Nanming Engineer

Chapter 447 Come to the Bowl of Noodles

At three o'clock in the unitary hour, the light rain stopped.

The fierce battle at Shiling Pass had ended for more than half an hour, and the flying raindrops seemed to know that the frantic fighting was over, and the last burst of rain that washed away the blood on the ground drifted away.

The Qing army and the Ming army staggered the time tacitly, and sent unarmed personnel to collect the corpses. They carried white flags, plain clothes and armor, and when the sky became dark, they lit torches and carried rough stretchers and sacks. Sorting the corpses that belonged to him.

When the Qing Army Ahhas came over, Li Tingyu was holding a large bowl, sitting on the edge of the wooden fence with green smoke, drinking water with a big grin, and swearing endlessly when he found time, his voice was so loud that he could hear it across a hill Aha, the corpse collector outside the wooden fence, picked up the corpses deftly, while staring at him in confusion, unable to understand what he was shouting.

"They don't understand the Sichuan accent." Wang Huan said with a smile, "You should use official language."

"Pull it down!" Li Tingyu put down the bowl, stretched out his hand to pull the blindfold, and made it more comfortable: "My official language is good, I have already entered the Beijing camp, why did I run around for so many years, and finally even a general not on."

"Don't move! It's the last stitch!" Wang Huan yelled, threading the needle with his hands, and sewed up a shocking big gash on Li Tingyu's arm, then tied a knot beautifully, and bit off the thread that had been sterilized with spirits.

Li Tingyu gritted his teeth and endured the piercing pain. After he finished, he breathed a long sigh of relief and sighed: "As the saying goes, there is specialization in art, and specialization in industry. You have no business, politics, military, or Confucianism, my lord." No way, even this medical skill is so superb now, what else can you not know? Tell us earlier, I, Li Laosan, will not do anything else, just get into this, so that I can brag in front of people in the future: I, Li Tingyu, have the ability to even Even the Duke of Liang can’t reach it!”

Ma Xintian stood aside, bandaging the wound of a wounded soldier with a stern face. His face was gloomy, and the soldier didn't dare to look at him, his face was as white as if he was being tortured.Hearing this at this moment, he was unhappy, and threw a sentence: "Husband! How can you talk to the Duke like that!"

Before Wang Huan could react, Li Tingyu jumped up: "Ma Yan Wang, you boy, believe it or not, I will find a woman to come into your room tonight and kill you! To save your yin and yang from being out of tune and your meridians not flowing smoothly." , just say weird things!"

Ma Xintian gave him a white look, meaning you dare!

He is not close to women, and he lives in the military camp even in peacetime. The house is deserted, and there is no one else except his old parents. Everyone jokes behind their backs whether it is because there are no women to get close to them, which has caused the imbalance.

Li Tingyu pulled the wound when he jumped up, grinning in pain and sat down again. Wang Huan wiped his hands with a blood-stained towel and rubbed his waist after standing for a long time. He sat down and said to Li Tingyu, "You've been fighting all afternoon, and you're still so energetic?"

Li Tingyu chuckled: "Fighting against the Tartars is powerful! These bastards are really fierce, and I almost got killed several times today. If it weren't for the good cooperation of the brothers, I'm afraid I won't have more than these few injuries."

He touched the wooden fence around him that was blackened by smoke and fire, and it was full of marks of slaughter with knives and axes, and he was a little sad: "It's just that some brothers were killed. None of the soldiers, even the local rebels in Shanxi, has a single coward, who will fight to the death with Lao Li! This scene is unimaginable in the Ming Dynasty's official army."

Li Tingyu sighed and shook his head: "Whether it was in Liu Liangzuo's army or Zuo Liangyu's, or even earlier, when he was under the command of Chen Ce, there was never such a thing. , the soldiers will not be able to leave until they are dispersed, my lord, this soldier has been trained well, that's great!"

He looked left and right, and poked the soldier who was sitting not far away, who was grinding his knife, with his finger: "Hey! Boy, where are you from?"

The soldier was startled. Originally, a state official and a battalion chief sitting beside him chatting would be enough to make him nervous. Li Tingyu's sudden movement made him almost throw away his knife. He jumped up and stood at attention, responding with trembling lips: "Yes! The younger one is from Yulin, Shaanxi!"

"Yo, not bad, very energetic!" Li Tingyu laughed loudly: "Who trained you?"

"Yes, it was a soldier trained by the head of the Maying during the training in Xi'an." The soldier was a young man, his face was flushed, and he said a word: "Now it belongs to the [-]th household of the Linziying Infantry A Team." Team six."

"Here, let's go." Li Tingyu lost interest in a moment, waved his hand, and muttered in a low voice: "Ma Yanwang practiced it."

The soldier ran away as if he had received an amnesty.

Ma Xintian on the side looked over again, although his face was expressionless, the color in his eyes couldn't be hidden.Wang Huan saw Li Tingyu's deflated expression again, and laughed.

"What? Want to show off the elite spirit of your subordinates? Don't think about it, all the soldiers in the army came from the new barracks where Ma Xintian was the captain. They are all his disciples and grandchildren. You have no comparison."

Wang Huan said again: "No matter how good the soldiers are, if there is no leader to take charge, they will still be raging. In today's battle, Lao Li, you have worked hard and accomplished a lot. I will write it down."

He spoke indifferently, but Li Tingyu became serious, and put away his joking face: "What do you say, my lord, a soldier fights a war, a matter of duty, if you want to say credit, the soldiers should be credited. Eyes, no matter how big an official is, he is still a small soldier, and a cold arrow can take the life of a general, so your lord should reward the soldiers below you more!"

These words are high-spirited and beautiful, the key is that there is no affectation, they are completely from the heart, Wang Huan can't help applauding from the bottom of his heart.

"In terms of rewards for meritorious deeds, no soldier will be missed. There is a sense of proportion in the army, so don't worry." Wang Huan sat up straight, looked at the torches of the Qing army Ahha scattered outside the wooden fence, and said with a frown: " Today, Dorgon took more than 1 lives, and he stopped when he couldn't break through our defenses. This is the first day, and his determination is evident."

"Working on an expedition, exhausting troops to attack fortified positions, heavy cavalry fighting with spears and infantry, he committed all the tactics that can be violated." Li Tingyu also wondered: "I heard that the chieftain has won every battle in a hundred battles. Why are you so frivolous? Could it be that he really treats us like that? Fish meal?"

"That's not the case. Dorgon is in a hurry." Li Dingguo came over at some point, holding a few earthen bowls, and there was a big lump in the bowl: "The Huotou army made a few bowls of Shanxi buckwheat noodles. Eat something to satisfy your hunger."

After the battle in the army was over, dinner was only served at this moment. Kuizhou's army, from the princes to the soldiers, ate the same food for a long time.

"Huh? There's meat sauce?" Li Tingyu was excited, and grabbed the chopsticks and said, "Great!"

"Eat some meat to build up your strength, and you still have to fight hard." Wang Huan bit the dough hard, and tapped it with chopsticks: "Dingguo, tell me, what news did Chen Xiang's big motorcade bring?"

"It's all good news. The south and east are in chaos. The Eight Banners of the Tartars marched northward. There was no more Tartar soldiers south of the Yellow River. Even the Mongols followed, plundering people and property along the way. It seems that they don't plan to go back." Li Dingguo was holding a bowl, squatting on the ground and eating like a fellow from Shanxi: "The general soldiers and horses of the water transportation team met Zu Tianci who rebelled in Nanjing and occupied the city. Hong Chengchou led thousands of soldiers to run north along the waterway, all the way." Panicked, I dared to stop and take a breath when I fled to the east of Shandong, according to this posture, the recovery of the south is just around the corner!"

"That's why we have attracted the main force of the Tartars in Shanxi!" Li Tingyu slurred his mouth, slurring his words, "If we force Dorgon back here and drive straight in along Zijingguan or Baoding Mansion, The Tatars can't even sit on their butts! The Han army can't trust him. If he doesn't bring back all the soldiers who can fight, what else can he do?"

Li Dingguo's eyes flickered, and he looked at Wang Huan: "My lord, it's about to pick peaches in the south, so we can't take advantage of others."

Wang Huan nodded and lowered his head to eat noodles: "Xu Tiezhu, Zu Tianci, and Ma Quan are all sensible people. How can the situation that has been worked so hard fall into the hands of others?"

He drank the noodle soup in the bowl in a few sips, and slammed his mouth with unsatisfied thoughts: "It's not important, even if there are some omissions, you can get them back in the future. Now, let's discuss how to fight tomorrow!"

(End of this chapter)