Volume Seven, The Great Chaos in the Late Ming Dynasty
Foreword, those time-travelers who came one after another - the background setting timetable of the "Great Chaos at the end of the Ming Dynasty" (1618-1631)
In the first month of the forty-sixth year of Wanli (1618), Huangshi, one of the members of the Lingao Crossing Group, had an accident while crossing a wormhole. Unfortunately, he fell into the sea from the "holy ship" Fengcheng, and was accompanied by an explosion ahead of schedule. Arriving in Liaodong, he was taken in by a family in Liuhe, Guangning (plot of "Stealing the Light").
In the forty-eighth year of Wanli (1620), the North American Crossing Group took the entire port to Manhattan Island in New York, and then captured the famous "Mayflower" in history, and intermarryed with the local Indian tribe "Delaware". The situation was opened up and China and the United States began to be established.
In the same year, the "Yunsheng No. 1" passenger and cargo ship that originally sailed on the Yangtze River traveled to the Atlantic coast of Uruguay in South America and established the East Coast Company (in order to be consistent with "New World 1620", it is slightly different from the original work) "Across 1630: The Rise of South America" is ten years ahead of schedule).
A few years later, the two major groups of travelers from the North and the South who came to the Americas had contact and exchanges. Although they were very jealous of each other, no armed conflict broke out immediately. Because they were located at the north and south ends of the Americas, the long geographical distance made The party that labored on the expedition was almost certain to lose: there were nine thousand kilometers of ocean and land between Huamei and the East Coast Company, roughly twice the distance from Hainan Island to Mohe, Heilongjiang. However, the strength of the two major groups was almost the same (East Coast Company was slightly weaker), so neither could absorb the other, and in the end they had no choice but to develop "good-neighborly and friendly relations."
However, in 1628, in order to compete for the South African colony - to be precise, it was a relay station for recruiting Ming Dynasty immigrants from the Americas to the Eastern motherland. The two sides eventually broke out in armed conflict. The South American group failed and suffered a setback, but it eventually ended in peace talks. China and the United States obtained territory in South Africa, but the port must also be open to South American groups, and people from South America were also included in the colonial government, similar to the public concession in Shanghai during the Republic of China. Subsequently, both sides began to plan a voyage to the Ming Dynasty's homeland, but as of this year, neither of the two major time-traveling forces in the Americas had discovered the existence of other time-travelers.
In the second year of Tianqi (1622), Huangshi killed the rebel general Sun Degong, put down the Guangning rebellion, and immediately laid the foundation of Changsheng Island, embarking on the journey of a generation of famous generals.
In the third year of the Apocalypse (1623), Huang Shi and Zhang Pan cooperated to win the Battle of Lushun, sweeping away thousands of troops, and the name of the Fire Fighting Battalion first appeared in the world.
In the fourth year of the Apocalypse (1624), Zhang Wei crossed the coast of Fujian and took refuge with Zheng Zhilong (plot of "The Great Han Dynasty") to help him expand his maritime power.
In the same year, Huangshi combined the Western military formations and He Dingyuan's family skills to train a well-disciplined spear formation. In Jinzhou, he used a spear formation of 400 people to fight against more than 600 cavalry, creating a miracle of killing one of his own and injuring four, beheading 467 cavalry. He became a star figure on the Liaodong battlefield for a while. Later, Sun Chengzong came to Changsheng Island and provided a large amount of armor support to Changsheng Island. Wei Zhongxian also allocated armor from the eunuch system to support Huangshi's army.
In the first month of the fifth year of the Apocalypse (1625), during the Battle of Nanguan, Huangshi's fire-fighting camp defeated the main force of the Later Jin Dynasty in one fell swoop, and was truly regarded as a formidable enemy by the Later Jin Dynasty. In June, Huangshi won the Battle of Fuzhou. After being tricked and ambushed, he still defeated the Houjin Army alone, which was worth 70 Niulu. From then on, it became a nightmare for the Jurchens.
On the other hand, after saving some money, Zhang Wei took Shi Lang and others to leave the Zheng Zhilong Group to reclaim Taiwan and lay the foundation.
In August, Huang Shi went to Beijing to meet the emperor and won the favor and trust of the emperor and Wei Zhongxian, as well as unanimous praise from scholars and people. In December, Huangshi sent his troops across the sea to rescue Juehua Island, which was attacked by the Hou Jin army, and once again won a complete victory. At the same time, Yuan Chonghuan also defended Ningyuan City adjacent to Juehua Island.
In August of the sixth year of the Apocalypse (1626), Huang Shi galloped on Liaoyang and killed the enemy chief Nurhaci alone (actually he accurately determined the time of his death in history). He shocked the world and became a legendary figure and a thorn in the side of civil servants. - Suppressing military generals has become the basic national policy of the late Ming Dynasty.
Due to the compromise between Wei Zhongxian and the Donglin Party, Huangshi was forced to leave Liaodong in the autumn of that year and moved south to Fujian, preparing to send troops to quell the She'an Rebellion in the southwest. Before leaving, Huangshi borrowed a large "large loan" from Shandong businessmen. Through the Maori family envoy Shusui Xinji, he established a relatively stable relationship with the Japanese Choshu clan Maori family, allowing the Maori family to underwrite Huangshi in the Japanese market. Share the huge profits from the copper coins you cast yourself. As a result, the relationship between the Tokugawa shogunate in Edo and Choshu deteriorated, and the "Marsho War" broke out the following year. Although the old army of the shogunate was large in number, it had been peaceful for a long time and could not break the modern fortress. It was also unable to defeat the new Choshu army trained with Huangshi's help, not to mention that Huangshi directly sent troops to assist in the battle. In the end, the Choshu clan won a complete victory.
(The original plot line of "Stealing the Light" ends here, and Huangshi will degenerate in pain and embark on a completely different path.)
In December, Huangshi arrived at Xiapu, the base of Funing Guards in Fujian, and successfully established himself. However, his follow-up troop transport fleet was attacked by pirates, causing many casualties. At the same time, he noticed that Zheng Zhilong's power seemed to be more powerful than in history. He was entrenched in Gulangyu Island and Zhongzuo Suo, and was rampant in southern Fujian. There was also a group of Zhang Wei "country bandits" with strange origins in Taiwan. In view of the above-mentioned changes in the situation in Fujian, the new base camp of Xiapu seemed not stable enough. Although Huangshi began to collect supplies in Xiapu as soon as he landed, he was afraid of losing his old base after the expedition, so he was undecided whether to immediately send troops to the southwest.
In January of the seventh year of the Apocalypse (1627), Zheng Zhilong launched an early attack on southern Fujian. The Fujian Navy was destroyed. The veteran Yu Zigao committed suicide in defeat. Quanzhou, Haicheng and other places fell, and the Ming army collapsed across the board. The Fujian officials cried out and begged Huangshi not to waste his troops on an expedition, but to organize defense on the spot.
In February, Lingao Zhong's first space-time door was opened in the Gao family's residence in Guangzhou, and a large number of various modern small commodities began to flow to the market in the late Ming Dynasty.
In March, when he learned that the Fujian government wanted Huang Shi, the best general in the world, to attack him, Zheng Zhilong, who was confident because of the victory in southern Fujian, took the initiative and ordered the fleet to move north to attack Xiapu. Huangshi led the fire fighting battalion to defeat the enemy in one battle and easily won the victory in the defense battle of Xiapu. However, Funingwei's accumulated supplies also suffered heavy losses, and the southwest expedition completely failed. The imperial court ordered Huangshi to put Fujian coastal defense first and put the southwest expedition on hold.
In April, some modern commodities flowing into the Guangdong market arrived in the hands of Huang Shi and Zhang Wei via merchant ships. The two were frightened for a while. They wrote to each other to test each other and traced the source of the goods. After initially ascertaining the source of the goods, Zhang Wei, who was "outside the system" from Taiwan, was still confused. Huang Shi, a member of the Lingao Group, fell into great hesitation and struggle (before he came to the end of the Ming Dynasty, I already know the process of Lingao Zhong’s early time travel sales and the general types of goods - the long-awaited future companions have finally arrived, what should I do?)
At the same time, Chen Xin and Liu Min traveled to the Jizhou area, and immediately went to Tianjin to try to establish a foundation (the opening of "Late Ming"). And other sporadic travelers from all walks of life also appeared one after another in this war-torn land of China after the wheel of history slowly entered the Chongzhen era.
In the summer, Huangshi gritted his teeth and launched a battle with Zheng Zhilong. Thousands of Funing troops easily swept across the counties in southern Fujian, leaving Zheng's army helpless on land. However, due to the lack of navy and naval warfare talents, Huangshi could only look at the ocean and sigh for Zheng Zhilong who defended the islands of Xiamen, Kinmen and Penghu. In desperation, Huang Shi secretly met with Zhang Wei and revealed that he had the support of the Traveling Group behind him, trying to form a military alliance with Zhang Wei. But Huangshi's maritime power was difficult to take shape for the time being - although he was already working hard to build ships, Taiwanese tycoon Zhang Wei did not own many warships, and he was very doubtful about Huangshi's integrity. The war situation in Fujian remained stalemate. Although Huangshi fought on land They were all victorious, but in the end they could not destroy the maritime group headed by Zheng Zhilong. Then, on August 22, Emperor Zhu Youxiao of Tianqi passed away. On the sixth day of November, Wei Zhongxian hanged himself in Fucheng. Huangshi's political backers collapsed, and the Donglin Party quickly occupied the court and began to liquidate the remnants of the Eunuch Party. Although Sun Chengzong and others protected him, Huangshi unfortunately became one of the targets. Chen Xin started his career by scolding the eunuchs, gained fame, and gained the foundation of Wendeng Camp. At the same time, he began to find out the details of Huang Shi, a famous general who did not exist in history.
In the first half of the first year of Chongzhen (1628), Huang Shi was demoted to deputy commander-in-chief of Fujian North Road on charges of "unrequited efforts" and "attachment to the eunuch party". He was then demoted to deputy general and was even almost executed. Thanks to the good words of Sun Chengzong and a group of Shilin supporters, we did not fall into a worse situation.
However, the large military expenditures borrowed from Shandong businessmen (large loans from Pingman) were difficult to repay, and the Fujian government refused to advance payment. The local officials who beat the losers even withheld the military expenditures consumed by the previous wars along the coast of Fujian and refused to issue Fujianese government funds. As a reward for the victory in the Southern Fujian War, he also impeached the Funing Army for robbing the gentry in southern Fujian (the government did not provide food or military pay, and the army could not survive without feeding from large households). The Funing Army was in diplomatic trouble for a while, and Huangshi's finances fell into an unprecedented desperate situation.
Next, Xiong Wencan took office as governor of Fujian and attempted to recruit Zheng Zhilong's maritime merchant/pirate group. In order to please Zheng Zhilong and to flatter the Donglin Party in power, Xiong Wencan began to further suppress Huangshi, the "remnant of the eunuch party". He not only destroyed the Fujian Coastal Defense, but also made accusations to kill Huangshi's generals Zhao Manxiong, He Dingyuan and others. Huang Shi had to arrange for them to flee to Zhang Wei's territory in Taiwan to temporarily avoid the limelight.
During the difficult wait, on September 1, Lingaozhong's "holy ship" Fengcheng finally arrived in this world, and at the same time it was discovered that Huangshi was missing. Little did he know that there were spies from Huangshi already in Lingao County. At the end of the year, after learning the news, Huang Shi sent a secret envoy from Fujian to Lingao to send a letter of complaint. Soon an envoy from Taiwan's Zhang Wei also came to Lingao. But at this point in time, the power of the three parties was extremely limited for the time being, and trust in each other was also problematic. They could not reverse the situation quickly, but they finally delayed the time for Zheng Zhilong to be recruited. After some bargaining, Zhang Wei won the title of veteran in Lingao, while Comrade Huang Shi, who had worked hard and had a powerful army, became one of the "executive members" of Lingao (long-term assignment, basically just a title).
In the second year of Chongzhen (1629), Huang Taiji commanded his troops to break through the barrier and swept through the capital. Due to the years of experience in Huangshi's advanced tactics and Yuan Chonghuan's wanton collaboration with the enemy and treason (the plot setting of "Stealing the Ming"), the Eight Banners Army's combat effectiveness Far stronger than in history, with the full cooperation of Yuan Chonghuan, Huang Taiji once almost broke through Beijing. Although the Jin army failed to break the city in the end, the Ming Dynasty's losses were far heavier than in history. The entire Hebei was completely eroded, and a large number of troops mutinied and collapsed or were annihilated. However, Chen Xin's Wendeng Battalion performed brilliantly in the final counterattack and received awards and praise from Emperor Chongzhen. However, because the history of this world has long been disrupted by Yellowstone, Chen Xin's performance has not attracted the attention of southern travelers for the time being.
In the spring of the same year, despite repeated troubles and delays by time travellers, Zheng Zhilong's pirate/maritime group was finally appeased by Xiong Wencan. Zheng Zhilong became a "coastal defense guerrilla" and returned to his hometown in southern Fujian in official uniform. He actually controlled southern Fujian and carried out military operations in Fujian Province. The Yellowstone in the north is looming large.
On the other side, Huangshi relied on modern industrial products funded by Lingao to barely pay off the "big loan from the plains", but Xiong Wencan took the opportunity to impeach him for "colluding with pirates" and tried to imprison him. Fortunately, after Emperor Chongzhen arrested Yuan Chonghuan, he regretted that he had allowed Yuan Chonghuan to violate the law and kill Mao Wenlong without authorization, so the Fujian authorities temporarily suppressed the impeachment of Huangshi. And Xiong Wencan didn't have the courage to destroy the system and kill generals without permission like Yuan Chonghuan, so Huang Shi escaped for the time being. But on the other hand, Emperor Chongzhen, who wanted to save face, also had no intention of using Huangshi again.
From then on, the Fujian government gave preferential treatment to Zheng Zhilong and other surrendered pirates, and constantly insulted and treated Huangshi's subordinates harshly. It was only thanks to secret blood transfusions from Taiwan's Zhang Wei and Lingao that the Funing army was prevented from collapsing - so the angry Huangshi He no longer had any nostalgia for the Ming Dynasty, and began to send some of his soldiers to Lingao to help the Senate in its conquest. The bullied troops of Funing were also filled with indignation at the Fujian authorities who were ungrateful and regarded thieves as their fathers (they treated Zheng Zhilong too favorably and used these pirates to deal with Huangshi), and their loyalty to the Ming Dynasty was basically exhausted.
With Huangshi as the leading party in the Ming Dynasty system, the expansion momentum of Lingao Chuanzhong suddenly became even more powerful, and markets in all aspects were opened up one after another. All pirates were wiped out one after another. At the same time, the personal forces of Huang Shi and Zhang Wei were gradually integrated into the system of the Lingao Senate.
In the third year of Chongzhen (1630), the Guangdong government sent troops across the sea to attack the "Kun thieves (short-haired thieves)" in Qiongzhou. They were defeated miserably, and the entire territory of Hainan Island changed hands. Immediately afterwards, a large number of Kun rebels counterattacked into Guangzhou, swept across the Pearl River Delta, and retreated after gaining some practical benefits such as trade, separatizing Hong Kong as their base. Immediately taking advantage of the victory, they continued to launch surprise attacks on Xiamen and Quanzhou. Together with Zhang Wei and Shi Lang's Taiwanese troops, they defeated the Zheng family's troops in southern Fujian and killed Zheng Zhilong's family.
Next, Huang Shi led the Funing Army to pretend to go south for rescue, but actually strangled the remnants of Zheng's army in an attempt to dominate Fujian. Therefore, he had a fierce conflict with Xiong Wencan, the governor of Fujian. However, relying on the absolute superiority of force and the fact that the Zheng family had been destroyed, Huang Shi finally reached a compromise with Xiong Wencan and joined forces to deceive the court. Huang Shi was promoted to the Fujian Army General due to his "war merits". The mess afterwards.
The new Fujian governor Zou Weilian, who came to replace Xiong Wencan, had no choice but to admit the reality of Huangshi's separatist rule under pressure from all sides.
At this point, Huang Shi completely tore off the painting of loyalty to the emperor and patriotism, and completed the transformation of the feudal warlord. The Funing Army basically joined the Senate system and became the vanguard of aggression disguised as Ming Dynasty officials. But despite this, Huangshi still feels a vague sense of alienation from Lingao.
On the other side, after initially pacifying Fujian and annihilating all competitors in the Taiwan Strait, the forces of the Senate entered Taiwan in large numbers and immediately used force to intimidate the Dutch and force them not to exploit the Han people in Taiwan. However, out of consideration for maintaining trade exchanges, they temporarily The Dutch stronghold was retained. Zhang Wei's independent forces in Taiwan were incorporated. He enjoyed the treatment of a senior veteran and moved to Penghu to take up a post. The situation was good or bad. In Taiwan, relying on the foundation and population left by Zhang Wei, the Senate established the colonial base of Kaohsiung City. The power of the "Kun thieves" in South China has been greatly expanded.
In the spring of the same year, due to history being changed, the Hou Jin Army once again broke through the Great Wall from Xuanda and entered Shanxi. Wang Dou, a new local traverser ("A Little Soldier from the Border Army in the Late Ming Dynasty" opened earlier) emerged in the battle. Beijing was once again under siege, and the Ming court was in chaos and had no intention of paying attention to the chaos in the south.
In the same year, the Cross-Travel Group appeared in Vladivostok and established the Far East Company (the plot of "Far East 1628" began, but was postponed for two years to balance the strengths of all parties). By attacking North Korea and Japan, this group of well-equipped time travelers with aircraft and landing ships learned about this year, but had not yet noticed the existence of other time travellers. Later, he made a tentative voyage to Liaodong and took in a group of Liao people. After hearing about Huangshi's deeds, he realized that something was wrong.
At the same time, Comrade Li Wei, his wife Zhao Na and son Li Zhongren took the modern five-masted intelligently controlled sailboat "Cosco Star" home, but failed to reach Dalian. Instead, they traveled to Western Australia in a fog, and then encountered Went to a very weird Polish exploration ship (the plot of "Trek 1642" was advanced, why did the Polish feather cavalry also come to play the voyage? This is unscientific!), and through these Poles, they learned that they had arrived in the Seventeenth century. After everyone on the ship accepted the reality, they had to bite the bullet and live with the Poles and kangaroos, and landed in northwest Australia to build a settlement.
Soon after, the Australian Group met the global expedition fleet of South America's "East Coast Country" (which had changed from a company to an official country at this time), and learned the information about the North American Travel Group from their mouths, and discovered that the time travel in this world I'm not the only one who is doing this. I heard from people in the "East Coast Country" that the North American Group built radio facilities in what would become New York, so Australia worked hard to build and deploy a large radio antenna in an attempt to communicate with it. By the end of the year, the radio tinkered by the Australian Group still failed to contact North America (the "east coast countries" of South America did not develop radio), but it actually contacted Lingao Chuanchuang - after all, the distance was much closer. , a huge shock broke out between the two groups.
As a result, the pattern of the five largest time-travel groups confronting each other in the world has basically taken shape, and individual small groups of sporadic time-travelers are still emerging. Among them, the Wendeng Camp with two people, Chen Xin and Liu Min, is the most successful. and powerful, thus bringing the world into a state of chaos.
In the fourth year of Chongzhen (1631), in this year, the Hou Jin army, which seemed to have made enough of its spoils, finally did not break through the Great Wall and go south again. Although Hebei and Shanxi were still in ruins, bandits in the Central Plains were swarming, and there were endless party disputes in the court, but tomorrow North Korea still began to plan a counterattack from Liaodong.
In the spring of that year, in order to expand its power to Japan, the Rinko Senate led Huangshi to cross the sea under the banner of the Funing Army to conquer Ryukyu, and successfully helped the Ryukyu Sho family to expel the Satsuma samurai who had occupied Ryukyu. Then, Huang Shi used his old relationship with the Maori family of the Choshu Domain to unite with the Maori family samurai to form a huge coalition, and successfully launched the Battle of Kagoshima. The Shimazu family and their allies of the Satsuma Domain had no choice but to sue for peace. The coalition forces surrendered.
The Choshu clan of the Maori family took the opportunity to rely on their new modern army and began a large-scale expansion. In the previous war to conquer Choshu (the plot of "Stealing the Light"), the Tokugawa shogunate had been beaten. Returned defeated. Now that the Satsuma Domain, the strongest competitor of the Western Kingdom, has been severely damaged, the Choshu Domain has strong foreign aid from the Rinko Senate. Looking across the entire Japanese archipelago, it seems that there is no force that can hinder the rise of the Maori family.
According to the bad taste of the time traveler, after the Satsuma clan was surrendered, a "Satsuma Clan Alliance" began to enter the brewing stage.
At the same time, the powerful fleet of the Vladivostok Far East Company penetrated deep into the Seto Inland Sea, attacked Osaka (boundary town), and combined with the locally recruited Japanese swordsmen to plunder, and finally set fire to the city, and defeated the shogunate army that rushed to help. After a complete defeat, they plundered countless goods and grains, and returned home with a full load.
When these large iron ships left the Seto Inland Sea through the Kanmon Strait, the smug Choshu clan was shocked when they saw this.
On the other side, Mr. Hale, a Japanese Christian fanatic in the 21st century, arrived in the Philippines, hoping to gain support from "Spanish Catholics" here, but found that the history of this world had long been changed beyond recognition. After that, I heard sporadic news about various drastic changes in Japan, so I began to think about whether to return to China first to recruit a "Kieshitan" (Japanese name for Christians) troops to participate in this overturning war that seemed to have a high chance of winning.
Although the distance was relatively far away, Chen Xin's series of super-era performances in Dengzhou, such as "Wen Deng Xiang" cigarettes, finally attracted the attention of southern travelers. However, in view of the lack of sufficient influence in the north, the Senate, The final solution to the matter has not yet been discussed.
Huang Shi used his old relationship with Kong Youde to inquire about Chen Xin's situation in Wendeng Camp, and at the same time he also wanted to prevent his old friend from rebelling and surrendering to the Tartars like in history. The Lingao Senate sent Taoist priest Daoquanzi northward to lurk in the Linyi area in southern Shandong to closely observe the inside story of the Dengzhou forces. Finally, the Lingao authorities fell into a huge debate over whether to send envoys to contact, win over, and incorporate the traveler forces in Dengzhou, Shandong.
Through several boxes of cigarettes trafficked in, Shanxi Wang Dou and others, who had relatively little information, finally discovered the extraordinary aspects of this world.
Li Huamei's merchant ship "Hangzhou" encountered the Chinese and American Far East Fleet in the port of Goa, India. Because of her name, it caused a sensation and huge attention among North American travelers. The goods brought by the North American travelers and the military appearance on display reminded the female pirate, formerly known as Li Chun, of the Australians in Lingao.
On the other side, after establishing radio contact with the Australian travelers, the Lingao Senate made urgent arrangements to have the trading fleet on the coast of Vietnam led by Ping Qiu Sheng change its plan and no longer go to Thailand, but to Batavia. Meet those troublesome so-called "real Australians".
Next, the Lingao fleet, the South American fleet, the North American fleet and the Australian large iron ship arrived at the Dutch colony of Batavia (that is, Jakarta on Java Island), causing a huge sensation-the local Dutch and overseas Chinese Of course he was shocked, but the travelers from all walks of life were also shocked. Colonists from various Western countries keenly discovered the similarities between various Chinese forces, and wrote many reports and documents full of fantasy and conjecture.
In the north, the Vladivostok Far East Company's landing ship set out again to seize North Korea's Jeju Island, using it as a transit point to recruit refugees from the islands under the Dongjiang Army and form an army. Chen Xin's Wendeng Camp warship discovered the above-mentioned abnormal situation, but But because of the disparity in strength, there was nothing they could do about it.
Due to the recruitment of too many Liao people, the food reserves in Vladivostok and Jeju Island were insufficient. A team from the Far East Company took a boat to Jiangnan to purchase food and collect intelligence. They found that the crossing forces from the south and the north were already fighting openly and secretly here, and boarded the The state is at an absolute disadvantage.
In the previous spring and summer, Chen Xin led the Wendeng Battalion across the sea to attack Mi Island, defeating the Houjin army and winning a great victory that was very rare in recent years.
At the same time, the Guanning Army in western Liaoning also took action, gathering its elite main force to advance to the banks of the Daling River to build a city. Huang Taiji immediately led the Eight Banners Army to mobilize in an attempt to pull out this nail. In autumn, on the battlefield in western Liaoning, the Battle of Daling River broke out, which was delayed for some time compared to the original history. However, Zu Dashou, who defended the city, had far more baggage than in history. This cruel city attack and defense battle would obviously be more complicated than in history. lasted longer.
After Mao Wenlong was killed, the Dongjiang Army continued to be attacked and marginalized at this time. Coupled with the raging natural disasters, it fell into a terrible chaos.
Although Dalinghe City has not yet fallen, the Ming army's rescue operations on the periphery have been repeatedly frustrated. Guan Ning's army expressed its inability to fight against the Jiannu alone. The Ming court began to plan to mobilize Dengzhou troops to rescue the Dalinghe front line. The Wuqiao mutiny and Dengzhou The countdown to the outbreak of chaos seems to have begun.
At the same time, the Houjin generals who stayed behind in Ningguta, the "rear city", also discovered the Vladivostok Far East Company hundreds of kilometers away. Regarding this group of powerful "pirates" who suddenly appeared, and what they had The guard of Ningguta was worried and coveted the good things in it. After some weighing, he dispatched the small number of troops stationed in Ningguta and incited the nearby indigenous tribes to organize a coalition to attack Vladivostok in an attempt to rob and hoard the goods there. supplies. Then, the Manchurian warriors were really no match for modern guns and artillery, and were defeated in a single battle by the newly armed militiamen of the Far East Company. Next, the angry Vladivostok immediately dispatched the air force to launch a counterattack, bombing Ningupa with napalm bombs, burning the city to ashes.
Huang Taiji, who was supervising the deadly battle on the front line of Daling River City, received the bad news from Ning Guta. He found out that Hou Jin had been attacked from both sides at some point, and couldn't help but feel a headache. Fortunately, his old rival, the Dongjiang Army, is now in an even more dire situation and may soon collapse amid famine and riots.
After Huang Shi returned to Fujian in triumph from Japan, he heard about the tragic famine situation in the old Dongjiang Army. He was very sad and wanted the Senate to send a fleet to rescue people and also add a group of labor force to Qiongzhou and Taiwan. However, some members of the Senate pointed out that "the current attitude of the Tengzhou Crossing Forces is unclear and it is difficult to distinguish between friends and foes." They were worried that the fleet would be attacked from both sides after heading north. There was also a plan to attack Nagasaki, Japan, so they were very hesitant.
After that, Lingao learned about the fleet sent by other crossing groups. They suddenly felt like they were facing a formidable enemy and no longer had the intention to pay attention to Liaodong and Japan. The plan to go north had to be shelved. Just for the sake of Huangshi, they sent Haitian A ship carrying out a reconnaissance mission to the north. Therefore, Huang Shi, who was grieving and angry, held the idea of "rescuing an old friend is the only one", personally led an elite guard and took the Haitian to the north. However, he met the Vladivostok Far East Company's fleet on Jeju Island, and found many people wearing clothes here. The old acquaintance of Russian military uniforms from Liaodong immediately made Huang Shi feel deeply embarrassed.
At the same time, after an almost mind-breaking "Batavia Crossing Fleet Gathering", the combined fleets of North America, South America, and Australia headed to Lingao under the leadership of Lingao Merchant Ship, preparing to hold a global crossing fleet meeting. Before the summit, we should try to coordinate the conflicts of interest among the various traversing groups, avoid unnecessary internal friction, and discuss a reasonable and mutually beneficial cooperation plan. It is best to create a grand alliance of traversers similar to the European Union.
The Lingao Senate knew that diplomacy must be backed by force, so the Lingao fleet that was originally scattered in Fujian, Taiwan, Ryukyu and other places was urgently transferred back to the headquarters, preparing to be used to send troops to China, the United States (North America), and the East Coast from afar. The fleets of China (South America) and "True Australia" flaunted their might and showed their strength.
When this huge fleet passed through Macau to frighten the Portuguese and replenish fresh water and fruits and vegetables, the newly arrived infinite space reincarnation went to Macau as usual to collect 515 taels of "land rent silver" per year from the Xiangshan County Magistrate (located in On the west bank of the Pearl River Estuary, theoretically Macau is also within Xiangshan County) Liu Chaozuo saw it. Therefore, the reincarnation magistrate, who became a new person through reincarnation props, was suddenly confused by the invalid watch of the Lord God and the world of the late Ming Dynasty where demons danced. Faced with these time-travelers who did not know the details, what should he do? Come up and reveal your identity? Or is it better to continue lurking?
Then, Wang Qiu and his urban management dog tooth international column finally stepped into the time and space of the late Ming Dynasty that was plunged into unprecedented chaos...
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Miscellaneous thoughts: When I read "Stealing the Ming", I deeply felt that a vast heroic spirit emerged on the page, and I couldn't help but applaud it. Grizzly Panda's portrayal of the character Huang Shi, especially the description of his gradual change in inner thoughts, is even more lifelike. But for some reason, I always felt that there was a heroic figure in history who was very similar to him. Unfortunately, I couldn't think of it, so I had to suppress this doubt in my heart for the time being.
It wasn't until I watched the Korean movie "The Battle of Myeongryang" this year that I suddenly realized - Yi Sun-shin! This Korean national hero is simply the prototype of Huang Shi!
As we all know, modern Koreans have a tendency to brag about their own historical figures, elevating them to somewhat outrageous heights at every turn, making the two neighboring countries, China and Japan, laugh at them. But the name Yi Sun-shin alone left both Chinese and Japanese speechless.
Just like Hwang Seok in "Stealing the Mystery", Yi Sun-shin during the Imjin War was also a man who created miracles - he defeated Todo Takaho with almost zero casualties in Okpo, and he defeated Hansan Island with Crane Wings. Smash nine Onigataka and Wakita Anji, the brilliant victories in large and small naval battles made the Japanese Warring States Daimyo afraid to fight with them. Even Emperor Goyosei was afraid that Toyotomi Hideyoshi would make a mistake in crossing the sea and issued an edict to prevent him from going there in person. Korea.
——When all of North Korea fell, Yi Sun-shin actually relied on his own efforts to fight on a par with the Japanese navy, thus delaying the pace of the Japanese invasion and fighting for North Korea from a desperate situation. found a way out and persisted until the arrival of Ming Dynasty reinforcements (if North Korea's The performance is so bad that if it makes people despair, the Ming army will probably stop at the border, then Toyotomi Hideyoshi may really swallow North Korea), its genius and terror are really breathtaking... Unfortunately, all his victories were wasted and trampled upon by the fatuous and decadent court.
In general, no matter from the perspective of personal encounters, career ups and downs, battlefield experiences, or from the perspective of macro-strategy, national and national prospects, Huang Shi in "Stealing the Ming" is a tragic figure similar to the famous North Korean general Yi Sun-shin: The same is to protect the homeland and the country, the same They are invincible in battles, have the same righteousness, have the same bumps in life, have the same fear of enemies, and have also been recommended and promoted under special circumstances (Huang Shi was appreciated by Emperor Apocalypse and Wei Zhongxian, Yi Sunchen was recommended by his childhood friend and North Korean minister Liu Chenglong) , same as in He played a triumphant song on the secondary battlefield, but his victory was offset by his pig teammates on the main battlefield. He was also deceived by his own people and felt extremely aggrieved. In the end, he was asked to come out to clean up the mess - just like Huang Shi's lament in "Stealing the Brightness" : "I'm just a military attache, I can do whatever I can I try my best to conquer the empire, and I can dig out the sores on the empire, but that's all I can do. Countless corrupt officials are like moths, stealing the foundation of the country. The motherland is riddled with holes.”
In the article "Stealing the Ming", he once wrote: "The Ming Dynasty is ill, very ill." And during the Imjin War, wasn't this the case for the Joseon Kingdom where Yi Sun-shin was located? The same emphasis on literature over military power, the same corruption and incompetence, the same traitors everywhere, and the same party fighting to the point of madness.
Behind Yi Sun-shin was a decadent imperial court, and he was surrounded by a group of jealous teammates who could not help him. But in front of him were unprecedentedly powerful Japanese pirates. Although he won brilliant victories in naval battles time and time again, he could not save the country that was ravaged by the Japanese invaders. and the people - because of the The particularity of the Ma Strait is that from Japan to North Korea it is a smooth flow, but from North Korea to Japan it is a countercurrent. In that era of backward navigation technology, even if the North Korean Navy had control of the sea, it would face the difficulties on the Busan-Tsushima route. Japanese transport ships were often unable to catch up or block them. If we want to conquer Tsushima Island and cut off the Japanese military's transportation hub, it will be beyond Yi Sun-shin's ability: even when he was at his strongest, the number of battleships was not as good as the Japanese army. Once troops were sent to Tsushima Island, Jeolla Province's coastal defenses behind him would be empty. . Moreover, there are too few marine troops under his command, and they may not be able to capture Japanese castles.
Even so, in order to complete his victory in one battle, Yi Sun-shin once launched the Battle of Busan in an attempt to seize this key port, cut off the Japanese supply line in Korea, and put 200,000 Japanese pirates to death, but in the end he failed , which fully verified Nelson's famous saying in the future, "Battleships cannot shoot at forts." Therefore, his victory will always be a tactical victory and cannot change the passive overall battle situation. Just like Huangshi in "Stealing the Light" has achieved many miraculous victories, he is still far away from the ultimate goal of regaining Liaodong and annihilating the Jiannu.
What's even more terrible is that although he was never afraid of any powerful enemy on the ocean and scared the Japanese army to the core, no matter how many tactical victories he achieved, Yi Sun-shin could not change this country that was rotten to the core. Even he himself could not change the country. Unable to avoid the hidden arrow behind his back: During the party struggle, he was His political backers were abandoned - at that time, Yi Sun-shin had a conflict with Liu Chenglong, who promoted him, because the other party could not change the bad habit of "treating men and women as servants" - he was conspired by Japanese pirates and political opponents to be imprisoned, and was tortured all over his body. The Japanese pirates did not The jailers of the imperial court did what they had done.
Next, the powerful fleet he had worked so hard to build was destroyed in one fell swoop, and in the end he was forced to use his remaining dozen ships to fight against the three hundred Japanese ships. What’s even more frightening is that the orders from above were changed day and night, and suddenly he was asked to abandon the ship and land, without providing him with the necessary supplies and soldiers for the naval battle. It would take a long time for the Ming Dynasty reinforcements to arrive - just like Huangshi fought bloody battles and painstakingly turned things around. The battle situation in Liaodong was like being pushed into the abyss again easily by Yuan Chonghuan.
In the movie "The Battle of Meiryo", the various desperate situations faced by Yi Sun-shin are basically no exaggeration compared with historical facts - Takatora Toudo, Yoshitaka Kuuki, Mr. Kurushima, Anji Wakiba, Yoshiaki Kato, Yoshihiro Shimazu, Old rivals like Zong Yizhi had already deployed a mighty fleet in front of him, preparing to go to Beijing to capture the king in one fell swoop, but the timid and incompetent King of Korea would rather be in the dust again. Even after fleeing, he did not agree with Yi Sun-shin's attack. Marshal Gon-ryuk, who fought a fierce battle with Kato Kiyomasa on land, also advised Yi Sun-shin to lead the rest of the naval forces and integrate them into the army to resist the enemies on land. Even among his men, fear had already spread. , there are reports of soldiers escaping every day. What's more, Bae Cui, the commander of the Jeolla Province Navy, escaped before the battle...
Pei Chui in the movie "The Battle of Mingliang" even set fire to a newly built turtle ship before escaping - this was the last turtle ship! Those naval officers who were originally prepared to fight to the death with the Japanese army could barely see a glimmer of victory on the turtle ship, but now even this faint glimmer of dawn was gone. The entire North Korean army and the entire country seemed to be persuading Yi Sun-shin to abandon ship and avoid the war...
At this time, Yi Sun-shin seemed to be the enemy of the whole world. In the most lonely and desperate situation, he launched a life-and-death struggle of the most ruthless man!
He almost coaxed, lied and threatened, relying on his personal prestige to barely let the team disperse. During the battle, the other ships hid behind. He was forced to lead the flagship to fight against thousands of people and make a cameo as Rambo. It was all true. They were all written down in his "Chaos Diary". The victory was really hanging in the balance. .
Historically, after the Myeongryang Sea Battle, Yi Sunchen also relied on donations from the squires and rewards from the Ming Emperor to maintain his navy (Emperor Wanli directly gave him several turtle boats). Seoul gave him almost no funding, but there were a lot of People hinder him, just like Huang Shi in "Stealing the Ming" fought for the court, but had to handle the "Pingman Big Loan" and "Jinghai Big Loan" by himself, and had to be impeached. If it is the army, there may be the possibility of taking advantage of the chaos and separatist forces to become a warlord. But as a navy, Yi Sun-shin could still persevere in such a tragic situation, probably only out of patriotism.
In the war against Japanese pirates, Yi Sun-shin lost his old mother and one son. The other son, the one who appeared in the movie "The Battle of Myeongryang Sea", died during the Qing invasion decades later. (Appears to appear in "The Strongest Weapon: The Bow"), he can be called a loyal man - even if the country and the court fail to live up to his sacrifice, he will never betray his motherland and nation: this is a true hero !
Recently, there is a biography about Yi Sun-shin on the market, called "The Lone General". It describes in the first person the thoughts that kept lingering in Yi Sun-shin's heart during the last days of his life between the Battle of Myeongryang Sea and the Battle of Noryang Sea. All kinds of chaotic thoughts of loneliness, despair, sadness, helplessness, and struggle.
And why isn't Huangshi in "Stealing the Light" so lonely? He saw the dark future of the Tartars breaking through the border and the land of China sinking. He wanted to change this nightmare, but he was always so powerless. From the emperor to his colleagues, everyone seems to be constantly doing harm to him. No one understood his worries, not even the most loyal followers, but he finally stepped onto the battlefield and wrote a heroic chapter with his blood and life.
Finally, when the Battle of Noryang broke out, Toyotomi Hideyoshi had already died of illness, and the Japanese army was actually preparing to retreat, and was even willing to offer Yi Sun-shin a large sum of money to buy the way. Just like the final battle of Huangshi in "Stealing the Light", even if there is no fight, the Eight Banners soldiers who have robbed enough will withdraw their troops and return to the division. However, Yi Sun-shin refused to compromise and gave way, and also advised the Ming army generals not to compromise. In any case, they must give these invaders a painful lesson, so that they will not dare to embark on the road of invading foreign countries again, otherwise once they are exposed to the marrow, they will be defeated. Who knows if he is gone now and will come back in a few years?
——At the end of the book "Stealing the Ming", Huang Shi probably had this mood and decided to charge at the Hou Jin army under Zunhua City.
As a result, the vigorous Battle of Luliang broke out, and 20,000 elite Japanese soldiers perished in the sea. As a sacrifice for victory, Yi Sun-shin was also shot and died heroically, leaving behind his famous last words: "The war is urgent, be careful not to say that I will die, or to alarm the army." To this day, every Korean primary school student will recite his words. sentence. And his soul has since become the patron saint of this sea area and even the Korean Peninsula. More than three hundred years later, on the eve of the Battle of Tsushima, the last major battle of the Russo-Japanese War, the commander of the Japanese Combined Fleet, Togo Heihachiro, paid homage to Yi Sun-shin, the anti-Japanese hero, and prayed to him to bless him in winning the naval battle: According to At that time the Japanese According to the propaganda, the Russo-Japanese War was a racial war between the yellow race and the white race. Any yellow race should stand on the side of Japan, and the Koreans are naturally no exception... I wonder what Yi Sun-shin would have said if Izumi had known about it. A look of embarrassment and excitement.
General Patton once said that the luckiest thing for a soldier is to be killed by the last bullet in the last battle. For Yi Sun-shin, being able to die in the final Noryanghae battle may not be a blessing. Otherwise, given his upright personality and the party-fighting nature of North Korea's Lee Dynasty, it is difficult to say what the final outcome will be if he survives until the end of the war. But with his death in battle, the name "Yi Sun-shin" has been promoted to the throne, and can no longer be slandered by anyone who is disdainful. Therefore, a genius must be born at the right time and die at the right time. . In the same way, a good book should not only start at the right place, but also end at the right time to avoid superfluous information - the reason why "Stealing the Ming" ends abruptly at the most heroic Battle of Zunhua and ends at the most brilliant The scene is probably based on the same consideration.