The Grand Scholar of Wen Huadian, the Minister of Household Affairs, the Ping Japanese Administrator, and the Marquis of Nanning Gao Yingshi once again took command of the expedition after a few years. Although they personally led the navy to aid Korea, how could they not have a "personal soldier" around them to support them? scene?
The navy's "private soldiers" are largely taken care of by the Beiyang Maritime Trade Alliance, with Jinghua and Jingnan families each contributing about half, including one second-class battleship, two third-class battleships, and four first-class cruisers. There are six second-class cruisers and forty-six armed transport ships, a total of sixty ships, including fourteen professional battleships. In terms of crew size, it was about 13,000 people.
Professional warships, namely battleships and cruisers, are all provided by the Beijing Fleet, accounting for nearly 40% of the total number of professional warships in the Beiyang Fleet. Gao Jingshi's flagship is the second-class battleship named "Dongchang". The name comes from the opening battle of Gao Jingshi's Liaonan Battle: the Battle of Dongchang Fort.
The second-level battleship is Jinghua's latest and largest professional battleship. There are only three built in total, two of which are in the Nanyang Fleet.
This class of battleship has a huge tonnage of 4,000 tons. Although it is a two-deck gun battleship like the third-class battleship and even the first-class cruiser, it carries more artillery. A single ship carries 88 artillery pieces of various types, and the whole ship has a crew of 580 people, excluding the army or marine personnel that may be carried, the cost of a single ship has also increased with the increase in tonnage, costing a full 350,000 taels of silver.
What is the concept of the unit price of three hundred and fifty thousand taels of silver? To put it simply, if this money is given to Chen Lin, he can build more than a dozen Dafu ships that will serve as the main force of the Ming Navy.
Who is stronger and who is weaker in combat effectiveness between a "Dongchang" ship and a dozen Dafu ships? This question is not easy to answer.
If the Dongchang was surrounded by a trapped beast, then the Dafu Ship side would most likely win, and the result would most likely be the capture of the Dongchang;
If the Dongchang takes full advantage of its advantages - fast, hard-gunned and powerful - and adopts a long-range bombardment battle with kites flying, the Dafu ship may be beaten from beginning to end, and the result will be a sure loss, but it is unlikely to be defeated. Total annihilation. It's just that this method of play itself is quite expensive. It also tests whether the weapons and equipment (gunpowder, cannonballs, etc.) it carries are sufficient, and the physical requirements for the crew of the Dongchang are also extremely high.
Generally speaking, everyone still thinks that from a cost-effectiveness perspective, building one Dongchang is not as good as building a dozen Daifuku ships, or six or seven armed transport ships. That’s right, the cost of building an armed transport ship is actually a military Daifuku ship. Nearly twice as much. In fact, this also reflects from the side that the warships of the Ming Navy at this time were not huge, and the armaments were also limited. Their idea of building an army was to win with numbers.
Gao Pragmatic himself actually feels that from a cost-effective perspective, a "large quantity and full control" Dafu ship or even an armed transport ship is more cost-effective than building a professional warship. In terms of combat effectiveness, the Ming Dynasty can afford the "ship and sea tactics" and is not weak. But he still insisted on building professional warships.
When a country considers issues, especially when a big country considers issues, it must not just stay at the short-term tactical level, but must be based on strategy and the long-term.
Now the Ming Dynasty can win by having more ships. The main ship types of the Ming army such as the Dafu ship are relatively stronger than the Japanese Anzha ships, small morning ships, and Kanfune ships. But is the only enemy that the Ming Dynasty may face is Japan?
If nothing else, let’s just talk about the Spanish treasure fleet that the Beiyang Expeditionary Fleet faced. If the Ming Dynasty navy were to fight it, how large a fleet should be used to be able to absorb it? This is not to mention that at this time, the Ming Dynasty Navy had to mobilize such a large fleet to fight off the coast of Luzon, which itself may have serious problems.
From Gao Pragmatic's point of view, there are endogenous reasons why the navy will develop into a gold-swallowing behemoth in the future. The more specialized it is, the more efficient it is, and the more efficient it is, the more it can be called blue. A blue-water navy, and what Gao Pragmatic has always hoped for is that China must have the tradition of a blue-water navy in the future.
There is no doubt that as the only second-level battleship in the Beiyang Fleet that has been installed, Dongchang was originally the flagship of the Beiyang Fleet, and now it has become the flagship of the Ming Dynasty's aid fleet to Korea.
The above are only highly pragmatic "private soldiers", and do not include the support for the North Korean Navy that Chen Lin has built in recent years. By the way, Gao Pingshi didn't like the term "Korean Aid Fleet" very much. He had already gone to Chen Lin of Brunei Prefecture and ordered that when the two forces merged, it would be renamed the "Ping-Japanese Fleet."
In addition to the navy or navy's soldiers, the army must also have soldiers. However, given Gao Wushu's current special status and status, he is very reluctant to use his own servants, let alone mobilize the garrison in southern Xinjiang. Therefore, after much deliberation, he ordered Liu Wei's troops to be transferred from Sichuan via the Yangtze River waterway and sea transportation before departure. At this time, it is necessary to recall the process of pacifying the Bozhou Rebellion.
When Liu Wei took over to put down the Bozhou Rebellion, the start was not good. I won’t go into details about the two previous defeats. Just when he had just laid out a dragnet according to Gao’s pragmatic intention and was waiting for his headquarters to attack Huanglong as the main force, it suddenly came out that Guizhou had suffered an inexplicable defeat all the way.
What happened was that in February of that year, Yang Guozhu and Li Tingdong, the governor of Guizhou Province, summoned the capital to discuss matters. Jiangdong's way: "Yang Yinglong has been rampant for a long time. Now Guizhou is also ordered to send troops to deter the rebels in Bozhou. Yang Dusi, in your opinion, how should we march to capture and kill Yang Yinglong and present it to the Holy Master?"
Yang Guozhu was stunned when he heard this, and quickly added: "Reporting to the Fu army, I believe that it is extremely difficult to capture and kill Yang Yinglong. Our army only has three thousand troops. It is better to follow Admiral Liu's plan to win by surprise, wipe out one part of the enemy, and occupy an area." To avoid danger, just block the southern route to Banshu.
It is suggested under the bid to send troops to fly to practice the fort. If this place is obtained, the roads between Chu and Guizhou can be kept smooth. Of course, after the enemy is defeated at Feilian Fort, we can also pursue and suppress the remaining enemy for twenty miles to strengthen our momentum, and then hold on to the dangerous points until Admiral Liu's army advances and suppresses them. "
Li Tingdong quickly asked for an order: "General, I agree with Dusi's plan, so that our army can not only report victory to the imperial court, but also avoid the danger of being annihilated by the enemy alone. At the end of this battle, general is willing to be the vanguard and capture Feilian Fort. Please give me your support." Military decision."
Jiang Dongzhi was not very happy, because in this case Guizhou would be nothing more than an addendum, and in hindsight the merits would definitely be Liu Wei's. But now that the two generals said so, he, a civil servant who didn't understand soldiers, really didn't dare to insist on a big fight, so he had to acquiesce and ordered Yang Guozhu and Li Tingdong to lead three thousand troops to march towards Feilian Fort.
However, the problem is that because Guizhou is very close to Bozhou, in fact, it was almost integrated in the early days. Therefore, Bozhou has penetrated Guizhou very seriously. Guizhou is a sieve in the eyes of the Bozhou army. As a result, the news that the Ming army was marching towards Feilian Fort soon reached Yang Yinglong's location.
Yang Yinglong made a prompt decision and ordered Yang Chaodong, Yang Zhaolong, and He Hanliang to lead their troops to Feilianbao to meet the enemy. They were advised to feign defeat and lure the enemy to Tianbangdun for an ambush. The three of them followed the order and left.
When the Ming army arrived at Feilian Fort, they saw the Bozhou soldiers attacking. Yang Guozhu was surprised that the news was leaked, and Li Tingdong advocated starting a war. Yang Guozhu knew that if Feilian Fort was not captured, not only would he not be able to explain to the Fu army, but he would also be unable to explain to the admiral Liu Wei, so he ordered the Ming army to form a formation to meet the enemy.
Yang Chaodong, the son of Yang Yinglong, raised a flag and shouted: "Yang Chaodong is here in Bozhou. The Han soldiers can surrender quickly to avoid death!" Yang Chaodong's words were just to show his power, but he didn't expect any Ming troops to surrender after hearing this, so after shouting, he led the Miao soldiers to march towards The Ming army came to kill.
Seeing that there were not many soldiers in Bozhou, Yang Guozhu ordered the Ming army to fire artillery to stop the attack. The Southwest Ming Army did not need more ground than Jiubian, and it was not their turn to change their equipment yet. Therefore, there were only a dozen old-fashioned tiger squatting cannons on the position, plus a magical arrow carriage and hundreds of old-fashioned gunmen.
But even so, the Miao soldiers' offensive was still blocked. After charging for a while, there were many casualties and the vanguard retreated. Seeing the opportunity, Li Tingdong immediately led the Ming army to charge. The Miao soldiers collapsed and were unable to stop them. Yang Chaodong turned his horse around and ordered a retreat.
Yang Guozhu was overjoyed and immediately issued a strict order to capture Yang Chaodong alive. So the entire Ming army pursued, with Li Tingdong taking the lead, covering up the enemy all the way, pursuing Yang Chaodong closely, and took advantage of the situation to seize the 300 waterlogged land of Weng'an Monkey Farm.
Yang Chaodong rushed to Tianbangdun and hurriedly met Yang Zhaolong and He Hanliang, explaining that the army was about to pursue them and asked them to prepare quickly. He Hanliang quickly laid out haystacks and dry firewood, while Yang Zhaolong concealed his bows and crossbows. Yang Chaodong then selected his own soldiers as a death camp to await the Ming army.
Li Tingdong led the Ming army to pursue Tianbangdun, and Yang Guozhu arrived later. The two sides fought a bloody battle with the Bozhou soldiers, but Yang Chaodong was nowhere to be seen. Yang Guozhu was inevitably uneasy.
The result of uneasiness on the battlefield usually comes true, and sure enough, a fire suddenly breaks out around Tianbangtun, and all exits are blocked. The fire is fast and violent, and the smoke is thick. The Ming army is trapped in it and it is smoky, but it is difficult to break out.
At this time, for the Bozhou Army, He Hanliang and Yang Chaodong each led a unit on standby in case the Ming army broke through. Yang Zhaolong ordered the crossbowmen around him to fire all their rockets. The three thousand Ming troops in Tianbang's hoard were in chaos. They were showered with arrows and burned by fire. Soon, more than half of them were injured and killed. Li Tingdong was killed on the spot.
Yang Guozhu regretted and mourned greatly, and the Ming army kept wailing. When the fire weakened, He Hanliang judged that there were not many Ming troops left, so Yang Chaodong and He Hanliang led their troops into Tianbangdun. At this time, more than a thousand of the remnants of the Ming army had arrow wounds and burns on their bodies, and all their firearms were destroyed. Facing the Miao soldiers' attack, they were unable to stop them and the entire army was wiped out. Yang Guozhu was about to draw his sword and commit suicide but was captured by Yang Chaodong.
Yang Chaodong captured many officers, including Yang Guozhu, and made them kneel down and beg for surrender. Yang Guozhu cursed: "Rebels! Why did the imperial court fail you? You actually rebelled against your superiors and massacred officials and people. You will be punished by God! When Admiral Liu arrives, you and other Bozhou rebels will be wiped out! My head can be chopped off. This knee cannot be bent!"
Yang Chaodong scolded: "You stupid thief, how dare you be so presumptuous now that you are a prisoner of the rank? The two provinces of Guizhou and Shu covet our land in Bozhou. Over the years, they have repeatedly forced each other to pick quarrels and cause trouble. They secretly conspired with Luo Zhi, the seven surnames of the five divisions." , my brother Yang Kedong also died in the assassination. Now that things have happened, how can you pretend to be righteous!"
Yang Guozhu cursed: "There is no excuse for rebels! It is clear that Yang Yinglong's crimes are monstrous and he is rampant. You are the tiger's helper and help the oppressor, and the people of Bozhou have suffered greatly. There have been many investigations in the two provinces of Guizhou and Shu, and Yang Yinglong's secret conspiracy has repeatedly gone unpunished. You have no regrets for the sins you have committed! Your Majesty has shown mercy many times, but you have only worsened your situation!
In my opinion, Yang Kedong's death must be God's will. The imperial court sent troops this time as a final warning. Now that the rebellion has been exposed, the demise of the Yang family in Bozhou is just around the corner! "
Yang Chaodong then ordered Yang Guozhu and 13 other captured generals to be beheaded to commemorate the souls of the Miao soldiers. The Bozhou Army then assembled, returned to Feilianbao, and raided Guizhou. The various military posts were unable to fight and the people were displaced. Jiang Dongzhi, the governor of Guizhou, was waiting for a response at the border. When he saw the Bozhou army rushing into Guizhou, it was unstoppable. Jiangdong was frightened and hurriedly evacuated, but was almost captured by the Bozhou army.
However, the Bozhou Army also knew that the key to this battle was still Liu Wei, so they quickly withdrew from Guizhou after slaughtering 20,000 soldiers and civilians. Jiangdong was so ashamed and angry that he went to Shangshu to plead guilty.
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