Chapter 142: The Great War Begins

In the camp of the Qing army, the horns continued. The horseshoe galloped constantly. This is a common occurrence, but today it is very different. Because it is not one camp, nor several camps, but all the camps of the Qing army, there is such a movement.

The momentum is huge, and such a move is simply undisguised. He almost shouted with a loudspeaker: "The Qing army is all dispatched." ”

In the middle of the Qing army, in a large tent embroidered with gold thread.

Among the countless warblers and swallows, Duoduo changed his clothes, washed his clothes, and changed into his armor.

Duoduo was very good-looking, and now he was in the prime of life, but he was in his thirties. Coupled with a Ming-style armor, especially after covering the tail of the money rat with a helmet, the whole person seems to be a heroic general, extremely heroic. And these warblers and swallows around Duoduo. They are all beauties passing by from Jiangnan.

Duoduo is a widow with a disease. has always liked beauty, and there are more than a dozen wives and concubines in Beijing, and there are countless beauties who are lucky. As for the fact that these beauties were on the Qinhuai River before, but the daughters of the scholars' families, it didn't matter to Duoduo.

Duoduo sorted out his clothes and went out of the big tent, but he saw hundreds of thousands of generals, all of whom were Manchu and Han, and these dozens of people could be said to be the backbone of Duoduo's army. Duoduo turned his head and said to Azig: "Starling, I will take the first step, you act according to the plan, and the two of us brothers will definitely kill Zhang Xuan in the north of Anqing." ”

Azig said: "I have been looking forward to this day for a long time, you can go with confidence, you explain my affairs, I will definitely do it well." ”

"Okay." Dodor said. Then he rolled over and got on his horse and said, "Let's go." ”

"Wow." The soldiers below answered in unison. For a while, the door of the Qing military camp was wide open, and countless soldiers were riding horses, as if flowing water, gathered together, as if a torrent was pressed, and it went westward mightily.

The target is directly aimed at Dalongshan.

Duoduo's target was naturally not just Dalong Mountain, but in the middle of the Wei King Yuan Shi near Dalong Mountain.

Even if he attacked and defended the king Yuan Shizhong, he was not a drunkard. Yuan Shizhong was stationed at the foot of Dalong Mountain, opposite Anqing, blocking the passage north of Anqing. There are also tens of thousands of horses. If Yuan Shizhong was completely annihilated by the Qing army, the Qing army would not enter and seize Dalong Mountain, and could also bypass Anqing and advance westward at will.

If Zhang Xuan doesn't save him when he sees death, then what face does Zhang Xuan have to rectify his morale and fight a decisive battle with the Qing army.

In the city of Anqing.

Just after the news of the Qing army came, Zhang Xuan listened to it and raised his eyebrows. He said, "Duoduo can't wait, today is the day of the decisive battle." “

For this one thing, Zhang Xuan already has

As expected. After all, Zhou Fuchen has already advanced eastward along the river, and Zhang Xuan has given him the right to act cheaply, how Zhou Fuchen wants to fight, where to fight, Zhang Xuan does not do remote control. There is no news yet. But it's not that Zhou Fuchen has no results. It's just a matter of time.

The Qing army naturally wanted to fight a decisive battle with the Xia army before the bad news came, as long as it could defeat the Xia army, even if it could not kill Zhang Xuan. Even if Zhou Fuchen wreaked havoc on the river, he could not shake the rule of the Qing army over Jiangnan, after all, the Yangtze River was too long, and it was impossible to completely cut off the Yangtze River by relying on tens of thousands of sailors.

But if the battle of Anqing is delayed. The situation of the Qing army was embarrassing.

I just didn't expect Dodor to be so decisive.

However, Duoduo has the courage, but Zhang Xuan doesn't have the courage?

For a while, Zhang Xuan had a feeling that he had waited for this day for too long, so long that Zhang Xuan himself had a sense of cowardice.

Yes, it is precisely because Zhang Xuan knows that the Qing army is powerful. Zhang Xuan has always had an unspeakable strategy in his heart, that is, the easy first and then the difficult. It's like Song Taizu's unification strategy. Many people complained about Song Taizu's strategy, his strategy of first south and then north, and first Yi and then south, but the sixteen states of Yanyun could not be recovered. As a result, there was a shortage of Jinou, and the Northern Song Dynasty was passive in the northern strategy.

But in Zhang Xuan's current situation, compare the specific strategy of Qingxia. It doesn't get any better strategy than this. After all, the Qing court's first-mover advantage was too obvious.

So, even if there were a few battles with the Qing army. But every battle has its own reservations.

In other words, every time Zhang Xuan fights, he has always dealt a heavy blow to the Qing army tactically, but in terms of strategy, he has always aimed to repel him. He himself has reservations. No matter what time it is, there is a way back. First is invincible, and then it is invincible.

However, Luo Yulong's Northern Expedition cut off the good situation all of a sudden.

Jiangnan fell, it seems that Jiangnan is not big, but it is too financially weighty. Who is in the hands of Jiangnan, which directly leads to the reversal of the national strength of the two sides. With Jiangnan in hand, under the long-term confrontation, it is not good for Zhang Xuan. Therefore, in this battle, although Zhang Xuan is a latecomer, he is actually a party seeking war.

There was no turning back.

He didn't want to retreat, the Qing army slaughtered in the north, how many people were killed, Zhang Xuan didn't know very well, and he didn't want to think about it, but Linying, Runing, Nanjing, these three place names have always appeared in Zhang Xuan's mind, every fifteen, Zhang Xuan remembered the humble Lantern Festival in Runing. The heart is like a knife, and I can't help myself.

He hated to prick his flesh with a long cone every day to make himself hurt. Take a snake gall bladder and taste it every day to make yourself bitter. There is a limit to the pain and bitterness in the body, but the guilt, sadness, and hatred in the heart are limitless.

This hatred is calm in the heart

It's intense, intense and calm, and it's already dulled to form something like a background color, and when you look at it on weekdays, it seems like there's nothing. But this, this fervent wildfire-like hatred, burned through his heart, and set his whole body on fire.

Yes, too long. Time can dilute love, but it can't eliminate hatred. This hatred grows like the sun and the moon.

Zhang Xuan stood up abruptly and said, "Beat the drum to gather the generals." ”

"Knock knock knock." The big drum at the head of Anqing City rang out at the same time, and hundreds of big drums covered the city wall for several miles. Armies from all over the world gathered in the school grounds.

Today's Anqing City is already a military city, and there are almost no people in the city, and all the rooms in the city, whether they are residential houses or other houses, are classified as military camps. And although the school field is large, it can't hold all the troops.

Zhang Xuan was on the school ground, and he could only gather his own people, as well as the generals of all sizes in the city.

Zhang Xuan stood on the platform, wearing a red cloak and a golden armor, Ye Ye was shining, and a red dragon flag behind him was fiercely loud in the wind, and the golden dragon on it seemed to be alive, swimming desperately in a sea of blood.

Zhang Xuan waved his hand. Zheng Lian immediately stood on the platform of the generals, holding a volume of holy decrees, and said: "By Your Majesty's order, the art of war will be redeclared." Those who shirk in front of the battle will be chopped, and those who are shaken in front of the battle will be chopped. -----" Zheng Lian read it in one breath, and he didn't know how many words "chop" there were.

Zhang Xuan usually governs the army and is never harsh. Compared with the military law of this era, which has always been beaten with military sticks and confined to prisons, military law can be regarded as merciful. But at the moment, there is only one criminal law in the army, and that is a "beheading". There were even a lot of beheadings that sat in a row, and a certain department collapsed, and only the officers, from more than 100 households to below the battalion officers, all of them were beheaded.

The main general died in battle, and the officers who went down from the main general were all beheaded.

And everyone knows that anyone who dies under military law on the battlefield. The wives and children of the family were implicated together, and according to the severity of the crime, they were punished with confiscation of family property, exile, and even death for the crime.

This kind of military method is mostly common in ancient times, and understanding this, Zhang Xuan despises Li Ling more and more. This is true of military law, and women and children know it. Li Ling hated Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty for killing his entire family, from his mother to his wife and children, but he didn't know that whenever he had a trace of a husband's anger, he died in battle at that time. His subordinates were all killed in battle, and he was the only one who deserved to be killed.

Zhang Xuan reaffirmed military law. The whole army was frightened. The punishment is already there, but the reward cannot be left unpaid.

Zhang Xuan gave an order, and hundreds of boxes were opened in front of the whole army. For a time, it was full of gold and silver. I don't know how many tens of thousands of taels there are, and everyone was frightened for a while. They had never seen so much gold and silver.