Chapter 60 There has been only one Qing Dynasty since ancient times
The nineteenth day of the twelfth lunar month.
It is suitable to move, enter the house, install beams, and travel; it is taboo to get married and break the melon.
From Chongzhou to Meinuo Village, you have to pass through four stations and eighteen kilometers. Among them, Guanyinqiao Station is only more than 40 miles away from the next Junyi Tun Ancient Village, but it takes at least two days to reach it.
There is no other reason for this, it's just a narrow path, going over mountains and ridges.
After Jia Liu and his party set out from Chongzhou, they found that the road was full of people transporting grain from all over the country, including local people from Sichuan, people from neighboring Huguang, Guizhou, and even Shaanxi.
These civilians from the surrounding provinces of Sichuan, including local Sichuan, used various transportation vehicles such as chicken carts, wheelbarrows, ox carts, horse-drawn carriages, etc., like ants to transport the food supplies needed by the Jinchuan frontline army one by one.
The scene was quite shocking.
Really more than three.
A lot of manpower was mobilized, a lot of food was requisitioned, and a lot of materials were allocated.
Busy traffic and crowded people are not enough to describe the scene Jia Liu saw.
No wonder Qianlong won most of his "Ten Complete Martial Arts". This competition not only involved national strength, but also unprecedented mobilization capabilities!
If Chongzhen in the late Ming Dynasty had the mobilization ability of the Qing Dynasty, not to mention Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, Nurhachi, Hong Tai, even if they sent Jia Liu there, they would probably end up being chopped up alive in a prison car.
At the same time, I was also shocked by the tenacity of Jinchuan and Jinchuan in resisting the Qing Dynasty and the brutality of the war.
With one or two counties fighting against the entire Qing Dynasty, which had reached its peak of centralization in the feudal era, what kind of people could persevere?
On the way, a large number of Qing troops also went to Menuoguanzhai. According to the news from Jia Liutao, Wen Fu used his troops in two general directions this time.
One is the main force of the Northern Route Army led by Wen Fu himself.
The second is the main force of the Southern Route Army led by Agui.
The two main Qing forces consisted of nearly 50,000 elite troops, as well as several other groups including Fukang'an, Hailancha, Dong Tianbi, Fengsheng'e, and Ha Guoxing.
The total military strength is probably more than the 70,000 or 80,000 that Alan Paul said.
If these civilian men responsible for transporting rice and grain are included together with the rest of the force, the manpower used by the Qing government in Jinchuan this time may be more than 300,000.
However, the larger the scale, the more timid Jia Liu became.
Although he didn't know when the Jinchuan War would end, it was definitely not this year.
Therefore, if a dog is a dog and preserves his strength, then he can serve the Qing Dynasty more effectively.
Otherwise, how can I realize my great dream and restore the reputation of Jia Han, an old thief?
With the path of He Zhongtang, Jia Liu would never take any personal risks, be impulsive and think that he was invulnerable and get shit luck.
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It took three days to arrive at Guanyin Bridge Station. Before entering the station, Jia Liu saw a suspension bridge in front of him.
Opposite the suspension bridge stands a very tall stone fortress. I am afraid this is the legendary Jinchuan Stone Fortress.
After handing over to the officials at Guanyinqiao Station and settling in his team, Jia Liu used the excuse of coming to the front line for the first time and asked the station to send someone to accompany him to the stone bunker.
During the Yongzheng period, it was stipulated that bannermen were not allowed to serve as post officials, so the post officer of Guanyin Bridge Post was a Han named Sun Tong, and he was an eighth-rank official. How could he dare to neglect Lord Jia of the Eight Banners Army.
Moreover, flag officials were originally more noble than Han officials.
The ninth-grade Lan Ling commander didn't even need to pay attention to the seventh-grade green camp commander.
If we are really on equal footing, if we treat the officials from Luying as Shangguan, do we still need the face of the banner people? Do we still need the face of the imperial court?
Jia Liuzhen was polite to an eighth-grade Yi Cheng, which would simply shake the foundation of the Qing Dynasty.
Sun Tong immediately sent a postman to lead Jia Liu and his party to the stone blockhouse.
On the way, according to the postman, when the Qing army did not capture this place last year, there were more than 80 soldiers stationed in this stone fort. As a result, these 80 people resisted the attacks of more than 10,000 Qing soldiers for more than a month without any casualties.
, and were eventually forced to evacuate because they ran out of food and grass.
The Qing army lost more than 700 people.
Jia Liu was secretly shocked after hearing this. If this casualty ratio is true, Jinchuan is simply a meat grinder for the Qing army.
Arriving at the foot of the fort, Jia Liu looked up and saw that the fort was about 15 or 6 meters high. It was very wide at the bottom and narrow at the top. It was divided into five floors, with shooting holes on each floor. Combined with the special geographical location of Guanyin Bridge, it was typically easy to defend but difficult to defend.
attack.
The postman also said that this was still the outskirts, and the further you went in, the more stone forts you saw.
In some dangerous places, there are more than a dozen or even dozens of towers in a row. Watchtowers cooperate with each other to form a group of watchtowers. The Fan army hid inside and shot down the Qing soldiers with shotguns.
The soldiers of the Qing Dynasty wanted to capture it, but they had no choice but to pile up people's lives, because the previous fire and bombardment were ineffective.
How to stack?
Jia Liu walked around the stone fort and vaguely understood the value of the Jianrui Battalion of Cloud Ladder Soldiers built by Qianlong.
The battle scene simulated in my mind is that countless Qing troops, forced by their superiors, wore double armor and held shields, carried a ten-meter-long ladder, braved the guns of the Fan army in the fort, approached, set up the ladder, and quickly climbed up to the fort with vigorous movements.
top, and then from top to bottom.
Otherwise, there is no way to break the fortress.
The other thing is to build a giant cannon.
But looking at the terrain, even if the Qing army could build huge cannons and use them in battles, it would still take a long time.
Qianlong was eager to extinguish the flames of anti-Qing and restoration of Ming in Jinchuan. He repeatedly killed defeated generals and did not hesitate to use all his national power to send troops to Jinchuan. The final result was that he failed to conquer this place for almost thirty years.
After taking people to the fort, they saw blood stains that had turned black everywhere on the walls and stairs. There were also dents hit by cannonballs in many places, but they could not defend this solid stone fort.
Half a minute.
Seeing that a stone was a little loose, Jia Liu pushed it hard, but it didn't move.
When Yang Yuchun pushed it, it fell down, but it had no effect on the surrounding rocks.
If you look closely, there seems to be glutinous rice juice in the adhesive between the stones.
"There used to be stone blockhouses here, for thousands of years, but not many. After the Fanbing rebellion, those fake Han people helped them build these stone blockhouses and taught them how to put guns in the stone blockhouses and use beacon towers...
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This was the second time Jia Liu heard the term "fake Han people", and he instinctively thought of the scene at the execution ground in Chongzhou City that day.
Wrong, wrong...
This year is the 126th year of the Ming Dynasty...
Descendants of the Han family...
"Hey, there is an offering table here. I don't know which deity the fan thief offered to offer, but he wouldn't also offer it to the second master Guan..."
Yang Zhi found an altar table on the third floor that had fallen to the ground and was about to fall apart. There were traces of incense and candles on the wall.
Jia Liu came up from the stairs.
"I heard people say that there used to be a statue here, but it wasn't Mr. Guan Er, but Emperor Zhu... It wasn't done by thieves, it was done by those fake Han people. They said they were rebelling against the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty. Hey, we Han people
Since ancient times, there has been only the Qing Emperor. Where did Emperor Zhu come from, and where did this nonsense Ming Dynasty come from. It is really misleading..."
The postman's mouth was quite rude.
"Have you read the book?"
"To tell you what, adults, my family is poor, so how can I provide for my education?"
"No wonder."
Jia Liu smiled and climbed straight up the stairs to the top of the castle.
Surrounded by mountains in the distance, the road between the peaks curves like a long snake, and there are vague stone blockhouses looming in the mist.