Unparalleled Concubine

The era lasted a very long time.

Even if hot weapons appear, they must gradually replace cold weapons. At least in the fifth year of Yuanzhao, the proportion of cold weapons is much higher than that of new firearms.

Take the Southwest Army as an example. Although the Ningzhou Army and the Hanzhou Army in the Southwest Army have firearms battalions, the number of soldiers in the Firearms Battalion is far inferior to that of the conventional arms. He is a general who can put on armor and charge into battle!

When the enemy rushed to the front of the formation, the Ningzhou Army naturally had no reason to avoid it. Li Shuo directly led his people to charge out. There were few fights, so the command of the Forbidden Army quickly adjusted its formation, and collided with the Ningzhou Army according to the battle formation of close combat.

Compared with the formation of the Forbidden Army, the formation of the Ningzhou Army is much tighter. The three soldiers of the Ningzhou Army form a small team. The three of them relied on each other, advancing and retreating as one, and for a while, they had a slight upper hand in the frontal collision with the forbidden army!

The formation of this three-person team is naturally also written by Li Xin. Although he has never been a soldier in his previous life, he has some knowledge about war. He knows that this three-person team is one of the most efficient combat formations.

Riding on a horse, Li Shuo also rushed into the fighting formation. The slightly fair-skinned general saw that the formation of the imperial army had gathered, so he made a decisive decision and immediately ordered: "The whole army obeys the order and retreats to the main formation. !"

At this time, the Ningzhou Army still had the upper hand on the battlefield, but these Ningzhou Army soldiers quickly demonstrated their military quality. After Li Shuo gave an order, these people immediately retreated in an organized manner, and After the people's palace was separated, the retreat formation was not chaotic, and did not cause a lot of casualties to one's own side.

The position where they fought was only a few hundred steps away from the formation of the Ningzhou Army. After a while, they withdrew from the formation. Around the time, Li Shuo's voice came again: "Throw the sky thunder, throw the sky thunder!"

At this time, the formation of the imperial army was no longer loose, and the throwing soldiers who had been waiting in the formation finally waited for the opportunity, and immediately threw their arms away, and threw ignited thunder towards the formation of the imperial army.

The thunder from the southwest was much more powerful than the thunder from the imperial court. Dozens of hundreds of thunders were thrown down, causing the formation of the slightly concentrated imperial army to be thrown into chaos. After several rounds of thunders were thrown, they chased the Ningzhou Army The forbidden army in the camp immediately knew that something was wrong, and quickly ordered to retreat.

At this time, how could Li Shuo let them go? Several rounds of thunder came down, and when the imperial army retreated in embarrassment, the general of Ningzhou led his men to chase after them, chasing and killing these elite imperial troops!

However, once these Gyeonggi forbidden troops withdrew from the enveloping range of the sky thunder, they began to turn around and fight back, colliding head-on with the Ningzhou army. Apart from their firearms, these forbidden troops were not afraid of the Ningzhou army.

The two sides just come and go, and the battle is extremely stalemate!

At the same time, Li Xin, who cleared out the imperial cavalry on both wings, also brought several hundred firecrackers to the frontal battlefield. Li Xin quickly ordered these firecrackers to stand in front of the throwing soldiers, in the direction of hundreds of firecrackers, All aimed in the direction of the forbidden army.

Li Shuo led people into the front line, and Li Xin took over the command of the rear. He led hundreds of firecrackers and nearly a thousand throwers, and began to be under the protection of shield soldiers. Push forward slowly.

Once covered by the firearms of the Southwest Army, the Gyeonggi Forbidden Army will slowly retreat, but as soon as they withdraw, Li Shuo and others will find an opportunity to bite them hard.

After a few rounds, the formation of the Gyeonggi Forbidden Army gradually became a little disorganized.

Finally, in the afternoon, the Gyeonggi Forbidden Army couldn't hold on anymore. The general who was in charge of leading the troops this time waved his hand, and the Forbidden Army began to call for gold.

At this time, the situation in Ningzhou on the battlefield was completely improved, and the formation of the forbidden army was scattered. It was impossible to pose any threat to the Ningzhou Army camp in a short time. The Southwest Army on the battlefield was in an overall advantage, and even some archers, They all began to move forward slowly, chasing the retreating imperial army.

A battle of tens of thousands of people is extremely spectacular. Even if one of the parties wants to withdraw, because the number is too large, it is impossible to withdraw immediately. The forbidden army is under the command of its general, leaving thousands of people behind. Slowly withdraw into the capital.

Li Shuo was unforgiving, his face was covered with blood, and he led someone to bite the tail of the imperial army, and after more than an hour, another two to 3000 imperial soldiers died at the hands of the Ningzhou army.

Even so, the battle continued from morning to evening. After the sun had almost set, the Southwest Army gave up their pursuit and began to retreat slowly.

The sun slanted to the west, shining on a messy battlefield. Looking around, apart from the smoke, dust and scorched earth, all that could be seen were corpses.

Li Shuo, who was covered in blood, fought for a whole day. Although he had rested a few times, he was still a little out of strength. After the soldiers of the two sides completely broke off contact, the general of the Ningzhou Army was breathing heavily, and his body was a little weak. Limp on the ground.

Li Xin, who was wearing a black armor, walked over, bent over and squatted beside Li Shuo, first checked Li Shuo's injuries, and after finding no particularly large wounds, he asked, "Is there any serious problem? "

"fine."

Li Shuo sat on the ground, gasping for breath: "Big... most of them are the blood of the enemy."

Ordinary people without training, fighting life and death for a quarter of an hour, under the rush of adrenaline, may have to lose strength, let alone Li Shuo who fought almost all day, unless it is a natural fierce brother like Ye Mao Otherwise, it would be very rare to be able to do what Li Shuo did.

Even Li Xin, who has practiced Neijiaquan for more than ten years, will probably not be much stronger than Li Shuo when he leads troops into the battle.

"You are General Ningzhou, you just need to sit in the rear and command, there is no need to be so... desperate."

Sitting on the ground, Li Shuo had already recovered a bit. His voice was a little hoarse due to dehydration: "Brother said, the Ningzhou Army should fight better, and the Hanzhou Army should not let the Hanzhou Army gossip..."

"The generals of the Ningzhou Army... most of them are the old troops of the Pingnan Army. If I don't take the lead, they...will not make any effort."

Li Xin frowned, untied the water bag from his waist, handed it to Li Shuo, and said, "Since you know this, you can't use all the people from the Pingnan Army as generals. It has disappeared, and you, Li Shuo, are not trying to rebuild the Pingnan Army, use what should be used, and don’t use what should not be used, you are the general of Ningzhou, you should control people, not others."

Li Shuo took a long sip of water, then covered the water bag, panting.

"Brother... the lesson is."

At this time, he looked around the battlefield, and said with a wry smile: "The elite level of the forbidden army is far beyond my imagination. They can forcefully hold their firearms without retreating, and still charge forward. If it wasn't like this, I wouldn't have led People go out and fight them hard."

Having said that, he looked up at Li Xin, and asked, "Brother, how is this battle...?"

General Li looked in the direction of the capital and murmured.

"Perhaps...beautiful enough."

Chapter 1085 Hidden weapon

The so-called beautiful enough means that the result of this battle may not be great enough, but it must be won simply and neatly, so that everyone in the capital and the world can see the combat effectiveness of the Southwest Army.

This is very important to Li Xin, or to the Southwest Army, because nominally, they are not here to rebel, but to clean up the root cause!

During the Shenyan Rebellion in the first year of Yuanzhao, two people, Shen Kuan and Shouzhuo, led the civil officials of the Manchu Dynasty to almost force Emperor Yuanzhao to step down from the throne. , being able to achieve this level shows the influence of Shen and Yan in the court.

In fact, since Zhang Qu and Zhang Haoran left the court, Shen Yan at that time had replaced Zhang Qu's position and became the leader of the literary world and the head of hundreds of officials. Influence.

That year, if Li Xin hadn't been such an "unreasonable hand" who entered the court without reason at all, and directly convicted the two ministers appointed by the former emperor, maybe they would have really abolished the emperor and established a new one. up.

Because these two people had countless former disciples, even after the Son of Heaven came to power, he had no choice but to not pursue the members of Shen Yan's party. As a result, there are still many disciples of these two people in the court today.

Although the imperial court did not clean them up on the surface, but Shen Yan and his wife did such a thing, it is only natural that these disciples and grandchildren were implicated. A little bit, Yu Shitai has found fault with various reasons, lost his job and even went to jail.

The two of Shen and Yan are serving the Sixth Prince, and the Southwest Army is also serving the Sixth Prince. If the Southwest Army shows enough combat effectiveness, the civil servants in the court or in the opposition will choose to stand by Li Xin's side. The "severe change" of that year continued.

As for the old story of Li Xin personally killing Shen Yan and his wife, in the face of absolute interests, these people will naturally selectively forget it.

In the future, even if someone brings up the matter of Li Xin killing Shen Yan and the two of them, most of these people will jump out and say something.

"The crime of Yuanzhao, the Marquis of Jing'an is also beyond his control."

Of course, these are all things to say later, but the Ningzhou Army has fought very beautifully in this battle, so beautiful that Li Xin's plan can go smoothly.

After the imperial army retreated, the Ningzhou army began to clean the battlefield. Because Li Shuo was exhausted, Li Xin took over the cleaning of the battlefield. General Li walked on the battlefield in person, looked at the corpses all over the ground, and sighed slowly.

"Sort up the soldiers of our Southwest Army, record their names and register, don't miss out on pensions, and don't bury the corpses of the Forbidden Army hastily, send them to the five miles of the capital, and let the people of the Forbidden Army in the capital take their corpses back .”

The so-called cleaning the battlefield in this era usually means that the victor walks on the battlefield with a knife, and when he encounters a person wearing the enemy's clothes, no matter whether he can move or not, he will directly make up for it with a knife. If they are brought back, those who have died or are seriously injured can't be saved, and they will even be repaired with a knife to give them a good time.

Then dig a big pit and bury the bodies of both sides in it to prevent a large-scale plague.

However, under Li Xin's command, the Southwest Army's cleanup of the battlefield is not like this. Dead or alive, they were all thrown by carts used by the Southwest Army five miles away from the capital, and then the people in the capital were notified to come and receive the corpses.

This was done because Li Xin had led the Right Battalion of the Forbidden Army for seven years, and the two Zhechong Mansions that left the city today were both Zhechong Mansions of the Right Battalion of the Forbidden Army, who died under the firearms of the Southwest Army. Many of them were from his old ministry back then. Li Xin didn't have any thoughts of compassion, but since he was dead, he simply threw it to the court and let the people of the court deal with it.

Secondly, doing so can also indirectly tell the people in the capital that the Southwest Army is not a villain.