Unparalleled Concubine

Li Shuo returned to his tent, closed his eyes and took a nap for a while, then opened them quickly, and continued to command the frontline soldiers.

The sky slowly brightened.

The two sides had been fighting head-on since the time of Chou, and had been fighting for two or three hours. When the sun was fully up, there was only a group of forbidden soldiers left on the court side, who were chased and killed by the Southwest Army, and fled back to the capital in embarrassment.

After these imperial troops fled to a distance of 34 miles near the capital, Li Shuo ordered not to pursue them, and then the Southwest Army began to clean up the battlefield.

Around noon, the Ningzhou Army roughly counted the results of the battle. The deputy general of the Ningzhou Army came to Li Shuo's tent, bowed his head and cupped his fists: "General Li, the soldiers and horses of the imperial court last night were from the two zhechong mansions of the left battalion of their forbidden army. Of the more than 6000 people, only [-] escaped, and the rest were killed by our army, about [-], and thousands were seriously injured, and the rest were captured by the brothers."

This deputy general, who was also the general of the Pingnan Army back then, was very happy to win the court at this time. He said with a smile: "According to the general's order, these captive brothers have not touched them, and they have all been placed. General, you Look, do you want to send someone to send them to Luzhou?"

"After clearing out the specific number, send them to Luzhou together."

Li Shuo frowned and asked, "How about our casualties?"

The lieutenant general smiled and said: "Our army has four or five thousand dead, and two or three thousand serious injuries."

To be honest, this number is not very good. After all, the Southwest Army ambushed and attacked first, and also used a lot of firearms. However, Li Shuo was quite satisfied. He nodded and said, "After counting a specific number , send it to me, and I will forward it to the general."

"The last will obey!"

The deputy general was just about to leave when Li Shuo suddenly remembered something and asked, "By the way, did you ask, who was the general who led the Imperial Guard's troops last night?"

The lieutenant stopped, turned around and cupped his fists at Li Shuo.

"If the general doesn't say anything, the last general almost forgot!"

He grinned: "Last night the imperial court led the troops, it was Hou Jingde, the left camp general of the Forbidden Army. It was dark last night, so I couldn't see clearly. The general didn't realize until the end of the day today. This general Hou was not very lucky. It exploded near him and knocked him out on the spot, and now he has been brought back to the camp by the brothers and put together with the captives."

"Hou Jingde..."

Li Shuo lowered his head and thought for a while, then suddenly remembered this person, he said slowly: "I know this person, he is one of the two generals of the Imperial Imperial Army, he seems to have some friendship with the great general, you ask the military doctor to diagnose and treat him, If there is no danger, send someone to send him to Luzhou and hand him over to the general."

The deputy general bowed his head respectfully: "The last general will do it."

After saying this, he grinned at Li Shuo.

"To tell you the truth, General, the last general has been in the army for decades, and it's the first time that I have fought so happily. If I had these firearms in the Pingnan Army back then..."

He was interrupted by Li Shuo frowning in the middle of his speech.

"Okay, go down and do business, don't talk too much."

Chapter 1072 Old Brother!

The first battle of the Ningzhou Army was very beautiful.

As a general, Li Shuo not only predicted in advance that the Forbidden Army might attack the camp, but also made an almost perfect response. In just a few hours, he completely defeated the two Zuoying Forbidden Army who had broken into the mansion!

You know, when Li Xin and Ye Ming led the troops to the west and crossed Motianling to attack Jiangyou Pass, they only brought three Zhechong mansions with them. The Western Expeditionary Army led by him was even worse than that.

Under such circumstances, the two Zhechong mansions were destroyed at the touch of a touch. Of course, the firearms are inseparable from the credit, but it is also inseparable from Li Shuo's calm response. After this battle, I dare not say anything else, at least including All the Hanzhou Army, including Muying, had nothing to gossip about.

After the battle, the Ningzhou Army did not advance to the capital, but rested on the spot. On the one hand, it was waiting for Li Xin's next order, and on the other hand, it was also clearing up the results of this battle, and waiting to see the next move of the capital. .

The capital's attitude towards the Southwest Army has always been conservative. It is foreseeable that after this "testing", the imperial court may be determined to defend the city and will not send troops out of the city to confront the Southwest Army head-on.

The whole two Zhechong mansions were torn apart by the Southwest Army in one night!

When the Xianbei tribe invaded the border of the Great Jin last year, it took almost half a year to break through the Jimen Pass. With a quarter of the fighting strength of the Zhenbei Army, if nothing else, just based on this battle, General Li Shuo of Ningzhou is enough to become a famous general in the world. thing.

After this battle, the atmosphere of panic in the capital became more and more intense, and many dignitaries and dignitaries had already tried various methods to escape from the capital.

Even the courtiers in the court, after seeing this situation, felt a little bit of fear in their hearts, worried that at some point, the Southwest rebels would break into the capital, and the country would change hands.

Some scumbags have already begun to think of ways to protect themselves, or are ready to surrender to the rebels outside the city at any time. The smarter officials have already met with Ningling Hou Ye Lin in private and began to show their favor to this Ye Hou Ye.

However, there is still no news from Weiyang Palace.

A small group of people standing at the pinnacle of power in the Jin Dynasty, from the ministers in the Shangshutai to the Jiuqing in the court, have entered the palace to meet the emperor more than once, but the emperor always said one word , asked the old general Zhong Xuantong to take full responsibility for the defense of the city, but the emperor himself not only did not make up his mind on this matter, but instead devoted himself to the prison, often not in Weiyang Palace for several days in a row.

The prime ministers at Shangshutai knew more or less why the emperor was in prison every day, but even if they knew, these prime ministers still didn’t quite understand. The Southwest Army is negotiating, rather than trying to get out the Southwest's firearms at this juncture.

Even if the Son of Heaven can really get it out, it's too late in time.

Therefore, several ministers entered the palace one after another, asking the emperor to send envoys to negotiate with the southwestern rebels, but the emperor always ignored them.

It's not that Emperor Yuanzhao has backbone, but that he sent Ye Lin to see Li Xin more than ten days ago. Emperor Yuanzhao had no way to agree to Li Xin's request, so he didn't continue the negotiation. It is necessary to go down.

However, after repeated letters from several prime ministers, the emperor still agreed to send envoys out of the city to negotiate. However, he didn't expect much from this, and he still wanted to get the same type of firearm from the southwest.

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On the other side of Luzhou City, General Li, dressed in black, was sitting beside a big man's bed. Seeing the big man slowly waking up, Li Xin was also slightly relieved, and he smiled dumbly: "Old brother finally woke up!" Now, if something happens to you, I won’t be able to talk to my nephews in your family in the future.”

The one who woke up slowly was naturally Hou Jingde.

Hou Jingde has practiced martial arts since he was a child, and his body is strong, which may only be inferior to that of a strong brother like Ye Mao. It stands to reason that he is unlikely to faint for such a long time, but after all, he is old, and he was exploded by Tianlei close to him, which caused a huge impact It just stunned him directly.

At this time, he was not only shocked, but because the sky thunder was too close, he was also scratched by pottery shards, but at this time they were all wrapped up with white cloth.

After he woke up, he looked left and right first, and then he saw the appearance of the person sitting beside his bed. Hou Jingde struggled to sit up, but his whole body was in severe pain. After frowning, he lay down again.

Seeing this, Li Xin shook his head at him, and said, "Old brother's bones are a little bit shifted, and he still has many traumas on his body. It's better not to move at this moment, and heal his wounds with peace of mind."

The average life expectancy in this era is only 50 to [-] years old. People like Hou Jingde's age can already be regarded as old people. For an old man of his age, it is estimated that one life will be ten to eighty-nine, that is, Hou Jingde Be healthy and strong, otherwise, if you don't die this time, you will lose half your life.

After Hou Jingde looked around several times, he finally confirmed where he was. He lay on the bed, took a deep look at Li Xin, and said with a wry smile, "The last time I saw Brother Li was during the Taikang years. I didn't expect you My brother met again, and it turned out to be like this."

Li Xin shook his head helplessly: "If I had known that you were leading the army, elder brother, I would have told my subordinates not to hurt you no matter what."

He pulled Hou Jingde's sleeve, and said with emotion: "Back then, the old Habayashi Guard, I'm afraid only my brother and I are left."

Hou Jingde can only lie down now, and his whole body hurts when he moves. He moved his body, resisting the pain on his body, sweating on his face.

He followed suit with a sigh.

"Back then... it was Brother Li who brought the brothers of Habayashi Wei to participate in the palace change. After the incident, most of the brothers of Habayashi Wei came out of Habayashi Guard and became officials. At that time, the brothers of Habayashi Wei all recognized Brother Li You, what the big guy thinks is that in the future in the court, with Brother Li taking care of you, we rough people from the Habayashi guard may also have a future, but I didn't expect that things would happen so quickly in just over ten years. It has become what it is today.”

Speaking of this, Hou Jingde shook his head slightly, and said with a wry smile: "Now I understand that your brother Li's ambition is far more than the leader of the Habayashi Guards. You want too much."

Li Xin shook his head slightly.

"Brother, if there is a way for me to survive in the capital, I'm still in the capital, happily being my Marquis of Jing'an, why would I bring my whole family to do this kind of head-scratching business?"

"People are forced out."

General Li said with emotion: "When I was working under the old brother's errand, how could I have imagined that I would have today?"