Dominate the Country

On the first day of the first lunar month, at 9:00 a.m., drums and trumpets sounded at the Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum in Nanjing. Chen Minghui and his civil and military subordinates walked from the Xiamafang through the mausoleum's sacred path to the Xiandian Hall, using a murderous sacrificial text and 125 heads of Manchu, Mongolian, and Zhen Tatars, symbolizing the 125 years since the Qing Dynasty entered the pass, to pay tribute to Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty who was sleeping on the southern foot of Zijin Mountain.

It snowed in the winter in Jiangnan, wrapping Nanjing in a layer of silver. When the morning light first appeared, the white snow was covered with a layer of dazzling golden light.

Tens of thousands of Fu Han soldiers were on guard, and the deployment of military forces had begun half a month before the New Year. The surrounding mountains and forests were repeatedly patrolled by Fu Han soldiers to ensure the safety of the worship ceremony. In fact, the worship ceremony of the Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum on the first day of the first lunar month did not happen without any accidents from beginning to end.

Before the Fu Han Army was about to fight back to Huguang, Chen Ming planned this massive memorial service. This was a long-planned action, and the whole Jiangnan region had heard of it. Chen Ming used this grand memorial service to show the world his "ambition" for the first time, and also let the Qing Dynasty "understand" his next plan.

"…………, the Zhao Song Dynasty was established, replaced by Mongolia, and the land of China sank for nearly a hundred years. Our Emperor Gao rose up at the right time, cleared the Central Plains, the sun and the moon shone again, the rivers and mountains were rebuilt, and the great righteousness of the restoration was revealed. Unfortunately, the country was disturbed and the national strength was exhausted. The Qing Dynasty took advantage of the opportunity to steal China. Alas, my countrymen, my fathers and brothers, have risen and fallen one after another for 125 years…………"

This was a passage from the memorial text of Sun Dapao's memorial service to the Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum. Chen Ming's half-baked historical level made it impossible for him to remember the entire text. He could only remember the most brilliant part of it. This memorial was written by the secretariat. Chen Ming wrote down the paragraph he remembered, and then told the secretariat to add it when writing the memorial. There is also a sentence from the "Spring Thunder Shakes the Earth, and the thousand-year-old drunken dream is awakened; the rising sun is in the sky, and the evil atmosphere of thousands of miles is swept away!" Chen Ming also remembered it. There are so many "Manifestoes to Fight the Manchus", and he can only remember these few sentences, and he must use them all.

Once this memorial was issued, it was immediately sent to various places in Jiangnan by the Fu Han Army. For a time, in Jiangnan, a place with rich humanities, thousands of scholars and even ten or a hundred times more people, privately talked about this murderous manifesto - drive out the barbarians, restore China, establish rules and regulations, and save the people. This was a sentence in Zhu Yuanzhang's Northern Expedition to Fight the Yuan Dynasty, and now it is sung again in China by Chen Ming. To revive the glory of the Han family, restore the dignity of Han officials, respectfully accept the mandate of heaven, and dare not be complacent!

Many people in Jiangnan are literate, and everyone knows what this means.

Many people think that after Chen Ming won the battle in northern Jiangsu, he immediately swept Jiangnan. Suzhou and Hangzhou, the land of heaven and wealth, were captured by the Fu Han Army. The powerful Zhejiang Governor and Hangzhou General became two more sacrifices for the Fu Han Army's fame. The Fu Han Army is no longer a threat in the south. Whether it is the Qing Army in Zhejiang or the Qing Army hiding in Songjiang Prefecture, only the Fu Han Army can bully them, and they have no right to provoke the Fu Han Army. So what does Chen Ming mean by issuing this memorial now?

Northern Expedition! Only Northern Expedition.

This manifesto was compared by many people with the anti-Yuan manifesto when Zhu Yuanzhang's army went north to fight.

Not only did many scholars think of the word "Northern Expedition", but the officials of the Qing Dynasty also thought of the Northern Expedition after seeing this murderous memorial. On the eighth day of the first lunar month, Chen Ming received a quick report from the secret camp. Six local tyrants and powerful families in Haizhou, across the Yellow River, secretly contacted them and expressed their loyalty to the Fu Han Army.

Haha, the cicadas are aware of the golden wind before it moves, and they die without knowing it when they secretly send death!

This sentence is not appropriate to describe the six tyrants and powerful families in Haizhou, but it always makes sense. After Chen Ming got the news, he was first proud of the powerful momentum of the Fu Han Army. The local tyrants and powerful families are the mortal enemies of the Fu Han Army. The Fu Han Army's government policy of going to the countryside has caused them to have an irreconcilable contradiction with the gentry and landlord class. They have never wanted to resist the Fu Han Army, but whether they dare to resist. Every landlord, gentry, and gentry wanted to resist in their hearts when facing the Fu Han Army, but many people did not dare. This is the first time that a local tyrant has taken the initiative to surrender. Just a "rumor" of the Northern Expedition spread, and six families came to Haizhou at once. Obviously, the "reputation" of the Fu Han Army is much greater than before.

And this also proves Chen Ming's previous prediction that the gentry and landlord class are spineless. When they find that there is a knife hanging over their heads, they will kneel down decisively. Isn't this the scene in front of us? Wasn't it the same when the Qing Dynasty entered the pass?

Unfortunately, the foundations of these six powerful families are not very clean. Chen Ming left the investigation report of the six families sent by the secret camp, picked up the brush and drew two circles on the six names, circling two surnames. "Just save these two families, and the remaining four families will also be punished." The way of heaven is clear, and I will punish myself if others don't. Chen Ming's voice was very gentle, but the meaning of his words was as cold as winter.

This is to let the secret camp deliberately reveal its whereabouts, so that the contact between the six families in Haizhou and the Fuhan Army will be exposed to Haizhou's sticky pole and the Manchu and Qing officials. This kind of thing seems to make the Fuhan Army lose. It is a very good chess piece, but it can further deepen the impression that the Qing army believes that the Fuhan Army is going to "Northern Expedition". In addition, this is the first time that local wealthy families have taken refuge in the Fuhan Army. Once it is publicized, it can also provide The Qing Dynasty's predicament was 'worse than ever'.

Compared with the benefits that Chen Ming can get, what does the power of four local wealthy families mean? If the Fuhan Army marches north with all its strength, Chen Ming dare not say that it can reach Beijing, but it is not a problem to advance into Shandong and Hebei. Haizhou, that's the fat on Chen Ming's lips.

On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the Fuhan Army in Zhejiang first began to return north. Since the army swept through Jiangsu and Hangzhou last winter, the recruits recruited by the Recruitment Office in northern Jiangsu formed forty new recruit battalions. The Fuhan Army that controlled Hangzhou Bay had a big fight with Fujian's navy and land rebels for more than a month before and after. After more than ten transactions, millions of kilograms of sulfur were collected, as well as four thousand barrels of finished gunpowder sent by the Portuguese, each barrel weighing 100 pounds.

Louis came to Hangzhou Bay by boat with Ansuo. European sailing ships were not only inconspicuous in Hangzhou Bay, but there was no wind in winter, so the sailing ships could not go north at all.

The logistics force of the Fuhan Army surged from about 20,000 to more than 30,000. There were more than 3,000 large and small water ships, sand ships, and cargo ships. The entire Fuhan Army had a manpower of up to 100,000. This number surprised even Chen Ming. After winning the Battle of Northern Jiangsu, the Han Dynasty's army expanded violently and became rich in gunpowder. He didn't know how many nights he had the idea of ​​establishing a foothold in Jiangnan. But in the end, Chen Ming chose to fight back to Huguang, and his original plan remained unchanged.

He linked Zhu Yuanzhang's Northern Expedition message in the memorial memorial to the Xiaoling Mausoleum of the Ming Dynasty, and spread the news of the Northern Expedition of the army in the coming year. This was of course intentional, in order to cause the Qing army to misjudge, confuse the Qing army, and strategically mislead the Qing army.

Although the army from the south of the Yangtze River went up the river, it would still take a long time to reach Huguang. However, if the Qing army seriously prepared for the Fuhan army's northern expedition from the south of the Yangtze River and hoarded heavy troops and military supplies in Shandong, it would inevitably affect the situation. The deployment of its troops in the North China battlefield will reduce the military pressure on the base area to a certain extent. In this way, before the Fuhan Army moved up the river to attack Huguang, the base area should have enough strength to launch an attack on Hubei.

Next, Chen Ming will quietly continue to mobilize troops back to Suzhou and Hangzhou. On the other side, he will dispatch troops to reinforce Jiujiang and Anqing, and continue to act as if he has consolidated the "strategic area" so that the army can attack with confidence. . As a result, ships gathered in the Nanjing area. After the beginning of spring, the Second Battalion of the Navy in Jiujiang should also form an army, allowing them to sweep the rivers in Hubei in advance. As long as the Qing army determined that Chen Ming was going to launch a large-scale Northern Expedition, these actions could be fully explained - consolidating the 'strategic area'.

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In Hangzhou Bay, a Chinese-style Tongansuo boat slowly left the coast. On the bow deck of the ship, Luis Paul Ribeiro looked toward Hangzhou City in the distance, his eyes full of reluctance. It was really a wealthy city. Even if the war was chaotic and countless people fled the city, the remaining population density of Hangzhou City was still coveted by Lewis.

China is really a huge country, bigger than the Ottoman Empire, richer than the Ottoman Empire, and with a much larger population than the Ottomans. But the Tatar government is too wary of traders from Western countries. It would be a blessing from God if China could fully open its coastline.

In just a few months, Fernandez, who had become thin and out of shape, knelt down on the bow of the ship at this moment, facing the rising sun in the east and praying devoutly toward the west. God knows how scared and desperate he was when he was captured. Of the nine Portuguese soldiers who followed him to the battlefield in the middle, two died in the war and eight were captured, one of whom was seriously injured. Hit in the abdomen by a stray bullet. The Fuhan Army soldiers who captured them stabbed Manifenda to death on the spot with a bayonet without mercy.

The blood splattered on his chest dyed the Chinese man's trouser legs red. Fernandez still remembers the cold face of the Fuhan Army soldier. It seemed that what he killed was not a person, but a chicken.

As foreigners, Fernandez and other seven Portuguese prisoners of war were handed over step by step by the Fuhan Army soldiers to the hands of senior officers of their army. As a result, the barbaric rebels thought they and others knew so many secrets and tortured them again and again. After being pressed, Fernandez tasted waterboarding for the first time, and knew what Tiejiaguan was for the first time. Just thinking about that horrible taste made his whole body tremble. Who makes him a second lieutenant? He is the leader among the Portuguese soldiers. The leader naturally knows more than the subordinates. Fernandez explained clearly the first time he slept with a woman, the first time he had an affair with a woman, everything. Those days were the darkest and most terrifying nightmare in his more than 20 years of life.

Then he and his comrades were put into hard labor camps by the Fuhan Army like garbage. Those Qing soldiers captured in the Taizhou Battle all worked in the hard labor camps to atone for their sins, and a group of captured flag soldiers heard that they had been All were executed. In the hard labor camp, they were managed by militia members [Lian Yong] who had joined the Fuhan Army. These people had been unfairly treated by the Tatar government forces in previous wars. They hated the Tatar government forces from the bottom of their hearts, so they were loyal. He used the harshest means to manage the prisoners of war. Fernandez and others had only seven people in total. They were small, powerful, and tall. When working, they were forced to do the heaviest work by the prisoners of war in the same team. When eating, they could only eat the leftovers eaten by the Chinese prisoners of war. Seven Portuguese prisoners of war were sent to hard labor camps. When they were ransomed, only five half-dead cripples were left.

"They are Satan, devils, and the most cruel devils. All Chinese people, these are pagans. After death, their souls will fall into the endless abyss, eternal sinking, sinking. They will never get anything. Redemption, forever..."

Luis looked at the crazy Fernandez in surprise, "God, is he crazy? Is there a lunatic hidden among the people I rescued?"