Chapter 8 Sending troops to Zhenjiang The emperor is very careful

Knowing that the family had made up their minds, Li Mao had the bottom in his heart, and immediately organized people to rush to transport a large number of wooden poles and mats. He also hired a large number of migrant workers and began to build simple dwellings along the purchased plots of land. These things should have been done, but now they have to be brought forward. At the same time, Shi Xiu and his regiment of infantry and an artillery regiment took a large number of barges carried by tugboats for urgent requisition, and after leaving Hongze Lake, they passed through the Huai River and sailed in the direction of Zhenjiang along the Beijing-Hangzhou Universiade.

Those officials in Nanzhili also knew that it would not be a simple matter to expel the kiln people, and after they sent the notice to the kiln people, they were also watching the reaction of the kiln people. After waiting for two days, I didn't see any reaction from the kiln people, but I saw the kiln people building a lot of construction on the land they bought. They decided to send someone to take a look.

This time, the officials went to Li Mao, and Li Mao's confidence was enough, because the army of Yaogang would arrive immediately.

invited the officials to the house, Li Mao didn't get up, and said, "My lord is here!" Is there something wrong? ”

Li Mao's attitude and behavior, the angry official almost didn't fall back, "You, you, are so rude, why don't you kneel when you see this official?" ”

"Huh! Don't be angry, I have a back injury and can't get up, so let's talk about it! Li Mao was drinking tea and tea while talking to the official, and he was talking to his subordinates. The official's face was bruised, but he was mixed up in the officialdom, and he knew in his heart that the kiln gang man in front of him could not have a back injury at all, he must have received instructions from the kiln gang, and now he is angry. I have to hold back my anger and find out the situation before going back, otherwise I will be scolded by adults when I go back. The official didn't use Li Mao to sit down, he exhaled, found a chair and sat down, and asked, "I came to inform you to move last time, why haven't you moved yet, do you need me to send someone to move?" ”

"My lord, didn't you see our people packing up when you came in?" Li Mao said, "I have asked for instructions from Yaogang, and my family has agreed to let us move." ”

"Also, why are you building a lot of construction on the riverside?" The official asked.

"Hey! I said, sir! That's what yours isn't, you made us move out. If we don't build it over there, how can we move? Besides, we're going to have a lot of troops coming soon, and if we don't build it, where will they live?"

"You, did you send an army to rebel?" The official trembled with anger. The kiln gang people not only did not move away, but moved to a place, and also sent troops. The official knew that he had been teased by the kiln man. Everything has been arranged for the past two days. However, he immediately felt a chill in his back, he knew the fighting power of the kiln people, and this time it seemed to be self-defeating. Not only did they not leave, but they also sent troops in. That's a big deal.

"Huh! Adults are a little confused, aren't they? Li Mao said slowly, "If we rebel, can we still let you talk nonsense here?" Let me tell you, you go back and tell your lords that we, the Yaogang people, have been ordered to assist the official army in fighting against Li Zicheng's thief army. ”

"You, you, you have brought out the holy decree?" The officials didn't believe it at all, and the kiln people had a holy decree.

"Huh!" Li Mao also knew that there was no holy decree in Yaogang, but it was just a message sent by the emperor to Li Gonggong, but he asked the official, "Do you think you are qualified to read the holy decree?" ”

"This ....."

"Do you have the ability to go back and ask the emperor?" Li Mao was not polite.

"I think you're deliberately rebelling!" The official gritted his teeth and said.

"Don't talk nonsense," Li Mao asked, "Do you know, if we really rebel, what will happen to you like this?" ”

"You ....."

"I'll tell you! I'll shoot you tied to the muzzle! The fierce light from Li Mao's eyes made the official tremble.

"You, you, you don't listen to advice, and you are conceited!" The official stood up, got up and walked out.

"No, sir." After Li Mao finished speaking, Fang Sheng laughed. After he arrived in Yangzhou, he has been patient with these officials of the Ming Dynasty, and now he finally doesn't have to endure it anymore, and he is in a very comfortable mood.

However, these officials of Zhenjiang Mansion are now blowing up their nests, and they immediately sent someone to send a letter to Ying Tianfu to ask for instructions on what to do. They never expected that not only did they not drive away the kiln people, but they attracted the kiln gang people's army. However, the prefect of Zhenjiang knew that the emperor asked Yaogang to send troops to help fight Li Zicheng's Dashun army. Now that the Dashun army has stopped marching, Yaogang has sent troops under this pretext. But people's excuses are not groundless, what can I do?

Someone suggested: "It is better to send someone to expel them before they arrive." Otherwise, they will gain a foothold with us, and the consequences will be unimaginable. ”

"With their warships on the river, can we beat others?" The prefect knew that he had no power to stop the kiln workers. It's up to those people in Ying Tianfu to do it.

"Yes! We could have gotten rid of them, but their army came. What are we going to do? Someone said, "I heard that they killed many court officials in Shanxi." The emperor pretended to be deaf and dumb! ”

At this time, the prefect of Zhenjiang knew that he had made a big mistake and should not offend the kiln gang people, if these kiln gang people wanted their own lives, they would not make any effort at all. The emperor will not turn his face because the kiln people killed a few people like himself and the kiln gang people. The current imperial court is maintained with the help of the kiln gang.

The prefect said, "Don't talk about it anymore. The Yaogang people sent troops because of the emperor's will. Otherwise, they wouldn't dare mess around. Let's listen to Ying Tianfu's opinion, shall we? ”

After everyone went out, the prefect of Zhenjiang left a cronie of his own and said, "Look at it, when will the Yaogang army arrive." Buy more wine and meat and send them over. ”

"What are you, my lord?" The man asked incomprehensibly.

"Hey! The kiln gang people are now full-fledged, and we can't afford to mess with them. The prefect whispered, "We can't afford to offend them, so it's better to leave some leeway for ourselves." Got it? ”

"Oh! Adults are smart. The little ones must get things done. ”

Yaogang's army traveled day and night by boat to Zhenjiang. Along the way, the people along the canal watched the disciplined procession on both sides of the canal. It was the first time they had seen the Yaogang soldiers, and they had heard of them before. Now that I saw it, it was really different from the army I had seen before, whether it was clothing, weapons, or facial discipline. This time, Shi Xiu personally rushed over with the team. Through radio contact, Li Mao personally took a boat at the confluence of the Yangtze River in the canal, and then Shi Xiu and them guided the fleet to the small lake bought by Yaogang. Simple sheds have been erected on the shores of the lake, which served as accommodation for the army.

The migrant workers who were working here were stunned to see the troops coming ashore and the cannons pulled ashore. They had never seen an army dressed in fancy clothes. They were even more impressed by the army's discipline. When the army came ashore, they came to their own sheds.

Li Mao said to Shi Xiu: "Time is urgent, it's too late to build a house." I have arranged for a large number of people to buy stone and bricks, which will be delivered immediately, and the kiln gang has instructed us to surround this place with a large wall. When you take a break, you will also participate in labor. However, some people should be left on combat readiness duty. Those officials of the imperial court will not look at us and ignore it. ”

"Fuck, I'm suffocated in the lake. It's better to fight, you don't see that our brothers heard that they could come out, and they were all about to jump up with joy. Shi Xiu said.

"Don't worry, the Xiurong and a fortune ship from Yaogang have already sailed over, and they should arrive in a few days. At that time, with them, we were even more afraid to fight. Li Mao said, "We try not to go out to provoke them, and build our base as soon as possible." The kiln gang immediately sent the two-megawatt generator over. Let's build a power plant here, and the rest of the day will be better. ”

The two of them inspected the surrounding situation again, and then carefully studied the plan for building a large wall around it.

The barbed wire fence was the first to arrive, and the soldiers quickly fastened the barbed wire to the finished wooden stakes. Leave the door to enter and exit, and a large base surrounded by barbed wire will look like it.

When the court officials of Ying Tianfu received the news that Yaogang sent troops over, they were simply angry. They quickly reported the situation to the imperial court. Then he began to mobilize his army and approached the base of Yaogang. They also did not dare to attack the Yaogang people, first, they did not have the order of the imperial court, and they were also afraid of the force of the Yaogang people. Although they have already found out that the people who came to the kiln this time are more than 2,000 people, less than 3,000, and the number is not much. However, if the weapons in the hands of the kiln gang people can be worth 10,000 people. Besides, there are still their warships on the Yangtze River, and they know that it is not a joke. Just now, the Yaogang people relied on their warships to stop the momentum of the Dashun army's attack. It's your turn to confront the warship, so it's better to stay away. Let's see what the imperial court says. Therefore, the army they sent out was not close to the camp of the Yaogang people, and was not far away.

This made both Li Mao and Shi Xiu feel uncomfortable. After a while, the Xiurong and Yangtze River No. 3 of Yaogang entered the Yangtze River from the mouth of the Yangtze River together. Li Mao and Shi Xiu were overjoyed to receive the telegram from Xiurong.

Li Mao said: "There is! The contour number is here, let's try the gun! ”

"Yes, test the gun!" Shi Xiu said, "Let's try both big and small cannons to scare them and see how they react." If not, we'll miss it! ”

"Huh!" Li Mao smiled and said, "You kid is vicious enough." However, the way is the good way, who let them get so close to us. Giving them a 203 shell by mistake is tantamount to digging a well for them! ”

"Haha!" The two laughed.

The two warships of Yangtze River ** and Yangtze River No. 2 were dispatched together to lead Xiurong and Yangtze River No. 3 to Zhenjiang. Since Yaogang's own wharf has not been built, the four warships have to stop at the original wharf.

The arrival of Xiurong caused a wave of uneasiness among the officials of the Ming Dynasty. On that ship, although the cannons were covered with canvas, the battleship, painted gray throughout, was made entirely of good steel, which was a deterrent in itself. They all knew that there was no weapon to sink him in such a ship.

The officials hurriedly reported the situation to the imperial court again.

Emperor Chongzhen was a little shocked at first when he received that the Yaogang people sent troops to Zhenjiang. I asked the Yaogang people to send troops, but the Dashun army has stopped attacking, what does it mean that the Yaogang people are sending troops now.

When the report from Dongchang came, he understood that it was those people in Ying Tianfu who saw the strong combat power of Yaogang and wanted to drive the Yaogang people away. But the Yaogang people have been in Zhenjiang for a long time, and they have just helped you fight the war, so it is too unreasonable for you to drive people away, and besides, are the Yaogang people so easy to deal with? Maybe it's okay if you talk about it, but if you want to kick people out, I'm afraid you'll see it.

Emperor Chongzhen decided to ignore this stubble. But the ministers in the court stopped doing it, and they kept playing to say this, and Emperor Chongzhen was secretly happy in his heart. The heart said Zhang Zhimu, Zhang Zhimu, you put your hand on the territory of the Donglin Party, you don't know how many ginseng you have in the court. But the emperor always said that he invited the Yaogang people to send troops. Li Zicheng's Dashun army has not been destroyed, and it is beneficial to have them in Zhenjiang. I just put this matter down.

There was also a report that the steel-hulled warship of the Yaogang people also sailed to Zhenjiang, and Emperor Chongzhen hesitated, but still ignored it.

In this way, the officials of Ying Tianfu were a little uncomplacent, and they couldn't wait for news from the imperial court, so they moved their troops closer to the barbed wire fence surrounded by the kiln gang. I want to scare the kiln people.

Li Mao and Shi Xiu also saw that these officials of the Ming Dynasty were bearish and dishonest. On this day, at night, the warships and artillery of Yaogang opened fire at the same time outside the camp of the officers and soldiers. For a time, the fire outside the official camp was blazing, and the cannon roared. was so frightened that the officers and soldiers did not dare to sleep all night. However, when the officers and soldiers saw that the kiln gang people did not dare to beat them, they thought that the kiln gang people did not dare to touch them. Resolutely did not move the place.

Li Mao and Shi Xiu came to the Xiurong warship together, and now Mu Yi is no longer the captain of the Xiurong. However, Xiurong, as the first steel-hulled warship in Yaogang, can be the captain of Xiurong, which has also been carefully selected.

On the Xiurong, Li Mao looked at the official camp with a telescope, pointed to a playground in the middle of the camp, and asked the captain: "Your 203 cannon has not been fired, can you hit the shells on that playground and not hit somewhere else." ”

"It's no problem to be so close," replied the captain after a glance.

"Well, tonight, you can give them a shot." Li Mao said.

"Huh!" The captain said, "These 203 shells, one shot can dig a pond for them." ”

"Good! I came to see the pond. Li Mao said.

At night, when they arrived, Li Mao and Shi Xiu didn't sleep. The gunners on the Xiurong did not sleep either, they had already measured the target parameters during the day, and the time came. The captain of the Xiurong ordered: "Fire when you are ready!" ”

As soon as the order was delivered, a "bang" was heard, and the hull of the Xiurong shook and the cannonball shot out. Then, in the middle of the official and military camps, the fire flashed, and there was a loud "boom". The waves of the explosion blew out many of the torches in the camp. At this moment, the camp of the officers and soldiers was blown up, and the officers and soldiers were in chaos. There were also officers and soldiers who found war horses and rushed out of the camp.

Li Mao and Shi Xiu got up in the morning and came to the Xiurong again, took the binoculars handed over by the captain, and looked inside the official camp. The shell hit the playground in the middle of the camp, blasting a large crater in the middle of the camp.

The captain said, "It's still a little off." I scolded them. ”

"Alright, good!" Li Mao said, "Let's go back and wait for the officials and soldiers to protest!" ”

"Li Gongzi, ignore them, without you, our four ships can flatten their camp." Said the captain.

"Huh! Not now, it's not time to bomb them. After Li Mao finished speaking, he and Shi Xiu returned to the camp and prepared the officers and soldiers to protest.

But he didn't wait for the officials and soldiers to protest, what he saw was that the officials and soldiers pulled out the camp and left.

The current officials and soldiers can't fight, but they are not stupid, and they know that it is not good to have a hard encounter with the kiln gang people like this. Last night, that shell was a warning that if the kiln people really blew them up, that kind of shell could blow them up and not leave all their corpses. The earth-shattering voice is scary when I think about it. They used the Kiln Men to bombard them and retreated. Of course, they won't go back and say, there was a shell in the clearing. Rather, it is said that the kiln gang people bombarded them with a lot of shells at night, and they couldn't stand it. Their superiors also knew the power of the Yaogang cannons, and they would not pursue them much.

Those officials of the imperial court thought that they had been caught, and hurriedly reported to the imperial court with added oil and vinegar, in a word, that is, the kiln gang people rebelled.

They withdrew, and Li Mao didn't care about them. Continue to organize people to build large walls and repair fortifications. What the informants sent by the officers and soldiers could not understand was that the Yaogang people blocked the lake and the river leading to the Yangtze River from the dock.

How did they know that the kiln gang people transferred a lot of pumps to drain the lake water and prepare to build a wharf. After pumping the water, they dug a lot deeper into the bottom of the lake. Dig out the mud and pile it up into a dam. After the excavation, the pier was built with reinforced concrete, and a large dock was excavated.

Lin Zongwei also came here with his son and nephew. This time, they brought the main equipment of the two-megawatt generator, as well as the tower crane and other equipment.

The project built by the Yaogang people here was too big, and a large number of migrant workers in the vicinity earned a lot of money. This also made the officials here gnash their teeth in anger. They constantly reported the "crimes" of the kiln people to the imperial court.

Emperor Chongzhen finally couldn't help it and sent a letter to Zhang Zhimu, asking what was going on. And suggested that now that the Dashun army has stopped attacking, if you are not ready to attack, you should withdraw to Yaogang!

In the command center, Chen Yufeng said angrily: "Fuck, kill the donkey if you unload the mill." Do they see that we are a threat to them? ”

Zhang Zhimu also nodded and said, "It seems that the emperor is too careful!" ”

"Actually, I think it's okay to withdraw the brigade. Just leave a battalion behind. The fortifications on our side have been repaired, and there is a battalion of troops. A small number of officers and soldiers could not help them in a short time. Ouyang He said, "I've been thinking that I should let Chuang Wang Ye enter Zhejiang." It was the nest of the Donglin Party. If they don't clean it up, it will be worse than the water in the future. We can't go on a killing spree. Chuang Wang Ye doesn't care about this. ”

"I have also thought about what you said, in the future, those gentry in Jiangnan will be more powerful, we need to study them carefully, but we can't give up the base that we can't afford to build." Chen Yufeng said, "I give up now, the loss is too great." ”

"Huh! Uncle Chen, listen to Mr. Ouyang! Zhang Zhimu said, "Mr. Ouyang has a way to do both?" ”

"Huh!" Mr. Ouyang said, "I've been thinking about this for a long time, and now the emperor has given us a chance." ”

Ouyang He said a clever plan, which simply made Zhang Zhimu and Chen Yufeng amazed.

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