After learning that Li Xianzhong returned to the "old pass" in time and repelled Jianyu, Xiong Tingbi and Yuan Yingtai were very excited.

Because this "great victory in Kaiyuan" was completed under their personal command.

It can be said that their "debut" after taking office is very amazing, which will leave a strong mark on their political resumes.

In particular, the white pole soldiers regained the Kuandian Fort that was lost from Yang Hao, and this kind of great achievement in recovering the lost territory was even easier for him to be promoted than the capture of the heavy soldiers.

Yan Mingtai, the Liaodong Supervisor, led his troops to defend the South Pass for two days and nights, which made him sit on his reputation as a "good guard".

According to post-war statistics, a total of 11,000 soldiers and 10,000 auxiliary soldiers were annihilated this time.

However, in the end, the first level that can be taken out is only 3700 levels, Guangshun Pass 3000 levels, and Zhenbei Pass (Old Pass) 700 levels.

Of course, there is also Li Xianzhong who led his troops to sweep Horqin and behead the Mongols at level 3,500.

But Li Xianzhong was not happy, because his family was emptied.

Before the war, he had 9,500 defenders of Kaiyuan Road, 2,500 Liaodong Iron Cavalry, 2,500 assault battalions, and 4,500 defenders of Tieling Road, a total of 19,000 people.

Coupled with the 1,000 people of the Ping Yuwei, it is a real 20,000 soldiers and horses.

Now there are only 1,500 people left in the entire Kaiyuan Road, 2,500 people on Tieling Road, 1,000 people in the assault battalion, and 2,300 people in the Liaodong Iron Cavalry.

A full 11,300 people were killed.

Even the Pingyuwei lost 500 casualties, and the overall battle damage was almost as high as 6%.

There are also two generals, Gao Zhen, a general of Guangshun Pass, and Liu Dayu, a guerrilla at Zhenbei Pass, who were killed.

Such a big loss, not to mention the 120,000 taels of silver swept from Horqin, even if he put Nurhachi's head in front of him, he couldn't be happy.

And he also killed a thousand Mongolian cavalry under Zai Sai, and owed a great favor, so he had to not want the cattle and sheep that he had said before, which was another big loss.

This time it was raided by the Tartars, and the loss of the war horses was not small, but fortunately, there were 3,000 good horses from Horqin to replenish it.

On the whole, this attack is a big loss.

For the sake of Daming, he almost put his net worth and his life into it, Xiong Tingbi and Yuan Yingtai have to express themselves, right?

Li Xianzhong said almost with a crying voice: "Now that the original road has been almost destroyed, the last general can't even get together the people guarding the pass, and he also asked Xiong Jingluo and Governor Yuan to quickly transfer troops, horses and ordnance." ”

The losses of the personnel and ordnance of the original road this time were huge, and they also saw it with their own eyes, so it was natural to replenish it.

Xiong Tingbi said: "I don't know how many people Mr. Li wants to make?" ”

Li Xianzhong said: "The two railways originally had a total of 19,000 troops, but now the shortage is as high as 11,700. Xiong Jingluo is also requested to fill the vacancy for the last general as soon as possible. ”

Li Xianzhong has a little difficulty in making up for so many people, and now there are not many troops from all walks of life in Liaodong.

In particular, the southern road has just recovered Kuandian Fort, and it also needs to increase the number of troops to defend.

Xiong Tingbi said: "For the time being, I can only replenish 3,000 men and horses for you from other places, and as for the rest of the soldiers and horses, you will either wait for reinforcements from the follow-up court, or you can only recruit troops yourself." ”

In the Ming Dynasty, as long as there was the approval of the governor, the guard could recruit troops by itself. Kaiyuan and Tieling were originally also in the nature of guards, but Kaiyuan has now risen to the level of Lucheng.

Li Xianzhong thought about it for a while, and it was also beneficial to recruit by himself, on the one hand, he could control the quality of soldiers.

On the other hand, private soldiers such as the former Pingyuwei can be directly recruited into the official army.

Li Xianzhong said: "Now the situation is very tense, in addition to the Jianyu is ready to move, the Horqin Mongols have colluded with them, and the grassland is not peaceful. I urgently need to replenish my troops and horses, and I can't afford to wait for reinforcements from the imperial court, so it seems that I can only recruit myself. ”

"However, the general still has a few requirements, and I hope Xiong Jingluo can agree."

Xiong Tingbi understood the importance of Kaiyuan's defense, so he said: "As long as it is a reasonable request, this scripture will try to satisfy you as much as possible!" ”

Li Xianzhong said: "First, the 3,000 soldiers transferred to me from other departments must be cavalry, and it is best to have cavalry combat experience. ”

This is also something that cannot be helped, if a recruit wants to start training from horseback riding, it will not be able to form combat strength in a year or two.

Infantry he can use firearms to speed up, but cavalry can't speed up, although Zha Zhongwen has rich experience in cavalry training, but the Liaodong Iron Cavalry has always been selected from the elite of each battalion.

Xiong Tingbi thought for a moment and said, "I will try my best to replenish the cavalry of each battalion, no matter how bad it is, I can ride a horse skillfully." ”

Li Xianzhong was overjoyed and said: "The last general, thank you Xiong Jingluo!" ”

"Second, the existing strength is somewhat stretched, and I hope that the number of defenders on the two railways will be increased to 20,000 by another 1,000. In addition, there may not be so many good sources of troops on the Kaiyuan and Tieling roads, and I hope to increase the scope of recruitment to Shenyang Road and Qinghe Road. ”

"Especially in Qinghe Road, many people have been displaced, and I recruit new soldiers on Qinghe Road, and their families can be arranged together near Pingyubao, which can also reduce the number of displaced people and reduce the pressure on the imperial court."

Now that the manpower of each Pingyu Fort is a little insufficient, and the major workshops need to expand production, he just took advantage of this pretext of recruiting troops to bring a group of displaced people from Qinghe Road.

Yuan Yingtai, who was on the side, heard that he could help solve the problem of the displaced people, and immediately said: "It is still General Li who thinks thoughtfully, so that I can kill two birds with one stone, and I support the recruitment of troops from Qinghe Road." Moreover, these people do not share the sky with the Tartars, and the people's hearts can be used. ”

According to Xiong Tingbi's assumption, Liaodong should be replenished to at least 130,000 people, and Li Xianzhong's expansion of 1,000 people is not excessive, and he also believes that Li Xianzhong is not for empty salaries.

So he said, "This scripture also promises you!" ”

Then Li Xianzhong said: "In this war, I opened the original road and lost two generals, especially Gao Zhen, the general of Guangshun Guan, who is the right-hand man of the last general, and now I opened the original road and the general withered." The location of Guangshun Pass is too important, and I think the guerrilla Mao Wenlong has the style of a general, and this time he has made a great contribution. Therefore, he asked for Mao Guerrilla to be promoted to the rank of general of Guangshun Pass. ”

Hearing Li Xianzhong's idea of wanting to beat Mao Wenlong, Yuan Yingtai was anxious.

He promoted Mao Wenlong to a guerrilla. Li Xianzhong actually wanted to be promoted to a general, but he couldn't speak out against it.

On the one hand, Xiong Tingbi is the number one in the military, and if it reaches Mao Wenlong's ears, the person who has managed to develop in the army will be gone.

So he simply said shamelessly: "Mao Wenlong has made a lot of contributions to assisting Yan Jianjun to defend Nanguan this time, and this governor is also willing to promote him to be promoted to Guangshun Pass General." ”

Xiong Tingbi was still hesitating, but after thinking about it, Mao Wenlong had indeed been unlucky before, and he stayed in Sanyang, a place where birds don't, for ten years.

This time it can be regarded as saving himself, although it is indeed a bit unruly to be promoted to a general, but it is nothing compared to Li Xianzhong, the chief soldier, so he should pull him by himself.

So he said: "Then transfer Mao Wenlong to Guangshun Pass." ”

Seeing that the goal was achieved, Li Xianzhong said with a smile: "I opened the way in this war, and the armaments are seriously consumed, especially firearms, and I also ask Governor Yuan to allocate them quickly." ”

Yan Mingtai also said on the side: "This time it is indeed a huge consumption, the lead and fire oil of the tiger squat cannon have all been exhausted. Seven or eight hundred guns alone were scrapped. ”

Yuan Yingtai said: "General Li can rest assured, all the materials in the arsenal will be allocated immediately; If it is not enough, it is natural to apply to the arsenal of the Ministry of War. ”

Li Xianzhong thought about you Yuan Yingtai, this is to play sloppy with me, and fool Ben Jiang as a child.

Li Xianzhong said: "When I was in the capital, Your Majesty personally promised that the end would give priority to replenishing the equipment of my Liaodong Iron Cavalry, and after such a long time, the military department must also transfer materials to Liaodong." ”

At this time, Yuan Yingtai was still a little weak-hearted, because in order to win over He Shixian, he had privately given him a lot of materials, including 100 pairs of armor allocated to Li Xianzhong by the Ministry of War.

He said: "Benfu has not yet received the materials specially allocated by the Ministry of War to the Liaodong Iron Cavalry, but General Li can rest assured that Benfu will definitely communicate with the Ministry of War as soon as possible, I don't know what General Li needs?" ”

Li Xianzhong said: "The Liaodong Iron Cavalry naturally needs iron armor, both armor and fish scale armor, at least 500 pairs. ”

"Heavy cloth face armor, a lot of them were seized this time, but many of them were damaged, and a group of craftsmen who could repair them would have been needed."

"The most important thing is firearms, this time Kaiyuan recruits a large number of firearms, this will need 2,000 bird guns, 500 Lumi guns, 500 iron shields. As for the swords, guns, swords, and halberds, I will choose from the seizures by myself. ”

"In addition, a lot of firearms have been worn out this time, but they can still be repaired, and I also need firearms craftsmen here."

Good guy, I just asked casually, this Li Xianzhong is really welcome.

Dare to open your mouth so much?

Yuan Yingtai said: "The cost of opening the original road is huge, and Benfu naturally knows it, but these things can't be said to be the Liaodong arsenal, even if the arsenal of the Ministry of War and the firearms arsenal of the War Bureau can't take out so much?" ”

Of course, Li Xianzhong knew that Yuan Yingtai couldn't take it, and he knew that Yuan Yingtai would most likely detain himself, so he scared and scared him first.

Anyway, "ask for a sky-high price, pay back on the spot"!

So Li Xianzhong said with a bitter face: "Then how many supplies can Governor Yuan support me to open the original road?" ”

Yuan Yingtai pondered for a moment, gritted his teeth and said: "500 bird guns, 50 pairs of armor, and 200 iron shields, now there are only so many!" ”

Li Xianzhong said disappointedly: "There are not as many birds as I broke this time?" ”

Yuan Yingtai said: "Craftsman Benfu can send you some when the time comes." There are only so many supplies in the Liaodong arsenal now, and the remaining Benfu will definitely get it for you from the Ministry of War, but I don't dare to pack a ticket? ”

Governor Yuan is fooling Dafa again, but Li Xianzhong doesn't eat him.

So he counted: "It's okay to send these first, but the rest of Governor Yuan has to give me an IOU." ”

Yuan Yingtai said with a bitter face: "There is no need for an IOU, there is Xiong Jingluo and Yan Jianjun to testify, are you still afraid that Yuan will fail to repay the debt?" ”

Li Xianzhong said: "There is no evidence, who knows how long it will take for me to get these materials?" This Kaiyuan victory may have been promoted to Governor Yuan, and then he would have to rely on this IOU to find the next governor of Liaodong to cash in. ”

Yuan Yingtai thought to himself, I just flickered casually, this kid is actually on the line?

However, after the words were spoken, he couldn't deny it outright, and in the end, in the name of the governor of Liaodong, he gave Li Xianzhong an IOU for the equipment other than Lu Migong.

Li Xianzhong put away the IOU seriously, and then said: "Ben will set up a good banquet on the Songhe Tower, and invite a few people to appreciate it!" ”

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