Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1695 Cutting Yuan (卌九) Counting the Battle Results
The Li family army has always been good at beheading. As for the remnants of the Mongolian army who are stubbornly resisting, they can't make any waves in front of them.However, since it was not justifiable to kill the enemy head-on, Li Rusong himself was not that interested. After leading his troops to launch an attack, he did not go to wipe out the remnants of the Mongolian army in person, but went to meet with Jing Lue Gao Pragmatic.

Li Rusong's temperament is relatively "retro". He insists on a kind of thinking that is very magical in this era. He does not agree or admit that civil servants are more noble than military generals. Civilian group, but only loyal to the emperor.

However, if there is anyone in the current civil servant system who can really restrain Li Rusong, then Gao Yushi should be said to be the one who does his part.The reason for this is extremely simple, not because of the lofty status of Gao Yushi, nor because of the wealth of the world because of Gao Yushi, but because of the illustrious military exploits of Gao Yushi.

In Li Rusong's eyes, Gao Pragmatic's status and wealth have nothing to do with him and cannot be compared.The only thing Li Rusong cared about was military exploits, and it was precisely in this one that Gao Yushi had more confidence than him.In addition to this, there is another point related to this, that is, Li Rusong feels that Gao Yushi himself is a bit different, he is a general who doesn't care so much about the military merits of his subordinates belonging to specific individuals.

To put it simply, Li Rusong believes that Gao Yushi is more fair than others on this point.Then there was another incident that gave Li Rusong a more intuitive understanding of the high level of pragmatic justice.

"Officials do not fear my rigor but fear my integrity, and the people do not accept my ability but my lord. Incorruptibility means that officials dare not be slow, and publicity means that the people dare not bully. Publicity makes bright, and honesty makes prestige." This passage is highly pragmatic. I heard it from Premier Zhu when I was studying the spirit of the Central Committee in my previous life. At that time, I only remembered a motto from the Ming Dynasty, but I didn't care about the specific source.

As a result, his former Shangshu of the Jinhu Department quoted this passage when he checked the warehouse officials. After being accidentally reminded, he realized that it was said by Nianfu, a famous official in the early Ming Dynasty, and that it had been engraved in the inscription.What's even more coincidental is that Nian Gong also served as the Minister of the Household Department.

It wasn’t too long before Gao Yushi served as Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, but after a series of operations such as inventory inventory, integration of financial rights, unified scheduling, and establishment of two new departments and eleven divisions, he finally completed the battle of cutting Yuan in a relatively short period of time. The material preparations were made, and some of the backlog of wages accumulated in the towns of Jiubian in previous years were gradually made up several times, so that the military affairs of Jiubian took on a new look.

Li Rusong, as one of the nine commanders, was very satisfied and shocked at the same time.If the completion of the material preparations for cutting yuan is a manifestation of high practical ability, then making up for the arrears is not only a manifestation of ability, but also a manifestation of his fairness and courage.

To tell you the truth, the Nine Sides arrears of wages has been a long-standing problem, and it has long been dragged into a bad debt. No one thinks that they can find out, let alone make up for it.

However, Gao Wushi did not know where to get many accountants (actually trained by the Jinghua Craftsman School, under the tutelage of Gao Guoyan) to go down to the towns, from the top to the bottom, from the Commander of the Capital, the Commander of the Guard, and the Qianhu Office The [-]-household office went all the way to the most grass-roots general banners and small banners, and thoroughly cleared up the accounts.

Although Gao Yushi did not dwell on the issue of land encroachment by the army this time, the issue of the imperial court's payment arrears was basically cleared up.What is shocking is that in just one town in Liaodong, the imperial court's arrears of payment over the years have been as high as more than 130 million taels, and the accumulated arrears of the entire Nine Borders are as high as more than [-] million taels.

In this regard, Gao Wushi clearly expressed his position in the written reply in the name of the Ministry of Household Affairs: Every tael of silver will be made up, but because the amount is too large, and because some military households are either extinct or have become fugitives. There are some problems such as households, so the household department also needs to discuss the corresponding solutions.Based on a comprehensive measure, it is estimated that it will take ten years to fill in batches in order to completely fill this black hole in the account.

This statement made Gao Wuwu's reputation in the towns of the Nine Borders comparable to that of a god, and even Li Rusong, who had always been conceited, was completely convinced.It is said that whoever gives the money is the master, not to mention that this master is the one who dug out the old account and reissued it, it is simply a master.

"Li Rusong, the last Liaodong general, was ordered to come to help, see Jingtai." Li Rusong is an upright person, since he has no prejudice against Gao Yushi in his heart, he has no arrogance when he sees him. After meeting, he immediately got off his horse and knelt down on one knee.

Gao Wushi also dismounted with a smile, stepped forward to help him up himself, and said: "Yangcheng came at the right time, and you have made great contributions to this victory."

Li Rusong took advantage of the situation and got up, and replied after hearing the words: "The general is just following orders."

"According to orders, take the lead in every battle, this is to be loyal to the king and serve the country." Gao Wushi said, glanced at the battle situation in the rear, pointed to that side, and said to Li Rusong: "Since the city of Yang has arrived, it will be up to you to finish the battle." Come command, the eight soldiers of the Economic Strategy Headquarters are under your control."

For Gao Yushi's arrangement, Li Rusong was quite surprised. He looked around, and all five guerrillas present stepped forward to see him.Li Rusong was even more puzzled, the few people present were almost all under Gao Dang's sect, how could Gao Wushi put them all under his command without even thinking about it?

What does it mean?Shouldn't it be to retreat as an advance, and suddenly turn my Liaodong Army into the economic and strategy headquarters to command?
In fact, if Gao Yushi wanted to use the Liaodong Army as the headquarters of the economic strategy, it would not violate any laws. After all, the Liaodong Army was originally controlled by Gao Yushi in this battle. It is a matter of course for an army to be regarded as the strategic headquarters.

But having said that, after all, everyone knows that Li Rusong of Liaodong is nominally a member of the Xin School, so he thinks it is impossible for Gao Yushi to do so.Impossible and impossible are two different things.

But Li Rusong is Li Rusong after all. Although he was a little surprised, he never refused. He immediately surrendered and accepted the order, then turned around and began to exercise his power, asking: "Commanders, the scriptures say that there are eight You Rong who will obey orders." Yu, there are only five generals here, where are the remaining three generals?"

Ye Bangrong took a small step, clasped his fists and said, "Return to Liao Commander, Hejian's leading guerrilla general Jin Bingyue, and Baoding Cheying guerrilla general Tong Yangzhong's two ambush soldiers in the southern ring mountain. Tianjin Haiphong guerrilla general Chen Can is in the rear."

Li Rusong has no way to comment on the highly pragmatic arrangement. After all, he has just rushed to the battlefield, and he didn't know the situation of the Ming-Mongolian coalition before, so he just nodded slightly after hearing this.Looking at the battle situation of the rear army, he calmly said: "The remaining Mongolian army has no way out. You wait for the order to encircle and wipe them out. Ye Bangrong, you lead the headquarters to blockade the northwest..."

Li Rusong really didn't regard himself as an outsider, since Gao Wushi delegated power, he dared to give orders.Although he had just arrived on the battlefield, he commanded the final battle without ambiguity at all. What surprised Gao Yushi was that Li Rusong was quite cautious, and sent three of the five generals to the western front to avoid being caught. Er people go back and forth to engage in sneak attacks.

It seems that Li Rusong is not only brave in battle, his wisdom is not inferior to any famous general at this time.This is a bit interesting, since he is actually a person with fine details, is there really a problem with his accidental death in battle in history?
It's a pity that this question is highly pragmatic, and I'm afraid I can't get a definite answer. After all, history has been out of line for a long time because of him. There is a high probability that Li Rusong will not have those things in history, so it is naturally difficult to prove anything.

Seeing that Li Rusong's arrangements were quite thorough, Gao Wushi decisively withdrew Gao Funiu's cavalry, and got off his horse to rest on the side.Although he didn't slash anyone with a knife, as a serious civil servant, commanding operations on horseback was still not easy. Now that Li Rusong was doing it for him, he was relieved.

On the contrary, Li Rusong's good energy made him very emotional, some people were really born for the battlefield.This old man came all the way, although this time because he had to go into battle immediately after arriving, he definitely didn't go all out in the second half of the journey, but seeing his energetic appearance, it seems that this journey of thousands of miles is important to him. It's like walking to the bathroom after waking up. It's really amazing that there are specialties in the arts.

The remaining remnants of the Mongolian army did not resist for long. There were only about five thousand of them originally, one thousand of them were defeated by Gao Funiu, and the other four thousand faced Chen Can's insistence and the three verticals who came back to help from the left and right wings. Column also has no advantage in strength.After Brihatu's main force retreated, they were actually abandoned, and they didn't have much fighting spirit in their hearts. They were quickly mopped up by Li Rusong's troops, and they all surrendered.

Originally, they also planned to run away, but it was a pity that on the one hand, the Ming army was fighting inside, on the other hand, Li Rusong's troops were madly suppressing them, and on the other hand, the Ming army on the periphery was waiting in full force under Li Rusong's command. They really couldn't fight, and there was no place to run , can only surrender.

Not long after, Li Rusong came to report the results of the battle to Gao Wushi. At this time, Jin Bingyue and Tong Yangzhong also came back with the ambush that did not play any role in the end.

In the Battle of Lightning Lake, the final strength of the Ming army was [-] cavalry originally from the Economic Strategy Headquarters and [-] cavalry that Li Rusong joined later, totaling [-] cavalry; More than [-].

The final result of the battle was that the Mongolian army lost about 720 to 2000 people, and their injuries are unknown.Of course, the specific number of prisoners was 43 and 970 people, and [-], [-] heads were obtained. The actual battle damage of the enemy that can be reported is [-] people.

The loss of the Ming army was not small, with 490 people killed in battle, 530 people seriously injured, 420 seven people slightly injured, and 36 people missing.Since the seriously injured were all incapacitated and could not recover in a short period of time, the battle losses of the Ming army were killed plus serious injuries and missing, totaling [-] people.

If the Mongolian army had not abandoned the battle because of the sudden arrival of Li Rusong's troops, then the number of prisoners would be hard to come by, that is, the actual battle losses of the Mongolian army might not even be more than that of the Ming army.It can be seen from this that the tactics used by Brihatu in this battle were very successful in theory.

On the other hand, the Ming army's cavalry construction and high-level practical command can be said to have obvious flaws.

According to the highly pragmatic habit, the Ming army made a summary after the war.Gao Yushi first took responsibility for his command mistakes, and he also blamed himself for the problems in the Ming army's cavalry construction. He highly praised the performance of the generals and their officers and soldiers, and praised them for their bravery and outstanding performance in combat.

At the same time, Gao Yushi highly praised Li Rusong and his Liaodong cavalry, thinking that they traveled thousands of miles to aid in this battle like the wind, and finally arrived at the battlefield at the most critical moment of the battle, completely changing the situation on the battlefield. decisive force in victory.

He said that Li Rusong will be the first to make the first contribution to this battle, and all the generals will also receive his letter of victory.As for the end of the meeting, of course, it is to encourage all ministries to make persistent efforts and make new achievements in order to completely defeat Chahar.

The generals of the ministries were originally a little dissatisfied with Li Rusong, an "outsider", who won the first victory, but thinking that Li Rusong's joining in today's battle is indeed very crucial, they can only reluctantly accept it, but they can't help secretly competing in the bottom of their hearts. Come back a game.

Of course Li Rusong was quite satisfied.He had always hoped to make the first contribution in this battle against the Yuan Dynasty, but unfortunately, he rushed thousands of miles to Yuerhai hoping to wait for the rabbit, but he did not expect that the Chahar people used the golden cicada to escape the shell, so he rushed to nothing and lost the opportunity. .

Later, when they heard that they were going to rush thousands of miles to naturalize, all the generals complained and praised them. They had to rely on throwing money and deterrents to stabilize the team. They rushed thousands of miles again, and finally caught up with today's big battle.

It can be said that when looking at Li Rusong, outsiders only see his "Shen Xing Tai Bao" side, but they don't see how much he spent to grab this first achievement - the reward alone is close to 20 taels.

20 taels!For Tieling Li, who basically can only "make a fortune" in one place in Liaodong, this is a huge sum of money.If Li Chengliang was still in charge of Liaodong military affairs, he would never spend such unjustly money, let alone such a huge amount.

The huge investment finally paid off, but this is not Li Rusong's most concerned issue.After thanking Gao Jinglue for his generosity (Zhu Yijun yelled: he is generous!), he asked vigorously: "This battle has been won, but if you don't know the experience, you have to take advantage of the victory and pursue it, and lift the siege of naturalization in one fell swoop." , and completely defeated the Chahar Tartars and wiped them all out?"

Without waiting for Gao Yushi to answer, he even took up his own words, and immediately said: "If Jingtai has this plan, the last general will not be talented, and I would like to be the first!"

These words made the eight guerrillas, including Ye Bangrong, a little dissatisfied: Why, it's not enough for you to get a first credit, you have to continue to grab credits, right?
Although there is a slight disparity in status, at this moment the eight wandering soldiers stood in the same trench without hesitation, regardless of the usual rift between them.They all said that Liao Shuai has worked very hard in this battle, but I didn't fight well before, and the battle loss ratio was not satisfactory. For those of us, after all, why use a sledgehammer to kill a chicken!
When Li Rusong heard them singing to each other, his face suddenly became not so good-looking.
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