In early February of the 79th year of Emperor Yitian, with a large number of imperial decrees and official letters and documents coming out of Yanjing City, Chen Hai also officially accepted the canonization of the Songlingang camp at the intersection of Jiyang and Heyang, and served as the commander of the Suwei army Longxiang with the titles of Yanran Palace's scattered cavalry attendant and general Wuwei, and the commander-in-chief of the military affairs of the Suwei army Longxiang battalion, and awarded the Marquis of Tianji. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Although Chen Hai had assumed the post of commander of the Xiyuan Army as early as five or six years ago, the post of commander of the Xiyuan Army at that time was only set up to facilitate the formation and training of new soldiers, and his authority was actually very limited, and he had no right to arbitrarily transfer generals in and out of the barracks.

And this time, in addition to the 50,000 soldiers of Huang Shuang and Le Yi's subordinates who were reduced to the sharp soldiers of the Longxiang Battalion of the Su Guard Army, Chen Hai also had to give Longxiang the Lieutenant Tooth Banner, and he could set up a tooth tent in Songlin Gang to deal with military affairs related to the Longxiang Battalion.

In addition to the main generals and envoys of the battalions, who were appointed by the Taiwei Mansion, Chen Hai also had the right to entrust private officials to serve as the chief of the camp and the chief historian under the Governor's Office of the Longxiang Battalion, and the authority was so great that he was not even under the protection of the capital envoys of the border counties.

In fact, except for Yan Ran Palace, in addition to the dispatch of the Huangmen Ling Fang Xiyan as an envoy to supervise the army, all the generals and officials of the Longxiang battalion were served by Chen Haituicun.

Fang Xiyan is also a eunuch of Yanran Palace, and was one of the six sword attendants around Wen Boyuan, four years ago, Chen Hai stayed in the guard camp at night, met with Fang Xiyan, and got along for a while.

At that time, Fang Xiyan had just opened up the sea of knowledge and stepped into the Mingqi Realm, and he had only been seen for three or four years, and Fangxi Yan was already in the late stage of the Mingqi Realm, and the speed of progress made Chen Hai dumbfounded.

Although I don't know what kind of secret methods and secret medicines Yan Ran Palace has mastered, and can cultivate a group of strong people in such a short time, what Yan Ran Palace lacks is still a large number of qualified talents who can act as middle and low-level military attaches and take charge of local government and county affairs.

This is also the biggest weakness of the eunuchs of Yanran Palace, and it is also the key reason why Chen Hai can be reused in the end, because the Tianji Academy Palace has gathered a large number of children from the Han family outside the clan in recent years.

This also makes the two appointments before and after, although Chen Hai sounds like he is only serving as the captain of a battalion, but his authority is very different.

Chen Hai organized five battalions of officers and men in the Longxiang Battalion, with Le Yi, Wang Gui, Wang Gongchen, Zhou Jun, and Wu Meng as the generals of the five battalions; Huang Shuang as the captain of the guard army, and Qi Hanjiang, Han Wendang, and others in charge of the Hu Guard Battalion; with Sun Gan as the head of the Governor's Office, and Zhou Jingyuan as the head of the Governor's Mansion, and appointed Han Jian, Zhang Han, and others as the staff officers of the Governor's Office.

In mid-February, another decree was sent from Yanjing to Songlingang, appointing Chen Hai as the governor of Lianshui.

This decree is not the meaning of Yanran Palace, but the recommendation of Zuo Cheng Rongyan.

Nominally, it means that Chen Hai has a good way of running Liquan, and in his early years, he assisted Tongbei Prefecture in disaster control, and Heyang County has been fighting for a long time, and the people's livelihood is withering, so it is very necessary for someone to appease and settle the local government affairs and restore the people's livelihood, so Chen Hai should be recommended to take this position.

In fact, he wanted to use this appointment to tie Chen Hai to the western foot of Ganquan Mountain, and he could not be transferred back to Yanjing by Wen Boyuan to strengthen the strength of the Su Guard Army in Yanjing, nor could he lead his troops north to Yanmen County and continue to incorporate the Black Yan Army in Yanmen County.

The old system of Yanzhou, ten miles for Ning, thirty miles for the township, one hundred miles for the township, and three hundred miles for the house.

Lianshui Prefecture has jurisdiction over the area of Tianyuan Village at the western foot of Ganquan Mountain in the south, Qiushi Village in Huapuling in the north, and Shiratling and Guoziling in the west.

At this time, the British king Yingshu also led the Jiyang County Pastor, led the Xiyuan Army to retreat to Jiyang County, responsible for restoring the people's livelihood in Jiyang County, in fact, controlling Wushengguan and controlling the Jingbei region, ensuring that the Su Guard Army could not cover the sky in Yanjing City.

The crown prince Yingdan, the cavalry general Ning Zhize, and the army supervisor Zhao Zhong continued to lead the Huben army to the southern foot of Songdu Mountain, and continued to be responsible for the clean-up of the Black Yan army in Yanmen County, while Yu Zonghu was ordered to lead his troops south, and was responsible for restoring the people's livelihood in the northern part of Lichuan County and clearing the Black Yan army that had fled into the Yanbu of Lichuan and the western part of Zishui.

Yanjing's political affairs were mainly under the control of the clan of the Jingjun clan, and this appointment actually required Yu Zonghu to contain each other with the Ning clan who had moved to the Mengjin area in the north of Lichuan County.

Of course, the Longxiang camp of the Su Guard led by Chen Hai and the Tiger Roar Camp of the Su Guard led by Yu Zonghu were both controlled by the crown prince Yingdan, and the two of them knew Lianshui and Meng Jin at the same time, and they also ensured that the 300,000 elites of the Tiger Ben Army entered the border between Heyang County and Yanmen County to fight, without any worries; it was also convenient to restore the people's livelihood on the spot, collect grain, grass and other war materials, and also relieve the pressure on Yanjing.

With such an arrangement, no one can say that there is anything wrong with the ministers of the court headed by Tu Que and Rong Yan.

Of course, Yan Ran Palace's side is not without countermeasures.

The biggest countermeasure is that Emperor Yitian issued an order to set up a bureau under the jurisdiction of the Shaofu Supervisor.

The Creation Bureau was set up in Liquan and was in charge of the manufacture and procurement of puppet weapons, in fact, the seven or eight million catties of quenched iron that had flowed into the Jingjun clan every year from Liquan were all collected into the hands of the Shaofu Supervisor and the Su Guard.

In order to ensure the smooth progress of this measure, Emperor Yitian also directly issued an order to transfer the 10,000 elites of the Xiyuan Army stationed in Tongbei Mansion to Jiyang County, and all of them were incorporated under the direct command of King Yingshu, and the defense of Tongbei Mansion and Nanzhang Mansion was taken over by local troops.

With the Su Guard Army guarding the city of Yanjing and being responsible for the defense of Jingdong, Jingnan, and Jingxi, and the Xiyuan Army defending the northern part of Gyeonggi, and the Huben Army being responsible for fighting abroad, such a military deployment was also quite reasonable, which made it difficult for the ministers of the Jingjun clan to refute.

Of course, the Jingjun clan can still trade with the nine great lords and obtain gold-level armor weapons, but the cost is far less cheap than before.

At the same time, the Creation Bureau recruited a large number of craftsmen from the Tianji Academy Palace, and could manufacture puppet weapons such as Tianji crossbows and Tianji chariots for the nearly 300,000 generals of the Fengxiao Battalion, Longxiang Battalion, and Tiger Ben Battalion under the jurisdiction of the Su Guards.

This is also the condition that Chen Hai secretly negotiated with Wen Boyuan and Zhao Zhong.

Heyang County has been completely disabled, especially in the northwest, from Ganquan Mountain to Guoziling, almost all the young and brave people have been forcibly conscripted into the army by the Heiyan Army or the Xiyuan Army, and there are only 70,000 or 80,000 old and weak women and children left in a radius of 300 miles.

In the camp at the western foot of Ganquan Mountain, which captured the Black Yan Army, the Xiyuan Army captured 70,000 or 80,000 soldiers, but they were all executed by the order of the British King Yingshu after the battle; plus the generals of the Black Yan Army who were killed by the previous capture of the Western Foot Camp, there were almost more than 200,000 corpses, which were abandoned in the valley at the western foot of Ganquan Mountain.

On the one hand, the Xiyuan Army did not need to be incorporated into the rout to expand its troops, and on the other hand, the King of England won to ensure that these rout soldiers would not be absorbed by Chen Hai and strengthen the strength of the Longxiang camp of the Su Guard Army.

After the crown prince Yingdan and the Ning clan captured Songpanling, they also killed tens of thousands of soldiers to avenge the defeat of Huang Elkyuan that year.

Before the war, Lianshui was a large mansion with a population of nearly 2 million, but after the war, the remaining population was less than one-tenth of the pre-war period, and they were all old, weak, women and children. Before the war, the population of the entire Heyang County was as high as 10 million, and after several years of famine and war, the remaining population could be only 12 million, old, weak, sick and disabled.

At this time, the crown prince Yingdan was in charge of the clean-up war against the Heiyan army, and the army of Zhuluqin Wang successively withdrew to the original county, and Chen Hai and Yu Zonghu were both controlled by the prince Yingdan to assist in the clean-up war against the Heiyan army of Yanmen County.

Tianyuan Village was originally a defensive village on the periphery of the camp at the western foot of Ganquan Mountain of the Heiyan Army, and now there is a remnant city left, Chen Haizuo asked the imperial court to set up Lianshui Mansion in Tianyuan Village, and at the same time temporarily moved the Longxiang Camp Governor's Mansion to Tianyuan Village, where he will preside over military training, Tuntian, and restoration of people's livelihood in Tianyuan Village.

In addition to Zhou Jun leading a battalion of elites to enter Xiaolianshui City, on the day that Chen Hai moved the Longxiang Battalion Governor's Mansion to Tianyuan Village, he entered the mountains at the western foot of Ganquan Mountain with Huang Shuang, Le Yi and others, and saw the valley where the British King Yingshu killed 80,000 soldiers, and was silent, but asked Le Yi to arrange more than 1,000 generals to immediately enter the mountain to collect the corpses, so as to prevent a major epidemic from occurring after the weather warms up.

The Longxiang camp had previously collected more than 56,000 remnants, but the matter of preparing for the famine in Tuntian could not be delayed, and the 70,000 or 80,000 remnants left in Lianshui Mansion were all old and weak women and children, lacking enough young and strong labor, even if Chen Hai could transfer a large amount of additional grain to prepare for the waste, he could not expect the 780,000 remnants to be able to reclaim enough fields to survive before the summer.

Chen Hai also knew in his heart that the imperial court, which was controlled by the clan of the Jingjun clan, might remove him from his official position in the Lianshui Mansion at any time, and transfer him and the Longxiang battalion to other places to garrison, and at that time, these 70,000 or 80,000 remnants would not think that anyone would come forward to help.

Chen Haizuo asked the imperial court, first, that he could use Lianshui cheaply, to appease the displaced people, to merge the households, and to ensure that every household had young and strong laborers, so that the old and weak women and children would not survive the famine in the next few years and die in large numbers; at the same time, he hoped that the Longxiang camp would be reduced to 30,000 on the spot, and a large number of generals would be allowed to be incorporated into the military camp, so that one million mu of grain fields could be reclaimed before the summer began, so as to cope with the great famine that would break out in Heyang County at any time after the war.

In addition to recommending hundreds of craftsmen and apprentices from poor families from the Tianji School Palace, Chen Hai went to Lianshui Mansion to serve as middle and low-level township pavilion officials and presided over the restoration of people's livelihood, and also purchased tens of thousands of cultivated cattle and mules and horses from Yongjun, Lichuan and other places through the caravan of the Tianji School Palace and sent them to Lianshui, so that the reclamation of the famine after spring was not delayed.

Chen Hai didn't care that he and the Long Xiang battalion would be transferred out of Heyang County at any time, but he just hoped that he could do as much as possible to restore Heyang's vitality before he was transferred.

In April, Prince Yingdan led the Tiger Ben Army to launch an offensive against the Black Yan Army's defensive line at Songdu Mountain.

The Great Heavenly Master Gong Qing passed away, the Heavenly Master Gong Liang and Gong Bao died in Ganquan Mountain and Songpanling one after another, Heyang County was devastated, and millions of generals either surrendered or died, and the morale of the Black Yan Army generals who retreated to Songdu Mountain was already on the verge of collapse, and Yan Yuan and other generals did not have the confidence to defend Songdu Mountain.

In fact, before the Tiger Ben Army attacked Songdu Mountain, Yan Yuan was already planning to retreat, and when the Tiger Ben Army officially attacked Songdu Mountain, the Black Yan Army's defense line was crushed with one blow. At this time, the last 560,000 Black Yan troops left in Yanmen County were also divided into three factions, one faction led his troops to flee to Yuyang County in the northeast, and the other fled to Beiliang County to surrender to the Miao clan......