Cutting over the end of the Ming Dynasty: a dog-leg knife at the beginning

Chapter 1041 Unreliable Famous Minister
On the political map of East Asia, Japan plays a very special role.They were in a state of disunity, with constant melee and weak military strength, but they were always lucky enough to survive one of the blows of the tyrannical dynasty on the other side of the East China Sea: in the Battle of Baijiangkou, thousands of Tang troops wiped out troops ten times their own The Japanese army did not attack the Japanese mainland; the Yuan Dynasty crossed the sea twice to attack the Japanese mainland, but encountered a typhoon twice, and the entire army was wiped out; The tombs of tens of thousands of elite Japanese soldiers honed in a century of war, but they themselves were exhausted and unable to attack the Japanese mainland... Because of this series of inexplicable reasons, Japan has never been conquered by China.

On the contrary, the Japanese Japanese pirates often took advantage of the unstable political situation in Ming Dynasty to come to China to rob.Of course, for the Japanese, leaving the Japanese mainland to plunder the coastal areas of China and North Korea has become their survival instinct, which they did as early as the Goguryeo era.Do you know what the Japanese were called in the Goguryeo era?It's called Piaomin.At that time, Japanese pirates rowed boats across the strait to North Korea or the northeast coastal areas. In order to avoid prematurely attracting the attention of Koguryo soldiers and civilians, they would tie several dried and hollowed gourds to their bodies far away from the coast. Provide buoyancy for yourself, abandon the boat and swim over, go ashore without anyone noticing, and then grab a lot... It is estimated that the Goguryeo soldiers and civilians must have been dumbfounded when they saw groups of Japanese pirates floating all the way from the sea. They would also scream wildly: "Yaoshou! The gourd babies are here!" These gourd babies are pretty good at fighting. At that time, Goguryeo was one of the best military powers in East Asia. They let them loot many villages and towns. .Later, a big battle broke out between Tang and Baekje, and Baekje was beaten to the brim, and the gourd baby was asked to help, and they did come... and then they were beaten to their knees.In the Ming Dynasty, these gourd babies reverted to their old ways and came to rob China, making the Jiangnan area a mess, and the Ming Dynasty took a lot of effort to calm it down.But it's just flat, and it's impossible to make an expedition to Japan. Who asked Taizu to list Japan as a country not to be conquered?
However, history played a terrible joke with those gourd babies.The lack of money was severe, and the lack of integrity was even worse. Emperor Longwu threw the ancestral teachings of Taizu to Java Island with a flick of his hand. What is the land of no conquest?Fuck your grandma, uncle is short of money now, Denglai new army, go and grab it for me!grab what?Grab population, rob food, rob silver, grab whatever you have!Come back when you've robbed enough, don't think about robbing everything at once, anyway, you will continue to rob in the future, what's the rush?
As a result, Wu Sheng, the governor of Jinan, quickly received an order to rob Japan.Dudu Wu sighed: "Going to rob again... it's really boring to rob them back and forth!"

Yuan Zongdi chuckled: "I just like robbing! How many years have they been robbing Daming? It's our turn to rob them a few times! Chief Governor, what's going on this time?"

Wu Sheng yawned and said: "As usual, send [-] troops, bring enough artillery, ammunition and supplies, and you lead the team! By the way, make an appointment with the Koreans. From last year to now, the Japanese pirates have robbed Koryo again." Several times, they will definitely want to take revenge, so it’s always good to invite them and bring more cannon fodder!”

Yuan Zongdi responded and went down to prepare.This guy was a bandit, and he had a fanatical interest in things like burning, killing, and looting. Having robbed Japan twice made Wu Sheng a little bit tired of aesthetics, but he wouldn't do it. He would go to the enemy's territory to kill people and set fires. It’s interesting, how could it be boring!He quickly recruited 85 elite soldiers from the labor camp, and brought a dozen 160mm howitzers and a dozen 120mm lightning cannons. He did not bring the [-]mm lightning cannon. I guess the Japanese army no longer had the courage to fight against the Ming army in the field. No, no need.We were all ready, and sent people to North Korea to shout: "Let's seize Japan. Do you want to go with us?" As a result, thousands of people came. Everyone joined forces, set sail, and headed straight to Japan in excitement. And go!

So the Tokugawa shogunate, who were robbed twice by the Ming army and couldn't avenge it, was pleasantly surprised to find that the Ming army had come to fight again. This time they had a chance to take revenge!

Of course, it was just a chance to take revenge. They soon discovered that they had a chance to take revenge, but they had no hope of success...

Yes, facing the mighty Ming army, the Japanese army hardly had any hope of successful revenge.The new army of the Ming Dynasty was well-equipped and disciplined, and its tactics were far ahead of any opponent. After a great war that almost destroyed the country, the Ming Dynasty carried out a comprehensive reform, and military reform was listed as the first priority Now, all the constraints imposed on the army by civil servants in the past have now been swept away. The new army of Ming Dynasty has regained its freedom, and can roar and rush at any prey they fancy.When the civil servants were holding back, the new army of the Ming Dynasty was invincible all over the world. Now that these holding backs are gone, who else is their opponent?Not to mention the Japanese, even Europe, which gradually became stronger after the Renaissance and gradually led Asia in equipment and tactics, is far from their opponent.When the Ming army landed in the coastal cities of Japan, the Japanese daimyo soon discovered that they seemed to have no other choice but to be slaughtered and flee.

Also finding that he can only choose between running away or being slaughtered is the group of cheating gentry and scholar-bureaucrats in Jiangnan who almost killed Daming.At the order of Emperor Longwu, the tens of thousands of troops under Qi Hu's command rushed from Xuzhou to Nanjing, and Qi Hu's army was accompanied by Zheng's fleet. This was the second time they marched to Nanjing, and the route was very familiar.The gentry in the south of the Yangtze River finally panicked completely, stopped the internal fighting for the first time, those with money contributed money, those without money contributed their efforts, and united to resist stubbornly.The gold and silver that had been hidden in the cellar for an unknown number of years were poured out continuously during the daytime, recruiting troops frantically, as long as men with good arms and legs were asked to be pulled into the army to make up for it. There are as many as 60 people, almost three times the force under Beijing's jurisdiction!It is really funny that the actual strength of the empire is only one-third of that of the rebels.Quantity is there, but quality...

The Transformers Squadron sailing down the river from Wuhan went down to the three cities of Anqing, Chizhou, and Tongling within seven days, and captured more than [-] enemies.Xu, who commanded the squadron, looked at the crowd of captives and said, "You can't catch [-] pigs in seven days!"

The Huaisi cavalry who came from Huainan and Huaibei swept all the way and fell into Lu'an and Hefei within seven days.Facing the fierce Huaisi cavalry, the rebels guarding Hefei surrendered almost without firing a shot. The reason was that these Huaisi barbarians were very barbaric. If they resisted, they might massacre the city after the city was broken!Well, I have to admire the rebel generals guarding Hefei for their foresight. They didn't even start fighting yet, but they were thinking about whether they would massacre the city after the city was broken!

Zheng Zhibao encountered quite tenacious resistance in Suzhou and Huzhou. The rebels had a large number of troops, fought fiercely, and their tactics were also strange. Zheng's fleet attacked many times.Zheng Zhibao, who is capable of killing, asked for a few rocket launchers from the Transformers fleet. When encountering water fortresses, enemy fleets, etc., he used rockets to blast them into a sea of ​​flames, and at the same time asked the Transformers fleet for another batch. The artificially guided rocket ship came over and launched a suicide attack on the pier controlled by the rebels, only to hear loud noises resounding through the sky, and the fires lit up the sky, and the strategic targets that the rebels relied on for support were destroyed one by one, and they lasted for more than half Months finally couldn't hold on anymore and had to surrender.It was only after Zheng Zhibao's first trial that the prisoners knew that the gang of rebels who were strangling him were Taihu water bandits, and had nothing to do with the small court in Nanjing. It was just that the Ming army's large-scale suppression of the rebels made them aware of the danger, and they volunteered to fight against the Ming army. fight.

What makes people vomit blood is that the most powerful opponent this Ming army encountered in the Jiangnan rebellion did not even have an official position in the small Nanjing court. , the Nanjing small imperial court also included them in the list of suppression...

Zheng Zhibao's small setback in Taihu Lake did not have much impact on the overall situation, and the victory frenzy of the Ming army continued.The elite division commanded by Qi Hu first stormed Taizhou, a strategic location guarded by the most elite troops of the Little Imperial Court in Nanjing. They fought fiercely for seven days and captured the city until the fields were filled with corpses.After taking Taizhou, this army didn't even need to rest, and immediately crossed the Yangtze River and went straight to Yangzhou.In Yangzhou, Qi Hu met a famous figure in the history of the late Ming Dynasty: Shi Kefa.This strong man commanded 4 troops to guard Yangzhou, forming a line of defense with Zhenjiang as Nanjing's last barrier.Qi Hu wrote a letter asking him to surrender, and Shi Kefa replied with thousands of words, paraphrasing five and four chapters, quoting scriptures, laughing and cursing, and the sarcasm and ridicule were all natural, and the Beijing court was transformed from Emperor Longwu to the maid sweeping the floor. After greeting each other again, the scholar said angrily: The king of Tang Dynasty was treasonous and coveted the artifact. He killed the gentlemen of Donglin for his own selfish purposes. Techniques led to the collapse of rituals and music, the decline of morals, and the Han family's clothes no longer exist.As a member of the Han family, Shi read moral articles and learned loyalty, filial piety, etiquette and justice. He had no reason to give in to rebellion. He must die with Yangzhou to preserve righteousness for heaven and earth!
Well, this article is really brilliant, Qi Hu couldn't even flatter himself.So he didn't bother to waste his words anymore, he mobilized the cannons to bombard the city wall of Yangzhou, and rushed in after crashing a section of the city wall.He respects people like Shi Kefa, so he is merciless in his actions. This kind of person cannot be persuaded. The best way is to try his best to defeat him and let him die without regret.But what surprised Qi Hu was that the expected tenacious resistance did not exist at all. The Yangzhou defenders were like headless chickens, and the entire defense line was full of loopholes. In one day, Yangzhou changed hands, and Shi Kefa became a prisoner.After becoming a prisoner, Shi Kefa is still calm and composed, facing Qi Hu's sharp knife-like gaze without changing his face, this courage is admirable, but...

He seems to be admirable only for his courage.

Qi Hu asked: "Yangzhou has tens of thousands of troops and enough food for half a year. Why is it so vulnerable? Have you never paid attention to defense?"

Shi Kefa said indifferently: "Shi Mou only wants to die to show his will, how can he take care of these trivial matters?"

Qi Hu and a group of generals looked at the young man stupidly, dumbfounded.With great difficulty, Qi Hu closed his jaw and asked with some difficulty: "I heard that you volunteered to guard Yangzhou?"

Shi Kefa said, "Exactly!"

Qi Hu asked: "Since you volunteered to defend Yangzhou, why are you indifferent to the defense of Yangzhou City? Could it be that the so-called defense of the city is just a ritual of your martyrdom, and you have never thought about how to defend the city at all?"

Shi Kefa said: "If you want to kill, then kill, why talk too much!"

Qi Hu also yelled: "I won't kill you! Guards, take this guy out and throw him as far as he can! Let this kind of person lead an army of tens of thousands, it's nothing short of human life!"

The guards came in and forked Shi Kefa out.Shi Kefa yelled and cursed loudly, with awe-inspiring righteousness, the guard immediately punched him in the lower abdomen, and then the world was quiet.Just like in history, this guy doesn't know anything about military affairs, and he doesn't have the heart to understand it. He led the troops to guard Yangzhou and never thought about how to defend Yangzhou. He just wanted to die vigorously and be famous in history. He probably never thought about what the people in Yangzhou City would do.With such an unreliable nerd and a mass grave on the stall, one can imagine the defense of Yangzhou City. Fortunately, it was not the Qing army that came here this time, but the Ming army. Although Yangzhou City was broken, the tragic Yangzhou Ten Looting didn't happen, and his head didn't fall to the ground, he was just thrown out by Qi Hu...

This is Yangzhou's greatest luck and Shi Kefa's greatest misfortune.

(End of this chapter)