Chapter 148 "Cybernaut" Talks About Malaysia Again The construction of the railway has accelerated

When the people from the telegraph team saw Liu Yun coming, they didn't move forward any further, and when Liu Yun came to the front, they said, "General Liu, the telegram is ready." You see what you need to send home, we're calling home. ”

Liu Yun hasn't called home yet, this is great, don't wait for the family to ask, say the best first.

When he came to the telegraph car, Liu Yun dictated the general story of the ambush battle. In the end, he said that the battlefield was being cleaned up, and the results of the battle would be reported later.

Kiln Gang Command Center.

Zhang Zhimu, Chen Yufeng, and Ouyang He read the telegram sent back by Liu Yun, and their hanging hearts were all put down.

Ouyang He just sat down and stood up again, and said, "Judging from Liu Yun's ambush this time, the threat of the Mongolian cavalry to us is no longer a big problem. ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "This time the Mongols ambushed our cavalry, if it is our infantry, we must be passive. Because the impact of the cavalry was really terrible for the infantry. ”

"This also proves that the Mongol cavalry is a surprise attack, and it does not pose much of a threat to our automatic rifles." Chen Yufeng said.

"In ten days, Liu Yun and the others will return to Kill Hukou, why don't we pick them up again. It can be given the matter of buying land in Hukou. You can also buy horses and livestock. Liu Yun has a lot of them, and they can also help get the horses back. Zhang Zhimu said.

Ouyang He said: "In this case, we really have to leave in a few days." You must rush ahead of Liu Yun and them to kill Hukou, get everything done, and wait for Liu Yun and them to come over and go back directly. ”

"We don't have to worry about this, just tell Lao Lu, he can arrange it." Chen Yufeng said.

"By the way, the unsealed telegram is about to be opened. But I've been wondering if this will have any effect on King Zhou. It is impossible for our dealings with King Zhou to completely conceal Emperor Chongzhen. When Princess Anping left, I asked him to tell King Zhou to pretend to be sick as soon as possible. Once the emperor asks him to enter Beijing, he must not go. I gave King Zhou and Princess Anping a small pistol each. Let them wear it on their bodies for self-defense. It's small, but it's very practical at close range. Zhang Zhimu said.

"Taking the opportunity of pretending to be sick, King Zhou should not ask about Kaifeng." Ouyang He thought further, "He just asked about Kaifeng, so that the emperor could rest assured of him." ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "That's right! As soon as the telegram was called, we immediately sent a telegram to King Zhou with the code. This password, in Kaifeng, only Princess Anping has a copy. This is a special password to contact King Zhou. ”

"It's nice to have a telegraph." Ouyang He said, "Mr. Chen, it is very likely that our command methods will change in the future. Perhaps in the future, we will not have to follow the troops, just look at the map at home and command by telegraph. ”

Chen Yufeng said: "Yes! It is necessary to familiarize Qin Peng and them with the matter of the telegram as soon as possible. Let them also get used to this style of command. ”

At this time, Li Yan's telegram came again, reporting the battle situation: more than 5,000 Mongolian cavalry were killed, and more than 800 war horses were captured, including two bloody horses. We lost five killed and more than 100 seriously wounded.

"The casualties are not small." Chen Yufeng said, "Reply to the telegram, pay attention to safety on the road." Protect the BMW and take care of the wounded. We will meet you at the mouth of the killing. ”

After recording the telegram, the staff officer asked Chen Yufeng to sign it and left.

"Mr. Chen, in the future, when we leave Yaogang to fight, there will not be many battles with zero casualties, and I also need to adapt." Ouyang He said, "It would be great if those two horses were really sweaty." I've heard of it, but I've never seen a bloody BMW. ”

"I haven't seen it either," Chen Yufeng said, "but if that old 'Cybernaut' thing knew about it, I wouldn't be happy to be bad." After speaking, Chen Yufeng picked up the phone and wanted to call Yan Boju's phone, holding the microphone, Chen Yufeng said, "What are the old things busy with?" ”

"I didn't get busy, I just sat down and drank some water." Yan Boju over there said, "You old fellow, you won't care about what I'm doing, right?" ”

"Of course, there's a good thing I want to tell you, would you like to hear it?"

"Say it quickly, and sell it."

"Ever heard of a bloody BMW?" Chen Yufeng asked.

"Sweaty BMW? Are you talking about sweaty BMW? Yan Boju was shocked.

"Yes! Is it a sweaty BMW, do you want it? ”

"What? Want to sweat the blood BMW. Yan Boju thought Chen Yufeng was joking, "You old thing, sell you to see if you can buy a bloody BMW." Tell me, what the hell is going on? You're not the one who has nothing to do with haha. ”

"Let me tell you, Liu Yun, they have telegraphed. He said that they would fight a battle on the steppe and capture two bloody horses. Don't believe it! ”

"Is it really a bloody BMW? Two horses? Yan Boju was a little dazed.

Chen Yufeng didn't say anything more and put down the phone.

Ouyang He said: "Mr. Yan will be there soon!" ”

Zhang Zhimu and Chen Yufeng both smiled heartily.

Sure enough, Yan Boju burst in out of breath after a while, and asked Zhang Zhimu uneasily: "Zhimu, is the old thing's words true?" ”

Zhang Zhimu didn't speak: "Pick up the telegram and give it to Yan Boju." ”

When Yan Boju received the telegram, Zhang Zhimu saw that his hands trembled a little.

After reading the telegram, Yan Boju almost burst into tears in his eyes, and said, "Great, great! It's not a dream, is it? ”

"Uncle Yan, sit down. You've got the best stallion this time. Zhang Zhimu said.

As soon as Yan Boju's buttocks hit the sofa, he bounced up again and said, "Quickly send a report to Liu Yun and ask if the two are stallions and mares?" Castration no? Tell them to be careful, even if they lose everything else, they can't lose their BMW. That's a priceless treasure! After speaking, he muttered again: "They haven't seen a bloody BMW before, can they be wrong?" ”

Chen Yufeng said: "You old thing, you are nervous. When Li Kui stole the horse, you also began to take the horse. With him, you can't be mistaken. ”

Yan Boju was relieved when he heard this, and after sitting down, he began to argue with Chen Yufeng about when he was a horse and when Li Kui stole a horse. Zhang Zhimu and Ouyang He watched the two old men bickering and did not participate.

Liu Yun's call back almost didn't make Yan Boju jump, it turned out that the two horses were a male and a female. And the stallion is not castrated.

Seeing that Zhang Zhimu didn't understand what was going on, Yan Boju said again, "You see, the horses we buy are generally castrated stallions, and castrated horses are also called geldings. The mare is also called a horse, and generally they do not sell the mare. The Mongols raised horses and tamed horses, which was a must. For a year or two after birth, horses are carefully trained to ride on the grass to make them full of grass and strong. When you have four teeth, you will be castrated. Such an early castrated horse is strong, strong, supple, and able to withstand cold climates. After two or three years of grazing in the meadows, the castrated horses are ridden again and coached again as they were in the initial riding training. After the second coach, the horse's temperament has become more docile, and his footwork is also ideal, and he will not bite or kick people. The rider feels stable on horseback. There is no need to leash the horse after dismounting, and the horse will not leave and go far.

Geldings and horses are separate groups and are never mixed.

Generally, the strongest and best stallions in the herd are kept as stallions and not castrated, and such horses are also called official horses, and there must be an official horse in every forty or fifty horses. If the official horse finds that one of the horses under his jurisdiction has run away, he will immediately catch up with him and drive back with kicks and bites. When the horses of other herds run to a herd that does not belong to them, they will stop them and drive them away after biting or kicking them. It is not uncommon for this Mongol to herd a large herd of horses by one person. So I'm worried about whether those two sweaty BMWs are geldings. Unexpectedly, they turned out to be a pair of stallions. It's an eye-opener. ”

Yan Boju said that the horse was foaming at the mouth, and he couldn't help it.

Zhang Zhimu knew that Yan Boju would be happy for a few days this time.

Chen Yufeng and Ouyang He's thoughts were obviously not on this horse.

Ouyang He saw that Yan Boju didn't talk about horses, and seemed to say to himself, "The Mongols were killed and injured by us for the first time, and they even dared to come and ambush us." And they also dared to choose the place where the first ambush was laid, it seems that there are also masters among the Mongols. It's just that they don't understand our combat strength, otherwise if they use this method of warfare, they will probably succeed against other armies at once. We can't take them too lightly in the future. They just have weapons in their hands that are too far behind us. ”

Ouyang He was right, the opponent Liu Yun and they met this time was definitely a scheming guy.

Ezhe, the chief leader of the Chahar tribe, heard that more than 20,000 people from the Sunit tribe and the naturalized team were besieging the caravan of the Han people, but more than 10,000 people were killed and wounded by the Han people, and more than 8,000 people from the two families together did not come back. This made them gasp when they heard it. I wondered if these Han people were more powerful than the Manchu cavalry. At this time, the Han prison sent by the Manchu Qing Dynasty around Ezhe spoke, "I think, it's not that the Han are too powerful. It's that our cavalry fought stupidly. The firearms of the Han people are their advantage, they found out in advance the people you sent to set up an ambush, so they retreated and built fortifications that were conducive to their advantage in firearms, and set up a horse rejection in front of the fortification, and when your cavalry rushed to the front of the people's formation, they would slow down when they encountered the horse, and then you could avoid the fire of other people's firearms. Isn't this the same as hitting an egg against a rock? Is it strange that you are undefeated? ”

Although his son Ezhe and the other leaders did not want to listen to the words of this prison army, they did not dare not listen, because he represented Huang Taiji to sit with them, and what this person said made sense.

Ezhe said, "That's what Lord Overseer said. We should take advantage of our Mongol cavalry to and fro in the steppes like the wind, and use the speed advantage of the swift cavalry to defeat their muskets. ”

This Ezhe also personally took people back to the original battlefield to check it out. Although Liu Yun and the others had collected most of the bullet casings and taken them away, there were still many bullet casings left on the ground.

The Han overseer said to Ezhe: "The Han caravan must have thought that if it drove us away, we would not dare to come back." I mean, we're just waiting for them right here. We also went to the place where we first set up an ambush, but this time we ambushed a little further away from the road. Don't let their spearheads find out. When they arrived, we overwhelmed them with the iron cavalry of our cavalry. ”

Ezhe said: "Lord Prison is really a clever trick, this clever plan is really admirable. Ezhe's words have both compliments and admiration.

Therefore, Ezhe personally went to the Sunit tribe to offer condolences to the head, and also brought a lot of cattle and sheep silk as condolence money. At the same time, he told the leader of the Sunit tribe his plan and asked the Sunit tribe to send someone to participate.

The leader of the Sunit tribe knew that he had to send people if he didn't want to, and besides, he had to send people to avenge his son. This time, the Sunit tribe mobilized again urgently, and more than 10,000 people were discharged.

He gathered 20,000 men from other tribes. A total of 30,000 horses have set a trap here, waiting for Liu Yun and them. From the moment Liu Yun and the others came out of the mountain pass, their whereabouts have always been in the hands of Ezhe.

When he knew that Prince Torrey's cavalry had returned, Ezhe knew that Changshengtian was on his side this time. This time, more than 30,000 cavalry dealt with 3,000 or 4,000 people, and they took the lead in the ambush. He also knew that this time, the Han people would definitely resist desperately with the firearms in their hands, and his Mongol soldiers would also suffer a lot of casualties. However, after this victory, he was given a large number of firearms, and at that time, he was the invincible master of the steppe.

When Ezhe found that the Han Chinese team had entered their ambush circle without any vigilance, his heart was about to burst out. He ordered the gunners to light the artillery, giving the sound of attacking artillery. When he saw their Mongol cavalry leaping up from the grass and rushing forward, Ezhe was as happy as if he had seen victory. However, the Han people in front of him didn't seem to be flustered, which made Ezhe very uncomfortable, these cowardly Han people should be afraid and panic when they see us Mongolians, this is what the ancestors have said from generation to generation.

However, the sound of "popping" gunshots from the direction of the Han convoy did not make him feel uncomfortable, but made him feel worried. The cavalry that rushed to the convoy fell in the crisp sound of gunfire. Ezhe had never heard such a gunshot before, and this was the first time, but this was too terrifying. However, he was a little lucky, he didn't let all his people press, he wanted to let the people of the Sunit tribe be more. In the past few years, their Sunit tribesmen have developed too fast, and they have personally gone to the battle when they are invited. If they develop rapidly like this, they don't know who will be the masters of the grassland in the future. When there was a terrible and louder gunfire in front of him, he realized that he was right not to send too many people to rush forward, because those who rushed were already lying on the ground. With more of that continuous gunfire, he saw that there were not many cavalrymen still on horseback, and he knew that this battle could not be fought. The longer you fight, the more people will die.

The southern road commanded by Ezhe attacked, and he quickly retreated with the rest of the men.

In fact, the second prince of the Sunit tribe on the other side of the north road also learned the lessons of the past and did not press them all. When he came out this time, the leader of the Sunit tribe knew that this time he was going to be more auspicious, his three sons had been killed and injured, and the second child could not have any more accidents, especially the second child was brave and strategic, and his position was wanted to be handed over to him. So he sent his own guard captain to ride a sweaty horse with the guards to cover the second prince. How did they know that they would be wiped out by Li Jing and the others coming up from behind. The two sweaty BMWs were also taken away by Li Jing and them.

In the evening, when Zhang Zhimu and Huang Yukun were together, Zhang Zhimu said that he was going to kill the tiger's mouth in a few days, and Huang Yukun said: "I just said that you are unstable at home." ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "Now that the conditions are good, how about you arrange it this time, and go shopping with me to kill Hukou?" It's time for you to go out and open your eyes. ”

"There are a lot of things in Yaogang, Xiaoqing, Xiaohu, and Erhu can't do without me. How can I walk away? "Huang Yukun really wants to go out and have a look.

Zhang Zhimu said: "Then it's decided, you can arrange it, and we will bring the second tiger with you." It's not cold now, we have a steel spring carriage, just arrange a bed for him. Just bring someone with you to take care of the kids. Xiaoqing and Xiaohu are also older, and Yulin and her cousin take care of them. It's a pity that they didn't have a holiday, otherwise it would have been nice to bring them all. ”

"Are you really taking me there?" Huang Yukun got up and looked at Zhang Zhimu and asked.

"Really," Zhang Zhimu said, "I will definitely take you to open your eyes this time, and you can also go to our Hukou branch to have a look." ”

"Then I'll let Sister-in-law Xu go with me. He also hasn't been to kill Hukou. ”

"Okay, let's make arrangements together tomorrow."

After the second half of the year, the kiln slowly entered the harvest season.

On this day, Zhang Zhimu had just discussed with Lu Chengxiang about killing Hu Kou, and Lu Chengxiang smiled and said, "Okay!" Mr. Zhang, you just take care of the big things, go and kill Hu Kou, you just need to say a word, and you don't have to worry about other things. We are not the merchants who bought horses and skins in the past. ”

"Huh! So what kind of people do you say we are? Zhang Zhimu actually understood in his heart, and deliberately said, "We don't still have to buy horses and skins this time." ”

"That's different." Lu Chengxiang said: "Now the income of the imperial court, Li Zicheng, and Zhang Xianzhong together is not half of ours. Hey! Traders like us don't pay attention to the skins and horses anymore. ”

"There's one more thing I want to tell you." Zhang Zhimu said, "This time, I want to take Huang Yukun to kill Hukou to see, and it is not easy for her." It should have opened her eyes. ”

"Oops! It should be. Don't worry, I've got you covered. Now our conditions are much better than before, the roads are safe, the road conditions are better, and our cars are much better. It's time for them to look around. ”

"And Sister-in-law Xu may also want to go and have a look, but she hasn't discussed it with Uncle Chen yet, so let's talk about it later." Zhang Zhimu suddenly thought that he should let everyone go and have a look, "I think so, if any of us go this time, we will all bring our lady with us." You also go home and ask your wife, they are still lively when the women go together. ”

"Good! I haven't been far away from home, so I have to go home and ask. I think I'll ask Mr. Yan again, and let him bring his wife with me. Lu Chengxiang knew that this was not just a matter for the ladies to go shopping, it was also a very honorable thing. There are not many people who can enjoy this treatment in Yaogang.

Zhang Zhimu and Lu Chengxiang were talking, Yang Yulin pushed the door and said, "Li Yunhe called!" ”

Zhang Zhimu picked up the phone, and Li Yunhe's voice came from the microphone, "Mr. Zhang, I have good news for you." Master Qingfengzi sent someone to bring a jar of kerosene and a jar of gasoline. We can do diesel engine testing. ”

"Great." Zhang Zhimu was overjoyed when he heard this, "However, Yunhe, in the future, we will have to produce a large number of iron drums, which are specially used to hold gasoline and kerosene and the like, and we can't always use jars to hold oil." That thing is easy to break, and once it breaks, the oil is spilled and it pollutes the environment. ”

"Okay! You give me a size, and I'll arrange for someone to make this thing. ”

Zhang Zhimu knew that this oil drum was still a little bit of a word, and a few edges must be pressed out on the oil barrel, which can increase the strength. The outside should also be painted.

But now we have to finish talking about Lu Chengxiang first.

Seeing Zhang Zhimu put down the phone, Lu Chengxiang said: "Around our kiln, more and more people have gathered, and winter is coming." We can't ignore their business. I think if we want to immigrate next year, we can choose among them first. The policies we have given them are life-saving and give them hope for the future. These people can now be arranged to work on the construction site of the railway. Mr. Lu Bingyi has decided that the railway embankment from Niutoushan to Datong and Jihukou will be completed immediately. ”

"If the construction of the railway is in full swing, there will not be enough of these people, so I think we will recruit people from the slender men and disaster victims along the Yellow River. Don't forget, women have to recruit some too. ”

"Hey, hey! Don't say it, women are not easy to recruit. Our textile factory wanted to recruit 10,000 female workers, and only qualified people recruited more than 5,000 people. Next year will start work, and there will not be enough workers. If it doesn't work, we'll have to use men. ”

"I'll give you an idea, you go to Tongguan, let those businessmen who come to Tongguan go to Sichuan and Hubei to recruit people for you, and they will publicize the treatment of our workers for you. Those places are densely populated. Although they were all small in stature, they were more suitable for working as weavers. If there are more female workers, we can recruit some of them who are willing to emigrate. ”

"Great idea! I'll call Tongguan when I go back. Lu Chengxiang said, "I am most concerned about the railway, which is the most important thing." There is no problem with the railway being repaired to Niutoushan this year, but it must be repaired to kill Hukou next year. In the year after tomorrow, we can go to the outside of the customs to repair, all the way to Baotou. ”

Zhang Zhimu knows that there is no construction machinery now, and the construction of the railway depends on the tactics of crowds, and if he wants to make progress faster, he can only recruit as many people as possible. Fortunately, their own grain is still enough, and Shanxi can also produce some grain this year. After this year's efforts, a lot of abandoned land has begun to be recultivated. If you grit your teeth, maybe the railway will be repaired outside the customs in the next year. Today's call from Li Yunhe is good news, if they can successfully build a diesel engine, they can build a bulldozer and a tractor, and then the construction speed will increase exponentially, and the speed of reclaiming wasteland will be different.

"Mr. Lu, we need to work harder on the railway. One is transportation and the other is telecommunications. As long as they are connected, many things will be easier for us. ”

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The Song army occupied Hokkaido, and Yuankou landed on the island of Kyushu. Opening up the Japanese battlefield. --Progress of "Memories of the Southern Song Dynasty".