Chapter 716 Heavenly Dao is incomplete and filled

The taste of horse meat is indeed not as delicious as beef, with a slight earthy smell, but the meat fiber is coarse, and for the hungry Ming soldiers, horse meat is also a rare delicacy in the world.

The mouths of the soldiers of the whole family were nourished by the abundant ingredients, but now there was nothing else to satisfy their stomachs, but they also developed their brains and made the horse meat look like they couldn't afford to eat.

Some people cut the horse meat into small pieces and stew it on the fire in a canned box, some people wrap the outer layer of horse meat in mud and put it in the fire to simmer, some people sprinkle the seasoning of instant noodles on the meat and roast it, as for the cooks, it is even simpler, even if they are marching in a hurry, they still have salt, pepper and pepper and other seasonings.

The cauldron of the march, stewed with large pieces of horse meat, and some people even made a horse-killing dish from the horse's intestines, horse blood, and horse's belly.

Xu Biao, Lu Xiangsheng, Li Chongzhen and a group of other senior generals gathered around the bonfire, and he was also very hungry, picking up a large piece of stewed horse meat with chopsticks and eating it in a big gulp.

Lu Xiangsheng was eating horse meat, and he was a little uncomfortable being spicy, but chili peppers are very strange things, and the spicier they are, the more they want to eat them.

But eating horse meat, Lu Xiangsheng thought about the distant future.

What is the future of Daming?

In just a few years, the artillery made by Quan Xu with those craftsmen is becoming more and more powerful, and more and more lightweight, just like the 60 mortars used by the whole family army now, the total weight of the artillery is 22.4 kilograms, the weight of the gun body: 9.4 kilograms, the weight of the gun carriage is 5.8 kilograms, the optical sight weighs 0.48 kilograms, the weight of the grenade: 2.18 kilograms, the effective killing radius is 17.8 meters, the maximum firing range: 5,566 meters, the high and low firing range: 45 degrees -85 degrees, the circumferential firing range is 360 degrees, and the maximum rate of fire is 20 rounds and minutes.

This kind of artillery looks at the whole world, has the lightest mass, the longest range, the same caliber is the most powerful of the three worlds, regardless of other weapons, if you use a platoon-level 60 mortar to bombard, the beautiful country will not even find her mother.

Mortars are okay, the most important thing is heavy machine guns, this weapon is far more lethal than artillery for cavalry, high efficiency, large killing range, even if the thunderbolt produced by the Ming Dynasty is far inferior to heavy machine guns.

And those artillery and heavy machine guns are so powerful against fast-moving cavalry, and for slower-moving infantry, it is simply daring to think down. Besides, he also saw that the Mongol cavalry with shields died worse than the soldiers without shields.

Lu Xiangsheng will also think differently, if any general has such a strong strength, then he has to consider the serious problem of "social discipline".

Compared with the Ming Dynasty, the advantages of Quan Xu are too great, the local governments of the Ming Dynasty are like tigers and wolves among the people, as long as the people look at the officials, or the people wearing official skins, it is definitely going around.

However, under Quan Xu's rule, it is different, even ordinary people can give advice to the government, and if the opinions are reasonable, what needs to be corrected needs to be corrected, and the officials mingle with the people. The problem is that if there is any disturbance in the local area, the government will quickly know about it and respond quickly.

The second is that when Quan Xu was in Liaodong, he was supported by the people, he was not like other rebels, the soldiers relied on catching, Quan Xu's army was willing to join the army, and the loyalty was extremely high, whether it was the Wenchen group of the Ming Dynasty, or Jiannu, the whole family army carried out too many infiltrations and purchases, and I didn't hear of any family army general who would betray Quan Xu.

Once Quan Xu is really reversed, who in this world can still govern him?

Lu Xiangsheng looked at Xu Biao and said, "General Xu......"

"Master Lu, what are you talking about, isn't this a slap in the face?"

Xu Biao shrugged and said, "What kind of general am I!"

He pointed to the two-bar three-star on his body and said with a smile: "I am awarded the rank of colonel within the whole family army, this colonel is equivalent to the rank of general of our Ming Dynasty, of course, there are more people in charge than generals, and it is about the same as the general soldier, but I, the colonel, am only a school officer, and I have been awarded the rank of major general, so I can be called a general, you still call me a biaozi as before!" ”

"Colonel Xu!"

Lu Xiangsheng didn't dwell on this question, he then asked: "Now that Jiannu has retreated, what are you going to do tomorrow?" ”

"The order I received this time is to escort Luan to Hetao, Huaiyuan Town!" Xu Biao pointed to Huaiyuan Town and said: "Lord Lu, please rest assured, Huaiyuan Town is the location of the division headquarters of the Sixth Division, with convenient transportation and strong cities, although Huaiyuan Town is called a town, in fact, there are more than 300,000 people, even if the soldiers of Jiannu come to attack, they will not be able to defeat Huaiyuan Town!" ”

Xu Biao said this: "Let's go to Huaiyuan Town together, there is the best hospital in the northwest region, all the wounded here will be treated, Your Majesty is also frightened all the way, it's time to rest!" ”

Lu Xiangsheng frowned: "Why don't you escort Your Majesty back to Beijing directly?" ”

Xu Biao smiled awkwardly and said: "Lord Lu doesn't know, this Northern Expedition is actually a scam, Your Majesty's Northern Expedition army is out of the customs, those who have already discussed betraying the country, with the news of the defeat of the Northern Expeditionary Army, the banners of the Qing army have been hung up in various places." In addition to Shuntianfu, all the other provinces in Beizhili have surrendered to the Qing State, most of Shanxi and Shaanxi, and we have no way back to the capital at all! ”

Lu Xiangsheng's face was even more gloomy, he knew that Xu Biao didn't need to lie to himself.

In fact, as early as when Chongzhen led the Northern Expedition of the Ming Dynasty to the north with great fanfare, the undercurrent began to roll within the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming civil official group was worried that Quanxu would destroy the Confucian Taoist system, and they would rather destroy this country.

It's a pity that Emperor Chongzhen was already obsessed with ghosts at that time, and he didn't believe in Lu Xiangsheng at all.

In fact, when the Northern Expeditionary Army had not yet contacted the Qing Army, the news of the defeat of the Ming Dynasty had begun to spread, and the news was very outrageous.

Especially after the defeat of the Ming army, the sporadic "rout" returned to Beizhili in an unusually embarrassed manner, and some terrifying rumors quickly spread: "There is such a fiasco, not because the Ming army can't fight, but because the Ming army has exhausted!" ”

At first, these rumors began to flow from the mouths of some gods who liked to pretend to be gods, but they soon spread throughout the capital, spreading to the whole country at an alarming speed, setting off monstrous waves everywhere they went.

Officials, Qingliu, and gentlemen jumped out one after another to add fuel to the fire, raising their pens and waving their pens, laughing and scolding all into articles.

Why did Daming suffer this catastrophe? It's all because Chongzhen is a villain, Yuan Xianchen, who is the villain? It's Quan Xu, Chongzhen trusts Quan Xu, a misguided minister, and denounces the righteous men and gentlemen in the court, and can't listen to the advice of the contrary!

Quan Xu put the cart before the horse, prospered the cheap industry, farmed far away, reused the evil villain, abused the gentlemen, was obsessed with strange tricks and tricks, and despised moral articles, which was thousands of times worse than Wei Zhongxian and Liu Jin, and he had exhausted the qi of the Ming Dynasty in just a few years, such a person was really guilty and deserved death! Only by making up our minds and putting things right can the people of the Ming Dynasty see the light of day again!

I have to say that the influence of these officials, Qingliu, and gentry in the Ming Dynasty is indeed terrifying, reversing right and wrong, the pen is as sharp as a knife, and every sentence is heart-wrenching, which has stirred up the situation to the extreme.

The common people can't believe that a pillar of the empire has become a traitor to the country? However, now that most of the elite divisions of the Ming Dynasty have been lost, and the Qing army may enter the customs at any time, many people are panicked and listen to these nonsense.

The border military operations in Shanxi, Shaanxi, and Beizhili provinces controlled by civilian officials responded to their call, and in the face of the rolling Mongol and Manchu iron cavalry, they gave way to the defense line, and even simply shaved their hair and aimed their butcher knives at the Tianxiong army who held the nine-border defense line.

The Nine Frontier Defense Line, which the Tianxiong Army had painstakingly operated for several years, was torn open a huge gap, and the barbaric torrent that had been suppressed by them outside the fortress surged in, and Shanxi, Shaanxi, and Beizhili were all full of beacon fires and rivers of blood.

Trying to repel the invading enemy forces in the field, the Tianxiong army was plotted by friendly forces and suffered heavy losses, and they could only retreat to their fortified fortresses, desperately watching the Mongols bypass their lines and pour in frantically through the gap......

With the Weite and Khalkha Mongol cavalry as the front trend, they saw that the Ming army did not resist at all, and everywhere they passed, there were undefended cities everywhere, and they robbed women when they saw them, and they also robbed food and treasures, and there were too many things to rob, and they burned them if they couldn't take them away.

For a time, Shanxi, Beizhili, and Shaanxi were full of beacon fires, and there were homeless people and people everywhere, and these people were not stupid, they saw the Mongolian and Manchu railways going south, so they hid in the deep mountains and old forests, and then began to flee in the direction of Rehe.

After Quan Xu went north from Jinzhou, he did not go directly to Beizhen Mansion, because he knew very well that Beizhen Mansion had gathered more than 100,000 merchant troops from three main divisions, which was more than enough to deal with the old, weak, sick and disabled of the Qing State.

So, Quan Xu took the pro-guard army, the student army, and the first division to join the Qiao Mengen division of the ninth division, and began to move west and south along the Rehe River.

In the territory of Rehe, Quan Xu asked the merchant soldiers to set up countless resettlement sites for displaced people, large and small, and transferred the resettlement of ordinary people to the Shang officials and militia in the rear.

With the first division in the north, the ninth division in the south, the guards in the middle, and the students in the rear, the merchant army slaughtered towards Zhangjiakou, and before they arrived at Zhangjiakou, they saw that a tragic massacre was being staged on the grassland.

At least hundreds of Manchu cavalry drove tens of thousands of Ming civilians who dragged their families and mouths, and they relied on arrows to shoot unarmed people from time to time, just like they did when they were hunting.

Quan Xu felt that his blood was about to erupt like a volcano: "Order, not a single one will be left!" ”

Li Yanqing, as the commander of the pro-guard brigade, did not need to charge personally, but at this moment he couldn't help it anymore.

"Kill all the mincks!"