Wu Sangui looked at the army of 80,000 Jiangbei Second Towns behind him, and felt a sense of high spirits. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

An army of 80,000 filled the rugged and winding country roads, spreading from Wu Sangui's side to unseen places in the distance, as if covering the entire heaven and earth.

After Guan Ningjun was defeated by Li Zhi, Wu Sangui once became a water dog who was ignored. The Guanning Army was greatly reduced, dismantled, and transferred to an erosive battlefield of Henan to suppress thieves. Wu Sangui felt that his life was over, and in the end he was either killed by a thief, or because the thief was given death by the Son of Heaven.

Maybe one day if you are forced to be helpless, you will surrender to the thief, and then be exterminated by the new army of the imperial court.

However, when Wu Sangui was at his most depressed, the Donglin Party in Jiangnan did not forget Wu Sangui. When they were preparing to build the second town of Jiangbei, they found Wu Sangui and asked him to serve as the chief soldier of Jiangbei East Town.

In the end, there were 40,000 people in Jiangbei Dongzhen, and the number of soldiers and horses was twice that of Wu Sangui when he was in western Liaoning. Moreover, Jiangbei Dongzhen was rich in salaries and had sufficient grain and grass, and Wu Sangui suddenly became noble again.

Wu Sangui knew that the purpose of the formation of the second town in Jiangbei was to fight against Li Zhi. The second town of Jiangbei was equipped with fire cannons like Li Zhi's Tiger Army, and outnumbered the Tiger Army, just to defeat Li Zhi's soldiers and horses.

However, Wu Sangui is not afraid of Li Zhi, Wu Sangui, as a representative of the Jiangmen of Liaoxi, has been attached to the civil officials of the imperial court for decades, and knows the power of the gentry better than anyone else. In Wu Sangui's eyes, no matter how powerful Li Zhi is, it is only a flash in the pan. And in this world, in the final analysis, it is still the gentry.

The various things that Li Zhi did in Tianjin and Shandong made Li Zhi much stronger and the people much happier on the surface, but in Wu Sangui's view, this was a person with no political experience who committed suicide.

It's like a child snatching a strong man's rice to eat, and after a while, the child is full, but it will attract the strong man's crazy revenge.

Li Zhi is one person, and how many gentry are there? The gentry are the whole world! Even if Li Zhi killed the gentry in Tianjin and Shandong, there would still be Jiangnan and Huguang, Jiangxi and Sichuan, Fujian and Liangguang, Zhejiang and Shanxi!

The more gentry Li Zhi kills, the more the gentry in the world will wake up, and the more they will form a joint force to kill Li Zhi. The gentry can be defeated again and again, but the power of the counterattack will be stronger each time.

What's more, the second town of Jiangbei is different this time. Hongmao, who was driven out of Xiaoliuqiu by Li Zhi, also hated Li Zhi and sold 600 advanced cannons to the gentry in Jiangnan. With these six white cannons, the 80,000 Jiangbei Army could overwhelm the 20,000 soldiers and horses left by Li Zhi in Shandong and burn the war to Tianjin.

Li Zhi was already mired in the quagmire in Liaodong and was struggling, which was a good opportunity for the Jiangbei Army to attack Tianjin. It took half a month for the Jiangbei Army to attack Li Zhi from Shandong to Liaodong, and Li Zhi's withdrawal of troops in Liaodong would be pursued and harassed by the Qing cavalry, and it would take at least two months to lead his troops back to Shandong for rescue. Therefore, the Jiangbei Army had more than two and a half months. Maybe this time, the gentry in Jiangnan will be able to pull out Li Zhi's cancer at one time.

If the Jiangbei army was allowed to attack Fanjiazhuang, the gentry in Jiangnan would definitely burn this "sin city" to the ground with a fire.

Zhang Shenyan, the secretary of the Nanjing Ministry of Officials, was the highest civilian official in the army this time. Qian Qianyi's Ministry of Rites is not military and does not understand, Shi Kefa recently fell out with Qian Qianyi because of the Qing Alliance, and no longer cares about the affairs of the second town in Jiangbei. In the end, the civil official who went out on the expedition became Zhang Shenyan.

Zhang Shenyan looked at Wu Sangui, who was full of ambition, and said with a smile: "If you can get rid of Li Zhi's lair this time, I will guarantee that General Wu will be the commander of Tianjin on another day, and he will be in charge of the government of a town in Tianjin." ”

Wu Sangui was young after all, and when he heard this, he was overjoyed, and a smile bloomed on his face.

Zhang Shenyan turned to Zuo Liangyu and said, "Zuo Shuai can be the governor of Shandong in the future, and he will be in charge of the administration of a province in Shandong." ”

Zuo Liangyu was not in good health, and coughed a few times when he heard Zhang Shenyan's words.

He turned his head to look at Zhang Shenyan and said, "Master Shangshu, Zuo has fought thieves with Li Zhi, and he knows that this son is not a person who takes risks lightly. What Zuo was worried about was that since Li Zhi had blatantly sent troops to Liaodong, he would definitely leave behind in Shandong to guard against us. Without a 12-point grasp of withstanding our attack, Li Zhi would not have gone to Liaodong. ”

Zhang Shenyan said dissatisfiedly: "Oh? Does Zuo Shuai think that Li Zhi is in Liaodong, and only leaving 20,000 defenders in Shandong can stop our 80,000 troops and 600 cannons? ”

Zhang Shenyan laughed and said, "What does Zuo Shuai mean, is this Li Zhi a god descending from heaven?" ”

Wu Sangui also laughed when he heard Zhang Shenyan's words.

Zuo Liangyu heard Zhang Shenyan's laughter and closed his eyes. After a long time, he opened his eyes and said: "Zuo is not to increase the ambition of others, but he just thinks that it is better to be careful in everything." ”

Zhang Shenyan smiled and did not speak.

Wu Sangui stood up and said: "I think Zuo Shuai's statement is also meritorious. When we enter the army this time, we should be cautious while seizing the opportunity, and don't follow Li Zhi's way. ”

Zhang Shenyan smiled and said, "What Mr. Wu said is also reasonable, let's let more scouts go out to find out the situation." ”

Wu Sangui stopped talking about this topic, looked at the front and said: "Lord Shangshu, the front is Yizhou, we can use six hundred heavy artillery to bombard Yizhou City, and we can break into Shandong!" ”

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In the city of Yizhou, Li Xing was dressed in a fiery red and straight division commander's uniform, with cowhide hard boots on his feet, and an officer's short gun at his waist, looking at the 2,500 sharpshooters standing under the stage.

These sharpshooters were selected from 20,000 Tiger Army soldiers and were excellent marksmen armed with new rifles. The so-called new rifle is a rifle with a scope attached to the Minny rifle. This new rifle allows the shooter to easily hit targets at a distance of 400 meters, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a sniper rifle.

The 2,500 sharpshooters were excellent fighters who, after more than a year of training, were also very disciplined. At this time, more than 2,000 people stood under the stage, and not a single person made a noise. The whole school field was full of people, but it was very quiet.

Li Xing waved his fist: "Soldiers, the rebels in Jiangnan took advantage of the opportunity of the Duke of Jin to fight for the country and conquer Dongnu, and came to Shandong." ”

"These shameless gentry, for their own selfish interests, colluded with the Taqing Dynasty, regardless of the crime of the Taqing Dynasty slaughtering millions of my Ming compatriots, and lived with the Taqing snakes and rats."

"Can we let these shameless villains get away with it?"

"Can't!!"

Li Xing stood on the stage and touched his belt, and said loudly: "Soldiers, you are the top people picked out by the Duke of Jinguo!" It is the key to the defense of Yizhou. ”

"The next battle will require you to fight with unyielding tenacity and courage in the face of death. Your performance will directly determine the outcome of the battle to defend Yizhou, and your bravery will directly determine whether we can stop the shameless gentry rebels outside Shandong. ”

"Tell me, can you do it?"

More than 2,000 people shouted in unison.

"It can be done!"