Hearing that General Li wanted to inspect the goods, Lin Tianshuai waved his hand and immediately showed several poem manuscripts to General Li.
As the saying goes, if you have to perform a complete performance, Lin Tianshuai will not be able to do a few poems with nothing.
General Li raised his eyes and saw that the title was "Record of Governor Li's Eastern Expedition to Korea".
Let’s look at the main text again: “The sweet spring tinted the sable fur at the beginning, the color of the sword flew and shot the bullfight. The Marquis of Dingyuan sealed the sky at the North Pole, and he surrendered and built the city at the east end of the sea.
The generals in Liaodong were able to cross the border, and all the famous kings in the north of the Great Wall turned their sides. Lu Bu destroyed the Xuantu Barrier in the night, and the frost and clear weather embraced the Bailang River.
The splendid beaded shoes lead the altar, and the golden sable emperor's favor is strong. The sunrise of hibiscus dispels thousands of mirages, and the thin willow sky returns to station six dragons."
After the appraisal was completed, General Li could confirm that Lin Junmen had indeed written a set of poems for himself.
He could be said to be both civilized and martial. He usually liked to write poems and so on. He had some literary tendencies, and some of his works were passed down to later generations.
Now we see that Lin Junmen, a generation of poets who is destined to leave a name in the history of literature and the de facto leader of the contemporary literary world, actually writes poems to vigorously praise his martial arts.
At the same time, I was hearing Lin Junmen keep talking about "the highest record" and "the best in the world". How could I not be confused?
Everyone is a showman. If you tout me as the "record-breaking general", then I should tout you as the "first king", which is also the proper etiquette, right?
After a great victory, with nothing else to do, General Li returned home drunk at the banquet that night.
Cui Wukui, the attaché of the shogunate, and Zhang Wen, the guardian of the left, chatted: "Before today, I have never seen Marshal Lin flattering others."
Marshal Lin? Zhang Wen glanced at Cui Wukui in surprise, you are really eye-catching!
Among the new slogans that just came out during the day, there is the sentence "When the commander comes out, he will accept Hanking". Now you have quickly started to change your slogan to Commander Lin?
But no matter what other people call them: Military Gate, General Manager, Marshal, or Tianshuai, anyway, their old brothers are only called "Zi Guan".
Then Zhang Wen replied: "It would be troublesome if Governor Li refuses to admit that he ascended first. After all, he is also the nominal commander-in-chief of military affairs."
Cui Wukui added: "It seems that the commander is very concerned about the number of first boardings?"
Zhang Wen said leisurely: "After all, there are not many things worth pursuing these days.
What we want to surpass when sitting in the library is not ourselves or others, but history books."
Cui Wukui: ""
It’s just Marshal Lin himself, why are the people around him so aggressive?
The next day, on the ninth day of the third month of the 21st year of Wanli calendar, tens of thousands of soldiers from the Great Tomorrow, acting as kings, stationed in and took over Seoul, declaring that Seoul, the capital of Korea, was officially restored!
Although Lin Tianshuai also wanted to hold a grand ceremony, the city was devastated and only women were left in the city, so there was no way to create a scene, so he gave it up.
Li Rusong, who had just woken up from a hangover, rubbed his forehead, drank hangover soup, and thought about yesterday's events.
What happened yesterday? I went to the shogunate to ask for an explanation, so why did I end up at the banquet in a daze, lost myself in the praise, and drank to pieces?
At this time, Li Rubai, who was responsible for the ending and statistics of the battle, walked in.
General Li suddenly stood up subconsciously for some reason, and asked inexplicably anxiously: "Is the statistics finished?"
Li Rubai was shocked. He had already won all the battles. What followed was nothing more than statistics of the results and writing of battle reports. It was not like he would be rewarded right away. Why should he be so excited?
Then Li Rubai began to report in a formal manner: "Our army was killed in battle."
General Li directly interrupted the report and said impatiently: "I don't want the number of casualties, I just want the number of enemy annihilations!"
Li Rubai only felt that his elder brother was acting strange today, and continued according to his wishes: "Preliminary calculations show that our army beheaded more than 5,000 people and captured more than 14,000 people. They were driven into the Han River and drowned in vain."
General Li quickly calculated, with a foolish smile on his face, and said in a nonchalant manner: "In other words, beheadings plus 20,000 prisoners, and the number of drowned people should be calculated as more than 10,000.
Therefore, a total of more than 30,000 enemies were wiped out in this battle, which is not bad, not bad, very good.
Hehehe, at least it’s a once-in-a-century victory, hahaha.”
Li Rubai: "?"
Why haven't we seen each other all night and all morning? Why does it seem like my eldest brother's temperament has changed drastically?
It feels like it's been contaminated by something unclean.
Or it may be the feeling of gradually losing one's mind after being greatly stimulated.
So Li Rubai couldn't help but asked with concern: "Brother, are you okay? It's just that someone accidentally stole the limelight again. That can't cover up the glory of my brother's victory. Why is this?"
However, General Li kept a straight face and said to Li Rubai's serious criticism: "Don't say anything that is not conducive to unity! The first to win is the first to win. We must dare to recognize the excellence of others.
Everyone is working hard for the country to repay the emperor's favor, and everyone can have their own share of glory. How can you say that others are stealing the limelight?"
Li Rubai: ""
Who can tell him what happened?
Seeing that his second brother was still stupid, Li Rusong coughed and reminded:
"The person standing in front of you is the general who commanded the largest battle in modern times, the general who has annihilated the most enemies in a single battle, and the general who has annihilated the most enemies in a single battle in the past hundred years!
As for whether it was the largest number of enemies annihilated in a single battle in the past two hundred years, it still needs to be verified."
Damn it! Li Rubai was stunned for a moment, who came up with all these ideas? Then he suddenly realized, no wonder the eldest brother suddenly cares so much about the number of enemies annihilated!
If more than 30,000 enemies were annihilated in yesterday's battle, it should indeed be the highest record among contemporary generals and even a record in the past century.
If you think about it, you will know that in the past 100 years, the border troops have mostly been engaged in security warfare, and occasionally they have invaded nests. Killing a few hundred enemies is considered a great victory. How can it be possible to wipe out 30,000 enemies in a single battle?
As for Qi Shaobao's annihilation of Japanese pirates, I don't know if the total number accumulated over the years was 30,000, but there really was no single battle in which 30,000 were annihilated.
Moreover, in this battle of Seoul, there were more than 60,000 heavenly soldiers and about 50,000 Japanese soldiers. The total number of soldiers from both sides was more than 110,000.
Therefore, it is not an exaggeration to call it "the largest battle of modern times". The Ming Dynasty had not fought a battle of this scale for many years.
The last time they besieged Ningxia, the combined number of both sides was estimated to be around 100,000, which should not be as large as this time.
After Li Rubai thought about it carefully, he also put forward his own opinion, "In terms of the number of enemies annihilated in a single battle, there is no doubt that you will be the best in the past 100 years, but it is probably impossible to be the best in the past 200 years."
After all, two hundred years ago Emperor Cheng Zuwen was in Fengtian Jingnan, and he won several great battles, just like the Southern Army general Li Jinglong who lost hundreds of thousands of troops at every turn, more than once."
Li Rusong suddenly felt a little unhappy. It was great to be the best in a century, but wouldn't it be even better to be the best in two hundred years?
He thought he was very hopeful in his heart, but he never thought that the series of battles in the Jingnan Campaign happened to happen over 200 years ago.
It’s all the fault of this trash Li Jinglong! Hundreds of thousands of people were wiped out at every turn! It even affected my own honor two hundred years later!
The next day, generals above the column level gathered at the shogunate to discuss military affairs.
General Li arrived earlier and drank tea with Lin Tianshuai in the back hall. He said with great regret: "This is the most impossible thing in the past two hundred years."
Lin Tianshuai suggested: "The Battle of Jingnan was a civil war, but ours was a foreign war, and we were annihilating foreign enemies. The nature was completely different.
So if the precise content of the project is the number of foreign enemies annihilated in a single battle over the past two hundred years, you may still be the largest number of people!"
General Li suddenly became enlightened and said sincerely: "The army is still thoughtful!"
Then he asked: "Why do you always talk about a single battle and not the cumulative battle?"
Lin Tailai said in surprise: "Are you sure you want to calculate the total?"
Then he began to make calculations, "In September of the eighteenth year of Wanli, there was a great victory in Xining, and the Walata fortune teller was killed. In October of the eighteenth year of Wanli, there was a great victory at Ganjun Mountain in Gansu Town, and the fortune teller rabbit was killed to benefit farmers.
In March of the 19th year of Wanli, there was a great victory at Pinglubao, killing Tu Wenxiu and Kuaiyun, and defeating Julitu. In the same month, there was a great victory at Lingzhou, defeating Kuei Chengen; and at Yuquancheng, they defeated Kuaibai.
In May of the 19th year of Wanli, there was a great victory in Helan Mountain, and the powerful rabbit who supported the Ningxia rebels was defeated.
In June of the 19th year of Wanli, we captured Ningxia City, and you also participated.
In October of the 20th year of Wanli, you also participated in the great victory at Pyongyang and captured Governor Konishi alive.
In November of the 20th year of Wanli, there was a great victory in Xianxing Prefecture, killing Naoshima Naoshige; in the same month, there was a great victory in Jizhou, and Kato Kiyomasa was killed with his own hands!
Now it’s another great victory in Seoul, how many enemies do you think I have wiped out in total after eleven great victories?”
General Li: ""
No wonder, Lin Junmen, you kept talking about the single battle record before! It turns out that the cumulative total record is reserved for yourself!
Seeing that Li Rusong was struggling again, Marshal Lin explained in a serious tone:
"If it weren't for the purpose of giving you, Li Rusong, the opportunity to leave a mark in history and increase your participation in the battle, how could our headquarters have handed over the frontline command of the Battle of Seoul to you?
If I personally stepped forward to take command with the sword above, would you still dare to claim that you are the general who has annihilated the most foreign enemies under one command in the past two hundred years?"
General Li felt in a daze that this seemed to make sense?
If Lin Jinglue really took the Shangfang Sword and went to the front line to command, wouldn't he be completely reduced to a foil?
To be continued...