As soon as this sudden π voice sounded, the people around looked over one after another, and it turned out to be Li Guo.

Li Guo saw that everyone's eyes were staring at him tightly, his face turned red, and he gritted his teeth and said: "I have no opinion that King Chuang wants to develop in Henan, but if he wants to go to Shandong, then he will have to think twice." ”

"Why?" Li Zicheng looked at Li Guo curiously, and asked curiously: "Is there a tiger in Shandong, can't we touch it?" ”

"Hahaha...... Even if there is a tiger in Shandong, then we are Wu Song who fights tigers. Liu Zongmin's rough laughter rang out, "By the way, Master Gao, I remember that last time you and Li Guo didn't go to Qingzhou on the order of King Chuang?" It seems that he has suffered a loss, is there such a thing? ”

Liu Zongmin is not opening which pot to mention, mentioning the matter of Qingzhou's incident, Li Guo and Gao Yigong's faces suddenly became difficult to see, speaking of that incident, the two of them have always regarded it as a great shame, especially Gao Yigong, always thinking of leading troops back to Qingzhou to avenge that arrow.

Now that he was stabbed out by Liu Zongmin at first glance, his face naturally couldn't look good.

Gao Yigong stood up and said to Liu Zongmin with a blushing face: "Mr. Liu, brother, I was in Qingzhou last time, but you don't have to use this matter to poke your brother's heart."

Everyone on the side looked stupid, no one expected Gao Yigong's reaction to be so strong, Mrs. Gao hurriedly stood up and said: "Yigong, what kind of anger are you making, Mr. Liu didn't mean it, everyone has been old brothers for many years, he definitely didn't mean to laugh at you about this matter, you said no, Jiexuan!" Mrs. Gao gave Liu Zongmin a look as she spoke.

Gao Yigong is the younger brother of Li Zicheng's wife Gao Jiaoying, whose real name is Gao Guoxun, and he has a meritorious name, but because of the ferocity of the war, he often makes meritorious contributions, so he is called Gao Yigong in the army, and his real name is rarely called. His prestige among the rogues is still quite high, although it is not as good as Liu Zongmin, but it can be regarded as a very important role.

Seeing Gao Fu's color, Liu Zongmin understood, and quickly stood up and hugged his fists to Gao Yigong and Li Guo: "Master Gao, Master Li, I lost my words when it is a brother, you have a lot, don't take it to heart, brother will compensate you." ”

Seeing Liu Zongmin stand up to make amends for himself, Gao Yigong's face was a little better, and he sat down again and said angrily: "Actually, what Li Guo said just now still has some truth, when Chongzhen was eight years old, Li Guo and I went to Qingzhou on the order of King Chuang, but we were defeated in the hands of a thousand households. Shicai Li Guo said that it is best not to develop in Shandong for the time being, I agree, after all, we are now suffering a lot of losses, and now if you want to rely on our thousands of old camp brothers to break into Shandong, it is undoubtedly to send death. ”

Li Zicheng asked suspiciously: "Yigong, is it true that Shandong is the tiger's den of Longtan, aren't you just defeated once, why are you afraid of becoming like this?" ”

Gao Yigong shook his head and said: "King Chuang, since the last time Li Guo and I walked in Qingzhou, we have been paying attention to the situation in Shandong from time to time, do you know what the name of the Qianhu who defeated me and Li Guo last time was and what position he held first?" ”

"I don't know!" Li Zicheng and the others shook their heads suspiciously, I have to say that the intelligence system of the Liukou is indeed not very good, if it is not something important to them, they are generally indifferent.

Gao Yigong glanced at Li Guo, and Li Guocai sighed and said: "The Qianhu named Pang Gang, who defeated me and Gao Ye in Qingzhou last time, is now the official residence of the right governor of Nanjing, the general soldier of Shandong, and the general of Dingguo, so to speak, now Shandong is already his world, this person is different from the general officials of the imperial court, he is quite powerful, if you run into him in the future, you must be careful." ”

"Humph!" Hearing this, Liu Zongmin snorted lightly and said with a big grin: "What is there to be afraid of, no matter how powerful this Pang Gang is, is it even more powerful than Sun Chuanting and Hong Chengchou?" Later, when I arrived in Shandong, I saw that I didn't pinch out his bezoar dog treasure and drink it. ”

In this branch led by Li Zicheng, Liu Zongmin's prestige and status in the army were above the generals, and he often held important jobs like commander-in-chief. At that time, there was no term "commander-in-chief", so people used to call him "Chief Whistle Liu Ye", and the word "whistle" also meant team at that time.

Li Zicheng looked at the arrogant Liu Zongmin, and couldn't help but smile, he just admired Liu Zongmin's attitude of not caring about anything.

"Yes!" Li Zicheng is very supportive of Liu Zongmin's idea: "What Jie Xuan said makes sense, I wonder if Pang Gang is more powerful than Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting?" After the officers and soldiers withdraw, we will immediately march to Henan, as long as we can occupy half of the territory of Henan, we can make up hundreds of thousands of troops, then we will not only capture Luoyang, but also march to Shandong, capture Jinan and Qingzhou, I want to let the imperial court see, we are the thieves in their eyes can not be killed! ”

"That's right! We also want those dog officials to see how good we are. After listening to Li Zicheng's words, everyone shouted one after another, and the atmosphere was very warm......

Just when Li Zicheng and others were preparing to jump out of the encirclement of the imperial court, Pang Gang and his party also returned to Qingzhou.

The first thing Pang Gang did after returning to Qingzhou was to move the remains of the fallen soldiers into the Martyrs' Shrine, and ordered Huayan to send the bereavement pensions of the fallen soldiers to their families as soon as possible.

"My lord, this time our army has a total of 2,973 dead soldiers, and we need to allocate 2,330,000 soldiers and 478 taels of silver for bereavement silver, and 367 soldiers who cannot continue to stay in the army due to injuries, and these soldiers also need to allocate 235,672 taels of silver, and this expedition cost a total of 2......,330,672 taels of silver."

Hua Yan stood in front of Pang Gang and read them one by one, this string of numbers on his face made Pang Gang have a headache, Pang Gang stretched out his hand to interrupt Hua Yan's words, "Okay, Hua Experience, I already know, you can calculate the loss and silver spent on this expedition, and give me a total number." ”

"Yes, sir!" Hua Yan said very simply: "This expedition cost a total of two hundred and seventy-eight thousand six hundred and seventy taels of silver. ”

"Damn!" Pang Gang couldn't help but burst into a foul mouth, what kind of war is this, this is simply throwing silver.

Pang Gang couldn't help asking: "Hua experience, how could he spend so much money?" Isn't the pension only more than 300,000 taels? ”

Hua Yan smiled bitterly: "My lord, do you think that those ammunition don't need money, and the soldiers who go out don't need rewards?" Do you know how much silver it costs to spend those flowering bombs alone, tell you that the cost of those flowering bombs is five taels of silver each, five taels of silver! And that's not even counting the ammunition for those rifles and the cost of all sorts of baggage. ”

"So expensive!" Pang Gang was stunned, originally when he cashed out the flowering bullets from the "Encyclopedia of Modern Weapons", it was because cashing out these flowering bullets always cost him a small amount of tungsten ore, so he ordered Lingshanwei's weapons workshop to start trying to make them, but he didn't expect the cost of making flowering bullets to be so high, it seems that the later generations said that the cannon sounded gold ten thousand taels is really reasonable! As soon as he remembered the situation when he used the flower bullet like flowing water when he fought the Qing soldiers all the way, Pang Gang felt sweat begin to ooze from his forehead.

"Damn, we must reduce the production cost of flowering bombs."

Pang Gang secretly made up his mind in his heart, he knew very well that as long as the large-scale manufacturing of anything began, as the proficiency of the production process of the military merit workshop increased, the cost would naturally come down.

"Your Excellency, Your Excellency!"

Looking at Pang Gang, who was a little dazed, Hua Yan couldn't help but persuade: "My lord, although our expenses are a little bigger, it is still worth it compared to the harvest." ”

"By the way, we got a lot of good things back in Liaodong." Speaking of the harvest, Pang Gang couldn't help but be interested.

Hua Yan said with a smile: "My lord, I have to say that you have brought back a lot of good things in Liaodong this time, such as the more than 4,000 war horses you got back, which are hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, as well as those cattle, sheep and gold and silver utensils are also worth a lot of silver, and the sum of seventy-seven eighty-eight is more than 600,000 taels of silver." ”

"That's good, that's good!" Pang Gang, who was taken aback by the amount reported by Hua Yan, breathed a sigh of relief, he didn't expect to go out for a turn this time, and he spent so much silver, no wonder Chongzhen cried everywhere to be poor, and his feelings were all caused by wars.

However, speaking of which, this battle is the largest battle fought by Pang Gang since he came to this era, and it is unprecedented in terms of both number and scale.

From Jinan to the capital, and then to Baoding, the distance has been to Liaodong, although it has only been three months, but the three months spent on both manpower and material resources are huge, this is only a battle of more than 20,000 people, Pang Gang dare not imagine, if he launches a battle of hundreds of thousands of people in the future, I really don't know how much silver it will cost.

Thinking of the silver, Pang Gang suddenly thought of something, and he asked: "Hua experience, after the official went on the expedition, did that Dutchman Puttersmann come?" ”

"My lord, that Putsman has been here, just a month after you set out on the expedition, he came to Qingzhou with more than ten ships, and they also brought some books and native products from the South Seas to Qingzhou to sell, but compared to the things they bought in Qingzhou, it was insignificant, and our porcelain, tea and other things filled their ships."

Speaking of this, Hua Yan's lips couldn't help but turn up, looking very disdainful.

"Hehe......" Pang Gang also smiled, and was about to say something, when Shi Bowen's voice came from outside.

"My lord, those Holland are here again, and I heard that you have come back from the expedition, and they are going to visit you......"

(To be continued)