Question: Why did the general fight?

Answer: The current official position of the last general is named Viscount Lishui, General Zhonglang of the Lanxian Garrison, General Wude, and the commander of Gong Changwei, who received 168 stones, and strived to work hard again, and go up a step before he died in battle, and be able to seal the earldom, which would be excellent.

I fell asleep at two o'clock in the middle of the night.

Five more hammer drums!

The sound of war drums woke Zhu Di up again.

"It feels like I didn't sleep!"

Zhu Di wailed, his face was not washed, and he walked out of the king's tent in his battle armor.

When he came outside, the soldiers outside were already eating neatly by the fire, and for him, who never ate breakfast, he felt a little hungry when he saw this scene.

With a long yawn, Zhu Di saw that Wu Yan had already walked towards him, accompanied by Ning Zheng and Sun De.

"Your Highness!" The three of them said at the same time.

"Good morning!" Zhu Di said with a daze.

"Good morning?" Wu Yanhu asked suspiciously.

"Ahem...... Aha! Zhu Di scratched his head, but forgot that there was no good morning and good night, and changed his words: "Good morning!" ”

"Good morning, Your Highness!" The three of them looked at each other and smiled, the word was new, and it was used to receive new things.

But those who should come still have to come, and those who should go have to go, Wu Yan quickly said: "I will go north immediately, come and bid farewell to His Highness, or the same sentence, wait for my triumphant return, and then have a drink with His Highness!" ”

"Come on, serve the wine!" Zhu Di laughed loudly and ordered someone to bring up the barley wine.

Wine is not good wine, but this wine is not wine, it is love.

"I wish the three generals a victory, success, and a successful return!"

"I wish the Ming Dynasty to expand its territory, threaten the north, and pacify the north as soon as possible!"

A toast is worth a thousand words.

Wu Yan took the wine bowl and laughed loudly: "Then I also wish His Highness a strong army, train the new army, rise to the north, and carry the banner of the Northern Expedition as soon as possible." ”

Ning Zheng laughed and added, "Destroy this bastard of Beiyuan early!" ”

Sun De smiled: "My grandson is still waiting to go home and his wife and children will be hot on the kang!" ”

"!" Zhu Di took a sip of it, although it was less than 30 degrees of wine, but he still felt warm when he drank it, and his stomach hurt.

Just a moment of small talk.

The drumming gradually stopped.

Pull out the camp at the end of the day.

The three armies converged, and the cavalry marched forward in front, left and right, and rear, and the foot soldiers were in the middle, leaving from the north gate of the military town, and before dawn, they slowly disappeared between the mountains and rivers.

Zhu Di rode a war horse and stared at the soldiers and horses that disappeared between the mountains and rivers for a long time, and a burst of discomfort emerged inexplicably.

If you don't have to fight, you don't want to fight again.

Of these 15,000 people, nearly 30 percent of the soldiers have been away from home for more than seven years and have never returned home.

Nearly half of the soldiers have been away from home for more than five years.

The first Northern Expedition was 150,000 people, and the second Northern Expedition was 300,000 people, and many southern soldiers have become out-and-out northerners.

Among them, there were very few companions back then!

Grape wine luminous glass, want to drink pipa immediately urge.

Drunk and lying on the battlefield, how many people came back to fight in ancient times?

Zhu Di does not have so many gorgeous rhetoric in his memory to sigh, only borrowing from the past to sing the present.

Draw on a few poems of the Qin Emperor and the Han Dynasty, slightly lose the literary style, the Tang Dynasty and Song Ancestors, slightly inferior to the coquettish, a generation of Tianjiao, Genghis Khan, only know how to bend the bow and shoot the eagle. In the past, several romantic figures, and the present dynasty to express his mood standing in front of the north gate of the palace military town at this time.

There is a high probability that the Tang Dynasty and the Song Dynasty seem to have exhausted the poetry of the Chinese literary world, and he can't rely on 300 Tang poems and 300 Song poems to be remembered through the ages.

And more probability, he will not waste half his life like the famous poets who have been passed down through the ages.

"Guo Ying, give the king a drum, and order Lanzhou Wei and Zhenyuan to advance the guard, starting from today, Mao Zheng will beat the drum, start training at sunrise, and stop at sunset!"

Zhu Di stood at the north gate and stared at the gray darkness in the distance.

Whether it's his momentary mood is heavy and impulsive, or it's some kind of emotion.

Zhu Di didn't dare to slack off for half a point.

"The last general commands!"

Guo Ying smiled, let out a loud sigh, turned over and jumped on the horse, and galloped through the military town.

Tom tom!

A dull sound of war drums began to resound in the gray cold wind.

The two cavalry rushed towards Zhenyuan Qianwei and Lanzhou Wei like sparks and meteors.

Soon.

Lan County was smashed into a bright light by the dull sound of war drums.

"Whew!"

County Lieutenant Liu Jiang was still sleeping with his wife in his arms, looking up in annoyance and listening to a particularly harsh drum outside, he wailed, covered his head and prepared to continue sleeping.

"Crazy!"

Ma Chen, the county seat, turned over and roared angrily in the main house, this is a square drum, not a war drum, mainly used to improve morale, the morning bell and the dusk drum.

Nothing else, but the sound is very loud and extremely penetrating.

"Lady, how was last night?"

"Seven sheep cubs, I can already go, the two amniotic water is about to break, it is estimated that it is also soon, the rice is in the pot, I went to sleep, you who are in charge continue to watch,

I don't know what I'm doing early in the morning, it's been ringing for more than half an hour, and it's ringing once on the fifth watch, and now it's starting to ring again! ”

As she spoke, the woman wrapped in a thick futon entered the house and climbed on the hot kang and fell asleep.

The man continued to stare at the sheepfold.

The morning in the north is almost exactly the same, and nothing has changed much.

The shepherds in the city began to drive the sheep out of the city to graze the sheep, accompanied by a few sheepdogs, and some began to feed the cattle and the chickens.

The only change.

I'm going to kill a pig today.

This is the happiest time of the year for the people except for the autumn harvest.

Tomorrow is the twenty-fourth day of the lunar month, the northern year, and today all the pigs in Lan County will be killed, and everyone in every household can eat a little pig meat.

Since pigs have become official breeding, whether they raise pigs or kill pigs, they are no longer a single-family breeding work.

The young adults, women, and children of the entire Lan County will be dispatched to kill the pigs together.

Early in the morning, dozens of puffs of black smoke rose from the Yellow River outside Lanxian County, and the black smoke was billowing out, which was boiling water to scald pig hair.

Pig killing is a very deep knowledge, and this pig killer is also subordinate to the Lanxian county government official system, and must be slaughtered by this person named Tu Pig, and it is illegal for others to kill pigs.

And this slaughter pig also has a benefit that is not welfare, you must take away the pig's tail and a piece of meat from the pig's butt, which is the most unclean place on the pig's body, and it is a taboo that allows killing Zhu.

The pig-killing knife has endured the vicissitudes of time for a long time, black and red.

After slaughtering the pig, there is also a person with special lung strength to blow the pig, which can be said to be a project that can be won by no one in the Guinness Book of World Records.

Although there is no such term as the principle of the lever in physics, nor is there such an exaggeration as Archimedes' rhetoric that 'give me a fulcrum and I can pry up the whole earth'.

However, in the Warring States Period, the lever has been profoundly expounded in the "Mozi Sutra Says": "Balance, heavier on its side, must be beaten, and the weight is similar." Balanced, the short standard is long. If the two additions are similar, the bid must be lowered, and the bid will be right'.

The principle of lever has now been applied to every corner, two or three hundred pounds of pigs were dropped by the horizontal bar of the bracket, and a group of people used straw ropes to pull one end of the unequal arm, and pulled two or three hundred pounds of pigs to roll in the hot water.

There is also a head of snorting meat in the back that is tied up and waiting to be concocted in the same way.

Zhu Di, who was far away, saw the unprecedentedly large pig killing team, and did not step forward to disturb.

Today he also has a mission.

And the task is unprecedentedly difficult and enormous.

For this.

He prepared two stone sheep, twelve jars of barley wine, thirty stone rice, three denier noodles, and three hundred taels of silver.

Especially the first flour, the flour that comes out of the wheat grain after the stone mill is the best and whitest, and the first flour can produce three deniers for thirty deniers, and the rest is wheat bran, and the flour that wheat bran is rolled out twice is two noodles, which is slightly worse.

In the end, there was no flour to grind, and wheat bran, that is, wheat husks, was left, which was pig food, a very hungry and unnutritious meal.

Such a valuable gift will naturally not be given to the county government of Lanxian County.

Far away.

Sixty black chimneys are erected on both sides of the north side of Zhenyuan Bridge, not far from the iron pillars of Zhenhe.

This is the Shaanxi Smelting Division.

Don't look at this heavy factory in Nanjing, which is 3,200 miles away in a straight line, and more than 4,000 miles in a winding and winding way.

However, they are directly under the Ordnance Bureau of the Ministry of Industry, which is under the direct management of the six sections of the Ministry of Industry, and is not subject to local control.

First, to build a weapon, there must be a document issued by the Ministry of War.

Second, to build agricultural tools, the local county government will write to the political secretary, and the political secretary will negotiate with the Ordnance Bureau, and the Ordnance Bureau will issue the smelting department to build agricultural tools.

Third, without the third, the iron eggs of the military cannon are produced here, but the gunpowder production is more strictly and cautiously controlled, there is only one in the whole Shaanxi, in the Xi'an Gunpowder Manufacturing Institute, where iron eggs are produced, and then transported to Xi'an, and then filled with gunpowder, sent to the health office.

Strictly control the process to prevent the leakage of the gunpowder production formula.

All right!

One sulfur, two nitrate, three charcoal!

This Zhu Di knows!

But in view of such a dangerous profession, it is better to leave it to the specialists.

Especially.

In this era of decades of war, soldiers are not afraid of death, killing ten people can rush to the gunner's camp, and a small area of firearms is not armed, that is a joke.

Ordinary archers have a range of 60 to 100 steps, 80 to 12 steps, and riding and archery is the basic skill.

The firebolt has a kill range of 30 to 50 paces.

The range of the general artillery was within six miles.

The greatest effect of military artillery on cavalry is not lethality, but deterrence.

For the time being, it is more advantageous to develop cavalry than to develop military artillery.

Of course.

He knows that the development of history has entered the city, and it is impossible for him to let this kind of thing that is ahead of the times be annihilated.

Often, things that meet the needs of the times can get unprecedented space for development.

Now the whole Ming Dynasty is arming cavalry, manufacturing swords, soldiers, bows and arrows, without the support of national policies, no specialized people to study, who can engage in the era of firearms.

Now the Ming Dynasty is only in the first stage of gunpowder firearms, in the process of burning, exploding, firing, and propulsion, which is not an overnight thing.

Everything is guided by the needs of war.