Chapter 80: Jinzhou is lost
This naval battle was all about motorboats and gasoline saws, and these pirates did not contribute much, and their losses were greatly reduced, and the Qing army was completely destroyed with almost no deaths.
The enemy and Geng Zhongming still have 400 people left, but there are still 3,000 pirate soldiers on his side. Although it can't be said that there is no less, it is relatively not consumed. According to Zhu Changyuan's thoughts, these guys should die for two thousand people, but I didn't expect Geng Zhongming to be too unscrupulous, so he couldn't help fighting.
Well, it's because he doesn't have any soldiers under him, in fact, Geng Zhongming still has a set of naval battles.
The floating corpses of the Qing soldiers on the sea were salvaged by the pirate soldiers one by one, and after searching for the belongings on their bodies, they didn't even let go of the clothes on the corpses, and found suitable cloth armor and iron armor from those corpses and put them on themselves. There is no way, although these pirate soldiers usually don't worry about food and clothing, they don't have regular equipment at all.
"Alright, brothers, go to the island to grab something!" Zhu Changyuan gave an order, and those Fusang devils were like gods, and immediately stopped all kinds of actions in their hands, boarded and landed in a uniform manner, and no matter what they saw, they began to rob unscrupulously.
After a big round, those pirates didn't bother to move again.
The reason is very simple, in addition to the tents of the house, there is a small amount of military rations on Phi Island, and there is almost nothing else left, by the way, there is also a Zheng He treasure ship, but it has been controlled by Ma Hai in advance.
Grandma's, it's so poor. Zhu Changyuan couldn't stand it anymore, kicked Geng Zhongming's ass next to him, and said: "Tartar treats you like this, you don't have enough food to eat, and you still follow him to work hard, you really obey you fools." ”
Geng Zhongming was silent, his face was pale, and he closed his eyes and said nothing.
Zhu Changyuan no longer bothered him, and gathered in the center of the big island with many soldiers and began to count.
There were still more than 3,000 pirate soldiers on his side, and four or five hundred of the Qing army were captured, which was almost the same number as the pirate soldiers he had brought before.
Geng Zhongming did not surrender, and Zhu Changyuan did not execute him immediately. As for those Qing soldiers, they didn't have so much backbone, and they surrendered to Zhu Changyuan one after another.
These soldiers were originally Han Chinese, and they all spoke Chinese, and many of their families were in Shandong, and they were forced to surrender with Geng Zhongming, but now they can return to the Ming army, and many people are still applauding, at least they are expected to return home in the future.
In addition to the personnel, the loot was counted, a Zheng He treasure ship, then several large warships, and many small boats, and there were almost no supplies, and then there was such a territory as Phi Dao.
Zhu Changyuan's face suddenly became bitter, and he was almost about to cry, but he could only howl silently in his heart: I really don't want to defeat you and occupy this broken island of yours.
Phi Island is located at the mouth of the Yalu River, and the island is not small, but it is all bare bedrock, which cannot be cultivated, and it is too close to the mainland. Huang Taiji is now attacking Jinzhou with all his heart, and he has no leisure time to clean himself up.
The point is, it's useless for me to occupy this island!
The hot potato, if you don't leave here, we don't want this island either? But this is not in line with our character, the key is to be unwilling, the things that have been worked hard cannot be cheapened by others.
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Here, Zhu Changyuan was still worrying about how to deal with the island he had just occupied, and there was a person thousands of miles away who had a lot of headaches than him.
Chongzhen!
He suddenly stood up from the dragon chair and threw the fold in his hand forward and threw it on the main hall.
"You and other courtiers, misunderstand the country. The huge city of Jinzhou, with as many as 50,000 garrisons and reinforcements, was lost to me after only a month, who is defending? ”
The ministers knelt down under His Highness tremblingly, and kept pounding garlic with their heads on the ground. The first assistant of the cabinet, Wen Tiren, said: "Your Majesty is angry, Your Majesty is angry!" The Mongol Tatars and Jianyu combined, there were 130,000 troops, although the city of Jinzhou was breached, but it was also defended for more than 30 days, and the soldiers did their best. ”
Chongzhen laughed, but his face was gloomy as water, and he walked to His Highness step by step, starting from where Wen Tiren was, and staggered forward, the dragon robe mopped the floor, bringing out Sasha's voice, listening to the hearts of the ministers, there was fear and heartache, many people thought that Chongzhen would be angry this time and would wash hundreds of officials in blood.
But Chongzhen didn't do anything, just walked to the door of the hall like an old man, and looked at Lang Lang Qingtian decadently, frowning and coldly.
"Is it all my fault? Is it because my destiny is insufficient, and I shouldn't have inherited the throne? Chongzhen couldn't help but start muttering to himself, doubting himself: "Since I ascended the throne, I haven't had a good night's sleep, and I haven't worked hard for the country all night. In the first year of Chongzhen, there was a great drought in Guanzhong, and there was no grass growing for thousands of miles on the red land, and the whole Shaanxi sky was as red as blood. ”
"Chongzhen has been hungry in the world for five years, the white bones are exposed in the wild, there is no rooster crowing for thousands of miles, and there are people who eat Yizi in the people."
"In the sixth year of Chongzhen, the Yellow River flooded 22 prefectures and counties in the Central Plains."
"In the seventh year of Chongzhen, the autumn locusts came to the sky, and Sichuan, Shaanxi, Jinyu and Yu did not harvest any grains."
"In the eighth year of Chongzhen, there was a drought in the west and a flood in the east, and countless houses were destroyed in Luoyang, and the people could not live. Shaanxi earthquake in September. ”
The more Chongzhen spoke, the louder his voice became, as if he was expressing his dissatisfaction with the sky.
"In the ninth year of Chongzhen, Henan drought locust."
"Chongzhen ten years, Shandong autumn harvest no harvest."
"This year, just two days ago, I just received a fold, and the locusts in Shaanxi covered the sky and the sun......"
"In the first year of Chongzhen, Yuan Chonghuan told me that the whole Liao could be restored in five years. I cut down on food and clothing, as for the palace treasures, what do you get in exchange? It's deception! ”
"Heaven doesn't help me, I don't blame God. However, you and other ministers, eating the king's fortune and taking the people's fat, they can't help me. Could this be that Da Ming is going to die? ”
Before Chongzhen finished speaking, he sat on the ground with a decadent buttocks, leaning obliquely on a big red pillar, and looked at the court in front of him weakly.
"Your Majesty!"
The ministers wailed and wept bitterly. One by one, they knelt on the ground and kowtowed like pounding garlic.
Chongzhen didn't look back, "Sometimes I really want to sleep and don't want to wake up. I don't care about life and death, I'm afraid that I will be the king of the dead country, how can I meet my father, brother and ancestors under Jiuquan, and why do I meet Emperor Taizu with my face. ”
"Your Majesty." The ministers wept bitterly.
"Your Majesty should cheer up!" Wen Tiren knelt behind Emperor Chongzhen, knelt on the ground, pulled the end of the emperor's dragon robe, and wept bitterly to persuade.
After a long time, Chongzhen breathed a long sigh of relief and said in a low voice: "Zhu Changyuan was trapped in the Dalinghe army for more than 400 days with less than 400 people, and there was no help and no food. I just want to ask you, how did he do it? ”
The ministers are silent!