Chapter 10: The Rich Spoils of War
"It's a Dutch five-sail battleship! Found a treasure? Zhu Jun stood on the rough seaside, looking at the giant warship moored in the distance, and couldn't help pinching his face, he really couldn't believe that even pirates had Western warships as a tool for robbery, which seemed too incredible.
"Your Majesty, this is the Francophone battleship, which was made by the Francophone people in Malacca, they happened to encounter a storm at sea and were robbed by the Black Water Jiao, for which the Francoji offered a reward of 50,000 silver oceans for his head." Liu Er stood behind Zhu Jun with a hippie smile and explained.
Zhu Jun remembered that as early as the 16th century, the Portuguese led a fleet to Asia and captured Malacca, and then, 20 years ago, they were defeated by the Dutch, who annexed Malacca and took the opportunity to move eastward to occupy Taiwan.
Zhu Jun remembered that it was at this time, that is, in 1661, that Zheng Chenggong, in the name of recruiting generals from the Southern Ming Dynasty, led 25,000 soldiers and hundreds of warships to march from Kinmen to Taiwan, and finally recovered the entire territory of Taiwan in 1662.
In the entire Southern Ming system, there are only two teams that are still resisting the Qing army, one is Li Dingguo's department, which is active on the border between Yunnan and Burma, and the other is Zheng Chenggong's department, which is stationed in Taiwan and finally fled overseas to recover Taiwan.
Li Dingguo was good at land warfare, even though he only had 20,000 troops and horses, and still insisted on resisting in northern Burma without any personnel supplement, until he was wiped out by Wu Sangui two years later.
Zheng Chenggong's naval division crisscrossed the seven seas, with 100 warships, frequently harassed the Qing army along the coast of Fujian, and finally defeated the Dutch colonists to recover the entire territory of Taiwan.
For these two famous generals in history, Zhu Jun can only smile bitterly, Li Dingguo in northern Burma, obviously has no future, his role is only to help himself hold on for two years, so that he can have two years of respite, two years later, he will face the powerful Manchu Eight Banners and Wu Sangui's Guanning Iron Cavalry.
Zhu Jun has carefully analyzed the possibility of resisting the Manchu Qing Dynasty, first, this is Burma, the mountain roads are rugged, not suitable for large-scale cavalry battles, so the advantages of the Eight Banners and Guanning Iron Cavalry will be reduced a lot, and because of the road, the Qing army's grain and grass transportation is inconvenient, and at most it can only supply about 50,000 troops to fight in Burma, so it occupies a geographical advantage.
Second, the south of Myanmar is near the water, which is very suitable for warship activities, if he forms a navy within two years and frequently harasses the Qing army, he can also cause some damage to the Qing army, after all, even if the Qing army's sailors want to suppress themselves, they must also send troops from the southeast coast, and there, it is the world of Zheng Chenggong's navy, and the few broken ships of the Qing army may not have gone to sea, and they will be beaten into planks by Zheng Chenggong's sailors.
Therefore, if you can build an elite army of more than 10,000 people within two years, coupled with 5,000 powerful steel crossbows, it is not completely powerless to fight back.
Zhu Jun also has to consider the question of how determined the Shunzhi Emperor wants to put himself to death, if he is considered a potential threat by the Shunzhi Emperor, then the Manchu Qing is very likely to enter Burma with the strength of the country, and at that time it will not be as simple as 50,000, 100,000, 200,000, or even 500,000.
This is a cost problem, such as investment, the greater the return, the more money invested, and the risk brought by this investment is also huge, if the reward is not large, then the Shunzhi Emperor has no need to rashly launch a national attack on southern Burma, with this energy, it is better to kill Zheng Chenggong on the sea is more realistic. After all, although Taiwan and the mainland are separated by a strait, but Zhu Jun is also separated by tens of thousands of mountains, a hundred years later, the Manchu Qianlong Emperor conquered Burma, dispatched nearly a million troops, it took 15 years, the main general changed again and again, but it was just to make the Burmese feel that it was very hurt to fight again and then proposed peace, and the two sides just stopped fighting.
With the current national strength of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, it is impossible to launch a protracted and numerical campaign at all, otherwise without Zhu Jun to resist, the people who can't survive in the Central Plains will have already turned against the sky, no matter how powerful you are Manchu, what can you do? Lao Tzu has no food to eat, and sooner or later he will starve to death, so it is better to fight with you fuckingly.
Therefore, Zhu Jun is not very afraid of the Manchus, as long as he usually behaves in a low-key manner, so that the Manchus will pay more attention to dealing with Taiwan and Quasi-Gordan. What he is really worried about now is Zheng Chenggong, after next year, the Zheng family will separate Taiwan and establish itself as the king, how should he face this vassal king under the banner of the Ming Dynasty?
Zheng Chenggong is a national hero, but he is definitely not a fool, why should he listen to the words of a fallen emperor who is far away in the sky and is like a lost dog? Historically, Zheng Chenggong has never confirmed the identity of Emperor Yongli, and after retreating to Taiwan, he played the banner of Emperor Longwu to oppose the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, Zhu Jun's idea of relying on Zheng Chenggong to fight the country is as unrealistic as fishing for the moon at the bottom of a well.
(Taiwan's anti-Qing restoration of the Ming Dynasty is the Longwu Emperor who was captured and killed by the Qing army for many years, that is, the predecessor of the Yongli Emperor, they mean to find Longwu's son to inherit the throne, but at that time, Longwu's son should basically be dead, even if he is not dead, where to find it?) Therefore, there is a strong reason that the Zheng family is only in the name of Longwu and does not bird Yongli, so as to avoid the embarrassment of being commanded by Yongli who is far away in Burma. )
Everything can only rely on oneself, recruit the remnants, build steel crossbows, and establish sailors, all of which must be completed within two years, otherwise everything is nonsense, and if you can't do it, you will flee to Luzon, where there is the sea on all sides, what can the Manchus do to me?
"Your Majesty, what are you thinking?" Liu Er saw that Zhu Jun's face was cloudy, and he ignored the tide and soaked his boots, and called in a low voice.
"Huh?" Zhu Jun came back to his senses, he calmed down, and pointed to the battleships and big ships in the distance: "Are all those warships controlled by us?" Has anyone escaped? ”
"Back to the emperor, everything is under control, thanks to the bravery of the brothers of the Jinyiwei, everyone disguised themselves as pirates and boarded the ship on a sampan, and the people who stayed on the ship were all old and weak, and the largest Western warship was only a dozen Jinyiwei brothers who easily solved them." Liu Er replied with a smile.
"Very good, Liu Er, you have made a great contribution this time, what are your plans for the future." Zhu Jun patted Liu Er's shoulder kindly. He still appreciates this guy, not only is he proficient in navigation, but he brought such important information to himself, and then tricked the pirates into the valley, and finally returned non-stop and took a hundred brocade guards disguised as pirates to rob seven or eight sea ships and warships, this time he was able to annihilate all the pirates, Liu Er can be regarded as a great contribution.
"Your Majesty, what pirates hate most is spies, although the little one is for self-preservation, but after all, he betrayed his brother, and from now on he will never be able to eat on this sea. If the emperor does not dislike it, Liu Er is willing to work hard for the emperor. Liu Er restrained his smile, lifted his robe and knelt solemnly on the beach.
"Okay, okay, get up, I still have a place to borrow you, this pirate, I'm afraid you will continue to be a virate." Zhu Jun made a gesture to pull Liu Er up.
"Huh?" Liu Er exclaimed, and hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, if Liu Er returns to the sea again, and is known by the pirates, he will definitely die without a place to be buried. ”
Zhu Jun smiled lightly and said, "Who dares to kill you?" From then on, you will be the biggest pirate leader in the waters of southern Burma. ”
"Be a big boss?" Liu Er's heart was shocked, and he raised his eyes and looked up at Zhu Jun.
"Exactly, from now on, I will leave all these ships to you to take care of."
"But we don't have sailors, and the rest of the ships are better to say, that Western warship can only be operated by skilled sailors, and the small ones are really powerless."
"Sailors are ready-made, go, I'll take you to see a good show." A sneer squeezed out between Zhu Jun's teeth.
The results of this battle were very fruitful, the lord of the six villages dispatched a total of 1,000 pirates, of which 900 sturdy pirates came ashore, killed more than 300 people, and captured nearly 600. And the old and weak who stayed on the pirate ship were also held by a hundred brocade guards.
Zhu Jun's losses were almost zero, and under the conditions of absolute superiority, except for dozens of minor injuries and three killed in battle, it can almost be described as a complete victory.
Now, more than 600 captives were all driven to the open space in the valley, around them, full of energetic Shenyong battalion soldiers, at the mouth of the valley, is the Shenji battalion guarded and defended, the pirates are frightened, where there is still the idea of resisting, all shrug their heads, and are ordered to kneel on the ground.
A small temporary school platform was erected, and dozens of Jinyi guards dressed in flying fish suits and carrying Jinchun knives at their waists lined up to protect the school platform.
A moment later, with the sound of a cannon, under the escort of a hundred soldiers of the Shenyong Battalion, Zhu Jun came slowly in a delicate carriage.
"Long live our emperor! Hooray! Thousands of generals and officials bowed down. In the praise, Zhu Jun slowly got out of the carriage, stepped on the square steps, looked left and right calmly, and then boarded the school platform with a calm face and sat on the Taishi chair that had been prepared.
"Flat." At this time, it was noon, the sun in the sky hung high in the sky with scorching heat, Zhu Jun couldn't help complaining, he was sitting on a high place, and there was no shelter around him, and the craftsman who built the school platform was in a hurry, and he didn't even consider adding a canopy on it, but now is the time for Liwei, and he can only settle for it.
When he thought of Liwei, Zhu Jun's face couldn't help but sink, what he was facing were some outlaws who killed people without blinking, whether they could be completely subdued, everything depended on their own means.