Chapter 692 Expedition

Although Zhengde doesn't know much about such a major question suddenly raised by Song Nan, he also understands that this is not something he can easily decide. Zhengde's brain is still smart enough. Since the Hetao area is so important, his father Hongzhi can be said to work hard when he was alive, but in 18 years, why didn't he solve the problem of the trap?

Zhengde understands that compared with his father, he has a lot of different talents and visions. If his father can't do or is not sure what he can do, he is even less likely to succeed. However, in view of this solemnly proposed by Song Nan, Zhengde promised to put the matter on the agenda and let the ministers in the court decide.

Song Nan also understands the difficulties of this matter. The recovery is a good plan, but it is quite difficult to implement. The Hetao area is already a key defense area for Tatari people. If he wants to regain the Hetao, he will spend a lot of money. Let's not mention whether the river can be captured, that is, the money and silver consumed in the future will also be astronomical. Whether the court will spend a lot of money to operate the lost and recovered place is the key, otherwise it will be lost sooner or later, and it will be useless to seize it.

"Your Majesty, the reconsideration can be decided by the court. I advocate the recovery of the river to operate the border, but now the first task is still the war in the northwest. If the emperor and all the adults agree on this matter, I am willing to take on the role of the recapitulation."

"I know that I will not worry about letting others go except you. Let go of this matter for the time being. Do you have any conditions?"

"The third condition is that I need to transfer troops from the Beijing battalion on this expedition. I have to take the Shenshu battalion and the regiment battalion, and the foreign army will also go with the minister. The northwest troops are slightly weak, and I don't want to blindly transfer troops and reinforcements from other places. Now all parts of Datong Xuanfu should be strictly guarded. If troops and horses are deployed to reinforce the area of Ningxia Town, there may be hidden worries.

Zhengde nodded and said, "I agree to your request. The Shenshu Camp and the foreign army are your soldiers and horses, and I just temporarily took your position, but in fact, I have always wanted to return it to you. This time, the name is right. From now on, you will resume the position of admiral of the Shenshu battalion and the foreign army. As for the soldiers and horses of the regimental battalion, you need to inform the British in the early morning tomorrow. After all, the mobilization of regimental soldiers and horses also needs him to arrange.

Song Nan hurriedly thanked the emperor. Finally, at the time of the national disaster, the Shenshu Camp and the foreign army returned to their hands. Zhengde said that he had always wanted to reinstate himself, but in fact, they were all beautiful words. Without this crisis, he would never have thought of this. Returning these two armies to yourself was just to reassure yourself and put honey on your mouth before the war.

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In the morning of the next day, in the early morning, Zhengde officially issued an order to award the position of general of Song Nanzhen, leading the two armies outside the Shenshu camp and the two battalions of Jiang Bin and Xu Tai to the northwest to fight against the Tart soldiers. The hearts of the ministers in the court suddenly settled down.

I don't know why, although I don't want to see Song Nan return to everyone's vision and Song Nan become the focus again, once Song Nan agrees to take over the mess in the northwest, everyone sees hope in the decadence. Although this man looks hateful and annoying, he seems to have a momentum to turn the tide. He has a better chance of winning than anyone else.

And the matter of the rerouting has caused a huge controversy in the court. When they heard that this discussion was proposed by Song Nan, many people said bluntly that Song Nan was grandstanding and favored. If the river trap was so easy to be recaptured, how would it be delayed for so many years? Moreover, the current priority is the war in the northwest, not these unrealistic ideas. There is no chance of exorcising the handi from the northwest, but we have to consider these unrealistic things behind.

Song Nan doesn't want to quarrel at this time. He has to actively prepare for the expedition. When he doesn't take over, he can certainly lie in the back garden and look at the stars, but once he takes over, this is his responsibility. Therefore, when everyone was still noisy, Song Nan turned around and left these things behind and began to allocate military supplies to prepare for the expedition.

Although Zhengde fulfilled his promise and allocated the purchase of 200 rockets to equip the army, the arsenal has been in a semi-open state, and Song Nan does not dare to manufacture a large number of these things. After all, if the court does not purchase, these things will become scrap metal; now there are less than 50 finished products in the arsenal. If you want to take these 50 doors, the arsenal will naturally be full and resume production immediately, and you will have to work overtime. Thousands of people can finally come in handy. With the existing manpower and scale, the required number will be made up in a few months.

Song Nan discussed with the little prince, and this time he was loaned all the general cannons of the Shenji camp as a supplement to make up for the initial lack of firepower. Zhang Lun is not a fuel-efficient lamp. After seeing Song Nan's new rocket launcher, he immediately knew that his general was simply a waste, so he readily agreed that he would not go to the new one. I'm afraid these generals will never come back. He can just ask for the addition of this new rocket. The cannon entered the divine camp.

With the supplement of nearly 200 generals, Song Nan's heart has calmed down a little, and the scum firearm is also a firearm, which has a greater advantage than cold weapons. These cannons were all incorporated into the artillery battalion of the Shenshu Camp. What Zhang Ning, a thousand households in the artillery battalion, dreamed of was this day. At the time of the Rebellion of the Ping'an King, Song Nan promised him to form a general camp for him to command, and finally fulfilled his promise after more than two years.

Three days later, the intense and orderly preparations were finally over. Shenshu Camp, the Outer Second Military Camp, Jiang Bin's Zhenwei Camp, Xu Tai's Martial Arts Camp, and nearly 40,000 soldiers and horses of the fourth battalion gathered at the campus of Chengbei University.

Under the blue sky and white clouds, all the soldiers and horses lined up for inspection. In addition, what attracted attention were rows of greasy general cannons and dozens of mysterious things covered with oilcloth and pulled with war horses. Everyone knows that it is the so-called rocket launcher made by Song Nan, but for the sake of confidentiality, Song Nan will never let them show their true face.

In addition, there is also a soldier and horse that is also eye-catching, which is the brocade cavalry who have always been in yellow and red armor. It is not that their armor is bright and eye-catching, but that this team of nearly a thousand cavalry, in addition to the weapons in their hands, have a famous double-tube firearms around their waist.

When the arsenal basically stopped, Song Nan spent nearly 500,000 taels of silver to make a large number of double-tube firearms and secretly equip them for his own guards. Originally, this was a secret matter, but now there is nothing to hide. Finally, he revealed his cards on this expedition.

It is not easy for civil and military officials to talk at this time. A large number of privately equipped with firearms is a great rebellion. Previously, Song Nan still had only more than 100 pieces of firearm equipment in the Qinwei camp. This number is not a big deal as a big government office of Jinyiwei, and it is not a big threat, but I didn't expect this man. Bold and bold, it is really eye-catching to appear in such a huge number of firearms on this occasion for several years.

They also know that they can't come out to talk about this matter on this occasion. The general's expedition pays attention to great fortune, the right time, the right place and the right people. If a lot of people come out at this time, Zhengde will not hesitate to punish them severely. Song Nan chose to show his family background at this time, which was accurate. Today, no one pursues it, and it will be a fait accompli in the future, and there is no reason for anyone to repeat the old story.

A few officials who understand this section can't help sighing in their hearts: Song Nan's difficulty is simply unfathomable, as if everything is in his design.

Zhengde was dressed in auspicious clothes to worship the heavens and the earth, and personally awarded the seal of the general of Song Nanzhen, awarded the Yellow Dragon's military flag, and made an impassioned expedition speech, encouraging all the soldiers to kill the enemy for their loyalty to the country, and promised various reward conditions, which can be said to spare no effort.

Song Nan sighed in her heart that as an emperor, Zhengde is actually not qualified, but he is the emperor. Once his foundation is threatened, he will also do his duty and tirelessly. This set of sayings is obviously carefully prepared for him. To put it bluntly, it is just to encourage others to die for his throne; of course For a member of the Ming Dynasty, Song Nan's heart, like the hearts of other soldiers, is not only to be loyal to the person in front of him, but to resist alien invasion and avoid becoming the object of trampling under the hooves of the Taran.

After the ceremony, all the soldiers were given a bowl of wine. Zhengde led the civil and military ministers to stand on the high platform and raise the wine bowls. Thousands of troops raised their glasses together and drank wine together. Under the wine, the blood was hot, and tens of thousands of people shouted: the slogan of loyal to the country and expel the Tatars. The momentum was quite spectacular.

At that moment, even for a short moment, everyone abandoned all distractions and thought about the same thing.

Song Nan's mood was also a little excited. When the wine entered his stomach, he looked at the black soldiers and horses under the stage and thought to think: I don't know how many of such a good men will always spill blood in the northwest and never come back. Life is sometimes like today. Knowing that there are many dangers, you have to face them generously. This is a kind of helplessness, a kind of fearlessness, and a truly human spirit.

Among the attention of the people, Song Nan wore a big red cloak and made exquisite silver armor all over his body. The red on his head was eye-catching. He slowly picked up the steps and came to the side of the blue stone in front of the stage. Someone had already brought the big black horse to his side. Song Nan immediately held his fists and bowed to Zhengde and the ministers on the stage as a gift, and then turned to the view. He took a look at the place where the first family was on the side of the table, resolutely waved his chest, and shouted loudly, "Go on an expedition."

At the sound of the horn, the army slowly pulled out, smoke and dust rolled, footsteps, horses hissing, and banners like waves. An hour later, in the eyes of Zhengde and the ministers, in the tears of the families of the expeditionary generals, they gradually turned into a long dragon and rolled away.