Chapter 836: Western Expedition and Qilin’s Congratulations
After Mangazeya Fort and Tomsk Fort were captured successively, the Ming army was still locked in a bitter battle in Yeniseysk Fort.
Hundreds of camps surrounded the fortress tightly, covering three levels inside and outside.
The fierce siege has been going on for more than a month, but it is still going on.
The artillery bombarded the city wall fiercely. Three gaps were blasted out of the south city gate, and the Rakshasa army desperately blocked it. The cannons at the top of the city were not to be outdone and fought back frantically. Flags covered the field, dust covered the sky, and the sound of cannons could be heard.
Out dozens of miles away.
The battle was extremely fierce. The Ming army soldiers all wore armor and shields on their heads, hid behind carriages, and pushed up ladders. Cannons, stones and firearms fell like raindrops on the city. Life was like grass and grass, and patches of land were harvested.
Coming up in droves.
"The military order from Chuan Gu, if you take a step back, behead!"
Zhu Ruodeng became furious and stood on the high platform to personally supervise the battle. The military orders were like mountains, the front team fell, and the rear team followed up, vowing to fill this fortress with human lives.
"Dong~dong~dong~"
When the marching drum sounded again, Zhu Ruodeng picked up his telescope and observed for himself.
In the camera, the ramming car violently hit the city gate, but was crushed by the big rocks thrown from the city head; the seven-foot-high building car was close to the city wall, and the soldiers were condescending, firing muskets and arrows into the city, and the muskets and arrows were like raindrops.
It shot straight into the city. He saw that the people in the city had to carry a thick door panel to draw water from the well. He couldn't help but feel proud that it took a lot of effort to build these big things. "Boom", a cannonball
The building truck was hit, sawdust flew and collapsed.
"Humph!"
Zhu Ruodeng snorted coldly, but he was not upset. He still had a trump card: digging tunnels to blow up the city. In the past month or so, under the cover of the sound of cannons and fighting, the Ming army had successfully dug three tunnels, reaching the south gate. p>
Counting the time, it should be almost there.
"Boom!"
"Boom!"
"Boom!"
With three earth-shaking roars, the southern city wall shook three times. Smoke filled the air, flesh and blood flew everywhere, and a large section of the city wall collapsed.
"Great!"
Zhu Ruodeng held up the telescope with his left hand and clenched his fist fiercely with his right hand.
"Kill~kill~kill~"
The Ming army's heroic general Hei Ji led 500 death squads to rush toward the collapse.
"Wonderful victory!"
"Wonderful victory!"
"Wonderful victory!"
Cheers rose to the sky, and Hu Maozhen, Yan Xiaoyong, Chao Chaoxian, Deng Yao, and Liu Yipeng followed closely behind Heiji.
Heiji rushed into the city, but found a wooden fence. Rakshasa musketeers lined up in several teams and kept shooting behind the fence. No! He wanted to retreat, but was forced forward by the Ming army behind him.<
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"Bah~bah~bah~"
A dense rain of bullets hit the dense crowd, and Heiji and three hundred soldiers fell in a pool of blood.
"Hateful!"
Zhu Ruodeng had to order a temporary retreat and attack again tomorrow.
After returning to the camp, His Royal Highness King Ji glanced at the generals and said harsh words: "Our army is far stronger than the enemy, and they are elites who have fought in hundreds of battles. If we can't attack for a long time, how can we see your majesty? If we can't conquer the city tomorrow, I will kill you first."
Wait, then attack the city yourself!"
The moon in Yeniseisk was extremely round, and Bashkov inspected the hole-riddled city wall. On the back of the city wall, the soldiers guarding the city fell asleep quietly on the steps, unaware of his arrival.<
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He sighed. The Ming army had been attacking continuously for more than a month. His men were exhausted to the extreme. The city had reached its final moment.
Alas! I hope the suicide note I wrote can be discovered and given to my family, Bashkov thought sadly.
No matter how difficult it is, the sun will still rise and the war will continue.
Early the next morning, the Ming army launched an even crazier attack on Yeniseisk than yesterday. Generals at all levels came to the front line and fought to the death. In Dongcheng, Wang Guoxi was cut on his left arm, but he still fought with his right arm.
, only half an hour later, two sentries were gone; in Beicheng, the commander-in-chief Ruan Jin was shot in the left leg, and Chen Shangchuan had to take over his command; in Xicheng, Chen Qice and Li Shiyuan's troops successively attacked the city wall, but were again captured by the guard Miyaxin.
Rushed down.
The fiercest battle was still in Nancheng, which experienced artillery fire, tunnel collapse, and severe damage to the city walls. Hu Maozhen, Yan Xiaoyong, Wang Chaoxian, Deng Yao, and Liu Yipeng, regardless of casualties, fought one after another, and the bodies piled up like mountains under the city. Finally, Hu Maozhen and Yan Xiaoyong,
They successively occupied two footholds on the south city wall, and subsequent troops continued to climb the city from these two points.
Zhu Ruodeng's eyes turned red and he shouted: "Move Gu's big banner forward."
The mighty Panlong Dahu slowly leaned towards the south city wall, and the morale of the Ming army officers and soldiers was greatly boosted!
"Chitose!"
"Chitose!"
"Chitose!"
Cheers came and went, resounding throughout the sky.
Seeing that Nancheng was in danger, Rakshasa general Dezhnev and his troops attempted to drive Hu Maozhen and Yan Xiaoyong out of the city, but Yan Xiaoyong stabbed them to death.
The city fell. Looking at the Ming army pouring in like a tide, Mi Yaxin lost her fighting spirit. She knelt down and asked for surrender, but was chopped into pieces by the red-eyed Ming soldiers.
"Huh? Where's that guy Bashkov?" Zhu Ruodeng asked angrily after searching the whole city but not finding Bashkov, the Yeniseisk warlord.
"Your Highness, the soldiers are looking for you," Ma Bao reported.
"Well, I ordered you to go down. If you want to see a person alive, you will see a corpse if you die. I want to chop this guy alive!" In the battle of Yeniseisk, the Ming army suffered extremely heavy casualties, more than two thousand, and Zhu Ruodeng hated Bashkov so much.
, vowing to cut him into pieces.
"Report, Bashkov's body was found", the subordinates came to report.
"Dead? Let's go and have a look."
Zhu Ruodeng went to the place where he found Bashkov and saw him leaning against the wall of a bell tower. His body was covered in wounds and bloody flesh. His whole face was covered with knife marks, and his appearance was completely unrecognizable.
"How do you know this is Nabashkov?"
"General, according to the prisoner's account, Bashkov had an old injury on his right leg and a scar on his right leg. In addition, a gemstone ring that he often wore was found on the finger of the corpse."
"Yeah", Zhu Ruodeng believed it. This man died so tragically that he felt compassion for him. He didn't want to insult the body anymore, so he said calmly: "Come here, dig a hole and bury him."
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When the document reporting the victory in Northern Xinjiang was delivered to the capital eight hundred miles away, the old emperor was not reviewing the memorial in the Qianqing Palace. Instead, he and his beloved concubine Zhang Yuer were visiting the Royal Zoo next to the Imperial Garden.
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When the leaves fall back to their roots, people become homesick as they grow older. Zhu Hengjia is seventy this year and misses his hometown of Wuhu, Anhui very much. Zhang Yuer is from Wuhu County, Taiping Prefecture. She is beautiful, well-behaved and lovely, especially her Wuhu dialect, which moved the old emperor. So, as soon as she entered the palace, she was named the first of the nine concubines in the harem: De concubine. After giving birth to the princess, she was also named Zhao concubine.
There were actually no animals in the Royal Zoo. After the Qing Dynasty invaded Nanjing, all the rare birds and animals in the zoo disappeared. After Emperor Guangwu came to the throne, he pretended that he did not like to engage in such tricks that wasted people and money, resulting in the Royal Zoo being empty.
However, recently, the "Bunt" country from the "Horn of Africa" contributed two "unicorns", which are worth a look.
Although as a time traveler, he knows that the so-called "Qilin" is just a giraffe. However, in this era, auspiciousness and the divine right of kings are valued. The appearance of auspiciousness proves that God's will is in me, so we must pay attention to it!
"The Lin body is trustworthy, the Phoenix knows how to control chaos, the turtle portends good and bad luck, and the dragon can change things." Kirin is the first of the "four spirits" of Lin, Phoenix, turtle, and dragon. "Erya" says that the shape of Lin is similar to a deer or deer. It has one horn, scales all over its body, and a tail like an ox; "Historical Records" says: "The beast is Qilin", "The male is Qilin, the female is Lin, and it has the shape of a stag, an ox's tail, and a wolf's hoof." China's worship of Qilin has a long history. For a long time, "Mencius Gongsun Chou" said: "Qilin is to the beasts" as "sage is to the people", "out of its kind, outstanding". Wang Chong of the Eastern Han Dynasty's "Lunheng·Tao Rui Pian" also said: " Qilin is the sage of beasts. Therefore, when Qilin appears, it must be widely publicized!
"Your Majesty, where is this country? There are actually unicorns living there!" Zhang Yu'er asked curiously.
"Haha, thousands of miles away from China, there is a magical land called Africa. This country is located in Somalia in the Horn of Africa. It is rich in spices and is a federal country composed of multiple city-states." The old emperor laughed Hehehe answered patiently.
"I heard that when I became an ancestor, there was a country that offered unicorns as tribute. Could it be this country?"
Zhu Hengjia was stunned. He didn't expect that this little girl was quite knowledgeable. He smiled and said: "My concubine is right. When Chengzu sent Zheng He to the seven voyages to the West, the two city-states of this country: Mugu Dushu (Mogadishu)
And Bulawa (in present-day Somalia), as well as the Malin Kingdom in eastern Africa (Malindi, Kenya) all presented unicorns to the Ming Emperor. At that time, the Tibetan envoys presented unicorns, celestial horses, sacred deer and other objects to the emperor.
Fengtianmen accepted it, and all the officials came to congratulate it. It was an unprecedented event! Unfortunately, since the voyage to the West stopped, these foreign countries gradually stopped paying tribute. It was not until I launched a large-scale maritime trade that there were envoys from this special country."
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"Your Majesty revives Ming Zuo, and with the help of heaven, the unicorn can reappear. I am so honored to be so grateful for the emperor's kindness." Zhang Yu'er thanked her hurriedly.
After hearing this, Zhu Hengjia proudly touched the few goat whiskers.
In fact, the state of Bangte presented the Qilin to the Ming Dynasty because it was in trouble and came to ask for help.
The Portuguese have always been greedy for Africa. In 1499, they came to the country of Malin (Malindi, Kenya) that had presented unicorns to the Ming Emperor, and slowly turned it into a colony; then they went to Bonte
The country's Mugudushu (Mogadishu) state and Burawa state (in today's Somalia) stretched out their evil hands. Seeing that the situation was not good, the Sultan of the state sent envoys to ask for help from the Ming Dynasty in the name of offering unicorns. After seeing the report from the officials of the Concierge House, Zhu Hengjia was furious. He didn't expect that this small French country, with its big appetite, would dare to touch the vassal country of the Ming Dynasty. Not many years after I took back Macau, they have forgotten the power of the Ming Dynasty? Of course, his anger was for the envoys of the Punt Kingdom. The old emperor knew in his heart that he was in a fierce battle with the Rakshasa people in the north, and the treasury was empty enough to run away with rats. Organize a fleet and travel thousands of miles to save the Punt Kingdom?
Unless your brain is flooded!
Therefore, he got angry in front of the envoys of the Punt State, angrily accused the Francois of being despicable, and took out some outdated weapons from the treasury, such as old-fashioned matchlock guns, swords, guns, arrows and halberds.
, was given to the Kingdom of Punt, and then, there was no more.
"Your Majesty, this unicorn's neck is so long!"
"Well, my concubine's jade neck is also beautiful!"
"Your Majesty is good or bad, but he laughs at me"??
The two of them were talking and laughing when the chamberlain came to report: "Your Majesty, we are rushing for 800 miles. The general who conquered the west has won consecutive battles and has captured the cities of Mangazeya, Tomsk and Yeniseisk."