The Li Jiajun has always been good at beheading, but as for the remnants of the Mongolian army who stubbornly resisted, they couldn't make any trouble in front of them. However, since it was not a legitimate front-on killing of the enemy, Li Rusong himself was not that interested. After leading his troops to launch the attack, he did not personally go to wipe out the remaining enemies of the Mongolian army, but went to see Gao Lupong.
Li Rusong has a "retro" temperament. He adheres to a very magical idea of equal power between civil servants and military officers in this era. He does not agree or admit that civil servants are nobler than military generals. Therefore, he is not essentially loyal to a certain civil servant or general. The civil service group was loyal only to the emperor.
However, if there is anyone in today's civil servant system who can truly suppress Li Rusong, then Gao Pragmatic should be said to be the one who does his part. The reason is extremely simple. It is not because Gao Pragmatism has a lofty status, nor is it because Gao Pragmatism is rich in the world, but because Gao Pragmatism has great military exploits.
In Li Rusong's eyes, no matter how high his status or wealth is, Gao Pragmatic has nothing to do with him and is not comparable. Military exploits were the only thing Li Rusong cared about, and it was precisely in this aspect that Gao Pragmatic had more confidence than him. In addition, there is another point related to this, that is, Li Rusong feels that Gao Pragmatic himself is a bit different, a commander who does not care that the military achievements of his subordinates belong to a specific person.
To put it simply, Li Rusong believed that Gao Ying was fairer than others on this point. Later, another incident gave Li Rusong a more intuitive understanding of Gao Pragmatic's fairness.
"Officials do not fear my strictness but fear my integrity; the people do not respect my ability but obey my public. If I am honest, officials will not dare to be arrogant, and if I am honest, the people will not dare to bully me. Publicity breeds enlightenment, and honesty breeds prestige." This passage is originally highly pragmatic. When I was studying the spirit of the Central Committee in my previous life, I heard it from Premier Zhu. At that time, I only remembered it as a Ming Dynasty motto, but I didn't care about the specific source.
It turned out that he had previously been promoted to the Minister of Household Affairs, and quoted this passage when he was inspecting the administration of warehouse officials. Later, someone accidentally reminded him, and he realized that it was originally said by Nian Fu, a famous official in the early Ming Dynasty, and had been engraved in an inscription. What's more coincidental is that Nian Gong also served as the Minister of Household Affairs.
It hasn’t been too long since Gao Jingshi served as Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, but after a series of operations such as inventory inventory, integration of financial rights, unified dispatch, and the establishment of two new departments and eleven departments, he finally completed the war against Yuan in a relatively short period of time. Material preparations were made, and some of the backlog of wages accumulated in the towns of Jiubian in previous years were gradually replenished in several batches, giving the military affairs of Jiubian a new look.
As one of the nine commanders, Li Rusong was very satisfied and at the same time shocked by this. If completing the material preparation for Fa Yuan is a reflection of high pragmatic ability, then making up the outstanding wages is not only a reflection of ability, but also a reflection of justice and courage.
To be honest, Jiubian's payment arrears problem has been around for a long time, and it has long been turned into a mess. No one thinks it can be clarified, let alone made up for.
However, Gao pragmatic didn't know where he got many accountants (actually trained by Jinghua Craftsman School, under the tutelage of Gao Guoyan) to go down to each town. , Baihu Office went all the way down to the most basic level, the general banner and the small banner, and thoroughly cleared the accounts.
Although Gao Pragmatic did not get entangled in the issue of military camp land occupation this time, the issue of the court's salary arrears has basically been cleared up. What is shocking is that in just one town in Liaodong, the imperial court's outstanding salary arrears over the years amounted to more than 1.3 million taels, and the accumulated salary arrears in the entire Jiubian were as high as more than 7 million taels.
In response to this, Gao Jingshi clearly expressed his position in his written approval in the name of the Ministry of Household Affairs: Every tael of silver will be replenished, but because the amount is too large, and because some military households are either extinct or have become fugitives, There are some problems such as households, so the household department also needs to discuss corresponding solutions. Based on comprehensive measures, it is estimated that it will take ten years to complete the payment in batches in order to completely fill this black hole in the accounts.
This statement made Gao Wushi's reputation in the towns of Jiubian as high as that of a god, and even Li Rusong, who had always been conceited, was convinced. You know whoever gives the money is the master, not to mention that this master is the one who dug up the old accounts and reissued the money. He is simply the master among the masters.
"The last general from Liaodong, Li Rusong, was ordered to come to the rescue. See you at the sutra platform." Li Rusong was an upright person. Since he had no prejudice against Gao Pragmatism, he was not arrogant when he saw him. After meeting, he immediately got off his horse and knelt down on one knee.
Gao pragmatic also dismounted with a smile, stepped forward to help him up personally, and said: "Yangcheng came at the right time, and he made great contributions to the victory of this battle."
Li Rusong stood up and heard the words and replied: "The general is just following orders."
"Act according to orders and take the lead in every battle. This is to be loyal to the emperor and serve the country." Gao pragmatically said, glanced at the battle situation in the rear formation, pointed over there, and said to Li Rusong: "Now that Yangcheng has arrived, it is up to you to finish the battle. Come and take command, you will control the eight wandering soldiers in the Jinlue Headquarters."
Li Rusong was quite surprised by Gao Pragmatic's arrangement. He looked around and saw that the five guerrillas present came forward to see him. Li Rusong was even more puzzled. Almost all of the people present were under Gao Dang's disciples. How could Gao Pragmatic put them all under his command without even thinking?
What does it mean? Could it be that we were retreating in order to advance, and suddenly turned my Liaodong Army into a strategic headquarters?
In fact, if Gao Pragmatic wants to use the Liaodong Army as an economic and strategic headquarters, it does not violate any laws. After all, the Liaodong Army is already under Gao Pragmatic's control in this battle. No matter which branch or groups Gao Pragmatic wants to directly control in this battle, It is natural for an army to be regarded as a strategic headquarters.
But having said that, after all, everyone knows that Li Rusong's tribe in Liaodong is nominally a member of the Xin School, so they think it is impossible for Gao Pragmatic to do this. Impossible and impossible are two different things.
But Li Rusong was Li Rusong after all. Although he was a little surprised, he did not refuse. He immediately accepted the order, then turned around and began to exercise his power, asking: "Generals, it is said that there are eight soldiers who are listening to the order." Yu, there are only five here, where are the remaining three generals?"
Ye Bangrong took a small step, clasped his fists and said: "Back to Commander Liao, General Jin Bingyue, the guerrilla leader from Hejian, and Tong Yangzhong, the guerrilla general from Cheying, Baoding, ambushed in the southern crater. Chen Can, the guerrilla general from Tianjin's coastal defense, is in the rear."
Li Rusong couldn't comment on the pragmatic arrangement now. After all, he had just arrived on the battlefield. He didn't know the situation of the Ming-Mongolian coalition forces before, so he just nodded slightly after hearing these words. After looking at the battle situation of the rear army, he said calmly: "The remaining Mongolian troops have no way to survive. You must wait for the order to surround them and be sure to annihilate them all. Ye Bangrong, lead your headquarters to blockade the northwest..."
Li Rusong really didn't regard himself as an outsider. Since Gao Pragmatic delegated power, he dared to give orders. Although he had just arrived on the battlefield, he was unambiguous in commanding the final battle. What surprised Gao Pangshi was that Li Rusong was actually quite cautious and sent three of the five generals to the western front to avoid Chaha Our people went and came back to carry out sneak attacks.
It seems that Li Rusong is not only brave in fighting, but his wisdom is not inferior to any famous general at this time. This is somewhat interesting. Since he was actually a rough-and-tumble man, was there really anything wrong with his accidental death in battle in history?
It's a pity that I'm afraid I can't get any definite answer to this question. After all, history has been thrown off the line by him now. There is a high probability that Li Rusong will not have happened in history, so it will naturally be difficult to prove anything.
Seeing that Li Rusong had made very thorough arrangements, Gao Pingshi decisively withdrew the cavalrymen from Gao Funiu's side, dismounted and rested on the side. Although he didn't swing his sword to kill anyone, as a serious civil servant, it was still not easy to command a battle on horseback. Now that Li Rusong was doing it for him, he was relieved.
However, Li Rusong's energy made him very emotional. Some people were really born for the battlefield. This man came all the way for a thousand miles. Although he definitely didn’t go all out in the second half of the journey because he had to go into battle immediately after arriving, looking at him in such high spirits, it seems that this journey of a thousand miles is very important to him. It's like walking to the bathroom after getting up. It's really amazing that there are specialties in the art.
The remaining remnants of the Mongolian army could not resist for long. They originally only had about 5,000 people. One thousand of them were defeated by Gao Funiu. The other 4,000 faced Chen Can's persistence and the three columns who came back with support from the left and right wings. The column also has no strength advantage. After the main force of Burihatu retreated, they were actually abandoned, and they didn't have much fighting spirit in their hearts. They were quickly swept away by Li Rusong's troops, and they all abandoned their weapons and surrendered.
Originally, they planned to run away, but unfortunately, on one side, the Ming army was fighting on the inside, on the other side, Li Rusong's department was frantically clearing them out, and on the other side, the Ming army on the outside was waiting in tight formation under the command of Li Rusong. It was impossible to defeat them, and there was no way to run away. , can only surrender.
Not long after, Li Rusong came to Gao Jingshi to report the results of the battle. At this time, Jin Bingyue and Tong Yangzhong also came back with the ambush force that ultimately had no effect. Gao Jingshi once again asked people to review the results of the entire battle.
The final strength of the Ming army in the Battle of Lightning Lake was the original 28,000 cavalry of the Economic Strategy Headquarters and the 37,000 cavalry that Li Rusong later joined, totaling 65,000. The Chahar Mongolian army was obviously at a disadvantage and probably did not participate in the battle. More than 20,000.
The final result was that the Mongolian army lost about 6,000 to 7,000 people, with unknown injuries. Of course, the specific number of prisoners was 3,729, and 2,243 heads were obtained. The actual reported enemy battle losses were 5,972.
The losses of the Ming army were not small, with 1,496 killed, 531 seriously injured, 1,427 slightly injured, and nine missing. Since those who were seriously injured had lost combat effectiveness and were unlikely to recover in the short term, the Ming army's battle losses were killed in action plus serious injuries and missing persons, for a total of 2,036 people.
If the Mongolian army had not abandoned the battle and been defeated due to the sudden attack of Li Rusong's troops, then the number of prisoners would usually be difficult to come by, that is, the actual battle losses of the Mongolian army might not even be greater than those of the Ming army. It can be seen that the tactics used by Burihatu in this battle were very successful in theory.
On the other hand, it can be said that the Ming army's cavalry construction and highly pragmatic command on the battlefield have obvious flaws.
In accordance with high pragmatic habits, the Ming army made a summary after the war. Gao pragmatism first took responsibility for his command errors and took the problems that arose in the construction of the Ming army's cavalry on himself. He also highly praised the performance of the generals and their officers and soldiers, praising them for their bravery and outstanding performance in combat.
At the same time, Gao pragmatically praised Li Rusong and his Liaodong cavalry, believing that they traveled thousands of miles to help and marched like the wind in this battle, and finally arrived on the battlefield at the most critical moment of the battle, completely changing the battlefield situation. The decisive force for victory.
He said that Li Rusong would be the first to take credit for this battle, and all generals would also receive his victory report to take credit. As for the end of the meeting, of course, all ministries were encouraged to make persistent efforts and make new contributions to the complete defeat of Chahar.
The generals of the various ministries were originally a little dissatisfied with Li Rusong, an "outsider" who got the first victory, but they thought that Li Rusong's participation in today's battle was indeed very crucial, so they could only reluctantly accept it. However, they could not help but secretly compete in their hearts, hoping that in the subsequent battles Get back a game.
Li Rusong was of course quite satisfied. He had always hoped to make the first contribution in the battle against the Yuan Dynasty. Unfortunately, he had rushed thousands of miles to Yuerhai in the hope of waiting for the enemy. However, he did not expect that the Chahar people played a trick of the golden cicada to escape from its shell, and he missed the opportunity. .
Later, when they heard that they were going to attack thousands of miles to be naturalized again, all the generals complained and praised them. They had to rely on sending money and intimidation to stabilize the team, and they rushed thousands of miles again, and finally caught up with today's battle.
It can be said that when looking at Li Rusong, outsiders only saw the "magical security guard" side of him, but they did not see how much he spent to grab this first achievement - the reward money alone was already close to 200,000 taels.
Two hundred thousand taels! For the Tieling Li family, who could basically only "make a fortune" in Liaodong, this was a huge sum of money. If it were Li Chengliang who was still in charge of Liaodong's military affairs, he would never spend such unjust money, let alone such a huge amount.
The huge investment finally paid off, but this was not Li Rusong's biggest concern. After he thanked Gao Jinglue for his generosity (Zhu Yijun cursed: He is so generous!), he asked energetically: "Now that this battle has been won, I don't know if Jingtai will take advantage of the victory to pursue it and lift the siege of naturalization in one fell swoop. And completely defeat the Chahar Tatars and kill them all?"
Without waiting for Gao Gao to answer pragmatically, he even answered his own question and immediately said: "If the Jingtai has such a plan, I will be the first to take the lead!"
These words made the eight guerrillas, including Ye Bangrong, a little dissatisfied: Why, it's not enough for you to get the first credit, you have to continue to get the credit, right?
Although there is some disparity in status, at this moment, the eight wanderers stood in the same trench without hesitation, regardless of the usual resentment between them. They all said that Commander Liao had already had a hard time in this battle, but we did not fight well before, and the battle loss ratio was unsatisfactory. They hoped to make up for it... In a word, the next first battle should be handed over to Mr. Tai. For people like us, after all, why use a machete to kill a chicken?
When Li Rusong heard them singing harmony to each other, his expression suddenly became less good-looking.
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