Chapter 315: The Bottom Line

Cha Dengbei did not believe that Li Zhi dared to attack his soldiers and horses, because the governor had the right to transfer troops to a certain city in his jurisdiction. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info Cha Dengbei transferred more than 10,000 Tianjin soldiers and horses to Fanjiazhuang, which is also his power, and he has his own statement. And Li Zhi's attack on Cha Dengbei for this is close to rebellion.

Li Zhi had attacked Shangguan's troops once before because of the persecution of the chief soldier Luo Zhending, but the situation was different from this time. At that time, Li Zhi did nothing other "bad" except for attacking Luo Zhending, and his net worth was innocent. And this time, Li Zhi violated the order to collect business taxes, kill the "people", and kill Xiucai, which was already a repeated provocation of the order of the Ming Dynasty.

Under the eyes of hundreds of officials in the court, for Li Zhi, who had committed so many crimes, Cha Dengbei thought that even the Son of Heaven would not be able to forgive Li Zhi. If Li Zhi dares to provoke and attack him, he will be beaten as a thief by the princes of the DPRK and China.

But Cha Dengbei didn't expect that Li Zhi was bold and still did it.

As soon as Li Zhi made a move, Cha Dengbei's situation became very dangerous. In the future, whether there will be strong soldiers from the nine sides to encircle and suppress Li Zhi is still two words. However, Chaden's charge of forcing a meritorious general is not light.

Chadenbei rode on his horse, panicked, and his lips trembled slightly unconsciously.

Liang Yishou, who was beside Cha Dengbei, was also staring at him, and his face was like ashes. He was the dog-headed military advisor of this attack. Now that Li Zhi is really out of the way, no matter how the imperial court deals with Li Zhi, he Liang Yishou will definitely have no good fruit to eat.

On the battlefield, Chadenbei's artillery positions were in shambles.

Half of the people were wiped out at once, and where did the remaining more than 100 artillery soldiers who were still alive dare to push the cart to fight? One by one, their faces were like ashes, and they turned around and ran.

"Li Zhi has rebelled!"

"Li Zhi did it! Run! ”

In front of the Fanjiazhuang soldiers who defeated the Tartars several times, the reputation of the soldiers and horses is praised all over the world, where is the Tianjin soldiers and horses that Cha Deng has made up? Even if there are only 4,000 people on the opposite side, it is more than enough to defeat 12,000 Tianjin battalion soldiers. As soon as the artillery fled, the soldiers of the other battalions shook and almost collapsed.

The men of the battalions who supervised the battle rushed up to chase and cut down the fleeing artillerymen, and finally chased back more than 100 artillerymen. But these artillery pieces were beaten to pieces, and there were no more than five complete artillery crews, which were no longer able to operate the artillery.

Li Zhi held the binoculars and looked at the situation on the other side and sneered.

"Such soldiers and horses dare to come to my Fanjiazhuang to provoke? Rise up to them and crush them. ”

Li Zhi's soldiers and horses beat the snare drums, took the initiative to step forward, and pressed towards Cha Dengbei's army little by little.

Seeing the powerful Fanjiazhuang soldiers pressing over, the soldiers and horses of the battalions in Tianjin were already a little chaotic. The soldiers of Fanjiazhuang were wearing armor and chain mail captured from the Tartars, and they looked like veterans of war. At this time, 4,000 soldiers and horses pressed towards the more than 10,000 people in Chadenbei, and there was no sound except for the footsteps on the ground, and the momentum was suffocating.

Such a strong soldier is unique in the Ming Dynasty, where can more than 10,000 people in Cha Dengbei stop it?

Before the fight began, there were soldiers on Cha Dengbei's side who were constantly trying to escape. The soldiers who supervised the war were also afraid, and their hands and feet were weak, but they kept chasing and cutting down the fleeing battalion soldiers.

Li Zhi looked at the chaotic opposite, sneered, and shouted, "Shotgun, fire." ”

The flag was unfurled, and Li Zhi's order was passed down.

Huge rumbling sounds rang out one after another, and one cannon after another spewed out tongues of fire and white smoke violently forward, and then fell back and retreated five or six meters. The pungent smell of saltpeter and sulfur was even stronger, dominating the entire battlefield. At a distance of three hundred meters, one hundred and forty field guns sprayed shotguns at Chadenbei's men and horses.

More than 10,000 iron projectiles were like an iron net, attacking those panicked Tianjin soldiers and horses. As soon as the fast-flying steel collided with the flesh, blood splattered. Blood and minced flesh were like worthless things, sprayed everywhere.

Screams rang out from all directions for a while, and the wounded fell down covering their wounds, moaning and convulsing on the ground, their strength getting smaller and smaller.

The 12,000 men and horses prepared by Chaden collapsed.

Originally, these battalions did not dare to challenge the Fanjiazhuang Tiger Ben Division, which killed in all directions, and Li Zhi's more than 10,000 people could fight more than 20,000 Tartars, where were the more than 10,000 Tianjin battalion soldiers Li Zhi's opponent? They just came to persecute Li Zhi. But I didn't expect Li Zhi to really dare to be a rebel and thief, and fired at this side.

At this time, witnessing Li Zhi's artillery firepower, the battalion soldiers in Tianjin were even more frightened and their legs weakened.

With a bang, the battalions in Tianjin turned into routs and collapsed in all directions. Even the family members who supervised the war lost their courage and fled into the distance with the rout.

Cha Dengbei and other officers saw the rout, did not dare to stay, and quickly turned their horses' heads and fled to the Tianjin Acropolis.

The soldiers of the Tiger Division laughed when they saw the Tianjin soldiers and horses that were about to be defeated in one blow. The laughter of the 4,000 people spread a mile away, frightening Cha Dengbei and the others to flee faster, and the black gauze hat on their heads didn't feel it fall off.

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Returning to Fanjiazhuang with his troops, Li Zhi convened his subordinates to discuss the matter.

Li Xing said: "Big brother, now that Cha Dengbei's men and horses have been defeated, no one dares to stop our accounting from auditing!" After a pause, Li Xing said: "Anyway, now that we have done it, the court can't do anything about us, I don't think we want thirty taxes and one one, just ten taxes and one, right?" ”

Li Zhi smiled and said: "There are also small people among the merchants, and the thirty tax is just right, if it is ten taxes and one, the tax rate is too heavy and will accidentally hurt the small people." For those officials and businessmen who monopolize and make huge profits, we will find a way to make them spit out the money in the future. ”

Zheng Kaicheng hesitated for a while and said: "My lord, do we want to play the Son of Heaven, which shows that we are not rebelling, but only attacked the soldiers and horses in Tianjin by Cha Dengbei." ”

Li Zhi said: "Yes, we have to make our position clear, and we can't let the Son of Heaven feel that we are really the opposite." ”

Li Xing was stunned and asked, "What should we do if the Son of Heaven holds us accountable for killing Xiucai?" ”

Li Zhi said lightly: "The Son of Heaven doesn't dare!" ”

Hearing Li Zhi's words, all the military attaches were silent. Li Zhi now has a heavy army, his style has become more and more domineering, and he has begun to constantly test the bottom line of the imperial court. Li Zhi didn't dare to say a word to the Son of Heaven, obviously thinking about the rules of the Ming Dynasty was no longer thinking, but began to calculate the ability of the imperial court to maintain the rules.

But speaking of which, the Ming Dynasty is now in turmoil, and a military attache like Li Zhi who can fight is the last few pillars supporting the tail tower for the Ming Dynasty, how can the Son of Heaven give up easily?

Cha Deng prepared these civil officials with a blind eye, and only knew that civil officials had been calling for wind and rain in the court for a hundred years, and thought that civil officials could still call military generals around. But I don't know that in the past few years, or even this year, the situation has changed drastically. The military attaches of the Ming Dynasty have begun to become violently warlordized.

The general staff of the army is indeed afraid of civilian officials. But if it is a military town warlord, it is enough to compete with the entire civilian bureaucracy. You must know that at this time, it is not the Jiajing year of Chengping in the four seas, not the Wanli year of the Ming Dynasty, but the September of the twelfth year of Chongzhen, and there are only five years left from the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, which was destroyed by the Ming Dynasty in the original history.

While everyone was talking there, Han Jinxin ran in, knelt down and said, "My lord! Cha Dengbei and other civil officials have already hid in their respective yamen, closed the door, and sent their family members to guard the gate. ”

Li Zhi smiled and said, "Think you can send a few family members to guard the gate?" ”

Zheng Kaicheng was very surprised when he heard the meaning of Li Zhi's words, and asked, "My lord, what are we going to do?" ”

Li Zhi said: "We led our troops into the city to arrest the officials who persecuted us this time!" (To be continued.) )