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Chapter 181 The battle is over, but the infighting has just begun

"What? Duke Shen is about to be promoted to Minister of the Nanjing Household Department of the Ming Dynasty? Even his eldest son is already a governor?"

After listening to Zheng Chenggong's advocacy to the Shen family, Li Yu on the opposite side was shocked.

Originally, he just had the mentality of "the fact that his father sent his son-in-law to pretend to be his son-in-law as a hostage was about to be exposed, so he had no choice but to pretend that the war didn't happen and disappear", so he randomly voted for a Ming general, and he didn't expect to be able to vote for any awesome acquaintance.

He had chatted with Shen Lian for so long just now, Shen Lian did not show off his official position as master and master out of modesty, so Li Yu was kept in the dark.

Zheng Chenggong couldn't understand why Li Yu was so shocked, so he asked jokingly, "Why? Do you think the Shen family official has done too much?"

Li Yu quickly admitted his mistake: "No, no, no... that's not what I mean, it's just a little unexpected. The general doesn't know much about Daming's current situation, but I heard my father mention it occasionally. At the beginning, Shen Gong abandoned business and went to politics, and he seemed to be just a chief executive for many years. .

Ten years after Chongzhen, the trade between North Korea and Daming became private, and my father didn't know about it anymore. Now that I think about it, it's really gratifying. "

Both Zheng Chenggong and Shen Lian were curious and confirmed it again, finally knowing what was going on.

Ten years after Chongzhen, North Korea was invaded by the Qing Dynasty and turned into a vassal state, so of course the official trade between North Korea and Ming Dynasty had to be cut off.

In the period of official trade on the bright side, it is helpful to brag about your official position in Daming. It can make the other party dare not ask for cards from you, and you can also get preferential purchase prices and even tax cuts.

When the shopkeeper of the Shen family came to North Korea, he often said, "My master is the head of a certain department of the Daming Household Department."

But since turning to private business, this kind of airs is worthless.

Because it will only be exchanged for a sentence, "You use the official position of the Ming Dynasty, and the vassal states of the Qing Dynasty want trade preferences. You have such a great official authority."

In the past five years, every time the shopkeeper of the Shen family went to North Korea, he kept a low profile.For the North Koreans, their knowledge of Shen Tingyang's official position was fixed at the outdated information five years ago.

However, Shen Shuren only traveled here three years ago, and his father's official position was also driven by "one person who attains the Tao, immortals and chickens and dogs" to soar three years ago.

In just three years, from the principal to the doctor to the minister of the Nanjing household department, and now it is very likely that he will be promoted to the minister.

When this news was synchronized again to the North Koreans who had been "disconnected for five years", they would have been shocked for several years.

"It seems really lucky to join the enemy at random and to join such a powerful general. As long as he remains anonymous for the next few years, there shouldn't be any problems."

Li Yuru thought to himself, and was also determined to seize the opportunity to show off his fighting power.

And his chance to perform soon came.

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The time soon came to the sixth day of March.

The Ming army originally planned to station at Bijia Mountain for a few hours, but in the end they found that the enemy had no way to deal with them temporarily, so they actually stationed for more than a day and a half.

Another thousand or two thousand remnants of Cao Bianjiao and Li Fuming's troops who fled before were gathered.

By the way, repair the warship that was damaged in the fierce battle with Kong Youde's troops last night, reload and unload the equipment on the North Korean ship to the Ming army warship, and send the North Korean ship that is not suitable for cross-sea voyage back to Shanhaiguan to Cao Bianjiao.

Doing all this takes time.And the time of delay is just convenient to explain to Cao Bianjiao and the others for making false accounts:

"Originally, there were still thousands of people in your rear army who hadn't been transported back, so you should let them go back. But in fact, because you repelled Kong Youde's temporary surprise attack, you killed thousands of enemies and withstood another wave of Azi Grid's land attack. Most of these soldiers were lost."

Therefore, Cao Bianjiao and others don't have to wait for their rear army, which "doesn't exist", at least disappeared from the books.

While making false accounts with generals such as Cao and Li, Zhang Mingzhen also used more than a day to do intensive work of reforming and persuading the soldiers of Cao and Li's old troops.

It is impossible for the Shen family fleet to bring too much gold and silver with them this time. After all, there is no place to spend at sea, which will only increase the risk, so it is impossible to directly send money to those rescued Ming soldiers.

But fortunately, the members of the Shen family and the sailors each received at least a dozen taels of silver as rewards before setting sail, so the rescued soldiers of the Ming army could also get to know each other better with Ding Zachu of the Shen family, remembering bitterness and thinking about sweetness. Draw pie.

After more than a day of contact, those bitter Shanxi soldiers and Liaodong soldiers learned that soldiers in the south can earn so much, and the Shen family is so lenient in giving settlement expenses, a considerable number of them have been reformed and are willing to surrender.

Officers below Chief Qian feel that their current identities are worthless, and at worst, they will become black households temporarily with the Shen family, and they will get another identity and household registration in the future.

Only a few military officers were more cautious, and felt that the future whitewashing household registration would not be easy to operate. Zhang Mingzhen's identity was not suitable for explaining this question, so Shen Lian secretly answered their doubts:

"It's no big deal. The master is now in charge of the Nanjing household department, responsible for the reform of water transport to the sea and the resettlement of the people in the water. Every year, tens of thousands of water workers are resettled in Huai'an, Linqing and other places.

The eldest son is in Wuchang, and he also takes over the Cao people who migrated from the master every year.At that time, you will all be made into the household registration of Caomin who moved to the southeast of Shandong, and you will be given a new identity. Besides, you have performed well as Caomin and joined the army, and you will be promoted back to your original rank as soon as possible. How difficult is it?The master and the eldest son are in the south, with a single grasp of the financial power, military power and civil power, the whole family can be managed from top to bottom! "

The middle-level officers of Cao and Li's old troops completely dispelled their doubts.

Especially in the past few days, they also discovered that the combat effectiveness, morale and spirit of Zhang Mingzhen's army are far from what any army in Daming can match.

Mixing with such a strong teammate, is it difficult to be randomly plugged and used as cannon fodder?

In particular, everyone has been surrounded by Kuhaha in Tashan and Xingshan for almost half a year, and they have long suffered enough from having no food to eat. In the south, just being able to ensure enough food is already attractive enough.

In the words of Mr. Lu Xun, that is, "If there is a kind of violence, people are not treated as human beings, not only human beings, but also inferior to cattle and horses; If it is slightly equal to the price of cattle and horses, then people will be sincerely convinced and praise the peaceful and prosperous world."

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And with the delay of the Ming army in Bijia Mountain, within a day or so, news of new changes came soon.

On the evening of the sixth day of March, Zhang Mingzhen, who was guarding the water village, had just been brainwashing and reforming the friend army, when he received another group of defeated soldiers from the north.

Originally, Zhang Mingzhen wondered why it was two days and one night before Tashan and Xingshan broke through, and there were still rout soldiers fleeing one after another.

But then, through simple cross-examination, he got a more exciting news from these rout soldiers.

He also immediately called Zheng Chenggong, and everyone discussed together.

"These routs escaped from Songshan City! According to them, it was the day after the defenders of Tashan and Xingshan broke through the siege, the Tartars urgently rebelled against Songshan Neiying and Deputy General Xia Chengde broke the city! Governor Hong and Qiu Fu Taiwan has been martyred!
According to what they said, most of the defenders of Songshan City have been wiped out, and only a few thousand escaped. Should we wait?Maybe if we wait another day, we can gather 4000 more people.

But the risk is that Azig and Abatai have freed up their hands, and the whole army may come south to Bijia Mountain to attack at any time!Now it seems that the reason why Azig's offensive force was so weak the day before yesterday was because the main force was busy dealing with Governor Hong!Now that the whole army is going south, the combat power must be extraordinary! "

After Zheng Chenggong and others heard it, they were also shocked, and then suddenly realized.

At least the confusion of the enemy's situation in the past few days can be regarded as completely explaining the reason.

Zheng Chenggong was young and energetic, so of course he wanted to make meritorious deeds so he could set up one at a time and get more benefits, so he suggested: "In this case, we will ensure that we can hold the water stronghold. Impossible to break through, why not wait another day!

At sea, there is no need to worry about being cut off by the enemy navy. Kong Youde was defeated and lost thousands of dollars. It is impossible for the Tatars to prepare a second batch of fleets that can stop our fleet so quickly! "

Zhang Mingzhen felt a little unreliable: "After our water fortress was reinforced, there were so many firearm battalions to cooperate with the Hongyi cannons on the ship and cross-fire defense, so we are really not afraid of several times the enemy's fast attack.

However, if the Tartars' red barbarian cannon arrives, we will be finished!Fortunately, even if the Tartars had Hongyi cannons, they should be in Songshan recently. It was nearly a hundred miles away, and the cannons were heavy and slow to transport, so they probably wouldn't be able to reach them in a day.

In any case, we can try to defend tomorrow during the day. If the enemy has no cannons, we will delay the whole day to take in some more broken soldiers who escaped from Songshan.At night, we must take the opportunity to sneak away and retreat the whole army.

And if we find out that the enemy already has Hongyi cannons in the daytime tomorrow, then no matter what, we must board the ship and retreat immediately!Even if the last troops on board are chased, they can't care about it! "

Zheng Chenggong thought that Zhang Mingzhen's strategy was safer than his, so he agreed to fully cooperate.

That night, the Ming army was in Bijia Mountain, and indeed they took in more than 1000 Hong Chengchou's escaped soldiers from Songshan.However, many of them have discarded their equipment and armor, and they are completely unorganized. They are all pretending to be civilians and fleeing indiscriminately, and come here to try their luck.

Zhang Mingzhen couldn't identify the other party for a while, so he could only lock them on a special boat and search them to make sure they were not armed, so as not to mix with the Tartars.

And early the next morning, Azig and Abatai arrived with the main force of the Qing army carrying Songshan's great victory.

Seeing that the Ming army still stayed at Bijia Mountain, Azig was also a little annoyed: This is because they didn't take them seriously!You won a game the day before yesterday, so you thought the Great Mosque couldn't take down such a mere port camp? !

Azig immediately ordered a strong attack again. Abatai persuaded him to be cautious, but he did not persuade him.

And Azig really paid the price for this.The Ming army originally had a firearms battalion of about 3000 people. This time, 500 North Korean bird musketeers under Li Yu's command were added, bringing the total number of firearms to [-].

With so much long-range firepower defending the peninsula water fortress that has been simply reinforced for two days, it only needs to defend in one direction to the north, and the attacker can't turn around, and it has to bear the side firepower of the red cannons on the sea...

Even if the attackers gathered more than 2 people, they were unable to deploy their troops for a while, and several attacks were repelled.

Fortunately, after suffering a loss last time, Azig was not too impulsive this time, and he didn't dare to put all his eggs in one basket. When he found that the situation was wrong, he immediately retreated.

Abatai also persuaded him again: "Ming people are good at defending the city. They have a firm foothold and never wavered in the army's morale. Wouldn't it be a waste of life to attack like this? Wait a day longer, and the Hongyi cannons will be transported to the rear, and the fence will be rammed into the wall. All the gaps are smashed, and it will not be too late to attack!"

Azig was ashamed, and he had to bear the loss of hundreds of Eight Banners cavalrymen, wounded soldiers and Han and Mongolian soldiers who died in vain, and even more.

And because the Qing army surrounded the water village, during the whole day, the inhumane Ming army who had been defeated from Songshan before did not dare to go directly to Bijia Shanshui village by land to survive. It could be at least a dozen or twenty miles away, and if you jump into the sea and swim with a wooden plank to escape, you will definitely drown.

Fortunately, after the patrol fleet of Zheng Chenggong's department discovered this situation, they searched for people and reported it at the same time. Zheng Chenggong also separated some more fleets, brought ferry sampans, and broke them into pieces to respond.Only then did more than 2000 comrades who jumped into the sea to flee for their lives were successively received in one day.

After staying up late at night on the seventh day of March, Zhang Mingzhen and Zheng Chenggong didn't have any more trouble, and directly chose to light up the bright lookout lights in the camp, but in fact quietly boarded the last batch of defensive soldiers and retreated.

At dawn the next day, as the Hongyi cannon troops of the Qing army in the rear were pulled to the front line of Bijia Mountain, Azig finally launched a full-scale attack with full confidence.

It's a pity that after a round of Hongyi cannons blasted, as the walls and houses in the water village collapsed, there was no wailing counterattack. Only then did Azig realize that the situation was wrong, and then sent melee troops to search and attack carefully, but there was no sound. Any musket fire.

"My lord! The Ming army retreated overnight last night!"

When Yild came back and reported this information, Azig almost vomited blood with anger.

After waiting for so long for Hongyi Cannon to arrive, Nanmanzi finally ran away so shamelessly!

Why don't you run early and don't run late!
After setting sail, Zhang Mingzhen did not rest again. After five days of sailing, he regrouped his troops in Denglai for supplies, then continued southward and returned to the voyage. After another ten days of voyage, he finally returned to Suzhou Port at the mouth of the Yangtze River.

When I landed, it was already March 22.And their deeds have already spread in the past half a month.

Around the tenth day of March in the capital, they heard the news that Songshan City was broken, and then learned that part of the troops were picked up by sea tank boats transporting military rations, so they withdrew at least.

The change in the battle situation in Liaodong has become the hottest topic of mutual spraying in the north and south Beijing throughout the middle of March.A large group of people need to be responsible for the defeat and the victory in defeat, and there are countless civil officials who are talking about it, waiting for this opportunity to attack their political opponents.

And Chongzhen, who finally lost his 10,000+ army, lost a lot of energy.

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PS: There will be two updates today. This update is more than 4000 words in order to clean up this battle as soon as possible. The next chapter will enter the internal affairs and divide the spoils, and the protagonist will appear. Please bear with me.

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