Chapter 294

Regarding Song Xiance's naming of the rebel army as the Dashun Army, Cheng Shijie guessed that this should be the wheel of history, perhaps the inertia of history. Although Song Xiance did not take refuge in Li Zicheng, but in favor of Cheng Shijie, however, he still established Dashun as in history.

As of the sixth day of the sixth month of the eighth year of Chongzhen, that is, the twentieth day after Song Xiance's uprising, the men and horses under his command swelled to more than 8,000 people, which was the result of Song Xiance's repeated careful selection of soldiers. If Song Xiance lowers the threshold a little, there will be more than 80,000 people.

It was also on this day that Liu Chao, the right deputy of Dewei, led more than 1,500 people under his command to take refuge in Song Xiance, although this Liu Chao was an official of 100 households, but also a general with considerable combat experience.

In the first month of the eighth year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng led tens of thousands of troops to attack Guide Mansion, and after the attack failed, he turned to attack Yongcheng, which is the hometown of Song Xiance.

It is said that people like Liu Chao should be reused, but it is a pity that Liu Chao is not good at slapping horses, and he has no money to play up and down, he has no money to be promoted, originally Dong Xian of the right thousand households looked at Liu Chao than he could play, and his prestige was high, so Dong Chao wore small shoes.

Liu Chao's son Liu Lei was often bullied by Dong Tuo, the son of Dong Raid, Liu Lei injured Dong Tuo in a fit of anger when he couldn't bear it, and as a result, Dong Raid sent someone to arrest Liu Lei and put him on a tree to expose him, seeing that Liu Lei was about to die, Liu Chao was furious and led his cronies to snatch back his son Liu Lei from Dong Raid.

However, Dong Xian sued Liu Chao of the Defu rebellion, Liu Chao was angry, killed Dong Xian's family, and after hearing that Song Xiance rebelled, he claimed to be the general of Shuntian's rebellion, so Liu Chao led more than 1,500 people to take refuge in Song Xiance.

This more than 1,500 Yongcheng people, not only Song Xiance's township party, but also the guards of the Dewei, Yongcheng this place is the junction of the four provinces of Sulu, Henan and Anhui, the people are fierce, and more importantly, Liu Chao himself is also an officer who is good at using firearms, with Liu Chao joining the Dashun Army, which makes the Dashun Army more powerful.

Originally, Yanzhou was the place of the four wars, this is the gateway of the Central Plains, and it is also the junction of the four provinces, since ancient times, the people are fierce, bandits are everywhere, the local big households will build dock forts in order to protect themselves, even in later generations, the place names of many villages and towns are not a certain camp, or a certain building, or a certain village.

Song Xiance originally had no way to defend those well-defended and strong villages, but with Liu Chao joining, it was different, Liu Chao was a professional who played with firearms, especially among the miners, many of whom could play explosives. In the face of the well-defended stockade, Song Xiance's Dashun army adopted the method of arriving with cave houses and tunneling and blasting.

It is also very simple to say, the cave house car is a kind of ancient siege vehicle, with four to twelve wheels, no power, need people or oxen to pull the horse, the car is made of thick wood, built into the situation of the house, especially the roof with wet mud fire fire, as long as the car is pushed under the city, people can dig the foundation of the city wall in the car.

After taking this move, Song Xiance's Dashun army's ability to attack fortifications was greatly improved, and even the strongest dock fort could hardly survive a day under their attack.

Chenjiabao in a single town, is second only to the fortress of Shancheng County, this is the ancestral home of Jinshi Chen Miao during the Chenghua period, after more than 100 years of development, Chen is the richest gentry in Shanxian County, this fortress group covering an area of more than 100 acres, just after construction, the most headache is that Chen used reinforced concrete.

The Chen clan numbered a large number, more than 300 people in the family alone, plus the temporary recruitment of small and medium-sized landlords and peasants, a total of 1,000 people, and they repelled several attacks by the Dashun army.

However, Liu Chao asked people to use a cave house car to bury more than 600 catties of explosives at the gate of the Chen family's old house.

There are constantly dock forts are captured, they continue to seize a large amount of money and grain, and the common people who join the rebel army are also more and more, in some places even do not wait for the rebel army to fight to attack the landlords who have oppressed them for many years, break the dock fort and divide the grain and livestock, and then join the Dashun army, "fight the local tyrants, divide the fields" The roar resounded throughout the land of Yanzhou.

With the development and growth of the Dashun army, Luo Ruwen, the prefect of Yanzhou located in Yanzhou Mansion, really couldn't hold on, according to incomplete statistics, in less than a month, Song Xiance successively captured dozens of dock forts in Yanzhou, so that hundreds of gentry and big families were ruined.

Every time Song Xiance captured a town, he led a public trial of the captured gentry, once the public was finished, this big family would definitely be raided, all IOUs, IOUs, real estate, and title deeds would be burned, as long as the young people who joined the Dashun army could get ten or thirty acres of land, and the people who were unwilling to join the Dashun army could also get some food.

At this time, Song Xiance was like a snowball, the stronger he became, the more people and horses fought, and each family alone could not defend their ancestral home, and the gentry in Yanzhou were frightened, and they came forward to let Luo Ruwen, the prefect, suppress the rebellion.

Luo Ruwen has no choice, now Song Xiance is getting more and more fierce, and the influence is getting bigger and bigger, and the governor has heard the rumors there, if he doesn't deal with it, the governor can't get around him, Luo Ruwen has to use the excuse of suppressing bandits to convene a Yanzhou gentry conference.

This time, the gentry of Yanzhou did not be an iron rooster, but a rare heart Qi once, rich money, powerful contribution, after some discussion, you three thousand taels, I five thousand taels, the entire Yanzhou gentry actually raised nearly 400,000 taels of silver, each family out of the young and strong, a total of more than 10,000 people, plus Yanzhou Wei's guards, servants and servants, a total of more than 20,000 troops, after half a month of preparation, known as 50,000 troops, directly attack Huanggang in Shanxian County.

Luo Ruwen was not too black-hearted, he left 350,000 taels of more than 378,000 taels of silver raised, but let more than 28,000 taels of silver be handed over to the commander of Yanzhou Wei.

As the so-called upper beam is crooked, Luo Ruwen deducted 350,000 taels of silver, and the Yanzhou Wei commander made it good, and directly deducted 24,000 taels of silver, but rewarded the remaining 4,000 taels of silver to the guards, but in fact, it was less than one tael of silver in the hands of the guards.

Fortunately, the soldiers of these guards often starved, although they did not get any silver, there was no shortage of food to reward the army, although it was not good not to eat, but they ate a few full meals, and the morale of the guards of Yanzhou was good.

Although the morale of Yanzhouwei's soldiers is good, it is just good, there are more than 200,000 troops on the books of the entire Shandong, but in fact, this is only a large army on paper, and there are more than 3 million troops on the books of the Ming Dynasty, and the imperial court cannot even draw out 300,000 troops at one time.

As for Shandong, the effect was slightly better than that of the entire imperial court, because Shandong was also a major economic province in the Ming Dynasty, located in the core throat of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, plus maritime trade, relatively wealthy. What's more, the development of Liaodong has attracted a large number of Shandong refugees, which has greatly reduced the burden on Shandong, and the registration rate of Shandong guards is higher than that of Gyeonggi.

For example, if Dengzhou Wei really has money and food, it is not a problem to pull out more than 10,000 people, Yanzhou Wei is also the same problem, Luo Ruwen only got more than 30,000 stone grain from Yanzhou Wei Changfu, and Changfu really pulled out 15,000 or 6,000 people, of course, these people's equipment is very poor, only slightly stronger than Liukou.

As an army of 15,600 people, the cavalry is only 83 horses, of which there are more than a dozen horses as the mounts of the Yanzhou Weidu Command Envoy Yamen, and there are more than a dozen cannons, but more than eighty percent of the artillery cast more than 200 years ago, and it is rusty, whether it can be fired or not, only God knows.

There are only more than 100 guns in the whole army, bows and crossbow machines, together there are less than 200, whether such equipment can fight a war, Chang Sheng knows it, and the most important thing is that Song Xiance is the slogan of the propaganda of the Dashun Army: "Fight local tyrants, divide the land!" ”

This slogan has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, since the rebels only fight the local tyrants, do not hurt the civilians, and also distribute the fields to the common people, why should we fight them? We don't have any fields!

Chang Fu naturally wouldn't be unaware of the thoughts of these mud legs, but he had no choice but to let Jia Ding try his best to suppress and kill several people in a row.

However, what made Luo Ruwen want to vomit blood was that his troops to suppress the Dashun army had not yet set off, and the fifteen or six thousand soldiers, after receiving equipment and food, ran away overnight, and not two or three, but more than a thousand people, the battle had not yet been fought, not a single arrow was fired, and he had not even seen the face of the enemy, and he had not even come out of Yanzhou City, so he lost nearly one-tenth of his troops, how could this battle be fought?

But the problem is that Luo Ruwen has no better way, so he had to force a smile, pretending that it had not happened, and swore to go to the army, but the troops did not want to move, so they directly sent Changfu to come forward, and under the drive of the fierce and vicious soldiers, this army slowly left Yanzhou City.

However, this army moved too slowly, and it took a whole day to get out of twenty or thirty miles.

Jinxiang County borders Shanxian County, in later generations this is the hometown of garlic in Shandong, but also the hinterland of the Luxi Plain, where the land is fertile, the rain is abundant, in later generations, it can be regarded as a land of fish and rice.

However, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, it was a very poor place, although Song Xiance's Dashun army had not yet reached Jinxiang County, but the poor people of Jinxiang County had long been looking forward to Song Xiance's Dashun army.

When Chang Fu's army arrived in Jinxiang County, countless people of Jinxiang County ran to report to Song Xiance, including more than 1,000 Yanzhou Wei soldiers who fled, and they told Song Xiance that Chang Fu led the army to attack Shan County, in fact, Song Xiance received no less than 40 pieces of such information, and he was also prepared.

In the bitter wind and rain, more than 15,000 ragged soldiers carried various blades, and under the drive of Changfu Jiading soldiers, they advanced along the potholed official road, and those who walked a little slower would immediately be whipped.

Whether these soldiers are young or strong, their lives are cheaper than ants, and they don't care about life and death, even if they die, they can easily recruit a batch, but the three-legged toads are not easy to find in these years, but there are many two-legged people.

When they were in Yanzhou, they still had some morale, but now their morale has been exhausted, although Chang Fu is the hereditary commander of Yanzhou Wei, but he also has combat experience, he followed the Shandong commander Zhang Keda to participate in the battle against the Liukou, and also performed well.

Looking at these "soldiers" around him who are like walking corpses, he has no hope that he can win the Dashun army, but the problem is that as a general of the Ming Dynasty, he must go to quell the rebellion. Because he also knew that although he was not a gentry, once Song Xiance was called, Song Xiance would not let him go.

Chang Fu was very displeased and said to the commander under his command: "Li Yanshi, let them speed up a little, when will they be able to get to Shanxian County?" ”

Li Baishi looked at Chang Fu with some puzzlement, is it necessary to go to Shanxian County so quickly? Hurry up and go to reincarnation?

In fact, Li Baishi never understands the mind of Chang Fu, the commander, he knows that he can't win, but the problem is that he must send troops, and Luo Ruwen, the prefect, will not let him go, don't look at Luo Ruwen, the prefect, is the fourth product, and he is the commander of the third product, but Luo Ruwen holds the lifeblood of Chang Fu.

It can be said that Chang Fu has no choice, if he doesn't go to quell the rebellion, he will definitely die, and even affect the family, and when he arrives in Shanxian, at most he will die, and if he can't beat him, he can surrender.

With this mentality, Chang Fu was very dissatisfied with the slow speed of the soldiers under his command.

After receiving the order, Li Yanshi led the Chinese soldiers to whip them with leather whips and sticks, and the terrifying sound of the skin falling on the flesh and the screams of the soldiers rose one after another in the official road, making people feel terrible.

A man who had been whipped to the point of a blur of flesh and blood lost consciousness and fell to the ground, and a small flag brandished a leather whip at him, and rolled up a piece of flesh and skin as soon as the whip went down, scolding while smoking: "Let you play dead, tell you to play dead!" ”

After a few whips, seeing that the soldier was motionless, and when he tried to snort, he had stopped breathing, and the little flag cursed, drew his knife and stabbed the dead soldier twice in the heart to prevent him from playing dead, and then pointed to the bloody corpse and said loudly: "You saw it all?" Playing dead is the end! Hurry up, defeat the rebels, you can eat and drink spicy! ”

Under the whip of the leather whip, the rebel army of Yanzhou Wei finally got a little faster, of course, just a little faster, in fact, not to mention this army with low morale, even if the Ning Navy came, let alone hurry up in Jinxiang County.

Although it is said that the north of Jinxiang County belongs to Shandong, which belongs to the north, the environment of this place is somewhat like the water town in the south of the Yangtze River, and the freshwater resources are relatively rich, and the water resources on the surface are almost more than 20 West Lake.

However, there are no large-scale lakes in Jinxiang County, and these waters are stored in dense rivers or small lakes, which means that if you can't walk ten miles, you will encounter criss-crossing ditches or rivers, and you can't get around it at all.

The army had not gone far before they came across a small river, which was not very wide, only sixty or seventy paces, but the water was three or four meters deep, and there was no way to swim across it, so it had to build a pontoon bridge.

By the time the pontoon bridge was built, it was already dark.

"Commander, the pontoon bridge is ready!"

"Quick, get everyone through quickly, camp on the other side of the river!"

"Yes!"

Just after crossing the river, Chang Fu found that there were a few hundred fewer soldiers under his command.

Looking at Chang Fu, who was blushing with a blue face, a hundred households said: "Commander, my lord, I will lead the people of my headquarters to arrest the deserters back!" ”

"Even good!"

The hundred households who received the order chased them into the distance with more than a hundred people.

Chang Fu waited for half the night, but the deserter was not caught, and Li Baihu and the soldiers under his command disappeared.

At this time, the generals of the Yanzhou commanders had no strength to complain, and they didn't know what to do.

Chang Fu slept until midnight, and was suddenly awakened by a noise, and when he got up, he saw thousands of torches densely packed outside the temporary camp, and the torches were like stars, filling the entire night sky.

"It's over!"

Chang Fu did not resist and surrendered directly, he looked at Song Xiance, who was surrounded by all the Great Shun troops, and said: "King, I surrender!" ”

As Yanzhou Wei surrendered collectively under the leadership of Chang Fu, Song Xiance asked the soldiers of the Dashun Army to change into the military uniforms of Yanzhou Wei, pretending to be a rout to take the opportunity to capture the city. Almost without any effort, Song Xiance occupied Yanzhou City.

With the occupation of Yanzhou by the Dashun army, the Dashun army attacked Jining Prefecture and Jinxiang, and there was a huge earthquake in Shandong for a while.

Looking at the map of Shandong, it is not difficult to find that Shandong is a very unique province, surrounded by the sea on three sides, holding Gyeonggi, Nantong Jianghuai, and controlling the Central Plains in the west.

Although Shandong can not succeed, but can involve the footsteps of the entire dynasty, the history of Kong Youde's rebellion, erosion of Shandong, gave the Ming a fatal blow.

Now, with the uprising of the Dashun army in Yanzhou, more than half of the more than 30 prefectures and counties in Yanzhou have fallen in just one month, which is a huge earthquake for Shandong.

The Tiaoning Navy entered Shandong to quell the rebellion, but this proposal was rejected by the Shandong ministers on the spot.

Let Cheng Shijie fight with Zheng Zhizhou, Cheng Shijie occupied Chongming, Wusongkou, Dayuan, Penghu, and even set up strongholds in Quanzhou and Xiamen, so that Cheng Shijie pacified Zhang Xianzhong, he went to Huangzhou Mansion to establish Chibi City, it seems that Chibi City is not ready to let it out.

Let Cheng Shijie quell the rebellion again, whose Shandong will be Shandong in the future?

Who doesn't know where the Ning Navy is fighting, where it is occupied, and it also occupies the hearts of the people, and more importantly, the Ning Navy collects taxes differently from others, they dare not pay taxes with one hand and collect taxes with the other, and dare not pay taxes, and directly bombard with cannons, and they have suffered enough of Ning Navy, saying that the imperial court will not dare to hand over the Shandong counterinsurgency to Ning Haijun, if Cheng Shijie gets stuck in the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, they will all be pinched to death by Cheng Shijie.

When the butt replaces the head, no matter how ridiculous things are, it doesn't seem ridiculous.

When news of the Yanzhou rebellion reached Beijing, Emperor Chongzhen was furious. At the beginning of the year, Zhang Xianzhong entered Fengyang, and the rogue was huge, and finally mobilized Cheng Shijie to destroy Zhang Xianzhong, Li Zicheng and Gao Yingxiang also returned to Shaanxi, and the thirteen rogues also suffered heavy losses.

At that time, Emperor Chongzhen was quite happy, after Gao Qiqian and Cheng Shijie's silver, after half a year of recuperation, everything in the Ming Dynasty was developing towards signs of improvement.

At a critical moment, Shandong was in chaos. Although Shandong is not the foundation of the Ming Dynasty, it guards the Grand Canal, and without Shandong, it will break the connection between the north and the south, and it will also shake the rule of the Ming Dynasty!

Emperor Chongzhen's anger ordered the governor of Shandong to destroy the rebels within a month, and at the same time proposed to transfer the Ning navy into Shandong to quell the rebellion. For Ning Navy, Emperor Chongzhen is still very relieved.

He has great trust in Queen Zhou and Queen Zhang, these two queens during their time in Liaodong, they did not say good things to Cheng Shijie, praised Cheng Shijie for doing things, and now Liaodong has completely recovered from the massacre, the people are prosperous, the products are abundant, the night is not closed, and the road is not forgotten.

What's more critical is that the Ning Navy is not only strong in combat, but also has strict discipline, and has not committed any crimes against the common people, which is much stronger than the Guanning Army.

However, this proposal was opposed by many ministers, who agreed that the Ming Dynasty was in a crisis, especially since Jiannu had recovered from the defeat in Haizhou, and that the elite of the Ning Navy should be left in Liaodong to block the way for Jiannu to attack the Guanning defense line, rather than throwing such a valuable force into Shandong for a small rebellion.

Some ministers even proposed that Huang Taiji had conquered all the Mongolian tribes, and Xuanfu and Datong were likely to be attacked, so should a part of the Ning Navy be transferred to Datong to strengthen the border forces, just in case?

Emperor Chongzhen was quite embarrassed. The defense of Xuanfu and Datong has become useless, although it is difficult for Jiannu to gnaw on the Guanning defense line, but if they break through the border from there, it will be a matter of minutes, but the strength of the Ning Navy is so much, and he still expects this elite to be put into the war to pacify the Liukou, and help him sweep the Liukou like the autumn wind sweeping away the leaves!

If some of the men and horses are transferred, the strength will not be enough, and what should I do if the first-class Kou is wreaking havoc in the Central Plains?

It's embarrassing, it's really embarrassing.

Cheng Shijie didn't know that someone was thinking about him and his army, and he was admiring a steel beast with great interest.

Compared with the steam locomotive seen before, this steam locomotive is more in line with the appearance of the steam engine in Cheng Shijie's memory, of course, it is not the same as the steam engine of later generations, it can be said that this is a platform transplanted from a four-wheeled carriage, a bit like the appearance of a large tractor in later generations.

Very rudimentary four wheels, the front two are responsible for steering, the boiler of the steam engine is located in the front, and even from the two rows of seats in the driver's seat, it can be seen that this is the shadow of a four-wheeled carriage.

Although it was transplanted from a horse-drawn carriage, the frame was made of steel and a lot of rubber was used.

In all fairness, the thermal efficiency of the steam engine invented by Wang Zheng is not high, and the air leakage is serious, but after the improvement of the ink plough, that is, Guo Xin, not only the wheels are made of rubber, but also the sealing of each pipe, which greatly increases the air tightness and thus improves the thermal efficiency.

Even in the back compartment, Guo Xin also asked people to wrap it in cowhide, which increased some costs, but had a better visual effect, and now it looks more scientific and technological, and more practical.

The only thing that made Cheng Shijie feel a little inconsistent was that this steam engine car, in addition to the cab, actually designed three rows of seats in the back body, with four people in each row, a total of twelve people.

Guo Xin looked at Cheng Shijie puzzled, and explained: "Marshal, the humble position is designed like this, because each team of the Ning Navy has a total of twelve people, when taking the carriage to march, a carriage pulls twelve people, and now it can also pull twelve people, some time ago we did a test, such a fire ox cart, from Lushun to Jinzhou, only takes more than half a time, an hour and two quarters of an hour, and can run a round trip!" ”

Cheng Shijie silently calculated in his heart, Lushun to Jinzhou is one hundred and twenty miles, and the round trip is one hundred and twenty kilometers, which is equivalent to forty-eight kilometers per hour, although the speed is not fast, but it is already very ideal.

Unlike ordinary horse-drawn carriages, this steam locomotive can sleep without sleep, and its endurance is very good, and if it does not break down, the cavalry cannot keep up with the speed of the steam engine.

Cheng Shijie originally wanted to guide Liaodong to get the steam engine out, but what he didn't expect was that Liaodong had already produced a steam engine and quickly used it in all walks of life, some were used to pump water, some were used to build roads, some were used as mixers, and some were used as crushers.

In the case that Cheng Shijie did not pull out the seedlings to help them, even the steam engine car was built, in this case, Cheng Shijie decided to let them develop on their own, and he only provided a facilitating role

Cheng Shijie looked at Guo Xindao: "Ben Shuai is going to set up Ninghai Institute of Technology in Liaodong, specially appoint you as a professor, Ben Shuai will provide you with 500,000 taels of silver research and development expenses, and help you set up a fire ox car factory, the first batch of orders, three hundred cars first!" ”

Rao is Guo Xin, a Mo family giant, has a strong ability to bear it, and at this moment, he was so excited that he ripped off a few beards. The first agricultural college in eastern Liaodong was established in Zhenhai City, and now it has become a holy place for farmers.

Then the second is Xinghai Medical College, Xinghai City is also a holy place for doctors, and now it is Ninghai Institute of Technology, which will also be a holy place for Mojia.

"Great!"

Mo Hua's fourth apprentice, Wu Mingming, shouted excitedly.

Although 500,000 taels of silver is a lot, but Wu Mingzhi is not happy with the silver, but the identity, since Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty deposed the hundred schools of Confucianism, the Mo family has become a rat crossing the street, and they have lived miserably for more than a thousand years.

Finally, Cheng Shijie gave them the same treatment as farmers, doctors, and Confucians.

Wu Mingming choked up excitedly.

Cheng Shijie also thought that he was the apprentice of Guo Xin, who was rewarded with 500,000 taels of silver, and was very excited, and reminded him: "Don't be proud, although the fire ox cart has entered the stage of mass production, this is only the beginning, and then you will continue to study and rob a larger steam engine, the goal is to make the steam engine bigger, stronger, or smaller, stronger, and more reliable, you also have to find ways to improve productivity, ensure production quality, reduce production costs, in short, you still have more work to do." ”

"Don't worry, Dashuai!"

Mo Hua said calmly: "We will not slack off, and we will definitely not live up to the trust of the handsome!" ”

Cheng Shijie's mood is good, the term steam engine will no longer be used, because whether it is Wang Zheng, Guo Xin, and Liaodong, they all call the steam engine a fire ox, even if it is the Venetians, Dutch, and Spaniards in Liaodong, they also follow Liaodong's statement and call the steam engine a fire ox.

It's a very figurative title, driven by fire and as powerful as an ox.

Of course, Liaodong invented a steam engine-style car, this is a real car, in the future, the marching speed of the Ning Navy will be greatly improved, and more importantly, the kind of big guy who is several tons heavy, the god of war, can also greatly improve his mobility ability.

(End of chapter)