Great time travel

Chapter 176, This year China is rich in emperors ([-])
South Zhili, Changzhou Prefecture, Jiangyin County

The surging Yangtze River flows by the side of the county, and the ancient city walls are covered with mottled damage and blood.

In the overgrown grass at the foot of the city wall, there are scattered burnt siege equipment, and occasionally a few uncontained bones can be seen.However, several villages and post stations that were originally scattered within a few miles outside the city of Jiangyin County have been burned into a piece of charred ruins.

In the spring of the seventh year of Chongzhen, Jiangyin County was the only Ming Dynasty city that had not been occupied by the Qing army within the entire territory of Changzhou Prefecture.

The wounds caused by the Qing army's invasion last time have not yet healed, and the smoke of a new wave of attacks has quietly ignited at this time.

——Turge, the general of the Qing army who attacked Jiangyin three months ago, only used more than 200 real tartars from three Niulu, plus thousands of traitors collected temporarily, and Jiangyin County has been beaten to pieces Unbearable.But this time, Prince Abatai of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, who is about to invade Jiangyin, has twenty real Tartars under his command, and tens of thousands of Han troops who shaved their heads and turned to Tartars. The pressure on Jiangyin County can be imagined. Know.

Fortunately, at this critical juncture, the soldiers and civilians guarding this Jiangyin County received a group of vital assistance.

"... Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo"

Accompanied by the long whistle and billowing soot, a steam-powered ship with a style very different from this era appeared on the water of the Yangtze River.

If a modern ship sailing enthusiast sees this ship, I am afraid that it is a mix of ancient and modern styles: a slender flying shear ship, a semi-sealed deck, an open turret arranged along the center line, and two tall ships. mast, and two sets of coal-fired steam engines.

In fact, this fast cruiser "Gate Wind" that has just been launched at Lingao Shipyard in Hainan Island can almost be regarded as the most advanced warship that can be independently built on the earth. Taking into account the needs of the global strategy, the Republic believes that a "colonial patrol/intervention ship that can reach the target area as quickly as possible and play a role" should be created.

Because a large part of the world is still in a wild state today, considering that mining coal is much easier than mining oil, and you can also burn wood if you have to, you choose coal-fired steam engines instead of more advanced diesel engines as power.Finally, after the design is completed, except for the wooden hull, it is just like a destroyer during World War I.What's more worth mentioning is that this warship has an amazing speed that is almost unrivaled in this world: in a sea trial, the fast cruiser "Hailstorm" used both sails and sails under the sea conditions of the sixth-level wind, and it even reached a speed of High speed of 25 knots.Even in normal sailing, the ship can easily exceed fifteen knots.

In addition, the end of the chimney led to the outside of the ship on both sides is also equipped with an advanced spraying and smoke elimination device, which can spray water curtains on the smoke outlet to wash away the smoke and dust, so that the identification distance of the warship is reduced from the previous dozen nautical miles. Three nautical miles greatly increased the concealment of this cruiser's actions.

(Anyone who has read "The War of Sino-Japanese War" knows that in the naval battles of the era of steam ironclad ships, smoke columns can already be seen before the warships appear.)
This time, the delivery of ordnance and ammunition to Jiangyin County, where the Ming army was guarded, was the first mission of the fast cruiser "Gate Wind" after it completed sea trials and officially entered service.Because of the need to go deep into the inland waterway and negotiate with unreliable "allies" who are unpredictable and like to put on airs, in order to prevent the navy from causing any trouble in Jiangyin, the owner of Zhao Yingong left Hangzhou Phoenix Villa very rarely, and personally Oversee this aid operation.And Wang Qiu, who had nothing to do, also followed, wanting to see what happened to the famous Jiangyin Anti-Qing Rebel Army in history.

Under the guidance of a navigation boat, the fast cruiser "Gate" slowly approached the pier outside Jiangyin City. The marines carried on the ship immediately disembarked and controlled the pier according to the tactical regulations to prepare for the attack. Obviously, they have no trust in the local Ming army.

On the other side, Shen Tingyang, the admiral of the Yonghe court navy who is now stationed in Jiangyin, is standing on the shore with a group of colleagues to greet him, and at the same time carefully sizing up this strange force—according to Shen Tingyang's careful observation, he found that these short-haired thieves Although the soldiers had experienced a long voyage, their military appearance was quite neat, just looking at their neat formation on the pier.As well as the proficiency in changing formations amid the officers' passwords and copper whistles, you know that this army is well-trained, at least much better than those beggar "official troops" in Jiangyin City who can't even get their uniforms together .

However, although the "Australians" came to help this time, it can be said that it is a timely help, but there are still some people in Jiangyin who do not welcome this "friendly army".

"... Huh, it's useless for this gangster to claim to be a descendant of the Song Dynasty. Looking at it now, he is wearing a Hu-like uniform, and his beard and hair are also damaged at will. It must be that the Chinese Xia Taoism in his country has been extinct, and he is no different from a barbarian." Behind Shen Tingyang Chen Zhenhui, a famous scholar from Nanzhili who fled all the way from Yixing to Jiangyin with his family just now, shook his head with a look of disdain, and sighed in pity. Looking at his expression, he seemed to have seen some terrible human tragedy .

"... Huh, more than that!" Xia Yunyi, the servant of the Ministry of War, who was standing by the side, said angrily when he heard the words: "...I have also read the "Kun Shi Zhi Lu", and this generation has lived overseas for many years. The language and laws are not similar to the Chinese, and the orthodoxy is undoubtedly cut off! My brother has also read the documents of the Kun bandits. The words are straightforward and unreasonable, which is simply insulting! What's more, the bandits are said to have divided the land privately , buy traitors, persecute the gentry, and do such beastly things! Such a wolf-hearted man, what can I say? When the Tartars are expelled in the future, we must send a huge army to the south to kill this thief!"

—— Xia Yunyi was born in Songjiang Prefecture, which had never been occupied, and his family property had not suffered any loss in this earth-shaking chaos.However, Xia Yunyi, who was born in the gentry class and has a fiery temper, still can't understand the sporadic land reform policy implemented by the "Australian gangsters" in a small area in Zhejiang (because of the lack of staff, it is not so much a land reform, nor a land reform policy against a certain some die-hard landlords), there is a sense of hurting others.Even though he knew that the Manchu Tartars who were about to attack were the number one enemy right now, he still couldn't help sharply attacking the reinforcements in front of him.

Xia Yunyi's sharp criticism has aroused the support of more scholars behind him. These so-called scholars began to comment on everything they saw on the pier. Negative words such as "coincident", "indecent", "how different from animals", "wolves, tigers and leopards", all of them seem to want to raise their swords and slash at the bandit ship on the opposite pier .

Shen Tingyang, who was waiting at the front, saw that it was not a problem, so he turned around and scolded a few times, only then calmed down the chaotic discussion.The Shachuan Gang bosses around Shen Tingyang laughed secretly with sarcasm—they were all rough people from pirate backgrounds. They were making fun of each other in a strange way, and they were usually full of anger. Now when they saw these sour dingers yelling and killing the thieves, they even sneered in their hearts: This "Australian thieves" soldiers and horses Extremely sharp, invincible in water and land battles.The Jurchen Tartars, who are now acting fiercely in the south of the Yangtze River, were taken away from their lair in Liaodong by the Kun bandits, so they had no choice but to flee to the south of the Yangtze River.Such masters of tigers and wolves, are you helpless sours who can put their beaks on it?Do you really think that the gangsters dare not kill people?It's ridiculous!
Even the "Great Ming Court" in Songjiang Mansion can survive until now, thanks to the support of the Australian Kun bandits!If there were no hundreds of thousands of stones of grain and rice sold by the thieves across the sea, and tens of thousands of hungry people transported away successively, the impoverished and white Shanghai court could barely have a little capital to transfer, and the current Songjiang Mansion would have been burned by the mob. It's all in ruins, how can we send a navy to support Jiangyin?Don’t think that these rice grains are paid for, you don’t take it seriously, take it for granted-if there is no big boat from the Australian thieves to sell grain, no matter how much money you have hidden at home, in this war-torn world, What else can I buy?After all, everyone is pointing to the Australian thieves to survive!

But even with the Songjiang Mansion's reinforcements and food supplies, without the sharp weapons supported by the Kun bandits, the current battle of Jiangyin may have a limited chance of winning.At that time, these sailors can sail and retreat, but you sour bastards can only stay and wait to die or be slaves!

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Just as everyone in Jiangyin County had different thoughts, the warships that had docked had already begun to unload the munitions to aid the Ming army this time.

"...Everyone, use your strength! Pull!"

"……Be careful!"

On the deck of the fast cruiser "Gate", the sailors struggled to use pulleys to pull up the cargo wooden cabinets, and then relied on the coolies organized by the Jiangyin County Government to transfer them to the open space at the end of the trestle bridge for stacking.

The officers and soldiers of the Ming army who had been waiting for a long time hurried forward and pried open the wooden cabinet with all their might, revealing the ammunition, knives and guns buried in the straw.

"...Mr. Zhao, we meet again." Shen Tingyang was wearing a red official robe, with a machete on his waist, and walked towards Zhang Mingzhen and others majestically.He and Zhao Yingong only met once in Hangzhou not long ago, so they were not familiar with each other at all, but this did not prevent him from making a friendly gesture.

"...Hehe, Shen Junmen is safe and sound." Although he has no friendship with Shen Tingyang, the leader of the Shachuan Gang, Zhao Yingong has spent so long in the scheming Jiangnan Shilin, and he has learned all kinds of superficial skills. Seeing that he didn't stop at all, he stepped forward to hold Shen Tingyang's hand, and said with a smile: "... I am lucky to have spared my life, and I have sent twenty pairs of armor, nine hundred sabers, and six thousand iron spear heads. [-] caps, [-] barrels of gunpowder, [-] boxes of grain bricks, [-] six-pound guns, [-] shells... Well, the sailors have unpacked the cannons!"

The five six-pound guns aided by the Hangzhou side to the Jiangyin Ming army, together with the matching gun mounts, guns and shells, were installed in five fully sealed wooden cabinets.It has now been unpacked and assembled by sailors.These cannons weighing [-] kilograms each look gorgeously decorated, as if the god of guns has descended.In fact, this is just an ordinary smoothbore howitzer at the level of the seventeenth century, but its appearance is more bluffing.

But Shen Tingyang caressed the dark and smooth barrel, and his eyes sparkled, "...What a gun! It really is a military weapon! Well, the flash cap guns have already been obtained in Hangzhou before. Jiangyin has these After the sharp weapon, I think it will definitely make the Tartars suffer another serious setback!"

"...The Jurchen Tartars are nothing but clowns. By chance, they went mad and stole the Jinling Imperial Capital. However, there are no good men in the land of China? As long as all the heroes work together, we will be able to expel the Tartars and restore Jiangnan." Zhao Yingong smiled with his hands clasped Responded, casually said some kind words.

Regarding this, Shen Tingyang, who is well aware of the dangerous current situation, just smiled slightly, but Xia Yunyi, a stunned young man, insisted on taking it seriously, regardless of the current situation, and immediately jumped out to speak: "...Mr. Zhao, thank you for your righteousness Come to help, but although the two countries have negotiated a peace and alliance, there are some things that need to be clarified first. Your country claims to be descended from the Miao people of the former Song Dynasty and inherits the Chinese orthodoxy. Where does this put my Ming Dynasty? My Ming Dynasty started from Hongwu and suppressed bandits. , Drive out the Tartars. Win the world after a hundred battles. Since ancient times, there is no one who has won the country to be righteous. Besides, there are more than thousands of seeds in my Ming Dynasty. The wind of learning is not comparable to that of a small barbarian country like your country. How can I make it clear. In the future, when the king's teacher drives out the Tartars and restores Shenjing..."

"...Yi Zhong speaks carefully!" Because he was afraid that this overly blunt guy would say something that would make both parties unable to get off the stage, Shen Tingyang had no choice but to pull Xia Yunyi back, and at the same time interrupted with a loud voice Said: "...now the Tartars are rampant, and the south of the Yangtze River is full of fishy smell. This is a critical time for survival. It is not beneficial to the country, the people, the court, or the emperor to continue this kind of emotional struggle. It will only make the Tartars laugh. Be careful!"

Xia Yunyi wanted to say something else at first, but after hearing Shen Tingyang's words, she forced herself to endure it. After snorting, she didn't say anything, but still stared at Zhao Yingong and other "kun thieves" with hatred eyes, and the people around him A group of scholars in China also put on such an attitude of "killing people with their eyes", as if they could not show their scholarly character if they didn't take the opportunity to show their contempt and contempt for the Australian barbarians.

In this regard, Zhao Yingong smiled coldly. Although he was not born as a poor person who was oppressed and exploited by the gentry, he still disdained the waste that was about to be eliminated by the times in front of him—they were so downcast that they could only rely on their own breath to survive. , actually still chattering crookedly, what a dead end!
Therefore, taking advantage of the hostility of these gentlemen, Zhao Yingong, after completing the handover and transfer of this batch of ordnance and ammunition, very neatly rejected Shen Tingyang's request to let the "Australian warship" assist in defending Jiangyin, on the grounds that he was worried that Xia Yunyi and his gang would guy stabbed in the back

Then, before the flag of the Qing army appeared on the horizon, the fast cruiser "George", which had completed its scheduled mission, blew its whistle and puffed out thick smoke. A city that has become a battlefield.

The special commissioner Wang Qiu lay on the railing of the stern, watching the Jiangyin county town in the distance getting smaller and smaller, and finally disappeared at the end of sight.

"...How do you feel about the Great Ming Rebel Army in Jiangyin City? Comrade Wang Qiu?" Zhao Yingong slowly strolled over with a cigar in his hand.

"...very disappointed! The soldiers are as destitute as beggars, and the gentry and officials are as arrogant as the classic fatuous nobles in anime games. It's hard to imagine that these poor people can become national heroes." Wang Qiu shook his head, "...that's right , why haven't I seen the famous Yan Yingyuan Dianshi?"

"...Yan Yingyuan? Please, it's only been seven years since Chongzhen, okay?" Zhao Yingong puffed out a puff of smoke and laughed, "...the one with 24 righteous people is facing 81 Qing army cavalry and more than 5000 heavy artillery , still sticking to Jiangyin for 11 days, causing the Qing army to defeat three kings and eighteen generals in a row, and the history of Yan Yingyuan's classics, which killed [-] people, is indeed iron-clad and righteous. But he is not from the south, but from Tongzhou, Beijing !According to the original history, it will not come to Jiangyin to be a pianist until the [-]th year of Chongzhen, and I don’t know where to hang around right now! Maybe it’s already dead.”

"...What? Yan Yingyuan isn't in Jiangyin?" Wang Qiu was startled, "...then can they hold on this time?"

"...who knows?" Zhao Yingong shrugged his shoulders, "...Shen Tingyang, who was sent by the Shanghai court to garrison Jiangyin, is also a well-known anti-Qing hero in history, and he still has some skills. However, even if they are lucky It’s not good, the army was defeated in the end, it doesn’t seem to matter! It’s just that we may have a little trouble in Hangzhou-I’m afraid we need to deal with some Qing soldiers who don’t have eyes...”

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——It has to be admitted that although Yan Yingyuan, who is famous in history, is missing, the blood of the people in Jiangyin is still extraordinary.

The day after the "Feng" cruiser withdrew, Abatai, Prince of the Qing Dynasty, led more than [-] troops to encircle Jiangyin County. The flash cap guns and "Australian cannons" killed and wounded more than [-] soldiers.During the fierce battle, even women and children in Jiangyin County climbed up the city wall and threw stones at people.During the water battle on the Yangtze River, Shen Tingyang's Shachuan gang also easily swept the Qing army's Yangtze River navy, and firmly controlled the river surface, making it impossible for the Qing army to cut off Jiangyin's external communication channels.

At this time, behind Abatai, there is no big empire that can provide a steady stream of manpower and supplies. Whether it is the emperor Hauge or the other two vassals Jierhalang and Azig, they are all unlucky with him. All losses must be borne by his own followers.

Therefore, after repeatedly attacking the fortified city, Abatai resolutely gave up Jiangyin, a hard nut to crack, and withdrew from the siege.

So far, the second Jiangyin defense battle that broke out in this time and space still ended with the victory of the Ming army.

But the problem is that the victory of the Jiangyin defense battle does not mean the victory of the entire Jiangnan battlefield.

After being frustrated in attacking Jiangyin, Abatai naturally avoided reality and took a break. Then he swung his troops around Jiangyin County, broke into Suzhou Mansion again easily, then swept Taicang Prefecture, and then invaded Songjiang Mansion territory.The Yonghe court in Shanghai was suddenly in chaos.Chen Zilong, the minister of the Ministry of War, led [-] volunteer soldiers to deploy in Anting Town, but was defeated by three Qing cavalrymen who were bullied, and had to flee to Shanghai County and hold on.

Fortunately, although Sun Yuanhua, who guarded Shanghai, was not a famous general, he was the most outstanding military engineer of the Ming Dynasty in this era. He had learned the advanced bastion tactics of the Westerners, repaired many fortifications on the outskirts of Shanghai in advance, and installed the latest purchased "Australian Firearms".Several groups of Qing troops successively launched tentative sieges on Shanghai County. Due to the lack of heavy artillery and other equipment and the fierce firepower of the defenders, they were all hit and bloody.

At this time, the various units of the Qing army in the Eastern Expedition had captured a lot. On the one hand, Abatai was unwilling to fill in too many soldiers and horses for the siege of Yifu, and on the other hand, he was worried that Hauge or Azig would come from behind his back— —As I said before, the current Qing Dynasty is divided into warlords, and the relationship between the emperor and the vassals is to look at each other's bad luck and add insult to injury.So he decided to accept it as soon as he saw it, and returned with a [-] army full of plunder, and returned to the old camp in Changzhou Prefecture.

So far, the Yonghe court in Shanghai finally survived this wave of military crisis and survived for the time being.The price is that the entire Suzhou Mansion has been looted and massacred for the second time this year, and there are mourners everywhere.And half of Songjiang Mansion was devastated and dying.

But in any case, the confrontation between the Ming and Qing dynasties in the south of the Yangtze River continued.

In this way, on the land of China in this time and space, Zhu Cihong of Huizhou, Yonghe Emperor Zhu Yihai of Shanghai, Qing Emperor Hauge and Hongguang Emperor Zhu Yousong of Nanjing, and Dajin Emperor Dorgon of Xuzhou appeared at the same time. The situation where the five emperors confront each other is dazzling.

However, it seems that the heavens can't understand that all the noble emperors are crowded in the small Nanzhili territory. Then, in the other provinces under the Great Tomorrow, lonely and widowed people emerged one after another. Characters——Just when the rich and frail Jiangnan water town was turned into a flesh and blood mill by the Tartar cavalry, the North Kingdom, which had been temporarily extinguished, quietly ignited a new war...

After the Qing Empire collapsed, and the Chinese League troops of the traversers stopped outside Shanhaiguan, the vast land south of the Great Wall and north of the Yellow River became the territory of the Guanning Army.However, with the reduction of external military pressure, factional conflicts within the Guan Ning Army immediately heated up rapidly.In order to compete for the sole leader position, Jin Wang Zu Dashou and Zhou Wang Wu Xiang refused to give in to each other, which eventually led to a series of divisions and internal strife.

After a brief and fierce contest, Zhou Wang Wu Xiang withdrew his troops from Gyeonggi in a hurry and fled back to his headquarters in Luoyang. Jin Wang Zu Dashou took advantage of the situation to pursue and controlled Datong, Xuanfu, Shanxi and Beizhili most of the areas.However, Wu Xiang only controlled a part of the western Henan area centered on Luoyang, as well as Pingyang Mansion in the southwest corner of Shanxi Province-so far, the Guanning Army was officially split into two princes, Zhou and Jin.

However, just when Jin Wang Zu Dashou was waving his whip and riding his horse, chasing death to the north, trying to build a bigger piece of land for his ancestors, he did not notice that a man with a suspicious appearance and a fox tail entered the room quietly. After leaving his territory, he came to Shifokou in Luanzhou, northern Hebei.

——He is the leader of Wenxiang Sect, Wang Ke, who caused a great chaos in Shandong and Lianghuai not long ago.

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PS: There is one thing I would like to ask the readers for their opinions. I originally planned to write "Sword Art Online" in the next volume, but recently someone suggested that "Sword Art Online" is too old, it is better to write "OVERLORD King of the Undead".I imagined the situation where the proud king of pretense, Flying Squirrel, was looking for other players, only to find that his grave had become a novice village. It seemed quite amusing.What do you think?