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

Chapter 758

Just as Yang Menglong hurried to Shandong, the Heluo New Army also started mobilizing for war.At Nanyang Chengguan Wharf, in Wuhan, a large number of workers were bare-chested, shouting chant, and running around the wharf like flying, loading boxes of heavy supplies onto ships.The warehouses of the major warehouses were also opened, cans, dry food, shells, bullets, explosives, raincoats, shoes, socks and clothing... All kinds of military supplies were moved out by trucks and brought to the dock.Xiong Jiu, a taciturn new soldier in black military uniform, boarded the big ship with high spirits, holding his shiny rifle tightly in his hand, and the bayonet on the rifle shone with a frightening edge.The people in the Heluo area cheered these soldiers: "Men, when you arrive in Fujian, beat them hard, let that bird feather Zheng Zhichong know how good we are!"

Wars are almost normal for the people in the Heluo area. If there is no war for a year, they will feel that something is missing.No, when Wuyang Guard was first established, it fought inextricably with bandits and bandits that were so numerous around it. After the Wuyang Army was trained, it immediately went to Liaodong to kill people. Great wars, pacification of bandits, pacification of the Huguang rebellion... War has become a part of the lives of the people in the Heluo area, almost every year, and there is no end to it.Being in a state of war for a long time, the character of the people in the Heluo area is naturally affected, and they become very wild. When Zheng Zhilong robbed the Guangdong maritime merchants, he did not spare the merchant ships in the Heluo area. Those who are not eye-catching directly fired and sank, and the people in the Heluo area hated it.Some time ago, I was busy dealing with the hailstorm and couldn’t spare my hands. Now that the hailstorm has stopped and agricultural production has resumed, the common people opened their little black books and were surprised to find: Hey, that bastard Zheng Zhilong still owes us a beating!
Now that I found that they still owed a beating, I quickly called the door to let them know whether the trumpet is copper or iron.Are you looking for trouble?This time it makes you so excited!

The Heluo New Army mobilized 8000 troops for this battle.Xue Siming brought 6000 people to Shanghai, and another 1 people have already assembled in Guangdong, ready to start at any time.Yang Menglong has a good habit of always running at the forefront of the army in every battle. This habit has also affected all the generals. Xue Siming will lead hundreds of people to set off first and go to Shanghai to establish a bridgehead.Yang Chenyue pulled him and refused to let go——this extremely fierce Sichuan girl is already pregnant, so she can no longer accompany him on the battlefield.Xue Siming comforted her with a smile: "It's just beating up a bunch of pirates, why are you so nervous? Don't worry, it's okay, Jianu is so fierce that I can't do anything to me, let alone a bunch of little thieves!"

Yang Chenyue muttered: "You can't say that... You and Jiannu are fighting hard on land. Whoever is ruthless will win, but this sea battle is different. A strong wind came and all the ships capsized. It's useless to fight any more..."

Xue Siming couldn't laugh or cry: "My lady, there is going to be a war, can you think of something better?"

Yang Chenyue said: "Anyway, I'm not at ease... You must take care of yourself, don't be too desperate, don't be greedy for merit, and don't underestimate the enemy! Promise me, even if you are facing a group of vulnerable little thieves, you will Fight them as the two yellow flags of Jiannu! I... I don't care, but my child can't be without a father as soon as he comes out!"

Xue Siming had a broken face: "Okay, I promise you, even if you are facing a group of mobs, you will fight them as the most elite two yellow flags of Jiannu!"

Yang Chenyue said: "Swear!"

Xue Siming raised his hand: "Swear!"

Yang Chenyue helped him fasten his cloak, and reluctantly said: "Then...you should leave quickly, and come back early after the fight, and you are not allowed to visit the Qinhuai River!"

Xue Siming really wanted to smile wryly: "How dare I, even if I'm not afraid of getting sick, I'm afraid that a javelin will break through the window and nail me to death in front of the courtesans in Qinhuai."

Yang Chenyue laughed through tears: "Fuck you, am I that scary!"

Xue Siming gave her a big hug and said, "Take care of yourself and your children. I hope I can see you all healthy and healthy when I return home victorious!"

Yang Chenyue said: "I will! You... can you come back after I give birth?"

Xue Siming looked perplexed: "Why?"

Yang Chenyue said in a low voice: "It's ugly to be pregnant with a child, I don't want you to see me so ugly..."

this woman...

Xue Siming really felt like he had lost to her.

Over there, Yang Chenyue's good sister, Wang Xiaoman, had a face as red as a tomato, her eyes were fixed on the little ants on the ground, her voice was not much more majestic than a mosquito's, and she asked Zhong Ning: "You...you Are you all ready?"

Zhong Ning was full of enthusiasm: "It has been prepared for a long time."

Wang Xiaoman twisted her fingers nervously, and said, "Then...then let's go, I wish you a smooth journey."

Zhong Ning: "..."

I have to say that several years have passed, and the little tortoise who slowly finished the 800-meter long-distance race on the field is still so shy and shy. Unless it is work, talking to a man will make him nervous He almost fainted, but he liked Zhong Ning so much... It's just that every time he finally found a chance to say a few words with Zhong Ning, and didn't know what to say, Yang Chenyue just rolled his eyes!
This time Zhong Ning brought only [-] cavalry, including [-] Lancers and [-] Chasseurs.Fujian has many mountains and little land, and that kind of ghostly terrain greatly limits the performance of the cavalry. It is useless to invest too many cavalry. One thousand and two hundred is the limit.But it doesn't mean that the cavalry can't exert their power in that kind of terrain. The ghostly place in Annan is full of mountains and dense forests, which is much worse than Fujian, but the Qiang and Tibetans under Wang Rui and Qin Mai The cavalry flew up in waves, gathering in places that Annan's army could never have dreamed of, and then passed through dense forests, swamps, continuous mountains, and endless bamboo forests inconceivably, and appeared in the area where the Annan army's defenses were the most empty. Before Annan's army could react Come here, there is already a sea of ​​flames behind them.Zhong Ning believed that his subordinates could also overcome the difficulties that the Qiang and Tibetans could overcome, and the facts proved that he really did.

After bidding farewell to their relatives, the New Army soldiers boarded the warship without hesitation. Amidst the loud ringing of the bell, the warship loaded with soldiers and supplies sailed out of the dock, went down the river, and headed straight for the battlefield thousands of miles away.In the coming days, more large ships will depart from the docks and sail south until this war is over.

At this time, the imperial court's imperial decree has come down, ordering the Heluo new army to move southward to wipe out the pirates in the South China Sea and ensure the safety of the people in the coastal areas.Now it’s funny, Zheng Zhilong received the order to destroy pirates and ensure the safety of the people’s lives and property in the coastal areas, but Yang Menglong’s order was exactly the same as his. Neither Chongzhen nor the Ministry of War listed it for the Heluo New Army and Zheng Zhilong. A clear target, because there is no need for this, and they can't know who to hit.

But how to say, it is a good thing that the imperial decree can come down, at least the new army of Heluo is also famous.

It is summer at this time, the water level of the Yangtze River is gradually rising, the current is turbulent, and the speed downstream is extremely fast. It is definitely an exaggeration to say that "a thousand miles of Jiangling can be returned in one day", but it must be easy and enjoyable to travel hundreds of miles a day. Driving 11 roads is too strong.However, after the fleet arrived in Anqing, they started to run into trouble:

Some unsighted guy is looking for them to collect taxes!

At the beginning, the Heluo new army generals paid a little, but soon they found that if they continued to pay taxes honestly, they might even have their underwear stripped before they entered the border of Jiangsu.Beyond the boundaries of Huguang, the bastards who set up card fees along the river have more lice than the crazy woman who hasn't washed her hair for eight years. The card was set up by the county government, the checkpoint C was set up by a certain Shangshu who had returned from his old age, and the checkpoint D was set up by the magistrate’s uncle... Anyway, it’s not easy to mess with, and it’s okay to miss any of them.Let's put it this way, if a person transports a ship of grain from Wuhan to Hangzhou to sell, if he honestly delivers it all the way, he may sink the ship by himself and walk home because he took the ship of grain Even the boat was sold, and the money was not enough to pay the return tax!
But this trick is useless against Heluo's new army. As soon as the bayonets are shown, those who set up card fees will pee.Of course, there are also those who are not afraid of death. For example, when passing through Jiujiang, they were stopped by a tax card, and the gang refused to let them go.Zhong Ning was very impatient and wanted to hit someone, but Xue Siming waved his hand to signal him to calm down.General Xue smiled and said to the chubby official: "My lord, we are ordered to fight, and the army has to pay taxes when they go to the battlefield?"

The little official turned his nostrils to the sky: "Don't talk about you stinky mounds, even the king of heaven, I have to pay taxes if I want to pass here! Stop talking nonsense, pay quickly, or go back to your hometown in Nanyang!"

Xue Siming was still smiling: "You don't even have a tax card, how can we pay it?"

The little official got angry, and pointed to the tax card on the shore: "Such a big tax card stands there, are you blind, so you can't see it?"

Xue Siming said: "I really didn't see it."

The petty official was so angry that he wanted to slap someone: "You——" Just as he rolled up his sleeves, he heard a loud "boom". At some point, a group of artillerymen pushed an 85mm howitzer to the bow of the ship and aimed it at the ship. The tax card fired a shot.The shot was not accurate, and the shell hit a distance of 30 meters from the tax card. No one was injured, but the people inside were so frightened that they escaped screaming and crawling.Immediately afterwards, the artillery fired another shot, this time it was accurate, and it hit the unsightly building. Only a loud noise was heard, and the unsightly building collapsed. , residual sand and gravel rose into the sky. This horrific scene horrified the passing ships and people on the shore.Only this clerk remained unmoved and expressionless, but the smelly liquid was dripping down his trousers...

When the smoke dissipated, it was clear that the tax card had disappeared, leaving only a big hole.Xue Siming was quite satisfied with this, and asked the little official with a smile: "Are you sure where your tax card is?"

The little official screamed, put his head in his hands and jumped off the bow, and fell into the river like a depth charge, splashing Lao Gao's water.Swimming to the shore with both arms and legs, he screamed with all his strength, "It's not good! Officers and soldiers killed people!"

Xue Siming didn't bother to pay attention to him. With a wave of his hand, the fleet continued to move forward and came to a tax card 800 meters downstream. Before the other party could speak, he asked with a smile: "Where is your tax card?"

The clerk in charge of this tax card tensed up and said hurriedly: "We don't have a tax card, we don't have a tax card!"

Xue Siming asked: "Then do we have to pay 500 taels of silver to go there?"

The little official was about to cry: "No, I don't need a penny! If you are short of money, Mr. Jun, I can give you a few dozen taels of silver as wine money!"

Xue Siming really laughed, patted the man on the shoulder and said, "You are quite interesting, really!"

But Gu Gu Kua, the black muzzle is still aimed at people's tax cards...

Seeing that the situation was not good, the people inside fled out scrambling.When all the people ran away, there was a bang, and the shells roared, and the entire tax card was immediately blown to pieces.The little official wanted to cry, but I voluntarily gave in, why didn't I escape this shot?
Xue Siming patted him on the shoulder and said: "I don't want the wine money of tens of taels of silver, you keep it, and give it to our follow-up troops when they arrive...Be quick when you give the money, otherwise they will be in trouble." Get angry, maybe I have to shoot you."

The little official's legs went limp, and he sat down on the ground.

After discovering that genuine shells were far better than grain and clothing shells, the new army of Heluo got excited, aimed at the tax card, and then fired. Let them blow up nine tax cards!Soon, those guys who set up card charges in the downstream knew that such a group of unreasonable guys were going to swagger through their territory. They gritted their teeth and organized people to dismantle the tax cards by themselves... If you want to rebuild the ones you dismantled, it would be better Easy, but if you take one or two shells, it will be difficult to rebuild!

These northern barbarians are really too barbaric!

(End of this chapter)