Zhu Dadian and Hu David were different from the past, they were respectful to Lin Yi as soon as they met, and they were called great commanders. They thought that Lin Yi would definitely be defeated this time, and maybe the whole army would be wiped out. Unexpectedly, things immediately took a turn for the better, and as soon as Lin Yi's two reinforcements arrived, they immediately turned defeat into victory.

This ending is not bad, the two of them hurriedly seized the opportunity and ordered the team to rush forward, after they came, they didn't use their knives and guns much, and when they saw that Lin Yi was about to collect their troops, they hurried to see Lin Yi.

"Zhu Dadian and Tiger David have seen the Great Commander."

"Lin is polite." Lin Yi looked at the two of them, but the servants were bloodless, and his respect for them was just an arch of his hand, and he secretly said that it was really time for the two of you to come! What did you do just now? But Lin Yi didn't say it. The more respectful these two were to Lin Yi, the more wary Lin Yi became.

Zhu Dadian said: "Great commander, how can you collect troops at this time?" Li Zicheng was defeated, there are only a few thousand people in the city, and we must have at least 20,000 people in the three places. ”

"Yes, the Great Commander ordered the siege of the city, we are willing to take the lead." Tiger David also said.

Lin Yi looked at the faces of these two emojis concocted in the night, thought for a while, and said with a slight smile: "Wow, you are attacking the city, I wish the two of you success and victory, Lin will leave first." After Lin Yi finished speaking, he turned around and left.

What happened to these two, Lin Yi already knew that it was not the first time they had dealt with each other, on the banks of the Baishui River, Lin Yi and Liu Zeqing clashed, and the two of them were in it with the mud, and Lin Yi knew them at that time.

Now that they have come over again, Lin Yi almost couldn't support the defeat in the hands of Li Zicheng, they ignored it, now that they have won the battle, they came to pretend to be hindsight, but they just want to get some benefits and get a piece of the pie from Lin Yi's exploits, how can Lin Yi let them succeed.

Lin Yi hung them here, the two of them were embarrassed for a while, and finally saw that Lin Yi was not fooled by them, so the two of them would not lead the troops to attack the city, so they had to shake their heads, smiled at each other tacitly in embarrassment, and also collected their troops and set up camp nearby.

Counting Lin Yi's men and horses, the camps of these three general soldiers can be regarded as besieging Nanyang City.

Of course, Lin Yi doesn't care about these two bad generals, the battle against Li Zicheng can definitely be regarded as a big battle, from reconnaissance to planning and deployment, to the start of the war, counting the local battlefield, there are four battlefields, three county towns and one Nanyang Fucheng, counting the time on the road, it lasted nearly two days. The three county towns fought for a long time, and most of the time was killed outside Nanyang City.

On the whole, this major battle was carried out in accordance with the direction of Lin Yi's strategy, although the middle was full of dangers and variables, but in the end it did not deviate from the general direction. In the end, it ended with Li Zicheng's complete defeat and running into Nanyang City and closing the city without a fight.

On the second watch, the soldiers of the whole battalion had a full meal, and Lin Yi felt much more comfortable.

Hearing that Lin Yi was so tired that he vomited blood, Xiao Yi and Zhezhe were distressed, and they had to find a military doctor to come over and ask for warmth.

Lin Yi felt very happy, the march was very miserable, and it was good to have a woman to take care of it. Therefore, a burst of warmth rose in his heart, and he smiled at them, but rejected them: "You two fools, that mouthful of blood has a maximum of 100 CC, and a person who doesn't know martial arts will lose 400 CC of blood will not affect his health, not to mention that I, Lin Yi, have lost so much blood, do you think there is something wrong with me?" ”

Lin Yi said, slapping his chest loudly, and Ermei was relieved.

Then the two of them ignored the fatigue of the battle, brought him the ginseng soup cooked by the two of them themselves, and fed Lin Yi to drink, Lin Yi was suddenly so happy that his heart was surging......

Following. The results of this battle are counted, the four battlefields annihilated a total of more than 13,000 Li Zicheng's men and horses, of which more than 4,600 were captured, and the three county towns were recovered, and only outside Nanyang City was annihilated more than 8,000 thieves and nearly 2,000 people were captured.

As for the weapons of war, such as swords, spears, instruments, gongs, drums, tents, horses, etc., they are not counted, and the grain and grass obtained are piled up like mountains.

However, Lin Yi also suffered a considerable price in this battle, counting the four battlefields, the casualties of each battalion added up to more than 2,500 people, of which the casualties of the guard battalion reached 800, accounting for half of the entire guard battalion. The first battalion, the musket battalion, suffered a total of 1,200 casualties, the third battalion, Lin Yi's standard battalion, suffered a total of 520 casualties, and the female battalion also suffered several casualties, and the injured are being treated.

Compared to the number of enemies destroyed, this casualty was insignificant, but this was the largest number of combat casualties of Lin Yi's troops in recent years.

When it came to this battle, Xiaoying and Zhezhe were in tears, their women's battalion was originally small, but now it has been reduced by half. Lin Yi is also in a heavy mood, although there will inevitably be casualties in the war, the battlefield is life and death, and death and injury are very positive things, but in the face of the passage of these dozens of young lives, especially their flowery girls, they are inseparable from Lin Yi these days, so Lin Yi also feels sorry and sad.

comforted Xiaoying and Zhezhe, and had the opportunity to expand the women's battalion for them, and then Lin Yi decided to take special care of the casualties of the women's battalion soldiers, in addition to doubling the care for their families, and sending someone to transport their bodies back to their hometowns for burial.

Then clean up the battlefield, cover the corpses, take care of the booty, first put it into storage, and then it needs to be distributed to the battalions at all, and after the prisoners and the people of those battalions come immediately, they will be dealt with intensively, and these post-war matters are very complicated, and thousands of men and horses are busy for three whole days.

During this period, Lin Yi's 6th Battalion's Logistics Grain and Grass Supply Battalion and the 4th, 5th and 2nd Battalions, that is, the artillery battalion, all arrived. Not counting the thousands of Nanjing soldiers and Baoding soldiers, Lin Yi's men and horses reached nearly 20,000 horses, Lin Yi's soldiers and horses company battalions were mainly located in the west, south and east of Nanyang, and Zhu Dadian and Hu David's thousands of men and horses were camped in the northeast and northwest corners respectively, that is to say, at this time, the Ming army outside Nanyang City exceeded 30,000, forming an encirclement of Nanyang.

In the past three days, Nanyang City has been very quiet. Lin Yi did not attack the city, and Zhu Dadian and Hu Daviddang did not attack the city either. The two sides were born in peace for three days.

"My lord, when are we going to attack the city?" He Tao came to find Lin Yi, Lin Yi won another big battle, and he made meritorious contributions, his artillery battalion had not yet exerted its might, and he was a little impatient.

Lin Yi suddenly remembered something, "Let go of the siege in advance and call Zhang Hua to me." ”

Soon Zhang Hua came in from outside the tent, "The great commander summoned his subordinates, I don't know what to order?" ”

"On your last trip to Luoyang, what did Yang Sichang say after seeing the letter?"

"Back to the great commander, Lord Yang was full of promises, and he also led his subordinates to King Fu's mansion to pay homage to King Fu." Zhang Hua hurriedly gave a salute, Lin Yi asked about this two days ago, why did he ask again, but he quickly answered, the same as the answer in two days.

"And what did the old Fu King say?"

"Lao Fu Wang said, we won the battle, he is willing to pay 1 million taels of silver, if defeated, there is not a single copper coin. Great Commander, we fought such a big victory, Luoyang is not far from here, they must have known it for a long time, they care about this battle more than we do, especially the old Fu King, but the matter of silver, will they pretend to be confused and not admit it, that is a million taels, the old Fu King is as rich as his life. Do you want to destroy it again? Zhang Hua observed his words and looks, and already knew what Lin Yi was thinking.

Lin Yi said: "We defeated Li Zicheng, it's only the third day, don't be busy, wait a little longer." But Lin Yi sent the order down, but the silver was not available, and he would not attack the city or fight. ”

"No."

A few days later, someone came from Luoyang, and Li Wenhai, the head of the military department, on behalf of Yang Sichang, took 1,500 people, escorted more than a dozen carts, a few of which were covered with grass, and the others were filled with wine and meat, saying that they were here to reward the three armies, and drove into Lin Yi's camp.

Lin Yi had already guessed, and went out of the camp with a spring breeze to take Director Li into the camp, and more than a dozen carts also walked into the camp, and when they arrived at the tent, the guests and hosts sat down, Li Wenhai smiled: "Congratulations to the great commander for his meritorious deeds, the cabinet lord and the old Fu Wang both praised the great commander Shenwu, and the one million taels of silver that the great commander needed was ordered to deliver, and the road was far, in order to hide people's eyes, he also pulled a few carts of wine and meat, which is a little bit of Lord Yang's heart, and the lord is going to the imperial court to ask for merit and reward for the great commander." ”

One million taels of silver has arrived!

Lin Yi was overjoyed when he heard this, it is not uncommon to have no merit, with this million taels of silver, he can let the soldiers live a good life again, and he can also expand some soldiers and horses, so he hurriedly thanked Lord Li and Lord Yang and Lao Fu Wang.

"After the great commander rests the soldiers and horses, he must march into the army as soon as possible, take Nanyang, and destroy the thieves.

Lin Yi nodded: "Lord Li, don't worry, my subordinates will arrange this, and they will attack Nanyang City in the near future and exterminate the thief Li Zicheng." ”