Anti-Qing: Starting from the Reincarnation of the Ming Dynasty

The train goes all the way to Tianjin.

Zhu Jing'an also boarded the train in person and experienced the feeling of riding the train.

Generally speaking, it is not very comfortable, very noisy, and very shaking, and it is quite unfriendly to people who suffer from motion sickness.

But sitting in the car, listening to the noise of the rails and wheels outside the car, Zhu Jing'an felt very pleasant.

Because this is the power of industry!
It’s also an industrial beauty!

The Ming army marched south in a mighty manner. With the assistance of trains, it took less than a day for the Ming army to arrive in Tianjin from the capital.

Then, after a little repair, the Ming army turned from Tianjin to the canal and continued southward!
Head straight to Linqing, the border between North Zhili and Shandong!
On the third day of June in the sixth year of Xuanwu in the Ming Dynasty, the Ming army arrived in Linqing. After three rounds of bombardment, the rebels were defeated and the Ming army was victorious.

Zhu Jing'an made a decisive decision and sent cavalry to chase the enemy everywhere!

Soon, they achieved an exaggerated record of killing 2,000 enemies, taking more than 50,000 prisoners, and suffering more than ten casualties on their own side.

The First World War completely defeated the rebellious canal workers in Linqing area.

Then, the Ming army continued to move south.

On June 19, the Ming army's vanguard arrived in Dongchang.

The vanguard cavalry launched a surprise attack on the Dongchang rebels and defeated them in one battle, wiping out tens of thousands of enemy troops again.

Dongchang was recaptured, and the Dongchang section of the canal was successfully opened immediately.

On the fifth day of July, the forward troops of the Ming Dynasty arrived at Jining City. Jining rebels captured Jining and attempted to defend the city.

The Ming army first suppressed it with artillery bombardment, and then successfully recovered Jining with the cooperation of Jining's gentry and common people in dedicating the city.

The gentry and common people in Jining City are not stupid, and they can understand the general trend of the world.

How can you be on the loser's side?

During this battle, Zhu Jing'an's cavalry blocked Jining's surroundings and surrounded and annihilated the main force of the rebels in Jining City.

The Jining section of the canal is now open!
Then the Ming army continued to move south and attacked Huai'an. Gao Huaiyu, the governor of water transportation, sent people to discuss the surrender with the Ming army in an attempt to surrender and save his life.

While the Ming army pretended to have peace talks with him, they took the opportunity to bypass Gaoyou and raid Gaoyou.

Gaoyou City fell, and the Huai'an rebels were trapped in a tight siege.

At the same time, the Nanjing defenders also sent troops northward, successfully annihilated the rebels in Yangzhou and recovered Yangzhou.

At this point, most of the rebellious canal workers were annihilated, and only one of them was surrounded by the Ming army behind an isolated city in Huai'an.

After falling into a desperate situation, a group of water transport officials had no choice but to join forces to kill Gaohuaiyu and ask for surrender.

Immediately, Huai'an was recovered and the Caogong rebellion was completely put down.

At this time, it was only mid-September of the sixth year of Xuanwu in the Ming Dynasty.

The mighty and powerful uprising of millions of canal workers that shocked the world, only three or four months later, was wiped out in front of the Ming army.

This battle greatly shocked the ambitious people in the world.

The situation that was originally turbulent in the world has completely calmed down at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Zhu Jing'an proved one point to everyone with his actual performance.

Daming is still the same Daming!
The Ming army is still the same Ming army!
The Ming army is invincible and invincible.

Don’t have thoughts that you shouldn’t have!

After the war, Ming Dynasty also began to liquidate the water transportation system.

Those water transport officials who participated in the riot, regardless of their official position, status, surrender or not, all had their homes confiscated, and the nine tribes were escorted to the capital together.

It is planned to be handed over to the three judicial departments for trial, and then executed.

It greatly shocked the people of the world.

Some of the rebellious water workers were thrown by Zhu Jing'an to repair the Yellow River embankment, and some were thrown to the railway construction site to serve as laborers to atone for their sins.

……

At this time, the Ming Dynasty was in full swing fighting the rebels and quelling the internal rebellion.

Just when autumn is high and horses are fat, war on the grassland is about to break out.

Over Suiyuan City, a hot air balloon floats high.

The lookout on the observation balloon constantly reported the enemy movements he saw. In Suiyuan City, the atmosphere of war became increasingly intense.

Everyone can realize that war is about to break out!
Suiyuan Chief Military Officer Huang Wei, who was personally appointed by Zhu Jing'an, stood on a temporary observation deck, holding a telescope and looking into the distance.

In his field of vision, a dark gray tide appeared at the end of the horizon.

It was countless war horses driving and galloping.

Rolling black smoke continued to rise behind the gray tide.

Flags were flying high.

Huang Wei took a deep breath and ordered.

"Send the order, prepare the entire army for war, and be ready to meet the enemy!"

"Immediately send fast horses to Datong, inform the Datong defenders, and say, the wolf is coming!"

Upon hearing this, several adjutants around Huang Wei clasped their fists and accepted the order.

The Ming army in Suiyuan City began to prepare for war while sending fast horses to Datong.

Huang Wei took a deep breath, turned around and said to the people around him.

"My fellow soldiers, you might as well tell everyone that the current Suiyuan City is an isolated city."

"The nearest reinforcements are still in Datong, which is a full four hundred miles away from us."

"To put it bluntly, Suiyuan is far less important than Datong. It is impossible for Datong's defenders to cross the 400-mile grassland and risk a field battle with the superior enemy cavalry to reinforce Suiyuan City. .”

"If we want to get reinforcements, at least it will have to be after the beginning of the next spring, or even in the summer, before His Royal Highness will lead his troops north."

"In other words, we have to persist in Suiyuan for at least half a year."

"After half a year of hard fighting and half a year of hard work in wind and snow, our task is very arduous and we face great pressure. And no one can say whether Suiyuan will fall in these six months."

"If any of you want to leave, before Suiyuan is besieged, shout to everyone that I am a coward and a coward, and then you can leave."

"His Royal Highness, I will be the one to explain. I will shoulder the responsibility."

"But don't blame me for saying ugly words in the first place. You can leave now if you want, but if the battle of Suiyuan begins next, and if anyone wants to escape before the battle and become a deserter and coward who is spurned and stabbed in the spine, don't blame me. Show no mercy."

"The general will know the standard punishment and engage in military law."

When the generals heard this, they all clasped their fists and said.

"Serve the country, even to the death!"

"Serve the country, even to the death!"

"We are all heroes who fought through blood and fire, how can we be cowards who ran away from battle? Why should the teacher be so mean to us?"

"Aren't they just a bunch of foreign devils and Tatars? Who is afraid? A man is born in the world. He should carry a three-foot sword and make great achievements in the world. How can he be greedy for life and afraid of death, and do things that shame his ancestors?"

"That's right, if the Tartar bandits dare to attack our Ming Dynasty, our soldiers will definitely shoulder the responsibility of protecting our country and our country. We will die and we will never do anything like escaping from battle."

"..."

Zhu Jing'an's military construction of the Ming army was not only about purging armaments, updating tactics, adjusting organizational structure, and enforcing military discipline...

More importantly, while building the army, he also did not forget to pay close attention to the spiritual civilization construction of the army.

Although the current Ming army is still a feudal army, it is the kind of feudal army with beliefs and ideas.

Loyal to the emperor, patriotic, revitalizing China, united and dedicated, brave in sacrifice...

These slogans are basically shouted every day, shouted every day, when eating, sleeping, and training.

If you shout too much, everyone will naturally take it seriously. It is not only the lower-level soldiers who are affected, but also these officers.

Seeing this, Huang Wei knew that his provocation method had achieved results, and nodded with satisfaction.

"Very good, all the generals are good sons and gentlemen of my Ming Dynasty."

"First of all, pay homage to me!"

After saying this, he bowed deeply to the generals with a very sincere attitude.

When the generals saw this, they all bowed in return.

"Serve the country, even to the death!"

"Serve the country, even to the death!"

"..."

……

Just as the Ming army in Suiyuan City was preparing for war, among the anti-Ming coalition forces in the distance, Petroyev looked at the Suiyuan City in front of him and couldn't help but frown.

Because what appeared in front of him was not a traditional oriental city at all.

It is a Western-style bastion-type defensive fortress.

Around this fortress, trenches, traps, bunkers, forts and other defensive fortifications were densely dug.

There are three lines of defense just outside the bastion.

Since the Ming army captured Suiyuan City in mid-March, they began to transform Suiyuan City into a fortress to enhance the defense of Suiyuan City as much as possible.

Half a year later, Suiyuan City was successfully transformed into a bastion-style defensive fortress by the Ming army.

Of course, in this process, military expenditures will naturally be spent like water.

The reason for this is simple.

Because almost all the building materials and labor used by the Ming army to build Suiyuan City were sent from the grassland spanning 200 kilometers across Datong.

The cost is naturally not low!

But it turns out that Daming’s money was well spent.

This bastion built on the original site of Suiyuan City has excellent protective capabilities.

At the very least, when Petroyev looked at Suiyuan City in front of him, he had a headache.

Beside him, Yongxuan looked eager to try.

Looking at Suiyuan City in front of him, he was full of energy and secretly vowed in his heart that he must regain Suiyuan and regain the power of the Qing Dynasty.

"A large-scale uprising broke out in the pass. Millions of water workers rioted and cut off the canal. The prince of the Ming thieves personally led the main force of the Ming army back to the pass to put out the fire. What was in Suiyuan City was just a partial force of the Ming thieves."

"Our army will win this battle!"

Yongxuan sat on the horse and spoke energetically.

Fan Boyong on the side heard this and echoed.

"Your Highness is wise!"

"Once our army regains Suiyuan City, Datong will be at our fingertips."

"Our army can then enter Datong and plunder Shanxi, and use Shanxi's commanding position to send troops to regain the capital."

"Once the Qing Dynasty successfully regains the capital, heroes from the north will inevitably rush to defect, and large-scale anti-Ming uprisings will break out everywhere."

"At that time, it will be the time for our Qing Dynasty to be restored!"

The Chechen Khan on the side also spoke.

"We will definitely reproduce the feats of our ancestors back then, and let the flowers and mountains of the Central Plains surrender under our iron heel."

Several Mongolian Khans also expressed their agreement.

Seeing this, Petroyev took a deep breath and spoke in a slightly solemn tone.

"The Ming army actually built a bastion on the grassland. Even if our army can win this battle, I'm afraid it won't be easy."

Unlike Yongxuan, who had barely led troops, and the inexperienced Mongols, as a mature general, no one understood how difficult the bastion was to defeat better than Petroyev.

The reason why Tsarist Russia was able to control the vast Siberia with a small number of troops was that the bastions played a big role.

They, Tsarist Russia, were able to rely on their bastions to hold on for periods of time often measured in years under the attack of enemies whose strength was dozens of times their own.

Even if the Ming army is not as good as them, this bastion cannot be easily captured.

Next to Petroyev, a tall Russian military officer saw this and spoke.

"Your Excellency Petroyev, I think you are overly worried. Although the bastion is difficult to capture, if we can use the Vauban siege method, it will only take more effort to capture a bastion. "

"And now, we have hundreds of thousands of soldiers, so there is no shortage of labor force."

This man's name is Kojevich, one of the commanders of Catherine's Guards.

He is regarded as the Queen's confidant.

Although he was sent to lead his troops to fight in the east this time to gain credit, his ability is not bad.

He was once ordered to work with the famous Tsarist Russian general Suvorov, and he emerged in the Fifth Russo-Turkish War a few years ago.

He led his troops to seize the entrance to the Black Sea for the empire and made great contributions.

Petroyev turned to look at Kojevic, but finally nodded.

"That makes sense."

Since the Europeans invented the bastion, they naturally also have some experience in how to capture the bastion.

Vauban siege method is no longer a secret in Europe of this era.

The only drawback is that it takes too long and requires too much labor to dig the trenches, that's all.

However, the current anti-Ming coalition forces do not lack labor force.

Although the Mongolians in this era were not very effective in combat, they were still good at digging trenches.

After saying this, Petroyev spoke.

"Send the order and let the army prepare to launch an offensive against Suiyuan City."

"Prepare to dig trenches, and then approach Suiyuan City through the trenches..."

……

Just when the war in Suiyuan City was about to break out.

Zhu Jing'an was on his way back to the division with his army.

At the speed of almost an armed march, the Ming army quickly wiped out the millions of rebel canal workers, and then began its journey back to the capital.

However, only halfway through Zhu Jing'an's journey, he received an urgent military report that the Mongolian and Tsarist Russian coalition forces were approaching Suiyuan City and the Battle of Suiyuan broke out.

After receiving the military report, Zhu Jing'an immediately ordered the Ming army to speed up their march and return to the capital as soon as possible.

However, it was useless for Zhu Jing'an to be anxious.

It is now late autumn in September, and the temperature is about to get colder. The temperature on the grasslands outside Guan has even begun to drop below zero, and frost has begun to fall in the early morning.

Hu Tian said it was snowing in August.

It will take at least October or November for the Ming army to return to the capital before setting off for the outside world.

It's winter already!
It was difficult for the Ming army to adapt to fighting in this climate condition.

Even if Zhu Jing'an returned to the capital, all he could do was start preparations for war as soon as possible.

As for leaving the customs immediately?
Such a decision is not wise. (End of chapter)