Blood from Daming

Chapter 819 Taiwan Unification

Lu Xiangsheng stood there calmly, and Xue Wu immediately waited for a while, seeing that Lu Xiangsheng hadn't stepped forward to fight, he patted his horse and walked forward a few steps and said: "Master Lu, if two tigers fight, there will be injuries, why don't we just leave it at that?" How about a strike?"

Xue Wu gained the upper hand and was unwilling to continue the fight. Lu Xiangsheng knew that Xue Wu was saving face for him. Although he was very angry in his heart, he knew that if he continued to fight, he would be disgraced and humiliated, but his own martial arts could not help Xue Wu. The army attacked forcefully, and they had already blocked their words just now. Lu Xiangsheng is a person who cherishes his feathers, and he is determined to stop the army and fight.

Lu Xiangsheng said: "General Xue Wu, I hope you will think about it carefully. As long as you are willing to serve the imperial court, you can send someone to the branch of Daming Mansion at any time. This mansion is willing to be the recommender of General Xue Wu."

Xue Wu said: "Lord Lu, thank you for your kindness. My young master can decide such important matters with one word."

Lu Xiangsheng knew that Xue Wu and other generals only had their own masters in their eyes, and didn't care about the retreating emperor at all. That's fine, as long as the emperor handles Xue Yun's affairs well, people like Xue Wu are nothing to worry about. Xue Wudao said "respect", pulled his horse back to his army formation, and Lu Xiangsheng returned to the formation to report to his officers that Xue's army was found in an ambush to the northwest. Leading the army to advance recklessly, the consequences are unimaginable, Lu Xiangsheng sighed, and ordered the whole army to return to Daming Mansion.

Lu Xiangsheng, who returned to the Daming Mansion, wrote a long memorial to Emperor Chongzhen, hoping that Emperor Chongzhen would deal with the Xue family army with a gentle strategy, otherwise, with the destructive power of the Xue family army, even if it was suppressed by the court, Daming would suffer greatly. As for the fact that there is no power to suppress the rogues inside, and no army outside to fight against the Jianlu, so that others can reap the benefits, but Lu Xiangsheng faintly felt that the Xue family's army would not be able to lose its tail, and the court might wipe out Baylor at all, and the consequences would be unimaginable. The memorial, in the end, went nowhere.

In this way, Xue Wusuo and Hongjiazhai formed horns with each other and continued to occupy Zhangde Mansion in Henan Province; while Ms. Chen led Xue Zhuang's troops to Hangzhou, the whole Hangzhou was basically controlled by Xue's army, and the only difference was the change of banner. Ms. Chen discussed that, out of safety considerations, Xuezhuang's men, women and children should still be sent to Taiwan Island for resettlement.

In May of the third year of Chongzhen, Xue Polu commanded Xue's army and navy to fight the last battle against the Spaniards in Kaohsiung. He sank eight ships of the Spanish Navy, captured four ships, and wiped out more than 3000 Spanish coalition forces. The invading Spaniards basically completed the unification of Taiwan Island.

And the Zheng Zhilong Group in Yaogang has also accelerated the immigration operation. A large number of people and materials were transported to Quanzhou, Fujian Province by the pirate fleet of the stragglers. According to the emissary He Bin, the eighteen Zhilong soldiers and civilians in Yaogang will all evacuate by the end of August. Xue Po The prisoner retained He Bin for a while, but He Bin hesitated and finally did not agree to join the Xue family army. Xue Polu expressed that he welcomes He Bin to Taiwan at any time, which can be regarded as a plug in Zheng Zhilong's pirate team.

From May of the second year of Chongzhen, Taiwan’s Xue’s army had exported revolutions to Luzon (Philippines). By the first month of the third year in Cangzhou, more than a dozen large and small armed forces in Luzon who resisted the Spanish had obtained a total of [-] pieces of weapons from the Xue’s army. The whole of Luzon has become a purgatory on earth. Whether it is Luzon people or Spaniards, they have suffered heavy losses in the violent conflict. In Manila, Luzon, there will be no more pedestrians on the streets. This makes Spaniards and other Westerners People are like sitting in a besieged city.

Kakota, the son of King Suleiman of Luzon, was the largest force in Luzon to resist the Spanish. In March of the third year of Chongzhen, Kakota's envoy reached an agreement with Shi Chuyi, the commander of Xue's army, and the Kingdom of Luzon sent Taiwan The island is known as Fan, and the Xue family army provided military support to Kakota, including providing weapons to train the army, etc. Part of the expenses needed were paid by Kakota with gold and silver materials, and the shortfall was counted as a loan. The principal and interest will be repaid when he becomes the king of Luzon.

By the end of the last battle between the Xue family's army and the Spanish coalition forces in Kaohsiung, the Xue family's army had provided [-] pieces of weapons to Kakota's armed forces in two parts. By August, Taiwan received news that the Spaniards in Luzon were too busy to take care of themselves. With the intrusion of Westerners and the withdrawal of Zheng Zhilong's pirates from Hong Kong, Taiwan Island has truly become the rear of Xue's army.

After stabilizing the island of Taiwan, Xue Polu and Chu Yi, according to Xue Yun's grand plan, mainly harassed Luzon in the south, actively prepared to invade the Ryukyu country in the north, and completely controlled the trade between Westerners, Japan and North Korea. Xue Polu sent the first 2000 musketeers to Hangzhou, led by a general named Ji Tianen.

Yan Sanniang was escorted by Ji Tianen, the most advanced army of the Ming Dynasty, and she was more confident in controlling the Hangzhou government. Although the Xue family army suffered heavy losses in the capital's fight against Jianlu, and lost Xue Zhuang's old lair that he had been running for many years, However, the strength of the Xue family army continued unabated.

First of all, the Xue family army got rid of the double pressure on the imperial court and the Spaniards. The victory of the Spaniards on Taiwan Island freed up a large number of troops. There are more than 3 people, and there are more disabled soldiers. Taiwan's Xue Jiajun needs a period of recuperation.

The current Xue family army is based on Hangzhou Prefecture on land, with Xue Wu and Hongjiazhai on the north and south, and Ren Shenglin's Hongze Lake Navy on the second line. You can attack and retreat, and you can defend, not to mention the Northwest Datong Xue's army, Harizhula's troops, Shaanxi Mizhi Gao's Shanxi Jiangzhou Xue's army scattered among them, Xue's army is waiting for Xue Yun's order.

With Ji Tianen's team, Xu Yuanlang and others became more courageous, and Jiang Yang's activities began to be semi-public. In Jiang Yang's words, with Ji Tianen's two thousand musketeers, he could defeat the Ming army with 2 people. The current power of the imperial court can only stare blankly at the situation in Hangzhou.

On August 23, Jiang Yang came to Yanjiazhuang outside the city of Hangzhou. He learned that Yuan Chonghuan was executed by Emperor Chongzhen for the two crimes of arbitrarily negotiating peace with the Qing army and killing Mao Wenlong. Yan Sanniang, but met the two mistresses, Yan Sanniang and Chen Shi.

Yan Sanniang said that she already knew about Yuan Chonghuan's murder, and Jiang Yang asked what he was most concerned about: "Mistress, does the master have any news?"

Yan Sanniang said: "Yesterday I received a letter from Governor Jiang of Kulun City. The master has already gone to the Romanov dynasty two or three thousand miles to the west. If he wants to find the master and get a reply, he will not reply until the end of the year at the earliest. See Come on, we can only do things cheaply."

Jiang Yang's head is a little dizzy. What's wrong with the master? Instead of fighting for the hinterland of the Central Plains, he is entangled in the corners of Mobei, Mongolia. Is there any special situation that Jiang Yang doesn't know, so he can only think wildly, but the master did this , I believe there must be his reason.

Yan Sanniang knew that Jiang Yang didn't understand Xue Yun's actions, so she said: "Mr. Jiang, last year the master wiped out all the tribes in Mobei, and went deep into the Tubo border to kill Gu Shihan from the Shuote tribe. I have returned to the Central Plains, but according to Governor Jiang’s letter, last November in Junggar, I encountered traitors Lang Shouyi and Lang Dusheng colluding with the army of the Eastern Military Region of the Romanov Dynasty. The master wiped out the 3000-strong Romanov Dynasty army. , but the Romanov dynasty is at war with the master, and now the two sides have fought several times, if the Xue family army cannot completely defeat the Romanov dynasty, the Tushetu Khan and Kulun City will not have a day of peace."

Jiang Yang understands now that the master is now riding a tiger. If the Romanov Dynasty is not completely defeated, as long as the army retreats to the Central Plains, the fall of the Tushetu Khan and Kulun City will only happen overnight. How about the strength of the Romanov Dynasty? Jiang Yang didn't know, but Jiang Yang knew that the Romanov dynasty, like the Spaniards, used very advanced front-loading fast guns.

Yan Sanniang still felt uncomfortable, that is, Xue Yun really had a son with the queen mother of the Tuxietu Khan tribe. Pregnant, the son she gave birth to was granted by the gods, and has been canonized as the king's younger brother, the successor of King Gonpo of the Tuxietu Khan tribe, and the subjects of the Tuxietu Khan tribe are still cheering, Yan Sanniang really can't laugh or cry, I don't know what to say Fortunately for these Mongols, Zhenzhen's son only became king in the Tuxietu Khan tribe, and Yan Sanniang passed away in a fit of anger.

Jiang Yang said: "Mistress, since the pirate Zheng Zhilong voted for Fujian governor Xiong Wencan, our Xue family army's activities in Fujian have become more and more difficult. This year, we have been intercepted and killed several times. The loss of personnel and property is not small. Last month, the last batch The caravan went to purchase timber. When returning to Changtu Island, two more merchant ships were robbed. It is impossible for the Fujian side to have any more business. However, my Xue family army has suffered frequent losses. Should I punish those who offend the Xue family army? revenge."

Yan Sanniang said: "It's very dangerous to go to Fujian by land, and Xue's army doesn't have many troops in the south of the Yangtze River. Let Liu Ben lead the Xue's army's fleet to Fujian. If you dare to move Xue's army, you really don't want to live."

Jiang Yang's goal was achieved, and he felt a lot more relieved. Yan Sanniang said: "Mr. Jiang, the leader Xu of the Wenxiang Sect came and said that they were attacked by our Xue family army in Kaifeng. They lost more than 3000 people. They are looking for them." Let's ask the teacher for the crime."

Jiang Yang thought for a while and said: "Mistress, we don't have any troops in Henan, oh, General Xue Wu is in Zhangde Mansion, Henan, but General Xue Wu will never go to fight Wenxiangjiao, it should be the Ming army pretending to be our Xue family army Yes, huh, that's despicable."

It turned out that Wenxiangjiao was planning to raise an incident in the Beizhili area at the beginning of the third year of Chongzhen, but it happened that Jianlu invaded the capital, and tens of thousands of people from Jianlu and Ming gathered together. There was no room for Wenxiangjiao to survive. Xu Hongru, the leader of Wenxiangjiao, rebelled between Kaifeng and Guide in March of the third year of Chongzhen. He gathered more than 10 troops in the counties and counties around Lianke. Xu Laoqi is the general, and the rest of the Wenxiang sect members have their own rewards.

Unexpectedly, just after Xu Hongru started an incident, Jianlu hurriedly withdrew his troops. Xu Hongru, who wanted to fish in troubled waters, was dumbfounded. Then Henan Governor Fan Jingwen led the army and civilian army to attack Xu Hongru. With Qin Zhehua's great efforts, Yan Sanniang secretly provided Wen Xiangjiao with [-] sets of equipment, which made Xu Hongru's religious army and Fan Jingwen's official army fight a tie. However, the development momentum of Xu Hongru's team was stopped. The land is in short supply of both people and food, and Wen Xiang Sect gradually fell into a desperate situation.

(End of this chapter)