Kangxi, your Qing Dynasty is dead

Chapter 333 Big head Li, look at my strategy of besieging father and helping him! (ask for subscription, ask for monthly pass)

"This is Wuxue Town, this is Chengzi Town, and this is Xiaochikou. Now Li Laishun's army is deployed in these three places. When I set out from Dehua and went up the river to Wuchang, I saw Li Laishun's army in Zhongwangfu. Build artillery barricades on the shore. Your Majesty, if Li Fuchen and Li Laishun complete the deployment of these three places, it will not be easy to send troops from Wuchang to relieve the siege of Jiujiang."

In the Wuying Hall in the Great Zhou Imperial City in Wuchang Prefecture, Lang Tingxiang, who had already changed into an official robe of the Great Zhou Dynasty, was holding a small wooden stick and pointing on a hanging map.The three towns he just mentioned are all located on the bank of the Yangtze River, upstream of Dehua, Jiujiang Prefecture.Among them, Wuxue and Xiaochikou are in Jiangbei, and Chengzi Town is in Jiangnan.If these three small towns are firmly occupied by the army of the loyal king Li Laishun, and they build a fort, set up dozens of red cannons that can fire twelve catties of bullets, and then use pontoon bridges, iron cables and other things to block the water surface of the Yangtze River.Then it will be difficult for Wu Sangui's army to go downstream to Jiujiang!
Lang Tingxiang then pointed to Dehua, the prefectural city of Jiujiang, and said worriedly: "Your Majesty, the three counties of De'an, Ruichang, and Jianchang on the outskirts of Dehua are now under the control of Li Fuchen's army. Dehua periphery. Kang Guogong sent elites to fight several times, trying to repel Li Fuchen, but Li's army's firearms were very sharp, and the cavalry was strong. Kang Guogong's army was hard to resist.

The minister estimated that Li Fuchen would be able to surround Jiujiang Fucheng in a short time.Although the city defenses of Jiujiangfu City are very strong, there are not many soldiers and food reserves in the city. Once it is besieged, it can only last for a few months at most! "

Wu Sangui folded his arms, squinted his eyes, and sat on a grand master's chair facing the map in a grand manner.Standing beside him are Wu Yingxiong, Wu Shifan, Wu Shijuan, Xia Guoxiang, Hu Guozhu, Wang Pingfan, Zheng Jiaolin, Fang Guangchen, Liu Xuanchu, Wang Shirong and other civil servants and generals.

After listening to Lang Tingxiang's introduction of Jiujiang's situation, Wu Sangui turned to look at his two naval commanders, and asked with a smile: "Guo Xiang, Guo Zhu, how is the situation of the navy? Are you ready?"

"Your Majesty," Hu Guozhu said with a smile, "the navy has more than [-] large and small warships, and no less than [-] officers and soldiers. All of them have practiced for two or three years, and they are already proficient in water warfare."

Xia Guoxiang added: "Your Majesty, after we arrived in Wuchang, we collected [-] civilian ships and more than [-] sailors from Jingzhou and Xiangyang in Hunan and Hubei. All of them were incorporated into the navy to transport troops and food. So Now we have a total of [-] warships, [-] civilian ships, [-] government soldiers, and [-] temporary recruits, all of which are on standby at any time, just waiting for your emperor's order!"

Wu Sangui nodded in satisfaction and said "OK", then asked Wu Yingxiong and Wu Shifan, "Yingxiong, Shifan, how is Master Lu's preparation?"

"Father, there are a total of 12 soldiers from the Lu Shifu who can be dispatched from Wuchang for the Eastern Expedition! In addition, there are 20 civilians recruited from Hunan and Jingxiang, a total of [-] people!"

"Grandfather, the 20 Lu divisions are also ready to send troops at any time! In addition, there are [-] soldiers and [-] civilians from Hunan, the third uncle Chu King, and they can also march to Jiangxi or Guangdong at any time. Chang'an is still there. have."

"That's enough, these soldiers are enough!" Wu Sangui interrupted Wu Shifan. He took Wu Yingxiong to send troops this time, and left Wu Yingqi in Chang'an to guard his home. Going to attack and kill the old lord is a bit of an injustice.But the actual reason is that Wu Sangui intends to support Wu Yingxiong.

He has learned the lesson from Li Yuan and Zhu Di!

Li Yuan tied the eldest prince by his side, and let the second son, the king of Qin, fight everywhere all day long. As a result, the unfaithful and unfilial Li Shimin became stronger and stronger, and finally killed his brother and forced his father to break the rules of the Tang Dynasty.

Zhu Di's situation was similar. The eldest son was too fat to march and fight, so he led his second son Zhu Gaoxu to seek to usurp the throne.Although the second phase of Jingnan was not produced, it also harmed Zhu Gaoxu and his son. In fact, it also indirectly harmed the Ming Dynasty!
If Zhu Gaoxu hadn't been ambitious and eventually killed by Emperor Xuanzong of the Ming Dynasty, with his ability to fight, he could completely replace Datong's acting king or be appointed to Liaodong to guard the country's borders.Then there will be no Xuande shrinking borders, and there will be no subsequent changes in civil castles.

So according to Wu Sangui's intention, Wu Yingqi, Wu Guogui, Wu Shicong, and Wu Shijue are all going to be reserved for Wu Yingxiong and Wu Shifan's family. Let them do less meritorious deeds and don't climb on the prince's head, so that they can be used in the future them.

Thinking of this, Wu Sangui smiled and said: "Counting the people and strength, it is 27 land and water! Kang Guogong still has 32 troops, so that is 60 troops! I will add some water to him, and pretend that [-] is not too much, right?"

"Not too much, not too much," Fang Guangchen, Wu Sangui's first assistant, laughed, "Even if you pretend to be a million dollars, it's not too much."

Wu Sangui twirled his beard and said: "There are Geng Jingzhong and Kangxi, why do they both have to blow out 20 troops each. Adding together is a million!"

"Your Majesty," Liu Xuanchu didn't look so optimistic, and said cautiously, "Da Zhou, Da Qing and Jiangnan Jingguo can gather together to attack Ming at most 50 troops this time. I'm afraid the troops on the other side of Ming will not be too small." , Two or three million can always be scraped together."

Wu Sangui nodded and said with a smile: "Of course I know that there are many people in the south of the Yangtze River, but I don't just rely on the number of people to bully others and the few to fight. I have already discovered a flaw in the formation of Li Zhongshan and Li Fuchen!"

While speaking, he stood up and walked to the map, then took the stick from Lang Tingxiang's hand, and then drew a line directly along the Yangtze River-Poyang Lake-Gan River on the map, and said with a smile : "Li Fuchen is caring about his head and ignoring his back! He covered his head and beat Jiujiang. It's fine if he is defeated, but if he can't be defeated, our army will go around by water and go around behind him to copy Nanchang. What do you think he should do? ?”

"What else can I do?" Wu Shifan laughed, "Of course we retreated to Nanchang!"

Wu Sangui smiled and said: "He retreated to Nanchang, and the old man surrounded Nanchang!"

"Ah, isn't this the same as the battle at Poyang Lake?" Wu Shijue said in surprise, "Grandfather, we seem to be..."

He wanted to say "We seem to be Chen Youliang", but as soon as the words came out, he felt that it was too unlucky, so he stopped quickly.

Wu Sangui nodded and said: "You are right, our formation is the same as Chen Youliang's! But have you ever thought about why Chen Youliang lost the Poyang Lake battle? Could it be because the formation was not good?"

"This. In fact, Chen Youliang had already gone downhill before the Poyang Lake War." Wu Shifan said, "After he killed Xu Shouhui and usurped the throne, and turned Xu Song into Chen Han, he was no longer able to do well."

Wu Sangui looked at his precious grandson, and nodded with satisfaction: "That's right, Chen Youliang's failure lies in the internal disintegration after usurping the throne. We don't have this problem! And when Chen Youliang attacked Zhu Yuanzhang, both Bei Yuan and Zhang Wu watched from the sidelines." And now, Beiqing and Dongjing are helping me to deal with Remnant!
So as long as I surround Li Zhongshan's father and attract Li Zhongshan's main force to Poyang Lake, Beiqing and Dongjing will go all out to attack Jiangnan and Jiangbei.Sun Jiqing from Guangxi will also take the opportunity to raise troops to attack Guangdong. Maybe Guogui can take the opportunity to take down Guangzhou.At that time, even if the battle of Poyang Lake is temporarily indistinguishable, Remnant Ming will be in trouble! "

"Then what if Li Zhongshan doesn't save his father?" Wu Shijuan reminded, "Grandpa, this Li Zhongshan is not a dutiful son."

Wu Sangui smiled and said: "If he doesn't save Li Fuchen, then I will capture Li Fuchen and take Jiangxi, and then divide the troops to support your father and Sun Jiqing, and take Guangdong for him. The Zheng family in Fujian is a housekeeper. If I give him the benefit of being a world town in Fujian, he will also submit. At that time, what will be left of Remnant? Even if Li Zhongshan can use the time when I besieged Nanchang to destroy Geng Jingzhong, his territory will only be Go to Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang, how dare the three provinces resist the world?"

Now everyone thinks that Wu Sangui is better than Chen Youliang!
According to his arrangement, no matter whether Li Zhongshan entered Poyang Lake or not, he would not escape a defeat, nothing more than more defeats and less defeats!

Wu Sangui paused, with indescribable arrogance on his face: "I will pass on my will. After ten days, all armies will divide into land and water routes and advance side by side. This time, I will fight Li Zhongshan at Poyang Lake!"

A Chinese and Western-style armed merchant ship with a high side, a huge hull, and a hard sail is sailing eastward with a downwind, stirring up a white wave on the Yangtze River waterway from Taipingfu to Nanjing. Hunting and fluttering in the spring breeze.

On both sides of the Yangtze River, the green fields are picturesque.Li Zhongshan, the Great General of the Great Ming Dynasty, was meeting a short, tall man with high cheekbones, holding a feather fan, wearing a lun scarf, and wearing a crane cloak. Standing side by side at the bow of this sailing ship, while talking, while looking at the surrounding scene of all things competing and full of vitality.

"My lord, what do you think of this ship?"

"Yi Wang, your ship is really good. It is big and stable. It can drive quite fast and can install more than a dozen cannons on both sides. With such a huge ship, why doesn't the Yangtze River let us come and go?"

It turned out that the person who was talking to Li Zhongshan was Daming Yiwang Zheng Jing.

This King Zheng Yi has been concentrating on developing in Fujian in the past few years, and successively occupied Zhangzhou, Quanzhou, Xinghua, Tingzhou, Longyan, Yunzhou, Yanping, and Shaowu. Not long ago, he took advantage of Geng Jingzhong's opportunity to shrink his troops and took Got off Fuzhou, Funing, Jianning.Thus bringing the whole of Fujian under the rule!
After taking Fujian, Zheng Jing was finally invited to lead the representatives of the people and scholars in Fujian, and the new armed merchant ships of the Fujian Navy came to Nanjing to participate in the people's political meeting.

This new type of armed merchant ship is called "Old Lock Ship". It is characterized by a combination of Chinese and Western styles, that is, a Western-style high freeboard hull with Chinese-style hard sails.Because the western-style hull is stronger, more and larger-caliber artillery can be installed, while the Chinese-style hard sail is easier to operate and saves manpower.Therefore, in the opinion of the Zheng family, this kind of ship is the most suitable for sailing in the East and Southeast Asia!

As early as Zheng Zhilong's era, the Zheng family began to build old lock boats.Zheng Zhilong once built [-] old lock gunboats in Xiamen that could be used for naval warfare. Unfortunately, before they were put into use, they were raided by the navy of the Dutch East India Company and burned to the ground.
When Zheng Chenggong came to power, the Zheng family lost their base on the mainland and encountered the sea ban of the Qing Dynasty, and their financial resources were not as good as before. Naturally, it was impossible to build a large number of old lock ships.

But after Zheng Jing regained Zhangzhou and Quanzhou, the old lock boats could finally be opened!

In just a few years, dozens of old lock boats with a load of more than 5000 shi (almost 300 tons) have been built!
But this kind of old lock boat has no oars, so it is very easy to use in the windy sea, but it is not so easy to use after entering the Yangtze River.

"King of England," Zheng Jing said half-jokingly, shaking his feather fan, "the old lock boat is a sea boat, and it doesn't have oars. It is not easy to enter the Yangtze River where the wind is light and the water is shallow. If there is no wind, the boat will not be able to move. , and it is easy to run aground. When the former kings attacked Nanjing in the north, they suffered a great loss from sea ships entering the river."

Li Zhongshan waved his hand and said: "Yi Wang, I have already thought of countermeasures for what you said!"

As he was talking, he raised his hand and pointed to a fast crab boat that opened the way in front of the old lock boat that he and Zheng Jing were on, and said with a smile: "The Yangtze River Navy has many fast crab boats, and the fast crab boat and the old lock boat can be used together. Let's act together. If there is no wind and you have to act, use the fast crab boat to tow the old lock boat. If the old lock boat accidentally runs aground, you can also use the fast crab boat to tow it away from the shallows!"

"Use a small boat to tow a big boat?" Zheng Jing shook his feather fan, and said in his heart: It's really lucky that you can figure it out. No matter, just do it if you think it will work!

"The King of England," Zheng Jingdao, "these old lock boats are expensive to build, and the sailors on board are all experienced at sea for many years. Only my family has such good sailors in the whole world. If the general wants to use it... I don't know if he wants to use it." Buy, or want to rent?"

The name of Zheng "Jing" is really not wrong, it is "True Jing", Daming is about to perish, and you still want to buy and sell!

Li Zhongshan just wanted to talk to Zheng Jing about the principles of loyalty to the emperor and patriotism, but Zheng Jing had already rushed to speak: "You don't know, King Ying, these ships were all raised from businessmen in Zhangzhou and Quanzhou, and borrowed. The money from the three major banks, which was created with great difficulty, will be used in vain by the imperial court, and the business of the Yanping clan will not be able to continue!"

The Yanping Fanhang he said means the Yanping Fan Trading Company. When Zheng Jing separatized the island and became the King of Yanping, in order to make money to support soldiers, he sorted out the properties passed down from his ancestors and set up a Fan Trading Company.

And when he became the lord of Zhangzhou and Quanzhou, he had the ability to raise funds from southern Hokkien businessmen.So he learned from the Dutch East India Company, "listed" the Yanping Fan Trading Company, raised shares in the name of the Fan Trading Company and borrowed money, quickly raised a large sum of money, built dozens of old lock ships, and hired a large number of sailors, and then went into the business of maritime trade and the "protection" of roadblocks.

Hearing what he said, Li Zhongshan couldn't make a difference - now Daming is almost going to become a "bourgeois republic"!So he has to protect the interests of the bourgeoisie!For "commercial organizations" similar to the East India Company, such as the Yanping Fan Trading Company, it is even more necessary to use the power of the state to protect them.

"This. It's better to buy than to build. It's better to rent than to buy. Or I'll rent it!"

Li Zhongshan's "Building is worse than buying, and buying is worse than renting" is not buying and renting from foreign devils, but buying guns and cannons from Foshan Town, and renting warships from Zheng Jing.
"Happy! King Ying is indeed a straightforward person." Zheng Jing laughed, "I am also a straightforward person, how about this, let's make obeisance first, and bring Lu Sanhao and Chen Fufu together."

"That's great!" Li Zhongshan nodded with a smile, "Turn back and bring King Bei, let's recognize King Liu Bei as a big brother together!"

"Okay!" Zheng Jing nodded, "In this way, we will be brothers and sisters. I will give you a discount on the rental fee. A boat only costs 1000 taels a month, and all the expenses are covered. How about it?"

1000 taels for a ship. It’s really dark!
"1000 taels." Li Zhongshan knew about Zheng Jing, but he didn't make a counter-offer—now it's not business, it's war and politics. It's better to meet someone who wants money than someone who wants to die.

He smiled, and said again: "Brother Wang, if this boat is rented, then after defeating Wu Sangui, this military achievement and territory."

Zheng Jing said with a smile: "If I don't want it, I want money! I'm already a prince, why do I need military merits? As for land, I don't want land! Fujian is all state, I don't want feudal land."

"Really?" Li Zhongshan was taken aback for a moment, he never thought that Zheng Jing was so good!
What are you doing here?Waiting for the court to cut down the feudal clan?

As long as they can control the people and scholars in Fujian, the Zheng family will be the permanent major shareholder of the Ming court!

(End of this chapter)