I really don't want to be emperor at the end of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 164 The Courage Given by the God of War
Chapter 163

Happiness came so suddenly, Huang Taiji couldn't believe his eyes.

He thought that there were 1 possibilities in the battle of Haizhou, but he never thought that Cheng Shijie would choose to fight with him in the wild. For Cheng Shijie's residence in Ninghai, Baliwan, that location is actually a plain area. I have already scouted countless times, and there is only a small forest about fifteen miles away from Baliwan.

This grove was burned by an inexplicable fire a few years ago, and now there are only a few small trees, which can hide people in summer. Now, it is easy to search for anyone in it.

It is precisely because this terrain is very conducive to Daikin's cavalry that Huang Taiji is unbelievable.

It's not just Huang Taiji who can't believe that happiness came so suddenly, Yue Tuo, Daishan, Azig, Duoduo, Mangurtai, almost everyone can't believe it.

After a while, Mang Gurtai took the lead in cheering.Then, the cheers of the entire post-gold camp resounded like a tsunami, and everyone had a happy smile on their faces when they found Big Big Wolf...

The damned Ming army is finally no longer a shrinking turtle!They are finally willing to stand up!

After the cheers, Fan Wencheng said cautiously: "King Khan, Cheng Shijie really wants to fight our big gold in the field?"

"The gauntlet has been written, is there still a fake?"

"This is too abnormal, I'm afraid Cheng Shijie has a trick!"

Huang Taiji nodded and said: "Not bad!"

Mangurtai asked, "What does the Khan mean...we ignore him?"

"No, that's not true. If they really want to fight us, but we ignore them, wouldn't we have missed a great opportunity? What King Ben Khan means is that everyone must be more careful, but don't fall into the trap." I have discovered the tricks of the Ming army!"

Huang Taiji looked at Zhong Baylor and said: "The weather is dry now, especially pay attention to fire prevention, there should be very lush pastures in that area!"

"Khan, I understand!"

Yue Tuo immediately reacted: "Slave, let's lead someone to burn all the grass there..."

"No!"

Huang Taiji looked at Yue Tuo and said: "We have to cut down the grass, we don't have much pasture!"

"The servant understands!"

Even now, Huang Taiji still doesn't believe that Ning Haijun dares to fight Houjin Yedilang. This is not Ning Haijun's style at all, but this is how wars are fought. When the opportunity comes, no matter how low the probability of success is, you must be prepared , even if it fails, at most it is just a waste of time.

However, if a fighter opportunity appeared and he was unprepared, he would miss the fighter opportunity. I don't know how many people would have to die to get another chance like this.

Hao Ge, Du Du, Dai Shan and others were as excited as if they had been beaten with chicken blood. The reason they brought so many people to Haizhou was not to fight a tough battle with a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood.

Their real purpose is to snatch the grain harvested by Cheng Shijie in the fields in southern Liaoning. The grain of more than 500 million mu of land, even if only one stone of grain is produced per mu, it is more than 500 million stone, enough to feed [-] Jiannu troops for five years. It's been six years.

Of course, none of them knew exactly how much food Cheng Shijie had harvested, anyway, it would be a lot.

However, the problem is that they encountered the defense system designed by Cheng Shijie. This extremely simple line of defense is very despicable, very shameless, very insidious, and even more vicious...

Now that the Ming army's brains have been kicked by donkeys, and they are going to leave the camp to fight against Dajin, is there anything more fortunate than this?
Haoge bowed and said: "Father, the slave thinks that this matter should be done sooner rather than later. We should reply to Cheng Shijie as soon as possible. We accept his gauntlet. After three days, we will fight to the death with them!"

Huang Taiji looked at Fan Wencheng and said, "I have to thank Fan Qing for this matter!"

"This is the job of a slave, not to mention hard work!"

Huang Taiji looked at Hauge now. When he was in Shenyang, his eldest son behaved very badly, and he almost embarrassed the Aixinjueluo family.But the problem is that Hauge is naturally suitable for survival on the battlefield. After leading the troops to leave Shenyang, the gloom in his heart dissipated immediately, and only the lofty ambition to compete with the Ming army remained in his heart.

What's more, Hauge is also very sympathetic to his subordinates, he has won the hearts of the soldiers, and can mingle with ordinary soldiers, which Daishan can't compare.

Daishan usually behaves very well, smart and quick to respond, magnanimous in doing things, and well-organized, but the problem is that he, like Huo Qubing in the Han Dynasty, wears very luxurious clothes, likes to eat delicacies, and treats his subordinates quite tyrannically.

Sure enough, the son is still his own good.

In all fairness, although Hauge is good in comparison, compared with Yuetuo, he is far worse.

Hauge suddenly said: "Father Khan, this servant thinks that we should beware of the Ming army setting up a horse trap at Baliwan!"

This kind of horse trap is not actually the kind invented by Li Jing in the Tang Dynasty. Li Jing wrote in "Li Weigong Art of War: Offensive and Defensive War Equipment": "The horse pit is five feet long, one foot wide, and three feet deep. Bamboo sticks. The pits are connected like sub-characters, shaped like hooks, covered with grass and fine dust, and all the main roads of military cities and camps are set up."

This kind of horse pit was actually invented in the Northern Song Dynasty. It is only as thick as the mouth of a bowl and only one and a half feet deep. If the horse is walking slowly, the threat is not great. The horse's legs will be broken under the effect of inertia. As for the knight on horseback, if he is lucky, his nose will be bruised and his face will be swollen.

"Hao Ge is right, we must beware of the trap of the Ming army!"

Dai Shan laughed and said, "Don't worry, King Khan, Bali Bay has a radius of tens of miles, and all the servants will step on it once on horseback!"

Daishan's Tiyi Dajin generals agreed unanimously, and went to Baliwan non-stop to check the terrain.

The army of founding slaves got busy.After all, this is the mobilization and deployment of an army of [-]. It's not a joke, and there can be no mistakes.

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Baliwan, Cheng Shijie's Chinese army camp, his breakfast is very simple, a few side dishes, rice from the south of the Yangtze River, and a bowl of millet pumpkin porridge.

Cheng Shijie has never sent a maidservant around him, nor does he have a special orderly. His coachman was also temporarily transferred from the Guards Department. This is because Chen Guodong was worried that someone would bribe his coachman. Appointment, even when going to the capital, Cheng Shijie's coachman went to 16 people.

Since Sun Zhichen came, basically all internal affairs were entrusted to him. Only Cheng Shijie's study was a forbidden area, and a guard was set up at the door. There was a clerk on duty in the study for twelve hours, arranged by Lin Yaodong, the secretary in charge.

When Sun Zhichen came, he was not alone, but with his wives and concubines. Even if he was with Cheng Shijie, he still brought his concubine Luo Shi.

This Luo Shi was born in a brothel, and was redeemed by Sun Zhichen from the brothel to return home. He looks average, not ugly, but definitely not beautiful.

It wasn't until Cheng Shijie ate Luo's cooking that he realized that Sun Zhichen was definitely interested in Luo's cooking skills. Seeing that Cheng Shijie liked Luo's cooking skills, he was very generous and gave Luo directly to Cheng Shijie.

Cheng Shijie refused to accept it, but Sun Zhichen was still unwilling, so he opened his mouth and said that he would beat Luo to death.

Of course, Cheng Shijie also knew that Sun Zhichen was just talking. After all, Sun Chengzong's family tradition was there, and he would never allow Sun Zhichen to kill anyone casually, even if this person was a concubine.

It's just that this is the custom at the moment, Cheng Shijie had no choice but to accept it with a smile, and asked Luo to change into men's clothes and take charge of cooking. Whenever a general came to report, Luo still had a good eye, and he would serve tea when it was time to serve, or put some fruit .

Cheng Shijie was a little bored staying in the big tent in the middle camp, and Luo Shi even played two tunes...

Seeing that Cheng Shijie was still in the mood to listen to the music, Zu Dabi, who was a little nervous at first, smiled and said, "Cheng Shuai still has the demeanor of a famous general!"

Now the Ning Navy is also making preparations before the war, unloading the weapons and armor from the Jinzhou Armory and the continuous transport ships in Haizhou Port, arriving at Bali Bay by land, and distributing them to the Ning Navy officers and soldiers.

The Jinzhou Armory has stockpiled equipment capable of arming 6 to [-] horses, and now half of them have been sent out in a blink of an eye.Since the Dongjiang army was in a hurry and did not bring armor, the armor shipped from Jinzhou was given priority to equip them.

Guan Ning's army was fully loaded, so I had to be wronged, because there is no extra armor for them now.But they were not at a disadvantage, cotton-padded jackets, cotton-padded jackets, and cotton-padded trousers were sent to them, and the generals of the Guanning Army and the Dongjiang Army who received the equipped cotton-padded jackets all sighed that this time it was a shotgun change, and this trip was so worth it!

At this time, the army in the Baliwan camp had a total strength of more than 2 people. At the same time, the [-] horses of Zuodusi and Youdusi were also approaching Baliwan. The defense line along the way had to be handed over to the defensive capital.

Zhou Ning, the deputy capital of the garrison capital and chief of the general staff, said that the soldiers of the garrison capital had already gone mad. Unless all the soldiers of the garrison capital were dead, this line of defense would be as stable as Mount Tai.

Huang Long watched Ning's navy officers making preparations for the battle in an orderly manner, with high morale, and said with emotion: "It's been more than ten years since the Battle of Sarhu, and it's the first time I've seen our army look so prosperous , the morale is so high!"

Zu Dabi said with emotion: "Yes, since the end of Chengzu's Six Expeditions to the Desert, I have never seen such a prosperous army. With such elites in hand, I can give Jianu a go! However, Cheng Shuai, I still suggest that our army avoid the real and attack the false, and don't fight head-on with Jiannu! Daming has only so few elite soldiers now, we can't fight!"

"Second General Zu, why don't you understand? The reason why this commander wants to fight head-on with Jiannu wholeheartedly is to use this head-to-head method to smash Jiannu's myth that 'Jurchens are not full of ten thousand, and they cannot fight when they are full'!"

Cheng Shijie explained: "Jiannu has been invincible since he started his army, and he has been invincible in every attack. With a small tribe of one million people suppressing the Ming Dynasty with a population of more than [-] million, it depends on this vigor. If they can be defeated Let them know that they will be defeated, and their entire army will be wiped out. If their spirit is wiped out, even if their soldiers and horses are multiplied several times, it will not be a big deal. !"

At this moment, Sun Chengzong's voice came: "Beiping is right. Donghu, Wuhuan, Xiongnu, Rouran, Xianbei, Turkic, Khitan, Jurchen, Xixia, Mongolia, and the present Jiannu have lived for thousands of years. The most powerful stage of the nomads is when they are full of vigor, and they rely on this vigor and angry horses and strong bows to stir up wind and rain again and again, destroying once powerful empires one by one, and let the whole land rest under their iron hooves. Trembling under the ground. But once this vigor is knocked out, or wiped out, their combat effectiveness will quickly degrade, and finally die!"

Seeing Sun Chengzong's arrival, Zu Dabi, Zu Dale, including Huang Long, bowed deeply to Sun Chengzong in order, and said sincerely: "The last general will pay homage to the supervisor!"

Sun Chengzong smiled and said: "There is no supervisor here, only an old man surnamed Sun!"

"Students meet the teacher!"

Cheng Shijie naturally gave Sun Chengzong enough courtesy: "Teacher, why are you here?"

"The affairs of the capital are settled!"

Marriage in ancient times, the etiquette is more cumbersome than today's, one to accept, two to ask for names, three to accept auspiciousness, four to accept a sign, five to ask for a period, and six to welcome relatives.Only after these six levels can the bride be taken home.

Now this is the procedure of bestowing a marriage, accepting, asking for names, accepting auspiciousness, and accepting adjudication. It has already been completed during Cheng Shijie's departure. We only need to wait for Cheng Shijie to finish this battle and return to the capital to apply for a date, which is to agree on a wedding date During this matter, according to Emperor Chongzhen's wishes, Sun Chengzong handled it together for him.

But Sun Chengzong did not agree. At that time, he did not know that Cheng Shijie was going to fight Jiannu. No one could tell when the battle would last.

Cheng Shijie also knows that Najib is the etiquette for the man to inform the woman of the auspicious omen of marriage after asking her name and combining the horoscopes, and giving gifts to express her engagement.In ancient times, Najib also performed the ceremony of laying geese.

This is the same as the engagement of later generations. It is no problem for Sun Chengzong to act as an agent, but Na Zheng, this is a big engagement, how can Sun Chengzong act as an agent?
Faced with Cheng Shijie's doubts, Sun Chengzong said with a smile: "You worship this old man as your teacher, and you have no parents or elders, so why not accept Zheng as your teacher?"

"It's just that this cost the teacher a lot!"

"No fee!"

Sun Chengzong laughed and said, "The gift you gave to His Majesty the last time you came to Beijing can be regarded as a gift for accepting levy!"

The arrival of Sun Chengzong had a very limited impact on the Ning Navy, but for the Guan Ning Army, the meaning was somewhat different. After all, Sun Chengzong's prestige in the hearts of middle and low-level officers was still very high.

It is a pity that at the level of middle and high-level generals, Sun Chengzong has almost no influence now. In the era of Sun Chengzong, the middle and high-level generals either joined forces with Zu Dashou or were squeezed out, just like Zhao Ledjiao, Man Gui, He Kegang and others.

After understanding Cheng Shijie's deployment, Sun Chengzong sighed: "If we can win this battle, Jiannu will not be far from death. But, Beiping, have you ever thought about it!"

"what?"

"What if... what if we fail?"

Cheng Shijie smiled proudly: "In case of failure, they will only live a few more years. From the moment the Thunderbolt appeared, I knew that Jiannu's good life is coming to an end!"

Although the current Thunderbolt still has many deficiencies, it adopts the firing method of automatic fire, which has greatly improved both the rate of fire and the power.

Especially with Cheng Shijie's heavy reward, the guns bureau has made a breakthrough.

"I really don't know where your confidence comes from!"

"It's a source of confidence for students!"

Cheng Shijie took Sun Chengzong to visit the Artillery Bureau. At this time, the craftsmen were quickly assembling the disassembled cannons.

This is a new product from the Jinzhou Military Factory. It has a three-inch caliber, that is, a 94.5 mm 24-caliber gun. It is also a steel gun and weighs less than 24 catties.It can be decomposed into [-] parts, except for the heaviest gun barrel, which can be carried by soldiers. Of course, there is no way for the gun barrel. The gun barrel of the artillery cannot be sawed off and disassembled.

This kind of artillery does not fire solid shells, but realizes the integration of ammunition for the first time. The most difficult part of the development of nitrocellulose gunpowder is actually the problem of sulfuric acid. There is green vitriol oil to destroy corpses, and green vitriol oil is ancient sulfuric acid.

With sulfuric acid, the problem of nitrocellulose was solved. Due to the appearance of nitrocellulose, the difficulty of making artillery shells disappeared, and matchlocks, black powder, shot balls, and grape bullets were all swept into the garbage dump.

Artillery will be the true king of the battlefield.Of course, its technology is not good enough, its range is only a little over 2000 meters, but it is enough. Artillery has just started in this era, and indirect shooting is bullshit. An effective range of several hundred meters is enough.

This time Ning Haijun brought 24 three-inch artillery pieces. As long as Jiannu dared to engage in artillery battle with Ning Haijun's artillery, the ending would definitely be very cool.

Although Sun Chengzong was not as technically savvy as Sun Yuanhua, he looked at the thickness of the barrel and asked worriedly, "Will such a thin barrel explode?"

"Teacher, don't worry, the chamber must not be blown up!"

Cheng Shijie reached out and tapped the gun barrel, making a crisp golden sound that only steel can have.

Sun Chengzong suddenly realized: "This is not an iron cannon, but a steel cannon!"

"That's right, because it is a steel cannon, the barrel can withstand higher chamber pressure and is more powerful. Do you want to try a few shots?"

"no need!"

Sun Chengzong pointed to the Jiannu cavalry in the distance, looked at the shiny cannon body and the dark muzzle, and repeatedly praised: "Good thing, good gun, then I will leave a surprise for Jiannu!"

"This cannon is much better cast than the Bingzhang Bureau. If the cannons provided by the Bingzhang Bureau to our army can reach this level, Jiannu'an can survive to this day!"

"It's all about money. Even if the Bingzhang Bureau can forge such excellent artillery, the imperial court is reluctant to use it for the troops!"

Sun Chengzong was silent.

The financial problem was the root of the Ming Dynasty's problems. When Sun Yuanhua was training the Denglai New Army, Xu Guangqi also suggested that the imperial court should train [-] battalions of Western-style troops in the Western style.

If the imperial court was really rich and trained forty battalions of Western-style musket troops, even if Kong Youde rebelled, it would not cause much trouble. Why did Sun Yuanhua want to recruit Kong Youde?

Isn't that because there is no money, and the court doesn't even have the ability to send troops to suppress?
The Gun Bureau was able to invent new types of artillery thanks to Gao Qiqian. Cheng Shijie knew that Bi Maokang, the servant of the Nanjing Ministry of Industry, was a weapons expert, and told Gao Qiqian that he wanted this person. Gao Qiqian didn't know what method he used. He ran to the south of Liaoning with his wife and children, and helped the Ning Navy to get a breech-loading smoothbore flintlock and this artillery.

In fact, Daming is not without talent, except for the deceased Zhao Shizhen, and Xu Guangqi.Speaking of which, Xu Guangqi shouldn't be a big boss in the cabinet, give him a staff bureau, he can definitely manage it well, and create weapons and equipment with high quality and quantity, and Mao Yuanyi, let him be the deputy commander of the Navy , He should be sent to the Military Weapons Bureau of the Ning Navy.

Thinking of this, Cheng Shijie smiled and said, "Teacher, there is one more thing I would like to ask for your help?"

"What's the matter, but it's okay to say!"

"Do you remember Mao Yuanyi?"

"He recently returned home!"

"Let him come to Liaonan, I'll give him a big gift!"

Mao Yuanyi's old lover is now the dean of Liaonan Women's College. Cheng Shijie doesn't know if his old love will come back, but both he and Song Yingxing are talents that Cheng Shijie likes.

Sun Chengzong thought for a while and said, "Yuanyi...is a little disheartened, I'm afraid he has no intention of becoming an official!"

Sun Chengzong didn't tell the truth, Mao Yuanyi was arrogant, he could serve Sun Chengzong himself, but he might not be able to serve Cheng Shijie.

"He will agree!"

Cheng Shijie said: "As long as he can come, I will really give him a mysterious big gift. If he is not satisfied with this gift, he can leave at any time!"

Cheng Shijie's principle is to die at the end of the bridge. Whether it is Chen Zilong or Song Yingxing, he must not leave Liaonan. Song Yingxing has already drank seawater twice. As long as he leaves Liaonan, his ship will definitely have an accident. This is inevitable. If he If you still can’t figure it out, think about it slowly.

On October 27th of the fifth year of Chongzhen, the sky was gloomy, and even after eight o'clock, it was still blue-gray.

In the wilderness ten miles away from Bali Bay, [-] to [-] Jiannu troops were already in full formation. As for the whereabouts of the other troops, this was Huang Taiji's trump card. Unfortunately, Cheng Shijie also knew this information.

Numerous cows galloped back and forth in front of the formation, yelling and shouting to boost morale, scouts kept coming and going, conveying the latest military situation, it was really lively.

The morale of the founding slave army was high. They were already tired of the boring confrontation in the trenches. Now the damn Ming army was finally willing to leave the trenches and barbed wire and fight them in the wild. What else can they say?Just sharpen your swords and guns and prepare to let go and kill!
Huang Taiji was very worried, he looked at Fan Wencheng beside him and said, "Do you think Cheng Shijie will come?"

"I see, it's a bit overhanging!"

Mang Gurtai laughed and said: "If they dare to come, I will let them come and go!"

But Huang Taiji said: "He will definitely come!"

"Are they coming?"

Huang Taiji nodded slowly and said: "They will come, if they come, we will have to deal with them with full energy!"

While talking, a small group of scouts flew to report: "Report... Ning Haijun is dismantling the barbed wire!"

"Great!"

Huang Taiji said loudly: "Investigate again, report again!"

"Yes!"

"Report, Ning Haijun is filling up the trench!"

"Report, Ning Haijun is leaving the camp!"

"Report, Ning Haijun is still eight miles away from us!"

"Report..."

PS: Newspaper, I didn’t expect it, it was written today.

(End of this chapter)