Chapter 672 Shocking Quan Xu never thought of being Cao Cao, although history has defined Cao Cao as the head of traitorous ministers, in fact, Cao Cao is an idealist, what he wants most is to return to the unified era of the Han Dynasty, the national strength is strong, the four Yi surrendered, and he is willing to be a Han general in the west.For Cao Cao's evaluation, he is a capable minister who governs the world and a hero in troubled times.If you evaluate Quan Xu, he is a son of a gentleman who rules the world and a god in troubled times.Quan Xu didn't want to be like Cao Cao, he wanted to be a loyal minister of the Han Dynasty, but unfortunately, but there was no chance, life was like a boat against the current, if you don't advance, you will retreat, Huo Guang back then, although he was a minister, he really didn't want to usurp the throne and stand on his own, for the Han Dynasty, Huo Guang was loyal, but unfortunately, for the emperor, he couldn't tolerate Huo Guang.The same is true for Quan Xu now, whether he wants to be Cao Cao or not, in Chongzhen's heart, he is actually Cao Cao, and it is impossible for Quan Xu to back down, otherwise there would be no conversation today.This conversation, whether it was from Cao Huachun's original intention or at the instigation of Emperor Chongzhen, when it was open and honest to this extent, there was no need to cover it up.This is the pride of Quanxu as a king.Emperor Chongzhen still has illusions at the moment, if Quan Xu wants to be Cao Cao, he doesn't mind adding nine tin to Quan Xu.What is Nine Tin?
There are nine tin ceremonies: one is called chariots and horses, two is called clothes, three is said to be musical, four is said to be Zhu Hu, five is called Na Majesty, six is called Tiger Ben, seven is said to be bows and arrows, eight is said to be iron, and nine is said to be cabinets.Therefore, "nine tin" is "nine gifts", is the ancient Son of Heaven to the princes, ministers of the utensils, the courtiers can enjoy the highest courtesy, since the Zhou Dynasty, the gift of nine tin, has been the ultimate reward of the Son of Heaven, means the omen of Zen.Everyone in the world is Adou pedantic, but as everyone knows, Adou's real cleverness is that he used a humble way to keep Liu Han's blood and food, Cao Wei destroyed the people of Shu Han, the Western Jin Dynasty destroyed Cao Wei, and Liu Chan's Anle Principality lasted until the Eastern Jin Dynasty Yonghe three years.This kind of puppet-style An Le Gong is naturally unacceptable to the king of a country, but the question is, in the face of absolute strength, what else can he do?
Any scheme, in the face of absolute strength, is in vain, and the more you struggle, the more tragic the fate of the king of the fallen country.Houjin is still dying and struggling, and Buerhan Mountain is known as the heart and holy mountain of Mongolia.According to historical records, the life of Bhuerhanshan and Genghis Khan, as well as the historical relationship between the Mongolian nation, has a long history.The cold wind blowing from the north cut the peaks of Buerhan Mountain, and the snow powder and ice particles hit like bullets, hitting the face and hurting badly, and the whole family soldiers in black military uniforms, their eyebrows and beards were covered with frost, and they had already put on all the clothes they could find, and the whole person looked as bloated as a bear, but it was still so cold that twenty-four teeth were fighting against each other.Cold, it's really too cold, if you don't wear gloves, it's basically impossible to coexist peacefully with the weapon in your hand, and if you are exposed to the cold wind for less than half a time, the skin of your palm will freeze with the weapon, and you want to get rid of the weapon, unless you tear off a layer of skin and flesh!
But even if the conditions are so difficult, they still stick to their posts, stand guard and patrol back and forth, not for anything else, just because they are the whole family army.In the past year or so, the whole family army has launched fierce offensives against the fleeing remnants of Jiannu, defeating the remnants of Jiannu again and again, and expanding the land for thousands of miles.From Ningguta to Buerhan Mountain, the whole straight-line distance is more than 3,000 miles, if you count the detour, this Ya is a long march, this victory again and again, let the whole army expand again and again, and bring Liaodong and the Far East Plain into the rule of the Ming Dynasty.The good news that flew like snowflakes also aroused the blood and courage in the bones of the Ming soldiers, and Liaodong no longer issued land, and if you want to get the land, you can only seize it immediately.All the people of Liaodong, including the people of the three sides, there was a green light in their eyes, and the thirty or forty-year-old old border soldiers resharpened their sharp and rusty long knives, replaced the spears that had been gnawed by rats with a brand-new spear shaft, found the ancestral strong bow, and sang folk songs in groups to walk out of the side wall, enter Mobei, and devote themselves to the fight with Jiannu.It was too far to join the whole family army, but the Tianxiong Army ushered in a new round of expansion, and those sixteen or seventeen-year-old children enthusiastically ran to the recruitment station of the Tianxiong Army to sign up for the army, and the border army set off a frenzy of joining the army.In view of the fact that the Tianxiong army was really insufficient, Lu Xiangsheng recruited 25,000 recruits from Shaanxi, Shanxi, Ningxia, and other places, all of whom were seventeen or eighteen years old, and trained them strictly.Most of these children are from the border army or military households, the Ming army is as poor as calling Huazi, the hardships of the border army and military households are indescribable, the hard life has honed these children as strong as steel early, they want to get ahead more than anyone else, and they cherish the good life brought to them by the Tianxiong Army more than anyone else.They are eager to make contributions and become independent generals, and their fame will go down through the ages!
In this frenzied atmosphere, they naturally quickly formed combat effectiveness.When Lu Xiangsheng was on the Northern Expedition, he brought three new battalions, a total of more than 17,000, and wanted them to see blood.When he came to Buerhan Mountain, out of the keen sense of smell of a famous general, Lu Xiangsheng realized that something was wrong.From the shoeed corpses, it can be clearly seen that the stomach of the Jiannu soldiers is not only undigested soup cakes, but also potato starch, and even pieces of canned luncheon meat.This made Lu Xiangsheng feel that something was wrong.He knows very well that Quan Xu is a person, and Quan Xu is greedy for money, but he will never be an enemy.In desperation, Lu Xiangsheng personally came to the camp of the whole family army in Buerhan Mountain, where the forward camp of the cavalry of the whole family army was stationed, and the three cavalry brigades of the first division of the cavalry of the whole family army were stationed here.The whole family army is still the whole family army, the same arrogance, they braved the cold wind, boiled a pot of hot water with a briquette stove, and built an ice city with hot water against the cold wind, the height of the wall of this ice city is about one zhang and two feet, and the thickness is about one zhang and more than one zhang, and it is densely arranged with giant trees to water and freeze into an igloo."
General Xiao Qi!""
Master Hou!"
Qi Yuanbi has begun to grow a beard like a young man in the Ming Dynasty, and his youth hides his immaturity even with a beard.However, because of more than a year of pursuit tactics and sleeping in the open, Qi Yuanbi also seemed to have become a little old man, his face was like dead bark, covered with wind and frost."
Are you planning to stay long?""
I don't plan to stay for a long time, the weather is getting colder and colder, and the war horses can freeze to death directly while running, and this battle can't be fought!"
Qi Yuanbi sighed and said: "I found that the situation is not right, before winning, first thinking about defeat, there must be a solid foundation, advance can be attacked, retreat can be defended!"
”"Your instincts are correct!"
Lu Xiangsheng smiled bitterly: "During this period of Jiannu, they have obtained a lot of materials, and they are no longer short of food, look at this!"
”Lu Xiangsheng took out a bag made of sheepskin, and the bag contained black particles.Qi Yuanbi said coldly: "Granular black powder, how can there be such a thing here?"
”Lu Xiang sighed and said: "Once, I thought that as long as I could defeat the Jiannu and the Mongol Tatars, and eliminate the displaced people, I could save this country and drag it back from the edge of the cliff. ”More than a month ago, Huang Taiji began to receive supplies one after another, originally, the Jiannu soldiers were hungry to the bones, but now they have food in their stomachs, and the war horses have grown fat at a speed visible to the naked eye.In the cold winter, if you want to make the war horse fat, this difficulty is too great, you need a lot of forage, and it is forage made of refined grains, like soybeans and eggs, it is indispensable, this kind of thing is also rare in Daming, but it is not like Liaodong everywhere."
These bastards!"
Qi Yuanbi said indignantly: "They all deserve to die!"
”"Damn it, I'm afraid we're not safe now!"
Lu Xiangsheng's three sides could not support the supply of the Tianxiong Army's Northern Expeditionary Army, in fact, the supply of the Tianxiong Army and the supply of the whole family army were all transported from Liaodong.The distance between here is more than 3,000 miles, there are not even roads, and the food and military funds consumed are too great, even if Liaodong is rich, the problem is that the grain and forage in Liaodong cannot be transported at all, in order to reduce the pressure on logistics, Qi Yuanbi's department can only use cold weapons to kill the enemy.The requirements for transportation in the era of cold weapons are low, just like the cavalry in the era of cold weapons, each person has three pots of arrows, plus twenty or thirty catties of dry food and jerky, and can be self-sufficient for a month.However, if it is the era of hot weapons, then artillery, shells, rocket artillery, hand-held shells, and bullets all need to occupy the already tight transportation volume.Lu Xiangsheng and Qi Yuanbi stood on the ice city, looking into the distance: "This situation...
It's getting weirder!
”"What else can I do now?"
Qi Yuanbi licked his chapped lips and smiled bitterly: "I guess that Jiannu must have bypassed behind us and attacked my fragile grain channel!"
”Lu Xiangsheng said indignantly: "A few days ago, Lei Shisheng sent out to buy coal, vegetables, and meat, but every time he returned empty-handed, none of the merchants were willing to sell anything to us, and they laughed at us for being whimsical, and we didn't see if we had eaten fresh vegetables, fruits and meat!"
”Hearing this, Qi Yuanbi shuddered.He didn't even dare to analyze and think deeply, the information hidden here was so terrifying that even a hard-hearted general like him was terrified.Lu Xiangsheng's face changed suddenly: "I'm just afraid that something will happen!"
”"What's wrong?""
I smell blood in the air!"
After a short time, the sound of horses' hooves was heard in the distance, coming from the south!
Lu Xiangsheng and Qi Yuanbi were both stunned, and they all ran away, only to see more than ten scouts wearing snow-white cloaks galloping towards this side, while dozens of cavalry were chasing after them.Most of these scouts were already wounded, and their cloaks were stained red with blood, and they did not dare to slow down at all, and the pursuers also pierced their horses in the belly with spurs, and pulled out their strong bows and shot them at the backs of these white-clothed scouts, and the scouts kept falling with arrows!
Lu Xiangsheng was taken aback and shouted: "It is the scout of our Tianxiong Army!"
Our scouts are being hunted down!
”Qi Yuanbi waved his hand, and the cavalry of a division roared away, and two or three hundred cavalry clamped the belly of the horse and rushed forward.Like the Tianxiong Army, many of the cavalry of the whole family army are Mongolian riders, who are very good at riding and archery, and the military discipline is extremely strict.No, with Qi Yuanbi giving the order, they have already been killed.The whole family cavalry let out a roar in unison, and the two wings spread out at the same time, like an eagle spreading its wings, sweeping towards the bold enemy!
The enemy group did not expect the Ming army to react so quickly, let alone that they reacted so much, killing more than two or three hundred people at once, and they couldn't help but be a little confused.It wasn't until the Ming cavalry was about to rush to the front that they reacted, opened their bows and released arrows, and in the swishing sound, several Ming cavalry were hit by arrows in the face and neck, and fell off their horses.The Mongolian knights in the cavalry of the Ming army responded to them with a much stronger pulley bow, even if it was fired against the wind, the sound of sharp arrows breaking through the air was extremely harsh, making people's hearts hairy, and the bowstring trembled, and seven or eight fell one after another.The next thing is face to face, and at this time, Qi Yuanbi found that the armor and weapon system of these enemy troops chasing and killing his subordinates were exactly the same as those of the Guan Ning army.Fortunately, the cavalry of the whole family army did not care what kind of armor the enemy was wearing and what weapons they used, they formed a dense queue and slammed into it, these scouts with excellent martial arts did not have a chance to show their superb weapons at all, and they were knocked around, the sound of the horse spear breaking the armor, the muffled sound of the broken saber splitting the flesh, and the miserable and short screams......
There was also the neighing of war horses, and the sound of vicious curses.In less than five minutes, everything was over, except for a few who fled in time when the situation was not good, nearly thirty scouts basically lay on the ground, dead and wounded, and none of them could stand up.Fortunately, the cavalry of the whole family army did not care what kind of armor the enemy was wearing and what weapons they used, they formed a dense queue and slammed into it, these scouts with excellent martial arts did not have a chance to show their superb weapons at all, and they were knocked around, the sound of the horse spear breaking the armor, the muffled sound of the broken saber splitting the flesh, and the miserable and short screams......
There was also the neighing of war horses, and the sound of vicious curses.In less than five minutes, everything was over, except for a few who fled in time when the situation was not good, nearly thirty scouts basically lay on the ground, dead and wounded, and none of them could stand up.