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The dragoons fired first, and immediately shot down more than 20 enemy cavalry, scaring the rest of the enemy cavalry to turn around and run away.

On the frontal battlefield, more than 2 soldiers, as well as tens of thousands of Han and Yao troops, are speeding up to kill the Datong army.

"Boom boom boom!"

After a bombardment, the Han and Yao troops directly collapsed.

But the soldiers on the opposite side were arranged in a very loose formation, a group of seven, speeding up and jogging towards the Datong army.

They are natural fighters, military immigrants specially transferred by the Ming Dynasty to Pingyuefu to suppress the riots.In addition to farming since childhood, they have also undergone military training. Combat meritorious deeds are their only chance to get ahead.

The dragoons quickly went around to the flanks, dismounted and shot at the soldiers.

Zhao Han didn't have enough cavalry in the north, but he was an upstart in the south.It took nearly 10 taels of silver to buy war horses from Guangxi, Yunnan, and Guizhou. 2500 dragoons are enough to rule the Southwest.

Those soldiers, who were bombarded from the front and shot from the side, did not collapse and continued to charge towards the Datong army.

Even Wei Changyi, who established himself as King Pingle, charged with his own soldiers.

A group of desperate lunatics!

"Boom boom boom!"

There was another round of shelling, and the leader of one of the soldiers was torn apart by a shell.But this group of soldiers has not yet broken up, and they still charge forward in groups of seven.

After three consecutive rounds of bombardment, more than 2000 soldiers were finally defeated and fled.

"Bowmen!"

The archers and crossbowmen troops of the Cui soldiers stopped immediately after reaching the shooting range and began to shoot arrows.

The rest of the soldiers were still trotting forward.

If it is a traditional battle, the battle of the soldiers will be more orderly.However, the firearms of the Datong Army were too powerful, and they had to charge so quickly.

The rattan player of the Datong Army raised his shield to cover the friendly army.

In fact, it is not a big problem not to cover. The crossbows of the soldiers are relatively poor, and their power is not very great.

The real thing to be afraid of is the poisonous arrow!

"Shoot the gun!"

After another charge, the javeliners charged and threw their javelins.

"Bang bang bang bang!"

A small number of blunderbuss soldiers also started shooting. After shooting, they immediately drew their swords and rushed forward.

More than [-] people from the Datong Army fell, half of whom were stabbed by javelins.The rest were hit by a poisoned arrow, and they didn't know what kind of poison it was. They had chest tightness, shortness of breath, weakness all over, and the toxin exploded very quickly.

"Boom boom boom!"

The last round of shelling, this time it was shotgun shells, and it was a large area with one blast.

"Bang bang bang bang!"

"Bang bang bang bang!"

3500 Datong firearms, 20 steps of ultra-short-range bursts.

Of the 2500 Datong dragoons, 1000 were sent out to deal with the local cavalry, and the rest chased and shot again.

After all, Zu Bing was also a human being. Facing such terrifying firepower, tens of thousands of people collapsed in an instant.

Wei Changyi wasn't dead yet, he was still rushing forward with the rest of his troops.He felt that as long as he rushed to close combat, the Datong army would definitely be defeated, and the Datong army was nothing but powerful firearms.

"The grenadier!"

Five hundred grenadiers with super-long arms and strong physique threw tens of thousands of enemies at the rushing soldiers.

The rattan players, wolf gunners, and long gunners were also on standby, and the musketeers retreated to mount their bayonets.

There was no need for melee combat anymore, the bandit leader Wei Changyi was killed by ten thousand enemies, and the remaining soldiers all turned around and fled.

The dragoons put away their guns, drew their knives and rushed over to kill them. Any enemy who did not put down their weapons and surrendered would be killed with one blow.

The Datong Army suffered a lot, and the casualties in guerrilla warfare in the mountains were far greater than in frontal combat.

After attacking Pingyuefu for half a year, they were finally able to take all of them.The leader of the bandits, Wei Changyi, was killed in battle, and most of the other leaders of the soldiers would choose to raise their villages and surrender.

Here in Guangxi, it's really hard to fight!

Ethnic issues are also extremely complex, and governance must be done step by step.

After winning Pingle Mansion, the next step is Guilin Mansion and Liuzhou Mansion.

In the absence of sufficient food and grass, Guangxi is estimated to fight for another year or two.Each time troops are sent to occupy one or two prefectures, and then civil affairs are quickly carried out. The local area has accumulated enough food before dispatching troops.

Guangxi is so difficult, but Sichuan is very smooth.

Huang Yao and Qin Liangyu have joined forces to attack Wang Xiang in Chongqing Mansion with Yang Zhan.

The sooner you win Sichuan, the sooner you will get a grain-producing area. There has always been a lot of grain in the Sichuan Basin.Especially the Chengdu Plain, the land of abundance!

Chapter 397 [Five Emperors Coexist]

Zhongyuan 4338, Chongzhen 14th year, winter.

The Yellow Emperor's calendar should have been "Kaiyuan". In order to avoid confusion with the Tang Dynasty, Zhao Hunter ordered the name to be changed to "Zhongyuan".

There was no need for Zhao Han to contact them, Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai started arguing again.

They first escaped from Shaanxi and quickly captured Gansu Town.Stimulate the soldiers in Bianzhen to fight for wages, kill the border generals in Gansu Town, expand the army to 3 people, and march into Shaanxi again on snow and ice.

The Shaanxi frontier general who surrendered to the Manchu Qing plundered the gentry everywhere in order to raise military rations.

The Manchu Qing not only condoned this, the Eight Banners soldiers stationed in Shaanxi even personally joined the robbery gang.

Ever since, after Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai were killed, a large number of gentry recruited Xiangyong to follow them.The Shaanxi gentry actually cooperated with Li Zicheng to fight against the Qing Dynasty, and many gentry scattered their wealth to recruit soldiers!

Between ten and a month, Li Zicheng captured Lintao Mansion, Taozhou Wei, Jinglu Wei, Minzhou Wei, Ningxia Zhongwei, Gongchang Mansion and Pingliang Mansion.

Li Zicheng once again occupied half of Shaanxi, and is now storming Hanzhong!

This is the evil result of the rapid expansion of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which has no control over the local area.After mobilizing the main force to go to Henan, a group of surrendered soldiers and generals could not withstand Li Zicheng's counterattack at all.Many gentry who surrendered to the Qing Dynasty under pressure, even the Ming border generals, chose to join Li Zicheng again.

In desperation, Dorgon could only dispatch [-] Eight Banners troops, and immediately went to Shaanxi to fight against Li Zicheng.

Sichuan is also fighting in winter.

Huang Yao and Qin Liangyu jointly dispatched troops, and the generals guarding the two counties of Fuzhou (Fuling) and Changshou surrendered directly.

After winning Changshou, the magistrate of Dianjiang County in the northeast even sent officers to ask Huang Yao to divide his troops to take over Dianjiang.

This magistrate of Dianjiang County is actually an official of Daming, the mountains are high and the roads are far away, no one has been beating him...

Huang Yao sent [-] farmers and soldiers over there, and sent the accompanying officials to divide the fields.

With the expansion of the territory, the most indispensable thing now is officials.A large number of reserve officials are waiting to be regularized, a large number of official officials are waiting for promotion, and many scholars are looking forward to fighting.

Even calls for the restoration of the imperial examinations were suppressed by these officials.

I have worked so hard to get promoted, why should I rush to resume the imperial examination?Could it be that you are asked to go to the Jinshi examination, various airborne officials, squatting on my head every minute to shit?

Not only businessmen and farmers support Zhao Han, but also the poor scholar class are also hardcore supporters of Zhao Han.

They have long been hopeless in the imperial examination, and even have no money to continue to take the exam.Under Zhao Han's rule, it is easy to become an official. Those with strong ability can become officials in a year or two, and those with poor ability can slowly rise up.

These people are the main body of scholars in the Ming Dynasty, and many of them were even tested to hate stereotyped scholars!

For example, Feng Houdun, the magistrate of Changshou County who just took office, although he was born in a well-to-do family, he also extremely dislikes stereotypes.After spending half of his life, he had to spend money to buy an official, and he only worked as a Jiangyin teacher, that is, a teaching assistant in the official school of Jiangyin County.

When Zhao Han occupied Jiangnan, Feng Houdun signed up as a reserve official, and now he has been promoted to the seventh-rank county magistrate.

In Daming, his teaching assistant would never even think about becoming an official.

However, although he did not become an official in history, he was known as the "Three Dukes of Anti-Qing Dynasty".

Jiangyin County, which had already surrendered to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, because of Dorgon's "hair shaving order", a group of scholars made a blood alliance and expressed that they would rather have their heads cut off than their hair.

The scholars killed the magistrates and elected Yan Yingyuan, Chen Mingyu, and Feng Houdun as leaders, and the whole city officials and people united to resist the Qing Dynasty.

12 volunteer soldiers from Jiangyin, facing tens of thousands of Qing troops, were trapped in the isolated city for 81 days. They dared to go out of the city to fight on the way, but were finally bombarded by artillery to collapse the city wall.

On the day the city was broken, no one surrendered, fighting all the way, and only 53 people, old and young, lived in the city.

After being captured, Yan Yingyuan refused to kneel down, was pierced through the tibia, and died heroically.

Chen Mingyu fought hard and died after the city was broken.

Feng Houdun hanged himself facing the direction of the small imperial court of the Southern Ming Dynasty.

According to history, Jiangyin was 81 days.

Although it is not like what Unofficial History said, the three kings and eighteen generals were killed.But there were indeed three Manchu princes who came to supervise the battle, namely Boluo, Nikan and Kong Youde.

As the saying goes: Dai Fa is loyal on the 6th day, representing the people of the seventeen dynasties of Taizu;

Chen Mingyu and Feng Houdun from "Three Lords Against the Qing Dynasty" are now serving as civil servants under Zhao Han's command.

There is still Yan Yingyuan, the commander-in-chief of Jiangyin on the 81st, who is currently dormant.

After Feng Houdun took office in Changshou County, he immediately led the accompanying officials to settle the rule in the city first.Then, together with the peasant association, with the county seat as the center, they began to remake the household registration and divide the land.

In addition, this is the material transfer station of the Datong Army, so he has to cooperate with the military's work.

An officer got off the boat and ran quickly to the county government: "Fengzhi County, General Huang has an order, please organize carpenters immediately to build siege equipment, and transport it to Chongqing for assembly!"

"I'll do it right away, please wait a few days for General Huang." Feng Houdun said.

Zhao Han didn't allocate too much food and grass, and Huang Yao couldn't recruit enough peasants, so everything depended on the Yangtze River water transport.Even the construction of siege equipment was carried out in Changshou County, and the finished parts were shipped to Chongqing Prefecture for assembly.

"Boom boom boom!"

On the Chongqing River, a water battle is erupting.

Because there were too many dangerous beaches in the Three Gorges, none of Zhao Han's large warships came to Sichuan, but only small and medium warships.

Wang Xiang owns more than 300 naval warships, all of which are refitted merchant ships, and they are fighting lively with the Datong Navy.

The wind direction is wrong, and the Datong Navy did not use "chemical weapons".

However, the Datong Navy has artillery!

Although they are all small Franco cannons, they are enough to suppress the Chongqing Navy, which only has crossbow arrows.

The two sides fought for three hours, more than 80 warships of the Datong Navy sank more than 20 warships from Chongqing, and more than a dozen were battered.

"My lord, I can't fight anymore. General Lu requests to withdraw his troops!"

Wang Xiang was furious: "Why can't we fight? Our army still has [-] warships, and the enemy's warships are less than [-]. They all rushed up and got close to the ship!"

Wang Xiang, born as a domestic slave, is Wang Yingxiong's servant.

At this time, Wang Yingxiong, who should have been dismissed from office at home, was called to serve as a cabinet minister because Zhao Han occupied Jiangnan and Chongzhen used a large number of people from the southwest and north.First, he was beaten half to death by Li Zicheng, and then took the opportunity to escape, and now he is stuck in Shandong and cannot return home.

Wang Yingxiong's servant, Wang Xiang, had served as a general as early as the sixth year of Chongzhen, and was later transferred to guard Bazhong.

Due to the flock of thieves, the gentry of the Chongqing government organized a large-scale regiment training. Wang Xiang took the opportunity to lead troops here, and grew rapidly with the support of the Wang family.Now not only has it occupied half of Chongqing, but it has also captured Shunqing (Nanchong, Guang'an, etc.).

This guy's current identity is King Dingxing of the Ming Dynasty.

Not self-proclaimed king, but conferred by Emperor Longwu of the Ming Dynasty!

Yes, a great Ming Emperor Longwu emerged in Sichuan.A group of warlords in central Sichuan suddenly didn't want to fight anymore. Under the cooperation of Ming Dynasty's survivors and gentry, they supported Zhu Zhishu, king of Shu, as Emperor Longwu.

Wang Xiang from Chongqing was named King Dingxing; Wu Shangxian from Zunyi was named King Yongxing... Six princes and eleven princes were named in one go.

Yang Zhan, who played the Datong banner, was surrounded by a group of princes, and he was completely confused at this time.

If Huang Yao and Qin Liangyu hadn't dispatched troops in time, Yang Zhan would have changed his flag and turned to Emperor Longwu of the Ming Dynasty first.

Zhu Zhishu, King of Shu, or Emperor Longwu of the Ming Dynasty, although he was only a puppet, nominally occupied most of Sichuan.

Wang Xiang shouted: "Send another envoy to Chengdu to ask the emperor for help! Damn, they are all fighting for Ming Dynasty, why should I stand alone?"

Already sent three waves of envoys for help, Wang Xiang was so anxious that he sent a fourth wave.

The chief general of the Chongqing Navy, Lu Guoyu, was even more depressed. He had more than 300 warships under his command, all of which were f*cking goods.Even the sailors are mostly boatmen, and many are coolies at Chaotianmen Wharf.

Fighting against the regular navy, what a fart?

After finally rushing over and getting close to several enemy ships, the Datong sailors fired a burst of guns, scaring the Chongqing sailors and fleeing.

Lu Guoyu is a Confucian businessman with a reputation as a scholar, and his family runs transportation on the Yangtze River.He doesn't want to fight, he just wants to do business!