Kangxi, your Qing Dynasty is dead

Chapter 183 Divided the land, became a soldier, got a gun, and the enemy came to the door! (ask for subscription, ask for monthly pass)
In the night, a fiery snake is just north of Xiangshan County, on the land belonging to Shunde County, winding and sliding forward like a long snake.

This is of course "moving by day and night", marching quietly, and going to attack the Shang family army in Xiangshan County.Shang Zhixiao is a filial son, so he, Ama Shang Kexi, said that he would go around day and night, and he would naturally carry it out to the letter.After the army arrived in Foshan Town, they rested during the day and marched at night.When marching at night, of course you have to light a torch, otherwise how can you walk in the dark?Who is to blame if you fall into a ditch or go astray?The terrain around Shunde is not very smooth!
Shunde is of course an excellent place, a land of fish and rice!It is a very flat piece of land, with a humid climate and convenient transportation. It is suitable for business, agriculture, fish catching, smuggling, but not for walking and riding, because there are too many rivers, and they are all wide and deep.Moreover, Guangdong’s infrastructure is not doing well these days. There are very few bridges on these rivers, and the places where bridges are erected are relatively random and there is no plan—it’s all for the convenience of the rich in Guangdong and for doing good deeds. After repairing, what are the plans?

Therefore, Shang Zhixiao's [-] troops can only march around the water net like a snake, and in order to find the way and find the bridge, they have to light up torches.

However, there is something comfortable about marching at night. The temperature in Lingnan is relatively high during the day, and when the sun is shining, you don’t have the strength to do anything.I happened to find a fan village in the Pingnan Palace to live in and rest. It was quite comfortable to take a night tour with a torch when the weather was cold at night.

Shang Zhixiao, Shangda Xiaozi and Li Lan, Li Dajun are even more comfortable. These two masters are "second generations of nobles", one is the beloved son of King Pingnan, and the other is the governor of Huguang, both of whom have golden spoons in their mouths. Lord of birth.Although he has not yet become the stubborn master of the Eight Banners, he still understands how to enjoy.When these two marched, they did not walk or ride horses, but sat on sliders to be carried by the coated slaves below!

What's more, they don't wear jackets, that is, military uniforms, but thin long gowns, both wearing small caps with melon skin, and swinging folding fans, so leisurely.Li Lan was still a fan of the theater, and he was humming Kunqu opera while sitting on the slider: "Send Zhang Sheng to Beijing today, and arrange a banquet in the ten-mile long pavilion; the elder and I will go first, and Zhang Sheng will not be seen."

Although Shang Zhixiao couldn't understand Kunqu opera, he still did not forget to praise him personally. When Li Lan finished singing, he even shouted "yes".

When he applauded, the soldiers, Baoyi, and house slaves who were protecting Shang Zhixiao and Li Lan who were marching together also echoed, and immediately the marching team was full of applause.Those who didn't know thought that the filial son Shang Da and Li Da rotten were giving rewards to the people below!
I don't know if it made the people below feel embarrassed to applaud, but Li Lan stopped singing, and shouted to the people below while laughing: "Rewards! There are rewards for everyone and a hundred big money for each person!"

One hundred big money is not much, but if you give almost 1000 Green Battalion Soldiers and Banner Banners plus thousands of slaves at one time (the Banner Banners also have slaves), that’s more than [-] big money gone. It's almost a thousand or a few hundred taels of silver!

But Li Lan now has "strength". He is no longer a dandy living in Beijing city relying on his Ama's greedy family business. He is now a warlord!
Before that, he and Zhu Guozhi, governor of Guangdong, were assigned to the territory of Huizhou Prefecture!

When he first got the territory, he didn't know how fragrant it was.But now it is the winter of the 11th year of Kangxi. The autumn tax has been collected once, and it was Zhu Guozhi and Zhu Baidi who went to Huizhou government to supervise the tax collection in person!

Zhu Guozhi not only collected all the autumn taxes for the 11th year of Kangxi, but also paid off all the arrears over the years!
Anyone who refuses to pay the tax, those who have a reputation will be arrested and those who have no reputation will be arrested and beaten, and those who still refuse to pay their debts will have their land confiscated and sold!Of course, not every county can do this, and Haifeng County can't handle it. That's an anti-Qing old area!
During this period of time, because Wu Sanwei and Aobai came to Xinning to "beg heaven to fight against Hu", Qiu Hui from Chaozhou next door also became very arrogant, and with the help of Zheng Yanping, he recently took down Chaoyang County and Huilai County , In addition to the Chenghai county that was acquired before, there are already three counties and Haifeng (both from Chaoshan) whose influence has penetrated into Huizhou has established bases in Jieshiwei and Lianhuashan. The landlord adopted the strategy of wooing and buying.

But in other counties under Huizhou Prefecture, you have to learn how powerful Zhu Baidi is!

And Zhu Baidi did not take all the money he got, but shared it with Li Lan and Chen Shikai. Zhu Baidi got 3000%, Li Lan got 6000%, and Chen Shikai got 500%. Gao, but Zhu Baidi, Li Lan, and Chen Shikai had to use the silver to support soldiers after they got it.Among them, Zhu Baidi's own bidding now has [-] people, Li Lan's raising bid has expanded to [-] people, and the Humen Town that Chen Shikai took over has [-] people to support.
However, after paying the military pay and rewards, Li Lan still stuffed a lot of money into his pocket!
Being a warlord is really delicious!
Seeing that Li Lan had generously rewarded the people below, Shang Zhixiao was embarrassed to be too stingy, and immediately ordered loudly: "Pass down the official order to take down Hao'ao City, and everyone will be rewarded with five taels of silver!"

Five taels of silver is a lot!

It is quite a lot for a green battalion soldier to actually get one tael of silver a month!As soon as Shang Zhixiao made a move, he released five taels, and then tens of thousands of taels!

But what he gave was a promissory note, so he had to win Haoao first!
If you conquer Haoao, Shang Zhixiao will make a lot of money!

Because Shang Kexi had already told him before. After conquering Haoao, the Haoao business market will be under his control!Tens of thousands of taels of silver, didn't they come out after a random search?
Shang Zhixiao's order was quickly passed on, and the soldiers and generals below heard the amount of rewards, and immediately burst into joy, and even accelerated the speed of marching.

The more than 1 people who followed Shang Zhixiao and Li Lan already know that Hao and Macao are empty!Wang Datou has already led his new army of Xiexie to Daleizhou by sea. Haoao also has the neighboring counties of Xiangshan, Xinhui and Xinning. Soldiers are just peasants. When the heavenly soldiers of the Qing Dynasty entered Guangdong, I don’t know how many such rural soldiers they fought. They were completely vulnerable!

Just as the soldiers and horses of the Shang family who were marching in the dark cheered loudly, Yu Deshui, the deputy magistrate of Guangdong's alternate magistrate of Xiangshan County, had already boarded the Huatuo Mountain Walled City outside Xiangshan County, standing on the highest point of the city wall. On the watchtower, I watched in horror as the "Fire Snake" in the northwest direction slowly approached me!

He has been Wang Fuchen's "battle master" for many years!Wang Fuchen is a general soldier, and his master is not in charge of Qiangu Xingming, but a military staff member, so he naturally knows how to march and fight.

So looking at it from a distance, you can see that there are quite a number of people marching with torches at night. Looking at it, it may be more than [-]!
"Prefect (prefect's honorific title), this is Shang's sneak attack!"

The person who spoke was a samurai with a sword on his waist. He was not a military officer, because he did not have a serious official status.This man's surname is Lu and his name is Yijia. He is from Zhaoqing Prefecture, Guangdong Province. He is in his twenties.

He graduated from the second phase of the Jingwu Hall, an inner disciple, a member of the Tiandihui, and his current position is the head of the Xiangshan County Yamen Military Division.

Of course, the Military Section of the County Government Office is an organization privately set up by Wang Zhongxiao, responsible for managing the township soldiers in the county. Its external identity is one of the masters of the county government, so it is paid and appointed by the Guangdong Customs Road.

The yamen in charge of this military department is not in Xiangshan County, but in the city walled on the high ground of Huatuo Mountain to the east of Xiangshan County.

This walled city was originally a guard city left by the Ming Dynasty. It had been abandoned for many years when Wang Zhongxiao took over Xiangshan, but now it has been renovated and built barracks, artillery forts, outer fences and a very high watchtower. .

Together with Huatuo Mountain City and Xiangshan County to the west, they formed a defense system guarding the Jiyao Waterway, Xiaolan Waterway and Shigu River where the Beijiang River flows into Lingdingyang!

As long as these two strongholds are in hand, it will be difficult for the army sent by Shang Kexi to attack Xiangshan County from the north. The current terrain of Xiangshan is an existence between an island and a peninsula. It is called an island because it is surrounded by mountains. have water!It is called a peninsula because the water in the west of Xiangshan is relatively "small", and it is covered with narrow rivers in Guangfu. Bridges are built on the rivers, and you can enter the boundary of Xiangshan without a ferry.

"Hurry up, light the beacon fire!"

Yu Deshui's reaction was quite quick, he thought for a while, and then said: "The river in the north of Xiangshan Mountain is too wide, they are unlikely to come over. They should turn to the west, we have to delay them, so as to buy time for the principal! "

"Okay, okay, I will call the soldiers immediately!" Lu Yijia nodded heavily, and turned around to go down to the watchtower to deliver the order.

"Wait," Yu Deshui suddenly stopped him, "Guanzhi (Lu Yijia's character), do you know what to say to the people below? In this situation, who is rebelling?"

This question is a bit complicated!

Now it is the Great Qing Pingnan King, the Governor of Guangdong, and the Admiral of Guangdong who jointly attacked the Qing Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, Dingnan King, and Guangdong Customs Road. It seems that neither side has raised the flag of rebellion, but neither side seems to be a loyal minister of the Qing Dynasty.

Wang Fuchen, Wang Zhongxiao and his son openly held Juntian in Xiangshan, Xinning, Xinhui, and built a private army. The former created a rebellion against the landlord class!Kangxi is the head of the landlord class in the Qing Dynasty!Not to mention the latter, [-] private troops!

And the father and son of the Shang family are also out of line here. First, they don't ask for an order, and second, they don't participate in the impeachment. They directly send tens of thousands of troops to fight against the governor of Guangdong, Guangxi and the army of Guangdong Customs!
What these two families have done seems to be rebellion!
Lu Yijia shook his head, he didn't know whether he was rebelling, but he still understood one thing, "Prefect, it doesn't matter who is rebelling, the important thing is that we are going to fight the Shang family!"

Cantonese, especially the poor people in the coastal areas of Guangdong, do not need to be mobilized to fight. No money is required, and they can fight with their own dry food!Just be sure to win!
In history, the reason why Shang Zhixin joined the San Francisco Rebellion was not because he opposed the Qing Dynasty so much, but because the difficult situation of the Shang family in Guangdong forced him to follow the leadership of Zu Zeqing, Liu Jinzhong and Liu Guoxuan. flow.

At that time, Zu Zeqing rebelled in the west of Guangdong, and his followers were like clouds!And Liu Jinzhong and Liu Guoxuan teamed up and used thousands of people to wipe out the [-] main force of the Shang family, and then easily swept through the two mansions of Chaohui. Among them, Liu Guoxuan had already taken Huizhou and reached the door of Guangzhou mansion!
If Shang Zhixin does not rebel, the Shang family will be over immediately!
But now, the township soldiers in Xiangshan, Xinning, and Xinhui counties have been divided into land, and they have guns as soldiers!The enemy of the Shang family even sent him to his door to beat him up!

Does it matter who is rebelling?

When the beacon fire on Hua Tuo Mountain was transmitted to Macau Castle one by one, Wang Zhongxiao was sleeping soundly with Yang Xiaohuan in his arms.
I was sleeping soundly, and the bell of "Boom, Boom, Boom" came to mind!
This is the bell on the castle is not something that can be rang casually, it is the bell of early warning!
Although the current Macau commercial market is more prosperous than before, its defense level is also much higher than when Wang Zhongxiao just captured it.However, Wang Zhongxiao was not worried about Shang Kexi's sneak attack, but worried that the Western colonists would not know when they would come!
Although Portugal is weakened, it is not impossible for the Goa Governor's Palace to take two or 3000 people to counterattack.

In addition, Portugal and the United Kingdom are traditional allies. Mumbai is the dowry of Portuguese princesses!Maybe the Portuguese will pull the British to fight together!

The Netherlands and Spain are also masters who don't do anything about personnel. They are all robber countries who can rob or cheat but will never spend money to buy them.Maybe they will join forces with Britain and Portugal to make a big deal.

So the defense of Macau has been strengthening in the past few months!

Piers were built on Dahengqin Mountain and Sanzao Island off the coast of Modaomen, and a small number of rural soldiers—fishermen and rural soldiers were stationed there, fishing while watching.

On the southeastern coast of Macau, which is suitable for landing, Wang Zhongxiao also ordered people to build a fence with sandbags piled inside the fence, forming a fortification that is half seawall and half city wall, and many watchtowers were also built.

So his first reaction when he heard the bell was that an imperialist warship was coming from the sea, and he didn't even have time to put on his clothes, so he got up from the bed, walked quickly to the window near the sea, and pushed Opening the closed wooden window, a gust of salty sea breeze blew up, waking up Principal Wang who was still a little fuzzy!

He made up his mind, and then looked at the sea intently, there was nothing!

There is no beacon fire in the direction of Dahengqin Island, and there is no movement on the watchtower by the seaside of Macau. Everything is as usual!
Didn't imperialism come?
"boom blah blah"

But the bell kept ringing!
"Could it be Shang Kexi?"

While Wang Zhongxiao was muttering, the door of his bedroom was slammed, and Zhou Chang's voice was heard at the same time: "Principal, the direction of Xiangshan, principal, is full of flames! It's good to be happy!"

Shang Ke is happy?
Shang Kexi, Emperor Kangxi's loyal dog will also rebel?

Wang Zhongxiao hurriedly shouted: "Pei Gong, hurry up and summon the generals, I'll be right there!"

"Yes!"

"Revenge, revenge, revenge."

When the sun was fully up, on the hillside of Wangxia Mountain, the Guangdong soldiers standing in layers gave out loud cheers.Standing high on the hillside, President Wang Zhongxiao also showed a satisfied smile.

Now is not the busy season of farming, so many soldiers from the three counties are participating in training in Macau. The number is about five or six thousand. It can probably form four full-staffed six-team battalions—one battalion is equipped with four teams of musketeers and two captains. Spearmen, a total of 300 people!
These four battalions can add up to 6000 people, plus a team of artillery, a team of cavalry, a team of engineers, a team of heavy soldiers, and a headquarters, it can almost make up a brigade of more than [-] people.

The number of people is quite a lot, and the equipment is theoretically enough. What is uncertain now is the morale of the troops?

After all, this is an army dominated by rural soldiers, and the rural soldiers have a period of unpaid service every year-they have divided the land!Moreover, most of them have never participated in battles (and some have participated in battles, Guangdong-style weapon fighting), which is still worse than Wang Fuchen's new army.

Fortunately, the enemy we are going to deal with today is Shang Kexi!What Shang Kexi did has offended most of the Cantonese, and now is the time for the big guys to take revenge!
So when Wang Zhongxiao announced the mission, what greeted him was fanatical shouts!

The land has been divided, the soldiers have been recruited, and the time for revenge has arrived!

Wang Zhongxiao pulled out his waist knife, held it high above his head, and pointed towards the northeast suddenly: "Masters, that's the city of Guangzhou. I'll take you to cut off Shang Kexi's dog's head!"

"Kill! Kill! Kill!" Everyone cheered again!
(End of this chapter)