Of course Kangxi Kang Mazi did not come to die. He wanted to live another five hundred years. How could he not live a good life and come to Jingmen Prefecture to die?
But the battle situation on the front line in Jingmen Prefecture is really tight!
Moreover, the rise and fall of the Qing Dynasty depended on this battle. If Dangyang is defeated, Emperor Kangxi's prosperous Qing Dynasty will be gone, and it will become the Troubled Times of the Three Kingdoms.
Although the Qing Dynasty has more than 200,000 troops on the battlefields in Huguang and Jiangxi, the only troops that can carry out large-scale field battles are more than 70,000 here in Jingmen Prefecture, and 50,000 to 60,000 in Jiangxi.
In addition, there are tens of thousands of people in Anlu, Hanyang, Wuchang, and on the official roads along the Han River... We must gather them first before we can put them to good use.
Among them, Jiangxi's 50,000 to 60,000 troops, for whom Kangxi had high hopes, were now far away from the main battlefield. It will take at least another ten days for them to invade Hunan. It will probably be half a month before they take over Changsha and Hengzhou.
Fifteen days later, the besieged Dong E either starved to death or became a Manchu minister. The old guy Zhuo Butai might have been defeated and ran away... By then, Wu Sangui would have 60,000 or more. The 70,000-strong army was "alive".
As soon as these 60,000 to 70,000 Wu troops were "alive" and the Qing troops in the Jianghan area were put to rest, Fuquan's 50,000 to 60,000 troops would be of no use even if they captured Changsha and Hengzhou.
As long as Wu Sangui leads the victorious Jiangbei Army back to Hunan, if the Qing soldiers who penetrate deep into Hunan retreat slower, they may be caught and swallowed by Wu Sangui!
By then Wu Sangui will be able to complete his "two kicks to become the king"!
And if the war situation really develops to this point, then Emperor Kangxi's personal expedition will be a disastrous failure!
Therefore, Emperor Kangxi, who was in Xiangyang Prefecture, couldn't sit still anymore, so he asked Mingzhu to escort him south from Xiangyang with 5,000 people, and arrived at the front line of Jingmen Prefecture yesterday evening. Early this morning, the Qing troops on the Jingmen front line discovered that their master had arrived, and they shouted like a pot of fire.
While heading south, Kangxi also mobilized 20,000 elite soldiers under Ezha, and also ordered Wang Fuchen, who had just arrived in Hanyang, to bring his more than 10,000 green flag soldiers to Jingmen Prefecture.
Then, he asked Eza to lead the remaining 10,000 men into Wuchang and Hanyang to defend the city.
After some planning, Emperor Kangxi finally gathered another 40,000 troops (including the 5,000 troops Dong E left in Jingmen Prefecture). And with this 40,000-strong army that was not fully in place, Kangxi's back became stiffer again.
Now Emperor Kangxi is walking in the city of Jingmen Prefecture, standing with his strong waist in front of a wooden map to study the battle situation!
Zhuobutai, Lerjin, Mingzhu, Shuotuo, Bahai and other generals in the army were all standing behind him with their bodies bowed, waiting for Tianyu's inquiry.
"Forty thousand plus fifty thousand equals ninety thousand. Wu Sangui's maximum is seventy thousand, and he has to spend twenty thousand to surround Xianglu Mountain... Is that ninety thousand plus fifty thousand?"
"Your Majesty!" Zhuo Butai hurriedly knelt down and then flattered him.
Kangxi turned back and glared at the old man, "If I can't do such simple arithmetic, can I still be the emperor?"
Of course you can... The kneeling Zhuo Butai said heartily: "You became the emperor because of the pockmarks on your face, not because you are good at arithmetic."
Kangxi asked again with a pockmarked face: "Zhuo Butai, let me ask you, do we have an advantage with 90,000 people beating Wu Sangui's 50,000 people?"
"This..." Zhuo Butai is really in trouble!
Now when comparing the number of people on the Dangyang front, the Qing army does have the advantage. However, this advantage is not too great. Counting those trapped on Xianglu Mountain who have not starved to death or been beaten to death, it is estimated to be only about 100,000. There may still be 67,000 people in Wu Sangui's department.
But compared to firepower, the Qing army was far behind.
Wu Sangui's artillery is much stronger than the Qing army on the Dangyang front line! His cannons were cast directly in Yuezhou and then transported to the Dangyang front line by water transportation. Because Wu Sangui originally planned to use these cannons to bombard Shi Lang's navy, and also wanted to use them to bombard Wuchang. Therefore, they are all "heavy artillery" with a weight of more than 1,000 kilograms.
Although the Qing army also had a large number of red cannons, there were hundreds of them captured from Qian Ming alone.
In addition, after the two major rebels, Prince Zhu San and Wu Sangui, Kangxi ordered Western missionaries such as Nan Huairen, Fo Bao, and Shuo Sitai to open artillery factories in Beijing to cast the mighty and invincible general cannons and Wucheng Yonggu. General Cannon and Weiyuan General Cannon.
Among them, the Shenwei Invincible General's cannon weighs more than two thousand kilograms, and its shells weigh more than seven kilograms. The Wucheng Yonggu General Cannon is a heavy siege cannon with a bullet weight of twenty kilograms. As for the Weiyuan General Cannon, it is a large-caliber mortar.
These three types of artillery can be considered relatively advanced Western artillery types, but the problem is that except for the Weiyuan General Cannon, which is relatively light, the other two long cannons are too heavy. Now they are together with other red cannons, and they are still on their way to Xiangyang!
Most of the artillery delivered to the Huguang front line were light artillery weighing less than 400 kilograms. There were only a small number of heavy artillery ranging from 700 to 800 kilograms to 1,000 kilograms, and they were all issued to Shi Lang's navy.
In addition to artillery, Wu Sangui's fire and thunder were also more powerful than those of the Qing army - this was more deadly than artillery!
Wu Jun's fire thunder uses military white sugar produced by Guangzhou Beichang and high-quality fire salt produced by Xichang. It is boiled on the Dangyang front line according to the formula provided by Zhu Heji. There are also two types: explosive type and smoke type. Moreover, the shells of Wu Jun Huo Lei were also cast in bronze in Yuezhou based on the samples provided by Zhu Heji.
Therefore, these fire thunders are not only powerful, but also will not self-explode, making them safe and reliable.
The fire and thunder of the Qing army were discovered by Kangxi, Zhang Zhenren, Shi Lang, and Deng Zhong themselves. However, it did not solve the problem of catalyst and coagulant. Moreover, an iron shell was used as the cartridge case, and rusty iron nails were added directly into it, so it was easy to self-destruct.
But the bigger problem is that Kangxi had too strong a sense of confidentiality!
Only the "medicine slaves" in the firearms camp of the coated slave army under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Internal Affairs can be personally taught the "Secret Technique of Fire and Thunder" by Taoist Hanlin Zhang Hongtian... In this way, the secret is kept. Even Nan Huairen still thinks that the "Secret Technique of Fire and Thunder" is magic! But this output is a problem.
On the Dangyang front line, the number of fire thunders thrown by the Qing army was less than one-tenth of the number of fire thunders thrown by the Wu army.
One can only imagine how miserable the Qing army's battle was.
But it was Kangxi's decision to keep Huo Lei secret!
How could Zhuo Butai, who had suffered so much, dare to speak out? So I was hesitantly "stuck".
"Your Majesty," Guarjia Bahai, who was transferred from Ninggu Pagoda, didn't know how powerful his master was. Seeing that Zhuo Butai was "stuck", he helped him continue, "I think this battle cannot be fought in Dangyang. Go down!"
"If you don't want to fight in Dangyang?" Kangxi asked, "Then where can you fight?"
"Fight on the way to Jingzhou City!" Bahai said, "Dangyang is close to Zhangshui and Jushui, and there are ready-made docks for loading and unloading artillery. Wu Sangui transported one or two hundred heavy artillery pieces from Jingzhou in one go. , they beat our brothers so hard that they couldn’t even lift their heads. And their fire thunders were more powerful than ours..."
"Cough cough cough..."
At this time, Zhuo Butai suddenly coughed violently, which startled Emperor Kangxi. He quickly turned to look at the old guy - don't let this old guy catch any disease. It would be a heinous crime to pass it on to the emperor!
"Your Majesty, I think Bahai's suggestion is very good!" Zhuo Butai said, "It's a flat river to go directly south from Jingmen Prefecture to Jingzhou, and Wu Sangui probably doesn't know that our new force is coming soon. I suggest that we go from Hanyang and Anlu to The fresh troops that came over do not need to come to Jingmen Prefecture anymore. They can go directly to Jianyang Town on the bank of Jianyang River, set up their formations in Shili, and wait for the army from Dangyang to lead Wu Sangui's troops there. This will not only defeat Wu Sangui. Being caught off guard, and Wu Sangui's heavy artillery can't follow up, our chances of winning are huge."
"Okay!" Emperor Kangxi clapped his hands fiercely, "I want to personally lead the troops south to Jingzhou... I want to see if Wu Sangui dares to follow!"
