12-78 Civil strife arises

Liu Ziguang convened a meeting, there were four county commanders sitting in the tent, more than a dozen patriarchs and some people who were righteous and upright, these people were forcibly recruited by him from the local area, and the officials were not as good as the common people, and they could be leveled by giving a big animal, these people value the political future, although the capital of the Ming Dynasty is all served, but Liu Ziguang is still a fugitive, and it is a big risk to follow him to get ahead, so among the county officials present, two of the four people were promoted by Liu Ziguang from the people below after cutting the original county order, the other two are long-term visioned and voluntarily follow this former grandfather to fight the world.

Seeing that everyone was looking at him, Liu Ziguang smiled slightly, first took out the jade seal of the Queen Mother, and said in a deep voice: "Ladies and gentlemen, according to the decree of the Queen Mother, I will temporarily take over the post of supervising the country and drive out the Tartar Kuang Fuming Room, which can be described as a long way to go. ”

What else is there to say, the queen mother has spoken, and the private salt has become official salt, and the county officials first stood up and said: "Congratulations to the grandfather of the country for his promotion, we are willing to assist the left and right, and do our best to revitalize the Daming Society." ”

Those patriarchs also hurriedly expressed their positions, and slapped their chests red one by one: "Grandpa Guo, you just give the order, we will hit wherever you point, our old Wang family has no seeds!" ”

Liu Ziguang said: "The city of Nanjing is broken, the emperor is nowhere to be found, before His Majesty's whereabouts are clear, you must obey the orders of the prison country, march and fight these do not bother you, recruit troops and levy food, please leave it to you, and after the four seas are peaceful in the future, the emperor will read that you have worked hard and made great achievements, and you dare not say that it is too high to supervise one party." ”

Everyone is waiting for this sentence, the emperor has lost it, this world is not the final say, as long as you follow Liu Dashuai, the future of their county orders is unlimited, those patriarchs in their hearts of the little Jiujiu also play very clearly, now is a troubled time, only as a soldier can there be a way out, the children of the clan joined the Red Shirt Army, then the family has nothing to fear, even if they change the dynasty, they are not afraid, maybe one day the prison country is happy to be the emperor, they are the elders of the founding heroes.

Everyone was happy, the meeting was over, everyone went away with joy, and Liu Ziguang recruited his subordinates, these people were mainly the Sky City crew and commandos he brought back from the Japanese Kingdom, as well as some people from the Liguo Iron Works. Looking at everyone's emaciated faces, Liu Ziguang first bowed to the end: "You have worked hard. ”

This expedition was really arduous, all the personnel have endured unprecedented hardships and exercises, 20,000 feet in the air does not belong to the people of this era, the difficulties and obstacles they encountered are unparalleled, fortunately the heavens are blessed, there is no danger along the way, the city in the sky finally forced to land in Xuzhou Mansion by mistake.

Xuzhou Province, as one of the most important industrial towns in the Ming Dynasty, sent many eunuchs to supervise the production of factories and mines, these people have no other skills, the ability to make money is first-class, as long as they are served well, anything can be done, the Chinese have never lacked wisdom in this regard, the Liguo Iron Works collapsed, but dozens of small Liguo Iron Works have risen, and all of them are small factories built with the machines and workers of the Liguo Iron Works, and a large number of brand-new machines are shipped out as scrap by bribing the eunuchs, A large amount of iron ore is shipped out as cinders, and everyone is reaping the benefits, so why not.

As soon as Liu Ziguang landed, he saw the chimneys emitting black smoke in all directions, and the only area that could show the characteristics of this pre-industrial era was Xuzhou Mansion, and it was easy to say when he arrived at his hometown, leaving technicians to repair the airship, and taking 99 soldiers to directly assault the government and seize power.

The process of capturing the government is very simple, they first picked up the train to Xuzhou Station, and then showed the guy and went straight to the city gate, now Xuzhou Mansion is not the border town of the year, but an ordinary inland city, in addition to the three classes of the government service, there are only a few hundred city defense forbidden troops, how can these soldiers still have the appearance of the original elite Xuzhou army, purely to support the elderly, see the bandits with open fire rushing over and directly raised their hands to surrender, even do not have to fight directly occupy the city gate.

Entering the city gate, it happened that a team of messengers escorted an official sedan chair over, Liu Ziguang and the others didn't say a word, rushed over to break people up, pulled out the eunuch in the sedan chair and beheaded him on the street, and announced: "Liu Ziguang is back, the red shirts are back!" ”

The eunuchs sent by the imperial court to various places are not good birds, and it just so happens that the red-shirted army killed this one is even more of a monstrous grievance, the people are eager to eat their flesh and sleep their skin, the people of Xuzhou are fierce, and they have always had a tradition of resisting tyranny. The people on the street directly copied the guy and followed the red shirts to storm the government office, killing the new Xuzhou prefect and the subordinates of the eunuchs from the capital.

Occupy Xuzhou Mansion, immediately erect the recruitment flag, Xuzhou this place has two benefits, one is that the people are brave and hard-working, suitable for being soldiers, the other is the industry, the Ming Dynasty has half of the cold weapons and one-third of the hot weapons are produced in Xuzhou, from swords, guns and halberds to cannons, ironclad chariots and even river gunboats, sounding airships, basically all, although Liu Ziguang lost power in the imperial court, but the power of the Liguo Iron Works in the people is still strong, and the remnants of the Red Shirts in Hebei and Jiangnan have a lot of flow here, Protected by the local people, when he heard that the marshal had returned, he immediately stepped forward and offered advice and weapons, and those machine guns were jointly developed by the incognito Dai Zi and Addison.

This machine gun is different from the machine guns of later generations, it is not driven by gunpowder gas, but is transformed from the original pneumatic machine gun, it is still a powerful internal combustion engine driving the firing pin reciprocating motion, there is no shell throwing equipment, and the bullet chain is directly used to feed the bomb, the rotation of the bullet chain is also driven by the internal combustion engine to drive the gear, and it runs synchronously with the firing pin, although the shooting does not reach the horror of 600 per minute, but it also reaches the amazing shooting of 130, the shooting is amazing, and the cost of use is even more amazing. However, people who engage in scientific research generally don't care about the cost, so that it can be done, and the three machine guns cost 600,000 taels of silver, and the bullets are also extremely expensive.

The benefits of burning the money are incalculable, so when Liu Ziguang watched the shooting demonstration and listened to the development costs, he did not exclaim as Li Zhongtang did: Too fast, too expensive. Instead, he touched his chin and said: Yes, it is good and cheap, and it is necessary for the whole army to popularize this sharp weapon.

I wanted to occupy Xuzhou Mansion after recruiting troops and horses to go south to rebel, but suddenly from the capital to telegraph, saying that the Xixia Iron Cavalry has been in the city, recruiting all the Qin Wang soldiers and horses, the Ming Dynasty's current decree transmission mainly relies on the radio, each provincial capital has a telegraph room, directly belongs to the governor's yamen, after receiving the order of the capital from the provincial capital to the state capital, the state capital and then to the county and township, although Xuzhou is not a provincial capital, but the Liguo Iron Works has long been equipped with a radio, the capital's telegram for help is only one day and then silent, Liu Ziguang knew that those rice buckets must have lost the capital, and the Mongols were likely to bypass Yuan Chonghuan's army to attack thousands of miles this time, and they would definitely return north after the fact, so Liu Ziguang decided to set up an ambush in the middle of the road.

Ambushing the Western Xia army is not so simple, fortunately with the General Staff, this work has become easier, after all, the three stinkers are Zhuge Liang, not to mention the professional staff officers who have been trained by the Jingshi Wutang system, and there are detailed maps of the Central Plains, mountains, rivers and villages, and even the size of each pond, the amount of water stored, and whether it can be drunk are marked, the General Staff has formulated three sets of plans, preset three ambush positions, no matter where the Western Xia army goes from, it will be ambushed, and the Western Xia army is not idle. The first two carefully ambushed roads they have bypassed, so the artillery placed on the first two positions is useless, it is too late to deploy artillery again, and the scene cannot be suppressed by machine guns and fierce fire oil alone, so Liu Ziguang set his eyes on those empty fierce fire oil barrels, this thing saw the opening is not a cannon, the Eighth Route Army liked to use this, so dozens of fierce fire oil barrels were urgently transformed, and several nearby townships happened to be rich in black powder, and every household did this, making up hundreds of ** Bao is simply too trivial, these factors came together to bring about the destruction of the Western Xia army.

In order to stop the Western Xia army, these heroic soldiers did not close their eyes for more than ten days and nights, one by one with unshaven beards, thin faces, and bloodshot eyes, but the joy of victory is enough to compensate for these efforts, the red shirt army can succeed in one fell swoop, annihilate the Western Xia army, Liu Ziguang can get the position of the prison country, command the world, the road after this is much easier, looking at the confident marshal, the generals are also full of ambition, and they arched their hands together: "The marshal is hard." ”

Liu Ziguang said: "Ladies and gentlemen, the emperor is nowhere to be found, the Ming Dynasty is falling apart, facing the danger of civil strife, since I am the prisoner of the country, I should return to the capital to support the overall situation, what do you think?" ”

Of course, everyone is full of agreement, the prison country, it is necessary to supervise the country in the capital, this is called justifiable, Liu Ziguang was about to give the order to set off to the south, suddenly the curtain was raised, and the flag officer came in and said: "Dashuai, Xuzhou six hundred miles is urgent." ’

Liu Ziguang took the letter and looked at it, and sighed: "The civil strife has started, and a boy was set up as the emperor in Nanjing, in a vain attempt to steal the treasure, and another person claimed to be the emperor of the Apocalypse, and he ascended the throne in Shanghai. ”