Chapter 708 The Blank Divine Decree Food Problem is actually not too big, although it is said that the average soldier of the Northern Expeditionary Army of the Ming Dynasty only has three days' rations, if the food is uniformly allocated, the food is saved, and the replenishment of war horses and livestock is added, it is no problem to persist for five to seven days, or even longer.Of course, Niu Venus has appeared here, which means that Quan Xu already knows the problems that are happening here.In the southeast, east, and southwest of Zhangbei, there were Quanxu's troops, of course, they were all a little far away from Zhangbei, more than 800 miles away.This distance is no problem at all for Quan Xu's army.No matter whether Chongzhen trusts Quan Xu or not, no matter how difficult the minister is for Quan Xu, Quan Xu will never take the country's social affairs and national affairs as a child's play, even if Chongzhen doesn't say it, he doesn't send troops for help, Lu Xiangsheng also knows that Quan Xu will definitely not die without help.But the problem is that Quan Xu sent troops to rescue, and it will take time, and during this time, they need to persevere on their own, otherwise everything will have no chance.Lu Xiangsheng looked at Li Chongzhen and said, "Then how many bullets do we have?"
How many shells are left?
”Li Chongzhen said without thinking: "The situation of our Tianxiong army is better, each soldier still has 100 rounds of lead, 5 to 6 grenade shells, 32 Type 105 field guns have been destroyed, each with only 20 shells, 120 mm lightning guns have 16, each with 30 shells, none of the other artillery pieces have been transported, it is estimated that they were either destroyed or all fell into the hands of the Qing army, and there are only six rocket artillery, because the battlefield situation is too chaotic, it has not been used."
However, there were very few shells, and they were gone after three rounds.The shotguns are complete, there are thirty-six in total, none of them are missing, but the shells are ......"
Lu Xiangsheng sighed, the number of equipment for artillery in the Ming army was not too much, and it was far from being compared with the whole family army.In later generations, mortars could only be used as a team, company, and battalion level to support strike firepower, because howitzers, cannons, and longer ranges, while Hongyi artillery or field artillery at this time did not have much advantage in terms of range, and artillery operations stayed in sight.More importantly, the establishment of the Ming army was chaotic, and the weapon system was also more chaotic and complex, including the establishment of 50 people for one banner and two banners for 100 households, as well as the establishment set by Sun Chengzong in Liaodong, the establishment of the Beijing camp, and the establishment of the whole family army like the Tianxiong army.After a fierce battle, the artillery shells were either quickly consumed, or captured by the Qing army, that is, the Tianxiong army still retains the corresponding artillery troops, as for the Datong army, it is even more unbearable, there are seven field artillery under the command of Man Gui at this time, a total of thirteen shells, an average of less than two shells per gun.The most speechless thing is that the two thousand musketeers under the command of the Changping Army, now there are less than 100 people with guns, and there is not a single artillery piece left, during the Northern Expedition of the Baoding Army, a total of 12 artillery pieces, and now it has become 37 guns, and their artillery battalion is always a talent, and they actually took advantage of the chaos to pick up 23 copper cannons.Don't think that this master always has a lot of eyesight, in fact, he only picked up bronze cannons, cannonballs and gunpowder did not touch at all, these twenty-three bronze cannons weighed more than 57,000 catties, this is copper, that is, money, the value of copper alone, is equivalent to more than 20,000 taels of silver.Lu Xiangsheng sighed for a long time and said: "It's my fault, I misjudged the situation from the beginning, and I didn't make all the preparations, so I was so passive!"
”Man Gui said indignantly: "Lord Lu, please don't say that!"
It's all caused by Gao Qiqian, this gelding, if it weren't for his blind command and greedy for merit, why would the army have fallen into such a desperate situation!
”Lu Xiangsheng shook his head and smiled bitterly, looked around at the generals, and said word by word: "We must break through immediately, if we are trapped and killed by Jiannu, we will all die here!"
”All the generals looked stunned and asked in unison: "Where to break through?"
”"Jiannu has divided our troops to block our way back, we can't go back to Zhangjiakou, and Beijing can't even think about it, only by putting it to death and resurrecting it, and breaking through in the direction of Shuozhou, can there be a glimmer of life!"
Man Gui said suspiciously: "Why don't you break through to Rehe?"
”Although Zuo Liangyu was unhappy with Quan Xu's personality, he also knew that Rehe was now under Quan Xu's hands, and as long as he broke through to Rehe, Quan Xu would definitely send someone to pick him up."
You can think of going to Rehe, Huang Taiji can also think of it, he is now strong and strong, there are many men and horses, and the cavalry is fast, and it will definitely not be a problem to send a force to intercept us in the east!""
However, our troops in Shuozhou are not strong, and they may not have the strength to meet us!"
Lu Xiangsheng said loudly: "You don't need to answer, just split a bloody alley and kill it!"
Full of Gui!
”"The last general!"
Lu Xiangsheng said: "After you command the new army of Datong, before you fall, even if you hit it with a stone or gnaw it with your teeth, you must block the pursuers of the Jiannu for me!"
”Man Gui solemnly arched his hand and said: "Obey the general's order!"
”"Lee Chong-jin!""
The last general!""
The Tianxiong Army is the leader, and at all costs, tear open the encirclement of Jiannu for me!"
Li Chongzhen was solemn: "Obey!"
”Lu Xiangsheng looked around at the generals and said in a deep voice: "Everyone go back, clean up military discipline, collect military funds and ordnance, all things that can be eaten must be distributed uniformly, and those injured and dead mules and horses will all be slaughtered and cut and distributed to the soldiers!"
Hand in your solid bullets and melt them into shotguns and bullets, and face the Jiannu cavalry on the Great Plains, your bronze cannons cannons can't do anything, but shotguns and rifles can give them a fatal blow!
After dawn tomorrow, I will lead the Tianxiong Army as the vanguard, breaking through the enemy's encirclement, all departments must follow up in time, we are competing with God for time, if we can't reach Shuozhou before our limited ammunition and food are exhausted, we will all die without a place to be buried!
”All the generals were awe-inspiring again, and stood up in unison: "Obey!"
”The generals bowed their hands and went down to prepare.Only Lu Xiangsheng and Chongzhen stared at each other gloomily, silent for a long time.Actually, if Chongzhen wins this time, he can forgive Lu Xiangsheng and Quan Xu, but unfortunately, this battle was lost, and it was very embarrassing and completely lost.In this case, he didn't have the face to see Lu Xiangsheng at all.Lu Xiangsheng hoped to be affirmed by Chongzhen and justifiably obtained the power of commander-in-chief of the three armed forces.Fortunately, although Chongzhen was stubborn, at this most critical time, he did not fight with Lu Xiangsheng, but directly put the jade seal of the country on a blank holy decree, and threw the holy decree to Lu Xiangsheng casually.Lu Xiangsheng looked at this blank holy decree, and his heart was extremely sad.Even now, Chongzhen still doesn't believe him, but tests him.A blank decree in the hands of ordinary people is actually of little use, of course, the great thing is to add an official to oneself, but this decree needs to be jointly recognized by cabinet ministers before it has real legal effect.However, in the hands of people like Lu Xiangsheng and Quan Xu, it will be of great use.They have soldiers and generals, they are powerful and powerful, they can add nine tins to themselves, they can be extremely ministers, or they can casually pull a child from the clan to act as a puppet emperor, or they can be used as a Zen edict.Although the joint name of the cabinet is also needed, the question is, once Quan Xu or Lu Xiangsheng enters the capital with soldiers and horses, and puts such a holy decree in front of the cabinet minister, which cabinet minister dares to oppose it?
Quan Xu or Lu Xiangsheng have the ability to turn the holy decree into a true holy decree that changes the heavens and the earth at any time.Throughout the night, the Northern Expeditionary Army of the Ming Dynasty was nervously preparing, they discarded the heavy bronze cannons that could only fire solid lead balls mercilessly, and the shells were concentrated and melted by the craftsmen of the army to make rifle bullets and shotguns.The men fought to extinguish the fires, scouring the ashes for supplies, or slaughtering dead and wounded mules and horses, cutting off the meat and roasting it, dividing it one by one.Rifles, bullets, shells, crossbow arrows, etc., scattered everywhere, were carefully collected and sent to the army.These are all valuable combat strength, which is related to the life and death of the entire army.Under the cover of the new army in Datong, the people raced against time, people carried horses, and went all out to rush to transport supplies.80,000 crossbow arrows, 200,000 rifle bullets, 2,000 lightning artillery shells, 500 rocket artillery shells, as well as a large amount of dry food, knives and spears, were continuously transported to the front line.Constantly people fall down due to excessive exhaustion, and this fall can never get up again, but no one complains about anything, everyone knows that only by transporting these materials to the front line can there be hope of breaking out of the encirclement, and those who are dead will die, and those who are not dead will grit their teeth and continue to work!
Located in the Shangwang Mansion in Jinzhou, Liaodong, there is a sterile operating room moved by Quan Xu from later generations in the backyard wing, which has all the equipment of the later operating room, such as shadowless lamps, disinfection equipment, heart, blood, testing equipment, anesthesia equipment, and various surgical equipment.In the first maternal and child health hospital in Daming that has not yet been officially established, Gu Xiaoman, Cao Yindi, and Xin Yue are nervously performing uterine surgery for Zhu Weiyuan.Jeon Wook stood outside the operating room, smoking non-stop, cigarette butts scattered all over his feet.In the anxious waiting, Quan Xu unexpectedly watched a eunuch lead the crown prince Zhu Cihong to the door.Quan Xu was slightly stunned: "Why didn't you follow Your Majesty's Northern Expedition?"
”Wang Chengen smiled faintly: "Our family doesn't understand military affairs, and we can't go into battle to fight, follow the Northern Expedition army to the north, except for wasting food, there is no other use!"
”Quan Xu didn't pay attention to how Wang Chengen appeared here, his eyes kept looking in the direction of the operating room.At this moment, a nurse in a nurse's uniform ran out of the operating room: "Congratulations to the prince, congratulations to the princess, the princess gave birth to the little prince, and the mother and child are safe!"
”Jeon Wook breathed a sigh of relief.At this moment, Wang Chengen took out a holy decree from his arms.Quan Xu coughed: "Minister, take the order!"
”After speaking, regardless of whether Wang Chengen agrees or disagrees, he directly grabbed the holy decree.Unfolding the holy decree, Quan Xu was stunned.ps: After a month, three watches, ask for a guaranteed monthly pass!