Of course, it was impossible for the Ming army to conceal the reconnaissance of the Qing army. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

However, whether it was Yabu or Sabusu, these front-line generals, they never thought that Yang Feng would play a thousand-mile expedition to attack Beijing in this situation, this was beyond their understanding at all, and they didn't even think of even the slightest possibility in their minds.

Although to be honest, the secrecy of the Ming army was not very good.

For example, the Qing army knew that the Ming army was distributing cotton clothes, military coats, and even cowhide military boots for winter.

Because of the trade routes with West Asia and North Africa opened up through the East India Company, Yang Feng imported a large number of cowhides from these places, and began to distribute leather boots to ordinary soldiers to eliminate the previous canvas shoes.

As for the military coat, which is also a water fur coat, and even the military uniform is replaced with wool imported from Britain, this is not to say that Yang Dashuai deliberately ostentatious, but his soldiers are all southerners, and the time period of his Northern Expedition is after autumn and winter, and these soldiers have poor cold tolerance and must ensure that they are not frostbitten. Although cotton clothes can also be used, after wearing cotton clothes, his soldiers will not be able to put on cuirasses, so they can only use higher-cost woolen and fur coats, so as to ensure that the soldiers stick to the trenches.

If it doesn't work, he can only ask Lin Qian to buy warm clothes.

But these changes of clothing are enough to make the outside world doubt the next direction of the Ming army's operations, because the winter in Jiangsu and Zhejiang does not need such thick cold protection means.

However, even the most sober-minded Yue Zhongqi and Nian Qianyao did not think about the problem of Yang Feng attacking Beijing, but they judged that the Ming army was likely to launch a full-front counteroffensive to seize Nanjing, and then attack north along the canal. Therefore, the Qing army desperately dug ditches and repaired fortresses during this time, and even built a second line of defense in Huzhou, Jiaxing and other places, dug trenches and planted thorny shrubs to act as barbed wire according to Yue Zhongqi's design, and it is said that a third line of defense was built in Changzhou, Wuxi and other places to defend Nanjing, which was the core of the south of the Yangtze River.

In this strange atmosphere of mountain rain coming and wind full of buildings, the time finally arrived on the first day of October of this year.

Changguo Military Port.

The location of this military port is the modern Zhoushan Naval Base, and after nearly two years of construction, especially after the extensive use of concrete, it has become a real military fortress, and even the surrounding forts have been rebuilt into a pentagonal shape, and the pier made of rock and concrete is four miles long, enough for dozens of warships to dock at the same time.

At this time, there were thirty large three-masted galleons moored here.

On the asphalt-paved road next to the wharf, a group of Ming soldiers wearing red woolen military uniforms, silver cuirass and silver helmets, were lining up to board the ship. These soldiers carried huge canvas backpacks with the latest rifles on their backs, black slanted shoulder straps staggered from left to right, the same black belts underneath, water bottles, bayonets, bullet boxes, fire cap boxes, and a first-aid kit with bandages and hemostats.

At the same time, the cranes and manual pulleys on the dock, and even the large booms pulled by animal power, were busy lifting cannons, war horses, and bags and boxes full of supplies to the ship.

Next to these booms, more new four-wheeled carriages are waiting in line, loaded with everything from cannonballs to bullets to canned grain, meat and fruits, and now Changguo has completely turned into a real industrial city, where most of the things needed by the Ming army are produced, and many of the products here have also begun to be exported to the world, and even some products such as the latest silver-plated mirrors and the latest clocks and watches have been sold to distant Europe.

Of course, it is mainly military production here.

In the cheers of the crowd for the farewell of the soldiers, their respected marshal finally rode his rhinoceros, slowly walking along the black road, behind him was his dragoon guards, but in order to show their majesty, a total of twenty-four guards were all replaced with the latest Arabian horses, one by one holding spears with small pennants, covered in silver shining armor, wearing scarlet cloaks, under the eyes of the girls on both sides slowly walked to the dock, towards Yang Dashuai's flagship.

It's still the Valkyrie back then.

This armed merchant ship, which was originally forcibly leased to the British, has officially belonged to Yang Feng, and has been repaired in the dockyard, and then turned into a handsome ship, and at the same time changed its name to the Invincible.

"Long live the handsome!"

"Mighty and mighty!"

……

Just as Yang Feng was sitting on the rhinoceros covered in a monster and raised his hands to greet the people on both sides, those people were also cheering like crazy.

"Dashuai, Dashuai, I heard that the Dashuai pro-Shuai army has recovered Yingtian, and the old decay represents the Changguo Advisory Bureau and the 200,000 people of Changguo, and specially prepares thin wine to think that Dashuai is heroic, and I hope that Dashuai will suspend drinking this cup, and then go straight to Yingtian, sweep away the fishy flesh, and annihilate the ugly kinds, so that the mausoleum of Hong Wuye can see the light of the sun and the moon again, and the people of Yingtian will revisit the rain and dew of the Holy Dynasty."

Just as Yang Feng was marching, he suddenly walked out from behind a table on the side of the road, and a white-haired old man came out, kneeling on the ground with a glass of wine and shouting excitedly.

Yang Feng hurriedly grabbed the rhinoceros, and then hurriedly jumped down and walked up to him.

"Gong Liu, please get up quickly, didn't the juniors say, you don't need to salute when you see me." He said while helping the old man, and at the same time took the wine glass from his hand very solemnly, and raised it above his head in the excited eyes of those ordinary people and said: "Thank you for your love, but this first glass of wine must first respect the souls of our ancestors and ancestors, and may they bless us to clear the bloody flesh and restore my Chinese land as soon as possible." ”

As he spoke, he poured the wine on the ground.

The old man Liu next to him hurriedly brought him another glass.

"This second cup of wine is to pay tribute to the tens of millions of my compatriots who were killed in the Jiashen Kingdom, may their spirits in heaven bless us and avenge this sea of blood for them as soon as possible."

Yang Feng poured the glass of wine on the ground again.

Immediately afterwards, he took the third cup from Old Man Liu and said: "As for this cup, Ben Shuai will drink it on behalf of the soldiers who went out this time!" However, before drinking, I need to explain one thing to all the fathers and elders, this expedition is not to recover Yingtian, although it is also important to restore Yingtian and let Hong Wuye's mausoleum see the light of the sun and the moon again, but it is not as important as another thing. ”

After speaking, he paused and looked at the blank eyes of the people around him with satisfaction.

Attacking Nanjing is the wind he deliberately released, what he wants is the current effect, it is obvious that the outside world also believes that he is going to lead the fleet to break into the Yangtze River, and then land in Zhenjiang to attack Nanjing, after all, he has fought Yangzhou, and then go crazy and run to fight Nanjing, there is nothing terrible, now the Qing army can fight on the battlefield in eastern Zhejiang, as long as he can open the Yangtze River channel and destroy Lan Li's sailors, then he is absolutely capable of smashing Nanjing.

But......

Yang Dashuai drank all the wine in the cup, and then said slowly: "This time this time we are going to fight Beijing." ”

There was silence all around them.

"Ben Shuai is going to smash the Yellow Dragon this time, Ben Shuai is going to the Central Plains to the north this time, Ben Shuai is going to Beijing this time, capturing the Tartar emperor alive, rescuing the imprisoned Zhu Third Prince, and then rebuilding my Ming orthodoxy."

Yang Feng repeated loudly as if he was afraid that people would not understand.

"Big, handsome, this, this is too risky, then the third prince of Zhu is still difficult to distinguish between the real and the fake, it's not worth your risk, right?"

Old man Liu said in a trance.

"Liu Lao, no matter how dangerous it is, Ben Shuai must not watch the last bloodline of Chongzhen Ye die in the hands of the Tartars, this is the only hope to restore my Ming orthodoxy, no matter how dangerous Ben Shuai must do, please rest assured, this time Ben Shuai will definitely welcome back my great tomorrow for you no matter how difficult and dangerous, as long as he is true, Ben Shuai will not hesitate to stain the battlefield with blood!

Fathers, please wait for the good news from Ben Shuai! ”

Yang Feng finished speaking with great righteousness, and then got on his rhinoceros, and went straight to his invincible number under a dumbfounded gaze.

Less than half an hour later, just as the first Ming troop carrier left the dock, a series of carrier pigeons flew out of Zhoushan and flew to Suzhou, Yuhang, Ninghai and the anchorage of the Yangtze River Naval Division of the Qing Army in Songjiang.

And then all over the place followed by a field of chickens and dogs jumping.

Poor Yabu and his friends were all stunned, and although Yang Feng's madness often left them with only one word left in their minds......

"Crazy, it's crazy!"

In the city of Suzhou, Prince Jane roared angrily.

He really can't find the words to describe this guy except for madness, our side of more than 200,000 troops besieged you, you actually didn't even care about it, with thousands of men and horses across more than 2,000 miles of sea route, to attack our heart, to attack the world's strongest city with more than 100,000 troops to defend, you, you are purely insulting our personality!

I didn't slap my face like this.

Of course, he must not allow Yang Feng's army to cross the mouth of the Yangtze River.

Don't think about it, he also knows that once the Ming army crosses the mouth of the Yangtze River and goes north, then it will definitely be in Dagukou, and the warships of the Dengzhou Navy Division can't even count the vegetables in front of the Ming army, at most they are ants who only lift their feet and step on them, and then as long as the shells of the Ming army fall at the mouth of Dagu, then the iron hat on his head will not want to be kept, if the Ming army lands successfully, then his throne may be gone.

Even if it wasn't for himself, for the sake of the Qing Dynasty, he couldn't let Yang Feng pass.

Regardless of whether Yang Feng can successfully land at Dagukou in the end, as long as he hits the cannonball at Dagukou, the result will be that the foundation of the Qing Dynasty will be shaken, and the Qing Dynasty will spend decades to build up tens of millions of corpses and bones, and the majesty of suppressing the world will be like a sand castle overflowing by the tide, and it will disappear in an instant.

A man who even kicked his own door and a fart majesty.

"Decree Lan Li, if the Ming army has a warship crossing the mouth of the Yangtze River, this king will want his head."

Then Yabu said viciously.

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