Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1698 Cut Yuan (Fifth Two) Shocked
Whether it is a letter of victory or a set of rules, after all, at least it has to wait for the court to reply before it can show its effect. The current problem must be solved first, and this cannot be waited for long.

Li Rusong's status among generals was high enough, the reason why the eight guerrillas forced the meeting just now was mainly because of high pragmatic reasons.There are at least two reasons for this: one is that the backer of the Eighth Guerrilla was originally highly pragmatic, and the Eighth Guerrilla was naturally confident when the meeting was held in his economic strategy; No one like Zu Chengxun attended the meeting, so Li Rusong's side seemed weak.

It is not easy to say that the lineup Li Rusong brought this time is not simple. It almost brought at least [-]% of the Li family's family fortune, such as Li Chengliang's old subordinates Zu Chengxun, Qin Deyi, and Sun Shoulian, and Li Chengliang's adoptive sons such as Li Pinghu, Li Ning, Li Ning, etc. Xing, Li Yousheng, Li Youde, Li Youhua, and Li Chengliang's nephews such as Li Rubai, Li Ruzhang, Li Rumei, Li Ruwu...

These names almost represent the strength of the Li family army. Except for Li Chengliang's younger brother, Li Chengdong, who took several young nephews of the Li family and several other trusted generals to guard the Liaoxi base camp, the generals that the Li family army can use are already Almost there.

The vast majority of these people are already at the level of participating and traveling, and a few are commanders and guards. According to the general standards of high-level practical meetings, at least participating generals and guerrillas are definitely qualified to attend the meeting. Commanders and guards can sometimes Attending as a nonvoting delegate (Note: Generally speaking, attending means being able to make a statement, and being present means being able to observe but not speak).If all the generals and guerrillas among these people had attended the meeting just now, Li Rusong would have been able to suppress the eight guerrillas on the scene.

However, the meeting just now was a bit unexpected, because Gao Yushi handed over the task of cleaning the battlefield to Li Rusong, so Li Rusong sent all of their ministries out.Some of them went to count the results of the battle, some were to guard against the return of the Tartars. In short, they were unable to attend the meeting. The result was that Li Rusong came with a large army, and when he attended the meeting, he actually "attended the meeting alone".

However, this kind of thing may happen or not, the disagreement between Li Rusong and Ba Guerrilla must be resolved after all.It doesn't take too long. After the inventory is completed, there will definitely be another meeting. By the way, everyone has to listen to Master Jingtai's arrangements for the follow-up actions.

Sure enough, around the evening, all the mopping-up work had been completed, and a large number of generals came to report the progress of the work, and Gao Yushi took advantage of the situation to hold another military meeting.

It is very important to determine the results of the battle, so it is done first, but since the results obtained are not much different from the previous ones, I will not repeat them here.Immediately afterwards, is the next course of action.

Li Rusong seemed to be still in good spirits, and made another suggestion, thinking that he should pursue him immediately—at most, he should take a rest tonight, and just stop staring at night.However, he believes that the army must set off early tomorrow morning, trying to chase after Buri Hatu and Buyan Huangtaiji's buttocks, so that the main force of Tumen has no time to react.

Ye Bangrong objected, saying that although the Lightning Lake victory was gratifying, although our army killed many enemies, its own losses were not small.Among them, the officers and soldiers who died in battle can still be buried on the spot, but the wounded cannot give up casually, and must arrange the necessary treatment and rehabilitation, so it is obviously inconvenient to pursue immediately.

Qin Deyi, a general of the Li family army, immediately retorted, saying that soldiers are expensive and fast, and the most critical issue now is to break the siege of naturalization.Right now, my heavenly soldiers have more than [-] elite cavalry, enough to sweep Mengdi, how can we delay?As for the wounded, since the Tartars have all run away anyway, leaving hundreds of people to guard the camp, wouldn't it be enough to arrange the wounded to recuperate in Lightning Lake? What special treatment is there?
Li Ruzhang, Li Rusong's fourth younger brother, also stood up, saying that the wounded were nothing more than a trivial matter, and [-]% of the enlisted military doctors in the Liaodong Army could stay and take good care of the wounded.

Li Ruzhang's words obviously should have been agreed by Li Rusong, so Gao Yushi just glanced at Li Rusong, and the latter immediately nodded in confirmation, and then said that the Liaodong Army was indeed willing.

It seemed that Li Rusong was either naturally warlike, or he really needed military exploits.In terms of his status, "property" and the military exploits he has achieved today, he probably doesn't really need further military exploits to bring him much benefit, so there is a high probability that he did it because of money.

Although the huge family cavalry allowed Tieling Li to sit firmly in the golden chair of today's number one goalkeeper, but the huge expenses will obviously bring unspeakable pressure.

In the past, Li Chengliang relied on the power that almost overwhelmed the sky in Liaodong, and through this power, he controlled a large number of related industries such as land properties, shops, and horse markets, and then obtained enough profits to maintain this army.

However, in the last year or two when Li Chengliang was in Liao, the financial resources of the Li family were actually a little tight. To some extent, Li Chengliang actually smuggled gunpowder to Chahar at that time, and it was most likely because of the financial pressure of the family. Due to it.

Now that time has passed so long, Li Chengliang has stepped down and Li Rusong has taken over, and the Tieling Li family has become increasingly powerful in various industries in Liaodong.At the same time, Jinghua or the Maritime Trade Alliance is increasingly squeezing the Li family's economy. Li Rusong's methods in this regard are not as "flexible" as his father's, so naturally he needs more military exploits to increase his influence.

Influence is a very interesting thing. It may not be directly exchanged for money, but it can often bring benefits indirectly.The highly pragmatic Jinghua was able to expand rapidly at the beginning, largely thanks to the addition of intangible influences such as the emperor's holy family and Gao Gong's status.

This is even a bit like the stock market in later generations, and influence is like a company telling a good story, so that shareholders have full confidence in its prospects, and then it gains corresponding benefits.In the stock market, stockholders bought it one after another, which increased its stock price and enabled it to obtain sufficient cash flow; at that time, Jinghua was recognized by the market and partners, and was able to make the largest transaction with the smallest cost.

And Li Rusong was eager to gain major military exploits. On the one hand, he must have proved to the emperor that the Li family was still capable of fighting and was always worth using; Let me tell the Heart School that our Li family is still your most valuable ally in the military. If you want to avoid being completely squeezed out of the military by the Real School, then quickly find a way to get us money.

How should I put it, Gao Wushi felt that Li Rusong's approach was at least better than Li Chengliang's.If it wasn't for his small starting point, Gao Yushi would even be willing to regard this as a virtuous circle.

Gao Yushi still did not express his position, and continued to let the two sides argue.At this time, Pogui stood up and said that based on his understanding of the Mongolian army, he would not be able to catch up after tonight, and the so-called continued pursuit tomorrow morning is actually meaningless.

Li Rusong knew that Qugui's words were actually reasonable. After all, the elite of the Mongolian cavalry could even ride horses in a half-dream and half-awake state. This was a fact. [Note: Horses have a strong sense of hierarchy and will naturally follow the leading horse. This is the key factor for the Mongolian cavalry to "march in sleep".However, it is more troublesome to explain this. Friends who are interested can check the information by themselves, and I will not expand it here. ]
However, Li Rusong didn't think that Qugui's words were from his heart, he felt that Qugui was just deliberately making excuses to prevent himself from continuing to "grab credit".

Li Rusong was about to go out to refute in person, but at this time, someone came to report that he had received an urgent military report and had to submit it to the manager for review immediately.

This military newspaper is very formal, not a dictation, but a secret letter, the envelope and the wax on it are intact.After Gao Pragmatically inspected it, he took it apart to see for himself.

After just a few glances, he, who is usually indifferent, couldn't help raising his eyebrows under the gaze of the generals. Everyone couldn't help but secretly wondered, guessing what news could move Jingtai.

But Gao Wushi didn't explain too much, he just couldn't help but smiled "hehe", and then said: "Shuai Liao, you insist on pursuing as soon as possible, and this department is not a person who doesn't listen, so I agree with you Suggested. Tomorrow morning, your department can go west to pursue, except that the few prohibitions stipulated by the headquarters before this battle are still not to be violated, your department can fight as you want."

Li Rusong immediately became more and more suspicious of the content of the military newspaper, but since Gao Wushi chose not to speak, he knew that he could not force the question, so he responded after quick thinking, with a general expression of relief.

The matter should have come to an end here, but Li Rusong didn't know whether it was out of curiosity or confusion, he asked in a strange way: "Then you..."

Strictly speaking, his question was a bit beyond his duty, because Gao Yushi, as his immediate boss at the moment, had no obligation to explain his further action plan to him at all.Even though there should be communication between superiors and superiors in theory, the leading civil servants of the Ming Dynasty did not treat generals as thoughtful people for a long time, and the so-called reasonableness did not exist at all.

Because of this, when Li Rusong said this, even he himself regretted it a little.With a highly pragmatic status, it is difficult to guarantee that Li Rusong will not think that Li Rusong is acting presumptuously, suspect that he has the intention of taking credit for pride, and deliberately suppress him, and may even embarrass him in public.

The generals present were also shocked at the same time, but the shocks were quite different.

General Li Jiajun thumped suddenly, his heart rose in his throat, he felt a kind of annoyance and apprehension when a child did something wrong and was caught on the spot; Eighth Guerrilla was simply surprised at first, and then doubted the intention of Li Rusong's words ——Are you trying to test Jingtai's attitude towards you?
Only Gao Yushi didn't seem to take this seriously, and replied naturally and even leisurely: "The hall is not in a hurry, and we are going to celebrate the naturalization together after Shuai Ji comes over."

This answer is really unbelievable under the current situation. All the generals, regardless of faction, were all stunned.Li Rusong himself was even more surprised, thinking that Gao Yushi should have given him the embarrassment just now if he had taken the opportunity to embarrass him, so he didn't care about thinking too much, and asked, "What does Jingtai mean?"

Li Rusong was puzzled by Monk Zhang Er, but Ba Guerrilla slowly came to his senses, remembering that Jing Lue had said that he had other arrangements for Guihua City, and at that time a large army had already arrived near Guihua.From the looks of it now, maybe that army got in touch, and even had some good news?

Seeing the completely different expressions of the generals of the two factions under his command, Gao Wushi smiled slightly, and Shi Shiran said: "The siege of naturalization has been resolved."

"Ah!" "Hiss!" "Huh?"

All kinds of sounds of exclamation and astonishment suddenly sounded in Shuai Zhang, which perfectly explained what an uproar was.

After being surprised, Li Rusong immediately became nervous, and he didn't care whether Gao Wushi would be offended, and hurriedly asked: "What's going on, why is the naturalization...uh, the end is, why did the siege of naturalization suddenly resolve itself? What about the pictures?"

Gao Wushi smiled: "Commander Liao was joking, how can the siege of Guihua be 'self-solved'? Tumen originally pointed at breaking Guihua City and looting it, so there is no reason to leave without a fight!"

He paused for a while, and finally stopped entertaining the generals, and continued slowly: "It was Tumen who were defeated by the imperial guards, and now I am afraid that they are being chased and killed by Commander Qi like ducks. How can there be any time to think about Guihua City?"

This news can be described as earth-shattering. Ba Guerrilla had already had certain psychological expectations, and he performed better. The expression he showed was roughly "ah, so it is."The generals of the Li family's army had the expression of seeing hell, their faces were full of disbelief, Li Rusong was even more stunned, and asked with wide-eyed eyes: "Jingtai's words are serious?"

Gao Yushi's face darkened this time, and he said with a slightly sullen expression: "There is no joke in the army, does the Headquarters seem to be joking?"

Although Li Rusong is used to being domineering, he did not dare to ignore the privilege of the high-level pragmatist Zhong Shangfangjian to cut first and play later. Hearing this, he could only admit his mistake and said: "I am sorry for my crimes, but I will never mean it. It's just...uh, I'm just too surprised Commander Qi was in the direction of Helin before, why did he suddenly appear in the city of Guihua? The distance between these two places..."

"Shuai Liao wants to say that these two places are two thousand miles apart, which is really too far away, isn't it?" Gao Wushi shook his head slightly, then waved his hand again: "But Shuai Liao, you came here from Yuyuerhai. It's one thousand six hundred miles."

Who knew that these words made Li Rusong blushed slightly, and he seemed to be gritting his teeth as he asked the question: "The scriptures say that during the time Li traveled [-] miles, Commander Qi's imperial guards traveled [-] miles." ?”

If you want to hit Li Rusong's self-confidence, this time is undoubtedly a good opportunity, but Gao Wushi shook his head and said: "That's not true, it's too slow to send orders to your army, and there are carrier pigeons in Commander Qi's army."

In fact, the Tieling Li family also has carrier pigeons, but they are not used for marching and fighting. Generally, they can only be used for emergency communication between fixed areas.Although raising pigeons does not cost a lot of money, the place where the money is spent on raising pigeons is not the food for raising pigeons. Therefore, Gao Pragmatic can afford a relatively large carrier pigeon system, which does not mean that everyone can afford it.

Since it wasn't that the Imperial Guards were able to attack better than his own Liaodong iron cavalry, Li Rusong managed to calm down, but immediately asked a new question: "Even so, the Imperial Guards were able to defeat the Tumen army in one fell swoop by attacking all the way south?"
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