Lu Ming

Seeing the playful smile on the face of the burly man opposite, who seemed to be very familiar with him, Zuo Liangyu blinked, not wanting to understand.

After saying something inconsequential, Qian Tieshan stopped joking and started talking about business: "I know what you're here for. Go back and tell Ma Jinglue that my Cao Zongbing was injured in a battle with the Tartars a few days ago, and it's inconvenient right now." See you."

Qian Tieshan showed no shame when he said this: "It's getting late now, and the security is tight. Who knows if there will be Tartars coming to grab the head again... Why don't you wait until tomorrow morning, and then invite Mr. Ma to come to discuss the matter."

"This, I'm afraid this is inappropriate?"

Zuo Liangyu was dumbfounded.

He never thought beforehand that there would be such a crazy thing: a deputy general dares to ask Wu Jinglue, who is in charge of the soldiers and horses of the kings of all roads, to wait outside the city overnight before meeting him?

It was as if the commander of the army had blocked the commander of the group army who came to inspect him from the defense area. He had completely lost his superiority and inferiority. It was almost a rebellion!

However, Qian Tieshan didn't respond to Zuo Liangyu's words at all, and continued to say: "I warn you, don't make any trouble at night. The road in front of the city is now allowed to take small groups of horses. If there are any changes in soldiers and horses , the gun has no eyes!"

After finishing speaking, Qian Tieshan turned around and left as soon as he pulled the rein, leaving Zuo Liangyu standing at the foot of the city, puzzled.

The transmigration crowd is so domineering, not because the heads of Tartars are inflated, but there are other reasons that are not easy to talk about-delaying time.

Of course, this kind of action will definitely be interpreted by the generals of the Ming Dynasty as domineering, but it's just that the crossing people don't care, or in other words, it's exactly what they want.

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After the helpless Zuo Liangyu went back, he told Ma Shilong everything Qian Tieshan had said, and then he swore that he would not change a single word.

At this moment, Ma Shilong was still sitting on the boulder, but he had an extra handful of bullets collected from the corpse in his hand.

Ignoring Zuo Liangyu, the old horse picked out a deformed warhead from his palm, took a closer look at the copper-plated armor around the warhead under the afterglow of the setting sun, nodded and said, "He's a rich man."

Speaking of this, he got up and looked around: "People don't allow them to enter the city, there is probably a reason for not allowing them to enter. The old man is still in good health, and he is not afraid of sleeping in the open for a night. Let's make arrangements for ourselves."

Although the generals around him were a little surprised by the old horse's soft attitude, no one jumped out to pretend to be aggressive-now everyone knows that there are a group of killing gods in the Santun camp, did they jump out to die?

As for the domineering Cao Zongbing, because of the many Tartar heads, his level is already very high, as high as several floors.No matter what kind of filth there is with the boss, it must be resolved in the court, and it has nothing to do with everyone.

So following the old horse's order, three thousand cavalry and tens of thousands of infantry began to set up a camp in the mountain road.

At this moment, on the mountain road to the east of Santunying, the sound of rumbling horseshoes came again... the old grandson came.

Lao Suntou, holding the banner of "Sun" on his back, brought the veteran Zhu Mei all the way from Yongping, and almost broke Lao Suntou's old bones.

After finally reaching the ground, in the golden light of the setting sun, seeing the long road of corpses and piles of human heads in front of Santunying City, Old Suntou was also dumbfounded?

Fortunately, the old horse on the opposite side found Lao Suntou in time, so the old horse rode the horse himself, fearing that the city leader would misunderstand and shoot him again, so he brought only one soldier and rushed over across the road of death.

Then Lao Suntou saw his close comrade-in-arms Ma Huihui, and after hearing everything that happened in the city, he was stunned on the spot: he is a deputy commander, and if he has some Tartar heads on hand, he dares to despise the boss , not even let in the door?Santunying is not your Cao family's!

However, the old grandson only lost his temper for 2 minutes, and then he became discouraged.Lao Sun came here from Yongping, so he knows better than Lao Ma how many Tartar heads are in the hands of the crossing crowd—there are so many heads, that, it seems, the arrogance is also arrogant, as if the two old men, What can't be done to the person surnamed Cao?

That night, on the left and right sides of the Santun camp, in the tents on the mountain road, there were respectively the Grand Scholars and Wu Jinglue resting.And a certain deputy chief soldier with a small rank and low rank slept soundly on the Babu bed in the back house of the general soldier's mansion after eating barbecue, like a child.

Chapter 462 Contact and Attitude

On the morning of April 4th, after a round of courier exchanges and confirmation of the reception specifications and number of people, the south gate of the Santun camp opened wide, and Cao Zongbing, dressed in a red official robe, led his entourage out of the suspension bridge.

In front of Zongbing Cao, two teams of men and horses were slowly approaching along the two sidelines of the triangle, and when they approached the front, they formed a team.

The total number of these two teams is 200 people, including most of the generals under the command of Lao Suntou and Lao Ma, as well as some personal servants.Therefore, these 200 people are fully worthy of a famous name: Daming Guangfu receives a delegation of senior officials.

Seeing the two big men walking in, Mr. Cao didn't get off his horse at this time, but after laughing, he bent down and clasped his fists, sat on the horse and bowed and bowed: "Cao Chuan sees the Great Scholars, sees Ma Jinglue!"

Sun Chengzong and Ma Shilong were also smiling at the moment, clasping their hands together, as if they didn't feel the slight faux pas of the other party: "Lord Cao, excuse me."

After saluting each other, Old Man Sun sat on the horse, looked him up and down, and then said with a smile: "As expected of a strong general who can defeat the Empress Jin army, he is indeed a good-looking talent!"

"Hehe, my lord, please come to the city quickly."

The first exchange of pleasantries between the two parties ended in a very harmonious situation.Then, under the guidance of Cao Zongbing, Sun Ma led his men and rode their horses one by one into the south gate of Santun Camp.

After several days of rough cleaning in the city, the bloodstains and odds and ends on the streets are gone, and it looks much cleaner and tidier.The only downside is that it has no popularity and is empty like a ghost town.

The three teams entered the gate of the General Military Mansion and dismounted one after another in the school field, and then the outsiders saw the baskets of human heads randomly placed aside.

After the hard work of hundreds of laborers and night battles with lights on, a total of 1500 Shuotuo soldiers' heads have now been pickled and ready to be packed and shipped to the capital.

However, the things that are already commonplace in the time-traveling crowd produced a strong visual shock to Sun Chengzong and his party.

Ever since the old slave's thirteen sets of armor raised his troops, how had Daming ever had such brilliant results?Not to mention 1500, even 150 real Tartar heads at one time, that is a remarkable achievement.

Moreover, everyone in the receiving group now knows that this person surnamed Cao has won no less than 2000 heads in the three cities of Yongping, and there is a high probability that the head of the gold medal VIP Amin is among them!

At this time, Sun Chengzong couldn't hold back the excitement in his heart.

He strode to the basket, picked up a few heads and looked at them, then turned around and said to someone emotionally: "All are real Tartars, good, good, this is an incomparable achievement! Chuan, you came from the sea, and you can do such a feat in the frontier, and you will be my No.1 general!"

Since he spoke to the point, Zhang Dongdong naturally had to be a little humble: "I still rely on the willingness of my brothers to work hard, and I will thank the boss for his ridiculous praise here."

"Cao Chuan, you don't need to be too modest." At this time, Ma Shilong, who was inspecting the head on the side, also said with approval: "Our military generals can make such great achievements. When the capital is boasting of its achievements and becoming famous all over the world, why do you need to be that little man?" Children's attitude."

"Yes, Cao Chuan was taught the classics!"

This scene on the school grounds surprised a few of the time-travelers who were present - it seems that the attitude of the two bosses is very good today, and they are not as difficult and harsh as imagined, and they also express their approval of General Cao's military exploits... Isn't this beyond the expectations of the traveling crowd?Shouldn't it be so smooth?Shouldn't we come to grab some points?

In fact, the cross-travelers misjudged the positions of the two bosses a bit: when they came today, they didn't intend to seek trouble, but came to discuss the matter as it stands.

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As the saying goes, once the emperor and the courtiers.

Back then, the reason why Sun Chengzong was able to transform from a pedant of the Imperial Academy overnight into a military minister and supervise the defense of Liaodong was not because of his great talent, rough bones, but because he was the daily lecturer of Emperor Zhu Youxiao of the Apocalypse Officer (private teacher) only.

After Sun Chengzong served as the supervisor of Liaodong, he not only launched the strategy of training troops and repairing the city step by step, but also presided over the construction of the national fortress defense system of the West Liaoning Corridor with Ningyuan as the core.

Regardless of whether this set of strategic systems worked for Houjin, in short, the Ningjin Defense Line and the Guanning Warlord Group, which swallowed up the huge financial resources of the Ming Empire, developed and grew stronger in the hands of Sun Chengzong.

In charge of such a huge amount of power to dispatch national resources, Lao Suntou had considerable power at that time. At the peak, even Nine Thousand Years Old had to shy away from him, not daring to trace his edge.

It was already a few years later in 1625 when the old grandson was finally removed from power by Jiuqiantui and driven back to his hometown.In this regard, before being forced to retire, Zhu Youxiao also specially ordered to add officials to the ranks and bestow silver coins on python clothes. It can be said that the old grandson returned to his hometown with honor, a standard retirement model for big bosses.

Two years later, Lao Sun's good student/general backstage/carpenter emperor fell into the water and died, Chongzhen came to power, and then Lao Sun was completely at ease... Note that under normal circumstances, the new emperor will not use the former power ministers again .

As a result, no one expected that Hou Jin entered the customs.

After a long period of peace in the Ming Dynasty, Jin entered the customs for the first time, and the psychological shock it brought to the emperor and the common people was incomparable.So Chongzhen, who was completely panicked, no longer cared about his taboos. It was a temporary sign that the 67-year-old grandson came out to be an official and resumed his post, and was the commander-in-chief of Qin Wang's army.

Old Suntou's friend Ma Huihui also makes a comeback at the same time.

The above are the reasons why Sun and Ma can stand in the General Military Mansion of Santunying today.

But the misjudgment of the people across the board is: in fact, Lao Sun and Lao Ma have already been laid off to a certain extent.

Yes, after the two communicated yesterday, they suddenly discovered that all the enemy-occupied cities in the Ming Dynasty had been recovered in the past two days.So theoretically speaking, their temporary core official position of "Prime Minister Qin Wang Bingma" has lost most of its meaning, a bit like the "lame predecessor" who is still in the post for the last few days after the next president is elected. ".

As for what will happen afterwards, it depends on Chongzhen's own attitude, no one can say for sure.Chongzhen can let Lao Suntou immediately step down and return to his hometown, or he can reassign his duties after disbanding Qin Wangjun.

Although Chongzhen, who was far away in the capital, did not know the current situation, both Sun Ma and the generals present knew it.The two of them, who had grown old in the officialdom, knew in their hearts that it was inconvenient for them to use their identities to make any important decisions, especially the decision about this Zongbing Cao.

If you force it, the person surnamed Cao will go to meet the emperor right away. All the decisions that are not conducive to the other party will not only have no effect, but will also be used by the surname Cao to inject eye drops in front of the emperor. The eight-pound pot is so many.

In addition, there is the most important point: there is no need for Sun Ma and Cao Zongbing to fight each other for nodding heads.

You must know that the positions of the two have reached the level of the commander-in-chief and deputy commander-in-chief of the theater.Since Cao Chuan's nature is Qin Wangbing, he is his natural subordinate.No matter how many heads of the Tartars were beheaded, the two commanders would not lose one point of their credit for directing the planning. The more heads were beheaded, the happier Sun Ma would be.

So, in fact, in the overall situation, the current interests of Sun Ma and Cao Zongbing are unified.

Of course, the reason why the two of them praised Cao Zongbing vigorously just now is that apart from the issue of interests, the emotion from the heart is also indispensable-Sun Ma is a person who has dealt with Tartars for many years, and they know too well how much The difficulty of a thousand heads.

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After the scene on the school field ended, the atmosphere between the two parties calmed down a lot, and then everyone went to the lobby of the General Military Mansion, leaving the rest of the irrelevant people waiting in the lobby, Cao Zongbing and Sun Ma Erwei went straight to the second hall commune.

This action is reasonable: the department managers who go out to work must report to the company, and they must meet with the general manager alone at the first time. After the conversation between the two parties, a well-communicated report will be presented on the chairman's desk.

Now, the time has come for Manager Cao to report to the two managers in the region.

After the three sat down in the second hall, the guards in green coats brought tea to the adults.

Old Sun picked up the tea and didn't get down to business, but curiously asked about the attire of these green-coated soldiers and pied-clothed soldiers.

Cao Zongbing has long been prepared.As for the hairstyle, he still used the old routine of "monk soldiers" to fool him.

Regarding those soldiers in floral clothes, Zhang Dongdong clearly told Lao Sun that these were "not received at night" by his personal guards and troops, and the reason for wearing floral clothes was to hide in the environment.As for the effect, if you are interested, you can check it yourself afterwards.

Sun Chengzong, a civil servant, was not interested in this answer, but Ma Shilong, who was born as a military officer, was interested in taking a look at the efficacy of the flower dress afterwards.

After finishing the idle talk and drinking some tea, Sun Chengzong started to get down to business.

First of all, he asked Cao Zongbing to state the whole process of destroying the Tartars.

This requirement will definitely be met, so Cao Zongbing, who had been prepared for a long time, immediately began to report, including all the passages, combat plans, and campaign processes of the crossing people since they sent troops to Tianjin, including annihilating 5000 enemies and "received" 4000 heads. All these details were told one by one.

Most of the process happened in the real world, and there is nothing hidden here, and all of them are described.

Among them, there are two places where "artistic processing" has been done.

One is to add the bridge section in which the surrendered general Li Jichun should cooperate with outsiders to eliminate the Tartars in Yongping, and single-handedly kill Shuotuo in the Wuming Valley.

Neither of the two commanders paid much attention to this part of the story. The matter was too trivial to be worth bothering about.

The point is the next one.

Because of the goodwill gained in the school ground just now, General Cao chose a more "harmonious" plan to describe this battle: this battle was agreed by the two commanders in advance.As for the evidence... There was a letter between Lao Suntou and Cao, which is a plausible reason.

After Cao Zongbing finished his duty report, he picked up the tea bowl, bowed his head and drank it.

Now that the friendship has been released, it depends on whether the two commanders accept the move.

After Sun Chengzong and Ma Huihui looked at each other, they tapped their fingers on the tabletop and meditated silently, and the hall was completely silent.

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Cao Zongbing's key sentence just now has filled the big loophole that the two commanders did not participate in the battle beforehand. It is equivalent to Cao's endorsement of Sun and Ma's contribution to the battle command and their participation in the plan in advance.

This statement actually cost nothing to the people who traveled through time.As mentioned above, no matter what, the Cao family belongs to King Qin's soldiers and horses, and Sun Ma and Sun Ma cannot take away their strategic achievements.

So now is the best situation: the two sides didn't fall out because of any bullshit, and the cross-travelers don't have to take pains to thank Sun Ma, and expose Sun Ma's old background to the emperor, saying that the two are dead, and have nothing to do with the result of the battle.

In this way, it was tantamount to the district manager and the general manager having confessed to each other, digesting possible conflicts in private.In the future, everyone will submit their reports to Chairman Daming, so that there will be no scenes of mutual criticism in terms of content.

However, there is no such thing as a free lunch.

If Sun Ma and Sun Ma received this huge and incomparable fruit, then everyone would be bound in this matter.Any troubles related to Cao in the future, especially the pressure from the Donglin Party in the court, as a veteran general of Donglin, Lao Suntou will be responsible for settling it!

So the old grandson fell into deep thought in silence.

Chapter 463

Sitting on the chair, Zhang Dongdong looked at the silent Sun Chengzong in front of him, and the bearded face which is rare among literati, and felt a little emotional in his heart.

As far as personal integrity is concerned, people who travel through time generally admire the old grandson as a man.In history, after Lao Suntou completely returned to his hometown and retired, in the 11th year of Chongzhen (1638), Houjin invaded Hebei and Gaoyang County was besieged.

Facing the besieging army, at the age of 76, Lao Suntou led his whole family and common people to the city to resist. Then the city was broken and captured, hanged himself to death, and more than a hundred members of the Sun family were killed at the same time.

In addition, Sun Chengzong's political integrity is still passable.Although he is a member of the Donglin Party, Lao Suntou basically doesn't get involved in those bullshit political strife, but concentrates on improving the Ningjin defense line and opposing Houjin.

But when it comes to Ning Jin's line of defense, it's Lao Sun's fault.

Judging from the results, the Ningjin Defense Line and Guanning Army, which cost a huge amount of money, not only accelerated the financial collapse of the Ming Empire, but also failed strategically.

In fact, from the moment Hou Jin entered the customs for the first time, Lao Suntou's theory was tantamount to bankruptcy.Ning Jin's line of defense was bypassed, and it neither played an offensive role nor a defensive role, it was completely a display.

In military affairs, the usefulness of the protruding part is to attract the enemy's firepower, and to contain the opponent.

The so-called containment is not only about digging trenches and repairing the city walls, waiting for the enemy to deliver the head, but also cutting off the opponent's logistics and copying the enemy's lair when the opponent intends to forcibly bypass you.

This is the greatest significance of the existence of the salient: to make the enemy dare not go deep.

But in this Jisi change, the whole family of the Houjin army dispatched to the capital, and the Ningjin line of defense, as the salient part, did not attract firepower, and did not send even 5000 cavalry to raid Houjin's lair. After being forced, Jin returned to aid.

The defense was bypassed, and the attack did not dare to change positions... What is the use of Ning Jin's defense line?Everyone has hit the capital! ?

If in World War II, the Soviet army had already reached Berlin, would the German army still have legions in Poland?Isn't that a fool?The country is going to perish! ?

You can't expect your opponents to bump into the fort with their heads up every day. This strategy of shrinking behind the wall and waiting for fools to touch it is good if it works once.

Therefore, Lao Suntou's fortress tactics in the West Liao Corridor actually went bankrupt a long time ago, but it was only revealed in this war.

However, this is useless: the Ningjin Defense Line and the Guanning Army, which swallowed up the huge amount of money of the Ming Empire, have already spawned a huge related interest group, and now it is not just anyone who can revoke it, not even the emperor.

Don't ask, if you ask, you will die in the water.

Then a funny situation came into being: Da Ming took more than half of his annual income, several million taels of silver to fill the Ningjin defense line desperately, while the Tatars came to the capital every two years to wander around the capital, killing as far as the Shandong border, grabbing enough went home.

What does this line of defense prevent?