Chapter 26: On the East and the Second Place

Zhang Xuan didn't use other camp heads, but only compared them with Linying camp.

With the physical strength of Linying Camp, Zhang Xuan is confident that he can still support a whole day of fighting.

But it's not that simple. Although the battle consumes physical strength, but in fact, the mental consumption is faster than the physical consumption, repeated confrontations a day, dozens of times in the battle, Zhang Xuan has a big head when he thinks about it. He also had doubts about whether Linying Camp could do it.

"The training of musketeers must be on the agenda." Zhang Xuan said secretly in his heart.

Training the Linying Battalion like this has consumed almost all of Zhang Xuan's ideas, and if he wants a stronger army, Zhang Xuan has no quick way, so he can only temper it in actual combat. Zhang Xuan wanted to win, so he could only find a way to make a technical generation difference.

"My lord, do you want to fight Dongyu?" Zhang Guozhu looked at Zhang Xuan with expectant eyes.

Zhang Xuan was stunned for a moment and said: "King Wu has ambitions in the world, how can he allow the Eastern Captives to wreak havoc in the Central Plains, and now the Ming court can't protect the people. ”

"Please remember today's words." Zhang Guozhu knelt on the ground, and said with a choked voice in his voice: "As long as the adult can kill the Dongyu, my Zhang Guozhu's life is the adult's." ”

Zhang Xuan didn't know why Zhang Guozhu was like this, so he hurriedly picked up Zhang Guozhu and said: "This is the principle of nature, and the founding of the new dynasty will naturally chase after the north." ”

Zhang Guozhu really made up his mind at this moment and wanted to follow Zhang Xuan.

Before, it was just a last resort, in order to save his life. And there are also a few days in Zhang Xuan's army, because he is Zhang Xuan's personal soldier, he still has some privileges. Zhang Xuan is for the sake of cultivating pro-soldiers, so he will not hide many things from them.

What shocked Zhang Guozhu the most was not the combat power of Zhang Xuan's army, to be honest, Zhang Guozhu has been in the army for more than ten years, and he has seen everything that can be fought and what cannot be beaten, even if Zhang Xuan's department can be called capable of fighting, it may not be better than the Qi family army and the white pole army. What really shocked Zhang Guozhu was the treatment of Zhang Xuan's soldiers.

In Zhang Xuan's opinion, the logistics supply is very simple and even rudimentary, which can only ensure food and clothing. Even the salary is not much, so he can only rely on the big cake of dividing the land to appease the army.

But for Zhang Guozhu, this is already quite good.

To put it mildly, if the officers and soldiers can be fed, clothed, and warm to ensure logistics, then there will be nothing to do.

Coupled with Zhang Xuan's words just now, Zhang Guozhu was sure of one thing, that is, it was better to count on Zhang Xuan and Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai behind him than to count on the Ming Dynasty to defeat the Eastern Emperor.

"Why didn't General Zhang stop there?" Zhang Xuan helped Zhang Guozhu up and said.

"A feud in the sea of blood." Zhang Guozhu's eyes are like

Engorged, he said: "The last general's family lives in Linqing, it is just an ordinary people, and the family is not good, but the family lives by the canal, and the life can go on, if it weren't for the eldest son of Wu Xianggong, who saw that I was strong and wrote a letter for me, I would not have joined the army." But Linqing, Linqing is gone, gone. ”

Zhang Guozhu, a big man with a big shape, cried like a child, sobbing and unable to help himself.

Zhang Xuan was taken aback and asked, "Why is Linqing gone?" ”

Zhang Guozhu gritted his teeth and said: "The Dongyu entered the customs, broke the city of Linqing, killed all the people in Linqing, and finally killed the old mothers and wives, uncles and brothers, and even the neighbors and villagers in the family, all of them are gone, all of them are gone." ”

Zhang Xuan's heart was cold, and he said, "Kill a void? ”

In Zhang Guozhu's voice, there was a faint sound of gnashing teeth, and said: "There are millions of people in Linqing, all of them are gone, and the last general has repeatedly asked General Liu to fight in order to avenge this deep hatred of the sea of blood, but General Liu has never ignored it, if the adults can avenge the people of Shandong for this sea of blood and hatred, why worry that the people of Shandong will not obey the general." ”

Linqing City, Zhang Xuan knows.

It was not a well-known castle in later generations, but it was a pearl in this era.

The Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal is almost useless in later generations, but in this era, it is a traffic artery that communicates the north and the south, is a golden waterway, on this waterway, there is also a series of bright cities, starting from Hangzhou, Yangzhou, Huai'an, Linqing are quite prosperous big cities in ancient times, as for Linqing because of the hub position above the canal, it has also become one of the best cities in Shandong and even in the north, and the prosperity does not let Jinan. Some people say that the prototype of Qinghe County written by Jin Mei Vase is Linqing.

Whether there are millions of people, Zhang Xuan doesn't know, but it is definitely a big mansion.

Zhang Xuan had long known that Dongyu was not a good thing, but he didn't expect to be so vicious.

"Hundreds of thousands of people, how can they do it?" Zhang Xuan's heart was furious, but he was suppressed, in later generations, he only remembered the ten days of Yangzhou, Jiading three massacres, but not like the world's big, not to mention Yangzhou Jiading, the people killed by the Dongyu, not to mention Yangzhou Jiading.

"My lord, would you like to go north to Shandong?" After all, Zhang Guozhu is a general, but he straightened out his mood in a moment, and said: "I am willing to be the guide, Donglu will only go out of the customs in May, and I will come again next year depending on the situation, as long as the adults dare to fight with the Dongyu, I dare to guarantee that the people of Shandong are willing to obey the orders of the adults." ”

Zhang Xuan wanted to agree. But reason told him that military matters were better not to be swayed by emotion, and said: "This matter is a long-term consideration." ”

Zhang Guozhu was suddenly a little disappointed, and said: "Actually, General Yuan has also fought with Dongyu, so adults can ask General Yuan." ”

Zhang Xuan didn't think about it

arrived, Yuan Shizhong actually fought with the Qing army, and after letting Zhang Guozhu go down, he sent someone to invite Yuan Shizhong over. However, he decided that he couldn't just listen to Zhang Guozhu's words, and summoned Qin Meng and asked him to send some capable scouts to Linqing to see how the situation was?

After sending Qin Meng away, Yuan Shizhong also arrived.

Zhang Xuan and Yuan Shizhong exchanged two words, then went straight to the point, and asked, "Big brother, I heard that you fought with Dongyu?" ”

Yuan Shizhong's expression was a little gloomy, he sighed, and said: "Actually, there is no real fight, but I just killed fifty Tartars." ”

"It was last year," Yuan Shizhong said, "At that time, I occupied the area of Guide, and I couldn't advance eastward, just when the Tartars were going south, and Guide was only separated by a river. At that time, I brought hundreds of horse teams with me, all of whom were the elite of my Xiaoyuan battalion. As a result, it was better to take these fifty people, and the number of casualties exceeded fifty. ”

Yuan Shizhong has a very scholarly plot and has the mentality of asking for the people's life, Yuan Shizhong will do this, Zhang Xuan is not surprised at all.

"Don't take it lightly." Yuan Shizhong seemed to see Zhang Xuan's thoughts, and said, "Didn't you say before that you wanted to go down to Jiangnan?" Don't worry about the affairs of the north, besides, now the eastern captives are also out of the customs. ”

Zhang Xuan said: "I know. ”

At this moment, Zhang Xuan said with a bit of forced laughter: "Big brother, don't worry, I won't act rashly." ”

Yuan Shizhong saw that Zhang Xuan was in a bad mood, so he didn't talk much, said a few words, and went back.

A few days later, the scouts sent by Zhang Xuan also returned.

"There are thirty-eight survivors, and there are seven merchants in the three elements, including Xi Mingyuan, Tang Yin, and Wang Youquan, and about the people of Linmin are very popular, and some are less than a point. Its official offices and private houses were all burned down, and the embers have not been extinguished to this day. The two rivers are parallel to the streets, and the corpses are like mountains, how can they be counted. The battlements were torn down. "All the way to the ruins, the covers are all hidden, and there is no way to trade", "the wild temples and shops have been destroyed", "After the Eastern Province was crippled, the people died a little, and the thieves swarmed" "The city and the houses are all mounds and ruins, full of thorns, and white bones are like mountains. As for the town of Linqing, the so-called throat, and now the pedestrians are cut off, the city is rampant, the rubble is blocked, and the shops have become drowning toilets. Sell wives and beards, and cut flesh to heal sores. In a tragic situation, the stone man fell into tears. ”

These are fragments copied from all over the world by these scouts, and what they have seen with their own eyes is even more tragic than words can tell.

After Zhang Xuan heard this, he tossed and turned, unable to sleep at all, and almost closed his eyes, as if he had seen countless people, and when he saw the people on the side, he looked at him without saying anything. Kaifeng sank into the Yellow River, although it was extremely painful, but compared with the experience of Shandong Province, it was worse than the misery of several Kaifeng cities.

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