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In the seventeenth year of Chongzhen and the first year of Tianshou, the Empress of Ming Dynasty, it was in late September.

The admiral of the Daming Navy, the admiral of the East China Sea, and Li, the general of the Ming Empire, the commander of the Jingwei and the governor of the five armies, led five thousand elite musketeers of the Li family armed with flintlock Mines rifles. With more than one hundred cannons and more than 30,000 auxiliary soldiers of various types, he fought against the intruders under the city of Xi'an in his private Dashun State.

At this time, the puppet Dashun bandit army, which had been defeated in Huaiqing and Pingyang, stayed behind closed doors, and made preparations in advance to fortify the wall and clear the field. It seemed that they wanted to force the attacking Ming army back?

"..."

At this time, in the imperial palace of Xi'an City, Li Zicheng, who claimed to be the emperor of Dashun Kingdom, was wearing a golden armor, sitting high on his dragon chair on his throne, watching the generals present in silence.

Looking around, the generals of the Dashun Kingdom standing on both sides of his throne are: Yuan Zongdi, General of the Right Battalion, Liu Fangliang, General of the Left Battalion, Liu Zongmin, Marquis of Ru and Governor of the Left, Li Laiheng, Tian Jianxiu, etc. They are listed, and besides them, there are other generals from Dashun Kingdom.

Right now, they are discussing a good strategy to defeat the enemy here in the palace!

but……

The firearms of the Ming army were sturdy and sharp, and that kind of firearms could kill people thousands of steps away. Thousands of people fired together in volley, and the momentum was so terrifying that no one could get close to it?

In addition to the terrible firecrackers, the cannons of the Ming army are also very scary!

Because, their range is said to be several miles and they are extremely accurate?

Therefore, although the generals of the Dashun Kingdom had the intention to kill the enemy, they were still unable to recover. In the end, they had no other good solution except to sit in the lonely city of Xi'an and have to go to the fortified wall to clear the wilderness.

"Tell me all about it!"

"Say it!"

"What shall we do next?"

"Could it be possible that I'm going to be trapped to death in this city of Xi'an by the mere 30,000 to 40,000 Ming troops?!"

Previously, after being defeated by Wu Sangui and Jiannu at Shanhaiguan, Li Zicheng hurriedly proclaimed himself emperor in the Forbidden City, and then fled all the way back to Xi'an, to his headquarters here.

From then on, he began to regard himself as the emperor, and usually used words such as 'zhen' to show his identity.

"..."

"..."

Hearing Li Zicheng's question,

The ministers of Dashun Kingdom looked at each other, but in the end Liu Zongmin stood up bravely and said slowly after saluting:

"His Majesty!"

"The city defense of Xi'an City has been renovated and operated by us for many years. The walls are high and the trenches are deep. It is not something that 30,000 to 50,000 people can attack."

"Besides, the food from the nearby autumn harvest and the food from the villages and towns were all snatched up in advance by us and transported to the city. Nearly no harvest, it will definitely not last long!"

"If you think about it, it will take three or two months at most, and half a month at least. The Ming army will not be able to continue, and they will definitely retreat!"

"At that time..."

"I'll wait for the work, and then go out of the city to cover up the kill, maybe I can get something?"

Liu Zongmin said while shaking his head.

Anyway, in his opinion, the city of Xi'an is definitely not so easy to be breached. After all, there are nearly 100,000 defenders in the city. They are all very different enemies in the field, but if they defend the city, it must be no problem in his opinion.

Even if you put yourself in his shoes and think about it, if Liu Zongmin led the 30,000 to 50,000 Ming army, there is basically no good way to take advantage of the towering walls and deep trenches of Xi'an City.

"What General Quan said is true!"

"That's right!"

"Your Majesty, don't disturb us. We just need to stay in the city and eat and drink well, and let those officers and soldiers attack us!"

"That's right! I'm afraid he's a bird!"

"Extremely!"

"As the saying goes, Sun Tzu's Art of War has a saying: Ten can surround it, five can attack it, double it can fight it, the enemy can fight it, the enemy can escape it if it is small, and it can avoid it if it is weak. Therefore, the strength of a small enemy is strong. The capture of the enemy?"

"Now our Dashun Kingdom's defense force is at least three times that of the Ming army, and we still have a fortified city, but he only has a mere 30,000 people to attack. What can I do?"

"Okay! General You said well!"

"Also! It's going to be winter in the northwest right now, so let's eat delicious food and drink spicy food in the city, let those Ming soldiers drink the northwest wind outside, and freeze them to death!"

"Hahaha!"

Soon after Liu Zongmin finished speaking, those generals Yuan Zongdi from the right battalion, Liu Fangliang from the left battalion, Li Laiheng, Tian Jianxiu, and others all laughed loudly and talked about each other. While discussing, the dignified atmosphere just now disappeared in an instant.

Although they are indeed a little afraid of the Ming army, and even more afraid of the terrifying firecrackers of the other side, but now they are defending the city, they can just hide behind the city wall. There is always a siege, and the siege always has to be close. At that time, once the opponent is close to the city wall, even if their defenders change one by one, they will be able to kill those 30,000 Ming troops in a few days. Do you want to change it?

"..."

Li Zicheng didn't speak, he was not as optimistic as those confidantes.

But, after the taunting and ridiculing discussions from Liu Zongmin and those idiots, his complexion finally looked a little better, and his confidence in defending Xi'an City was a little bit stronger.

"Well?"

"What is it?"

"Did the Ming army attack the city?"

Suddenly, Li Zicheng turned his head and looked at the gate of the palace, because at this moment, he saw a general rushing in quickly.

"Report!"

"Your Majesty, the officers and soldiers outside the city have sent us a letter!"

As he said that, the general handed over a document that he held in his hand, and he still couldn't change his verbal habit, so much so that he subconsciously thought that the Ming army was an official army, and he was still so used to it. Sexually called.

"read!"

His face froze, but Li Zicheng didn't intend to be presented, but indicated that the person would read it directly.

"this……"

It's a pity that the partial general suddenly became a little hesitant and embarrassed. He took the letter but didn't open it, but looked around, not knowing what to do.

Because ah, he doesn't know a few big characters at all!

The reason why he ran back to report immediately after receiving the letter from the Ming army under the city was that he wanted to show his presence in front of their King Chuang, the current Emperor of Dashun Kingdom, so that he could simply It's only in the emperor's heart, and it's really embarrassing for him to read it out.

"Bring it!"

"Get off quickly!"

Liu Zongmindao obviously also saw the embarrassment of the partial general, so he simply walked over, snatched the letter from the other party's hand, and then signaled the other party to retreat before the emperor got angry.

"Well……"

"His Majesty."

"That's what it says in the letter..."

After reading the contents of the letter, and then looking at Li Zicheng on the dragon chair, he hesitated for a while, but Liu Zongmin still had to grit his teeth and read out:

"Letters and thieves... Li Zicheng, the leader of the thieves..."

"I heard that after you entered Beijing, they searched the palace and found something like '37 million ingots of silver and 10 million ingots of gold, each of which is 500 liang, with the word Yongle engraved on it'?"

"I also heard that since you entered Beijing on March 27th, the 17th year of Chongzhen, they began to torture Ming officials and ransacked their homes everywhere. 10,000, 53,000 for the Dao Ke official department, 321,000 for the Hanlin, and thousands for each of the subordinates?"

"So..."

"I am now ordering you to open the door and surrender, and hand over ten million ingots of silver and ten million ingots of gold within three days. The ingots are all five hundred taels. There must be no mistakes!"

"If not, the day when the city is broken in three days will be the time when you will be awarded the head!"

"The Great General of the Ming Dynasty, the Commander of the Jingwei and the Governor-General of the Five Armies, the Admiral of the Daming Navy, the Admiral of the East China Sea, Li..."

After reading, Liu Zongmin subconsciously touched the cold sweat on his forehead.

Because he knew that this letter of persuasion was meaningless. Although they did get a lot of gold and silver when they were in the capital, most of those things had been distributed long ago, and now they can easily take them even if they want to. Not so much!

Besides, those Ming soldiers are too contemptuous of people. They have not even started to fight, and they are too contemptuous of Dashun Kingdom to surrender and pay. May be acceptable.

Boom! !

"Let's go back and make preparations, three days later..."

"Just let him attack the city!"

Sure enough, he slammed the table, and Li Zicheng stood up from his dragon chair with a gloomy face, and after saying such a sentence with a blank face, he walked away resentfully.

Three days later...

Li, the admiral of the Daming Navy and the admiral of the East China Sea, led the army to attack the east gate of Xi'an.

More than a hundred cannons blasted at the city gate and the city wall of the east gate for more than an hour. Under the fierce bombardment of a large number of flowering bullets and solid bullets, the city was engulfed in flames, people and animals were turned into dust, and the defenders suffered casualties. It's terrible, and there are few people in the city'.

Then, the city gate and the city wall near the city gate collapsed. Immediately afterwards, under the cover of the accurate shooting of the Li family musketeers and the fierce attack of the platoon of guns, 20,000 auxiliary soldiers of the Ming army swarmed in without any effective resistance. In less than half a day, the city of Xi'an was declared broken, and Li Zicheng, the Chuang Wang, fled in embarrassment with tens of thousands of defeated troops. He passed through Lantian and Shangzhou, walked through Wuguan, and retreated into the Xiangyang area.

Afterwards, the official army of the Northern Ming Dynasty wiped out the Puppet Shun Kingdom and regained Tongguan and Xi'an in the First World War, and soon spread throughout the Ming Dynasty. Of course, Nanming, who received the statement and information, was in an uproar, and the whole world was shocked by it!

...

However, the Li family's fleet and admirals far away in Europe or the New World of America did not know about the changes in the Ming Empire at this time.

For example, right now, in the huge bathtub of the Mediterranean Sea, the five huge ships of the Li Family Fleet led by a certain wicked little girl, the Admiral, are slowly sailing on the surface of the Mediterranean Sea.

The fleet just set off from Istanbul three days ago, and is now sailing in the direction of Athens. Because of the headwind, the speed of the fleet is not too fast. It is estimated that it will take at least a day or two to arrive in Athens, which is also in Ottoman. Greek ports under imperial control.

"??"

"Mate, why do you look unhappy?"

Song Yifeng, who was tiptoeing out of the captain's cabin of the 'Xiangfeihu', not daring to disturb the sleeping admiral of a bad little girl, saw the side of the ship on the deck with a gloomy look on her face The expression on the face, I don't know what the first officer is looking at or thinking about.

"Could it be that the pirate Azhisha has messed up something again?"

So, subconsciously, Song Yifeng asked, and began to search the deck for the figure of the female pirate Azhisha who had been dishonest and never gave up the idea of ​​escaping and making trouble.

Soon, she saw that the female pirate was washing Song Yifeng's clothes and socks at the bow of the boat, but she didn't know whether the other party washed it with fresh water or secretly with sea water.

"no."

"only……"

"The admiral insists on cooperating with that Ottoman, and I'm always a little worried."

"well……"

Four days ago, at the banquet, their chief admiral agreed to the request of the commander-in-chief of the Ottoman navy, Hedem Affmedo Pasha, and prepared to join forces with the opposing navy to fight against the people who were gathering at the mouth of the Mediterranean Sea. The Spanish Armada.

Originally, that should have been a good thing, but for some reason, when the first officer thought about it carefully after he came back, he always felt a little worried, so that for the past two days, he had always looked so gloomy.

"Worry?"

"Why?"

"Isn't that a good thing?"

Song Yifeng was a little confused, not knowing what the other party meant.

Anyway, in her opinion, it would be great if someone came to their door and was willing to send people and boats with them to find trouble with the Spaniards.

"Yes, yes, but..."

"I always feel that the Admiral is going to be fooled by that old and cunning Ottoman this time!"

"I reckon that the Ottoman will not be really willing to confront the Spaniards as they said!"

Shaking his head, the first officer said in a deep voice with a serious face.

"ah?"

"No way?"

Blinking, Song Yifeng didn't know why the other party was so worried.

"well……"

"I have some doubts. I always feel that they made it clear this time that they want us to drive forward and use it as cannon fodder. Let us go and consume the Spanish fleet in the Strait of Gibraltar first. Then, he and the fleet of Pirate King Hayreddin will take the opportunity to fisherman behind. Profit?"

"If that's the case, the Mediterranean Sea may be the ones that have the final say in the Ottoman Empire in the future."

"Second Admiral, you also know that we don't have so many people to interfere in the Mediterranean Sea for the time being. It's too far away from Daming, and our fleet is very small. Even the trading station in Africa is maintained by the people of Nagpur. "

"!!"

"That……"

"Then what do you say?"

Where did Song Yifeng think about these complicated things? Anyway, she, a female Taoist who grew up in the mountains and only knew about Taoism, would definitely not understand.

"I don't know either!"

"well……"

"I hope the admiral can have a plan?"

As he said that, the chief mate glanced worriedly in the direction of the still closed door of the captain's cabin.

Right now he has no good solution, after all, they are always going to confront Spain, otherwise, they won't be able to get out of the Mediterranean!

"plan?"

"impossible!"

"Impossible!"

"Uncle First Mate, let me tell you, Chief Admiral Anne never makes any plans, so you should stop thinking about it as soon as possible and figure out a solution yourself!"

Song Yifeng, who has been eating, living and sleeping with Annie for so long, already has a deep understanding of that horrible little girl, the Admiral, so she is sure and certain that the chief mate in front of her is looking forward to something. If the little girl thinks of a good idea or something, it must be impossible!

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In the captain's room, a certain sad little girl seemed to faintly feel that someone was talking about her or saying bad things about her, but she didn't mind, she just murmured and rubbed her eyes, then pulled the quilt, and continued to turn around and sleep. I'm gone.

After all, it is already the end of September, and the winter will soon snow. The autumn wind is bleak, and the weather is strangely cold. When the weather is cold, you can sleep well!

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