The so-called beautiful enough means that the results of this battle may not be big enough, but it must be won neatly, so that people in the capital and the world can see the combat effectiveness of the Southwest Army.

This is very important for Li Xin, or for the Southwest Army, because nominally, they are not here to rebel, but to get to the root of things!

During the Shen Yan Rebellion in the first year of Yuan Zhao, Shen Kuan was strict and clumsy, leading the civil officials of the Manchu Dynasty to almost force the Emperor of Yuan Zhao to step down from the throne, although the Son of Heaven at that time was still a young man who had just ascended the throne, but as a courtier, he was able to do this to this extent, which shows the influence of Shen Yan and the two in the court.

In fact, since Zhang Qu and Zhang Haoran left the court, Shen Yan at that time had taken Zhang Qu's place and became the leader of the literary world and the leader of the hundred officials.

That year, if it weren't for Li Xin, an "unreasonable hand", who entered the court completely unreasonably, and directly convicted the two auxiliary ministers appointed by the previous emperor, maybe they would have really abolished the emperor and set up a new monarch.

Because these two people have countless protégés and former officials, even after the Son of Heaven is in power, they can only not pursue Shen Yan's party henchmen, resulting in many protégés of these two people in the court now.

Although the imperial court did not clean them up on the surface, but Shen Yan and the two did this kind of thing, it is natural that these apprentices and grandchildren are implicated, in the past few years, the career of these people who are a little better has stopped, and the worse ones have been found fault by Yu Shitai for various reasons, lost their officials and even went to prison.

If the Southwest Army shows sufficient combat effectiveness, the civilian officials in the court or in the opposition will choose to stand on Li Xin's side and continue the "Shen Yan Change" of the year.

As for the old incident of Li Xin personally killing Shen Yan and the others, in the face of absolute interests, these people will naturally selectively forget.

In the future, even if someone mentions Li Xin's killing of Shen Yan and the others, most of these people will jump out and say the last sentence.

"This Yuan Zhao's crime, Jing Anhou is also involuntarily."

Of course, these are all later words, but the battle of the Ningzhou Army has been fought very beautifully, so beautiful that it can make Li Xin's plan go smoothly.

After the forbidden army retreated, the Ningzhou army began to clean up the battlefield, because Li Shuo was out of strength, and the matter of cleaning the battlefield was taken over by Li Xin, General Li personally walked on the battlefield, looked at the corpses all over the ground, and sighed slowly.

"Sort out the soldiers of our Southwest Army, make a register, don't miss the pension, and don't bury the corpses of the forbidden army hastily, send them to five miles from the capital, and let the people of the forbidden army in the capital bring back the corpses of their soldiers."

The so-called cleaning of the battlefield in this era is generally that the winning side walks around the battlefield with a knife, and encounters people wearing enemy clothes, regardless of whether they can move or not, directly make up for a knife, if it is their own comrades, and those who are saved will be brought back, and those who have lost their breath or are seriously injured and cannot be saved, and even make up for a knife to give them a good time.

Then dig a large pit and bury the bodies of both sides to prevent a large-scale plague.

However, under the command of Li Xin, this is not the case with the Southwest Army cleaning up the battlefield, first of all, the people on their own side can be saved, and then there is no longer the link of "mending the knife", as long as the people wearing the clothes of the forbidden army, whether they are dead or alive, they are thrown five miles outside the capital by the southwest military cart, and then the people in the capital are notified to come and receive the corpse.

This is done because Li Xin once took the right battalion of the forbidden army, and it took a full seven years, and the two Zhichong mansions that go out of the city today are the Zhichong mansions of the right battalion of the forbidden army, and many of them died under the firearms in the southwest, many of them were his old departments, Li Xin did not have any sympathetic thoughts, but since the person was dead, he simply threw it to the imperial court and let the people of the imperial court deal with it.

Second, doing so can also indirectly tell the people in the capital that the Southwest Army is not a villain.

At the same time, he can also tell the soldiers of the right battalion of the forbidden army that he Li Xin also remembered the incense of the year.

However, there is no harm in doing so, that is, the people of the Ningzhou army will feel a little uncomfortable, and they are also dead, but they are thousands of miles from Hanzhong to the capital, and the dead can only be buried on the spot, but the corpses of their enemies may be able to be sent back to their respective homes, which makes the Ningzhou army who cleaned up the battlefield feel a little uncomfortable.

The process of cleaning up the battlefield will probably last a day or two, but by midnight, the approximate battle damage has been counted, and Li Shuo, who has already rested, walked into Li Xin's handsome tent with a stack of white paper in his hand, and bowed slightly: "General, the casualties of our army have been roughly counted." ”

At this time, Li Xin was looking through the information sent by the dark department, and when he heard this, he put down the documents in his hand and asked, "Let's talk about it." ”

Li Shuo lowered his head and said, "In today's daytime battle, our army has more than 8,000 dead soldiers, and some of them are seriously wounded...... There are also five or six thousand. ”

"Minor injuries are not counted for the time being."

Li Xin frowned slightly, and asked, "What about the casualties of the imperial forbidden army?" ”

Li Shuo exhaled a sigh and said, "The total casualties of the Gyeonggi Forbidden Army exceeded 20,000, and two or three thousand people were captured by our army, and the rest fled back to the capital. ”

If it weren't for the range of firearms, a war of this scale would have taken at least four or five days or even longer to inflict 30,000 casualties, but the advent of firearms has accelerated the speed of killing, so that in just one day, there have been such large casualties!

Li Xin nodded, and said silently: "Send a letter to Zhao Jia, let him be responsible for spreading the word to the world, and tell the people of the world that our Southwest Army broke the forbidden army in Gyeonggi and defeated the forbidden army in four Zhichong Mansions in one day." ”

Today's Ningzhou army did defeat four Zhichong Prefectures in one day, although compared to the strength of about 70,000 people in the four Zhichong Prefectures, more than 20,000 casualties are not considered to be defeated, but if they continue to fight, they must be the forbidden army rout.

It's not a bad thing to be "exaggerated" appropriately.

However, the Southwest Army is now at war, and it has no energy to do this kind of "propaganda" work, so it can only hand over this matter to Zhao Jia in the rear.

Li Shuo bowed his head and said, "The last general understands, and he will send someone to send a letter back to the southwest in a while." ”

"And then there's ......"

Li Xin's face was calm, he took a clay pot from the side, put it on his table, and said, "This is the heavenly thunder made by the capital. ”

Li Shuo looked at the clay pot curiously, and said softly: "It looks a little bigger than ours." ”

Li Xin did not speak, but took out the dagger on his waist, pried open the seal of the clay pot, tore off the ignition paper at the mouth of the jar, and poured the medicinal powder inside on the table.

The color of the powder is also slightly different from that of the Southwest Army, the powder of the Southwest Army is gray-black, and the color of this powder is brighter.

But these are not the key, the key is that in these powders... There are pieces of iron!

This is a very vicious practice, the sharpness of the iron piece is far greater than that of the pottery piece, it may cut through the iron armor, and once it enters the body, it is also crippled if it does not die.

These pieces of iron are not clean, and there is rust on them, and they can kill a person if they are cut.

General Li frowned and said, "They added iron pieces to the clay pots, and many of the fire soldiers were injured because of this iron piece. ”

When Li Xin made the thunder, he also considered adding iron pieces to the clay pot, so that although the cost was higher, the lethality should also go up a lot, after all, these iron pieces can bring an extremely critical "armor-piercing" effect to the thunder.

Li Shuo picked up an iron piece and looked at it, and then said in a low voice: "It's really powerful, such a thin thing is enough to penetrate most of our army's armor." ”

As he spoke, he glanced up at Li Xin and asked, "What does the general mean?" ”

"Iron tablets are not an advanced invention, I thought about it more than ten years ago, but out of a little kindness, I didn't use it."

"Now, it's the people of the court who use it first."

Li Xin narrowed his eyes slightly, and said: "Huzi, there is also a part of the heavenly thunder, which is equipped with iron sheets, I will send a letter to Huzi and use that batch of heavenly thunders with iron sheets." ”

Li Shuo was stunned and suddenly grinned.

"If other generals have any sharp weapons, they will immediately take them out to kill the enemy, but brother, you always hide them, your temperament is really not suitable for commanding troops."

"yes."

Li Xin also nodded, and sighed helplessly.

"I was ...... I just want to be a peace lord for the rest of my life,"