The meat dishes brought by Hong Chengchou were very rich. When he was away on an expedition, fresh meat was not available. If he could eat bacon, jerky soup, and pickled vegetables, it was a meal worthy of celebration.
Hong Chengchou led three general soldiers into Li Zhi's camp. As soon as he entered the camp, he loudly said: "Uncle Xing Guo has made great achievements today. I am really gratified!"
Li Zhi smiled and said: "It's just a small achievement, why should I care about it?"
Hearing Li Zhi's words, several generals looked at each other and were speechless. The Ming Dynasty's military achievements focused on the heads of Dongnu. Usually, if these Ming troops could cut off a few heads, they could send a victory report to the emperor to show off.
Battle merit. If you can cut off dozens of Dongnu heads, it will be enough to call it a great victory.
And Li Zhi killed thousands of Tatars today, and he actually downplayed it and said it was not worth mentioning.
However, for Li Zhi, who frequently captured and beheaded tens of thousands of Tatars, killing thousands of Tatars was nothing. If he had not made great achievements again and again, how could he have rocketed up to the level of Xing Guobo?
In a high position, at only twenty-six years old, he was overlooking other Ming generals.
The three general soldiers looked at each other for a while, and the secret Taoist people were very angry. In front of Li Zhi, these people looked like a group of people who could only get paid and eat food.
Li Zhi asked the soldiers to place chairs and coffee tables in the camp, and invited Hong Chengchou and others to sit down.
Hong Chengchou took a sip of tea and said with a smile: "Today I saw Uncle Xing Guo's explosive bomb. It was very amazing. I wonder where Uncle Xing learned the skill of making this bomb?"
Li Zhi replied: "A few years ago, I met an old Taoist priest by the sea and learned the secret technique from him."
Hong Chengchou nodded and asked: "Perhaps Uncle Xing Guo taught this secret method to the governor, so that all the Ming Dynasty's troops and horses can use this explosive bullet in battle?"
Li Zhi shook his head and said: "This is a secret method and cannot be taught to outsiders. It is easy to teach it to governors, but I am afraid that my craftsmen in the Ming Dynasty will not be able to learn it by cutting corners and using materials. In the end, they let Tatar spies learn it and use it to attack my Master Huben."
Hong Chengchou was a little embarrassed and said with a smile: "The affairs of my Ming Dynasty are not as corrupt as Xing Guobo said."
Li Zhi said calmly: "This is a secret method and cannot be taught to outsiders."
Seeing Li Zhi rejecting Hong Chengchou so casually, the generals looked at each other and secretly thought that Li Zhi was really arrogant. Faced with Governor Hong Chengchou's request, Li Zhi refused without even thinking and did not take Hong Chengchou's words to heart.
But Li Zhi has the ability to be arrogant.
If a civil servant is as young and arrogant as Li Zhi, no matter how old he is, he will be impeached and pulled down by the offended person. However, Li Zhi is a military attache and has a powerful army. As long as the powerful troops in his hand remain unchanged, only Hong Chengchou can ask for help.
Even the emperor demanded Li Zhi's share. Li Zhi was not afraid of offending others at all.
Hong Chengchou was rejected by Li Zhi, and his old face couldn't let it go. He looked at Li Zhi with a wry smile.
Seeing the awkward atmosphere, Wang Pu laughed and lowered his head to drink tea.
Wu Sangui looked at Li Zhi with some eagerness in his eyes. A man who stands upright should be so arrogant. If he can train a strong army like Li Zhi in the future, those civil servants will not have to be humble and obey orders in front of him.
.How could I be like now, being ordered around by Hong Chengchou?
Everyone was embarrassed there when they saw three Tiger Division scouts running in, clasping their fists and shouting loudly: "Uncle, the Tatars abandoned their camp and ran away!"
When the generals heard this, they were very surprised. They all raised their heads and looked at the scout who reported the news.
Li Zhi asked: "Did everyone run away?"
The scout replied: "They all ran away, not a single one was left. They all fled to the north."
Wang Pu stood up suddenly and said loudly: "Master Governor, do we want to form an army to hunt down the Tatars?"
Hong Chengchou said: "The Tatars have many horses and we can't catch up. Moreover," after a pause, Hong Chengchou shook his head and said, "and the army can't see the command flag at night and can't command it. Not to mention whether we can catch up or not, I'm afraid we can't catch up."
The soldiers and horses chasing us will be dispersed in the darkness."
Wang Pusan sat back on his chair and said, "What the governor said makes sense."
Hong Chengchou stroked his beard and said: "In any case, we forced the Tatars away. This is a great victory. Now that the road between Ningyuan and Tashan is clear, we and the army in Tashan City can merge together and march to Jinzhou
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Wu Sangui thought for a while and asked the scout: "Have the dead bodies of the Tatars ever been left behind?"
The scout replied: "The Tatars left in a panic. The corpses and a lot of baggage were not transported away. We roughly counted and found that the Tatars left more than 2,000 corpses in the camp."
Hong Chengchou laughed and said: "In this way, our army captured and beheaded more than two thousand Dongnu. Although this is not as good as Xingguobo's victory at Fanjiazhuang and Qingshankou, it is still a great achievement." He handed over his hand to Li Zhi.
He bowed and said: "Uncle Xing Guo and I will write a report together to report this great victory to the emperor as soon as possible, so that the emperor can know the situation on the front line."
Li Zhi said calmly: "It's just as the governor said."
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In the Qianqing Palace, Emperor Zhu Youjian looked at the good news jointly sent by Li Zhi and Hong Chengchou and shook his head.
Li Zhi made meritorious deeds again.
The Tatars trained the Han army's artillery soldiers, and guarded the camp on Bijia Mountain to bombard the attacking Ming army with artillery, defeating Hong Chengchou's 30,000 Ming army. As a result, they were suppressed with the iron and blood of Li Zhi's Huben division.
The soldiers were gathered together without causing a major rout of the entire army. After that, Li Zhi used heavy artillery to bombard the Qing army's camp. The Qing army left more than 2,000 corpses and fled overnight.
In this battle, Li Zhi captured and beheaded 2,869 heads of the Qing army, including 1,621 heads of Tatars and 1,248 heads of Han soldiers of the Qing army.
This is no small feat and can be considered a great victory.
Counting Li Zhi's troops, 150,000 troops supported Jinzhou and fought against Dong Nu. This battle can be said to be crucial. Of course, Zhu Youjian hopes to hear good news. If this battle is lost,
, where will the country of Ming Dynasty go?
But Zhu Youjian didn't want to hear that it was Li Zhi who made meritorious deeds, and Li Zhi was the only one who made meritorious deeds.
Zhu Youjian took the memorial, stood in front of the window of the study, looked at the magnificent halls in the Forbidden City quietly, and sighed.
Wang Chengen bowed and walked to the emperor and asked: "Your Majesty, has Li Zhi made meritorious service again?"
Zhu Youjian still looked at the scenery in the Forbidden City and did not answer Wang Chengen.
Wang Chengen took a breath and said: "If Li Zhi continues to make meritorious service like this, he will be granted the title of Marquis."
Zhu Youjian shook his head and said: "That's all for the Marquis, just give it to him. What I'm afraid of is that if he makes new achievements and becomes even more domineering, he will take Shandong away."
"I'm afraid that Shandong and Tianjin will be connected and become Li Zhi's country within a country. After the Ming Dynasty, vassal towns will be separated. I'm afraid that my imperial edict will not be able to enter Shandong and Tianjin."
