"Give the sword!"

Yang Qing shouted solemnly.

Princess Kunxing took out Shang Fang's sword from the sword box held by the maid on the side, and Huang Binqing and Zheng Cai in front of her knelt down on their knees and kowtowed to the ground.

"Taiwan Island since the Three Kingdoms, generations for the land of China, has been more than a thousand years, although the land is wild and the ancestors can not be abandoned, the Dutch, the small country of Xiyi, boating tens of thousands of miles away, taking advantage of the invasion of the Ming Dynasty to steal the evidence, this is the shame of my Ming Dynasty, today's navy is just beginning, with this sword to give you and so on, is trying to test the blunt edge of this sword with its head, the generals are reluctant, the sword out of the sheath does not drink the blood of the enemy does not return to the sheath, if you can not recover Taiwan, there is no need to return!"

Princess Kunxing said.

After speaking, she put Shang Fang's sword on top of Huang Binqing's head.

The latter stretched out his hands and took it.

"The minister's order, if you can't recover Taiwan, you can't make this sword drink the blood of the enemy chieftain, the minister will use this sword to apologize for his crimes!"

Huang Binqing held up Shang Fang's sword and said excitedly.

He did have reason to be excited.

He was the first military general in the Ming Dynasty to be given the sword of Shang Fang so far.

Although it is said that Mao Wenlong has the sword of Shang Fang, it is simply impossible, because the premise of this thing is very simple, it must be the imperial history, and the real official title of those governors held in history is not the governor. The official system of the Ming Dynasty did not have a governor of military affairs, or a supervisor, this official position and the governor are the same as the expatriate officials of the imperial history, the governor is the deputy capital of the imperial history, the governor is the imperial history of the capital, all belong to the metropolitan inspection system, and only the metropolitan inspection system is qualified to hold the sword of the Shang Fang. Because only they have the power to supervise officials or generals, Mao Wenlong has a fart qualification as a general soldier, even if there is a Shang Fang sword in Phidao Town, it must be in the hands of the military supervisor of the imperial history.

If he had this, the civil servant wouldn't have to blow up the nest?

Even other Wenchen are not qualified!

Even if it is the military affairs of other Wenchen governors, if they are not the imperial history, they are not qualified, and even when Xing Jue temporarily added the title of the right deputy capital of the imperial history with the secretary of the military department, he led the Ming army into the dynasty to fight, and he was not qualified to take the Shang Fang sword, and the Shang Fang sword was in the hands of Yang Hao, the right imperial history with an official rank lower than him.

Later, after Yang Ho blindly commanded Ulsan and was kicked back to China, Shang Fang's sword was Xing Jue's turn.

Don't think this is a random post.

The military general holds the sword of Shang Fang, which is simply a national general.

But now it's finally there.

Huang Binqing stood up, turned to the battleships lined up on the dock, turned to the soldiers lining the side of the ship, and then raised the Shang Fang sword in his hand.

"Shang Fang's sword is here, and each general will obey the order!"

He yelled.

All the officers and men on the battleship fell to their knees.

"If you don't return to Taiwan, you vow not to pay it back!"

He then yelled.

"If you don't return to Taiwan, you vow not to pay it back!"

All the officers and soldiers shouted in unison.

All the soldiers and civilians watching this scene on the shore applauded them in unison, although these soldiers and civilians will definitely not be interested in the island of Taiwan, and I am afraid that most of them may not even know about this place, but the majesty of the Ming Navy still makes them feel the momentum that has not been seen for a long time. Once this navy had the largest fleet in the world, and once they were like a dragon rampaging across the ocean, and again and again all the states from the Pacific Ocean to the Indian Ocean looked up with fear under their banner. Now, after two hundred years of silence, the dragon finally opened its eyes again, shook off the mud and sand, and re-bared its sharp teeth.

Fortunately, it's not too late.

After all, industry has not yet begun, and although the Europeans took the lead in the Age of Discovery, the technological gap between the two sides has not widened.

Although this fleet is not enough to compete with any naval power in Europe, it is not inferior to any opponent at least in the East, and the rest is to develop slowly, and there will be real cruisers, and real battleships will also have them. The eighteen-pounder cannon is indeed too small, but the thirty-two-pounder, forty-two-pounder and even the sixty-eight-pounder cannon will have it, everything just takes time, this dragon has awakened, it will chase as fast as it can, and then regain its supremacy in the eastern seas, so that those who bowed down at its feet back then will bow down at its feet again.

The war of the Ming Navy to recover Taiwan officially began.

Next, they will load the 40-pound mortar gun, which was specially forged for the war, that is, the 48-pound mortar that the Americans liked to use during the Civil War, in Nanjing.

This should be enough to deal with the city of Geranza.

The fortress is afraid of mortars.

Especially the large-caliber siege mortar, although this is forty-eight pounds, not a terrifying thirteen-inch duke, but it is enough, and the city of Geranza is not a top fortress, it is nothing more than a big fortress, originally historically it was bombarded by Zheng Chenggong with a twenty-four-pound cannon, this thing is designed to defend against direct cannons, strong city walls and thick soil layers can resist the impact of solid bullets to the greatest extent, the Dutch used this to make the king of Spain can be said to be sad, But it's a pity that it is meaningless in front of flowering shells that fall from the sky at a large angle, especially heavy ones.

And Yang Qing cast 5,000 rounds of 40-pound shells for this war.

What's more, it's not just mortars.

The city of Geranza was also within range of naval guns at sea, and this fleet had hundreds of cannons that could rain cannonballs at the Dutch, and the marines who landed also had twenty-pound mortars and nine-pound guns, and the first appearance of the Ming navy would overwhelm their enemies with countless cannons.

"This is the real water master!"

Zhang Mingzhen looked at the powerful fleet in front of him with emotion.

He is the commander of the Yangtze River Water Division.

He would not have such a ship under his command.

"You'll have it too, but we'll have to wait until later."

Yang Qing said.

He will definitely not let the Zheng family control the navy for a long time, at present, Daming is divided into two ocean divisions, the north and the south, and the Beiyang water division is controlled by Zheng Chenggong, which is actually Li Zicheng's water division. Although Huang Binqing is in charge of the Nanyang Naval Division, it should be Zheng Cai who really has the final say, after all, more than half of the captains of each ship are Zheng Zhilong's people, and Huang Binqing's Chongming Naval Division generals account for at most one-third.

At present, Yang Qing can only do this if he wants to engage in the navy.

No one except the Zheng family can take on this heavy responsibility, even Huang Binqing, a general of the naval division, has never fought a real naval battle.

The only ones who can fight naval battles are the old pirates of the Zheng family.

But in the future, it will definitely weaken the Zheng family's control over the navy, Zheng Zhilong and Yang Qing are just collaborators, this old pirate is so keen on preparing for the construction of a navy to recover Taiwan, but the gold mines and sulfur there, Yang Qing has already given those to the Zheng family, but this alliance of interests is not safe.

Yang Qing needs a navy that truly belongs to him.

But that's going to have to be talked about later, especially when the military academy is established.

He has already begun to prepare for the construction of the army and naval academy of the Ming Dynasty, of course, including a real university, as for the Guozijian there is no point in even renovating, it can be retained in a short time, anyway, a group of prisoners are in it. He is planning to establish a comprehensive university funded by him privately, with students selected from all over the country and graduates also serving in the Huangzhuang system. The two academies of the army and navy are counted as directly under the Metropolitan Governor's Office, and some experienced but injured or old instructors are selected from the army, but the students are selected from the Huangzhuang system in addition to those selected and trained in the army.

In this way, both military and political systems are in place.

All that remains is to spend time slowly squeezing out the old gentry system outside of the Huangzhuang system.

He's not in a hurry.

He's not even 30 years old!

He will outlive all his political opponents.

Although the old Tokugawa turtle was very despised, it cannot be denied that he had the last laugh, sometimes being able to live is the key to success, and Daming will undoubtedly no one live better than him. You must know that until now, he has not had any diseases, and his body is as good as a bull with Qing hair, and it is no problem to rush a few fields a night mentally, and Yuanyuan himself can't parry it.

"Hou Ye, Songjiang Prefecture Communication Station sent a report, Zheng Chenggong, the commander of the Korean aid army and the commander of the Beiyang Naval Division, sent a clipper to report that the Korean army and the Korean army captured Seoul on June 25, and completely annihilated the enemy army defending the city.

Stilwell walked up to Yang Qing and said.

Yang Qing just nodded indifferently.

At this time, it was almost time to fight, the Ming Dynasty coalition army had been on the Han River since last winter, but because the Qing army left behind in Seoul, or the Korean puppet army that shaved their hair and was easy to obey, they knew that once Seoul was breached, Li Liang would definitely kill them, so they always defended Seoul, fantasizing that Dorgon would send reinforcements to rescue them. It's a pity that Dolgon is now too busy to take care of himself in the pass, and is worried that the Ming army or the Shun army will attack Beijing, how can he be in the mood to care about their life or death.

But Li Kun's purge is indeed terrible.

His Royal Highness the King of Korea is obviously venting his grievances accumulated over the years, after all, he has been a little aggrieved in the years of being the king, and has been pressed by our Qing Dynasty again and again, and now he finally got the opportunity to raise his eyebrows, and he simply raised the butcher's knife for these rebellious old subjects.

The Eight Banners Koreans, who had no choice, could only fight bloodily.

In the end, they fought in Seoul until now.

But that's the end of it.

Li Liang definitely doesn't have the strength to continue to attack Kaesong, after all, the North Koreans have also died in a sea of blood until now, according to Jinyiwei's intelligence, they have all been exposed in the wild, thousands of miles, uh, thousands of miles is too exaggerated, they don't have thousands of miles, basically there is no rooster crow for a hundred miles, and he has to recuperate for a while.

In this way, it will be enough for the Korean Peninsula to continue to be divided.

Yang Qing was very satisfied with this result.

Moreover, Li Ju will definitely continue to attack northward in the future, and more than half of his country has not yet been recovered, so that this war on the Korean Peninsula will be no problem for another three or five years......

"One hundred people are left behind, and the thought of it breaks people's intestines!"

Yang Qing said with a smile.