Chapter 422
After Li Guodong and Tianxiong Army joined forces, the two armies merged, and Lu Xiangsheng ordered the army to go north to expel the Tatars. Along the way, Yang Guozhu, Hu Dawei, Wang Pu and other Ming troops opened the city gates one after another, went out of the city to join the Tianxiong Army, and combined an army of more than 100,000 people, claiming to be 300,000. They rushed to the north and approached the Qing army.
The Qing army was robbed and left in the territory of the Ming Dynasty. He heard that 300,000 troops were coming to fight with him. Dorgon knew that he could not defeat him, so he ordered the withdrawal of his troops and ordered the Eight Banners of Han and Baoyi Aha to take the lead and bring more than 100,000 Han people who had been plundered from Da'ankou to return to Liaodong.
"Master Beile, the army of Minggou Barbarians is coming. Why doesn't our army take the opportunity to fight the barbarians and eat Lu Xiangsheng's army?" Yilden asked dissatisfiedly.
"There are Mongolian barbarians in the east, the army of tens of thousands of barbarians in Lu Xiangsheng in the south, and the elite of Li Laoer, how can our army win?" Dorgon said.
"Even if there are many Mingdogs and sages, they are just a group of lambs in my eyes!"
"Where is Li Lao Er?" Dorgon snorted, "Is he a lamb in your eyes?"
Yilden was speechless for a moment. After all, Li Guodong had a great influence on the Qing army. Since the Later Jin Dynasty, he had never won a single match against this opponent. But he still said unconvincedly: "This man is just a lot of tricks and never fights with my family. He always ambushed, defended the city, and sneaked into the lonely army in my family. When did he win openly?"
"It is his ability to be tricky. If you give you ten thousand people, can you guarantee that you won't be able to hit his trick?"
Ildon had nothing to say and had to step down.
The Qing army began to withdraw its troops. The Eight Banners of Han and Baoyi Aha escorted more than 100,000 people who had plundered from the Ming Dynasty and marched east along the south of the Great Wall. Along the way, the Ming army hid in the city and did not dare to go out of the city to intercept it. Instead, the Qing army captured several guards, captured more than a thousand Ming troops, captured more than ten thousand people, and swaggered out of the Great Wall from Da'ankou and returned to Liaodong.
"The army of thieves has retreated. I will come to the capital to face the saint, so I will naturally seek merit for you!" Lu Xiangsheng stood in the central army's tent and looked around.
Li Guodong didn't know what the contributions of Yang Guozhu, Hu Dawei, Wang Pu and others? When the Qing army was plundering in the pass, the three of them did not dare to go out of the city to intercept. Later, Lu Xiangsheng's Tianxiong army came over and they sent troops to join. The Qing army retreated itself, and even the Tianxiong army did not win the head, let alone Yang Guozhu and the others. Thinking of this, Li Guodong thought to himself: Could it be that I was letting my head out?
This time, Li Guodong annihilated more than 100 scouts of the Manchu Eight Banners, more than 1,300 Han Eight Banners and Baoyi Aha on the Zhangba Grassland, including more than 100 Manchu Eight Banners and more than 500 Manchu Eight Banners and more than 500 Manchu Eight Banners and more than 500 Manchu Eight Banners west of Hetao Grassland. The rest of the bodies were burned and deformed, so naturally there was no head to take them. Near naturalization, they cooperated with the Mongolian coalition, and more than 500 Manchu Eight Banners, more than 2,000 Han Eight Banners and more than 1,000 Manchu Eight Banners, more than 2,000 Han Eight Banners and more than 1,500 Manchu Eight Banners and 600 Manchu Eight Banners and 500 Han Eight Banners. Their heads were jealous of more than 8,600 Manchu Eight Banners and more than 8,600 Manchu Eight Banners near Naturalization. This contribution can be said to make many people jealous.
Sure enough, Lu Xiangsheng said Li Guodong's name: "General Li Guodong!"
"The last one is here!" Li Guodong quickly stood up.
"All armies jointly expel Jiannu, but only General Li, you have won, and you have won a lot. I hope General Li can understand this governor and help some of his heads to other brothers."
Li Guodong said: "Mr. Lu, the last general won a total of more than 8,600 real and fake slave levels. Except for the 1,200 level that was won in the Ming Dynasty, the rest were won outside the frontier. The last general could only take out six hundred levels and give them to you, and I can't let the rest."
Lu Xiangsheng had a conversation with Li Guodong before, and knew that when Li Guodong was in the north of the border, he attacked Wuzhenchaoha camp, burned the grassland, annihilated more than 20,000 Qing troops, and joined forces with the Mongolian coalition to annihilate thousands of Qing troops, so that he could give up his contributions outside the border, but only half of the 1,200 Qing troops captured in the Ming Dynasty, Lu Xiangsheng felt that it was still too few. Since Li Guodong had more than 7,000 heads captured outside the border, it was already a great achievement, and it was enough to shock the master. Of course, this master did not refer to Lu Xiangsheng, but Emperor Chongzhen. He was reluctant to divide all the 1,200 heads, which was really unreasonable.
So Lu Xiangsheng said, "General Li, you ask for merit with eight thousand heads. I am afraid that the merit will be too great. The ministers in the court are dissatisfied with you, which will also cause fear to the emperor. It would be better to divide all the 1,200 heads won by Senei, so that the merits will not shock the master. You can also make all the soldiers grateful to you General Li."
"The last general can only take out two hundred more heads. These gains are all the gains of the brothers' bloody battle and sacrifice of their lives. The last general must ask for merit for the brothers! I can't give in too much!"
In the end, after some bargaining, Li Guodong took out nine hundred ranks and gave them a split, of which Lu Xiangsheng won 450 ranks, Yang Guozhu and Tiger Dawei each got two hundred ranks, and Wang Pu only got fifty ranks. This was also based on Li Guodong's request, Wang Pu only gave only fifty ranks. Because Wang Pu was a fleeing general, Lu Xiangsheng was surrounded by Julu, and Yang Guozhu and Tiger Dawei fought to the end, but Wang Pu ran away, causing Lu Xiangsheng to die in the country. In the Battle of Songshan, Wang Pu was the first to run, causing Wu Sangui to escape, and then Tang Tong, Ma Ke, Bai Guangen, Li Fuming and others also ran away, resulting in Cao Bianjiao being killed and Hong Chengchou being captured.
Li Guodong has given him enough face to give Wang Pu fifty heads. According to his original intention, he is unwilling to give Wang Pu a single head.
Wang Pu obviously had an objection to Li Guodong's bias. When everyone left the central army tent, Wang Pu directly looked for Li Guodong: "Why is General Li so biased towards Wang?"
"General Wang, Li passed through the prefectures and counties of Datong where your troops were stationed, just to go to the city to ask for some military rations. Why didn't your people open the door?" Li Guodong asked back.
Wang Pu was sweating profusely: "General Li, the situation was urgent at that time, and Wang did not dare to open the door, just for fear that Jiannu would get involved."
"You won't look at the flag? If not, let's come in and recognize one or two of us first."
"Kannu invaded and robbed, and Wang really dared not lose the city."
Wang Pu's explanation was pale and powerless, but Li Guodong was unwilling to worry about him and turned around and left.
Lu Xiangsheng returned to the capital and asked for credit for Li Guodong, Yang Guozhu, Hu Dawei and Wang Pu. When he arrived in the capital, he found that Ezhe's ten thousand Mongols had not left yet.
"Why haven't Ezhe left the capital yet?" Lu Xiangsheng returned to the Ministry of War and asked people.
Someone told him: "Mr. Lu, because Ezhe did not receive the reward silver, he stayed in the capital and refused to leave."
"Ezhe has made great contributions to our Ming Dynasty, and he came with Jiannu's head. Why didn't the court give silver rewards?"
"Mr. Lu, you don't understand. Your Majesty originally wanted to give Ezhe a silver reward, but it was blocked by the ministers in the court. The ministers said that Ezhe would enter the Ming Dynasty without permission without the court's permission, so how could he give another silver reward? If this exception is made, wouldn't the Mongols come in in the future?"
"It was all my invitation from the governor! I will report to the emperor now!" Lu Xiangsheng was sad and helpless. Ezhe was accused of the Ming Dynasty, so why couldn't he reward him? Moreover, he also knew that the Mongols were very stubborn. If they did not give a reward, they would stay in the capital and even rob the people.
Chapter completed!