"Grandpa, look, the Chuangwang flag on that boat has been lowered. It seems that the man named Li knows that he is in the wrong!"
"My father is so powerful that he scolded King Chuang Li Zicheng in just a few words to the point where he has no shame to hang up his flag. It seems that my father will win a great victory in this battle. All the daughters of Huguang are here to congratulate him!"
"The laws and righteousness of heaven belong to your Majesty. Your Majesty's heavenly troops will surely be invincible. Hu, Guang, and Jiangdong will soon be yours. I would like to extend my congratulations to you!"
"Huh? Why is another flag raised?"
"Why do you still bring someone to change the flag before the battle?"
"Changed to another loyalty flag?"
When the people on Wu Sangui's side saw the big ship with the Chuangwang flag lowered, they all started to give Wu Sangui top hats. However, they couldn't give away even a few of their top hats, because after the big ship lowered the "Chuang" flag, it raised another "loyalty" flag.
Could this flag with the word "loyalty" be the royal flag of King Zhong?
While everyone was thinking about it, the loud voice on the boat over there roared again: "Wu Sangui on the opposite side heard this. He is Li Laishun, the loyal king conferred by King Ding of the Ming Dynasty. He is guarding the Six Prefectures of Huguang by the decree of King Ding of the Ming Dynasty." And take Jiujiang and Anqing to the east to break the siege of Nanjing.
The six prefectures of Wuchang, Hanyang, Huangzhou, Jingzhou, Yuezhou, and De'an were all granted by the Supervisor State, and they were justified! Wu Sangui, you came to seize him by force. How could you do that? Well, Li Laishun didn't steal Chen Yuanyuan from you."
"You bastard! How dare you"
As soon as Wu Sangui heard the other party mention "Chen Yuanyuan", he couldn't help but cursed.
This matter is "unmentionable" in Wu Sangui's camp, but Li Laishun, the loyal king of the Ming Dynasty on the opposite side, doesn't care. Today he is here to make Wu Sangui angry, and he will be angry to death!
The loud voice with the Shaanxi accent started shouting again!
"Wu Sangui, listen, the person who robbed your Chen Yuanyuan and humiliated her was not Grandpa Ehuang, but General Quan Liu Ruhou (Liu Zongmin). He has nothing to do with E, E's father, and E's brother! None of them slept with Chen Yuanyuan. .”
"Li, you, you" Wu Sangui was so angry that his face turned green!
But the other side still didn't care and continued to talk nonsense: "Actually, it doesn't matter even if you sleep with her. Chen Yuanyuan is just your concubine and she was born in a brothel. What does this mean?"
"Well, Li Laishun." Wu Sangui clenched his fists and gritted his teeth, "I must cut you into pieces with a thousand knives!"
Li Laishun is still scolding me!
"A while ago, the Tatar Emperor killed your grandson, robbed several of your daughters-in-law (Wu Yingxiong's concubines) and granddaughters, and distributed them to his subordinates for humiliation. This is a great shame and humiliation! As a man, you , instead of killing the Tatars to avenge them, they came to seize their territory! Are all of you traitors like Fan Wencheng? You are not ashamed, but proud of it?"
"You, you, you" Wu Sangui's teeth were almost broken. If he didn't have a naval force at hand, he would have ordered the attack long ago.
Li Laishun on the other end was still confident and was still trying to annoy Wu Sangui. He only heard a group of loud voices shouting: "Well, in order to protect themselves, they had to withdraw the soldiers and horses that attacked Jiujiang. Now Jie Shu is leading Jiujiang." The Qing army marched eastward to Nanjing to kill His Highness King Ding!
You old thief is simply disloyal and unjust. You are unworthy of being a Ping Xibotudu, but you still want to be the emperor. What a wishful thinking! "
"." Wu Sangui was so angry that he couldn't even speak. Even if he could remain calm, he would not be able to refute Li Laishun's accusation.
Can he say that he is a loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty and fights wholeheartedly to restore the Ming Dynasty? Is this a lie to a three-year-old? No one believed it at all. If everyone believed it, the trouble would be even greater.
If Wu Sangui is no longer emperor, what will happen to the people under him? Why did they follow Wu Sangui and tuck their heads in their belts to rebel? Don't you just want to be a wife and a shadowy son, and be a hero of the founding of the country?
If Wu Sangui did not found the country, what would happen to other heroes?
So he must be emperor!
And if he wants to become the emperor, the best outcome for Prince Zhu San is to become Emperor Xian of Ming Dynasty. If he is less lucky, he will have to become the "Little Prince Ming"!
Therefore, if the Qing army could break through the city of Nanjing and capture and execute the third prince Zhu and his party members, then he would send out large-scale troops to attack the Manchu Qing Dynasty in the name of "revenge for the Ming Dynasty" and attack Huanglong directly. Slaughter all of Luo's men, cut the roots and finally take a nap, and let the people below him add a yellow dress, then it will be complete.
Thinking of this, Wu Sangui had calmed down and stopped getting angry with the little kid Li Laishun. He just snorted coldly and ordered: "Go and mobilize some small cannons in red clothes to blow away that broken boat!"
After giving the order, Wu Sangui, who had lost the quarrel, turned around with a cold face, then mounted a war horse brought to him by a personal guard, and under the protection of a group of personal soldiers, headed towards the foot of Neifang Mountain where he had set up Running to the carriage in a manor.
The general advisers and Kong Sizhen, Wu Xiaoxian, Wang Jiqing and others who had followed him to the Han River to scold him were no longer interested in watching the red cannon fire - it was basically impossible to fire, because the camp at the foot of Neifang Mountain It hasn't been repaired yet, the forts or anything else haven't been repaired, and there isn't even a camp wall on the edge of the Han River. There's just a careless fence erected to block the charge of the intruders' landing infantry. If it was necessary to set up a cannon for bombardment, the big galley on the opposite side would slip away as soon as the cannon was pulled out and before it was set up.
However, Wu Sangui still heard the roar of the cannon as he wished.
Hearing the rumble of cannons, Wu Sangui finally felt a little more comfortable. However, I felt relieved, but my head soon started to hurt. Because he never expected that Li Zicheng, a thick-skinned and blind man from the northwest, who had lived south of the Yangtze River for a long time, would actually learn the skills of Zhou Yu and Zhou Gongjin - he could fight in the water!
What's even more troublesome is that Li Zicheng became "Blind Zhou Yu", and Wu Sangui didn't even have a Jiangxia Huangzu in his hands - because Jiangxia County (Wuchang Fucheng) is now Li Zicheng's home base! Where could Wu Sangui go to find Huang Zu?
In addition, where to build the ship is also a problem? Now the most developed shipbuilding industry in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River is Hankou Town under the control of Li Zicheng - Hankou Town is a shipping center! How convenient is it to build and repair ships there? The next-level shipbuilding industry centers are Yuezhou and Jingzhou. Unfortunately, they are also Li Zicheng's territory!
Moreover, the wood used in shipbuilding usually has to be exposed to the sun and wind for two to three years or even more. If you use the wood you just saw to build a ship, the resulting ship will not be strong and durable.
Therefore, it would not be easy for Wu Sangui to win over Li Zicheng by seizing the water control rights of the Yangtze River and Han River. However, if he cannot win the water control rights of the Yangtze River and Han River for a while, it does not mean that Wu Sangui will not be able to take out Li Zicheng.
It's just that a quick victory is unlikely, and it will probably take a long time - after all, Wu Sangui is not Cao Cao, he did not go south from the north, and now he has most of Hunan in his hands, and the Yangtze River is not a natural barrier to stop him, but there is no Without the right to control water, it is inconvenient to quickly send troops and transport grain, grass and baggage. But Wu Sangui's army could still slowly eat away at one city after another.
In addition, now that there are red cannons with a long range, Li Zicheng's navy can be choked by finding some narrow places on the river and building some forts on the shore.
In short, as long as Wu Sangui is willing to spend a year or two, he can still eat up all Li Zicheng's territory!
After thinking about all these things, Wu Sangui ordered people to call Hu Guozhu and Wang Shirong to his study, and then dictated two orders to Wu Yingqi and Wu Yingxiong.
"My lord, do you want the prince to relieve the siege of Xi'an?"
"My lord, the prince has finally besieged Kangxi. Wouldn't it be a failure to withdraw the siege now?"
After Wu Sangui finished dictating, Hu Guozhu and Wang Shirong were stunned for a moment, and then they both raised objections.
Wu Sangui waved his hand and said: "The battle of Jinghu seems to be easy to fight. I can't spare any effort to support Guanzhong for the time being, and I don't have the strength to manage the Central Plains, so Ying Xiong and Ying Qi can't act too hastily. Especially Ying Xiong, he We also have to take good care of Nanyang, Xiangyang, and Shangzhou. As long as we have Nanyang, Xiangyang, and Shangzhou in hand, it will be easy for us to attack Xi'an whenever we want.
Moreover, there have been some changes in Beijing recently. King Yu Fuquan seems to want to usurp power and has proclaimed himself regent. If we surrounded Kangxi and killed him in Xi'an, we would be helping Fuquan. It's better to let Kangxi go first and let him fight to the death with Fuquan. This is the same as the two brothers Yuan Tan and Yuan Shang fighting for the throne after Yuan Shao died. When the time comes, we will fight against each other, and it will be difficult not to win. "
Wang Shirong also nodded and said with a smile: "Your Majesty is so tall! Once the siege in Xi'an is resolved, Kangxi and Fuquan will definitely bite each other! If they want to stop biting each other, unless Shunzhi is resurrected to break up the fight!"
Hu Guozhu laughed and said: "How is this possible? People cannot be resurrected after death!"
Wu Sangui nodded, "This matter has been settled. You two will discuss it and see how Shaanxi and Zhongzhou will be roughly deployed."
"yes!"
"Yes, Your Majesty, I think so."
Wu Sangui discussed with Hu Guozhu and Wang Shirong until the evening of that day before finalizing the final adjustment plan. Then he had some dinner and went to sleep alone. He slept quite deeply. It was not until three poles the next day that he was summoned by a personal assistant. The eunuch who had been a eunuch for many years woke up: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, please wake up quickly, Zhen Gege, Manager Hu, and Military Advisor Wang need to see you in an emergency?"
"Emergency? What's the emergency?" Wu Sangui asked drowsily.
"Your Majesty, Manager Hu said that Wang Fuchen's 30,000-strong army suddenly appeared this morning in a new town thirty miles south of Neifang Mountain, on the edge of the Han River, and is now setting up camp!"
"What?" Wu Sangui woke up immediately, sat up straight, and said in a voiceless voice: "Wang Fuchen has arrived in the new town? What does he want to do?"
"Manager Hu didn't mention it."
Wu Sangui didn't have time to talk to a slave, so he just said quickly and urgently: "Hurry, wait for me to change my clothes!"
The sudden appearance of Wang Fuchen's 30,000 troops on the edge of the Han River south of Wu Sangui's army is no joke!
Wang Fuchen is now a vassal in Wu Sangui's name. Wu Sangui should know exactly how his troops are dispatched on the battlefield in Jingzhou. If it is just one battalion or two battalions, that's it. This is an army of thirty thousand!
Moreover, he quietly ran to the vicinity of Wu Sangui's army camp. If there was an "enemy inside Fangshan", Wu Sangui might ascend to heaven!
Therefore, Wu Sangui did not dare to "snub" Wang Fuchen, an uninvited guest, and quickly summoned the generals and ordered Hu Guozhu to guard the Neifangshan camp. He personally led an army of 20,000 people, fully armed, loaded cannons and muskets, and went south to meet Wang Fuchen.
Of course, I didn’t forget to bring along Kong Sizhen, Wang Jiqing, Wu Xiaoxian and others. Maybe Wang Fuchen, a lively Lu Bu and the Eight Ministers, didn't know that the Nine Ministers didn't have any bad intentions this time, but brought troops to help fight Li Zicheng.
It still took a lot of time to assemble and mobilize the 20,000-strong army, and it took a lot of time to march for 20 to 30 miles. By the time Wu Sangui led the army to the vicinity of Wang Fuchen's military camp that had just been set up in the north of New Town. , only to find that the water on the Han River next to it was full of Li Zicheng's warships.
It turns out that Li Zicheng is also here, so it’s really lively!
Three families confront each other!
What on earth does Lu Bu want to do?
"Wu, Wu Sangui is here? Nephew, please quickly send someone to your Ada camp and ask him to send troops together. Let's launch a land and water attack and annihilate the Wu thieves in one fell swoop. From now on, the world belongs to our Li family!"
On a large ship with a total of two thousand materials, King Li Zicheng saw Wu Sangui's army from a distance. He immediately asked Wang Jizhen, who was in his army, to ask him to quickly inform Wang Fuchen to send troops to kill Wu Sangui. But what a God-given opportunity!
Wu Sangui's army didn't look large, only about 20,000. There were 20,000 intruders on the water, and 30,000 Wang Fuchen on the shore.
This is the advantage of fifty thousand versus twenty thousand!
"Your Majesty, you misunderstood. My father is not here to help you beat Wu Sangui." Wang Jizhen said with a smile on her face.
"What? It's not about helping Wu Sangui. Does he want to help Wu Sangui?" Hearing this, Li Zicheng became anxious, and his old face gradually became a little ferocious.
"No, no, how can this be done?" Wang Jizhen quickly explained, "Your Majesty, don't worry. Ada and you are brothers from the same clan!"
"That's right, the Eighteenth Son rules the world!" Li Zicheng said, "Well, look, this Eighteenth Son is talking about you, Ada!"
Wang Jizhen did not show the slightest interest in the "Eighteenth Son" and "Nineteenth Son". She just smiled and said: "Your Majesty, you still don't know enough about E'ada. Although E'ada is brave enough to win the three armies, he has never been the best in his life. He’s not aggressive, he’s just good at resolving fights!”
"What?" Li Zicheng was stunned, "You, your Ada, are you confused by watching "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms"? Do you really think you are Lu Bu?"
Wang Jizhen smiled and said: "Your Majesty, it doesn't matter whether Ada is obsessed with "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", what's important is that he has the ability to help you and Wu Sangui fight!"
"What ability?" Li Zicheng asked, "shooting halberds at the gate?"
"It's better than this!" Wang Jizhen shook her head, "Well, Ada's skill is shooting at the gate and firing a musket!"
"Instead of using a shotgun? What's so great about it?" Li Zicheng still didn't buy it.
Wang Jizhen stretched out a finger and added a palm: "One hundred and fifty steps to hit the target!"
"Hit the target in one hundred and fifty steps?" Li Zicheng was stunned, "Is he really that capable?"
"Impossible!" Hu Yiqiang, Li Zicheng's general, said immediately, "It's very difficult to hit the target a hundred steps away, and it's also very difficult to blindly hit the target a hundred and fifty steps away!"
"I'm not blind," Wang Jizhen said with a smile, "I can definitely hit him, at least eight out of ten shots will hit!"
Hu Yiqiang was doubtful: "Nan Wang's shooting skills are so powerful?"
Wang Jizhen shook her head and said: "Ah, Ada can hit a target two hundred steps away and hit the target at one hundred and fifty steps. That is the level of his personal musketeers! There are at least three hundred such heroes!"
Li Zicheng and Hu Yiqiang were both shocked.
"What?"
"How can this be?"
The musket hits a target a hundred and fifty paces away, and it hits eight times out of ten!
In this era when rifled guns were not common, he was a fierce man on the level of Lu Bu! There are three hundred such fierce men by Wang Fuchen's side. What is the concept?
Three hundred living Lu Bu!
Cao Cao could still fight one Lu Bu, but if three hundred of them went to Hulao Pass together, all the eighteen princes would be cut down to death!
This must be seen. If it is true, then Wang Fuchen cannot be easily offended in the future!
Thinking of this, Li Zicheng nodded and said, "Okay, let's see what this living Lu Bu is capable of!"
The day after the armies of Wang Fuchen, Li Zicheng, and Wu Sangui all gathered in the new town of Jingmen Prefecture on the bank of the Han River. On the open land outside the new town, about a thousand cavalry were divided into three waves, each one or two miles apart, looking at each other from a distance.
Among them, the cavalry just outside the new town also brought one or two hundred infantry. These infantry were all working. Each of them carried one or two wooden targets, placed one next to another on the flat ground, which was enough There are as many as three hundred on display.
As for the cavalry team that was deployed outside the town, they all dismounted. Then each man held a flintlock rifle and stood in a row one hundred and fifty steps away from the target. They loaded their bullets and raised their rifles. Aimed at the target.
Wang Fuchen is not one of the three hundred "sharp shooters". He is only responsible for giving orders today. This is called a gentleman who talks but does not act!
Seeing that all the sharpshooters below had taken aim, he no longer waited, but shouted: "Fire! Hit him!"
Following his order, the muzzles of the three hundred rifled guns burst into flames almost simultaneously. Almost at the same time, after a burst of gunfire, at least 250 of the three hundred targets appeared on the target. There were holes, big and small!
(End of chapter)
