Li Chang waved his sleeves to drive away some annoying flies and urged Yun Zheng to play chess quickly. In his opinion, Zhang Zhi was already a dead man. As a famous utilitarian in the Song Dynasty, he never played in useless things.
At this time, Li Chang only wanted to get Zhang Zhi's head and go to the emperor to ask for titles and rewards. As for what Yun Zheng planned to do with the corpse, it had nothing to do with him.
Playing chess on the battlefield was Li Chang's bad taste. He believed that a generation of Confucian generals should guide the country with a feather fan and silk scarf. He completely forgot that two hours ago, he held Yun Zheng in tears as he was about to go into battle.
After experiencing this battle, Li Chang could proudly tell everyone that he was indeed a Confucian general, and how he commanded calmly and calmly in the face of the overwhelming cavalry... As for Yun Zheng's statement in his statement
In the middle of the night, he turned into a reckless man who led a group of soldiers to fight in the crowd. All the command of the war came from Li Chang.
This was Yunzheng's deliberate arrangement. If Fu Bi died in battle, he would have to find a scapegoat, but Li Chang didn't care at all about taking on this responsibility.
If Yun Zheng was commanding the army, I don’t know how many people would come to trouble Fu Bi after he died in battle. At least he would not be able to escape the charge of refusing to save his life. Yun Zheng knew this, and Li Chang knew it even more.
It's clear, so after Yun Zheng's abilities and achievements are weakened, he will be less vulnerable to attacks.
It is easy to say that Li Chang took over all the power. He was a civil servant. After gaining military exploits, it was also the glory of all civil servants. Fu Bi's death in battle will be described as heroic and decisive. In the past, Fu Bi fought to the death to resist the enemy, and after Li Chang
If the command is determined, the entire civil service group will have a lot to write about, history books will make Fu Bi's death shine brightly, and Fu Bi's descendants will definitely receive unanimous care from everyone...
Yun Zheng took two casual steps with the chess piece, and the sound of fighting on the battlefield slowly subsided. The wounded soldier who was helped by Zhang Zhi onto the horse was picked up by more than a dozen spears from the Song army, and he struggled for a few seconds.
He couldn't die anymore. His body was thrown back by the Song army to the small battle group that Zhang Zhi could barely maintain.
More than 50,000 people were fighting in the hilly areas within a radius of three miles. The long-range weapons that occupied the commanding heights slowly stopped shooting. This war proved a truth, that is, the ability of effective long-range weapons to delay and kill cavalry.
It is very strong and can effectively break up the group charge of cavalry. The generals at all levels of the Song Army have a deep understanding of this.
As the sun set, the Song army began to cheer loudly to welcome the victory of their first decisive battle. Yun Zheng was also happy. Only by relying on the food of victory can the monster of the army become invincible in the world.
Lang Tan invited Yun Zheng and Li Chang to watch the final battlefield with a look of reverence, so the commander-in-chief and the supervisor enjoyed watching it. If the subordinates wanted to praise themselves, there was no reason not to satisfy them.
After walking down the mountain to Baoyunzheng, I realized that the look of reverence on Lang Tan's face was not for him at all, but for Zhang Zhi.
A guy who had been turned into a hedgehog by a crossbow arrow was not lying on the ground. Instead, he was holding a broken knife and standing there with his mouth wide open and his eyes wide open. If this action hadn't been completely frozen, Yun Zheng would have thought that this guy was
Not dead yet.
The Xixia people around him all fell to the ground, forming a circle as if they were still guarding their commander. Seeing this scene, Yun Zheng had to bow his hands to Zhang Zhi. This guy was indeed a qualified commander.
If it weren't for the unexpected war machine like War Elephant that appeared on the way and interrupted his follow-up military formation, Yun Zheng thought that even if he won, it would be a Pyrrhic victory.
Li Chang, a scholar who was extremely afraid of corpses, was looking at Zhang Zhi's corpse obsessively at this moment. He reached out his hand and lightly poked Zhang Zhi's face, and then he burst out laughing so loud that he almost died.
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"This corpse belongs to me, Marquis Yun. It is a priceless treasure. It is too wasteful for you to use it to light sky lanterns. How many people in Qinzhou can see it? Leave it to me. I will ask expert craftsmen to make this corpse."
Turn it into a wax man, and then stuff a cotton string into his mouth. If such a big candle is placed in the Daqing Palace, it will definitely make the barbarians bow their heads and worship the power of the Song Dynasty."
Li Chang's dry mouth spat out something very fast. Yun Zheng felt fine, but the faces of Lang Tan, Jiang Zhe, Liang Ji and others were not so good. Wu Jie frowned and said: "This person is a
Yingjie, so..."
Before he could finish his words, Yun Zheng glared at him and shut up without saying anything further.
Yun Zheng said faintly: "Such heroes are our enemies. I wish I could make candles out of all the heroes who became famous by killing the people of Song Dynasty. Heroes who eat people are not heroes at all, they are just beasts."
After reprimanding Wu Jie, he said to Li Chang: "The supervisor is right, it is a good way to make such a vicious thief into a wax figure. Don't remove the arrows on his body, just cast them like this."
In the future, if we capture such heroic figures, whether they are dead or alive, we will cast them in wax and save them, and dedicate them to the country to deter those barbarians with evil intentions. What they admire is force, and they have no virtue in their hearts, so they are naturally ungrateful. The existence of these wax people is also
Let those people know that the Song Dynasty not only had the way of a saint, but also had thunderbolt methods!"
Li Chang's smile almost turned into a chrysanthemum, and he nodded his head in agreement. In any case, this first important wax life had to be written by himself.
The army fought fiercely for a day. It was only then that Qinzhou Tongjian led the civilians into the battlefield and began to clean up. The first thing they dealt with was the soldiers of the Song army who died in the battle. They wrapped the bodies in linen and placed them on the ground, and then began to peel them off.
Except for the iron armor, leather armor, and weapons on the Xixia people, as well as the gold and silver plundered from them.
These things all belong to Cui Da, and the agreement was made long before the army set off. The merchants who came to the army naturally began to organize their goods into categories.
Li Chang couldn't stand this scene. He was interested in a Xixia Mingguang armor and went up to ask for it, but was rejected. The merchants ignored the supervisor's request and showed Li Chang the documents signed by himself and the army.
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An angry Li Chang accidentally saw his and Yun Zheng's names on the document, and looked at the small line below, then coughed and ordered the merchants to clean the battlefield without leaving anything behind.
Then he went to his tent with his hands behind his back to supervise the army craftsmen to bleed Zhang Zhi's corpse. If there was too much blood in the corpse, it would be very detrimental to making the wax figure.
There was very little blood in Zhang Zhi's body. The craftsmen carefully cut open Zhang Zhi's blood vessels and kneaded the body with their hands without squeezing out much blood. Seeing that there was really no blood, the craftsmen used isinglass again.
He glued the knife edge and began to apply spices to the corpse. It was the end of summer and the beginning of autumn. If the body was not embalmed quickly, the body would be damaged. Li Chang would never tolerate such a thing.
Looking at the horrific scene of corpse disposal in front of him and smelling the pungent smell of spices, Li Chang didn't feel at all that the environment here was incompatible with his noble literati character.
Looking at the corpse, his thoughts have already drifted to Tokyo. If he can gather twelve wax figures this time, he will definitely shock the world. Building a pavilion filled with real wax figures of Hulu leaders has become
Li Chang's greatest wish.
Yun Zheng is not as difficult to work with as you imagined. As long as you don't interfere with his command, he will never have trouble with you. As for credit, people are always striving for it, but Yun Zheng is worried that he has too much credit and can't shirk it.
Too late.
Come to think of it, a third-rank military prince in his twenties with real power does not rely on the protection of his ancestors, flattery, or digging into the camp. He earned everything by killing the enemy with one sword and one shot. If there were not still foreign invasions,
Such people are definitely a thorn in the side and a thorn in the flesh of the big shots in the imperial court.
Only when he is full will he interfere with the command of a famous general. It will not do him any good to collapse the army. As long as this army keeps winning battles, who dares to say that he, the supervisor of the army, has no merit?
The battlefield belongs to Marquis Yun. Li Chang believes that even if His Majesty personally conquers it, it is more appropriate to hand over the actual command to Marquis Yun. From Tokyo to Chencang to establish a military stronghold, and now to the formation to kill Zhang Zhi, Yun Zheng, a hundred-year-old man,
Li Chang could clearly see how the famous general fought, and he felt the ups and downs. When Yun Zheng put on his armor and went into battle to say goodbye to him, Li Chang felt that his spine had been ripped out at that moment, until the man was covered in blood.
When I stood in front of myself and laughed at myself, I felt that my waist seemed to be straightened again.
A good soldier is the backbone and gallbladder of the literati when they govern the country and bring peace to the world! For the first time, Li Chang found that he had begun to formally integrate into the bureaucracy of the Song Dynasty. With this insight, he was enough to leave a mark in the history books.
Pen.
Smelling the strong smell of spices again, Li Chang walked back to his camp and asked his old servant to study ink. He was going to report everything he saw and heard in the northwest to the emperor... This was his bounden duty as a supervisor of the army.
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It was already half a day into the moon, and there were no traces of people on the battlefield. The naked bodies of Xixia people were piled up under the pale moonlight. Only some beasts with green eyes were munching on the piles of corpses. It was not that the civilians were not prepared to bury the corpses.
, but because there were too many corpses and we couldn't bury so many in one day yesterday.
A young wild wolf was about to take a bite from a relatively fresh palm, when he saw the hand suddenly turned over and stabbed into the wild wolf's open mouth, pinching the wolf's tongue tightly and blocking it with his whole hand.
The respiratory tract of the wild wolf was blocked, and the wild wolf started to beat violently, and soon fell down softly.
A corpse with only half a face left suddenly opened its eyes, took back his hand, pushed away the corpses piled on his body, put his mouth on the wolf's neck, bit open the blood vessels, and swallowed the head in big mouthfuls.
The wolf's blood has not yet coagulated.
After a long while, he grabbed half of the gun barrel and stood up. Looking at the mountains of corpses, he let out a shrill howl... (To be continued)