I really don't want to be emperor at the end of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 72 I Didn't Know About This, Do You Believe It?
Chapter 071

Laiyang City is more than 250 miles away from Dengzhou. If the marching speed of the Ning Navy is followed, it will take three days to arrive.

But the problem is, Chen Guodong can't wait.

He actually took the sea route, because the current Penglai Water City and Dengzhou City are all controlled by the Ning Navy officers and men.Arriving at the Penglai Shuicheng Wharf, Li Zhixiang learned that Chen Guodong was a hostage of a member of the Zhang family who went to Laiyang City to capture the Zhang family. Without saying a word, he directly hired an old acquaintance of the Dongjiang Army Navy, former Lvshun Deputy General Chen Sometimes.

In fact, Li Zhixiang couldn't trust Chen Shiyou, but he, Li Zhixiang, belonged to the younger generation in front of Chen Shiyou, the deputy general, and a general in front of the deputy general was not enough to look at at all.

Of course, Chen was sometimes upset. Li Zhixiang sent troops to grab him from the bed. At the critical moment when Chen and his concubine Shen Shi were fighting, he was so frightened that he almost couldn't walk.

Li Zhixiang used the seized silver from the Yamen of the Beiwa Capital in Shandong Province, a total of 600 taels of silver, to hire Chen Shiyou and 47 wheels under his command to transport Chen Guodong and others to Laiyang.

The wheel boat is a kind of close combat of the Dongjiang army. Due to the poverty of the Dongjiang army, even if it is a gunboat of 4 materials, there are not many gunboats. The ships with the most sailors in the Dongjiang army are actually this kind of wheelboat.This is based on the wheel ship technology invented by Zu Chongzhi in the Southern and Northern Dynasties. The captain is only 2 Zhang 1 long and 3 Zhang [-] wide.

There is also a name for a wheel boat called a thousand-mile boat, which means that it can travel a thousand miles a day.Of course, this is just a theoretical figure. People are not machines and will get tired. But when the wheeled ship is driving with the wind, it can travel more than 200 miles a day, especially for short-distance charges, which is very fast.

From Penglai Navy to Laiyang Ting Bay, one day is enough to arrive.

Li Zhixiang killed two birds with one stone. He transferred Chen Youyou, a general of the Dongjiang Army, after the deaths of Mao Wenlong, Zhang Pan, and Chen Jisheng, Chen Youyou's qualifications were second only to Shen Shikui, and he was a veteran.For this former Shangguan, Li Zhixiang could not kill, beat, scold, or provoke him.

When the convoy was about to arrive in Laiyang City, listening to Chen Guodong's accent, Chen sometimes stepped forward and said, "Brother, are you from Liaodong too?"

"Liaonan Haizhou Guard!"

"Hometown!"

Chen Guodong hummed coldly as a response.

"Brother, what's the use of going to Laiyang!"

"kill!"

"Your Cheng Shoubei has a lot of appetite!"

Chen sometimes laughed and said, "Occupy Penglai Water City and Dengzhou City, are you still not satisfied? What are you going to do?"

"No comment!"

"This is a job to get rich, can you let the brothers get rich?"

"Okay, Laiyang City belongs to you, Laiyang Zhang family belongs to me!"

"it is good!"

On October 27th in the fourth year of Chongzhen, which was the third day of the Ninghai Mutiny in Dengzhou, Chen Guodong led more than [-] soldiers of the Ninghai Navy and more than [-] sailors of the Dongjiang Army under Chen Shisuo to successfully arrive at Laiyang City. .

Chen Guodong still adopted the original method. They squatted outside the city for half a day, and plundered three large and small caravans. They originally planned to sneak into Laiyang City in the form of caravans.

But the problem is that the soldiers of the Ning Navy who came directly to reconnaissance reported the news, and only then did he know that Laiyang City was not prepared.

As far as the armaments of Dengzhou City are concerned, they are somewhat decent.After all, this is Dengzhou, the residence of the Commander's Yamen of the Beiwa Capital in Shandong Province, and the residence of the Governor's Yamen of Denglai. The problem is that Laiyang County is only a county, and there are no guards.

Their defense work is undertaken by the commander of the Dengzhou Guard. Once there is an enemy situation, the Dengzhou Guard will be dispatched. But now the Dengzhou Guard are all prisoners of Ning Haijun, so it is strange that they are prepared.

Although Dengzhou has been controlled by Ning Haijun for three days, Dengzhou is allowed to enter and not allowed to leave, and the news that Ning Haijun has occupied Dengzhou City has never been heard.

More than 600 soldiers, pushing less than 100 large carts of goods to Laiyang City, this is a problem that any fool can see, but the problem is that Chen Guodong only spent one, two or four coins to successfully enter Laiyang city.

For the few soldiers in the garrison, even if Chen Guodong and the others were bandits, the ones who robbed and killed were only rich people, and they had no heads.

After inquiring, Chen Guodong soon came to Zhang's mansion in Laiyang.

Zhang's ancestral house in Laiyang is not in Laiyang City at all, but in Shuangshan.This is a village in the west of Laiyang City, about forty miles away from the county seat.

After missing nothing, Chen Guodong led Ning Haijun directly to Zhangjia Village in Shuangshan.

As the evening approached, Chen Guodong finally arrived at Zhangjia Village in Shuangshan.

Zhangjia Village in Shuangshan is said to be a village, but its scale is even bigger than Laiyang City. From a distance, you can see an adobe wall surrounding the village, and the road at the entrance of the village is paved with stone slabs. Stone Road, a stone road leads directly from north to south.On both sides of the main road, there is a row of shops with blue bricks and black tiles. The shop street is five or six hundred steps long. Behind the shops are row upon row of roof ridges.

You must know that Shuangshan is called Shuangshan. In fact, there are no mountains, but hilly areas, and there are plains near Zhangjia Village.It is a luxury to be able to pave the road with stone slabs.

A rammed earth avenue extends from the end of the stone street, which is in the direction of Dengzhou City. It can be said that the Laiyang Zhang family has managed Zhangjiazhuang into a transportation hub connecting Laiyang and Dengzhou.

The scale of this village not only far exceeds that of Laiyang County, but also far exceeds that of Ninghai City.

"Laiyang County is not so prosperous!"

At this moment, a woodcutter carrying dry firewood didn't know whether it was because of bad eyesight or because he didn't see the Ning Haijun soldiers behind Chen Guodong. That's because the Zhang family has a capable person..."

Regardless of whether Chen Guodong liked to listen or not, the woodcutter babbled about the glorious history of Zhangjia Village.

It turned out that when Zhang Mengli was the Shaoqing of Dali Temple, Li Shilin, then minister of the Ministry of Industry, was his good friend. Once, he planned to dredge the Qingshui River, making it a ditch connecting the Dagu River system.Originally, the Daqing River did not pass through Zhangjiazhuang, but because of Zhang Mengli, he changed the flow of the Qingshui River privately.

This Qingshui River not only facilitates the irrigation of the fields in Zhangjia Village, but also because the Qingshui River can transport materials, it has gradually become the only way for Laiyang to Dengzhou.The Zhang family took the opportunity to build a grass market. After years of operation, Zhangjia Village was far more prosperous than Laiyang County.

Cheng Shi was a little puzzled: "Is this man sick?"

"No, he's not sick, but he definitely has an enmity with the Zhang family. He's not blind. He sees that we are an army. What can a murderous army come to outside the Zhang family village in Shuangshan?"

"He's smart!"

"That's right, he told us that Zhang's accumulated wealth can last us ten lifetimes!"

Chen Guodong looked behind him: "Did you hear that? The Zhang family's money is enough for you to spend ten lifetimes"

"heard it!"

"kill!"

Holding a knife in each hand, Chen Guodong rushed towards Zhangjiacun.

"Clang clang..."

When Chen Guodong rushed to Zhangjiacun, a team of Xiangyong also found Chen Guodong and others. They rang the gong and shouted: "The enemy is attacking. The bandits are coming. The bandits are coming."

Teams of Xiangyong were not in a hurry. They were holding bows and arrows, holding knives and guns. The guys in their hands were much better equipped than those in Dengzhou Weizuo Qianhu. More than 200 hands.

If ordinary bandits came to Zhangjia Village, they really wouldn't be able to take advantage of it. There were four to five hundred people in their army, and they were well equipped, including twenty or thirty heavy armored soldiers.

In this era, the heavily armored Sina is simply a tank, standing there still, even if you are asked to cut it, you can't cut it.

The soldiers of the Ning Navy marched forward while arranging their formation.

Ning Haijun is not an ordinary bandit. This is an army built by Cheng Shijie with a lot of money. According to the value of equipment on the market, each of Ning Haijun's soldiers has a crossbow machine, except for Thunder Gunners.

Five taels of silver.

Each person has a dog-leg knife. According to the value of eight or nine taels of silver for a broken iron knife, this dog-leg knife is worth at least ten taels of silver. Of course, the actual cost is less than two taels of silver.

In addition to their helmets, armor, cotton padded clothes, and cotton shoes on their feet, from head to toe, the equipment alone costs 40 taels of silver. Putting down the entire Ming Dynasty at this time, I am afraid that it is one-third richer than the Guanning Army .

"Array, shoot!"

As the soldiers of the Ning navy finished their formation, the crossbow shooters who were marching began to step on the strings.

"shoot!"

"Deng deng deng deng dang..."

As the metallic tremolo from the crossbow machine shook everyone's heartstrings, more than 200 crossbow arrows one foot eight inches long shot out. The arrowheads of these crossbow arrows were all triangular.

Triangular arrowheads like the old ones need to be hammered out by craftsmen one by one. Now there is no need for it. There are a total of 120 eight pieces of one version of the mold, poured with molten steel, and after simple heat treatment, they can work directly. As for the flashes and burrs on the crossbow arrowheads , which can increase the lethality even more.

Since these Xiangyong's shield hands were in front of them, the crossbow arrows were like a storm, and the shooting effect was not very good. At least Xiangyong had more than a hundred shields, which immediately looked like overgrown weeds.

However, Xiangyong who was not protected by a shield was miserable. They were shot to the ground like wheat cut down by a sickle.

Those Xiangyong who were shot by the arrows were bloody and screamed again and again.

The Ning Haijun crossbowmen in the first row didn't care about the shooting effect at all. After they shot an arrow, they immediately moved out of their positions and began to rewind their equipment.

Almost at the same time, the Ning Navy soldiers in the second row stepped forward and shot with their crossbows.

"Duodo..."

Those village braves holding up their shields happened to be in small boats in the storm.

"Where did this bandit come from, so powerful?"

The leader of Xiangyong should also be capable, and he immediately realized that he couldn't be beaten like this, but Ning Haijun's arrows were continuous, the second row shot empty, and then the third row.After the third row finished shooting, the first row reinstalled the crossbow.

More than 200 slaves were shot in one round, round after round.

Xiangyong's archers wanted to fight back. Firstly, the range of bows and arrows was not as good as that of crossbow arrows. Secondly, they had no chance. They didn't even have time to shoot an arrow, let alone display their extraordinary martial arts, so they were shot into hedgehogs!

"Rush forward and fight them in melee, otherwise, we will all be finished!"

The leader of the village braves, the warriors who went to the countryside gave orders.

It's just a pity that the Xiangyong in Zhangjiazhuang are all tenants of the Zhang family. Although they can get paid, it's not low.

However, the problem is that the officers and men of Ning Haijun knew why they were fighting. They knew that Cheng Shijie said that he would give them a compensation standard of 20 mu of land, that is, 20 mu of land. .

It's okay for Xiangyong to fight a smooth battle, but it's almost meaningless to fight this kind of tough battle.

Finally, under the circumstances of whipping, scolding, punching and kicking, these townspeople stepped forward timidly.

When the crossbowman of the Ning Navy soldier finished shooting the third crossbow arrow in his hand, the thunderbolt supporting the support sentry completely switched from the marching state to the fighting state.

The recoil force of the Thunderbolt is extremely high. When shooting, it does not fire when it is erected, but like a cannon, the Thunderbolt is fixed on the ground with a cannon hoe, so that it can shoot normally.

"Report, the Thunderbolt is ready!"

"fire"

"Bang bang bang..."

With the firing of the Thunderbolt, not only is the Thunderbolt firing loudly, but because it is not smokeless gunpowder, when it is fired, it should be like setting off firecrackers, and a large cloud of smoke immediately rises in front of Ning Haijun's formation.

Although they couldn't see the situation ahead, it didn't matter. In fact, there was nothing to see. Now Thunderbolt shooters knew that in front of their Thunderbolts, they were all scum.

Seeing that Xiangyong was about to rush to the front of Ning Haijun's formation, at this time, the shieldman holding the shield in front of him was miserable. A shield that could not be pierced by crossbow arrows would turn into a big hole, and some shields were even smashed directly.

Thunderbolts can ignore the shields of these township braves. Just one big disc, 24 Thunderbolts, fired 720 rounds. The township warriors in front of them were wiped out, and no one was spared.

The battle started suddenly and ended hastily.

Now Ning Haijun's sword and shield hands are at a loss, and the enemy has been shot and killed by the Thunderbolt, so what do they need?
"What are you doing in a daze? Rush into the Zhang family's old house, or die if you don't surrender!"

Who can think of it?

The most tragic battle of the Ning Navy Mutiny actually took place in Zhangjia Village, west of Laiyang County.The two sides fought for less than a quarter of an hour, the more than [-] brave men of the Zhang family were actually their Zhang family's private soldiers, the entire army was wiped out, no one was spared.

However, Ning Haijun paid six soldiers and was injured, and one soldier was killed. The soldier who died was a recruit of Ning Haijun.

In order to cut off a few more heads and earn dozens of acres of land, he will take over his mother and father from Shuanglu Island in the future. As a result, the soldier was shot in the back of the heart by the Thunderbolt that was being shot, and his entire chest was beaten. pulpy.

Ning Haijun's only death in battle was actually a mistake.

This is no one.

Of course they didn't know that in the hundreds of years of battles in later generations, all kinds of oolong incidents emerged one after another.For example, during World War II, the highest Italian military commander in Libya, Marshal Balbo, took the opportunity to inspect the battlefield, but he was shot down by the anti-aircraft guns on his own warship on the way. This became the highest military rank killed by the Italian army during World War II It's a pity that they are the marshal of their own family.In the beautiful country, there was also an oolong incident in which its own navy beat the president, but unfortunately it was unsuccessful.

After a short delay, Chen Guodong finally came to the gate of the Zhang family's old house. Chen Guodong was also dumbfounded when he saw the Zhang family's old house. This fortress was bigger than Penglai Water City.

We must know that Penglai Water City is very small, covering an area of ​​only 320 mu, but the Zhang family’s big house has a total of four to five hundred mu. If such an area is placed in Laiyang City, it is estimated that nearly half of Laiyang City will be demolished. It is worthy of the name. Zhang Bancheng.

This is a building complex made of blue bricks and gray tiles. The courtyard wall is more than four meters, covered with arrow towers and watchtowers. At this time, the gate of the Zhang family is closed, and hundreds of archers are trembling on the top of the wall and on the ridge of the roof.

"Come out and surrender, or die!"

Persuading surrender is actually just a routine formula.

Just like saying hello, Chen Guodong said: "I only look for Laiyang whose surname is Zhang, get out of the way..."

However, what Chen Guodong didn't expect was that those Zhang family members and private soldiers actually opened the door.

"This is……"

Chen Guodong strutted into the Zhang family's old house, and the Zhang family trembled.

Just as Chen Guodong rushed to Zhang's old house, Cheng Shijie was also rescued from the vault by Ning Haijun soldiers.

"Meet the guard!"

Shen Mingyu and hundreds of Ning Haijun soldiers looked at Cheng Shijie excitedly.

Of course, due to the haste this time, the clothes Cheng Shijie was wearing were still the casual clothes of later generations.But at this time, no one cared about this issue. Seeing that Cheng Shijie was wearing thin clothes, he immediately found a black bearskin coat.

Needless to say, the bearskin robe was indeed very warm, and this leather robe had been smoked with spices, giving it a faint scent of spices.

It's just that the top is warm, but the bottom is still cold.

"Master Guard, are you okay!"

"It's okay, it's just a little cold!"

Cheng Shijie felt a little hungry. This time it was not because of the hunger caused by carrying heavy objects, but because he drank with his grandfather Jiang Feng when he was in the later life. He only drank but didn't eat much.Feeling even hungrier now.

"Come on, prepare the meal!"

Soon, Cheng Shijie ate hot pot in a large room in the yard. There was no way, hot pot was relatively fast.The clear water hot pot is boiled directly, and then the frozen mutton is cut into thin slices.

This is pure mutton, not the hard work of artificially synthesized technology in hot pot restaurants in later generations. In general hot pot restaurants or barbecue restaurants, it is difficult to eat pure mutton or beef because it is too expensive.

Watching Cheng Shijie gobble up the boiled mutton.

Shen Mingyu's expression changed drastically, he turned around and walked to the door with big strides, and ordered to the soldiers beside him, "Come on, someone, Zhang Shigang, that's right, hang it on a tree for me!"

Zhang Shigang, whose nose and face were bruised and swollen by Ning Haijun, screamed all the way and was hung from a tree by the side of the road.

After a while, his screams became lower and lower.

"Keep him on fire, don't freeze to death. Damn, dare to torture our garrison sir, it's boring!"

There is a good saying, if the upper beam is not straight and the lower beam is crooked, Cheng Shijie locked Zhang Huairen in the firewood room in the garrison yamen, beat him three times a day, and treated him if he was injured, just because he was afraid that he would die.

Rumor has it that this is the fate of offending Cheng Shijie.

Then, they must look up to Cheng Shijie, otherwise they are not worthy of being Cheng Shijie's soldiers.

Finally full, Cheng Shijie also felt very comfortable and warmed up.

"Ming Yu, how did you find this place?"

At this time, Cheng Shijie didn't know that the officers and men of Ning Haijun had turned Dengzhou City upside down.

Fortunately, Cheng Shijie promulgated relatively strict military discipline for Ning Haijun, and the ordinary people were not disturbed, but the local hooligans in Dengzhou City and Zhang's shops and disciples in Laiyang were bad luck for eight lifetimes.Especially the hooligans in Dengzhou City, more than 500 people were cut down and more than 1000 people were dealt with.

Of course, there must be injustice in it.However, there is absolutely no innocent person, just like the thugs of the Xingping pawnshop, when they came to force a family to pay off their debts, they happened to be patrolling by Ning Haijun.There was no news from Cheng Shijie for three consecutive days, and these Ninghai soldiers dealt with the local hooligans severely.

Needless to say, the current Dengzhou City has become a place where people don’t pick up lost items on the road, and they don’t close their doors at night. The law and order is definitely the most model city in the world.

"What did you say, you launched a mutiny?"

Cheng Shijie didn't react for a long time.

God, is this a dream?
The Ning Navy has only [-] veterans. It is said that the veterans actually joined the army for only three months. If they are placed in the army of later generations, they can barely join the company during this time period.

What's more, nearly half of Ning Haijun's recruits are recruits, recruits who can't even tell the left and right.

You bastards, who gave you the courage to attack Dengzhou City?
Liang Jingru?

What's even more outrageous is that it actually happened.

This isn't fucking reality, it's definitely a dream.

Just like in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", Changshan Zhao Zilong entered and exited seven times in Cao Jun, not to mention Cao Jun who is like a wolf like a tiger, but a group of wild boars, let Changshan Zhao Zilong try to enter and exit seven times?

If he can come out completely, he has the ability.

Cheng Shijie came to Dengzhou Governor's Yamen and saw how Song Xiance sent them troops, how they captured the city, how they attacked by surprise, how they captured Dengzhou City, and so on.

Song Xiance, Shen Mingyu, Zhang Yu and other generals knelt on one knee in front of Cheng Shijie, pretending to plead guilty, and explaining the whole process of the mutiny as a show of merit.

Cheng Shijie's eyes slowly swept across the faces of the generals.

Be it Song Xiance, including the most seasoned Zhou Yandong, they all had an expression of "My lord, praise me quickly".

Seeing Cheng Shijie's gloomy expression, these generals finally realized something was wrong.

Soldiers are generals, this is the logic of life for all generals in the Ming Dynasty.

Song Xiance realized that he had exceeded his authority once, and although his original intention was to rescue Cheng Shijie, the problem was that they moved their minds what they shouldn't.

With the cold wind howling outside, thin beads of sweat appeared on Song Xiance's forehead.

Zhou Yandong was the second to react. Shen Mingyu didn't react until Zhang Yu reminded him. They quickly knelt in front of Cheng Shijie.

Desperate to make decisions without authorization, ultra vires power, this is the biggest taboo of the owner.

Secondly, they didn't understand the situation at all. It was not at all that Sun Yuanhua wanted to arrest Cheng Shijie in order to seize the command of Ning Haijun.

The real reason for this matter is Laiyang Zhang's revenge. In this way, they will be passive and make a big mistake...

"My lord..."

"shut up!"

Cheng Shijie was really heartbroken at this moment, feeling dizzy, what kind of group of treasures he had trained...

What is this now?Kong Youde didn't rebel, but he himself...

Kong Youde's rebellion, the most fatal thing to Ming Dynasty was not the firearms that Kong Youde brought with him, but Kong Youde's rampage in Shandong, rushing to the state and government, directly turning Shandong, the rich land of Ming Dynasty, into white ground.

This is comparable to the losses caused by Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong.

You know, Shandong was the hub of water transportation in the Ming Dynasty. If the water transportation was cut off for more than a year, how many people in Beijing would starve to death?

Although there is no record in history, there will definitely be no less.

Throughout the Ming Dynasty, the north could not be self-sufficient in grain at all, the water transport was cut off, and the grain storage period was only three months at most, so the question came, how could the grain for three months last for a year?
The answer is very cruel, people starve to death, people die, naturally they will not consume food.

When looking at history, don't be easily deceived by superficial words. The truth of the problem is actually found in the subtleties.

Just like the battle of Daling River, when Zu Dashou was besieged, Wu Xiang and Song Wei supported Daling River three times, the first time with 6000 reinforcements, the second time with 6000 people, and the third time with [-] people.

Can 6000 men break through the encirclement of more than [-] Jiannu?
It's simply impossible. If Guan Ning's army has the ability to kill [-] Jiannu and [-] Jiannu, then what's the matter with Jiannu?

Looking at the results of the problem again, the Daling River was demolished, Zu Dashou first became a slave, and Sun Chengzong was impeached and resigned...

Sun Chengzong went to the field.

Sun Chengzong went to the field.

Sun Chengzong went to the field.

This is the real purpose.

On the Internet of later generations, many people complained that Sun Chengzong was a sinner of the subjugation of the Ming Dynasty, and that national power should not be missed.

Please remember that in the 11th year of Chongzhen, Jiannu aggressively attacked Gaoyang. At that time, Jiannu had no idea of ​​entering the customs and sitting in the world, but just grabbed it and left.

But the problem is that Gaoyang County is neither a strategically important place nor a place of wealth. Even if they break through Gaoyang County, what can they get?
There is only one answer, and that is that Sun Chengzong's whole family died heroically.

This is the truth, why did the Qing army kill Sun Chengzong?
Because of Sun Chengzong's strategy, Jiannu once fell into a situation where there was no food to eat. A bucket in Liaodong sold for eight taels of silver, more than 80 taels per stone, which was more than 160 times the price of grain in the pass.

Who can afford such a high price of food?
Jian slave... hehe.

Cheng Shijie learned of Sun Yuanhua's whereabouts and found that Sun Yuanhua was still locked in the utility room. He said to the generals: "You didn't kill the governor, you finally did a right thing!"

If Sun Yuanhua was killed, then Cheng Shijie would have to go all the way to the dark side.

"Now...how did things end?"

Fortunately, Song Xiance had a conscience, and he was afraid that Sun Yuanhua's body would not be able to hold on. Although it was a utility room, food and drink were provided as usual, and two braziers were placed and bedding was given.

At this time, Sun Yuanhua was lying on the bed, his face was unwashed, his teeth were not brushed, and he was extremely embarrassed.

The dignified minister of the Ministry of War of the Ming Dynasty, the censor of Youqian capital, and the governor of Denglai have fallen into this field.

Cheng Shijie hastily pretended to be panic-stricken and said: "The lowly position sees the Governor, the officers and men are rude, disturbing the Lord Futai, it is really a crime to die... Lord Futai, the lowly position is also helpless, the lowly position does not know about this... "

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