"Assault of the whole army!!"

"The last general commands!"

The two thousand materials of the Pingwu Sailor were sitting on the deck of the ship, and Yang Li spoke with a solemn expression.

After he spoke, the flag soldiers behind him waved flags, and all ships responded with flags.

For a time, more than 150 warships with a tonnage of more than 1,000 materials began to sail downwind from the east side of Long Island.

Tens of thousands of sailors began to prepare, and nearly 1,000 bowl-mouth guns and more than 500 Hongwu iron cannons were ready.

Unlike the Yangtze River and Denglai naval divisions, which only had artillery arranged at the bow and stern, the Pingyu Naval Division, as a naval division that specialized in sweeping the Japanese along the coast and was established at the suggestion of Zhu Gaoxu, had several times the number of artillery on the warships of the normal Ming army.

It is precisely because of such a number of artillery pieces that the Ping Wa Shui Division was able to wipe out the Japanese rebellion that was supposed to be from the Ming Dynasty to the middle of Yongle in less than four years.

I have to say that if the Pingwu Naval Division really participates in the war, then the direction of this naval battle is really difficult to judge.

However, as the coach, the reason why Yang Li and Yang Zhan, father and son, arranged today's fight is just to make it more reasonable for the Ping Wa Shui Division to lose.

For the sake of this reasonableness, the father and son even communicated the route in advance by letter, such as the current ......

"Fixed-shot loading, pre-...... Put!! ”

"Boom, boom!!"

When the Pingwa sailors drove south, a fierce cannon fire suddenly broke out on the beach in the southeast corner of Long Island.

In an instant, hundreds of shells rained down into the division, and the ships of the division, which were close to the side of Long Island, were hit, and many ships were pierced through the sides.

"There's a thief fort on Long Island!!"

"Beep-beep-"

Shouting, whistles...... There was an endless stream of sounds.

At this moment, in addition to Yang Zhan's father and son and the Bohai Navy, the sailors of the three naval divisions of Pingwei, Denglai, and Yangtze River were all very panicked.

The former was bombarded, the latter two were occupied in a panic, and the Bohai Navy also built batteries.

They thought that the Pingwu Water Division would rush down, so they launched a full-army assault.

At present, the Pingwu Water Division was hindered by the Long Island Fort and failed to launch an assault in time, so they became the lone army of the assault, and what they needed to face was the muzzle of the more than 700 black holes of the Bohai Navy.

"Put!!"

"Boom, boom—"

Less than a mile and a half away, the charging Denglai and Yangtze River sailors were shelled from the Bohai Sea.

The naval division of the Southern Army, composed of the Yangtze River and Denglai naval divisions, which was advancing in two columns, fell into confusion at the moment when it was shelled.

"The whole army rushed, the guns were fired, the deck used flowering shells, and the guns in the cabin used solid shells!"

When the naval division of the Southern Army fell into confusion due to the reversal of direction, Yang Zhan seized the fighter plane and ordered the attack, and the Bohai Fleet was divided into three detachments, led by Yang Zhan, Cui Jun, and Zheng Jun respectively.

Zheng Jun led 22 makeshift warships converted from horse boats to stay behind to intercept the Pingwu division attempting to attack, and provide fire cover for the other two detachments.

The 40 warships of more than 2,000 materials led by Yang Zhan and Cui Jun charged the naval division of the Southern Army.

Soon after the flag of "all-army assault" was waved, Yang Zhan's military order to "further engage the enemy" appeared on the masts of each warship.

"The whole army is rushing!"

"Take Dengzhou and liberate Shandong!!"

"Roar—"

On the deck, as a member of the liberated, the former Jinzhou soldiers, and now the Bohai soldiers roared excitedly, and the drums and horns on the decks of the warships sounded in unison.

The Bohai Navy plunged straight into the naval division of the Southern Army in a cheer, and Chen Xuan also shouted hoarsely and commanded:

"All the ships clinged to the plan and shelled with guns in the bow!"

Chen Xuan had already tasted the power of the artillery bombardment of the left and right sides of the Bohai Navy after penetration, so he specially explained that when the Bohai Navy launched a charge, all the warships were closely connected and launched artillery bombardment with guns on the bow and stern.

However, all this became useless, and his suggestion was very good, but most of the warships of the Yangtze River and Denglai Naval Divisions were warships of 1,000 or even 500 materials, and they had no power to resist in the face of 3,000 or 2,000 Bohai warships.

At 2:42 a.m., the Bohai warships successfully squeezed into the formation of the Southern Army's naval division, and at this moment, all the Bohai warships received the flag from Yang Zhan...... The whole army fired!

"Boom, boom—"

On February 16 of the second year of Jianwen, two quarters of an hour after the battle of Dengzhou began, two detachments led by Yang Zhan and Cui Jun broke through the front army of the Southern Army's naval division, and the guns on both sides began to fire together.

When the two detachments passed through the formation of the Confederate naval division, the salvo of both side guns caused hundreds of casualties among the Confederate sailors.

The ships of the Southern Army's naval division, which had no ability to 'break armor' on the side of the ship, could not cause damage to the Bohai warships, and even if the sailors turned their guns in time, they did not have time to fire their artillery.

The Bohai Navy's flowering bullets are perfectly coordinated with solid bullets and arquebuses.

Despite the best resistance of the naval division of the Southern Army, the defeat was assured.

The Pingwu Naval Division in the north was in a difficult situation under the shelling of Long Island on the flanks and the shelling of the Zheng Jun detachment of the Bohai Navy on the front.

The Bohai navy's artillery fire was aimed at their hard sails, which were damaged and leaked on all sides, and the northwest wind constantly blew them to the east of Denglai, hindering the charge of the ships in the rear.

Yang Li, who had won many battles in the war of peace and war, actually seemed a little "incompetent" at this moment.

After losing the unified command of Yang Li, it was difficult for the Pingwei Naval Division to join the naval battle off the coast of Dengzhou, and even if some warships occasionally broke through, they were set on fire by Zheng Jun's detachment in an instant, and the warships were either stranded or their masts were broken.

At four quarters of an hour, four quarters of an hour after the start of the battle, the naval division of the Southern Army had suffered heavy casualties, and even though Chen Xuan was unwilling to admit defeat again, he still issued his own military order.

"The whole army retreats to Weihai in the east!"

At this moment, Chen Xuan felt frustrated.

He has never suffered such a crushing defeat since his debut, and although he was defeated in an unfamiliar aspect, he is still unwilling.

"The Southern Army has withdrawn!"

"Chase!!"

On the deck of the Bohai Navy, all the sailors of the Navy cheered, and some shouted for pursuit.

Just in the face of their cheers, Yang Zhan, as the coach, looked at the battlefield behind him with worried eyes.

Fortunately, after the flag of the retreat of the Southern Army was raised, the Pingwu Water Division in the north did not continue to fight, but followed Chen Xuan's Southern Army Water Division and began to retreat eastward.

Yang Zhan breathed a sigh of relief, and at the same time, the expression on his face became calm again: "The whole army stopped the pursuit, rescued the southern soldiers who fell into the water, and at the same time shelled the Dengzhou Fort, and after clearing the fort, the city wall was shelled, and Dengzhou City must be taken within two days!" ”

"The last general commands!!"

Yang Zhan's prestige reached its highest at this moment, and the first difficulty of the Bohai navy's southward march was destroyed under his two consecutive days of command and hand.

Now all they have to do is to continue to listen to orders, and then take Dengzhou City and take the army to cross the sea.

For a time, more than 50 warships that could still move after the war began to shell the batteries in Dengzhou Bay two miles away, and the warships and temporary warships that had lost their combat capability were transferred to Sihou Bay on Long Island.

"Boom, boom—"

The endless sound of artillery began to sound in Dengzhou Bay, and in the face of the artillery bombardment of the Bohai Navy, the twelve batteries were powerless to counterattack and could only be beaten passively.

Seeing this, Qi Ji had no choice but to lead the gunners to retreat into Dengzhou City, but after they left, the Bohai Navy further began to shell Dengzhou City.

From Dengzhou Bay to Dengzhou City, there is a distance of three miles, which is twice the range of the 2,000-pound Hongwu iron cannon.

But even so, the naval guns of the Bohai Navy still hit here.

The city of Dengzhou, built of rammed earth and bricks, was very strong, but it looked so fragile in the face of the naval guns of the Bohai Navy.

From 7 o'clock to 6 o'clock, under the bombardment of more than 1,000 naval guns for nearly three hours, the northern city of Dengzhou was crushed, and 2,000 naval soldiers who could still fight landed in Dengzhou Port.

Qi Ji saw that Dengzhou was about to fall, and tens of thousands of people could not evacuate, so they could only raise the flag and surrender.

At two o'clock on the afternoon of February 16, the second year of Jianwen, the sound of artillery in Dengzhou Bay finally stopped, but the smoke of gunpowder and the thick smell of gunpowder still hung over the battlefield.

The debris of the broken warship floated on the sea, and some of the warships were even burning.

In the Battle of Dengzhou, the Bohai Navy lost 246 casualties and 783 wounded.

The Southern army was killed in countless battles, Yang Zhan estimated that there were 3,000 people, and the number of captured soldiers from the sea and the failed breakthrough and surrendered was 5,427 sailors and soldiers.

The number of kills and prisoners combined, the number of direct attrition of the naval division of the Southern Army was no less than 9,000 people.

Of the 527 ships of the Southern Naval Division, 67 were captured and 112 sunk, while the others fled to Weihaiwei in the east.

In the whole battle, the Bohai Navy only lost 16 warships, of which 12 were temporary warships converted from horse boats, and there was no fatality, and they could be put into use after a short repair, while the naval division of the Southern Army lost more than one-third of the sailors and warships, and its vitality was greatly damaged.

In addition to the above warships, 124 horse boats and Wuxiao boats in Dengzhou Bay were also seized and requisitioned.

However, due to Zhu Gaoxu's confession, Yang Zhan wrote an IOU to the owners of these ships, saying that he would return the ships after the war and compensate for any damage at the original price.

Although Yang Zhan did what Zhu Gaoxu had told, many merchants did not believe that the Bohai Navy would return their ships, let alone compensate them.

The merchants could only consider themselves unlucky, and Yang Zhan threw all these ships into the task of transporting troops.

On the evening of the 17th, when a large number of warships and merchant ships appeared in the waters south of the newly built Port Arthur, Zhu Gaoxu in the city learned the news.

Without the slightest suspicion, he took people out of Arthur City, because no one knew better than him how many things crossed the era of the Bohai warship for the warships of this era.

Sure enough, when he appeared in Port Arthur, hundreds of ships from the south began to line up at sea under the Bohai flag to enter the bay.

"Order the people and soldiers of the whole city to start loading the ship, and cross the river to the south as soon as possible!"

Zhu Gaoxu instructed Meng Zhang, Xu Sheng, Ta Lost, Dol and Qi beside him, and when the four of them heard this, they began to order the men of the city to be gathered.

For a time, truckloads of military rations, horses, and baskets of gunpowder were successively transported onto the warship.

The Bohai Navy was very particular about the loading of ships, about 500 materials were used to transport grain and people, and more than 500 materials were used to transport horses.

I have to say that the number of ships returning this time greatly exceeded Zhu Gaoxu's expectations, and they even brought a boatload of grain to Zhu Gaoxu.

"Your Highness, things are going well!"

"I know you won't lose!"

Yang Zhan hurriedly got off the ship, and at the same time explained the capture and process of the battle to Zhu Gaoxu clearly.

When talking about Dengzhou City, Yang Zhan couldn't hide the smile on his face: "Dengzhou City has 86,000 stone military rations from the Southern Army's naval division, as well as 220,000 grains transported by grain merchants from all over the country. ”

"I put the military rations in Dengzhou City, and I transported the grain back to Lushun, and they are all here."

Yang Zhan motioned to Zhu Gaochu for the ordinary grain that was transported down the boat, and Zhu Gaochu also said to Meng Zhang and the others when he saw this: "Meng Zhang, stop the transportation of military rations and leave the military rations for the brothers left behind to eat." ”

Far away, Zhu Gaoxu shouted at Meng Zhang, and Meng Zhang also acted from afar.

After the two responded, Yang Zhan continued: "I have ordered Cui Jun and Zheng Jun to attack the coastal prefectures, counties, guards, and institutes east of Dengzhou by sea. ”

"There are a lot of reserve warehouses and regular positions in these places, and now that the Southern Army and Naval Division are fleeing, the entire Shandong cannot pull out 20,000 soldiers to fight, as long as our people are fast enough, we can completely take down one state, two counties, three guards and six places west of Dengzhou."

"Judging from the records of the previous general Yang Wendu Governor Pingwei, there are at least 200,000 stone reserves of grain and Changping grain in these places, and there are also a lot of private merchants who have grain."

Yang opened his mouth and spoke, and Zhu Gaoxu also picked up and said:

"After you take the first batch of people across the sea, you will immediately move the people of these places to Liaodong along with the grain."

"What did you say?" Yang Zhan was stunned, he didn't expect Zhu Gaoxu to actually think about moving the population to Liaodong.

Although he didn't know what the situation was in Liaodong, from the perspective of Jinzhou, Liaodong as a whole was obviously in a tight food situation.

In this situation, the relocation of more than 100,000 people from the two counties, three guards and six institutes in this state to Liaodong may make the situation of food shortage in Liaodong more critical, and will also greatly delay the shipping time to Lushun.

"I have my arrangement, these hundreds of thousands of people will be settled in Changhai and Zhuanghe to set up counties."

Zhu Gaoxu wanted to enrich the population of Liaodong with the population of Shandong, even in the mountainous areas.

Although the children of the Confucian family did not develop to the tens of thousands at the end of the Ming Dynasty, there were still thousands of people in the early Ming Dynasty, and at least more than 100,000 people could be moved away by their relatives and other wealthy Shandong gentry.

This group of people, Zhu Gaoxu, has no energy to move now, but he can use their help to the current southern army as an excuse to move them to Liaodong after the capital is conquered.

As long as they are relocated to Bohai, Liaodong, Daning and other places, and they are restricted from returning to Guannai, and then the imperial examination is opened for them to ascend, Zhu Gaoxu believes that it will not take them a few years to integrate into the Guanwai and become a part of the Guanwai by then.

Even if they are reluctant, when they come to the officialdom in the future, once they want to promote officials, they will definitely be selected from their own children and children outside the Guan, so as to increase the proportion of officials in the north.

Zhu Gaoxu wanted to use the Battle of Jingjing to make the next move, and Zhu Di didn't dare to play the next move.

The reason why he dared to go down was because of the students in the four cities of Bohai who had been studying for three or four years.

For them, who already know how to solve equations and geometry, they may not be as good as the Confucian officials in the Guannai in terms of writing articles and governing the country.

However, mathematically, a simple geometric problem can defeat half of the Confucian officials in the Guannai.

Zhu Gaoxu doesn't need too many people to give him ways to formulate national policies now, because he knows better than anyone what the Ming Dynasty should do next, so that he can go further and stronger than in history.

What he needs is to dismiss the group of officials at the grassroots level who are in line with the yang and the yin, and replace them with the more than 30,000 students he has in Bohai.

In this way, the Jurchens outside the customs can not only quietly move to the Guan, but also use them to control the grassroots taxation.

Even if these Jurchens outside the Guanwai will be corrupt in the future, as long as they can implement the policies they have formulated and collect the taxes that should be collected, they will not be too embarrassed for them.

is really corrupt, and Zhu Gaoxu will use the northern students who will grow up in the future to cut them one by one.

How to develop the north and how to develop the ...... outside the border Zhu Gaoxu has his own scale in his heart.

From improving the officialdom status of northerners, to policy tilt and increasing the proportion of handicrafts in the north, he himself has a complete set of ideas.

To put it mildly, the resources he can use are beyond the reach of the sixteen emperors of the Ming Dynasty combined.

It's like the gold, silver and copper mines in the southwest, if Zhu Gaoxu hadn't told Zhu Yuanzhang, they would have been buried underground for hundreds of years, and they were not fully discovered until the middle and late Qing Dynasty.

This is true in the Southwest, and the same is true in the Northeast, not to mention overseas.

The scholars of the feudal society were not fools, as long as there were enough interests, they could instigate the emperor to conquer the whole world.

For example, the scholars in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, later generations said that they were weak, but they did not know that after they discovered the gold and silver mines in the southwest, they immediately began to fight with Donghu Burma, Yang Yinglong, Hao Chongming, Sha Dingzhou and others intermittently for a century.

As long as it is profitable, they become positive and savvy.

It is necessary to pick and choose the benefits, some things are worth some time and some times they are not.

However, this does not include gold, silver, copper, and iron, at least for 500 years.

Therefore, Zhu Gaoxu's discipline can be regarded as coming in handy.

"Although the people of Shandong can move, they can move as much as they can, and this war will not last long."

Zhu Gaoxu's mind was complete, but reality made a promise to Yang Zhan.

Although Yang Zhan was worried about the food problem in Liaodong, he still chose to trust Zhu Gaoxu's arrangement.

Not long after, the Bohai Navy began to board ships in large numbers.

Since the number of ships heading north far exceeded Zhu Gaoxu's expectations, the first batch of people alone transported 6,400 people, as well as more than 4,000 military horses.

It will take them three days to go back and forth, and at this rate, they will be able to complete the landing of the whole army in about 20 days.

However, in the middle of completing the landing, Zhu Gaoxu could not be stupid and do nothing, which would only give Li Jinglong time to prepare to deal with himself.

Therefore, Zhu Gaoxu also embarked on the first batch of teams to cross the sea.

At mid-afternoon on the 18th, with the arrival of the first batch of sea-crossing ships in Dengzhou City, Zhu Gaoxu couldn't wait to order Xu Sheng to go south with him.

"Let the brothers eat and drink enough, and then pick three thousand brothers and all the military horses, and we will leave Qingzhou Mansion early tomorrow morning."

"Your Highness, are we going to fight Qingzhou?" Xu Sheng opened his mouth to ask, but Zhu Gaoxu shook his head and said:

"You'll know when you go, anyway, our trip is not to attack the city and plunder the land, but to better cover the landing of the brothers."

After Zhu Gaoxu's simple explanation, he went to Dengzhou Yamen to rest.

Here, he also met Qi Zhi, who was imprisoned after surrendering.

"The last general Dengzhou acted as the commander of the envoy Qi, see His Royal Highness, His Royal Highness Chitose ......"

In the inverted room of the Dengzhou Yamen, which was not very spacious, Zhu Gaoxu saw Qi Zhi wearing a mandarin duck battle jacket.

"Get up."

Zhu Gaoxu sat on the only chair in the upside-down room, and then looked at Qi Ji who slowly got up, and wanted to laugh in his heart.

Qi Zhi, when it comes to this person, many people are not familiar with him, but if his great-grandson is mentioned, many people will give him a thumbs up.

Qi Yu's great-ancestor was an ordinary soldier who followed Lao Zhu from Huaixi, named Qi Xiang.

After the founding of the Ming Dynasty, Qi Xiang was awarded the official position of the fourth rank of the commander of the Dengzhou Wei by Lao Zhu.

Although later generations said that Lao Zhu was harsh on the heroes, in fact, Lao Zhu and Zhu Di can be said to have basically retired with the country.

Qi Jiguang, Yu Dayou, Sun Chuanting......

This group of people who are still famous, counting their families, are basically families inherited from the Hongwu and even Yongle periods, and the reason for the inheritance is that the old Zhu family is very valuable The hereditary system of military attachés in the guard.

But all the sons and grandsons can inherit the official positions left by their ancestors, for example, Qi Jiguang is the commander of the affairs before he makes an inch, Yu Dayou is the official of a hundred households, and Sun Chuanting Although he did not directly inherit the military attache in the family, he also relied on the resources accumulated by the family to gain fame.

Qi Ji is Qi Xiang's great-grandson and Qi Jiguang's great-grandfather, for such a person, Zhu Gaoxu doesn't care whether his descendants can give birth to Qi Jiguang, at least for the sake of Qi Jiguang's face and his own ability, he can't be too harsh on him.

"This place is too small, starting tomorrow, you will be in charge of this command envoy yamen."

Zhu Gaoxu said with a smile before Qi Ji could react: "That code, let's go." ”

"Thank you...... His Royal Highness Longen. ”

Qi Ji reacted after realizing it, and it seemed that it was a little unreal.

After he reacted, Zhu Gaoxu also spoke: "Brothers who surrendered, unless there is a special need, I will not let them follow them south, and I don't want them to wield weapons in the face of their former comrades. ”

"I heard Zhu Chenggong say that your garrison ability is not bad, and you can also command the Denglai Naval Division."

"Although the Denglai Naval Division is not very powerful, it is also a good ability to command hundreds of large and small ships at sea."

"If you want, you will continue to serve as a commander in Dengzhou, and after the end of the Qing Dynasty, I will let you join the navy and command a fleet."

Zhu Gaoxu still said many new terms as always, and Qi Zhi was also stunned after hearing it: "Navy? ”

"yes." Zhu Gaoxu chuckled: "My Celestial Empire has the Bohai Sea, the East China Sea, the South China Sea, the Whale Sea (the Sea of Japan), the Daming Sea (the Pacific Ocean), overseas vassals, and different sea areas such as the Little Western Ocean (Indian Ocean), the Unfamiliar Ding Sea (Arabian Sea), and the Atlantic Ocean......"

"In these sea areas, there should be a fleet in each of them to ensure the safety of our Celestial Empire and the vassal states."

"If you are willing, I want you to be the commander of the Whale Sea Fleet in the future."

"The name of the sailor, if it is used in the rivers, is not bad, but if you want to come to the magnificent sea, you must use the name of the navy to show the majesty of our great country."

At this point, Zhu Gaoxu also got up and said: "You go home and report your safety to your family, and come to the yamen tomorrow to do some good work." ”

Zhu Gaoxu got up and left, leaving Qi Yan to look at his back, and he didn't come back to his senses for a long time.

It wasn't until Zhu Gaoxu walked away completely that Qi Yan looked up at the window of the upside-down room and whispered: "Whale Sea ......"

"Ming Shizong Record": "In February of the second year, Yichou, the upper dispatch successfully broke the naval division of the Southern Army, Badeng Prefecture, tens of thousands of prisoners of the Southern Army, and the drowning was not counted. ”

"Ming Taizong Record": "In the spring of February, Jinglong and Datong were confused, Jinglong knew that the city of Dengzhou was broken, the army withdrew, and Beiping was encircled. ”

"Bohai Chronicle": "In February of the second year, Yichou, the order was successfully broken through the Southern Army Naval Division, one county, two states and three guards in Badeng Prefecture, and the people of Dengzhou moved to Liaodong, and set up two counties of Changhai and Zhuanghe. ”

(End of chapter)