Canglang Pavilion

Fang Yuan listened to Xu Hua's report on the imperial court's crusade against Liu Zeqing with a solemn expression.

The imperial court was able to defeat Liu Zeqing, a medium-sized warlord who had been entrenched in Shandong for many years and had 100,000 troops, in just one or two months, which really surprised Fang Yuan.

He was surprised not only by the combat power of the new-style Ming army, but also by the appeal of the Beijing court to the world.

Liu Zeqing thought that he had been entrenched in Shandong for several years, and he had already reached a tacit understanding with the military and political officials of various prefectures, so he had the confidence to cut off the land and commercial taxes to the imperial court, and even dared to call out to the imperial court. But as soon as the war began, it was found that it was not the case at all, and the military and political officials of the state capitals who had reached a tacit agreement before turned against each other, and surprisingly unanimously chose to support the imperial court and resist Liu Zeqing.

Liu Zeqing's fiasco in Dengzhou, relying on the support of the Manchu Qing to survive, is a wake-up call for Fang Yuan: in today's world, although the warlords are divided, it is still the world of the Ming Dynasty, and the legitimacy of the Ming rule has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and the warlords and gentry in various places will still choose to unite under the banner of the Ming Dynasty.

If he really wants to oppose the imperial court, whether the Zhejiang provinces under Fang Yuan's jurisdiction will suddenly hang up the anti-flag, he actually has no bottom in his heart. Because Fang Yuan's control is strong, the prefectures of Nanzhili may not be in chaos, but judging from the reluctance of the prefects of each prefecture to join his cabinet, they will not be on his side.

Further south, Zhejiang, is completely resigned to fate.

Although there are 20,000 Xuanjia troops in Zhejiang, if all the provinces are really completely reversed, the 20,000 Xuanjia troops will definitely not be able to deter the overall military and political situation of Zhejiang, which has eleven prefectures. No matter how strong the Xuanjia army is, it can't hold two machetes in hand and cut from Jiaxing Mansion to Quzhou Mansion. If the fight for the world was so simple and rude, then the Ming Dynasty would have perished after the Tumubao Change.

The influence of a dynasty that has lasted for 300 years in both military and political circles, and even in the civilian world, will not easily disappear. The Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the Central Plains and took a butcher's knife to chop east and west in the south, and as a result, nearly a hundred years later, there were slogans against the Qing Dynasty and the restoration of the Ming Dynasty; The war of the Three Kingdoms, from Dong Zhuo's chaos to the fall of Shu Han, took nearly seventy years to eliminate the influence of the Han Dynasty; The Tang Dynasty has been hanging for a long time since the Anshi Rebellion, and the result has been maintained for more than a hundred years.

Fang Yuan sighed deeply, secretly glad that he didn't hastily take up the banner of anti-Ming, otherwise, it was difficult to predict whether he would end up with Liu Zeqing.

Xu Hua had just left, and Jin Yiwei brought a private message sent by Sun Chuanting.

Fang Yuan opened the letter and saw that Sun Chuanting's letter made it clear that the Manchu Qing's military operation this time was only to blackmail money and people, and would never really go to war. Sun Chuanting asked Fang Yuan to send sailors north to cut off the Manchu support for Dengzhou from the sea, so that Sun Chuanting could calmly defeat Liu Zeqing.

The reward that Sun Chuanting promised to Fang Yuan was to give Liu Zeqing one million taels of silver after he defeated Liu Zeqing.

Fang Yuan slowly put Sun Chuanting's letter away, and sneered secretly, this Dolgon, relying on a mouth, wants to blackmail silver, he simply laughed off his big teeth, there is really no one in the Central Plains, can he be at the mercy of the Manchu Qing at will?

He had a disagreement with the imperial court, but it was a civil war in the Ming Dynasty. The Manchus dared to blackmail, it was foreign aggression, and from the perspective of national righteousness, they could not let the Manchus unscrupulously blackmail and turn a blind eye.

What's more, this time, Sun Chuanting only asked Fang Yuan's sailors for support, and did not need to send a large number of Xuanjia troops to the north. This request, the other party originally said that it was just a gesture.

Compared with the giant ships of the Xuanjia Army, the Manchu Qing Dynasty's still gratifying sailors are no different from fishing boats, and they are purely Oldman fighting small monsters to brush up on experience and military exploits.

Sending the sailors north to support is simply killing four birds with one stone.

One can reap the reputation of King Qin of the North and resist the Manchu invasion; the second can also make some silver to fill the treasury; the third is to train the newly recruited sailors of the Sailor Battalion; Fourth, you can give a warning to the Manchu Emperor Dolgon, don't think that Fang Yuan is busy with civil war in the south, and the Manchus can take advantage of it. As long as he dares to step into the Great Wall for half a step, he will definitely take precedence over the foreign war and the civil war.

Fang Yuan immediately summoned Jing Jie, the commander of the Xuanjia Army, and Shi Lang, the commander of the Sailor Division, to discuss the matter of sending the Sailor to the north. After less than half an hour of deliberation, Jing Jie and Shi Lang decided to send sailors north to support the Shandong battlefield of the imperial court.

Ten days later, Shi Lang led a fleet of 50 sailors, two giant ships, and 4,000 sailors from the Zhoushan Naval Base to the north, and arrived at Weihaiwei in Dengzhou five days later.

When Shi Lang arrived in Weihaiwei, Weihaiwei was garrisoned by Shang Kexi's sailors.

Shang Kexi's sailor did not come to defend Dengzhou Mansion for Liu Zeqing, but to carry the gold, silver, and people promised by Liu Zeqing in accordance with Dolgon's will. There were at least two hundred troop carriers, and only twenty real warships.

Previously, Liu Zeqing saw that Sun Chuanting had stopped the offensive, so he began to delay the promise of 2 million taels of silver and 200,000 people to the Manchu Qing Dynasty in every possible way. Liu Zeqing found a lot of excuses, but only sent 800,000 taels of silver, and he was angry that Dolgon was angry, and directly sent Shang Kexi's sailor to Weihaiwei to carry the silver himself. and threatened that if Liu Zeqing did not pay the money honestly, without Sun Chuanting's action, the Manchu Qing would cross the sea and destroy him.

This time, Liu Zeqing couldn't shirk it anymore. The Manchu Qing Dynasty was just asking for silver, and the court wanted his life, and he still had a clear twist in his heart. In desperation, he could only give the 1 million taels of silver he had prepared and the 100,000 men and women who had looted from Dengzhou Mansion to Shang Kexi to take over.

Shang Kexi used at least 200 troop carriers to carry these gold, silver, and people, and just packed them and prepared to transport them back to Liaodong, Shi Lang's fleet came to the door.

The largest warship of Shang Kexi's naval division was a small warship of 400 materials, which was vulnerable in front of Shi Lang's huge ship.

The artillery on the giant ship was overwhelmingly scattered on the battleships and troop carriers of the Shang Army's naval division, and the middle ones were standing and sinking, without exception. In less than a day, the battleship that Shang Kexi brought to Weihaiwei was completely annihilated by Shi Lang's sailors.

Shang Kexi himself relied on the cover of the sailor, abandoned the packed gold, silver, and people, and fled back to Liaodong alone with a few small ships.

Shi Lang rose up and directly chased Shang Kexi's ass all the way, chased him to Lushunkou, and directly razed the Manchu Navy camp in Lushunkou to the ground. Then it went around the Bohai Bay and blew up the ports, military towns, and state capitals along the coast of Liaodong.

The captured captives, but all the households belonging to the name of the Eight Banners, there is a family member in the Eight Banners of Han and Mongolia who joined the army, regardless of men, women, old and young, all of them were slaughtered, and none of them remained. Shi Lang returned to Weihaiwei in the coastal circle of Liaodong, killing at least 6,000 Manchurians and 10,000 households in the Eight Banners of Han and Mongolia.

Compared with the Gaizhou and Haizhou massacres before Fang Yuan, this small massacre can only be regarded as a small punishment and a big commandment, and it can be regarded as a small lesson for Dorgon. The Manchu Qing Dynasty honestly stayed in Liaodong, daring to participate in the civil war with the Ming Dynasty again, Fang Yuan's sailors could go deep into the hinterland of Liaodong at any time, brush up on people, and the heads of traitors.

The news that Shi Lang harassed the Liaodong Haijiang and slaughtered tens of thousands of Manchu Han and Mongolian people reached Shengjing, and Dolgon was so angry that Long Yan was furious, but the sailor was helpless.

The bannermen who were slaughtered, Daishan, Haoge, Zilharang and others, as well as the Gushan Ezhen of the banners, all went to Dolgon to ask for an explanation. Dolgon could only give up his wealth to avoid disasters, and distributed the 800,000 taels of silver contributed by Liu Zeqing to the banners as compensation.

This time he interfered in the internal affairs of the Ming Dynasty, Dolgon didn't get any money, and the Manchu sailors were wiped out again, and they were also brushed up by Shi Lang along the coast, which was simply worth the loss. He was so remorseful that he could only make Shang Kexi continue to build warships and restore the Manchu navy division.