"You know the clever Wuhou Zhuge Liang!"

"Yes." The story of the Three Kingdoms had spread all over the country at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and Nurhachi even sent "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" as a military textbook to his clansmen to read, so Liu Hongsheng naturally knew.

"Even if he has no last resort, he still goes out of Qishan and does not win, why not? In addition to the force of the army and the troubles of the terrain, the lack of military food is also a major reason, and he was forced to invent the wooden oxen and flowing horses, which only relieved part of the transportation pressure.

It takes more than a month to transport a truckload of grain from the rear to the front line, and a large number of soldiers have to be sent to protect it, and it costs a lot of manpower to store power.

My Ming Dynasty's northern expedition to Mongolia and Jianyu also had the same problem. ”

Liu Hongsheng looked at Zhang Huangyan with admiration, this general who was a few years younger than himself, and his vision, insight and way of thinking were several orders of magnitude higher than his own.

is really worthy of being a general personally promoted by the emperor!

Zhang Huangyan said unhurriedly: "But the cavalry of the Mongols and Jianlu is much better, their steppe does not grow grain, but raises enough cattle and sheep, before the march, they will slaughter a considerable number of cattle and sheep, and then start to dry them."

200 catties of meat can be air-dried to twenty or thirty catties, stuffed into the bladder of cattle and carried around. Between the big wars, you only need to drink a little water and eat a few slices, and a meal is completed, which is not only simple and convenient, but more importantly, these jerky can be eaten for a month.

So, they can do it for thousands of miles! ”

After the call, Liu Hongsheng was stunned for a moment, obviously, Zhang Huangyan had made sufficient preparations before the expedition.

"The general wants to study this dried meat practice on a humble basis?"

"It's promotion! You and Jiao Yuchang do this together! ”

"Humble duty understands!"

What Zhang Huangyan didn't expect was that his small arrangement directly laid an important foundation for the Ming cavalry to move to the Eurasian continent in the near future.

After a stick of incense, the Fulong team cleaned up the battlefield, distributed weapons, armor, and horses, and began to bury the pot and cook.

Zhang Huangyan looked at the braided head hanging on the periphery of the mountains and forests, and sighed lightly, "I hope that after Pingliao, there will be no more conquests for the northern tribes!" ”

"General, let's eat!" Seeing Zhang Huangyan stunned, the soldier beckoned.

"Don't worry, I'm indispensable for eating!" Zhang Huangyan retracted his gaze and said to the soldiers, "Hurry up and fill your stomach, we are running out of ammunition, for the sake of caution, return south to Lushun immediately after eating!" ”

"General, we can fight again!" The soldiers shouted.

"No need. This expedition, the purpose has been achieved, there is no need to continue the adventure! We have more important things to do! ”

……

On the stone mountain, Ban Zhifu looked at the stumps and broken arms one after another, and his face was distorted.

"Master, the minions have counted, and there are only 137 corpses of Ming dogs on the entire mountain and battlefield......"

"Just these 137 people, fooling us all night? And in the end took more than 500 of us? ”

The captives did not dare to speak, and stood aside in fear.

"Tell me, where are the other 400 Domingo? Wings flew? Ban Zhifu gritted his teeth, and every word seemed to be squeezed out between his teeth.

The other captives also had ugly faces.

The Ming army killed nearly 4,000 of them, and even disappeared from the encirclement of 9,000 people.

This is not only a shame for the manager, but also a shame for every captive.

When did the army of the Ming Kingdom become so powerful!

Da Da Da ......

In the distance, a scout horse galloped back and dismounted.

"Master...... 180 miles north of here, there are 200 people from Li Junbu...... All killed! ”

Ban Zhifu almost fell down when he heard this, shook it a few times, sat on the ground with his buttocks, and asked weakly:

"Can you see the traces of the Ming army?"

"Judging from the horseshoe prints, the Ming army has returned south and has already left Gaizhou."

After a long while, he said sharply: "Tell everyone, if you want to live, do as I say!" ”

An hour later, the Jianyu soldiers began to return to the division with thousands of heads and horses.

Ban Zhifu's battle report was also written:

Li Jun rebelled, led 3,000 people to surrender to the Ming State, and attacked the main force of the Qing Dynasty. Ban Zhifu was not alarmed, responded calmly, and annihilated Li Jun's entire army and 137 Ming troops with only 600 people, and successfully drove the Ming army out of Gaizhou! Saved thousands of hectares of fertile land in Gaizhou! ”

……

Capital.

Chongzhen received a message from the Liaodong Peninsula, which was sent back by the Jianlong Army.

Both Lushun and Jinzhou were successfully taken, the farmland in Fuzhou was destroyed by Zhang Huangyan, and Zheng Sen also sank the grain ship that was built and captured.

Chongzhen knew that with a big victory on the Liaodong Peninsula, there would be much less resistance to attacking this winter. At least, the captives in southern Liaoning will be pinned down by Zhang Huangyan, and it will be impossible to return to Shengjing.

Chongzhen was very satisfied with seeing the dragon army. For example, the battle situation between Zhang Huangyan and Zheng Sen didn't even know about Lushun, but it had already appeared on his desk, and he said in his heart: "Wen Xuan's work is becoming more and more neat, it seems that the matter of going south to make money can begin." ”

Chongzhen glanced at Wen Xuan and said, "You go and pick 15 capable people, in the near future, I am ready to earn some money in Nanjing!" ”

Wen Xuan was stunned when he heard this, he didn't know what Chongzhen meant, but he didn't ask much, and bowed down to receive the order.

After Wen Xuan left, Tian Shouxin came in to tell him that the Portuguese envoy had arrived.

"Xuan!"

At this time, the Portuguese envoy Giorges, accompanied by John Tong, stood anxiously and excitedly outside the noon gate and waited.

He looked at the 12-meter-high city platform in front of him, looked around at the high walls and palaces connected to it on the east and west sides, and his heart was shocked.

Seeing his expression, Tang Ruowang said with a smile: "Dear Your Excellency Giorges, this majestic building is just the gate of the Chinese Imperial Palace. Inside, there are even more magnificent buildings! ”

"Oh my God!" Georgs drew a cross.

He wanted to rush through the gate right away, because there was something that all the Western countries wanted.

That thing is the right to trade.

In fact, as early as the twelfth year of Zhengde, the first batch of Portuguese missions had arrived in Guangdong, and the Guangdong officials received them according to the tributary etiquette, and at the same time reported to the imperial court.

But Kyoshi was not interested. It was only to buy the goods carried by the Portuguese mission at a price, and at the same time explicitly refused to allow the Portuguese envoys to go north to Beijing.

A year later, the unrelenting Portuguese envoy bribed the Portuguese envoy to get the opportunity to enter Beijing. However, at this time, Emperor Zhengde was touring the south and was stationed in Nanjing. After the Portuguese delegation arrived in Nanjing, it was not summoned by the Ming Emperor, so it could only continue to go north and wait for the opportunity to meet in the capital.

As a result, Emperor Zhengde fell ill after returning to the capital and soon died. Emperor Jiajing, who succeeded to the throne, immediately ordered the expulsion of the Portuguese mission, and the first Portuguese mission to China ended in failure.

After that, whether it was the Netherlands, Spain or Portugal, there was no chance to meet the Ming Emperor, let alone get a trade opportunity.

This time, Emperor Chongzhen personally instructed Father Tang to contact him, and Giorges had this opportunity, he would become the first envoy in the West to meet the Ming Emperor for trade!

Giorges knew that he would become the great diplomat of the West.