Brother Zhu Youxiao

Chapter 699 Postscript (Nineteen) Countering the Rebellion and Aiding the Ming Dynasty
"Set things right! Set things right!"

"Mother, these rebels really consider themselves orthodox!"

In May, outside the city of Shanhaiguan, when the Ming army with the "朙" flag on the top of the city cursed at the Ming army inside the pass, the Ming army outside Shanhaiguan also looked at the "朙" flag flying at the head of Shanhaiguan and cursed.

Since the defeat of the Ming army in the Liaoshen battle in April, Ming's offensive has been frustrated. Because the railway was destroyed and the supplies could not keep up, Li Shoubi could only retreat to Shanhaiguan to rest, while the rebels reoccupied the Liaoxi Corridor and Shanhaiguan.

At the same time, Zhu Jianhuan has been continuously sending telegrams to all parts of the country, telling the story of Wu King Zhu Jianhuang's kidnapping of Emperor Wushou, spreading rumors, and claiming that the reason why Li Shoubi and others rushed to attack was because they were afraid that the kidnapping of Emperor Wushou would be revealed.

Zhu Jianhuan was originally unpopular, but Daming had no precedent for abolishing the prince, and he was so swearing.

For a while, not only the feudal vassals, but also overseas supervisory envoys and provinces suspected whether Emperor Wushou was held hostage by King Wu, so they dared not provide supplies to Xi'an. Only officials on land had been sent to Xi'an to confirm The news of the provinces dared to provide supplies.

Whether Emperor Wushou was held hostage or not became the key point of the civil war. In this era when there were only telegrams, most people only got the news from the "Da Ming Bao" and the imperial court's telegrams.

Now the "Da Ming Pao" in the area under the jurisdiction of the rebels reported that Emperor Wushou had been kidnapped, while the "Da Ming Pao" in the area under the jurisdiction of the Ming Army reported that the prince had rebelled.

The feudal lords trusted Xi'an first, so they wanted to help counter the rebellion, but they were rejected by Xi'an.

If there is a precedent for this, it's okay to say, but even the state of Qi was rejected, which made the vassals have to doubt.

With such a move in Xi'an, even Qi Wang Zhu Bomu couldn't help but began to wonder if Emperor Wushou was really held hostage.

The various vassals sent telegrams to the Qi vassal, asking whether to send troops, and Qi Wang Zhu Bomu was also hesitant.

In the current Ming Dynasty, the rebels thought they were saving the kidnapped Emperor Wushou, while the Ming army thought they were suppressing the rebellion. Both sides regarded each other as rebels. Sichuan and other areas.

In such a situation, it was not until the first day of May that the Qi State sent Zhu Zhongshu, king of Chuqiu County, to Xi'an City, and arrived in Xi'an City on the second day of June, to confirm that Emperor Wushou was presiding over the suppression of the rebellion.

After confirming that Emperor Wushou had not been held hostage, Qi Fan began to call the various feudal vassals to convey the news that Emperor Wushou had not been held hostage. At the same time, he published "Qi Guo Bao" in Daming territory and released it in Luchuan and Yunnan by airdropping newspapers. information.

With the help of the Qi State Air Force, the rebels in Luchuan and Yunnan understood what had happened. Most of the Southern Army soldiers surrendered to Yue Jun, and Luo Fu and his son committed suicide by drinking bullets.

Although the south is doing anyway with the help of Qi, the rebels in the northeast are still unaware of what happened. Coupled with the brainwashing of Zhu Jianhuan, Zhang Bingzhong and others, all the armies believe that Emperor Wushou was held hostage, and only the prince participated in the siege of the Forbidden City. The rebels know the truth of the matter.

The Qi Air Force tried to enter the Northeast, but was blocked by the Apocalypse heavy machine guns of the rebels.

Due to immature technology, old-fashioned reconnaissance planes and bombers cannot go beyond the barrage of heavy machine guns.

After the news came back to the country, Qi Wang Zhu Bomu decided to change the three armies, replacing the Xianjia-style armament with Wushou-style armament.

At the same time, Emperor Wushou also recognized the reality, please mobilize the Qi army to join the battle...

"Beep--"

"After boarding the ship, enter the room as a team and take a good rest. The journey is expected to take twelve days, and we will arrive in Kyushu Prefecture in twelve days."

"Check the gun in your hand and return the bullet in time!"

In August, the port of Xijing in Qi State was crowded with people.

However, what is gathered here is not a merchant ship, but a soldier of Qi State who is ready to go.

At this moment, they were already ready to fight, and began to board the steel transport ships with solemn expressions.

All the soldiers were equipped with Shaoqing-style pistols, gray-green round steel helmets, and Qi's new field uniforms.

Every set of field uniforms is extremely brand new, obviously not long after it was released.

This set of field uniforms inherits the military style design of King Qi Wen's period. It has a stable and rigorous appearance. The top is designed in a capped style, and the collar is black with white hooks. Military rank accessories can be placed on both sides of the shoulders. The front bears the logo of "Huangming Qi State Expeditionary Army".

In addition, there are two pockets on both sides of the chest and abdomen of the jacket for soldiers to equip some small items.

The field pants on the lower body also continue this design style, while the waist is worn with a waist belt, and the feet are light-weight, durable and deep Wushou-style field boots.

The boots are made of hard cowhide. The joints are made of rivets and glue, which has a certain waterproof effect. The inside is also added with a thermal lining, which can resist cold and increase comfort, and is suitable for various combat environments.

Such a suit is the combat clothing and short soldiers of Qi soldiers.

At this moment, they didn't have too many weapons on them, because other weapons and equipment other than pistols would not be given to them until they arrived at Daming Lushun Mansion, and that time also meant that they were about to join the war.

Right now, 40 Ming troops are defending the Great Wall and the Shanhaiguan defense line, and Qi has become their only vassal state for help.

On the fifth day of July, the King of Qi issued a mobilization order to the whole country. One hundred thousand National Defense Forces were summoned to Xijing City to start dressing up.

On the first day of August, after a month of dressing up and simple training, the [-] Qi State Expeditionary Army set off. Now it is the seventh and last day of departure.

The [-] Qi army will rest for half a month in the Kyushu Prefecture in Yingzhou, and then land in southern Liaoning by boat in one go.

This is the first time that the National Defense Forces of the Qi State have been on the battlefield since the Yongchang period, so many people are very nervous...

"Is this Emperor Wushou being held hostage?"

"They sent us off, this news must be fake news."

"Why bother so much, whoever we fight is the rebel!"

"If you want me to say, let us play at the beginning, this rebellion is over long ago, and drag us to the battlefield until now when we can't be defeated, huh..."

"Then what can we do? We are a vassal state, a natural consumable for the state."

"Alright, alright, don't talk about it."

On the last troop carrier, when the soldiers complained about Daming, a soldier shook his head and got up and walked out of the cabin, then walked onto the deck, and took a deep breath on the deck.

At this moment, the troop carrier has sailed out of Xijing Bay and arrived on the Eastern Daming Ocean.

Looking at the blue sea and blue sky in the distance, feeling the wind and waves of the troop carrier, the soldier took off his hat.

What was exposed under the hat was long trimmed hair, but at the moment they were tied behind the head, only a thin layer.

Soldiers of the Qi State have to thin their hair when they join the army. Although they can tie their hair in a bun, it is still incomparable with the buns of ordinary people.

However, wanting to wear a thin bun is not allowed in this era. Except for soldiers from various countries, only nobles and courtiers are qualified to do so.

"What's wrong? Sighing?"

A voice sounded, and the young soldier hurriedly looked back.

The military rank of the incoming man is three bars of silver bars, and his official position is the general, that is, the head of all the soldiers on the last three troop carriers.

If an ordinary soldier saw this man, he would probably be breaking out in a cold sweat by now.

However, when the young soldier saw this man, he smiled bitterly: "Uncle Thirteen..."

"Hmm..." Hearing this, the officer leaned against the guardrail, looking at the sea in the distance, while the young man next to him sighed:

"I really don't understand. The feudal lords have not got involved in the affairs of the state. What are we involved in?"

"Although the rebels have obtained the production line of the Military Armament Academy, it has only been a few months. As long as the country is determined, it is not impossible to defeat it. Why let us end? What does the chief think?"

The title of a patriarch revealed the identities of the two of them.

Qi Fan developed to the Wushou period, and the clan had no less than 5000 people. In order to facilitate management, King Qi was not only the king of Qi, but also the head of the clan of Qi Fan.

In this expedition to suppress the rebellion, as the head of the clan, Zhu Bomu, the king of Qi, not only mobilized the people, but also mobilized the clan.

A quarter of the more than [-] male members of the clan were conscripted into the army this time, and the young man was one of them.

He is Zhu Cihuang's 晜 (kūn) grandson Zhu Jingchen (chen). In his generation, in fact, he has already produced the five clothes of King Qi. , At other times, it basically has nothing to do with Qi Palace.

His greatest wish is to be a teacher at school, instead of pulling the trigger on the battlefield and taking someone's life.

He only felt that the current experience fully explained what it meant to backfire.

"The suzerain-vassal system is the guarantee of peace at present. You have said this before, and now the suzerain-vassal system is about to be broken. We, Qi Fan, have the ability to mend it, so how can we not do it?"

"Even if Guochao is capable of suppressing the rebellion, but now the rebel army has planes and tanks, while Guochao only has armored vehicles, rifles, and machine guns. How do you say?"

"Furthermore, based on the information we have received, the rebel army already has dozens of planes and more than 60 tanks. The country will pay a very high price to suppress the rebellion."

"As soon as we pass by, Guochao will have the air supremacy, and it will be much easier to fight then."

"Besides, the ten taels of silver that we get every year during the Chinese New Year is also collected from the people. Since we enjoy it, we can't let the people stand in front of us."

Zhu Jianxuan patted Zhu Jingchen's shoulder, then comforted him and left.

Zhu Jingchen looked at his back, thought about his parents at home, shook his head helplessly, then turned and went back to the cabin.

In the next twelve days, Zhu Jingchen saw too many soldiers who went to the deck sobbing in the middle of the night, and even he himself was one of them.

It's just that these soldiers never thought of going home, because they knew better than anyone else that they were the most elite group of soldiers, and if they ran back, they would let others go to the battlefield.

Those who can serve as soldiers in Qi State have long had the awareness to eat bullets on the battlefield.

Therefore, no matter how much the soldiers cried, they finally arrived at Yingzhou Jiuzhou Port by boat on August [-].

When they came to Kyushu Port, they experienced the real atmosphere of war.

At this time, the Kyushu Mansion had been jointly taken over by the Qi Army and the Ming Army, and the ports and streets were full of soldiers patrolling with live ammunition.

At the port, Zhu Jingchen and the others saw tens of thousands of Yingzhou people welcoming them.

When they disembarked, many people held their hands tightly, hoping that they would calm down the rebellion.

An old woman held Zhu Jingchen's hand and gave him three hundred Wen, hoping that he would have a good meal before going to the battlefield.

"What does this sound like..."

Looking at the three hundred banknotes in his hand, Zhu Jingchen shook his head with a wry smile, and then handed in the banknotes for confiscation.

Since they were the last batch, after checking into the barracks, they were notified that they had only three days to relax.

It's just that during these three days, many soldiers did not spend their days and nights as expected by the officers, but helped the people in Jiuzhou Port to build houses.

During this process, Zhu Jingchen also knew that the rebels would often fly bombers to Kyushu Port to bomb, in order to prevent the Qi army from landing here.

This phenomenon did not stop until the Qi army arrived and shot down a bomber with anti-aircraft guns.

Zhu Jingchen found the old woman who gave him money at the beginning. Her home was destroyed by bombers and she is now living in a simple tent.

Seeing that the other party's life is so difficult, Zhu Jingchen took the soldiers of Benwu to build a simple log cabin for her, and then returned to the barracks.

It was already the third day, and when they returned to the barracks, the commander-in-chief, the highest general of the expeditionary army, came to inspect their battalion.

It wasn't until this night that Zhu Jingchen and the others learned that the governor of the expeditionary army was actually Zhu Zhongman, the eldest son of the dynasty.

Many people did not expect that King Qi actually sent himself and his eldest son to the battlefield.

Before they could recover, Zhu Zhongman had already left the battlefield by car.

After he left, baggage vehicles also entered the barracks, bringing the soldiers' weapons and equipment.

In addition to the field uniforms and pistols on the Qi army, the Qi army's weapons and equipment are camouflage raincoats, waterproof map bags, metal barrels for gas masks, melon grenades, water bottles, Wuhun rotating rear-action rifles, and bayonets and guns. Spare clips, and a waist belt with sixty bullets.

In addition to these, there is also a combat backpack, which contains a small tent, damp cloth, first aid kit, compass, sapper shovel and razor, and a series of other things.

These weapons and equipment together weighed fifty catties, which was a great test for the soldiers' physical fitness.

However, it is not difficult for Qi State reserve soldiers who have military training every year and carry [-] catties in military training to adapt to this weight.

That night, they were notified that they would go to fight in southern Liaoning tomorrow.

That night, all of them suffered from insomnia, and the entire barracks was filled with sleepless soldiers.

So after boarding the ship the next day, Zhu Jingchen fell asleep directly.

During this period, he was woken up by his comrades, because the rebel bombers and fighter jets came over them.

Just before they ran to the deck, the Qi escort fleet shot down the bomber and reconnaissance plane.

Looking at the [-]-ton cruiser and the [-]-ton frigate, Zhu Jingchen felt much more at ease about the outcome of this war.

After a day and night of sailing, in the early morning of August 25th, Zhu Jingchen and the others arrived at Lushun Port. At this time, Lushun had been defeated by the advance troops.

On the pier, Zhu Jingchen heard that the advance armored group had reached two hundred miles away, and what they had to do was to protect the rear supplies and help the troops take down the Anshan Iron Works.

Two hours later, the trucks, tanks and armored vehicles of Zhu Jingchen's battalion had all disembarked safely. As a tank soldier, Zhu Jingchen drove the tank on the road that had been bombed to pieces.

Everywhere he looked, there were bombed towns, displaced people, and surrendered rebels.

They may have different identities, but what they have in common is that they are all downcast, as if they have lost some spiritual support.

Zhu Jingchen asked, only to find out that the soldiers and civilians in the Northeast believed that Emperor Wushou was held hostage by the King of Wu until the Qi army arrived, and they didn't understand what happened until the Qi army arrived.

A lie destroyed the homes of tens of millions of people in the Northeast. Many wealthy people in the Taiping years could only beg for food from the Qi army in rags.

The bolder children would come forward and follow the car. Seeing this scene, Zhu Jingchen's chief banner officer opened his can of biscuits without hesitation, and gave them the can and biscuits.

Zhu Jingchen asked him why, but the Chief Banner Officer said he thought of his own child.

Hearing this, Zhu Jingchen was silent for a long time, and it wasn't until the scouts blew their whistles and shouted "enemy plane" that Zhu Jingchen hurriedly drove the tank to a stop.

The corporal pointed the anti-aircraft machine gun on the tank at the reconnaissance plane in the air, and opened fire together with other tanks.

The reconnaissance plane of the rebels was shot down, and Zhu Jingchen and his team were sent to check the situation.

But when they arrived, the reconnaissance plane and the pilot inside had been engulfed in flames, and the smell of diesel and meat mixed together, which was disgusting.

Ironically, the words "putting things right" are printed on the fuselage of the plane.

I'm afraid the pilot didn't know until his death that the real rebels were actually them.

With a heavy heart, Zhu Jingchen used the radio to report the situation, then returned to the main army, and continued on the road to the north.

On August 13, the 1765th year of Wushou (27), Zhu Jingchen and the others arrived at the front line of the battlefield. What they saw were rows of "tiger tanks" parked outside Liaoyang City.

As a driver of a "Panther Tank", Zhu Jingchen was very envious of the soldiers who could drive a "Tiger Tank", so he chatted with the resting soldiers.

After the conversation, he found out that the Qi army bomber fleet had completely bombed the air defense systems of Shenyang and Liaoyang yesterday.

Then the bombers scattered a large number of "Qi Guo Bao" in the two places, and a large number of rebels did not know that they were rebels until now.

Therefore, when the tank group arrived in Liaoyang City, all the soldiers and civilians in Liaoyang City surrendered.

If it wasn't for the lack of diesel, they might have already fought the city of Shenyang with the armored group troops.

Hearing this news, Zhu Jingchen sighed a little.

On August [-], the Qi army regained Shenyang without any obstacles.

Afterwards, the expeditionary force was divided into two. Ten battalions of 3 people continued to recover the provinces of Donghai, Modong, Beishan, and Shanyu in the north. 20 rebels.

20 against [-], Zhu Jingchen was very nervous when he heard this string of bluffing statistics.

Since he landed in Daming, he hasn't fought a tough battle, so he can't help but feel a little uneasy.

On the third day of September, Zhu Jingchen arrived in Jinzhou with the army, and there were [-] rebels entrenched here.

Li Jin, the guard of Jinzhou, believed that the Qi army came from afar and it was difficult to fight for a long time. Therefore, he decided to temporarily take the defensive position of the Qi army to prevent Qi's expeditionary army from going north quickly, so as to consolidate the rule of the rebel army in Beishan and East China Sea, and support the war situation. .

Faced with his defensive situation, Qi Shizi Zhu Zhongman ordered the entire army's reconnaissance planes and bombers to attack.

On the fifth day of September, [-] reconnaissance planes appeared in the sky over Jinzhou. After discovering the air defense positions in the city, they reported it quickly, and the Qi army artillery group launched shelling on the air defense positions in the city.

At noon, the air defense system in Jinzhou City had collapsed, and [-] bombers appeared over Jinzhou, dropping a large number of "Qi Guo Bao" on Jinzhou.

Seeing this, Li Jin knew that the situation was over, and immediately committed suicide by drinking a bomb.

Half an hour later, the [-] defenders of Jinzhou surrendered, and the Qi army has been using this method to regain the cities in the Liaoxi Corridor, without any disadvantage.

In the final analysis, what Zhu Jianhuan relied on was Daming's record of not abolishing the crown prince and the people's trust in the Ming system.

Once his lies are exposed, there will be very few people willing to work for him.

On the tenth day of September, when Zhu Jingchen boarded the dilapidated Shanhaiguan Pass, the entire western Liaoning Corridor was recovered.

In the remaining three months, the Qi army followed the same pattern and recovered every place, exposing Zhu Jianhuan's lies mercilessly.

On the fifteenth day of the winter month, Zhu Jianhuan committed suicide by throwing himself into the sea at Nuerganhai in Beishan.

So far, the two-and-a-half-year "Wukari Civil War" has come to an end.

In this all-out civil war, the number of rebel casualties was more than 27, the number of surrenders was more than 76, and the number of casualties of the Ming army was close to 20.

The Qi army participated in the battle with 10 people, with more than [-] casualties.

The war spread to two capitals and sixteen provinces, involving more than [-] million civilians.

During the war, about [-] million people died in the flames of war, and another [-] million people became refugees.

In the third year after the war, at the end of "The Change of Wushou" written by Li Ziren, the chief assistant, he estimated that the war directly caused more than 500 million people in terms of death, disability, and missing people. .

From the perspective of population loss, he estimated that the total population loss of the civil war and the following three years should be more than 2000 million people, and the economic loss caused by it should be more than 60 billion renminbi.

In Li Ziren's own diary, he recalled after the war: "If Long Live can let Qi enter the war in advance, seize the air supremacy, and expose the lies of the rebellious prince, perhaps this civil war will be settled within three months, and the affected The people will not exceed 1000 million people."

"Because of Long Live and the imperial court's misjudgment, the rebels stole the secret library of the Armament Institute, thus gaining time to produce secret armaments, which led to the setback of our army's Liaoshen campaign in the mid-term."

In addition to Li Ziren's memories, many civilians also recorded a lot about the civil war.

From the perspective of common people, what a large number of people in North China and Northeast China saw was the raging war and the ugliness of human nature, so many writers were born during this period.

But no matter how it is described, many writers believe that in this civil war, the worst move that Emperor Wushou made was to refuse Qi to end for the first time.

This move led the soldiers and civilians in the Northeast to believe that Emperor Wushou was indeed held hostage by the King of Wu, because Daming had never rejected Qi's initiative to counter the rebellion before, which directly caused heavy casualties among the soldiers and civilians in the Northeast.

In the fourth year after the war, according to statistics from the Ministry of Household Affairs, only less than 6000 million of the more than [-] million people in North China and Northeast China survived, and most of the population migrated overseas or to places such as Hezhong, Taixi, and Persia.

Although this greatly enriched the population of Daming in the west and overseas, it left an indelible and painful memory for the people in the Northeast.

In the writings of the national historian, this civil war is also known as the "Wu Shou Change".

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