Chongzhen Daming: Starting from Coal Mountain

Chapter 475
"Good news." Chongzhen raised the pond newspaper in his hand and said, "Takukou is guarded."

"Dagukou is defended?" Du Yinxi, Hu Guozhu, Chen Zilong and others were also overjoyed.

"Hu Guozhu, take a look." Chongzhen handed the pond newspaper to Hu Guozhu again, "Yan Yingyuan's performance in Dagukou is not much worse than your cavalry battalion, and he played extremely beautifully."

Chongzhen wanted to use Yan Yingyuan to beat Hu Guozhu.

Ever since Hu Guozhu won a beautiful and big victory in Guting Town, he has been a little flustered, and his words often reveal that I am the number one God of War in Ming Dynasty.

Even Chongzhen's reward is not very satisfied.

Soon after the battle ended, Chongzhen granted Hu Guozhu the honor of being a loyal and brave man. After marrying a wife and having children in the future, he would be able to shade his son and enter the Guozijian for further study without examination.

In all honesty, this reward is already pretty good.

After all, the main credit for the battle in Guting Town cannot be credited to Hu Guozhu.

Because no matter who changes the command, the cavalry battalion can easily withstand the siege of Jiannu.

Guting Town's battle was mainly won by the hollow phalanx, not by Hu Guozhu.

But Hu Guozhu didn't think so, this kid put the main credit on himself.

Once this kid got drunk and threatened that he could be named a Marquis based on the Guting Town battle.

This made Chongzhen couldn't help but think of Lan Yu, the general in the Hongwu period. Hu Guozhu's ability may not be [-]-[-]% of Lan Yu's, but his arrogance is even worse.

To be honest, Chongzhen didn't like timid generals either.

If a military commander doesn't even have self-confidence, how can he win a battle?
But if self-confidence becomes conceited, it will be very troublesome, and it is possible to fall into a big somersault at a critical moment, just like Ma Di who lost Jieting and caused Zhuge Liang's Northern Expedition to fail.

So Chongzhen wanted to take a moment of Hu Guozhu's prestige.

"Yan Gejian really played well in Dagukou."

After reading the Tang newspaper, Hu Guozhu said in a neutral tone.

It can be seen that Hu Guozhu is still very unconvinced.

Hu Guozhu felt that Yan Yingyuan did play well in Dagukou, but it was not at the same level as their cavalry battalion. Their cavalry battalion defeated the Eight Banners Manchuria and Eight Banners Mongolia, and they were still six times stronger than their own. In the end, it caused huge damage to Jiannu.

Yan Yingyuan fought in the green camp at Dagukou, how can he compare with him?
Chongzhen frowned and said again: "Hu Guozhu, do you think that Yan Yingyuan's performance in Dagukou cannot be compared with the cavalry battalion's performance in Guting Town?"

"I dare not." Hu Guozhu lowered his head and said.

"Don't dare? It seems that you are really not convinced." Chongzhen's face collapsed, "If I told you that the battle of Guting Town would have the same result no matter which infantry battalion of the new army was replaced, but Dagukou, if you fight with any other infantry battalion or your cavalry battalion, it is impossible to get this result, you must not be convinced, right?"

This time Hu Guozhu just stopped talking, obviously he was really unconvinced.

Chongzhen was not stupid enough to try to persuade Hu Guozhu, and he should never try to persuade others.

However, Hu Guozhu was also included in another volume, it seems that this kid still needs to be polished.

At that moment Chongzhen said to Hu Guozhu: "Hu Guozhu, in the future you will know that I did not lie to you."

After a pause, Chongzhen turned his head and said to Du Yinxi: "Du Qing, originally I wanted to go back to Xuzhou with you, and I wanted to drink this celebration wine before going back to Nanjing anyway, but now I can't."

"Although Dagukou has been defended, Jiannu will definitely not give up in the future."

"If there is no accident, Jiannu will definitely launch an attack on Dagukou after winter this year, and this time, Jiannu will most likely adopt a local attack tactic."

"So I have to hurry back to Nanjing to make preparations."

Chongzhen hurried back to Nanjing to develop cement.

Jiannu will definitely not attack Dagukou again before winter this year.

But after winter, when the North Sea is completely frozen and the navy is forced to withdraw from the north, Jiannu will definitely attack Dagukou again, and there is a high probability that they will dig tunnels and carry out blasting.

Under the premise that a strong attack has no effect, blasting is the best means of attacking.

At that time, we can only rely on cement to irrigate the tunnels and block Jiannu's blasting tactics.

The principle of firing cement is actually very simple. First, limestone is ground into powder, then mixed with clay, put into a large iron pot and calcined at high temperature, and the cement is produced.

But how many degrees should the large iron can be forged?

Also what is the ingredient ratio of limestone to clay?
Besides limestone and clay, are there other ingredients added?
Chongzhen didn't know anything about these things, so it required constant trial and error and time, so Chongzhen didn't want to delay even a day, and wanted to rush back to Nanjing as soon as possible.

This matter had to be done by Chongzhen himself, because Daming did not have suitable talents to preside over this work.

The 36 young Western scholars who had just been abducted by Boym could not be counted on for at least a year because of language barriers, so Chongzhen himself could only be responsible.

You can also take advantage of this time to click on the technology tree.

See if you can get the rifled rifle and the steam engine out.

As for Sichuan, Chongzhen did not intend to go. Firstly, it was too far away, secondly, it was not the main direction of battle, and thirdly, Qin Liangyu was more reassuring. It should be more than enough to deal with the warlords and Zhang Xianzhong in Sichuan.

As for Li Zicheng, although Li Zicheng had personally led the army to Hanzhong, according to Chongzhen's estimation, it would be difficult for Li Zicheng to defeat Zhang Xianzhong before entering Sichuan.

As for whether Zhang Xianzhong would unite with Li Zicheng, Chongzhen felt that he would definitely not. Since the two became emperors successively, they had become sworn enemies and it was impossible to cooperate as before.

Taking another [-] steps back, even if Qin Liangyu lost in the end and lost Sichuan, it would not be a big deal.

If it was still in the stage of agricultural civilization, it would be very difficult to get into a terrain like Sichuan, but as long as Daming entered the stage of industrial civilization, Sichuan's terrain would no longer be a big problem.

Because the human, material and financial resources of industrial civilization are completely two orders of magnitude compared to agricultural civilization, and agricultural civilization has almost no resistance to industrial civilization.

Therefore, it is more important to point the technology tree.

"The cavalry battalion is temporarily stationed in Xuzhou Zhentai, to guard against the resurgence of the slaves."

Having said this, Chongzhen said to Hu Guozhu again: "Hu Guozhu, you follow me back to Nanjing."

"Ah?" Hu Guozhu was a little caught off guard, and asked in amazement, "My lord, who will command the cavalry battalion?"

"This is not something you should be concerned about." Chongzhen said coldly, "Don't think that the cavalry battalion can't do without you, the world can go on as usual without everyone, do you understand?"

Hu Guozhu was dumbfounded, staring at Chongzhen in a daze.

Du Yinxi looked at Hu Guozhu with a trace of regret in his eyes.

Hu Guozhu is undoubtedly a good seedling, but unfortunately he doesn't know how to restrain himself.

Gao Qiqian looked disdainful, thinking who is Long Live Lord?That's a person who has realized the Tao, a fairy-like person, if you Hu Guozhu dare to show off in front of Long Live God, isn't that courting death?
That is to say, Long Live Lord has a big belly, so he doesn't care about you.

After leaving Xuzhou, Chongzhen meandered south with [-] barbarians.

Taking advantage of Hu Guozhu's absence, Chongzhen said to Zhu Cijiong: "Jiaoer, you must remember that you must not blindly suppress the ministers, workers and common people, nor blindly favor them."

"Of course, the specifics also vary from person to person."

"Arrogant and domineering people like Hu Guozhu must be suppressed decisively."

"However, if Du Yinxi and Qin Liangyu are loyal ministers and good generals, you need to give them enough trust, and don't tie your hands and feet because of routine."

Zhu Cijiong was thoughtful: "What aspects does the father refer to?"

"For example, the master of high meritorious service." Chongzhen said, "If it is a strong general like Lan Yu, the statement of a master of meritorious service is valid, but if it is a loyal minister and general like Xu Da and Qin Liangyu, there is no such thing as a master of meritorious service. Said, no matter how much authority you give them, they will abide by their duties as ministers."

……

Qin Liangyu has successfully captured Naxi now.

Zunyi General Soldier Wang Xiang did not escape and was captured alive.

Wang Xiang was tied up and escorted into the lobby of the state government office.

Seeing Qin Liangyu occupying the chief seat, Wang Xiang repeatedly complained.

"Marquis Zhongzhen, it's all a misunderstanding, it's all a misunderstanding, you and I are both military officials of the Ming Dynasty, and our leaders are all officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, why are you killing each other? Why are you killing each other?"

"Misunderstanding? You seized Naxi, intending to block my army's supply road. Is this also a misunderstanding?"

"Why did the Marquis of Zhongzhen say this? Did the last general ever think about cutting off the food road for the imperial army? The official heard of Zeng Ying's rebellion and intended to block the food road for the imperial army, so he sent troops from Zunyi to help. Being besieged by the imperial army, you can't help but say that the last general is captured, how innocent is the last general?"

"Oh, so Mr. Wang is here to help?"

"Of course, the last general is here to help suppress the thieves."

"Shut up, thief, do you really think this Marquis knows nothing?"

With a cold snort, Qin Liangyu said again: "Your correspondence with Wu Dading, Yuan Tao, Zeng Ying, Tang Xun, etc. has long been in the hands of this Marquis, and now you still dare to deny it and bully your old age? Someone? , Push it out and chop it up."

When even two white soldiers walked into the lobby with a murderous look, they escorted Wang Xiang and walked out.

Wang Xiang became anxious immediately, and roared angrily: "Qin Liangyu, although you are an admiral, I am also the commander-in-chief of a town. You have no right to kill me. You have the right to do so! You have the right!"

However, Qin Liangyu didn't even make sense.

After a while, Wang Xiang's head was presented.

Looking at Wang Xiang's head, Li Xiangjun asked: "Master, since this Wang Xiang is Zunyi's general soldier, it might be useful to leave his dog's life behind, at least he can recruit Zunyi Mansion."

"Girl, you don't understand this." Qin Liangyu shook his head.

(End of this chapter)