I, Zhu Youjian: the first prodigal son of the Ming Dynasty

Chongzhen three years, the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month.

Thousands of miles outside the city, there was a world of ice and snow, and countless cattle, sheep, and wild animals froze to death. Many tribes hid in caves and shacks without showing their heads for many days.

Inside and outside the city of Youjian No. 1, more than [-] iron cavalry and nearly [-] warriors of the savage tribe lived a very hard life. From time to time, it would be reported that someone went out to look for food, and there was no news from then on.

Hunger, cold and panic, like a poisonous snake, devoured the hearts of every slave cavalry and savage tribe warrior.

Especially those members of the savage tribe, from the carnival at the beginning, their blood was slowly exhausted during the long siege battle.

Finally, people started to escape.

This terrible war was a war between the Jiannu Mang Gurtai and the Emperor of Ming Dynasty. These savage tribesmen had once received the favor of the Emperor of Ming Dynasty and Marquis of Liaodong, but at the critical moment, they were unwilling to be lonely and turned against each other. Become a member of the Jiannu cavalry army.

Originally, the idea of ​​those patriarchs was very simple, that is, after they helped Jiannu cavalry to drive away the Ming army, the large fertile land reclaimed and a large number of Han farm tools would fall into their own hands...

Now, it's too late to regret.

No. 1 city's invincible slave cavalry, facing the light gray hard shell of Youjian No. [-] city, has achieved nothing.

Even adding the Ming rebels who came from the Liaoxi Corridor would not work.

Zu Dashou and Wu Xiang respectively dispatched [-] elite soldiers, carrying a large number of firearms and engineering equipment, trying to wipe out the Ming army in the north of Liaodong.

What they especially coveted was Kuwu Island.

That once barren land is covered with ice and snow for most of the year, with only three or four months of warm days.

Even the slave hero Huang Taiji and others never thought of developing that isolated island properly, but only used it as a recruiting place for savage tribe warriors and a source of pitiful tributes within their own territory...

Now, under the manipulation of the idiot emperor.

Tens of thousands of Ming soldiers and hundreds of thousands of Ming people, with the help of the students of the Daming Academy, forcibly turned a deserted island into a fertile land...

……

to the opposite.

Yujian No. 1 City, which is located at the front end of Yujian No. 1 Cross-sea Avenue, is peaceful. Those who should fight wars should fight, should be busy and busy, should eat and drink.

The sound of cannons rumbled, and the smoke curled up.

The nine-foot-high and eight-foot-wide reinforced concrete city wall has a lot of rocks mixed in the middle, and even the giant cannons on Zheng Zhilong's iron-clad warships can't blast it for a while.

Not to mention the firearms battalion under Zu Dashou and Wu Xiang's bid. The guy in his hand is called the firearms battalion. In fact, in the eyes of Cao Wenzhao's soldiers, it is actually a bunch of fire sticks.

Nothing to worry about at all.

The artillery bombarded the tall and solid concrete city wall, and could only blow up a shallow pit the size of a fist...

"Have you heard that there are tens of thousands of troops coming from outside the city, it seems that they are the soldiers and horses of our Lord Liaodong General of the Ming Dynasty."

"Come on, come on, this battle has been going on for several months, have they ever breached our city?"

"Breaking a fart, our city wall is so high and so strong, they can't break through the defense at all."

"You can't take it lightly. The siege tactics of those slave-building cavalry are actually quite powerful. I heard that in the battle of Shanhaiguan a few years ago, the tens of thousands of cavalry used sheepskin bags to hold soil. In more than ten days, the outside of a city was filled up.

Their cavalry ran along the slope, and rushed to the top of the city in a blink of an eye. "

"It's useless, it's because the city guards don't have good guys. Look at us, a hundred paces away, one shot can kill a person, they can't get close..."

……

Cao Wenzhao and Zheng Zhilong walked side by side, led a few generals, and patrolled the city of Yujian No. 1. Listening to the discussions of the guards, they felt a sense of relief.

Back then, when I was a soldier on the front line of Shanhaiguan, whenever I heard the sound of rumbling iron cavalry charging into formation, I would feel trembling in my heart, and I couldn't help but open my mouth wide, swallowing a few mouthfuls of cold air fiercely.

In terms of field battles, the Ming army really can't do it.

But now...

Thinking of the batch of "monsters" brought by Zheng Zhilong by sea a few days ago, his heart was filled with excitement one after another, and he wished he could order the war immediately!
However, after the bait was cast out for a few months, the number of Jiannu iron cavalry, savage tribes and Liaoxi generals who attracted them was almost [-], right?
Youjian City No. 1, can you swallow it in one gulp?
"King Zhenhai, how should we fight this battle? Is there any order from His Majesty?" Suddenly, Cao Wenzhao looked sideways at Zheng Zhilong and asked.

"Just wait, there should be a new decree in the next few days." Zheng Zhilong said vaguely.

Cao Wenzhao felt a little dissatisfied.

He was the first to come here to manage this land of Liaodong. Starting from the Black Dragon City on Kuwu Island, he led a group of people, overcame thorns and thorns, and endured a lot of hardships, and finally had a piece of foundation today.

This Zheng Zhilong was just a pirate...

However, Cao Wenzhao did not continue to think about it.

He was ashamed of his dangerous thoughts just now. The reason why he was able to become what he is today was that he had grown from being nothing but a guerrilla general of the Ming Dynasty to becoming the Marquis of Liaodong of the Ming Dynasty in just two years.

All of this was given by Zhu Youjian, the idiot emperor.

Thinking of Zhu Youjian's frivolous appearance of Meng Lang, and thinking about his methods, Cao Wenzhao couldn't help breaking out in a cold sweat.

Today, the world is in chaos, and the Ming Dynasty seems to be in a state of desperation on the surface, but the idiot emperor doesn't care at all. He is busy building water conservancy today and building railways tomorrow, or quietly raising an iron army and running this shitty Kuwu Island.

This shows what?
After seeing the methods of Xu Guangqi, Song Yingxing and others, he finally gradually understood what the idiot emperor relied on.

firearm.

Ironclad battleships, railways, steam engines.

There are also roads and water conservancy projects extending in all directions in the Yellow River Basin, as well as the "highway" that runs through the east and west...

All these prodigal actions, in the eyes of outsiders, are nothing more than the number one prodigal son of Ming Dynasty, who is about to toss this million-mile country and society into a muddy quagmire.

However, Cao Wenzhao...

However, I have witnessed with my own eyes that the rampage of the Daming Navy at sea is invincible in the world.

At the same time, I have witnessed with my own eyes how Kuwu Island, from a deserted island, can easily suppress tens of thousands of Jiannu cavalry outside a city in just two years, without making any progress...

"King Zhenhai, I'm a little anxious." Cao Wenzhao sat on the horseback, looked up at the gray sky, and said, "It's going to snow again these days. You said that the tens of thousands of horses outside the city are all How did you survive the day?"

Zheng Zhilong laughed lightly, and said: "Don't underestimate those pig-tailed slaves, their ancestors were originally hunters in this icy and snowy land, and they are best at surviving in bitter cold places.

Don't look at their soldiers who are constantly freezing to death, and it is constantly reported that warriors of the savage tribe died in large numbers due to lack of food.

This mangurtai is not an idiot.

He played a good plan, the battle of Liaodong was not as vulnerable as it appeared on the surface, on the contrary, he was scheming and planned to use the plan to drive away wolves and tigers. "

"Destroy the wolf?"

Cao Wenzhao glanced at Zheng Zhilong in surprise, and said with a smile: "King Zhenhai, have you been with those Japanese, Nanyang people, and pirates a lot? A group of sturdy and abnormal slave-building cavalry will use such a trick? "

Zheng Zhilong laughed loudly, and said: "It's not that I, Zheng, thought of this, but our emperor's foresight and foresight, and he saw through Mang Gurtai's schemes and plans."

Cao Wenzhao nodded slightly, and understood.

The idiot emperor far away in the capital is not as unbearable as it appears on the surface...

"Mang Gurtai's plan is to gradually mobilize the savage tribes in the entire Liaodong area by attacking Youjian No. 1 City and Kuwu Island, so as to unify Liaodong with affection and lure them. place."

When passing a barracks, Zheng Zhilong jumped off his horse and said with a smile: "Liaodong Marquis, don't you invite Zheng to drink a bowl of wine and eat a plate of venison?"

Cao Wenzhao also got off his horse and said with a smile, "Nothing can be hidden from you, King of the Sea."

He walked into the gate of the camp first, and said as he walked: "This big camp was ordered by His Majesty the Emperor himself, designed by Song Yingxing, and it took several months for the students of the Ming Dynasty to build it.

Originally, even I, the Marquis of Liaodong, were not allowed to enter this place, and I didn't know what was hidden inside.

But a few days ago, His Majesty suddenly sent a secret decree, allowing me to go in.

Lord Zhenhai would like to know what is hidden in this barracks? "

Zheng Zhilong smiled and said: "It's just an armory. The Marquis of Liaodong will lead the way. This king is here to deliver ammunition for the latest Ming firearms."

Cao Wenzhao's face changed slightly, but he didn't dare to say a word...