Chongzhen Daming: Starting from Coal Mountain

Chapter 191 The Eve of the Great War
On the official road from Shangqiu to Xuzhou, the army of slavery is marching forward.

Dodo rode a white horse among the thousands of horses. Because of the cold weather, Dodo didn't wear chain mail, and he didn't fight, let alone iron armor. cotton armor.

In such a cold weather, the advantages of cotton armor are reflected.

Because wearing a cotton armor that weighs less than ten catties can really keep you warm.

But even though he was wearing cotton armor, he was still braving the wind and snow.

From the rapid march in the morning to the present, it has been more than five hours of horseback riding, with a short rest in the middle, already hungry and tired, and even felt that his legs were frozen and lost consciousness.

At that moment, Duoduo lashed Fan Chengmo, who was leading the horse for him, with a whip.

"Slave dog." Duoduo scolded with a black face, "I don't have any eyesight."

Fan Chengmo turned his head and looked at Dodo in a daze, not knowing why he was beaten.

Fan Chengmo really couldn't figure out why Duduo treated him like this since he was begged from Zhenghongqi.
"Still in a daze?" Duoduo struck his head with two more whips, and then cursed, "Hurry up and bring the flagon, do you want to freeze this king to death or something?"

"Ah? Oh." Fan Chengmo woke up like a dream.

Immediately, Fan Chengmo went to the pack horse next to him and took the gourd from the horse's back.

Duoduo took the wine gourd, pulled out the cork and took a big gulp of strong wine.

In this cold weather, if you can't drink a few sips of shochu, you really can't bear it.

After taking a few sips of strong wine, a gust of heat slowly spread from the chest and abdomen to the limbs and veins. The limbs and veins that were about to freeze regained consciousness, and people became emotionally excited.

"Wa Xing!" Duoduo turned his head and shouted, "Come here."

A burly Jiannu general galloped over immediately.

This general is also wearing a white cotton armor trimmed with red, and the bowl, neck, and eyebrow cover on his head are also white, only the tassel floating on the top of the two-foot-high tasseled spear is red.

Obviously, this is a general with a white flag.

But in fact, Wa Xing'a is the inlaid white flag Baya Latiao Zhangjing.

Oboi's No. [-] warrior in Manchuria was appointed by Huang Taiji, but Wa Xing'a has always refused to accept it.

Wa Xing'a insisted that Oboi could become the number one warrior in Manchuria only because he was the inlaid yellow flag Baya Latuzhangjing. If it wasn't for this, he, Wa Xing'a, would be the number one warrior in Manchuria.

Wa Xing'a Feima came to Duo Duo, slapped him a thousand times and asked, "Master, did you call me?"

"Yeah." Duoduo hiccupped and asked, "Where has he reached now? How far is it from Xuzhou?"

Wa Xing'a said without hesitation: "Just now there is a report from Zhengbai Banner Yebuju, saying that it is less than ten miles away from Xuzhou, and they have already dispersed the barbarians outside Xuzhou city."

In other words, Zhengbai Banner has basically controlled the periphery of Xuzhou.

Duoduo said quickly: "Go, take the guards and follow me to the front to see Xuzhou City."

"Hey!" Wa Xing'a immediately summoned the Bala soldiers with white flags inlaid, that is, the white armor soldiers.

In less than a moment, the white-armored soldiers of the Xiangbai Banner had gathered, there were more than 58, more than the Xiangbai Banner, because the Xiangbai Banner now had [-] soldiers.

When Duoduo arrived outside Xuzhou City with the white armored soldiers, the Zhengbai Banner had already cleared the periphery, and the Eight Banners Mongolia was conducting a search on a wider area.

However, the front only advanced to six miles outside Xuzhou.

Because if you go any further, you will enter the strike range of the Ming army gun platform.

Wa Xing'a pointed at Xuzhou and said, "Master, this is Xuzhou City."

"So this is Xuzhou." Duoduo said, taking out the telescope from the leather pouch on the side of the saddle, unfolding it, and pointing the field of view in the direction of Xuzhou City.

What appeared in the field of vision was indeed a majestic city.

While observing Xuzhou City, Duoduo said leisurely: "It is said that dozens of wars broke out in Xuzhou City, which determined the rise and fall of more than a dozen dynasties. This time, I am afraid that we will witness history again."

Wa Xing'a said: "Master's words are absolutely true, Nan Ming will definitely lose in this battle!"

"Huh!" Duoduo snorted and said again, "What this king wants is not only to defeat the Ming army, but also to capture Chongzhen alive!"

Wa Xing'a said: "Master, please rest assured, it is early spring, Xuzhou is the season of freezing, the Yellow River has already frozen, as long as Chongzhen is in Xuzhou, then don't think about leaving gone."

While speaking, a huge white shadow suddenly rose slowly in the distance of Xuzhou city.

"Eh, this is it?" Duoduo was surprised when he saw this, what is it?
Not only Duoduo, but Wa Xing'a and more than 600 white armored soldiers with white flags also saw it.

"What the hell is this?" Va Xing'a and Bai Jiabing were all stunned, what a big ball!

……

Zheng Sen was so nervous that he was about to suffocate.

The two scholars behind him were pulling the bellows to blow the wind, so they didn't feel anything, but Zheng Sen, who was standing beside the hanging basket, felt his legs trembling slightly, it was too high.

It's just high, the bottom of the key is still floating.

This feeling of being rootless and lost is really terrible.

If it falls, even if it does not fall to death on the spot, I am afraid that it will be crippled.

Zheng Sen really wanted to yell at the eunuchs below, telling them to hang up the Kongming Lantern quickly.

But when he thought of His Majesty's entrustment, Zheng Sen forcibly held back his sense of fear, because this Kongming Lantern might determine the success or failure of the next Xuzhou battle.

The success or failure of the Xuzhou War will determine the life and death of Daming.

Therefore, in a sense, the safety of the Ming Dynasty all depends on this Kongming Lantern!

Whoops, whoops... The two scholars in the hanging basket kept pulling the bellows, blowing warm air out of the stove, and then sending it into the huge Kongming lampshade above their heads.

The eunuch below also slowly turned the winch, releasing the hemp rope continuously.

So the Kongming Lantern rose higher and higher, like a huge kite gradually rising into the sky.

When the Kongming Lantern rose to a height of ten feet, Zheng Sen looked down again, and saw that the sages, eunuchs, and scholars on the ground had all turned into villains, which was not so scary at this time.

Looking to the northwest, Zheng Sen could only see a series of gun platforms in his field of vision.

But outside the outermost gun platform, there is only a vast expanse of whiteness left, and nothing can be seen clearly.

This is because people's eyesight is limited, and it is difficult to distinguish people from two miles away. Fortunately, Zheng Sen was prepared and borrowed three monoculars from the Holy One.

Pull the telescope away one by one, and then point the field of view to the northwest.

Soon, teams of Jiannu appeared in the field of vision of the telescope.

Most of these Jian slaves rode white horses, wore white cotton armor, and even the flags were white, which almost blended with the surrounding snowfield. Zheng Sen exhausted his eyesight to distinguish these Jian slave cavalry from the vast snow field.

The field of view of the telescope continued to rise, aiming at a further distance, and finally saw the slave cavalry of different colors.

The Jiannu cavalry that appeared in the field of vision included red armor, blue armor, and yellow armor. In addition, there were many cavalry in gray-brown armor, which looked like leather armor.

Then, Zheng Sen saw vans one after another.

Many vans are also loaded with bulky Hongyi cannons.

I saw Jiannu's cavalry, infantry, and chariot battalion walking along the official road, extending from about six or seven miles away from Xuzhou to the end of the invisible field of vision. How many are there in the distance?
……

The No. [-] hilltop of Yunlong Mountain is also the closest to the outer hilltop.

On the blunderbuss platform on the top of the mountain, the sound of drum music sounded, and under the expectant eyes of thousands of border town officers and soldiers, Qin Liangyu in a costume played by Li Xiangjun appeared on the blunderbuss platform riding a "horse".

After a long prelude of drum music, Li Xiangjun suddenly lifted the wooden horse in his hand.

Changsuo Nashou in the blowing class immediately imitated the neighing of war horses, lifelike.

Immediately, Li Xiangjun sang beautifully and melodiously but still heroically: "A journey through the mountains, a journey through the water, walking towards the bank of Yuguan, a thousand lamps in the middle of the night! When the wind changes, the snow changes, and the dreams of the hometown will not come true. , there is no such sound in the hometown."

Just these few lines of libretto vividly show the scene of Qin Liangyu riding alone to aid the Hunhe battlefield on a snowy night. Thousands of soldiers watching the opera under the gun platform were also brought into the snowy night outside Shanhaiguan. Following Li Xiangjun's singing voice, he appeared on the tragic Hunhe battlefield.

A hundred paces away, Qu Shawei, a Portuguese instructor, was deploying Hongyi cannons with artillery soldiers.

Jin Shenghuan was watching from the sidelines, and the sound of drums and babbling singing came from behind, like ten thousand ants crawling on him, which made him want to go back to the theater.

But no, he must resolutely hold back.

Li Xiangjun's little lady is forbidden by the sage, no one is allowed to touch her!

Finally, Jin Shenghuan couldn't bear it anymore, so he turned and went down the mountain to listen to the scholar's speech at the foot of the mountain.

I saw a burly scholar standing on a blunderbuss platform, speaking to Jin Shenghuan's soldiers in proper mandarin, and the soldiers who were in charge of guarding the blunderbuss platform at the foot of the mountain were listening attentively.

Jin Shenghuan was from Yulin, northern Shaanxi. Half of the soldiers under his command were old soldiers from northern Shaanxi, and the other half were from Henan or Shanxi, so they could understand official Chinese.

"Soldiers, do you know why Jiannu was killed?"

"Because Jiannu wants to kill us, if we don't kill Jiannu, we will be killed by Jiannu!"

"Jianu not only wants to kill us, but also captures our children to make coats, that is, let our children serve as cattle and horses for them, and they also rape our wives and daughters. Do you know what adultery is? Yes, it is That's what you think, and it's forcing our wives and daughters to sleep with them, and even killing our wives and daughters to eat as army rations!"

"Have you ever heard of Two-legged Sheep? It's the wife and daughter of Erlang of our Han family!"

After this pause, the scholar shouted again: "Do you want your parents to be killed by Jiannu, your children to be Jiannu's coat slaves, and your wives and daughters to be reduced to two-legged sheep? "

"I don't want to!" Hundreds of soldiers shouted angrily, their pupils were red.

(End of this chapter)