Li Zicheng and Liu Yunshui swept away the Mongols' belongings, not only horses, cattle and sheep, but also daily necessities, including yurts and wooden barrels for the Mongols to milk horses.

The corpses of the Mongols were cut off and salted with lime, ready to go back to Xiningwei to declare their war exploits, and the corpses were buried on the spot to make fertilizer for this grassland.

However, the soldiers were not good at sorting out the Mongols' belongings, and could not put all the belongings on the back of cattle and horses anyway, so some soldiers temporarily acted as porters, carrying them on their shoulders, and then drove the cattle, horses, and sheep back to Zhenhai Fort.

Liu Yunshui wanted to burn down the Mongols' camp, but Li Zicheng didn't allow it, saying that it was still done by the barbarians, and sooner or later it would still belong to the Ming Dynasty, and there was no need to burn his own territory, in fact, he was still worried that the nearby Mongols would chase after him by the fire, and their two small banner soldiers would now simply become a baggage force, in case they were caught up by the Mongols, they would be more than lucky, at least these materials would be discounted.

The mountain road is difficult and difficult to travel, the soldiers have to carry supplies, drive horses, cattle and sheep, the speed is extremely slow, back to Zhenhai Fort, it is already noon the next day, the soldiers have a full meal, each back to the camp to rest, and Li Zicheng immediately convened a three-person group meeting, this meeting, one is to summarize the experience of fighting against the Mongols and the distribution of materials, and the other is about Liu Yunshui.

"My lord, the Mongolian soldiers are not extraordinary, they are the same flesh and blood, and if you shoot down, you will still pierce each other." Liu Yunshui participated in the first battle against the Mongols, and also assassinated a soldier with his own hands, although it was not as good as Li Zicheng who saved his life at a critical moment, but after all, he was stronger than Li Guo, speaking of experience, he couldn't help but dance with his eyebrows, and glanced at Li Guo, who was staying in Zhenhai Fort, and his heart was full of advantages.

Li Ziyuan came to prepare a few words of lessons, but thinking that the Han people have always talked about the Mongolian cavalry, now is the time to accumulate confidence and overcome the fear of war, first praised the soldiers a few words, and then the words changed, "Yunshui, yesterday we were a sneak attack, and it was in the night, we really want to go to the battlefield, facing the Mongolian cavalry, I'm afraid it won't be so easy, let's talk about how to deal with the Mongols' bows and arrows, otherwise it will be a rain of arrows from fifty or sixty paces, not to mention killing, it's difficult to get close, we have a small number, and the soldiers can't afford to hurt it!" ”

"My lord, use a shield." After Liu Yunshui finished speaking, he felt that something was wrong, now they don't even have bows and arrows, spears or white guns, where will there be shields? Unless Xining Wei is kind enough to give a hundred and ten shields, he can't help but think of Li Zicheng's intention to give the tallest war horse to Wu Shaoling, and sigh in his heart, he is really strategic, and when he looks at Li Zicheng's eyes, a bright color faintly appears.

"This time I went to Xiningwei to report on the merits of the war, I will propose to them the matter of the shield, however, it is estimated that there is not much hope, we still need food, military salaries, hardcore guns, etc., Xiningwei cannot solve many materials for us at one time," Li Zicheng remembered the famous slogan of later generations, "In case it doesn't work, we still have hands, there are many trees on the mountains near here, and we cut them down to build shields, although the trees are not dry, the effect will be worse, but it is better than nothing," Seeing that the two did not interject, they continued: "If we do it ourselves, I propose to make the shield square. ”

"My lord, the shields of the Ming Dynasty are generally round, why do we want to make them square? Is it because you are worried that someone else will steal it? "Li Yunshui is obviously different from Li Guo, there are always so many problems.

"Who else can look up to such a shield but us? I'm not afraid of others stealing it," Li Zicheng said with a smile: "The shield is made into a square shape, and in case of a rain of arrows from the Mongols, the shields can be combined to make a huge shield wall." ”

"My lord, my subordinates understand." Li Guo gave up his hand to Li Zicheng, there was a lot of admiration in his eyes, he had always followed the second uncle, knowing that the second uncle's brain was better than him, so once he encountered a problem, he was too lazy to think about it, and he was asking the second uncle for ideas.

"Shield wall?" Liu Yunshui muttered to himself, gestured with his hand again, and said for a long time: "My lord, my subordinates understand, this is to put all the soldiers under the protection of the shield, why didn't my subordinates think of it?" He glanced at Li Zicheng again, but his heart was full of mixed feelings.

If it was said that when Li Zicheng saved his life, he only had the idea of gratitude at that time, then all kinds of whimsical ideas at this time made him completely dispel the courage to compete with Li Zicheng, and in terms of brain, he was thrown off more than one street by Li Zicheng.

"My lord," Liu Yunshui suddenly left his seat and knelt down in front of Li Zicheng, "My subordinates didn't do my best before, and I still wanted to teach my superiors a short and long term, but today I know that my subordinates and adults are fireflies and the sun and the moon, and my subordinates will follow the adults with all their hearts in the future, and I beg the adults not to care about the recklessness and ignorance of their subordinates in the past." ”

"Yunshui hurry up," Li Zicheng also knew that he would accept it when he saw it, Liu Yunshui was just convinced, so he got up and left his seat and helped him back to his seat, "We are brothers, now that Ganzhou has abandoned us, Xining is extremely distrustful of us, it is the time when we need our brothers to work together, has Yunshui seen today's battle?" Our soldiers are all new recruits, but this time in the battle, no one died, what is the reason? ”

Liu Yunshui sat down again, but his mind was still thinking about Li Zicheng's question, "My lord, are we fighting more and less?" ”

"Yunshui is right," Li Zicheng also returned to his position and pointed at Liu Yunshui's head in the air, "We hit one with five, or even one with ten, and we shot at the same time, the Mongols are all fighting alone, how can there be any reason to survive?" ”

Fight together! This thought immediately popped into Liu Yunshui's mind, but this was also proposed by Li Zicheng in military training, could he be unpredictable? Liu Yunshui bowed to Li Zicheng, "My lord, in this battle last night, my subordinates were really taught a lot, and their brains were ...... for a while There are many places that I can't turn around for a while. ”

"Haha, if you can't turn around, go back and think slowly, if Yunshui has a good idea, don't hide it," Li Zicheng said in his heart, Lao Tzu has hundreds of years of experience in later generations, how can you compare? You just saw the tip of the iceberg, but you said: "This is this white gun, it is really ...... Hey, I lost a lot of white guns this time, right? ”

Li Guo is still unclear about the specific battle situation, but Liu Yunshui saluted and knelt down to Li Zicheng today, so he really couldn't think through it, what he has always pursued, he didn't need to think about it if he couldn't think about it, so he changed the topic, "My lord, we still have dozens of white rods, as long as the gun head is loaded." ”

"Well, I'll leave this to Double Happiness, I'm going to Xining this time, I must fight for it and see if I can get a few iron guns." Li Zicheng had been thinking about the loot for a long time, "Let's discuss the loot, tell me, how will these loot be distributed?" ”

"My lord, except for the war horse that is going to be given to Wu Shaoling, can we keep all the rest of the horses?" Although Liu Yunshui was a rookie, he knew the significance of war horses to the war, and he valued these war horses the most.

Li Zicheng frowned, "Leave them all, I'm afraid it's very difficult, it's good to be able to leave three war horses, if Wei Li knows that we have intercepted the horses, it will be difficult to explain in the future," why didn't he want to keep these horses? This is the brothers risking their lives in exchange, but the current situation, their own hundred households, can not do without the support of Xiningwei, not to mention anything else, just food, is a headache, the last time I gave ten stone of grain, almost exhausted, this time to Weili, the first task is to bring some food back, "Of course, I will try to keep the horses, even if it is a foal." ”

"My lord, what about these cattle and sheep?" Li Guo asked.

"These cattle are of no use to us, we don't have to plough the land, and the cattle have a lot of grass, we are afraid that we can't afford to raise them," Li Zicheng took a sip lightly, there was no good tea in the army, and it was a little astringent, "As for these white sheep, you can keep some, but how to raise them, I haven't thought about it yet, we only have a hundred soldiers, I'm afraid we can't separate the population to raise." ”

"My lord, my subordinates have an idea," Liu Yunshui was quite active today, perhaps grateful to Li Zicheng for saving his life, "We can let the people nearby take care of them as long as they give them some benefits." ”

"The benefits? What are the benefits? Li Guo stared at Liu Yunshui and said: "Our own food is tight, and the military salary is nothing, what benefits can we give to the people?" ”

"Double happiness, don't you say that," Liu Yunshui learned from Li Zicheng's tone, "Although we don't have food and silver, don't we still have white sheep?" As long as the raised aries are divided with the people, I think there will be people who are willing to raise them for us. ”

"Yunshui is a good idea," Li Zicheng suddenly thought, if the white sheep is handed over to the nearby people to raise, it can bring the relationship between the army and the people closer, not only can these white sheep be hidden among the people, but also can use the people to do more things in the future, for example, collect the fire army from the people, liberate the original small flag, and if the food is enough to eat, you can also recruit troops from the people, "but when the white sheep is handed over to the people to raise, you must obtain the consent of the people, formulate a reasonable sharing standard, and keep your word, and do not bully the people." ”

As for the daily necessities of those Mongols, as long as they report to Xiningwei at will, I think that apart from them, no one can look down on the belongings of these barbarians.

The next thing is the military merit, the soldiers who participated in the war are collective meritorious service, as for the first merit, Liu Yunshui's life was saved by Li Zicheng, and he was naturally pushed to the top officer, Liu Yunshui was second, and Wang Anping, who sent the message of the Mongols, occupied the third position, and Li Guo stayed in Zhenhai Fort, ranking fourth in terms of merit.

Li Zicheng can make Li Guo's credit rank third, after all, the Zhenhai Fort camp is not lost, and it is also an important task, but firstly, Li Zicheng wants to gradually train the rangers, and secondly, it is also to arouse the enthusiasm of the soldiers to fight, if the military merits of the left-behind personnel are greater, who is willing to go to the battlefield to fight?

"The last question," Li Zicheng aimed his gaze at Liu Yunshui, "It is the problem of Yunshan's violation of military orders, although Yunshui's merits this time are great, but the merits and demerits cannot be offset, and the military law is ruthless, even if it is father, son and brother." ”