Chapter 367: To the West!
Ambassador Yang, who didn't know that there was a secret agent hiding not far from him, was continuing to feel the loyalty of the loyal ministers of the Ming Dynasty.
Of course, he originally deliberately gave Jianwen Chao a chance.
Before he set off on his expedition to the west, the second imperial examination after the reform had just ended, and more than 1,000 scholars from all over the country had passed the examination.
And then quickly entered the officialdom everywhere.
After adding them, there are already a large number of new school officials in the areas controlled by the imperial court, whether it is the imperial court or the locality, and the new school system in other provinces has also been completed. For this new imperial examination and the arrival of the new scientific examination later, the gentry everywhere chose to be patient, after all, with the last incident, they already knew very well that at least in the absence of external support, they were the local gentry who could not resist.
Since you can't resist, let's be honest and patient.
And the controlled area of the Jianwen Dynasty did not usher in the new round of loyalty they expected.
Originally, the Changsha gentry did have this meaning, but the problem was that the Nanchang gentry retreated, and in this case, the Changsha gentry did not dare.
And the Fujian gentry have made it clear that they will not mix.
Because of the developed coastal economy, the Zhejiang gentry did not like Yang Feng, but they did not like Yang Feng's hands......
This hand is leading them to a golden future!
Pour Yang?
Who can save them if they are beaten up?
As for the northern gentry, there is no one to mix with at all, needless to say Shanxi, the people of Shaanxi are now bent on the west and making a fortune on the Silk Road, Beiping, Shandong, and Henan are all enjoying the financial transfer from the south, because of Yang Feng's Yellow River diversion project, the imperial court invested five million yuan last year. It can be said that the New Yellow River was dug for less than 10 miles in total, and the money was already an eye-popping figure.
And in the end, most of this money fell into the hands of the people of the three northern provinces, and the gentry of the three northern provinces must also account for the largest amount.
And the source of this money is the tax revenue of the southern provinces.
Of course, the main ones are Zhili, Zhejiang, Jiangxi and Fujian, although five million guan looks amazing, but in fact, the taxes of the three prefectures of Susong and Chang alone are enough.
The prosperity of industry and commerce has led to an increase in tax revenues in these three provinces.
Especially after Yang Feng ingeniously came up with stamp duty, the stamp duty of Suzhou Mansion alone collected 500,000 yuan a year.
So even if they don't like Yang Feng anymore, the northern gentry also know very well that any emperor will not have such a good thing for them, what good will they have when Jianwen comes to power, is there not a powerful figure like Yang Feng, and these southern provinces will endure this kind of behavior of taking their taxes to the northern gentry? Those who dare to do this must be a faint tyrant, and then fall into the water and die violently, only Yang Feng has the ability to let the southern gentry pay taxes honestly because of despair, in order to continue this good life, the gentry of the three northern provinces will not fall Yang.
Even whoever falls Yang is still their enemy.
As for the other remote poplars, it doesn't matter whether they fall or not.
In fact, they will not fall Yang, after all, even the Mu family has no motivation at this time, they can already be rich by relying on copper and tin mines.
Pour Yang?
How can mining be important to pour Yang!
So far, those who dare to rebel have rebelled, and the rest of those who dare not rebel, at least under normal circumstances, so Yang Feng can only give them the most opportunities......
If Jianwen hits the capital, or even surrounds the capital, they can't help but rebel, right?
I have to say that Ambassador Yang has reached the point of madness in order to test the loyalty of the officials and gentry from all over the Ming Dynasty to the empress.
If they are still loyal to the Empress, then there is no need to toss anymore.
Even this can be endured, it is estimated that if he really implements the reform of the public land law, they will also endure it, I have to say that he is testing the tolerance of the Ming gentry again and again.
As for whether Jianwen can hit the capital......
This one is easy.
After all, they are almost in Nanchang now, as long as Nanchang welcomes the king, it is really a very simple thing to go to the capital.
And just when Ambassador Yang, who was full of expectations for Jianwen, was in the mansion of the commander of Aduanwei, enjoying the dance full of Western Regions, drinking wine and eating roast sheep, on the distant Erzinzhan battlefield, Zhu Di was quietly watching the Ottomans who were constantly dying on the battlefield. The camel city commanded by Chufo was in the center of the battlefield, and around them were the Ottomans, Bayezid, who had already lost two in a row, finally dispatched his most elite Kapukuru cavalry.
The Janissaries were Janissary infantrymen.
Kapkuru was an armored cavalry directly under the Sultan, just like the Janissarys.
As for the duel between the Sipahi cavalry and Tokhtamysh, it has been lost......
At this time, the Sipashi were either equipped cavalry, or well-equipped ordinary cavalry, they were originally knights led by the Pasha in various places, but the fief was not hereditary, and the next generation needed to use military merits to obtain, but they were not directly subordinate to the Sultan, and the Janissaries were directly subordinate to the Sultan, and the Janissaries were the Praetorian Guard, and the Sipahi cavalry was heavily armored in the mid-to-late fifteenth century, and this was only 1402!
These cavalry were indeed the elite of the Ottomans, but even if they were, they were useless against the barbarians of the Upper Siberian wilderness.
It's even more terrifying when the barbarians are all dressed in the finest armor and armed with the finest weapons.
In the end, Sipahi could not withstand the latter's ferocity, and ended the battle by admitting defeat and retreating, and then Bayezet, who had no other choice, had no choice but to go to Kapukuru.
But......
"Your Highness, your victory is inevitable."
The Armenian prince said with a smile like a dog wagging its tail.
Zhu Di smiled.
And on the battlefield in front of them, in the yellow sand, the Kapkuru cavalrymen, wearing chain armor, with large plates on their chests, slender pointed helmets on their heads, and feathers on them, were struggling in the hell of fire, while the Arab horses with full horse armor under their crotches were screaming and falling in the whistling of bullets and shells. The protection on their bodies was useless, the bullets of the Divine Gun easily pierced the large plate on their strongest chests, even one or two shotguns of rapid-fire guns easily penetrated the multiple layers of chain mail on their bodies, and the bursting bullets disrupted their charging formation.
However, as the Sultan's most elite Praetorian Cavalry, these soldiers, who were actually Christians captive, were still desperately moving forward.
They were slaves and blood tax collectors.
There is no eligibility to retreat.
The brave cavalry eventually managed to break through the fire, but they were greeted by grenadier grenades and rocketeers' rockets.
The explosion of grenades, the terrible whistling of rockets in their ears, and the smoke of gunpowder on the battlefield finally crushed the nerves of the war horses first, after all, the livestock did not know what military law was, and the instinct of fear made them ignore the orders of their masters on their backs, and they turned around and tried to leave this terrible fire and smoke. The Kapukuru cavalry, unable to stop them, did everything they could to turn them to the flanks to avoid ramming their companions in the rear, but then they rushed into the fire traps on both flanks of the camel.
The frantically fleeing horses neighed and fell in the whistling of bullets and shells.
The Kapukuru cavalry who had fallen off their horses could still get up, and they still rushed towards the camel city like crazy, and the Kapukuru cavalry, who had realized that they could not rush on horseback, also dismounted, with their round shields in one hand and their battle axes in the other, and rushed madly towards the camel city. But the dense formation actually cheapened the artillery of the camel city, and one by one two-pound shells were stuffed into the barrels of field guns, and then hit these soldiers with strong kinetic energy, even if it was actually equivalent to a three-pound gun, it was not something that the human body could bear.
Whistling shells hit stumps and severed arms.
Even a single cannonball can make a bloody alley, causing a dozen people to fall in a splash of flesh and blood.
And those who finally rushed to the front of the formation were faced with the firing of flintlock short guns, and against the infantry did not need to let the long knife men go forward, and the cavalry short guns that were originally waiting for a counterattack behind were enough.
The short gun is also a bullet or two.
According to the bullets weighing more than 30 grams in modern units, even plate armor cannot be carried at close range.
Zhu Di used a high-powered mirror to admire Bayezet in the distance, at this time the lightning sultan was angrily pushing the general next to him, it was obvious that the latter tried to persuade him to let Kapukuru retreat, after all, the elites of these Praetorian Guards are really precious, any of them are trained from childhood, but the sultan who can't afford to lose obviously can't accept this result, even if these most elite soldiers die on the battlefield, he can't lose again.
They had to attack.
Offensive!
Attack again!
And there has already been Kapukuru rushing to the camel city, but the Ming army's cold weapon fighting ability in the camel city is just as strong.
Those heavily armored iron cans went directly to the swords.
In reality, however, such fights are rare.
After all, the flintlock short guns in the back were loaded quickly, and just when those Kapukuru soldiers and the Ming grenadiers slashed each other with a desire for victory, one of the nearest short guns pulled the trigger and ended everything, one by one, their minds were filled with faith in the gods, and they had the strictest training since childhood, and even had to learn a variety of languages, and were familiar with all kinds of cold weapons to fight, and they were likely to become the elites of the imperial officials, so they were ended by one or two bullets in despair......
"Yang Feng is so right, the era of knights is over, the strongest martial arts, the most courageous fighting spirit, in the end can not beat a bullet, even if you give a woman a magic gun, let her learn to load the bullet and aim and pull the trigger in a few days, she can also kill a fierce general with full body armor.
Mines, factories, mobilization capabilities, logistical supplies, these are the ways to win in the future. ”
Zhu Neng sighed beside him.
Zhu Di was silent.
He knew that Zhu Neng just reminded him not to worry about the throne of the Ming Dynasty anymore, forget this dream, the industry and population of the Ming Dynasty in the era of firearms were the existence that crushed everything.
The Kapukuru soldiers continued their bloody battles, or rather were killed almost unilaterally.
Until now, they had killed less than thirty Ming soldiers, but less than half of the thousand Kapukuru soldiers remained.
The vast majority died outside the camel city.
The corpses of people and horses everywhere made the remnants of the Kapukuru soldiers who were still moving forward like suicidal people look particularly sad.
And the Ming army in the camel city also encountered such an opponent for the first time.
They obviously also looked at the enemy who was sent to death in front of them with complicated eyes, and they all knew that these were indeed the most brave soldiers, not afraid of death, and really cold weapons combat, they didn't dare to say that they could win steadily, but the problem is that now they can easily harvest their brave and fearless lives as long as they simply pull the trigger, and this strong contrast makes these Ming soldiers who can also be just as brave are inevitably a little embarrassed.
"Attack, attack on all fronts!"
Zhu Di said suddenly.
Zhu Neng immediately saluted, and then waved the signal flag.
In the sky above them, under the hot air balloons, the heralds waved the same signal flags.
"Kill!"
Kiri, who had been waiting for a long time, was the first to let out a roar.
Immediately after that, his army began to charge at the Serbs in front of him like a torrent.
At the same time, the Kipchak regiment of Tokhtamysh began to move forward.
Then there was the Zhaosheng army of Kun Timur, who rushed straight into the Ottoman army as Zhu Di's central army, rushing straight through both sides of the camel city, directly drowning the last few hundred Kapkuru soldiers, who disappeared into the trampling of ten thousand horses with relief. The Black Sheep Turkmen and the Zara Yir cavalry also rushed towards their old rivals, the Aries Turkmen, but the Aries Turkmen, whose morale was extremely low, did not hesitate to flee, and the outcome of the war was no longer in doubt, although they were the ones who started the war, they were not interested in burying Bayezet.
They are nomads, and if they can't stay here, it's a big deal to go somewhere else.
The Mamluks, who are also Sunnis, will accept them.
Just surrender.
The escape of the Aries Turkmens dealt a fatal blow to the morale of the Ottomans, and the Beys began to flee with their men.
Surprisingly, the Serbs did not flee.
Of course, the main thing is that they have nowhere to escape, the Aries Turkmen can escape, because there are Mamluks behind them to accept them, and the Beys can also escape, and their territory is in the mountains of the Anatolian plateau behind, go back and see the situation, but how do the Serbs run, their home is in the Balkans, and there is a Bosphorus behind it.
Bayezid, who was still fighting fiercely with the Capukru cavalry and the Janissaries infantry, looked at the cowards and traitors angrily.
But soon he stopped being angry.
It was a big battle with more than 150,000 men on both sides, especially since both sides had a large number of cavalry, and soon the whole battlefield was thrown into chaos.
"Keep an eye on Bayezette, I'm going to get him on his knees at my feet."
Zhu Di said.
Of course, he didn't need to go into battle for this kind of battle.
In fact, even the camel cavalry had withdrawn, and they protected King Yan in the middle.