Li Zhi looked at Wang Tingchen and Bai Guangen's subordinates, and only saw corpses all over the ground, and the Ming army was afraid that it had lost several thousand people. The soldiers and horses of the two of them www.biquge.info have been frightened by the Qing army, and they can no longer go up to pursue the Qing army.

There are only 15,000 people on his side, and it is too dangerous to chase and kill nearly 50,000 Tartars. Li Zhi gave up his plan to hunt down the Tartars and went back to cut off the heads and count the wounded.

The mountains and forests were littered with corpses, as well as seriously wounded and undead Tartar wounded. The seriously injured Tartar Li Zhi was directly killed, and the lightly injured Tartar was locked up by Li Zhi for interrogation and stealing information about the Tartar.

In this battle, Li Zhi captured and beheaded 3,116 Tartars. Among them were 1,467 Mongol Tatars and 1,649 Manchurian Tatars. The capture of so many heads is also a considerable victory.

From the mouth of the captive's lightly wounded Tartar, Li Zhi knew that the Manchu general captured in this battle was called Aobai, and this person was given the name "Baturu" by Huang Taiji, and was inlaid with a yellow flag first-class Meler Zhangjing. Li Zhi loaded Aobai's body in the car and prepared to take it back to Xingshan City to show Hong Chengchou.

The captured Tartar armor was also loaded into trucks and transported back to the city one by one. However, Li Zhi now mass-produces full-body plate armor, and there is no demand for low-quality cotton armor, chain mail, and scale armor of Tartar. Coupled with the various types of armor captured in previous battles, Li Zhi now has tens of thousands of useless pieces of Qing army armor in stock.

Maybe you can sell these armors to other Ming troops in the future and make some silver.

Li Zhi's soldiers fought at close range with the Tartar soldiers in this battle, and the casualties were not small. According to the statistics of the officers, the final count was that 67 people were killed, 123 were seriously wounded, and 198 were lightly wounded. Most of the soldiers killed and seriously wounded in battle were shot in the face by the Qing army's bows and arrows. Although the white-knuckle bayonet battle was fierce, the actual casualties caused were not high.

Wang Tingchen and Bai Guangen's soldiers and horses suffered heavy casualties, with more than 3,000 dead and wounded. Their soldiers and horses almost collapsed. However, the soldiers and horses of the two also killed and wounded more than 400 Tartars, and the Tartars fled in a panic when they fled, and did not drag the dead and wounded Tartars away. Wang Tingchen and Bai Guangen relied on these more than 400 Tartar heads to repay their merits, and they hurriedly cut off their heads.

After cleaning up the battlefield, Li Zhi loaded a cart of loot and headed for Xingshan City.

Hong Chengchou had already gotten the news and rushed to Xingshan City with his personal guards. As soon as he entered the city, he was shocked by the head of Li Zhi's car. He seemed to think of something, a little helpless, but he couldn't hide the excitement on his face, grabbed Li Zhi's hand and said: "Xingguo Bo has made another war exploit, it is really gratifying!" ”

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On 11 February, Li Zhi's victory over the Manchu and Shuo Zheng Prince Jierharang at Hejiaao was sent to the capital.

At the court meeting of the Imperial Palace, hundreds of civil and military officials stood solemnly on both sides, listening to the envoys loudly chant and read the good news jointly sent by Hong Chengchou, the governor of Jiliao, Zhang Ruoqi, the superintendent of the army, and Li Zhi, the uncle of Xingguo.

"In the Si War, Wang Tingchen, the general soldier of Liaodong, and Bai Guangen, the chief soldier of the Jizhen Central Association, relieved the siege of Xingshan, pursued Dongnu and encountered an ambush, and more than 30,000 troops were surrounded in Hejiaao, and the situation was critical. Xingguo Bo Li Zhi quickly supported the soldiers and horses after the police, and fought Jierharang in the south ridge of Hejiaao. Li Zhi fought for a while, capturing and beheading the Manchurian Tartars of the 1,649th level, and the Mongolian Tartars..."

Hearing the recitation of Hong Chengchou's envoy, the civil officials in the court looked embarrassed one by one, and some were speechless.

Li Zhi, the enemy of the civil officials, has made meritorious service again.

Counting the capture of the Qing army camp in Bijiagang, Li Zhi has already captured 6,000 Qing troops. Li Zhi has only been out of the customs for a month, and he has already won so much. The name of the world's strong army is not fake.

The civil servants were a little embarrassed.

Previously, they attacked Li Zhi for being arrogant, and even said that Li Zhi had a heart of disobedience and trampled Li Zhi to the soles of his feet. At that time, Li Zhi was not in a hurry to go out of the customs to aid Jinzhou, but was busy running a newspaper in Shandong. The Son of Heaven helped Li Zhi suppress the gentry, and the ministers immediately besieged the Son of Heaven, and Li Zhi had already been trampled on as a rebellious minister and thief.

At that time, the phrase "Li Zhi is the mainstay of the Ming Dynasty" often said by the Son of Heaven seemed to have become a joke, and it was ridiculed by civil officials all day long. Some people in the capital even wrote satirical remarks on the walls on both sides of the street, satirizing Li Zhi's name as a "good general who saved the country".

At that time, the scholars of Li Zhizhi in the capital were enemies, and the most popular operas in the teahouse, "Qingshankou" and "Fanjiazhuang Chopping Yuetuo", which one dared to sing? As soon as it was sung, it was smashed and beaten by the soldiers.

Because Li Zhi was slow to send troops, the officials put all the pressure on the Son of Heaven. At that time, except for the Son of Heaven, there was no second person in the court to support Li Zhi. The fact that the Son of Heaven sent Jinyi Wei to Shandong to assist Li Zhi in running a newspaper made the civil officials even more angry, and even rushed into the palace with a wooden stick to assassinate the Son of Heaven.

However, just over a month later, things turned around.

Li Zhi has made meritorious service again.

Li Zhi is like a god of war, and he killed all sides in just one month after entering Liaoxi. first bombarded Dudu at Beacon Post, and then defeated Jierharang at Hejiaao, killing the Tartar general Aobai. In addition to Li Zhi, the other Ming troops were either defeated or ambushed in front of the Qing army, which further set off the key to Li Zhi's soldiers and horses.

The words that the Son of Heaven said that Li Zhi was the mainstay sounded true at this time.

As soon as Hong Chengchou's second good news entered the capital, it spread all over the streets and alleys. The scholars were embarrassed. Previously, they attacked Li Zhi, but now Li Zhi is saving the country in western Liaoning. Li Zhi once again became the mainstay of the Ming Dynasty, and they, the scholars who attacked Li Zhi, suddenly became crumbs standing on the opposite side of the mainstay.

A good general who saves the country, everything is reasonable. Li Zhi's newspaper in Shandong suddenly became very correct. The common people began to re-examine the people of the world and despised their obstruction of Li Zhi's newspaper.

Doesn't he just want to control public opinion and not let Xingguobo gain the right to speak?

Xingguo Bo is for the country and the people, and he has turned the tide several times, and his loyalty can be shown every day. These scholars are so afraid that Li Zhi will snatch their right to speak, which shows that what they say on weekdays may not be beneficial to the country.

Some people have even jumped out to say that the literati control public opinion and harm the state and private individuals everywhere. Therefore, Xingguo Bocai had to fight for the right to speak for the sake of the country, run a newspaper to let the people distinguish between right and wrong, and also make a fair speech.

If the Tartars are allowed to enter the customs, I don't know how many states and counties will be slaughtered, and how many families will be separated? How many people are going to shave their hair and become slaves? Xingguobo, this is really a good general to save the country!

The big drama of "Qingshankou" was sung again in the teahouses and taverns in the streets and alleys. As soon as the people heard Li Zhi's line in the play, "We have been serving the country and the people all our lives, and we are the slave chief Huang Taiji, and I am not afraid of him", they applauded like thunder.