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Chapter 268 I implore the governor to send troops

It's no wonder Xu Ying would say that. After all, the Tatars were defeated in this battle. It can even be said that except for a very small number of people who escaped from the ten thousand official Rudar, almost all of the Tatar vanguard's [-] troops were taken by them. It was taken down.

If it is said that the losses were heavy, it would not be considered a big victory. The key is to take down more than [-] Tatar troops, and their own losses add up to only more than [-] people.

In contrast, the casualties of the Tatars were several times as many as theirs. Although the damage of more than [-] people is not small, the key is to compare their results.

It can be said that such a result, even some famous generals may not be able to achieve it.

When they faced the Tatars before, their biggest expectation was to repel the Tatars at a certain price. Who would have thought that Li Huan would lead them to achieve such a miraculous result.

Looking at the captured war horses and captured Tatars behind them, the faces of all the people were filled with infinite joy.

Tens of thousands of horses were galloping, and the earth shook. At this moment, behind the earthen wall, the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty had already made preparations.

It has to be said that the cavalry galloped forward, the momentum was inherently intimidating, that is, there was an earthen wall as a support, so that the soldiers calmed down a little, and they were not frightened by this terrifying movement. The morale of the army was broken.

Cao Xiong stood beside Wang Yangming, his face full of helplessness and worry.

Originally, Cao Xiong wanted to persuade Wang Yangming to retreat to the back. After all, as the commander of the army, it is extremely dangerous for Wang Yangming to come to the front line in person.

It is said that any accident may happen on the battlefield, if any of the stray troops hits Wang Yangming, then he, the chief soldier, cannot shoulder such a big responsibility.

The reason why Cao Xiong was worried about Wang Yangming's safety was obviously because he didn't know the real details of Wang Yangming.

With Wang Yangming's cultivation base, unless he was surrounded by the army and fell into a desperate situation, he might be beaten to death by the group, otherwise, the mere loss would really not hurt Wang Yangming at all.

Looking at the worried look in Cao Xiong's eyes, Wang Yangming didn't explain too much to Cao Xiong, but just looked solemnly at the approaching army.

All of a sudden, Wang Yangming's eyes flashed a flash of light and surprise, and he couldn't help but let out a low cry: "Huh!"

Cao Xiong, who had been paying attention to the change in Wang Yangming's expression, couldn't help being taken aback when he saw the change in Wang Yangming's expression, and subconsciously said, "Governor, is there something wrong?"

Compared to Wang Yangming's cultivation, Cao Xiong was much worse, and his eyesight was not as sharp as Wang Yangming's. In addition, Cao Xiong's attention was still partly on Wang Yangming, so he didn't notice the cavalry team that was approaching rapidly.

At this time, Wang Yangming had seen clearly the erected flags in the smoke and dust opposite, he let out a sigh of relief, and smiled a little in his eyes.

Hearing Cao Xiong's words, Wang Yangming smiled slightly and said to Cao Xiong: "General Cao, take a closer look, who is this person?"

Seeing Wang Yangming's expression, Cao Xiong was taken aback for a moment, and subconsciously looked into the distance. Cao Xiong looked intently, and suddenly saw a very familiar banner.

When he saw the big flag, Cao Xiong couldn't help but said: "Then... that's the flag of the great general. Could it be that the great general has returned? No...not right..."

Cao Xiong couldn't help muttering to himself.

After listening to Cao Xiong's words, Wang Yangming knew why Cao Xiong first guessed that the person who came was Li Huan's subordinate, and then denied it.

Because the number of people is obviously not right.

Li Huan's troops are only more than ten thousand troops at full strength, but now the dark mass of troops on the opposite side is obviously more than tens of thousands of horses.

But when Cao Xiong was full of doubts, his eyes suddenly lit up and he said, "It's really a great general."

It turned out that at this moment Cao Xiong had already seen Li Huan who was riding his horse in front.

Li Huan's figure is easy to distinguish, because behind Li Huan is a big flag, as long as you find that big flag, you can find Li Huan's figure.

Others may not recognize Cao Xiong, but Li Huan's figure Cao Xiong can't be more impressive.

Especially Li Huan's armor and cloak, Li Huan's cloak is very eye-catching, and the fiery red cloak can be recognized at a glance by the army.

Normally speaking, a general like Li Huan would not make himself so eye-catching in the army, because it would be clear that he was telling the enemy where the general was, and the enemy would most likely be attracted. s attack.

But Li Huan deliberately wore a fiery red cloak, so that the soldiers could clearly see his figure in front of them.

Li Huan knew that his troops were obviously inferior to the Tatars in terms of numbers. If he wanted to fight the Tatars, he could only rely on his own strength and morale.

When the army is fighting, morale is extremely important.

We must know that in the era of cold weapons, one or two achievements in the army's casualties will seriously affect the morale of the army, and even a little more serious casualties may lead to the collapse of the army.

In this case, morale is particularly important, but if morale is high, even if there are heavy casualties, it will not cause the army to collapse.

As the commander-in-chief of the first army, Li Huan can be said to be the magic needle of the army. As long as he keeps charging ahead, even if more than half of the army is killed or injured, few people will run away.

Because of this, Cao Xiong recognized Li Huan in the red cloak at a glance.

At this time, Cao Xiong looked at Li Huan's approaching figure, couldn't help showing excitement on his face, and said to Wang Yangming excitedly, "Governor, that's the general, the general is back."

While speaking, Cao Xiong leaped out almost excitedly, and then a group of soldiers quickly followed Cao Xiong to greet Li Huan.

The army came rumbling, but when approaching the earthen wall, most of them rushed towards the side of the earthen wall, only Li Huan came towards Cao Xiong and others with a group of troops.

As Li Huan approached, Cao Xiong suppressed the excitement in his heart and got off his horse, bowed to Li Huan and said: "The last general, Cao Xiong, welcome the great general to return home after victory."

No matter how dull Cao Xiong was, he could see that there were many unowned horses in the army being driven by Ming soldiers, and there were also many Tatar prisoners among them.

Just looking at this situation, it is obvious that those war horses were captured by Li Huan, and those Tatars were prisoners.

He actually won, although Cao Xiong's heart was full of disbelief, but his face didn't show it.

Li Huan laughed loudly, dismounted from his horse and helped Cao Xiong up, saying: "General Cao stayed in the rear, Li has nothing to worry about, this time he was lucky enough to defeat the vanguard of the Tatars, the contribution of General Cao is indisputable. "

Hearing this, Cao Xiong was even more grateful to Li Huan. He knew that Li Huan was letting him share the credit for this battle. After thinking about this, Cao Xiong felt even more grateful to Li Huan.

While he was speaking, a voice suddenly sounded out: "Congratulations to the great general on his return from victory. This victory is really great news."

"Mr. Yangming!"

Li Huan suddenly heard Wang Yangming's voice, and his face showed a bit of surprise and astonishment.

Although he already knew that the army led by Wang Yangming would arrive soon, but Li Huan thought that it would be at least two days before Wang Yangming arrived.

But what I didn't expect was that Wang Yangming would appear suddenly.

At this time Wang Yangming was looking at Li Huan with a smile.

Li Huan took a deep breath, stepped forward and cupped his hands at Wang Yangming and said, "Since Mr. Yangming is here, then Li can also feel at ease."

To be honest, Li Huan still has a clear understanding of his own ability. With his current ability, if he is given an army of tens of thousands, he can command him like an arm, but if there is more, it will be beyond his ability. .

So right now, he is not capable of being the commander of an army at all, mobilizing hundreds of thousands of troops to form formations. Don't look at him winning consecutive victories against the Tatars, but these victories are all nothing Fancy head-to-head.

To be precise, relying on his own tyrannical force and charm to arouse the morale of the army under his command, he was able to kill the Tatars whose morale collapsed and then won a big victory.

But once the army he led was plotted by the Tatars and fell into a tight siege, even if he could break out of the siege with his own bravery, the rest of the people did not have the force against the sky like him.

That's why Li Huan recommended Wang Yangming, a great talent from general to prime minister, to the emperor.

With Wang Yangming in charge, Li Huan didn't have to worry about the deployment of the army, and he dared not say that he could win against the Tatars. However, with Wang Yangming, a sage who has only been born in hundreds of years, at least he has someone who can protect him, even if he can't win a big victory, he won't win. defeat.

As for Daming, as long as it is not a big defeat against the Tatars, it can be said to be a victory.Because the Ming Dynasty has a vast land, rich resources and a large population, as long as it can remain undefeated, the undefeated battles involving hundreds of thousands of troops on both sides will only take a few rounds, and the Tatars themselves will collapse.

Wang Yangming could hear the kind of trust and reliance on Li Huan in Li Huan's words, although he didn't know why Li Huan had so much confidence in him.

After all, even Wang Yangming himself can't guarantee that he can command an army better than the Tatars. He is familiar with military books and has a strategy in mind, but he has never commanded an army before. I really don't know why Li Huan recommended it to the emperor. own.

A group of generals surrounded Li Huan and Wang Yangming, the two generals and the governor, and walked into a temporary tent.

Along the way, Cao Xiong, Wang Yangming and others have already learned from Li Huan the general course of the battle not long ago.

Of course, Xu Ying, Chen Ang, Ren Ping and the others told stories like fairy tales.

Although a few people were exaggerating and described Li Huan as a god-man descended into the world, but no matter what, everyone could hear one thing, that is, this battle was all due to Li Huan's bravery, and he forcibly defeated the Tatars. The morale of the army was shattered, and this was the result of nearly annihilating the Tatar vanguard.

Cao Xiong and other generals looked at Li Huan with reverence, as if they were looking at a god.

Even Wang Yangming couldn't help sighing to Li Huan: "There is no general, I'm afraid the result of this battle will be another ending."

Shen Buyi and other officials thought that Li Huan had already fled in a big defeat or was killed by the Tatars.

But when they heard the news and came to the commander's tent, and listened to Xu Ying, Chen Ang and others' narration together, these officials were shocked but also full of disbelief in their hearts.

They don't believe the exaggerated words of Xu Ying and others. In their opinion, Li Huan was just lucky, and the Tatar general he met was a gutless bandit, but Li Huan was scared out of his wits , This allowed Li Huan to win a game.

Listening to those generals bragging that Li Huan is comparable to Xiang Yu, the overlord through the ages, Shen Buyi, who was sitting by the side, looked at Li Huan and murmured in his heart: Hmph, good luck will run out sooner or later, I really thought I could be compared with Xiang Yu, the overlord.

After a while, a bit of calm was restored in the extremely noisy big tent.

At this time, only Li Huan and Wang Yangming were left in the big tent.

The two sat facing each other, Wang Yangming looked at Li Huan and said, "I don't know why you, General, recommended me to be the commander-in-chief of the three armies. Aren't you afraid that I, a literati, won't understand military affairs and will be defeated in the end?"

Li Huan couldn't help laughing and said, "Mr. Yangming, do you think you can command hundreds of thousands of troops?"

Hearing what Li Huan said, Wang Yangming stroked his beard, and a confident look flashed in his eyes full of wisdom and said: "If Wang can say yes, can the general be trusted?"

Li Huan nodded without hesitation and said: "Why doesn't Li believe it? If he doesn't believe it, why should he recommend it to His Majesty?"

Li Huan had never doubted Wang Yangming's ability, and he really believed that this saint's name came for nothing.

Wang Yangming also had no experience in commanding troops in history, but when he encountered King Ning's rebellion that swept across the south of the Yangtze River, Wang Yangming dispatched troops very calmly, and it only took dozens of days to dispatch a large-scale army. The rebellion was put down.

So much so that the emperor Zhu Houzhao, who had just led the army to fight the rebellion, was confused.

A vassal king who had planned for many years and swept one side with a single move of his army rebelled. Under normal circumstances, it might not be able to quell it within a few years, but Wang Yangming only spent dozens of days to quell it. How can it be idle.

It is fine to doubt Wang Yangming's other abilities, but it is unnecessary to doubt his ability to command troops. Don't you see that Wang Yangming took over tens of thousands of troops this time, and he didn't get started quickly all the way, as if he was in command of his arms.

Wang Yangming looked at Li Huan, and the undisguised trust and determination in Li Huan's eyes moved Wang Yangming greatly, giving him a sense of meeting his confidant.

Even with Wang Yangming's determination, he couldn't help laughing loudly at this moment: "Okay, just because of the general's trust in Wang, this time you and I will join hands to give the Tatars a deep blow." lesson."

Li Huan said with a smile: "Since Mr. Yangming said so, then we will keep all the Tatars who committed crimes in the future."

Wang Yangming smiled faintly: "It should be so!"

The two looked at each other and smiled at each other.

On April [-]th in the fourth year of Zhengde, the spring breeze was blowing, and the bitter cold wind had disappeared. Even in the northwest, a green scene can be seen.

Since the last war, more than [-] Tatar vanguards were almost wiped out, and Dayan Khan's footsteps going south suddenly stopped. Ming Town is also nearly fifty miles away.

Tens of thousands of Tatars were just stationed in a place called Shitaizi, and they had no intention of going south and didn't know what they wanted to do.

After defeating the Tatar pioneers, Li Huan and Wang Yangming thought that Dayan Khan would rush south and crush them with tens of thousands of Tatar elite forces.

After all, even with the [-] new troops brought by Wang Yangming, the nearly [-] cavalry under Li Huan's command, and the more than [-] troops under Cai Xiong's command, the total is only [-] soldiers and horses.

But if these [-] soldiers and horses are really facing the [-] Tatar cavalry rushing like a torrent, to be honest, even Wang Yangming and Li Huan can't guarantee that they can stop the Tatar onslaught.

But Dayan Khan didn't know what he had in mind, the army was stationed at Shitaizi without moving for more than ten days, although Wang Yangming, Li Huan and others were left guessing, but it also gave Daming time to gather troops.

Following the dispatch orders issued by Li Huan before dispatching troops, the soldiers and horses mobilized successively arrived, and now nearly 20 soldiers and horses of the Ming Dynasty have gathered in Luming Town.

Hundreds of thousands of troops stretched for dozens of miles just in their camps, and more and more soldiers and horses gathered in one place. Not to mention, the mobilization of hundreds of thousands of troops and people eating horses and chewing horses are not something that anyone can sort out. .

However, as the commander-in-chief of the army, Wang Yangming handled the army with ease, dispatching the army without any panic, and the means and abilities he displayed amazed many people.

At this time, in the huge commander's tent, Li Huan, Wang Yangming and several general soldiers from Henan, Sichuan, Shanxi and other places were standing in front of a sand table and looking at the sand table in front of them.

The sand table has existed since ancient times. It is said that the sand table was created by General Fubo Ma Yuan, but at the beginning Ma Yuan used rice as soil and evolved the military terrain from Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu.

Now in this big tent, the huge sand table can be described as extremely exquisite, with mountains piled up of mud, hills, rivers, canyons and even roads are all clearly visible, just looking at the sand table can cover the terrain with a radius of hundreds of miles.

Cao Xiong looked at Li Huan and Wang Yangming who were sitting there, took a deep breath, stepped forward and said, "General, the governor, our army is well prepared and the morale of the soldiers is high. people?"

A few days ago, Qi Zhen, the commander-in-chief of Henan who led [-] troops, had recovered his energy. After hearing Cao Xiong's words full of appeal, he immediately said, "What Cao Zongbing said is true, we are the emperor's soldiers. If you can’t repel the Tatars, wouldn’t it be a disappointment to His Majesty’s high hopes?”

The rest of the people also opened their mouths to ask for a fight, and suddenly the big tent was full of voices asking for a fight.

After glancing at the crowd, Wang Yangming coughed lightly, his gaze fell on Shen Buyi who was at the side, and said, "Shen Shenshu, I don't know what you think?"

Shen Buyi got up when he heard the words, nodded slightly to Wang Yangming and said: "In my opinion, I should dispatch troops quickly to force Dayan Khan to retreat."

While speaking, Shen Buyi stroked his beard and said solemnly: "You must know that not long ago, Dayan Khan mobilized another 13 troops to go south. As far as the army is concerned, there are [-] Tatars in our Ming Dynasty."

After finishing speaking, Shen Buyi glanced over the group of general soldiers and said: "You generals should all know that there are [-] Tatar elite cavalry right in front of us. If we don't drive them back to the prairie for a day, it will be difficult for me, Ming Dynasty. , those [-] Tatar horsemen are a serious problem."

Seeing that Shen Buyi bowed his hands to Wang Yangming with a solemn face, he said, "Your Majesty, I implore the governor to send troops."

[Well, ask for a monthly pass. 】

(End of this chapter)