Late Ming Dynasty: Oops, I am surrounded by the Donglin Party

Upon hearing this, Emperor Chongzhen's face lit up with joy. Although he tried well to hide it, he couldn't suppress the smile.

Zhang Shikang said goodbye to the emperor and his ministers and was about to get on his horse when Emperor Chongzhen suddenly remembered something and said:

"Wuji, if Zheng Zhilong takes advantage of the situation to cause chaos, what should we do?"

Ever since the Zheng family was stripped of their titles by Emperor Chongzhen in a rage, they have been secretly disobeying the court and even failed to deliver the warships for which they had paid the deposit as scheduled.

Emperor Chongzhen didn't even know that the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty had sent people to poach his talents, otherwise he would have been even more wary.

"Your Majesty, don't worry. I have already made arrangements."

After saying this, Zhang Shikang did not hesitate any longer. He mounted his horse, bowed to Brother Chongzhen again, and then rode away with Huang Degong, Sun Weifan and others.

Half an hour later, the group caught up with the marching troops.

The scene of an army of 60,000 marching was extremely spectacular, with the team alone stretching for several miles.

Unlike in movies and TV dramas, soldiers do not wear armor during the march, and neither do cavalrymen, unlike in later movies and TV dramas where cavalrymen are always on horseback.

The three thousand heavily armored soldiers were wearing ordinary military uniforms. In the hot summer, although those things were treasures, they were only worn during combat.

This is inside the country, so safety is guaranteed.

In fact, even outside the Great Wall, cavalrymen did not ride horses in order to save the energy of their horses. They would not wear armor unless the enemy was around.

This requires the army to have strong reconnaissance capabilities. In fact, all dynasties have attached great importance to reconnaissance.

The range of reconnaissance ranges from twenty to fifty miles, and some can even detect hundreds of miles.

Once the enemy is spotted, the troops will immediately stop and put on their armor, take off their full gear and be ready for action.

This has been the situation for both sides for thousands of years, until today when the level of industrialization has been reached.

If there is sufficient mobility, such as all light cavalry, once they can avoid the enemy's scouts or rush to the enemy's ranks before the scouts, they will generally cause huge losses to the enemy.

After all, one side was fully armed, while the other side was not even wearing armor and only had individual weapons.

But this is almost impossible. After all, the army seldom marches at night, the vision is good during the day, and the scouts are all light cavalry, so this situation rarely happens.

Of course it was impossible for Zhang Shikang to walk, as he had six spare war horses, all of which were excellent horses picked from hundreds of miles away.

For example, the Ergou under his crotch was equivalent to a Porsche at that time, and the two horses that Lu Xiangsheng gave him one after another were equivalent to Bugatti Veyrons.

It took Zhang Shikang a quarter of an hour to get to the front of the team and find his wife.

Ma Lingqi was wearing silver armor, with a long sword on her waist and a silver spear in her hand. She looked particularly heroic under the sun.

Seeing Zhang Shikang coming, he immediately smiled at him quietly, and then quickly returned to his serious expression.

Her father and brother told her that a general should be dignified and that a kind-hearted person should not be in charge of an army. She deeply agreed with this.

She is now a guerrilla general of the imperial guards appointed personally by the emperor!

Although her husband did not assign any subordinates to her, this made Ma Lingqi very distressed.

"Are you hot? Don't get heatstroke just after leaving the capital. Go change your clothes quickly!" Zhang Shikang frowned.

It was a very hot day, and even Sun Weifan and Huang Degong, the first thing they did when they joined the team was to change their armor.

This silly wife is not very smart after all.

But the silver armor does look good on my wife. Even if it is light armor, it cannot hide my wife's exquisite figure.

"No, Marshal. Military regulations do not prohibit wearing armor during a march!" Ma Lingqi replied in a serious tone.

Upon hearing this, Zhang Shikang squeezed Ergou with his legs, walked to Ma Lingqi, stretched out his hand and scratched Ma Lingqi's head a few times, messing up her neatly styled bangs.

"You are my wife. Everyone in the army knows this. Go change your clothes!"

After saying this, the soldiers around him all laughed.

Only this silly wife would dare to talk about military rules in front of the Grand Marshal.

"Then... then when we get outside the Great Wall, the Marshal must assign soldiers to me." Ma Lingqi did not dare to refute, but still insisted.

"I'll agree if you call me my good husband." Zhang Shikang said with a smirk.

Ma Lingqi felt a little shy when she heard this, after all, she was surrounded by soldiers. But in order to realize her long-cherished wish, Ma Lingqi bit her red lips and timidly met Zhang Shikang's request.

"Good husband."

"Hey~" Zhang Shikang said in a long and loud voice.

"keep your word."

"Huh? What did I just say?"

"You... look at the gun!"

"She is murdering her husband! Come and protect her!"

It would take at least six or seven days to march from the capital to Shanhaiguan at a normal marching speed, and another three or four days to march from Shanhaiguan to the Jinzhou front.

Marching is very boring. It is impossible for Zhang Shikang to let Ma Lingqi go to the battlefield without any selfish motives other than fulfilling her wish.

When I watched TV dramas and movies in the past, Zhang Shikang always envied those hateful capitalists, with jokes like "a secretary does things when there is work to do, and a secretary is useless when there is nothing to do."

I never thought that Zhang Shikang would have this day.

There was continuous artillery fire outside the tent, and the same was true inside the tent.

Oh, this is too depraved. No, no, we absolutely cannot do this.

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Jinzhou City.

The air was filled with smoke; a battle of attack and defense had just ended.

There were many corpses scattered all over the ground under the north city wall, and many wounded soldiers on the wall were groaning in pain.

It's been half a month.

Fortunately, the soldiers defending the city did not suffer heavy losses thanks to the city walls, and there was sufficient food and grass in the city, so the morale of the troops was still good.

"Sir, Dorgon has come to the front of the battle and seems to want to talk." The lookout put down the monocular telescope and reported to Wu Sangui, the commander-in-chief of Guan Ningjin.

The glass workshop of the Manufacturing General Administration has started production, and the first batch of high-quality glass has been made into monocular telescopes and distributed first to the three armies of the Ming Dynasty.

Wu Sangui nodded silently.

He is in his early thirties, at the prime of his career as a military official, and he looks particularly capable in his armor with mountain patterns.

Wu Sangui had his own judgment on this war. The successive defeats in several wars made the Qing Dynasty increasingly unstable.

After all, it has only been established for a few years, and especially those Mongols who have just submitted to the Qing Dynasty seem to have a wait-and-see attitude.

The Qing Dynasty urgently needed a great victory to consolidate its regime.

In other words, Huang Taiji will never give up this war easily.

In all likelihood, it will be a protracted battle.

Neither his immediate superior, the Governor-General Lu Xiangsheng, nor his immediate superior, the Grand Marshal Zhang Shikang, had ordered him to leave the city to fight, so Wu Sangui was not in a hurry.

Dorgon finally reached a place at the foot of the city where they could have a conversation.

He is only thirty years old this year, and is already the Prince Rui who has made outstanding military achievements in the Qing Dynasty. At this moment, he is wearing cotton armor and carrying a scimitar on his waist, and he is just as unruly.

"Wu Sangui, your two uncles and several cousins are all treated well in my Great Qing Empire.

If you are willing to surrender, His Majesty the Great Qing will certainly not treat you unfairly, and the soldiers and civilians in the city will all be spared from disaster.

I will ask you one last question, do you want to surrender or not?"

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