In the golden autumn of October 80 years ago, the three main forces of the Red Army met at Huining and Jiangtaipu, and the Long March that shocked the world came to a victorious end. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info This is a glorious victory of the party leading the people's army, and it is also an unparalleled heroic epic in human history.

The failure of the fifth anti-"encirclement and suppression" campaign was the most direct and important reason for the Red Army's Long March.

Due to the failure of the fifth anti-"encirclement and suppression", the Central Red Army began the Long March. However, the Red Army in other places did not fail, so why did it also carry out the Long March?

A very important reason is that the strategic shift of the Central Red Army has broken the relatively stable strategic pattern.

During the Long March, the Red Army fought more than 380 battles, captured more than 700 county towns, and the Red Army sacrificed as many as 430 cadres above the battalion level, with an average age of less than 30 years old, and defeated hundreds of regiments of the Kuomintang Army, during which it passed through 11 provinces, climbed 18 mountains, and crossed 24 major rivers.

Walking through uninhabited meadows and rolling snow-capped mountains, the journey is about 25,000 miles!

And look at the Qing army, the distance from Shanhaiguan to Ulaanbaatar (ULN) is 1,350 kilometers, which is one-tenth of the distance of the Red Army's Long March!

Looking at the comparison of the hearts of the people between the two, everywhere the Red Army went, it was the desire of the people. Those who win the hearts of the people win the world!

Did the Qing army have it?

Even the Mongolian side is now working half-heartedly.

Comprehensive comparison, that is to say, although the distance is inferior, but the supply of the ancient army is more difficult to go to the sky.

The Red Army's Long March totaled about 300,000 men at the time of departure, and about 25,000 remained after arrival.

At the end of the Qing army's small Long March, I don't know if these 80,000 or 90,000 people can be left?

It can only be said that X is waiting for it!

It didn't take long for the Qing army, who had rested for a day under the first snow-capped mountain and barely found some edible bark and grass roots to serve as temporary reserves of military rations, and set out on the road again.

The meadow in front of you is actually a plateau wetland, a muddy swamp. There are many reasons for its formation!

The aquatic weeds are intertwined and knotted, and they are covered with water. The vegetation that grows in the swamp is mainly Tibetan Song grass, Ula moss grass, sea leek, etc., forming meadows. Under the meadow, the stagnant water is black and muddy, with no knees in the shallow places and no roofs in the depths.

From a distance, it looks like a gray-green ocean, no hills, no trees, birds and beasts are extinct, people are barren, there are no villages, no roads, east and west, north and south, vast and infinite.

Men and mules and horses walked on the meadows, stepping on the roots of the grass and advancing along the meadows. If you accidentally fall into the quagmire and no one can help you, you will sink deeper and deeper, and even be swallowed up.

Because it is close to the middle of the snow-capped mountains, the grassland area has a harsh climate, and the clear sky and fog are unpredictable.

In the sky, a giant eagle flew slowly.

Zhu Zilong, who shared the same vision with the giant eagle brother, looked at the Qing army below speechlessly.

I thought to myself, no wonder I set up an ambush in front of the Shanhaiguan Pass, but I always couldn't wait for the arrival of the Qing army. It turned out to be a family, not afraid of nine deaths, and the soldiers made dangerous moves, and they played the cottage Long March, went up the snow mountain, and crossed the grassland.

I have to say, it's really a bull ratio!

They were forced to go to Liangshan, so they could only play like this. But Ming Jun and Zhu Jiajun can't play like this!

In this terrain, the biggest enemy is not humans, but nature.

Even if Zhu Jiajun comes, there will be countless casualties along the way, which is not fun.

Forget it, or in the area of their several possible large exits, ambush centaurs. And call the tribes of the Mongolian people who are close to the Ming to join forces to defend together. I believe that even if there was an accident in the previous plan, it is estimated that the Qing army will be half-dead when they come out of these snow-capped mountains and grasslands.

At that time, give them another heavy blow, and Houjin will be equivalent to 80% of the extermination, which is not enough to become a big disaster!

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So, Zhu Zilong put the focus of his observation on Li Zicheng's side in the capital.

I don't know if I don't know, I'm shocked when I see it.

It turned out that Li Zicheng in the capital soon did not have to worry too much about the lack of food and grass for his army.

Of course, this is not because he has received new food and grass, but because his soldiers have been greatly reduced.

The plague has reappeared in Jingshi!

The plague, once made the Ming Dynasty, unable to return to the sky, can no longer bear it. Similarly, not long after that, Li Zicheng's million-strong army occupied Jingshi, but it did not mean that the plague had completely disappeared.

No, all of a sudden, they were resurrected.

The cause was none other than tens of thousands of horses of the cavalry.

Throughout human history, the original source of infectious diseases is mainly foreign, and the vast majority of them are acquired from animals.

Near-range ones such as mad cow disease and avian influenza, distant ones such as smallpox, measles, and yellow fever...... They are all after the birth of human civilization. With the development of animal husbandry, many animals that were originally harmless or harmless microorganisms entered the human body day and night, and eventually became xenogeneous, causing human diseases, which is the origin of the plague!

Cats, pigs, sheep, horses, cattle, etc., have similar pathogens with humans, and germs and viruses are easy to hybridize and mutate to form new pathogens.

As a result, it is even more difficult to prevent!

Obviously, compared to the modern people of the 21st century who pay attention to personal hygiene. The people of the Ming Dynasty, especially the thieves, were basically in the stage of personal hygiene, which was not clean, and they were not sick after eating.

For example, by a small pond outside the capital city of Daming.

It turned out that its water supply could only supply a few thousand people, but at this time, it was because Li Zicheng's cannon fodder army was too much. The number of people and stalls around this pond alone is enough for tens of thousands of people.

Tens of thousands of people eat, drink, and defecate everywhere, and a lot of them flow into the pond water. After a long time, the water has become muddy, breeding for many bacteria and insects.

So much so, when the people who came after them ate and drank the water in this pond every day.

There was already a plague, and now all kinds of strange diseases are born.

High fever, coughing up blood, vomiting, diarrhea, purple-black blood clots under the skin, often only six or seven days from onset to death...... Such symptoms. Let the people of the Ming Dynasty not know why!

However, I heard the report of Jinyiwei and Ye Buhui, as well as the intelligence officers who killed thousands of miles.

Zhu Zilong only felt a burst of numbness on his scalp, and thought to himself, could it be that it was not in addition to the resurgence of the plague. Among the Jingshi, there is also the Black Death, etc., mixed in with it, right?

If there were really signs of the Black Death mixed in, Zhu Zilong would have numb hands and feet.

Anyone who knows the history of the Middle Ages in Europe knows how terrible the Black Death was.

In 1348, a Mongol army attacked a port in the Crimean Peninsula, and in order to force the defenders to surrender as soon as possible, the Mongols threw carrion into the city with trebuchets, thus inducing the great plague throughout the city, which was the original origin of the Black Death.

One of the obvious symptoms of the Black Death was that many dark spots appeared on the surface of the patient's skin, so this particular plague was called "Black Death".

Before the advent of antibiotics, the nightmare of the Black Death hovered over the heads of every European.

The Black Death, which broke out in the 14th century and claimed between 30 and 60 percent of Europe's population (about 200 million people), is notorious and still feared today.

But Europeans should be glad that septicaemic plague has a 100% fatality rate, but fortunately it was not this at the time.

Otherwise, that's true.

Hundreds of years ago, there might not have been a single white person in the world!

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