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When the hot soup with the pieces of human flesh poured into his mouth, a strong fishy smell rushed to the brain, and even an iron-clad man like Shi Chunhu couldn't help but vomit. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info ◇↓ Top ◇↓ Point ◇↓ Small ◇↓ said, but Mao Wenlong smacked his lips and smiled as if he was tasting fine wine: "Don't worry, drink slowly, drink too much and get used to it." Remember, it's not every day that you have the good fortune to catch so many cattle and sheep. What if one catches a Mongol or a Tartar and has nothing to eat? Then you have to eat people! Don't feel disgusted, Ben has even drunk his own urine! ”

I have to admit that Mao Wenlong knows how to control this gang of ruffians best, and he has played all kinds of tricks perfectly. He first forced his men to a desperate route, and then lured them to abandon all weakness such as timidity and sympathy, and went out of their way to plunder the Mongols. In the end, not only did he kill all the captives, but he also divided the corpses and cooked them into human broth.

After drinking this bowl of soup, these soldiers and ruffians have really become out-and-out devouring beasts, and whatever the demon king of Mao Wenlong asks them to do, they will pounce on them like evil wolves. In order not to be too out of place among this group of devils, Shi Chunhu and the other five brocade guards also had to pinch their noses and pour a few mouthfuls of human broth, Mao Wenlong looked at it and laughed, and a crisis was barely resolved.

That night, everyone slaughtered cattle and sheep and drank heartily, and for the first time in so many days, they let go of their bellies and ate enough, and soon felt tired and unstoppable, and they all lay down in the yurt and fell asleep.

Mao Wenlong didn't sleep, he said to Shi Chunhu: "Brother Shi, our army is now alone, and we must be careful in everything." The soldiers are too tired, so we have to work hard tonight, take turns to be on duty all night, and we have to start tomorrow morning before dawn. The Mongolian police felt that if they didn't go quickly, they might not be able to leave. ”

Shi Chunhu admires Mao Wenlong very much, although he is cruel, greedy, and does not even talk about benevolence, righteousness and morality, but the use of soldiers is indeed extremely alert and flexible. If the Holy Lord hadn't sent him, but another general, I'm afraid that the situation would be much worse than it is now.

The next morning, the sky was still full of stars, and Mao Wenlong blasted everyone. This Mongolian tribe has more than a hundred cattle and sheep, and yesterday they ate half of these hungry ghosts, and this morning they killed a dozen. The crowd ate until they couldn't eat it anymore, so Mao Wenlong ordered all the cattle and sheep to be killed, cut into pieces, and carried them with the captured Mongol horses, and continued to drive eastward.

"General, don't you take these Mongols with some armor, utensils and other things?" Shi Chunhu asked.

Mao Wenlong pursed his lips and said, "What do you want armor for?" Brother Shi, you have to understand one thing: we only have five hundred people. Not to mention 500 people, that is, 5,000 or 50,000 people, when we go to the steppe or Liaodong, we will fight head-on with the Mongols or the Tartars, and we will give them away in vain. So we must not go head-to-head with others, if we really let the cavalry block, it will be our death. Since there is no need to fight, carrying these armors is a burden, and you can't ask for anything else. Let's go, there's still a lot of good stuff! ”

Just as this army was searching for the next suitable target in the vast grassland, thousands of miles away in the yamen of the prefect of Zhangde Prefecture, Zhu Youzhen, the Chongzhen Emperor who had just moved here, was lying on the table, reviewing the important pieces transferred from Beijing.

Zhangde Mansion is actually Anyang, Henan, which is only more than 200 miles away from the Yellow River, and there is no big city in between, so it was selected by Zhu Youzhen as the base camp of the former enemy. The city is also an ancient city with a long history, which was formed during the Warring States period, especially during the Song Dynasty. However, after the ravages of the Central Plains by the Mengyuan Dynasty, when the city was rebuilt in the early Ming Dynasty, the scale had been greatly reduced, only less than half of the original size. Now that more than 20,000 officers and troops have suddenly been stationed, they are very nervous, and even in the prefect's yamen, which is temporarily stationed in His Majesty's place, every room is full of sergeants.

Zhu Youzhen couldn't hear the noise outside at all, and was engrossed in reviewing the chapters. The last time he went to Liaodong to withdraw the border army, because Yuan Chonghuan wanted to kill Mao Wenlong, he had to go to Phi Island, which caused the flying pigeon to be interrupted for a period of time, and the government was suspended, and the officials in Beijing were almost killed.

Since then, Zhu Youzhen has paid more attention to how to deal with government affairs when traveling. Before this expedition, he agreed with the cabinet that if it was an ordinary movement, it could be passed normally by a stagecoach. Anything important concerning the military, and any other matter which the Cabinet deems urgent, and which must be dealt with immediately, must be sent to him on the same day.

Through the efforts of the Red Lady, Herzhe and others, as well as the strong support of Zhu Youzhen, the level of flying pigeons is now much improved than a year ago, especially in Beizhili, which is relatively close to Beijing, and there are many carrier pigeons raised in each prefecture station. Like stagecoaches, carrier pigeons have been passed on faster than in the past.

In addition, in order to ensure the reliability of communication, these pieces will be delivered again by stagecoach. The Ming Dynasty set up a post station every twenty miles on the main official road, and each post station had to raise a few to a dozen horses, and the people were requisitioned as post guards. But the role of the post station is not small, the most commonly used is the "six hundred miles expedited".

Originally, the Ming Dynasty stipulated that the post station transmitted letters and official documents, and the normal speed was 180 miles per day, and the stagecoach of the previous post station passed the documents to the next post station, and then returned with the documents that needed to be sent back, so that the relay of the station was passed forward. If there is the word "fly immediately", it is required to travel 300 miles a day, that is, to pass through 15 post stations in a day. If the military situation is urgent, then even at night, you have to speed up the horse, and travel 300 times a day and 300 nights, which is 600 miles. In the Ming Dynasty, horses in the mainland were inferior, and they could run dozens of miles in an hour, and six hundred miles was almost the limit of speed.

At present, Zhu Youzhen is reviewing the urgent documents sent to Beijing from various places and then transferred by the cabinet, mostly reporting that the rebels have plundered various places, and Zhu Youzhen's heart is tense for a while. Two of these Tang newspapers have particularly aroused Zhu Youzhen's great attention.

One is a joint report signed by Sun Chuanting, the governor of Shaanxi, and Yang Sichang, who had just been promoted to the prefect of Xi'an, saying that Gao Yingxiang, the "king of Chuang", had led a large army to invade Hanzhong, Shangzhou had fallen, and Xi'an and Tongguan were directly threatened.

The other was handed over from the Nanjing Flying Pigeon to the Beijing Division, which was jointly played by Chang Yinxu, the Marquis of Nanjing Garrison, Huaiyuan, the Shangshu of the Nanjing Military Department, and Hu Yingtai, the Counselor of the Aircraft. It is said that the rebel army led by Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong has occupied the central capital Fengyang and burned the imperial tomb, which is a great threat to Nanjing, and the imperial court is requested to immediately send troops to rescue.

Zhu You inspected the reluctance and couldn't help but fall into deep thought.