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Chapter 378

After hearing this, Li Dingguo said: "Let's clean up the battlefield first, and we'll talk about these things after seeing Sun Kewang later."

Hearing this, Wang Jiadong nodded and said: "That's fine, both Ai Nengqi and Zhao Ding have been arrested. I see how he, Sun Kewang, has the face to face us."

After hearing this, Li Dingguo said: "He will have face, his Sun Kewang has been thick-skinned since he was a child."

"Second brother, you criticize elder brother here when elder brother is not here. Is this what you do as a brother?"

Liu Wenxiu came to her senses at this moment. Seeing that Li Chaomeng had left with the Lantian Army, she no longer called her second brother, but directly addressed her as her second brother. There was nothing she could do. Calling her second brother was to save her life. , he stood up.

Li Dingguo looked at Liu Wenxiu, with a hint of sarcasm at the corner of his mouth, "The 12 army even broke through the enemy's city wall, and then fell into the current miserable situation. Am I criticizing him? I'm just stating the facts."

"you……"

Liu Wenxiu's face was extremely ugly at this time, there was no way they were really ashamed of this battle, the facts speak louder than words, no matter how eloquent he was, it would be difficult to call this defeat a victory over the opponent.

Li Dingguo looked at Liu Wenxiu like this and raised the corners of his mouth slightly, "Why do you feel ashamed? Otherwise, you wouldn't easily keep silent."

Liu Wenxiu said with a dark face at this time: "There is nothing to say about losing the battle. Since you are so powerful, why don't you lead someone to charge, what are you doing here?"

After hearing this, Li Dingguo said: "I saw that the battlefield here has already started fighting, so I threw away the large army and brought [-] cavalry from the headquarters to rescue. In this case, you don't want my cavalry to attack the city, do you? "

Liu Wenxiu heard the words and stopped talking. At this time, some of Liu Wenxiu's personal soldiers also ran out, and ran over quickly. Seeing Liu Wenxiu dismount immediately, he said, "Commander, are you alright?"

After hearing this, Liu Wenxiu glanced at the soldiers and scolded, "What are you all doing to eat, you're only here now."

Hearing this, the soldiers said with a bitter face: "The cavalry in Lantian are too powerful, our team was dispersed, and the subordinates escaped desperately."

"Okay, okay, stop talking nonsense, I'm injured, take me back to camp."

"Yes."

As the soldiers said, they turned around and bowed their hands to Li Dingguo, then helped Liu Wenxiu onto his horse, and he personally led the horse by the reins and headed for Sun Kewang's headquarters camp.

Wang Jiadong looked at Liu Wenxiu who was going away and said to Li Dingguo: "Dingguo, you have to be careful, this guy is not a good bird, I'm afraid he will organize us after returning to the camp."

Hearing this, Li Dingguo looked at the direction Liu Wenxiu was going away and said: "It's not just once or twice, the adoptive father knows what kind of goods they are, okay, let's not talk about this, Jiadong, do you think we can take this copper coin Is it off?"

Hearing this, Wang Jiadong looked at the city wall rebuilt with cement and shook his head. It would be extremely difficult to take down the Lantian checkpoint, and it could not even be done by force or strategy.

Lantian's most powerful defense in recent years is defense. Any general in Lantian is an expert in defending Lantian. Maybe Lantian's offensive nature is not strong, but Lantian's defense is absolutely impenetrable. It is not only the main force, even the militia. The strength of a city is also far greater than that of Daming's pass guards.

You don't even need to rely on the weapons that lead the enemy, just rely on people's hearts to consume and kill ordinary offensive troops, because if you want to attack a county town in Lantian, you have to be an enemy of every commoner in Lantian.

The difference between Lantian people and other people in Ming Dynasty is that they want to protect their homeland spontaneously. Whether they are rogues or officials and soldiers of Ming Dynasty, as long as they want to attack their territory, they will really work hard, because they know that if Lantian changes If other people rule, they will live the same dark life as before.

So they will protect their homes with their lives. The militiamen can go up the city walls to protect their homes, and the common people can transport supplies for them. Spontaneously transport supplies, cook and supply Shoucheng Erlang.

If Erlang is dead, the old and weak, women and children will not be unable to go, until there is really no one in the city to fight.

People say that it is easy to go from frugality to extravagance, but it is difficult to go from luxury to frugality. In the same way, the people in Lantian have lived a good life. If you let them live a life that is not as good as pigs and dogs before, it will really touch their backs. That's really an old man in his eighties who would fight you desperately with a walking stick.

Therefore, if Li Dingguo wants to conquer Tongqin Pass, he must first pass the test with a full set of firearms, equipped with excellent cannons, and a well-trained Lantian regular division with more than [-] troops.

If Li Dingguo really came down to earth like a god, and his soldiers were invulnerable and defeated the army of a regular division in Lantian, when Lantian was not supporting the regular army, he would have to face about 9 or [-] militiamen in the Ankang area. Su Su, even stronger than the regular army of Ming Dynasty.

Okay, even if you hang up, you will kill the 10,000 militiamen. After defeat, Lantian County will remain indifferent. If you don’t mobilize the support of 80+ militiamen in other areas, you will continue to attack Tongqianguan. At this time, Ankang area will be close The 80 million people who came here should go up the city wall. The [-] million people, excluding the old and weak, women and children, can at least spare [-] young and strong.

If you kill all these hundred thousand young and strong, then the remaining hundreds of thousands of old and weak women and children will fight with you. Can you still win?

Don't think that Lantian has only [-] regular troops at Tongqianguan, but there is a solid mass base behind it that is almost impossible to defeat.

Lantian's philosophy is to strengthen the country without the risk of mountains and rivers, and to preside over the world without the benefit of military revolution. What Lantian captures is people's hearts, and people are all toward Lantian. How strong you have to be to break people's hearts.

And there is no way to disintegrate the hearts of the people in Lantian, that is, you can come up with a political system that is better than Lantian and bring a better life to the people. As long as the people under your command live better than the people in Lantian, the people in Lantian will It is very likely to be attracted to you, which is normal, this is the so-called water going to high places.

Then let the people in power in Lantian do some outrageous things and lose the hearts of the people, so that Lantian County can be disintegrated.

But is there any force in this world that can help ordinary people live like Lantian?

Impossible, not to mention the same, even if half of it is difficult to do, at least if Daming can do half of Lantian and let the people eat their stomachs, the people will not rebel as long as they have a way to survive.

Now that the world has become like this, it is a manifestation of Ming's incompetence.

Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong can do half of Lantian?
Then there should not be only one Lantian County in this world, but two more areas ruled by Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, forming a tripartite confrontation.

It's a pity that the two of them can't do it, they won't restore the economy at all, they can only destroy, destroy a city, destroy a city, make more and more refugees under their own hands, strengthen themselves, and destroy the enemy.

As for the Manchus in the end, it goes without saying that they were the ancestors of the Ming Dynasty who played economics. Even if this is the case, the Manchu Qing cannot take down Ming Dynasty in one battle, and they have to recruit Han troops everywhere, and use Han people to fight Han people.

Otherwise, there would not be the existence of the four vassal kings in the early Qing Dynasty. Li Chaosheng looked down on this current half-slave and half-feudal regime, and the Ming Dynasty was also in bad luck, so the Tartars took advantage of the loopholes.

Therefore, if you want to shake Lantian, it is more difficult than shaking Mount Tai. If you want to conquer the Tongqian Pass, you must shake Lantian, so it is almost impossible to win the Tongqian Pass.

Besides, relying on the strength of these troops under Zhang Xianzhong, it is almost impossible to defeat Li Dezhen's third division. After all, although the third division is not well-known, he is also one of the four main divisions in Lantian. It is also full of firearms. To deal with Zhang Xianzhong and these rebels with swords and spears, it is not easy and pleasant, and Lantian is still the defender of the city.

So there was no possibility of success in this battle from the very beginning. After hearing Wang Jiadong's analysis, Li Dingguo's eyes widened and he said, "Lantian actually has such magic power that the common people would risk their lives to help them?"

Wang Jiadong said at this time: "Dingguo, you know that I am originally from Lantian. When I left Lantian, the people of Lantian already had this characteristic. After so many years of operation, I am afraid that it is even worse. You know why Li Chaosheng Don't you want to send troops out of Lantian to compete with the heroes of the world?"

"Why?"

Li Dingguo asked curiously, and after hearing this, Wang Jiadong said: "First, the Lantian County Lord still has a little respect for the Ming Emperor in his heart."

"Wait? Emperor Daming, Lantian County Lord is also a pedantic person, what is there to admire about Emperor Daming Dog?"

Wang Jiadong smiled wryly when he heard the words: "How do I know, it's all rumors in the world anyway."

Li Dingguo nodded and said: "This should be nonsense. Lantian County respects a hero, how can he admire an incompetent king, let's say it is second."

Wang Jiadong smiled wryly. In fact, he really didn't know what the county respected Pei Chongzhen. Even many people in Lantian didn't know what Li Chaosheng secretly admired Chongzhen.

In fact, how could they know that the reason why Li Chaosheng admired Chongzhen was because Chongzhen had kept the bottom line of Ming Dynasty in the past. If not, who would admire a subjugated king?

At this time, Wang Jiadong said the second.

"Secondly, the people in Lantian always hold the simple concept that Lantian County is guarded by the people of Lantian, the people of Henan are guarded by the people of Henan, and the land of a family is guarded by the people of that family. Therefore, Lantian has always used the method of moving the boundary markers to expand Land, although the speed is not as fast as our siege, but fortunately, it is stable, a piece of land is a piece of land, and no one can take it away."

"Thus, although Lan Tian has not been out of Guanzhong these years, no one dares to underestimate Lan Tian. No matter who is talking about the heroes of the world, he must bring Lan Tian with him."

Hearing this, Li Dingguo muttered: "This Lantian is so powerful, but why did I hear people say that Lantian's methods are cruel, and there is a villain's cave that is specially used to deal with the heroes of the green forest? It is said that countless heroes of the green forest were killed in it."

Wang Jiadong shook his head when he heard this, and said: "Some things are always false. If we have a chance, we brothers will know everything after visiting Lantian."

Li Dingguo's eyes lit up when he heard the words, and he murmured: "It's a good idea, but it's inconvenient to leave for a long time because of military affairs."

After Li Dingguo said this, he didn't say any more, and organized the army to set up camp.

Lantian Evil Cave, Evil Cave is located on Stone Mountain in Languan Town, outside Lantian County.

This is a bald mountain, surrounded by a fence, and a sign is erected outside the fence, which reads: A place of heinous crimes, no one is allowed to enter.

Another sign said, Lantian County Prison for Serious Criminals.

There are two types of prisons in Lantian. One is the most common simple bow shed where petty criminals live. This is called a reform-through-labour prison. Generally, petty thefts are committed, and the crimes are not fatal. They are all locked up here and go every day. It is enough to do coolies on the construction site. The difference between them and ordinary refugees is that their work is more tiring, and they serve longer sentences and are less free.

They will use their hard work to atone for the mistakes they have made, and it is also a chance for them to reform themselves by Lantian, so that they can start a new life.

But some people are not human themselves, so they are not given the chance to be a human being again, such as the Lantian Felony Prison, also known as the Wicked Man's Cave.

A large prison cart pulled a disheveled woman slowly into the area of ​​the villain's cave. At this time, two soldiers with muskets in their hands came from the sentry position. The muskets were loaded and aimed at these people and said, "Who are you?"

This is an important military area, near the villain's cave in Bald Mountain, a battalion of all firearms troops has been stationed for a long time to guard these villains.

At this time, a middle-aged man stepped forward and took out his ID card and said, "Zhao Jialiang, the company commander of the Lantian Judicial Affairs Department, is here to escort the felon, Wu Guiqin, under the order of the Judicial Affairs Department."

The two guards looked at Zhao Jialiang's ID, nodded immediately, and waved their hands to let the prison guards take over the people from the Department of Justice. The guards said: "Company Commander Zhao, you can follow in, and the rest will wait where they are."

Hearing this, Zhao Jialiang nodded, but he pulled a young man in a scholar's attire. After the young man came out, there were several other young men of the same age behind him. Zhao Jialiang said, "They will follow in."

The guard immediately frowned and said, "I'm sorry, this doesn't comply with the rules."

Zhao Jialiang nodded and said, "I know, but they have special permission."

Hearing this, the young man came forward to salute and said with a warm smile on his face, "Hello, we are graduates of the School of Political Science and Law of Lantian Academy. We are here to visit and study this time."

"Institute of Politics?"

Hearing this, the guard looked at the young man, and the young man smiled and took out a letter with a letter of introduction from the School of Political Science and Law on it, and then took out his ID and said, "This is our ID, please let me know Warden."

Hearing this, the guard took a look at the ID, and his expression immediately became weird, because there were five characters written on the boy's ID.

Name, Li Chaotun!

(End of this chapter)