A few clouds in the sky, slowly moving from south to north, give a sense of vitality everywhere in the sunny late spring.

On both sides of the river are green fields, and the sorghum in the fields has grown more than a foot high, and in a few months, the green gauze tent will cover the land of Beizhili.

In the lush woods, birds chirped and flew around from time to time, and there seemed to be only the singing of birds between heaven and earth. Suddenly, the singing birds flew up.

I saw that on the official road in the distance, an army of foot cavalry that stretched for several miles was marching along the official road towards the north. This is a red team, the officers and soldiers are wearing red uniforms, gray trousers, and cuirass outside the uniform, although the cuirass can not block the fire of the seven-coin flintlock pistol at close range, but it can resist cold weapons such as knives and arrows, so although the heavy armor of the Pingyu army is becoming less and less, the infantry is generally equipped with cuirasses.

In the sun, the cuirass made of stainless steel reflected the dazzling light, and the soldiers carried rifles and marched in the direction of Baoding.

Attack Baoding!

It is not so much that Wei rescued Zhao, but that the 200,000 thieves in Baoding, especially Li Zicheng, attracted him there, as long as Li Zicheng was solved, this war would be over.

And Li Zicheng is in Baoding!

Since he's there, let's go fight Baoding! As long as Li Zicheng is solved, this war will be over.

Zhu Guoqiang, who was riding on a horse, was dressed no different from ordinary cavalrymen. Even the generals surrounding the siege looked no different from ordinary cavalry.

At this time, Zhu Guoqiang, who was standing on the road on his mount, occasionally asked.

"Is the artillery team keeping up?"

"Where's the Whirlwind Artillery Team?"

"Where's the baggage team?"

……

Questions like these kept coming out of his mouth, and he would ask these questions, not because the artillery team and baggage were very important, but because Zhu Guoqiang knew what was at stake in this battle, after all, he was at an absolute disadvantage in terms of numbers, and in this case, instead of choosing to defend, he was attacking.

Why?

Li Zicheng!

To be honest, Zhu Guoqiang is not worried about Li Zicheng's so-called 300,000 army, what is he really worried about? It was Li Zicheng who escaped!

He is in Shangluo Mountain, and he can pull out such a team with eighteen horsemen, not to mention, now in Henan and Shaanxi, there are hundreds of thousands of his troops.

If Li Zicheng is allowed to escape, at least in the next few years, Daming will have to devote his energy to domestic security operations.

And what era is it now?

It is the beginning of a change that has not been seen in a thousand years.

If you can't seize this opportunity and plant the "Sun and Moon Flag" of the Ming Dynasty in all corners of the world, it will undoubtedly be a crime and irresponsibility to the entire nation.

In the future, millions of Ming people may even pay the price of their lives - hunger and poverty will continue to monopolize the land, and as the population increases, hunger and poverty will eventually lead to new upheavals, and war and death will come to the world again.

In fact, Europe today, and even Europe a hundred or two hundred years later, is shrouded in hunger and poverty, but all because of the fundamental transformation of the overseas colonies, the surplus labor of the country migrated to the colonies, and while developing the colonies, they also provided the country with all kinds of goods, prospered the domestic market, and made hunger and poverty disappear from their land.

As the British economist Jevons described in 1865: "The plains of North America and Russia are our cornfields, Canada and the Baltic Sea are our forests, Australia is our pastures, Peru is our silver mines, South Africa and Australia are our gold mines, India and China are our tea plantations, the East Indies are our sugar cane, coffee, and spice plantations, and the southern United States is our cotton plantations." ”

This is the world under the British Empire, the whole world is supplying Britain, so that Britain will get rid of the shadow of hunger, the same is true of France, on the other hand, Germany, although it established its status as a great power through the Industrial Revolution, but in the face of the blockade of Britain and France and other countries, the country immediately fell into famine, which even directly led to their defeat in World War I and even World War II.

O colony!

That's the lifeblood of the Empire!

What is needed to draw a sphere of influence belonging to the Ming Dynasty in this blank world now? It was to move millions of Ming people overseas in the coming decades, and to continuously send troops overseas to expand overseas.

And all this needs to end the internal turmoil of the Ming Dynasty, only in this way can the country fully devote itself to the future of the long-term war related to the fate of the nation for thousands of years, that war may be a hundred years, maybe two hundred years, but it is certain that with enough human resources of the Ming Dynasty, two hundred years later, a new empire will stand in this world,

But right now, the biggest hidden danger of this empire is in Baoding, staring at Daming, ready to extinguish Daming at any time, and it is not only Daming that will be extinguished, but also the future of the future world empire.

Therefore, no matter what, it is necessary to settle the battle in one battle, even if the price is great, even if it is a lot of sacrifice, it is necessary to completely eliminate the thieves!

If you don't do that, you can't settle the world!

Otherwise, the people of the world cannot be allowed to enjoy peace again!

Standing on the side of the road like this, Zhu Guoqiang stared ahead, because he noticed that Jian Guo seemed to be thinking about something, and no one interrupted him, only those heralds who ran back and forth around the marching queue, sometimes running in front of them, and the eyes of those marching soldiers occasionally fell on them.

Although many of them did not know who this man was, although he was dressed no different from ordinary soldiers, many of these soldiers recognized Li Dingguo, and when they saw Li Dingguo standing behind this person, they knew that this must be a big man.

As for how big this big man really is, no one can guess. They just looked curiously at the big man standing on the side of the road. They didn't know that the big guys were watching them too.

What must be a bloody battle next. When the time comes, many of them will die in this war.

But it's all worth it, Zhu Guoqiang thought silently in his heart.

Maybe in a few decades, if they look back, they will be glad that they participated in this war.

After all, this battle is related to the future of the Ming Dynasty and the future of millions of people.