The day when Shen Tingyang, the second richest man in the Ming Dynasty, arrived in Nanjing happened to be the first day of April in the ninth year of Hongxing reign in the Ming Dynasty when a grand military parade was held to celebrate victory.
When the private boat he took arrived at Longjiang Pier, the nearby Yifengmen Street was already full of people waiting to watch the triumphant army. Everyone's face could not hide the excitement. Most of these people are northerners living in Nanjing. Some are military dependents, some are volunteers, some were once high-ranking scholar-bureaucrats, and some are nothing but ordinary people who fled to the south of the Yangtze River to find a place to stay in order to avoid the disaster of war. common people.
Among these people living in other places, some have had the opportunity to achieve great success, and some have lived a well-off life and have settled down in Nanjing, a prosperous hometown, but most of them are struggling on the poverty line!
How could it be easy to live in a foreign country?
No matter how these people from the north live in Jiangnan, most of them miss their hometown all the time!
As soon as many people close their eyes, the mountains, rivers, towns and villages of their hometown, as well as the folks they have not seen for many years, will appear in their dreams.
As time goes by, people wandering far away miss their hometown only deeper and stronger!
Now, the news of the victory of the Northern Expedition has arrived!
Henan was recovered! Hebei was recovered! Shanxi was also recovered!
In the end, even Beijing was recovered! The invincible Northern Expedition army even reached the Monan grassland. Even the Mongolian Chahar tribe, known as the orthodox Yuan Dynasty, and the Mongolian Tumote tribe, known as the Little Khan of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, also surrendered to the Ming Dynasty!
The Northern Expedition has been won!
The North Kingdom has been recovered!
The children of the North who were wandering in the southeast finally saw the hometown they had dreamed of, waving to them!
It’s time to go home!
And before they pack their bags and prepare to return to their hometown to see their relatives, mountains, rivers, villages, and towns in their dreams, they must also welcome the returning troops and the Ming Dynasty's resurgence master with the greatest enthusiasm... ..
"The soldiers are triumphant! The soldiers are triumphant..."
As forty armored soldiers on ocean horses drove their horses forward in order and loudly shouted "triumph", the victory parade of the ninth year of Hongxing began!
Not many troops participated in the Victory Parade, because although the Northern Expedition had been a complete victory, the northern land that had been in chaos for twenty or thirty years was not yet completely calm. The authority of the Ming Dynasty still needs to be defended by the Northern Expedition Iron Army. There are still enemies in the north of the Great Wall and outside the Pass that are unwilling to fail and need to be frightened by the Ming Dynasty's heroic troops.
Therefore, the army that was able to temporarily end the expedition and return to Nanjing to participate in the victory parade only had five regiments of nearly 10,000 people, including one Forbidden Army cavalry regiment, two fusilier regiments and two ordinary infantry regiments.
The leader was a regiment of Forbidden Lancers, all wearing horse plate armor. They had already lined up neatly on the dock. When the shouts came from far away, the sound of war drums also sounded.
A whole regiment of armored cavalry, with forty cavalry forming a square, lined up neatly, one team after another, marching majestically along Yifengmen Street towards the city of Nanjing.
There were bursts of cheers from both sides of Yifengmen Street!
"The Ming Dynasty will be victorious! The Ming Dynasty will be victorious..."
Those who ran to both sides of the street outside Yifeng Gate to occupy the best positions to welcome the victorious army were mostly family members of the Beiren army, and some were veterans who had retired from the New Army to overcome the difficulties.
Seeing these two thousand armored cavalry, I could hardly contain my excitement!
They all know something about military affairs. Of course they know what these two thousand armored lancers riding tall horses mean?
If there were such cavalry twenty or thirty years ago in the Ming Dynasty (that is impossible, how much money would it cost!), the Manchurians would not be able to enter the Great Wall at all. Their bows and arrows couldn't penetrate plate armor, and their ponies couldn't outrun these tall foreign horses. Faced with the impact of the foreign horse soldiers, they didn't even have a chance to escape...
Immediately afterwards, rows and rows of infantrymen in red clothes and black armor appeared, carrying fusiliers with bayonets on their shoulders. These were two entire regiments of fusiliers! They were all equipped with flintlock guns, no spears, and no swords. Such an army may not be very useful on the European battlefield where the shock cavalry is strong, but in the East where there is no strong shock cavalry, it is almost invincible.
Anyone who has actually been on the land battle battlefield in the 17th century knows that it is very, very difficult to defeat a large number of fusiliers in a well-organized formation using cold weapons or horse shooting! It would be an even more ridiculous fantasy to use rifle bows to shoot at the fusiliers from a distance - to use a whole team of batulu to fight against the private soldiers who had only put down their hoes for a few months? And the winners of this war of attrition are not necessarily the Batulus... As long as the privates are equipped with plate armor, it is enough to withstand the Batulus' "attack with a hundred steps"!
Now almost all the large ironworks in Shanghai, Nanjing, Quanzhou and Guangzhou are equipped with hydraulic hammers (hydraulic hammers cannot directly process plate armor, but can break out medium and thick plates), so the cost of producing plate armor is already lower than that of armor, which is completely possible Equip troops in large numbers.
The loudest cheers suddenly erupted outside Yifeng Gate. It turned out that Ming Emperor Zhu Cixiang, wearing golden plate armor, appeared on Yifeng Gate Street riding a majestic Arabian horse. People on both sides of the street knelt down and saluted him, shouting "Long Live the Mountain" at the same time, and the whole street suddenly fell into madness.
Zhu Cixiang was also surrounded by a large group of meritorious officers wearing plate armor and riding horses - they were all officers who had made great contributions in the Northern Expedition, and now they had the honor of escorting the emperor to participate in the victory parade.
Among them, the one closely following Zhu Cixiang was Prince Kong Dai in black plate armor!
The French prince now also has a proud face. It is said that he is the real "general planner" of this Northern Expedition to the Central Plains. The plan of the Northern Expedition and the key victory in the Battle of Dian were actually his handiwork.
And in the past few years in the East, he has also improved a lot! First of all, I got the practical opportunity to command a large corps. Commanding a corps of tens of thousands of people in Europe and commanding a war of hundreds of thousands of people in China are completely different things!
Secondly, he also learned his true skills during the siege of Beijing! The parallel trench siege method "invented" by the Ming Emperor himself opened his eyes and made him realize the truth that as long as he is good at mathematics, he can build a fortress at will!
What surprised him even more was the wooden tail fin and wooden tube fuse of the blooming bullet "invented" by Emperor Zhu - with these two things, the reliability of the blooming bullet went up several notches.
With reliable explosive shells and parallel siege methods, the era of bastions is about to pass... For Europe, which is full of bastions, a new era is about to begin!
Zhu Cixiang couldn't restrain his joy at this time, not because the cavalry and fusiliers in front of him looked so powerful, but because he had come all the way from the other side of the Yangtze River and had witnessed with his own eyes the beauty of Nanjing, the most virtuous capital of the Ming Dynasty. "War Boom" - A very busy handicraft center, mainly shipbuilding workshops, appeared in the Pukou area. Near the bank of the Yangtze River, dozens of slipways were spread out, all of which were busy building ships. On the other side of the Yangtze River, both sides of the Qinhuai River and Jinchuan River are full of cargo ship terminals, densely packed with river boats waiting to be loaded and unloaded...
Zhu Cixiang, who has lived in Nanjing for more than ten years, can feel that Nanjing is more prosperous now than at any time in the past ten years!
Since fighting can promote economic development, we should fight more in the future!
Who to hit next?
When Emperor Zhu was thinking about who to fight in the next war, the war horse under his crotch had already arrived outside the Yifengmen Wengcheng. The terrain in this area was particularly open, so a particularly large number of people gathered, all of whom were refugees from Shuntian Prefecture. Many of them were volunteers who fled with Emperor Zhu. Now seeing their emperor majestic and coming on horseback, I was really excited. I don't know who was the leader, and suddenly shouted: "Long live the Lord, take us home!"
Then more people started shouting!
"Long live Lord, take us home!"
"Long live Lord, let's go home..."
