Unparalleled Concubine

At the same time, you can also tell the soldiers of the Right Battalion of the Forbidden Army that he, Li Xin, still remembers his love for the incense back then.

But doing so is not without disadvantages, that is, the people of the Ningzhou Army will feel a little uncomfortable. They also died, but they came to the capital from Hanzhong not far away, and the dead can only be buried on the spot , but the corpses of their enemies may be sent back to their homes, which makes the Ningzhou army who cleaned the battlefield feel somewhat uncomfortable.

The process of cleaning up the battlefield will probably last for a day or two, but by midnight, the approximate battle damage has been calculated. Li Shuo, who has rested, walked into Li Xin's room with a stack of blank paper in his hand. The commander-in-chief bowed slightly: "General, the casualties of our army have been roughly counted."

At this moment, Li Xin was looking through the information sent by Anbu, when he heard that he put down the document in his hand, and asked, "Speak."

Li Shuo lowered his head and said, "In today's daytime battle, about 8000 soldiers of our army were killed, and there were five or six thousand seriously injured."

"Minor injuries are not counted for the time being."

Li Xin frowned slightly, and asked, "What about the casualties of the Imperial Guard?"

Li Shuo let out a sigh of relief and said, "The combined casualties of the Imperial Guards in Gyeonggi exceeded 3000, and another [-] or [-] were captured by our army, and the rest fled back to the capital."

If it weren't for firearms, a range-killing weapon, a war of this scale would take at least four or five days or even longer to kill 3 people. , There have been so many casualties!

Li Xin nodded, and said silently: "Send a letter to Zhao Jia, asking him to be in charge of spreading the word to the world, telling the world that our Southwest Army has defeated the forbidden army in Gyeonggi, and defeated the forbidden army in four zhechong mansions within one day."

Today, the Ningzhou Army indeed repelled the four Zhechong mansions in one day. Although the casualties of more than 7 people are not considered a defeat compared to the strength of the four Zhechong mansions of about 2 people, but if they fight again Going down, the imperial army must be fleeing.

Appropriate "exaggeration" is not a bad thing.

However, the Southwest Army is currently fighting, and they don't have the energy to do this kind of "propaganda" work, so they can only leave this matter to Zhao Jia in the rear.

Li Shuo bowed his head and said, "The general understands, and will send someone to send a letter back to the southwest in a while."

"And then there's..."

With a calm expression, Li Xin took a clay pot from the side, put it on his desk, and said, "This is the thunder from the capital."

Li Shuo looked at the clay pot curiously, and said softly, "It looks a little bigger than ours."

Li Xin did not speak, but took out the dagger at his waist, pried off the seal of the earthen pot, tore off the tinder paper on the top of the pot, and poured the medicine powder inside on the table.

The color of the powder is also slightly different from that of the Southwest Army. The powder of the Southwest Army is gray-black, but this powder is brighter.

But these are not the key, the key is that there are iron flakes in these powders!

This is a very vicious method. The sharpness of the iron piece is far higher than that of the pottery piece. It may cut through the iron armor, and once it enters the body, it will be disabled even if it is not dead.

These iron pieces are not clean, and there is rust on them, and a cut could kill a person.

General Li frowned and said, "They added iron pieces to the clay pots, and many of the gunfire soldiers were injured by this kind of iron pieces."

When Li Xin made Tianlei, he also considered adding iron pieces to the clay pot. Although the cost was higher, the lethality would also increase a lot. After all, these iron pieces can bring Tianlei The extremely critical "armor breaking" effect.

Li Shuo picked up a piece of iron and looked at it, then said in a low voice, "It's really powerful, such a thin thing is enough to pierce through most of our army's armor."

As he spoke, he looked up at Li Xin, and asked, "What does the general mean?"

"Adding iron is not an advanced invention. I thought about it more than ten years ago, but out of kindness, I didn't use it."

"Now, the people in the imperial court use it first."

Li Xin narrowed his eyes slightly, and said, "There are also some sky thunders with iron plates in Huzi's place. I will write to Huzi to use the batch of sky thunders with iron plates."

Li Shuo froze for a moment, then suddenly grinned.

"When other great generals have any sharp weapons, they immediately use them to kill the enemy, but you always hide them, brother. With your temperament, you are really not suitable for commanding soldiers."

"Yes."

Li Xin also nodded, and sighed helplessly.

"At first... I just wanted to be a peace officer in peace,"

Chapter 1086 The old friend in Beijing

The Imperial Army has been defending for such a long time. The reason why they will send out four Zhechong Mansions to face the Southwest Army head-on this time is not because they suddenly became courageous, but because the Jiangnan Xiang Army has already come to the capital to serve the king, and the court intends to attack from both sides. , even if the Southwest Army cannot be defeated in one go, the Southwest Army will suffer heavy losses and be forced to retreat.

In this regard, Li Xin's response was also very simple. Li Shuo's Ningzhou Army was responsible for dealing with the frontal forbidden army, while Mu Ying's Hanzhou Army, which was resting in Luzhou, was responsible for blocking the local army behind King Qin.

The Ningzhou army has been supplemented all the way, and the number has already reached 5, which is exactly the same as the number of the four Zhechong mansions. However, Muying's Hanzhou army only had 4 people when it came out of Hanzhong, and it consumed a lot of troops along the way. , especially when attacking Luzhou, there was a lot of damage, and the combat power that can be used now is only [-] to [-].

However, there are about 15 local Xiang troops who came to King Qin!

In terms of numbers, the Hanzhou Army is far inferior to the Xiang Army in these places, but the difficulty of fighting is much easier for the Hanzhou Army than Li Shuo's Ningzhou Army.

First of all, the Xiang army in these places does not have much combat effectiveness, and they basically do not have any ability to deal with firearms, let alone the confidence of the Gyeonggi Forbidden Army to charge forward against firearms.

Therefore, Muying fought this battle quite easily.

He even walked out of the city of Luzhou with the Hanzhou army, and with only 3 people, he faced the local Xiang army rushing to help.

When the fight really started, it was still the routine of the Southwest Army Firearms Battalion that had formed a fixed pattern.

The shield soldiers are in the front, the throwing hands are in the back, and the firecrackers and archers are thicker. With the help of firearms, these Xiang troops, which were originally not in a neat formation, were almost scattered in a single encounter. .

Some Xiang Jun who had never seen the world, saw the sky thunder exploded beside them, killing and wounding their comrades who were still alive and kicking in just a moment, they were so frightened that they were stupid. Lie on the ground on the spot, some even froze in place, not daring to move.

After a few rounds of firearms, the Xiang army was on the verge of being defeated. Mu Ying, wearing black armor, led the elite Hanzhou army, rushing into the formation of the Xiang army like a tiger into a pack of wolves.

The black-faced general's voice was like thunder.

"Disarm and don't kill, disarm and don't kill!"

More than 100 soldiers behind him followed him and shouted on the battlefield: "Disarm and don't kill, disarm and don't kill!"

In fact, Li Xin only asked Mu Ying to lead the Hanzhou army to block these local Xiang armies. He did not give him specific combat instructions, nor did he ask him to accept and surrender these Xiang armies. However, on the way from Hanzhong to Shu, Hanzhou The army was overcoming obstacles in front, but the Ningzhou army followed behind and became a "fat man". Muying looked a little jealous, so taking this opportunity, she also wanted to expand the number of her Hanzhou army.

The military quality of the Xiang army in these places was extremely poor. After being blasted by the sky thunder, they basically lost their fighting ability and the ability to charge again. After being yelled at by Muying and others, some people rushed Drop the tone, kneel down and surrender.

Compared with the whole day-long fierce battle between the Ningzhou Army and the Gyeonggi Forbidden Army, the collision between the Hanzhou Army and these local Xiang armies only took two or three hours before the war ended.

In the end, most of the Xiang army fled, a small part died under the bows and arrows of the Tianlei and the Hanzhou army, and the other part knelt down and surrendered, becoming prisoners of the Hanzhou army.

Mu Ying won the battle neatly, and then took his people back to Luzhou. After settling down the soldiers under his command, he got on his horse and asked the deputy general of the Hanzhou Army to rest and reorganize the army in Luzhou. The scattered Xiang army came again, and he himself rode a horse to the front line where the Ningzhou army was.

Before leaving, he told his lieutenant general that as soon as he received the news, he would immediately prepare to support the Ningzhou Army, and make preparations...to cope with the retreat of the Ningzhou Army.

At times like this, even Mu Ying, who is carefree on weekdays, is inevitably nervous.

The Hanzhou Army faced a group of mobs at the back, but the Ningzhou Army faced the most elite Central Forbidden Army in the entire Jin Dynasty!

If the battle on the front line is unfavorable, even if it is only a small loss, it will be an extremely heavy blow to the morale of the entire Southwest Army. If the Ningzhou Army is defeated, including his Hanzhou Army, they will all withdraw to the Southwest. This time the Eastern Expedition fell short.

The Ningzhou army camp on the front line is about a hundred miles away from Luzhou. Mu Ying rode a fast horse and finally arrived at the Ningzhou army camp in the middle of the night. After arriving at the Ningzhou army camp, he first Looking at the situation of the Ningzhou army camp, seeing that although there were many wounded soldiers in the Ningzhou army camp, not many people were frowning, and many people were still smiling. Mu Ying was somewhat relieved. Led by Li Xin's personal guards, he entered Li Xin's tent.