Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 1708 Rising Storm (Seventeen)

Liu Fuquan, who was missing one ear, stood in front of a house, looking fiercely at the officer on the east bank opposite, wishing he could pounce on him and split him in half right now.However, the remaining rationality told him that he could not do this, otherwise, even if he could successfully stand up to the seven or eight yellow-clothed thieves on the opposite side, he might end up disobeying military orders and military laws after returning.

However, Liu Fuquan, who had half of his ear cut off during the battle, hated the people on the east coast at an unprecedented level. If it hadn't been for the order of Chongnian, who had been promoted to his immediate boss, he would not have come forward to fight with Huang. The clothes thief messenger does the exchange of prisoners.

Yes, that's right, Liu Fuquan was ordered to exchange prisoners with the people from the East Bank today.The exchange took place in an abandoned mountain village in the southeast of Phoenix City that both sides had visited. The Qing army came with about a hundred people, bringing more than a thousand captives, most of whom were captives. A small number of North Korean sergeants came from the first division of the Liaodong New Army and other direct troops on the east bank.

It is worth mentioning that this is not the first time that the two sides have exchanged prisoners. Although there were many frictions and ups and downs in the previous few times, they were all completed. Both sides took back their captured sergeants, and then parted ways. various.Although there are more people exchanged this time, there shouldn't be any problems.

The village in front of me seems to have been abandoned for a long time, the houses are quite dilapidated, the farmland is full of weeds, and the northwest wind blows in, bringing the faint barking of wolves in the wind, which adds a bit of desolation, desolation and peace to this place. fear.The green Mongolian horse acting as a mount snorted behind Liu Fu's body, stretched its neck, and struggled to move its hooves, as if it was a little afraid of the tall and strong black water horses opposite, just like his stern master Same.

The person who came to meet Liu Fuquan was a military officer on the east bank who looked to be in his twenties. He was very young and was covered with a woolen overcoat. The overcoat was opened to reveal the khaki military uniform inside.Probably due to the long journey, his face looked a little tired, but he was in good spirits, especially those big bright eyes reflected the determination and bravery of the young man - this is all after rolling several times on the battlefield The person who died, has been there several times between life and death, so it is naturally not comparable to ordinary people.

Behind Liu Fu, there were a few attendants carrying swords. Seeing that the officer on the east bank opposite him was sizing up his group with carelessness, he immediately raised the blade in his hand and said intimidatingly, "Thief in yellow, what are you looking at? Believe it or not, I chopped you up?"

Hearing this, the young officer smiled disdainfully, took out a small notebook from his pocket, threw it on the face of the most yelling man, and said, "You are too presumptuous! I am a lieutenant officer of the Army of the East Coast Republic of China, Your boss, if you see me, you should treat me with courtesy, what kind of person are you!"

After the young officer finished speaking, the surroundings fell silent.A minion behind Liu Fu came forward, picked up the small notebook on the ground, and handed it to Liu Fuquan respectfully.Liu Fuquan opened it patiently and saw that it was written clearly: Cavalry Lieutenant Bei Zhensheng.

"Boy, you are too crazy. If it wasn't for the Shangguan's order this time, my old Liu will keep your dog head. It's getting late now, so hurry up and finish the job." Liu Fuquan waved his hand impatiently , said.

"It's exactly what I want." Bei Zhensheng responded loudly, and then waved his hand, letting Xiong Hui and others behind him come forward to deliver the captives.

Xiong Hui was wearing a big hat with the brim pressed down very low. Although few people on the other side knew him, but he was a defector from the Qing Dynasty. Blindly count the number of people with him and deliver the prisoners.

Since the Qing side brought thousands of captives, there were only about two hundred people on the east bank side, which was not very equal.Therefore, the East Bank made up a lot of money for them so that everyone could be redeemed.Anyway, it’s the money from the government of the Kingdom of Korea (who made them capture too many people), it doesn’t matter, and the silver can’t be eaten or drunk. It doesn’t matter much to the Tatars in Liaodong except that they can pay some military salaries that have been owed for a long time. significance.

The delivery between the two parties was not completed until two or three o'clock in the afternoon.The East Bank side put down their belongings and disappeared into the mountain trail with the people.Liu Fuquan looked at their backs, spat hard, and deliberately ordered to pursue them, but after thinking about it, he gave up.According to the unwritten rules between the two parties, within one day after the delivery of the captives, one cannot fight at will. Liu Fuquan did not have the guts to break this unspoken rule, so he could only swallow his breath and ordered his own side to turn around and retreat, and on the second day Tian returned to Phoenix City and returned to Chongnian.

Because of his repeated military achievements over the years, Chongnian, an unknown guy in history, has now climbed to the high position of the Eight Banners Association Leader in Phoenix City. There are more than [-] soldiers in the army (including the artillery team and the cavalry team), which can be described as a high position, which makes Liu Fuquan, who is still struggling in the general position of the Green Camp, envious: After all, it is the Manchurian uncle. Upgrading a few levels is like child's play.

After seeing Liu Fuquan, Chongnian asked him about the details of the process of exchanging prisoners. Finally, he sighed and said, "I'm afraid you will have to go again in a few days. Last night a convoy was captured by bandits in yellow in the mountains. It was robbed, and no one came back. Take someone to Donggou Fort, talk to the yellow-clothed thief, and see if anyone survived. If there is, ask for the name, and redeem Yes. The people who fell this time were all the uncles from the pass, although the fight is not very good, but there are some corners in the family, I can't help it, I have to take care of it."

Liu Fuquan was secretly relieved when he heard this, co-authoring that the second generation ancestors who came to grab credit for their contributions were ambushed by the bandits in yellow.Hehe, let you grandchildren be paralyzed and think that the yellow-clothed thief is the oozy Guan Ning army back then?However, Liu Fuquan also felt a little bit wrong at this time. This yellow-clothed thief is fine. He has been besieged by the army led by Prince Kang for three years, and Kuandian County was almost breached at one point. He will not be in a hurry to rectify the rear. What about the ability to harass and ambush?Is there another new soldier coming?

"You haven't been in the city for a while, so you don't know what's going on outside. Before the army was completely withdrawn, the thieves in yellow clothes dispatched 2000 men and horses to harass and injure my people, destroy my fields, and burn my village. , its meaning is self-evident. I also sent people to surround this group of yellow-clothed thieves, but they were hard to find. They marched extremely fast, and they were still unable to stop them head-on. It's hateful." Chongnian and Liu Fuquan are also old acquaintances, and some Naturally, there is no need to hide things, so I briefly talked about the situation these days, with a lot of helplessness in my words.

In fact, what he didn't mention was that a green battalion with a size of about 500 people once blocked the east bank army in the mountains.At that time, the army on the east bank was only half of the Qing army (an infantry company of 240 people). As a result, these people dismounted and fought on foot, shooting the Qing army with fierce volleys of guns.At that time, the two sides suddenly encountered in the wild were only a hundred steps apart. The Qing army thought that they were out of the range of the muskets of the people on the east bank, and they thought they had a plan. In the end, they were beaten into pieces by the musketeers from the east bank who dismounted and shot. The hornet's nest retreated in shock.

The escaped officer reported this to Chongnian, but Chongnian thought it was a sophistry and ordered to be executed on the spot.Then I asked the other people below one by one, and everyone agreed, only then did I realize that all of this may be true!And this cognition is simply bad news for Chongnian, a bad news that has made him uneasy these days: When Zhenjiang Fort (that is, Dandong County) was lost, the east bank army in blue clothes was killed. The Qing army was deeply impressed. Not only were its cannons accurate, but its muskets also had a longer range, and their guns bit meat with such precision that it frightened people.Fortunately, they disappeared for a long time afterwards, which greatly relieved the Qing army. Unexpectedly, they reappeared after a few years. Could it be that the next step is to directly attack Phoenix City?

Panicked, Chongnian didn't have time to find someone to verify, so he immediately found two trustworthy old brothers and asked them to go to Shengjing immediately, report the situation to Prince Kang, and say that the "thief in blue" is back Yes, handle with caution.At the same time, he also reviewed the defense situation inside and outside Phoenix City overnight, checked the soldiers, horses and equipment of each battalion, and he really didn't have much confidence in whether he could defend the city well.

Of course, he also knows that if the team of blue-clothed thieves who are maneuvering in the mountains on horseback really kills them, although he is not very confident in whether he can hold the city, after all, there are 5000 people here, and the food stored is also large. It is enough to eat for half a year, and if you rely on the city wall to hold on, it is not impossible to kill a large number of blue-clothed bandit soldiers.After all, the battlefield is changing rapidly and the situation is complicated, and the enemy is still the attacker, so how can it be possible not to pay the price?

What's more, the bandits in yellow probably weren't ready to capture Phoenix City.Although they successfully defended Kuandian, Zhenjiang, Jiulian City and other places this time, their losses were huge. Chongnian did not believe that they would be able to recover their strength in a short while.And since they can't restore their strength in the short term, how can they hold on to Phoenix City for a long time even if they conquer Phoenix City at the cost of heavy casualties?In the end, I still had to give up, lest my front line be stretched too long, but my troops were seriously insufficient.

But then again, the current momentum of the yellow-clothed thieves really cannot be suppressed no matter what, and the morale of the officers and soldiers is high, and the equipment is seven or eight blocks away from their own. Large numbers of people and strong cannons to offset the enemy's advantage.But always doing this is not a solution, because it is tantamount to giving up all the wild villages to the yellow-clothed thieves, and the future prospects are worrying-it’s okay to say now, because the people on the east bank are still cramped on the bank of the Yalu River, and they have just been besieged In three years, the loss was huge, and they were in such a panic that they couldn't push the reclamation point to the hinterland for a while.But in the future, once they slow down and continue to open up new settlements in the inland areas, their combat radius will become larger and larger, and sooner or later they will be able to cover Phoenix City, and then gather an army in a grandiose manner. Recover here as their new forward base.

This kind of "operation" is understood by Chongnian, Prince Kang in Shengjing, and Emperor Kangxi in Beijing, but what is the use of it?The [-] to [-] elite troops dispatched from all over the country fought for three full years, but what was the result?He couldn't take down the fortress guarded by the thieves in yellow!These yellow-clothed thieves seemed to be overwhelmed by the river, and they could be driven into the river as long as they worked harder, but they were so close to their last breath that they couldn't beat them, and they even let the yellow-clothed thieves use the strong city cannon to kill them A lot of soldiers are brave, and it is really impossible to steal a chicken and lose a lot of rice.

The only result of the battle is probably that many veterans and a lot of money and food were consumed by the Yellow Clothes Thieves, their facilities were destroyed, and their development time was delayed for several years.But this is only a temporary solution, not the root cause. As long as the yellow-clothed thieves in Liaodong are not completely wiped out, and they are allowed to take root there, the future of Liaodong will be very bleak.

Thinking of this, Chongnian sighed heavily. He suddenly remembered that it was rumored that the imperial court was going to hire a group of Francine fighters in Haojingao to fight in Liaodong. He wondered how it was going.In addition, the imperial navy has never been developed. It has built two Western galleons and hid in Tibet.

Finally, Chongnian remembered the news about the grassland that he had heard: the descendant of Yexian, the Great Khan of Junggar, Geldan, was wise and mighty, and won a series of internal strife and fighting, and has basically integrated the entire Oirat Mongolia. , almost none of the ministries dared to publicly express their disobedience, which made the Qing court feel uneasy.

What's more, there were rumors on the grasslands that Junggar troops briefly appeared in the Mongolian area of ​​Khalkha, acting suspiciously, which further deepened the doubts and tension of the Qing court.In short, the Manchu and Qing courts, which had always regarded Mongolia as very important and declared "the integration of Manchu and Mongolian" all the year round, had to devote a large part of their energy to the Mongolian grassland.In this vast land, they cannot afford to lose!

In this way, the resources that can be effectively invested in Liaodong will inevitably become more scarce. How can this not scare people like Chong Nian who have been fighting in this white mountain and black water all year round?Think about it, in the future, when the bandits in yellow are ready for war, gather a large army, contact the North Koreans, and attack Phoenix City aggressively, what will they use to stop them?Do you expect the imperial court to mobilize the people of Zhili province again to transport supplies, and then recruit warriors on the grasslands to fight in Liaodong?No, it's impossible, maybe the grassland has become a new battlefield by then!

Every time I think of this place, Chongnian will feel a sense of suffocation: there are thieves in yellow clothes in the east, remnants of trespassers in the south, the increasingly powerful Oirat Mongolia in the west, and the Mongolian tribes on the grassland in the north. The Qing Dynasty was really full of disasters!

(End of this chapter)