Chapter 29 Are you always so brave?

The four men today were all wearing body armor and helmets, with the hems of their bulky cotton coats hanging down under their armor, making them look somewhat out of place compared to the surrounding soldiers who were all wearing neatly armored uniforms.

They are soldiers but not soldiers, just civilians. They stay on the heavily guarded artillery platform and give orders from time to time. In the future, their names will be included in the victory reports sent by the provincial government to Liaozhen and the imperial court.

"What does it have to do with you if I cut off someone's head? How dare you, a slave, pretend to be Yuan Dudu?"

Yesterday, Luo Lisu ran over to grab the credit. From now on, this person's name will be specifically mentioned in Yuan Dudu's victory report. Today, he even dared to demand the head by force. Li Hao was thinking about whether he should take some time to do these people on the city wall. Anyway, swords and guns have no eyes, and who can tell whether these people died at the hands of their own people or the Tartars.

The leader, Luo Lisu, was stunned and choked with words. He was shocked. He obviously couldn't imagine that there would be a military general who dared to contradict him, a member of the military family.

In the past few years, outside of Shanhaiguan, his master is the highest-ranking official. In Ningyuan, Luo Lisu has never been afraid of anyone.

Li Hao's expression was calm at the moment. Luo Lisu thought that this person might be joking. After all, in the Ming Dynasty, military generals usually knelt down to answer civil officials of the same level. It was only in the past two years when the Liao affairs became tense that the military generals of Liaodong Town became arrogant and domineering.

"You presented two real Tartar heads to Zhu Zhen, so you should present at least three to our Taotai. I think these are good, so I'll have someone take them away first."

Seeing that Li Hao did not take any further action, he thought that this general would not dare to do anything to him, so he ordered the three people behind him to each pick up a real Tartar head from the pile of Tartar heads.

He picked three big ones with ferocious faces just like picking watermelons.

The hundreds of soldiers in the surrounding camps did not dare to speak and watched the movement here quietly. On one side was the brave and invincible General Li, and on the other side were the servants of the local tyrants in Ningyuan and Qiantun. The soldiers did not even dare to gossip.

General Li snorted coldly, "Are you always so brave?"

After saying that, he strode forward and grabbed the collar of the leader Luo Lisu. In the man's horrified eyes, Li Haoxian threw him to the ground.

creak!

Luo Lisu's face rubbed against the ground with a teeth-grinding sound, and before he even had time to beg for mercy, his cervical vertebrae made a crisp sound.

He died just like that.

After making sure that the man was dead, Li Hao threw his head and body out of the wall next to the ladder.

This set of movements was smooth and by the time the remaining three servants reacted, Li Hao had already walked in front of one of them.

The servant was so frightened that his legs went limp, the head of the Tartar in his hand fell to the ground with a thud, and his body fell limply to the ground.

Li Hao did the same thing, knocking the man to death and throwing him out.

"General Li... General Li, my master didn't mean to steal the credit. His original intention was good. It was all that bastard Luo... Luo's idea. I was also coerced."

"Don't kill me. We know we were wrong and we won't do it again."

The remaining two people were so frightened that they put down the heads of the real Tartars in their hands, knelt down and kowtowed violently.

The soldiers from the surrounding camps had already surrounded this place, and they couldn't escape even if they wanted to.

After Li Hao killed the two leaders, he calmed down a lot. In order to end the matter well, he winked at the soldiers in the surrounding camps.

The soldiers in all the camps understood what General Li meant, so they sent out two waves of people and hurriedly threw out the remaining two Dao Hall servants.

Zhu Mei, the commander of the northern city wall, witnessed the entire process. He was impressed by General Li's youthful vigor and shouted loudly:

"It was these four servants who ran around and were lured away by the Tartars. You and other soldiers wanted to rescue them but it was too late. The responsibility for this matter lies with the servants, and it has nothing to do with you. I will report this to the military officer."

The people involved were either General Li's soldiers and servants, or Zhu Mei's subordinates, so the matter was easy to cover up.

Li Hao smiled at Zhu Mei and said, "The Tartar's iron hooks are really powerful. We should stay away from the wall."

"Brother Tianqiong, the laborers will bring food up soon. Shall we go and eat together?"

After receiving two heads of the real Tartars, Zhu Mei naturally wanted to get closer to General Li. They were both from Liaodong, so they should take care of each other. "Okay, eat something." Li Hao led his personal servants, Cao Daxiao and others to the city gate tower.

Although his health was full from chopping people for half a day, he still had an appetite.

According to Li Hao's own experience, in addition to recovering from injuries, his amazing appetite should have other effects.

My weight and height are increasing slowly. Previously, I was about 6 feet tall and 200 jin. A jin is 32 centimeters and a jin is 596.8 grams. Previously, my height and weight were about 1.9 meters and 120 kilograms.

Now I may have grown one or two centimeters taller and gained five or six pounds, but the armor on my body is a bit tight anyway.

After the war is over, it will be time to find someone to make a few larger sets of armor. The thickness of the armor plates should be comparable to that of the Hongwu and Yongle dynasties.

The armor at that time inherited the style of the arms race during the Song and Yuan dynasties. The number of armor leaves reached up to 1,800, and the total weight could reach up to 58 Song jin.

The Song jin and Ming jin are almost the same, both are 1.2 times of 500 grams, which is about 600 grams.

Compared with the heavy armors such as Infantry Armor and Iron Pagoda which weigh fifty or sixty kilograms, the cloth armor of thirty or forty kilograms is really not good enough.

General Li himself thought that the armor for horseback combat must weigh at least 50 kilograms.

The heavy armor for infantry combat would weigh about 70 kilograms. When the time comes, put on the heavy armor and rush into the crowd. There would be no need for servants to protect the two wings. Anyone within the range of Li Hao's weapon would be killed.

The main focus is to push forward with an iron tank!
"By the way, Brother Haifeng, do you know why during the Yongle Dynasty, war horses could carry heavy cavalry? The Mongolian horses nowadays don't seem to be able to do that."

Zhu Mei laughed, "Want to wear that kind of heavy armor? Mongolian horses are indeed useless. During the reign of Emperor Chengzu, Hequ horses were used as war horses, as well as excellent horse breeds brought back from the Western Ocean. The court is not as wealthy now as it was then."

Chengzu was the temple name of the Yongle Emperor Zhu Di. During the Jiajing period, in order to increase the legitimacy of the younger clan inheriting the older clan, Zhu Laosi's temple name was changed from Taizong to Chengzu.

"Hequ? In Gansu Town? That's a bit far. The Yulin General's Gate should have Hequ horses. If so, I can ask someone to buy a dozen of them."

There was no Gansu Provincial Administration in the Ming Dynasty, but there was Gansu Town, one of the nine frontiers.

Yulin is the common name for Yansui Town, the second of the Nine Frontiers. The general is stationed in Ningxia Wei. The people there are tough and the cavalry is strong. The importance they attach to war horses is second only to Liaozhen.

"Let me say hello for my brother." Zhu Mei took on this task generously. "The Yulin Hou family and the You family both have many sons and daughters serving in the army in Liaozhen. I know quite a few of them. It won't be a problem to find a few strong horses."

Hundreds of civilians were carrying steamed buns and porridge buckets on their shoulders. The generals gathered near the city gate tower, and the soldiers in the camp were leaning against the parapets to eat lunch.

This was the first day of fierce fighting, and the supplies in the city were still sufficient, so some pickled vegetables were added to the porridge. Officers above the rank of general even had meat sauce and green onions, and there was plenty of yellow steamed buns.

Some of the Tatars under the city retreated. They were eating running water a little more than three miles away from the city. The Tatars who were holding on would occasionally shoot a cold arrow to show their presence.

The Ming army on the city also fired one or two shots in response to suppress the Jiannu's arrogance.

Both sides were resting and accumulating strength, and the battle in the afternoon was much more intense than that in the morning.

When Li Hao and his men had eaten about half of the food, thousands of flagmen from the two yellow flags rushed to the shield cart area. After dismounting, a small number of flagmen took the horses away, while the remaining Tartars hid behind the shield carts and prepared to start fighting.

What the defenders of the northern city wall did not expect was that a large number of blue-armored Tartars and red-armored Tartars also appeared. It seemed that the old slave had transferred troops from both sides.

The Ming army on the city wall could only eat while putting on iron helmets and loading gunpowder, and a fierce battle was about to break out.

PS: I just flipped through Volume 87 of the Veritable Records of Emperor Xizong of the Ming Dynasty. In the report of Yuan Chonghuan's victory, it was written that [Our family member Luo Lisu was familiar with this method and pretended to kill dozens of bandits]. When I read this paragraph at the beginning, I couldn't help myself, so I wrote Luo Lisu based on my impression. In fact, Yuan Dudu's family member should be called Luo Li. The word "su" means usually or always. I made a mistake in the sentence before.

But because hundreds of readers who were following the article had already seen it, I didn't change it.

What I mean by saying this is that my criticism of Yuan Dudu is based on facts and historical data, and I have not made it up myself.

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