Chapter 277 Trouble after the war (Twenty-three) Rusong returns to town
"Brother, we are about to arrive at Dafu Castle. After entering the border wall and walking 40 miles eastward, we will reach Guangning Zhongtunwei. We can take a rest." A young Ming Dynasty man wearing Mingguang armor said
Jiang said with a sigh of relief.
"Why, you kid can't lift the knife now?" The leader, the fierce general, gave him a sidelong glance.
"Brother, don't make fun of me. Even if the main force of the Japanese pirates appears in front of me now, I can kill him seven times in and seven out." The young general stiffened his neck and replied unconvinced.
Another general beside him added: "However, since we are about to go to war with the Japanese soldiers, shouldn't we get to know our opponents first? I heard from the envoy from North Korea that the Japanese soldiers are vicious and good at fighting, and they are both skilled with firearms and swords.
"Jing, this battle doesn't seem to be an easy one." A stocky general said.
"Really? How difficult is it to fight?" The leading general smiled slightly and asked in return.
"No matter how powerful the Japanese are, how can they compare to the Northwest Kuaibai and the Mongolian Tumen? Even they are no match for my eldest brother, so what do they mean if they are just Japanese pirates!" Another general with a yellow beard caught up from behind and interjected proudly:
"This time, even Gao Jingtai came forward to recommend my eldest brother to be the commander of the Japanese army to aid Korea. It can be seen that my eldest brother's position as the best general in the world has been confirmed. When we take a break in Guangning, we will definitely succeed in sending troops the next day! Brother
We, when we make great achievements...haha, it's coming again!"
The general from before also laughed: "It's a pity that Ru Zhang and Ru Zhen didn't come. Otherwise, my brothers from the Li family would have gone into battle together, and we would have created another military legend."
These three people are brothers. The general who leads the army is 44 years old. He is wearing a black gold helmet with phoenix wings, a tiger-swallowing bright light armor, a green face and a black beard, a tiger's back and an ape's waist. It is Li Rusong who has returned from the Western Expedition.
, the other two are his second brother Li Rubai and his youngest brother Li Rumei.
"That's good, but why did Gao Jingtai do this? I always feel that he shouldn't have given such great credit to our Li family in vain?" Li Rubai frowned and said, "If he really wants to praise our Li family,
Then why don't we also go to the capital to participate in the triumphal ceremony - it will be the emperor's outskirts to welcome him!"
Li Rumei replied: "It doesn't matter if we are praised or not, credit is the most important thing. Besides, Gao Jingtai may think that the North Koreans are not useful. We are already far away. If we delay going to the capital again, we may lose time."
I can’t make it in time.”
"As for that?" Li Rubai shook his head: "Although North Korea is not that good, it still has more than 200,000 troops. If the Japanese pirates attack across the sea, they can't wipe out North Korea in a month or two. I see,
This Lord Jingtai still has concerns about our Li family, but it can’t hinder the eldest brother’s great military exploits and the fact that he is the commander-in-chief of Liaodong, so he has no choice but to recommend him to be the commander-in-chief of aiding Korea and preparing for Japan.”
At this time, Li Rusong held the tiger's whiskers, controlled the reins and walked slowly. Listening to the discussion of the two brothers, he couldn't help but smile. He knew that the second brother Li Rubai had a prejudice against Gao Pragmatic, while the younger brother Li Rumei was against Gao Pragmatic.
Gao Jingjing admires Gao Jingjing very much. Once the two people mention something related to Gao Jingjing, they will have some disagreements, but it does not affect the relationship between the brothers.
He stretched out his hand to stop the small argument between the two of them, and said loudly: "The purpose of sending troops this time is to repay the emperor's favor and relieve the king's worries. It doesn't matter what other people think of me or what their intentions are. Second brother, fifth brother,
As a general, I should pay attention to my army and use my troops wisely. I don’t care how the court uses me, but keep one thought in mind: Use me and you will win!"
Li Rubai and Li Rumei were shocked when they heard this. At the same time, they solemnly clasped their fists and said, "Brother, you have taught me a lesson."
At this moment, the sound of horse hooves was suddenly heard, and a former military colonel came galloping over. "Report, Marshal, Dafu Fort is in front of you. After hearing the news, the garrison in the fort has come out of the city to greet the Marshal. They will be there soon!"
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"Okay!" Li Rusong perked up, rode on his horse, raised his whip, and led a group of troops to gallop forward through the snow. When he turned the corner of the mountain, a city appeared in front of him. A young general led dozens of people on horseback and approached. He got off his horse and leaned down.
He bowed and said: "Wang Linhai, the guard of Dafu Fort, pays homage to the eldest, second, fifth and generals!"
This person refers to the brothers of the Li family as "eldest master, second master, and fifth master". It seems very likely that he was born in a general of the Li family.
"It's Lin Hai. Are you on guard too? Good, good, good and good from now on. Bring me the soldiers of Dafu Fort. Don't embarrass your father. Do you understand?"
Sure enough, Li Rusong seemed to be quite familiar with the young guard in front of him. After speaking, he asked: "How is your father's health?"
"Thank you for your inquiry. My father is fine. Although he is missing an arm, his body is still healthy. Sometimes he even shouts that he wants to continue serving the uncle!" The young guard kowtowed his head lower, but his voice sounded very strange.
Excited.
Li Rusong laughed and said: "Lao Wang is still so unwilling to admit defeat, but he has been fighting for more than 20 years and has thirty-seven stab wounds on his body. It's time to rest now. But you kid, just don't embarrass him.
, you, the old Wang family, may also become generals in the future."
"Thank you for your cultivation, sir. I will do my best to serve you. Sir, although it is autumn now, the sun is still very scorching. Please invite me, the second master, the fifth master and all the generals to come to the fort and have some tea to relieve themselves."
Quench your thirst."
"Okay, you lead the way!" The two exchanged a few words, and Li Rusong asked Wang Linhai to mount his horse, and the army reorganized their flag tents and filed into the city.
Dafu Fort was not enough to station the more than 30,000 troops brought by Li Rusong, so the army was stationed in the open space near the fort in the pass. The Li brothers and a group of generals went to the garrison Yamen for a meeting after bathing and changing clothes. However, everyone had just arrived, and there was still time.
Before the discussion even started, I received the order from the Ministry of War.
In fact, this time the letter from the Ministry of War should be said to be more of a writing than an order. The full text was quite long and described the current situation in North Korea. Li Rusong glanced at it hurriedly and handed it to Li Rumei, saying: "Pick the key points and tell everyone.
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Li Rumei is the younger brother among several brothers. Not only is she excellent in marksmanship and archery, but she is also talented in literature. Li Rusong especially likes to take her with him. He is truly a model of brotherly friendship.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! At this time, Li Rumei took the text and read it, and said: "Everyone, last month, the King of Korea reported that hundreds of Japanese ships invaded Busan and burned down the houses.
, the situation was very rampant. The Ministry of War heard about it and ordered officials such as Fudao Town, the direct governor of Liaodong and Shandong Coastal Provinces, to strictly organize their defenses so that there would be no danger.
Six days later, Jian Da, the governor of Jiliao, reported that the Japanese had invaded North Korea, and the Liaozu was on alert. He begged to move Ni Shangzhong, the commander-in-chief of Baoding, to Tianjin to take charge of the troops and horses of the second town. I followed him.
On the fourth day, the Holy Order ordered Fu Town, Liaodong Province, to send two elite troops to aid Korea. They would first send 20,000 taels of silver to the other country to reward the troops. They would also give the king two pieces of large red silk silk to express his condolences. He would still be given an annual payment of 200,000 taels of silver. Give it to Liao Town for later use. Report it to the Ministry of War.
On the next day, the Ministry of War said: The Korean ministers heard that the Japanese barbarians were poisoning them, and they cried and begged for their lives, so they sent them back. They had already ordered troops to be sent to rescue them, but they still comforted the king not to blame the strong and the weak, but to fight and suppress the bandits as a deputy. The imperial court had a far-reaching view.
The next day, Shandong Fu announced that the Japanese pirates were in Korea, Huanhai in the East Province, selected strong men from the remaining Baojia Army, assigned them to the defense, begged for 40,000 yuan of grain and silver to be left in the camp, and paid the official salary. The Ministry of Household Affairs responded. , Xu Zhi.
Wu Shen, the Ministry of War title: Ji Liao Governor Fu Jian Da and others revealed that the king of Korea had captured 110 Japanese-level weapons, and sent his accompanying ministers to send them for inspection. When he was displaced, he was respectful and loyal. The decree was obtained: The king sent officials to inspect the Japanese rank, and to ensure loyalty and obedience, he ordered the king to use all his strength to annihilate the thieves, and sent out officers and soldiers to assist in the suppression without distinguishing between them. Each of the six accompanying ministers was rewarded with twenty taels of silver, and each level was rewarded with five taels of silver. The imperial court The meaning of kindness.
On the same day, the Ministry of War responded to the announcement by the Governor-General Xiao Daheng, saying that the two towns' military commanders Ma Gui, Ma Cheng'en and others selected 16,000 to prepare for the Japanese police. The Ministry of Household Affairs should be consulted and discussed the distribution of hundreds of thousands in silver. , I sent one of the ministers to supervise the food and salary management nearby, so that the common people would avoid temporary shortages, and the order was approved.
On the same day, Chen Lin, the deputy commander-in-chief of Yunnan, who was familiar with the Japanese situation, was pragmatically recommended by the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty's economic advisor, and was ordered to add the imperial guards to the fourth town. He immediately sent people to guard the capital, and went to the capital at starry night to wait for dispatch.
The next day, the Ministry of War said: It was previously agreed to send two detachments of elite troops to support North Korea along the river. Before this was done by the country, the governor Gu Yangqian said: North Korea is very urgent to invite troops, and it is planned to send guerrillas to stop at the Yalu River first and not dare to advance. How can I control my husband's life and death like this? I beg for the camera to rescue and suppress the enemy. The order is: Reinforcements have been sent for a long time, how can we tolerate delays. From now on, there will be no need to call for urgent matters in the border towns, which will cause the loss of military aircraft."
Li Rumei stopped when she read this, looked around at the generals and said: "The above are the most important points in the text. It seems that the situation in North Korea is more urgent than we previously expected."
Li Rubai immediately said: "It seems that we are in big trouble. At the beginning, these lines were once every few days, and later they could even come out three times a day. From this point of view, the king of Korea is still in Seoul." It’s hard to tell if it’s not in Li Huo’s hands.”
Zu Chengxun frowned and said, "Gu Fujun asked the imperial court for the right to 'camera aid and suppress'. Is it possible that he meant something?"
Everyone was startled when they heard this, but someone soon agreed: "I think it is very possible. Judging from the time, when Gu Fujun came to seize power, we should still be in Tumut territory. At that time, he wanted to use the power to carry out "camera support and suppression". It was definitely not to mobilize our army in western Liaoning, but to mobilize Xiao Ruxun's troops in eastern Liaodong... Commander, this is stealing credit."
Everyone couldn't help but turn their attention to Li Rusong, but Li Rusong didn't have much expression. He just asked Wang Linhai: "Lin Hai, you can see the Di newspaper here. Has Gu Fujun sent troops to aid North Korea?"
Wang Linhai had a low status and was originally standing in the corner. At this time, he was called out by Li Rusong and was able to stand up. He clasped his fists and shook his head and said, "Reply to me, I didn't."
Li Rusong narrowed his eyes slightly and asked, "Oh, you didn't send troops to help?"
Zu Chengxun asked: "Then what did he do? Since he wants power, he won't just sit idly by and ignore it, right?"
Wang Linhai shook his head and replied: "That's not true. Gu Fujun recalled all Xiao Fujun and others who were still stationed in Chahanhot to Liaodong, including Horqin's Weng Guodai, Ming'an, Hong Guoer brothers, and Ye He's Nalin.
Bulu, Buzhai brothers, Mengge Bulu from Hada, Shuerhaqi from Jianzhou right guard, and Mantai from Wula were ordered to rush back to their headquarters as soon as possible to defend themselves carefully."
The three brothers Li Rusong looked at each other, and Li Rumei said in surprise: "It seems that what worries Gu Fujun more is not the Japanese, but the Jurchens. However, Ye He, Hada, Wula and Jianzhou Youwei all directly sent troops to help this time
There is only one Nurhachi left in our empire, how dare he take advantage of the situation to stir up trouble?"
Li Rubai twisted his beard and said thoughtfully: "After all, this transfer should have been completed, right? So, how will Nurhachi react?"
Wang Linhai replied: "There was no response at first, but yesterday's newspaper said that Nurhachi sent an envoy to ask for orders, saying that he was ready to enlist to fight against the Japanese pirates, and he was waiting for Gu Fujun's order."
Hearing this, Li Rusong snorted disdainfully and said scornfully: "Assuming that he knows the truth, if he dares to make any changes, this town will not mind it being troublesome, and we will not mind cutting him to sacrifice the flag before sending troops to aid the DPRK."
Everyone laughed, and Li Rubai advised after laughing: "Brother, you don't have to be like this, it is actually a good thing to keep Nurhaci. After all, as long as he is still there, Gu Fujun can only keep Xiao Ruxun and others in Liaoyang and other places.
To avoid any eventuality.
After all, even if North Korea is lost, Gu Fujun will not have much responsibility, but if Liaoyang is lost, even if Gu Fujun is a civil servant, he will lose his head."
Li Rusong frowned slightly, but before he could speak, Zu Chengxun took over and said: "Xiao Ruxun is good at defense but not necessarily good at attack. Keeping him in Liaodong is also the purpose of the question."
When Zha Dashou heard this, he became excited and said: "Yes, yes, the general has the same idea. Commander, let me tell you, you have to take action to 'sweep thousands of armies like a rolling mat'. It has to be you."
It’s up to our Li Jiajun to take action.”
Li Pinghu said coldly: "I heard that the Japanese pirates are all three-inch men. I don't know how many of them I will eat in one meal given my appetite."
Everyone couldn't help but feel sick after hearing these outrageous words, but Li Pinghu was really a fierce general, especially when he was originally the leader of Li Chengliang's bodyguards. He didn't look at the monk's face or the Buddha's face, so everyone had to apologize.
Haha cover it up.
However, Li Rusong obviously didn't want to give face to him. He frowned and criticized: "Men in the army only kill according to their own masters. If they kill, they will be killed. Why do they always think about cannibalism? Can't my Li family afford the money to buy meat?"
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Li Pinghu turned away and said calmly: "Young Master, there is no need to be angry. All kinds of people have different ways of living. Just like you fight just to repay your gratitude to the emperor, I fight only to repay your gratitude to the commander-in-chief. As for cannibalism or not,
You are all going to burn the body anyway, so what if you let me eat it, you can save some rations."
Li Rusong's temper suddenly changed. He was about to stand up suddenly, but unexpectedly, Li Rubai next to him saw the situation quickly and had already reached out to hold his brother's shoulders, and quickly advised: "Brother, don't be upset, or you will teach daddy how to speak poorly."
"Big brother" and "father" are both colloquial terms. Their identities are usually not used. If they are used, it means that they are speaking in a purely private capacity. Li Rusong took a deep breath, suppressed his anger, and stared at his second brother's face.
After staring for a while, Li Rubai was very upbeat this time and looked at his elder brother seriously.
After a while, Li Rusong suddenly waved his hand, brushed away Li Rubai's hand on his shoulder, and said, "Continue the discussion."
Zu Chengxun, who was next to him, breathed a sigh of relief and quickly said: "Commander, the army has been on an expedition for half a year. Now it is back to Liaodong. It must take a rest at least, otherwise it will be too unkind. But the situation in North Korea is urgent now, and the court
I also promised to send two elite troops to assist the DPRK as soon as possible. The general is not talented at the end, so I am willing to be the first pawn for the commander-in-chief."
After hearing this, Li Rusong's face finally looked better. He nodded towards him approvingly and said, "Uncle Zu is thoughtful. Rusong is very pleased."
Zu Chengxun has been fighting with Li Chengliang for most of his life. In theory, he can indeed be called "uncle" by Li Rusong, but doesn't he know what Li Rusong's temper is? This boy has been as arrogant as a child. I heard him call him "Uncle" last time.
"Uncle Zu" probably didn't happen more than ten years ago. Saying this sentence today really made Zu Chengxun's bones melt. He quickly said: "How dare you, how dare you, you should."
Good guy, how dare you, or should you?
Fortunately, all the generals also knew that Zu Chengxun was overly excited, so they all just smiled kindly, while Zha Dashou expressed his stance: "Since Brother Zu has come first, I don't dare to fight timidly, Commander-in-Chief,
What if the other spot is given to the general?"
Li Rusong thought for a moment, shook his head and said: "Although the imperial court said that it would send two groups of elite troops as reinforcements, the troops you two have are quite limited. If you divide your troops and attack, the Japanese invaders may take advantage of it. I think so, you two
They are called two groups, but they are actually joining forces...Uncle Grandpa was the first to ask for help, so he will be the vanguard. What do you think?"
"The last general who dares to fail will die."
"But it depends on the command of the commander."
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PS: I learned in the afternoon that my second grandpa passed away. I will go back to my hometown tomorrow, and I don’t expect to be able to get back at least the day after tomorrow. I will try to see if I can finish tomorrow’s chapter in the early hours tonight. I can only say that I will try my best, but I can’t guarantee it.
So in case the update is discontinued tomorrow...I would like to apologize to all readers in advance.
