Dragon Sea Empire

The Emperor Wanli saw Fang Congzhe constantly wiping cold sweat below, and said something like "there are not many pirates, and they use sharp firearms as their forte; our army is large, and we win with numbers, so we will be able to gather and annihilate them", He was very dissatisfied in his heart. Although Emperor Wanli was passive and sabotage, he was not a fool. At a glance, he could see that Fang Congzhe was talking in general, without any practical use.

With a big wave of his hand, he said, "I already know what you said. Mr. Wang planned everything out and planned everything out, and built a miracle quickly to win a big reward. Today, the Nancheng cannons disturbed the inner palace, and the prince was frightened and feverish. He can't get out of bed yet. Within ten days, if the ministers are still unable to drive away the pirates, sir, please do as you please."

Wanli incidentally mentioned the prince, which made Fang Congzhe, who had been advocating the prince's upright position back then, feel chills from the bottom of his heart.

Fang Congzhe was covered in cold sweat, knelt down on the ground, pleaded guilty, and paid half the salary. A little eunuch whispered in his ear: "The Holy Majesty has returned to the palace."

Fang Congzhe raised his head, and sure enough, Emperor Wanli was nowhere to be seen on the throne in the imperial study room. He wiped off his cold sweat, and left the imperial study room backwards.

After leaving the inner palace, Fang Congzhe called all the ministers of the Jiuqing in the capital to discuss how to fight the battle. He changed his habit of shirking and procrastinating, and emphasized the need to deal with the pirates quickly and gather all the officials and troops in Changping. Immediately attack Tongzhou to fight the pirates. He asked the Ministry of Households to immediately distribute 20 yuan of salary to other ministries. It is required to urge the Liaodong Army, the main force of the Ming Army, to quickly attack the eastern suburbs of the capital within three days.

The other main force, the combat effectiveness of the three major battalions of the capital, he himself was not sure about. He just asked Ma Tang, the eunuch of the imperial horse supervisor, to supervise the army, and urged the three major battalions to select soldiers for the expedition and attack the eastern suburbs of the capital within three days.

At the same time, counselor Yan Mingtai supervised the troops of Xuanda, Yan, Ji, Shanhaiguan and other ground service kings with the garrison preparations, and required troops from all over the country to attack the eastern suburbs of the capital within three days to wipe out the pirates in one fell swoop.

The previously appointed Director General, Huang Jiashan, Shangshu of the Ministry of War, and Zhao Xingbang, who was assigned to the Ministry of War in Tianjin, were reprimanded by him for not doing things well. Fang Congzhe showed unprecedented decisiveness and resoluteness at this time. He tried his best to suppress all objections, and he repeated the words of Emperor Wanli's "defeating the enemy within ten days" with embellishments, and all the opponents shut up. Everyone's black hats will be lost, and maybe their heads will also be lost.

Many supervising troops and a multi-level command structure made the Ming army's command system chaotic. Fortunately, most of King Qin's frontier troops were veterans who had been fighting all year round. Finally, they were able to obey the command. Three days later, the [-] Ming troops in a hurry finally set off from the assembly point in Changping.

Chief General Ji Liao Governor Wang Keshou sits in Changping. In fact, he has been deprived of a lot of power. Huang Jiashan, the director general of the military department, became the chief planner of this battle. He transferred a group of officials from his ministry and skipped Wang Ke Huang Jiashan was just a literati who claimed to be familiar with military books, astronomy and geography, and thought that the victory or defeat of a war could be determined by the number of people, or that the just would win... In short , He thought it was very simple to fight a war. He brought a group of subordinates into the Changping barracks, but unintentionally made the Chinese army know everything about the Ming army's mobilization in advance.

Information about the general attack launched by the officers and soldiers, through various channels, has continuously entered the Chinese Army camp by the Tonghui River in the past few days, the Chinese Army's eyeliner in the three major battalions of the capital, and the selection of soldiers under the Ministry of War. The undercover agents who worked as small officials issued alarms one after another, and reported the detailed combat plan and army establishment of the officers and soldiers to Chen Zhongji and others.

Intelligence chief Zeng Qing is reading out today's intelligence summary aloud: "The army of the Ming Dynasty plans to attack our army in four ways:

One was the Shanhaiguan General Soldier Du Song and the Kaiyuan General Soldier Ma Lin, accompanied by generals such as Dusi Canyou Liu Yujie and Gong Niansui, with 13000 horse infantry, marching south from Luanzhou to attack Tianjin Wei via Kaiping;

The second is nearly 30000 Liaodong Army troops led by Liaodong General Liaodong Zhang Chengyin, Lieutenant General Po Tingxiang, and General Pu Shifang. The northern frontier army led by King Qin, now has more than 20000 people. It is planned to join forces with about 5000 soldiers from Baoding General Soldier Wang Xuan stationed at Ritan in the eastern suburbs of the capital, and Baoding soldiers and Jizhen soldiers from guerrilla Zhang Jing. It is calculated that there are more than 55000 people, and the official army on this road will mainly attack our army camp.

The other route consisted of the Shenji Battalion of the three major battalions of the capital as the main force, together with Dai Guangge, a guerrilla from the Zuoying Battalion, Wang Ping, a guerrilla from the Zuoying Battalion, Sima Yingkui, the guerrilla officer Du Sima Yingkui from the right-wing battalion, and Yu Yu, a guerrilla from the Wujing Battalion. Shigong, Xiping Beiyu Xu Chengming and other Beijing troops, as well as a small number of reinforcements from Shandong and Damingfu, have a total number of about 20000. The newly activated Liaoyang General Soldier Liu Ting will set off from Nanhaizi, south of the capital, to Our army camp attacked.

The last army is the main force of the three major battalions of the capital, about 30000 people. It is said that it is commanded by Xiangcheng Bo Li Guojian, and the former Liaodong General Li Rubai is the deputy general. They will attack from Zuoanmen and attack our Chinese army along the Tonghui River. camp.

The officers and troops involved in the above information have a total strength of around 11. Given that the various departments of the officers and troops are starving for nothing and corruption is a common practice, we have no way of judging the actual strength of the officers and troops who will fight this time. We can only follow the official documents. The statistics are said, "

Chen Zhongji shook his head and said: "This is the so-called joint attack, but there are too many problems in the command system, organization, training, discipline, etc. of the officers and troops. launch a general attack,"

Chen Zhongji, Zhao Tie, Commander of the First Division, Yang Liu, Commander of the Ryukyu Corps of the Sailors, Mai Haisheng, Supervisor of the Ryukyu Corps, Lu Xiaotian, Commander of the Cavalry Regiment, Lin Feiyang, Commander of the Artillery Corps, and other major generals of the Northern Front Army are circulating this document Intelligence, Cao Tai, the commander-in-chief of the army, is currently commanding the sailors and marines to block the reinforcements of the Ming army in the direction of Shandong, and Fan Tao, the commander of the first fleet of the navy, the Northern Fleet, has returned to Penglai, commanding troops to fight against Denglai, Liaodong, and the north and south. The counterattack of the Ming army on Bohaikou.

Chen Zhongji took this information and said: "Liu Ting, the commander-in-chief of Liaoyang, seems to be marching on the south of the Tonghui River. If he wants to attack our army camp, he must cross the Tonghui River; who is this Liu Ting?"

Zeng Qing rummaged through a pile of documents, took out a piece of paper, and read: "Liu Ting, whose real name is Gong Ting, styled Zishou, and nicknamed Shengwu, is the son of Gong Xian, a famous general during the Jiajing period. He was born in the 39th year of Jiajing. (1560), his father, Gong Xian, was living in Sichuan due to poverty when he was young. He served like his father and changed his surname to Liu. Therefore, Gong Xian and Gong Ting were called Liu Xian and Liu Ting in the official documents of the court. A few years ago, the Lo tribe in Jianchang, Sichuan Province launched a rebellion. Liu Ting was ordered to conquer. In 56 battles, more than [-] people were beheaded. Zhan Shu, the magistrate of Mahu, was beaten and fined for half a year. After the Jianchang War, he retired from office. Recently, the imperial court attacked our Chinese company, so Liu Ting was hired again. The brave and skilled soldiers of Shu,

Chen Zhongji thought for a while, and ordered: "Yang Liu, commander of the Ryukyu Marine Corps: You quickly gather more than 2000 people to cross the Tonghui River and go down, and build fortifications in the area of ​​​​Sanjianfang on the south bank of our army's camp, and resist Liu Ting, the commander-in-chief of Liaoyang. Army, be sure to guard the ferry for more than three days,"

Yang Liu frowned and sighed: "I have to order, so I have no chance to participate in the battle on the frontal battlefield,"

Chen Zhongji smiled and said, "Sixth brother Yang, you have to resist the attack of more than ten times the government army, isn't this considered a big battle?"

Yang Liu stood up and grabbed the helmet, and while putting it on, he muttered: "It's just the Beijing army, a bunch of wine bags and rice bags, I don't pay attention to them,"

After Yang Liu left, Chen Zhongji ordered: "The cavalry regiment, send out a small group of troops immediately. You don't need many, just a few hundred people, go north to the area south of Kaiping, look for Jun Jun's troops, the commander-in-chief of Shanhaiguan, and keep harassing them along the way. I will dispatch messengers here to inform the newly formed No.20 Regiment stationed in Tianjin Guards, so that they must defend Tianjin Guards,"

Lu Xiaotian, the head of the cavalry regiment, hurried out to dispatch troops. Chen Zhongji looked at the map on the round table again, then turned his head and said, "Okay, now we have a total of 20000 infantry and more than 2000 cavalry in our camp. The main force of the official army in the two foreign and two routes is the Nine Frontier Army and the three major battalions of the Beijing Division. They are the most elite troops owned by the Ming Dynasty. The total strength is 5000, which is four times the strength of our army. , about tomorrow, we will have a decisive battle with the officers and soldiers in the eastern suburbs of the capital, what do you think?"

"We must win, we must win," a roar came from the big tent of the old Chinese army camp.

Chen Zhongji smiled and said: "Okay, tomorrow I will bring my direct battalion to the front line. Attention all Chinese Army officers: Tomorrow's battle will be more significant than our army's occupation of Nanjing. After our army's victory, the generals inside and outside the capital will If there is no defense, we can force the imperial court to negotiate with us, and all officers must go all out for tomorrow's battle,"

That night, tens of thousands of people in Tongzhou, half coerced and half tempted by money, came to the Tonghui River and urgently built a temporary fort in a small village on the river bank opposite the Chinese Army camp. It was transported to the opposite bank and placed on the fortress at the southwest corner of the fortress. In addition, nearly twenty light field guns, five Thunderbolt rocket vehicles, and ten 100-barreled rainstorm guns were placed on the square wall protruding from the four corners of the fortress. On the fort, the fortress faces the land on the east, west, and south sides. It uses the original village wall to build a wall nearly one person high. The wall is densely covered with gun holes and gun windows. Camp South Gate.

In the early hours of the morning, the fort began to take shape. 2000 sailors and musketeers and tens of thousands of migrant workers were busy digging trenches outside the earthen wall. The report said: "Commander Yang, the officers and soldiers have come out from Nanhaizi,"