Chapter 153: Showing Off Your Wealth
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Abundant manpower brings abundant firepower, this time, whether it is Wu Sangui or Zhang Dechang, or Qishan, who was ordered to patrol the front line, they all have full confidence to defend it.
The only thing they don't know for sure is how long they will stay.
Under Zhu Cihong's men, the Ming army had turned defeat into victory many times. Therefore, more often than not, they are not at all like the Ming army before to survive until the Qing army retreats to report a big victory. They think about when they can maximize the results in one fell swoop, or thus lay the foundation for a big victory.
Offense is their unquenchable self-confidence.
On the hot air balloon, Gu Xiaoqi looked at the well-organized defense in Fushun Pass, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but turn up, quite proud. He hummed a tune and was in a good mood. When he wanted to change the tune, he suddenly blinked his eyes and saw a big bird flying straight to the west.
Soon, his eyes lit up: "It's the Flying Eagle of the Privy Council!" ”
In the talons of the eagle, as expected, there was a letterbox.
Gu Xiaoqi quickly rang the bell, changed his shift, and then handed the letterbox to Zhang Dechang. This is an envelope with a high level of secrecy, and after nervously decrypting and translating, Zhang Dechang smiled slightly and handed the letter to Wu Sangui.
Wu Sangui just looked at it, and laughed heartily: "Holy ...... Sure enough, Jiannu will not be allowed to succeed! Gentlemen, we ...... You just need to hold on here for five days, and after five days...... Humph......"
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There were originally no fortresses between Shengjing City and Fushun City. But both places are along the Hunhe River, and they are also flat places in central Liaoning, and they are the easiest places to thrive, so how can there be no people?
Located in the north of the Puhe Thousand Households directly south, a new Fengji town was erected.
Fengji Town is located at the intersection of the official road in the north and south of Puhe and the official road from Shengjing to Fushun, with convenient transportation, and is a new market with some prosperous foundation.
Especially after the Ming Dynasty regained this place, a large number of construction, a high wall, every day fast horse and iron cavalry patrol of the military railway through Fengji Fort, but also in the steady stream of military funds after the continuous business opportunities, make this more prosperous.
If there is anything that makes the local people sigh, it has to talk about two things.
One incident was that Jiannu was brutalizing the people along the avenue and looting the grain, which greatly damaged the vitality of Fengjibao.
One incident, that is, after finally having more people under the recovery of the Ming official army, the Ming official army actually took the rail car to the south, regardless of here.
As soon as I inquired, it turned out that the officials and soldiers of the Qing Dynasty had called.
In this way, the hearts of the people in Fengji Town changed all of a sudden.
The green-skinned scoundrel who originally caught his tail when the Ming official army came, suddenly flaunted his might, and claimed to be a loyal minister of the Qing Dynasty, and he wanted to prepare to meet the army.
I don't know if it's a coincidence of the Qing army, or if these people are really capable. Early the next morning, a wave of soldiers and horses came.
The one who took the lead was the diminutive Fude.
Fude was quietly promoted at this moment, and there were more than ten people under his command.
Without him, it was really the veteran who suffered too much damage when he attacked Fushun Pass. But Fude didn't move forward because of the charge, but picked up a life. When the rear was replenished, he pinched his nose and let Fude lead these recruits into battle, which was regarded as a petty officer.
Fude is an honest person, and several recruits don't buy it much. The boss also understands Fude's ability, and he doesn't expect him to kill the enemy. So, I didn't know what to think, so I released Fude to fight the grass valley.
Grass Valley is a long-standing tradition for the steppe barbarians. The meaning is also simple, that is, to take the men and horses south to loot food and replenish military resources.
Of course, the war situation has developed to the present day, and the concept of military funds has also expanded a lot, and it is no longer just food.
Because it has not yet been connected with the main force of the Daishan Department in the rear, the Qing army and horses of the Aobai Department still attach great importance to the issue of grain and rice. Hitting the grass valley all the way came into being.
More than ten squads of soldiers and horses left Fushun City and got closer and closer to the front line, but they did not see any Ming army figures. Fude really didn't want to go too far, but he couldn't stand a few recruits under him, and they were all eager to try and make achievements. So I followed the strange place I noticed before.
The so-called strange thing is that the long road paved with iron bars that stretched in the grain depot at that time.
Obviously, all the railroad cars in Fushun City had been evacuated, and the Qing army did not know why the Ming people were so extravagant and wasteful to throw so many iron bars on the road.
Is it extravagance, or some mysterious ruse, or is it simply a show of wealth?
The Qing army couldn't figure out such a strange behavior of the Ming people. But they couldn't figure it out, and their bodies honestly gathered up all the iron bars on the ground, and carried them into the carriage in a swarm, intending to transport them back to the rear as the result of this battle. In any case, these bars were wrought iron, a very valuable thing, and a particularly important trophy.
Since it is a valuable thing, the Qing army will naturally not miss it.
A few recruits followed the railway line all the way to Fengji Town. They had planned to pick up the tracks along the way, but they soon discovered that the plan was too big.
It only took a few heavy rails to crush the horses, and they had to give up trying to take the rails themselves after only a few steps. After a little thought, they decided to see how long the railroad really was, and how many tracks there were.
All the way forward, the speed of the team became faster and faster, and the war horse galloped away, all the way for more than 100 miles, but still did not see the strength of the rails.
This made the mood of the group become a little heavy.
They realized a problem, perhaps, this is a show of wealth given to them by the Akito.
Iron is really a problem that cannot be more realistic for the people outside the country. Iron is needed not only for warfare, but also for cooking, chopping wood, hunting, farming, and everything else in daily life.
However, most of the time the aliens do not have the ability to produce iron. They don't know how to smelt iron, and the level above smelting is too far away from Da Ming. In the past, a series of passes of the Great Wall such as Fushun Pass were extremely critical places for the people outside the Liaodong to obtain iron materials. For many years, in addition to praying for good weather and good weather for their hunting, the tribal chiefs also prayed for the mercy of the Ming Dynasty to sell more iron.
And now, one by one, heavy, huge iron bars were just thrown on the ground, stacked, and placed, still watched by the Qing army. To the Ming people, these iron materials seemed to be like dust that could be discarded at will, and Fude felt heavy when he saw it.
At this moment, he felt the strength of Da Ming very clearly.
This is a completely different Da Ming from the previous cognition.