16. Huang Fangdu
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"This is a letter written by Qin She, there are some suggestions in it, Gu is not sure of his idea, please take a look at Erqing, and he can weigh it for Gu. (To read the latest chapters of this book, please visit the Wรจn Novel Network biquge.info)"
In the Quanzhou Mansion, Zhu Jin handed the letter he had just received to Feng Xifan and Chen Shenwu. Speaking of which, Zheng Kezhang has a letter from home asking for peace every month to be delivered to the army. However, most of them used to write about household trivia, children's camp anecdotes and reading experiences, but this time they talked about military affairs unusually extravagantly, which made Zhu Jin, who had been smooth sailing since the Western Expedition, quite unhappy. However, after being displeased, Zhu Jin thought about it seriously, but found that Zheng Kezang's proposal still had some truth, but if he really wanted to implement it, Zhu Jin really couldn't make up his mind, so he recruited the two Xinchen strategists around him.
Feng Xifan and Chen Shenwu hesitated, took the letterhead, and the two watched together, only to see that the upper part of the letterhead had been folded, thinking that it should be a normal part of the family letter, only the last paragraph was displayed in front of the eyes of the two.
"My son has nothing to do and reads through all the histories, and occasionally he has a win, and he is deeply disturbed. Stealing that the new annexed army can encompass the world, only the two Tartars of Mongolia and the two Tartars now, the soldiers of this domain to Fujian and Guangdong, although there are many people who have heard the scenery, but they are all unbearable to fight, every time the army is not Taiwan's elite soldiers are invincible, and as the saying goes, kill the enemy 1,000 and hurt 800, how to not worry about the master or talk about the Hongzhi Longwu years, or say that the new annexed army to the wall grass to the Tang Dynasty down to the Taizu of this dynasty, all of them pursue the national policy of heavy inside and light on the outside, and the son is courageous, and asks his father King Jian Xin to attach the army into the towns of the domain, and its stubborn old and weak people who cannot fight should be sent to the east to be handed over to the towns for management, Pick up the soldiers in each town, and their dependents should also bring them to Taiwan to grant land for planting, so that they can return to their hearts and minds that their sons are good at talking about important military affairs, and if they are not careful, they will be reprimanded. โ
After Feng Xifan and Chen Shenwu saw it, they couldn't help but look at each other, and then lowered their heads, and no one dared to be this bird.
"I've read it all." Zhu Jin saw that the two of them looked thoughtful, so he asked anxiously. "What do you think?"
Looking at Zhu Jin's eager gaze, Feng Xifan gritted his teeth and bowed to Zhu Jin: "Although Yuanzi has never studied the book of war and has been in battle, he can learn from the past and the present, which is really the wisdom of God. โ
"Sycophants!" Chen Shenwu secretly slandered, but he couldn't help but follow the long compilation to the ground. "Yuanzi is strategizing, you can see the pros and cons of the army at a glance, although the ministers follow the king around, but they are blind, and they fail to pick up the gaps in time, they are really speechless, and please ask the king to govern the crime of negligence of his subordinates!"
"Okay, okay, it's not like I'm going to listen to Qing and others talk about these things." Zhu Jin is also a ruler with many years of experience in government, of course he knows the purpose of the two people in front of him to congratulate one and one to plead guilty, but he doesn't want to spend too much thought on these aspects. "Qing and the others will talk about whether it is feasible to annex the new annexed army as Qin She said."
"Yuanzi is probably from the king's Liuhong Chengchou's family."
What Chen Shenwu is referring to is that in March this year, Zheng Jing ordered the destruction of the god and ancestral hall of Hong Chengchou who were worshiped in the Zhangquanchao and other places in the school palace, changed the worship of the Zodiac Zhou General, and exiled Hong Chengchou's relatives to the Langqiao on the extreme edge of Dongning. On the one hand, this connection is quite far-fetched, and on the other hand, it attributes Zheng Kezang's construction to the inspiration of Zhu Jin's actions, which is very demeaning to Zheng Kezang.
"However, this domain is marching into Guangdong, and it is the time to vigorously recruit heroes from all directions, if you attack the new annex army at this moment, I am afraid that it will spread to the outside world and terrify all walks of life, and it will not be so easy to lure you to surrender in the future." Chen Shenwu laughed twice. "Yuanzi's charter is good, but the time is not yet right."
Listening to Chen Shenwu's response, Feng Xifan's heart moved, remembering that last time Chen Shenwu also opposed Zheng Kezang's construction, as soon as he thought of this, Feng Xifan immediately decided to speak out: "Your Majesty, the combat strength of the new annexed army is extremely poor, once it is simple to enter the towns, it is bound to be rectified. โ
Of course, Feng Xifan didn't really oppose Zheng Kezang's opinion, in fact, he was preparing to dig a big hole for Chen Shenwu.
"However, what Yuanzi said is extremely true, it is not necessarily that the army of this domain will be lost, but the new annexed army will be cultivated according to the city, once the main force of this domain is damaged, it will be a situation of Tai'a holding it in an instant, and the king must prepare early."
Under the influence of two close ministers, Zhu Jin decided to temporarily put aside Zheng Kezang's suggestions on the reorganization of the army, but Feng Xifan's remarks about the consumption of the new annexed army took root in Zhu Jin's mind, and for this reason, Zhu Jin issued an order in April of this year, asking Huang Fangdu and other commanders of the new annexed army to enter the court.
Huang Fangdu was worried that Zhu Jin's move was to divert the tiger from the mountain, so he said that he was sick. Huang Fangdu's actions confirmed Feng Xifan's worries, so Zhu Jin sent his cousin Zheng Bin to Zhangzhang to offer condolences.
"Or lead the troops to attack Guangdong south with the Zheng army, or give up the military power to enter the shogunate as an official?" Hearing Zheng Bin's proposal on behalf of Zhu Jin, Huang Fangdu, who was lying on the couch and pretending to be sick, coughed twice as if it was difficult. "Zheng Changshi, Fei Yu doesn't want to serve in front of the general's army, it is really a recurrence of the old disease, and I also ask Changshi to explain to the general that when Yu's body and bones are a little better, he will definitely relieve himself of military power, as for entering the curtain, there is no need, when the time comes, please ask the general to give a few acres of wasteland in Taiwan, and more than 100 members of Yu Huang's family can cultivate and eat by themselves."
Zheng Bin left with a look of disbelief, but before he left the Huang Mansion on the front foot, Huang Fangdu's cousin Huang Fangtai rushed into Huang Fangdu's room with Huang Yi and Huang Guan, and as soon as the Huang family was gone: "Grandpa, why don't you take this opportunity to detain Zheng Bin, so that Zheng Jing'er can be a mouse." โ
"Nonsense! Zheng Bin is just an outcast, what's the use of detaining him, it's better to let him go back to his life, so as to give Yu and others time to rectify the city defense and train the soldiers. Speaking of this, Huang Fangdu looked at Huang Fangtai. Eldest brother, you immediately sneak to Guangdong, meet Anda Gong, and say that Yu Huang's family is willing to respond internally, and ask him to send troops to rescue him immediately."
Huang Fangdu's opposition is already obvious, but Zhu Jin's side is not prepared, on the one hand, Zhangzhou City has a lot of grain and Huang Fangdu has been in business for many years, on the other hand, Ming Zheng's main force has gone south to confront Shang Zhixin on the front line of Chaozhou, so Zhu Jin has to continue to use the political solution.
Zhu Jin sent an invitation to Huang Fangdu through Geng Jingzhong, inviting him to go north and join forces with Geng Fan to attack Zhejiang. Huang Fangdu was worried that he would be attacked by Zheng Jun after he left Zhangzhou, and he was afraid that he would be cannon fodder after arriving in northern Fujian, and he was unwilling to abandon the old nest that had been entrenched for many years, so he ignored Geng Jingzhong's letter, and in this way, the opportunity to peacefully resolve Zhangzhou was completely lost.
At the end of May, the letter of the Qing Anda Gongshang mobilized about 30,000 Qing troops from all over Guangdong to meet the Zheng army at the Horseshoe Crab Mountain. The Zheng army adopted the tactics of breaking through the middle and outflanking the two flanks to meet it. He You, the commander of the Left Tiger Guard, led his troops to bravely attack and penetrate the Shang army, and just when Shang Zhixin's department was in chaos, Liu Guoxuan killed one after another, and the Shang army was defeated. In the battle, Zheng's army defeated an enemy three times his own with less than 10,000 people, and his prestige was greatly enhanced, and Shang Zhixin's defeat also meant the beginning of the fall of the Huang clan
"Kill!" As soon as the rumbling cannon stopped, the shouts of killing filled the sky again. In the eyes of the defenders of Zhangzhou who crawled out of the cave, the dense ant colony-like human heads under the city were like a roaring sea, pushing wave after wave, and swooping down on themselves who seemed to be in danger.
"Shoot! Shoot them! Huang Fangdu, who was standing in the enemy tower at the head of the city and watching the battle command, squeezed out a few words from between his teeth, although Pinghe and other counties have been forced to surrender by He You and others who returned to the division, and the whole shape has been extremely unfavorable to the Huang family, but Huang Fangdu has no way to retreat, you must know that his father Huang Wu in order to show loyalty to the Qing court, but he dug the ancestral grave of the Zheng family with his own hands, and now the father and son have to pay off the debt, even if they want to die, they have to drag the whole Chaozhou people to die together.
With Huang Fangdu's order, the guns and cannons were fired at the head of Zhangzhou City, and in the midst of thunder and lightning, rows of Zheng troops fell on the road that rushed forward. However, a few years ago, the Zheng army's forces retreated to Taiwan, and Zhangzhou was already a safe zone, and the Qing court did not have too many firearms here, so the casualties caused by guns and artillery could be tolerated by the Zheng army. However, various firearms with a low rate of fire were evaded, and the salvo bow and arrow caused considerable losses.
Looking at the soldiers wailing in the rain of bullets, Zhu Jin's face was solemn.
"Your Majesty, you can't fight hard anymore." If Zhu Jin's face was still solemn, Hua Shanglan, who was driven to the front line, was like a mourner. "If you fight Renwu Town again, there will be nothing left."
Looking at the same frowning and worried Governor Zuo, Xingming Marquis Zhao Desheng and Zuo Vanguard General Zhang Xueyao and others, Chen Shenwu stepped forward and bowed his hand to Zhu Jin's suggestion: "Your Majesty, Zhangzhou City is high, Huang Zhi has already prepared, I am afraid that I can't take it lightly for a while, today the forward spirit has been lost, it is better to return to the camp for the time being, and fight again in the next day." โ
"When will the Hongyi artillery team arrive?" Ci is not in charge of the army, and Zhu Jin is willing to consume miscellaneous strength, so he did not accept Chen Shenwu's request at the first time, but urged: "The order goes down, it will not arrive within five days, and the battalion officials will be beheaded within ten days, and the town generals will be beheaded!" Listening to Zhu Jin's murderous words, everyone looked at Shang Hualan with pity, and it was only at this time that Zhu Jin said slowly. What Chen Zanhua said also makes sense, Mingjin. โ
When the sound of the gong made the city and the city breathe a sigh of relief, Huang Fangdu slowly walked out of the enemy building, and shouted at his subordinates: "Seeing that there is no Zheng Jun retreating, they are also people, one nose and two eyes, they will bleed and die if they eat the arrows, there is nothing remarkable, today the big guy has a meritorious service in defending the city, and the reward will be doubled!" โ
There was a burst of cheers in the city, and the big guys were all looking for a future with their lives with their heads, so naturally the more money they had in hand, the better. However, unlike the elation of the lower-level soldiers, Huang Fangdu's subordinate Cai Long still frowned.
"Grandpa, I just sent someone to check on it, more than forty people died, and more than a hundred were injured," This number is not large, far smaller than Zheng Jun's casualties, so this is not what Cai Long is worried about. "A quarter of the gunpowder has been used, and nearly 4,000 arrows have been used, in case the siege lasts for a long time?"
"What?" Huang Fangdu was shocked, the gunpowder was not enough, and then his cannon was about to be dumbfounded. "Damn it!" However, after scolding this sentence, Huang Fangdu pretended to be calm. "Don't be afraid, Zheng Junbing is only ten thousand and five, and I can't afford such losses today, speaking of which, it should be Zheng Jing's house that should be worried now." As he spoke, Huang Fangdu clenched his fists, both to convince Cai Long and to convince himself. "Even if Zheng Jun only besieges the city and does not attack the city, there is nothing to be afraid of, Yu has prepared enough grain for a year, even if it consumes food with Zheng Jing, we will also win with energy consumption."
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