Chapter 82: Battle Xiangyang I

Wang Xinyu stood on the bridge of the Yuezhou, looking at the scenery on both sides of the Han River, and his heart was full of emotion. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoTime flies, and in a blink of an eye, it has been ten years since I came to this era. When he first came to this era, the situation of the Ming Dynasty was precarious, and it was about to collapse. Ten years have passed, but now it has turned to a full-scale counteroffensive. Not only that, Nanyang Company also opened up three overseas colonies, including the Nanyang Islands, the coast and islands of Northeast Asia, and the west coast of North America.

Judging from the current situation, the Qing court is already destined to be unable to resist Wu Sangui, Geng Jingzhong and his own three-way Northern Expedition army, recovering the Central Plains, and recovering the Beijing division is just around the corner.

But the biggest problem of the Ming Dynasty at present is that it has not yet been unified internally, and there will be a situation of warlord secession after that.

Although the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs and reversed the wheel of history, bringing disasters to the Han land, making the Han people unable to catch up with the industrial era and being left far behind by the West, the Manchu Qing cannot be said to have made no contribution at all, at least the Manchu Qing conquered the Western Regions, weakened Mongolia, and left more than 1,000 square kilometers of land to the later Republic of China. Had it not been for the fact that Tsarist Russia and later the Soviet Union had occupied a large amount of China's land, China's territory would have been much larger.

Thinking of this, Wang Xinyu suddenly had an idea: he could expel the Manchus and rush all the way to the west! Drive them to Central and West Asia, and fight the Greens there to see who is more skilled. The premise, of course, is to beat the Manchus down and make them submit to themselves.

As for the warlords, they were driven to the southwest, south Asia, and north.

In this way, the final outcome is likely to be that the future world war will break out between the yellow race, and perhaps even between the descendants of China themselves. But it's much better than the white race compressing the yellow space. The earth is only so big, and the white race has more territory, and the yellow race naturally has less territory.

Now that the white race has begun the colonial era, they have seized space on the earth, and gradually turned the whole world into a world dominated by white people. Later, the United States was a product of white colonization.

If the descendants of the Chinese occupy all parts of the world and compress the space of the white race, then even if a war breaks out between the descendants of the Chinese themselves in the future, it will be much better than being compressed by the white people and struggling with difficulty.

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Thousands of miles away, the capital.

Outside the mansion of Shen Rui, the prince of Xushun, several coachmen with the identity of Baoyi Aha drove a four-wheeled carriage from Nanyang to pass through the street outside the door. There are also a few subordinates with the identity of Aha in Bao, pushing carts and carrying burdens, ready to go out of the inner city to purchase meat and vegetables and other goods for the master.

Among these clothed minions, there are many agents of the Heaven and Earth Society, and they have been ordered from the south to monitor the every move of the prince of Xushun.

In addition to the south of Zhengyangmen, the capital is an outer city where Han people can live and enter, and the inner city is a huge Manchu city, except for the banner people, only Han officials of the Manchu court can live in it. Moreover, the Qing court was very strict with Han officials who did not enter the flag, and once the officials became officials, they had to move out of the inner city and were no longer allowed to stay in the city. However, the Jin merchants and their subordinates, by virtue of their status as imperial merchants, still obtained the right to live in the inner city.

In fact, in the inner city, many Han people who originally lived in it to do business either entered the flag at this time, or obtained the identity of Baoyi. Even if he seems to be a noble Jin merchant, in fact, he is just equivalent to a clothed minion.

Soon after, Shen Rui, the prince of Xushun who was dressed as a subordinate, walked out of the mansion accompanied by several clothed Ahabs, boarded a four-wheeled carriage, left the gate, and drove out of the city.

After discovering Shen Rui's movements, the agents of the Heaven and Earth Society in charge of monitoring immediately sent the news out. Along the way, the agents of the Heaven and Earth Society stared at the carriage that Shen Rui was riding in until he left the city, got on the official road, and drove south along the road.

By writing a specific code and passing a pigeon, the information was delivered to the intelligence station halfway through.

The agents of the intelligence station opened the cylinder hanging from the pigeon's feet and took out the note. I saw various numbers written on the note. Then the agents of the Heaven and Earth Society turned around and took out a copy of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, turned to a specific number of pages according to the data provided by the coded numbers, and then found the corresponding Chinese characters according to the prompts of the coded numbers, and then pieced together the Chinese characters, and the content of the intelligence appeared.

"Shen has traveled south, taking the official road through Baoding Mansion." This information was sent to the next intelligence station.

After obtaining the information, the agents of the Heaven and Earth Society along the way kept an eye on them. According to the observation of the secret agents, it was found that from Shen Rui's departure from Beijing to his official road, the Qing court did not pay attention. Analyzing the previous information, there was a mysterious person who went to Shen Rui's mansion before. Through various clues, it can be judged that Shen Rui's departure from Beijing was intentional by the Qing court.

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Half a month later, on the Han River southeast of Xiangyang.

"Woo-" A long whistle sounded through the clouds, and two black spots appeared on the river, spitting black smoke, going upstream, towards the river in the direction of Xiangyang.

"What's coming downstream?" The Qing army sailors on the river looked at the two black dots in horror.

Seeing that the black dots gradually enlarged and turned into two ships emitting billowing black smoke, some of the Qing army's sailors who fled back from the area of Changhu Lake in Jingzhou were shocked: "It's a fire dragon!" Minggou's fire dragon is here again! Oh, my God! Here are two this time! ”

"Fire dragon?" Qing Jun was dumbfounded, "What fire dragon?" Didn't the ship catch fire? Can you still run? ”

"It's a fire dragon! The bigger the smoke, the faster you run! Last time in Jingzhou, there was a fire dragon, we couldn't resist it, this time there are two fire dragons! "The face of the Qing sergeant is like earth.

As he was talking, he heard a long whistle on the river that shook the sky, and the black smoke emitted from the steamer became thicker, and a puff of white mist erupted from the ship, and white waves rolled behind the ship, leaving a slender wake mark, and it was going up at high speed, getting closer and closer to the fleet of the Qing army's naval division.

The two six-pounder guns and four three-pounder guns on the two steamers roared, and the shells swept across the river with a piercing screeching sound, and landed among the ships of the Qing army's naval division.

"Is Minggou firing?" The Qing army's sailor was taken aback, "Ming Dog opened fire so far away?" They're still more than three miles away! ”

Before the Qing army's sailors finished speaking, there was another row of cannons, several shells whistled, and a Qing army's fast sentry ship was accurately hit by a three-pounder cannonball, the fast sentry boat shook on the river, the planks flew sideways, and the whole boat was immediately broken into two, and the Qing soldiers on the boat flew sideways, and the Qing soldiers who did not die also stood unsteadily, and fell into the water one after another.