Chapter 571

Lu Xiangsheng is an excellent talent. Even in the talented Ming Dynasty, his literary talent and military strategy are very outstanding. He became a scholar in high school at the age of 20, which is a very awesome figure.

But he is not like other officials of Jinshi origin. After they became officials, they didn't know anything except reading. They didn't know the name of the punishment or money and food. When they asked, they shook their heads and didn't know anything. They only knew to talk and report to their families and countries.

Lu Xiangsheng has a strong practical ability. He trained as a scholar, and he has also trained a team of elite soldiers. He can be said to be a bit bright with sun chuanting. One thing worth mentioning is that sun chuanting is a rising star.

Lu Xiangsheng was a very honest man. He was upright, loyal to the king and patriotic. He was determined to be loyal to the imperial court and encouraged himself by Yue Fei. Even when the imperial court was in trouble, he did not shake more than half of his faith.

At the same time, he is also a man who loves soldiers like a son. Even if he is a top official, he still eats and lives with the soldiers and takes the lead in the war, which makes him very loved by the soldiers, so his Tianxiong army is very strong.

That is because he loved soldiers like children. Seeing that the imperial court did not treat his soldiers as people at all, he directly pushed them out to fight, which made him very painful.

On the one hand, he was the imperial court and his soldiers. He had to listen to the imperial court's orders, but he had to keep the soldiers' lives, which made him very miserable.

In some aspects, Lu Xiangsheng, like Yue Fei, was determined to serve the country by death. He once publicly scolded sun chuanting for his lack of character. Finally, he fled. As an orthodox scholar official, he had to be loyal to the king and patriotic.

As the saying goes, if you want your ministers to die, your ministers have to die. Since your father asked you to die, you are right to die.

Because of this idea, he knew that the imperial court almost pushed them to death, but he resolutely led his soldiers out of Tianjin, South to Cangzhou and close to Nanpi.

Such cold weather, such a lack of food and going out to fight, the scholars complained. However, when they saw their commander, dressed in cotton clothes and thick cloak, riding on the war horse and jumping away, they were very moved, picked up their weapons and then pulled out of the camp.

Lu Xiangsheng is very good at encouraging the morale of soldiers, encouraging them to serve the country, kill the enemy and make contributions, and seal their wives and children. This time is no exception.

Lu Xiangsheng understood the difficulties of the imperial court, because the imperial court was forced to the corner by the Liu family. It can be said that the Liu family controlled the Beijing Hangzhou Grand Canal, which was equivalent to curbing the lifeline of the imperial court. The imperial court must look at his face and be a man, so the canal must be taken back and Shandong must be restored.

According to Lu Xiangsheng's plan, it's best to use troops on a large scale when the flowers bloom in spring next year. However, the officials in the court are too impatient and eager for success. They ordered them to go immediately. Since it was a decree, Lu Xiangsheng didn't mean to disobey and led the army immediately.

This is called: but kings do things in the world and win the name before and after death.

When they arrived in Nanpi and besieged Nanpi County, they found that there were more practical difficulties than they thought. For example, it was very difficult for them to build a tent because the ground was frozen and it was difficult for them to hit the column deep in the ground.

If you don't go deep, the tent will be blown away by the wind, and the soldiers inside will be half killed by the cold. It can be said that even if the soldiers wear more clothes and are blown by the wind and snow for a long time, they will be frozen.

Moreover, the snowstorm makes it more difficult for their soldiers to fight in the field. The cold north wind roars and makes their faces cold. The exposed skin is easy to freeze. Therefore, they can only wear thick clothes and gloves. The problem is how to use knives, bows and arrows and wear thick clothes, How do you go out to war?

There is also a very serious problem. In such cold weather, do they want to send sentinels to guard in the field? If not, what should they do if the enemy attacks suddenly? Lu Xiangsheng has no way but to do everything to overcome it.

Their tents were not enough, so they had to let several soldiers squeeze into one tent. The place was not enough to sleep in turns. The Sentinels who went out to watch gave everyone a pot of wine and a small heater. They hoped to insist. They had to change every hour. Even if so many measures were taken, they still had many difficulties, and many people were frostbitten.

Lu Shengsheng was worried about this. He knew that the best way was to deploy troops in Tianjin or Cangzhou, and then wait for the weather to improve. For example, they sent troops in the cold winter despite the snowstorm, and did not achieve any good results. On the contrary, they consumed a lot of food.

What's more, the Imperial Court felt heartache when it saw the food they consumed and kept urging them to send troops quickly, which was included in a vicious circle.

In the face of such difficulties, as a handsome general, Lu Xiangsheng is also very helpless. He looks sad every day.

Of course, he is an excellent general. He knows that as an excellent general, you can't reflect your worries in front of the soldiers, so his worries can only be in his tent and sigh in his Chinese army tent.

If he goes outside, he will always be energetic, confident and elated. Everywhere he goes, he can encourage the soldiers to fight, make them loyal to the king, serve the country, kill the enemy and make contributions.

It can be said that they are in such a difficult situation and can maintain such morale. Lu Xiangsheng has contributed to his personal charm.

If the generals of Liu Jiajun are in the same dilemma, I'm afraid they will collapse, because Liu Jiajun's dependence on equipment is very high, and they are used to going out in the case of well-equipped and sufficient equipment.

Liu Jiajun has several military disciplines, that is, they don't send troops if they don't have enough food and grass, and they don't send troops if they don't have enough ammunition.

So now the weather is cold. They took Nanpi first. It's not so much an attack as a defense. For better defense, after occupying Nanpi, they blocked the way to the south, and there was no further military action. Even if the enemy had begun to surround Nanpi City, Liu Feiyun didn't order his troops to fight back or rob the camp.

Liu Feiyun knew very well that he knew that the other party was at an absolute disadvantage. Compared with Liu Jiajun, they faced more difficulties. Apart from others, they were miserable just because they were hungry in the wild and endured the ravages of cold wind and cold.

Liu Feiyun has also worked in the Ming army for more than ten years. He knows the rules and regulations and all kinds of tricks in the Ming army clearly. He doesn't believe that among the officers and soldiers, their equipment and food can be better than Liu Jiajun. The soldiers are very bitter with Liu Jiajun's good food, and he can't fly if he can't eat enough?

So he ordered the soldiers to guard according to the city and wait for the enemy to attack. If the enemy dares to attack Nanpi city in a snowstorm, he will certainly give the other party a good look. Nanpi city is relatively small and its walls are small and low, so they took a more old-fashioned approach.

That is, they ordered people to get a lot of cold water and pour it on the city wall. Now the weather is almost time to pour water into ice. When the boiled water is cooled, they pour it on the city wall, quickly reinforce and thicken the city wall, making it more slippery and more difficult to climb. After a period of efforts, nearly 10000 soldiers work day and night, It can be regarded as putting a layer of crystal clear transparent armor on Nanpi city.

Don't mention that they poured a lot of water on the city wall to freeze and thicken it. Its hardness is still quite strong.

Liu Feiyun did an experiment, that is, bombard these earth city walls with their Flemish machine guns. With a few more guns, it can blow down the city wall. This kind of city wall reinforced with ice water is very difficult to fight. He is like a layer of armor made of solid ice, which has a practical defensive effect, so he is more confident.

When Lu Xiangsheng sent his soldiers to attack Nanpi City, he saw this icy city. He was numb, and Lu Xiangsheng faced great difficulties.

For example, his army also has Falang machine guns, but because the roads are blocked by heavy snow, there is no way to transport these guns, so they can only attack the city in the most primitive way.

Seeing that the other party thickened and raised the city, he looked sad. He didn't know how many brothers' lives it would take to fill the pit.

Moreover, the extremely bad weather made them have many unexpected accidents. For example, they formed two huge military formations and prepared to organize an attack. As a result, they completed the formation despite the wind and snow.

It has been more than an hour. The soldiers braved the cold and stood in the field for more than an hour, which made them tremble with cold. Moreover, they were hungry and had no strength. The soldiers had no strength. What do you expect to fight with?

If it is normal weather, when the soldiers line up, even if they are hungry, they can distribute temporary dry food, fried rice and dry cakes for the soldiers to eat and fight.

Now they have also distributed dry food. In the cold weather in the wild, they are dry and hard, which is almost impossible to swallow. Therefore, they formed two huge military formations, but they broke up without launching an attack.

On the one hand, it was his own collapse, on the other hand, it was Lu Xiangsheng. He realized that the situation could not be violated, so he had to order the troops to withdraw to the barracks temporarily.

Lu Xiangsheng knew that if he forcibly ordered the soldiers to attack the city, it would be no different from ordering them to die. He vowed to be loyal to the court and serve the country.

But he also knows one thing, that is, death is lighter than a feather or heavier than Mount Tai. If you order soldiers to die like this, what's the difference between being lighter than a feather? It's meaningless?

So he had to order the troops to retreat temporarily, and then come up with another way. He is worried now. Even in the past history, there are few examples of such a war to attack the enemy's cities in a snowstorm, and he has nothing to learn from and consider.

What should I do? If you don't fight, it's difficult to make a job with the imperial court and the ministers in the imperial court. If you fight, it's to let the soldiers die. There is no result but to weaken their own strength. Lu Xiangsheng is deeply worried.