In the rain of arrows, Yongming Hou Li Ling walked into the end of his life. The rolling Yellow River opened its arms and accepted his son. The Mongolians did not even touch the corpse of the person they wanted to conquer. A few days later, local people found Li Ling's body with feathered arrows on the mudflat on the south bank of the Yellow River a hundred miles downstream. The face that had been sprinkled and deformed by the river still had a hint of mockery.

The moment he walked into the Yellow River, the tyrant Li Ling might have already realized his enlightenment, so he could die with this expression. In the world, Li Ling and his last words were recorded in history. After that, the most common saying of the merchants of the Ming Dynasty when they traveled to various countries and clashed with others was "I sell everything, but I don't sell my own motherland."

When Li Ling was still a constable in Huairou County, the county magistrate Guo Pu once commented on him like this, "I don't speak astonishingly." Whether it was in the Northern Army or leading his troops deep into the mountains in northeastern Liao, Li Ling was not a talkative character, but his words often became classics.

"I have heard of wolves eating sheep, but I have never heard of wolves eating wolf. Many times, the key to fairness lies in whether the strength is balanced." This statement is said in the Shimen Valley of Huairou, Wu'anguo was even more unscrupulous in bullying the people in the court that had mastered the firearms.

"In fact, we can sell land, small pieces, not Beijing, but Liaodong." This suggestion was mentioned in Peiping, and everyone was worried about not having money to build a new army at that time.

"I don't understand the difference between the country and the court, but I think the saying "Water can carry a boat, but it can also overturn the boat" makes the most sense. If the people always have the ability to overturn the boat, the boaters must be careful, which is good for the boat and the water. If people can not die, it is not a bad thing for the people to rebel." This is Li Ling's evaluation of the relationship between the people and the court.

"It would be great if our barbed wire could move. Put it in front of the Goryeo formation and let the brothers shoot on the horse's back. In this way, the Goryeo would have to be beaten and let the barbed wire move along on the flank. Even if the enemy came from the side, they could only stare at him..." Bilangyuan, the generals were at a loss when facing the brothers who were hostages. Li Ling proposed such a way of fighting, and the chariot that had been sleeping for hundreds of years stepped onto the chariot again.

"In fact, the descendants of China are all living in this land. The so-called nation is just the difference between culture and wealth. After a long time of mixing together, it becomes one. So we have to find a way to trick more people into immigrating to Liaodong and get involved with various tribes." When Zhu Di and the generals discussed how to treat ethnic minorities in Liaodong, Li Ling expressed his own national view, opening the prelude to Liaodong immigration.

"I always wake up the dreamer in my dream with one word, but I die in my dream of a thousand years of family and country." In the capital, looking at the newspaper in my hand, I remembered Li Ling's "jokes" with hidden cleverness, and the tiger's eyes in Wu'an's country were filled with tears.

For several years, Huairou and his brothers have treated him as brothers. When they came to this strange world, Wu Anguo's subconscious mind had already regarded the friends he had first met as blood-connected relatives. Now they are watching them die one by one.

The last time Wang Feiyu's death had already hit him very hard. This time, with Li Ling, Wu Anguo didn't know how many brothers there would be as the price to change the situation. Will the sporadic sparks be submerged in the sea of ​​people and there will never be a chance to start a prairie fire?

The pain was a biting pain, but he had to endure these pains, but he was unable to fight back. But he still had to pretend to be nothing but straighten his back. Liu Ling looked at his husband with distress, wondering how long this tall body could last. All she could do was to rush a cup of good tea, hoping that the misty green mist could attract Wu Anguo's gaze from his sadness.

There was another famous saying before Li Ling's battle, no one dared to report it to Zhu Yuanzhang. This sentence was passed to the pass by the unsatisfied soldiers in the Weibei Army and to the ears of Wu'anguo.

"General Feng is a man of a low-key background, and he does not know the general. If Ling saw General Feng being surrounded and held troops without moving, then General Feng scolded him that day just a man who does not know the general. What's wrong with him? Besides, Li Ling's battle was a country, not for personal grudges. Mongolia's military power is powerful, so you can form a car formation by the river, and then cross the river after you come to General Feng. When you fight, you can retreat. Do not leave the original formation..."

What happened in the northern defense line? Feng Sheng, despite Li Ling's dissuasion and the changing weather in the grassland summer, forced the Yellow River to cross the Yellow River. Wu'anguo could not infer that. In addition to being responsible for many affairs of the Academy of Sciences, he could not speak out about the affairs of the court. The way to understand the military situation in the front was only newspapers on the streets and some rumors that Liu Ling heard from the palace. Cao Zhen led the navy to blockade the Japanese. It is estimated that he had been stationed on the sea for many years and had not heard that the northern border had ignited smoke. Zhen's northern army was disturbed by the uprising of the Jinshan tribe and the Goryeo refugees, and no one had written a letter for a long time.

The most accurate news I heard from Zhou Wuyou was that the Mongolian army went south in three directions, Puying on the east road was trapped in Daning and defended alone. Lan Yu on the west road fought hard at Yumen Pass, defeating dozens of enemy generals and getting tens of thousands of horses. But the Mongolians fought to the death and the war between the two sides was in a stalemate. Helin was lost in the north, and the governor Feng Cheng died on the battlefield. Feng Sheng rushed to rescue, but was ambushed forty miles south of Helin. The two sides fought fiercely for a day and night, and heavy rain suddenly fell, and the water was three feet deep, and the muskets could not be fired. Fortunately, Li Ling, who was left behind by Feng Sheng, led 500 dead soldiers to rush into the enemy's central camp, disrupting the command of the Mongols. The Weibei Army was able to escape from the collapsed encirclement, and the remaining troops crossed the river in a panic and confronted the Mongols across the river. Li Ling and the cavalry who followed him were not alive.

At this time, it was less than a year since Li Ling entered the Northern Army. In less than a year, Li Ling assisted Feng Sheng in building a new army. Unfortunately, this new army first lost the general in the first battle.

A year ago, Li Ling was ordered to join the Weibei Army to carry out military affairs. Zhu Yuanzhang hoped that he could use his reputation to sweep Liaodong to help Feng Sheng to make the Weibei Army a force that could traverse the desert as soon as possible. Li Ling did his best to do Zhu Yuanzhang's commission. Even Feng Sheng, the general of Weibei Army who had never looked down on the officers who had never looked down on the Northern Army, was very jealous of Li Ling. In the Weibei Army, Li Ling maintained the true nature of General Dashu and rarely interfered in Feng Sheng's military affairs. No matter what Feng Sheng arranged for him to do, he would do it very well.

At first, Li Ling was ordered by Feng Sheng to supervise military supplies, and soon completely solved the problem of loss of military supplies on the road. For a long time, military supplies transported from Taiyuan and other places must be consumed by at least 30% of the military supplies on the road by civilians who served on the road, and the army has always been accustomed to this consumption. The usual way to solve this problem is to add 30% more when starting the journey, and deduct the loss after arriving at the destination. Li Ling fully utilized his "bribery" expertise in managing military supplies. Referring to Xu Da's experience in Daning, he no longer recruited civilians to transport military supplies on the grounds of reducing the damage to local agricultural production.

This was a method of ordering local officials to contract military rations to merchants for transportation. After the merchants transported the grain to their destination, the Weibei Army issued a receipt to the merchant according to the actual amount of the warehouse. The merchants then returned to the local area to collect 20% of the grain equivalent to the warehouse as reward for transporting grain. This measure alone blocked the financial path of many people and opened up the financial path of many people. The voices of praise and complaints alternately went straight to the court. After seeing the memorial of the local impeachment of Li Ling, Zhu Yuanzhang not only did not blame Li Ling, but instead ordered the system to be promoted to the army, and praised Li Ling for his style of a Confucian general, and rewarded him with a hundred taels of gold and ten pieces of brocade.

The wool textile industry in Peking, which often shares shares, often goes to Datong to buy the wool of the shepherds near Datong. After seeing this, Li Ling took the initiative to ask the soldiers to set up several storehouses for merchants to trade and store goods. Soon it became a big market. Every day, the merchants could buy several cows by rent. The camps of the Weibei Army often wafted out of the scent of beef. The Mongolian cattle were not used to farm, and it did not violate the national laws when slaughtered. This kind of beef that had never worked was fat and tender, and was very popular among soldiers.

"I'm not going to be Tao Zhugong, it's really a talent." Feng Sheng once got drunk at a military celebration banquet and patted Li Ling on the shoulder and said. That time, He Shan sank a small group of horse thieves who harassed the people. Li Ling suggested that the prisoners be placed in the official position of the horse thief, and the crime was sentenced to thirty to five years of labor. Then he rented them to merchants to dig out the barren mountains near Datong and repair the roads. Passing merchants found the best peat (coal) in a valley formed by thousands of years of mountain torrents. A large number of charcoal mining merchants flocked into the mountains. The prisoners rented out very good prices when they were short of people.

Leaving prisoners, opening commercial stations, and repairing commercial routes, Li Ling earned a large amount of silver for the Weibei Army in less than a year, and the military only collected some rent and did not invest any industry. The rolling silver was replaced by Mongol cattle and sheep, and some soldiers who joined the army due to poverty gradually turned red and became more and more energetic when they trained.

It was Li Ling's job to propose a suitable training method. He compiled the combat methods in the Zhenbei Army into a manual, handed them to Feng Sheng for review and sent them to the officers for copying. How long does it take to prepare artillery? How far is the artillery able to shoot when the enemy is away from the enemy? How fast does the cavalry need to rush up to ensure the maximum performance of artillery? How to cooperate with the cavalry? These new things are remembered by the soldiers of the Northern Wei Dynasty. After they are familiar with it, the low-level officers trained their soldiers according to their respective understandings. Before they changed their equipment, the army already had the appearance of a strong brigade. Seeing the soldiers under their command lined up in an oblique formation, holding wooden sticks for training, imitating the "bang" sound, squatted down, stood up, advanced, squatted down, and stood up. Feng Sheng, the general of the Northern Wei Dynasty, sometimes laughed so hard that his beard was trembling.

In this boring and repetitive action, the Weibei Army quickly grew up. The cavalry drew out a sharp sabre after artillery fire and rushed into the smoke, with a shocking momentum. In order to prevent changes in the north, after preparing to use troops in Yunnan, the court accelerated the supply of equipment to the Weibei Army, and the Weibei Army was about to become the third iron fist of the Ming Dynasty.

The environment changed quietly at this moment. Feng Sheng, the commander of the Northern and Southern Army, had a small dispute with Li Ling, and the commander of the Chariot Division. The reason for the dispute was very simple. The court transferred Guo Ying, the left governor of Helin, to the guards of Helin. The new Helin General appointed his nephew Feng Cheng as Feng Cheng, following Feng Sheng's suggestion. Feng Cheng was also a famous general who grew up in the army. His premature father Feng Guoyong was the commander of the personal army and ranked eighth among the founding fathers of the Ming Dynasty. With the heroic father and uncle who was invincible as a backer, and his bravery and good fighting, Feng Cheng made many military achievements in the army when he grew up, and his fame and title were much higher than Guo Ying. Feng Sheng recommended him to guard Helin, which was not entirely out of selfishness. The place surrounded by Mongolian tribes was a dangerous place, and the "smart" general would not volunteer to take the initiative to take risks.

Li Ling's opinion to Feng Sheng was: send himself or his deputy general Song De to guard Helin. Li Ling did not believe in Feng Cheng's ability, and he was sieging cities and plundering land. Feng Cheng's combat power was not as good as usual. But guarding the city, Feng Cheng was indeed not very familiar with the nature and attack methods of the northern nomadic peoples. Moreover, once Feng Cheng encountered trouble, it would definitely affect Feng Sheng's judgment of the battle situation. According to Xu Zengshou's analysis, the Mongols were likely to take action from behind when the Ming Dynasty was all focused on Yunnan. Yunnan was a vassal state that the Mongols regarded as the Mongols. If Yunnan was attacked by the Ming Dynasty and the Mongols ignored it, in the future, Tugusi Tiemur's prestige in various tribes will be lost, and the Mongolian grasslands will definitely establish another hero. For the sake of his own country, Tugusi Tiemur also had to make a big fame with the Ming Dynasty. Even if he was defeated, he could still find opportunities to make a comeback. If he did not fight, he would definitely be abandoned by his tribe.

"The major general was originally a cavalry general, and it was his director to attack the city and capture the village. He also felt it was a pity that he sent such a brave general to defend the city. He should leave this lazy job to me." Seeing that Feng Sheng was a little unhappy, Deputy General Song De hurried out to smooth things over. He had been with Feng Sheng for many years and was familiar with the other party's temper and nature. He also believed that instead of letting Feng Cheng defend the city, it was better to let Feng Cheng be the attacking striker. His old bones were more suitable to defend the city. Compared with young people, the veterans were more persistent.

"I am not a man who has deposed the public because of his personal life. He has never changed his color after hearing the thunder." Feng Sheng rejected Li Ling and Song De's suggestions with obvious displeasure.

Li Ling no longer insisted. As a general, it was his responsibility to make a statement. Whether to adopt it is the right of the commander. This is not the Zhenbei Army. There is no big round table. Everyone must be clear about his identity. He is not Wang Hao, and he will not write a letter to Zhu Di to ask Zhu Di to transfer him back to the Zhenbei Army. As a soldier, he took obeying orders as his duty. For more than half a year, the Weibei Army had done too many things he didn't like to do, and he didn't care about being wronged again.

The lower-level officers of the Northern Army who came to the Northern Army often came to him to sit down and talk about his discomfort with the new army. Li Ling habitually patted the other party on the shoulder, drank some tea together, and eliminated the contradictions in his military tent. Li Ling believed that the soul of an army is not a weapon, but a person, and the unity between brothers is the most important. An ununified army cannot defeat any enemy. Since it is joked by the outside world, the profiteering merchant must calculate the serious gains and losses of an incident. Especially if these things are related to the combat effectiveness of the army.

The dispute was quickly revealed, and no one mentioned it again afterwards. Both sides carefully avoided this topic and did not want the small unhappiness to form a crack among the old and new officers. Until a few days ago, He Lin's loss.

When the dusty letter-sending soldier came to report that He Lin was trapped and the Mongolian army had more than 100,000, Feng Sheng issued an order to go north without thinking. The Northern Wei and Northern Wei have been trained almost the same, and it is time to test the results of its training. Holding such a powerful weapon, Feng Sheng can be arrogant in the world. What is the 100,000 Mongolian troops, and only deserve to be sacrificed to the Wei and Northern Wei. What is the trapped one's nephew. He believed that Feng Cheng had enough ability to stick to his arrival. At that time, the Mongols would be annihilated under the city, and he could also comfort his brother's spirit in heaven and tell his brother that his orphan had been cultivated and become a talent.

At this moment, Li Ling made a second opinion with the head coach. This time he said it in detail and could not take action easily. It is best to collect enough Mongolian military intelligence first. The reason is that, first, He Lin went to Datong for more than 300 miles, and it is unknown whether it was lost. The enemy's situation is unknown, and hastily attacked easily. Second, summer is here, and it is rainy season on the grassland, which is not conducive to firearms fighting. Third, even if he attacks, he must be in the camp step by step, with the chariots outside and the artillery in the middle, and all types of troops act in concert, so that the team must not be disconnected.

Li Ling knew that he and the general Lin were Feng Sheng's nephews, and also understood Feng Sheng's mood. But he believed that a general should have a calm mind at any time. Feng Sheng was through many battles and should have this quality himself. "The advantage of our army is the sharpness of firearms. There is no dangerous place on the grassland, and it is easy to be attacked from all sides. Once the enemy set up an ambush and attacked from all sides, the artillery was not at all time. With the Mongolian charge speed, it can quickly break through the range of our army's muskets, and close combat is not the director of our army..."

To everyone's surprise, Feng Sheng, who was well-educated, suddenly became furious and lost the mood to listen to Li Ling's explanation. "I have experienced many battles and actually needed a constable to teach him how to fight. It's a joke." The cold words frozen Li Ling's smile on his face.

In the eyes of some veteran generals, the little hairy children Zhu Di and Wu'anguo easily defeated Liaodong, but relying on the power of new weapons. Once they possess the same weapons, the veteran generals can perform better than these young boys who have never experienced war. Li Ling did not expect that the cracks he had been hiding and repairing were actually an insurmountable gap. Without the baptism of war, this gap would be difficult to fill. Perhaps only the land moistened by passionate blood could heal the gap.

As if he was angry with Li Ling, the veteran general Feng Sheng led a large group of troops to cross the Yellow River, leaving half of the soldiers of the chariot division under Li Ling's troops to escort the food and grass.

In the first four days, the Weibei Army won consecutive battles and annihilated countless enemy troops. From a distance, you can see Helin City. The powerful Mongolian artillery smashed the city walls into pieces. Within a thousand miles of eyes, the Ming Dynasty flag was still stubbornly dancing on the city wall.

Feng Cheng also saw his uncle, but he could no longer seize the opportunity to rush out. A sudden heavy rain reversed the entire battle situation. The Mongolian cavalry, who were furious with muskets, grabbed the fighter plane and raised their sabres and rushed towards the Weibei Army. The Mongolians fought, each with at least three war horses, and they could charge continuously without having to worry about the horse's strength loss.

The Weibei Army, which had lost its artillery support, fell into a hard battle. The longbows learned from the Western countries were used to exert the maximum power in the rain, and accompanied by thunder and lightning, continued to shoot down the Weibei soldiers in batches.

After finally getting to the sunny day, Feng Sheng gathered the soldiers who were stunned. More than 30,000 troops lost more than 10,000, and they fought and retreated. They barely supported them for a few days, and they were out of ammunition and food.

"The Prodigal Businessman" Li Ling did the most successful business in his life, and exchanged his life for half of the Northern Army of Wei and the Northern Army. His deeds were sang in the drums of the storytellers. Decades later, the legendary "The Heroes of the Ming Dynasty" written by Luo Guanzhong all his life became popular on the streets. On the cover, Li Ling was on the cover, and behind him, the battle flag covered the picturesque country.

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