Chapter Twenty-Nine: A Different Chongzhen

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In the spring of the first year of Chongzhen, when Zhang Lixin and others were preparing for the war in Shengxian Village, Mancheng County, the imperial palace in the Forbidden City seemed to be different from the imperial palace in history. Since last year, many people have woken up to the fact that this emperor, who has been pinned on by many people, is by no means as "virtuous" as he has seen before, and it seems that he is still a person with no ambitions like Emperor Zhengde back then, or even more.

In a newly built simple palace, four women frolicked with a young man who was completely missing his former self before he ascended the throne, as if he was a completely different person from his previous self.

"Ahh Yes! Let go, let go of me--ah no, let go of me! The emperor, who was tied up and hung up by four women, struggled with all his might

"What's the call? Hehe, now your emperor is already in the hands of our sisters... Several women laughed.

"This time it's true! If you don't let it go, you will either kill the king now, or you will wait for the result of being replaced by your master! The Emperor said with some annoyance.

Hearing this, the four women panicked, and quickly put down the emperor on a special wooden beam hanging from the bed and untied the rope as fast as they could.

"Your Majesty... Is the emperor okay? The concubine is guilty... Several women who got out of the game said tremblingly, and no one dared to raise their heads.

At this time, "Chongzhen" was silent for a long time, recalling the absurdity of the past few months of ascending the throne and making stability, and couldn't help but feel a little ashamed: Is he a little too humiliated by the last emperor in history, although he is not a Ming monarch, but fortunately people have some respect? Is it really right to believe in Wei Zhongxian, Kebaba and others, and be a prince of peace? Will he not be able to become an emperor for even seventeen years? However, at this time, "Chongzhen" had already thought about it: there was no need to go to the south until the end, and Li Zicheng or the Manchu Qing and other forces had not yet let themselves be in a desperate situation, so could it be that Wei Zhongxian and others could still stop themselves from throwing themselves to the Manchus?

"I... Oh no, I know, although you are subordinates, you don't even have the status of a concubine, but you actually look down on me. Even: In my heart, I may still be a little disappointed: it turns out that the so-called true dragon son can't grab anywhere compared to that ordinary gentleman, right? ”

"The concubine doesn't dare...

"It doesn't matter, neither you nor I can control this history, I just hope that you will do it yourself. Don't be one of those women who followed Song Huizong to the Five Kingdoms City back then... ”

In fact, at this moment, one of the four women sent by Wei Zhongxian had made up his mind at this time: today it should be his turn to be alone with this emperor, do you want to secretly persuade this person again? Since this person knows the ending of the Song Dynasty back then, he will not be willing to be a king of the dead country, right?

At this moment, a eunuch came to the outside of the hall with a smile and coughed lightly.

"Don't see your own people, what's the urgency?" At this time, "Chongzhen" seemed to have a bad premonition.

"Your Majesty! What a victory! Liaodong victory!" The eunuch returned with a not-so-kind smile.

At this time, "Chongzhen" couldn't help sneering in his heart: Is it another monkey? also Liaodong victory, why don't you know what great victory Liaodong had during the Chongzhen period in history?

"The Battle of Fuzhou! The Weiyuan battalion beheaded more than 5,000 Dongyu again, and Dongyu completely retreated to Liaoyang... ”

"That's it! The king said it was a few, and that was a few! At this time, Chongzhen couldn't help but mock.

However, when Sun Chengzong and others more than ten days later also recognized this shortcut, and those captured armor were personally selected and tested by Chongzhen, a sense of joy and surprise arose: "Could it be that this is a completely different plane from history?" ”

On the school ground, the rumbling of cannons like wine bottles of copper and iron composite cannons hit seven or eight catties of cannonballs far away, and the momentum seemed to be at least one or two thousand catties of Hongyi cannons. When the cannonball hits the earthen wall, it seems to shoot out clods of earth like flowering bullets. Even then, it didn't seem to be able to fully withstand the might of the cannonball.

"I'm afraid this cannon can't be carried on a horse, right? Is it necessary to use artillery of this specification to break the shield car of the Eastern Captive? At this time, Wei Zhongxian asked with interest, and the stone in his heart had already fallen to the ground. Since the continuous bad news in Liaodong, people always feel that there is some kind of crisis brewing inside and outside the court. It's just that with this unusual victory, as well as the goodwill of Dengzhou Town, everything seems to have disappeared.

"Back to the factory's words: Even the lighter shield car in the East has a thickness of five inches. They are all excellent wood planks and sand-soil composite interlayers, and the jack franc machine or the general cannon is not sure of the threat at the usual artillery battle distance. Cannons that can be carried by ordinary horses are difficult to threaten no matter what. Fortunately, Liaodong is not as good as the mainland, and the new cannon of Dengzhou Town, which is composed of copper and iron and whose body is accurately judged according to the gunpowder power at the time of firing, is actually quite light in most of the fields in Liaodong, at least much better than the general's cannon. Li Wencai replied with a smile.

In fact, Wei Zhongxian still heard about the Weiyuan camp in Dengzhou Town, as well as some rumors that happened not far from the feet of the Emperor of Beizhili recently. In Wei Zhongxian's view: No matter how you look at it, this Li Wencai is not a good general. To be able to have such a performance is nothing more than relying on the genius back then, who was not much inferior to the Hongyi people's artillery skills, and more ingenious firearms methods than the Hongyi people. I don't know if the one in the legend is really as some people have guessed...