Liu Ziguang convened a meeting with his tribe. Sitting in the tent were four county magistrates, a dozen clan leaders and some upright local guards. These people were all recruited from the local area. Officials were not as big as ordinary people.
They can settle the matter with animals. What these people value is their political future. Although the Ming Dynasty’s capital is in trouble, Liu Ziguang is still a fugitive. Following him will lead to great risks in getting ahead, so he is here
Among the four county magistrates, two were promoted by Liu Ziguang from his subordinates after he cut down the original magistrate. The other two had a long-term vision and voluntarily followed the former Duke to conquer the world.
Seeing everyone looking at him eagerly, Liu Ziguang smiled slightly, took out the jade seal of the Empress Dowager first, and said in a deep voice: "My lords and elders, by the decree of the Empress Dowager, I am temporarily assuming the role of supervising the country, expelling the Tartars and supporting the Ming Dynasty.
It can be said that we have a long way to go, are you willing to shoulder this important responsibility together with me?"
What else is there to say? The Empress Dowager has spoken, and private salt has become official salt. The county officials stood up first and expressed their stance: "Congratulations to the Duke on your promotion. We are willing to assist you and do our best to revive the Ming Dynasty."
The clan leaders also quickly expressed their opinions, and their chests turned red. "My lord, just give the order. We will hit wherever you point us. There are no cowards in our old Wang family!"
Liu Ziguang said: "The city of Nanjing has been destroyed, and the Emperor is missing. Before His Majesty's whereabouts are found out, you must obey the orders of this prison. I won't bother you with marching and fighting. I'll leave it to you to recruit troops and food. I'll wait for you in the future."
After the world is at peace, the Emperor will appreciate your hard work and merit, but I dare not say that if you are too high, there will still be no problem with one of the governors."
This is what everyone is waiting for. The emperor has lost his mind. The supervisory country has the final say in this world. As long as they follow Marshal Liu closely, the future of these county magistrates is limitless. Xiao Jiujiu, the patriarchs, also knows it very clearly in their hearts.
, These are troubled times, and the only way out is to be a soldier. If the children of the clan join the Red Shirt Army, the family will have no fear. Even if the dynasty changes, they are not afraid. Maybe one day the supervisor will be happy and he will become the emperor. People like them
But he is the elder of the founding hero.
Everyone was happy. The meeting ended and everyone left with happy faces. Liu Ziguang then recruited his direct subordinates. These people were mainly the Sky City drivers and commandos he brought back from Japan, as well as some from the Liguo Iron Works.
People. Looking at everyone's thin faces, Liu Ziguang first bowed to the end: "Thank you for your hard work."
This expedition was truly arduous, and all the personnel endured unprecedented hardships and training. The people of this era did not belong to an altitude of 20,000 feet. The difficulties and obstacles they encountered were unparalleled. Fortunately, God blessed them, and there were surprises along the way.
There was no danger, and the Sky City finally made an emergency landing in Xuzhou Prefecture by mistake.
As one of the most important industrial towns in the Ming Dynasty, Xuzhou Prefecture stationed many eunuchs to supervise the production of factories and mines. These people had no other abilities and were first-rate in making money. As long as they were well served, anything could be done, China
People have never lacked wisdom in this regard. The Liguo Iron Works collapsed, but dozens of small Liguo Iron Works rose up, and they were all built using machines and workers from the Liguo Iron Works.
A large number of brand-new machines were shipped out as scrap products by bribing the eunuchs, and a large amount of iron ore was shipped out as cinders. Everyone benefited, so why not do it.
As soon as Liu Ziguang landed, he saw chimneys emitting black smoke everywhere. The only area that could show such pre-industrial characteristics was Xuzhou Prefecture. It was easy to say when he arrived at his hometown. The technicians were left to repair the airship, and he took the ninety-nine
Soldiers directly attacked the government office and seized power.
The process of capturing Fuya was very simple. They first took the train to Xuzhou Station, then showed off their weapons and went straight to the city gate. Nowadays, Xuzhou Fu is no longer the border town it used to be, but an ordinary inland city. Except for the three people in Fuya
There are only a few hundred city defense guards in the squad. These soldiers are not as capable as the Xuzhou Army. They are purely here to provide for the elderly. When they see the bandits with open fires rushing towards them, they immediately surrender and do not even need to fight.
city gate.
After entering the city gate, a group of officers happened to be guarding an official sedan. Liu Ziguang and others rushed over and scattered the eunuchs without saying a word. They took out the eunuch in the sedan and beheaded him in the street. He took his head and announced: "Liu Ziguang."
It’s back, the red shirts are back!”
The eunuchs stationed by the imperial court in various places were not good birds. It happened that the one killed by the red shirt army was even more resented by the people. The people were eager to eat his flesh and sleep on his skin. The people of Xuzhou were fierce and had a tradition of resisting tyranny. Everyone had already been feeling resentful.
There was an evil fire waiting to break out, and now that someone was taking the lead, everyone simply rebelled! The people on the street directly copied the guy and followed the red shirt army to attack the government office, and merged the newly appointed Xuzhou magistrate's family with those of the eunuchs from the capital.
All the subordinates were killed.
Occupy the Xuzhou Prefecture and immediately put up a recruiting flag. Xuzhou has two advantages. One is that the people are brave and hardworking, making them suitable for soldiers. The other is that the industry is developed. The Ming Dynasty has half of the cold weapons and one-third of them.
All the hot weapons are produced in Xuzhou, from swords, guns, swords and halberds to cannons, armored chariots and even river gunboats, sounding airships, basically everything. Although Liu Ziguang lost power in the court, the Liguo Iron Works still had power among the people.
It is so powerful that many of the remnants of the Red Shirt Army from Hebei and Jiangnan were living here and were protected by the local people. When they heard that the general had returned, they immediately stepped forward and offered their plans and weapons. Those are the big killer machine guns.
Developed jointly by Dai Zi and Addison incognito.
This machine gun is different from later machine guns. It does not adopt the gunpowder gas driving principle, but is modified from the original pneumatic machine gun. It still uses a powerful internal combustion engine to drive the firing pin to reciprocate. There is no ejection device and the ammunition is directly fed by a belt.
, the rotation of the bullet chain is also driven by the gear driven by the internal combustion engine, and runs synchronously with the firing pin. Although the firing rate cannot reach the terrifying speed of 600 rounds per minute, it has also reached the astonishing firing speed of 130 rounds per minute.
The rate of fire is astonishing, and the cost and cost of use are even more astonishing. However, people engaged in scientific research generally don't care about the cost, so just make it easy. These three machine guns cost a total of 600,000 taels of silver, and the bullets are also extremely expensive, costing 2 taels of silver per shot.
, fighting a war is a waste of money.
Burning money is burning money, and the benefits brought by burning this money are immeasurable. Therefore, when Liu Ziguang watched the shooting demonstration and heard about the development costs, he did not exclaim like Li Zhongtang: too fast, too expensive.
He touched his chin and said: Yes, it is of high quality and low price. We need to popularize this weapon throughout the army.
They originally wanted to occupy Xuzhou Prefecture and recruit troops to go south to fight against rebellion, but suddenly a telegram was sent from the capital, saying that the Xixia cavalry had arrived at the city, and they were recruiting soldiers and horses from all walks of life. The Ming Dynasty's current government orders mainly rely on radio, and each province
There are telegraph rooms in every city, directly under the governor's office. After receiving government orders from the capital, they are conveyed from the provincial capital to the state capital, which in turn conveys them to the counties and townships. Although Xuzhou is not a provincial capital, the Liguo Iron Works has long been equipped with radio stations.
, the telegram for help from the capital was only sent for one day and then was silent again. Liu Ziguang knew that those losers must have lost the capital. The Mongols' move south was probably to bypass Yuan Chonghuan's army and attack thousands of miles away. After the incident, they would definitely return north.
, so Liu Ziguang decided to set up an ambush halfway.
Ambushing the Xixia army is not that simple. Fortunately, with the staff, this job has become easier. After all, three cobblers are as good as Zhuge Liang, not to mention professional staff officers who have been systematically trained by the Jingshi Lecture Hall, and
Detailed maps of the Central Plains, mountains, rivers, villages, and even the size of each pond, water storage capacity, and whether it is drinkable are all marked. The staff department has formulated three sets of plans and preset three ambush positions. No matter where the Xixia army goes, they will
In the ambush, the Xixia army was no ordinary person. They had bypassed the two carefully laid ambush roads. Therefore, the artillery placed in the first two positions were of no use. It was too late to deploy artillery again. They relied solely on machine guns.
Even the heavy fire oil could not suppress the scene, so Liu Ziguang turned his attention to those empty heavy fire oil barrels. Isn't this thing a cannon with its saw opening? The Eighth Route Army liked to use this back then, so dozens of heavy fire oil barrels were used.
Emergency reconstruction, several nearby villages happened to be rich in black gunpowder, and every household was doing this. It was simply too trivial to collect hundreds of gunpowder bags. These factors came together to destroy the Xixia army.
In order to stop the Xixia army, these brave soldiers did not sleep a wink for more than ten days and nights. They were all unshaven, with thin faces and bloodshot eyes. However, the joy of victory was enough to compensate for these efforts. The red shirt army could succeed in one fell swoop and annihilate the Xixia army. Liu Ziguang could
After getting the position of supervising the country and commanding the world, the road from now on will be much easier. Looking at the confident commander, the generals were also very ambitious, and they raised their hands together and said: "Thank you for your hard work, commander."
Liu Ziguang said: "Everyone, the emperor is missing. The Ming Dynasty is falling apart and facing the danger of civil strife. Since I am the supervisor of the country, I should return to the capital to support the overall situation. What do you think?"
Of course, everyone agreed. To supervise the country, it is necessary to supervise the country in the capital. This is justified. Liu Ziguang was about to give the order to set off south. Suddenly, the curtain was raised, and the flag officer came in and said: "Commander, Xuzhou is six hundred miles tall."
Urgent.'
Liu Ziguang took the letter and read it, sighing: "Civil strife has broken out. They pretended to be deadlocked and established a boy as emperor in Nanjing in an attempt to steal the treasure. Another man claimed to be Emperor Tianqi and ascended the throne in Shanghai. He was making announcements twice.