Chapter 405: The World Shakes, the World Silences

In his life, Abatai has fought hundreds of battles, including glorious victories such as Sarhu and Matsuyamana, as well as complete defeats such as yesterday and today, where the entire army was wiped out with heavy casualties.

He can really be called old and strong, except for the death of his parent Yue Le, who made him nervous at the last moment, Abatai remained calm there all the time, looking for a chance to win, turn the tables and escape, and recover from madness, maybe it was also the only chance for him to find a possible escape in this dead situation.

But all of Abatai's calmness collapsed under Li Meng's words, and as soon as he heard this, Abatai was furious, wanting to rush to this arrogant enemy general and chop the opponent to pieces.

But in an instant, Abatai thought that the other party's words were not wrong at all, the two-day battle, in fact, the Manchurian soldiers and horses were far inferior to the Ming army in front of them, and now, their own army of cavalry actually let the opponent's army dominated by foot soldiers fight a war of annihilation, such a disparity, it is indeed unworthy.

At this time, the emotions of defeat, loss of children, and despair really came to his heart, and at this moment, it seemed that a sledgehammer had smashed heavily on Abatai's chest.

At this moment, Abatai finally looked like an old man in his fifties, his body shook violently, he hurriedly stuck the knife in his hand on the ground, but his waist was stiffened, and finally he couldn't hold back, a mouthful of blood spurted out, and he coughed loudly there, the louder he coughed, the louder he coughed, as if he wanted to spit out all the air in his body.

Coughing and coughing, Abatai knelt directly on the ground and cried loudly, but this time the extreme emotion was not madness, but the howl of despair.

"Grandpa...... Ama ...... We're coming to an end of the Qing Dynasty!!! ”

Such barbarians in the north must take advantage of the calamities and hardships of the Central Plains Empire to become weaker and weaker before they can raise a career. If this empire is still strong, then the fate that awaits the Jurchens, who are not nomadic barbarians, will definitely be a catastrophe, and Abatai naturally understands this truth.

Kneeling there, he let out a howl of despair like a wild beast, and to the people of Li Meng, who surrounded him on horseback, Abatai's gesture was nothing more than a clumsy third-rate performance, ridiculous and contemptible, and not at all worthy of pity.

Look at the ugliness of Abatai below. Li Meng sneered on the horse and said:

"You also see, this is the great tomorrow to fear like a tiger thief, there is a sage who said, all the evil people who are enemies of Huaxia are paper tigers, and they will be broken when they are stabbed, look at the disgusting appearance of the thief chief in front of him, isn't that the case!?"

The generals of the Jiaozhou battalion system naturally thought deeply of the words of the marshal, and for them who went from victory to victory. The Tartar soldiers and horses in front of them are indeed paper tigers, not worth mentioning at all, the Ming Dynasty has been at war with the Dongyu Jurchens outside the Guanxi since the end of Wanli, but there has never been any victory, and there have been major defeats.

Over the years, he has been repeatedly entered by the Tartars. The soldiers and horses of the Ming Dynasty are also weak and ugly, which shows that the soldiers and horses of the Ming Dynasty are not worth mentioning. It's not as good as this paper tiger, after all, this paper tiger still has a tiger appearance, so even the rest of the soldiers and horses of the Ming Dynasty who are not as good as this paper tiger, what kind of goods are they?

Compared with these generals, Yuan Wenhong, the head of the Jiaozhou battalion, was racking his brains to figure out who the philosopher who said this, if it was really a great sage and philosopher, it seemed that this would not be so simple. And even if it is changed to literary language, it seems that no one has said it. Born as a literati scholar, he always has a preference for studying the classics, but a rare allusion that the handsome man said, but today he completely stumped the Shandong celebrity Yuan Wenhong.

"Wang Tao, come forward!!"

Li Meng didn't care about crying there and grabbed Abatai, raised his head and said loudly, Wang Tao, who had been at the end of the generals' ranks, hurriedly rode to Li Meng's side. Full of posture on the horse. Respectfully gave a military salute, and Li Meng saw this Wang Tao. With a smile on his face, he nodded and said with a smile:

"How's your firearm shooting?"

"If you go back to the big handsome, the lowly fire gun shooting results are excellent!"

Wang Tao also served as a personal soldier by Li Meng's side, you must know that the requirements of the marshal's personal military camp for various military skills are excellent or above, Wang Tao naturally has this level, he doesn't know what the meaning of Li Meng asking this question is, but he still answered loudly with full of energy.

The firearm shoots well, it is a self-loading shot at a constant velocity of one hundred and twenty numbers, it can shoot three or four rounds, and in the effective range, nine out of ten rounds, of course, the target as a ground mark is much larger than the modern target.

"Fetch a Infantry Flame Gun!"

Li Meng commanded again, and Wang Hai on the side took the fire gun from the hand of a soldier under the horse and handed it to Li Meng, who handed it to Wang Tao again, and said:

"Bring me the fire hammer and destroy this thief chief!!"

Wang Tao took the firearm with both hands, although he was a little confused about the commander's order, he still checked the ammunition one by one, and took the tong bar and tamped it a few times, and blew the fire rope hanging on the hook of the bird's beak, which was aimed at Abatai, who was about twenty steps away, aim, and pulled the trigger.

With a "touch" on the ground, Abatai's cry stopped abruptly, he opened his mouth, his hands forward as if to grasp something, but he didn't catch anything, and there was a ho-ho sound in his throat, and he fell directly to the ground.

Zhao Neng still couldn't understand the reason why Li Meng arranged it this way, but Wang Hai, who was nimble-brained, pondered and understood, Yuan Wenhong naturally didn't need to say it, everyone had a tacit smile on their faces, and there was a little more envy in their eyes when they looked at Wang Tao.

The death of the commander of the Tartar army, Abatai, marked a complete victory in this battle, and it was indeed a perfect victory, and none of the 37,000 Tartar troops were let go, and they were all annihilated by the army of the Jiaozhou battalion on the battlefield between Jingzhou and Nanpi County.

But the enemy commander was also surrounded in this way, and he was sentenced to death in a good time, which was not too easy, it was a real victory.

Everyone exchanged a few glances with each other, the joy and smile on their faces could not be suppressed, and they all bowed down to Li Meng and congratulated Li Mengdao:

"I wish the commander a complete victory and the total annihilation of the Tartars. Congratulations to the mighty victory!! ”

The king Tao who had just shot Abatai shouted extremely loudly, and Li Meng's always calm face also burst into a smile at this time, and he said loudly:

"You all contributed a lot in this battle, my Jiaozhou battalion is mighty, and my Jiaozhou battalion is victorious!!"

After Li Meng said this, the cavalrymen who had been surrounding this side all shouted loudly, and shouted in unison:

"The handsome and mighty, the Jiaozhou battalion is victorious!!"

The cry of victory spread quickly. The whole battlefield was quickly filled with such a shout, the killing and fighting ended quickly, 10,000 pigs may not be easy to catch, but 10,000 soldiers of the Eastern Tartars killed very quickly, now it is time for the soldiers of the Jiaozhou battalion to enjoy the joy of this victory, everyone is shouting, everyone is cheering. Desperately express the excitement and joy in my heart.

The sun was already in the west, the wind was gradually getting stronger, and a heavy bloody breath drifted from the battlefield, even Yuan Wenhong didn't feel how exciting this smell would be, and it felt physically and mentally comfortable. It's a lot of fun.

At this moment, Li Meng suddenly thought of the two sentences in Man Jianghong written by Yue Fei in Song Shi, "Ambition is hungry for Hulu meat, laughing and thirsty for Hun blood", at this moment. Li Meng understood these two sentences very deeply, and his heart was also full of pride, and he only felt ambition and pride for a while, all at this moment.

Li Meng also couldn't suppress the joy in his heart, and laughed loudly, his own commander Li Meng's high-spirited and proud appearance made the officers and soldiers of the Jiaozhou battalion even more excited. The shouts on the battlefield grew louder and louder, like a tsunami from a mountain.

In such a bloody battlefield, there have long been many crows on the side, waiting in the sky to tear the flesh of the corpse, and these crows are all alarmed by these laughter and fly around.

Just like that sudden appearance at night, the shouts of the whole army of the Jiaozhou battalion finally turned into those four words without any psychological obstacles, and everyone was shouting loudly. Hit the ground with the weapon in your own hand. This is the joy of victory, this is the cry of the heart. Everyone shouted the same voice:

"Long live the Jiaozhou battalion, long live the big handsome, long live the big handsome!!!"

Unlike the soldiers who have no scheming, the generals and strategists under the Shuai Banner do not dare to shout and move, the key to the problem is that they also don't know whether not shouting at this time will make the commander unhappy, and for a while, except for Li Meng, who was happy and happy, everyone else was hesitating.

On the contrary, Wang Tao, the general of the Dengzhou Army, was full of anger and shouted loudly there:

"Long live the handsome, long live the handsome!!"

Everyone saw that the expression on Li Meng's face remained unchanged, so they shouted loudly with reassurance, and the strategist Yuan Wenhong took a few steps forward with his horse, and he was deeply embarrassed on the horse, and said solemnly:

"Dashuai, this kind of tiger army is where the foundation of Wang Ba lies, Dashuai, conform to the destiny of heaven......"

The literati persuaded him, but there were all kinds of means, but Li Meng's smile faded, and he said indifferently:

"Mr. Yuan, it's not appropriate to say this matter at this time, don't talk about it."

Yuan Wenhong was suddenly stiff, but it was random to return to China, Li Meng's words were very mysterious, the word "at this time", but there were a lot of articles, Yuan Wenhong's brain reacted flexibly, and he hurriedly bowed and bowed, and said to himself:

"It's the student Meng Lang, and I ask the handsome to atone for his sins."

Li Meng didn't mention this matter at all, he put that gentle smile on his face again, and said loudly:

"Mr. Yuan, the general of the record marshal, the fifth battalion of the Dengzhou Army, Wang Tao, and the battle array to kill the thief chief Abatai, the battle of Beizhili, should be the first meritorious, this person is loyal and prudent on weekdays, excellent combat skills, when there is great use, specially promoted to the fifth battalion of the Dengzhou Army, as the deputy general of the Dengzhou Army...... Just send it out in the name of the shogunate of Zhendong, inform the whole army, report to the military headquarters at the same time, come back with a paperwork, and order a guerrilla! ”

Yuan Wenhong's ability to memorize is very good, and after following Li Meng's side, he has been fully exercised, and he can't take out a pen and paper in a hurry at this time, but he just memorized it there.

When everyone heard the promotion of the general manager of the camp, they all felt normal, and with such a meritorious service, it was also a matter of righteousness to be promoted from the general manager to the general manager. But after the promotion, everyone exclaimed, the deputy general of the first army, and the deputy general of the old establishment in the Jiaozhou battalion such as the Dengzhou Army, this is a real and righteous promotion.

There are hundreds of thousands of soldiers in the Jiaozhou battalion, which is the peak that hundreds of thousands of Jiaozhou battalion soldiers can climb, and then up, the chief generals and deputy generals of each army. There are also commanders of the horse army, the navy, and the artillery team, which has some glass ceilings, and it takes a very coincidental and special opportunity to be promoted.

At that time, Gao Ke led his troops to resist the siege of thousands of horse bandits in Shuyang, and now he is the deputy general of the Huaiyang Army, that Zhang Jiang won the first place in the whole army competition of the Jiaozhou battalion, and now he is the chief general of the Yanzhou Army, and that Jiang Xianxuan is still loyal in the predicament, and he is born and died. Now he is the deputy leader of the Shandong Salt Gang.

Today, this Wang Tao gathered his team in the chaos to stabilize the situation and was promoted to the deputy general of the Dengzhou Army in Jiaozhou Battalion, and everyone was shocked and envious at first. It immediately occurred to me that this was a matter of course.

Everyone had heard Zhao Neng introduce the situation at that time, if it weren't for Wang Tao standing up and shouting with a spear, the entire Dengzhou military camp would probably collapse in this situation. Collapse and scattered, then there will be no today's brilliant victory, in a sense, this is indeed the first achievement!

Zhao Neng, the general of the Dengzhou Army, was very frank, and when he heard such a high promotion, he didn't feel anything, but was overjoyed, and immediately patted Wang Tao's shoulder. Said with a smile:

"In the future, it's just that our brothers are together, do it well, work hard, haha......"

After a few shots, Wang Tao reacted, hurriedly turned over from the horse, and knelt in front of Li Meng's horse. Knock knock knock continuous kowtow. trembling with excitement, he said loudly:

"Big ...... The handsome man is so graceful. The humble position must be the liver and brain, swear to die for the Jiaozhou camp, and swear to die for the handsome!! ”

"Meritorious service should be rewarded, do it well in the future, Jiaozhou Camp will not treat any meritorious person badly."

At this time, Wang Tao was grateful, and he didn't know what to say, but he kowtowed there again and again to thank him, Li Meng smiled and shook his head, so that the promotion of the carp leaping over the dragon gate would indeed be exciting, but in this battle, Li Meng also found a problem, there is no gap in command ability and tactical thinking between the generals of the various armies and the generals below, especially compared with the generals of the thousands of generals from Li Meng's personal barracks.

In a sense, these pro-soldier battalions may be even better, because the mainland generals of the Jiaozhou battalion system, except for Ma Gang, are almost all generals taught and led by Li Meng, and the pro-soldiers who have undergone more systematic training and absorbed more combat experience by Li Meng's side may actually be better in controlling the battle situation and commanding.

However, this idea is just a turn in my heart, after all, the commander of the army is not someone who has the ability to do it, this is a group with a stakes, and there are many things to consider.

"In the future, you will also be the deputy general of the first army, you don't have to be so polite, we have the rules in the army, there are not so many mothers-in-law, hurry up and get on the horse!"

Li Meng calmed Wang Tao's excited emotions, turned his head and said to Tang Er, the commander of the Ma Army beside him, this time there was no smile, his voice was very flat, and he said:

"You have made such a flower today, your horse army has made a lot of contributions in this battle, but because of this matter, this commander will not reward you, you will lead your horse soldiers for me now, go and sort out the horses and harness that can still be used on the battlefield, and every Tartar soldier, person, all the valuable and usable weapons and harnesses that can be used immediately will be sorted out for me."

With such a big battlefield, it will take a lot of effort to clean it up, Tang Er's face was bitter at that time, their troops directly under the marshal have too much time in front of Li Meng on weekdays, and they act a little casually, and they were just about to plead, but they heard Li Meng continue:

"These horses and harnesses, if they can be used as war horses, they will all be used to supplement the horse army!"

Tang Er suddenly grew his mouth, his face was full of surprise, and when the battle was about to end, Tang Er began to send cavalry to greet everywhere, killing people and leaving horses.

How many horses did this Tartar army bring into the pass, even if it was a war killing, at least there would be more than 3,000 horses left, plus these horses and horses were complete, and even the corresponding weapons were complete, all of them belonged to the horse army, which is equivalent to saying that the horse army has always been limited in size because of horses. After this battle, the size can be doubled, and the current commander of the army and the commander of the horse team are both at the rank of commander.

But if it was doubled like this, Tang Er pondered why he would have to be promoted to a guerrilla or a general, and he thought that he had offended the big handsome by slapping his horse's fart on the horse's leg, but he didn't expect to reap such a big benefit in the end.

"The whole Dengzhou army and the old battalion will follow the order of participating in the battle from front to back, and they will also clean up the battlefield, and they will clean up the battlefield this time. Participating battalions can get two percent, and there is pro-soldier supervision! ”

Li Meng's orders were issued one after another, this was actually a reward, these Tartar soldiers entered the customs and plundered, and they gained a lot, and the horses, weapons, and armor were also somewhat beneficial to ordinary soldiers.

Of course, this is not to allow soldiers to plunder the spoils of war privately, but to divide the territory of their subordinates. After looting and cleaning the battlefield, they will be distributed uniformly according to the regulations.

"Ladies and gentlemen, there is still a lot to be done after the battle. Hurry up and go to your own soldiers and horses to keep an eye on, efficient and fast first! ”

Li Meng opened his mouth to urge, and waved his hand after speaking, and the generals of each battalion bowed down immediately to receive the order. They all turned their horses to get busy, and the battlefield, which had just quieted down, soon became noisy again.

In the distribution of the spoils of war, the only one who felt dissatisfied was Guo Liang, the commander of the Jiaozhou battalion artillery team, and when he was discussing here, Guo Liang heard that there was a Tatar general artillery placed there about twenty miles away from the battlefield. Guo Liang's heart turned quickly, thinking that no matter how the other loot was distributed.

But this artillery must be the stuff of your own artillery team, tsk, your own artillery team will increase greatly because of this strength, which is a great thing.

Guo Liang was almost sure of the battle situation, and when the spearmen began to squeeze inward, he and Li Mengyu reported and took a small team of soldiers. Rode towards the artillery positions of the Tartars. I was full of joy and thought that I would make a lot of money this time.

to the twenty cannons. Guo Liang immediately crooked his nose in anger, he didn't know that the cannon holes were blocked by the Dengzhou army at that time, but simply looking at these twenty cannons, such a thick cannon body, and a large caliber that is not so coarse compared to the cannon body, such artillery is not suitable for the Jiaozhou battalion at all.

Even the city artillery garrison of the fortress would not use such artillery, it was extremely heavy, and the firepower was limited, so it was really useless for the artillery team.

Even if you take it back, I'm afraid that this cannon will only be broken and melted by the Weapons Manufacturing Bureau, and then used for other purposes after being turned into molten iron, it is estimated that it will be used to create the most lacking firecracker at present, but don't think about it if you want to cast a cannon.

"This dog's Tartar deserves to be killed with a thousand knives and cut by ten thousand knives!"

Guo Liang, who was extremely angry, really couldn't help it, and angrily kicked the cannon body with his foot, and then took it with too much force, and his ankle immediately hurt terribly, in this battle, one of the senior officers of the Jiaozhou battalion was injured, and it was the ankle injury of Guo Liang, the commander of the artillery team......

After the battle, there were many interesting things, among which the proximity of Hajian Province to the area of Shandong, that is, Dongguang and Nam Pi counties, was often mentioned a hundred years later for the delicious variety of horse meat dishes and the sophistication of various horse leather products.

The horse meat between the river and the donkey meat of Baoding have become the two major specialties of Beizhili, and few people think that the cause of this specialty is because in the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, a large number of dead horses suddenly appeared in this generation, because in the cold winter, the horse meat is not easy to perish, and the Jiaozhou camp is too lazy to deal with it, so it is simply at the expense of these horse meat, so that they can clean up the cleaned ground and leave a layer of armor-piercing tartar corpses.

These tattered cotton clothes and cloth armor and other things that the Jiaozhou camp can't look down on are great things for the poor people of Hejian Province, and through this method, they quickly recruited a large number of poor people who were busy eating at home in the winter and were about to run out of rice.

The next year, the battlefield, which could easily have caused a great plague, was quickly cleared, and the Tartar soldiers were buried in the earth, which, according to the old peasant, would be fertile in a few years......

In addition, because a large amount of salt was needed to deal with those horse meats, the Lingshan Commercial Bank trafficked a large amount of illicit salt and sold it to the local people on credit.

Li Meng walked on the battlefield on his leisurely horse, looked at the busy soldiers below, and said in a deep voice to Yuan Wenhong beside him:

"This battle is over, Mr. Yuan, send someone to Shandong to report the victory, where the soldiers and horses of my Jiaozhou battalion are located, we must know the victory of our army!"

The Tartars entered the Kou, the world shook, Shandong won a great victory, and the world was silent.