Longevity begins with Jinyiwei

"The leader of the thief is dead, and those who kneel and surrender will not be killed!"

Soon, as the sound spread, one after another the brave guards followed and shouted, from chaos to uniformity, this blindfolded nonsense also covered up all the noise and resounded throughout the battlefield.

Frightened and desperate, fleeing crazily, just for the desire for life!

Under such circumstances, under the deafening shouts, under the threatening front of soldiers, soon, when the first victim fell to his knees, just like the spread of the virus, the peasant army who had been in a mess, He also threw down all kinds of weapons one after another, and knelt down on the ground trembling, praying for the possibility of survival!

"I stepped on the horse and survived!"

And Li Erdong, who was still fleeing frantically, almost suffocated to death after hearing the deafening shouts. After a while, he couldn't help but yelled. Under the yelling, he roared so loudly that even the confidants beside him probably didn't hear clearly...

Li Xiu naturally doesn't care what a bandit leader thinks at this time, in his eyes, this is just a way to end the war as quickly as possible, nothing else matters!

At this time, his attention seemed to be on Li Erdong's group who fled desperately. After all, in the scene of surrender, this maverick-like frantic escape was very conspicuous.

1 Chapter Twenty

Even though the battle was decided, the one-sided battle lasted for several hours due to the countless trapped victims in Li Erdong's part.

Suppressing the remnants of the enemy, and even chasing down Li Erdong's gang of thieves... Of course, the most time-consuming thing is gathering the prisoners...

It wasn't until the setting sun that the war, outside the Zhending Prefecture, finally returned to calm.

After minor repairs, the original peasant army camp was divided into several large camps and open-air cages. Under the guard of the soldiers of the Yongwei Battalion, groups of peasant troops whose weapons and armor were confiscated were sent into the prison. into these large open-air cages.

On the vast bloody battlefield, there are soldiers of the brave guard battalion cleaning the battlefield everywhere. Weapons, armor, corpses, everything needs to be counted and dealt with.

Of course, the vast majority of those engaged in these things are auxiliary soldiers recently selected from among the victims, and most of the brave guard battalion soldiers are in rest.

As for the leader of the bandits, Li Erdong, since Li Xiu had already distributed his portrait to all ministries, he was naturally unable to escape, and he was captured alive without even getting out of the encirclement. Luxurious treatment.

At this moment, Li Xiu didn't plan a strategy in the tent of the Chinese army, but sat casually on a stone in the corner of the battlefield, wiping the blood stains on the knife with a rag.

Under his feet, there was still a beautifully carved wooden box, but at this moment, it became Li Xiu's stepping stone.

The blood-smeared horse next to him kept raising its hooves, as if trying to get rid of the uncomfortable sticky blood stains on its body.

"General, the food and supplies sent from the city have been counted."

A pale middle-aged man in a Confucian shirt stood respectfully in front of Li Xiu. Looking at his expression, he could tell that the bloody scene in front of him was quite exciting to him.

The man's name was Sun Tao, and he was a small official in a county in Shaanxi. Due to civil unrest, the county was destroyed. As a last resort, he fled with his family and his family. The journey was bumpy, and in the end he was alone, and he recruited auxiliary soldiers. At that time, because he knew how to count and had a bit of writing skills, after Li Xiu found out, he arranged a logistics post for him in the army, responsible for auditing and counting the logistics materials in the army.

And what he is talking about now naturally refers to the labor supplies that Zhending Fucheng sent people to send immediately after the war was over, fearing that the military chaos would sweep the Fucheng.

Glancing at the city gate that was still closed, Li Xiu couldn't help shaking his head. He wouldn't blame anything. In this era, this phenomenon is quite normal.

After all, disasters caused by soldiers, families of soldiers and bandits, and discipline, many times, do not exist in the army. Even, most of the people who slaughtered cities and looted were not bandits, but countered rebellions. The famous official army!

It would be abnormal if the city gates of Zhending Prefecture were opened to welcome them.

After receiving the list handed over by Sun Tao, after glancing at it, Li Xiu couldn't help showing a look of surprise on his brows.

This Zhending mansion is also generous!

Enough food and grass for more than ten thousand troops for two months, as well as a lot of wine, meat, cloth and silk, plus the wooden box under his feet that also has at least thousands of taels of silver.

The Zhending Mansion took great pains in order to avoid the military disaster from sweeping through.

"Okay, Ben will know, you step back."

Glancing at the closed gate of Zhendingfu City, Li Xiu waved his hand. It's not bad to have such an unexpected harvest, after all, he didn't have any intention of looting.

Looting is easy, but once this hole is opened, the military discipline that he has worked so hard to implement in the Guards Battalion will be completely destroyed. It is not an ordinary trouble to re-establish it.

"General!"

Not long after Sun Tao left, several generals rushed over, and one of the generals was about to report aloud when Li Xiu raised his hand to stop him.

Casually throwing away the rag that wiped the long knife, Li Xiu put the knife back into its sheath, moved his stiff body, the cold wind howled, blowing his blood-stained clothes, a rare chill also rushed into his heart.

"Let's go, let the generals of more than a hundred households in the camp come to the commander's account to discuss matters!"

"As ordered!"

Several generals took the order and left in response.

Li Xiu looked around at the bloody battlefield under the setting sun, and the corners of his mouth rose slightly. A fight, a war, was also a rare catharsis.

He suddenly discovered that not only did he not have the slightest disgust at the thick stench of blood, but he was somewhat intoxicated by it.

Thinking about the future, the endless blood and fighting, he suddenly felt an indescribable tremor in his heart.

Turn the sky down, stain the world with blood!

His name will also be deeply imprinted on this era!

If one day future generations talk about history and the present, they will not be able to escape his name of Li Xiu!

This life is enough!

As for the merits and demerits, then leave it to future generations to discuss!

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Night has come.

On the Zhending tower, there were several figures standing, at such a height, and Li Xiu's camp was not far from the tower, they could almost be said to be overlooking everything in the camp outside the city.

Setting up the camp, mobilizing troops, patrolling and guarding, exploring horses and swimming...

Everything was almost clearly reflected in the vision of the tower and the others.

"The old man is worrying too much. The emperor is close to the army. With such military power, he would not do anything to disrupt the army."

It was Xu Ningyuan, the magistrate of Zhending, who spoke out. Looking at the majestic and solemn camp under the starry sky, he sighed and turned to look at the man in a Confucian robe beside him.

"But this time, thanks to you Jiantai, you rectified the military affairs in time, otherwise, I'm afraid I will be responsible for losing the city!"

"Where there is, it all depends on you, the boss, to strategize, otherwise, there is nothing wrong with the kid!"

Lu Xiangsheng waved his hands again and again, but the disdain in the depths of his eyes was hard to get rid of.

He knew it, and the thief was really sure, if it wasn't for Xu Ningyuan's coquettish manipulation, who obviously didn't understand military affairs, and relied on the prefect's power to command blindly, he was defeated several times, losing troops and losing generals.

Otherwise, why did Thief Li make such a big fuss!

With such a corrupt situation, this guy not only didn't want to clean up the mess, but when he saw that Thief Li was powerful, he immediately jumped up and down and wanted to be transferred from here.

With the help of the connections behind him, under such a dangerous situation, he really succeeded. He was a well-known magistrate, so he was thrown here. If it wasn't for the sudden siege of bandits, this guy would not dare to leave the city for fear of death. , really let this guy slip!

From the look of this guy right now, it is obvious that he is going to take all the credit for his hard work in defending the city in his arms.

Lu Xiangsheng even felt that if it wasn't for the emperor's own army outside the city, then Li Xiu was the emperor's confidant and favorite general, and this guy would shamelessly take all the credit of the foreign army...

Chapter 121

"Ordinances and prohibitions, each perform their own duties, and the defense is strict. It has been less than a year since the army was formed, and it has such a military power. This General Li's command of the army is probably one of the best in today's world!"

Looking at the Yongwei camp outside the city tower, Lu Xiangsheng couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

Although he is a Jinshi of this dynasty and a thorough civil official, he has been very interested in military affairs since he was a child. Since he entered the dynasty, he has often been in contact with military affairs. The elite Liaozhen frontier army has seen it all.

But this is the first time I have seen such an army that is so powerful and forbidden!

The most important thing is, as far as he knows, this army has been formed for less than a year!

It took less than a year to train such a strong army, Lu Xiangsheng thought he was far inferior!

Hearing this, Xu Ningyuan laughed dryly. He was not interested in being strong or not. After all, a decent scholar-bureaucrat could not be compared to a humble man with mud legs. .

He was even thinking that if it wasn't for the emperor's pro-army outside the city, he would want to seize power directly and take this achievement of suppressing thieves into his hands. At that time, he can manipulate it casually, enter the court directly, and become a prominent Beijing official. Nothing is difficult!

However, he only dared to think about this idea in his heart, and he would never dare to implement it.

It is well known that the Son of Heaven attaches great importance to this Yongwei Camp, and it is also well known that the Son of Heaven trusts and relies heavily on Li Xiu.

There was even news in the palace that, apart from discussing affairs of the court and cabinet, the Son of Heaven was no less than this general in discussing affairs of the court!

All kinds of thoughts flowed, Xu Ningyuan seemed to think of something, and suddenly changed the subject:

"By the way, there has been a lot of commotion in the capital recently. Have you heard about Jiantai?"

"What's going on in the capital..."

Lu Xiangsheng, who was still immersed in this military prestige, couldn't help being taken aback when he heard this suddenly, and after a while, he said a little uncertainly: "My lord, are you referring to those nobles in the capital?"

Seeing Xu Ningyuan's affirmative expression, Lu Xiangsheng frowned, and then cupped his hands and said: "The boy is devoted to political affairs in the Daming Mansion, and he doesn't care much about the news of the capital. This news is only one-sided, and the details are detailed. I don’t know much, please ask the boss to clarify!”

"I heard that the hand of Duke Ding's mansion reached out to General Li's Yongwei camp, and resold armaments, shoddy them as good ones, and after being discovered by General Li, the hand that Duke Ding extended was cut off. Said, and was directly pinched..."

"No, I heard that the Son of Heaven has appointed Cao Huachun, the admiral of the East Factory, to oversee the Beijing camp to rectify the military affairs. Obviously, this matter is inseparable from this matter. Otherwise, with the temperament of those nobles, how could it be so easy to compromise..."

"I heard that after the incident happened, the Dingguo Mansion sent people to invite General Li twice, but they were rejected without mercy..."

Between the words, Xu Ningyuan couldn't help but feel a little worried. The new emperor has not long been enthroned, but has repeatedly intervened in military affairs. This is not a good sign.

Xu Ningyuan's idea, basically, can be regarded as the group cognition of the scholar-officials of this era, or in other words, the group of civil servants.

Culture is expensive and military is cheap, culture is more important than martial arts!

Those with vested interests naturally do not want their own interests to be damaged.

What's more, since ancient times, the vast majority of literati have the most romantic yearning for the government, which is to rule under the emperor's bow.

But in today's imperial court in the capital, the new emperor's retaliation against the new emperor's repeated meddling in military affairs and his enthronement for several months, but still going his own way, finally appeared!

And the fuse of all this is from Li Xiu's memorial.

After receiving Li Xiu's memorandum, Zhu Youjian naturally attached great importance to it, and immediately summoned all the cabinet ministers to discuss and discuss.

But this time, whether it was Li Xiu or Zhu Youjian, they all miscalculated.

It doesn't matter what happened in the memorial, and it doesn't matter what the purpose of the later Jin's sending troops to Mongolia was.

In other words, Li Xiu's status as a warrior, and the emperor's trust in Li Xiu as a warrior, and now Li Xiu's memorandum blatantly interfered and even manipulated the affairs of the court, touched the backs of most civil officials!

In the Ming Dynasty, the civil servants could tolerate eunuchs interfering in government affairs. That was because everyone knew that eunuchs were just dogs of the emperor. Even if they gained power for a while, it was only for a while.

It's really too much trouble, under the order of the emperor, no matter how terrifying the eunuch's power is, it is a castle in the air.

But the military man intervening in politics, and the emperor's trust and reliance on this military man, seemed to make all the civil servants unable to restrain their worries, and even panic!

A warrior who is deeply trusted by the emperor, a warrior who holds military power, and a warrior who has already begun to interfere in the direction of the government...

There are too many lessons from history. When a scholar meets a soldier, it is hard to explain why. This is not just a joke!

When the news came out, it immediately detonated the entire court in the capital, and it can be said that the sky was turned upside down!

"Presumptuous! Presumptuous!"

"What do they take me for?"

"Puppet! I am their puppet!"

"Sounding high-sounding one by one! I'm screaming like dogs behind my back, I really think I'm blind, I can't see anything!"

In the Qianqing Palace, loud shouts could be heard clearly. The palace, which was neat and clean in the past, is now in a mess. The pen and ink of the memorial book were scattered all over the floor, and the exquisite porcelain ornaments were also smashed to pieces.

The eunuchs and maids in the palace also fell to their knees, trembling in front of the furious emperor, praying that they would not harm these little characters.

"Your Majesty calm down, Your Majesty calm down!"

The only person who dared to advise him was Wang Chengen who was kneeling at the front.

"Quiet my anger, how can I calm my anger, how can you tell me to calm my anger!"

"They want to cut off my foundation! They want to treat me like a puppet!"

Zhu Youjian's face was ferocious, his hair disheveled, and he yelled sharply, but no matter how loud he yelled, it couldn't conceal the deep unwillingness and helplessness in Zhu Youjian's eyes.

Zhu Youjian naturally knew that the so-called all kinds of high-sounding rhetoric were just excuses. They were guided and manipulated by someone with a heart, and the real purpose was to fight back against him, the emperor. The bottom line!

If you rely on military power, then withdraw military power!

And the excuse is extremely appropriate.

Military intervention in politics has touched the sensitive points of most civil officials!

This is how the current full court is full of boiling anti-glooming days!

But in the face of all this, Zhu Youjian suddenly discovered that in the face of this sudden storm, he was incapable of being furious in the Qianqing palace, and he had no way to counteract his arrogance in front of the eunuchs and maids in the inner palace. method!

The seemingly docile situation in the past is completely out of control at this moment!

Chapter 122 Follow-up

Wei Zhongxian was not willing to be a target at all. At this time, it is already very good if he does not add fuel to the flames. The other civil officials in the court are now in trouble, and Xungui...is forced to help him get involved in the Beijing camp. , at this time, maybe he is singing and dancing to see the emperor's joke!