"But with their determination to die and their fearless courage, they finally created the myth of the weak defeating the strong! It can be said that without the miracle of Poyang Lake, there would be no Zhu Hongwu's Ming Dynasty!"
"It's been less than ten years. Where has the Chaohu Navy's invincible heroic spirit gone? Has it been castrated by Zhu Hongwu? Has its neck been washed and slaughtered like a pig?" King Ming pointed to the sky with his fingers, sighing with emotion.
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"Aren't you going to avenge the bloody feud between you and the ungrateful Zhu Hongwu?"
"Shut up!" King Ming's provoking method was too effective. The sitting general slapped the table and cursed angrily, while the two standing men drew their swords and wanted to kill him.
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Outside, upon hearing the roar in the cabin, the officers and soldiers immediately drew their swords and surrounded the four soldiers brought by King Ming.
The four soldiers panicked and quickly wanted to draw their swords to confront each other, but the other side showed a circle of crossbows.
The third child quickly put the second child's knife back into its sheath, and then raised his hands high.
The other two soldiers threw faster...
Fortunately, no more discordant sounds came from the cabin. The officers and soldiers then put away their weapons and just stared at the four with eager eyes.
In fact, the officers and soldiers reacted so exaggeratedly, firstly because they could not protect themselves and were naturally in panic. Secondly, because Zhu Ping's appearance was so aggressive, which aroused the instinctive reaction of these veterans when facing danger.
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inside the cabin.
Incompetent rage cannot last forever. After the three generals broke out in an instant, seeing that King Ming was unafraid, they became a ball of frustration - deflated.
There is no need to be too secretive. The military attache in the middle is the water transport envoy of the Water Transport Department of the capital of Gyeonggi Province and the Marquis of Nan'an Yu Tongyuan.
The two military attaches on the left and right are Liao Dingguo, the commander of the Huai'an Guard, and Yu Tongjiang, the commander of the Dahe Guard.
Just by looking at their surnames, you can tell that they all came from the Chaohu navy.
As in previous dynasties, the Ming army was generally full of factions. Except for Xu Datang and a few others, the rest of the generals were basically adopted sons, who wished they could be related to all their subordinates.
The Ming Dynasty Navy is the most serious among them. First, the characteristics of the military service require relatively stable fleets and officers, and they cannot be mobilized and rotated regularly like the army.
Second, the Chaohu navy has always been a very special existence among the Ming army, maintaining a high degree of independence.
This is a problem left over from history.
Before the first year of the Dragon and Phoenix years, the Chaohu Navy formed by the brothers Liao Yongan and Yu Tingyu and his son was actually a righteous force that independently resisted the Yuan Dynasty, just like Zhu Yuanzhang's Hezhou Army.
But in the first year of Longfeng, the Yuan Dynasty's 200,000-strong army besieged Chaohu. The Chaohu Navy was under tremendous pressure, but still refused to accept recruitment.
At this time, Liao Yong'an and others heard that Zhu Yuanzhang was in the north of the Yangtze River, and that under his command was an invincible army that would never commit a crime. They sent Yu Tonghai to break through the encirclement and cross the river to express his intention to defect.
At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang's rebel army was overwhelmingly powerful. He sized up the situation and decided to cross the river and seek Jiqing Road, which is now Nanjing, laying the foundation for his hegemony in one fell swoop.
But if he wanted to attack Jiqing, he had to cross the Yangtze River. Zhu Yuanzhang was suffering from the lack of a naval fleet and was excited to see it in the north of the Yangtze River. When he heard that the Chaohu Navy was coming to submit, he was so happy that he jumped three feet high and shouted "God help" several times.
I also'!
Because the Chaohu Navy has thousands of warships, nearly 20,000 troops, tens of thousands of stones of food, and the most precious thing - many naval generals who have experienced hundreds of battles, all of which Zhu Yuanzhang is in urgent need of, how can he not be happy?
Flowers bloomed?
So Zhu Yuanzhang personally led Xu Da and several other generals to Chaohu, met with Liao Yongan and others, and decided that the two armies would join forces and cooperate to form a coalition!
Zhu Yuanzhang, who had made up for the last shortcoming, gained even more power. He captured Jiqing Road in one fell swoop and changed his name to Yingtian. From then on, he became a prince qualified to compete in the world!
So from the beginning, the two sides were actually from an alliance.
In the words of later generations, they were small shareholders who brought capital to invest in the company, rather than high-level workers like Xu Da.
In addition, the Chaohu Navy was really desperate, and leaders such as Liao Yong'an, Yu Tingyu, and Yu Tonghai successively sacrificed their lives for Zhu Yuanzhang's great cause. Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang always allowed them to maintain relative independence.
But that was all before the founding of the People's Republic of China. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, there was only one boss in Ming Dynasty, and that was Boss Zhu.
Moreover, Zhu Yuanzhang successively recruited Fang Guozhen and Chen Youding's navy, and they no longer relied on the Chaohu Navy as before.
All the far-sighted and binding leaders of the Chaohu Navy had died, and the new generation leader Liao Yongzhong could not see clearly the situation. He still wanted to retain his own independent kingdom and was unwilling to integrate into the Ming Dynasty Navy.
He also allowed his slaves to traffic in illegal salt, which violated the interests of Huaixi nobles and eventually led to his death.
After Liao Yongzhong's death, the Zhongshu Province began to crack down on illegal salt trafficking across the country. I don't know how many servants of these Chaohu nobles were arrested, and I don't know how many bad deeds have been mastered by the imperial court.
In particular, a large number of middle- and lower-level officers were frequently transferred to the coastal naval garrison by the imperial court on the pretext of "preventing Japanese aggression". From the Chaohu Gang's perspective, this was tantamount to taking money from the bottom of the cauldron. Naturally, they would think that the situation was over, and they would be in panic all day long...
In fact, these Chaohu nobles have been seriously considering fleeing with their men.
This is not a rare thing. After Zhang Shicheng, Fang Guozhen, and Chen Youding failed, their remaining forces all followed this path. They hid on the islands, robbed merchant ships, and harassed the coast. They were named "Japanese pirates" by the court.
It’s just that the Chaohu Navy is the victorious party!
Many officers and soldiers who were not involved in smuggling are unwilling to follow in the footsteps of those losers and leave their hometown and country forever. In addition, the current leader, Yu Tongyuan, is not a decisive leader, so he is still undecided.
Mingjiao took this opportunity to establish contact with them...
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"We would like to hear, where did you get the confidence to defeat the current emperor?" Yu Tongyuan and the others looked at Prince Ming expressionlessly.
King Ming asked in return: "Isn't the Chaohu Navy invincible in the world?"
"Of course we are invincible on the water, but not when we get off the boat." Liao Dingguo said honestly: "You don't know how powerful the emperor's personal guards are. Unless we can sail on land, how can we resist their cavalry?
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"That's right." Yu Tongjiang also nodded and said: "If we fight on the water, of course we are not afraid of anyone. But even if the emperor goes to the ancestral mausoleum to worship our ancestors, we can't win by water, we still have to go ashore."
"What if I could allow you to eliminate his bodyguards or even capture him without getting off the ship?" King Ming said with a slight smile.
"Aren't you talking nonsense?" Yu Tongjiang said with a disdainful smile: "If you really have unlimited power and let us sail on land, then we will do it with you!"
"That's right, we can't get off the ship anyway. If you can find a way to bring us to the emperor in person and ship, we will join the group." Liao Dingguo also said.
"Well, let's make an agreement!" King Ming laughed loudly and said: "Although I can't let you sail on dry land, I can turn the dry land into a marsh country and trap his thousands of troops in the water, just like back then.
Guan Gong flooded the Seventh Army! If you join forces with us to take the heads of his father and son, it will be as easy as picking out the treasure from a bag, without any effort!"
ps. The second update, there are three more updates, don’t worry, checking...
