"Hongzhou, get up quickly!" Li Zicheng helped Zhao Guangrui up, stared at his eyes, and said, "Hongzhou really doesn't need to think about it?" ”

"The villain has already thought about it!" Zhao Guangrui shook his head, but there was no smile on his face, "The villain has already decided, the villain will follow the Metropolitan Governor in his life!" ”

"Okay, good, good," Li Zicheng knew that he had made such a decision, and there would be a sad period in his heart for the time being, so he smiled and said: "On behalf of the Mandate of Heaven Governor's Mansion, the Governor of Bendu officially accepts Hongzhou to join!" ”

"Thank you, little man!"

Li Zicheng always felt a little awkward when he heard him use the word "villain", Zhao Guangrui had already joined the Heavenly Mandate Army, so he had to give him a position, pondered for a moment, and said: "Hongzhou will be the hundred household officials of the Heavenly Mandate Army from today onwards, how about it?" ”

"Thank you, little man!" Zhao Guangrui bowed to the ground again.

"Hongzhou doesn't need to be polite, the governor of Pontus can't do this," Li Zicheng said with a smile: "You don't have to call yourself a 'villain' in the future, you are already a member of the Heavenly Mandate Army." ”

Li Zicheng was really happy when he got Zhao Guangrui's submission, not because he valued his identity behind the general, but because of his talent.

A military family, not to mention learning military skills since childhood, but also familiar with the scriptures and military books, among the existing officers of the Heavenly Mandate Army, it is absolutely rare.

The chief officers of several large thousands of households of the Heavenly Mandate Army were all born in old soldiers, and after a long time, they will be somewhat stained with some bad habits, and they may be able to suppress them in a short time, but after a long time, or if they are released in other places, Li Zicheng really doesn't dare to trust them too much.

Although they are all good hands on the battlefield, the combat effectiveness of the Mandate of Heaven mainly comes from the strict training of soldiers and firearms beyond this era, and has little direct relationship with the officers themselves.

In other words, in an ordinary battle, no matter who is in command of the battle, as long as you don't mess up, the result will be the same.

Soldiers are supposed to be produced on an assembly line, but officers are definitely not good.

It is one thing to charge into battle and fight bravely, and it is another thing to command the overall situation, and officers must fight with their heads.

The chief official of several large and thousands of households, Ma Youshui was deliberately cultivated by Li Zicheng, but his ability seems to be somewhat lacking, more than calm, and not enough pioneering.

Liu Yunshui is one of Li Zicheng's favorite chief officers, in addition to being too thirsty for killing, sometimes his brain is easy to heat up, but he is brave and strategic, but the rest of the chief officials, including Li Guo, are more than loyal and incompetent.

Therefore, Li Zicheng has long intended to train a new chief officer.

Zhao Guangrui should be a good seedling, now only nineteen years old, not deeply infected by the vices of the Ming army, if he is given enough opportunities, under his own training, it is very likely to become a generation of famous generals.

From the battle of Pingtan Fort, Li Zicheng took a fancy to him.

"Grand Governor, do you want your subordinates to join the current combat unit?" Zhao Guangrui was already impatient.

"No, you don't have to participate in this battle, you just follow the Pontus Governor, watch with your eyes, and understand the performance of the Tianming Armament, which will be of great benefit to you in commanding the battle in the future," Li Zicheng said: "After the battle, you will return to Xining with the Pontus Governor!" ”

"Yes, Grand Duke!" Although Zhao Guangrui was a little reluctant, he still obeyed Li Zicheng's order.

"Let's go, let's go to the front and see how many prisoners of war have been captured!" Li Zicheng threw off his big stride and walked towards the slope in front of him.

The battle had long since ended, and Badasi, with hundreds of prisoners of war, was crossing the pontoon bridge and heading towards the campo, and the wounded soldiers of the Ming army under the campo no longer existed, leaving only a large pile of corpses.

The prisoners of war were escorted to Jinjiatai in the rear, and in the future they went to Lanzhou first with the auxiliaries of the Mandate of Heaven.

Li Zicheng asked the soldiers to clean up the battlefield, it was the height of summer, and the corpses would soon decompose, in case of the plague, it would be a big trouble.

According to the habits of the Mandate of Heaven Army, after the corpses were searched, they were all burned in a fire, so many corpses were all Han Chinese, Li Zicheng was really a little reluctant, but people could not be resurrected after death, and they could only hope that God would bless them in the next life.

Badasi ran over to Li Zicheng on his horse, "Governor Dadu, none of the Ming army has slipped through the net!" ”

"Okay, Ben Khan will ask Hutuketu Khan for credit, the last time you captured in battle, whether it is property or women, you will get double shares." Li Zicheng was on the slope and gave a thumbs up to Badassi.

But in his heart, he was despised, and in the future in the face of the Han people's battles, as long as there was a slight possibility, he could not let the nomadic cavalry participate.

The soldiers were busy until the evening, and only then did they clean up the battlefield on both sides of the goat's milk ditch, and all the captures were almost negligible, and the only gain was to weaken the strength of Dai Junen's troops.

Li Zicheng's heart was a little unhappy, both sides of the war were Han people, no matter who died, they were all Han brothers!

However, to establish the empire in his heart, such battles and killings can only be regarded as the beginning, as the strength of the Heavenly Mandate Army becomes stronger and stronger, it will inevitably be more and more exposed to the front of the imperial court, and a battle of this scale like today is just a child.

Li Zicheng hurriedly ate dinner, and then went to the big tent of the Chinese army alone.

Feng Ju's vanguard battalion was annihilated, but Dai Junen's main force was still there!

Dai Junen walked halfway to get the news that Feng Ju's entire army was destroyed, but the message sent back by the ranger was too brief, and he did not know the details of the destruction of the pioneer battalion.

However, five thousand soldiers, none of them were left in a battle, and Dai Junen's heart was still shocked into a cold sweat, could it be that the thieves here are stronger than the Mongols?

The pontoon bridge over the goat's milk ditch was still there, but Dai Junen did not rush to cross the river, but set up camp in the east, and only sent rangers to continue to inquire about the information.

The battlefield has been cleaned up by the Heavenly Mandate Army, even the cavalry of Badasi has lost its trace, and everything has been restored to its original appearance, except for a large amount of floating soil in an inconspicuous corner, which is a huge pit where the bones of the Ming army are buried.

Although the rangers of the Ming army approached the slope, they could not climb up, they could only watch from afar, they were sure that the Mandate of Heaven army had set up camp on the slope, but the number of the Mandate of Heaven army was not very good.

Dai Junen was cautious, and in order to spy on the enemy, he sent a messenger to the Mandate of Heaven Army to make an appointment for the battle.

Li Zicheng heard the message, he didn't feel sneering again and again, he didn't even see the messenger, only asked him to bring back a few words: I will be stationed on the slope, if you have the ability, you will attack, if you don't have the ability, surrender early!

Dai Junen was very angry with Li Zicheng, but for the sake of safety, he did not immediately attack the Tianming army like Feng Ju, but set up the camp very firmly and defended it first.

The next morning, he sent a team of 1,000 men to tentatively attack the Mandate of Heaven.

Qin Danian did not hide his strength, but after two or three rounds of shooting, the thousand-man team of the Ming army was annihilated, and only Qian Zong escaped from the goat's milk ditch with a few personal soldiers.

Dai Junen was shocked, with the strength of the thieves, even if the remaining 9,000 soldiers were all pressed up, they might not be able to take Kanpo.

The attack had no chance of winning, and the retreat was unwilling, and Dai Junen confronted the Heavenly Mandate Army across the goat's milk ditch.

It was the height of summer and the weather was very hot, especially at noon. The number of the Mandate of Heaven army was small, and the camp tents were basically close to the trees on both sides, avoiding the shade of the trees, while the Ming army was close to 10,000 soldiers, and the whole camp was standing on the road, the scorching sun was in the sky, and the soldiers were crying bitterly.

Dai Junen's purpose was to recover Lanzhou, but he didn't expect to be blocked by the thieves in the goat's milk ditch, and it was far away from Lanzhou!

If the confrontation continues like this, when will the thief be broken?

Dai Junen was in an irritable mood, but there was nothing he could do about the thieves, and the Heavenly Mandate Army blindly couldn't hold on, making it clear that it was going to be with him.

Dry consumption is extremely unfavorable to him, plus the soldiers of the Jingyu Acropolis, his subordinates are close to fifteen thousand soldiers, and the daily consumption of food is not a small number, and when Hong Chengchou asked him to go west to exterminate the thieves, there was a time limit, and he originally wanted to sneak attack, so he would fight quickly.

There are so many thieves in Shaanxi, Shanxi, and Henan that the army is needed everywhere to exterminate the thieves, and it is impossible for him to stay in Longyou for a long time.

Li Zicheng is a good swim, or use the mountain spring water to soak a pot of fragrant tea, savor it in the shade of the tree, or take his own soldiers, walk through the valley, escape the summer, watch the scenery, are good, by the way, you can also hunt some fresh game, busy and happy!

But he didn't know when the Ming army would attack, and he didn't dare to go too far, most of them just wandered around the nearby valleys, which was regarded as a vacation.

After a stalemate for three days, Dai Junen couldn't bear it anymore, so he decided to attack on a large scale, and if he couldn't win, he would retreat to the Jingyu Acropolis first, and then make plans.

This time the Ming army made full preparations, and five thousand soldiers, under the cover of shields, lined up in four long lines and went to cross the sheep's milk ditch.

Crossing the pontoon bridge, the Ming army was only 300 paces away from Kanpo.

Without riding, Qin Danian could see the movement on the opposite side with the naked eye, the Ming army was too numerous, he didn't dare to hold it up, and the five mountain cannons set up in the rear of the left test of Kanpo took the lead in sending an echo to the Ming army.

"Boom...... Long ......"

Five flowering bombs, drawing arcs, fell like meteors in the ranks of the Ming army.

Each flowering bomb landed, and it could have blown up a large crater with a radius of more than one zhang, but the number of Ming troops was too dense, and the fragments and shock waves generated by the explosion were blocked and consumed by them with their bodies......

Around the deep hole, the Ming army suffered, limbs flew sideways, blood mist filled the sky, some Ming soldiers were injured by the shock wave generated by the explosion, there was obviously no wound on the body, but the mouth and nose were bleeding, unconsciously, the signs of life were lost......

Five flowering shells, in a large area of the Ming army, blew up five dented "discs" and harvested at least dozens of soldiers.

The gunners of the 3,000th household also began to shoot, but although the Ming army was large in number and had a shield in front of them, the casualties were not serious, and the army was still approaching the slope like a tide.