Chongzhen Undergraduates

For this meal, the soldiers in Fuzhou City opened their mouths to eat and drink, but the rich locals in Sichuan were terrified, thinking about how much food they would have to bring out if they ate like this.

Holding a wine bowl, Yu Dahai touched Li Zhanchun, then mysteriously leaned into Li Zhanchun's ear and said, "Brother, guess who I met today?"

"Who is it?" Li Zhanchun was taken aback. After a day of fighting today, who could Yu Dahai meet?

In the meantime, Yu Haihai took out a silver dollar from his pocket, and then stood on the table and turned it around. When the silver dollar was spinning the most happily, Yu Haihai slapped it down with his palm.

"Brother, do you think it's heads or tails?" Yu Dahai asked while staring at Li Zhanchun with a smile.

"Negative?" Li Zhanchun stared, thinking that Yu Dahai was going to bet on him.This new type of silver dollar has this advantage, and you can bet on pros and cons whenever you take it out.

Yu Dahai let go of his palm, took a look and said, "You are wrong, this is the front side. I met it today."

Li Zhanchun hadn't realized what Yu Dahai meant, but he also understood that Yu Dahai wouldn't just come to block the pros and cons.

"Who did you meet?" Li Zhanchun was a little angry and asked urgently.

"He!" Yu Dahai still held the silver dollar in his hand and played with it.The front of the silver dollar flashed in front of Li Zhanchun.

"You mean...?" Li Zhanchun was startled, and he asked immediately.

Yu Dahai nodded, indicating that Li Zhanchun's guess was correct.

"Impossible?" The news is too explosive, it's the emperor.

"He should be right." Yu Dahai continued to say with certainty: "I was standing at the bow of the boat and looked at him with clairvoyance, and he happened to be looking at me."

Li Zhanchun gasped, the already cold air made him shiver all over.He found it inconceivable that the emperor personally conscripted, how could he only bring such a small number of troops?Nanjing now has more than this number of troops.

Yu Dahai drank the wine silently, he sorted out the matter, and found that the emperor hadn't really done anything during the daytime battle, especially the cannons on the court navy ship, which had no intention of lighting fire at all.

There is no such thing on the warships of the Chongqing Navy. If the cannons are ignited, I am afraid that I will suffer a big loss.

The next day, the court navy did not attack, but stopped at Qingxi Town, thirty miles away.The navy in Chongqing did not set fire to the boats anymore, and the two sides formed a confrontation. It was only in one night that Yu Dahai found that the imperial navy seemed to have more than a dozen warships.

The Chongqing navy in the sea belt only has [-] to [-] large ships that can fight, and they have not been able to build new warships in the past two years, and they are more likely to recruit civilian ships to make up for the number.

This time, the number of warships of the Imperial Navy was almost equal to that of the Chongqing Navy, and Yu Dahai could see the bronze cannons mounted on the new naval warships, which made him feel uneasy.

After discussing with Li Zhanchun, Yu Dahai and Li Zhanchun decided that they had to send reinforcements to Zeng Ying as soon as possible, or else they had to find other ways.If the Navy can't win, Fuzhou won't be able to defend at all.

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"Report! Report to General, a group of troops wearing strange clothes came from Jiangbei, and captured Duo Siege City last night." Early in the morning two days later, Zeng Ying received two battle reports at the same time in Chongqing, and the other was Li Zhanchun and Yu Dahai's request for help.

Many people may know Hechuan Diaoyu City. In the sixth year of Baoyou in the Southern Song Dynasty (1258), Mengge Khan took advantage of his power to conquer more than 40 countries in Europe, Asia and Africa, and divided his troops into three groups to attack the Song Dynasty.

Meng Ge personally led an army to invade Sichuan, and in February of the following year, he came to Hezhou Diaoyu City (now Hechuan Diaoyu City, Chongqing) on ​​Tongchuanfu Road.Meng Ge's iron cavalry was invincible, but under the stubborn resistance of Wang Jian, the lord of Diaoyu City, and Zhang Jue, his lieutenant, he couldn't get over the thunder.

In July, Meng Ge was wounded by artillery on the city, and died in Hot Spring Temple.The defense of Diaoyu City lasted for more than 7 years, and it recorded a rare example in the history of Chinese and foreign wars where the weak defeated the strong. Therefore, Diaoyu City was praised by Europeans as "the city of the East Mecca" and "the place where God broke the whip".

In fact, at the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, in order to resist the invasion of the Mongolian army at that time, Hechuan Diaoyu City, Jiangbei Duogong City, Luzhou Shenbi Rock, Jintang Yunding Mountain, Cangxi Dahuo City, Nanchong Qingju City, Wanxian Tiansheng City, etc. were built. Many cities formed a defensive system that echoed each other from a distance, blocking the two rivers and resisting the invasion of the Mongolian army at that time.

Duogong City is an oval-shaped fortress built in the north of Chongqing River. Around Duogong City, the west can block the Jialing River and the south echoes Chongqing. It is a battleground for military strategists.

"Strange clothes? Which chieftain is so bold, wait for me to deal with him when I turn around." Zeng Ying thought about it, but he couldn't figure out how strange the clothes could be. He basically thought it was some chieftain's soldiers Take the opportunity to occupy Duogong City.

At the same time, Deng Zhirong, who had occupied Duogong City, was desperately trying to curry favor with his three brigade commanders, the four Xinchuan Army brigades, and another brigade commander Yuan Zongdi who was capturing Changshou.

Deng Zhirong is now very convinced by Hao Yaoqi, Liu Tichun, and Gao Yigong.The soldiers are still the ones he trained by Deng Zhirong, but in his hands, the battles are much more agile.

Duogong City was originally a circular fortress surrounded by steep rock walls. Although it was said before the war that it was occupied at night, after all, the Xinchuan army was attacking and the others were defending.In this place that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, it is not easy to win in one fell swoop.

Liu Tichun, who was old in battle, first went to Duogong City. He sent a company of white soldiers to ambush under the wall of Duogong City, and then concentrated ten bronze cannons on the other side.

When the cannon fired in the middle of the night, the defenders of the entire Duogong City were in chaos. At this time, the company of white soldiers climbed up to the Duogong City like monkeys.Before the defenders in the city came to their senses, the lowest wall was blown down from the inside by explosives.

If this is an attack during the day and the blasting is carried out from the outside, it is estimated that high explosives will be used. No matter how bad it is, we must learn from Zeng Guofan's Hunan Army and load a coffin of gunpowder to blow up the city wall.

"Three, come and smoke my younger brother's cigarette pot." Deng Zhirong shamelessly took out Zhu Youjian's imperial gift brand cigarette bag and pot, and gave one to each of Hao Yaoqi, Liu Tichun, and Gao Yigong.What's even more shameless is that he, the acting army commander, took the initiative to help the brigade commander pack tobacco and light the fire.

"How embarrassing is that?" Hao Yaoqi, Liu Tichun, and Gao Yigong glanced at each other, and then at the golden cigarette holder in their hands, they laughed happily.

"In the future, I would like to thank all the older brothers for teaching the younger brothers." Deng Zhirong shyly looked like a small follower.

"It's easy to say, easy to say." Gao Yigong smacked on the cigarette pot, feeling that it was quite powerful for the first time.

Chapter 3: Attachment of Chongqing

Zeng Ying thought that there were only two bad news, but unexpectedly, near noon, another bad news came one after another.

"What kind of strange clothes can you tell me?" Zeng Ying was furious at the General's Mansion when he received the news of Changshou's fall.

"Report to the general, those people are all wearing grass-green clothes, wearing round helmets, and holding firearms in their hands. They look very strange, and this subordinate has never heard of it." A little frightened, it seems that he was frightened.

At this time, Zeng Ying no longer dared to underestimate this group of troops in strange clothes.Ordinarily, it is impossible for the chieftain's army to have such uniform attire, and only the regular army can achieve this level.As for the current regular army around Chongqing, apart from Zhang Xianzhong, there is only Shizhu and the Xinchuan army.

"Any other discoveries?" Zeng Ying now very much hopes to get more first-hand military information.

"By the way, some of them are holding the weapons of Shizhubai soldiers." The subordinate said after thinking for a while, his eyes lit up.

"That's right!" Zeng Ying has officially confirmed who his opponent is from the bottom of his heart, which makes him feel a headache.

"They still have a lot of cannons!" The subordinate continued exaggerating.

"It's a lot of bangs?" Zeng Ying felt that his subordinates were exaggerating too much. Cannons are not firecrackers. How many can there be?

"Dozens of carts are towed, and they run pretty fast." The subordinates didn't say anything, but when they said dozens of carts were towed, Zeng Ying's heart felt cold.

This was the first batch of five-jin cannons, just for the convenience of transportation. Later, Zhu Youjian also prepared ten-jin cannons, which were still not shipped in from Yiling.

The use of iron mold water core casting technology, coupled with the boring machine driven by the steam engine, has increased the success rate of Daming's cannon manufacturing from the original [-]% to [-]%.

If it weren't for bronze, it would be better than iron, Zhu Youjian would like to vigorously develop the cannon business.As far as these Napoleon cannons are concerned, they are proper epoch-making technological products in this era.

What Zeng Ying's subordinates said was a bit exaggerated. In fact, each brigade of the Xinchuan Army was equipped with [-] cannons.The most important thing is that this unit has been fighting in the mountains, and the artillery is not used much, and the training of gunners is a bit slow.

"It's over!" Zeng Ying sat down on the chair, feeling very depressed.As long as the opponent crosses the river from Duogong City and bypasses Gele Mountain, even if they don't need to cross the river, Chongqing will not be able to defend.

"Report!" When Zeng Ying's head hurt like hell, another soldier ran outside to report the report.

"Are you kidding again?" The so-called blessings come without pairs, but misfortunes never come singly.Zeng Ying is not afraid of more bad news now, anyway, it just looks like it.

"General Qi, the Zunyi Mansion sent someone to report that Mr. Wang is being attacked by the Mu Palace, and you are asked to go south to rescue quickly."

"I'll save him a hammer." Zeng Ying slapped the tea bowl on the table to the ground.

Three days later, the Xinchuan army took over Chongqing without bloodshed, and Zeng Ying's 5 men directly surrendered to the Ming court.