The sound of horses' hooves rumbled. (.marshmallow)

Sun Yuan and the four guards galloped on the official road on fast horses, and the horse's hooves rolled up the rolling yellow dust.

Yanqing Wei is a military point in Xuanfu Town, guarding the gateway to the capital.

Looking at this Xiongguan in the world, Sun Yuan's thoughts diverged again. According to historical records, on March 15 of the 17th year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng's army arrived at Juyong Pass. The guard general Tang Tong and the supervisor Du Zhizhi surrendered, and the lock and key to the north gate of the Jingshi were occupied by Li Zicheng without much effort. Because Juyong Pass surrendered without a fight, Beijing had no danger to defend, and fell four days later, and the Ming Dynasty perished.

Thinking of this, Sun Yuan couldn't help but shake his head. With the danger of Juyong Pass, you only need to put a few thousand soldiers and a few cannons, and when you are a husband and a pass, how can you surrender without firing an arrow?

Come to think of it, it must have been since Chongzhen ascended the throne, and the failures of the imperial court one after another have made people desperate.

Indeed, in the past ten years, the Ming Dynasty has used troops externally and internally, as if only Lu Xiangsheng had achieved an unprecedented victory in Chuzhou. For the rest, except for failure or failure.

The Ming Dynasty has no heart at this moment, especially in the war against Jiannu

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I really need a win. However, this time Jiannu came fiercely, even if there was a Ningxiang army, but because Sun Yuan's power was too weak, he didn't think that he could play a role in this great torrent of history.

When he left the Bohai Institute yesterday, Sun Yuan suddenly asked about the artillery.

The phalanx of spears and muskets could not suppress the enemy's group charge without artillery suppression, as if it were missing a leg. Therefore, he was still very enthusiastic about the formation of artillery. Over the past year, the artillery factory has asked for money and money, and if there are people, they will all be given the green light, and he, the absolute major shareholder, has not asked much about the daily affairs of the artillery factory, and he has been tinkering with the erhu, anyway, Sun Yuan doesn't understand, and the layman can only add chaos to the insider. It's a pity that because of the lack of skilled workers and machines, the barrel is okay to say, anyway, it is to make a mold and form it at one time. The key is the attachment on the gun body, which has to use wear-resistant steel because of the use of screws and nuts that are ahead of the times. In the absence of a lathe, the screws need to be graded by the craftsman with a knife little by little with a pedal bed, and the dimensional accuracy is not high, and the scrap rate is serious. Among the ten attachments, one qualified product is considered to be high incense.

Even with the barrels, the situation is not good. Brass is so soft that it can easily expand and deform when exposed to the hot air generated after an explosion. Although there is no need to worry about injuring the soldiers, if you fire one or two hundred cannons, the barrel will be scrapped and need to be recast, which is too troublesome.

As a result, only four four-pounder guns and one eight-pounder gun are in service until now. () With this point of artillery, it is estimated that it will not be able to fight a few battles when it is pulled on the battlefield.

This is also a helpless thing, and it can only be used temporarily.

However, the theory of weapons is not correct, especially on the battlefield of cold weapons, talent is the first element. Therefore, Sun Yuan focused more on infantry coordination.

It's easy to say, but it's not easy. In the spear musket phalanx method, the artillery is placed in the middle of the phalanx. When the enemy attacks, it is necessary to suppress it with artillery bombardment. So the problem came, and the officers and men of the Ningxiang Army all reported that the cannon shooting was too scary, and the shells had to fly over everyone's heads before they could hit the enemy.

Solid shells are fine, but if they hit flowering bullets, scattered bullets, chain bullets, etc., the ghost knows if the shell will explode on the head and hurt your own people.

In this regard, Sun Yuan could only smile bitterly, in the final analysis, the soldiers were timid, and they did not have any confidence in the quality of firearms in this era. You must know that the muskets made by the Ming Ministry of Industry at the same time are synonymous with shoddy manufacturing, and it is not new to miss the enemy and injure yourself by blowing up the chamber first

。

Even if the quality of the firearms of the Ningxiang Army is good, everyone has a psychological shadow.

There is no choice but to train slowly, and first train the courage of the soldiers.

Anyway, they have to be able to do it so that they don't change their faces even if Tarzan collapses in front of them.

In daily training, Sun Yuan used a lot of means. For example, when the soldiers were marching through the queue, they had someone secretly place a cannon in the crowd. If any soldier is frightened and confused because of this, I'm sorry, what awaits you will be Chen Tieshan's merciless punishment.

Yes or, during the exercise, deliberately empty the cannon.

After a while, everyone was finally completely numb.

Of course, artillery tactics were modified under Pablo's strong opinion. Cannons can no longer be placed at the back of a line or in a formation. When fighting, you have to push to the front of the formation to carry out long-range bombardment of the enemy, and wait until the enemy is close before retreating to the formation, which is also the regular method of operation of the European army artillery.

After the artillery training was completed, the shortcomings of the Ningxiang Army were finally made up, and Sun Yuan was looking forward to seeing how these new artillery would perform on the battlefield.

But reason told Sun Yuan that this time Jiannu launched almost half of Manchuria's army to attack the Ming Dynasty with all its might. And the combat effectiveness of the Eight Banners in this era can be called the first in the entire Northeast Asia. If history does not change much, what awaits the Ming Dynasty will be an unprecedented rout. Even if history changes, the real thing, especially the national war, is fought with comprehensive national strength, and the Ming Dynasty will be defeated. [.Lots of good]

The Ningxiang Army, as a fairly capable force in the Xuanfu, will definitely fight a few battles. It's just that the mere 2,000 Ningxiang Army is not enough to have too much impact on the entire battle situation.

Thinking of this, thinking of the depressed scene in the capital area that he has seen in the past year, and thinking of the tragic situation of the people during the southern invasion of Jiannu, Sun Yuan's heart suddenly became heavy: If I am the chief military officer of a town, if the Ningxiang army under my command is not 2,000 but 20,000...... Maybe it can save the day...... However, I am now only a small general. If you want to change this humiliating history, you have to be an official, a big official. Only, I'm really not good at officialdom! If Lu Xiangsheng is in the DPRK and has such a backer, he may be able to make a difference. But now Inspector Lu has returned to his hometown to guard filial piety, without him, this battle in the Ming Dynasty is only afraid of being even worse. I met a group of pig teammates, and if I wasn't dragged to death by them, it would be considered Amitabha's

。

Fortunately, Lu Xiangsheng is not in the capital now, and he does not have to die on the battlefield like in real history, which is also a comforting thing.

It is precisely because he is no longer in Beijing that today's history is very different from what is recorded in the history books. What will this battle look like in the end, and where should I get the credit so that Ningxiang will not lose too much?

Sun Yuan came all the way and thought about this matter over and over again. In fact, as early as a year ago, he sent someone to complete the map of the Gyeonggi region, and also scrutinized the real history of Zhang Jiannu's fourth invasion of the Ming Dynasty many times. It's just that no matter how you think about it, Sun Yuan doesn't know the point. I can only sigh for a long time: I am a modern person, and it is naturally not a problem to rely on the insight beyond the ancients to train a strong army across the era. But if you really want to command the troops to fight, but you have to catch the blind, you will not be the opponent of the experienced generals like the contemporaries Dolgon, who were born on the battlefield and grew up on the battlefield.

If it really doesn't work, it can probably only be a hard village and a dumb battle.

There is a long way from Bohai to Juyongguan, and the road has been on the road for a whole day, and finally it has reached the ground.

The Ming Dynasty army has been stationed in Guanzhong, because there are too many people, and there are even camps in the valley, and the big red flags of the Ming army are hunting in the wind everywhere. Compared with the Ming army that Sun Yuan had seen before, the soldiers here had distinct armor, the military uniforms and armor on their bodies were very new, and the quality of the weapons was also good. As far as the eye can see, a sea of red is a rare killing atmosphere. I think it must be the vanguard of King Qin's army that Xuanfu opened to the Gyeonggi region in advance. In the coming months, many border troops will come one after another.

On the surface, this is a mighty army, a majestic army. Of course, the devil only knows what happened to the battlefield.

Yang Guozhu, the governor of Xuanfu Town, set up the Zhongjun Festival Hall in the Yanqing Wei Yamen in the city, and soon Sun Yuan was on the ground.

I called the guards to go and report, so that I could meet General Soldier Yang and Wang Pu, the Chief Soldier of Datong, and Hu Dawei, the Chief Soldier of Shanxi. Suddenly, one of the servants beside him whispered: "General, there seems to be something wrong." ”

Sun Yuan: "What's wrong?" ”

Na Cong pointed to the big flag on the flagpole at the door and said, "General, this is General Yang's line, how can you set up someone else's banner?" ”

Hearing him say, Sun Yuan looked up, but saw that a big "Lu" character on the flag was waving vigorously in the autumn wind, making a crisp sound like cracking silk in the air.

Sun Yuan sighed in his heart, "Lu" What is going on, could it be that there is a chief military officer surnamed Lu in the three towns of Xuan, Da and Shanxi

。 No, no, I haven't heard of it! Moreover, this person's identity and status are even higher than Yang Guozhu and Hu Dawei, is it ......

My heart suddenly became chaotic.

At this time, a porter came out and smiled at Sun Yuan: "General Sun Yuan, Inspector Lu let you in." ”

"Inspector Lu?" Sun Yuan couldn't help but exclaim...... Lu Xiangsheng ...... Isn't he in Jiangnan, how did he get to Juyongguan. Impossible, impossible.

"Dare to ask, which is Inspector Lu?"

The porter said with a smile: "Which other Lu Du division can it be, naturally it is Lu Xiangsheng, the left attendant of the Prince Shaobao Army, Lu Xiangsheng, the governor of the Xuan Dynasty." I heard that General Sun was the proud man of Inspector Lu, and General Sun's position as a general was also recommended by the Governor. Why, the general doesn't know that his old man has returned to Xuanda Town? ”

"I really don't know?" Sun Yuan's heart suddenly turned upside down, and Lu Xiangsheng actually came back. History has come full circle and returned to square one, and this inertia is really terrible.

The four guards around him cheered at the same time: "Great, Inspector, Inspector his old man has actually returned to the capital." Our Ningxiang Army is finally not a wild child now, no one cares, no one asks. ”

These four people are all fifteen or sixteen years old and a half children, and they are still childish, so they naturally will not hide their excitement around others.

Sun Yuan couldn't help but smile when he saw these young faces.

Entering the festival hall, I fixed my eyes, and sure enough, in the middle of the hall, there was a middle-aged man in plain clothes and a white scarf sitting in a white scarf, who was it not Lu Xiangsheng?

After more than a year, Lu Xiangsheng became thinner, his cheekbones were high on his dark face, his forehead was full of wrinkles, and his hair exposed outside the white scarf was already white.

In contrast, Yang Guozhu, the chief military officer of the Xuanfu who was sitting next to him, was tall and burly, and he looked extraordinary. He was Sun Yuan's old boss, and the two had met before.

Sun Yuan hurriedly stepped forward to salute: "The last general, Sun Yuan, has seen General Yang and the superintendent...... Inspector, aren't you worried in Jiangnan, why did you go back to the capital to supervise the army? ”

As soon as the words fell, his throat was choked, and his eyes were slightly red. Sun Yuan was also strange in his heart: I am not a person who is easily emotional, what is wrong today?

Seeing Sun Yuan's eyes red, Lu Xiangsheng sighed: "Sun Yuan, get up, this matter is a long story, the military situation is like fire, let me ask you, how many people do you have on hand now?" ”

Sun Yuan: "If you go back to the superintendent, Sun Yuan still has two thousand soldiers on hand."

。 Of these, one hundred and thirty were scout cavalry; a thousand musketeers; A thousand spearmen, fifty gunners. ”

The wrinkles on Lu Xiangsheng's forehead deepened: "A year ago, you had 2,000 people, why are you still so many now?" ”

Sun Yuan: "The Bohai Sea where the last general took office is a pass, surrounded by mountains, and there are no military households. Even if you want to expand your troops, you can't recruit anyone. However, the superintendent can rest assured that the 2,000 men and horses under the last general are all veterans, and they can be ten with one. ”

Lu Xiang stood up and took a few steps: "Sun Yuan, there is no doubt that the Ningxiang Army has strong combat effectiveness. However, this Jiannu is no better than the rabble of the thief army, and if you go with me, you must be more careful, and do not be arrogant. ”

Sun Yuandao: "Don't worry, according to the last general, Jiannu doesn't matter, and I haven't fought Jiannu on the battlefield." ”

Lu Xiangsheng: "It's not a big mistake to be careful, what difficulties do you have, just say it." ”

Sun Yuan said with a smile: "There is nothing difficult about it, if you want to say that there is, it is food." The last general is very poor now, can the overseer transfer some? "For more than a year, Sun Yuan has been casting cannons and raising soldiers. However, the Bohai Institute is just a military fortress, with limited production, and the military expenses given by the imperial court are limited. By now, more than half of his previous savings have gone.

And immediately there will be a big battle, and the consumption of ammunition, grain and grass will be ten times that of normal days.

As soon as he heard Sun Yuan mention the salary, Lu Xiangsheng's face suddenly appeared sad, and he looked back at Yang Guozhu: "Chief Yang Bing, look at this......

Although the Ningxiang army has the prestige of daring to fight, its number is only 2,000. The entire Xuanfu has four battalions of soldiers and horses: Zheng, Qi, left and right. According to the establishment of the border army of the Ming Dynasty, each battalion had 4,500 soldiers. In other words, Xuanfu had a total of nearly 20,000 soldiers. To tell the truth, the Ningxiang Army has no weight in General Yang's mind.

Seeing that Sun Yuan took the opportunity to ask for food and salary, Yang Guozhu was unhappy: "Governor, it's September now, and the military funds that should be allocated by the imperial court haven't seen a single article." Now the army is about to be pulled out again, and money and food are needed everywhere, and there are holes on all sides, and I am afraid that I will not be able to get any more money. ”

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