Traveling through the Ming Dynasty, as soon as you open your eyes, you will die

Chapter 171 There is Zhang Huangyan among the candidates

At the top of Daming Mansion City, Li Guo was bathing in the cool summer breeze. At this moment, he felt aggrieved, which was beyond words.

When he stood at the top of the city observing the enemy's situation, he suddenly found that the First Army began to mobilize.

Originally, I was only pressing at the north gate, but I actually had three gates through which I could enter and exit. It’s just that I don’t want to go out.

But when Li Laiheng rectified the villagers and went south to cooperate with them, they could only advance from north to south to jointly attack Lu Mou's only division. Li Guo felt that something was not good, so he decided to lead ten thousand people out of the city to contain it. The First Army outside the city prevented them from dividing their troops and attacked Li Laiheng on the back.

As a result, the First Army began to divide its forces, pushing cannons. Outside the four gates, at each city gate, there were a thousand enemy troops blocking the city gate. In front of each city gate, there are twenty rapid-fire French steel cannons, and the black muzzles are almost touching the city gate.

As soon as you go out, as soon as the soldiers enter the city gate, and the enemy's cannon fires, you can use the cannon to seal yourself in the city gate again.

At the same time, he saw more than 10,000 Ming troops starting to move south.

He knew that Li Laiheng organized 30,000 villagers to intercept Lu Mou. The 20,000 enemy troops heading south were aimed at Li Laiheng.

It's over, not to mention the number of people, just the equipment and physique, Li Laiheng's villagers are dead.

"Dongzi, lead a thousand brothers and rush out from the south gate to open a passage for the army to leave the city." Li Laiheng must be rescued.

Li Dongzi received the order loudly and immediately organized a thousand death squads: "Those in front, push up the door panels, open the city gate, and rush -"

The one at the front immediately removed the door panel, held it in front, and rushed out screaming when the city gate opened.

Gu Guangyi, commander of the Third Division, strengthened a regiment of the Second Division and was left to block the gate of Daming Mansion.

Originally, Gu Guangyi had these 12,000 men and planned to let Li Guo's entire army leave the city. He was confident that he could win and annihilate Li with 13,000 against Li's 20,000.

The plan was reported to the army commander Lu Yixing, but Lu Yixing rejected it without hesitation: "Didn't you understand my military order? I don't want annihilation, I don't want Daming Mansion, I just want you to block Li Guo in the city and prevent him from getting out. Come on. Don’t think about useless things, just follow the military orders.”

The veteran Junwu, who was over fifty years old, came back dejected after being humiliated in front of this young man, and was doing his job of blocking the door honestly.

Suddenly, the south gate of Daming Mansion opened, a door panel was pushed up, and the bandits howled, preparing to rush out.

Gu Guangyi immediately personally ordered: "Fire the solid bullets."

Five solid bullets that had been loaded for a long time flew out with a roar, smashing the door panels into pieces with a bang. The remaining power of the shells did not dissipate, and continued to roar and hit the bandits crowded in the city gate, creating several bloody alleys.

Gu Guangyi ordered again: "Grapnel, fire -"

Five cannons loaded with shotgun roared, and the countless lead stones, like iron brooms, sieved all the bandits in the city gate.

The sound of cannons stopped and the shouts of killing disappeared. Both sides looked at the flesh and blood in the city gate in shock: This is really like Yuan Chonghuan's description of Ningjin's great victory back then: "I occupied the city head and fired the cannon myself, and the cannon was destroyed." Ten miles.”

This is not Shili, this refers to erosion.

It was really rotten. There was a thick pile of minced meat in the city gate cave.

Li Dongzi did not organize a second attack and ran directly to Li Guo: "General, this won't work. Fill in as many people as we need. Find other ways to get out of the city."

If you think of other methods, no matter what method, you can only use the method of falling into the city.

But when people are in the air, the flintlock steel guns of the Ming army outside the city will kill them one by one.

Li Guo was really depressed. He clearly had 20,000 troops who had been trained for more than a year, but they were surrounded by 10,000 enemies in the city. He couldn't use any of his strength.

Then he could only lament: "General Li Laiheng, please wish yourself well."

After receiving the battle report from the Ming army, Li Laiheng was desperate.

No wonder Lu Mou was suddenly in a leisurely mood and rested and ate on the south bank of the Wei River. He just wanted to use the Wei River to cut off the communication between himself and Gao Yigong, making his plan of infantry and cavalry cooperation between the two armies failed.

Seeing that the plan failed, and without the cooperation of the cavalry, the militiamen themselves would not be able to defeat the powerful Ming army pressing from the north no matter what. Especially if he is fighting with his back to the river, his militia will never fight to the death like the overlord Xiang Yu. At that time, if the Ming army squeezes over, their own men and horses will fall into the river and drown countless people.

Seeing that the battle situation was hopeless, Li Laiheng stamped his feet and decisively ordered: "All of us, flee to the four villages."

The people, who had long been panic-stricken, immediately dispersed as if they had received an amnesty upon hearing such military orders, fled to the four countryside, and turned around to return home. The farm work in the fields cannot be delayed. A group of farmers, why do you want us to fight?

After one year of farming, they, the trapped bandits, had long since forgotten their origins and returned to being farmers.

Gao Yigong on the other side of the river saw that Li Laiheng's army on the other side was defeated in an instant. He knew that the enemy's large reinforcements had arrived. When he saw that the situation was over, it was impossible for him to do anything on his own. He turned his horse around and ordered in frustration: "Let's go back to Shaanxi." Then he led the team and left. The war launched this time for the imperial examination ended in an anticlimactic manner.

He led the scribes across the Wei River and met Lu Yixing, who asked about the situation of Daming Mansion. He was satisfied with his arrangement: "Very good, very good. This is how it is now. The status quo will be maintained. Li Guo's farming area will not be touched. Don't starve him away. Let's withdraw our troops.

Lu Yixing led the First Army and retreated to Guangping Prefecture, which was next to Daming Prefecture. This meant that his efforts were not in vain this time and he recovered Guangping and Shunde Prefectures.

The officials here showed up immediately and stabilized the place.

The Jin Yiwei here also completed their mission and happily followed the army back to the capital.

After constantly breaking through the bottom line of recruitment, there are finally more than 800 applicants.

This time, we plan to recruit 200 Jinshi, and the success rate has never been higher since the beginning of the imperial examination.

Lu Mou ordered that all students taking the exams would be provided with free food and lodging by the court. Moreover, each student was given a set of standard scribes' uniforms, making the entire capital appear to be a gathering of humanities and poetry.

Chen Que came in and reported with a strange expression: "Prince Regent, we don't recruit people from the south, but among a group of mules, we still got a donkey."

Lu Mou didn't believe it: "That's not right. I've looked at all the candidates' place of birth registrations, and I didn't find anyone from Southern Province."

"This person used his mother's place of origin, Shandong. But when I met them, his obvious Jiangsu and Zhejiang accent, no matter how much he disguised it, could not change it into the green onion dipping sauce flavor of our north. In just two sentences, it was The secret is revealed.”

Lu Mou heard this and asked, "What is this candidate's name?"

"Zhang Huangyan is from Ningbo, Zhejiang." Then he quickly introduced: "This is a talented man. He passed two tests in a row at the age of twenty and passed the exam.

When Li Yan and I interrogated him, we discovered that he was also very knowledgeable in arranging troops and commanding operations. Regent, talent is rare, isn’t it—”

Lu Mou said without hesitation: "Stay. A person who can pass the formal imperial examination and enter the official career from an orthodox background will lower his status to join the Enke. This is a good young man who wants to contribute to the country as soon as possible. Stay , let him refer to it.”

Zhang Huangyan, the first time he heard his name, Lu Mou was thinking about him.

This man was a famous celebrity, loyal minister, and Confucian general in the late Ming Dynasty.

Zhang Huangyan was elected in the 15th year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty, and the Southern Ming Dynasty was established. He became the Minister of the Ministry of War of the Southern Ming Dynasty. In the seventh year of Shunzhi, Zhang Huangyan was appointed Zuo Shilang of the Ministry of War of the Longwu Dynasty.

Later, he led troops from the Yangtze River to Nanjing several times to attack the Qing army.

King Gui called him Yongli Emperor in southern China and appointed him as a scholar and minister of the Ministry of War. In May of the 16th year of Shunzhi, Zhang Huangyan and Zheng Chenggong divided their troops to march north. After conquering Wuhu, they attacked four prefectures, three prefectures and 24 counties along the Yangtze River. Half of the Jianghuai River was shaken.

Due to Zheng Chenggong's defeat in Nanjing and the entire division's defeat, Zhang Huangyan sneaked more than 2,000 miles back to eastern Zhejiang to recruit his old troops and regroup.

After that, Zheng Chenggong died of illness in Taiwan, Emperor Yongli was killed in Yunnan, and King Lu also died in Kinmen, leaving Zhang Huangyan isolated and helpless. In the third year of Kangxi's reign, Zhang Huangyan was defeated in a naval battle with the Qing army. He disbanded his remaining troops and retreated to Xuandao. He was later captured by a traitor and betrayed. He was unyielding and was killed in Hangzhou.

Zhang Huangyan, Yue Fei and Yu Qian are also known as the "Three Heroes of West Lake", which shows how high his achievements are.

Since becoming the time-travel master, Lu Mou has deeply felt the scarcity of talents, especially military generals, so he had to let a group of children about his own age lead troops on expeditions.

So, when he had nothing to do, he desperately searched in his mind for any other famous generals and ministers between the late Ming Dynasty and the Southern Ming Dynasty.

Of course, not like Shi Kefa. He can only be regarded as a loyal minister, not a capable minister.

In the end, he was disappointed. The capable ministers and generals in the late Ming Dynasty were not killed by the enemy, but more often by their own cheap father. The rest are still in their own hostile camp. Up to now, the ability of famous ministers is really extremely scarce.

Once I was flipping through Du Niang in my mind, Zhang Huangyan suddenly appeared.

This person can be regarded as a loyal minister in the late Ming Dynasty, and a capable minister with both civil and military skills. You can't find such a person by yourself. Now that he has jumped onto the table and become your own dish, how can you reject him thousands of miles away?

"Master Chen, please bring Zhang Huangyan to me immediately."

Chen Jing shook his head immediately: "No, the exam is about to start, and the examiner is meeting the candidates, which is suspected of fraud. It will be criticized by other candidates."

Lu Mou thought about it, and finally suppressed his eagerness: "Okay, when the results of the imperial examination come out, whether he passes the exam or not, we will meet this great sage again."

Chen Que deliberately warned: "But we have agreed that when we invite this great sage to come out, we can't use sacks."

Now Old Bi Maokang was still trembling when he saw the sack.

(End of this chapter)