Standing on the top of the hill, looking at the remnants of the valley that had receded like a tide, my heart was as cold as ice. Uncle Lei Feng wrote in his diary that he should be as ruthless as a harsh winter when dealing with enemies. No matter what the intimacy of this diary has been widely discussed by later generations, this sentence is not wrong.

It can be seen that Li Chengliang's headquarters in Zhenyi Fort opened the city, and together with the detachments on the two wings of the mountain like a tiger descending the mountain, they tried their best to chase and kill the remnants quickly!

Now my direction has become the only direction of escape for the department, the art of war: "the besieged soldiers must be que", that is, the enemy's retreat cannot be blocked, and the enemy who has no retreat will inevitably turn around and fight to the death, but only need to give them an exit, then the enemy will take a chance and rush to flee!

I ordered the whole army to hold the hill, the fortifications of the subordinates, and not to rush down the mountain to chase when the troops were quickly retreated to the vicinity, but to snipe them with muskets, bows and arrows! This move once again accelerated the rout of the remnants!

The remnants of the quick army, who finally escaped from the valley, thought that they had finally escaped, but they were hit head-on again! Suddenly, the formation that had just been put together was in chaos again! No matter how Buyan Rabbit, Fried Flower and others restrained them, the enemy's cavalry brigade did not pay attention to it, and just began to retreat towards the north like a receding tide!

I just watched them flee like this, and did not chase them, and the adjutant reminded me several times, meaning should I enter the army to pursue? I smiled and looked back at Lakshin.

Lakshen understood, and also smiled: "Sitting on the mountain and watching the tiger fight, such a leisurely hunting is the right way." It's really unwise to go in and fight the tiger head-on! ”

I looked at him, smiled, and turned my head. The harvest will come, but not now.

In this way, under the "release of water" of the reinforcement cavalry team led by me, seventy percent of the remnants had already bypassed the hill where I was, and the rest were less than thirty percent of the cavalry that had entered the valley first!

These cavalry are the elite of the department, but they have entered the valley the deepest, and they have suffered the most damage, and everyone is wounded at this moment, and it is the end of the crossbow!

Seeing this, I ordered the herald to order: All the troops are on horseback! Get ready for a assault! Suddenly, the cavalry team skillfully put away the improvised fortifications and mounted their horses to prepare for battle!

When the enemy army under the mountain saw it, they knew that the scythe of death would finally be swung at the end of the day! Regardless of the teams behind, the front team accelerated to flee north, and the remnants in the back were even more panicked!

I shouted, "All the army! Charge with me! As soon as his legs clamped the horse's belly, the war horse under his crotch neighed and began to rush down! When the officers and men of our army saw the main general charge, they urged their horses one after another, and followed closely! Rush towards the thirty percent seriously injured elite who fell at the end at full speed!

On the one hand, it is a new force full of murderous intent to defend the country, and through the acceleration of the downhill, the impact is raised to the highest; On the one hand, from dawn to afternoon, exhausted, wounded remnants, and the commander was killed, the soldiers had no fighting spirit, and the gap between them could not be calculated!

My team only charged once, and I quickly cut the part into two sections! The troops in front were like geckos breaking their tails, fleeing in panic. The "tail" left behind is destined to become a feast on the plate of the Ming army!

My troops did not directly attack the center of the enemy's rear army, but digested the lives of the remnants of the enemy army layer by layer like peeling onions and slicing meat! And Li Chengliang's division in the back followed closely behind, unhurriedly eating away at the remnants of the enemy's army—just as he quickly ate away at the remnants of the Yizhou detachment before. It doesn't look too ugly, but the effect is very good, especially our casualties are very small, this is definitely the most appropriate way to fight.

This burst of slaughter until the sun went down, and by the time the team was closed, there was no one on the battlefield who could breathe quickly to cripple the enemy! And I finally met Li Chengliang, a famous general who was as famous as Qi Jiguang in the late Ming Dynasty.

"Qilan!" Li Chengliang laughed and greeted him, and the place where we met was not far from the Crouching Tiger Stone, which should have been shot earlier.

I hurried to meet it! When the two of us finally came face to face, the middle-aged general laughed and patted me on the shoulder and said, "I heard that you are coming, and I am very sure that I will win this battle!" Sure enough! Qi Dudu said that you are a lucky general, and your name is well deserved! Well deserved the name! ”

I hurriedly humbly said, "General Li has won the award!" Qilan is just responding on the sidelines, and the great credit lies with General Li! ”

Li Chengliang laughed again, and said, "Where, where!" "I know that he is also extremely satisfied with this battle, and everyone likes to listen to compliments.

Two figures turned out behind Li Chengliang, one tall and one short, I vaguely remember that these were his two sons, who seemed to be named Li Rumei and Li Ruzi. I looked at the giant crossbow in Li Rumei's hand, and with a smile in my heart, I said with a smile: "Is it Ling Lang who shoots the fastest?" ”

Without waiting for Li Chengliang to answer, Li Rumei arched her hand and said: "It's just that I shot and killed the speed!" Thank you General Sun for your reminder! Otherwise, how to find one person among thousands of troops! ”

I heard him humble, but in fact he was quite proud. He smiled and said: "The nine tiger generals of the Li family are worthy of their reputation!" Sun admires! ”

Li Chengliang was stunned for a moment, and then laughed again: "A few dogs, but they are all brave and reckless, where can they compare to Qilan's resourcefulness!" Rumei, Ruzi, in the future, you have to learn more from General Sun to ask for benefits! ”

Li Rumei and Li Ruzi immediately surrendered and said yes.

These gossips were talked about for a while, and looking at the meaning, Li Chengliang and I had the same thoughts, and they didn't have the intention of chasing the remnants of the swift and the rabbit again. The reasons for this are twofold.

First, the remnants of the army were injured, their morale had fallen to the extreme, and they no longer had the strength to fight, and they were completely fleeing.

Second, Atai led the Jurchen tribe to attack Gushan and Xunhe, and approached Shenyang. At the same time, it also united with the Jurchen Ahai Department to attack the Hunhe River in the south of Shenyang City, as well as the Lushun line! The force is very urgent, and it is too late for us to chase and kill the remnants first, turn around and engage again!

So the two of us discussed in this valley and made up our minds, before we turned around and returned to Zhenyi Fort to sort out our troops and horses.

In this battle, our army quickly destroyed more than 20,000 enemy troops in this unit, and our own side lost nearly 5,000 - most of them were the losses of the Yiju decoy detachment. But killing Liaodong for 20 years is regarded as a miracle, and a little loss is nothing.

Looking at Li Chengliang riding in front of me, an indescribable feeling suddenly rose in my heart - is Li Chengliang really the right person for the next battle against the Jurchens?

Some people say that Li Chengliang, like Qi Jiguang, was a real hero in the late Ming Dynasty, who guarded Beiguan for 30 years and won almost every battle.

Some people also say that Li Chengliang connived at Nurhachi, raised tigers for trouble, and acted for tigers, and he was the biggest culprit for the Ming Dynasty being replaced by the Qing Dynasty.

As the so-called success is also Xiao He, defeat is also Xiao He, Li Chengliang is such a two-faced character. One thought of angels, one thought of demons. And all this has to start with his life experience.

In the 45th year of Jiajing, that is, in 1566, Li Chengliang, a descendant of North Korea and a family of middle-level military generals, was living a miserable life in Tielingwei, a well-known "big city" that was not prosperous at that time. He has the blessing of his ancestors, and he should be able to inherit the military position, but he is so poor that he doesn't even have the money to go to Beijing to go through the formalities. Until the nobleman he hit, Lord Qincha, the inspector of the imperial history Li Fu.

This fateful nobleman funded Li Chengliang, enabling him to go to Beijing to invite a post, and finally inherited the title of his ancestor and became a general of Liaodong Dangerous Mountain Fort, becoming a brigade and regiment-level cadre. This year, Nurhachi was eight years old.

And it was here that Li Chengliang soared into the sky and became a rising military superstar in the north of the Ming Dynasty, and Qi Jiguang who fought against the Japanese in the southeast coast reflected each other. Famous, powerful in the north!

With the continuous accumulation of military exploits, Li Chengliang's official position has improved slightly, but what really changed his fate was that he entered the eyes of the second noble man in his life, and this noble man was Zhang Juzheng, the first assistant of Wanli.

With the strong support of Zhang Juzheng, Li Chengliang rose all the way, and within a few years, he had passed the "test method" promoted by Zhang Juzheng, and became the general soldier of Liaodong who was the second grade. And he did live up to expectations, performing well in the battle against the steppe tribes.

For example, the speed of the defeat this time, before Li Chengliang ruled Liaodong, crisscrossed the northern Xinjiang for more than 20 years, but no one was invincible. The Liaodong general army before Li Chengliang died at the hands of the quick commander! But after Li Chengliang came to power, this general, who is good at using surprise soldiers and good at night ambushes, has repeatedly defeated the speedy guard, which has become a lingering nightmare in the heart of the steppe wolf.

This time the attack on Li Chengliang's department was also aimed at the gap when the Jurchen Atai Department raised troops at the same time and Li Chengliang was the first to be overwhelmed, and he wanted to avenge his repeated defeats to Li Chengliang before!

But he never wanted to steal chickens and rice, not to mention the loss of Qingqing's life, and the tribe also suffered an unprecedented major blow, and it collapsed for several years. He is known as the steppe wolf, and he has been calculating people all his life, and this time he was calculated, and it became the swan song of the world, which really has to be sighed.

As a result, this general, who once created the miracle of a 200-mile march of the infantry on foot in one day and one night, and almost won a hundred battles in the early stage, almost became a miracle in the north of the Ming Dynasty. Of course, there is also a mainstream view that because Qi Jiguang's Jizhou was too strong, and the Qi family army was too difficult to shake, so the grassland people were driven to Li Chengliang's department in Liaodong, which was also an important reason for his prestige.

In the later period of Zhang Juzheng's reign, Li Chengliang, who was a master and a powerful master, was named Ning Yuanbo and became a nobleman of the Ming Dynasty, officially entered the high-level ranks, and embarked on the peak of his life.

If life ends here, then when Li Chengliang's life can be described as brilliant, I will not have other thoughts. But it's still the same sentence, success is also Xiao He, and defeat is also Xiao He. In this year, the tenth year of Wanli, and 1582, after the death of the first assistant Zhang Juzheng, this mighty general made a 180-degree turn, gradually blackened, and became the culprit of the fall of the Ming Dynasty.

And all of this is absolutely related to the intricate and strange grudge entanglement between Li Chengliang and Nurhachi, who is confusing in history and no one can figure it out so far.

Looking at Li Chengliang's back, my mind once again fell into deep memories.