Chapter 399 397 [Five Emperors Coexist] (Addition for the Penguin Boss)

Zhongyuan 4338, the fourteenth year of Chongzhen, 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. They mobilized the soldiers in Bianzhen to fight for wages, killed the border generals in Gansu Town, expanded the army to 30,000, and marched 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 20,000 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 300 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 was easy to become an official. Those with strong abilities could become officials within a year or two, and those with poor abilities could 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.

The 120,000 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 is eighty-one 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 80th 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 office: "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 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 300 warships, and the enemy's warships are less than 100. 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.

Lu Guoyu, the chief general of the Chongqing Navy, was even more depressed. He had more than 300 warships under his command, all of which were f---ing appearances. 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!

But his whole family was in Chongqing, so he dared not surrender.

Seeing his warships being sunk one after another and being captured one after another, Lu Guoyu really wanted to yell at Wang Xiang for his mother's criticism.

In the fourth hour of the battle, more than 60 Chongqing warships were captured on the spot by the Datong Navy.

Relying on the large number of ships, Lu Guoyu commanded the water army to meet the ship. Then, he collapsed himself. As long as the Datong sailors fired, the Chongqing sailors would instantly collapse. The Datong sailors jumped to help, and the Chongqing sailors collectively surrendered on the deck.

They are all boatmen and coolies. They have only been in the army for a year or two, and they are hungry and full. Why do they have to work for the officials?

For fear of being bombarded, many Chongqing warships took the initiative to post them and be captured. They looked brave and fearless, but in fact they surrendered as soon as they touched them. Later, they didn't bother to put on a show, and a large number of warship commanders chose to surrender.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Lu Guoyu led the remaining warships to retreat voluntarily, landed at Chaotianmen Wharf and returned to the city, so frightened that he didn't even dare to take the warships.

"How dare you flee with your troops!" Wang Xiang was furious.

Lu Guoyu roared: "Aren't you going to run and wait for the whole army to be wiped out? The opposite side is full of elite naval forces, with firecrackers and artillery. I only have a group of boatmen and coolies under my command. Not to mention firecrackers and artillery, I don't even have many bows and arrows. How does the prince want me to fight?"

Wang Xiang put his hand on the handle of the knife, hesitated for a moment, and finally said: "You lead the troops to defend the city together!"

The Lu family is a big family in Chongqing, not only has a lot of land, but also has a big business, Wang Xiang really didn't dare to kill them randomly.

Gu Jianshan, the commander of the Datong Navy, came to Sichuan to fight in person this time because he is a native of Sichuan.

After winning the water battle, Gu Jianshan smiled and said, "Mr. Wang, please."

Wang Yingxi is Wang Yingxiong's younger brother. When the Datong Army conquered Nanjing, Wang Yingxi was vacationing in the prison in Nanjing. Now he is a bachelor of the Literature Museum of the Imperial Academy.

This guy climbed up the stairs from Chaotianmen Wharf, stood at the bottom of the city and shouted: "I am Wang Yingxi, open the city and surrender!"

Wang Xiang's face suddenly changed drastically, and he said that he was just a slave of the Wang family. Even if one side is separated, it will rely on the power of the Wang family, and many Wang family members are still serving as officials and generals under him.

Especially on the side of the Jinzi Gate, the person in charge of leading the troops to defend the city is Wang Yingxi's own son.

Wang Xiang immediately led his troops to the Jinzi Gate, passing orders quietly on the way.

After arriving at Jinzi Gate, without any explanation, he hacked Wang Yingxi's son to death, and some troops in the city also attacked Wang's family.

This guy quickly summoned the gentry and threatened: "Once the city is destroyed, the Datong army will confiscate your rural properties, search your homes and kill people, and take away your property in the city. If you want to keep your wealth, follow me to defend the city , His Majesty (King of Shu) will definitely send troops to rescue!"

It was impossible for Wang Xiang to surrender. He and Yang Zhan were mortal enemies, and he had conflicts with Qin Liangyu many times.

Now, both Qin Liangyu and Yang Zhan had defected to Zhao Han, and he was afraid that after he surrendered, he would be killed by Yang Zhan's scheme.

Yang Zhan is indeed brave, but has character flaws. He is very kind to those he likes, and very cautious to those he doesn't like, even to the point of vengeance.

Fan Yiheng was standing on the tower at the moment. He was Wang Xiang's military adviser, and he was the governor of Ningxia before he was dismissed.

In Fan Yiheng's view, the Emperor Longwu in Chengdu is a joke, why not vote for the Emperor of Nanjing early, and resist?

In the middle of the night, Fan Yiheng teamed up with the gentry and set fire to the city. He couldn't stand Wang Xiang, a rampant domestic slave!

Just when Huang Yao captured Chongqing Mansion, the Mu family of Tianbo Mansion in Yunnan supported Min King Zhu Qifeng (alternate characters of Duo next to the gold characters) as emperor.

This King Min escaped from Hunan.

The mountains in Yunnan are high and the roads are far away. It was not until winter that we learned the news that Chongzhen had hanged himself. A group of survivors urged Qian Guogong Mu Tianbo to quickly support King Min as "Emperor Zhenwu" in Yunnan.

At this moment, the Five Emperors of China coexist.

Datong Emperor Zhao Han in Nanjing, Qing Emperor Fulin in Beijing, Dashun Emperor Li Zicheng in Shaanxi, Ming Longwu Emperor Zhu Zhishu in Sichuan, and Yunnan Zhenwu Emperor Zhu Qifeng (next to the gold characters).