Forty-eight years of Qianlong

Chapter 749

At noon the next day, apart from Liu Sheng and Fan Tong who were commanding the battle in Xinjiang, Wang Yuanfang in Bacheng, Lu Qi who was digging for gold on the other side of the ocean, and Shengjing who was busy with the "Liaodong Campaign" "Deng Fei, who was finishing the work, all 29 members of the "24-member Committee" were present.

Now everyone in the committee is in charge of their own share, and there are endless things to deal with.Therefore, except for Zhao Xin and his family who arrived two days earlier, everyone else started from various places early in the morning, either by car or speedboat.Fortunately, it is golden autumn in the Northeast at this time. Except for the cold spots at night, the temperature during the day is comfortable, and the water and land transportation is unimpeded.

Ding Guofeng only came back half a month ago. The reason why he didn't arrive early to eat hot pot was mainly because he had been recuperating at home, eating abalone and drinking ginseng soup every day.He stayed in India for more than a year. Fighting wars, dealing with the French, and negotiating with the British were all exhausting things. In addition, the humid and hot weather in the South Asian continent also made his body a little overwhelmed.

Of course, the two stunning beauties that Tipu Sultan gave him almost emptied Ding Guofeng, so when this guy got off the ship, he looked scary and scared his wife a lot.He didn't dare to bring the beauty back, but placed it in "Denmark Fort", otherwise his wife Xue Wu would dare to ask her brother to kill him with the bear at home.

At one o'clock in the afternoon, the meeting proceeded on time.The office building of Minzheng in Fuerdan City is much better than the previous one. It is made of reinforced concrete, and the outer wall uses high-efficiency thermal insulation materials from another time and space; The floor is warm, so I wish I could wear short sleeves when I come in in winter.But it's only September, and the heating doesn't work.

Before the official start, Zhao Xin played "The Internationale" ingeniously, asking everyone to stand up and listen carefully.His original intention was to remind everyone not to forget the purpose of his struggle in this time and space, but as a result, many people were stunned, thinking who am I?where am i
At the beginning of the meeting, Zhao Xin first briefed everyone on the "Liaodong Campaign" launched this year, and then on behalf of Liu Sheng and Fan Tong, he would explain the progress of the battle between the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains and the combat situation in Guangxi.

In fact, everyone has been paying attention to the battle in Liaodong this year. After all, Shengjing was the accompanying capital of the Qing Dynasty. After winning the Liaohe Plain, the next step is to enter the customs no matter what.

However, compared to the smooth attack on Shengjing, the process of attacking Xingjing City was full of blood and fire. Even Lu Shoushan, who had a deep hatred for the Manchu and Qing courts, couldn't help feeling guilty after the battle ended and he went to the city to inspect. emotion.When more than 20 people in the conference room heard Zhao Xin's scripted report on the battle process and results, they sighed for a while, but they didn't know where to start.

In 1601 AD, Nurhaci used all the population in the area under his jurisdiction to build a new city on the land of Hetuala on the south side of the Suzi River and the east bank of the Taizi River. Hetuala means "Henggang" in Manchu. In 1605, Nurhaci ordered to build another city wall outside the city, thus Hetuala City formed a double urban structure inside and outside.In the Huang Taiji period decades later, it was named "Heavenly Jubilee Xingjing".

The outer city of Xingjing City is nothing more than that, except for the southeast corner, which is built along the Yangbi Mountain, the rest is flat land, but the inner city is a military fortress that is easy to defend and difficult to attack.

The entire inner city is located on Gaogang flat land, covering an area of ​​24.6 square meters, which is equivalent to the size of 34 and a half football fields.Because the city wall was built along the cliffs of the surrounding hills earlier, a height difference of more than 20 meters was formed on the outside, which is twice as high as the city wall of Beijing!
In addition, the walls of the inner city are built using the "rock rammed earth and stone cloth rafters" masonry method, that is, after a section of the bottom is built with stone materials, earth and rocks are filled between the two walls; each layer of rammed earth is laid horizontally. Hardwood, with spaces between the logs, and then filled with rammed earth, and then spread wooden sticks, and so on repeatedly until a durable and strong city wall is formed.

For this kind of wall, when the 82mm mortar shells of the Northern Navy fell on it, they would blow up the outer layer of flakes, and it took five or six consecutive bombardments to make a gap.But if you want to rush into the city through the gap, you have to use a ladder to climb a cliff more than ten meters high.

There is a four-meter-wide horse road on the periphery of the inner city, which leads to the four gates of the north, east, south and southeast respectively.All the city gates are not big, the largest gate opening is only three meters wide, and the narrowest one is only more than one meter wide.All the roads leading to the city gate are close to the inner city wall, and the walls are densely covered with battlements. If you attack from the horse road, every step you take will have to stand against the feathered arrows shot from behind the wall.

Of course, Lu Shoushan's troops would not attack immediately, but put out loudspeakers and repeatedly played the news that Shengjing had been captured in Manchu.Facing the Northern Navy's persuasion to surrender, the Eight Banners soldiers and men, women and children in the city refused to accept it. Except for the elderly and children who could not hold a knife or gun, everyone, regardless of gender, joined the battle, carrying guns, bird guns, iron cannons, bows and arrows, swords and guns They all greeted each other.

Seeing this situation, Lu Shoushan had no choice but to fight!He thought about bombarding them with a mortar, and these mobs wouldn't want to disperse?However, the facts were beyond his expectations. After the walls of the outer city were blasted, the brutal street fighting began.

You must know that the biggest feature of urban street fighting is cruelty, hand-to-hand combat, dog-tooth criss-crossing, hand-to-hand combat at every turn, and sometimes it is too late to shoot.There are many Hunchun Manchus and transformed Eight Banners soldiers in Lu Shoushan's troops. These people will have scruples at the beginning of the battle, and when they find someone, they will use Manchu to persuade them to put down their weapons.However, many ordinary people not only refused to listen, but also hid in the houses and roofs on both sides of the street and shot arrows.

For example, there was an Eight Banners soldier ambushing in the house, and when the Bei Haijun approached, he suddenly rushed out and slashed with a big knife in his hand. Although the knife was blocked, one soldier's thumb was cut off, and the other was also smashed by the back of the knife. A face full of flowers.Another example is that a woman is hiding on the roof with a bow and arrow in her hand, and she will come here whenever she feels cold.Although it is difficult to shoot someone to death as long as it is not in the heart, it is unbearable even after being hit.Situations like this are unpredictable.

As the combat attrition continued to increase, the main attacking regiment was finally rushed, and no longer hesitated to shoot, grenades and machine guns were called in, and the yards were cleaned up one by one.By the time the outer city was completely cleared, three days had passed.

Hitting the inner city is even more brutal.Lu Shoushan really wanted to plow the land directly with artillery fire, but the problem was that his troops came over the mountains from the east of Changbai Mountain. He couldn't even bring a 75mm gun, let alone prepared less than half of the mortar shells. Base - 40 rounds per door.

Another regiment taking over from the main attack launched an attack from the direction of the four gates.Although shelling was carried out before the attack, the soldiers had to bear the feather arrows thrown from the top of their heads and the iron bullets fired by the bird guns on the way of charging, and there were even two people carrying shotguns.The four-meter-wide road is lined with tall stone walls on both sides, and there is no place to hide when people come down from the heights.

After the troops entered the inner city, they fought street by street with the retreating Eight Banners soldiers and ordinary people.Most of the buildings here are palaces, yamen of various banners, granaries, academies, temples, and even bow and arrow factories and armor factories. It is much more troublesome to clear than residential buildings.When the battle was over, except for a Ksitigarbha Temple that accommodated the wounded, the inner city was still intact, and almost all other places were ruined.

After this battle, there were nearly [-] local Manchus out of ten, and those who survived were the old, the weak, women and children; and on the side of the Beihai Navy, the two regiments responsible for the main attack also suffered nearly a thousand casualties.

It is said that the Northern Navy's occupation of Shengjing City made the Manchus feel like mourning, and the capture of Xingjing made the Manchus completely desperate.In addition, the marines were stuck in Jinzhou and cut off the post road leading to the pass. Liaoyang, Fenghuang, Xiuyan, Haicheng, Yaozhou, Gaiping, Xiongyue, and Fuzhou all sent envoys to Shengjing to follow Deng Fei discusses surrender.

When the news came back to Beihai Town, a group of old-fashioned literati headed by Wang Zhong were overjoyed, bluntly saying that the dragon vein of the Manchu Qing Dynasty had been broken.As long as the Beihai Navy enters the customs, the world will be at your fingertips!

In another time and space, a certain literati surnamed Cha once wrote a novel, which mentioned that the dragon veins of the Manchu and Qing Dynasties were located in Humarwoji Mountain in Heilongjiang.Well, this is simply nonsense, the dragon veins of the Jianzhou Jurchen can't go to Heilongjiang no matter what!
In fact, the real dragon vein of the Manchu Qing Dynasty was in Xingjing.Kangxi once said in his poems that there is no way to reach the king's land with mist and mist.

From the perspective of Feng Shui, the first thing to do when selecting a site for the establishment of a country and capital in ancient times is to find a suitable dragon vein.To put it bluntly, the dragon veins must have continuous mountains. Starting from the northwest direction, it is best to move towards the southeast.

The center of the dragon vein is called "Zushan", which is the place where the king's spirit gathers as the ancients said.Starting from Zushan, go all the way along the southeast direction, connecting to the "main mountain", also known as "backing mountain".To the south of the capital, there must be "Anshan Mountain", and to the south of "Anshan Mountain", there must be "Chaoshan", which symbolizes the meaning of kneeling and worshiping all nations.

For example, let’s talk about the city of Beijing.Zushan is Tianshou Mountain at the intersection of Yanshan Mountains and Taihang Mountains, and its source is the central range of Kunlun Mountains.So why did the Ming Tombs of the Ming Dynasty swarm to be built on Tianshou Mountain?Because the feng shui is the best under the ancestral mountain.

The main mountain in Beijing is actually Jingshan Mountain, which was built artificially. It existed since the Jin Dynasty, and it was called Qingshan Mountain at that time; it was expanded in the Ming Dynasty to form the Longevity Mountain with five peaks.According to Zhu Xi, the case mountains are divided into five cases, Songshan is the former case, the Huainan mountains are the second case, the Jiangnan mountains are the third and fourth cases, and Wuling, located at the intersection of Hubei, Hunan, Guangdong and Guangxi, is the fifth case. case.As for Chaoshan, it is the Qinling Mountains, extending from the south bank of the Yellow River to the central part of Henan.

This is called "the momentum of the watch", carrying the heavy mountains, facing the flat land, controlling the Jianghuai in the south, connecting Shuomo in the north, and always controlling the world.Just like a heavy coat collar, when you lift the collar, the whole garment can be lifted up.By the way, in another time and space, there are always some people who suggest moving the capital, which is very ridiculous from the perspective of Feng Shui.

Then again, the specific Zushan in Xingjing is Qiyun Mountain located in the north of Suzi River, which belongs to the remaining veins of Changbai Mountain. It is shaped like a crouching dragon with its head protruding west. , where the ancestors of all dynasties from Mengge Timur to Takshi are buried.

To the east of Qiyun Mountain is Laolonggang, whose branches pass through the Suzi River to Xingjing City, then extend southeast to Yangbi Mountain, and then to the southeast is Jiming Mountain.That is to say, Qiyun Mountain is Zushan and Zhushan, Yangbishan is Ananshan, and Jimingshan is Chaoshan.Where there are dragons, there must be water. The Suzi River runs from east to west, and the waterways are unimpeded. On both sides of the north and south banks are dragon veins and mountains, which are the characteristics of upper-middle-class water bodies.

Therefore, from the perspective of feng shui, the dragon veins of Hetuala City are a natural trend, and many elements are perfect, which is the root of the dragon veins in the Qing dynasty.

Well, the above statements about Feng Shui are all nonsense in Zhao Xin's opinion!

Nurhachi belonged to the tortoise in his early years. Before unifying the Jurchen ministries, his first consideration was the safety of his old nest, so he chose Foala, which is completely a mountain city.When all the surrounding ministries were basically conquered, and only one Ye He tribe remained, he turned his attention to Daming, and the position of Foala could no longer meet military and political needs.

Hetuala is adjacent to the Suzi River in the north, the Erdao River in the west, the Riga River in the southwest, and the mountains in the east and southeast. From a military point of view, it is a natural place that is easy to defend but difficult to attack.In addition, there are a large number of flat lands in the northeast and southwest regions, with dense river networks and fertile land, which is a good farming area.Otherwise, Nurhachi would not have established the country and proclaimed himself Khan after the completion of Hetuala, issued the "Seven Great Hatreds", and completely turned against the Ming Dynasty.

After talking about the situation in Liaodong, Zhao Xin briefly reported on the affairs of Guangdong and Guangxi, and then some of the people present proposed to attack Guangzhou.

Zhao Xin smiled and said: "Okay! As long as some of us are willing to go, I have no problem. But who here understands Chaoshan Hakka? We have three thousand Jiaying and Chaozhou recruits in Bacheng."

As soon as this remark came out, the two people who proposed just now froze, thinking MMP!I do know some plastic Cantonese, but Hakka still counts.What is Wang Yuanfang, the governor, doing to eat, and not doing enough to promote Mandarin!

In fact, Luo Fangbai had already sent people to look for Wang Yuanfang several times, expressing that he wanted to bring Lan and the camp back to Guangdong.The problem is that the Hakka dialect spoken by these Jiaying people is like a scripture, not to mention the northerners, the Zhangzhou and Quanzhou people living in Bacheng can’t understand it, they can only comprehend it.The group of soldiers recruited in Pontianak and Dongwanlu had not yet completed their training in Bacheng. The most time-consuming part was teaching these people to speak the northern official language, otherwise they would not even be able to carry out orders.

In the early days, the North Navy recruited soldiers in Bacheng all from Fujian. They first worked in the security team and then transferred to the regular army.But now there are still many things in West Java that have not been dealt with neatly, and they cannot be separated at all.

From Zhao Xin and Wang Yuanfang's point of view, those Jiaying miners had to be trained to meet the requirements of Beihai Town before they could take Lanheying to fight against Guangzhou and Chaoshan.

Zhao Xin's third report was made on behalf of Liu Sheng and Fan Tong.

In this report written by Jiang Fan, the first half describes the process of the western front troops marching westward from the north and south lines of Tianshan Mountain.I used a lot of words to describe the hardships of the march. As for the second half of the battle, the content was much simpler. It was nothing more than the Qing army fleeing. Everywhere the troops went, they were supported by the people of all ethnic groups, and the situation was very good.

At present, the troops have captured Yili at the northern foot of the Tianshan Mountains and captured a large number of Qing troops; while the southern line started from Hami and captured Turpan, Karashar, Kuqa and other places along the way, and the next step will be to march into Aksu.

Everyone present applauded after listening, expressing joy and encouragement.Zhao Xin bowed his head expressionlessly, and picked up the water glass to moisten his dry throat.At this moment, he felt someone looking at him, and when he looked up, it was Chen Qingsong.Facing the questioning look in the other party's eyes, Zhao Xinwei shook his head imperceptibly, Chen Qingsong blinked, and then announced that the meeting would move on to the next topic.

In fact, there were two telegrams sent by the Western Front Command, one was a long message sent to the North Navy Staff Headquarters, and the other was a short message sent directly to Zhao Xin.There were only seven words in the short telegram: "We killed a lot of prisoners!!!"

(End of this chapter)