To the west!

To the west!

March west!

Drive the Tartars out of the Ming Dynasty!

Whenever the soldiers who are on the march are excited about it. This goal is completely different from the past, different from conquering Xi'an, different from conquering any city and conquering any location, as long as the Tartars are driven out of the Ming Dynasty, it means a decisive victory.

When the time comes, they will be able to return triumphantly.

It's just that no one knows how long it will take to achieve this goal at this time, anyway, they are achieving this goal little by little.

When the front wing army's attack in Qinling was frustrated, the right wing army that went north after passing through Tongguan was like entering a no-man's land, taking Yan'an, Qingyang and Pingliang directly, pointing directly at Lintao and Lanzhou from the north road, and there was a great posture of wanting to cut off the Qing army's westward escape.

However, the right-wing army that originally regained Yan'an and Qingyang all the way like an autumn wind and fallen leaves ran into trouble after entering Pingliang - Pingliang, like Ningxia and Zhenyuwei, the local people were almost slaughtered by the Qing army, except for a few Han people who were spared, and the local Semu people were almost slaughtered by it.

As far as the eye can see, Fang Yuan is inhabited for hundreds of miles, the land is barren and overgrown with barren grass, even if you occasionally see a few dilapidated houses, there are no people living in them, at most you can only find a few skeletons. Through such a no-man's land, there may not be resistance, but along the way, the status quo of no water, no food and no supplies has slowed down the speed of the army's march.

On the official road that has been abandoned for many years, the brigade of men and horses slowly marched forward, in the grass on both sides of the road, there are cavalry grazing military horses there, and in the marching army column, the number of military horses is gradually decreasing, and the number of inferior horses and cattle levied in Shaanxi is constantly increasing, after all, the loss of military horses is unavoidable, and when it cannot be replenished in a hurry, it is often necessary to levy cattle and horses on the spot.

As a result, the number of local men accompanying the army gradually increased, thus forming a special scene, in which a large number of people were mixed in the army to help the officers and soldiers attack. They led the nose rings of the scalpers, dressed in shabby stubs, and struck

Barefoot, they walked on the land, and the soldiers in summer uniforms walked side by side with the people, and sometimes, some of the soldiers would touch the shoulders of the people with their guns and elbows, and then ask curiously.

"Brother, I heard that the Tartar snatched all the lustful women, are those lustful women beautiful?"

No matter where it is, as long as women are mentioned among men, everyone has a common topic, when these original men were recruited, although they were reluctant, and there was a faint shadow on their faces, in the first few days, they would always have a bleak smile on their faces that seemed docile, but now, after a long period of contact, they all felt that these military masters were not as fierce as they imagined, especially after receiving their wages for the first time, they couldn't believe all this, But in just ten days, I earned a silver dollar or two!

By this time, the men who were carrying the silver dollars had already become familiar with the soldiers, and they had lost their initial fears, and at the mention of women, they immediately replied:

"No, those women with colored eyes look different from us, but they are also a water spirit, especially those eyes, big, like a fox, which can hook a man's heart every two miles......"

As soon as his words fell, the warriors who were listening to the pleasure immediately nodded and laughed, and couldn't help shouting, "Then you have to have a good time......

As soon as he said this, he immediately realized that this was not what he should say, but he said it again, and he felt a little embarrassed, after all, for them, military discipline must be maintained at all times, and after maintaining the glory of the military flag, at least from the first day they joined the army, they were instilled with the idea that they were soldiers of His Majesty the Emperor, and it was their duty to maintain military discipline and maintain the glory of the military flag.

After repeated countless times, even when their state of mind was at its most troubled, they were able to maintain basic military discipline, and of course, in some cases, they still maintained some instincts in their hearts, but these instincts often only stayed in words.

The people on the side obviously saw his embarrassment, so they said with a smile on the side.

"Master Jun, when the Tartar soldiers are defeated, when the Tartars rob the women orphans and widows one by one, they go to serve the military master, and the military master goes to pick them up, and that is not a ...... to help the poor."

After this sentence came out of the mouth of the people, it immediately caused a burst of laughter around him, but this is not the truth, what he said was that the listener was happy, and the speaker was also happy. The rest of the way was also free, and these officers and soldiers from the interior were like the local people, marching and talking about topics that were of interest to the men.

As a result, the otherwise boring march became less tedious than before.

While the brigade was marching here, in a field dozens of miles away from the marching procession, more than a dozen cavalrymen stopped on the grass by the roadside, they were wearing gray uniforms, and they were carrying flint-haired cavalry stalks.

"Hurry up, move fast!"

At the beckoning of the leading cavalry, several of them carried a wooden box, and they squatted on the road and got busy.

"Wang Tou, you said that if we can lay 1,800 mines, maybe we don't need to fight, and these bright dogs will let us blow them up!"

Looking at the pit where the brothers were digging and burying mines, Zhao Liangsan said with some pity.

"It's not, this one mine is more than six pounds, and when it explodes, the ground shakes, it's a terrible one, but it's a pity that it's too little......"

Listening to the brothers' complaints, Wang Deli sighed.

"Hey, who doesn't know too little, you don't know, this mine is not an ordinary thing, although this iron shell and gunpowder are all made by our Great Qing Kingdom, but the ignition head, it was bought from the Ming Kingdom in the past, and there are not many of those dealers smuggled over, otherwise, why do you think we don't need to shoot the gun, it's not because there is no fire cap."

"Fire caps? What is a fire cap? ”

"It's installed on the firecracker, with that thing, you don't need flint, even if it rains heavily, the firecracker can also sound, why does this mine explode when you step on it, it's not because you step on the fire cap, people step on it and explode immediately......"

Wang Deli said with pity.

"It's a pity, when we stole the fire gun from Daming, the people who did the work didn't know what the fire gun was, what about the dealers? is also a ** businessman, but he bought a fire gun, but he didn't buy a fire cap, and the fire gun that he bought at a lot of money turned into a fire stick......"

Because the old master is an important minister in the court, Wang Deli can always know some secrets of the court that others don't know, and the hairpin is even more popular in the court, spending hundreds of thousands of taels of silver to buy back a bunch of burning sticks, how can he hide it from the world.

"Ouch, Wang Tou, you are talking about the errand of the Cao family of the Internal Affairs Office, I heard that the emperor was annoyed but copied the Cao family......

The person next to him had obviously heard about this, and immediately continued.

"I heard that hundreds of thousands of taels of silver were copied out in the Cao family."

"It's not, you see, they are all masters and slaves, you see how mixed up people are ......"

"What's the mix, isn't it as good as us in the end!"

"It's not ......"

As everyone spoke, Wang Deli sighed.

"Actually, speaking of which, the Cao family is also wronged, think about it, no one has ever seen the hairpin in the past, and who knows what kind of firearm this is, it actually depends on the fire cap, without the fire cap, it is like the flintlock gun without the flint. The surname Cao didn't know, and the profiteers of the Ming Kingdom didn't mention it, but as a result, they bought a bunch of burning sticks and came back, and they were reluctant to throw them away, and they were reluctant to throw them away, and if they didn't copy the Cao family, how could the court give an explanation to the hundreds of officials in the world, and you said that the Cao family was wronged. ”

When mentioning the Cao family, Wang Deli couldn't help but cry out for them, after all, in the final analysis, the Cao family was not entirely to blame for this matter, but in the end, the Cao family was raided, and even his wife and daughter were lost from office.

"Wrong, the sea of wronged people in this world has gone, and they are not missing a Cao family."

After planting five mines, a squad of cavalry quickly left, how many casualties these mines could cause to the Ming army, no one knows, but it is certain that these mines can slow down the Ming army's march, dozens of mines can even slow it down for a day or two, after all, in the case of mines are not removed, no one will order the troops to continue to advance in the minefield, although the so-called minefield is only a dozen or even a few mines.

With a loud explosion, the sappers who were clearing the mines were blown up into the sky in the smoke cloud of the explosion, and the severed legs were blown up several feet away, and there was even a section of intestines hanging on the trees on the side of the road.

Such a tragic scene made the sappers who were clearing the mines stunned, and they looked at the bombed pit in the middle of the road, and looked at the corpses and fragments all over the ground.

", the dog......"

Scolding like this, Song Jie looked at the pale brother who was blown up next to him, and then said.

"Be careful, don't take it lightly, you know?"

With this in his mouth, he once again took a mine probe rod and probed on the ground, although he knew that there might be only one such mine in the next few dozen miles, but he did not dare to be careless, after all, the price of carelessness was his life, his life or that of his brothers.

When the sappers used mine detection rods to probe the ground to find the mines planted by the Qing army, and marked a safe road with small flags, the infantry following the sappers entered the repair, although for the soldiers, this is a rare time to rest, but for the officers, it is reluctant. After all, these officers were more eager than soldiers to fight to Lanzhou as soon as possible, and then cut off the enemy's way to flee west.

"What the hell!"

Sulking in his heart, Zhang Zhenwu violently whipped the big tree on the side of the road with a horsewhip, and there was anger in his eyes.

"If Lao Tzu finds out, it was that turtle grandson who sold the mine to Jiannu, and Lao Tzu will kill his whole family!"

Landmines, especially the kind of mines that use pressure-launch fuses, have only one source, that is, from the Ming Dynasty, without the thunder mercury fire cap, this kind of pressure mine cannot be made at all, and the thunder mercury fire cap is only available in the Ming Dynasty, and even the people are now difficult to get. If you want to get a fire cap, there is only one possibility, which is to buy it from the official arsenal at a high price. That's why Zhang Zhenwu scolded and scolded, linking all this with the profiteers in the mainland.

"Sir, it should have flowed into Shaanxi before the war, didn't the newspaper say it? At that time, many profiteers sold weapons to Jiannu, which must have flowed in at that time, and there were tens of thousands of fire caps in a box, and they could hide wherever they wanted. ”

When Zhao Yupu heard the commander's complaint, he immediately said to the side that although he was not an officer as an old sergeant, he was still quite respected in the army.

"I know that the profiteers of the dog days don't even want their lives for the sake of money! I heard that a box of fire hats can be sold for 10 taels of silver, almost 10 taels of silver, not to mention profiteers, even if the brothers can find a way, maybe they will be willing to sell some ......."

Zhang Zhenwu sighed helplessly.

"After all, silver is moving!"

I don't know how much the army buys a box of fire hats, but the Qing army is willing to buy a box with ten taels of silver, and there are only 120 fire hats in a box.

"Sir, do you think this Jiannu is stupid to spend such a large price to buy a fire hat."

"Silly?"

Zhang Zhenwu sneered.

"They are more shrewd than anyone else, not to mention anything else, that is, as soon as this mine is buried in the ground, it will drag us down, this mine is inseparable from the fire cap, dozens of taels of silver, thousands of catties of gunpowder, can drag on for ten and a half months, do you say they are stupid?"

As a commander, Zhang Zhenwu naturally will not be like Zhao Yupu, who only sees the sky-high price of the fire hat, the fire hat may be expensive, but if it is used correctly, it is really not something that silver can buy.

"Even if they put a few battalions of soldiers here, they may not be able to stop us for so long, and now, you see, it's just a few mines, which force us to camp temporarily and rest, this soldier ......is very fast."

With a helpless wry smile, Zhang Zhenwu looked in the direction of Lanzhou, and then said.

"Now, they are so dragged by mines, we can only watch them leave here calmly, so Jiannu is hateful, but those traitors are even more hateful, if there are no traitors, Jiannu will not be able to enter the customs back then, without traitors, they will not be able to occupy the Central Plains, and now they will definitely not be able to build mines......"

After a slight pause, Zhang Zhenwu said coldly.

"In my opinion, we are too soft-hearted to deal with those traitors, otherwise how could there be so many people who are traitors, even now there are still traitors colluding with Jiannu, so we can only watch Jiannu flee all the way west......"

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