Chapter 138 betraying the country

Three thousand guns were made overnight, and the barreled gunpowder designed by Liu Xia was also an emergency producer.

Liu Xia wants to set up a place with the nature of a Academy of Sciences, and then recruit scientific and technological talents from all walks of life, but now the war is about to begin, and Liu Xia has no time to arrange these.

In a few days, Liu Xia will also go to Hubaoguan to command the war. As for the command power in the Mianchi area, Liu Xia will be handed over to Chen Liu. The army transferred to the Mianchi area is Ma Peng's Lion Regiment, the Second New Soldier Regiment, Eagle Yang Battalion, etc., a total of nearly 5,000 people. There are 20,000 enemy troops.

In the direction of smashing the Tiger Prison Pass, 100,000 enemy troops will soon gather. At the same time, there will be the Tiger Corps, the Wolf Roaring Regiment, the Guard Regiment and the New Soldier Regiment. Ten thousand people in total. Although the number of people in the Qing army is relatively low, now Liu Xia has a great chance of winning with the help of a musket. Don't you see, thousands of people of the Eight-National Alliance can take down Beijing. You know, there are a lot of soldiers and horses in the Qing army. Although there are also reasons for the decline in the combat effectiveness of the Qing army, the most important thing is that firearms play a major role.

Liu Xia can only look forward to the early production of the tlint lancer, which is estimated to reduce the casualties a lot.

Eight hundred miles of urgent report, the speed is very fast. The Pingbei army scouts who set out from Luoyang on a top-class war horse have now arrived outside Nanjing.

"Eight hundred miles of urgent report! Eight hundred miles of urgent report! Hurry up, get out of the way!" Although the scout shouted an urgent report of 800 miles loudly, the crowded crowd outside Nanjing did not make way for him, and some people didn't even look at him.

Since the establishment of Nanming in Nanjing, hasn't it been 800 miles of emergency reporting that day? The people in Chengli, Nanjing are tired of listening to it. In the past few months, because of Liu Xia, the Qing army had attacked Nanjing, so people rarely heard the urgent report of 800 miles.

"Where was it broken by the Qing army again? Oh, does it really let the Qing army unify the world?

"Sil down, you can't say this. If you can hear it, you will go to prison. Remember, don't say it."

"Don't we have a Marquis of Pingbei? What are you afraid of? The Marquis of Pingbei is heroic and extraordinary, and he will definitely be able to recover the Ming Dynasty.

"Luoyang urgent report, get out of the way, get out of the way."

"Luoyang Emergency Report?" The people on the roadside were surprised. Has Luoyang been occupied by the Qing army? Isn't there a Marquis of Pingbei guarding Luoyang? Is it the Marquis of Pingbei... Thinking that these people were frightened one after another. If there was no Marquis of Pingbei in the Ming Dynasty to block the Qing army in the north, the Qing army would soon go south to break through Nanjing. The people of Nanjing knew in their hearts that they could not stay for a long time.

Several soldiers guarding the city at the gate of Nanjing looked proudly at the Pingbei Army on a tired horse and said, "You black man, where are you from?" What are you shouting about?

The scout said excitedly, "Come on, get out of the way, let me go over." Luoyang emergency report, Luoyang emergency report.

"Luoyang?" The soldiers pretended to be stunned for a moment, and then laughed loudly and said, "Isn't Luoyang guarded by the famous Lord Pingbei? How can there be an urgent report? Don't talk nonsense. Hurry up and tie up this talker. After the general finished speaking, several soldiers behind him were going up to catch the scout.

However, this scout was not a vegetarian. When he saw several soldiers coming up, although he was a little tired, he immediately took out his own weapons to fight. After a while, the scouts fought with a few people guarding the city in Nanjing. Although there is only one person in the scout, he did not fall behind in the face of five or six generals.

"What's going on? What's going on. Stop it all!"

At this time, a tall, fat man with thick legs and round waist came over. The man was angry, and the generals lowered their heads one by one and dared not make a sound.

"This general, the little one is a scout under the tent of the Marquis of Pingbei. Now he is sent by the Marquis of Pingbei to send messages to the court, but he is maliciously blocked by these people. He doesn't allow the small one to pass, and he has to arrest the little one. The little one has no choice but to resist to the death."

One of the generals quickly said, "Your Excellency, don't listen to his nonsense. Obviously, it was the messenger of the Marquis of Pingbei who wanted to seize the city, and the little ones arrested him."

"You..." The scout said angrily.

As soon as the big man heard this, he suddenly raised his eyebrows and snorted coldly, "Is there a document?"

After hearing this, the scout quickly handed a piece of paper in his arms to the big man. The big man glanced at him and said, "Well, how dare you pretend to be a subordinate of the Marquis of Pingbei. The comer caught this guy and put him in prison, tortured him, and let him tell who was the instructions."

After listening to the guards, they quickly laughed, and several people wanted to go up to catch the scout. The scout didn't expect such an outcome. He wanted to say something, but the big man tore the document in his hand to pieces.

"You..."

"Catch him and don't let him run away."

The big man thought to himself: Humph, he didn't give me a filial piety, which would kill you. A dog who doesn't know the rules, no matter what kind of person you are, if it falls into my hands, you don't want to live.

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"General, the scouts to Nanjing have been sent out." Chen Liugong said.

Liu Xia nodded and said, "Well, although I know that there is no result, the Nanjing court will definitely not send troops to come, but it still needs to go through."

"What the general said."

"Hangu Pass, I will give it to you around Mianchi. I will definitely defeat Wang Wenkui. It would be better if I can take the opportunity to take down Tongguan. If I take down Tongguan, I will master the gateway to Shaanxi, and it will be very easy to take down Shaanxi in the future."

"Dad Da Da Da Da." A burst of footsteps remembered that at this time, Meng Yu walked over, bowed to Liu Xia, and said, "General, our dragon team inadvertently intercepted a secret letter." After saying that, Meng Yu handed an open letter in his hand to Liu Xia.

Liu Xia took out the writing paper inside, and after reading it, her face was full of anger. He said, "It doesn't matter if you don't see me well, but it's not okay to join the enemy. There is no signature on this writing paper. Do you know who wrote it?

This is a letter to the enemy. According to the content, the person who wrote the letter is not a senior official. Obviously, it's just ordinary officials or merchants. The letter was not written to the Qing army, but to the eight Jin merchants in Shanxi.

The eight Jin merchants are traitors in this era. Without the material support of Shanxi merchants for the Manchurians after entering the customs, the Manchurians would not have wanted to unify the world so quickly. It has always been very convenient to make a fortune in war, and it is also a good time to accumulate capital as soon as possible. Shanxi people seized this opportunity. There are a very large number of Shanxi people in the team where the Manchurians swept the world. They formed the logistics force of Manchurian iron cavalry. In this logistics force, they formed the later famous Shanxi eight imperial merchants (the eight locust merchants in the Manchurian army). They controlled most of the trade with the Manchurian army and also controlled most of the inspection. Hal is also Zhangjiakou's trade with Mongolia.

However, if we talk about the contact between Jin and Shang and the Qing Dynasties, it has to be said that the Ming Dynasty has not yet perished and the Qing army has not yet entered the customs. In the northeast of the Qing army, there is basically no industrial and commercial development capacity, and there is not much food. According to common sense, Man Man should have frozen to death and starved to death. However, instead of being greatly injured, these Manchu people were not greatly injured, but also had all kinds of materials and food. The reason was that Jin merchants provided them with food and various materials, as well as iron and salt.

It can be said that Jin Shang is also a great help to help the Manchu people, so it can also be defined as a traitor.

After hearing Liu Xia's words, Meng Yu said respectfully, "Return to the general, we... We haven't found out who wrote it, but if the general gives him some time, he will definitely find it out."

Liu Xia nodded and said, "With the order, the dragon team and the investigation department personnel closely monitored the counties in Henan Province during the war. If there is a person who defected to the enemy, they will be immediately arrested and arrested. The trial will be held when I come back."

"Yes!" The two commanders, Meng Yu and Shou Hu, replied loudly.

At this time, there will certainly be a lot of people who want to surrender, because they don't like Liu Xia and think that Liu Xia can't resist the 100,000 army, so they want to find a way out for themselves, so they want to betray the enemy. Although businessmen can't be said to be profiteers, there are many righteous businessmen in history. However, many of them are speculators, selling the country for glory everywhere.

"Where is the Qing army now?"

Meng Yu replied, "General, now Wang Wenkui from Shaanxi stopped when he arrived at Tongguan, thinking that he should rest there. Duoduo's army can reach the Tiger Pass in less than three days. At the same time, Azig has now arrived in Xuzhou. Azig's vanguard army, led by Wu Sangui, has now arrived in Xingyang.

"Wu Sangui?" Liu Xia muttered in a low voice.

Wu Sangui, Chen Yuanyuan. This controversial beauty in history, will she accept it or not?

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"Master, it's not good. The person sent to deliver the letter was exposed. That letter is estimated to have been exposed.

"What!" A middle-aged man in the secret room was full of surprise, but in an instant he calmed down and said, "No one in that letter except Wang Dengku can see what I wrote. Don't worry. Even if it is exposed, it won't find me on my head."

Wang Dengku is one of the eight major enemy Jin merchants.

"If you pass on the message, I will stay at home and don't go anywhere. Although there is no information about me, if they must check it, maybe they can really find out something. Get ready to leave.

"Yes, sir. Let's go down and arrange it."

"Remember, don't swagger, clean up everything secretly, and don't let outsiders know. Don't tell even your wife. Do you know?"

"Yes, yes, the little one remembers."

"Ye-huh, you go down."

"Yes, the little one quit."

The middle-aged man sat on the lounge chair, frowned, and didn't know what he was thinking. But it doesn't look good, and it's not a good thing to think about it.