The mace is also one of the cold weapons, relatively speaking, it is a short weapon, similar to the iron whip.

Li Dingguo's handle is four feet two inches long, in fact, it is an iron rod with a handle, and the difference with the iron rod is that the stick is round, which is four-edged, with a sharp tip at the front and no blade.

This kind of weapon is generally used in pairs, and the generals who choose double maces as weapons are generally fierce generals, and the double maces are used together, and the power is huge. For example, Qin Qiong in the Sui and Tang dynasties.

The difference between Li Dingguo's mace is a single mace, and he generally does not use it alone, mainly with the halberd.

His hammer weighs more than 20 catties, and the wheel is at least 200 catties of strength, and the armor can't avoid it at all. If it hits Lin Yi's body, it will definitely be a broken tendon and fracture, and it will hit his head, and the helmet will definitely burst his brain.

Li Dingguo's halberd has been tried and tested repeatedly, this is his trick, when he encounters a difficult opponent, he will use this trick, in the past few years, I don't know how many famous officers and soldiers will be killed by him. Now he used this trick for Lin Yi again.

But the difference is that now he is not using the timing, or he is using the wrong method. Usually, when he uses this move, he uses the halberd to suppress other people's weapons, and then he starts, and other people's weapons are pressed by several halberds, and he doesn't have time to avoid it, so this move hits every shot.

But now it is Lin Yi's big knife that is pressing his halberd, not his big halberd pressing Lin Yi's big knife, so it is unknown whether he can succeed in this photograph.

Of course, Li Dingguo knew this, and he was forced to use this trick helplessly, because the halberd was suppressed by Lin Yi, and the bow and arrow behind him could not be used, leaving only his only available weapon, the four-edged silver.

Lin Yi observed Li Dingguo very carefully, and fought with him, and he had already noticed the weapons on his back, which were similar to Lin Yi, and they were also one horse and three weapons, Fang Tian's halberd, silver-loaded, bows and arrows. Lin Yi's one-horse and three weapons are the Qinglong Yanyue Knife, the Waist Knife, and the Bow and Arrow.

That is to say, Lin Yi was on guard, as soon as he saw that the big sword was smashed down, he could draw the single knife in his waist to block, with Lin Yi's skills, he would definitely have time, but he didn't do it, because the weight of the single knife was too light, and he was afraid of being smashed.

Instead, he quickly released the knife that pressed the halberd, and the big knife moved up horizontally.

The four flutes were smashing into the stem of the Green Dragon Glaive.

There was a click, sparks splashed everywhere, and it was deafening. Li Dingguo's halberd weighed more than 60 kilograms, smashed into Lin Yi's 120-kilogram broadsword, and flew away. What's more, a 20-pound mace?

is still the same sentence, the difference in strength between the two people is too great.

The shock was so great that Li Dingguo's arm almost dislocated, and as soon as his fingers were loosened, this silver outfit flew into the air with a snort.

Li Dingguo felt the pain of the tiger's mouth tearing, and the warm liquid flowed out, and he knew that the tiger's mouth of his hand was cracked.

But he had already let go, endured the pain in his hands, picked up the halberd again, and had to fight hard with Lin Yi.

But this time Li Dingguo's halberd hadn't danced yet, and after Lin Yi knocked his hammer, he smoothed the big knife, and instead of cutting him with the blade, he slapped him with the blade of the big knife.

Syllable!

The knife was slapping him on the back, Li Dingguo couldn't sit steadily on the horse, and fell off the horse in one fell swoop, and the halberd in his hand also let go, bouncing to the ground with a sonorous sound.

Before Li Dingguo could struggle, Lin Yixueliang's big knife pressed against Li Dingguo's neck.

"Don't move!"

Zhang Hua rushed over with someone and held him down, and several soldiers tied Li Dingguo with ropes.

"Take him down to take care of him, don't embarrass him, if you make me lose a hair, but you ask!"

"No." Lin Yi's soldiers escorted Li Dingguo away.

Lin Yi ordered the more than 200 captives to be taken together with the original captives, and then these cannons and ammunition were still handed over to Wang Qi's second battalion.

Wang Qi said with a smile: "Great Commander, our journey is too easy, thank you Great Commander for finding us this group of coachmen, they didn't have to pay money, they sent the cannon and ammunition from dozens of miles away to Xiangyang City."

Zhang Hua said: "You kid lost the cannon and ammunition, not only is he not guilty, but he has merit, this is cheap, and now he is cheap, and he is still good?"

The generals laughed.

It turned out that Wang Qi had already arrived in Xiangyang City with the soldiers of the second battalion. After throwing away the artillery and ammunition, they took the small road and advanced lightly, of course, much faster than Li Dingguo and them.

Poor Li Dingguo, along the way, he was still afraid of Wang Qi and they chased after them from behind and recaptured the cannon. How did he know that Wang Qi and others would not chase them at that time, where could he find such a good coachman?

The corpses on the ground were pulled out and buried, the wounded were treated, and the battlefield was simply cleaned.

The thousands of soldiers and thieves all took off their costumes and changed into the military uniforms of the Ming Dynasty. They had completed the task of tempting Li Dingguo, and soon Li Dingguo's thief banner on the head of the city was also replaced by the banner of the Ming army.

So far, Lin Yi's army has completely occupied Xiangyang City.

Needless to say, the spoils of war obtained were eaten by Lin Yi in one fell swoop, and the grain, grass, equipment, clothing, livestock, etc., of the 30,000 army, of course, all belonged to Lin Yi.

Lin Yi ordered Wang Jian's sixth battalion to register all these mountains of loot in the treasury.

Then Xiao ordered all his troops to move to the city, and then stayed in the city, Lin Yi began to collect prisoners in the name of resting his troops and horses.

For Lin Yi, it is his own task to suppress thieves, but Lin Yi's more important task is to expand his strength and complete his capital accumulation. Otherwise, three years later, Emperor Chongzhen hung on the tree with the crooked neck of the coal mountain, and the world would be in chaos.

This is the general trend of history that he cannot stop as a chief military officer, and he can only partially change history and influence history. The wheels of history under the predestined tide cannot be changed by anyone. Now in the Ming Dynasty, the building will fall, and it is difficult to support a tree. Lin Yi knew these very well in his heart.

It lasted for more than 200 years, and the Ming Dynasty was about to perish three years later, and by that time the Manchu Tartars invaded on a large scale, and traitors and lackeys were everywhere.

The Manchu Tartars brutally killed or enslaved the Han people, and the generals of the Ming Dynasty even turned around to help the Manchu Tartars, killing and enslaving the Han compatriots.

As for the Nanming regime, which has frequent alternations, they can't be counted on at all, they will only fight for power and profit, fight openly and secretly, and prey on the common people, and they don't care about the Han people's rivers and mountains and the lives and deaths of the common people. The civil and military who occasionally have the ambition to serve the country are constrained by these faint kings and traitors and warlords, and they are not allowed to display their blood. The last death of the death of the death must not end with hatred.

These have been proven by iron-blooded history. But in order to prevent the tragedy from happening again, since he has crossed over, he must try his best to stop it.

If you don't have enough strength at that time, what will you do to save the Ming Dynasty? What to protect the common people from being enslaved and killed by the Manchu Tartars and traitors? What to fight against self-righteous dumb kings and warlords? Three years, but in the blink of an eye.

Therefore, Lin Yi lost no time in developing and strengthening himself with the spirit of seizing the day.

The prisoners were still recruited in accordance with the previous principle, and those who volunteered to join the army were re-screened, and those who met the requirements were re-selected into various battalions of the army to become Lin Yi's regular army. In the future, they will be treated equally, no discrimination will be given, food and salary will be paid, treatment will be the same, all will be equal before military discipline, and rewards and punishments will be clear.

The rest of those who are unwilling to stay as soldiers, or who do not meet the requirements, will be released and discharged on the spot after education and registration, and as long as they do not become thieves in the future, their previous crimes will be written off, and they will not be blamed for the past.

Lin Yi didn't have to report to anyone, and he didn't need to ask anyone, so he made his own decisions.

Lin Yi's policy was very popular, and the captives were very supportive, because it was too cheap and too preferential for them.

To put it simply, a month later, Lin Yi's people increased by 10,000.

Now his total strength has reached 40,000.

40,000 soldiers and horses, although the number is not large, but if you make a comparison, you can see Lin Yi's current strength.

At the beginning of the Southern Ming Dynasty, that is, three years later, according to the original historical development, Emperor Chongzhen hanged himself. The Ming Dynasty existed in name only. Some aspiring officials ran to Nanjing to accompany the capital, they were unwilling, and the Ming Dynasty perished, competing to elect a new monarch to continue the Ming Dynasty.

At that time, there were people who took a fancy to King Gui, and those who took a fancy to King Tang, and there were people who took a fancy to King Lu, and there were people who took a fancy to King Fu.

In this fierce competition for the throne, it is actually the manipulation of several forces behind the scenes, and it is a continuation of the party struggle in the Ming Dynasty.

In the end, the blessed king Zhu Yousong won, and the victorious sat on the dragon chair, called Emperor Hongguang.

This little Fu Wang, who is fatter than his father, Lao Fu Wang, is as brutal and incompetent as his father, extravagant and extravagant, except for a corrupt flesh, he has no ability to govern the country and the country, and even half of the country can't cover it, let alone expect him to be able to recover the entire Ming Dynasty.

Soon Ma Shiying, the governor of Fengyang, and his son controlled the dynasty and often led troops to the palace, that is to say, Hongguang Emperor Zhu Yousong became a puppet emperor, and after just one year, he was destroyed by the Qing Dynasty.

But the reason why Zhu Yousong was able to defeat those princes and sit on this throne was that in addition to being a relative of the emperor who was rooted in the country, a more important reason was the support of the warlords of the four towns in Jiangbei who had heavy troops. The four warlords were Huang Degong, Gao Jie, Liu Liangzuo, and Liu Zeqing.

They say they have a heavy army, but in fact they only have 30,000 horses in the hands of each warlord. Not to mention the combat strength of these 30,000 horses, it is 10,000 less than Lin Yi's 40,000 horses. Not to mention Lin Yi's first-class equipment and super combat power.

That is to say, Lin Yi's strength is undoubtedly second to none among the general soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, what Wu Sangui, Zuo Liangyu, He Renlong, Cao Bianjiao, Zuo Guangxian, Zu Dashou, etc., this is currently the strongest general officer in the Ming Dynasty, and it is the most capable army, which can be said to be the elite division of the Ming Dynasty.

But for now, in terms of strength, they all have to go to the back row. Not to mention Huang Degong, Liu Liangzuo, Liu Zeqing and Gao Jie, who have not yet emerged, the future warlords of the four towns of Jiangbei are now even more incomparable with Lin Yi.

It is a miracle that the military town of Xiangyang was taken, and there were almost no casualties. With another 10,000 soldiers and horses, so many trophies, and greatly increased strength, Lin Yi is now more confident in himself.

These days, Zhu Dadian's Nanjing soldiers, Hu Dawei's Baoding soldiers, and Yuan Shu's Henan soldiers are also stationed outside Xiangyang City, and their troops are still moving.

Because they left Lin Yi's men and horses, they couldn't win the battle. This has been proven several times, and now the three of them would rather follow Lin Yi's team to drink dew in the back, Lin Yi's men and horses have won the battle and eat meat, even if they get some soup to drink, or smell the fragrance, they are content. It's better than defeat, that's what they've learned.

Of course Lin Yi didn't care about them.

During this month, Lin Yi received several orders from the Ministry of War, of course, urging him to step up his march to suppress thieves.

"What do we do next?" Zhang Huadao.

"Of course you are ordered to suppress the thief, and you dare to disobey the orders of the imperial court?"

"Don't dare. Great commander, what about this Li Dingguo? "Zhang Hua is very smart, he can usually guess Lin Yi's thoughts, but this time he is a little confused, it is fundamentally different from Hao Shaoqi, Lin Yi kills this Li Dingguo and does not kill, let it go, what does it mean?

Lin Yi said with a smile: "It's easy to do, this great commander wants to use him to make another deal!"