Chapter 15 Liu Chenghuang Takes Over Hainan The Kiln Gang Soldiers Bloody Macao

After Qin Peng issued an order to the army marching into Macao that they could use force, the four officials in Guangdong all felt proud of their eyebrows, but they were also somewhat worried.

Qin Peng understood their thoughts and said to them: "Don't worry, your lords, everything can be solved before dark in Macau." ”

"Good!"

"That's good"

The political envoy suddenly asked Liu Chenghuang: "Commander Liu, have you received the letter from us in Qiongzhou?" ”

"When I came, I already received it!" Liu Chenghuang said, "With your letters, the people in Qiongzhou will be more stable." ”

Qin Peng said: "Commander Liu, let's talk about your Hainan Island, right?" ”

"Don't worry! Everything was taken care of before I came out. Liu Chenghuang smiled and said, "Hehe! When I received the news that you had begun to march into Liangguang, I knew that you would have to work the affairs of Liangguang, so I would just handle Hainan Island well. When I went to see the prefect of Qiongzhou, I said to him bluntly, "My lord! We are old friends, and I don't hide anything I have to say, our Yaogang army has already driven over to Liangguang. What are you going to do? ”

When the four Guangdong officials heard Liu Chenghuang say this, they couldn't help but laugh out loud. Master Chen, the commander of the capital, asked: "That guy has been a big official in the imperial court, and no one is convinced when he arrives in Hainan, is he stunned this time?" ”

"Nope!" Liu Chenghuang shook his head and said, "He laughed and made me laugh!" ”

"Oh?"

"Tell me, what's going on?"

“”

Liu Chenghuang's words confused a few people in the lobby.

"The prefect is really not an official in the capital for nothing. When he had finished laughing, he said to me, 'I have long seen that you are not an ordinary businessman. After reading the newspaper you brought, I know what you are doing with rubber trees. And you came to Hainan, not just to plant trees, but to attack my Hainan Island! ’”

"Oops! That person looked vague, and he really had two clicks! The political envoy Lin said.

"Not really! I was a little careless at the time. But the overall situation was decided, so I asked the prefect, 'What are you going to do?' The lord was refreshed and said, "I have long seen that the Ming Dynasty is exhausted." There is no room for anyone in the court who can tell the truth. To be an official in the imperial court, you must rely not on the emperor, but also on those important ministers of the imperial court. Any decision made by the imperial court is not based on the needs of the imperial court, but must consider the interests of all parties. Internal and external troubles are all stubborn diseases, and if they don't perish, heaven will not tolerate them! Liu Chenghuang said.

"Hey! This person sees it so accurately that he dares to say it! He patted the armrest of his chair and said.

"Then the adults said, 'Do you know why I have received so much money from you?' I just want to get my family in order. Let me tell you, I am a well-known Qing official in the capital, and I have been driven to this Hainan Island empty-handed. I had already thought about it, they arranged it, and I also went to the kiln, and with my knowledge, I thought I could get a position in the kiln. ’”

"Oops! Disastrous! ”

"Unbelievable!"

“”

The room full of people was impressed.

"Since your Excellency says so, it's easy to do!" Liu Chenghuang continued, "I said, my lord, we have been together for a long time, I don't think you need to go to Yaogang to find any position, you can help me and control Hainan Island." You are familiar with the situation here, and you will continue to govern Hainan Island in the future! However, after Hainan Island is stabilized, you will have to go to Yaogang to study for a while. There are too many ways in which our methods of governing the local area are different from those of the Ming Dynasty. ”

"Oops! Let's go to the kiln together! The commander said.

"Yes, yes! Let's go! "A few of them should be in harmony.

"I think it's okay! You go together and have company! Qin Peng said.

"With the cooperation of the prefect, we have now taken over all parts of Hainan Island." Liu Chenghuang said, "Actually, if the adults don't cooperate, our strength on Hainan Island can completely solve the affairs of Hainan Island." ”

"I heard that there are many anti-thief Li Zicheng who have arrived on Hainan Island? You have to pay attention! "Said the Inspector Li.

Qin Peng smiled and said, "These are all arranged by us. We can't do it, they all send it to Annam. But they followed Li Zicheng for a long time and were reluctant to leave. We came up with a compromise plan and let them go to Hainan. In the future, Li Zicheng will gain a firm foothold in Annan, and they can go to Annan if they want. ”

Liu Chenghuang said: "Now, tens of thousands of Li Zicheng's people have arrived in Hainan one after another, and we are also trying our best to help resettle them. However, we did not put them on our farm. Because I don't know when they will leave, the work is not easy to arrange. ”

Qin Peng said: "The matter of Hainan has been resolved by Commander Liu, so we don't have to worry about it." It just so happens that several adults are here, so let's study the arrangements made by the more than 100,000 officers and soldiers in Guangdong! In the future, the entire affairs of the two Guangxi will be in charge of Commander Liu, and we will first listen to his opinion. ”

"Good!"

“”

Liu Chenghuang said: I arranged it this way, and the first division of our Third Army still crossed the Qiongzhou Strait and entered Hainan Island as planned. We will select about 30,000 qualified soldiers from among the officers and men of Guangdong, and the Yaogang side will assign to us some of the cadets of the Yaogang Military Academy and the cadets of the Junior Military Academy, and we will expand the mountain and jungle army into two armies. Two armies were formed that were particularly suitable for jungle warfare. We will also select 20,000 people as our farm cadres to go to the island to lead everyone to carry out production. We not only want to plant rubber trees, but also take advantage of the unique climatic conditions of Hainan Island to grow rice and vegetables. ”

"What's going on with your military academy and what junior military academy?" The commander asked Master Chen puzzled.

"Military academies are schools dedicated to the training of officers. The cadets are all physically and mentally healthy students who have been selected through rigorous examinations, and generally they have to go through four years of cultural and military command skills study, and only those who pass the examinations can graduate. During their time at school, many of them had already participated in combat internships with combat units. After graduation, you should start with the lowest-ranking officers, so that you can continue to train them slowly in the army. To put it mildly, they are all all-rounders. There are also junior cadets, all of whom are teenagers and cadets, who have undergone more than five years of militarized management, and have to complete many military courses while studying cultural courses in school, and the outstanding graduates directly enter the military academy to study. After graduation, they are all capable of writing and martial arts, and are suitable for being grassroots officers. Qin Peng patiently introduced the four adults.

"Oh my God!"

"With such an army, no wonder it is so capable of fighting!"

"I've heard that the officers and soldiers of the army in Yaogang all learn culture. I didn't expect that the officers were all trained like this, how could our dirt bun officers beat people? "The commander is all too aware of the difference.

However, according to the inspector, Master Li asked puzzledly: "The matter of Liangguang has been resolved, why do you want to expand the army?" ”

After listening to the questioning of the envoy Li, Liu Chenghuang stood up and came to the map on the wall, pointed to Annan and said, "Li Zicheng is leading people to clean up the Annan people here. Lee Zicheng was ambitious to settle the affairs of the Southeast Peninsula and the Malay Peninsula once and for all. But we don't think he can do it, as long as he can solve the southeast peninsula along the sea side of the river. But we have to have a foothold here in the future." Liu Chenghuang pointed to Manchu (Malacca) and said, "We have to solve the Malay Peninsula. That's what we're going to do in the future. Our navy will grow stronger, our merchant ships will travel all over the world, and here we will have a supply base. ”

"Do we also want to go to the West like Zheng He?"

"We're going to go out and even further like him. But the difference is that we can't just spend money like him, we also have to trade with other countries for mutual benefit. In this way, our navy and maritime merchant ships can continue to develop. Without maritime trade, no country can afford to raise a strong navy. This is what Mr. Zhang said. After Liu Chenghuang finished speaking, he returned to his seat and sat down.

The four Guangdong officials were stunned by Liu Chenghuang's words.

After a while, the commander made Lord Chen's eyes retract from the map and said, "Oh my God! Compared with the ambition of your kiln people, we are the frogs at the bottom of the well! When this place stabilizes, I will go to Yaogang as soon as possible to study, and then come back to follow Commander Liu to fight the world! ”

"Yes, yes! Let's come back and fight the world together! The places you have brought down need people to govern. We are Cantonese people who adapt to the climate here. ”

It seems that there is no one who is unwilling to go out and participate in the great cause of land reclamation.

The political envoy Lin said: "Let's finish discussing the affairs of the remaining officers and soldiers before talking about our affairs!" ”

"By the way, we are going to select 10,000 policemen from these officers and soldiers. We also need to form several large engineering teams, and the remaining officers and men can join the engineering teams if they wish. In the future, we will soon carry out large-scale construction in Guangzhou, Guangzhou, and Guangzhou, such as building railways and high-grade highways. It is also necessary to build large shopping malls, large cinemas, schools, etc., all of which need people. We Cantonese people have always dared to be the first in the world, and we should build Guangzhou into a second kiln gang. Liu Chenghuang was already thinking about how to run the two Guangzhou.

"Great!" The envoy rejoiced.

"Good! However, I would suggest that we don't have to do everything ourselves. There are many people in Guangdong, and there is too much money at home to count, so we have to find a way to let them pay for the money and do it themselves. "The political envoy Lin is very familiar with the situation in Guangzhou.

Listening to Lord Lin's words, Liu Chenghuang and Qin Peng looked at each other, they understood that the political envoy of Guangdong was not something that anyone could do, and with this sentence, this political envoy was a great talent.

They are discussing the future of Guangdong here, and the cannon is already rumbling in Macao.

The two armed merchant ships of Macao were ordered to leave the harbor and aimed their cannons at the Yaogang army outside the gate.

A divisional heavy artillery company that followed this infantry regiment unceremoniously aimed the four 130 heavy guns it had brought at their two ships.

Supposedly, the Portuguese in Macao generally did not fight against the Ming Dynasty, and they generally bribed Ming officials to solve problems at a relatively small cost. But this time the Portuguese were deceived by the officials of the Ming Dynasty, and these officials knew that the good life of the kiln people would be gone, so they said to the Portuguese that the kiln gang people who came this time were some scoundrels who had no food to eat and made trouble, so don't be polite to them. The Portuguese thought that they would be able to deal with the Yaogang people by standing with the officials of the Ming Dynasty this time, and they would also show the officials of the Ming Dynasty by using force, that we Portuguese were not the Portuguese at the time of the first Sino-Portuguese naval war, and that our Portuguese were already the Portuguese who had gotten rid of the rule of the Spaniards, and their strength was strong today. But the governor Ma Shijialu was not arrogant enough to start a full-scale war with the Ming Dynasty, he felt that as long as he was tough enough, no matter who would govern Guangdong, he would give them a little face, and in the end, you Ming Dynasty people still want us to "raze and raze!" ”

However, the Portuguese on the sea were really frightened when they saw the cannons built on the coast, and they knew that more than a dozen Dutch warships had disappeared in the Taiwan Strait, and everyone thought that only the Yaogang people had the ability to sink none of them. The cannons of the Yaogang people have been rumored to be miraculous, and this time the two armed merchant ships could not help but be terrified when they saw the cannons of the Yaogang people on the shore. However, the Governor of Macao ordered them to open fire whenever the Kiln Gang people took action against the gates. In Macao, they did not dare to disobey the orders of the Governor of Macao. I had to confront the kiln people in fear.

The commander of the Yaogang Infantry Regiment knew that it would not take a regiment of men to capture Macao, so he ordered the commander of the first battalion to lead the team to occupy Macao.

The commander of the first battalion and the three company commanders looked at the map of Macao, assigned some work, and decided that the first company commander would lead the first company to break through to Macao. 、

The artillerymen aimed their infantry guns at the gates, and the commander of the infantry regiment said to the commander of a battalion: "The heavy artillery is firing at the same time as you!" We can't wait for the cannons on the foreigners' ships to fire first, and then we will fight, then we will suffer. ”

The heavy artillery company and the infantry guns in front of the gate were accompanied by a battalion commander's shout of "Open the cannon!" "Order, and at the same time fired.

The four 130-caliber guns of the heavy artillery company, each two aimed at a Portuguese armed merchant ship at sea. Such a close-range direct aim shot, in the words of an artilleryman, can be accurate without aiming. With the sound of "dong dong dong" cannons, two heavy artillery shells were "boomed" each on the two Portuguese armed merchant ships, and the wooden sailing ship could not withstand the bombardment of heavy artillery shells. A sailboat was directly disemboweled, and it fell crookedly on the surface of the sea and slowly sank. Another mast was blown off and fell to the side, and the bow was blown off. After the second round of shells flew by, the two wooden boats became two piles of garbage floating on the sea.

The two majestic armed merchant ships on the sea, which had also once crisscrossed the seas, were finished before they could fire a single shot.

At this time, the infantry artillery blew up the smoke from the gate, and the Portuguese soldiers on the side of the gate were also blown away, and the soldiers who were not killed dragged their muskets and wanted to run back, but the heavy machine guns of the kiln gang "bang" a strafing shot, and one of them was knocked to the ground. With the sound of the trumpet, the kiln soldiers rushed into the pass with their guns in hand. Suddenly, however, the artillery on the Portuguese fortress opened fire, and a shell fell among the soldiers who rushed through the gate, and immediately the soldiers flew in all directions. Due to the dense number of soldiers here, more than a dozen soldiers were killed or injured at once. The infantry regiment commander and political commissar who were watching the battle in the back stamped their feet angrily, and the company commander who suffered a loss in front ordered the soldiers to disperse the formation. Seeing that there was no longer a threat from the sea, the regimental commander ordered the tracked tractor to tow the heavy artillery into the gate, and then turned the gun to the Portuguese fortress.

The fortress of the Portuguese could work against pirates and even the Ming army, but in the face of heavy artillery it was like a toy. Enraged, the kiln artillerymen, after aiming their cannons at the Portuguese fortress, did not give them a chance to open fire, and the heavy artillery continued to smash shells into the Portuguese fortress until the fortress was flattened. The infantry of Yaogang attacked again into Macao. All the Portuguese in Macau were mobilized, most of them with muskets, and there were nearly a thousand of them in total, to join the battle against the Yaogang people.

Originally, the soldiers of the kiln gang had never seen foreigners at all, and the first time they saw the foreigners, they thought that there was no difference between foreigners and ghosts. The Portuguese, who were hastily organized, were no match for the kiln soldiers in terms of weapons, combat intentions, and combat skills. The soldiers of Yaogang learned the lesson of being shelled by the Portuguese, and fought steadily, street by street, house by house, constantly destroying their opponents, those blonde and blue-eyed Portuguese, they did not want to be taken prisoner at all, and they did not want to raise their hands to surrender. What's even worse is that the Yaogang soldiers found that many Han Chinese and Portuguese were in the same group, and they hated this even more, so such people would die even more miserably. Not only did they not let them die at once, but they had to torture them to death. Originally, the Yaogang People's Army resolutely did not allow such a thing, but officers at all levels adopted an attitude of turning their eyes open. They were all outraged by the casualties of the soldiers.

In fact, the Portuguese heard that their two armed merchant ships were smashed by the kiln men without even fighting back, and they also knew that the opponent was not simple, and they had no possibility of winning, but they were really unwilling to be defeated by these yellow monkeys, and surrendering to them was no different from dying in battle. The Portuguese, in particular, had been in Macao for nearly a hundred years, and they could not accept the consequences of being driven away. The Portuguese who live here no longer have a home but here, and they have no place to return to Portugal. So when the governor called on them to defend their homeland to the death, almost all the Portuguese men in Macau were recruited to fight against the Yaogang people. The battle went on without suspense, and the soldiers of the kiln gang slaughtered the Portuguese, who had always thought they were noble, like a game, and in the end, only the Doge's Palace was left unoccupied.

Just as the Yaogang artillery was about to open fire on the gate of the Governor's Palace, a few foreigners shouted to come over. The commander of the first battalion was about to give the order to open fire, and asked impatiently: "Fuck, what are you yelling over there?" ”

At this time, a platoon commander who came over saluted and said, "Report to the battalion commander, there are a few foreign monks over there." And they said, I want to see thee! ”

"Foreign monk?" The battalion commander suddenly remembered that Zhang Zhimu had told them what kind of cultural aggression these foreign monks were engaged in, and scolded his mother, saying, "Damn, is there really such a thing as cultural aggression?" Let them come! ”

After a while, the soldiers escorted three foreign monks over. The battalion commander asked, "You want to see me?" ”

One of the foreign monks, speaking fluent Chinese, said, "By God's will, I advise you to put down your butcher knife!" Don't be evil anymore! God will forgive you for your sins! ”

"Huh! You God cares about my affairs, and we Chinese affairs don't need your God to take care of. The battalion commander said, "That's right! You're here to engage in cultural aggression? ”

The battalion commander scolded them, but the three foreign monks did not react, they were prepared, but such a vulgar-looking officer actually said such a thing as cultural aggression, and the three of them were shocked. One said, "Our Almighty God ........."

Before he could continue, the battalion commander said, "Okay! Your God is more powerful than our Jade Emperor! Hehe! Someone! In fact, when the three of them heard him say cultural aggression, the battalion commander had already seen it in his eyes, indicating that Mr. Zhang was right.

The commander of a company came over and said, "Battalion commander! Ignore them and clean them up when you're done! ”

"Don't! There is no hurry to fight, I want to see today if their God is omnipotent. You bring a few people to bring ** to them, and put them on the foreign temple for Lao Tzu, and blow them up. I think their God, if it's omnipotent, let the ** stop ringing. What do you think? ”

"That's it!" The commander of the first company said yes and ran away.

The three foreign monks stopped doing it, and said to the cross directly on their chests, saying, "You can't do this, you can't do this, you will be punished!" ”

"Oops! You have just said that your God is Almighty, and you should ask Him, not Me! Are you all lying? The battalion commander ridiculed the three foreign monks.

As soon as he saw that the three foreign monks did not speak, but drew crosses on their chests, he ignored them and said to the artillerymen: "Fire!" ”

Two infantry guns fired two shots, and the gate of the governor's palace was blown up. The heavy machine guns of the kiln gang "bumpered" and strafed inside, covering the infantry to rush over. The infantry approached the gate, replacing the heavy machine guns, with automatic rifles in their hands, and fired at the Governor, and then the infantry stormed the Governor's Palace. Immediately, the sound of gunfire rang out in the Doge's Palace.

Occasionally, there is the explosion of a hand.

At this time, the regiment commander and political commissar came to the front of the governor's palace and asked the battalion commander: "What's the matter with these foreign monks?" ”

"They advised us not to attack, saying that their God is omnipotent, and I asked people to blow up their temple to see if their God is really omnipotent or a lie." The battalion commander replied.

At this moment, a dull explosion suddenly came from the soil on the other side of the church, and the ground trembled, and the church collapsed. The three foreign monks drew a cross on their chests and said, "You will be punished!" ”

The political commissar of the regiment went over and said: "We are attacking the governor's palace, and you urge us to do good. But what did you do when you Portuguese were here to sell their populations and do evil? What did you do when they were doing something like 'Our Lady stepping on the dragon'? I'll give you a few days to get back to Portugal. Otherwise, your God will not be able to save you! ”

The three foreign monks mentioned by the political commissar all understood that the Portuguese had done a lot of human trafficking in Macao, and the locals called them "child abductors". But they were not punished because of the protection of the bribed officials. And when they were ambitious, they built a statue of "Our Lady stepping on the dragon's head" to insult the Chinese. How could the three foreign monks not know these things.

Therefore, he was speechless when asked by the political commissar and left in a cold sweat.

The regiment commander and the battalion commander were very impressed by the political commissar's words. The head of the regiment said, "Oops! It's a political commissar! If you hadn't come, I wouldn't have known there would have been so much to do! ”

"Humph! Do you think that Zhang always gave us political commissars a class in person! The political commissar said proudly, "When we were studying in Yaogang, many courses were taught by Mr. Zhang and Li Yan personally. ”

"Alright! We don't compare that to you. Let's go into the Doge's Palace, too. Look at what this foreigner's house looks like! The head of the regiment hurriedly diverted the topic and said.

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