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Chapter 761: He attacks and I defend (4)

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    The combat effectiveness of any army or armed force is directly related to discipline and style.  The two items of discipline and style are intangible but inextricably linked to the commander's character and style.  The style of the Daxi Army is exactly the same as Zhang Xianzhong's character and style.  Unlike Li Shouhan's modern military discipline and the strict military discipline of Li Zicheng's subordinates, Zhang Xianzhong, a leader with a strong rogue proletarian or Jianghu style, naturally led an army with a strong Jianghu flavor.  Li Dingguo urged the snow green horse from Xifan under his crotch, and trotted into Shunqing Fucheng surrounded by more than 200 soldiers.  After entering the city, the scene in the city made him feel a little strange.  Except for the soldiers of Xiying lying in twos and threes on the street, resting, chatting, and waiting for meals, there was not a single thing that was common in towns such as looting, killing, rape, and arson.  From the windows on the second floor and behind the door panels of the storefronts facing the street, although there were still occasional frightened faces flashing by, it was no longer the despair of facing death, but the unpredictability of the future.  It was only at a few street intersections and in a relatively wide area that Li Dingguo discovered some familiar scenes.  Here, on the trees on the roadside and on the pillars of the buildings, there are many mules and horses tied in a mess. Some of them are the horses of the Great Western Army at a glance, and many of them are civilian mules and horses that have just been collected and captured.  horses.  There was a lot of horse dung scattered on the stone slab that was originally covered with moss.  On the ground, some careless groom spilled horse feed all over the floor. Several mules and horses snorted constantly, trying hard to break free from the restraints of the reins and eat the fragrant feed beans into their mouths.  .  In the square in front of the government office, there was another lively and even noisy scene.  This will show the differences and gaps between the armies.  If it is the troops of the South Guangdong Army, not to mention Li Shouhan himself, brothers Li Huayu and Li Huabao, Li Huamei and Shi Lang will turn the old camp of Xingyuan into the most solemn, majestic and majestic place.  It is important to clean up the square outside the camp gate so that no one can enter, set up artillery at the entrance of the arrow path, and arrange at least one team of gunners to garrison around the artillery position.  Then, at least two six-pound cannons or eight-pound cannons were also placed at the gate of the camp, firstly to show the majesty and martial arts, and secondly to facilitate guarding.  However, in the square in front of Shunqing Mansion, Li Dingguo could not see the majestic martial arts at all.  There are more than a dozen large pots that can accommodate two fat pigs at once. The flames at the bottom of the pot are licking the bottom of the pot happily with the help of constantly adding firewood, and the water in the pot is sparkling.  Not far from the cauldron, several freshly slaughtered buffaloes on a wooden stand were radiating heat.  On the other side of the square, dozens of buffaloes were imprisoned in a pen, waiting to be slaughtered by the butcher.  "What nonsense! Who wants you to kill the cattle?!" Upon seeing this, Li Dingguo could no longer suppress the anger in his chest. He jumped off the horse with his legs raised and was about to beat him with a whip.  "Second Commander! Second Commander, calm down! Second Commander, calm down!" The secretary of the old camp was in charge of the affairs here. Seeing that Li Dingguo was carrying a whip and was about to hit a few handymen who were working without thinking, he hurriedly came out to dissuade him.  "You said, our general orders have repeatedly stated that cattle are not allowed to be looted, let alone slaughtered! You are just taking the military general's order as a joke, right? You have to try military law today, right?!" The anger on Li Dingguo's face has not yet been revealed.  retreat.  "If I don't deal with you today, you don't know the majesty of the lieutenant general's order!" Li Dingguo threw away the riding crop in his hand, reached his hand to his waist, and was about to pull out his sword and chop down the chief of the old camp.  This will prevent him from continuing to undermine military discipline in the future.  "Ning Yu! Ning Yu! Wait! Wait!" A hand stretched out from the side and held down Li Dingguo's hand.  "Brother Wenxiu?" The person holding Li Dingguo down was Zhang Xianzhong's other adopted son, Liu Wenxiu.  "Ning Yu, why haven't you changed your fiery temper? If I hadn't arrived in time, I'm afraid there would have been not only cow heads here, but also several human heads rolling on the ground." Liu Wenxiu joked a few words and added  The originally solemn atmosphere relaxed a lot.  "Brother Wenxiu, who wants them to corrupt our military discipline and slaughter cattle?" "That's right! Military discipline cannot be broken and cattle cannot be slaughtered. But this is not a cattle! This is your third brother who I brought from Fushun County  Those who came back were the strong bullocks used to push water (i.e. lift water) by the salt well. You also know that several places in this artesian well are famous for their salt. It is said that the Zhuo Wenjun family made their fortune in the salt business.  The brine from a depth of several hundred feet was lifted up and then boiled with salt in a large pot. The people who lifted the brine on the overhead carriages could not withstand such a huge energy consumption.  After working for two years at most, the cow will become a cripple from exhaustion.As the proverb goes: "Mountains have a lot of calf excrement, short streets have a lot of beef, rivers have a lot of small salt boats, and roads are narrow and there are a lot of sedan chairs."  It is said that thousands of cows are consumed every year!  I brought over a hundred buffaloes to be slaughtered and gave them to the brothers in the old camp. In Sichuan dialect, it was a Da Da Ya sacrifice!  Don¡¯t worry, Third Brother paid for it!  " Li Dingguo snorted and spared the old battalion chief once. He has always been famous for his tolerance and kindness in the Great Western Army. He took the lead in battle and was extremely brave. He was called "Little Yuchi" or "The Enemy of Ten Thousands".  He is a wise and courageous general in the Daxi Army. Naturally, it is not easy to be too serious with an old battalion commander, not to mention Liu Wenxiu's face.  Ku, Niulu Zhangjing Ubas, Gurang'a, Bayang'a and others also made many military exploits after Zhang Xianzhong's death, and made great achievements in the crisis of the Daxi Army at the most critical moment after Zhang Xianzhong's death.  He and Sun Kewang led tens of thousands of remaining troops to flee to Chongqing, but they had no boats. However, Liu Wenxiu was good at swimming and the water was as smooth as the ground. Therefore, he captured the boats on the other side, covered the army across the river, and defeated the Ming general Zeng Ying's troops.  More than 100,000 people shot Zeng Ying to death and recruited his troops. "Ning Yu, you don't know, now we have hundreds of thousands of troops under our command. The troops and horses we finally collected are not going to survive well."  Can people's morale be strengthened?  I just got these cows and asked the master chef brought from Fushun to cook them well. I gave the soldiers inside and outside the city a few good meals to restore their physical strength and morale.  " "Third brother, I think that eating something good is a bad idea. Killing that bullshit left prime minister Wang Zhaolin is the best way to boost the morale of the army.  "The left prime minister Wang Zhaolin mentioned by Li Dingguo was Zhang Xianzhong's favorite minister when he was still alive. He had no other skills. He was specialized in flattering his superiors and instigating Zhang Xianzhong to kill soldiers and civilians. He had accumulated hatred among the army for a long time. Therefore, he defeated and surrendered.  After taking over Zeng Ying's subordinates, when he triumphantly came out of hiding and prepared to continue to dominate the Great Western Army, he appeared in front of Sun Kewang and others who had just recaptured Chongqing Prefecture.  The resentment in the army is a good choice to boost the morale of the whole army. "But there is only one Wang Zhaolin, but there are thousands of fat buffaloes that can't work!  Liu Wenxiu laughed loudly and pulled Li Dingguo into the second gate of the government office. The smell of slaughtered cattle and cooked meat outside the government office is different. The yard inside the second gate is filled with the intoxicating aroma of wine. There are seven or eight wine jars,  The pile was placed under the sweet-scented osmanthus tree. Behind a large table made of four or five tables, Sun Kewang, Ai Nengqi, Bai Wenxuan, Ma Yuanli and other generals of the Great Western Army took their places. ¡°Ning Yu!  Just waiting for you!  Come and try this delicious dish prepared by a chef from southern Sichuan!  There are also the ingredients brought by Mr. Li, paired with the good wines from Xufu, Luzhou and Gulin, it is really delicious!  " Sun Kewang held a wine glass in his hand and greeted Li Dingguo who had just arrived. He could not tell that he had just experienced a defeat. It is no wonder that in his military career, including the military careers of Li Dingguo and others.  , Great victory and defeat, pursuit and retreat are often intertwined. Failures like Fenghuang Mountain have not happened before, and the victory in Chongqing at Qijiang also happened.  Third General, try this Ziliujing salt dish!  The Huobianzi beef and the boiled beef are both very satisfying to eat!  We've already finished two barrels of rice!  "Xiying General Bai Wenxuan also greeted Li Dingguo with an oily mouth. "Li Dingguo felt that something was wrong today. If it were normal, this kind of banquet would not have happened before, but often the people present were drunk, the cups and plates were messy, and the wine jars were in disarray.  Bowls and chopsticks were scattered everywhere. There were also some singing and dancing girls present to entertain them. But today, not only were there no singing and dancing girls, but they also said that they had already eaten two buckets of rice!  He must be a drunkard, and he hasn¡¯t let go of drinking yet? Could it be that Li Dingguo¡¯s heart suddenly changed? He has been following Zhang Xianzhong since he was ten years old. He has seen many evil tricks of annexation and annexation, and he has also followed Zhang Xianzhong.  A lot. He glanced around casually to see if there was an ambush around. Fortunately, the doors everywhere were wide open, and there was no sign of an ambush. The wine jars were indeed open.  After opening the mud seal, the aroma of wine floated out from inside. Next to Sun Kewang, there was a stranger sitting in the chief position. "Brother, who is this gentleman?"  " Li Dingguo glanced at this person with the corner of his eyes, and suddenly felt that this person was very strange. Although he was wearing a Yuanse Taoist robe, there was no bun on his head, but short hair that was just about an inch long, like a steel needle. Moreover,  From the appearance and facial features, it can be determined at a glance that he is definitely not from the Central Plains. ¡°This Mr. Li, is he also from your family?  !  "Sun Kewang's words were full of joking.   "This is Li Zongfang. It makes the three generals laugh." "Which Li is this?" Although he has been named Zhang for many years, Li Dingguo still knows a lot about his family's surname.  He thought hard and couldn't think of any branch of the Li family with such descendants.  "It makes the three generals laugh. My appearance is that of a barbarian at first glance. However, I am also lucky. I was adopted by my mother since I was a child, so I took the surname Li." "Ning Yu, I'll tell you the truth.  Tell me! Mr. Li is a businessman from the south who came here to discuss business with us. His background is much nobler than that of the previous Nanzhong businessmen. He was the man who grew up under the guidance of Mr. Li Guogong!  We are the same in front of our father." Starting from the Tang, Song and Five Dynasties, the military had the habit of adopting adopted sons.  From Li Keyong to Guo Wei, every prominent figure has a large number of adopted sons who are used to charge into battle.  This habit has continued for thousands of years.  Therefore, when Sun Kewang introduced Li Zongfang as the adopted son of Yan Meier, Li Dingguo, Liu Wenxiu, Ai Nengqi and others immediately stood in awe.  I see!  No wonder he looks like a non-Chinese face, but speaks fluent Mandarin and has a name named Li.  They don¡¯t know that people like Li Zongfang are just orphans from various tribes and villages adopted by Yan Mei¡¯er. There are not even ten thousand but eight thousand in number.  It's just that people like Li Zongfang are very talented and lucky. When they are released to work, those with average qualifications can only find a place to acquire some fields and become a full-fledged man with enough food and clothing.  However, it is not a bad fate.  Compared with those like Li Dingguo, Sun Kewang, who were in their teens and followed a large group of people to make a living among the swords and guns, the struggling lives of crawling in and out of the dead were considered to be much stronger. At the very least, they had no worries about food and clothing.  "Come on, come on! Ning Yu, try this beef first! This is cooked by the chef brought by Mr. Li himself. It uses the seasoning introduced by Mr. Li Guogong from overseas. What is the name of the pepper? It is most suitable for cooking in southern Sichuan.  Eat on wet ground." Li Dingguo followed Sun Kewang's instructions, first filled a large bowl of rice, and then picked up a few chopsticks of the so-called boiled beef.  After taking one sip, I immediately felt as if my tongue had been hit hard.  He hurriedly took a few mouthfuls of rice, and then the burning sensation in his mouth and tongue was slightly relieved.  However, the chopsticks in his hand still involuntarily went to the huge earthenware basin filled with red soup and filled with thinly sliced ??beef.  "It's really enjoyable! No wonder you just didn't want to drink, but you drank two barrels of rice in one go!" After finishing the bowl of rice, Li Dingguo finally understood why the sworn brothers and his generals were so angry.  Act as usual.  "Brother, are all our soldiers eating this today?" Li Dingguo pointed to the beef in the basin, and Tong Sun Kewang, who was in a very relaxed mood, chatted, "I see people are killing cattle outside, are they eating this too?" "We  There are probably hundreds of thousands of people in Shunqing Mansion who all eat this. Even if the beef is enough, the rice will be steamed in a hurry! Don¡¯t worry, Ning Yu, when I came from Fushun, I bought everything in the city.  The cooked beef is called Huobianzi beef. Isn¡¯t it tens of thousands of pounds? The elite soldiers and horses of the old camp have one pound each, the horsemen of the ordinary battalions have half a pound each, and the infantry has four taels each.  Enough beef soup!" Liu Wenxiu spoke with pride about his work.  (One pound is sixteen taels on the old scale, half a pound is eight taels, and four taels is now two and a half taels.) The Huobianzi beef is a famous delicacy in Fushun, and it is the best quality beef.  Remove the tendons and membranes, cut the meat into pieces about an inch thick, lay them flat on a slanted wooden board and nail them, then use a very sharp thin-bladed knife to cut the beef transversely into very thin slices.  This incision is extremely demanding on craftsmanship. It requires uniform thickness when retracted, and it must be able to be faintly illuminated, but it does not allow for any leakage.  Then spread these thin slices of beef with an appropriate amount of salt and soy sauce, hang them in a ventilated place to dry, and then spread them out one by one on a large, breathable bamboo fence. The bamboo fence is supported by specially made beams.  It uses what the locals call "cow dung cake", which is a briquette-like fuel made from buffalo dung mixed with yellow mud, and slowly smokes the beef over a low fire.  "That's right! How can the whole army eat the same thing? In Ziliujing and Gongjing, the dishes are also divided into salt merchant dishes, salt workers' dishes and guild hall dishes. There are big pots outside to prepare dishes, and they are all for the salt workers.  The cooks. Their dishes are the best for Kuhaha people! " "Mr. Li, at this time when war is everywhere, why don't you just come to this place in southern Sichuan to treat us brothers to a meal?  If this is the case, Li is very grateful. However, when I followed the late emperor in Kaifeng Mansion, Bu Cai and his brothers also dealt with your businessmen. If you have anything to do, sir, please advise me!  "Li Dingguo suddenly changed the topic and went straight to the point, asking Li Zongfang about the purpose of his trip.     plumZongfang, on the other hand, smiled and said nothing, just eating beef and drinking Luzhou Daqu.  "Ning Yu, Mr. Li has helped us a lot. This time he came here and he was originally going to escort Qin Liangyu, Lord Qin, in the Zhongzhou Shizhu area. The number of types is probably tens of thousands of sky-shaking thunders, two thousand  A firegun and a hundred rounds of medicine, as well as thousands of armors, and some medicine for treating knife wounds and firearm injuries. As a result, when we arrived at Chongqing Prefecture, we happened to encounter hundreds of thousands of soldiers from the Western Camp and Zeng Ying.  The horse fights. Mr. Li drew his sword to help me, and even if he allocated 10,000 thunderbolts to me, it would be difficult for our Daxi soldiers and horses to be defeated, even if they were brave enough to kill the enemy.  Shake the soldiers and horses of that thief Zeng Ying! "The thunder that Sun Kewang said was the horsetail grenade of the South Guangdong Army.  This object is most suitable for mountain operations and against armies fighting in formations and relying on trenches. Often when a horsetail grenade is thrown, flesh and blood will fly everywhere, and the army formation will collapse.  Relying on these 10,000 grenades, Sun Kewang and Liu Wenxiu rectified the defeated troops, boosted morale, and defeated Zeng Ying's troops of the Eastern Sichuan Ming Army who were attacking the Western Army like mad dogs in one battle.  "Now, Mr. Li has important matters to discuss with us."
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