The Ming Dynasty still has hard bones! Even when it came to the difficulty of Emperor Yongli's curse water, the hard bones of the Ming Dynasty were not finished!

Lu Xiangsheng is one of the quite hard ones.

He is really worried about the country and the people, and Yang Sichang handed over the matter of the army's salary and food and his next strategic deployment, he did not sleep all night, but the next day Lu Xiangsheng did not even rest, and went directly to Changping, in the afternoon, he arrived at the Changping camp.

The subordinates of the three general soldiers of Xuanda, Yang Guozhu, Hu Dawei, and Wang Pu, plus the 20,000 people in the standard battalion directly under Lu Xiangsheng, have already taken the lead in gathering here to standby.

To tell the truth, after Lu Xiang was promoted, the Xuanda army did not increase, but decreased.

The Ming Dynasty has an army of four million, which is really real, but the army is divided into tun troops and soldiers, the interior is seven points tuntian, three points to defend the city, the border town is generally five or six points tuntian, four or five points to defend the city, but that is the old yellow calendar during the Hongwu Yongle period, the inland guard has almost become the whole tun household, all have become hoe soldiers, the border town is just the opposite, a large number of recruits to join the proportion of soldiers has increased a lot, and the number of soldiers has dropped sharply.

The suffering of the military households of the Ming Dynasty is unimaginable, the Xuanda border soldiers are nominally 400,000, and they have fled for many years and died in battle, in fact, they are only 150,000 or 60,000, and the materials are extremely poor. So after Lu Xiang was promoted, he followed almost the same path as Sun Chuanting and now Mao Jue, Tuntian!

There were originally more than 70,000 soldiers in the Xuanda War, and they were cut off by Lu Xiangsheng and incorporated into the tunhu, and there were more than 30,000 left, and the tuntian was restored, and the border people were recruited Yanxing, that is, in the spring with hoe seeds to cross the border pass, to the land of the Mongolian tribes to cultivate, and then returned to the pass after harvesting in the autumn.

It's just that Lu Xiangsheng is not as bold as Mao Jue, so outrageous, good at opening the border market, the Xuan army is also strong, and the supply has to rely on the imperial court, unlike Mao Jue, Niu broke his own supply line, these first few pro-soldiers beat the drum to make a tent, and the other one, Yang Guozhu, Wang Pu and others were already holding their helmets and hurriedly entered.

"The last general will meet the overseer!"

"Generals, please get up!"

After some etiquette between superiors and subordinates, Wang Pu, the chief soldier of Datong, who also had a big head, a round face, and a gentlemanly appearance, asked hurriedly.

"Inspector, the grain and grass of the imperial court have been helped!"

On the one hand, Xuan Dabing is a guest soldier, fighting in the land of Gyeonggi, all relying on the military department to pay food and pay, on the other hand, the military department has a black history in Shanxi, Chongzhen three years of Beijing division defense war, Shanxi governor Geng Ruqi, Shanxi general soldier Zhang Mengjing supervised 5,000 soldiers to Qinwang, the military department has a precedent, the guest soldiers are stationed for a day, the military department only released grain, the result is that the military department in order to save food and salary, three days to mobilize Shanxi soldiers to three places.

Originally, he came all the way to help, but he was tired and hungry, and he was tossed for three days in a row, and he was hungry for three days, and the Shanxi border soldiers simply mutinied, and returned to Shanxi, and a large part of them joined the thieves, and Geng Ruqi Zhang Mengjing also abandoned the city and beheaded him.

When other towns came to fight, it was not the Qing army that was worried, but the imperial court, which shows how ridiculous this was at the end of the Ming Dynasty.

However, these words made Lu Xiangsheng's face darken, and he scolded angrily.

"The eldest husband joined the army, what he did was to protect the family and defend the country, and shed blood on the battlefield, and if the court did not pay food and salary, you would not fight?"

"The last general will not dare!"

Lu Xiangsheng's reprimand made several general soldiers bow their heads in a trembling manner, but between the words, the morale was obviously lowered, and the subconscious in the words of his own superintendent was probably not confident in the military department, and the Xuanda army still had to starve.

Just as Lu Xiangsheng said, you can not eat, the battle still has to be fought, the general army was summoned to describe the strategic task of entering Beijing this time, and immediately went to inspect the camp affairs to prepare for the next vicious battle, I have to say, Lu Xiangsheng is really a rare general in this era, he commanded the standard battalion, the 5,000 Tianxiong army is neatly arrayed, and the morale is high, although the general army of Xuanda is almost 20,000 troops, but it is also orderly, much stronger than the officers and soldiers in the mainland, at least Yu Dacheng's standard battalion is not comparable, when the battle is coming, The whole army can be regarded as a forest to wait.

Moreover, compared with Dongjiang, the proportion of Xuanda's cavalry is a little higher, 24,500 people, as many as 7,000 cavalry, almost one-third, and the number of Mao Jue's cavalry is less than one-fifth of the whole army. However, many of the Dongjiang infantry also have mounts to travel and transport equipment, but they are not used for cavalry.

At ten o'clock in the evening, Lu Xiangsheng had just finished patrolling the camp, and outside the camp, the sound of drums sounded again, and several pro-soldiers hurriedly and excitedly ran in and knelt in front of Lu Xiangsheng's horse to pray.

"Supervisor, Your Majesty has sent Gonggong Gao to reward the army!"

Lu Xiangsheng's spirit was also lifted when he heard this.

But then, I witnessed how hard Emperor Chongzhen was, although Gao Qiqian didn't come empty-handed this time, the reward silver brought was only 30,000 taels, or nominal, according to the usual deduction, there can be 20,000 three or four, all of which are considered Lu Xiangsheng's face, and he will also announce the army's military salary for a month, and send one person barely one or two silver, which is converted into less than 2,000 yuan in later generations.

Then there are 100 imperial horses, 1,000 horses from Taifu Temple, and 500 silver and iron whips, these things can be regarded as valuable, but they can't be directly exchanged for silver.

If Mao Jue's Dongjiang army is afraid to disdain it, the military salary in Dongjiang on weekdays is two taels of silver per month, almost 4,000 yuan, plus rice grain to get seven or eight thousand, but for the loyal Lu Xiangsheng, this is enough to move him.

Your Majesty really still prefers the main battle!

"Thank you, Lord Ron!"

Gao Qiqian slept in Jingshi for a long time, a fat old face with loose muscles was full of red face, and he finished reciting the holy decree in a low voice, and he was also very excited, and Lu Xiangsheng took the first order.

Yue Fei once commented on the standard for evaluating Anbang, that is, Wenchen does not love money! Wu Chen did not hesitate to die! Lu Xiangsheng is a civil servant, but he has done both, he didn't keep a penny of less than 30,000 taels of silver, and he sent it to the soldiers on the spot, and the war horses were also distributed to the cavalry.

Yesterday was mainly to inform each other about the intelligence of the Qing army, how to march and resist, the specific plan has not yet been taken out, this time is just the right time to communicate, while walking, Gao Qi Qian looked at the soldiers who were patrolling with admiration, nodded and said.

"There are only nine soldiers and horses in the world, and the soldiers on the nine sides are the first Liao Town, but our family supervises those Liao Zhen soldiers, which is much more than the Xuan soldiers under the command of the Governor, and the Inspector will train the soldiers!"

However, as soon as the conversation changed, Gao Qiqian turned his head to look in the northeast direction with meaning in his words.

"However, Jiannu is not an easy person, after many years of fierce battles, 200,000 Liao troops have suffered no results, and they have repeatedly lost their teachers and humiliated the country, and now this Jiannu has penetrated into the important land of Gyeonggi, the head of the hundred wants, we who oversee the generals, must be cautious, and make Your Majesty worried, Lord Lu, do you say yes or no?"

"This official is the main battle!"

Lu Xiangsheng said a word, and immediately choked Gao Qi there again.

This battle is not the meaning of fighting with the Qing court or negotiating peace, after all, Huang Taiji has invaded the Central Plains, Chongzhen's arrogant character, he will not sign the alliance under the city no matter what, even if he wants to negotiate peace, it must be the end of the war, Lu Xiangsheng's battle means a field battle!

In the entire Ming Dynasty, the combat thinking of Jiannu was an old routine left over from Yuan Chonghuan's time, and he was long in field battles, and the division of the imperial court was long in defending the city, and he thwarted the enemy's courage with strong city and heavy artillery! In other words, the turtle cowered in the shell of the turtle and shouted at the middle finger of the Qing army's tree: There is a kind of you coming to beat me!

The meaning of Gao Qiqian is to remind Lu Xiangsheng that it is okay to defend the city, block the two portals of Tongzhou and Changping, and keep the Jingshi safe and sound, Emperor Chongzhen is not worried, just grab some of these Jiannu points, don't make trouble.

But this Lu Xiangsheng is really a stone in the pit smelly and hard, summoned by the platform yesterday, his sentence of the main battle has made Emperor Chongzhen slightly discolored, and this time, it is still the same slogan.

But Lu Xiangsheng does have his reasons.

"Father-in-law, what kind of place is this, our Ming Dynasty's Gyeonggi, where the world's soldiers and horses gather! Let Hu ride and gallop, where is the face of the Celestial Empire? How high should the arrogance of Jianyu be? Wang Shi didn't even have the courage to fight back, and it was hard to guarantee that he wouldn't repeat Jingkang's shame, father-in-law! When the time comes, you and I will be sinners for the ages!"

The shame of Jingkang, the most shameful scene in Chinese history, 500,000 soldiers and horses guarded Bianliang, did not dare to fight the Jin army hundreds of thousands of distant divisions, and finally had to pay the alliance under the city, which could not fill the desire of the Jin people, and even had to return it to the emperor, the princess of the noble concubine, the wife and concubine of the clan, and the minister's daughter's family were converted into silver money, and sent to the Jin barbarians as slaves, men did not dare to shed blood, so they had to rely on women to shed tears to end the war, but this did not bring peace, and the Jin army immediately fought back again after the withdrawal, captured Bianliang, and captured the second emperor of Huiqin, Destroyed the Northern Song Dynasty.

Lu Xiangsheng was impassioned, but the conversation collapsed, his face was gloomy, and Gao Qiqian simply warned: "Your Majesty is still watching in Beijing, Lord Lu is doing it himself!"

As he spoke, the high-powered eunuch brushed his sleeves away with a gloomy face.

Seeing him leave, Lu Xiangsheng's face was also a little ugly.

On the issue of war and defense, several top military commanders of the Ming Dynasty took the lead in disagreements and rifts.

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However, Lu Xiangsheng is Lu Xiangsheng, a man who implements his beliefs to the end, even so, he still actively investigates and responds to the Qing army, and is ready to send troops at any time.

And this fighter came so fast.

After all, it is a lone army, and it is impossible for more than 70,000 Qing troops to carry food supplies on their backs, Tongzhou was stuck by the Guanning army with high diving, and Changping is the Xuanda army with Lu Xiangsheng, although the Beijing division is more than 100,000 Beijing battalions, although it is a waste material, but it is also more than 100,000, after a few days of confrontation in Tongzhou, even Huang Taiji is impatient, and begins to move around Tongzhou Changping and attack Hebei.

Just like the Battle of Sarhu, the activities of the Qing army, which were divided into three parts, also gave the Ming army a chance.

The entire Changping camp was nervously assembled.

It's not all out of the force, when facing Emperor Chongzhen's questioning, Lu Xiangsheng's strategy is to surprise the army! Outside the gates, the Ming Empire often suffers from the loss of external operations, and has been repeatedly invaded by Jianyu spies, ambushed behind it, and now it is fighting on the inside line of the Ming Empire, here, the Ming Dynasty is the home field, so this advantage must be brought into play! Like the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in later generations, all kinds of strange soldiers came out of nowhere, and the Qing army was caught off guard, so they had to be careful step by step, waiting for their mistakes, and then praising him in one breath, this is Lu Xiangsheng's combat thinking.

Because it is a surprise night attack, the general soldiers and generals are all with their own soldiers and elite to fight, forming an elite daring commando with a total of 5,000 cavalry, Lu Xiangsheng's only hobby of horses, this assault, he also rode out of his best horse Wumingji, the mighty phoenix wing helmet, the strong Wenshan armor, the horizontal knife immediately in front of the whole army, Lu Xiangsheng is high-spirited, commanding loudly.

"The sword will see blood! Men will be wounded! Horses will sweat! Violators will be killed!"

Suddenly agreed, and the rolling iron rider rushed out like a torrent.

The soldiers followed the left side of the team with a big banner, and while controlling the war horse and galloping in small steps, Lu Xiangsheng asked the people around him solemnly.

"Boxiang! Has the military order sent to the high father-in-law arrived? ”

"Rest assured, your handwritten letter Gao Gonggong has personally read it, and Chen Guowei, the chief soldier of Jizhen Town, is also ordered, as long as we break through the Jianyu camp, the soldiers and horses of Jizhen will follow, and Gao Gonggong's Guan Ning army will follow up, and the Jiannu soldiers will definitely be defeated for a hundred miles and flee in embarrassment!"

"Good!"

Stopping his cronies, the confident words of Yang Tinglin, the ruling party of the Ministry of War, Lu Xiangsheng also showed a look of relief, but soon, this expression was replaced by war intent and murderous intentions, looking at the north, the eyes of this literati-born governor were as heavy as water and as bright as stars.

At this time, it was already October 12 of the 11th year of Chongzhen, since the breakthrough and more than half a month, and did not encounter any decent resistance from the Ming army, even the Huang Taiji has become a lot lax, Dolgon as the vanguard, first around Changping, to Hebei New City Laishui Yizhou, Tulai, Yue Tuo, Yue Le and others are still staying in Jizhen, Pinggu, Zunhua, Fengrun and plunder, and Huang Taiji and Tongzhou Gao Qiqian confrontation of the Chinese army, is also in the collection of these days to grab gold, silver, people and livestock, ready to go west.

The entire Qing army camp was busy and excited.

A mile on the edge of the camp, several Mongolian light cavalry of the Qing army were drunk around a bonfire, gulping and pouring the liquor that was snatched out in the nearby villages, the Mongolian good wine, and the grassland does not produce grain, the alcohol content of mare's milk wine, this era is really low and touching, the Dongjiang River produces corn liquor, but it is not that they are drunk by these small soldiers, and only in the land of the Han people, can they drink like an uncle.

As for the vigilance mission? It doesn't matter, these Ming people are as cowardly as sheep, where do they dare to take the initiative to trouble the Qing army?

And to the place of interest, the Mongolian ten chiefs are also Yaxing roughly, and they raised their wine glasses to the bright moon.

It's a pity that the fart poem didn't come out, but there was an extra cold and shining arrow on his neck, and he went on his back and fell directly to the ground, and several Mongolian soldiers didn't react, and they were still laughing and laughing at their leader for being too drunk, but a few arrows like flying locusts came one after another, and in the sound of plopping, several other Mongolian light riders were also drunk and lying on the ground.

The surviving Mongol cavalry woke up from a dream, and they were about to turn around and run when they got on their horses, but the third round of arrows hung over their heads like death!

In the late Ming Dynasty, why the border army was seriously pro-soldier, it was because of the need to deal with the needs of the war, the war has become a thing of the past, and it has become the norm of the border war to deal with the invasion of a small group of Mongols.

This can be regarded as doing their old job, all the way to the road, the two hundred or so front battalion stepped on the white and easily swept away the scouts on the periphery of the Qing army, when the heavy horses' hooves frightened the Huang Taiji camp, it was too late!

"Ming Gouzi!"

In the frightened shouting, the Qing army on the edge of the fence controlled the bow and arrow and gathered in a row in panic, and in the sound of horses, the five Ming Ji of the thousands of horses flew high above their heads, and the last impression of several Qing soldiers on the world was that a machete was flying, and then the world spun violently.

A machete that can be used for hundreds of catties, and above the battle array, a long knife of more than ten catties is a heart, this is Lu Xiangsheng's tactics, taking the lead in cutting a gap for the army, and the bloodthirsty Tianxiong army then smashed the simple fence of the Qing people with a mace and a hammer, and a saber was cut on the neck of the Qing army.

There were galloping cavalry everywhere, and the Qing army that fled in panic was cut down layer by layer, and the Ming Dynasty also had iron horses, easily chiseled through the front camp, brandishing a big knife, Lu Xiangsheng rushed to the Huang Taiji army with bloodstained robes, and the huge machete slammed down the second fence, and the hair was all open, and the god of war roared.

"Kill!"

Just a few hundred meters, Huang Taiji also rushed out of the camp suddenly, just seeing this scene, a familiar fear bloomed in his pupils.

"This person must be eliminated!"

The first fierce general at the end of the Ming Dynasty, Lu Xiangsheng!

(End of chapter)