Qianlong: Qing Dynasty?What about my Daqing?

Chapter 367

Whoosh whoosh!
The bullet flew off the scalp.

Li Zhongyi was lying behind a fallen tree, regretting to death.

He is a literary scholar who has no power to restrain a chicken, but now he wants to fight against the vicious Albanians with a musket.

At this time, beside him, two strong men had already fallen to the ground.

They were all brought to the dense forest by him to cut trees. They were all from Sichuan. They were so poor that they traveled thousands of miles to the New World.

did not expect.

Came in less than 20 days.

It was here that he was ambushed by the Albanian tribe and lost his life.

Now the Jinshan Governor's Mansion and the Sioux have a good relationship, and the "love trade" between the two sides is also going smoothly.

The women of the Sioux tribe married immigrants from the Jinshan Governor's Mansion, and at the same time received some "betrothal gifts".

But in the same way, Jinshan Governor's Mansion, which has a good relationship with the Sioux, cannot have a good relationship with the Albanians who have hatred for the Sioux. What's more, the direction of Jinshan Governor's Mansion's expansion is actually the territory of the Albanians.

Therefore, the conflicts between the two sides continued.

"Damn, this must be an alliance between the British and the Albanians!"

A Ming army officer lying on the ground said cursingly.

Li Zhongyi also nodded slightly when he heard the words: "I heard that the British sent a small group of troops to infiltrate. They may have hooked up with the Albanians! Hammer, I don't know what benefits the Albanians have gained, and they are willing to dispatch so many people at once. !"

"I'm dead, I'm dead."

"The bang makes us poor, and the poor are miserable."

A group of Sichuan men who went into the dense forest to cut down trees and fell into an ambush complained loudly.

At this moment, there were also shouts of various voices in the forest ahead.

Li Zhongyi slightly raised his head to look.

Hundreds of people dressed in animal skins, including a few white men in felt suits, were rushing towards them with bayonet-mounted muskets and shouting. ,

"It's over, it's over"

Li Zhongyi's scalp was numb, his head was buzzing, and he was at a loss.

Because he had heard that the savages in this forest were almost as fierce as the wild Jurchen tribe back then.

A savage who is almost as fierce as a Jurchen.

This is how to do?
Just now.

The company commander of the Ming army shouted loudly: "Free fire! Free fire! Listen to my orders and prepare to charge!"

There are about twenty soldiers under him, all of which are rear-loading rifles in their hands-this is the newly equipped equipment some time ago.

According to the plan of the Grand Marshal's Mansion.

'Frontlines', such as in the New World, are priority areas for new equipment.

The company commander of the Ming army had already pulled the bolt of the gun when he was speaking, put in a bullet, and then pushed the bullet into the chamber.

boom!
A shot was fired, and a white officer in front fell to the ground.

The company commander of the Ming army didn't stop, he pulled the bolt again, and the bullet was loaded!
boom! boom! boom!
Intensive and continuous gunfire sounded.

Seeing this, Li Zhongyi was horrified.

Such a fast-firing musket is really amazing!
Twenty soldiers fired continuously, and a large area fell in front of them all at once.

The Sichuan loggers who were still panicking and thought they were going to lose their lives were also relieved.

Some even took out their muskets and aimed at them.

Although they are all front-loading guns, the shooting speed is not as fast as the rear-loading guns equipped by Ming soldiers.

But as dozens of lumberjacks joined in, the firepower became more intensive, and those Albanian warriors who seemed to be charging forward fled with their heads in their hands.

"Master Li, take your people and retreat to the camp first, and leave this place to us!"

The company commander of the Ming army patted Li Zhongyi on the shoulder and said loudly.

"Don't run around, the forest is too big, it's easy to get lost."

Gunshots rang out sporadically. ,

Li Zhongyi was a little relieved, and then asked with some worry: "Company Commander Wang, they say that the poor should not chase after them, and their number seems to be quite large."

'There's a lot of people. If they rushed up with all their lives just now, they could still fight hand-to-hand, but since they all fled, it means that they are afraid of death, and they can still fight us if they are not afraid of death. Since they are afraid of death, then Lost.Not to mention we still have this! '

Company Commander Wang clapped the Guangfu six-year-style breech-loading needle pistol in his hand.

In order to avoid too many complicated mechanical structures as much as possible, this is the world's first large-scale equipped rear-loading rifle without a magazine. Pull the bolt and manually insert the bullets.

The shooting technique is much slower than the bolt-action rifles of later generations, but it is also much faster than the current front-loading guns.

And there's the added benefit of loading from behind.

That is, you can lie on your stomach when loading bombs, which greatly reduces the soldiers' facing surface.

In this case, Albanian warriors and British mercenaries equipped with front-loading guns were no match for Ming soldiers at all.

The exchange ratio between the two parties is very exaggerated.

On the side of the Ming army, three loggers died because of being ambushed.

And after the two sides played against each other.

There were almost zero casualties on the side of the Ming army, while dozens of figures fell down on the other side.

Such an exchange ratio made the scalp of the British commander who planned the ambush tingle.

Seeing that Company Commander Wang was so confident, Li Zhongyi heaved a sigh of relief, and then crawled backwards on hands and feet.

"Withdraw, let's withdraw first!!"

soon.

Li Zhongyi took dozens of lumberjacks carrying muskets and retreated along the river to the camp.

Immediately afterwards, there were continuous bursts of intensive gunshots in the forest.

Twenty soldiers of the Ming army went after hundreds of enemies with their breech-loading guns in hand.

I don't know how long it took.

The gunfire in the woods gradually became less and less loud.

Immediately afterwards, the voice of "Da Ming Wan Sheng" came to mind.

Won
Li Zhongyi breathed a sigh of relief.

"There have been more and more conflicts recently, and I don't know. Is it because the British are going to start fighting big?"

Li Zhongyi murmured.

The smoke gradually dissipated.

On the battlefield just now, corpses were strewn all over the place.

But most of them belong to the enemy.

Two soldiers of the Ming army in red uniforms were shot, but they did not die. They lay on the ground and wailed, and soon a military doctor rushed up, took out the bullets with iron tongs, stopped the bleeding, and applied anti-inflammatory drugs. Bandage.

One of the soldiers was shot in the thigh, and it seems that the situation is a little better.

Another person was shot in the shoulder, and his bones were all shattered. It seemed that even if he was alive, he was probably disabled.

Li Zhongyi didn't see clearly yet.

There were rustling footsteps ahead.

"Go! Go! Be honest!"

It turned out that the Ming army officer who had just rushed to chase and kill the enemy came back.

More than 30 prisoners are still in custody.

They were all tied up with ropes and strung together into a clap, some of them were still bleeding.

Li Zhongyi took a closer look, and found that these Albanian people were very strong, and they seemed to be much stronger than many Sichuan farmers.

But now they are very honest, drooping their heads.

Behind them were a few more tightly bound white captives.

Company Commander Wang ran over quickly.

There was gunpowder smoke on his face, and the clothes on his body were also covered with blood, but judging by his energetic appearance, it seemed that the blood was not his own.

"Master Li, the enemy has all retreated. 63 people were killed and 37 were captured. Among them were six Britons. The rest have fled. Have you counted your men?"

Hearing this, Li Zhongyi reacted. He hurriedly summoned his subordinates, and then his face darkened.

"Six are missing, what should we do?" He looked at Company Commander Wang, "Can you ask your people to look around?"

Company Commander Wang spread out his hands, shook his head and said, "Look for them? Where can they find these people in the deep mountains and old forests? If they are lucky, they can run along the river to the mouth of Jinshan River, and they will be safe. If they are unlucky, they will be lost if they get lost.",

"How can this be good..."

"What should I do? Hurry up and cut down the tree, and go back early after the cut. At night, the forest is even more dangerous. By the way...Master Li, can I borrow two axes?"

'ax?Yes, there are axes,'

How can you not bring an ax when you come in to cut trees.

Li Zhongyi didn't think much about it, so he asked his subordinates to give the Ming army two logging axes.

But what happened next was something he would never forget.

In his diary, Li Zhongyi described this incident very carefully.

"...When they asked me to borrow an axe, I didn't know what to do, and then I saw those British people being pressed up, pressed on the tree stump and chopped off their heads with an axe, a few British people wow Screaming, but soon quieted down, those natives were terrified, kept kneeling down and begging for mercy, a general told them that if they don’t work honestly, they will all be cut down. Then we There are more than 20 slave laborers with shackles on their feet."

"After that, the Jinshan Governor's Mansion dispatched several small-scale troops to destroy several Albanian tribes in a row, causing thousands of deaths to the Albanian people. After arresting more than 2000 women, the Albanian surrendered and agreed not to cooperate with the Britons any more.”

The expansion of the Ming Dynasty in any direction was actually filled with blood and tears.

Under the Ming Dynasty, there were also several densely populated vassal states that also needed to expand.

Especially Japan.

"Your Majesty, many samurai in Japan have requested to join in the expansion of the New World, this matter"

In Zhongdu.

Inside the imperial study of Emperor Zhu.

Tokugawa Miki, who was rubbing Emperor Zhu's shoulders, began to blow wind in Emperor Zhu's ear.

The king of Japan has been granted to Zhu Yixin, the sixth prince of Ming Dynasty.

But the contradictions in Japan have not been resolved.

And Japan is different from North Korea.

North Korea, as we all know, has a very special relationship with the Ming Dynasty.

It belongs to the first place in the "Fifteen Unconquered Kingdoms" in "Emperor Ming Zu Xun".

However, this ancestral precept is not binding on Zhu Daohua, the de facto founding emperor. Emperor Zhu has already abolished it, and promulgated a new ancestral family law-"Da Ming Rituals".

Similarly, the relationship between North Korea and the new Ming Dynasty will now be attacked by troops from the bottom of the pile.

The reason for this situation is that the national consciousness of North Korea has gradually formed after the Manchu Qing ruled the Central Plains.

North Korea was actually a part of the Ming Empire before the Ming Dynasty perished!

The king of Joseon is the county king of Ming Dynasty, who enjoys the treatment of a prince. The "Law of the Ming Dynasty" is the national law of Korea.

Language and writing are also based on Chinese characters.

Moreover, North Korea at that time also considered itself the country of Jizi, and the relationship between Daming and North Korea at that time was really good and couldn't be better.

However, after China was ruled by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, North Korea gradually regarded the Han land as "barbarians". From the beginning, it developed from being anti-Qing to being hostile to China, and its national consciousness was also formed in this process.

Today's North Korea is no longer the North Korea of ​​more than 100 years ago, so there is the current Donghak Party Rebellion.

Of course, the chaos in North Korea this time is also related to Zhu Ming, especially Zhu Daohua himself, who doesn't pay much attention to North Korea.

He has always regarded Japan as the top priority of Ming's East Asian diplomacy.

And regard North Korea as a weak country that can be bullied at will.

Zhu Daohua is even more contemptuous of the two giants who have monopolized the wealth and power of North Korea for a long time-they are definitely not as fierce as Japanese samurai, and there are enough Confucian scholars and bureaucrats in Ming Dynasty, isn't North Korea just broken in their hands? ?
If you don't punish these people, how can you let your son become the king of North Korea?
"The Japanese samurai want to go to war."

Emperor Zhu opened his eyes and said.

Mitsuki Tokugawa nodded helplessly: "At the time when the various feudal clans in the country came to power, they coveted the Laplana Plain in South America."

Emperor Zhu looked at Tokugawa Manji: "If this is the case, Japan needs to fight alone on the Laplana Plain. The Ming Navy can provide shipping assistance and send a group of Japanese samurai to gain a firm foothold first. But. Although the place is called New Japan, but the Japanese are not the only ones who immigrate there, people from other feudal clans also have the right to immigrate to New Japan!"

Tokugawa Miki nodded when he heard the words: "This is nature, it's just that this is the king of old and new Japan"

Emperor Zhu smiled when he heard this.

This little Japanese girl is waiting for herself here.

"Let the sixth son be the king of the new Japan. As for the king of the old Japan, he must work hard to love his concubine and give birth to a son for me."

In Tokugawa Manji's exclamation.

A big battle is about to begin.

Suddenly there was a rush of sound at the door.

"Your Majesty, the North Korean side urgently reports!"

Emperor Zhu had no choice but to let Tokugawa Manji go first.

soon.

The urgent report from North Korea was sent to Emperor Zhu's desk.

It turned out that there was a conflict within the Dongxue Party, and there might even be a coup or a merger!
The two sides in the conflict, one is the "Land Reform Faction" of the Donghak Party headed by Zheng Minshi, who insisted on dividing North Korea's land equally.

However, this strategy was strongly opposed by the wealthy households of the Yangban of North Korea who joined later and the king of Joseon, Li Ying, whom they supported.

Li Ying also has the blood of the Joseon Lee royal family, and at the same time, there are also a group of wealthy families who are loyal to the Lee Dynasty.

The leader is Jeonju Lee.

The history of this family can be traced back to the Silla period, and it is one of the six prominent families of Silla.

Lee Seonggye, the patriarch of the Joseon Dynasty, was a branch of the Lee family in Jeonju.

Jeonju Li, which has been passed down to the present, has more than 100 side branches, and there are many large families with a lot of land and wealth.

Li Ying is actually the spokesperson of the Li family in Jeonju.

therefore.

They are naturally opposed to the division of land!

(End of this chapter)