces are attacking Wuchang. The huge Hubei occupied area has no mobile troops except for the limited city garrison troops. It is extremely empty.

The Chengdu Eight Banners cavalry team came from Chuanjiang and had a surprisingly smooth journey.

Destroy the white lotus's grain path, and the center will bloom.

If you encounter rice fields, dig them; if you encounter canals, dig them.

"The deputy capital commander has ordered that Bailian has hundreds of thousands of refugees. If the autumn harvest is cut off, they will be finished."

"A bunch of ragtag people won't survive the New Year."

Just as he was talking, a group of ragged and shockingly thin people rushed out of the hut in the distance.

He knelt down in the paddy field, kowtowed like pounding garlic, and cried out:

"Master, we are obedient people."

Zuo Ling drew out his sword:

"Kill them to death, a bunch of White Lotus remnants."

"Whoo."

The rice fields quickly dried up and the bodies swelled in the sun, attracting swarms of flies.

……

Wuchang front line,

Emperor Hong Sheng looked very bad, partly because he had been working hard recently and his energy had been damaged. The other half is due to instability at the rear.

"Jingzhou, Jingmen, Anlu, De'an, and Xiangyang are all in a hurry and asking me for reinforcements. What do you think, dear friends?"

Zhang Liyong, Bailian’s first brave general, thought for a moment, cupped his hands and said:

"I think they encountered the same cavalry team, causing havoc along the way."

"Well, what Zhang Aiqing said is absolutely true."

A group of old brothers were silent, not knowing what to say. They are not good at such military exercises based on intelligence and status quo.

"Zhang Aiqing, what do you think we should do now? Do you want help?"

"No, use all your strength to capture Wuchang. Then turn around and encircle and suppress this bold Eight Banners cavalry team."

After the meeting, Zhang Liyong was left alone.

"Aiqing, do you really want to flood Wuchang?"

"I'm sorry for being rude. There is no other way but this. If we delay it for a long time, I'm afraid something will change."

"Go ahead and do it. I'm waiting for your good news."

Emperor Hong Sheng sighed and called Sima Shang:

"You personally take the people and take a good inventory of how much food we have in stock?"

"According to the order."

Sima Shang suddenly felt a sense of contempt in his heart, feeling that the White Lotus Holy Kingdom was mostly a mob.

The three old believers who were in charge of the transportation could not recognize all the family names together. The entrance and exit of food and grass are all done by tracing the path with your fingers.

……

Three days later, Sima Shang's face turned earth-colored.

He decided to retract his comments from the past few days. This was not just a mob, it was just mud that could not hold up the wall.

A rough estimate shows that there are still 4 shi of food and grass left in the large camp.

The number of the army is between 12 and 15. Based on 2 kilograms of grain per person, 30 kilograms of grain are consumed every day. In half a month, the army will be out of food!
Grain has been being transferred to the rear. In the past, about 5 shi were delivered every 4000 days, but now it has dropped sharply to 2000 shi.

The center of the Eight Banners cavalry bloomed, causing the food channel to be blocked.

He hesitated in the tent for a while and decided to discuss it with Zhang Liyong first.

As a former "demoted from the Qing court" group, they joined the group to keep warm.

"Trouble. Brother Zhang, what should we do now? Is there still hope for this Holy Kingdom?"

"There is still a chance of winning by taking Wuchang quickly. If we can't take it, the people outside will really go to heaven to see Maitreya Buddha."

There was no awe in their words,

In the eyes of people like them who have seen the world, Maitreya is just a form, just a form that deceives people. It is equivalent to an IQ detector that quickly screens out smart people and stupid people.

At least no one believed in anyone who could enter the royal tent, and the Holy Emperor was the first one.

……

After sending Sima Shang away, Zhang Liyong hurriedly summoned his close confidants.

"How's the military training going?"

"He can barely be used as a Green Camp soldier, as long as his armor and sword can keep up."

"Listen up, now quickly go to the baggage store to collect 2000 shi of military rations. If you want them quickly, they will be piled in our military camp."

"As ordered."

After a while, someone came outside the tent.

"General, the Holy Emperor has summoned you to discuss how to breach the embankments and flood Wuchang."

"understood."

Zhang Liyong stood up, put on his armor meticulously, hung up his sword, and finally put on his helmet solemnly and went out with his head held high.

A family of generals is very concerned about appearance. People who are slovenly and dislike armor, and those who dislike armor and are bored often don't live long.

……

Bai Lian gathered 2 people to build multiple dams on the tributaries of the Han River and began to store water.

Three days later it rained heavily and continuously.

The dam collapsed. It was not because the Holy Emperor ordered it to be dug up, but because it could no longer hold back the water.

The floods collected from the upper reaches hit Wuchang City like galloping horses.

The north of the city is safe for the time being, as the terrain is relatively high, and the city wall blocks the flood. The south part of the city was flooded. Although it was not submerged, the water was still waist deep.

Wuchang City is in chaos!
Chen Huizu, the governor of Huguang, was shocked and ordered all soldiers and artillery to be transferred to the North City and the South City abandoned.

The next day, it rained again.

The downstream section of the river was deliberately blocked by Bailian's shipwreck, causing poor drainage and exacerbating the floods in Wuchang.

As soon as the sky cleared up, tens of thousands of White Lotus troops couldn't wait to attack the city. Zhang Liyong personally supervised the battle, with the purpose of causing more of these new soldiers to die.

Consuming population is an effective way to grow resources!
There were many non-mainstream mathematicians in the Qing Dynasty who were good at using the four arithmetic operations to solve all difficult problems.

……

"Supervise the battle team. If you encounter someone who is afraid of you, kill them."

Zhang Liyong placed his own soldiers as officers in each battalion, and urged his newly trained soldiers to act as supervising the battle team, supervising the battle with a dense formation of spears, and the gleaming spear points forced tens of thousands of new soldiers forward or to death.

The cloud ladders are like dense forests, the shield chariots are like ants, and there are several arrow tower chariots as high as the top of the city.

In just half a day, the attacking White Lotus army had climbed up the Wuchang city wall several times, only to be repelled again.

Emperor Hong Sheng sat under the bright and yellow banner, feeling excited.

This was the first time he witnessed such a large-scale siege, and he couldn't take his eyes off it.

"Zhang Aiqing."

"The minister is here."

"In your opinion, how long will it take to defeat Wuchang?"

"Maintain the current offensive, within a day or two" "Wuchang will be defeated."

"Oh? Seriously?"

"I can issue a military order. If Wuchang is not defeated within two days, I will come to see you."

……

As the siege continued into the afternoon, the sound of cannons suddenly came from the river.

As far as the eye could see, a warship carrying the banner of General Fuyuan appeared on the river. At first there were only three or five ships, but gradually it turned into more than twenty ships.

Reinforcements from the Qing court are coming!
Zhang Liyong was shocked and hurriedly mobilized Bailian Navy to fight.

However, they are all composed of civilian ships, so they are no match for warships! There were all kinds of fishing boats, canal boats, and merchant ships, and each one was hit by bullets and burst into flames.

The river navy division brought by Agui carried as few as three or five cannons and as many as twelve or three cannons. During the gap between reloading after firing, the sailors on the deck filled the gap in firepower with guns, crossbows, and arson cans.

In just half an hour, the Qing army took control of the Han River and began to bombard the tens of thousands of White Lotus recruits who were attacking the city, causing chaos in an instant.

Agui stood on the bow of the boat and breathed a long sigh of relief, and said to the people around him:
"This battle should be a turning point in the Hubei war. From today on, the offensive and defensive positions will change."

After a pause, he suddenly shouted:
"Commander of the Dongting Lake Navy Division, where is Sarakba?"

"The slave is here."

"I order you to lead 1000 navy troops to land bravely, attack the main camp of the White Lotus and set it on fire."

"Whoo."

……

(End of this chapter)