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Chapter 216: Life is full of regrets

The Qing army was obviously a little confused after being beaten.

This is the shooting of thousands of turtledove guns.

The power of this thing is far different from that of a bird gun or a Portuguese shotgun.

Even a seven-cent bird gun cannot compare to a turtledove gun that uses one-ounce and eight-cent bullets.

The power gap is too big.

Like a pistol and a sniper rifle.

A sniper bullet weighs only about 40 grams, which is less than 1.5 liang. This is a 1.8 liang bullet, which is almost as heavy as 14.5. A 14.5 mm machine gun bullet weighs only about 60 grams, which is about 1.9 liang to 2 liang.

In the past, the Ming army used some turtledove guns to strengthen the chariot camp. The Qing army could face hundreds of them at a time, which was considered a strong enemy. Soldiers didn't like this thing. It was too heavy for a single soldier. The cost and output were not a problem. At present, all places can make it by themselves. But Zhejiang militia almost never considered long-distance land mobility. They were formed to defend their hometown. They could take a boat to any battlefield in the water network of eastern Zhejiang, so they no longer used anything else, all turtledove guns. Thousands of turtledove guns continuously sprayed flames a hundred meters away. The protective wall of the shield car could not stop it at all, and the multiple heavy armor of the Qing army could not stop it at all. Being hit by bullets of this weight, even if they did not penetrate, they would be seriously injured.

Besides, no armor can block it.

Even if you change to European high-end plate armor, it won't be able to stop it.

Ordinary European plate armor was already unable to withstand heavy arquebuses, and the Ming Dynasty's imitation of the turtledove gun was actually larger than the Spanish heavy arquebus because it was originally loaded with multiple bullets.

The latter is only equivalent to a banjo gun with a bullet of one tael and five cents.

As for hitting a warhorse, it would cause serious injury or even death.

Of course, the firing rate is slightly slower.

So the Qing army reacted quickly and launched a fierce attack.

but……

"on!"

Zheng Zunqian roared.

All the melee soldiers behind him, armed with heavy armor and long swords, immediately stepped forward.

He rented these from Gao Jie for 300,000 taels...

Soldiers can also be rented!

The militia is not the official army, and is very flexible in its use and deployment. It is impossible to train experienced hand-to-hand combat elites in such a short time. Gao Jie cannot send his servants to them, so he might as well rent them.

He knew that although the Zhejiang militia had strong firepower, they lacked hand-to-hand combat capabilities. Even Qi Jin had to cooperate with the White Spear Soldiers because the latter provided hand-to-hand combat soldiers for the Zhejiang Army. Fortunately, this problem could be easily solved with silver.

"I don't lack money. I'll give you poor bastards three hundred thousand taels to death!"

He roared.

The Qing army that was attacking the formation instantly collided with the melee soldiers, who were only exposed with two eyes, and all of them were equipped with heavy sabers. With the help of the Zhejiang militia spearmen, they didn't have to think about anything else and just chopped at the Qing army. Anyway, it was difficult for the Qing army's weapons to cause real damage to them at once, and even the Qing army's heavy arrows could not penetrate their protection. Although the cost was inconvenient to move, the action of chopping people was very simple.

Just swing the knife which is over one and a half meters long and chop it diagonally forward.

Ignore the opponent's attacks.

No matter whether he has a spear or a bow and arrow, just treat it as a tickle.

Then slash diagonally.

He raised his hand again and slashed diagonally.

Even if the Qing army's armor cannot be cut through, a long sword of this level will destroy it.

Later, Zheng Chenggong's Iron Man Army did just that.

Behind the chariot's protective wall, the militia soldiers quickly loaded bullets and pulled the trigger at the Qing army that was close at hand. The huge bullets, with fierce kinetic energy, instantly penetrated the Qing army's bodies. Those who were hit by them had only two possibilities: disability or death.

On the Yangtze River, the heavy artillery on Zheng Chenggong's warships was still bombarding the Qing army. The shells whizzing across the battlefield kept falling on the Qing army that was trying to reorganize and reinforce. The Mongolian cavalry on the flanks were also trying to attack again, but at the same time, the second group of militiamen landed and joined the battlefield, and the artillery unloaded on the dock was also set up and began to join the bombardment of the Mongolian cavalry.

The battlefield is expanded.

But this was just the beginning, because the warships transporting the militia on the lower reaches of the Yangtze River still came with the wind.

This was a joint landing of Zhejiang militia, Suzhou, Songjiang and Changzhou militia, and the Zhejiang New Army. After experiencing two battles of Yangzhou, this army, which had expanded to 30,000, had become the strongest combat force in the lower reaches.

If you really think about it, Gao Jie and his tens of thousands of troops are no match for them in a field battle.

No need to fight.

The elders' associations in various places could use silver to throw at Gao Jie, and make him deserted by his friends and relatives, so they were actually the strongest military force in the regent court. Relying on them, the elders' associations in Zhejiang and Suzhou, Songjiang and Changzhou were now very strong. Liu Zongzhou often trained Ma Shiying like a dog.

In fact, it was not just them who were counterattacking. A new batch of Jiangxi reinforcements had also arrived in Anqing and were crossing the river with the Chizhou militia to reinforce. On the battlefield of Ma Dang, Liu Tongsheng, the top scholar in the 10th year of Chongzhen, also joined with reinforcements. However, he was not bringing soldiers from Jiangxi, but soldiers from Yunnan, led by Chen Xun, the Yunnan inspector, to defend the king. However, after arriving in Jiangxi, several generals were bribed by the Jiangxi Elders Association and Chen Xun was abandoned. The latter, a native of Wei County, could only sigh. Then this Yunnan army to defend the king became a mercenary army of the Jiangxi Elders Association, commanded by Liu Tongsheng, who was kicked home by Chongzhen before, and was also a good friend of Yang Tinglin.

The latter even has a small club.

Yang Tinglin, Liu Tongsheng, Wan Yuanji, and the Song Yingxing brothers are among them.

I guess he wants to control the Elders Council.

In fact, those who currently constitute the core of militia training in various places all do this.

Chen Zilong and several others are also from the same company, that is, a society.

In addition, it is not just the Yunnan soldiers. The Jiangxi Elders Association is also trying to win over the Guangxi and Guangdong soldiers.

Especially the Guangxi Wolf Soldiers.

After all, there is no need to go through the court procedures at this time. Everything depends on money. If you give one hundred thousand taels of silver to the chieftains in Guangxi, will you give me a thousand wolf soldiers to use?

If you die, it will be considered as the money they paid for your life. If you come back alive, it will be considered as a profit for you. We will pay you for the war.

Do you want toast?
If you don’t do it, you’re a fool!

The court was reluctant to recruit them to fight, but they did not hesitate to bribe them with money.

However, the Jiangxi gentry also knew that it was okay to buy some foreign troops as the vanguard, but it would be hard to predict the results if there were too many, so they only brought in a small number. In short, this war really mobilized the Jiangxi gentry and entered the so-called provincial war state. A province with an official population of more than 10 million, but probably twice that in reality, and with major grain-producing areas, is an extremely powerful force once it is truly mobilized.

At this time, there are probably few countries in the world with a larger population than Jiangxi!
At the same time that Zheng Zunqian led the Zhejiang militia to land and counterattack Hezhou, the counterattack against Chuzhou and Xuyi downstream also began.

Prince Yang personally supervised the army. Of course, he actually supervised the army in Nanjing.

Therefore, Zhu Dadian was in charge of the counterattack on Xuyi, with the troops of Shandong General Liu Yuanqing, Xuzhou General Jin Shenghuan, Huai'an General Hu Maozhen, and of course Huai'an militia. Gao Jie was in charge of the counterattack on Chuzhou, and his subordinates were a mess. Except for the troops of Yangzhou General Li Benshen, the rest were all militia, including Yangzhou, Zhenjiang, Yingtian, Huizhou militia, Confucius and Mencius Knights, and Fujian militia.

This group training was brought by Huang Daozhou.

The total force is five thousand.

But it was not Zheng Zhilong's system. After all, Fuzhou and southern Fujian were not integrated. The source of soldiers actually mainly came from northern Fujian. The gentry in Fuzhou paid the money, and the gentry in northern Fujian sent mountain people to serve as soldiers.

There is even a Beijing camp!
Of course, the Beijing Army at that time was just a bunch of small fry.

Even the large parade ground was borrowed by the Yingtian militia, and the small parade ground was borrowed by the Huizhou militia.

As for the military households in the capital...

Because the nobles were purged before, although their families were not wiped out, including the titles, most of the nobles' land and properties have been confiscated and turned into the court, so a comprehensive investigation is being carried out, and all the land and properties that originally belonged to the Wei but were occupied by the nobles will be returned to the Wei. The Wei military households that cultivated these lands will of course continue to be Wei military households, but they don't have to pay the grain that was originally handed over to the Wei. However, the civilians who cultivated these lands are considered to be cultivating Wei land, so they need to pay rent to the Wei. As for the land that was not originally in the Wei, of course it was directly confiscated as official land, and the original cultivated land continued to pay taxes according to the heavy official land tax. In general, the degree of reform is limited. After all, these are all presided over by civil officials. They will not let the Beijing camp become strong. It is enough to have militia. Why do we need the Beijing camp?
All we need is the Huai Army.

Why would we need the Eight Banners to defend the capital?

Wouldn’t it be better to keep smoking until you die?

Therefore, instead of being revitalized, the Beijing Army was deliberately weakened, because a large number of hereditary officers were involved in the rebellious party and dismissed, and the Ministry of War also deliberately dragged its feet and never appointed new reinforcements. The various guards were basically in a state of being left alone, and the military households could not even find a complete organization, let alone training.

Anyway, everyone lives their own life.

There is no difference between them and civilians, and they don’t even have to pay taxes.

Very happy.

As for the Beijing Camp, it was recruited during the previous defense of the city. Because they were going to counterattack Chuzhou, they recruited 10,000 people with a monthly salary of three taels of silver. They were commanded by Liu Yongxi, the son of Liu Kongzhao, the Earl of Chengyi. Liu Kongzhao was not involved in the rebellion either, mainly because he was not in Nanjing when Zuo Liangyu entered Nanjing. His admiral Cao Jiang was in Zhenjiang to deal with Yang Feng. Of course, he was not stupid enough to return to Nanjing afterwards, and he could not command military generals such as Zheng Hongkui. He was very sensible and pretended to be sick and hid in Zhenjiang, watching the changes in the situation all the time...

It has the flavor of his ancestors.

In short, this chaotically assembled coalition was handed over to Gao Jie to lead a counterattack on Chuzhou. There was no special requirement as to when to capture the city. The main purpose was to use war to force Dorgon to accept the conditions, leaving Zhu Cilang in Fengyang and then letting the Qing army retreat.

Anyway, Zhu Cilang had no way out at this time. Even if Dorgon did not leave a Fengyang general to watch over him, Zhu Cilang could only continue to maintain an alliance with him. The two sides would at most be like Xiao Yi and Yuwen Tai. In this way, Yang Feng could temporarily put it aside and concentrate on dealing with Li Zicheng. Dorgon probably also realized this. He probably didn't want to continue fighting, at least not now. Once he suffered heavy losses here, he would have to face Li Zicheng. Moreover, as long as Yang Feng defeated Li Zicheng, everything would be fine. But whether Yang Feng won or lost, it would be very troublesome. If Yang Feng lost, Li Zicheng would unify Jiangnan, and the only thing left was to march north to kill him.

Yang Feng won...

Then Li Zicheng would seek him out to vent his anger.

The most perfect scenario, of course, is that both Yang Feng and Li Zicheng suffer heavy losses.

But this possibility is too small. After all, Yang Feng, who always claims that Li Zicheng killed his father, is actually more like a good friend of Li Zicheng. Even now, it is only for a woman.

"A rage for a beauty!"

Prince Yang sighed.

In front of him was Wu Weiye who was about to be executed, and of course Jin Zhijun.

Previously, the Suzhou Elders Association had only arrested the two of them, saying that they would be transferred to Nanjing, but they dragged their feet and never set off in Suzhou. After all, the Qing army was still attacking Yangzhou at that time. What if the Qing army opened Yangzhou? Keep them as a backup! But after the Qing army was defeated in Yangzhou, the Suzhou Elders Association immediately gave up their fantasy and sent them directly. When the Huizhou gentry had just tortured Huang Shu...

It is actually Lingchi.

The young and strong men used scissors to cut Huang Shu into pieces, and the pieces were eaten by hundreds of wild dogs.

Even the bones were crushed and fed to the dogs.

Under such circumstances, the few people in the court who valued Wu Weiye's talent and wanted to protect him were unable to speak up, and ultimately he was sentenced to beheading. Of course, Jin Zhijun had to undergo lingchi, and his body was already being cut. As for Wu Weiye, he was being held down there, with an executioner wiping the knife beside him.

Poor poet Wu, he never thought that he would end up like this.

He really didn't do anything!

He just took Jin Zhijun to the elders' association.

Moreover, he was not the mastermind. The mastermind is still at large, which is very strange. However, he was forced to take all the blame in exchange for the Suzhou Elders Association to protect his family.

"The whole army wept in mourning, and the wrath of the crown was for the beauty."

Prince Yang continued to recite poetry.

Then he picked up the warrant...

"Execution!"

he shouted.

The executioner raised his knife, and the poor great scholar Wu looked at the sky with infinite longing. Then the knife flashed above his head, and a head full of poems and articles fell in a spurt of blood.

Yang Feng was looking at the crowd with great interest. There was a young woman in a Taoist robe, looking at the dead body of the great poet Wu in pain. Then she slowly walked forward. Several soldiers who were on guard immediately stopped her...

"Let her pass!"

Prince Yang shouted.

The soldiers quickly separated to both sides.

Prince Yang lay on the table, looking at the woman with a melon-eating smile on his face.

The latter walked to Wu Weiye's head, wiped the blood and dirt off his face, then picked up the head and placed it next to the neck of the corpse...

"That won't do. His head must be hung on the city wall, and his body must be exposed here for three days. Besides, even if his body is collected, it's not your turn. He has a wife and children. What's your relationship? I can understand your feelings, but you two have no relationship. If his family doesn't collect his body, then after the public display is over, I can let someone notify you to collect his body.

Alas, I am always so kind-hearted. "

Yang Fu said shamelessly.

The woman stood up silently, saluted him, then turned around and left.

"Rouge tears, drunk with each other, when will it be heavy? Life is full of long regrets, the water flows eastward!"

Prince Yang looked at her desolate back and continued to act like a talented and romantic man!

This should be Bian Yujing.

(End of this chapter)