Chapter 797: Where You Come From and Where You Are Going Back (21)
This is the worst of times!
The whole world was caught in the waves of colonialism, with endless killing and plundering everywhere. "Top Novel", countless lives are dying out rapidly, and everything that has lasted for thousands of years in the world has been forcibly broken. Countless people have lost the lives of their homes, and those who survived have been reduced to colonized people with no place to speak of. Citizens of the second class are not counted.
In the East, ancient China was colonized by a group of Tungusic people for hundreds of years. lost the glory of thousands of years, and also lost his soul. dragged a braid and became the sick man of East Asia who was ridiculed by the barbarians who were despised by China in the past!
in other parts of the world. From the American continent to Africa where humanity originated. It doesn't matter if it's yellow, black, or whatever. All nationalities and races were colonized by white people from Europe!
The thin, short, white men who carried primitive muskets, sailed small, dirty sailboats, and bathed almost their entire lives. It was in this era that from the primitive backward and almost nothing was left in the case of singles. In just a few hundred years, they built their civilization in every corner of the planet!
The universal morality and secular laws of modern time and space, with white people as the main body, began in this era. They enjoy the privileged life that their predecessors bought with their lives and blood, and look at the world with condescending eyes.
They are proud, arrogant, and pretentious. While discriminating against others, he pretends to say that he does not discriminate.
Anyway, they were able to enjoy it all. Because hundreds of years ago, their unclothed, filthy beggar-like ancestors bought all this for them with their lives and blood in this era!
The yellow race in Asia is discriminated against, at least invisibly, everywhere except in Asia. Because in this era when any nation can rise explosively, they were colonized by a group of Tunguska, and they lost everything about themselves. I also lost the best opportunity to open the country to the sunset!
It's the best of times!
For people of this era, just set up a few cannons on the coast. You will be able to take a large tract of land from the panicked natives! Instead of being like in modern time and space, for a desolate projectile land, several countries can fight a few bloody wars in the Middle East that almost involve the ultimate weapon!
In this era, as long as a nation has the enterprising spirit and courage, it will set its sights on the distant overseas. Then they will be able to leave an endless legacy for their children and grandchildren!
The Chinese nation is at a turning point in history. After Gao Yang came here unexpectedly, he re-embarked on a path that was completely different from his established fate.
Now, Gao Yang with tens of thousands of elite troops is about to start an earth-shattering glorious journey for the Chinese nation in this magnificent era. Go and clear the biggest and most unbearable roadblock in Gao Yang's heart!
Gao Yang hopes that the future of this time and space will be a world that can be themed around the universal morality and secular concepts of the Chinese nation. He wanted the universal language of the world to be the broad and profound Chinese, not a local dialect somewhere in the middle of nowhere.
He hoped that the future of this world was that the mighty warships of the Ming Empire could swim on the Thames and use their powerful cannons to force the royal family there to cede land.
He hoped that the brave Ming soldiers could enjoy a meal in Buckingham Palace. Admire the amazing works of art at the Louvre. At the same time, they took away some 'gadgets' that they were interested in.
He hoped that the whole of Asia would be the Asia of China, and that there would be no troubles made by the natives of Southeast Asia all day long. From the Arctic Ocean in the north to Antarctica in the south, all of them are China's sphere of influence. The brave soldiers use their swords and blood to open up a new living space for future generations! And not what a subset of poems!
He hopes that the continent, which rides on the backs of ore and sheep, will be integrated into Asia, like their football team, and become the most important reserve base for China in the future.
He hoped that the distant American continent could fly the sun, moon and dragon banner of the Ming Empire. In this way, the entire Pacific Ocean is regarded as the backyard of the Chinese nation.
All of this may only be seen by Gao Yang, who has been in this time and space for a few years. But he can lay the most solid foundation for these things.
It is something that cannot be changed in the modern time and space of Gaoyang. Here, in this plane, it all just began.
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This time, in order to defend the city of Shenyang, Dolgon mobilized almost all the forces that the Manchus could mobilize. Except for those Mongolian tribes who were killed and dared not send people this time, most of the forces that the Manchu Qing could use were concentrated in Shenyang City.
Nearly 50,000 people were mobilized in the Eight Banners of Manchuria. Among them were more than 16,000 armoured men. There are more than 33,000 people. Almost all males over the age of 14 of the Manchu clan were mobilized.
In addition to the Manchurian Eight Banners, there were also many Mongolian people captured through the thousand-mile raid in winter and the Mongols forcibly recruited from all over the four places to supplement and restore some of the vitality of the Mongolian Eight Banners, and the total number was also around 10,000 people.
Wuzhen Chaoha, which was completely composed of Han troops, was reorganized, and the main body had become the Manchurian Heavenly Blessing Army. The number of soldiers was close to 30,000. Plus the coaters who can mobilize. The total number of Manchu troops stationed in Shenyang was as high as more than 100,000.
Originally, the total number of cattle records of the Manchurian, Mongol, and Han armies of the Manchu banners exceeded 400. But after the first battle of Ningyuan, most of the cattle records of the banners have been disabled. In addition, Dolgon later transferred a large number of Manchurians into the Heavenly Blessing Army to use firearms. Many cattle are filled with Mongols and Han Chinese, and even Baoyi. Therefore, the strength of the Eight Banners of Manchuria is now much inferior to before. The main force of the Manchu Qing has been transformed into a new Tianyou army.
Except for the city of Shenyang. For example, the garrisons and young men in Liaoyang, Tieling, Jinzhou, Xiuyan, Fuzhou and other places were all evacuated. Only a few of the old, the sick, the sick, the women and children remain. It doesn't take the army of the Ming army to pass, and any soldier and horse can be successfully recovered.
It's just that Gao Yang and Dolgon thought the same. The core of this battle is still in Shenyang City!
For the Manchus. Losing Shenyang City is equivalent to losing everything. They must persevere at all costs. Trying to force the Ming army from afar to retreat with a long siege of attrition.
For this reason, Dolgon not only concentrated the remaining males over the age of 14 of the Manchu clan in the city of Shenyang. In addition, almost all the stored materials from all over the country have been transported here. Especially grain.
In order to reduce the consumption of food, most of the elderly, weak women and children in Shenyang were sent to various places. There is not much grain in those places, if the war on the Shenyang side drags on for a long time, and the Ming army refuses to retreat. It will inevitably be a terrible famine!
For Gaoyang, the Manchu magnates concentrated almost all the people and materials they could use in one city. It couldn't have been better for him.
Because Gao Yang only needed to capture Shenyang City and destroy the last Manchu forces in the city. The whole of the North will no longer be at any risk until the arrival of the Russian expedition. As for the scattered cities, as long as the city of Shenyang is occupied, the remaining garrison troops will be enough to sweep these places.
Both sides coincidentally put the main goal on Shenyang City. One side tried to hold on, the other tried to attack. Two armies that are a whole era apart in training equipment are about to stage a fierce collision of blood and fire in this city!
The name Shenyang began in the second year of Yuan Zhen when Chengzong Tiemur was in power in the Yuan Dynasty, that is, in 1296 AD.
The history of Shenyang City can be traced back to the Houcheng of the Warring States Period 2,000 years ago. Houcheng County in the Qin and Han dynasties, as well as Shenzhou City in the Liao and Jin dynasties, Shenyang Road in the Yuan Dynasty and Shenyang Acropolis in the Ming Dynasty.
After Huang Taiji ascended the throne, he began to build a large number of buildings on Shenyang City. From the beginning of his accession to the throne, the city of Shenyang was built on a large scale, and it was not until he died of illness that the construction was completed.
After the construction of the scale of Shenyang City, the circumference of the city is nine miles and three hundred and thirty-two steps, which is three hundred and two steps longer than the circumference of the city in the Ming Dynasty. The height of the city is three zhang and five feet, which is one zhang higher than the city wall of the Ming Dynasty. The city was eight feet wide, and the walls were made of bricks and stones. There is a women's wall built on the city wall, which is 7 feet 5 inches high, and has 651 battlements, which greatly strengthens the protective measures.
There were nine gates on the four walls, eight three-story gatehouses and four corner towers, and heavy sluices in the urn city.
There is also a moat around the city outside the city. The river is fourteen feet and five feet wide, and has a circumference of ten miles and two hundred and four steps. The area of the city is 393 zhang 8 feet wide from east to west, 425 zhang 6 feet long from north to south, totaling 16,760,0128 square feet, or 2,793.4 acres.
Huang Taiji repaired the city wall, built the palace, built the emperor's mausoleum, repaired the temple, the Temple of Heaven, the altar of the earth, built four temples and four towers, opened a commercial port, and placed the six departments of the cabinet, the Metropolitan Inspection Yuan, the Lifan Yuan and other places. It was built into a fortified capital that was the most magnificent of the plane. Because the Manchus didn't think about entering the customs at all, this was the most important place for their clan. This is where the confidence of Dorgon and others lies.
It's just that all this doesn't mean anything in Gao Yang's eyes. There is no city on this planet that cannot be attacked!
In front of the Ming army, which was already completely firearmed and had a large number of infinitely powerful artillery. This city, which is considered magnificent and solid in the eyes of the locals, but is nothing in the eyes of Gao Yang, is not very difficult to conquer. It is impossible to block the shells with stones and bricks. Especially the kind of overwhelming shelling!
Dolgon stood on the tall city wall of Shenyang, looking at the camp in the distance outside the city, with flags flying, and the Ming army camp could not be seen at a glance. I was completely speechless from shock.
Whether an army is strong or not can be seen just by virtue of that invisible momentum.
The Ming army in front of him, the powerful momentum that is pressing people's hearts can almost form a substance in the sky above the barracks!
"This time...... Finished. Dolgon finally lowered his head, his eyes blankly muttering to himself. (To be continued.) )