Chapter 62: Restlessness
The deputy envoy's decision to stay in Zhejiang caused an uproar in the mission, but only the chief and deputy envoys had a say in this. The www.biquge.info of the pen, the of the court, obviously knew more about Zhang Gongyan's decision, but even so, he was still a little dissatisfied, and what he said was that Chen Wen dug into the corner of their Qin Palace, but forgot all about the fact that Zhang Gongyan had never served in the Qin Palace.
Regarding this matter, Chen Wen also talked to Zhang Gongyan before, a hot-blooded scholar, is a little too respectful of the Spanish phalanx and Portuguese mercenaries.
But it's no wonder that people's character and ideas are directly related to experience, Zhang Gongyan once guarded Guilin with Qu Shiyun, and at that time, there were more than 300 Portuguese mercenaries with a few heavy artillery to defend Guilin City, and once recovered a lot of lost territory.
This incident had a great impact, not only did it delay the advance of the Qing army militarily, but even the Emperor of Yongli had asked the royal family to join the Catholic Church and change his name in order to win over those missionaries, and then specially invited the missionaries to the Holy See for help. Even if we don't talk about this, even in later generations, there have never been fewer people who admired the Portuguese mercenaries in the Spanish phalanx and Macao.
A man who once sneered at Western studies turned to vigorous propaganda after experiencing great disasters, because he saw hope in it, but Chen Wen knew that mercenaries had fought for the Southern Ming Dynasty once in history, and the Ming army had not extensively trained the Spanish phalanx, and even the envoy who went to the Holy See for help did not return to China until Yongli died on the forced death slope, and the reply was also the Holy See's refusal to ask for help.
The effect of the Spanish phalanx Chen Wen was also superstitious, but in Zhejiang, the Spanish phalanx could not be used at all, the water network was vertical and horizontal, and the roads were rugged, especially in Siming Mountain, eastern Zhejiang, where he led the troops for the first time. Without a formation, if you face a Qing army that is several times larger than you and has more combat experience, it will be fresh to be able to win.
In contrast, although the Mandarin Duck Formation has not continued to develop, it is not a problem of the battle array itself, but more of a political struggle.
Qi Jiguang's military books and battle arrays represent the starting point of the Ming Dynasty's military modernization, and the Mandarin Duck Array in Zhejiang is also more appropriate, which has been proved by the heads of tens of thousands of Japanese Kou and the amazing exchange ratio. With the expansion of the size of the army and the improvement of the encirclement and suppression of the Qing army, Chen Wen also organized a spear formation to make up for the relatively thin mandarin duck formation, which can be regarded as continuing on this road.
This reader is very interesting, as for Sun Kewang's feelings, Chen Wen didn't bother to pay attention to it, it was true that there were hundreds of thousands of soldiers, but far away in the southwest, a small Qin Wangfu was also in charge of the affairs of my Da'an Yuanhou Mansion, Sun Kewang had the leisure to think about how to drive away the Manchurian Eight Banners army of Dorobele Tunqi blocked at the door of his house first.
Compared with Zheng Chenggong's complex psychology, Chen Wen only maintained a minimum of politeness to Sun Kewang on the surface, because he knew very well what this guy would do in the future, and this time he strengthened his opinion.
The mission left Jinhua along the old road, but this time it would take more time to go back, because Guangxi, which had just been recovered by the Ming army, had already fallen again, and the Qing army in Zhejiang had become more and more strict in its scrutiny of roads and pedestrians.
At the same time that the mission carried Chen Wenshang's performance of the Yongli Imperial Court's meritorious documents and tables and contributions on the way home, on the twenty-third day of the lunar month of another year, Hangzhou Mansion is now in front of the door of Xu Lei's house in the hot standard promotion camp of the Chinese army in the left battalion, and the wives and concubines and servants below the family are all waiting for the "triumph" of the family master. It's just that at this moment, Xu Lei's mind on a horse is not here at all.
No more than last year, when the threat of the Ming army in Zhejiang was only a possibility that came to mind, after all, it was only to repel the Dubiao and the Sifu Green Battalion, and completely annihilated the Fubiao Battalion that was rash by the light enemy, and the Hangzhou Garrison Eight Banners and their Raising Battalion had not been out of the army after a great battle in Zhoushan, but now it seems that if I had known that it would be like this year, even if I was tired and could not fight, I would have to forcibly send troops, at least I would not be blocked in Anhua Town by such a fortress that could only hold a few hundred people as now.
It has been a while since the troops retreated from there, but it was only the Hangzhou garrison that the Eight Banners returned to Hangzhou, and their Raising Battalion and the rebuilt Fubiao Battalion had only returned from Shaoxing Mansion until now.
Riding on the war horse, he saw the female servants of the family from a distance to greet him, and when he got off the horse closely, Xu Lei still said a few words to his wife Yu Shi as usual, but he suddenly remembered something before he entered the house, and glanced at the crowd and asked Yu Shi: "What about Li, why didn't you see her?" ”
For the concubine in the family, the Yu family has long hated it, for no other reason, this woman used to be Xu Lei's sweetheart, even if it was just a concubine, it was intolerable for her at all. During this time, Xu Lei went out with the army, and she was naturally in charge of the family, and it was normal for some of the methods that had been used to be added to the mother and daughter again, as for Xu Lei's return, she was not worried, because the mother and daughter of the Li family have always been timid and afraid, and naturally they did not dare to tell Xu Lei the truth.
Under the pretext that the mother and daughter of the Li family were infected with the cold, they thought that they could see each other in isolation, but who knows, Xu Lei didn't care about anything after knowing that the mother and daughter of the Li family were sick, and went straight to the small courtyard.
Following behind, Yu's face was already iron-blue, Xu Lei rushed into the small courtyard regardless of it, and was watching the Li family's mother and daughter washing clothes in this cold winter, which was the same as last year.
Everyone in the small courtyard stood stunned for a moment, only to see Xu Lei rush up with an arrow step, and quickly helped the mother and daughter of the Li family up, and then kicked the two wooden basins away one by one, and then led the mother and daughter back to the room.
Looking at all this in a daze, Yu's pretty face was already a hideous color, and when Xu Lei just entered the room, she glared fiercely at the mother-in-law who was instructed by her to bully the mother and daughter, but saw that the mother-in-law had collapsed to the ground.
"The good things you have done, wait for me!"
After that, Yu Shi chased into the room in three steps and two steps, and when she met Xu Lei's gaze again, what she saw was the unprecedented anger, even when she framed the Li family's mother and daughter, Xu Lei mistakenly thought that Li could not get pregnant.
"There is a way that the male protagonist is outside the female protagonist, I am fighting outside, as a wife, this is how you manage the family house for me?!"
Xu Lei was already extremely angry, if he hadn't taken into account Yu's identity as his wife, he was afraid that he would have already done it. But even so, Yu Shi was so frightened that she hurriedly knelt on the ground, although she didn't understand why Xu Lei had such a big temper, but she also knew that the bell must be tied to the bell.
Feeling Yu's gaze, Li Ruixin's sister hurriedly knelt down behind Yu's side as if she had been pricked by a needle, and said to Xu Lei: "Master, this matter has nothing to do with my sister, but the concubine and my mother can't be idle......"
Since he has the wind and cold, he can still have the saying that he can't be idle, Xu Lei naturally understands the doorway, but Yu's father is the deputy general of the middle battalion, and his uncle Xu Xin is generally Tian Xiong's cronies, although the Zhejiang Ming army is now booming, and the Ming army marshal followed by Li Ruixin is even more unprovoked, but at the moment Zhejiang is still the Qing army is more powerful, and he doesn't want to pick this matter to the surface, after all, if the mind of riding the wall is known, it will definitely affect the career.
got up and helped the Li family up, Xu Lei said to the Yu family, who was still kneeling there: "I have already said before, our Xu family, your mother's family and the Li family's mother's family, the three families have followed the ups and downs of Yasukuni for so many years. Although you and the Li family are not compatriots, but when you enter the gate of my Xu family, you are naturally like sisters, and I don't want to see such things in the future. ”
After that, Xu Lei helped Yu Shi up, and hurriedly went to take a bath and change clothes - for Xu Lei, he did go home today, but I am afraid that he may not have time to rest in the first month. (To be continued.) )