In October, the climate in Qilu is much colder than that in Jiangnan.

But a grain transport team was heading north against the wind and cold at this time. The head of the company did not know why he was obviously engaged in salt transport, so he transported food in such a ghost weather.

As long as he transports the food into Baoding Prefecture and hand it over to the Fan family, everything will be complete.

As a manager, he doesn't need to know too much, right?

The large group of people went from south to north, and the more they walked, the colder they became. When they arrived at the boundary of Qilu, there was no trace of green. The trees were left with only dry branches, and the ground was dry and weedy, and it seemed that they were all yellow when they looked around.

There are villages of different sizes dotted in the middle of the plain, but there are many desolate and uninhabited people. On the way, he will bring more people to camp in such villages, and at the same time, he will also place the corpses he encountered.

It doesn't matter if the coffin is not a coffin. He dug a hole and buried piles of bones inside, and he will have great blessings.

"It's a sin, the Tartars are really a sin."

This manager is considered a decent person in Yangzhou. He sees more than just a mu of land in Yangzhou, but also has a lot of knowledge about the situation in the northern region. So he directly scolds the Tartars.

This is a human nature.

He was in Yangzhou and had never thought that he would have anything to do with the Tartars. Isn’t it natural to see the thick white bones and curse the Tartars?

But he would never have thought that his every move was silently seen in the eyes. When the country changed color in the future, it was his way to do it along the way, and his curses at the Tartars changed his entire destiny.

The encounters in life are so magical!

"Have you found out the place where Fan's family has stored grain? Has Fan Yongliang's whereabouts been finalized?"

"Continue to check. I'm going to keep an eye on me!"

In the capital thousands of miles away, Zheng Zhiguan's harsh voice came from the small courtyard near a teahouse in the east of the city.

...

It was also at this time that Zheng Sen of Denglai locked himself in the study for a whole day. The door was opened again. Zheng Sen, who reappeared in front of everyone, seemed to have become a different person, and his murderous aura was revealed, like a sword was unsheathed!

"I shouldn't have any doubts about my father's words. My father is indeed extraordinary when he can go from a commoner to today's struggle."

Who would have thought that the battle in the Central Plains was a great month ago, and it turned upside down in the blink of an eye?

The official army occupied Luoyang in August and Ruzhou in September, and the situation was very good. Li Yangchun, the chief lieutenant of the civil army surrendered. Then he informed the official army, telling the official army that the old camp of the thieves were in Tang County, and the pseudo-general and officials stationed in Baofeng, and all the elites gathered in Xiangcheng. Hong and Sun took targeted actions based on this information, first conquering Baofeng, beheading Chen Kexin, the pseudo-state governor, and then heading to Tang County to kill all the families of the civil army placed there. In mid-September, the official army and the main force of the civil army fought fiercely in Jia County. The civil army was defeated and fled. Xie Junyou, the general of Zuo Guoyi, the front camp, was captured and killed, and Li Zicheng was almost captured. When the battle report was spread to Denglai, Zheng Sen was about to throw away Zheng Zhilong's orders.

This is the rhythm of Li Zicheng's death.

However, no one would have thought that the high-spirited official army drove the civilian army to Xiangcheng, but God made a big joke to the Ming Dynasty at this time.

It was just at this time that it rained heavily for seven days. The government troops exposed to the city were suffering. The roads were muddy and the food trucks of the government troops were difficult to provide assistance, so there was a big problem with the logistics. Li Zicheng saw the opportunity to turn defeat into victory, and sent general Liu Zongmin to lead 10,000 cavalrymen to the rear of the government troops from the small road, cutting off the food road of the government troops, and the Ming army was in chaos.

Hong Sun led a large army to retreat to Nanyang with the Central Plains officers and soldiers of Chen Yongfu's army, but the Central Plains officers and soldiers were unwilling to be scapegoats. The front army moved to the back army and the rear army was in chaos. Chen Yongfu could not stop it, and the Ming army collapsed on its entire line. This retreat could no longer be stopped.

The army rushed straight to Nanyang City and stabilized its position. They fought a big battle with the chased civilian army. They wanted to bet Yu Yong to turn the defeat into victory, but they were already too late. They lost another big defeat, and half of the 100,000 troops were killed and captured, and those who fled with them were exhausted can be said to have lost all the only "family possessions" in the Ming Dynasty!

The Battle of Ruzhou, like the Battle of Songjin, was a strategic decisive battle that determined the fate of the Ming Dynasty. In these two battles, the Ming army did not have any chance, but due to various reasons, they all failed in the end.

It can only be said that destiny is not in the Ming Dynasty!

For example, when Zheng Sen heard about the battle in Ruzhou, he felt such feudal superstitious thoughts in his heart.

In the Central Plains, it rained for seven days in the middle of the September lunar month, and it was something that could not be encountered once in a century.

Hong Chengchou fled to Kaifeng in a panic, while Sun Chuanting and Gao Jie collected thousands of scattered soldiers and crossed the Yellow River north, and walked around Tongguan through Yuanqu in western Shanxi. General Bai Guangen also led the remaining defeated soldiers to Tongguan.

Li Zicheng also led the army to approach Tongguan with the belief of continuing hard work. Generals Bai Guangen, Chen Yongfu, Niu Chenghu and others surrendered. Sun Chuanting had no soldiers in his hands and Tongguan was immediately lost. He also died on the spot when he was 51 years old. However, Chongzhen believed that Sun Chuanting had a fraud and fled without giving him a gift.

Zheng Sen really had to be impressed by the magical operation of the Nine Five Supreme. You know, just five days after the news of Sun Chuanting's death reached him, Chang'an fell, and Sun's wife Zhang led two concubines and two daughters to the well...

It was only eighty days after Lu Xiangsheng's death that his body was buried. After Yang Sichang failed to defeat the thief and died, Lu Xiangsheng's family received pensions.

What happened to Sun Chuanting now?

Emperor Chongzhen really wanted to completely reduce the "loyalty to the emperor" in Zheng Sen's heart.

Zheng Sen's last respect for Emperor Chongzhen was about to dissipate.

If loyal ministers and good generals encounter this, how can Chongzhen be undefeated?

No wonder that after Lu Xiangsheng died in battle, the world was shocked. In addition to the shock of Lu Xiangsheng's death as the "Secretary of War Minister and Governor of the World to Dedicate the King", the people in the world were afraid that what was even more shocking was that Lu Xiangsheng's loyalty and courage ended up like this?

This is not an obvious way to tell the people of the world that loyalty is a dead end; fearing the enemy and avoiding war, and preserving strength can lead to vitality? Just like Zuo Liangyu!

If all the civil and military officials who are brave enough to take responsibility and loyal to the court are all dead, then are the only ministers left in the world who are destroyed?

With Chongzhen acting like this, how could the Ming Dynasty not perish?

Zheng Sen’s initial feelings about Lu Xiangsheng were not very profound. At that time, he was still a half-year-old boy who was busy studying. But now the incident of Sun Chuanting happened in front of him, which was vivid in his mind.

This is the end of the imperial court and the pillars of the country?

He witnessed Emperor Chongzhen's "incompetence" with his own eyes, and the feeling was particularly sad and unforgettable.

Thinking of the news coming from the south, just when the time when Hong Sun's coalition defeated Li Zicheng and chased Xiangcheng was almost the same as when Zheng Hongkui led the Zheng navy to defeat the Dutch Navy led by Putmans on the sea south of the island.

There is actually no suspense in this battle, at least that's how Zheng Sen sees it.

As far as he knew, the Dutch had only two single-layer gun deck warships and one communication ship in the south of the island, plus four old gate ships, plus five single-layer gun deck warships brought by Putmans, and four layer gun deck warships. Five were armed merchant ships, one was a sloop communication ship. These were only eleven warships, two communication ships with weak combat power, and nine auxiliary ships.

Such strength is at an absolute disadvantage compared to Zheng Jun.

With twelve Western sailing warships and hundreds of auxiliary warships, Zheng's army has a comprehensive advantage over the Dutch. As long as the Dutch dares to come out, if Zheng Hongkui still can't win, Zheng Sen will despise him.

In order not to despise his nephews, Zheng Hongkui defeated the Dutch cleanly on the sea south of the island.

Although the Zheng army navy was still a little short of the duel of the main battleship, the direct line of the fight was very contrary to the Zheng navy's past combat ideas. However, with the cooperation of more than a hundred bird ships and black-tailed ships, when the large group of auxiliary fleets divided part of the fleet and released the fire ships with the wind, the Dutch's defeat was laid.

In this battle, the Zheng Army Navy also lost a lot of people, and how did his father do it?

At the first moment, he spent a lot of money to appease the morale of the army, and then rewarded the meritorious ministers more heavily. He also asked for meritorious contributions to his subordinates...

What exactly did the person in the Forbidden City think?
Chapter completed!