Li Zhi's soldiers and horses not only have armor, but also each one carries a firecracker.
Yang Sichang heard that Li Zhi's fire cannons were well made and there was never the risk of exploding. The fire cannons were very powerful and could break armor from a distance of seventy steps. Moreover, Li Zhi's recruit training required one fire cannon to be destroyed every three months.
, so the soldiers' shooting skills were very good, and they could fire at seventy paces without missing a shot.
Yang Sichang looked at the gun soldiers with their heads high and their chests high, and thought secretly that if thousands of guns were fired at once on the battlefield, what kind of enemy could withstand them?
Li Zhi was riding in the middle of the army and had not seen Yang Sichang yet. Therefore, the front section of the army did not stop in front of Yang Sichang, but passed Yang Sichang's welcoming team and continued to move forward.
As Master Huben walked over, the field cannons made Yang Sichang take a breath of cold air.
He had always heard that Li Zhi's army was equipped with cannons, but Yang Sichang did not expect that there were so many. Three thousand soldiers of the Huben Division passed in front of Yang Sichang, and Yang Sichang saw forty artillery carriages.
Calculating this, wouldn't Li Zhi have 16,000 troops and 200 cannons?
These cannons were all small Hongyi cannons and were very well made. Yang Sichang stared at the passing field artillery trucks and found that Li Zhi's cannon had no honeycomb holes at all. Yang Sichang also knew about the casting of some Hongyi cannons.
Obviously these cannons of Li Zhi were not produced using the clay method.
Yang Sichang originally led an army of more than 100,000 to encircle and suppress Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai. The army only had dozens of squatting tiger cannons and twenty furlong machine guns. However, Li Zhi had far more troops than Yang Sichang's squatting tiger cannons and furlong machine guns.
Hongyi cannon. If these well-made Hongyi cannons were all equipped with scatter cannons to bombard the enemy, what kind of damage would Zhang Xianzhong's bandit army suffer?
Yang Sichang was extremely surprised by the sophisticated equipment of Li Zhi's army and horses, but what surprised Yang Sichang most was the military discipline of Li Zhi's army and horses.
The soldiers in red military uniforms carried firecrackers, and every two hundred people formed a small square and walked forward without looking sideways. Neither the villagers and elders on both sides of the road, nor the pigs, sheep, and drinks could make these soldiers
He turned his head and took a few more glances. The soldiers did not hear the order to stop advancing, so they passed the welcoming crowd without hesitation and continued to advance towards Xiangyang City.
This army gives people the feeling that even if the sky falls, it is not as important as executing orders.
How long does it take to practice military discipline before the army and horses can be united into such a neat formation? The ordinary Ming army only practiced once every few days. I am afraid that they will not be able to develop such military discipline after several years of training. The ancients described a strong army as "like arms and fingers", Yang Sichang
Only when I saw Li Zhi's troops and horses today did I understand the meaning of this word.
No wonder Li Zhi could defeat the Qing army time and time again. Such a strong army would not be afraid even if it was surrounded by tens of thousands of Dongnu.
With such a strong army, it’s no wonder that Li Zhi could defeat himself and make the emperor no longer trust him with one sentence. After he lost the emperor’s trust, he was attacked by officials from both the government and the public, so he could only go out to supervise the division to prove himself. However, he himself supervises the division
For one year, he failed to suppress the bandits, but instead lost troops and generals.
At this critical moment, Li Zhi came again. In Yang Sichang's eyes, Li Zhi's powerful troops were the enemies attacking him.
Yang Sichang looked at Li Zhi's troops and his face became darker and darker.
Next to Yang Sichang, Yuan Jixian, "the censor of Youqiandu and the governor of Xunyang" also turned pale. The momentum of Li Zhi's soldiers and horses marching forward under the military order made people feel a strong murderous aura.
My heart beats when I see it.
The so-called powerful army in the world is indeed well-deserved.
Yuan Jixian raised his hands and said to Yang Sichang: "Supervisor, the troops and horses of this Taibao Li Zhi are really powerful!" After a pause, Yuan Jixian said: "Once these troops and horses arrive, the thieves will probably be unable to fly!"
The "Jizhen Chinese Association Chief Soldier" who assisted in the suppression was as fierce as a tiger, but in front of Li Zhi's army and horses, he felt a little afraid to speak loudly. He lowered his voice and said: "Superintendent, and Li Zhi's
Compared with the soldiers and horses, my four thousand soldiers and horses are like a bunch of green-skinned scoundrels."
Yang Sichang sneered and said nothing.
Zhang Yingyuan, the commander-in-chief of Baoding, shook his head and said: "Superintendent, we have been fighting hard for a year, but instead we have sacrificed ourselves to the thieves, and we have suffered several defeats. Now the emperor sends such a strong army to suppress the thieves. If Li Zhi defeats the enemy, we will look like
You are too incompetent and will be punished by the emperor."
Zhang Yingyuan's words touched Yang Sichang's heart.
Yang Sichang sat down in Xiangyang Prefecture to suppress the bandits, and worked hard and wisely, but the result was a disastrous defeat. Now that the emperor sent Li Zhi, he obviously lost confidence in Yang Sichang. If Li Zhi beat Zhang Xianzhong like he did with the Tatars the year before last, Li Zicheng
, massacre in all directions, Yang Sichang cannot escape the charge of being incompetent and mediocre, draining the national treasury.
In this case, Yang Sichang's career would be over, and he would be lucky to retire smoothly.
Yang Sichang was thinking in his mind, looking at Li Zhi's powerful army, he was not happy but worried.
Finally, all Li Zhi's front troops passed by, and Li Zhi's middle troops appeared on the official road.
Seeing Yang Sichang waiting at the roadside, Li Zhi stopped the horse with a rein, but said nothing.
The relationship between Li Zhi and Yang Sichang was not very good. At that time, Li Zhi asked the emperor to build a temple for Lu Xiangsheng at Chengtianmen, forcing the emperor to issue a sinful edict. From then on, the emperor no longer trusted Yang Sichang. Everyone in the world spread the rumor about Li Zhi
Defeating Yang Sichang in one sentence, although this statement is suspected of Qingliu sowing discord, it is enough to prove that Li Zhi and Yang Sichang are not the same person.
Li Zhi didn't know what Yang Sichang would think of him. In theory, Li Zhi led troops to support the suppression, which was under the control of Yang Sichang, the commander of the pacifying bandits. But if Li Zhi dared not to obey the emperor's imperial edict, how could he obey Yang Sichang? What if?
Yang Sichang held a grudge, so Li Zhi abandoned Yang Sichang and went to kill Zhang Xianzhong himself.
Of course, if Yang Sichang cooperates with him, Li Zhi doesn't mind giving Yang Sichang some face.
Li Zhi stopped his horse and stood there, and the flag soldiers of the central army immediately raised the flag to stop the advance. The flag soldiers of the front army and the rear army passed the order, and soon Li Zhi's 16,000-strong army stopped on the official road.
, stood in silence.
The generals around Yang Sichang were filled with admiration for Master Huben's execution of orders and prohibitions.
The moment Yang Sichang saw Li Zhi, he put on a cheerful smile.
Yang Sichanggui was an assistant minister in the cabinet. He was wearing a python robe and a jade belt, but he didn't mind Li Zhi's rudeness at all. He strode up without waiting for Li Zhi to greet him. He led the Xiangyang civil and military officials to Li Zhi's horse.
He raised his hands and said, "Thank you for your hard work, Taibao!"
Seeing that Yang Sichang was so kind, Li Zhi didn't seem to mind at all about his request for compensation for Lu Xiangsheng, but he was embarrassed to be too cold to Yang Sichang. Speaking of which, when he was first promoted to general, he went to Yang Sichang's house for dinner.
Li Zhi turned over and dismounted, cupped his hands and said, "The supervisor's words are serious. I don't dare to mention the hard work of serving the country."
