Chapter 343: Overseer

Li Zhi's soldiers and horses not only have armor, but everyone carries a firearm. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

Yang Sichang heard that Li Zhi's fire gun was well-made and there was never a risk of boredom. The firepower of the firearm is very strong, and it can pierce armor from a distance of seventy steps. Moreover, Li Zhi's recruit training had to discard a musket every three months, so the soldiers were very skilled in archery, and there was no missing bullet in seventy steps.

Yang Sichang looked at those firecrackers with their heads held high, and secretly said that if there were such a thousand guns on the battlefield, what kind of enemy could resist it?

Li Zhi rode in the middle of the army, and he didn't see Yang Sichang at this time. Therefore, the front section of the army did not stop in front of Yang Sichang, but crossed Yang Sichang's welcome procession and continued to walk forward.

The tiger division walked over, and the field cannon made Yang Sichang gasp.

I had always heard that Li Zhi's army was equipped with cannons, but Yang Sichang didn't expect that there were so many. Three thousand soldiers of the Tiger Ben Division walked in front of Yang Sichang, and Yang Sichang saw forty cannon artillery carriages.

In this way, if Li Zhi has 16,000 soldiers and horses, wouldn't he have 200 cannons?

These cannons are all small Hongyi cannons, and they are very well-made. Yang Sichang stared at the passing field artillery truck and found that Li Zhi's cannon had no honeycomb air holes at all. Yang Sichang also knew about the casting of some Hongyi cannons, and it was obvious that Li Zhi's cannons were not produced using the mud method...

Yang Sichang originally led more than 100,000 troops to encircle and suppress Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai, and there were only a few dozen tiger squat cannons and 20 Fulong machine guns in the army. However, Li Zhi has a number of Hongyi cannons that far exceed Yang Sichang's tiger squat cannon and Fulong's machine cannon. If all these well-made Hongyi cannons were loaded with loose cannons to bombard the enemy, how would Zhang Xianzhong's thief army suffer?

The sophisticated equipment of Li Zhi's military horse had already surprised Yang Sichang, but what made Yang Sichang feel most unbelievable was Li Zhi's military discipline.

The soldiers in red uniforms carried firearms and marched forward in a small phalanx of two hundred people, without squinting. Whether it was the villagers and elders on both sides of the road, or the pigs and sheep wine, they couldn't make these soldiers turn their heads and look at them a few more times. The soldiers did not hear the order to stop advancing, and without hesitation, they continued their march past the welcoming crowd towards Xiangyang City.

This army gives the impression that even if the sky falls, it is not as important as carrying out orders.

How long does it take to train military discipline to connect the military horses into such a strict piece? Ordinary Ming troops only practice once every few days, and I am afraid that they will not be able to practice such military discipline in a few years. The ancients described the strong army as "like an arm and a finger", and Yang Sichang saw Li Zhi's soldiers and horses today to know the meaning of this word.

No wonder Li Zhi can defeat the Qing army again and again. Such a strong army, even if tens of thousands of Dongnu surround it, it will not be afraid.

With such a strong army, it is no wonder that Li Zhi can defeat himself, and a word makes the Son of Heaven no longer trust himself. After losing the trust of the Son of Heaven, he was attacked by the government and the opposition, and he could only go out to supervise the teacher to prove himself. However, he supervised the division for a year, but he failed to suppress the thieves, but lost his soldiers and generals.

At this critical moment, Li Zhi came again. Li Zhi, a powerful army of soldiers and horses, in the eyes of Yang Sichang, is the enemy who attacks him.

Yang Sichang looked at Li Zhi's soldiers and horses, and his face became darker and darker.

Yang Sichang's side, "Right Governor of Yushi, Governor of Xunyang" Yuan Jixian also looked pale. The momentum of Li Zhi's soldiers and horses moving forward under the military order makes people feel a strong murderous aura, which makes people feel a drum in their hearts.

The so-called strong army in the world really lives up to its name.

Yuan Jixian arched his hand to Yang Sichang and said: "Supervisor, this Taibao Li Zhi's soldiers and horses are really strong!" After a pause, Yuan Jixian said: "As soon as this army and horses arrive, I'm afraid that the thieves will be unable to fly!" ”

The "Chief Military Officer of the Jizhen Central Association" who came to the aid was originally a big voice, but in front of Li Zhi's military horse, he felt a little afraid to speak loudly. He suppressed his voice and said, "Supervisor, compared to Li Zhi's soldiers and horses, my four thousand soldiers and horses are like a group of green-skinned scoundrels. ”

Yang Sichang sneered and did not speak.

Zhang Yingyuan, the chief soldier of Baoding, shook his head and said: "Supervisor, we have been fighting hard for a year, but we have fallen into the way of offering thieves and have suffered several defeats. If today's son sends such a strong army to suppress thieves... If Li Zhi defeats the enemy, we will be too incompetent and will be punished by the Son of Heaven..."

Zhang Yingyuan's words touched Yang Sichang's heart.

Yang Sichang sat in Xiangyang Mansion to suppress thieves, exhausted his wits, and the result was a fiasco. Now that the Son of Heaven has sent Li Zhi, he has obviously lost confidence in Yang Sichang. If Li Zhi beats Zhang Xianzhong and Li Zicheng like the year before and last year, and kills all sides, then Yang Sichang will not be able to escape from the charge of being incompetent and mediocre and wasting the treasury in vain.

In that way, even if Yang Sichang's official is successful, he will be lucky to retire smoothly.

Yang Sichang thought in his heart, looking at Li Zhi's strong army, he was not happy but worried.

Finally, Li Zhi's front army all walked over, and Li Zhi's Chinese army appeared on the official road.

Seeing Yang Sichang on the side of the road, Li Zhi stopped his horse at a rein, but did not speak.

Li Zhi and Yang Sichang did not have a good relationship. At that time, Li Zhi asked the Son of Heaven to build a shrine for Lu Xiangsheng on the Chengtian Gate, forcing the Son of Heaven to issue an edict against himself, and the Son of Heaven no longer trusted Yang Sichang from then on. People all over the world say that Li Zhi defeated Yang Sichang in one sentence, although this statement is suspected of sowing discord by Qingliu, but it is enough to prove that Li Zhi and Yang Sichang are not all the way.

Li Zhi didn't know what Yang Sichang would think of himself. Li Zhi led troops to aid the suppression this time, which was theoretically attributed to the control of Yang Sichang, the governor of Pingkou. But Li Zhiru dared not to listen to the holy decree of today's son, how could he obey Yang Sichang's orders? If Yang Sichang held a grudge, Li Zhi would abandon Yang Sichang and kill Zhang Xianzhong himself.

Of course, if Yang Sichang cooperates with him, Li Zhi doesn't mind giving Yang Sichang a little face.

Li Zhi stopped his horse and stood there, and the Chinese army flag commander immediately raised the banner to stop advancing. The banner commanders of the front army and the rear army passed down the order, and soon Li Zhi's 16,000 troops stopped on the official road and stood silently.

The order of the tiger master was forbidden, and the generals around Yang Sichang were amazed.

The moment Yang Sichang saw Li Zhi, he changed into a smiling face full of spring breeze.

Yang Sichanggui is an auxiliary minister of the cabinet, wearing a python robe and jade belt, but he doesn't mind Li Zhi's rudeness at all. He didn't wait for Li Zhi to greet him, and strode up. He led the Xiangyang civil and military officials to Li Zhi's horse, and said: "Taibao has worked hard all the way!" ”

Seeing that Yang Sichang was so kind, Li Zhi didn't seem to mind at all that he asked for compensation for Lu Xiangsheng, but he was embarrassed to be too indifferent to Yang Sichang. Speaking of which, when he was first promoted to a general, he went to Yang Sichang's house for dinner.

Li Zhi turned over and dismounted, arched his hand and said: "The superintendent is serious, serving the country, I dare not say that it is hard." ”

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Last night, I had a party with my cousin and sang, but I came back at 11 o'clock and didn't go to bed until 3 o'clock at night.