Chapter 369

Huang Taiji also fantasizes about becoming the founding emperor of the Qing Dynasty and replacing the Ming Dynasty to build an unprecedentedly powerful empire, as long as Lu Xiangsheng is dead, Cheng Shijie can be wooed, even if it can't be wooed, then the country will be able to crusade with all his strength, as long as Cheng Shijie dies, Lu Xiangsheng and Cheng Shijie go, who else can stop my rolling iron horse of the Qing Dynasty!

Huang Taiji was slightly surprised that although the battlefield was chaotic and the people were panicked, the Ming army did not leak as before this time, on the contrary, they desperately organized resistance in the roar of their respective generals, and the Guanning Army was under the leadership of Zu Dabi, and the Guanning Army Zu Dashou and Wu Xiang fought together, although they only occupied one-third of the military strength of the Guanning Army, but they killed Wu Sangui, Wu Xiang and Zu Dashou, Zu Dacheng and others helpless.

Even the Beijing camp, which usually acts as the mascot of the Ming Dynasty, actually radiated a rare combat effectiveness at this time, the Sichuan army, the trilateral army, the Tianxiong army, and even the squad troops of Shandong and Henan are fighting desperately, fighting one after another, bearing the impact of the Manchurian iron flag with flesh and blood, and killing the corpses and bones!

But this is also reasonable, since the second year of Chongzhen's breach of the war, the Ming Empire is lying on the salary, while investing huge resources to train the new army, it is also in the north of Zhili several troops that can still fight to select the elite, learn the model of the new army for training, a few years have also seen results, now in front of him is the entire Ming Dynasty after more than half of the battle, if you can easily eat them, it is not normal.

Huang Taiji was also a little depressed, he originally wanted to collapse the Ming army in one go, but he didn't expect the Ming army to be so tenacious, he just held on, it seems that it is impossible to eat these hundreds of thousands of troops in a short time. He sighed and said, "Stop the attack, let the blizzard and hunger wipe out the Ming army for us!" ”

Until now, the Qing army has actually been a little unable to fight, because the battle of Baliwan, the battle of Haizhou, and the battle of Liaoyang, the casualties of Jiannu are too terrifying, and as a result, although the supplementary troops have filled the establishment of the Eight Banners, and there are more than before. At present, the Manchu Eight Banners Niulu relies on two yellow flags the most, of which the Zhenghuang Banner has a total of 60 Niulu, which is composed of 12 Jiala, and the Zhenghuang Banner alone is four times more than the Zhenglan Banner, which had the smallest number of people at that time.

There are also 58 cattle records in the yellow flag, even if the number of people in the Zhenglan flag is the smallest now, there are also five jiala, a total of 28 cattle records, and the two red flag cattle records as many as 98 Zhu records, the two blue flags also have 63 cattle records, and the two white flags are as many as 93 cattle records, a total of 372 cattle records plus, 22 and a half points of cattle records.

In addition, there are 227 Niu Lu of Mongolia, plus 177 Niu Lu of the Han Army Banner, in fact, the current Huang Taiji can be more than the people and horses in history, in history, before Jiannu entered the customs, there were only 307 Niu Lu plus 18 and a half Niu Lu, Mongolian and Mongolian Eight Banners for 117 Niu Lu and 5 and a half Niu Lu, and the Eight Banners of the Han Army for 157 Niu Lu and 5 and a half Niu Lu.

The increase in the number of troops means a decrease in elite soldiers, especially the veterans of a hundred battles who have fought for many years, in all fairness, under the same number, the current combat effectiveness of the Jiannu Eight Banners is indeed inferior to Chongzhen four years ago, after all, Cheng Shijie has not bled Jiannu in recent years.

The Jiannu cavalry and the Mongolian cavalry, especially the Han military banner, are like amnesty, after all, the Jiannu war, has always liked to use them, the cannon fodder of the Mongolian or Han military flags, to the present, they have suffered nearly 10,000 casualties, almost more than seventy and a half, all of which are borne by the Mongolian and Han military banners, and they simply can't hold on.

The call to collect troops was quickly sounded, and the Qing army retreated like a retreat.

The Ming army stood in the middle of the pile of corpses with a pair of blood-red eyes, and gasped violently, only to find that the Qing army had retreated after a while, and couldn't help but burst into cheers! The first wave of attacks, they blocked!

They cheered a little early, and worse calamities were yet to come.

Waiting for Lu Xiangsheng to lead the intercepted rout, he quickly reorganized the rout and killed all the way to the north, and Lu Xiangsheng cut down hundreds of people along the way, including 32 generals, 6 deputy commanders, 40 guerrilla soldiers, and a group of low-level officials.

Lu Xiangsheng found that these officers of the Northern Expeditionary Army of the Ming Army, the older the officer, the more afraid of death, but the guerrilla generals below the general and the general general, heard that Lu Xiangsheng was going to take them back to kill, they didn't say a word.

In a hurry, Lu Xiangsheng had no choice but to reorganize these defeated troops into the Tianxiong Army, temporarily under the management of the Tianxiong Army, and adopt the establishment of the Tianxiong Army. The establishment of the Tianxiong Army is unique in the Ming Dynasty, and even Cheng Shijie does not want to form a phenomenon of clan forces in the army.

However, the Tianxiong Army is just the opposite, his troop establishment is like the local army of the Ning Navy, with four levels of small flag, general flag, hundred general, and thousand general as the basic establishment, of which each small flag has twelve people, and one general flag has four to eight small flags. A hundred general has several or more than a dozen general flags, and a thousand general has jurisdiction over all the hundred general flags of each county. Since then, the Tianxiong Army has not actually had a fixed establishment. Some of them have three or four thousand people under their jurisdiction, and the most is as many as five thousand.

Some of them have hundreds of people under their jurisdiction, and some of them have more people under their jurisdiction, which is more than that. If there are more than 1,000 generals, it is a battalion, but it is regarded as a prefecture, in which all the soldiers in a prefecture belong to a battalion.

Originally, the Tianxiong Army had only three battalions, but now through this temporary formation, it has increased to eleven battalions, with a total strength of nearly 40,000.

The further north, the more chaotic, completely chaotic, the fire of the material transit base set on fire by the Qing army has not yet been extinguished, and countless precious materials have turned into black pillars of smoke and towers on the grassland, which is magnificent. From time to time, a terrifying explosion roared from the center of these black pillars of smoke, and the pillars of smoke lit up and then turned into darkness again.

Some Ming soldiers and civilians were risking the risk of being killed by explosives and shells and frantically rushing into the flames, snatching out the materials that had not yet been burned, even if it was a bundle of grass or a piece of clothing.

And more of the Ming army looked sluggish, holding their weapons and shivering in the cold wind, if it weren't for the rolling of their eyes, they would show a trace of fear when they saw the corpses all over the ground, and it was easy to think of them as dead.

Some officers are shouting fiercely, let those Ming soldiers who are sleepwalking in a state of action, the cold on the grassland can drive people crazy, hurry up to dig the ground before the night comes, but few people follow their orders, and the discerning people can see that they have fallen into the trap carefully prepared for them by the Qing army, tens of thousands of Qing troops are eyeing each other, the Guanning army has rebelled, even if they grow wings, they can't escape back, let alone fly over Wancong Guan Mountain back to the pass, what's the use of digging the ground? It's just a long way to go!

Seeing Lu Xiangsheng leading a team of elite infantry cavalry galloping over, a flash of light flashed in the eyes of those panicked Ming soldiers, and they all gathered around and screamed.

"Master Hou, you're here!"

"Master Hou, it's great that you're here!"

"Master Hou, what's going on in the back?"

"Master Hou, what should we do now?"

The arrival of Lu Xiangsheng gave hope to the soldiers of the Ming army, and the originally lifeless Ming became a little angry.

Lu Jiaosheng looked at the soldiers and men of the Ming army and said, "I have seen it all, you are all good." ”

Being praised by Lu Xiangsheng like this, these Ming soldiers, who were originally depressed, couldn't help but straighten their chests. A staff general with an arrow in the shoulder grinned: "Master Hou, it's not me Chen Yongfu bragging, if it weren't for the dog-day Guan Ning army eating inside and out, Jiannu wouldn't be able to help us at all!" The Guan Ning Army of the dog day, a group of wolf-hearted and dog-lung things, as long as we have one person who can return to the Guannai alive, we must not let them go! ”、

Lu Xiangsheng patted Chen Yongfu on the shoulder and said, "Okay, don't say anything superfluous, straighten out your troops, treat the wounded, collect grain and forage, and prepare for a breakthrough, I will take you home." ”

When the Ming soldiers at the scene heard the word "go home", the Ming army's eyes lit up again, and they asked cautiously: "...... Can I go back? ”

Lu Xiangsheng said: "It must be possible." Cheer me up! Especially you officers and generals, how do you lead the troops? Fortunately, you are not my subordinates, otherwise the boss's military stick would have been beaten one by one! Cheer me up and be prepared, if anyone drags on when he receives an order, don't blame Lu's knife for not recognizing people! ”

"Where's your commander?"

"I don't know!"

Chen Yongfu sighed helplessly and said: "After the fight started, I haven't seen him, even his three hundred Ding soldiers are gone!" ”、

"Your name, Chen Yongfu!"

"Yes, the last general Chen Yongfu, a native of Luoyang, Henan!"

"Okay, Ben Hou will be promoted to the general army, responsible for the reorganization of the Ming army and the people here, Luoyang will give you the number, Luoyang battalion, give you two hours, can you complete the task!"

"Guaranteed to complete the mission!"

Even Chen Yongfu didn't know, because he was in history, Chongzhen was promoted to deputy general in the fourteenth year, and later because Li Zicheng attacked and opened the seal, Chen Yongfu led his troops to rescue Luoyang, and in this time and space, he was five years ahead of schedule and became the chief soldier.

After getting Lu Xiangsheng's promise, all the soldiers burst into laughter, the officers threw away the leather whip and stick, picked up the shovel and dug on the ground, and helped the wounded soldiers dig the ground, and the gloomy eyes of those soldiers who were depressed also lit up with a bright light of hope.

Go home!

Fight your way out of the encirclement and escape from this icy purgatory and return home!

There are no grandiose words, no family and country feelings, the greatest wish of the soldiers of the Ming army is as simple as that, they just want to go home!

There are two ways to go home, one is to fight nine deaths to fight your way out of the encirclement, step on the bones of the enemy and sing triumphantly, and the other is to surrender to the enemy like the Guanning army, and then lead the Qing army into the customs for the alien eagle dogs.

The latter is significantly less risky and more rewarding, but no one will choose it, and in the hearts of these ordinary Ming soldiers, there are two things that are more important than life.

Chinese are afraid of only two things, what they do is sorry for their ancestors, and what they do makes their ancestors happy. This is something imprinted in the bones, and it becomes the backbone.

What is an ancestor? It is a model for future generations of a family. Since ancient times, in the minds of the Chinese, what kind of ancestor should have what kind of offspring, the descendants can only do better than the ancestors, not worse than the ancestors, even if they can't do better than the ancestors, that can't smear the ancestors' face, otherwise they can't enter the ancestral grave even if they die.

Descendants will not be able to raise their heads for such an ancestor, don't you see that because of the Changping World War that hundreds of thousands of Zhao soldiers were buried, the Zhao Kuoju clan was ashamed of the surname Zhao and changed their surnames to Ma?

What is backbone? The beggar refuses to accept the food that the rich throw on the ground like a dog and starves to death, this is the backbone! During the famine, someone stole a load of grain from a neighboring village, and after the incident, the clan elders beat him to death in public, and then compensated the neighboring village tenfold for the loss, and finally almost all the two or three hundred people in the entire clan starved to death, this is the backbone!

The price of backbone is very high, and the price of making people praise "backbone" is often to pay for their own life, or even the life of the entire family, but if a person, a country, or even a family has no backbone, okay?

The soldiers of the Ming army didn't know any big truths, they only knew that the court had treated them well over the years, let them eat well, dress warmly, and exempt their family taxes a lot, so they should repay them with death.

Of course, they didn't know that the food he ate, the clothes he wore, and the military salary he got were all given by Cheng Shijie to Emperor Chongzhen. Emperor Chongzhen did not spend the money on himself, nor did he reward the nobles around him, but distributed it to the army.

On the contrary, it made the Ming army more centered, surrendered to foreign races, and exchanged the emperor's life for hundreds of thousands of robes and compatriots for glory and rich bones, that is called shamelessness, that is called spinelessness, even if he really becomes a big official, he has no face to go home, and he has no face to enter the ancestral grave!

At the foot of Sanshen Mountain, the Ming army made a large camp for the Northern Expedition.

With the passage of time, what makes God bless Daming is that this rare wind and snow has stopped, and the temperature has begun to rise, although it is still very cold, but it is no longer to freeze to death, the biggest problem faced by the Northern Expedition camp is that they lack food, although it is said that the Jiannu and Guanning army have dropped thousands of war horses, but the problem is that this is a hundred thousand troops and tens of thousands of people, small 200,000 people.

Thousands of war horses are not enough to stuff your teeth. At this time, Emperor Chongzhen was also frightened, and had nightmares every day, dreaming that Jiannu would enter the camp and cut his flesh with a knife.

At this time, Emperor Chongzhen had already put down his so-called face and decided to bow to Cheng Shijie, and he said to the eunuch Wang Chengen beside him: "Wang Companion, you go to Liaodong, please ask Cheng Shijie to come to the rescue!" ”

"This place is not less than three thousand miles away from Liaodong......"

Emperor Chongzhen said: "Gao Banban once said that the Ning Navy is an invincible flying army, and other armies can travel 50 miles a day is the limit, and the Ning Navy can travel 100 miles a day, and their cavalry can travel more than 300 miles a day, and it only takes ten days!" ”

Wang Chengen also knew that what Emperor Chongzhen said made sense, now they were surrounded by tens of thousands of Jiannu troops, either wait for Cheng Shijie to lead the troops to rescue, or they all die here, there is no third way to choose!

"But in case ......"

Wang Chengen didn't say it, Emperor Chongzhen, you think of Cheng Shijie now, why did you go? Putting the Ning Navy aside, now I know that the Ning Navy is used, but the problem is, don't you want to lose face? How could it be possible to summon an edict? Besides, doesn't Cheng Shijie have a mustard in his heart?

Emperor Chongzhen looked at Wang Chengen's eyes, and slowly regained his taste: "Wang Companion, you tell Cheng Shijie that as long as he is willing to be rescued by King Qin, I will ......."

When the words came to his lips, Emperor Chongzhen realized that he had nothing to reward Cheng Shijie with, official position? Cheng Shijie is now the governor of Liaodong, the crown prince Taibao, the official residence, and has become the pinnacle of the ministers.

This is also the real reason why Emperor Chongzhen thought about dealing with Cheng Shijie at the beginning, a meritorious hero, who has made great contributions to the country, but has no reward, so he can only be killed.

This is the Emperor's Mind Technique.

Throughout the ages, ministers who can retreat with their whole body are like Li Jing of the Tang Dynasty, Li Ji, Guo Ziyi, Zhang Liang, and Xiao He, they all have one characteristic, that is, they are interested.

Now that Emperor Chongzhen has figured it out, Cheng Shijie is actually an interesting person, who knows how to advance and retreat, and just pacified Mobei Mongolia and stabilized the nine sides, so he resigned.

As the saying goes, adversity sees the truth, and the country thinks of good generals, and now Emperor Chongzhen remembers Cheng Shijie.

Emperor Chongzhen muttered: "Come on, draft the will!" ”

Emperor Chongzhen decided to give Cheng Shijie the king of Guangping, the pillar of the country, and the opening of the palace with the three divisions.

Why do you want to seal Cheng Shijie as the king of Guangping, this is because the surname Cheng is a fief, Cheng Guobo, holding Pubi, and the fief is 300 miles. That is, 150 square kilometers in modern times, which is half of the jurisdiction area of Jize County.

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