Back to the end of Ming Dynasty to be a warlord

Chapter 412
These small boats of the Qing army can kill a tiger by a pack of wolves when they are attacking, but when they are fleeing, they are not the Yang Chaoshui army of all sailing boats at all.

Not to mention the ten large three-masted ships, even the remaining twenty two-masted ships with large masts are not at the same level as small fishing boats.

If he hadn't received the military order, Zhang Dawei really didn't want to pursue him. Of his [-] ships, only [-] were beaten. To be honest, he was extremely afraid at this time, but he dared not refuse to carry out Yang Chao's military order. So immediately sent an order to pursue.

Soon they caught up with the Qing warships, bit their tails, and then bit off a piece of meat.

The fishing boats of the Qing army could not run away or fight, and they were in a mess. Some fishing boats chose to find the nearest river bank to land, and some soldiers simply jumped into the river and swam towards the two banks.

"The whole army is dispatched! Make sure not one Qing army escapes!"

Yang Chao immediately ordered that the city gates be opened, and groups of soldiers rushed out of the city gates and strangled the Qing army along the river bank.

On the Yangtze River, another chase continued, and it soon reached the Dasheng Pass, and then continued the chase.

When chasing one of the few sailing ships in the Qing army, this was already the last warship of the Qing army. They were on the bank of the Taipingfu River, and when they were about to escape successfully, they were ruthlessly sunk on the water .

Azig successfully fled back to Dangtu City, Taiping Prefecture, and witnessed the sinking of his last warship in the river.

Then I saw the warships of the Ming army, to be precise, those ten large ships approached the Dangtu Waterway arrogantly, bombarded Dangtu City for half an hour, and then left arrogantly.

Azige held his breath in his heart, and at the same time was shocked. An idea immediately took root, that is, Nanjing is not easy to break through, and the Ming army will never be defeated in a water battle.

The battle situation came out, a complete victory!

Yang Chao lost more than 300 warships, but under the noses of the people in Nanjing, he wiped out the Qing army fleet.

The scattered Qing army sailors, when some of them climbed up the river bank as tired as dogs, were greeted by the armored Ming army, who were either killed or chose to be captured.

In the end, tens of thousands of captives were collected, waiting for the fate of these people, just like the 20 captives in Xinjiangkou, who worked as coolies until they died. If they had known this ending, I don’t know if they would choose to surrender and live, or they would Would not choose to surrender to the Qing army.

Yang Chao was naturally extremely satisfied with the result of the battle, and was even quite surprised.

He even believes that there may never have been a water battle with such a disparity in proportion in history.

In fact, what Yang Chao didn’t know was that more than 100 years ago, when the Portuguese just opened the Eastern Sea Route, they plundered everywhere, captured seaports in India, and captured Arab castles in the Persian Gulf, which provoked counterattacks from Indian Ocean forces.The Arabs and Indians formed a joint fleet, dispatched more than 2000 ships and more than 2 soldiers, but was defeated by the Portuguese dispatched 800 ships and more than [-] soldiers, allowing Portugal to dominate the Indian Ocean for a while.

Although Yang Chao has fewer ships, it is still much stronger than Portugal, India, and the Arab League. Moreover, the Indian and Arab ships are sea-going ships, and they were defeated by one hundred to one. Miracle.

The common people who also don't know the outside world are equally happy.

Seeing their own army win the battle with their own eyes, the people of Nanjing City spontaneously celebrated. Firecrackers are the most basic thing. Many restaurants and restaurants set up large banquets on the street, and everyone comes to eat for free.

When rich people see beggars, they don't hesitate to take out vain silver and throw them into their broken bowls.

Countless people gathered together to exchange what they saw in battle and their understanding of the art of war.

Yang Chao immediately made a good report of the battle situation, sent the boat across the river, and immediately passed it to Yangzhou, Huai'an and other prefectures and counties, so as to stabilize the people who were a little panicked by the withdrawal of his army as soon as possible.

At the same time, it is also passed to the south. Through the official post, the news of the Qing army will be sent to Zhejiang and Jiangxi, so as to appease Jiangxi, which is panic-stricken because the Qing army captured Jiujiang, and it is adjacent to Jiangxi. Zhejiang, which was attacked by rogues and bandits.

At this time, Yang Chao realized that writing the newsletter was too much effort, so he simply asked someone to print it, but the printing of the newsletter made Yang Chao suddenly think, why not just print the newspaper.

Yang Chao had thought about it before, but he didn't dare to implement it, because newspapers meant to control public opinion. It would be impossible for Manchu civil officials, especially the Donglin Party, which has always controlled public opinion, to let Yang Chao do this. If Yang Chao had printed newspapers before, It is bound to cause counterattacks from civil officials and the Donglin Party.

Now Yang Chao doesn't care about these things anymore, because the Donglin Party's reputation will definitely be greatly affected by dedicating Nanjing to the Qing army, not to mention the outside world, even within themselves, there is also a rift at this time, those who still have loyalty in their hearts Members of the Donglin Party were greatly disappointed with Qian Qianyi and others.

And the opponents have already started to attack. Ruan Dacheng wrote more than a dozen impeachment memorials within a few days, scolding Qian Qianyi, Wang Duo, Liu Zongzhou, Gao Hongtu and others, and let out a bad breath because The obstruction of the Donglin Party made Ruan Dacheng nest in Zhejiang for a year. Ma Shiying recommended him many times, but he gave up because of the opposition of the Donglin Party.

Of course Yang Chao wouldn't care about Ruan Dacheng's impeachment. Now that the court is about to collapse, who would read these memorials.

Yang Chao's top priority is to find the emperor, and he has already sent troops to search nearby. Yang Chao believes that the little emperor cannot go far, and analyzes that he may have fled to the south in the end. No news.

However, there was a wave of civil servants resigning in the city. The reason given by these civil officials was that they were ashamed of the late emperor and were shameless in being officials.

Yang Chao released these people without questioning them. The first reason was that he wanted to keep them and continue to put up the government's airs. Without these civil servants, how could Yang Chao drive the Six Ministries and continue to stabilize Jiangnan in the name of the court.

So Yang Chao comforted these people with good words, saying that he would never settle accounts after the fall, Yang Chao thought these people were afraid.

But these people have a very bad temper. Once the words were written, they packed their bags and left, regardless of whether anyone was looking.

Yang Chao was annoyed in his heart, a traitor, what arrogance.

After these people hung their seals and resigned, they left an empty shell for Yang Chao, which made Yang Chao very troubled.

Some didn't leave, Wang Duo didn't, Qian Qianyi didn't.

Wang Duo was probably out of consideration for the overall situation, while Qian Qianyi was probably reluctant to bear the official position.

Yang Chao, who wanted to find the emperor first, didn't care about these civil servants at this time, well, since he didn't want to be an official, then he didn't want to be an official, and he wouldn't eat bastard pigs without Zhang Tuhu. Anyway, Yang Chao already had experience, Just go directly to the officials.

These officials live in Nanjing, so they can't leave too.

Soon the team was set up, and every department, from Jiangning County to the Six Departments of Nanjing, had shortages anyway, and couldn't find a civil servant to replace them. Tuck in one or two soldiers who have read books in their own army to supervise.

In this way, the simple shelf of Nanjing Six Departments was set up.

After staying for ten days, Yang Chao saw that Nanjing was stable, and his army basically returned to help, with sufficient troops, and planned to counterattack.

Starting from Dashengguan, it is only about a hundred miles away from Dangtu, advancing by land and water, dispatching [-] troops, vowing to take down Dangtu in one fell swoop, drive the Qing army out of Taiping Mansion, and recover the Gyeonggi area step by step.

Dangtu, in the Azig army.

Azige was in a good mood, even after hearing that Yang Chao sent troops, he was still in a good mood.

Because he felt that he had won, even if he lost troops, even if his younger brother Dodo was killed in battle, he still felt that he had won, and thought that Dorgon's position was stable.

Because he holds a trump card in his hand.

"Hahahaha, His Majesty the Emperor of Ming Dynasty, please!"

Azig was sitting on the front seat, and a cautious young man was sitting on the side seat, trying his best to squeeze out a smile to cater to Azige.

If Yang Chao were here, he would definitely turn pale with shock, and would recognize that this person was the Emperor Hongguang of Ming Dynasty, the prince of Emperor Chongzhen, Zhu Cihong, whom he was looking for so hard.

This is Azig's trump card. With this card, even if Duo Duo dies in battle and loses troops, Dorgon can completely win back the city, because although the Qing Dynasty lost a prince and lost tens of thousands of troops, but Captured a Ming emperor.

Although the military power of Ming Dynasty is not as important as that of Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong in the eyes of the Qing Dynasty, the political significance of the emperor of the Ming Dynasty is much higher than that of Li Zicheng. He has official relations with the Ming Dynasty. Since the Nurhachi era, it has been the Manchu Qing regime One of his dreams came into the hands of Huang Taiji, and he eagerly hoped to confirm the status of the Manchus by gaining the approval of the Ming Dynasty.

It's a pity that the Ming Dynasty's attitude towards the surrounding regimes was always either surrender or perish. It absolutely did not accept the Manchu Qing as a regime on an equal footing with the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, even if the common people in the country were forced to rebel, Chongzhen still had to levy Liao pay to wipe out the Manqing.

After entering the customs, the political situation suddenly changed. The Manchu Qing no longer cared about the approval of the Ming Dynasty. Instead, they began to seek to destroy this court. Similarly, Li Zicheng is called a traitor.

Now that the emperor of the Ming Dynasty is in his hands, he is still the crown prince of Chongzhen, who is rooted in Zheng Miaohong. No one can pick out the stabbing. The political significance is too great, second only to the destruction of the country, and even capturing the other emperor is tantamount to symbolic destruction the other country.

So with this bargaining chip, although Dorgon could not continue to build the Qing court as a monolith as before, there is still no problem in continuing to suppress the Hauge forces.

With this card, even if Azig did not achieve a substantive victory in his attack on Nanjing this time, it was a complete victory in a symbolic sense!

(End of this chapter)