"I don't know what the Hutchison will react." Zhu Zhiyu was a little unsure. He was waiting for the lock to get to the capital, or secretly returned home to hide. With Hutchison's strength, as long as Zhang Han returned to the grassland, more than 100,000 troops could go south within a month, sweep across the Xuanfu in Datong to the capital, and isolate Shaanxi and Gansu, and the entire north would be in chaos in an instant.

If Hutchison really did this, the court would have no good idea. It could only retreat and defend. The capital would be the last bottom line of the court.

Retreat to the capital and Xu Tu counterattacked, this was the strategy set by Emperor Tianqi at that time. Zhu Zhiyu, judging from the current emperor's skills, may not necessarily do so.

Zhu Zhiyu's suspicion was not good. The biggest impression that Chongzhen left in power for 17 years was that he was impatient and always made mistakes that he shouldn't have made.

He was only nineteen years old in the second year of Chongzhen. He angrily killed Yuan Chonghuan and caused Guan Ning soldiers to defect. It is also forgiven for his lack of experience in his youth.

In the fourth year of Chongzhen, he went to rebuild Dalinghe City and forced Zhang Chun and Wu Xiang and others to provide assistance. He transferred Dengzhou troops to cross the sea to support Liao. As a result, the Wuqiao mutiny was in ruins. Zu Dashou and Zu's elite troops were lost, and the army led by Zhang Chun was wiped out.

In the 11th year of Chongzhen, Lu Xiangsheng forced Lu Xiangsheng to fight with the Qing army, but did not give full support, which led to Lu Xiangsheng's defeat and death in battle. In the 14th year, Hong Chengchou fought with Huang Taiji without any certainty. All the elite troops of the Ming army were lost, and in fact the country was destroyed.

When Sun Chuanting finally gathered an army of more than 100,000 people. All the knowledgeable people at that time advised the emperor to be cautious and not to easily fight Li Zicheng.

A civil servant reported: This is the emperor's last possession and must not be used easily.

Chongzhen refused to listen and forced Sun Chuanting to lead the final main force to fight Li Zicheng. The consequences can be imagined. The Ming army was not fully prepared at all, and the strength of the peasant army was actually far above the Qin army controlled by Sun Chuanting.

As soon as Sun Chuanting's "last family" was finished, Chongzhen was actually sitting and waiting to die, which is a fact that everyone saw. But until the peasant army was very close to the capital, Chongzhen neither made up his mind to flee south nor made up his mind to call the Guanning army to garrison the capital. He wanted to survive and have a reputation. He did not dare to make decisions when he should make decisions, and did not care about the consequences at all. He often acted impulsively and did not fully consider the consequences of the matter.

Perhaps, he is always full of fantasy, anxiety, irritability and cruelty. Under his rule, there is neither a minister who can take responsibility nor a general who is dedicated to the country. The few ministers who can take responsibility for the overall situation are either forced to death or killed by him. Such a person is entirely blamed for hanging Coal Mountain. However, he refused to let the prince go south until his death. Not to mention that he harmed himself, even the Ming Dynasty and the civilization inheritance of China were caused by this person.

Of course, Zhu Zhiyu would not have considered it so far, but he already felt the emperor's eagerness and recklessness in doing things. If the war is connected, why should he run to the capital to suffer? Hiding first. If he remembers the world, his past experience is actually a kind of help. The new dynasty needs a large number of civil servants, and maybe he can still soar and take several steps forward!

"Dongweng." One of Zhu Zhiyu's aides was Datong. He admired Zhang Han. He said with some concern: "After moving the mines of Hutchison, I heard that Hong Junmen had already left Datong, from Datong to Xinpingbao for more than 200 miles, from Lingqiu to Xinpingbao for more than 400 miles, I am afraid I will not be able to catch up."

"The Hutchison Club has its own arrangements, why should we worry about the ancients?" Zhu Zhiyu got rid of the hindrance in his heart, but became much more free and easy. He smiled and said, "Have you seen them in military training?"

"Yes, it seems that this is happening." The aide suddenly realized and said, "It seems that the large group of people have been running around the fields and the official roads."

"Well, I've studied it." Zhu Zhiyu smiled and said, "The daily training, running ten miles every morning, the officers and soldiers are the same, the peasant soldiers and mines are the same. The short-range training, and the back and forth in a day, the fastest one is said to walk 120 miles. The medium-range training, and the journey within three days, and the long-range training, and the distance walking 500 miles in six days. Regardless of the wilderness, mountains, and dense forests, you have to bear the weight. I just saw that their backpacks were only more than twenty kilograms, plus less than thirty kilograms of weapons, and they were mainly on the official roads of the plains. According to their training standards, it should be more than five days. However, including the delay in the army's uprising, camping and other matters, four hundred miles will arrive in six days. In one or two days, Xinpingbao will not be completely unprepared, don't worry."

The staff member did not speak awkwardly. After all, he was also a juren of the Ming Dynasty. After all, he was still a bit taboo for Hutchison.

Zhu Zhiyu's observation and judgment are not wrong. Hutchison has always attached importance to training long-distance expeditions, which means training soldiers' ability to march for a long distance.

Before conquering the grassland, Hutchison was a complete infantry ranks, with very few cavalry and totally in scale.

Later, Zhang Han used the intensive rushing formation of European cavalry to train a small number of cavalry, which played a great role in the grassland conquest. Later, Hutchison gradually developed a large number of cavalry, and now even infantry are mainly horse-riding infantry, but long-distance training for training walking ability and physical fitness has not been removed from the training subjects. Not only new recruits, but also veterans cannot escape this hard training.

Hundreds of years later, soldiers carrying 50 or 60 kilograms of weights cross-country training for 50 kilometers a day, which is a very normal subject. The modern medical and technical level and logistics supply are of course far beyond this time.

But the ancients were much better than modern young people who could endure hardships and adapt to hardships.

Hutchison's expedition training is quite normal for a hundred miles a day. Of course, the importance of negative is much lighter, usually about twenty to thirty pounds.

If you carry a weight of fifty to seventy kilograms, it is the burden of the jumping soldiers. If you can complete a battle under heavy load, your physical fitness will be very good, thanks to your usual hard training.

Zhu Zhiyu has considerable confidence in the mine team in front of him, and also has confidence in Heji being able to defend Xinpingbao.

After years of dealing with each other, Zhu Zhiyu understood in his heart that Zhang Han and his subordinates never fought unsure battles, and did unsure things.

Zhang Han's life is the most important thing in Hutchison, how could he be completely unprepared?

If Zhu Zhiyu is placed in the position of Hong Chengchou or Lu Xiangsheng, he may have to be more cautious, but that is useless. Under the general trend, personal efforts are meaningless. Chongzhen ordered a strict order. Can Zhu Zhiyu do what Hong Chengchou and others cannot do?

Even though you know it is a crisis or even a death, you still have to rush on it like a moth to the flame. I'm afraid that that is the most painful thing.

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"Okay, let's go."

Wang Changfu took a last look at Li Zhuang. Due to the lack of people living and cleaning and repair, the once very prosperous and densely populated large market town in front of him had a preliminary feeling of dilapidation.

"Mr. Jijiu ordered everyone to set off!"

Several instructors began to convey Wang Changfu's military orders, and some assistants and messengers shouted loudly inside and outside the campus, and their voices echoed in the open and open space, making the screams a little sad and nervous.

There were only more than 200 people in front of the huge official school building. Most of the instructors and students moved to the grassland. Only a few instructors led the students to practice in the Lizhuang area and stayed south of the Great Wall.

Almost 100% of their families stayed on the grassland, scattered all over Qingcheng, mainly in the fortresses. Every student and formal officer believed in the proper placement of their families. The Military and Political Department did this kind of thing, and they always took good care of every military family.

After the last military call sounded, a rotating officer finally reported to Wang Changfu that everyone had arrived and could set off at any time.

Wang Changfu nodded, and did not speak, but waved his arm hard.

There were nearly 500 students in the mainland, but this time some of them were taken away by Sun Yao, and everyone else was here.

They are now going to rush to Xinping Fort, which is Zhang Han's advance arrangement. This team of more than 200 people is also of great use. Putting these young officers in the mainland is not a waste of chess, but a trick when a big thing is coming, and a wonderful stroke comes with a wonderful stroke.

"Salute to the wine." An instructor asked Wang Changfu: "Will this large area burn down?"

"What are you doing to burn it?"

"Wouldn't it be a reward for the enemy?" The instructor gritted his teeth and said, "This is such a large area of ​​good places, tens of thousands of houses, so how can I leave it for them?"

With Zhang Han’s mansion as the core, there are large factories in the north, storage areas and farmland areas to the south, official school buildings in the south, and large military camp areas and affiliated family areas in the northwest and south.

These houses were slowly built over several years. The building scale is large and they are all brick and tile houses that are all water-like. The streets are also covered with bricks and stones, with drainage ditches and planned landfill areas. The area near Lizhuang is more than ten miles in a radius, which is simply a miracle and is also the greatest pride in the hearts of every Hutchison.

Here, Hutchison completed the rise of an ordinary business from this scale. The establishment and growth of the merchant army was of course closely related to Li Zhuang.

At the beginning, this farm was just a small farm bought by Zhang Han’s grandfather, with thousands of acres of land, dozens of families, and a very ordinary small manor.

When Zhang Han stayed here, began to develop ironmaking equipment, and started to build various factories, and began to train and prepare for war here, this small manor began to transform, and now a large-scale city has been built, which is completely a pearl in northern Shanxi.

There are tens of thousands of houses alone, and many of them are tall warehouses and workshop buildings. Passing through the tributaries of the Baiyang River south, if you suddenly arrive at the Lizhuang area and have never been to the past, you will be completely shocked by the scenery by the river.

Across a river, there are also houses of ordinary village houses to the west, and the places close to Lizhuang are also very wealthy, but not too surprising.

But if you pass through Huangjiazhuang and suddenly see the Lizhuang area, you will inevitably be shocked.

Along the river bank, there are large blue brick houses five or six meters high, several times taller than the houses of ordinary people. They are not only tall, but also wide and large, and look taller and more grand than the Datong City Gate.

Such a house stretches for several miles long, completely like a tall and wide city gate building, just one after another, giving people a strong visual impact.
Chapter completed!