The thief of the fortress dominates the world

Chapter 479

Di Qing's guess is not unreasonable.

Since Li Zicheng was defeated by the Qin army in Gyeonggi, the loss of soldiers and generals has greatly hurt his vitality, and his morale has also dropped a lot.

According to Li Zicheng's original idea, as well as the suggestions of many civil servants and generals, he planned to shrink all the troops back to Shanzhou, and use the favorable terrain of the four fortresses of Shanzhou to hold on.

Under the guidance of this kind of thinking, many cities are on the list of being abandoned, including Jinling, an important town in the south of the Yangtze River.

But something happened later, which changed Li Zicheng's thinking and gave him a glimmer of hope for a comeback.

This incident originated from a foreign caravan that will do business in the Ming Dynasty in the future.

This caravan is a team that claims to have traveled all the way from England across the ocean.

This fleet, they are under the guise of trade in name, and the leader is a man named David Copperfield.

After this person came to Daming, he learned that the entire Ming Dynasty was in a chaotic state of melee among the three kingdoms, so he led a team of troops and quickly went north, where he met Luo Kedi, the general of the Dashun Army guarding Jinling in Jinling City.

After this David Copperfield had a secret conversation with Rockdi for a day, Rockdi quickly sent his confidant northward, and sent a secret letter to Li Zicheng who had already led the army northward.

At that time, Li Zicheng was full of ambition. Most of the Ming Dynasty had already been controlled by him, and millions of troops were about to encircle the capital. David Copperfield's request was dismissed.

Although the British businessman David Copperfield did not go well in his first contact with the Emperor of Dashun Kingdom, he was not discouraged.I left my contact information for Rockdi if necessary.You can send someone to look for him at any time, and he will stay in Daming for a year.

What happened later was that Jiang Chuan led the Qin army into the customs and defeated Li Zicheng near Gyeonggi.

Li Zicheng fled all the way, and when he fled near Huai'an.Rockdy sent someone to sue Li Zicheng again, and reiterated the suggestion made by British businessman David Copperfield.

British businessman David Copperfield was not really a businessman.

His true identity is the leader of a mercenary team.

And this mercenary team is a mercenary team composed of veterans of the English Empire, pirates, criminals, bankrupts and other marginalized people from society.

This mercenary army played many disgraceful roles in the expansion of the British Empire to the world.

Many of the things that the British Empire is obviously inconvenient to do are done by them. For the British Empire, they can be said to have made great contributions, but for many colonies, they have indeed committed numerous crimes.

So this mercenary army is a mercenary army on the surface, but it is actually a secret armed force of the British Empire behind the scenes, so their weapons and equipment are basically the same as those of the regular army of the British Empire in all aspects.

When David Copperfield found Rock Die, his way of persuading Rock Die was actually very simple, that is, he showed some advanced firearms he brought, including muskets and cannons.

During the battle with the Qin army, the Qin army's incomparably sharp anger left a deep impression on the Dashun army.

In the hearts of many generals of the Dashun Army, from the generals to the soldiers, the most fundamental reason why the Qin Army was invincible and invincible was that they possessed sharp artillery.

Therefore, the Dashun army, up and down, actually hoped to have sophisticated firearms that could compete with the Qin army.

However, the Qin army's firearm control was very strict, and the Dashun army had no chance to obtain such weapons.

After the foreign guns and cannons brought by David Copperfield showed the power and range of different reactions, Rock Di was completely moved.

At first, Luo Kedi hoped that David Copperfield could sell large quantities of this advanced firearm to the Dashun Army.

If this advanced weapon can be obtained from the British merchants, the Dashun Army will have a chance to come back.

But David Copperfield denied this cooperation method, and they were unwilling to sell this advanced firearm to the Dashun Army.

After all, the purpose of the British mercenaries this time was not to sell weapons, but to come to Daming as an advance team to test and make a stand in the land that is currently in chaos.

Therefore, the cooperation method proposed by David Copperfield is that the Dashun Army pays for David Copperfield's mercenaries.

David Copperfield will lead his mercenary team to help the Dashun Army fight.

The biggest reason why Li Zicheng rejected David Copperfield's proposal at that time was also because of this.

If it was just selling weapons, Li Zicheng would most likely agree to cooperate.

For Li Zicheng's Dashun army, there is no shortage of money.

In the process of sweeping the world, they robbed and captured countless gold and silver treasures. If the British were willing to sell them weapons, they would have enough money to buy them.

When the emperor of Dashun Kingdom was full of ambitions, the British proposed to let their mercenaries help the Dashun army to attack the world. This was naturally unacceptable to Li Zicheng who was full of ambitions.

But after suffering a big defeat, Li Zicheng, who was terrified of Qin Jun's sharp firearms, finally agreed to Luo Kedi's request.

After paying a huge amount of money.The Dashun Army reached a cooperation agreement with David Copperfield's mercenary army.

Their cooperation plan is also very simple to say, that is, Luo Kedi will lead the Dashun army to defend Jinling to attract the Qin army to besiege the city.

Then, when the two sides are fighting endlessly, the mercenaries led by David Copperfield will launch a sneak attack on the Qin army camp from a secret base outside Jinling City.

Then the two sides cooperated internally and externally, severely injuring the Qin army.Even if possible, they hope to wipe out the Qin army.

This is the real reason why the Dashun Army has no fear.

At this time, David Copperfield had led his mercenary army of 1 men to lurk in a forest fifty miles away from Jinling City, waiting for an opportunity to attack the Qin army.

As long as the Dashun Army and the Qin Army start a war, when the two sides are in a stalemate, this British Empire mercenary will find a weak point of the Qin Army and carry out a surprise attack, so as to cause chaos to the Qin Army and make the city The Dashun Army has an opportunity to take advantage of it.

Although Di Qing noticed the unusualness of the Dashun Army, he could not have imagined that the Dashun Army would rely on a mercenary army from a foreign land.

Jiang Chuan, who was far away in the capital, had always regarded the British Empire army as his number one enemy, but he never expected that the Qin army would soon fight against the British Empire army.

(End of this chapter)