In the autumn of 1704, an incident occurred that caused many generals in the northwest of the Ming Empire to be painful, and Ren Di led the newly formed North China Army, a total of 100,000 people, to North China. Across the Dabie Mountains, the record of sweeping the five elite group armies of the empire within two years has already made the existing imperial soldiers feel fear for no reason.

Cao Chengyu, the general of the Ming Army in the western Ming Dynasty of the Ming Dynasty, had a great headache about this, and scolded angrily in the house: "You gang of thieves, don't you want to rebel, go to the southern capital, what are you doing here?" "Cao Chengyu's family of military generals, according to the style of the Hai Song Dynasty at that time to preserve celebrities, this military general surnamed Cao is the grandson of Cao Bianjiao. Illustrious family background. But no matter how prominent a family is, there must always be a little caution in this generation. At present, it is obvious that there are signs of great chaos in the world, according to the posture of the Republican Army to mobilize the peasants everywhere now, there are very Yellow Turbans, Yellow Nests, and the posture of Li Chuang and Zhang Xianzhong 70 years ago.

Can the Ming Dynasty survive this catastrophe, after the destruction of the 100,000 imperial troops in East China, the entire Ming Dynasty generals have their own careful thoughts and prepare to meet the troubled times, as for Cao Yucheng, he likes to watch the drama of the Sui and Tang Dynasties in the past few months. That is, how did the Li family of the Longxi Military Group ascend to the Great Unification step by step after the chaos in the world at the end of the Sui Dynasty and established the prosperous Tang Dynasty.

According to the situation of many Ming generals in the north, now that the republican army has taken Jiangbei and Hubei, not only can you look at the southern capital across the river, but also the entire upper reaches of the Yangtze River are in the hands of the republican army, so you will almost take the southern capital, kill the emperor and overthrow the Ming Dynasty, and remove the righteous shackles on the heads of the generals from all over the Ming Dynasty, and then everyone can justifiably become warlords.

However, for Cao Yucheng, the dream is full, the reality is skinny, with Ren Di's arrival in Henan Province with a large army, 100,000 troops in the Central Plains south of the Yellow River to reform the land, it is obvious that there is a posture of northward expansion, Cao Yucheng is stupid, shouldn't you hit the southern capital first, board the dragon chair and announce the success of the rebellion? How did you come to the north to find something to do first? Anti-thieves, you don't play your cards according to common sense.

And it's Ren Di who came, you have laid so many plastered places in the east, how did you give up the foundation of the other gang of thieves and run over. For Ren Di, the opponent who annihilated the 100,000 imperial army on the frontal battlefield, not only Cao Yucheng of Shanxi, but also Zuo Peng, a warlord in the northwest, also had a headache.

The camera switched, on the large island of Sumatra in the South Seas, in the Pentagon of the Haisong Nanyang Military Region, Zhang Shitian, who was dressed in a Taoist robe, walked into the core office of this building. Speaking of the architectural structure of this building, the elders of the Hai Song Dynasty people have a soft spot for the Pentagon as a military center building since they arrived in the Ming Dynasty, and they first built one in Hainan, then built one in Nanyang, and then built one in Australia and America. The Pentagon has become the iconic military command building of Hai Song in the world.

The head of the Song Nanyang Fleet in the sea of Changsheng. Holding the right to mobilize the military of the Hai Song side, this position is very important and is rotated by the elders. Chang Shengchong is a veteran of the Hai Song Dynasty, and Zhang Shitian, who walked into Chang Shengchong's office, is also a veteran, and his position in the Hai Song Dynasty is no less than that of Chang Shengchong, who now controls a military region. The leader of the Heavenly Daoist Sect, the Heavenly Taoist Sect, preaches that heaven and earth are naturally inclusive of everything, and the Heavenly Dao is all-encompassing. Well, this sect has infiltrated all aspects of Hai Song. When the Hai Song Dynasty conquered the global colonies, it had a huge ideological and educational effect on the local people, and effectively dismantled the hostility of the local religion to the rule of the Hai Song Dynasty. This religion is too high in terms of qualifications. Other religions, the sun god and the earth god, can't cover the way of heaven and earth.

This religion also infiltrated the army, and every Hai Song army had a chaplain to solve the psychological problems of the soldiers, but the effect was also obvious, executing on behalf of heaven and punishing heresy.

Now it is impossible for Hai Song to ban this religion, because once it is banned, there will be confusion in the mind. National cohesion will decline. However, the position of the head of the Heavenly Dao Sect was founded by a patriarch surnamed Zhang in the early days of Hai Song Caochuang, this guy was originally engaged in religious work before crossing over, and after coming to this plane, he was not bound by the state this article, and soon according to the will of Hai Song, he made a religion with absolute cult standards in the 21st century. But now who's to say he's a cult? This religion maintains the rule of the Hai Song state, and whatever is conducive to the rule of the ruling class is not a cult.

The selection of the position of the sect leader is also extremely rigorous, first the members are selected by the sect leader's lineage, and then the golden bottle is drawn by lot. Finally crowned. To a certain extent, among the veterans of the Hai Song Dynasty, this veteran surnamed Zhang was the most successful, although he did not occupy any large-scale industries. But it has influenced the minds of two-fifths of the world, and the influence of religion is still attacking the West. The Vatican wanted to reject the Heavenly Taoism, but Hai Song found an excuse to fight several religious wars. As a result, the Western Religious Headquarters revised the Bible, and God and the Pangu of the East are one, and God has multiple projections in the human world.

Seeing the arrival of the sect leader, Chang Shengchong naturally asked on his face, "Dao Master has returned from the mainland?" "Chang Shengchong and Zhang Shitian have played together since childhood. Good relationship. Zhang Shitian put down the dust in his hand and said, "Returned in vain." ”

Chang Shengchong said: "The mission is not going well? Zhang Shitian said: "The emerging forces on the mainland seem to be absolute atheists. Chang Shengchong sneered and said: "These guys who rebelled at the risk of killing their heads are naturally not afraid of heaven and earth. ”

Zhang Shitian said: "The man I saw was afraid, he was afraid of the dead, that is, the dead comrades. Chang Shengchong said: "Dust to dust, reincarnation of heaven, doing evil for good." There is retribution for all. Didn't he become a believer in you? ”

Zhang Shitian said: "What he is afraid of is not the way of heaven. He was arrogant and thought that their group could decide everything. That's why I came to you. Chang Shengchong: "Are you inclined to use force now?" Zhang Shitian said: "Since persuasion can't be redeemed, then you can only use other methods." ”

Chang Shengchong said: "Can't cooperate economically? Zhang Shitian shook his head and said, "If it penetrates economically." Then I can be patient, but the one I met wanted to walk the path we had walked. He has made it clear that proselytizing is not allowed, and tariffs will be raised. The peace agreement that set aside the dispute and coexisted with the Ming Dynasty was ignored. This uncontrolled behaviour must be stopped. ”

Chang Shengchong said: "The consciousness of the Senate now is to fight a proxy war first, just like it did fifty-eight years ago. Zhang Shitian shook his head and said, "It seems that the Senate has not yet regarded this emerging force as a real opponent. After a pause, Zhang Shitian added: "Sooner or later, you will suffer." ”

Chang Shengchong handed over a document in his hand to Zhang Shitian's desk. Zhang Shitian looked at it, and Chang Shengchong said leisurely, "The market of Daming is suddenly out of control, and the Elders Association has attached great importance to it from the beginning, and now there is no hope for the market to recover." The Senate is already making preparations with two hands, the first is to support the Ming forces to fight, and the second is to prepare us. The transfer of troops has already begun. ”

At this time, the ironclad ships in the South China Sea slowly docked at the port of Hainan Island leased by Haisong, and then 20 large transport ships docked at the port, and a group of soldiers wearing green camouflage uniforms jumped off the ship with steel guns. At the same time, various types of machinery were also transported. This is not only happening on Hainan Island, but also on the Chinese treasure island of Haisong. This kind of decision will never be made in the first generation of patriarchs, but the feelings of the current generation of patriarchs towards the mainland are no longer the feelings of the first generation of patriarchs who grew up in a big river. The land of Daming is too big, and the forces that were bred are too threatening to Hai Song, and they should be weakened in several parts.

But the new generation of patriarchs of this plane does not know, nor has they experienced it, and if it were the first generation of patriarchs, they would understand how terrifying it is that this civilization, which has grown on the East Asian continent for thousands of years, has exploded after sinking to the bottom. Although there are materials from later generations, the patriarchs who are now seated in the Hai Song Dynasty have a different worldview from their ancestors.

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In the Central Plains, Henan Province, Ren Di's first feeling of this land is flat, and the second feeling is that as long as the precipitation is sufficient, it is definitely a good place for mechanized agriculture. This land also has a name, called the Central Plains. In this large plain area, there is a railway that directly runs through the connection between northern Anhui and Zhengzhou. Steam trains keep pumping industrial products into the area all night long. Iron farm tools, steam tractors, fertilizers and so on, if you want to serve this land well, investment is necessary. Mechanized operations. The steam machinery, in the south where there are many paddy fields, broke down and really sank into the mud. In the northern part of Anhui, the undulating terrain will make steam engine failures frequent. Only here is the steam engine using the well field system, even if the steam tractor breaks down in that field, it can be repaired from the road where the well field is divided, with convenient transportation parts, or directly towed to the road.

The extension of the railway allowed the industrial power of the emerging Huaibei to quickly extend to the battlefield here. And Huaibei also built the first steam locomotive. The steam locomotive looks old-fashioned and has a black iron color. The one-meter-diameter can in front of it is burned with coal, and the water is turned into steam.

Everything in the world is from simple to complicated, and the picture of the highest-level power machinery that Ren Di has ever seen is the turbofan engine of the fourth-generation aircraft, with various indescribable lines on both sides of the engine. Not to mention these, even the car engine looks dazzling with various oil routes and wires at a glance.

Now that he has built his own steam locomotive, the conduit is finally so simple that Ren Di can figure it out. Iron pipes are connected to the steam boiler. The air pressure in the steam engine is connected by pressure in these iron pipes. Some of these iron pipes extended into the cab of the steam locomotive. The structure of the iron ring valve next to each water meter. In these iron pipes, in the cylindrical structure of the pipe, the red iron ring is like a dragon inside a fan-shaped metal parts, the fan-shaped metal parts can be rotated to a certain angle at will to easily block the pipe, so that the vacant part between the fans is aligned with the vent in the pipe, so that the pipe can be connected.

These valves regulate the pressure inside the boiler through the pipes that connect the steam boiler. In the operation room, the pressure gauge of the steam boiler is indicated by the pressure gauge of the boiler air pressure through the pipe. Clang, such a large mass of metal locomotives, propelled by the power of controllable steam, galloped along the train track with the incomparable weight of horses in the past. The power of the flame is finally released by acting on water into machine energy, a brute force that cannot be carried by the body of protein animals.

In primitive times, no natural material could carry the power of human muscles, and in powerful stone tools, if they were smashed into a stone by human muscles, the stone tool materials would be shattered. Steel appeared, and gradually it could withstand the power of humans, and iron tongs and sledgehammers cut mountains and stones, and the mining of stone allowed humans to live in strong walls.

Now steel is starting to carry a higher level of energy. Mechanical energy converted from combustion. Combustion chemistry class defines it as a violent chemical reaction. It releases chemical energy violently. It simply does not exist in carbon-based life. It is also a taboo for carbon-based life.

Only when you enter the industry can you appreciate the power of this era. Ren Di's current army can no longer be regarded as a turtle in terms of equipment compared with the advanced army of this era. Machine guns, rapid-fire guns, mortars, and recoilless guns of the thirty-kilogram class were newly added to the troops. Such military strength is absolutely first-class. Of course, it would be better if the plane in the sky could solve the V-shaped engine problem.