April of the fourteenth year of Chongzhen.

The empire is violently cancerous, and the two battlefields of the Central Plains, Huguang and Guang are stormy. However, these rare things did not happen in Jingshi, for the people of Jingshi, the distant war does not seem to be even qualified as it is said on TV, everyone is struggling to live, and no one has the energy to care about those distant idle things outside of three meals a day.

Jingkou Yili Station, on both sides of the road, the green wheat finally came out, the peasants bent over and pulled out the crazy weeds, occasionally turned their heads, looked towards the official road, the road in front of the post station, just like the champion to marry the bride as jubilant, many old farmers have never seen so many officials in their lives.

"Congratulations! Master Ma! Master Zhang!"

A group of well-dressed old men in red and green official robes gathered together, the voice was almost flattering and flattering, and on the horse, with a few servants, were two green-clothed officials, the purple robe of the Ming Dynasty was respected, the clothes above the fifth rank were crimson, and the green robe was outside the sixth grade. But these two petty officials held their heads high, looking arrogant, and they didn't get off their horses, nodding their heads high.

The national policy of the Ming Dynasty, seven products and one product! In order to supervise hundreds of officials and reduce investment, Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang gave unprecedented rights to junior officials.

However, I don't know when, this clear stream of power began to deteriorate! This right has been used infinitely, but it has become a transaction of power of speech, an excellent way to rise to the office, regardless of whether the words are true or not, whether it is useful, one by one the imperial historians are scrambling to open their big mouths, which is louder than who's voice! Who would dare to say!

Yanguan has become an inherent position of party contention, just like the Donglin Party, the sharpest weapon is a large group of imperial historians and officials who are overwhelmingly impeached and piled up in the cabinet, even if Wei Zhongxian is a powerful eunuch, he will have a headache when he encounters it.

And in the local area, you can talk nonsense with your own mouth, and the imperial historian has also become a nasty character like the eunuch of the supervising army, who understands that they point fingers, and if they don't understand, they have to point fingers! Anyway, the official is not guilty! If something happens, the superintendent's superintendent will carry it, we are the official of speech, the civil official, what does it matter to me?

Many people said that Yang Sichang was jealous of his ability to drive Lu Xiangsheng's cronies Yang Tinglin out of Beijing in the winter and be the head of the military department, but the army that followed Lu Xiangsheng suffered from the march, but according to the vision of the times, Yang Sichang sent Lu Xiangsheng's cronies to be the military supervisor, which was a great favor for him, without a crow mouth behind him, he was so happy!

But now, Hong Chengchou, who is popular and trusted by the emperor, can't escape this, and the two black crow's mouths were finally sent to Liaodong by the unbearable emperor.

Just like Mao Jue once denounced the crimes of the imperial court to his subordinates, he always regarded the Liaodong battlefield as a political gladiatorial arena, and when the Liao affairs were smooth, the various factions rushed to send people here to embezzle military salaries and share the credit, and when the Liao affairs were not going well, they were desperately kicking their political enemies here, and then making trouble behind their backs.

This time, Ma Shaoyu and Zhang Ruolin also pinned on the "hope of the whole village", and now good news comes from Liaodong every day, the two of them are standing out from a group of people, they are going to make merit, and they are at least promoted to the third level when they come back. Such a promising person, those fellow township party members who came to see him off were flattering and clasping their fists one after another, complimenting them there.

"Brother Ma, Brother Zhang, I have to mention one or two colleagues in the future!"

really regarded himself as if he had been promoted to three levels in a row, arrogantly holding his neck high on the horse, Zhang Ruolin was humming and playing in an official tone.

"Rest assured, this trip, this official and Master Ma will definitely clear the group of thieves for the emperor! Then come back and take us to assist the emperor in the same year, and create peace again!"

This official hasn't become a big guy yet, so he thinks about leading the big guy? The faces of several old officials who are a little older are obviously not very good-looking, but the officialdom of Daming is so realistic, most of the literati have bent bones, even if they don't fit in their ears, they still nod their heads and bow down.

"What Master Zhang said is very true!"

"The old man is waiting for the adults to return to the dynasty in victory!"

Under the gossip of compliments, the expressions of Zhang Ruolin and Ma Shaoyu became more and more arrogant, and the chests of the two of them were also filled with a lot of spirit, and they seemed to really want to make a career in Liaodong.

This does not bode well!

On the other hand, although the empire is cancerous, on the battlefield of Liaodong, it is rare to advance at this time, showing the last majesty of the empire.

In terms of resources, the Qing people still couldn't fight the Ming Dynasty, the artillery battle lasted for several months, and the Hongyi artillery on the Jurchen side of Jianzhou gradually weakened, but it was the Qing army that was eager to fight.

Although he had taken the military town of Rufeng Mountain, Hong Chengchou still ordered to retreat, and his army was placed on the great plain under the mountain peak, more than four months, the thick snow in Liaodong has also melted, but the fertile fields are no one to cultivate, but the heavy chariots of the border army with two or three layers of thick planks and iron-clad are like tanks to resist in front.

On the mountain, at the height of the hillside, holding high spears and sabers, mixed with Mongolian cavalry, the Qing army brigade of the Han Eight Banners rushed fiercely to the bottom of the mountain. The Qing army was in a hurry to attack, and even the children of the Aixin Jueluo family were involved, and at the front, there was a row of red belts, Dolgon, Duoduo, Azig, Abatai, these clan brothers were also integrated into the shock force.

Like a sea of mountains, the black-pressed cavalry rushed into the Ming army formation at the bottom of the mountain.

It's a pity that this mountain is much harder than Juniper Liu Ting's mountain during the Salhu War!

The firearms unit was less than half, replaced by a more solid spear unit, a bit like the Ming army in the Ming Dynasty, and the artillery did not blast iron balls into the mountains, and the muzzles of the guns shrank in the gap between the heavy chariots, and they were gloomy forward. Behind the chariot, although he was still a knife hand sharpening his knife in the back, there was a thick side compartment to block it, and the mood of the Ming army's bird hand was obviously a lot calmer, his breathing was steady, and the hand holding the gun was also exceptionally stable, quietly aiming at the Qing army that was coming.

The speed of the cavalry rushing down the mountain to launch a charge is no less than that of a small truck, and in a blink of an eye it has arrived in front of you, one hundred and twenty, eighty meters, sixty meters, if in the past, the Ming army firearms troops would have already shot under pressure, but in this battle, even if you can feel the pungent smell of war horses coming on, the firearms have been pinched in their hands, until fifty meters, the forward ten or so Mongolian cavalry has crossed the white line on the ground, and each thousand generals let out a hissing roar.

"Open the gun~"

This is the most powerful weapon in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, each cannon is filled with more than ten catties of iron sand, although the range is far less than the grenade shotgun made by Mao Jue, but the lethality of the face, the most powerful weapon in the Dongjiang River is not comparable, and the bullets fired by those bird guns are even ignored, more than a dozen fan-shaped killing surfaces, and even the knight with the war horse fell to the ground with a sad roar.

Later generations recorded in the "Qing History Manuscript" that more than 50,000 Ming troops were killed before and after the Songjin War, but the Qing army was killed only a few hundred, and the combat effectiveness of the Ming and Qing armies was simply one in the sky and one underground, but on the other hand, the "Qing History Manuscript" also recorded that Huang Taiji "went up in a hurry, and epistaxis did not stop!" If only a few hundred people were killed in succession, could Huang Taiji be in such a hurry?

At least in this time and space, this time the artillery salvo knocked down hundreds of people.

The huge crashing sound came and went, and the war horse that rushed through the barrage but couldn't hold back slammed into the chariot, and in the clattering sound of fractures, the chariot of hundreds of catties was swayed and turned, and the Ming army toy on it was thrown out like that.

The historical manuscripts have recorded several times that the captives are extremely fine! Even if there are no horses! Those Qing soldiers also turned over fiercely, squeezed in through the gap with knives, and slashed fiercely on the heads of the Ming army, and in the clicking sound, the musketeers who were caught off guard were hacked to death dozens of times.

But then, the dense spear stabbed again, Hong Chengchou's Ming army has already fought with the peasant army in the Guannei I don't know how many bloody battles, it is a real knife and real gun face-to-face fighting, no matter how strong the Qing army is, it is not a monster with blue faces and fangs, how can it be as recorded in the "Qing Historical Manuscript", a touch of defeat? Not only did it collapse at the first touch, but around the chariot, the Ming army even launched an extremely stubborn resistance.

Poof! A red belt kicked the war horse and just squeezed in fiercely, and immediately stabbed the spear from the chariot in the chest, and he fell directly to the ground with a terrible scream.

It is estimated that it is a Niu Lu Ezhen, he is relatively smart, he did not rush in directly, but took a bow and arrow to throw and attack outside, and the heavy armor-piercing arrows snorted and floated into the Ming army's formation, and the Ming army could obviously hear the screams of the Ming army inside.

But Britain has used it for hundreds of years, once defeated the old enemy France, and has made great achievements, all to the abolition of the longbow of the national movement, to replace it with a musket, compared to the bow and arrow, firearms naturally have their strengths, again, from the quiver out of the armor-piercing arrow, skillfully pull out the compound bow, this Niu Lu is really about to be thrown again, on the side of the car, a Ming army bird hand poked out his head at will, slammed a shot, the Niu Lu really fell to the ground, a bloody hole was broken in the chest, and the viscous blood flowed outward.

The Qing army that waved the flag and shouted rushed up, attacking on foot and horse, but it really couldn't gnaw Hong Chengchou's firearms array full of heavy chariots, and the bloody battle lasted for most of the hour, leaving corpses all over the ground, and the Qing army was once again like a lot of Ming history manuscripts recorded, "Qing soldiers and horses, very serious casualties!" The Qing army was defeated and almost collapsed!" The collapse of the banner retreated to the camp of Rufeng Mountain.

Having learned the lessons of previous wars, the Ming army that returned victoriously also stopped at a shallow level, did not pursue, carried a bloody broadsword in his hand, and stood in front of the messy car formation.

"Overseer, we've won!"

Full of excitement, it is considered Hong Chengchou's old subordinate, Yulin General Cao Bianjiao excitedly broke into the tent, shouting loudly.

can put down the official documents of the court at hand, Hong Chengchou's long dark face was not excited at all, but gloomy as if it was raining............

(End of chapter)