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The news that Linfen had been easily broken by Liu Zongmin soon flew over the Taihang Mountains to the small city of Linxian on the North China Plain, and soon spread to the city of Guangzhou through the Shandong troops of the Southern Guangdong Army stationed in Zhangde Mansion.

Regarding this matter, Li Shouhan was also quite puzzled and even a little surprised.

Linfen, known as Pingyang in ancient times, is the ancient capital of Tang Yao, commonly known as Woniu City. "Cow City" is also used to being called Binh Duong City. However, the earliest Pingyang City is in the west of the Fen River, named after the Yang of Pingshui, which is now the area of Jindian in Yaodu District. Today's Linfen City is an expansion of the White Horse City built by the Northern Wei Dynasty. Li Daoyuan of the Northern Wei Dynasty recorded in the "Notes on the Water Classic" that it was built because of "Wei Xing White Horse". It turns out that the Xianbei people have the custom of "killing the white horse in case of a major event and swearing a blood oath". White Horse City appears in the face of a military castle, it is built on the east bank of the Fen River secondary terrace front, the west and north sides are twenty or thirty meters higher than the Fen River riverbed, standing at the head of the White Horse City, looking at the Fen River at the foot and the Luliang Mountain in the distance on the opposite bank, the feeling of condescending is very strong.

In the early years of Jingtai (1450 AD), it was repaired again. The circumference of its city is eleven miles and two hundred and eighty-eight steps, four feet and five feet high, and it is covered with bricks; The pool is two feet and five feet deep. Each of the four sides of the city is built a gate, the east gate is called Wuding Gate, the west gate is called Heyi Gate, the south gate is called Mingde Gate, and the north gate is called Zhenshuo Gate. Outside the city gate, each built a moon city, commonly known as the urn city. Above the city gate and at the four corners of the city were built wooden towers and corner towers. In addition, eight enemy platforms were built, and ninety-seven nests were built. In the seventh year of Ming Zhengde (1512 AD), Dongguan City was added again, which is semicircular, with a circumference of 1,264 zhang and a height of two zhang and five. The city was nine feet wide. There are eight enemy platforms on it, and the city opens the main gate and the small gate a total of seven, but it is still an earthen city. Ming Jiajing 21 years (AD 1542) rebuilt, Longqing two years (AD 1568) and rebuilt, and increased the height of three zhang two feet, the upper width of one zhang eight feet. Covered with bricks, the main gate, small door, and platform are all increased in height and width, and four new corner towers are added, and the enemy platform is increased to 17. Door seven, east said "Wangxiao", west said "Wangshi", south said "Wangxun", north said "Wangguan", southeast corner door two. Northeast corner gate one.

Linfen, west is the Fen River, east and south are endless plains, condescending at a glance. The city wall is tens of meters high, not only the wall is high, but also thick. Enough for two trucks to drive side by side on the city walls. It is claimed that it is from the beginning of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, and many times large armies have come to the city but they have not been allowed to enter. It is known as the unbreakable Cow City. In modern times, Yan Laoxi's little fellow countryman Xu Xiangqian Marshal. He commanded an army of 100,000 troops in North China and lasted for three months. Several tunnels were dug and nearly ten tons of explosives were used to blow up two gaps in the Linfen city wall that were more than 100 meters wide, and the brigade rushed into the city, and the PLA sequence has since had the name of the Linfen Brigade.

However, I can't imagine how Liu Zongmin did it?

But from the text attached to the back of Li Huayu's military intelligence report, Li Shouhan found the answer.

That is, the concentration of artillery fleet. The bombardment of the city with dense artillery fire, although it did not break the city and caused the infantry to rush in, but it also made the officials, generals and gentry in the city tremble.

They all knew that the Dashun army outside the city was still known as the Liukou period. There is a successful precedent of using artillery to bombard a city to break a city.

In the eighth year of Chongzhen, hundreds of thousands of peasant troops besieged Gwangju (now Huangchuan, Henan), and attacked the city with 20 cannons, and destroyed the city wall with two cannons. When the second attack on Kaifeng, the power of the artillery used, "flying iron molten lead, like weaving on all sides, resounding in the air, like the strong wind of a mandarin bird". "The cannons and small mills hit day and night, the city walls were like a sieve, and the guards did not dare to show their shadows, and they were shot and died." In addition, the traditional "high proximity method" was used to raise the artillery launch platform and prepare for fire with concentrated artillery fire. "Vabai is a platform, more than ten zhang long, more than five zhang wide, three zhang high, 100 people on it, and set artillery to attack the city." "More than 100 cannons hit the city in unison, and the city was bombarded and collapsed, and the thieves landed in the city with the cannons."

Li Shouhan closed his eyes slightly, imagining that outside the city of Linfen, which is known as the ********, dozens of heavy artillery pieces lined up to bombard the city walls day and night, and hundreds of small cannons bombarded the city head to kill and injure the defenders.

After the Qing army entered the pass, it relied on the firepower advantage of the Wuzhen Chaoha artillery team to attack various cities in the pass. A Qing army once threatened: "If a hundred cannons are placed as a faction, how can it afford to attack in three or four days?" It is all a tone of mistreatment of the enemy with the superiority of firepower.

(Huh?) It seems that something is wrong again. Isn't it that the Liao thieves are a bunch of barbarians? How can it only be known that the blood-drinking Tunguska savages would have so many cannons in their hands, which in the seventeenth century represented advanced technology and advanced productivity. How does it mean that there are more and better artillery in the hands of the ignorant and backward savages than in the hands of the Ming army? This must be a problem of the system! ）

The same was true of the officials and gentry in Linfen City. Although the city is high and deep, it seems that it can block the offensive of the Dashun army. However, the Dashun army outside the city did not seem to be in a hurry to ascend to the city, and even the cloud ladder was not much prepared. Just keep driving cattle and horses, dragging a cannon outside the city, and pulling a cart of cannon gunpowder for use.

Seeing the gray-white smoke rising from time to time under the city, smelling the smell of saltpeter and sulfur that was getting more and more, the city wall under his feet shook slightly from time to time, and the defense line in the hearts of the gentry and generals in the city collapsed.

"Raise the white flag, open the city gates, and lower the drawbridge. Let's submit to Emperor Dashun. Follow the emperor to hang the people for crimes, crusade against the tyrannical Ming court, and save the people from fire and water. ”

The city gate was opened, the Dashun banner was erected on the city, and Linfen changed hands.

"What do you guys think?"

The document sent by Li Huayu by clipper about the almost entire territory of Shanxi being conquered by the Dashun army was handed to Li Peilin and others for circulation. At present, Li Zicheng has commanded the main force of the Dashun Army to cross the Yellow River into Shanxi, and has begun a strategic operation in the direction of Datong. The cities of Yanping, Ningwu, and Qilan have begun to be managed by officials of Dashun.

As for the two places of Jining Road and South Hebei Road, because they are not far from the men and horses of the Nanyue Army, before the Dashun side has figured out the attitude of the Nanyue Army, it is only very cautious to accept part of the cities in these two places and send officials to manage them. The rest of the border with the Southern Yue Army was still guarded by former Ming officials.

Because of history and reasons for fighting against the Mongols, Shanxi Town, Datong Town, and Xuanfu Town, which were under the jurisdiction of Governor Xuanda, belonged to three administrative regions at the same level, and each had its own general army and governor stationed. The governor of Shanxi, the governor of Datong, the governor of Xuanfu and the general army of the three towns were all under the jurisdiction of the governor of Xuanda stationed in Yanghe.

"Li Zicheng and Liu Zongmin led the army north to Datong, and it is no longer a problem whether the soldiers and horses in Datong Town can stop the Dashun army. The point is. Once hundreds of thousands of Dashun troops rushed along Datong to the Xuanfu area like a flash flood bursting their banks, what should we do? ”

Li Shouhan asked the civil and military officials present with a calm face.

"Lord, since Li Zicheng's troops and horses have been stationed in the area of Linxian County, and my Zhangde Mansion soldiers and horses are only separated by a mountain, if the Shun army marches to the land of Jinan, then the eldest prince's department will be pushed to the cusp!"

Zhang Xiaohu, who had not much hair left, scratched a few sparse long hairs on the top of his head, quite anxious.

What he worries about is also part of Li Shouhan's worries.

If Li Zicheng commanded the troops to attack the Beijing Division. Whether it is Dashun or the Ming court in Beijing, they will project their attention on this elite division that is only a stone's throw away from them. The Dashun army wanted to send heavy troops to guard against Li Huayu's surprise attack from the flank, copying his own back road. The cabinet bigwigs in the capital and Emperor Chongzhen himself will try to get Li Huayu to take action as soon as possible, not to mention eliminating and defeating Li Zicheng's hundreds of thousands of Dashun military horses, but at least to let the northern line troops of the Nanyue Army play a leading role in Li Zicheng's flank, so that the Dashun Yongchang Emperor will not be able to march boldly to Beijing with confidence. It is also good to dispose of the property for them. Prepare to run for your life and fight for time and space.

Although Li Huayu has his own ideas and means in many things, there are many conflicts with Li Shouhan's plan. However, in the end, it is also the relationship between father and son. It is hotter than ash and saltier than sauce. Li Shouhan was also worried that his eldest son was young and vigorous, and he didn't check for a while because he was calculated by the emperor of Beijing, the cabinet bosses, and Li Zicheng.

It is a trivial matter to lose Shandong if the army is lost, once Li Zicheng swept north of the Yellow River, then his momentum will still be gained?

"My lord, if it's for the court. For the world. The subordinates felt that since the imperial court had a decree a few days ago and approved the mutual protection of the southeast, it was better for the lord to relocate his line to Nanjing. ”

"When the lord arrives in Nanjing, the military and civilians in the south and north of the Yangtze River will inevitably be reassured. I know that the matter of mutual protection in the southeast has been completed. Then, the wealth of the southeast is stable, which is to preserve the vitality of the imperial court. In this way, the southeast half of the wall is preserved for the Ming Dynasty, and if there is a change in the capital, the lord can also raise a brigade of troops to go north to Jingjing. ”

After Li Peilin finished his opinion, he looked at Jiang Yihong, the governor of Liangguang, and Huang Xigon, the governor of Guangxi, who went to Guangzhou to report on his work. He knew that these two would inevitably persuade Li Shouhan to relocate to Nanjing, but there should be another fair and honest reason.

Huang Xigon, as a fellow Fujian villager from Jinjiang, Fujian, naturally has a different status in the eyes of the officials of the Nanyue military system, who mainly source Fujian and Guangdong provinces. At the same time, he was appointed as the governor of Guangxi as the head of the Liandi Huiyuan and the fifteenth jinshi of the top three. Although Guangxi has always been a wild and smoky place in the eyes of officials from the orthodox Kejia, not only is there a mixture of Han and Yi, there are many local officials, and the power of the Li family has been operating there for many years, it is not even a chicken rib. However, it is a strange thing that a young man who has just entered his career can be appointed as the governor of Guangxi. (Think about it, if a college student who has just passed the civil service exam is appointed as a provincial and ministerial-level cadre like the vice chairman of Uszang, it is estimated that no one thinks that the conditions there are difficult.) Instead, there was a scolding. It can also reflect Huang Xigon's talent from another angle.

What is even more commendable is that after he arrived in Guangxi to take up the governorship, he got along very well with Li Huabao, the second son. When Li Huabao wanted to build roads, dredge rivers, and provide relief through work, he ordered officials from all localities to fully cooperate, and at the same time personally threw himself down to work with Li Huabao on the construction site. There were things such as the local official who resisted building roads and bridges, and without Li Huabao opening his mouth, the documents of the notice to the court to crusade against the traitors were drafted and stopped.

In the past few years, Guangxi has actually had a bit of a beautiful scenery.

Not only did he get along very well with Li Huabao, but he was the same year as Wei Zaode, who served as the first assistant in the cabinet of the capital at this time, in the same year as Chongzhen for thirteen years. Therefore, Huang Xigon has become an official recognized by both the Nanyue army and the imperial court at this time.

"The lord, the students, etc. also advocate that the lord should not delay at the moment, and should be stationed in the capital as soon as possible. One can stabilize the morale of the people in Jiangnan, and the other is that once the holy driver travels south, the lord is in the capital, and it is much more convenient to welcome the holy driver to the capital. ”

Huang Xigon's position is the same as that of Li Peilin, but it clarifies his position from another angle. That is, if Chongzhen escaped from the city of Beijing. If you Li Shouhan are in Nanjing, it will be much more convenient to respond. Moreover, Li Shouhan also tasted another layer of meaning from Huang Xigon's words.

If he doesn't go north in Guangzhou, don't forget that the southeast mutual insurance has been recognized by the imperial court at present. At that time, once there is something in Jiangnan, you will also have to go north to rescue, and at this time, there will be the so-called "nose shaving class" organized by those tenants and domestic slaves in Jintan and other places, which also makes the gentry in Jiangnan panic. What's more, Nanjing is the capital of stay. There is a complete set of bureaucratic teams, if Chongzhen went to Nanjing, but Li Shouhan never arrived, those bureaucrats in Nanjing, without Li Shouhan to live there, God knows what kind of thing would be played to blackmail the Son of Heaven to order the princes?

When the time comes, it is a small matter for you to repay the money and food, but if you are asked to surrender the military power, a will be sent to you. Are you accepting or resisting?

Therefore, it is necessary to go north to Nanjing as soon as possible. Controlling the situation in Jiangnan is the best policy!

"My family, this kid Shi Lang went to sea with a fleet, if you and I led the trip north to Nanjing at this time, would there be enough ships to transport it?"

Li Shouhan quickly reduced the strategic level to the technical level, and no longer discussed whether the Liang Guogong Mansion should be relocated to Nanjing, but discussed with Zheng Zhilong. How many ships are there at the moment, can they guarantee that all the ships will be relocated at one time?

Shi Lang led a huge fleet to escort Xu Huanshan to the Wa Kingdom, and after stopping for a while to replenish fruits, vegetables, water, and meat, he continued to sail out to sea. sent Xu Huanshan's huge fleet on the way to the land of Fusang, and the two parted. Shi Lang took care of himself to carry out another of his tasks. Surveying the oceans, surveying and mapping charts, and searching for islands where supplies could be used to build ports as another route to Fuso.

"Daddy, it's okay!"

Li Huamei, who participated in such a meeting for the first time after the confinement, very decisively handed the baby in her arms to the mother-in-law who was waiting beside her, and took over the news of her father Li Shouhan categorically.

Although Shi Lang took a lot of ships to sea, most of them were subordinate ships of his own fleet. Uncle Xiaohu's left flank fleet, Uncle Chu Tianlei's fleet in the middle army, and the practice fleet belonging to the Sailor Academy have never been dispatched. In addition, the gunboats that carried out the river-sea joint defense agreement at the mouth of the Yangtze River, the passenger ships that sailed downwind, and the cargo ships everywhere, in addition to being able to send all the commanders and the traveling troops to Nanjing, it was not difficult to transport them to the guards! The horizontal and vertical distances are close, and the brothers of the Guards will arrive at once. ”

"The county lord's words are good." Zheng Zhilong also nodded in agreement, "If the lord goes north to Nanjing, my Nanyue army will naturally mobilize the whole army." Official ships and civilian ships are mobilized and requisitioned as a whole. As the lord of the county said, the horizontal and vertical distances are also short, and the brothers will be there in a few days. ”

Li Huamei, Zheng Zhilong, Zhang Xiaohu and others considered that in addition to relocating Li Shouhan's Liang Guogong Xingyuan, that is, the huge command structure of the Nanyue Army, to Nanjing, they also had a large army to accompany them. If only one forward command post arrives in Nanjing, I am afraid that those bureaucrats will also have all kinds of yin and yang strange spirits and disobey yin and yang.

Therefore, these generals of the naval division all took into account the problem of transporting large troops. In addition to the Guards Brigade to enter Nanjing at the same time as Li Shouhan, the gunboats of the naval division were also to be stationed on the Xiaguan River in Nanjing. Only by advancing the land and water armies at the same time could the bureaucrats in Nanjing be completely submissive. "This group of officials, if there is no cannon against their head and the muzzle of the cannon pointed at their house, they will not obediently listen to their father's words!"

Li Huamei accompanied Li Shouhan to the north several times, and she took Li Shouhan's precautionary measures, such as being ready to cut off the north-south transportation at any time, and burning Tongzhou. In her heart, she has long been deeply imprinted with a sense of distrust of Ming court officials. Now it is time again when the Ming Dynasty needs the Li family to contribute money and troops, and on the basis of this sense of distrust, a layer of contempt is added.

However, Li Huamei's opinion is also deeply in line with everyone's hearts. At that moment, a group of bold guys summoned the staff officers of the military department and the battalion office to come in, and began to discuss the collection of cargo ships, the mobilization of gunboats, the mobilization of soldiers and horses in various towns or the land route between Fujian and Zhejiang, and the mountain road between southern Jiangxi and Zhejiang.

As the most elite guard brigade of the Southern Guangdong Army, it was necessary to cooperate with the naval division and the naval division and the land battalion units to control the key points around Nanjing and in the city before Li Shouhan entered Nanjing.

Slowly and inexorably, the powerful machine of the Nanyue Army began to work for another operation of Qinwang in the north.

After Li Shouhan sent thousands of men and horses of the Guards Brigade to the north, he felt uneasy for a while, remembering his son Li Huayu, who was about to face the double pressure of Li Zicheng and the Ming court, when he ordered someone to get pen and ink, he wrote a letter to him on the dock.

In addition to praising Li Huayu, the letter was full of earnest teachings, warning his son that before the army arrived, he must not start a war with the Dashun army, and be prepared to receive the officials who escaped from the Beijing division, and even Chongzhen himself.

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