Chadenbei did not believe that Li Zhi dared to attack his troops, because the governor had the right to mobilize troops to a certain city in his jurisdiction. Chadenbei transferred more than 10,000 Tianjin soldiers and horses to Fanjiazhuang. It was also his right and his own
According to his statement, Li Zhi attacked Cha Dengbei because of this, which was close to rebellion.
Li Zhi had attacked Shangguan troops once before because of the force of the commander-in-chief Luo Zhending, but the situation that time was different from this time. At that time, Li Zhi had done no other "bad things" except attacking Luo Zhending, and his wealth was innocent. And this time
This time, Li Zhi violated the order to collect business taxes, killed "common people" and scholars, which was already a repeated provocation to the order of the Ming Dynasty. Zha Dengbei felt that if Li Zhi attacked his troops again this time, it would be an extra level of crime.
There is no doubt that there is rebellion.
Under the watchful eyes of hundreds of officials in the court, Zha Dengbei believed that even the emperor could not forgive Li Zhi, who had committed so many crimes. If Li Zhi dared to provoke and attack him, he would be beaten by all the princes in the court.
Rebellious thief.
But Chadenbei didn't expect that Li Zhi was so bold that he took action anyway.
As soon as Li Zhi took action, Chadenbei's situation became very dangerous. Whether there will be strong soldiers from all sides to surround Li Zhi in the future is a matter of doubt. But Chadenbei's crime of forcing a defiant general to rebel is not a light one.
Chaden was getting ready to ride on the horse, panicked, and his lips trembled slightly unconsciously.
Liang Yishou next to Cha Dengbei also stared with eyes wide and his face was ashen. He was the dog-headed military advisor who launched this attack. Now that Li Zhi has really taken the risk, no matter how the court deals with Li Zhi, Liang Yishou will definitely not get any good results.
On the battlefield, the artillery position of Chadenbei was in a mess.
After half of their men were taken away at once, how could the more than 100 artillerymen who were still alive dare to push their carriages up to fight? All of them turned around and ran away, their faces turned ashen.
"Li Zhi rebelled!"
"Li Zhi is taking action! Run!"
The soldiers of Fanjiazhuang defeated the Tatars several times before, and their reputation for powerful soldiers and horses was spread all over the world. How could the Tianjin soldiers and horses that Cha Dengbei had assembled be enough? Even if there were only 4,000 people on the opposite side, it would still be difficult to defeat 12,000 Tianjin soldiers.
More than enough. As soon as the artillerymen fled, the soldiers in other battalions became agitated and almost collapsed.
The servants supervising the operations of each battalion rushed to chase the fleeing artillerymen, and finally chased more than a hundred artillerymen back. However, these artillerymen were beaten to pieces, and there were no more than five complete artillery groups, and they were no longer able to operate the cannons.
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Li Zhi held up the telescope and looked at the situation on the opposite side and sneered.
"How dare soldiers and horses like this come to my Fan Family Village to provoke them? Go up to them and defeat them."
Li Zhi's soldiers and horses beat the drums, took the initiative to move forward, and pressed towards Cha Denbei's army bit by bit.
Seeing the world-famous Fanjiazhuang soldiers approaching, the soldiers and horses of Tianjin's battalions were already in a bit of confusion. The larger soldiers from Fanjiazhuang were all wearing armor and chainmail seized from the Tatars.
They were veterans who had experienced many battles. At this time, four thousand soldiers and horses were pressing towards the more than 10,000 people who were preparing for the war. There was no sound except the footsteps on the ground. The momentum was suffocating.
Such a powerful army was unique in the Ming Dynasty. How could more than 10,000 people from Chadenbei stop them?
Before the fighting even started, there were soldiers constantly trying to escape from Chadenbei's side. The servants supervising the battle were also afraid and their hands and feet were weak, but they kept chasing and killing the fleeing soldiers.
Li Zhi looked at the chaos on the other side, sneered, and shouted: "Grapnel, fire."
The flag was fluttered and Li Zhi's order was passed on.
Huge rumblings were heard one after another, and each artillery piece suddenly spurted out tongues of flame and white smoke, then stumbled back five or six meters. The pungent smell of saltpeter and sulfur became even stronger, dominating the entire battlefield. The distance was three meters.
One hundred meters away, one hundred and forty field guns sprayed shotgun shells at Chadenbei's men.
More than 10,000 iron projectiles were like an iron net, attacking the panicked Tianjin soldiers and horses. As soon as the fast-moving steel hit the flesh and blood, blood spattered everywhere. Blood and minced meat seemed like worthless things.
, sprayed everywhere.
Screams suddenly sounded from all directions, and the wounded fell down clutching their wounds, moaning and twitching on the ground, their strength getting weaker and weaker.
The 12,000 troops that Cha Deng had prepared collapsed.
Originally, these soldiers did not dare to challenge the Fanjiazhuang Tiger Division, which was killing all directions. Li Zhi had more than 10,000 people and could defeat more than 20,000 Tatars. How could these more than 10,000 Tianjin soldiers be Li Zhi's opponent? They were just here to force Li Zhi.
. But I didn’t expect that Li Zhi would really dare to be a rebellious minister and a traitor, and fired in this direction.
At this time, witnessing Li Zhi's artillery fire, the Tianjin camp soldiers were so frightened that their legs became weak.
With a bang, the soldiers of Tianjin's camp turned into a rout and retreated in all directions. Even the servants supervising the battle lost their courage and followed the rout into the distance.
Seeing the great defeat, Zha Dengbei and other officers did not dare to stay, so they quickly turned their horses and fled to Tianjin Acropolis.
The soldiers of the Huben Division burst out laughing when they saw the Tianjin soldiers and horses that were defeated in one blow. The laughter of the four thousand people spread to a mile away, scaring Zha Denbei and others to run away faster, with wounds on their heads.
I didn’t even feel the black gauze hat fall off.
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After leading his troops back to Fanjiazhuang, Li Zhi summoned his men to discuss matters.
Li Xing said: "Brother, now that the people of Cha Deng Bei have been defeated, no one dares to stop our accountants from checking taxes!" After a pause, Li Xing said: "Anyway, now we have taken action, and the court can't do anything to us.
, I think we don’t want to pay tax of 30 to 1, let’s just pay 1 to 10, right?”
Li Zhi smiled and said: "There are also ordinary people among merchants. Thirty tax per one is just right. If it is ten tax per one, the tax rate is too high and it will accidentally hurt the ordinary people. As for those government and businessmen who have monopolized and made huge profits, we will find a way to make them spit out in the future."
Here comes the money."
Zheng Kaicheng hesitated for a while and said: "Sir, do we want to report to the emperor to explain that we are not rebelling, but were forced by Cha Deng Bei to attack Tianjin's troops."
Li Zhi said: "Yes, we have to make our position clear and we can't let the emperor think that we are really rebelling."
Li Xing was stunned and asked: "What should we do if the day comes to hold us responsible for killing the scholar?"
Li Zhi said calmly: "The emperor dare not!"
After hearing Li Zhi's words, all the military attachés were silent. Li Zhi now has a large number of troops, his style has become more and more domineering, and he has begun to constantly test the bottom line of the court. Li Zhi said that the emperor does not dare, obviously he is not thinking about the Ming Dynasty anymore
rules, but began to calculate the court's ability to maintain the rules.
But speaking of it, the Ming Dynasty is now in turmoil. Military attachés like Li Zhi who can fight are the last few pillars supporting the poop for the Ming Dynasty. How can the emperor give up so easily?
These civil servants like Zha Deng Bei are short-sighted. They only know that civil servants have been able to call the shots in the court for a hundred years, and they think that civil servants can still call around the generals. But they don't know that the situation has changed drastically in the past few years, or even this year. The Ming Dynasty
The military attachés of the DPRK have begun to become violent warlords.
The generals and soldiers are indeed afraid of civil servants. But if they are military and town warlords, they are enough to compete with the entire civil service system. You must know that this is not the Jiajing period when the world is at peace, nor the Wanli period when the Ming Dynasty is powerful in all directions, but the Chongzhen period
In September of the second year, there were only five years left before the 17th year of Chongzhen in the original history when the Ming Dynasty was destroyed.
While everyone was discussing there, Han Jinxin ran in, knelt down and said, "Sir! Zha Dengbei and other civil servants have hid in their respective yamen and are staying behind closed doors. They have sent servants to guard the door."
Li Zhi smiled and said, "You think you can send a few servants to guard the gate?"
Zheng Kaicheng was very surprised when he heard the meaning of Li Zhi's words, and asked: "Sir, what are we going to do?"
Li Zhi said: "We led our troops into the city to arrest the officials who forced us this time!" (To be continued.)
