Traveling through the Ming Dynasty, as soon as you open your eyes, you will die

Chapter 40 The purpose of the war
  The battle entered a stage of hand-to-hand combat. Yang Songshan, who was riding a horse, killed countless bandits with his broadsword. Suddenly, his hand paused because the person his broadsword was about to slash was an old man with white hair.

He was still young, and his conscience in his heart made him somewhat intolerant of killing this old man who was older than his grandfather.

However, just as he hesitated, the old man rushed forward and hugged his horse's leg. During this moment of hesitation, another mother-in-law rushed forward and hugged the horse's neck. Countless people rushed forward and hugged the horse's neck. His horse fell down.

Suddenly, the war horse fell to the ground, and then countless sticks were thrown at him. Thanks to Yang Songshan's armor, which was strong enough and well-made, the sticks hitting it made a loud bang like hail hitting a drum.

Thanks to the desperate efforts of the soldiers around him to rescue him, Yang Songshan would have been the first division commander to die in battle since Lu Mou organized his army.

Jumping up, Yang Songshan's heart turned to stone. Only then did he truly understand that all the people he faced were rogues, soldiers of Li Chuang, and his enemies.

Roaring, he chopped down all those who came close to him and killed him, regardless of whether he was an old man, a child, or a woman.

Wu Ruyi saw his old camp and broke through the Ming army's blocking line. The two armies fought together and decisively gave an order: "Don't get entangled with the enemy. Everyone, run, run south."

The entire old camp of rogue bandits was in the middle of the battle and began to run wildly south.

Rogue bandits are like the tide overflowing the beach, and then they spread thousands of miles away. After the tide passed, what was left behind were more than 7,000 exhausted and scarred brothers in Yang Songshan, as well as the corpses of bandits strewn on the ground.

When Lu Yixing's First Army arrived, the soldiers of the First Army were also exhausted after running and marching for a long distance. When I rushed to the battlefield and saw that the bandits had fled, I let out a sigh of relief. One by one, they staggered around and collapsed on the edge of the battlefield. If another bandit arrives at this time, he will gain the easiest and most brilliant victory.

However, this battle produced two teams with completely different fighting styles. An independent division is good at blocking attacks and is as immovable as a mountain.

The First Army is good at running and attacking, coming and going like the wind.

From then on, Lu Mou had a strong shield and a sharp spear in his hands.

Panting, Lu Yixing found the tattered armor. He didn't know how many wounds there were. He didn't know if it was the enemy's blood or his own blood flowing on his body. Yang Songshan yelled angrily: "You useless thing, you." Why don't you hold on for a while. Even if it's just a quarter of an hour, we can wipe out this enemy, you incompetent bastard."

Yang Songshan also yelled at him: "What are you yelling about? If you had come a quarter of an hour earlier, we would have wiped out all the enemies, you greedy, fearful, slow-moving bastard."

Lu Yixing became even more angry: "Good boy, if you offend me below, I will enforce the military law."

Yang Songshan pinched his neck: "My independent division is not under your control. We both have the rank of guerrilla generals. We are on the same level."

Lu Mou reorganized the Forbidden Army and implemented the organization of later generations, but retained the officer's position, but it was only a rank and a standard for receiving military pay, just like the brigadier general and major general of later generations.

Therefore, Yang Songshan is the commander of the independent division and holds the rank of guerrilla general. Lu Yixing, the commander of the First Army, also held the rank of guerrilla general, the same rank.

But the commander of the first division of the First Army had a lower garrison rank.

The two men glared at each other like angry fighting cocks. A fight was about to begin.

Qi Fei, who had just been promoted to join the First Army not long ago, hurriedly ran over and separated the two men: "Both generals, both are for victory, don't be angry. Master Yang took the initiative to attack, and the Lu army won the victory for the first time in this battle." Chasing the enemy and forcing the rogues to leave the camp is also a great achievement. Let's calm down and clean up the battlefield."

When Lu Mou hurried to the battlefield, Yang Songshan and Lu Yixing had already cleaned the battlefield, counted and captured everything.

In this battle, a total of 12,000 old camp of rogue bandits were annihilated, and the number of Yang Songshan's dead soldiers was as high as 3,000, and 2,000 were injured.    In hand-to-hand combat, the chance of surviving an injury is very slim. As long as you are injured, you are basically declared dead in the melee of the sea of ​​people.

But this capture was actually more lucrative than defeating Li Yan.

Li Guo was a true rogue, and he had to carry all the gold and silver he seized along the way. In this final retreat, in order to escape for his life, Wu Ruyi gave up the heavy plunder he had carried for many years, and the bandits also threw away the heavy gold and silver they carried. The battlefield is full of shiny gold and silver jewelry.

Finally restrained, this battle, excluding jewelry and antiques, the gold and silver alone was as much as 1.5 million taels. Among them were the many years of accumulation that Li Guo and Wu Ruyi had accumulated.

Faced with so much gold and silver, Lu Mou finally breathed a sigh of relief. The two million taels of silver before and after were minted into silver coins, and there were 2.6 million taels. Not only are the rewards and pensions for the entire war sufficient, there is still at least a million left over. Is it still profitable to fight against bandits?

With this money, I can do many things.

Looking in the direction of Zijingguan: "Sir, do you think Li Zicheng has 80 million taels of silver in his hands now?"

Li Yan laughed angrily: "Although he plundered several provinces, there are so many. In fact, he still has to spend money."

"What? Do robbers also have to spend money to buy things? This is not logical."

"The robbery of materials, money and food from large households can only be said to be part of it. There are also some materials that must be purchased from the private sector to maintain Li Chuang's image of loving the people."

"It makes sense. Then introduce me to a rich gangster and let me rob him. I'm really short of money."

"Are you just going to let Li Guo's remaining defeated generals go?"

"of course."

Li Yan was shocked: "Why?"

"Because if I completely eliminate Li Guo and the dangerous pressure south of the capital is lifted, then my father will no longer need me and will no longer listen to me. You must know that my father is notoriously self-righteous. , headstrong."

"I admit this. If it weren't for his stubbornness and self-righteousness, he wouldn't have caused the monarchs and ministers to be alienated and brought the Ming Dynasty to this point. Your method of threatening thieves with self-respect is good, but it's just too sinister."

"There's nothing I can do about it. If you want to survive, if you want to truly revive the Ming Dynasty, you have to be more sinister than others. This is forced by the situation. In fact, my heart is kind. So, you are not allowed to say anything about me in the future. I am a sinister person, so I can only say that my methods are brilliant."

Li Yan staggered: "Your excuse is very pale and unconvincing."

Lu Mou didn't want to get entangled in the issue of his own character and changed the topic, "But I still have to pursue the remnants of Li Guo. I must regain the entire Beizhili to make my record brilliant enough and make my status more important. Some people have to respect me more, rely on me, let my words be loud enough. Let my living space be big enough."

"Then what are you waiting for? Let's pursue them. Otherwise, they will stop and occupy Baoding and defend it. By then, you will cry."

Lu Mou jumped to his feet at that time: "Then what are you waiting for? Let's chase him."

(End of this chapter)