Chapter 61 Wu Sangui's army changes its outfit and the Yaogang warship goes to the South Seas

The agreement to demarcate the border with Russia is really going to be sent back to Yaogang. Jiang Jian thought, if you really want Emperor Chongzhen to stamp the big seal, let the family watch it. However, Jiang Jian still cautiously sent a team of cavalry to escort this agreement. He knew that it would be good if the agreement arrived in Hami, and the matter from Hami to Yaogang could be handed over to Ningde to deal with. Jiang Pai sent a team to send a telegram to Ningde. Ning De also knew that this was a big deal, and he called back and said that he would send someone to answer it. Jiang Ji can be relieved.

At this time, Ningde's brigade was also preparing to send troops to the west. The situation reported by the cavalry sent back made Ning De feel a little strange. The cavalry went far away, and rarely found herdsmen of all nationalities. Later, I learned that when the Mongols went west, they killed many people, and many fled farther west.

For this news, Ningde is also happy and worried. The good thing is that you don't have to face those barbarian people, they are all some people who don't kill or obey, and they feel pitiful when they kill. The worry is that the west is originally vast and sparsely populated, but now that the Mongols have driven people away, the west will be even more empty in the future. Now it is not easy for the mainland to migrate to this side, because the life of the people in the interior is getting better and better, and no one wants to leave their homeland. However, Ningde is still very interested in the secret telegram sent from the house, saying that he wants to organize military reclamation, because it is very easy to recruit soldiers in Yaogang now, recruit more soldiers and horses, and increase investment in the border pass, and build the reclamation land into a town with complete hospitals, schools, shopping malls, and cinemas, which will naturally attract people from all over the world.

Regarding the formation of military reclamation, Ning De put forward his own opinions to his family in detail, because he was stationed in the Hexi area and knew these situations very well. Ningde proposed that one of the most important things is to marry wives for the soldiers at the border gates, and with wives, the soldiers can be stable.

The family also attaches great importance to this matter, and Zhang Zhimu suggested that certain preferential policies should be given to military families. A certain amount of money is also given to women who marry soldiers. It is even more necessary to publicize through various means how honorable it is to marry a soldier at the border gate.

Chen Yufeng said more realistically: "In fact, everything else is secondary, as long as the officers and soldiers at the border pass earn a little more, their daughters-in-law will be easy to marry." There are also those who are willing to settle down at the border, we will give them a house, we will arrange a job for their family, and their children will have a school, which will be easy to do. Now ordinary villages have not reached this level. In the future, our road will be repaired, it will be easier to visit our home, and we will also pay for the journey to visit our home, and everything will be easy to do. ”

The formation of the frontier reclamation army is too important, Zhang Zhimu suggested: "Mr. Ouyang, you should bother to keep an eye on this matter!" Because the matter of building border guards involves too many things, and without the coordination of competent people, it is really not easy to do this well. ”

"Alright! This is really a major event that will affect our stability in the future. I'm really not comfortable handing it over to someone else. I'll make a plan first, and we'll look into it! Ouyang He took over the task.

The southbound fleet this time is the strongest lineup in Yaogang.

Mu Yi and Lin Feng took the officials stationed in Japan and the officers sent to Wu Sangui and them, and they drove directly to Japan with new weapons for them, a large amount of supplies, and all kinds of agricultural machinery, seeds, and fertilizers.

Zheng Zhilong and Wu Sangui, who were in a hurry, had already gone to Tangjin in Kyushu to wait for Mu Yi and them.

Although Zheng Zhilong and Wu Sangui knew that Mu Yi's fleet would not arrive so quickly, when the two of them were still fine, they went to the dock for a walk. From here, you can look out to the sea to the west.

Zheng Zhilong said: "Hey! Old Wu! Commander Mu and they are here, I have to go south with them, and you are the only one left in Japan! ”

"Isn't it! I really can't bear to let you go! I don't know what's wrong, I've never been so reluctant to give up on you brothers! When I was in Shanhaiguan, I saw too many dead people, and every time I came back from a battle, I had to lose a few brothers, and at that time, my heart became cold. Wu Sangui sighed and said, "Alas! If you're not cold, you can't live! ”

"However, I heard that Lin Feng was sent to be an assistant, and this is also a terrible person. I heard that there is a saying of 'Lingshui Eight Masters' in Yaogang. This Lin Feng is one of the 'Eight Masters of Lingshui', and he is also the absolute hero of Yaogang. Now come over to give you Lao Wu as your deputy, it can be seen that Yaogang attaches great importance to you! ”

"In Shanhaiguan, we Li Gongzi talked a lot. I heard him say about the 'Eight Masters of Lingshui'. They were all picked out by Mr. Chen from Lingshui Wharf, and they were the first to follow Mr. Zhang to go south and north. In fact, Lingshui Wharf is a mixed place, and the people who can enter the eyes of President Chen are all people with great courage in civil and military affairs. Our Commander Fan and Commander Liu Chenghuang are both one of the eight masters of the 'Eight Masters of Lingshui'. No one who can be on the same level as them will be stupid. Wu Sangui was very moved and said, "Such a person gives me Lao Wu as a deputy, and the kiln gang really looks up to me!" ”

"Hey! It's not easy for you to be Wu! Zheng Zhilong said, "Who in the Ming Dynasty doesn't know that your old Wu Zhen guards the Shanhaiguan, and the Manchu Tartars don't dare to step into the Shanhaiguan!" Yaogang people know heroes and heroes. In Yaogang, you really have to eat according to your ability! ”

"That's right! That's it, you don't have to think about other twists and turns here! Wu Sangui nodded and said, "But to be honest, watching you go south to fight, Lao Tzu's heart is itching!" ”

"Hey! You've spent a year reorganizing your training, and it's not been long. Let me say something unkind, your army is like the Yaogang army, and there is a big gap in all aspects. In a year's time, you will change your clothes and organize training again, and there will be a lot of work. Besides, you're dealing with a big North American continent. I'm still thinking that if we can solve the problem in the south quickly, we will try to rush back and march into the North American continent with you! ”

"Yes, yes! It's best if you all rush back, and we brothers will go to the North American continent together! Wu Sangui said like a child.

In a collective like Yaogang, the relationship between people is much simpler, and everyone is together and has a good relationship. During this time, Mu Yi, Zheng Zhilong and Wu Sangui got along very well and were willing to do things together.

finally looked forward to Mu Yi and his party, and everyone was naturally happy for a few days.

Mu Yi and Zheng Zhilong assisted Wu Sangui in selecting a group of promising young officers in the army and sending them to the Yaogang Military Academy for training. After Lin Feng and Wu Sangui had some exchanges, they also became familiar with each other, and Mu Yi and Zheng Zhilong led the fleet to leave Japan and went straight to Quanzhou to meet Fan Chengkun.

Liu Chenghuang, Fan Song, and Lu Qi followed Lu Chengxiang and Qiu Laodong to take the Huashan passenger ship and went to Guangzhou together to rectify the team going to Nanyang.

The warships that converged in Quanzhou included five flat-bottomed steel-hulled warships, two 1,500-ton steam ships, two 1,800-ton ships, two 5,000-ton cargo ships, one 20,000-ton ship, and six steam ships. Ten landing craft were also configured for the landing needs.

The preparations before the fleet set sail were very complicated, but fortunately, Fan Chengkun and the others made full preparations in advance. The work of equipping each ship with coal and water supplies and loading ammunition was done in an orderly manner. The docks are lit day and night, but they are busy and not chaotic.

This fleet not only concentrated all the main warships and transport ships of Yaogang, but also had the most powerful staffing. The navy army, commanded by Fan Chengkun personally, was in charge of the affairs after landing on the Nanyang Islands. Also accompanying the team were Mu Yi and Zheng Zhilong.

In addition to the 3,000 sailors who accompanied the ship, an infantry division of the infantry division was to be transported in Canton to march to the South Seas. In fact, whether it is the Yaogang Command Center or Fan Chengkun, they all know that to deal with land opponents, 3,000 marines are enough. But now the purpose of the kiln is not to defeat the opponent and finish, but to put these places under his own rule. If you want to completely solve these places and that, such a small army is completely insufficient, and you have to transfer a reorganized mountain jungle army from Burma to Nanyang, and they have a very good way to deal with the natives in those jungles.

After intense preparations, in the early morning of February 16, the 23rd year of Chongzhen, Fan Chengkun took Mu Yi and Zheng Zhilong to sit on the 20,000-ton Taihu Lake and took the lead in leaving Hong Kong. In the morning fog, the Taiping "woo-" whistle sounded, the Taiping slowly left the dock under the towing of two high-power tugboats, and sailed out of Quanzhou Port, and the ships behind left the dock in turn, and the fleet sailed out of Quanzhou Port, in Quanzhou Bay, the ships completed the formation and sailed south together.

The flotilla sailed to Dadong Bay outside the mouth of the Pearl River, sent the Fenzhou into the Pearl River to the port of Guangzhou, picked up Liu Chenghuang, Fan Song, Lu Qi, and Liu Chenghuang's command personnel, and returned to the fleet. Liu Chenghuang's infantry division, which also rode in a sailboat, followed behind.

The Fenzhou came to the sea of Dadong Bay and lowered the dinghy and sent Liu Chenghuang and others to the Taiping.

Everyone was naturally very happy to get together again, and inevitably drank a meal.

Fan Chengkun and Liu Chenghuang came out of Lingshui Wharf together, and their relationship is not ordinary.

At the banquet, Fan Chengkun first picked up the wine glass and said, "Everyone, we haven't touched wine for a few days!" To welcome Lao Liu today, we make an exception. After this meal, until the end of the battle, we tried not to make this exception. After speaking, Fan Chengkun raised his wine glass and said: "In order to welcome Lao Liu, and for our victory, drink!" ”

"Drink!" Everyone drank together.

The next day, Fan Chengkun, Liu Chenghuang and others introduced their respective preparations. They don't have to worry about anything at this point. There is no change between what is ready or not, everything can only be said when the ship arrives.

The weather was very good along the way, Mu Fan Chengkun, Liu Chenghuang, Mu Yi, Fan Song, and Lu Qi all came to the foredeck of the Taiping to drink tea and chat, as if they were not going to fight at all, but it was very much like going out to play. Everyone talked and laughed together and enjoyed the endless scenery on the sea.

Fan Chengkun asked Zheng Zhilong: "Old Zheng! Have you been to Little Luzon and tell us about that area? "Little Luzon is the name of the people on the southwest coast of the Ming Dynasty for Luzon Island, because the Franz people occupied Luzon Island, people called Francon several times Luzon, and Luzon Island was called Little Luzon.

"Alas! When it comes to this little Luzon, Lao Zheng doesn't feel good in his heart! Zheng Zhilong took another sip of tea and put down the glass teacup, "Little Luzon is really a good place. In the past, many of us Chinese developed in Luzon and worked here to do trade! We Chinese merchants established their trading base in Manila, and even with the galleon trade to Mexico, the dispute between Chinese merchants and Franco merchants was expanding day by day, in fact, when Franji occupied Luzon in the Philippines, there were already tens of thousands of Fujian and Zhejiang Chinese who settled in Luzon at that time. In the thirtieth year of Wanli (1602), there were Fujian merchants Yan Yinglong and others, reported to the imperial court that there were gold and silver mines in Jiyi Mountain in Luzon, which could mine 100,000 taels of gold and 300,000 taels of silver every year. The following year, the conflict intensified, with 25,000 overseas Chinese killed in the conflict, and the retreat of our southern foreign trade stronghold from Manila in Little Luzon to Fujian, Macao, and Guangzhou. At the same time, Philip II ordered a high trade tax on our goods, and the imperial court at that time, in view of the fact that the naval war against Japan had just ended, was reluctant to fight again, especially considering the need to ensure the import of Spanish silver, so it did not dare to use force. It chills to think about. ”

Hearing Zheng Zhilong say this, everyone's mood was very heavy. Zheng Zhilong also said: "The indifference and connivance of the imperial court made the Franz people even more emboldened to oppress the overseas Chinese in Luzon, and the overseas Chinese in a desperate situation could not bear the suffering. In the eleventh year of Chongzhen (1639), the Luzon Chinese revolted again and held out for nearly four months. This time, the Franji people were completely red-eyed, and countless Chinese civilians, including devout Catholics, died in the massacre. Later, we were ready to send troops to Luzon to avenge our Chinese, but the imperial court did not support it, and there were other reasons, so we never did. This time, we must avenge those compatriots who died unjustly. ”

Fan Song said: "These Franco-machine people are really not things. The country of Sulu has also been bullied by them for many years, and we will also avenge them this time. Half of their merchant ships are pirate ships, and we're going to let them know what it's like to be bullied! ”

"I see that they are all tall and tall, and they must be able to work hard!" Mu Yi said.

"Haha!" Everyone on the deck was amused by Mu Yi's amusement.

Fan Chengkun said: "Before the battle is fought, our Commander Mu is thinking about the prisoners!" Ha ha! ”

"I think the Frangi has two uses, one is to be a gun target, and the other is to be a prisoner!" Liu Chenghuang said.

"Commander Liu, let's not underestimate the combat effectiveness of the Furlong man. I wrote to you that they had built a very fortified castle in Manila. It's called Castello de Santiago. It was Santiago, the governor of Franco, who converted the walled city that was originally enclosed by a wooden fence into a stone castle, with a moat outside the city walls, and a wall ten meters thick with towers and fort frames, and I calculated that the circumference of this wall was about 4.8 kilometers, the height was about 4.9 meters, the thickness of the wall was 6 to 10 meters, there were battlements on the city, there were moats outside the city, and there were five gates. This is the information that we have detected before. ”

Fan Chengkun said: "Lao Zheng, just look at it!" We are well prepared for this castle. ”

"To deal with Luzon, not only do we have to face the Francisons, but the natives of those places are also very annoying, they are almost as difficult to educate as savages, and we are right to transfer the mountain jungle army! We can't occupy Luzon like the Francisons, just hold a few points, we have to take the whole of Luzon. The natives must all be subdued! Zheng Zhilong said.

At this time, the Francs on Little Luzon did not know that the noose had been put around their necks.

However, since the last time the Franz (Spanish) and the little Francos (Portuguese) and the Hongmaofan (Dutch) organized more than 50 ships together to form a joint fleet, under the command of the old fox Captain Hatch, they wanted to sneak attack and besiege the two steamers of the Yaogang people, but instead they were sunk by others, if it were not for the cunning of Hatchie, who ordered the fleet to disperse and escape, more than 50 boats were rounded up. But after this naval battle, whether it was the Francois (Spain) or the little Francos (Portuguese) and the Hongmaofan (Dutch) were all trembling every day, they knew that the Yaogang people were so powerful, and their own people kept provoking them, and they would definitely come to retaliate. For a long time, they were waiting for the kiln people to come and take revenge on them. However, there has been no news that the Yaogang warships are going south to retaliate against them. After a long time, the governor of Francis (Spain) on the island of Little Luzon was relieved. He thought that the cowardly Ming Dynasty people were unwilling to cause trouble, although they had strong combat effectiveness, but they did not have ambitious leaders, but were just willing to stay in their own homes, unlike us Spaniards who had the spirit of being home in the world. However, the Doge ordered the fortification of the castle and the arrival of new large-caliber artillery from Spain.

The Governor went out into the street, looked back at the cannons on the castle and the batteries of San Diego, looked again, and saw the humble Chinese who had ducked away from him with their heads bowed, and the Governor regained his confidence. The Governor, who walked back to the castle with his head held high, and when he entered the castle, he felt a feeling of weakness in his heart for some reason. A very bad premonition arose from within my heart.

The Governor hurried to the Manila Cathedral in the castle, saw the priest, and hurriedly asked, "Father, I suddenly have a very bad premonition in my heart. Is this some revelation from God? ”

"My child, I know you've done a great job for us Francis. You're tired! Just take a break! The priest comforted the governor.

This Manila Cathedral is the largest of the twelve churches in the citadel, and the priests are also the most revered. The Governor seemed to be much more relaxed when he listened to the priest's teachings.

Back at home, the Governor felt a little uneasy. When no one was around, the Governor was also asking himself, "Is it that I killed those Chinese too much, and God can't forgive me?" It often makes me have inexplicable fears! "But the priest said that I was too tired, and I was really tired, and I was worried every day that the kiln people would come back and take revenge. It's not just revenge for the attack on their ship, we can't remember how many Chinese we killed on several occasions, don't the Chinese remember? The terrifying thing is that the Yaogang people are now very powerful.

Thinking of this, the Governor prayed with a cross, "Please God bless me for the completion of my term as Governor, and do not let the people of the Kiln Gang come to take revenge so quickly." I'll be back in Spain as soon as my term is up! ”

In fact, the Governor forgot that God blesses the good!

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New progress in "Memories of the Southern Song Dynasty": the Battle of Yashan, the defeat of the Yuan army, the counterattack of the Song army, and the landing in Fuzhou.