Chapter 171: Li Zicheng's troops besiege Mizhi City
Song Yingxing, president of the Daning Academy of Sciences, is simply the ancient Great Nikola Tesla, and Daning's high investment in science and technology for so many years has finally blossomed under his genius-like guidance. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Guan Shanyue, who majored in mechanical manufacturing, used his expertise to describe in detail the working principle of machine tools and the magnificent scene of large-scale industrial production with Song Yingxing, and he was so excited that he never slept peacefully.
After knowing that the machine tool is the mother machine of industrial production, he actually led a working group to tackle key problems for a year, and with the cooperation of the steel plant, he adopted the strategy from simple to complex, first metallizing the wooden machine tool imported from the United Kingdom. After accumulating experience, he invented a lathe and a milling machine with a cast iron bed, which was a god-like genius.
Of course, this is also indispensable for Guan Shanyue to resist the pressure and insist again and again. Among them, in order to convert heat energy into kinetic energy, it costs 6 million taels of funds just to grind qualified machine tool spindles, crankshafts, lead screws, balls, pistons and produce a qualified alloy steel. If it weren't for the foreign trade of the four northern provinces behind it, relying on Daning's financial resources alone, I'm afraid the capital chain would have been broken long ago. The hardships in the process were inhumane.
The initial few machine tools are the earth-shaking capital of Daning, with them in addition to the production of higher precision, higher precision machine tools, many weapons that were never dreamed of before were born. For example, rifling, grenades, screws, mortars......
However, Rome was not built in a day, and the real industrial revolution required not only hardware facilities, but also mature markets and other software facilities.
The words are divided into two ends, some people are happy and some people are worried.
Mizhi County Ling Zhang Shidi sat in the county office with a depressed face, killing the bandit leader Gao Yingxiang was originally a great achievement, but he didn't expect to incur Li Zicheng's crazy revenge.
Mizhi County has been besieged for three days, and the reinforcements that should have appeared a long time ago have not appeared. Outside the city of Mizhi, there were flags in the sky, and all of them were Li Zicheng's troops, as many as 60,000.
If it weren't for Zhang Xianzhong's strategy of using soldiers all over the city, sticking to the city, and the fact that the people who were besieging the city did not have firearms such as artillery in their hands, Mizhi County would have been slaughtered long ago.
After the death of his uncle Gao Yingxiang, he adopted the strategy of the military advisor Song Xian, and hurriedly carried the banner of avenging his uncle, and took the opportunity to carry out asset merger and reorganization. All the old departments of Gao Yingxiang, who were afraid of retaliation from the government, were brought under his own account, and his strength was directly doubled, and the original private company that was a small fight became the top three in the circle of popular change.
Li Zicheng, who had a calm and calm face, rode on the oolong horse, his eyes were blazing, and he brandished a flower horse sword and shouted at the Ming army at the head of the city: "Brother Zhang, I can't bear to slaughter the city when I think of my hometown, and I ask you to expel the Daning army in the city from the city, and you and I will be at ease." As long as I get revenge, I will definitely do nothing to the fathers and villagers in the city. If you don't comply, you can blame me for turning my face and not recognizing people. ”
Song Xian, who was dressed in gray cloth, frowned, and called softly from the side: "King, Zhang Shidi is a scholar and a well-known good person, if it weren't for his repeated insistence, how could the people in the city obey Zhang Xianzhong's dog thief's orders?" I have heard that he was the one who offered the plan to burn down the company camp. ”
Li Zicheng shook his head and said calmly: "Military advisor, Brother Zhang has kindness to my Mizhi, if you kill him, it will anger the public." The immigration policy given by the four northern provinces is quite attractive, and now people's minds are changing, and there are fewer and fewer people participating in the uprising with their heads up. It is really not advisable to make extraneous branches. ”
Song Xian felt that Li Zicheng was a bit of a woman's kindness, but he really couldn't find a reasonable reason to kill Zhang Shidi. Li Zicheng's concerns are reasonable, Mizhi is his hometown, and it is his hometown that relies on his hometown to conquer the city, and this position is really a bit special.
Zhang Xianzhong pouted and smiled after hearing this, and did not pay attention to the 60,000 peasant troops under the city at all. If it weren't for Zhang Shidi's every dissuasion, he would have pulled out the three thousand Daning cavalry to have a hard time with Li Zicheng.
Zhang Shidi stood at the head of the city and was anxious to turn around, although Li Zicheng kept saying that he would not slaughter the city, but his subordinates did not harm the big families in the villages around Mizhi County.
In the process of the thieves grabbing the grain, if the main family dared to resist a little, the whole family would die. It would be better if they only robbed the grain, but they also harmed the women of good families. Li Zicheng's subordinates have many Mizhi locals, and none of those women who are slightly attractive can escape their clutches.
It's just that the people of Wubao County and Suide Prefecture, which border Mizhi County, have been suffering from blood mold for eight lifetimes, and the peasant army simply regards the two places as logistics bases.
Zhang Xianzhong, who was wearing cotton armor, wiped a brass heart guard on his chest, leaned against the city wall and raised his eyebrows and smiled: "Lord Zhang, don't pull your neck and look north like a lookout stone, if Hong Chengchou comes, he will come." Li Zicheng entered Shaanxi from Shanxi all the way to no one's land, which shows that Yang He deliberately released water. We and the people of the city are just victims of political struggle. ”
Zhang Shidi kicked and kicked at the city wall angrily, he had to accept this cruel reality, and said angrily: "With his own selfishness, the people of the city are disregarded by fire and water, and Hong Chengchou is really a beast." ”
Zhang Xianzhong walked over and patted Zhang Shidi lightly on the shoulder, and said calmly: "They think they are playing politics, but in fact, politics is playing with them." Don't worry, according to the speed of the round trip, Brother Cao's reinforcements should be arriving soon. The rabble under the city is nothing to worry about. ”
Daning's army is the most indestructible reliance in Zhang Xianzhong's heart, and if Daning does not fall, his heart will not be flustered.
Guan Shanyue met Cao Bingzhang who asked for help in Yulinwei, and after learning about the situation in Mizhi County, he was originally in a leisurely hurry, and immediately changed from a carriage to a horse, and led the Heavenly Wolf Battalion and the Divine Arrow Battalion to rush to the aid of Mizhi County.
The scenery on both sides was galloping by, Ye Xiaoluan handed the reins to Guan Shanyue, gently leaned into his arms, and asked worriedly: "We only have 10,000 people, the enemy has 60,000 people, and there is a huge difference between the enemy and our strength, why don't you send Hong Chengchou of Yansui Town to help in the battle?" ”
Guan Shanyue looked straight ahead, and said with a disdainful expression: "When Hong Chengchou and them move out of the nest, I'm afraid the brothers in the city will have already been chopped into meat sauce." The peasant army is a group of peasants who cultivate the land, and they don't have much strategic materials like war horses, and with the high mobility of the cavalry, combined with the power of grenades, I have the certainty of nine cities to win this battle. ”
Ye Xiaoluan pursed his lips and questioned: "Blind blowing, just with the kind of weapon called 'grenade' invented by the Daning Academy of Sciences, you can win more with less, your lord's big words are a bit big, right?" Even 60,000 cattle and sheep, you have to catch them for two days, right? ”
Guan Shanyue rolled her eyes, pressed Ye Xiaoluan's body, and teased in her ear: "If I can win this battle, let's talk about life at night?" ”
Ye Xiaoluan's face was full of shame, and he leaned forward gently, and said coquettishly: "Soldiers, the major affairs of the country, the place of death and life, and the way of survival, must not be ignored." People discuss such serious issues with you, but you are so frivolous and ignore you. ”
said so on the lips, but the heart was beautiful, probably this is a subtle beauty unique to ancient women.
Guan Shanyue sniffed the fragrance emanating from the beauty in her arms, let out a burst of wild laughter, rode her horse and galloped in the direction of Mizhi County, and secretly said in her heart: "King Li Zicheng, I'm sorry, my emperor dream may stop here." ”