Chapter 358: Before the Southern Expedition
More than 2,000 knife and axe bearers raised their knives at the same time, and rows of human heads rolled to the ground.
Kong Sizhen watched her only son being beheaded with a knife, she screamed and passed out. But it didn't take long for Kong Sizhen to be stabbed awake, and it was Ling Chi's executioner who began to dig into her flesh.
Liu Xuanchu and Wang Shirong also observed the execution of the Autumn Queen, and the two left the execution ground and came to Wang Yu's mansion.
"It's already been beheaded after the autumn, and there's no point in keeping the Tartar puppet emperor, right? I don't know when the prince will be able to send the Tartar puppet emperor to the capital and hand it over to us? Liu Xuanchu asked after bowing.
Wang Yu said unhurriedly: "Don't worry, in a few days, this domain will lead a large army to the south to conquer the South Seas, and then it will naturally hand over the Tartar Puppet Emperor and the Tartar Empress Dowager to you." If you are willing to let go of the Tartar puppet emperor, it can be regarded as a lot of tolerance for Your Majesty and the Wu family. If you execute the Tartar Puppet Emperor, it will be a good thing for you to use their blood to sacrifice the flag of our southern expeditionary fleet. ”
"Thank you, Lord Wang!" Liu Xuanchu and Wang Shirong thanked each other at the same time.
Wang Yu smiled knowingly, he didn't plan to let Kangxi live at all. In real history, it was because Kangxi knew the power of firearms, so he adopted the method of covering his ears and stealing bells, prohibiting the development of firearms, resulting in the great powers of the East being completely surpassed by the West, and in this regard, Kangxi is the culprit who made modern China lag behind the West.
In the tenth month of the lunar calendar, typhoons will no longer come to the northern hemisphere, and this is also a good time for Wang Yu's fleet to march south.
"Lord Qing, our marshal is about to march south to Manila, and I really don't have time to take care of you, the marshal has already decided to send you to the capital to accept the canonization of the son of tomorrow." Chen Zhan, the envoy of Jinyi Weinan Town, Fusi Town, took two Jinyi guards into the courtyard where Kangxi was under house arrest.
"Lone can finally go?" Kangxi was overjoyed, "I went to the capital and accepted the canonization, so I can go back, right?" ”
"Not bad! Go and accept the canonization, and you will be able to go back. Chen Zhan nodded quietly. But what he thought in his heart was: That's right, if you go to the north, the people of the Wu family army will definitely send you back to your hometown! You are going to reunite with the old slave, Huang Taiji, and Shunzhi Xiao'er!
Wu Yashi came up and asked, "Is the slave family also going to the capital with the prince?" ”
Chen Zhan said: "The princess is pregnant, it is not suitable to travel long distances, it is better to wait until the little prince is born, and then return to Beihai directly, we will send someone to escort her to ensure the safety of the princess." ”
However, Kangxi was not very happy about Wu Ya's pregnancy, and he had a feeling that eighty percent of the children in Wu Ya's womb were not his own species. Kangxi suddenly had a very bad feeling: it's broken! When I went to the capital, is it possible that I will be killed by Wu Shifan? If he was killed, was it possible for the king to let the son of the Wu Ya clan be crowned king?
The Kangxi family, including Kangxi's queen, Concubine Hui, Bumu Butai, Su Malagu and others, were all sent to the capital. However, Kangxi and them were isolated by Jinyiwei, and they couldn't talk to Bumu Butai at all.
Bumu Butai felt that a catastrophe was coming, and she found that the Jinyi guards who came to "protect" her had all changed, and their accents were not southerners, but northerners!
"Where are you going to send the mourning family?" Bumu Butai asked.
"Enter Beijing and accept the canonization!" The leader of the Jinyi Guard said coldly.
Bumu Butai's heart sank: Not good! This is borrowing a knife to kill! She was about to scream, but she was tied up tightly by the brocade guard, and a rag was stuffed in her mouth. Then Bumu Butai was stuffed into a carriage.
Wang Yu stood at the gate of the Forbidden City in Nanjing, watching the convoy carrying Kangxi's family out of the city and heading towards Xiaguan Wharf, he turned to Liu Xuanchu and said, "The Tartar Puppet Emperor has been handed over to you!" This clan is going south! After saying that, Wang Yu took his personal guards and boarded the train to Shanghai.
The mouth of the Yangtze River in Chongming Island, Shanghai, from Wusongkou to Chongming Island, there are masts on the river like a forest, and huge warships are ready to set off on their journey.
It can be said that Wang Yu made a lot of hard work in order to go to Manila this time and seize the entire Luzon Island. The Spaniards in Manila consisted of only two fourth-class cruisers, three fifth-class cruisers, eight sixth-class small ships, and thirteen non-classified sloops, while the rest were armed merchant ships, including one 1,200-ton Spanish galleon, four 800-ton Spanish galleons, seven 500-ton galens, and eleven 200-ton three-masted schooners.
If it was only the strength of the Spanish warships and armed merchant ships in the port of Manila, Wang Yu only needed two third-class battleships and twelve sixth-class small ships to send all the Spanish ships to the bottom of the sea.
But the biggest threat to the Spaniards was their forts, with Subic and Papora batteries outside the port of Manila, as well as a number of smaller batteries along the docks inside the port. Manila Castle, north of Manila, is itself a massive fort and fortress.
It was precisely because of the impregnable defense of Manila Bay that the Spanish occupied Manila for 327 years, and in real history, it was not until the era of breezed rifled guns and ironclad ships that the Americans blasted through the defensive fortress of Manila and turned the Philippines into their colony.
The train was speeding on the land of the south of the Yangtze River, and Wang Yu looked at the rapidly regressing scenery outside the window, and his heart was full of emotion.
In fact, after Wang Yu established Yanping City, he understood why the Spanish colonizers chose Manila instead of choosing the flat northern area of Luzon Island to build a port, it turned out that on Luzon Island, typhoons and floods were simply commonplace, and the Yanping City built by Wang Yu was blown by typhoons several times a year, and the flood was fine, because the design of Yanping City was that the outer city wall was also a flood control levee, but as soon as the typhoon came, it blew all over the place.
The location of Manila, because there are mountains in the middle of Luzon, blocks typhoons from the Pacific Ocean, and Manila's harbor is deep into the interior of the island, and the wind protection is much better.
Therefore, only by capturing Manila can we truly control the whole of Luzon.
Zhang Yukun, who was appointed as the commander of the Southern Expeditionary Fleet, saw Wang Yu looking out the window and pondering, so he stepped forward and said: "Marshal, with our current strength, it will not be a problem to blast through the Manila Fort!" The batteries and castles of the Spaniards simply cannot withstand the huge cannons of our ironclads! ”
Wang Yu nodded: "This clan knows this, but this time we attacked Manila, I'm afraid we will completely turn against the Europeans from now on!" ”
"Just because the Spaniards once slaughtered us Han Chinese, we have a reason for this battle! What's more, our weapons are already much more advanced than theirs! Zhang Yukun said.
"I'm only worried that our steam engine technology and weapon technology won't be kept secret for too long, and Westerners may be able to build a steam engine soon!" Wang Yu said.