Chapter Seventy-Three

The speed of the Li family brothers was very fast, and after Yang Xin and Chen Yujie left, the generals of the department were immediately gathered by them......

Anyway, they are all cronies of the Li family.

The Li family has been entrenched in Liaodong for more than half a century, starting from Li Chengliang, it is the de facto boss of Liaodong, that force is really intertwined, and the two brothers are the only remaining members of the Li family's generation, in a sense, they represent the generals of the Liaodong family, and their words are still effective at least for now.

As for how they solve the problem of the fighting spirit of these generals and subordinate soldiers, this does not need Yang Xin's concern.

In the final analysis, it is nothing more than taking money to smash.

Silver is best used.

The Li family withdrew from all the assets that could be withdrawn in Tieling before, and there are also Li family's assets in Shenyang, and now it is the survival of the Li family.

At present, there are more than 10,000 subordinates under the general army of Liao, and 100,000 taels is enough to smash out the fighting spirit!

But 10,000 is a bit less.

Then take another 100,000 taels to recruit new soldiers.

There is no shortage of military households in Shenyang, not only the original military households here, but also the refugees who fled from Kaiyuan, Tieling and even Fushun, most of them are also in Shenyang, these are military households, and young and middle-aged people in Liaodong can fight. As for the lack of weapons and armor, this is not worth mentioning, just loot civilian weapons, a knife and a spear for each person, and a shield is also a soldier. What's more, there is no shortage of weapons among the people of Shenyang, especially those big families, there are bows and arrows and even crossbows, in short, as long as they are willing to spend money, everything is not a problem. And the Li family, as the number one tyrant in Liaodong, is the most important thing to lack is money, and in fact, it can't spend much, 100,000 taels is just talking, even if you go to the street to catch the strong man.

But Yang Xin couldn't wait, and on the third day, he urged Li Rubai to send troops.

Those cannon fodder are of little use.

Yang Xin didn't expect to rely on the Li family to counterattack, his purpose in deceiving the Li family brothers was just to use the Li family brothers to deceive the fried flowers, and what he really counted on was the 30,000 Mongolian cavalry in the fried flowers.

In fact, Li Rubai also has this realization.

He was in his sixties, and he could guess what Yang Xin was playing, which was also what he liked, and he also knew that he could not recapture Tieling, and this battle would ultimately depend on the Mongols. So he immediately asked his younger brother to take three thousand, the same elite cavalry he could put together at the moment, and follow Yang Xin out of Shenyang in advance and go straight to Tieling, while he himself stayed in Shenyang to continue recruiting troops and horses. To be precise, he used his connections, especially the intelligence network of the Mongols, to fool Fried Flowers, so that Fried Flowers believed that the 100,000 Ming army was killing Tieling......

Should be blown or must be blown.

It should be said that the cunning Liaodong tyrant and the cunning Yang Xin are actually playing with the white wolf with empty gloves, using his 3,000 elites and 500 Beijing battalions to create the illusion of a large-scale counterattack by the Ming army.

Then flickered the fried flowers to believe that it was true.

And finally bet on the Ming Army.

As long as he really bets on the Ming Army, then open Tieling, and let it take all the promises, it is enough to let the fried flowers grab the first credit for conquering Tieling, to put it bluntly, everything is for the sake of the pit fried flowers, and all other counteroffensives and recruits are all fake, and they are all deceived and fried. You have to be careful of the traitors who must exist in Shenyang City, but the traitors also need to be fast, as long as the action here is fast enough, then the traitors will not be able to rush to the front to deliver the letter to the hands of the wild boar skin.

Van River.

"Governor!"

Yang Xin looked at Li Ruzhen.

The latter was looking at the opposite bank at this time, on the north bank of the river during the dry period, countless Jiannu cavalry were arrayed, and in the middle was a general who was soaked in cotton armor, carrying a mace in his hand and sitting on a horse, as if the diners sitting at the table were waiting for others to serve him food.

And Li Ruzhen is a dish.

The cavalry of the 3,000 Ming Army behind him is also a dish.

Of course, Abatai will not wait in Tieling, with the record of the Ming army at this time, only 3,000 cavalry to the north is not enough for him to hold the infant city, in his opinion, this is to deliver food, just go out of the city and wait for the volley on the bank of the Fan River. There is no need to even dispatch all his troops, at this time there are still a thousand Jiannu left in Tieling, and Abatai only brought two thousand cavalry over, in his opinion, two thousand cavalry is enough to clean up Li Ruzhen's three thousand cavalry.

"Governor, be brave!"

Yang Xin said.

This battle is important and must be won.

Because at this time, to the west of them, there were still hundreds of Mongolian cavalry silently watching, and he could see the figure of Oba Daiqing without a telescope, which was used by the Fried Flower Sect to assess the strength of both sides. If the Ming army loses this battle, then there is no need to say anything about fried flowers, and go directly to form an alliance with the wild boar skin, and the five departments of Nekhalkha will act together with Jiannu in the future. On the contrary, if the Ming army wins, then the fried flower will see the ability of the Ming army to restore the old pattern of Liaodong, and he will also join the ranks of the Ming army and attack Tieling with the Ming army to grab money and food. By the way, relieve the siege of Jintaiji, re-establish this barrier between him and the wild boar skin, and restore their normal life in the past.

So this battle can only be won.

"Lift it up!"

Li Ruzhen said.

Behind him, a group of house slaves came over carrying boxes.

"Pour!"

He said.

One by one, the boxes were opened, and the white silver inside fell directly, piling up a small mountain of silver in front of the battle, and immediately all the soldiers watched this scene with greed.

These guys aren't all from the Li family.

At this time, the generals of the border towns actually relied on their families to fight, and although their personnel may have tens of thousands of people, the actual number was much smaller, and the small part was empty salary. Then use the income from empty salaries to pay for the superiors, and feed the elite family soldiers, these are the real elite, well-equipped and well-trained, and kill people without blinking. Those generals relied on them to take credit for their skirmishes with the surrounding Mongols, Jiannu and other chaotic forces, and then relied on these merits to be promoted. In the event of a large-scale war, they hurriedly recruit new recruits to replenish the formation, and let these recruits be used as cannon fodder on the battlefield, they consume the enemy, and the elite make the decisive blow.

It's all about playing like this.

That's how the Li family started.

As for the establishment of the Ming army on paper, it is good to look at it, the military department has already sent out more than 70,000 troops on paper, but Xiong Tingbi has not even seen half of them, Yan Mingtai has counted 33,000, and most of the new recruits have neither armor nor weapons. So on the one hand, there are gorgeous reinforcement numbers counted by Huang Jiashan, the secretary of the Ministry of War, and on the other hand, Xiong Tingbi has no soldiers available.

Here's why.

Xiong Tingbi kept urging Li Huaixin to hurry to Liaodong, just because the latter had 700 Ding troops.

He knew that the number was dry goods.

Li Ruzhen's 3,000 cavalry are all dry goods, all of them are generals, and even the powerful families in Shenyang and the surrounding areas, and the core is more than 1,000 points of the Li family themselves. These family members are private soldiers, some are directly selected from the military households in the guard, some are recruited, and some are directly accepted as domestic slaves, and there are even many people like godsons who are accepted as family members. They can't be regarded as domestic slaves, in fact, the generals are responsive to their needs, not only are they treated ten times that of ordinary soldiers, but even women are matched, Li Rusong's daughter buys a prostitute for a family, and the latter covers him with death in the Bihu Pavilion to fight his way out of the encirclement, Wu Xiang himself is reluctant to eat meat, and gives his family a meal of wine and meat, when Liu Wei dies in battle, a bunch of godsons around him follow him to live and die.

These guys are easy to use, but they also cost money.

Li Rusong's era Li family was indeed strong, but Li Rubai did not inherit it, after Li Rusong's death, he was idle at home for 20 years, and only restarted last year.

Twenty-year intervals.

The thousands of members of the Li family have long since grown old.

Li Rubai is in his sixties.

And this thousand or so is to be reunited from among the children and grandchildren of those people.

But it is not the same as the strength of the previous generation, if the Li family's tens of thousands of Japanese soldiers in the Biho Pavilion are still there, and the wild boar skin will not have the courage to make trouble.

"30,000 taels, come back after the fight, double the number killed in the battle to his wife and children, there are 30,000 taels in Tieling, and the old man still has 300,000 taels in Guangning."

Li Ruzhen said slowly.

Behind him there was a roar of cheers.

Li Ruzhen looked back at the back, the five hundred cavalry of the Beijing battalion behind him had bright armor and a clear banner, and a red-robed civil official with a black gauze hat in the middle was standing on a horse, and there were various honor guards behind him, and the Mongols in the distance were also looking there.

"Yang Zhuangshi, you and I have no way out!"

He said to Yang Xin.

"Governor, please rest assured, Yang will let Governor step into Tieling again!"

Yang Xin said with a smile.

After saying that, he turned over and dismounted, and directly picked up his Qinglong Yanyue Knife from the horse next to him.

At this time, he was once again heavily armored, double-layered all-iron armor, covered with cotton and iron composite armor, wearing a phoenix-winged helmet, surrounding the throat guard, lifting the iron mask, and planting a red flag behind him, like a moving iron tower, so he slowly walked to the front of the formation with one hand obliquely lifting the Qinglong Yanyue Knife, and stood in the middle with a blank gaze. At this time, the sky was overcast, the wind was cold, and the three thousand most elite cavalry were lined up neatly, although the equipment was chaotic and the armor was different, but these elites who had been in a hundred battles still showed their momentum.

"I killed hundreds of Jiannu!"

Yang Xin said.

The soldiers were talking.

Eyidu's head had already left Shenyang, and at this time it was being sent to Guangning, and his deeds had already spread.

But the soldiers were largely unconvinced.

It's not that they haven't fought Jiannu, one person kills hundreds of Jiannu, this is completely crazy, as for Yidu's head, since it is an assassination, there is nothing to be surprised about, but it is completely impossible to kill hundreds of Jiannu by one person in a face-to-face battle on the battlefield. No one knows Jiannu's combat effectiveness better than them, and an army on the battlefield can be beheaded hundreds of levels at a time to repay the emperor.

"Looks like you don't believe it!"

Yang Xin said.

None of the soldiers answered him.

"Then keep your eyes open and see how I killed hundreds of Jiannu by myself."

Yang Xin said proudly.

With that, he turned to look across the river......

"Abatai, your brother Huang Taiji was castrated by me, it's your turn today, why don't you come over and let your grandfather and me use a knife!"

He yelled.

Abatai on the other side stood still.

Even if he has the courage and no strategy, Abatai also knows that he can stay on the opposite bank, although the river is a small river, and it can be crossed on foot during the dry season, but the Ming army crossing the river will inevitably slow down, and then his cavalry will shoot directly with bows and arrows first. If you take the initiative to attack, it should be the Ming army to shoot him, he has already recognized that this is the Li family's family, of course he is not afraid of hedging, but if you want to talk about this archery, the latter is not much worse than them.

"Coward, you are a lowly breed, even your younger brother Huang Taiji is Baylor, you are still a Taiji, you are not only a cheap breed but also a coward, you have been for the rest of your life!"

Yang Xin roared.

This stimulus is more ruthless.

Abatai is the seventh, Huang Taiji is the eighth, but the former is the latter and the latter is the second, and the result is that Abatai, who is higher than the latter in terms of age and military exploits, has always been a Taiji, which is also what Abatai was worried about later, and at this moment was exposed by Yang Xin, he immediately couldn't help it.

"Since you want to die, then I will fulfill you!"

He said with a wicked grin with the mace in his hand.