The climate of the Xiaoice period was characterized by cold. Because of the cold and drought. Grain harvest and locust infestation due to drought...... The whole nature is so closely related, once there is rain, the temperature is low, it is nothing. If there is anything that the entire Chongzhen Dynasty needs most, it can only be rain.

Especially in this part of Henan, the original granary of the Central Plains has become thousands of miles away due to natural and man-made disasters, and now it is a happy event to be able to make a rain. The people of Ruzhou City came out of their homes one after another to cheer in the rain as if they were celebrating the New Year.

Zhu Cihong's face had the same dark clouds as in the sky.

The rain was so unfortunate.

There is news from the front, Sun Chuanting and Li Zicheng are fighting a decisive battle on the plains in the front, and they have been fighting since yesterday's military meeting, and there has been no news until now. Tanma said that the sound of cannons could be heard more than ten miles away from the battlefield, and he didn't know whether it was the train of the Qin soldiers or the artillery of the thieves, and the fighting was very fierce.

The train invented by Sun Chuanting in Qindi was specially used to deal with thieves. In Zhu Cihong's view, this kind of car is a cannon with a compartment. The car was equipped with a small imitation of Franc machines, as well as soldiers' armor and staffs. On weekdays, marching can be used as a peripheral obstacle to a camp, and when an enemy is engaged, it can be used as a bulwark. Qin Du was able to have such a great fighting spirit, and it was also because of the strong mobility and firepower of this kind of train, which had a great advantage in the era of cold weapons.

However, now that it rains, the power of gunpowder is greatly reduced when it is damp, and the squibs are in full condition. The ground is muddy, and the main battle solid bullet sinks when it lands, and it cannot cause ricochet damage. Although the Ming army had flowering shells, their power was really insufficient, and they had long been disliked by the front-line soldiers, and only flowering gas bombs still had some status.

Among the 100,000 Qin soldiers, there were 30,000 train soldiers, which shows that the train has a large proportion in Sun Ying.

It is precisely because Sun Chuanting is determined to train this mobile artillery unit that he vigorously collects the grain tax on the gentry in Guanzhong. I don't know how many people have been offended. Every day, Beijing receives cries for help, claiming that Qin Governor is abusing the people. Qin officials in Beijing lobbied in many ways, hoping that Emperor Chongzhen could put Sun Chuanting back into the black prison.

Chongzhen really didn't have a supervisor to appoint, so he could only urge Sun Chuanting to send troops. Otherwise, the central part of Beijing will be paralyzed because of a Qin governor - officials are running around because of Sun Chuanting, just like some institutions in later generations read newspapers, drink tea and play games when they go to work, who still works?

"God really can't get along with Sun Du!" Zhu Cihong watched the rain fall heavier and heavier. There was no sign of sunshine, and I really couldn't help but regret Sun Chuanting's encounter.

"Your Highness, Henan Acting Guerrilla Chen De is waiting to see you." Someone reported outside the door.

Tian Cunshan has already followed Wu Weiye to Luoyang to continue his old job and carry the black pot for the prince. The staff of the other chambers were also scattered to various neighborhoods, counties, and even large villages and towns in Ruzhou to assist in civil affairs. The Central Military Department was stationed outside the city of Ruzhou, building earthen walls, digging trenches, and arranging stumbling horses, while the two bureaus of the Left Army brought auxiliary troops. Newly recruited men have built stragglers.

This straggler camp is to contain the rout of the Qin army.

Zhu Cihong had already expressed his opinion on Sun Chuanting's inevitable defeat without hesitation, which made the gentry in Ruzhou City feel anxious about their future.

Zhu Cihong had already heard that Chen De was Chen Yongfu's son, and because he shot Li Zicheng blind in the eyes in the second Kaifeng offensive and defensive battle, he reported to the military department, which was regarded as "unfinished work".

Everyone hoped that the arrow could go three or five inches deeper and plunge into the head of the Li thief, and that would be a real miracle!

"Xuan." Zhu Cihong said in a deep voice.

"Your Highness, do you want to recruit Min Zhanlian first?" The female officer on duty in the corner of the study suddenly spoke.

Zhu Cihong had long forgotten that there were still people on duty here. I was excited by this sudden voice, and I looked at it. I saw that this female official was familiar, but her name was on her lips but she couldn't call it. He said, "Who would dare to assassinate me in a hurry? Nothing to be afraid of. ”

The female official was not afraid at all, and said against Zhu Cihong's gaze: "Your Highness, as the foundation of the country, how can you ignore your own safety?" It's not that General Chen has bad intentions, it's just that his subordinates are worried in vain when they see that His Highness is careless. In the future, I will also have to be distracted by His Highness on the battlefield. ”

"In the woman's opinion," Zhu Cihong finally called out her name: "Lu Suyao, you avoid it." ”

Lu Suyao finally took the opportunity to come to the front line with the army, and finally waited until the East Palace was short of manpower, and temporarily became the duty secretary of His Royal Highness the Prince. The most difficult thing is to have the opportunity to make the prince leave a loyal and straightforward impression on himself...... As a result, all I had to wait for was a sentence of "avoidance".

- The prince still remembers my name, it's okay.

Lu Suyao comforted herself in her heart, so she had to retreat with happiness.

The little chamberlain outside the door had already summoned Chen De, because the Zhenguo General's Mansion was too cramped, and the young guerrilla strode in again, and actually blocked Lu Suyao at the door.

Lu Suyao was unhappy when an ironclad wall suddenly appeared in front of her, and she almost hit it unexpectedly. After quickly stopping his steps, he looked up and saw a round-faced young man, his eyebrows seemed to be painted with charcoal over and over again, black and thick, lying flat on his eyes, and he was looking at himself hotly at the moment, and he couldn't help but be ashamed and angry, and flicked his sleeves sideways.

Chen De came back to his senses at this time, and his heartbeat was much faster. Even he didn't know if it was because of this beautiful woman, or because the emperor was sitting on it.

"The Last General ......"

"Chen De," Zhu Cihong interrupted him to report his name, "what's going on ahead?" ”

"Yes!" Chen De was interrupted, but his spirit was much clearer, and Lang Lang said: "When the last general set off this morning, I heard that Niu Chenghu, the chief officer of the vanguard, had broken through the thief formation and killed the thief general Xie Junyou, the pseudo-Guoyi general!" Tang Bao should already be on the way. ”

Zhu Cihong's face let go slightly.

Chen De thought that the prince was happy when he heard the good news, and he couldn't help but grin. He didn't know that Zhu Cihong was in a good mood not because Li Zicheng had lost a general, but because the seventeen-year-old general was full of vigor and energy, in other words, he was a sunny boy. This reminded him of his nephew in his previous life, and he was also angry and vigorous.

Chen De was afraid that the crown prince would be high and did not know the weight of this victory, so he took advantage of the prince to give him a touch of sunshine, and he was really unceremoniously brilliant: "The thief stole the pseudo-general, among which General Quan is the first class." There are also four battalions on the left and right, front and rear, which are commanded by generals, which is the second class. Below the generals is the left and right Guoyi generals, which can be regarded as the third class. This Xie Junyou is the third-rank general Zuo Guoyi, which is equivalent to ......"

When Chen De said the word "equivalent to", his tongue was like a knot, and he couldn't go on.

How can the puppet general of the rogue be equal to the emperor's official system!

"I know, Deputy Commander." Zhu Cihong took over the conversation kindly: "I also know that he is the commander of the former camp of the thieves. ”

As early as the Western Zhou Dynasty, there was a sense of secrecy, and Jiang Ziya's "Yin Fu" was created to transmit orders, which can be said to be the earliest military code. In the Warring States Period, the scope of secrecy was even expanded to the commander-in-chief - the Battle of Qin and Zhao Changping, and the Qin army had a military order to "dare to leak Wu Anjun to behead the general".

However, for 3,000 years, more generals did not pay much attention to secrecy. In particular, some people are fame and fortune, but they seek to be known to the princes, and they are afraid that others will not know about the next county, so they must publicize their great names. Therefore, as soon as Zhu Cihong entered Henan, the list and subordinates of the generals under the command of the thieves had already been sent to the bookcase.

Chen De smiled, and there was already a cold sweat on his forehead. He heard from his father that the crown prince was not a "easy to get along with" person, and that this person was not easy to get along with. Let the subordinates evaluate it like this, which shows how difficult this person is. But now it seems that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is very approachable, and the shelf is not as big as those governors.

"I heard that you shot Li Zicheng in one eye?" Zhu Cihong asked.

Chen De has answered this question I don't know how many times, and now he answered according to the standard explained by his father's friends: "Thanking the saint to Hongfu, it's just a fluke." In fact, this is not just a cliché, but a fact.

At that time, Chen De was not the only one standing at the head of the city and shooting arrows at the bottom of the city, but a group of people stood side by side, all using long arrows and heavy bows. After a volley, Li Zicheng fell from his horse with an arrow and was rescued by his own soldiers on the left and right. At that time, I didn't even know if he was alive or dead, how did I know who shot it? It's just that the highest position among the archers in this row is Chen De, the son of the chief soldier, so the credit is on his head.

This is also Chen De's reputation for being good at shooting since he was a child, so everyone thinks that most of them are shot by him.

Chen De actually knew very well that there was a village archer named Xie San who was standing next to him at that time, using a bow as heavy as himself, and his archery skills were also very good.

But what does it matter, anyway, there is no inscription on the arrow that shot Li Zicheng, so why do you think that it was not shot by yourself? At that time, he also aimed at Li Thief's forehead. Chen De was not impressed by this.

"It seems that you are really good at archery, can you demonstrate it?" Zhu Cihong was interested.

Although he wanted to establish an all-firearms battalion, the rain of the past two days extinguished this fanaticism, and he had to accept the fact that the Ming army would still use archers as the main long-range force for some time to come. One is that gunpowder preservation jishu is not passable, and it is easy to get damp. The second is that arquebuses are basically useless in rainy days, and large-scale firearms battalions can only be considered after they have to be equipped with flintlock guns.

If you can get a general who is good at archery to standardize, teach, and train the archers, you can undoubtedly improve your combat effectiveness faster.

In today's East Palace guard camp, the training of archers is the most headache for Zhu Cihong. The long-range salvo is still a bit like it under the unified order, but it is disappointing against the scattering, and it is better to use a "swarm of bees" with a higher launch efficiency. However, although a swarm of bees has a 60% hit rate, it is also a gunpowder-driven bow and arrow, which is also affected by wet weather.

Chen De has his own skills, and he is not timid, and responds loudly: "Mencius said: 'Don't dare to ask for ears, but do what you want'!" The same is true of the last general. ”

"Speak well, what's wrong with you still going to take the top exam?" Zhu Cihong was amused. (To be continued......)

PS: It's the weekend again, I wish you all a happy weekend! I have a lot of time to accompany my family~~