Of course, Li Xuanying doesn't care much about this.
Li Yinglin's classic battle example is the main topic of bragging among his family all year round. As soon as Guo Kang came here, he started listening to them every day.
He still remembers that as soon as he was brought home by his adoptive father, he met Li Xuanying's father Li Huawen, who took his wife and children to visit the Guo family. When the two were drinking, the adoptive mother brought Guo Kang out. Li Huawen was a little surprised and asked who this was.
The adoptive mother said that the child's name was Guo Kang and that the couple picked him up during the siege of Dadu. At that time, the Ottomans took advantage of the weakness of the Khanate after the "Anda War" and launched a large army to besiege the city. Fortunately, everyone worked together and persisted until the army of Emperor Timur's uncle arrived and saved the city from the Tartars.
They had a daughter before, but she didn't have a scientific name yet. She only had a nickname of "Little Flower". In order to commemorate this battle, he called her "Guo Ponu".
As for the adopted boy, because the city is called "Constantinople", and also in memory, let's name him Guo Kang.
The two siblings got their names from this.
However, Li Huawen raised objections to this. He believed that the name Po Nu was too murderous and not suitable for a girl. And having said that, the one who really defeated the Ottoman Tatars was Emperor Timur. Even if we commemorate, we should commemorate others. Therefore, it is appropriate for this girl to be called "Guo Tie".
As for Guo Kang, it’s not clear. The imperial court has already decided on the official name, and this place is now called "Dadu". Therefore, he should also be called "Guo Da".
The adoptive father really thought about it for a while, but the adoptive mother couldn't accept it at all, so the suggestion was rejected.
But later, Guo Kang discovered that this name was given to his adoptive father.
Despite his appearance as an honest man now, when his adoptive father was young, he was actually quite popular with ladies and ladies, not just in Rome. It is said that the daughter of Basil III the Great Khan was interested in him and wanted to recruit him as a "Guligan". Even when he was visiting, there was a princess from Osman who had a secret love for him.
Of course, these were all said later by the big-mouthed Li Huawen and others, and the adoptive father himself tried to avoid them every time. The adoptive mother refused to admit these things at all. Guo Kangwen was beaten again and again, and he did not dare to directly confirm it with the person involved again...
In short, when his adoptive father was young, he was a standard rich man, and he liked the knight-errant thing, so there should be no suspense.
Later, when defending the city, the Ottomans set up artillery outside the city in an attempt to blow down the city wall. The adoptive father led dozens of soldiers out of the city to attack and destroyed the cannon.
This thing is indeed very legendary, and after passing through the mouths of the Greeks, it became more and more outrageous.
The current popular theory is that the adoptive father jumped into the formation, kicked down the cannon, and knocked over Bayezid who came to the rescue with a palm, and his turban was ripped off by him. In short, he is a great hero on the level of the reincarnation of Hercules.
Several friends called him "Guo Daxia", but the Greeks found it difficult to pronounce it, so they called him "Guo Dawu". Instead, the name became popular.
At that time, after meeting several times, Li Huawen took advantage of his family's tradition and told a group of children about his father Li Yinglin's achievements every day and asked everyone what they thought.
Li Xuanying and others thought the story was legendary, while Guo Kang analyzed it.
He said that on the surface, it was 8,000 men fighting 100,000 men, but in fact, the enemy's effective strength was not that many.
The rebel general Boyan had only about 8,000 to 12,000 elite men under his control, and he never invested them all at once, because his "mastery" was relative.
Moreover, not to mention the death of Taishi Hua, not everyone in the Beiya Army wanted to rebel. The most elite new army did not participate, and many of the officers and soldiers of other guards were killed or escaped. It is very doubtful how much fighting power the remaining people can exert. The performance of the Kipchak left-back and the Burial left-back are completely out of line with their usual abilities, which may be related to this.
The Poles also have thousands of elites, but they obviously don't want to go first. They want to see Boyan and the Purple Horde Army consume each other, and then find opportunities to pick peaches.
As for the other ones, they can almost be ignored. The Lithuanian mercenaries have been guarding their homes and have not gone to the battlefield. As for those nomadic cavalry, it's okay to fight with the wind, but it's really too much to expect them to bite Nanya's elite.
And the Russians in the army... probably can't fight with the wind. Neither Boyan nor the Poles considered transferring them to the front line.
Therefore, after sorting out the story just now, we can calculate that in the half hour that really determines victory or defeat, the two sides were nominally fighting eight thousand against one hundred thousand, but in fact it was only five thousand against eight thousand. Moreover, because the terrain selection is very clever, it still has an advantage in terms of strength.
Boyan later invested more troops, increasing it to about 12,000 to 5,000. However, due to command problems, these newly added soldiers did not display their combat effectiveness at all, and even had side effects.
Therefore, the number of troops and the number of combatants should not be directly compared in this way. It can be used for publicity, but as a general, you must be mentally aware. General Li probably took advantage of this and used the terrain to limit the opponent's advantage.
Moreover, as long as the enemy has fought a war, they all know the benefits of cooperation, but whether they can cooperate or not does not depend on this awareness. Boyan and the Poles may know the military, but they don't know the national affairs. They only discovered the problem before the battle, so the losers were not unjust.
After finishing speaking, Li Huawen stared at him for a moment, then turned to ask his adoptive father if he could give him this child as his godson. He would give him Li Xuanying in exchange.
He said with emotion that it was a pity that his father passed away so early. Otherwise, he would have been very interested in chatting with the child and teaching him personally.
From then on, Guo Kang became "someone else's son." Li Xuanying has basically been taught a lesson by his father over the years.
However, Guo Kang himself did not benefit from it. His adoptive father pushed him to exercise every day, while his adoptive mother forced him to study all day long. What's even more troublesome is that his cheap sister seems to have a grudge against him.
Li Xuanying is a person with a big heart, and we have always had a good relationship with him. Every time his father taught him a lesson because of Guo Kang, he never took it seriously. However, Guo Ponu wanted to trouble Guo Kang again and again, because he thought he was too teasing.
Guo Kang didn't think much about it at the time. He just wanted to show that he was valuable so as not to throw it away again. In this situation, he didn't know what to do.
This issue obviously cannot be discussed with people like Li Xuanying and Tuo Huan. The best advice these two guys can give is to let him fight Guo Ponu and just defeat her.
But Shi Ke, the eldest brother among the people, is the most mature. He analyzed it for a while and discovered the problem.
Guo Ponu, his sister Hulu Buhua, his cousin Shi Huizhen, Yeluxin's granddaughter Baoyin and others often mingled together and went in and out of the palace. I felt something was wrong before, but after thinking about it carefully, behind these people, it should be the current Kedu Anna. A group of people were sneaking around all day long, not knowing what they were doing, but with the temperament of a Greek lady, it was definitely not a good thing.
Therefore, there is only one truth - Guo Ponu has become Hellenized!
However, Brother Shi has no reliable solution. After thinking about it, he felt that there was something wrong with education. The intellectual level of the gentlemen here is generally not very good, and cannot be compared with that of the Central Plains. As a result, everyone was led astray by the Greeks. The only solution now is to find a good master and give them a good education.
Shi Ke's younger brother, Shi Dan, recently went on an envoy with his father, so Shi Ke asked him to stay here and if he met a learned scholar, he would hire him with a high salary. There is no good news yet, but as long as Stan finds someone, everything will definitely be fine.
