Half a month, from Nanjing to Kaifeng, that means, the daily march to more than eighty miles, absolutely not an easy thing, all the way can not be camped, can only eat and sleep in the open, a long time of rapid march, for the loss of the army's combat power is quite huge, although Nanjing Zuozhen has been rectified out of a weather, however, want to rush to Kaifeng Mansion in half a month, I am afraid that I will have to take off a layer of skin.

"Your Majesty, this—this is inevitably too tight, right? After all, the three towns of Nanjing are not the Tianwei army, and I am afraid that the soldiers will not be able to bear such a rapid march......"

Gao Jie frowned and said in a low voice.

Zhu Jie also knew in his heart that it would be too difficult for the infantry to support such a high-intensity march that lasted for three or five days, and half a month.

Zhu Jie once again set his sights on the military map of the Central Plains, constantly thinking about how to effectively support Xu Yifan's defense in the middle, after all, Xu Yifan is sitting on the bank of the Yellow River, where is the heart of the Ming Dynasty, once it is broken through by the Qing army head-on, the Qing army can only be short of the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty, the Central Plains misses, and the world is shaken!

"Then we'll have to take the risk......"

Zhu Jie said in a deep voice, "Immediately hurry up six hundred miles, order Qin Mufeng to lead the cavalry north, go straight to Dezhou, and go straight to Hejian Mansion and Baoding Mansion from Dezhou, cut off the grain route between Beijing City and the Daimyo Mansion, and threaten Beijing City!" ”

Hiss......

Gao Jie gasped, you know, Qin Mufeng only has 4,000 cavalry, the lone army goes deep, and it is close to the hinterland of the Qing army, this is extremely dangerous, once it is surrounded, it is possible that the whole army will be annihilated, even if Qin Mufeng bravely crowns the three armies and has never met an opponent, it is definitely too dangerous!

"Your Majesty, this—this is too dangerous, isn't it? Mu Feng is another ability, once he enters the Hejian Mansion and Baoding Mansion, it is also a life of nine deaths, Beijing City has the most courageous Zhenghuang Banner cavalry of the Qing Army, more than 20,000 people, even if Qin Mufeng led the elite cavalry of the second town, there is no chance of victory! ”

Gao Jie said urgently.

Zhu Jie turned around abruptly and shouted, "Isn't he Qin Mufeng the most adventurous and likes to fight tough battles the most?" Let him fight enough today! Give an order, only by cutting off the connection between Beijing City and the Daimyo's Mansion and stirring the entire Gyeonggi, the Qing army will not dare to act rashly, and will not encircle and suppress Qin Mufeng's cavalry, Duoduo will never dare to go south, tell Qin Mufeng, use troops flexibly, don't hit hard, pick soft persimmons and pinch them, his task is to give me a ruthless toss in the area between the river and Baoding, I want to make Dolgon and Duoduo unrestful day and night! ”

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

Now there is no other way, Gao Jie agreed, and hurriedly went down to pass the decree, constantly worrying about Qin Mufeng, once he entered Zhili, it would be a thorn in the eye of Duoduo and Dolgon, and the Qing court would definitely get rid of it as soon as possible.

"Wait!"

Zhu Jie shouted.

Gao Jie hurriedly stopped.

Zhu Jie took a deep breath and said slowly: "Send a hundred fast horsemen, each person riding in pairs, carrying two boxes of fixed projectiles, five rifles, Marshall people will not stop, give them five days, these muskets and ammunition must be sent to Dongchang Mansion, the sooner the better!" ”

Gao Jie's heart was shocked, at a critical time, he could see how much the emperor liked and trusted Qin Mufeng, and only Qin Mufeng was worthy of his efforts, except for Qin Mufeng, I am afraid that no one has such courage, just leading four thousand cavalry to dare to break into the hinterland of the Qing court to stir up the wind and rain, even Xu Yifan did not! Two hundred boxes of fixed ammunition, one box of 500 rounds, that is 100,000 rounds of ammunition, plus 500 rifles, this is enough to arm a cavalry battalion, five days to arrive at Dongchang Mansion, that is even farther than Kaifeng Mansion! And he also carried five muskets and two boxes of ammunition, not only war horses, but I was afraid that even people would run away, but now that the military situation is urgent, I can't take care of much!

If you ask where the most idle institution in Nanjing is today, everyone can't say, but if you say where the busiest institution is, almost everyone knows - the Ministry of Industry, the Firearms Bureau!

Gao Jie came to see Bi Dengfu and Bi Denghan brothers with the emperor's holy decree and the transfer of the military department in his hand, the two of them are now Lang Zhong of the Firearms Bureau, for more than two months, the two brothers have never left the Firearms Bureau, and they have not even returned home, one is responsible for the day, and the other is responsible for the night, urging all the craftsmen of the Firearms Bureau to produce muskets, artillery and ammunition with all their might, and they are all too busy to go crazy, and the craftsmen are already tired and a little out of phase.

However, even so, the craftsmen are still full of energy, not for anything else, for the emperor's grace, cancel the craftsman's registration, the Ming Dynasty opened the country, the establishment of the craftsman's registration, this is a lowly status, everyone despises the lowly nationality, sleep has no way to enter this industry, now the emperor has a big stroke of the pen, canceled the restrictions on the craftsman's registration, not only that, the salary of each craftsman has doubled, now the craftsmen take turns to work day and night, the salary on the basis of doubling, doubled again, a full fourfold, and never in arrears, The salaries of these craftsmen are higher than those of the prefectural order, don't you work hard? Don't say I'm sorry for the emperor's grace, I'm sorry for my conscience!

But even so, muskets, artillery, ammunition is still in short supply, the consumption of the war ahead is too great, not to mention anything else, the consumption of ammunition alone, it is very scary, the firearms bureau spent 600,000 taels of silver in the imperial court in two months, the guns are easy to use, but it is a real bottomless pit, how much silver is put in, I can't hear an echo, if it lasts for a year, it will cost three or four million taels of silver!

"What? And to carry guns and ammunition? Tall man! The guns and ammunition we have here don't fall from the sky, where can we afford such consumption......"

Bi Dengfu held the holy decree and the tune, he wanted to cry without tears, he had just allocated a thousand muskets and 300 boxes of ammunition to the musket battalion, and it was only two days later, and the tall man came to ask for it, and he didn't let people live?

"Master Bi, this is the emperor's holy decree, and the supply can be suspended elsewhere, but this musket ammunition must be taken away by this official today, and it must not be delayed!"

Gao Jie said in a deep voice.

"Lord Ministry!"

Bi Denghan said bitterly: "Lord Zhao Zhenghang just took away a thousand muskets and three hundred boxes of ammunition from the Firearms Bureau the day before yesterday, even if we collect all the weapons and ammunition from the Firearms Bureau, I'm afraid we won't be able to get together so much......

"Grandma's! Then I don't care, get all the guns and ammunition for me, how much worse, I'll go to Zhao Zhenghang, that bastard to ask for it, the dog said, just his legs are fast, how much he takes, Lao Tzu let him spit it all out, Qin Mufeng is waiting for these things to save his life! ”

(End of chapter)