Nanming Engineer

Chapter 419 Coping
Li Tingyu still had his carefree and bold personality, waved his hand, and cursed: "According to me, my lord, why don't you pay any attention to why the Tartars came, just raise your troops, go to Datong, and destroy Azig with the force of thunder, Forgive him for the Eight Banners. He couldn't go a round under our mighty guns and thunderbolts. Then he entered Beizhili from Zijingguan, broke through the city of Beijing, and drove the Tartar bird emperor back to Liaodong. Hehe, and then waved troops Shanhaiguan, and then..."

"Then the Tatars will destroy us!" Ma Xintian had just arrived, holding the tea cup and was about to take a sip. When he heard Li Tingyu's words, he immediately interrupted him rudely, as if a basin of cold water had been poured over him.

Li Tingyu looked over viciously with one eye, and gritted his teeth angrily: "You shameless monster, what nonsense are you talking about? Why did you let the Tartars wipe us out? Tell me clearly!"

Because Ma Xintian has always belonged to Qin Liangyu, and although he is not in the same rank as Li Tingyu, he has the relationship with the chief general's personal guard. He is not very afraid of the bearded general. joke.

Ma Xintian has always been calm, with an indifferent expression, a stern face, and no expression of emotion or anger. From the eyes of others, his face seems to be almost the same. In private, those who fear him secretly call him a faceless monster. This nickname slowly spread. For some reason, Li Tingyu knew about it, and the bearded man immediately talked about it. As long as Ma Xintian provoked him, he would immediately use it to hurt others.

Ma Xintian listened, but did not respond. He still looked indifferent, which made Li Tingyu punch the cotton, which was very boring.However, he did not notice that whenever he was eating and drinking, Ma Xintian sprinkled a lot of horse manure powder into his tea cup and rice bowl when he was not prepared.

At this time, the four of them gathered around the table, doing it in groups, and it was inconvenient to start. Ma Xintian just glanced at Li Tingyu indifferently, met his staring one-eyed eyes, and then said slowly: "My Kuizhou military weapon dominates the world. From Sichuan to Shanxi, we are invincible in all battles, relying on powerful firearms, just as Hou Ye said, we are fighting a war with generational differences, but although the firearms are powerful, they have some flaws."

"Oh?" Li Tingyu raised his eyebrows: "What?"

"...Gunpowder, ammunition." Li Dingguo, who was sitting next to Ma Xintian, sighed softly and said for Ma Xintian: "We can defeat tens of thousands of Nikan troops in one battle and kill countless Tatars, but we ourselves will suffer very little loss. Firearms poured out. The contribution is indispensable. However, this kind of tactics consumes a lot of gunpowder and bullets. The iron bullets of the Shenwei Cannon can be picked up and used again, but the gunpowder is worth less. However, Hongtianlei relies on the explosive impact of gunpowder to kill the enemy, which is equivalent to It is indispensable. One shot can produce at least a hundred kilograms, and ten rounds can equal a thousand kilograms. Although our army's supply camp has strong transportation capacity, it is impossible for the army to carry a large amount of gunpowder. After a battle, it has to stop and wait for supplies. Therefore, although this battle is huge, If you win, you cannot take advantage of the victory and pursue it, but instead wait where you are.”

Li Tingyu was stunned, lowered his head to think carefully, and then raised his head to look at Wang Huan.

Wang Huan smiled, picked up the earthen pot and continued to Ma Xintian, who drank the tea in one breath, and said: "This matter must not be spread, otherwise the weakness of the Kuizhou army will be exposed."

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The blood outside Shiling Pass is still wet, and outside Xinfeng City in Jiangxi, swords are being sharpened, flags are flying, a small county town is full of soldiers, not only that, within ten miles outside the city, there are camps and tents all over the ground. The wall is high, and hundreds of thousands of people are stationed here.

Surrounded by camps outside the city, a main camp that is much larger than the other camps is set up inside. The soldiers inside are well-dressed and well-built, and compared with the soldiers in other camps, they are much more photogenic.

A large recognition flag was waving in the camp, all of which were embroidered with the word "Li". You can see it from miles away.

This is Li Chengdong's barracks, who was ordered to conquer Jiangxi westward. He led a crowd of [-] people to leave Guangdong and enter Jiangxi. He has camped here for half a month.

This is the second time to rescue Jiangxi. The first western expedition was in August last year. At that time, Jin Shengheng and Wang Deren in Nanchang City were not dead, and Nanchang was not lost. If the rescue is effective, the siege of Nanchang can be solved completely. , Take the whole territory of Jiangxi with the victorious soldiers.

At that time, Li Chengdong's troops, also known as one hundred thousand, marched straight to Ganzhou, the gateway to southern Ganxi. However, they were defeated by the Qing army in a battle under the city, and fled directly back to Guangdong, losing face.

After recuperating for a few months, the grass on Jin Shengheng's grave in Nanchang City was a foot high. Li Chengdong once again assembled a hundred thousand people and went to Jiangxi for the second time.

Having learned the lesson from the last time, Li Chengdong received the news that Tan Tai and Gushan Ezhenheluo, the generals of the Qing army who conquered the South, would lead the Manchu and Han armies and had already broken through Nanchang City. Now Ganzhou is waiting for his news, and immediately changed his strategy to stabilize Play steadily and send troops to plunder land everywhere, occupying many prefectures and counties. Relying on the county towns occupied by generals such as Xuanping Bo Dong Fangce and Wu Shebo Yan Keyi, they set up camps on all sides and set up nets to wait for the arrival of the Qing army. .

The night is deep and the moon is bright, thousands of miles away, it seems that the bright moon in Shanxi tonight also shines in Xinfeng Village, in the big tent under the moonlight, the same low table, different people, sit around a table.

Li Chengdong sat at the main seat, and several important generals under his command sat around. On the low table in front of them, there was a letter.

Ink was flying on the letter, and it was written in cursive. Judging from the handwriting, it was obviously written in a hurry.

All the people in the seat, with stern faces and solemn expressions, stared at the letter in silence, as if the words on the letter weighed a thousand catties, and these generals dared not make a sound.

After a long time, Li Chengdong slowly raised his eyelids, glanced around, and said slowly: "That's the way it is. You are all people I trust. If you have any ideas, please tell me."

The generals looked at each other in shock, and no one spoke for a while. After a long silence, Yan Keyi frowned, took a breath and said to Li Chengdong: "This son is not simple, sir. It has only been a long time since we occupied Shaanxi, and we have actually put an end to the chaos in Shaanxi." They also sent troops to Shanxi, surrendered the heroes of southern Shanxi, and blocked Wu Sangui from Tongguan. Such courage and means are unparalleled!"

Li Chengdong glared at him angrily and said hatefully: "Of course it's not simple. This beast dared to kill my own son in Zhaoqing and fled to Guangxi. During the pursuit of my army, it was able to kill the generals and clear Yinxi's retreat. This is Waiting for characters, if it were simple, they would have died so many times!"

Lieutenant General Liang Desheng saw Yan Keyi deflated, and quickly said: "However, although this beast is fierce, it is right! After all, Wang Huan is still a 20-year-old young man, and the young man is impetuous. He won't know how many hands he holds." The sky is high and the earth is thick! He didn’t know what kind of coincidence he used to get Shaanxi by chance. He didn’t know that the business was safe, so he rushed to Shanxi according to the order, but he didn’t know, is Shanxi comparable to Shaanxi? This trip will definitely attract God’s punishment!”

Deputy General Pan Zengwei also echoed: "What General Liang said is very true. Wang Huan is not motivated, and he is very happy. Shanxi is full of dragons and tigers, and Azig leads tens of thousands of Tartar Eight Banners soldiers. How can the Han army in Shaanxi be compared? This It will be defeated by the Tartars."

"I hope this kid dies in the rebellious army. It would be best to settle it once and for all." Yan Keyi also said: "It can be regarded as avenging the young master!"

Li Chengdong listened, smashed his fist heavily on the table, raised his thick eyebrows, and said fiercely: "What you said is in line with common sense. I hate this dog. It's a pity that I can't cut off its head!"

Everyone was busy consoling them. At this time, the news of the great victory at Shiling Pass in Shanxi had just happened. Of course, Li Chengdong's army far away in Jiangxi could not know about it. It's easy to blow off steam.

Li Chengdong scolded Wang Huan a few more words, then calmed down, and said to everyone: "However, it may not do us any harm if this beast goes to Shanxi!"

(End of this chapter)