Unparalleled Concubine

   Chapter 1085 Hidden weapon

   The so-called "beautiful enough" means that the results of this battle may not be large enough, but the victory is simply and neat, so that the people in the capital and the world can see the combat effectiveness of the Southwest Army.

   This is very important to Li Xin, or to the Southwest Army, because nominally, they are not here to rebel, but to clear the source!

During the Shen Yan Rebellion in the first year of Yuanzhao, Shen Kuanyan and Shouzhuo led the civil servants of the Manchu Dynasty to almost force the emperor Yuanzhao to the throne. Although the emperor at that time was still a young man who had just ascended to the throne, he was a courtier. , being able to achieve this level shows the influence of Shen Yan and the two in the court.

In fact, since Zhang Qu and Zhang Haoran left the court, Shen Yan at that time has replaced Zhang Qu and became the leader of the literary world and the head of a hundred officials. The two of them have countless disciples and deceased officials among the officials. Influence.

That year, if it weren't for Li Xin, an "unreasonable hand" who entered the court without reason at all, and convicted the two auxiliary ministers appointed by the previous emperor, maybe they would have really abolished the emperor and established a new emperor. .

  Because these two people have countless disciples, even after the emperor is in power, he can only not pursue the henchmen of Shen Yan's party. As a result, there are still many disciples of these two people in the court today.

Although the imperial court did not clean them up, but Shen Yan and the two did this kind of thing, it is only natural for these disciples and grandchildren to be implicated. In the past few years, the better ones among these people have stopped their careers, and the worse ones A little bit, has been found fault by the censor station for various reasons, lost the official and even went to prison.

Shen Yan and the others were serving the Sixth Prince, and the current Southwest Army was also serving the Sixth Prince. If the Southwest Army showed sufficient combat effectiveness, the civil servants in the court or in the opposition would choose to stand on Li Xin’s side and put them on the side of Li Xin. The "Shen Yan Change" of the year continued.

   As for the old story that Li Xin personally killed the two Shen Yan, in the face of absolute interests, these people will naturally selectively forget.

   In the future, even if someone mentions that Li Xin killed Shen Yan and the others, most of these people will jump out and say the last sentence.

   "This Yuan Zhao's crime, the Marquis of Jing'an couldn't help himself."

   Of course, these are things to come later, but the Ningzhou army has already fought very beautifully in this battle, beautiful enough to allow Li Xin's plan to proceed smoothly.

After the    forbidden army retreated, the Ningzhou army began to clean the battlefield. Because Li Shuo lost his strength, Li Xin took over the task of cleaning the battlefield. General Li walked on the battlefield himself, looking at the corpses all over the ground, and sighed slowly.

"Organize the soldiers of our Southwest Army, make a name list, don't miss the pensions, and don't bury the bodies of the forbidden army hastily, send them to the five li of the capital, and let the people of the forbidden army in the capital take their corpses back. ."

The so-called cleaning of the battlefield in this era is generally that the winning side walks on the battlefield with a knife. If he encounters a person wearing the enemy's clothes, whether he can move or not, he will directly make up the knife. Bring them back, those who have died or are seriously injured and cannot be saved, they will even make up for it to give them a good time.

   Then dig a big pit and fill in the bodies of both sides to prevent a large-scale plague.

However, under the command of Li Xin, this is not the case with the Southwest Army's clean-up of the battlefield. First of all, people on their own can be rescued naturally, and then there is no longer the link of "repairing the knife". Dead or alive, they were thrown five miles outside the capital by the Southwest Army cart, and then they notified the people in the capital to come and receive the body.

This is because Li Xin once took the right camp of the forbidden army, and he took it for a full seven years. The two Zhechong mansions that are out of the city today are the Zhechong mansions of the right camp of the forbidden army, who died under the arms of the southwest. , many of them were from his former department. Li Xin did not have any thoughts of compassion, but since people were already dead, they simply left them to the court and let the people of the court deal with them.

  Secondly, doing this can also indirectly tell the people in the capital that the Southwest Army is not a villain.

   At the same time, you can also tell the soldiers in the right battalion of the forbidden army that he and Li Xin still remembered the incense relationship in those days.

However, this is not without harm, that is, the people of Ningzhou Army will feel some discomfort in their hearts, and they also died, but they came to the capital from Hanzhong thousands of miles away, and the dead can only be buried on the spot. , but the corpses of their enemies might be able to be sent back to their respective homes, which made the Ningzhou Army, who was cleaning the battlefield, somewhat uncomfortable.

The process of clearing the battlefield will take about a day or two, but by midnight, the approximate battle damage has been counted. Li Shuo, who has rested, walked into Li Xin's house with a stack of white papers in his hand. The handsome tent bowed slightly: "General, the casualties of our army have been roughly counted."

   At this moment, Li Xin was looking at the information sent by Anbu. Hearing that, he put down the document in his hand and asked, "Speak."

  Li Shuo lowered his head and said, "In the daytime battle today, there are about 8,000 soldiers killed in our army, and there are also 5,000 or 6,000 seriously injured."

   "Minor injuries are not counted for the time being."

  Li Xin frowned slightly and asked, "What about the casualties of the imperial imperial army?"

   Li Shuo sighed and said, "The combined casualties of the Gyeonggi Imperial Army exceeded 20,000, and two or three thousand people were captured by our army, and the rest fled back to the capital."

If it weren't for the scope of firearms, a war of this scale would take at least four or five days or even longer to kill 30,000 people. , there have been so many casualties!

  Li Xin nodded and said silently: "Send a letter to Zhao Jia, and let him be responsible for spreading the word to the world and tell everyone in the world that our Southwest Army has defeated the forbidden army in Gyeonggi, and defeated the forbidden army in four Zhechong houses in one day."

Today, the Ningzhou army was indeed able to defeat the four Zhechong houses in one day. Although compared with the force of about 70,000 people in the four Zhechong houses, the casualties of more than 20,000 people were not considered a defeat, but if they fought again. Going down, the forbidden army must have fled.

   It's not a bad thing to be "exaggerated" appropriately.

   However, the Southwest Army is currently fighting, and has no energy to do this kind of "propaganda" work. It can only be handed over to Zhao Jia in the rear.

  Li Shuo lowered his head and said, "I will understand at the end, and I will send a letter back to the southwest in a while."

   "And then there's..."

   Li Xin's face was calm, he took a clay pot from the side, put it on his table, and said, "This is the thunder that came out of the capital."

  Li Shuo looked at the pot with curiosity, and said softly, "It looks a little bigger than ours."

  Li Xin did not speak, but took out the dagger from his waist, pried open the seal of the pot, tore off the kindling paper at the mouth of the pot, and poured the powder inside on the table.

The color of the    powder is also slightly different from the powder of the Southwest Army. The powder of the Southwest Army is gray-black, and the color of this powder is brighter.

   But these are not the key, the key is that there are iron tablets in these powders!

   This is a very vicious practice. The iron piece is far sharper than the pottery piece, it may cut the iron armor, and once it enters the body, it will be disabled if it is not dead.

  These iron pieces are not clean, and there is rust on them. It may be cut once and it can kill a person.

   General Li frowned and said, "They added iron pieces to the clay pot, and many firearm soldiers were injured because of this iron piece."

When Li Xin created Tianlei, he also considered adding iron pieces to the clay pot. Although the cost would be higher, the lethality would also increase a lot. After all, these iron pieces could bring Tianlei. A very critical "armor breaking" effect.

  Li Shuo took a piece of iron and looked at it, then whispered: "It's really amazing, something so thin is enough to pierce most of our army's armor."

   said, he looked up at Li Xin and asked, "What does the general mean?"

   "Adding iron tablets is not a great idea. I thought about it more than ten years ago, but out of a little kindness, I didn't use it."

   "Now, the people in the imperial court use it first."

  Li Xin squinted his eyes slightly and said: "There are also some Tianlei in Huzi's place, which are equipped with iron pieces. I will send a letter to Huzi and use that batch of Tianlei with iron pieces."

  Li Shuo was stunned for a while, then suddenly grinned.

   "Other generals have any sharp weapons, and they will immediately take them out to kill the enemy, but you always hide it, brother. Your temperament is really not suitable for commanding soldiers."

"yes."

   Li Xin also nodded and sighed helplessly.

   "I originally... just wanted to be a peace official."

   (end of this chapter)