Griffin Commander in the Late Ming Dynasty

"Bang! Bang! Bang..."

As soon as the signal for the Ming army's general attack on the royal city was given, a series of artillery fire resounded through the mountains and forests. Upon receiving the signal, the iron-blooded humanoids immediately began their daily work, firing a large number of artillery shells into the settlements of the savages of the Big Belly Kingdom.

Countless rays of fire flew towards the dense forest where the royal city was located, and soon a sea of ​​fire formed in the forest. The startled birds and beasts fled in all directions, and the entire nearby forest was awakened.

One explosive bomb after another hit the fortifications of the savage king's city, and the wooden frames of the houses flew off. The rising black smoke and hot air waves swept across the entire ground, and a pile of corpses appeared below.

With every explosion, debris and wood blocks flew into the sky, and fragments were scattered over a wide area. In the firelight, from time to time, one could see the savages' broken limbs and arms thrown high up, dancing in the air, and falling in all directions.

The savages in the village finally reacted and started fleeing into the dense forest outside the village. Their faces were filled with fear and they didn't even bother to put on clothes. They ran around naked.

The Big-Belly King Alami was awakened from his sleep. Looking at the flames and rumbling sounds outside, he was a little dazed.

"Wang, those outsiders are attacking us!" An elder-level figure staggered in and reported.

Aramy was completely shocked. The last time the red-haired man attacked the village, there was no such a big commotion! What on earth were they using?

Suddenly, there was a flash of light in the forest, and a cannonball was fired from the forest, heading straight for the wooden house where Alamy was.

The location of the runner was a little off, and the explosion took place outside the wooden house. However, despite this, its power was still enormous. Most of the wooden house was destroyed. A thick fog rose up, and Alami was blown away, his body covered in blood and half of his leg was blown off.

A pig-slaughtering scream resounded through the sky. Aramy dragged his half-broken calf, gritted his teeth and crawled out of the wooden house to summon guards.

The outside world was in chaos. The Big Dumb Kingdom, which was still in a matriarchal society, had almost zero organizational ability in the face of large-scale bombardment and high-tech attacks. Only a dozen brave savages came to guard the Big Dumb King with simple weapons. The others had already fled.

However, in the jungle, the sound of dense gunfire and red flames rang out like firecrackers. It was obvious that the volunteers and the iron-blooded humanoids were squatting. In less than a quarter of an hour, more than a dozen firing points had been opened within a mile around the village.

Arami held a cane in his hand and sat on a hide stretcher, trying to gather his people. However, all he could see were the explosions and the screams of his people. The Big Belly Kingdom had never seen such powerful firearms in more than a hundred years since its founding. It was as if the gods were angry and had sent down a disaster.

Aramy was filled with great pain but could do nothing but watch his compatriots turn into minced meat in the flames.

Gradually, as the screams became less frequent and the artillery fire stopped, a large number of scouts began to fly into the royal city, followed by the volunteers and iron-blooded units holding guns.

At this time, the royal city of the Dadu Kingdom was ablaze with fire, and the "city walls" surrounded by wooden fences were lying on the ground in a crooked manner.

Black smoke was billowing from the broken walls and ruins inside. Some simple wooden and bamboo houses were either shattered into pieces or were burning fiercely. The corpses and broken limbs of the savages could be seen everywhere around the bomb craters of varying sizes.

The remaining savages wisely huddled together and trembled. Of course, there were some brave ones among them. They pounced on the volunteers like wild beasts with all kinds of strange weapons in their hands. It was hard to imagine that after experiencing such a catastrophe, there would still be savages who would bravely attack the volunteers.

However, their actions were clearly seen by the scouts. A burst of gunfire rang out, and these warriors went from running to crawling and rolling on the ground, twitching rhythmically on the ground.

"Search each floor at a time. Be careful of enemies hiding in the dark and attacking you!"

The volunteers entered the village in twos and threes, restored the sentry system on an open space in the village, and then began a comprehensive search of the village. This time, they were here to establish their authority. Since I can't convince you by talking nicely, I will kill you until you listen.

The previous fire bombing was very effective. Facing wooden buildings, the shells could directly blow up both the people and the houses, and the huge explosion caused great psychological fear to the savages.

Most of the bamboo houses here are about to turn into a pool of bamboo charcoal, and some are still burning. There are still many savages in the village who instinctively hide in the corners of the houses, both men and women. Most of them are naked, squatting on the ground, covering their bodies, and howling.

The volunteers searched for them and brought them together for centralized management. The Big-Belly King Alamy did not escape and was captured alive by the volunteers, tied to the ground and shot.

"Obey, or die, your choice"

With the demise of the Big-Bellied King, more rebellious savages were directly suppressed, and a large number of them knelt down in surrender.

Other ethnic groups living here, such as the plains ethnic groups (mountain ethnic groups), were able to interact with the outside world and develop together, but the Dadu Kingdom was not like that. They stubbornly resisted outsiders and lived like a primitive society.

In the ever-developing world trend, this kind of tribe was the first to be colonized. A few years ago, if the Dutch had not had too few troops and were unwilling to sacrifice too many soldiers, they would never have easily stopped the war after sweeping through thirteen villages including Dadu Village and would have definitely captured them and used them as slaves.

With this result, we can only say that the Dadu Kingdom got what it wanted.

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Introduction

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Volume 390: Chapter Chapter : Plague Outbreak

Three quarters past noon, in the waters near Dongfan Island.

Southeast of Kaohsiung Prefecture, in the waters near Ryukyu Island (not Ryukyu), three Spanish battleships were arranged in a triangular formation, dragging long white trails, and were heading towards Fort Zeelandia.

These three Spanish warships came from Manila, Luzon Island. Their purpose this time was to pay attention to the war between the Volunteers and the Netherlands and look for opportunities to gain benefits. This time, the Volunteer Fleet could be said to be confronting the Dutch in front of them. They naturally knew that the two sides had started fighting, but the specific situation of the battle was still unknown.

The Spanish were deeply impressed by the enemy fleet's rude and unreasonable behavior. For example, they sank an observation boat directly from 800 miles away, which made the Spanish full of expectations for this battle.

There are two results. If the volunteers are defeated, the Spanish Navy can take advantage of its proximity to the Dutch and dispatch a fleet from Manila to forcibly expel the badly damaged Dutch and regain control of Taiwan. If the Dutch are defeated, Spain will try its best to mediate with the Ming Dynasty, lease Fort Zeelandia, and trade with the Japanese on behalf of the Dutch.

They actually thought that these were ships belonging to the Ming Dynasty court.

In short, these three Spanish warships came to get information, but if those Dutch soldiers could still speak, they would shout out the line: "It's over!"

After capturing Fort Zeelandia, the volunteers dispatched a large number of patrol boats to guard against ships from Fujian on the other side. Soon, a patrol boat cruising near Ryukyu Island discovered them and hurried back to report.

At this moment, the Volunteer Army has already taken over Kaohsiung and is in the process of construction planning. If nothing unexpected happens, they will have to stay here for quite some time.

Kaohsiung is located in the southwest of Taiwan, at the southern entrance of the Taiwan Strait. It is the sea gateway to southern Taiwan and its location is very important.

"Report to the brigade commander, three Portuguese warships appeared near Liuqiu Island and are heading here!"

While Pang Xingsheng was listening to the officers' reports, a sailor hurried over and reported loudly.

Ryukyu Island is far away from the main island of Taiwan, isolated overseas, like a ball floating on the sea, hence the name "Ryukyu Island". The Volunteer Army has just established an outpost on it, and... several iron-blooded humanoids have been deployed on it.

"The Portuguese? The war is over, what are they doing here?"

Pang Xingsheng muttered something, turned his head and ordered: "Go find a Portuguese interpreter and ask him to say that this is our waters, tell them to get out! If they ignore the warning and continue to move forward, just open fire and sink them!"

Near Ryukyu Island, the sky was gloomy, the sea was rough and visibility was low.

Captain Carlossi of the Manila stood in the command room, looking at the gray sky outside with a telescope, worried about the next sudden storm. In fact, the storm in the sky had not come, but the storm on the sea was about to come.

Ten warships suddenly appeared on the gray sea under the dark clouds. Their size was not as big as the Manila, but almost the same as the other two Spanish warships.

"Captain, it's the Ming army's warships, they're calling out to us!"

Carlos looked through the telescope and saw a large number of warships appearing in front of him.

"These Ming people have boarded the Dutch ships. It seems that they have already won. This is going to be difficult."

Carlosi sighed and said calmly: "Ignore them, tell them that we are sailing freely, and ask them to stay out of the way!"

The two sides were getting closer and closer, and their shouting could be heard clearly. A Spanish interpreter said, "Captain, they said this is their waters, and asked us to leave quickly, otherwise they will not be polite..."

Carlos frowned and said, "What do you mean by their waters? Once our Spanish fleet sets out to sea, it is a free world. There is no law, only absolute freedom!"

The three Spanish warships approached slowly, paying no attention to the warnings from the brave fleet.

The first mate suddenly said hurriedly: "Sir, they are in a fighting posture and have surrounded us. Should we fire a warning shot?"

Carlosi clutched the telescope on his chest and hesitated: "We have not officially declared war, so we cannot take the responsibility of starting a war first."

The first mate said anxiously: "Sir, what if they take the initiative to open fire? We are surrounded by them!"

The first mate's words obviously touched Carlossi, and he immediately ordered: "Fire a warning cannon!"

As soon as the order was conveyed, it was suddenly discovered that the Ming warships that had already been lined up sideways around were collectively spewing flames, and large and small caliber artillery fired at the same time, and there was a roar on the sea.

The Volunteers had previously defeated almost all of the Dutch battleships in the naval battle in the bay. Now only the rudders of several battleships were left. Fortunately, there were still many secondary warships. Even so, they were much larger than the ships in the hands of the Volunteers. The Volunteers found that these newly captured Dutch warships were quite useful, with fast speed, large size, and good artillery. So they replaced their own ships one after another. Without guns and artillery, the enemy built us

The battleship Manila was suddenly in a mess. The gunner who was about to send a signal was covered in blood from the wood chips, and the person next to him was shot through by a solid bullet.

Carlossi's mind was already starting to get a little confused, and he muttered, "What's going on?"

There was another burst of loud noises, the bridge shook, and the artillery on more than a dozen warships began to fire again.

At this moment, the air in the sky screamed, as if countless huge monsters were rushing towards it, and the second round of artillery shells from the South China Sea Fleet arrived.

The officers in the command room subconsciously raised their heads and looked in horror at the Ming army warships approaching from the front.

Captain Carlossi of the Manila turned pale and immediately shouted, "Retreat!"

The observer huddled tightly in the cockpit. The pilot jerked the joystick violently, and the bulky battleship slowly tilted its hull, desperately avoiding the shells and leaving the airspace.

Along with the whistling of the air, large and small white water columns rose up a few dozen meters to the starboard side of the two Spanish cruisers behind.

"Right rudder!" Captain Manila stared at the water column in the distance and ordered loudly, "Full speed ahead! Return!"

"Yes! Full right! Full speed ahead! Return!"

The three Spanish warships turned around and ran away collectively as if they had done a good drill, reaching their highest speed, with long white waves trailing behind them as they headed towards Luzon Island.

The three Spanish warships all have a displacement of more than 700 to 800 tons, especially the leading Manila, which has a displacement of up to 1,000 tons and is very tough. It is difficult to encircle and annihilate them if they are not stuck in the terrain. In fact, the main reason is that many military personnel were pulled to the land to clean up the local indigenous people and remaining enemies, and they were not on the ship. In addition, the main purpose this time is to drive them away rather than eliminate them. The gentleman said that he still needs to do business with them, otherwise, even the toughest turtle shells can be worn through by you.

However, this fleet of people also served as a reminder to the volunteers, and they began to pay more attention to maritime defense.

The sea route cannot be measured in miles. Boatmen divide a day and night into ten watches. If the wind is favorable, it will take four watches to reach Penghu Island from Taiwan Port, seven watches to reach Kinmen from Penghu, seven watches to reach Japan in the northeast, seventy watches to reach Luzon in the south.

The Spanish base in Asia was in Manila, which was relatively close to Taiwan, while the Dutch base in Asia was in Batavia, which was thousands of miles away.

When they found out that the Dutch soldiers in Taiwan had been fed to the fish by the Volunteers, they sent troops over. The preparations for this round trip would take several months, and by that time, the second batch of reinforcements of the Volunteers would have arrived.

The Volunteer Army has a heavy mission here, which is mainly to build a coastal defense system. In addition to taking over Dongfan, the more important thing is to radiate to Luzon.

Luzon was a colony of Spain, not their territory. As early as two hundred years ago when Zheng He sailed to the West, the Ming Dynasty was the suzerain state of Luzon.

Between the fifth year of Hongwu and the eighth year of Yongle, the Kingdom of Luzon sent envoys to visit the Ming Dynasty three times. The Ming Dynasty also sent envoys to propose marriage in the third year of Yongle. Over the following hundred years, the exchanges between merchants and civilians in the southeastern coastal areas of the Ming Dynasty and Luzon were quite frequent, and overseas Chinese began to stay in Luzon.

Today, Luzon is still in the hands of these foreigners. In the future, Jiang Han is also prepared to help take back this area and make his own sea borders unobstructed.

The situation in the south is very good now, and the situation in the north is also quite encouraging. Under the operation of the Volunteer Army, most of Kaifeng Prefecture is already in the hands of the Volunteer Army, and people come to respond in an endless stream. The Volunteer Army is gathering people while expanding the Volunteer Army, educating and training them. Although they did not take the initiative to attack, the territory in the hands of the Volunteer Army is still expanding.

However, expanding the territory and gathering the masses also brought about a problem, that is, the huge pressure of epidemic prevention.

Jiang Han, like a butterfly, flapped its wings so violently on the stage of the late Ming Dynasty that everything today seems somewhat similar to history, but the time and details of the events do not match at all.

Jiang Han's rapid rise made the Qing army think that there was an opportunity to move south, so they brazenly launched an invasion this year. But in fact, in the twelfth year of Chongzhen, these Tartars should have returned home to recuperate and come back next year. This confusion led to many variables, such as Li Zicheng's early emergence and the early large-scale outbreak of the plague.

In the second year of western Zhejiang, there were successive years of severe drought in various parts of the country. The drought caused a significant reduction in grain production, a serious decline in the physical fitness of the people, and extremely deteriorating sanitary conditions. At the same time, the continuous wars left a large number of corpses unburied, and rats ate the corpses, so that the plague bacteria began to spread on a large scale.

The famine victims were so hungry that they didn't care whether they could eat anything or not. They gnawed on tree bark and ate Guanyin soil. Some began to steal food hidden in rat holes and ate rats that died on the roadside. The Ming Dynasty's attitude towards these refugees was completely benevolent. Why are there so many refugees? Drive them away quickly. My heart is breaking!

These refugees, who were short of food and clothing and lived in extremely poor sanitary conditions, could only gather outside the city and rely on each other's body temperature to keep warm, which further promoted the spread of the plague.

At the end of the 12th year of Chongzhen, there was a great plague in Daming Prefecture, killing 50% to 60% of the population, a very bad year; there was a great famine in Guangping Prefecture, people were cannibalizing each other;

The capital city was hit by a major epidemic, Tianjin was hit by a major epidemic, Henan Province was hit by a major epidemic, 19 people died in Yangwu County, Kaifeng Prefecture, and countless people were exterminated. In Rongyang, people died without leaving their houses, and no one walked on the road in March...

As Li Zicheng's war in Henan broke out, more and more hungry people fled south, including some who were infected with the plague, and brought them to the south of the Yangtze River.

There were also merchants who traveled around all year round, which further aggravated the epidemic. It began to break out in the south of the Yangtze River. There were people who were infected in the morning and died in the evening. There were no fewer than hundreds of people every day. House after house was lined up with the disease, and no one was spared.

"When Wu Yansheng, an official in Wenzhou, Zhejiang, took office, one of his two servants suddenly died of illness. He ordered the other servant to go to the coffin shop to buy a coffin, but the other servant did not come back for a long time. It turned out that the servant had died in the coffin shop..."

"The official was drinking tea and toasting with his colleagues one moment, and the next moment he was dead..."

"After the wedding, the newlyweds sat in the tent for a long time without coming out. When their family members got out of the tent to look inside, they were shocked to see that the couple had died at the head of the bed..."

Every incident is simply horrifying.

Not only Henan, but also all the provincial capitals under Jiang Han's rule need to begin strict epidemic prevention and control. The first thing Jiang Han needs to do is to raise the vigilance of these people. This terrible Class A infectious disease is spreading, and everyone in this city is still gathering around other people's weddings to eat banquets. Are they really not afraid of others eating their banquets?

Under the backward medical and health system at the end of the Ming Dynasty, this serious acute infectious disease could basically only rely on the human immune system to heal itself. Even under the conditions of later generations, the use of medication only increased the immune system and was not an antiviral treatment.

There is a method called "bloodletting", which is bloodletting therapy, and it is the only effective treatment method at this time.

The principle of "blood-letting therapy" is to stimulate the acupuncture points of the human body through reflex stimulation, causing a surge in lymphocytes in a short period of time, thereby completely destroying the hidden source of virus release. To put it bluntly, it is to use extreme methods to "activate" the human body's immune mechanism, relying on people to fight on their own. If they can resist it, they will survive, and if they can't, there is nothing they can do.

At medical facilities across the country, there are as many as 10,000 people queuing up for medical treatment every day. Since the plague has an extremely high mortality rate for certain specific populations, patients who are able to persist and receive treatment are all those with relatively strong constitutions.

Jiang Han asked his newspapers to print a large number of articles about the plague, and asked the street managers in charge of various places to convey them to the public and strictly control the traffic of merchant ships along the entire Yangtze River. First of all, navigation was prohibited along the Yangtze River, and no ships were allowed to enter the river. All ships were concentrated at the local county docks and managed by the army. All losses were subsidized by local government offices. At the same time, he repeatedly ordered local government workers to attach importance to implementation. If there were any who violated the orders in public and failed to enforce the orders, it would be a good thing. Dongfan had just been taken over, and there was a lot of work to be done. You can go to Dongfan Island and watch the natives grin.

To completely cure such an acute infectious disease, Jiang Han would have to drain all his family's wealth. However, Jiang Han could only bite the bullet and do it. If he wanted him to sit back and do nothing, he couldn't do it. He said he would put the people first, so he had to do what he said! For this reason, he also specially suspended his steps to the north to continue to recover Henan.

Obviously everything was going smoothly, and Jiang Han didn't want to see Li Zicheng wreaking havoc in the north and causing people's livelihood to suffer. However, there were so many things in this world that he could not help.

Volume 391: Chapter Chapter : Li Zicheng Goes North

In Yiyang, Henan, the army camp was attacked.

As night fell and it was almost the hour of Xu, the generals from various units returned to the central army tent to discuss the next route of the army.

Li Zicheng looked at Liu Zongmin, Tian Jianxiu and other generals and said, "We should make a decision today on where to fight next."