Chapter 504 A big pot

Author: The beggar

Chapter 504 A big pot

The Black Flag Soldiers had just arrived at Liaocheng. They looked at the Ming army still surrounding the city as if it were nothing, and made preparations to march into Jinan.

This move made Huang Fei very angry and ordered the navy to bombard Liaocheng.

But later, he was denounced by the officials and people who fled the city. Among the people, there were merchants and officials who cherished their own property and wanted to go back, so they came to admonish and stop Huang Fei.

But the admonishment was useless, so he started gossiping among the crowd.

It is said that Huang Fei, the defender of the city, took the initiative to withdraw. The army was not in a good position to defend the city. There were many soldiers outside the city but they did not want to counterattack. They only dared to bombard the city and did not dare to confront the slaves and thieves. This was clearly cowardice and passive fighting.

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It must be reported to the general and the court.

Huang Fei had no choice but to hold his generals accountable in words, because they all knew the state of his army.

Not to mention the lack of pay and silver, the military equipment is also lax. Huang Fei, the commander-in-chief of Dongjiang Town, does not have a decent base. He relies entirely on Dongchang Mansion to supply food and fodder and the court at the rear to issue some military pay. The court also owes pay. If the little pay and silver obtained is even

Go down and see it in the hands of the soldiers.

It really doesn't have much impact on morale.

We can only keep close hold of some elite soldiers.

Most of the generals under his command also arranged this.

The problem is that when a fight broke out while defending the city, the unpaid soldiers were defeated. The attack on their elites actually affected the combat effectiveness of the elites.

As a result, most of the elite can only be used for self-protection, and it is difficult to exert them. Once they are used, it will be difficult to compete with the more elite savages on the opposite side.

Now even if Huang Fei wanted to send a batch of money to boost morale, he would have nowhere to go.

They could only find Song Bingkui, who had also escaped, and ask him to encourage the gentry and common people in Dongchang Prefecture to see if they could donate some.

"Pooh!"

"What kind of navy commander! The battle is going like this! Even the earls of the two towns are not qualified to ask me to donate money!"

Many gentry were unhappy.

There was not much response from the people, so the so-called donation of money naturally went unnoticed.

In addition, in Liaocheng, Black Banner did not harm the people after entering the city. There was only disorder during the siege. Later, the law and order in the city was stably maintained, and the policy towards the gentry and the common people remained the same.

This caused many people to run back to the city.

The Qing Dynasty, which revoked the hair-shaving order and put an end to racial isolation between Han, Manchu and Mongolian people, was not so unacceptable to ordinary Han people.

Since the rule of foreigners will not change their lives, they are even more afraid of losing everything they currently have.

So just one night passed, and the temporary green camp, which had just received its pay and simple reorganization, continued to work at guarding Liaocheng under the jurisdiction of Black Flag.

The two major battalions of the Black Flag Army, with the firearms battalion as the vanguard, slowly advanced towards Jinan.

When some Ming guerrillas under Luo Yangxing saw this, they almost retreated. Their weapons were mostly spears and broadswords, but few muskets. They could only do this in the face of a firearms battalion whose members were all equipped with advanced firearms and a large number of heavy artillery.

Seeing this, Luo Yangxing simply retreated and called on all the troops to set up defenses in Yucheng and Qihe County. He could use this opportunity to watch Jinan Prefecture and wait for an opportunity to cut off the Tatars' retreat, or to attack the Tatars' back and abdomen when they invaded Jinan.

Huang Fei certainly wanted to stay. If Liaocheng didn't fight back, it would be a big sin for him.

I thought that the Tatars had gone to Jinan. With the few troops left in Liaocheng, many of the soldiers there were Ming soldiers who had rebelled just yesterday. They might be able to capture them just by writing a letter.

I sent the letter, but was rejected.

At the same time, more Liaocheng people and merchants lined up to return to the city.

The days go by and the business goes on.

"I heard that Huang Degong went into battle in person?"

"Return to my master, this is indeed the case."

Zhu Youjian wore armor that he had not seen for a long time and rode a tall packhorse among the soldiers. He chatted with Hao Ya and You Shoulong beside him, talking about the war in the north to block the reinforcements of the Ming Dynasty.

Huang Degong's troops could not go south through the canal, and the land route was blocked and the detour was harassed, so he personally led the troops to cover another rescue force going south.

According to the battle report, he still maintained his usual fighting style and took the lead with his sword in hand, but this time he added a neck protector to the vital parts of his neck.

At the same time, the Longwu New Army also went south to rescue.

"It's all a bit difficult to handle."

Huang Fei and Huang Degong had a good personal relationship. They regarded each other as brothers, and their temperaments were as if they had sprung from the same mother's womb.

Patting his helmet in annoyance, Zhu Youjian shook his head in annoyance and said, "Use some means. Since Wang Daban's life in Longwu Dynasty has not been easy recently, let's just do nothing."

It's time to exercise some power.

The Black Flag Navy was roaming the sea, Gaizhou Shipyard used the manufacturing technology of treasure ships, and Liaodong Daxing Shipbuilding Industry, plus after the signing of the 'Nagasaki Treaty', the Japanese shogunate reported the matter to the Ming Dynasty, hoping that the Ming Dynasty would intervene to find a place for themselves

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Wang Chengen is in charge of Bao Shipyard. Whether it is the sale of ships or the leakage of technology, he is inseparable from it.

The Black Flag was powerful and colluded with the Jian Nu. Previously, Wang Chengen went to the Black Flag to negotiate without permission and brought back black cannons, which helped the barbarians to be rewarded by the Ming Dynasty. Now it has become a crime, and it is called fornicating with the Jian Nu and the barbarians.

The courtiers were verbally abusive, and Longwu's attitude was also bad.

That is to say, Wang Chengen restrained his posture and stayed in the industrial area to do business, otherwise the good news of Wang Chengen's execution would have spread all over the country.

So it's not good to always be restrained.

Now that the storm is coming, it's better to make the king eunuch a reality.

It's just that Wang Chengen is sincere and has to report everything to Zhu Youjian from afar for instructions.

However, Zhu Youjian was too far away from Nanjing after all, and he didn't know that Nanjing's popularity at this time was a big deal for him.

The Ming Prince is gone.

There was news from the intruder that he had disappeared.

This caused Longwu Chao to explode.

All the descendants left behind by Emperor Chongzhen are now gone.

Who is the most suspicious?

The current Emperor Longwu.

Fang Fengnian, who once served as the prince's lecturer and was now a bachelor in the Longwu Dynasty, directly asked Emperor Longwu in front of the palace whether he should also get rid of some people in the court who had been close to the prince and served the late emperor.

Emperor Longwu was furious and had him imprisoned but did not dare to kill him.

As the emperor, he knew that Fang Fengnian was already showing mercy.

Among the officials and people in Nanjing, some have already questioned the authenticity of the imperial edict Wang Chengen sent him.

Therefore, Emperor Longwu at this time could only focus on clearing up the government affairs and unfavorable remarks, and investigating and questioning Shunguo's attempts to request the crown prince.

What a coincidence.

News that Liaocheng in the north had been captured quickly reached Nanjing.

This made Emperor Longwu, who already had high blood pressure, tremble with anger.

It was not easy to denounce the incompetence of the two towns in the north, so I could only write a letter of encouragement, squeeze out some money and send it to Huang Fei, and also told Huang Fei to take back Liaocheng and protect Jinan Prefecture.

But at present, Longwu only trusts his new army, which is armed with the most elite equipment but has not yet fought a tough battle.

Urgently order the new army to rush to Jinan and be sure to repel Jiannu.

At the same time, the commander of the Zhenwu Camp of the New Army was given the rank of general, and the power to deal with the southern invasion of Jiannu in this battle was given to the commander of the Nanjing Jingying Camp.

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