Go back to the end of the Ming Dynasty to be a soldier

Chapter 258 Make Another Deal

Mace is also a kind of cold weapon. Relatively speaking, it is a short weapon, similar to an iron whip.

Li Dingguo's mace with a handle is four feet and two inches long. It is actually an iron rod with a handle. The difference between the rod and the iron rod is that it is round.

This kind of weapon is usually used in pairs, and the generals who use double maces as weapons are generally fierce generals. Using both maces together is very powerful.For example, Qin Qiong in the Sui and Tang Dynasties.

However, Li Dingguo's mace is different from a single mace. He usually does not use it alone, but mainly uses it with the eucalyptus.

His mace weighed more than 20 catties, and it took at least 200 catties of strength to turn it, so the armor couldn't stop it at all.If it hit Ji Dong's body, it would definitely be a fractured tendon, and if it hit the head, the smashed helmet would definitely be a brain burst.

Li Dingguo's halberd plus mace has been tried and tested repeatedly. This is his unique move. He will use this move when he encounters difficult opponents. Over the past few years, I don't know how many famous officers and generals have been shot to death by him with a mace.Now this trick, he used it again for Ji Dong.

But the difference is that now he is not using the timing, or he is using the wrong method.Usually when he used this move, he would use the halberd to suppress other people's weapons, and then strike. The other person's weapon was pressed by the halberd, and there was no time to dodge it, so this move hits every shot.

But now it's Ji Dong's big knife pressing his big halberd, not his big halberd pressing Ji Dong's big knife, so it's unknown whether he can succeed in taking pictures of this sight.

Of course Li Dingguo knew this, he was forced to use this move because Ji Dong suppressed the halberd, and the bow and arrow behind him were useless, leaving only his only available weapon, the four-edged silver mace.

Lin Yi had observed Li Dingguo very carefully, and had fought against him again. He had noticed the weapons on his back a long time ago. It was similar to Lin Yi, with one horse and three weapons, Fang Tianhalberd, silver mace, and bow and arrow.Ji Dong's one horse and three weapons are Qinglong Yanyue Knife, Waist Knife, Bow and Arrow.

In other words, Ji Dong was on guard. When he saw the big mace coming down, he could draw the single sword in his waist to block it. With Ji Dong's skill, he was definitely in time, but he didn't do it because the weight of the single sword was too light, and he was afraid. was smashed.

Instead, he quickly let go of the knife holding the eucalyptus, and swung the knife horizontally upwards.

The four-lens silver mace was hitting the blade of the Qinglong Yanyue Knife.

With a click, sparks splashed everywhere, deafening.Li Dingguo's halberd weighed more than 60 kilograms, and when it hit Lin Yi's 120-jin sword, it flew away.Not to mention a 20-jin mace?

Again, the difference in strength between the two is too great.

The shock made Li Dingguo's arm almost dislocated, and as soon as he loosened his fingers, the silver mace flew into the sky with a whistling sound.

Li Dingguo felt the pain of a tiger's mouth being torn apart, and warm liquid flowed out. He knew that the tiger's mouth of his hand was shattered.

But he had already fought it out, endured the pain in his hand, picked up the halberd again, and was going to fight Ji Dong desperately.

But this time Li Dingguo's halberd hadn't danced yet. After Lin Yi knocked his mace flying, he slammed the big knife straight, and instead of slashing him with the blade, he slapped him with the blade of the big knife.

Snapped!
The knife hit his back, and Li Dingguo couldn't sit still on the horse, so he fell off the horse at once, and the halberd in his hand let go, and bounced to the ground, making a clanging sound.

Before Li Dingguo could struggle, Lin Yi's sharp knife was on Li Dingguo's neck.

"do not move!"

Zhang Hua rushed over with his men and held him down. Several soldiers tied Li Dingguo tightly with ropes.

"Take him down and take care of him. Don't make things difficult for him. If you think I'm missing a hair, you're just asking!"

"No." Lin Yi's soldiers escorted Li Dingguo away.

Lin Yi sent an order that these more than 200 captives be brought together with the original captives, and then the cannons and ammunition were still handed over to Wang Qi's second battalion.

Wang Qi said with a smile: "General, our journey was so easy. Thank you General for finding these coachmen for us. They sent the cannon and ammunition to Xiangyang City from dozens of miles away without paying any money."

Zhang Hua said: "You kid lost both the cannon and the ammunition. Not only is he not guilty, but he has made merit. This is a big deal. Now that you have a good deal, are you acting like a good boy?"

All the generals laughed.

It turned out that Wang Qi had already arrived in Xiangyang City with the soldiers of the Second Battalion.After throwing away the cannons and ammunition, they took the small path and moved forward lightly. Of course, they were much faster than Li Dingguo and the others.

Poor Li Dingguo was still afraid that Wang Qi and the others would chase him from behind and regain the cannon.How did he know that people like Wang Qi would not chase them back then, so where can he find such a good driver?
Pull out the corpses on the ground and bury them, treat the wounded, and simply clean up the battlefield.

Those thousands of generals and bandits all took off their uniforms and replaced them with Ming's military uniforms.They had completed the task of seducing Li Dingguo, and soon Li Dingguo's banner of thieves on the top of the city was replaced by that of the Ming army.

So far, Lin Yi's army has completely occupied Xiangyang City.

Needless to say, the trophies obtained, Li Dingguo's 3 army was eaten by Lin Yi in one fell swoop, and of course all the food, grass, equipment, armor, clothing and livestock of the 3 army belonged to Lin Yi.

Lin Yi ordered Wang Jian's Sixth Battalion to register all the mountains of trophies in the account.

Then Xiao ordered all the troops under his command to move to the city, and after staying in the city for a while, Lin Yi took a rest in the name of reorganizing his troops and horses, and began to collect prisoners.

For Lin Yi, suppressing thieves is his own job, but Lin Yi's more important task is to expand his strength and complete his capital accumulation.Otherwise, three years later, if Emperor Chongzhen hung himself on the crooked neck tree in Meishan, the world would be in chaos.

This is a major historical trend that he, a military officer, cannot stop. He has to be able to partially change and influence history.No one can change the rolling wheels of history under the doomed trend.In the current Ming Dynasty, the building will collapse, and there will be no way to support it.Ji Dong knew these things very well.

It has lasted for more than 200 years and the Ming Dynasty will perish in three years. By then, the Manchu Tartars will invade on a large scale, and traitors and running dogs will be everywhere. .

The Manchu Tartars brutally killed or enslaved the Han people, and the generals of the Ming Dynasty even turned around to help the Manchu Tartars, killing and enslaving the Han compatriots.

As for the Nanming regime, which changed frequently, there is no hope at all. They will only fight for power and profit, fight openly and secretly, and feed on the common people, regardless of the life and death of the Han people and the common people.Occasionally, civil and military men who have the ambition to serve the country are constrained by these faint emperors and treacherous ministers and warlords. They have a passion for blood and cannot display it.In the end, the death of death, the death of death, the end of unwillingness and hatred.

These have been proved by the iron and blood history.But in order to prevent the tragedy from happening again, since he has crossed, he must try his best to stop it.

If the time comes, if you don't have enough strength, what will you do to save the subjugated Ming Dynasty?How can we protect the common people from being enslaved and killed by Manchu Tartars and traitors?What can we use against the self-righteous kings and warlords?Three years, but in the blink of an eye.

Therefore, with the spirit of seizing the day and night, Lin Yi seized no opportunity to develop and strengthen himself.

The recruitment of prisoners is still in accordance with the previous principles. Those who volunteer to join the army will be re-screened, and those who meet the conditions will stay and be incorporated into the various battalions of the army to become Lin Yi's regular army.From now on, everyone will be treated equally without any discrimination. They will be given the same pay and rations. All will be treated equally before military discipline, and rewards and punishments will be clearly defined.

The rest who do not want to stay in the army, or those who do not meet the requirements, will be released and dismissed on the spot after registration through education.

Ji Dong didn't need to report to anyone, and he didn't need to ask anyone for instructions, so he made his own decisions.

Ji Dong's policy is very popular, and the captives are very supportive, because it is too cheap and too preferential treatment for them.

To put it briefly, one month later, Lin Yi's team increased by another 1.

Now his total force has reached [-].

Forty thousand soldiers and horses, although the number is not large, but if you compare it, you can see Ji Dong's current strength.

At the beginning of the Southern Ming Dynasty, that is, three years later, according to the original historical development, Emperor Chongzhen hanged himself.The Ming Dynasty survived in name only.Some aspiring officials went to Nanjing to accompany the capital. They were not reconciled to the end of the Ming Dynasty, and they competed to elect a new monarch to continue the Ming Dynasty.

At that time, there were those who fell in love with King Gui, those who fell in love with King Tang, others who were fond of King Lu, and some who fell in love with (little) King Fu.

In this fierce competition for the throne, it was actually the manipulation of several forces behind the scenes, and it was a continuation of the party struggle in the Ming Dynasty.

In the end, Fu Wang Zhu Yousong won, sat on the dragon chair victoriously, and called him Hongguang Emperor.

This little King Fu, who is fatter than his father, the old Fu Wang, is as cruel and incompetent as his father. He was able to recover the entire country of Daming.

Soon the governor of Fengyang, Ma Shiying and his son controlled the court, and often led troops to the palace. That is to say, Hongguang Emperor Zhu Yousong became a puppet emperor. After just one year, he was destroyed by the Qing Dynasty.

But the reason why Zhu Yousong was able to defeat those princes and sit on the throne, apart from being a relative of the emperor who was rooted in Zheng Miaohong, a more important reason was the support of the warlords of the four towns in Jiangbei who held heavy troops.These four warlords are Huang Degong, Gao Jie, Liu Liangzuo and Liu Zeqing.

It is said that they hold heavy troops, but in fact, each of their warlords only has 3 troops.Not to mention the combat effectiveness of these 3 horses, it is 4 less than Ji Dong's [-] horses.Not to mention Ji Dong's first-class equipment and super combat power.

In other words, Lin Yi's current strength is undoubtedly second to none among the general soldiers of the Ming Dynasty. Wu Sangui, Zuo Liangyu, He Renlong, Cao Bianjiao, Zuo Guangxian, Zu Dashou, etc. The most powerful commander-in-chief of the Ming Dynasty is the most capable unit, and can be said to be the elite division of the Ming Dynasty.

But for now, in terms of strength, they all have to be in the back row.Not to mention Huang Degong, Liu Liangzuo, Liu Zeqing and Gao Jie who have not yet made their mark. The future warlords of the four towns in Jiangbei are now even more incomparable with Lin Yi.

It is a miracle that the military town of Xiangyang was taken down with almost no casualties.Another 1 soldiers and horses have been added, and with so many spoils of war, his strength has been greatly enhanced, and Ji Dong has more confidence in himself now.

These days Zhu Dadian's Nanjing soldiers, Hu Dawei's Baoding soldiers, and Yuan Shu's Henan soldiers are also stationed outside Xiangyang City, standing still.

Because they left Ji Dong's men, they couldn't win the battle.This has been proven several times, and now the three of them would rather follow Ji Dong's team to drink dew in the back. Ji Yi's men won the battle and eat meat, even if they get some soup to drink, or smell the fragrance, they Also contented.It is better than losing a battle, this is their experience.

Of course Ji Dong didn't care about them.

During this month, Lin Yi received several orders from the Ministry of War, of course urging him to step up his march to suppress the thieves.

"General, what should we do next?" Zhang Hua asked.

"Of course it was ordered to suppress thieves. How dare you disobey the imperial court's order?"

"Don't dare. General, what about this Li Dingguo?" Zhang Hua is very smart and can usually guess Lin Yi's thoughts, but this time he was a little confused. What does it mean to kill and not kill, let go and not let go?
Lin Yi smiled and said, "It's easy to handle, the general wants to use him to do another business!"

(End of this chapter)