At six-thirty on Sunday morning, in the Forbidden City in Beijing, the diligent Emperor Guangwu had already gotten up, washed up, practiced a set of boxing and kicks, stretched his muscles and bones, breathed in, and moved to his study in high spirits.
The imperial dining room has already brought breakfast to the imperial study room in accordance with the emperor's custom.
The emperors of the Qing Dynasty were all very diligent and capable. Guangwu was no exception. He went to bed early and got up early every day, and his life was extremely regular. After getting up early in the morning, after exercising, he would go to the imperial study room, while
While having breakfast, I started a busy day of government affairs.
The situation in various places has further deteriorated.
The most serious one is the Taihang Mountain Column. Nanming abides by the agreement very much. After signing the treaty, it has never airdropped to the Taihang Mountains again. However, the Taihang Mountain Column seems to have become bigger and stronger in the local area, developing like a snowball.
Hundreds of kilometers away, young people continue to defect to them. Now the number has exceeded 30,000, and their influence covers the two major mountain ranges of Taihang and Luliang, becoming the largest armed force there except the Qing army.
The common people used to be like sheep, and could endure being angry until they died. Now that the Taihang Mountain Column is here, the common people in Shanxi dare to make trouble. If the trouble is too big, they will just pack up a roll of bedding and go into the mountains to find the Taihang Mountain Column. In the past few months
, there have been repeated rebellions in the Taihang Mountains where people gathered to kill officials, and then collectively surrendered.
Shanxi became the most unstable province in the Qing Dynasty due to the incident of guerrillas. The Taihang Mountain Column was not only completely self-sufficient in food, but also collected taxes from dozens of counties, built armory stations in the mountains, issued military stamps, and printed
Propaganda materials... Although they are still called "columns", they have almost become a separatist regime...
In addition to Shanxi, the situation in other places is becoming more and more unstable. The number of people fleeing southward is increasing every month - although Nanming also abides by the agreement and does not encourage or teach southward escape in radio or leaflets.
Various experience and skills. It has already entered autumn, and there are still people swimming and sneaking across the Yangtze River almost every day. On the defense line of the western section, there are also constant
Some people risked crossing the blockade area, and there were reports of people being shot to death or being blown up by landmines. Not only that, but even more outrageous things are still in Liaodong. Some people have actually begun to try to swim across the ten-kilometer-wide cold strait in an attempt to escape to Nanming
Changshan Islands under the control of the Chinese Communist Party. According to the following reports, no one has succeeded in this new type of smuggling. However, many people have drowned.
Emperor Guangwu threw down the memorial, rubbed his facial muscles with both hands, sighed, and felt exhausted. He pinched his forehead, and he already had a headache as soon as he got up. Although he was very nervous when he was having dinner with Xiang Xiaoqiang in the summer resort.
He shouted arrogantly, "Don't you envy me? Don't you, the Queen, envy me?", but now, when there is no one around, Guangwu actually envies them.
Which of the dozen or so emperors of the Qing Dynasty were not civilized, military, and diligent throughout their lives? The emperors of the Ming Dynasty were all ranked in order. You were destined to be an emperor in your mother's womb, and there was no pressure at all. The emperors of the Qing Dynasty all "competed for positions."
They were all gained from years of fighting for the throne. Every emperor was full of political skills and full of ambition. "There are no foolish emperors in the Qing Dynasty", this saying is not for nothing.
On the other hand, in the past few hundred years of the Ming Dynasty, those emperors were born in deep palaces, and they were better than women. One by one, they were useless. Just look at Zhu Yourong. Alas... among the dozens of generations of emperors, there were only a few who had some ability.
They can be counted on one hand. All of them are hands-off shopkeepers. The government cares nothing about it, and they change their tricks in the harem all day long.
Eat, drink and have fun everywhere... Especially in the later period, the emperor simply became the rubber stamp of the cabinet. At the imperial meeting, he rarely said anything other than "accurate report"... But under this kind of faint emperor, on the eve of the demise of the Northern Ming Dynasty,
The total domestic economy is still several times that of the heyday of Kangxi and Qianlong... As for the current Nanming, there is no need to compare...
Alas... Three words: Why.
Guangwu picked up another pile of documents. This was about the big exercise. Now, the only thing about the big exercise could make him feel a little comfortable.
The exercise army fought all the way, displaying the majesty of the "Thousand Division Army" of the Qing Empire. The cannons roared and the ground shook. The Blue Army, representing the Qing Dynasty, was victorious, and the Red Army, representing the Southern Ming Dynasty, was defeated all the way. Of course.
, Guangwu also knew in his heart that when the generals below arranged the exercises, the specifics of who would lose and who won in each battle were predetermined. The Blue Army would definitely win an overwhelming victory in the end. In order not to appear too fake, the Red Army also
A few small wins.
This is also the intention of Guangwu. Now the Qing Dynasty needs this big exercise too much. The political needs are far greater than the military needs, so from a military point of view, this kind of cover-up exercise is a huge waste, but from a political point of view, it will have some effect after all.
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Now according to the arrangement, the two sides have just fought a battle in the Jizhong Plain. The Red Army was defeated as usual and has retreated to the Baoding area. Now the leading troops of the Blue Army are catching up. Soon at the foot of the Taihang Mountains, a bigger battle is about to begin.
Pull open.
This will give a big deterrent to the guerrillas in the Taihang Mountains. In addition, it will also wake up the duplicitous local officials in Shanxi and let them understand that the guerrilla leaders in the Taihang Mountains are beyond their reach.
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At this time, the door carefully reported:
"Your Majesty, Lord Li Min, Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Minister of Military Aircraft, requesting an audience."
Guangwu was a little surprised and looked at the clock. It was just seven o'clock. He was not summoned so early. Why did the commander-in-chief of the army go to the palace to ask for an audience?
"Xuan come in."
…
Li Min staggered in, his eyes dull, staring straight at Guang Wu, his face ashen.
Suddenly, Fang Sheng said sadly:
"emperor……!!!"
Five seconds later, Guangwu knew what was going on.
He squinted his eyes, looked Li Min up and down, and seemed to want to reach out and touch his forehead to see if he had a fever.
But before he could question it, it was announced from outside that the two deputy chiefs on the left and right of the Sticky Rod were asking to see him.
As soon as the deputy ministers from the left and the right entered the study, their faces were ashen and they repeatedly begged the emperor to forgive the death penalty...
Guangwu listened to the painful expressions of the three people and shed tears, and then he took it seriously. He immediately stood up and walked to the wall, turned on the radio, and tuned it to Jinling Radio Station.
On the radio, Zhu Yourong was giving a speech. It was already in the second half and almost finished. But Guangwu was still stunned by the words in her words.
... Bei Ding Central Plains... Recover the north of the Yangtze River... Destroy the Qing captives... Unify China... Ming Dynasty's million-strong army...
At this time, the Commander-in-Chief of the Air Force, Fu Xiang, also rushed in and kowtowed to apologize. His whole body was as frightened as chaff, and he held up a few pieces of telegraph paper with trembling hands...
Guangwu's eyes turned black. He slowly took it over and took a look. They were all telegrams sent by aviation regiments from various places to the Beijing Air Force Ministry. They basically had the same content: The airport where our regiment was stationed was attacked by a large-scale Nanming air raid in the early morning, and the aircraft suffered heavy losses...
There are two more telegrams. They are actually telegrams about the bombing of Shandong Dongying Airport and the bombing of Tangshan Airport! These two airports are heavyweight airports in the Beijing-Tianjin defense circle! They can be bombed, which is equivalent to bombing to their own bedside.
Got it!
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Guangwu's face turned from pale to red, and his eyes were about to burst into flames.
He lowered his head, stared at the telegram in his hand, and suddenly threw a stack of telegraph newspapers at the air force commander's face. He then raised his legs, kicked over the kneeling slaves in front of him, and yelled through gritted teeth:
"Blow up the airport!...Blow up the airport!...Blow up the airport!...Let others bomb the airport again!...Also let others bomb the airport!...Nanming is addicted to bombing!...You are also addicted to bombing!...Blow up the airport
!...Blow up the airport!..."
Several ministers were kicked so hard that they didn't dare to say a word. After being kicked, they quickly got up again, knelt down properly, and waited for the emperor to kick them over again. After being kicked over, they quickly got up again.
After a few rounds of kicking, Guangwu calmed down a little, sat down slowly, and didn't say a word for a long time.
Finally, I finally uttered a sigh:
"Nan Ming is crazy."
Suddenly, the following people rushed to agree:
"Yes, yes, crazy!"
"Nan Ming is crazy!"
"Crazy, crazy!"
"Really crazy!"
"It's really crazy, it seems like it's not fake..."
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On the morning of that day, the Northern Qing Dynasty urgently established the Supreme War Command, and Guangwu personally appointed the supreme commander. An urgent call was made to the whole country, and all military and political units urgently canceled their holidays and returned to their respective posts. At the same time, a large number of reconnaissance planes were dispatched to fly to the southern border to conduct reconnaissance.
The scope of the army's attack and the approximate number of troops invested can be used to judge the scale of the attack.
In her speech, that girl Zhu Yourong said that she wanted to "defeat the Central Plains in the north and recover the entire territory." She shouted loudly, but she couldn't just believe what she said about the Qing Dynasty. We still had to rely on large-scale reconnaissance.
What Guangwu was particularly annoyed about was that this time Nanming gave people the impression that they had eaten away at the heart of a bear and the courage of a leopard. It could be said to be a "daring dog". The Qing Dynasty had not yet gone south to attack it, but it came to attack the Qing Dynasty first.
, so confident?
All morning, the phones of various departments in the temporarily formed headquarters were buzzing with calls. However, more than half of the headquarters phones stationed in various places could not get through. Several large offices of the headquarters were filled with deafening roars:
"Hey, hey, hey!"
"Hey, hey, pick me up xxx... pick up xxx for me..."
"Who are you? Duty officer? Military rank? Lieutenant?!...Fuck your mother!"
"Why, it's not connected yet? Damn it!"
"Hey, hey, hey!"
"Hey, where's your commander?...I don't know? Bah! What the fuck..."
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In the confidential room, a row of radio officers with earphones kept repeating a monotonous call:
In addition to the clear call sign, there was also the sound of a large number of transmitters:
"Beep...Beep...Beep...Beep...Beep..."
However, very few responded. On Sunday morning, in the office buildings of the Qing garrison, too many doors that should not be locked were locked. Too many officers who should be left behind were not at their posts. Too many first and second leaders
They are no longer in their own army.
Guangwu had a sullen face, pacing in the headquarters, staring at the big map on the wall, listening to the frantic phone calls behind his head, and sighed with anger in his heart:
...Nanming, Nanming, you really chose a good day to attack!
...You asked for this, you can't blame me! After blocking your offensive first, and then mobilizing superior troops to surround and annihilate you, I will unceremoniously march south, lead millions of troops to flatten the south of the Yangtze River, and bloodbath Nanjing in one fell swoop.
To destroy the Nanming regime... there is no better or more realistic exercise than this!