Chapter 749: Xingjing City breaks the Dragon Veins
At noon the next day, in addition to Liu Sheng and Fan Tong who were commanding operations in Xinjiang, Wang Yuanfang was in Bacheng, Lu Qi was enjoying digging for gold on the other side of the ocean, and was busy in Shengjing with the "Liaodong Campaign"
"Deng Fei, who was finishing the work, brought all 24 people from the "29-member committee" to the meeting.
Nowadays, everyone in the committee is responsible for their own affairs and has endless things to deal with. Therefore, except for Zhao Xin and others who arrived with their families two days in advance, everyone else only set off from various places early in the morning, either by car or by public transportation.
Speedboat. Fortunately, it is the golden autumn in the Northeast at this time. Except for the cold spots at night, the temperature is comfortable during the day and the land and water transportation is smooth.
Ding Guofeng only came back half a month ago. The reason why he didn't come early to have hot pot together was mainly because he had been recuperating at home, eating abalone and drinking ginseng soup every day. He stayed in India for more than a year, fighting wars and fighting with France.
Dealing with people and negotiating with the British were all mentally draining. In addition, the humid and hot weather in South Asia also took a toll on his body.
Of course, the two stunning beauties given to him by Tipu Sultan almost knocked out Ding Guofeng, so when the guy got off the boat, his face looked scary, which scared his wife. He didn't dare to bring the beauties back.
, but placed him in "Denmark Castle", otherwise his wife Xue Wu dared to call her brother and the bear at home to kill him.
At one o'clock in the afternoon, the meeting was held on time. This civil affairs office building in Fuldan City is much better than the previous one. It is made of steel and concrete, and the outer wall uses high-efficiency thermal insulation materials from another time and space; indoors
In addition to the radiator, there is also floor heating. I wish I could wear short sleeves when I come here in winter. However, it is only September and the heater is not needed.
Before the official start, Zhao Xin played "The Internationale" in a unique way, asking everyone to stand up and listen. His original intention was to remind everyone not to forget the purpose of their struggle in this time and space, but as a result, many people were shocked.
Linen, my heart says who am I? Where am I?
At the beginning of the meeting, Zhao Xin first briefed everyone on the situation related to the "Liaodong Campaign" launched this year. Later, he would also explain the progress of the war in the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains and the combat situation in Guangxi on behalf of Liu Sheng and Fan Tong.
In fact, everyone has been paying attention to the war in Liaodong this year. After all, Shengjing is the companion capital of the Qing Dynasty. If the Liaohe Plain is captured, the next step is to enter the customs anyway.
However, compared with the success of the attack on Shengjing, the process of attacking Xingjing was full of blood and fire. Even Lu Shoushan, a man who harbored a deep hatred for the Manchu and Qing court, couldn't help but feel sad after the battle ended and he inspected the city.
Feelings. When the more than 20 people in the conference room heard Zhao Xin's scripted report on the battle process and results, they were in awe for a while, but they didn't know where to start.
In 1601 AD, Nurhaci used all the population in the area under his jurisdiction to build a new city on the ground of Hetuala on the south side of the Suzi River and the east bank of the Taizi River. Hetuala means "Henggang" in Manchu. In 1605, Nurhaci again
He ordered the city wall to be built outside the city, and the city of Hetuala formed a dual urban structure, both inside and outside. A few decades later, during the Huang Taiji period, it was named "Hetuala Xingjing".
The outer city of Xingjing City is just that. Except for the southeast corner, which is built along the Yangbi Mountain, the rest is flat land. However, the inner city is a military fortress that is easy to defend but difficult to attack.
The entire inner city is located on high hills and flat land, covering an area of 246,000 square meters, equivalent to the size of 34 and a half football fields. Because the city wall was built along the cliffs of the surrounding hills, two lines were formed on the outside.
The height difference of more than ten meters is twice as high as the city wall of Beijing!
In addition, the city wall of the inner city adopts the masonry method of "stones, rammed earth, stone cloth and rafters connected", that is, after building a section of stone at the bottom, the earth and stone are filled in the middle of the two walls; for each layer of rammed earth, a layer is laid horizontally.
Hardwood, leaving gaps between the wood, is then filled with rammed earth, and then placed with wooden sticks, and so on until a durable and solid city wall is formed.
Just like this kind of wall, if the 82mm mortar shells of the North Korean navy fall on it, it will explode the outer stone. It will take five or six consecutive rounds to create a gap. But if you want to rush into the city through the gap, you have to climb ten meters with a ladder.
A cliff a few meters high will do.
There is a four-meter-wide horse path on the periphery of the inner city, leading to the four city gates in the north, east, south, and southeast. All the city gates are not large. The largest door opening is only three meters wide, and the narrowest is only more than one meter.
.All roads leading to the city gate are close to the inner city wall, and the walls are densely covered with battlements. If you attack from the horse road, every step forward will be against the arrows and blunderbuss shot from behind the wall.
Of course, Lu Shoushan's troops would not attack immediately. Instead, they used loudspeakers to repeatedly broadcast the news in Manchu that Shengjing had been captured. Faced with the Northern Navy's persuasion to surrender, the Eight Banners soldiers, men, women, and children in the city refused to accept it.
The old men and children who could not hold up swords and guns all joined the battle, men and women, carrying guns, blunderbuss, iron cannons, bows and arrows, and swords and guns.
Seeing this situation, Lu Shoushan had no choice, let's fight! He thought that with a mortar bombardment, these mobs would not disperse in one piece? However, the reality was beyond his expectation. After the outer city wall was blown open,
Fierce street fighting began.
You must know that the biggest characteristic of urban street fighting is cruelty, hand-to-hand combat, hand-to-hand combat, and sometimes it is too late to shoot. There are many Hunchun Manchus and transformed Eight Banners soldiers in Lu Shoushan's army. These people will fight at the beginning.
Having some scruples, he used Manchu to persuade him to put down his weapons when he saw someone. However, many people not only refused to listen, but also hid in houses and rooftops on both sides of the streets, shooting arrows and shooting guns.
For example, there were Eight Banners soldiers lying in ambush in a house. When the North Korean navy approached, they suddenly rushed out and slashed with a big knife. Although the knife was blocked, one soldier's thumb was still cut off, and another soldier was also hit by the back of the knife.
A woman with a face full of flowers. Another example is a woman hiding on the roof with a bow and arrow, trying to cool people down. Although it is difficult to shoot someone to death as long as it does not hit the heart, it is unbearable to take a hit. Situations like this make people difficult to guard against.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! As the battle attrition continued to rise, the main attacking regiment was finally overwhelmed. No longer scrupulous about taking action, grenades and machine guns were deployed, and yard after yard was cleared. Wait until
Three days have passed since the outer city was completely cleared.
Attacking the inner city would be even more cruel. Lu Shoushan wanted to plow the land directly with artillery fire. The problem was that his troops came over the mountains from the east of Changbai Mountain. He couldn't even bring a 75mm cannon, let alone a mortar.
Only less than half of the base number of artillery shells was prepared - 40 rounds for each gun.
Another regiment that took over the main attack launched an attack from the direction of the four city gates. Although there was artillery bombardment before the attack, the soldiers had to endure the arrows and iron bullets shot from the blunderbuss.
There were also two people carrying shotguns. The four-meter-wide road was lined with tall stone walls on both sides. If someone came down from a high position, there would be no place to hide.
When the troops entered the inner city, they started fighting street by street with the retreating Eight Banners soldiers and ordinary people. Most of the buildings here are palaces, banner offices, granaries, academies, temples, and even bow and arrow factories and armor factories.
, it was much more troublesome to clear out than residential buildings. After the battle, except for the Dizang Temple that housed the wounded, almost all other places in the inner city were in ruins.
After this battle, nearly 8,000 local Manchus were left alive, and the survivors were all old, weak, women and children; and on the Beihai Navy side, the two regiments responsible for the main attack also suffered nearly 1,000 casualties.
It is said that the Northern Navy occupied Shengjing City, which made the Manchus feel like mourning their heirs, and the capture of Xingjing made the Manchus completely despair. In addition, the Marine Corps was stuck in Jinzhou, cutting off the post roads leading to the pass, Liaoyang, Fenghuang, and Xiu
Yan, Haicheng, Yaozhou, Gaiping, Xiongyue, and Fuzhou all sent envoys to Shengjing to discuss surrender with Deng Fei.
When the news came back to Beihai Town, a group of old-style literati headed by Wang Zhong were overjoyed and said bluntly that the Manchu and Qing Dynasty dragon veins had been cut off. As long as the Beihai navy entered the pass, the world would be at their fingertips!
In another time and space, a scholar surnamed Zha once wrote a novel, which mentioned that the dragon veins of the Manchu Qing Dynasty were located in Humalwoji Mountain in Heilongjiang. Well, this is completely nonsense. The dragon veins of the Jianzhou Jurchens were gone anyway.
Don’t go to Heilongjiang!
In fact, the real dragon vein of the Manchu Qing Dynasty was in Xingjing. Kangxi once said in a poem, "The land of Mia Xingwang is unstoppable."
From the perspective of Feng Shui, the first thing to do when choosing a location for establishing a state capital in ancient times is to find a suitable dragon vein. To put it bluntly, the dragon vein must have continuous mountains, starting from the northwest and moving best toward the southeast.
The center of the dragon vein is called "Ancestral Mountain", which is the place where the king's energy gathers as the ancients said. Starting from Ancestral Mountain, walk along the southeast direction and connect to the "main mountain", also called "backing mountain"; the function of the main mountain is to collect the king's energy.
Introducing the capital, the capital palace must be located south of the main mountain. To the south of the capital, there must be a "case mountain", and to the south of the "case mountain" there must be a "chaoshan", which symbolizes the intention of all nations to kneel down and worship.
For example, let’s talk about the city of Beijing. Zushan is the Tianshou Mountain at the intersection of the Yanshan Mountains and the Taihang Mountains, and its source is the midline of the Kunlun Mountains. So why were the Ming Dynasty Ming Tombs built in Tianshou Mountain in droves? Because the Zushan Mountain is
Feng shui is the best.
The main mountain in Beijing is actually the artificially built Jingshan Mountain, which has existed since the Jin Dynasty and was called Qingshan Mountain at that time. It was expanded in the Ming Dynasty to form the Longevity Mountain with five peaks. According to Zhu Xi's statement, the Jingshan Mountain is divided into five layers, and the Songshan Mountain is divided into five layers.
As a previous case, the mountains in Huainan are the second most serious case, the mountains in the south of the Yangtze River are the third and fourth most serious cases, and Wuling, located at the intersection of Hubei, Hunan, Guangdong and Guangxi, is the fifth most serious case. As for Chaoshan, it is the Qinling Mountains, which extends from the south bank of the Yellow River.
to central Henan.
This is called the "strength of pulling out the table". It carries heavy mountains, faces the mainland, controls the Yangtze River and Huaihe River in the south, connects Shuomo Mountain in the north, and controls the world. Just like the collar of a heavy coat, when you lift the collar, the whole dress can be lifted up.
.By the way, in the modern era of another time and space, there are always some people who suggest moving the capital, which is ridiculous from a Feng Shui perspective.
Well, having said that, the specific ancestral mountain in Xingjing is Qiyun Mountain located in the north of Suzi River. It belongs to the remnants of Changbai Mountain. It is shaped like a crouching dragon, and the dragon's head reaches west. The ancestral mausoleum of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, Yongling, is located at the foot of Qiyun Mountain.
, where ancestors of all generations from Mengge Timur to Takshi are buried.
To the east of Qiyun Mountain is Laolonggang, and its branches cross the Suzi River to Xingjing City, then extend to the southeast to Yangbi Mountain, and further to the southeast is Jiming Mountain. This means that Qiyun Mountain is the ancestral mountain and the main mountain, and Yangbi Mountain is
Nose Mountain is the Table Mountain, Jiming Mountain is the Chao Mountain. To have a dragon, there must be water. The Suzi River runs east to west, and the waterway is unimpeded. Both the north and south banks are covered with dragon veins, which are the characteristics of a medium-to-high-grade water body.
Therefore, from the perspective of Feng Shui, the dragon veins in Hetuala City are natural trends, with many factors prepared and almost perfect, which is the foundation of the dragon veins in the Qing Dynasty.
Well, in Zhao Xin’s opinion, the above statements about Feng Shui are all nonsense!
Nurhaci was a tortoise in his early years. Before unifying the various Jurchen tribes, his first consideration was the safety of his home base, so he chose Foala, which was completely a mountain city. When the surrounding tribes were basically defeated and only one Yehe tribe was left.
, he turned his attention to the Ming Dynasty, and the location of Foala could no longer meet military and political needs.
Hetuala is bordered by the Suzi River to the north, the Erdao River to the west, the Riga River to the southwest, and close to mountains to the east and southeast. From a military perspective, it is a naturally easy-to-defend and difficult-to-attack place. In addition, there are a large number of people in its northeast and southwest areas.
The flat land, dense river network, and fertile land make it a good farming area. Otherwise, Nurhachi would not have established a country and proclaimed himself Khan after the completion of Hetuala, issued the "Seven Hatreds", and completely turned against the Ming Dynasty.
After talking about the situation in Liaodong, Zhao Xin briefly reported on the affairs of Guangdong and Guangxi, and then someone present suggested attacking Guangzhou.
Zhao Xin smiled and said: "Okay! As long as one of us is willing to go, I have no objection. But who among you here knows Chaoshan Hakka? We have three thousand Jiaying and Chaozhou recruits in Bacheng."
As soon as these words came out, the two people who had just proposed suddenly wilt, thinking MMP! I do know some plastic Cantonese, but Hakka... let's forget it. What does Wang Yuanfang, the governor, do to promote Mandarin?
Ineffective!
In fact, Luo Fangbai had sent people to Wang Yuanfang several times, expressing his intention to take the people from Lanheying back to Guangdong. The problem is that the Hakka dialect spoken by these Jiaying people is like a book from heaven, let alone the northerners.
The people from Zhangzhou and Quanzhou in Bacheng couldn't understand it and could only understand it. The batch of soldiers recruited in Pontianak and Dongwanlu had not yet completed their training in Bacheng. The most time-consuming part was teaching these people to speak
Northern Mandarin, otherwise we won’t even be able to carry out orders.
In the past, the soldiers recruited by the North Korean Navy in Bacheng were all from Fujian. They first joined the security team and then transferred to the regular army. However, there are still many things in West Java that have not been dealt with neatly, and they cannot be separated from them.
In the view of Zhao Xin and Wang Yuanfang, the Jiaying miners must be trained into soldiers that meet the requirements of Beihai Town before they can take the Lanhe Battalion to attack Guangzhou and Chaoshan.
Zhao Xin's third report was made on behalf of Liu Sheng and Fan Tong.
In this report written by Jiang Fan, the first half describes the process of the Western Front troops marching westward from the northern and southern fronts of the Tianshan Mountains. It uses a long paragraph to describe the hardships of the march. As for the second half of the battle, the content is much simpler.
It was nothing more than the Qing army fleeing in the face of the wind. Wherever the troops went, they were supported by people of all ethnic groups, and the situation was excellent.
At present, the troops have captured Ili at the northern foot of the Tianshan Mountains and captured a large number of Qing troops; while the southern route started from Hami and captured Turpan, Karashahr, Kuqa and other places along the way, and will march to Aksu next.
After hearing this, everyone present clapped and clapped, expressing joy and encouragement. Zhao Xin nodded expressionlessly and picked up a glass of water to moisten his dry throat. At this time, he felt eyes looking at him and looked up,
It was Chen Qingsong. Facing the other party's questioning look, Zhao Xinwei shook his head inexplicably. Chen Qingsong blinked and then announced that the meeting would move to the next topic.
In fact, there were two telegrams sent from the Western Front Command. One was a long message sent to the Northern Navy Staff, and the other was a short message sent directly to Zhao Xin. There were only seven words in the short telegram.