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"The teacher will not raise again, and the time will not come again."

Chen Ming's speech was spread one by one, and naturally it also reached the ears of Chen Jianbai and others on the military platform, and these two sentences could especially move them.

They are the descendants of Chen Han's most descendants, they are the high-level officers of the Fu Han Army, and they are of course different from the small soldiers who want to have a piece of military merit, they are looking forward to glory and wealth, and they are the princes for generations. In the future, the Chen family will sit on the country, and they will be the founding fathers. Or the prince, or the marquis, the glory and wealth, the glorious lintel, are the generations of hairpin homes that are in solidarity with the country. When Chen Ming got on the military platform and re-said the words to Feng Shaohua, Chen Jianbai and the others blushed excitedly and had thick necks, and the words 'the world is divided into Mao, Xun Tong founded the country' made their eyes red, and they swore to Chen Ming about their determination and will to serve Chen Han to the death.

The sound of artillery sounded a second time, accompanied by the impassioned sound of trumpets and drums, and eight arrays, each with 250 soldiers, passed neatly under the bar.

The iron armor on their bodies made a loud sound of armor shaking as they walked in. The soldiers were armed with muskets or knives and guns. Those with muskets, bayonets are shining; Those who carry knives and guns are bright with knives and guns; Chen Ming stood in the middle of the point platform with his sword, and watched with a solemn expression as the two thousand soldiers passed in front of him one by one.

"Drive out the Tartars and restore China; Wash away the dust and reorganize the mountains and rivers......"

The whole time is not very long, but the impact on the northern front of the Han army is very great. Chen Ming brought a bunch of medals and a bunch of letters of appointment for promotions and officials, promises, hope, silver, and the future.

In the afternoon of the same day, when Chen Ming's guard of honor appeared on the frontline position of the Fu Han army, the Qing army on the opposite side knew that a big man had arrived, no wonder the Fu Han army howled so much. The morale of the Fu Han army is surging, and if the Qing army wants to build down the morale of the Fu Han army at this time, it is naturally the best choice to launch a fierce attack. But the Gan army on the opposite side did not dare, and took the initiative to attack the strong defense line of Linru Town, which was sending them to death.

That night, Chen Ming rewarded the soldiers of the Northern Front for the last time, and the wine and meat prepared when he came were completely wiped out.

On the morning of the next day, Chen Ming's halo guard of honor drove out of Linru Town and headed for Xiangxian along the Beiru River. There were still so many soldiers escorting, and when they passed through Ruzhou and Jiaxian along the way, the silver dollars of wine, meat and meat that had been consumed before were plumped up again, but this time they had a ship.

Xiangxian and Xuzhou are separated by seventy miles, and the two are used as a systematic defensive theater, and Huang'an's location is always in the most dangerous Xuzhou City. In World War I last year, Xuzhou was surrounded by the Qing army on all sides three times, the longest of which was in the autumn and winter, and the Qing army continued the encirclement from the beginning of autumn to the beginning of winter. That is, after the news of the Qing army's defeat in the Northern Jiangsu War arrived, the siege of Xuzhou was considered to be resolved.

That siege was the most severe test Huang An had undergone since he entered Xuzhou. The Qing army surrounded but did not fight, shouting every day to shake the morale of the troops defending the city, forcing Huang An to release false news to stabilize the troops. But at that time, Xuzhou cut off direct contact with the base area by land, and all information could only be reported through flying pigeons, which means that what Huang An said was what it was, which inevitably made people suspicious and suspicious......

It was not until October that the Qing army withdrew directly, and the news of Chen Ming's victory over the Qing army in the Battle of Northern Jiangsu came, and the crisis disappeared silently.

Huang An also breathed a sigh of relief. This year, half a year has passed, and Xuzhou has not been besieged once. Earlier, the Qing army was confused by the news of Chen Ming's Northern Expedition, a large number of troops were transferred out of the battlefield and gathered in Guide and Kaifeng in the east, and then the Metropolitan Governor turned the Northern Expedition to the west. Ah Gui took more than 20,000 people south to Hubei, and the cannon didn't have time to bring one, but he was easily beaten out by the governor of the capital, and he also lost Xinyang Prefecture, and the road between Henan and Hubei was completely broken.

In the past six months of this year, Huang An is very relaxed, especially two months ago, the Metropolitan Governor opened up the connection between the base area and Hubei, and a large number of grain, rice, medicinal materials, salt, gunpowder, cloth and cotton, etc., have been continuously transported into Xuzhou City, which made Huang An greatly relieved. Now there is no shortage of food and salary in Xuzhou City, the supply of troops is complete, and the ammunition is sufficient, and the Qing army is not afraid of besieging the city for another year.

Huang An led a battalion of soldiers to meet Chen Ming thirty miles outside Xiangxian, and he was also thirty miles here. When Chen Ming arrived in Xiangxian, he didn't mention the awards and awards at the banquet, but only said that in the spacious no-man's land outside Xiangxian, the damage caused by the war team here was really too great.

From the county seat of Xiangxian County to the north, to the east, to the southeast, as far as the eye can see, there is no trace of human incense in the dozens of miles of road.

The Beiru River runs diagonally from the northwest to the southeast of Xiangxian County, and the county seat of Xiangxian County is located on the right bank of the river. Chen Ming thought that on the way he came, although there were a lot fewer villages on the left bank of Xiangxian County, and from time to time you could still see abandoned and barren villages, but there were also people. Moreover, not far from the left bank of the Beiru River are two opposing hills - Lingwu Mountain and Shou Mountain, with twenty or thirty miles of broad plains in the middle, and then there are Ziyun Mountains - Turtle Mountain, Jianshan Mountain, Baishi Mountain, and Ziyun Mountain, as the last city in the defense system of the Fu Han Army, firmly guarding the 'gate'. In the past year or two, the Qing army has not rushed to Ziyun Mountain, but they were quickly driven out, and as the 40,000 recruits from Yunyang became more and more mature, the gate here became more and more secure, and Ziyun Mountain had not heard the sound of the Qing soldiers' hooves for a year.

"We dig trenches, and they dig trenches. Set up defensive positions, and also repair the earth city, with a hard wall, directly locked us in the city. Huang An pointed to the traces left by the Qing army camp outside the city and said to Chen Ming, "Xiangxian is just ordinary here, and His Highness will know what a big battle is when he arrives in Xuzhou." "Because the Qing army repaired the fortress and hard village, two large soil pits were dug outside Xuzhou City, and now there is water at the bottom of the pit, and I don't know that I think it is two water pools that are about to dry up.

The earthen walls, earthen cities and hard villages built by the Qing army, whenever they retreated, the Fuhan army in the city had to come out and destroy all the fortifications, and many of those civil trees were transported into the city, or piled up in the defensive position as a high ground.

The civil engineering transported to the city was also raised by Huang An in each of the four corners of the city, which was higher than the height of the city, and was arranged with cannons, watchtowers, and buckets, and the entire Xuzhou City had become too much in the past year or so.

Although he hadn't seen Xu Zhou in person, Chen Ming felt that Huang An's description would not be bad at all. The northern line of the Fu Han army is very simple, the eastern line is divided into Xuzhou-Xiangcheng, Yuncheng and Nanyang's Wuyang, Yexian three major blocks, and the most bitter here is Huang'an.

"Drive out the Tartars and restore China; Wash away the dust and reorganize the mountains and rivers......"

In Xiangxian and Xuzhou, the cheers and joys of the officers and men, the pride of the honored soldiers, the glory on the faces of the commended officers, the changes in the structure of the whole army, and the longing brought about by the high position of the whole army, finally all turned into morale, high-pitched and high morale.

There are also people who have a reverie about the princes and generals and the rest with the country: the name of the eternal honor, fighting for it for a moment; The teacher will not raise again, and the time will not come again.

A simple sixteen-word word does it all. As for the national righteousness, Huayi's great defense can only be entangled like vines on the four big pillars of fame and fortune, trying to make himself look more glamorous.

From Xiangcheng and Xuzhou to Yuncheng, the situation of the latter was much better than that of Xuzhou, and the confrontation between the Qing army and the Fu Han army in Yuncheng was more across the Shahe River. In the military report and excerpts handed over by Chen Hongtao, the Shahe joint venture has become a word that appears very frequently and frequently.

"Since the fall of Xinyang, most of the Qing army went south to Runing Mansion, and the Qing soldiers outside Yuncheng have withdrawn cleanly. They were arranged on the first line of the Yinghe River, from Linying in the north, to Xihua, Zhoujiakou and Shangshui in Chenzhou Mansion, and then Shangcai in the south, the strength was at least half shorter than when the Shahe River was combined, and the rest of the soldiers were transferred to Runing Mansion. ”

The expeditionary force's return to the west to the base areas has solved too many problems in the military, government, and finances. Just like this year's Eastern Front, whether it is Xuzhou or Yuncheng, the pressure on the Fu Han army is much smaller than last year. Moreover, the Fu Han Army has the rich land of Hubei, and a lot of military merits have been divided, and the morale of the entire army is high and hot, which is also very different from last year.

Last year, the entire base area could only make people really happy when Chen Ming came with good news. In addition, even Chen Erbao broke the Shahe joint venture, and the excitement was average. Because everyone knows that the future of the Fu Han army does not lie in how many victories are won in the base areas, but in how well the Dadu Governor progresses.

"In this place of Henan, we are still mainly defensive, and in the short term, our strategic plan is to divide the north and the south and divide the Manchu Qing into two......

After inspecting the Henan front, Chen Ming was really relieved about the current situation of the Fu Han Army in Henan. Hundreds of cannons were gathered on all fronts, and the ammunition was very sufficient, and the super firepower was matched with the strong fortifications, and no matter how many soldiers the Qing army had, they were helpless. Absolutely impregnable, impregnable.

Yes, on the great plains in the north, the Qing army's horse corps were very powerful, but so what? I'm not going north now! I'm south, I'm east!

After Chen Ming took Wuchang with his men, the army took advantage of the victory to seize the land, and on the other hand, Liu Dezhao quickly restored the shipbuilding industry in the prosperous commercial circle of Wuchang, Hanyang, and Hankou. There is also Yueyang, which was taken by the sailor battalion, where the shipbuilding base of the official Hunan warship, a large number of intact timber storage materials and tung oil, hemp silk, bamboo ru, hemp rope, canvas, etc., all fell intact into the hands of the Fu Han army.

Therefore, the Fu Han army formed three shipbuilding bases in Jiujiang, Wuhan and Yueyang, and Chen Ming ordered them to go all out to make all kinds of warships, in addition to the small boats tossed in the Yangtze River, there were also bird boats and thunder boats made according to the southeast rice boats. The latter has not yet appeared in the present era. In the Jiaqing period, the Qing army imitated the southeast rice boat and made a thunder boat, intending to exterminate foreign bandits and inspect the sea.

Of course, this kind of warship cannot be compared with the European warships of the same era, and all the Chinese warships are estimated to be unable to escape the word 'clumsy' in the eyes of Europeans, but Chen Ming is only ready to use them to fight against the Qing army's foreign sailors. Large ships typically have a displacement of up to 250 tons, a straight bow, a steep hull, and can usually be equipped with eight to ten cannons, any more of which will shatter the hull.

Chen Ming didn't know anything about the naval warship, except for knowing a flying shear bow and knowing the direction of the future warship, he didn't know anything else.

But now he doesn't need to build any first-class warships, he only needs to build enough warships, recruit enough sailors, train enough gunners, and then bulldoze the Qing army's foreign sailors at the mouth of the Yangtze River in waves, and then communicate with Zhoushan, then the Manchu Qing Dynasty will really separate the north and the south.

They may still be able to exchange news from the Yangtze River, but the silver, grain, and all kinds of materials from the south will not reach the north at all, and I really don't know how the millions of Eight Banners in Beijing will survive at that time.

The front line of the Yangtze River is full of people who eat water food, and sailors can also be recruited on the shores of Dongting Lake and Poyang Lake, not to mention the surface fleet in the logistics unit of the Fu Han Army, that is, the ready-made naval reserves. Chen Ming decided to put this battle until the beginning of spring next year, giving half a year to the shipyards in the three places and half a year to the sailors, except that Chen Jigong had to prepare in Zhoushan, and on the eve of the move, he had to say hello to Zhang Qiu and the Zheng brothers in the southeast......

On July 20, when Chen Ming rushed back to Lushan from Nanyang, the ceremony of the Han Army's discussion of talent was hastily ended, and then Chongzhen's 142-year scientific examination officially kicked off in the renovated examination institute in Lushan...... (To be continued.) )