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General Wang Shangli wiped a handful of rain on his face, put his hand on the pergola, looked at the shadowy Li Xiaojun's pursuers behind him, and then asked Zhang Xianzhong in a trembling voice with a worried face.

"What else can you do, what a fucking shame on your ancestors!" Zhang Xianzhong, who was fighting his own horse, had a hideous and painful face: "Now that our army has been defeated and its morale has fallen, how can we resume the war, it is important to seize the time to retreat westward." ”

Sun Kewang on the side hurriedly rode over and said loudly: "Father-in-law, now our army is hungry and tired, and the morale of the Ming army is booming. ”

After Sun Kewang finished speaking, when Zhang Xianzhong was frowning, Bai Wenxuan, a general who had not spoken all the time, followed in a low voice: "King, so far, the only way to protect the handsome is to lose the car." ”

Bai Wenxuan, a native of Wubao, Shaanxi, excelled in martial arts from a small arm, and was later appreciated by Zhang Xianzhong and accepted as an important general equivalent to Feng Shuangli and others. In the original history, after the death of Zhang Xianzhong, this person surrendered to the Southern Ming Dynasty with Sun Kewang, and after Yongli abandoned the country and fled, he and Li Dingguo were still struggling to support the nominal Nanming regime, and finally the army was defeated and surrounded on all sides, so he had no choice but to surrender to the Qing.

"Oh, what do you mean?"

"Your Majesty, there are still more than 5,000 cavalry in our army, all of whom are the cavalry of the old battalion army that we started from Shaanxi, and they must be kept for the foundation of our army. The other more than 2,000 people, all infantry and transport teams, most of them are infantry troops or newly attached troops. When Bai Wenxuan said this, a cold light flashed in his eyes: "Now, let them block Li Xiao's troops for our army." ”

Hearing Bai Wenxuan say this, Wang Shangli looked reluctant: "If you give up all the infantry and transport teams, then wouldn't the large amount of baggage, gold and silver that our army has obtained in the southeast be cheaper than Li Xiao's guy?" ”

Bai Wenxuan said hatefully: "Now that the situation is so critical, the soldiers and horses still don't care, how can they care about these things outside their bodies!" You know, stay in the green mountains, and you are not afraid of no firewood. ”

Zhang Xianzhong, who had a dark face, gritted his teeth and nodded in agreement with Bai Wenxuan's approach: "Damn, Wenxuan is right, then Wenxuan will lead 1,000 cavalry, take these more than 2,000 infantry, and block the enemy after the break." ”

"Order!"

Seeing that Bai Wenxuan was about to go as promised, Zhang Xianzhong stopped him again, and said in a low voice: "Don't love to fight, after blocking the enemy, you will return immediately, and this king is waiting for you on the south bank of the Yellow River." ”

Bai Wenxuan cried: "If you understand, you can rest assured, king." ”

Sun Kewang followed Zhang Xianzhong away, his face was a little relaxed, but he subconsciously looked back at the suburbs of Shan County, and gently spit out a sentence: "It is easy to enter Shandong, and it is difficult to shake Li Xiaojun." ”

Not long after, Li Xiao led the whole army to brave the heavy rain and finally rushed to the front of Bai Wenxuan's column.

Seeing that the enemy still had the courage to line up to block him, Li Xiao was taken aback.

It's just that when he saw the enemy's battle formation, the cavalry and the infantry were so far apart, Li Xiao immediately understood the enemy's intentions.

"Hmph, the dog still knows how to lose the car to protect the handsome." A sneer appeared on Li Xiao's face: "Pass on my military order, the whole army will attack, and completely kill this rogue group!" ”

Thousands of spear and shield soldiers burst into shouts and strode towards the rogue battle array opposite.

The battle was very short, and in less than 20 minutes, the remaining more than 1,000 low-morale rogues had been surrounded by Li Xiaojun's army on three sides, and they were constantly retreating.

Seeing that the collapse of the army was imminent, Bai Wenxuan, who was in the rear of the formation, gave a shout with an expressionless face, and more than 1,000 cavalrymen immediately turned around and fled west.

The more than 1,000 rogue infantry, who were already struggling to support and had now reached the limit, saw that all the cavalry behind them had fled, and they no longer had the courage and motivation to fight against the Ming army, so they immediately knelt on the ground and asked for surrender.

Li Xiao did not send cavalry to pursue the Liukou cavalry who had fled wildly, because after pursuing here, his own cavalry, which had been fighting non-stop, had exhausted their strength and was no longer able to continue to pursue.

The rain was so heavy that it was impossible to count the piles of baggage and treasures that had been abandoned by the rogues at the scene, so Li Xiao ordered that the captured and captured prisoners be taken back to the city for further counting.

At this point, the battle to defend Iron Dragon City, which lasted for nearly half a month, finally ended with Li Xiaojun's comprehensive victory.

After returning to Tielong City, Chen Zilong and Guan Yi, deputy director of the Supervision and Restoration Department, counted the results and casualties respectively, and finally reported the results to Li Xiao as follows:

In this battle, a total of 33,620 rogues were annihilated and killed, 5,850 prisoners were captured, more than 13,000 pieces of complete armor, 155 horses, swords, swords, shields and other weapons were captured. In addition, 4,800 taels of gold, 120,000 taels of silver, more than 5,300 horses of silk, 150,000 stones of grain, and two large boxes of funeral jewelry items of Zhu Yuanzhang's parents were stolen from the imperial tomb.

And Li Xiaojun, although he finally won a big victory, his losses were also extremely heavy.

Among them, the casualties of the whole army were 653 shield soldiers, 1,087 spearmen, 58 rampant troops, 22 Xuanhu heavy cavalry, 20 flying harriers, 566 auxiliary soldiers, and 23 slingers.

The battle loss rate was close to one-third, which was a pyrrhic victory.

"My lord, Lord Wang, he's dying." After Chen Guan and the others finished reporting, a sergeant ran over and reported to Li Xiaoyu with a crying voice.

"Huh? What happened to him? ”

When Li Xiao heard this, a look of joy on his face disappeared in an instant, and he hurriedly followed him to the Iron Dragon City Traditional Chinese Medicine Hall.

Li Xiao comforted the wounded soldiers who were wailing all over the place, and then walked quickly to Wang Yishou's bed.

Wang Yishou, the chief of the iron dragon, closed his eyes slightly, and his severed belly was wrapped in a white cloth, but it was already dark red. He lost too much blood, his face was pale, and when he twitched from time to time, blood seeped out from the corner of his mouth, and he was immediately carefully wiped away by the sergeant who was guarding the side.

Chen Mazi, a doctor who was sweating profusely next to him, couldn't help but sigh lightly when he saw Wang Yishou's condition, and slowly shook his head.

"Doctor Chen, how is Yishou's injury?" Li Xiao asked.

Chen Mazi sighed again: "Mr. Wang has lost too much blood, his vitality has been lost, and his life is on the line!" The medical skills are shallow, and there is no way to return to the sky. ”

Before Li Xiao could answer, Wang Yishou on the bed heard Li Xiao's voice, and opened his eyes slightly, and searched around: "Is Master Li here?" ”

Li Xiao rushed over, tightly held Wang Yishou's right hand full of coagulated blood clots, and choked up: "It's me, Yishou, Li Xiao has come to see you." ”

Wang Yishou's pale face suddenly flashed a faint smile, and he said to Li Xiao with difficulty: "Lord Li, I am in a trance below, below, as if I saw the day again, I went to the Daling River in Jinzhou with you to investigate the enemy's situation. Such a past seems to have been yesterday. ”

Li Xiao's eyes immediately flashed with tears: "Yishou, take care of your illness, believe me, in the future, we will definitely be able to go back to Jinzhou!" No, I have to go to Shenyang again and go to the Tartar's lair! ”

Wang Yishou breathed hard, nodded, shook his head and said: "Yishou knows that the adult is genius Wei Yan, wise and brave, and will definitely be able to do a great career in the future, but unfortunately, Yishou is thin, and he can't wait for the day when he drinks Huanglong with adults." ”

Li Xiao held Wang Yishou's increasingly cold hand tightly, as if he wanted to transfer the heat on his body to him, he squeezed out a smile and comforted: "Don't say stupid things, when you are injured, our brothers will do something big together." ”

Wang Yishou smiled bitterly, but the corners of his mouth were overflowing with blood, his breathing was weak, and his tone began to become intermittent: "My lord, I am seriously injured, I am afraid that I will not be able to bear it." Yishou followed the adults, killed the Tartars, killed the rogues, and made a lot of money in this life. I have nothing else to think about, I just hope that my wife and children will be kind to me, and I will die righteously, and I have no regrets. ”

Two lines of tears burst out of Li Xiao's eyes: "Don't worry, Li Xiao swears here, I will take good care of your wife and children, and I will never let them suffer the slightest grievance." ”

Listening to Li Xiao's oath, Wang Yishou had a smile on his face, but the light in his eyes became more and more dimmed.

Li Xiao, who was welling up with tears, his fingers trembled and wiped Wang Yishou's eyes that had not been closed.

Seeing that Wang Yishou, who obeyed his words and was still an insignificant deputy of the Quang Ninh Zhongtun Sentinel Cavalry that day, he was loyal to him, has now become a cold corpse, Li Xiao's heart is like a knife.

However, loyal and good people, the sky does not lie.

Li Xiao watched Wang Yishou's face for a long time, Fang slowly stood up, and cried: "Pass on my order, and bury Yishou and all the sacrificed soldiers, and the name tags will be put into the Martyrs' Shrine." Defend his wife and children, choose the best house in Tielong City, give him to live in, in addition to the pension and family allowance, and give him ten taels of silver every month until his wife is 100 years old. ”

"Order!"

Li Xiao then arranged for the current Chifeng General Vice President An Monk to take over the post of the sacrificial Wang Yishou Tielong General Chief.

Monk An had no heart or lungs, and when he saw that he had been promoted again, he grinned and expressed his gratitude to Li Xiao again and again.

"My lord, now after this battle, the Iron Dragon General Army has suffered a lot of losses, but it must be replenished in time." Monk An asked tentatively.

Li Xiao nodded and said, "Monk An, you have a very good proposal, you can first recruit qualified soldiers from the tens of thousands of people in Shan County who have been taken in by the city. ”

"My lord, can the number of soldiers and horses of my Tielong General be expanded to the same as that of Chifeng?" Monk An was most afraid that he had too few soldiers and horses, so he asked anxiously.

Li Xiao saw that Monk An was so eager, so he patted him lightly on the shoulder and said: "This is natural, now our army has captured a lot, it is the time to expand the army, if there are not enough qualified personnel in the city, wait for the rain to stop in the past two days, you and Tian Wei will go to all parts of Yanzhou again, recruit displaced people, and join the army." ”

"Okay, Master Li, don't worry, I will train you an elite soldier as soon as possible!" Monk An saw that his idea had been achieved, and he smiled with joy.

After explaining the matter of army expansion to Monk An, Li Xiao sent people to invite Li Dingguo, Feng Shuangli, Liu Wenxiu, and Jin Tongwu, the four main generals, to his official hall to speak.

Li Dingguo was taken out of the secret room by several sergeants, and as soon as he came out of the house, Li Dingguo was immediately shocked by the blood of Yin Yin that was pouring out of the ground.

By this time, the rain had become sparse, and he looked around and saw that the blood on the ground had been washed down from the three walls that had been stained blood-red.

Li Dingguofu saw that a large number of corpses of rogues were cleaned from the urn city and the city wall, and were pulled outside the city by four-wheeled carriages to be buried.

"See, our army has defeated tens of thousands of your rogue soldiers and horses, fortunately Zhang Xianzhong's guy escaped quickly, otherwise, my Lord Li would definitely behead his dog!" A sergeant next to him said with a smug and disdainful expression.

"Oh, father-in-law, is he really defeated?" Li Dingguo's face turned pale and muttered.

"What kind of bullshit father, who let him not open his eyes and meet my family's god of war, Lord Li, hurry up and go, Lord Li is waiting." The sergeant urged impatiently.

Li Dingguo entered the living room of Li Xiao's official office, and saw that Li Xiao had taken off his armor, changed into a tight-fitting blue silk robe, and wore a hinged silver and blue jade hair crown, which made him look more and more heroic and extraordinary.

When he saw Feng Shuangli, Liu Wenxiu, Jin Tongwu and others who were sitting in silence, Li Dingguo felt a burst of heat on his face.

This Li Xiao actually captured the generals under his father, which is really amazing!

Li Dingguo quickly noticed that everyone was casting different eyes on him

Among them, Jin Tongwu, who had surrendered to Li Xiaojun on his back, had a trace of shame in his eyes, and Liu Wenxiu, the third brother who had just surrendered to Li Xiaojun, was full of helplessness and avoidance in his eyes, and Feng Shuangli, a general of the Liukou who was captured by Li Xiaojun and tied back to the city, looked at himself with inexplicable anger in his eyes.

Of course, Feng Shuangli was angry, if it wasn't for Zhang Xianzhong's insistence on saving Li Dingguo, how could he end up being a prisoner of Li Xiaojun.

"It turns out that Dingguo is here, please take a seat." Li Xiao stood up with a smile, broke this oppressive embarrassment in time, and stretched out his hand to invite Li Dingguo to sit down.

Li Dingguo sighed in his heart, followed the direction indicated by Li Xiao, and sat down without saying a word.

There was silence in the room.

"Everyone, today our army completely defeated Zhang Xianzhong's department, I don't know if you are convinced?" Li Xiao looked around at everyone and broke the silence with a smile.

Jin Tongwu, who was still playing a splint on his legs, first smiled and said to Li Xiao: "Your army is so capable of fighting, and it will defend this Iron Dragon City like gold, and Jin is convinced." ”

Liu Wenxiu moved his lips with difficulty, and said in a low voice: "Today, our army has as many as 50,000 troops, and we have coerced the people to attack the city, but we are still defeated by your army. ”

Li Xiao's eyes fell on Feng Shuangli, Feng Shuangli blushed and pondered for a long time, Fang Chang sighed: "The general of the defeated army can be said to be true!" Planted in the hands of your Commander Li, Feng recognized it, but he didn't know what to do with us, Master Li? ”

Li Xiao smiled and said: "Tongwu and Wenxiu have surrendered to our army, and this official will arrange for them." Now this official wants to know, Shuangli, you and Dingguo, are you willing to surrender to our army sincerely? ”

Feng Shuangli had a wry smile on his face, and hurriedly said: "In Xiaxia, there are all soldiers and horses, and there is a lonely family, if Lord Li is willing to take him in, he will dare not obey in Xia'an." It's just that we followed King Zhang in the past, oh no, Zhang Xianzhong, there are many bad deeds on my hands, but I don't know adults, but will people treat us tolerantly? ”

As soon as Feng Shuangli's words came out, Li Dingguo, Liu Wenxiu, Jin Tongwu and others all raised their heads and looked at Li Xiao with their eyes. (To be continued.) )