General Cao deliberately took away Guan Ning General Zuo today, which was planned before.

This reason is very simple: only by falling out with Guan Ningjun, the largest military group in the late Ming Dynasty, can the wariness of the imperial court bureaucracy, including Chongzhen, be eliminated, and Cao Zongbing can get the space and treatment for normal development.

Otherwise, once this powerful military leader from the south hooked up with Guan Ningjun and called him brother and sister, the emperor would not be able to sleep.

The original surname Cao was the Haikou who came from Zhao'an, and there were faint signs of a feudal town in the south, and his loyalty was suspicious. This time, he privately befriended Guan Ningjun, who had already exposed his centrifugal tendencies...... Is this to advance from the north to the south and rule by dividing the river?

According to this principle, in fact, on the way to Tianjin, the crossing of the public planned the character of Cao Zongbing in the north.

One: Reckless, full of rivers and lakes, but Cao Zongbing is dedicated to serving the imperial court, and is a traditional Jianghu recruiter who wants to seal his wife and son.

Two: Because I don't understand the twists and turns in the officialdom, and I can't rub sand in my eyes, the surname Cao offends people everywhere, not only offends Guan Ningjun, but also strives to offend some civilian officials in the future, so that in the end I can only rely on the emperor's support to get mixed - this is to give the emperor a sense of security: I can turn my hands into clouds at any time and let the surnamed Cao taste the thunder and rain.

These two predetermined characters are the personal images that Cao Zongbing wants to show to the Manchu Dynasty civil and military.

It is precisely because of these reasons that Cao Zongbing immediately intensified the remarks between him and Zu Dashou for the first time, and forcibly pushed the relationship between the two sides to the opposite side.

In fact, Zu Dashou's remarks just now, not to mention other military leaders, Zhang Dongdong, who had been the manager of an advertising company, could understand it for the first time, but it was just a common routine for negotiation: first desperately find a reason to occupy a foothold, then everyone shouted at each other to attack and defend, and finally shook hands and reached an agreement.

Is Guan Ningjun short of money? There is definitely no shortage, and the Guan Ning Army was the fattest warlord in the late Ming Dynasty. Zu Dashou's ultimate goal is nothing more than to spend money to buy some heads.

Unexpectedly, the ogre met this time not the talkative Stone Huang, but Mr. Cao, who was bent on fighting him.

Mr. Cao didn't come alone, Mr. Cao's waist pole was particularly hard, and there was the support of a chemical plant and an electric furnace behind him, so Mr. Cao didn't follow the tacit routine of the military leaders in the past, but blocked Zu Dashou's mouth as soon as possible, and viciously revealed the true face of Guan Ningjun's discarded armor.

In this way, in front of everyone's eyes, Zu Dashou had no way to continue negotiating, so he could only escalate the quarrel with Cao Zongbing, and then the end was that everyone talked to death, and Zu Dashou turned his face and left.

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When Guan Ningjun's first cadre Zuo rushed away angrily, an unspeakable embarrassing situation appeared in the lobby.

The old grandson with a wry smile sat on the top and kept shaking his head, muttering in his mouth: "Why is this, why is this, you have to endure each other for the country!" ”

Ma Shilong, who is the chief butler of the Qinwang Army from all walks of life, is also stammering and doesn't know what to say.

On the contrary, the remaining people in the hall all had smiles on their faces, looking like they were not afraid of big things. There were more than a dozen people in this group, all of whom were guest soldiers from all over the country, including the chief soldier and the deputy chief soldier, as well as the deputy general and two staff generals.

The reason why he was smiling was because for these guest generals, it was a good thing for General Cao Da to take away the Guanning army.

You must know that since these days, the guest troops who have come from all over the country have not been on good terms with the local snake Guan Ning army. Whether it is in terms of military salaries, military rations, military funds, or task assignment credits, the guest army will definitely not be able to play the head snake, so everyone has suffered a lot from the arrogant and domineering Guanning army.

As a result, today, when I saw Mr. Cao, who was also a guest soldier, frantically scolding his ancestors, these people were actually praising it in their hearts: Even if it is not beneficial, it is a bird's breath, isn't it?

At this time, the soldiers who came to deliver wine and food from outside walked in, which happened to break the awkward atmosphere on the field.

After a group of generals saw a large plate of roast horse meat, a large basin of canned lychee in sugar water and a tin bucket of liquor, they couldn't help but move their index fingers, rolled up their sleeves one after another, shouted loudly and put together tables and chairs on the spot, and beckoned the two bitter bigwigs to come down and eat together in the main hall of the General Soldier's Mansion.

Seeing this kind of scene, several people couldn't help but smile at each other: these guest generals also seemed to be human spirits, although they did not speak, but they used performance art to resolve the situation and show goodwill.

So, Cao Zongbing also rolled up his sleeves, put on a big bowl of drinking in the Juyi Hall, and joined the battle group: "Come on, take a few bottles of rare confusion, brother, I will accompany you brothers today to get drunk and rest!" ”

After a meal of drinks and food, all the generals present were full of praise for the lychee and iron barrel whiskey (Erguotou) and openly begged for it.

Zhang Dongdong was naturally not stingy here, so each military leader got some gifts.

It is still necessary to maintain a normal colleague relationship with these low-influence border town military leaders, which will not violate the taboo of the imperial court, and one day in the future, maybe relying on this little incense, lobbyists will be able to influence the choice of border generals.

After the banquet, it was time for the "visit" that the military leaders were most concerned about.

All the Ming people present, including the two bigwigs, were actually very curious about how Cao Zongbing made immortal feats.

In their opinion, these green-jacketed soldiers who didn't even have armor were purely relying on the sharpness of their guns, so everyone's attention was focused on the spears in the soldiers' hands from the beginning.

So now that Mr. Cao and the big guy have also negotiated, and they have exchanged business cards with all the old brothers, and they have drunk wine, they can't cherish themselves anymore, right?

Mr. Cao did not disappoint everyone.

The next moment, on the school field in front of the lobby, the green jacket soldiers skillfully showed the generals the power of the rifles in their hands.

After the shooting performance, facing the old brothers with a solemn face and sighing at the bullet holes in the armor, Mr. Cao also intimately ordered someone to bring the gun over, decomposed the parts on the spot, and popularized the structure of the 28 big covers.

Then the generals tried their guns.

When they saw that the medicine they released could actually penetrate the iron armor 300 meters away, almost everyone's eyes were red: if such a sharp fire gun could buy 200 rods for the soldiers to use, wouldn't it be able to get thousands of Tartar heads to drink?

So the old brothers couldn't bear it anymore, and someone on the spot proposed to buy a batch of 28 covers out of their own pockets to use.

However, when the excited people learned the price of the fire cap, they were all dumbfounded - two taels per piece.

The full name of this gun in the hands of the Green Jacket Army is the "1628 Type Breech Rapid-Fire Rifle" born from the ancient Sharps rifle. When this rifle wants to fire bullets, there is one place that cannot be bypassed: the fire cap.

Leaving this thin piece of copper, the 28 big lid is waste.

Picked up an iron hammer and smashed it against a row of fire caps on the table. As a result, all of the fire caps successfully detonated, and a small ball of light appeared.

At this time, Cao Zongbing told everyone present: This rifle, including bullets, was purchased from a maritime merchant called "Alaska" in the West. This trade began when he had not been an official before.

After years of hard work, his workshop has been able to produce other parts besides the fire cap. But it is a mystery that no one knows how Alaskan craftsmen produced this fiery piece of copper alone.

So up to now, Cao Zongbing still has to buy a fire hat from the maritime merchants, two taels of silver a piece.

After hearing this, the generals smacked their tongues one after another: In this way, with the addition of lead and gunpowder, the cost of a shot is two or five dollars. Fight a battle, win or lose, thousands of taels of silver go out first?

Don't say it, that's really all.

Mr. Cao crossed his fingers and calculated an account for everyone. In short, since he sent troops to Tianjin, he has fought viciously many times, and in order to exchange for these 4,000 Tartar heads, his old man has spent more than 100,000 taels of silver on ammunition alone.

Don't ask, asking is like a rain of bullets.

Someone's brag really scared the old brothers. Although there was a certain amount of inflation at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the purchasing power of silver still far exceeded that of later generations. It's about 100,200,000 taels here and it's nothing, but for a border town general, let alone 100,000, it's 10,000, which is also astronomical.

You must know that the three salaries of Chongzhen's plus faction almost scraped the empire three feet to the ground, and it was only eight million taels of silver, and these still had to raise the country's soldiers and horses.

So the generals had no choice but to give up. It's a good thing, but it's too expensive for them to afford to raise soldiers.

When it came, it was the old grandson who studied the musket with great interest. Lao Sun Tou is not like others, he is a person who used to be in charge of a large amount of military spending, and he has been up and down hundreds of thousands of dollars a second, so Lao Sun Tou's interest in this rifle has lasted for a long time.

But it's useless to be interested. He is no longer the boss of Ji Liao, the backer has died early, and there is no descendant army and horses under him, and the Guan Ning army has long been a family of its own, so the old grandson is only limited to understanding.

After the second half of the exchange activity, it was time to get down to business.

Sun Ma and Cao Zongbing returned to the rear office and began to write their own chapters. After these pieces are written, they will be sent to the capital to be shown to the emperor by expedited horses, and Sun Ma and Sun Ma will also rush to the capital later.

After Cao Zongbing finished writing the chapter, he would also set off tomorrow and take his men to the capital. On the way, you will meet with 200 soldiers from Tianjin, who are carrying many heads.

As for the other generals, since they all came from other provinces, they would set off now and take their men and horses to the capital. When he arrived outside the capital, he would enter the city to meet the emperor and receive the reward, and then return to the garrison.

And here in Santun Camp, after everyone's discussion, Sun Chengzong will leave 3,000 local soldiers and horses outside the city, and wait for General Cao to take over here tomorrow as soon as General Cao leaves.

At this point, the vigorous change of self has come to an end. Due to the existence of the traversal, the Ming Kingdom drove all the Tartars out of the country more than a month earlier than in history, and also left the corpses of more than 4,000 enemies.

To some extent, this wave is not a loss - during this period, the core combat strength of the Manchus was only more than 20,000 people. Not counting anything else, the loss of about 3,000 people at once, Houjin was really hit hard at the strategic level.

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At the same time that the relevant people were waiting in the Santun camp to write their own concerts, 300 miles away in the capital, the inconspicuous back door of a large mansion was secretly opened. Xue Haiyuan, who had been sent to the capital to secretly lay out, bowed his head and walked into the door.