The Resurrection of the South Seas of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 756 The Only Loser
Seeing Nalan Xingde's refusal, Nalan Mingzhu didn't insist, and nodded.

"All right!"

"Since that's the case, let Rong Ruo study hard by Ama's side!"

"You have to go through every military order of Ama in this battle against Fengyang."

"Why did Ama issue such a military order? You have to tell the truth!"

Seeing this, Nalan Xingde hit Qian'er and said.

"My son listens to Ama!"

Seeing this, Nalan Mingzhu nodded in satisfaction.

"Not bad! Good boy!"

……

Under Nalan Mingzhu's military order, the Qing army began to march toward Fengyang City at an accelerated pace.

Teams of fine cavalry from the Qing army were cast out in advance to be used as sentinel cavalry.

Jingqi covered the battlefield, and pulled out and wiped out Fengyang Zhao's sentries outside the city one by one.

The private soldiers of the Zhao family in Fengyang did not have the ability to fight against the fine cavalry of the Qing army at all.

The scope of activities of Fengyang Zhao's private soldiers was firmly compressed in Fengyang City.

The fine cavalry of the Qing army galloped past Fengyang City in arrogance several times, throwing arrows towards the head of Fengyang City.

These Eight Banners elite cavalry of the Qing army may not participate in the siege operations, but they are still responsible for such tasks as sentry cavalry.

In the face of the Qing army's elite cavalry roaring towards them, the Fengyang Zhao family couldn't help showing panic.

Standing at the top of the city, Zhao Huai watched the teams of elite cavalry whizzing by outside the city, the original determination and fierceness all disappeared.

Instead, it is the fear and fear from the heart!
Boom!Boom!
At the head of Fengyang City, several privately built cannons belonging to the Zhao family lit the fuse.

Amidst the roar of the rumbling shelling, shells shot towards the fine cavalry of the Qing army outside the city.

The shell traced a graceful arc in the air, and then landed in the clearing.

Rolling and spinning, sand and stones splashed, and the shells plowed a ditch on the hard ground.

The shooting of the artillery also caused some deterrence to the Qing army that was driving outside Fengyang City.

The fine cavalry of the Qing army no longer stayed outside Fengyang City, and left on horseback!
Seeing this, Zhao Huai breathed a sigh of relief.

But the fear in my heart is still brewing!

As time passed, the brigade of Qing soldiers and horses finally reached the outside of Fengyang City.

Looking at the blackness outside the city, where the main force of the Qing army could not be seen at a glance, Zhao Huai felt that his legs were a little weak.

Once there are more than [-] people, there is no limit!
There are at least 4 or [-] soldiers and horses of the Qing army outside the city.

"Quickly, send the order down, prepare for battle, prepare for battle!"

Zhao Huai recovered from his fear, turned around and shouted loudly at Zhao's private soldiers behind him.

An elite Zhao family private soldier wearing leather armor and paper armor boarded the top of the city.

Either holding a knife and gun, or bending a bow and setting an arrow, ready to fight.

A small number of Zhao's confidantes and servants who were equipped with iron armor or cloth armor were responsible for supervising the battle.

Although the Fengyang Zhao family is a powerful family that has been passed down for thousands of years, North Korea as a whole is weak in force.

Swords, guns, bows and crossbows are okay to say, generally speaking, there will be no shortage!

However, the North Korean folk also banned armor. Although the Zhao family in Fengyang was a powerful man in the world, at most they hoarded some armor in private.

It is impossible to go to large-scale armor-making in an aboveboard manner!

As a result, now that it is really at a critical juncture, the Fengyang Zhao family does not have many suitable armors at all.

Especially Iron Armor!
Most of their equipment is some leather armor and paper armor at the bottom of the box in their own arsenal.

This kind of armor is not bad for protecting some long-range projectile arrows, but in other respects, it is better than nothing.

Once the two sides really engage in battle, whether it is stabbing with a knife or shooting with a musket, these leather and paper armors can't hold it.

A small amount of iron armor and cloth armor can only be equipped for real cronies and servants, and let these people be in charge of supervising the battle.

……

Nalan Mingzhu also rode to the outside of Fengyang City with the army.

He held a telescope imported from Daming in his hand, looked at the specific situation at Fengyang City, sneered disdainfully, and then gave an order.

"Order the whole army to camp in place and prepare for repairs."

"Then send cavalry around the city to harass and exhaust the enemy!"

After Nalan Mingzhu finished giving his orders, the messengers at the side rushed to carry them out.

He turned his gaze to his son again and asked.

"Rong Ruo knows the purpose of Ama's military order just now?"

Hearing this, Nalan Xingde spoke.

"Reporting to Ama, Ama ordered the army to set up camp. It should be because our army has traveled a long distance and is tired from top to bottom. It needs to be recuperated before it can go into battle."

"The purpose of sending cavalry around the city to shoot and harass is to wear down the enemy army and make it difficult for the enemy army to rest under the harassment of our fine cavalry."

"Prepare for our army's subsequent siege!"

Hearing this, Nalan Mingzhu nodded slightly and said.

"Not bad!"

"But you didn't tell the whole story!"

When Nalan Xingde heard this, the expression on his face was full of astonishment.

But he still spoke.

"Ama please teach me!"

Nalan Mingzhu glanced around, and then spoke.

"In addition to what you said above, the main purpose of Ama to let Jingqi go around the city to harass Fengyang City is to deter the North Korean recruits in the army."

"Let them see the might of my Heavenly Soldiers of the Qing Dynasty, so that they don't dare to have a different heart!"

"The other thing is, send fine cavalry around Fengyang City to judge where the defense of Fengyang City is weak, and determine the main attack direction for our army..."

"..."

Nalan Mingzhu taught her son very patiently, telling her son the secrets on the battlefield.

At the same time, the fine cavalry of the Qing army had begun to gallop around Fengyang.

A famous elite rode on horseback and threw arrows towards Fengyang City.

As long as anyone dares to take the lead, he will be ruthlessly shot by the arrows of the Qing army.

The leather and paper armor worn by Fengyang Zhao's private soldiers had little protective effect against the hard bow and heavy arrows of the Qing army.

Faced with the Qing army's fine cavalry attack, people inside and outside Fengyang City were in panic!
……

On the second day, after the Qing army rested overnight, they began to attack Fengyang City.

The North Korean soldiers and the newly recruited North Koreans were driven to the front!
Carrying the ladder, the well fence, and pushing the shield car, he kept moving forward.

"kill!"

"Break the formation!"

And behind these Koreans are the fine cavalry and heavy armor of the Qing army in charge of supervising the battle.

As the Qing army continued to approach Fengyang, Fengyang City also began to fight back.

boom!Boom!

Shotguns were stretched out of the crenel and shot down the city.

A piece of cold knowledge, after experiencing two Japanese invasions, and two times of slavery and invasion, the Korean people couldn't help but shoot.

Therefore, the Fengyang Zhao family did not lack firearms to defend the city, especially muskets.

The dense bullets, iron sand, shot out of the city.

People from the Qing army outside the city kept howling and fell to the ground.

The artillery is also roaring!

The artillery shells plowed out ravines in the crowd, spattering blood and flesh.

However, the offensive of the Qing army continued!
The Qing army's artillery was also in place last night, aiming at Fengyang's city wall and there was a roar.

Boom!Boom!
A round of shells hit the city wall, and the smashed city wall trembled, and debris of bricks and stones fell rustlingly.

The artillery technology of the Qing army is actually not bad, and the quality of the red cannons is not inferior to that of Westerners at the same time.

The quality of gunners has been tempered by decades of war, and they are all above the standard line.

It is true that the Qing army could not beat the Ming army in artillery battles, but it is still no problem to beat the Koreans.

North Korea's artillery technology is still at the stage of 300 years ago. Facing the red cannons of the Qing army, they are basically being suppressed all the way.

The violent shelling provided cover for the Qing army's offensive!
Outside the city of Fengyang lay dead bodies of various shapes, with blood flowing wantonly.

Nalan Mingzhu pointed to the battlefield full of corpses, and said to her son beside her.

"Rong Ruo, what do you think of the scene in front of you?"

Nalan Xingde had never seen such a scene before. He was rushed by the blood that was blowing in the wind, and he had the urge to vomit.

Even if he wasn't riding a horse now, maybe he wouldn't be able to stand at all.

Nalan Xingde's face turned pale slightly, and he spoke.

"Ama, are...there are too many dead people?"

Upon hearing this, Nalan Mingzhu just shook his head and said.

"Now I, Qing Dynasty, don't have time to go to the school field to slowly train soldiers. Only in this way can we train an elite soldier who can fight and dare to fight in a short period of time!"

When Nalan Xingde heard the words, he didn't say anything else, but stayed quietly by his father's side.

However, there is still some unbearable in his eyes!
Under the onslaught of the Qing army, Fengyang City only persisted for three days before being destroyed!

The wolves and tigers of the Qing army entered Fengyang City, killing anyone they saw!

Especially those North Korean soldiers who were driven in front of the battle and were under great pressure were even more crazy.

Now that the city is broken, they naturally have to vent their anger!

Nalan Mingzhu didn't stop this either, the order he gave before the battle was not to seal the sword for three days after the city was broken.

Now that you have promised, you must do it!

If he promises but fails to do so, it will have a great impact on the morale of the army.

In the future, if you want to drive the North Koreans to fill the strong city, it will not be so easy!

In the future, when the Qing Dynasty crosses the sea to conquer the Japanese, there will be many battles to be fought.

……

The slaughter of North Korea by the Qing army can be described as very cruel!

Those well-known aristocrats in the world, basically none of them could escape the butcher's knife of the Qing army.

The fortresses and fortresses were destroyed under the attack of the Qing army.

Those elites in the world, except for those who fled to the mountains, were basically slaughtered.

Those who were taken care of by the Qing army's butcher's knife were not only those big and powerful people.

Some small landlords and wealthy businessmen were also affected.

Massacres were massacred.

And in this process, the Qing army can be regarded as training an army that has killed people, seen and learned, and has a certain combat effectiveness.

Of course, in this process, Daming also made a lot of profits.

One is because the massacre of the local area by the Qing army wiped out the inherent power class in North Korea, which made it easier for Daming to carry out governance and reforms in North Korea after taking over the political situation in North Korea.

The second is the looting proceeds of the Qing army!

The Qing army killed so many powerful people in the world, and the various goods they plundered were innumerable.

However, it is useless for the current Qing army to want money, what they need is all kinds of materials that can be used for military expansion and war preparation!
Now, only Daming has the ability to purchase these goods, help the Qing army realize the goods, and provide some supplies for the Qing army.

During this process, Daming also made a lot of money.

Especially Daming's Royal Bank branch in Incheon, its performance is rising steadily.

A large number of gold, silver, jewelry, antiques and cultural relics were recorded in the account, and they were pulled to Daming one by one.

The only one who lost was North Korea's aristocrats!
Well, even ordinary North Korean people, because of the large-scale war, have lost the exploitation of the world's elites, and their lives are much easier.

Although it may be affected by the massacre of the Qing army, as long as they hide, the Qing army will not deliberately chase them and kill them.

……

Inside Nanjing!

Another year is approaching!
During this year, Ming regained Liaodong, finalized the matter of North Korea's internal annexation, reorganized Guanzhong, and broke the Khalkha tribes in Zhangjiakou.

Regardless, it's a great result!

A whole year has passed, and Daming's national power is still thriving.

And more importantly, after Zhu Hongyu used a scavenger operation to clean up Daming's officialdom.

The administrative efficiency of the imperial court has been significantly improved, coupled with the implementation of the New Deal of the Ming Dynasty, the social conflicts within the Ming Dynasty have basically been alleviated.

Many places in the Ming army look like a peaceful country and a peaceful people!

Even in the southwestern provinces such as Sichuan, Shu, Yunnan and Guizhou that were most affected during the war, people's livelihood has been greatly restored under the effect of large-scale farming organized by the imperial court.

Facts have proved that the people of Ming Dynasty are hard-working enough, as long as the government can not toss about, under the light corvee and low tax, the local people's livelihood can be restored quickly.

There are even many simple people in the folk, and Zhu Hongyu's longevity card has been placed in their homes.

They really yearn for peace and stability too much!
To be able to pay lightly and not to toss about is to be a good emperor in the eyes of the common people.

Their request is that simple!
But since ancient times, there are not many that can do it!
Zhu Hongyu flipped through the work reports of various departments of the imperial court this year.

His face was full of approval, just judging from the report, Daming's administrative results this year were pretty good.

Zhu Hongyu has achieved satisfactory results in many aspects!
Among them, what satisfies Zhu Hongyu the most is that he can finally find out how many people and land he has under his rule.

It is not enough to be blind to these most basic data.

According to repeated inspections and checks by local officials, under the current rule of the Ming Dynasty, including the traditional Han land and Liaodong, the total population of the Ming Dynasty is now about 1405 million.

This number is probably accurate, and the local hidden households and escaped households should all be counted in it.

There may be errors, but the errors will not be too large!

The current administrative efficiency of the Ming court is still good. After the scavenger operation, there are almost no officials who dare to deceive the upper and lower officials, and there are not many.

Compared with the population of [-] million or more in the late Ming Dynasty, let's look at the current population figures of Ming Dynasty.

Years of wars have really taken away too many lives!
It is not an exaggeration to say that the population of the world has been halved!
(End of this chapter)