Take the arsenal to Da Ming

Chapter 200

After dealing with the matters in Zeelandia City, Tangning led all the personnel to evacuate from Yikunshen Island and head to Dayuan Island.

As for the city of Zeelandia, he planned to wait ten days and a half months before sending a batch of animals in for inspection, and after confirming that everything was fine, he would send troops in.

Although the location of Yikunshen Island is good, the area is still too small. In the future, Tangning's ruling center on Dayuan Island will be on Dayuan Island, so the status of Zeelandia City will be transferred to Chixian City.

However, as Tangning entered Chixian City, the city could no longer be called Chixian City, and was renamed Mingzhu Mansion by Tangning.

Mingzhu Mansion means a pearl in the sea of ​​Ming Dynasty, a shining pearl.

Mingzhu Mansion will be the administrative center of the officials. The Dutch had only a few hundred people stationed here before, so the scale of the city is not large.

Naturally, this couldn't meet Tangning's needs, and the expansion of Pearl Mansion was imperative.

In the era of great voyages, Dayuan Island had an unusual strategic position, so Tangning had long planned to make it one of the main bases for his ocean expeditions.

For a long time, the central courts of all dynasties did not know enough about senior officials, so they did not pay enough attention to them.

To put it bluntly, it is that the importance of ocean trade is not enough, and the understanding of sea power and navigation is not enough.

The Dutch immediately recognized the importance of Daguan as soon as they discovered it, and called it "Formosa", which means "beautiful island".

Because of this, Dayuan occupied a pivotal position in the Dutch Far East trade for decades, almost monopolizing the trade to the East.

As for the Dutch's rule here, the peak period was before Tangning led the army to attack, but there were only more than 3000 people.

The Dutch did not develop the big players well, and they were more just barbaric plundering.

Now that Tangning has regained the officials, she will naturally not waste this treasured land. The expansion of the city and the development of the land will be quickly put on the agenda.

In the early stage, he planned to relocate 10 people from Fujian to cultivate, develop ports, mines, etc.

He believes that with his own appeal, and on the premise of various benefits, relocating people will not have much problem.

Then turn some of the trade over to the big players, and it will only be a matter of time before the big players get animated.

Tang Ning was busy with the affairs of the senior officials, and the progress of the Qing army also accelerated a lot.

On May [-]th, the Duduo troops of the Qing army approached Zhili in the south, and the Gaojie tribe whose main force was in Xuzhou Prefecture and the north of Fengyang Prefecture bore the brunt.

With the acquiescence of Gao Jie's widow Xing, Xuzhou general Li Chengdong led an army of nearly 16 troops to surrender to the Qing army.

Nanzhili was in danger.

However, one afternoon before that, Huang Hai ordered Xu Yong to lead [-] troops to support Yangzhou by land.

Xu Yong's department was the first naval division that was taken over by Huang Hairu to Guazhou after Zuo Liangyu's department decided to attach to Tang Ning, with a strength of more than 1 people.

Due to the small number of people and Huang Hairu, who represented the new army, as a guarantee, Xu Yong's troops were left in Guazhou by Huang Hairu, which was what Tang Ning and the staff wanted.

The next day, Huang Hairu ordered [-] troops to stay in Guazhou, and then personally led [-] large and small warships with a total of [-] troops to go north along the ancient canal.

At that time, Gao Jie's troops chose to surrender to the Qing Dynasty and approached Yangzhou. Liu Zeqing fled to Huai'an Mansion, and the situation in Yangzhou was precarious.

Hearing that the Qing army was going south in a few days, the people of Yangzhou fled one after another, the city gate was smashed open, and all the ships and boats were robbed, but Shi Kefa didn't do anything to stop him, just let it go.

These ships fleeing south just happened to collide head-on with the Yellow Sea sailing north.

Seeing the large and small fleeing ships on the canal almost blocking the channel, Huang Hairu immediately led the fleet to block the canal and drive all the ships back to Yangzhou.

Do not listen.

"Fire a cannon to warn, and those who don't retreat will be sunk."

"Boom boom boom..." The sound of warning guns blasted water jets on the surface of the water.

Seeing the Yellow Sea seemed to be a fake, the people who fled were all terrified, some begged, some cried bitterly, and some wanted to spend money to buy the way.

Huang Hairu remained unmoved.

An official and his family members wanted to forcibly rush through the gap between the two ships.

Huang Hairu waved his hand, and a group of soldiers stepped forward, bowed their bows and set up arrows, and rained down arrows.

Amidst the screams, the two boats were filled with arrows, and the people in the boats were also shot into hedgehogs.

"Killed, killed..."

This scene was seen by many people on the river. With a burst of terrified screams, many boats began to turn around, and some wanted to dock.

Few dared to lean towards the west bank, because the west bank was the direction from which the Qing army came. If they fled from the west bank, they would probably fall into the hands of the Qing army.

Therefore, those who wanted to escape from the shore all leaned towards the east bank, but they were immediately captured by Xu Yong's soldiers, because Xu Yong's troops had already reached the outskirts of Fucheng first, and deliberately slowed down to wait for Huang Hairu.

Just like that, those who escaped from Yangzhou City were forcibly driven back or escorted back to Yangzhou City by Huang Hairu.

Shi Kefa was very grateful to Huang Hai if he could lead his troops to support at this critical moment, and even went out of the city to greet him in person.

But seeing Huang Hairu forcibly escorting countless fleeing people back, he was a little puzzled, but he didn't say anything.

If Huang Hai didn't embarrass these escapees, he issued a warning. From now on, those who abandoned the city and fled will be killed without mercy once they are discovered.

He also ordered Xu Yong to destroy all those ships and use them for other purposes.

What's more, he didn't like these small ships. With the [-] large warships he led, he could completely control the waters around Fucheng.

The ancient canal runs directly through the city of Yangzhou in order to prevent the enemy from attacking by water. If Huang Hai let the deputy general lead the fleet to control the waterway, the Qing army, which is not good at water warfare, would not be able to use the waterway.

Huang Hairu issued many orders as soon as he entered the city, but Shi Kefa was a little displeased that he gave orders as the chief general.

But this was just the beginning, what Huang Hairu did next made this important official of the Hongguang Dynasty even more furious, because Huang Hairu directly asked him for the command of Yangzhou City without any concealment.

He was the majestic supervisor of the Hongguang Dynasty, and the Minister of the Ministry of War personally sat in the town, how could he hand over the command to a general?

Not to mention Huang Hairu, even if Tangning came personally, he still had to be restrained by Mr. Shi.

But obviously, Huang Hairu wouldn't let it go, and he didn't give the minister any face.

"Master Shi, the last general is not talented. In 17 years, Chongzhen led the army to win with less and almost wiped out the attacking red-haired ghosts."

"In the first year of Hongguang, I marched into Fujian with my lord to kill the traitor Zheng Zhilong. He participated in the battle of Jinshan Port, Zhangzhou, and Quanzhou, which destroyed Zheng Jun's navy. There was no defeat."

"As for you, my lord, do you have an outstanding achievement?"

"You..." Shi Kefa pointed angrily, but couldn't find anything to say for a while.

But Huang Hairu refused to let go, and continued: "My lord, not only did you not have any outstanding achievements, but you also missed the entire Hongguang Dynasty. You are half responsible for the Hongguang Dynasty today."

Shi Kefa was trembling with anger, and shouted angrily: "Bold madman, bold madman..."

Huang Hairu said with a blank expression: "Whether I'm uttering wild words or the truth, I'll tell you one by one now."

"If you, my lord, were able to resolutely establish King Fu as the emperor, King He Zhifu ascended to the throne with the help of the four towns. From the four towns' arrogance and uncontrollable control, it's a mistake."

"For Ma Shiying, Ruan Dacheng's generation poisoned the government, and they blindly retreated to control the power, which led to the corruption of the government. There are two mistakes."

"Blindly compromising and forbearing with the Qing army, ignoring the ambitions of the Qing army, disregarding the loss of great rivers and mountains, delusional attempt to make love. Three mistakes."

"To the four towns in Jiangbei, there are hundreds of thousands of troops in the air, and they don't think about making progress. If we take advantage of the emptiness of Henan and Shandong's defenses, regain the lost ground, gather the hearts of the people, and arrange the defense line, why are we doing this now. Four mistakes."

"Of these four mistakes, which one is wrong for the country, the people, and the king?"

"If the city defense of Yangzhou is handed over to the adults again, wouldn't it be wrong for the city, hundreds of thousands of people, and my thousands of soldiers?"

(End of this chapter)