Chapter 402 Li Cunxiao was resurrected from the dead, even though the Zhendong Army was victorious,
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"Mr. Please calm down. After all, the yamen are still young and it is inevitable that there will be mistakes for a while." Li Zhen, who came to his senses, quickly persuaded him, fearing that the relationship between Li Jing and several disciples would become tense, so he was busy in the middle to persuade him to ease.
"This is not a mistake, this is a crime!" Li Jing's anger did not calm down at all. "In the past, I treated them too much, especially Li Cunxiao and Wang Tiezhang. They had never been a soldier before entering my school. I promoted them to generals at once, which was to encourage growth. They had not been polished by the army and became generals. After winning one or two battles, they immediately didn't know that the sky was high and the earth was strong. Even my military orders dared not listen to them, and they dared to sacrifice randomly with their brothers. This time, such a big thing happened all of a sudden. If they didn't teach a good lesson, wouldn't they go against the sky in the future?"
Hearing Li Jing say this, the generals were not easy to persuade. Li Jing was really too fond of these four disciples at the beginning. Liu Xun and Gao Siji were better. After all, before Liu Xun joined Li Jing's sect, he had been the head of the servants under Wang Shifan for a long time, and Gao Siji also followed his fathers to the battlefield many times. Only Wang Yanzhang and Li Cunxiao, both of whom had not received the tempering of the army at all, had rashly become generals, and after winning several more battles, he couldn't help feeling a little fluttering.
Li Cunxiao, with about seventy people, dared to come and attack Guancheng, which thousands of people were guarding, and even dared to enter the city and behead the eighteen cavalry, which was the consequence.
Now that such a serious thing has happened, Li Jing turned around and thought, it was actually all of this for him.
The army is a special place. Li Jing has always talked about the purity of the army, which is to keep the army always maintain the systems and spirits he has formulated. A military camp is a melting pot, hammering the newly entered the camp one by one, and finally grinding off the edges and corners, becoming the standard soldiers of the Zhendong Army should look like.
But he destroyed all these old examples because of the great reputation of Liu Xun, Wang Yanzhang, Gao Siji, Li Cunxiao and others. Not only did he give more rewards, but he was even promoted to a general who led his troops from the top to the level. It is precisely because of this that such a serious violation of military discipline happened this time.
If Li Jing did not deal with it seriously, Li Cunxiao and others would not correct it. If there was a first time, there would be a second time, and then other generals would follow suit. In the end, the military discipline was gone. An army that even lost military discipline could no longer be called an army.
A thousand-mile dike collapses in an ant hole!
Lin Wu asked: "Will the Shatuo soldiers be pursued?"
Li Jing shook his head: "No."
For Li Jing, fighting is not a murder or a robbery. War is a continuation of politics. War must be purposeful and serve politics. This time, the main purpose of Zhendong Army was to enhance prestige and expand its influence. Therefore, after mastering this goal, in Li Jing's plan, the purpose of the war was very clear. The first is to take advantage of the emptiness of Daibei and first recover Daibei and make a real military merit. To recover Daibei, if you can do it, don't fight, and maintain your strength is the best. This war is not the Zhendong Army, but also the six groups of troops.
Li Jing's intention is very clear. At this stage, he found a way to recover Daibei without bloodshed, and mainly relies on using his power to suppress people instead of fighting desperately. After rushing these Shatu soldiers from Daibei to join Li Keyong and his son, he would first let the other six soldiers from the court fight with them.
The Shatuo people are not easy to fight, and Li Keyong is not an ordinary person. Li Jing has already decided that he would wait until the court suffers a loss first, and wait until both sides suffer losses before he will finally appear and decide the victory in one battle.
After receiving the report this time, Li Jing only brought the troops originally in Zhigu Guanzhong. The remaining more than 10,000 people came first before they could summon them.
After taking over the Taixi Pass, more than 5,000 soldiers began to eliminate the remaining enemies in the city while appeaseing the people, while cleaning the battlefield and treating the wounded.
In this battle, Li Cunxiao, Liu Xun, Wang Yanzhang and Gao Si followed the four generals and participated in the battle one after another. A total of four capitals and eight hundred elite cavalry participated in the battle. By noon, the entire battlefield had been cleaned.
"Statistics of the war soldiers, a total of more than 2,800 Shatu soldiers were found, and more than 300 seriously injured Shatu soldiers were not taken away. They collectively surrendered to our army." When the secretary Guo Chengan reported this number, he was also surprised. The four capitals and eight hundred people who participated in the war had actually killed nearly 3,000 people. Moreover, this was a battle with a few enemies. This number of killings. If it were not for the fact that many of these Shatu soldiers were actually old and weak and young recruits, it would have completely shocked everyone.
"Where are our casualties?" Li Jing was not happy about seizing Taixi Pass and killing more than 2,000 enemies. Because this was a meaningless war. For such a war, no matter how big the victory was, it was meaningless.
Guo Chengan glanced at the account book above and said sadly: "Our army participated in the battle with great casualties. Four people in the four capitals participated in the battle. In the end, there were 67 people alive, and none of them were seriously injured. The officers suffered great casualties. Li Cunxiao, the capital and team level officers were killed. By the way, Liu Xun's flying swords had a high-ranking soldier named Zhao Da. Six people were killed in this battle, one of which was a battalion of the Shatu Army. After killing the Shatu General, he was pierced by the Shatu soldiers. When cleaning the battlefield, he found that he still had a breath. After rescue, he found that Zhao Da's heart was growing on the right. Although the gun was extremely heavy, it only bleeded a lot, but it was not fatal. He just fainted at that time and now he saved his life."
"A warrior like this should save him at any cost. These are treasures. A soldier who returned seriously injured in a bloody battle can resist ten newly recruited recruits." Li Jing paused, "I don't believe that Li Cunxiao died just like this. This kid is not so easy to die. You can send someone to look for it carefully."
"Monday, the burned town generals have been cleaned up and found more than a dozen burned charred bodies. The burning was too serious and the identity could not be distinguished. It is probably Li Cunxiao and the others." Guo Cheng'an reported.
"Take me to see!" Li Jing couldn't believe that the tiger-killing general Li Cunxiao would die in a small military camp so early.
When Li Jing, Guo Cheng'an and others arrived, the original town general's mansion had already become a piece of rubble and ruins, with black smoke marks and white ashes everywhere. The ruins had been cleared out, and more than a dozen corpses were placed together, all of which were charred, and they could not be divided into identities.
Li Jing looked at each one and couldn't recognize anything at all, but he always felt that Li Cunxiao was not dead.
"Are these corpses?" Li Jing asked.
"Yes, Duke of the County."
Li Jing frowned and sighed. Just as he was about to turn around and leave, he suddenly seemed to hear a slight vibration under his feet. He quickly stopped, but he didn't stop. When he thought he was hallucinating, he heard a very slight sound in his ears.
"Have you heard anything?" Li Jing asked.
"No!"
Li Jing made a gesture of forbidden hand, and he finally heard a little more sound. Li Jing ignored the dust on the ground, lay down his body, empty the arrow of a soldier on the ground, and listened on it. This time, Li Jing finally heard it clearly, with the intermittent tapping sound, and it was coming from the ground.
"There is a secret room below. Clear this place immediately, find the exit, and rescue the people inside." Li Jing said excitedly, and he was convinced that Li Cunxiao was below.
At this time, others also listened, and indeed many people heard the movement inside.
Many soldiers were immediately recruited, and they carried their hands and shoulders to remove the stones and wood from the address of the town general. The craftsmen from the military engineers quickly found the entrance, covering it with a large stone, which fitted with the floor next to it. If you didn't look carefully, you wouldn't be able to see this at all. After prying open the cover, an underground secret room finally revealed.
A soldier jumped in impatiently, and then a surprise voice came immediately: "Mr. Duke, I found it. Li Yanei is indeed inside, and there are more than a dozen brothers."
When Li Cunxiao saw that the Shatuo soldiers surrounding them suddenly stopped caring about the hostages in their hands and attacked them forcing them, he knew it was difficult to get out of the trap. In the end, a subordinate brother accidentally discovered the secret room. Finally, they thought of a plan, found more than a dozen corpses to change into the clothes of their three brothers Li Kexiu, and then pretended to burn the fire of the generals' mansion.
They hid in the secret room, but they didn't know that the fire was too big, and they suddenly collapsed the fire of the town. The bricks and stones pressed the cover of the secret room, and they were trapped below. There were originally air holes in the secret room, but the air holes became deadly when the town hall caught fire. Smoke continued to penetrate into the secret room, and in the end everyone was unconscious by the smoke.
Only Li Cunxiao was strong and half-awake, insisting on the last hint of Qingming Festival. When he heard someone on it, he knocked on the wall with weapons.
One person was rescued, and Li Cunxiao and his seventeen cavalry were just unconscious, all living. In addition, Li Keyong's three brothers, Li Kexiu, Li Kerou and Li Kezhang, were just unconscious.
"Treat now!" Seeing that Li Cunxiao was still alive, Li Jing sighed. Although he was a little reckless, if he taught him well, he was still a powerful general. If he died in battle, it would be Li Jing's fault.
Sixty-seven plus eighteen, eighty-five people were still alive in the end, but then five seriously injured were not rescued. Four of them were eighty-hundred elite cavalry, and in the end, only eighty wounded were lying on the bed and unable to move.
Chapter completed!