Dominate the Country

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"Oh, little darling——" Fancheng County Yamen. Chen Ming carefully picked up the baby Chen Ding as if he were holding the most precious, rare and fragile piece of art in the world. The little Chen Ding, who was about to turn one year old, was sleeping and had no idea how long he had been 'missing'. Ri's father has already picked him up.

This was a surprise. Chen Ming never expected that Li Xiaomei would come to Fancheng with her child. The joy of accepting the twelve recruit camps was suppressed by this sudden feeling of happiness.

His fingers touched the baby's smooth skin. This was his son, and his wife was beside him. A touching feeling of family affinity and blood connection arose spontaneously in his heart.

Chen Ming hugged his own flesh and blood, the kind of natural closeness, love and inner feelings that cannot be fully expressed in words. As a time traveler, my love for my flesh and blood has a level of devotion that outsiders cannot appreciate. Undoubtedly, this little baby now occupies an extremely important position in Chen Ming's heart.

Li Xiaomei looked at Chen Ming with a comfortable smile on her face. Chen Ming loves his son very much. Now, after a month, she is not surprised at all when he behaves more openly. Just like the moment when the county government's mother and son met Chen Ming, the surprise and hot emotions bursting out of Chen Ming's eyes... made Li Xiaomei feel that she had come to the army without telling her husband, and the risks she had taken along the way, It's really not humane enough.

Chen Ding was picked up while sleeping, and he felt uncomfortable immediately. A pair of round black eyes opened and looked at the big, familiar face in front of him. The small mouth opened and closed, and the look of crying appeared on the face. But he still remembered Chen Ming. After recognizing Chen Ming's face in his eyes, all the tears disappeared and a smiling face appeared.

Fingers slid across Chen Ding's face, and Chen Ming lowered his head unconsciously. And as he kissed Chen Ding's little face, loud cries immediately broke out in that little mouth. Little Chen Ding was hurt by the beard on Chen Ming's face.

Chen Ming laughed so happily that he even pricked little Chen Ding with his beard, which made Chen Ding cry even louder. Li Xiaomei looked on with a smile. She loved the child, but she did not dote on him. She won't look bad when her husband plays with the children.

"The cries are getting louder and louder!" Chen Ming grinned, "It has the same demeanor as I did back then." Before time travel, many of his relatives of the same generation had already gotten married and had children, and they talked about it when they sat together. As a child, relatives often mentioned his childhood. His crying at that time was really loud and full of tenor. He especially loved to cry at night, which was very annoying!

As for Chen Ming after traveling through time, he also had similar qualities. Gao was so precious to him at first, but ended up being tortured very miserably.

The baby's crying and Chen Ming's laughter did not last long. Just as Chen Ming continued to try to coax the child, he suddenly felt a heat in his left hand, followed by a moist feeling. The child peed! The boy peed on Chen Ming without any hindrance!

The smile on his face immediately turned into a bitter smile. He handed the child to the maid who rushed forward, and Chen Ming went down to clean himself and wash his hands.

In the evening, after the clouds and rain dissipated, Chen Ming hugged his naked wife, but he still couldn't help scolding her. He actually took his children to the front line without telling him. I wonder if the journey from Nanyang was uneasy, no? Do you know those recruit camp leaders are in danger? Although Chen Ming knew very well that without the permission of his parents, it was impossible for Li Xiaomei to bring the child to Fancheng, let alone hide it from him. However, during the period between having dinner and going to bed to exercise, he still issued multiple orders in succession, scolding some of his people in General Lushan's Mansion and Nanyang Mansion.

So what if my father wanted to do this? What is the purpose of these nails and even the nails planted by Chen Ming in the dark? Just to be able to always know every change in the General's Mansion - Central Government, Nanyang Mansion - local, central to local. As a result, these people looked at this matter with a 'good-natured joke' attitude and dared to make their own decisions. They were treated separately, which made Chen Ming very annoyed, very annoyed.

"Brother Ming, can Xiangyang City be defeated?" Li Xiaomei asked anxiously as she huddled in Chen Ming's arms. She was really worried about the 'expedition' that Chen Ming was about to embark on. But as a woman, Li Xiaomei didn't understand military strategy at all, so she couldn't worry about Chen Ming.

"If you can't defeat them, go around." The troops from Yichang Town have already entered Xiangyang, and the commander-in-chief Xue Shiyan has brought at least 5,000 people. There are now tens of thousands of people in the regular green camp in Xiangyang City alone, and many civilian warriors have been sent to Xiangyang one after another. The strength of the Qing army in Xiangyang cannot be underestimated. The Hankou Division Battalion of the Qing Army's Hanyang Association has also arrived at Xiangyang City. A small navy camp with only three to four hundred people and a dozen warships of various sizes is not a big obstacle.

There were as many as thirty or forty types of river naval warships in the middle and early Qing Dynasty, but if you plan carefully, most of them can be classified as bluff ships and sentinel ships. The bluff boats and sentry boats, which are 20 to 50 feet long (approximately 6.34 to 15.36 meters), are used for chasing sentinels. The flat and open decks of the boats allow the soldiers above to be exposed to the public without any cover. Needless to say, the combat capability is not much better than that of civilian ships.

Since the pacification of the San Francisco Rebellion, the situation of the Manchu and Qing Dynasty's river navy has become increasingly difficult, under the rivers. After all, there would be no need for them to fight for hundreds of years. The Qing Dynasty would have maintained a strong river navy only if they had a disease in their heads.

The Jingzhou Navy, which could easily send out 50 warships to harass Yueyang, has disappeared. There is only a small Hankou Camp left in Hubei. The whole camp has only 400 people, 12 small patrol boats, two medium patrol boats, and one large patrol boat.

A medium patrol boat can be equipped with one small cannon, and a large patrol boat can be equipped with two small cannons. This firepower is pitiful.

It is completely different from the offshore navy that still maintains a large organization after taking down the Zheng Ming Group in Taiwan. The latter is a son. The performance and firepower of the Qing Dynasty's offshore warships are backward, but the Qing Dynasty really manages them with heart; and the inland navy is a little mother's child. On weekdays, they are a favor to have a bite of food.

Chen Ming has no confidence in taking Xiangyang in a short time. The main reason is that there are too many green camps in Xiangyang City. Even if the defenders still lack cannons, especially heavy cannons, it is very difficult for Chen Ming to break this strong city now. Because of the moat that is one or two hundred meters wide. What if the more than one-mile-wide Han River is under the coverage of Chen's army's artillery fire? What if the Qing army's inland navy warships can only hide in the moat of Xiangyang City? Fighting to the death is not worth the loss.

Chen Ming also has a lot of civilian ships under his command. He can cross the Han River from Wanshan, but he doesn't believe that Laolong Dike can really let the Qing soldiers block the artillery fire of Chen's army. But what if we reach the south bank of the Han River? If we can't take Xiangyang City, it's all in vain.

"You don't have to worry about me, just stay at home and take care of the children."

Chen Ming has sent a troop from Fancheng to the west, along the Baishui River into De'an Prefecture, and then along the Yushui River to the south to Hanchuan and Xiaogan. The Qing army has no regular soldiers in De'an Prefecture at all. Chen Ming uses an old battalion leader to lead the team, organizes four new recruits and a logistics team to follow. Even if 95% of the troops are cold weapon teams, he believes that he is invincible in De'an Prefecture, where only the militia is left. Even if we cannot capture Suizhou and Anlu, we can pass through other counties easily.