Volume VII, the Great Brawl at the end of the Ming Dynasty

Foreword, Those Travelers Who Went Forward and Succeeded - Setting a Timetable for the Background of the "Great Chaos at the End of the Ming Dynasty" (618-6-)

In the first month of the forty-sixth year of Wanli (618), Huangshi, one of the members of the Lingao crossing group, had an accident in the process of crossing the wormhole, and unfortunately fell into the sea from the "holy ship" Fengcheng ship, accompanied by the sound of explosions in advance in Liaodong, and was taken in by a family in Liuhe, Guangning ("Stealing Ming" plot).

In the forty-eighth year of Wanli (62 years), the North American crossing group took the entire port to Manhattan Island, New York, and then captured the famous "Mayflower" in history, and intermarried with the local Indian tribe "Delaware", opening up the situation and beginning to establish the United States.

In the same year, the "Yunsheng No. 1" passenger and cargo ship, which originally sailed on the Yangtze River, crossed to the Atlantic coast of Uruguay in South America and established the East Coast Company (in order to be consistent with "New World 62", it was ten years earlier than the original "Crossing 63: The Rise of South America").

A few years later, the two major groups of traversers from the north and the south who came to the Americas had contacts and exchanges, and although they were very jealous of each other, they did not immediately break out into armed conflict -- because they were located at the northern and southern ends of the Americas, the geographical distance made it almost inevitable that one side of the labor expedition would be defeated: from China and the United States to the East Coast Company, separated by a full 9,000 kilometers of ocean and six places, roughly equivalent to twice the distance from Hainan Island to Mohe in Heilongjiang. However, the strength of the two groups is almost the same (the East Coast Company is slightly weaker), and neither of them can absorb the other, so in the end they have to develop "good-neighborly and friendly relations".

However, in 62, in order to fight for the colony of South Africa, to be exact, a relay station for recruiting Ming immigrants from the Americas to the Orient, the two sides finally broke out in an armed conflict, and the South American bloc was defeated and frustrated, but in the end it ended in peace talks. China and the United States got South Africa's territory, but the port had to be open to the South American bloc, and the colonial government also inserted South American people, similar to the public concession in Shanghai of the Republic of China. Subsequently, both sides began to plan a voyage to the homeland of the Ming Dynasty, but as of this year, the two major crossing forces in the Americas did not have the existence of other crossers.

In the second year of the Apocalypse (62 years), Huangshi killed the rebel general Sun Degong, quelled the rebellion in Guangning, and immediately laid the foundation of Changsheng Island, embarking on the road of a generation of famous generals.

In the third year of the Apocalypse (62 years), Huangshi cooperated with Zhang Pan to win the battle of Lushun, swept thousands of troops like a sweep, and the name of the fire battalion began to appear in the world.

In the fourth year of the Apocalypse (6 years), Zhang Wei crossed the coast of Fujian and took refuge in Zheng Zhilong (the plot of "The Great Han Dragon") to help him expand his maritime power.

In the same year, Huangshi combined the Western military formation, He Dingyuan's family skills, and trained a disciplined spear formation. In Jinzhou, with 400 guns, he fought against more than 600 cavalry, creating a miracle of killing and wounding four hundred and sixty-seven horsemen, and became a star on the battlefield in Liaodong for a time. Subsequently, Sun Chengzong came to Changsheng Island and gave Changsheng Island a large amount of ironclad support, and Wei Zhongxian also transferred ironclad support from the eunuch system to support Huangshi's army.

In the first month of the fifth year of the Apocalypse (62 years), the Battle of Nanguan, the fire battalion of Huangshi defeated the main force of Houjin in one fell swoop, and was truly regarded as a great enemy by Houjin. In June, Huangshi won the Battle of Fuzhou, and after Zhongji was ambushed, he still broke the Houjin army of 70 Niu Lu alone, which became a nightmare for the Jurchens.

On the other hand, after accumulating some money, Zhang Wei took Shi Lang and others to leave Zheng Zhilong Group to reclaim Taiwan and lay the foundation.

In August, Huang Shi went to Beijing to meet the Son of Heaven, and won the favor and trust of the Son of Heaven and Wei Zhongxian, as well as the unanimous praise of Shilin and the people. In December, Huangshi crossed the sea to rescue Juehua Island, which was attacked by the Later Jin army, and won another great victory. At the same time, Yuan Chonghuan also defended Ningyuan City, which was adjacent to Juehua Island.

In the sixth year of the Apocalypse (62 years), in August, Huangshi jumped on the horse Liaoyang, and killed the enemy chief Nurhachi alone (in fact, he pinched the time of his death in history), which caused a sensation in the world and became a generation of legends, as well as a thorn in the side of civil officials - suppressing military generals has become the basic national policy of the imperial court in the late Ming Dynasty.

Due to Wei Zhongxian's compromise with the Donglin Party, in the autumn of that year, Huangshi was forced to leave Liaodong and move south to Fujian, preparing to send troops to quell the Luxury Rebellion in the southwest. Before leaving, Huangshi borrowed a large amount of "Pingman Loan" from Shandong merchants, and established a relatively stable relationship with the Maori family of the Japanese Choshu Domain, allowing the Maori family to underwrite Huangshi's own copper coins in the Japanese market and share the huge profits. As a result, relations between the Tokugawa shogunate in Edo and Choshu deteriorated, and the "Battle of Seichō" broke out the following year. Although the number of the old army of the shogunate was large, it was peaceful for a long time, and it could not break the modern fortress at all, and it was no match for the new army of Choshu trained with the help of Huangshi, not to mention that Huangshi also directly assisted in the battle, and finally the Choshu domain won a complete victory.

(This is the end of the original plot line of "Stealing Ming", and the next Yellowstone will metamorphose in pain and take a completely different path.) ）

In December, Huangshi arrived at Xiapu, the garrison of Funingwei in Fujian, and established himself in Shunlì, but his follow-up troop convoy was attacked by pirates, killing and wounding. At the same time, he noticed that Zheng Zhilong's forces seemed to be stronger than in history, entrenched in Gulangyu and Zhongzuo, rampaging in southern Fujian, and Taiwan had a group of Zhang Wei's "bandits" with strange origins. In view of the above-mentioned changes in the situation in Fujian, the new base camp of Xiapu does not seem to be stable enough, although Huangshi began to collect baggage in Xiapu as soon as he ascended to the 6th, but he was afraid that he would lose his nest after the expedition, and he could not make up his mind for a while whether to immediately send troops to the southwest.

In January of the seventh year of the Apocalypse (62 years), Zheng Zhilong launched an attack on southern Fujian in advance, the Fujian Navy Division was destroyed, the veteran Yu Zhigao committed suicide in defeat, Quanzhou, Haicheng and other places fell, and the Ming army collapsed on all fronts. The Fujian government cried and begged Huangshi not to go on an expedition first, but to organize a defense on the spot.

In February, the first time and space door of Lingaozhong was opened in the Gao family mansion in Guangzhou, and a large number of various modern small commodities began to flow to the market at the end of the Ming Dynasty.

In March, knowing that the Fujian government wanted to let Huangshi, the world's number one general, crusade against him, Zheng Zhilong, who had inflated his self-confidence because of the victory in southern Fujian, simply struck first and ordered the fleet to move north and attack Xiapu. Huangshi led the fire battalion to defeat the enemy in a battle, and won a great victory in the defense of Xiapu. However, Funingwei's accumulated materials were also heavily lost, and the southwest expedition was completely blown up, and the imperial court ordered Huangshi to take Fujian coastal defense as the top and put the southwest expedition on hold.

In April, some of the modern goods that flowed into the Cantonese market arrived in the hands of Huangshi and Zhang Wei through guò merchant ships, and the two were terrified for a while, writing letters to each other to try to trace the origin of the goods. After the initial discovery of the source of the goods, Taiwan's Zhang Wei, who was "outside the system", was still confused, and Huangshi, as one of the members of the Lingao Group, fell into great hesitation and struggle (before he came to the end of the Ming Dynasty, he already knew the process of several early sales of Lingaozhong and the general variety of goods - the long-awaited future companions finally came, what should he do?). ）。

At the same time, Chen Xin and Liu Min traveled to the Jizhou area, and immediately went to Tianjin, trying to establish a foundation (the opening scene of "Late Ming"). And other sporadic travelers from all walks of life have also appeared in this war-torn land of China after the wheel of history slowly entered the Chongzhen era.

In the summer, Huangshi fought with Zheng Zhilong, and thousands of Funing troops swept through the counties of southern Fujian, and Zheng's army was powerless in 6 places. However, suffering from the lack of sailors and the lack of naval talents, Huangshi could only sigh at Zheng Zhilong, who was guarding the islands of Xiamen, Kinmen and Penghu. In desperation, Huang Shi secretly met with Zhang Wei, revealed that he still had the support of the crossing group behind him, and tried to conclude a military alliance with Zhang Wei. However, Huangshi's maritime power was difficult to form for a while -- although he was already working hard to build ships, Taiwan's tycoon Zhang Wei did not own many warships, and he was very suspicious of Huangshi's discipline, and the war situation in Fujian was still deadlocked, and although Huangshi was invincible in six places, it was ultimately unable to exterminate Zheng Zhilongwei's maritime group. Then, on August 22, the Emperor of the Apocalypse, Zhu Youxiao, died. On November 6, Wei Zhongxian hanged himself in Fucheng. Huangshi's political backers collapsed, and the Donglin Party quickly occupied the court and began to liquidate the remnants of the eunuch party. Although Sun Chengzong and others were protected, Huangshi was unfortunately among the targets. Chen Xin started by scolding the eunuchs, became famous, and got the foundation of Wen Dengying, and at the same time began to explore the details of Huangshi, a famous general who does not exist in history.

In the first half of the first year of Chongzhen (62 years), Huang Shi was demoted to the deputy chief soldier of Fujian North Road on charges of "no merit of teacher work" and "attachment to the eunuch party", and then he was demoted to a general, and even almost executed.

However, it was difficult to repay the large amount of military expenses borrowed from Shandong merchants (Pingman's big loans), and the Fujian government refused to pay in advance, and the magistrates who beat the water dogs even deducted the military expenses consumed by the previous coastal war in Fujian, and did not let go of the reward for the victory in the southern Fujian war, and impeached the Funing army for plundering the gentry in southern Fujian (the government did not give food or military salaries, and the army could not live without eating large households), and the Funing army was in diplomatic difficulties for a while, and Huangshi's finances fell into an unprecedented desperate situation.

Next, Xiong Wencan was appointed governor of Fujian in an attempt to recruit Zheng Zhilong's maritime/pirate group. In order to curry favor with Zheng Zhilong, and also to flatter the Donglin Party in power, Xiong Wencan began to further suppress Huangshi, the "remnant of the eunuch party", not only self-destructing Fujian coastal defense, but also fabricating charges to kill Huangshi's subordinate generals Zhao Wanxiong, He Dingyuan and others, Huangshi had to arrange for them to flee to Taiwan's Zhang Wei's territory to temporarily avoid the limelight.

In the midst of the difficult wait, on September 1, the Fengcheng ship, the "holy ship" of Lingaozhong, finally arrived in this world, and at the same time, Huangshi disappeared. But I didn't know that there were already spies from Huangshi in Lingao County. At the end of the year, Huangshi, who learned the news, sent a secret envoy from Fujian to Lingao to send a letter to complain, and soon the envoy of Zhang Wei from Taiwan also came to Lingao. But at this point in time, the strength of the three parties was extremely limited for the time being, and mutual trust was also a problem, so the situation could not be reversed quickly, but it finally delayed the time when Zheng Zhilong was appeased. After some bargaining, Zhang Wei won the title of veteran in Lingao, and Comrade Huangshi, who worked hard and had a strong army, became one of the "executive members" of Lingao (a long-term expatriate, basically a pure title).

In the second year of Chongzhen (62 years), Huang Taiji broke through the pass and swept through Gyeonggi, due to the fact that he had been sharpened by Huangshi's advanced tactics for several years, as well as Yuan Chonghuan's wanton collaboration with the enemy and betrayal of the country ("Stealing Ming" plot setting), the combat effectiveness of the Eight Banners Army was far stronger than in history, and with the full cooperation of Yuan Chonghuan, Huang Taiji once almost broke through Beijing. Although the Later Jin army failed to break the city in the end, the losses of the Ming Dynasty were also far heavier than in history, and the whole of Hebei was completely eroded, and a large number of troops mutinied and dispersed or were annihilated. However, Chen Xin's Wendeng camp was brilliant in the final counterattack and was rewarded and praised by Emperor Chongzhen. However, because the history of this world has long been disturbed by Yellowstone, Chen Xin's cousin Xiàn has not attracted the attention of southern travelers for the time being.

In the spring of the same year, despite the repeated troubles and delays of the traversers, Zheng Zhilong's pirate/maritime group was finally appeased by Xiong Wencan, and Zheng Zhilong became a "coastal defense guerrilla", wearing official uniforms and returning to his hometown in southern Fujian, actually controlling southern Fujian, and eyeing Huangshi in northern Fujian Province.

On the other hand, Huangshi relied on modern industrial products funded by Lingao to barely pay off the "big loan of the barbarians", but Xiong Wencan took the opportunity to impeach him for "colluding with pirates" and attempted to be imprisoned. It was thanks to Emperor Chongzhen that after arresting Yuan Chonghuan, he also regretted that he had connived at Yuan Chonghuan's violation of the law and beheaded Mao Wenlong without authorization, so that the impeachment of Huangshi by the Fujian authorities was temporarily suppressed. And Xiong Wencan did not have the courage to destroy the system like Yuan Chonghuan and kill the generals without authorization, which allowed Huangshi to escape for the time being. But on the other hand, Emperor Chongzhen, who wanted to save face, also had no intention of using Huangshi again.

From then on, the Fujian government gave preferential treatment to Zheng Zhilong and other pirates who surrendered to Chengcheng, constantly insulted and mistreated Huangshi's subordinates, and relied on the secret blood transfusion of Taiwan's Zhang Wei and Lingao to maintain the Funing army from collapsing - so the annoyed Huangshi no longer had any nostalgia for the Ming Dynasty, and began to send some of his soldiers to Lingao to assist the Senate in the great cause of conquest. And the bullied Funing army was also indignant at the Fujian authorities who were ungrateful and recognized thieves as their father (too favorably and enveloped Zheng Zhilong, and used these pirates to deal with Huangshi), and their loyalty to the Ming Dynasty was basically exhausted.

With Huangshi, the extra-large leading party in the Ming Dynasty system, the expansion momentum of Lingao crossing the public was suddenly strengthened, and the markets in all aspects were opened one after another. All kinds of pirates were exterminated one after another, and at the same time, the private forces of Huangshi and Zhang Wei were gradually integrated into the system of the Lingao Senate.

In the third year of Chongzhen (63 years), the Guangdong government soldiers crossed the sea to crusade against the "thief (short thief)" in Qiongzhou, and the whole territory of Hainan Island changed hands. Immediately afterwards, a large number of thieves counterattacked into Guangzhou, swept across the Pearl River Delta, and retreated after gaining some practical benefits such as trade, and seized Hong Kong as a base. Immediately, he took advantage of the victory to continue to surprise attack Xiamen and Quanzhou, united with Zhang Wei and Shi Lang's Taiwanese army, broke the Zheng family's soldiers and horses entrenched in southern Fujian, and killed Zheng Zhilong's entire family.

Next, Huang Shi led the Funing Army to pretend to go south to rescue, but in fact strangled the remnants of the Zheng army, trying to dominate Fujian, so he clashed fiercely with Xiong Wen Cansheng, the governor of Fujian. However, relying on the absolute superiority of force and the reality that the Zheng family had been destroyed, Huangshi finally reached a compromise with Xiong Wencan and joined forces to fool the imperial court - Huangshi was promoted to the general army of Fujian because of his "military exploits", and Xiong Wencan moved to be the governor of Liangguang and the governor of Guangdong, cleaning up the mess after the invasion of thieves.

Zou Weilian, the new governor of Fujian who came to replace Xiong Wencan, reluctantly admitted the reality of Huangshi's secession under pressure from all sides.

At this point, Huangshi completely tore off the painting skin of loyalty and patriotism, and completed the transformation of the warlords of the feudal town. The Funing Army also basically joined the Senate system and became the vanguard of aggression in the skin of the Ming Dynasty. But despite this, Huangshi felt that there was still a vague sense of alienation from Lingao.

On the other hand, after the initial pacification of Fujian and the elimination of various competitors in the Taiwan Strait, the forces of the Senate entered Taiwan in a big way, and immediately used force to deter the Dutch and force them not to exploit the Han people in Taiwan, but for the sake of maintaining trade exchanges, the Dutch temporarily retained their stronghold. Zhang Wei's independence forces in Taiwan were co-opted, and he enjoyed the treatment of a senior veteran and moved to Penghu to take up a post, and his situation was not good or bad. In Taiwan, with the foundation and population left by Zhang Wei, the Senate established the colonial base of Kaohsiung City. The influence of the "thieves" in South China has been greatly expanded.

In the spring of the same year, due to the change of history, the Houjin army once again broke the Great Wall from Xuanda into Shanxi, and the local newcomer Wang Dou ("A Small Soldier of the Border Army in the Late Ming Dynasty" opened in advance) emerged in the battle. Beijing was once again under siege, and the Ming court was in chaos, and it had no intention of paying attention to the chaos in the south.

In the same year, Vladivostok's crossing group appeared and established the Far Eastern Company (the plot of "Far East 62" began, which was postponed for two years in order to balance the forces of all parties). Tong Guò attacked Korea and Japan, and this well-armed crosser, with aircraft and 6 ships, learned of the year, but did not notice the presence of the other crossers. After that, he tentatively sailed to Liaodong, sheltered a group of Liao people, and heard about the deeds of Huangshi, only to realize that the situation was not right.

At the same time, Comrade Li Wei, his wife Zhao Na and son Li Zhongren took home the modern five-masted intelligent sail control sail "COSCO Star", which failed to arrive in Dalian, but crossed to western Australia in a fog, and then encountered a very strange Polish expedition ship (The plot of "Trek 1642" is advanced, how can the Polish bird feather cavalry also come to play the voyage?). It's not scientific), and these Poles learned that they had come to the XVII century. After accepting the reality, the people on board had to live with the Poles and kangaroos, and built a settlement in northwestern Australia.

Soon after, the Australian group met the round-the-world expedition fleet that had been changed from a company to a formal country when the "East Coast Country" of South America was established, and learned from them about the North American Crossing Group, and now they are not the only people in this world. Hearing that the North American Bloc had radio facilities in New York in the future, the Australian side made efforts to build and lay out a large radio antenna in an attempt to communicate with it. By the end of the year, the radio concocted by the Australian group still did not contact the North American side (the "east coast countries" in South America did not engage in radio), but it actually contacted the Lingao crossing crowd -- after all, the distance was much closer, and the two groups exploded a huge shock together.

As a result, the pattern of the five largest traversal groups confronting each other in the world has basically taken shape, and a single small group of sporadic traversers is still emerging, among which Chen Xin and Liu Min's Wendeng camp are the most successful and powerful, thus bringing the world into a state of great chaos.

Chongzhen four years (6-1 years), this year, it seems that the Houjin army, which has been full of spoils, finally did not break through the Great Wall again to the south, although Hebei and Shanxi are still in ruins, the Central Plains are swarming, and the court is also a party dispute, but the Ming Dynasty still began to plan a counterattack from Liaodong.

In the spring of that year, in order to expand its influence to Japan, Huangshi crossed the sea to conquer Ryukyu under the banner of the Funing Army, and Shun Lì helped the Ryukyu Shang royal family expel the Satsuma samurai who forcibly occupied the Ryukyus. Then, Huangshi took advantage of his old relationship with the Maori family in the Choshu domain and united with the samurai of the Maori family to form a large coalition army, and successfully launched the Battle of Kagoshima, causing the Shimazu family of the Satsuma domain and their allies to surrender to the coalition army.

The Mori clan's Choshu Domain, on the other hand, relied on their new army of modernization and began a major expansion - the Tokugawa Shogunate had been defeated in the previous war against Choshu ("Stealing the Dawn"). Now that the Satsuma Domain, the strongest rival of the Western Kingdom, has been severely damaged, and the Choshu Domain has strong foreign aid from the Senate of Ryingao, it seems that there is no force in the entire Japanese archipelago that can stop the rise of the Mori family.

According to the bad taste of the traverser, after subduing the Satsuma Domain, a "Satsua Downfall Alliance" began to enter the gestation stage.

At the same time, the powerful fleet of the Vladivostok Far East Company penetrated deep into the Seto Inland Sea, attacked Osaka (Jiezhen), and plundered the sword team of the Japanese country recruited by the local area, and finally set fire to the city.

When these large iron ships left the Seto Inland Sea through the Guò Kanmon Strait, the entire Choshu Domain, which was full of ambition, was shocked when they saw this.

On the other hand, Mr. Hale, a 21st-century Japanese Christian fanatic, arrives in the Philippines to get support from the "Spanish Catholics" here, only to see that the history of the world has long since changed beyond recognition. After that, he heard about the various drastic changes on the Japanese side sporadically, so he began to think about whether to return to China first to pull a group of "Kishitan" (the Japanese name for Christians) to participate in this seemingly high-probability war.

Although the distance is relatively far, Chen Xin's drumming up a series of time representatives, such as "Wen Dengxiang" cigarettes, finally attracted the attention of the southern travelers, but the Senate has not yet discussed the final measures for dealing with the matter due to the lack of sufficient influence in the north.

Huang Shitong guò has an old relationship with Kong Youde, inquires about Chen Xin's Wendeng camp, and also wants this old friend not to rebel and rebel like in history. The Lingao Senate sent the head of the Thief Quanzi Daoist to the north and lurked in the Linyi area in the south of Shandong to observe the inside of the Dengzhou forces at close range. In the end, the Lingao authorities were in a great debate about whether or not to send envoys to contact, co-opt, and co-opt the traverser forces in Dengzhou, Shandong.

A few boxes of cigarettes trafficked in through Guò, and Wang Dou and others in Shanxi, who were relatively closed to news, finally showed the extraordinary things in this world.

Li Huamei's merchant ship "Hangzhou" met the Sino-American Far East Fleet in the port of Goa, India, and because her name caused a sensation and huge attention among North American travelers. The goods brought by the North American travelers and the military appearance displayed reminded the female pirate whose original name was Li Alcohol to the Australians in Lingao.

On the other hand, after establishing radio contact with the Australian traverser, the Lingao Senate urgently launched a dispatch to make the trading fleet led by Ping Thu Thanh off the coast of Vietnam change its plan and no longer go to Thailand, but to Batavia to meet the so-called "real Australians".

Next, the Lingao fleet, the South American fleet, the North American fleet, and the Australian iron ship arrived at the Dutch colony in Batavia (that is, Jakarta on the island of Java), causing a huge sensation - the local Dutch and overseas Chinese were of course shaken, but the various crossers were also shocked. The colonizers of various Western countries were keenly aware of the similarities between the various Chinese forces, and wrote many reports and documents full of fantasy and speculation.

In the north, the 6 ships of the Vladivostok Far East Company set out again to seize Jeju Island in North Korea, and used this as a transit point to recruit displaced people from the islands under the Dongjiang Army and organize troops.

Due to the recruitment of too many Liao people, the grain reserves in Vladivostok and Jeju Island were insufficient, and a small detachment of the Far East Company went to Jiangnan by boat to be responsible for purchasing grain and collecting intelligence.

In the previous spring and summer, Chen Xin led the Wendeng camp to cross the sea to Mi Island, broke the Houjin soldiers and horses, and won a great victory that has been very rare in recent years.

At the same time, the Guanning Army in Western Liaoning also took action, gathering elite main forces to advance to the bank of the Daling River to build a city. Huang Taiji immediately led the Eight Banners Army to the country in an attempt to pull out the nail. In the autumn, on the battlefield of western Liaoning, the Battle of Dalinghe, which had been delayed for a period of time from the original history, broke out, but the number of baggage owned by Zu Dashou on the defending side was far more abundant than in history, and this cruel city attack and defense battle would obviously last longer than in history.

After Mao Wenlong was killed, the Dongjiang army continued to be attacked and excluded at this time, coupled with natural disasters, and fell into a terrible famine.

Although the city of Dalinghe has not yet fallen, but the periphery of the Ming army to relieve the siege is still repeatedly frustrated, the Guanning army said that it is unable to fight against Jiannu alone, the Ming court began to plan to mobilize the armies of Dengzhou to rescue the front line of the Dalinghe, the Wuqiao mutiny and the explosion of the Dengzhou rebellion, it seems that it has entered the countdown.

At the same time, the Houjin generals who stayed behind in Ningguta, the "rear city", also appeared hundreds of kilometers away in Vladivostok Far East Company, for this group of powerful "pirates" that suddenly appeared, as well as the good things in their hands, the Ningguta guards were both worried and coveted, after some weighing, dispatched the only small garrison in Ningguta, and incited the nearby indigenous tribes to organize a coalition to attack Vladivostok in an attempt to rob the materials hoarded there. Then, the Manchurian warriors were outnumbered by modern guns and were routed in a battle by the militia that had just been armed by the Far Eastern Company. Enraged, Vladivostok then launched an air counterattack, bombarding Ningguta with napalm and scorching the city.

Huang Taiji, who was fighting to the death on the front line of Dalinghe City, received bad news from Ningguta, and now Jin didn't know when he was actually attacked by the enemy on his back, and he couldn't help but feel a deep headache. Fortunately, his old rival, the Dongjiang Army, is now in an even more bleak position, and may soon collapse in the famine and riots.

After Huang Shi returned to Fujian triumphantly from Japan, he was saddened to hear about the famine in the old Dongjiang Army, and wanted the Senate to send a fleet to save people, and also replenish a group of laborers for Qiongzhou and Taiwan by the way. However, some members of the Senate pointed out that "the current attitude of the Dengzhou Travelers is unclear and it is difficult to distinguish between friend and foe", fearing that the fleet would be attacked from the enemy after going north, and that there was a plan to attack Nagasaki, Japan, so they were very hesitant about this.

After that, Lingao learned the news that the rest of the crossing group had sent a fleet to come, and suddenly felt like a great enemy, and no longer had the intention of paying attention to the affairs of Liaodong and Japan, so the plan to go north had to be shelved, just for the sake of Huangshi's face, and sent a ship Haitian to carry out a reconnaissance mission to the north. So, with the idea of "being able to save an old friend", the grief-stricken Huangshi personally led an elite guard team to the north on the Haitian, but met the fleet of the Vladivostok Far East Company on Jeju Island.

At the same time, after an almost thought-provoking "Batavia Crossing Fleet Gathering", the North American, South American, and Australian joint fleets went to Lingao under the leadership of Lingao Merchant Shipping, preparing to hold a global crosser summit to try to coordinate the conflicts of interest between various crossing groups, avoid unnecessary internal friction, and discuss a reasonable and mutually beneficial cooperation plan, preferably to drum up a traverser alliance similar to the European Union.

The Lingao Senate was well aware that diplomacy must be backed by force, so the Lingao Fleet, which was originally scattered in Fujian, Taiwan, and the Ryukyus, was urgently transferred back to its headquarters, and was prepared to be used to show off its strength to the fleets of China, the United States, and the United States, East Coast Countries (South America), and the "True Australia" fleet, which had come from afar.

When this huge fleet passed through Macao to intimidate the Portuguese and replenish fresh water, vegetables and fruits by the way, it was seen by Liu Chaozuo, the newly arrived reincarnation of the infinite space, who went to Macao to collect 515 taels of "land rent silver" per year (located on the west bank of the Pearl River estuary, theoretically Macao is also in Xiangshan County). So, this reincarnation prop turned into a newcomer The reincarnation of the county order, was suddenly dazed by the invalid main god watch and this group of demons dancing in the late Ming world, in the face of these unclear traversers, do you think you should come up to show your identity? Or is it better to continue to lurk?

Then, Wang Qiu's Chengguan Dogtooth International Column finally followed into this time and space at the end of the Ming Dynasty, which was mired in unprecedented chaos......

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Miscellaneous feelings: When I read "Stealing Ming", I deeply felt a vast heroic spirit on the page, and I couldn't help but applaud it. His Excellency Grizzly Panda's portrayal of the character of Huang Shi, especially the description of his mental journey of gradual change of inner thoughts, is even more vivid. But for some reason, I always felt that there seemed to be a hero in history who was very similar to him, but unfortunately I didn't think about it, so I had to keep this doubt in my heart for the time being.

It wasn't until I watched the South Korean movie "The Battle of Mingliang" this year that I suddenly realized that Yi Sunsin, a Korean national hero, is simply the prototype of Huangshi

It is well known that modern Koreans have a tendency to boast about their historical figures, elevating them to somewhat outrageous heights at every turn, to the ridicule of their two neighbors, China and Japan. But the name Li Shunchen alone is a memory that leaves both Chinese and Japanese speechless.

Just like Huang Shi in "Stealing Ming", Yi Sunsin in the Imjin War was also a person who created a miracle - he defeated Fujido Takatora at the cost of almost zero casualties in Yupu, and smashed the Nine Ghost Jialong and Wakiban Yasuji with crane wings on Xianshan Island, and the brilliant victories of the large and small naval battles made the Japanese Warring States daimyo afraid to fight with them, and even Emperor Goyosei was afraid that Toyotomi Hideyoshi would lose his crossing of the sea and issued an edict to prevent him from going to Korea in person.

-- In the case of the fall of the entire territory of Korea, Yi Sunsin actually relied on his own strength to fight with the naval army of Japan, thus delaying the pace of Japanese aggression, and stubbornly carved a way out of the desperate situation for Korea, and persevered until the arrival of the Ming reinforcements The appearance of Korea was so bad that if people despaired, the Ming army would probably only stop at the border, and then Toyotomi Hideyoshi could really swallow Korea. The genius and the terrifying thing about it is truly breathtaking...... Unfortunately, his victories were wasted and trampled on by the mediocre and decaying court.

In general, no matter from the perspective of personal encounters, career ups and downs, battlefield experience, or from the perspective of macro strategy, national and national prospects, Huang Shi in "Stealing Ming" is a tragic character similar to the famous Korean general Yi Sunsin: the same is to defend the family and the country, the same invincible, the same righteousness, the same bumpy fate, the same to make the enemy fearful, and the same has been exceptionally promoted and promoted (Huang Shi was appreciated by Emperor Tianqi and Wei Zhongxian, and Yi Sunsin was protected by his childhood friend and important Korean minister Liu Chenglong), played a triumphant song on the secondary battlefield, but was offset by the pig teammates on the main battlefield, and was extremely aggrieved by his own people, but in the end he asked him to come out and clean up the mess - just like Huang Shi's exclamation in "Stealing Ming": "I am just a military attaché, I can do my best to go to the east and west, I can dig out the poisonous sores on the body of the empire one after another, but I will do my best." Countless corrupt officials are like moths, they steal the foundation of the country. The motherland has been riddled with holes. ”

In the article "Stealing Ming", it was once written: "Da Ming is sick, very sick". And in the Imjin War, how could it not be the case with the Korean kingdom where Yi Sunsin was located? The same emphasis on literature and light on martial arts, the same ** incompetence, the same moles everywhere, and the same party fight to the crazy Cheng dù.

Behind Yi Sun-sin was a decadent and declining imperial court, surrounded by a group of pig teammates who were jealous of the virtuous and jealous of the unfortunate and unhelpful, and in front of him were unprecedentedly powerful and powerful pirates, who won brilliant victories in naval battles again and again, but after all, they could not save the land and people ravaged by the Japanese invaders -- because of the peculiarities of the Tsushima Strait, the passage from Japan to Korea was a smooth wind, but from Korea to Japan was a headwind and a headwind; in that era of backward navigation technology, even if the Korean sailors had mastered the right to control the sea, they faced the Japanese transport ships on the Busan-Tsushima route. It's often impossible to catch up and can't be blocked. If he wanted to conquer Tsushima Island and cut off the transportation hub of the Japanese army, Yi Sunsin's ability was revealed: even when he was at his strongest, the number of warships was not as good as that of the Japanese army, and once he sent troops to Tsushima, the Jeolla Province behind him would be empty of naval defense. Moreover, the 6 war troops under his command are too few, and they may not be able to capture Japanese castles.

Even so, in order to complete the battle, Yi Sunsin once engaged in the Battle of Pusan, trying to recapture this key port through Guò, cut off the supply lines of the Japanese army in Korea itself, and put 200,000 Japanese soldiers to death, but in the end he was unsuccessful, fully verifying Nelson's famous saying that "warships cannot shoot at batteries" - therefore, his victory was always only a tactical victory, and could not change the overall situation of the passive battle. Just as Huangshi in "Stealing Ming" has achieved many miraculous victories, it is still far from the ultimate goal of recovering Liaodong and annihilating Jiannu after all.

What's even worse is that although he was never afraid of any strong enemy on the sea, and the Japanese army on the opposite side was terrified to the bones, no matter how many tactical victories he achieved, Yi Sunsin could not change this rotten country to the bones, and even he could not avoid the hidden arrow behind his back: in the midst of the party struggle, he was abandoned by his own political backers -- at that time, Yi Sunsin had a conflict with Liu Chenglong, who promoted him, because the other party could not change the bad habit of "treating literature and military as a servant" -- he was imprisoned by the conspirators of the Japanese and his political enemies, and was tortured all over his body. What the Japanese did not do, the jailers of the imperial court did.

Next, the powerful fleet he had painstakingly managed was cut off, and in the end, he was asked to fight with the remaining dozen ships and three hundred Japanese ships. What's even more terrifying is that the order was changed at the same time, and suddenly he was asked to abandon the ship and board the 6, not to provide him with the necessary supplies and supplies for the naval battle, and it would take a long time for the Ming Dynasty reinforcements to arrive -- just like the situation of the Liaodong war that Huangshi fought bloodily and painstakingly reversed, and was easily pushed into the abyss again by Yuan Chonghuan.

In the movie "The Battle of Mingliang", the various desperate situations faced by Yi Sun-sin are basically not exaggerated compared with historical facts - Fujido Takatora, Nine Ghosts Yoshitaka, Kuroshima Tsutsu, Wakiban Yasuji, Kato Yoshiaki, Shimazu Yoshihiro, Zong Yoshito, these old opponents, have already set up a mighty fleet in front of him and are ready to go to Beijing to capture the king in one fell swoop, and the timid and incompetent Joseon King would rather flee in the dust again than agree to Yi Sunsin's attack, and the capital marshal Kwon Chestnut, who fought fiercely with Kato Kiyomasa in 6 places, He also advised Yi Sunsin to lead the rest of the naval army to be integrated into the 6th Army to defend against the enemy on the 6th, and even among his subordinates, fear was already pervasive, and there were reports of soldiers escaping every day, and even worse, Bae Wye, who was the commander of the Jeolla Provincial Naval Army, escaped from the battle......

Pei Wedge in the movie "The Battle of Mingliang", before escaping, also set fire to a turtle boat that had just been built - this is the last turtle ship, those sailors who were originally going to fight to the death with the Japanese army, they were only able to see a glimmer of victory on this turtle boat, but now even this faint dawn is gone. The whole army of Korea, the whole country, seemed to be persuading Yi Sunsin to abandon the ship and avoid the war......

At this time, Yi Sunsin seemed to be the enemy of the whole world, and in the most lonely desperate situation, he launched a sworn struggle of the most ruthless man

He almost coaxed and deceived and intimidated, relying on his personal prestige to barely let the team disperse. At the time of the battle, the rest of the ships hid behind, and he himself was forced to lead the flagship to ride a thousand and make a cameo appearance in Rambo, all of which were written in his "Diary of Chaos", and the victory was really in suspense.

Historically, after the Battle of Mingliang, Li Sunsin also relied on the squire's fundraising and the reward of the Ming Emperor to maintain the sailor (the Wanli Emperor directly gave him a few turtle boats), and the Seoul side almost did not give him any funding, but there were a bunch of people who made him stumble, just like Huangshi in "Stealing Ming" fought for the imperial court, but he had to do his own "Pingban Big Loan" and "Jinghai Big Loan", and he had to be impeached. If it is the 6th Army, there may be a possibility that they want to take advantage of the chaos to become a warlord. However, as a navy, Yi Sunsin can still hold on in such a tragic situation, and it is estimated that it can only be out of patriotic feelings.

In the war against the Japanese invaders, Yi Sunsin lost his old mother and a son, and the other son, the one who appeared in the movie "The Battle of Mingliang", was killed in battle during the invasion of the Qing army decades later (his appearance seems to appear in "The Strongest Weapon: Bow"), and he can be called a martyr - even if the country and the court failed his sacrifice, he would never betray his motherland and nation: this is a true hero

Recently, a biography of Yi Sun-sin was released, called "The Lonely General", which describes in the first person the chaotic thoughts of loneliness, despair, sadness, helplessness, and struggle that constantly wandered in his heart during the last days of Yi Sunsin's life, between the Battle of Mingliang and the Battle of Luliang.

And Huangshi in "Stealing Ming", why is it not so lonely? He saw the dark future of the Tartars breaking through the level and the sinking of Shenzhou 6, and wanted to change this nightmare, but he was always so powerless. From the emperor to his colleagues, it seems that they are constantly helping out. No one understood his worries, not even the most loyal followers, nor his inner pressure, but he eventually stepped onto the battlefield and wrote a heroic chapter with his blood and life.

In the end, when the Battle of Luliang broke out, Toyotomi Hideyoshi had already died of illness, and the Japanese army was actually preparing to retreat, and was even willing to offer a large sum of money to Yi Sunsin to buy the road. Just like the last battle of Huangshi in "Stealing Ming", even if you don't fight, the Eight Banners who have grabbed enough will withdraw and return to the division. However, Yi Sunsin refused to compromise and make way, and also persuaded the generals of the army not to compromise, and in any case, they must also give these invaders a most painful lesson丨 Let them not dare to embark on the road of aggression against foreign countries again, otherwise once they are allowed to eat the marrow, who knows if they are gone now, will they make a comeback in a few years?

- At the end of the book "Stealing Ming", Huang Shi probably also had this kind of mood, and resolutely rushed to the Houjin army under Zunhua City.

As a result, the vigorous Battle of Luliang broke out, and 20,000 elite Japanese soldiers died in the sea. As a sacrifice for victory, Yi Sunsin was also shot and died in battle, leaving behind the famous last words of "The war is urgent, be careful not to say that I die, so as not to shock the army", which every Korean elementary school student will recite to this day. And his soul has since become the patron saint of this sea and even the Korean Peninsula. More than 300 years later, on the eve of the Battle of Tsushima, the last major battle of the Russo-Japanese War, the commander of the Japanese Combined Fleet, Heihachiro Togo, also paid tribute to Yi Sunsin, the hero of the anti-Japanese war, and prayed for him to bless him for winning the naval battle: according to the Japanese propaganda at that time, the Russo-Japanese War was a racial war between the yellow race and the white race, and any yellow race should stand on the side of Japan, and the Koreans were no exception...... I don't know what kind of expression Yi Sunsin would have shown in this if he had known about it.

General Patton once said that there is no luckier thing for a soldier than to be killed by a bullet in the last battle. For Yi Sunsin, it may not have been a blessing to be able to die in the final Battle of Luliang. Otherwise, with his upright personality and the bad partisan nature of the Joseon Yi Dynasty, it is difficult to say what will happen if he survives to the end of the war. However, with his death in battle, the name "Yi Sunsin" has since been promoted to the throne of God, and no one can be tarnished at will by any petty person -- therefore, a genius must be born at the right time and die at the right time.

In the same way, a good book should not only start in the right place, but also end at the right time, so as to avoid adding to the snake - the reason why "Stealing Ming" ended abruptly in the most heroic battle of Zunhua and ended in the most brilliant scene is probably due to the same consideration.

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