Chapter 36 Overseas
"Boom, boom, boom, boom------" A series of roaring sounds shot from the ship to Xiamen Island.
The walls of Xiamen Central Guard Station withstood artillery fire.
King Jingjiang stood on the warship, his face was gloomy, and he gritted his teeth and said, "Keep bombarding and let the boats land. I don't believe it. I can't take Quanzhou, not even a mere thousand households?"
King Jingjiang's vigorous rebellion is already halfway done.
Of course, King Jingjiang himself didn’t know.
King Jingjiang did not put his mind on Xiamen at all before, but on Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, Fuzhou and other places. You must know that the Fujian Plain is fragmented. It's all a small coastal basin, with mountains elsewhere.
King Jingjiang hopes to occupy a basin and gain a foothold on the mainland.
It should be noted that everything in Jingjiang is good, but the only bad thing is that there are not many people. It is not enough to have too much money and too much food to fight a war. It takes a lot of people.
What war is there if there is no one to fight?
It's just that there was a problem with King Jingjiang's plan from the beginning.
The problem was nothing else. He was exhausted under Quanzhou City.
Although King Jingjiang's attack was sudden, there were two reasons why King Jingjiang failed.
One is military discipline.
What kind of army is King Jingjiang's army? A pirate-like army.
King Jingjiang made a lot of preparations for the rebellion, the most important of which was training troops. How to train troops, that is, sending troops to do business, encircle and suppress pirates, attack natives, etc. The people hanging out at sea are all different kinds of characters, and none of them are good people.
For them, murder and arson are commonplace.
Not to mention, there is no senior figure under King Jingjiang to give him the significance of popularizing military discipline. In his opinion, as long as he can win the battle, it doesn't matter if military discipline is a little bit worse? If the untouchables die, what big deal is that?
So, as soon as King Jingjiang landed, all the people along the coast of Fujian were offended?
And what kind of people are the people along the coast of Fujian?
Just a reminder, Fuqing Gang.
Let me remind you that since the opening of the sea, Fujian has the most people going to sea. This is not the case.
As a reminder, the largest number of great pirates in the Ming Dynasty were from Fujian. The same seems to have happened in the Qing Dynasty.
Therefore, the seemingly inconspicuous small village is actually the hometown of a certain pirate, who looks like a middle-aged man, and is nicknamed Dragon King at sea. Don't do too many things like this. After all, we are hacking and killing overseas, but Fujian must stay safe. There is no royal law overseas, and no royal law in Fujian?
But in this case, it was broken by King Jingjiang.
King Jingjiang grabbed a handful along the coast of Fujian and had enough to eat and drink. But it also aroused strong local resistance, and even ships returning from the outer sea directly threw their goods into the sea, and fucked them.
Although they did not have a unified plan, King Jingjiang's battle plan was also terrible. If King Jingjiang had any brains, he would not do such a pioneering thing for the king.
In addition, the bloodline of King Jingjiang is too distant.
He is not Zhu Yuanzhang's son.
You know, the northern prefectures and counties are undecided about the Northern Army because of Zhu Xiongying's name. Zhu Xiongying is the eldest grandson. This name is still very confusing. It makes people instinctively feel that there is a problem with the succession in Nanjing.
Not to mention, Zhu Xiongying's edict to supervise the country is completely legal.
In this case, they were wavering, only then could He Xi have any chance of fighting for it later. But what does King Jingjiang look like?
No matter who Zhu Yuanzhang's throne is passed to? Before Zhu Yuanzhang's descendants are extinct, it is impossible for King Jingjiang to succeed to the throne. No matter how old and foolish Zhu Yuanzhang is, it is impossible to pass the throne to King Jingjiang. In addition, Zhu Xiongying still has Beijing after all. As a military powerhouse, he has a lot of money at hand. There is an army of one hundred thousand.
As for Jingjiang, for the past twenty years, it was a completely white land with nothing. No matter how you looked at it, it looked like it was conquering the world.
In this way, the choice for all officials is simple. That means fighting to the death.
Never be disobedient.
As a result, King Jingjiang encountered his biggest setback and was defeated at the gate of Quanzhou City. After the defeat, he refused to retreat. He decided to occupy coastal islands as a transit point so that he could carry out the war to the end.
I chose Xiamen Island.
However, the defenders of Xiamen Island only had more than a thousand people, but their fighting will was also very high. After all, the Ming army was still quite effective in this era. Not to mention that all the children in this health center are on the island, and they have to fight desperately even to protect their families.
The landing battle itself is difficult. The production of Daming firearms has also been quite large in recent years. It has long been established that firearms take precedence in naval warfare. It can even be said that the Ming army established this principle when dealing with Chen Youliang. At that time, it was still a water battle.
Other places may have different ideas about firearms, but there are coastal guards at sea who have no control over firearms.
They will not be able to capture Xiamen Island until their firearms are exhausted.
At this time, King Jingjiang got good news. That was when He Xi defeated Tang Shengzong. King Jingjiang was overjoyed. His brain turned around and he immediately decided that all his troops would hang out the banner of supervising the country and place themselves under Beijing. He is the general who conquers the west.
And told the people below that they were sending reinforcements and were in Beijing.
King Jingjiang felt that his idea was brilliant, but he didn't know that it was another bad move.
When King Jingjiang attacked Fujian, Nanjing had already deployed troops to avoid King Jingjiang's influence on the southeast. Although the Beijing camp has not been mobilized, the troops and naval forces of Zhejiang, Fujian, and Guangdong provinces have already been mobilized.
King Jingjiang has tens of thousands of troops. The three provinces jointly launched an encirclement and suppression campaign and were unable to withstand it at all.
At this time, King Jingjiang defeated Quanzhou. If he returned to Jingjiang honestly, maybe Zhu Yunwen would not care about him. After all, things have priorities. The most important thing for Zhu Yunwen is Zhu Xiongying and the north. Instead of King Jingjiang.
After King Jingjiang's harm is reduced, he can be released. Anyway, Jingjiang is an island isolated overseas. The court actually didn't care too much.
But King Jingjiang hung up the flag of Beijing to supervise the country. Nanjing's priority for King Jingjiang suddenly became the highest.
Because the actions of King Jingjiang, in the eyes of many people, were just to disturb the southeast and contain the strength of the army. Because the southeast was uncertain, the strength of the three provinces could not be slacked off. The strength of the three provinces was tight. The Nanjing camp could mobilize fewer men and horses, and even had to mobilize the west. army. In short, Beijing used the chess piece of King Jingjiang to contain so many troops in Nanjing at once, which was a masterstroke. Naturally, this orphan must be pulled out before the army can march north.
The generals in Nanjing are not fools. ..
Therefore, King Jingjiang boosted his morale and conquered Xiamen. But putting yourself in more danger than you know.
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As for King Jingjiang, it is his time. But Lu Zhongheng was currently wandering around the Nanyang Governor's Mansion.
At this moment, the situation in Ming Dynasty has been reported to the Nanyang Governor's Mansion. Lu Zhongheng has ordered martial law for all Han people. All adult Han people must participate in military training. And he wants to meet with the kings of Nanyang at the Nanyang Governor's Mansion.
Lu Zhongheng's mind was not on who would win in the Central Plains, but on Nanyang.
Lu Zhongheng understood very well that the Ming Dynasty did not actually have an absolute advantage in Nanyang, and the merchants of the Ming Dynasty were not good gentlemen. They had done many things, and there was still a lot of resentment from the local natives. But why don't they dare to resist. That's because Ming is behind him.
They didn't dare. Even the King of Chu, who was the most powerful among the kings, might not be able to withstand the attack from the two kings of East and West Java. There might even be problems within the King of Chu.
This reminded Lu Zhongheng of the Anxi Protectorate.
When He Xi persuaded Lu Zhongheng, there was no example of the Major General Anxi Protectorate, but Lu Zhongheng also knew the final outcome of the Anxi Protectorate, and the main force was wiped out in the Central Plains. The remnants of the Anxi Protectorate were waiting for the King's Division in Anxi, but the Ten King's Division never came.
So when there was civil strife in the Central Plains, Lu Zhongheng's first thought was this. He didn't want to end up like the Anxi Army.
Lu Zhongheng was lucky at this moment. He had been migrating people before. He was also lucky that those who were granted the title of "Nanyang" were princes.
, instead of being dismissed as an official, what he has to do is to reach an agreement with these princes, that is, no matter what happens in the Central Plains, Nanyang will never send troops. They will not evacuate Nanyang, even with one soldier.
