Kangxi, your Qing Dynasty is dead

Chapter 131 Kang Mazi has dispatched troops, Wu Sangui, can you do it? (ask for subscription, ask for monthly pass)

"Long live my emperor! Long live."

When Xiaomazi Emperor Kangxi led Fuquan, Chang Ning, Wang Zhongxiao and others, they rode their horses past the elite of the Eight Banners new army who had already launched a large formation, and tens of thousands of Eight Banners soldiers suddenly burst into a mountain roar like a tsunami. The voice of Long Live shocked Wang Zhongxiao.

This group of Eight Banners soldiers looks like an elite!

No wonder this little pockmark was full of confidence when he punished Wu Sangui. It turned out that he really had the Eight Banners in his hands!
Well, at least these Eight Banners soldiers look like a strong army in terms of equipment, morale, and physique—foreign medicine has not been popular in Beijing these days!Although these Eight Banners boys don't play horse riding very much anymore, they are still very popular in wrestling, so their physique is still great, compared to Wang Fuchen's little station soldiers, they are stronger than weaker!
Just when Wang Zhongxiao was startled by the majestic appearance of the Eight Banners force in front of him, Kangxi had already led him past the sixteen square formations, and then turned back to the position directly in front of the sixteen square formations.

A group of Eight Banners generals in various cotton armors and a few civil servants in gowns had already gathered there waiting to pick them up. The spirit of this group seemed to be quite good. When they saw Kangxi stop his horse in front of them, they They saluted Kang Mazi together, and shouted in unison: "Slaves (subjects) wait to welcome you, my emperor, long live, long live!"

Kangxi seemed very satisfied, nodded and said: "Pingshen!"

Today's "military parade" is a surprise military parade. There was no prior notice, and even Fuquan and Chang Ning didn't know about it. They were suddenly called by Kangxi.In fact, Wang Zhongxiao didn’t know that at that time, he was reporting to the management minister Fuquan in the Dongtangzi Yamen that he had just received the opening of Ruixintang’s Guangdong branch. Now Wang Fuchen, Kong Sizhen, and Shang Zhixin are still walking slowly in Huguang. However, a team of Ruixintang guys sent by Yang Qilong, led by the advance team led by Wang An and Wang Quan, arrived in Zhaoqing, the residence of the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, ahead of schedule with 50 taels of cash.

Just in the middle of Wang Zhongxiao's report, the bodyguard who conveyed Kangxi's oral order arrived, so he stopped the report and followed Fuquan to investigate the military situation of the Eight Banners New Army.

And after this exploration, I was really surprised!

"Okay, compared to the last time I came here, they are much more elite. The eighth battalion of infantry and eighth battalion of cavalry are all decent. They really deserve to be my disciples of the Eight Banners! Well, all of them will be rewarded!"

Kangxi was really honest. As soon as he came up, he gave a reward to the sixteen battalions and Eight Banners soldiers below. There are tens of thousands of people.He is really willing to give money to his Eight Banners soldiers!

It's no wonder that the Eight Banners in Beijing, regardless of whether they are full flags, Mongolian flags, Hanjun, or regular account holders, account holders, second account holders, or coaters, as long as they have nothing to do, they all want to squeeze into this new Eight Banners team. military.

In fact, the life of these Eight Banners soldiers is not hard. As far as Wang Zhongxiao knows, although they practice once a day after entering the camp, this exercise only lasts for two hours, and the rest of the time stays in the barracks That's fine, just do whatever you want, but you can't go out.In this way, when Kangxi came to inspect, Yue Le and the others could quickly gather a town's troops, that is, eight battalions of infantry and eight battalions of cavalry.

Unlike the Xiaozhan New Army, the Eight Banners New Army did not have directly subordinate artillery teams, supply teams, and engineering teams. Instead, the [-] battalions subordinate to these teams were transferred to the two wings when needed (the Eight Banners New Army Each town is divided into left and right wings) or under the jurisdiction of the President and Minister.

In addition, the main household, another household, and account-opening bannermen in the Eight Banners New Army can also bring their slaves into the camp!Ordinary soldiers can lead two people at most, that is, one soldier has two servants to serve, and there will be more at the top!

And after these domestic slaves entered the camp, they also had to participate in military training, so that they could act as auxiliary soldiers and guards when they went to battle, and even filled up after the master died in battle.

Therefore, Kangxi's Eight Banners New Army had [-] on the books, but in reality, [-] would not be able to stop them if they counted their heads!
Moreover, these 6 people are only part of the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty—although there are only 50 people in the Manchurian Banners, but counting the Han army, Mongolia, account opening, another account, coaters, domestic slaves, etc., the entire Eight Banners group is now The total number of Dingkou from top to bottom is [-] million!
If it weren't for this number, Kangxi would not dare to make the idea of ​​destroying the four feudal clans now!
"Long live Long live Long live"

After Emperor Kangxi announced the rewards, tens of thousands of Eight Banners soldiers outside the Fengtai camp cheered like a tsunami, and it took a long time before they calmed down again.

At this time, the group of officials in cotton armor and gowns had already stood in a row in front of Kangxi's horse with their hands down.The three presidential ministers, Yue Le, Eza, and Le Erjin, were of course standing in the middle, but Kangxi didn't come to look for them today, so he raised his whip and pointed to a tall man standing beside him. , a "foreign servant" with a big brown beard and a small brown braid on the back of his head, smiled and said, "Master Nan, come here!"

Master Nan is Nan Huairen, the mathematics teacher of Emperor Kangxi and the "chief engineer" of the arsenal of the Manufacturing Office!
Hearing this, Nan Huairen quickly picked up his robe, ran up to Kangxi, then flicked his sleeves, and gave another standard salutation, "Chen Nan Huairen respectfully invites Shengan!"

"Pingshen." Kangxi laughed.

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Nan Huairen stood up and bowed.

Kangxi smiled and asked: "Master Nan, I'm here today to see General Weiyuan's cannon, can it be used?"

Nan Huairen replied complacently: "Reporting to the emperor, I have just led people to try out General Weiyuan's cannon. The cannon weighs 560 jin, which is still light and powerful. It can fire [-] jin of flowering bullets. The Artifact of Thieves and Rebellion!"

Kangxi was overjoyed when he heard the words: "Okay! Push it over and show me!"

"Hey!" Nan Huairen waved his hand and shouted, "Push General Weiyuan's cannon over and let the emperor see how powerful it is!"

Immediately someone from below responded, and then saw a mortar placed on a four-wheeled cart that looked like a bronze bell being pushed up by several Eight Banners soldiers.

This mortar was cast very large, much larger than the mortar made by Wang Zhongxiao that fired 100-jin explosive shells. The [-]-jin mortar used in Suzhou was very light, not counting as a carriage (cannon carriage) frame) only weighs more than [-] kilograms, and two strong men can carry it away.

And the General Weiyuan cannon that Nan Huairen cast for Kangxi seemed to weigh five or six hundred catties, so it was inconvenient to move.

When the cannon was pushed up, another group of people followed with a wooden frame. Then they found a flat ground where Kangxi could see clearly, put the wooden frame in place, and placed the door on the four sides. The cannon on the cart was pushed to the side of the wooden frame, and then a dozen strong men tied the cannon with ropes, and then inserted seven or eight shoulder poles into the ropes, and under Nan Huairen's command, they worked together to pull the cannon This five or six hundred catty mortar was lifted off the carriage, and then pressed on the wooden frame. It was hard to look at!

Obviously, this cannon has no mobility on the battlefield.

Although this cannon has no mobility, the [-]-jin blooming ammunition looks quite scary!

A 20-year-old, white-faced and beardless civil servant commanded several Eight Banners soldiers in cotton armor to stuff gunpowder and a flowering bullet into the thick and short barrel, and then pressed it with a push rod, and then I saw one of them take out the fire folder, first ignite the fuse of the flowering shell stuffed into the muzzle, and then ignite the fuse at the fire door at the rear of the gun.

After lighting the fire, these artillerymen did not evade, but stood firmly beside the artillery, covering their ears with their hands - it was obvious that they were very confident in the quality of the artillery, at least it would not explode .

And Nan Huairen didn't even cover his ears, just stood there "doing it", one hand kept gesturing the cross in the air, and he was still chanting mantras, Wang Zhongxiao stretched out his ears and listened, as if it was some kind of "Hallelujah" .”

"boom"

Just as Nan Huairen was chanting the mantra, there was a dull bang!The cannon trembled like a "black pot", and then saw a stream of white smoke ejected from the muzzle, and a black thing shot out from the muzzle like lightning, and then shot out at an extremely fast speed. It flew over Xiaoerli at a very high speed, and slammed into an open space, but it didn't explode immediately-the fuze was not triggered!

"Hallelujah! Hallelujah" Nan Huairen recited the "incantation" louder, and the Eight Banners soldiers who followed him to learn how to fire cannons also chanted together: "Hallelujah! Hallelujah"

"boom!"

This "Cannon Curse" is quite effective, the flowering bomb suddenly made a loud noise, and turned into a cloud of black smoke, covering a large area of ​​land.

"Long live! The magic cannon is invincible"

The Eight Banners soldiers shouted together again.

Kangxi smiled happily when he saw it, and turned around and bragged to Fuquan and Changning: "Look, even Oboi won't be able to withstand this shot!"

Not always!Wang Zhongxiao said heartily: Now Oboi is not afraid of cannons, but whether Wu Sangui, Wu Yingqi, and my father-in-law Wu Guogui can withstand it, then I don't know!

"Brother Huang, we have such powerful cannons, can we immediately send troops to pacify Yunnan?" Prince Gong Changning is already a little eager to try, if he is not underage, he would like to invite an errand with his elder brother to go south to pacify Wu. How interesting!There is no need to read, practice calligraphy, and write articles all day long, let alone do arithmetic problems assigned by his brother-how difficult it is!
Kangxi turned his head and asked the relaxed Nan Huairen: "Master Nan, how many Shenwei General Cannons do we have now?"

"Reporting to the emperor, I have led people to forge sixteen General Weiyuan cannons!"

Kangxi nodded, "Do the people below know how to use it?"

"It has to be learned," Nan Huairen said, "but it's not too difficult. I can send a priest from Qin Tianjian to teach."

Kangxi thought for a while, and said: "There are sixteen Weiyuan general cannons that can be used for a town first. Let the masters of Qin Tianjian go south with the team and teach them all the way. Is it possible?"

Kangxi was obviously a little anxious - because there was less and less news from Yunnan during this period, Kangxi reckoned that Wu Yingqi's power might become more and more stable!

If Wu Yingxiong can't be sent there as soon as possible, the battle of Pingyungui will be difficult!

Nan Huairen didn't know what to do, so he turned around and shouted, "Wen Kai!"

The eighth-rank civil official who commanded several Eight Banners artillery to fire the cannon just now trotted all the way to Kangxi, shook his sleeves, and made a thousand salutes: "Mr. Dai Zi respectfully invites Shengan."

"Tape?" Kangxi was taken aback, "What tape? Is it in the flag?"

"The surname is Dai, the one who wears the hat. Zi is a letter next to the wooden character, and the minister is not in the banner. He is from Renhe, Hangzhou, Zhejiang."

Dai Zi?

Wang Zhongxiao immediately remembered who this person was?Isn't this the firearms expert from the early Qing Dynasty?When he was in Zhejiang last time, he asked people about it, but no one knew of his existence. Why did he sneak out to Beijing in the blink of an eye and sneak into the Qin Tianjian?

Kangxi asked: "How did you come to Beijing?"

"The minister's father, Dai Cang, had an old relationship with Duolong, Governor of Liangjiang, so he recommended him to the Duozhi army. The Duozhi army knew that I like to play with firearms and gunpowder, so they recommended me to Master Nan."

It turned out that Duolong did it!
Wang Zhongxiao thought to himself: Duolong became the governor of Liangjiang because of me. This is really lifting a stone and hitting Wu Sangui in the foot!
"Oh," Kangxi thought for a while, "then can you teach the gunners below to use this kind of cannon?"

"Your Majesty, I can take them with you."

"Take it?" Kangxi was taken aback, "How?"

Dai Zi said: "Your Majesty, this kind of artillery shoots into the sky and cannot be aimed directly. You have to measure the distance first, then calculate the angle of the cannon, and then calculate the ammunition package. The most difficult thing is to measure the distance, calculate the angle of the cannon, and calculate the ammunition package. But as long as ten The six cannons are used together, and the minister measures the distance, calculates the cannon angle and the ammunition package, and lets all the cannons fire according to the cannon angle given by the minister, then there is no difficulty."

You are cheating!Wang Zhongxiao said heartily: distance measurement, calculation of gun angle, and dosing kit are difficult. There is no need for on-site calculations. Calculate the distance, angle, and gunpowder in advance, and then write it down in a notebook for the artillerymen to carry with them. !No, I must frame you for such a treacherous and deceitful sycophant!
"Big head Wang!"

Just when Wang Zhongxiao was thinking of framing a traitor, Kangxi suddenly called out to him.

"The slave is here!"

Wang Zhongxiao quickly got off his horse, ran to Kangxi and gave a thousand salutes.

Kangxi said: "Take this Dai Zi with you and remember, if you really want to go to the battlefield, you must protect him well!"

"The slave leads the order!"

Wang Zhongxiao stood up, and that Dai Zi saluted Wang Zhongxiao with a look of fear—although Wang Zhongxiao was wearing a yellow mandarin jacket without a patch, the warm hat on his head was filled with the coral top of a second-rank official!

Can a second-rank official protect Dai Zi, an eighth-rank official, without fear?
Kangxi waved his hand to make Wang Zhongxiao and Dai Zi retreat, and then shouted: "Prince An, Prince Shuncheng."

Then Yue Le and E Zha came together.

Kangxi said: "Uncle King, Prince Shuncheng, Sun Sike's Green Battalion marched very quickly. They have already passed Langzhong and will soon arrive in Chengdu. In addition, Mo Luo, Governor of Shanshan and Shaanxi, also mobilized more than ten thousand Ganshan Green Battalion and A large amount of food and grass has been transported to Hanzhong, ready to enter Sichuan at any time, you two should start as soon as possible!

Just send troops in the name of escorting Wu Yingxiong to the south to become a vassal. There is no need to enter Yunnan and Guizhou, as long as the oppression reaches the border of Yunnan and Guizhou, forming a momentum of overwhelming Mount Tai, and then wait for it to change! "

After listening to Kangxi's words, Wang Zhongxiao also took a deep breath.

Kangxi finally made a move!
And very methodical, not at all impatient Although Wu Sangui even used the trick of feigning illness and pretending to be dead, Kangxi still stood on his feet!

And once the army sent by Kangxi has gained a firm foothold in Sichuan, Wu Sangui will repeat the same mistakes, and can only march into Wu Sangui through Huguang, which is densely covered with water networks. Are you ready?

Kangxi sent Prince An, Yue Le, to escort Wu Yingxiong, the heir of Prince Pingxi, to govern the feudal domain. At the same time, he sent Eza, Prince of Shuncheng County, to enter Chongqing in the name of cleaning up Liu Yihu, the remnant of Kuidong's thirteen families. Sifang also told Wu Sangui and Wu Yingqi who were far away in Kunming.

This is of course Kangxi's conspiracy, telling the world clearly that Wu Sangui is dead, and Wu Yingxiong is going to take over. If Yungui refuses to accept it, then the imperial court soldiers will not be polite!

On Wuhua Mountain, Wu Sangui, the king of Pingxi who is still "very good", is sitting in his study in Lie Cuixuan, holding a handwritten copy sent by Li Benshen, the admiral of Guizhou, and carefully looking at it over and over again.

And the few people around him looked a little dignified.

After all, Wu Sangui has practiced the method of "supporting troops and being loyal to the Qing Dynasty" all these years, and now the big guy is a little nervous if he really wants to turn against him!

Moreover, Wu Sangui's "pretend to be sick" also pretended to be a little unfavorable.Many accomplices who were not so close to him didn't know whether he was really incompetent or pretending to be incompetent, and seeing that Kangxi was pressing Yunnan every step of the way, they all started to retreat and seldom contacted Wuhuashan.

Of course, there are exceptions!General Sun Yanling of Guangxi is an exception. He has left Guilin, where he is stationed, and slipped to Wuhua Mountain in Kunming to visit Wu Sangui's "illness". Seeing that Wu Sangui is alive and well, he feels relieved. He is also in Wu Sangui's study at the moment in.

Seeing that the big guys don't make a sound, this one is also quite fit, but he is much shorter than Wang Fuchen, Wang Zhongxiao and his son, and the Guangxi General who is one size smaller said with gritted teeth: "My lord, if you think it's okay to start a war in Sichuan? To be sure, it is better to wipe out Guangdong and Guangxi first. Now that Wang Fuchen, Kong Sizhen, and Shang Zhixin have not yet arrived, all the troops in Guangxi listen to me and the Ma Zhijun. Guangdong and Guangxi will surely go smoothly. Don’t ignore the current Guangdong and Guangxi. Now that the north is withered, Guangdong and Guangxi are still relatively well-off. There are also Hao, Macao, and maritime trade. From there, you can buy Western guns and sharp weapons. , and then divide the army to attack Huguang, Fujian and Zhejiang in the north, and finally attack the two rivers, half of the country is at your fingertips!"

Hearing Sun Yanling's words, Wu Sangui just shook his head and smiled and said, "Sun Junmen, since ancient times, there has been no one who used Guangdong as a base to attack the Central Plains? But don't worry. Kangxi sent soldiers into Sichuan, but it was right in my arms. You go to Guangxi." Deal with Wang Fuchen for a while, and when I have pacified Sichuan and Shaanxi, I will come to Guangdong and Guangxi to help you!"

(End of this chapter)