Chapter 443: A State Within a State
The meat dishes brought by Hong Chengchou can be regarded as very rich. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info is out on the expedition, and fresh meat can't be eaten. Being able to eat bacon, drink jerky soup, and eat pickled vegetables is a food worth celebrating.
Hong Chengchou led the three general soldiers into Li Zhi's camp, and as soon as he entered the camp, he said loudly: "Xingguobo has made great contributions today, which is really gratifying!" β
Li Zhi said with a smile: "It's just a small achievement, why worry about it?" β
Hearing Li Zhi's words, several general soldiers looked at each other and were speechless. The military exploits of the Ming Dynasty are based on the heads of the East Nu, and on weekdays, these Ming troops can cut a few heads, and they can send a good report to the Son of Heaven to show off their military exploits. If you can cut dozens of Dongnu heads, it is enough to call it a big victory.
And Li Zhi killed thousands of Tartars today, and he actually said lightly that it was not enough to worry about.
However, for Li Zhi, who often captures and beheads tens of thousands of Tartars, killing thousands of Tartars is really nothing. If he hadn't made earth-shattering achievements again and again, how could he have risen to such a high position as Xingguobo like a rocket, and he was only twenty-six years old and overlooked other Ming generals.
The three general soldiers looked at each other for a while, and the people in the dark were more popular than the dead. In front of Li Zhi, these people are like a group of rice buckets who can only take food and food.
Li Zhi asked the soldiers to set up chairs and coffee tables in the camp, and beckoned Hong Chengchou and others to sit down.
Hong Chengchou took a sip of tea and said with a smile: "I saw Xingguobo's flowering bomb today, it's very amazing, I don't know where Xingguobo learned the ability to make this bomb?" β
Li Zhi replied: "A few years ago, I met an old Taoist priest by the sea and learned the secret method from him. β
Hong Chengchou nodded and asked, "Xing Guobo may teach this secret method to this governor, so that my Ming military horses can use this flowering bullet to fight?" β
Li Zhi shook his head and said, "This is a secret method, and it can't be passed on." It's easy to teach the governor, but I'm afraid that my Ming craftsmen won't be able to learn by cutting corners, so in the end, I let the Tartars learn it carefully and use it to attack my tiger master. β
Hong Chengchou was a little embarrassed and said with a smile: "The affairs of my Daming are not as corrupt as Xingguo Bo said. β
Li Zhi said lightly: "This is a secret method, and it can't be passed on." β
Seeing Li Zhi's rejection of Hong Chengchou so casually, the generals glanced at each other, and secretly said that Li Zhi was really arrogant. Faced with Governor Hong Chengchou's request, Li Zhi didn't want to refuse, and didn't take Hong Chengchou's words to heart at all.
However, Li Zhi has the ability to be arrogant.
If a civil official is as young and arrogant as Li Zhi, no matter how old you are, you will be impeached and pulled down by the offended. However, Li Zhi was a military attachΓ© and had a strong army. As long as the strong soldiers in his hands remain unchanged, only Hong Chengchou begged Li Zhi for his share, and even the Son of Heaven asked Li Zhi, and Li Zhi was not afraid of offending others at all.
Hong Chengchou was rejected by Li Zhi, his old face was a little unable to let go, and he looked at Li Zhi with a wry smile.
Seeing the awkward atmosphere, Wang Pu smiled and lowered his head to drink tea.
Wu Sangui looked at Li Zhi with some eagerness in his eyes. The eldest husband should be so arrogant if he can train a strong army like Li Zhi in the future, those civil officials can only be humble and obedient in front of him. Where will he be like now, being called by Hong Chengchou.
Everyone was embarrassed there, but they saw three Tiger Master scouts running in, clasping their fists and shouting loudly: "Uncle, the Tartars have abandoned the camp and run away!" β
When the generals heard this, they were astonished, and they all looked up at the scouts who had reported the news.
Li Zhi asked, "All ran away?" β
The scout replied, "All gone, not a single one left." They all fled to the north. β
Wang Pu stood up abruptly and said loudly: "Governor, should we organize our army to hunt down and kill the Tartars." β
Hong Chengchou said: "Tartar Maduo, we can't catch up. And..."After a pause, Hong Chengchou shook his head and said: "And the army can't see the command flag at night, so it can't be commanded." If we catch up, not to mention that we can't catch up, I'm afraid that the soldiers and horses chasing after us will be scattered in the dark. β
Wang Pu sat back in his chair and said, "What the governor said is reasonable. β
Hong Chengchou stroked his beard and said, "Anyway, we forced away the Tartars, and this is a big victory." Now that the road between Ningyuan and Tashan has been opened, we and the army in Tashan City can merge and march to Jinzhou. β
Wu Sangui thought for a moment and asked the scout, "Did the Tartar corpse ever stay?" β
The scout replied, "The Tartar walked in a panic, and the corpse and a lot of baggage were not carried away. We roughly counted and found that the Tartars had left more than 2,000 corpses in the camp. β
Hong Chengchou laughed and said: "In this way, my army will capture and behead more than 2,000 Dongnu heads, although this is not as good as the great victory of Xingguo Bofan Jiazhuang and Qingshankou, but it is also a great achievement." He bowed to Li Zhi and said, "Xing Guobo and I will write a Tang newspaper together, and quickly report this great victory to the Son of Heaven, so that the Son of Heaven will know the battle situation on the front line." β
Li Zhi said lightly: "Just as the governor said." β
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In the Qianqing Palace, Zhu Youzhen, the great son of tomorrow, looked at the good news jointly sent by Li Zhi and Hong Chengchou, and shook his head.
Li Zhi has made meritorious service again.
The Tartars trained the Han army to shoot guns, and the Ming army attacking the village with cannons in the camp on Bijia Mountain was defeated, and Hong Chengchou's 30,000 Ming army was defeated. As a result, relying on Li Zhi's tiger division to suppress it with iron blood, these routs did not cause a major rout of the whole army and were gathered up. After that, Li Zhi bombarded the Qing army camp with heavy artillery, and the Qing army left more than 2,000 corpses and fled overnight.
In this battle, Li Zhi captured and beheaded 2,869 Qing soldiers, including 1,621 Tartar heads and 1,248 Han soldiers of the Qing army.
This is a lot of credit, and it can be regarded as a great victory.
Counting Li Zhi's soldiers and horses, 150,000 troops supported Jinzhou and fought a decisive battle with Dongnu. This battle can be said to be very important, and of course Zhu Youzhen hopes to hear good news. If this battle is lost, where will the Ming Dynasty go?
But Zhu Youzhen didn't want to hear that it was Li Zhi who made meritorious service, and only Li Zhi made meritorious service.
Zhu Youzhen took the concerto, stood in front of the window of the study, quietly looked at the magnificent hall in the Forbidden City, and sighed.
Wang Chengen bowed down to the Son of Heaven and asked, "Holy Lord, Li Zhi has made meritorious service again?" β
Zhu Youzhen still looked at the scenery in the Forbidden City and did not answer Wang Chengen.
Wang Chengen took a breath and said, "If Li Zhi continues to make meritorious contributions like this, he will be made a marquis..."
Zhu Youzhen shook his head and said, "The marquis is enough, just give it to him." What I'm afraid of is that if he makes new contributions, he will be even more domineering, and he will take Shandong away. β
"I'm afraid that Shandong and Tianjin will be connected and become Li Zhi's country within a country. This Ming Dynasty will have to divide the feudal towns in the future, and I am afraid that my holy decree will not be able to enter Shandong and Tianjin. β