"Jiexuan, you have been fighting for so many years, but you are indecisive for a while, and you have lost an excellent fighter in vain. The pen, fun, and pavilion www.biquge.info also invisibly pushed the relationship between my Dashun and the Li family into a more subtle and embarrassing situation! ”

After retreating from Shanxi to Henan to join Liu Zongmin's army, Li Zicheng could not take a break, and when he ordered the generals to travel with him, accompanied by Liu Zongmin, he went to watch the battle near the battlefield of the battle between the Nanyue army and the Qing army.

As a competent commander, Li Zicheng has maintained the habit of personally looking at the terrain for many years, and when the generals present introduced to him the situation and situation of the three armies of the Nanyue Army, the Qing Army, and the Dashun Army at that time, he couldn't help but sigh on horseback.

"If you had seized the opportunity of Duoduo's fierce battle with Grand Prince Li at that time, you would have no time to look westward, and pounce with a large army. According to the situation of the Qing army at that time, most of their elite and artillery were facing Li Huayu's troops head-on, or preparing to enter the battlefield. The flanking bee is weak and tight at the waist. Your iron cavalry suddenly killed, not to mention that it is possible to wipe out Duoduo's troops and Li Dagongzi together, at least, you can also cut him off and defeat this Qing army! Then, we'll have the strength to turn around and deal with the Azig thieves! ”

Li Zicheng's words made Liu Zongmin's angular face as red as blood. In fact, he was only a little late that day, and when the army was mobilized, Duoduo had already withdrawn, which made him lose a fighter plane in vain, not to mention, and made Li Huayu and his generals suspicious of him, the general of the battalion in Dashun. Quietly, more than thirty percent of the ranger sentinels sent in the direction of the Dashun army were compared with the past. The gun emplacements were also increased by at least several dozen. Many ditches, pillboxes and other fortifications were built on the west side.

The amount of supplies procured under the salvage agreement from the Yellow River to Henan is also much smaller than in the past. In this regard, the reply given by the Nanyue army was that the war was tense and there was a lack of ship capacity.

Actually, everyone knows it. This is the precautionary measures and means taken by Li Dagongzi against the Dashun army. Contingency measures on the battlefield, countermeasures outside the battlefield.

I can't hand over those important strategic supplies such as food and firearms to an ally who makes me feel uncomfortable, so that he can suddenly attack me on my flank. This is the way of thinking of normal people.

"Your Majesty, the minister's mishandling is today's passive situation, please Your Majesty will issue a decree to punish you, and the minister will never complain!"

Liu Zongmin jumped off the horse, and after intervening in the salute, he took off the iron helmet on his head, held it in his hand, and begged Li Zicheng to punish the crime to atone for his past.

Niu Jinxing, who followed Li Zicheng's royal car, saw that the generals of Henan dismounted one after another and asked Li Zicheng to cure his crimes, and there was a vague sense of turmoil. I couldn't help but feel a stir in my heart. He knew very well Liu Zongmin's status in the Dashun Dynasty, and if he really wanted to be unfavorable to Liu Zongmin, he would be far from being able to punish him with this crime, and it would be difficult to convince the public. What's more, when Liu Zongmin makes his Niu Jinxing's handwritten letter public, I'm afraid that at that time, it will not be Liu Zongmin who will die, but his Niu Jinxing!

"Your Majesty, General Jiexuan was negligent for a while, and he made an unintentional mistake, and there is still room for turning around in this matter. Please also ask Your Majesty to be magnanimous. "At this time, if he doesn't come out to build a step for Li Zicheng and Liu Zongmin, and sell a favor to Henan generals by the way, then he will not be a bull Jinxing.

"Jiexuan, I have been with you for many years, why do you have to do this?! Back to camp! After you go back, you send an envoy to Li Gongzi's camp. Let's just say that I have a gift for him. By the way, let me tell him that he sent troops that day, and I was determined to command the Dashun Heavenly Army to launch an offensive from the west! ”

The so-called gift that Li Zicheng ordered to give to Li Huayu was nothing else. It is the dozens of heads of local officials, leaders of the wall, and pole leaders who surrendered to the Qing Dynasty soldiers and horses along the way. Each person has a thin string of paper tied to his head, indicating the person's identity, official position, geographical location, crimes, and so on.

When the envoy sent Li Zicheng's thoughts to the camp of the Nanyue Army, Li Huayu was in a good mood.

"Old Fan, the loss is that you were prescient. Long walls were built in advance on the river in areas where the river narrowed, the water flowed slower, and it was easy for thieves to take advantage of. It doesn't cost much, but it makes a big difference! ”

In the Battle of Gouwan, the Xun soldiers in charge of guarding the battle, the guards of the transport fleet, the Cao gang of the fleet, and the inland water division fought together, relying on the long wall to repel several attacks by Azig. Hundreds of people were killed. Even the Cao Gang carried short knives and axes, and killed dozens of Liao thieves who rushed up the long wall with bamboo artemisia iron hooks. Looking at the military merits, thinking of the huge benefits that they could get from the eldest prince and the grandfather of the country in the future, the Cao Gang all smiled happily.

"It turns out that the godlike Tartar soldiers who were blown by the government are nothing more than that, with a knife and a gun, they are still a mortal fetus!" A few Cao Gang stewards began to have some small ideas in their hearts.

Hundreds of casualties were nothing in Azig's opinion. He had planned to gather the remaining 3,000 people to launch another onslaught on the long wall, but the situation took a turn for the worse. In several nearby prefectures, counties, and townships, because they received an urgent report from the police on the long wall, the local work team gathered the Minzhuang, Ma Kuai, and other armed forces, and besieged Chenggouwan with great momentum.

This is not the local state and county officials of Daming, and suddenly the conscience found that they had changed their faces. It was also out of desperation. First, all prefectures and counties have teams stationed by Li Huayu and armed guards at least one outpost. Both of them, Li Huayu has already given a death order, if there is a little problem with river transportation, where is the problem, take the local officials of which state and county and the whole family will ask! If there is a problem at the junction, unceremoniously, several nearby states and counties will be guilty of the same crime!

("When you come out to mix, you must talk about credibility.") If you kill your whole family, you will not be left alive! ”）

There was a long wall in front of which was difficult to reach for a while, and behind and on the flanks there was a large group of men and horses roaring, and there were gongs and shouts of killing in all directions. Azig felt fear like never before, for no apparent reason.

"Master! Let's withdraw first! Reinforcements from the Nikan barbarians are coming! The master stays in the green mountains without worrying about no firewood! The persuasion of a few henchmen gave Azig an extremely decent excuse. He could only beat his chest with hatred and pause, and then ordered his men to shoot rockets at the river fleet. As for whether it can be shot or not, whether it can ignite the fire is another matter.

Azig retreated in a hurry and went to join the fifteenth brother Yu Prince Duoduo, so naturally he didn't mention it. However, the results he left behind were enormous.

It was so big that it almost caused local officials in the prefecture and county to fight with the Cao Gang, the flood soldiers, and the inland water divisions.

Horse! His 4,000 elite cavalry were all equipped according to the standard of at least three horses per person, and many were still four horses per man. There were more than 10,000 war horses, and in a hurry, he only took a few thousand. The remaining large number of horses were abandoned by their masters in the Wei River loop.

This is the greatest feats and trophies!

Several families immediately quarreled.

It is no wonder that in this war-torn year, War Horse is undoubtedly the best embodiment of strength and military exploits. What's more, at the moment, thousands of carefully selected Mongolian war horses are roaming around in the loop. The saddles on their backs are complete, and many horses also have weapons and mattresses on them. It's also a small fortune to collect.

However, the stakes are big, although several families want to make a profit from it, but they are afraid of being denounced by others, and the eldest prince's law enforcement knife is very fast! As a result, several companies finally reached an agreement and jointly wrote a submission to report. Each of them elaborated on their own exploits. As for the military horses, they should be handed over in full, and the eldest prince should decide.

However, the weapons on horseback, the armor on the corpses, and the goods in the waist bags and mattresses were still distributed among everyone.

The thousands of war horses that fell from the sky, as well as the battle of Chenggouwan that made people feel a little scared when they thought about it, made Li Huayu deeply experience the taste of ***** and realized what it means to think of heaven and hell.

Now in Zhangde Mansion, the Shandong soldiers and horses, together with the craftsmen and men accompanying the army, war horses, horses, mules, donkeys and other livestock, all have nearly 200,000 mouths to eat every day. The daily consumption of grain, rice, and beans is at least around two or three thousand stones.

Sometimes, trenches, fortifications, and artillery fortifications were dug and men were recruited temporarily, and the amount of money paid for grain, rice, and workers was far more than that.

"Where the method of military use, galloping thousands of cars, leather cars thousands of times, with 100,000 armor, thousands of miles of food, then the internal and external expenses, the use of guests, the material of glue paint, the dedication of car armor, the daily cost of thousands of gold, and then 100,000 divisions." This is a treatise on the economics of war made by Sun Tzu in the Spring and Autumn Period. It boils down to one word, money! If you don't have money and food as a material basis, you don't want to fight a big war!

"These Tartars, but they are not a bunch of reckless men. The shot is very vicious! If they cut off the road to Caoyun, I am afraid that our hundreds of thousands of people will also fall into a situation of lack of food and grass and ammunition! "I remembered the Liaodong War a few years ago, Huang Taiji's Tartar leader didn't just sneak attack on the middle road and cut off the grain route of Inspector Hong, so that he was defeated and captured.

"The Tartars are good at surprise soldiers, and their subordinates have many cavalry, so they are very skilled in this means of cutting off the back of others."

Li Huayu was very generous in awarding military merits. There is a reward for all those involved in this matter. Personally armed with a knife into battle, it is naturally more abundant to kill the Tartars. As for those state and county officials who came to help, they did their duty, and in addition to rewarding money and food, they also recorded merit. The company will record that the evaluation at the end of the year will add points, and in case of vacancies, priority will be given to fill the position.

Those war horses, Li Huayu ordered Tuha, Ekui, Ozanikan and others to choose, and divided those horses that were not suitable for battle due to injury and illness into two, half of which were given to the Cao Gang to pull carts to be carried on the dock, and half were awarded to relevant prefectures and counties, "You can pull carts and plow fields." ”

As for Fan Xiaozeng, the initiator, although he did not shoot an arrow at the Tartars in the battle of Chenggouwan, he waved his sword and gun. However, because of the first thing about the long wall, a solid foundation was laid for winning this battle. For this achievement, Li Huayu ordered the Military and Political Department to make a great record of Fan Xiaozeng.

"If it weren't for Counselor Fan, everyone would be hungry! We can endure hunger for a while, and if our cannons are hungry, the Tartars on the opposite side will have a chance! ”

Li Huayu's few jokes made the Shandong soldiers and horses look at the guys in the staff office who did not lead troops to fight, but commanded everyone how to arrange the troops. Problems you didn't find, people found out. The solution you didn't think of, people not only thought of it, but also implemented it. Previously, Fan Xiaozeng forced all prefectures and counties to gather people to build long walls along the river in the name of the General Staff Office, and sent flood soldiers to guard the people. In my heart, I have vaguely compared the staff office with Zhuge Liang and Liu Bowen, who are unpredictable prophets in the drama and often have clever plans.

"Your Excellency praised it. We're just doing our part to put an end to the hidden danger before it happens! If there is any reward for your lordship, the subordinate has the courage to ask your lord to change the credit given to Fan to all his colleagues in the staff office. Because of this matter, the various articles of association proposed by Fan on weekdays are not the credit of Fan Mou, but the result of the hard work of all colleagues. ”

That's it! Li Huayu has also led the army for many years, and he has seen a lot of things such as fighting for merit and grabbing honor among generals, but it is the first time that he has changed the credit awarded to himself to all his subordinates.

"You remembered me!" Li Huayu has been in Shandong for a long time, and there are a lot of Qilu men around, and his accent naturally unconsciously has a bit of Shandong flavor.

"In the future, if I march to fight and camp in battle, I can not listen to my orders, but I must listen to the orders of the staff office! This is the military law of our Nanyue Army! ”

More than 3,000 carefully selected war horses were assigned to the hussars to expand the army, and seeing that the horse team under his command would expand the army by at least more than 1,000 cavalry, Li Huayu was in a good mood, and the officer on duty outside the door told him that the envoy of Dashun asked to see him.

Li Huayu naturally will not put on a domineering posture. According to the education and living environment he received, even if he wanted to show his dissatisfaction with the 10,000 articles of the Great Shun Army, and the majesty of the current good wind, he would not do the kind of thing that let the other party's envoy report to the door, list the knife gates on both sides, and let the other party drill the knife mountain and come from under the blade. That's what the king of Tubaozi Mountain does, not his style of the eldest son of Li. Moreover, in the eyes of the old people of the Dashun Army, who have been in the blood for more than ten years, the so-called Daoshan is just a thing to scare children.

Very generously accepted Li Zicheng's dozens of heads that had been shaved with money rat tail hair, and after making some prospects for the cooperation between the two Lam Soon, Li Huayu ordered someone to prepare a return gift to the son of Yongchang.

"On the battlefield, it is difficult to prepare a gift that can be held for a while. The boys fought a small battle the day before yesterday and captured some booty. It can be dedicated to His Majesty the Emperor. Come! Go to the back of the herd of horses to select 300 good war horses and give them to His Majesty the Emperor to travel! ”

On the surface, he was sincerely afraid to offer the spoils of war, but in fact, he quietly showed off the combat effectiveness and achievements of the Nanyue Army to the Dashun Army. "We only fought a small battle and there was such a huge capture! You can easily sell 300 war horses for you! ”

"Your army's combat strength is strong, and Your Majesty and all the soldiers of Dashun are well-known. In the following, on behalf of the soldiers of each battalion, I would like to thank Li Shuai for the generous gift! The messenger said that he was three points false and seven points true. What is fake is a compliment to the combat effectiveness of the Nanyue army, and no army will be happy because an army that is still nominally its own opposing camp is strong in combat. It's really beneficial to the current Dashun army.

Although there are only 300 war horses, it is undoubtedly a good medicine for the soldiers and horses of the imperial camp who marched thousands of miles and were constantly pursued by the Qing army all the way, and there were countless gentry and officials along the way who rebelled against the water and organized the soldiers and horses to block the road and intercept the road bravely.

The messenger came for the healing medicine.

The so-called good medicine, in fact, is also money and food.

How big is the material gap of the Dashun Army, let's take Li Huayu as a comparison.

As mentioned earlier, Li Huayu's subordinates have more than 100,000 people, and counting mules, horses, and people, they need a total of more than 200,000 mouths to eat and drink. The daily consumption of normal grain, rice, bean fodder and forage is as much as thousands of quintals. This is the consumption of the Nanyue army, then, thousands of miles away, Li Zicheng's imperial camp and the main force of the Dashun army, which were pursued by Azig, Wu Sangui, and Ao Bai all the way from Shanxi to Henan, have a greater gap in grain and grass! The demand for materials and armor and weapons is even greater!

Although in the past two years, the Dashun army has greatly developed Tuntian in Henan, Guanzhong, and De'an Prefectures, and implemented a new policy for money and grain. However, there is no solid and effective grassroots organization and political power, there is no convenient road transportation, and no matter how much grain and rice are transported, the loss rate is also amazing.

What's even worse is that an army lacks swords, guns and guns in its hands, the armor on its body is seriously damaged, and the artillery has no gunpowder shells, how to deal with the fierce enemy behind it? Therefore, the purpose of the envoy, in addition to expressing friendship with Li Huayu and agreeing that the two companies should take joint action to deal with Duoduo, was also to demand that the various trade activities stipulated in the rescue agreement be fulfilled in a timely manner to replenish supplies for the Dashun army.

This point, Li Zicheng in his handwritten letter (of course, can also be seen as a special purpose. If it is a letter, it will not use the jade seal of the Son of Heaven of Dashun Yongchang. It's just that it's written in the tone of a private letter. ) is unmistakable.

For this reason, Li Zicheng patted his chest in the letter and said that as long as the supplies were obtained, the Dashun Army would coordinate with the Nanyue Army. You fight Tartar, we also fight Tartar, you fight with Tartar, we also fight with Tartar.

After receiving the promise of Li Zicheng and the Nanyue Army to work together to flank the Qing army, Li Huayu showed a smile on his face.

"The 200,000 Great Shun Army and I are acting in concert, so why worry about the Liao thieves on the other side!"

Politely sent the satisfied messenger away, Li Huayu and Fan Xiaozeng proudly expressed their opinions. (To be continued.) )