Chapter 171: Ningxia Campaign 4
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"Tsk, this is the 30,000 reinforcements of the rebels. Ma Shun? The first knife in Ningxia? It turned out to be a personal scumbag too."
Sneering at Ma Shun, who knelt down in front of him, unkempt and kept kowtowing and begging for mercy, Li Rusong pursed his lips and squinted at Ma Gui who was full of embarrassment next to him and said:
"The reinforcements of this rebel army have been almost packed by Li, I don't know when the 30,000 cloth bags I want will be filled with soil? General Ma! ”
Ma Gui on the side didn't speak for the first time this time, staring at Ma Shun in front of him with dead eyes, his face full of surprise and incredulity:
You must know that when Lu Dao attacked Ningxia City before, Ma Gui didn't think about killing the reinforcements of this rebel army, and knew his worries so that the soldiers under his command could attack the city wholeheartedly. But Ma Shun is extremely cunning, and every time he can detect that something is wrong in advance, he can escape early with his troops, or simply leave a small number of infantry as bait and escape with the main force himself.
Ma Gui mobilized more than 8,000 cavalry and tens of thousands of infantry before and after, launched six attacks, and only killed less than 5,000 rebel reinforcements. And every time he was exhausted, and even several times he was almost counterattacked by rebel reinforcements.
I suffered and suffered like this, and after tossing for a long time, I still fought for a long time without success. The result? As soon as Li Rusong came, he sent his descendant unit Liaodong Iron Cavalry last night to directly attack the rebel reinforcements at night, and the heads of thousands of bloody rebel reinforcements early this morning, as well as the main generals of seven or eight rebel reinforcements. It has appeared at the gate of the Ming army camp under the escort of the Liaodong Iron Cavalry.
"The last general has no eyes before, he doesn't know the general's might, if there is any offense, please ask General Li to bear with me, and the last general is willing to follow the general to the death!" After a short stunned moment, Ma Gui suddenly knelt on the ground and said with his fists clenched.
"What's that? Are you going to take refuge in me? Li Rusong, who was sitting on the main seat calmly, was stunned when he heard this, and said dumbfounded.
This Ma Gui is also the chief soldier of Shanxi, and he is an official at the same level as himself, although his secret strength is not half a star stronger than Ma Gui. I did think about wooing Ma Gui. After all, the latter is not as good as itself in some aspects. But he is also a veteran of the one-yuan battlefield, with rich combat experience, in case he dies Wanli in the future, Ma Gui will inevitably have a fierce battle when he comes out to intervene.
So at the beginning, Li Rusong deliberately wanted to win over Ma Gui. Meetings are deliberately abusive. After that, Ma Gui unexpectedly saw the huge results of the Liaodong Iron Cavalry. Convince it orally. After that, kill the worship in the city, and by the way, give Ma Gui some benefits or something, and slowly corrupt step by step.
But Li Rusong never thought of it. Ma Gui actually gave face like this, just seeing the results of the battle, he didn't hesitate to bow his head and worship, could it be that this guy has intentions for his brother?
With a lot of messy thoughts in his head, Li Rusong helplessly kicked Ma Shun, who was stupid next to him and watched the excitement, and walked to Ma Gui to help him up with his own hands:
"General Ma, this is absolutely unacceptable, you are Rusong's elder, how can Rusong accept such a great gift from you. You get up first, and then you have something to say."
"Little fox, you scolded me like your grandson before. Now that you think about respecting your elders? He secretly scolded Li Rusong in his stomach, but Ma Gui did not show the slightest expression on his face.
Ma Gui rubbed his hands, stood up according to Li Rusong's meaning, and said with a smile on his face:
The last general also admired the talent of General Li's father and son. I hope to be able to join the door, and I hope that the major general will take care of one or two in the future. Then the general will be grateful."
To put it bluntly, although Ma Gui is a veteran oilman, he is clear about things in the officialdom, and he is even more proficient in speculative drilling. But he didn't have the flexible mind of Li Rusong, and he didn't have strong support in the court, at most, he just worshiped a few members of the court, occasionally gave some gifts, and barely kept his power.
Moreover, Li Rusong joined forces with Jin Shang, had strong financial resources and enough money to raise soldiers, and almost didn't care about the military salary given by the imperial court. Ma Gui didn't have this ability, and the thousands of private troops under his command were still the money he had to get out of his own pocket by all means.
Therefore, Ma Gui hopes to merge with the Liaodong Army, no matter how to keep the private army under his command, he can ensure that he has a fighting army. In that case, even if the imperial court wants to remove itself from his post and investigate, for the sake of these private soldiers and Li Rusong's care, his ending will not be as miserable as Qi Jiguang, who died of illness at home.
The two hit it off immediately, Li Rusong would help Ma Gui raise salaries and land for training and support 10,000 private troops, and Ma Gui personally wrote a letter of submission, which was regarded as being invested in Li Rusong's command. In the future, if Li Rusong has any orders, Ma Gui will definitely do his best to help, otherwise he only needs to send this letter of nomination to the imperial court, and Ma Gui will definitely move his head.
"Whew, I didn't expect it! Wanli cleaned up the Jiangling Party, and actually made such a big hidden danger, hehe Qi Dashuai and Ma Gui have already held it in their hands. The rest of the people are about the same, En's fishing is about the same, and they should be killed" After sending Ma Gui away, Li Rusong touched his chin and said to himself with a smile.
"Monk King, how is the young man I asked you to mobilize?" After a long while, Li Rusong turned his head and asked the monk Lingqin, who had been standing silently on the side.
"Brother, don't worry, I have asked Mei Guozhen to help mobilize more than 10,000 people, and you can do it at any time," Hearing this, the monk Greenqin stepped forward and said with a smile.
"Speaking of brother, is this Ma Gui reliable? No matter how I look at it, I feel that this guy just wants our Liaodong Army to help him pay for the soldiers. Will you be tricked? After speaking, Seng Lingqin asked with a little doubt, there are no outsiders here, and he can also speak freely.
"Hehe, don't worry, Ma Gui will have to become a member of our Liaodong Army in two years at most, otherwise? Hehe" Li Rusong didn't think it was angry at all, pulled Monk Lingqin to sit down, poured him a cup of tea and said.
Wanli's previous sweep of Zhang Juzheng's henchmen is too obvious, you must know that when Zhang Juzheng was alive, which of the entire Ming civil and military officials did not take refuge? Wanli tossed like this, although it only eliminated a small number of core members of the Jiangling Party. But the rest of the people who had dealings with Zhang Juzheng before felt an indescribable crisis, and this feeling of self-danger constantly tormented their hearts, making these people gradually begin to have some other ideas!
"Tonight, I ordered all the young men to act overnight and bring me water to irrigate Ningxia City. Dog mongrel, I'm going to drown you alive! After speaking, Li Rusong said to Monk Greenqin again, the strong attack will definitely not be defeated, only to play some new methods, and find some trouble for Bibai first.
Last night, Li Rusong took advantage of the cover of night to take a good walk around Ningxia City, and after careful observation, he found that the rebel city's city was too strong, and if he attacked hard like Magui, not to mention the heavy losses of the troops, he might not be able to defeat it.
But last night Li Rusong also found a very interesting thing, the location of Ningxia City is very low, and there is a river nearby, what is the use of drowning this group of bastards without water?
The General Military Office of Ningxia Town is located in Yinchuan City, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, and the side wall starts from the big salt pond in the east and reaches Lanjing in the west. The big salt pond is in the east of Yanchi County, Ningxia, from which to the northwest, through the north of Lingwu today, down the river to Taole County, and then to the west, through the north of Pingluo County and west to Helan Mountain, and from Helan Mountain to the south, through the west of Zhongwei County and to the south bank of the Yellow River in the southwest of the county, two thousand miles long. From the current section from Lingwu to Taole, by virtue of the natural danger of the Yellow River, no wall was built, and in the north of Pingluo, two side walls were built side by side, blocking the area between the Yellow River and Helan Mountain. In the various passes leading to the Yinchuan Plain in Helan Mountain, there are also two to four side walls in the north-south direction.
Here, Li Rusong took advantage of the dawn to continuously issue combat orders, and the Ming army moved the camp to a safe high ground, and at the same time, Magui also began to hurry up and equip the cloth bag. The entire camp of the Ming army was busy, making the rebels in the city tremble and not know what the other party was planning.
At the same time, Ma Shun and other rebel generals who were captured alive were also dragged to the city in prison carts to display back and forth, further damaging the morale of the rebels. Behind him, the three thousand Liaodong iron cavalry were waiting for the rebels to come out of the city to save people, and then they defeated the rebels and entered the city in one fell swoop.
"Hehe, do you want to die? Or do you want to die? (To be continued......)