Chapter Forty-Eight: The Battle for the Waterway
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In this cross-provincial lawsuit, the Jiangbei Province unanimously remained silent, and directly handed over the problem to the then prime minister Toto, who had just been in power for four years and had a headache for this mess in Jiangnan. If you don't know how expensive firewood, rice, oil, and salt are not at home. Recently, the Yellow River has started to lose his temper. A large number of farmers in the north have been displaced, and the Han people will not care if they die, no matter how diverse the dynasty is, the key is that this year's taxes will become a big problem. Jiangnan is a major tax area, and the annual seaborne grain of 3 million stone is very important.
I really don't want to make any trouble at this time. Not to mention how much damage will be caused to the land of fish and rice in Suzhou and Hangzhou after Cheng Pan, a powerful anti-thief, is forced to rebel again, and the truncation of sea transportation alone will make North China difficult. In fact, although Cheng Pan was a very jerk at this time. But at this time, the Yuan Dynasty was not a big deal, and it was common sense that the Mongolian nobles brought their troops to fight each other for power ten years ago, that is, at what time, the power of the Yuan Dynasty began to be controlled by the Mongolian nobles. And what Cheng Pan is doing now is just breaking the monopoly of the nobles of the Yuan Dynasty. Cheng Pan arrogantly annihilated the Zhenjiang camp, but after all, he did not directly take the city, and it was not a formal declaration of war to the imperial court.
Jiangbei's recruitment of Cheng Pan is also tacitly approved by the prime minister, Cheng Pan did not occupy the county seat, did not resist taxes, for the Mongolian court that has enjoyed peace and happiness for a long time, it is impossible to spend this money to provoke such a very well-behaved and powerful force at the same time. Moreover, this force began to spread out to the sea, and after constantly transporting people out of the sea, it would no longer be a greater threat as a local force. The only wish of the Yuan Dynasty for Cheng Pan to recruit an now is that Cheng Pan's control territory will no longer expand. This goal has been accomplished. Prime Minister Tokhtar also noted that the clash was caused by Cheng Pan's fleet heading south along the river and the defenders of Zhenjiang. As a thief who wants to exile himself, there are still people who want to leave him on the realm. Tokhtar was speechless about the forces in Jiangnan, even Genghis Khan only fought to seize the enemy's wealth, never to destroy the enemy.
But Tokh still has to appease the provinces of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and a period of official documents with mud come down, which roughly means that the imperial court is unwilling to intervene in the conflict between the two provinces, and solve any problems by themselves, but do not destroy the bottom line of the imperial court when solving.
After Jiang Zhe got the news, he knew that the imperial court wanted to be neutral in this matter. At the same time, he acquiesced to a certain range of his actions, so the three cavalry thousand-man detachments boarded 6 in the southwest of Taizhou and rushed straight towards Rugao County. Cheng Pan was also ready after getting the news. A thousand pistols and cavalry were mobilized to Rugao County, along with the republican army of 2ooo men and 4o artillery pieces. After a year of production since the last large-scale firearms war. Cheng Pan once again hoarded the supplies needed for a war. For the war of firearms with huge consumption, Cheng Pan is now in the warehouse and does not panic, and Jiangnan has no plans to fight a large-scale war.
Since the last Battle of Hudong, Cheng Pan learned the importance of cavalry in scout warfare, so he greatly expanded the pistol cavalry. This mobile force is very useful now. The cavalry, dressed in forged cuirass and fully processed rattan armor (one more step of tung oil processing than the rattan armor of sailors), suffered 1:20 battle losses in the battle with the invading Jiangnan cavalry. And the bullet blows received by the Yuan Dynasty were almost death and severe disability. The well-protected pistols were mostly lightly wounded.
Jiangnan Iron Hoof, who came to retaliate, seemed to be stuck in a quagmire, advancing everywhere with powerful harassment, and retreating was also a bullet to block. The Jiangnan commander, who had lost the right to intelligence, ordered to rush forward directly. Soon encountered Cheng Pan's musket infantry.
What follows is the remake of the Battle of Balihe, facing the harassment of the communist cavalry that cannot be escaped. The commander of the Yuan army was not on fire, and when he met the infantry regiment blocking the road in front of him, he decided to directly charge and defeat this infantry. After a few moments, it was the rhythm of the salvo of muskets and the bombardment of shotguns. A frontal assault of cavalry was like crashing into a wall. After paying more than a thousand casualties. The cavalry of the Yuan Dynasty no longer had the courage to charge.
Then there was the rhythm of boiling frogs in warm water, and the combined cavalry on the periphery rained bullets little by little. Grinding the strength of this cavalry, in the death of his companions who kept wailing, the cavalry's will to fight was quickly eroded. They surrendered one after another.
Looking at the Mongols lying in wait and kneeling on the ground and some familiar faces among the corpses, Cheng Pan felt the feeling of thirty years of feng shui taking turns. The cavalry team of Gan Ke Cheng Pan back then was also in this team, and now they are dead and surrendered. After seeing Cheng Pan's face, some of the captives also exclaimed. It's like seeing a ghost. After all, when Cheng Pan rushed out of the encirclement of a thousand people, it had a profound impact on these people who participated in the siege of Cheng Pan.
Cheng Pan said to the more than 1,000 captives in the posture of a victor: "I will let you go, go back to your heads, and give 4o thousand stone of grain, otherwise I will rob you." After saying this, Cheng Pan gave each person one tael of silver according to the prisoner policy and released them back to Jiangbei. When the captives were driven off the ship again and stepped onto the land of Jiangbei. Looking at the one or two pieces of silver in his hand, thinking about the fact that some of the people when he went were no longer there, he felt sad from the heart. I don't know who led the way and more than 1,000 people cried.
Of course, it is impossible for Cheng Pan to go directly to grab food as he said, but now it is necessary to show the momentum of a single. Only a tough table can guarantee a peaceful exhibition. In order to prove that what he said is true. Cheng Pan led his army to Chongming Island and began the agrarian revolution, and another group of Mongolian nobles were driven away. It's a pity that their crying won't lead to anything, and the entire Jiangnan province is in the midst of a huge defeat. Cheng Pan's words about bringing the defeated soldiers also spread throughout the Jiangnan officialdom.
At this time, Jiangnan once again got the news that Cheng Pan had sent troops to Chongming Island. Stunned, Cheng Pan is already very close to Suzhou at this time, and sending troops to grab grain may not be an empty word. At the same time, the prime minister did not expect this conflict to be such an outcome. Thinking about it, Cheng Pan's power on the south side of Chaohu Lake now seems to be stronger. Nanjing seems to be very close to that. Tuo made up his mind, "Hold steady, you must stabilize this thief, he didn't directly attack the city, which means that there is still room for now."
Jiangnan and the envoys of the imperial court negotiated with Cheng Pan one after another, and after a series of bargaining, a satisfactory agreement was reached, Jiangnan paid 50,000 stone of grain to Cheng Pan, and from this point the prime minister thought that Cheng Pan really wanted the sea to be the king, otherwise he would not only have food. Cheng Pan does not have to withdraw from Chongming Island, but the tax cannot be reduced, and Cheng Pan is not allowed to cross the Yangtze River. The flotilla flying the flag of Cheng Pan will not be stopped by the authorities.
After reaching an agreement, he was very satisfied with Cheng Pan's matter. Jiang Nan also breathed a sigh of relief, Cheng Pan's robbery declaration scared them. Cheng Pan also guaranteed the safe right of passage of the Yangtze River. No one wants to go to war. As soon as the war is going on, the good life of the nobles in the south of the Yangtze River will come to an end, and the bad things of getting rid of the Yellow River will cause a headache, like no money in the war, and it is a joke to expect money from the nobles, if it is a peasant uprising that spreads half of the country, the peasant rebels will hit the Yuan Dynasty at the same time, and the nobles' manors and forces will be more attacked. As for the destructive power caused by Cheng Pan now, it is far from the standard of making the Yuan Dynasty synthesize a force. As for Cheng Pan, he doesn't want to fight, and the current policy formulated by Cheng Pan revolves around exhibition. Once the flag is pulled and the rebellion is made, it will have to face a full-scale war, and Cheng Pan must use a qiē material for the war, and at the same time unite a qiē force. In order to gain the support of the landlords, Cheng Pan must abandon the existing land policy. In the end, after Cheng Panpan won the world, he would definitely be constrained by the literati class. It is even more difficult to reform. Until a generation of students was raised to replace the landlord literati class, the rebellion should be cautious.
Either way, Cheng Pan is a winner now. The entire Yangtze River, large and small forces, can be regarded as setting an example for Cheng Pan's actions. Cheng Pan directly leveled the biggest official forces with a violent posture. Who of these civil forces dares to touch the hair of a tiger? When encountering the flotilla with the red flag of sickle, hammer, and scythe, it immediately retreated. At the same time, Cheng Pan's hidden attributes of anti-thieves are also completely famous in the officialdom of Jiangnan and Jiangbei. Notoriety, of course. Now Taizhou, which is closest to Rugao County, dare not let a fart in Rugao County. The forces that had offended Cheng Pan were all afraid.
Of course, Cheng Pan still has some role in Jiangbei officialdom. The flooding of the Yellow River this summer has caused a large number of displaced people. These are all unstable factors, and now that he has finally found a place to fight these people, isn't Cheng Pan looking for someone to go to sea? Drive them over. It's a puzzle solved.
A large number of refugees poured into Cheng Pan's territory, and the entire territory was running up and down, speeding up the degree of immigration, and Taiwan's population began to grow by leaps. Now Taiwan is not just a Keelung immigration site. In Taipei, Hualien and other plains suitable for human agriculture began to establish settlements. Taiwan is like a bottomless pit devouring the labor force and all kinds of materials in the territory. Cheng Pan believes that it will not take a few years. These investments will pay off.