Han’s Son is Not a Slave

There is an error in the previous article. Chen Qice is General Linghai of Nanming, not General Jinghai. Since the chapter name cannot be changed, it is hereby explained.

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On the surface of Tan Jiangjiang, the hundreds of warships under the command of General Linghai of the Ming Dynasty were large and small. The slightly larger warships were divided into upper and lower layers. There were several cannons weighing three to four thousand kilograms on board. For the smaller ones, copper (iron) cannons are placed on both sides of the ship's chord, and for the smaller ones, there are no less than a hundred guns with large poles lined up densely on the ship. The crew, whether soldiers or sailors, all wore red uniforms, and the flags were also red. From a distance, hundreds of warships with red flags sailed against the wind, obscuring the river, and it was very majestic.

The warship that was escorted by the group of warships with the banner of "Da Ming Linghai General" had three floors. At this time, there were more than a dozen generals of the Ming army in armor on the top floor overlooking the river ahead. It was the commander-in-chief of this navy—the Ming Linghai General Chen Qice.

Chen Qice is a native of Baochang County, Nanxiong Prefecture, Guangdong Province. After the Longwu regime was overthrown, Chen Qice followed Emperor Yongli to fight against the Qing Dynasty. After the Qing army invaded Guangdong, he led his troops to capture Shang and Xiachuan Island in the south of Taishan County, Guangzhou Prefecture. ☆. Recruited the righteous people to re-establish the Guangdong Navy, and sent envoys to get in touch with Lianchengbi, the governor of Guangdong appointed by the Yongli regime in Leizhou, and was willing to accept the latter's unified control.

After Li Chengdong was defeated and killed anyway, King Shang Kexi of Qingping South and King Geng Jimao of Jingnan marched to Guangzhou. The former general of Li Chengdong, Du Yonghe, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, who opened his own affairs, abandoned the city to break through. After learning the news, Chen Qice was Save the Anti-Qing Forces Counting Department to respond, and send Du Yonghe to Qiongzhou to settle down. Later, Du Heyong led his ministry down to the Qing Dynasty. Chen Qice dispatched troops to attack Du Bu in his righteous indignation, and severely damaged Du Yonghe with Qiongzhou sea, causing his navy warship to sink more than half.

Later, in order to cooperate with Li Dingguo's recovery of Guangdong, Lian Chengbi and Guo Zhiqi, the governor of Guangdong appointed by the Southern Ming court, issued a document to the Ming army who were still insisting on resisting the Qing in Guangdong, asking them to respond to Li Dingguo's army and attack Guangzhou together. So the Ming army and the righteous divisions swarmed all over the place. Chen Qice, who received the order, also happily led his troops to go up and down Chuan Island, enter the Xijiang River from Jiangkou to capture Jiangmen, and defeated Liang Biaoxiang, the commander-in-chief of the Guangdong Navy, who arrived later, and killed the deputy commander, Gai Yipeng. During the subsequent campaign of Li Dingguo's siege of Xinhui, Chen Qice led his troops to defend Jiangmen until Li Dingguo was defeated, and he had no choice but to lead his troops back to Shangxiachuan Island.

At this time, Chen Qice was already a gray-haired general, and it had been 37 years since he was 21 years old, but he was standing on the roof of the boat in military uniform. He still seemed to be in good spirits.

This time, Chen Qice led his troops into Tanjiang again, in order to support the Taiping army who were trapped in Xinhui, but at this moment, he had no expectations about whether Xinhui City was still standing, because the spies reported to him a few days ago , the siege army led by Shang Zhixin has begun to attack Xinhui. Combined with what Qi Hao said before about the soldiers and food situation of the Taiping Army in the city, the white-haired veteran had prepared for the worst in his mind, and at the same time regretted the months of wasted time. He was even more puzzled by Governor Lian Chengbi and Grand Scholar Guo Zhiqi's inaction.

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As early as when the Taiping Army occupied Xinhui, the various ministries of the Ming army who were scattered all over the country and insisted on resisting the Qing Dynasty already knew this amazing news!

Lianchengbi, the governor of Guangdong, did not believe it at first. But then after the news was confirmed, he immediately sent a report to Anlong's court together with the scholar Guo Zhiqi. At the same time, he dispatched people to inform Li Dingguo, the king of Xining, and asked the court and Li Dingguo to take advantage of this rare opportunity to send troops to Guangdong again. .

While waiting for the reply from the court and Li Dingguo, Lian Chengbi and Guo Zhiqi did not immediately take action to support Xinhui's Taiping army. First, they did not know much about the army that suddenly appeared in the territory. It is difficult to undertake the heavy task of rescuing the new club.

Last year, in order to cooperate with Li Dingguo, he attacked Guangzhou. The Ming army and the righteous divisions all over Guangdong suffered a lot of losses. At present, the strength of the Ming army in various places in Guangdong is on paper: Deng Yao's Department of Jingfang General in Qinzhou, Zhu Tong's Department of Zhenguo General in Lianzhou, Zhou Tengfeng's Department in Haibei Road, Zhang Xiaoqi, Governor of the Four Prefectures in Gaozhou, Tang Pingbo Zhou Jintang's Department in Lianjiang County, Gaozhou . Li Changrong's department in Hailing Island, south of Yangjiang County, Zhaoqing Prefecture, Wang Xing's department of Enping Huben General, and Linghai General Chen Qice's department of Shangxiachuan Island, etc.

There are 20,000 to 30,000 of these people together, but they are scattered all over the place. There is no direct connection with each other, and there is no place for long-term stationing. What is even worse is that most of these Ming troops are navy, lack of The troops that can fight on land can often hit thousands of Qing troops on the water, but once they go ashore, even a few hundred Qing troops can't handle it. Therefore, knowing that the occupation of Xinhui City by the Taiping Army is a rare opportunity for Nanming to recover Guangdong, but due to the fact that there are no soldiers and horses in hand to undertake the task of this eastward advance, even Chengbi and Guo Zhiqi can only wait patiently. After all, they can defeat the Qing army in the field now. The only ones left were Xiying officers and soldiers under the command of King Sun Kewang of Qin and King Li Dingguo of Xining. In order to conquer the East, only officers and soldiers from Xiying can come.

During this period, it was not that none of the soldiers and horses had the idea of ​​supporting Xinhui. Li Changrong, the general who was stationed at Hailing Island, wanted to lead his troops ashore to support Xinhui City in July, but was defeated by the Green Camp in Yangjiang County. Zhou Beifeng of Haibei Province also led a navy formed by Yimin to support Xinhui from Tanjiang, but was also defeated by the Qingguang navy. These two failures made Lian Chengbi and Guo Zhiqi dare not to order the various ministries to aid the Xinhui.

After waiting for more than half a month, the envoy of the imperial court of Yongli and the replies from Li Dingguo arrived in Xingyuan, the governor of Guangdong in Leizhou, one after the other. As soon as the envoy of the imperial court arrived, they ordered Lian and Guo to repel the entourage, and placed the emperor Yongli in the secret room. After the letter was sent to the two of them, Lian and Guo never mentioned support for the Xinhui again, and instead ordered the Ming troops from all over the country to assemble as much as possible to Wuzhou, Guangxi, so that the Ming generals from all over the country were confused.

No one except Lian Chengbi and Guo Zhiqi knew what Li Dingguo said in the letter. The only thing they knew was that the officers and soldiers of Li Dingguo's West Camp stationed in Gaozhou were suddenly dispatched and did not know where they went. Entering September, the situation became more and more strange. There were rumors that the king and grandson of Qin in Guiyang wanted Li Dingguo to go to discuss matters, but Li Dingguo said that he could not resign because of illness.

There is nothing wrong with Sun Kewang and Li Dingguo, the two princes who were born in the Great Western thief. The Ming Dynasty civil and military in Guangdong didn't really care. On the contrary, they did not look down on these two pillars of the current Ming Dynasty. Xiying soldiers are all a gang of rebels, if it wasn't for the riots of these rebels, would Daming die!

There are not a few people who hold this idea, Chen Qice is one of them, but he does not despise Sun and Li, and he will still try his best to do what the court needs him to do, otherwise he will not be there. Last year, he led his troops to capture Jiangmen to cooperate with Li Dingguo's Xinhui campaign. He often told people that a courtier must have the duty of being a courtier, and that whatever the court asked the courtier to do, the courtier would do.

At the end of October, a shocking news came out from the great scholar Guo Zhiqi, saying that Sun Kewang was going to conspire to usurp the throne, and the blood of the emperor called Li Dingguo to send troops to rescue him. Chen Qice, who is on the island, is naturally indistinguishable if the news is true or false, but he is sure of one thing. Something must have happened in the DPRK. Otherwise, why wouldn't Li Dingguo lead his troops to the east again, and the Governor-General has again Why did Xingyuan suddenly move to Qinzhou? That place is close to Guangxi.

Because his department was a navy division, the order for deploying troops from the Governor's Yamen was not sent to Chen Qice. On October 3, there was no news from the Governor Yamen, who had moved Xingyuan to Qinzhou. Chen Qice didn't know what happened. He tried to send people to Qinzhou, but somehow the Qing army on the shore also started. Roads were blocked, and pedestrians were interrogated very strictly, especially those who were going to Guangxi and Guizhou, and one was caught.

The changes made Chen Qice a little nervous. He had no more thoughts on the Xinhui side. After all, it had been a few months. No matter how powerful the Taiping Army was, no matter how strong it was, it would be wiped out by the Qing Army. It is the safety of the Son of Heaven. If the rumors are true, and Sun Kewang really wants to conspire to usurp the throne, then the emperor who lives in Anlong Mansion in Guizhou may have his life in worry. If the Emperor Yongli is killed by Sun Kewang, then Daming really has no chance of resurgence!

Under extreme tension and worry, a team of soldiers sent to fish by Chen Qice's subordinates got a piece of news from the fishermen at the mouth of the Tanjiang River, that is, there have been many wooden boards floating on the upper reaches of the river in the past two days, and some fishermen are still there. Hundreds of corpses were found upstream.

Eguchi, upstream, planks, corpses?

These few keywords made Chen Qice shudder for a while, and he couldn't help but wonder if this would be related to the new club? As far as he knew, there was no Ming army activity on the Tanjiang River, because he was the closest to the Jiangkou of the Tanjiang River. Now, a large number of corpses suddenly floated down from the Tan River, and there are many wooden boards. Based on this, it can be inferred that it is the wreckage of the warship~www.NovelMTL.com~ After a closer look, there is no Ming army activity on the Tan River, then these warships Naturally belonged to the Qing army.

Who destroyed the Qing army navy, the Taiping army?

After this thought appeared in his mind, Chen Qice was a little excited. In terms of days, it has been more than four months since the Taiping army occupied Xinhui. If the Qing army navy was really destroyed by the Taiping army, does that mean that the new society was destroyed? Huicheng is still in the hands of the Taiping Army? If the Xinhui is still in the hands of the Taiping Army, then the Taiping Army is also amazing!

Unable to hold back, Chen Qice decided to venture into Tan Jiang to find out what is real In Xinhui, no matter what happened to the imperial court, you can always use Xinhui to make a big difference in Guangdong in the future! If things were different from what he thought, it would not be a big deal. Whether it was on the sea in Guangdong or on the river, Chen Qice thought to himself that the Qing army could not defeat him.

When he was old, he did what he said, and now Chen Qice ordered all the generals under his command to take back all the ships that had been converted into fishing boats to feed their hunger. Except for leaving 500 people to guard the upper and lower Chuan Island, all the rest of the troops and horses followed him into the Tanjiang River. Because of going upstream, it took Chen Qice's department four days to set off from Shangxiachuan Island to the mouth of the Tanjiang River. There were 106 ships on the expedition, including sailors, with a total of 5,200 officers and soldiers. To be continued.