A great war between the Ming and Qing Dynasties actually started in the city of Wuchang controlled by the Great Zhou Kingdom, and it was fought in front of Fang Guangchen, the governor of Hubei Province during the Great Zhou Dynasty. The fight was very fierce!

Although there were few people on the Confucian side, they were well prepared. So they did not collapse immediately, but retreated into Gongyuan in an orderly manner for defense...

After the opponents invaded Gongyuan, they fought hand-to-hand with them, then retreated to Snake Mountain, and then retreated to the city wall near Snake Mountain to resist stubbornly.

The battle lasted until late that night, and in the end, more than a hundred people used the ropes that had been prepared to lower themselves out of the city.

The Confucian leader responsible for directing the Wuchang rebellion was Zhang Ying, who had staged a rebellion more than three years ago.

This time he is a "second rebel", and his level is certainly not comparable to that of the "first rebel".

After he took over the Confucian churches in Wuchang, Hanyang and Hankou, he immediately carried out rectification and made sufficient "preparations for counterattack".

He learned from the lessons of the previous scholar rebellion and began to recruit coolies on the docks of Hankou and Wuchang.

A group of backbones who had participated in regiment training (rural virtuous armed forces) were also transferred from the north and coolies recruited from Wuchang and Hankou docks formed the "Confucian Stick Group".

Later, a group of strong men were recruited from several villages in Wuchang Prefecture and Hanyang Prefecture that were controlled by the loyal Confucians of the Qing Dynasty who looked north to Wangshi, and finally a team of one or two thousand people was gathered.

However, the strength of this team is still limited, and it is not enough to capture Wuchang. Even if it were captured by luck, it would be impossible to hold it.

Therefore, Zhang Ying's purpose in launching this "Second Rebellion" was not to seize Wuchang City, but to draw out the Confucian disciples in Wuchang City - the struggle between Confucianism and Confucianism in Wuchang, Hankou, and Hanyang has always been very fierce.

Fierce, tit-for-tat confrontation has always been the case. So once Confucianism makes a large-scale move, Confucianism will definitely follow.

As long as the Confucian sect follows, Fang Guangchen's army can wipe them out.

After the Ming army reaches Wuchang, Fang Guangchen will no longer be subject to internal and external enemies, and can hold on for a while longer.

Zhang Ying is so sure because he has received news that thousands of Ming army warships and transport ships have appeared on the Yangtze River east of Tianjia Town... The Ming army may soon attack

Got it!

But he still didn't expect that here in Wuchang, the Confucians were much more powerful than his Confucians!

This is not because Zhang Ying's methods are not good, but because Confucianism has the two advantages of righteousness and greatness.

Fang Guangchen and his nine nephews are all staunch anti-Qing elements! Although they may not necessarily support the Ming Dynasty, they are definitely anti-Qing Dynasty.

For them, opposing the Qing Dynasty is a righteous cause!

In addition, Zhu Heji's Yuanru and Huang Zongxi's Yuanjun and Yuanchen have merged.

Wan Sitong, Huang Zongxi's favorite disciple, joined the Wu and Zhou camp with eight Huangmen students. Under their unremitting propaganda, most of the intellectuals in the Wu and Zhou camp identified with Yuan Confucianism.

This greatly facilitated the Confucian sect's efforts to win over Wu and Zhou officials in Wuchang, Hanyang and other places - everyone believed in a "Confucian", and of course it was one of their own.

The "Confucians" of Confucianism are slave Confucians, who can only attract those "wild Confucians" who did not serve as officials because they were loyal to the Qing Dynasty and became the opposition faction in Wu Zhou.

Although Fang Guangchen himself did not join the Confucian sect, several of his nephews are already disciples of the Confucian sect.

Under their control, Fang Guangchen did not know that the Ming army had already arrived.

Under their command, Fang Guangchen's army all sided with the Confucian disciples and launched an attack on the Confucian disciples together!

And Wuchang City also fell early because of the incident initiated by Zhang Ying.

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The Wuchang Uprising that occurred on the tenth day of the fifth month of the Ming Dynasty can actually be regarded as the first blow of the Ming Dynasty's all-out attack on the Zhou Dynasty!

The 300,000 heavenly soldiers that the Confucian sect in Wuchang brought out as disciples to scare people actually existed!

The new Ming Dynasty, which has a population of more than 30 million (including North Korea) and has completed the equalization of land among clans and villages in most places, has a mobilization capacity that far exceeds that of Wu Yingxiong and Emperor Kangxi.

Imagine.

Whether it is the Great Zhou or the Great Qing, there are only a few military households that can be mobilized. There are 90,000 military households in the Great Zhou, while the population in Kangxi is larger and can maintain more than 200,000 households of bannermen (actually

Military households). Therefore, the upper limit of military mobilization for both countries is a few hundred thousand for Wu and Zhou Dynasty, and a maximum of 300,000 for Qing Dynasty.

And Zhu Heji's "half a million bayonets" is far from the upper limit. If he really wants to carry out general mobilization, he can also pull out an army of one or two million. It's just that so many armies need to be maintained and their logistics supply must be ensured.

It's very difficult.

Therefore, the current total military strength of the Ming Dynasty is more than 500,000 and less than 600,000 (including the Korean Army and the Dengli Army), which has exceeded the combined military strength of Wu Zhou and the Qing Dynasty!

The main force of the 500,000 to 600,000 Ming army has quietly entered Jiangxi since Zhu Heji's cross-sea expedition last year and stationed several large camps in Nanchang Prefecture and Jiujiang Prefecture - these camps are all for

It was built in advance to attack Wu Zhou and was enough to accommodate an army of 350,000.

And long before the army began to gather, there were millions of stones of grain and grass, thousands of artillery pieces of various types, nearly 200,000 flintlock muskets, hundreds of thousands of kilograms of military sugar, and hundreds of thousands of kilograms of fire salt.

Millions of kilograms of black powder, as well as countless livestock, vehicles, cannons, guns, uniforms, flags, and armor, all flowed into the military camps and warehouses in Jiangxi Province.

The Navy's Yangtze River Division also received thousands of large and small ships and a large number of artillery and rocket launchers, which were almost completely brand new from top to bottom.

In addition to all the above, the army summoned under Zhu Heji's order also received sufficient military pay and military rations!

Although Zhu Heji's new Ming Dynasty implemented the land equalization system, which could theoretically mobilize unpaid soldiers, he still paid quite generous military salaries to the officers and soldiers, and also prepared a large amount of bounties - Zhu Heji had no way to do this in a

In a society in the primary stage of capitalism where "everyone shows their special abilities and makes a fortune", a system of military honors and titles is established. Military honors and titles need to be "sharpened" to support them. And the positions of military officers and local grassroots officials that can be released are also limited.

So he could only prepare a little more reward money to give to meritorious soldiers.

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! And the foundation of all the above is of course the developed handicraft industry and the growing financial industry of the New Ming Dynasty... This is the really scary thing about the New Ming Dynasty.

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"Woooooooo..."

Emperor Zhou of Xi'an was walking in the city when suddenly he heard heartbroken cries.

The man who is crying loudly is none other than Wu Yingxiong, the Emperor of Zhou Dynasty!

At this moment, Wu Yingxiong didn't know that Wuchang had fallen, nor did he know how terrible the Ming Dynasty was.

He was crying on a thin-skinned coffin... Wu Guogui sent someone to bring him this coffin, and it contained the dead Kong Sizhen!

"Donor Wu, don't cry. Please be sorry. People cannot be resurrected after death... and the poor monk saved her seven times along the way for Donor Kong so that she can be reborn in bliss."

The one who was advising him next to him was a lama with a solemn appearance, Sangyi Gyatso, the senior brother of Emperor Kangxi.

After Emperor Kangxi entered Kukuhetun, he was once again sent as an envoy to the fleeing army of the Wu Kingdom.

The purpose of his coming to Wu Guogui's army was to allow Wu Guogui to escape safely, and also to meet Wu Yingxiong in Guanzhong.

And he didn't come to see Wu Yingxiong empty-handed, but brought Kong Sizhen's body... When Wu Guogui and Wu Yingqi ran away that day, they didn't let anyone take away Kong Sizhen's body, but stuffed her into a thin-skinned coffin with her still on it.

A note was posted with the words "Please forward to Emperor Kangxi".

After Emperor Kangxi received it, he felt that it was inappropriate to keep it for himself, so he asked Sangji Gyatso to take Kong Sizhen's body to see Wu Yingxiong.

This made Wu Yingxiong very sad!

Moreover, there was a lama with very powerful magic power who said that he had liberated Kong Sizhen to the Paradise of Paradise.

Now Wu Yingxiong will never see Kong Sizhen again...

Seeing Wu Yingxiong crying more and more sadly, Sanji Gyatso had no choice but to change the subject and said: "Donor Wu, please stop crying... the emperor is coming soon!"

Wu Yingxiong was stunned when he heard this: "Great Emperor? Which one?"

He is also an emperor!
Chapter completed!