Huang Zongxi, Feng Jingdi and others who were recovering from their injuries in the stronghold have been waiting for news from the front line. If they were not seriously injured and the Supervisory State specifically told them to stay, they would rather go to the battlefield with their guns than wait anxiously for news at the rear.
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"Great victory!"
"Great victory!"
Huang Zonghui came striding over. His injuries were relatively minor, so he kept guard at the gate of the village and came to report as soon as he received the news.
"Won the fight?"
"The Tartars were completely wiped out, and more than 700 were killed. Not a single one escaped. I heard that the corpses of those killed were scattered all over the fields, and the blood of the Tartars dyed the beaches for several miles red."
Huang Zongxi still felt very refreshed after hearing these obviously exaggerated words.
"They were all wiped out. That's great. What a great victory in Meishan!"
"Tell me the specific situation." Feng Jingdi was also dancing excitedly, not even caring about his injuries.
Huang Zonghui learned what he had learned and tried to sell it, and elaborated on the news he had just learned. It was obviously just a battle between 8,000 and 700 people, but it was like the battle between Cao Cao's 800,000 troops and the Sun and Liu allied forces in the Chibi War.
"color!"
"It's so wonderful, how can you not write a poem to drink it?"
“And there must be wine!”
Huang Zongxi and Feng Jingdi's faces turned red with excitement. Although this was only a battle in which they wiped out 700 enemies, it was the most exciting victory since Tianbeng.
This is a victory that the entire Ming Dynasty urgently needs.
Even the arrogant Tartars could be wiped out one day, which shows that the Ming Dynasty is not exhausted yet, and the Han people have not yet perished.
In particular, His Highness Lu Jianguo personally commanded this battle, which further shows that there is hope for the restoration of the Ming Dynasty.
Why can't these people be applauded?
On the battlefield of Long Beach.
The battle is over, but the smoke has not yet cleared.
The Ming army is cleaning the battlefield.
Not a single Tatar was spared, not even their corpses.
Each head was cut off, especially the pig's tail, which was solemnly cut off and put away.
Their armor was also stripped off, even their shorts were stripped off. It doesn’t matter whether you have cotton armor or leather armor, iron-armed hands or leather helmets, swords or waist knives, spears or bows and arrows.
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All the loot was not spared, and some gold, silver and other items hidden on the Tatars were also found.
Horses, mules, boats, grain, and tents were all registered.
Zhu Yihai rode through the entire battlefield, looking at the excited Ming army soldiers and the wounded Tatar soldiers screaming for mercy. His face was expressionless, even a little sad.
I should be happy, but I can't be happy.
This was the victory he had always wanted, and he finally got it, but when this moment came, he still felt heavy.
In two days and two battles, thousands of Tatars were wiped out, but among them there were no more than a hundred real Tatars, and only twenty or thirty elite horse-armed soldiers. There were only a few so-called bagaras, and more were outside the customs.
The slaves in uniforms under the banner of the Han army, as well as the fishermen and guards soldiers just along the coast of western Zhejiang.
But even with such a small reconnaissance force, Zhu Yihai and the others tried their best to annihilate it, but the casualties they paid were not small.
What weighed more heavily on him was the determination shown by the Tatars to fight to the end. Even those fake Tatar Han army flags were quite brave enough to fight. Even the fishermen and boatmen that the damn Tatars temporarily forced to fight in the end actually
They all work hard.
Why?
Aren’t the Chinese not going to fight the Chinese?
Do these people really think they are Tatars?
Not to mention those people outside the customs, these fishermen and boatmen in western Zhejiang were definitely citizens of the Ming Dynasty a month ago. In just a few days, they have become obedient Tatars?
One by one, they actually shaved their heads and grew pig tails.
Have they ever been so brave and tenacious against the Tatars?
Are you still so dedicated to the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty now?
Why?
The Recovery Camp in Ningbo, the Shizhong Camp in Meishan Village, Sun Xiong's Army in Yuyao, and the Yixing Army in Shanyin, one after another of loyal, brave and lovely troops, once made Zhu Yihai's blood boil with incomparable passion.
But today these people poured cold water on him again.
Zhu Yihai, who was somewhat uninterested, ordered to return to Meishan Village.
The horses that were killed or seriously injured by the two armies were slaughtered and cut up on the spot, and the skin, meat and internal organs were brought back to the village for stew.
Returning to Meishan Village, Huang Zongxi and others organized the residents of the village to hold a simple but grand and warm welcome ceremony to celebrate their triumphant return.
The residents in the village were indeed very happy. The old village leader took the lead in killing pigs and ducks to reward the soldiers.
Many people from nearby villages also came here after hearing the news. Some came here to take refuge because they were afraid of Tatar invasion. Some came to join the army because they heard that Lu Jianguo was recruiting troops here and the food and wages were generous.
Some people also heard that porridge was being given here, so poor people came here to beg for food.
Facing these people, Zhu Yihai ordered horse meat porridge to be stewed and distributed to everyone.
In the village, Zhu Yihai, Zhang Mingzhen, Huang Zongxi and others gathered together to discuss post-war matters.
"According to His Highness's order, I have sent people to Shaoxing to remind Yu Gong and others to beware of Tartar troops sneaking across the river to attack. They should be prepared."
Zhu Yihai asked, "Is there any news from Governor Wang?"
"Not yet, but Chen Wu is dead and there are soldiers and horses staying in all places in Dinghai, so there should be no problem."
"It never hurts to be careful."
Zhu Yihai has always been worried about Huang Binqing in Zhoushan, but now he has no energy to go to sea to fight this guy.
"Does Your Highness still plan to go to Ninghai?"
"Well, the original plan remains unchanged. After a short rest, we will cross north to Ninghai."
"Your Highness, I would like to ask Your Highness to reconsider. It is better for Mr. Zhang to go to Ninghai for rescue, and Your Highness to go to Shaoxing. Since the uprising in Taizhou, Your Highness has been traveling around without anyone to lead him. Now that the situation has opened, His Highness needs to personally take charge.
Ah." Huang Zongxi thought that Zhu Yihai was not doing his job properly and was supervising the country, so you should sit in the rear and manage the central government.
How can anyone run around outside under the banner of Zhu Wu, the commander-in-chief of the flag-bearing battalion every day? This is both dangerous and neglecting the government's affairs.
But Zhu Yihai ignored it, he had his own ideas.
After the Tumubao Incident, the Ming Dynasty was basically completely reduced to a civilian court. The scholar-bureaucrats controlled all aspects of the government. After the Ming Dynasty lost the balance of the court by the martial arts group, the emperor was almost reduced to a mascot.
Later, whether it was Jiajing or Wanli, although they wanted to do something, it was still difficult to compete with the already dominant civil service power. In the end, all they could do was to activate the eunuch group and use factory guards to beat the scholar-official bureaucracy.
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But the results were mediocre, and the emperor was always kidnapped by the civil servant group.
When he arrived at Chongzhen, he killed Wei Zhongxian and overthrew the factory guards as soon as he came to the throne. Naturally, the Donglin Party members were praised by everyone, but in fact they blocked their own way.
It can be said that there is not even a single person around me who is truly useful.
After more than ten years of hard work, no matter how many chief assistants and bachelors he appointed and dismissed, or how many supervisors and chief military officers he killed, it could not change the fact that the Chongzhen Dynasty had long been completely controlled by a group of civil servants.
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Killing a chief lieutenant and replacing him with someone who is still part of the same interest group, killing a supervisor, or killing a commander-in-chief will not change the country's major policies at all.
Therefore, the more troubles Chongzhen made, the weaker the country became and the more critical the court became.
The finances collapsed, the army collapsed, and it was completely ruined from head to toe.
Zhu Yihai is considered a bystander.
He can understand this, so he will never be willing to take the path that the civil servants want him to take, nor is he willing to take the path of the short-lived emperors of the Nanming Hongguang and Longwu dynasties.
In Hongguang, Longwu and even Yongli, the small Southern Ming dynasties, the monopoly of civil servants on government was broken, but it went so far that warlords and generals controlled the court and even the emperor.
Especially Longwu and Yongli were actually controlled by warlords and became puppets.
Even in history, Zhu Yihai was later controlled by Zheng Cai. All his bachelors were thrown into the sea and drowned by Zheng Cai because they had disagreements with Zheng Cai.
From one extreme to another.
They are all dead ends with no way out.
Zhu Yihai neither wanted to be Hongguang nor Chongzhen, nor did he want to be Longwu or Yongli, nor did he want to repeat the path of Lu supervising the country in history.
He had to take a completely different path.
It is not feasible to use eunuchs and factory guards to fight against the civil servant group, especially in these troubled times, but it is even less feasible to try to use military generals to deal with the civil servants.
Zhu Yihai planned to become a warlord first, train and master a real army of the emperor, and then create a brand new Ming Dynasty Wuxun Group to balance the civil servants and bureaucrats group.
But this road is difficult.
But Zhu Yihai would not give up easily, so he did not want to hand over the army to others. He wanted to personally control and train a new army, a imperial guard.
Just like Li Shimin's Xifu Group, Zhu Yuanzhang's Huaisi Group, or Liu Bang's Peishang Group.
As long as he has an ever-expanding army in his hands, the Lu Jianguo court can survive. Otherwise, if he is busy going to the rear to form some sort of Lu Jianguo court, even if he recruits and appoints a bunch of bachelors, he will be busy holding court meetings all day long.
Something like that is also putting the cart before the horse.
Emperor Longwu appointed more than 20 bachelors at once. Is it useful?
At the end of the Ming Dynasty, every class had their limitations. Zhu Yihai could not let them lead him, but had to take the initiative to change them.
Whether it was Donglin, Fushe, eunuch, submissive, etc., no matter what, Zhu Yihai did not want to play according to their routine.
If Zhu Yihai goes to Shaoxing or returns to Taizhou now, it will be difficult for him, the supervisor of the country, to fight against these forces with his authority at this time. Zhu Yihai needs greater authority, and this is not what his status as a descendant of Taizu can give him. He needs
To win more victories with his sword and spear, he needs to firmly hold more military power in his hands.
This is just like the Zheng Group in Fujian. They had strong soldiers and a lot of money, so Emperor Longwu could only rely entirely on him. The Yongli Dynasty was basically controlled by the Xiying and Dongxun Groups.
After resting in Meishan for two days, Zhu Yihai sent people to collect many ships, and on the third day he set sail from Changtan to the north.
This time, he led the Zhejiang Zhenbiao Second Battalion, the Yongwei Battalion, the Flag Bearer Battalion, the Shenji Battalion and the Shizhong Battalion, a total of ten battalions and 10,000 troops, and he also went all out.
Standing on the deck, facing the wind and waves, Zhu Yihai was full of enthusiasm.
