Lin Youde nodded and said, "I think so too." It is estimated that the reinforcements of the Tartars were sent by Mo Yuegen. However, their plan is probably going to fail. With their small strength, it is impossible to take the fortress of Huangxiakou. I'll tell you, I haven't used a cannon yet. With a shot bomb, no amount of Tartar is enough to die. ”

Zhang Dafa shook his head and said with a smile: "Speaking of which, these Tartars are really pitiful. There is no way to take us in Gansu Town, thousands of people have been killed and wounded, but nothing can be gained. I had no choice but to desperately cross the Tengger Desert and try to catch us off guard. Unexpectedly, when we got here, there was still no way to take us. I think they just bought a piece of tofu and hit their heads and died. lest you be tormented. Their food and clothing are estimated to be almost consumed. If you don't retreat, you will only freeze to death and starve to death. ”

Lin Youde said with a smile: "Dafa, I'm thinking, after this battle, I'm afraid that the Tartars won't dare to go south in the future." It is estimated that Lin Dan Khan should also be honest. I said it was our turn to take the initiative. The historical mission of the Huangxiakou Fortress is estimated to have come to an end. I, a savage in the mountains, should be able to go out and see the world. ”

Zhang Dafa nodded sympathetically, and said in a deep voice: "Well, I think so too." ”

He is a member of the Communications Department and an officer of the Chasseur, who often helps Xu Xingxia deliver orders, and has a good understanding of all aspects of the situation. This time, the Tatars and the Mongols have gathered near Zhenyuan Pass, and they are sure to have an unprecedented big battle. This great war is related to the fundamental future trend of the Tatars, the Mongols, and the white-clothed army.

If the Tatars and Mongols had won, the consequences would have gone without saying. The town of Ningxia will definitely suffer great damage. The strength of the white-clothed army will also be greatly weakened. Whether it can continue to persist is still unknown. In the same way, if the White Army wins, it means that the Tatars and the Mongols will lose the initiative in the war. From then on, only the white-clothed army took the initiative to attack them, and there was no possibility for them to take the initiative to attack.

Lin Youde said deeply: "By next year, it should be our initiative to attack." ”

Zhang Dafa said with a bold smile: "Haha, I know, you are indispensable." You, Lin Youde, have been in the mouth of the Yellow Gorge for more than a year, and you usually don't even see a few bird eggs, so you adults know it in your hearts. I can guarantee that when the time comes, the chairman of the committee will give you the heavy responsibility of a pioneer general. I'm afraid that you boys can't take on such a heavy responsibility. ”

Lin Youde suddenly stopped, and said with a straight face: "Good boy, you dare to say that about us? Look at the corpses of those Tartars outside. We who carve cavalry can't bear the heavy responsibility, who else can bear the heavy responsibility? You chasers? ”

Zhang Dafa said with a haha: "Joke, joke, you are all people from the Eagle Cavalry Army, the elite of the elite, we can't afford to mess with it." However, you say that the chasseurs are not as good as your carverick cavalry, and I am definitely not convinced. We all use the same weapons, who is inferior to whom? When the time comes, our chasers will also go to the front. If it's a mule or a horse, you can tell if you pull it out and slip around. ”

The two argued, the canteen over there had already prepared a meal, and Lin Youde invited Zhang Dafa and the brothers of the chasers to sit down. After eating and drinking enough, they arranged for their camping, and personally made two large pots of heating braziers, and then they went with confidence. Huangxiakou, a bird place, usually no one comes, and it is rare for brother troops to come, so it is natural to greet them well. That night, outside the fortress, there was still gunfire until dawn.

After dawn, Lin Youde warmly prepared breakfast and greeted Zhang Dafa and his party. It's a pity that Zhang Dafa is also a busy person and can't be delayed. He still had a few passes to check one by one, and he didn't stay. This is the task that Xu Xingxia personally explained, and he doesn't dare to be sloppy. It just so happened that in the kitchen of the Huangxiakou fortress, there were steamed steamed buns, and he and the soldiers of the chasseurs, each carrying a large bag, put it on horseback, and left in a hurry.

After sending Zhang Dafa away, Lin Youde came up to the city, raised a clairvoyant mirror, and observed the surrounding situation. As a result, another detachment of Tatar cavalry, desperately trying to rush up. He couldn't help but sigh. These poor tartars, they are really pitiful. Knowing that he was going to die, he had to keep running up. If you knew this was the case, why bother in the first place?

...... "The mouth of the Yellow Gorge is under fierce attack!" ”

"The mouth of the dam is under heavy attack!"

"Mount Caron is under heavy attack!"

"Shengjin Pass is under fierce attack!"

…… One by one, the information is constantly aggregated into the war room.

This is set up in the war room behind Zhenyuan Pass, which is very spacious, the size of a classroom in later generations. The walls of the house are all red brick walls, and the walls are specially painted with lime, which is white. The roof is also not a common tile, but a prefabricated cement panel. Such a house has three floors. Each floor is separated by precast cement panels. The top floor is Xu Xingxia's lounge, the second floor is the conference room, and the first floor is the war room.

The walls on both sides of the war room are also rarely equipped with large glass windows. Bright light, reflected through the glass, but no wind. This feeling made Zhu Xieyuan feel very novel. At the same time, he secretly condemned Xu Xingxia's extravagance. It is so extravagant and expensive to actually use large pieces of glass to make glass windows. These six large pieces of glass alone are worth at least thousands of taels of silver. I've never seen such a waste.

At this moment, Xu Xingxia was sitting in front of the map of the war room, silently thinking about the combat strategy. On the large combat map, symbols of various colors are dense and very messy. To outsiders, it looks like a book from heaven. However, in the eyes of the insider, these different colors, different symbols, all represent different meanings.

Zhu Xieyuan also sat in front of the map, pondering the meaning of the various color symbols on the map. It was the first time he saw the world map drawn by Xu Xingxia. It is absolutely impossible to say that there is no doubt in the air. This is a real world map. At that time, the whole world had not yet been fully depicted.

Fortunately, Xu Xingxia did not mean to sell Guanzi, and directly asked Zhang Tianhao to explain the various parts of the entire world map. For Zhu Xieyuan's various doubts, he also answered them as informatively as possible. To be honest, Zhu Xieyuan was shocked at that time. As an old fritter official who has been rolling in officialdom for decades, to be honest, there are not many things that can shock him. However, in the face of this unprecedented world map, Zhu Xieyuan was really shocked. He didn't even hide his surprise in the slightest. There is no need. He was really surprised.

At first, he thought that Xu Xingxia was bragging, trying to deceive himself through such a virtual map. He felt that this so-called world map must have been imagined by Xu Xingxia when he was bored. Actually, this world is not like this at all. For example, how can this world be built on a sphere? For another example, how can the territory controlled by the Ming Dynasty be only such a small piece on the world map? Later, however, he gradually tasted it. Xu Xingxia has no possibility of bragging.

Because, Xu Xingxia is quite clear about the different situations in various places. No matter how much he Zhu Xieyuan knocks on the side, or repeatedly induces, he can answer fluently, and there is no contradiction in the slightest. There is so much knowledge of the world, and there is everything, not to mention Xu Xingxia, even he, a person with a wide range of knowledge, has no way to imagine it. He couldn't even remember what Xu Xingxia introduced at once.

What's even more ingenious is that Xu Xingxia also marked all the routes of Zheng He's voyage to the West on the world map. For Zhu Xieyuan, Zheng He's trip to the West was simply an unimaginable miracle. Although it was later closed to the country and forbidden maritime trade, it caused great losses to the Ming Dynasty. However, ordinary scholars still admire Zheng He's feat very much. They even felt that in this world, it was impossible for anyone to surpass Zheng He.

However, his self-confidence suffered a strong blow. From Xu Xingxia, he regrettably learned that two hundred years ago, Zheng He's feat was indeed unparalleled. However, two hundred years later, Zheng He's feat is a bit behind. Because, with the rise of the Age of Discovery, the Spanish and Portuguese have completed the round-the-world voyage. Their understanding of the ocean has completely surpassed that of the Ming Dynasty. And the Ming Dynasty, due to its own wrong policy of banning the sea, has been ruthlessly abandoned by the sea.

With what to prove? The proof is those Portuguese and Spaniards in the South Seas. They came here from as far away as Europe. During this time, they had to cross tens of thousands of miles of ocean. To get from Europe to Asia, it could take them a full half a year to sail. Those Europeans who appeared in the Nanyang region can be accurately found on Xu Xingxia's world map. Before that, the people of the Ming Dynasty only knew that they came from the distant West, but did not know their specific location. For this alone, Zhu Xieyuan had to believe it.

Zhu Xieyuan once read Wu Chengen's "Journey to the West". At that time, he felt that the process of Tang Seng Xitian's scriptures was described in a strange way, and it was simply playing the piano randomly. In this world, how can there be such a country and such a force? However, everything described in "Journey to the West" and everything described by Xu Xingxia is nothing compared to it. No matter how rich Wu Chengen's imagination is, the world he describes is not as bizarre as Xu Xingxia's world map.

There are even people who are all black! On the other side of the ocean, there is even land! In the south of the South Seas, there is also land! The area of the ocean is three times the area of the land! The great desert in the northwest of the Ming Dynasty is not a grade at all compared with the great desert of Africa! All this made Zhu Xieyuan difficult to digest and accept.

originally thought that the Ming Dynasty was already very big in this world. Zhu Xieyuan is deeply proud of the vastness and richness of his country, but from the world map, the Ming Dynasty is a little bigger than a palm. Other countries, perhaps not as large as the Ming Dynasty, may not have as many people, but their territory may exceed that of the Ming Dynasty. For example, the damn Ottoman Empire, it seems to be a big, big country that spans Europe, Asia and Africa.

Unconsciously, Zhu Xieyuan actually felt that the Ming Dynasty was actually nothing remarkable. Because, in this world, just on land, there can accommodate at least twenty or thirty Ming Dynasty. Even if this Ming Dynasty no longer exists, there are still more "Ming Dynasty" in other parts of the world. The rise and fall of a Ming Dynasty seems to be a trivial matter compared to the rise and fall of the whole world.

Confucian scholars have had a mind for the world since childhood. The so-called "world" is everything they see in their eyes, or the world of self-knowledge. In the past, they only saw the Ming Dynasty. Now he sees the whole world. Under the strong impact of knowledge, Zhu Xieyuan's vision suddenly expanded to the whole world. The angle from which he thought about the problem in his mind was suddenly different. In the past, it was to see the world from the perspective of the Ming Dynasty. Now, it is to look at the Ming Dynasty from the perspective of the world.

It turned out that he was most afraid that Xu Xingxia would subvert the Ming Dynasty and occupy the Ming Dynasty. For this reason, he stopped Xu Xingxia at all costs. Now, he feels ashamed. He felt that he was clearly wrong. The world is so big, why did Xu Xingxia stare at the big place of the Ming Dynasty? With Xu Xingxia's ability and the combat effectiveness of the white-clothed army, which corner of the world is beyond his control?

Xu Xingxia felt something, and said with a smile: "Lord Zhu, if you have something to say, you might as well speak up." ”

Zhu Xieyuan tried his best to control the excitement in his heart, stared at Xu Xingxia with shining eyes, and said slowly: "Mr. Xu, is this world really so big?" ”

Xu Xingxia said with a smile: "It's useless for you to ask me, you'd better take a look at it on the spot." ”

Zhu Xieyuan asked knowingly: "How can I inspect on the spot?" The world you depict is so vast that even if I am poor all my life, I can't see all the places. It will take several years to get from us to Europe, even if it is horseback riding. ”

Xu Xingxia said with a smile: "It's not simple? Wherever the army goes, you can follow it. I didn't say that I want you to see the whole world at once. Besides, to see the whole world, you don't need to watch it all alone. The people around us can also help us see ah. Everything you see, taken together, is the whole world. ”

Zhu Xieyuan's mood suddenly surged rapidly. Did he have a chance to go so far? At that time, Zheng He only arrived near the Red Sea, and there was still an incomparably long way to go from distant Europe and other places. However, now he may go further than Zheng He. From this moment on, Zhu Xieyuan couldn't calm down at all.

(To be continued)