Chapter 712 Black Battle Flag At the end of World War II, the British Empire no longer had the grandeur of the empire on which the sun never set, and the colonies such as Australia, Canada, and India became independent one after another.The British Empire's finances were beyond its means, forcing the British Empire to adopt a strategy of total contraction, while the United States took advantage of the situation.Canada has become a dog leg of the United States, Australia has become a lackey of the United States, India, the crown jewel of the British Queen, has also become the godson of the United States, and as for the overseas military bases and territories of the British Empire, 90 percent have become the sphere of influence of the United States.When Quan Xu was at the earliest, he wanted to learn from the United States, accept the legacy left by the Ming Empire, evolve peacefully, make a smooth transition, do not need war, and seize all the spheres of influence of the Ming Dynasty.The forty-three vassal states overseas of the Ming Dynasty became the basic plate of Quanxu, and the South China Sea became the inner lake of Quanxu, and Quanxu would take advantage of the huge human resources of the Ming Dynasty to continue to expand externally, and the occupation of the South Seas and the Indochina Peninsula was not the goal, and the occupation of the East and Central Siberia was not the end.He also thought about going to Moscow to make waves.Quanxu took Liaodong as a base, taking advantage of the Ming Dynasty's abandonment of Liaodong, and began to gradually recover the Ming Dynasty's Nurgan Dusi, the Ming Dynasty was unable to take care of Taiwan, he sent troops to occupy Taiwan, and the Ming Dynasty contracted the defense of the Hetao, so he sent troops to occupy the Hetao.In the past few years, the Sixth Brigade of Hetao, now the Sixth Division, first occupied Wuyuan, Shuozhou, Ordos, including Tumochuan, in fact, if this did not happen, the Sixth Division had secretly prepared the Western Expeditionary Corps, with the Mongolian Ezhe Department as the lead, and the eleven cavalry regiments and five infantry brigades of the Sixth Division, as the main force, would march all the way west along the Hexi Corridor to recover Hamiwei, Liuhewei, and control the entire Western Regions.As for Jiannu, even if Da Ming can endure their existence, Quan Xu will annihilate them in one fell swoop in the next three years.The ideal is very plump, but the problem is, unfortunately, no one will understand Quan Xu's suffering.Quan Xu hopes that he can be like a role model, can lead the Ming Dynasty to learn the Liaodong model, carry out internal reforms, once the Ming Dynasty's bloated bureaucratic system is abandoned, the bourgeois revolution, if one day, the Ming can rise again, such a military and political group as Liaodong, if it can not continue to maintain efficiency and leadership, will also be abandoned by the people.This is the east wind over the west wind, or the west wind over the east wind.After truly understanding the overall strength of Quanxu's arrangement of the Hetao and the Sixth Division of the Hetao, Lu Xiangsheng was completely speechless.The Sixth Division of the Hetao ranged from Tumochuan in the east, to Wuwei in the west, to the Great Wall in the south, and to Ordos in the north, controlling a very large area in the northwest, and although the people under its rule were not as good as those in Liaodong, the total population had exceeded 8 million.At present, the Sixth Division has seven infantry brigades, 16 garrison regiments, and 27 cavalry regiments, with a total strength of more than 150,000 horses.Not to mention that Quan Xu himself can single-handedly take on Jiannu, even if Jiannu unites with Weite Mongolia and Khalkha Mongolia, the Sixth Division Group in Hetao can crush them.Lu Xiangsheng now has a feeling that he has the intention to kill the enemy but has no power to return to the sky, although he tries hard, he can no longer turn the tide, for the current huge scale of the whole family army, even if he fights to kill the family of the Tianxiong army, he has no way.At present, the Tianxiong Army has run out of rocket artillery, and there are few grenades left, and the Tianxiong Army has evolved from an army with more than eighty percent of its troops being firearms troops to a unit with more than ninety percent of cold weapons.Without artillery and rocket artillery, no matter how brave the troops are, in front of the whole family army, they are just a plate of meat, which can be eaten anytime and anywhere.It has been four days since the breakthrough, and Emperor Chongzhen has never had an in-depth exchange with Lu Xiangsheng, in fact, Emperor Chongzhen, who is hiding in Luan's drive, has been broken by the cruel reality in his inner defense, he is a little like an ostrich at this time, burying his head in the sand, exposing his buttocks, and ignoring it."
Lord Lu, Lord Lu, it's not good!""
What's going on?""
Man, Man, General" "What's wrong with Mangui?"
”"He, he didn't build a slave to surround him!"
Lu Xiangsheng looked at the scarred and exhausted soldiers of the Tianxiong Army beside him and said, "Soldiers, follow me!"
”Niu Jinxing sighed and said: "Lord Lu, don't waste your strength in vain, this group of Qing troops surrounded by General Man, there are more than 20,000 people, and we are now a little bit of people, and we will also deliver food when we go up!"
”"Even if he dies, this official will not leave General Man!""
But what about Your Majesty?
Something happened to Lord Lu, what should Your Majesty do?
”Lu Xiangsheng angrily smashed his fist on the hard ground.Yes, what about Emperor Chongzhen?
Daming already has a captured emperor, and if another emperor is captured, then he will not be able to return to heaven.Lu Xiangsheng drew his knife and cut off a strand of hair from his head."
Lu can't stand you Mangui, cut your hair and act as the head, and make up for it later!"
As the queen of the palace, the Datong new army, including the chief officer Man Gui, about 300 soldiers, in the end did not have the strength to break through, was bitten by the Qing army, the tenacity of the Datong new army, which made Huang Taiji feel admired, he ordered to capture this brave army, to recruit them.Facing the Qing cavalry surrounded by layers, the Mongolian general Baltu, who was the leader of the army, said: "Surrender, think of your elderly father, gray-haired mother, longing wife, toddler child, don't you miss them at all?"
Don't you want to go back to them?
”Man Gui also collapsed at this time, he snatched the alcohol that his soldiers used to wipe his wounds, poured a mouthful into his mouth, and he coughed violently: "There is only Man Gui who died in battle, and there is no Man Gui who surrendered!"
”Batur's face was gloomy: "If you don't submit to me, you will die!"
”"Why don't you regret this!"
Man Gui drank the alcohol in the bottle, and laughed loudly: "Grandpa is still a good man after eighteen years, don't be complacent first, grandpa has nothing to do in Baltu, so he had to order Man Gui to be beheaded."
More than 300 people from the Mangui Division of the captured Datong New Army unanimously asked to accompany them to death, but none of them surrendered.Huang Taiji just felt regretful, he ordered to use the corpses of more than 300 subordinates to build a Jingguan, and Man Gui's revelation was placed on the top of the Jingguan.In the end, Fan Cheng went to the emperor Taiji and wanted to set up a monument to Mangui.It's not that Fan Cheng is kind, he just uses this way to invite Huang Taiji to buy people's hearts.Before Emperor Chongzhen's Luan drove, Wen Tiren wrapped his body tightly with a mink coat.It rained, and the temperature plummeted, which made Wen Tiren also suffer from a cold, his snot flowed, and his body seemed to be carrying a thousand pounds of weight, and he didn't even have the strength to raise his hand.The key is that the imperial doctor around Emperor Chongzhen lost all the medicinal materials, and he could only carry it.He cursed the damn Quan Xu in his heart again, if it weren't for his reckless behavior, trying to subvert the pattern of scholars and kings who had been inherited in the land of Shenzhou for more than 2,000 years, so that the whole country was facing the danger of the collapse of etiquette and music, and the reversal of morality, why would they, the scholars who lived leisurely, rush around against this cold wind like a blunt knife, and do not hesitate to bear the infamy and turn the tide?
That's right, in Wen Tiren's heart, he thinks he is turning the tide.In Wen Tiren's eyes, Quan Xu is going against the grain, and he is going against the grain!
He reused the workers and merchants who operated the lowly industry, let the people participate in political affairs, dethroned the army, and insulted the gentry.Of course, this is just an official badge, and the reason why Quan Xu has attracted the hostility of the entire scholar class is because he is too capable of pulling hatred: he vigorously developed chemical fertilizers and promoted sweet potatoes and potatoes, which caused a surge in grain production.
He made every effort to promote compulsory education, and every child in eastern Liaodong could read and write, and the status of scholars plummeted, and there was no longer a reason to be superior; He ran a newspaper to open up public opinion, breaking the pattern of the scholar class controlling public opinion, and the pattern of the scholar class deciding major national affairs by the scholar class, and the pattern of black and white being decided by them is gone forever; He issued silver coins with a clear value, which completely cut off the root of "fire consumption" and deprived many officials of a large amount of legitimate income.He relied on industrialization to manufacture and sell a large number of high-quality and inexpensive refined salt, which swept the salt markets across the country, and made many black-hearted salt merchants lose all their money, especially unforgivable, this guy reused the Mo family giant, and the Mo family giant Mo Hua not only established the Mo family academy in Liaodong in an upright manner, which made the scholars and doctors unbearable.Now Liaodong is engaged in industrialization, and talent is the root of industrialization, proficient in machinery, physics, chemistry of the Mo disciples are undoubtedly the most sought-after talents, it is not difficult to imagine that with the promotion of industrialization, the number of Mo disciples will increase exponentially, and eventually form a terrible force, coupled with Quan Xu's favoritism and influence, it is not impossible to overthrow Confucianism in the end!
The crisis of being ousted from the altar made the scholars and doctors completely panic, and they united at an astonishing speed to dig a big hole for Chongzhen!
Your old Zhu family doesn't want to reuse us, don't be this emperor, change someone who is willing to reuse our master!
Using the tide of public opinion to force Chongzhen to personally conquer Kulun, it is only the first step to completely evacuate the entire Northern Zhili force, and at the same time bury most of the elite soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, collude with the border army, let go of the border defense line and let the Mongolian army and the Qing army surge in, annihilate the Tianxiong army with lightning speed, and go straight to the Daimyo Road is the second step.From the 130,000 army plus the soldiers and civilians, two or three hundred thousand people, up to now, Emperor Chongzhen's side has less than 10,000 soldiers, and there will be no more than ten, except for Lu Xiangsheng, there is no one who can fight.Even if Lu Xiangsheng can fight, even if he is covered in blood, how many nails can he stick?
The sound of horses' hooves sounded, and the Qing army or Mongolian cavalry appeared densely packed in the east, north, and south, and 30,000 or 40,000 cavalry were pouring in like a tide."
It's over!"
When Lu Xiangsheng saw this scene, he roared in despair: "Fight to the death, fight to the death" Wen Tiren was ecstatic in his heart: "It's done, it's done" It's just a pity, Wen Tiren was happy too early.There was also the sound of horses' hooves in the west, and a black battle flag fluttered in the wind!