On the first day of June in the forty-sixth year of Chongzhen reign in the Ming Dynasty, Hubei Public Security Bureau, Hudukou.
Under the scorching sun in June, a long pontoon bridge has been erected between Hudu and the Jingzhou embankment on the other side. On a large piece of wasteland next to Hudu on the south bank, tens of thousands of Wu family soldiers and horses are already standing neatly. Done.
Wu Sangui also spent a lot of money for this decisive battle across the river. He took out all the military supplies accumulated over the years and the armor and equipment plundered from various places in Guizhou and Hunan. All the soldiers who will follow Wu Sangui across the Yangtze River today are equipped with a cloth armor equipped with iron plates. Moreover, the proportion of shotgun soldiers in the army has reached an astonishing 40%!
Moreover, he spent huge sums of money to purchase military white sugar produced by Beichang and black gunpowder produced by Neichang from Guangdong. There was no superior-subordinate relationship between Wu Sangui and the Guangdong court, but there was an "internal relationship". After Wu Sangui withdrew After joining the army that entered Guiyang Prefecture, Chenzhou and the southern part of Yongzhou Prefecture, the Guangdong imperial court gave him a batch of "military sugar" from the North Factory and "black powder" from the Inner Factory. At the same time, the North Factory and the Inner Factory also accepted Wu Sangui's order and sold a batch of "military sugar" and "black powder" to Wu Sangui at the "anti-Qing friendship price".
In addition, Wu Sangui also had a batch of bronze cannons cast in Yuezhou - Wu Sangui already had many cannons in his army, and he also trained a group of gunsmiths. But the road from Yunnan and Guizhou is really not easy. So the cannons were left in Yunnan and the artillerymen and gunsmiths were brought out together. After conquering Yuezhou, they opened a cannon factory in Yuezhou, which has very convenient transportation, and cast a large number of bronze cannons.
Except for a small part of the bronze cannons cast during this period, the rest were transported to the Public Security Bureau by water. At this moment, they were placed in front of an array of tens of thousands of Wu family troops who were about to cross the river.
Every door is polished and polished, and when the sun shines on it, everything shines golden!
The spears and shotguns held by the Wu Jiajun's infantry and cavalry troops also stretched out like a forest. Like a steel forest, they also glowed in the sun.
A group of gentry from Hunan and Hubei who had changed into Han attire, as well as local people in Gong'an County, were "invited" by Wu Sangui's men to the edge of the Tiger Ferry. They just stared at this large and well-equipped group with their mouths wide open. The army with high morale was speechless.
Under the gaze of these "Jiangnan elders", they saw dozens of war horses arriving like dragons, surrounded by more than a hundred Wu family "surprise riders". One of the tall knights held a yellow umbrella, and under the umbrella was Wu Sangui, who was wearing a golden helmet and armor. Behind him, counselors such as Wu Yingxiong, Xia Guoxiang, Hu Guozhu, Ma Bao, Wu Guogui, Liu Xuanchu, and Fang Guangchen also rarely changed into military uniforms and followed Wu Sangui closely.
When they approached the Wu family's military formation on horseback, the horses under Wu Sangui and Wu Yingxiong suddenly began to accelerate.
Although Wu Sangui is already sixty-two years old, he takes good care of himself and exercises regularly, so his body shape on horseback is still very strong. He and his son Wu Yingxiong were in tandem, just running in front of the army formation. Running from one end to the other, the eyes of tens of thousands of soldiers just slowly followed the figure of the father and son. When the horses under the father and son made a neat U-turn at the end of one side of the formation, the tens of thousands of Wu's warriors who formed the formation shouted in unison: "Long live! Long live!"
Because Wu Sangui had been pretending to be ill for several months, and Wu Yingxiong had been a hostage in Beijing for a long time. So there are still some doubts among the Wu family army - is Old Wu okay? Don't rebel and half the people will be gone! If Old Wu is gone, can Xiao Wu take over?
Therefore, before Wu Sangui crossed the river, he had to make an appearance with Wu Yingxiong to reassure his subordinates.
Wu Sangui is still very good!
Wu Yingxiong is not Wu Gouxiong either!
Amidst cheers, the father and son rode back to the center of the military formation. Old Wu waved his hand, and the people below knew that the old man had something to say, so they stopped yelling.
The cheers of the generals gradually stopped, and finally fell into silence. Wu Sangui glanced at the entire army, raised his arms and shouted: "Today, I, Wu Sangui, the president's marshal of all the troops in the world, will lead you and other benevolent soldiers to cross the Yangtze River north to mourn. To fight against the people's crimes, to defeat the barbarians, and to revive China... Wu pointed to the Yangtze River and swore that if he could win this battle, he would share the world and wealth with all the kings!
If he loses, Wu vows not to return Jiangnan! "
When Wu Sangui finished speaking, two tall knights came behind him, each holding a flag. The long flag is white and has two lines of large characters written on it.
On the left: A hundred thousand troops crossed the Yangtze River!
On the right is: I swear I won’t return it if I don’t break it!
Then, Wu Sangui and Wu Yingxiong, father and son, turned their horses around and slowly walked towards the pontoon bridge on the Yangtze River with these two flags.
When Wu Sangui's war horse stepped onto the pontoon bridge, someone suddenly took the lead in shouting: "A hundred thousand troops have crossed the Yangtze River! I will not return it until the barbarians are defeated!"
Then tens of thousands of people shouted in unison: "A hundred thousand troops have crossed the Yangtze River! I will not return it until the barbarians are defeated!"
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In Beijing, the Nanhaizi Campus is full of slaves and a scene of chilling.
The Eight Banners athletes, the coated slaves, and the Green Camp soldiers who wanted to become coated slaves, all stood in the school grounds with flags of various colors, which can be said to be a heavily armored and powerful force.
Zhuo Butai, Wang Fuchen, Mingzhu, and Emperor Kangxi's two brothers, Prince Yu Fuquan and Prince Gong Chang Ning, also put a lot of thought into today's military parade. They also know that the newly opened army of coated slaves is still a little bit warm. Therefore, Kangxi was specially consulted for instructions, and some Eight Banners soldiers and Green Camp soldiers who were planned to join Emperor Kangxi in his personal expedition were mobilized to suppress the situation and put up a good appearance.
Although Emperor Kangxi had to rely on coated minions, it did not mean that he would immediately abandon the Eight Banners and Green Camp.
The "power of heaven" of the Eight Banners soldiers is still very useful - without the Eight Banners soldiers escorting them, how can the coated slaves go to the battlefield?
As for the green battalion soldiers... they were escorted by flag-carrying officers and the backbone of the coated slaves, and they immediately became energetic.
The officers who have become Eight Banners all feel that they are powerful - Eight Banners Heavenly Soldiers!
The backbone of those who became slaves also felt that "slave students" were full of hope. They were now the "domestic slaves" of the Qing emperor, and the path to advancement was very smooth.
And those ordinary green soldiers who wanted to be slaves but couldn't get it also saw hope - no matter how hard they worked in the past, they only got two rewards and couldn't enter the Eight Banners system at all.
But things are different now. Now the Qing Dynasty has a promotion path of "Green Camp Soldiers - Coated Minions - Eight Banners Officers".
As long as they work hard for the emperor, they will have the opportunity to become a glorious slave...
If you look at the spirit of the 560,000 or 60,000 Baoyi, Baoyi, and Green Battalion soldiers here, you will know how successful Emperor Kangxi's reform of the "Baoyi slaves" was - he only released 60,000 Baoyi despite all calculations. The quota of slaves boosted the motivation of the 200,000 green battalion soldiers.
At the same time, there is also a group of coated slave soldiers that can be used as the main force...
Emperor Kangxi was now in front of tens of thousands of his slave soldiers. Looking at the black crowd of slaves, Kangxi was so excited that he could hardly speak. With so many good slaves, was the Qing Dynasty still afraid that it would not be able to quell the two thieves Zhu and Wu?
After a long while, under the eyes of countless pairs of eager eyes, Emperor Kangxi, the lord of the Qing Dynasty and the master of hundreds of thousands of good slaves in the world, finally opened his "golden mouth" and uttered his "jade words". ".
Kangxi's pockmarked face was ashen and he asked loudly: "...Wu Sangui rebelled in Yunnan! Prince Zhu San rebelled in Guangdong! There are many rebels, big and small, who have joined their ranks and want to rebel together. They destroyed my Qing Dynasty and want to rob you of your good future! What do you think we should do?"
There was a moment of silence, then shouts suddenly broke out: "Kill, kill them all! Kill all the traitors! Defend the Qing Dynasty! Defend the Emperor..."
