Chapter 1212 The curtain ends
A small countryside on the North American plains.
At 4:00 pm, Emperor Zhaowu of Wu Zhou, Wu Sangui, and his grandson Wu Shifan were surrounded here by the Far East Army.
Since the 24th day of the 12th lunar month of the 30th year of Tianwu, the Far Eastern Army fought against the Northern Expedition, the North American war that had lasted for two years was finally coming to an end!
In the past two years, the Far East Army has gone from being promoted in large numbers and swept across the world, to being attacked by the British, French and Western colonial coalition forces, and was almost destroyed by the regiment, and then to breaking the deadlock to win. It is too difficult to move step by step, no less relaxed than the Ming army in the Western Expedition.
Wu Zhou, the Far East Army, the European Colonial Army, and the three forces competed in the North American continent, just like the situation of the Qing Dynasty, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and the Western powers in the late Qing Dynasty.
At the beginning of the war, the colonial army's attitude towards Wu Sangui and Xu Mingwu was neutral on the surface, but each had ulterior motives.
The foreigners were quite insidious. The two sides fought bloody battles in the Ming Dynasty. They attacked the other side as they were stronger, so as to bargain and reap the benefits of the fisherman.
They knew very well that the Ming Dynasty and Wu Sangui were blood feuds and would never unite, especially the Ming Dynasty prince consort, who was almost paranoid and unwilling to compromise with Wu Sangui who took the initiative to make peace.
Therefore, the European colonial army did it unscrupulously and tried hard to weaken the strength of both sides.
But without any expectations, this completely angered Xu Mingwu. The Governor listened to the suggestion of the chief of Huacai Qin Yu and adopted the strategy of surrendering the army to fight the foreign enemy, which once reversed the situation.
After the Far East Army implemented the "Uployal Jin" system, a large number of Wu and Zhou troops turned against each other, with more than 100,000 people. This part of the army caused certain troubles to the Far East Army.
Xu Mingwu wanted to use them, but was afraid that they would turn against each other again in the war, or that there were too many people to suppress them, so he was always between using them or not, and the command system was very chaotic, which made some surrendered generals Wu Zhou very uncomfortable and had great ideas.
Qin Yu's plan can be said to have three goals in one fell swoop, which not only solved the suspicion of the Far East Army of surrender, but also allowed the surrendered generals to let go of their hands and feet.
Fighting foreigners is a race battle!
The most important thing is that it can also consume a lot of the strength of the reduced army, increase revenue and reduce expenditure.
The Far East Army and the surrendered army fought their own. More than 100,000 surrendered soldiers made an effort to fight against the European Three Kingdoms colonial coalition, which was 100,000 or 20,000 people. Don’t be too simple, just hit the wall and drove them all the way back!
By the way, these second Tartars, who were originally good at looting and the Indian soldiers who were vassals, unceremoniously snatched all the white-skinned colonies that had been run by the century-old!
Among them, the British suffered extremely heavy losses, several large colonies were occupied, and a large number of plantations and slaves changed their powers.
The angry Charles II kept sending troops from the English mainland to reinforce, but it was like a gourd baby saving his grandfather, sending him one by one.
Without the threat of the European colonial army, the Far East Army's northern expedition to Zhou became much simpler.
In the mid-32nd year of Tianwu, the son-in-law of the Ming Dynasty, the governor of the Far East Province, and the commander of the three armies, Xu Mingwu, ordered Zhu Daneng, the Marquis of Anliao, to pacify the bandit general Qin Shiyue, Gaoda and Shangshang marched into the Eastern Capital and approached the capital of Wu and Zhou.
Wu Sangui urgently ordered the Prime Minister of Xia, Ma Bao and others to stop and resist to the death. He also ordered the Prince Wu Yingxiong to defend the sea defense to prevent the Ming fleet from bombing the Eastern Capital by the sea.
Wu Zhou's fleet picked up the remnants of the former Dongyang Fleet of the Dadong Kingdom. It was pitiful and not as small as Wu Ying's command. It was not the opponent of the Far East Fleet and was beaten everywhere.
Wu Yingxiong floated on the sea for three months, and was dizzy and barely maintained until September, so he abandoned the fleet and fled.
As soon as the prince ran away, Wu Zhou's door opened to the sea, and the Eastern Capital was placed under the gun mouth of the Ming Far East Fleet. The morale of the Wu army further disintegrated and became increasingly out of control.
On September 10, Xu Mingwu ordered a general attack. The Far East Army swarmed across the river, and thousands of sails competed and came across the river, thus forming a destructive force, and the Wu army retreated on its entire front.
Except for some places to the north, most of the Wu and Zhou areas were occupied by the Ming army.
Seeing the difficulty in defending the city, Wu Sangui ordered the prince Wu Yingxiong to guard the city, and fled to the northern plains in one breath with his fifteen-year-old grandson Wu Shifan.
Obviously, Wu Sangui planned to give up his incompetent son and take away his grandson, which would be considered as a relief for Wu Yingxiong and let him defend the city and drag the enemy down.
The Far East Army besieged the Eastern Capital, and the two armies fought each other for a month. They looked at each other with the Wu army on the city every day, and were already in front of them.
While Xu Mingwu stepped up his siege, he launched a political offensive and shot out letters of surrender into the city, further shaking the morale of the Wu army.
In mid-October, the city was not in a state of food, and faced the attacks of the Far East Army day and night, and there was nowhere to escape. The city was ready to go down. The Wu army and generals in the city felt that they had no way to survive and had no intention of defending the city. They planned to surrender early, so as to survive in death.
On the 18th, the food in the city was gone, Wu Zhou and Wu surrendered, the Eastern Capital City was broken, and the fake prince Wu Yingxiong was strangled.
After taking down the Wu thief's nest, Xu Mingwu was not satisfied and ordered a full pursuit of Wu Sangui!
In his eyes, Wu Sangui is a traitor of China for all ages. Even if he only breathes, he will cut him into pieces! He will open a grave and slash the coffin when he dies. How could he allow him to run away under his nose?
I have to say that Wu Sangui is really able to run away, and he almost lets him run to Canada in later generations!
Along the way, the Wu bandits' personal army continued to dismantle and block the pursuers who fought against the Far East Army, and were dispersed one by one. When they arrived at this small village, there were less than 500 people in total.
Wu Sangui, with white hair, was hiding in an unknown small temple. At this moment, his eyes were dull and he looked at him without any attention.
The temple is located on a small hill, with three green tiled halls surrounded by a circle of rammed earth walls.
The hall is not tall, but it is slightly higher than the roof of ordinary Indian houses. On the shrine in the main hall is a clay sculpture of a general with an ugly appearance and a armored body.
Wu Sangui didn't know this general, he didn't know this ancient country and race, nor was he interested in understanding it.
Because for a long time, those Indians were just their prey, and those who were well-off were just coated slaves of the Han army flag.
In Wu Sangui's impression, this poor, backward, ignorant and conservative nation has never produced heroes that are admired by the world. They have no history and are a nation that is not enterprising!
However, at this moment, Wu Sangui was surprised to find that there was actually a person enshrined in this unknown small village?
Although this person's image is ugly, the one who can be worshipped here must be the hero in the minds of the locals, although this person's name is unknown.
Gunshots were heard everywhere, and a Far Eastern Army was attacking the small temple. The Wu army resisted tenaciously based on the wall surrounding the small temple.
This is a small village on a plain, with less than twenty families in the village, and more than a dozen low thatched huts are scattered around the hills.
Such a village was obviously unable to be used for defense, and the Ming army could blow up the flat with just a few mortars, although they did not do so.
The hills were gentle, and hundreds of Wu soldiers could only rely on the walls of the small temple as a bunker to fight back, and every second was like a year.
Chapter completed!