During the Yuan Dynasty, Tianjin was a major military town and a grain transfer center. After the founding of the Ming Dynasty, it was established here, called the Three Guards of Tianjin. During its heyday, the three guards were soldiers.

Since then, with the increase in population and the development of business, there are many affairs, and disputes have occurred. Therefore, the Ming Dynasty successively set up officials, set up yamen, established schools, and moved foreign officials to Tianjin to directors. In addition, Tianjin is also the location of the Jinyiwei Command Yamen.

During the Chongzhen period, Luo Yangxing, who served as the commander of the Jinyiwei, surrendered to the Qing Dynasty and was appointed as the governor of Tianjin by the Qing court. Later, he was dismissed for the unauthorized reception of Zuo Maodi, the envoy of Emperor Hongguang of the Southern Ming Dynasty. However, he was still appointed as the Prince's Grand Tutor and the Left Governor. Later, he was appointed as the Zhejiang Seal and Seal Commander and died soon after.

As the Qing Dynasty successively occupied China and the northern waters and tranquility, Tianjin's status as a major military center gradually declined. In recent years, Tianjin's real town was only a general, and its troops were adapted from the Ming army that followed Liu Zeqing's surrender to the Qing Dynasty.

The Tianjin Water Camp was formed in a hurry a few months before Shunzhi's death. It was originally planned to merge with the Laizhou Water Camp into the Qing Dynasty, and to purchase ships from the Dutch and train sailors to deal with the threat of the Taiping Navy.

There was no strong navy, so the Jiangbei camp was unable to cross the river while the Taiping Army was not yet stable in Jiangnan, which gave the Taiping Army time to manage Jiangnan, which eventually led to Shunzhi's personal defeat.

After returning to Beijing, Shunzhi learned from his mistakes and carried out a large-scale reform to enrich the power of the Eight Banners of Manzhou. At the same time, he also attached importance to the establishment of the navy. For this reason, he even signed money with the Dutch to borrow troops to realize the strategy of "using the Han Dynasty to control the Han Dynasty" and "using the barbarians to control the Han Dynasty".

It can be said that building a navy force that is not inferior to a thief scholar was one of Shunzhi's wishes during his lifetime, but this plan stopped after Shunzhi's death.

On the one hand, although the Red Barbarians in the East Ban signed a deposit agreement with the Qing Dynasty, they did not fulfill the deposit agreement, helped the Qing army in Fujian withdraw from the sea, and the four warships that promised to be sold to the Qing Dynasty were not delivered for a long time.

After Fan Chengmo, the son of Fan Wencheng, who was responsible for negotiations with the Red Barbarians, returned from the Eastern Band, he faintly told the ministers that if the Eastern Band people wanted to fulfill the treaty, the Qing Dynasty would first be able to solve the imminent danger. Otherwise, don’t expect the Eastern Band people to help the Qing Dynasty.

After Fan Chengmo's words reached the ears of the Empress Dowager, she just sighed and said to Su Malagu: "The boss of the Fan family is right. Our Qing Dynasty is not hard, so how can we expect outsiders to help us? In this world, it is not uncommon to add icing on the cake, but it is rare to provide timely help."

In addition to the Eastern Florida continued to wait and see, on the other hand, after Shunzhi's death, the Qing court was busy pursuing funerals and also had to deal with Wu Sangui's 200,000 troops. The money and food were really tight, and there was no way to form the navy as Shunzhi wished during his lifetime.

Therefore, after several auxiliary ministers discussed, they unanimously agreed to suspend the establishment of the Qing Dynasty Water Division, which led to the Tianjin Water Camp being half dead from the date of its establishment to the present.

The Laizhou Water Camp still had three days to fish and two days to live a life of just living alone. Although the Taiping Army in the south could fight, it was far away after all, with Xuzhou in front of it. The Laizhou Water Camp did not think that one day they would become the target of the Taiping Army's key attack. Until they found that some things were not something they wished for would not have happened.

After the news of the Taiping Navy's large-scale attack on the An River and occupied the Laizhou Water Camp in Beijing, it caused a huge sensation among the Eight Banners' powerful people. It can be said that this news shocked the Qing court more than when he heard that the Zheng navy was attacking the city of Nanjing.

After all, Shandong is close to you, but Nanjing is thousands of miles away.

Laizhou is too close to the capital of the capital. The Taiping Navy can attack Laizhou, and it can even land from Tianjin to attack Beijing!

Beijing is now an empty city!

Two-thirds of the elite Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty were brought to Henan by Obai, and the remaining one-third had to be led to Shanxi because Wu Sangui divided his troops into Shanxi. So in the current city of Beijing, in addition to the guards in the palace, that is, the Baoyi Geshiha of the royal palace, and the patrol guards of Shuntian Palace. What if the Taiping Army fought from sea to Tianjin and came to Beijing, what would happen?

Are you counting on the palace guards to kill the enemy, or are you guarding the city from the royal palace, or are you guarding the patrol soldiers who only know how to collect money to work for the Qing Dynasty?

The news is so bad that it can't be broken any more.

Many Qing officials thought of the lesson of Jidu's defeat in Guangdong. It was because the thief scholar transported his troops to Jidu's rear through the navy and blocked the official road. This made Jidu and his subordinates trapped Jidu and more than 30,000 Manchu and Mongolian Hanlang in Chaohui's palm-sized place, and eventually the entire army was wiped out.

There is one, there are two. Who can guarantee that the thief scholar will not take advantage of the emptiness of Beijing and make another landing battle at sea?

Some princes and ministers of Manzhou Province cursed the thief scholars who had no faith and did not keep their promises and tore up the armistice agreement. However, they could only curse, what else could they do? Can they lead the Qi army to cross the river and flatten his thief scholars, or can they fly a sword thousands of miles to take the heads of his neck?

When you leave the customs, all the young and old come out of the customs. You can’t stay in Beijing anymore!

Dozens of princes and ministers from the Eight Banners came to the palace and begged the Empress Dowager to abandon Beijing and leave the pass, because it was impossible to take it in the pass. If you want it, all the young and old in Manzhou would have to be buried with you.

"What a panic? The sky hasn't stepped down yet, and the Taiping Kou hasn't run to the Ai family's nose yet!"

The Empress Dowager was calm and cursed the princes and ministers hard, and then told them good news that her mother's family, Korqin, was about to enter the pass again.

This is indeed good news. In addition, Oboi defeated Wu Sangui in Henan successively, and the admiral Kuenbu in Kaifeng severely damaged the Zhongzhen Camp, and Beiletuntai was leading troops to encircle and suppress the riots in Shandong. As long as these links did not collapse, the danger faced by the Qing Dynasty was not as serious as expected, and it would not have been so fled back to the pass in a hurry.

However, the soldiers and horses of Korqin and other troops could not fly to Beijing for a while, so the Qing Dynasty still had to find a way to minimize the danger in the capital.

Prince Kang Jieshu proposed that the main force of the Taiping Army did not go north, and only their navy attacked Laizhou, so the court had to select an excellent navy general to go to Tianjin to take charge. As long as Tianjin is not lost, Beijing will not be in danger.

There were no excellent naval generals in the Eight Banners of Manchu and Mongolia, but there were Han officials. Shi Lang, who had been sitting in the capital for almost ten years, was so poor that he could only rely on his wife and daughter to sew clothes for others. He was once again valued by the Qing Dynasty and ordered him to be the admiral of Tianjin and go to Tianjin to fight against the enemy.

This has been a whole year since Shi Lang was valued by the Qing Dynasty last time.

A year ago, Shi Lang received an order from the court, ordering him to go to Jiangbei Camp to serve as the general of the navy, but before others arrived in Yangzhou, Jiangbei Camp was defeated. He had no choice but to turn back to Beijing and continue to be his idle official, and be looked down upon by others.

God really pays off his heart, Shi Lang finally waited for his own opportunity again. After receiving the imperial order, he immediately asked his wife to pack his clothes for him, and then took several officials sent by the Ministry of War to Tianjin.

After arriving in Tianjin, Shi Lang didn't even go to the Admiral's Office and went directly to the Water Camp. He knew very well that the key to guarding Tianjin was the Water Camp. If the Water Camp could not repel the Taiping Navy, then no matter how many troops there were on the land, it would be useless, because you don't know where the enemies on the sea would land.

The Qing army in Tianjin was not enough to deploy defenses everywhere, so the best way was to actively lead the water camp to find opportunities to annihilate the enemy and defend the enemy outside the "national gate".

However, when Shi Lang saw the so-called warships parked on the pier and the sailors who were hurriedly called by Shangguan, his heart was completely disappointed.

Shi Lang couldn't believe that what he saw was the Tianjin Water Camp, which was an important force for the imperial court to merge with the Laizhou Water Camp into the Qing Dynasty.

There are a total of ships, but among them, they can be called warships, and only a few can go to sea to fight. Other ships are useful if they say they are useless. Perhaps they can run through the inland rivers in Tianjin with cargo.

Although Shi Lang has been idle in Beijing, he is closely following the war situation in the south, especially the Zheng navy, who has been incorporated by the thief scholar, has always been a big trouble for him. He is very clear that according to the existing combat power and ship scale of the Tianjin water camp, Zheng Mingjun and his uncle and nephew do not need to dispatch the main force, but only send a partial army to the place, and the Tianjin water camp can only be wiped out. This is clearly written about the experience of the Laizhou water camp.

If someone else knew that he could not do anything, he would give up and just live by it. But Shi Lang could not, he had to rectify the navy and prepare for the battle. This was not because Shi Langzhen was loyal to the Qing Dynasty. He was a sensible person who could see that the Qing Dynasty had lost the wealth of Jiangsu and Zhejiang and faced the attacks on both sides of the Taiping Army and Guanning Army would not be able to hold on anymore. What a smart man should do now is to choose which side to surrender, rather than to be buried with the Qing Dynasty.

However, Shi Lang had no choice. The thief scholar recruited the Zheng naval army. The generals of the Zheng naval army have now become members of the Taiping army. Zheng Chenggong's younger brother has also become princes of the Dingwu court. Zheng Mingjun and others have even been granted the title of Duke and Marquis. But he is the enemy who everyone in the Zheng family wants to catch the enemy who bites to death. Therefore, it is impossible to join the Taiping army because it is a way to die.

Huang Wu sent someone to find Shi Lang and wanted to take him to surrender to the Dingwu court. Shi Lang refused Huang Wu at that time, so he would not have reported to the Qing court, but he was sure that even if Huang Wu surrendered, he would never have a good end.

The trapped beast is still fighting, and the rabbit still bites people when it is anxious. Shi Lang will not be able to wait for death. He wants to struggle and struggle to find a way out.

Seizing Tianjin is Shi Lang's only way to survive. If the Qing Dynasty fails, he can live. If the Qing Dynasty fails, he can live, because he can surrender to Wu Sangui.

In any case, the Taiping Army could not occupy Tianjin. Shi Lang was so energetic that he began to engage in the rectification and training of Tianjin's water camp and garrison troops.

It has to be said that Shi Lang was indeed an outstanding navy general. Under his leadership, Tianjin Water Camp had a new look in just three months.

Shi Lang personally participated in the reconstruction of warships, increasing the number of warships in Tianjin Water Camp to ships, eliminating the old and weak, elite young and strong, and building a sailor team of people. Given the severe lack of artillery, Shi Lang reported to the Qing court that all the artillery left outside the pass were dismantled and transported to Tianjin by ship. Even the cannons that were originally left in Ningjin and Shanhaiguan were dismantled. Even if the rust was rusted, it could solve Shi Lang's urgent need.

The Qing court could only give Shi Lang so much, and he had to find a way out for the rest. In addition to weapons and equipment, the one that Tianjin lacked the most was definitely money and food.

Shi Lang, who had been cautious in Beijing for ten years, was very courageous this time. Without reporting to the Qing court, he lent to gentry and merchants in Tianjin and even searched. When everyone in Tianjin scolded Shi Lang for skinning, Tianjin's defense finally looked like a good thing.

The Qing court naturally received countless complaints from Tianjin gentry, and there were also officials in the court with relatives and friends in Tianjin. They jointly submitted a memorial request to the court to withdraw Shi Lang. As a result, Sony scolded Shi Lang in the name of Empress Dowager Ethnic.

The thunder was loud and the raindrops were small. It was at this critical moment. How could the Qing court remove Shi Lang for the sake of some merchants and gentlemen?

With the endorsement of the imperial court, Shi Lang was more courageous. While sending countless works to Laizhou, Shi Lang searched for spies from Taiping Army in Tianjin, but the spies did not catch many spies. Instead, he found many books and booklets about the massacre of the Qing army since entering the pass. Shi Lang didn't care about these. He was concerned about a book written by someone who actually claimed that the Qing Dynasty was not China. Therefore, all Chinese people should expel the Qing Dynasty and restore the orthodoxy of China.

"If the Qing Dynasty was not China, what would I be Shi Lang be? A traitor? A traitor?"

Shi Lang was very dissatisfied with what the book said and ordered the people below to find out who wrote it. If they were in the Qing Dynasty, they would report to the court to scatter his family.

The Tianjin Water Camp rectification has been effective. Shi Lang is waiting for the fighter now. He will be the best at first and then suffer. Although his strength is not as good as the Taiping Navy, he believes that insufficient strength is not the only condition to determine the outcome. If the command is appropriate and the timing is appropriate, he can defeat the more with less and catch the opponent off guard.

Shi Lang sharpened his sword, and the East China Sea Navy in Laizhou was also looking for fighter jets.
Chapter completed!