When the Ming Dynasty received the news of the fall of Tianjin Guard, the commander of the army to fight against the pirates had not yet been determined. Tianjin Guard had 6,000 defenders and strong city cannons, but it was lost so quickly. Even the commander and garrison of Tianjin Guard Liu Yi fought. Death surprised all the ministers of the court.
Taiwan pirates who claimed to be the "Chinese Army" had already captured Tianjin Wei, and then took advantage of the Ming army's collapse and occupied Wuqing County. At the same time, the Chinese army seized a large number of horses from the Ming cavalry of Tianjin Wei and Ming cavalry, and the pirate cavalry of the pirate cavalry. It has appeared outside the capital. In the northeast, all the sea defense soldiers in the coastal salt fields collapsed. From Baihekou by Dagukou to Daxindian, it was completely empty. A small reconnaissance force of the Chinese Army's sailor musket team appeared. In Daxindian.
In the southwest direction, several small Chinese troops have been operating outside Jinghai County. A large number of canal transport ships are in Shandong and the junction of Tianjin and Military Security. The Chinese army has slowed down the logistical pressure because it has obtained a large amount of food stored by Tianjin Military Security. The surplus grain was able to be distributed to help the victims and win over the hearts of the people. The Ming army's gunpowder depot had no time to destroy it. Although the Ming army's gunpowder quality was poor, it was still possible to be used as grenades.
Under such a crisis, the court finally temporarily put aside the party struggles and internal strife, and appointed Wang Ke from the then left minister and right assistant censor, governor Ji Liao, and Baoding as the commander of the chief, Tianjin ruled, and commanded all the Beijing troops. Resist the Chinese Army with the King and the Border Force.
Wang Keshou, whose courtesy name is Yixu and his pseudonym Jingfeng, was a native of Sanpan Jushi. He was from Wang Ge, Dushan, Huangmei, Hubei. He studied under Shi Kunyu and Li Zhi. In the eighth year of Wanli, he was the 56th Jinshi in the Gengchen rank. Later, he served as the right attendant of the Ministry of War. He was promoted to the left assistant minister and the right assistant censor, and the governor of Ji Liao.
On the tenth day after Tianjin Wei fell, when the court finally settled down to deal with the Chinese army's northern line troops, a news from the south almost made the ministers not believe their ears.
"More than a thousand warships of Taiwan pirates went upstream along the Yangtze River, occupying Chongming and Zhenjiang, and surrounding Nanjing,"
The two capitals in the north and south were threatened by the "pirates" of the Chinese army at the same time, which is something that has never been seen in previous dynasties.
The war in the forty-five years of Wanli was an unprecedented war situation in history: attacking from the sea to the inland, attacking from east to west. One side of the war had convenient water transportation conditions and excellent mobility; the other side was empty. He guards the vast inland, but is passive everywhere in the coastal areas.
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Li Xing's 3rd Division, one regiment of the Second Mead Division, two regiments of the Artillery Brigade, Taiwan's Indigenous Auxiliary Force, Luzon Bangbangya Indigenous Camp, Hainan Limin Camp, a total of more than 25,000 infantry soldiers and their Weapons and equipment, the transport ships carried by them were more than 300, including arms, food and grass transport fleets, navy escort ships, and the vast southern Chinese fleet had more than 500 large sailboats. It arrived from Taiwan to the coast of Zhejiang in half a month. In this era, it can be said that only the Chinese army has the ability to gather more than 500 large sailboats and coordinate and arrange to carry out a combat operation. Although Yin Feng is considered the commander of the southern line, The main daily affairs are Xu Hongji, Zeng Shan, Li Xing, Ye Hua and others.
Now in Taiwan, Luzon, Ryukyu, Nanyang colonies and Guam, there are only garrisons everywhere, Zhuang Ding is defending, and the infantry mobile forces are only Zhao Xuanming's Nanyang brigade and Hainan brigade on Hainan Island, even if Mai who stays in Taiwan is included The two regiments of the Second German Division were less than 20,000, and many of them were recruits. Fortunately, the main forces of the Third Navy Fleet were all cruising in the South Ocean, and no ship was drawn out.
The Zhongzuo Inauguration of Dinghai, Zhoushan Islands along the coast of Zhejiang Province is now the location of Dinghai Port of China United Company. A large number of sailboats gathered here to transport supplies to combat troops on the north and south sides. Qianchang Inauguration and Juexi Inauguration south of the Zhoushan Islands.
Shipu Foreground, Shipu Back Office, Changguo Guard and other island garrison bases belonging to the Ming army have been controlled by the Chinese army; thousands of fishermen, former pirates and smugglers along the coast of Zhejiang formed a group of people in Zhoushan Islands.
A prosperous trading market, and at the same time, the Chinese Navy also recruited soldiers in Changguowei and Dinghai Shuqi, which recruited many skilled sailors for the navy.
On the third day after Chen Zhongji's troops landed in Penglai City on the northern line, the Chinese naval fleet, led by the latest Yuanzi main warship "Weiyuan", used four flying fonts to suppress the formation, thirty-five three-masted gunboats, and hundreds of them
Clippers, patrol boats, etc. flocked into the Yangtze River estuary, and suddenly attacked and captured Chongming Acropolis and Chongming County in one fell swoop. Then, on the next day, the Ming army officers and soldiers from Wusongsuo on the other side of Chongming Island abandoned the city and left, the Chinese army's Taiwan fleet-
The second fleet's one-sentence sailor musket team occupied Wusong Station without any trouble.
Although Chongming Island was still a small island in this era, and the alluviality of the Yangtze River was not very serious, the Yangtze River waterway only has a central channel suitable for the operation of the giant ships of the Chinese army, and the waterways along the coast were not suitable for the operations of the main battleships of the far-size and flying.
After occupying Chongming Island, the Chinese army used the captured and temporarily rebuilt flat-bottomed sand-type sailboats as the transport fleet, and the three-masted blessed ships as the main force of the artillery fleet.
The Chinese army, which was moving upstream, broke the blockade of the Ming navy along the river, and sank almost all the Ming naval warships along the Yangtze River, destroyed or seized. The Ming army had only modified warships with single-mast fishing boats along the Yangtze River.
The firearms equipped with at most are small Folang guns. Under the dense bombardment of the Chinese Navy's naval gunboats and thunder rockets, the Ming Navy did not even have the power to fight back. The main force of the Chinese Army was in Zhenjiang ten days later.
The landing along the Yangtze River, the sailors and musket teams had ten sentries and 1,000 people arranged five rows of round-fire formations, and used continuous flintlock musket fire to prevent the impact of 5,000 Ming Dynasty officials from Zhenjiang Guards on the beachhead positions.
5,000 Ming army received reinforcements from 4,000 Ming soldiers from Zhenhai, and once again attacked 1,000 sailors at the position of Zhenjiang Bridgehead. The Li Kuiqi Artillery Regiment, which had successfully landed, had 50 flowering howitzers, and dozens of gunships on the Yangtze River.
Hundreds of cannons came together to cover the artillery fire. Hundreds of thunder rockets were fired in rocket cars, and they landed on the Ming army's positions with long white smoke tails.
The Ming army had never seen such a violent shelling, and was killed and injured by the bombing. The Yangtze River shore was blood flowing into a river, and the broken limbs and bodies were flying everywhere. The Ming Dynasty's official troops collapsed immediately and fled to Nanjing City in chaos, Lianzhenjiang
The city also abandoned it.
After Zhenjiang fell, Yangzhou City was also attacked by the Chinese army less than two days later.
After the latest artillery observation of the hot air balloons, Li Kuiqi used ten siege mortar cannons to fire fifty kilograms of explosive flowering shells and about one hundred kilograms of solid iron bombs, continuously bombarding Yangzhou city walls. The problem of hot air balloons is that they are afraid of
The wind cannot last; now Yin Feng has not developed any high-pressure gas jet heating technology, so he can only use a human blower and a charcoal brazier to heat the air to make the hot air balloon rise. In just half an hour, the balloon will lose its buoyancy and fall.
It needed to be reheated, so the precise artillery bombardment lasted intermittently for a whole day. Finally, the second day after besieging Yangzhou City, the Chinese artillery broke a gap of five feet wide near the east gate of the Yangzhou City Wall.
The Chinese army was not in a hurry to rush up, but under the guidance of the artillery observing balloons, they called thirty light field artillery to 200 steps near the city wall to fire flowering bullets, killing the Ming army who was eager to step forward to block the gap. A large piece was used to shoot a 50-kilogram pack of explosives (including iron sand and stones) with the Botian Thunder Plague cannon, and the Ming army behind the gap was blown to death in piles.
The observer on the hot air balloon held the telescope and kept shaking his head, waving the signal flag and signaling downwards: "Ceasefire, no one is left,"
There were indeed no living people near the gap. Hundreds of bloody corpses were lying everywhere. The Ming soldiers were fleeing around. The Chinese infantry then swaggered through the gap and entered Yangzhou City, occupying Yangzhou without any casualties. , thousands of Ming army defeated soldiers who were mentally collapsed were captured.
The two major cities in Zhenjiang and Yangzhou have fallen, and Nanjing has opened its doors.
The sharp firearms of the Chinese Army have already shocked the world and shocked all the Ming army officers and soldiers.
The Chinese Army's sailor musket team began to advance south along the waterways connected to Jiangnan. As the Chinese Army pointed out in the Jiangnan area, the Ming army's defense collapsed. The head of the Taiwan Corps of the Mariner Musket Team was Ye Hua, commander of the Ye Huanan Line Fleet. He had a nephew named Ye Ying, who brought only one team of twelve sailors and musket players to the city of Taicang casually for "investigation". They fired a few shots at the top of the city, originally planning to complete the task and return to Wusongkou. The base was here, but as a result, these gunshots caused thousands of Ming troops in Taicang to explode the camp; these officers and soldiers had just fled back from Zhenjiang, and were still scared of the power of Chinese weapons, becoming frightened birds, and half of the Ming soldiers fled The other half of the Ming army opened the city and surrendered to the twelve Chinese army sailors and marines.
Ye Ying accepted the surrender of more than a thousand Ming soldiers a little foolishly. His eleven subordinates were also surprised, and there were more surprises. Fortunately, another team of 20 sailors and musket players passed by here with a sampan to help them. Accepted Taicang City.
While Chen Zhongji and Fan Tao's troops surrounded Tianjin Wei on the northern front, all 25,000 Chinese infantrymen landed in Zhenjiang and marched towards Nanjing Yingtian Prefecture.
The Jiangnan area is in a panic. The culture is developed and the business is prosperous. Various news is circulating quickly. Most of the officials and gentlemen in the Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas have seen the "Seven Hate" and "Six Oaths" issued by the Chinese Army. ", Although everyone criticized the Chinese army for being ruthless, belittled by the emperor and father, and destroyed human relations, some people were thinking deep down: merchants, or ordinary people, they could make conditions with the emperor, and they were on the same level. Is it impossible? If you are innocent, you should not be arrested for no reason or punished. Isn’t this a matter of course? Are overseas people not the people of the Ming Dynasty?
The power of tradition is very powerful, but because of the closed nature of traditional culture, it cannot withstand the blows of harsh reality. The Chinese army shouted the slogans of equality among the four people, opened the maritime ban, and promoted the business. The powerful force shown was somewhat painful. Those short-sighted officials and gentlemen, but in general, the political demands of the Chinese army did not receive much response except for some merchants and ordinary people.