Chapter 51: Li Chenggui's thoughts

It's not that the Ming soldiers are loyal to the imperial court and would rather die than give in. After all, there are naturally such people. But there are so many Ming soldiers, there are always a few soft bones, this is a matter of probability.

Just put it here, it's different.

First of all, most of the Ming army is in the front team, and there are only the wounded in the rear team, and the wounded also understand that their injuries will be actively treated in the Ming Dynasty, and whether they can be rescued or not is still two words. On the side of Goryeo, not to mention whether Goryeo would treat the prisoners, in wartime, even the medical resources of the Ming army were scarce. How is it possible to use it for captives? Secondly, Is there any healing technique in Goryeo that can cure it?

So when it comes to this situation, it's better to die.

As long as he is dead, the family will have a pension and mourning. But once they surrendered, the families were seated.

Secondly, almost all of the people and horses led by Ye Shen were selected by Ye Wang, elite veterans, and they were well treated. is different from ordinary soldiers, and the loyalty to Daming, or the loyalty to the Ye family's father and son, is also different.

That's where we are now.

Li Fangguo saw that Li Chenggui's face was not good, and said, "Father." Victory and defeat are a common thing in soldiers, and there is not much harvest today, so it is a victory, why bother? ”

Li Chenggui said: "Victory? A real victory? Come and see. Li Chenggui pulled out a Ming army-style long knife. I saw that there were some blue knife edges on it, and I didn't need to look at it, but I felt that it was a very sharp pattern. Li Chenggui slashed at a small tree with a knife, and the small tree with a large bowl mouth was cut off with a knife.

Of course, this is Li Chenggui's strong martial arts and a veteran with a knife. No matter how sharp a knife is for an ordinary novice, it is very likely that it will get stuck in the tree with one knife. Li Chenggui said: "How about this knife? ”

Li Fangguo said: "Good knife, compared with those swords hidden at home, not much, congratulations to my father, I got another treasure knife." ”

Li Chenggui's face became more and more ugly, and he said: "Treasure knife, nearly a thousand mouths were captured this time, which the Ming people used to arm the Jurchens. ”

Li Fangguo's face changed, and at this moment he finally understood why Li Chenggui had won the battle, and his face was still so ugly.

Li Chenggui didn't plan to let it go, and propped up a pair of iron armor with a shelf, and let Li Fangguo use a knife to cut it, Li Fangguo is Li Chenggui's son, and his martial arts are not very good. But he is not from the door, he has some attainments, he slashed several knives in a row, slashed on the iron armor, even if he tried his best, it was only a few gaps, it seemed that if he polished it, these traces could disappear.

Li Chenggui didn't wait for Li Fangguo to speak, so he said; "More than a hundred sets of such armor were seized."

Immediately, Li Chenggui threw steel-crossbows, spears, chain mail, and other weapons on the ground, and did not explain in detail, but the sound of the collision of gold and iron on the ground of each weapon made Li Fangguo's heart tremble.

A wordless fear welled up in my heart.

Li Chenggui lowered his head, his armor covered his eyes, his lips moved slightly, and said, "Is this the Celestial Empire?" ”

The average person can't see anything from these changes.

But Li Chenggui is not an ordinary person.

Even if he is not the ancestor of the founding of the dynasty, but the first general of Goryeo, this title is still carried for the time being.

He transferred troops this time, but did not transfer all the men and horses of his headquarters, under the pretext that the Ming army would threaten the northwest border, most of the army was left in the northwest, about 30,000 people, all of them were fully formed, and the combat effectiveness was also the strongest in Goryeo.

Of course, the current Li Chenggui is not the Li Chenggui of a few years later, and the prestige of Li Chenggui in a few years is higher, but it is also the hijacking of the military power of the Goryeo front line and presiding over the return of the army on Weihua Island that he controls the power of Goryeo.

This time, there were more than 1,000 people in the Ming army, all of whom were wearing armor, and in his opinion, it was the kind of armor that could be called treasure armor, and it was even more generous to give so many good weapons to the Jurchens and slaves. If Li Chenggui hadn't presided over the smelting of weapons, he didn't know how difficult it was.

It was precisely because he knew that he didn't understand, where did Da Ming get so much armor?

Is it that all the Liaodong weapons are concentrated on Ye Shen?

Lee Sung-gye wanted to support the idea, but he couldn't lie to himself. From many details, he can see that the degree of care for these armors by the Ming soldiers cannot rise to the treasure armor, and it can be said that although they cherish it, the degree is limited.

At the beginning, when these armors entered the army, the soldiers took care of these armors as if they loved their eyeballs, and finally almost everyone had armor, and those who did not have armor were not in the warehouse, but this person did not need to use them. You can't let the firehead soldiers not take the blame and go to the armor.

For some auxiliary units that do not directly go into battle to fight, there is indeed no need to wear armor.

At this time, the soldiers' love for the armor is just that. After all, scarcity is expensive. Of course, there are still a group of people who cherish life, but there are also a small number of them.

In this case, Li Chenggui can see the clues from the captured Ming army armor. In addition, the Ming army was so generous to the Jurchens.

Li Chenggui had to admit that there was one thing that he didn't want to admit, that is, this armor was the Ming standard equipment, and there were many of them in the army. He didn't know how much, but in his mind, the entire Ming Dynasty would be equipped with hundreds of thousands of pairs.

Hundreds of thousands of pairs are already a shocking number he can imagine.

That's a soldier.

You must know that a lot of boasting with a million is bragging, most of the time it is bragging.

It's just that Li Chenggui didn't know that he was an order of magnitude less. In the past four or five years, Daming has produced five or six million pairs of armor. A pair of only 20 catties of steel is nothing to the current Daming. Nowadays, there is hardly much production of armor. Because most of the guards in the Ming Dynasty have enough armor and stocks.

Of course, there is not much inventory, and the imperial court will not let the people below have so much inventory.

It's just that it will take time for armor to become widespread. From the Beijing camp to the border army, from the border army to the inland guards. In addition, at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the law was strict, and no one dared to resell, or those who dared to resell, are now opening up the joints. Wait a few years before you can resell the armor.

Therefore, many places do not believe it when they hear about it.

Some truths are too fake, but they have poor circulation.

So Li Chenggui has not heard rumors about this. It's just that the facts in front of him have already pressed him out of breath.

He was the minister who was most opposed to war with the Ming Dynasty.

The reason is simple, you can't beat it. Lee Sung-gyeong's title as the No. 1 general in Goryeo was obtained by defeating Nahachu. First of all, Naha's military command ability is not too much to say. Anyway, there are no wonderful examples, more rely on the Mu Huali family.

Secondly, at that time, Dayuan was in turmoil, and Naha probably didn't have the heart to fight Goryeo.

But in any case, defeating the Mongols is Li Chenggui's greatest achievement. Therefore, the whole of Goryeo hoped that Lee Sung-gye could regain his glory. But Li Chenggui knows very well that Goryeo can't beat the Ming Dynasty. But what he wanted to fight was not that the Goryeo army couldn't defeat the Ming army.

As a proud general, he didn't feel that his army was much worse than the Ming army.

What he thinks will fail. That's because of the size gap between Goryeo and Daming. Goryeo is only a little larger than the Ming province, Goryeo and the Ming war, can win once, twice, fight the third time, the fourth time, will definitely lose. Immortals can't save it.

This is caused by the disparity in national strength.

But the reality of the situation gave Li Chenggui a hard blow.

Looking at the current situation, just more than 1,000 cavalry of the Ming army can disturb half of Goryeo. Not to mention, Da Ming's armament has reached a point where he can't imagine. In his opinion, it is estimated that the only one who can defeat the Ming army is the heavenly soldiers and generals.

And the king of Goryeo is still dreaming of defeating the Ming army.

How could Li Chenggui not be disappointed and sad.

Immediately, from the depths of his heart, a sense of resentment arose.

Although it is said that Lee Sung-gye's parents are not Koreans. As mentioned above, Li Chenggui's father was originally a Mongolian twin city guard and returned to Goryeo. But Lee Sung-gye grew up in Goryeo and said that he had no feelings for Goryeo at all, which is false.

It's just that at this time, if the king of Goryeo does not change the situation, the current situation will be defeated. No matter what he does, all he can save is an early defeat or a late defeat.

What's the point?

Li Chenggui suddenly remembered his father's Li Zichun's feelings, and asked himself secretly: "Is it time to make a new choice?" ”

Li Chenggui didn't know the answer.

No one could answer him.