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On January 27, 1626, the 30th month of the fifth year of the Apocalypse of the Ming Empire, Chinese New Year's Eve.

The sound of firecrackers at the end of another year temporarily drowned out the mournful wails of the famine everywhere. Shenzhou is twilight, just wait for the time to pass, this empire will usher in the most tragic historical chorus of internal and external troubles that lasted for 18 years.

The solemn Forbidden City in Beijing, intertwined with wind and snow, peaceful and solemn, the palace maids and eunuchs have hung countless red lights, guarding the arrival of the sixth year of the Apocalypse. And in the remote Dayuan Island Anping Fort, a lively military and civilian fun is underway.

Although it is the town guard of the Ming generals, the Ming officers and soldiers who have not gotten rid of the habit of piracy still mingle with the villagers of the immigrants, and the military fort is very lively, the cauldron is boiling, and the food is fragrant.

In the newly renovated general's mansion, a cadre of generals headed by Yan Siqi was happily surrounding the main hall, feasting, and raising wine glasses frequently.

According to the hints in the court now, Yan Siqi's holy decree to be promoted to deputy general after the year is basically ironclad, and it is just around the corner to be promoted to the chief military officer and open the town.

Yan Siqi's love today is very good, not only because of the good news from Nanjing, but also because he finally received a letter from China and the United States in the past few days. The children of the Yan family's confidants were safe and sound, and even an additional Huamei aid came with the letter.

The two Furlong ships were laden with more magnificent seafood, almost more than the share delivered at the end of the summer of the fifth year of the Apocalypse. A full 3,000 gorgeous rifles, 20 nine-pound gorgeous heavy guns, and a large number of original ammunition gave Yan Siqi, who was about to completely turn his face with the Japanese shogunate, feel more confident.

Speaking of which, this qiē is still because of Zheng Zhilong. Li Dan's death half a year ago, the once powerful Li family forces fell into chaos, Li Dan's son Li Guozhu specially returned to Japan from Luzon, preparing to receive the huge family business and the East China Sea fleet left behind after his father's death, but was secretly resisted by Zheng Zhilong and others.

The impatient Li Guozhu was furious. First of all, a little pirate leader named Liu Xiang was knifed, and as a result, one of the "Eighteen Zhis" who had sworn with Zheng Zhilong in history immediately publicly argued with Li Guozhu. Zheng Zhilong, who had already been attached to the imperial court under Li Dan's arrangement before his death, also took the opportunity to find a reason to stand on Liu Xiang's side.

After several naval battles, the side that supported Li Guozhu was defeated, and was even declared a "sea rebellion" by Zheng Zhilong under the banner of the imperial court. Li Guozhu lost his father's property left in Japan, and most of his supporters were also swallowed up by Zheng Zhilong's side, so he could only flee back to Luzon in disgrace, relying on the last bit of possessions to cling to the wings of the Spaniards, and since then he has become an ordinary maritime merchant.

Zheng Zhilong, who ate Li Dan's huge legacy. completely exposed his ambitions, not only quickly took over Li Dan's relationship with the Tokugawa shogunate in Japan during his lifetime, but also pushed the Shimazu family of the Satsuma Domain in Kyushu to encroach on Yan Siqi's roots in Japan behind the scenes. The Kyushu Satsuma Domain, which had long coveted Ryukyu Island and had a long-term feud with Yan Siqi, took the opportunity to incite the shogunate to come forward, canceled Yan Siqi's trade qualifications in Japan, and drove out all the Ming maritime merchants who were dependent on Yan Siqi. confiscated all the belongings that Yan Siqi had hoarded in Japan. All of a sudden, the Daming maritime merchants who were not from Zheng Zhilong's family in the entire East China Sea were in a hurry, but they were afraid that they would not be able to hide.

Yan Siqi didn't expect Zheng Zhilong to control the situation so quickly, and colluded with the Japanese shogunate, and hastily sent people to Ryukyu to fight outposts, preparing to save the situation. The Ryukyu king's family was so frightened that they shrunk in the palace as ostriches, and they didn't dare to let go of a fart.

Immediately afterwards, before Yan Siqi could mobilize his troops and horses, Zheng Zhilong used the name of "inspecting Fujian and Zhejiang coastal defense". Gathering the main force in Penghu, the patrol clipper even sailed to the open sea of Dayuan Tamsui Fort for a time. To make matters worse, the Dutch East India Company also began to change its face towards Yan Siqi's vassal maritime merchants in the South Seas, and various provocations gradually emerged. Many maritime merchants were harassed and even plundered by heavy taxes by the Dutch.

The layout of this head and tail made Yan Siqi angry and shocked. Angry that it was the Japanese shogunate, the Dutch red hair and Zheng Zhilong wolf bèi for the traitor. I was shocked that this qiē was so tightly unfolded in turn, which shows how thoughtful Zheng Zhilong is.

However, for several years in a row, he has received strong funding from China and the United States, and even if Yan Siqi is still inferior to Zheng Zhilong in terms of overall strength, his soldiers and horses are also very sophisticated, especially the firearms and equipment are second to none in the East China Sea.

Seeing the move, half a month ago, Yan Siqi personally led the fleet and fought a small battle with the warships of the Satsuma Domain near Ryukyu Island, and as a result, almost all of the opponent's humble fleet was wiped out, and his morale and self-confidence were restored.

Now that Yan Siqi has received a large amount of arms supplies, even if the Francois in Macau can't afford to offend Zheng Zhilong, the Dutch and the Japanese shogunate, and are now silent, Yan Siqi is confident that he can clean up the group of rookies in the Satsuma Domain in Kyushu in the next few months, and then force the Japanese shogunate to make concessions to himself, and also kill chickens to show monkeys by the way, so that Zheng Zhilong will retreat.

In the midst of the staggering, Yan Siqi did not forget to spread out the letter paper, recalling the letter sent back from thousands of miles away word by word, full of expectations for his beloved daughter's life in China and the United States, but he could never have imagined that a few months after the letter in his hand was sent, his daughter would become a cadet of the Chinese and American Navy.

"I wish the general an additional officer and a bright future!" It was Yan Sihai who was the first to stand up, shouting at a group of Yan pirate leaders to toast to his cousin on the throne. The main hall suddenly cried and howled, and all the red-faced men lifted their shirts and raised their wine glasses.

"Hehe, thanks to the help of the brothers, Yan is where he is today. Everyone shares weal and woe, if there is a mouthful of food, there will be many brothers who take a sip of wine! Yan Siqi was very happy, and he also stood up and saluted around, first drinking his big bowl.

"Report! Report to the general, there is a fast letter from Dengzhou, Shandong! ”

As soon as he took the bowl away from his mouth, he heard an urgent report, and a Ming army colonel ran in from outside the gate with a letter in his hand, and a man squatted on one leg in the center of the main hall.

"Shandong? Could it be that Zheng Zhilong still dares to stretch out his hand to Dengzhou?! Yan Sihai was the first to throw away the bowl, strode to the side of the school, and took down the letter, but he didn't dare to open it and look at it first.

Dengzhou is now Yan Siqi's key business place on the mainland, second only to Macao and Fuzhou, not only forming a strong alliance of interests with Shandong Lu businessmen, but also using Dengzhou as a base. operates the Liaodong trade route that Zheng Zhilong did not dare to and has never set foot in. Today's Mao Wenlong, the chief military officer of Dongjiang Town, relies on the support of Dengzhou Lushang and Yan Siqi's sea trade to be able to fight on the back of Houjin's neck.

"No matter how bold Zheng Zhilong is, he doesn't dare to touch the plates of the Liu family and Mao Junmen in Shandong." As soon as Yan Siqi pondered for a while, he knew that it could not be this matter, so he calmly opened the letter, and after only a few glances, he showed a stern expression.

"The ambition of the wolf son in the east of Jianzhou, the soldiers and horses gathered. Meaning to cross the Liao River! Yan Siqi snorted coldly, turned around and returned to the main seat, his face solemn, "Lord Sun (Sun Chengzong) gave his head a few months ago, and Gao Di took over as the Liaodong Economic Strategy. I'm afraid it's going to be difficult to do military affairs outside the customs...... I have heard for a long time that Gao Di is fierce and afraid of the enemy like a tiger, this time he actually retreated to the abandoned land, and withdrew the defenders of Jinzhou, Youtun, Dalinghe, and Ningqian Zhucheng, and lost 400 miles of land! After speaking, he slammed his hand on the table, so angry that his neck was exposed.

"Imperial Court ...... Alas! Big brother, can this Daming be defeated again......" Yan Sihai listened. also stomped his foot hard, "Such a dumb person is in charge of Liaodong, why don't the imperial court kill him!" ”

"Now only Ningyuan City is left in Ningqian, and Lord Yuan Chonghuan Yuan is alone in the lonely city. I'm afraid there will be more than one luck. Yan Siqi pinched his beard and shook his head incessantly, "A few months ago, Lord Xu Guangqi's cronies asked for help. We waited for nine catties of gorgeous cannons to be shipped before and after, but in the end, we couldn't resist the high order! We stayed in the grain sales fleet on Juehua Island. Evacuated. ”

"Big brother, since the imperial court is ignoring the actions of the high-ranking people to fear the enemy, what do we have to worry about? Anyway, the grain ship has returned, and how to win or lose this battle has nothing to do with us! Come on, keep drinking! Yan Sihai's temper came, and before the words fell, he grabbed the wine jar with one hand and poured it in front of everyone.

Seeing his cousin's indignant look, Yan Siqi could only sigh deeply.

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A battle that will go down in life, slightly ahead of history.

On February 6, 1626, on the 10th day of the first month of the sixth year of the Ming Empire's Apocalypse, the Houjin head Nurhachi led the main force of the Eight Banners to cross the Liao River to the west with 60,000 yuan, and captured Youtun, Dalinghe, Jinzhou, Xiaolinghe, Songshan, Xingshan, Tashan, Lianshan and other cities. Houjin soldiers were like entering a no-man's land, and they went all the way to Ning Yuan.

On the eighteenth day of the first lunar month, Nurhachi led his army to Ningyuan and surrounded Yuan Chonghuan and other Ming legions of less than 20,000 people. At this time, Yuan Chonghuan, who was still not well-known, gave full play to his stubborn and courageous sharp style, and issued an oath of "survive in death, there will be no death", and defended the city with the attitude of "this Tao is rushing forward, striving for its intelligence, and it is expected that you can be a slave".

All kinds of military laws and strategies for defending the city were promulgated one by one, and Yuan Chonghuan moved out the Hongyi cannons that both Sun Chengzong and Xu Guangqi had worked hard to get in recent years, including nine gorgeous cannons from a certain "small state".

After all, Yuan Chonghuan was a discerning person, and he could see at a glance that this kind of gorgeous cannon that was far more well-made than the Hongyi cannon of the Francophone was unusual, and without saying a word, he directly erected it on the most critical section of the city wall, and at the same time dispatched the most skilled gunner to be responsible for firing the cannon.

This is not over, the 400 gorgeous rifles that Xu Guangqi "begged" before and after can also be called "magic weapons", and naturally all of them have entered Yuan Chonghuan's Daobiao Battalion pro-army.

Several attempts to persuade him to surrender failed, and from the twentieth day of the first month, Nurhachi, who felt faceless, launched a large-scale siege of the city. Yuan Chonghuan, who was hard-boned, did not show weakness, and commanded a group of Ming troops who regarded death as home, "two corners of the gate, saving to attack horizontally", "attacking from the city, week and week, and in each artillery station, erosion can be several miles". The cannon fodder of the Houjin soldiers, who were driven forward, withstood the artillery fire, and in the biting cold winter, they took the chariot as the forerunner, filled the city canal, and the ants attached it.

The Huamei nine-pound cannon, which is far superior to the Hongyi cannon sold by the Francophiles, has become the absolute workhorse this time, with a sustained rate of fire, maximum range, power, and accuracy. The nine Huamei cannons directly hit the firepower density of the previous dozen or twenty Hongyi cannons, and often a single cannonball could knock down an entire column of Houjin soldiers at a distance of 400 paces, and the special original shotgun could sweep away any creature in the sector at a distance of 100 paces. A group of Ming gunners were screaming and screaming, and rows of Daobiao battalion infantry soldiers who raised their guns and fired back and forth were even more slaughtering.

"More than a dozen breaths can come out, as fast as thunder, reciprocating, indestructible. The matter of Pingliao must be these two instruments. Yuan Chonghuan's letter to Xu Guangqi afterwards was full of praise.

From early morning to evening, the offensive and defensive battles lasted all day, and Ningyuan City was almost broken by the Houjin soldiers several times, but they were all beaten back by Yuan Chonghuan's death squad. The corpses of the Houjin soldiers under the city accumulated, the blood flowed like a river, and more than 1,000 people were killed, far exceeding the total loss of the Houjin army attacking Ningyuan City in history.

On the second day, the red-eyed Nurhachi concentrated the remaining siege equipment and launched another all-out attack.

This time, the gunners of the Ming army who tasted the sweetness of the gorgeous cannons all competed for the gun positions, and fought happily one by one, which made the gunners who operated other Hongyi cannons envious. The battle of the day was even more one-sided, many siege equipment was destroyed one after another before it was close to the Ningyuan city wall, and the Houjin soldiers who accompanied the advance were flying with stumps, crying all over the ground.

In a fit of rage, Nurhachi pounced with the pro-army cavalry, regardless of whether he could use a knife to knock open the city defense of Ningyuan City, at least it showed the momentum of the children of the Eight Banners of Jianzhou, and then the nine Huamei cannon crews of the Ming army, which had already been easy to fight, came to a spectacular salvo of shotguns, and then, the classic picture of history still appeared unstoppably.

"The cannon passed through, killed the northern cavalry, and the Yellow Dragon Curtain, and injured the king. The northern cavalry said that it was unfavorable to send troops, wrapped the body in leather, and ran away crying. ”

Ji Liao Jing slightly higher than the first report: "The slave thieves attacked Ningyuan, killed a big leader, wrapped it in red cloth, and carried it away by the thieves. ”

On February 18, 1626, on the 22nd day of the first month of the sixth year of the Ming Empire's Apocalypse, Nurhachi was hit by a gorgeous nine-pound heavy artillery shotgun during the siege of Ningyuan City, and was seriously wounded.

Yuan Chonghuan proved himself in a battle and became famous, while Gao Di picked up good fruits in a faint move, and the credit was obtained without effort. For a while, the Ming court was thunderous, and the officials celebrated endlessly, and since the end of Wanli, the situation of repeated defeats of the Jurchens in Shangjianzhou seems to have finally turned around, and "peace can be expected". Gao Di, who was valued by Wei Zhongxian, was even more high-spirited, and frequently showed off his "strategy". Emperor Longyan Dayue of the Apocalypse lived even more simply, and almost all of the government was lost to a group of important ministers headed by Wei Zhongxian, and he went to study his carpentry skills with peace of mind.

This time, under the butterfly effect, there was no military action in history to retaliate against and attack Juehua Island after Nurhachi was wounded, and Nurhachi, who was beaten half-dead and empty-blooded, directly chose to retreat, and the heroic sacrifice of the soldiers and civilians of the Ming Dynasty on Juehua Island did not happen, and more than 80,000 stone of grain were safe and sound. (To be continued)