As soon as this sudden sound came out, everyone around looked over and it turned out to be Li Guo.
Li Guo saw everyone's eyes fixed on him, his face turned red, and he gritted his teeth and said, "I have no problem with King Chuang going to Henan, but if he goes to Shandong, he has to think twice.
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"Why?" Li Zicheng looked at Li Guo curiously and asked curiously: "Are there tigers in Shandong that we can't touch?"
"Haha line, even if there are tigers 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 went to Qingzhou to start an uprising on the orders of King Chuang.
Really? It seems that I have suffered a loss. Is this the case?"
Liu Yumin was the one who didn't mention anything. When he mentioned the incident in Qingzhou, Li Guo and Gao Yigong's faces immediately turned ugly. Speaking of that incident, they had always regarded it as a great shame and humiliation, especially Gao Yigong.
He thought about leading his troops back to Qingzhou to avenge that one arrow.
Now that he was poked out by Liu Zongmin, his face naturally didn't look good.
Gao Yigong stood up suddenly and said to Liu Zongmin with a livid face: "Mr. Liu, brother, I carried you when I was in Qingzhou last time, but you don't need to use this matter to poke holes in brother's heart."
Everyone on the sidelines was dumbfounded. No one expected Gao Yigong's reaction to be so strong. Mrs. Gao quickly stood up and tried to smooth things over: "Yigong, why are you so angry? Mr. Liu didn't mean it. Everyone is."
We have been old brothers for many years, and he definitely did not intend to make fun of you with this matter. You said no, Jixuan!" Mrs. Gao said while giving Liu Zongmin a wink.
Gao Yigong is the younger brother of Li Zicheng's wife Gao Guoying. His real name is Gao Guoxun. His nickname is Yigong. Because he fought fiercely and often made meritorious deeds, the army called him Gao Yigong. However, few people called him by his real name.
His prestige among the bandits is quite high. Although not as good as Liu Zongmin, he is still considered a very important role.
Seeing Gao Fu's expression, Liu Zongmin understood and quickly stood up and clasped his fists at Gao Yigong and Li Guo: "Master Gao, Master Li, we are brothers. I made a mistake, sir. Don't take it to heart, brother.
You can’t apologize.”
Seeing Liu Zongmin stand up to apologize for himself, Gao Yigong's expression improved and he sat down again and said angrily: "Actually, what Li Guo just said makes some sense. In the eighth year of Chongzhen's reign, Li Guofeng and I
I went to Qingzhou to stage an uprising under the orders of King Chuang, but I was defeated at the hands of a Qianhu. Brother Li Guo and I have already apologized to King Chuang for this matter. Just now, Li Guo said that it would be best not to develop in Shandong for the time being.
I agree. After all, our troops are severely damaged now. If we want to go to Shandong with just a few thousand of our old battalion brothers, we will undoubtedly risk our lives."
Li Zicheng asked doubtfully: "After one achievement, isn't Shandong like a dragon's pond and a tiger's den? You just failed once. Why are you so afraid of it?"
Gao Yigong shook his head and said: "King Chuang, since Li Guo and I left Maicheng in Qingzhou last time, we have been paying attention to the situation in Shandong from time to time. Do you know the name of the Qianhu who defeated Li Guo and me last time?
Name, do you want to take on any position first?"
"I don't know!" Li Zicheng and others shook their heads in confusion. It had to be said that the intelligence system of the bandits was indeed not very good. Unless it was something important to them, they would generally be indifferent.
Gao Yigong winked at Li Guo before Li Guo sighed and said: "The name of the cadre who defeated Master Gao and me last time in Qingzhou is Pang Gang. He is now the right governor of Nanjing and the commander-in-chief of Shandong.
General Dingguo, it can be said that now Shandong has his world. This person is different from ordinary officials in the imperial court. He is quite powerful. If you encounter him in the future, everyone must be careful."
"Hmph!" Hearing this, Liu Zongmin snorted and said carelessly: "What's there to be afraid of? No matter how powerful this Pang Gang is, can he be more powerful than Sun Chuanting and Hong Chengchou? When I get to Shandong in the future, I won't let him
All the bezoar and dog treasures are pinched out and served with wine.”
Among the bandits led by Li Zicheng, Liu Zongmin's prestige and status in the army were higher than those of the generals, and he often held important jobs such as commander-in-chief. At that time, there was no term "commander-in-chief", so people used to call him
It was called "General Sentence Liu Ye." The word "whistle" also meant team at that time.
Li Zicheng looked at the arrogant Liu Zongmin and couldn't help twirling his beard and smiling. He just admired Liu Zongmin's attitude of not caring about anything.
"Yes!" Li Zicheng supported Liu Zongmin's idea: "What Jiexuan said makes sense. No matter how powerful Pang Gang is, can he be 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
With half of Henan's land, we can muster hundreds of thousands of troops. By then we will not only capture Luoyang, but also march to Shandong and capture Jinan and Qingzhou. I want to show the court whether we, the thieves in their eyes, are killers.
Endless!"
"Yes! We also want to show those dog officials how powerful we are." After hearing what Li Zicheng said, everyone started shouting, and the atmosphere was very lively..."
Just as Li Zicheng and others were preparing to escape from the imperial encirclement, 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 Hua Yan to distribute the condoms of the fallen soldiers to their families as soon as possible.
"Sir, our army has lost a total of 2,973 soldiers this time. We need to allocate a pension of 2,330,500,478 taels of silver. There are still 367 soldiers who are unable to continue due to injuries.
To stay in the army, these soldiers also need to be allocated 35,672 taels of silver, and this expedition will cost a total of taels of silver..."
Hua Yan stood in front of Pang Gang and read them out one by one. Hearing the string of numbers on his face gave Pang Gang a headache. Pang Gang stretched out his hand to interrupt Hua Yan's words, "Okay, I already know Hua's experience.
Just calculate the losses and silver spent on this expedition and give me a total."
"Yes, sir!" Hua Yan said simply: "This expedition cost a total of 2,978,670 taels of silver."
"Damn!" Pang Gang couldn't help but uttered a curse word, this is not a war, this is just throwing away money.
Pang Fan couldn't help but ask: "Hua Qiang, why did you spend so much money? Isn't the pension money only more than 300,000 taels?"
Hua Yan smiled bitterly and said: "My lord, do you think that those ammunition are free and the soldiers who go to war don't need to be rewarded? Do you know how much money it costs just for those shells? Let me tell you, the cost of those shells is every day."
Five taels of silver, five taels of silver! This does not include the ammunition for those rifles and the expenses of all kinds of baggage."
"So expensive!" Pang Gang was stunned. It turned out that when Xian cashed in the explosive bombs from the "Encyclopedia of Modern Weapons", it was because cashing out these explosive bombs always cost his small tungsten ore, so he ordered Lingshan Guards to
The weapons workshop also began to try to make it, but I didn't expect that the cost of making explosive shells was so high. It seems that the saying of the cannon in later generations is really reasonable! When I think about the time when I was fighting with the Qing soldiers, I put that
When the explosive bullet was used like running water, Pang Gang felt sweat start to form on his forehead.
"Damn it, we must reduce the cost of making explosive bombs."
Pang Gang secretly made up his mind. He knew very well that once large-scale manufacturing of anything begins, as the proficiency of the military workshop's production process increases, the cost will naturally come down.
"My lord, my lord!"
Looking at Pang Gang who was in a daze, Hua Yan couldn't help but persuade: "Sir, although our expenses are a bit high, it is still worth it compared to the gains."
"By the way, we got a lot of good things back in Liaodong." Pang Gang couldn't help but become interested when he mentioned the harvest.
Hua Yan smiled and said: "Sir, I have to say that you got back a lot of good things from Liaodong this time. For example, the more than 4,000 war horses you got back were worth hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, and those cattle
The sheep and gold and silver utensils are also worth a lot of silver, adding up to more than 600,000 taels of silver."
"That's good, that's good!" Pang Gang, who was shocked by the amount reported by Hua Yan, let out a sigh of relief. He didn't expect that he spent so much money after going out for a walk this time. No wonder Chongzhen
People cry about poverty everywhere, and relationships are caused by war.
However, it can be said that this battle was the largest battle fought by Pang Gang since he came to this era. It was unprecedented in terms of both quantity and scale.
From Jinan to Beijing, then to Baoding, the distance is all the way to Liaodong. Although the fight only took three months, the amount of manpower and material resources spent during these three months was huge. This is only more than 20,000 people.
Pang Gang couldn't imagine a large-scale battle. If a battle involving hundreds of thousands of people was launched in the future, he really didn't know how much money it would cost.
Thinking of the silver, Pang Gang suddenly thought of something. He asked: "Hua experience, has that Dutchman Putsmann been here since I went on the expedition?"
"Sir, that Putsman has been here before. Just one month after you went on the expedition, he came to Qingzhou with more than ten ships. They also brought some books and Southeast Asian specialties to sell in Qingzhou. No,
It is insignificant compared to the things they bought in Qingzhou. They filled their ships with our porcelain, tea and other things.
Speaking of this, Hua Yan's lips couldn't help but curl up, looking very disdainful.
"Haha" Pang Gang also laughed, and when he opened his mouth to say something, Shi Bowen's voice came from outside.
"Sir, those Dutch people are here again. I heard that you came back from the expedition and wanted to pay you a special visit" (To be continued)
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