Li Xiao and Shen Zhixiang drank bitterly until the night, and both of them were drunk. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info later, Shen Zhixiang and his gang entered the pavilion arranged by Li Xiao to rest, and Li Xiao himself was staggered back to the county lord Zhu Yujiao's room by the maid.

"Husband, why are you so drunk?"

After the maids helped Li Xiao take off his coat, Zhu Yujiao whispered and resented, and carefully lifted Li Xiao, who was lying on the bed on all fours, on the pillow.

Li Xiao, who was drunk and hazy, opened his eyes slightly, feeling a terrible headache, and after stabilizing his mind, he saw Zhu Yumei, who was only wearing underwear, and was helping himself to correct his posture. Smelling the fragrant and attractive body fragrance on her body, Li Xiao's heart was flooded with a warm feeling.

"Sister, I'm happy today, I've had a few more drinks, but it's okay." Li Xiao smiled.

"Alas, drink as little as possible in the future, and look at your drunken appearance." Zhu Yumei said with a slight sigh, stretched out her slender jade hand, and gently touched Li Xiao's forehead.

Li Xiao gently grabbed her white and delicate hand, and said softly but solemnly: "Xi'er, in two days, my husband will lead the army north to Jinzhou to fight the Tartars, but you have to take good care of yourself." ”

"Don't worry, the concubine will take good care of herself. But you, husband, are on the outing, but you need to be careful in everything. Zhu Yujiao's face was filled with distress and concern.

Li Xiao smiled and took advantage of the situation to take Zhu Yumei into his arms. Who knew that Zhu Yumei's slender waist was twisted, but she gently broke out of Li Xiao's arms.

"I heard that the girl you like is also in Jinzhou?"

Zhu Yumei, who was facing Li Xiao with her back, whispered a soft-spoken word, but Li Xiao was violently excited, and most of the wine was suddenly gone, and the hands that were about to take her back into her arms also froze in the air.

The red candle flickered, and there was a sudden silence in the room.

"It turns out that you know all about it."

Li Xiao slowly lowered his hand and sighed softly.

The bright candlelight flickered, reflecting the blank expression on his handsome and contemplative face.

"Alas, I'm not a fool, your past with that girl is well known to everyone in Chifeng City, and some words have reached my ears, why is it strange?" Zhu Yumei sat on the edge of the bed with her back to Li Xiao and obliquely.

Li Xiao's heart suddenly had mixed feelings, he seemed to have a thousand words to say to Zhu Yujiao, but when the words came to his mouth, they only turned into a sigh.

"Husband, in the opinion of a concubine, it's better for you to take her in."

Zhu Yumei turned around, although she tried to have a smile on her face, Li Xiao could still see the loneliness and helplessness behind her smile.

Li Xiao didn't speak, just gently hugged her into his arms, while gently rubbing her back.

"I heard that this girl is also from a big family, but she doesn't suspect that your husband is from a humble background, and insists on following you from Jinzhou to Shandong.

Zhu Yujiao's words were low, but tears gradually flashed in her eyes.

"Alas, don't mention the past. Don't think too much about it. Li Xiao comforted her softly.

"No, what the concubine said is true, not joking with her husband." Zhu Yumei had a solemn expression on her face: "Instead of letting your husband worry about it all the time and silently bear the pain of separating from the person you love, it is better for you to marry this girl, and the heart of the concubine will be safe." ”

Li Xiao stared at her beautiful eyes for a long time before muttering, "It's just that if that's the case, wouldn't it be indebted to you." ”

The smile on Zhu Yujiao's face was a hint of bitterness, and she said lightly: "In my Ming Dynasty, a man could have three wives and four concubines, but the husband just accepted one more girl, and the concubine was the eldest woman, so how could she be more careful." As long as the husband always has a concubine in his heart, the concubine will be very happy and satisfied. ”

Listening to Zhu Yumei's thoughtful and warm words, Li Xiao felt both ashamed in his heart, he sighed and hugged her tighter.

"You'er, you are so virtuous and generous, Li Xiao is ashamed. Don't worry, I'm Li Xiao, no matter what woman I accept in the future, I'll always have an irreplaceable position in my Li Xiao's heart. ”

As soon as Li Xiao's words were finished, Zhu Yumei's two crystal tears fell and splashed on Li Xiao's hands.

She leaned her head on Li Xiao's chest, like an injured kitten, and whimpered softly: "Husband, don't feel guilty, the concubine told you when she got married that she will share happiness and hardship with you in the future." If there are still all kinds of mustards and songs between the two of us, wouldn't it be a negative preface. ”

"Those who know me, so do you."

Li Xiao murmured, hugged her more and more tightly in his arms, and kissed her deeply.

A maid crept over and helped them extinguish the lights and candles, and only the bright and tranquil moonlight poured in silently from the window, like a quiet nocturne.

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Two days later, Li Xiao gathered 20,000 stone of grain, personally led the general soldiers and horses of Chifeng, boarded Shen Zhixiang's Dongjiang Town ship, and set off in the direction of Jinzhou.

Before leaving, he arranged that during this period of expedition, Chen Zilong would be in charge of all the affairs of Chifengwei for the time being, and Xu Xiuqing, the governor of Chifeng City, and other officials would all obey Chen Zilong's orders.

Shen Zhixiang, deputy chief soldier of Dongjiang Town, came to Chifengwei this time and brought five ships, two of which were full of iron weapons brought back from Chifengwei and sailed straight back to Phi Island, and the other three ships took Li Xiaojun's Chifeng general soldiers and horses, turned northeast near Changshan Temple Island and sailed to Jinzhou.

Li Xiao's expedition this time was advantageous to the surprise attack, so everything was based on rapid mobility. And because of the inconvenience of artillery transportation, he did not bring the artillery unit, but only 60 trebuchets and Lumi guns, of course, a large number of earth-shaking mines.

Seeing those Li Xiao soldiers with neat armor and brand-new weapons, whether they set off or boarded the boat, they were all strict and orderly, obeying the command like a machine, Shen Zhixiang and the soldiers of Dongjiang Town were all secretly admired.

When a group of soldiers from Dongjiang Town discussed privately, they were not dissatisfied with envy and praise.

"See, look at the soldiers of Chifengwei, this military appearance, this momentum, is much stronger than our Dongjiang Town!"

"Cough, there are no weak soldiers under the strong generals, I heard that the commander of Li commanded the envoys, attacked the Tartars in the north, and killed the Liukou in the south, and he was a hero! The soldiers under him are naturally also the top strong. ”

"That is, you look at the soldiers of the Red Phoenix Guard, with bright armor and sharp weapons, and they are so strict and orderly, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is our first-class strong army in the Ming Dynasty."

"But it's not, this person has to die more than people, and the goods have to be thrown away, look at this vigorous Chifengwei, look at this Chifengxiong City that chokes the sea by the river, and then look at our Dongjiang Town, which is eating and waiting for death, how not to make people panic."

"If only this Lord Li could take care of our Dongjiang Town。。。。。。"

"Shhh

When the soldiers of Dongjiang Town were talking in private, Li Dingguo, the deputy chief of Chifeng, who led the team to the battle, was full of emotion.

He was wearing the white swing tooth horn armor that Li Xiao had been wearing himself, and a bright red woven flower cloak was tied to his shoulders.

Standing proudly on the bow of the boat, looking at the vast sea under the blue sky, the endless waves, watching the white seagulls flying around the ship, Li Dingguo, who had just passed his eighteenth birthday, suddenly felt comfortable and his thoughts were flying.

A few months ago, he still followed his father-in-law and plundered those Ming Dynasty prefectures and counties, but now, he has become a general of the Ming Dynasty's official army, and he wants to fight against the Tartars for the Ming Dynasty.

During this period of time, what Li Dingguo felt the most was that he found that this Li Xiaojun was different from any Ming army he had encountered before.

It can be said that Li Xiao's army building model and actual management completely exceeded Li Dingguo's consistent understanding of the army.

In this army, there is a unique organization in charge of the life of the soldiers and the evaluation and promotion of their military achievements, and there is a large amount of brainwashing slogan education every day, there is assiduous training in which military orders are completely obeyed by commands, there is cultural education in which soldiers read and write every day, and there is a novel mode of managing the army in which generals are only responsible for training and combat。。。。。。 The piles and piles all left a deep impression on Li Dingguo.

However, after the initial discomfort, by now, Li Dingguo has become more and more aware that Li Xiao's army management method has its own unique advantages.

First of all, through the civilian personnel of the Supervision Department controlled by Li Xiao, the purpose of decentralizing power over the generals was achieved, so that the generals no longer had the right to reward and punish the soldiers without authorization, thus greatly reducing the degree of control of the generals over the soldiers, so as not to become the generals' private soldiers after a long time, so that no matter how Li Xiaojun expands the army in the future, these Li Xiaojun soldiers who have a good salary, and are injured and killed in battle will only be loyal to Li Xiao alone. If the commander of the army has different intentions, in addition to the officials of the Supervision Department and the secret agents of the Security Department to secretly supervise, it will be difficult for his soldiers to obey orders. As a result, the possibility of defection in the armed forces was greatly reduced, and the great danger of internal strife and division was avoided.

Secondly, because these soldiers of Li Xiao's army recited a large number of high-intensity thoughts of allegiance to Li Xiao every day, as well as the brainwashing slogans such as those who can go to heaven to enjoy and be reborn in a rich house after dying in battle for the country and the people, the soldiers have reduced their fear of injury and death as much as possible, so that the soldiers can fight the enemy more fearlessly on the battlefield without fear of life and death.

Thirdly, because of the basic cultural study of ordinary soldiers, these soldiers, who were basically illiterate before, have greatly improved their education level, so that they can better understand the intentions of the generals and implement specific tactics more thoroughly, and the quality of the soldiers is far better than that of those Ming troops who will only swarm and cut people down with their own generals.

In the end, Li Xiaojun's detailed and professional military management model actually greatly reduced the workload of the generals, enabling them to get rid of the complicated management of military life and to concentrate on training and commanding operations without distractions, so as to give better play to the leadership and command skills of the generals.

In the past few months, Li Dingguo has a feeling that his eyes have been opened, and in his heart, he also admires and appreciates Li Xiao, the young commander of Chifengwei, more and more.

Li Dingguo felt that compared with his father-in-law Zhang Xianzhong's primitive and simple methods of governing the army, Li Xiao's army management model was really many levels higher than Zhang Xianzhong.

Li Dingguo is sure that this Li commander will definitely have a great future in the future, and it is a rare opportunity for him to be able to follow him.

He also firmly believes that as long as he closely follows Li Xiao, serves him wholeheartedly, and tries his best to give full play to his command and combat skills, then his future will definitely rise with Li Xiao.

A big wave rushed by, the salty and damp breath came to his face, and the hull of the ship shook slightly, but Li Dingguo stood straight like a carved statue, but his resolute and serious face suddenly flashed a faint smile.

The south wind warmed up, the ship went like flying, and there were no pirates along the way, who dared to harass the sailor ships of Dongjiang Town, so the trip was quite smooth. Five days later, on May 18, at dusk when the sun was setting westward, Li Xiao's entire army successfully reached the coast of Jinzhou.

The whole army disembarked on the left bank of the estuary of the Xiaoling River, and then camped along the seaside.

Li Xiaojun was able to calmly land on the coast, but in the final analysis, the key lies in the contempt and negligence of the Houjin army for coastal defense.

Because in the impression of the Jin army, every time they attacked Liaoxi, the Ming army was basically reinforced from the land, and there was never a time when the Ming army from other places successfully reinforced from the coast. Therefore, this time, Duoduo, the chief general of the Jin Army, under the habitual contempt of psychology, was also unwary of the seaside in the western Liaoning area, but he didn't expect that now Li Xiao quietly took advantage of a loophole.

"Brother Xian, then my Dongjiang soldiers will return, I will leave two carrier pigeons for you, if your army is triumphant, you can tie the letter to the pigeon leg and put it back, after I receive the letter, I will lead the army to pick up your army back." Shen Zhixiang handed Li Xiao a pigeon cage containing two carrier pigeons, and patted Li Xiao's shoulder affectionately.

"Then thank you Brother Zun, the younger brother will say goodbye to Brother Zun." Li Xiao took the pigeon cage and thanked Shen Zhixiang.

"Brother Li Xian, fighting on the battlefield, the sword is ruthless, I hope to be more careful." Shen Zhixiang had a solemn and concerned look on his face.

"Brother Shen, don't worry, please wait for the news of our army's victory." Li Xiao said with a smile, but his face was full of determination.

Not long after, Li Xiao's army has finished camping, Li Xiao led a group of escort cavalry, rode a horse up a small hill, and looked into the distance, the blurred Jinzhou City in the distance, like a black shadow, stood silently in the deeper and deeper night.

Around the periphery of Jinzhou City, there were dots of firelight, and from a distance, it looked like a starry star, and Li Xiao knew that those were the Tartar soldiers besieging the city.

Seeing that the Tartars were still besieging the city, Li Xiao suddenly felt a burst of relaxation.

Since he came in time, these Tartars have not yet captured Jinzhou, and Zu Wan'er in Jinzhou City should be unharmed.

Li Xiaoji wanted to take advantage of the darkness of the night to lead the army to rush over and kill the Tartars by surprise. You must know that such a drowsy night without moonlight is the best time for a surprise attack in modern warfare. It's just that he knows that the idea is good, but he can't do it.

Because the ancients often had night blindness, it was extremely difficult to fight at night. Unless absolutely necessary, most ancient armies did not fight at night.

Like in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, most of the routines of attacking the camp at night at every turn are actually imagined by later generations.

After Li Xiao returned to the garrison, several light horsemen sent out from abroad reported to him that because of the darkness of the night, it was impossible to see how many soldiers were besieging the city, so they could not obtain much valuable information.

These situations were expected by Li Xiao.

He waved the sentry cavalry back, and then gave the order to the sergeant beside him.

"Pass on our military order, the whole army has a good rest tonight, and tomorrow at dawn, we will engage the enemy as planned, and we must let the Tartars have a good taste of our army!" Under the hazy night, Li Xiao's sharp eyes were like jewels in the dark night, shining brightly.

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